cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
perambulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perambulations
Etymology: From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation or per- + ambulation.
Senses: examples: text: If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.
ref: 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:
text: The month of May had already commenced[…] when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt[…] We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 6, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; […]
ref: 1820 March 5, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number VI, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A survey, a tour; a walking around.
examples: text: 1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.
text: 1929, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.
text: It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 27:
topics: law
synonyms: bannering
glosses: An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
glosses: The district thus inspected.
mountain fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Synonyms: Rocky Mountain fever
Hypernyms: fever
relapsing fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection caused by certain bacteria of the genus Borrelia, transmitted by lice and ticks.
Synonyms: typhinia
Derived terms: Dutton's relapsing fever
Persian relapsing fever
Rocky Mountain fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Derived terms: Rocky Mountain fever tick
spotted fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted fevers
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: any of various diseases causing fever and spots on the skin
Derived terms: Brazilian spotted fever
Flinders Island spotted fever
Japanese spotted fever
Kew Gardens spotted fever
Mediterranean spotted fever
Mexican spotted fever
Oriental spotted fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
swine fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A contagious, usually fatal, disease of pigs, causing fever, skin lesions and convulsions, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV).
Synonyms: classical swine fever
CSF
hog cholera
pig plague
Derived terms: African swine fever
African swine fever virus
classical swine fever
Texas cattle fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Texas fever.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhipicephalus annulatus
word: Texas fever tick
buzz up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buzzes up
form: buzzing up
form: buzzed up
form: buzzed up
Senses: examples: text: I'll be back in ten minutes; can you buzz me up then?
glosses: To allow entrance into a building from a higher floor by triggering an electronic lock.
Texas fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Cattle from Texas, themselves not showing signs of infection, spread this disease to the Midwestern United States.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A tick-borne disease of cattle caused by the parasite Babesia bigemina.
Synonyms: word: pyrosomal disease
word: Texas cattle fever
Hypernyms: sense: disease caused by Babesia bigemina
word: babesiosis
tick fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: any of various diseases transmitted by ticks
Derived terms: African tick fever
cattle-tick fever
Colombian tick fever
Colorado tick fever
Indian tick fever
mountain tick fever
North Queensland tick fever
Rhodesian tick fever
Texas tick fever
dehumanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/
Forms: form: dehumanizes
form: dehumanizing
form: dehumanized
form: dehumanized
form: de-humanize
form: de-humanise
form: dehumanise
Etymology: From de- + humanize.
Senses: examples: text: In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.
ref: 1919, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Picts-Sacraments, page 535:
text: Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.
ref: 1968, Stewart L. Udall, 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow, page 3:
text: To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?
ref: 1999, Ursula E. Beitter, The New Europe at the Crossroads, page 129:
text: And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.
ref: 2003, Stephen P. Garvey, editor, Beyond Repair? America's Death Penalty, →ISBN, page 141:
text: A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.
ref: 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian:
text: From this sort of work, we learn to have a contempt for sadism, for anything that dehumanizes, and to have compassion for the everyday people who pay the price for the designs of proud and evil men.
ref: 2023 November 2, David Brooks, “How to Stay Sane in Brutalizing Times”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Nov 2023:
glosses: To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
Derived terms: dehumanization
dehumanizer
undehumanized
Related terms: dewomanize
dehumanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehumanises
form: dehumanising
form: dehumanised
form: dehumanised
Etymology: From de- + humanise.
Senses: examples: text: Point is, this “she-bagging” phenomenon doesn’t happen in a vacuum, devoid of context — it happens in a culture that routinely dehumanises women and disrespects their wish or need for personal space.
ref: 2015 June 28, Sophie Warnes, “On “manspreading” & “she-bagging””, in Medium, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:
text: A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.
ref: 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian:
text: Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.
ref: 2022 October 30, Mark Townsend, “Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism”, in The Guardian, retrieved 03 Dec 2023:
text: RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch said the news that more than 315,000 responses had been received to the ticket office closure consultation revealed "how strongly the travelling public feel about plans to dehumanise the rail network", and the "mass public opposition" to the Government and operators' proposals.
ref: 2023 August 23, “Network News: Lynch: "dehumanising of our railways"”, in RAIL, number 990, page 8:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of dehumanize.
de-humanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-humanises
form: de-humanising
form: de-humanised
form: de-humanised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dehumanize.
de-humanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-humanizes
form: de-humanizing
form: de-humanized
form: de-humanized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dehumanize.
dehumanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehumanize
dehumanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehumanise
de-humanises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-humanise
de-humanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de-humanize
postsecondary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + secondary.
Senses: examples: text: In its revised budget, the government has increased funding for postsecondary education.
topics: education
glosses: Of or pertaining to education or educational institutions subsequent to secondary school or high school.
Derived terms: postsecondary school
postsecondary school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postsecondary schools
Senses: examples: text: McGill University is a well-known Canadian postsecondary school.
topics: education
glosses: An educational institution (usually a college or university) which is attended after graduation from secondary school or high school.
Related terms: secondary school
tax break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax breaks
Senses: glosses: A deduction in tax that is given in order to encourage a certain economic activity or a social objective
Hyponyms: english: for selling works of art to public collections
translation: for selling works of art to public collections
word: douceur
Related terms: tax exemption
tax deduction
tax credit
titmice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titmouse
unskilful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unskilful
form: most unskilful
Etymology: From un- + skilful.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unskillful.
Related terms: unskilled
dehumanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dehumanizing
form: most dehumanizing
Senses: examples: text: It was the latest instance of Trump using dehumanizing and disparaging rhetoric as he targets undocumented immigrants and vows mass deportations if he’s reelected.
ref: 2024 October 7, Kate Sullivan, “Trump suggests undocumented immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dehumanising.
Derived terms: dehumanizingly
dehumanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehumanize
dehumanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehumanizings
Senses: examples: text: […] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
ref: 2008, M. W. Sphero, Religion: The Defamer of God, page 210:
glosses: An act of dehumanization.
dehumanising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dehumanising
form: most dehumanising
Senses: glosses: Causing dehumanization.
Derived terms: dehumanisingly
dehumanising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Lynch added: "These damaging plans are not just about ticket office closures. They are a smokescreen for a widespread dehumanising of our railways.
ref: 2023 August 23, “Network News: Lynch: "dehumanising of our railways"”, in RAIL, number 990, page 8:
glosses: present participle and gerund of dehumanise.
dehumanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehumanise
dehumanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehumanize
whale tail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whale tails
Senses: examples: text: So, next time you see a mom with a "whale tail" peeking out of her pants while she puts in a car seat, remember, "You can't judge a book by its cover."
ref: 2007, Samantha Williams, “Dress to Impress Your Kids”, in The Daily News-Journal:
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: An unintentional display of a thong above the waistband of trousers etc.
examples: text: the duck-tail spoiler was replaced with a whale tail for the US version of the Carrera.
ref: 1997, Bruce Anderson, Porsche 911 Performance Handbook, page 16:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A kind of large automotive rear spoiler.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: The tail of a whale.
Related terms: fishtail
whale's tail
fostering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foster
fostering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fosterings
Senses: glosses: raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.
glosses: encouragement; aiding the development of something
Synonyms: breeding
bringing up
fosterage
nurture
raising
rearing
upbringing
Derived terms: cross-fostering
liquid lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquid lunches
Senses: glosses: The consumption of alcohol with no (or little) food at lunchtime.
Related terms: liquid diet
MFH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFHs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of master of fox-hunting.
glosses: Initialism of master of fox hounds.
MFH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of N-methyl-N-formylhydrazine
MFHA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Masters of Foxhounds Association.
running gag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running gags
Senses: examples: text: Some groaners are converted into running gags, as when Joel and his brother (Max Greenfield) get in a duel of parting, one-last-thing-before-you-go affirmations.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
synonyms: running joke
glosses: An ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.
fivefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: five-fold
Etymology: From Middle English fiffold, from Old English fīffeald. Equivalent to five + -fold.
Senses: glosses: Five times as much or as many.
examples: text: [W]e pay twofold adoration to the goddess who grants increase and perfection. ... Fivefold adoration to her who exists in the form of Wisdom.
ref: 1885, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, page 246:
glosses: In a group or series of five; consisting of five together as one; quintuple.
Derived terms: fivefold ministry
fivefoldness
fivefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: five-fold
Etymology: From Middle English fiffold, from Old English fīffeald. Equivalent to five + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of five.
tax incentive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax incentives
Senses: glosses: An inducement offered in the form of an abatement of taxes.
burgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burger
tiz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tizz.
kombinat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kombinats
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian комбинат (kombinat).
Senses: glosses: A combine; an industrial business conglomerate, particularly in the former Soviet Union.
all-caps
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Written in all caps, with all letters capitalized.
all-caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all caps.
all mouth and trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: all mouth and no trousers
Etymology: From mouth, meaning "talk" rather than action, and trousers, presumably at the time of origin, a reference to masculinity, either as trousers as a male item of clothing, or a reference to the genitals.
Senses: synonyms: word: all fart and no shit
word: all fart and no poo
glosses: Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.
Related terms: all hat and no cattle
money talks, bullshit walks
walk the talk
walk the walk
talk the talk
all mouth and no trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A possible corruption of all mouth and trousers, but consistent with phrases of the form all hat and no cattle and all bark and no bite. The implication of this phrase is that the person boasts, but is a laughing stock.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of all mouth and trousers.
take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves
Senses: examples: text: Old Mr. Lowndes, the famous Secretary of the Treasury, ‥used to say‥Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
ref: 1750, Chesterfield, letter 5 Feb. (1932) IV. 1500
text: It is these little things that matter, Pickering. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves is as true of personal habits as of money.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 132:
text: Little things, Master Mally. Look after the pennies, Master Mally, and the pounds will look after themselves.
ref: 1979, R. Cassilis, Arrow of God, iv. xvii:
text: ‘Yes, it sounds on the melodramatic side,’ he said cheerfully, ‘but in wartime you can't be too careful about the smallest detail. Think of it as along the lines of taking care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves.’
ref: 1999, ‘H. Crane’, Miss Seeton's Finest Hour, xi. 92
glosses: If one takes care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things.
Synonyms: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
many a mickle makes a muckle
every little helps
look before one leaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks before one leaps
form: looking before one leaps
form: looked before one leaped
form: looked before one leaped
form: looked before one leapt
form: looked before one leapt
Senses: glosses: To think before taking action.
Synonyms: haste makes waste
marry in haste, repent at leisure
Related terms: good things come to those who wait
learn to walk before one can run
jet-setting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet setting
form: jetsetting
Senses: glosses: The lifestyle of the jet set; travelling from one fashionable location to another by jet.
Derived terms: set-jetting
jet-setting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jet setting
form: jetsetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jet-set
one who hesitates is lost
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: One who hesitates is lost, goes the old saw, but so is one who plunges blindly ahead along a fixed path.
ref: 2009, Ruggero J. Aldisert, Opinion Writing, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of he who hesitates is lost.
coppe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English attercoppe, from Old English ātorcoppe (“spider”), corresponding to atter (poison, venom) + cop (“spider”) (the latter is still to be found in the English word cobweb), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *kopp, from Proto-Germanic *kuppaz (“vault, round vessel, head”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend, curve”).
Primarily occurs in the northeast Midlands region of England. Compare Danish edderkop, Norwegian edderkopp, Low German kobbe.
Originating from the Dutch invaders who populated this area, the same word coppe, pronounced 'kab', existed in Middle Dutch up until the 14th century. The word kobbe, meaning spider, still exists in West-Flemish, a Dutch dialect spoken in the West of Flanders.
Senses: glosses: A spider.
wikipedia: nl:West-Vlaams
Derived terms: cobweb
coppeweb
house cooling party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house cooling parties
Etymology: Coined as an opposite of housewarming.
Senses: glosses: A party to celebrate when a person decides to leave a house or flat, and sometimes to help prepare the space for the incoming residents.
Related terms: housewarming
tasseographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasseographers
Etymology: A macaronic blend of French tasse (“cup”) and -grapher (“writer”)
Senses: glosses: A person who tells fortunes by reading tea leaves or coffee grounds.
Synonyms: tasseomancer
tassologist
Related terms: tasseography
komissar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komissars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of commissar.
cubistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cubistic
form: most cubistic
Etymology: From cubist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of cubism.
Savonia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈvəʊ.ni.ə/
ipa: /səˈvoʊ.ni.ə/
rhymes: -əʊniə
Etymology: From New Latin Savonia, a Latinized exonym of Finnish Savo.
Senses: glosses: A region in eastern Finland.
gastrocnemius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡæstɹəkˈniːmiəs/
Forms: form: gastrocnemii
Etymology: 1670s, borrowed from New Latin gastrocnēmius, from Ancient Greek γαστροκνημία (gastroknēmía, “calf of the leg”), from γαστήρ (gastḗr, “paunch, belly”) + κνήμη (knḗmē, “leg”).
Senses: glosses: The muscle at the back of the calf, whose insertion is the Achilles tendon at the heel.
Derived terms: english: abbreviation hereof
translation: abbreviation hereof
word: gastroc
word: gastrocnemic
word: gastrocnemial
Related terms: gastrocnemious
divestment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈvɛstmənt/
Forms: form: divestments
Etymology: From divest + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The fossil fuel divestment movement is calling on institutions to divest from the companies causing climate change.
text: The divestment movement against Big Carbon is gathering force. While it will never bankrupt the mega-corporations, it can reveal unethical practices while triggering a debate about values that recognizes that such practices are nested in economic systems that encourage, inhibit or even prohibit them.
ref: 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in New York Times:
topics: business
finance
synonyms: divestiture
antonyms: investment
glosses: The sale or other disposal of some kind of asset.
Gøta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Faroese Gøta.
Senses: glosses: A village on the island of Eysturoy, Faroe Islands, also consisting of the subvillages Gøtueiði, Gøtugjógv and Syðrugøta. Full name Norðragøta.
raked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Forms: form: more raked
form: most raked
Senses: glosses: sloping
raked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rake
hild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of held.
config
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkənˈfɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnfɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: configs
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Configuration.
config
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkənˈfɪɡ/
ipa: /ˈkɑnfɪɡ/
rhymes: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: configs
form: configing
form: configed
form: configed
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To configure.
chipset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪpˌsɛt/
Forms: form: chipsets
Etymology: From chip + set.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of integrated circuits that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.
taglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taglias
Etymology: From Italian taglia (“a cutting, a pulley”), from tagliare (“to cut”). See tailor.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to which the weight is attached.
pegylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pegylates
form: pegylating
form: pegylated
form: pegylated
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of PEGylate.
embellishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embellish
embellishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embellishings
Senses: examples: text: His many embellishings of the tale stretched the credulity of the listeners.
glosses: An embellishment.
choke collar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choke collars
Senses: examples: text: When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A dog's collar which tightens itself so as to choke the dog, when it pulls the leash. Used especially for training. ᵂ
motivi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motivo
object code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The output of a compiler or assembler; it is not necessarily executable directly without linking to other modules
Mae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of Margaret.
glosses: Diminutive of Mary.
glosses: A female given name; popular as a middle name.
Derived terms: Money-Mae
Related terms: May
pavese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paveses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pavis.
megathere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megatheres
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large”) + θηρίον (thēríon, “wild beast”).
Senses: glosses: An extinct, gigantic, ground sloth (genus Megatherium) that flourished in South America during the Pleistocene epoch.
glosses: A member of the family Megatheriidae
Derived terms: megatherial
megatherian
Mamie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When they are used to express the affectionate regard of near friends and relatives they also may be pretty and appropriate, but they look very silly in a formal signature, and surely do not befit the dignity of womanhood. We had, for instance, among these 800 names scores of Minnies, Mamies, and only here and there a Mary, a much more euphonious as well as a dignified name.
ref: 1880 Emily Faithfull, The Victoria Magazine, v.36 (July-Dec 1880), page 264
glosses: A diminutive of Mary or Mavis, also used as a formal female given name.
Derived terms: Mamie pink
Mamie Taylor
Marilyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.ɪ.lɪn/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.lɪn/
Etymology: A twentieth-century blend of Mary and Lynn.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe you know my grand-daughter, the one with the non-Somali name - Marilyn. You won't believe it, but she was named for me, and my own is Maryam. She tells me that Marilyn is the name of a famous actress who's now dead. You know the young these days, bringing mysteries and foreign ways into our lives.
ref: 1993, Nuruddin Farah, Gifts, Arcade Publishing, published 1999, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Marilyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmæɹ.ɪ.lɪn/
note: Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈmɛɹ.ɪ.lɪn/
Forms: form: Marilyns
Etymology: Named after Marilyn Monroe, as a pun on Munro (“any Scottish mountain taller than 3,000 feet”).
Senses: glosses: A mountain or hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres.
sericin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sericins
Etymology: From a derivative of Latin sēricus.
Senses: glosses: A water-soluble glycoprotein that binds the two fibroin filaments of a silk fibre
Mattie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæti/
rhymes: -æti
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Matilda, also used as a formal given name
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Martha, also used as a formal given name
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Madeline, variant of Maddie
Derived terms: meddlesome Mattie
badware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bad + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Malware.
Michaela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈkeɪ.lə/
Forms: form: Mikaela
form: Mackayla
form: Makayla
form: Mickayla
form: Mikayla
form: Mykayla
Etymology: From Michael + -a. Latinate feminine form of Michael, first appearing as an anglicisation of the Portuguese ("Micaela") and Spanish ("Micaela"). Doublet of Michelle.
Senses: examples: text: Do you remember at Holmwood I called you Michaela, because you were so fair, like the girl in the opera? Now, this type-writer girl is dark, and she has been playing Carmen to you - stealing your love away from you by her clever ways.
ref: 1897, Clarissa Joy Suraji (=Grant Allen), The Type-writer Girl, Street & Smith, published 1900, page 227:
text: Edward had asked about her name. What was the origin and the meaning? "Unusual, but it has a nice sound. Kind of like Mahalia."
Michaela had lifted her shoulders, helplessly. "I have no idea. My mother said she read it somewhere and liked the sound. And she didn't want me to have a name like everyone else. She said she thought I was going to be special."
ref: 2008, Sandra Kitt, For All We Know, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 176:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Derived terms: sense: pet forms
word: Mickey
sense: pet forms
word: Micki
sense: pet forms
word: Mickie
sense: pet forms
word: Micky
sense: pet forms
word: Mike
sense: pet forms
word: Mikey
sense: pet forms
word: Miki
Related terms: word: Kayla
word: MacKayla
word: McKayla
word: Mckayla
word: Michele
word: Michelle
word: MyKayla
Mikayla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
Makayla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
Myrtle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: mûrʹtəl
ipa: /ˈmɝtl̩/
ipa: /ˈmɜːtl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)təl
Etymology: After the plant, myrtle; used since the end of the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: Myrtle Hazard Lindsay walked up to the bust, and kissed its marble forehead, saying, "This is the face of my Guardian Angel!"
ref: 1867, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr, chapter XXXIV, in The Guardian Angel:
text: "My husband used to say that girls with flower names fade fast." It was Myrtle who said this one day, out of the blue, and for some reason it made them all go weak with laughter.
ref: 1993, Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries, page 318:
glosses: A female given name from English.
Derived terms: Myrtle Beach
Related terms: Myrtilla
Nettie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Suffixed with -ie, compare Neddie and Nellie, respectively from Edward and Eleanor.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Annette and Jeannette.
decretal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːtəɫ/
Forms: form: more decretal
form: most decretal
Etymology: From Middle French decretal, from Late Latin dēcrētālis, from Latin decretum.
Senses: examples: text: [T]his finding, when read in conjunction with the other findings, as well as decretal portions of the final judgment, is more logically interpreted as a reference to the successful operation of the business […]
ref: Chase v. Turner, 560 So. 2d 1317, 1320 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)
glosses: Pertaining to a decree.
Derived terms: decretalism
decretalist
postdecretal
decretal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkɹiːtəɫ/
Forms: form: decretals
Etymology: From Middle French decretal, from Late Latin dēcrētālis, from Latin decretum.
Senses: examples: text: Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale[…]?
ref: c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:
text: DECRETALS... are the answers sent by the Pope to applications made to him as head of the church, chiefly by bishops, but also by synods, and even private individuals, for guidance in cases involving points of doctrine or discipline... From the 4th century onwards they formed the most prolific source of canon law. Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general precedent. But this nomenclature is not strictly observed.
ref: 1878, "Decretals" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VII, p. 22
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: A papal decree, particularly one derived from an ecclesiastical letter.
examples: text: […] picturals / Of Magistrates, of courts, of tribunals, / Of commen wealthes, of states, of pollicy, / Of lawes, of iudgements, and of decretals […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Any decree or pronounced instruction.
Related terms: decree
decretory
subtile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌt.əl/
/ˈsʌb.tɪl/
/ˈsʌb.təl/
Forms: form: subtiler
form: subtilest
Etymology: From Latin subtilis (“fine, thin, slender, delicate”).
Senses: examples: text: For wisedome which is the worker of all things, taught mee: for in her is an vnderstanding spirit holy, one onely, manifold, subtile, liuely, cleare, vndefiled, plaine, not subiect to hurt, louing the thing that is good, quicke, which cānot be letted, ready to do good: Kinde to man, stedfast, sure, free from care, hauing all power, ouerseeing all things, and going through all vnderstanding, pure, and most subtile spirits.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Wisdom of Solomon 7:22–23:
text: And sometimes this perception, in some kind of bodies, is far more subtile than the sense; so that the sense is but a dull thing in comparison of it: we see a weather-glass will find the least difference of the weather, in heat, or cold, when men find it not.
ref: 1819, Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, volume 2, page 2:
text: I burst into mirth at this—I liked him even better when he was subtile than when he was simple.
ref: 1888, Henry James, chapter 2, in The Solution:
glosses: Archaic spelling of subtle.
Derived terms: subtile body
calla lily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calla lilies
Senses: glosses: A common name for certain flowering plants in the genus Zantedeschia; not related to either the genus Calla or the true lilies (Liliaceae)
glosses: A flower of one of these plants.
Hypernyms: arum lily
Shiraz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈɹɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑːz
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian شیراز (širâz).
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Shiraz County's Central District and the capital of Fars Province, near the remains of Persepolis.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
Related terms: Shirazi
Shiraz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪˈɹɑːz/
rhymes: -ɑːz
Forms: form: Shirazes
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian شیراز (širâz).
Senses: glosses: A variety of black grape used to make wine.
examples: text: Miss Arundel.—"And drink his health in Shiraz wine."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 253:
glosses: A wine made from these grapes.
Synonyms: Syrah
Syrah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪˈɹa/
Forms: form: Syrahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of syrah.
Synonyms: Shiraz
ultrasonography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrasonographies
Etymology: From ultra- + sonography.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: US
ultrasound
echography
sonography
hypernyms: imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: sonar
glosses: The use of ultrasound to produce images of the hidden interior of objects or spaces.
Medical ultrasonography: The use of ultrasound to produce diagnostic images of the internal organs of the body, or of a foetus.
synonyms: US
ultrasound
hypernyms: imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: sonar
sonar
echo sounding
glosses: The use of ultrasound to produce images of the hidden interior of objects or spaces.
The use of ultrasound to form images of underwater structures.
Derived terms: Doppler ultrasonography
neuro-ultrasonography
Related terms: echogenous
ultrasonographer
ultrasonographic
sonography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: sonographies
Etymology: From sono- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: Sonographic assessments including brain and abdominal sonographies and ocular examination for the potential seeding of the fungi were normal.
ref: 2015 June 4, Emel Altuncu et al., “Successful Treatment of Candida parapsilosis Fungemia in Two Preterms with Voriconazole”, in Case Reports in Pediatrics, volume 2015, →DOI:
glosses: ultrasonography
glosses: night writing
Derived terms: hysterosalpingo contrast sonography
hysterosalpingo-contrast-sonography
portici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian portici.
Senses: glosses: plural of portico
big-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-hearted
form: bigger-hearted
form: most big-hearted
form: biggest-hearted
Senses: examples: text: “Why, I’m the biggest-hearted guy in the world,” he said. “I wouldn’t hurt a fly.”
ref: 1993 February 2, Mal Florence, “[Tommy] Bolt Wants It Known He Was More a Swinger Than a Flinger”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2025:
text: Honest, humble, loyal, complicated, as grateful for his success as he was unaffected by it, as respectful as he was respected, as generous as he was gifted. He was big, but even bigger-hearted.
ref: 2013 June 20, Steven Zaillian, quotee, “Reactions to the Death of James Gandolfini”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: A dark and powerful horror film about Celtic myth and mental health, plus Pam Grier shines in Quentin Tarantino’s biggest-hearted movie ever
ref: 2023 December 1, Simon Wardell, “You Are Not My Mother to Jackie Brown: the seven best films to watch on TV this week”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of bighearted.
Derived terms: big-heartedly
big-heartedness
French cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An informal form of children's cricket where a ball (usually a tennis ball) is bowled underarm at the legs of another player holding a cricket bat, and the next bowler throws from where the ball lands.
Jungle Carbine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jungle Carbines
Etymology: So called due to its primary service in the jungles of Malaya after World War II.
Senses: glosses: The British-made Number 5 SMLE rifle, with a shortened barrel suitable for jungle warfare.
prime contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime contracts
Senses: glosses: A contract entered into directly between the client and the contractor (contracted provider of products or services), especially one involving government agencies or bodies, or entities such as educational institutions.
decampment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkæmpmənt/
Forms: form: decampments
Etymology: From decamp + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of decamping.
glosses: A prompt departure.
strangury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹæŋɡjəɹi/
Forms: form: stranguries
form: stranguary
Etymology: From Middle English strangury, from Latin stranguria, from Ancient Greek στραγγουρία (strangouría).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
urology
synonyms: word: strangullion
glosses: A painful, frequent need to urinate, when the bladder is largely empty or with little urine production.
starstruck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more starstruck
form: most starstruck
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of star-struck.
cotechino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotechinos
form: cotechini
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian.
Senses: examples: text: […] cotechinos, mortadella and a parade of other sausages, aromatic truffles. Peter and Michael and I tried to sample them all.
ref: 2018, Susan Buckley, Eating with Peter: A Gastronomic Journey:
glosses: A kind of pork sausage from Emilia-Romagna in Italy.
agriturismo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agriturismos
Etymology: From Italian agriturismo.
Senses: qualifier: count
glosses: A place of agritourism accommodation; a farm that offers tourists lodging as one of its lines of business.
qualifier: count
glosses: A place of agritourism accommodation; a farm that offers tourists lodging as one of its lines of business.
Such a farm in Italy.
chimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chemic.
agritourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, agri- + tourism. Possibly borrowed from or influenced by Romance cognates, such as Italian agriturismo, which may be attested earlier.
Senses: glosses: A form of tourism in which tourists stay in farms or agricultural villages, either to experience farm life, or as a base for exploring the countryside
Related terms: agriturismo
ecotourism
haycation
RCS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Corps of Signals.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Rich Communication Services.
glosses: Initialism of Royal College of Surgeons.
Derived terms: RCS rat
RCS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCSes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: SCCS
SVN
glosses: Initialism of revision control system.
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: ACS
OMS
OMAC
glosses: Initialism of reaction control system.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of radar cross section.
buffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffas
Etymology: From Italian buffa. See buffo and buffoon.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The comic actress in an opera.
Related terms: opera buffa
ratcheted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ratchet
undermining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underminings
Senses: examples: text: The piece, titled You, calls up many references from the past and the present: from Michael Heizer's earthworks to Chris Burden's institutional underminings to Monica Bonvicini's simulations of the same.
ref: 2007 November 23, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: The act or process by which something is undermined.
undermining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you[…] "share the things you love with the world" and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
ref: 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
glosses: present participle and gerund of undermine
KwaZulu-Natal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kwɑːˈzuːlu nəˈtɑːl/
Etymology: From the combination of KwaZulu and Natal.
Senses: examples: text: Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.
ref: 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
glosses: A province of South Africa.
Synonyms: KZN