cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
administrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ədˈmɪnɪstɹeɪt/
Forms: form: administrates
form: administrating
form: administrated
form: administrated
Etymology: * archaic: Latin administrātus, past participle of administrō.
* modern: Back-formation from administration (from Latin administrātiō, also from administrō)
(The exact etymology is disputed, see note below.)
Senses: glosses: to administer
examples: text: The job is to administrate the network.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the act or function of providing maintenance and general housekeeping for computer systems, networks, peripheral equipment, etc.
Derived terms: coadministrate
Related terms: administer
administration
administrative
administrator
Eastern Orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
svastika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: svastikas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swastika.
jet lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet lags
form: jetlag
Etymology: Possibly coined by Horace Sutton in 1966.
Senses: examples: text: She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien’s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: jet syndrome
word: circadian dysrhythmia
topics: medicine
sciences
word: desynchronosis
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A physical condition caused by crossing time zones during flight; often the result of disruption to the circadian rhythms of the body.
Derived terms: jet-lagged
jet-lagger
jet-lagging
jetlaggy
social jet lag
sui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suis
Senses: related: word: suey
glosses: Clipping of suicide.
Related terms: sooey
sulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sullas
form: sullah
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੁੱਲਾ (sullā, “Muslim (derogatory)”). This word is likely a mispronunciation (or perhaps a misspelling in Gurmukhi script) of Punjabi ਮੁੱਲਾ (mullā, “mullah, Islamic religious leader”), derived from Classical Persian ملا (mullā), ultimately from Arabic مُلَّا (mullā). It may also be a contraction of Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਮਾਨ (muslamān, “Muslim”) or Punjabi ਮੁਸਲਾ (muslā, “another derogatory term for Muslims, but also refers to a mat or carpet used for Muslim prayers”).
Senses: glosses: A Muslim man; especially one from Pakistan.
Synonyms: word: mulla
word: musalla
Related terms: word: sulli
word: mulli
english: equivalent term for Muslim women
translation: equivalent term for Muslim women
word: musalli
word: sikhra
alt: from sikra, sikrey, lit. lice-ridden one(s); an anti-Sikh slur used by Pakistanis, particularly Mirpuris, in reference to Sikhs' long unshaven hair
word: sikhrey
grit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
Senses: examples: text: The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
glosses: A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
glosses: A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
examples: text: These cookies seem to have grit from nutshells in them.
glosses: Small, hard, inedible particles in food.
examples: text: I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
glosses: A measure of the size of abrasive grains, such as those on sandpaper, and thus their relative coarseness or fineness; the smaller the number, the coarser the abrasive: thus, 60 is rough, 600 is fine, and 3000 is ultrafine.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
examples: text: That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
text: They came to a rising ground , not sharp , but long ; and here youth and grit and sober living told more than ever.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co.:
text: If you are overcome by a man of grit, he insolently makes you conscious of your own weakness
ref: 1880, Edwin Percy Whipple, Success and Its Conditions:
text: Although working under very unpleasant conditions they never grumbled, and to the end showed continuous grit; and in addition to this several examples of sheer heroism were displayed.
ref: 1941 April, “Notes and News: Railwaymen and Snow”, in Railway Magazine, page 178:
text: But what their admirers call grit and critics deem shamelessness can overshadow another essential element of the Clinton school: a willingness to put on the hair shirt of humility to regain power.
ref: 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, it’s not hard to be humble in an effort to regain power”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2015:
glosses: Strength of mind; courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
Derived terms: grit cell
gritless
gritrock
gritsome
gritten
gritter
grittish
gritty
peagrit
road grit
true grit
Yorkshire grit
Related terms: grind
grindstone
sand
sandy
sandblasting
debris
mortar and pestle
swarf
grit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: grits
form: gritting
form: gritted
form: gritted
form: grit
form: grit
Etymology: With early modern vowel shortening, from Middle English grete, griet, from Old English grēot, from Proto-West Germanic *greut, from Proto-Germanic *greutą. Compare grist.
Senses: examples: text: We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
text: He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
glosses: Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
glosses: To cover with grit.
examples: text: The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread
ref: 1767, Oliver Goldsmith, An Author's Bedchamber:
glosses: To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
Derived terms: grit one's teeth
regrit
grit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: grits
Etymology: From Middle English *gryt (“bran, chaff”), from Old English grytt, from Proto-West Germanic *gruti (“coarsely ground bits”), ablaut variant of Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-. See above. Doublet of goetta.
Senses: glosses: Husked but unground oats.
examples: text: grits and eggs
text: ham and grits
glosses: Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
Related terms: groat
grout
gruel
minimum connecting time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimum connecting times
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: The amount of time, agreed in advance between airlines and airport authorities, that is considered sufficient for a passenger to make a connection between an arriving flight and a departing flight on the same ticket.
Alabama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ă-lə-bă'-mə
ipa: /ˌæ.ləˈbæmə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ələˈbɑma/
note: Indic
ipa: /ələˈbæma/
rhymes: -æmə
Forms: form: Alabamas
Etymology: Probably from French Alibamou or Alibamon, from Spanish Alibamo, from Alabama albaamo, the name for a member of a people native to the area.
Senses: synonyms: Alibamu
glosses: An indigenous Muscogee people of central Alabama.
glosses: A member of these people.
Alabama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ă-lə-bă'-mə
ipa: /ˌæ.ləˈbæmə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ələˈbɑma/
note: Indic
ipa: /ələˈbæma/
rhymes: -æmə
Etymology: Probably from French Alibamou or Alibamon, from Spanish Alibamo, from Alabama albaamo, the name for a member of a people native to the area.
Senses: examples: text: That’s right. In fact, a law which passed in Mississippi is so restrictive, it could close the one remaining abortion clinic they have in the entire state, meaning a Mississippi woman, right now, could be saying to herself, “I need to go someplace more progressive like Alabama.”
ref: 2014 November 2, “State Legislatures and ALEC”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 23, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
text: So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
ref: 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN:
glosses: A state of the United States. Capital: Montgomery. Largest city: Birmingham.
glosses: A river in Alabama; flowing 318 miles from the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa near Coosada until its confluence with the Tombigbee, forming the Mobile, near Calvert.
synonyms: Alibamu
glosses: A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.
glosses: A town in New York; named for the state.
synonyms: Bama
coordinate_terms: Alabama State
Bama State
ASU
glosses: Ellipsis of University of Alabama.
Derived terms: AL
Alabam'
Alabama hot pocket
Alabama Lane cake
Alabama-like
Alabaman
Alabama River
Alabama rot
Alabama slammer
Alabama wind chime
Alabamian
alabamine
alabamium
Florabama
Floribama
repair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: repairs
form: repairing
form: repaired
form: repaired
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: repair
form: repair
form: repaired
form: repair
form: repairest
form: repaired
form: repairedst
form: repairs
form: repaireth
form: repaired
form: repair
form: repaired
form: repair
form: repaired
form: repair
form: -
form: repairing
form: repaired
Etymology: Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”).
Senses: examples: text: to repair a house, a road, a shoe, a ship
text: to repair a shattered fortune
text: Secret refreſhings, that repair his ſtrength,
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 44:
text: Do thou, as thou art wont, repair / My heart with gladness,
ref: 1807, William Wordsworth, “To the Daisy”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 96:
glosses: To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
examples: text: to repair a loss or damage
text: I'll repair the misery thou dost bear.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
glosses: To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
Synonyms: word: amend
word: correct
word: fix
word: fix up
word: kludge
word: make whole
word: mend
word: patch
word: put to rights
word: rectify
word: reform
word: remediate
word: remedy
word: renew
word: renovate
word: restore
word: restrive
word: revamp
Hypernyms: word: alter
Derived terms: repairable
reparable
repairer
right to repair
Related terms: word: improve
repair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: repairs
Etymology: Coined between 1300 and 1350 from Middle English repairen, from Middle French reparer, from Latin reparō (“renew, repair”).
Senses: examples: text: I took the car to the workshop for repair.
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that[…]means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in dire need of repair.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
glosses: The act of repairing something.
examples: text: If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.
glosses: The result of repairing something.
examples: text: The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.
text: The 1300 class (Nos. 1301-16), one of which was damaged beyond repair in an accident, are Co-Cos, weigh 111 tons and have a top speed of 85 m.p.h.
ref: 1962 March, J. M. Tolson, “The Netherlands Railways today—I”, in Modern Railways, page 172:
text: Thirteen houses were damaged beyond repair, and much of the rest of the town suffered broken windows and lost slates.
ref: 2020 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
Derived terms: chancel repair liability
disrepair
in bad repair
in good repair
mismatch repair cancer syndrome
repair heddle
repair shop
right of repair
self-repair
Related terms: reparation
reparative
repair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: repairs
Etymology: From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.
Senses: examples: text: our annual repair to the mountains
text: The king sent a proclamation for their repair to their houses.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641, Oxford: The Theater:
glosses: The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
examples: text: There the fierce winds his tender force assail / And beat him downward to his first repair.
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
repair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: repairs
form: repairing
form: repaired
form: repaired
Etymology: From Middle English repairen (“to return”), from Old French repairier, from Late Latin repatriare (“to return to one's country”), from re- + patria (“homeland”). Cognate to repatriate.
Senses: examples: text: to repair to sanctuary for safety
text: Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair.
ref: c. 1699 – 1703, Alexander Pope, “The First Book of Statius His Thebais”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
text: At the hour of half-past five we repaired to our engagement.
ref: 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XVI, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: At a late hour, after I had been in bed some time, I heard the visitors repair to their chambers:
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109:
text: That finished, I repaired to my room, one flight up, and, after a thorough wash, seated myself, pipe in mouth, at the little window that opened on the Rue Garde.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 47:
text: [...] the train engine uncouples and either backs on to the up through line to await its next duty or repairs to the motive power depot.
ref: 1960 April, B. Perren, “Resorts for Railfans -30: Bournemouth”, in Trains Illustrated, page 239:
glosses: To transfer oneself to another place.
Synonyms: word: amend
word: correct
word: fix
word: fix up
word: kludge
word: make whole
word: mend
word: patch
word: put to rights
word: rectify
word: reform
word: remediate
word: remedy
word: renew
word: renovate
word: restore
word: restrive
word: revamp
Hypernyms: word: alter
Derived terms: repatriate
Related terms: word: improve
repair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ˈriːpɛə/
ipa: /ˈriːpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɛɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈpɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: repairs
form: repairing
form: repaired
form: repaired
form: re-pair
Etymology: From re- + pair.
Senses: examples: text: Please try to repair the two earbuds to each other. Place both earbuds back into the charging case, wait for four seconds, then open it and see if they have been repaired with one another.
glosses: To pair again.
Synonyms: word: amend
word: correct
word: fix
word: fix up
word: kludge
word: make whole
word: mend
word: patch
word: put to rights
word: rectify
word: reform
word: remediate
word: remedy
word: renew
word: renovate
word: restore
word: restrive
word: revamp
Hypernyms: word: alter
Related terms: word: improve
codeshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codeshares
Etymology: From code + share, because of the change in the flight's two-letter airline identity code. One aircraft will have two or more codes and flight numbers.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route network without the costs of running a full service.
codeshare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: codeshares
form: codesharing
form: codeshared
form: codeshared
Etymology: From code + share, because of the change in the flight's two-letter airline identity code. One aircraft will have two or more codes and flight numbers.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To buy space on (a flight) in this way.
pommie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒmi/
Forms: form: pommies
form: pommy
Etymology: From pom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
Senses: examples: text: “It′ll be a long time before I do that,” the pilot said grimly. “She′s my Queen as well as yours, you know. I′m not a bloody Pommie.”[…]“Too right, it′s difficult,” the Australian said. And then he added, “All Pommies aren′t bloody. I used that as a kind of figure of speech.”
ref: 1953, Nevil Shute, In the Wet, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: A Pommie. They were sending him to England to work with a Pommie. After all that he had done for this country they were shipping him off to a cold, rain-infested, windy little isle to work a case with a Pommie.
ref: 2005, Craig Zerf, Plob, page 234:
text: There are a lot of Pommies in Australia; travelling round, looking for work, and Dad reckoned you could pay them peanuts.[…]If Sissy couldn′t go back to school, I thought she should help out more, then we wouldn′t have to hire a Pommie house girl.
ref: 2011, Ali Lewis, Everybody Jam, unnumbered page:
glosses: An English immigrant; a pom.
pommie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒmi/
Forms: form: pommy
Etymology: From pom + -ie (“diminutive suffix”). Australian from 1912.
Senses: examples: See citations at pommy.
glosses: English; British.
Related terms: pom
pommie basher
pommie wash
denature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈneɪtjə(ɹ)/
ipa: /diːˈneɪtʃə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: denatures
form: denaturing
form: denatured
form: denatured
form: denaturise
Etymology: From French dénaturer.
Senses: synonyms: denaturalize
glosses: To take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of (a thing or a person).
examples: text: While you cannot drink denatured alcohol, you can still use it to remove sticker glue from most surfaces.
glosses: To add something to (alcohol) that makes it unsuitable for consumption but leaves it suitable for most other purposes.
examples: text: Sugars are wonderfully robust materials! Unlike proteins that easily denature and coagulate, unlike fats that are damaged by air and heat and go rancid, unlike starch chains that break apart into smaller chains of glucose molecules, sugars themselves are small and stable molecules.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 12, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
text: Because the activity of an enzyme depends on its structure, any change in that structure will destroy its effectiveness. So cooking foods sufficiently will denature and inactivate any enzymes they may contain.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 15, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To alter its original form or state, especially of a protein, by heat, acidity etc.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of double-stranded DNA, specifically to split into two single strands.
glosses: To combine fissile material with nonfissile material in order to prevent its use in an atomic weapon.
Hyponyms: downblend
Derived terms: codenature
denatonium
denaturability
denaturable
denaturant
denaturation
denaturer
denaturization
denaturize
nondenaturing
aril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈærɪl/
Forms: form: arils
form: arillus
Etymology: 1785. From New Latin arillus (compare modern French arille and the English doublet arillus), from Medieval Latin arilli.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.
Derived terms: arillate
arillode
plantain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæntɪn/
ipa: /ˈplæn.teɪn/
ipa: /ˈplæntɪn/
ipa: /ˈplæn.teɪn/
ipa: /ˈplɑːntɪn/
ipa: [ˈplaː(n)ʔn̩]
Forms: form: plantains
Etymology: From Spanish plantano (obsolete variant of plátano), from Latin platanus, from Ancient Greek πλάτανος (plátanos).
Senses: glosses: A plant in the genus Musa, the genus that includes banana, but with lower sugar content than banana.
examples: text: We were sitting at the tables in the port, eating an unhurried breakfast of delicious mojarra fish from the swamp and slices of fried green plantain, when my mother resumed the offensive in her personal war.
ref: 2002, Edith Grossman, transl., chapter 1, in Living to Tell the Tale, translation of Vivir para contarla by Gabriel García Márquez:
glosses: The fruit of the plant, usually cooked before eating and used like potatoes.
Derived terms: word: banana plantain
taxonomic: Heliconia spp.
word: bastard plantain
word: bocadillo plantain
word: cooking plantain
alt: Musa × paradisiaca vars.
word: French plantain
word: plantain cutter
word: plantain eater
english: Musophagidae
translation: Musophagidae
word: plantain-eater
taxonomic: Callosciurus notatus
word: plantain squirrel
taxonomic: Platanus spp.
word: plantain tree
alt: Musa × paradisiaca vars.
word: true plantain
taxonomic: Heliconia spp.
word: wild plantain
shelf life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelf lives
form: shelflife
Senses: glosses: The length of time a product (especially food and drugs) will last without deteriorating or without being sold.
synonyms: storage life
glosses: The maximum time a packaged material can be stored under specific conditions and still meet the performance requirements specified.
examples: text: As earnest and heartfelt as Maynard's plea for the end of Harambe image macros is, his best course of action is probably just to wait a few more weeks until the joke has dried up. Harambe may have a better shelf life than Damn Daniel or whatever, but there's no way its got the legs of "Smooth."
ref: 2016 August 22, “The Cincinnati Zoo Really Hates Your Harambe Memes”, in VICE, archived from the original on 27 May 2023:
text: When looking at the company’s future challenges this way, Netflix’s big bet on gaming tracks. It creates new ways to extend the shelf life of content and characters that are already resonating with viewers. But what would Netflix games even look like?
ref: 2021 July 21, Catie Keck, “Netflix thinks games matter more than buying movie studios”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2023:
glosses: The length of time that something is popular or fashionable.
Related terms: expiration date
sell-by date
correspondence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏ"rĭspŏn'dəns
ipa: /ˌkɒɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/
ipa: /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɑn.dəns/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɑn.dəns/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌkoɹ.ɪˈspɒn.dəns/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌkoɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
ipa: /ˌkɑ.ɹəˈspɑn.dəns/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.ɪˈspɔn.dəns/
ipa: /ˌkɔɹ.əˈspɔn.dəns/
ipa: /ˌkɒɹ.əˈspɒn.dəns/
ipa: [ˌkɔ̟ɹ.əˈspɔ̟n.dəns]
note: Indic
ipa: /kərəsˈpɔɳɖəɳs/
Forms: form: correspondences
Etymology: From Middle English correspondence, from Latin correspondentia. By surface analysis, correspond + -ence.
Senses: glosses: Mutual communication or discourse:
Friendly discussion.
glosses: Mutual communication or discourse:
Reciprocal exchange of civilities, especially conversation between persons by means of letters.
glosses: Mutual communication or discourse:
Newspaper or news stories.
examples: text: I'm doing time in Oklahoma and really would appreciate some correspondence.
ref: 1985 April 13, Michael Harmon, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 14:
glosses: Mutual communication or discourse:
Postal or other written communications.
glosses: Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
An agreement of situations or objects with an expected outcome.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
A relation.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Congruity or similarity between different things, people, etc:
A similarity between physical and spiritual things (e.g. light to wisdom, or warmth to love)
Derived terms: correspondence chess
correspondence course
correspondence principle
Curry-Howard correspondence
grapheme-phoneme correspondence
incorrespondence
law of correspondence
lexical correspondence
noncorrespondence
Robinson-Schensted correspondence
tapespondence
Related terms: correspondent
haggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡəl/
rhymes: -æɡəl
Forms: form: haggles
form: haggling
form: haggled
form: haggled
Etymology: 1570s, "to cut unevenly" (implied in haggler), frequentative of Middle English haggen (“to chop”), variant of hacken (“to hack”), equivalent to hack + -le. Sense of "argue about price" first recorded c.1600, probably from notion of chopping away.
Senses: examples: text: I haggled for a better price because the original price was too high.
text: ‘I am pretty useless at haggling. Haggling means asking the seller to sell stuff below the asking price.’
ref: 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:
text: Last month, while officials from Washington and Beijing were haggling over whether to roll back tariffs that had brought their trade to a standstill, Chinese companies announced plans to invest about $4.7 billion in Brazil.
ref: 2025 June 20, Meaghan Tobin, “Chinese Companies Set Their Sights on Brazil”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller.
examples: text: Suffolk first died, and York, all haggled o'er, / Comes to him, where in gore he lay insteeped.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
text: I catched a catfish and haggled him open with my saw, and towards sundown I started my camp fire and had supper. Then I set out a line to catch some fish for breakfast.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hack (cut crudely)
examples: June 30, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
Royalty and science never haggled about the value of blood.
glosses: To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle.
Synonyms: sense: to argue for a better deal
word: bargain
sense: to argue for a better deal
word: chaffer
Derived terms: haggler
higgle-haggle
unhaggling
wraggle
Related terms: bargain
negotiate
succinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səkˈsɪŋkt/
ipa: /səˈsɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: more succinct
form: most succinct
Etymology: From Middle English succinte, succynt, from Old French succinct, from Latin succinctus, perfect passive participle of succingō (“gird from below”), from sub + cingō (“gird, wrap, surround”).
Senses: examples: text: You should give clear, succinct information to the clients.
text: But he made the truth very comfortable, and gave a succinct statement of the young man's brilliant beginnings.
ref: 1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., “Experience”, in Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC, page 118:
text: Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XLIX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
text: The Derby Carriage Works foreman, when informed that this coach was to be run at 90 m.p.h. to obtain information on bogie hunting, is reported to have offered one succinct word of advice - "Don't!"
ref: 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 94:
synonyms: word: concise
word: laconic
word: brief
word: concise
word: crisp
word: laconic
word: lapidary
word: short-winded
word: succinct
word: tight
word: to the point
word: taut
word: terse
glosses: Brief and to the point.
examples: text: Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.
glosses: Compressed into a tiny area.
glosses: Wrapped by, or as if by a girdle; closely fitting, wound or wrapped or drawn up tightly.
Derived terms: succinctness
succinctly
umbrella term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbrella terms
Senses: examples: text: “Cryptology” is an umbrella term that encompasses cryptography and cryptanalysis.
text: Transmasculine is an umbrella term referring to individuals who were assigned to a female gender role at birth but at some point come to self-identify as men, or with some other masculine identity, rather than seeing themselves as women.
ref: 2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:
ref: 2017, Michael R. Kauth, Jillian C. Shipherd, Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals, Routledge, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: blanket term
word: hypernym
topics: technical
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
glosses: A term used to cover a broad category of things rather than a single specific item.
LD50
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LD50s
Etymology: Abbreviation of lethal dose 50%.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: The amount of a substance required to kill half of a given population; a measure of toxicity.
Synonyms: semilethal dose
Related terms: IC50
effective dose
moiré
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mwaˈɹeɪ/
other: /mɔˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: moirés
Etymology: From French moiré (“watered, clouded”).
Senses: glosses: A pattern that emerges when two grids are superimposed over one another, sometimes unintended or undesirable in many applications, such as in weaving, screenprinting, and halftoning.
glosses: A fabric, often silk, which has a watery or wavelike appearance.
Derived terms: moiré pattern
moiré
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mwaˈɹeɪ/
other: /mɔˈɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: moirés
form: moiréing
form: moiréed
form: moiréed
form: moiréd
form: moiréd
Etymology: From French moiré (“watered, clouded”).
Senses: glosses: To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface).
drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: drums
form: drumming
form: drummed
form: drummed
Etymology: Perhaps back-formation from drumslade (“drummer”), from Middle Dutch trommelslach (“drumbeat”), from trommel (“drum”) + slach (“beat”) (Dutch slag).
Or perhaps borrowed directly from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”) et al. Compare also Middle High German trumme, trumbe (“drum”), Old High German trumba (“trumpet”).
Senses: glosses: To beat a drum.
examples: text: The ruffed grouse drums with his wings.
text: drumming with his fingers on the arm of his chair
ref: 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To beat with a rapid succession of strokes.
examples: text: He’s still trying to drum Spanish verb conjugations into my head.
text: Those long ago memories of gnawing sexuality clashing against drummed in prejudice.
ref: 1978 December 9, Pat M. Kuras, “A Splice of Lesbian Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 11:
glosses: To drill or review in an attempt to establish memorization.
examples: text: Now, heart, […]thou shalt drum no more.
ref: 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: To throb, as the heart.
glosses: To go about, as a drummer does, to gather recruits, to draw or secure partisans, customers, etc.; used with for.
examples: text: "There is the snipe drumming also. We shall have it fine!" he added, with an air of conviction.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
glosses: Of various animals, to make a vocalisation or mechanical sound that resembles drumming.
Derived terms: drum into
drummer
drumming
drum out
drum up
drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: drums
Etymology: From Irish druim, Scottish Gaelic druim (“back, ridge”).
Senses: glosses: A small hill or ridge of hills.
drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: drums
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Another misfortune which befel poor Sophia, was the company of Lord Fellamar, whom she met at the opera, and who attended her to the drum.
text: [H]e was engaged in a partie of cards, at a drum in the house of a certain lady of quality […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: 'Ten o'clock, and you are lighted as for a drum!
ref: 1898, Stanley John Weyman, chapter III, in The Castle Inn:
glosses: A social gathering or assembly held in the evening.
glosses: A person's home; a house or other building, especially when insalubrious; a tavern, a brothel.
Derived terms: english: housebreaker; travelling salesman
translation: housebreaker; travelling salesman
word: drummer
drum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: drums
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Add, thinly sliced, 1/2 to 1 onion and 2 cloves of garlic also sliced, your choice of protein – chicken or turkey breast, or low fat beef, veal, lamb or pork, cut in pieces, or skinless chicken drums, and probably a little water. Then add 1/2 a cup of ...
ref: 2006, Helene Andreu, Dance, movemet, and nutrition, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 138:
text: In a large frying pan, add some canola oil and half of the chicken drums and brown them on both sides. Repeat the procedure until all drums are browned. Place them in a medium baking pan. To the browned chicken drums, add sliced onion, ...
ref: 2010, Nadejda Reilly, Ukrainian Cuisine with an American Touch and Ingredients, →ISBN, page 253:
text: 3–5 pounds chicken drums and thighs, with skin
Hot sauce to taste
1. In a gallon resealable plastic bag, add flour, pepper, and salt. Shake to mix. […]
ref: 2010, Lisa Lamme, The Gypsy Kitchen: Transform Almost Nothing into Something Delicious with Not-So-Secret Ingredients, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: Up top, a pained expression, her eating face. My mom doesn't eat for taste, she does it to stay alive. Probably wouldn't eat if she didn't have to. I grab a new chopstick and when I get back there's a chicken drum on my plate. “Thanks, Ba,” I say.
ref: 2016, Melanie Mah, The Sweetest One, Cormorant Books, →ISBN:
text: To stir the whole, he used a chicken drum.
ref: 2016, Astroglo DeCerveau, A Book of Good and Bad Things, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
text: When noon came the next day, the two guards came in with a plate of […] chicken drums and pork braised in soy sauce, plus some vegetables.
ref: 2017, Daniel Young, Stuart Barnes, Tincture Journal Issue Eighteen (Winter 2017), Tincture Journal, →ISBN:
glosses: A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
scream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹiːm/
enpr: skrīm
ipa: /skɹim/
rhymes: -iːm
Forms: form: screams
Etymology: From Middle English scremen, scræmen, probably from a fusion of Middle Dutch scremen (“to yell; shout”) and Old Norse skræma (“to terrify; scare”); compare Dutch schremen (“to shout; yell; cry”), Swedish skrämma (“to spook; frighten”), Danish skræmme (“to scare”), West Frisian skrieme (“to weep”). Compare also Swedish skräna (“to yell; shout; howl”), Dutch schreien (“to cry; weep”), German schreien (“to scream”). Related to shriek, skrike.
Senses: glosses: A loud, emphatic, exclamation of extreme emotion, especially horror, fear, excitement, or anger; it may comprise a word or a sustained, high-pitched vowel sound.
examples: text: I am tender-hearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A loud vocalisation of many animals, especially in response to pain or fear.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of singing associated with the metal and screamo styles of music. It is a loud, rough, distorted version of the voice; rather than the normal voice of the singer.
examples: text: We had a real scream of a time at the beach.
text: Amman, though not exactly your world cultural centre, is a scream of a city; all the roads have different names from their official ones, so that maps are useless
ref: 1994 June 28, “Kingdom of the faithful: Serena Mackesy visits Jordan”, in Independent:
glosses: Used as an intensifier.
qualifier: printers' slang
glosses: An exclamation mark.
Derived terms: Howie scream
primal scream
screamo
scream queen
Wilhelm scream
poser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊzə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈpoʊzɚ/
rhymes: -əʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: posers
Etymology: From pose + -er.
Senses: glosses: A particularly difficult question or puzzle.
examples: text: Even as a child, she was a habitual poser of difficult questions.
glosses: Someone who asks a question or sets a problem.
glosses: Someone who, or something which, poses; a person who sets their body in a fixed position, such as for photography or painting.
examples: text: "My boyfriend, or I should say, ex-boyfriend, used to be all dark and brooding with long, black hair, but now?!" [...] "Um, I'm pretty sure uniforms don't work that way. I think your ex might just be a big poser." "A fact I would be blissfully unaware of if not for these damn uniforms!"
ref: 2008 July 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Jul 9, 2008:
text: Started hormones and these bitches called me a trans poser / They can kill themselves, I'm turning up like a transposer
ref: 2025, Fraxiom, “i hope you know”, performed by Food House:
glosses: A poseur; someone who affects some behaviour, style, attitude or other condition, often to impress or influence others.
Derived terms: poserish
Related terms: faker
impostor
pretentious
conic section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conic sections
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the four distinct shapes that are the intersections of a cone with a plane, namely the circle, ellipse, parabola and hyperbola.
Synonyms: word: conic section
word: conic
Hyponyms: word: circle
word: ellipse
word: parabola
word: hyperbola
Derived terms: conic section directrix
cone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: cones
form: coning
form: coned
form: coned
Etymology: From Middle English cone (“corner, angle”) and conoun (“cone”), from Medieval Latin cōnus, cōnon (“cone, wedge, peak”), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone, spinning top, pine cone”). Reinforced by Middle French cone, from the same Graeco-Latin source.
Senses: glosses: To fashion into the shape of a cone.
examples: text: Under the old method the material coned at the bottom of the borehole and as a result it would not go under houses and buildings.
ref: 1971, United States. Congress. House Appropriations, Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1972 (part 3, page 69)
glosses: To form a cone shape.
examples: text: The area occupied by the works should be coned off and the usual advance warning signs should be provided on all approaches
ref: 2006, Great Britain: Department for Transport, “D5 Single Carriageway Roads”, in Traffic Signs Manual, Part 1, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, paragraph D5.12.3, page 140:
qualifier: frequently followed by "off"
glosses: To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones.
conic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'ĭk
ipa: /ˈkɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
ipa: /ˈkɔn.ɪk/
enpr: kä'nĭk
ipa: /ˈkɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɑːnɪk
note: without laxing from cone
enpr: kō'nĭk
note: Indic
ipa: /ko.nɪk/
rhymes: -əʊnɪk
Forms: form: more conic
form: most conic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κωνικός (kōnikós). By surface analysis, cone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of conical.
synonyms: word: conical
Derived terms: basiconic
biconic
coeloconic
conicity
conicoid
conic pepper
conifold
crioconic
cyrtoconic
discoconic
elliptospheroconic
gyroconic
isoconic
obconic
orthoconic
platyconic
polyconic
pseudoconic
semiconic
serpenticonic
spheroconic
styloconic
superconic
toxoconic
conic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'ĭk
ipa: /ˈkɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
ipa: /ˈkɔn.ɪk/
enpr: kä'nĭk
ipa: /ˈkɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɑːnɪk
note: without laxing from cone
enpr: kō'nĭk
note: Indic
ipa: /ko.nɪk/
rhymes: -əʊnɪk
Forms: form: conics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κωνικός (kōnikós). By surface analysis, cone + -ic.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A conic section.
Derived terms: degenerate conic
ellipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪps/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪps/
ipa: /əˈlɪps/
ipa: /iˈlɪps/
ipa: /əˈlɪps/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪps/
ipa: /əˈləps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Forms: form: ellipses
Etymology: From French ellipse. Doublet of ellipsis.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane that does not intersect the base of the cone.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis, the removal from a phrase of a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
Synonyms: english: in non-technical use
translation: in non-technical use
word: oval
Derived terms: Cassini ellipse
circle-ellipse problem
ellipsograph
ellipsometer
ellipsometry
hemiellipse
hyperellipse
hypoellipse
nanoellipse
semiellipse
ellipse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪps/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪps/
ipa: /əˈlɪps/
ipa: /iˈlɪps/
ipa: /əˈlɪps/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪps/
ipa: /əˈləps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Forms: form: ellipses
form: ellipsing
form: ellipsed
form: ellipsed
Etymology: From French ellipse. Doublet of ellipsis.
Senses: examples: In B's response to A's question:- (A: Would you like to go out?, B: I'd love to), the words that are ellipsed are go out.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To remove from a phrase a word which is grammatically needed, but which is clearly understood without having to be stated.
Related terms: ellipsis
ellipsoid
elliptic
elliptical
circle
conic section
hyperbola
parabola
parabola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹæbələ/
note: Indic
ipa: /parɑ.bɔlɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-bolɑ/
Forms: form: parabolas
form: parabolae
form: parabolæ
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin parabola, from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παραβάλλω (parabállō, “I set side by side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”). Doublet of parable, parole, and palaver.
Senses: examples: text: And it saves his life. As he's buzzing down a curving, narrow canal, a narrow green parabola appears hanging across the water in front of him, suddenly rising out of the water and snapping into a perfectly straight line at neck level.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 387:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to a tangent plane to the cone; the locus of points equidistant from a fixed point (the focus) and line (the directrix).
glosses: Synonym of parable.
synonyms: word: parable
Derived terms: paraboliform
parabolism
paraboloid
semiparabola
sporabola
Related terms: circle
conic section
ellipse
hyperbola
psyched up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psyched up
form: most psyched up
Senses: examples: text: I'm getting myself psyched up to cross the rope bridge.
glosses: In a state of heightened mental preparedness for a difficult or hazardous enterprise, or one where success is particularly sought.
Synonyms: psyched
Related terms: worked up
drongo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒŋɡəʊ
Forms: form: drongos
form: drongoes
Etymology: From Malagasy drongo.
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the genus Dicrurus.
Derived terms: black drongo
drongo-cuckoo
drongo cuckoo
drongo shrike