cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
-ola
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology: From Latin -ola, -ula, feminine form of -ulus, -lus (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: Used to form the names of several commercial companies and products.
topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: Used to form pejorative terms associated with commercial bribery.
glosses: Used to form humorous and pejorative words.
Derived terms: blogola
boffola
cashola
crapola
gayola
granola
hideola
Motorola
payola
pianola
plugola
Shinola
Victrola
zipola
Related terms: sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
word: Motorola
sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
word: Moviola
sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
word: Movieola
sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
english: in article on player pianos
translation: in article on player pianos
word: Pianola
sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
word: Radiola
sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
word: Shinola
sense: commercial names at Wikipedia
word: Victrola
-ola
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə
Etymology: From Latin oleum (“oil, olive oil”).
Senses: glosses: Used to form words relating to oil or oiliness
Derived terms: Mazola
canola
isoflavonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoflavonoids
Etymology: From iso- + flavonoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 3-phenyl-1,4-benzopyrone
Derived terms: homoisoflavonoid
Related terms: neoflavonoid
neoflavonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoflavonoids
Etymology: From neo- + flavonoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, isomeric with the flavonoids, derived from 4-phenyl-1,2-benzopyrone
Related terms: isoflavonoid
Victrola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪkˈtɹoʊlə/
ipa: /vɪkˈtɹəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: Victrolas
Etymology: From Victor + -ola, modeled after pianola.
Senses: examples: text: A small boy stood at the Victrola turning its handle and smiling at the sound of Bert Williams’ “Save a Little Dram for Me.”
ref: 1973, Toni Morrison, Sula, Chatto & Windus, published 1993, page 78:
text: Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell / Jimmy Rogers on the Victrola up high
ref: 1989, Christopher Ward, David Tyson, “Black Velvet”, performed by Alannah Myles:
glosses: A brand-name model of phonograph and phonograph records manufactured and sold by the Victor Talking Machine Company and later RCA Victor beginning in 1906.
meet-and-greet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meet-and-greets
form: meet and greet
Etymology: Deverbal from meet and greet.
Senses: glosses: A social gathering primarily for purposes of networking.
glosses: A method of contact between a service provider, such as a hotel collection service, or car hire provider, and the arriving client at an airport or railway station, usually involving the display of a board with the client's name written on it.
glosses: An event where fans can meet and greet an idol.
Related terms: work the room
strike plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strike plates
Etymology: So called because the latch strikes against a metal lip when the door is closed.
Senses: glosses: A metal plate affixed to a doorjamb that holds the door closed when the door bolt is extended into a hole, protecting the jamb against friction from the bolt.
Related terms: catch plate
ILY
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: related: word: ily
glosses: Initialism of I love you.
Related terms: ILYSM
IMY
🤟
Leichenhaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leichenhauses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Leichenhaus, from Leiche (“corpse”) + -n- + Haus (“house”).
Senses: examples: text: The Leichenhaus is comprised of three large chambers or salons, in which the dead are placed upon raised couches and surrounded by flowers.
ref: 1894, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, From Ponkapog to Pesth, page 35:
text: “Welcome to the Hillmont Leichenhaus,” said the attendant in a tired monotone. “Our Leichenhaus was built by the Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial, Hillmont branch. […]"
ref: 2007, John Klima, Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Hand, Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories, page 57:
text: Just be glad you're not an attendant at the Liechenhaus.
ref: 2019, Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs: Big questions from tiny mortals about death, page 42:
glosses: A heated space with an attendant, where dead bodies were kept until they showed signs of decomposition, ensuring that a live person would not be buried; a waiting mortuary.
isoionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isoionic
form: most isoionic
Etymology: From iso- + ionic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the same number of positive and negative charges
isolobal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isolobal
form: most isolobal
Etymology: From iso- + lobal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing fragments of molecules that are similar in having frontier orbitals that are equal in number and similar in size, and have the same symmetries and the same occupation by electrons.
Derived terms: isolobally
mandelbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandelbugs
Etymology: Blend of Mandelbrot + bug, in reference to the Mandelbrot set.
Senses: examples: text: Try to determine as soon as you can if this is a problem you can solve, or whether it's a mandelbug that technical support needs to look at.
ref: 1997, David Hutchinson, The Internet Workbook for Health Professionals, page 145:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software bug whose behaviour appears to be chaotic.
Related terms: bohrbug
heisenbug
schroedinbug
schrödinbug
heisenbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪzənˌbʌɡ/
Forms: form: heisenbugs
form: Heisenbug
Etymology: (ca. 1983) Blend of Heisenberg + bug. Named for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states very roughly that any attempt to measure the position of a subatomic particle will disrupt its movement, making it harder to predict.
Senses: examples: text: I recently encountered a particularly infuriating Heisenbug. A large program, when given a large input, was just mysteriously dying. Of course, I ran it under the debugger. The mystery deepened: the program returned quietly to the debugger.
ref: 1987 January 4, Don Lindsay, “More Heisen-debugs”, in RISKS Digest, volume 4, number 36:
text: Except for pointer messups in C on my side, the Heisenbugs I've come across were hardly ever caused by _me_.
ref: 1994 January 20, Heinz Wrobel, “'Heisenbugs'”, in comp.programming (Usenet), message-ID <heinz.0i4s@hwg.muc.de>:
text: There are multiple perf related issues like this that are hard to track down. They are borderline heisenbugs that are possibly race conditions, so bisecting doesn't work and even things like enablibg^([sic]) ftrace will make the issue go away (or crash ftrace itself).
ref: 2014 December 8, Vince Weaver, “Re: Linux 3.18 released”, in linux-kernel mailing list, message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.10.1412081331580.28373@pianoman.cluster.toy>:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software bug which fails to manifest itself or manifests differently during debugging.
Related terms: bohrbug
mandelbug
schroedinbug
schrödinbug
frontier orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontier orbitals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of orbitals, of two molecules or fragments, that overlap to form a bond; especially the HOMO and LUMO orbitals
bohrbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohrbugs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software bug which manifests reliably under a well-defined, but possibly unknown, set of conditions.
Related terms: heisenbug
mandelbug
schroedinbug
schrödinbug
HOMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To be consistent with the terminology for solids, for molecules, we also call the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) the VBM and CBM, respectively.
ref: 2016 April 26, Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang, “Using Wannier functions to improve solid band gap predictions in density functional theory”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, article 24924, page 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of highest occupied molecular orbital.
Related terms: LUMO
schroedinbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schroedinbugs
form: schrödinbug
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software bug which begins to manifest only when somebody debugging the code finds out that it should not work at all.
Related terms: bohrbug
heisenbug
mandelbug
LUMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LUMOs
Senses: examples: text: To be consistent with the terminology for solids, for molecules, we also call the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) the VBM and CBM, respectively.
ref: 2016 April 26, Jie Ma, Lin-Wang Wang, “Using Wannier functions to improve solid band gap predictions in density functional theory”, in Scientific Reports, volume 6, →DOI, article 24924, page 2:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of lowest unoccupied molecular orbital.
Related terms: HOMO
Heisenbug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heisenbugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of heisenbug.
isooptoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isooptoacoustic
form: most isooptoacoustic
Etymology: From iso- + optoacoustic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a point in the thermal spectrum of a system undergoing chemical reaction that does not change in intensity during the course of the reaction.
Related terms: isosbestic
conbulker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conbulkers
Etymology: Blend of container ship + bulker
Senses: glosses: A cargo ship capable of handling both containerized cargo and bulk cargo.
isorefractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + refractive.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the same refractive index
Synonyms: diaphanous
isostere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isosteres
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of molecules or ions that have the same number of valence electrons and have chemical or physical similarities. For example, SH, NH2 and CH3 are isosteres of OH.
Derived terms: bioisostere
isosteric
isosteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isostere + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to isosteres
Derived terms: nonisosteric
isosteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having constant specific volume over time or space
Derived terms: nonisosteric
Related terms: isosterism
specific volume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific volumes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The volume of unit mass of a substance; the reciprocal of density
Jahannam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəˈhæ.nəm/
/d͡ʒəˈhɑ.nəm/
Forms: form: Jehannum
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic جَهَنَّم (jahannam). Doublet of Gehenna and Gehinnom.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Islamic concept of hell, where unfaithful Muslims not true to their religion will be punished, but will eventually be forgiven.
Related terms: Jannah
Zaqqum
friendlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendly
intertwinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intertwining
intoxicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intoxicant
introverting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From introvert + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The process of turning inwards, or becoming introverted.
independent contractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independent contractors
Senses: glosses: A person working independently, under a contract; a self-employed person.
interior designer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interior designers
Senses: glosses: A home decor designer; a person in the business of interior design.
interior design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interior designs
Senses: glosses: The design of space inside of homes and buildings, such as the choice of decor and furnishings.
Derived terms: interior designer
Related terms: interior decoration
interrelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interrelation
indisposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indisposable
form: most indisposable
Etymology: From in- + disposable.
Senses: glosses: Not disposable.
Derived terms: indisposably
Related terms: indisposed
inoccupancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inoccupancies
Etymology: From in- + occupancy.
Senses: glosses: The state of having no occupants, the state of being unoccupied.
glosses: The period of time during which a property is not rented.
inoccupancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inoccupancy
asphalte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asphaltes
Senses: examples: text: And I mean by proper paving, that wood or asphalte alone should be laid down.
ref: 1879, G.-L., “Common Sense”, in The Science of Taste: Being a Treatise on Its Principles. […], London: Edward Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of asphalt.
incrustations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incrustation
interior decoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interior decorations
Senses: glosses: The decoration of the inside of homes and buildings, such as the decor and furnishings.
Related terms: interior design
ingeniosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ingeniositas.
Senses: synonyms: ingenuity
skill
cunning
glosses: The quality of being ingenious.
sailing ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailing ship
scheduler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛdjələ/
ipa: /ˈskɛdjələ/
Forms: form: schedulers
Etymology: From schedule + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or device that determines a schedule, that determines the order that tasks are to be done.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent processes or threads.
Derived terms: job scheduler
schedulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛdjələz/
ipa: /ˈskɛdjələz/
Senses: glosses: plural of scheduler
sea legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sealegs
form: sea-legs
Senses: examples: text: to get/find one's sea legs
text: Jasper would find his sea-legs in a fortnight, and a twelvemonth's v'y'ge would make him a man.
ref: 1840, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XII, in The Pathfinder: Or, The Inland Sea. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC:
text: […] and hear poor Mr Tapley, in his wandering fancy, playing at skittles in the Dragon, making love-remonstrances to Mrs Lupin, getting his sea-legs on board the Screw, travelling with old Tom Pinch on English roads, and burning stumps of trees in Eden, all at once.
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 33, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: Our passengers hailed from fifteen states; only a few of them had ever been to sea before; manifestly it would not do to pit them against a full-blown tempest until they had got their sea-legs on.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter II, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC:
text: Had a refreshing walk up and down the quarter-deck, though I have hardly found my sea-legs yet.
ref: 1884, Arthur Conan Doyle, J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement:
text: It was fortunate for the passengers that most of them had at this period of the voyage got their sea legs; otherwise walking on the slippery deck, that seemed to heave as the rolling of the vessel threw its slopes up or down, would have been impossible.
ref: 1905, Bram Stoker, The Man:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ability, when walking aboard a ship, to anticipate the motion of the deck so as to walk steadily without losing balance.
examples: text: When the ship was pitching or rolling, work would be difficult; but even then, when the Colonists get their sea-legs, and are free from the qualmishness which overtakes landsmen when first getting afloat, I cannot see why they should not engage in some form of industrial work far more profitable than yawning and lounging about the deck, to say nothing of the fact that by so doing they would lighten the expense of their transit.
ref: 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out:
glosses: The ability to travel by ship without becoming seasick.
glosses: Synonym of crabsticks.
synonyms: word: crabsticks
examples: text: So, from the Jurassic Period to today, the problems that come with being secondarily aquatic seem to have had the same kinds of solutions. And what we've learned is that it's no easy task to get your sea legs. But once you do, it's smooth sailing.
ref: 2021, PBS Eons: When Crocs Thrived in the Seas:
glosses: The ability to partially or fully inhabit a marine environment.
Related terms: land legs
input device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: input devices
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of many hardware devices that provide input (from a user or elsewhere) to a computer.
Hyponyms: joystick
keyboard
keypad
light gun
light pen
microphone
mouse
trackball
trackpad
webcam
gluteal cleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gluteal clefts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The groove between the buttocks that runs from just below the sacrum to the perineum.
Synonyms: word: anal cleft
word: gluteal sulcus
word: intergluteal cleft
word: butt crack
word: ass crack
word: buttcrack
word: crack
word: gluteal cleft
word: natal cleft
Hyponyms: word: builder's bum
word: plumber's crack
Related terms: word: buttocks
word: anus
anal cleft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anal clefts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The groove between the buttocks.
gasoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasoils
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gas oil.
diesel knock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diesel knocks
Senses: glosses: In diesel engines, a repetitive knocking sound when delayed ignition causes sudden high pressures.
jivanmukta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jivanmuktas
form: jivanmukti
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जीवन्मुक्ति (jīvanmukti, “emancipation while still alive”).
Senses: glosses: A person who, in the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism, has attained nirvikalpa samadhi — the realization of the Self, Parasiva — and is liberated from rebirth while living in a human body.
glosses: A liberated being (not necessarily paramukta).
isostilbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isostilbic
form: most isostilbic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing an isosbestic point in a spectrum that remains constant throughout a reaction
portance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle French portance (“a carrying, support”), from porter (“to carry”), from Latin portare (“carry, bear, convey”).
Senses: examples: text: […] for in court gay portaunce he perceiu'd, / And gallant shew to be in greatest gree […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The manner in which one carries oneself; behaviour.
Synonyms: english: also a dated/archaic sense
translation: also a dated/archaic sense
word: port
isotacticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotacticities
Etymology: From isotactic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being isotactic
glosses: The extent to which a polymer is isotactic
isovalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isovalent
form: most isovalent
Etymology: From iso- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a form of hyperconjugation in which there are contributions from different degrees of bonding between a pair of atoms.
Derived terms: isovalently
fault plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fault planes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The plane, or surface formed between the two rock blocks that slip one with the other during an earthquake. The edge of the fault plane can often be seen on the land as a fault line.
kephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kephalins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cephalin.
ketoaldonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keto- + aldonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the ketoaldonic acids
lineic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French linéique. Introduced to English by International Standards Organization (ISO) in 1992 in ISO 31 (Quantities and units).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to length; especially used to describe a measurement per unit length.
Related terms: areic
massic
volumic
lipopolysaccharide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipopolysaccharides
Etymology: From lipo- + polysaccharide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a large class of lipids conjugated with polysaccharides
Derived terms: antilipopolysaccharide
lithometeor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithometeors
Etymology: From litho- + meteor.
Senses: glosses: A suspension of dry dust etc. in the atmosphere.
Related terms: hydrometeor
lyase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyases
Etymology: From lyo- + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many classes of enzyme that catalyze the breaking of a specific form of bond
Derived terms: acetatelyase
endolyase
exolyase
hydrogenlyase
lactoylglutathione lyase
pectate lyase
photolyase
lyate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyates
Etymology: From ly- + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any anion formed by removal of a hydron (proton) from a solvent molecule.
Related terms: lyonium
lyonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyoniums
Etymology: From lyo- + -n- + -ium.
Senses: glosses: Any cation formed by addition of a hydron (proton) to a solvent molecule
Related terms: lyate
lyophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyophobic
form: most lyophobic
Etymology: From lyo- (“solvent, dispersion”) + -phobic (“having aversion to”), from Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to loosen, to dissolve”) + φόβος (phóbos, “fear”) + Latin -icus.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having no affinity for the dispersion medium and thus easily precipitated.
raw_tags: of a colloid
Synonyms: lyophobe
failure rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: failure rates
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour.
macromonomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macromonomer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to macromonomers.
article of extraordinary value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: articles of extraordinary value
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: A transported item with a value exceeding 100 USD per imperial pound.
Synonyms: AEV
magnetizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetizabilities
Etymology: From magnetize + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being magnetizable
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A measure of the extent to which something is magnetizable; specifically the tensor quantity relating the induced magnetic moment to the applied magnetic flux density
mancunide
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: mancude
overhead projector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overhead projectors
Senses: examples: text: The reality is that the typical classroom teacher still uses a blackboard and chalk. Indeed, despite the excitement over high-tech devices, most classroom equipment is decidedly low-tech: small-screen television sets, mimeograph machines, monaural phonograph record players, overhead projectors with grease pencils, 16-millimeter projectors, reel-to-reel tape players, filmstrip projectors.
ref: 1992 August 2, Peter H. Lewis, “Low-Tech Renewal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: OHP
glosses: A projector that projects an image over the heads of the viewers onto a screen in front of them.
Related terms: document camera
film projector
slide projector
oblongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblong
oblongs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oblong
country of provenance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countries of provenance
Senses: qualifier: international trade
glosses: The country from which goods were shipped.
CIF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cost, insurance and freight.
CIF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It was rekindled this summer when going through the all-time football scores for St. Mary’s of Stockton and Oakdale (two of the top programs in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section) and I discovered that both of them can still count their worst losses as being to Stockton High at 78-0 and 90-0, respectively.
ref: 2015 October 1, Mark Tennis, “State’s Greatest Closed High Schools”, in Cal-Hi Sports:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of California Interscholastic Federation.
DAF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DAFs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Delivered At Frontier.
glosses: Acronym of delayed auditory feedback.
glosses: Acronym of donor-advised fund.
DAF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of daf (“dumb as fuck”).
DAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Dutch Automobile Federation.
DAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French DAF (“Dictionnaire de l’Académie française”).
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Dictionnaire de l’Académie française.
DAF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German DAF (“Deutsche Arbeitsfront”).
Senses: examples: text: Keen to avoid civil unrest and thus give the Americans a pretext to take it back, French authorities allowed Stuttgart’s antifascists considerable leeway in dismantling the Nazi-era German Labor Front (DAF), rebuilding shop-floor organization in the factories, and organizing the population in cross-party antifascist alliances.
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: The German Labour Front.
DDU
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Delivered Duty Unpaid.
EXW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Ex Works.
INCOTERM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INCOTERMs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Incoterm.
home-grown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more home-grown
form: most home-grown
form: homegrown
Senses: examples: text: Our neighbours brought us some beautiful home-grown tomatoes.
glosses: Having been grown in one's home garden, etc., rather than in a larger agricultural production.
examples: text: We not only have to cultivate our home-grown talent better, but we also need to stimulate the flow of talent into our country.
ref: 2007, John Kao, Innovation Nation: How America is Losing Its Innovation Edge, why it Matters., page 228:
text: Beyond the mere existence of a dictionary, what is required is the acceptance of the notion of a home-grown standardised variety in the language community itself.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115:
glosses: Having been produced locally.
droughty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaʊti/
ipa: [ˈdɹʌʊɾi]
rhymes: -aʊti
Forms: form: droughtier
form: droughtiest
form: drouthy
Etymology: From drought + -y.
Senses: examples: text: From habit the sheep would head for the river, but, though it was early spring, the winter had been droughty, and the river was only a string of dangerous water-holes.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 268:
glosses: Lacking rain.
examples: text: thou muſt / With taſteleſs Water waſh thy droughty Throat.
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book II”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 52:
glosses: Dry; thirsty.
Derived terms: droughtiness
drought-tolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drought-tolerant
form: most drought-tolerant
Senses: examples: text: Some of the best drought-tolerant trees are bur oak, Texas red oak, Texas ash, cedar elm, Eve's necklace, chinkapin oak, and Lacey oak.
ref: 2003, Howard Garrett, Dear Dirt Doctor: Questions Answered the Natural Way, University of Texas Press, page 109:
glosses: Able to survive long periods of time without rain.
Synonyms: drought-resistant
grind to a halt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grinds to a halt
form: grinding to a halt
form: ground to a halt
form: ground to a halt
Etymology: From windmills. To stop a windmill from turning too quickly, such as during a strong gust of wind, excess corn would be poured between the grinding stone (top stone) and the nether stone (bottom stone). The extra pressure would cause the stones to slow down or literally "grind to a halt", and thereby stop the windmill from turning.
Senses: examples: text: Work on the new high-rise ground to a halt as contractors tried to deal with all the red tape.
text: After the visionary's death, work on his ideas ground to a halt.
text: But to no avail - the suburban (Sunday) service ground to a halt, with only 20 of the 268 motormen turning up for work on Boxing Day [1949]. Kempton Park races lost 10,000 visitors, with the cancellation of 12 extra race day trains.
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: To come to a standstill, or cease to be productive or make progress, due to an obstacle.
raw_tags: of an activity
ground to a halt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grind to a halt
uncapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + capped.
Senses: examples: text: I struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermillion
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow.
ref: 1876, Alfred Austin, The Human Tragedy, page 255:
glosses: Not capped (in various senses); not wearing or possessing a cap.
examples: text: "And I see over here you have buckets of honey you have gathered. It is uncapped, and liquid."
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 110:
glosses: Of honey, not having been sealed by bees with a wax cover in the cell.
examples: text: there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid.
ref: 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian:
text: The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped.
ref: 2024 July 24, Guardian sport, “Who are football’s most expensive uncapped players?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.
uncapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From uncap + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncap
caolinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caolinites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kaolinite.
polygamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygamist
publishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of publish
sherries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherry
animateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animateurs
Etymology: From French animateur.
Senses: examples: text: As an animateur you seek out a social circle to which to belong, whether or not it is entirely of your own making.
ref: 1989, Ronnie Lessem, Global Management Principles, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 612:
text: If an animateur is seeking to change their psychological point of view, this will mean re-organizing their defence system as part of the process of transformation.
ref: 1999, Steve Mitchell, “Reflections on Dramatherapy as Initiation through Ritual Theatre”, in Ann Cattanach, editor, Process in the Arts Therapies, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Animateurs are indeed shifting subjects, resisting classification or belonging. Being an animateur is frequently a temporary status, a transitional experience that may or may not lead to acquiring financial or cultural capital. Often equipped with technical skills, animateurs are frequently students or self-taught animators, who may or may not be on their way to becoming professionals.
ref: 2020, Paola Voci, “Alternative ways of seeing: Post-digital detours in Chinese cinema”, in Song Hwee Lim, Julian Ward, editors, The Chinese Cinema Book, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 264, column 1:
glosses: One who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature.
Related terms: animatrice
transistorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transistorisation
Etymology: From transistor + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of transistorizing; the transition from the use of vacuum tubes to the use of semiconductor transistors.
bum rap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum raps
Senses: examples: text: . . . going over the top of the wall of the Trenton prison, where I was sent on a bum rap.
ref: 1918 October 7, “Hun Talk”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, page 17:
glosses: A false accusation, or an injustice, especially one that leads to imprisonment.
examples: text: Orthopedic surgeon Robert Marx, with New York's Hospital for Special Surgery, says that findings from the current study should not give arthroscopic knee surgery a bum rap.
ref: 2008 September 10, Patti Neighmond, “Study: Arthroscopic Surgery Provides Few Benefits”, in National Public Radio, retrieved 24 Mar 2009:
glosses: An undeservedly unfavorable portrayal or reputation.
Synonyms: sense: bad reputation
word: bad rap
video laryngoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video laryngoscopes
Senses: glosses: A laryngoscope fitted with a video camera placed at a point on the blade which provides a direct view of the larynx. Light is provided to illuminate the larynx, and the video information is displayed on a monitor.
kaftans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaftan
laggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: laggier
form: laggiest
Etymology: From lag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Gasoline prices usually show a laggier response to crude-oil price reduction than to crude-oil price increases.
glosses: Having a delayed response to a change in the factors influencing it.
examples: text: I've given up trying to play on that laggy server.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: Tending to lag, or respond slowly because of network latency.
Derived terms: lagginess
orientating response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orientating responses
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An animal's response to a stimulus in which the animal moves in a way that allows it to better evaluate the nature of the stimulus. It can then better respond to danger through "fight or flight".
rod-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rod-shaped
form: most rod-shaped
Senses: examples: text: Walk-through detectors designed to spot guns, knives and other flat and rod-shaped weapons cost almost £5,000 each.
ref: 2008, The Observer, 20 Jan 08:
text: In western Nevada at the southern end of Lake Winnemucca a rod-shaped atlatl with weight and engaging hook still attached was discovered around 1961.
ref: 1999, Paul Campbell, Survival Skills of Native California, page 309:
synonyms: veretilliform
glosses: Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.
examples: text: Anthrax goes through two very different stages in its life cycle. One is a microscopic rod-shaped bacterium called bacillus anthracis, easy to grow in the lab but fragile and easily killed in the open.
ref: 2001, The Guardian, 10 Oct 01:
text: S. pombe is a rod shaped organism, and during its cell cycle it grows mostly in length with little change in diameter.
ref: 1981, PCL John, The Cell Cycle, page 86:
text: The rod-shaped E. coli phages share a common host range with the RNA-containing E. coli phages, a coincidence which probably unites unrelated viruses.
ref: 1965, “Small Bacteriophages”, in Advances in Virus Research, volumes 1-11, pages 343–4:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: veretilliform
glosses: Shaped like a rod; long and cylindrical.
Describing a form of bacterium shaped like a rod; bacilliform.
hold one's water
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds one's water
form: holding one's water
form: held one's water
form: held one's water
Senses: examples: text: […] and if there is much oozing of blood, the application of ice to the penis. The patient is then instructed to hold his water as long as possible.
ref: 1877, Shirley Bragg MD, “Structure of the Male Urethra, with Report of Cases,”, in Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 14, pages 645–6:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: hold it
glosses: To restrain one's urge to urinate.
examples: text: Hold your water, I'll get to you in a minute.
text: "C'mon, move it! Get your ass in gear!" […]
"Hold your water!" Stiehl yelled back. "I'm writing farewell letters."
ref: 2011, Thomas Swan, chapter 1, in The Da Vinci Deception: An Inspector Jack Oxby Novel, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: abide
word: back that train up
word: bide
word: bide one's time
word: expect
word: defer
word: hang on
word: hold on
word: hold one's breath
word: hold one's horses
word: hold one's water
word: hold out
word: mark time
word: stand by
word: stay
word: twiddle one's thumbs
word: wait
glosses: To be patient; to control one's impulses.
Related terms: hold water
hold my beer
metoecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metoecious
form: most metoecious
Etymology: From met- + -oecious.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heteroecious.
synonyms: word: heteroecious
heteroecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteroecious
form: most heteroecious
form: heterœcious
form: heteroicous
Etymology: From hetero- + -oecious.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: heteroecismal
heteroxenous
metoecious
metoxenous
antonyms: autoecious
glosses: Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.
Derived terms: heteroeciously
mix it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mixes it up
form: mixing it up
form: mixed it up
form: mixed it up
Senses: examples: text: He would have felt like an irate ticket-holder at a prize-fight where the principals refused to mix it up.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 2, in This Side of Paradise:
glosses: To compete vigorously, to quarrel, or to fight physically.
examples: text: And Carl hasn't really been mixing it up with the fans.
ref: 1933, Robert Collins, The Convention:
text: Q. What is her impact right now on the Republican Party, and does it bother you?
A. She's a star. Why--it doesn't bother me. I mean, she is out there mixing it up, she's conveying her views, she's animating people to come forward and participate in the political process.
ref: 2010 Meet the Press interview with Colin Powell, speaking of Sarah Palin
text: This one's more business. You don't have the time to travel. You don't have the time to, ah, mix it up.
ref: 2015 BBC interview by Jon Sopel with Barack Obama, 24 July. Answer to a question about his trip to Kenya
glosses: To engage with people, relate to people; to enjoy oneself with others.
examples: text: Indeed, why not try mixing it up even more by adding a completely different deer vocalization to the mix, or maybe more, to make the woods come alive with the sounds that deer make?
ref: 2002, Kathy Etling, The Art of Whitetail Deception, →ISBN, page 95:
glosses: To create one or more variations of the usual way in which something is done.
Related terms: in the mix
mix up
electrolocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + location.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: the ability of an animal to detect an object by its distortion of the animal's electric field, as in the electric fishes such as the electric eel.
qualifier: cybernetics
glosses: the ability of a robot to locate an object by detecting changes in its electric field.
Related terms: electrolocate
Dragon Boat Festival
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Dragon Boat Festival
Etymology: Calque of Chinese 龍船節 /龙船节 (Lóngchuánjié) or 龍舟節 /龙舟节 (Lóngzhōujié), an alternative name for 端午節 /端午节 (Duānwǔjié) from the races traditionally held on that day in southern China, now popularly connected with the legend of townspeople racing to throw zongzi into the Miluo River to preserve the body of the Chu poet and statesman Qu Yuan.
Senses: examples: text: Behind the Dragon Boat Festival is the tragically heroic story of a famous Chinese poet and statesman of ancient times, Chu Yuan, who ended his life by jumping into a river. His reason: he was not able to save his country, which he saw heading toward destruction.
ref: 1977 June 19, T. K. Yang, “Dragon Boat Festival Honors famed statesman-poet”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 24, Taipei, page 2:
text: In the folk tradition, rites, festivals, and myths began an early accretion around an apotheosized Ch'ü Yuan. The most famous of these, the Dragon Boat Festival (Tuan-wu chieh), takes place on the summer solstice, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, ostensibly to search for Ch'ü Yuan's body.
ref: 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: A Chinese holiday on Duanwu, the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar
Synonyms: word: Double Fifth
word: Double Fifth Festival
word: Duanwu
word: Duanwu Festival
word: Dumpling Festival
word: Tuen Ng Festival
rap sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rap sheets
Etymology: From RAP (“record of arrest and prosecution”) + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: Three counts of breaking and entering, four counts of assault, seven misdemeanors for carrying illegal substances, and a partridge in a pear tree,” Paul finished with a smirk, handing the rap sheet to Mason.
ref: 2012, David Ylhainen, Second Sons:
text: Seeking a new approach, he applied for an editor position at the Earth First! Journal, an environmental newsletter in Eugene, Ore. His application included a copy of his rap sheet; he was hired immediately.
ref: 2022 May 26, Matthew Wolfe, “The Rise and Fall of America’s Environmentalist Underground”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
synonyms: word: history sheet
glosses: A printed police record of an individual's citations, arrests, convictions, and incarcerations, usually in a single jurisdiction.
Related terms: charge sheet
Boot Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Every few days some unfortunate was buried on Boot Hill, a victim of his own inexpertness with the six-shooter.
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 13, in A Man Four-Square:
text: Where have all the TV Westerns gone? A genre once adored by viewers lies dead, but not forgotten, in television's Boot Hill.
ref: 2008 May 23, Gail Pennington, “'60s upheaval shot down Westerns”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, retrieved 08 Jun 2008:
glosses: Name used for many cemeteries in the American Old West; nickname for any cemetery.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The position of short leg.
Synonyms: cemetery
Neumann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Munroe-Neumann effect
Neumann effect
Neumann's gazelle
Neumann's hartebeest
von Neumann
von Neumann neighborhood
von Neumann neighbourhood
von Neumann stability analysis
mal du pays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French mal du pays
Senses: glosses: homesickness
mal de mer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French mal de mer (literally “sickness of sea”).
Senses: glosses: seasickness
incontiguous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnkənˈtɪɡjuəs/
rhymes: -ɪɡjuəs
Forms: form: more incontiguous
form: most incontiguous
Etymology: From in- + contiguous.
Senses: examples: text: Alaska and Hawaii are incontiguous with the rest of the United States.
glosses: Not contiguous; separate.
Derived terms: incontiguously