cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
butterfingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtəˌfɪŋɡəz/
ipa: /ˈbʌtɚˌfɪŋɡɚz/
ipa: [-ɾɚ-]
Forms: form: butterfingers
form: butter fingers
Etymology: From butter + fingers (suggesting that someone is clumsy and drops things as if their hands are coated in slippery butter), from butterfingered.
Senses: examples: text: I am such a butterfingers. That’s the third drink I’ve spilled today.
text: [A]t every bad attempt at a catch, and every failure to stop the ball, he launched his personal displeasure at the head of the devoted individual in such denunciations as—"Ah, ah!—stupid"—"Now butter-fingers"—"Muff"—"Humbug"—and so forth—ejaculations which seemed to establish him in the opinion of all around, as a most excellent and undeniable judge of the whole art and mystery of the noble game of cricket.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “How Mr. Winkle, instead of Shooting at the Pigeon and Killing the Crow, Shot at the Crow and Wounded the Pigeon; […]”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 69:
text: “[…] Please don't handle them [birds’ eggs], Me! They are very fragile, and I would’nt^([sic – meaning wouldn’t]) lose them for anything.” / “I must hold them—just this once,” persists Me. “Don’t think I shall be such a butter[-]fingers as to break them. I’ve handled heaps of eggs before these!”
ref: 1883, Frances I[sabelle] M. Kershaw, “Master Me”, in Baby: A Study of Baby Life, London: Burns and Oates, […], →OCLC, page 95:
synonyms: word: butterfinger
glosses: Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz.
examples: text: “I guess everyone’s got butterfingers around here,” Cole said with a sly smile. “Lucky for us, I’ve got fast reflexes.”
ref: 2014, Scott Ciencin, chapter 1, in Luck Be a Lady […] (Charmed), New York, N.Y.: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing Division, →ISBN, page 4:
text: “That boy’s got butterfingers,” Connor went on. “That’s twice he’s dropped a tool. He’s got no place on a construction site.”
ref: 2017, Cora Seton, chapter 9, in Issued to the Bride: One Marine, San Bernardino, Calif.: One Acre Press, →ISBN:
glosses: One's fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated.
glosses: A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated.
Derived terms: butterfinger
Related terms: butterfingered
bail out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bails out
form: bailing out
form: bailed out
form: bailed out
form: bale out
Senses: glosses: To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money.
examples: text: But it passed, leaving us up to our knees in water. 'Bail out! bail out!' shouted Job, suiting the action to the word.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remove water from a boat by scooping it out.
examples: text: Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
text: Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Afghanistan, is not the first soldier to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
ref: 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal, Guardian Unlimited:
glosses: To rescue, especially financially.
examples: text: Make sure your parachute harness is securely fastened before you bail out!
text: Holmes bailed out of his fighter and parachuted onto an apartment house.
ref: 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage:
glosses: To exit an aircraft while in flight.
examples: text: I'm going to bail out of class today.
text: She's bailing out on the project.
glosses: To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).
examples: text: When I got arrested, she bailed out on me.
glosses: To abandon (someone) when that person faces difficulties.
examples: text: I'm going to bail out of stocks and buy gold instead.
glosses: To sell all or part of one's holdings in stocks, real estate, a business, etc.
glosses: To make an unscheduled voluntary termination of an underwater dive, usually implying the use of an alternative breathing gas supply.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: To fail badly; to fall off a skateboard.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: To abandon one's surfboard when faced with a large or perilous wave.
Hyponyms: sense: leave an aircraft while in flight
word: eject
Derived terms: bailout
bail-out
mushy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌ.ʃi/
ipa: /ˈmʊ.ʃi/
homophone: mushie
rhymes: -ʌʃi
rhymes: -ʊʃi
Forms: form: mushier
form: more mushy
form: mushiest
form: most mushy
Etymology: From mush + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I don't especially like mushy oatmeal.
text: Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier) roe feeds 60 percent of the market.
ref: 2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular.
examples: text: The brake pedal is mushy sometimes when I step on it.
text: Compared with the excellent scroll wheels on the Basilisk V3 and G502 X, the G203’s scroll wheel feels less defined and mushier in its ratcheting.
ref: 2024 January 16, Kimber Streams, “The Best Gaming Mouse”, in Wirecutter:
glosses: Soft; squishy.
examples: text: Skip the mushy, romantic scenes and get to the action.
text: I am sure the hostess will leave off her list men and women who usually drink too much, the woman who gets mushy and tries to steal all the handsomest husbands, the man who offensively would take this opportunity to try to build up sales contacts, […]
ref: 1948, The American Magazine, volume 145, page 122:
text: The day before she left for college, she and Vicki said goodbye. They exchanged mushy cards and promised to write frequently.
ref: 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8:
text: Those flower-bedecked cards being showered today on the male of the parental species may encourage one to ponder, in the mushiest language possible, what it means to be a dad.
ref: 2004 June 20, Hubert B. Herring, “OPENERS: THE COUNT; Oh, Dad! So Glad You Had This Lad. A Job, Too? Not Bad.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Overly sappy, corny, or cheesy; maudlin.
Derived terms: mushily
mushiness
mushy peas
unmushy
full-fledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fully fledged
Etymology: From full + fledged.
Senses: glosses: Having all its feathers; able to fly.
raw_tags: of a bird
examples: text: After she passes the bar exam, she will be a full-fledged lawyer.
text: Ansible is not a full-fledged programming language, but it does have several programming language features, and one of the most important of these is variable substitution.
ref: 2017, Lorin Hochstein, René Moser, “4. Variables and Facts”, in Ansible: Up and Running, 2nd edition, O’Reilly, →ISBN:
text: PIRG noted the European Union has a limit of 300 ppm for boron and that there should be a “full-fledged investigation to determine if limits should be established” in the US.
ref: 2018 November 20, Wayne Drash, “Consumer group warns of ‘dangerous’ slime products and other hazardous toys”, in CNN:
glosses: Having full qualification, credentials or preparation; entire; real.
Synonyms: full-blown
full-bore
holistic
Hypernyms: fledged
Derived terms: full-fledgedly
full-fledgedness
Related terms: fledge
fully fledged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of full-fledged (US English)
rocket science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: astrodynamics
astronautics
qualifier: literal
glosses: The science or study of rockets and their design.
examples: text: It's not rocket science. Just screw in the bulb and flip the switch.
text: It's not rocket science. You just need to screw this to that!
text: This isn’t rocket science. Government standards matter. They drive innovation and efficiency.
ref: 2007 January 19, Thomas L. Friedman, “A Warning From the Garden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals. If nothing else, this is an important reason for NR to be keen to switch. "There's no rocket science or magic in that, there's just physically less to deliver," he says. "There are no trackside signals. Yes, you have balises and marker boards, and you still have train detection, but by and large there is simply less to deliver.
ref: 2024 May 29, Philip Haigh, “The digital revolution and the switch to in-cab signalling”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 29:
synonyms: brain surgery
glosses: Anything overly complex, detailed or confusing.
raw_tags: in the negative
Synonyms: sense: something complex and confusing
word: brain surgery
Derived terms: rocket surgery
Related terms: rocket scientist
astrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: astrologies
form: astrol.
Etymology: From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia (“astronomy”), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrología, “telling of the stars”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star, planet, or constellation”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), combination form of -λόγος (-lógos, “one who speaks (in a certain manner)”). Morphologically astro- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: For if astronomy is the study of the movements of the heavens, then astrology is the study of the effects of those movements.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 274:
text: Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
ref: 2012, The Guardian, (headline), 7 Feb 2012
text: In some ways, astrology is perfectly suited for the internet age. There’s a low barrier to entry, and nearly endless depths to plumb if you feel like falling down a Google research hole.
ref: 2018 January 18, Julie Beck, “The New Age of Astrology”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.
Synonyms: starcraft
astromancy
Hypernyms: protoscience
pseudoscience
Derived terms: antiastrology
astrologaster
astrologese
astrologess
astrologick
astrologist
astrologize
Chinese astrology
judicial astrology
judiciary astrology
natural astrology
sidereal astrology
tropical astrology
Western astrology
Related terms: astrologer
astrological
astrologically
astrologism
astrosophy
astronomy
paint the town red
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paints the town red
form: painting the town red
form: painted the town red
form: painted the town red
form: paint the town
Etymology: US slang. Earliest known use 1884. Various theories include the red from bonfires, the heat from over-stoked paddle-wheel boilers, and town demarcation lines in the Wild West. A British claim attributing it to the actions of the Third Marquess of Waterford predates the first known use by decades.
Senses: examples: text: It was the end of term and students decided to celebrate by painting the town red.
text: With regard to Mrs. Brown-Potter, as acting is no longer considered absolutely essential for success on the English stage, there is really no reason why the pretty bright-eyed lady who charmed us all last June by her merry laugh and her nonchalant ways, should not—to borrow an expression from her native language—make a big boom and paint the town red.
ref: 1887 March, Oscar Wilde, The American Invasion:
text: After that dinner at MacFen's he was done for—went wild. Danced a sword-dance, or a strathspey, or some other blamed thing, on the table, and yelled louder than the pipes. So they all did. Jack, I've painted the town red once myself.
ref: 1894, Bret Harte, “The Heir of the McHulishes”, in A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories:
text: Half a dozen cowboys cantered up the main street of Los Portales in a cloud of dust. One of them, older than the rest, let out the wild yell. […] A second flung into the blue sky three rapid revolver shots. Plainly they were advertising the fact that they had come to paint the town red and did not care who knew it.
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 8, in A Man Four-Square:
text: Bitch, I said what I said / I'd rather be famous instead / I let all that get to my head / I don't care, I paint the town red
ref: 2023, “Paint The Town Red”, in Scarlet, performed by Doja Cat:
glosses: To party or celebrate in a rowdy, wild manner, especially in a public place.
Related terms: on the town
amber alert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amber alerts
form: AMBER Alert
form: AMBER alert
form: Amber Alert
form: Amber alert
Etymology: After Amber Hagerman (1986–1996), a girl who was abducted and killed in Arlington, Texas. The upper-case spelling indicates a backronym: America's Missing: Broadcasting Emergency Response.
Senses: glosses: A public notification of a child abduction.
wikipedia: Amber Hagerman
you don't say
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: They're going to have a baby? You don't say!
text: Hey, guess what? There's a country called Brazil! –You don't say.
text: ‘And in fact I found something interesting in the sample of the boy you were talking about. The son of Hole’s girlfriend.’ / ‘My understanding is that their relationship is now a thing of the past.’ / ‘You don’t say? There was something in the blood sample, so I was wondering if there was anything in the family . . .’
ref: 2010, Jo Nesbø, translated by Don Bartlett, “The Snowman”, in The Snowman (Harry Hole; 7), London: Harvill Secker, →ISBN, part 5, page 403:
text: A recent article about Barbie in the New Yorker quoted no less a figure than Gerwig’s own agent as saying: “Is it a great thing that our great creative actors and film-makers live in a world where you can only take giant swings around consumer content and mass-produced products? I don’t know. But it is the business.” You don’t say.
ref: 2023 July 19, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: really
no kidding
oh really
no really
no shit
no shit, Sherlock
do tell
glosses: Really?; no kidding!; is that so? (sometimes used sarcastically in response to the obvious)
Hughes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hyo͞oz
ipa: /hjuːz/
homophone: hues
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: A Welsh and English surname originating as a patronymic derived from the given name Hugh.
glosses: A Welsh surname; a variant of Howells.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in St. Francis County, Arkansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Hardin County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Billy Hughes.
glosses: A rural locality in Litchfield Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia.
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Hughes County
Hughes-Drever experiment
Hughesian
Hughes-Stovin syndrome
Hughes syndrome
Hughesy
beef up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beefs up
form: beefing up
form: beefed up
form: beefed up
Etymology: Originally college slang, from beef (“muscle-power”).
Senses: examples: text: We need to beef up security around the airport.
glosses: To strengthen or reinforce; to add substance to.
Related terms: beef
beefed out
beefed up
beef out
beefy
beefy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːfi/
rhymes: -iːfi
Forms: form: beefier
form: beefiest
Etymology: From beef + -y.
Senses: glosses: Similar to, or tasting like beef.
examples: text: The Chicken Big Mac is similar to its beefy sibling; however, it replaces the two burgers with two tempura chicken patties.
ref: 2024 October 3, Jordan Valinsky, “McDonald’s is finally selling the Chicken Big Mac in the US”, in CNN:
glosses: Containing beef.
examples: text: The barman was a big, beefy guy with his sleeves rolled up and tattoos on his arms.
text: Soon the Latino warrior had bared his beefy body. His bullet packed bandolier still draped over one shoulder served to emphasize the nakedness of the torso, as did the boots and the pants that were puddled about his ankles.
ref: 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32:
text: The jaw bone in particular “looks more like that of H. erectus … than the beefier jaws of more primitive hominins such as H. habilis,” according to science journal Nature.
ref: 2016 June 9, James Griffiths, “This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small”, in CNN:
text: A beefy guy who enjoyed posting photos of himself in military gear, Smith had a love of explosives — he urged his fellow Terrorgrammers to bomb electric power stations, cell towers and natural gas lines — and contempt for federal law enforcement agents.
ref: 2025 March 15, A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, “The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram: Inside a Global Online Hate Network”, in ProPublica:
glosses: Strong or muscular.
examples: text: Grumping indignantly, he said, "By ginger, a nice blanky thing to lose a good job and risk being dam' near killed by Peabody for a beefy married woman. I tell you she weighs over fifteen stone, absolutely."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Large; overweight; fat.
examples: text: The software slows down even a beefy computer.
text: “The beefiest part of Saturday evening’s meeting between Presidents Trump and Xi may well have been the local sirloin served for dinner,” Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, wrote to clients on Monday.
ref: 2018 December 3, Matt Egan, “Dow rises 288 points on US-China trade ceasefire”, in CNN:
glosses: Sturdy; robust.
Derived terms: beefily
beefiness
unbeefy
comeback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmbæk/
Forms: form: comebacks
Etymology: Deverbal from come back.
Senses: examples: text: That fad went out with the eighties, but I think it's making a comeback.
text: According to rumors in the entertainment world on December 6, Girls' Generation will be making a comeback next year with a masculine concept. They have supposedly decided on the title song in their new album and have begun filming the music video on December 6. It appears they have started preparing for a full-scale comeback! It will be the girls' first Korean comeback in a year since "I Got a Boy."
ref: 2013 December 6, alim17, “Girls' Generation rumored to make a comeback in early 2014!”, in allkpop.com:
glosses: A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.
examples: text: I wish I had thought of a quick comeback for his comment.
synonyms: rejoinder
retort
glosses: A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
examples: text: Newcastle produced a stunning comeback from 4-0 down to earn a draw that shocked title hopefuls Arsenal.
ref: 2011 February 5, Paul Fletcher, “Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
Derived terms: comeback kid
comeback money
comeback queen
comeback sauce
turn a setback into a comeback
comeback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌmbæk/
Etymology: Deverbal from come back.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of come back.
AYBABTU
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of all your base are belong to us.
rivet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvət/
rhymes: -ɪvət
Forms: form: rivets
Etymology: From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.
The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
glosses: Any fixed point or certain basis.
examples: text: over his rivet he had a garment of white cloth of gold with a redde crosse
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
text: In 1579 it is mentioned that Almain rivets are now out of use, and in lieu of them a corselett shall be found. The rivets varied in cost; in 1509 they were to be had for 8s., in 1512 they were imported at 16s., and again in 1513 […]
ref: 1903, The Archaeological Journal, page 105:
glosses: A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
Derived terms: on the rivet
pop rivet
rivet counter
rivet gun
rivet hearth
rivet knob
rivet wheat
rivet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪvət/
rhymes: -ɪvət
Forms: form: rivets
form: riveting
form: rivetting
form: riveted
form: riveted
form: rivetted
form: rivetted
Etymology: From Old French rivet (13th century), from the verb Old French river (“to fetter [a person]”) (12th century), from Old French rive (“rim, edge”) (ca. 1100), which is ultimately from Latin ripa (“riverbank”). Compare river, rival, riparian.
The sense "kind of footman's armour" is apparently a back-formation from almain rivet, which is apparently derived from the English noun; see that entry for more.
Senses: glosses: To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
glosses: To install rivets.
examples: ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 6, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC, furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely — strange tools and weapons, books, paper, clothing — what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast./mode/1up pages The furnishings and other contents of the room it was which riveted his attention. He examined many things minutely — strange tools and weapons, books, paper, clothing — what little had withstood the ravages of time in the humid atmosphere of the jungle coast.:
glosses: To command the attention of.
examples: text: Terror riveted him to the spot.
glosses: To make firm or immovable.
Derived terms: de-rivet
Related terms: riveters
riveting
riveter
rivets
riveted
vol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑl/
ipa: /vɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: vols
Etymology: From French vol (“flight; vol”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A heraldic symbol consisting of a pair of outstretched wings, often conjoined at their shoulders.
vol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑl/
ipa: /vɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: vols
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Sell on both clarity on the president's health, and if "gold vols are still in the 19-20 range,” said the US bank’s analysts in the 5 October ‘Weekly Gold Monitor’ note. […] “The sustained elevated vols indicate that the market is still pricing a small possibility of any further unfavourable health reports, which would likely bring another spike in gold spot.”
ref: 2020 October 6, Bérengère Sim, “JPMorgan says sell gold volatility on ‘non-conflicting’ Trump health reports”, in Financial News:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Clipping of volatility.
vol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɑl/
ipa: /vɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: vols
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of volume; also vol.
Related terms: vol-au-vent
mushy peas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Yorkshire caviar
glosses: Dried marrowfat peas which are first soaked overnight and then boiled until they form a paste; a traditional accompaniment to fish and chips.
Related terms: garden peas
fornace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fornaces
Senses: examples: text: There placed was a caudron wide and tall
Upon a mightie fornace, burning whott
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of furnace.
free trade area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free trade areas
form: free-trade area
Senses: glosses: An international region in which obstacles to unrestricted trade have been reduced to a minimum.
Synonyms: FTA
Related terms: alt: FTZ
word: free trade zone
su doku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: su dokus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sudoku.
home free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hōm frē
ipa: /ˌhəʊm ˈfɹiː/
Senses: examples: text: If we can complete these last two projects, we'll be home free.
text: Just because a clause protecting sexual minorities is not in the contract, that doesn't mean that the administration is home free to discriminate.
ref: 1979 April 28, Warren Blumenfeld, “BU Professors Drop Anti-Bias Policy”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Able to reach a goal without expending any considerable effort; either without or in spite of impediments.
Coordinate terms: home and dry
home and hosed
Indianapolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪndiəˈnæpəlɪs/
Etymology: From English Indiana + Ancient Greek πόλις (pólis, “city state”), equivalent to Indiana + -polis.
Senses: examples: text: In the late 1960s, the political and business establishment of Indianapolis and Marion County used the economic development argument, among others, to consolidate their governments into a single jurisdiction known as Unigov. Established by legislative action in 1970, this city/county consolidation stands out as the only major post-war consolidation to be accomplished without a voter referendum. This report considers Indianapolis’ experience under 40 years of consolidated government to better understand both the benefits and potential drawbacks of unified government in general and the Unigov model in particular.
ref: 2014 May 24, Jeff Wachter, “40 Years After Unigov: Indianapolis and Marion County’s experience with consolidated government”, in Abell Foundation, page 1:
synonyms: word: Circle City
word: Crossroads of America
english: nickname
translation: nickname
word: India-no-place
word: Indy
word: Naptown
word: Railroad City
word: Unigov
english: nickname
translation: nickname
glosses: The capital city of Indiana, United States and the county seat of Marion County, with which the city is consolidated.
glosses: IMS; Ellipsis of Indianapolis Motor Speedway (“The Brickyard”).
Derived terms: Indianapolitan
Indy
lemmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛ.mə.tə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek λήμμᾰτᾰ (lḗmmătă).
Senses: glosses: plural of lemma
chili dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chili dogs
form: chilidog
Etymology: From chili + dog.
Senses: examples: text: Suckin' on a chili dog outside the Tastee Freez / Diane sittin' on Jacky's lap, got his hand between her knees.
ref: 1982 August 9, John Mellencamp, “Jack & Diane”, Warner Music Group
glosses: A hot dog topped with chili con carne.
with one's pants down
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caught with one's pants down.
that's the way the cookie crumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: that's how the cookie crumbles
Senses: examples: text: Are you up to par with the hep talk that is going around schools like Norwood High? […] While standing by the H2o spurt (water fountain) we overheard the following conversation between two really gone (neat) guys. “[…] It was a blind date, and boy did I flip (go mad) when I got a gaze at her! That dirty bird (guy that pulls a dirty trick) that fixed me up with her! I spent a whole chlorophyl George (one dollar bill) on her. Oh well, that’s the way the cookie crumbles (that’s life!)[…]” (Taken from N. H. S. Mirror)
ref: 1955 February 2, “Dig This Man-⁠-The Craziest!”, in The Cincinnati Post, volume 74, number 16, Cincinnati, Oh., page 19:
glosses: That is the way things happen; that's life.
Synonyms: that's the way the ball bounces
that's the way the mop flops
them's the breaks
Related terms: shit happens
that's the way the ball bounces
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: That is the way things happen
Synonyms: that's the way life is
that's the way the cookie crumbles
that's the way the mop flops
that's the way the world wags
that's the way the burger burns
Related terms: that's life
that's fate
that's the way life is
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: That is the way things happen
examples: text: That's the way life is, and there's no use trying to go against it.
ref: 1935, Louis Bromfield, The Man Who Had Everything, page 279:
text: There are no standards, no values; that's the way life is. Learn to accept it and slide with it. Stop fighting it.
ref: 1979, Jay Edward Abrams, A Theology of Christian Counseling: More Than Redemption, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Shit happens; that's the way life is. In fact, I want you to take an additional thousand for your efforts.
ref: 2002, B. Eugene Ellison, Rings of the Templars, →ISBN, page 337:
glosses: Certain things cannot be changed, helped or improved; struggle and objection are pointless.
Synonyms: that's life
that's the way it goes
that's the way the ball bounces
that's the way the cookie crumbles
that's the way the mop flops
that's the way the world wags
tough shit
that's the way the mop flops
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: That is the way things happen.
Synonyms: that's the way life is
that's the way the ball bounces
that's the way the cookie crumbles
that's the way the world wags
Related terms: that's life
that's fate
amorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.mɹəs/
ipa: /ˈæ.mə.ɹəs/
rhymes: -æməɹəs
Forms: form: more amorous
form: most amorous
Etymology: From Middle English amorous, amerous (14th century), from Old French amoros, amoreus, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus, from Latin amor (“love”), related to amāre (“to love”). Compare French amoureux (“in love”). Doublet of amoroso and amoureux.
Senses: examples: text: an amorous disposition
text: We were both feeling amorous so the inevitable happened.
text: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC, page 168:
synonyms: loving
fond
affectionate
glosses: Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
examples: text: She kept making these amorous suggestions.
text: UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his arms
UUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.
And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,
Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
text: Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes,
 And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke
 The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes:
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 572:
text: There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 218:
text: When held in the hand, the lizard produces an amorous stimulus.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 139:
glosses: Indicating love or sexual desire.
examples: text: She read me an amorous poem.
glosses: Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
examples: text: He had been amorous of her since schooldays.
glosses: Affected with love; in love; enamored.
Synonyms: concupiscent
lustful
Derived terms: amorously
amorousness
biamorous
heteroamorous
homoamorous
multiamorous
nonamorous
polyamorous
unamorous
Related terms: amour
bikeshedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bike-shedding
Etymology: From bikeshed + -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp and has spread from there to the software industry at large.
Senses: examples: text: Exactly. Bikeshedding the millions of possible reasons the queue/ratelimit was triggered is silly.
ref: 2000 December 14, Bill Fumerola, “Re: Ratelimint Enhancement patch (Please Review One Last Time!)”, in mailing.freebsd.net (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2020, message-ID <9197ru$212o$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>:
text: Modulo giving developers and the user community a few weeks to comment on the matter and make any last convincing cases for keeping it, I agree. That's not to say that I want to see two weeks worth of i386 bike-shedding and highly emotional arguments for keeping it purely on general principle, I'm saying that we need to let a couple of weeks go by so that along with the emotional bike sheds, anyone with a *technical* argument for retaining support has a chance to be heard.
ref: 2001 January 15, Jordan Hubbard, “Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC”, in mailing.freebsd.cvs (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2020, message-ID <93t363$273m$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>:
text: Hmm. Sounds like my RFC is taken to be a RFB (Request For Bikeshedding).
ref: 2001 August 8, Wilko Bulte, “Re: RFC: Removing support for TurboChannel machines from -current”, in mailing.freebsd.alpha (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2020, message-ID <9kpcd8$2oha$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>:
text: So.. What do people think? Let the bikeshedding begin...
ref: 2001 October 25, Peter Wemm, “64 bit times revisited..”, in lucky.freebsd.arch (Usenet), retrieved 20 Jun 2020, message-ID <20011025233602.587C63808@overcee.netplex.com.au>:
glosses: Futile expenditure of time and energy in discussion of marginal technical issues.
glosses: Procrastination.
bikeshedding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bike-shedding
Etymology: From bikeshed + -ing. The term was coined as a metaphor to illuminate Parkinson's Law of Triviality. Parkinson observed that a committee whose job is to approve plans for a nuclear power plant may spend the majority of its time on relatively unimportant but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bikeshed, while neglecting the design of the power plant itself, which is far more important but also far more difficult to criticize constructively. It was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by Poul-Henning Kamp and has spread from there to the software industry at large.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bikeshed
Related terms: yak shaving
when you're up to your neck in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp
legendary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ən.dɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ən.də.ɹi/
Forms: form: more legendary
form: most legendary
Etymology: From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a legend or to legends.
glosses: Appearing (solely) in legends.
glosses: Having the splendor of a legend; fabled.
examples: text: And it was a fitting victory for Liverpool as Anfield celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of their legendary Scottish manager Bill Shankly.
ref: 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:
glosses: Having unimaginable greatness; excellent to such an extent to evoke stories.
Derived terms: legendarily
legendariness
nonlegendary
prelegendary
pseudolegendary
semi-legendary
unlegendary
legendary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ənˌdɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ən.dɹi/
ipa: /ˈlɛd͡ʒ.ən.də.ɹi/
Forms: form: legendaries
Etymology: From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.
Senses: synonyms: legendarium
glosses: A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
glosses: One who relates legends.
glosses: A legendary Pokémon.
eroded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eroded
form: most eroded
Senses: glosses: worn down or worn away.
Derived terms: noneroded
uneroded
eroded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of erode
apparatchik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːpəˈɹɑːt͡ʃɪk/
ipa: /æpəˈɹæt͡ʃɪk/
Forms: form: apparatchiks
form: apparatchiki
Etymology: From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, “apparat, apparatus (of state)”) + suffix -чик (-čik).
Senses: examples: text: Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
ref: 1965 February 12, “Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists”, in Time, volume 85, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2009:
text: In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro, Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 34:
glosses: A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
examples: text: Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
ref: 2007 April 20, “Gonzales v. Gonzales”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.
ref: 2011 February 27, Peter Preston, “The Unfinished Global Revolution by Mark Malloch Brown – review”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: “Does France, a founder member of the EU, really want to be the country that sends the biggest battalion of far-right apparatchiks to the European parliament?” [Gabriel] Attal asked.
ref: 2024 June 7, Angelique Chrisafis, quoting Gabriel Attal, “‘You can feel a shift’: will the French be lured by Le Pen?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
solar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊlə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsolɑ(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Senses: examples: text: solar light
text: solar rays
text: solar influence
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun
examples: text: and proud beside, as solar people are
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
glosses: Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
examples: text: They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
examples: text: a solar furnace
glosses: Employing solar power.
Synonyms: sunly
Derived terms: active solar
antisolar
extrasolar
local solar time
lunisolar
mean solar time
solar apex
solar battery
solar boat
solar calendar
solar car
solar cell
solar collector
solar comedo
solar constant
solar corona
solar cross
solar cycle
solar day
solar eclipse
solar energetic particle
solar energy
solar engine
solar filament
solar flare
solar flower
solar gain
solar halo
solar hero
solarize
solar lamp
solar letter
solar luminosity
solar maculation
solar mass
solar maximum
solar microscope
solar minimum
solar month
solar nebula
solar noon
solar oil
solar panel
solar phosphori
solar pillar
solar plexus
solar power
solar-powered
solar prominence
solar radiation
solar sail
solar shingle
solar skin
solar spot
solar spots
solar still
solar storm
solar system
solar tea
solar telegraph
solar telescope
solar term
solar thermal collector
solar time
solar tracker
solar-type
solar viewer
solar wind
solar year
subsolar
tough solar
solar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊlə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsolɑ(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Late Middle English solar, from Latin sōlāris, from sōl (“sun”), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Senses: examples: text: He’s a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate, brain-computer implants to stave off the menace of artificial intelligence and underground tunnels to move people and freight at super speeds.
ref: December 13 2021, Molly Ball, Jeffrey Kluger, Alejandro de la Garza, “Elon Musk: Person of the Year 2021”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2021:
glosses: solar energy
Related terms: day
solar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊlə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈsolɑ(ɾ)/
rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: solars
Etymology: From Middle English solar, soler; from a conflation of Old English soler, solere (“raised platform; loft, upper room, upper part of a house, soler”), from Latin sōlārium; and Old English solor, salor (“residence, dwelling; hall; palace”), from Proto-West Germanic *salaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *salaz, *salą (“house, room, hall”). More at sale.
Senses: glosses: A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.
Related terms: solar topee
Rog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏj
ipa: /ɹɒd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: Rodge
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Roger.
Rog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏj
ipa: /ɹɒd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: Rogs
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Polish Róg, a metonymic occupational surname for a horn blower, from róg (“horn”).
* Borrowed from Dutch Rog, a topographic or habitational surname from rog (“ray”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
loop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /luːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: loupe
Forms: form: loops
form: looping
form: looped
form: looped
Etymology: From Middle English loupe (“noose, loop”), earlier lowp-knot (“loop-knot”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlaup (“a run”), used in the sense of a "running knot", from hlaupa (“to leap”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną (“to leap, run”). Compare Swedish löp-knut (“loop-knot”), Danish løb-knude (“a running knot”), Danish løb (“a course”). More at leap. The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: To form something into a loop.
glosses: To fasten or encircle something with a loop.
glosses: To fly an aircraft in a loop.
glosses: To move something in a loop.
glosses: To play something (such as a song or video) in a loop.
glosses: To join electrical components to complete a circuit.
glosses: To duplicate the route of a pipeline.
glosses: To create an error in a computer program so that it runs in an endless loop and the computer freezes up.
glosses: To form a loop.
examples: text: The program loops until the user presses a key.
text: The outstanding Tom Palmer won a line-out and then charged into the heart of the Welsh defence, scrum-half Ben Youngs moved the ball swiftly right and Cueto's looping pass saw Ashton benefit from a huge overlap to again run in untouched.
ref: 2011 February 4, Gareth Roberts, “Wales 19-26 England”, in BBC:
glosses: To move in a loop.
examples: text: It found that trains often looped on their journey emit 14% to 20% more NOx and particulates than non-stop services.
ref: 2021 January 13, Richard Clinnick, “Longer freight trains boost efficiency and reduce carbon”, in Rail, page 10:
glosses: To place in a loop.
examples: text: Tolland Middle School in Connecticut where close to four hundred middle school students participated in looping, students from looped classroom structures scored much higher than students from prior years without the looped structure on standardized tests in mathematics and writing.
ref: 2003, Lisa Lynn Snyder, An Investigation of Elementary Looping Practices and Outcomes in a Rural School District, page 54:
topics: education
glosses: To have the teacher progress through multiple school years with the same students.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: loopable
sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: loopback
sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: loop in
sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: loop off
sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: loop the loop
sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: loop up
sense: Terms derived from loop (verb)
word: on loop
tailwind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlwɪnd/
Forms: form: tailwinds
Etymology: From tail + wind.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: A wind that blows in the same direction as the course taken by an aircraft, sailing ship, bird, etc.
glosses: A force that accelerates progress.
tailwind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlwɪnd/
Forms: form: tailwinds
form: tailwinding
form: tailwinded
form: tailwinded
Etymology: From tail + wind.
Senses: glosses: Of a wind, to blow on a windmill or wind turbine in such a way that wind pressure is exerted on the wrong side of the sail or turbine assembly.