cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hue and cry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hue and cries
form: hues and cries
Etymology: From Middle English heu and cri, from the Anglo-Norman legal phrase hu e cri.
Senses: examples: text: Because he that firſt raiſeth a hue and cry, where no felony is committed, that is, he who giveth the falſe information, is ſeverely puniſhable by fine and impriſonment, if the information be falſe.
ref: 1797, Richard Burn, John Burn (corrections and updates), The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Volume II, 18th Edition, page 753
text: For the levying of hue and cry, although it is a good course to have a justice's warrant, where time will permit, in order to prevent causeless hue and cry; yet it is not necessary, nor always convenient; for the felon may escape before the warrant be obtained.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “HUE and CRY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume III (E … I), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: That in case of a hue and cry once raised and levied upon supposal of a felony committed, though in truth there was no felony committed; yet those, who pursue hue and cry, may arrest and proceed as if a felony had been really committed.
ref: 1846, Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd, John Bouvier, A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections, volume 4, page 693:
glosses: The public pursuit of a criminal, accompanied by shouts to warn others to give chase.
examples: text: And because I haven't written off easily, a great hue and cry has gone up that there is something wrong with our whole system of administering justice.
ref: 1955, Caryl Chessman, Trial by Ordeal, quoted in 1956 September, Walter P. Armstrong, Jr, book review, American Bar Association Journal, page 854
glosses: A loud and persistent public clamour, especially one associated with protest or the making of some demand.
give chase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives chase
form: giving chase
form: gave chase
form: given chase
Senses: examples: text: After the robbery, the police gave chase but didn't catch the suspect.
text: Without thinking, Zoe ran along the outside of the building, as her stepmother and Tina fought to be first out on to the scaffold to give chase.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Under the policy, officers may give chase if they believe a person is committing or is about to commit a felony, a Class A misdemeanor such as domestic battery, or a serious traffic offense that could risk injuring others, such as drunken driving or street racing.
ref: 2022 June 21, Don Babwin, “Chicago police unveil long-awaited foot pursuit policy”, in The Associated Press:
text: The footage, which was captured at approximately 10:30 pm on September 24, shows two vehicles speeding past the patrol car on Highway 400, prompting the sheriff’s deputy to give chase.
ref: 2022 September 30, “Two Drivers Clock Speeds of 150 mph in Georgia Car Chase”, in Yahoo! News:
text: An NYPD officer struck in the arm by a bullet allegedly fired by a teen gunman ignored his wound and gave chase to the 16-year-old suspect, cops said Tuesday.
ref: 2023 January 17, Harry Parker, Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, “Wounded NYPD cop gave chase to Bronx teen accused of shooting him”, in New York Daily News:
synonyms: give pursuit
glosses: To begin chasing or pursuing someone or something, whether on foot or by vehicle.
Fla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Florida: a state of the United States.
Synonyms: word: FL
word: Fl
word: Fl.
CAIR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Clean Air Interstate Rule.
glosses: Acronym of Council on American-Islamic Relations.
glosses: Acronym of confidential aviation incident reporting.
ACC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Allied Control Council.
glosses: Initialism of Association of Corporate Counsel.
glosses: Initialism of American Chemistry Council.
glosses: Initialism of American College of Cardiology.
glosses: Initialism of Air Coordinating Committee.
glosses: Initialism of Associated Cement Companies.
glosses: Initialism of Accident Compensation Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of the accident compensation scheme, administered by the Accident Compensation Corporation.
ACC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ACCs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of adaptive cruise control.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of accusative.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of amorphous calcium carbonate.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of area control center.
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of assistant chief constable, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ascending chain condition.
qualifier: fan fiction
glosses: Initialism of author-created character, a new character who is added into a fanfic's cast of 'official' characters.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid.
C&C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Command and Control.
glosses: Initialism of Clear and Convincing (evidence).
glosses: Initialism of Comment(s) and Critique.
DRC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /diːɑːˈsiː/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /diːɑɹˈsiː/
Senses: coordinate_terms: ROC
glosses: Initialism of Democratic Republic of (the) Congo, Congo-Kinshasa.
DRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /diːɑːˈsiː/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /diːɑɹˈsiː/
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Initialism of Dynamic range compression
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of design rule check.
NREL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
NIH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”
ref: 2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN:
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of National Institutes of Health.
NIH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not invented here.
DMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DMCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of double metal cyanide.
glosses: Initialism of data monitoring committee; groups in charge of protocols of clinical trials.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
glosses: Initialism of destination management company.
glosses: Abbreviation of dimethyl carbonate.
Related terms: english: diethylcarbonate
translation: diethylcarbonate
word: DEC
english: ethylmethylcarbonate
translation: ethylmethylcarbonate
word: EMC
english: ethylene carbonate
translation: ethylene carbonate
word: EC
english: propylene carbonate
translation: propylene carbonate
word: PC
PPL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPLs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polypeptide laboratory.
glosses: Initialism of private pilot license.
glosses: Initialism of probabilistic programming language.
glosses: Initialism of Paper Products Limited.
ACTH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
endocrinology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of adrenocorticotropic hormone.
BP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I was at the BP station, filling up my daddy’s Chrysler with gas, when I finally heard what I think was my mama’s voice in my ear.
ref: 2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 203:
text: BP (BP) revealed plans in August to slash its oil production by 40% and pour billions of dollars into clean energy as it attempts to deliver net-zero emission by 2050. […] The moves could make BP (BP) more appealing to ESG investors, at least compared with US oil companies.
ref: 2020 October 19, Matt Egan, “The oil industry is in crisis. ConocoPhillips is doubling down”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of British Petroleum.
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: Initialism of British Pharmacopoeia.
glosses: Initialism of Brazilian Portuguese.
BP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BPs
Senses: examples: text: I was concerned to find the BP even higher when I took it.
ref: 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), pages 81–82:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of blood pressure.
glosses: Initialism of boiling point.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of base pair.
synonyms: BPO
glosses: Abbreviation of benzoyl peroxide.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of business plan.
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of backpropagation.
BP
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Later diversion of lake drainage between 11,000 and 10,000 BP, due to ice retreat, led to the discharge of Agassiz meltwaters into the western North Atlantic.
ref: 2013, Alastair G. Dawson, Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology and Climate, Routledge, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: sciences
synonyms: YBP
glosses: Initialism of Before Present, conventionally relative to radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.
BP
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bipolar.
SABIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation.
LNG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of liquefied natural gas.
Related terms: english: compressed natural gas
translation: compressed natural gas
word: CNG
english: liquid hydrogen
translation: liquid hydrogen
word: LH2
english: liquid hydrogen
translation: liquid hydrogen
word: LH
english: liquid helium
translation: liquid helium
word: LHe
english: liquid methane
translation: liquid methane
word: LM
english: liquid nitrogen
translation: liquid nitrogen
word: LN2
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LO2
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LOX
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LOx
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: lox
english: liquid oxygen
translation: liquid oxygen
word: LO
english: liquified petroleum gas
translation: liquified petroleum gas
word: LPG
english: natural gas
translation: natural gas
word: NG
TRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Toxic Release Inventory.
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Initialism of Toyota Research Institute.
TRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Triple Reuptake Inhibitor.
NCRR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Center for Research Resources.
NNI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Nanotechnology Initiative.
NNI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: phylogenetics
glosses: Initialism of nearest neighbour interchange.
PCAST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
TSCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Toxic Substances Control Act.
NPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Planck constant is, in turn, measured using an instrument known as the Kibble balance, first developed at NPL by the late physicist Bryan Kibble.
ref: 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National Physical Laboratory.
NPL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NPLs
Senses: examples: text: VTB’s First Deputy CEO, Dmitry Pyanov, said the share of NPLs could rise to between 6% and 7% within the next few months, but stressed that this was still far from peak levels. VTB estimated the share of restructured corporate loans at 3%.
ref: 2025 July 3, Elena Fabrichnaya, “Russian central bank sees no risk of looming banking crisis”, in Reuters:
glosses: Initialism of non-performing loan.
JPL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
BIPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of International Bureau of Weights and Measures (French abbreviation).
CGPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of General Conference on Weights and Measures (French abbreviation).
XRCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of X-ray crystal density.
ROA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Raman optical activity.
glosses: Initialism of register of actions.
glosses: Initialism of right of abode.
GS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of geological survey.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
netball
sports
glosses: Initialism of goal shooter.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
coordinate_terms: PGS
PSL
glosses: Initialism of giant slalom.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of glide slope.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of global studies.
glosses: Initialism of Gitelman syndrome.
examples: text: TV into GS and BS, are you there?
ref: 1987 March 11, washroom wall in a bar in Columbus, Ohio; quoted in Thomas Edward Murray and Thomas R. Murrell, The Language of Sadomasochism: A Glossary and Linguistic Analysis, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, page 78
text: My interests are humiliation, public exhibitionism, nipple torture, hot wax, bondage, C & B torture, G.S., all fantasies
ref: a. 1990, SM Express, number 24, page 26; quoted in Thomas Edward Murray, Thomas R. Murrell, The Language of Sadomasochism: A Glossary and Linguistic Analysis, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Mistress Julie of New York is accepting slaves who enjoy S&M, B&D, enemas, foot worship, G/S and related subjects
ref: a. 1990, Women in Command, number 16, page 25; quoted in Thomas Edward Murray, Thomas R. Murrell, The Language of Sadomasochism: A Glossary and Linguistic Analysis, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1989, →ISBN, page 78:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of golden shower (“the act of a person urinating on another”).
glosses: Initialism of glue stick.
glosses: Initialism of General Secretary.
GS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Golden State.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon Gold and Silver.
examples: text: The stock is up more-than 45% this year, putting AmEx slightly ahead of Goldman Sachs (GS). Like Goldman and other top financial stocks, Amex has thrived during the past few months as the economy has roared back to life following the brief Covid recession last year and consumers started spending again.
ref: 2021 July 23, Paul R. La Monica, “American Express is the Dow’s top stock for 2021. Here’s why”, in CNN Business:
topics: business
finance
stock-ticker-symbol
glosses: Initialism of Goldman Sachs.
GS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of grand sport.
Coordinate terms: english: limited edition, luxury edition
translation: limited edition, luxury edition
word: LE
english: special edition
translation: special edition
word: SE
english: luxury
translation: luxury
word: LX
english: super
translation: super
word: SX
english: limited, luxury
translation: limited, luxury
word: L
topics: racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: R
english: sport, special, super
translation: sport, special, super
word: S
Related terms: topics: automotive
vehicles
transport
english: grand touring
translation: grand touring
word: GT
A&M
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A and M
form: A. and M.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: Agricultural and Mechanical, a historical university description
head_nr: 1
glosses: Agricultural and Mines, a historical university description
UHP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultra-high purity.
EOE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EOEs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of equal-opportunity employer.
Related terms: english: equal employment opportunity
translation: equal employment opportunity
word: EEO
SLAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Stanford linear accelerator center.
CFN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Center for Functional Nanomaterials.
GMC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GMCs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of General Management Committee (“the general committee of a constituency party of the British Labour Party”).
GMC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: health
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of General Medical Council.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of General Motors Company, a truck brand by GM (not a synonym of GM).
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of General Motors Corporation, a truck brand by GM (not a synonym of GM outside of GM's earliest decades).
BST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Standard Time (between 1968 and 1971).
glosses: Initialism of British Summer Time.
BST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSTs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of binary search tree.
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Burgess Shale Type.
masculinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masculinisms
Etymology: From masculine + -ism, as opposed to feminism.
Senses: examples: text: While only women can participate in the building of a feminist culture, without the interference — however well-intentioned — of men, men can facilitate that process by refusing to participate in the old order of masculinism.
ref: 1981 August 15, Cliff Flanders, “Anti-Masculinists”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 4:
text: […] the transition to liberal capitalism offers men the opportunity of putting a greatly increased social distance between themselves and women. It is the rise of masculinism which is the primary characteristic of gender relations in Eastern Europe today.
ref: 1996, Peggy Watson, "The Rise of Masculinism in Eastern Europe", chapter 6 of Monica Threlfall (editor), Mapping the Women’s Movement, Verso, page 216
text: […] a lonely straight male had no equivalently forgiving Theory of Masculinism to help him out of this bind, this key to all misogynies: […]
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: Each is laden with assumptions and appropriations that, in discursive terms, reinforce a culture of masculinism – the cultural dominance of the male (in the public sphere).
ref: 2002, Stephen M. Whitehead, Men and Masculinities, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 115:
text: However, it is possible to examine the broader historical contours of masculinism – the ideology that justifies male domination – and the masculinist institutions that endorse masculinism […]
ref: 2007, Satoshi Ikedia, “Masculinity and masculinism under globalization: Reflections on the Canadian case”, chapter 6 of Marjorie Griffin Cohen and Janine Brodie (editors), Remapping Gender in the New Global Order, Routledge, page 112
glosses: An ideology of masculinity or of male rights; considered as opposed to feminism.
examples: text: The greater part of these various anatomical peculiarities and functional anomalies point, more or less clearly, to the prevalence among inverts of a tendency to infantilism, combined with feminism in men and masculinism in women
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
glosses: Mannishness.
Synonyms: masculism
Related terms: masculinist
feminism
feminist
egalitarianism
equalism
CCTV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCTVs
Senses: examples: text: Two months later Devon walked into Khandi’s Gem Express and Jewellery on the high road, with a kid from south Kilburn, Curtis Ainger, and a gun. Smile, you’re on CCTV. Nineteen when he went in. Twenty-three, this summer.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 165:
text: There is CCTV in the coach, so anyone planning to pilfer a flapjack may well be seen!
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 52:
text: “I think it’s fair to anticipate that the use of CCTV and facial recognition technology in Hong Kong will begin to look a lot like those in mainland China over time,” she said.
ref: 2024 October 5, Jessie Yeung, “Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of closed-circuit television; video surveillance.
Derived terms: CCTV camera
CCTV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of China Central Television.
Related terms: CGTN
CNTV
DCIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ductal carcinoma in situ.
MSRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MSRPs
Senses: examples: text: “I’m calling across the entire country. I’m thinking this is not going to be possible. I’m not going to find a dealer selling at MSRP,” recalled Rathjen, a technical writer. “I kept calling further and further away until I hit Vermont.”
ref: 2022 June 17, Allan Chernoff, “Soaring US car prices compel buyers to travel thousands of miles for deals”, in The Guardian:
text: The credit is available to vans with a Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) of $80,000, SUVs with a MSRP of $80,000, pickup trucks with a MSRP of $80,000, and other vehicles with a MSRP of $55,000. The credit is set to expire December 31, 2032.
ref: 2025 May 24, “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill”, in United States House Committee on Ways & Means, page 30:
glosses: Initialism of manufacturer's suggested retail price.
Synonyms: word: RRP
Coordinate terms: list price
sticker price
Related terms: SRP
retail price
retail
wholesale price
wholesale
at-cost
VIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌvi.aɪˈpi/
/vɪp/
Forms: form: VIPs
form: V.I.P.
Senses: examples: text: VIP lounge
text: Nobody is allowed to contact me after 4pm. VIPs can call me on my home phone.
text: On opening day at London's Frieze Art Fair, VIPs are allowed in at 2 pm and VOPs at 5 pm, but the VVIPs specially invited by sponsor Deutsche Bank gain entry at 11 am to check out the best work.
ref: 2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: VVIP
VOP
glosses: Initialism of very important person.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of vasoactive intestinal peptide.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ventilator-induced pneumonia.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of variation in production: the remixing of one's own track.
Hypernyms: english: ventilator-associated pneumonia
translation: ventilator-associated pneumonia
word: VAP
english: hospital-acquired pneumonia
translation: hospital-acquired pneumonia
word: HAP
english: healthcare-associated pneumonia
translation: healthcare-associated pneumonia
word: HCAP
word: pneumonia
Derived terms: VIPergic
VIPoma
Related terms: sense: ventilator-induced pneumonia
english: ventilator-associated lung injury
translation: ventilator-associated lung injury
word: VALI
sense: ventilator-induced pneumonia
english: ventilator-associated pneumonia
translation: ventilator-associated pneumonia
word: VAP
sense: ventilator-induced pneumonia
english: ventilator-induced lung injury
translation: ventilator-induced lung injury
word: VILI
CYA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cover your ass/arse.
BYO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: After I check into my single room—a rustic BYO-bed-sheets situation—I return to the common area and settle in for the afternoon’s presentations.
ref: 2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Initialism of bring your own.
glosses: Initialism of buy your own.
Synonyms: sense: Bring Your Own
alt: BYO=beverage
word: BYOB
Related terms: sense: “bring your own”
word: BYOB
sense: “bring your own”
word: BYOC
sense: “bring your own”
word: BYOD
sense: “bring your own”
word: BYOE
sense: “bring your own”
word: BYOK
sense: “bring your own”
word: BYOW
GI
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: G.I.
Senses: examples: text: Soldiers counted cadence by chanting: “GI brush / And GI comb / Gee, I wish that I was home!”
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of general issue, given to a soldier by the army (as an item), rather than brought from home; or used by the army (as a procedure), and different from its civilian counterpart.
examples: text: GI tract
text: Endometriosis, which involves tissue similar to uterine tissue growing elsewhere in the body, has myriad symptoms, including GI distress, migraines, discomfort during sex and abdominal pain that can range from debilitating to excruciating.
ref: 2023 June 20, Lauren Mechling, “The last health taboo: why are so many women still suffering with endometriosis?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of gastrointestinal.
glosses: Initialism of government issue.
Derived terms: sense: gastrointestinal
word: GI tract
GI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GIs
form: G.I.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
related: word: G.I.
glosses: A member of the U.S. military.
glosses: One who is demanding and strict, in the manner of a stereotypical member of the military.
glosses: Initialism of galvanized iron.
glosses: Initialism of geographical indication.
glosses: Initialism of glycemic index.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of global illumination.
GI
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: GIs
form: GIing
form: GIed
form: GIed
form: G.I.
Senses: examples: text: Top, get the unit to GI this AO before the old man arrives.
text: Afterwards, a lifer noncom would go ape shit over his low-speed high-drag peons and plan a GI party, sometimes giving his half-stepping shamurai warriors instructions about dust bunnies and getting everything dress right dress while adjusting their headspace and timing in the front leaning rest position.
ref: 2013, Scott Haraburda, Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth, page 237:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To clean aggressively.
Related terms: GI can
NPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Prescription Audit.
glosses: Initialism of New People's Army.
glosses: Initialism of National Pharmacy Association.
NPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NPAs
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Acronym of nonperforming asset.
greeble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːbliː/
ipa: /ˈɡɹiː.bl̩/
Forms: form: greebles
Etymology: * A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film.
* The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.
Senses: synonyms: nurnie
glosses: A small piece of detailing added to break up the surface of an object and add visual interest, particularly in movie special effects.
examples: text: Because, compared to other objects, face recognition seems to be especially sensitive to stimulus orientation, Gauthier had subjects perform a matching task with upright or inverted faces and greebles in the scanner, hypothesizing that greeble expertise would be specific to viewing them in the trained, upright orientation.
ref: 2005, Hugh W. Catts, Alan G. Kamhi, The Connections Between Language and Reading Disabilities, page 93:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of invented novel objects used as stimuli in psychological studies of object and face recognition.
glosses: (informal, whimsical) An imaginary or invisible creature, such as a bug or spirit, that a cat or other pet is perceived to be chasing or reacting to, often characterized by sudden, frantic movements as if hunting something unseen.
greeble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːbliː/
ipa: /ˈɡɹiː.bl̩/
Forms: form: greebles
form: greebling
form: greebled
form: greebled
Etymology: * A neologism that was originally coined and used by the prop-makers from Industrial Light & Magic while working on production of the original Star Wars film.
* The objects in psychology were named by the American psychologist Robert Abelson.
Senses: examples: text: We're going to greeble the surface of the model to give it a more convincing look.
glosses: To add greebles to a surface.
IAWTC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I agree with this comment.
thumbprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thumbprints
Etymology: From thumb + print.
Senses: glosses: A print, mark or impression made by a thumb.
Hypernyms: fingerprint
potshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potshots
form: pot shot
form: pot-shot
Etymology: From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).
Senses: examples: text: to take a potshot at
text: Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.
ref: 1908, William MacLeod Raine, Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West:
glosses: A shot taken at an easy or random target.
examples: text: He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation
ref: 2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018:
text: And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a “mental affliction.”
ref: 2025 May 13, Richard Fausset, “The Pope’s Florida Brother, a MAGA Disciple, Plans to ‘Tone It Down’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Criticism of an easy target; a cheap shot.
Related terms: pothunter
potshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: potshots
form: potshotting
form: potshotted
form: potshotted
form: pot shot
form: pot-shot
Etymology: From pot + shot. 1858, shot taken for the (cooking) pot, namely for food; see pothunter. Sense “opportunistic criticism” from 1926. Sense “drunk” from obsolete pot (“cup used for drinking liquor”).
Senses: examples: text: Howard appeared in the doorway. “Say, Sig, go down to the corral and saddle up Teddy for Steve, will you? Some of his friends have been potshotting at him again. No damage done, except to my feelings, but there's nothing like being careful.”
ref: 1910, William MacLeod Raine, A Texas Ranger:
glosses: To fire potshots.
psychometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + metrics.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The design of psychological tests to measure intelligence, aptitude and personality; and the analysis and interpretation of their results.
Related terms: psychometric
psychometrical
psychometry
catabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪk
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: catabolytic (sometimes synonymous)
text: “This is the idea of catabolic collapse: that what we’re living through is a series of crises, sometimes followed by momentary resolution, but the long-term trend is downturn. It’s not going to be a sudden event that’s everything in a single day, which I think people like preppers are more accustomed to thinking.”
ref: 2025 June 26, Sam Wolfson, “On r/collapse, people are ‘kept abreast of the latest doom’. Its moderators say it’s not for everyone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
antonyms: anabolic
hypernyms: metabolic
glosses: Of, or relating to catabolism.
Derived terms: anticatabolic
catabolically
hypercatabolic
lipocatabolic
noncatabolic
osteocatabolic
procatabolic
proteocatabolic
switcheroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌswɪt͡ʃəˈɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: switcheroos
form: switcharoo
Etymology: From switch + -eroo.
Senses: examples: text: In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co.
ref: 1951 April 30, “Business & Finance: Switcheroo”, in Time, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2012:
text: When you are dealing with American presidents, you always have to watch for the old switcheroo. Lyndon Johnson opposed Barry Goldwater's "extremism" on Vietnam, then proceeded to try to bomb Hanoi back into the stone age. Richard Nixon opposed price and wage controls, until he suddenly adopted them.
ref: 1977 April 18, Don McGillivray, “Carter, true to form, pulls the ‘switcheroo’”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 27 Jul 2012, page 22:
text: Elsewhere, it’s a ‘switcheroo’ ([Kevin] Kelly’s word, not mine) that will lend technology the working status of a vital force that, like ‘nature’, operates outside the reach of social imperatives.
ref: 1997, J. J. King, “The Right Connections: Tea with Kevin Kelly”, in Mute, volume 1, number 8, →ISSN:
text: The Manhattan Theater Club has pulled a switcheroo, delaying a planned production of Gone Home, by John Corwin, and replacing it with Four, by the 26-year-old playwright Christopher Shinn.
ref: 2001 December 21, Jesse McKinley, “On Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Jul 2012:
glosses: A sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange.
switcheroo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌswɪt͡ʃəˈɹuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: switcheroos
form: switcherooing
form: switcherooed
form: switcherooed
form: switcharoo
Etymology: From switch + -eroo.
Senses: examples: text: Another day, the magic wind came and switcherooed Katie into a hairdresser named Sparkle.
ref: 2013, Nancy Krulik, All's Fair, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: To swap or exchange surreptitiously.
Related terms: subdititious
have a ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has a ball
form: having a ball
form: had a ball
form: had a ball
Etymology: Likely from ball in the sense of a dance.
Senses: examples: text: The kids had a ball playing in the fountain.
text: Are you hanging up a stocking on your wall? / It's the time that every Santa has a ball / Does he ride a red-nosed reindeer? / Does a ton up on his sleigh / Do the fairies keep him sober for a day?
ref: 1973, “Merry Xmas Everybody”, performed by Slade:
text: In my dreams I have a plan / If I got me a wealthy man / I wouldn't have to work at all, I'd fool around and have a ball
ref: 1976, “Money, Money, Money”, performed by ABBA:
text: His victim screams, he has a ball
The bigger the head, the harder they fall
ref: 1984, J. G. Thirlwell, “Sick Man”, in Hole, performed by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel:
text: When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' / And everybody havin' a ball
ref: 1998, “Who Let the Dogs Out”, performed by Baha Men:
text: “Well, after they retired down here, they must have had a ball ordering anything and everything.”
ref: 2002, H.H. Fuller, It's a Wrap, Writers Club Press, page 72:
text: I hope you had a ball in effacing lives!
ref: 2006, Chrigel Glanzmann, “Your Gaulish War”, in Spirit, performed by Eluveitie:
text: Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday / Today i-is Friday, Friday / We-we-we so excited / We so excited / We gonna have a ball today
ref: 2011, “Friday”, performed by Rebecca Black ft. Patrice Wilson:
synonyms: have a whale of a time
glosses: To enjoy oneself thoroughly; to have lots of fun or excitement.
Related terms: blast
field day
light infantry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light infantries
Senses: glosses: Ground combat soldiers who are not mechanized, and whose role is to harass the enemy in front of the main body of infantry.
examples: text: Our bed was a waterproof sheet on the bare stone-floors, and as the convent swarmed with fleas of all sizes, from the heavy dragoon down to the light infantry, there was no fear of a sentry sleeping on his post.
ref: 1887, Andrew A. Anderson, Twenty-five Years in a Waggon in the Gold Regions of Africa, page 59:
text: The affair began by a skirmishing of the fleas, who acted as cavalry; then came the main body of lice, followed by the light infantry of bedbugs, to the number of forty thousand.
ref: 1906, Samuel Gridley Howe, Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe, page 109:
text: What they dealt with in giving nursing care was in addition to the constant influx of lice, the “light infantry” of fleas, frequent harassment by droves of huge rats, earthquakes, the fickle weather of the Russian winter, […]
ref: 2006, Callista Roy, Dorothy A. Jones, Nursing Knowledge Development and Clinical Practice, page 46:
glosses: Bedbugs or fleas.
freeloader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːləʊdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈfɹiloʊdɚ/
Forms: form: freeloaders
form: free-loader
Etymology: From free + load + -er, originally US 1930s.
Senses: synonyms: word: free rider
word: moocher
word: bloodsucker
word: bummer
word: freeloader
word: free rider
word: gadfly
word: leech
word: mooch
word: moocher
word: parasite
word: scrounge
word: scrounger
word: scunge
word: smell-feast
word: sponge
word: sponger
word: sucker
word: trencher mate
glosses: One who does not contribute or pay appropriately; one who gets a free ride, etc. without paying a fair share.
glosses: A person who takes expired unsold merchandise from the back of supermarket premises.
Derived terms: word: freeloader fly
word: freeload
Related terms: bludger
Fla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Fla.: Abbreviation of Florida: a state of the United States.
woah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /woʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Senses: examples: text: Woah, woah, woah, I have one more question.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Read NPR's full interview with former President Donald Trump”, in Politics, NPR, retrieved 12 Jan 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of whoa.
reg.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of register.
glosses: Abbreviation of regular.
thrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrips
Etymology: Back-formation from thrips
Senses: examples: text: S.^([Stenchaetothrips]) biformis is also known as rice leaf thrip, paddy thrip, or oriental rice thrip.
ref: 1994, M. D. Pathak, Zeyaur R. Khan, Insect Pests of Rice, page 47:
text: A pair of local pests, the thrip and white fly, made their way into the greenhouse through the air vents and hitchhiked into the conservatory on plants. Without controls in place, each female thrip can reproduce 200 offspring every week.
ref: 2000, Brian McAndrew, Niagara Parks Butterflies, page 49:
text: Thrip are probably one of the hardest flies to actually see. The fecal deposits they leave on the underside of leaves are usually noticed long before the thrip itself.
ref: 2004, Wendy Doucet, A Simple Plant Guide for Beginners and Maintenance Technicians, unnumbered page:
text: Nevertheless for the sake of discussion here, I posit a situation that engages experts and uses the thrip infestation as a hypothetical case study.
ref: 2008, Raymond A. Zilinskas, “Chapter 7: Cuban Allegations of U.S. Biological Warfare: False Accusations and Their Impact on Attribution”, in Anne Clunan, Peter Lavoy, Susan Martin, editors, Terrorism, War, or Disease?: Unraveling the Use of Biological Weapons, page 154:
glosses: Optional singular for thrips, an insect of the order Thysanoptera.
haricot bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haricot beans
Senses: synonyms: haricot
common bean
pea bean
glosses: A herbaceous plant from the Americas, Phaseolus vulgaris, the bean of which is eaten as both a green bean and dried, when it is cooked slowly as Boston baked beans.
glosses: The bean of this plant.
urogenital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uro- + genital.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: genitourinary
urinogenital
urogenitary
glosses: Of, or relating to the urinary and the genital systems.
Derived terms: urogenital duct
urogenital fold
urogenital papilla
urogenital sinus
urography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: urographies
Etymology: From uro- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: Radiography of the urinary tract.
Related terms: urogram
urographic
urographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to urography.
urinary tract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urinary tracts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The continuous system involved in the production and excretion of urine; the kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and urethra.
Synonyms: urinary system
Meronyms: kidney
renal pelvis
ureter
urinary bladder
urethra
Derived terms: urinary tract infection
UTI
ureter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊəˈɹiːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ureters
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οὐρητήρ (ourētḗr).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the two long, narrow ducts that carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder.
Derived terms: ureteral
ureteric
Related terms: urethra
urokinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urokinases
Etymology: From uro- + kinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protease, found in the urine, which converts plasminogen to plasmin, and is used in the treatment of deep vein thrombosis.
urology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊəˈɹɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: urologies
Etymology: From uro- + -logy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The surgical specialty of medicine that treats disorders of the urinary tract and the urogenital system.
Coordinate terms: english: both concern the urinary tract, but nephrology specializes in the kidney's biochemical and microanatomical function
translation: both concern the urinary tract, but nephrology specializes in the kidney's biochemical and microanatomical function
word: nephrology
Related terms: urologic
urological
urologist
uropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjʊəɹəˌpɒd/
Forms: form: uropods
Etymology: From uro- (“tail”) + -pod (“foot”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: pleopod
glosses: either of the two posterior abdominal appendages of the lobster, shrimp and some other crustaceans.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: the hind part of polarized leukocytes, mostly involved in cell-to-cell interaction, cell activation and apoptosis.
Related terms: endopodite
exopodite
telson
uroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroscopies
Etymology: From uro- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the visual diagnostic examination of urine during ancient and medieval Europe
Derived terms: uroscopic
meatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miˈeɪ.təs/
ipa: /miˈeɪ.təs/
ipa: /miˈeɪˌtus/
rhymes: -eɪtəs
Forms: form: meatus
form: meatuses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).
Senses: examples: text: The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.
text: The illness. It came out of nowhere. His breathing all of a sudden started hurting the back of his throat. Then that overfull heat in various cranial meatus.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60:
text: The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus.
ref: 2012, David W. Kennedy, Peter H. Hwang, editors, Rhinology: Diseases of the Nose, Sinuses, and Skull Base, Thieme, →ISBN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ear canal
glosses: Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.
Derived terms: auditory meatus
meatal
meato-
permeate
pseudomeatus
urethral meatus
Related terms: ear canal
foramen
uroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From uroscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to uroscopy
vulviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vulva + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the shape of a vulva; like a cleft with projecting edges.