cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in memoriam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn məˈmɔɹ.i.əm/
ipa: /ɪn məˈmɔː.ɹi.əm/
Etymology: From Latin in memoriam (“into memory”).
Senses: examples: text: An Enchanted Castle, and Other Poems, 1893, p. 72, prefaces the poem with this line, which suggests that the poem was written “in memoriam”: “[C. L. P., OB. JULY 18, 1884.]”.
ref: 2004, John P. Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre, “Notes” to The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews, Scribner, page 553
text: The book can be divided into three main parts: chapters 1, 14 were written in memoriam; in the second part (chapters 2–7) Miller carries out a philosophical investigation of critical rationalism; the third part (chapters 8–13) […]
ref: 2009, Zuzana Parusniková, review of David Miller’s Out of Error, in Zuzana Parusniková and Robert S. Cohen (editors), Rethinking Popper, Springer, page 417
glosses: In memory (of); as a memorial.
in memoriam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn məˈmɔɹ.i.əm/
ipa: /ɪn məˈmɔː.ɹi.əm/
Forms: form: in memoriams
Etymology: From Latin in memoriam (“into memory”).
Senses: glosses: An announcement or composition etc. in memory of a deceased person.
total
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊ.tl̩/
enpr: tōʹtl
ipa: /ˈtoʊ.tl̩/
ipa: [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ]
ipa: [tʰɔɾɫ]
rhymes: -əʊtəl
Forms: form: totals
form: totall
Etymology: From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan 𐌕𐌏𐌖𐌕𐌏 (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
Senses: examples: text: A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
glosses: An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
examples: text: The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Sum.
Synonyms: sense: sum
word: sum
Related terms: word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
great ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great apes
Senses: hypernyms: ape
primate
glosses: A large non-human primate, such as a gorilla, an orangutan, or a chimpanzee.
examples: text: Long before people thought in terms of evolution […] great apes were often confused with humans.
ref: 2005, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, page 114:
coordinate_terms: hominin
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic family Hominidae, including gorilla, orangutan, chimpanzee, excluding Homo.
examples: text: This wrinkled layer of gray matter that's highly developed in humans and other great apes, as well as whales, dolphins, and elephants, helps coordinate complex cognitive processes.
ref: 2014, Laurel Braitman, Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves:
synonyms: hominid
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic family Hominidae, including Homo, and also many similar extinct species.
Synonyms: word: great ape
Hypernyms: word: primate
word: ape
Hyponyms: word: human
word: chimpanzee
word: gorilla
word: orangutan
Related terms: lesser ape
monkey
filk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Etymology: Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.
Senses: examples: text: The blame/credit (choose one) for the first filk song is a little dubious. Like the man who tried to sit on two stools, it falls in the middle, between Poul Anderson who wrote a filk song called Barbarous Allen and Karen Anderson who egged him on and published it in Zed #774.
ref: 1955 June, Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson (writing as "Petronius Arbiter Kingsley"), “Filk Song”, in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (aka The Zed), number 780, page 13:
text: And the permanent exhibit area offers a filk performance on a small stage so that neophytes can sample more esoteric interests.
ref: 2000, Camille Bacon-Smith, Science Fiction Culture, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 38:
text: 2006, Robert T. Balder, quoted in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, →ISBN, page 97,
I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.
text: Music can be very important in fan texts and activities. Fans write and perform songs at gatherings about characters from television shows, not unlike the way that folk songs are sung in folk clubs. This can be seen in the name of this fan form: filk song. According to Jenkins [in Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture], filk songs take their cue from commercial culture. They are about the characters from commercial television series, but ‘Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture’ (1992: 270).
ref: 2007, Brian Longhurst, Popular Music and Society, Polity, →ISBN, page 236:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: About or inspired by science fiction, fantasy, horror, science, and/or subjects of interest to fans of speculative fiction; frequently, being a song whose lyrics have been altered to refer to science fiction; parodying. (However, much filk music is original rather than parodic.)
Derived terms: filker
filksing
filk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: filks
Etymology: Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.
Senses: examples: text: Filk turns commercial culture back into folk culture, existing as a mediator between two musical traditions. Its raw materials come from commercial culture; its logic is from folk culture.
ref: 1992, Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 270:
text: The style of music generally used for creating filk is folk or popular music. That brings up one of the key points. Most, but not all, filk is created by "borrowing" the music of other songs and creating lyrics to fit the singer's particular circle of fandom.
ref: 2006, Gary Hill, The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 216:
text: 2006, Robert T. Balder, quoted in Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists, Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing, →ISBN, page 97,
I’m also involved in what is called filk music. This is music for and by fans of Fantasy and Science Fiction. […] Filk is nearly as big a part of my creative life as comics, and I have similarly made many friends among the creative people in that community.
glosses: Filk music.
examples: text: Welcome to Harry Potter Filks, with nearly 3400 filks (including several dozen full-length musicals) by more than 250 authors from at least five continents, all on Rowling-related themes.
ref: 2001, Harry Potter Filks:
glosses: Filk song.
In general
examples: 2006, citation in the Filk Hall of Fame
He has recently started to accompany himself on the piano, and created such wonderful songs as "The Soul" (filk of "The Ship") and "Internal Knight".
glosses: Filk song.
A filk song written as a parody of, or in the form of and with reference to, another song (which need not itself be a filk song). Compare verb transitive sense.
Derived terms: filkable
filksinger
filk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: filks
form: filking
form: filked
form: filked
Etymology: Originally "filk music" was a typo for "folk music" in a never-published essay on the influence of Science Fiction and Fantasy on folk music. Its first known deliberate use was by Karen Kruse Anderson in Die Zeitschrift für Vollständigen Unsinn (The Journal for Utter Nonsense) #774 (June 1953), for a song written by science-fiction author Poul Anderson.
Senses: examples: text: I could have filked all night
ref: 1978, Sarah Elizabeth Miller, I Could Have Filked All Night, page 33:
glosses: To perform filk music.
glosses: To participate in a filk circle, including singing along.
examples: 1997 (?: "July A.S. XXXI") Medieval Melodies for Filking
However, the practice of filking, of taking an existing melody and providing new, usually topical and/or satirical, lyrics, is in fact the direct counterpart of the Medieval practice of writing contrafacta.
glosses: To write a parody of (a song).
Related terms: folk music
back foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back feet
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman's foot closest to the wicket
Related terms: back foot shot
front foot
on the back foot
back foot shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back foot shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot played by the batsman with most of his weight on the back foot.
front foot shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front foot shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A shot played by the batsman with most of his weight on the front foot.
front foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front feet
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman's foot farthest from his wicket.
examples: text: Land is frequently sold by the front foot or by the square foot of land area.
ref: 2002, Ralph Tamper, Mastering Real Estate Mathematics, page 109:
text: Figures represent value of corners, for lot of average width and depth, in dollars per front foot.
ref: 2021, Richard M. Hurd, Principles of City Land Values:
topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The width, in feet, of the front of a property.
examples: text: The hitter should be sure the front foot and front side are not open toward the pitcher.
ref: 2001, Mark Johnson, Jack Leggett, John Winkin, Baseball Skills and Drills, page 18:
text: The front foot main pad is broader on the leading edge, when compared with that of the hind foot. The front foot toes are slightly more splayed than those of the hind foot, where they are arranged more tightly together.
ref: 2017, Alex van den Heever, Tracker Manual:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see front, foot.
Related terms: front foot shot
front-footed
back foot
Area 51
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unclear, but perhaps from a grid numbering system of the area by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). While Area 51 is not part of this system, it is adjacent to Area 15.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
ufology
synonyms: word: Dreamland
word: Groom Lake
word: Homey Airport
coordinate_terms: Roswell
Bermuda Triangle
Hangar 18
glosses: A secret military facility, airport, and airbase in Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada, United States.
wikipedia: Area 51
Atomic Energy Commission
bad light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A weather condition where the light is so poor that the umpires feel that to continue playing would be dangerous.
examples: to show something in a bad light
glosses: An unfavourable presentation.
Related terms: offer the light
offer the light
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offers the light
form: offering the light
form: offered the light
form: offered the light
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To ask the batsmen if they wish to continue playing in conditions of poor light. If they do not, play is suspended for bad light.
raw_tags: of the umpires
Andrea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈændɹi.ə/
ipa: /ænˈdɹeɪə/
Etymology: Latinate feminine form of Andreas and Andrew.
Senses: examples: text: There's not much you can do with a name like Andrea. "Call me And." I don't think so. "Call me Andy." You say that and people will start calling you Handy Andy, and before you know it, you'll be getting phones calls from people wanting you to come and get their drain unstopped. So I've been forced to have people call me Andrea, which sounds like a girl who takes ballet and is learning to play the cello.
ref: 2003, Jack Weyland, Everyone Gets Married in the End, Cedar Fort,, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Andrea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈændɹi.ə/
ipa: /ænˈdɹeɪə/
Etymology: From Italian Andrea.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian.
dichotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪkəˈtɒmɪk/
Forms: form: more dichotomic
form: most dichotomic
Etymology: From dichotomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a dichotomy; dichotomous.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Choosing between two antithetical choices, between two distinct alternatives. Classification based upon two opposites. http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0305-4470/27/14/016
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That system of classification which pertains to two opposite criteria.
Synonyms: dichomatic
Derived terms: dichotomic search
Related terms: dichotomous
islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪləndə/
ipa: /ˈaɪləndɚ/
homophone: highlander (H-dropping accents)
Forms: form: islanders
Etymology: From island + -er. Displaced Middle English insulane (“islander”), from Latin īnsulānus (“islander”).
Senses: examples: text: Susan happily introducing speaker Steve Smith, Channel Eleven’s newzanchor, ya’know, and an islandophile from wayyy back – and as of this writing, a newly retired islander and fisherman.
ref: 1999 June 6, Frances Powell, “A galapalooza for McClown House”, in The Daily News, number 57, Galveston, Tex., page C1, column 1:
text: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
synonyms: insular
hyponyms: islandman
islandwoman
glosses: A person who lives on an island.
Derived terms: coislander
Islander
islandress
nonislander
Related terms: word: Aleutian Islander
word: Ascension Islander
word: British Virgin Islander
word: Canary Islander
word: Channel Islander
word: Christmas Islander
word: Cocos Islander
alt: Keeling
word: Cocos Islander
word: Cook Islander
word: Easter Islander
word: Faeroe Islander
word: Falkland Islander
word: Faroe Islander
word: isle
word: Keeling Islander
word: Leeward Islander
word: Line Islander
word: Long Islander
word: Marshall Islander
word: Midway Islander
word: Norfolk Islander
word: Northern Mariana Islander
word: North Islander
word: Pacific Islander
word: Pitcairn Islander
word: Prince Edward Islander
word: Rhode Islander
word: Sandwich Islander
word: Scilly Islander
word: Society Islander
word: Solomon Islander
word: South Islander
word: Staten Islander
word: Torres Strait Islander
word: Treasury Islander
word: Trobriand Islander
word: Turks and Caicos Islander
word: US Virgin Islander
word: Vancouver Islander
word: Virgin Islander
word: Wake Islander
word: Wallis and Futuna Islander
word: Westman Islander
word: Windward Islander
isle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ̯l/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: I'll
homophone: aisle
Forms: form: isles
Etymology: From Middle English ile, yle (with s added, similar to English island), borrowed from Old French ille, idle, isle, from Latin insula. Not related to island. Doublet of insula.
Senses: glosses: An island, usually very small. Compare with islet.
Derived terms: Balearic Isles
Black Isle
Bradbury and the Isle
British Isles
enisle
Fair Isle
Grand Isle
inisle
isled
isleless
isleman
Isle of Arran
Isle of Britain
Isle of Dogs
Isle of Ely
Isle of Grain
Isle of Lewis
Isle of Man
Isle of Mull
Mull
Isle of Oxney
Isle of Portland
Isle of Purbeck
Isle of Sheppey
Isle of Skye
Skye
Isle of Thanet
Isle of Wight
islesman
isleward
islomania
Scilly Isles
Isles of Scilly
Small Isles
St Patrick's Isle
Summer Isles
tree isle
Related terms: insulate
insulation
islet
isle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪ̯l/
rhymes: -aɪl
homophone: I'll
homophone: aisle
Forms: form: isles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aisle.
bobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊboʊ/
rhymes: -oʊboʊ
Forms: form: bobos
Etymology: Blend of bourgeois + bohemian, popularized by Popularized by by American journalist, commentator and editor David Brooks to describe the 1990s equivalent of the yuppie.
Senses: examples: text: The small things—an olive grove or a small chapel—take on greater meaning to a Bobo on vacation.
ref: 2000, David Brooks, Bobos in Paradise […] , Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 207:
text: Peruse the Paris papers these days and you'll notice an obsession with bobos: no, they're not a team of cheerleaders or a troupe of clowns, but rich, artsy types known as bourgeois bohemians, who are now pretty much the tip of Parisian tastemakers. So when friends who were recently staying in Saint Germain des Pres asked me where to go to people watch, I told them to head for the Ninth Arrondissement citadel of bobo cool. […] The food’s better than might be expected at such a furiously fashionable address, and for an amusing eyeful of Parisian bobos in all of their splendor, this place can’t be beat.
ref: 2011 April 12, Alex Lobrano, “Bobo Heaven in Paris”, in T Magazine, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2023, retrieved 26 Jun 2019:
related: word: Bobo
glosses: A materialistic person who affects an anti-materialistic persona.
glosses: A self-styled bodyguard or groupie of the nouveau riche (such as a professional athlete or musician)
glosses: An imitation of something, particularly a well known product, usually lower in quality than the original.
bobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊboʊ/
rhymes: -oʊboʊ
Forms: form: bobos
Etymology: Borrowed from French bobo (“boo-boo”).
Senses: glosses: A boo-boo (minor injury)
Related terms: Bobo doll
moving screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moving screens
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An offensive foul committed when a player executing a screen moves in order to block the defender and makes contact. Technically it is a block; in other words, there is no such terminology in most rulebooks using the phrase "moving screen." This means that, for it to be a foul, there must be contact (and illegal contact at that, meaning advantage-conveying). No illegal contact, no foul, no matter how much moving the screener does.
Synonyms: moving pick
dog shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogshit
form: dogs**t
Etymology: Compound of dog + shit.
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: Fecal matter produced by a dog.
glosses: Rubbish.
examples: text: Company working you 80 hours a week for dog-shit
ref: 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 33:
glosses: Nothing, or very little.
glosses: Rigged (sometimes shortened to dog).
qualifier: Michigan
glosses: Money.
dog shit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dog shit
form: most dog shit
form: dogshit
form: dogs**t
Etymology: Compound of dog + shit.
Senses: examples: text: If anything Putin Is proving out that NATO is dogshit and alliances based on interests other than regions is without fruit
ref: 2022 February 27, DFWJ, “Ukraine”, in alt.fan.gene-scott (Usenet):
glosses: Bad.
Related terms: excrement
feces
road apple
turd
hammer and sickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammers and sickles
Etymology: The symbol was developed by Yevgeny Kamzolkin in 1917, based on antetypes like hammer and pick (symbol of mining). The hammer represents workers, while the sickle represents farmers.
Senses: examples: text: He remembers the [train] journeys fondly—the vast expanses of the Soviet empire rolling by, the glasses of tea served in metal cup holders embossed with the hammer and sickle.
ref: 2022 December 7, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 28 Feb 2025:
glosses: A depiction of a sickle crossed with a hammer, used as a symbol of communism and the Soviet Union.
glosses: Socialism or communism itself.
Derived terms: hammered and sickled
hamsick
sickle and hammer
Related terms: ☭
Red Star
sickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: sickles
Etymology: From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: scythe
text: Lou's not Times foole, though roſie lips and cheeks
VVithin his bending ſickles compaſſe come,
Loue alters not with his breefe houres and vveekes,
But beares it out euen to the edge of doome:
If this be error and vpon me proued,
I neuer vvrit, nor no man euer loued.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 116”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature H, recto:
text: Oft did the harveſt to their ſickle yield,
Their furrow oft the ſtubborn glebe has broke;
How jocund did they drive their team afield!
How bow’d the woods beneath their ſturdy ſtroke!
ref: 1750 June 12 (date written; published 1751), T[homas] Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”, in Designs by Mr. R[ichard] Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], published 1753, →OCLC, page 81:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
synonyms: reap hook
reaping hook
glosses: An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
glosses: Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
A sickle faether, any of the sickle-shaped rear feathers of the domestic cock.
examples: text: Then, ere the silver sickle of that month
Became her golden shield, I stole from court
With Cyril and with Florian, unperceived.
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part 1”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Anything resembling a sickle, especially:
The crescent moon.
Derived terms: chain sickle
chicken sickle
hammer and sickle
moonsickle
sickle and hammer
sickle-billed vanga
sickle cell
sickle-cell anemia
sickle moon
sickle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkl̩/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: sickles
form: sickling
form: sickled
form: sickled
Etymology: From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, siċel, from Proto-West Germanic *sikilu, itself borrowed from Latin sēcula (“sickle”) or sīcīlis (“sickle”). Cognate with Dutch sikkel, German Sichel. Remotely related with English scythe and saw.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: reap, mow
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To cut with a sickle.
examples: text: Even the cells of heterozygotes will sickle if the oxygen tension is low enough.
ref: 1975, Robert Warren McGilvery, IV. 75, in Biochemistry:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape, to cause to sickle.
Derived terms: alt: transitive: to deform
word: sickler
sickle cell anaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sickle-cell anemia.
permission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pərmĭ'shən
ipa: /pəˈmɪʃən/
enpr: pərmĭ'shən
ipa: /pɚˈmɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpəːʳmɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /pəʳˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: permissions
form: permistion
form: permixtion
Etymology: From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).
Senses: examples: text: Sire, do I have your permission to execute this traitor?
glosses: authorisation; consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)
glosses: The act of permitting.
examples: text: I used the "chmod" command to change the file's permission.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Flags or access control lists pertaining to a file that dictate who can access it, and how.
Derived terms: it's better to ask forgiveness than permission
it's easier to ask forgiveness than to get permission
nonpermission
permissible
permissioning
permissionless
permission slip
permission structure
permissive
planning permission
Related terms: permit
permission
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pərmĭ'shən
ipa: /pəˈmɪʃən/
enpr: pərmĭ'shən
ipa: /pɚˈmɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpəːʳmɪʃən/
note: Indic
ipa: /pəʳˈmɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: permissions
form: permissioning
form: permissioned
form: permissioned
form: permistion
form: permixtion
Etymology: From Middle English permision, permission, permissioun, permyssion, from Middle French permission, from Latin permissiō. Equivalent to permit + -ion. Mostly replaced native English leave, from Old English lēaf (“permission”).
Senses: examples: text: Photographs also must be permissioned and credited, although a corpus of copyright-free images does exist online.
ref: 2003, Mary Ellen Lepionka, Writing and Developing Your College Textbook, page 190:
glosses: To grant or obtain authorization for.
Related terms: clearance
CASE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: computer-aided software engineering.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers.
Balinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːlɪniːz/
Etymology: From Bali + -n- + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: A car is taking us to a traditional Balinese dance at a nearby temple. It is on a cliff top with scenic views of the Indian Ocean and sheathed in what the internet calls a “peaceful ambience.”
ref: 2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to Bali, its inhabitants, or their language or culture.
Derived terms: Balinese tiger
Balinesian
Balinese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːlɪniːz/
Forms: form: Balinese
Etymology: From Bali + -n- + -ese.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bali.
glosses: A long-haired breed of domestic cat with Siamese-style point coloration and sapphire-blue eyes.
Balinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːlɪniːz/
Etymology: From Bali + -n- + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The language of Bali.
CMMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CMMSes
Senses: glosses: Initialism of computerized maintenance management system.
instructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/
Forms: form: more instructive
form: most instructive
Etymology: From instruct + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Well, that was an instructive lesson.
text: Some commentators have suggested that the activity represented by WallStreetBets and Trumpism are part of the same populist, anti-elite phenomenon, but if Trumpism in general is instructive at all here, it’s as a reminder that self-described anti-elite movements can, in fact, turn out to be much more complicated than that.
ref: 2021 January 29, John Herrman, “Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: didactic
educative
informative
informatory
glosses: Conveying knowledge, information or instruction.
Derived terms: bioinstructive
instructive case
instructively
instructiveness
misinstructive
noninstructive
preinstructive
uninstructive
instructive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/
Forms: form: instructives
Etymology: From instruct + -ive.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case in the Finnish and Estonian languages. It expresses the means or the instrument used to perform an action.
itinerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈtɪnɚənt/
Forms: form: more itinerant
form: most itinerant
Etymology: From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”). See also itinerate, itinerary.
Senses: examples: text: an itinerant preacher or peddler
text: The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
text: most children in trouble were placed in detention homes, in institutions for the retarded, on wards with psychotic adults, or were left at home to fester there, occasionally seen by an itinerant teacher.
ref: 1971, Richard Austin King, Clifford Thomas Morgan, Readings for an Introduction to Psychology:
text: The Greek term translated as “apostle” derives from the concept of being sent, thus underlining the missionary and more itinerant nature of the ministry.
ref: 2010, Craig Ott, Gene Wilson, Global Church Planting:
glosses: Habitually travelling from place to place.
Synonyms: strolling
Derived terms: itinerancy
itinerantly
itinerant worker
nonitinerant
Related terms: itinerance
itinerant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈtɪnɚənt/
Forms: form: itinerants
Etymology: From Late Latin itinerantem, present active participle of itineror (“travel”). See also itinerate, itinerary.
Senses: glosses: One who travels from place to place.
glosses: A member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.
assail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈseɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
homophone: asail
Forms: form: assails
form: assailing
form: assailed
form: assailed
Etymology: From Middle English assailen, from Old French assaillir, assalir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“at, towards”) + salīre (“jump”). See also assault.
Senses: examples: text: Muggers assailed them as they entered an alley.
text: Our ears were assailed by her joyous efforts on her new saxophone.
text: With greedy force he gan the fort assayle, / Whereof he weend possesse soone to bee, / And win rich spoile of ransackt chastitee.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: [L]et us once again assail your ears, / That are so fortified against our story, / What we two nights have seen.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: "Unhappy woman!" he observed to himself as he walked down the platform of Templecombe station; "for the next six months or so those children will assail her in public with demands for an improper story!"
ref: 1914, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Story-teller”, in Beasts and Super-Beasts […], London: John Lane, The Bodley Head […], →OCLC, page 238:
text: We got married immediately after I finished my work […] which should have been the happiest day of my life. […] But, it was not my happiest day. I was assailed by doubts.
ref: 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 14, in Dust Tracks on a Road, New York, N.Y.: Arno Press and The New York Times, published 1969, page 258:
text: 2007, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow, Nairobo: East African Educational Publishers, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 64,
He did not like being in crowds, foul smells galore assailing his nostrils.
glosses: To attack with harsh words or violent force (also figuratively).
Derived terms: assailable
assailant
assailer
assailment
reassail
unassailability
unassailed
unassailing
Related terms: assault
archive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːkaɪv/
enpr: är'kīv'
ipa: /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
ipa: /ˈaː.kɑɪv/
Forms: form: archives
Etymology: First appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).
Senses: examples: text: “I don’t know how one could be interested in libraries and not archives,” Lannon told me. They tell you “the stories behind things,” he said, “the unpublished, the hard to find, the true story.
ref: 2017 September 20, James Somers, quoting Thomas Lannon, “Keepers of the Secrets”, in The Village Voice:
glosses: A place for storing earlier, and often historical, material. An archive usually contains documents (letters, records, newspapers, etc.) or other types of media kept for historical interest.
examples: text: His archive of Old High German texts is the most extensive in Britain.
glosses: The material so kept, considered as a whole (compare archives).
examples: text: soil archive
text: peat archive
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Natural deposits of material, regarded as a record of environmental changes over time.
Derived terms: word: archival
word: archivation
word: archive box
word: archiving
word: archivism
word: archivist
word: archivization
word: bioarchive
word: cryoarchive
word: de-archive
word: e-archive
word: national archive
word: subarchive
word: unarchive
archive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːkaɪv/
enpr: är'kīv'
ipa: /ˈɑɹkaɪv/
ipa: /ˈaː.kɑɪv/
Forms: form: archives
form: archiving
form: archived
form: archived
Etymology: First appears c. 1603 in a translation by Philemon Holland. From French archive(s), from Latin archīvum, from Ancient Greek ἀρχεῖον (arkheîon, “town hall”).
Senses: examples: text: I was planning on archiving the documents from 2001.
synonyms: archivize
glosses: To place (something) into an archive.
Derived terms: word: archivability
word: archivable
word: archival
word: rearchive
word: self-archive
word: self-archiving
word: unarchive
cadenza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdɛnzə/
Forms: form: cadenzas
form: cadenze
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cadenza, from Latin cadentia. Doublet of cadence and chance.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, laugh, as I want to laugh for instance in the concert hall when the orchestra trundles to a stop and the virtuoso at his piano, hunched like a demented vet before the bared teeth of this enormous black beast of sound, lifts up deliquescent hands and prepares to plunge into the cadenza.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A part of a piece of music, such as a concerto, that is very decorative and is played by a single musician.
cadenza
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈdɛnzə/
Forms: form: cadenzas
form: cadenzaing
form: cadenzaed
form: cadenzaed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cadenza, from Latin cadentia. Doublet of cadence and chance.
Senses: glosses: To become agitated or excited.
blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaʊs/
ipa: /blaʊz/
ipa: /bluːz/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: blouses
Etymology: 1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More at blee, fold.
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A shirt, typically loose and reaching from the neck to the waist.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A shirt for women or girls, particularly a shirt with buttons and often a collar; a dress shirt tailored for women.
topics: fashion
government
lifestyle
military
politics
war
glosses: A loose-fitting uniform jacket.
glosses: A short garment worn under a sari.
Synonyms: word: bodice
raw_tags: used for undershirts
Hyponyms: Watteau bodice
Derived terms: big girl's blouse
bloused
blouseless
blouselike
blousy
downblouse
girl's blouse
middy blouse
overblouse
peasant blouse
peekaboo blouse
poet blouse
Russian blouse
shirtwaist blouse
underblouse
blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaʊs/
ipa: /blaʊz/
ipa: /bluːz/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: blouses
form: blousing
form: bloused
form: bloused
Etymology: 1828, from French blouse (“a workman's or peasant's smock”), see that for more.
More at blee, fold.
Senses: glosses: To hang a garment in loose folds.
examples: text: An anonymous black soldier summed up his feelings by declaring, "If I fail to blouse my boots, or [if I] wear an Afro, I get socked. […]"
ref: 1989, Bernard C. Nalty, Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military, page 311:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots).
qualifier: prison
glosses: The act of hiding contraband, such as drugs or weapons, in one's rectum.
Derived terms: deblouse
unblouse
blouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaʊs/
ipa: /blaʊz/
ipa: /bluːz/
rhymes: -aʊs
rhymes: -aʊz
Forms: form: blouses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of blouze.
glosses: Alternative form of blowze.
Derived terms: blousy
concerto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈt͡ʃɛɹtoʊ/
Forms: form: concertos
form: concerti
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian concerto, deverbal from concertare. Doublet of concert.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music for one or more solo instruments and orchestra.
Derived terms: concertolike
Related terms: concerto grosso
solo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ
rhymes: (UK) -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: solos
form: soli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music for one performer.
glosses: A job or performance done by one person alone.
topics: games
glosses: A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner
glosses: A single shot of espresso.
qualifier: Gaelic football
glosses: An instance of soloing the football.
Coordinate terms: sense: coffee
word: doppio
sense: coffee
word: triplo
solo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ
rhymes: (UK) -əʊləʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).
Senses: glosses: Without a companion or instructor.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of, or relating to, a musical solo.
solo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ
rhymes: (UK) -əʊləʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).
Senses: examples: text: Two of us wearing raincoats / Standing solo / In the sun
ref: 1970, Paul McCartney, “Two of Us”, in Let it Be:
text: Wake me up before you go-go / 'Cause I'm not plannin' on going solo
ref: 1984, “Wake me up before you go-go”, George Michael (lyrics), George Michael (music), performed by Wham!:
text: The Canadian superstar had been rumoured to be singing a duet with Lady Gaga, but instead went solo on the Eiffel Tower to bring the four-hour event to a stirring climax.
ref: 2024 July 27, Ian Youngs, “Celine Dion makes stirring comeback at Olympics”, in bbc.com:
glosses: Alone, without a companion.
solo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊ.loʊ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊ.ləʊ/
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊloʊ
rhymes: (UK) -əʊləʊ
Forms: form: solos
form: soloes
form: soloing
form: soloed
form: soloed
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To perform a solo.
glosses: To perform something in the absence of anyone else.
qualifier: Gaelic football
glosses: To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands.
glosses: To independently perform an action, especially a challenging task.
Derived terms: deep-water solo
fly solo
free solo
free-solo
solo album
solo concert
soloist
solo parent
solo poly
solo polyamorous
solo polyamory
solo run
solo sex
solo whist
Related terms: solitaire
number
OTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OTEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of on target earnings.
glosses: Initialism of opportunity to earn.
simoleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈmoʊliən/
Forms: form: simoleons
form: simolean
form: Simoleon
Etymology: Most likely a late-19th-century blend of simon (“dollar”), from simon (“sixpence coin”) (17th-century British slang, perhaps related to simony?), and Napoleon (“French gold coin worth 20 francs, bearing the image of Napoleon III”). Perhaps from New Orleans.
The gaming sense may have been chosen for its similarity to Sim.
Senses: examples: text: That'll cost you five simoleons.
text: "T'ought I was lyin' about the money, did ye? Well, you can frisk me if you wanter. Dat's the last simoleon in the treasury. Who's goin' to pay?"
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 2:
text: Another brother working in an Alabama city has not sent a cold simolean or any long green since January; he has ignored several letters, but at last a registered letter found him O.K. and working.
ref: 1909, The International Bookbinder - Volume 10, page 240:
text: We gladly did so with the result that we got a menu worth a dollar and a half or two dollars for a single simolean. Can you beat that?
ref: 1912, Delta Chi Quarterly, volume 10, page 286:
text: His Veteran's insurance came to ten thousand simoleons, rather more than he could bring on the hoof.
ref: 1962, Thomas Berger, Reinhart in Love:
text: Abetted by market-wise agents and paperback publishers with an eye for the speedy simolean, these double-gaited gonzos are perpetrating a plague of best-selling takeoffs of innocent newspapers, defenseless magazines, helpless self-help books - even the Good Book itself.
ref: 1983, Newsweek, volume 101, page 178:
glosses: A dollar.
examples: text: Simoleons is just a new name for those assets. You carry around a smart card and spend it just like cash. Or else you go shopping in the Metaverse and spend the money online, and the goods show up on your doorstep the next morning.
ref: 1995 March 1, Neal Stephenson, “The Great Simoleon Caper”, in TIME:
text: 'Into simoleons, please,' I said. This was the currency used for general trade across the Dream Archipelago. It was the accepted currency within the publishing industry. All my book contracts were drawn up using simoleon amounts and rates, and the literary agent invariably sent me payment in that currency. I was used to it, knew instinctively what it was worth. The simoleon was the old standard currency. It had been in use for centuries when most of the main clearing banks were established on theisland of Muriseay
ref: 2020, Christopher Priest, The Evidence, Gollancz, page 38:
glosses: A fake, theoretical, or unofficial unit of currency.
examples: text: The game franchise demands that its participants to simulate the "rat race," earning Simoleons, remodeling their homes, and buying properties.
ref: 2016 February 5, Emma Hazen, “Artist Profile: Jacky Connolly”, in Rhizome:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: A fake, theoretical, or unofficial unit of currency.
In-game currency of The Sims computer game series, or its symbol.
samoleon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of simoleon.
mitigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mitigations
Etymology: From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio.
Senses: examples: text: Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"...
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 213:
text: One possible drought mitigation strategy for Afghanistan is to divert excess water from water-rich river basins to water-scarce river basins in cases where this is technologically, economically and environmentally feasible.
ref: 2004, Bhattacharya, K., Azizi, P. M., Shobair, S, S,, Mohsini, M. Y., Drought impacts and potential for their mitigation in southern and western Afghanistan, IWMI
text: Much of the arable land acquired by HS2 is being used for mitigation planting, in an attempt to achieve the goal set by HS2 Ltd for Phase 1, which will mean there should be no measurable loss of biodiversity after construction of the line compared with what was there before.
ref: 2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 34:
text: Its [the gantry crane's] noise-mitigation characteristics even include a soft-landing feature to minimise the noise when containers are lowered.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 41:
glosses: A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant.
Derived terms: radiomitigation
Related terms: mitigate
mitigating
mitigant
metagenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metagenomes
Etymology: From meta- + genome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: All the genetic material present in an environmental sample, consisting of the genomes of many individual organisms.
edile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ediles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aedile.