cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
beseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beseemings
Etymology: From beseem + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I am Sir / The Souldier that did company theſe three / In poor beſeeming: 't was a fitment for / The purpoſe I then follow'd.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi], page 398, column 2:
text: His sword fell from his grasp—his eye, late glaring with the ire of a stricken tiger,—his brow, late speaking but death, and dark defiance, suddenly sank into the soft beseeming of gratefulness, and of betokened kindness and feeling.
ref: 1843, [Henry Barkley Henderson], “The Mud Fort”, in The Bengalee or Sketches of Society in the East. […], new edition, volume I, Calcutta, West Bengal: W. Rushton, →OCLC, pages 330–331:
glosses: Appearance; look.
glosses: gerund of beseem: a comely appearance; attractiveness.
beseeming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From beseem + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beseem
weatherproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weatherproofings
Senses: synonyms: word: weatherization
english: practice; American English
translation: practice; American English
glosses: The practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements/weather and wind or Something protecting the interior of a building or similar from weather and wind
weatherproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weatherproof
electroshocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electroshock
assoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assoil
overreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overreact
rencountering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rencounter
brickfilming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brickfilm
handpicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of handpick
besnowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of besnow
assorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assort
casehardening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caseharden
smouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smoldering
Etymology: From smoulder + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And if we meet again, some evil chance / Will make the smouldering scandal break and blaze / Before the people, and our lord the King.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Guinevere”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 229–230:
text: The burnt and bleeding man staggered to his feet, dazed and unbelieving, and asked the startled townspeople who came running whether his fireman and guard were safe. He was kept away from the smouldering crater where his engine had been, and taken to hospital.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in Rail, number 948, page 43:
glosses: Burning slowly, producing smoke but no flame.
smouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoulderings
form: smoldering
Etymology: From smoulder + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: the smoulderings of the Thirty Years War
glosses: The act by which something smoulders; residual heat.
smouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smoldering
Etymology: From smoulder + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoulder
hasheesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hasheeshes
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of hashish.
neurophenomenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + phenomenology.
Senses: glosses: A fusion of phenomenology and neuroscience
glosses: An academic discipline which mixes neuroscience and phenomenological observation
haulage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːləd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈhɑlədʒ/
Forms: form: haulages
Etymology: From haul + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The initial task would be the haulage of stores from Cape Evans to Hut Point, a distance of 13 miles.
ref: 1919: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, South (The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917)
coordinate_terms: carriage
shipping
trucking
glosses: The act of hauling.
coordinate_terms: shipping
trucking
glosses: The business of transporting heavy goods.
glosses: The charge levied for hauling (either towing or hauling out) a ship or boat.
Derived terms: haulageway
headwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌwɑtɝz/
Forms: form: head-waters
form: head waters
Etymology: From head + waters.
Senses: examples: text: ... but when his brows began to wrinkle with time, and he stood alone, the last of his family, and his particular tribe, the few Delawares, who yet continued about the head-waters of their river, gave him the mournful appellation of Mohegan.
ref: 1823, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers:
text: Driver Thornhill beckoned me across the cab and pointed out some two miles ahead as we looked across the headwaters of the Eden Valley, the summit cabin at Ais Gill itself, with the summit point and altitude conspicuously indicated.
ref: 1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
glosses: The source of a river, the set of streams that feed into the river's beginning.
subfenestral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + fenestral.
Senses: examples: text: The wall was clean, save for a patch of subfenestral graffiti.
text: 1829, "Dr. George Shaw," in Personal and Literary Memorials, by Henry Digby Beste
We even went down into the cellars, where was a vast vault filled with coal. "This puts to shame the subfenestral carbonaria of your alma mater." Every university-man knows how the coal-porter brings his sack on his shoulder, and empties the load into the hollowed-out window-seat; Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.
text: 1996, "In a Different Place: Feminist Aesthetics and the Picture Book", by Anne Lundin, in Ways of Knowing Kay E. Vandergrift, ed. https://web.archive.org/web/20060830165925/http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/books/LUNDIN65.pdf
Under the Window’s subfenestral world is full of openings as well as suggestive of the ground, the underground of life.
glosses: Beneath a window.
examples: 2002, "Archaeopterygidae", by Andrzej Elzanowski, in Mesozoic Birds, Luis M. Chiappe & Lawrence M. Witmer edd.
The maxilla has a slender nasal process and a long subfenestral part. […] Wellnhofer (1974) and Witmer (1997) reconstructed a fenestrate "ascending ramus" of the maxilla, as found in nonavian theropods.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Beneath a fenestra.
low Earth orbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low Earth orbits
Senses: synonyms: LEO
coordinate_terms: medium Earth orbit
high Earth orbit
glosses: A satellite orbit around the Earth within an altitude range of approximately 200 to 2,000 km, in which a satellite can communicate with the Earth with minimal time lag and energy consumption.
crackberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackberries
form: Crackberry
form: CrackBerry
Etymology: Blend of crack + BlackBerry, suggesting the addictive nature of crack cocaine.
Senses: examples: text: […]many people call theirs a CrackBerry. This thing is absolutely addictive! This unit can websurf, send/receive email,[…]
ref: 2001 May 15, Steve Pyles, “Blackberry^([sic]) Service around WDW”, in rec.arts.disney.parks (Usenet), message-ID <S3PSc5WZOHkJ>:
text: Phone and handheld computer US$449 www.blackberry.com
The corporate gold standard, once called "crackberries" in Silicon Valley because executives seemed addicted to them.
ref: 2003 December 1, Greg Brown, Latin Trade, Freedom Magazines, Inc. BlackBerry 7210
text: 2005 March 1, Ron Seigneur (interviewee), Rick Telberg (author), Journal of Accountancy, American Institute of CPA's
I just moved to a Treo 600 to replace my old cell phone and my Palm Pilot. Not quite a "Crackberry," but I just cannot stand those who have to check e-mail every five minutes.
text: 2005 October 1, Waxer, Cindy, Chief Executive (U.S.), Chief Executive Publishing
Today, over 50,000 organizations and 3 million subscribers count on BlackBerry, dubbed 'crackberry' for its addictiveness, to receive and deliver email messages on the spot.
text: The Blackberry^([sic]) mobile office typifies this workstyle with[…]levels of stress generated in the individual such that productivity may be quantitative but not necessarily qualitative (the “Crackberry” syndrome).
ref: 2005 October, Paul Cunningham, M. Cunningham, editors, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, IOS Press, page 1368:
text: […]Roberts seemed driven to distraction by whatever was on the screen of his "CrackBerry"—which is what the infernal devices were nicknamed by their hopelessly addicted users.
ref: 2006 February, Bill Sammon, “BlackBerry Blues”, in Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
text: It is a goal that[…]I have been obsessing over, and emailing myself on my crackberry so I don’t forget ideas, and one that I bother my friends with constantly.
ref: 2006 May, Thomas Louis Ampeliotis, “Foundation of a Perfectionist” (chapter 1), in Pursuit of a Perfectionist, Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse, →ISBN, Keeping on Track, page 9:
text: My co-workers and especially my wife were repulsed by the “CrackBerry,” and my compulsive grasping at it, like Gollum with his ring.
ref: 2023 July 7, Ian Bogost, “What Did People Do Before Smartphones?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C., archived from the original on 07 Jul 2023:
glosses: A BlackBerry, a handheld device considered addictive for its networking capability.
consolation prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consolation prizes
Senses: examples: text: The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
glosses: An award or small item given to persons or groups of people who do not win an event but are worthy of recognition, especially in a game show.
Related terms: booby prize
participation trophy
telic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːlɪk/
Forms: form: more telic
form: most telic
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek τελῐκός (telĭkós, “final”), from τέλος (télos, “end”).
Senses: examples: text: Several theorists of the previous chapters are supportive of this more telic view of human nature.
ref: 1993, Brent D. Slife, Time and Psychological Explanation, page 226:
text: They were asked to rate the 36 activities for how purposeful they were.[…]Comparing the 10 most telic and the 10 most paratelic we found that the paratelic leisure activities were thought to involve less skill or challenge; they were also judged to satisfy social needs more, and to be more enjoyable.
ref: 2001, Michael Argyle, The Psychology of Happiness, 2nd edition, page 129:
text: I have certainly become more telic as I strive to achieve my goals set, but I am not really enjoying any of it.
ref: 2002, John Kerr, Counselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory, page 62:
antonyms: paratelic
glosses: Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end.
examples: text: 1995, Michela Cennamo, Patterns of 'Active' Syntax in Late Latin Pleonastic Reflexives, John Charles Smith, Delia Bentley (editors), Historical Linguistics 1995: Selected Papers from the 12th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Volume 1: General Issues and Non-Germanic Languages, page 39,
In this framework, verbs denoting directed change of location, such as Italian andare 'go', instantiate Core Unaccusativity, in that they have a Theme subject and are the most telic, concrete, dynamic.
text: Similarly, verb forms that can govern either transitive or middle-case marking (cf. 2.1.3.1.2(c)) are more telic in their transitive manifestations.
ref: 2000, Niko Besnier, Tuvaluan: A Polynesian Language of the Central Pacific, published 2002, page 495:
text: Moreover, let us remember that some verbs can be telic and agentive at the same time: if one looks at the ASH category n°1 (change of location), i.e. the verbs considered the most telic, like FF arriver (arrive), partir (leave), venir (come), revenir (come back) (Sorace 2000:256), old Spanish huir (run away) and escapar (escape) (Legendre 2007), do they not bear an agentive component?
ref: 2015, Pierre-Don Giancarli, “Auxiliary selection with intransitive and reflexive verbs: the limits of gradience and scalarity, followed by a proposal”, in Rolf Kailuweit, Malte Rosemeyer, editors, Auxiliary Selection Revisited: Gradience and Gradualness, page 82:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: atelic
glosses: That expresses an end or purpose.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That expresses the perfective aspect.
Derived terms: paratelic
telic aspect
Related terms: telicity
teleo-
teleology
-tely
maddoctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maddoctors
Senses: glosses: A psychiatrist.
Synonyms: nut doctor
Shakespeareanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shakespeareanisms
form: Shakespearianism
Etymology: From Shakespearean + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: I thee tell, Woman: our Son is become lost to Shakespeareanism and Latin, all but unwilling to be a Typesetter as his Father.
glosses: The devotion to or the teaching of the works and terminology of William Shakespeare.
examples: text: It is said that the English language has over 1,700 Shakespereanisms.
glosses: A term coined by Shakespeare, or otherwise derived from his works.
examples: text: A small number of persons has ever perused Shakespeareanism in its entirety.
text: Dr. Hallsworth is a scholar of literature, with an expertise on the Shakespeareanism.
glosses: Shakespeare's works collectively.
tulip root
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease, caused by a nematode, that causes swelling of the roots of oats
Shakespearianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shakespearianisms
Etymology: From Shakespearian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Shakespeareanism.
whaddya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Whaddya think of my new dress?
text: "Mildred's got five kids?" Frank seemed genuinely startled. "Well, whaddya know! Mildred with five kids!"
ref: 1942 September 27, “A Mark Hellinger 'Short Short' Story”, in The Democrat and Chronicle's Sunday Magazine, Rochester, N.Y., page 10:
text: LESTER: Well, suppose you wished one candle would stay lit.
CHESTER: Whaddya mean?
LESTER: I mean suppose you wished that one candle would stay lit, and then you blew them all out. What would happen?
CHESTER: Well, it couldn't happen. Unless you blew them all out.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 237:
glosses: Contraction of what do you; see what'd and d'ya.
examples: text: Whaddya doing?
glosses: Contraction of what are you.
Related terms: whadja
whatcha
munificence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈnɪfɪsəns/
Forms: form: munificences
Etymology: From Middle French munificence, from Latin munificentia, from munus (“gift”) + facio (“I make”).
Senses: examples: text: Now the happy king laid the forehead of thankſgiving upon the duſt of gratitude; he opened the doors of his wealth to the four winds, and enriched the world, at once, with his munificence.
ref: 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page 3:
text: And surely, no form of munificence should entitle to a more grateful and lasting remembrance, than that which promotes the right education of youth;...
ref: 1845, Lydia Sigourney, Scenes in my Native Land, The Great Oak of Geneseo, pages 86–87:
glosses: The quality of being munificent; generosity.
Related terms: municipal
municipality
munificent
remunerate
remuneration
munificence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈnɪfɪsəns/
Etymology: Compare Latin munire (“to fortify”).
Senses: examples: text: Untill that Locrine for his Realmes defence,
Did head against them make and strong munificence
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Means of defence; fortification.
prodigality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌprɒdɪˈɡælɪti/
ipa: /ˌprɑdɪˈɡælɪti/
Forms: form: prodigalities
Etymology: From prodigal + -ity, from Old French prodigalite, from Late Latin prodigalitas.
Senses: examples: text: The plain where he was riding was one immense thicket of the gum cistus, whose frail white leaves, just veined with the faintest pink, fell in showers at the least movement of the passer-by. What a prodigality of blossom!—for the gum cistus, born and withered in an hour, is the most ephemeral of flowers.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 339:
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:
glosses: Wasteful extravagance.
glosses: Lavish generosity.
Synonyms: word: spendthrift
word: extravagance
word: imprudence
word: prodigality
word: profligacy
word: profusion
word: recklessness
Related terms: word: prodigal
law and order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɔ.ən(d)ˈoɹdɚ/
ipa: /lɔː.ən(d)ˈɔːdə/
note: intrusive R
ipa: /lɔː.ɹən(d)ˈɔːdə/
Forms: form: law-and-order
Senses: examples: text: For, as in all Monarchies, it is the Law and Order of God Almighty that Subjects receive from, and not give unto their Soveraigne Lawes
ref: 1653, John Allington, The Grand Conspiracy of the Members Against the Minde, page 13:
text: But all evill of punishment ariseth from evill of fault and this evill of fault is from the creature itself, breaking the Law and Order that God hath set to it.
ref: 1659, William Ames, The Substance of Christian Religion, page 135:
text: Neither do Law and Order agree in the reciprocation of Names only, but also in their Natures. Hence Plato oft useth them promiscuously one for the other, and joins them together as exegetic each of other.
ref: 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, Or, A Discourse Touching the Original of Human, page 187:
glosses: The principles under which the world and its components operate.
examples: text: The government’s default approach to labor disputes has been to treat them as a threat to law and order. After a widely reported miners’ strike in the northeastern city of Shuangyashan in 2016, for example, the Public Security Bureau arrested 30 people for what it called serious criminal charges.
ref: 2018 April 2, Harvey Thomlinson, “China’s Communist Party Is Abandoning Workers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2018, Opinion:
glosses: The strict enforcement of law, statutes, and social conventions.
Related terms: policing
rule of law
detassel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detassels
form: detasseling
form: detasselling
form: detasseled
form: detasseled
form: detasselled
form: detasselled
Etymology: From de- + tassel.
Senses: glosses: To remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.
guzzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guzzlers
Etymology: From guzzle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The crowd was the usual assortment of folk purists wearing faded jeans, beer guzzlers wearing faded smiles, and plainclothesmen wearing freshly pressed jeans and carrying Harmony guitars.
ref: 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist, number 61, retrieved 13 Nov 2022, page 11:
glosses: Somebody or something which guzzles.
examples: text: Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.
ref: 1954, Wildlife Review, numbers 75-83, page 44:
glosses: A device placed in arid regions to catch water for wildlife to drink from.
Synonyms: sense: guzzler of food
word: glutton
word: gorger
sense: guzzler of drink
word: alcoholic
word: sot
word: suck-pint
Derived terms: gas guzzler
cum guzzler
destalinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: de-Stalinization
form: De-Stalinization
form: Destalinization
form: destalinisation
form: de-Stalinisation
form: De-Stalinsation
form: Destalinisation
Etymology: From de- + Stalin + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process, begun by Nikita Khrushchev, of discrediting and then reforming the policies of Joseph Stalin.
Related terms: decommunization
de-Maoization
all set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From all ("thoroughly", "completely") + set ("prepared", "arranged").
Senses: examples: text: I'm all set to leave for my vacation.
text: Is everything all set for the wedding?
text: GMMTV’s 23.5 is all set to premiere on March 08, 2024, at 8:30 p.m. ICT.
ref: 2024 March 5, Shriya Swami, “Thai GL Series 23.5: Release Date, Cast & Everything You Need to Know”, in yahoo.com:
glosses: Ready, prepared, equipped.
examples: text: "Do you folks want any dessert or coffee?" "No, we're all set."
text: "Can I use those scissors now?" "Yeah, I'm all set."
text: Are you all set with that? [a waiter offering to take an empty plate at a restaurant]
text: "Can I help you with anything?" "Nah, I'm all set." [a retail employee offering to help a customer]
glosses: Not requiring initial or further assistance with, additions to, or use of something.
setout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setouts
Etymology: From set + out.
Senses: glosses: an outset
examples: text: ‘You don’t hate Sissy, Tom?’
‘I hate to be obliged to call her Jupe. And she hates me,’ said Tom, moodily.
‘No, she does not, Tom, I am sure!’
‘She must,’ said Tom. ‘She must just hate and detest the whole set-out of us.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “chapter 8”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
glosses: a display or spread
Related terms: set out
toxicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to toxicology
enmeshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enmesh
enmeshing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enmeshings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is enmeshed or entangled.
enmeshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enmesh
Sunday-go-to-meeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Suitable for wearing to church; one's best.
raw_tags: of clothes
Synonyms: Sunday best
go-to-meeting
Derived terms: Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
Sunday out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sundays out
Senses: glosses: A domestic servant's Sunday off.
Derived terms: Sunday outer
pot-house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-houses
form: pothouse
Etymology: From pot + house.
Senses: examples: text: Let our actor, in the true spirit of imitating his betters, follow the example of the great Mr. K⁠—⁠n; that is, let him roll about through the day from pot-house to pot-house like a rumbling old beer barrel, with ten or a dozen noggins of Geneva in his pate.
ref: [c. 1800], J. Bisset, “Dandy Actors”, in Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A pub; a tavern.
squicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɪk.i/
rhymes: -ɪki
Forms: form: squickier
form: squickiest
Etymology: From squick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She offered to show me the injury, but I find blood rather squicky.
text: You might remember at the start that I said SCP-3003 blends squicky body horror with a commentary on humanity. I'm sure the body-horror aspect is fairly obvious now, but the commentary perhaps not.
ref: 2019 June 3, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-3003 - The End of History” (18:44 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2024:
glosses: Engendering a feeling of disgust, distaste, nausea, or revulsion, but without a judgment regarding rightness or wrongness (of the stimulus).
Related terms: squick
engenders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engender
nomenklatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒˌmɛnkləˈtjʊəɹə/
ipa: /nɒˌmɛnkləˈtʃʊəɹə/
Forms: form: nomenklaturas
form: nomenclatura
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian номенклату́ра (nomenklatúra), from Latin nōmenclātūra (“a calling by name, list of names”), from nomen (“name”) + calare (“call”). Doublet of nomenclature.
Senses: glosses: A list of bureaucratic posts in government and industry in the former Soviet Union and other communist countries, filled by those appointed by the Party.
examples: text: [Gorbachev] did not champion perestroika and glasnost alone; much of the nomenklatura had decided that the Soviet economic and social model was dysfunctional, corrupt and endemically inefficient and had to change.
ref: 2007 October 13, Will Hutton, “Will China's next leader be its Gorbachev?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: Communism envisioned […] an Authority Ranking of political control (in theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat; in practice, a nomenklatura of commissars under a charismatic dictator).
ref: 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 764:
text: During the long rule of Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982), the nomenklatura had cemented their power in the system.
ref: 2023, Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, Public Affairs, →ISBN:
glosses: The people on such lists; (by extension), any privileged class, a social or political elite.
Derived terms: nomenklaturist
feat of strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feats of strength
Senses: glosses: An act needing great strength to complete
durrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durries
Senses: examples: text: ‘Deadly,’ she said, and passed me the durrie.
I took a drag. Was she watching? No, thank goodness, she was looking down at the water again. I blew the smoke straight out, without taking it into my lungs.
‘Deadly,’ I said, and passed the durrie back to Clarence.
ref: 1998, Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, unnumbered page:
glosses: Alternative spelling of durry.
durrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dhurrie.
durries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durry
glosses: plural of durrie
tart burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tart burners
Senses: glosses: A decorative, usually ceramic, pot containing a candle made from fragrant wax.
paycock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paycocks
Senses: examples: ref: 1924, Sean O'Casey, Juno and the Paycock:
text: The great Irish joiant, Fann Mac Cuil, lived to be a middle-aged man, without ever meeting his match, and so he was as proud as a paycock.
ref: 2000, Patrick Kennedy, Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts:
text: ... find some impeccable prose in this newsgroup if you hold the noise >down and pay attention instead of strutting around like a bloomin' paycock.
ref: 2000 June 17, Bill Palmer, “Clarification Of Term "Redneck"”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of peacock.
pico-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-amps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of picoamp.
nano-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-amps
form: nanoamp
form: nano ampere
Etymology: From nano- + ampere.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical current equal to 10⁻⁹ amperes. Symbol: nA
Synonyms: nA
milli-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milli-amps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milliamp.
squickiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squicky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being squicky.
merry-andrew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merry-andrews
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Merry Andrew; clown; buffoon.
kiloamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiloamps
Etymology: From kilo- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One thousand ( 10³ ) amperes. Symbol: kA or KA.
mega amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega amps
form: mega-amp
Etymology: From mega- + ampere.
Senses: glosses: One million ( 10⁶ ) amperes. Symbol: MA.
gigamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigamps
form: giga-amp
form: giga amp
form: giga ampere
Etymology: From giga- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One thousand million (10⁹) amperes. Symbol: GA.
tera amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera amps
form: tera-amp
Etymology: From tera- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One million million (10¹²) amperes. Symbol: TA.
kilo-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-amps
form: kiloamp
Etymology: From kilo- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One thousand (10³) amperes. Symbol: kA or KA.
giga-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giga-amps
form: gigamp
form: giga amp
Etymology: From giga- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One thousand million (10⁹) amperes. Symbol: GA.
mega-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-amps
form: mega amp
Etymology: From mega- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One million ( 10⁶ ) amperes. Symbol: MA.
tera-amp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera-amps
form: tera amp
Etymology: From tera- + amp.
Senses: glosses: One million million ( 10¹² ) amperes. Symbol: TA.
teravolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teravolts
form: tera-volt
Etymology: From tera- + volt.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One million million ( 10¹² ) volts, abbreviated as TV.
pico-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-volts
form: picovolt
Etymology: From pico- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth ( 10⁻¹² ) of a volt, abbreviated as pV.
nano-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-volts
form: nanovolt
Etymology: From nano- + volt.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical potential equal to 10⁻⁹ volts. Symbol: nV
Synonyms: nV
micro-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-volts
form: microvolt
Etymology: From micro- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a volt, abbreviated as µV.
milli-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milli-volts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of millivolt.
kilo-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-volts
form: kilovolt
Etymology: From kilo- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One thousand ( 10³ ) volts. Symbol: kV or KV.
mega-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-volts
form: megavolt
Etymology: From mega- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One million ( 10⁶ ) volts, abbreviated as MV.
giga-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giga-volts
form: gigavolt
Etymology: From giga- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One thousand million ( 10⁹ ) volts. Symbol: GV.
tera-volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera-volts
form: teravolt
Etymology: From tera- + volt.
Senses: glosses: One million million (10¹²) volts, abbreviated as TV.
summarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈmɛɹɪli/
ipa: /səˈmæɹɪli/
Forms: form: more summarily
form: most summarily
Etymology: From summary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They were fired summarily at a single plant-wide meeting.
text: […] and any offender found with firearms in his possession contrary to this Ordinance, shall be deemed to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof summarily convicted before any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, of being so illegally at large as aforesaid, shall be kept to hard labour on any of the Roads or Public Works of the said colony, for any time not exceeding three calendar months.
ref: 1849, Charles Fitzgerald, Ordinance enabling transportation of convicts to Western Australia:
text: […] but in July 1745 he was summarily ordered by the secretary of state, the Duke of Newcastle, to return to England.
ref: c. 1885-1900, John Knox Laughton, “Rowley, William (1690?-1768)”, in Dictionary of National Biography:
text: It is true that contempt committed in a trial courtroom can under some circumstances be punished summarily by the trial judge.
ref: 1955, Hugo Black, In re Murchison: Opinion of the Court, Supreme Court of the United States:
text: And it [bribery and fraud] didn't stop there. Both Sir Winston Churchill and later Labour leader Michael Foot were allegedly regular recipients of private cheques that would have seen them summarily sacked in this present age of transparency.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 52:
topics: manner
glosses: In a summary manner.
examples: text: He covered the topic summarily in an answer to a question.
text: After this mention of the closing persecution, he summarily indicates all that the devil, and the city of which he is the prince, shall suffer in the last judgment.
ref: 1950, Marcus, transl. Dods, chapter 14, in The City of God, book XX, translation of original by Augustine of Hippo:
text: They didn't get shot to death in hold-ups, strangled to death in rapes, stabbed to death in saloons, bludgeoned to death with axes by parents or children or die summarily by some other act of God.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
topics: duration
time
glosses: Over a short period of time, briefly.
Synonyms: sense: in a summary manner
word: unceremoniously
sense: over a short period of time
word: ephemerally
word: fleetingly
word: transiently
word: temporarily
GV
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of gender variant (“not conforming to expected gender roles”).
sudangrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sudangrasses
Etymology: From Sudan + grass.
Senses: glosses: A tropical grass, any of several varieties of Sorghum, from Egypt and the Sudan, used for pasture, silage and hay
sugarbeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugarbeets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sugar beet.
sulfonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonations
form: sulphonation
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a sulfonic acid (-SO₃H) functional group, often by reaction with sulfuric acid at high temperatures
Related terms: sulfation
sulphonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfonation.
sulfation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfations
form: sulphation
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a sulfate (-OSO₂OH) functional group, or the replacement of the hydrogen atoms of two molecules to form a sulfate (R-OSO₂O-R)
Related terms: sulfonation
sulphation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfation.
sundog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sundogs
Senses: examples: text: Two sundogs dread famine bring / A bloody war, and new-crown'd king.
ref: 1837 April, F. [pseudonym], “Notices by the Way Side—from Notes Taken in 1821. No. IV. Sacket’s Harbor.”, in The Monthly Traveller, or Spirit of the Periodical Press. […], volume VIII, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Badger & Porter, […], →OCLC, page 146, column 1:
text: Long understood also, is the fact that sundogs—colored spots of light to the right or left of the sun or moon—belong in the same class with halos.
ref: 1941 August 31, “When there’s a ring around the sun”, in John T. Curtis, editor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume 225, number 62, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Philadelphia Inquirer Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Everybody’s Weekly” section, page 2, column 4:
text: Every rainbow and every sundog remind us, "Yes, you are human and you often fail to live up to God's standards. But God's covenant is eternal, and God loves you nonetheless and not the less."
ref: 2000, Michael J. Coyner, “Sundogs and Other Signs”, in Prairie Wisdom: Reflections on Life in the Dakotas, Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, page 126:
glosses: Alternative form of sun dog.
parhelic circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parhelic circles
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A luminous halo, each side of the sun parallel to the horizon, caused by refraction of sunlight through ice crystals.
Related terms: sun dog
parhelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to parhelia.
Derived terms: parhelic circle
palmarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmaria
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
kretek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹɛtɛk/
Forms: form: kreteks
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian kretek, of onomatopoetic origin.
Senses: glosses: A cigarette containing clove as well as tobacco, originating from Indonesia.
pico-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-watts
form: picowatt
Etymology: From pico- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of a watt, abbreviated as pW.
nano-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-watts
form: nanowatt
Etymology: From nano- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One thousand millionth ( 10⁻⁹ ) of a watt, abbreviated as nW.
micro-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-watts
form: microwatt
Etymology: From micro- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One millionth ( 10⁻⁶ ) of a watt, abbreviated as µW.
milli-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milli-watts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milliwatt.
kilo-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-watts
form: kilowatt
Etymology: From kilo- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One thousand (10³) watts. Symbol: kW or KW.
mega-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-watts
form: megawatt
Etymology: From mega- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One million (10⁶) watts, abbreviated as MW.
giga-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giga-watts
form: gigawatt
Etymology: From giga- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One thousand million ( 10⁹ ) watts, abbreviated as GW.
tera-watt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera-watts
form: terawatt
Etymology: From tera- + watt.
Senses: glosses: One million million (10¹²) watts, abbreviated as TW.
picojoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picojoules
form: pico-joule
Etymology: From pico- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth ( 10⁻¹² ) of a joule. Symbol: pJ.
nanojoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanojoules
form: nano-joule
Etymology: From nano- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of work or energy equal to 10⁻⁹ joules. Symbol: nJ
Synonyms: nJ
microjoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microjoules
form: micro-joule
Etymology: From micro- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a joule, abbreviated as µJ.
millijoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millijoules
form: milli-joule
Etymology: From milli- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of a joule. Symbol: mJ.
kilojoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːl
Forms: form: kilojoules
Etymology: From kilo- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy equal to 10³ joules. Symbol: kJ
Derived terms: multikilojoule
terajoule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːl
Forms: form: terajoules
form: tera-joule
Etymology: From tera- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy equal to 10¹² joules. Symbol: TJ
pico-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-joules
form: picojoule
Etymology: From pico- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of a joule. Symbol: pJ.
nano-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-joules
form: nanojoule
Etymology: From nano- + joule.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of energy, work and heat equal to 10⁻⁹ joules. Symbol: nJ
Synonyms: nJ
micro-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-joules
form: microjoule
Etymology: From micro- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a joule, abbreviated as µJ.
milli-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milli-joules
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millijoule.
kilo-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-joules
form: kilojoule
Etymology: From kilo- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One thousand (10³) joules. Symbol: kJ or KJ.
mega-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-joules
form: megajoule
Etymology: From mega- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One million ( 10⁶ ) joules. Symbol: MJ.
alexiteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alexiterics
Etymology: From New Latin alexitericum, from neuter of alexitericus (although apparently first attested later); see Etymology 2.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A preservative against infectious diseases.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: alexitery
glosses: A preservative against the effects of poison.
alexiteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alexiteric
form: most alexiteric
Etymology: From New Latin alexitericus, from alexiterium + Classical Latin -icus; see alexitery.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: alexitery
glosses: Resisting poison or venom.
Related terms: alexipharmic
alexipyretic
febrifuge
giga-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giga-joules
form: gigajoule
Etymology: From giga- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One thousand million ( 10⁹ ) joules. Symbol: GJ.
tera-joule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera-joules
form: terajoule
Etymology: From tera- + joule.
Senses: glosses: One million million (10¹²) joules. Symbol: TJ.
picofarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picofarads
form: pico-farad
Etymology: From pico- + farad.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of a farad. Symbol: pF.
nanofarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanofarads
form: nano-farad
Etymology: From nano- + farad.
Senses: glosses: (metrology) An SI unit of electrical capacitance equal to 10⁻⁹ farads. Symbol: nF
Synonyms: nF
microfarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfarads
form: micro-farad
Etymology: From micro- + farad.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: mul:μF
word: mfd
glosses: One millionth ( 10⁻⁶ ) of a farad (a unit of capacitance).
Derived terms: micromicrofarad
millifarad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millifarads
form: milli-farad
Etymology: From milli- + farad.
Senses: glosses: One thousandth (10⁻³) of a farad. Symbol: mF.
pico-farad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-farads
form: picofarad
Etymology: From pico- + farad.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth (10⁻¹²) of a farad. Symbol: pF.
nano-farad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-farads
form: nanofarad
Etymology: From nano- + farad.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical capacitance equal to 10⁻⁹ farads. Symbol: nF
Synonyms: nF
micro-farad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-farads
Etymology: From micro- + farad.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microfarad.
milli-farad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milli-farads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of millifarad.
nano-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nano-ohms
Etymology: From nano- + ohm.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical resistance equal to 10⁻⁹ ohms. Symbol: nΩ
micro-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-ohms
Etymology: From micro- + ohm.
Senses: glosses: One millionth (10⁻⁶) of a ohm, abbreviated as µΩ.
milli-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milli-ohms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of milliohm.
kilo-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilo-ohms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiloohm.
mega-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-ohms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of megaohm.
giga-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giga-ohms
Etymology: From giga- + ohm.
Senses: glosses: One thousand million (10⁹) ohms. Symbol: GΩ.
tera-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tera-ohms
Etymology: From tera- + ohm.
Senses: glosses: One million million (10¹²) ohms. Symbol: TΩ.
pico-ohm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pico-ohms
form: picoohm
Etymology: From pico- + ohm.
Senses: glosses: One million millionth ( 10⁻¹² ) of a ohm. Symbol: pΩ.
sunlamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunlamps
Etymology: From sun + lamp.
Senses: glosses: A lamp that produces ultraviolet radiation; used for therapeutic or cosmetic purposes.
topics: arts
broadcasting
film
hobbies
lifestyle
media
photography
television
glosses: A high-intensity lamp, used to produce an illusion of daylight.
supercomputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercomputers
Etymology: From super- + computer.
Senses: examples: text: The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
text: But at the microlevel it consists of an unimaginable number of atoms connected by springy chemical bonds, all jiggling around at a rate that even our fastest supercomputer might envy.
ref: 2007 November 18, Jim Holt, “Mind of a Rock”, in The New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any computer that has a far greater processing power than others of its generation.
Derived terms: supercomputerlike
supercomputer-like
Related terms: supercomputation
supercomputing
mainframe