cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Logres
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Loegria
form: Logria
form: Logris
Etymology: From Old Welsh Lloegr, the name for the region of present-day England.
Senses: glosses: King Arthur's realm in the Matter of Britain.
glosses: In Arthurian legend, a chivalric code throughout Camelot wherein each knight had to take an oath of courage and might, act honorably, protect the helpless, and behave justly to all.
split 7
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split 7s
Senses: glosses: A seven-inch vinyl phonograph record with music by a different band on either side.
memorably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more memorably
form: most memorably
Etymology: From memorable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a memorable manner.
coder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coders
Etymology: From code + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device that generates a code, often as a series of pulses.
examples: text: Others may be subjective ratings made by the coders who independently read the studies, such as sex stereotype of the job […]
ref: 2007, Gerald J. Miller, Kaifeng Yang, Handbook of Research Methods in Public Administration, page 715:
glosses: A person who assigns codes or classifications.
examples: text: Part of the series' goal was to change how coders are perceived -- and show the community that it offers.
ref: 2016 May 7, Sara Ashley O'Brien, “Girls Who Code taps four teen girls for YouTube series”, in CNN Business:
text: Reshma Saujani is not a coder but she's empowering "an army of young women" to take on tech's gender gap through her nonprofit Girls Who Code.
ref: 2017 August 21, Haley Draznin, “Girls Who Code founder: Men build technologies to 'replace their mothers'”, in CNN Business:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: code monkey
glosses: A programmer (computer programmer).
Derived terms: barcoder
codec
democoder
intercoder
intracoder
noncoder
arrear
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪə/
ipa: /əˈɹɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more arrear
form: most arrear
Etymology: From Middle English arere, from Old French arere, from Vulgar Latin *ad retro (literally “to the rear”).
Senses: examples: text: She, (Ladie) having well before approoved / The feends to be too cruell and severe, / Observ'd th' appointed way, as her behooved, / Ne ever did her ey-sight turne arere [...].
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, ll. 465-8:
glosses: Towards the rear, backwards.
examples: text: In case the annuity should be arrear for sixty days being lawfully demanded, then the trustee might enter upon the premises assigned [...].
ref: 1803, Edward Hyde East, Reports of cases Argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench, volume 3, London, published 1814, page 559:
glosses: Behind time; overdue.
arrear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɪə/
ipa: /əˈɹɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: arrears
Etymology: From Middle English arere, from Old French arere, from Vulgar Latin *ad retro (literally “to the rear”).
Senses: examples: text: November 4, 1866, James David Forbes, letter to E. C. Batten
I have a large arrear of letters to write.
text: My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: After World War II it took time to clear up the arrears of track maintenance on both lines and it was not until 1953 that the L.M.R. restored any two-hour schedules, the W.R. following suit a year later.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 98:
glosses: Work to be done, obligation.
examples: text: fall into arrears
text: I know the debt is in arrears / The dog has not been fed in years / It's even worse than it appears, but / It's alright
ref: 1987, Grateful Dead, “Touch of Grey”, in In the Dark:
glosses: Unpaid debt.
glosses: That which is in the rear or behind.
oldskool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of old skool (“hip-hop or rap music of the late 1970s and 1980s (or more recent music of this style) as contrasted with newer styles of such music”) (alternative spelling of old school).
oldskool
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oldskool
form: most oldskool
Senses: examples: text: Also look out for a PHAT PHAT oldskool style tune on Jemini [the Gifted One]'s album set to drop in the next couple of weeks. It uses the Love Unlimited 'Strange Games and Things' break, and comes on with the old skool rhymes believe …
ref: 1995 April 14, ed [pseudonym], “Low Down on New Tunes dropping soon”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of old skool (“of or relating to hip-hop or rap music of the late 1970s and 1980s (or more recent music of this style) as contrasted with newer styles of such music”) (alternative spelling of old school).
auxiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin auxiliaris.
Senses: examples: text: The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
glosses: auxiliary
Derived terms: auxiliarly
auxiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxiliars
Etymology: From Latin auxiliaris.
Senses: examples: text: Agricola, who perceav'd that the noiſe of this defeat had alſo in the Province deſirous of novelty, ſtirr'd up new expectations, reſolves to be before-hand with the danger : and drawing together the choice of his Legions with a competent number of Auxiliars, not beeing met by the Ordovices, who kept the Hills, himſelf in the head of his men hunts them up and down through difficult places, almoſt to the final extirpating of that whole Nation. With the ſame current of ſucceſs, what Paulinus had left unfiniſh'd he Conquers in the Ile of Mona: for the Ilanders altogether fearleſs of his approach, whom they knew to have no Shipping, when they ſaw themſelves invaded on a ſudden by the Auxiliars, whoſe Countrie uſe had taught them to ſwimm over with Horſe and Armes, were compel'd to yeild.
ref: 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England, Book II:
glosses: An auxiliary.
acquittals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquittal
pituitary body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pituitary bodies
Senses: glosses: The controlling gland of the endocrine system; located at the base of the brain.
Synonyms: hypophysis
pituitary gland
master gland
postponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of postpone
postponed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postponed
form: most postponed
Senses: glosses: Done later than originally planned; delayed.
Derived terms: unpostponed
black vomit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A fever, with yellow skin and black vomit in some of the cases, appeared among a party of forty men.
ref: 1833, chapter 2, in Cyclopædia of practical medicine, page 295:
text: Black vomit is nothing but a hœmorrhage from the stomach, and may exist in any degree, from a few particles of blood mixed, as it were, into a quantity of light glairy fluid, presenting the appearance of floating dark specks or flocculi, to that of a rapid and profuse discharge of pure red blood.
ref: 1854 May 24, Daniel Drake, The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery, page 369:
text: On the third or fourth day, or later, the vomited matters..begin to contain blood..and they soon assume..a coffee-ground character, constituting the so-called black vomit.
ref: 1876, John S. Bristowe, A treatise on the theory and practice of medicine, published 1878, page 199:
glosses: A blackish matter, resembling coffee grounds due to hemorrhage, emitted in severer cases of yellow fever.
glosses: The disease of yellow fever itself.
king-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of king-sized.
kinkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kinkily
form: most kinkily
Etymology: From kinky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a kinky manner.
kinkiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinkinesses
Etymology: From kinky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being kinky.
glosses: Something kinky.
kiss-and-tell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Lewis wound up making a six-figure income in his first year as a bond trader and then became famous with his kiss-and-tell best-seller about the inner workings of a Wall Street bank at the height of the 1980s financial boom.
ref: 1994, Linda Resnick, Kerry H. Pechter, A Big Splash in a Small Pond: Finding a Great Job in a Small Company, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 140:
glosses: Betraying a confidence by disclosing private information.
Related terms: kiss and tell
kiss and tell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kisses and tells
form: kissing and telling
form: kissed and told
form: kissed and told
Senses: examples: text: While I told Joe all about my Beth, and he told me about his Ellen, a student at Northwestern, I did not go into any details about my sex life; I have never liked to kiss and tell, even though I suppose that's what I'm doing in these pages.
ref: 2007, Robert Ayres Carter, Nobody yet Knows Who I Am: A Personal History: 1943-1953, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: To betray a confidence by disclosing private information, especially of a sexual nature.
Derived terms: hiss-and-tell
Related terms: kiss-and-tell
tell tales out of school
kissoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kissoffs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kiss-off.
kiss-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss-offs
Senses: glosses: A dismissal.
kitty-cornered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Corruption of cater-corner.
Senses: examples: text: He’s king of all these wigged men sitting with their hosed legs kitty-cornered under their desks.
ref: 1987, Martha Barron Barrett, God’s Country, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Synonym of kitty-corner (“cater-corner”).
synonyms: word: kitty-corner
extra: cater-corner
coup d'etat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coups d'etat
form: coup d'etats
Senses: examples: text: The truth of the axiom that there is nothing so successful as success, is more conclusively proved by the Coup d’Etat of Louis Napoleon than by any other event of the period.
ref: 1870 October, R.H. Stoddard, “Literature at Home”, reprinted in Putnam’s Magazine. Original Papers of Literature, Science, Art, and National Interests. New Series: Sixth Volume, July—November 1870, 1870, G. P. Putnam and Sons, page 460
text: These documents throw light on many features of the coup d’etat of December 2, 1851, and the plebiscite which followed it.
ref: 1904, Frank Maloy Anderson [ed.], The Constitutions and Other Select Documents Illustrative of the History of France, 1789–1901, The H. W. Wilson Company, number 111, page 538
text: [Chapter] 14. Coup d’Etat
ref: 2005, Kenneth D. Ackerman, Boss Tweed: The Rise and Fall of the Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of coup d'état.
klutzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: klŭt'sē
ipa: /ˈklʌtsi/
rhymes: -ʌtsi
Forms: form: klutzier
form: klutziest
Etymology: From klutz + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Life is a high wire act and there's no net. And most of us are klutzy, so watch out, here comes another splat.
ref: 1983 April 1, 'Fran C. Schlepper', “They Are Everywhere”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Awkward, clumsy or socially inept.
Derived terms: klutzily
klutziness
Related terms: klutz
knavish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪvɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪvɪʃ
Forms: form: more knavish
form: most knavish
Etymology: From Middle English knavych, knavyssh; equivalent to knave + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.
Derived terms: knavishly
knavishness
kneader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kneaders
Etymology: From Middle English kneder, cnedar, equivalent to knead + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If you practice building your massage muscles as I suggest in Chapter 9, you can be a better kneader because this particular maneuver requires a lot of strength in the hands.
ref: 2010, Steve Capellini, Michel Van Welden, Massage For Dummies, page 141:
glosses: One who kneads.
glosses: A machine that kneads dough or any other highly elastoviscous mixture.
knight-errant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knights-errant
form: knight errant
form: knight-erratic
Senses: examples: text: In short, his wits being quite gone, [Don Quixote] hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame.
ref: 1885, John Ormsby, chapter 1, in Don Quixote, volume 1, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes:
text: Before Tarzan had returned to the tribe, a certain young bull, not being able to secure a mate from among his own people, had, according to custom, fared forth through the wild jungle, like some knight-errant of old, to win a fair lady from some neighboring community.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 199:
glosses: A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry.
examples: text: "Welcome, my young knight-errant!" exclaimed Madame de Soissons. "I am expecting you to do wonders." "Nothing could be wonderful when performed in your service," replied the boy, with that readiness of compliment so characteristic of his time and court.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XLI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 341:
text: It had known and served all the men of whom the nation is proud, from Sir Francis Drake to Sir John Franklin, knights all, titled and untitled - the great knights-errant of the sea.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
glosses: A person who displays an adventurous or a quixotic spirit.
Derived terms: knight-errantry
knights-errant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knight-errant
knightliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knightlinesses
Etymology: From knightly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: knightly behaviour; chivalry
knitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtɚ/
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: knitters
Etymology: From Middle English knytter, knettere, equivalent to knit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: “Ave! Old knitter of black wool.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
glosses: A person or a machine that knits.
Synonyms: knitster
Derived terms: framework knitter
yoghurt-knitter
knock-knee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knock-knees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of knock knee.
knock-kneed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab. It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.
ref: 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat […] :
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Having the knees abnormally close together, and the ankles spread apart.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of a person or animal, suffering from genu valgum (or tibia valga).
Coordinate terms: bow-legged
bandy-legged
Related terms: knock knee
knowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈnəʊəbɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈnoʊəbɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈnəʉəbɫ̩]
ipa: [ˈnɐʉəbɫ̩]
Forms: form: more knowable
form: most knowable
Etymology: Attested since the 15th century; know + -able
Senses: examples: text: Some things are not knowable. If Pradeep Mathew had played for India or England, would he have gone on to be the greatest spinner of all time? Not knowable. How many poor bastards have perished in this bed before me? Not knowable.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 138:
glosses: Capable of being known, understood or comprehended.
Derived terms: knowableness
knowably
nonknowable
Related terms: knowability
knowledgeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more knowledgeably
form: most knowledgeably
Etymology: From knowledgeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Er. It looks like a Klatchian Hots with anchovies, sir,” said Sergeant Colon knowledgeably.
ref: 1989, Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 167:
glosses: In a knowledgeable manner.
Related terms: knowingly
knowledgeability
kookiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kookinesses
Etymology: From kooky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being kooky.
kronur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kronurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of krona.
kuchen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkukən/
Forms: form: kuchens
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kuchen. Doublet of quiche.
Senses: examples: text: French pastry and bread, Vienna rolls and German kuchens will also be included in the list of articles placed on sale.
ref: 1915, National Baker, volume 20, page 72:
text: “Shall we go down and have coffee and Kuchen?” he asked.
ref: 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
text: Peanuts can be substituted for other nuts in the multitude of German kuchens, tortes and such goodies.
ref: 1970, The Culinarian: Official Publication of the Chefs Association of the Pacific Coast, volume 15, page 24:
text: It is baguettes, bagels, braided challahs, big black Russian pumpernickels, light and fluffy German kuchens and Syrian pitas large or small.
ref: 1989, Martin M. Pegler, editor, Successful Food Merchandising and Display, Retail Reporting Corporation, →ISBN, page 7, column 1:
text: We always make up two crusts at a time, lining two pans with the kuchen dough and keeping one in the icebox until ready to bake.
ref: 2010 [1949], Marion Flexner, Out Of Kentucky Kitchens, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: Any of several types of cake, typically eaten with coffee.
LSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LSIs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of large scale integration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of latent semantic indexing.
Coordinate terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: SSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: MSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: WSI
Derived terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: VLSI
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: ULSI
Related terms: topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: IC
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: solid-state
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: chip
topics: electronics
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: discrete component
luminosity function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A relative measure of the relationship between stellar magnitude and the distribution of stars between magnitudes
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A standard measure of the response of the human eye to light of different wavelengths
malfunction routine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malfunction routines
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any program or subroutine responsible for troubleshooting problems.
Related terms: diagnostic routine
maintenance routine
rerun routine
trace routine
Anastasius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Anastasius, from Ancient Greek Ἀναστάσιος (Anastásios), from ἀνάστασις (anástasis, “resurrection”). The name and its more common female counterpart, Anastasia, were originally given to children who were born around Eastertime during the early years of Christianity.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.
Related terms: alt: a Romanization of Russian Анаста́сий (Anastásij)
word: Anastasi
word: Anastasia
word: Anstice
measurable function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measurable functions
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose codomain is a topological space and domain is a measurable space, with the property that the inverse image of every open set in its codomain is a measurable set in its domain.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any well-behaved function of real numbers between measurable spaces.
Hypernyms: function
morphism
Hyponyms: Borel measurable function
simple function
membership function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: membership functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A generalization of the indicator function for a fuzzy set which assigns a truth value (0 or 1) to each element.
multifunction array radar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multifunction array radars
Senses: glosses: A radar system capable of detecting, tracking and discriminating a large number of targets simultaneously
natural function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An ordinary trigonometric function
NOT function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NOT functions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A function that is equivalent to the NOT operator.
nuclear response function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear response functions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A relationship that describes the probability of a particle that collides with another being scattered in any particular manner
odd function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odd functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: even function
glosses: Any function whose value changes sign if the independent variable changes sign i.e. f(-x) = -f(x)
bubbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bubble
orthogonal function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogonal functions
Senses: qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: Either of a pair of functions whose inner product is zero
wikipedia: orthogonal function
Hyponyms: orthonormal function
orthonormal function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthonormal functions
Senses: qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: An orthogonal function whose inner product with itself is unity
partial function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partial functions
Senses: examples: 1967 [John Wiley & Sons], Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, 2002, Dover, page 244,
The Church-Turing thesis applies to partial functions on the same grounds as to total functions (§ 41).
1991, Michel Bidoit, Hans-Jörg Kreowski, Pierre Lescanne, Fernando Orejas, Donald Sannella (editors), Algebraic System Specification and Development: A Survey and Annotated Bibliography, Springer, LNCS 501, page 15,
Nowadays it seems quite clear that if algebraic specifications are to be used as a powerful and realistic tool for the development of complex systems they should permit the specification of partial functions. […] There are essentially two ways of specifying partial functions.
2006, Paulo Oliva, Understanding and Using Spector's Bar Recursive Interpretation of Classical Analysis, Arnold Beckmann, Ulrich Berger, Benedikt Löwe, John V. Tucker (editors), Logical Approaches to Computational Barriers: 2nd Conference on Computability in Europe, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3988, page 432,
In the following σ and τ will denote finite partial functions from N to N , i.e. partial functions which are defined on a finite domain. A partial function which is everywhere undefined is denoted by ⟨⟩, whereas a partial function defined only at position k (with value n) is denoted by ⟨k,n⟩.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose domain is a subset of the set on which it is formally defined; i.e., a function f: X→Y for which values f(x) are defined only for x ∈ W, where W ⊆ X.
penalty function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penalty functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function that applies constraints to a maximum or minimum problem
periodic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periodic functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose value repeats after the regular addition of a period to its independent variable; i.e., a function ƒ such that, for some positive constant p, ƒ(x + p) = ƒ(x) for all x.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: almost-periodic function
simply periodic function
phase function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phase functions
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A function that describes the angular distribution of light reflected from a body when illuminated from a specific direction
point function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose values are points
polynomial function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynomial functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose value is the solution of a polynomial; an element of a subring of the ring of all functions over an integral domain, which subring is the smallest to contain all the constant functions and also the identity function. (If the polynomial is multivariate then there is a different identity function corresponding to each variable.)
Related terms: polynomial form
Adamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdæmɪk/
ipa: /ˈædəmɪk/
Etymology: From Adam + -ic, modelled on Latin adamicus.
Senses: examples: text: The story of the man who was bathing at the time, and ran out in Adamic costume, has been told too often, and for a fictional individual he has become altogether too notorious; […]
ref: 1870 April 5, Blossom [pseudonym], “[Letter from San Francisco. [Regular Correspondence to the News.]] The Earthquake.”, in Gold Hill Daily News, volume XIII, number 2001, Gold Hill, Nev., published 6 April 1870, page [2], column 2:
text: As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]
ref: 2020, Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling the Biblical character Adam.
Synonyms: Adamical
Derived terms: Adamically
Adamic earth
Adamic stone
post-Adamic
pre-Adamic
preadamic
Adamic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈdæmɪk/
ipa: /ˈædəmɪk/
Etymology: From Adam + -ic, modelled on Latin adamicus.
Senses: glosses: The language believed to have been spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden in the biblical account of creation; considered by some traditions as the original or divine language from which all others descended.
power function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function where the independent variable is raised to a particular real number power.
greased lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Believed to come from the observation that greased machinery tends to run faster, and the notion that if a lightning strike (the fastest normally observed movement) could be greased, it might move even faster. Originally US usage, but soon well known in UK due to Thackeray's use in 1848 (see cite).
Senses: examples: text: We find there quite seriously the monstrous hyperboles of swallowing a camel, of having a wooden beam in the eye, of a camel's going through the eye of a needle, of heaping coals of fire on the head; all well enough as jokes, like the description of the Green Mountain road so steep that "greased lightning could not go down it without the breeching on".
ref: 1840, American Philosophical Society, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. Vol. XVIII. July 1878 to March 1880:
text: He rode his own horse, Greased Lightning, and won the Garrison cup at Quebec races.
ref: [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Sentimental and Otherwise”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 104:
text: And off he pops like greased lightning.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: You have to take your hat off to them. They've moved like greased lightning. I should have remembered about them. Slippery as a 'barrel load of eels' they are.
ref: 2006, Mike Lloyd, Only the Gods Decide:
text: I got on that computer faster than greased lightning and sent him an email.
ref: 2006, Kerri Pomarolli, If I'm Waiting on God, Then What Am I Doing in a Christian Chatroom?: Confessions of a Do-It-Yourself Single:
glosses: Something incredibly fast (now mainly used in comparison: like or faster than greased lightning).
predefined function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predefined functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of subroutines that perform standard mathematical functions included in a programming language; either included in a program at compilation time, or called when a program is executed
hennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henne
henne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hennes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hen.
probability density function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probability density functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
synonyms: density function
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glosses: Any function whose integral over a set gives the probability that a random variable has a value in that set.
probability mass function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probability mass functions
form: pmf
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function that gives the relative probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to some value.
wikipedia: probability mass function
aphis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphides
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from New Latin aphis, coined by Linnaeus in 1758. Doublet of aphid.
Senses: glosses: An aphid.
Derived terms: aphis-blight
aphis-lion
aphis-sugar
apple aphis
bean aphis
cabbage aphis
wheat aphis
reconnoitre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtə/
ipa: [ˌɹʷɛkəˈnɔɪ̯tʰə]
ipa: /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˌɹˠɛkəˈnɔɪ̯ɾɚ]
Forms: form: reconnoitres
form: reconnoitring
form: reconnoitred
form: reconnoitred
form: reconnoiter
form: reconnaitre
form: reconnaître
form: reconnoître
Etymology: From French reconnoître (obsolete spelling of reconnaître), from Latin recognoscere (“to recognise”). There is also an obsolete 19th-century British English spelling reconnaitre, influenced by the modern French form.
Senses: examples: text: Our scout will reconnoitre the path ahead of our troops.
text: Not a drop of rain fell; the clouds went portentously off, like ships of war after reconnoitering a strong fort, to return with added strength and fury.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: "Damn!" said Tommy, and tried to sit up. He had remembered. He was in that sinister house in Soho. He uttered a groan and fell back. Through his almost-closed lids he reconnoitred carefully.
ref: 1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 16”, in The Secret Adversary:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To perform a reconnaissance (of an area; an enemy position); to scout with the aim of gaining information.
examples: text: As to my person, it will not be so easy to reconnoitre it, for I question whether any of it will remain
ref: 1765, Horace Walpole, The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq:
glosses: To recognise.
Synonyms: scout
survey
reconnoitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtə/
ipa: [ˌɹʷɛkəˈnɔɪ̯tʰə]
ipa: /ˌɹɛkəˈnɔɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˌɹˠɛkəˈnɔɪ̯ɾɚ]
Forms: form: reconnoitres
form: reconnoiter
form: reconnaitre
form: reconnaître
form: reconnoître
Etymology: From French reconnoître (obsolete spelling of reconnaître), from Latin recognoscere (“to recognise”). There is also an obsolete 19th-century British English spelling reconnaitre, influenced by the modern French form.
Senses: examples: text: The pilot reported the findings of his reconnoitre.
glosses: An act or instance of reconnoitring.
Related terms: recon
recce
reconnaissance
wife beaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wife beater
decoder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkəʊdə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decoders
Etymology: From decode + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who decodes secret messages
glosses: A device that decodes a scrambled electronic signal e.g. of a satellite television signal
Derived terms: codec
decoder ring
isodecoder
Related terms: coder
coders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coder
decoders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decoder
playing possum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play possum
Merry Widow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Merry Widows
Senses: qualifier: trademark
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of merry widow.
broad-brush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: He takes a broad-brush approach to the study of history.
text: In setting out a broad-brush approach, the Arriva-owned operator doesn't make any specific requirements, but it says the replacement trains "must achieve a meaningful reduction in the exhaust emissions and exterior noise levels compared to Chiltern's existing DMUs".
ref: 2023 August 23, Mel Holley, “Network News: ... while Chiltern Railways targets low-emissions stock”, in RAil, number 990, page 7:
glosses: General and sweeping in scope but lacking detail.
Derived terms: word: broad brush
word: broad-brusher
Related terms: paint with a broad brush
broad-brush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: broad-brushes
form: broad-brushing
form: broad-brushed
form: broad-brushed
Senses: glosses: To generalize or describe (something) in very broad, sweeping terms.
doctrinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doctrinally
form: most doctrinally
Etymology: From doctrinal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was doctrinally knowledgeable but failed to follow the basic tenets of the religion.
glosses: In a doctrinal manner; in terms of doctrine.
doctrinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktɹɪnəl/
ipa: /dɒkˈtɹaɪnəl/
ipa: /ˈdɑktɹɪnəl/
ipa: /dɑkˈtɹaɪnəl/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Etymology: The noun form was from French doctrinal; the adjective form was perhaps from Late Latin doctrīnālis, from doctrīna.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, involving, belonging to or concerning a doctrine.
examples: text: The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Didactic.
Derived terms: counterdoctrinal
doctrinalism
doctrinalist
doctrinally
nondoctrinal
undoctrinal
Related terms: docent
docile
doctor
doctorate
doctrinaire
doctrine
document
indoctrinate
doctrinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒktɹɪnəl/
ipa: /dɒkˈtɹaɪnəl/
ipa: /ˈdɑktɹɪnəl/
ipa: /dɑkˈtɹaɪnəl/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Forms: form: doctrinals
Etymology: The noun form was from French doctrinal; the adjective form was perhaps from Late Latin doctrīnālis, from doctrīna.
Senses: examples: text: His Teaching is not to teach you the Doctrinals of Salvation and of the Son, for he leaves that to Ministers, and to the Bible, to teach you the Doctrinals only in a doctrinal way
ref: a. 1680, Thomas Goodwin, The Object and Acts of Justifying Faith:
text: The Doctrinal of Princes
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: A matter of doctrine, or system of doctrines.
de-emphasize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɛmfəsaɪz/
Forms: form: de-emphasizes
form: de-emphasizing
form: de-emphasized
form: de-emphasized
form: de-emphasise
form: deemphasise
form: deemphasize
form: deëmphasize
Etymology: From de- + emphasize.
Senses: glosses: To remove or reduce the emphasis from something; to make something less important; to play down.
misreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misread
misreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: misreadings
Senses: examples: text: When done correctly, kerning helps to improve the readability of text by adding or removing space between two letters. Bad kerning, also known as keming, leads to misreadings, and in the worst cases, incredibly bad (but humorous) misunderstandings.
ref: 2018 April 20, jkohorst, “FR E SH A VOCA DO^([sic])”, in Writing for Designers^([dead link]):
glosses: An incorrect reading.
counterbalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The wind blew from that direction, and brought with it the sound of their voices and laughter. The misery of such sounds was counterbalanced by the certainty that the same wind would waft their own voices, or rather Donna Margaretta's, voice away from the house.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: simple past and past participle of counterbalance
counterbalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a counterbalance
Derived terms: noncounterbalanced
uncounterbalanced
pumped-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pumped-up
form: most pumped-up
Senses: glosses: inflated
raw_tags: of a tyre etc
examples: text: The stalked 'periscope' eyes of the Fiddler crab, which give it a panoramic view all the better to appreciate the outrageously pumped-up left claws of its waving fellows.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107:
glosses: inflated
oversized
raw_tags: of a tyre etc
glosses: raised by pumping
raw_tags: of water
glosses: tense with excitement or enthusiasm
raw_tags: of a person
portion out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: portions out
form: portioning out
form: portioned out
form: portioned out
Senses: synonyms: dish out
dole out
mete out
glosses: To distribute in portions or shares; to apportion or allot.
anti-flash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: antiflash
Etymology: From anti- + flash.
Senses: glosses: Intended to reflect the thermal radiation from a nuclear detonation.
raw_tags: of paint used on an aircraft
anti-national
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antinational.
anti-national
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-nationals
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antinational.
antinational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more antinational
form: most antinational
Etymology: From anti- + national.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to one's own nation; unpatriotic.
examples: text: just as important have been the effects of diasporas and migrations (creating a mobile, ‘anti-national’ historical tradition) and the partial liberalization of many regimes […]
ref: 2007, John Darwin, After Tamerlane, Penguin, published 2008, page xi:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to purely national concerns; not founded on the idea of the nation.
antinational
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: antinationals
Etymology: From anti- + national.
Senses: examples: text: Calling Tamil Nadu a “shelter” for anti-nationals, BJP national president J P Nadda said the state administration and the DMK were giving shelter to people working against the interests of the nation.
ref: 2020 August 25, Shanmughasundaram J, “Tamil Nadu is shelter for anti-nationals, says J P Nadda”, in Times of India:
qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: One who is opposed to India, usually suggesting pro-Pakistan or leftist associations, hostility against the Hindu religion, or opposition to Hindu nationalism.
Synonyms: sickular
urban Naxal
hot-and-hot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: served one at a time as soon as cooked
raw_tags: of individual dishes of food
hot-brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-brains
form: hotbrain
Etymology: From hot + brain. Compare Old English hātheort (“furious, angry, irascible, passionate, ardent”).
Senses: glosses: an impetuous, fiery person; a hothead
hot-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hothead.
hot closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot closets
Senses: glosses: An enclosure, once attached to a stove, used to keep food warm
hot damn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: A minced oath from "god damn".
Synonyms: sense: expression of surprise
word: wow
sense: expression of anger
word: dammit
hot-flue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-flues
Senses: glosses: a chamber, heated by a fire, used for drying
hot-hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: hastily
raw_tags: of cattle
Related terms: hot-foot
hot-making
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot-making
form: most hot-making
Senses: examples: text: "Now gather, and surmise," said Polonius. The reader will have to do his own gathering and surmising in connection with this, to use the current phrase, hot-making play.
ref: 1934, James Agate, First Nights, page 26:
glosses: embarrassing
hot shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot shifts
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: An early mechanism that synchronized the speeds of gear wheels when changing gear in an automobile.
Related terms: synchromesh
hot-skull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-skulls
Senses: glosses: a hot-head
hot squat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot squats
Senses: examples: text: to get the hot squat
text: "Hell," repeated Mr. Ogden. "Well, listen. They opine that in this country you don't get the hot squat, not without you earn it good and plenty."
ref: 1936, Ngaio Marsh, Death in Ecstasy, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 151:
synonyms: hot chair
hot seat
glosses: The electric chair.
hot-stopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drink of hot spirits and water.
Related terms: hot toddy
hot wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot waves
Senses: glosses: a heat wave
irrationalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irrationality
hot with
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In like manner did the Cold Brandy-and-Water Sheet waft me now to the “Cider-Cellar”—now to the “Coal-Hole”! I heard a thousand voices cry, “ Hot with ”—“ Cold without ”—and saw a multitude of men, spinning like dervishes about me—spinning with tubs of oysters !
ref: a. 1846, “Life at the Cold Brandy-and-Water Cure: From the MS. of a late Patient”, in Mark Lemon et al., Punch, Volume 11, Punch Publications Ltd. (1846), page 244
text: He [Mr. H. S. Edwards] had formerly been unacquainted with even the taste of gin (a laugh, which was quickly suppressed by the usher of the court), but since this case had been placed in his hands, he had felt it his duty to consume several gallons of it. Part of this he had taken “hot with,” (meaning, as our reporter understood, “hot with sugar”); another portion he had enjoyed in the form of “cold without;” and the remainder in its simplest and most natural state—a state which he might be allowed to characterize as “neat but not gaudy.”
ref: 1848, “Our Own Law Report: Seager and Evans v. Cruikshank”, in Puppet Show, Volume II, J. Dover (1849), page 29
text: “Let me have some whisky—hot, with;—and don't stand there looking at nothing.”
ref: c. 1862, Anthony Trollope, chapter XVI, in Orley Farm, volume II, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1913, page 203:
text: […] we sang together […] under the exciting influence of two quart bottles of Guinness, and about three tumblers each of gin, hot with, and only one knob of sugar— […]
ref: 1863, “Lobster Salad: by a Crustacean Artist”, in James Hogg, Florence Marryat, editors, London Society, volume 4, William Clowes and Sons, page 283:
glosses: A drink of hot spirits with sugar and water.
Related terms: cold without
hotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hot + -ing; see hot (“stolen”), as in hot merchandise.
Senses: glosses: Riding in a high-performance stolen car, especially as a form of display.
hotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hot + -ing; see hot (“stolen”), as in hot merchandise.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hot
hyperabduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + abduction.
Senses: glosses: extreme muscular withdrawal of a limb outward from the body
Derived terms: hyperabduction syndrome
crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of crisis