cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
apto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of aptophilia
Bavarian Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a wooded low-mountain region in Bavaria, Germany
hemp-nettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemp-nettles
Senses: glosses: Any weed of the genus Galeopsis in the Lamiaceae family.
hemp-nettles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemp-nettle
BFI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of brute force and ignorance.
Reliance on raw computing power (rather than, for example, an efficient algorithm).
glosses: Initialism of brute force and ignorance.
The use of raw strength or power (implying a lack of subtlety or sophistication).
BFI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /bi.ɛfˈaɪ/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of brace for impact (“a common warning from United States military units to infer a warning to brace themselves”).
BFI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Film Institute.
passe-partout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passe-partouts
Etymology: From French passe-partout.
Senses: synonyms: safe-conduct
glosses: That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
examples: text: The traditional (or modern) way of confronting complexity was to find a secure point of reference that could serve as foundation, a passe-partout, a master key from which everything else could be derived.
ref: 1998, Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 112:
synonyms: passkey
glosses: A master key.
examples: text: A new introduction for use in conjunction with passe-partout framing is a series of corner pieces which are readily folded round the corners of the finished passe-partout, giving it a certain added effect and slight embellishment.
ref: 1933, William Crookes, T. A. Malone, George Shadbolt, J. Traill Taylor, William Blanchard Bolton, Thomas Bedding, The British Journal of Photography:
synonyms: mat
matting
glosses: A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, etc., usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
minicab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicabs
Etymology: From mini- + cab.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A small car used as a taxi (rather than a traditional black cab).
glosses: Synonym of gypsy cab, an unlicensed taxi.
synonyms: word: gypsy cab
extra: an unlicensed taxi
minicab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minicabs
form: minicabbing
form: minicabbed
form: minicabbed
Etymology: From mini- + cab.
Senses: glosses: To drive a minicab.
black cab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black cabs
Etymology: From the usual black colour of officially licensed hackney carriages and motorized taxis in London, particularly after World War II.
Senses: examples: text: Black cabs may be more expensive than ubers, but their drivers are required to pass the Knowledge.
text: Sitting in a black cab as it speeds away into the traffic, I check my bag. There, hiding in the bottom corner, I find a hand and body wash with the Caledonian Sleeper logo on it. I hadn't used it.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:
glosses: An officially licensed taxi in London, now particularly those made by LTI or the London EV Company.
glosses: Similarly styled taxis elsewhere, especially officially licensed taxis elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: sense: officially licensed taxis in the UK
word: hackney carriage
delphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delphic
form: most delphic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Delphic.
glosses: Relating to a womb
Derived terms: amphidelphic
opisthodelphic
hackney carriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackney carriages
Senses: synonyms: hack cab
hackney cab
glosses: A horse-drawn carriage for public hire.
examples: text: It is clear the Tory party is on an ideological crusade against my industry. Its interference in London’s recent private hire review shows just how far the government will go to deregulate the UK hackney carriage trade.
ref: 2016 February 9, Trevor Merralls, “Uber is no better than an old-fashioned gangmaster – so London’s cabbies are striking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Synonym of black cab, an officially licensed taxi, a motorized vehicle for public hire.
synonyms: word: black cab
extra: an officially licensed taxi, a motorized vehicle for public hire
lochans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lochan
ablatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/
ipa: /æbˈleɪ.ʃi.oʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ablātiō (“carrying away”). Doublet of ablation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Synonym of ablation.
synonyms: word: ablation
pastette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastettes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Pasteur pipette.
synonyms: word: Pasteur pipette
antiphase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphases
Etymology: From anti- + phase.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A difference in phase (of two waves) of 180°
antiphase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + phase.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Describing a boundary between an ordered phase and a disordered or random phase
archosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archosaurs
Etymology: From translingual Archosauria (“taxonomic division of extinct reptiles”), from Ancient Greek ἄρχων (árkhōn, “leader”) + σαύρα (saúra, “lizard”).
Senses: examples: text: The predominance of archosaurs over other reptiles might be a consequence of their more advanced mode of locomotion compared with their relatives.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: A reptile of the taxon Archosauria, which includes modern crocodilians and birds, as well as the extinct pterosaurs, non-avian dinosaurs and other taxa.
wikipedia: archosaur
Synonyms: word: archosaur
Hypernyms: word: reptile
Hyponyms: word: dinosaur
word: ichthyosaur
word: plesiosaur
word: pterosaur
word: crocodile
artesunate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artesunates
Etymology: From arte- (“artemisinin-related compound”) + su(cci)nate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A drug, of the artemisinin group, used to treat malaria.
astrobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to astrobiology
Derived terms: astrobiologically
Fourierite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Fourierite
form: most Fourierite
Etymology: From Fourier + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: It is a curious commentary upon the elevating and purifying influence of Fourierite doctrines that their chief advocate in this country should be accused at the age of 73 of deserting his wife and living in illicit relations with another woman.
ref: 1883 May 31, Wednesday, The New York Times, “A Fourierite apostle”
glosses: Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or associated with Charles Fourier or his socialist and philosophic theories.
Fourierite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fourierites
Etymology: From Fourier + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Fourierism.
Synonyms: Fourierist
phalanstery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfælənˌstɜɹi/
Forms: form: phalansteries
Etymology: From French phalanstère.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he seemed to him a revelation of a class, and a multitude of socialistic figures, of names and episodes that he had heard of, grouped themselves behind her. She looked as if she had spent her life on platforms, in audiences, in conventions, in phalansteries, in séances; in her faded face there was a kind of reflection of ugly lecture-lamps; with its habit of an upward angle, it seemed turned toward a public speaker, with an effort of respiration in the thick air in which social reforms are usually discussed.
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
synonyms: phalange
phalanstère
phalanx
glosses: An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier, with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.
examples: 2005, Andrew Loman, "Somewhat on the Community-System": Representations of Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page xxiv,
When Hollingsworth and Priscilla retreat to a cottage at the end of the novel, they are spurning not only reformatories and phalansteries but also boarding-houses, tenements, and hotels.
glosses: The dwelling house of a Fourierite community.
Derived terms: phalansterian
phalansterism
Related terms: commune
Fourierism
Fourierite
Fourierism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French fouriérisme, or by surface analysis, Fourier + -ism, named after French philosopher Charles Fourier (1772–1837).
Senses: examples: text: Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history. In the early 1800s, Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, proposed, in a series of jargon-filled writings, a self-sufficient community model called a “phalanx.”
ref: 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The cooperative socialistic system of Charles Fourier, a Frenchman, who recommended the reorganization of society into small communities, living in common.
Synonyms: phalansterism
Related terms: Fourierist
Fourieristic
Fourierite
phalanx
co-öperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more co-öperative
form: most co-öperative
Etymology: From co- + operative with a diaeresis and hyphen applied.
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of cooperative.
zitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 紫檀 (zǐtán).
Senses: glosses: Wood of a red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus).
unsolder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsolders
form: unsoldering
form: unsoldered
form: unsoldered
Etymology: From un- + solder.
Senses: glosses: To reverse the process of soldering, such as by breaking the joint and removing the solder
Synonyms: desolder
OTW
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'm OTW home right now.
glosses: Initialism of on the way.
OTW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OTWs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of overtime win.
Synonyms: OW
Related terms: OT
OTL
OL
W
L
T
unsolders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unsolder
unsoldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unsolder
unsoldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsolder
unsoldered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been soldered.
presbyopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presbyope
underrecruit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underrecruits
form: underrecruiting
form: underrecruited
form: underrecruited
Etymology: From under- + recruit.
Senses: examples: text: We're concerned that the military is underrecruiting.
text: "When an underrecruited player succeeds at a place like Utah, the schedule makes a difference, coaching makes a difference."
ref: 2009 January 1, Ray Glier, “Polished Treasures Guide Utah to Sugar Bowl”, in New York Times:
glosses: To recruit to less than the normal or preferable degree
Related terms: overrecruit
VSB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VSBs
Senses: topics: business
communication
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of vestigial sideband.
Related terms: SB
SSB
DSB
lay figure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay figures
Senses: examples: text: ‘I have a great mind to break all your gashly images about the head of your fine Miss, in her silks and satins;’—mistaking his lay-figure for a living model of the highest sort.
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 243:
text: ‘I rather thought I was useful as an audience, but only as a lay figure is useful to a painter: both can be put aside when no longer required.’
ref: 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin, published 2016, page 76:
glosses: A jointed model of the human body used by artists, or to display clothes.
glosses: An unimportant person; a character (especially in fiction) lacking individuality.
Synonyms: sense: jointed model of human body
word: dummy
sense: jointed model of human body
word: mannequin
sense: unimportant person
word: Joe Average
transscleral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + scleral.
Senses: examples: text: The transscleral delivery of drugs to the vitreous humor is difficult.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Across the sclera, or white, of the eye
Derived terms: transsclerally
warlording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From warlord + -ing. Named after the Usenet group alt.fan.warlord which was established as a forum for warlording, itself named after the Usenet user with the handle "Death Star, War Lord of the West" who became infamous in parts of Usenet for having a particularly bloated signature block.
Senses: glosses: The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.
Related terms: McQuary limit
pod-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of podo-.
harnessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harnessable
form: most harnessable
Etymology: From harness + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be harnessed.
examples: text: There is enough wind here most of the time for it to be harnessable.
glosses: Especially, able to be used to generate power.
Derived terms: unharnessable
z-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: z-axis
absorptiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From absorption + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Analysis using an absorptiometer.
Derived terms: dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
dual photon absorptiometry
osteoabsorptiometry
acetoxymethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetoxymethyls
Etymology: From acetoxy + methyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical CH₃-C(=O)-O-CH₂- derived from methyl acetate.
methyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The methyl ester of acetic acid.
acetylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylases
Etymology: From acetyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes acetylation or deacetylation
Related terms: acetyltransferase
adipogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adipogeneses
Etymology: From adipo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of fatty tissue; lipogenesis
Derived terms: antiadipogenesis
alkoxyaluminum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkoxyaluminums
Etymology: From alkoxy + aluminum.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aluminium radical containing one or more alkoxy group e.g. (R-O)₂Al-
allosterically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allosteric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an allosteric manner
glosses: With regard to allostery
alchemystical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alchemystical
form: most alchemystical
Etymology: Variant of alchemistical, perhaps with intentional blend of mystical.
Senses: examples: text: Swedenborg was stimulated by the alchemystical notions of both men, and he began to move beyond the natural to the supernatural sciences.
ref: 2006, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Why Mrs Blake Cried, Pimlico, published 2007, page 69:
glosses: Pertaining to alchemy.
aminosiloxydienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aminosiloxydiene
aminosiloxydiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminosiloxydienes
Etymology: From amino + siloxy + diene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various dienes containing both an amino and a siloxy substituent; but especially a derivative of butadiene containing a 1-amino and 3-siloxy substituent used in asymmetric synthesis
asymmetric synthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asymmetric syntheses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The synthesis of a specific enantiomer of a compound (or of a mixture containing more of one enantiomer than the other).
siloxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siloxys
Senses: examples: text: Zirconium silicate- catapleiite appeared to be a successful example of this — it was the second silicate with trimeric siloxy rings (Si₃O₅) similar to the configuration of Bragg's titanosilicate-benitoite.
ref: 1960, Soviet Physics — Crystallography, volume 5, page 11:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical of the general formula R₃Si-O-
Related terms: siloxane
angioblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angioblast
angioblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angioblasts
Etymology: From angio- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell that differentiates into blood cells and endothelium within an embryo.
Derived terms: angioblastic
lymphangioblast
mesoangioblast
aryloxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aryloxide
aspidospermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An alkaloid, obtained from quebracho bark, that was once used as a respiratory stimulant and antispasmodic, and as an antipyretic in typhoid fever
autocorrelator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocorrelators
Etymology: From auto- + correlator.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that modifies a signal with a delayed copy of itself in order to detect any periodic signal hidden in the noise
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that uses interferometry to detect autocorrelation of optical beams
bacteriopheophytins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriopheophytin
bacteriopheophytin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacteriopheophytins
Etymology: From bacterio- + pheophytin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any pheophytin of bacterial origin
pheophytin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pheophytins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chlorophyll from which the central magnesium atom has been removed
Derived terms: bacteriopheophytin
pyropheophytin
Related terms: pheophytinase
belowground
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belowground
form: most belowground
form: below ground
Etymology: From below + ground.
Senses: glosses: Beneath the surface of the ground; underground.
bilobal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + lobal.
Senses: glosses: Having two lobes
osteonecroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteonecrosis
avascular necroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avascular necrosis
binaphthol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binaphthols
Etymology: From bi- + naphthol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several phenols derived from binaphthalene, but especially 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol used in asymmetric synthesis
Derived terms: binaphtholate
binaphthalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binaphthalenes
Etymology: From bi- + naphthalene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric aromatic hydrocarbons formed from two naphthalene groups joined by a single bond.
binaphtholate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binaphtholates
Etymology: From binaphthol + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metallic salt of a binaphthol, especially one used in asymmetric synthesis
binucleated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + nucleated.
Senses: glosses: binucleate
bioclimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioclimates
Etymology: From bio- + climate.
Senses: topics: biology
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A climate, as it influences, and is influenced by, biological organisms
Derived terms: bioclimatic
macrobioclimate
Related terms: bioclimatogram
bioclimatograph
bioclimatology
isobioclimate
bioengineered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bio- + engineer + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Produced, or modified, by bioengineering
diss track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diss tracks
Senses: glosses: A song, especially a hip hop or rap recording, intended to disparage or attack another person or group.
Synonyms: diss song
biogeochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biogeochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to biogeochemistry.
march to the beat of a different drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to the beat of a different drummer
form: marching to the beat of a different drummer
form: marched to the beat of a different drummer
form: marched to the beat of a different drummer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
murrelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mər'lĭt
enpr: mər'lət
note: General American, weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈmɚlət/
ipa: /ˈmɜːlɪt/
Forms: form: murrelets
Etymology: From murre + -let.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of small seabirds, in the genera Brachyramphus and Synthliboramphus of the auk family, found in the North Pacific.
Hyponyms: marbled murrelet
Brachyramphus marmoratus
long-billed murrelet
Brachyramphus perdix
Kittlitz's murrelet
Brachyramphus brevirostris
Xantus's murrelet
Synthliboramphus hypoleucus
Craveri's murrelet
Synthliboramphus craveri
ancient murrelet
Synthliboramphus antiquus
Japanese murrelet
Synthliboramphus wumizusume
march to a different drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to a different drum
form: marching to a different drum
form: marched to a different drum
form: marched to a different drum
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
march to a different drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to a different drummer
form: marching to a different drummer
form: marched to a different drummer
form: marched to a different drummer
Senses: examples: text: Some say history repeats itself, that time is cyclical. Others cling to the notion of progress and change over time . Apparently Nancy Walker marches to a different drummer — marches backwards, hat is. Her ideas on art and society seem quaint and odd on the one hand and, on the other, petty and regressive.
ref: 1981 December 27, Wade Nichols, “Victorian Imperialism”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
march to one's own drum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to one's own drum
form: marching to one's own drum
form: marched to one's own drum
form: marched to one's own drum
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
march to one's own drummer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marches to one's own drummer
form: marching to one's own drummer
form: marched to one's own drummer
form: marched to one's own drummer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of march to the beat of a different drum.
Baba Yaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɑːbə ˈjɑːɡə/
enpr: bä'bə yäʹgə
rhymes: -ɑːɡə
Forms: form: Baba Yaga
form: the Baba Yaga
form: Baba Iaga
form: Baba-Iaga
form: Baba Jaga
Etymology: Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *baba ęga (literally “hag of terror”), probably through Russian Ба́ба-Яга́ (Bába-Jagá).
Senses: examples: text: [L]ooking like the hut, minus the fat chicken legs, of Baba Yaga, the old witch with iron teeth and an appetite for a human supper.
ref: 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 143:
text: But elbow injuries are the Baba Yaga for pitchers, an ever-present danger.
ref: 2023 April 7, Nick Groke, C. Trent Rosecrans, “Analyzing MLB [Major League Baseball]’s most cumbersome contracts — and trying to find a way out for each team”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2025:
qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: In Russian, Finno-Ugric, Polish and Bulgarian tales, a character who lives in a hut standing on chicken legs and who flies through the air in a mortar, using the pestle as a rudder.
wikipedia: Viktor Vasnetsov
Moravec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Moravec.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
Derived terms: Moravec's paradox
Kadlec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kadlecs
form: Kadletz
form: Kadlets
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Kadlec.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
bomb it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bombs it
form: bombing it
form: bombed it
form: bombed it
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: hoon it (UK)
text: ...slicing through the heavy traffic and then bombing it down Vermont...
ref: 1973, Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight:
text: I nodded at Shelley, took a breath and then started bombing it down the hill. The thing about these All Stars is they have no cushioning...
ref: 2002, Gwendoline Riley, Cold Water:
text: I sprinted across to the fire exit and bombed it down the stairs like a wet cat...
ref: 2005, Jenny Colgan, The Boy I Loved Before:
synonyms: cane it
glosses: To travel very rapidly, especially in a vehicle.
Soukup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soukups
Etymology: From Czech Soukup, from soukup.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
cairn terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cairn terrier
purple yam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple yams
Senses: glosses: A yam used in a variety of desserts, Dioscorea alata.
Synonyms: rasavalli
ube
water yam
winged yam
despotical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despotical
form: most despotical
Etymology: From despot + -ical or despotic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Despotic.
Synonyms: word: despotic
Derived terms: despotically
despoticalness
Related terms: despot
despotism
lone gunman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lone gunmen
Etymology: From the Warren Commission's lone gunman theory, that the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was the work of a single individual, subsequently applied to numerous other political assassinations and shootings.
Senses: examples: text: He continues, "So when someone blows the whistle, the hospital has to start looking for a scapegoat. The hospital looks for the lone gunman—the individual, acting alone, acting counter to his training, who, through a gross act of incompetence . . . ."
ref: 2002, Jed Mercurio, Bodies, →ISBN, page 340:
text: Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch. . . . Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff.
ref: 2008, John Grisham, The Appeal, →ISBN, pages 197–198:
text: The Wilson family had been sorely conflicted because each member had gone off in his or her own direction, thinking that they were all lone gunmen.
ref: 2008, Lee Raffel, I Hate Conflict! Seven Steps to Resolving Differences with Anyone in Your Life, →ISBN, page 260:
glosses: An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous.
Synonyms: maverick
rogue
Related terms: march to the beat of a different drum
scapegoat
Mafiosos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mafioso
be around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is around
form: being around
form: was around
form: been around
Senses: examples: text: I'll be around for another hour or so.
text: This restaurant has been around since 1938.
text: The article said that dinos were around for about 250 million years.
text: Well, sir, you remember this young Georgie sort of disappeared, after his grandfather's death, and nobody seemed to know much what had become of him—though I did hear, once or twice, that he was still around somewhere.
ref: 1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter 34, in The Magnificent Ambersons:
text: The New York-style hot dog I love has been around for well over a hundred years.
ref: 2005 May 25, Ed Levine, “It's All in How the Dog Is Served”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Jan 2009:
glosses: To be alive, existent, or present.
examples: text: You're fun to be around.
glosses: To be near; to socialize with.
Related terms: have been around
have been around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has been around
form: having been around
form: had been around
form: had been around
form: have been around the block
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, I've been around a little before," said Tom coolly.
"Yes, you look like a lad who has seen something of the world."
ref: 1900, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 17, in The Rover Boys Out West:
text: Barnes: John McCain has been tested. He has been tested in war, and he passed that test. When has Hillary been tested? She has been tested in her marriage. That's about it.
Williams: You're being very mean.
Barnes: No I'm not. I'm being honest.
Williams: She has been around. She has met world leaders.
ref: 2008 March 3, “'Special Report' Panel on Hillary Clinton's New Campaign Advertisement”, in foxnews.com, US, retrieved 01 Jan 2009:
glosses: To be experienced in worldly matters; to be seasoned, not naive.
Related terms: be around
been there, done that, bought the T-shirt
more than someone has had hot dinners
not one's first rodeo
have been around the block
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: A no-nonsense, goal-oriented woman who's been around the block and lived to tell the tale.
ref: 2002, Jürgen Müller, Movies of the 80s, Taschen, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: to be experienced in life.
examples: text: We both knew Cypress had been around the block a few times. He had been a serious manwhore and only got his shit together when he found Bree.
ref: 2017, E. L. Todd, 400 First Kisses, New York, NY.: Hartwick Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: to have had much sex with many people, as if one has had sex with everyone on the block.
polyclinics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyclinic
polyclinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + clinical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a polyclinic.
bubbliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bubbly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bubbly.
overbubble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbubbles
form: overbubbling
form: overbubbled
form: overbubbled
Etymology: From over- + bubble.
Senses: examples: text: My peace is divine, and it never can cloy, / And that makes my heart overbubble with joy.
ref: 1960, John R Rice, Apples of Gold:
text: Humour is ever Mr Pinero's strongest point, and in none of his plays does it so gaily effervesce and overbubble as in Sweet Lavender […]
ref: 1969, Max Beerbohm, More Theatres, 1898-1903:
glosses: To bubble over, especially with exuberance or enthusiasm.
overbubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbubble
overbubbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbubble
overbubbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbubble
twinset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinsets
Etymology: From twin + set.
Senses: examples: text: She was dressed to receive, as her mother would have said, and she had been standing at the window in her blue twinset for an hour, waiting for the car, waiting for the doorbell, waiting for the soft turn of her husband's key in the latch.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: I need these people, the Sergeant, and Mr. Tighe the shopman in the village, even Miss Broaders, she of the pink twinsets and tight mouth, who presides over the post office.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
text: She had been out all day campaigning and looked stiffly immaculate as ever in a royal blue twinset — except for her nose, which was twitching uncontrollably in disgust.
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Shand's father had missed the whole thing — getting fou in the pub, more than likely—but his mum had been there, in her best green twinset, her court shoes polished to a shine as high as Shand's.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 110:
glosses: A combination of a cardigan and a jumper, usually knitted in wool or cashmere.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A pair of cars or locomotives that are permanently coupled and treated as a single unit.
examples: text: Tim and Rob both went into the water each armed with a twinset of air and a sling-tank of 50 per cent oxygen for use in decompression.
ref: 2012, John Bantin, Amazing Diving Stories:
text: However, despite its strength, some say that carrying large twinsets by the manifold should not be recommended.
ref: 2016, Jonas Arvidsson, Diving Equipment: Choice, maintenance and function, page 107:
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A pair of cylinders containing air for the diver to breathe.
twinsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twinset
sea ivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ramalina siliquosa, a species of lichen.
Related terms: Ramalina siliquosa
sea ivories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea ivory
elbow-grease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of elbow grease.
attestably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more attestably
form: most attestably
Etymology: From attestable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an attestable way.
Synonyms: demonstrably
provably
attestability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attestabilities
Etymology: From attest + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being attestable.
Synonyms: provability
verifiability
attestabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attestability
cluelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clueless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being clueless.
Synonyms: ignorance
naïveté
insufficiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insufficiency
inadequatenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inadequateness
manzanita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑn.zəˈniː.tə/
Forms: form: manzanitas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish manzanita, so named because the fruits look like little apples.
Senses: examples: text: The horse groaned and started his running walk down the trail; Uncle Charley pursued him, breaking a twig off a manzanita bush and handing it up to Monica, who flailed the sorry brute across the shoulders and rump.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: Any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Arctostaphylos, especially Arctostaphylos manzanita, having smooth red or orange bark and stiff, twisting branches.
Derived terms: mission manzanita
Montara manzanita
manzanitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manzanita
nonpeak
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + peak.
Senses: glosses: off-peak
nonpeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpeaks
Etymology: From non- + peak.
Senses: glosses: A point in a histogram etc. that is not a peak.
pea coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pea coat
peacoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peacoats
Senses: examples: text: Jeevan was wearing his peacoat, which wasn’t quite warm enough but had the desired effect of making him look less like his former colleagues, who had a tendency towards puffy jackets and jeans.
ref: 2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 10:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pea coat.
peacoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peacoat
user names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of user name
reviewability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From review + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being reviewable; eligibility for review.
reviewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From review + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinarily an order allowing a claim is not reviewable on petition.
glosses: Eligible for review or reconsideration.
examples: text: You editor-types are gonna have to make a call as to whether or not the format is reviewable in your illustrious pages.
ref: 2000, Maximum Rocknroll, number 203:
glosses: Able to be evaluated in a review, as by critics.
Related terms: peer-reviewable
Schwarzian derivative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarzian derivatives
Senses: glosses: A particular operator that, when applied to a function f yields a function x↦(f(x))/(f'(x))-3/2((f(x))/(f'(x)))²
glosses: Any image of that operator.
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: Schwarzian
slitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slit + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 311, about the church at Pembridge:
glosses: Having a slit or slits.
Schwarzian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarzians
Senses: glosses: A particular operator that, when applied to a function f yields a function x↦(f(x))/(f'(x))-3/2((f(x))/(f'(x)))²
glosses: Any image of that operator.
Synonyms: sense: both senses
word: Schwarzian derivative
pussy poundings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pussy pounding
Schwarzians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwarzian
Schwarzian derivatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Schwarzian derivative
dodecaedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dodecahedron.
octaedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of octahedron.
hexaedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hexahedron.
tetraedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tetrahedron.
icosaedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of icosahedron.
tickbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tickboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tick box.
tick boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tick box
tickboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tickbox
Gouraud shadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gouraud shading
bilinearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bilinear + -ly.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a bilinear fashion.
Gunter's chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gunter's chains
form: Gunter's Chain
Etymology: Named after Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and geometer who devised it. For the surname, see Gunter.
Senses: glosses: A sixty-six-foot-long (i.e. four-rod-long) surveyor's chain divided into one hundred links.
wikipedia: Edmund Gunter
Gunter's Chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gunter's Chains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Gunter's chain.
Gunter's chains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gunter's chain
microfacet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfacets
Etymology: From micro- + facet.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tiny facet of the surface of an object being rendered, used in approximating reflections, etc.
microfacets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfacet
plane table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plane tables
form: planetable
Etymology: Originally plain table, because of its simplicity.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: planchette
glosses: A particular kind of instrument used by surveyors in mapmaking.
plane tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plane table
vertical smiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertical smile
subliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈlɪtəɹət/
Forms: form: more subliterate
form: most subliterate
Etymology: From sub- + literate.
Senses: synonyms: semiliterate
underlanguaged
coordinate_terms: illiterate#Adjective
literate#Adjective
glosses: Having inferior literacy skills.
subliterate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sʌbˈlɪtəɹət/
Forms: form: subliterates
Etymology: From sub- + literate.
Senses: synonyms: semiliterate#Noun
coordinate_terms: illiterate#Noun
literate#Noun
glosses: A subliterate person.
subliteracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subliteracies
Etymology: From sub- + literacy.
Senses: examples: text: Their study found disturbing amounts of subliteracy among many people who had nonetheless managed to squeak their way through school to a diploma or degree.
synonyms: semiliteracy
coordinate_terms: illiteracy
literacy
glosses: The state or condition of being subliterate.
cath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caths
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of cathode.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of catheter.
qualifier: drug slang
glosses: Clipping of cathinone.
glosses: Clipping of Catholic.
Derived terms: angiocath
vas cath
cath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caths
form: cathing
form: cathed
form: cathed
Etymology: Clippings.
Senses: examples: text: At the spina bifida camp, we've had about twenty-five kids lining up outside the "Med Shed," needing to be cathed before breakfast.
ref: 2004, Adrian Sandler, Living with Spina Bifida, page 160:
text: Unlike Sharon, Sherry Adele was able to return to self-cathing after delivery.
ref: 2010, Judith Rogers, The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To catheterize; to fit (someone) with a catheter.
neurochemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From neurochemical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a neurochemical manner or context.
multigenre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + genre.
Senses: glosses: Encompassing multiple styles or genres. Especially in music or literature
metametaphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metametaphysical
form: most metametaphysical
Etymology: From meta- + metaphysical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to metametaphysics.
Lisper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lispers
form: lisper
Etymology: From Lisp + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A person who programs in Lisp.
homoiconicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homoiconic (“self-representing”) + -icity.
Senses: examples: text: Homoiconicity is a feature of a programming language system that denotes that a computer program has the same form as the data that are input and output by the program.
ref: 2010, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Semiotics of Programming, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 179:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of the language itself.
Related terms: homoiconic
homoiconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- (“self-”) + iconic (“representing”).
Senses: examples: text: Instead, the homoiconic paradigm draws from the mathematics of computability theory. […] In the case of a homoiconic programming language, the program processes itself, performing mechanical reductions on the application until there is nothing left except the answer.
ref: 2015, Robert Fischer, Java Closures and Lambda, Apress, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Clojure and other languages from the Lisp family are homoiconic. In a homoiconic language, the source code of a program is represented as a plain data structure.
ref: 2017, Eduardo Diaz, Shantanu Kumar, Akhil Wali, Clojure: High Performance JVM Programming, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 392:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting homoiconicity.
raw_tags: of a language
metaprogramming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + programming.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The writing of computer programs that write or manipulate other programs or themselves as their data, or that perform part of the task during runtime that would otherwise be performed during compile time.
Hypernyms: computer programming
programming
Hyponyms: template metaprogramming
Related terms: metaprogram
electrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophones
Etymology: From electro- + -phone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: any instrument designed to create sounds using electric currents
Related terms: electrophonic
Halabja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in the Kurdish part of Iraq that was attacked with chemical weapons by Iraqi Air Force jets in March 1988.
spinnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinny