cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quibbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbəli
Forms: form: more quibbly
form: most quibbly
Etymology: From quibble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: considering the docility of the high-bred Arab horse and intractableness of the quibly, roughly broken prairie or Pampas horse
ref: 1859, John Solomon Rarey, The Art of Taming Horses, page 15:
text: We give notice that thousands of our most complacently puttering, most quibbly and fuddly politicians are going to be taken out by the people, lifted up by the people, and dropped kindly but firmly over the edge of the world.
ref: 1920, Gerald Stanley Lee, The Ghost in the White House, page xv:
text: the Quaker said, “I tell thee what, Humphry, thou art the most quibbly hand at a dispute I ever met with in my life.”
ref: 1926, Charles Robert Gibson, Heroes of the Scientific World, page 229:
text: The voice sounded mellow and reasonable, but the man was as quibbly and higgly a guy as you could find.
ref: 1956, Edward Hoagland, Cat Man, page 134:
text: A remarkable performance, both piece by piece and all in all, but with items for quibbly reviewers to quibble about. This reviewer too is on the quibbly side, with four quibbles.
ref: 1992: Martin Bronfenbrenner, review of The Japanese Economy by Takatoshi Ito, in the Southern Economic Journal, vol. 59, no. 2, p. 324
glosses: Fussy; quibbling.
examples: text: Of course, the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Attorney General made a rather clever and—if he will excuse me for saying so—a rather quibbly defence.
ref: 1887, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, Thomas Curson Hansard, page 972:
text: This reviewer’s doubts can be grouped under six heads, of which the econometric and the theoretical are the most quibbly.
ref: 1974: Martin Bronfenbrenner, review of Japan’s Trade Liberalization in the 1960’s by Alfred K. Ho, in the Southern Economic Journal, vol. 40, no. 4, p. 683
text: The delineation of civilizations is usually unsatisfactory, often esoteric and sometimes rather quibbly
ref: 1995, Matthew Melko, “The Nature of Civilizations”, in Stephen K. Sanderson, editor, Civilizations and World Systems, page 33:
glosses: Involving quibbles.
examples: text: If it is true that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it is equally true that the beginning of that road is usually paved with what are called quibbly incidents. The big ones come later when the direction is clear
ref: 1990, Floyd W. Matson, Walking Alone and Marching Together, page 474:
glosses: Petty; trifling.
Dinkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dinkels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Dinkel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
yield stresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yield stress
helping hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helping hands
Senses: examples: text: Thanks for lending a helping hand to the project.
glosses: Any assistance, help or aid.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A jig used to help solder wires and electronics, consisting of a weighted base, a pair of adjustable arms ending in crocodile clips (the hands), and sometimes a magnifying glass, held together by flexible joints.
hooded seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooded seal
hookworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hookworm
horns of plenty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horn of plenty
nasal septum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal septa
form: nasal septums
Senses: examples: text: deviated nasal septum
text: deviation of the nasal septum
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: columella nasi
glosses: A bony and cartilaginous partition in the nose, separating the left and right airways in the nose and dividing the two nostrils.
whatevs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒtˌɛvz/
ipa: /ˈʍɒtˌɛvz/
note: GR
ipa: /ˈwʌtˌɛvz/
note: GR
ipa: [ˈwəɾˌɛvz]
Forms: form: watevs
form: whateves
form: whatevz
Etymology: Clipping of whatever + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: [Subject:] Lame post...whatevs
ref: 1996: "Dyer", in alt.skate-board, May 12 (Usenet)
text: Mitzi’s squeezed eyes registered distate. “Whatevs!”
ref: 2004, M. Sue Alexander, The Christian Fugitive, page 34:
text: “Whatevs,” he said, then he held up three fingers, which I realized was Bud's “cool” way of making a W.
ref: 2006, Michael Apostolina, Meri Strikes Back, page 75:
text: And in the meantime, it’s probably just fine to eat some candy, slack off on your pushups, and hey, maybe even throw yourself a party for your half birthday. Or your cat’s half birthday. Whatevs.
ref: 2007, Addie Johnson, The Little Book of Big Excuses: More Strategies and Techniques for Faking It, pages 136–137:
text: “Hey, nerd, we're going to go stare at the warp core. You want to...? Whoa. You okay?” “(high-pitched) Yeah.” “All right, whatevs. Hey. Good luck with the interview. You're gonna do great.”
ref: 2020 October 1, Ben Rodgers, “Crisis Point” (24:05 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 1, episode 9, spoken by Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome):
glosses: Whatever.
whatevs
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒtˌɛvz/
ipa: /ˈʍɒtˌɛvz/
note: GR
ipa: /ˈwʌtˌɛvz/
note: GR
ipa: [ˈwəɾˌɛvz]
Forms: form: watevs
form: whateves
form: whatevz
Etymology: Clipping of whatever + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Vin and I decided to chat it up—just for whatevs—with a couple of colored-up kids waiting to party.
ref: 2003, Adam Cole, Crashing America, page 52:
glosses: Whatever.
Related terms: word: w/e
word: whatev
word: whatevers
watevs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whatevs.
whateves
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whatevs.
whatevz
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whatevs.
alignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alignment
electro-encephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of electroencephalography.
XSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The X denotes cross. CSS was avoided because of the potential for confusion with the existing Web technology named cascading style sheets.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: Abbreviation of cross-site scripting.
but seriously folks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: A nightclub comic who gets off a bad joke, nobody laughs, but he goes right on with: "But, seriously, folks" […].
ref: 1969, Julius J. Epstein, But, Seriously ...: A Play in Two Acts, page 18:
text: But seriously, folks, on behalf of the Copacabana — and believe me, I'd love to be half of the Copacabana
ref: 2004, Gerald Nachman, Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s, page 23:
text: "Take my life, … please," Colombo continued, a wry smile creasing his face. (Apparently he was a fan of Henny Youngman.) "Badaboom! But, seriously, folks, I learn long ago, during my life, that justice, she does not exist. […]."
ref: 2006, Bob Mitchell, Match Made in Heaven, page 199:
qualifier: speech act
glosses: Used to redirect attention to immediately preceding a failed attempt at humor.
Related terms: all kidding aside
sleuthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːθi
Forms: form: more sleuthy
form: most sleuthy
Etymology: From sleuth + -y.
Senses: glosses: sleuthlike; of or in the manner of a sleuth.
Eye-talian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈtæli.ən/
rhymes: -æliən
Forms: form: I-talian
Etymology: Representing a deliberate mispronunciation of Italian.
Senses: examples: text: No, sir, lose your colonies, and you'd have Eye'''-talian cities without their climate, Eye'''-talian lazaroni without their light hearts to sing over their poverty, (for the English can't sing a bit better nor bull frogs,) and worse than Eye'''-talian eruptions and volcanoes in politics, without the grandeur and sublimity of those in natur'.
ref: 1848, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Judge Haliburton's Yankee Stories, page 175:
text: "She is brown as a chipmunk, and her eyes is as big and lovin' as them of the little Eye-talian girl you've been talkin' about." "It-talian, not Eye-talian, Phil corrected […]."
ref: 1918, Sidney McCall, Mary McNeil Fenollosa, Sunshine Beggars, page 94:
text: “Hey, Pensiero, ya know whut a Eye-talian submarine sounds like, on dat new sonar?"
ref: 1995, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, page 642:
glosses: Italian, usually in reference to an Italian American person or Italian American culture.
cross of gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosses of gold
Etymology: Originating from a speech by US politician William Jennings Bryan in 1896, describing a metaphorical crucifixion of the working class by maintaining the gold standard. It has since acquired a more generic meaning.
Senses: glosses: A public policy which puts the interests of the rich ahead of those of the poor.
ghetto fence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghetto fences
Senses: glosses: A barrier intended to keep one group (usually against their will) separate from another.
mincing words
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mince words
four score and seven years ago
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː skɔː‿ɹən ˌsɛvən jɪəz əˌɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹ skɔɹ ən ˌsɛvən jɪɹz əˌɡoʊ/
Forms: form: fourscore and seven years ago
form: four score seven years ago
Etymology: Literally, “87 years ago” (score sense: “group of 20”) the beginning of the Gettysburg Address made on November 19, 1863, by United States President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865). The widespread familiarity of Lincoln’s address, the unusual and poetic wording, and its status as the first words of the speech have caused the phrase to enter the public consciousness.
Senses: examples: text: It was established four score and seven years ago, and since that time its activities have been intertwined with the internal development of the Nation itself.
ref: 1936 April 16, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Address at the Dedication of the New Department of the Interior Building:
text: I imagined momentarily that it was four score and seven years ago, that I had just been brought forth from my mother […]
ref: 2010 December 23, Phillip Roth, “Prologue”, in The Great American Novel, →ISBN, page 21:
text: Four score and seven years ago, I began writing an annual letter to be enclosed in my Christmas cards.
ref: 2012 February 20, Vicky DeCoster, “The Letter”, in The Wacky World of Womanhood, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Used (sometimes sarcastically) to indicate that a past event being mentioned is particularly important: a long time ago; many years ago.
wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
four score seven years ago
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of four score and seven years ago.
signal phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signal phrases
Etymology: From signal + phrase.
Senses: examples: text: "Smith suggests that..." and "In Smith's words..." are both signal phrases.
text: Introduce the material being cited with a signal phrase, usually the authors name, and use a parenthetical citation stating the page number of the sentence.
ref: 1993, Sheila Cooper, Rosemary Patton, Ergo: Thinking Critically and Writing Logically, page 220:
glosses: An indication that something is a paraphrase or direct quote.
examples: text: To identify an opinion, look for signal phrases such as “I think,” “I consider,” “I'm convinced,” “I guess,” “I believe,” or “I feel.”
ref: 1996, Mary Ann Christensen, Interpreting Literature & the Arts, page 76:
glosses: A phrase that signals a particular meaning or stance.
signal phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signal phrase
my fellow Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A less sexist adaptation of earlier salutations my countrymen, fellow countrymen, &c. after women attained the right to vote.
Senses: glosses: Used to establish credibility and connection with an audience of Americans, used mostly in speeches by US politicians.
collective security
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The concept of maintaining peace among all nations or members of a group by making the security concerns of one member important to all members.
Related terms: collective defence
se
malapportionment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malapportionments
Etymology: From mal- + apportionment.
Senses: topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: misdistribution
maldistribution
;
misallocation
;
misrepresentation
glosses: Any system where one group has significantly more influence than another, such as when voting districts are unevenly spread out across a population (compare gerrymandering).
Related terms: reapportionment
colluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From colluvium + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to colluvium
Coordinate terms: alluvial
socialized medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any system of government-run health care.
lancinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lancinates
form: lancinating
form: lancinated
form: lancinated
Etymology: First attested in 1603; borrowed from Latin lancinātus, perfect passive participle of lancinō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French lanciner.
Senses: examples: text: Through a minuscule pinhole in that lead block, he could now direct tiny, controlled doses of a furiously potent beam of X-rays [...] to lancinate any cancer cell to death.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 159:
synonyms: word: run through
word: spear
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To pierce or stab (as with a lance); to lance.
landmasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landmass
labourious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labourious
form: most labourious
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of laborious.
Derived terms: labouriously
lavenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavender
lavenders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lavender
left-wingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of left-winger
right-wingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right-winger
Latins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latin
frontal sinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontal sinuses
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A paranasal sinus situated behind the superciliary arches.
left ventricle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left ventricles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the four chambers of the heart of humans and other mammals, which receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium and pumps it out through the aorta.
Related terms: right ventricle
left atrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left atriums
form: left atria
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the chambers of the heart in humans and other mammals, which receives oxygenated blood from the lungs via the pulmonary veins, and pumps it into the left ventricle.
Related terms: right atrium
leaflessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leafless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The tree's leaflessness made it look scrawny, though in summer it seemed full and bushy.
synonyms: aphylly
glosses: The property of being leafless.
litterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litterboxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of litter box.
litterboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litterbox
land yacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land yachts
form: landyacht
form: land-yacht
Senses: synonyms: sail wagon
sand yacht
glosses: A vehicle used in land sailing, consisting of little more than a carriage and a sail.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: boat, sled
text: For example, will the traditional Eldorado buyer willingly step from his 5052-pound, 19-foot-long 1978 land yacht into a 1979 version weighing 1155 pounds less and measuring nearly two feet shorter? Is he willing to pay the same or more cash for this smaller, lighter car?
ref: 1978 October, Michael Lamm, “Driving the '79 General Motors Cars”, in Popular Mechanics:
text: A frequently cited example is a “land yacht” to describe an SUV: this blend creates a structure out of the ideas behind it, suggesting that the large car moves on the road like a yacht over water
ref: 2013, Greta Olson, Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso:
text: She owned a land yacht of a car called a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. It had the softest suspension of any car he had ridden in.
ref: 2017, Robert Lashley, The Mind Full:
glosses: A long, heavy, luxurious automobile, providing a comfortable ride but poor handling characteristics.
colluvium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colluvia
form: colluviums
Etymology: From Latin colluvio (“jumble”)
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope.
Hyponyms: talus
Coordinate terms: alluvium
scree
Related terms: colluvial
tubthumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tub + thumping.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tubthump
tubthumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tub + thumping.
Senses: examples: text: […] the general public, who imagine — poor fools — that all the fury and tubthumping at Westminster is honest emotion, […].
ref: 1914, Charles G. Harper, The Kentish Coast, page 344:
text: 1939, Railway Age, vol. 107, Oct.-Dec.
But there is usually more to Automobile Week than good-natured tubthumping for the new passenger car models.
glosses: Aggressive political or commercial promotion.
tubthumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tubthumping
form: most tubthumping
Etymology: From tub + thumping.
Senses: examples: text: "Our pictures avoid deliberate, tubthumping propaganda but they exude the spirit of democracy."
ref: 1994, Stephen Vaughn, Ronald Reagan in Hollywood: Movies and Politics, page 199:
glosses: Brash, self-promoting.
Related terms: tubthumper
banging the drum for
beating one's chest
beating the drum for
chest-beating
chest-thumping
pounding the table
rabblerousing
soapboxing
stem-winder
tooting one's own horn
tubthump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tubthumps
form: tubthumping
form: tubthumped
form: tubthumped
Etymology: Back-formation from tubthumping.
Senses: examples: text: […]tubthump to promote or draw attention to, from the ancient show business custom of actors wandering the streets banging on tubs to drum up business.
ref: 2003, Janet Wasko, How Hollywood Works, page 233:
text: Yet I was pleasantly surprised to discover that some celebs can tubthump with the best of them. Who'd have thought that Julia Roberts would take a career-damaging swipe at her own government.
ref: 2004, Martin Rowson, And Another Thing...: The Book of Rants, page 2:
glosses: To express a view or opinion in a needlessly dramatic or aggressive manner.
tallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of talus.
hushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hush
hushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hushings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who hushes, or calls for silence.
glosses: The use of a heavy discharge of water to uncover a mineral vein or wash ore.
Derived terms: greenhushing
hushingly
unhushing
hushes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hush
hushaby
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hush-a-bye
Etymology: Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).
Senses: examples: text: Hush-a-by, baby, upon the tree-top; / When the wind blows the cradle will rock; / When the bough breaks the cradle will fall; / Down will come cradle and baby and all.
ref: 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 5:
text: The night is fair, and the waves are still,
And the wind is singing to you and to me
In this lowly home beside the sea —
Hushaby, sweet my own!
ref: 1892. Eugene Field. Hushaby Sweet my Own. In With Trumpet and Drum. page 106 http://books.google.com/books?id=FNQMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA106&dq=hushaby&ei=W3AuR-2nAoKotgPstI28CQ
glosses: hush and be still; a lull to sleep
hushaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hushabies
form: hush-a-bye
Etymology: Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).
Senses: examples: text: The moaning of their voices seemed to me to be like what is understood in Scotland by a "sugh," and might very well have passed for a hushaby, when the nurse had nearly succeeded in murmuring herself to sleep, as well as her infant.
ref: 1832, Thomas Skinner, Excursions in India:
glosses: A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep.
hushaby
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hushabies
form: hushabying
form: hushabied
form: hushabied
form: hush-a-bye
Etymology: Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).
Senses: glosses: To lull to sleep by saying "hushaby".
make off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪk ˈɒf/
Forms: form: makes off
form: making off
form: made off
form: made off
Senses: examples: text: As soon as he saw me, he turned around and made off down the road.
text: [H]e was so frightened, being new to the sight, that he made off again, and never stopped until he had run a mile or more.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:
text: But the Metropolitan police said while they attempted to arrest a man in Hornsey, north London, “he made off from them on foot”.
ref: 2019 September 14, “Extinction Rebellion co-founder arrested at Heathrow protest”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: flee
run away
glosses: To exit or depart; to run away.
examples: text: The object of good end-box technique is to make off the cable in a manner which resists ingress of air, moisture and cable box compound into the cable with as little interference with the lay and structure of the cable as possible.
ref: 1958, Transactions of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, volume 49:
text: Make off the cable ends in metal glands.
ref: 2007, FCS Electrical Systems and Construction L2, →ISBN:
text: If the fairlead (a cleat, chock, or genoa car to make off the line on) is located amidships...
ref: 2014, Ralph Naranjo, The Art of Seamanship, →ISBN:
glosses: To tie off, fix down or terminate the end of a rope, cable or thread.
Derived terms: make off with
make off without payment
keep out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps out of
form: keeping out of
form: kept out of
form: kept out of
Senses: examples: text: I am keeping out of trouble.
glosses: To stay away from (a place or condition).
examples: text: He kept me out of the house while he was redecorating.
glosses: To restrain someone or something from entering (a place or condition).
go the way of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the way of
form: going the way of
form: went the way of
form: gone the way of
Senses: examples: text: Vinyl records seem to have gone the way of the dinosaurs [i.e. become extinct, or fallen out of common use].
text: We now need to make coal-­ and gas-­fired power plants go the way of whale oil. And if you want to change the world, it helps first to have an alternative. People invented railways to replace horse-­drawn carriages, electricity to supplant steam engines, rock oil for whale oil, and the market –­ Adam Smith’s great invisible hand –­ ensured they took hold.
ref: 2025 September 11, Kate Marvel, “‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To end up the same way as; to undergo the same fate as.
Derived terms: go the way of the dinosaurs
go the way of the dodo
wits' end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wits' ends
form: wit's end
Senses: examples: text: The Seamen they
Bestir their stumps, and at wits end do weep.
Wake, Jonas, who saith
Heave me over deck.
ref: 1699, Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward Taylor, published 1989, page 136:
text: He was so eloquent in drawing the picture of his own neglected merits, and so pathetic in lamenting over it when it was done, that I felt quite at my wits' end how to console him, when it suddenly occurred to me that here was a case for the wholesome application of a bit of Robinson Crusoe.
ref: 1868 January 4 – June 6, [William] Wilkie Collins, “First Period. The Loss of the Diamond (1848). […]”, in The Moonstone. A Romance. […], volume II, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1868, →OCLC, chapter XXII, page 29:
text: The frightened women were at their wits' end.
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter XVIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
text: Our dozen cabin passengers sorely put to wits' end to pass yesterday without cards in observance of the Sabbath.
ref: c. 1911, John Muir, in John Muir and Michael P. Branch, John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa (2002 edition), page 138
text: Yet years of talks, threats and sanctions have failed to halt the program, and officials are at their wits' end on how to wean Iran off its nuclear habit.
ref: 2010 December 10, Leo Cendrowicz, “Talks on Iran's Nuclear Program Produce ... More Talks”, in Time:
glosses: The limit of one's sanity or mental capacity; the point of desperation.
Related terms: perplexed
moral minimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral minimums
form: moral minima
Senses: examples: text: John Stuart Mill . . . was not long in proving that the moral minimum of wages was a myth.
ref: 1887, Franklin H. Giddings, “The Natural Rate of Wages”, in Political Science Quarterly, volume 2, number 4, page 625:
text: These moral minima are found in the many criminal laws.
ref: 1942, Richard C. Fuller, “Morals and the Criminal Law”, in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1931-1951), volume 32, number 6, page 628:
text: Walzer speculates that a comparison of the moral codes found in various societies might produce "a set of standards to which all societies can be held—negative injunctions, most likely, rules against murder, deceit, torture, oppression, and tyranny." These standards would constitute "the moral minimum."
ref: 2001, Charles R. Beitz, “Human Rights as a Common Concern”, in American Political Science Review, volume 95, number 2, page 272:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A standard or principle upheld as indispensable for moral conduct, whether within a particular context or in general.
examples: text: First, consider the moral minimum, do no harm.
ref: 2005, Patricia Illingworth, Trusting Medicine: The Moral Costs of Managed Care, Routledge, →ISBN, page 100:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The specific rule that one should do no intentional harm, often considered the bare minimum required for ethical behavior.
Related terms: do no harm
weldor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weldors
Etymology: From weld + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Two new molded fiber-glass plastic headshields for weldors are reported to offer the user lighter weight comfort with complete head protection from the welding arc and spatter.
ref: 1955, The Welding Engineer, volume 40, page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of welder.
talking in circles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of talk in circles
per cent.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Abbreviation of per centum, which means for every hundred or by the hundred.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of percent.
civil twilight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil twilights
Senses: glosses: The period in which the sun is less than 6° below the horizon in the morning and evening.
talk in circles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks in circles
form: talking in circles
form: talked in circles
form: talked in circles
Senses: glosses: To argue a point by repetition of the same theme, sometimes by using different words, but without making any progress.
Synonyms: speak in circles
Related terms: circular argument
go round in circles
undercoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌkoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: undercoats
Etymology: From under- + coat.
Senses: glosses: A layer of short hairs underneath the longer ones of an animal's fur.
examples: text: The conversion process is carried out by Progress Rail at Longport, from where they are dispatched in undercoat to Eastleigh for final painting.
ref: 2022 November 30, David Staines, “The colourful Class 69s”, in RAIL, page 54:
antonyms: topcoat#Noun
overcoat#Noun
coordinate_terms: basecoat#Noun
glosses: A coat of paint or other material applied onto a surface before that of a topcoat; sometimes, a coloured primer.
glosses: A coat for wearing indoors, under an overcoat.
Related terms: sense: paint or other coating
word: clearcoat
undercoat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌndɚˌkoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: undercoats
form: undercoating
form: undercoated
form: undercoated
Etymology: From under- + coat.
Senses: glosses: To apply an undercoat to.
undercoating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undercoatings
Senses: glosses: A coat of paint or other material applied onto a surface before that of a topcoat; an undercoat
undercoating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercoat
underexpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underexposes
form: underexposing
form: underexposed
form: underexposed
Etymology: From under- + expose.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To take a photograph using too small an exposure
glosses: To provide with insufficient publicity
underexpose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underexpose
form: most underexpose
Etymology: From under- + expose.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: The condition when a photograph is darker than it should be because the film was not exposed to sufficient light either because the camera aperture was too small or the duration of light was too short.
VHML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Marriott et al., "VHML - Directing a Talking Head", in Jiming Liu, ed., Active Media Technology: 6th International Computer Science Conference, page 90,
VHML is currently being used in several Talking Head applications as well.
text: 2004, Matthias Klusch et al., "Interactive Information Agents and Interfaces", in Robert W. Proctor and Kim-Phuong L. Vu (eds.), Handbook Of Human Factors In Web Design, Routledge, →ISBN, page 229,
As an alternative to character-specific adjuncts to programming languages, XML-compliant character scripting languages have been be defined, such as VHML (www.vhml.org) or MPML (www.miv.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/MPML/).
text: […] this approach shares similarities with proposals for character scripting languages comprising emotion tags, such as AML, APML, MPML, or VHML.
ref: 2004, Patrick Gebhard, Martin Klesen, Thomas Rist, “Coloring Multi-character Conversations through the Expression of Emotions”, in Elisabeth André et al., editors, Affective Dialogue Systems: Tutorial and Research Workshop, ADS 2004 Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Initialism of Virtual Human Markup Language, an XML-based language used to accommodate the various aspects of human-computer interaction.
tweek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweeks
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A form of atmospherics (radio interference) produced when the high-frequency components reach the receiver before the low-frequency components.
tweek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tweak.
replicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more replicant
form: most replicant
Etymology: From Latin replicāns, present participle of replicō. The science fiction sense was coined by David Peoples in the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Senses: glosses: replicative
replicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replicants
Etymology: From Latin replicāns, present participle of replicō. The science fiction sense was coined by David Peoples in the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A robot or artificial being that is an exact copy of a genuine lifeform, especially a human.
glosses: One who replies.
replicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more replicative
form: most replicative
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing replication.
glosses: Synonym of replicate.
synonyms: word: replicate
onomastica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onomasticon
pre-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + Christian.
Senses: examples: pre-Christian and pre-Abrahamic traditions
glosses: Pertaining to the time before the arrival of Christianity, particularly in Western Europe.
Related terms: pre-Abrahamic
pre-Christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-Christians
Etymology: From pre- + Christian.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A person who is not yet a Christian, regarded as a potential convert.
Ing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Ing-Manske procedure
vitalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vitalize
vitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vitalize
vitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vitalize
Ernst
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ernst, a medieval royal name in Germany, from Old High German ernust (“vigor, strife”), from Proto-Germanic *ernustuz. Doublet of earnest.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Dieter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A township in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States, named after settler Martin Van Buren Dieter.
Dietrich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Sabine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbaɪn/
ipa: /ˈsæbaɪn/
Forms: form: Sabines
Etymology: From Latin Sabinus. The name is said to mean "of one's own," from Proto-Indo-European *sebʰ-, *swebʰ- (“one's own”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a certain ancient tribe of Italy.
Hypernyms: Sabellian
Derived terms: Sabinian
Sabine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbaɪn/
ipa: /ˈsæbaɪn/
ipa: /səˈbiːn/
ipa: /ˈseɪbaɪn/
ipa: /ˈsæbaɪn/
Etymology: From the Latin saint's name Sabina.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Sabine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbaɪn/
ipa: /ˈsæbaɪn/
ipa: /səˈbiːn/
Senses: glosses: A river in Louisiana and Texas, USA; see Sabine River.
Derived terms: Sabine County
Sabine Parish
Linnea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin of Swedish origin, occasionally used since the twentieth century.
Leonore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Leonore.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Eleonora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant form of Eleanor
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
metope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtəʊp/
ipa: /ˈmɛtəpi/
Forms: form: metopes
form: metopa
Etymology: From Latin metopa and its source, Koine Greek μετόπη (metópē), from μετά (metá, “between”) + ὀπή (opḗ, “hole”).
Senses: examples: text: There's a second plate of that metope that shows the full figures of both Perseus and Medusa and includes the winged horse Pegasus that was born of Medusa's blood.
ref: 1996, Russell Hoban, Fremder, Bloomsbury, published 2003, page 117:
text: Architects working on the recent restoration programme have found clear evidence that in its first design the building featured just a row of metope panels over the east and west entrances, where the frieze now runs […].
ref: 2002, Mary Beard, The Parthenon, Profile Books, published 2010, page 128:
topics: architecture
glosses: The architectural element between two triglyphs in a Doric frieze.
wikipedia: Selinunte
Derived terms: metopism
Ellinor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Elinor or Eleanor.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A ghost town in Toledo Township, Chase County, Kansas, United States.
shinplaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinplasters
Etymology: From shin + plaster.
Probably coined during the American War of Independence (1775–1783). Named for its resemblance to, and suitability for makeshift use as, a bandage for dressing the shin.
Senses: glosses: An essentially worthless note of paper money.
glosses: A 25¢ banknote.
shinplasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinplaster
twelvemo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelvemos
Etymology: From twelve + -mo.
Senses: qualifier: paper
glosses: duodecimo, or 12mo, a paper size, so called because it is cut 12 to a (huge, originally made) sheet
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: a page, book etc. of that size
Synonyms: sense: page size
word: 12mo
sense: page size
word: duodecimo
sense: page size
word: 12º
sense: book size
word: D
sense: book size
word: 12mo
sense: book size
word: duodecimo
sense: book size
word: 12º
stewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stew
stewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stewings
Senses: examples: text: The meat was still tough even after repeated stewings.
glosses: The act by which something is stewed.
letterboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of letterbox
lawcourt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawcourts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of law court.
lawcourts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawcourt
liquefied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquefied
form: most liquefied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of liquified.
Derived terms: nonliquefied
preliquefied
unliquefied
liquefied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liquefy; Alternative spelling of liquified.
liquefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liquefy; alternative spelling of liquifying.
liquifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liquify
lotions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotion
iridescent cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iridescent clouds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: polar stratospheric cloud
ultradian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ultradian rhythms […] operate in cycles of less than 24 hours, that is they happen more than once a day.
ref: 1999, Evie Bentley, Awareness: Biorhythms, Sleep and Dreaming, page 15:
glosses: Cyclical with a periodicity significantly shorter than 24 hours, that is, more frequent than circadian.
Related terms: infradian
polar stratospheric cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar stratospheric clouds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A relatively rare type of clouds that occurs high in the stratosphere; polar stratospheric clouds often resemble mother-of-pearl as they shine in vivid colours, known as irisation
Synonyms: mother-of-pearl cloud
nacreous cloud
Related terms: iridescent cloud
moguls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mogul
infradian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly from the Latin infra (“below”) and diēs (“a day”) with the English suffix -an. Compare circadian, ultradian, and infra etc.
Senses: glosses: Cyclical with a periodicity significantly longer than 24 hours, that is, less frequent than circadian.
Related terms: circadian
ultradian
macrostate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrostates
Etymology: From macro- + state.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of macroscopic properties of a physical system, such as its temperature and pressure.
noninvasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-invasive
Etymology: From non- + invasive.
Senses: glosses: Not invasive.
examples: text: While noninvasive procedures like Fraxel can improve skin texture and wrinkles, Dr. Frank said that fillers are the only noninvasive way to restore volume (cost: $5,000 to $10,000).
ref: 2023 January 24, Amy Synnott, “Those Weight Loss Drugs May Do a Number on Your Face”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2023:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a surgical or other medical procedure, not requiring an incision.
Derived terms: noninvasively
noninvasiveness
noninvasivity
noninvasively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From noninvasive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a noninvasive manner.
noninvasiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + invasiveness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being noninvasive.
nondairy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: non-dairy
Etymology: From non- + dairy.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: milkless
text: Plus, today there is a wide array of nondairy yogurt options, from coconut milk to oat milk–based, and more.
ref: 2020, Shawn Stevenson, Eat Smarter: Use the Power of Food to Reboot Your Metabolism, Upgrade Your Brain, and Transform Your Life, Little, Brown Spark, published 2021, →ISBN:
synonyms: dairy-free
dairyless
coordinate_terms: lactose-free
glosses: Not derived from dairy sources.
Related terms: nonmilk
dairies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dairy
rotolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒtələʊ/
Forms: form: rotolos
form: rotoli
form: rottolo
Etymology: From Italian rotolo (“roll; rottol”). As a roll, from Late Latin rotulus (“little wheel”), from Latin rota (“wheel, rolling thing”) + -ulus (“-ule”, forming diminutives). As a unit of weight, from Arabic رُطْل (ruṭl), variant of classical رِطْل (riṭl), ultimately from Ancient Greek λίτρα (lítra).
Senses: qualifier: Italian cooking
glosses: A kind of roll.
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: Alternative form of rottol: a former Middle Eastern and North African unit of dry weight, usually between 1–5 pounds (.5–2.5 kg).
unhitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhitches
form: unhitching
form: unhitched
form: unhitched
Etymology: From un- + hitch.
Senses: examples: text: There is no knowing what further mischief she might have done, had not York promptly sat himself down flat on her head, to prevent her struggling, at the same time calling out, "Unbuckle the black horse! run for the winch and unscrew the carriage pole; cut the trace here—somebody, if you can't unhitch it."
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, pages 106–107:
text: Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: To disconnect; to detach; to undo that which is hitched.
Related terms: decouple
unhitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhitch
unhitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhitch
haruspices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hæˈɹʊspɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of haruspex
nondeterminism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑndəˈtɝmɪnɪzəm/
Forms: form: nondeterminisms
form: non-determinism
Etymology: From non- + determinism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The opposite of determinism: the doctrine that there are factors other than the state and immutable laws of the universe involved in the unfolding of events, such as free will.
examples: text: Moving from a single-processor to a multi-processor system often exposes hidden nondeterminism due to invalid assumptions about scheduling.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.
examples: text: Projection of an automaton almost always results in nondeterminism.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The property of being nondeterministic, involving arbitrary choices; necessitating the choice between various indistinguishable possibilities.
Derived terms: angelic non-determinism
Related terms: nondeterministic
non-deterministic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondeterministic.
nondeterministic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɑndɪˌtɝmɪnˈɪstik/
rhymes: -ɪstik
Forms: form: non-deterministic
Etymology: From non- + deterministic.
Senses: examples: text: Nondeterministic bottom-up tree automaton recognize the class of regular tree languages.
text: The aim of this book is to compare deterministic, nondeterministic, and strongly nondeterministic decision trees. Conventional (deterministic) decision trees are widely used as classifiers, as a means of knowledge representation, and as algorithms.
ref: 2020, Mikhail Moshkov, Comparative Analysis of Deterministic and Nondeterministic Decision Trees, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting nondeterminism; involving choices between indistinguishable possibilities.
Derived terms: complementary nondeterministic polynomial
nondeterministically
nondeterministic polynomial time
nondeterministic Turing machine
NP
Related terms: indeterministic
payoff function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payoff functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mathematical function describing the award given to a single player at the outcome of a game.
utility function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utility functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mathematical function that assigns a real number to every element of the outcome space in a way that captures the agent's preferences over both simple and compound lotteries.
logans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logan