cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tailgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlˌɡeɪt/
Forms: form: tailgates
form: tailgating
form: tailgated
form: tailgated
form: tail-gate
form: tail gate
Etymology: From tail + gate.
Senses: examples: text: That idiot has been tailgating me for the last five minutes.
text: She also tailgated them at high speed in her convertible yellow Mercedes.
ref: 2002 October 19, Helen Carter, “That's no lady - that's the heiress who taunted neighbours”, in The Guardian:
text: Last week the UK government announced a crackdown on unsafe driving. From now on, those of us spotted tailgating or lane hogging will face on-the-spot fines of £100 and three penalty points.
ref: 2013 August 19, Chris Chambers, “Bad driving: what are we thinking?”, in The Guardian:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To drive dangerously close behind another vehicle.
examples: text: An email circulated to ABC employees says Gallagher is believed to have tailgated staff walking through the building’s high-security doors.
ref: 2018 September 10, “ABC tightens Sydney security after man allegedly infiltrates building and assaults employee”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: piggyback
draft
glosses: To follow another person through access control on their access, rather than on one’s own credentials, especially when entering a door controlled by a card reader.
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: front run
glosses: To privately purchase or sell a security immediately after trading in the same security for a client.
raw_tags: of a broker
examples: text: “Hey, what are you guys doing?” “Dude, we're gonna tailgate the tryouts.” “Oh, shit. That's a good idea. Oh, you gonna bust out Green Man, bro?” “No. No Green Man.” “What's Green Man?” “Well, in high school, Charlie was like our school mascot.” “A mascot nobody wanted. He'd get wasted and dress in this green spandex bodysuit.” “Spandex?” “It was really sad.” “That's it.” “You gotta bring the Green Man suit.” “Yeah, no. Done with it.” “The spandex.” “Green Man was good. It got me through some hard times. But I'm done with it. Tell you what. You can wear it if you want, but I'm just gonna be relaxing, okay? This is gonna be about chilling out for me.” “No. This is gonna be exactly like Woodstock.”
ref: 2007 September 13, Charlie Day & David Hornsby & Glenn Howerton, “The Gang Gets Invincible” (3:56 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 3, episode 2, spoken by Charlie Kelly (Charlie Day):
text: The point, Goldstein discovered through a lot of long days hanging out in parking lots, is that tailgating — the gustatory madness, the multigenerational camaraderie, the decked-out vans — is as essential a part of football as the game itself.
ref: 2013 September 29, Ken Belson, “The Tailgate Experience, British Style”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To have a tailgate party.
Derived terms: tailgater
Related terms: security distance
draft
slipstream
glassy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsi/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
ipa: /ˈɡlæsi/
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: glassier
form: glassiest
Etymology: From Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian glääsich (“glassy”), Dutch glazig (“glassy”), German Low German glasig (“glassy”), German glasig (“glassy”).
Senses: examples: text: a resin tabletop with a glassy polish
coordinate_terms: glossy
shiny
glosses: Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective.
examples: text: a fair day on a glassy sea
text: It was blowing about 15 knots, which is considered fairly glassy for the west Coast.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sailing
sports
surfing
transport
coordinate_terms: glossy
shiny
glosses: Of or like glass, especially in being smooth and somewhat reflective.
Lacking any chop; smooth and mostly flat.
raw_tags: of water
glosses: Including a lot of glass.
examples: text: architecture enamored of glass and steel, where glassier meant classier
text: Every time there's a major technological outage, […] speculation quickly erupts blaming a possible cyberattack. […] mostly, the sentiment of cyber observers is that it's a bad idea to jump to conclusions, especially publicly. ¶ "If we keep crying wolf, then we lose the ability to educate and solve real problems," Bryson Bort, founder of the cybersecurity company Scythe, told me. "We live in the glassiest house in the world with our reliance on information systems."
ref: 2023 January 12, Tim Starks, with Aaron Schaffer, “Don't panic. It might not be a cyberattack. The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter.”, in Washington Post, retrieved 12 Jan 2023:
glosses: Including a lot of glass.
Extensively glazed.
examples: text: the glassy eyes of a person in a trance
coordinate_terms: fisheye
glosses: Dull; expressionless; lifeless.
raw_tags: of eyes
Derived terms: glassily
glassiness
glassy carbon
glassy-eyed
glassy feldspar
glassyheaded
nonglassy
glassy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɑːsi/
rhymes: -ɑːsi
ipa: /ˈɡlæsi/
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: glassies
form: glassie
form: glasser
Etymology: From Middle English glasy, equivalent to glass + -y. Compare Saterland Frisian glääsich (“glassy”), Dutch glazig (“glassy”), German Low German glasig (“glassy”), German glasig (“glassy”).
Senses: examples: text: Then suddenly she ceased to hear, having caught sight of a glassie rolled into a corner.
ref: 1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, Vintage, published 2011, page 198:
glosses: A glass marble.
GPU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPUs
Senses: examples: text: “People who are investing in Nvidia infrastructure are getting returns on it right away,” Huang said last week, noting that the company’s new graphics processing units, the GPU chips that power AI, process data so efficiently that they end up saving clients money quickly. […] “Nvidia has changed the tech and global landscape as its GPUs have become the new oil and gold in the IT landscape,” Ives said Tuesday in a note to investors.
ref: 2024 September 4, David Goldman, “Parija”, in CNN Business:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: CPU
dGPU
iGPU
TPU
glosses: Initialism of graphics processing unit (an electronic circuit dedicated to generating graphics and displaying images).
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of ground power unit (a ground mobile unit that supplies electrical power to an aircraft while on the ground, without needing to power up the engines or APU).
GPU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Государственное Политическое Управление (Gosudarstvennoje Političeskoje Upravlenije).
Senses: glosses: Initialism of State Political Directorate (“the Russian secret police until 1934”).
backstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌstɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: backstitches
Etymology: From back + stitch.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A type of sewing stitch where the stitch goes backwards on the top side of the fabric and doubles forward on the bottom, coming out farther in front, then repeats. The backstitch is a very tight and secure stitch, and also looks very neat.
Related terms: stem stitch
backstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækˌstɪt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: backstitches
form: backstitching
form: backstitched
form: backstitched
Etymology: From back + stitch.
Senses: glosses: To sew with a backstitch.
adhesion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædˈhiː.ʒən/
rhymes: -iːʒən
Forms: form: adhesions
form: adhæsion
Etymology: From French adhésion, from Latin stem of adhaesio, from past participle of adhaerare.
Senses: glosses: The ability of a substance to stick to an unlike substance.
examples: text: [N]o waver in Judgment, have I, though Gods mercy, ever been; but a conſtant aſſertor of, and ſufferer for my ſatisfiedneſs in, and adheſion to, the piety and probity of my breeding and belief, vvhich vvas ever, yet is, and I hope, through Gods grace, to death ſhall be, in point of Religion according to the Doctrine and Diſcipline of the Church of England.
ref: 1666 October 30 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Edward Waterhous[e], “To His Noble Friend and Kinsman, Sr. Edwarde Turno[u]r, Knight; Speaker of the Honorable House of Commons in this Present Parliament”, in A Short Narrative of the Late Dreadful Fire in London: […], London: […] W. G. for Rich[ard] Thrale […], and James Thrale […], published 1667, →OCLC, pages 188–189:
text: Who doubts that the fineing, whipping, torturing, hanging, embowelling of men, women, and children, guilty of no other crime than adhesion to the Catholic faith, had assisted the Pope and Philip, and their band of English, Scotch, and Irish conspirators, to shake Elizabeth's throne and endanger her life?
ref: 1867, John Lothrop Motley, Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete:
glosses: Persistent attachment or loyalty.
examples: text: Mistress Affery, heartily glad to effect the proposed compromise, gave in her willing adhesion to it.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: An agreement to adhere.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal union of surface by the formation of new tissue resulting from an inflammatory process.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The binding of a cell to a surface or substrate.
examples: text: Several types of diesel locomotive have been tested on this working and as a result the probable choice will be Type 2 diesels in pairs, without bankers. The crucial factor in the selection of this method is the higher degree of adhesion obtained than with a single Type 4; on trial one of the latter showed that in very adverse conditions it might slip to a standstill at one of the two tricky spots on the steep climb from Tyne Dock to Consett.
ref: 1964 September, “News: Fewer diesels for NER in 1965”, in Modern Railways, page 201:
glosses: The frictional grip on a surface, of wheels, shoes etc.
Derived terms: adhesiolysis
adhesional
adhesion contract
adhesionless
adhesionolysis
adhesiotomy
adhesome
antiadhesion
bioadhesion
cell-adhesion molecule
cell adhesion molecule
coadhesion
cytoadhesion
deadhesion
disadhesion
focal adhesion
hyperadhesion
immunoadhesion
inadhesion
interthalamic adhesion
microadhesion
mucoadhesion
nonadhesion
readhesion
sialoadhesion
thermoadhesion
vitreomacular adhesion
Related terms: adhesive
objecthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒb.d͡ʒɛkt.hʊd/
ipa: /ˈɑb.d͡ʒɛkt.hʊd/
Etymology: From object + -hood.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The condition of being an object.
gunga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated form of ganja.
12mo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 12mos
Etymology: 12 + -mo, for a twelfth of a sheet.
Senses: qualifier: paper
glosses: Abbreviation of duodecimo, a page size (5"-5.5" x 7.125"-7.5")
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A book size using duodecimo-sized pages.
Synonyms: sense: paper size
word: 12º
sense: paper size
word: twelvemo
sense: paper size
word: duodecimo
sense: book size
word: D
sense: book size
word: 12º
sense: book size
word: twelvemo
sense: book size
word: duodecimo
4to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4tos
Etymology: From Latin quārtō, ablative case singular of quārtus (“fourth”).
Senses: qualifier: paper
glosses: Abbreviation of quarto, a paper size.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Abbreviation of quarto, a corresponding book size.
Synonyms: sense: paper size
word: 4º
sense: book size
word: Q
sense: book size
word: 4º
8vo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 8vos
Senses: qualifier: paper
glosses: Abbreviation of octavo, a page size (5"-6.25" x 7.5"-10").
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A book size, corresponding to the page size.
Synonyms: sense: page size
word: 8º
sense: book size
word: 8º
sense: book size
word: O
Turkism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turkisms
Etymology: From Turk + -ism. Compare earlier Turcism.
Senses: examples: text: Joseph's enthusiasm for promoting new German opera resulted in Mozart's The Escape from the Seraglio, the opera's jokey Turkism itself an indicator of the Ottomans' declining threat status.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 279:
glosses: Turkish culture, religion and tradition.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Turkish word, or a Turkish-derived word, used in a language not related to Turkish.
hatchback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃˌbæk/
Forms: form: hatchbacks
Etymology: From hatch + back.
Senses: examples: text: The accident happened in Lottbridge Drove, Eastbourne, when the 26-year-old male victim was struck by a small dark hatchback.
ref: 2007 July 21, Siobhan Ryan, “Hit and run driver kills cyclist”, in The Argus:
text: As I tentatively reverse, I have a sense of foreboding, unsure I’ll be able to control this overgrown mechanical beast. I am posing to the salesman as someone who is seeking maximum protection on the city roads, yet I suspect that I look very much like a man who usually drives a tiny hatchback.
ref: 2023 November 5, Andrew Anthony, “Monsters of the road: what should the UK do about SUVs?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: hatchback car
glosses: A car with a sloping, hinged rear door that opens upwards.
glosses: The door itself.
Derived terms: hot hatchback
hot hatch
Related terms: fastback
notchback
triennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈɛniəl/
rhymes: -ɛniəl
Etymology: From Latin triennium (“three-year period”), from tres (“three”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, tri- + -ennial.
Senses: examples: text: triennial elections
text: They were constantly summoned to a triennial festival : and the most approved songs delivered at this assembly were ordered to be preserved in the custody of the king's historian or antiquary
ref: 1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry:
glosses: Happening every three years.
examples: text: triennial parliaments; a triennial reign
text: September 13 1621, James Howell. letter to Sir William Saint John
Triennial Subsidies
glosses: Lasting for three years.
Synonyms: word: trieterical
Related terms: word: triennium
word: triennially
triennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈɛniəl/
rhymes: -ɛniəl
Forms: form: triennials
Etymology: From Latin triennium (“three-year period”), from tres (“three”) + annus (“year”). By surface analysis, tri- + -ennial.
Senses: glosses: A third anniversary.
glosses: A plant that requires three years to complete its life-cycle.
Related terms: biennial
triennium
triannual
lancet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːn.sɪt/
ipa: /ˈlæn.sɪt/
Forms: form: lancets
form: launcet
Etymology: From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance. By surface analysis, lance + -et.
Senses: examples: text: With a lancet, Håkan drained the slow blue blood from his leg, always fearing to find pus.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 248:
glosses: A sharp, pointed, two-edged surgical instrument used in venesection and for opening abscesses etc.
glosses: A small, sterile single-use needle used to draw a drop of blood for testing, as with a glucometer.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
examples: text: He looked away, into the cavernous space emptying of people. Up in the galleries and behind the choir, the wide window lancets were sheets of black.
ref: 2014, Richard Powers, Orfeo, W. W. Norton & Company, page 234:
topics: architecture
glosses: A high narrow window, terminating in an acutely pointed arch, common in Gothic architecture.
Hyponyms: sense: sharp surgical instrument
word: fleam
Derived terms: sense: ichthyological
word: lancetfish
word: lancet arch
word: microlancet
lancet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːn.sɪt/
ipa: /ˈlæn.sɪt/
Forms: form: lancets
form: lanceting
form: lanceted
form: lanceted
form: launcet
Etymology: From Middle English launcet, from Old French lancete, a diminutive of lance. By surface analysis, lance + -et.
Senses: glosses: To pierce with a lancet.
lancetfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancetfish
form: lancetfishes
Etymology: From lancet + fish.
Senses: glosses: A voracious deep-sea fish in the genus Alepisaurus, having long, lancet-like teeth.
Derived terms: longnose lancetfish
objecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more objecting
form: most objecting
Derived terms: nonobjecting
objectingly
unobjecting
objecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of object
adduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adduce
obstruent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbstɹuːənt/
Forms: form: more obstruent
form: most obstruent
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
Senses: examples: text: an obstruent medicine
synonyms: hindering
glosses: Causing obstruction; blocking up.
Derived terms: deobstruent
unobstruent
Related terms: obstruency
obstruent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbstɹuːənt/
Forms: form: obstruents
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
Senses: examples: text: Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) considered āytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ before obstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.
ref: 2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti, The Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
antonyms: sonorant
hypernyms: consonant
coordinate_terms: continuant
glosses: A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
Derived terms: final obstruent devoicing
psychokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪkoʊkɪˈnisɪs/
ipa: /ˌsaɪkəʊkɪˈniːsɪs/
Forms: form: psychokineses
Etymology: From psycho- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: The movement of physical systems and objects by the use of psychic power. Abbreviated as PK.
Related terms: psychokinesia
psi
telekinesis
levitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛvɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: levitations
Etymology: From levitate + -ion, from Latin levitas (“lightness”), patterned in English on gravitate.
Senses: glosses: The raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind
examples: text: It was erected by the application of those universal laws and forces of nature which cause iron to float. By the same laws, gravity may be overcome or neutralized, and stone made to float in air. The Pyramid was thus built by levitation, abetted by song and chanting, much in the same manner in which the Druids of England set up their huge stones at a later period.
ref: 1972, Lytle Robinson, chapter 4, in Edgar Cayceʼs Story of the Origin and Destiny of Man, USA: Berkley Publishing Corporation, page 90:
glosses: The suspension of something via technical means without any mechanical support, such as by magnetism
Derived terms: levitational
magnetic levitation
nanolevitation
optical levitation
Related terms: buoyancy
solubilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: solubilizes
form: solubilizing
form: solubilized
form: solubilized
form: solubilise
Senses: glosses: To make (something) soluble or dispersible, especially by adding a detergent.
Derived terms: presolubilize
resolubilize
resolubilized
solubilizability
solubilizable
solubilizate
solubilization
solubilizer
unsolubilized
Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒtəmən ˈɛmpaɪə/
ipa: /ˈɑtəmən ˈɛmpaɪɹ/
Forms: form: the Ottoman Empire
Etymology: Ottoman (adjective) [from Ottoman (“Osman”), from Middle French Ottoman (“Osman”), from Italian Ottomano (“Osman”), from Ottoman Turkish عثمان (osman), from Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān, male given name)] + Empire. Over the centuries the Ottoman Empire existed, it was commonly referred to as Turkey.
Senses: examples: text: Under their fluctuating rule an Ottoman Empire was indeed to survive, with varying fortunes, for a further three and a half centuries. But it was an empire in the continual throes of a decline which, despite periods of respite and glimpses of momentary recovery, was to prove irreversible.
ref: 1979, Lord Kinross, The Ottoman Centuries: the Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire, page 616:
text: It does not seem very convincing to view a major world empire, with the most modern arms at its disposal, as merely the helpless victim of circumstances beyond its control. Even less attractive are "stage theories," which assume that at a given point in time the Ottoman Empire, its economy included, passed from the stage of "florescence" into that of "decay."
ref: 1997, Suraıya Faroqhı, Bruce McGowan, Donald Quataert, Şevket Pamuk, with Halil İnalcık as editor, An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire: Volume Two, 1600-1914, page 470
text: Most of the textbooks consider the period of Murad III (1574-1595) and particularly the murder of the Grand Vizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha in 1579 as the beginning of the internal decay of the Ottoman Empire. The debacle of Vienna in 1683 the following defeats in the hands of the Holy League and the subsequent Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 are mostly dealt with in a relatively detailed way, [...]
ref: 2001, Selçuk Akşin Somel, The modernization of public education in the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1908, page 198:
text: This was a factor in one of the major long-term weaknesses of the Ottoman Empire, namely the relatively small size of its Turkish population, which limited its ability to colonize conquered regions. [...] In no meaningful sense was Anatolia the empire's metropolis. This might seem strange to Europeans, who are and always were much inclined to use the words Ottoman and Turkish interchangeably when describing the empire.
ref: 2002, Dominic Lieven, Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals, page 130:
synonyms: Osman Empire
Osmanian Empire
Osmanic Empire
Osmanli Empire
Ottomanian Empire
glosses: A large former Turkish empire which began as a sultanate centered in modern Turkey and at its height ruled over much of Southeast Europe, West Asia and North Africa; founded in the late 13th century, it lasted until the end of World War I.
power point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power points
Senses: examples: text: Many of his sources confined themselves to text messages, or calls to his many mobiles. He owned over a dozen, their chargers overwhelming every power point in his Lavington home.
ref: 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
glosses: A wall socket by which electricity is provided to electrical devices.
Synonyms: point
wall socket
sonorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈnɔːɹ(ə)nt/
/ˈsɒn(ə)ɹ(ə)nt/
Forms: form: sonorants
Etymology: From sonorous + -ant, 1930s.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: resonant
antonyms: obstruent
glosses: A speech sound that is produced without turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; the generic term of vowel, approximant, nasal consonant, etc.
bellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛl.oʊz/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.əʊz/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.əs/
rhymes: -ɛləʊz
Forms: form: bellows
Etymology: From Middle English belwes, plural of belu, belwe, a northern form of beli, from Old English bæliġ, northern form of bielġ, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz. Compare German Balg. See also belly.
For the pronunciation /ˈbɛl.əs/, compare bodice, gallows.
Senses: examples: text: When wood fires were common, so were bellows for helping start them.
text: That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
glosses: Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
examples: text: “Why, who should J. B. mean by Joe, but old Joe Bagstock—Joseph—your slave—Joe, Ma’am? Here! Here’s the man! Here are the Bagstock bellows, Ma’am!” cried the Major, striking himself a sounding blow on the chest.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: The lungs.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
glosses: That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.
Derived terms: bellowsfish
bellowsful
bellowslike
bellows to mend
hydrostatic bellows
water-bellows
Related terms: bellowser
belly
blow
bellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛl.oʊz/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.əʊz/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.əs/
rhymes: -ɛləʊz
Etymology: See bellow
Senses: glosses: plural of bellow
bellows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛl.oʊz/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.əʊz/
ipa: /ˈbɛl.əs/
rhymes: -ɛləʊz
Etymology: See bellow
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bellow
nichonage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nichonage
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 二丁投げ, literally "body drop throw".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a kimarite in which the attacker places a leg in front of his opponent's leg, at the knee, then sweeps back with his leg and pulls the opponent forward over the leg.
PowerPoint
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Proficiency in PowerPoint continues to be required for almost every office job.
text: Can I be candid? I think I am on this group because none of you can do PowerPoint. I am literally going to draw some rectangle shapes for the pillars. We won’t be having feathers or whatever. And there’s a limit to how many pillars will fit on a single slide.
ref: 2024 February 22, "Bartleby", “The making of a PowerPoint slide”, in The Economist:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A software package from Microsoft used to make slideshow presentations.
Derived terms: death by PowerPoint
PowerPointer
PowerPointlessness
PowerPoint ranger
PPT
PowerPoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PowerPoints
Senses: examples: text: PowerPoint presentation
text: Sitting through his PowerPoints is a dull, but necessary, requisite for the job.
text: The PowerPoint is the summation of Rove's thinking about the 2006 elections, in which Republicans lost 30 seats in the House and six in the Senate
ref: 2007 July 24, “Capitol Briefing - Rove-Taylor PowerPoint”, in Washington Post:
text: Alas, our PowerPoint Generation gravitates to bullet points and two-dimensional bar charts, even as we stumble our way through this multidimensional universe.
ref: 2009 December, Thomas W. L. Hazlett, “We're Number Two?”, in Commentary, volume 128, number 5, page 28:
text: Hine showed many of his paintings and pictures in a PowerPoint.
ref: 2010 December 29, “GHS students attend PSU Art Day”, in Pittsburg Morning Sun:
text: Through the new LEAD21 program, students research and put together a class presentation that will involve creating a PowerPoint and giving a speech based on their particular inquiry topic.
ref: 2010 December 30, “Every School Every Thursday”, in DesMoines Register:
qualifier: trademark
glosses: An electronic slide presentation created using the program Microsoft PowerPoint.
examples: text: She's asked James to prepare a PowerPoint for tomorrow's lesson.
glosses: Any electronic slide presentation.
PowerPoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: PowerPoints
form: PowerPointing
form: PowerPointed
form: PowerPointed
Senses: examples: text: A recent editorial and tips in this journal have extolled the virtues of making clear presentations using computer presentation software, in particular the commercial software PowerPoint (Microsoft, Redmond, WA). AJR readers may be interested to know that free software packages are available that can create professional presentations without furthering our national dependence on a software monopoly.
ref: 2002, Jeff Fessler, “Free "PowerPointing"”, in American Journal of Roentgenology:
text: Levi seems to be able to do all the slide shows and videos and PowerPointing his teachers ask of him -- as long as he's patient with its slow pace
ref: 2010 March 28, “Time for a New Computer? Yes! No Way!”, in Wall Street Journal:
text: As the world is now texting, tweeting, and PowerPointing all over the place, this edition of English Grammar For Dummies shows you how to handle all sorts of electronic communications
ref: 2010, Geraldine Woods, English Grammar For Dummies, page 1:
glosses: To communicate using electronic slides.
examples: text: Do they tell a person (as happens in one corporation) that they won't look at any report unless it is “PowerPointed”?
ref: 2005, John Elliott with T J Elliott, Decision DNA, number 1, page 105:
text: In one poignant moment, Hanks is sitting in on an executive meeting at a major toy company, and one vice president is PowerPointing his way through a presentation about a new toy
ref: 2005, Keith Ferrazzi with Tahl Raz, Never eat alone and other secrets to success: one relationship at a time, page 216:
text: As I write this, Gottfried is PowerPointing the concept around a string of high-level development companies across the United States.
ref: 2008, James Glave, Almost green: how I built an eco-shed, ditched my SUV, alienated ..., page 74:
text: So we quickly and efficiently did our research and, in a blink of an eye, the “known unknowns” quickly became known and PowerPointed
ref: 2008, Steve Monas with Richard Hooker, Shoestring Venture: The Startup Bible, page 483:
glosses: To present (a topic) by means of electronic slides.
examples: text: She says the audience has had a long day and has been "PowerPointed out" with one presentation after another from other Oracle executives
ref: 2004, Matthew Symonds with Larry Ellison, Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, page 247:
text: Now it is time to take your tired-as-hell, PowerPointed-to-death brain and shake things up so that you have the ideas, energy,
ref: 2010, Pamela Slim, Escape from Cubicle Nation:
text: Instead of being talked at, briefed, and PowerPointed, you will be drawing on your experience, listening to others, and figuring out what it all means
ref: 2010, Marvin Weisbrod with Sandra Janoff, Future Search: Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, ...:
glosses: To communicate to (an audience) by electronic slides.
fash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: fashes
form: fashing
form: fashin
form: fashed
form: fashed
Etymology: From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).
Senses: examples: text: "I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Chapter 6”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: To worry; to bother, annoy.
examples: text: “They,” said he, meaning the collops, “are such as I gave his Royal Highness in this very house; bating the lemon juice, for at that time we were glad to get the meat and never fashed for kitchen. Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: To trouble oneself; to take pains.
glosses: To ignore or forget about someone or something.
Derived terms: fashery
fash one's thumb
fash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: fashes
Etymology: From early modern French fascher (now fâcher), from Latin fastus (“disdain”).
Senses: glosses: A worry; trouble; bother.
Derived terms: fashous
Related terms: fettle
fash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: fash
Etymology: Clipping of fascist.
Senses: examples: text: The Butchers Here is an old Munich policeman — Wilhelm Frick with eyes like those of a fash.
ref: 1945, Information Bulletin, volume 5, numbers 66-131:
text: It is not they, with their comfortable middle class speaking-tour and festival-circuit lives, who will put on the black and go punch a Nazi or bash a fash. No. It will be the vulnerable, overwhelmingly queer, poor youth [...]
ref: 2017, Katessa Harkey, The Peace of the Hall: Rules of Engagement for the New Witch Wars, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: A fascist, a member of the far-right.
examples: text: Used to go down to London on bash-the-fash awaydays; turn up at National Front marches and give them a toeing.
ref: 1996, Ajay Close, Official and doubtful, UK: Random House:
text: Five of our lads had just watched the riot police go into the Wellington and give the fash a kicking.
ref: 2012, Dan Todd, One Man's Revolution, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
text: The women in NP at the time were very good spotters and we had good access to intel, photos etc. on the fash.
ref: 2012, Dave Hann, Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: The far-right, especially violent far-right demonstrators, collectively.
Derived terms: fashy
go fash, lose cash
redfash
fash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology: Clipping of fascist.
Senses: glosses: To make something fascist.
fash
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology: Clipping of fashionable.
Senses: examples: text: Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's". Clarisse is a chi-chi phruit phly who occasionally puts in time pushing real estate in fash Back Bay and the South End.
ref: 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:
glosses: Fashionable.
rattlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rattler
Canada Dry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Trademark.
Senses: glosses: A brand of ginger ale.
crossover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crossovers
Etymology: Deverbal from cross over.
Senses: glosses: A place where one thing crosses over another.
glosses: The means by which the crossing is made.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The result of the exchange of genetic material during meiosis.
glosses: A blend of multiple styles of music or multiple film genres, intended to appeal to a wider audience.
synonyms: CUV
XUV
glosses: An SUV-like automobile built on a passenger car platform, e.g. the Pontiac Torrent.
examples: text: The passenger train was signalled from one of the west end bay platforms along the Down South Line; as it passed through a crossover to the Up South Line the freight train, which had been travelling slowly to the Up South Line, over-ran the signal protecting the crossover and came into sidelong collision with it.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
text: Network Rail developed and delivered the new crossover in just ten months - "phenomenally quickly", Mands says - and the work is included in the £20m build cost.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 40:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A pair of switches and a short, diagonal length of track which together connect two parallel tracks and allow passage between them.
glosses: A piece of fiction that borrows elements from two or more fictional universes.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete or swimmer who has competed in more than one of open water swimming, pool swimming, triathlon, and endurance sports.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A crossover dribble.
glosses: A move in sports that involves crossing one hand or foot in front of another, as in ice skating.
topics: business
forestry
glosses: The point at which the relative humidity is less than, or equal to, the ambient air temperature.
Derived terms: crossover airspeed
crossover book
crossover cable
crossover dribble
crossover thrash
crossover vote
crossover voting
diamond crossover
double crossover
noncrossover
scissors crossover
crossover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from cross over.
Senses: glosses: Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.
raw_tags: in particular
of an Ethernet cable
rums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rum
squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒd/
ipa: /ˈskwɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: squads
form: escouade
Etymology: From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre). Doublet of squadra and square.
Senses: examples: text: He assembled a squad of ten to take on the assassin.
glosses: A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
examples: text: A squad of soldiers ordered them to disperse but instead of doing so they commenced throwing ice and rocks.
ref: 1912, The New England magazine, volume 47:
glosses: A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
soccer
sports
glosses: A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
examples: text: At one point, the 400-ton Calypso was brought to a standstill by a squad of squid which clogged the engines and caused a power failure. Other, highlights included an attack by predatory blue sharks, […]
ref: 1970, TV Guide, volume 18:
text: The Sea Life Centre retains a squad of squid and such.
ref: 2002, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go 2003: Britain & Ireland, Let's Go Publications:
text: There's several new symbols next to the doorway symbol. Beso pushed all six of them without waiting to see what they brought; like a herd of charging rhinos or rampaging squad of squid. Next best thing though.
ref: 2012, S. Louis King, Gnome Home Papers, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 546:
text: I pulled in as deep a breath as my gag allowed and began relaxing my body. I used a little trick I'd learned in college. I imagined that a friendly squad of squid were massaging every muscle on the bottoms of my feet; the tension began to drain.
ref: 2017, Kristen Joy Wilks, Athens Ambuscade, Pelican Ventures Book Group, →ISBN:
glosses: A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
A collective noun for a group of squid.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: Ellipsis of squad truck.
examples: text: anyway, sheʼs resigned herself to hanging out with the squad at uni rather than going manhunting
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 52:
glosses: One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
Derived terms: awkward squad
bomb squad
cheer squad
circular firing squad
death squad
firing squad
flying squad
fraud squad
Freud squad
God squad
goon squad
hit squad
hold-up squad
mendicancy squad
pep squad
police squad
practice squad
red squad
rummage squad
snatch squad
split-squad
squad automatic weapon
squad bay
squad car
squaddie
squad goal
squad room
suicide squad
tac squad
taxi squad
touring squad
truth squad
vice squad
Related terms: squadron
squad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒd/
ipa: /ˈskwɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: squads
form: squadding
form: squadded
form: squadded
form: escouade
Etymology: From French escouade, from Italian squadra (“square”) (whence also French escadre). Doublet of squadra and square.
Senses: examples: We squad on the fifth of the month.
glosses: To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.
qualifier: medical slang
glosses: To transport by ambulance.
squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒd/
ipa: /ˈskwɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
ipa: /ˈskwæd/
ipa: /ˈskwɒd/
ipa: /ˈskwɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare squick (“disgust”), squalid (“dirty”) with similar initial sounds.
Senses: examples: text: The lass ran all among the muck and squad.
ref: 1875 March 13, Leicester Chronicle, quoted in the EDD
text: An' she did n't not solidly mean I wur / gawin' that waäy to the bad,
Fur the gell was as howry a trollope as / iver traäpes'd i' the squad.
ref: 1895, Alfred Tennyson, The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson: Poet-laureate, page 791:
glosses: Sloppy mud.
cloudburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaʊdˌbɝst/
ipa: /ˈklaʊdˌbɜːst/
Forms: form: cloudbursts
form: cloud-burst
Etymology: From cloud + burst.
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut the sound . . . expressed an utter abandonment to grief; not the cloud-burst of some passing emotion, but the slow down-pour of a whole heaven of sorrow.
ref: 1899, Edith Wharton, “A Cup of Cold Water”, in The Greater Inclination:
text: A cloudburst in the China Creek district followed by continued heavy rains was responsible for the increased water.
ref: 1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 38, in The Riverman:
text: In Uniontown, Pa., John Walchesky & family rushed from their house when lightning set it afire, rushed in again when a cloudburst put out the blaze.
ref: 1936 August 17, “Miscellany”, in Time, retrieved 20 May 2014:
text: [H]e walked across the lawn, wet from a fleeting late-afternoon cloudburst, the first rain in a month.
ref: 2007 Feb. 25, Norman Howard, "Devotion, chapter 1" (book excerpt), New York Times (retrieved 20 May 2014)
glosses: A sudden heavy rainstorm.
Synonyms: cloudbust
booties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: bootees
Senses: glosses: plural of booty
chia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: chias
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chía, from Classical Nahuatl chiyan (“seed of the chia plant”).
Senses: glosses: A Mexican sage grown for its edible seeds, Salvia hispanica.
glosses: Salvia columbariae, a sage with similar seeds, native to the southwestern US and northwestern Mexico.
Related terms: chia seed
plutocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plutocratic
form: most plutocratic
Etymology: From pluto- + -cratic, after plutocracy.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or being a plutocracy.
Derived terms: antiplutocratic
nonplutocratic
plutocratically
unplutocratic
taxonomic system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxonomic systems
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A coherent system of taxonomic judgements on circumscription and placement of the considered taxa. A taxonomic system is restricted to a large but limited part of the living world.
bootees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootee
bootee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːti/
homophone: booty
Forms: form: bootees
form: bootie
Etymology: From boot + -ee (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Take off the baby's bootees before you put her in the crib.
text: ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 15, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A soft, woolen shoe, usually knitted, for a baby or small pet.
glosses: A thick sock worn under a wetsuit.
examples: text: Surgeons often slip on bootees before entering the operating room.
text: Just above the Sunset Strip, construction workers in white bootees were putting the final touches on another home — a 14,000-square-foot house that Mr. Niami is building for himself.
ref: 2017 December 23, Candace Jackson, “Who Wants to Buy the Most Expensive House in America?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: slipper
glosses: An overshoe or sock worn to cover dirty shoes or feet.
Derived terms: booteed
shootie
juvenilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒuːvɪˈniːljə/
Etymology: From Latin iuvenīlia, neuter plural of iuvenīlis (“of or pertaining to youth”).
Senses: examples: text: ...rhyme was not his [Milton's] talent; he had neither the ease of doing it, nor the graces of it: which is manifest in his "Juvenilia" or verses written in his youth, where his rhyme is always constrained and forced,...
ref: 1693, John Dryden, A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of Satire:
text: Lewis’s juvenilia is childlike, and the way it has been handled is childish.
ref: 1996, Kathryn Lindskoog, Light in the Shadowlands:
text: Though there is a large body of criticism on Brontë’s novels, there are very few interpretations of the juvenilia, […]
ref: 1997, Tomoko Kuribayashi with Julie Tharp edd., quoting Susan Anne Carlson, “Incest and Rage in Charlotte Brontë’s Novelettes,”, quoted in Creating Safe Space,:
text: The last line, adapted from Coleridge, reminds us that we are never such kleptomaniacs as in our juvenilia.
ref: 2003, James Fenton, The Strength of Poetry:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Works produced during an artist's or author's youth.
alpha taxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-taxonomy
Senses: coordinate_terms: beta taxonomy
gamma taxonomy
glosses: The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming living things.
cycloserine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ.kləˈˈsɛɹˌin/
ipa: /ˌsaɪ.kləˈsɪɹˌin/
Forms: form: cycloserines
Etymology: From cyclo- + serine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum antibiotic C₃H₆N₂O₂ produced by an actinomycete (Streptomyces orchidaceus) and used especially in the treatment of tuberculosis.
cyclosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloses
Etymology: From cyclo- + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: cytoplasmic streaming
streaming movement
glosses: The circulation of protoplasm within a cell.
cyclosporine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of ciclosporin.
Related terms: cyclosporinemia