cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wheelspin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wheelspins
form: wheelspinning
form: wheelspun
form: wheelspan
form: wheelspinned
form: wheelspun
form: wheelspinned
Etymology: From wheel + spin.
Senses: examples: text: It was not unusual to see an ice cream van wheelspin away, dragging a runner into the service hatch as it went, especially on the police patches: […]
ref: 1992, Martina Cole, Dangerous Lady, Headline, →ISBN, page 186:
text: When, suddenly and inexplicably, the car had started he had wheelspun away from the kerb in his effort to keep it going.
ref: 1997, Siri Reynolds, House of Rooms, Edinburgh: Polygon, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Once my rifle was empty I would need to run across the road and put a bullet into everyone’s brain but it didn’t look like I’d get the chance because suddenly the Merc wheelspan forward and away.
ref: 2003, Danny King, The Hitman Diaries, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN, page 218:
text: As soon as the way was clear, Pete threw his Harley into gear and wheelspan out of the showroom and off up Bedford Hill, leaving exhaust fumes and a wall of sound in his wake.
ref: 2004, Razor Smith, A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun: The Autobiography of a Career Criminal, Penguin Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 97:
text: In the end the Fiesta just wheelspinned off down Deepdale – it was pretty obvious they wouldn’t bring it on the field; it would’ve fallen apart. As the car drove off there was a sad kind of feeling – it was very very late.
ref: 2007, Richard Milward, Apples, Canongate, →ISBN, page 42:
text: We screamed as we wheelspinned round corners, we made up stories on the dark roads to frighten ourselves, and turned up Junior’s CD to full blast, singing at the top of our voices.
ref: 2007, Catherine MacPhail, Worse Than Boys, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 205:
text: Far too quickly for me to peer through the windscreen to check out this nutter on the clutch, the jeepy wheelspinned. Never even entered the garage.
ref: 2008, Catherine Forde, Sugarcoated, Egmont, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: To drive with poor traction, so that the vehicle exhibits a wheelspin.
examples: text: With only small encouragement from me, and using skills learned on a racing track, he gunned his Land-Rover forward, cut up the saloon and wheelspan a few stones its way as we turned down an unsurfaced track.
ref: 2007, Anthony Loyd, Another Bloody Love Letter, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: To throw up (debris) from a wheelspin.
benzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benzine
paranomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranomias
Etymology: From para- + Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “custom”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Verbal paraphasia, an aspect of aphasia, where the patient speaks a word different from the one they intended to say.
Related terms: malapropism
pseudoslave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoslaves
Etymology: From pseudo- + slave.
Senses: examples: text: Minor leaguers and players with less than three years of service time remain pseudoslaves.
ref: 2009 August 23, Dan Rosenheck, “Restoring Sanity to Baseball’s Economics”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone whose condition resembles, but is not actually, slavery
seaswept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sea + swept.
Senses: examples: text: […] Antonio Vivaldi ’s name is synonymous with seaswept Venice[…].
ref: 2009 August 23, Matthew Gurewitsch, “For Vivaldi, Many More Seasons”, in New York Times:
glosses: Located on the sea
Related terms: sunswept
windswept
riceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rice + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Listed within them are dishes for vegetarians and for diners who prefer cooked fish or riceless rolls.
ref: 2009 August 23, M. H. Reed, “East and West in a Complex Fusion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Containing no rice
readoption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readoptions
Etymology: From re- + adoption.
Senses: examples: text: Objectively, Miles realizes that Hayden is insane and past the point of rescue or readoption into mainstream society.
ref: 2009 August 23, Lucinda Rosenfeld, “Multiple Lives”, in New York Times:
glosses: Being adopted back into a family or group
glosses: Adoption again; the act of readopting.
racebikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racebike
pseudoslaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoslave
racebike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racebikes
Etymology: From race + bike.
Senses: examples: text: Powerful engines and sticky tires make high-side accidents a threat on modern racebikes.
ref: 2009 August 23, Dexter Ford, “Slip-Sliding Suspended”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: A motorcycle designed for racing
Related terms: racecar
racehorse
eyecare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eye + care.
Senses: hypernyms: healthcare#Noun
health care#Noun
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care#Noun
glosses: The care and treatment of the eyes.
Related terms: eye chart
eyedrops
eyeglasses
eyewash
ophthalmologist
ophthalmology
optician
optometrist
optometry
geoscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geoscience.
unrelatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrelated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unrelated.
visual kei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese ヴィジュアル系(けい) (vijuaru-kei, literally “visual style”), composed of ヴィジュアル (vijuaru, “visual”), itself from English visual, and 系 (kei, “style”).
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.
ref: 2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
topics: entertainment
fashion
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Japanese music and fashion movement that emerged in the 1980s, characterized by a bold, extravagent, androgynous style influenced by glam rock and goth culture.
Related terms: fairy kei
mori kei
Pre-Raphaelite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: preraphaelite
Etymology: From pre- + Raphael + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: a preraphaelite figure
text: a preraphaelite landscape
text: The music video for Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia,” in which the star steps out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting and proceeds to clip through space and time, taking on different guises along the way, is meant to be a confident visual statement of the Swift franchise’s multiversal power[…].
ref: 2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
qualifier: painting
glosses: Of or pertaining to the style called Pre-Raphaelism.
Pre-Raphaelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pre-Raphaelites
form: preraphaelite
Etymology: From pre- + Raphael + -ite.
Senses: glosses: One who favors or practices art as it was before Raphael; one who favors or advocates Pre-Raphaelism.
Pre-Raphaelites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pre-Raphaelite
lockstitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockstitch
overlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌlɒk/
Forms: form: overlocks
Etymology: From over- + lock.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A stitch that sews over the edge of one or two pieces of cloth for edging, hemming or seaming.
Derived terms: overlocker
overlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌlɒk/
Forms: form: overlocks
form: overlocking
form: overlocked
form: overlocked
Etymology: From over- + lock.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To stitch in this manner.
examples: text: The way to open it, then, is to turn the key the other way, as if to overlock the bolt […]
ref: 1857, Thomas Stewart Traill, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:
glosses: To make the bolt of a lock go too far.
Synonyms: merrow
overedge
serge
overlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌlɒks/
homophone: lox
Senses: glosses: plural of overlock
forment
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of foment.
forment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of formant.
stipulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stipula
infester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infesters
Etymology: From infest + -er.
Senses: glosses: something that infests.
infesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infester
eighteen-wheelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eighteen-wheeler
infestant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infestants
Senses: examples: text: Fungal spores or other structures produced by some of the pathogens are quite visible to the naked eye. These are mostly found as seed contaminants or seed infestants.
ref: 2009, H. Lewin Devasahayam, Illustrated Plant Pathology: Basic Concepts, page 380:
glosses: That which infests something
Derived terms: reinfestant
percutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of percute
oughter
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Ought to.
retrocopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrocopies
Etymology: From retro- + copy.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A retrogene, copied from mRNA, that has lost all introns
retrocopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrocopy
retrogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrogenes
Etymology: From retro- + gene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of DNA reverse transcribed from mRNA inserted into a random place in the genome.
Related terms: retrogenic
retroduplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retroduplications
Etymology: From retro- + duplication.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The reverse transcription of a gene from mRNA into a complementary DNA copy
Related terms: retroduplicate
pirater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piraters
Etymology: From pirate + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pirates (produces unauthorized copies).
Synonyms: pirate
retrogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrogene
retroposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: inserted into a chromosome following reverse transcription
retroposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retropositions
Etymology: From retro- + position.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The insertion of a fragment of DNA into a chromosome following reverse transcription
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: backward displacement of a body part
Related terms: retroposon
retropseudogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retropseudogenes
Etymology: From retro- + pseudogene.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A decayed retrocopy.
retropseudogenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retropseudogene
retrotransposable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From retro- + transpose + -able.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Able to undergo retrotransposition
sprouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sproutier
form: sproutiest
Etymology: From sprout + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having sprouts.
examples: text: The seasonings really cut through the sprouty flavour, resulting in a clean-tasting spicy dish.
ref: 2013, Christine McFadden, The Farm Shop Cookbook, page 50:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sprouts.
examples: a youth with sprouty hair
glosses: Tending to sprout, or grow from a surface.
stretchability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretchabilities
Etymology: From stretch + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being stretchable
glosses: The extent to which something is stretchable
subclumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subclump
subclump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subclumps
Etymology: From sub- + clump.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A clump of dark matter in a subhalo.
subhalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subhalos
form: subhaloes
Etymology: From sub- + halo.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A subset of a halo (of matter or dark matter around a galaxy)
subhalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subhalo
paraphasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæɹəˈfeɪ̯ʒə/
ipa: /pɛɹəˈfeɪ̯ʒə/
Forms: form: paraphasias
Etymology: From para- + -phasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A symptom of aphasia in which the sufferer substitutes a spoken word different from the one intended
Related terms: paraphasic
paranomia
malapropism
expirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expirants
Senses: glosses: Someone or something who expires or is expiring.
A dying person; someone who is at death's door
birotate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: bīrōʹtāt
ipa: /baɪˈɹəʊteɪt/
Etymology: From bi + rotate (“wheel-shaped”), ultimately from Latin rota (“wheel”).
Senses: glosses: Two-wheeled.
highschool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highschools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high school.
Derived terms: word: highschoolboy
word: highschoolgirl
highschoolboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹsko͞olboi
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.skuːlbɔɪ/
Forms: form: highschoolboys
Etymology: From highschool + boy, on the pattern of schoolboy.
Senses: examples: text: The influence of father’s occupation on the vocational choices of highschoolboys.
ref: 1949: Willem Bordewijk, Een onderzoek naar de factoren, die beroepswens en beroepsvoorstelling van de proletarische jeugd beinvloeden, page 32 (J. B. Wolter)
text: A studious highschoolboy he looked
— as in fact I later found he was —
bespectacled, with soft-curved face
and withdrawn protected air:
and I marvelled, envied him
so untouched he seemed to be
in that hammering brutal atmosphere.
ref: 1968, Dennis Brutus, Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison, reprint edition, Heinemann Educational, →ISBN, page 22, →ISBN:
text: As a numerical example, the factor solutions of the YG Personality Inventory obtained from 3 groups of highschoolboys were checked numerically by means of sum of squares of differences and also of reference structure.
ref: 1990: Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kansai university, volume 21, issue 2, page 23 (関西大学社会学部)
coordinate_terms: highschoolgirl
glosses: A male student of a high school.
highschoolboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highschoolboy
highschoolgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hīʹsko͞olgûrl
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.skuːlɡɜːl/
Forms: form: highschoolgirls
Etymology: From highschool + girl, on the pattern of schoolgirl.
Senses: examples: text: His sister Miriam, now a highschoolgirl, could not tear awkward eyes from the brother absence had changed so greatly.
ref: 1942, Ward Moore, Breathe the Air Again, Harper & Bros, page 349:
coordinate_terms: highschoolboy
glosses: A female student of a high school.
highschoolgirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highschoolgirl
boation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bō.āʹshən
ipa: /bəʊˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: boations
Etymology: From Latin boātiō (“roaring”, “bellowing”), noun of action of boō (“I roar”, “I bellow”).
Senses: glosses: Bellowing.
glosses: A roar.
boations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boation
semiautobiographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From semiautobiographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a semiautobiographical manner
boom bap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Imitative, representing the sounds of the bass drum and snare drum, respectively.
Senses: examples: text: A beat made with the 808 drum kit isn't boom bap!
text: The story of Boom Bap is closely associated with the development and practice of sampling, and as such, Boom Bap is often described as a production technique, a sound, a style, or a subgenre.
ref: 2023, Michail Exarchos, Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1997:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style/subgenre of hip hop characterized by hard-hitting drums, usually containing the kick drum/snare drum/hi-hat combination rather than claps, snaps, TR-808 bass drums, cowbells, shakers, and various other percussion sounds used for rhythm.
postcounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcount
orbitales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbitalis
tourist visas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourist visa
reefal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reef + -al.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to a reef
satirique
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satirique
form: most satirique
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of satiric.
stades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stade
tripes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripe
ébénistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ébéniste
ebonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebonists
Etymology: From ebony + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A cabinetmaker who uses ebony; an ébéniste.
ebonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ebonist
complots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of complot
sublethally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sublethally
form: most sublethally
Etymology: From sublethal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This is due to the detection of sublethally damaged cells, which are still viable but not culturable.
glosses: In a sublethal manner, or to a sublethal extent.
subline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublines
Etymology: From sub- + line.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A subset of a line (of cells in a strain)
sublines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of subline
subnanometer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + nanometer.
Senses: glosses: Having dimensions, or a resolution, of less than a nanometer.
supracanonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: supra-canonical
Etymology: From supra- + canonical.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Having a value greater than that predicted by orthodox theories
recopyrights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recopyright
tcfg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of trillion(s) of cubic feet of gas.
tomographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomographer
tomographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomographers
Etymology: From tomography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at tomography
glosses: A device used in tomography
transceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transceptors
Etymology: From trans- + ceptor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A transporter-substrate complex that transduces signals to the inside of a cell
transceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transceptor
tropomyosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹəʊ.pəʊˈmʌɪ.əs.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌtɹəʊ.pəˈmʌɪ.əs.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌtɹɑp.əˈmaɪ.əs.ɪn/
ipa: /ˌtɹoʊ.pəˈmaɪ.əs.ɪn/
Forms: form: tropomyosins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρόπος (trópos, “turn”, noun) + myosin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein involved in muscle contraction. It is related to myosin and occurs together with troponin in the thin filaments of muscle tissue.
Derived terms: troponin
ultraclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraclear
form: most ultraclear
Etymology: From ultra- + clear.
Senses: glosses: Very clear
unequilibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unequilibrated
form: most unequilibrated
Etymology: From un- + equilibrated.
Senses: glosses: Not equilibrated
mixed language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed languages
Senses: glosses: A language formed by combining two languages, keeping elements of the grammar of both.
Related terms: creole
Métis
Michif
pidgin
uniport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: transport of a molecule through a cell membrane without the coupled transport of another
Related terms: antiport
symport
untransduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + transduced.
Senses: glosses: Not transduced
valinomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic, having a cyclic oligopeptide structure, derived from the actinomycete Streptomyces fulvissimus
threshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thresh
mixed languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixed language
tubularizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubularization
tubulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubulation
name and shame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: names and shames
form: naming and shaming
form: named and shamed
form: named and shamed
Senses: examples: text: The England captain Courtney Lawes believes “unacceptable” racist behaviour must be stamped out of rugby and those responsible named and shamed following last week’s shocking revelations by his former teammate Luther Burrell.
ref: 2022 July 1, Gerard Meagher, “England’s Courtney Lawes wants racists in rugby union named and shamed”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To publish the name of (a person or organization that has committed some transgression) so as to single them out for individual blame and censure.
remainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remaining
cabler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cablers
Etymology: From cable + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: Someone who cables, who puts together or fixes cables.
cabler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cablers
Etymology: From cable + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: A cable television network or system operator.
cablers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabler
dump core
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumps core
form: dumping core
form: dumped core
form: dumped core
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally, UNIX and UNIX-like systems have dumped core or provided a binary output of their state upon crashing.
ref: 2007, Jon Masters, Richard Blum, Professional Linux programming:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To generate a core dump.
examples: text: Sorry, I dumped core on you.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To ramble pointlessly at length; especially used in apology
examples: text: Jack dumped core on how to operate the server before he left on holiday.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transfer a large quantity of information or knowledge from one person to another, particularly subjects of a technical nature; to lecture
Related terms: brain dump
all kidding aside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: kidding aside
Senses: examples: text: 1983 April 25, Steve Wozniak, letter to the editor, Infoworld,
All kidding aside, I doubt we'll ever bomb Japan as long as [the Japanese] make Epson printers.
text: "All kidding aside, Carlysle . . ."
"Carla," I corrected him automatically.
"I'm too used to thinking of you as 'Carlysle' and male to change both at once . . . All kidding aside, it'd be better for you not to stay on here any longer than the storm."
ref: 2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Mark of Merlin:
text: 2009 February 19, Joe Biden, speech, The Good of the Nation,
Max, just remember, when we call, I call, just say "Yes, Joe," okay? (Laughter.) All kidding aside, thanks for your great help in this, Max.
synonyms: all jokes aside
all joking aside
qualifier: speech act
glosses: Used to attempt to state a serious point in a jocular conversation.
Related terms: sense: to make a serious point
word: seriously
sense: to make a serious point
word: but seriously folks
apocopations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apocopation
British invasion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the British invasion
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of British Invasion.
British Invasion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the British Invasion
form: British invasion
Senses: examples: text: So in a stealth, surreptitious move of intrigue, he had named us the Golliwogs. “We're trying to have you guys be like the British Invasion here. So we wanted to give you a hip-sounding name. Mod. It’s mod.”
ref: 2015, John Fogerty, Fortunate Son, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Kenner had passed the song on to Fats Domino; Rufus Thomas had picked it up for his Stax LP Walking the Dog; along the way, it had been lyrically updated and adopted as an easy-to-play floor-filler and crowd-pleaser by seemingly every white garage band that had popped up across the United States in the wake of the British invasion.
ref: 2017, Tony Fletcher, In the Midnight Hour: The Life and Soul of Wilson Pickett, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: The rise in British music bands' popularity in the United States in the 1960s.
Related terms: Second British Invasion
day signs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day sign
like a hole in one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: like a hole in the head
Etymology: Calque of Yiddish װי אַ לאָך אין קאָפּ (vi a lokh in kop).
Senses: examples: text: Ford looked at him for a moment. “Fort Apache?” he asked. “Yes, Fort Apache,” said Clothier.
“I need that goddamn sequence like I need a hole in my head,” grumbled Ford. “We'll shoot that whole goddamn thing over right here on the stage.”
ref: 2012, Scott Eyman, Print the Legend: The Life and Times of John Ford, page 470:
glosses: Absolutely not; used to describe how little one needs an undesirable thing or situation.
like a hole in the head
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like a hole in one's head.
sun trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sun traps
Senses: glosses: A location that faces the sun and is sheltered from the wind
snow-flake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-flakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snowflake.
snow-flakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snow-flake
grass mud horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass mud horse
victoriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From victorious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being victorious.
unkeepable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + keepable.
Senses: examples: text: England added further unkeepable promises guaranteeing to restrain English settlement if Pontiac would demobilize his allies and leave the restraining up to the English.
ref: 1966, William Brandon, The Last Americans: the Indian in American culture, page 239:
glosses: Not keepable.
seallike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seallike
form: most seallike
Etymology: From seal + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a seal (the mammal).
nooklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nooklike
form: most nooklike
Etymology: From nook + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I had stumbled into the spare room — a nooklike study, an afterthought with a slanted ceiling — tucked in between the main rooms on Kurt's second floor.
ref: 2008, Justin Evans, A Good and Happy Child:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a nook.
palmlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palmlike
form: most palmlike
Etymology: From palm + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a palm tree.
juicelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more juicelike
form: most juicelike
Etymology: From juice + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling juice.
scaredest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of scared: most scared
Voltairean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /vəʊlˈ-/
ipa: /vɑlˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /voʊlˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Voltairean
form: most Voltairean
form: Voltairian
Etymology: From Voltaire + -an.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you want? Nineteenth-century rationalism, Voltairian deism? We're living in a religious age, you know. I suppose Anglicanism might be a solution."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 448:
text: […] the skinny boy at the next table smirked with a thin Voltairian sneer.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 1, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778; pen name "Voltaire"), French writer, essayist, and philosopher known for his wit and defence of civil liberties.
Voltairean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlˈtɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /vəʊlˈ-/
ipa: /vɑlˈtɛ.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /voʊlˈ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Voltaireans
form: Voltairian
Etymology: From Voltaire + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Then hearing that I was a Darwaysh and doctor—he must be an Osmanli Voltairean, that little Turk—the official snorted a contemptuous snort.
ref: 1855, Richard Francis Burton, chapter II, in A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, volume I, London: Tylston & Edwards, published 1893, page 21:
text: “[…] But as for saints and relics and things, I fear I'm a bit of a Voltairian; what you would call a skeptic.”
ref: 1922, G. K. Chesterton, chapter 3, in The Man Who Knew Too Much:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A person who subscribes to the philosophy of Voltaire.
stool pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stool pigeon
scrooches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrooch
scrooching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrooch
scrooched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrooch
scrootches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrootch
scrootching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrootch
multiverb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + verb.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one verb.
nonphrasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + phrasal.
Senses: glosses: Not phrasal.
minxlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minxlike
form: most minxlike
Etymology: From minx + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a minx.
Synonyms: minxish
koekoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: The long-tailed cuckoo, Eudynamys taitensis, which breeds in New Zealand and migrates to the islands of the western Pacific in the winter.
beechdrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beechdrops
Etymology: From beech + drops.
Senses: glosses: Epifagus virginiana, a parasitic plant which grows on the roots of beech trees.
chasmogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting chasmogamy.
antiwelfare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiwelfare
form: most antiwelfare
Etymology: From anti- + welfare.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to welfare (financial aid offered by a government).
electrorheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + rheological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to electrorheology.
Derived terms: electrorheologically
huhus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huhu
handfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hand + fed.
Senses: examples: text: We are in the great preserves, where hares in herds and troops of handfed pheasants invite the attention of banded poachers, and provoke heartburnings in parishes that ought to be peaceful.
ref: 1880 December 24, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 128, page 759:
text: A handfed baby parrot represents days, weeks, years of feeding, cleaning, and care cycles.
ref: 2007, Mattie Sue Athan, Guide to a Well-Behaved Parrot, page 2:
text: A handfed parrot is one that has been taken from the nest at a young age and fed by hand by a human.
ref: 2011, Nikki Moustaki, Parrots For Dummies:
glosses: Fed by hand.
raw_tags: of an animal or machine
handfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hand + fed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of handfeed
fugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fug
fugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fug
fugaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fugaciously
form: most fugaciously
Etymology: From fugacious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fugacious way.
grazeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grazable
Etymology: From graze + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for grazing animals.
raw_tags: of land
Derived terms: ungrazeable
birthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birther
shinkansen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinkansen
form: shinkansens
Etymology: From Japanese 新(しん)幹(かん)線(せん) (shinkansen, literally “new trunk line”).
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A Japanese high-speed railway line.
examples: text: East Japan Railway Co., known as JR East, this week unveiled its newest luxury shinkansen cars featuring ashiyu, in which passengers can soak their tired feet while speeding through the beautiful, mountainous, hot-spring-rich region.
ref: 2014 July 2, Yoko Sudo, “Luxury Shinkansen Train to Feature Foot Baths”, in The Wall Street Journal:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A high-speed passenger train which runs on such a line; a bullet train.
Derived terms: mini-shinkansen
Excalibur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɛksˈkæ.lɪ.bɚ/
Forms: form: Excaliburs
Etymology: From Middle English Excalaber, from Old French Escalibor, Escaliborc, prothetic form of Calliborc, alteration of Calibourne, from Medieval Latin Caliburnus (Geoffrey of Monmouth, ca. 1136), influenced by calibs (“steel”) (for chalybs), alteration of Old Welsh Caledbulch (compare modern Caledfwlch), compound of caled (“hard”) and bwlch (“cleft, crack”). Related to the Irish legendary sword Caladbolg, literally ‘hard-belly’, i.e. ‘voracious’.
Senses: examples: text: Until recently, suppression of ethnicity has perhaps been the leading characteristic of the trend of thought of these Jewish intellectuals. Some, like Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone, have been considered by some Jews to be so suppressed—or at least so overcompensating for their being Jewish—as to be regarded as anti-Semitic on some issues. Such men flaunt their universalism like Excaliburs of truth and objectivity.
ref: 1974, Stephen D. Isaacs, Jews and American Politics, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 53:
text: And we would see fish swimming among the tall bulrushes that rose like Excaliburs out of the lake.
ref: 1998, Imogen Stubbs, “The Undiscovered Road: Northumberland”, in Dea Birkett, Sara Wheeler, editors, Amazonian: The Penguin Book of Women’s New Travel Writing, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 228:
text: You and I, we are not alone, and our screwdrivers are our flashing Excaliburs as we sally forth to make small parts of the fragmented world whole again.
ref: 2017, James May, The Reassembler, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 19:
qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: The legendary sword of King Arthur, having magical properties.
exiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exilers
Etymology: From exile + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who exiles.
milliardaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliardaire
hourslong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hours + -long.
Senses: examples: text: Behind the nation's fighting men of today moved the still-jaunty fighting men of 1917 in an hourslong procession.
ref: 1940 September 24, “Millions watch legion's parade”, in Spokane Daily Chronicle:
text: First-time heart attacks typically occur over a longer period of time, with a slow, sometimes hourslong buildup to the 911 call.
ref: 2002 February, Peter Mehlman, “Anxiety is funny. Panic is hard”, in Esquire, volume 137, number 2, page 58:
text: He writes prose with a conversational tone suited for a bus driver talking with a lone passenger on an hourslong excursion.
ref: 2009 August 13, John W. Barry, “Songwriter's sojourn in Woodstock was not the best of times”, in Deseret News, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2013:
text: As Eric Traub walked Ms. Squires around Cambridge, the two stopped for dinner and dived into an hourslong conversation about their life transitions, social justice, politics and the last decade of their lives.
ref: 2009 August 21, Katie Zezima, “Leah Squires and Eric Traub”, in New York Times:
text: Of course, not all veterans are scribbling away madly during those hourslong sessions.
ref: 2009 August 22, Mike Berardino, “Players must also excel in the classroom”, in Sun Sentinel, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2009:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hours-long (“Lasting for hours.”).
Synonyms: multihour
Coordinate terms: multihour § Coordinate terms
lowercased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-cased
Senses: examples: text: However, common nouns occurring after the names of two or more organizations are lowercased.
ref: 2003, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, →ISBN, page 1612:
text: School degrees (bachelor's, master's, doctorate) are lowercased, though their abbreviations aren't (B.A., M.S., and so on).
ref: 2006, Geraldine Woods, English Grammar Workbook for Dummies, →ISBN, page 122:
text: For me, pretty much everything about the show — the pretentious lowercased logo; the setting in pre-sixth-borough-glory Philadelphia; the almost painstakingly unfamous cast; the difficulty in figuring out whom to crush on and whom to relate to — did not compute, and for some big reasons.
ref: 2009 August 22, Porochista Khakpour, “Finally ‘Thirtysomething’?”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: lowercase
minuscule
glosses: Printed or written in lowercase letters.
lowercased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lower-cased
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lowercase
expergefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expergefactions
Etymology: From Latin expergefactiō, from expergefaciō.
Senses: examples: text: “Thouſands drink in the Love of theſe, together with their Parents milk, and are enamoured on them from their very Cradles; yet I am ſure the affectations of theſe Arts, cannot be derived from Præexiſtence; they cannot poſſibly be any new expergefactions of dormient prepenſions, or refloreſcencies of obſolete and forgotten Cuſtoms, contracted in a ſuperior life; becauſe there is nothing parallel to them above, about which Præexiſtent Spirits could be buſied : For who is ſo phrantick or fooliſh, as to dream Gardening, Brick-laying, Agriculture, Weaving, &c. Or any callings like them, to be in faſhion in the Celeſtial Countries?”
ref: 1667, E. W. A. M., No præexistence: or, a ... dissertation against the hypothesis of humane souls living in a state antecedaneous to this, page 58:
text: “Life are infinitely contracted, and that ſhe lies aſleep or dead to her largeſt Faculties ; and that therefore the excitation of them is her expergefaction into infinitely a more ample Sphere of Life.”
ref: 1692, H. More, edited by J. Worthington, Discourses on several texts of Scripture. By the late Pious and Learned Henry More, D. D., page 241:
text: “Why not call the unreal indicative the mood of resipiscence to match the imperfect of expergefaction, the imperfect with ᾰρα?”
ref: 1902, “Brief Mentions”, in Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, Tenney Frank, Harold Fredrik Cherniss, Henry Thompson Rowell, editors, Journal of Philology, page 232:
glosses: An awakening.
readoptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of readoption
diverger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divergers
Etymology: From diverge + -er. The learner sense was coined by educational theorists David A. Kolb and Roger E. Fry in the 1970s.
Senses: antonyms: converger
glosses: One who, or that which, diverges.
topics: education
glosses: A learner who prefers reflection on and discussion of their concrete experiences, and thus typically cultural and creative subjects.
bisecant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisecants
Etymology: From bi- + secant.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A secant that cuts a curve at exactly two points
FACT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federation Against Copyright Theft.
glosses: Initialism of Federation of American Consumers and Travelers.
far left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hard left
ultraleft
antonyms: far right
glosses: The most radical part of the political left wing.
Related terms: far-left
Helvetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlˈviːʃə/
ipa: /hɛlˈviːʃi.ə/
Etymology: From Latin Helvetia.
Senses: glosses: A region inhabited by the Helvetii in central Europe.
glosses: Switzerland; the national personification of Switzerland.
glosses: A small settlement near Pukekohe, Auckland, New Zealand.
glosses: A ghost town in Pima County, Arizona, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States.
Related terms: Helvetian
Helvetii
Helvetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlˈviːʃən/
ipa: /hɛlˈviːʃi.ən/
Etymology: From Helvetia + -an.
Senses: glosses: From the ancient country of Helvetia
glosses: Swiss, from Switzerland
Helvetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛlˈviːʃən/
ipa: /hɛlˈviːʃi.ən/
Forms: form: Helvetians
Etymology: From Helvetia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the ancient country of Helvetia
glosses: Swiss, someone from Switzerland
Helvetians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Helvetian
underdetermine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underdetermines
form: underdetermining
form: underdetermined
form: underdetermined
Etymology: From under- + determine.
Senses: examples: text: 1967 A. H. Armstrong (ed) The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
He recognised that, in constructing his laws, the physicist must go beyond the ‘facts’ which inevitably underdetermine his theories. Boltzmann rightly accused both the idealists and the inductivists of having ignored this basic limitation on the certainty of all scientific hypotheses.
text: 1: All the available evidence of a certain type underdetermines which of several rival conclusions is correct.
2: Only evidence of that type is relevant to believing one of these conclusions.
3: Therefore, there is no evidence for believing one among the rival conclusions.
The first premise makes the claim that a theory is underdetermined. The second says that rational decision (i.e. using available evidence) depends upon insufficient evidence.
ref: Wikipedia Because arguments involving underdetermination involve both a claim about what the evidence is and that such evidence underdetermines a conclusion, it is often useful to separate these two claims within the underdetermination argument as follows
glosses: Particularly in the theory of scientific explanation, to provide too few constraints to specify a unique solution.
Related terms: underdetermination
underdetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underdetermined
form: most underdetermined
Etymology: From under- + determined.
Senses: antonyms: overdetermined
glosses: Having too few constraints to specify a unique solution.
Related terms: underdetermination
underdetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From underdetermine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underdetermine
league cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: league cups
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A single-elimination tournament for which entry is restricted only to teams in the top national league or leagues.
schoolday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskulˌdeɪ/
Forms: form: schooldays
form: school day
Etymology: From school + day.
Senses: examples: text: In modern China, Sunday is not usually a schoolday except around major holidays.
glosses: A day during which the public schools are open, usually synonymous with weekday during the school year.
examples: text: I couldn't contact my child during the schoolday because of the school's no-cellphone policy.
text: The schoolday starts at 9:00 am and ends at 3:00 pm.
glosses: The part of a day when students attend school.
Derived terms: every day is a schoolday
schooldays
Related terms: weekday
workday
work day
working day
school night
school year
every day is a school day
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of you learn something new every day.
synonyms: word: you learn something new every day