cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
amate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɑːteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmɑteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /əˈmɑːteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmɑteɪ/
Forms: form: amates
form: amating
form: amated
form: amated
Etymology: From Old French amater, amatir.
Senses: examples: text: Shall I accuse the hidden cruell fate, / And mightie causes wrought in heauen aboue, / Or the blind God, that doth me thus amate, / For hoped loue to winne me certaine hate?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Upon the walls the pagans old and young / Stood hush'd and still, amated and amazed.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), Jerusalem Delivered, Tasso, XI, xii
text: The Silures, to amate the new general, rumoured the overthrow greater than was true.
ref: 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , →OCLC:
text: For the last […], he will be much amazed, he will be much amated.
ref: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.230
text: Thou didst die / A half-blown flow'ret which cold blasts amate.
ref: c. 1815, John Keats, To Chatterton:
glosses: To dishearten, dismay.
amate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɑːteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmɑteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
rhymes: -eɪt
ipa: /əˈmɑːteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmɑteɪ/
ipa: /əˈmeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: amates
form: amating
form: amated
form: amated
Etymology: From a- + mate.
Senses: examples: text: More lucklesse disadventures did amate
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To be a mate to; to match.
aime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aimes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aim.
megabyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: megabytes
Etymology: From mega- + byte.
Senses: examples: text: The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
ref: 1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, page 27:
text: This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
ref: 1973, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3:
text: AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Redmond, Washington, is currently offering $1 per megabyte as its cheapest rate for General Packet Radio Service wireless service, which can provide 20K to 40K bit/sec. throughput. But that price is only if a subscriber buys the most megabytes per month now being offered: 200MB of data for $199 a month.
ref: 2002 April 30, Matt Hamblen, “Next generation wireless: Will users pay?”, in CNN:
text: The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit. Previously, the company charged 25 cents per megabyte for overages.
ref: 2009 May 14, Marguerite Reardon, “Verizon Netbook to hit stores this weekend”, in CNN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
examples: text: One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
ref: 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933:
text: Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
ref: 2004, Kerry Cox, Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92:
text: By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
ref: 2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mebibyte.
Synonyms: MB
㎆
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: kilobyte
sense: Next
word: gigabyte
Derived terms: submegabyte
Related terms: mebibit
mebibyte
megabit
clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: clamps
Etymology: From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.
Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.
Senses: glosses: A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things that are apart together.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An instrument used to temporarily shut off blood vessels, etc.
glosses: A parking enforcement device used to immobilise a car until it can be towed or a fine is paid; a wheel clamp.
examples: text: [T]he pots would be stacked in a heap, covered with wood chippings and brushwood and domed over with turves, leaving a few air vents around the sides. When complete the clamp would be fired[.]
ref: 1983, Barry Cunliffe, chapter 8, in Danebury Hillfort, Stroud: Tempus:
glosses: A pile of materials to be heated in a controlled way, stacked or heaped together with fuel so that the fire permeates the pile; the material of interest may be bricks to be fired, ore for roasting, coal for coking, or wood to be charcoalized.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A compact pile of agricultural produce (such as root vegetables or silage) used for temporary storage (often covered with straw, earth, or both).
glosses: A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC value.
Derived terms: alcohol clamp
alligator clamp
C-clamp
clamp connection
clamp-down
clampless
clamplike
clamp stand
clampy
clover clamp
cryoclamp
declamp
F clamp
G-clamp
hose clamp
microclamp
nipple clamp
paper clamp
patch clamp
rope clamp
sliding clamp
wheel-clamp
clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: clamps
form: clamping
form: clamped
form: clamped
Etymology: From Middle Dutch clamp, klampe (“a clamp, hook”), from Proto-Germanic *klampō (“clamp, clasp, cramp”), related to Proto-West Germanic *klammjan.
Cognate with Middle Low German klampe (“hook, clasp”), German Klampfe, Klampe (“clamp, cleat”), Norwegian klamp (“clamp”), Alemannic German Chlempi.
Senses: examples: text: As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
glosses: To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.
glosses: To hold or grip tightly.
examples: text: After the depth range is clamped, the depth value is read from the depth stencil buffer, and the two values are compared with a selectable depth-comparison function […]
ref: 2016, Jason Zink, Matt Pettineo, Jack Hoxley, Practical Rendering and Computation with Direct3D 11, page 253:
glosses: To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range by replacing values outside the range with the closest value within the range.
glosses: To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
examples: text: I was only parked there for five minutes but my car was still clamped.
glosses: To immobilise (a vehicle) by means of a wheel clamp.
Derived terms: clampable
clamp down
clampee
clamper
clamp off
reclamp
unclamp
Related terms: clasp
vise
vice
clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: clamps
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A heavy footstep; a tramp.
clamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: clamps
form: clamping
form: clamped
form: clamped
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: the policeman with clamping feet
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
Serb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝb/
ipa: /ˈsɜːb/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Forms: form: Serbs
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Srbi, from Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ (“ally, Serb, Sorb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to protect, watch over”); akin to Latin servo (“I guard, I protect”), Old English searu (“weapons, armor”), Lithuanian sárgas (“watchman”), Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haraⁱti), 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haᵘruuaⁱti, “to guard”). Doublet of Sorb.
Senses: examples: text: Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after they were attacked by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, during protests over the installation of ethnically Albanian mayors.
ref: 2023 May 30, Christian Edwards, “Why did ethnic Serbs attack NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo? Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: A person of Serb descent (not necessarily from Serbia). (Compare Serbian.)
Serb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝb/
ipa: /ˈsɜːb/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Srbi, from Proto-Slavic *sьrbъ (“ally, Serb, Sorb”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to protect, watch over”); akin to Latin servo (“I guard, I protect”), Old English searu (“weapons, armor”), Lithuanian sárgas (“watchman”), Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “hero”), Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haraⁱti), 𐬵𐬀𐬎𐬭𐬎𐬎𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (haᵘruuaⁱti, “to guard”). Doublet of Sorb.
Senses: examples: text: A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day.
ref: 2018 January 16, Milena Veselinovic and Sheena McKenzie, “Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic shot dead outside office”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Serbs; Serbian.
Related terms: Serbia
Serbo-Croatian
finis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɪs/
ipa: /fiːˈniː/
rhymes: -ɪnɪs
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Middle English finis, from Latin fīnis (“end; limit”). Doublet of fin, fine, and finish.
Senses: examples: text: He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again.
ref: 1836, [Frederick Marryat], “In which our hero finds out that trigonometry is not only necessary to navigation, but may be required in settling affairs of honour”, in Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 32:
text: Highly providential was the appearance on the scene of Corny Kelleher when Stephen was blissfully unconscious that, but for that man in the gap turning up at the eleventh hour, the finis might have been that he might have been a candidate for the accident ward, […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16: Eumaeus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part III [Nostos], pages 570–571:
glosses: Of a book or other work: the end.
Related terms: the end
senti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more senti
form: most senti
Etymology: Shortened from sentimental.
Senses: glosses: Sentimental, emotional.
senti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senti
Etymology: From Swahili senti, from English cent.
Senses: glosses: A coin, one hundredth of a Tanzanian shilling.
senti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sent (subdivision of Estonian currency)
sente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lisente
Senses: glosses: A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Lesotho loti.
sente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 先手 (sente).
Senses: qualifier: go
glosses: First move, initiative.
sens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of sensemilla, from sinsemilla.
Senses: examples: text: Loose joints. Genuine Hawaiian sens. Downers and uppers.
ref: 1984, Jay McInerney, “Pygmies, Ferrets and Dog Chow”, in Bright Lights, Big City, Vintage Books:
text: That interview’s gotta be worth at least 20, 30 million bucks in contributions from people who think you’ll distribute dime bags of Hawaiian sens at junior high schools, along with condoms and fornication manuals.
ref: 2001, Aaron Sorkin, “Ellie”, in The West Wing, season 2, episode 15:
glosses: marijuana
Related terms: marijuana
sens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sen
moyen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moyens
Etymology: From Middle English moyen, moene, a variation of mene, meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin mediānus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Doublet of mid and mean.
Senses: glosses: Intercession; intervention.
slick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: slicker
form: slickest
Etymology: From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
Senses: examples: text: This rain is making the roads slick.
text: The top coating of lacquer gives this finish a slick look.
text: His large round head was shaved slick.
text: Morning commuters in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas discovered slick sidewalks and icy roadways Monday.
ref: 2024 January 21, Elizabeth Wolfe, Robert Shackelford and Mary Gilbert, “Icy conditions make for hazardous travel across central US, but warmer air is on the horizon”, in CNN:
glosses: Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances.
examples: text: Both slick and dainty.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: Sleek; smooth.
examples: text: They read all kinds of slick magazines.
glosses: Appearing expensive or sophisticated.
examples: text: That new sales rep is slick. Be sure to read the fine print before you buy anything.
text: The threat the most radical of them pose is evidently far greater at home than abroad: in one characteristically slick and chilling Isis video – entitled “a message to the Jordanian tyrant” – a smiling, long-haired young man in black pats the explosive belt round his waist as he burns his passport and his fellow fighters praise the memory of Zarqawi, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: glib
glosses: Superficially convincing but actually untrustworthy.
examples: text: Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.
text: That was a slick move, locking your keys in the car.
text: I leave the train at Salisbury, where (in a very slick operation) another two-car set is added to the front of the train before it heads for London.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: Clever, making an apparently hard task look easy.
examples: text: That is one slick bicycle: it has all sorts of features!
qualifier: West Coast slang
glosses: Extraordinarily great or special.
Derived terms: Slick Willie
slick as a whistle
slick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: slicks
form: slicking
form: slicked
form: slicked
Etymology: From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
Senses: examples: text: The surface had been slicked.
text: So I slicked the broccoli with oil and seasonings and set it to roast.
ref: 2009 January 14, Melissa Clark, “Green, Gold and Pink: Fast, Easy and Delicious”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make slick.
Related terms: outslick
slick as snot
slick back
slick cam
slick down
slicken
slicker
slickstone
slick-tech
slick up
slick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology: From Middle English slicke, slike, slyke, from Old English slīc (“sleek, smooth; crafty, cunning, slick”), from Proto-Germanic *slīkaz (“sleek, smooth”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”).
Akin to Dutch sluik, dialectal Dutch sleek (“even, smooth”), Old Norse slíkr (“sleek, smooth”), Old English slician (“to make sleek, smooth, or glossy”).
Senses: examples: text: We're just following a couple of crooks who've got slick away in that two-funnelled boat yonder, and we mean to keep in touch with them till they land.
ref: 1915, William Le Queux, The Place of Dragons:
glosses: Alternative form of sleek (“with ease and dexterity”).
slick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schlich.
birds and bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the birds and the bees
Etymology: Derived from analogies of pollination and egglaying for sexual intercourse and ovulation respectively.
Senses: examples: text: We learned about birds and bees back in school.
synonyms: facts of life
glosses: Informal education about sex.
examples: text: I had the birds and bees with your mother.
glosses: Informal (by analogy) sex itself.
Related terms: the talk
dramatic irony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramatic ironies
Senses: glosses: A theatrical effect in which the true meaning of a situation, or some incongruity in the plot, is understood by the audience, but not by the characters in the play.
archetype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːkɪtaɪp/
ipa: /ˈɑɹkɪtaɪp/
Forms: form: archetypes
form: archetyping
form: archetyped
form: archetyped
Etymology: From Old French architipe (modern French archétype), from Latin archetypum (“original”), from Ancient Greek ἀρχέτυπον (arkhétupon, “model, pattern”), the neuter form of ἀρχέτυπος (arkhétupos, “first-moulded”), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “beginning, origin”) (from ἄρχω (árkhō, “to begin; to lead, rule”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ergʰ- (“to begin; to command, rule”)) + τῠ́πος (tŭ́pos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from τύπτω (túptō, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)).
Senses: examples: text: The whole issue of generalizing and overgeneralizing is always an issue. I use the term "archetyping." I say, "No, I am not stereotyping; I am archetyping." Stereotypes tend to be accusatory. I want to move the discussion away from a discussion of right and wrong to right and left—this is the way it is over here, and this is the way it is over there—and then look at the problems that develop as a result of each group interacting according to the standards of its own culture.
ref: 1992, ASNE: Proceedings of the 1992 Convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Easton, Pa.: American Society of Newspaper Editors, →OCLC, page 21:
text: These stereotypes of indigenous peoples implied obvious roles for the associated Europeans—heirs to the Dying, bleaching agents to the Whitening. But the interaction of conceptions of Us and Them went further, through archetyping and anti-typing. Maoris were sometimes archetyped or idealized, as with the Noble Savage and some Whitening Savages.
ref: 1997, James Belich, “Myth, Race, and Identity in New Zealand”, in The New Zealand Journal of History, volume 31, number 1, Auckland: University of Auckland, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: His collaborator was Robert Singer, a professor of English and film studies at Kingsborough Community College, who lamented this week that he and his fellow Brooklynites "have been archetyped to death."
ref: 2003 October 31, Clyde Haberman, “NYC; not poifect, dem movies of Brooklyn”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2017:
text: “But it is gendered and it’s archetyped and stereotyped that you’re so lucky, and it just feeds into this idea that you’re waiting for someone to tell you that you’re good enough, as opposed to knowing that you’re good enough on your own,” she said.
ref: 2022 September 6, Caroline Davies, quoting Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, “Meghan rejects ‘gendered’ idea she was lucky to be chosen as Harry’s bride”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To depict as, model using, or otherwise associate an object or subject with an archetype.
egosurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ego surfing
form: ego-surfing
Etymology: From ego + surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.
Senses: examples: text: One offshoot of this new narcissism is “egosurfing,” in which one searches the Internet for information about oneself. A company—egoSurf—was created especially to do this.
ref: 2009, John Freeman, The Tyranny of E-mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: The act of using a search engine to find mentions of one's name on the Internet.
egosurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ego surfing
form: ego-surfing
Etymology: From ego + surfing, coined by Sean Carton in 1995.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of egosurf
mebibyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: mebibytes
Etymology: From mebi- + byte.
Senses: examples: text: At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.
ref: 2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.
Synonyms: MiB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: kibibyte
sense: Next
word: gibibyte
preamble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːˌambəl/
ipa: /ˈpɹiˌæmbəl/
Forms: form: preambles
form: præamble
Etymology: From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“I walk before”).
Senses: examples: text: The consultation preamble explains: "The planned timetable will be introduced in 2025 once we have completed the necessary steps required to ensure that we have enough resources to do so.
ref: 2023 November 1, Robert Drysdale, “Leven is nearly back on track...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 58:
synonyms: word: foreword
word: preface
word: prologue
word: forespeech
word: foretale
word: foretalk
word: foreword
antonyms: word: afterword
word: conclusion
word: epilogue
word: last word
word: postamble
word: foreword
glosses: A short preliminary statement or remark, especially an explanatory introduction to a formal document or statute.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A syncword.
examples: text: And lest any man should think her intent was to unnestle ill neighbours, and not to aid good neighbours, or that she was readier to restore what was invaded by others than to render what was in her own hands; see if the time provided not a new occasion afterwards, when through their own division, without the intermise of strangers, her forces were again sought and required; she forsook them not, prevailed so far as to be possessed of the castle of Edinburgh, the principal strength of that kingdom, with peace, incontinently, without cunctations or cavillations, the preambles of a wavering faith, she rendered with all honour and security; and his person to safe and faithful hands; and so ever after during his minority continued his principal guardian and protector.
ref: a. 1603, Francis Bacon, Discourse in the Praise of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: A precursor.
preamble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːˌambəl/
ipa: /ˈpɹiˌæmbəl/
Forms: form: preambles
form: preambling
form: preambled
form: preambled
form: præamble
Etymology: From Middle English preamble, from Old French preambule (French préambule), from Medieval Latin praeambulum, from praeambulō (“I walk before”).
Senses: examples: text: But these things being beside my main design, I will desist from preambling and come to the materials I have collected towards a history of the Baptists in this province.
ref: 1867, Simeon Thayer, Edwin Martin Stone, The Invasion of Canada in 1775: Including the Journal of Captain Simeon Chaper, pages 312–313:
text: Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling as this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac.
ref: 1982, Frank Davey, Pomestaysyun, page 20:
text: So, what say we skip the preambling. Is it women? Money? Writer's block?
ref: 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 473:
glosses: To speak or write a preamble; to provide a preliminary statement or set of remarks.
call screening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: listening to the message being recorded on an answering machine,
checking a Calling Identity Display device,
checking the time or date.
glosses: The process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before a conversation. Some methods may include
unfair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɐnˈfɛː(ɹ)]
ipa: /ʌnˈfɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: unfairer
form: more unfair
form: unfairest
form: most unfair
Etymology: From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
Senses: examples: text: It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
text: He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
ref: 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2017, page 162:
text: Cuphead built a reputation for difficulty before release, but its boss battles are mostly about recognizing patterns than getting lucky against unfair bosses. Watching players ace their way through the game’s bosses is a spellbinding reminder that even tough games can be defeated easily with hard work.
ref: 2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2018:
text: Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
antonyms: fair
just
equitable
glosses: not fair, unjust
glosses: not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
glosses: sorrowful; sad
glosses: unseemly; disgraceful
Derived terms: unfair competition
unfair dismissal
unfair list
Related terms: biased
cheating
discriminatory
dishonest
dishonorable
disproportionate
excessive
foul
inequitable
invidious
partial
prejudiced
underhanded
unequal
unethical
uneven
unfavorable
unjust
unjustified
unwarranted
wrong
wrongful
unfair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)]
ipa: /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: [ɐnˈfɛː(ɹ)]
ipa: /ʌnˈfɛɚ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: unfairs
form: unfairing
form: unfaired
form: unfaired
Etymology: From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
Senses: examples: text: Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: to make ugly
nanodomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodomains
Etymology: From nano- + domain.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small set of atoms bound together, measuring between 1 and 100 nanometers.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In reference calcium signalling, is where the calcium-binding proteins (or "sensors") are located within a few nanometers of an open calcium channel.
Related terms: nano-
nanophase
-ologist
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -logist (“one who studies a subject”).
Derived terms: -logy
opsonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: opsonizes
form: opsonizing
form: opsonized
form: opsonized
Senses: synonyms: opsonify
glosses: To make (bacteria or other cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins.
synonyms: opsonify
glosses: To become more susceptible to the action of phagocytes by use of opsonins.
Derived terms: nonopsonized
opsonizable
opsonization
preopsonize
unopsonized
topless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From top + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The sight-seeing bus is topless to allow tourists a better view of the sights.
glosses: Lacking a top.
examples: text: Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships,
ref: late 16th century Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
roman: And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
glosses: Very high; towering.
examples: text: The council voted to allow topless swimmers on the beach.
synonyms: word: bare-breasted
english: of a females
translation: of a females
word: barechested
english: of a male
translation: of a male
word: half-naked
word: semi-nude
word: shirtless
word: topfree
glosses: Not wearing a garment covering the top half of the body; naked from the waist up.
raw_tags: of a female
examples: text: Only her closest friends knew that Jenny was working at a topless bar to help with college expenses.
text: Driving down your freeways / Midnight alleys roam / Cops in cars, the topless bars / Never saw a woman so alone
ref: 1971, “L.A. Woman”, in Jim Morrison (lyrics), L.A. Woman, performed by The Doors:
text: She was workin' in a topless place / And I stopped in for beer / I just kept lookin' at the side of her face / In the spotlight so clear.
ref: 1975, Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”, in Blood on the Tracks:
glosses: Featuring women that are naked from the waist up, often strippers or dancers.
raw_tags: of a place
Derived terms: topless dress
toplessly
toplessness
topless radio
topless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From top + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 'I saw her,' said Neptune, 'sunbaking topless.'
ref: 1985, Joan Morrison, Share House Blues, Boolarong Publications, page 43:
text: Fort Collins, Colorado has decided it's not worth the money to fight for its ordinance banning women from appearing topless in public.
ref: 2019 September 19, Pete Williams, “Topless women win big as Colorado city drops ban”, in NBC News:
glosses: Not wearing any clothes on the upper body.
topless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toplesses
Etymology: From top + -less.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A convertible car having the top retracted or otherwise open.
Related terms: bottomless
monokini
toplessness
tinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn.də/
ipa: /ˈtɪn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
homophone: tender (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tinders
Etymology: From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.
Senses: examples: text: Strike on the Tinder, hoa: / Giue me a Taper: […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 311, line 157:
coordinate_terms: kindling
;
firewood
glosses: Small dry sticks and finely-divided fibrous matter etc., used to help light a fire.
Derived terms: German tinder
tinderbox
tinder fungus
Related terms: teend
cinder
tinder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn.də/
ipa: /ˈtɪn.dɚ/
rhymes: -ɪndə(ɹ)
homophone: tender (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tinders
form: tindering
form: tindered
form: tindered
Etymology: From Middle English tinder, tunder, tender, tonder, from Old English tynder, from Proto-Germanic *tundrą, *tundrǭ (“tinder”). Compare Saterland Frisian Tunder (“tinder”), Dutch tonder (“tinder”), German Zunder (“tinder”), Swedish tända (“to light, to set on fire”). More at tind.
Senses: examples: text: Is heaven a murderer when its lightning strikes a would-be murderer in his bed, tindering sheets and skin together?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To set fire to; torch.
sea lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea lanes
form: sea-lane
Etymology: sea + lane
Senses: examples: text: “What kind of men are you who arrive
rigged out for combat in coats of mail,
sailing here over sea-lanes
in your steep-hulled boat?”
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 10:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A regularly used route for ocean-going vessels.
Synonyms: seaway
sleepout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsliːpaʊt/
Forms: form: sleepouts
Etymology: From sleep out.
Senses: examples: text: She could see the dark bulk of the sleepout: no lights there either.
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 111:
text: As I squeeze headfirst out of the sleepout, something invisible tugs at my legs.
ref: 2009, Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones, Allen & Unwin, page 2:
glosses: A veranda or other outbuilding used as a sleeping area.
glosses: an organised group of people sleeping in the open, often as a form of protest or to raise public awareness of an issue such as homelessness.
glosses: a holiday in Africa where travellers sleep away from their home, generally in an open air safari lodge, private home or guest house.
capo di tutti capi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capi di tutti capi
Etymology: From Italian capo di tutti i capi, meaning "leader of all leaders".
Senses: glosses: Boss of all the bosses, especially in the mafia, Cosa Nostra etc. Often used by law enforcement, the media and the public in general to describe a Mafia boss who exerts significant influence on how the Mafia should run.
Synonyms: capo dei capi
dors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dor
air show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air shows
form: airshow
Senses: glosses: a public display of stunt flying, aerobatics, and historical aircraft.
Related terms: fly-in
unverified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + verified.
Senses: examples: text: The most salacious claims in the dossier are still unverified.
ref: 2019 March 16, Katelyn Polantz, “Steele says he used unverified information to support details about web company in dossier”, in CNN:
text: Republicans, though, have seized on the unverified material as part of their broader investigation into the Bidens.
ref: 2023 July 20, Annie Grayer, Marshall Cohen and Jeremy Herb, “Grassley releases internal FBI document about unverified Biden bribery allegations”, in CNN:
synonyms: unconfirmed
untested
glosses: Not (yet) confirmed; not verified.
Related terms: verify
Effie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfi/
rhymes: -ɛfi
Etymology: From Euphemia + -ie (diminutive form), or, very rarely, from modern Greek Eftychia or Euthemia (diminutive form).
Senses: examples: text: "Yes, little wild flower - I shall call you that, unless your name sounds like you. What is it, dear?"
"Effie Malie."
"That is charming; now, Effie Malie, sit down upon this mossy bank with me, […]
ref: 1857, J. T. Bickford, Scandal, Shepard, Clark, and Brown, page 82:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Euphemia, also used as a formal given name in the 19th century.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A city in Itasca County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.
Effie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfi/
rhymes: -ɛfi
Forms: form: Effies
Etymology: From effective + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Grey Advertising won gold Effies for General Foods' Dream Whip and Swift's Sizzlean, and a pair of gold Effies went to Ally & Gargano for MCI Telecommunications and Pentax.
ref: 1982, Advertising Age Yearbook:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An annual award given for effective marketing.
airship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: homophone: heirship
Forms: form: airships
form: airshipping
form: airshipped
form: airshipped
form: air-ship
form: air ship
Etymology: From air + ship.
* (jocular British sense): is in imitation of worship "form of address for magistrates et al., possibly also an oblique reference to Colonel Blimp.
Senses: glosses: To transport goods by aircraft.
Related terms: balloon
barrage balloon
blimp
Colonel Blimp
dirigible
zeppelin
Zeppelin
airstrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛə(ɹ)stɹɪp/
Forms: form: airstrips
Etymology: From air + strip.
Senses: examples: text: The outfitter deposited us at a small airstrip out in the bush, promising to pick us up again in a week's time.
glosses: An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.
Related terms: airfield
airpark
airport
landing strip
All Souls' Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: All Souls Day
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: An annual feast day celebrating the faithful departed on the second day of November, immediately following All Saints' Day.
glosses: Synonym of Tomb Sweeping Day, a Chinese holiday.
synonyms: word: Tomb Sweeping Day
extra: a Chinese holiday
Synonyms: word: Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
word: Feast of All Souls
word: Defuncts' Day
sense: Mexican
word: Day of the Dead
All Saints' Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: All Saint’s Day
form: All Saints Day
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In Christian tradition, the annual feast day celebrating the life of all saints, taking place on the first day of November, or (in the Greek church) on the first Sunday after Pentecost.
Synonyms: Allhallond
Allhallowmas
All Hallows
All Hallows' Day
All Hallows’ Day
All Saints
All Saints'
All Saints’
Hallantide
Hallowmas
Related terms: Allhallown
All Hallows Eve
All Hallows' Eve
All Hallows’ Eve
All Souls' Day
All Souls’ Day
Halloween
Hallowe'en
Hallowe’en
lo mein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lō'mān'
ipa: /ˌloʊ ˈmeɪn/
Etymology: From Taishanese 撈麵 /捞面 (lau¹ men⁵). See also chow mein, yi mein.
Senses: examples: text: Yakisoba is one of those dishes with roots in several countries. Although it’s from Japan, it is Chinese influenced, similar to chow mein and lo mein.
ref: 2010 February 26, Mark Bittman, “Yakisoba: Leeway Among the Noodles”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
coordinate_terms: chow mein
glosses: A Chinese dish consisting of soft noodles stir fried with vegetables and meat in sauce.
Derived terms: lo mein loophole
missa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin missa (“mass”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a mass, in the sense of a composition setting several sung parts of the liturgical service (most often chosen from the ordinary parts Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Agnus Dei and/or Sanctus) to music, notably when the text in Latin is used (as long universally prescribed by Rome)
kibibyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪbɪˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: kibibytes
Etymology: From kibi- + byte.
Senses: examples: text: The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates.
ref: 2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, New York: Sterling, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
Synonyms: KiB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: byte
sense: Next
word: mebibyte
QTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QTFs
Senses: topics: management
qualifier: operations
glosses: Initialism of quality task force.
Guilin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: gwāʹlǐnʹ
Forms: form: Kuei-lin
form: Kweilin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 桂林 (Guìlín, “Laurel Forest”), with particular reference to the area's Cinnamomum cassia.
Senses: examples: text: In early May, advance elements of Li Zong-ren’s Seventh Army of the Northern Expeditionary Force advanced from Guilin, securing Tang’s flanks and boosting his soldiers’ morale.
ref: 1978, Angus W. McDonald, Jr., “Elites and the Mass Movement, 1926”, in The Urban Origins of Rural Revolution: Elites and the Masses in Hunan Province, China, 1911-1927, University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235:
text: In 1945, Tom was sent into remote Kueilin, Kwangsi Province where primitive conditions necessitated bathing in a small round bamboo tub just big enough to hold him.
ref: [2001, Nancy Y.W. Tom, “World War II”, in Fred Tom, son of Hawaiʻi, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: Before going home, we flew to Guilin for a meeting with environmentalists concerned about the destruction of forests and the loss of unique wildlife, and a leisurely boat trip down the Li River, which flows through a stunning landscape marked by large limestone formations that looked as if they had burst up through the landscape of the gentle countryside. After Guilin, we made a stop in Hong Kong to see Tung Chee-hwa, the chief executive chosen by the Chinese after the British left.
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 436–437:
text: The West River was formed by the confluence of two rivers: the Hsun, which led further west to Kuanghsi’s new provincial capital of Nanning, and the Lichiang (or Kueichiang), which led north to the province’s old capital of Kueilin. Summer rains lifted the level of both rivers by as much as twenty meters, and summer was the only time of the year that Kueilin could be reached by boat.
ref: [2015, Bill Porter, “Wuchou [梧州]”, in South of the Clouds: Travels in Southwest China, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
english: 梧州
translation: 梧州
glosses: A city in the Guangxi autonomous region, China.
orbicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈbɪk.jə.lə/
ipa: /ɔːˈbɪk.jʊ.lə/
ipa: /ɔɹˈbɪk.ju.lɚ/
ipa: /ɔɹˈbɪk.jə.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more orbicular
form: most orbicular
Etymology: From the Late Latin orbiculāris, from Latin orbiculus, diminutive of orbis (“orb”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the Method used by Sailors when they mutiny, by signing their names in an orbicular manner, which they call a round Robin; […]
ref: 1731 The Gentleman's Magazine, Weekly Essays in June 1731, Craftman, Sat. June 5, No. 257, p. 238
text: The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink into the all-conquering hands of the mighty murderer.
ref: 1854, Thomas De Quincey, “On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts. Postscript.”, in Miscellanies (De Quincey’s Works; IV), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: Circular or spherical in shape; round.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a muscle, surrounding an opening; compare orbicularis.
Derived terms: hemiorbicular
orbicular stigma
semiorbicular
suborbicular
Related terms: orb
orbicularly
orbicularity
orbicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈbɪk.jə.lə/
ipa: /ɔːˈbɪk.jʊ.lə/
ipa: /ɔɹˈbɪk.ju.lɚ/
ipa: /ɔɹˈbɪk.jə.lɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From orbicula + -ar.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an orbicula.
changer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒɚ/
Forms: form: changers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chaungere, chaungeour (“moneychanger”); equivalent to change + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She bought a coin changer for her pool bar.
glosses: Someone or something who changes things.
glosses: Someone or something that changes or transforms itself.
glosses: A moneychanger; a person employed in changing or discounting money.
Derived terms: autochanger
career changer
CD changer
channel changer
diaper changer
gamechanger
game changer
gender changer
money changer
multichanger
namechanger
nappy changer
no changer
record changer
shapechanger
tap changer
voice changer