cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
basic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɪk/
rhymes: -eɪsɪk
homophone: BASIC
Forms: form: basics
Etymology: From base + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Rice is a basic for many Asian villagers.
glosses: A necessary commodity, a staple requirement.
examples: text: Arithmetic is a basic for the study of mathematics.
text: I know the basics of sailing and would love to learn more.
glosses: An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge.
examples: text: The drill sergeants gave him hell in basic.
text: When I shipped out for basic, the Orbital Defense Grid was all theory and politics.
ref: 2004 November 9, Bungie, Halo 2, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Armory:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Basic training.
resulting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzʌltɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: After the flood, the resulting epidemics killed even more.
glosses: Of something that follows as the result of something else; resultant.
Synonyms: incidental
Derived terms: resulting trust
resulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzʌltɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of result
buried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛ.ɹid/
rhymes: -ɛɹid
Forms: form: more buried
form: most buried
Etymology: From bur(y) + -ied.
Senses: glosses: Placed in a grave at a burial.
glosses: Concealed, hidden.
Derived terms: buried treasure
buried valley
dead and buried
dead 'n' buried
buried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛ.ɹid/
rhymes: -ɛɹid
Etymology: From bur(y) + -ied.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bury
review
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: revue
Forms: form: reviews
form: reviewing
form: reviewed
form: reviewed
form: re-view
raw_tags: for noun
for verb
Etymology: From Middle English revewe, reveue, from Old French reveüe, revue (Modern French: revue), feminine form of reveü, past participle of reveoir (French: revoir), from Latin revideō, from re- +videō (“see, observe”) (English: video). Equivalent to re- + view. Compare retrospect. Doublet of revue.
Senses: examples: text: Before I tackle the question directly, I must briefly review historical approaches to the problem.
glosses: To survey; to look broadly over.
examples: text: The critic reviews every new play in London.
text: […] "The Interview," a crude and poorly reviewed comedy about a C.I.A. effort to hire two bumbling journalists to knock off Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader […]
ref: 2014 December 23, David E. Sanger, “Countering cyberattacks without a playbook [print version: A cyberwar with no playbook, International New York Times, 26 December 2014, p. 18]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To write a critical evaluation of a new art work etc.; to write a review.
examples: text: "Keith Williams is reviewing his review," the source said. "The whole structure of the industry has changed since he wrote his report. [...]"
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Clifton, “Network Rail lined up to 'take control' of rail services”, in Rail, page 6:
glosses: To look back over in order to correct or edit; to revise.
synonyms: revise
glosses: To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination.
examples: text: Cam[illo] What I do next, ſhall be next to tell the King // Of this Eſcape, and whither they are bound: // Wherein my hope is, I ſhall ſo prevail, // To force him after: in whoſe company // I ſhall review Sicilia; for whoſe ſight, // I have a Woman’s Longing.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: To view or see again; to look back on.
examples: text: Shall I the long, laborious ſcene review, // And open all the wounds of Greece anew?
ref: 1725, Homer, “Book III”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC, page 100, lines 127–128:
glosses: To retrace; to go over again.
Related terms: word: reviewer
word: reviewability
word: medireview
word: rereview
word: retrospect
english: v.
translation: v.
word: revise
the shit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That movie was the shit!
text: At least he isn't butt-ass ugly. He was probably the shit during his time. Look at him in his multi-colored, polyester suit. He's sharper than a tack.
ref: 2015, Teresa D. Patterson, Wolf in the Pulpit, page 194:
text: 'Evolve' by Imagine Dragons is the shit. Never gets old
ref: 2024 December 3, @The_Ghosted, Twitter:
synonyms: the bomb#Noun
glosses: Something considered to be excellent or the best of its kind.
Related terms: the shits
the tits
cool
demographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
Forms: form: more demographic
form: most demographic
Etymology: From demography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."
ref: 2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2011:
text: A growing foreign-born population has sparked debate in Japan amid the pressures of a demographic crisis and economic worries.
ref: 2025 September 29, Justin McCurry, “‘My kids are too scared to go outside’: Kurdish migrants face hostility as Japan wrestles with demographic crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to demography.
Derived terms: biodemographic
clinicodemographic
demogrant
demographic dividend
demographic tax
demographic transition
ethnodemographic
geodemographic
isodemographic
palaeodemographic
paleodemographic
phylodemographic
phytodemographic
socio-demographic
sociodemographic
subdemographic
demographic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/
Forms: form: demographics
Etymology: From demography + -ic.
Senses: examples: 1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604,
Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]
2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, Island Press, →ISBN, page 82,
How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?
glosses: A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
examples: text: 2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281,
[…] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.
text: A newspaper is consumed by many demographics, a small portion of which may be the target.
ref: 2006, Tom Hutchison, Amy Macy, Paul Allen, Record Label Marketing, Elsevier, page 189:
text: 2006, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 44,
As a member of the Generation X demographic, I'm saddened to admit that paying with plastic (whether debit or credit card) has superseded paying with real money.
text: "The demographic for NASCAR is people who eat," said Steve Page, president of the former Infineon Raceway […] . "We're giving people plenty to do before the race."
ref: 2012, 24 June (Sun), Debbie Arrington, "Racing Fans are being courted", The Sacramento Bee, page C1, col. 4
text: Rail is clearly a more sustainable option, and the demographic of the population living in the areas served by the new stations certainly seems to be a good fit when it comes to modal shift.
ref: 2025 October 1, Peter Plisner, “Closing in on Camp Hill reopening”, in RAIL, number 1045, pages 46-47:
synonyms: word: demo
glosses: A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
glosses: An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.
Related terms: demographer
demographical
demographically
demography
demographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛməˈɡɹæfɪks/
ipa: /ˌdeməˈɡɹæfɪks/
Senses: examples: text: Every museum has to wrestle with the differing interests and needs of the varied demographics of its visitors - and none more so than the LTM [London Transport Museum], with its mix of tourists (both domestic and foreign) seeking an 'experience', transport enthusiasts indulging their passion, and families looking for education and entertainment for their children.
ref: 2020 June 3, Sam Mullins discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 53:
glosses: The characteristics of human populations for purposes of social studies.
demographics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɛməˈɡɹæfɪks/
ipa: /ˌdeməˈɡɹæfɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of demographic
Derived terms: firmographics
geodemographics
sociodemographics
Related terms: demographer
demographic
demography
beaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: byo͞ot
ipa: /bjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: butte
homophone: Bute
homophone: Butte
Forms: form: beauts
Etymology: Clipping of beauty.
Senses: examples: text: That new car of yours is a real beaut.
glosses: Something or someone that is physically attractive.
examples: text: Bruno lifted his left hand out of the bucket in order to point out to Catfoot a lump, the size of a darning egg, over his left eye. […] "Ain't it a beaut, Cat? It's where he butted me."
ref: 1942, Nelson Algren, Never Come Morning, published 2001, page 282:
text: In his most famous quip, La Guardia once remarked, “When I make a mistake it's a beaut!”
ref: 1994, Stephen Jay Gould, Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History, page 109:
text: Both of them were used to long surveillance stints. This looked like it might be a beaut.
ref: 2000, James Patterson, The Midnight Club, page 272:
glosses: Something that is a remarkable example of its type.
Synonyms: sense: someone that is physically attractive
word: beautiful person
beaut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: byo͞ot
ipa: /bjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
homophone: butte
homophone: Bute
homophone: Butte
Forms: form: beauter
form: beautest
Etymology: Clipping of beauty.
Senses: examples: text: An' there was posies all round Jim, He had a bran new suit, The first un that he ever had, An' everything was beaut. An' when the preacher told 'bout Jim— How ' twas he got the swipe— I saw most all them dandy swells A feelin' fer a wipe.
ref: 1895, Elbridge Kingsley, Frederick Knab, Picturesque Worcester ...: Complete in Three Parts, page 40:
text: It was beaut to have him home again, and gee, you should have seen the bike he bought me from Paris. From the same factory as his own was made.
ref: 1968, James Phillip McAuley, Quadrant:
text: She was very motherly towards me then and it was beaut. Before I was eighteen, there just wasn't any kind words. All I wanted to do was get away from there.
ref: 1978, Kevin Gilbert, Living Black: Blacks Talk to Kevin Gilbert:
text: Yes, it was beaut.
ref: 1996, Madeleine St. John, A Pure Clear Light, 4th Estate, Limited:
glosses: Beautiful, splendid.
sleepwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleepwalks
form: sleepwalking
form: sleepwalked
form: sleepwalked
Etymology: From sleep + walk.
Senses: examples: text: Government... unions... industry... we have had enough. We - no, YOU - are sleepwalking the rest of us towards a less busy, less relevant industry with a smaller workforce, fewer passengers, fading importance, declining investment, poorly-paid jobs, and a truly shambolic reputation.
ref: 2022 August 24, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Rail strikes deadlock”, in RAIL, number 964, page 3:
glosses: To walk or perform other actions while sleeping; to somnambulate.
examples: text: The government is sleepwalking into a crisis.
text: They're trying to sleepwalk past their health problems.
glosses: To perform actions without being aware of them; to do something that invites certain results without confronting that possibility.
Derived terms: sleepwalker
Related terms: sleep-eat
transmogrification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmogrifications
Etymology: From transmogrify + -ication.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of being transformed into a different form.
Related terms: transmogrify
metamorphosis
transfiguration
transformation
painting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.nɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪntɪŋ
Forms: form: paintings
Etymology: By surface analysis, paint + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings.
text: "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
text: With five large-scale paintings in his new solo exhibition, “Dusky Rainy Sunny,” the Colombia- born artist Juan Eduardo Gómez examines the relationship between the human form and landscapes.
ref: 2024 January 8, Yinka Elujoba and Jillian Steinhauer, “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An illustration or artwork done with the use of paint.
examples: text: The outside of the old house would benefit from some painting.
glosses: The action of applying paint to a surface.
examples: text: Some artists, like Michelangelo, excel in both painting and sculpture.
text: The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
ref: 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:
text: At Lungmen in northern Honan, where Buddhist sculpture of the T'ang period is found side by side with the earlier work of the Northern Wei, at Tunhuang in western Kansu, where the explorations of Stein and Pelliot have brought to light a wonderful collection of sculpture and painting dating from the eighth, ninth, and tenth centuries, and at various other points in the empire the artists of T'ang China have left behind them convincing evidence of noble religious inspiration coupled with a high degree of technical proficiency.
ref: 1944, G. Nye Steiger, A History of the Far East, Ginn and Company, →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: The same activity as an art form.
Synonyms: word: painting
Hypernyms: word: artwork
word: illustration
Hyponyms: word: oil painting
Meronyms: word: frame
word: canvas
word: paint
painting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪn.tɪŋ/
note: in fast speech
ipa: /ˈpeɪ.nɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪntɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, paint + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paint
Synonyms: sense: the same activity as an art form
word: third art
Derived terms: action painting
all-over painting
baffle painting
body painting
cave painting
cave-painting
colour field painting
dot painting
drip painting
drypainting
dry painting
electropainting
electrostatic painting
face painting
field painting
finger painting
fundamental painting
glass painting
hard-edge painting
history painting
housepainting
light painting
like painting the Forth Bridge
matter painting
nonpainting
oil painting
painting by numbers
painting knife
paintinglike
paintingness
painting rocks
painting the tape
pen painting
phad painting
reverse painting
sandpainting
sand painting
sculptured painting
sofa painting
soundpainting
tape painting
text painting
tone painting
underpainting
wall-painting
word painting
Related terms: painter
adnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adnate
form: most adnate
Etymology: From Latin adnatus, past participle of variant form of agnascor (“born or growing at or upon”).
Senses: examples: text: Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem.
text: An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament.
text: The ovary is more adnate to the calyx than in any other species of the genus.
ref: 1889, John Gilbert Baker, Handbook of the Bromeliaceae, page 116:
text: Morphologically and chemically X. isidiigera is also similar to X. australasica, but the isidia are typically thinner and more coralloid branched and the thallus more adnate in the latter species.
ref: 1995, Thomas H. Nash, Corinna Gries, J. A. Elix, A Revision of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia in South America, page 61:
text: Morphologically, Hypotrachyna kriegeri closely resembles more adnate morphotypes of H. imbricatula.
ref: 2009, Flora Neotropica, number 104, page 88:
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Linked or fused to a structure of a type different from itself; for example, attachment of a stamen to a petal is adnate, while attachment of a stamen to another stamen is connate.
examples: text: It differs from N. eleutherus by possessing a more adnate adipose fin and more prominent saddles and from N. albater by having 8 soft pectoral rays, a submarginal adipose bar, and no prominent basicaudal bar (Douglas 1972).
ref: 1988, Henry W. Robison, Thomas M Buchanan, Fishes of Arkansas, page 312:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Growing with one side adherent to a stem; applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals. in fish, having the eyes fused and unable to rotate independently
Derived terms: adnation
semiadnate
subadnate
agnate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡneɪt/
rhymes: -æɡneɪt
Forms: form: agnates
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin agnātus (“paternal kinsman”).
Senses: examples: text: A great-grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
text: Men accuse agnates of their own generation of bewitching them.
ref: 2013, John Middleton, E. H. Winter, Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa, page 203:
glosses: A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
glosses: Any paternal male relative.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure.
agnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡneɪt/
rhymes: -æɡneɪt
Forms: form: more agnate
form: most agnate
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin agnātus (“paternal kinsman”).
Senses: glosses: Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
examples: text: Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.
ref: 1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Florentine, English Visitor, and Landor”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […], →OCLC:
glosses: allied; akin
examples: text: [...] we can talk about a swim, a drink, a look, even though swim, drink and look can also show up as verbs in agnate clauses.
ref: 2013, Thomas Bloor, Meriel Bloor, The Functional Analysis of English:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having a similar semantic meaning.
Synonyms: agnatic
patrilineal
Derived terms: agnatic
agnation
good sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good sports
Senses: glosses: Someone who exhibits polite behaviour even or especially when they lose.
glosses: Someone who can take a joke or is indulgent toward being involved in others' antics.
Related terms: sportsmanship
a lot
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə ˈlɒt/
ipa: /ə ˈlɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: allot
Forms: form: alot
form: allot
Etymology: See lot.
Senses: examples: text: I have a lot of things to say.
text: A whole lot of water is flowing from under the sink.
text: Jay's seeing a lot of Linda lately.
antonyms: a bit#Pronoun
glosses: A large amount.
examples: text: A lot depends on whether your parents agree.
glosses: Many things, much.
Derived terms: a lottle
do a lot of work
a lot
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə ˈlɒt/
ipa: /ə ˈlɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: allot
Forms: form: alot
form: allot
Etymology: See lot.
Senses: examples: text: Thanks a lot for listening to me.
text: It's a lot harder than it looks.
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
synonyms: immensely
loads
tons
antonyms: word: a bit#Adverb
word: almost
word: mostly
word: slightly
coordinate_terms: somewhat
to an extent
glosses: Very much; a great deal; to a large extent.
examples: text: I go swimming a lot.
glosses: Often; frequently.
Related terms: alot
lots
a lot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə ˈlɒt/
ipa: /ə ˈlɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
homophone: allot
Forms: form: alot
form: allot
Etymology: See lot.
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, it's a lot.
glosses: Difficult to handle emotionally.
glosses: too much, busy.
glosses: dramatic, extra.
raw_tags: of a person
comics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmɪks/
ipa: /ˈkɒmɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: examples: text: [bold in original] "Comics" is the word worth defining, as it refers to the medium itself, not a specific object as "comic book" or "comic strip" do."
ref: Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by McCloud, Scott (1993) p. 4
text: Graphic Novels in Your Media Center: A Definitive Guide by Lyga, Allyson and Lyga, Barry. (June 30, 2004) p. 162, →ISBN
[bold in original] The plural of comic is typically used as a singular (as "politics" is) to refer to the entire medium or industry. Hence, "comics industry" or "comics creators."
glosses: the medium of comic books, comic strips, and other sequential art
Synonyms: sense: newspaper
word: funnies
sense: newspaper
word: funny pages
sense: newspaper
word: funny papers
Derived terms: Comicsgate
Related terms: comic book
graphic novel
comics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmɪks/
ipa: /ˈkɒmɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of comic
obesity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə(ʊ)ˈbiːsɪti/
ipa: /oʊˈbisɪti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
ipa: /ə(ʉ)ˈbiːsɪti/
ipa: /ɐ(ʉ)ˈbiːsɪti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
ipa: /oʊˈbɛzɪti/
Forms: form: obesities
Etymology: From French obésité, from Latin obēsitās, from obēsus (“fat”). By surface analysis, obese + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: While the majority of individuals with severe obesity are able to maintain eucapnia, a significant minority will develop obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS), characterized by alveolar hypoventilation (PaCO 2 > 45 mmHg) unexplained by other disorders.
ref: 2015 July 4, Vilma E. Ortiz, Jean Kwo, “Obesity: physiologic changes and implications for preoperative management”, in BMC Anesthesiology, volume 15, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The state of being obese.
Derived terms: antiobesity
autobesity
diabesity
energy obesity
globesity
hyperobesity
infobesity
morbid obesity
nonobesity
obesity hypoventilation syndrome
preobesity
superobesity
edutainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈteɪn.mənt/
ipa: /ˌɛd.jʊˈteɪn.mənt/
ipa: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.əˈteɪn.mənt/
ipa: /ˌɛd͡ʒ.ʊˈteɪn.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪnmənt
Forms: form: edutainments
Etymology: Blend of education + entertainment.
Senses: examples: text: In the three years since its beginning, the firm has managed to achieve lift-off into what is essentially the first mass market for vertical software in “edutainment,” software designed to be both educational and entertaining.
ref: 1984 September 3, Alexander Besher, “Inside HES”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 49:
glosses: Educational entertainment, a form of programming (cinematic, television, live action, games or any material) that provides both education and entertainment.
Related terms: infotainment
tittytainment
slather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slathers
form: slathering
form: slathered
form: slathered
Etymology: Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide".
For the sense "to rain", compare East Frisian sladdern and northern German schladdern ("to rain noisily").
Senses: examples: text: I slathered jam on my toast.
glosses: To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.
examples: text: I slathered my toast with jam.
glosses: To apply generously upon.
raw_tags: followed by with
glosses: To squander.
examples: text: ... rain had fallen all night and it was slathering down in sheets now. That didn't add to my good humor none.
ref: 1918, The Green Book Magazine, page 949:
text: ... rain still slathered down out of the rubbery black sky. "Why is the sarge always pickin' on us?" asked Ortwingle sorrowfully as the water drenched down the collar of his raincoat. "I figger maybe we are dependable," Smoot[…]
ref: 1941, Esquire:
glosses: To rain.
slather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæðə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -æðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slathers
Etymology: Unknown; attested from early 19th century, in the sense "to slip, slide".
For the sense "to rain", compare East Frisian sladdern and northern German schladdern ("to rain noisily").
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.
examples: text: [The river] Ván in SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.
ref: 1983, Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177
glosses: Drool (especially if abundant).
examples: text: Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.
ref: 1919, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 24, in Rainbow Valley:
glosses: A generous or abundant quantity.
Derived terms: open slather
viscosity printing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: printmaking
glosses: An intaglio method whereby multiple colors of ink may be printed simultaneously from the same plate, using inks of varying viscosity, plates with multiple levels of etching and hard and soft brayers for applying the inks to the plate.
Synonyms: intaglio simultaneous color printing
unspoilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspoilt
form: most unspoilt
Etymology: From un- + spoilt.
Senses: examples: text: Before the motorway was built, this was unspoilt countryside.
text: Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which are by no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.
ref: 2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 35:
glosses: Not spoilt, decayed or corrupted.
Synonyms: unspoiled
attitude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈætɪˌt͡ʃuːd/
ipa: /ˈætɪˌtjuːd/
ipa: /ˈætɪˌtud/
ipa: [ˈæɾɪˌtud]
ipa: /ˌatɪˈt͡ʃud/
ipa: /ˈɛːtɪtˌjuːd/
Forms: form: attitudes
form: attituding
form: attituded
form: attituded
Etymology: From French attitude, from Italian attitudine (“attitude, aptness”), from Medieval Latin aptitūdō (“aptitude”) and actitūdō (“acting, posture”), from Latin aptō and actitō. Doublet of aptitude.
Senses: examples: text: […] nymphs of quality, formed for the offices of love and of conversation, are attituded about her, each star set as it were in surrounding satellites of admirers;[…]
ref: 1823, Felix M'Donogh, The Hermit Abroad, volume 1, page 122:
text: Attituded like an inspired curling-tongs, leaning back heavily on his right leg, and throwing forward his left, his arm elevated to a level with his shoulder, the clenched fist grasping a brush that might have been available in […]
ref: 1837, William E. Burton, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 1, page 123:
text: The attituded control gyro package, electronics, APS gas supply, and the preentry electronics are mounted internally, and are distributed circumferentially at the major ring.
ref: 1971, Advances in Astronautical Sciences, American Astronautical Society, Volume 29, Part 2, page 395:
glosses: To assume or to place in a particular position or orientation; to pose.
examples: text: He attituded his way over to me, got up close, and just stood there looking at me, trying to appear threatening.
ref: 2002, Wayne Normis, The Last Street Fighter, page 33:
text: The typical characteristic attituded toward the English is coldness.
ref: 2008, Yvonne Müller, "The Absentee": an Interpretation - an Analysis of Maria Edgeworth's Novel, page 12:
text: I was really tripping, 'cause this nigga had the nerve to be attituded up when he was the one always doing something he had no business doing.
ref: 2010, R. Scott, Nine Months and a Year Later, page 82:
glosses: To express an attitude through one's posture, bearing, tone of voice, etc.
horizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹaɪ.zən/
note: Indic
ipa: /hɵˈrajzan/
Forms: form: horizons
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).
Senses: examples: text: A tall building was visible on the whole sweep of the horizon.
synonyms: skysill
skyline
glosses: The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.
examples: text: Some students take a gap year after finishing high school to broaden their horizons.
text: With clinical researchers hard at work, a new treatment is on the horizon.
text: It is because theirs has become the only explicit general philosophy of social policy held by a large group, the only system or theory which raises new problems and opens new horizons, that they have succeeded in inspiring the imagination of the intellectual.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 428:
text: The Indians of the Americas totaled no less than 70 million when the foreign conquerors appeared on the horizon; a century and a half later they had been reduced to 3.5 million.
ref: 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 38:
glosses: The range or limit of one's knowledge, experience or interest; a boundary or threshold.
examples: text: Only mortality, this irreducible and primordial horizon, that very horizon which, in Being and Time, Heidegger so compellingly revealed as the unsurpassable and defining possibility, remains.
ref: 2003, Miguel de Beistegui, Thinking with Heidegger: Displacements, →ISBN, page 157:
glosses: The range or limit of any dimension in which one exists.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specific layer of soil, or stratum
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cultural sub-period or level within a more encompassing time period.
glosses: Any level line or surface.
topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
Derived terms: absolute horizon
A-horizon
antihorizon
apparent horizon
archaeological horizon
archeological horizon
artificial horizon
Cauchy horizon
circumhorizon
comoving horizon
cosmic event horizon
cosmic light horizon
cosmological event horizon
cosmological horizon
dip of the horizon
dynamical horizon
event horizon
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin horizon
GZK horizon
horizonal
horizon effect
horizon glass
horizonless
horizon problem
horizonward
horizonwards
Hubble horizon
isolated horizon
Killing horizon
marker horizon
moral event horizon
on the horizon
particle horizon
quicksilver horizon
radar horizon
rational horizon
split horizon
subhorizon
superhorizon
time horizon
unhorizoned
Related terms: horizontal
aorist
vertical
printmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From print + making.
Senses: glosses: The field of art concerned, roughly, with the transfer of ink or paint from a plate or block or through a screen mesh to paper.
Related terms: aquatint
collagraphy
intaglio
linocut
lithography
monoprint
serigraphy
viscosity printing
woodcut
xylography
transmigration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmigrations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin trānsmigrātiō.
Senses: glosses: Departure from one's homeland to live in another country; migration.
examples: text: Any great change is like cold water in winter—one shrinks from the first plunge; and a lover may be excused who shivers a little at the transmigration into a husband.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: A change from one state of existence to another.
examples: text: The curioſity of the lady was highly inflamed, to know the hiſtory of the parrot's tranſmigration, which ſhe intreated the bird with all her eloquence to relate; but he preſented a deaf ear to her importunity, and, like a painted nightingale, remained ſilent.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 12:
text: To the strength and fierceness of barbarians they [the Dacians] added a contempt for life, which was derived from a warm persuasion of the immortality and transmigration of the soul.
ref: 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt i:
glosses: The movement of a soul from one body to another after death; metempsychosis.
Related terms: transmigrable
transmigrant
transmigrate
transmigrator
transmigratory
makeup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪkʌp/
rhymes: -eɪkʌp
Forms: form: makeups
form: make-up
form: make up
Etymology: Deverbal from make up. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”)
Senses: examples: text: To understand how a nuclear reactor works, we must first look at its makeup.
text: After the size and makeup of Congress was decided by the Founding Fathers, it was time to lawmake.
ref: 2005, Bennett Fairorth, Philadelphia Holidays 2004, Turkish Pleasures 1997, page 269:
glosses: An item's composition.
examples: text: She is wearing a lot of makeup.
synonyms: maquillage
glosses: Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
examples: text: When the water level drops, the float ball drops with it and opens the valve to the makeup water supply.
ref: 2005, William C. Whitman, William M. Johnson, John A. Tomczyk, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Technology, page 1208:
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
examples: text: “Will I get a chance to take a makeup? My mother paid for the exam.”
ref: 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, page 117:
topics: education
glosses: A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
topics: business
finance
glosses: In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.
Synonyms: word: configuration
word: constitution
word: form
word: composition
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
word: beauty products
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
word: cosmetics
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
word: product
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
word: slap
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
word: war paint
Derived terms: antimakeup
face without makeup
kabuki makeup syndrome
makeup artist
makeup call
makeup editor
makeup remover
mineral makeup
undermakeup
makeup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪkʌp/
rhymes: -eɪkʌp
Forms: form: makeups
form: makeuping
form: makeupping
form: makeuped
form: makeuped
form: makeupped
form: makeupped
form: make-up
form: make up
Etymology: Deverbal from make up. Sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”)
Senses: examples: text: I raided my closet and left Clay in my living room while I changed and makeuped in the bathroom.
ref: 2005, Wendy Roberts, Dating Can Be Deadly, Red Dress Ink, →ISBN, page 229:
text: “If we get started showering, shaving, powdering, combing, and makeupping, we just may be able to make the eleven o’clock mass at Regina Pacis.”
ref: 2009, Lou Manfredo, chapter 7, in Rizzo’s War, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 122:
text: This isn’t about plastic surgery, image management, or makeupping the facade.
ref: 2014, Michael Yankoski, “Appendix B: Almost Answered: A Q&A with the Author”, in The Sacred Year: Mapping the Soulscape of Spiritual Practice—How Contemplating Apples, Living in a Cave, and Befriending a Dying Woman Revived My Life, W Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 335:
text: And when my guests and I got bored with stuffing our mouths, makeupping our faces, and rotting our brains, we had Bethany’s collection of classic teen comedies all queued up and ready to roll.
ref: 2014, Megan McCafferty, Jessica Darling’s It List 2: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Friends, Foes & Faux Friends, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Poppy, →ISBN, page 89:
text: When Gracie emerges from her labor-intensive makeover in an airplane hangar—where she has been plucked, waxed, styled, makeuped, and dressed by an army of professionals—all eyes, including the stunned eyes of her love-interest-to-be Eric, are on her.
ref: 2016, Mari Ruti, Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of make up (“(ambitransitive) to put makeup on (someone or something)”).
cosmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒzˈmɛtɪk/
ipa: /kɑzˈmɛt.ɪk/
ipa: [kɑzˈmɛɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /kɔzˈmet.ɪk/
ipa: [kɔzˈmeɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: more cosmetic
form: most cosmetic
Etymology: From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), from κοσμητής (kosmētḗs, “orderer, director, decorator”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”), from κόσμος (kósmos, “order”). By surface analysis, cosmos + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: a cosmetic preparation
text: Firſt, rob'd in white, the nymph intent adores / With head uncover'd, the coſmetic pow'rs.
ref: 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 127:
coordinate_terms: aesthetic
glosses: Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion.
examples: text: Fortunately, the damage to the house was mostly cosmetic and a bit of paint covered it nicely.
glosses: External or superficial; pertaining only to the surface or appearance of something.
Derived terms: anticosmetic
biocosmetic
cosmeceutical
cosmetically
cosmetic dentistry
cosmeticise
cosmeticism
cosmeticize
cosmeticky
cosmeticology
cosmetic second
cosmetic surgeon
cosmetic surgery
dermocosmetic
nanocosmetic
noncosmetic
Related terms: cosmesis
cosmetics
cosmos
cosmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒzˈmɛtɪk/
ipa: /kɑzˈmɛt.ɪk/
ipa: [kɑzˈmɛɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /kɔzˈmet.ɪk/
ipa: [kɔzˈmeɾ.ɪk]
Forms: form: cosmetics
Etymology: From French cosmétique, from Ancient Greek κοσμητική (kosmētikḗ, “the art of dress and ornament”), κοσμητικός (kosmētikós), from κοσμητής (kosmētḗs, “orderer, director, decorator”), from κοσμέω (kosméō, “to order, to arrange, to rule, to adorn, to equip, to dress, to embellish”), from κόσμος (kósmos, “order”). By surface analysis, cosmos + -etic.
Senses: examples: text: These endocrine disruptors are everywhere: plastics, shampoos, cosmetics, cushions, pesticides, canned foods and A.T.M. receipts. They often aren’t on labels and can be difficult to avoid.
ref: 2021 February 20, Nicholas Kristof, “What Are Sperm Telling Us?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any substances applied to enhance the external color or texture of the skin, e.g. lipstick, eyeshadow, eyeliner; makeup.
glosses: A feature existing only on the surface.
examples: text: All depends upon circumstances—anger as much as any thing else. Interest is your only true cosmetic for smoothing the brow.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 217:
glosses: An intangible influence that improves the overall perception of some thing or situation.
Synonyms: sense: substances enhance external color or texture
word: beauty products
sense: substances enhance external color or texture
word: makeup
sense: substances enhance external color or texture
word: product
sense: substances enhance external color or texture
word: slap
sense: substances enhance external color or texture
word: war paint
Related terms: makeup
shits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Etymology: From -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of shit
shits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: the shits
Etymology: From -s.
Senses: examples: text: He had the shits for three days.
glosses: Synonym of diarrhea.
synonyms: word: diarrhea
Derived terms: give someone the shits
period shits
Related terms: shits-and-giggles
shits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Etymology: From -s.
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shit
shits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Forms: form: shiᵗˢ
Etymology: shi+ts
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of shi(ts).
capita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin capita, plural of caput.
Senses: examples: text: We will calculate the average per capita.
glosses: person
capita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin capita, plural of caput.
Senses: glosses: plural of caput
cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtiz/
rhymes: -ɪtiz
Senses: glosses: plural of city
glosses: plural of citie
onto
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.tuː/
ipa: /ˈɔn.tu/
ipa: /ˈɑn.tu/
ipa: /ˈɒn.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔn.tə/
note: before consonants
ipa: /ˈɑn.tə/
ipa: /ˈɒn.tʊ/
ipa: /ˈɔn.tʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑn.tʊ/
rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɒntə
Forms: form: on to
Etymology: From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).
Senses: examples: text: My cat just jumped onto the keyboard.
text: A new drug has just come onto the market.
text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
text: That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
ref: 2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:
antonyms: word: off
word: off of
glosses: Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
examples: text: The thought-police were onto my plans of world domination.
glosses: Aware of.
examples: text: The exponential function maps the set of real numbers onto the set of positive real numbers.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
Derived terms: back onto
be onto
be onto something
call onto the carpet
clock onto
come onto
cop onto
cotton onto
crack onto
freeze onto
get onto
glomb onto
glom onto
glomp onto
hang onto
hang onto your hat
hold onto
hold onto your hat
jump onto
latch onto
log onto
map onto
mitten onto
onto function
put onto
set onto
sign onto
stumble onto
thereonto
whereonto
wig onto
onto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.tuː/
ipa: /ˈɔn.tu/
ipa: /ˈɑn.tu/
ipa: /ˈɒn.tə/
ipa: /ˈɔn.tə/
note: before consonants
ipa: /ˈɑn.tə/
ipa: /ˈɒn.tʊ/
ipa: /ˈɔn.tʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑn.tʊ/
rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɒntə
Forms: form: on to
Etymology: From on + to, after into. Compare Saterland Frisian antou (“up to”).
Senses: examples: text: Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto, as it never takes on values less than or equal to zero.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: surjective
glosses: Attaining each of the values in its codomain; having its image equal to its codomain.
raw_tags: of a function
Related terms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: one-to-one
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: injective
topics: mathematics
sciences
word: bijective
word: unto
piles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪlz/
rhymes: -aɪlz
Senses: examples: text: Piles were sunk into the river to support the bridge.
glosses: plural of pile