cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
serried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more serried
form: most serried
Senses: examples: text: Above the bush the trees stood in serried ranks.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
text: They have, in the security of their sumptuous offices, behind stout mill gates and serried rows of bayonets and policemen's clubs, defied the State, city, and public.
ref: 1912, Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence, Proclamation of the Striking Textile Workers of Lawrence:
text: Although [John] Peel's grave is the main attraction, Caldbeck is a captivating little village in its own right, with fine views southwards to the Lake District's serried peaks.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 100:
text: The Murris in their serried invisible ranks crowd around her.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 45:
glosses: Crowded together in rows.
Derived terms: close-serried
sursie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sursies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sursy.
sursy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sursies
Senses: glosses: An inexpensive but unexpected gift.
plagal cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagal cadences
Senses: examples: text: A fellow could rely on Market Street only so far, and then even that began to get discouraging, plagal cadences on parlor pianos, bright lights, and mirrors to the contrary notwithstanding.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 230:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: amen cadence
glosses: A falling cadence in which a subdominant chord precedes the tonic; especially used in an ending Amen.
Related terms: deceptive cadence
European water vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European water voles
Senses: glosses: A species of vole, Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris.
bejeebus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: bejesus
CIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CIPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of common isochronous packet.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of congenital insensitivity to pain.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cannabis-induced psychosis.
glosses: Initialism of carriage and insurance paid to.
examples: text: Another issue, she says, is that CIPs put a clear price on residency rights.
“For example, the optics of selling EU citizenship prompted the EU to oppose Malta’s CIP when it was introduced, only backing down when Malta agreed to add a number of additional conditions on granting citizenship, such as minimum residency requirements.”
ref: 2019 October 7, Kate Springer, “Passports for purchase: Open citizenship doors around the world”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of citizenship by investment program.
CIP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Common Industrial Protocol.
busking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌskɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌskɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of busk
busking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌskɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌskɪŋ
Forms: form: buskings
Senses: glosses: Clothing; dress; ornaments worn.
field vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field voles
Senses: glosses: A vole of species Microtus agrestis, of cool-temperate western Eurasia.
Synonyms: short-tailed field vole
short-tailed vole
common vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common voles
Senses: glosses: A species of vole (Microtus arvalis).
southern vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern voles
Senses: glosses: A species of vole, Microtus levis (syns. Microtus rossiaemeridionalis, Microtus epiroticus)
tundra vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tundra voles
Senses: glosses: A vole of species Microtus oeconomus, found throughout the Arctic.
Synonyms: sense: Microtus oeconomus
word: root vole
root vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root voles
Etymology: So called because it consumes roots.
Senses: glosses: A vole of species Microtus oeconomus.
Synonyms: sense: Microtus oeconomus
word: tundra vole
incentives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incentive
bank vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank voles
Senses: glosses: A vole of species Chletrionomys glareolus, of much of western Eurasia.
grey red-backed vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey red-backed voles
Senses: glosses: A vole of species Myodes rufocanus, former genus names Chletrionomys and Evotomys.
against time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Relative to a deadline rather than a competitor.
glosses: With urgency.
Synonyms: against the clock
urgently
Derived terms: race against time
at a time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He manages to abstain from smoking for weeks at a time, but then gives in and starts again.
glosses: In a single, continuous period of time.
examples: text: climb stairs two at a time
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:
glosses: Simultaneously at each occurrence (of some action).
Synonyms: sense: in a single, continuous period of time
word: in a row
sense: in a single, continuous period of time
word: at a stretch
sense: simultaneously at each occurrence
word: at once
word: at one time
word: at the same time
word: simultaneously
word: together
Derived terms: one at a time
one at a time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: Used other than figuratively
head_nr: 2
form: idiomatically: see one
head_nr: 2
form: at a time .
head_nr: 2
Senses: examples: text: He ate the peas on his plate one at a time.
text: One at a time, please! I can't hear you if you all talk at once.
head_nr: 2
glosses: During sequentially discrete instances.
Synonyms: sense: individually
word: individually
sense: individually
word: separately
Derived terms: one day at a time
one step at a time
at the same time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Their departures were at the same time.
text: They departed at the same time.
text: I bid him come towards me and give me his letter, at the same time throwing down, carelessly, a book I had in my hands.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
synonyms: word: at a time
word: at one time
word: at the same time
word: concomitantly
word: concurrently
word: contemporaneously
word: cotemporally
word: during
word: in parallel
word: simultaneously
word: together
word: then
word: therewhile
word: while
glosses: At the same instant.
examples: text: I'm working. But at the same time, I'm exercising too.
text: His service as chairman was at the same time as his board membership
text: However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
synonyms: simultaneously
therewhile
meanwhile
glosses: Overlapping or coinciding in duration.
synonyms: conversely
on the other hand
then again
meanwhile
nevertheless
yet
antonyms: additionally
likewise
similarly
equally
qualifier: sentence adverb
glosses: On the other hand (introducing an opposing viewpoint).
Derived terms: walk and chew gum at the same time
at one time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: At one time, I could walk ten miles in a day, but I can't any longer.
text: But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
glosses: Formerly.
examples: text: A bigamist has two spouses at one time.
glosses: Simultaneously, at once.
Synonyms: sense: formerly
word: formerly
word: in the past
word: previously
word: formerly
sense: simultaneously
word: at the same time
word: simultaneously
word: together
Related terms: one time
big-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bigtime.
big-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: ‘To clarify, what I meant, Your Excellency, our spending numbers definitely need to come down big-time, and this is one very easy way of doing it.’
ref: 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 259:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bigtime.
bleeding time test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleeding time tests
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A test used to assess the ability of a person's blood to clot, carried out by cutting the skin and measuring the time it takes for the resulting bleeding to stop.
bleeding time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleeding times
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The time it takes for bleeding to stop in a bleeding time test.
Derived terms: bleeding time test
Colored People's Time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its facetious treatment as a time zone.
Senses: examples: text: “Colored People's Time,” King said with a grin. “It always takes us longer to get where we're going.”
ref: 1967 January 27, Martin Luther King, Jr., quoted in Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound (1994), p. 338
qualifier: sometimes reclaimed
glosses: A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be tardy.
Synonyms: CP Time
CP time
CPT
Colored People Time
tardy time
deliveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delivery
enhancements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enhancement
Coordinated Universal Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time.
glosses: A high-precision atomic time standard.
Synonyms: word: UTC
word: GMT
word: Zulu time
Derived terms: Coordinated Mars Time
day-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of daytime.
day-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of daytime.
mashed potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mashed potato
mashed potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Mashed potatoes is (or are) my favorite starch dish.
synonyms: mash
mashed potato
mash potato
whipped potatoes
glosses: A dish consisting of potatoes that have been boiled, mashed to a pulpy consistency, and mixed with such ingredients as butter or milk.
examples: text: During late-season skiing, I have encountered ice in the morning and mashed potatoes in the afternoon.
ref: 19841 November, Richard C. Sailiant, “Ask Skiing [letter]”, in Skiing, page 38:
text: The Eastern ski tribe could confidently expect much ice underfoot while the Western contingent could expect much mashed potatoes around the ankles.
ref: 1996 Spring-Summer, Morten Lund, “Skiing Down Those Golden Years with John Jay”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, page 7:
text: I climbed back through the bottomless mashed potatoes as quickly as I could, relieved to see that his ski was off, with his foot pointing in a normal direction— not the skis’.
ref: 2001 October 1, Paul Parker, Free-Heel Skiing: Telemark and Parallel Techniques for All Conditions, 3rd edition, Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 185:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Partially melted snow with a pulpy texture, making for slow skiing.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mash, potato.
Derived terms: instant mashed potatoes
smashed potatoes
Related terms: mashed-potatoey
duchess potatoes
fufu
whipped potatoes
every time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: everytime
Senses: examples: text: Every time I see you, it makes me happy.
glosses: At each occasion that.
examples: text: You can keep your wine — give me beer every time!
text: If I had the choice between going to work and staying at home, I'd pick staying at home every time.
glosses: Used to express a strong preference for one thing over another.
Synonyms: sense: at each occasion that
word: each time
sense: at each occasion that
word: whenever
Derived terms: at church every time the doors are open
every time one farts
every time one turns around
if I had a nickel for every time
first-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: first time as a modifier
Senses: examples: text: As a first-time skydiver, I felt more than a little nervous.
text: How will these rules be enforced?
[...] Fines for first-time offenders who breach regulations have been increased from £60 to £100 (reducing to £50 if the fixed penalty notice is paid within 14 days), [...].
ref: 2020 May 20, “Social distancing: Questions and answers”, in Rail, page 9:
text: Huainan, a city in Anhui Province, ordered banks to extend more money and shorten loan approval times, as well as lower the mortgage rates and down payment requirements for first-time buyers.
ref: 2022 June 20, Daisuke Wakabayashi, Joy Dong, “China’s Once-Sizzling Property Market Has Started to Cool”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2022, Business:
glosses: Happening for the first time; doing something for the first time.
Related terms: first-time buyer
first-time buyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-time buyers
Senses: examples: text: Of course, closure of the West station took away the hotel's raison d'être. In May 2012, the local newspaper reported that this historic hotel, by then rated the town's worst (exemplified by its final review: "Please avoid at all costs"), was to be converted into 31 first-time-buyer one-bedroom flats.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Bournemouth (circa 1880)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
glosses: A person purchasing a house for the first time, as opposed to one who already owns a house and is selling it in order to buy another.
glosses: A person who purchases something for the first time.
Related terms: property ladder
starter home
foretime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretimes
Etymology: 1530s, from fore- + time.
Senses: glosses: A time previous to the present, or to a time alluded to or implied; former time or times.
Synonyms: days of yore
foretide
yestertide
the past
Derived terms: in foretime
in foretimes
foretime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foretime
form: most foretime
Etymology: 1530s, from fore- + time.
Senses: glosses: In former times.
Synonyms: beforehand
erenow
formerly
hede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hedes
Etymology: From Middle English hede, from Old English *hǣdu, feminine form of Old English hād (“person, individual, character, individuality; degree, rank, order, office; condition, state, nature, form, manner; sex; race, family, tribe; choir”), from Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“appearance, kind”). Cognate with Middle High German heit (“person, order, rank”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (haidus, “manner, way”). More at hade.
Senses: glosses: Rank; order; condition; quality.
Related terms: hade
-head
-hood
hode
full time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full times
Senses: glosses: The full number of hours usually worked in a day or week, in distinction to part-time work.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The end of a sporting match.
Derived terms: full-time
Related terms: half time
good time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good times
Senses: examples: text: let the good times roll
text: a good time was had by all
text: Q: Did you have a good time at your friend's wedding reception? A: Yes, it was a good time for everyone.
glosses: A period of time spent doing some pleasant, enjoyable or entertaining activity.
examples: text: Sex on female units is treated as a "disgusting and degrading practice," and women have lost accrued good-time and gone to solitary confinement for as little as a peck on the cheek.
ref: 1984 August 18, R. L. Richardson, “Women In Cages”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 6, page 7:
glosses: The reduction of a prisoner's sentence for good conduct while imprisoned.
examples: text: When is a good time for you?
text: Is this a good time?
text: there's never a good time for [X]
text: it's always a good time for [X]
text: How can the unions - or more specifically the RMT - possibly think this is a good time to exert a bit of industrial muscle and indulge in strikes both on the national railway and the London Underground?
ref: 2022 January 12, Christian Wolmar, “A new year... but the same old mistakes are being made”, in RAIL, number 948, pages 40–41:
glosses: A suitable time; a suitable occasion.
Derived terms: good-time
good-time girl
good-timer
have a good time
Related terms: good time coming
have a whale of a time
there's a good time coming
good-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Who enjoys pleasurable activities without regard to the consequences.
raw_tags: used only before the noun qualified
Synonyms: abandoned
devil-may-care
dissolute
hedonistic
reckless
wild
Derived terms: good-time Charlie
good-time girl
good-timer
in time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I would have died had I not been gottten to hospital in time.
glosses: At or before the time assigned.
examples: text: You've got here in time for tea — I was just making some.
text: But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair. If that repair does not come in time, the result is noxious and potentially hazardous.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: Sufficiently early.
raw_tags: with for
examples: text: In time, it got easier to deal with her death.
glosses: As time passes.
examples: text: Am I in time (to/with the music)?
glosses: In rhythm.
examples: text: The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
ref: 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
glosses: At the same rhythm as.
raw_tags: in time with
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In the correct tempo.
Synonyms: sense: at or before the time assigned
word: early
sense: at or before the time assigned
word: on time
sense: at or before the time assigned
word: promptly
sense: as time passes
word: as time goes by
sense: as time passes
word: over time
sense: as time passes
word: with the passage of time
sense: as time passes
word: with the passing of time
sense: as time passes
word: into time
sense: as time passes
word: unto time
Derived terms: a stitch in time
a stitch in time saves nine
just in time
in time with
in time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in times
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Synonym of inpoint.
synonyms: word: inpoint
coordinate_terms: breaktime
hometime
playtime
glosses: The time when pupils are expected to re-enter the school for lessons.
just-in-time
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: just-in-time learning
glosses: Taking place at the time when it is needed, and not in advance.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Taking place at the time when it is needed, and not in advance.
Of a manufacturing system in which components are delivered at the precise time required, thus minimizing inventory carrying costs.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Taking place at the time when it is needed, and not in advance.
Performing compilation of code on the client machine immediately before execution.
Synonyms: JIT
Derived terms: JIT
Related terms: clear the market
inventory management
kanban
red tag
supply chain
hyper-use
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + use.
Senses: glosses: excessive use.
Synonyms: hyperutilization
opining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opine
opining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opinings
Senses: examples: text: Now, sailors love marvels, and love to repeat them. And from many an old shipmate I have heard various sage opinings, concerning the phenomenon in question.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, chapter 38, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of giving one's opinion.
nitrogen-13
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotope of nitrogen, ¹³₇N, having seven protons and six neutrons, and a half-life of less than ten minutes; it is used in positron emission tomography. It also plays a role in the CNO cycle.
Related terms: nitrogen-14
nitrogen-15
nitrogen-14
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A stable isotope of nitrogen, ¹⁴₇N, having seven protons and seven neutrons; it accounts for over 99% of the natural element.
Related terms: nitrogen-13
nitrogen-15
nitrogen-15
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A stable isotope of nitrogen, ¹⁵₇N, having seven protons and eight neutrons; it accounts for less than 0.4% of the natural element; it is used in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Related terms: nitrogen-13
nitrogen-14
paleobotanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleobotanists
form: palaeobotanist
Etymology: From paleo- + botanist.
Senses: examples: text: How and when the earliest plants made the first move on to land is always a hot topic for palaeobotanists.
ref: 2018 March 23, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
glosses: A botanist who specializes in paleobotany; someone who studies plant fossils.
paleobotany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleobotanies
form: palaeobotany
form: palæobotany
Etymology: From paleo- + botany.
Senses: synonyms: paleophytology
glosses: The branch of paleontology that deals with the study of plant fossils.
Derived terms: paleobotanist
Related terms: paleoethnobotany
palynology
sodium-23
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The only stable isotope of sodium, ²³₁₁Na, having eleven protons and twelve neutrons
magnesium-24
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of magnesium, ²⁴₁₂Mg, having twelve protons and twelve neutrons; it amounts to about 79% of the element in nature
Related terms: magnesium-25
magnesium-26
magnesium-25
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of magnesium, ²⁵₁₂Mg, having twelve protons and thirteen neutrons; it amounts to about 10% of the element in nature
Related terms: magnesium-24
magnesium-26
magnesium-26
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of magnesium, ²⁶₁₂Mg, having twelve protons and fourteen neutrons; it amounts to about 11% of the element in nature
Related terms: magnesium-24
magnesium-25
aluminium-27
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The only stable isotope of aluminium, ²⁷₁₃Al, having thirteen protons and fourteen neutrons
property ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: property ladders
Senses: examples: text: to get on the property ladder
text: The slave, who is at the bottom of the human property ladder, had a hut and slave quarters, a little clothing, food, and perhaps some health care […]
ref: 1989, Kenneth E. Boulding, Three Faces of Power:
text: The higher house price volatility in the United Kingdom makes it optimal for those young households who expect to move up the property ladder to hold housing equity.
ref: 2004, David A. Wise, Perspectives on the Economics of Aging:
text: While some of these moves will be prompted by, for instance, releasing equity to help children get on the property ladder, David Fell, Hamptons' senior analyst, says many will probably be downsizing to reduce mortgage payments to a more manageable level.
ref: 2023 November 25, Alexandra Goss, “Downsizers' dilemma”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:
glosses: The hierarchy of owned housing.
phallocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phallocentrisms
Etymology: From phallo- + -centrism.
Senses: glosses: Focus on the phallus.
glosses: Focus on a male point of view.
Related terms: androcentrism
phallocentric
phallogocentrism
phallogocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˌlɒɡəˈsɛntɹɪzm̩/
Forms: form: phallogocentrisms
Etymology: From French phallogocentrisme (coined by Derrida), corresponding to phallo- + logocentrism.
Senses: examples: text: The task of this enquiry is to center on – and decenter – such defining institutions: phallogocentrism and compulsory heterosexuality.
ref: 1990, Judith Butler, 1990 Preface to Gender Trouble
qualifier: poststructuralist theory
glosses: The privileging of masculinity in the use of speech, writing or modes of thought; phallocentrism expressed through language.
Derived terms: phallogocentric
Related terms: logocentrism
phallocentrism
phonocentrism
whitecoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitecoats
Etymology: From white + coat.
Senses: glosses: A new-born baby harp or grey seal before its fur becomes grey, normally around 12 days old.
examples: text: If the whitecoats expected their Victorian lab rat to appreciate the Big Picture and be grateful for the sake of science and the expansion of knowledge, they were very much disappointed. They were so arrogant, so oblivious...
ref: 2008, James Axler, Plague Lords, page 20:
glosses: A laboratory scientist.
Derived terms: whitecoat hypertension
Related terms: white coat hypertension
white-shirt
favela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈvɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Forms: form: favelas
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Brazilian Portuguese favela.
Senses: examples: text: The favela is now the model for most of the world's cities, as vast numbers of people continue to migrate to them in order to survive.
ref: 2008, Cedar Lewisohn, Street Art, Foreword, page 8:
text: security forces in November of 2010 stormed one of the city's most notorious favelas, the complex of the Morro do Alemão in the northern zone of the city
ref: 2012, Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne, Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities:
glosses: A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil.
jungle nymph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungle nymphs
Senses: glosses: A stick insect, of the genus Heteropteryx, from the rainforests of south-east Asia
hardheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardheartednesses
Etymology: From hardhearted + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: callosity
callousness
insensitivity
glosses: The state of being hardhearted.
glosses: A hardhearted thought or act.
silicon-28
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of silicon, ²⁸₁₄Si, having fourteen protons and fourteen neutrons; it amounts to over 92% of the element in nature
Related terms: silicon-29
silicon-30
silicon-29
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of silicon, ²⁹₁₄Si, having fourteen protons and fifteen neutrons; it amounts to almost 5% of the element in nature
Related terms: silicon-28
silicon-30
hardhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hardhearted
form: most hardhearted
form: hard-hearted
Etymology: From hard + hearted.
Senses: synonyms: word: flint-hearted
word: iron-hearted
word: stonehearted
word: callous
word: cold
word: cold-eyed
word: dour
word: flint-hearted
word: forbidding
word: frosty
word: grim
word: hard
word: hard-boiled
word: hardened
word: hardhearted
word: heartless
word: harsh
word: humorless
word: icy
word: iron-hearted
word: insensitive
word: rigorous
word: rockhearted
word: severe
word: stern
word: stonehearted
word: stony
word: stonyhearted
word: strict
word: tough
word: unsympathetic
word: unmoved
antonyms: softhearted
glosses: Lacking in compassion; cold and pitiless.
Derived terms: hardheartedly
hardheartedness
Related terms: hardheaded
heart of stone
silicon-30
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of silicon, ³⁰₁₄Si, having fourteen protons and sixteen neutrons; it amounts to 3% of the element in nature
Related terms: silicon-28
silicon-29
cravenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cravenly
form: most cravenly
Etymology: From craven + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a craven manner.
phosphorus-31
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The only stable isotope of phosphorus, ³¹₁₅P, having fifteen protons and sixteen neutrons
sulfur-32
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of sulfur, ³²₁₆S, having sixteen protons and sixteen neutrons; it amounts to 95% of the element in nature
Related terms: sulfur-33
sulfur-34
sulfur-35
sulfur-36
sulfur-33
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of sulfur, ³³₁₆S, having sixteen protons and seventeen neutrons; it amounts to less than 1% of the element in nature
Related terms: sulfur-32
sulfur-34
sulfur-35
sulfur-36
sulfur-34
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of sulfur, ³⁴₁₆S, having sixteen protons and eighteen neutrons; it amounts to about 4% of the element in nature
Related terms: sulfur-32
sulfur-33
sulfur-35
sulfur-36
sulfur-36
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of sulfur, ³⁶₁₆S, having sixteen protons and twenty neutrons; it amounts to only 0.01% of the element in nature
Related terms: sulfur-32
sulfur-33
sulfur-34
sulfur-35
lethal injection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lethal injections
Senses: examples: text: Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.
ref: 2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
sulfur-35
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotope of sulfur, ³⁵₁₆S, having sixteen protons and nineteen neutrons, and a half-life of about 87 days; it is used as a tracer
Related terms: sulfur-32
sulfur-33
sulfur-34
sulfur-36
classifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: c. 1800 classify + -able
Senses: examples: text: Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days:
text: The classifiers of things, by which I mean those scientists whose science is merely to classify, generally don't realize that what's classifiable is infinite and thus cannot be classified.
ref: 2001, Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, The Book of Disquiet, Penguin, page 378:
glosses: Able to be classified.
Derived terms: classifiability
nonclassifiable
unclassifiable
chlorine-35
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of chlorine, ³⁵₁₇Cl, having seventeen protons and eighteen neutrons; it amounts to about 76% of the element in nature
Related terms: chlorine-36
chlorine-37
chlorine-37
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The minor stable isotope of chlorine, ³⁷₁₇Cl, having seventeen protons and twenty neutrons; it amounts to about 24% of the element in nature
Related terms: chlorine-35
chlorine-36
cleanser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleansers
Etymology: From Middle English clansere, clenser, clensere; equivalent to cleanse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Breeding of Worms in your Desks we cannot prevent, but for the moulding of the books, it may soon be remedied, if the Cleanser of the Library do his duty.
ref: 1598–1599, Thomas Bodley, item; quoted in “Bodley, and the Bodleian. In Four Parts. Part IV. The Life-Work Done.”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume XXIX, number 711, London, 1882 July 15, →OCLC, page 519:
text: Lorraine Massey, a founder of Devachan, simply rinses and agitates her scalp with fingers (or uses a nonlathering cleanser like Devachan No-Poo).
ref: 2008 February 21, Anna Jane Grossman, “Of Course I Washed My Hair Last Year (I’m Almost Certain)”, in The New York Times:
text: Dr. Khorana added that this is especially true of cleansers that feature surfactants like sodium lauryl sulfate, as this class of ingredients can cause “dryness, irritation and eczema.”
ref: 2023 December 6, Jessica DeFino, “Too Many Products Can Stress Out Your Skin. Here’s How to Scale Back.”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: cleaner
glosses: Someone or something that cleanses, such as a detergent.
Derived terms: denture cleanser
palate cleanser
cloverleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloverleaf
chlorine-36
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A long-lived radioactive isotope of chlorine, ³⁶₁₇Cl, having seventeen protons and nineteen neutrons, and a half-life of 3x10⁵ years; it can be used to date samples of groundwater
Related terms: chlorine-35
chlorine-37
clumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌmpi/
rhymes: -ʌmpi
Forms: form: clumpier
form: clumpiest
Etymology: From clump + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: Forming or tending to form clumps.
glosses: Resembling a clump.
examples: text: Certainly it's lots easier to be Mary in a brown serge and clumpy boots than it is in the soft, fluffy things Marie used to wear.
ref: 1920, Eleanor H. Porter, Mary Marie:
glosses: Clompy; with heavy footfalls.
Derived terms: clumpily
clumpiness
nonclumpy
pfaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pfaffs
form: pfaffing
form: pfaffed
form: pfaffed
Senses: examples: text: No, on a foreign journey, the real damage is done pfaffing about in airport lounges, counting down the torture to departure, sitting on the runway, enduring protracted periods of sub-pedestrian taxiing [...].
ref: 2001, John McCabe, Snakeskin, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 61:
text: By my own admission I pfaffed around a bit here but I'm going to claim that I was merely enjoying the moment!
ref: 2004, Chris Ward, The controversial Sämisch King's Indian, page 81:
text: Mr Hicks wrote on his website: "At dusk the rudder cable broke
At dusk the rudder cable broke. "Six hours pfaffing about in the dark and heaving sea saw a fairly unsatisfactory makeshift steering system into place"
ref: 2005 September 25, “Atlantic slow row coming to end”, in BBC News:
text: Chetan Mahajan is a writing coach, blogger and author. To convey coolness he calls himself the Chief Pfaffing Officer of the Himalayan Writing Retreat, which he co-founded.
ref: 2020 May 18, Chetan Mahajan, “The other pandemic: Title inflation”, in Livemint:
glosses: Alternative spelling of faff.
pfaffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pfaff
randomity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹænˈdɒm.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: randomities
Etymology: From random + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being random; randomness.
glosses: An instance of randomness; an unpredictable characteristic.
glosses: In any process of randomness; the ratio of predicted action to unpredicted action.
randomities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹænˈdɒm.ɪ.tiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of randomity
pfaffed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pfaff
shatranj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Arabic شَطْرَنْج (šaṭranj), from Early Classical Persian چَتْرَنْگ (čatrang), from Middle Persian 𐭰𐭠𐭲𐭫𐭠𐭭𐭢 (ctlng /⁠čatrang⁠/), from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग (caturaṅga).
Senses: examples: text: Engrossed in the study of a small ivory shatranj board with pieces of ebony and horn, […] the African held the place nearest the fire […]
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 3:
glosses: A board game, an ancestor of modern chess.
mouffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouffles
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: The young wolves divided the spoil into four portions ; but one of them retained the tongue and the other the mouffle (upper lip), which are the chief delicacies of the animal.
ref: 1923, Sir James George Frazer, Folk-lore in the Old Testament:
glosses: The loose covering around the nose and upper lips of the moose or elk. Prized for stewing or roasting.
in for a dime, in for a dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn fɔɹ ə ˈdaɪm ɪn fɔɹ ə ˈdɒ.lɚ/
Etymology: Alteration of “in for a penny, in for a pound”, adapted to the denominations of the American currency (£ & d → $ & ¢). Nevertheless, “in for a penny, in for a pound” is used in the United States as well.
Senses: examples: text: In for a dime, in for a dollar, he thought crazily, and said what he had to say in a voice he forced to stay level and calm.
ref: 1983, Allen Drury, Decision, page 356:
text: In for a dime, in for a dollar. I whispered to Gerry, “Count me in”. Heroin was unromantic, neither sacred nor satanic; it was simply inevitable.
ref: 1998, Ellen Miller, Like Being Killed, page 47:
text: This obligation flows from the principle recognized in virtually all jurisdictions that when the policyholder is required to defend any one claim, all elements of the case must be defended (i.e., “in for a dime, in for a dollar”).
ref: 1999, David A. Gauntlett, Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property Assets, page CCXCI:
text: I had bought some of Cemp’s MGM stock for myself. “Listen”, I told Edgar, “in for a dime, in for a dollar”. There was no point in selling at $8. If we were going to lose we might as well lose the whole thing.
ref: 2003, Leo Kolber, Leo: a life, page 183:
glosses: Synonym of in for a penny, in for a pound.
synonyms: word: in for a penny
word: in for a pound
Synonyms: in for a penny, in for a pound
in for an inch, in for a mile
Related terms: one may as well hang for a sheep as a lamb
denominations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɛ.nɒ.mɪˈneɪ.ʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of denomination
Americanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /æˈmɛ.ɹɪ.kən.aɪzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Americanise
categorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more categorial
form: most categorial
Senses: examples: 1990 : The urgency of feminism to establish a universal status for patriarchy in order to strengthen the appearance of feminism's own claims to be representative has occasionally motivated the shortcut to a categorial or fictive universality of the structures of domination, held to produce women's common subjugated experience. - Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
glosses: categorical, absolute, without exception
examples: text: So, there is considerable evidence in favour of drawing a categorial distinction between the preposition for and the complementiser for: they are different lexical items (i.e. words) belonging to different categories.
ref: 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 55:
glosses: categorical, pertaining to a category
glosses: pertaining to categorial grammar
Derived terms: categorially
noncategorial
precategorial
subcategorial
transcategorial
goes the whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go the whole hog
dialogism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dialogisms
Etymology: From dialog + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An imaginary speech or discussion between two or more.
Derived terms: dialogic
going the whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go the whole hog
went the whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go the whole hog
gone the whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go the whole hog
intertextuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intertextualities
Etymology: From French intertextualité.
Senses: examples: text: When one studies the intertextuality of "Hamlet", one realises that William Shakespeare must have read thousands of books.
text: All of these issues—subjectivity, intertextuality, reference, ideology—underlie the problematized relations between history and fiction in postmodernism.
ref: 1988, Linda Hutcheon, A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: From the translator's point of view, therefore, both types of intertextuality—or simply all kinds of intertextuality—are important, since the translator, ideally, ought not to deprive the reader of even a smallest chunk of the intertextual load of the original.
ref: 2017, Aleksander Rzyman, The Intertextuality of Terry Pratchett's Discworld as a Major Challenge for the Translator, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: The idea that a given text is a response to what has already been written, be it explicit or implicit.
glosses: The reference to another separate and distinct text within a text.
Derived terms: digitextuality
stokvel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stokvels
Senses: glosses: A small, informal syndicate of people who regularly contribute money to a shared fund of savings.
glosses: A small, informal syndicate of people who regularly contribute money to a shared fund of savings.
Such a group in which members periodically take turns in drawing money from the accumulated fund.
hypernyms: ROSCA
Related terms: bank
trouser snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trouser snakes
Senses: examples: text: one-eyed trouser snake
glosses: The penis.
Related terms: penis
randominity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹændəmˈɪnɪti/
Senses: examples: text: I can’t in good conscience subject a kid to, say, Bingo, where you don’t do anything but sit there and wait for your numbers to come up. Where is the joy in crushing your enemy? “Ha ha ha, the laws of randominity smiled on me and not you?”
ref: 2000 February 15, Allen “Johnny Favorite” Brunson, “toys”, in alt.thanatos (Usenet):
ref: 2000 April 6, Graham Webb, “testing randominity”, in sci.crypt.random-numbers (Usenet):
text: 2001 December 16, Brian Mueller, “Re: Atheists try 2 explain away these 6 circumstances”, alt.atheism, sci.physics, and alt.philosophy, Usenet
the universe is uncaused. the creation of the universe was inevitable. Or, depending on how we chose to interpret science, the cosmos has always existed, and this universe in particular was inevitable. In any case it came about as the result of randominity.
text: 2004 June, Dodie Bellamy, Pink Steam, page 16, Suspect Thoughts Press
I’m slouched against the wall, over my head hangs our “Barbara Steele diptych” Kevin grabs the side of his head and silently screams in mock horror at the randominity of it all.
text: 2006 May, Joseph Trudeau, Randominity, cover page, Independent publication
randominity n. 1. A state of excessive chaotic, creative and whimsical energy. Pointless; obscure; irrelevant.
glosses: Randomness.
countability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaʊnt.əˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/
Forms: form: countabilities
Etymology: From count + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Countability is a property applicable to all English common nouns, yet whether a noun is countable or uncountable is sometimes not as straightforward as it may seem, […]
ref: 2023, Alice Yin Wa Chan, chapter 5, in The Acquisition of English Grammar and Phonology by Cantonese ESL Learners: Challenges, Causes and Pedagogical Insights, →DOI, →ISBN:
antonyms: uncountability
glosses: The quality of being countable.
Derived terms: subcountability
Related terms: universal grinder
universal packager
universal sorter
uncountability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌn.kaʊnt.əˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/
Forms: form: uncountabilities
Etymology: From un- + count + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: the grammatical uncountability of a noun
text: the uncountability of the stars in the night sky
text: And short of infinity, uncountabilities abound. These fantastic quantities apply to the cosmos as a whole, the terrestrial disc, Mount Meru, the temporal cycles, the lifespans of deities and hell-beings and much else.
ref: 2015, Lawrence A. Babb, Understanding Jainism:
text: A stochastic process separable with respect to D is 2°-measurable, and one may reasonably assume that the fact that D is countable removes the discrepancies connected with “uncountabilities".
ref: 1990, Luigi M. Ricciardi, Lectures in Applied Mathematics and Informatics, page 338:
antonyms: countability
glosses: The quality of being uncountable.