cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
octodecillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒktoʊdəˈsɪl.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: octodecillions
Etymology: From Latin octodecim (“eighteen”) + -illion; compare tredecillion, quattuordecillion, etc.
Senses: examples: text: 1962, David Bergamini, The Universe, Time-Life Books, Google Books considers page number to be top-secret
The reason is that the rays created in the core are softened on their outward journey by being handled by the octodecillion-odd atoms of gas outside the core that are part of the sun but play no part in the central fusions.
text: How many Stars Shine on Tiny Jennifer’s Hair? ... Two million, three hundred and forty nine thousand, eight hundred seventy five vigintillion, seven hundred fifty four novemdecillion, five hundred forty three octodecillion, four hundred fifty seven septendecillion...
ref: 2004, Alan Sondheim, The Wayward, →ISBN, page 138:
text: 2004, Jay Carty, Darrell Waltrip (co-author), Darrell Waltrip One-On-One, The Faith That Took Him to the Finish Line, Gospel Light Publishing, →ISBN, “Day 23”, unpaged
the odds on the development of a polypeptide, which is a protein building block, is 6 times 10 to the 57th power, or 600 octodecillion, to 1.
qualifier: short scale
glosses: 10⁵⁷.
qualifier: long scale
glosses: 10¹⁰⁸.
Related terms: sense: short and long scale
word: Previous: septendecillion. Next: novemdecillion.
novemdecillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnoʊvəmdəˈsɪl.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: novemdecillions
Etymology: From Latin novemdecim, “nineteen” + -illion; compare tredecillion, quattuordecillion, etc.
Senses: examples: text: It is one chance in a novemdecillion. For those who like to be precise, that exact statistic is one chance in 1,606,937,974,174,171,729,761,809,705,564,167,968,221,676,069,604,401,795,301,376.
ref: 1962, Jerry D. Lewis, Crusade against crime, Random House, page 314:
text: For an extreme example, see US Patent No. 5,422,351 (filed June 21, 1991). This particular patent includes a structural formula in claim 1 that encompasses at least one novemdecillion (10r^([sic]), or one followed by sixty zeroes) chemical compounds
ref: 2010, SB Seymore, “Rethinking Novelty in Patent Law”, in Duke Law Journal:
text: It has the shape of a disk, and is ten to the fifty-ninth power yojanas in circumference, a number called a novemdecillion, and is 1,600,000 yojanas deep.
ref: 1998, Sean O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, →ISBN, page 66:
text: Go up to 60 zeros -- that's a novemdecillion -- and you can measure the volume of the galaxy in cubic inches [...].
ref: 2001 July 15, John Flanagan, “How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000?”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, archived from the original on 17 May 2007:
text: The index tells us that Zimbabwe's inflation rate recently peaked at 80 billion percent a month. That means around 6.5 quindecillion novemdecillion percent a year—or 65 followed by 107 zeros.
ref: 2008 December 22, Steven Hanke, “The Printing Press”, in Forbes:
text: grangs med, literally “without count,” is also said to indicate the number ten to the fiftieth or sixtieth power (novemdecillion). Still less than a googol!
ref: 2011, Sarah Harding, Niguma, Lady of Illusion, page 286:
qualifier: modern British & Australian; short scale; modern British & Australian; short scale
glosses: 10⁶⁰.
qualifier: British & Australian; long scale; British & Australian; long scale
glosses: 10¹¹⁴.
examples: text: 2000–2006: Quantum Mechanics, Abarim Publications http://www.abarim-publications.com/JessicaRabbitExplains.html
‘When we say 2 we mean exactly 2, not 2,00001 or 2,0000000000000001 or 2 with a novemdecillion zeroes and then a 1...’.
text: ‘I then looked into the zatetic forest behind it / And saw a nonillion, no, a novemdecillion of them!’.
ref: 2002 CE: James C. Mayer, ‘Student-Led Poetry Workshops’ (which appears in ‘The English Journal’, volume 91, number 3, ‘Teaching and Writing Poetry’)
text: ‘The odds that one of the Cowboys linebacking corps reads this blog is one in... oh, let’s use a really big number... a novemdecillion’.
ref: http://www.knowyourdallascowboys.com/?p=601 (http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:OFegiwwAB7oJ:faircatch.net/player/terrell_owens+novemdecillion&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=134)
glosses: A very large but unspecified number (of).
Synonyms: sense: a long scale decillion
word: 1060
Related terms: sense: short and long scale
word: Previous: octodecillion. Next: vigintillion.
vigintillion
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪdʒɪnˈtɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: vigintillions
Etymology: From viginti- + (mi)llion.
Senses: examples: text: After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
glosses: Originally, in accordance with the long scale, the twentieth power of a million, 10¹²⁰; now (originally US), in accordance with the short scale, more usually 10⁶³.
Derived terms: duovigintillion
novemvigintillion
octovigintillion
quattuorvigintillion
quinvigintillion
septenvigintillion
sexvigintillion
trevigintillion
unvigintillion
Related terms: Previous: novemdecillion: short scale 1060
long scale 10114
Next: unvigintillion: short scale 1066
long scale 10126
pelmet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlmɪt/
rhymes: -ɛlmɪt
Forms: form: pelmets
Senses: examples: text: Sun blinds (recessed in a pelmet) were provided for all windows, except in the corridors.
ref: 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:
text: The pelmets and mirrors, the spotlights and blinds, seemed rich in criticism.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A decorative item that is placed above a window to hide the curtain mechanisms, visually similar to a cornice or valance.
Derived terms: pelmet skirt
Provençal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒvənˈsɑːl/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒvɒnˈsɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French provenceal, provençal, from Latin prōvinciālis.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Provence, a traditional geographic region roughly corresponding to the modern administrative region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
Provençal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒvənˈsɑːl/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒvɒnˈsɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French provenceal, provençal, from Latin prōvinciālis.
Senses: synonyms: Occitan
glosses: The language spoken in Provence; Occitan.
raw_tags: in linguistics
examples: text: “Mirèio” first appeared at Paris in September, 1859, having beside the Provençal a parallel French version of the author's own, or rather a prose translation divided into verses to correspond with the stanzas of the original. […] I must, however, hasten to disclaim any thing approaching to a critical knowledge of the rich and charming Provençal dialect,—or rather language, for it is more than a dialect.
ref: 1872, Frédéric Mistral, translated by Harriet W. Preston, Mirèio: A Provençal Poem, translation of original in Provençal, Preface, page x:
text: It was the first time I had heard Provençal spoken – there seemed to be moss packed between every syllable.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 343:
qualifier: strictly
glosses: The Romance Occitan dialect of Provence.
Provençal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒvɑːnˈsɑːl/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒvənˈsɑːl/
ipa: /ˌpɹɒvɒnˈsɑːl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
Forms: form: Provençals
form: Provençaux
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French provenceal, provençal, from Latin prōvinciālis.
Senses: examples: text: The Normans were putting it about that the Provençals were experts at foraging, to the neglect of fighting. Their children had a refrain with which they taunted their southern French counterparts: ‘the Franks go to fight, the Provençals to food’.
ref: 2011, Conor Kostick, The Siege of Jerusalem: Crusade and Conquest in 1099, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Provence.
Related terms: Occitan
Old Provençal
Titania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈtɑːni.ə/
Etymology: A style of Diana in Ovid, fem. of titanius, from Titan. As faeries were identified with Classical nymphs, the queen of the faeries was equated with Diana.
Senses: examples: text: As it is impossible to believe that this huge mountain can produce such an effect, at the expiration of a few minutes we become dupes of illusion, and the most grave thinker is ready to swear that there is in those shades, under some fantastic thicket, a solitary— a supernatural being—a sort of fairy—a Titania, who amuses herself by delicately parodying the music of mortals, and throwing down the half of a mountain every time she hears the report of a gun.
ref: 1842 May 7, L'Etudiant, “The Rhine”, in The Mirror, volume 1, number 19, page 293:
text: For all this Magical Mansion were vain With all its dominions so fair; Its splendor and riches no happiness gain Without a Titania to share!
ref: 1859, “Fairy Knowe”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, page 428:
text: "Take breath," said Teresa, unable to help laughing. "Why, kitten, you're as good as a fairy-tale." "Inspired by Titania herself." said a gallant voice at her elbow; and Kate disappeared with a sly grimace, as Russell Wayne shook hands with Miss Amesford. "You never saw a dusky queen of the fairies, did you? A species of Brownie would be more like me, Mr. Wayne; you must wait until Alma comes home for a Titania."
ref: 1871 January, Daisy Ventnor, “Prince Charming Comes to Town”, in The Peterson magazine, volume 59, number 1, page 39:
text: But something is awry; the fairy-stories, the mythologies, are mixed up. Tom is less a masculine Pygmalion caressing his dream-statue into flesh than a feminine Galatea waking to see her lover's face blotting out the sun; less an Oberon than a Titania, falling in love with “the first person he had seen on waking from his drugged sleep”.
ref: 2009, Jan S. Cronin, Simone Drichel, Frameworks: Contemporary Criticism on Janet Frame, page 30:
glosses: From Shakespeare's play A Midsummer-Night's Dream, the queen of the fairies.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The largest satellite of the planet Uranus.
Derived terms: Titanian
fairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛəɹiz/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfɛəɹiz/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfeɹiz/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈfɛɹiz/
ipa: /ˈfeːɹiz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfeəɹiz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈfiəɹiz/
ipa: /ˈfeɹez/
ipa: /ˈfeɹɪz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈfɜːɹɪz/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiz
homophone: ferries (Mary–marry–merry merger)
homophone: furries (fair–fur merger)
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy
glosses: plural of fairie
Derived terms: away with the fairies
extranuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: Outside the nucleus.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Outside the nucleus but within the cell cytoplasm.
educated guess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educated guesses
Senses: examples: text: Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.
ref: 2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: guesstimate
intelligent guess
antonyms: uneducated guess
hypernyms: guess
;
estimate#Noun
;
hypothesis#Noun
glosses: A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge.
interfaith
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪθ
Etymology: From inter- + faith.
Senses: examples: text: The interfaith service had Jews, Roman Catholics and Lutherans all in attendance.
text: Of the interfaith couples I spoke to, far fewer are choosing Christianity instead of Judaism as the primary religion for their homes and families.
ref: 2005, Jane Kaplan, Interfaith Families: Personal Stories of Jewish-Christian Intermarriage, Church Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 73:
text: Kaplan-Miller said she first joined the Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom, an interfaith organization that was founded by a Muslim and a Jewish woman in suburban New Jersey, shortly after the 2016 election.
ref: 2023 November 22, Brammhi Balarajan, “US interfaith communities draw on decades-long bonds to navigate Israel-Hamas War”, in CNN:
synonyms: interconfessional
interreligious
glosses: Involving members of different religions.
Derived terms: interfaithless
interfaithness
in line
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in line
form: most in line
Senses: examples: text: "[Plant] rescues are usually organized by local garden clubs, but before you grab your shovel and head for the door, check with local government agencies to make sure you're in line with regulations."
ref: 2006, "Garden Superheroes," Garden Gate, Jan/Feb 2006, Issue 67, p.45
text: Shepard: The rest of the galaxy isn't just going to bow down just because we tell them to. We'll need the fleets to bring them in line.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: Suitable or appropriate; keeping with expectations, norms, ideals, or rules.
examples: text: Please stand in line for the pledge of allegiance.
glosses: Positioned in a straight line.
raw_tags: of three or more objects
examples: text: He's third in line to be president.
text: He's in line to be the fastest runner of all time.
text: He's in line to be the next champion.
glosses: assuming a position in the future.
Synonyms: sense: on a queue, waiting one's turn
word: on line
in line
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I'm waiting in line at the bakery.
glosses: one behind another; in a queue
expectations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkspɛkˈteɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of expectation
common cold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common colds
Senses: examples: text: So he went to the hospital and got checked. Doctors determined it was a common cold, not the new coronavirus, he says, and he returned home. Then a week ago, he says, five officers showed up at his house in Xishui County, a two hour drive from Wuhan. They wore masks and wielded blue, gun-shaped thermometers.
ref: 2020 January 31, Dake Kang, “The shunned: People from virus-hit city tracked, quarantined”, in AP News, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2022:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms typically include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.
Synonyms: acute viral nasopharyngitis
acute coryza
pose
catarrh
Related terms: feed a cold, starve a fever
nasopharyngitis
rhinitis
sinusitis
brucellosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brucelloses
Etymology: From translingual Brucella + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: There is debate asto whether rangiferine brucellosis spread to North America across the Bering Sea land bridge duringthelast iceage,orifit was introduced in imported Russian reindeer around 1900.
ref: 2006, Robert S. Youngquist, Current Therapy in Large Animal Theriogenology:
text: The clash between Montana and the National Park Service, among other officials and entities that maintain the sprawling park, stems from state authorities' belief that the park's plan to manage its bison herd doesn't do enough to reduce the risk of brucellosis transmission.
ref: 2025 January 3, Jasmine Laws, “Montana Hits Yellowstone With Lawsuit Over Bison Plan”, in Newsweek:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Infection by a bacterium of the genus Brucella, which is carried by ruminants and other mammals, with symptoms including recurring fevers, sweating, weakness, anorexia, headaches, depression, and generalized aches and pains.
Synonyms: word: abortus fever
word: undulant fever
word: Bang's disease
word: Crimean fever
word: Cyprus fever
word: Gibraltar fever
word: goat fever
word: Italian fever
word: Malta fever
word: Neapolitan fever
Derived terms: brucellotic
neurobrucellosis
Related terms: brucellergin
brucella
in nothing flat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: After so many years of practice, she can often find the problem and fix it in nothing flat.
glosses: A very short (but unspecified) amount of time; no time at all.
Synonyms: in no time
in no time flat
inhospitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnhɒsˈpɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more inhospitable
form: most inhospitable
Etymology: From Middle French inhospitable, from Medieval Latin inhospitābilis. By surface analysis, in- + hospitable.
Senses: glosses: Not inclined to hospitality; unfriendly.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.
ref: 2024 March 20, Chris Howe, “High speed underneath the Chilterns...”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 33:
glosses: Not offering shelter; barren or forbidding.
raw_tags: of a place
Derived terms: inhospitability
inhospitableness
inhospitably
slue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: slew
homophone: slough
Forms: form: slues
form: sluing
form: slueing
form: slued
form: slued
form: slew
Etymology: Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: raise the boom[…] then slue it by a slue-rope on its heel, until the square hole in the cap is fair with the tenon
ref: 1841, B.J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, page 10:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To rotate something on an axis.
examples: text: […]then he incidentally spat and said something to the other convict, and they laughed, and slued themselves round with a clink of their coupling manacle,
ref: 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations:
glosses: To turn something sharply.
glosses: To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
glosses: To slide off course; to skid.
slue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: slew
homophone: slough
Forms: form: slues
form: slew
Etymology: Unknown. Attested from the late 18th century.
Senses: glosses: The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
Derived terms: slue-foot
slue-footed
slue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: slew
homophone: slough
Forms: form: slues
form: slew
Etymology: Variant of slough (which is dialectally pronounced /slu/); compare slew (“wet or swampy place”).
Senses: glosses: A slough; a run or wet place.
slue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sluː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: slew
homophone: slough
Forms: form: slew
Senses: examples: text: Hee moreouer ſpecially noteth for the reſt, one Piero Calis, who (in driuing whole droues of that naked people) ſlue all that were not able to trauell, without regard of age, ſexe, or their vſe of labour , which in reſpect of a continuall eaſe;was moſt hard and intollerable to them.
ref: 1590, Edward Daunce, A Briefe Discovrse of the Spanish State vvith a Dialogue Annexed Intituled Philobasilis, London: […] Richard Field, page 22:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of slew; simple past of slay.
bulletin board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulletin boards
Etymology: From bulletin + board.
Senses: examples: text: Somewhere near Fillmore she found the symbol tacked to the bulletin board of a laundromat, among other scraps of paper offering cheap ironing and baby sitters.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 90:
text: It should come as no surprise to see promotional material and bulletin boards in the department’s languages, though English is also present in the signage of this microcosm of the institution.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
synonyms: notice board
pinboard
glosses: A board on which messages may be posted, especially one in a public space.
examples: text: Some bulletin board subscribers can now dial up displays for their IBM PC or PC XT in living color—and see the results in less than a second.
ref: 1984 September 3, Judith Walters von Alten, “Color for Bulletin Boards”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 6, InfoWorld Media Group, →ISSN, page 35:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of bulletin board system.
Derived terms: bulletin board service
bulletin board system
hypesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypesthesias
Etymology: From hyp- + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypoesthesia.
Derived terms: hemihypesthesia
Marshall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːʃəl/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹʃəl/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
homophone: marshal
homophone: martial
Forms: form: Marshal
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the noun marshal.
* As a French surname, variant of Mercier.
* As a German surname, variant of Marschall.
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish status surname from Middle English for someone who was in charge of the horses of a royal household, or an occupational surname for someone who looked after horses, or was responsible for the custody of prisoners.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Searcy County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
Former name of Lotus, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Clark County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Parke County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Calhoun County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Lyon County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Saline County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Oneida County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Madison County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dunn County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Logan County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Harrison County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Fauquier County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Dane County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Richland County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Marshall Township.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A town in Margibi County, Liberia.
glosses: A suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Former name: Marshalltown.
Derived terms: Charlton Marshall
Marshall Aid
Marshall County
Marshallian
Marshall Islands
Marshall Meadows
Marshall Plan
Marshall-Smith syndrome
Marshalltown
Marshall-White syndrome
Sturminster Marshall
hypoesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoesthesias
Etymology: From hypo- + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: partial loss of tactile sensation; numbness
Related terms: hyperesthesia
hyperaesthesia
numbness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numbnesses
form: numbnesse
Etymology: From numb + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absent or reduced sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation.
glosses: Inability or reduced ability to experience emotion.
Synonyms: sense: medical
word: hypoesthesia
call it quits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls it quits
form: calling it quits
form: called it quits
form: called it quits
Senses: examples: text: One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.
ref: 1909, Jack London, chapter 15, in Martin Eden:
text: The West's longest-serving foreign minister called it quits last week.
ref: 1992 May 11, “A One-Two Punch Rattles Germany”, in Time:
synonyms: call it a day
glosses: To conclude; to quit or stop an activity, especially after applying oneself to it for a significant period of time.
synonyms: call it even
glosses: To declare debts resolved to one another.
stay the course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stays the course
form: staying the course
form: stayed the course
form: stayed the course
Senses: examples: text: If you decide to stay the course and finish engineering school, it will mean long hours and sleepless nights.
text: This sort of thing is meat and drink to the born Controller—and Controllers are born with the right imperturbable temperament for the job; hence the fact that they are recruited from many different grades of operating staff, and some recruits don't stay the course.
ref: 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 132:
synonyms: stay the distance
glosses: To persist or continue, especially in the face of difficulties.
Related terms: go the distance
stay the distance
tatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatts
form: tat
Senses: glosses: Clipping of tattoo.
tatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatts
form: tat
Senses: examples: text: "Oh," said Killigrew, "you had the wit not to give yourselves out for sharpers?"
"Yes, sir; we used common dice; not tatts."
"You'd best keep the tatts till he's drunk," said Killigrew drily, "for I think you'll find my lord has a head on his shoulders when he's sober."
ref: 1897, Frances Heath Freshfield, The Wrothams of Wrotham Court, page 73:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A die, especially one that is loaded.
tatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”).
throughput
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹuː.pʊt/
ipa: /ˈθɹu.pʊt/
Forms: form: throughputs
form: thruput
Etymology: From through + put.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
examples: text: The factory managed a throughput of 120 units per hour.
text: if the rate of heating is substantially reduced, not only is the throughput of the apparatus diminished and the cost of the process increased, but the properties of the resultant coke are detrimentally affected.
ref: 1927, Harald Nielsen, "Distillation of Carbonaceous Materials" http://www.google.com/patents?id=uPpbAAAAEBAJ&dq=throughput&jtp=1, US Patent 1886262, line 70
text: However, many people—including railwaymen—are only beginning to realise how great is the amount of civil engineering work necessary to achieve adequate clearances for high-voltage overhead equipment under bridges and tunnels; what is involved in the re-signalling needed to permit the increased throughput of traffic (in some places it is unavoidable, to afford better sighting of signals obscured by overhead electrical gear); [...].
ref: 1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 719:
qualifier: operations
glosses: The rate of production; the rate at which something can be processed.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Synonym of etendue.
synonyms: word: etendue
Derived terms: aggregate throughput
maximum throughput
system throughput
Related terms: feed-through
perpetuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈpɛt͡ʃʊət/
ipa: /pəˈpɛtjʊət/
ipa: /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃəˌweɪt/
ipa: /-t͡ʃəwət/
ipa: /pəˈpɛt͡ʃʊət/
ipa: /pəˈpɛtjʊət/
ipa: /pɚˈpɛt͡ʃəˌweɪt/
ipa: /-t͡ʃəwət/
Etymology: From earlier preparat (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
Senses: examples: text: The wele suertie and comfort perpetuat of theym ther heires and successours.
ref: 1503-1504, “32, Preambule”, in Act 19, Henry VII:
text: The trees and flowers remain / By Nature's care perpetuate and self-sown.
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “The First Book”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume I, London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: To be perpetuate for my mightiness / Sculpture must image me when I am gone.
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “The Children and Sir Nameless”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 134:
synonyms: word: ageful
word: agelong
word: amaranthine
word: endless
word: enduring
word: eternal
word: eterne
word: everduring
word: evergreen
word: everlasting
word: eviternal
word: forever
word: imperishable
word: indesinent
word: lasting
word: neverending
word: perennial
word: permanent
word: perpetual
word: perpetuate
word: persistent
word: sempiternal
word: timeless
word: unending
word: undeadly
word: undying
antonyms: word: eternal
word: lasting
word: perennial
word: persistent
qualifier: archaic except poetic
glosses: Perpetual, or made perpetual; continued for an indefinite time.
bucket shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucket shops
form: bucketshop
Etymology: bucket + shop
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often set up as shop-fronts in the 1920s.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.
topics: law
glosses: A legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A company that sells coats of arms associated with the customer's surname, regardless of whether the customer can claim any relation to the original armiger.
Related terms: wirehouse
flattened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flattened
form: most flattened
Senses: examples: text: We removed the fallen tree from the flattened car.
text: Fibreglass mouldings form the domed roof at the driving ends and the drop roof of the motor coach, which joins the elliptical section of the flattened portion under the pantograph.
ref: 1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Manchester/Liverpool and Crewe”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:
glosses: Made flat by something.
Derived terms: unflattened
flattened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The tree fell on the car and flattened it.
glosses: simple past and past participle of flatten
pinto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪntəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɪntoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɪntəʉ/
Forms: form: pintos
form: pintoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).
Senses: examples: text: Chick Norris leaned low over his pinto.
ref: 1936 August, Joseph S. Fleming, “Flying Hoofs. Chick Norris again leads his Mounted Patrol”, in Boys' Life, page 10:
glosses: A horse with a patchy coloration that includes a white color.
pinto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪntəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɪntoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpɪntəʉ/
Forms: form: more pinto
form: most pinto
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pinto (“painted, mottled”).
Senses: examples: text: While Profane, dreamy, went on to tell of his nights with the Alligator Patrol, and how he’d hunted one pinto beast through Fairing’s Parish; cornered and killed it in a chamber lit by some frightening radiance.
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
glosses: Pied, mottled.
Derived terms: pinto bean
Related terms: American Paint Horse
demilitarization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demilitarizations
Etymology: From de- + militarization.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demilitarisation.
retread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
enpr: rēʹtrĕd
ipa: /ˈɹiː.tɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: retreads
form: retreading
form: retreaded
form: retreaded
Etymology: From re- + tread (“grooves carved into the face of a tire”, noun).
Senses: glosses: To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.
examples: text: There was no evidence to suggest that the fact that both tyres had been retreaded 3 times was a factor in the failure occurrence. This type of aircraft tyre (Type VII) is routinely retreaded 6 times or more before being taken out of service.
ref: 1993 June, Presidency of Civil Aviation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, “1.12.13.6.3 Visual and Microscopic Examinations”, in McDonnell-Douglas DC-8-61, C-GMXQ, accident at King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 11 July 1991, archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
glosses: To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheaper alternative to buying a new tyre, but potentially introducing a risk of premature failure if performed improperly.
Synonyms: sense: tyre retread
word: recap
retread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
enpr: rēʹtrĕd
ipa: /ˈɹiː.tɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: retreads
Etymology: From re- + tread (“grooves carved into the face of a tire”, noun).
Senses: glosses: A used tire whose surface, the tread, has been replaced to extend its life and use.
examples: text: In Our War the Retreads usually slinked in over-aged, over-weight and overcautious in the face of a new generation.
ref: 1950, Air Force Association, United States Army, Air Force Magazine:
text: They were retreads and recruits under a small cadre of Regular Army officers and noncoms.
ref: 1971, Brian Garfield, The thousand-mile war: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians:
text: We retreads upset everybody.
ref: 1976, James Jones, Art Weithas, WW II: a chronicle of soldiering:
text: As with the 100th Division, many of the replacements joining the 103d were "retreads" from the technical services or antiaircraft and aviation troops...
ref: 2006, Keith E Bonn, When the Odds Were Even:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who re-entered military service in World War II after serving in World War I.
retread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
enpr: rēʹtrĕd
ipa: /ˈɹiː.tɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
enpr: rēʹtrĕd
ipa: /ˈɹiː.tɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: retreads
form: retreading
form: retrod
form: retrodden
form: re-tread
Etymology: From re- + tread (verb).
Senses: examples: text: As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science. With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists. Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.
ref: 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
glosses: To tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.
retread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
enpr: rēʹtrĕd
ipa: /ˈɹiː.tɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
enpr: rē-trĕdʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɹɛd/
enpr: rēʹtrĕd
ipa: /ˈɹiː.tɹɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: retreads
form: re-tread
Etymology: From re- + tread (verb).
Senses: examples: text: But The West Side Waltz is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, On Golden Pond.
ref: 1998, Frank Rich, Hot seat: theater criticism for the New York times, 1980–1993:
text: It uses a howitzer to shoot drugged fish in a barrel, inserts flabby lite-surrealism where the comedy might otherwise go and the plot turns out to be a retread of JM Barrie’s stage-play The Admirable Crichton.
ref: 2022 May 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Triangle of Sadness review – heavy-handed satire on the super-rich loses its shape”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A return over ground previously covered; a retraversal or repetition.
unsuitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsuitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: At the next lifting of the latch there entered a person with his hat awry upon his head, his clothes perversely ill-suited to his form, his eyes staring in directions opposite to their intelligence, and a certain odd unsuitableness pervading his whole figure.
ref: 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
glosses: The state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate.
Synonyms: unsuitability
sedimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛd.əˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɛd.əˈmɛn.tɹi/
Etymology: From sediment + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: It's a geological wonderland, with great exposures of colorful and varied sedimentary rocks.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Made by the deposition and compression of small particles.
raw_tags: of a rock
Coordinate terms: igneous
metamorphic
Derived terms: biosedimentary
metasedimentary
morphosedimentary
nonsedimentary
sedimentary basin
sedimentary rock
synsedimentary
sedimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛd.əˈmɛn.tə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɛd.əˈmɛn.tɹi/
Forms: form: sedimentaries
Etymology: From sediment + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: The absence of sedimentaries and metasedimentaries in W52 suggest it is not from the Sepik north coast, which is defined by heterogeneous lithic inclusions derived from the Torricelli Mountains.
ref: 2015 September 3, “Earliest Pottery on New Guinea Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A rock of this kind.
art for art's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of French l'art pour l'art, a phrase credited to Théophile Gautier. See the Wikipedia article for more.
Senses: topics: art
arts
synonyms: ars gratia artis
qualifier: slogan
glosses: Art with no function; whose only purpose is beauty.
wikipedia: Art for art's sake#History
Théophile Gautier
Related terms: pure art for art's sake applied
heehaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heehaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hee-haw.
heehaw
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hee-haw.
heehaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heehaws
form: heehawing
form: heehawed
form: heehawed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hee-haw.
rubby-dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubby-dubs
Senses: synonyms: rubadub#English:_drunkard
glosses: A drunkard, especially one who drinks alcohol in non-beverage form, e.g. rubbing alcohol or canned heat.
Synonyms: dubby
posable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more posable
form: most posable
form: poseable
Etymology: From pose + -able.
Senses: examples: text: a posable question
text: a posable figurine
glosses: Able to be posed.
Derived terms: posability
retroposable
Related terms: reposable
shameful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪmfəl/
Forms: form: more shameful
form: most shameful
Etymology: From Middle English schameful, schamfull, from Old English *sċeamfull, sċeomfull, equivalent to shame + -ful. Cognate with Danish skamfuld (“shameful, shamefast, ashamed”).
Senses: examples: text: shameful publicity
text: a shameful act
text: "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
ref: 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
glosses: Causing or meriting shame or disgrace; disgraceful
glosses: Giving offense.
Synonyms: despicable
Derived terms: shamefully
shamefulness
circumflex accent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumflex accents
Etymology: From circumflex + accent or calque of Latin accentus circumflexus.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of circumflex.
synonyms: word: circumflex
jook-sing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʒʊkˈsɪŋ/
Forms: form: jook-sings
Etymology: Borrowed from Cantonese 竹升 (zuk1 sing1). See jook-sing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
Senses: synonyms: banana
Twinkie
hypernyms: ABC
race traitor
glosses: A Chinese person, especially a Cantonese person born in the USA or Canada, who has overly assimilated to Western culture and has little or no command of any Chinese language.
Related terms: Pinkerton syndrome
jiak kentang
sigmoid colon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigmoid colons
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The S-shaped section of the large intestine between the descending colon and the rectum.
Synonyms: sigmoid flexure
baby-sitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baby-sit
baby-sitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby-sittings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of babysitting.
pop shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop shots
Etymology: Possibly from pop (“rapid”) + shot; possibly confusion, by assonance, with pot shot.
Senses: glosses: A quickly aimed or haphazard shot with a firearm.
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
glosses: Synonym of money shot.
synonyms: word: money shot
babysitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baby sitting
form: baby-sitting
Etymology: From babysit + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of babysit
babysitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babysittings
Etymology: From baby + sitting.
Senses: examples: text: But some have no parents, or none to speak of, and are living with a grandmother or uncle or married sister or sister who's not married but has three tots of her own to look after, or this unruly student's helping her to take care of them with babysitting or a paying after-school job.
ref: 2013, Stephen Dixon, 30 Pieces of a Novel, →ISBN:
synonyms: daycare
hypernyms: childminding
glosses: The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.
Derived terms: babysitting circle
pot shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot shots
Senses: examples: text: Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them?
ref: 2007 July 22, Sarah Helm, “My family's ordeal in police probe”, in The Observer:
glosses: Alternative spelling of potshot.
lunatic fringe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunatic fringes
Senses: examples: text: Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it — the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements.
ref: 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt — An Autobiography, ch. VII, page 211:
glosses: The members of a political or social group espousing extreme, fanatical, or irrational views.
organotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organotrophs
Etymology: From organo- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that obtains its energy from organic compounds.
Derived terms: chemoorganotroph
photoorganotroph
Related terms: organotrophic
lithotroph
lithotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotrophs
Etymology: From litho- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An organism that obtains its energy from inorganic compounds (such as ammonia) by means of electron transfer.
Derived terms: chemolithotroph
lithotrophic
lithotrophy
organolithotroph
photolithotroph
Related terms: autotroph
heterotroph
organotroph
phototroph
moraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹeɪn/
ipa: /mɒˈɹeɪn/
ipa: /məˈɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: moraines
Etymology: From French moraine, from Savoyard Italian morena, from Franco-Provençal mor, morre (“muzzle, snout”), from Vulgar Latin *murrum. Compare morion.
Senses: examples: text: 1896, James Edward Todd, The Moraines of the Missouri Coteau, and Their Attendant Deposits, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 144, page 47,
This fact is suggestive in connection with the question whether the moraines mark different epochs of the ice age or different stages in the recession of the ice of one epoch.
This moraine, like the previous ones, influenced the drainage of the country. Several streams have evidently been located or directed by the influence of this moraine.
text: Prof. Dainelli made a personal study of the lakes of the Upper Indus lying between its confluence with the Gilgit on the west and the plains of Kashmir on the east. From this district he cites fifty lakes and groups of lakes. Many of these are moraine-dammed, but some of the larger ones, as the Satpor Tso, the Tso Moriri, the Chiun Tso, and the group of lakes associated with the Pángong Tso, he considers to have originated by glacial excavation.
ref: 1924 March, E. J. Garwood, “Himalayan Glaciation”, in The Geographical Journal, volume LXIII, number 3, London: Royal Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 244:
text: 1959, Robert David Miller, Ernest Dobrovolny, Surficial Geology of Anchorage and Vicinity, Alaska, US Geological Survey, Bulletin No. 1093, page 61,
Whether this advance beyond the Elmendorf Moraine is a pre-Naptowne Wisconsin or is merely a fluctuation of the Naptowne glacier that deposited the end moraine is unclear.
text: Moraines that originate along the lateral margins of an ice stream are naturally called lateral moraines. Many lateral moraines perch high on the walls of glaciated valleys.
ref: 1997, Robert Phillip Sharp, Allen F. Glazner, “Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley”, in Mountain, Press Publishing, page 241:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An accumulation of rocks and debris carried and deposited by a glacier.
Derived terms: ground moraine
lateral moraine
medial moraine
morainal
morainic
push moraine
pushed moraine
terminal moraine
end moraine