cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cephalitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cephal- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: phrenitis
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: phrenitis
encephalitis
meningoencephalitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meningoencephalitis
real gone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: outrageously cool, wild and carefree
unmired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mired.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, as a financial journalist previously unmired in disputes of academic priority, I would say Mandelbrot's batting average for correctly analyzing market behavior would accord him a place in the Economics Hall of Fame.
ref: 2010, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson, The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward:
glosses: Not mired.
nondysfunctional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dysfunctional.
Senses: glosses: Not dysfunctional.
cohibit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: cohibits
form: cohibiting
form: cohibited
form: cohibited
Etymology: From Latin cohibitus, past participle of cohibere (“to confine”), from co- + habere (“to hold”). Compare inhibit.
Senses: examples: text: the proper Cure to cohibit so pernicious a Symptom
ref: 1678, J. S., A Short Compendium of Chirurgery:
glosses: To restrain; to inhibit.
cohibited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cohibit
cohibiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cohibit
cohibits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cohibit
holonymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more holonymous
form: most holonymous
Etymology: From holonym + -ous.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Having the nature or property of a holonym.
king of the doos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kings of the doos
form: King of the Doos
Etymology: From king + of + the + Scots doo (“dove”). Compare king of the mullets (Dicentrarchus labrax, Apogon imberbis) and similar terms.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of English Carrier.
synonyms: word: English Carrier
kings of the doos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kings of the Doos
Senses: glosses: plural of king of the doos ( = English Carrier)
centibel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centibels
Etymology: From centi- + bel.
Senses: glosses: A measure of sound intensity that is one hundredth of a bel on the logarithmic intensity scale.
centibels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centibel
SIMAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Similarity Matrix of Protein: a freely accessible database of protein similarities created using distributed computing.
VGTU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Vilniaus Gedimino Technikos Universitetas) in Lithuania.
weddinged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wedding
weddinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wedding
Austrophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstɹə(ʊ)fəʊb/
Forms: form: Austrophobes
Etymology: From Austro- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: The shift after 1737 towards a more pro-Austrian policy was unpopular with the Foreign Minister, a noted Austrophobe.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 119–20:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Someone who fears or dislikes Austria or the Austrians.
Austrophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Austrophobe
diocesans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diocesan
Rudyard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹʌd.jəɹd/
Senses: glosses: A lakeside village in Horton parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9558).
glosses: A township and unincorporated community therein, in Chippewa County, Michigan, United States, apparently named after Rudyard Kipling.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Hill County, Montana, United States.
glosses: A male given name.
Kipling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪp.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: Kiplings
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: Rudyard Kipling, a British writer.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community in Center Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A placename
A town in the Rural Municipality of Kingsley, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Kip
Kiplingese
Kiplingesque
Kiplingian
Kiplingism
neo-colony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-colonies
form: neocolony
Etymology: From neo- + colony.
Senses: examples: text: Cuba was the last of the independent Latin American countries to throw off the Spanish yoke and the first to become a full-fledged neo-colony of the United States.
ref: 1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 201:
glosses: A country, especially a former colony, controlled or dominated by another country, by the use of economic pressure, political suppression and cultural dominance.
neocolony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocolonies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neo-colony.
ASBOing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ASBO
ASBOed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ASBO
mélangeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mélangeurs
Senses: examples: text: The water to be purified is first put in an inclosed vessel, called the mixing vessel, or mélangeur. This is done by a pipe running close to the bottom of the mélangeur, and widens there to a kind of rose. The lime-water, previously prepared in a vessel situated higher is also injected into the mélangeur.
ref: 1882, “The Brewing Materials”, in William T. Brannt, transl., edited by A. Schwarz and A. H. Bauer, The Theory and Practice of the Preparation of Malt and the Fabrication of Beer, with Especial Reference to the Vienna Process of Brewing, Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry Carey Baird & Co.; London: Sampson Low, Searle & Rivington, translation of original by Julius E. Thausing, section “The Purifying of the Water”, pages 130–131:
text: The blood is mixed in a mélangeur—that is, a capillary tube one extremity of which is blown into a bulb having a capacity of 100 c.mm.[…]The mélangeur is marked at 0.5, 1 c.mm. and 101 c.mm.
ref: 1896, A. A. Stevens, A Manual of the Practice of Medicine: Prepared Especially for Students, pages 492 and 493:
text: From the mills the mass passes to the mélangeurs to be mixed with sugar and other ingredients; thence to the refiners, which it leaves in a powder form; then to the hot room, or again to the mélangeur, according to the degree of fineness and smoothness desired, or to the conche there to be pounded away at until it attains that delicacy of feel to the palate which is so much appreciated at the present day.
ref: 1922, George Henry Richardson, Cocoa: Chocolate & Confectionery Manufacturers’ Accounts, London: Gee & Co, (Publishers) Ltd., page 4:
text: White and red blood cell mélangeurs served as volumetric vessels.[…]Macroscopical observation showed that the turbid pink mixture of blood and ammonium oxalate solution drawn into the mélangeur becomes reddish transparent within a few minutes.
ref: 1965, Folia Histochemica et Cytochemica, Polish Scientific Publishers, pages 339–340:
text: The dry powder was returned to the mélangeur, where the powder was again turned into dough. Grinding alternated between the roller refiner and the mélangeur until the chocolate reached a desired degree of fineness [20].
ref: 2009, Rodney Snyder, Bradley Foliart Olsen, Laura Pallas Brindle, “From Stone Metates to Steel Mills: The Evolution of Chocolate Manufacturing”, in Louis Evan Grivetti, Howard-Yana Shapiro, editors, Chocolate: History, Culture, and Heritage, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part X (Production, Manufacturing, and Contemporary Activities), section “Chocolate Manufacturing, 1850–1900”, page 614:
text: Pour the cocoa butter in the mélangeur and then add 20 percent of the sugar. Turn on the mélangeur. Add 20 percent of the milk powder. Alternate additions of sugar with the milk powder (20 percent each time) until they are all in the mélangeur.
ref: 2012, Francisco J. Migoya, The Culinary Institute of America, “The Basic Elements”, in The Elements of Dessert, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, section “White Chocolate and Other Varieties of White Chocolate”, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of melangeur.
mixer tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixer taps
Senses: glosses: A tap in which the amount of hot and cold water emerging from a single outlet can be independently varied, usually with a lever
-esses
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: plural of -ess
mensurations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mensuration
mélangeurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mélangeur
narkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of narky: more narky
narkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of narky: most narky
tundishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tundish
preheatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preheat + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being preheated.
German wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German wheels
Senses: examples: text: First is the German Wheel, two metal hoops six feet in circumference, joined at six points. Inside, gymnast Chris Lashua rolls, turns and spins through a series of gravity-defying somersaults and acrobatics.
ref: 1997 February, “Big Top For Your Head”, in Orange Coast Magazine, page 36:
topics: arts
circus
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: An apparatus made up of two large, usually steel rings joined together by a set of parallel steel bars.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see German, wheel.
camail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmeɪl/
ipa: /ˈkæm.eɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: camails
Etymology: Borrowed in the late 1600s from French camail, from Old Occitan capmalh.
Senses: examples: text: […] the hood was increasingly replaced with a mail curtain (the camail or aventail) suspended from the outside of the bascinet, and the bascinet thus augmented gradually replaced the clumsy great helm as the principal defense […]
ref: 1995, William W. Kibler, Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 126:
synonyms: aventail
glosses: A piece of chainmail worn to protect the neck and shoulders, replacing the whole-head coif.
glosses: An ecclesiastical ornament worn by bishops.
Derived terms: camailed
Summers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Doddridge County, West Virginia, United States.
Derived terms: Summers County
Summers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Summer + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Summer
lazy initialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy initialisations
form: lazy initialization
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A creational design pattern that uses the tactic of delaying an expensive process, like the creation of an object, until the first time it is needed.
lazy initialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy initialisation
lazy evaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy evaluation
lazy initialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazy initializations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lazy initialisation.
lazy initializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lazy initialization
exclusive disjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclusive disjunctions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A disjunction which is true if only one, but not both, of its disjuncts is true.
Hypernyms: disjunction
Coordinate terms: inclusive disjunction
Related terms: exclusive or
XOR
inclusive disjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusive disjunctions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A disjunction which is true if at least one of its disjuncts is true.
Hypernyms: disjunction
Coordinate terms: exclusive disjunction
Related terms: inclusive or
OR
wild strawberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild strawberry
wood strawberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood strawberry
mercurochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercurochromes
Etymology: From a trademark.
Senses: examples: text: Then the doctor came bustling in, brown-mustached, blue-tied, spectacled, carrying a tan bag, and behind him followed the two ambulance men, one with a thatch of flaming red hair and the other with a stain of mercurochrome on his jacket-sleeve.
ref: 1951, H. Beam Piper, Dearest:
text: Jenny was sining on the closed lid of the toilet, her long legs stretched out in front of her so that he could treat the cuts with mercurochrome.
ref: 1984, Harry Adam Knight, Carnosaur:
text: Oocyst counts in mosquitoes were made 7 days postinfection on midguts dissected from 30 gravid females and then stained with 0.5% mercurochrome.
ref: 2000 January 7, Richard E. L. Paul et al., “Sex Determination in Malaria Parasites”, in Science, volume 287, number 5450, →DOI, pages 128–131:
text: While expounding the other day on the lost antiseptic mercurochrome, I mentioned that vaccines once contained an antibacterial and antifungal agent called thimerosal.
ref: 2007 June 8, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: merbromin
Mesdemoiselles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mademoiselle
body temperatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body temperature
social skills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social skill
Senses: examples: text: Interviews with families highlighted the lack of accessible and supportive social environments and concerns about insufficient social skills training, even though both children and parents desired social contact.
ref: 2025 August 13, Müjdat Erarkadaş, Kübra Özmeral Erarkadaş, Şahika Gülen Şişmanlar, “Autism Spectrum Disorder Beyond Childhood: A Comprehensive Assessment of Activities of Daily Living and Social Functioning in Turkish Adults”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: technical skills
glosses: The personal skills needed for successful social communication and interaction.
Related terms: people person
soft skill
Nilas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Nila
camails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camail
mercurochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercurochrome
méridienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: méridiennes
form: meridienne
Etymology: From French méridienne, feminine of méridien (“meridian; noon (attributive)”), from its typical use: rest in the middle of the day, when the sun is near the meridian.
Senses: examples: text: Méridiennes have sold for up to $19,000 a pair, a bid posted at Morton’s. “Méridiennes such as that one are the rare pieces that bring top dollar,” says Phillip Alford, Morton’s nineteenth-century furniture expert.
ref: 1981, Americana, page 24, column 2:
text: Silk velvet on the méridiennes is from Manuel Canovas; Clarence House fabric covers the sofa and front of fauteuils.
ref: 1990, Architectural Digest, page 260:
text: This, too, has now been restored and reupholstered, and the unusual pair of méridiennes (short daybeds) will be installed on either side of the mantlepiece in the upstairs hall.
ref: 1990, Museum Notes, page 23:
glosses: An asymmetrical daybed with a high head-rest, and a lower foot-rest, joined by a sloping piece.
méridiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of méridienne
English Carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English Carriers
Senses: synonyms: Carrier
carrier pigeon
English Carrier pigeon
king of the doos
Old English Carrier
old English Carrier
old English carrier
Old English Carrier pigeon
glosses: Columba livia domestica, an old breed of fancy pigeon.
Related terms: word: barb
word: carrier
english: i.e., homer, homing pigeon
translation: i.e., homer, homing pigeon
word: carrier pigeon
word: dragoon
word: homer
word: homing pigeon
word: horseman
word: Persian wattle pigeon
word: racer
word: racing pigeon
english: wattle pigeon, pigeon with wattles
translation: wattle pigeon, pigeon with wattles
word: wattled pigeon
word: also:
alt: Scandaroon
word: Bagdad of Nuremberg
word: Franconian Bagdad
alt: Bagadais Français
word: French Bagdad
word: Spaniard
word: Steinheim Bagdad
leather cheerio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leather cheerios
Senses: glosses: An anus.
bedream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedreams
form: bedreaming
form: bedreamt
form: bedreamt
form: bedreamed
form: bedreamed
Etymology: From be- + dream.
Senses: examples: text: O learned John, but thou art grown fantastic
As a romancer! thou art quite bedream'd[…]
ref: 1840, George Darley, Thomas à Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle in Five Acts:
text: I had only to turn it, the soul's own image to see there: — Beauty that might bedream the sleep of a youthful immortal![…]
ref: 1901, Morrison Heady, The Double Night and Other Poems:
text: In the last verse there is hope — a prayer of hope — that in his new-found liberation he will create again: But lo, in this pathway of duty, To the past, I, at least, can be true, And the mists that bedream it with beauty[…]
ref: 1978, Ralph Friedman, Tracking Down Oregon:
glosses: To dream about; bestow with dreams or impart dreams unto.
Åland Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Åland
form: Aaland Islands
Senses: glosses: A region of Finland. Swedish speaking group of islands between Finland and Sweden.
akro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acro-.
extraordinary renditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraordinary rendition
flone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flones
form: flane
form: flain
Etymology: From Middle English flon, flone, flan, from Old English flān (“barb, arrow, javelin, dart”), from Proto-Germanic *flainaz (“fork-point, prong, hook, spear-tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)plei- (“to divide, split, splice”). Cognate with Icelandic fleinn (“thorn, arrow, dart, pike, fluke”).
Senses: glosses: An arrow.
Related terms: flo
monkey trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey trails
Senses: glosses: A beaten path where children play.
monkey trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monkey trail
chili sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chili sauces
Senses: glosses: Hot sauce.
pepper sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pepper sauces
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hot sauce.
synonyms: word: hot sauce
glosses: A sauce made with peppercorns, served with steak etc.
forsteal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forsteals
form: forstealing
form: forstole
form: forstolen
Etymology: From Middle English forstelen, from Old English forstelan (“to steal away, steal, rob, deprive”), from Proto-Germanic *farstelaną, *frastelaną (“to steal, steal away”), equivalent to for- + steal. Cognate with Middle Low German vorstelen (“to steal away”), Middle High German ferstelan (“to steal away”).
Senses: examples: text: Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]
ref: 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
glosses: To steal away, rob, deprive.
forsteal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forsteals
Etymology: Variant of forestall.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of forestall.
scobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒbz/
Etymology: From Latin scobs, or scobis, from scabere (“to scrape”).
Senses: examples: text: This was so much the case in antient times that the floor of the dining room was generally covered with scobs or sawdust to absorb what Seneca calls the purgamenta et jactus cænantium, the “excretions and discharges of the guests." The scobs became at length a point of luxury. Heliogabalus ordered the portico to be strewed in lieu of scobs with gold and silver dust, and lamented that he could not find amber enough for that purpose.
ref: 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels Through France and Italy:
text: Dump your wet scobs in the trash barrel, replace your dust pan, hand broom and #10 can.
ref: 2012, Robert Colacurcio, The Education of Grandpa Bobar: In Pursuit of Excellence, page 29:
text: On our knees we began by sprinkling “scobs” (lightly oiled sawdust) on a cement stair, then with a hand broom, sweeping those scobs down to the next stair, until we got to the bottom.
ref: 2012, J. Richard Murray, Seen and Unseen Worlds: Private Memoirs of a Former Jesuit, page 37:
text: The Uncles Brickell, Swarfega kings, enseamed with swarf and scobs, skin measled with gunmetal but glistening faintly, loud in the smoke.
ref: 2014, John Goodby, “The Uncles”, in Songs of Ourselves, page 27:
glosses: Raspings of wood, ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance.
examples: text: The scobs thereof Diose, helps those that are hurt by quicksilver, taken inwardly, or used outwardly, it attracting to it selfe
ref: 1661, Robert Lovell, Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, page 13:
text: scobs and ashes of graphite
ref: 1919, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 192, Issues 5-9, page 68:
text: A scow laden with dead horse , and another laden with scobs and foundry slag, floated by.
ref: 1930, Bernard Levi Jefferson, Paul Landis, Arthur Wellesley Secord, Literary Studies for Rhetoric Classes, page 631:
synonyms: scoria
glosses: The dross of metals.
scobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒbz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scob
scobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɒbz/
Senses: glosses: plural of scob
mad-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad-apples
Etymology: Calque of Renaissance Latin malum insanum, itself calqued from Italian melanzana, reanalyzed as if mela insana, perhaps under the influence of beliefs that it could cause various diseases. See further etymology at melongene.
Senses: glosses: eggplant; aubergine
mad-apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mad-apple
carangoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carangoid
form: most carangoid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Belonging to the Carangidae, a family of fishes allied to the mackerels.
carangoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carangoids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish of the family Carangidae.
culrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old English culrage, culrache; probably from Old French cul (“the buttock”) + rage; compare French curage.
Senses: glosses: smartweed
top-hamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top-hampers
Senses: examples: text: There were the pitching of the vessel, the hissing of the waters, the dashing of spray, the shocks that menaced annihilation to the little craft as she plunged into the seas, the undying howl of the wind, and the fearful drift. The last was the most serious danger; for, though exceedingly weatherly under her canvas, and totally without top-hamper, the Scud was so light, that the combing of the swells would seem at times to wash her down to leeward with a velocity as great as that of the surges themselves.
ref: 1840, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder, Chapter 16:
text: At the same time sleet and hail were driving with all fury against us. We clewed down, and hauled out the reef- tackles again, and close-reefed the fore-topsail, and furled the main, and hove her to on the starboard tack. Here was an end to our fine prospects. We made up our minds to head winds and cold weather; sent down the royal yards, and unrove the gear; but all the rest of the top hamper remained aloft, even to the sky-sail masts and studding-sail booms.
ref: 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC:
text: "Want to make land, eh?" I girded down at him. "Getting hungry, eh? Well, you won't make land or anything else in a thousand years once you get all your top-hamper piled down on deck."
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rigging, spars, etc., stored above the deck of a ship.
top-hampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top-hamper
shamoying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See shammy and -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who shamoys.
come to power
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coming to power
form: comes to power
form: came to power
form: come to power
Senses: glosses: To be installed in high office, for example as a king, president, or prime minister.
forspill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forspills
form: forspilling
form: forspilled
form: forspilled
form: forspilt
form: forspilt
Etymology: From Middle English forspillen, from Old English forspillan, forspildan (“to waste, lose, disperse, bring to nothing, destroy, ruin, kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *furispilþijan. Equivalent to for- + spill. Cognate with Old High German farspildan, Dutch verspillen (“to waste”), Swedish förspilla (“to waste”).
Senses: examples: text: In fine, all these treasures, like snow on the wold, Three days lain, then to nothing forspilled, suppose.
ref: 1898, Omar Khayyam, John Payne, Villon Society, The quatrains of Omar Kheyyam of Nishapour:
text: In questing for the talisman That ruled the wished-for treasure, The world on me, for grief of her, Was all forspilled; and 'twas not.
ref: 2011, John Payne Hafiz, The Collected Poems of Hafiz:
glosses: To destroy; ruin; lose.
archaei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaeus
forstop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fə(ɹ)ˈstɒp/
Forms: form: forstops
form: forstopping
form: forstopped
form: forstopped
form: forstopt
form: forstopt
Etymology: From Middle English forstoppen, from Old English forstoppian (“to stop up, close”), equivalent to for- + stop. Cognate with Dutch verstoppen (“to clog, obstruct, conceal”), German verstopfen (“to block, clog, plug, stop up”), Swedish förstoppa (“to constipate”).
Senses: glosses: To stop up; block; clog; obstruct; to stifle (the breath); to dam up (a watercourse).
QUILTBAG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quiltbag
Etymology: Coined by Sadie Lee as an inclusive self-designation for minority sexual and gender identities.
Senses: examples: text: There’s a reason that people supporting marriage and fighting hardest for it are primarily middle class white gays and lesbians, because, for them, marriage may be the ‘final frontier,’ while other members of the QUILTBAG community are fighting with issues like ‘how to stay alive when your parents have kicked you out of the house for being gay’ and ‘how to get hormone treatments when you are an undocumented immigrant making less than minimum wage.’
ref: 2010 September 17, S. E. Smith, “Separate but equal is still unequal”, in This Ain’t Livin’, archived from the original on 23 Sep 2010:
text: And so not all queer writing is quiltbag, and neither is all quiltbag writing queer.
ref: 2011 February 15, Wendy Gay Pearson with Hollinger, Veronica and Gordon, Joan, Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 47:
text: I doubt that there's a lack of QUILTBAG gamers who want an inclusive experience, and who are still feeling the sting of other oversights BioWare has made to their personhood.
ref: 2011 March 28, Ouyang Dan, “The Games We Play: The Straight Male Gamer's Privilege”, in Bitch Magazine, retrieved 22 May 2012:
text: Over the past few decades, stories have slowly changed from being the kind where the author first explains how QUILTBAG people might come to exist and be acceptable (see Joanna Russ’s The Female Man, in which a group of women become lesbians because they’re stuck for centuries on a planet without men) to the kinds where we take it for granted that QUILTBAG people need no speculative explanation (see Elizabeth Bear’s Carnival, in which there’s a planet run by lesbians because some radical lesbian separatists—people who already exist in present day Earth culture—decided to start their own colony).
ref: 2012 March 6, Julia Rios, “Reaching into the QUILTBAG: the Evolving World of Queer Speculative Fiction”, in Apex Magazine, retrieved 22 May 2012:
glosses: Acronym of Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans (Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay/Genderqueer.
Coordinate terms: the list at LGBT
forsling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forslings
form: forslinging
form: forslung
form: forslong
form: forslung
form: forslong
form: forslongen
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle Dutch verslinden, from Old Dutch *farslindan (“to devour”), from Proto-West Germanic *fraslindan, from Proto-Germanic *fraslindaną (“to devour”), equivalent to for- + Proto-Germanic *slindaną (“to devour”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to sneak, creep”). Cognate with Dutch verslinden (“to devour”), Middle Low German vorslinden (“to devour, eat up”), German verschlinden, verschlingen (“to devour, swallow up”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (fraslindan, “to gobble, swallow, devour”).
Senses: examples: text: He hath waited by night and day in such wise that he hath stolen so many of my children that of fifteen I have but four, in such wise hath this thief forslongen them.
ref: 1924, William John Thoms, Henry Morley, Roger Bacon, Early English Prose Romances:
glosses: To swallow down; gobble up.
performance management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of ensuring that organisational goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner.
Synonyms: PM
Derived terms: performance management system
condominia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condominium
Jewishish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jewishish
form: most Jewishish
Etymology: From Jewish + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I rent this movie the other day. It's about this dark, brooding, Jewishish guy […]
ref: 1991, Cynthia Heimel, If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Having the indefinite appearance of being Jewish; moderately or superficially Jewish.
sex partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex partners
Senses: examples: text: The effect was ruined, however, by Louis's decision [...] to be accompanied by his mistress, the duchesse de Châteauroux, along with her sister, the duchesse de Lauraguais (who was Louis's occasional sex-partner rather than a fully-fledged royal mistress).
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 126:
text: But the 44-year-old trouper earns £7,000 a night as a DJ, insists he can beat his weakness for drugs, and makes no apologies for cruising online for sex partners.
ref: 2006 May 14, Lynn Barber, The Observer:
synonyms: word: sexual partner
word: bedfellow
word: bedmate
word: fuck
word: hookup
word: lover
word: paramour
word: mate
word: root
word: sex partner
word: sexual partner
glosses: Someone that one has sex with, especially on an informal or casual basis.
sex partners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex partner
subventioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subvention
subventioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subvention
groid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
rhymes: -ɔɪd
ipa: /ɡɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: groids
form: 'groid
Etymology: Clipping of negroid.
Senses: examples: text: My only concern is that the groids may disturb the habitat of valuable
species of wildlife. I am a major supporter of the Aids for Africa campaign.
ref: 2001 June 13, ratchet, “The News From Hell”, in atl.general (Usenet):
text: Occasionally, on the bank, we saw an orange-red glow, momentarily illuminating a black face. Fishing lines, slanting into the stream, were visible against the light of small fires. The canoe moved soundlessly by, and on into the darkness. "The groids sure love to fish.” Sam murmured. The moon was low. It was midnight.
ref: 2007 December 18, David Remnick, Life Stories: Profiles from The New Yorker (Modern Library Paperbacks), Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, Travels in Georgia, page 185:
text: There you are in the poor-man's group-dorm travellers-hostel, To suffer the groid, with the tropical cough. The rich-man sleeps in a (private room) hotel, To "avoid the groid."
ref: 2013, E.E.E., A Warm Mirror Neuron On a Memory, An Avant-garde Book of Modern Poetry, page 133:
text: A beaner/groid race war actually doesn't sound too bad at this point, many many flash points as the beaners continue to pour over our open border and displace groids as the largest, most violent minority. The usual left wing cesspools of NYC,LA/Chimpcago offer prime opportunity for these overbred 3rd world miscreants to work the violence out of their systems on each other.
ref: 2022 January 16, Jesse, “OMG you must be kidding me, ANOTHER asian murdered by a feral felonious groid, no way !”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):
glosses: Clipping of negroid.
gentrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛntɹɪs/
Etymology: From Middle English gentryse, from Old French genterise, variant form of gentelise, from gentil.
Senses: examples: text: “And where could I get a horse to him?” cried Alan, turning on her with the same appearance of fury. “Would ye have me steal?”
[…] “Ye neednae tell me,” she said at last—“ye’re gentry.”
“Well,” said Alan, softened a little (I believe against his will) by this artless comment, “and suppose we were? Did ever you hear that gentrice put money in folk’s pockets?”
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: The tragedy, however, as Burke and other British statesmen were to declare, had already been prepared indirectly by Gentlemen Johnny Burgoyne, whose claims to gentrice were as dubious as his talents as a general.
ref: 1939, Harold W. Thompson, Body, Boots, & Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York, Syracuse University Press, published 1979, →ISBN, page 326:
glosses: The state or quality of being high-born; gentility.
examples: text: Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement. Others would threep she was gentrice, come of a persecuting family in the west, who had been ruined in the Revolution wars.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: […] I don't hold with gentrice who fetch their drink from London instead of helping local traders to get their living."
ref: 1913, Richard Middleton, The Ghost Ship and Other Stories, Mitchell Kennerley, published 1913, page 16:
glosses: High-born individuals collectively; gentry.
a penny saved is a penny gained
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Synonym of a penny saved is a penny earned.
synonyms: word: a penny saved is a penny earned
Utrecht velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Utrecht velvets
Senses: glosses: A thick mohair or cotton plush used for upholstering.
minutage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From minute + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The Statement set conditions for cross-promotion of digital services outside of designated advertising minutage, addressing in particular how analogue terrestrial licensees could promote their associated digital services.
ref: 2010, Jonathan Hardy, Cross-media Promotion, page 207:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: The amount of time, in minutes, during which advertising can be broadcast.
SOLID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏl'ĭd
ipa: /ˈsɑlɪd/
ipa: /ˈsɒlɪd/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -ɒlɪd
homophone: solid
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Acronym of Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation and Dependency inversion, a set of principles that, when followed, will lead to a created system that will likely be easier to maintain, and extend over time.
Related terms: SRP
Single responsibility principle
OCP
Open
closed principle
LSP
Liskov substitution principle
ISP
Interface segregation principle
DIP
Dependency inversion principle
SRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of single responsibility principle.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Initialism of suggested retail price.
Related terms: topics: programming
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: SOLID
topics: commerce
business
word: MSRP
parloir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parloirs
Etymology: From French parloir (“parlor”). Doublet of parlor.
Senses: examples: text: The first to which we went was a convent of Benedictine Nuns. When we had entered the gates we rang a bell, and a servant appeared, and desired us to go up stairs to the parloir.
ref: 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview Press, published 2002, page 111:
glosses: A room set aside for visitors in a monastery or convent, where they can talk to residents.
guild-hall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guild-halls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guildhall.
put someone through their paces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone through their paces
form: putting someone through their paces
form: put someone through their paces
form: put someone through their paces
Senses: examples: text: She put Rosebud through his paces in the ring, and received her share of applause at the antics of the clever horse.
ref: 1916, Vance Barnum, Joe Strong on the Trapeze:
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.
examples: text: The new fire chief really put us through our paces: we had to wash all the fire trucks and then had two different fire drills.
text: When I test-drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces.
text: I have known consciences to come all the way from China and Russia to see a person of that kind put through his paces, on a special occasion.
ref: 1876 June, Mark Twain, “The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut”, in The Atlantic:
text: All three of the German sonder yacht challengers–Hevella, Seehund, and Margarethe, were put through their paces today for the first time since their arrival in quest of the President Taft and Gov. Draper Cups.
ref: 1909 August 24, “German Sonder Yachts”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page 6:
text: I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night. On our way home from the beach, a friend and I decided to put the GPS through its paces and have the thing find us a grocery store close to our route.
ref: 2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, “Exurbs delenda est”, in The Atlantic:
text: A state-of-the-art ‘Mars yard’ is now ready to put the ExoMars rover through its paces before the vehicle is launched to the Red Planet in 2018.
ref: 2014 March 27, “Mars yard ready for Red Planet rover”, in ESA, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2020:
text: “The hardest part is ensuring the parts that can be eaten are absolutely clean,” says Takahashi, one of dozens of chefs being put through their paces at a culinary school in Tokyo in preparation for a test to obtain their fugu licence.
ref: 2016 August 5, Justin McCurry, “Last supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Swedish instructor Magnus puts the Ukrainian troops through their paces.
ref: 2023 April 2, Dan Sabbagh, Ed Ram, “Surrounded and outgunned, Ukraine’s tank crews prepare for battle of Bakhmut”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, image caption:
glosses: To test several or all functions or training of a person, animal, machine, etc.
Related terms: move through the gears
take for a spin
single responsibility principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: The principle that every class should have a single responsibility entirely encapsulated by that class.
Hypernyms: principle
SOLID
open-closed principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the open-closed principle
form: open/closed principle
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A principle that states that software entities (such as classes, modules, and functions) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
Hypernyms: principle
SOLID
Liskov substitution principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Barbara Liskov (1939–), who introduced the concept in 1987.
Senses: synonyms: LSP
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A principle stating that any type having a subtype should be replaceable by its subtype without altering any of the desirable properties (such as correctness, task performed, etc.) of the program.
Hypernyms: principle
SOLID
Related terms: subtyping
interface segregation principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A principle that states that once an interface has become too large, it needs to be split into smaller and more specific interfaces so that any client of the interface will only know about the methods that pertain to itself. In other words, no client should be forced to depend on methods it does not use.
Hypernyms: principle
SOLID
dependency inversion principle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: Design principle that states that (1) High- and low-level modules should both depend on abstractions and (2) instead of abstractions depending upon details, details should depend upon abstractions.
Hypernyms: principle
SOLID
God object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God objects
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A poorly designed object that does more than one thing and thus violates the single responsibility principle of SOLID.
Related terms: God class
big hairy object
God objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of God object
God class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: God classes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: The class serving as a template for a God object.
God classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of God class
LLG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Logical Language Group.
LLG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LLGs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of local-level government.
CLU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLUs
Senses: topics: government
healthcare
coordinate_terms: MLU
glosses: Initialism of consultant-led unit.
CLU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kluː/
homophone: clue
Etymology: Clipping of cluster, a concept equivalent to classes in object-oriented programming.
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer language developed between 1973–1975 that pioneered abstract data types and iterators.
GRASP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented design
glosses: Acronym of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns (or Principles).
General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented design
glosses: Principle that consists of a set of guidelines for assigning responsibility to classes and objects.
Synonyms: General Responsibility Assignment Software Principles
GRASP
General Responsibility Assignment Software Principles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: object-oriented design
glosses: Synonym of General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns.
synonyms: word: General Responsibility Assignment Software Patterns
parloirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parloir
alkylant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylants
Senses: examples: text: The main types of irritant and/or corrosive products are: acids, bases, oxidizers / reducing agents, solvents, and alkylants.
ref: 2024 January 29, Wikipedia contributors, “Chemical burn”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
glosses: An alkylant is a chemical compound that can introduce an Alkyl group to another molecule.
cross-over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-overs
Etymology: Deverbal from cross over.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crossover.