cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shoe insert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoe inserts
Senses: glosses: Any device inserted into a shoe to lift the heel of the wearer, for the purpose of making the wearer appear taller, or correcting a limb length discrepancy.
heel lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heel lifts
Senses: glosses: A wedge type shoe insert that affixes inside any footwear to make the user look taller, or to correct anatomical leg deficiencies.
UCSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University of California, Santa Cruz.
Santa Cruz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsan.tɐ ˈkɾuz/
Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese Santa Cruz (“Holy Cross”), various places named in honor of the True Cross upon which Jesus was crucified. Doublet of Holy Cross and Saint Croix.
Senses: glosses: The native people from the Santa Cruz area of California.
Synonyms: sense: native people in California
word: Awaswas
emphasise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emphasises
form: emphasising
form: emphasised
form: emphasised
Senses: examples: text: It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:
glosses: British standard spelling of emphasize.
Derived terms: deemphasise
emphasiser
overemphasise
re-emphasise
underemphasise
underemphasised
elevator shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elevator shoe
elevator shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elevator shoes
Senses: examples: text: Competitors try to achieve orgasm with partners selected in semi-darkness. The latter will be observed in better lighting to be wearing wigs, false teeth, whalebone corsets, softcons, and elevator shoes. They will confess in an intimate moment to having an obscure, incurable venereal disease or a serious heroin problem.
ref: 1976 August 21, Gary Jane Hoisington, “The Existential Olympics”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 8, page 7:
glosses: A shoe with a shoe lift.
CRS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I dunno. To use those Windows keys successfully, you have to memorize stuff and as most everyone knows, I CRS <G>
ref: 2000 October 22, Ron Badour, “Re: Large icons, large screen”, in microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of can't remember shit.
CRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CRSs
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of cold-rolled steel, steel that has been processed while remaining relatively cold, often coated in oil to prevent corrosion.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Chinese restaurant syndrome.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic rhinosinusitis.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of congenital rubella syndrome.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
computing
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of central reservation system or computer reservation system.
qualifier: realtors
glosses: Initialism of certified residential specialist.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cartographic reference system.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of (FAA) certified repair station.
topics: medicine
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Abbreviation of crotylsarin.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of cytokine release syndrome.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of constriction ring syndrome.
CRS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Historically, the president had temporary authority to reorganize USAID, but that power expired in 1999, according to the CRS. "In that act, Congress provided the President with temporary authority to reorganize the agency (22 U.S.C. 6601). President Clinton retained the status of USAID as an independent entity, and the authority to reorganize expired in 1999," the CRS report noted.
ref: 2025 February 10, Emma Withrow and Janae Bowens, “Fact Check Team: Exploring the scope of President Trump's power to abolish USAID”, in News Channel 9:
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Congressional Research Service.
glosses: Initialism of Co-operative Retail Services.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Cambridge Reference Sequence.
topics: NASA
aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Commercial Resupply Services.
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of Common Reporting Standard.
BMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BMSes
form: BMSs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of battery management system.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of battlefield management system.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of bright mild steel (“mild steel that has been cold finished and polished”).
glosses: Initialism of building management system.
topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: DES
glosses: Initialism of bare-metal stent.
glosses: Initialism of burning mouth syndrome.
Philadelphia lawyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Philadelphia lawyer
receptionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃə.nɪst/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsep.ʃə.nɪst/
Forms: form: receptionists
Etymology: Recorded since 1901, derived from reception + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: "At the moment, I think I'm working for the Central Intelligence Corporation, the Mafia, and Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong."
 "I see," the receptionist, making a note.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 366:
glosses: An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A proponent of receptionism.
Related terms: receipt
receive
receptacle
receptive
receptor
amoretto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorettos
form: amoretti
Etymology: An Italian diminutive of Amore, the god of love.
Senses: examples: text: 1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman, London: Francis Constable, Chapter 12, “Andreas Orgagna,” p. 131,
One of his best peeces he wrought in Pisa, which was all sorts of worldly and sensuall Epicures, rioting and banquetting vnder the shaddow of an Orenge tree, within the branches and bowes whereof, sly little Amorettos or Cupids, shooting at sundry Ladies lasciuiously dancing and dallying amongst them […]
text: […] a golden Eden of Joy, of bliss and marital raptures surrounded by choiring throngs of rosy amoretti […]
ref: 1936, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 8, in A Pageant of Victory, London: Sampson Low, Marston:
text: He was enchanted by the architecture of the city. Merry amoretti wove garlands above windows.
ref: 1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 6, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 192:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A cupid or putto (representation of a naked baby or small child, often with wings).
examples: text: Amoretti — a set of sonnets by Edmund Spenser describing his courtship and marriage (1595).
text: […] he hath espoused vs to him for euer. How doth hee himselfe sing his Amoretti, if not Epithalamion, his loues, in that Song of Songs? how did hee put on our nature, in his Incarnation, to woo vs?
ref: 1623, Samuel Purchas, The Kings Towre and Triumphant Arch of London: A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, August 5. 1622, London, page 19:
glosses: A love poem.
examples: text: What is Life, and the best things in life, with which her Amorettoes and Idolatrous Adorers are so delighted?
ref: 1614, Stephen Jerome, Seauen Helpes to Heauen, London: Roger Jackson, page 339:
text: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,
The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.
text: 1691, Anthony à Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, London: Thomas Bennet, Volume 1, p. 289,
For so it fell out, that he being deeply in love with a certain Woman, had for his Rival a bawdy serving man, one rather fit to be a Pimp, than an ingenious Amoretto as Marlo conceived himself to be.
glosses: A male sweetheart, lover.
Related terms: amaretto
complicit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈplɪs.ɪt/
rhymes: -ɪsɪt
Forms: form: more complicit
form: most complicit
Etymology: Most likely a back-formation from complicity, under the influence of words such as explicit, as though the suffix -ity were composed of -it (from Latin -itus) and -y.
Senses: examples: text: It [slavery] has set the seal of a complicit, guilty silence upon the most orthodox pulpits and the saintliest tongues, […]
ref: 1861, Henry M. Wheeler, The Slaves' Champion, page 203:
text: "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."
ref: 1973, Angus Wilson, As If by Magic, Secker and Warburg, page 177:
text: Khan's sale of nuclear secrets and a complicit Pakistani government have made the world a ticking time bomb.
ref: 2005 March 7, Larry Dennsion, “Letters”, in Time:
text: I have been critical of the RDG in the past for merely being a cypher for government announcements, but the failure of its members to make a stand on this issue and not be complicit in the Government's subterfuge is a shocking indictment of their failure to protect the industry.
ref: 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
glosses: Associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of a questionable nature.
Synonyms: complicitous
Derived terms: complicitly
complicitness
uncomplicit
Related terms: complicity
on the face of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the face of
Senses: examples: text: On the face of all the evidence, he was found guilty.
glosses: Notwithstanding.
Related terms: on the face of it
on the face of the earth
countermeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəmɛʒə/
rhymes: -ɛʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: countermeasures
Etymology: From counter- + measure.
Senses: examples: text: We fear that this will be the beginning of a negative development of measures and countermeasures, at the end of which there will be no winner
ref: 2018 May 31, Jackie Wattles, Charles Riley, “Why President Trump's obsession with German cars is misplaced”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2018:
text: Adopting a computerlike countermeasure for a problem enabled by computer algorithms is admittedly an unnatural practice.
ref: 2024 May 6, Ben Guarino, “Defend Yourself against AI Impostor Scams with a Safe Word”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 06 May 2024:
glosses: Any action taken to counteract or correct another.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any of the devices and techniques used to impair the operational effectiveness of an enemy.
Derived terms: anticountermeasure
countercountermeasure
countermeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermeasure
solar constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: S_☉
glosses: The amount of incoming solar radiation per unit area, measured on the outer surface of Earth's atmosphere, in a plane perpendicular to the rays.
solar corona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar coronas
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The upper atmosphere of the sun, only visible during a total solar eclipse
solar energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Energy Research Institute under the Industrial Technological Research Institute has decided to build the nation’s first solar energy plant at Chutung Township in Hsinchu county.
ref: 1981 December 6, “Imports planned to meet energy needs”, in 自由中國週報 [Free China Weekly], volume XXII, number 48, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:
english: Free China Weekly
translation: Free China Weekly
text: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
ref: 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Energy in the form of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the Sun; especially that part of this energy that is converted into usable thermal or electrical energy by man.
Synonyms: english: broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit)
translation: broadly synonymous despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit)
word: solar power
Hypernyms: renewable energy
energy
Coordinate terms: word: nuclear energy
english: broadly coordinate despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit)
translation: broadly coordinate despite precise differentiability of energy from power (energy per time unit)
word: water power
word: wind energy
suboptimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈɑptɪməl/
ipa: /sʌbˈɒptɪməl/
Forms: form: sub-optimal
Etymology: From sub- + optimal.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: submaximal
text: A quickly produced suboptimal solution to a problem is often more useful than an optimal one that takes a long time to produce.
text: "The way the consultation has been handled is suboptimal," she continued.
ref: 2023 October 4, Mel Holley, “Network News: Conservative MPs criticise ticket office closure plans”, in RAIL, number 993, page 23:
synonyms: inoptimal
nonoptimal
coordinate_terms: unoptimized
glosses: Worse than optimal; of less than the highest standard or quality.
solar radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: All the electromagnetic radiation and subatomic particles radiated from the Sun, especially that part that reaches the Earth
soldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏd′ər.ĭng
enpr: sōd′ər.ĭng
ipa: /ˈsɑdəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊdəɹɪŋ/
enpr: sōl′dər.ĭng
ipa: /ˈsəʊld(ə)ɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solder
soldering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏd′ər.ĭng
enpr: sōd′ər.ĭng
ipa: /ˈsɑdəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsəʊdəɹɪŋ/
enpr: sōl′dər.ĭng
ipa: /ˈsəʊld(ə)ɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: solderings
Senses: glosses: A method of joining two metallic surfaces by melting an alloy between them.
glosses: An instance of soldering.
glosses: A soldered joint.
solid-state
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: solid state
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having or relating to the physical properties of solid materials, especially electromagnetic, thermodynamic or structural properties of crystalline solids.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Based upon semiconductors, as distinct from older technologies such as vacuum tubes.
raw_tags: of an electronic component
topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Using all solid construction; not using a wet membrane, gel, paste, liquid, gas or air, as the electrolyte or electrodes.
raw_tags: of batteries
Derived terms: solid-state battery
solid-state chemistry
solid-state device
solid-state drive
solid-state physics
fava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑː.və/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: favas
form: fava
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava and Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.
Senses: examples: text: 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,
Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.
text: When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.
ref: 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153:
text: Add the favas and cook for 1 minute.
ref: 2007, Cat Cora et al., Cooking from the Hip, →ISBN, page 197:
text: In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.
ref: 2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268:
glosses: A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of plants of species Vicia faba or the plant itself.
Derived terms: fava bean
favism
Favaloru
hopelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopelessnesses
Etymology: From hopeless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Depression can induce an overwhelming sense of sadness and hopelessness.
ref: 2022 August 23, Dani Blum, “How Can I Tell if I’m Depressed or Burned Out?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2022:
text: The survey found increasing mental health challenges, experiences of violence, and suicidal thoughts and behavior among all teens. More than 40% of high school students said that feelings of sadness or hopelessness prevented them from engaging in their regular activities for at least two weeks of the year.
ref: 2023 February 13, Deidre McPhillips, “Teens, especially girls, are experiencing more violence, suicidal thoughts and mental health challenges, CDC survey finds”, in CNN:
text: On the app I’d ultimately go with, I presented myself truthfully, as a Republican-curious woman tired of the Democrats’ hopelessness and constant pivoting during a highly charged election year.
ref: 2025 February 18, Vera Papisova, “I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned”, in Cosmopolitan:
synonyms: desperation
despondency
glosses: A lack of hope; despair.
Synonyms: word: despair
word: desperation
word: despond
word: despondency
word: hopelessness
word: unhope
word: wanhope
Hypernyms: word: sadness
Derived terms: Beck Hopelessness Scale
Related terms: word: alew
word: lost cause
word: pit of despair
word: slough of despond
dosage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊsɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: dosages
Etymology: From French dosage.
Senses: glosses: The administration of a medication etc, in a measured amount; dosing.
glosses: The addition of a small measured amount of a substance to something, e.g. sugar to wine.
examples: text: Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
glosses: The measured amount so administered or added (the dose), combined with the frequency of administration and the time period for which it is taken.
Derived terms: dosage compensation
macrodosage
megadosage
microdosage
overdosage
underdosage
Related terms: posology
inoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɒp(ə)ɹətɪv/
ipa: /ɪnˈɑp(ə)ɹətɪv/
Etymology: From in- + operative.
Senses: examples: text: Let me see if I can dial this number right quick / "I am sorry, the government you have elected is inoperative / Click. Inoperative"
ref: 1974, “H2Ogate Blues”, in Winter in America, performed by Gil Scott-Heron:
text: RSSB's report, released on September 23 2004, revealed that that the parking brakes on neither trolley had applied. It also revealed how the fixed piping carrying hydraulic pressure to the brake units on both had been severed and blanked off. This meant the parking brakes would not have been able to be released from the RRV. Washers to provide a clamping force to keep the parking brakes on were also missing, rendering them "completely inoperative".
ref: 2024 February 7, Greg Morse, “Tebay tragedy and track safety”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 41:
glosses: Not working or functioning; either idle or broken.
topics: law
glosses: No longer legally binding.
Derived terms: inoperativeness
unoccupied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoccupied
form: most unoccupied
Etymology: From Middle English unoccupied; equivalent to un- + occupied.
Senses: examples: text: Construction of the world’s tallest unoccupied skyscraper may resume as early as next week, almost 10 years after work ground to a halt, according to Chinese state media.
ref: 2025 April 24, Oscar Holland, “Construction of world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper to resume after a decade”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: untenanted
word: vacant
word: beingless
word: desert
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: disinhabited
word: inhabitantless
word: inhabited
word: lifeless
word: peopleless
word: solitary
word: tenantless
word: unhabited
word: uninhabited
word: unoccupied
word: unpeopled
word: unpopulated
word: untenanted
word: vacant
word: wasteful
glosses: Not inhabited, especially by a tenant
raw_tags: of a house etc
synonyms: available
usable
glosses: Not being used; vacant or free
synonyms: word: dormant
word: unemployed
word: abeyant
word: at rest
word: cessant
word: dormant
word: dull
word: fallow
word: idle
word: inactive
word: inert
word: languid
word: latent
word: nonactive
word: quiescent
word: silent
word: sedent
word: sedentary
word: slow
word: suspended
word: torpid
word: unactive
word: unbusy
word: unemployed
word: unoccupied
glosses: Not employed on a task; idle
synonyms: free
glosses: Not occupied by foreign troops etc
raw_tags: of territory
unbounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbounded
form: most unbounded
Etymology: From un- + bounded.
Senses: examples: text: The universe is finite but unbounded.
text: our everlasting, unbounded love
text: I still retain an unbounded admiration for G. J. Churchward and all his works, so wisely carried on by his successors.
ref: 1947 January and February, H. Holcroft, “"Castles", "Lord Nelsons" and "Royal Scots"”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
glosses: Having no boundaries or limits.
Synonyms: bottomless
boundless
limitless
unbottomed
infinite
Derived terms: unbounded manifold
unbounded nondeterminism
unbounded set
unbounded system
unbounded wave
in advance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The money was paid in advance.
text: To make matters worse, you did not publish the news note until 5 days before the conference — even though we had submitted it enough in advance to have been included in the previous weeks' paper.!
ref: 1979 December 22, Gia Berkman, “Some Friction”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 4:
text: The chap opposite seems to be trying to pull a fast one, and having seen the guard is trying to buy a ticket online... but doesn't succeed. The guard helpfully sells him one, but not quite at the price of one purchased in advance. In fairness he doesn't kick off, nor does the guard treat him like some common criminal. It's a fair cop - or should that be a fare cop?
ref: 2024 April 17, “Rural railways: do they deliver?”, in RAIL, number 1007, page 57:
glosses: Beforehand.
Synonyms: ahead of time
Derived terms: thanks in advance
Related terms: in advance of
belated
belatedly
futures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of future
futures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futures
Etymology: Shortening of futures contract.
Senses: examples: text: Changes in spread between prices of cotton sheeting and twill and prices of cotton futures were relatively less than those indicated for print cloth.
ref: 1955, Leander D. Howell, Price risks for cotton and cotton products and means of reducing them:
text: The percentage of times the American futures call option is priced below the European index call option decreases noticeably when the futures is at a premium to the index.
ref: 1986, Review of Research in Futures Markets, volumes 5-6, page 53:
text: A Eurodollar futures is a futures contract that at the expiration of the futures contract
ref: 1996, Ren-Raw Chen, Understanding and Managing Interest Rate Risks, page 75:
text: Our study is the first to investigate the price reaction of two broad commodity futures indices to several US macroeconomic announcements.
ref: 2010, He Huang, Macroeconomic News Effects in Commodity Futures and German Stock and Bond futures markets, →ISBN:
text: the raw risk disclosure that managed futures is not a conservative investment.
ref: 2010, Mark H. Melin, High-Performance Managed Futures:
text: A bond futures is a commitment to deliver or take delivery of a notional bond on a future date or between a range of dates.
ref: 2010, Andrew M. Chisholm, Derivatives Demystified:
text: Corn, soybeans, and other agricultural futures are excellent contracts to allow someone else to trade for you, either through a commodity fund that specializes in these markets or an advisor with a good record who knows what he's doing.
ref: 2011, Joe Duarte, Trading Futures For Dummies, →ISBN, page 281:
text: If the futures market is normal, an American call futures is worth more than the corresponding American spot call option, while an American put futures is worth less than the corresponding American spot put option.
ref: 2013, John Hull, Sirimon Treepongkaruna, David Colwell, Fundamentals of Futures and options markets, page 350:
text: The US Commodity and Futures Commission (CTFC)^([sic – meaning CFTC]) alleges it and its former subsidiary Mondelez Global bought $90m (£61m) of wheat futures but had no intention of taking delivery of it.
ref: 2015 April 1, “Kraft accused of wheat price fixing”, in BBC News:
text: On Tuesday cocoa futures in London traded at a record high of £5,827 per tonne. On the same day last year, they traded at £1,968. Prices are rising in part because supply is stretched.
ref: 2024 March 2, Susannah Savage, “Why the cost of chocolate will keep rising”, in FT Weekend, page 7:
glosses: Ellipsis of futures contract.
Derived terms: death futures
futures market
nonfutures
perpetual futures
Catholicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈθɒlɪsɪzəm/
Forms: form: Catholicisms
Etymology: Compare French catholicisme.
Senses: examples: text: Catholicism is the second largest religious body after Sunni Muslims
ref: 2011, Connie Green, Religious Diversity, Children's Literature, page 156:
glosses: The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.
Synonyms: english: synonymous in most contexts
translation: synonymous in most contexts
word: Roman Catholicism
Hypernyms: Christianity
trinitarianism
Coordinate terms: Mormonism
Protestantism
Quakerism
Derived terms: Eastern Catholicism
Independent Catholicism
Catholic Church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Catholic Churches
Senses: examples: text: The Catholic Church is the largest Christian church, comprising almost half of all Christians in the world.
text: The “Catholic Church” or “Roman Catholic Church” is the world's second largest single religious body after Sunni Islam
ref: 2012, Nat Carnes, Al-Maghred, the Barbary Lion: A Look at Islam, Page 86
synonyms: Roman Catholic Church
meronyms: Latin Church
glosses: The Catholic Church, which consists of 24 particular churches in full communion with the Pope as the Bishop of Rome.
glosses: Literally "universal church", the whole body of Christendom, especially before the division into Western and Eastern churches.
glosses: Any of the independent Catholic Churches, such as the Old Catholic Church, the Polish National Catholic Church, or the Orthodox Catholic Church.
glosses: Any Christian denomination that identifies explicitly as "Catholic" based on its affirmation of the Nicene Creed, such as any of the Anglican Churches.
Orthodox Church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orthodox Churches
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Christianity, Church
Meronyms: Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church, Serbian Orthodox Church
glosses: The Eastern Orthodox Church.
glosses: The Eastern body of Christendom.
glosses: That part of Christendom apart from the Eastern Catholic Churches.
glosses: Any Church that self-designates as Orthodox.
Maghrebi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maghrebi
form: most Maghrebi
form: Maghrebin
form: Moghrabi
form: Mograbi
form: Mughrabi
form: Mugrabi
Etymology: From Maghreb + -i.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Maghreb or its people.
Maghrebi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maghrebis
form: Maghrebin
form: Moghrabi
form: Mograbi
form: Mughrabi
form: Mugrabi
Etymology: From Maghreb + -i.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Maghreb.
implicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of implicate
entrepôt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒntɹəˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɒntɹəpəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɒ̃-/
ipa: /ˌɑntɹəˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: entrepôts
form: entrepot
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁én
Borrowed from French entrepôt, entrepost (“temporary storage of goods; place for temporary storage and distribution of goods”) (archaic), from entreposer (“to store goods in a warehouse”), with the ending influenced by dépôt (“store, warehouse, depot”).
Senses: examples: text: South of Taichung is the old port town of Lu-kang. Here again we come face to face with Taiwan's past, sometimes in dramatic fashion. Founded in the seventeenth century, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Lu-kang was an important port city with strong ties to Ch'uan-chou—the eighteenth-century classic but declining entrepôt of southern Min Fukien.
ref: 1999, Murray A. Rubenstein, “Introduction”, in Murray A. Rubinstein, editor, Taiwan: A New History (An East Gate Book; Taiwan in the Modern World), Armonk, N.Y.; London: M[yron] E. Sharpe, →ISBN, page x:
text: So why is Mr [David] Cameron's government pursuing an immigration policy that is creating red tape, stifling entrepreneurs and hobbling Britain? The country has, in effect, installed a "keep out" sign over the white cliffs of Dover. Even as Mr Cameron defends the City of London as a global financial centre, and takes planeloads of business folk on foreign trips, his government ratchets up measures that would turn an entrepôt into a fortress.
ref: 2012 October 20, “Immigration: The Tories’ barmiest policy”, in The Economist, London: Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2012:
text: A former British colony that reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong has long enjoyed a reputation as a capitalist entrepôt where companies operate relatively free from regulation.
ref: 2025 March 31, Ann Scott Tyson, “How a 43-port business deal threatens China’s global power”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
topics: business
glosses: A city, port, or other place where merchandise is sent for import, processing, distribution, and/or export, especially one where such merchandise is exempt from some customs duties; hence, a commercial centre.
topics: business
glosses: The temporary storage of merchandise, especially for subsequent distribution or export.
topics: business
glosses: A depot or warehouse for temporarily storing merchandise.
entrepot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrepots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of entrepôt.
solvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solvations
Senses: examples: text: It is found that the clouding process is closely related to the conformational equilibrium of the ethyleneoxide chains, and that this equilibrium depends on the properties of the free ethyleneoxide chain, the solvation of the chain, but also to a large extent on the effect that the ethyleneoxide chain has on the effective water-water interaction.
ref: 2000, Gunnar Karlström, “On the origin of the solution behavior of ethyleneoxide containing polymers”, in P. Alexandridis, B. Lindman, editor, Amphiphilic Block Copolymers: Self-Assembly and Applications:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An association, or a reaction, of a solute with a solvent.
Related terms: resolvation
solvate
solve
solvent extraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The separation of the components of a solution by partitioning between immiscible liquids
Related terms: separating funnel
somatostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsəʊ.mət.ə(ʊ)ˈstæt.ɪn/
ipa: /soʊˌmæt.əˈstæt.ən/
rhymes: -ætɪn
rhymes: -ætən
Forms: form: somatostatins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῶμα (sôma) + statin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclopeptide hormone, secreted by the pancreas, that inhibits the production of certain other hormones
Synonyms: growth hormone-inhibiting hormone
GHIH
somesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of somatic + esthesis.
Senses: glosses: All of the various sensory systems in the skin and other bodily tissues responsible for the senses of touch-pressure, warmth and coldness, pain, itch together with positioning and movement
sonic boom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonic booms
Senses: topics: aerodynamics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The audible effect of a shock wave in the air, especially one caused by an aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound.
sonic boom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sonic booms
form: sonic booming
form: sonic boomed
form: sonic boomed
Senses: glosses: To produce such an effect.
vying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vie
glosses: present participle and gerund of vy
vying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: vyings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who vies; rivalry.
sonobuoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonobuoys
Etymology: From sono- + buoy.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A buoy that sends a radio signal when it detects the sound of underwater objects (such as submarines).
vied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vie
vulgarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vulgarly
form: most vulgarly
Etymology: From vulgar + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Rosemary peeled off Sloane Square, Hartnell, decorations-will-be-worn, fog primroses, crumpets by the fire, and let fly vulgarly at Vythilingam.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 498:
glosses: In a vulgar manner; obscenely or unrefinedly.
examples: text: The last, the knotted fucus, which has long slender stalks, leaves small, bulbs or vesicles in the middle of the stalks, vulgarly called eelwrack, is most esteemed by our kelp-makers.
ref: 1809, The Tradesman, volume 3, page 1:
glosses: In the manner of the common people.
vortices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔː.tɪ.siːz/
ipa: /ˈvɔɹ.tɪ.siz/
Forms: form: vortexes
Senses: glosses: plural of vortex
vulvae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulva
vulvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulva
vulgarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulgarizes
form: vulgarizing
form: vulgarized
form: vulgarized
form: vulgarise
Etymology: From vulgar + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: With much labor we got our things up the steps, and then, looking back, took one last long survey of that strange land, soon I fear to be vulgarized, the prey of hunter and prospector, but to each of us a dreamland of glamour and romance, a land where we had dared much, suffered much, and learned much - our land, as we shall ever fondly call it.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: "Yes," said Mr. Flushing. "And in my opinion," he continued, "the absence of population to which Hirst objects is precisely the significant touch. You must admit, Hirst, that a little Italian town even would vulgarise the whole scene, would detract from the vastness — the sense of elemental grandeur."
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out:
text: Words only vulgarize love and blunt its edge.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 167:
glosses: To make vulgar.
To make commonplace, crass, lewd.
glosses: To make vulgar.
To convert (religious rites) so as to use the vulgate (language of the commoners).
Synonyms: debase
dumb down
vulgarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vulgarises
form: vulgarising
form: vulgarised
form: vulgarised
Etymology: From vulgar + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarize.
vulgarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vulgarize
vulgarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vulgarize
vulgarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulgarizing
form: most vulgarizing
Senses: glosses: That makes vulgar; degrading.
vulgarized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vulgarize
vulgarizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulgarizers
form: vulgariser
Etymology: From vulgarize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who vulgarizes.
vulgarizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulgarizer
vulnerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vulnerably
form: most vulnerably
Etymology: From vulnerable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vulnerable manner.
Related terms: invulnerably
peacebuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peace + building.
Senses: glosses: The creation of peace or the conditions for peace.
glosses: The reconstruction of physical and societal institutions after a conflict
Related terms: peacebuilder
vulturous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vulturous
form: most vulturous
Etymology: From vulture + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The attorney licked his lips with vulturous delight as he listened to the man's description of neck pain after the accident.
glosses: Having the characteristics of a vulture, especially in being rapacious, greedy, or scavenging.
Synonyms: vulturelike
vulturine
vulturish
character class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: character classes
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: One of a number of pre-determined groups into which characters in role-playing games are grouped, based on the focus of their skills.
qualifier: regular expressions
glosses: A set of related text characters, such as all alphanumerics or all whitespace.
character classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of character class
player character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: player characters
Senses: topics: video-games
antonyms: non-player character
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A character in a role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player.
player characters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of player character
Moldovan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moldovans
form: Moldavian
form: Moldovian
form: Moldavan
Etymology: From Moldova + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Republic of Moldova.
Moldovan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moldavian
form: Moldovian
form: Moldavan
Etymology: From Moldova + -an.
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Romanian spoken in the Republic of Moldova, which may be written in either the Cyrillic or the Roman alphabet.
glosses: The Romanian language (a name used primarily in Moldova).
glosses: A surname.
Moldovan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Moldavian
form: Moldovian
form: Moldavan
Etymology: From Moldova + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the country of Moldova.
glosses: Relating to the Moldovan language.
unavailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl/
Forms: form: more unavailable
form: most unavailable
Etymology: From un- + available.
Senses: examples: text: To recriminate now, he said, would be as exasperating as unavailable.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter DXXXVI”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: Unavailing; ineffective.
examples: text: This product is unavailable at the moment, but we hope to order more by next week.
text: A cold, reserved man, he was seen as emotionally unavailable.
text: They are also needed to cover for unavailable Hitachi Azumas that require modifications to their inter-car connectors.
ref: 2020 April 8, “Fleet News: LNER to extend retention of Class 91s and Mk 4s”, in Rail, page 29:
synonyms: inavailable
out of stock
antonyms: available
glosses: Not available.
Derived terms: bio-unavailable
unavailable energy
unavailable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈveɪləbəl/
Forms: form: unavailables
Etymology: From un- + available.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A communist who operated underground and was therefore not available for a political leadership position.
Georges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of George
examples: text: For that braue Chappell which doth lift the head / VVith pinacles, and turrets garniſhed, / Aboue the wals of that Triumphant ſeat / VVhoſe rockie foote Thames ouerflowne doth beate, / By that victorious Monarch reared was / To Georges name, that none in ſight can paſſe / Of VVindſors Towers (our Englands beſt-built pride) / To whom this honor is not teſtifide.
ref: 1614, Tristram White, The Martyrdome of Saint George of Cappadocia: Titular Patron of England, and of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, London: […] [Thomas Snodham] for William Barley, […], →OCLC, signature [C4], verso:
glosses: genitive of George
Derived terms: Georges Bank
Georges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of George
Georges
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Georges.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French, equivalent to English George.
glosses: A township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Related terms: Saint Georges
Saint-Georges-sur-Loire
Villeneuve-Saint-Georges
vulgarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
rhymes: -æɹiən
Forms: form: vulgarians
Etymology: From vulgar + -ian. Compare Late Latin vulgārius, Latin vulgāris.
Senses: examples: text: He was by this time on the deck, but he had the art to be quite unapproachable; the friendliest vulgarian, three parts drunk, would have known better than take liberties...
ref: 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-Tide:
text: But to have spent one's youth at college, in contact with the choice and rare and precious, and yet still to be a blind prig or vulgarian, unable to scent out human excellence or to divine it amid its accidents, to know it only when ticketed and labeled and forced on us by others, this indeed should be accounted the very calamity and shipwreck of a higher education.
ref: 1907, William James, Social Value of the College-Bred:
text: She is a bitch in heat, a mindless grinning vulgarian, and a shrewd and desperate schemer all at once.
ref: 1976 April 26, Rob Schmeider, “Entertaining Mr. Sloane (review)”, in Gay Community News, page 21:
text: Leading the attack on the president's very citizenship is the professional vulgarian Donald Trump, who gets away with the kind of preposterous, race-based comments granted few black public figures.
ref: 2014 December 4, Timothy Egan, “A deficit of dignity”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A vulgar individual, especially one who emphasizes or is oblivious to his or her vulgar qualities.
vulgarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /vʌlˈɡɛəɹi.ən/
rhymes: -æɹiən
Forms: form: more vulgarian
form: most vulgarian
Etymology: From vulgar + -ian. Compare Late Latin vulgārius, Latin vulgāris.
Senses: examples: text: Your vulgarian friend is downstairs, denting innocent people's fenders.
ref: 1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Joan (Elizabeth Perkins):
glosses: Having the characteristics of a vulgarian, vulgar.
vulgarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vulgarian
public transport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public transports
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, China’s investment in subway systems is overwhelmingly positive. And there are also encouraging signs, too, that Chinese cities are beginning to shape urban development around public transport hubs. For example, Tiantongyuan, a high-density community of giant housing blocks in the suburbs of northern Beijing, has three subway stations.
ref: 2012, Tom Miller, China's Urban Billion: The story behind the biggest migration in human history, Zed Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 137:
text: The Airports National Policy Statement objectives require the proportion of journeys made to the airport by passengers to be at least 50% by public transport by 2030 and 55% by 2040.
ref: 2019 October, John Glover, “Heathrow rail expansion”, in Modern Railways, page 71:
glosses: Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare); as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars.
Synonyms: word: public transit
word: public transportation
Related terms: mass transit
viscerally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more viscerally
form: most viscerally
Etymology: From visceral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The soldier was wounded viscerally and was expected to die of gangrene.
glosses: Literally, in a manner that affects the viscera or gut.
examples: text: The shock of my friend's decapitation affected me viscerally, and I became paralyzed with dread.
glosses: In a visceral manner; in a way that affects one's inner core or produces overwhelming emotions.