cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flesh and blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] I'll tell you what else is a fact. It's a fact that he is wearing his blue Shetland turtle-neck today. Even as we speak his body is moving inside it. Warm and quick. It's more than flesh and blood can stand.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 17:
glosses: A human body; a person generally.
examples: text: How dare you say such a thing to your own flesh and blood?
glosses: One's family, or member of one's family.
glosses: Human nature.
glosses: A mixture of brandy and port in equal quantities.
Synonyms: flesh and bone
potscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pot + landscaping
Senses: glosses: gardening involving plants in pots and other containers which may be artistically arranged
Related terms: potscape
Presleyterianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Presley + Presbyterianism, as a playful substitution.
Senses: examples: text: The First Church of Presleyterianism
ref: 1997, Fortean Times, numbers 102-106, page 20:
text: Presleyterianism has something for everyone.
ref: 2000, Swami Beyondananda, Swami for President, page 62:
text: Presleyterianism teaches us that there is no discrepancy between science and theology, no disparity between putting your trust in physics and technology or believing in Elvis.
ref: 2004, Bill Yenne, The Field Guide to Elvis Shrines:
glosses: The cult of Elvis Presley, especially in the southern United States
Presbyterianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Presbyterian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A form of Protestant Christianity based on Calvinism.
glosses: A form of Christian church government characterized by rule by bodies of presbyters or elders.
Hypernyms: Christianity
Christianism
Protestantism
Calvinism
Related terms: Presbyterian
pure and simple
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pure and simple
form: purer and simpler
form: most pure and simple
form: purest and simplest
Senses: glosses: Plain and unadorned.
Derived terms: purely and simply
reconstituting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈkɑnstɪˌt(j)utɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconstitute
reconstitute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈkɒnstɪtjuːt/
ipa: /ɹiˈkɑnstɪˌt(j)ut/
Forms: form: reconstitutes
form: reconstituting
form: reconstituted
form: reconstituted
Etymology: From re- + constitute.
Senses: examples: text: The public execution, then, has a juridico-political function. It is a ceremonial by which a momentarily injured sovereignty is reconstituted. It restores that sovereignty by manifesting it at its most spectacular.
ref: 1979, Michel Foucault, translated by Alan Sheridan, Discipline and Punish, page 55:
glosses: to construct something anew, or in a different manner
glosses: to add liquid to a concentrated or dehydrated food to return it to its original consistency
operating theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating theatres
form: operating theater
Senses: synonyms: operating room
OT
glosses: A room in a hospital used for performing surgery (originally designed for operations in front of observers).
operating room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating rooms
form: operating-room
Senses: glosses: A room in a hospital used for performing surgical operations.
Synonyms: operating theatre
Derived terms: operating room table
foliate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊliət/
ipa: /-eɪt/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliət/
ipa: /-ˌeɪt/
Forms: form: foliates
Etymology: From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to folia + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A logocyclic curve.
foliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfəʊliət/
ipa: /-eɪt/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliət/
ipa: /-ˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfəʊlieɪt/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfəʊliət/
ipa: /-eɪt/
ipa: /ˈfoʊliət/
ipa: /-ˌeɪt/
Forms: form: foliates
form: foliating
form: foliated
form: foliated
Etymology: From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1)
Senses: glosses: To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
examples: text: to foliate a looking-glass
text: [T]he production of the Rainbovv is as much to be aſcribed to the reflection of the concave ſurface of the air, as to the refraction of the Globular drops: this vvill be evidently manifeſt by theſe Experiments, if you foliate that part of a Glaſs-ball that is to reflect an Iris, as in the Carteſian Experiment, above mention'd, the reflections vvill be abundantly more ſtrong, and the colours more vivid: […]
ref: 1665, R[obert] Hooke, “Observ[ation] XIII. Of the Small Diamants, or Sparks in Flints.”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
examples: text: All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.
ref: 1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 13:
topics: architecture
glosses: To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
examples: text: [I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The First Book of Opticks. Part II.] Prop[osition] X. Prob[lem] V. [Exper[iment] XVII.]”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
glosses: To split into layers or leaves.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a plant: to produce leaves.
Derived terms: word: defoliate
word: effoliate
word: exfoliate
word: foliated
word: foliating
word: foliator
word: refoliate
word: unfoliated
non-sequitur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: non-sequiturs
form: non-sequituring
form: non-sequitured
form: non-sequitured
Senses: examples: text: Schoeck had long been complaining of the rapidity of technical developments in the brave new world of postwar Europe (when driving past the new Zurich airport once with Alma Staub, he had non-sequitured in despair: “There's no wonder that all culture is going to the dogs when you can get in here and get out in Chicago the next morning”).¹¹
ref: 2009, Chris Walton, “Rather Nice Horn”, in Othmar Schoeck: Life and Works, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, →ISBN, page 296:
glosses: To commit a non sequitur; to make a statement that does not logically follow a previous statement.
non-sequitur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-sequiturs
Senses: examples: text: It is only mildly amusing that nowadays the standard Republican/Tory after-dinner speech is a two-part affair, in which part one celebrates the virtues of unimpeded competition and dynamic structural change, while part two mourns the decline of the family and community ‘values’ that were eroded precisely by the forces commended in part one. Thus at the present time the core of Republican/Tory beliefs is a perfect non-sequitur.
ref: 1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of non sequitur.
web bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web bugs
Senses: examples: text: When a Web bug is programmed into a Web page, its code looks similar to the code for just about any graphic image appearing on that page.
ref: 2002, John R. Levine, Ray Everett-Church, Greg Stebben, Internet Privacy For Dummies, Wiley, →ISBN:
text: Google had a web bug on 92 of the top 100 sites, and on 88 per cent of the total domains reported in the data set of almost 400,000 unique domains.
ref: 2011, Andrew McStay, The Mood of Information: A Critique of Online Behavioural Advertising, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: tag
tracking bug
tracking pixel
page tag
pixel tag
web beacon
web tag
glosses: A small, usually transparent image added by an advertiser to a webpage (to track its popularity) or email message (to track when it is read).
Kenai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Кенай (Kenaj), from Dena'ina kena (“meadow”).
Senses: glosses: A city, peninsula, and river in Alaska.
Derived terms: Kenai Peninsula Borough
second-hand speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: conversation overheard from someone talking on a mobile phone
no score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In a sporting event, a score of zero to zero.
the terrorists will have won
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: If you throttle the free press, the terrorists will have won.
ref: 1979, Edwin Nobles Lowe with Harry D. Shargel, Legal and other aspects of terrorism, page 222:
text: If governments overact and become oppressive, the terrorists will have won, for their theory is that repression will eventually lead to revolution.
ref: 1989, Susheela Bhan, Terrorism: an Annotated Bibliography, page 116:
text: If we have to wear sweaters and turn down our thermostat, the terrorists will have won.
ref: 2009, Andrea Cohen-Kiener, Claiming Earth As Common Ground: The Ecological Crisis Through the Lens of Faith, page 17:
glosses: Phrase used to indicate that if a specified activity is not continued or carried out, those who seek to disrupt normal activities through terror will have succeeded, which is an unacceptable result.
terrorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrorist
Kalenji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of Northern Kenya. This tribe is reputed to be the origin of many of Kenya's successful endurance runners.
jury trial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury trials
form: trial by jury
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal process in which the guilt or liability of a party is determined by a jury, a group of citizens selected from the local population.
Coordinate terms: trial by judge
bench trial
trial by combat
trial by battle
trial by duel
duel trial
trial by ordeal
trial by water
trial by fire
Related terms: grand jury
jury trials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jury trial
fitted sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fitted sheets
Senses: glosses: A sheet tailored to form pocket for a mattress with elastic edges that is suitable for a range of mattress sizes. The edge may also contain a drawstring to secure the sheet more firmly and enable use on a wider range of mattress thicknesses.
Related terms: bottom sheet
maccha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of matcha.
lose one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːz wʌnz hɛd/
Forms: form: loses one's head
form: losing one's head
form: lost one's head
form: lost one's head
Senses: glosses: To be killed, usually in a gruesome manner.
qualifier: literal
glosses: To suffer decapitation.
examples: text: Mrs. Ambient's grief was frantic; she lost her head and said strange things.
ref: 1884, Henry James, chapter 4, in The Author of Beltraffio:
text: Losing his head entirely, the young collier raved like a madman, what with pain and fear of hospital.
ref: 1914, D. H. Lawrence, “A Sick Collier”, in The Prussian Officer and Other Stories:
text: He then had to jump, and appears to have lost his head, as instead of walking the short distance forward to Slochd to let the signalman know what had happened, he started the 6½-mile walk back to Carrbridge.
ref: 1940 November, “Notes and News: A Highland Collision”, in Railway Magazine, page 612:
text: "He never lost his head in a crisis," Mr. Mandela wrote of his comrade.
ref: 2003 May 6, Bill Keller, “Walter Sisulu, Mandela Mentor and Comrade, Dies at 90”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2009:
glosses: To behave irrationally or to lose one's self-control, especially in a distressing situation or as a result of falling in love.
glosses: To be dismissed from a job.
Synonyms: flip out
freak out
head over heels
in love
lose one's marbles
lose one's mind
off with someone's head
panic
wig out
Related terms: lose one's head if it wasn't attached
seining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seine
seining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seinings
Senses: glosses: fishing with a seine
seined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seine
jigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of jig
jigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jig
jigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jig
Derived terms: jiggingly
jigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪŋ
Forms: form: jiggings
Senses: examples: text: There are to whom the gods, in their bounty, give glory: but far oftener it is given in wrath, as a curse and a poison; disturbing the whole inner health and industry of the man; leading onward through dizzy staggerings and tarantula jiggings […]
ref: 1837, “Memoirs of Mirabeau”, in The Westminster Review, volume 26, page 436:
glosses: The act of dancing a jig.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The act of using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water.
jigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪɡd/
rhymes: -ɪɡd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jig
self-build
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: selfbuild
Etymology: From self- + build.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Supplied in kit form, for construction by the owner.
raw_tags: of a house
Related terms: do-it-yourself
prefab
spec home
self-build
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-builds
form: selfbuild
Etymology: From self- + build.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A house built by the owner, or according to the owner's instructions.
smart dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of smartdust.
smartdust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smart + dust.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical network of millimeter-sized remote sensors.
Related terms: mote
salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salamander
salamanders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salamander
SmartStamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SmartStamps
Etymology: From smart + stamp, a marketing coinage.
Senses: glosses: A postage stamp printed from a personal computer using software supplied by the Royal Mail.
Related terms: word: PC Postage
socialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subsidized for social reasons
Derived terms: socialized medicine
socialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of socialize
radishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radish
podes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pous
pous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pus/
Forms: form: podes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πούς (poús, “foot”). Doublet of foot, pes, and pie (“Spanish unit of length”).
Senses: glosses: The Greek foot, a unit of length based on the shod foot, generally equal to 16 fingers (δάκτυλοι) or ¹⁄₆₀₀ stade (στάδια) but varying over time and location within Greece and the Hellenized world.
Synonyms: Greek foot
plethra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plethron
plethron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plethra
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πλέθρον (pléthron).
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A former Greek unit of length equal to 100 Greek feet (podes).
octopodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɒkˈtəʊpədiːz/
/ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/
/ˈɒktəˌpəʊdz/
Senses: examples: (see more in main entry)
synonyms: octopuses
octopi
glosses: plural of octopus
glosses: plural of octopode
plums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
homophone: plumbs
Etymology: See plum.
Senses: glosses: plural of plum
plums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
homophone: plumbs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plum
Mazandaran Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mazandaran Sea
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Caspian Sea, the largest inland sea.
synonyms: word: Caspian Sea
extra: the largest inland sea
Synonyms: Caspian Sea
beets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːts/
rhymes: -iːts
homophone: beats
Senses: glosses: plural of beet
circumaural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sûrkŭmärŭl
ipa: /sɝkʌmaɹʌl/
Etymology: From circum- (“around”) + aural (“ear”).
Senses: examples: text: They adjusted with a-dB step attenuator the loudness of one of two circumaural earphones to equality with a standard WE 705A ear-phone set at 40 dB...
ref: 1969, John Donald Harris, An Efficient monaural procedure for the psychoacoustic calibration of earphones:
text: First, they are usually connected by a headband and it can be difficult to place the headband or the circumaural cushion so as not to rest on a scalp...
ref: 1973, Richard F. Thompson, Michael M. Patterson, Bioelectric Recording Techniques:
text: For the first two experiments, sounds were presented through canal (insert) earphones...; for the third experiment, circumaural earphones...were employed.
ref: 1999, Tamara T. Sowell, Bruce B. Blasch, Gale Watson, Low Vision And Blindness: Research And Development:
glosses: Surrounding the pinnae or external ears, as in circumaural headphones.
Related terms: supra-aural
intra-aural
iguanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iguana
cheaply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːpli/
rhymes: -iːpli
Forms: form: more cheaply
form: most cheaply
Etymology: From cheap + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When native, trees can be bought so cheaply, are so easy to grow, and such delight to the eye, so sheltersome and diverse in the colouring, it beats cockfighting that they are not utilised more in gardens and as shelter belts.
ref: 1936, Wyn Revel, Topics for Women: Trees in a Garden:
text: Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring their offshored production to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports.
ref: 2010, Paul Craig Roberts, How the Economy Was Lost, AK Press, →ISBN, page 8:
text: "What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […]"
ref: 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:
glosses: In a cheap manner; without expending much money.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: For a low score.
milder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mild: more mild
galloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gallop
banquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banquet
banquets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of banquet
scorpions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpion
zebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebra.
intensified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
ref: 2012 January 24, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70:
glosses: simple past and past participle of intensify
Derived terms: nonintensified
unintensified
Father Time
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Marry, sir, by a rule as plain as the plain bald pate of Father Time himself.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: A personification of time as an old man, usually carrying an hourglass.
Synonyms: Old Father Time
Heavenly Father
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: heavenly Father
Senses: examples: text: For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:14:
synonyms: Our Father
Man Upstairs
glosses: The Jewish or Christian God; among Trinitarians, especially God the Father.
Related terms: Queen of Heaven
pensioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnʃənɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɛnʃənə/
Forms: form: pensioners
form: pencioner
Etymology: From Middle English pensioner, from Anglo-Norman pensionner and Old French pensionnier, from Medieval Latin pēnsiōnārius. By surface analysis, pension + -er.
Senses: synonyms: retiree
glosses: Someone who lives on a pension, especially the retirement or old age pension.
synonyms: older adult
senior citizen
glosses: Someone who is at the age at which one typically receives a pension; an elderly person.
synonyms: commoner
coordinate_terms: sizar
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges.
Derived terms: Chelsea pensioner
early retirement pensioner
Greenwich pensioner
nonpensioner
old-age pensioner
old age pensioner
pensionership
head of household
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads of household
form: head of the household
Senses: glosses: The person responsible for governing a group that lives together, such as a family.
Related terms: family man
counterpane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpanes
Etymology: Corrupted from counterpoint, from the employment of pane (“a shaped figure in a coverlet”).
Senses: examples: text: My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 4:
text: When he had got a light he saw that she had taken away all her things and the baby's .. and all the things on the washing-stand had been broken, a knife had been drawn cross-ways through the seats of the two chairs, the pillow had been slit open, there were large gashes in the sheets and the counterpane, the looking-glass appeared to have been broken with a hammer.
ref: 1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage:
text: [...] the Westminster City Council has arranged with a large firm of launderers to wash blankets, sheets, pillow cases, and counterpanes, at low standard prices, and to return them the same day.
ref: 1941 September, Charles E. Lee, “Sheltering in London Tube Stations”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:
text: He remembered the room where they lived, a dark, close-smelling room that seemed half filled by a bed with a white counterpane. [...]
 [...] His mind went back to another dream of two months ago. Exactly as his mother had sat on the dingy white-quilted bed, with the child clinging to her, so she had sat in the sunken ship, far underneath him and drowning deeper every minute, but still looking up at him in the darkening water.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, TWO.VII:
glosses: The topmost covering of a bed, often functioning as a blanket; a coverlet, bedspread.
Synonyms: bedcover
bedspread
Derived terms: counterpaned
speed dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speed + dating.
Senses: glosses: An organized event in which prospective romantic partners meet each other through a series of short one-to-one meetings.
Related terms: speed networking
multure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: multures
Etymology: From Middle English multūr, from Old French molture (modern French mouture), from Medieval Latin molitura, from the past participle stem of molere ‘grind’. Compare mill.
Senses: glosses: A grinding of grain, or the grain that is ground.
examples: text: MULTURE, n. [L. molitura.] 1. In Scottish law, the toll or emolument given to the proprietor of a mill for grinding corn. 2. A grist or grinding.
ref: 1830, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language: Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words, Sherman Converse, page 546:
text: […] quantity reserved for seed and stock. Sometimes an agreement was in operation known as dry multure, by which tenants conceded a part of their grain for the privilege of going to the market with the rest. A third species was known as the thirlage of invecta et illata, existing in most of the burghs of Scotland, by which corn, wherever grown, if brought for consumption within the […]
ref: 1963, James Edmund Handley, The Agricultural Revolution in Scotland, Burns, page 155:
synonyms: emolument
glosses: A toll paid to a miller, mill-owner etc., generally in kind, for grinding corn or pulverizing ore.
Related terms: thirlage
multure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌlt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ʌltʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: multures
form: multuring
form: multured
form: multured
Etymology: From Middle English multūr, from Old French molture (modern French mouture), from Medieval Latin molitura, from the past participle stem of molere ‘grind’. Compare mill.
Senses: glosses: To charge a multure on.
Derived terms: multurer
Sudip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sudip
Etymology: From Sanskrit, meaning "good light, enlightenment".
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India and Nepal.
studentification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studentifications
Etymology: From student + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The changes caused by a large population of students moving into an area.
Synonyms: studentization
superweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superweeds
form: super-weed
form: super weed
Etymology: From super- + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any wild plant that has become a virulent weed as a result of acquiring resistance to herbicides through exposure and natural selection, or by pollination with a genetically modified plant.
tepidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tepidly
form: most tepidly
Etymology: From tepid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But... No. Luján broke his violin. That part definitely happened; he remembers it with distressing clarity. His relationship with Luján has never been much more than tepidly professional, but the man was a professional. To vandalise a precious instrument like that would be unthinkable for him, or anybody in the orchestra. There is something wrong.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: In a tepid or halfhearted manner.
trickle-up trend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trickle-up trends
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A trend in high fashion that originated in street culture
high fashion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: Haute couture.
trinkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinket
trinkets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trinket
unorthodox entrepreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unorthodox entrepreneurs
Senses: glosses: Anyone who carries on an illegal business, such as a drug dealer or a prostitute.
examples: text: Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop, unorthodox entrepreneur and frenetic campaigner, has written a book.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see unorthodox, entrepreneur; any entrepreneur who uses unorthodox business practices.
waitress mom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waitress moms
Senses: glosses: Any woman with children who has a relatively low-paid (blue-collar) job (such as a waitress).
Related terms: soccer mom
warm-up jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warm-up jackets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of warmup jacket.
warmup jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warmup jackets
Senses: glosses: A jacket with an elasticated waist and a zipper up the front, worn by athletes while training; worn by others as a fashion accessory, usually carrying a team logo.
welfare-to-work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A social program designed to wean those receiving government benefits back into employment.
sedoheptulose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedoheptuloses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heptose ketose widely distributed in plants of the family Crassulaceae especially in the leaves of the sedum; it plays a part in the fixation of carbon dioxide by photosynthesis
sedum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sedums
Etymology: From Middle English cedum, from Latin sedum (“houseleek”). Modern usage is a semantic loan from translingual Sedum.
Senses: glosses: Any of various succulent plants, of the genus Sedum, native to temperate zones; the stonecrop.
seismic risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismic risks
Senses: glosses: An assessment of the probability that the social or economic consequences of an earthquake would exceed a specific value at a specific place and time; used in the planning of buildings etc.
seismic stratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A technique used to determine the nature of sedimentary rocks by the analysis of seismic data; used especially in oil prospecting
stratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəˈtɪɡ.ɹəfi/
ipa: /ˈstɹæt.əˌɡɹæf.i/
Forms: form: stratigraphies
Etymology: From stratum + -graphy c. 1841–1865.
Senses: examples: text: The study of stratigraphy was at this point in its infancy, but it was already understood that different layers of rocks had been formed during different periods.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 40:
text: On Earth, we chart the history of waterways by looking at sediment that is deposited over time. We call that stratigraphy, the idea that water transports sediment and you can measure the changes on Earth by understanding the way that sediment piles up. That's what we've done here—but it's Mars.
ref: 2022 October 27, Adrienne Berard, quoting Benjamin Cardenas, “Traces of ancient ocean discovered on Mars”, in phys.org:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of rock layers and the layering process (stratification).
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The layering of deposits, with newer remains overlaying older ones, forming a chronology of the site.
Derived terms: allostratigraphy
aminostratigraphy
archaeostratigraphy
biostratigraphy
chemostratigraphy
chronostratigraphy
climatostratigraphy
cryostratigraphy
cyclostratigraphy
ecostratigraphy
geostratigraphy
hydrostratigraphy
lithostratigraphy
macrostratigraphy
magnetostratigraphy
microstratigraphy
morphostratigraphy
palynostratigraphy
pedostratigraphy
phylostratigraphy
seismic stratigraphy
stratigrapher
stratigraphic
stratigraphical
tectonostratigraphy
tephrostratigraphy
selection rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selection rules
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several general rules concerning the transitions between the states of a quantum mechanical system; they derive from the symmetry properties of the states and of their interactions
semiconductor heterostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiconductor heterostructures
Senses: glosses: Any of various structures consisting of two different semiconductors in junction contact; they have unique electrical and electrooptical properties different from those of the components
heterostructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterostructures
Etymology: From hetero- + structure.
Senses: examples: text: The electronic properties of contacts between two semiconductors or, as they are commonly called, semiconductor heterostructures are determined by the lineup of their band structures across the interface and the existence of space-charge layers.
ref: 2013, Winfried Mönch, Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Interfaces, page 109:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any structure made from a heterojunction.
Derived terms: semiconductor heterostructure
heterojunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterojunctions
Etymology: From hetero- + junction.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any junction between two different semiconductors; functions as a diode
electrooptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: electro-optical
Etymology: From electro- + optical.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to both electricity and light.
glosses: of or relating to electrooptics.
Derived terms: electrooptically
EO
electrooptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electro-optics
Etymology: From electro- + optics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the effects of an electric field on the optical properties of a material
Related terms: electrooptical
EO
Kerr effect
polarized light
Stark effect
musketeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmʌs.kəˈtɪə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌmʌs.kɪˈtɪə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: musketeers
form: musqueteer
Etymology: From Middle French mousquetaire in the late 16th century. By surface analysis, musket + -eer. Doublet of mousquetaire.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A foot soldier armed with a musket.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In 17th- and 18th-century France, a member of the royal household bodyguard.
examples: text: Reuniting the cast of Trainspotting for a new adventure 21 years on could have gone badly. The BBC’s misjudged This Life + 10, bringing the cast of the iconic 90s TV drama back together, is a case in point. But Boyle and his four musketeers give it just the right frantic, jaded energy and manic anxiety.
ref: 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A comrade or fellow.
Derived terms: Mouseketeer
Musketeer
Abdullatif
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَبْد اللَّطِيف (ʕabd al-laṭīf, “servant of the Kind”).
Senses: glosses: An Islamic male given name from Arabic.
Abdulmalik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عَبْدُ المَلِك (ʕabdu l-malik).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Abdunnasir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Arabic عَبْد النَّاصِر (ʕabd an-nāṣir, “servant of the Protector”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Alven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alvin.
Alvyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alvin.
Alwin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alwyn
Etymology: From Old English Æþelwine, from æþel (“noble”) + wine (“friend”); partly merged with Ælfwine (“Alvin”, literally “elf friend”).
Senses: examples: text: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis have been marching to their own choreographic drummer for a long time now.
ref: 1992 January 30, Jennifer Dunning, “Review/Dance; Premiere Opens Season For Nikolais and Louis”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
glosses: A male given name from Old English; always rather rare in English.
Related terms: Alvin
Alwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English, of rare usage, variant of Alwin.
arsle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arsles
form: arsling
form: arsled
form: arsled
Etymology: From arse + -le.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of assle.
Alphonse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Alphonse, from Spanish Alfonso, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *Aþalafunsaz, from *aþalaz + *funsaz. Doublet of Alfonso.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Derived terms: after you, Alphonse
Alphonse and Gaston
Alfonzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
Alonso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alonsos
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Related terms: Alonzo
Alonzo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alonzos
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
Related terms: Lonnie
Teodora Alonzo
Alonso
Alphonso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Alfonso.
Alphonso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alphonsos
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Alphonso mango.
synonyms: word: Alphonso mango
Alfie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages, also used as a formal given name.
Alfy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Alfred or Alfonso, from the Germanic languages.
Albertus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Rare Latinate variant of Albert.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Albie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Albert + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Albert, from the Germanic languages.
Alby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From place names in England. Variant: Albee.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Alby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized from Irish Ailbhe, name of an Irish saint also anglicized as Albert, and name of heroines in Irish legend.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish.
glosses: A female given name from Irish mainly used in Ireland.
Alain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Alain.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, equivalent to English Alan.
corroboree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɒbəɹi/
Forms: form: corroborees
form: corrobboree
form: corrobori
form: corrobory
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug garabara.
Senses: examples: text: A hundred yards or so away the throaty beat of a didgeridoo drifted down from some ancient corroboree, a splendid accompaniment to the music of the night
ref: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, published 2005, page 231:
glosses: A nocturnal dance held by Aboriginal Australians, for social, celebratory or warlike purposes.
examples: text: He reached home, and lived long enough to hear the natives wailing in a Death Corroboree over his late comrade.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IV, in Capricornia, page 52:
glosses: A song or chant made for such a festivity.
glosses: Any noisy, late-night gathering or disturbance.
Derived terms: corroboree frog
ident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdənt/
rhymes: -aɪdənt
Forms: form: more ident
form: most ident
form: eident
Etymology: From a later form of ithand, itself an alteration (due to assimilation to suffix -and) of Middle English ithen, from Old Norse iðinn (“assiduous, diligent”), from iðja, iðna (“to do, perform”), from ið (“a restless motion”), equivalent to ithe + -and and/or ithe + -en. Cognate with Icelandic iðinn (“diligent”), Norwegian idig (“busy”), Danish id (“pursuit, calling, business”). More at ithand.
Senses: qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Diligent; persistent.
Derived terms: idently
ident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdənt/
rhymes: -aɪdənt
ipa: /ˈaɪdɛnt/
ipa: /ˈaɪdənt/
rhymes: -aɪdənt
Forms: form: idents
Etymology: A shortened form of identification.
Senses: examples: text: Well, that's the priority. Get the ident.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 37:
glosses: An identification.
examples: text: In 1999 Chaudoir and fellow BBC designer Tim Platt were given the task of rebranding the existing BBC2 idents.
ref: 2002, Jane Austin, Graphic Originals:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: A brief audio or audiovisual sequence serving to identify the broadcaster.
examples: text: […] the intruder installed an IRC bot and French ident daemon to reply to IRC servers with a name other than root.
ref: 2004, Eoghan Casey, Digital Evidence and Computer Crime:
glosses: A protocol serving to identify the user of a particular TCP connection, used especially on IRC networks.
glosses: An identifier.
ident
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪdənt/
rhymes: -aɪdənt
ipa: /ˈaɪdɛnt/
Forms: form: idents
form: identing
form: idented
form: idented
Etymology: A shortened form of identify.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To activate the aircraft transponder identification feature.
semiconductor memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiconductor memories
Senses: glosses: Any device used to store and retrieve digital information that is manufactured using integrated circuit technology.
Related terms: CDRAM
DRAM
DRDRAM
EAROM
EEPROM
EPROM
PROM
RAM
RDRAM
ROM
SGRAM
SLDRAM
SRAM
CDRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cached dynamic random-access memory.
DRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: dēˈrām'
Forms: form: DRAMs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of dynamic random access memory.
Derived terms: SDRAM
FP DRAM
EDO DRAM
Related terms: english: static random access memory
translation: static random access memory
word: SRAM
word: NVRAM
english: random access memory
translation: random access memory
word: RAM
word: FRAM
word: MRAM
word: bubble memory
word: core memory
DRDRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of direct Rambus dynamic random-access memory.
RDRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Rambus dynamic random-access memory.
Related terms: RIMM
SLDRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of synchronous link dynamic random-access memory.
SRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRAMs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Static random access memory.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Shadow random access memory.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Short-range attack missile.
Related terms: NVRAM
DRAM
dynamic random access memory
RAM
random access memory
SGRAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of synchronous graphics random-access memory.
EAROM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EAROMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electrically alterable read-only memory; a type of computer memory chip (ROM).
theatrocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θεᾱτρο-κρᾰτίᾱ (theātro-krătíā, literally “theatre rule”) or θεᾱτρο-κορασίᾱ (theātro-korasíā).
Senses: glosses: Government by an assembly of citizens in Ancient Greece.
examples: text: And by composing such licentious works, and adding to them words as licentious, they [the poets] have inspired the multitude with lawlessness and boldness, and made them fancy that they can judge for themselves about melody and song. And in this way the theatres from being mute have become vocal, as though they had understanding of good and bad in music and poetry; and instead of an aristocracy, an evil sort of theatrocracy has grown up.
ref: 1892, “Book III”, in Benjamin Jowett, transl., Laws, translation of original by Plato:
glosses: Rule by spectators in a theater.
impaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpækʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Forms: form: impactions
Etymology: From Latin impingere (“to dash against, impinge”).
Senses: glosses: Compression; the packing together of loose matter.
glosses: something packed together tightly; a mass of densely-packed matter
examples: text: As plastics cannot be easily egested, these can accumulate within the stomach, causing impaction and leading ultimately to death.
ref: 2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species, page 22:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A solid, immobile bulk of stool.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Failure of a tooth to erupt into the dental arch, because of adjacent teeth, dense overlying bone, excessive soft tissue, or other factor.
topics: education
glosses: The situation where an educational institute, usually a college or university, receives more applications from qualified applicants than the number of spaces available, meaning that meeting the minimum admission requirements does not guarantee acceptance.
Derived terms: disimpaction
earwax impaction
fecal impaction
reimpaction
Sendai virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a virus, of genus Respirovirus, found in mice but is not pathogenic for humans; it has the ability to generate heterokaryons by fusing cells