cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
truncated icosahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncated icosahedra
form: truncated icosahedrons
Etymology: From truncated + icosahedron.
Truncatedicosahedron.gif|regular truncated icosahedron
Buckminsterfullerene animated.gif|C₆₀: buckminsterfullerene
Comparison of truncated icosahedron and soccer ball.png|A soccer ball with a regular truncated icosahedron
Senses: examples: text: A truncated icosahedron may be formed by truncating the vertices of an icosahedron. Each vertex of the icosahedron is replaced by a pentagonal face and each triangular face of the icosahedron is replaced by a hexagonal face, which is inscribed inside the triangular face of the original icosahedron. The entire resulting truncated icosahedron is thus fittingly inscribed inside the original icosahedron.
text: This is the truncated icosahedron. Where the five triangles meet to form a vertex is now a pentagon, and a hexagon now replaces each triangular face. Therefore, the truncated icosahedron is composed of twelve pentagons and twenty hexagons.
ref: 1989, Tony Rothman, Science a la Mode: Physical Fashions and Fictions, page 64:
text: In addition to the 20 lithium atoms in layer b, additional lithium atoms (layer e) are located above the twelve pentagonal faces of the peripheral truncated icosahedra which, because of the way that the truncated icosahedra are linked, simultaneously cap the pentagonal faces of two adjacent truncated icosahedra sharing an edge (sharing method 1 above).
ref: 1993, R. Bruce King, Applications of Graph Theory and Topology in Inorganic Cluster and Coordination Chemistry, page 183:
text: Fullerenes are truncated icosahedrons with 90 edges of equal length, 60 vertices, 20 hexagonal faces, and 12 pentagonal faces that form a closed shell.
ref: 2001, Edward A. Rietman, Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems, page 130:
text: 2008, Jill Vincent, Andy Edwards, David Tynan, Gloria Stillman (editors), MathsWorld Year Eight for Queensland, Teacher Edition, page 308,
Do you know which sport is played with a truncated icosahedron?
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron that has thirty-two faces (12 regular pentagons and 20 regular hexagons) and 60 vertices and 90 edges, and is one of the Archimedean solids.
Coordinate terms: buckminsterfullerene
soccer ball
telstar
illuminer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuminers
Etymology: From illumine + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that illuminates; an illuminator
paper board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paperboard.
noun class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noun classes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical category similar to gender in which nouns may be organized according to meaning, such as gender, animacy or shape.
CPI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPIs
Senses: examples: text: To what extent the CPI reductions are a sign of what’s to come remains to be seen; but the immediate impacts to inflation readings could be minimal for now, Alan Detmeister, a UBS senior economist who previously helmed the Fed’s Wages and Prices section, told CNN.
ref: 2025 June 5, Alicia Wallace, “DOGE layoffs may have compromised the accuracy of government data”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of consumer price index.
glosses: Initialism of crash position indicator (“a deployable type of Emergency Locator Transmitter”).
topics: business
marketing
coordinate_terms: CPC
glosses: Initialism of cost per install (“pricing model for mobile app campaigns”).
CPI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Communist Party of India, a political party.
chinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinkings
Senses: glosses: The material used to fill the spaces between logs in a log house; caulking.
examples: text: All the sounds mingle with the chinkings of the gold and silver coin […]
ref: 1887, May Hodgson, A day of life, page 187:
text: A dozen soup-plates circulated, and a hymn was sung to the accompaniment of much chinking of coin.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: The sound of something that chinks.
chinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chink
coregent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coregents
Etymology: From co- + regent.
Senses: glosses: joint ruler or regent
Related terms: coregency
Star of David
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stars of David
Senses: glosses: A symbol of Jewish identity and Judaism, having the shape of a hexagram, the compound of two equilateral triangles.
Synonyms: Magen David
Shield of David
Star of Life
kagome
Related terms: hexagram
rhombus star
✡
concentration camps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concentration camp
church crawler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: church crawlers
Etymology: From church + crawler.
Senses: glosses: A person who is strongly interested, in an amateur capacity, in ecclesiology, church architecture, history and church art, and visits churches in order to view the buildings for themselves, as opposed to visiting them for religious reasons.
Dipu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From India.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, a nickname in India.
saxophony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saxophony
form: most saxophony
Etymology: From saxophone + -y.
Senses: glosses: In the manner or likeness of the sound of a saxophone.
foodway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foodways
Etymology: From food + way; in the sense of "alimentary canal", by extension from airway.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The alimentary canal.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
coordinate_terms: speechway
glosses: The food traditions or customs of a group of people, including their culinary and nutritional practices and related social aspects.
retrogreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retrogreens
form: retrogreening
form: retrogreened
form: retrogreened
Etymology: From retro- + green.
Senses: glosses: To retrofit existing models or structures (theoretical or physical) to accommodate environmentally friendly values.
slackening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slacken
slackening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slackenings
Senses: examples: text: If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.
ref: 1861, United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics, page 124:
glosses: The act by which something slackens; loss of speed, tautness, etc.
loosening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loosen
loosening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loosenings
Senses: examples: text: Turning to metaphor, the loosenings involved in metaphorical interpretation tend not to be pure but to involve a change that results in the extension of the loosened concept overlapping with but not including all of the denotations of the pre-loosened concept.
ref: 2013, Michael Scott, Religious Language, page 169:
glosses: The act of making something looser.
Derived terms: loosening up
NIPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Income and Product Accounts.
NBER
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.
ref: 2024 May 24, Daron Acemoglu, “The Simple Macroeconomics of AI”, in NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES, number 32487, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2024:
glosses: Initialism of National Bureau of Economic Research.
kendir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kendyr
Etymology: From Russian кенды́рь (kendýrʹ) and its etymon Turkish kendir.
Senses: glosses: A strong bast fibre from the plant Apocynum venetum.
cacciatore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætʃ.əˈtɔːɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌkɑːtʃ-/
ipa: /-eɪ/
ipa: /ˌkɑt͡ʃ.əˈtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /-toʊɹ-/
Forms: form: cacciatora
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cacciatore (“hunter”).
Senses: synonyms: chasseur
qualifier: rabbit
glosses: Prepared in an Italian style with wine, mushrooms, spices and tomatoes.
raw_tags: of chicken
cacciatore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætʃ.əˈtɔːɹ.i/
ipa: /ˌkɑːtʃ-/
ipa: /-eɪ/
ipa: /ˌkɑt͡ʃ.əˈtɔɹ.i/
ipa: /-toʊɹ-/
Forms: form: cacciatores
form: cacciatora
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cacciatore (“hunter”).
Senses: synonyms: chasseur
hyponyms: hunter's chicken
glosses: A meal prepared in this style.
upping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of up
upping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌpɪŋ
Forms: form: uppings
Senses: examples: text: He announced, I believe, that it was far better, instead of making uniform uppings of all allowances, to provide for cases where need arose. I have not before me to-night figures as to dependents' allowances paid in other places.
ref: 1942, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons:
text: Yes; I personally believe that we can meet it if we are willing to bear down hard enough and make quickly enough a set of decisions that will lead toward sharp uppings of our production.
ref: 1943, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program, Investigation of the national defense program:
glosses: The act of increasing something.
Derived terms: ante-upping
swan upping
upping stone
imputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imputation
cost of living
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: costs of living
Senses: examples: text: But the demonstrators remained defiant, pouring into the streets by the thousands and venting their anger over political corruption, the high cost of living and huge public spending for the World Cup and the Olympics.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Labour's Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh said: "There is a cost-of-living crisis, and the Prime Minister blew nearly £1m of public money on an utterly infeasible vanity project. That's enough to fill 18,000 potholes. This shows the Tories' sheer disrespect for public money."
ref: 2022 February 9, “Network News: Prime Minister "blew nearly £1m" on Northern Ireland bridge study”, in RAIL, number 950, page 20:
text: The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.
ref: 2022 August 6, Geneva Abdul, “Liz Truss rejects ‘handouts’ as way to tackle cost of living crisis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The average cost of a standard set of basic necessities of life, especially of food, shelter and clothing.
Related terms: HCOL
LCOL
MCOL
VHCOL
hedonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡδονή (hēdonḗ, “pleasure”) + -ics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The ethical study of pleasure
Related terms: hedonism
cheerleading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cheerlead + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Since its inception in the late 19th century, cheerleading has evolved from yelling encouragement on the sidelines to a competitive hybrid of gymnastics, dance and acrobatics.
ref: 2020 November 29, Tess DeMeyer, Ilana Panich-Linsman, “The College Athletes Who Are Allowed to Make Big Bucks: Cheerleaders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A physical activity in which cheerleaders organize elements of dance, gymnastics, and tumbling for judgment or to cheer on a team.
glosses: Automatic or servile praise.
Related terms: cheerleader
cheerleading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cheerlead + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheerlead
IELTS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ̯ɛlts/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of International English Language Testing System.
double-entry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
coordinate_terms: single-entry#Adjective
glosses: Describing a method of bookkeeping in which each transaction is entered in two accounts, for debits and for credits.
Related terms: double bookkeeping
quickset
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: What little worlds of affection and comfort are bounded by the neat quickset-hedge, quiet and still as the nest of some singing-bird!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Changes in London”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: Grown from cuttings planted directly into the ground
raw_tags: of a hedge etc
quickset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quicksets
Senses: glosses: The cuttings used, or the hedge produced by this method
quickset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quicksets
form: quickseting
form: quickseted
form: quickseted
Senses: glosses: To enclose (something) with quickset hedge.
focally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more focally
form: most focally
Etymology: From focal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With respect to a focus
fogyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fogyish
form: most fogyish
Etymology: From fogy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a fogy
Synonyms: old-fogyish
foldaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fold + away.
Senses: examples: text: The thought of sleeping with Ann on the fold-away living-room sofa was so impossible, she hadn't even thought about it any more.
ref: 1981 February 14, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 8:
glosses: That may be folded away when not in use.
Related terms: rollaway
foldaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foldaways
Etymology: From fold + away.
Senses: glosses: A piece of furniture, of any kind, that can be folded away when not in use.
cacciatora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacciatore
Etymology: From Italian cacciatora.
Senses: synonyms: chasseur
glosses: A style of cooking in which meat is cooked in a sauce containing mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, white wine and herbs.
totus porcus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more totus porcus
form: most totus porcus
Etymology: A pseudo-Latinism, translated as whole hog.
Senses: examples: text: I swallowed the official version totus porcus.
text: As a founding principle of our trip, Margaret and I decided that if we were going to go, we would go whole hog, totus porcus, super deluxe all the way
ref: 1996 February 25, Michael Korda, “The Nile in High Style”, in New York Times, Travel section:
glosses: Completely; unreservedly.
Related terms: go the whole hog
archepiscopal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: archiepiscopal
Etymology: See archiepiscopal.
Senses: examples: text: A deep snow was falling; and the wind which drove it heavily against the casements of the archepiscopal palace was roaring in the wide chimney,[…].
ref: 1847, Julia Perdoe, Louis the Fourteenth: And the Court of France in the Seventeenth Century, volume 3, page 167:
text: Important pieces of evidence point to the intensified activities of the archepiscopal curia's criminal forum.
ref: 1996, Michele Mancino, “5: Ecclesiastical Justice and the Counter-Reformation: Notes on the Diocesan Criminal Court of Naples”, in Eric Arthur Johnson, Eric H. Monkkonen, editors, The Civilization of Crime: Violence in Town and Country Since the Middle Ages, page 131:
text: Johannes Magnus, Brask's protégé, won the archepiscopal sweepstakes at the expense of Master Knut, Sunnanväder's candidate.
ref: 2010, James L. Larson, Reforming the North: The Kingdoms and Churches of Scandinavia, 1520–1545, page 177:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to an archbishop or an archbishopric.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to an archbishopric
word: diocesan
Related terms: archiepiscopate
radio button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio buttons
Senses: glosses: Any of a line of preset buttons on a car radio used to select the station to be listened to; pressing one releases the others.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of widgets in a graphical user interface that is used to select one of a group of options; the selection of any one deselects the others.
Hypernyms: button
full name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full names
Senses: synonyms: personal name
glosses: The complete name of a person, including first name, any middle names, and surname.
examples: text: The full name of the United Kingdom is "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see full, name.
Synonyms: word: full name
Hypernyms: word: name
word: term
word: phrase
Meronyms: word: title
word: given name
word: middle name
word: surname
Related terms: epithet
family name
hypocorism
last name
middle name
nickname
pet name
Sunday name
surname
possa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of possum
scorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scaurie.
revamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revampings
Etymology: From revamp + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: In undertaking such revampings, marketers confront a tricky balancing act.
ref: 2007 May 1, Stuart Elliott, “The names are vintage, the touches modern”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: revamp
word: revampment
glosses: gerund of revamp: an act of improving, renewing, renovating, or revising something.
revamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From revamp + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revamp
féerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛəɹi/
ipa: /ˈfeɪəɹi/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: féeries
Etymology: Borrowed from French féerie. Doublet of fairy.
Senses: examples: 2003: Syd's féerie entourage and girlies in drifting crinoline went out of the window, of course, along with his animated scarecrows — Jeremy Harding, ‘Afternoonishness’, London Review of Books 25:1
glosses: A fantastical theatrical production or film featuring fairies.
earwigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of earwig
earwigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of earwig
earwigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earwiggings
Senses: glosses: An attempt to influence by persistent confidential argument or talk.
synonyms: wigging
glosses: A telling-off or reprimand.
self-improvement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-improvements
Etymology: From self- + improvement.
Senses: examples: text: He believes that self-improvement and its growing popularity are symptoms of what he calls individualism.
ref: 2019 May 2, Nina Avramova, “When you should use self-help programs and when to skip them”, in CNN:
glosses: The following of a disciplined programme to improve one's physical health, mental health or character.
examples: text: In the year 1851 a small group of workmen in the Locomotive Department of the old Midland Railway Company at Derby met for self-improvement, and formed what was then known as a "reading society".
ref: 1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
text: Ambition and self-improvement are certainly not negatives, although one potential downside to being more self-conscious—especially for punk bands—is muted urgency.
ref: 2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: The bettering of one's status.
Synonyms: self-help
Hypernyms: improvement
Derived terms: self-improve
self-improving
support group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: support groups
Senses: examples: text: If you can't stay sober, you need a support group like Alcoholics Anonymous.
text: Its heroes are the women who meet in support groups and through Facebook; who talk openly about ruined sex lives and medical horrors; who come out to picket shareholder meetings and industry conferences.
ref: 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018:
glosses: A group of people who informally support each other over a problem which all of its members share.
BAK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Basic Aeronautical Knowledge, an initial theory course for trainee pilots.
proband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probands
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Latin probandus (“the one to be tested”) (denoting, in this application, the first one tested); By surface analysis, probe + -and.
Senses: examples: text: The proband was 8 years old and had a dyseidetic pattern, as did his father, who was also tested.
ref: 1992, Helene V. Fatt, Genetics for Primary Eye Care Practitioners, page 82:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An individual who presents with a genetic disorder or other specific characteristic, when this leads to the genetic investigation of the individual's family.
Derived terms: probandwise
Related terms: index case
index patient
patient zero
sentics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sentiō + -ics. Instigated and named by Austrian neuroscientist Manfred Clynes.
Senses: examples: text: 1991 Timothy K. Smith "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts" in The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front page
Prof. Clynes is a published poet and author of five books. He coined the word "cyborg". He also coined the word "sentics" to describe a new science entirely of his own devising.
text: A science called sentics is based on the ability of sound and music to induce different states of consciousness.
ref: 2005, Francesca McCartney, C. Norman, Body of Health: The New Science of Intuition Medicine for Energy and Balance, New World Library, →ISBN:
text: 2006 Biography of Dr. Manfred Clynes at the Manfred Clynes Institute of Amity and Emotion Research web site
Another of his inventions, the sentograph, measures expressive actions of deliberate expressive pressure of a person's finger. When a person has an emotional experience, such as listening to music, his nervous system acts in a characteristic way, demanding expression, and this can be expressed through by finger pressure, measured on the sentograph. The sentograph allowed Dr. Clynes to discover these characteristic emotional shapes. He found that all of humanity seems to share these emotional shapes. They appear to be programmed materially into the way our nervous system is designed. People in widely dispersed, superficially and racially distinct communities had the exact same sentic form for emotions like anger and love. The study of these phenomena became the science of Sentics, a word Dr. Clynes coined and a field he pioneered.
glosses: The study of waveforms of touch, emotion, and music.
glosses: Common affective patterns associated with natural language concepts exploited for tasks such as emotion recognition from text/speech or sentiment analysis.
Derived terms: sentic
Related terms: sensation
sentient
loaded for bear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An allusion to equipping oneself with the sort of heavy weaponry suitable for hunting large animals.
Senses: examples: text: "The whole Jap Navy," said Captain Sams, waving at a map of Japan on the wall behind him, "has been steaming across the Pacific loaded for bear."
ref: 1955, Edward Latimer Beach, chapter 6, in Run Silent, Run Deep:
glosses: Thoroughly equipped, as for a demanding task or confrontation.
examples: text: Every Elliott and Crawford and MacAllister is on the warpath, loaded for bear.
ref: 1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 35, in Anne's House of Dreams:
glosses: Mentally prepared for a daunting situation or confrontation.
Related terms: lock and load
arm to the teeth
cat-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-houses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cathouse.
pegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɡd/
rhymes: -ɛɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of peg
pegged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛɡd/
rhymes: -ɛɡd
Senses: examples: text: a pegged shoe or boot
glosses: Fitted or furnished with one or more pegs.
Derived terms: pegged pants
unpegged
introject
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪntɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Forms: form: introjects
form: introjecting
form: introjected
form: introjected
Etymology: Back-formation from introjection.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes the general differentiation of subject and object to pregivenness of the co- or 'fellow-man', to whom an environmental element—as, for instance, 'this tree' — is supposed to be introjected, followed by subsequent introjection by the observer to himself (Avenarius); sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside.
ref: 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche.
introject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪntɹə(ʊ)ˈd͡ʒɛkt/
Forms: form: introjects
Etymology: Back-formation from introjection.
Senses: examples: text: When introjects are weak (or even absent), an anaclitic personality configuration results, characterized by dependency, insecurity, and feelings of helplessness and emptiness.
ref: 2003, Theodore Millon, Melvin J. Lerner, Irving B. Weiner, Handbook of Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology, page 123:
text: Repetitious comments are other examples of introjects that we take on as if they were truths. These include: You're lazy; you're selfish; you'll never amount to anything; […]
ref: 2015, Janet S. Steinwedel, The Golden Key to Executive Coaching:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An element of another person that is unconsciously incorporated into one's psyche.
introjected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of introject
Invisible Pink Unicorn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Invisible Pink Unicorns
Senses: examples: text: If you feel it is the duty of others to refute the claim, and not of yourself to support it, then how about refuting the existence of invisible pink unicorns?
ref: 1990 July 17, je kanker moeder, “Re: 'Proof' of God's Existence”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 30 Sep 2010, message-ID <3704@qip.UUCP>:
text: Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
ref: c. 1994, Steve Eley, ISCABBS:
text: From a quite opposite perspective, an interesting departure of the 1990s (largely on the internet, and still flourishing) is the cult of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, which is at least in part a philosophical tool for examining the nature of religious faith from a skeptical point of view.
ref: 2007, Nigel Suckling, Unicorns, Facts, Figures, & Fun, →ISBN, page 94:
synonyms: IPU
glosses: A unicorn goddess who is simultaneously invisible and pink, used in arguments against faith in an unprovable deity.
Related terms: Flying Spaghetti Monster
God hypothesis
Last Thursdayism
Russell's teapot
tercet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː(ɹ)sɪt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪt
Forms: form: tercets
Senses: glosses: a three-line stanza in a poem
Related terms: couplet
quatrain
cinquain
sestet
septet
terzain
triplet
tristich
octave
mod man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mod men
Etymology: Short for modification man.
Senses: examples: text: I'm a huge mod man here from McMaster University and looking for other mods in the Toronto area
ref: 1994 December 15, C. Gracie, “MODS IN TORONTO WHERE ARE YOU? ALSO BLUR ARE AMAZING!”, in alt.music.canada (Usenet):
text: Dr Dirt is indeed Eric Gorr long time porter and engine mod man. He has made some of the top pro riders in the sport their engines
ref: 1996 July 15, Michael Patrick, “Re: Dr.Dirt?”, in rec.motorcycles.dirt (Usenet):
text: A friend of mine has two stock ultra RMK's, that he know [sic.] nothing about. I myself am a full Mod Man. His Ultra's ran ok but I want to help him set them correctly.
ref: 1996 September 12, “Snopolaris”, “ULTRA SETUP-----”, in rec.sport.snowmobiles (Usenet):
text: I installed a BMW transpak in the 4L60 on my 91 Z-28. I'm no tower of mechanical prowess, but also no dummy and I followed the instructions to the letter....
Mike (disgruntled mod.man)
ref: 1997 September 23, Mike “Mikebhoff” from aol.com, “shift kits and my 2 cents”, in alt.autos.camaro.firebird (Usenet):
text: Hotrodding Marshall's became a large cottage industry and a few of the guys who started out with great Marshall mods went on to form their own successful companies, Mike Soldano, Bogner, Paul Rivera (who was an early mod man, initially making his name modding Fenders.)
ref: 1998 December 13, Steve “steve_2000”, “Re: EVH and digital delays Re: Why does Eddie Van Halen suck?”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):
text: I hear that someone has been able to make a bot for JK, but its AI is as bad as the in game characters. I suppose it might be possible to play co-op against these bots alongside another player, but i dont know as i'[m] not a mod man.
ref: 1999 July 18, Nicholas Owen, “Re: Why?”, in alt.games.jedi-knight (Usenet):
text: My understanding on the 398/909 is that Sangean built the radio this way basically for the European market...to prevent overloading. If you search this newsgroup, you will find mods mentioned (by the great mod man RickW) that correct this condition.
ref: 2002 April 30, Russ “radiok3pi”, “Re: Radio Shack USA has Grundig YB-400”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet):
glosses: A person who experiments with and modifies the internals of machinery, electronics, or software that has been mass-produced; a creative mechanic or technician.
mod man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mod men
Etymology: Short for modern man.
Senses: examples: text: It may well be that the mod preoccupation with style and the emergence of the unisex look and the ‘effeminate’ mod man, gave girls a more legitimate place in the subculture than had previously been the case.
ref: 1997, Ken Gelder, Sarah Thornton, editors, The Subcultures Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, page 115:
text: 1997 September, “ezmarelda” from worldnet.att.net, “Re: Learning to See”, alt.dreams.castaneda, Usenet
ezmarelda: do u have a cracker jack degree in psychology from pete ross U? are ua [you a] mod man?
Emilio: No degrees or pedigree.... I live in a modern world but seek another mode.
text: Back behind The Factory's burnished long bar, Patrick squints through all the whirring green and red and yellow lights, all the heaving bodies, until he catches the eye of a quiet mod man who sits back in the shadows with his blonde wife, seeing and unseen.
ref: 1969, John Hallowell, The Truth Game, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: A man who is modern in style.
feebates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feebate
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Senses: examples: text: I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster.
ref: 2005 January 24, Bobby Henderson, “Open Letter To Kansas School Board”, in spaghettimonster.org, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
text: Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?
ref: 2005 August 29, Sarah Boxer, “But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2019, retrieved 28 Oct 2011:
text: And now, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is demanding equal teaching time for its theory that the world was created by an FSM.
ref: 2006 May 24, Jack Huberman, “#75: Kansas State Board of Education”, in 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America, Nation Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC P95.82.U6 H83 2006, page 76:
text: A popular deity on the Internet at present — and as undisprovable as Yahweh or any other — is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who, many claim, has touched them with his noodly appendage.
ref: 2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, “The God Hypothesis”, in The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC BL2775.3.D39 2006, page 76:
text: Call it what you want — God, Buddha, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, Prime Mover Unmoved. The totality of everything. I don't care.
ref: 2008 April 29, Neil Gaiman with Michael Reeves, InterWorld, 1st edition, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PZ7.G1273 Int 2007, page 73:
text: All rooms, no matter how tough, have someone who hates you the least. Even if you're a Flying Spaghetti Monster disciple speaking at the Vatican, someone in that room will hate you less than everyone else.
ref: 2009 October, Scott Berkun, “How to work a tough room”, in Confessions of a Public Speaker, 1st edition, Sebastapol: O'Reilly, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PN4129.15.B47 2010, page 51:
glosses: A deity consisting of spaghetti and meatballs, the creator of the universe according to the religion of Pastafarianism.
Synonyms: FSM
Derived terms: flying spaghetti monster
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
Related terms: Invisible Pink Unicorn
Last Thursdayism
Russell's teapot
feebate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feebates
Etymology: Blend of fee + rebate.
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: A tax or user charge imposed by government that charges users of socially undesirable items and applies the money to payments for users of socially desirable items.
propria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprium
quali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualis
form: qualies
form: qualie
form: qualy
form: qual
Etymology: From qualify.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Clipping of qualifying.
quali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualis
form: qualies
form: qualie
form: qualy
form: qual
Etymology: From qualify.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of qualifier.
introjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: introjections
Etymology: From intro-, by analogy with projection and interjection.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); […]; sometimes the general differentiation of subject and object to pregivenness of the co- or 'fellow-man', to whom an environmental element—as, for instance, 'this tree' — is supposed to be introjected, followed by subsequent introjection by the observer to himself (Avenarius); sometimes one's own body to a merely associative coordination of the self-perception of the own self and organ sensations with the own body as perceived from outside.
ref: 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
Related terms: projection
vers de societe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the French vers de société.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A type of light poetry suited to the amusement of polite upper-class society.
villanelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪləˈnɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: villanelles
Etymology: From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.
Senses: examples: text: By definition the villanelle is restrictive, because it demands nineteen lines on two rhymes in six stanzas, the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the concluding quatrain.
ref: 1966, Louise Baughan Murdy, Sound and sense in Dylan Thomas's poetry (Studies in English Literature), The Hague: Mouton & Co, →ISBN, page 96:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
Derived terms: villanellist
Garden of Eden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Garden of Eden
form: Gardens of Eden
Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).
Senses: examples: text: Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 3:23–24:
text: Latter-day Saints know, through modern revelation, that the Garden of Eden was on the North American continent and that Adam and Eve began their conquest of the earth in the upper part of what is now the state of Missouri.
ref: 1943, John A. Widtsoe, Evidences and Reconciliations: Aids to Faith in a Modern Day, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, ch. 22, page 127:
text: Up until two decades ago, the Garden of Eden was, we thought, in Eastern Ontario, where the McIntosh variety happened along. Probably Americans feel you had two Gardens of Eden, the first one being where the Red Delicious was discovered, and the second one, where the Golden Delicious was discovered. The Australians must have thought the Garden of Eden was somewhere in Australia, where the Granny Smith appeared. According to the Bible, however, there was only one Garden of Eden and probably the population explosion started there, but from that time onward, all control was lost of both apple production and population.
ref: 1971, Western Fruit Grower, volume 25/26, Western Farm Publications:
text: “Were there many Gardens of Eden?” Surely! To read only of the biblical Adam and Eve is to grasp the story in this one way. In the hills they speak of the beginning as the time of the giants, another utopia. In eastern heathen lands, surely giants reigned in many Edens.
ref: 2001, George Szanto, The Condesa of M., Cormorant Books Inc., →ISBN, page 173:
text: For religious thinkers like William Warren and Landon West, the whole point of Eden was to unify mankind. To have two Gardens of Eden was worse than having none at all.
ref: 2011, Brook Wilensky-Lanford, “Practically Paradise”, in Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, Grove Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: earthly paradise
paradise
glosses: In the Book of Genesis of the Bible and Surat Sad of the Qur'an, a garden at the source of the Gihon, Pishon, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers, where Adam and Eve first lived after being created.
Derived terms: Garden of Weeden
Garden of Eden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gardens of Eden
Etymology: Calque of Biblical Hebrew גַּן עֵדֶן (gan ʿḗḏen).
Senses: glosses: An idyllic place wherein innocence and perfection reign; any delightful region or abode; a pastoral utopia; an Arcadia.
glosses: A state or condition of unsullied innocence.
examples: text: In this paper the author presents some properties regarding the existence or non-existence of gardens of Eden for the cellular automata.
ref: 1986, Patrick Chenin, Claire Di Crescenzo, François Robert, Computers and Computing: Proceedings, page 181:
text: I have gotten interested in Garden-of-Eden configurations in Life. All that I have been able to uncover thus far is that there are 2 know configurations:
ref: 1989 October 20, Rajeev Pandey, “hints and topics, anyone?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: A configuration e not in the image of τ, namely e ∈ C \ τ[C] is called a Garden of Eden (briefly GOE) configuration, this biblical terminology being motivated by the fact that GOE configurations only appear as initial configurations.
ref: 2004, Tullio Ceccherini-Silberstein with Francesca Fiorenzi and Fabio Scarabotti, “The Garden of Eden Theorem for Cellular Automata and for Symbolic Dynamical Systems”, in Vadim A. Kaimanovich, editor, Random Walks and Geometry: Proceedings of a Workshop at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna, June 18 - July 13, 2001, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, →OL:
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not attainable from any other state.
Russian roulette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: rush and roulette
Etymology: From roulette, a game of chance involving a revolving wheel. The first description is apparently in "The Fatalist," an 1840 short story by Russian writer Mikhail Lermontov.
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A deadly game in which a person loads a single bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, points the muzzle at his/her head, and pulls the trigger. In its most lethal form, played by multiple participants each of whom takes a turn until the weapon discharges.
glosses: Any activity, especially a needless one, that carries a high risk of death or disaster.
Related terms: tempt fate
court disaster
Russianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: What could represent ‘Russianness’ or ‘Germanness’ inside a work written in English?
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 47:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Russian.
tube feeding syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A potentially fatal condition caused by a feeding regimen given through a tube that provides too little water and too much protein in the diet.
belt loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belt loops
form: beltloop
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A highway that loops around the perimeter of a major city.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: One of the loops of fabric ringing the waist of a pair of pants, used to hold the belt in place.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: The D-shaped frame of a belt buckle.
Synonyms: sense: highway
word: beltway
Related terms: hanging loop
fo shizzle my nizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: African-American Vernacular
ipa: /foʊ ˈʃɪzl̩ ma(ɪ)ˈnɪzl̩/
Etymology: From fo shizzle + my + nizzle, rhyming variation of nigga, with the rhyming particle -izzle.
Senses: topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A more emphatic and familiar form of fo shizzle; “For sure, my friend”, used to stress the following sentence.
Kintyre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Cinn Tìre (literally “headland”).
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in the south-west of Argyll and Bute council area, western Scotland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Emmons County, North Dakota, United States. Original name: Campbell.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Saint Andrew parish, Jamaica.
Derived terms: Mull of Kintyre
Umeå
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːməɔː/
ipa: /ˈuːmeɪoʊ/
Etymology: From Swedish Umeå from úm’ (sound made by the river) + Swedish å (“river”).
Senses: glosses: A city on the east coast of northern Sweden.
pastourelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastourelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French pastourelle.
Senses: glosses: A type of poetry concerning the romance of a shepherdess.
LU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of London Underground.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Liberty Union Party.
glosses: Initialism of La Union.
LU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LUs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of livestock unit.
LU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for lower-upper.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A matrix decomposition which writes a matrix as the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix, used in numerical analysis to solve systems of linear equations or find the inverse of a matrix.
triolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtriːə(ʊ)lɛt/
/ˈtrʌɪəlɛt/
Forms: form: triolets
Etymology: From French triolet.
Senses: examples: text: The triolet, like the sestina and several other forms of French-derived poetry, is a form of rhyming poetry that has lines that repeat.
ref: 2005, Connie Homan Weaver, Poetry a la Carte, Prufrock Press Inc., →ISBN, page 110:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
coordinate_terms: sestina
glosses: An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter.
Derived terms: biolet
trioletic
monodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɒdɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɒˈ-/
ipa: /məˈnɑdɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdɪk
Etymology: From monody + -ic.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to monody
Synonyms: monodical
Related terms: monodist
monodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monody + -ical.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to monody
Synonyms: monodic
Related terms: monodist