cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Holy See
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊli ˈsiː/
Senses: examples: text: Although the Holy See publicly expressed its rejection of sexual abuse and pedophilia and expressed its commitment to cooperate with civil authorities when cases of pedophile priests were found¹², there are no known cases of bishops or cardinals, being found responsible for abusing children or covering up for pedophilia in their parishes.
ref: 2013 December 24, “Clerical Pedophilia by Mexicans in Mexico and Other Countries”, in CNN en Español, page 10:
glosses: The episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope. It is the preeminent see of the Catholic Church. It is also the sovereign entity headed by the Pope which governs the Vatican and represents the Catholic Church in temporal affairs.
heatsink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heatsinks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heat sink.
heatsink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heatsinks
form: heatsinking
form: heatsinked
form: heatsinked
form: heatsunk
Senses: examples: text: It was necessary to heatsink the device through the center conductor of the coax thereby producing a total thermal resistance from the active layer to the ambient of almost 50°C/watt.
ref: 1971, Joseph Stewart Bravman, Thermal effects in the operation of GaAs transferred electron microwave oscillators, page 138:
text: The device itself can dissipate a peak power of 78 W when properly heatsinked and has a 65 W steady dissipation.
ref: 2012, Robert B. Northrop, Analysis and Application of Analog Electronic Circuits to Biomedical Instrumentation, page 385:
glosses: To fit with a heat sink.
heatsinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heatsink
heat sinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat sink
superconcentrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + concentrated.
Senses: glosses: Very concentrated.
superefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From super- + efficient.
Senses: glosses: Very efficient.
NP-complete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Informally, a problem is in the class NPC—and we refer to it as being NP-complete—if it is in NP and is as "hard" as any problem in NP. We shall formally define what it means to be as hard as any problem in NP later in this chapter. In the meantime, we will state without proof that if any NP-complete problem can be solved in polynomial time, then every problem in NP has a polynomial-time algorithm. Most theoretical computer scientists believe that the NP-complete problems are intractable, since given the wide range of NP-complete problems that have been studied to date—without anyone having discovered a polynomial-time solution to any of them—it would be truly astounding if all of them could be solved in polynomial time. Yet, given the effort devoted thus far to proving NP-complete problems intractable—without a conclusive outcome—we cannot rule out the possibility that the NP-complete problems are in fact solvable in polynomial time.
ref: 2001, Thomas H Cormen, Charles E Leiserson, Ronald L Rivest, Clifford Stein, Introduction To Algorithms, 2nd edition, The MIT Press, page 968:
text: Every area of math seems to have its own NP complete problems. For example, the question of whether or not a graph contains a Hamiltonian circuit is a quintessential NP complete problem and, since it can be explained with little higher level math, is a popular choice in expository works.
ref: 2002, Thomas A. Garrity, All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School, Cambridge University Press, page 317:
text: A problem Π is said to be NP-complete if each problem in NP is reducible to Π. Hence
(4.13) if some NP-complete problem belongs to P, then P=NP.
ref: 2003, A. Schrijver, Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and Efficiency, Volume A, Springer, page 43:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That is both NP (solvable in polynomial time by a non-deterministic Turing machine) and NP-hard (such that any (other) NP problem can be reduced to it in polynomial time).
raw_tags: of a decision problem
Related terms: word: NP
word: NP-C
english: the set of NP-complete problems
translation: the set of NP-complete problems
word: NPC
word: NP-completeness
word: NP-easy
word: NP-equivalent
word: NP-hard
ultraefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃənt
Etymology: From ultra- + efficient.
Senses: glosses: Extremely efficient; of utmost efficiency.
Xaverian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xaverians
Etymology: From Xavier + -ian, after St. Francis Xavier.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Xaverian Brothers, a religious order founded in Bruges, Belgium 1839 and dedicated to Catholic education.
Related terms: Xavierite
Xaverian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xaverian
form: most Xaverian
Etymology: From Xavier + -ian, after St. Francis Xavier.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining or related to this religious order.
Xanthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈzæn.θi.ən/
Forms: form: more Xanthian
form: most Xanthian
Etymology: From Xanthos + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Two pillar tombs dominate the acropolis: the Harpy Tomb, adorned with reliefs of female winged figures; and the Xanthian Obelisk, a giant stele covered in Lycian script that has not yet been fully deciphered.
ref: 2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023:
glosses: Of the city Xanthos (or Xanthus) in ancient Lycia.
Xanthian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzæn.θi.ən/
Forms: form: Xanthians
Etymology: From Xanthos + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A citizen of Xanthos.
servient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɜː(ɹ)viənt/
Forms: form: more servient
form: most servient
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin serviēns, servientis. Doublet of servant and sergeant.
Senses: examples: text: servient youth, and magisterial eld
ref: 1757, John Dyer, The Fleece:
topics: law
glosses: subordinate
Derived terms: servient estate
servient premises
servient tenement
Xenophontean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Xenophontean
form: most Xenophontean
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Xenophon (c. 431–355 BC), a Greek soldier and admirer of Socrates, or his writings.
xanthogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthogens
Etymology: From xantho- + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Formerly, a hypothetical radical supposed to be characteristic of xanthic acid.
xeriscaper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeriscapers
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of xeriscaping.
x-height
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: x-heights
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The distance between the baseline and midline in a typeface, typically equal to the height of the lower-case letter x.
thioester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioesters
Etymology: From thio- + ester.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several classes of organic compound in which one or both oxygen atoms of an ester group are replaced by those of sulfur
Derived terms: thioesterase
thermalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermal + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of hot-water springs
therian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪɹ.i.ən/
Etymology: From Theria + -ian. From translingual Theria, from Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the taxonomic subclass Theria.
therian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: therians
Etymology: From Theria + -ian. From translingual Theria, from Ancient Greek θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).
Senses: glosses: Any member of the taxonomic subclass Theria, the placental and marsupial mammals.
therian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: therians
Senses: glosses: Clipping of therianthrope.
tamis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: tammy
Forms: form: tamises
form: tammie
form: tammy
Etymology: Borrowed from French tamis, from Middle French tamis, from Old French tamis, from Medieval Latin tamisium, of unclear origin.
Cognate with Old High German zemis (dialectal German Zims), Dutch teems (“sieve”), West Frisian teams, tiems, German Low German Teemse, Teems, Old English temes, Old English temesian (“to sieve; sift”). Doublet of temse.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A culinary strainer, originally made from worsted cloth.
glosses: The cloth itself; a tammy.
Coordinate terms: food mill
chinois
Related terms: tammy
mirror ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirror balls
Senses: examples: text: The B-52's influence is not obvious is not profound. They opened the door for rock's ever-growing invation ^([sic]) into discos. It is largely due to their popularity that you heard Bowie's "Fashion" or Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" playing in synch with mirror balls.
ref: 1983 August 6, Rob Schmieder, “Disco Consumers And Rock Activists”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
glosses: A disco ball.
nonterminal symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonterminal symbols
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-terminal symbol.
aviado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aviados
Etymology: From Spanish.
Senses: glosses: One who works a mine with means provided by another.
vigorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigourousness
Etymology: From vigorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being vigorous.
fugitive from justice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fugitives from justice
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A person who is convicted or accused of a crime and who then flees from law enforcement and runs across state lines to evade arrest.
y'see
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəˈsiː/
ipa: /jəˈsi/
Senses: examples: text: Y'see, they’re just like us.
glosses: Shortened form of you see (meaning you comprehend).
temporised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of temporise
sales pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales pitches
Senses: examples: text: As far as he is concerned, it is just a huckster's sales pitch.
ref: 1947 May 19, “How Many Listeners?”, in Time:
text: He was so convinced by the sales pitch that he put around $1 million of his own money into the funds.
ref: 2007 September 13, Matthew Goldstein, “Did Bear Stearns Soft-Pedal the Risks?”, in BusinessWeek, retrieved 05 Oct 2008:
coordinate_terms: banter
glosses: Talk or demonstrations intended to persuade a consumer to make a purchase, especially when vigorously delivered or exaggerated.
Related terms: buy into
buy it
dog and pony show
have it
impolicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impolicies
Senses: examples: text: The company pretty generally go out for a given time, and with a given sum in their pockets, which, in nine cases out often, admits of but little encroachment; and if the temptations of mixing in superior society and speculating in expensive novelties cause new demands on papas, or show mammas the impolicy of making them, nothing can be more probable than that a hasty retreat should be resolved on, the consequence of a "summons from some sick or dying friend, of the most pressing nature.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174:
text: An impulse urged him to plant a sudden blow on it, by he forced himself to consider the impolicy of such an act.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: The state or act of being impolitic.
stockmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stockman
muriatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmjʊəɹiˈætɪk/
Forms: form: muriatick
Etymology: From Latin muriāticus (“pickled”), from muria (“brine”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to salt or brine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Obtained from seawater; containing chlorine. (Now chiefly with reference to muriatic acid.)
Derived terms: muriatic acid
muriatic salt
muriatiferous
nitromuriatic
oxymuriatic
appraisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appraisements
Etymology: From appraise + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: […] thesayd praysers before they take vpon them the appraisement of suche clothes, shalbe sworne in maner & forme folowyng.
ref: 1549, An Acte of the Relief Graunted to the Kinges Majestie by the Lordes and Commons, London:
text: I was obliged to stay till this afternoon, to settle several necessary matters, and to direct inventories to be taken, in order for appraisement; for every thing is to be turned into money, by his will.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: she who is dear to me beyond words of appraisement
ref: 1887, Hall Caine, chapter 37, in The Deemster, volume 3, London: Chatto & Windus, page 140:
text: Having long discredited the old systems of mysticism, he now began to discredit the old appraisements of morality.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, “THE CONVERT”, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the sixth (The Convert), page 158:
text: A good name―what is called prestige―meant much in the Native world. They seemed to have made up, at some time, a joint appraisement of you, against which no one would afterwards go.
ref: 1937, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Penguin, published 1954, Part 1, p. 27:
synonyms: appraisal
glosses: The act of appraising.
courtezan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtezans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of courtesan.
Derived terms: courtezanship
guiaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guiara
guiara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guiaras
Senses: glosses: A ratlike rodent of the genus Euryzygomatomys.
sixmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixmos
Etymology: From six + -mo.
Senses: glosses: sexto (as a paper size in printing).
sixteenmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixteenmos
Etymology: From sixteen + -mo.
Senses: glosses: sextodecimo (as a paper size in printing).
eighteenmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighteenmos
Etymology: From eighteen + -mo.
Senses: glosses: octodecimo (as a paper size in printing).
twenty-fourmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twenty-fourmos
Etymology: From twenty-four + -mo.
Senses: glosses: Vicesimo-quarto (as a paper size in printing).
forty-eightmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From forty-eight + -mo.
Senses: glosses: quadragesimo-octavo (as a paper size in printing).
sixty-fourmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sixty-fourmos
form: sixtyfourmo
Etymology: From sixty-four + -mo.
Senses: glosses: sexagesimo-quarto (as a paper size in printing).
callant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callants
Etymology: From Middle Dutch calant (Modern Dutch klant), from Picard kalant, from Old Northern French calant, from Old French chaloir (“to heat, to care about”).
Senses: examples: text: It was before the day of my ministry in Caulds, for then I was a tot callant in short clothes in my native parish of Lesmahagow; […]
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: lad, boy
felspar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: felspars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of feldspar.
pastichio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastichios
form: pastitsio
Etymology: From Italian pasticcio (“hodge-podge”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from *pastīcius (“of dough”), from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek παστά (pastá, “barley porridge”), from παστός (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastiche.
Senses: glosses: A Greek dish made with cheese, chopped meat and pasta, resembling lasagna.
pastitsio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastitsios
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pastichio.
caique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈiːk/
ipa: /kaɪˈiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: caiques
form: caïc
form: caicco
form: caieque
form: caïque
form: kaik
form: kaiki
form: kajik
form: kayik
form: saique
Etymology: Borrowed from French caïque, from Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık), from Proto-Turkic *kiayguk (“boat, oar”). Cognate with modern Turkish kayık.
Senses: examples: text: Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
Derived terms: caïquejee
caique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːˈiːk/
ipa: /kaɪˈiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: caiques
Etymology: From Spanish caíque or Portuguese caíque.
Senses: glosses: Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.
angustifoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angustifoliate
form: most angustifoliate
Etymology: From Latin angustus (“narrow”) + foliate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having narrow leaves.
throw a fit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws a fit
form: throwing a fit
form: threw a fit
form: thrown a fit
Senses: examples: text: I'd love to stay later, but my mother will throw a fit if I'm not home by 10.
text: He will throw a fit if his car breaks down.
text: Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown.
ref: 2003, Patterson Hood, Heathens:
glosses: To become angry, enraged, or upset; to act or react with an outburst, as by shouting, swearing, etc.
Synonyms: have a fit
pitch a fit
kajik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kajiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique.
kaik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kainga (“Maori village”).
kaik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique.
kaiki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaikis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique.
caïc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique.
caicco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caiccos
Etymology: From Italian caicco, from Ottoman Turkish قایق (kayık).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caique.
coureur de bois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coureurs de bois
form: coureur des bois
Etymology: Borrowed from French coureur des bois, literally “woods runner”.
Senses: examples: text: Those who stayed in New France often fled the fields to take up lives in the wilderness, where they traded for furs with the Indians or simply “went native.” […] In contemporary terms, these woodsmen—or coureurs de bois—were first-generation immigrants to aboriginal societies whose cultures and values they partially assimilated.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 2, in American Nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A fur trader operating in North America in the seventeenth or eighteenth century without permission from the French authorities.
mirk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Senses: examples: text: The thickness of mirk is bad enough, but the thickness of white, illimitable ether is worse a thousandfold, for it closes the eye and mazes the wits.
ref: 1899, John Buchan, Grey Weather, published 2008, page 4:
text: Outside the chapel in the weeping mirk a squire held his shield, another his helm, a groom walked his horse.
ref: 1900, Maurice Hewlett, The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, published 2008, page 18:
text: The English cries of the soldiers were answered in English by the Boers, and slouch hat or helmet dimly seen in the mirk was the only badge of friend or foe.
ref: 1900, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Great Boer War, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: She disappeared into the gathering mirk.
ref: 2011, Douglas Watt, Testament of a Witch, page 178:
glosses: Archaic spelling of murk.
mirk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: mirks
form: mirking
form: mirked
form: mirked
Senses: examples: text: And there they lay so near his little heart, / With whispering of things that happened not, / Until the serpent green had mirked / His manly vision in a way that lost / The anchorage of balanced sanity.
ref: 1903, J. Vinton Webster, Augusta: A Drama in Four Acts, published 2004, act 4, scene 1, page 121:
glosses: Archaic spelling of murk.
mirk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: mirker
form: mirkest
Senses: examples: text: c. 1590, Robert Greene, The Scottish History of James the Fourth, Act 5, Chorus 6, Norman Sanders (editor), 1973, The Revels Plays: James the Fourth, page 128,
What gars this din of mirk and baleful harm, / Where everywean is all betaint with bloud?
text: Chill and mirk is the nightly blast, / Where Pindus' mountains rise, / And angry clouds are pouring fast / The vengeance of the skies.
ref: 1809, Lord Byron, “Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm”, in The Works of Lord Byron, volume 7, published 1834, page 311:
text: It was by this time the mirkest of the gloaming, for they had purposely tarried on the journey that they might enter Edinburgh at dusk.
ref: 1823, John Galt, Ringan Gilhaize: Or, The Covenanters, volume 1, page 95:
text: It's a lang, laigh, mirk chalmer, perishin' cauld in winter, an' no very dry even in the tap o' the simmer, for the manse stands near the burn.
ref: 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Thrawn Janet”, in The Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables:
glosses: Archaic spelling of murk.
Derived terms: mirken
mirksome
trust fund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trust funds
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Property held by a trustee in a trust established by a grantor for a beneficiary.
glosses: Loosely, a substantial inheritance of money.
Derived terms: trust fund baby
trust-funder
Related terms: estate
fiduciary
will
ejusdem generis
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin ejusdem generis ("of the same kind").
Senses: examples: text: I would submit to the court that in order to determine the legislature's intent of the final phrase we need to apply the interpretive maxim of ejusdem generis to the sentence that contains the sequence.
text: Or what relation has debating \ Of church-affairs with bear-baiting? \ A just comparison still is \ Of things ejusdem generis: \ And then what genus rightly doth \ Include, and comprehend them both?
ref: 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras (poem), London, →OCLC, →OL, Part 1, canto 1, lines 853–858:
text: Ejusdem Generis: Where general words follow specific words in a statutory enumeration, the general words are construed to embrace only objects similar in nature to those objects enumerated by the preceding specific words. Where the opposite sequence is found, i.e., specific words following general ones, the doctrine is equally applicable, and restricts application of the general term to things that are similar to those enumerated.
ref: 1984 [1891], N. J. Singer, C. D. Sands, J. G. Sutherland, Statutes and statutory construction, 4th edition (reference; hardcover), Chicago: Callaghan, revision of Statutes and Statutory Construction by Sutherland, →OCLC, §47.17:
text: The wording of §1 calls for the application of the maxim ejusdem generis, the statutory canon that "[w]here general words follow specific words in a statutory enumeration, the general words are construed to embrace only objects similar in nature to those objects enumerated by the preceding specific words."
ref: 2001 March 21, Anthony M Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams, 532 U.S. 105 (United States Reports; 532) (judicial opinion), Washington, DC: Supreme Court, →ISBN, Court's majority opinion, page 114:
topics: law
glosses: A canon of construction holding that when a general term follows a list of particular terms, the general term only applies to things similar to the particular terms. For example, in the list "sun, moon, and other large objects", the phrase "other large objects" only includes celestial bodies, not houses and elephants.
Coordinate terms: noscitur a sociis
expressio unius est exclusio alterius
antithesize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antithesizes
form: antithesizing
form: antithesized
form: antithesized
form: antithesise
Senses: glosses: To create antitheses.
googler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: googlers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Googler.
Aigaleo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Egaleo
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece, in west Athens in the Attica prefecture
glosses: A mountain in Greece, in west Athens
Nea Smyrni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nea Smirni
Etymology: Literally means 'New Smyrna'. Named for the large numbers of immigrants from Smyrna/Izmir, Turkey that settled in the area in the 1920s and 1930s.
Senses: glosses: A city southwest of Athens in the Attica prefecture Greece
Papagou
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city northeast of Athens in the Attica prefecture, Greece.
glosses: A transliteration of the Greek surname Παπάγου (Papágou); the feminine equivalent of Papagos.
Chaidari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haidari
form: Chaidario
form: Chaidarion
form: Haidario
form: Haidarion
Senses: glosses: A city 10 km northwest of Athens in Attica, Greece.
Meschede
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mĕ′shə-də
ipa: /ˈmɛ.ʃə.də/
ipa: /ˈme.ʃə.də/
ipa: /ˈme.ʃe.ɖe/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Meschede.
Senses: glosses: A town in Hochsauerland district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
itemise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: itemises
form: itemising
form: itemised
form: itemised
Etymology: From item + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of itemize.
Derived terms: itemisation
itemiser
unitemised
hypergelast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpəɹd͡ʒəˈlæst/
Forms: form: hypergelasts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + γελαστής (gelastḗs, “laughter”), from γελάω (geláō, “I laugh”).
Senses: examples: text: America had become a laughing nation, a country of frivolists and hypergelasts, a culture dangerously out of control.
ref: 1992, Henry Jenkins, What Made Pistachio Nuts?, Columbia University Press:
synonyms: cachinnator
antonyms: agelast
glosses: Someone who laughs excessively.
wifty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪf.ti/
Forms: form: wiftier
form: wiftiest
Etymology: From *wift + -y. First element is of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: […] Kirsten Dunst is utterly charming as the doctor's wifty office assistant, idolizing her boss from afar and sharing tokes and beer with a pair of Lacuna lab techies played by Mark Ruffalo and Elijah Wood.
ref: 2004 March 19, Steven Rea, “Thanks for no memories”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:
text: Jack, at nineteen, twenty, had an unambiguous understanding of what it meant to win, there was none of that theoretical, wifty new-age stuff for him; […]
ref: 2009, Emily Listfield, Best Intentions, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Sometimes when he talks about this, it sounds as ordinary and hard-boiled as a real estate appraisal; other times it can sound fantastical and wifty and achingly naïve, informed by the last inklings of childhood […]
ref: 2012, Cheryl Glenn, The Harbrace Guide to Writing, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: Eccentric, silly, scatterbrained.
Synonyms: ditsy
ditzy
Related terms: wifty-wafty
politicaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: politicasters
Etymology: From Italian politicastro, from politico + -astro (“diminutive suffix”), equivalent to English politic(ian) + -aster.
Senses: examples: text: And for the Diſcipline propounded, ſeeing that it hath bin inevitably prov’d that the natural and fundamental cauſes of political Happineſs in all Governments are the ſame, and that this Church-diſcipline is taught in the Word of God, and, as we ſee, agrees according to wiſh with all ſuch States as have receiv’d it, we may infallibly aſſure our ſelves that it will as well agree with Monarchy, though all the Tribe of Aphoriſmers and Politicaſters would perſwade us there be ſecret and myſterious reaſons againſt it.
ref: 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation of Church-Discipline in England:
text: The politicaster is looking for small opportunities – for such pickings and stealings as a careless public may leave for those of his kind. The great politician is looking for great opportunities.
ref: 2004 January 5, Samuel McChord Crothers, “In Praise of Politicians”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York:
glosses: A petty politician.
Fas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Fas terms
temporise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: temporises
form: temporising
form: temporised
form: temporised
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: temporise
form: temporise
form: temporised
form: temporise
form: temporisest
form: temporised
form: temporisedst
form: temporises
form: temporiseth
form: temporised
form: temporise
form: temporised
form: temporise
form: temporised
form: temporise
form: -
form: temporising
form: temporised
Senses: examples: text: Though that her heart were fired, and swollen with anger, she temporiseth so, 'twas undiscovered: […]
ref: 1627, E. F. [i.e., Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland], The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II, King of England, and Lord of Ireland: […], London: […] J. C. for Charles Harper […] Samuel Crouch […] and Thomas Fox …, published 1680, →OCLC, lines 301–302; republished in Randall Martin, editor, Women Writers in Renaissance England, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2014, →ISBN, part 2 (Prose), page 176:
text: On the first day when his father formally gave him the hint that he was to place his affections at Miss Swartz's feet, George temporised with the old gentleman.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: [William] Penn, therefore, exhorted the fellows not to rely on the goodness of their cause, but to submit, or at least to temporise.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VIII, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 298:
glosses: Alternative spelling of temporize.
ninpo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninpō
Etymology: From Japanese 忍法 (ninpō).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: ninjutsu
Coordinate terms: kunoichi
shinobi
ninjutsu
ninja
licuado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licuados
Etymology: From Spanish licuado.
Senses: examples: text: “I come in every morning on my way to work to get my strawberry licuado and my coffee because it’s fast, very tasty and I know it’s good for me,” said Jose Perez, 30, a furniture salesman who grew up drinking licuados in Mexico.
ref: 2002 November 11, Maria Elena Fernandez, “Shake-up in latte land”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2025:
text: I also love the fresh fruit licuados at Moonfish (also on the shores of the lake), the nightly, family-style vegetarian spread at La Paz, the tiramisú of Il Jardino, and the mojitos at the outdoor lakeside bar of Hotel Jinava,[…].
ref: 2004 December 26, Joyce Maynard, “In Guatemala, Bliss by a Blue Lake”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 May 2018:
text: Cool off with a fruity licuado ($2) on the patio at Munchies[…], located in the Island House, a wooden structure that dates back to 1864.
ref: 2011 March 25, Nicholas Gill, “The Five-Point Weekend Escape Plan: Swim With Whale Sharks in Utila”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2012:
glosses: A Latin American handmade blended beverage similar to a smoothie, made with milk, fruit, and usually ice.
Related terms: batido
chase a rainbow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chases a rainbow
form: chasing a rainbow
form: chased a rainbow
form: chased a rainbow
form: chasing a rainbow
form: chasing rainbows
Senses: synonyms: tilt at windmills
fight a losing battle
ask for the moon
coordinate_terms: reach for the stars
reach for the sky
reach for the moon
shoot for the moon
aim for the sky
aim for the stars
glosses: To pursue something illusory, impractical, or impossible.
Related terms: snark hunt
the cake is a lie
wild-goose chase
hyposensitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyposensitizations
Etymology: From hypo- + sensitization.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of immunotherapy in which the patient is vaccinated with progressively larger doses of an allergen to which they have been diagnosed as being sensitive.
virtuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virtuose
form: most virtuose
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of virtuous.
glosses: Exhibiting the qualities and skill of a virtuoso; virtuosic.
virtuose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virtuosa
taglioni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tælˈjəʊni/
Forms: form: taglionis
Etymology: Said to be named after a celebrated Italian family of professional dancers, the most famous being Marie Taglioni.
Senses: examples: text: A rhubarb-coloured coat of the sort which, I believe, are called Taglionis, and which have no waist-buttons.
ref: 1843, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Ravenswing:
glosses: A kind of overcoat.
wikipedia: Marie Taglioni
the ball is in someone's court
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: have the ball in one's court
Etymology: From tennis, as when the ball is in someone's court it is their turn to play.
Senses: examples: text: Well there's not much more I can do, so the ball is in your court now.
text: Achieving that partnership will require leadership and flexibility. Not just from us, but from our friends, the 27 nations of the EU. And as we look forward to the next stage, the ball is in their court, but I am optimistic it will receive a positive response.
ref: 2017 October 9, Theresa May, 1:05 from the start, in Theresa May's Brexit speech, via The Guardian:
glosses: It is someone's turn to do something; often making a decision.
TMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TMAs
Senses: examples: text: a TMA system is the kind of thing that explains English “would”, “could”, “-ed”, “-ing”, “-s”, “have”, “been”, etc.
ref: c. 2003, David J. Peterson, The Kelenala TMA System:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: TAM
glosses: Initialism of tense, mood, and aspect.
examples: text: A little over 50 years later – with LSD, psilocybin, psilocin, TMA, several compounds based on DMT and various other isomers – the number was up to almost 20.
ref: 2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trimethoxyamphetamine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of trimethylamine.
glosses: Initialism of television market area.
topics: road
transport
glosses: Initialism of truck-mounted attenuator.
TMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
TMA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: TME
text: […] transmisogyny-affected (TMA) people, are in the greatest danger of TERF violence, and thus their critiques take priority in the fight against TERFs. With TMA people routinely excluded from the bounds of academia, […] impacted by transmisogyny; […]
ref: 2020, Sarah Lynn Cavar, Enacting Transbutch: Queer Narratives Beyond Essentialism, master's thesis:
text: It is urgently critical to operationalize gender expression when considering the experiences of TNB women and feminine individuals, and even more so with those who are transmisogyny-affected, because policing and weaponizing of feminine gender expression is done with higher intensity for TMA than TME people.
ref: 2024, Teresa Van Winkle, Navigating the World: Understanding Gender Expression Through the Experiences of Transgender and Nonbinary People, master's thesis, order no. 31336206 on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global:
text: TMA people are maddened from multiple angles, complex motivations, intentions, and needs flattened into impenetrable problems for disposal.
ref: 2025 May 24, [sarah] Cavar, “Access Fictions: Clarity, Violence, and the Promise of transMad Opacity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly, volume 12, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of transmisogyny-affected, i.e. transfeminine.
ultrawarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + warm.
Senses: glosses: Extremely warm.
ultraconcentrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + concentrated.
Senses: examples: text: She was treated effectively with calcium and A.T. 10. Since 1947 she had been given an ultraconcentrated vitamin H² preparation.
ref: 1951, The American Journal of Medicine 1951-09: Volume 11, Issue 3, Elsevier Sequoia S. A., page 327:
text: Efficiency at this speed 11.2%, and increases with velocity. Combustion chamber operates at 3000 C. Cost calculated at 12 francs per H.P. in large units, as contrasted to 250 francs for conventional engines. Inventors claim it logical driving mechanism for high-speed aircraft operating in the stratosphere. At hyperspeeds (greater than sound) expansion of nozzles reversed.
ref: 1937, Journal of the American Rocket Society 1937-03: Issue 36, American Institute of Aeronautics, page 19:
text: Efficiency at this speed 11.2%, and increases with velocity. Combustion chamber operates at 3000 C. Cost calculated at 12 francs per H.P. in large units, as contrasted to 250 francs for conventional engines. Inventors claim it logical driving mechanism for high-speed aircraft operating in the stratosphere. At hyperspeeds (greater than sound) expansion of nozzles reversed.
ref: 1937, Journal of the American Rocket Society 1937-03: Issue 36, American Institute of Aeronautics, page 19:
glosses: Extremely concentrated; of utmost concentration.
superconfident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superconfident
form: most superconfident
Etymology: From super- + confident.
Senses: glosses: Very confident.
superpowerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpowerful
form: most superpowerful
Etymology: From super- + powerful.
Senses: glosses: Very powerful; having, or capable of exerting great power, potency, or influence.
clacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clackers
Etymology: From clack + -er.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A percussion instrument that makes a clacking noise.
examples: text: The last leg of one of our runs was Valencia to Madrid, a straight-line distance of about 93 nautical miles. A competition developed as to who could fly it in the least amount of time. For a couple of weeks, I held the record at 24 minutes, but then another captain did it in 23. One captain claimed he had done it in 22, but his flight engineer let it be known that the overspeed warning clacker had sounded during the flight. You could fly the leg however you wished, but if the overspeed warning—a distinctive loud clacking sound—went off, the run didn't count.
ref: 2020 February 3, Terry Liittschwager, “Talking of Flying”, in Terry Liittschwager's Officially Unofficial, Curiously Chaotic Website, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2021, Night Freight in Spain:
glosses: Any device that makes a clacking noise.
Derived terms: clacker balls
tongue clacker
clacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clackers
form: clacka
Etymology: Possibly a deformation of cloaca. Alternatively of imitative origin, from the sound of farting or testicles clacking.
Senses: glosses: A testicle.
examples: text: Someone tell me one thing that's good about sand. It gets so hot sometimes you can't even walk on it, it gets into your eyes when it's blowy, it gets stuck to the hairs on my back, it gets up your nose, in your ears and of course, worst of all, it gets up your clacker.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 95:
synonyms: word: a-hole
word: anus
word: arsehole
word: arse
word: asscunt
word: asshole
word: asspussy
word: ass
word: back alley
word: back door
word: back passage
word: balloon knot
word: batty
word: batty hole
word: bootyhole
word: bottom
word: brown eye
word: browneye
word: bumhole
word: bum
word: bung-hole
word: bunghole
word: bungus
word: butthole
word: buttonhole
word: chocolate channel
word: chocolate starfish
word: chuff
word: cinnamon ring
word: clacka
word: clacker
word: cornhole
word: craphole
word: cumhole
word: dinger
word: ding
word: dock
word: dookie hole
word: dung funnel
word: exit hole
word: fartbox
word: farthole
word: fourth point of contact
word: freckle
word: fuckhole
word: fudge tunnel
word: fundament
word: Gary Glitter
word: gump stump
word: Hershey highway
word: jacksie
word: jacksy
word: keister
word: leather cheerio
word: love hole
word: other end
word: poop chute
word: pooper
word: poophole
word: rectum
word: ringpiece
word: rosebud
word: rusty sheriff's badge
word: shithole
word: shitter
word: sluthole
word: smelly freckle
word: starfish
word: stinkhole
word: tewel
word: tooter
word: tradesman's entrance
word: turd cutter
word: vent
word: wazoo
word: where the sun don't shine
word: windpipe
word: ying-yang
glosses: The anus.
Derived terms: clackerbag
ultraswift
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌltɹəswɪft/
Forms: form: more ultraswift
form: most ultraswift
Etymology: From ultra- + swift.
Senses: examples: text: Ultraswift high-flying aircraft, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, and manned spacecraft, entering the atmosphere share several types of control problems which NASA is continuing to investigate.
ref: 1961, United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Semiannual Report to the Congress, Volume, The Administration, page 103:
text: Kinesthetic warfare is not alone ultraswift motion and impact, it is also perception.
ref: 1965, Professional Journal of the United States Army, Command and General Staff School, pages 13–14:
text: Carl Vertieden and Peter Breucken had no time to cryout. As they were about to run over to the scene of the accident, the ultraswift vehicles of Arkon 3's robot police were already racing to it and had soon sealed off the area.
ref: 1976, Kurt Brand, Power's Price, Ace, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Extraordinarily swift; of utmost swiftness.
fucknuckle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucknuckles
Senses: examples: text: While we′re all sitting here having toxins pumped from our bodies, we are kept supplied with magazines about Hollywood fucknuckles who are voluntarily having botulism syringed into theirs.
ref: 2005, Tony Martin, Lolly Scramble: A Memoir of Little Consequence, unnumbered page:
text: ‘Whaddya want mate?’ he hiccupped as he concentrated on making his initials.
‘It′s Michael Rowe to you fucknuckle.’
ref: 2009, Nick Ireland, The Popondetta Butterfly, page 126:
text: ‘I go out four motherfucking nights a week. I am in bars and parties and I′m not obese or revoltingly ugly. And yet I cannot meet a decent man. It′s just fucknuckle after fucknuckle, time after time...’
ref: 2011, Gemma Burgess, A Girl Like You, unnumbered page:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fuck-knuckle.
stola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: stolas
form: stolae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stola. Doublet of stole.
Senses: glosses: The traditional garment of women in Ancient Rome, corresponding to the toga worn by men.
glosses: A chorister's surplice.
currymuncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: currymunchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of curry muncher.
boonga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boongas
Senses: glosses: A person of Polynesian origin.
qualifier: racial or ethnic slur
glosses: Indigenous Australian.
Puntland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Punt + -land. From Land of Punt. Analogous with Jubaland.
Senses: glosses: A state of Somalia; a regional state of north-eastern Somalia.
Related terms: Land of Punt
Punt
square bashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Marching drills and other military exercises practiced on a parade ground.
winkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winkies
Senses: examples: text: In 2005, a forum-goer named Nathan Poe pronounced one of the most quintessential Internet laws: Without a winkie or other “blatant display of humor,” parodies of extreme views can’t be distinguished from the genuine article.
ref: 2015 October 20, Caitlin Dewey, “A YouTube video claims ‘Back to the Future’ predicted 9/11 — and that isn’t even the weird part”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: Alternative form of winky (“emoticon that shows a winking face”).
examples: text: After telling this story Andy stood up and held his penis saying that he would put a pin in his winkie, then changed his mind...
ref: 1966, John Bolland, Joseph Sandler, The Hampstead Psychoanalytic Index:
text: He certainly has a big crush on his own dick. It's a good one, but I can tell he really enjoys looking at his own body and his winkie in action.
ref: 1996, David Leddick, My Worst Date:
text: Seems he liked to wave his winkie at schoolkids. Worse yet, he'd recently done nineteen months at the Twin Rivers Correctional Facility...
ref: 2002, G M Ford, Fury:
glosses: Alternative form of winky (“the penis”).
Socotra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: sōkōʹtru̇
Forms: form: Soqotra
form: Socotrah
form: Soqotrah
form: Suqutra
form: Suquṭra
Etymology: From Arabic سُقُطْرَى (suquṭrā).
Senses: glosses: An island of Yemen, between the Guardafui Channel to the west, Gulf of Aden to the northwest, the Somali Sea to the south, and the Arabian Sea to the east.
Derived terms: Socotra Rock
Socotra sunbird
parade ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parade grounds
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A large area of firm ground, formerly usually adjacent to fortifications and now usually a paved area at a military base, where soldiers present themselves for inspection ("parade") and practice marching and close-order drills.
Synonyms: parade
Hypernyms: ground