cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
secede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈsiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: secedes
form: seceding
form: seceded
form: seceded
Etymology: From Latin secedere, from se- (“apart”) + cēdō (“to go”).
Senses: examples: text: We can secede from the United Kingdom any time we want.
ref: 2007 July 5, “Writers declare independence for Wirral”, in Wirral Globe, retrieved 11 Jul 2007:
text: “The horror, the horror”, said venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, an Uber investor who made a call for California to secede from the US.
ref: 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Shervin Pishevar, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
glosses: To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
examples: text: At the same time, Nolan also secretly contracted with the crafty United States Army general James Wilkinson to organize some men to secede Texas from Spanish America.
ref: 2002, Darryl E. Brock, “José Agustín Quintero: Cuban Patriot in Confederate Diplomatic Service”, in Cubans in the Confederacy: José Agustín Quintero, Ambrosio José Gonzales, and Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Ed. Phillip Thomas Tucker, publ. McFarland, →ISBN, page 103:
text: A Spanish Supreme Court probe into last year's attempt to secede Catalonia from Spain wraps up Friday with the judge expected to charge 28 regional politicians and separatist leaders with offenses that may include rebellion.
ref: 2018, “The Latest: Europe arrest warrants for 6 Catalan separatists”, in ABC News, The Associated Press:
glosses: To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation.
Related terms: seceder
secession
alien abduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alien abductions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: The abduction of a person by extraterrestrials.
Related terms: contact experience
sleep paralysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep paralyses
Senses: glosses: The normal paralysis of the body that occurs during REM sleep.
glosses: A situation where a person is not fully awake, and although conscious of their surroundings, unable to move or speak, often accompanied by hallucinations and feelings of terror.
Related terms: insomnia
fœtor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːtɔː/
ipa: /ˈfiːtɔɹ/
Forms: form: fœtors
form: foetor
form: fetor
Senses: examples: 1926 C.E., T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, pUnknown
It was surer to go down myself: and more virtuous than continued fœtor and promiscuity in Tafileh.
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of fetor.
Related terms: word: fœtid
foetor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foetors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fœtor.
fetor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiː.tə/
ipa: /ˈfiː.tɔː/
ipa: /ˈfi.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈfi.tɔɹ/
rhymes: -iːtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːtɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: fetors
form: fœtor
Etymology: From Latin fētor.
Senses: examples: text: Heʼd thrown rancid meat in a fire to fill the woods with the ripe fetor of death.
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 39:
glosses: An unpleasant smell.
Synonyms: stench
stink
Related terms: fetor oris
pandæmonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandæmonia
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pandemonium.
bite the dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bites the dust
form: biting the dust
form: bit the dust
form: bitten the dust
Senses: examples: text: Ulysses killed Demoptolemus, Telemachus Euryades, Eumæus Elatus, while the stockman killed Pisander. These all bit the dust, and as the others drew back into a corner Ulysses and his men rushed forward and regained their spears by drawing them from the bodies of the dead
ref: 1900, Samuel Butler, transl. The Odyssey, Book XXII., page 293
text: Three more warriors bit the dust...
ref: 1877, Frances Fuller Victor, Eleven years in the Rocky Mountains and a life on the frontier, Chapter IX, p. 156
text: Tons of engine sheds would bite the dust with the end of steam, and many would be demolished with their time in the spotlight over. We're lucky that the one at Didcot survived into preservation.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
glosses: To die.
examples: text: My old backpack finally bit the dust the other day.
text: London calling, now don't look to us / Phony Beatlemania has bitten the dust
ref: 1979, “London Calling”, The Clash (music):
glosses: To quit, or fail.
pandaemonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandaemonia
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pandemonium.
pandemonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpændɪˈməʊnɪəm/
ipa: /ˌpændəˈmoʊni.əm/
rhymes: -əʊniəm
Forms: form: pandemoniums
form: pandemonia
form: pandaemonium
form: pandæmonium
Etymology: Coined by John Milton in Paradise Lost as Pandæmonium, from Ancient Greek πᾶν (pân, “all”) (equivalent to English pan-) + Late Latin daemonium (“evil spirit, demon”), from Ancient Greek δαιμόνιον (daimónion, “deity”).
Senses: examples: text: Whatever all this pandemonium means, I suppose the police station will help us.
ref: 1908, G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Bristol: J[ames] W[illiams] Arrowsmith, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, →OCLC, page 259:
text: Whenever you have violent pandemonium, there's the overwhelming possibility for panic and tragedy.
ref: 2004 October 22, The Boston Globe:
synonyms: chaos
bedlam
glosses: A loud, wild, tumultuous protest, disorder, or chaotic situation, usually of a crowd, often violent.
examples: text: Riyad Mahrez flighted the free-kick that followed to the far post and Morgan, with not much finesse but plenty of desire, bundled the ball over the line. Cue pandemonium in the stands.
ref: 2017 March 14, Stuart James, “Leicester stun Sevilla to reach last eight after Kasper Schmeichel save”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2023:
synonyms: outburst
uproar
glosses: An outburst; loud, riotous uproar, especially of a crowd.
Derived terms: fandemonium
pandamonium
pandemoniac
pandemoniacal
pandemonian
pandemonic
pandemonious
pandemonium architecture
pandemonium effect
Related terms: Pandæmonium
all hell breaks loose
dis-ease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈiːz/
Forms: form: disease
Senses: glosses: Lack of a feeling of ease; uneasiness.
fumigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumigators
Etymology: From fumigate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who fumigates.
glosses: An apparatus for fumigating.
dura mater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdjʊə.ɹə ˈmeɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə ˌmeɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈd(j)ʊɹ.ə ˌmɑt.ɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: durae matres
form: dura maters
form: dura
Etymology: First attested c. 1400, borrowing from Medieval Latin dūra māter (literally “firm, strict mother”), ellipsis of dūra māter cerebrī (literally “hard mother of the brain”), calque of Arabic أُمّ الدِّمَاغ الصَفِيقَة (ʔumm al-ddimāḡ aṣ-ṣafīqa, literally “thick mother of the brain”).
Senses: examples: text: Hmm, false membranes are adhering to the arachnoidian layer of the dura mater. I’m directing my gaze into a world of constant visibility. Where does it hurt?
ref: 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, Totem Books; Icon Books, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: arachnoid
pia mater
glosses: The tough and inflexible outermost of the three layers of the meninges, enveloping the brain and spinal cord.
incognito
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtoʊ/
ipa: /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnɪtoʊ/
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian incognito, from Latin incognitus (“unknown”), from in- (“not”) + cognitus (“known”), perfect passive participle of cognoscere.
Senses: examples: text: THE Scepticks think 'twas long ago, / Since Gods came down Incognito; / To ſee who were their Friends or Foes, / And how our Actions fell or roſe.
ref: 1703, Mat[thew] Prior, “The Ladle”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 125:
coordinate_terms: incognita
glosses: Without being known; in an assumed character, or under an assumed title; in disguise.
Derived terms: incognegro
incognito
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtoʊ/
ipa: /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnɪtoʊ/
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian incognito, from Latin incognitus (“unknown”), from in- (“not”) + cognitus (“known”), perfect passive participle of cognoscere.
Senses: examples: text: The prince royal of Prussia came thither incognito.
ref: 1709 May 30 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Thursday, May 19, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 17; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:
text: "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting you."
ref: 1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC, page 65, column 2:
glosses: Without revealing one's identity.
incognito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnkɒɡˈniːtoʊ/
ipa: /ˌɪnˈkɒɡnɪtoʊ/
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: incognitos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian incognito, from Latin incognitus (“unknown”), from in- (“not”) + cognitus (“known”), perfect passive participle of cognoscere.
Senses: coordinate_terms: incognita
glosses: One unknown or in disguise, or under an assumed character or name.
examples: text: Of those letters, and other attempts of the same kind, the author could not complain, though his incognito was endangered. He had challenged the public to a game at bo-peep, and if he was discovered in his “hiding-hole,” he must submit to the shame of detection.
ref: 1829 January 1, Walter Scott, “General Preface”, in Waverley (Waverley Novels; I), Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Company; London: Simpkin and Marshall, page xxxii:
text: It contained a letter from the King himself, craving hospitality for a few days, as his mother was about to visit England, and to take up with Lord Avonleigh her residence at the Castle. A slight incognito would be preserved, and as little form and ceremony expected as was possible.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 169:
coordinate_terms: incognita
glosses: The assumption of disguise or of a feigned character; the state of being in disguise or not recognized.
usine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usines
Etymology: From French usine. Doublet of officina and oficina.
Senses: examples: text: Account of the usines or central sugar factories on the island
ref: 1877, P[eter] L[und] Simmonds, “Contents”, in Tropical Agriculture. A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce, and Consumption of the Principal Products of the Vegetable Kingdom., London: E. & F. N. Spon, […], page viii:
text: The testator died possessed of one third share in an usine or manufactory of refined sugar, and in the machinery, stock in trade, book debts, and effects belonging thereto.
ref: 1879, The Judicature Ordinance 1879, page 105:
text: On our usines vacuum pans are used to make a high class of sugar, triple effects to save fuel, and filter presses to recover the sugar lost otherwise in the scum.
ref: 1890 March 15, A. Urich, “Some Remarks on the Diffusion of the Sugar Cane”, in The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. […], volume IV, number 11, New Orleans, La., page 184, column 1:
glosses: A West Indian sugar factory.
aurora australis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From New Latin aurōra austrālis, from Latin aurōra austrālis (literally “southern dawn”).
Senses: glosses: The aurora of the southern hemisphere
Synonyms: southern dawn
southern lights
aurora meridionalis
Coordinate terms: aurora borealis
northern lights
aurora borealis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌɹɔːɹ.ə ˈbɔːɹ.i.æl.ɪs/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin aurōra boreālis (lit. "northern dawn").
Senses: examples: text: Superintendent Chalmers: Yes, I should be—Good Lord what is happening in there!?
Principal Skinner: Aurora borealis.
Superintendent Chalmers: Uh—Aurora borealis, at this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your kitchen?
Principal Skinner: Yes.
Superintendent Chalmers: May I see it?
Principal Skinner: No.
ref: 1996 April 14, “22 Short Films About Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21, production code 3F18:
text: A common and beautiful side-effect of high solar activity is the Aurora Borealis - the northern lights that dance across Arctic skies.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
synonyms: northern dawn
northern lights
aurora septentrionalis
coordinate_terms: aurora australis
southern lights
glosses: The aurora of the northern hemisphere.
IED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌaɪ iː ˈdiː/
Forms: form: IEDs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Intelligent Electronic Device, a sensor, actuator, or PLC used as part of a SCADA system.
qualifier: languages
glosses: Initialism of Interlingua-English Dictionary, the first dictionary of Interlingua.
examples: text: Hippocampal sclerosis was less common in the patients with IED.
ref: 2003, Randolph B. Schiffer et al., Neuropsychiatry, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 1109:
text: Initial concerns revolved mainly around the relationship between the interictal epileptiform discharge (IED) and the clinical diagnosis of epilepsy.
ref: 2007, Jerome Engel et al., Epilepsy: A Comprehensive Textbook, 2nd edition, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 809:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of interictal epileptiform discharge, a type of brain waves related to epilepsy.
examples: text: She'd been an Army noncombatant, but roadside IEDs didn't distinguish between armed troops and support services.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 61:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Initialism of improvised explosive device.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of intermittent explosive disorder, a mental disorder characterized by short, intense episodes of rage.
Related terms: booby trap
car bomb
letter bomb
Molotov cocktail
prelapsarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːlapˈsɛːɹɪən/
Forms: form: pre-lapsarian
Etymology: From pre- + Latin lapsus (“fall”) + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: It is the prelapsarian Polynesia of free love, noble savagery, Kon Tiki rafting and Easter Island statuary, not the Levi’s-wearing, Toyota-driving, pédalo-pushing, efflorescent-cocktails-in-a-split-coconut-serving pseudo-paradise that awaits latter-day travellers.
ref: 2001, Stephen Brown, Marketing – the Retro Revolution, London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 139:
text: Ideally, individual stories and God's plan share the same final goal, namely, returning to a prelapsarian state of perfect communication with God.
ref: 2004, Janet Bertsch, Storytelling in the works of Bunyan, Grimmelshausen, Defoe, and Schnabel, page 4:
text: Back in those ancient, prelapsarian days, "girl-on-girl" hadn’t even been invented yet.
ref: 2006 April 10, George Saunders, “Nostalgia”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2012:
text: Can you really turn a few keyboards outside London's landmarks into the equivalent of a pub honky-tonk for a good old knees-up; a 50s living room where the family would gather around the piano every evening, in some prelapsarian vision of the olden days […]?
ref: 2010 June 1, Tom Service, The Guardian:
text: Conservative think-tanks have the same dream of return to a prelapsarian innocence.
ref: 2010 September 23, “The perils of constitution-worship”, in The Economist:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of, or relating to the period of innocence before the Fall of man; innocent, unspoiled.
Synonyms: topics: Christianity
word: antelapsarian
topics: Christianity
word: superlapsarian
sense: carefree period
word: halcyon
Coordinate terms: antediluvian
Related terms: lapsarian
postlapsarian
tuffet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuffets
Etymology: From Old French touffel, diminutive of touffe (“tuft”). Regarding etymological and semantic uncertainty, see Wikipedia at Little Miss Muffet § Tuffet and §§ Uncertain meaning.
Senses: examples: text: Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
ref: 1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 23:
glosses: A clump of grass or similar vegetation; a small grass-covered mound.
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: A large cushion which may have an internal frame, used as a low seat or stool.
glosses: An inflatable cushion serving as landing area for precision accuracy parachuting.
curds and whey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: cottage cheese
golliwog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golliwogs
form: golliwogg
Etymology: Probably a blend of golly + polliwog Coined for the illustrations by Florence Kate Upton for her mother Bertha Upton′s 1895 children′s book, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls — and a ‘Golliwogg’.
Senses: examples: text: Lyons was ideal material for the ‘Honest Joe’ image. He had a round chubby face under a mop of curly hair that made him resemble a cross between a koala bear and a golliwog.
ref: 1983, Norman E. Lee, John Curtin, Saviour of Australia, page 47:
text: A golliwog doll, ‘Rickety Kate’, was fixed to the studio wall.
ref: 2010, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, page 286:
glosses: A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel.
examples: text: Deemed equally ‘harmless’ by its perpetrators is that close relation to the cannibal; the golliwog.[…]Dixon′s brilliant essay ‘All things white and beautiful’ (1976) argues that golliwogs are associated with fear and darkness, quoting an Enid Blyton story of Noddy being trapped and robbed of his car and his clothes, even his ‘dear little hat’ by ‘four big strong golliwogs’. Dixon observes how a four-year-old got the message from the pictures alone, which show the golliwogs driving off and ‘poor little’ Noddy on the ground.
ref: 2002, Gillian Klein, Reading Into Racism: Bias in Children′s Literature and Learning Materials, page 41:
glosses: A black person.
glosses: A hairy caterpillar.
glosses: A receiver of stolen goods.
examples: text: But even wooden limbs get tired/ And want a change of play/ So "Golliwogg"/ A "jolly dog"/ Suggests they run away.
ref: 1895, Bertha Upton, The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls — and a ‘Golliwogg’:
glosses: Greyhound racing: the jolly dogs.
raw_tags: as "the golliwogs"
Related terms: wog
Brno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɜːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɹənəʊ/
ipa: /ˈbɝnoʊ/
Senses: glosses: The capital of the South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, and the second-largest city in the Czech Republic.
Derived terms: Bren gun
transmute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈmjuːt/
Forms: form: transmutes
form: transmuting
form: transmuted
form: transmuted
Etymology: From Latin trānsmūtāre, from trans + mūtāre.
Senses: examples: text: The alchemists tried to transmute base metals to gold.
text: Did the base metals transmute to gold?
text: Mary is sister to the marginalized women who live unchronicled lives in oppressive situations. It does her no honor to rip her out of her conflictual, dangerous historical circumstances and transmute her into an icon of a peaceful, middle-class life robed in royal blue.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
text: There is silence, then the sound of weeping, which escalates to heart-rending, gasping sobs. A man, the source of the lamentation, appears and as he walks across the stage, his cries transmute into song, and the slow snare drum rat-a-tat-tat of Ravel’s composition begins.
ref: 2023 April 14, Roslyn Sulcas, “Review: Grief and Mourning, Delivered With Ecstatic Vitality”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: transform
transmogrify
;
alchemise
hypernyms: alter
change
glosses: To change or convert one thing to another, or from one state or form to another.
Related terms: transmutability
transmutable
transmutant
transmutate
transmutation
homorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑmɔɹˈɡænɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɒmɔːˈɡænɪk/
Etymology: From homo- + organic.
Senses: examples: text: Two identical consonants (redoubled) in second and third position are frequently found (they are called verba mediae geminatae), but two homorganic consonants are not.
ref: 2011 March 1, Eulàlia Vernet i Pons, “Semitic Root Incompatibilities and Historical Linguistics”, in Journal of Semitic Studies, volume 56, number 1, →DOI, page 4
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: homotopic
antonyms: heterorganic
glosses: Of consonants: having the same place of articulation. For example, labial m, b, p, alveolar n, d, t, velar ŋ, g, k. Indic alphabets such as Devanagari, as well as the Korean hangul alphabet, are rationally arranged so that homorganic consonants are grouped together.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: produced by the same or homologous organs
homorganic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑmɔɹˈɡænɪk/
ipa: /ˌhɒmɔːˈɡænɪk/
Forms: form: homorganics
Etymology: From homo- + organic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A consonant having the same place of articulation as another.
terrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: terrains
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
examples: text: The race will be run over a variety of terrain, including grass and sand.
glosses: An area of land or the particular features of it.
examples: text: This approach requires the aircraft to stay at an altitude of at least 3000 feet MSL until crossing the VOR in order to maintain terrain clearance.
text: controlled flight into terrain
text: TOO LOW, TERRAIN
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The surface of the earth; the ground.
Synonyms: sense: area of land
word: ground
Derived terms: all-terrain
all-terrain vehicle
controlled flight into terrain
height above average terrain
human terrain
linguistic terrain
terrain awareness and warning system
terrain park
terrain theory
polytropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From polytrope, equivalent to poly- + -tropic, ultimately from Ancient Greek πολύτροπος (polútropos).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of any change in the thermodynamic properties of a gas in which its specific heat remains constant
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: many-valued
examples: text: Our hypothesis is that the difference between autistic and non-autistic is a difference in the strategies employed in the distribution of scarce attention. That is to say, it is the difference between having few interests highly aroused, the monotropic tendency, and having many interests less highly aroused, the polytropic tendency. An aroused interest is an interest charged with feeling.
ref: 2005 January 5, Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser, Wendy Lawson, “Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism”, in Autism, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, page 140:
text: Where polytropic minds comfortably entertain many simultaneous interests, each moderately aroused, the monotropic mind will maintain only very few simultaneous interests, with each one highly aroused and intensely focused upon.
ref: 2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, number 12, →DOI, page 616664:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: monotropic
glosses: Focusing one’s attention on multiple sets of things at one time.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of bees: visiting a wide circle of flowers.
Derived terms: nonpolytropic
singles
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a singles bar
glosses: Of or pertaining to unmarried people.
singles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He hit three singles last game, two the game before that.
text: The band's first single became a hit record.
glosses: plural of single
singles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: doubles
mixed doubles
glosses: A game between individual players.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of tubulars.
synonyms: word: tubulars
Derived terms: singles net
singles stick
singles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of single
sampling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑːmpəlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sample
sampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmpəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɑːmpəlɪŋ/
Forms: form: samplings
Senses: glosses: The process or technique of obtaining a representative sample.
glosses: A sample.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The analysis of a group by determining the characteristics of a significant percentage of its members chosen at random.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The electronic splicing of pieces of previously recorded sound as part of a composition, especially as part of hip-hop or electronic dance music.
Derived terms: chorionic villus sampling
convenience sampling
Gibbs sampling
kick sampling
photosampling
rejection sampling
sampling error
sampling frequency
sampling rate
sampling straw
sampling thief
sampling tube
snowball sampling
time sampling
deterrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛɹəns/
ipa: /dɪˈtɝɹəns/
ipa: /dɪˈtʌɹəns/
ipa: /diˈtɝɹəns/
ipa: /diˈtʌɹəns/
Forms: form: deterrences
Etymology: From the stem of deterrent + -ence.
Senses: glosses: The act of deterring, or the state of being deterred.
glosses: Action taken by states or alliances of nations against equally powerful alliances to prevent hostile action.
glosses: The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
glosses: The art of producing in one's enemy the fear of attacking.
nuclear deterrence: discouraging nuclear attack through the threat of nuclear retaliation.
glosses: The action of discouraging an action or event by instilling doubt or fear of the penalty or punishment.
Synonyms: intimidation
dissuasion
Derived terms: finite deterrence
focused deterrence
nuclear deterrence
overdeterrence
phagodeterrence
underdeterrence
living hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living hells
Senses: glosses: A continuing state of extreme pain, punishment, suffering, or torment with no seeming chance of reprieve.
snark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: snärk
ipa: /snɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Etymology: Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Brit-wit, in fact, could be seen as the precursor to the communicative style valorized on these beratement panels and on fan/rating communities, namely snark or snarkasm. Snark, a hybrid of “snide” and “remark," is a biting, casual verbal attack. Its subtle insult comprises a tone that acts as a weapon to cut its target down to size.
ref: 2010 October 19, Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok, Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convergence, Routledge, →ISBN, page 65:
text: Snark will get you any way it can, fore and aft, and to hell with consistency. In a media society, snark is an easy way of seeming smart. […] Snark doesn't create a new image, a new idea. It's parasitic, referential, insinuating.
ref: 2010 December 17, David Denby, Snark, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4:
text: She liked his smile. There was neither snark nor megalomania in it, as characterized so many smiles these days.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 54:
synonyms: sarcasm
snideness
glosses: an attitude or expression of mocking irreverence and sarcasm.
Related terms: snarkiness
snarky
snark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: snärk
ipa: /snɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: snarks
form: snarking
form: snarked
form: snarked
Etymology: Noun sense “snide remark” as back-formation from snarky (1906), from obsolete snark (“to snore, snort”, verb) (1866), from Middle English *snarken (“to snore”), from Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, equivalent to snore + -k. Compare Low German snarken, North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka, German schnarchen, and English snort and snore. Of Germanic origin, but ultimately onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Other would-be Bright Young People, Lytton Strachey snarked, seemed to have “just a few feathers where brains should be.”
ref: 2009 January 23, Dwight Garner, “The Mahvelous and the Damned”, in New York Times:
text: Ah! That was "snark". You snark when your blood sugar is low. I know how to help you. Pizza. Humans seem to find calm in the consumption of food.
ref: 2018, Maria Maggenti, Daniel Beaty, “Fallout”, in Supergirl, season 4, episode 2 (television production), spoken by Querl Dox (Jesse Rath):
glosses: To express oneself in a snarky fashion.
glosses: To snort.
Derived terms: snarkasm
snarker
snark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: snärk
ipa: /snɑː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: snarks
Etymology: From Snark, coined by Lewis Carroll as a nonce word in The Hunting of the Snark (1874), about the quest for an elusive creature. In sense of “a type of mathematical graph”, named as such in 1976 by Martin Gardner for their elusiveness.
Senses: examples: text: When the auctioneer had exhausted his vocabulary in describing the merits of an animal, his winding-up formula was "One times! two times! three times!" Then the hammer gave a tap, and he and our party would devote our energies to discovering the last bidder - a research which generally was as promising as the hunting of the snark.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 345:
text: Remy said Dad was hunting snarks; at the time, she'd thought it was a euphemism.
ref: 2019, Karl Schroeder, Stealing Worlds:
glosses: The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
examples: text: Cabrera's Valentine's Day monopole detection or some extremely energetic cosmic rays could be examples of snarks.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
Derived terms: snark hunt
snark-like
Related terms: sense: unreplicable result
word: replication crisis
cry uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries uncle
form: crying uncle
form: cried uncle
form: cried uncle
Etymology: Unknown. Uncle may be an anglicization of Irish anacal (“protection”).
Senses: examples: text: The Powels would serve strong punch and play loud music, and their parties ended when the last guest cried uncle, often a day and half after they began.
ref: 1976, Geoffrey Wolff, Black Sun, New York Review of Books, published 2003, page 158:
synonyms: say uncle
cry craven
glosses: To beg for mercy; to give up, admit defeat, surrender; indicate submission, such as when wrestling.
Related terms: safeword
safe word
bitten the dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bite the dust
fearfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɹfəli/
ipa: /ˈfɪəfəli/
Forms: form: more fearfully
form: most fearfully
Etymology: From fearful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I stepped fearfully into the pitch-dark cave.
glosses: In a fearful manner; characterized by fear.
examples: text: He's a fearfully good striker.
text: Remember, when a horse is on its side the kicking-strap is useless, and the breechen nearly so, to prevent the swing of its hind legs; your aim is to get it away from the steps or wheel-plate of the trap, which, in its struggles, may cut its legs fearfully.
ref: 1 November 1884, John Kemp, Saddlers, Harness Makers, and Carriage Builders' Gazette, volume XIV, London, pages 155–6:
glosses: very; very much.
Derived terms: unfearfully
cc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: ccs
form: cc's
Senses: examples: text: I had meant to cc you on this earlier. Please reply by next Thursday. Thanks.
related: word: CC
glosses: Initialism of carbon copy.
related: word: CC
glosses: Initialism of courtesy copy.
related: word: CC
glosses: Initialism of closed caption or closed captioning.
examples: text: This plastic syringe delivers one cc of medicine to the mouth of the animal. The medicine is peanut-flavored.
related: word: cc.
word: c.c.
synonyms: cm³#Translingual
mL#Translingual
glosses: Initialism of cubic centimeter.
cc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chapters.
cc
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːˈsiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: cc's
form: cc'ing
form: cc'd
form: cc'd
form: cc'ed
form: cc'ed
form: cc:d
form: cc:d
Senses: examples: text: Please cc me so I stay on top of any situations that might come up & I can be sure we get you answers right away.
ref: 2012, Doug Fine, quoting Colleen Brand, Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: For messages I'm cc'd on by people within my company, with the exception of a handful of senior execs (including my direct supervisor), whose cc's continue to go to my primary inbox.
ref: 2014, Alexandra Samuel, Work Smarter, Rule Your Email, Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: carbon copy
copy
glosses: Initialism of carbon copy (“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”).
examples: text: Just cc him, bro.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of crowd control.
gut feeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gut feelings
form: gut feel
Senses: examples: text: Don't think too hard about the answers to a personality test; just go with your gut feeling.
text: Houston had a gut feeling he was being followed, so he hurried to his car.
text: “At the root are these moral intuitions — these gut feelings — and they are very strong,” said Jeff Huntsinger, a social psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who studies emotion and decision-making and collaborated with Dr. Omer’s team.
ref: 2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, quoting Jeff Huntsinger, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021:
synonyms: gut instinct
coordinate_terms: gut reaction
glosses: An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.
Related terms: go with one's gut
hightail it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hightails it
form: hightailing it
form: hightailed it
form: hightailed it
form: high-tail it
Senses: examples: text: He started to hightail it out of there, but I stopped him at the door.
text: The cat hightailed it out of the bushes.
text: […] I suggest you hightail it over to your girlfriend's house ASAP, man!
ref: 2002 March 11, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #17: studying”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
text: "Great! A guy getting off a night shift who hasn't been laid in years finds his wife in flagrante with some hamburger-faced guy who hightails it out the front door in his underwear. We're walking into a hornet's nest, Jackson."
ref: 2004, Rex Pickett, Sideways, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 292:
text: Whilst sinking, there was still a small chance that Hornet might be towed out of the danger zone and then reboarded, but, by now, the Japanese Navy surface forces were getting closer, and the order was given to scuttle Hornet instead. But, she proved remarkably hard to actually encourage to sink at any pace but her own. A number of torpedoes and several hundred 5-inch shells later, the two destroyers assigned to the job seemed none the closer to actually finishing it, and they were forced to hightail it out of the area. Shortly after ten o'clock that night, the Japanese forces came across the still-afloat, and still-ablaze, Hornet, but, concluding, at this point, that taking her as a prize wasn't particularly likely, they put four Long Lances into her, and Hornet finally sank just after one-thirty in the morning.
ref: 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 21:35 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
text: I made awkward small talk with my seat neighbor and high-tailed it home before the socializing began in earnest.
ref: 2022 April 5, Michal Leibowitz, “'I Didn't Feel Like Going, but I'm Glad I Did': My Motto of the Moment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: hightail
word: move quickly
word: skedaddle
word: absquatulate
word: amscray
word: beat a retreat
word: beat it
word: beat feet
word: blow this popsicle stand
word: bolt
word: book it
word: dine and dash
word: do a bunk
word: do a flit
word: do a moonlight flit
word: do a runner
word: flee
word: fly the coop
word: jump
word: gas and dash
word: get lost
word: get out
word: gnash
word: head for the hills
word: hightail
word: hightail it
word: hit the road
word: kick rocks
word: leg it
word: make a break for it
word: make a run for it
word: make tracks
word: namous
word: peg it
word: rabbit
word: run a mile
word: run away
word: run for the hills
word: run off
word: scamper
word: scat
word: scarper
word: shemozzle
word: scram
word: skedaddle
word: smash and dash
word: take a powder
word: take flight
word: take off
word: take to one's heels
word: take to the hills
word: tear off
word: turn tail
word: vamoose
glosses: To hurry or run; often, to flee.
bend someone's ear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bends someone's ear
form: bending someone's ear
form: bent someone's ear
form: bent someone's ear
Senses: examples: text: Sorry to bend your ear with the whole story, but I think you ought to know.
glosses: To bore; to talk too long, especially to one particular person.
examples: text: I managed to bend his ear about the current crisis. I hope he will act now.
glosses: To call someone's attention to an important matter.
glosses: To put a hand behind one's ear and cup it around so as to hear better.
medley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdli/
rhymes: -ɛdli
Forms: form: medleys
Etymology: From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne came the kyng of Irland and the kynge of the stryete marches to rescowe syre Tristram and sire Palomydes / There beganne a grete medle / & many knyghtes were smyten doune on bothe partyes / and alweyes sir launcelot spared sir Tristram / and he spared hym
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
text: For greater shields they have, than that they can either doe or see ought, and being raunged by hundreds no doubt they will hinder one another in the medley, except some very few
ref: 1632, Xenophon, translated by Philemon Holland, Cyrupaedia:
glosses: Combat, fighting; a battle.
examples: text: a fruit medley
text: this medley of philosophy and war
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 6:
text: Love is a medley of endearments, jars, / Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.
ref: 1692, William Walsh, Letters and Poems, Amorous and Gallant:
glosses: A collection or mixture of miscellaneous things.
examples: They played a medley of favorite folk songs as an encore.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A collection of related songs played or mixed together as a single piece.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: A competitive swimming event that combines the four strokes of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
examples: text: Otherwise , as our Saviour noteth , when the old Cloth was joyned to the new , it made no good medley , but the Rent was made the wors
ref: 1631, Thomas Fuller, Comment on Ruth , Chapter 1, verses 9, 10, 11:
glosses: A cloth of mixed colours.
Synonyms: mashup
Derived terms: chance-medley
chaud-medley
Dutch medley
individual medley
Related terms: meddle
melee
medley
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛdli/
rhymes: -ɛdli
Forms: form: medleys
form: medleying
form: medleyed
form: medleyed
Etymology: From Middle English medle, from Anglo-Norman medlee, Old French medlee, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō (“to mix”). Compare meddle. Doublet of melee.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To combine, to form a medley.
logjam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logjams
Etymology: From log + jam.
Senses: glosses: An excess of logs being conveyed on a river, so that their motion halts.
examples: text: Efforts to amend the law got sidetracked in an administrative logjam.
text: Mr. Clinton can break the logjam by first convincing the public that he is willing to start with small but meaningful victories.
ref: 1994 August 28, “Mr. Clinton: Break the Logjam”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It is in the interest of all NATO and E.U. members to break political logjams. Our personnel operating in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and the Gulf of Aden have already learned that lesson.
ref: 2010 October 18, Ivo H. Daalder, “Breaking a Brussels Logjam”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A clog or such jam or mess that halts or greatly delays progress.
logjam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: logjams
form: logjamming
form: logjammed
form: logjammed
Etymology: From log + jam.
Senses: glosses: To deliberately impede or delay the progress of.
Related terms: bottleneck
Catch-22
traffic jam
vicious circle
bottleneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottlenecks
Etymology: From bottle + neck.
Senses: glosses: The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The narrow portion that forms the pouring spout of a bottle; the neck of a bottle.
A portion of a bottleneck placed on the finger and used as a guitar slide.
examples: text: "Permissive" working allows more than one train to be in a block section at one time but trains must be run at low speed in order to stop on sight behind the train in front. Such working is often authorised to allow freight trains to "bunch" together to await a path through a bottleneck instead of being strung out over several block sections, as would be necessary if absolute working were in force.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: The collisions at Connington”, in Modern Railways, page 232:
text: At one time, Reading was regarded as a notorious bottleneck in the rail network, almost incapable of managing the number of services that needed to pass through the station each day. [...]
 A road widening scheme at Cow Lane has also allowed two-way traffic to run beneath the railway for the first time, helping to remove a notorious road traffic bottleneck in the town.
ref: 2020 December 2, Andy Coward, “New-look Reading is willing and able”, in Rail, pages 58, 59:
glosses: In traffic, any narrowing of the road, especially resulting in a delay.
examples: text: It is easy to create entries; processing the paperwork is the bottleneck.
text: The bottleneck in this computer program is the inefficient sorting process; we should replace it with a faster one.
glosses: The part of a process that is too slow or cumbersome.
Derived terms: antibottleneck
bottleneck guitar
bottleneck inflation
debottleneck
deuterium bottleneck
genetic bottleneck
population bottleneck
postbottleneck
prebottleneck
bottleneck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bottlenecks
form: bottlenecking
form: bottlenecked
form: bottlenecked
Etymology: From bottle + neck.
Senses: examples: text: The merge bottlenecked the traffic every morning.
glosses: To slow by causing a bottleneck.
examples: text: The traffic bottlenecked at the merge every morning.
glosses: To form a bottleneck.