cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hominization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hominizations
form: hominisation
Etymology: From Latin homo (“human being”) + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: The professional way to begin a study of the origins of human culture is to begin at the beginning with a discussion of hominization.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 8:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The process of becoming like a human.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The beginning of human life, or of a deity's life in human form.
anthropization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropisation
Etymology: From anthrop- + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The transformation or adaptation of the environment to meet the needs of humans, or by human activity.
Related terms: anthropize
anthropocene
anthropomorphism
anthropisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anthrop- + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anthropization.
haal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahwaal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hal (“Sufi state of consciousness”).
uliginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /juːˈlɪd͡ʒɪnəs/
Forms: form: more uliginous
form: most uliginous
Etymology: From Latin ūlīginōsus (“swampy”).
Senses: examples: text: [In] water ſtrongly boiled […] the Seeds are extinguiſhed by fire and decoction, and therefore laſt long and pure without ſuch alteration, affording neither uliginous coats, gnatworms, Acari, hair-worms, like crude and common water; […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 179:
glosses: Slimy.
glosses: Marshy, swampy, waterlogged.
examples: text: The uliginous lacteous Matter, taken notice of by that diligent and ingenious Botaniſt, P[aolo] Boccone, in the Coral Fiſhings upon the Coaſt of Italy, was only a Collection of the Corallin Particles thus ſuſtained in the Sea Water, hovering about and applying it ſelf to the Corallin Shrubs and Pori, for their Growth and Enlargement.
ref: 1729, J[ohn] Woodward, “Introduction to Class V. Of the Marine Corals.”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], tome I, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, page 118:
text: Ranunculus Lapponicus, L. Uliginous or subaquatic, fibrous-rooted, with entire or merely denticulate or crenulated and petiolate leaves.
ref: 1886, Asa Gray, Contributions to American Botany. A Revision of the North American Ranunculi:
glosses: Growing in muddy places.
Synonyms: alt: slimy
word: lubricous
word: slimish
word: sludgy
word: viscous
sense: marshy, swampy
word: boggy
word: quaggy
word: wiery
word: marshy
consumer price index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPI
Senses: examples: text: The latest consumer price index (CPI) figures—which measure a broad range of goods and services—showed prices rising by a monthly rate of 0.3% in April, down from 1.2% in March, the first fall since August 2021.
ref: 2022 May 11, Dominic Rushe, “US inflation rate slows but remains close to 40-year high”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.
Coordinate terms: sense: statistical estimate
word: producer price index
sense: statistical estimate
word: Retail Price Index
promote to Glory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: promotes to Glory
form: promoting to Glory
form: promoted to Glory
form: promoted to Glory
Senses: examples: text: On the night when she was 'Promoted to Glory' by the metal chariot of a teenage drunkard, she was yet full of love for the Salvation Army, for God and for mankind.
ref: 2004, John H. Watson, Christians Observed: Narratives for Today's Church, page 20:
glosses: To cause to die
raw_tags: of a Salvationist
anthropize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anthropizes
form: anthropizing
form: anthropized
form: anthropized
form: anthropise
Etymology: From anthrop- + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To transform or adapt the environment either to meet the needs of humans, or by human activity.
examples: text: In his speculations about the phylogenies of the apes, Reynolds rests his conclusions upon standard but insecure evidence and premature interpretations, and he occasionally anthropizes living apes; for example (p. 126) "maniacal calls of groups of chimpanzees ..."
ref: 1968, American Scientist, volume 56, page 490:
glosses: To anthropomorphize.
Derived terms: misanthropize
Related terms: alt: anthropisation
word: anthropization
word: anthropocene
word: anthropomorphism
gerbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɜː(ɹ)b/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: gerbes
Etymology: Late 16th century, borrowed from French gerbe (“sheaf”). Doublet of garb.
Senses: glosses: A (wheat) sheaf.
glosses: Something resembling a (wheat) sheaf in appearance.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An abstract construction in homological algebra and geometry providing a certain type of generalisation for a sheaf.
examples: text: on the top of the post fix a gerbe; then clothe all the cases with leaders , so that both they and the gerbe may take fire at the same time
ref: 1835, Frederick Bruhl, The Complete Art of Making Fireworks:
qualifier: pyrotechnics
glosses: A kind of ornamental firework.
death by cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaths by cop
Senses: glosses: Synonym of suicide by cop.
synonyms: word: suicide by cop
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see death, by, cop.
suicide by cop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicides by cop
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Taylor called the police, at which point Alexander grabbed a butcher knife from the kitchen, saying he would commit “suicide by cop.” […] When the police arrived, Alexander Taylor charged at them holding the knife. He was shot and killed.
ref: 2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: copicide
death by cop
SbC
glosses: A suicide in which a person points a firearm at an armed police officer to provoke them to shoot.
dynamicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dynamic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The dynamicity of the dataset makes it difficult to keep accurate.
glosses: The condition of being dynamic
scurvy grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scurvy grasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scurvy-grass (Cochlearia spp.)
360-degree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Covering all 360 degrees of a circle.
examples: text: In the public sector, we have not really created 360-degree accountability. It is more like 360-degree harassment.
ref: 2001, Robert D. Behn, Rethinking Democratic Accountability, Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: Implement a 360-degree system regularly.
ref: 2002, Manuel London, Leadership Development: Paths to Self-insight and Professional Growth, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 155:
text: The overall grade is a compilation of input from these sources. Thus it provides a true 360-degree view of the officer evaluated.
ref: 2006, Thomas X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century, Zenith Imprint, →ISBN, page 238:
glosses: Comprehensive; incorporating all points of view.
examples: text: The dressing room had a 360-degree mirror.
text: Thanks to vans with 360-degree cameras that have taken photos every five metres in cities...
ref: 2007 May 28, Patrick Barkham, “Mapping the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Able to turn freely about an axis.
Derived terms: 360 degree feedback
terraforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəfɔːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Almarcrux's abundant water and relatively mild temperature and gravity have placed it on the short list of terraforming candidate worlds. However, there is significant opposition from eco-ethics groups, who assert that Almarcrux's primitive methanotrophic bacteria may be a precursor to a full-fledged native ecology.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Almarcrux planetary description:
glosses: The hypothetical process of deliberately modifying the atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology of a planet, moon, etc. to make it similar to those of Earth and thus suitable for human life.
Synonyms: planetary engineering
terraformation
Hypernyms: forming
Hyponyms: paraterraforming
Coordinate terms: geoengineering
pantropy
terraforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəfɔːmɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of terraform
alary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.lə.ɹi/
Forms: form: more alary
form: most alary
Etymology: From Latin alarius, from ala (“wing”).
Senses: examples: 1658: the Butterfly bloomes of leguminous plants, the lower leaf closely involving the rudimental Cod, and the alary or wingy divisions embracing or hanging over it. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 205)
glosses: Pertaining to wings.
Chechnya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛtʃ.ni.ə/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɛtʃ.ɲi.ə]
Forms: form: Chechenia
form: Chechneya
form: Chechnia
form: Chechniya
Etymology: From Russian Чечня́ (Čečnjá, “[place] of the Chechens”), derived from Kabardian.
Senses: glosses: A republic and federal subject of Russia, in the northern Caucasus. Official name: Chechen Republic. Capital: Grozny.
Derived terms: Chechnyan
Related terms: Chechen
un-reactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more un-reactive
form: most un-reactive
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unreactive.
microsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsite
veneficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more veneficial
form: most veneficial
Etymology: From venefice.
Senses: examples: text: Why the Goddesses sit commonly crosse-legged in ancient draughts, Since Juno is described in the same as a veneficial posture to hinder the birth of Hercules?
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 213:
text: […]
3. The chanting, canting, or calculating witch, who works by signs and numbers.
4. The veneficial or poisoning witch.
5. The exorcist or conjuring witch.
ref: 1963, Rossell Hope Robbins, The encyclopedia of witchcraft and demonology, page 545:
text: […] utilization of parasitic and predacious insects for the control of crop insect pests. It is expected to find in the tropics many veneficial insects […]
ref: 1964, Nature and Life in Southeast Asia, volumes 3-4, page 393:
glosses: Poisonous or poisoning; pertaining to poison; malignant, sorcerous.
pipe up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pipes up
form: piping up
form: piped up
form: piped up
Senses: examples: text: "You seem to have a lot to say," remarked Silver, spitting far into the air. "Pipe up and let me hear it, or lay to."
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: Once I asked a seventeen-year-old singer something that wasn't on the list, which caused her manager to pipe up: "That wasn't what we agreed on. She doesn't have to answer that."
ref: 1994, Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance:
text: As we rolled into our fourth week, I found myself piping up with some of my own stories.
ref: 2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:
glosses: To speak up, especially in a robust, assertive manner; to say something loudly and suddenly.
examples: text: [T]he frogs in a neighboring marsh began to pipe up for the evening concert.
ref: 1871, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 12, in Little Men: […], Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:
text: But presently the gray dawn stole over the world, the birds piped up, then the sun rose and poured light and comfort all around.
ref: 1907, Mark Twain, chapter 16, in Chapters from My Autobiography:
glosses: To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument.
examples: text: Once, for ten minutes, the sun shone at midday, and ten minutes afterward a new gale was piping up.
ref: 1911, Jack London, “Make Westing”, in When God Laughs and Other Stories:
glosses: To begin to blow more vigorously.
raw_tags: of wind
examples: text: Yet beyond turning my blood cold for a moment, it gave me little trouble, for evil tales have hung about the church; and though I did not set much store by the old yarns of Blackbeard piping up his crew, yet I thought strange things might well go on among the graves at night. And so I never budged, nor stirred hand or foot to save a fellow-creature in his agony.
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: To call, awaken, or summon, as with a musical instrument.
storebought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From store + bought.
Senses: examples: text: He served a box of storebought cookies for dessert.
glosses: Purchased from a store, rather than cooked or prepared manually.
Synonyms: shopbought
amphidromical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amphidromical
form: most amphidromical
Etymology: From Amphidromia + -ical.
Senses: examples: 1658: If any shall doubt why at the Amphidromicall Feasts, on the fifth day after the Childe was born presents were sent from friends, of Polipusses, and Cuttle-fishes? — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 213)
glosses: Pertaining to the Amphidromia.
cuirassier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cuirassiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French cuirassier, see below.
Senses: examples: text: His vision was secular: the high priests 'will wear impressive robes'; the Herzl army would boast cuirassiers with silver breastplates;
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 449:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cavalry soldier equipped with a cuirass (armor).
Coordinate terms: cavalryman
dragoon
hussar
lancer
trooper
uhlan
yeoman
evolutionarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more evolutionarily
form: most evolutionarily
Etymology: From evolutionary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner relating to evolution or slow development.
examples: text: The basic tool for work in evolutionary game theory is the notion of an evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS).
ref: 1998, Larry Samuelson, Evolutionary Games and Equilibrium Selection:
text: It is a commonplace in psychology that higher animals are evolutionarily equipped to recognize various facial expressions, postures, gestures, and voice tones as indicative of future behavior.
ref: 2003, Gilles Fauconnier, Mark Turner, The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities:
text: Third, more intelligent individuals stay healthier and live longer than less intelligent individuals possibly because they are better able to recognize and deal effectively with evolutionarily novel threats and dangers to health in modern society.
ref: 2008, Anthony Walsh, Kevin M.Beaver, editors, Biosocial Criminology: New Directions in Theory and Research:
qualifier: domain; evolutionary theory; domain; evolutionary theory
glosses: From the perspective of evolution.
Derived terms: coevolutionarily
evolutionarily stable strategy
microevolutionarily
a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: /ə ˈspuːnfəl əv ˈʃʊɡə(ɹ)ˌhɛlps ðə ˈmɛdɪsɪn ɡoʊ ˌdaʊn/
Forms: form: a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
Etymology: From the Sherman Brothers' 1964 song "A Spoonful of Sugar".
Senses: examples: text: One is known as the "sweetening parable," that is to say a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Thus, when the aim is to preach to the people, to guide them along the "bitter," arduous path of upholding burdensome precepts and prohibitions, a tale can lighten the load, make the "medicine" easier "to swallow."
ref: 1999, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 372:
text: It put some fun into the tedious business of preparing for a presidential debate. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, right?
ref: 2001, Maureen Reagan, First Father, First Daughter: A Memoir, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 319:
text: 2004, John Hoover, How to Work for an Idiot: Survive & Thrive... Without Killing Your Boss, Career Press, →ISBN, page 11,
If a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, a barrel of laughs can wash down the big pills you might need to swallow.
glosses: An otherwise unpleasant situation can be pleasant when a pleasant aspect is deliberately introduced.
Related terms: sugarcoat a bitter pill
trinomial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -nomial.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of three names or parts or terms.
trinomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinomials
Etymology: From tri- + -nomial.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An expression consisting of three terms.
Hypernyms: polynomial
conundra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conundrums
Senses: examples: text: 1992, Steve Chan and Cal Clark, Flexibility, Foresight, and Fortuna in Taiwan's Development, Routledge, →ISBN, page 11,
We present below the major policy paradoxes or conundra indicated by such research and theorizing.
text: A woman at U. Cal–Irvine had earned tenure with an essay arguing that the reason-versus-no-reason debate about what was unentertaining in Himself's work illuminated the central conundra of millennial après-garde film, […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 947:
text: Indeed, in the Cartesian view, the inability to draw an appropriate connection between the mental and the physical results in both metaphysical and epistemological conundra: the mind-body problem, the problem of knowledge of the external world, and the problem of other minds.
ref: 2000, Willem A. DeVries, Timm Triplett, Knowledge, Mind, and the Given, Hackett Publishing, →ISBN, page xlv:
text: Rey is worried about conundra involving epiphenomenalism, zombies and such, and to avoid them he wants to reduce phenomenal consciousness to the computational.
ref: 2007, Ned Block, Consciousness, Function, and Representation, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 218:
text: Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra.
ref: 2011, Terry Pratchet, Snuff, page 28:
glosses: plural of conundrum
conundrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conundra
Senses: glosses: plural of conundrum
passager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passagers
Etymology: Apparently from passage + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He understood that once Cully had slept in freedom for a whole night he would be wild again and irreclaimable. Cully was a passager. But if the poor Wart could only mark him to roost, and if Hob would only arrive then with a dark lantern, they might still take him that night by climbing the tree, while he was sleepy and muddled with the light.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A bird in its first year.
passagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passager
egg wash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg washes
form: eggwash
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Egg (yolk and/or white) mixed with a little milk; brushed on pastry before baking to give a glazed appearance.
albumens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albumen
tote bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tote bags
Senses: glosses: A large handbag or holdall.
wikipedia: Miami
made hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: made hands
Senses: examples: text: John already had two pair, aces and threes; he had a made hand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A poker hand which is already a strong hand regardless of which cards come in later rounds.
made hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of made hand
drawing hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawing hands
Senses: examples: text: John only had four cards of the same suit; he had a drawing hand.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A poker hand which requires some specific cards on later rounds in order to become a strong hand.
drawing hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawing hand
albumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 3^(rd.) The confluence of the albumina of several sacks into one albumen.
ref: 1847, George Luxford, Edward Newman, The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany, page 980:
text: 1. In the same manner as there exists an Anaemia, from diminution of the proportion of blood-globules, we ought equally to admit a peculiar pathological state, distinguished by lowering of the number of albumina in the serum.
ref: 1853: A COLLABORATIVE WORK — AUTHORSHIP UNCERTAIN, The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy, page 408
text: 1983: Dr. Patrick Frank of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovoth (Israel), the Jerusalem Post, 13ᵗʰ day of June edition; quoted in:
text: “A sound theory about the origin of man has to explain how an antibody specially composed to react on an albumen of a certain species also reacts on similar albumina of closely related animals and that the intensity of the reaction gradually decreases in creatures which differ more and more from these animals.”
ref: 1999, A J Vroman, On God, Space, and Time, page 125:
glosses: plural of albumen
G-note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: G-notes
Etymology: From G (a grand, one thousand dollars)
Senses: examples: text: It seems that the President [...] hit the till for a few G-notes for the love of a blue-eyed brunette with a record of seven convictions as a prostitute.
ref: 1957, William Frank Buckley, National Review, volume 3, page 282:
text: Satch took receipt of his two G-notes at a propitious moment.
ref: 2000, Mark Ribowsky, Don't look back: Satchel Paige in the shadows of baseball, page 168:
text: My tight-skirted kitten pressed two G-notes into my hand. "Please, Mr. Monroe. I don't know where else to turn."
ref: 2002, Julie Kenner, Nobody But You:
glosses: A one-thousand dollar banknote.
Related terms: C-note
ghost island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost islands
Etymology: From ghost + island.
Senses: topics: road
transport
glosses: An area of road surface marked with cross hatching as a means of separating traffic or reducing speed, or to provide a safe area to turn right across approaching traffic.
Synonyms: sense: area of road surface marked with cross hatching
word: channelization island
sense: area of road surface marked with cross hatching
word: theoretical gore
sense: area of road surface marked with cross hatching
word: neutral area
neverland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neverlands
Etymology: From Never + land. The term was most famously used in J.M. Barrie's Book, Peter Pan, as the name of the fictional island that the Darling children visit with the title character. Compare Utopia, which is semantically Ancient Greek οὐ (ou, “not, no”) + τόπος (tópos, “place, region”).
Senses: glosses: An ideal or imaginary place; a dreamworld.
wikipedia: J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
Related terms: dreamworld
dreamland
fantasy land
La-La Land
never-never land
carcinomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcinomatoses
Etymology: From carcinomato- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The widespread presence of carcinomas that have metastasized throughout the body.
impeccability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impeccabilities
Etymology: From impeccable + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being impeccable.
impecuniousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impecunious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: To my partner, thank you for putting up with my grumpiness, my impecuniousness and my constant need for validation while researching this dark topic.
ref: 2020, Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/8915/thesis_access.pdf?sequence=1
glosses: The property of being impecunious.
impenitence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impenitences
form: impænitence
form: impænitency
form: impenitency
form: impœnitence
Etymology: From Late Latin impaenitentia.
Senses: antonyms: penitence
glosses: the property of being impenitent, of lacking penitence, of not being regretful of wrongs done
play down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays down
form: playing down
form: played down
form: played down
Senses: examples: text: The essay attempts to play down the role slavery had in the Civil War.
text: The senator played down the threat of a recession.
text: During the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, Miguel played down his immigrant status by removing Chicano patois from his speech and adopting the nickname "Mike."
text: Reports that the project is in trouble have been circulating for many months and have been played down by officials.
ref: 2019 October, Dan Harvey, “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in Modern Railways, page 8:
glosses: To make or attempt to make something seem less important, likely, or obvious.
Synonyms: sense: make to seem less important
word: de-emphasize
sense: make to seem less important
word: downplay
Derived terms: downplay
inarticulateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inarticulate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being inarticulate, of lacking articulateness.
inanimateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inanimatenesses
Etymology: From inanimate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being inanimate.
inartistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inartistic
form: most inartistic
Etymology: From in- (negative prefix) + artistic.
Senses: examples: text: my inartistic flings at pottery
ref: 1990 April 21, Elizabeth R. Brown, “It Was A Woman Who Killed Her”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Lacking in artistic ability.
glosses: Not done in an artistic style.
Derived terms: inartisticality
inartistically
inartisticness
inattentiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inattentive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being inattentive.
inaudibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inaudibilities
Senses: glosses: The property of being inaudible.
Synonyms: silence
quietness
imprinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imprinters
Etymology: From imprint + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that imprints.
glosses: A person who does imprinting with such a device.
examples: text: This would be unlikely with a very rapid imprinter such as a duckling or a chick, but mammals tend to become socialized more slowly.
ref: 2009, Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo, page 101:
glosses: An organism that imprints, or forms an attachment.
incestuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From incestuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incestuous manner.
inciter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inciters
Etymology: From incite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Someone put those disrespectful imbeciles up to what they did! And I want that inciter in custody else I’ll do what I did in the war, else I’ll show every single one of you why they call me Tuvy!’
ref: 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 369:
glosses: One who incites.
inclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusivenesses
Etymology: From inclusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being inclusive; inclusivity
interlope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interlopes
form: interloping
form: interloped
form: interloped
Etymology: Early 17th century, likely back-formation from interloper. Alternatively, directly formed as inter- + lope (“leap, jump”) – literally “to jump in”.
Senses: glosses: To intrude, meddle, or trespass in others' affairs.
Related terms: interlopation
interloper
play it safe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays it safe
form: playing it safe
form: played it safe
form: played it safe
form: play safe
Senses: examples: text: Deciding to play it safe, he joined his father's accounting firm rather than pursue an acting career.
antonyms: play big
go all in
glosses: To take a cautious, risk-free approach.
Related terms: hedge one's bets
on the safe side
risk-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: riskfree
Etymology: From risk + -free.
Senses: examples: text: While no investment is risk-free, some have less risk involved than others.
glosses: Free from or devoid of risk; safe.
high-powered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-powered
form: highest-powered
Senses: glosses: Possessing great physical or political power.
glosses: Vigorous and energetic.
glosses: Capable of great magnification.
raw_tags: of an optical instrument
glosses: Of a caliber or power that exceeds the typical threshold.
raw_tags: of a weapon
lightfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪtfæst/
Forms: form: more lightfast
form: most lightfast
Etymology: From light + fast. Compare Icelandic litfast (“colourfast”).
Senses: examples: text: Verdigris is lightfast in oil paint, as numerous examples of fifteenth-century paintings show.
text: Some ink-and-paper combinations are more lightfast than others, and the resulting prints are more fade-resistant.
ref: 2004, Peter K. Burian, Masteringdigital Photography and Imaging, page 75:
text: Tara, a gallotannin, is often quoted as being the most lightfast vegetable tannin and makes very pale coloured leather.
ref: 2009, Anthony Covington, Tony Covington, Tanning Chemistry: The Science of Leather, page 286:
text: The blue, or cyan, is the most lightfast ink used in the printing process, so it lasts the longest. That blue, incidentally, is the phthalocyanine blue pigment.
You can easily test to determine whether any material is lightfast.
ref: 2010, Sherry Stone Clifton, Anita Marie Giddings, Pastels For Dummies, unnumbered page:
glosses: Resistant to fading.
Synonyms: sense: resistant to fading
word: nonfading
sense: resistant to fading
word: unfadeable
sense: resistant to fading
word: colorfast
Hypernyms: sunfast
Derived terms: lightfastness
high-speed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-speed
form: highest-speed
form: high speed
Senses: examples: text: Dead-man's handle, automatic train stop, quick-acting compressed-air brake specially suited for high-speed working, and regenerative braking are among the features of the new locomotives.
ref: 1947 March and April, “Swiss High-Speed Electric Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 94:
text: Less important lines of plain double track carrying a mixture of passenger and freight traffic cannot be given ultra-fast expresses, and where alternative routes exist, as for example between London and the West Riding, the specially high-speed trains must be restricted to one of them only.
ref: 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67:
text: A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
ref: 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
text: In retrospect, it was small wonder that Railtrack found its finances under pressure, as with ever increasing demand there was an inevitable effect on infrastructure renewals. Matters came to a head with the Hatfield accident on October 17 2000, when there was a high-speed derailment as a result of deferred track maintenance.
ref: 2024 January 10, 'Industry Insider', “Success built on liberalisation and market freedom”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 69:
antonyms: low-speed
glosses: That operates, moves or takes place at a greater than normal speed.
Derived terms: high-speed rail
high-speed steel
high speed steel
clivus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklaɪvəs/
Forms: form: clivi
Etymology: Derived from Latin clīvus (“slope, hill”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Part of the cranium at the skull base, a shallow depression behind the dorsum sellae that slopes obliquely backward.
glosses: A road ascending a slope in Ancient Rome.
Derived terms: clival
Related terms: client
climate
climax
clinic
clinoid
decline
incline
recline
woolly bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly bears
form: wooly bear
Senses: glosses: A hairy caterpillar.
glosses: A hairy caterpillar.
The larva of a moth of the family Arctiidae.
examples: text: As Bourne came out, he could see shells exploding by the dump, with some shrapnel bursting, woolly-bears they called them, overhead.
ref: 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 236:
text: ‘A Woolly Bear was used for demolition, and could be compared with our 5.9's. It burst on impact, made a big hole and left a tremendous cloud of black smoke.’
ref: 2000, Harold A Skaarup, Whiz Bangs and Woolly Bears, page 12:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An explosive shell that gives out dense smoke when it bursts.
Synonyms: woolly worm
woolly worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly worms
form: wooly worm
Senses: glosses: The larva of a moth of the family Arctiidae.
Synonyms: woolly bear
cleido-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌɪ.də(ʊ)/
ipa: /klaɪ.doʊ/
ipa: /klaɪ.də/
Forms: form: cleid-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “a key; the collarbone”) + -o-.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the clavicle.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a key.
break water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks water
form: breaking water
form: broke water
form: broken water
Senses: glosses: To lose one's amniotic fluid a.k.a. water, usually during the last phases of pregnancy.
glosses: To rise up partially out of the water when swimming underwater.
Related terms: breakwater
rise up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rises up
form: rising up
form: rose up
form: risen up
Senses: synonyms: upheave
glosses: To ascend to the surface.
examples: text: Captain Anderson: Shepard's right. We're headed for war with the Reapers. If we lose, it's the end of all life as we know it. And no other species in the galaxy truly understands what it will take to survive.
Captain Anderson: The other races have to follow our lead. We need to take control. It's time for humanity to rise up and seize its destiny!
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: To mount a rebellion or insurgency; to rebel; to revolt.
glosses: To rear.
raw_tags: of a horse etc
Related terms: uprise
puerpera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuˈɜː.pə.ɹə/
ipa: /pjuˈɝ.pəɹ.ə/
Forms: form: puerperas
form: puerperae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin puerpera (“woman in labor or childbed”), substantive of puerperus (“parturient, bringing forth children”), from puer (“child, boy”) + pariō (“to bring forth, bear”) + -us (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I saw a very serious hemorrhage result from relaxation of the uterus on the eleventh day when the puerpera had been frightened by a domestic quarrel.
ref: 1918, Joseph Bolivar De Lee, Principles and practice of obstetrics, page 813:
text: Since one of the principal reasons for keeping the puerpera in a recumbent posture is avoidance of strain upon relaxed and weakened supporting structures by a large heavy uterus, the length of the stay in bed is not made a matter of routine
ref: 1934, Karl Mathias Beierlein, Pamphlets and Reprints, page 350:
text: A statistically significant circadian rhythm for urine volume was revealed in 6 of 10 pregnant women in the first trimester and in 6 of 9 puerperas on the 7th puerperal day.
ref: 1984, Erhard Haus, Hugh F. Kabat, editors, Chronobiology 1982-1983:
text: Abdominal ultrasound of the puerpera usually does not require a full bladder, because the enlarged uterus directly abuts the anterior abdominal wall and can be scanned without difficulty.
ref: 2011, Eberhard Merz, “Ultrasound in the Puerperium”, in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, volume 1, page 39:
topics: medicine
obstetrics
sciences
glosses: A woman undergoing puerperium; a woman whose uterus is still enlarged from pregnancy.
examples: text: An often proved Remedy to bring away what is, or should not be left in the Womb of a Puerpera, though it were Part of a dead Child.
ref: 1731, Robert Boyle, Medicinal experiments, volume 3, page 6:
text: "I must acknowledge, if Kolletschka's disease and the disease from which I saw so many puerperae die, are identical, then in the puerperae it must be produced by the self-same engendering cause, which produced it in Kolletschka."
ref: 1860, Henry E. Brady, David Collier, quoting Ignaz Semmelweis, Rethinking Social Inquiry: Diverse Tools, Shared Standards, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 224:
text: Among the ancient Iranians, the puerpera, like the menstruating woman, was regarded as "unclean".
ref: 1885, Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, translated by Eric John Dingwall, Woman: an historical, gynæcological and anthropological compendium, page 150:
text: With the exception of the very nearest, — for instance, the husband and the mother of the puerpera, — visitors should be kept away until she has been out of bed for a few days, and even then admitted only in small numbers and one at a time.
ref: 1907, Henry Jacques Garrigues, A Text-book of the science and art of obstetrics, page 243:
glosses: A woman who has recently given birth.
Derived terms: puerperal
as you wish
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: - So, you will work till 8 tomorrow, then?
- As you wish.
glosses: A formal expression of agreement to something, especially with the connotation that one does not really agree.
Synonyms: sense: accept while withholding agreement
word: as you like
as you like
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: - So, we'll buy the green one, then?
- As you like.
text: "Oh," he said, "so you're Conrad, are you? It strikes me the thickness of my skull was lucky for you too. When I look at you I feel it's almost a pity I've enabled you to cheat the hangman."
The man snarled, and the bearded man said quietly:
"He would have run no risk of that."
"Just as you like," replied Tommy. "I know it's the fashion to run down the police. I rather believe in them myself."
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:
glosses: Expressing unenthusiastic consent.
Synonyms: as you wish
as you like
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: So he walks in, calm as you like, and demands all the money from the till.
text: But the weird thing was, there was no working-out at all — just the sum, with that brackety thing with the line on top, and the answer written up above it, tidy as you like.
ref: 2012, V M Jones, Beyond the Shroud:
synonyms: as you please
glosses: To any extent or degree.
merrythought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɹɪθɔːt/
Forms: form: merrythoughts
Etymology: From merry + thought, traditionally explained with reference to the pleasant thoughts imagined when the bone is ritually broken.
Senses: examples: text: One puts yᵉ merrithought on his nose (slightly) like a paire of spectacles, and shakes his head till he shakes it off his nose.
ref: 1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 93:
text: All Birds want the Channel-bones in the Breast, instead whereof they have a bone, which we call the Merry thought.
ref: 1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, Chester, Book 2, Chapter 13, p. 307:
text: Mrs. Knipp. (picking up from Ming's plate the merrythought on which her eye has just fallen, and holding it up). A merrythought. Who will pull this merrythought with me ? Nay (as they all lean forward), 'tis an affair of two not four. (They draw back simultaneously, eying each other sheepishly when Mrs. KNIPP laughs at their confusion).
ref: 1906, William Price Drury, Richard Pryce, A Privy Council: A Comedy in One Act, page 22:
glosses: The wishbone or furcula.
high-toned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-toned
form: most high-toned
Senses: examples: text: A robber is more high-toned than what a pirate is—as a general thing. In most countries they’re awful high up in the nobility—dukes and such.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 272:
text: Maybe real estate developers with friends on the City Council have wanted to convert Hennepin Avenue, where the Locker Room and the bookstores are located, into a higher-toned entertainment district.
ref: 1979 December 29, Rick Hillegas, “Minneapolis Raid Nets 125 Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 3:
text: New American Library took an atypically high-toned approach to illustrating the Signet edition of William's Streetcar Named Desire, using a painting by acclaimed social realist Thomas Hart Benton.
ref: 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 14:
glosses: Having a pretentious, high-class attitude
palpebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpal.pɪb.ɹəl/
ipa: /pælˈpi.bɹəl/
rhymes: -ælpɪbɹəl
rhymes: -iːbɹəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin palpebrālis (“of or on the eyelids”), from palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to palpebra + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located on or near the eyelids.
Synonyms: blepharal
Derived terms: acousticopalpebral
auriculopalpebral
auropalpebral
capsulopalpebral
cochleopalpebral
interpalpebral
intrapalpebral
macropalpebral
medial palpebral artery
oculopalpebral
palpebral fissure
palpebro-
retropalpebral
subpalpebral
transpalpebral
palpebral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpal.pɪb.ɹəl/
ipa: /pælˈpi.bɹəl/
rhymes: -ælpɪbɹəl
rhymes: -iːbɹəl
Forms: form: palpebrals
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin palpebrālis (“of or on the eyelids”), from palpebra (“an eyelid”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent to palpebra + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: A dermal bone found near the eye socket of some animals.
hit-skip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hit-skips
form: hit-skipping
form: hit-skipped
form: hit-skipped
Senses: examples: text: […] hit-skipping, speeding, driving while intoxicated, crashing red lights, driving the wrong way on one-way streets […]
ref: 1962, Traffic Safety, volumes 60-61, page 26:
synonyms: hit and run
glosses: To flee (as the driver) from the site of a motor vehicle accident without reporting it to the police or emergency services.
hog-wild
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hog-wild
form: most hog-wild
Senses: glosses: Enthusiastic or excited to a foolish or irrational extent.
homelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homelike
form: most homelike
Etymology: From home + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the comfortable characteristics of a home.
Derived terms: homelikeness
unhomelike
homemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homemakings
form: home-making
Etymology: From home + making.
Senses: glosses: The management of a household considered as an occupation.
Related terms: homemaker
household arts
househusband
housewife
housekeeping
farmwife
hookey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʊki
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hooky.
glosses: A game in which rings are thrown at a board having numbered hooks.
Derived terms: play hookey
Related terms: Blind Hookey
Hookey Walker
horror-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horror-stricken
form: most horror-stricken
Senses: glosses: Horror-struck.
horror-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horror-struck
form: most horror-struck
form: horrorstruck
Senses: examples: text: At sight of these strange, swift, and terrible creatures, the crowd along by the water's edge seemed to me to be for a moment horror-struck.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 99:
synonyms: horror-stricken
glosses: Horrified so as to be overwhelmed or incapacitated.
houseboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsbɔɪ/
Forms: form: houseboys
form: houseboi
form: house boy
form: house-boy
Etymology: From house + boy (“young male; (historical or offensive) non-white male servant regardless of age”).
Senses: examples: text: House servants are usually either Chinese or Tamil, the former predominating, especially in towns of any size. The domestic staff will in general consist of a houseboy (in large establishments two houseboys), a water carrier (tukang ayer), whose duties include washing dishes and preparing baths, a cook, a gardener, a chauffeur or sais, and perhaps an ayah (if Chinese, amah) or two, according to the size of the family.
ref: 1935, Ralph Lionel German, Handbook to British Malaya, 1935, [London]: [R. L. German]: Obtainable from the Malay Information Agency, Waterlow and Sons, →OCLC, page 50:
text: A married man with a family of three living in a private house will require in most cases a cook, houseboy, an amah (female servant) for washing and ironing, a second amah to take care of small children or infants, and one or possibly two gardeners depending on the size of the lot. A syce (chauffeur) is optional in each individual case. Cooks, houseboys, and amahs are usually Chinese, while gardeners and chauffeurs are Malay.
ref: 1949, Office of International Trade with Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, International Reference Service, volume 6, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 64:
coordinate_terms: housegirl
housemaid
glosses: A young male domestic servant, especially in a British colony in former times.
glosses: A non-white adult male domestic servant.
Hyponyms: word: Chinaboy
Related terms: house slave
pseudoureas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudourea
gyppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyppos
form: gyppoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gippo.
gasification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasifications
Etymology: From gas + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The action of gasifying.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of transforming carbon-based materials into a mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen that can serve as fuel.
Derived terms: biogasification
degasification
hydrogasification
pyrogasification
regasification
Related terms: boiling
coal gas
gasworks
sublimation
syngas
gasifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gasify