cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslævə/
enpr: slăvʹər
ipa: /ˈslævɚ/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)
enpr: slāʹvə
ipa: /ˈsleɪvə/
enpr: slāʹvər
ipa: /ˈsleɪvɚ/
ipa: /ˈslævə/
enpr: slăvʹər
ipa: /ˈslævɚ/
rhymes: -ævə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slavers
Etymology: From slave (“enslave, traffic in slaves”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The continued fight between abolitionists and slavers in Missouri caused slave owners to refuge slaves to the Confederate interior. But some Union forces that made salients into rebel territory insisted that the slaves were “contraband” […]
ref: 2013, John Christgau, Incident at the Otterville Station: A Civil War Story of Slavery and Rescue, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
glosses: A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.
A white slaver; a person who sells prostitutes into sexual slavery.
examples: text: The Gulnare was a fast sailer, built for a slaver originally[.]
ref: 1887, Mrs. Dominic D. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 14:
text: Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 10:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship used to transport slaves.
slowmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slowmatches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slow match.
fire station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire stations
Senses: glosses: The building where firefighters and fire trucks/fire engines are housed when not answering an alarm.
Synonyms: fire barn
firehouse
fire house
fire hall
slow match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow matches
form: slowmatch
Senses: glosses: A slow-burning fuse used to ignite a matchlock musket or fire a cannon.
small-scale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smaller-scale
form: smallest-scale
form: small scale
Etymology: From small + scale.
Senses: examples: text: small-scale aspects of fluid dynamics
synonyms: microlevel#Adjective
micro#Adjective
antonyms: large-scale#Adjective
macrolevel#Adjective
macro#Adjective
glosses: Concerning a lower order of magnitude rather than a higher one.
examples: text: small-scale business operations
antonyms: large-scale#Adjective
coordinate_terms: local
mom-and-pop
regional
glosses: Having a modest scope or extent.
examples: text: a small-scale inset orienting the viewer, implying "you are here"
antonyms: large-scale#Adjective
glosses: Drawn or constructed at a small size (at low scale), without much detail.
Related terms: scale model
scale modeler
smells and bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the use of incense and altar bells.
Senses: glosses: The characteristics of the Anglo-Catholic or "high" Anglican Church.
Angelus bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angelus bells
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: a bell rung to show the time when the Angelus should be recited.
altar bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: altar bells
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A bell rung at significant times during the Mass.
snack bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnækbɑɹ/
ipa: /ˈsnækbɑː/
Forms: form: snack bars
form: snackbar
form: snack-bar
Senses: glosses: A small restaurant serving light meals.
glosses: A counter in some other establishment having the same function.
glosses: A bar-shaped snack, such as a chocolate bar.
Related terms: concessions stand
snaphaan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaphaans
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch snaphaan.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A flintlock.
Related terms: snaphance
sneak thief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneak thieves
form: sneakthief
Etymology: From sneak + thief. Compare Danish snigtyv (literally “sneak thief”).
Senses: examples: text: […] travelling gangs of Moorish artisans, heavy armed Templars on their way to the Sepulchre, wandering minstrels, sneakthieves, bawds, rowdy strings of knights and foot-soldiers setting out with wine-skins at their saddlebows to cross the passes towards the debatable lands of Extremadura, […]
ref: 1922, John Dos Passos, “Antonio Machado: Poet of Castile”, in Rosinante to the Road Again, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A thief who steals without being noticed and without using violence.
sneered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪə̯d/
ipa: /snɪɹd/
ipa: /snɪə̯ɹd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sneer
snowshoe rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowshoe rabbits
Senses: glosses: Synonym of snowshoe hare.
synonyms: word: snowshoe hare
snowshoe hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowshoe hares
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A North American hare (Lepus americanus) that has large, furry feet; its fur is white in winter and brown in summer.
Synonyms: snowshoe rabbit
Derived terms: snowshoe hare virus
snuffled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snuffle
softhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more softhearted
form: most softhearted
form: soft-hearted
Etymology: From soft + hearted.
Senses: glosses: Gentle; kind; sympathetic.
glosses: Easily moved to sorrow or pity.
glosses: Willing to accept criticism.
Related terms: softboy
softy
honey do list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey do lists
form: honeydew list
form: honey-do list
Etymology: From "Honey, could you do...", punning on honeydew.
Senses: glosses: A collection of requests, usually a list of household tasks assigned by a partner.
compote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpəʊt/
ipa: /ˈkɒmpɒt/
ipa: /ˈkɑmpoʊt/
Forms: form: compotes
form: compot
form: compôte
Etymology: Borrowed from French compote. Doublet of composite, compost, and kompot.
Senses: glosses: A dessert made of fruit cooked in sugary syrup.
glosses: A dish used for serving fruit.
Sonjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Batemi
glosses: A Bantu ethnic group of Tanzania.
Sonjo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Temi
glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
honey-do list
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey-do lists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of honey do list.
soon to follow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Expected, or promised to arrive or be produced in the near future.
soothingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soothingly
form: most soothingly
Etymology: From soothing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a soothing manner.
sopor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊpə/
ipa: /ˈsoʊpɚ/
rhymes: -əʊpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sopors
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sopor (“sleep”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An unnaturally deep sleep.
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soured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sour
soured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soured
form: most soured
Senses: glosses: That has become or been made sour.
Derived terms: soured cream
soured milk
soured cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soured creams
form: sour cream
Senses: glosses: A cream that has been soured and thickened by using Lactobacillus bacteria; used in soups, salads and meat dishes such as beef Stroganoff.
Synonyms: crème fraîche
video card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video cards
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of hardware installed into a personal computer to allow it to send video signals to an external output device such as a monitor or projector.
Synonyms: display adapter
graphics accelerator card
graphics adapter
graphics card
video adapter
video board
video display board
Related terms: 3d-card
spasmodically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spasmodically
form: most spasmodically
Etymology: From spasmodic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a spasmodic manner; intermittently.
Synonyms: sporadically
discontinuously
spats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæts/
rhymes: -æts
Etymology: Clipping of spatterdashes.
Senses: coordinate_terms: gaiter
glosses: A stiff legging worn over the instep and ankles of a shoe.
glosses: A similar device for horses.
antonyms: feather
feathers
feathering
horsefeathers
glosses: Long hair on front of lower legs of heavier horses (over the hooves), especially draft horses, notably the Clydesdale breed.
glosses: form-fitting shorts covering the waist to mid- or lower thigh usually worn for athletic situations, compression shorts
spats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæts/
rhymes: -æts
Etymology: Clipping of spatterdashes.
Senses: glosses: plural of spat
spats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spæts/
rhymes: -æts
Etymology: Clipping of spatterdashes.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spat
specialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speciality
speech impediment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech impediments
Senses: glosses: Synonym of speech disorder.
synonyms: word: speech disorder
speech disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speech disorders
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any mental or bodily malfunction that makes expressing oneself by speech difficult.
spendest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: spend + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of spend
Related terms: spendeth
spime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spaɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: spimes
Etymology: Coined by Bruce Sterling in 2004, as a blend of space + time.
Senses: examples: text: Critically, from an environmental point of view, product disposal can be controlled because of the spime's history. Armed with the complete log of its birth and life, the spime can be destroyed, dismantled and recycled efficiently.
ref: 2008, Ian J. Taylor, Andrew Harrison, From P2P and Grids to Services on the Web: Evolving Distributed Communities, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 346:
glosses: An object that could be remotely tracked through space and time.
cocksure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cocksure
form: most cocksure
form: cock-sure
Etymology: Probably from cock + sure, early 16th c.
Senses: examples: text: I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.
ref: 1716, Alexander Pope, letter to the Earl of Burlington:
text: The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.
ref: 1906, John Galsworthy, “preface”, in The Man of Property:
text: These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, “XXIII”, in Main Street:
text: Cocksure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly – which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.
ref: 1954, Bertrand Russell, History as an Art, page 197:
text: “What's this? You sending the little guy to private school?” “Yeah, we're thinking about it.” “Oh. Well, you better add Helen Country Day School to the list 'cause you're talking to an HCD grad right here.” “Really? Well, there you go. That's where the boy shall go.” “Yeah, I can help you with that. I happen to be very tight with the headmaster.” “Don't you think that's a rather hasty decision?” “Sean went there, and look how he's turned out.” “Right.” “Tuck his trousers in and everything. No, I've never been more cocksure of any decision in my life.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (7:15 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: Too confident; overconfident.
Derived terms: cocksurely
cocksureness
victorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victories
Senses: examples: text: Hieronimo, it greatly pleaſeth vs, / That in our victorie thou haue a ſhare, / By vertue of thy vvorthy Sonnes exployt.
ref: c. 1587 (date written), [Thomas Kyd], The Spanish Tragedie: […] (Fourth Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for T[homas] Pauier, […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I:
text: VVhy ſo: then am I ſure of Victorie. Novv therefore let vs hence, and loſe no hovvre, / Till vvee meet VVarvvicke, vvith his forreine povvre.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 164, column 1:
text: Fortune and victorie ſet on thy helme.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
text: [S]uffering for Truths ſake / Is fortitude to higheſt victorie, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1460–1461:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of victory.
kinsfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinsfolks
Etymology: From Middle English kynsefolke, after kynnesman (modern English kinsman), equivalent to kin + -s- + folk.
Senses: examples: text: When you become a great man, you meet kinsfolk you never knew you had.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 399:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kinfolk.
Related terms: kinsman
kinswoman
photocopying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocopyings
Senses: examples: text: The forms became almost illegible after multiple photocopyings.
ref: 1995, Sarah J. Mahler, American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins, page 168:
glosses: The process by which photocopies are made.
Derived terms: antiphotocopying
photocopying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of photocopy
photocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photocopy
photocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of photocopy
First World War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the First World War
Senses: examples: 1920, Charles à Court Repington, title of book The First World War.
glosses: World War I.
Related terms: Second World War
Third World War
feis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: feiseanna
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish feis.
Senses: glosses: An Irish festival, usually including folk music, dancing, and sports.
glosses: An Irish gathering at which new laws were decreed, as well as folk music, dancing, and sports.
Related terms: Fèis
the Scottish equivalent
and eisteddfod
the Welsh equivalent
Central Powers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Central Powers
Senses: glosses: The countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) and Bulgaria, all of whom fought against the Allies in World War I.
sticharion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticharions
form: sticharia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek στιχάριον (stikhárion).
Senses: examples: text: a little band of marchers displays Greek Orthodox outfits, the rhason and sticharion, the epitrachelion and the epimanikia, the sakkos, the epigonation, the zone, the omophorion; they brandish icons and enkolpia, dikerotikera and dikanikion.
ref: 1972, Robert Silverberg, “Thomas the Proclaimer”, in Sailing to Byzantium, Agberg Ltd., published September 2000, page 232:
text: The sticharion, which is held by the zone, or girdle, corresponds to the alb.
ref: 1998, Encyclopaedia Britannica CD 98 Multimedia Edition:
glosses: The outer clerical garb worn by clergy in the Greek Orthodox Church, corresponding to the alb in Latin-Rite Catholic Churches.
Coordinate terms: alb
epigonation
epimanikion
epitrachelion
maniple
mitre
omophorion
rhason
sakkos
zone
spinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinettes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of spinet (“musical instrument”).
splenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspliːnɪk/
ipa: /ˈsplɛnɪk/
ipa: /ˈsplinɪk/
ipa: /ˈsplɛnɪk/
rhymes: -iːnɪk
rhymes: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more splenic
form: most splenic
form: splenike
form: splenick
Etymology: From Latin splēnicus, from Ancient Greek σπληνικός (splēnikós, “of the spleen”).
Senses: examples: text: The Liuer by the splenike branch, transferreth them to the Serjeant of the scullery the Splene.
ref: 1619, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrim: Microcosmus, Or the Historie of Man:
glosses: Of, related to, or located near the spleen.
Synonyms: lienal
lienic
Derived terms: endosplenic
gastrosplenic
hepatosplenic
hyposplenic
intrasplenic
pancreaticosplenic
perisplenic
phrenicosplenic
postsplenic
splenical
splenic artery
splenic fever
splenic flexure
splenic plexus
splenic pulp
splenic sinus
splenic vein
splenic vessel
subsplenic
Related terms: spleen
spleno-
splenosis
sprauncy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sprauncier
form: spraunciest
Senses: glosses: smart and showy
squandermania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squander + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: A third statement which appeared April 15 in a Communist Chinese newspaper "Red Guard" disclosed serious corruption, theft and squandermania among Communist cadres.
ref: 1975 May 25, “Turmoil on mainland”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 20, Taipei, page 3:
glosses: Excessive expenditure by a government on a supposedly prestigious project.
Related terms: squandermaniac
squinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squint
squirmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squirm
stableman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stablemen
Etymology: From stable + -man.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.
ref: 1851, Harry Hieover, The Pocket and the Stud, page 93:
glosses: A person employed to take care of horses in a stable.
stage mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage mothers
Senses: glosses: The mother of a child actor.
Hakka
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑkə/
homophone: haka
Etymology: From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Hakka (Kejia, 客家 (Kèjiā)), an ethnic group of the Han Chinese.
Hakka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑkə/
homophone: haka
Forms: form: Hakkas
Etymology: From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).
Senses: glosses: A person of Hakka descent.
Hakka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑkə/
homophone: haka
Etymology: From Hakka 客家 (Hak-kâ).
Senses: examples: text: The first county centre gone through, that of Tsengcheng, was full of new construction. After it, the language on the road right on into the Meihsien prefecture was Hakka.
ref: 1977 May, Rewi Alley, “Meihsien—the Great Hakka Centre”, in Eastern Horizon, volume XVI, number 5, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
text: We passed through a large Hakka town (Hakka is a Chinese language, one of the three official languages in Taiwan; more on that in later posts) and then began to pitch and roll through a series of white-knuckling switchbacks up Hsinchu County Road 22.
ref: 2011 April 28, John MacMillan, “A day in Cingcyuan”, in a tiny revolution (Blog), archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024:
text: As a mainland China national, the counter for our trial was fluent in English, Putonghua, and the Sichuan dialect, and was familiar with a number of other major Chinese languages such as Cantonese and Hakka.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
glosses: A Chinese language mainly spoken in the south-eastern part of mainland China (Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Guangxi), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by the Chinese minorities in Southeast Asia.
Synonyms: word: Hakkanese
sense: from Mandarin
word: Kejia
sense: from Hokkien
word: Khek
advertiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈædvɚˌtaɪzɚ/
Forms: form: advertisers
Etymology: From advertise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
glosses: One who advertises.
glosses: A periodical in which advertisements can be published by individuals.
preload
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preloads
form: preloading
form: preloaded
form: preloaded
Etymology: From pre- + load.
Senses: examples: text: My computer came preloaded with wordprocessor software.
synonyms: foreload
preinstall
glosses: To load in advance (used especially in reference to software installed on a computer prior to sale).
examples: text: That nightclub is so expensive. Let's preload at your flat.
synonyms: pregame
pre-drink
glosses: To drink (cheaper) alcohol at home before going out socially.
preload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preloads
Etymology: From pre- + load.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The end diastolic pressure that stretches the right or left ventricle of the heart to its greatest geometric dimensions under variable physiologic demand.
examples: text: The preload itself should be tightened gradually. Many older threadless headsets suspend their preload bolts within soft plastic caps; they sink right through easily enough.
ref: 2008, Sam Tracy, Roadside Bicycle Repair, Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, page 55:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The internal application of stress to certain mechanical systems.
Related terms: afterload
foreload
pot-pourri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-pourris
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of potpourri.
predeterminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predeterminisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French prédéterminisme, equivalent to pre- + determinism or predetermine + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that all events that occur have already been determined.
Related terms: determinism
predestination
predetermined
Bumblefuck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: East Bumblefuck
form: West Bumblefuck
Etymology: Variant of bumfuck (“isolated, backwards location; literally, anal intercourse”), replacing vulgar (in this context) bum (“buttocks”) with gentler, more humorous bumble (“move clumsily”).
Senses: examples: text: Rives jumped to his feet, the veins bulging from his temples. "I can have you on a C-130 to Bumblefuck by this afternoon, Sergeant. You're not messing with the sheriff's daughter here. The Crown Prince of Thailand already hates the US..."
ref: 2002, Derek Hart, Tales of the Yellow Silk,, page 153:
text: "What the fuck were you doing with your crazy fucking family out in the middle of west bumblefuck Pennsylvania?"
ref: 2005, Loren Stone, Bait, search:
glosses: An isolated or backward location; the middle of nowhere.
Synonyms: word: See: Thesaurus:remote place
alt: BFE
word: Bumfuck, Egypt
Related terms: bumfuck
Bumfuck, Egypt
BFE
prisonhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prisonhouses
Etymology: From prison + house.
Senses: glosses: The main building of a prison.
firing squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firing squads
Senses: synonyms: firing party
glosses: A group of soldiers or paramilitaries detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral.
Derived terms: circular firing squad
footsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footsies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of footsie.
force de frappe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French, literally, “striking force”.
Senses: glosses: The French nuclear deterrence force developed by Charles de Gaulle.
forced march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced marches
Senses: examples: text: I did not believe this possible because of the distance and the condition of the roads, which was bad; besides, troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through.
ref: 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, chapter 28, in Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant^(http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=327093481&tag=Grant,+Ulysses+S.+(Ulysses+Simpson),+1822-1885.:+Personal+memoirs+of+U.S.+Grant,+Volume+I,+1885&query=forced+march&id=GraPers):
text: [M]any of their leaders could not yet wholly believe that Jackson and his army, making a forced march in the dead of winter, were at hand.
ref: 1914, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 4, in The Scouts of Stonewall:
text: American and Filipino prisoners from the fall of Corregidor in 1942 were refused food and water on a six-day, 97-km forced march to their place of confinement at Camp O'Donnell.
ref: 2001 June 24, Howard Chua-Eoan, “War of the Worlds”, in Time, retrieved 08 Aug 2013:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A movement on foot by soldiers or prisoners of war, who must, in order to satisfy a military requirement, travel at a speed or in adverse conditions that would normally tire them excessively.
Related terms: loaded march
death march
just march
foreign minister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreign ministers
Senses: synonyms: word: FM
hypernyms: word: person
glosses: The cabinet official in charge of relationships with foreign nations.
Related terms: english: UK equivalent
translation: UK equivalent
word: Foreign Secretary
english: US equivalent
translation: US equivalent
word: Secretary of State
smoke test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoke tests
Senses: glosses: A test for leaks involving blowing smoke into a tube or pipe.
glosses: A preliminary test on a newly-constructed piece of electronic equipment, consisting simply of the application of electrical power, to make sure that no egregious wiring errors exist which would cause the circuitry to emit smoke, catch fire, explode, etc.
coordinate_terms: sniff test
smell test
nose test
;
sanity check
sanity test
reality check
glosses: Such an initial test on some other (not necessarily electronic) system, such as a computer program, again, not to perform any exhaustive tests of functionality, but simply to make sure that the system will not catastrophically fail on activation.
glosses: A test to make sure that theatrical smoke will not set off the smoke alarms in a building.
smoke test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smoke tests
form: smoke testing
form: smoke tested
form: smoke tested
Senses: glosses: To perform any of the above tests.
fornicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ).nɪ.keɪ.tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: fornicators
form: fornicatour
Etymology: From Middle English fornicatour, from Medieval Latin fornicātor.
Senses: examples: text: Know yee not that the vnrighteous ſhall not inherite the kingdome of God? Be not deceiued: neither fornicatours, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abuſers of themſelues with mankinde, Nor theeues, nor couetous, nor drunkards, nor reuilers, nor extortioners, ſhall inherit the kingdom of God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, column 1:
text: (As for) the fornicatress and the fornicator, flog each of them, (giving) a hundred stripes, and let not pity for them detain you in the matter of obedience to Allah, if you believe in Allah and the last day, and let a party of believers witness their chastisement.
ref: 1917, Maulana Muhammad Ali (translator), Qu’ran 24:2
coordinate_terms: adulterer
glosses: An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.
Related terms: word: fornicatress
word: fornicatresses
word: fornicatrix
word: fornicatrices
sniff test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniff tests
Etymology: The figurative sense is a metaphorical extension from the literal sense.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: reality check, sanity check, sanity test
text: but does it pass the sniff test?
text: but it doesn't pass the sniff test
synonyms: smell test
nose test
coordinate_terms: smoke test
glosses: An informal check of an idea or proposal, using one's common sense or sense of propriety.
synonyms: smell test
nose test
qualifier: literal
glosses: An inspection of an object using the sense of smell, as for freshness of food or cleanliness of clothing.
sniff test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniff tests
Senses: examples: text: The most reliable radiographic maneuver to detect paradoxical movement is the sniff test, consisting of rapidly repeated inspirations through the nostrils during fluoroscopy.
ref: 1995, Charis Roussos, The Thorax: Disease, page 1771:
glosses: A fluoroscopic medical test during which the examinee is asked to "sniff" (quickly breathe in through the nose); diaphragm fluoroscopy.
unqualified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unqualified
form: most unqualified
Etymology: From un- + qualified.
Senses: examples: text: His lack of a high school diploma renders him unqualified for the job.
text: An obvious characteristic of a kakistocrat is inserting unqualified loyalists into positions of power. Nepotism and kakistocracy go hand-in-hand.
ref: 2024 November 17, Howie Klein, “A Plurality Of American Voters Have Embraced Kakistocracy As Their Preferred Form Of Governance”, in DownWithTyranny, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2024:
synonyms: ineligible
nonqualified
antonyms: competent
eligible
qualified
glosses: Not qualified: ineligible; unfit for a position or task.
examples: text: The right to free speech is well established as not being an unqualified right to violent incitement nor to free amplification.
text: Obviously, we must reject the existence of an unqualified or unspecified right to know. If the right to know did not require disclosure of only specific (types of) data or information, a person could be said to have a right to know just anything whatsoever.
ref: 2008, Transparency, Information and Communication Technology: Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business and Education:
text: […] there is a multiplicity in the unqualified or unspecified concept of “soul,” such that it still retains its real meaning but by its very definition is predicated of different levels of things, at least in the classical conception of “soul.”
ref: 2016 February 5, Caner K Dagli, Ibn al-'Arabī and Islamic Intellectual Culture: From Mysticism to Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: undescribed
antonyms: described
qualified
glosses: Not elaborated upon; undescribed; unrestricted.
examples: text: an unqualified success
text: Gibson is an unqualified fool, and only fit to mix with beasts of the same calibre; […]
ref: 1857, Irish Literary Gazette:
text: The silicon rectifiers installed in the 42 English Electric-equipped units of the Shenfield augmentation stock have proved an unqualified success; [...].
ref: 1962 July, “Failured of multiple-unit electric trains on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
glosses: Outright; thorough; utter; unhampered.
Derived terms: unqualified hostname
unqualified prospect
Related terms: sense: unasterisked
word: unhampered
unqualified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unqualify + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unqualify
foursquare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːskwɛː/
Forms: form: more foursquare
form: most foursquare
Etymology: From Middle English foure square; equivalent to four + square.
Senses: examples: text: From the foursquare royal tower on the city's eastern edge to the Dominican monastery of the Blackfriars in the west, its skyline was a forest of spires and belltowers.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 41:
text: Out there in the dark the city looked foursquare and massive.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 7, in The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: Having four equal sides; square.
examples: text: Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire […].
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: It is surprising to find white wine of apparently low acidity keeping well at all. Yet at ten years (a good age for it today) it has a haunting combination of foursquare breadth and depth with some delicate, intriguing, lemony zest.
ref: 1983, Hugh Johnson, Hugh Johnson's modern encyclopedia of wine:
text: Another initially foursquare wine that develops lovely fruit in the glass, with a toasty-biscuity finish beginning to build.
ref: 1999, Tom Stevenson, Christie's world encyclopedia of champagne and sparkling wine:
glosses: Solid, robust.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a four-square cipher.
glosses: Pertaining to the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel.
foursquare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːskwɛː/
Forms: form: foursquares
Etymology: From Middle English foure square; equivalent to four + square.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four square.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A four-square cipher.
topics: architecture
glosses: A boxy style of domestic architecture with four rooms to a floor, one of which is usually a stair hall.
fox grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fox grapes
Senses: glosses: The native eastern North American grape, Vitis labrusca, with many cultivars, of which the Concord grape is the most important.
glosses: Vitis vulpina
Synonyms: sense: Vitis vulpina
word: frost grape
sense: Vitis vulpina
word: winter grape
foxglove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxgloves
form: fox-glove
Etymology: From Middle English fox-glove, foxes glove, from Old English foxes glōfa (“foxglove”). By surface analysis, fox + glove.
Senses: examples: text: Jemima alighted rather heavily, and began to waddle about in search of a convenient dry nesting-place. She rather fancied a tree-stump amongst some tall fox-gloves.
ref: 1908, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, New York: Frederick Warne & Co:
text: I wonder whether the witches would be wearing on their fingers their ornaments of foxglove blossoms, often called witches' bells or harebells, sometimes known as witches' thimbles.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 258:
text: There were bunches of wild garlic to keep out evil spirits, foxgloves for healing spells and hemlock and vervain for darker magic.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 41:
glosses: Digitalis, a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Digitalis grandiflora
word: big-flowered foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis canariensis
word: Canary Island foxglove
taxonomic: Rehmannia glutinosa
word: Chinese foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis ciliata
word: ciliate foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis purpurea
word: common foxglove
word: creeping foxglove
taxonomic: Eremophila platythamnos
word: desert foxglove
alt: Gerardia virginica
word: downy falseglove
taxonomic: Erinus alpinus
word: fairy foxglove
taxonomic: Aureolaria spp.
word: false foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis thapsi
word: fingerhut foxglove
taxonomic: Acyrthosiphon solani
word: foxglove aphid
taxonomic: Penstemon digitalis
word: foxglove beardtongue
taxonomic: Penstemon digitalis
word: foxglove penstemon
taxonomic: Eupithecia pulchellata
word: foxglove pug
word: foxglove tree
taxonomic: Digitalis laevigata
word: giraffe foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis laevigata
word: Grecian foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis ciliata
word: hairy foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis purpurea
word: lady's foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis grandiflora
word: large yellow foxglove
taxonomic: Seymeria macrophylla
word: mullein foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis purpurea
word: purple foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis ferruginea
word: rusty foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis lutea
word: small yellow foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis thapsi
word: Spanish foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis × fulva
word: strawberry foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis lutea
word: straw foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis obscura
word: sunset foxglove
alt: Gerardia virginica, Penstemon spp.
word: wild foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis obscura
word: willow-leaved foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis lanata
word: woolly foxglove
taxonomic: Digitalis grandiflora
alt: Gerardia spp.
word: yellow foxglove
hypermobility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermobilities
Etymology: From hyper- + mobility.
Senses: glosses: An excess amount of elasticity in a bodily joint
glosses: The practice of taking frequent trips, usually by air.
Related terms: hyperflexibility
hypermobile
hypomobile
double-jointed
monstrosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnˈstɹɒsɪti/
rhymes: -ɒsɪti
Forms: form: monstrosities
form: monstruosity
Etymology: From Middle English monstruosite, from Middle French monstruosité and its etymon Late Latin mōnstruōsitās, mōnstrōsitās (“monstrousness”), from Latin mōnstruōsus, mōnstrōsus; by surface analysis, monstrous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Geoffroy St. Hilaire's experiments show that unnatural treatment of the embryo causes monstrosities; and monstrosities cannot be separated by any clear line of distinction from mere variations.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Variation under Domestication”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 8:
synonyms: monster
glosses: An organism showing abnormal development or deformity.
examples: text: St Enoch Centre (1989) - a glass-domed monstrosity of a shopping centre - stands on the site of the station today.
ref: 2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost”, in RAIL, number 979, page 51:
synonyms: monster
glosses: A monstrous person, thing, or act.
synonyms: monstrousness
glosses: The state of being monstrous.
towing bitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towing bitts
form: towing bit
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the vertical posts on a vessel to which towing or mooring lines are secured.
free state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free states
Etymology: From free + state, probably a calque of German Freistaat.
Senses: glosses: A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.
glosses: A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor, and later, the states of the German Empire under the Hohenzollerns.
glosses: An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
glosses: A republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.
examples: text: The steel ring is required by the engineering drawing to have roundness within .25mm TIR while in the free state. Its diameters may be measured in the constrained state while the part is still chucked or fixtured.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.
glosses: Before the American Civil War, any of the states in which slaveownership was illegal.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the construct state by the noun not being dependent (more commonly called absolute state, or indeterminate state if the specific language contrasts a determinate state with the construct state).
Derived terms: Free State
Free State of Jones
Free-Stater
tidal current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal currents
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The flow of water caused by the rise and fall of the tide.
freestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːstəʊn/
ipa: /ˈfɹiːstoʊn/
rhymes: -iːstəʊn
Forms: form: freestones
Etymology: From free + stone.
Senses: examples: text: Mr Allworthy […] died immensely rich and built an hospital […] but had he done nothing more I should have left him to have recorded his own merit on some fair freestone over the door of that hospital.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: It might, under all the circumstances above stated, have been a question with other builders, whether to import one shipload of costly jaspers, or twenty of chalk flints; and whether to build a small church faced with porphyry and paved with agate, or to raise a vast cathedral in freestone.
ref: 1853, John Ruskin, “IV, St. Mark's”, in The Stones of Venice, volume II (The Sea-Stories), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, § XXVII, page 77:
text: The exterior walls are of freestone, and have a smooth, neat appearance.
ref: 1955 June, C. L. Mowat, “The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 378:
glosses: Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.
glosses: A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.
Coordinate terms: sense: stone fruit
word: clingstone
frogman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frogmen
Etymology: From frog + man, after the fact that frogs are amphibious.
Senses: glosses: A diver, especially one in a diving suit (as opposed to one in scuba gear).
glosses: A military diver, e.g. a US Navy SEAL.
glosses: A member of a naval special operations unit.
fulgurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fulgurates
form: fulgurating
form: fulgurated
form: fulgurated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fulgurātus, perfect passive participle of fulgurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To flash or emit flashes like lightning.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To cauterize with electricity; to carry out electrofulguration or to electrocauterize.
fulgurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulgurate
form: most fulgurate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fulgurātus, perfect passive participle of fulgurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ... the fulgurate dazzle of light along the filament of an incandescent bulb.
ref: 2004 July 6, Dean Koontz, The Bad Place, Penguin, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Fulgural, fulgurant.
fulguration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfʌl.ɡjʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌfʊl.ɡjəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌfʊl.ɡəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: fulgurations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fulguratio (“sheet lightning”), fulgurationis, from fulgurō, from fulgur (“lightning”).
Senses: glosses: A flash of lightning
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: cauterization with electricity; electrocautery
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: blick
glosses: The sudden brightening of a fused globule of gold or silver, when the last film of the oxide of lead or copper leaves its surface
Derived terms: electrofulguration
postfulguration
taxonomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxonomy
ring dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring doves
form: ring-dove
Senses: glosses: A ringneck dove.
Synonyms: Barbary dove
cushat
ringneck dove
Streptopelia risoria
funny book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funny books
Senses: glosses: A comic book.
furosemide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fjʊˈɹoʊ.səˌmaɪd/
Forms: form: furosemides
form: frusemide
Etymology: Probably from fur(yl) + -o- + -semide (“alteration of s(ulfon)amide”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diuretic (trademark Lasix) used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and edema.
Derived terms: -semide
Barbary dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barbary doves
Senses: glosses: A domesticated dove with an unclear taxonomic classification, often treated as its own species as, Streptopelia risoria, sometimes as a subspecies of either the Eurasian collared dove, Streptopelia decaocto, or the African collared dove, Streptopelia roseogrisea, and sometimes not as a separate accepted taxon at all, freely breeding with the above species.
Synonyms: ringneck dove
ringed turtle dove
ring-necked turtle dove
ring dove
ringneck dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringneck doves
Senses: glosses: A domesticated dove with an unclear taxonomic classification, often treated as its own species as, Streptopelia risoria. Other sources place it in a subspecies of either Streptopelia decaocto (Eurasian collared dove), or Streptopelia roseogrisea (African collared dove).
Synonyms: sense: dove
word: Barbary dove
sense: dove
word: ringed turtle dove
sense: dove
word: ring-necked turtle dove
sense: dove
word: ring dove
sense: dove
word: Streptopelia risoria
sense: dove
word: Streptopelia risoria risoria