cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
underpaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more underpaid
form: most underpaid
Etymology: From under- + paid.
Senses: examples: text: I am underpaid and overworked.
text: The accusation that he lives like the “rat” he is, cutting down wages by his underpaid labor, he throws back in the teeth of the trades unions with the counter-charge that they are the first cause of his attitude to the labor question.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Bohemians—Tenement-house Cigarmaking”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 137:
text: Terry Gourvish, the lead author if the authorised commercial history of BR, described the new BTC structure thus: "The conclusion must be that the combination of a few undynamic railwaymen, underpaid full-timers (Commission and General Staff) and poorly-paid part-time businessmen was not a very potent managerial cocktail."
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, page 38:
glosses: Getting too little financial compensation for one's work.
tactless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæktləs/
rhymes: -æktləs
Forms: form: more tactless
form: most tactless
Etymology: From tact + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It was tactless of you not to attend your sister's wedding.
glosses: having no tact; unaware or intentionally inconsiderate of someone else's feelings
Synonyms: untactful
Derived terms: tactlessness
Related terms: tact
apodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: apod
form: apodan
Etymology: From a- + -podal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Without feet or foot-like body parts; legless.
apodal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apodals
form: apod
form: apodan
Etymology: From a- + -podal.
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the genus Apoda.
glosses: Any caecilian of the order Apoda.
takeout double
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takeout doubles
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A double, usually indicating strength and a desire to play the hand; partner is expected to "take out" by making a bid.
dimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɛn.ʃəmnəl/
ipa: /daɪ-/
Forms: form: more dimensional
form: most dimensional
Etymology: From dimension + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to dimensions.
examples: text: There is the world dimensional for those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable
ref: 1926, Hart Crane, For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen:
glosses: Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional.
examples: text: What is the meaning of an n-dimensional space when n is greater than three, and what purposes can it serve?
ref: 1996, Richard Courant with Herbert Robbins and Ian Stewart, What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, page 227:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having dimension or dimensions; three-dimensional.
Appended to cardinal numbers or algebraic symbols to form adjectives meaning "having the stated number of dimensions".
Hyponyms: codimensional
dimensionalization
dimensionalize
dimensionally
eleven-dimensional (11-dimensional)
equidimensional
finite-dimensional
five-dimensional (5-dimensional)
four-dimensional (4-dimensional)
heterodimensional
higher-dimensional
hyperdimensional
infinite-dimensional
intradimensional
microdimensional
monodimensional
multidimensional
n-dimensional
omnidimensional
one-dimensional (1-dimensional)
pandimensional
polydimensional
subdimensional
three-dimensional (3-dimensional)
top-dimensional
transdimensional
tridim
trimensional
two-dimensional (2-dimensional)
zero-dimensional (0-dimensional)
Derived terms: codimensional
co-dimensional
dimensional analysis
dimensionalization
dimensionalisation
dimensionalize
dimensionalise
dimensional lumber
dimensionally
dimensional shingle
dimensional stability
dimensional stone
eleven-dimensional (11-dimensional)
equidimensional
extradimensional
extra-dimensional
finite-dimensional
five-dimensional (5-dimensional)
four-dimensional (4-dimensional)
heterodimensional
higher-dimensional
hyperdimensional
hyper-dimensional
infinite-dimensional
interdimensional
inter-dimensional
intradimensional
intra-dimensional
microdimensional
monodimensional
multidimensional
multi-dimensional
n-dimensional
nondimensional
non-dimensional
omnidimensional
omni-dimensional
one-dimensional (1-dimensional)
otherdimensional
other-dimensional
overdimensional
over-dimensional
pandimensional
pan-dimensional
pluridimensional
polydimensional
poly-dimensional
subdimensional
sub-dimensional
three-dimensional (3-dimensional)
top-dimensional
transdimensional
trans-dimensional
tridim
trimensional
two-dimensional (2-dimensional)
two dimensional bilayer ice I
zero-dimensional (0-dimensional)
commune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏm'yo͞on
ipa: /ˈkɒmjuːn/
enpr: käm'yo͞on
ipa: /ˈkɑmjuːn/
Forms: form: communes
Etymology: From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin commūnia, from Latin commūne (“community, state”), from commūnis (“common”). Doublet of comune. See also community, communion, common.
Senses: examples: text: The town of Chu-chou in Hunan Province, carrying out the great directive of Chairman Mao that "educated youths must go to the villages," has put into practice factory-commune links, and under the leadership of cadres, has made a collective settlement of educated youths in commune and brigade farms, forest areas, and tea plantations.
ref: 1975, Peter J. Seybolt, editor, The Rustication of Urban Youth in China, published 2015, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148:
glosses: A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
glosses: A local political division in many European countries as well as their former colonies (such as Chile and Vietnam).
glosses: The commonalty; the common people.
examples: text: For days of happy commune dead.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “(please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX)”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Communion; sympathetic conversation between friends.
examples: text: In 1117 the commune and archbishop had separate consuls at Milan.
ref: 1997, David Nicholas, The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century, →ISBN, page 161:
glosses: A self-governing city or league of citizens.
Derived terms: communer
communise
communize
excommune
house-commune
intercommune
people's commune
urban-rural commune
commune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏm'yo͞on
ipa: /ˈkɒmjuːn/
enpr: käm'yo͞on
ipa: /ˈkɑmjuːn/
enpr: kəmyo͞on'
ipa: /kəˈmjuːn/
rhymes: -uːn
enpr: kŏm'yo͞on
ipa: /ˈkɒmjuːn/
enpr: käm'yo͞on
ipa: /ˈkɑmjuːn/
Forms: form: communes
form: communing
form: communed
form: communed
Etymology: From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comuner (formed from comun (“common”)) and comunier (“to share”) (from Latin commūnico). Doublet of communicate.
Senses: examples: text: I would commune with you of such things / That want no ear but yours.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
examples: text: He spent a week in the backcountry, communing with nature.
glosses: To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the People whole Communers, or in suffering them to Commune under both kinds […]
ref: 1681, Gilbert Burnet, “[A Collection of Records, and Original Papers; with Other Instruments Referred to in the Second Part of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England.] Book I.”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. The Second Part, […], London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […], →OCLC, page 207:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To receive the communion.
apolune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apolunes
Etymology: From apo- (“far”) + Latin lūna (“moon”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The point of an elliptical lunar orbit where the distance between the satellite and the Moon is at its maximum.
Synonyms: apocynthion
aposelene
Hypernyms: apoapsis
apocenter
Related terms: apoapsis
jumbo jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbo jets
Senses: glosses: A large transport aircraft, especially the Boeing 747.
Derived terms: superjumbo
apophyge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apophyges
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀποφυγή (apophugḗ), from ἀπο- (apo-, “away”) and φυγή (phugḗ, “flight”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A curvature found on the top or bottom of certain columns.
Synonyms: cavetto
congé
conge
auditory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪˌtoɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈɑː.dɪˌtoɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɔːdɪtəɹi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin audītōrius (“pertaining to a hearer or hearing”), from audiō (“to hear”) + -tōrius (“-tory”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: synonyms: otic
acoustic
aural
auricular
glosses: Of, or relating to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing.
Derived terms: auditorian
auditorily
auditory artery
auditory bone
auditory canal
auditory hallucination
auditory integration training
auditory meatus
auditory nerve
auditory processing disorder
auditory tube
cardioauditory
external auditory canal
external auditory meatus
internal auditory artery
internal auditory canal
internal auditory meatus
nonauditory
oculoauditory
postauditory
preauditory
subauditory
visuoauditory
Related terms: audio
audio-
auditorium
auditory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪ.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪ.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈɔː.dɪˌtoɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈɑː.dɪˌtoɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɔːdɪtəɹi
Forms: form: auditories
Etymology: From Latin audītōrium (“the place where something is heard; the assembled hearers”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ...and because though these learned Gentlemen (sayes he, turning to his two friends) need not fear to discourse before any Auditory...
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 7:
text: Preaching of Sermons is Speaking to a few of Mankind: Printing of Books is Talking to the whole World. The Parson Prescribes himself, and addresses to the particular Auditory with the Appellation of My Brethren; but he that Prints a Book, ought to Preface it with a Noverint Universi, Know all Men by these Presents. The proper Inference drawn from this remarkable Observation, is, That tho' he that Preaches from the Pulpit ought to be careful of his Words, that nothing pass from him but with an especial Sanction of Truth; yet he that Prints and Publishes to all the World, has a tenfold Obligation.
ref: 1704, Daniel Defoe, “Preface”, in The Storm: Or, a Collection of the Most Remarkable Casualties and Disasters which Happen'd in the Late Dreadful Tempest, Both by Sea and Land, J. Nutt:
text: A general murmur of assent arose from his little auditory.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Synonym of audience.
synonyms: word: audience
glosses: Synonym of auditorium.
synonyms: word: auditorium
Related terms: audition
audio
Hebe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːbi/
rhymes: -iːbi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἥβη (Hḗbē, literally “Youth, Prime of Life”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess of youth, and a daughter of Zeus and Hera. Her Roman counterpart is Juventas.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 6 Hebe, a main-belt asteroid.
Hebe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːbi/
rhymes: -iːbi
ipa: /ˈhiːb/
rhymes: -iːb
ipa: /ˈhiːbi/
rhymes: -iːbi
Forms: form: Hebes
Etymology: Short for Hebrew.
Senses: examples: text: Well, that's what you get for betting on a Hebe.
What did you say?
I'm just saying
Max Baer ain't no Jew.
ref: 2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:
glosses: A Jew.
Synonyms: kike
squadron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒd.ɹən/
Forms: form: squadrons
form: sqn
Etymology: From Italian squadrone. See squad.
Senses: examples: text: Those half-rounding guards / Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: A body of troops drawn up in a square.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A body of cavalry comprising two companies or troops, averaging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred soldiers.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A body of infantrymen made up of several platoons, averaging from eighty to one hundred and fifty men, and led by a captain or a major.
examples: text: the North Atlantic Squadron
topics: government
military
navy
politics
war
glosses: A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: air force
glosses: A tactical air force unit; consists of at least two flights; multiple squadrons make up a group or wing (depending on particular air force).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A spaceforce unit; multiple squadrons make up an operations delta or a support garrison.
Derived terms: flying squadron
intrasquadron
squaddie
squaddy
Squadron Leader
squadron leader
squadron admiral
Related terms: squad
squadron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒd.ɹən/
Forms: form: squadrons
form: squadroning
form: squadroned
form: squadroned
Etymology: From Italian squadrone. See squad.
Senses: glosses: To divide up into squadrons.
homozygote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌhəʊməʊˈzaɪɡəʊt/
Forms: form: homozygotes
Etymology: From homo- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and by Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: heterozygote
glosses: A diploid individual that has equal alleles at one or more genetic loci.
Related terms: homozygous
kk
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Reduplication of k (“okay”) (indicates that no further explanation is necessary for a subject, or that the message was understood and will be acted upon without further confirmation).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: confirm (originally a GDS status code, now often used as shorthand).
serendipitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɛ.ɹɛnˈdɪp.ɪ.təs/
/ˌsɛ.ɹənˈdɪp.ɪ.təs/
Forms: form: more serendipitous
form: most serendipitous
Etymology: From serendipity + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: word: causeless
word: unintentional
word: accidental
word: accidentary
word: adventitious
word: by accident
word: by the by
word: casual
word: causeless
word: chanceable
word: fortuitous
word: incidental
word: lippening
word: occasional
word: random
word: serendipitous
word: unforeseen
word: unintended
word: unintentional
word: unplanned
word: fortuitous
word: fortunate
word: freak
word: happy
word: lucky
word: providential
word: serendipitous
word: sonsy
glosses: by serendipity; by unexpected good fortune
examples: text: The weather was serendipitous for our vacation.
glosses: good, beneficial, favorable
serendipitously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more serendipitously
form: most serendipitously
Etymology: From serendipitous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And that was a few years before the serendipitously named American politician Anthony Weiner reminded us once again that a high-powered job is no guarantee of knowing what to do with your penis, through his "sexting" use of Twitter (Snapchat hadn't been invented yet.)
ref: 2013 September 20, Holly Baxter, The Guardian:
text: And then unexpectedly, and serendipitously, Mr. Trump won the White House. Ending legal abortion appeared within their reach.
ref: 2019 December 1, Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer, The New York Times:
glosses: By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.
Commonwealth English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The written form of the language universally taught in schools is Commonwealth English with a slight emphasis on a few words which might be more common in the specific areas than others.
ref: 2006, Namrata Palta, Preparing for Call Center Interviews, →ISBN, pages 80–81:
text: Amnesia (or amnaesia in Commonwealth English) is a condition in which memory is disturbed.
ref: 2008, Icon Group International staff, Disturbances: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases, Icon Group International [entry adapted from “Amnesia” in Wikipedia], 2005, p 384
glosses: The generalised variety of English spoken and written primarily in the United Kingdom and its former colonies, sometimes excluding Canada (especially in the context of pronunciation); always excluding the United States of America. (i.e. non-American English)
examples: text: There are also other reasons to account for differences between British English on the one hand and American and Commonwealth English on the other.
ref: 1954, J.A. Sheard, The Words We Use:
text: 17: The three major forms of Modern English—British, American, and Commonwealth—are very nearly identical on the printed page, a great source of the linguistic unity and cultural solidarity of the Anglo-Saxon civilization.
25: Commonwealth English is very young in the prestige of its independent status.
ref: 1966, John A. Nist, A Structural History of English, New York: St. Martin's Press.:
text: 164: For instance, the terms “United Kingdom spellings,” “English spellings,” and “Commonwealth spellings” are not synonymous, and many of the so-called American spellings will frequently be found as alternate choices in other countries.
169–70: Across the world, many former U.K. colonies use English as a major language, and their standard resembles the British standard more than the American. The term “Commonwealth English” is a general term used to refer to this variety of English, which in theory differs little from “British English” as used in Great Britain. ¶ Australia is the best-known example, but even in nations where English is not the official or most widely used language, Commonwealth English is extremely important in commerce and government—as is the case in Nigeria, Pakistan, and India, which is the second-most-populated country in the world.
ref: 2006, Larry Beason, Eyes Before Ease: The Unsolved Mysteries and Secret Histories of Spelling:
glosses: The group of varieties of English used in the ex-colonial member states of the Commonwealth of Nations, in distinction to the varieties used in Britain itself
Synonyms: word: variety of English used in the UK and former colonies
British English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more British English
form: most British English
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to, or spoken or written in British English.
blumpkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌmp.kɪn/
rhymes: -ʌmpkɪn
Forms: form: blumpkins
Etymology: Portmanteau of blowjob + dump, with added suffix -kin in imitation of pumpkin; also compare words like munchkin and ciderkin.
Senses: examples: text: I said to Mark Wahlberg yesterday, had he ever gotten a blumpkin from a girl.
ref: 2001, Howard Stern, Federal Communications Commission hearing transcripts 04-49:
glosses: The act of performing fellatio whilst the recipient is defecating on the toilet.
kinematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɪnəˈmætɪks/
rhymes: -ætɪks
Etymology: French cinématique, from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “motion”) + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.
Derived terms: cosmokinematics
inverse kinematics
morphokinematics
osteokinematics
pathokinematics
Related terms: kinematic
dynamics
coreligionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coreligionists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-religionist.
ashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: ashier
form: ashiest
Etymology: From Middle English asshy, asky, equivalent to ash + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Still is he sullein, still he lowres and frets,
Twixt crimson shame, and anger ashie pale,
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: Tell her that sicknesse, with her ashie hand,
Hath swept away the beauty from my cheekes,
ref: 1634 (first performance), Thomas Heywood, Loves Maistresse: Or, The Queens Masque. […], London: […] Robert Raworth, for Iohn Crowch; and are to bee sold by Iasper Emery, […], published 1636, →OCLC, Act IIII:
text: Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 11, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter IX, page 126:
text: Beyond that black clot the sea lay, pale with last ashy gleam of day.
ref: 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 7, in A Wizard of Earthsea, page 123:
synonyms: ashen#Etymology_2
cineraceous
cinereous
glosses: Resembling ashes (especially in colour); (of a person’s complexion) unusually pale as a result of strong emotion, illness, etc.
examples: text: Ye heauenly spirites, whose ashie cinders lie
Vnder deep ruines, with huge walls opprest,
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Ruines of Rome”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
text: […] where yet the Embers glow,
Wide o’er the Pyle the sable Wine they throw,
And deep subsides the ashy Heap below.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book 23”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 75:
text: […] I saw her sitting on the hearth in a ragged chair, close before, and lost in the contemplation of, the ashy fire.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 151:
text: He lit the paper until it burned to an ashy film.
ref: 1991, Edwidge Danticat, “A Wall of Fire Rising”, in Krik? Krak!, New York: Soho Press:
synonyms: cinereous
glosses: Comprising, containing, or covered with ash.
examples: text: It was summer and his pants were short, so the pickle juice made clean streams down his ashy legs[…]
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 4, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 22:
text: After passing it under her runny nose, a skinny chalk-colored girl raised a hand so disgustingly ashy, so white and dry-skinned, that it could only be black.
ref: 2015, Paul Beatty, chapter 11, in The Sellout, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 159:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Having dry or dead skin (therefore discolored).
Derived terms: ashily
ashiness
ashy-headed goose
ashy-headed laughingthrush
ashy minivet
ashy tit
ashy woodpecker
ashy woodswallow
starfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: star-fucking
form: star fucking
Etymology: From star + fucking; see star (“celebrity”).
Senses: examples: text: By virtue of his celebrity, he would be coddled by worshipful cops, pumped up by star-fucking attorneys, indulged by a spineless judge, and adored by jurors every bit as addled by racial hatred as their counterparts on the Rodney King jury.
ref: 1997, Marcia Clark with Teresa Carpenter, Without a Doubt, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: Seeking inordinate personal benefits from the wishes and needs of a celebrity.
starfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star-fucking
form: star fucking
Etymology: From star + fucking; see star (“celebrity”).
Senses: examples: text: Nine percent says they’d be likelier to cheat on their partners if they could sleep with a celebrity. After all, starfucking doesn’t really count as cheating anyway.
ref: 2004, Bernice Kanner, Are You Normal About Sex, Love, and Relationships?:
glosses: The activity of having sexual relations with celebrities.
starfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: star-fucking
form: star fucking
Etymology: From star + fucking; see star (“celebrity”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of starfuck
snuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: snuffles
form: snuffling
form: snuffled
form: snuffled
Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
Senses: glosses: To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
examples: text: One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
Derived terms: snuffler
snuffly
Related terms: word: sniffle
word: snivel
snuffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnʌfəl/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: snuffles
Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
Senses: glosses: An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.
Related terms: word: sniffle
word: Snuffleupagus
word: schnozzle
aslope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: From Middle English aslope, probably from or akin to Old English āslopen, past participle of Old English āslūpan (“to slip away”), from a- + slupan (“to slip”).
Senses: examples: text: Methinks, I see them group’d in seemly show,
The straiten’d arms uprais’d, the palms aslope,
ref: 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Love, Hope, and Patience in Education”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume 3, London: William Pickering, published 1834, page 331:
text: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Honor of Israel Gow
Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.
synonyms: diagonal
oblique
glosses: Slanted or sloping.
aslope
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: From Middle English aslope, probably from or akin to Old English āslopen, past participle of Old English āslūpan (“to slip away”), from a- + slupan (“to slip”).
Senses: examples: text: But the Flemynges with theyr arbalasters and theyr longe mareys pykes set aslope before them wounded so theyr horses, that they lay tumbelynge one in the others necke […]
ref: 1516, Robert Fabyan, Fabyan’s Chronicle, London: William Rastell, published 1533, Part 7:
text: The Bishop walks always in the same colour of the field that he is first placed in, forward and backward asloap every way as far as he lists;
ref: 1674, Charles Cotton, chapter 5, in The Compleat Gamester, London: R. Cutler, page 55:
text: Brisk Susan whips her Linnen from the Rope,
While the first drizzling Show’r is born aslope,
ref: 1710, Jonathan Swift, “A Description of a City Shower”, in Miscellanies, volume 4, London: Benjamin Motte, published 1733, page 141:
text: While the two crews were yet circling in the waters […], while aslope little Flask bobbed up and down like an empty vial, twitching his legs upward to escape the dreaded jaws of sharks;
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 134, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 617:
synonyms: diagonally
obliquely
glosses: Slanted or sloping.
examples: text: His wicked fortune, that had turnd aslope
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 459:
text: […] On mee the Curse aslope
Glanc’d on the ground, with labour I must earne
My bread; what harm?
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
synonyms: off course
glosses: In an unintended or unfavourable direction.
aslope
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsləʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Etymology: From Middle English aslope, probably from or akin to Old English āslopen, past participle of Old English āslūpan (“to slip away”), from a- + slupan (“to slip”).
Senses: examples: text: 1616, Thomas Middleton, Civitas Amor, London: Thomas Archer, “Prince Charles his Creation,”
[…] the King […] puts the Belt ouer the necke of the Knight, aslope his breast, placing the Sword vnder his left Arme:
text: A lute, aslope
The curious baldric of his tunic, glints
With pearl-reflections of the moon,
ref: 1899, Madison Cawein, “The Last Song”, in Myth and Romance, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, pages 29–30:
synonyms: aslant
athwart
glosses: Diagonally over or across.
claudication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɔː.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌklɔː.dɪˈkeɪ.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: claudications
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin claudicātiō (“limping”, noun), from claudicō (“to limp, halt, be lame”) + -ātiō (“-ation”, nominal suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Limping.
examples: text: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
ref: 2008, Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery, page 327:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which temporary cramp-like pain in the calf muscles is induced by exercise, typically caused by obstruction of the arteries.
Derived terms: claudicate
pood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: poods
form: poud
Etymology: From Russian пуд (pud). Doublet of funt, pfund, pound, and punt.
Senses: examples: text: About 250,000 poods of yuft are prepared annually, of which about 150,000 poods are red yuft, manufactured chiefly for foreign markets.
ref: 1869, Great Britain. Parliament, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 295:
glosses: An obsolete Russian unit of mass, equal to 40 Russian funt, or about 16.38 kg (approximately 36.11 pounds).
glosses: A Russian unit of mass used for kettlebells, now rounded off to 16 kg (about 35.274 pounds).
miniver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnɪvə/
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪvɚ/
Forms: form: minivers
form: meniver
form: menyvere
Etymology: From Old French menu vair (“squirrel, squirrel fur”), from menu (“small”) + vair (“a type of fur”).
Senses: examples: text: Thenne came forth a lykely knyghte and wel apparaylled in scarlet furred with myneuer / And anone as he sawe syr launcelot / he demed that he shold be oute of his wytte / And thenne he said with fayre speche good man leye doune that swerd / for as me semeth / thow haddest more nede of slepe and of warme clothes / than to welde that swerd / As for that said syr Launcelot come not to nyȝ for and thow doo wete thou wel I will slee the
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “j”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XII:
glosses: A light gray or white fur used to trim the robes of judges or state executives, also used in medieval times.
karass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karasses
Etymology: Coined by American writer Kurt Vonnegut in 1963, in the novel Cat's Cradle.
Senses: examples: text: We Bokononists believe that humanity is organized into teams, teams that do God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing. Such a team is called a karass by Bokonon […]
ref: 1963, Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle:
text: I do want to go to Arlinghurst, even though it's moronic and awful and there's no privacy at all, because I have started to build my karass there. I have the book club,I have the library—both libraries.
ref: 2012, Jo Walton, Among Others, →ISBN:
text: Like all complex systems of this type, each “karass” has its own history (see Chapter 1, 1.2). This history is a selected and saved internal ethos of organization based on both social relations and common activity experience.
ref: 2013, Felix Lebed, Michael Bar-Eli, Complexity and Control in Team Sports: Dialectics in Contesting Human Systems, Routledge, →ISBN, page 128:
text: I think you may be the only good person in the whole karass. Or maybe you and Anita. I'm still not sure about her.” “Karass?” “Oh, it's Andy's thing. Well, Kurt Vonnegut's thing. It's a group of people who are connected, but, like, spiritually.
ref: 2015, Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up, →ISBN, page 276:
glosses: A network or group of people who are somehow affiliated or linked spiritually.
CMIIAW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of correct me if I am wrong.
bastillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastillions
Etymology: From French bastillion, augmentative of bastille.
Senses: examples: text: Here's a picture of us in a medieval bastillion.
glosses: A fortress or fortified position.
Related terms: bastion
modillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modillions
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian modiglione. Doublet of moellon.
Senses: examples: text: It is a large square structure, two and a half stories in height, with a hipped roof rising above a handsome cornice with prominent modillions and surmounted by a balustraded belvedere.
ref: 1920, Frank Cousins, Phil M. Riley, The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company:
text: The familiar classic console or modillion is an example: although in general contour it is well adapted to its function as a supporting bracket, embedded in, and projecting from a wall, yet the scroll-like ornament with which its sides are embellished gives it the appearance of not entering the wall at all, but of being stuck against it in some miraculous manner.
ref: 1922, Claude Fayette Bragdon, “Unity and Polarity”, in The Beautiful Necessity: Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture, Essay II:
topics: architecture
glosses: A decoratively carved supporting block atop a column, often underneath a cornice, and usually smaller and more ornamental in function than a corbel.
Derived terms: intermodillion
modillioned
Related terms: moellon
mutule
corbel
skillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skillions
Etymology: From dialect skilling, from Middle English skyling.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof.
Synonyms: lean-to
skillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skillions
Etymology: See + -illion.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, human experience requires not just one society but a nest of such societies, ordered in special ways. For instance, there need to be societies drawing out all the trains of thought that come together in a single judgment, and there need to be skillions of societies (a skillion is a very large number) tracing causal inputs from the body, the atmosphere, gravitation, human culture, the New York Times, and whatever else provides the context for a single thought.
ref: 2008, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Christian Wiese, The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life:
text: The trouble with the multiple-universe model is that, however elegantly it may fit the quantum equation for the state vector, most of us simply can't believe in skillions and skillions of universes—each as vast in space and time as the one we think we're in—where everything that can happen really does happen.
ref: 2012, Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminati Papers:
glosses: Any indefinitely large number.
completion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːʃən/
rhymes: -iːʃən
Forms: form: completions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere (“to fill up, complete”); comparable to English complete + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
topics: law
glosses: The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The space resulting from such an act.
examples: text: tab completion
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of autocomplete.
synonyms: word: autocomplete
Synonyms: topics: state
word: completeness
raw_tags: of being complete
word: doneness
word: accomplishment
word: completement
word: completion
word: conclusion
word: consummation
word: execution
word: finishedness
word: fulfillment
word: fulfillness
word: realization
Hyponyms: autocompletion
recompletion
Derived terms: bicompletion
cocompletion
code completion
completionism
completionist
completion string
Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm
noncompletion
postcompletion
practical completion
precompletion
semicompletion
uncompletion
μ-completion
Related terms: word: complete
word: completive
word: end
word: finish
word: completely
datestamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datestamps
Etymology: From date + stamp.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The date on which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
Related terms: timestamp
datestamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: datestamps
form: datestamping
form: datestamped
form: datestamped
Etymology: From date + stamp.
Senses: glosses: To mark with a datestamp.
brainchild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnt͡ʃaɪld/
ipa: /ˈbɹeɪnˌt͡ʃaɪld/
Forms: form: brainchilds
form: brainchilding
form: brainchilded
form: brainchilded
Etymology: From brain + child.
Senses: examples: text: John Law brainchilded the establishment of a national bank to expedite and secure the creation of credit.
ref: 2015, Mary Lindemann, The Merchant Republics:
coordinate_terms: brainstorm#Verb
ideate
glosses: To think up (an idea or innovation); to come up with.
monotreme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/
Forms: form: monotremes
Etymology: From mono- + -treme.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the order Monotremata of mammals that lay eggs and have single orifices for urogenital and digestive functions (cloaca); an echidna, platypus or one of their extinct relatives.
Derived terms: monotrematous
monotremous
Related terms: monotrematic
trema
cloaca
monotreme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒnətɹiːm/
Etymology: From mono- + -treme.
Senses: examples: text: Nomotreme fern and moss spores are monotreme.
ref: 1952, G. Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, published 1986, →ISBN, page 548:
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
synonyms: 1-treme
monoaperturate
glosses: Having a single trema, or aperture.
raw_tags: of a pollen grain
Coordinate terms: anatreme
catatreme
nomotreme
pantotreme
trema
zonotreme
amuse-bouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amuse-bouches
form: muse-bouche
Etymology: From French amuse-bouche.
Senses: synonyms: preappetizer
glosses: A bite-sized hors d'oeuvre or appetizer that is served before a meal.
capitate bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitate bones
Senses: glosses: The largest of the bones in the human wrist.
Synonyms: capitate
capitatum
os capitatum
os magnum
cervical vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervical vertebras
form: cervical vertebrae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of the seven vertebrae of the neck.
Hypernyms: bone > vertebra
cervical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩/
ipa: /sɜːˈvaɪ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.vɪk.l̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪkəl
rhymes: -aɪkəl
Etymology: Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: cervical pain
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the neck.
examples: text: cervical cancer
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cervix.
Derived terms: buccocervical
cervical artery
cervical canal
cervical cancer
cervical cap
cervical collar
cervical conization
cervical enamel
cervical ganglion
cervically
cervical nerve
cervical plexus
cervical smear
cervical spine
cervical vertebra
cervico-
costocervical
craniocervical
distocervical
dorsocervical
ectocervical
endocervical
exocervical
extracervical
faciocervical
inferior cervical ganglion
intracervical
labiocervical
laterocervical
linguocervical
midcervical
middle cervical ganglion
noncervical
occipitocervical
orocervical
paracervical
postcervical
pubocervical
retrocervical
scending cervical artery
spinocervical
superior cervical ganglion
supracervical
syncervical
thoracocervical
thyrocervical
transcervical
transverse cervical artery
trigeminocervical
ureterocervical
uterocervical
vaginocervical
vesicocervical
cervical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.vɪk.l̩/
ipa: /sɜːˈvaɪ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.vɪk.l̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)vɪkəl
rhymes: -aɪkəl
Forms: form: cervicals
Etymology: Borrowing from French cervical, from New Latin cervīcālis, from cervīx (“the neck, nape”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of cervical vertebra.
gerontocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒɛɹənˈtɒkɹəsi/
Forms: form: gerontocracies
Etymology: From geronto- + -cracy, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: senilocracy
text: It would come as no surprise to find that optimum science policy is apt to be developed neither by gerontocracy nor by juvenocracy but, like the community of scientists itself, by age-diversified meritocracy.
ref: 1972, Harriet Zuckerman, Robert K. Merton, “Age, Aging, and Age Structure in Science”, in Matilda White Riley, Marilyn Johnson, Anne Foner, Aging and Society, volume 3 (A Sociology of Age Stratification), New York, N.Y.: Russell Sage Foundation, →ISBN, page 337:
text: But in his 1996 novel, Holy Fire, [Bruce] Sterling imagines a rather different future: a world ruled by an all-powerful gerontocracy, which appropriates most of the world's wealth to pay for ever more costly life-extension techniques.
ref: 1997 March 9, Paul Krugman, “Does Getting Old Cost Society Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2024:
text: Young people who are close to writing off the Democratic Party as a dinosaur, as a gerontocracy of prudish abuelos who gave birth by immaculate conception, may be in for a pleasant surprise.
ref: 2017 April 3, Dr A W Niloc, “Resistance Songs for Day 75 - Sex Appeal”, in Daily Kos:
text: He [Koizumi] was what would pass for a political maverick among Japan's faceless gray gerontocracy.
ref: 2018, Mikiso Hane, Modern Japan: A Historical Survey, 5th edition, Routledge, →ISBN:
antonyms: juvenocracy
glosses: Government by elders; government by elderly rulers.
Related terms: gerontocrat
gerontocratic
gerontocratical
gerontocratically
thanatocracy
monied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monied
form: most monied
Senses: examples: text: The attacking three have also been allowed to bloom. Liberated from deep defensive duties Eden Hazard has become more expressive, more obviously, flashily complete. Not to mention more saleable too, his role closer to the way Europe’s monied giants in Spain and France allow their stars to function.
ref: 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of moneyed.
Derived terms: unmonied
cuboid bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuboid bones
Senses: glosses: One of the seven tarsal bones, the most lateral of the bones in the distal row of the tarsus, and roughly cubical in shape.
Synonyms: cuboid
storied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːɹid/
Forms: form: more storied
form: most storied
Etymology: From story + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Not long after, the couple caught the attention of S. Somasegar, the storied Indian American technology executive, who was at Microsoft at the time.
ref: 2021 July 30, Alex Hawgood, “These Clubhouse Hosts Are Keeping the Party Alive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Sure, they could have held onto the ball better at times, but they were compact, organised, and hardly gave their storied visitors a sniff from there on in.
ref: 28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald:
synonyms: legendary
glosses: Much discussed or written about.
examples: text: Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Historical.
storied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːɹid/
Etymology: From story + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of story
storied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔːɹid/
Forms: form: more storied
form: most storied
form: storeyed
Etymology: From story (“floor, level”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen vvee ſpeake of the Intercolumniation or diſtance, vvhich is due to each Order, vve meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloiſter, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings.
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, pages 39–40:
text: Just as the first ray of the rising sun shot like a golden arrow athwart this storied desolation we gained the further gateway of the outer wall[.]
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Having multiple storeys; multistoried.