cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cistern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪs.tən/
ipa: /ˈsɪs.tɚn/
rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: cisterns
form: cestern
form: cesterne
Etymology: From Middle English cisterne, from Old French cisterne (Modern French citerne) from Latin cisterna, from cista (“box”), from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē, “box”). Doublet of cisterna.
Senses: examples: text: 1913, A.C. Cotter, Catholic Encyclopedia, "Wells in Scripture",
Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed.
text: On a broad ledge near the top, we found a stone cabin. Higher up was a cistern and a few more terraces.
ref: 1989, Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, in Imago, page 211:
text: Cisterns (bôr, bō'r), mentioned frequently in the Bible, are artificial reservoirs, usually cut into bedrock, for collecting and conserving rain runoff from roofs and courtyards.
ref: 2001, Philip J. King, Lawrence E. Stager, chapter 3, in Life in Biblical Israel, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: A reservoir or tank for holding water, especially for catching and holding rainwater for later use.
examples: text: It is possible to connect your tank to your toilet cistern and/or garden, so that even if the water is not drinkable it still can be used productively to make major water savings.
ref: 2003, Allan Windust, chapter 9, in Waterwise House & Garden: a Guide for Sustainable Living, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: In a flush toilet, the container in which the water used for flushing is held; a toilet tank.
glosses: A shallow, typically oval, vessel made of porcelain, pottery, or glass.
examples: text: By next winter he was spending every evening poring over the work of Théodore Agrippa d'Aubigné on the French Reformation by the light of a little oil lamp, with a tiny cistern the size of an orange and no chimney[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 22:
glosses: The receptacle that holds the fuel in an oil lamp.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cisterna.
glosses: The vessel surrounding the condenser in a steam engine.
Derived terms: cerebromedullary cistern
cisternal
cisterned
cistern epiphyte
cisternful
cisternless
cisternography
hog cistern
intracistern
lawfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lawfully
form: most lawfully
Etymology: From Middle English lawfully, lawfulliche, lawefulliche; equivalent to lawful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This grand ceremony was immediately followed by a proclamation expreſsly forbidding the Abyſſine clergy, monks, and prieſts, to perform any prieſtly functions till they were previouſly examined and approved by the patriarch ; there being ſome reaſon to doubt whether they had been lawfully examined.
ref: 1781, C. Bathurst, The Modern Part of an Universal History From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, volume 12, page 264:
text: He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”
ref: 2009 September 26, The Associated Press, “Kuwaiti Ordered Released From Guantánamo Bay”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Conforming to the law; legally.
Related terms: lawful
unlawfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈlɔːfəli/
Forms: form: more unlawfully
form: most unlawfully
Etymology: From unlawful + -ly or un- + lawfully.
Senses: examples: text: The deceased was unlawfully killed during a riot.
text: Look here, my body-snatchers, you have unlawfully abridged the liberty of one of the sons of the sovereign State of New York!
ref: 1877, R. Rae, Newport, section 40:
text: The information charges that the said Flem Parker, on or about the 20th day of November, 1890, and before the filing of this information, at the county and state aforesaid, did willfully, unlawfully, and feloniously enter a certain barn […]
ref: 1892, The Pacific Reporter, volume 27, page 538:
glosses: In a manner not conforming to the law.
Waquita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of African-American usage.
widescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪdˌskɹin/
Forms: form: widescreens
Etymology: From wide + screen.
Senses: glosses: A screen with a wider aspect ratio than the ordinary 35-millimeter frame, making more effective use of the human field of view and producing a more immersive view experience.
widescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪdˌskɹin/
Etymology: From wide + screen.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Filmed in a greater aspect ratio than the 1.33:1 or 1.37:1 aspect ratio.
glosses: Presented in the original aspect ratio; presented in letterbox orientation.
raw_tags: of a motion picture
Synonyms: panoramic
Coordinate terms: anamorphic
aspect ratio
high definition
letterbox
modified aspect ratio
original aspect ratio
pan and scan
letterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letterboxes
form: letter box
Etymology: From letter + box.
Senses: synonyms: word: mailbox
word: post box
word: pillar box
glosses: A box into which mail is put.
A collection point for mail intended for onward delivery, a secure box or receptacle for this purpose.
examples: text: A wad of junk mail was pushed through the letterbox in the front door and dropped onto the mat.
synonyms: mailbox
mail slot
glosses: A box into which mail is put.
A delivery point for mail, a box, compartment or slot for this purpose.
glosses: A hidden container that holds a logbook and rubber stamp, found by following clues as a form of recreation.
examples: text: His strength was running out fast: one more good letterbox was all that he could conceive himself able to make. He made it, hacking away with slow, painful strokes, his axe-handle slippery with his sweat.
ref: 1954, Daniel Talbot, A Treasury of Mountaineering Stories, page 239:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
mountaineering
sports
glosses: A rectangular hole or slot.
Derived terms: letterbox company
letterbox contact
letterboxer
letterbox format
letterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: letter box
Etymology: From letter + box.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Transferred to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, having black bars above and below the picture area.
letterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: letterboxes
form: letterboxing
form: letterboxed
form: letterboxed
form: letter box
Etymology: From letter + box.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To transfer a widescreen motion picture to home video formats while preserving the original aspect ratio, with the placing of black bars above and below the picture area.
glosses: To hunt for letterboxes (containers with logbook and rubber stamp) by following clues.
Related terms: full screen
pan and scan
pillarbox
tilt and scan
widescreen
pan and scan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pan-and-scan
Senses: examples: text: Paul disdained pan and scan DVD releases, always holding out for the widescreen special editions.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Formatted to fit within proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, with sides of the original widescreen image (especially 2.35:1 aspect ratio) cropped off.
pan and scan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan and scans
form: pan-and-scan
Senses: examples: text: Alicia hated the person who had invented pan and scan, since the heightened panning effect aggravated her nausea when watching action movies.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The method or practice of adjusting widescreen film images, especially 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 aspect ratio, so that they can be shown within the proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, by cropping off sides of the original widescreen image, as opposed to letterboxing.
examples: text: In the discount bin by the door sat a pile of pan and scans, mostly comedies, that no one would touch.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A movie recording employing this technology.
pan and scan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pans and scans
form: panning and scanning
form: panned and scanned
form: panned and scanned
form: pan-and-scan
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To adjust widescreen film images so that they can be shown with standard television aspect ratios by cropping the original image, i.e. using pan and scan methods.
examples: text: In the full-screen version of Star Wars Episode II, only Anakin and Obi-Wan appear in the scene because Padmé was panned and scanned out.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To crop out (a character or object) when performing the pan and scan process, resulting in the deletion of a character or object.
Related terms: fullscreen
high-definition television
letterbox
letterboxing
modified aspect ratio
original aspect ratio
pan
pillarbox
scan
tilt and scan
widescreen
APC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APCs
Senses: examples: text: Sill waved for an armored vehicle to come up from the rear. It was an APC with a small cannon on the top.
ref: 2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 264:
topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: carrier#Noun
;
armoured fighting vehicle
<
vehicle#Noun
coordinate_terms: IFV
infantry fighting vehicle
glosses: Initialism of armored personnel carrier.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: complex#Noun
glosses: Initialism of anaphase-promoting complex.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: cell#Noun
glosses: Initialism of antigen-presenting cell.
hypernyms: center#Noun
qualifier: wireless communication
glosses: Initialism of antenna phase center.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
hypernyms: medication#Noun
<
drug#Noun
glosses: Initialism of aspirin-phenacetin-caffeine.
hypernyms: cleaner#Noun
glosses: Initialism of all-purpose cleaner.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of activated protein C.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of article processing charge.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of adenomatous polyposis coli.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of argon plasma coagulation.
APC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of A Perfect Circle.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of All Progressives Congress.
APC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of armor piercing capped.
armored personnel carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armored personnel carriers
form: armoured personnel carrier
Senses: glosses: An armored vehicle for carrying infantry soldiers in combat.
Synonyms: word: APC
Coordinate terms: infantry fighting vehicle
armored combat vehicle
armored car
gunship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌnʃɪp/
Forms: form: gunships
Etymology: From gun + ship.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship equipped with heavy artillery.
examples: text: I'm sending down five more dropships, combat EMVs, and a thopter gunship.
ref: 1997 September 24, Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion, New York: Bantam, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 363:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An armed helicopter tasked to attack the enemy.
examples: text: Roger that, Hocus. Friendly gunship, coming in hot!
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Sierra 117:
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: air force
glosses: A transport airplane equipped with large calibre guns typical of armoured fighting vehicles
hospital ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospital ships
Senses: examples: text: The Leinster has been in use as a hospital ship and a transport, but is now released and is refitting for her regular service.
ref: 1946 March and April, “Notes and News: Anglo-Irish Steamship Fleets”, in Railway Magazine, page 118:
glosses: A ship that is intended to serve as a mobile hospital with appropriate equipment and personnel.
wikipedia: USNS Comfort (T-AH-20)
United States Navy
hospital ship
jaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔːz/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: plural of jaw
jaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔːz/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: The mouth.
examples: text: Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.
text: The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.
glosses: The borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
qualifier: eastern Ohio
glosses: A contrarian.
Derived terms: get wind in one's jaws
jaws harp
jaws-harp
jaws of death
jaws of life
snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory
snatch victory from the jaws of defeat
jaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔːz/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑz/
rhymes: -ɔːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jaw
depth charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depth charges
Senses: examples: text: The trailblazing Oaxacan chef Alejandro Ruiz […] has spiked this black-bean sauce with a hidden depth charge of flavor: patches of foliage from a local avocado tree. The leaves electrify the sauce with an unexpected thrum of black licorice.
ref: 2014 October 25, Jeff Gordinier, “In search of the perfect taco”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine (international edition), page 100:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
synonyms: depth bomb
glosses: A form of bomb, launched from a ship or dropped from an aircraft, that is designed to detonate at a certain depth underwater for the purposes of attacking a submerged enemy, especially a submarine.
glosses: Synonym of bomb shot (“type of mixed drink”).
synonyms: word: bomb shot
extra: type of mixed drink
depth charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depth charges
form: depth charging
form: depth charged
form: depth charged
form: depth-charge
Senses: examples: text: After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
glosses: To attack (a target, usually a submarine) with depth charges.
periscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪskəʊp/
Forms: form: periscopes
Etymology: From peri- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: The waters grew suddenly lighter, and my spirits rose accordingly. I shouted down to those below that I saw daylight ahead, and a great shout of thanksgiving reverberated through the ship. A moment later we emerged into sunlit water, and immediately I raised the periscope and looked about me upon the strangest landscape I had ever seen.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: A form of viewing device that allows the viewer to see things at a different height level and usually with minimal visibility.
examples: text: […] will show it not only enlarging the periscope of knowledge, but contributing to the amelioration of the condition of unfortunate and suffering humanity […]
ref: 1885, Transactions of the Michigan State Medical Society, page 55:
glosses: A general or comprehensive view.
Derived terms: periscopism
Related terms: periscopic
periscopically
periscope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹɪskəʊp/
Forms: form: periscopes
form: periscoping
form: periscoped
form: periscoped
Etymology: From peri- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: Thousands of ungainly black-beaked heads would periscope and freeze in the direction of the approaching intruder.
ref: 1951, National Geographic Magazine: Volume 99:
text: The second summer I had a great deal of interest but weeks passed before I worked up the nerve to approach her, the confidence finally gained when I caught a queen snake that periscoped within reach, one of the last I ever saw swimming in Cross Creek.
ref: 1987, Field & Stream March 1987:
text: Areas of barren sand are likely spots to look for its [the turtle's] periscoping head. Its fondness for the bottom is equally matched by its ability to quickly disappear and tunnel into it.
ref: 2008, Doug Stamm, The Springs of Florida, page 99:
text: Her black and white head suddenly popped out from under the covers and periscoped around.
ref: 2010, Jim Moran, The Sentinel: A Wildfire Story, page 236:
glosses: To rise and peer around, in the manner of a periscope.
automimicry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: automimicries
Etymology: From auto- + mimicry.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The advantage gained by some members of a species from their resemblance to others of the same species. Males of many bees and wasps, although defenseless, are protected from predators by their resemblance to females that are equipped with stingers.
sequential art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A form of art where the content is presented in a series of artistic items positioned in a specific order to convey its message or effect, such as a comic strip.
surface-to-air missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surface-to-air missiles
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A ground-based anti-aircraft missile.
Derived terms: word: SAM
Related terms: air-to-air missile
air-to-surface missile
surface-to-surface missile
air-to-air missile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-to-air missiles
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A missile that is fired from an aircraft to attack another aircraft.
Derived terms: word: AAM
Related terms: air-to-surface missile
surface-to-air missile
surface-to-surface missile
stop-motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stop-motions
form: stop motion
Senses: examples: text: Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion looks angry, rough, and primal; Henry Selick’s is so polished and smooth that it resembles CGI.
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
synonyms: stop-go animation
glosses: An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence.
glosses: A device used for automatically stopping a machine or engine when a fault or error is detected.
shrinkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrinkages
Etymology: From shrink + -age.
Senses: examples: text: How far progress has been made in liquidating the locomotive stock of the old companies may be judged from the shrinkage in their numbers, by some 50 per cent. at the end of 1931, to about 35 per cent. in 1938.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 161:
text: An emergency South Western Railway (SWR) timetable came into force on September 5, in response to the shrinkage of clay embankments on the nine miles between Gillingham and Tisbury. The shrinkage has been caused by the driest summer since 1936, with a severe 40mph speed restriction having to be imposed.
ref: 2022 September 21, “Network News: West of England Line average speeds drop... to just 31mph”, in RAIL, number 966, page 18:
glosses: The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
glosses: The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
The loss of merchandise through theft, spoilage, and obsolescence: the shrinking of inventory.
examples: text: Do women know about shrinkage?
ref: 1994 Peter Mehlman & Carol Leifer, "The Hamptons," Seinfeld, Season 5, Episode 20 (aired May 12, 1994), Spoken by Jerry Seinfeld (Jerry Seinfeld)
text: This is why guys experience "shrinkage" after they've been swimming.
ref: 2006, Steve Gerali, Teenage Guys: Exploring Issues Adolescent Guys Face and Strategies to Help Them, Zondervan, page 63:
text: That'll get their blood flowing. ... getting the blood flowing coz just the mere thought of jumping into that icy water was starting to get the shrinkage going.
ref: 2008, Anthony William Brownless, Billy's Book for Blokes, Allen & Unwin:
text: And of course, one of the most important questions of all, especially among male plungers, is, "What about shrinkage?!"
ref: 2010, Fran Capo, Art Zuckerman, Susan Zuckerman, “Polar Bear Clubs”, in It Happened in New York City: Remarkable Events That Shaped History, Globe Pequot, page 51:
text: Next, on with his favourite budgie smugglers. His sequined posing pouch. No winky shrinkage for him.
ref: 2023 April 21, John Crace, “Psycho goes down raging: the liberal wokerati finally get to Raab”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The act of shrinking, or the proportion by which something shrinks.
The reduction in size of the male genitalia when cold, such as from immersion in cold water.
Related terms: word: shrink rate
word: shrink-wrap
sense: inventory loss
word: loss prevention
indicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indict
antivirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈantɪvʌɪrəs/
Forms: form: antiviruses
Etymology: From anti- + virus.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of software that is used to detect, delete and or neutralize computer-based viruses.
Related terms: antiviral
backstop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstops
form: back-stop
Etymology: From back + stop.
Senses: coordinate_terms: backup#Noun
glosses: An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
examples: text: Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar, this morning, said a time-limited backstop would be unacceptable, and has previously promised to vote down the UK’s Brexit withdrawal deal unless it features a satisfactory backstop.
ref: The Express, 7 June 2018
text: "The 2½ years since have been about hammering home these points in any European capital that would listen. And in spite of capacity-sapping talks on the first point – Brexit, border and backstop – the Department of Foreign Affairs and other government departments have been working quietly to make good on the second.
ref: The Irish Times, 17 November 2018
coordinate_terms: backup#Noun
glosses: A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A wall or fence behind home plate.
examples: text: Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.
ref: 2002, James F. Vail, Outrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 143:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A catcher; the position of catcher.
glosses: The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The longstop.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The wicket-keeper.
examples: text: […] to be set up in Indonesia with a phony book and school supplies company established in New York City as a backstop.
ref: 1976, Joseph Burkholder Smith, Portrait of a Cold Warrior, page 116:
text: Closely representing an alibi, creating a backstop could involve such measures as having people available to verify the details of an agent's cover story.
ref: 1990, Bruce W. Watson, Susan M. Watson, Gerald W. Hopple, United States intelligence: an encyclopedia, page 1974:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
Coordinate terms: sense: thing or a person to support
word: rearguard
backstop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backstops
form: backstopping
form: backstopped
form: backstopped
form: back-stop
Etymology: From back + stop.
Senses: glosses: To serve as backstop for.
examples: text: Russia signalled on Monday it would backstop the European Union's bailout of Cyprus despite anger that the weekend rescue deal would impose heavy losses on uninsured depositors, many of them Russian.
ref: 2013 March 26, Douglas Busvine, Darya Korsunskaya, “Russia backstops Cyprus bailout despite anger”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013:
glosses: To bolster, support.
crush room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crush rooms
Senses: examples: August 2, 1833, Thomas Babington Macaulay, letter to Hannah M. Macaulay
Politics leave very little time for the bow window at White's in the day, or for the crush-room of the opera at night.
glosses: A large room in a theater, opera house, or other public building, where the public may stand during the intermissions; a foyer or lobby.
arcminute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcminutes
Etymology: From arc + minute.
Senses: glosses: A unit of angle; 1/60 of a degree.
Synonyms: minute of angle
Derived terms: subarcminute
crushroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crushrooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crush room.
crush hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crush hats
Senses: glosses: A hat that collapses, and can be carried under the arm, and, when expanded, is held in shape by springs.
glosses: Any hat not damaged by compressing.
Hyponyms: gibus
opera hat
MS-DOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs/
Senses: examples: text: In its MS-DOS, Version 6.22, Microsoft added a legally correct version of data compression and enhanced the operating system's safety features.
ref: 1994 August 29, John M. Goodman, “The DOS heavyweights go another round”, in InfoWorld, page 87:
glosses: Initialism of Microsoft Disk Operating System, an operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually succeeded by standalone versions of Microsoft Windows.
harumph
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹʌm(p)f/
Forms: form: harrumph
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Harumph! She is welcome to try, but I'm not going to bother helping.
text: "Harumph! Well, now, perhaps I spoke too soon, McManus."
ref: 1982, Patrick F. McManus, They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?:
synonyms: word: applesauce
word: bender
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: bugger off
word: bullcrap
word: bullcrud
word: bullfuck
word: bullshit
word: chinny reckon
word: codswallop
word: come off it
word: come on
word: c'mon
word: fiddle
word: fiddledeedee
word: fiddle-faddle
word: fiddlefart
word: fiddlestick
word: fiddlesticks
word: flummery
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get away
word: get out of here
word: get out of it
word: get out of town
word: get outta here
word: get to fuck
word: gimme a break
word: give over
word: go on
word: harumph
word: Hookey Walker
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horseshit
word: malarkey
word: no
word: no way
word: nonsense
word: pshaw
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: pssh
word: pssht
word: pull the other leg
word: pull the other one
word: it's got bells on
word: it's got brass bells on
word: rubbish
word: stroll on
word: tell it to Sweeney
word: tell it to the judge
word: tell it to the marines
word: tell me another one
word: Walker
word: yeah
word: right
word: you're having me on
word: you're pulling my leg
word: bah
word: blech
word: bleck
word: faugh
word: faw
word: feh
word: foh
word: fough
word: gaw
word: harumph
word: pah
word: pfaugh
word: pfui
word: phht
word: pho
word: phoh
word: pht
word: piff
word: pish
word: poh
word: pooh
word: pshaw
word: pssh
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: psht
word: pssht
word: pugh
word: puh
word: tush
glosses: An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, refusal or dismissal.
harumph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹʌm(p)f/
Forms: form: harumphs
form: harrumph
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: I didn't get a harumph out of that guy.
text: Give the governor a harumph.
glosses: An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, or dismissal; a huff, grunt, or snort.
harumph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈɹʌm(p)f/
Forms: form: harumphs
form: harumphing
form: harumphed
form: harumphed
form: harrumph
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Is it wrong to harumph when the scent of spitting fat drifts towards your washing line?
ref: 2009 August 25, Paula Cocozza, “The rules of back-garden etiquette”, in The Guardian:
text: "An open invitation for beggars," harumphed Migrationwatch. Ever the humanitarians.
ref: 2012 June 3, Hugh Muir, “Hideously diverse Britain: standing up for the Romanians”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make a huffing or snorting sound of disdain or dismissal; (figurative, by extension) to show one's disdain.
dumb terminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb terminals
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no processing capability, used to provide input to and receive output from a remote server, minicomputer, or mainframe.
Related terms: computer terminal
thin client
extrovert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkstɹəvəːt/
ipa: /ˈɛkstɹəˌvəɹt/
Forms: form: extroverts
form: extravert
Etymology: Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". By surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
Senses: examples: text: In order to understand the marked contract between Comte's mental attitude during his early years and that of his later life, we must keep in mind Jung's hypothesis of the two psychological types, the introvert and extrovert,—the thinking type and the feeling type.
ref: 1918 April, Phyllis Blanchard, “A Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte”, in American Journal of Psychology, page 163:
text: He cannot find the fabled boatman, but he does come across the two stone images that belong to the boatman, and in rage and frustration, the great heroic extrovert, the man who is used to acting out whatever he feels inside, smashes the stones.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
text: To see your identity in any single trait – introvert, extrovert, or neurotic – is to limit your life.
ref: 2016 November 1, Drake Baer, “Are you an introvert or an extrovert? It’s more complicated than that”, in CNN:
text: If you’re an extrovert and the thought of weeks or months of social distancing has you jumping out of your skin, rest assured. Your feelings are normal. And we’re here to help. […] And while her introverted clients may be feeling less stressed, and sometimes even emboldened by social distancing, Blandino said both extroverts and introverts can leverage technology to weather the storm.
ref: 2020 March 23, Ryan Prior, “The extrovert’s guide to social distancing”, in CNN:
text: So if introverts look inwards, and extroverts outwards, where the hell do otroverts look? Neither of the above.
ref: 2025 August 20, “Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift”, in The Guardian:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An extroverted person: one who is outgoing, sociable, and concerned with outer affairs.
Derived terms: extraverted
extrovertish
extrovertist
extrovertness
Related terms: ambivert
extroverted
extroversion
extrovert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrovert
form: most extrovert
form: extravert
Etymology: Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". By surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of extroverted: outgoing.
extrovert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkstɹəʊˈvəːt/
ipa: /ɛkstɹoʊˈvəɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: extroverts
form: extroverting
form: extroverted
form: extroverted
form: extravert
Etymology: Alteration of earlier extravert (by influence of introvert), from German Extravert, popularized in psychology by Phyllis Blanchard's 1918 "Psycho-Analytic Study of August Comte". By surface analysis, extro- + -vert.
Senses: examples: text: The external and combustible Sulphur... is... protruded and extroverted.
ref: 1671, John Webster, Metallographia, page 197:
glosses: To turn or thrust outwards.
introvert
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more introvert
form: most introvert
Etymology: From New Latin intrōvertere, from intro- (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Popularized as a psychological term by the German works of Carl Jung. By surface analysis, intro- + -vert.
Senses: examples: text: They were noticeably more introvert, schizoid and desurgent in temperament.
ref: 1934 July, British Journal of Psychology, page 26:
glosses: Alternative form of introverted.
introvert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɹəʊˈvəːt/
ipa: /ɪntɹoʊˈvəɹt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: introverts
form: introverting
form: introverted
form: introverted
Etymology: From New Latin intrōvertere, from intro- (“within”) and vertere (“to turn”). Popularized as a psychological term by the German works of Carl Jung. By surface analysis, intro- + -vert.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Soul being straight, introverted […] into itself, and easily conforming to God's will and time […]
ref: 1671, Abraham Woodhead trans. The Life of the Holy Mother Saint Teresa..., xxviii
text: The less we look abroad, the more our ideas are introverted, and our habitual impressions... grow together into a kind of concrete substance.
ref: 1822, William Hazlitt, “Prejudice”, in Table-talk, page 85:
glosses: To turn inwards.
To think about internal or spiritual matters.
examples: text: His awkward gait, his introverted toes,
Bent knees, round shoulders, and dejected looks […]
ref: 1785, William Cowper, "The Task", Cant. IV, ll. 633 ff.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To turn inwards.
To withdraw an organ or body part within itself or its base.
Derived terms: introverse
introversible
introversion
introversive
introverted
introverting
introvertish
introvertive
schtick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schticks
Etymology: From Yiddish שטיק (shtik, “shtick, act, piece”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shtick.
schtick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schticks
Etymology: A blend of schlockey + stick.
Senses: topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The stick used to play schlockey.
thermoluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθəːmə(ʊ)luːmɪˈnɛs(ə)nt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more thermoluminescent
form: most thermoluminescent
Etymology: From thermo- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or showing thermoluminescence.
Hypernyms: luminescent
Hyponyms: radiothermoluminescent
thermoluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoluminescences
Etymology: From thermo- + luminescence.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The release of previously absorbed radiation upon being heated.
Related terms: thermoluminescent
wonky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
enpr: wŏngʹkē
ipa: /ˈwɑŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈwɔŋ.ki/
rhymes: -ɒŋki
Forms: form: wonkier
form: wonkiest
Etymology: From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
Senses: examples: text: Who's this gimp with a wonky eye / I don't know but his lips are dry
ref: 2016 April 2, “Afghan Business (Afghan Dan Send)”, performed by Dylan Brewer and Little T (Josh Tate):
synonyms: awry
misaligned
skew-whiff
glosses: Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
examples: text: It seemed likely that he would need First Aid when those wonky steps yielded, at length, to the well-known law of gravitation.
ref: 1932, Frank Richards, The Magnet: The Terror of the Form:
synonyms: rickety
glosses: Feeble, shaky or rickety.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: buggy
broken
glosses: Suffering from intermittent bugs.
glosses: Generally incorrect.
Derived terms: wonkily
wonkiness
wonky hole
wonky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
enpr: wŏngʹkē
ipa: /ˈwɑŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈwɔŋ.ki/
rhymes: -ɒŋki
Etymology: From English dialectal wanky, alteration of Middle English wankel (“unstable, shaky”), from Old English wancol (“unstable”), from Proto-West Germanic *wankul (“swaying, shaky, unstable”).
Senses: examples: text: By the late 2000s, dubstep had splintered into numerous factions, from brostep to wonky to the evocative “purple,” […]
ref: 2015, Jan Kyrre Berg O. Friis, Robert P. Crease, Technoscience and Postphenomenology: The Manhattan Papers:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
wonky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒŋ.kɪ/
enpr: wŏngʹkē
ipa: /ˈwɑŋ.ki/
ipa: /ˈwɔŋ.ki/
rhymes: -ɒŋki
Forms: form: wonkier
form: wonkiest
Etymology: From wonk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Climate change is an issue that might lend itself more easily to thematic framing in the news, due to the often highly technical and wonky language required to explain it.
ref: 2009, Jesse Dale Holcomb, Faith, Science and Trust: Climate Change Framing Effects and Conservative Protestant Opinion, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: McCain's message, while similar in content and equally as valid, is lost in the minutiae of “'high-risk' pools” and wonky jargon.
ref: 2010, Michael Maslansky, Scott West, Gary DeMoss, David Saylor, The Language of Trust: Selling Ideas in a World of Skeptics:
text: During the boom times, Paris Hilton, Snoop Dogg, Reese Witherspoon and Matt Damon all gushed about or invested in crypto projects, bringing a mainstream audience to the wonky world of digital currencies.
ref: 2023 July 6, Erin Griffith, David Yaffe-Bellany, “How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: [Senator Todd] Young is a low-key Indiana lawmaker with an enthusiasm for wonky, but important national security issues. He's a protégé of the late Sen. Richard Lugar, a low-key Indiana lawmaker who had an enthusiasm for wonky but important national security issues.
ref: 2025 April 11, Steve Inskeep, “One Republican tries to make sense of Trump's tariffs”, in NPR:
glosses: Technically worded, in the style of jargon.
pro tem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈtɛm/
Forms: form: pro tem.
form: p.t.
Etymology: Clipping of pro tempore, from Latin prō tempore (literally “for a time”)
Senses: glosses: temporarily; for the time being
Synonyms: sense: temporarily
word: pro tempore
pro tem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹəʊˈtɛm/
Forms: form: pro tem.
form: p.t.
Etymology: Clipping of pro tempore, from Latin prō tempore (literally “for a time”)
Senses: glosses: temporary
glosses: acting (of a job or role), serving temporarily
Synonyms: sense: temporary
word: pro tempore
topics: acting
film
theater
entertainment
lifestyle
television
broadcasting
media
word: pro tempore
endogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdɒd͡ʒ.ə.nəs/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɑ.d͡ʒə.nəs/
rhymes: -ɒd͡ʒɪnəs
Forms: form: more endogenous
form: most endogenous
Etymology: From endogen + -ous or endo- + -genous. Piecewise doublet of indigenous.
Senses: glosses: Produced, originating or growing from within.
glosses: Of a natural process: caused by factors within the body.
Synonyms: autogenous
native
Derived terms: endogeneity
endogenous erythroid colony
endogenously
endogenous retrovirus
endogenous viral element
endogeny
Grampus griseus endogenous virus
nonendogenous
Related terms: autogeneic
endogen
immensity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immensities
Etymology: From Middle French immensité, equivalent to immense + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being immense.
glosses: An immense object.
Derived terms: superimmensity
temple of immensity
-z
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: An eye dialect spelling variant of -s.
Senses: examples: text: Boyz are always trouble.
text: He lovez me.
topics: urbanism
glosses: Used as a substitute for -s in marking the plural of nouns. Usually used in words in which the -s suffix is actually pronounced /z/.
Related terms: -ez
-z
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Rhotacism of /ɹ/. Attested since at least 1987.
Senses: examples: text: Barry + -z → Baz
text: Sharon + -z → Shaz
text: Jeremy + -z → Jez
glosses: Forms nicknames, especially of personal names.
examples: text: sorry + -z → soz
text: tomorrow + -z → tomoz
text: apparently + -z → appaz
glosses: Forms colloquial variants of words.
Derived terms: word: -zza
word: onz
english: from rabak
translation: from rabak
word: rabz
word: rabz kebabz
word: upz
bandage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /baɳɖ.edʒ/
Forms: form: bandages
Etymology: Borrowed from French bandage.
Senses: examples: text: […]he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: A strip of gauze or similar material used to protect or support a wound or injury.
examples: text: […] the president informed him that one of the conditions of his introduction was that he should be eternally ignorant of the place of meeting, and that he would allow his eyes to be bandaged, swearing that he would not endeavor to take off the bandage.
ref: 1844, Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_75
text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A strip of cloth bound round the head and eyes as a blindfold.
examples: text: This new healthcare proposal merely applies a bandage to the current medical crisis.
glosses: A provisional or makeshift solution that provides insufficient coverage or relief.
Derived terms: adhesive bandage
bandage dress
bandagelike
compression bandage
liquid bandage
living bandage
pressure bandage
rip off the bandage
T-bandage
triangular bandage
Related terms: dressing
plaster
splint
bandage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /baɳɖ.edʒ/
Forms: form: bandages
form: bandaging
form: bandaged
form: bandaged
Etymology: Borrowed from French bandage.
Senses: examples: 1879, Samuel Clemens (as Mark Twain), A Tramp Abroad, https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w
...they ate...whilst they chatted, disputed and laughed. The door to the surgeon's room stood open, meantime, but the cutting, sewing, splicing, and bandaging going on in there in plain view did not seem to disturb anyone's appetite.
glosses: To apply a bandage to something.
Derived terms: bandageable
rebandage
unbandage
resorb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resorbs
form: resorbing
form: resorbed
form: resorbed
Etymology: From Latin resorbere, from re- (“again”) + sorbere (“to suck in”).
Senses: glosses: To absorb (something) again.
glosses: To undergo resorption.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To dissolve (bone, sinew, suture, etc.) and assimilate it.
Derived terms: resorbant
resorbence
resorption
resorptive
staffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of staff
staffing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staffings
Senses: glosses: the practice of hiring and firing staff
examples: text: In accordance with an agreement made in 1855, "the Junction Station" (Coaley) was erected at the expense of the Dursley Company, which also paid for the staffing of it.
ref: 1956 September, 'Precursor', “The Dursley & Midland Junction Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 599:
glosses: The personnel required for some project.
Related terms: short-staffing
asserted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɜːtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsɝtɪd/
Forms: form: more asserted
form: most asserted
Senses: examples: text: asserted authority
text: asserted ownership
text: The document outlined his asserted rights.
text: Their asserted claims were challenged in court.
glosses: stated, declared or alleged, especially with confidence but no proof
Derived terms: assertedly
unasserted
asserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɜːtɪd/
ipa: /əˈsɝtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assert
chemotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemotaxes
form: chemiotaxis
Etymology: From chemo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: chemoaversion
chemoavoidance
chemotropism
glosses: The movement of a cell or an organism in response to a chemical stimulant.
Derived terms: antichemotaxis
autochemotaxis
chemotactic
microchemotaxis
odortaxis
pseudochemotaxis
Related terms: chemotaxin
motility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motilities
Etymology: From motile + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being motile (moving)
glosses: The degree to which something is motile
Derived terms: antimotility
cardiomotility
dysmotility
electromotility
hypermotility
hypomotility
immotility
micromotility
neuromotility
nonmotility
oculomotility
photomotility
promotility
vasomotility
motile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtaɪl/
Forms: form: motiles
Etymology: From Latin mōtus, perfect passive participle of moveō (“I move”) (English move).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action, such as incipient pronunciation of words, muscular innervations, etc.