cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tombes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tombe
tombés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tombé
marineras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marinera
marinera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marineras
Senses: glosses: A dance from the coastal regions of Peru, using handkerchiefs as props in a stylized reenactment of a courtship.
regius
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹid͡ʒiəs/
ipa: /ˈɹid͡ʒəs/
homophone: regious
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin rēgius, from rēx, rēgis (“a king”). Doublet of regious.
Senses: examples: text: regius professor, regius professorship
text: regius chair
qualifier: rare outside set phrases such as those found below
glosses: Of or relating to a king; royal.
Related terms: regius professor
donnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of donna
propogate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of propagate.
centralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centralisms
Etymology: From central + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A system that centralizes, especially an administration of some kind.
Derived terms: bureaucratic centralism
centralist
democratic centralism
frontispice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontispices
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of frontispiece.
ciss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: cisses
form: cissing
form: cissed
form: cissed
Etymology: Perhaps ultimately derived in some way from Vulgar Latin *cisellum (from *caesellum, from caedō), whence e.g. French cission, ciseau and other words with senses related to cutting and separating, or perhaps from the same root as scission (“division, separating”) (Latin scissus, scindō), or even a conflation of the two as in scissor, whence sciss (“cut with scissors”).
Senses: examples: text: Varnish is very apt to ciss on old work, if the second coat is not applied as soon as ever the first coat is hard enough to bear varnishing.
ref: 1873, Ernest Spon, Workshop Receipts, for the Use of Manufacturers, Mechanics, and Scientific Amateurs by Ernest Spon, page 83:
text: Varnish frequently cisses upon oil paint.
ref: 1898, Walter Pearce, Painting and Decorating, page 156:
text: "Cissing."—This term, which would appear to be peculiar to the paint and varnish craft, represents the phenomenon occurring when oil is applied to a damp surface or vice versa, and consists in the contraction or retression of the film applied to separate drops of lesser surface. […] The manifestation of the “cissing” would appear to be about simultaneous with the period of evaporation of the bulk of the volatile thinner . The cause of “cissing” on an unflatted varnished surface is to be found as before stated in the high interfacial tension […]
ref: 1920, Robert Selby Morrell, Armand Waele, Rubber, Resins, Paints and Varnishes, page 198:
text: There is some doubt as to the exact fatty acid composition, but the unquestionably high linolenic acid content and the fact that it is somewhat more reactive than linseed oil places it in the linolenic group. The raw oil tends to “ciss” when applied as a thin film, forming droplets as thought the surface were greasy.
ref: 1952, Maurice Robert Mills, An Introduction to Drying Oil Technology, page 10:
text: The use of silicone anti-cissing agents in particular demands extreme caution, for while small amounts can help to prevent cissing, excessive use will actually promote it. Moreover, any subsequent coats are even more likely to ciss, and their ...
ref: 2006, Nigel Clegg, How to Paint Your Boat: Painting, Varnishing, Antifouling, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page 24:
qualifier: varnish; or oil; varnish; or oil
glosses: To retract (from a uniform film applied to a damp, oily or nonabsorbent surface) and clump up into small droplets, or form craters.
raw_tags: of paint
electric fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric field
vulgariser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulgarisers
Etymology: From vulgarise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of vulgarizer.
milos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milo
gamahuches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gamahuche
cystoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cystoscopies
Etymology: From cysto- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: An endoscopy of the urinary bladder via the urethra
Derived terms: chromocystoscopy
cystology
cystoscopic
urethrocystoscopy
Related terms: cystoscopist
cystoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cystoscopy
laik
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: laiks
form: laiking
form: laiked
form: laiked
Senses: examples: text: ‘We were just laiking,’ Callum had moaned to Reggie when she first interviewed him. ‘He means larking about,’ someone back at the station interpreted for her.
ref: 2024, Kate Atkinson, Death at the Sign of the Rook, Doubleday, page 128:
glosses: Alternative form of lake (“to play”).
ransoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ransom
ransoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ransom
ransomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ransom
big blind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big blinds
Senses: examples: text: The blinds are: $1/$2. (small blind: $1, big blind: $2)
text: I have 10 big blinds in my stack. (big blind = $5, so I have $50 in my stack)
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The larger of the forced bets, usually equivalent to the minimum bet.
examples: text: If I raise, maybe the big blind will fold.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The player forced to pay such a bet.
Related terms: small blind
small blind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small blinds
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The smaller of the forced bets, usually equivalent to half the minimum bet, depending on the variation of poker played.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The player forced to pay such a bet.
Related terms: big blind
recoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recoilings
Senses: examples: text: And as long as these inward Rejolts and Recoilings of the Mind continue (which they will certainly do for a considerable Part of a Man's Life) the Sinner will find his Accounts of Pleasure very poor and short […]
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: The act of something that recoils.
recoiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recoil
tricotée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricotées
Etymology: From French tricotée.
Senses: glosses: A lively old dance.
tricotées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricotée
repurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repurchase
repurchasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repurchase
repurchased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repurchase
rurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rurally
form: most rurally
Etymology: From rural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rural way.
examples: text: While rurally based revolutionary movements have been thriving in other parts of the world, the outlawed Communist Party of Thailand has been losing guerrilla supporters, weapons and prestige.
ref: 1983 April 7, Colin Campbell, “MANY THAI COMMUNISTS GIVE UP THEIR LONG WARFARE IN THE JUNGLE”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a rural place; in the countryside.
longanimously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more longanimously
form: most longanimously
Etymology: From longanimous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a longanimous manner, displaying longanimity; forbearingly; patiently and in a restrained and self-controlled way.
ryes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rīz
ipa: /ɹaɪz/
homophone: rise
homophone: wries
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of rye
nighttide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From night + tide.
Senses: glosses: nighttime
Synonyms: night
nightertale
nighttime
Related terms: night tide
lobster shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lobster shifts
Etymology: Maybe from British journalism, a lob being English slang for a yokel, and the "lobster shift" being the overnight shift usually given to young inexperienced journalists, to keep them out of the daily mainstream stories. American Heritage 1993
Senses: examples: text: My boss stuck me on the lobster shift: I have to work from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.
glosses: a work shift that covers late evening and early morning hours.
Synonyms: graveyard shift
midnight shift
third shift
night stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nightstick.
juice joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juice joints
Senses: glosses: A nightclub.
glosses: A fraudulent casino that uses electromagnets to influence the dice or the roulette wheel.
Related terms: juke joint
grip car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grip cars
form: grip-car
Senses: examples: text: After dining Sam got on a grip car of the Wabash Avenue Cable, sitting on the front seat and letting the panorama of the town roll up to him.
ref: 1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 3, in Windy McPherson's Son, John Lane Company, New York, →OCLC:
text: Those were the days of the cable cars and we all jumped on a grip-car and set off visiting gaily.
ref: 1953, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, As I Remember, Harper, →OCLC, page 81:
text: Seats in the grip car were very popular in the summer but in cold weather the closed car with its coal burning stove won out.
ref: 2021, Arthur Joel Bolinger, edited by Jeffrey H. Barker and Melissa Walker, Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A.J. Bolinger, University Press of Kansas, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: A streetcar, especially a cable car.
jump leads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump lead
jumper cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumper cables
Senses: examples: text: He kept a jumper cable in an emergency box in the car, as he had once been caught with a dead battery.
synonyms: word: booster cable
word: starter cable
word: jump lead
qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
examples: text: Complete absence of multiple-unit jumper cables (this class is not fitted for working in multiple) lends a neatness to this area not usually possible on British diesels.
ref: 1962 March, Brian Haresnape, “Design in 1961—a Retrospect”, in Modern Railways, page 195:
topics: rail-transport
railways
road
transport
glosses: An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles.
glosses: A jump wire.
Related terms: booster
battery booster
booster cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booster cables
Senses: qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: Synonym of jumper cable.
synonyms: word: jumper cable
GIMPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search: a collaborative project using home computers to find large prime numbers.
Related terms: GIMP
repatriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repatriate
repatriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repatriate
repatriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: On December 13, Maritime-liveried 66051 powers out of the early morning gloom with three repatriated Class 66s, on the 0809 Dollands Moor Sidings-Scunthorpe Redbourne Siding.
ref: 2022 January 12, “News in pictures: Repatriated '66s' return home”, in RAIL, number 948, page 20:
glosses: simple past and past participle of repatriate
remounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remount
remounts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remount
reference work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reference works
Etymology: From reference + work.
Senses: glosses: A compendium of information which is not generally intended to be read from beginning to end but rather consulted on a spot basis, and is compiled for ease of reference; especially, a reference book, whether in print, digital, or both.
Synonyms: word: reference work
Hyponyms: word: dictionary
word: directory
word: lexicon
word: encyclopedic dictionary
word: etymological dictionary
word: translating dictionary
word: minidictionary
word: subdictionary
word: wordbook
word: encyclopedia
word: encyclopædia
word: encyclopaedia
word: thesaurus
word: minithesaurus
word: concordance
word: index
word: grammar
word: grammary
word: handbook
word: instruction manual
word: manual
word: pocketbook
word: pocket reference
word: reference book
word: vade mecum
word: almanac
word: almanack
word: atlas
word: gazetteer
word: globe
word: star chart
word: pharmacopoeia
word: pharmacopœia
word: pharmacopeia
word: telephone directory
word: white pages
word: yellow pages
Coordinate terms: word: primer
word: schoolbook
word: textbook
Related terms: word: database
word: file
word: file system
word: filing system
word: information
word: reference
word: book
chatspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chat + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Given that people are trying to speak by writing in real time, chatspeak is infused with extensive abbreviations and there is little punctuation.
ref: 2001, Edward Castronova, “Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier”, in CESifo Working Papers, 618, p. 13:
text: Our students are using Internet shorthand or chatspeak in their online yakking in chat rooms and e-mails.
ref: 2002, Ronald A. Berk, Humor as an instructional defibrillator: evidence-based techniques in teaching and assessment, Stylus, page 140:
text: I don't mind saying 'u' instead of 'you' so much, mostly because I've become numb to it, and some people do it because it's 'cool' to speak chatspeak.
ref: 2004, “Hello, All (who ever that is)”, in Smite the illiterate:
text: Is it too much to imagine a Bible written entirely in the language of tomorrow: Internet chatspeak and text message shorthand?
ref: 2008, Tom Breen, The Messiah formerly known as Jesus : dispatches from the intersection of Christianity and pop culture, Baylor University Press, page 69:
glosses: The blend of informal language, conventional abbreviations and emoticons typical of chatrooms.
Related terms: leetspeak
netspeak
graph toughness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure, expressed by a positive integer (with the exception of complete graphs), of the connectivity of a graph.
bill of sale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of sale
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: bill of goods
topics: business
finance
law
coordinate_terms: bill of exchange
bill of materials
bill of lading
manifest#Noun
schedule#Noun
glosses: A formal instrument for the conveyance or transfer of goods and chattels.
Related terms: for sale
pay the bills
bill of fare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of fare
Senses: examples: text: Having premised thus much, we will now detain those who like our bill of fare no longer from their diet, and shall proceed directly to serve up the first course of our history for their entertainment.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: […] a starveling cat roasted rabbitwise, or a brace of sparrows deluged in parsley and butter, designated in the bill of fare as pigeons or chickens.
ref: 1844, Bentley's Miscellany, volume 15, page 53:
synonyms: menu
glosses: A written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a banquet, or of the dishes (with prices listed) that may be ordered at a restaurant, etc.
bill of credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of credit
Senses: glosses: A bill issued by a state, on the mere faith and credit of the state, and designed to circulate as money.
saddle horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle horns
Senses: glosses: Part of a Western saddle protruding from the shoulders, designed to hold a rope for stopping animals.
bill of sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of sight
Senses: glosses: A form of entry at the customhouse, by which goods, respecting which the importer is not possessed of full information, may be provisionally landed for examination.
scrimp and save
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrimps and saves
form: scrimping and saving
form: scrimped and saved
form: scrimped and saved
Senses: examples: text: I scrimped and saved to buy my first house.
text: All month he scrimped and saved until he raised the money.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 104:
glosses: To scrimp greatly; to economize; to live very frugally, particularly when saving for something.
Synonyms: skimp and save
skimp and save
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skimps and saves
form: skimping and saving
form: skimped and saved
form: skimped and saved
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrimp and save.
bill of store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of store
Senses: glosses: A license granted at the customhouse to merchants, to carry such stores and provisions as are necessary for a voyage, custom free.
bills payable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The outstanding unpaid notes or acceptances made and issued by an individual or firm.
schizotypal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪt.səʊ.taɪp(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskɪt.soʊ.taɪp(ə)l/
Etymology: From schizo- + typal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to or displaying mild signs of schizophrenia; pertaining to or having schizotypy
Synonyms: schizotypic
Derived terms: schizotypal personality
Related terms: schizotype
schizotypic
schizotypy
schizotypal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪt.səʊ.taɪp(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈskɪt.soʊ.taɪp(ə)l/
Forms: form: schizotypals
Etymology: From schizo- + typal.
Senses: glosses: A person who has a schizotypal personality disorder
Derived terms: insipid schizotypal
timorous schizotypal
schizotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From schizo- + typic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
synonyms: schizotypal
glosses: schizotypal (displaying symptoms or signs similar to but less severe than schizophrenia)
Related terms: schizotypy
bill of costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of costs
Senses: glosses: A statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action.
e-right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-rights
Etymology: From e- + right.
Senses: examples: text: This new legislation aims to protect the e-rights of citizens.
topics: law
synonyms: cyberrights
glosses: A right of a person in the context of electronic media and communications.
examples: text: I sold the magazine rights to the story, but not the e-rights.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: The right to publish a given work in electronic form.
scotoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /skəˈtoʊ.mə/
/skoʊˈtoʊ.mə/
Forms: form: scotomas
form: scotomata
Etymology: From Late Latin scotoma, from Ancient Greek σκότωμα (skótōma), from σκότος (skótos, “darkness”).
Senses: examples: text: Malcolm’s vision was now almost totally occupied by the shimmering dazzle of the scotoma.
ref: 2019, Philip Pullman, The Secret Commonwealth, David Fickling Books (2020), page 373:
synonyms: blind spot
glosses: An area of impaired or lost vision within a visual field otherwise in a good (or at least healthy) state.
Derived terms: microscotoma
scotomaphobia
scotomatous
scotometer
scotometry
scotomization
Related terms: scotomize
scotomy
Ebionite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ebionites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐβιωναῖοι (Ebiōnaîoi), from Hebrew אביונים (Ebyonim, “the Poor Ones”), plural of Hebrew אֶבְיוֹן (ʾeḇyōn, “needy, poor”), itself likely a borrowing from Coptic ⲉⲃⲓⲏⲛ (ebiēn, “poor”).
Senses: examples: text: And if the pious bishop and martyr, St. Irenaeus, happen to drop any thing pointed against the Doctor's progenitors, the ancient Ebionites, of heretical memory, he gently passes it over as though no such passages occurred in that learned and venerable Father's writings.
ref: 1798, David Simpson, An Apology for the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 504:
text: EBION, the author of the heresy of the Ebionites, was a disciple of Cerinthus and his successor.
ref: 1829, London Encyclopaedia:
text: The passage was so taken by the Jewish or Ebionite translators, Aquila, Theodotion, and Symmachus.
ref: 1896, Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, page 52:
text: * Jesus teaches vegetarianism. Epiphanius describes the Ebionites as vegetarians, and in the Recognitions and Homilies vegetarianism is strongly connected to the rejection of animal sacrifice and is required of all the followers of Jesus. When Epiphanius questions a Jewish Christian as to why he was a vegetarian, the Jewish Christian responds simply: “Christ revealed it to me” (Panarion 30.18.9).
ref: 2000, Keith Akers, chapter 2, in The lost religion of Jesus: simple living and nonviolence in early Christianity, New York, NY: Lantern Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: A member of an early Jewish Christian sect that lived in and around Judea and Palestine from the 1st to the 4th century.
Derived terms: neo-Ebionite
Related terms: Ebionize
Londonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Londonizes
form: Londonizing
form: Londonized
form: Londonized
Etymology: From London + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make (someone) like a Londoner in character or habits.
glosses: To imitate the manner of a Londoner.
moosewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moosewoods
Etymology: From moose + wood.
Senses: glosses: Striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
glosses: Hobblebush, Viburnum lantanoides.
glosses: Leatherwood (genus Dirca or specifically Dirca palustris)
sysadmin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sysadmins
Etymology: Blend of system + administrator.
Senses: examples: text: Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.
ref: 2011, Andrew Lunny, PhoneGap Beginner's Guide:
glosses: Systems administrator; a person whose job it is to maintain computer or network systems.
Derived terms: sysadminning
Related terms: BOFH
sysop
sysprog
investment bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: investment banks
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
coordinate_terms: commercial bank
retail bank
universal bank
glosses: A financial institution that deals with raising capital, trading in securities and managing corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Derived terms: investment banker
investment banking
bank of issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banks of issue
Senses: glosses: A bank which issues its own notes payable to bearer.
Feldman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Feldmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German of German and Jewish origin.
Derived terms: Sobel-Feldman operator
Related terms: Feldmann
institutionalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of institutionalization
institutionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: institutionalises
form: institutionalising
form: institutionalised
form: institutionalised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of institutionalize.
Derived terms: institutionalisation
noninstitutionalised
reinstitutionalise
institutionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of institutionalise
institutionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of institutionalise
institutionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of institutionalise
remounting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remount
remounting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remountings
Senses: glosses: The act of mounting something again.
remounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remount
recoilless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recoilless
form: most recoilless
Etymology: From recoil + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The author can attest that when the 57mm, 90mm, and 84mm recoilless rifles are fired from the shoulder there is no recoil.The firer is buffeted by the high pressure of the muzzle and back blasts, some of it being reflected off the ground.
ref: 2013, Gordon L. Rottman, The Big Book of Gun Trivia, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Lacking recoil. Generally referring to a weapon so designed as to fire a projectile without causing a powerful, destructive backward "kick" or recoil in reaction. The objective of the design is to permit a very light cannon to deliver a relatively large projectile.
Derived terms: recoilless rifle
total syntheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of total synthesis
reloads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reload
reloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reload
reloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reload
reloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reloadings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something (a gun, a device, etc.) is reloaded; a subsequent loading.
reloaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reload
remitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈmɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: remitters
Etymology: From remit + -er (agent noun suffix), or in the legal sense + -er (action noun suffix).
Senses: glosses: One who remits, or makes remittance.
glosses: One who pardons.
topics: law
glosses: The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right formerly held; the restitution of one who obtains possession of property under a defective title, to his rights under some valid title by virtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only by suit
remitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remitter
revolving door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revolving doors
form: revolving-door
Senses: glosses: A door that rotates around a central pivot.
examples: text: Indeed, we happily condemn damaged children – at enormous expense – to hellholes like Feltham, where they are more likely to be assaulted or killed than to find an escape from the revolving doors of courts, prisons and addiction.
ref: 2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian:
text: After the prime minister’s abrupt Downing Street statement, in which she announced that another leadership contest would be held within a week, Starmer attacked what he called “this revolving door of chaos”.
ref: 2022 October 20, Heather Stewart, quoting Keir Starmer, “Keir Starmer renews call for immediate general election after Truss resigns”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A system or institution that people exit and immediately reenter.
examples: text: We've had 14 Secretaries of State through the revolving door in the first 23 years of this century. And the civil servants rotate through the departments with similar speed.
ref: 2023 June 28, Anthony Smith talks to Paul Clifton, “The industry has to go back to basics”, in RAIL, number 986, page 40:
text: Indeed, of all the companies in the US, Monsanto is perhaps the most notorious for the “revolving door” between its top management and the key staffers of the federal agencies that write the rules governing its products.
ref: 2025, James Corbett, “Biotech Billionaires and GMO Doomsday”, in Reportage: Essays on the New World Order, Atlanta, Georgia: Editions Shukutou, published 2025, →ISBN, page 152, lines 19-23:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A movement of personnel between roles as legislators and regulators, on the one hand, and members of the industries affected by the legislation and regulation, on the other.
glosses: Synonym of recidivism.
synonyms: word: recidivism
Derived terms: revolving door syndrome
revolving doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolving door
abarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb.ɑɹˈtɪk.ju.lə/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɑɹˈtɪk.jə.lə/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɑˈtɪk.ju.lə/
ipa: /ˌæb.ɑˈtɪk.jə.lə/
Etymology: From ab- + articular, from Latin ab- (“away from”) + articulus (“joint”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Away from the joints; not articular.
reweight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reweights
form: reweighting
form: reweighted
form: reweighted
Etymology: From re- + weight.
Senses: glosses: To replace or adjust weights that are attached to something.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: To adjust the weighting given to a value.
topics: hobbies
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To adjust or reassign the handicap weight.
reweights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reweight
reweighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reweight
reweighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reweightings
Senses: glosses: The assignment of a new weighting.
apparachik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apparachiks
form: apparachiki
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of apparatchik.
abbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ab + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having visible abdominal muscles; having abs.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: Reality shows about lesbian surfers, on the other hand, are for fans of sex — or at least fans of sex among flat-abbed well-tanned women who also can grab a rail hang 10 or shoot a curl.
ref: 2007, The Advocate, numbers 988-999, page 48:
text: Fortunately, God, in his infinite and redeeming mercy, had also sent down a tight-abbed, small-boned Chinese-Chicana woman to rescue the innocents.
ref: 2011, David Brooks, The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens:
glosses: Having abdominal muscles of a specified kind.
raw_tags: of a person
abbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ab
rhizopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizopods
Etymology: From rhizo- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: A member of the taxonomic superclass of Rhizopoda, being a type of amoeboid single-cell life with pseudopods not supported by a regular array of microtubules.
Related terms: rhizopodial
rhizopodist
rhizopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizopod
amoeboids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amoeboid
downstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnˌstɹoʊk/
Forms: form: downstrokes
Etymology: From down + stroke.
Senses: examples: text: It was written, not printed; written in a clear, even hand, with thick downstrokes and thin upstrokes, very large, easier than print, and so beautiful that Lucy stared at it for a whole minute and forgot about reading it.
ref: 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
text: 1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, "Erisychthon," lines 41-6, p. 86,
He snatches an axe—and hauls / The weight of the broad head up and back. / But in that moment, as the blade hangs / Poised for the first downstroke, shudderings / Swarm through the whole tree, to its outermost twigs / And a groan bursts out of the deep grain.
text: If you keep typing on the downstroke of the spacebar it lets you, for example, squeeze a four-letter word into the space normally occupied by a three-letter word.
ref: 2021, Scott Schad, Typewriters for Writers, page 500:
glosses: A downward stroke, especially one that is part of a sequence of alternating upward and downward strokes.
Derived terms: up for the downstroke
dysregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysregulations
Etymology: From dys- + regulation.
Senses: examples: text: For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier.
ref: 2015, Raja Sivamani, Jared R. Jagdeo, Peter Elsner, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A failure to regulate properly.
Derived terms: immunodysregulation
neurodysregulation
Related terms: dysregulate
dysregulated
dysregulator
dysregulatory
pathogenesis
random number generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random number generators
form: random-number generator
Senses: glosses: A device or algorithm that generates numbers at random or apparently at random. In many cases they actually select successive numbers deterministically and are more technically termed pseudorandom number generator.
Synonyms: word: RNG
Hypernyms: randomizer
Coordinate terms: pseudorandom number generator
deterministically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deterministically
form: most deterministically
Etymology: From deterministic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a deterministic manner, predictably.
Derived terms: indeterministically
random number generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of random number generator
RNG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RNGs
Senses: examples: text: The combat in this game is way too RNG-based.
text: Jeez, I'm having terrible RNG today.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Initialism of random number generator.
Randomness, variability, or luck, especially produced by a random number generator.
topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: Initialism of random number generator.
Initialism of Random Number God.
glosses: Initialism of renewable natural gas.
Derived terms: english: pseudorandom number generator
translation: pseudorandom number generator
word: PRNG
english: quantum random number generator; quasirandom number generator
translation: quantum random number generator; quasirandom number generator
word: QRNG
word: RNGesus
word: RNG gods
entry wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entry wounds
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: entrance wound
qualifier: forensics
glosses: A wound caused by a bullet or other object as it enters the body, as contrasted with exit wound.
PRNG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PRNGs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of pseudorandom number generator.
Related terms: english: random number generator
translation: random number generator
word: RNG
FCT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Facilitated Communication Training.
glosses: Initialism of flight control technology.
FCT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federal Capital Territory.
pseudorandom number generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudorandom number generators
form: pseudo-random number generator
Etymology: From pseudo- + random number generator.
Senses: examples: text: NumPy also has its own implementation of a pseudorandom number generator and convenience wrapper functions.
ref: 2018, Jason Brownlee, Statistical Methods for Machine Learning, Machine Learning Mastery, page 51:
glosses: A device or algorithm that deterministically produces a succession of values that appear in an unpredictable sequence or apparently random order.
Synonyms: PRNG
Hypernyms: randomizer
Coordinate terms: random number generator
Derived terms: PRNG
Related terms: QRNG
quantum random number generator
quasirandom number generator
quasi-random number generator
random number generator
RNG
seed
pseudorandom number generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudorandom number generator
end-to-end
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We laid a long end-to-end row of bricks.
antonyms: side-by-side#Adjective
coordinate_terms: back-to-back#Adjective
glosses: Arranged so that each end of a given item is adjacent to one end of a different item.
raw_tags: of a collection of items
examples: text: The end-to-end trip takes about forty minutes.
text: End-to-end encryption involves uninterrupted protection of data traveling between two communicating parties.
text: End-to-end journey times could be double that of lorries on the expanding motorway network, and it was more difficult than ever to path trains between fast passenger services.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67:
text: Telegram, however, only turns on end-to-end encryption for “secret chats”, an option that users must actively select for each individual contact. Such chats “are meant for people who want more secrecy than the average fella”, the service explains in an FAQ.
ref: 2021 January 24, Alex Hern, “WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: top-to-bottom#Adjective
soup-to-nuts#Adjective
glosses: From one end to the other; entire.
examples: text: But rather than the end-to-end action of the first half, much of the entertainment took place in the Sunderland third.
ref: 2011 February 1, Saj Chowdhury, “Sunderland 2 - 4 Chelsea”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Smoothly alternating between attacking and defensive plays.
diaconal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /daɪˈækənəl/
Etymology: From Middle French diaconal, from Latin diaconus (“deacon”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a deacon or the diaconate.
Derived terms: subdiaconal
diaconal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈækənəl/
Forms: form: diaconals
Etymology: From Middle French diaconal, from Latin diaconus (“deacon”).
Senses: glosses: A member of the diaconate.
Venitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Venitian
form: most Venitian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Venetian.
Kalamazooan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kalamazooans
Etymology: From Kalamazoo + -an.
Senses: glosses: One who resides in or comes from Kalamazoo.
financial markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of financial market
money markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of money market
capital markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capital market
bond markets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bond market
pick-axe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pick-axes
Senses: examples: text: By the way, the only relic of those builders that I ever saw was a highly finished bronze pick-axe which Stella found one day in the quarry.
ref: 1889 December, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “[Allan’s Wife] The Marble Kraals”, in Allan’s Wife and Other Tales, London: Spencer Blackett, […], →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pickaxe.
pick-axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pick-axe
pickaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pickax
pickaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pickax
redresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redress
redresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redress
redressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redress
redressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redress
redresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redressers
Etymology: From redress + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.
ref: 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado:
glosses: One who grants redress.
redressers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redresser
film sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of film set
repopularize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repopularizes
form: repopularizing
form: repopularized
form: repopularized
form: repopularise
Etymology: From re- + popularize.
Senses: glosses: To make popular again.
repopularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repopularises
form: repopularising
form: repopularised
form: repopularised
form: repopularize
Etymology: From re- + popularise.
Senses: glosses: To make popular again.
stock company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock companies
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: an incorporated company the capital of which is represented by marketable shares having a certain equal par value
glosses: a company of actors regularly employed at one theater, or permanently acting together in various plays under one management
lx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: linguistics + -x
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of linguistics.
penny stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penny stocks
Senses: examples: text: Every so often, the practice reappears in the trading of “penny stocks”—cheap, rarely traded, shares. Years ago when volume was thinner, it was said to be common in blue chips too.
ref: 2000 August 10, “The price is wrong”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: blue chip
glosses: A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar or pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.
Related terms: stock promoter
isokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isokinetic
form: most isokinetic
Etymology: From iso- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the force that a muscle applies during a limb movement at constant velocity
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reacting at the same rate (http://www.chemicool.com/definition/isokinetic_relationship.html)
Derived terms: isokinetically
Related terms: isometric
isotonic
for-profit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: forprofit
Etymology: From for + profit; see the earlier not-for-profit and nonprofit.
Senses: examples: text: For-profit capitalism has created social and economic inequality; successful not-for-profit businesses including Mozilla and the Big Issue point to an alternative path[.]
ref: 2014 October 1, Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton, “Beyond capitalism: not-for-profit business ethos motivates sustainable behaviour”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Florida being Florida, all that energetic for-profit concerns had to do was set up non-profit shell companies as nominal administrators.
ref: 2015, Chris Lehmann, ‘The Candidates’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:
topics: business
synonyms: commercial
profitable
profitmaking
profitseeking
glosses: For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.
raw_tags: of an organization
for-profit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: for-profits
form: forprofit
Etymology: From for + profit; see the earlier not-for-profit and nonprofit.
Senses: glosses: An organization whose goal is to make a profit.
dekad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekads
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek δεκάς (dekás, “group of ten”). By surface analysis, deka- + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: Africa InterTropical Front (ITF), in Climate Prediction Center)
text: Figure 1 displays the current position of the ITF relative to the long-term average position during the 3rd dekad of April and its previous position during the 2nd dekad of April.
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: Ten days, especially of rainfall
Derived terms: dekadal
Related terms: pentad
undoctored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undoctored
form: most undoctored
Senses: glosses: Not doctored; not altered to create a false appearance; genuine.
undoctored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undoctor
power of appointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powers of appointment
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the law of wills, the ability of a testator to select a person who will be given the authority to dispose of certain property under the will.
powers of appointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power of appointment
violinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violinist
negara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negaras
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian negara, from Malay negara, borrowed from Sanskrit नगर (nagara, “city”). Doublet of Angkor and Nagari.
Senses: glosses: A constituent state of Indonesia when it was under Dutch control.
DSLD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
medicine
pathology
pets
sciences
sports
glosses: Initialism of degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis, an equine skeletal disorder characterized by a hyperabundance of a certain proteoglycan in equine connective tissue which causes degeneration and eventually death.
Synonyms: ESPA
equine systemic proteoglycan accumulation
voltaic couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltaic couples
Senses: glosses: The pair of plates (made of different metals or other conductive materials), and separated by an electrolyte, which form a voltaic cell (in a battery, for example).
Related terms: Galvanic couple
Bartram
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Bartram oak
Bateman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batemans
Etymology: From Bate + man, with the meaning "servant of Bate".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A suburb of Perth, in the City of Melville, Western Australia.
glosses: An abandoned community in south-west Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in the town of Lafayette, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, United States.
genericise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪˌsaɪz/
Forms: form: genericises
form: genericising
form: genericised
form: genericised
Etymology: From generic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of genericize.
synth rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several genres of rock music featuring electronic synthesizers
far point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: far points
Senses: glosses: The most distant point at which the eye can focus (usually infinity, but nearer for a myopic eye).
glosses: The most distant point under consideration in any situation.
Related terms: near point