cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
paramedic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæɹəˈmɛdɪk/
Forms: form: paramedics
Etymology: From para- + medic.
Senses: glosses: A person trained to medically stabilize people through various interventions for victims of trauma or medical events outside of a hospital setting and prepare them for transport to a medical facility.
glosses: A person who is licensed at the state or national level to practice medical interventions in an emergency prehospital setting.
Coordinate terms: english: functionally synonymous in some contexts but not necessarily idiomatically interchangeable
translation: functionally synonymous in some contexts but not necessarily idiomatically interchangeable
word: medic
Related terms: paraclinical
paramedical
EMS
emergency medical services
EMT
emergency medical technician
chaptalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʃæptəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
/ˌt͡ʃæptəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: chaptalisation
Etymology: From Chaptal + -ization, after Jean-Antoine Chaptal, who developed the process.
Senses: glosses: The addition of sugar to grape juice in the fermentation of wine. Usually done if the grapes are thought to lack enough natural sugars for the desired alcohol content.
wikipedia: Jean-Antoine Chaptal
sidearm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/
Forms: form: sidearms
Etymology: From side + arm.
Senses: related: word: side arm
glosses: A personal weapon, either a firearm (handgun type) or a cold weapon (such as a sword), carried on the hip in a belt, sheath, holster, etc., for rapid access.
sidearm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/
Forms: form: sidearms
form: sidearming
form: sidearmed
form: sidearmed
Etymology: From side + arm.
Senses: examples: text: His interest, aside from slinging sinkers as a sidearming right-hander, was medicine.
ref: 2009 March 19, Ben Shpigel, “Medicine’s Loss Could Be the Mets’ Gain”, in New York Times:
glosses: To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
Derived terms: sidearmer
sidearm
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌɑɹm/
Forms: form: more sidearm
form: most sidearm
Etymology: From side + arm.
Senses: glosses: With one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
chancery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃansəɹi/
Forms: form: chanceries
Etymology: From French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from Latin cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from Latin cancelli (“grating, bars”), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.
See related chancellor and chancellery, and the more distantly related incarcerate (“put behind bars”), from carcer (“prison”).
The adverbial form is an allusion to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court.
Senses: glosses: In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now exercises jurisdiction only in equity
glosses: In the United States, a court of equity; equity; proceeding in equity.
glosses: The type of building that houses a diplomatic mission or embassy.
glosses: The type of building that houses the offices and administration of a diocese; the offices of a diocese.
glosses: In the Middle Ages, a government office that produced and notarized official documents.
examples: text: The Chicken himself attributed this punishment to his having had the misfortune to get into Chancery early in the proceedings, when he was severely fibbed by the Larkey one, and heavily grassed.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: The position of a boxer's head when under his adversary's arm.
glosses: Any awkward predicament.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: Ellipsis of chancery hand.
chancery
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃænsəɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːnsəɹi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃansəɹi/
Etymology: From French chancellerie, from Late Latin cancellaria, from Latin cancellarius, from Latin cancellus (“lattice”) (English chancel), from Latin cancelli (“grating, bars”), from the lattice-work that separated a section of a church or court.
See related chancellor and chancellery, and the more distantly related incarcerate (“put behind bars”), from carcer (“prison”).
The adverbial form is an allusion to the condition of a person involved in the chancery court.
Senses: examples: text: [Round] 9. This was a scientific round on both sides; Acton got away well; and also parried some tremendous blows. The latter, however, received a chancery nobber; but he contended every inch of ground till he went down.
ref: 1823 May 14, “Sporting Intelligence”, in The Literary Humbug, number 1, page 15, Between Peter Crawley and Dick Acton:
text: 15th round. Chancery. Fibbing. Biggs makes dreadful work with his left. Break away. Rally. Biggs down. Betting still six to four on the gown-boy.
ref: 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Fight at Slaughter House”, in Men's Wives, page 17:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will.
glosses: In an awkward situation; wholly under the power of someone else.
Synonyms: in chancery
Related terms: Inns of Chancery
deathtrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθtɹæp/
Forms: form: deathtraps
form: death trap
form: death-trap
Etymology: From death + trap.
Senses: examples: text: Route 9 is a deathtrap; they should at least put up guard rails.
text: Dude, your car is a deathtrap! Get the brakes and the steering fixed.
glosses: An extremely dangerous location, structure, or device.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A plot device where a villain in a story puts a hero in an elaborate dangerous situation for the purposes of attempting a sadistic murder.
Related terms: firetrap
Starfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Starfighters
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, a jet fighter-interceptor.
machine gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machine guns
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna get you, baby / Like a machine gun, I'm gonna… Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak-Tak
ref: 1974, “I'm Gonna Get You”, performed by Eleanore Mills:
text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: Brigadier John K. Lawson's bunker on the west side of Wong Nai Chung Gap that the West Brigade used as headquarters. Brigadier Lawson and three of his men were hit by machine-gun fire escaping from the bunker on Dec. 19, 1941.
ref: 2016 December 23, Lam Yik Fei, “World - Image”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2023:
related: word: MG
hypernyms: firearm
<
gun#Noun
<
weapon#Noun
glosses: A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.
Derived terms: heavy machine gun
light machine gun
medium machine gun
submachine gun
Related terms: machine carbine
machine pistol
machine rifle
chain gun
submachine gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submachine guns
Etymology: From sub- + machine gun.
Senses: examples: text: Bare-chested children and their parents gathered in doorways, on roofs and in windows as he passed, watched warily by Brazilian troops carrying submachine guns.
ref: 2007 March 9, Jim Rutenberg, Larry Rohter, “Bush’s South America Tour Incites Fight for Attention”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
related: word: SMG
word: ;
word: submachinegun
synonyms: machine pistol
trench broom
chopper
hypernyms: MG
machine gun
<
firearm
<
gun#Noun
<
weapon#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: LMG
english: other types of machine gun
translation: other types of machine gun
word: light machine gun
word: MMG
word: medium machine gun
word: HMG
word: heavy machine gun
word: GPMG
word: general-purpose machine gun
word: ;
english: other automatic firearms
translation: other automatic firearms
word: assault rifle
word: automatic rifle
glosses: A type of short range machine gun that is carried as a personal weapon and uses pistol ammunition.
watching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɒtʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: She was watching a movie.
text: Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
ref: 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
glosses: present participle and gerund of watch
watching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɑt͡ʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈwɒtʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: watchings
Senses: examples: text: What toils and pains; what cares and watchings; how many reproofs, restraints, and corrections; how many prayers, and sighs, and tears, are employed and suffered, before this hard task can be accomplished?
ref: 1819, John Edwards Caldwell, Christian Herald and Seaman's Magazine, volume 6, page 225:
text: You will know them by their sly looks; their skulkings, peepings, watchings, and the snares they lay;—by the great papers, with great seals, that they carry; […]
ref: 1852, William Gilmore Simms, The Sword and the Distaff, page 205:
glosses: The act of one who watches.
Hyponyms: whale watching
Derived terms: binge watching
birdwatching
butterfly watching
clock-watching
hate-watching
navel-watching
peoplewatching
sunwatching
watching brief
watching out
watching over
watching paint dry
watching the birdie
watching the fur fly
watching the world go by
mahasattva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mahasattvas
Etymology: From Sanskrit महासत्त्व (mahāsattva, “a great creature, great being”).
Senses: glosses: A bodhisattva who attains a high degree on the path of consciousness awakening.
glosses: A "great bodhisattva", one explicitly defined by their devotion to salvation of all beings through bodhicitta.
Synonyms: bodhisattva
Related terms: buddha
nirvana
Mahayana
enlightenment
directors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈɹɛktɚz/
ipa: /dɪˈɹɛktəz/
ipa: /daɪˈɹɛktəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of director
descendants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛndənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of descendant
firepole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firepoles
Etymology: From fire + pole.
Senses: glosses: A fixed metal pole, installed in a multi-storey building or firehouse, that allows the occupants to quickly descend floors.
experts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.spɝts/
Senses: glosses: plural of expert
experts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.spɝts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expert
diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈziːzɪz/
ipa: /dɪˈzizɪz/
rhymes: -iːzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of disease
diseases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈziːzɪz/
ipa: /dɪˈzizɪz/
rhymes: -iːzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disease
interaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈæk.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: interactions
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin interāctiō.
Senses: examples: text: Be aware of interactions between different medications.
text: Such technologies will also “shape future human interaction with the machines we created,” he added.
ref: 2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019:
text: At the beginning of September South Western Railway withdrew its Class 442 EMUs from service due to a safety issue concerning interaction with lineside signals.
ref: 2019 October, “'442s' withdrawn due to signal interaction issues”, in Modern Railways, page 87:
glosses: The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.
examples: text: I enjoyed the interaction with a bunch of like-minded people.
text: Another 'basic' is staff interaction with customers - and here, ScotRail excelled. Every single one of them whom RAIL engaged with was polite and chatty, and some were even humorous!
ref: 2025 March 5, “Ayr miles with a 'Spirit of Scotland'”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 46:
glosses: A conversation or exchange between people.
Derived terms: autointeraction
biointeraction
cisinteraction
cyberinteraction
electromagnetic interaction
electroweak interaction
fundamental interaction
gravitational interaction
human-computer interaction
hyperinteraction
interactional
interaction design
interactionism
interactionist
interactionless
interaction matrix
interaction picture
interaction space
macrointeraction
magnetism-based interaction capture
microinteraction
nanointeraction
noninteraction
pseudointeraction
reinteraction
selfinteraction
strong interaction
strong nuclear interaction
subinteraction
transinteraction
weak interaction
weak nuclear interaction
Yukawa interaction
Related terms: interact
interactive
masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːs.təz/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of master
masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːs.təz/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tɚz/
Forms: form: masters
Senses: glosses: A master's degree.
masters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːs.təz/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of master
masters
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːs.təz/
ipa: /ˈmæs.tɚz/
Senses: examples: text: masters meet
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of or pertaining to a league or competition limited to players above a certain age or level of experience.
ties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of tie
glosses: Low shoes fastened with lacings.
ties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tie
exceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈsɛpʃənz/
ipa: /ɪkˈsɛpʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of exception
dove grey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dove greys
form: dove gray
Senses: glosses: A medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.
dove grey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dove gray
Senses: examples: text: The interior colour scheme departs from the conventional L.T. red and green upholstery and matching paintwork, which has been replaced by a maroon and grey moquette with dove grey paint below the waist rail.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
glosses: Of a medium grey colour with a slight tint of pink or blue, like that of a dove.
bodhicitta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit बोधिचित्त (bodhicitta, literally “mind of enlightenment, spirit of awakening”), from बोधि (bodhi, “awakening, enlightenment”) + चित्त (cittá, “mind, spirit, reason”).
Senses: glosses: In Mahayana Buddhism, the intense ontological aspiration to save all beings by following the bodhisattva path to enlightenment.
glosses: The bodhisattva path to nirvana.
Related terms: bhumi
buddha
Buddha-nature
enlightenment
nirvana
six perfections
sunyata
no-mind
crusade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːˈseɪd/
ipa: /kɹuˈseɪd/
ipa: /kɹʉːˈsæɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: crusades
form: Crusade
Etymology: From French croisade, introduced into English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruciāta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruciātus used as an abstract noun.
Adjectival cruciātus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century crucesignatus was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade".
Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruciāta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270.
Senses: examples: text: During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.
text: Their way lay through the hall, where hung the helm of many a bold forefather, and arms that had seen service even in the crusades.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Arrived at Home”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 87:
glosses: Any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars.
glosses: Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
examples: text: a crusade against drug abuse
qualifier: sometimes ironically
glosses: A grand, concerted effort towards some purportedly worthy cause.
examples: text: The same period that has seen social and political crusades increasingly replace religious messages in the pulpits has seen a sharp 35 percent decline in membership of the mainline Protestant denominations associated with the National Council of Churches.
ref: 1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 239:
topics: Christianity
Protestantism
government
politics
glosses: A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
glosses: A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
Derived terms: crusade bull
crusader
crusadism
crusadist
Related terms: cross
crucial
crucifer
crucifixion
crucify
excruciate
excruciation
crusade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹuːˈseɪd/
ipa: /kɹuˈseɪd/
ipa: /kɹʉːˈsæɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: crusades
form: crusading
form: crusaded
form: crusaded
form: Crusade
Etymology: From French croisade, introduced into English (in the French spelling) by 1575. The modern spelling emerges c. 1760,. Middle French croisade is introduced in the 15th century, based on Spanish cruzada (late 14th century) and Old Occitan crozada (early 13th century), both reflecting Medieval Latin cruciāta, cruxiata, the feminine singular of the adjective cruciātus used as an abstract noun.
Adjectival cruciātus originally meant "tormented; crucified", but from the 12th century crucesignatus was also used for "marked with a cross; making the sign of the cross" and eventually "taking the cross" in the sense of "going on a crusade".
Old Occitan crozada is used in the sense "[the Albigensian] crusade" in the Song of the Albigensian crusade, written c. 1213. From vernacular usage, Middle Latin cruciāta also comes to be used in the sense "crusade" from about 1270.
Senses: glosses: To go on a military crusade.
examples: text: He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.
glosses: To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
Derived terms: crusadingly
noncrusading
Related terms: holy war
jihad
eau de nil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.dəˈniːl/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.dəˈniːl/
Forms: form: eau de nils
form: eau de Nil
form: eau-de-nil
form: eau-de-Nil
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a sprawling town of upended concrete boxes tilting pastel rectangles up towards the hot sun: soft blues, prawn reds, pale chocolates, delicate eau de nils, primrose yellows[…].
ref: 1968, Alan Burgess, The Word for Love, page 241:
text: Such colouring! — slate blues, coral pinks, pale amphitrites, the wet cobblestone blue of mussels, frail sea-forget-me-nots, anemone yellows and carmines, emeralds and eau-de-nils!
ref: 2000, Ciarán Carson, Fishing for Amber, page 143:
text: He had painted the ceiling and window and doorframes an aqua green, the walls eau-de-nil.
ref: 2009, Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying, page 298:
text: Possibly the mauve one would look better,’ said Letitia, ‘although I have always been told that eau-de-nil is really my colour. By the way, could I make things up to you in some way by having you as my chief bridesmaid?
ref: 2011, Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight:
text: Eau de Nil (“water of the Nile”) is a tricky color to pin down precisely. It is a light-greenish hue, more saturated than celadon, less gray than sage. It has tan undertones and a cool bluish cast. It is, confusingly, an entirely different color from Nile green.
ref: 2018 February 13, Katy Kelleher, “Eau de Nil, the Light-Green Color of Egypt-Obsessed Europe”, in The Paris Review:
glosses: A pale green colour.
eau de nil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.dəˈniːl/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.dəˈniːl/
Forms: form: eau de Nil
form: eau-de-nil
form: eau-de-Nil
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French eau de nil (literally “water of the Nile”).
Senses: glosses: Of a pale green colour.
Related terms: english: a darker shade
translation: a darker shade
word: Nile green
dirigible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/
ipa: /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: dirigibles
Etymology: From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).
Senses: examples: text: On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship's tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 101:
text: People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down.
ref: 2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, “Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a … Chinese Spy Balloon?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
Hyponyms: blimp
nonrigid
rigid
semirigid
Zeppelin
dirigible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/
ipa: /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: more dirigible
form: most dirigible
Etymology: From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).
Senses: glosses: steerable
Derived terms: dirigibility
indirigible
Related terms: airship
balloon
barrage balloon
blimp
zeppelin
Zeppelin
exclosure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclosures
Senses: glosses: A limited area from which unwanted animals, such as domestic cattle or wildlife, are excluded by fencing or other means.
exclave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkskleɪv/
Forms: form: exclaves
Etymology: From ex- + (en)clave.
Senses: examples: text: Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.
text: While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.
ref: 2006 March 24, r, “World's smallest enclave?”, in Micro-Nations.com (MNO), archived from the original on 10 Aug 2008:
text: Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.
ref: 2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, in The Guardian:
text: France, but the shape of a giraffe, with a number of its counties belonging to Wales, with an odd little exclave far up North in Norway? That's border gore.
ref: 2022 August 24, Ruth Cassidy, “Crusader Kings 3 update looks to tone-down the 'border gore' of endless conquest”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2022:
coordinate_terms: enclave#Noun
pene-enclave#Noun
pene-exclave#Noun
glosses: A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid (accessory thyroids), or other gland.
exclave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkskleɪv/
Forms: form: exclaves
form: exclaving
form: exclaved
form: exclaved
Etymology: From ex- + (en)clave.
Senses: glosses: To separate a region in a way that turns it into an exclave.
sangha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanghas
form: samgha
form: sangh
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit सङ्घ (saṅgha, “heap, multitude, crowd”).
Senses: glosses: The community of all followers of the Buddha; the ecclesia in which the devout take refuge; those who have "entered the stream" towards nirvana; as one of the three jewels of Buddhism.
glosses: The Buddhist congregation including laypersons and the "religious" (renunciate monks and nuns who have taken vows).
Derived terms: cybersangha
Related terms: bodhicitta
Buddha-nature
dharma
enlightenment
Four Noble Truths
nirvana
six perfections
sunyata
pandit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandits
Etymology: From Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita). Doublet of pundit.
Senses: synonyms: pundit
glosses: An honorary title for a learned man or scholar.
eggshell blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eggshell blues
Senses: glosses: A delicate pale blue colour.
glosses: Robin's-egg blue.
eggshell blue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The sky was clear and eggshell blue.
ref: 2005, Gareth Roberts, Only Human, page 63:
glosses: Of a delicate pale blue colour.
six perfections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the six perfections
Senses: glosses: In Mahayana Buddhism, the six virtues which the bodhisattva must practice in their avowed pursuit of bringing all beings to enlightenment through bodhicitta; they are dana (munificence), sila (ethicality), ksanti (patience), virya (determination), dhyana (meditation), and prajna (wisdom).
Related terms: bodhicitta
bodhisattva
Buddha-nature
Dharma
enlightenment
Four Noble Truths
nirvana
prajnaparamita
sunyata
paramita
parami
fire brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire bricks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firebrick.
glosses: A bright red colour.
fire brick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a bright red colour.
whirlygig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whirlygigs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whirligig.
predictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪktəbl̩/
Etymology: From predict + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a predictable mathematical pattern
text: a boring film with a predictable ending
text: Despite the predictable squalling on some of the Twilight fanblogs, the two leads are impeccably cast.
ref: 2008, Vanity Fair, numbers 579-580, page 329:
glosses: Able to be predicted.
Derived terms: predictability
Related terms: predict
prediction
predictor
expected
possible
predictable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪktəbl̩/
Forms: form: predictables
Etymology: From predict + -able.
Senses: glosses: A predictable thing.
uninspired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪəd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more uninspired
form: most uninspired
Etymology: From un- + inspired.
Senses: glosses: Lacking inspiration; dull or dry
uninspired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪəd/
rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From un- + inspired.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uninspire
juvenescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, juven(ile) + -escence
Senses: glosses: The state of becoming young or juvenile.
raw_tags: of one's mind or spirit
Related terms: word: juvenescent
word: juvenility
word: second childhood
word: youth
word: youthfulness
larval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹvəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vəl
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to larvae:
Being a larva.
glosses: Of or relating to larvae:
Characteristic of larvae.
glosses: Of or relating to larvae:
Having the form or shape of a larva.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Undeveloped, latent.
examples: text: A period in larval stage during which student hackers hassle each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other's files, and otherwise wreak havoc, usually at the expense of the lesser users.
ref: 2023 July 12 (last accessed), “Wheel Wars”, in The Jargon File:
glosses: Immature, childlike.
Derived terms: antilarval
embryolarval
interlarval
intralarval
larval food plant
larvalization
larvally
nonlarval
paralarval
postlarval
tapeworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tāpʹwûrm'
ipa: /ˈteɪpˌwɝm/
Forms: form: tapeworms
Etymology: From tape + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
glosses: Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
A broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum.
examples: text: We used to have a lot of tapeworm down in my neck of the woods, but we don't have much now.
ref: 1967, Senator Hill, United States. Congress. Senate, Labor--Health, Education, and Welfare appropriations for 1968: Hearings before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, volume 8, page 1819:
glosses: Infection by tapeworms.
Synonyms: sense: any species of class Cestoda
word: cestode
Derived terms: armed tapeworm
beef tapeworm
dwarf tapeworm
pork tapeworm
rabbit tapeworm
red tapeworm
Related terms: bladderworm
measly
proglottid
scolex
taenia
taeniasis
cysticercosis
tapeworm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tāpʹwûrm'
ipa: /ˈteɪpˌwɝm/
Forms: form: tapeworms
form: tapeworming
form: tapewormed
form: tapewormed
Etymology: From tape + worm.
Senses: glosses: To move along in a wriggling manner, like a tapeworm.
glosses: To treat (an animal) for tapeworm infection.
kithe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪð/
rhymes: -æɪð
Forms: form: kithes
form: kithing
form: kithed
form: kithed
form: cythe
form: kyithe
form: kyith
form: keyth
form: kaith
form: kayth
form: caith
form: cuith
Etymology: From Middle English kiþen, küthen, kithen, from Old English cȳþan, from Proto-West Germanic *kunþijan, from Proto-Germanic *kunþijaną (“to make known”).
Senses: examples: text: these lines are sent by me, to keep the law and kithe my love to thee.
ref: 1606, Alexander Craig, The Amorous, London: printed by William White, New Year's Gift to Idea, page 96; republished as The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604–1631; Now First Collected, volume II, Glasgow: printed by Robert Anderson for the Hunterian Club, 1873:
text: I'll kithe a constant Palinurus to thee, […]
ref: 1609, Alexander Craig, The Poetical Recreations, Edinburgh: printed by Thomas Finlason, To His Majesty, in Name of his Noble Master, page 10; republished as The Poetical Works of Alexander Craig of Rose-Craig, 1604–1631; Now First Collected, volume III, Glasgow: printed by Robert Anderson for the Hunterian Club, 1873:
qualifier: obsolete elsewhere
glosses: To make known; to reveal.
raw_tags: in Scotland
riel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riels
Etymology: Borrowed from Khmer រៀល (riəl).
Senses: glosses: The monetary unit of Cambodia, equivalent to 100 sen or 10 kak. Symbol: ៛
oral cavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral cavities
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: mouth cavity
glosses: The cavity of the mouth, especially the part of the mouth behind the gums and teeth that is bounded above by the hard and soft palates and below by the tongue and by the mucous membrane connecting it with the inner part of the mandible.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The hollow on the lower surface of the head from which the proboscis protrudes.
raw_tags: in haustellate insects
morena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔˈɹenə/
ipa: /məˈɹenə/
ipa: /məˈɹeɪnə/
Forms: form: morenas
form: marena
Etymology: Borrowed from Sotho morena, Northern Sotho morena, Tswana morena, from mo- (personal class prefix) + rena (“to be rich, to be a leader”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Morena,’ said the old priest, ‘don't be angry with the boy.’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 93:
glosses: Someone in authority, a master or leader, especially among Sotho-speakers.
raw_tags: as a form of address
swarthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɔɹði/
Forms: form: swarthier
form: swarthiest
Etymology: Alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).
Senses: glosses: Tawny, dusky, dark.
examples: text: Their swarthy Hosts wou'd darken all our Plains, / Doubling the native Horror of the War, / And making Death more grim.
ref: 1712, Joseph Addison, Cato: A tragedy, published 1750, page 44:
glosses: Dark-skinned; black.
examples: text: the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People
ref: 1751, Benjamin Franklin, Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind:
text: Yossarian went along in Milo Minderbinder's speeding M & M staff car to police headquarters to meet a swarthy, untidy police commissioner with a narrow black mustache and unbuttoned tunic who was fiddling with a stout woman with warts and two chins when they entered his office and who greeted Milo with warm surprise and bowed and scraped in obscene servility as though Milo were some elegant marquis.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 425:
text: Such was the religion that a young, swarthy man of medium height took with him as he trudged off to the University of Erfurt in May 1501.
ref: 2016, Luther the Reformer: The Story of the Man and His Career, Second Edition, page 11:
glosses: Darker-skinned than white, but lighter-skinned than tawny; tan.
glosses: A dark grey color.
glosses: Evil, malicious.
examples: text: Mason: "Okay, how do I look, really?"
Betty: "…'Swarthy.'"
Mason: "Well, is that good?"
Betty: "Depends if you like 'swarthy.'"
Mason: "Do you like 'swarthy'?"
Betty: "Not particularly."
ref: 2003, Peter Ocko, “Curious George” (28:10 from the start), in Dead Like Me, season 1, episode 3, Vancouver: MGM, via Showtime:
glosses: Weathered, rough.
Synonyms: sense: dark-skinned
word: black
sense: dark-skinned
word: dusky
sense: dark-skinned
word: sable
sense: dark-skinned
word: sooty
swarthy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɔɹði/
Forms: form: swarthies
Etymology: Alteration of obsolete swarty, from swart + -y, from Old English sweart (“black”).
Senses: examples: text: Finally I saw all our Italian women and my mother, torn in pieces, cut up, massacred by the monsters who contended for them ; the captives, my companions, the Moors who had taken us, the soldiers, the sailors, the blacks, the whites, the swarthies, the mulattoes, and lastly, my captain himself, were all slain
ref: 1900, The Whole Prose Romances of François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire, page 70:
text: Then one of the swarthies popped a couple of shovels of coal into the small fo'c's'le stove — for it was cold that July night Down Under — and everyone began to talk.
ref: 1962, The Skipper, volume 22, page 21:
text: Hobby Lobby made a slight motion with his left hand and the swarthies froze in the desert.
ref: 1980, The secret of Sam Marlow: The Further Adventures of the Man with Bogart's Face, page 12:
text: The swarthies just stood waiting for whatever was in the air. I wanted to get up and walk away. But I didn't even budge.
ref: 1997, The Chariton Review, Volume 23, Issue 1, page 71:
text: Real controversial stuff, sure, but you know what, he was actually in the dead center of polite opinion when it came to the Negroes and the swarthies and money-grubbing kikes and all those other lovely stereotypes.
ref: 2010, Sympathy for the Devil, page 366
text: The swarthies didn't bother to threaten us this time; instead, they mocked us with catcalls and whistles, as we squeezed past them in abject humiliation.
ref: 2014, Dead Men Don't Eat Lunch, page 52
text: A school friend of mine, Gavin, one of the swarthies, organised one May afternoon a tea party at his parents' house in Cheyne Walk.
ref: 2015, Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting, page 24
glosses: A swarthy person.
speakeasy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speakeasies
form: speakeasys
Etymology: Deverbal from speak easy (= speak quietly [interj.]); for the history, see Wikipedia at speakeasy § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90:
text: Retuning^([sic]) to Gotham, he came to intimately know Manhattan's speakeasy scene. “At a speakeasy,” Hirschfeld acknowledged, “you had to be known to get in...each place had its own clientele.” Membership cards, really fake IDs, were common.
ref: 2020, David Rosen, Prohibition New York City, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 39:
synonyms: blind pig
blind tiger
glosses: An illegal saloon or tavern, especially one operated during the American Prohibition period in the 1920s.
Derived terms: smokeasy
open house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open houses
Senses: examples: text: He keeps a kind of open house for all the respectable young men of the town who are staying in lodgings.
ref: 1839, Samuel Butler, The Hand-Book for Australian Emigrants: Being a Descriptive History of Australia, page 67:
text: My secrets cry aloud.
I have no need for tongue.
My heart keeps open house,
My doors are widely swung.
ref: 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 3:
text: The founding secretary and treasurer are a well-known gay couple retired to the arid Mal[l]ee (a kind of small eucalypt tree) country near Swan Reach, about an hour and a half drive from Adelaide, where they keep virtually open house for gay men.
ref: 1997, Les K. Wright, The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture, page 227:
glosses: A house habitually kept open to callers.
examples: text: Over the year, we had been invited to many people′s homes, enjoying good food and warm hospitality. It had not been possible for us to reciprocate in every case, so we decided to invite everyone to an open house ‘barbie’-cum-buffet in order to say a mass farewell.
ref: 2006, Geoff Porter, Little Bites of Australia, page 265:
text: Visitors to the Wests′ weekend open houses would often include Gore Vidal, David Niven, Vatican power brokers, ex-Queen Frederica of Greece and members of various superrich families, including the Vanderbilts, Guggenheims and von Furstenbergs.
ref: 2011, Kate Askew, Dot. Bomb Australia: How We Wrangled, Conned and Argie-Bargied Our Way into the New Digital Universe, page 44:
glosses: An event, often in one's home, at which there are few restrictions regarding who and how many may attend.
glosses: An event during which a facility or institution is open to the public for inspection or tour.
examples: text: We′re holding an open house this weekend at 77 Parkway Road.
text: I took my sign out of the boot and put it up that morning, then arranged the advertising and open house viewings as soon as I returned to my office.
ref: 2009, Peter Yong Huang, The Australian Dream and $1 Properties, page 133:
text: Avoid boredom. Avoid starvation. Why hang around a homeowner′s refrigerator all day while sitting at a deadbeat open house? Do what they have done in Australia for years. Hold multiple open houses in one day.
ref: 2011, Danielle Kennedy, Warren Jamison, How to List and Sell Real Estate, 4th edition, page 155:
glosses: A period of time, usually several hours in a day, during which a house which is for sale is open for inspection or tour by interested parties.
topics: education
glosses: A casual school event where the school invites parents or guardians to tour their child's school and meet the teachers.
Synonyms: sense: casual event for inspecting facility
word: open day
Zhejiang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃəˈt͡ʃjɑŋ/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈt͡ʃjɑːŋ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈd͡ʒjɑŋ/
enpr: jûʹjyängʹ
enpr: jǔʹjē-ängʹ
rhymes: -ɑːŋ
Forms: form: Zhe Jiang
form: Chekiang
form: Che-chiang
form: Chê-chiang
form: Che-keang
form: Che-kyang
form: Chequiam
form: Jhejiang
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 浙江 (literally “crooked river”), from a former name of the Qiantang River.
Senses: examples: text: The kiln site actually responsible for such refinement has so far not been located. Shao-hsing, Chechiang Province, is commonly considered their point of origin since so many jars have been unearthed from tombs in that district.[...]It would take until the late third century for the potters of Chechiang to reduce the amount of oxygen in their kilns to the extent necessary for the formation of the glaze color which we call celadon green.
ref: [1982, Jenifer Neils, editor, The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 85:
text: In the eastern province of Zhejiang, drivers are tested at highway exits before they can enter.
ref: 2022 May 25, John Liu, “China pushes for regular mass testing in ‘zero-Covid’ pursuit.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 May 2022, Daily Covid Briefing:
text: But Wang, who ran a bubble tea shop in an economic backwater in eastern China, says he has neither the money nor the skills to look for a school or job in the US.
After graduating from a vocational high school in 2008, Wang worked in graphic design for a few years in eastern Zhejiang province. Frustrated by low wages and stagnant career growth, he switched to online retail, riding a boom in China’s internet sector.
ref: 2022 August 17, Yong Xiong, Selina Wang, Nectar Gan, “‘I want freedom’: One man’s escape from zero-Covid China to seek his American dream”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2022:
glosses: A coastal province in eastern China, running from Hangzhou Bay to Fujian. Capital: Hangzhou.
Derived terms: Zhejiangese
vamos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When he wishes to leave, he does not say with the Yankee, "Well, we'd better be a goin'," but "Let's vamos," or "Let's vamos the ranche."
ref: 1854, Philip Paxton, A Stray Yankee in Texas, page 117:
glosses: Obsolete form of vamoose.
lets go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of let go
lets go
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of let's go.
Delacruz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delacruzes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish de la Cruz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
Delosreyes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delosreyeses
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish de los Reyes.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
foodstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːdˌstʌf/
Forms: form: foodstuffs
Etymology: From food + stuff.
Senses: coordinate_terms: drinkstuff
feedstuff
glosses: A material that may be used as food or as an ingredient of food.
Derived terms: agrifoodstuff
randomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: randomizes
form: randomizing
form: randomized
form: randomized
Etymology: From random + -ize.
Senses: glosses: US and Oxford British English standard spelling of randomise.
flunkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌŋki/
rhymes: -ʌŋki
Forms: form: flunkeys
form: flunkies
form: flunkie
form: flunky
Senses: examples: text: “One marble hall, with staircase complete, one butler and three flunkeys to receive a retired sojer who dares to ring the bell. D'you know, old boy, I gave my bowler to the butler, whangee to one flunkey, gloves to another, and there was the fourth poor blighter looking like an orphan at a Mothers' Meeting. …"
ref: 1929, Baldwyn Dyke Acland, chapter 2, in Filibuster:
text: For fifty years, then, five times a week, the packet steamers came and went along that superb stretch of blue water, the trains rattled down the wooded valley of the pill, and their passengers rested and refreshed themselves in thriving New Milford, where flunkeys bowed before the best hotel. Those are the days which Neyland people, especially the older ones, recall with pride.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, pages 629-630:
text: Dignified flunkies in the circular reception hall of the Ritz took my bag and briefcase and I came through the revolving door looking for Renata.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 304:
glosses: An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).
glosses: An unpleasant, snobby or cringeworthy person.
Derived terms: flunkeydom
flunkeyhood
flunkeyish
flunkeyism
Related terms: english: possibly false cognate
translation: possibly false cognate
word: flunker
word: lackey
cockblock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cockblocks
form: cockblocking
form: cockblocked
form: cockblocked
form: cock block
Etymology: From rhyming compound of cock + block; likely a back-formation from cockblocker. First use appears c. 1972. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: [T]o COCK BLOCK: to interfere with a male's attempt to 'win over' a female, even if the other male is not interested in the female himself.
ref: [1972, Edith Folb, A Comparative Study of Urban Black Argot: Final Report, page 135:
text: Excitement surged through him and his groin tingled tight. He heard himself growling low in his throat. At his stop he considered staying on. Maybe she would get off without the dude. Cockblocking chump motherfucker.
ref: 1986, A. R. Flowers, De mojo blues: de quest of HighJohn de conqueror, page 94:
glosses: To make or attempt to make another's intended goal of romantic relationship or sexual intercourse impossible.
glosses: To prevent someone from achieving a goal, aggressively getting in the way (e.g., an intentionally difficult level of a video game).