cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
jump at the chance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumps at the chance
form: jumping at the chance
form: jumped at the chance
form: jumped at the chance
Senses: examples: text: "What in the hell is wrong with my offer? Any woman within a hundred miles would jump at the chance to become my wife."
She stared at him, incredulous. "Well, pin a rose on your nose, you cocky bastard. […]
ref: 1996, Jane Bonander, Winter Heart, page 117:
text: When two other refugees asked him to help set up a Piaget distributorship in New York, he jumped at the chance.
ref: 2009 January 7, Douglas Martin, “G. Grinberg, Watch Baron, Dies at 77”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2020:
text: When we learned that the O.E.D. Online was revamped late last year, we jumped at the chance to learn more about how this esteemed publication (which first stirred to life in 1857) was adapting itself for a modern online audience.
ref: 2011 January 14, J. D. Biersdorfer, “ArtsBeat: The revamped O.E.D. Online”, in New York Times Blog, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2021:
text: She would probably jump at the chance to show everyone how to save an obscene amount of money with an obscene amount of coupons.
ref: 2015 February, Vivi Barnes, chapter 18, in Stacy Abrams, Tara Quigley, editors, Paper or Plastic, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Teen, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Security guard or not, Michael had jumped at the chance to steal, or in his parlance ‘twoc’, the bus.
ref: 2016, Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons & Rob Gibbons, Alan Partridge: Nomad, page 171:
text: That’s why, when I received a message that my one-time chocolate-making mentor, Philippe Vetault, was retiring from his Brittany-based chocolaterie, I jumped at the chance to attend his au revoir party.
ref: 2017, Colette London [pseudonym; Lisa Plumley], Dead and Ganache, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 3:
synonyms: jump at the opportunity
seize the opportunity
glosses: To immediately accept an offer; to seize an opportunity.
Related terms: jump on
kick butt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks butt
form: kicking butt
form: kicked butt
form: kicked butt
form: kick ass
Senses: examples: text: I never thought I'd say it, but being the governor of California kicks butt!
glosses: To be impressive; to be decisively good or pleasant.
Synonyms: rock
rule
Related terms: get one's butt kicked
lap up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laps up
form: lapping up
form: lapped up
form: lapped up
Senses: examples: text: The cat's lapping up the milk in its bowl
glosses: To consume by lapping; to drink (something) quickly.
examples: text: You could see she was pleased, she was lapping up the applause.
text: All this skirt, lappin' up the sun, lap me up
ref: 1977, “Peaches”, performed by the Stranglers:
text: City have lapped up the plaudits this season for a series of handsome wins but manager Roberto Mancini has demanded that his side also learn to grind out results when they do not play well. He now has an example to point to.
ref: 2011 November 5, Phil Dawkes, “QPR 2 - 3 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
text: Merkel, whose autobiography is out this autumn, has declined to comment publicly on the series. But fellow Germans have lapped it up, with the first series gathering 3mn viewers.
ref: 2024 July 13, Guy Chazan, “Ex-chancellor's imagined career as a sleuth hits Italian TV”, in FT Weekend, page 2:
glosses: To revel in, to overtly enjoy.
last resort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: last resorts
Senses: examples: text: I wouldn't recommend doing surgery on yourself, unless it is a last resort.
text: The present writer was once asked to name what he considered to be "the most typically English railway approach to a town": a somewhat tall order, especially as such matters will always be, in the last resort, of individual opinion. But the unhesitating answer to this question (which has not been altered after many years of extended travel throughout England) was "Sudbury, in Suffolk."
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 705:
text: "Only as an absolute last resort will we carry out enforcement in the form of fines. We are sure that the public will want to be responsible and do their part to protect others by wearing face coverings."
ref: 2020 July 15, “Transport Focus: clear message needed on face coverings”, in RAIL, page 9:
synonyms: last refuge
glosses: The only remaining, often least desirable, option when all others have been excluded.
Derived terms: drug of last resort
lender of last resort
Related terms: last-ditch
desperate times call for desperate measures
last gasp
last stand
in extremis
let it be
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets it be
form: letting it be
form: let it be
form: let it be
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: let sleeping dogs lie, let a sleeping dog lie, let bygones be bygones, let nature take its course
text: Let it be. The more you interfere, the worse it will get.
text: Whispering words of wisdom, let it be.
ref: 1970, Paul McCartney, “Let It Be”, performed by The Beatles:
synonyms: leave it be
let things be
leave things be
let it alone
leave it alone
let things alone
leave things alone
;
it is what it is
glosses: To leave something to follow its natural course; this involves desisting from any intent to intervene.
Related terms: let be
so be it
laissez faire
let off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets off
form: letting off
form: let off
form: let off
Senses: examples: text: Stand back when you let off fireworks.
text: to let off a fart
synonyms: detonate
let out
set off
touch off
glosses: To cause to explode or come out; to release.
examples: text: The boss let me off for breaking the office window, when in theory she could have fined me about 30 dollars.
synonyms: excuse
pardon
glosses: To forgive and not punish.
glosses: Synonym of leave off.
synonyms: word: leave off
Derived terms: word: let-off
loony bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loony bins
form: looney bin
Senses: examples: text: And perhaps, of course, her dreams had seemed more real to other people, too, than life could be—there was always that impossibility, more real than anything which seemed merely possible—at least in this old house by the roaring waves, this loony bin.
ref: 1965, Marguerite Young, Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, Scribner, page 426:
synonyms: word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A lunatic asylum.
stoep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
Forms: form: stoeps
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans stoep, from Dutch stoep, from Middle Dutch stoep. Doublet of stoop.
Senses: examples: text: To my surprise there was a house close beside me, a fairly large house with a broad stoep and many windows.
ref: 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1501:
text: On the stoep an old man was moving about on hands and knees with red polish and brushes and dirty cloths.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 89:
text: Why should the Police want us to spend nights hiding on other people's stoeps and beg in the streets and make a nuisance of ourselves?
ref: 1983, J. M. Coetzee, Life and Times of Michael K, Secker & Warburg, published 1983, page 18:
glosses: A raised veranda in front of a house.
Related terms: stoop
ichthyosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkθɪˈəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: ichthyoses
Etymology: From New Latin, from ichthyo- + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: A well-marked case of pseudo-leprosy or ichthyosis, a scale-like affection of the skin, unsightly, obstinate, but possibly curable, and certainly non-infective.
ref: 1926, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier, Norton, published 2005, page 1506:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: fishskin disease
glosses: A disease which gives the sufferer a dry, scaly skin.
Derived terms: dysplastic ichthyosis
harlequin ichthyosis
harlequin-type ichthyosis
ichthyosiform
ichthyosis bullosa
ichthyosis bullosa of Siemens
ichthyosis congenita
ichthyosis fetalis
ichthyosis hystrix
ichthyosis vulgaris
keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
lamellar ichthyosis
grade crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grade crossings
Senses: examples: text: In 1968 there were 1547 grade crossing fatalities. Two-thirds of the total fatalities associated with railroad operations occurred at grade crossings.
ref: 1969, United States Congress, Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1969:
glosses: An at-grade crossing between a railroad line and an ordinary road, with tracks and road at the same level.
Synonyms: word: level crossing
level crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: level crossings
Senses: examples: text: The aim is to secure up to £140 million for the combined road and rail improvements, including a new road bridge to replace a level crossing at Totton.
ref: 2020 December 16, “Network News: "Robust case" for Fawley branch reopening”, in Rail, page 14:
synonyms: word: grade crossing
word: railroad crossing
english: American English
translation: American English
coordinate_terms: level junction
glosses: An at-grade crossing between a railway line and an ordinary road, with rails and road at the same level.
Derived terms: automatic half-barrier level crossing
speaketh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: speak + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of speak
whoredom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɔːdəm/
ipa: /ˈhɔɚdəm/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dəm
Forms: form: whoredoms
Etymology: From Middle English horedom, hordom, from Old Norse hórdómr, ultimately corresponding to whore + -dom. Cognate with Swedish hordom (“whoredom”), Middle Dutch hoerdom (“whoredom”).
Senses: examples: text: And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 38:24:
text: Mother[…]considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: Force not your slave-girls to whoredom that ye may seek enjoyment of the life of the world, if they would preserve their chastity.
ref: 1930, Pickthall, Marmaduke, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, translation of The Qur'an, surah 24, verse 33:
text: the most enthusiastic punishers of whoredom were often the most evangelical Protestants, who sought the ever-further purification of society (‘Puritans’, as they came to be called in England).
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 14:
synonyms: harlotry
glosses: The state of being a whore, prostitution; sexual indulgence, fornication.
l'esprit de l'escalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛˌspɹiː də lɛsˈkal.jeɪ/
ipa: /lɛˌspɹi də ˌlɛs.kəlˈjeɪ/
ipa: /lɛˌspɹi də ˈlɛs.kɑl.jeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: esprit de l'escalier
form: esprit d'escalier
form: l'esprit d'escalier
Etymology: Borrowed from French esprit de l’escalier (literally “mind of the staircase”), with the definite article le (“the”) at the beginning of the term. It refers to a description of the phenomenon in the essay Paradoxe sur le comédien (Paradox of the Actor, completed 1778 and published 1830) by the French encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot (1713–1784).
During a dinner at the home of the statesman Jacques Necker (1732–1804), Diderot was left speechless by a remark made to him. He wrote: « l’homme sensible, comme moi, tout entier à ce qu’on lui objecte, perd la tête et ne se retrouve qu’au bas de l’escalier » (“a sensitive man, such as myself, overwhelmed by the argument levelled against him, becomes confused and can only think clearly again at the bottom of the stairs”), that is, when one is already on the way out of the house.
Senses: examples: text: Some last thoughts in l'esprit de l'escalier—afterthoughts descending the stairwell as one remembers things unsaid.
ref: 2011, Richard Kearney, “Epilogue”, in Anatheism: Returning to God after God (Insurrections), New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, part 3 (Postlude), page 182:
text: I flashed on Nancy again. The French had a word for everything: even for that thing you wished you'd said. L'esprit de l'escalier. The wit of the staircase. What I wished I'd said was this: […]
ref: 2013, Simmone Howell, Girl Defective, Sydney, N.S.W.: Pan Macmillan, →ISBN; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, September 2015, →ISBN, pages 100–101:
text: 'That's understandable,' said May, 'we get it all the time. L'esprit d'escalier—remembering what you should have said too late.'
ref: 2014, Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart (A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
text: Later, l'esprit de l'escalier provided Mercia with: Glad you're in agreement/I haven't yet spoken/Is that a greeting/Yes indeed—but at the time, affronted, she grabbed at a couple of garments and announced, I'll try these.
ref: 2014, Zoë Wicomb, October: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: The New Press, →ISBN, page 112:
synonyms: afterwit
staircase wit
glosses: The phenomenon when a conversational rejoinder or remark only occurs to someone after the opportunity to make it has passed.
wikipedia: Denis Diderot
Jacques Necker
Paradox of the Actor
Related terms: word: retrotort
OTFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of on-the-fly encryption.
Cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A professional football team located in Dallas, Texas.
glosses: Any of various high school and collegiate teams so named.
Cowboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: two kings as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em
oronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oronyms
Etymology: From oro- (“of mountains”) + -onym.
Senses: glosses: The toponym of a mountain.
oronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oronyms
Etymology: The coinage of this word is usually attributed to Gyles Brandreth (see quotation below). The etymology is unexplained, but perhaps from or + -onym.
Senses: examples: text: […]sometimes what you hear isn't what you're supposed to hear. Oronyms are sentences that can be read in two ways with the same sound.
ref: [1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, New York, NY, United States: William Morrow and Company, Inc., page 58:
text: An oronym that comes from mishearing the lyrics of a song is most often called a mondegreen.
ref: 2008, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins, page 101:
text: Vowel harmony may serve the purpose of parsing the morphosyntactic words in phrases (i.e., oronym avoidance).
ref: 2010, Andrew Nevins, Locality in Vowel Harmony, page 203:
text: The comedian Jeff Foxworthy often uses oronyms in his Appalachian comedy routine, as when he uses a sentence with moustache: "I moustache [must ask] you a question."
ref: 2012, Rod L. Evans, chapter 14, in Tyrannosaurus Lex:
glosses: A phrase or sentence that sounds the same as another phrase or sentence.
Related terms: holorhyme
eggcorn
homophone
mondegreen
paronym
1L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1Ls
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of one L.
two L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two Ls
Senses: glosses: A law student in their second year of law school.
Related terms: one L
three L
four L
two L
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Although they seem easier, two L reading assignments are actually longer... you just get used to it.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the second year of law school.
three L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three Ls
Senses: glosses: A law student in their third (and usually final) year of law school.
Related terms: one L
two L
four L
three L
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Most people I know skipped half of their three L classes.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the third year of law school.
four L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four Ls
form: 4L
form: 4-L
Senses: glosses: A law student in their fourth year of law school; generally an unusual situation occurring where a student has either taken an extended part-time curriculum, or has failed a class needed for graduation and must stay on for an extra semester after the three L year.
Related terms: one L
two L
three L
law school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law schools
Senses: examples: text: GFU has a law school called Gender-Friendly University Law School.
ref: 1998, Shimon Shetreet, Women in Law, →ISBN, page 155:
text: If the college or university has a law school or a paralegal program, there usually will not be a law library committee because law and para-legal faculty take on that role through committee meetings and their daily interactions with the library's staff.
ref: 2012, Laurie Selwyn, Public Law Librarianship, →ISBN, page 57:
text: You will find reports of legal cases in law reports which are to be found in most university libraries (provided the relevant university has a law school).
ref: 2013, Susan Wolf, Neil Stanley, Wolf and Stanley on Environmental Law, →ISBN, page 594:
glosses: An academic institution at which post-graduate students are prepared for the practice of law.
4-L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4-Ls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative spelling of four L.
4L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 4Ls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative spelling of four L.
Two L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Two Ls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: 2L
3L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3Ls
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of three L.
Two-L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Two-Ls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of 2L.
2L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2Ls
form: Two-L
form: two L
Senses: examples: text: 2L and 3L programs in moot court and trial advocacy are optional.
ref: 2001, Eric Owens, Complete Book of Law Schools, 2002 Edition, page 254:
text: During 2L year Charles was the spokesperson for a highly visible committee of graduate and undergraduate students...
ref: 2003, Richard Harrison et al., Working on Mysteries: The Coming of Age, page 26:
text: Almost every interviewer you'll see during 3L recruiting will ask you whether you received an offer from your 2L firm...
ref: 2004, Robert Harrax Miller, Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience, page 373:
topics: law
glosses: The second year of law school.
examples: text: When I told a group of 2L friends of mine about my fate my first day, they reminisced in minute detail about the first individual to be called on in their section a year earlier.
ref: 1999, Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School, page 13:
text: Few activities are more fulfilling to 2Ls and 3Ls than giving advice to new students.
ref: 2001, Andrew J. McClurg, The Law School Trip: The Insider's Guide to Law School, page 56:
text: ...it's up to the 2L member editors to make sure that an article's footnotes are accurately and correctly cited.
ref: 2003, Jungle Media Group, The JD Jungle Law School Survival Guide, page 69:
text: Many law schools assign 1L’s a 2L or 3L as a mentor for the 1L to learn from.
ref: 2005, J. Keith Essmyer, Jr., Stress, Tests, and Success: The Ultimate Law School Survival Guide, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 31:
text: The top of the 2L class landed some summer associate positions at all but the most prestigious firms in DC...
ref: 2007, Vault Editors, The Law School Buzz Book, page 297:
topics: law
glosses: A law student in the second year of law school.
2 L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2 Ls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Synonym of 2L.
synonyms: word: 2L
two-L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-Ls
Senses: topics: law
glosses: 2L
chew the cud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chews the cud
form: chewing the cud
form: chewed the cud
form: chewed the cud
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: To ruminate (of ruminant animals).
examples: text: chewed the thrice turned cud of wrath
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: George sat chewing the cud over matters. Unhappy memories.
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 46:
glosses: To meditate or ponder before answering; to be deep in thought; to ruminate.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: chew the fat
anthelmintic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænθɛlˈmɪntɪk/
Forms: form: more anthelmintic
form: most anthelmintic
form: anthelminthic
form: antihelminthic
form: antihelmintic
Etymology: From ant- + helminth + -ic; the th in helminth has become t by dissimilation.
Senses: examples: text: Research is progressing well on finding native plants with anthelmintic properties.
text: The parasites thrive in an environment of dirt, and the main lines of precaution are those dictated by sanitary science. Malefern, santonine, thymol and other anthelmintic remedies are prescribed.
ref: 1911, “Ankylostomiasis”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
text: However, the lighter boiling constituents of tne oil are much less irritating and at the same time they are apparently more anthelmintic than the heavier fraction.
ref: 1918, American Society for Microbiology, Society of American Bacteriologists, Abstracts of Bacteriology, volume 2, page 262:
text: Our experiments indicate that this constituent is anthelmintic and also a gastrointestinal irritant, while the lighter portion of the oil is apparently even more anthelmintic and much less irritating.
ref: 1919, Experiment Station Record, volume 39, page 586:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Destructive to parasitic worms.
Derived terms: anthelmintically
anthelmintic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænθɛlˈmɪntɪk/
Forms: form: anthelmintics
form: anthelminthic
form: antihelminthic
form: antihelmintic
Etymology: From ant- + helminth + -ic; the th in helminth has become t by dissimilation.
Senses: examples: text: The bark of the root is likewise valued as an anthelmintic in cases of tape-worm.
ref: 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Pomegranate:
text: Rather than give a long list of the anthelmintics available, I will describe the helminths that cause problems and then suggest methods of control.
ref: 2010, Graham R. Duncanson, Veterinary Treatment for Working Equines, page 42:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: helminthic#Noun
glosses: A drug for the treatment of worm infestation, either by killing the worms or by causing them to be expelled from the body.
Related terms: praziquantel
Norcal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɔːɹ.kæl/
Forms: form: Nor-cal
form: NorCal
Senses: antonyms: Socal
glosses: The northern half of the state of California, generally split from Socal by the Tehachapi mountain range.
self pollination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-pollination
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: the transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of a plant of the same species
Desegregation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /disɛɡɹəˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/
Senses: glosses: A specific period in United States history during which laws requiring racial segregation were struck down and the practice was deterred, beginning in the United States military during World War II and occurring in society in general from the mid-1950s.
Armada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑːˈmɑːdə/
Senses: glosses: The Spanish Armada which sailed against England in 1588.
glosses: A village in Michigan.
Levis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: As the Cohens are descendants of the Tribe of Priests, so the Levis are the tribal descendants of the Levites. https://web.archive.org/web/20070322140540/http://www.juedischesmuseum.de/judengasse/ehtml/T005.htm
glosses: descendants of the Israelite tribe of Levi; Levites
glosses: Alternative spelling of Levi's.
Levi's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Levi's brand of blue jeans, named after the company's founder, Levi Strauss (1829–1902).
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:
glosses: Blue jeans.
wikipedia: Levi Strauss
Levi's
blue jeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue jean
Senses: examples: text: My mother was a tailor / She sewed my new blue jeans / My father was a gamblin' man / Down in New Orleans
ref: 1964, “The House of the Rising Sun”, performed by The Animals:
glosses: A pair of trousers made from denim cotton and dyed dark blue.
Tropic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tropics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tropic (one of two specific lines of latitude that divide the Northern and Southern hemispheres, respectively; the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn).
Fantasyland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fantasylands
Etymology: Perhaps capitalized under the influence of Walt Disney's Fantasyland theme park areas, which are noted for containing imagery relating to fairy tales.
Senses: examples: text: If your dream depends a lot on luck, then you're in trouble. If it depends entirely on luck, you're living in Fantasyland. ... People who build their dream on reality take a very different approach to dreams than do people who live in Fantasyland.
ref: 2009, John C. Maxwell, Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions That Will Help You See It and Seize It, page 50:
text: Yes, I escaped into Fantasyland. However, I could just as easily have become a serial killer, a prostitute, a child beater, or a politician.
ref: 2007, Colleen Sell, A Cup of Comfort for Writers, page 28:
text: On a scale diagram, with the percentage of households on the vertical axis and the percentage of aggregate income on the horizontal axis, plot the Lorenz curve for Fantasyland.
ref: 2003, Richard G. Lipsey, Christopher Ragan, Economics, page 327:
text: A typical Fantasyland will display - often initially by means of a prefatory MAP - a selection, sometimes very full, from a more or less fixed list of landscape ingredients..."
ref: 1999, John Clute, John Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, page 341:
text: Maybe this Fantasyland, as the egg woman called it, would counteract all the weirdness that had been accumulating since. ... Once this Fantasyland had kicked in, he would be on autopilot: all the necessary motivation would be provided for him.
ref: 1997, Jay Gummerman, Chez Chance, page 174:
text: Now leave Fantasyland and go back to the days of fur traders.
ref: 1986, Elma Schemenauer, Hello Edmonton, page 15:
glosses: Alternative form of fantasyland.
Spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /spɜː(ɹ)z/
Forms: form: Spurses
Etymology: From spur.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: San Antonio Spurs
glosses: An occupational surname from Middle English
Synonyms: word: Spoor
word: Spoore
word: Spoores
word: Spoors
word: Spor
word: Spore
word: Spores
word: Spors
word: Spur
Derived terms: Spursy
Spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /spɜː(ɹ)z/
Etymology: From spur.
Senses: glosses: plural of Spur
Spurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spɜː(ɹ)z/
Etymology: From spur.
Senses: glosses: plural of Spur
mesdames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madam
glosses: plural of madame
design to cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A process or program to design a product or service to an optimum cost to value ratio.
dreamscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamscapes
Etymology: From dream + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: He walked between his parents as though through a dreamscape towards the grand building.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 75:
glosses: The landscape within a dream
Related terms: dreamland
dreamworld
Mademoiselle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mesdemoiselles
form: Mademoiselles
Senses: examples: text: To Mesdemoiselles ELIZABETH and LUCY OAKLEY, […]
ref: 1822 August 3, Benjamin Oakley, Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the Writer’s Family, and a Few Select Friends, London: […] J. Moyes, […], published 1823, page 349:
text: The Malmaison Troupe, if I may thus style actors of such exalted social rank, consisted principally of Eugène, Jérôme, Lauriston, de Bourrienne, Isabey, de Leroy, Didelot, Mademoiselle Hortense, Madame Caroline Murat, and the two Mademoiselles Auguié, one of whom afterwards married Marshal Ney, and the other M. de Broc.
ref: 1895, [Louis] Constant [Wairy], translated by Walter Clark, Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon, volume I, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: H. M. Caldwell Co. […], page 59:
text: […] Galatea and two of the Graces were performed by Sallé’s former pupils, Mademoiselle Puvignée and the two Mademoiselles Lany.
ref: 2007, Sarah McCleave, “Marie Sallé, a Wise Professional Woman of Influence”, in Lynn Matluck Brooks, editor, Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800, The University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mademoiselle.
orphaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orphaned
form: most orphaned
Senses: synonyms: disparented
parentless
unparented
glosses: Made an orphan by the death of one's parents.
examples: text: I found an orphaned project, half-completed before its author quit, and decided to finish it.
synonyms: word: dropped
word: forsaken
word: abandoned
word: derelict
word: deserted
word: desolate
word: discarded
word: dropped
word: forlorn
word: forsaken
word: high and dry
word: left behind
word: orphaned
glosses: Abandoned.
Derived terms: deorphaned
nonorphaned
orphaned negative
orphaned tsunami
orphaned work
unorphaned
orphaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orphan
salah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɑː/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salat.
salah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɑː/
ipa: /ˈsɑlɑ/
ipa: /səˈlɑː/
Etymology: From Malay salah.
Senses: glosses: Wrong, incorrect.
fill up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills up
form: filling up
form: filled up
form: filled up
Senses: synonyms: jam
glosses: To make (something) completely full.
examples: text: It costs a fortune these days to fill up.
text: "Game over," Waddicor warns. "Look at the fuel gauge. Someone's forgotten to fill up." The heavily laden train has come from Freightliner's Maritime Terminal in Southampton's western docks. Waddicor reckons there might not be enough diesel in the tank to complete the journey.
ref: 2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “A driver's eye view of East West Rail”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 30:
glosses: To fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel.
glosses: To become completely full.
glosses: To become tearful as a result of strong emotion.
examples: text: The teachers that taught me weren't cool. / You're holding me down, / Turning me 'round, / Filling me up with your rules.
ref: 1967, Lennon–McCartney, “Getting Better”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, performed by The Beatles:
glosses: To annoy, or displease, by taunting, or by excessive nagging.
examples: text: Thanks for the chocolate cake – it really filled me up!
glosses: To satisfy the hunger of (someone).
examples: text: We've scoured these science and tapped the top experts to help you learn how to do just that. Use these seven simple strategies, and you'll fill up without filling out.
ref: 2008 October, David Schipper, “Outsmart your stomach: Seven ways to fill your gut—and lose it, too”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: To satisfy one's hunger; to stop being hungry.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a full house on the turn or the river.
glosses: To fill in / fill out a form etc.
examples: text: Our Father’s Death
Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War,
And cloſe the Scene of Blood.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
glosses: To make complete, to bring to a full development.
Related terms: fed up
get one's fill
pandan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpændən/
rhymes: -ændən
Forms: form: pandans
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay pandan, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paŋdan. Doublet of hala via Hawaiian.
Senses: glosses: A screw pine, screw palms (Pandanus spp.).
examples: text: “Like vanilla, but better,” she explains. “It’s fragrant and herbal, like you’re taking a big breath of the forest. I can’t believe white people haven’t learned about pandan yet.”
ref: 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 17:
glosses: A traditional Malay food flavouring derived from the leaves of Pandanus amaryllifolius.
pandanus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænˈdeɪnəs/
rhymes: -eɪnəs
Forms: form: pandanuses
form: pandan
Etymology: From New Latin pandanus, from Malay pandan.
Senses: examples: text: A girl of fifteen, perhaps, was plaiting pandanus-leaf to make a hat, and an old woman was sitting on her haunches smoking a pipe.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 53”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Cut the pandanus leaves to fit into the steamer, then place them over the tea towel or muslin cloth. If using pandanus essence, do not add at this stage. Spoon the rice onto the leaves and spread evenly. Steam, covered, over rapidly boiling water for 30 minutes.
ref: 2012, Rohani Jelani, Homestyle Malay Cooking, Periplus Editions, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of various palm-like plants in the genus Pandanus.
Synonyms: pandan
screw palm
screw pine
Derived terms: pandanus language
pandanus palm
kalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian kalo. Doublet of taro, from Maori.
Senses: examples: text: Three hundred varieties of kalo are named in the Hawaiian language, 85 of which are still known today. In addition to being the source of the staple Hawaiian food poi, kalo was also used for fishing bait and as a dye.
ref: 2010 December 31, Charles H. Fletcher, Robynne Boyd, William J. Neal, Virginia Tice, Living on the Shores of Hawaii: Natural Hazards, the Environment, and Our Communities, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: taro (Colocasia esculenta)
diploma mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diploma mills
Senses: glosses: A business that sells fake diplomas or academic degrees.
topics: education
glosses: A disreputable university, churning out diplomas to unqualified students.
Coordinate terms: accreditation mill
ordination mill
paper mill
tangis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangi
tolu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolus
Etymology: From Spanish Tolú (“town in Colombia where the tree is found”), from tolúes (“name of a pre-Columbian people of the area”).
Senses: glosses: The resinous secretion of Myroxylon balsamum, used in cough syrups and perfumery.
Derived terms: toluene
beat one's meat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats one's meat
form: beating one's meat
form: beat one's meat
form: beaten one's meat
form: beat one's meat
form: beat the meat
Senses: examples: text: I beat my meat instead of having intercourse.
ref: 1948, Psychiatric quarterly (New York State Dept. of Mental Hygiene), volume 22, page 243:
text: 7. Is masturbation harmful? Does it cause acne, etc.?
8. How does a girl beat her meat?
ref: 1967, American Academy of Psychotherapists, Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, page 41:
text: You get in a heat, you get in a sulk
But you still keep a-beating your meat to pulp
And you're an orgasm addict,
ref: 1977, Buzzcocks, Orgasm Addict:
text: After that greatest Peeper since Tom, Duck Prick-puller Allsop, had made watching bowers where he could lie in comfort and see the sex-active grubs and molls at it, beat his own meat and pleasure himself with some smooth thick stick.
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 143:
glosses: To masturbate manually by stroking or rubbing one's penis.
examples: text: He had had the theory that all this space stuff was just the Soviet Union beating its meat, shooting off into space. Other than that he couldn't imagine the slightest use for it all. Space was, after all, space — with nothing in it.
ref: 1991, William Barton, Michael Capobianco, Fellow Traveler, Spectra, →ISBN:
glosses: To waste time; to engage in an unproductive activity.
Synonyms: sense: masturbate
word: masturbate
sense: waste time
word: fanny about
sense: waste time
word: spin one's wheels
T-zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-zones
Etymology: From T + zone, from the shape of the region.
Senses: glosses: The forehead and nose considered together as a region of the face that can, in some people, produce excess sebum compared to other parts of the face.
Related terms: skincare
why not
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to go out today. — Why not?
glosses: Why is that so? (for a negative statement)
examples: text: Let's have pizza for lunch. — Yeah, why not?
qualifier: rhetorical
glosses: Used to state that one has no objection to and approves of a proposal.
examples: text: Why not try turning the handle in the other direction to see if that opens the window?
qualifier: rhetorical
glosses: Used to introduce a proposal.
Synonyms: sense: why is that not true
word: why?
sense: why is that not true
word: how come?
sense: to show one has no objection
word: all right
sense: to show one has no objection
word: OK
sense: to introduce a proposal
word: how about
sense: to introduce a proposal
word: what if
mneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːm/
Forms: form: mnemes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Mneme which was coined by German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon in 1904. First attested in English in 1921 where it was capitalized Mneme. From Ancient Greek μνήμη (mnḗmē).
Senses: examples: text: If the engraphia of the external world could sensibly modify in a few generations the hereditary mneme of the species, it appears evident that the Jewish infants of the present day would be born without prepuce, or at least with an atrophied one.
ref: 1911, Auguste Forel, The Sexual question, page 34:
glosses: Persisting effect of memory of past events.
wikipedia: Richard Semon
koa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊə/
Forms: form: koas
form: koa
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian koa. Doublet of toa.
Senses: examples: text: As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 59:
text: The outer frame is made of koa and maple.
ref: 2007 March 18, Anne Eisenberg, “How to Soften the Edges of Technology”, in New York Times:
text: At her funeral, Likelike's body was placed in a polished koa coffin, adorned with sprays of gardenia […].
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 122:
glosses: A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.
Derived terms: koa finch
koa wilt
atua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atuas
form: atua
Etymology: From Maori atua. Compare Tahitian atua, Samoan atua, Hawaiian akua.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing was taken from the domain of these atua without respect, propitiation and expressions of gratitude.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 127:
glosses: A spiritual being in Polynesian culture; a god or demon.
nanomedicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanomedicines
Etymology: From nano- + medicine.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of nanotechnology for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medicine containing nanoparticles.
dendrimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dendrimers
Etymology: From dendr- + -mer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer or oligomer having multiple branches of atoms strung off a central spine.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph formed of branches from a central core.
Derived terms: dendrigraft
dendrimeric
dendrimersome
glycodendrimer
interdendrimer
monodendrimer
oligodendrimer
peptidodendrimer
telodendrimer
safer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of safe: more safe
deterministic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌtɜː.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /dɪˌtɝ.mɪˈnɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more deterministic
form: most deterministic
Etymology: From determinist + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: indeterministic
glosses: Of, or relating to determinism.
examples: text: Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.
ref: 2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 81:
topics: mathematics
sciences
antonyms: nondeterministic
glosses: Having at most one instruction associated with any given internal state.
raw_tags: of a Turing machine
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having exactly predictable time evolution.
raw_tags: of a system
examples: text: On the other hand, if the genetic algorithm has many advantages, their computation cost is higher as compared with deterministic algorithms.
ref: 2014, Hélder Rodrigues et al., editors, Engineering Optimization, volume IV, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 311:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: nondeterministic
glosses: For a given particular input, always producing the same output through the same sequence of states.
raw_tags: of an algorithm
Derived terms: deterministically
deterministic Turing machine
ecodeterministic
nondeterministic
semideterministic
spatiodeterministic
superdeterministic
undeterministic
carbosilane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbosilanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound containing carbon-to-silicon covalent bonds, especially one having the branched polymeric structure of a dendrimer
Derived terms: polycarbosilane
differential thermal analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DTA
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry; materials science; analytical chemistry; materials science
glosses: The branch of materials science that studies the temperature dependant properties of materials compared with some reference material.
differential thermal analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differential thermal analyses
form: DTA
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry; materials science; analytical chemistry; materials science
glosses: The application of a thermoanalytic technique involving recording any temperature difference between sample and reference materials that are undergoing identical thermal cycles.
dehydroarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dehydroarenes
Etymology: From de- + hydro- + arene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any transient species formally derived by abstraction of two hydrogen atoms from each of two rings of an arene
Related terms: aryne
dehydrobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌhaɪdɹəʊˈbɛnziːn/
Forms: form: dehydrobenzenes
Etymology: From dehydro- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a benzyne
benzyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of benzene formally produced by abstraction of two hydrogen atoms, especially one produced by abstraction from neighboring atoms to produce a formal triple bond.
Related terms: ortho-benzyne
meta-benzyne
para-benzyne
bokor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bokors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bocor.
Ramazan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish رمضان (ramazan) (Turkish ramazan), from Arabic رَمَضَان (ramaḍān).
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Ramadan.
depside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depsides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of polymeric esters formed from phenolic benzoic acids, especially such compounds found in lichen
Derived terms: depsidone
didepside
tridepside
cair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cairs
form: cairing
form: caired
form: caired
Etymology: From Middle English cairen, kayren, from Old Norse keyra (“to whip, lash, fling, toss, prick on, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *kaurijaną (“tu turn, sweep”). Cognate with Icelandic keyra (“to run, drive, urge”), Swedish köra (“to drive, go, run”), Danish køre (“to drive”), Norwegian Bokmål kjøre (“to drive”), Norwegian Nynorsk køyra (“to drive”), Old English ċierran (“to turn, change, go, come”). More at char.
Senses: glosses: To go.
glosses: To carry.
glosses: To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
cair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”).