cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punch line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌntʃˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: punch lines
form: punchline
form: punch-line
Etymology: 1910s, probably American. It was probably meant to be likened to a quick, sharp punch.
Senses: examples: text: That was quite a build-up for such a puny punch line.
text: While explaining a punchline might initially kill the joke, Roberts claims it can shed light on the use of humour in language and help students remember the gag for future use.
ref: 2014 August 20, Matthew Jenkin, “Why language learners don't have to miss the punchline”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The final part of a joke; the word, sentence, or exchange of sentences that is intended to be funny and provokes laughter from the listeners.
examples: text: The women are a phenomenon; the men are a punchline.
ref: 2019 July 8, Tom Dart, “The US men's team are now a punchline. Which is a little unfair”, in The Guardian:
text: (It didn’t help when Microsoft relaunched its Bing search engine with OpenAI’s technology inside, instantly ending Bing’s decade-long run as a punchline.)
ref: 2023 March 31, Kevin Roose, “Google C.E.O. Sundar Pichai on the A.I. Moment: ‘You Will See Us Be Bold’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The butt of a joke; laughing stock.
examples: text: The final, the Munich-based liberal newspaper writes, was a “fitting punchline” to a great tournament.
ref: 2014 July 14, Philip Oltermann, “World Cup final press reaction: Germany’s win a ‘fitting punchline’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A final, concluding statement that an explanation has been leading up to; a conclusion.
listener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪsənə/
ipa: /ˈlɪsnə/
ipa: /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/
Forms: form: listeners
Etymology: From listen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] she would set herself going, telling the most interminable stories, until the last listener was fast asleep[…]
ref: 1904, William Henry Hudson, “chapter 2”, in Green Mansions:
text: And then her words tumbled out in a passion of communication, as though she hurried before her listener could be taken away.
ref: 1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men:
glosses: Someone who listens, especially to a speech or a broadcast.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: chiefly Java
glosses: A function that runs in response to an event; an event handler.
examples: text: Fancy Gazette, quoted in 1823, John Badcock, Slang, a Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, of Bon-Ton, and the Varieties of Life
Gas now planted his favourite hit under the left listener of his antagonist, which sent him to dorse.
glosses: A person's ear.
glosses: A musical anthology.
Derived terms: listener fatigue
listenership
nonlistener
Related terms: audience
duck's arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ducks' arses
form: duck's ass
Senses: synonyms: word: ducktail
word: DA
glosses: A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back along the sides of the head to meet in a point at the back, thus resembling a duck as seen from behind.
Related terms: tight as a duck's arse
stabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stā'-bəl-ĭz-āʹ-shən
enpr: stā'-bəl-īz-āʹ-shən
ipa: /ˌsteɪ.bəl.ɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsteɪ.bəl.aɪzˈeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: stabilizations
form: stabilisation
Etymology: From stabilize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of stabilizing.
examples: text: The use of solvent stabilizations for individual reagents is analogous to the use of heats of formation to compute heats of reaction.
ref: 1989, John E. Leffler, Rates and Equilibria of Organic Reactions as Treated by Statistical, Thermodynamic, and Extrathermodynamic Methods:
glosses: The result of being stabilized.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preliminary medical process for sick or injured people to attempt to keep their medical condition from deteriorating too much and too quickly before being treated in depth at a medical facility.
Hyponyms: self-stabilization
Derived terms: acidostabilization
biostabilization
destabilization
gyrostabilization
hyperstabilization
overstabilization
photostabilization
phytostabilization
restabilization
stabilization fund
superstabilization
thermostabilization
vermistabilization
transistorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transistorizes
form: transistorizing
form: transistorized
form: transistorized
Etymology: From transistor + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To equip an electronic circuit or device with transistors, especially to convert a device using an older technology to the use of transistors, particularly to make it smaller or more portable.
foregive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foregives
form: foregiving
form: foregave
form: foregiven
Etymology: From fore- + give. Cognate with German vorgeben (“to pretend”).
Senses: examples: text: In the case of Allsville, the “software” is still being developed, and is particularly vulnerable to contamination. The jury method of random assignment would help bypass the personal temptation to “run something.” It would “foregive” the gift of lightness to would-be power grabbers.
ref: 2011, Darrell Moneyhon, Allsville Emerging:
glosses: To give ahead of time; give in advance.
sild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
Forms: form: silds
Etymology: From Norwegian and Danish sild, from Old Norse síld. More at sile. See also sillock.
Senses: glosses: Any young herring (other than a sprat), especially if canned and processed in Scandinavia for sale as a sardine.
ducktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌkˌteɪl/
Forms: form: ducktails
Etymology: From duck + tail.
Senses: glosses: A hairstyle in which the hair is swept back into an upturned point at the back.
Synonyms: word: duck's arse
word: DA
fuck all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌk ˈɔːl/
Senses: examples: text: I've learned fuck all.
glosses: Nothing at all or very little.
Synonyms: bugger all
Fanny Adams
jack all
piss all
screw all
sod all
nothing
Derived terms: sweet fuck all
fuck all
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌk ˈɔːl/
Senses: examples: text: If you can't do this then there's fuck all hope for you.
text: There was fuck all else he could have done.
text: There are fuck all decent pubs around here.
glosses: Nothing at all or very little.
bugger all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You may not like paying taxes, but there's bugger all you can do about it.
glosses: Nothing.
Synonyms: fuck all
nothing
Related terms: bugger
diddly-squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪd(ə)li skwɑt/
ipa: /ˈdɪdlɪi.skwɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: diddly squat
form: diddlysquat
form: doodly-squat
form: doodley-squat
Etymology: The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang suggests that this is a variation of doodly-squat from 1934, probably from American slang doodle (“excrement”) + squat, used in the sense of defecating. Doodly-squat was originally the more common form, but diddly-squat overtook it in the early 1980s, and is now an order of magnitude more common in print.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't know diddly-squat about development; I also didn't know that someone could be an “officer” of major gifts. “Do they wear badges?” my friends had wanted to know, because my friends, like myself, had been completely ignorant of the field of development.
ref: 2004, Barbara Sutton, The Send-away Girl: Stories, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Money? Power? Maybe a little prestige? Everything they worked for amounted to diddly-squat; more money, bigger houses, more and more empty air. None of them would ever know the feeling of having a purpose in life.
ref: 2007, Chris Stewart, The Fourth War, Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: Nothing; nothing whatsoever.
Derived terms: diddly
squat
sweet FA
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌswiːt ɛf ˈɛɪ/
Forms: form: sweet F A
Etymology: See Fanny Adams.
Senses: glosses: Nothing.
Synonyms: nothing
Fanny Adams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet Fanny Adams
form: sweet FA
form: SFA
Etymology: From Fanny Adams (1859–1867), a young girl brutally murdered and dismembered. Tins of mutton introduced in the British navy after her death were not liked by the sailors and were humorously said to be her butchered remains. Fanny Adams then came to mean any worthless thing, and, eventually, nothing at all ("sweet F A").
Coincidentally, the initials "FA" also fit the vulgar term fuck all, also meaning "nothing at all", leading to later perception of "Fanny Adams", or "FA", being a euphemism for the latter.
Senses: examples: text: The Engineer Lieutenant pushed his head inside his neighbour's cabin: “Come along—come along! You'll be late for dinner. Fresh grub to-night: no more ‘Russian Kromeskis’ and ‘Fanny Adams’!”
ref: 1916, Bartimeus [pseudonym; Sir Lewis Ritchie], Naval Occasions, and Some Traits of the Sailor-man, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons:
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
synonyms: Harriet Lane
glosses: Tinned meat.
glosses: Nothing (now largely perceived as euphemistic for fuck all).
tetrode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtɹəʊd/
ipa: /ˈtɛˌtɹoʊd/
rhymes: -ɛtɹəʊd
Forms: form: tetrodes
Etymology: From tetr- + -ode.
Senses: glosses: A thermionic valve similar to a triode with the addition of a screen grid to improve the thermionic emission.
glosses: A dynatron.
glosses: A dual-gate MOSFET.
Derived terms: beam tetrode
kinkless tetrode
Related terms: diode
triode
pentode
-ode
dynatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.nəˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: dynatrons
Etymology: Blend of dynamo + -tron.
Senses: glosses: A tetrode in which the voltage on the screen grid is higher than that on the control grid, causing the plate current to decrease as plate voltage increases; was used in oscillators.
pentode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛn.təʊd/
ipa: /ˈpɛnˌtoʊd/
rhymes: -ɛntəʊd
Forms: form: pentodes
Etymology: From pent- + -ode.
Senses: glosses: A thermionic valve similar to a tetrode with the addition of a third grid, the suppressor grid to reduce the secondary emission effect; was/is used in high quality audio and radio products.
Hypernyms: vacuum tube
Hyponyms: output pentode
RF pentode
Meronyms: word: cathode
alt: g1
word: control grid
alt: g2
word: screen grid
alt: g3
word: suppressor grid
english: also called: plate
translation: also called: plate
word: anode
Derived terms: photopentode
Related terms: kinkless tetrode
hexode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛk.səʊd/
ipa: /ˈhɛkˌsoʊd/
rhymes: -ɛksəʊd
Forms: form: hexodes
Senses: glosses: a thermionic valve containing two triodes; was used in superheterodyne radio receivers
Related terms: pentagrid converter
heptode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛp.təʊd/
ipa: /ˈhɛpˌtoʊd/
rhymes: -ɛptəʊd
Forms: form: heptodes
Etymology: From hept- + -ode.
Senses: glosses: A compound thermionic valve containing a triode and tetrode; was used in superheterodyne radio receivers.
Related terms: pentagrid converter
pentagrid converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A compound thermionic valve used in superheterodyne radio receivers.
paraffin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ə.fɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ə.fɪn/
Forms: form: paraffins
form: paraffine
Etymology: From Latin paraffinum, from parum (too little) + affinis (related, affinity). Therefore low affinity or being chemically neutral.
Senses: examples: text: She poured paraffin on the dry floors and on the pandanus-mats, and then she set fire.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 57”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
synonyms: kerosene
glosses: A petroleum-based thin and colourless fuel oil.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Any member of the alkane hydrocarbons.
glosses: Paraffin wax.
Derived terms: chloroparaffin
cycloparaffin
deparaffinate
histoparaffin
isoparaffin
liquid paraffin
nitroparaffin
nonparaffin
parafango
paraffinate
paraffinic
paraffinization
paraffinize
paraffin oil
paraffinoma
paraffin paper
paraffin scale
paraffin test
paraffiny
soft paraffin
paraffin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæɹ.ə.fɪn/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ə.fɪn/
Forms: form: paraffins
form: paraffining
form: paraffined
form: paraffined
form: paraffine
Etymology: From Latin paraffinum, from parum (too little) + affinis (related, affinity). Therefore low affinity or being chemically neutral.
Senses: glosses: To impregnate or treat with paraffin.
glosses: To embed in paraffin wax.
paraffin wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraffin waxes
Senses: glosses: A waxy white solid hydrocarbon mixture used to make candles, wax paper, lubricants, and sealing materials.
outdated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aʊtˈdeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more outdated
form: most outdated
Etymology: From out + dated.
Senses: examples: text: His outdated wordprocessing software could not read the files I sent.
text: For example, by changing the use of existing rooms, removing or replacing unsightly features, clearing obstacles to easy circulation, rearranging direction signs and generally introducing as much order as possible, most outdated station buildings can be made reasonably efficient and attractive.
ref: 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 252:
glosses: Out of date, old-fashioned, antiquated.
examples: text: Your version of the document is outdated.
glosses: Out of date; not the latest; obsolete.
Synonyms: word: fusty
word: parachronistic
sense: not the latest one
word: superseded
Derived terms: outdatedly
outdatedness
malinger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪŋɡə/
ipa: /məˈlɪŋɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: malingers
form: malingering
form: malingered
form: malingered
Etymology: From French malingrer, from adjective malingre (“delicate, fragile”).
Senses: examples: text: It is not uncommon on exam days for several students to malinger rather than prepare themselves.
text: And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! / Smoothed by long fingers, / Asleep … tired … or it malingers, / Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.
ref: 1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:
text: It has been the impression of past investigators that persons who malinger psychosis have latent tendencies for the condition.
ref: 1984, The Psychiatric Quarterly, volume 56:
hypernyms: word: goldbrick
word: shirk
glosses: To feign illness, injury, or incapacitation in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
glosses: To self-inflict real injury or infection (to inflict self-harm) in order to avoid work, obligation, or perilous risk.
Derived terms: malingerer
malingering
malingeror
malingery
Related terms: factitious disorder
differentiated from malingering by a component of real mental illness as opposed to solely a sane calculation of shirking
to call out someone for
or accuse someone of
either factitious pretense
malingering
sacré bleu
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: A corruption of the French euphemistic oath sacrebleu.
Senses: glosses: An expression of surprise, exasperation, or dismay; good heavens; oh my gosh.
sacre bleu
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sacré bleu.
nyet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /njɛt/
Forms: form: net
form: niet
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian нет (net, “no”).
Senses: glosses: A no; a negative response (in a Russian context).
nyet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /njɛt/
Forms: form: nyet!
form: net
form: niet
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian нет (net, “no”).
Senses: examples: text: "Nyet," he said with an impatient wave, and walked into the cold night.
ref: 1990 December 31, F. Coleman, “A Soviet Bombshell”, in Newsweek, volume 116, number 27, page 50:
text: Nyet problem, Sarge.
ref: 2010 Oct, John G. Hemry, “The Rift”, in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, volume 130, number 10, page 9:
glosses: No (in a Russian context).
perquisite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːkwɪzɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹkwəzɪt/
Forms: form: perquisites
form: parquisite
Etymology: From Medieval Latin perquīsītum (“something acquired for profit”).
Senses: examples: text: The perquisites of this job include health insurance and a performance bonus.
text: The tithe properly belongs to the Lord who, in turn, assigns it to the Levites as payments for their sanctuary labors. Thus levitical and priestly perquisites are gifts from God.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 873:
glosses: Any monetary or other incidental benefit beyond salary.
examples: text: After the wonderful service that evening he didn’t hesitate in laying a substantial perquisite on the table.
text: One voyage, I recollect, I tipped him a live sheep out of the remnant of my sea-stock: not that I wanted him to do anything for me—he couldn’t, you know—but because his childlike belief in the sacred right to perquisites quite touched my heart.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim', ch 5
glosses: A gratuity.
examples: text: Private jets and motor yachts are perquisites of the rich.
text: Why is progress a perquisite reserved almost exclusively for the activities we call science?
ref: 1962, Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd edition, page 160:
glosses: A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.
Derived terms: perquisited
Related terms: english: avoid hastily confusing this word with perquisite: one concerns job requirements; the other, job compensation
translation: avoid hastily confusing this word with perquisite: one concerns job requirements; the other, job compensation
word: prerequisite
perq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perqs
Senses: examples: text: They're protesting changes to prison rules that have removed their POW perqs.
ref: 2009 April 10, Peter Howell, “Hunger: Humanity trapped in the Maze”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of perk (a perquisite)
transitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænˈzɪʃənəl/
Etymology: From transition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: transitional justice
text: These tasks may be summarised as comprising the maintenance and improvement of railway services and facilities during a transitional period; the reorganising of systems of management and technical practices, so as to secure maximum efficiency and economy from the fusion of four major railway systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:
glosses: of, or relating to a transition
examples: XHTML 1.0 Transitional
glosses: temporary; pending the implementation of something new
Synonyms: sense: temporary
word: provisional
sense: temporary
word: provisory
Derived terms: transitional deacon
transitional epithelium
transitionality
transitional jacket
transitionally
transitional object
transitional planet
transitional provision
Related terms: transient
transit
transition
transitive
transitory
transitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.sɪ.t(ə)ɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zɪˌtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.sɪˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more transitory
form: most transitory
Etymology: From Middle French transitoire, from Old French, from Latin transitorius.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, That the Materials being very tranſitory, have ſuffered much from Inclemencies of Air, eſpecially in theſe North-Weſt Regions.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section I. The Introduction.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 34:
text: Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Comprises certain Particulars arising out of a Visit of Condolence, which may prove important hereafter. Smike unexpectedly encounters a very old Friend, who invites him to his house, and will take no denial.”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 366:
text: For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them—wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “A Matter of Æsthetics”, in The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 3, page 359:
synonyms: word: ephemeral
word: brief
word: deciduous
word: evanescent
word: fleeting
word: flying
word: fugacious
word: fugitive
word: instant
word: momentary
word: passing
word: perishable
word: quick
word: seasonable
word: short
word: short-lived
word: temporary
word: transient
word: transitive
word: transitory
word: volatile
word: whilend
glosses: Lasting only a short time; temporary.
examples: text: in transitory actions, for injuries that might have happened anywhere
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
antonyms: local
glosses: Of an action: that may be brought in any county
Related terms: transient
translational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪʃənəl/
Etymology: From translation + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
Relating the act of translating text etc. from one language into another.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
Relating to movement of a body in a straight line.
examples: text: translational medicine
topics: sciences
glosses: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
Relating to the transfer of scientific knowledge into practical applications.
examples: text: translational regulation
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to translation, in its various senses:
Relating to the process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins.
Derived terms: cotranslational
mechanotranslational
mistranslational
nontranslational
posttranslational
post-translational
pretranslational
rototranslational
translational bioinformatics
translational energy
translational science
untranslational
translative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈtɹænzleɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈtɹænzlətɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more translative
form: most translative
Etymology: From Latin translativus (“that is to be transferred”). Compare French translatif.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the movement of a person or thing from one place to another.
examples: text: Which suiting the case so well, you’ll forgive me, Sir, for popping down in English metre, as the translative impulse (pardon a new word, and yet we scholars are not fond of authenticating new words) came upon me uncalled for:
ref: 1751, Samuel Richardson, Letters and Passages Restored from the Original Manuscripts of the History of Clarissa, volume 8, London, page 153:
glosses: Of, or relating to the translation of language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the translative case.
examples: 1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, edited by Edward Arber, London: Alexander Murray & Son, 1869, Book 3, Chapter 18, p. 197,
But properly and in his principall vertue Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translatiue and wrested from the owne signification, neuerthelesse applied to another not altogether contrary, but hauing much conueniencie with it as before we said of the metaphore: as for example if we should call the common wealth, a shippe; the Prince a Pilot, the Counsellours mariners, the stormes warres, the calme and [hauen] peace, this is spoken in allegorie […]
glosses: In the form of a trope; figurative.
Synonyms: sense: relating to the translation of language
word: translational
translative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈleɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈtɹænzleɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˈtɹænzlətɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: translatives
Etymology: From Latin translativus (“that is to be transferred”). Compare French translatif.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The translative case.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word in the translative case.
translative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a form of declension that indicates a change in the state of a noun; the Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian languages have such a case
translocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtranslə(ʊ)keɪt/
Forms: form: translocates
form: translocating
form: translocated
form: translocated
Etymology: From trans- + locate.
Senses: examples: text: Unexpectedly, even some of the monoliths are throwing out new shoots. This is great news, as these trees contain ancient woodland DNA, so are a very valuable seedbank. Further along the site, Penny shows me a famous translocated stump... the Cubbington pear tree. [...] The stump was translocated, and the trunk used as a monolith - but not before dozens of cuttings had been taken, some of which are growing nearby. And the stump? It's already throwing out dozens of new shoots as it's become re-established.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 44:
glosses: To displace, or move from one place to another.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause to undergo translocation.
raw_tags: of a chromosomal segment
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To cause to undergo translocation, usually a transition through a membrane.
Derived terms: translocational
translocation
untranslocatable
translocatable
translocate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtranslə(ʊ)keɪt/
Forms: form: translocates
Etymology: From trans- + locate.
Senses: glosses: The substance that is moved by translocation.
translucence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translucences
Etymology: From Middle English translucence, from Medieval Latin trānslūcentia.
Senses: glosses: the state of being translucent
Synonyms: semitransparency
translucency
old hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊl(d)ˈhæt/
ipa: /ˌoʊl(d)ˈhæt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: From old + hat, possibly a reference to something familiar and well-used. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection to German alter Hut (“something familiar and hackneyed”, noun, literally “old hat”).
Senses: examples: text: Oliver. What was the address about, to begin with? / Willie. Oh, the same old hat—Freedom.
ref: 1920, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts (Plays for a People’s Theatre; II), London: C[harles] W[illiam] Daniel, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 21:
text: We curved through the bright mile or two of the Strip, […] past the Georgian-Colonial vogue, now old hat, past the handsome modernistic buildings in which the Hollywood flesh-peddlers never stop talking money, […]
ref: 1940, Raymond Chandler, chapter 21, in Farewell, My Lovely: A Mystery, Tower Books edition, Cleveland, Oh.; New York, N.Y.: World Publishing Company, published October 1944, page 100:
hyponyms: old news
yesterday's news
glosses: Something regarded as very familiar and unoriginal, hackneyed, or out of date.
old hat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊl(d)ˈhæt/
ipa: /ˌoʊl(d)ˈhæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: more old hat
form: most old hat
form: old-hat
Etymology: From old + hat, possibly a reference to something familiar and well-used. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection to German alter Hut (“something familiar and hackneyed”, noun, literally “old hat”).
Senses: examples: text: [Noël] Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.
ref: 1946 November 11, “The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 11, 1946 [review of Nöel Coward’s Present Laughter (written 1939)]”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
text: In fact, monorails are rather old hat.
ref: 1964 July, “The Mythology of Monorails”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: [I]t is old hat for a sex scandal to bring down a politician.
ref: 1987 May 8, Elaine Sciolino, “Washington talk: The [Gary] Hart story grips the capital; foreigners amused and baffled”, in The New York Times (B section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2022, page 8:
text: As for the greeting she [Elizabeth II] and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, received when they arrived outside the Capitol about 3:30 p.m. – well, based on the size of the crowd, perhaps the queen is old hat.
ref: 2007 May 4, Fredrick Kunkle, Paul Duggan, “Straining for a glimpse of royalty: Queen launches visit in Richmond by offering sympathy over Va. Tech tragedy”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2025:
text: The only real knock against "Mortshall" is that "Rick and Morty get sick of each other and split up for a while" feels kind of old hat at this point—the comic premise of the show requires their relationship to be toxic (because a lot of the humor comes from seeing Rick be a shit and seeing Morty try haplessly to deal with Rick being a shit), and they can only try and sell the illusion that anything is going to change so many times before it starts to get stale.
ref: 2021 September 6, Zack Handlen, “Rick and Morty Ends Its Fifth Season Looking for an Escape Hatch”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2024:
synonyms: word: banal
word: commonplace
word: cliché
word: démodé
word: passé
word: unchic
word: basic
word: cheugy
word: cringe
word: cringey
word: cringeworthy
word: dated
word: démodé
word: fossilized
word: inelegant
word: last year
word: normie
word: old
word: old-fashioned
word: old-hat
word: oldfangled
word: ossified
word: out
word: out of date
word: out of fashion
word: out of touch
word: outdated
word: outmoded
word: passé
word: rinky-dink
word: tacky
word: unchic
word: uncool
word: unfashionable
word: unhip
word: unpopular
word: unstylish
word: untrendy
glosses: Very familiar and unoriginal; common, hackneyed, out of date.
translunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + lunar.
Senses: antonyms: transearth
glosses: Towards the Moon from the Earth or another planet.
raw_tags: of a spaceflight or trajectory
synonyms: translunary
superlunar
superlunary
antonyms: sublunar
sublunary
cislunar
glosses: Situated beyond the Moon or its orbit; unworldly.
Related terms: over the moon
transmigrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transmigrable
form: most transmigrable
Senses: glosses: able to transmigrate
Related terms: transmigrant
transmigrate
transmigration
transmigrator
transmigratory
transmigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmigrants
Senses: examples: text: The move-in area is one of the last, largely unsettled areas of Qinghai suitable for irrigated agriculture. The economic benefits touted by the WB for the project were largely undisputed. Crop yields near the move-in area were already three to four times higher than those in the move-out area, and the WB estimated that, in a few years, settlers would be able to triple or quadruple their incomes and have better health care and educational facilities than they had in eastern Qinghai.⁵¹⁸ While there were no schools for many settler group children in eastern Qinghai,⁵¹⁹ ten schools that would reflect the ethnic and language background of students were to be built for ethnic minority transmigrants.⁵²⁰ Because the settlers were to live in twenty-four compact villages in a small part of the county, they would have left the rest of it undisturbed.⁵²¹ Tibetans were to live in a separate area, near villages inhabited by fellow Buddhist ethnic Tu people.⁵²² The projected increase in economic activity in the county would likely provide some opportunities for those already living there. As pointed out by the Dalai Lama’s nephew, who lives in his uncle’s hometown in Ping’an County (part of the move-out area), those remaining in the move-out area would also benefit from an increase in available land there and from less strain on resources.⁵²³
ref: 2006 November, Barry Sautman, “Tibet and the (Mis-) Representation of Cultural Genocide”, in Barry Sautman, editor, Cultural Genocide and Asian State Peripheries, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 205–206:
glosses: someone who transmigrates
glosses: someone in transit through a country on the way to a final destination
Related terms: transmigrable
transmigrate
transmigration
transmigrator
transmigratory
transmigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transmigrates
form: transmigrating
form: transmigrated
form: transmigrated
Etymology: From trans- + migrate.
Senses: glosses: To migrate to another country.
glosses: To pass into another body after death.
raw_tags: of the soul
Related terms: transmigrable
transmigrant
transmigration
transmigrator
transmigratory
closed book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed books
Senses: examples: text: Her courteous, sedate, inexorable husband, whose will she could not bend, whom she could not cajole, whose mind was a closed book to her — a book which had lain by her hand for three years, which she had never had the curiosity to open!
ref: 1906, Mary Cholmondeley, Prisoners: Fast Bound in Misery and Iron:
text: Like the activities of British Railways Research Department, developing, testing and modifying diesel locomotives before their acceptance for service is another behind-the-scenes activity which is a closed book to most passengers and to many railwaymen.
ref: 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 266:
glosses: A person or thing that cannot be easily understood; someone or something incomprehensible or puzzling.
Related terms: enigma
mystery
secret
pipeline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: pipelines
form: pipelining
form: pipelined
form: pipelined
Etymology: From pipe + line.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To design (a microchip etc.) so that processing takes place in efficient stages, the output of each stage being fed as input to the next.
glosses: To convey by a system of pipes.
glosses: To lay a system of pipes through.
conduit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnd(j)ʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒndʒʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɒndɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌndɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnd(j)ʊɪt/
ipa: /ˈkɑndɪt/
Forms: form: conduits
form: cundite
Etymology: From Middle English conduyt, condit, from Old French conduit, from Latin conductus. Doublet of conduct.
Senses: examples: text: This channel is a conduit to send the excess water back to the millpond.
glosses: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
A pipe or channel for conveying water, etc.
coordinate_terms: sluice#Noun
canal#Noun
aquaduct#Noun
viaduct#Noun
examples: text: Last week the electricians were running conduit, and this week they'll be pulling cable.
glosses: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
A duct or tube into which electrical cables may be pulled: electrical conduit.
hypernyms: raceway#Noun
<
pathway#Noun
covering#Noun
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
Any pattern, typically composed of still lifes or oscillators, used to transfer an active region to another location without being destroyed or permanently modified in the process.
examples: text: The medium considered herself a conduit for messages from the spirit world.
text: Francis, by contrast, was at pains to listen and act, going so far in 2023 as to call a curiously named synod on synodality in his anxiety to make the process work better as a conduit between the centre and the outposts of his global church.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
A means by which something is transmitted.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A channel or pathway through which something is conducted, carried, etc.
An investment vehicle that issues short-term commercial paper to finance long-term off–balance sheet bank assets.
Derived terms: anticonduit
conduit bender
conduitlike
microconduit
transmissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trānsmissus + -ible.
Senses: examples: (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: transmittable
communicable
spreadable
catching
glosses: Able to be transmitted.
Capable of being transmitted from one person to another.
hypernyms: infectious
antonyms: nontransmissible
noncommunicable
hyponyms: contagious
raw_tags: of a disease
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
radio-communications
synonyms: transmittable
glosses: Able to be transmitted.
Capable of being transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver.
raw_tags: of a message or program
Derived terms: intransmissible
nontransmissible
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
untransmissible
transmissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the transmission of something.
glosses: Of or relating to transmissivity of a material.
examples: text: a transmissive layer
glosses: Allowing something to pass through.
transport interchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transport interchanges
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, an allocation of £69.6 million to Central Bedfordshire includes funding to create a transport interchange at Biggleswade station.
ref: 2019 October, “Funding for 20tph East London line service”, in Modern Railways, page 18:
glosses: An interchange facility with different modes of transport.
Related terms: bus station
railway station
tram stop
underground station
car park
taxi rank
lay down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He lay down in his bed until he felt better.
glosses: simple past of lie down
dude ranch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dude ranches
Etymology: From dude (“a tourist, a dandy”) + ranch. First use appears c. 1899, in the Bismarck Tribune.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Is this Scott Lawson's dude ranch?’ soberly inquired the rider of the pinto.
ref: 1921 March, Scribner's Magazine, volume 343, number 1:
text: 1956, P. G. Wodehouse, 'French Leave', Barrie & Jenkins, London: 1974, p 125.
...I didn't get on very well with my stepmother, so I cleared off and went to America. I was there several years, doing various jobs. I was on the waterfront for a time, and I worked on a dude ranch and went prospecting with a friend of mine in the Mojave desert and ... oh, lots of things. When the war broke out, I was a waiter at a New York hotel.
glosses: Synonym of guest ranch.
synonyms: word: guest ranch
wikipedia: Bismarck Tribune
Derived terms: dude rancher
rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭb
ipa: /ɹɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: ribs
Etymology: From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
(wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.
Senses: examples: text: On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum.
examples: text: a broken rib on the umbrella
glosses: A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
glosses: A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
topics: architecture
glosses: A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially such a member separating the webs of a vault
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A strip of metal running along the top of the barrel that serves as a sighting plane.
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
glosses: A teasing joke.
glosses: A single strand of hair.
glosses: A stalk of celery.
examples: text: 'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.'
ref: 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
glosses: A wife or woman.
Derived terms: abdominal rib
beef rib
chuck rib
false rib
floating rib
flying rib
lierne rib
middle rib
prime rib
ribbed vault
rib-cage
ribcage
rib eye
rib-eye
ribeye
ribeye steak
rib eye steak
rib-eye steak
rib-faced deer
ribgrass
rib-rack
ribspare
rib steak
rib-tickler
rib-tickling
rib vault
ribwort
short rib
spare rib
spare-rib
sparerib
spear-rib
standing rib
stick to one's ribs
toby rib
true rib
rib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭb
ipa: /ɹɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: ribs
form: ribbing
form: ribbed
form: ribbed
Etymology: From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
(wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.
Senses: glosses: To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
examples: text: He always gets ribbed for his outrageous shirts.
text: Mr. Musk, who wore a suit and tie to Thursday’s meeting instead of his usual T-shirt after Mr. Trump publicly ribbed him about his sloppy appearance, defended himself by saying that he had three companies with a market cap of tens of billions of dollars, and that his results spoke for themselves.
ref: 2025 March 7, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, “Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
examples: text: It [lead] were too gross
 To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
glosses: To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
glosses: To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭb
ipa: /ɹɪb/
rhymes: -ɪb
Forms: form: ribs
Etymology: From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribbe (“hound's-tongue”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Hound's-tongue (Cynoglossum officinale).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Costmary (Tanacetum balsamita).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Watercress (Nasturtium officinale).
pent-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnt ʌp/
Forms: form: more pent-up
form: most pent-up
form: pent up
Etymology: From pent + up.
Senses: examples: text: I remember, particularly, how, in his speech here, he referred to what his family had suffered in Kansas, without ever giving the least vent to his pent-up fire.
ref: 1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown:
glosses: Not expressed.
examples: text: He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day.
text: It was that kind of night, full of anxiety and drama and plenty of danger, until, finally, Steven Gerrard made sure all the pent-up emotion could be released.
ref: 2013 October 15, Daniel Taylor, “Steven Gerrard goal against Poland ensures England will go to World Cup”, in The Guardian:
text: Anecdotally, demand has held up - rather than cancelling, people are asking when they might be able to travel. There is a sense of some pent-up demand.
ref: 2020 July 15, Tony Streeter, “Charters return to running... but in an uncertain environment”, in Rail, page 35:
text: “I believe it’s a lot of pent-up demand from the pandemic and people wanting to get out,” David Richardson, a member of the Miami Beach City Commission, said on Sunday.
ref: 2021 March 22, Neil Vigdor, Michael Majchrowicz, Azi Paybarah, “Miami Beach, Overwhelmed by Spring Break, Extends Emergency Curfew”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses.
pent up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕnt′ŭp′
ipa: /ˌpɛntˈʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: more pent up
form: most pent up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pent-up.
pent up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕnt′ŭp′
ipa: /ˌpɛntˈʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pen up