cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
untamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈteɪmd/
Forms: form: more untamed
form: most untamed
Etymology: From Middle English untamed, untemed, equivalent to un- + tamed and/or untame + -ed. Compare Dutch ongetemd (“untamed”), German ungezähmt (“untamed”), Danish utæmmet (“untamed”), Swedish otämd (“untamed”), Icelandic ótamin (“untamed”).
Senses: examples: text: The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.
text: Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.
ref: 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:
text: John Wesley Powell ... the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.
ref: 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
Related terms: untame
contributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃənz/
ipa: /ˌkɒntɹɪˈbjuːʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of contribution
conducted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdʌktɪd/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conduct
amokoscisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Pseudo-Grecism, from amok + -o- + Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + -ia. Schmidt (1984), who probably coined the term, gives the derivation as "amuck^([sic]) (in a state of frenzy) + schizo (slit)".
Senses: examples: text: Other paraphilias are more blatantly transgressive and usually illegal: amokoscisia (desire to slash or mutilate females); anthropophagy (cannibalism); anthropophagolagnia (rape accompanied by cannibalism); […]
ref: 2013, RJ Parker, Peter Vronsky, Michael Newton, Serial Killers True Crime Anthology 2014, volume I, page 29:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:amokoscisia.
glosses: A sexual frenzy accompanied by a desire to mutilate women.
peregrinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.ɹɪ.ɡɹəˌneɪt/
Forms: form: more peregrinate
form: most peregrinate
Etymology: From Latin peregrinatus (“having travelled abroad”), past participle of peregrinari.
Senses: examples: text: His humour is loftie, his diſcourſe peremptorie: his tongue fyled, his eye ambitious, his gate maieſticall and his general behauiour vaine, rediculous, & thraſonicall. He is too picked, too ſpruce, too affected, to od, as it were, too peregrinat as I may call it.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: Imagine this figure, grotesque, peregrinate, and to the eye of a peasant certainly diabolical, then perch it on the stile in the midst of those green English fields, and in sight of that primitive English village; there let it sit straddling, its long legs dangling down, a short German pipe emitting clouds from one corner of those sardonic lips, its dark eyes glaring through the spectacles full upon the Parson, yet askant upon Lenny Fairfield. Lenny Fairfield looked exceedingly frightened.
ref: 1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter IV, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book first, page 21:
text: 1992, Julia Bolton Holloway, The Pilgrim and the Book http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0820420905&id=x0wYJrkBc08C&pg=RA2-PA130&lpg=RA2-PA130&dq=peregrinate&sig=kU3-LAXXKwKQb_GW3AnzXq8eryU
Other apprentices on this pilgrimage have been the worldly Squire to the peregrinate Knight to whom are juxtaposed the peregrinate Second Nun to the worldly Prioress.
glosses: Peregrine; having travelled; exotic, foreign.
aphantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aphantic
form: most aphantic
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek φάς (phás, “speaking”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a rock sample: compact, crystalline and too fine-grained in texture for its constituents to be identifiable.
langsyne
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From auld lang syne.
Senses: glosses: Yesteryear, in the old days, some time ago.
langsyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langsynes
Etymology: From auld lang syne.
Senses: glosses: Yesteryear, the old days; auld lang syne.
fourchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔːˈʃɛt/
Forms: form: fourchettes
Etymology: From French fourchette.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
glosses: A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
glosses: The wishbone or furculum of birds
glosses: The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.
satellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satellite
satellites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of satellite
Gray code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gray codes
Etymology: Named after Bell Labs researcher Frank Gray, who invented this system in 1953.
Senses: glosses: A binary coding system in which successive values differ in just one digit position.
wikipedia: Bell Labs
Frank Gray
Related terms: Beckett-Gray code
Gillham code
red pepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red peppers
Senses: glosses: A red-colored, ripe, bell or sweet pepper. Unripe peppers of this variety are green and edible but not as sweet.
examples: text: Crushed red pepper flakes add zest to pizza.
glosses: Spicy pepper.
fishermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃɚmən/
ipa: /ˈfɪʃəmən/
Senses: glosses: plural of fisherman
gold standard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold standards
Senses: examples: text: In countries that accepted the gold standard, currency could be exchanged at a bank for a fixed weight of gold.
ref: 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2004, page 57:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A monetary system where the value of circulating money is linked to the value of gold.
examples: text: The OED is the gold standard for English dictionaries.
text: YC’s gold standard for revenue growth is ten per cent a week, which compounds to 142x a year.
ref: 2016 October 3, Tad Friend, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A test or measure of comparison that is considered ultimate or ideal.
Mae West
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mae Wests
Etymology: Named after the actress and sex symbol Mae West, who was well known during the war. The inflatable front was taken to be like her busty figure.
Senses: glosses: A type of life jacket used by Allied forces in World War II having an inflatable rubber bag on the chest of the wearer.
greenback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenbacks
Etymology: From green + back.
Senses: glosses: Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the Federal Reserve.
glosses: The United States dollar.
glosses: A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.
examples: text: When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]
ref: 1965, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 28:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A wave that has not yet begun to break.
Derived terms: green-backed
Greenbacker
greenbackism
Greenback Party
greenmail
greenmailing
conducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conduct
conducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conduct
Claytons
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a non-alcoholic drink called Claytons named after the Clayton brothers and promoted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s as “the drink you have when you′re not having a drink”. The drink itself did not impress consumers and is now all but forgotten.
Senses: examples: text: Cheer up bro, it was a Claytons test anyway.
ref: 2000 April 22, Sir Just Me, “Weekly UK News Bulletin (Apr 17-21)”, in rec.sport.rugby.league (Usenet):
text: AFL Game Day's Hamish McLaughlin summed up the summer perfectly last Sunday: "There's been new coaches, new presidents, new captains, good trades, ugly trades, suspended CEOs, suspended football managers and coaches, player managers fined, drug allegations, ASADA, WADA, the ACC, capped rotations, Clayton's tanking, the tanking you're having when you're not really having tanking.
ref: 2013 March 18, Yahoo!7 Sport, “Let's put the summer of scandal behind us”, in Yahoo!7, retrieved 17 May 2013:
glosses: Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
Derived terms: Claytons alliance
Claytons election
Claytons solution
Claytons term
Claytons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Clayton + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Clayton
Related terms: Clayton
Clayton's
Clayton's
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Clayton + -'s.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Claytons.
Clayton's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Clayton + -'s.
Senses: glosses: A city in Contra Costa, California, United States; Former name of Clayton.
Related terms: Clayton
Claytons
Maccas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “Then of course there′s Maccas food, which is uniformly mediocre no matter where you go.”
ref: 1998, James Roy, Full Moon Racing, page 25:
text: Because it was the first-ever Maccas to open in Australia, to commemorate its last day there was going to be a never-seen-before special. It read: ‘bring this flyer in and get a Big Mac for fifty cents’.
Fifty cents! Whoo-hoooo!
ref: 2010, Anh Do, The Happiest Refugee, page 103:
text: 2011, Angus Benson, Down South, in University of Technology, Sydney, The Life You Chose and That Chose You: The 25th UTS Writers' Anthology, unnumbered page,
We slowed down just the once to pick up drive-thru from Maccas. I paid for my own food, but Mul and Seano reckoned they had no money.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Macca's (“McDonald's”).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: "Macaronis", a surf break in Mentawai Islands Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
pot boiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot boilers
form: potboiler
form: pot-boiler
Etymology: The figurative sense comes from the notion that the writer's or artist's output is enough to provide sustenance; compare breadwinner, put food on the table, and keep the lights on.
Senses: examples: text: Arists and novelists of a certain stamp joke about ‘pot-boilers’, the name facetiously given to hasty, worthless pictures and books[…]
ref: [1864 August 27, Saturday Review:
text: No man is a success in business unless he loves his work. The picture the artist paints for love is his greatest work. The pot-boiler is always something to live down.
ref: 1925, Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and how to play it:
text: A limp, sudsy adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1945 novel “Eve” (a potboiler that Joseph Losey once spun into a Jeanne Moreau vehicle of the same name), “Eva” begins with an engaging sequence that instantly sets the tone by subverting its own beauty.
ref: 2018 February 18, David Ehrlich, “‘Eva’ Review: Not Even Isabelle Huppert Playing an Irritated Prostitute Can Save this Limp Melodrama”, in IndieWire:
glosses: A creative work of low quality (book, art, etc.), produced merely to earn a living or for profit, as opposed to serious creative expression.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stone used to transfer heat from a fire into a vessel of water, so as to heat the contents.
touchback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touchbacks
Etymology: Presumably: touchdown + back
Senses: examples: The ball sailed into the end zone for a touchback and the Eagles had possession on the 20-yard line. https://web.archive.org/web/20060111202354/http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/gameday/postGameArchive.jsp?id=16746
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the back of the end zone or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.
differential diagnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: differential diagnoses
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms.
examples: 2000 August 15, Harry D. McKinnon and Thomas Howard, “Evaluating the Febrile Patient with a Rash”, in American Family Physician, American Academy of Family Physicians, page 804,
The differential diagnosis for febrile patients with a rash is extensive.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A list of possible causes of a primary symptom or a collection of symptoms.
Related terms: nonspecific
when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras
Müllerian duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Müllerian ducts
form: Mullerian duct
form: müllerian duct
form: mullerian duct
Etymology: Named after German physiologist Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858), who described the ducts in 1830.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: paramesonephric duct
coordinate_terms: Wolffian duct
glosses: A paired structure found in mammals including humans that develops in the early stages of embryonic development and contribute to the formation of internal female reproductive organs; precursor to the upper vagina, uterus, and Fallopian tubes.
wikipedia: Johannes Peter Müller
paramesonephric duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramesonephric ducts
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: mesonephric duct
glosses: Synonym of Müllerian duct.
synonyms: word: Müllerian duct
Mullerian duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mullerian ducts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Müllerian duct.
halfpipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfpipes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of half-pipe.
Burrows
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English topographical surname, a variant of Burroughs.
glosses: A community in the Rural Municipality of Willowdale No. 153, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Carroll County, Indiana, United States.
glosses: A township in Platte County, Nebraska, United States.
Derived terms: Burrows-Wheeler transform
sashichigai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sashi-chigae
Etymology: From Japanese 差し違い (sashi-chigai).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a decision by the shimpan to overturn the decision of the gyoji
Klein bottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Klein bottles
Etymology: Calque of German Kleinsche Flasche, named after German mathematician Felix Klein (1849–1925), who first described such a surface in 1882.
Senses: examples: text: At this level Atman and Brahman are like a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip: there is no edge where one can say that this is Atman, but this is Brahman.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222:
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable.
glosses: A physical bottle, usually of blown glass, made to resemble said shape.
seigen jikan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 制限時間.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The time allocated for the shikiri rituals before the beginning of each bout.
Burroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burrough
form: Burrow
form: Burrowes
form: Burrows
Senses: examples: text: Judge Allison Burroughs agreed with Harvard’s arguments that the administration imposed the funding freeze in retaliation for the Ivy League university’s refusal to capitulate to demands for reforms that violated First Amendment protections under the Constitution.
ref: 2025 September 3, Dan Mangan, “Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration”, in CNBC:
glosses: An English topographical surname from Middle English, from Old English beorg (“hill”) or burg (“fort”), for someone who lived near a hill or fort.
glosses: A neighbourhood of Savannah, and former town in Chatham County, Georgia, United States.
Burroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Burroughs
Senses: glosses: An area of Barnet borough, London, England; named for the rabbit warrens there.
Shreveport
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the parish seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
on the square
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Honest and open.
examples: "Are you on the square?" (meaning: "are you a freemason like myself?")
glosses: A discreet, unassuming reference to freemasonry.
Synonyms: sense: unassuming freemasonic reference
word: on the level
art speak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: art + speak.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of artspeak.
artspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: art speak
Etymology: From art + -speak.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Quinn[…] was uptown exploring the new $26 million, 40,000 square foot museum addition because he takes students to museums as part of a course he teaches in New York on what to say about paintings—artspeak.
ref: 1987 February 4, William E. Geist, “The Art of Artspeak: Be Sophisticated”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Complication is what artspeak is all about. It seeks to confer status and worth on an artist's work by insisting on its obscurity, which it conveys through a grey porridge of abstract nouns.
ref: 2010 February 5, Jon Canter, “Artspeak? It's complicated”, in The Guardian:
text: On the other side of the wall, the affable Mr. Campbell, dressed in jeans and a camouflage baseball cap, attempted to assess the tattoo he chose for Mr. Gachot in the language of artspeak. “With skulls, there’s so much symbolism and power,” he said.
ref: 2015 November 13, Alex Williams, “Scott Campbell Turns Blind Trust Into Tattoos”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The specialist vocabulary and language associated with art and artists, especially when seen as complicated or pretentious.
Liberal Democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Liberal Democrats
Etymology: From the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democrats.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A centrist political party
topics: government
politics
glosses: A right-wing libertarian political party
Liberal Democrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the merger of the Liberals and the Social Democrats.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: plural of Liberal Democrat
dago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪɡəʊ/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: dagoes
form: dagos
Etymology: Alteration of diego (“Spaniard”), from Spanish Diego (common Spanish name) by law of Hobson-Jobson.
Senses: examples: text: And all foreigners to him were "dem bloody dagoes"—for, according to his theory, foreigners were responsible for unemployment.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, or other Mediterranean or Latin descent.
examples: text: Sort of dago fellow; leads the orchestra down at the Winter Gardens ... You know the sort, all lah-di-dah and snakeskin shoes.
ref: 1932, Dorothy L Sayers, chapter 10, in Have His Carcase:
text: "Matilda's making us omelettes, that all right, Miss Tomson."
"Are they going to reek."
"Dear me, I hope not. I instructed her to leave out particularly strong ingredients."
"Just so I don't leave here smelling like a dago."
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 19:
synonyms: Eyetie
goombah
greaseball
guido
guinea
wog
wop
glosses: A person of Italian descent.
Derived terms: dago bomb
dago dazzler
dago red
greaseball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greaseballs
Etymology: From grease + ball; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.
Senses: examples: text: (Italian)
text: Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same.
ref: 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:
hyponyms: dago
Eyetie
goombah
guido
guinea
wog
wop
glosses: A person of Italian descent especially, but also used pejoratively to refer to people of Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, other Mediterranean, or Latin American descent.
glosses: A mechanic.
glosses: A biker, a tough.
glosses: A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.
goombah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡumbɑ/
ipa: /ɡuːmˈbɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: goombahs
form: goomba
form: gumba
form: gumbah
Etymology: From Neapolitan cumpà and Sicilian cumpari (“buddy, pal”, akin to Italian compare, Spanish compadre, from Latin compater, literally “godfather”), a word often used to refer to “family friends” or friends close enough to be considered an “aunt” or “uncle”, though not related by blood.
 To an English-speaking ear, the unaspirated stops of Southern Italian dialects (especially Neapolitan) are interpreted as voiced stops, yielding goombah. Compare South American Spanish cumpa. Doublet of compadre, compeer, and compere.
Senses: synonyms: dago
Eyetie
greaseball
guido
guinea
wog
wop
glosses: A person of Italian descent (often implies the person is connected to Italian organized crime)
glosses: A companion, pal, close friend, or associate, especially among Italian-American men. It sometimes has the connotation of an older friend who acts as a patron, protector or adviser.
goombah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡumbɑ/
ipa: /ɡuːmˈbɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: goombahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gumbe, a Jamaican drum.
wop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒp/
ipa: /wɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: wops
Etymology: From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term is not an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms derived from the term.
Senses: glosses: A person of Italian descent.
Synonyms: sense: person of Italian descent
word: dago
sense: person of Italian descent
word: Eyetie
sense: person of Italian descent
word: goombah
sense: person of Italian descent
word: greaseball
sense: person of Italian descent
word: guido
sense: person of Italian descent
word: guinea
sense: person of Italian descent
word: pizzahead
sense: person of Italian descent
word: wog
Derived terms: wop top
wop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒp/
ipa: /wɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: wops
form: wopping
form: wopped
form: wopped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”).
Related terms: doo-wop
molly wop
wop-wops
DDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DDDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of die-deterioration doubling (“a common form of mint-made error on coins that results from degradation of the die used to strike the coin”).
coordinate_terms: AAD
ADD
DAD
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating a "full digital recording" (recorded, mixed and mastered in digital).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: DDT
glosses: Initialism of dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane (“insecticide related to DDT”).
topics: architecture
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of domain-driven design (“methodology and set of priorities for object oriented programming”).
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of direct distance dialing (“network-provided service that enables non-local telephone calls to be made without operator assistance”).
examples: text: The authors found a significant decrease in the defined daily doses (DDD) of antibiotics in both units B and C, but not in unit A. Although just a single center study, this illustrates the impact that ID specialist approval can have on antibiotic use.
ref: 2017, Christopher D. Doern, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, “Selective Reporting and Antimicrobial Stewardship”, in Kerry LaPlante, Cheston Cunha, Haley Morrill, Louis Rice, Eleftherios Mylonakis, editors, Antimicrobial Stewardship: Principles and Practice, Wallingford: CABI, →ISBN, page 115:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
coordinate_terms: PDD
RDD
glosses: Initialism of defined daily dose: a statistical measure of drug consumption.
glosses: Initialism of degenerative disc disease.
DAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: coordinate_terms: AAD
ADD
DDD
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: A designation on prerecorded compact discs indicating that the contents were recorded in digital but mixed in analog before being mastered to a digital medium.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Acronym of diffuse alveolar damage.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Acronym of Dutch angel dragon.
DAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Currently replaying in preparation for DAD, and the Josiemance is still as lovely as I remember.
ref: 2024 May 24, RS_Serperior, Reddit:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: DA4
glosses: Initialism of Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (early title of Dragon Age: The Veilguard).
AAD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Dentists.
glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Dermatology.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Antarctic Division.
glosses: Initialism of Azure Active Directory.
AAD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AADs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Aircraft Assignment Directive.
glosses: Initialism of automatic activation device.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Anti-aircraft division.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Army Air Defense.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Airborne Assault Division.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Armored Automobile Detachment.
foreword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːwɜːd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwɝd/
ipa: /ˈfɔɹwɚd/
homophone: forward stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: forewords
Etymology: Morphologically fore- + word. Calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio (“preface”). Cognate with German Low German Vörwoord (“foreword”), Dutch voorwoord (“foreword”), West Frisian foarwurd (“foreword”), Danish forord (“preface; proviso”), Swedish förord (“foreword”). Compare also Old English forword, foreword (“proviso; condition”).
Senses: examples: text: He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
antonyms: word: afterword
word: epilogue
word: endsay
word: conclusion
word: last word
word: postamble
word: foreword
coordinate_terms: foretalk
foretale
preface
introduction
prologue
preamble
glosses: An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; especially, one written by another person (not the author of the work thus introduced).
Synonyms: word: forespeech
word: foretale
word: foretalk
word: foreword
Hypernyms: word: adjunct
word: writing
Coordinate terms: word: exordium
word: intro
word: introduction
word: isagoge
word: preface
word: lead
topics: journalism
media
word: lede
topics: journalism
media
word: lead-in
word: preamble
word: prolegomenon
word: prologue
word: prolusion
word: proem
word: proemium
word: protasis
Related terms: word: introductory
word: prelude
word: prefatory
word: preliminary
word: protactic
word: protatic
word: forward
fin-de-siècle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fin de siècle.
fin de siècle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæn də siˈɛklə/
ipa: /-siˈɛkəl/
ipa: /-ˈsjɛklə/
ipa: /-ˈsjɛkəl/
Forms: form: fin-de-siècle
Etymology: Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (literally “end of the century”).
Senses: examples: text: The fin-de-siècle phenomenon has, of course, received considerable attention from historians in the recent past—a testament to its appeal. […] They also tend to concentrate on individual as well as social alienation as particularly characteristic of the fin-de-siècle feeling.
ref: 1990, Mikulas Teich, Roy Porter, Fin de Siècle and Its Legacy, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Pertaining to the close of the 19th century, usually suggesting a literary and artistic climate of modernism, world-weariness, and self-indulgence.
examples: text: And, Dag, have you ever noticed that your bungalow looks more like it belongs to a pair of Eisenhower era Allentown, Pennsylvania newlyweds than it does to a fin de siècle existentialist poseur?
ref: 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Eat Your Parents”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Pertaining to the close of the 20th (or any other) century.
fin de siècle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæn də siˈɛklə/
ipa: /-siˈɛkəl/
ipa: /-ˈsjɛklə/
ipa: /-ˈsjɛkəl/
Forms: form: fins de siècle
form: fin-de-siècle
Etymology: Borrowed from French fin-de-siècle (literally “end of the century”).
Senses: examples: text: From these conversations, most of which took place on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, a picture emerged in which America's closest allies are looking on with a kind of stunned incomprehension, unsure of what will happen, what it means, and what they should do, largely bound together with angst and a shared sense, as one influential adviser told me, that America and the West are approaching something of a fin de siècle.
ref: 2020 June 24, Tom McTague, “The Decline of the American World”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The end of an era.
Related terms: turn of the century
raveling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ravel
raveling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ravelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ravelling.
carrageenan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɛɹəˈɡinən/
ipa: /ˌkæɹəˈɡiːnən/
Forms: form: carrageenans
form: carrageenin
Etymology: From carrageen + -an, an alternative form of -in.
Senses: glosses: A food additive made from a purified extract of red seaweed, commonly used as a thickening agent.
Synonyms: E407 when used as a thickener
stabiliser
gelling agent and emulsifier
Derived terms: carrageenase
iota carrageenan
kappa carrageenan
purified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpjɝɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpjɔːɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more purified
form: most purified
Senses: examples: text: He will only drink purified water.
glosses: Made or rendered pure or more pure.
purified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpjɝɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpjɔːɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of purify
calves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kævz/
ipa: /kɑːvz/
rhymes: -ævz
rhymes: -ɑːvz
homophone: carves stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: plural of calf
calves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kævz/
ipa: /kɑːvz/
rhymes: -ævz
rhymes: -ɑːvz
homophone: carves stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calve
head in the clouds
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Used to indicate that a person is distracted or disconnected from the present situation or reality in general.
raw_tags: with have or with
examples: text: "Wife, I've a grave suspicion!" said Mahony, and took her by the chin. "While I've sat here with my head in the clouds, you've been worrying over ways and means, and over having such an unpractical old dreamer for a husband. Now, child, that won't do. I didn't marry to have my girl puzzling her little brains where her next day's dinner was to come from. Away with you, to your stitching! Things will be all right, trust to me."
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter III, in Australia Felix, part III:
text: She was also one of the few girls without her head in the clouds.
ref: 1994, Roy F. Baumeister, Sara R. Wotman, Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love, page 72:
text: No one ever expected him to work; he would see his little sister stooping under the weight of the great milk-pails, and never think of helping her; he lived with his head in the clouds, but his father said, "Let him alone, he'll be a great man some day."
ref: 1860, “A Legend of the Aryan Race”, in Charles Dickens, editor, All the Year Round, volumes 3-4, page 211:
glosses: Used to indicate that a person has fantastic or impractical dreams.
raw_tags: with have or with
Synonyms: word: cloud nine
Derived terms: cloud-headed
pup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌp/
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: pups
form: pupping
form: pupped
form: pupped
Etymology: Clipping of puppy.
Senses: glosses: To give birth to pups.
Related terms: puppy
pup tent
sell someone a pup
Saharawi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sahrawi.
Saharawi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saharawis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sahrawi.
Sahroui
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sahrawi.
Sahroui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sahrouis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sahrawi.
Saharoui
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sahrawi.
Saharoui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saharouis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sahrawi.
shit-eating grin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit-eating grins
Etymology: Possibly from a contraction of "grinning like a ’possum eating shit" (compare also happy as a pig in shit); later detached from meaning and persisting due to its vividness (cf. "there are many ways to skin a cat" or "happy as a clam").
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: smirk
text: He was at the wheel of his brand-new 1965 GTO, top down, wearing a super-sized shit-eating grin on his face. ￼
ref: 2006, Ted Bell, Spy: A Thriller, →ISBN, page 29:
synonyms: coprophagous grin
fish-eating grin
simper
glosses: A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.
Related terms: shiteater
dusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌsti/
rhymes: -ʌsti
homophone: dustee
Forms: form: dustier
form: dustiest
Etymology: From Middle English dusty, dusti, from Old English dūstiġ, dystiġ, dȳstiġ (“dusty”), equivalent to dust + -y. Cognate with Dutch donzig (“cottony, downy, woolly”), German dunstig (“hazy, misty”).
Senses: examples: text: a dusty carpet
glosses: Covered with dust.
glosses: Powdery and resembling dust.
examples: text: a dusty peach color
glosses: Grey or greyish.
examples: text: The very smart practitioners of my acquaintance do not rest their right hand on old dusty knowledge, but bend and move along a ground of being in which they are perpetually on the lookout for what is trusty and true, new and old.
ref: 2018, Mark A. Kunkel, Allegories for Psychotherapy, Teaching, and Supervision, page 208:
glosses: Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
examples: text: ...the toilet-glass on the table...had probably reflected few such faces as that of the lady calling herself Mrs. Lloyd, who looked attentively into it when she found herself alone and decided that she was not so very dusty, considering
ref: 1868, Edmund Yates, The Rock Ahead: A Novel, page 21:
text: One morning, I said to a patient: "How are you today, Mrs. White?" And she replied "Not so dusty - quite well brushed."
ref: 1967, “Jewish Affairs”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 22, page 30:
text: "Never mind," she ventured, "but thanks for the compliment. You're not so dusty yourself!"
ref: 2011, Media Lawson-Butler, Thistle in the Wind, page 205:
glosses: Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
Synonyms: sense: covered with dust
word: dust-ridden
Derived terms: dustily
dustiness
dusty miller
dusty plasma
dusty rose
nondusty
rusty dusty
trusty-dusty
trusty dusty
courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹts/
ipa: /kɔːts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: plural of court
courts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɹts/
ipa: /kɔːts/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ko(ː)ɹts/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /koəts/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of court
labourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bə.ɹə/
Forms: form: labourers
Etymology: From labour + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 392:
glosses: British standard spelling of laborer.
Derived terms: colabourer
underlabourer
interment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɝmənt/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːmənt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mənt
Forms: form: interments
Etymology: From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. By surface analysis, inter + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like those found at Thunder Hill.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 101:
text: She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
ref: 2011, Stephen King, 11/22/63, New York: Scribner, →ISBN, page 784:
text: The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 189:
glosses: The act of burying a dead body; burial.
Synonyms: word: burial
word: deposition obs.
word: inhumation
word: deep six idiom
Related terms: word: internment
word: cemetery
word: corpse
word: death
bissextile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈsɛkstɪl/
ipa: /bɪˈsɛks.taɪəl/
ipa: /bɑɪˈsɛks.tɑɪl/
ipa: /bɑɪˈsɛks.təl/
ipa: /bɪˈsɛks.təl/
Etymology: From Latin bisextilis/bissextilis (annus) (“bissextile year”), from bisextus + -ilis, from bis- (“two; twice; doubled”) + sextus (“sixth”) + dies (“day”), from the Julian calendar's original reckoning of its quadrennial intercalary day as a 48-hour February 24, subsequently distinguished as the two separate days of the sixth day before the March calends (ante diem sextum Kalendas Martias) and the "doubled sixth day". (February 24 is now normally understood as five days before the first of March, but was called the sixth by the Romans owing to their inclusive counting of dates. See Roman calendar on Wikipedia.)
Senses: examples: text: The additional day which occurred every fourth year [after the Julian Reform] was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the 24th and 25th day. February having then twenty-nine days, the 25th was the 6th of the calends of March, sexto calendas; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called bis-sexto calendas,—hence the term bissextile, which is still employed to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of leap-year would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect, and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February; in the civil calendar it is the 29th.
ref: 1878, W.S.B. Woolhouse & al., "Calendar" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 666–7
glosses: Having an intercalary day, particularly the quadrennial leap day of the Julian and Gregorian calendars traditionally placed as a "second sixth" day before March 1st.
Hypernyms: intercalary
leap
Derived terms: bissextile month
bissextile year
Related terms: bissext
bissextile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈsɛkstɪl/
ipa: /bɪˈsɛks.taɪəl/
ipa: /bɑɪˈsɛks.tɑɪl/
ipa: /bɑɪˈsɛks.təl/
ipa: /bɪˈsɛks.təl/
Forms: form: bissextiles
Etymology: From Latin bisextilis/bissextilis (annus) (“bissextile year”), from bisextus + -ilis, from bis- (“two; twice; doubled”) + sextus (“sixth”) + dies (“day”), from the Julian calendar's original reckoning of its quadrennial intercalary day as a 48-hour February 24, subsequently distinguished as the two separate days of the sixth day before the March calends (ante diem sextum Kalendas Martias) and the "doubled sixth day". (February 24 is now normally understood as five days before the first of March, but was called the sixth by the Romans owing to their inclusive counting of dates. See Roman calendar on Wikipedia.)
Senses: glosses: Synonym of leap year: a year with an intercalary day.
synonyms: word: leap year
extra: a year with an intercalary day
bissextile month
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bissextile months
Etymology: From bissextile + month.
Senses: glosses: A month with an extra day in a leap year.
Related terms: bissextile
bissextile year
intercalate
leap day
leap year
intercalary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnt.ɚˈkæl.ɚ.i/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝː.kə.lɛɹ.i/
Etymology: From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
Senses: glosses: Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
examples: text: Breaks caused by chromosome aberrations in regions with repeats may not result in a sharp decline of viability, so that break points of chromosome rearrangements in intercalary heterochromatin may be more frequent than in other regions.
ref: 1982 December, I. F. Zhimulev et al., “Intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila”, in Chromosoma, volume 87, →DOI, pages 197–228:
text: In this new model, the anterior and posterior blastemas were formed as signaling centers to direct intercalary reorganization of body regionality or positional information.
ref: 2007 February 28, Kitokazu Agata et al., “Unifying principles of regeneration I: Epimorphosis versus morphallaxis”, in Development, Growth, and Differentiation, →DOI:
topics: sciences
glosses: Inserted between other things
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inserted between other things
of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant.
examples: text: ...two radial cells, second longer than first; intercalary fork fairly distinct; crossvein r-m vertical...
ref: 1953, Willis W. Wirth, “American Biting Midges of the Helid Genus Monohelea”, in Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 103, number 3320, pages 135–154:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inserted between other things
of a wing vein: between the major veins common to insect wings.
Derived terms: intercalarily
intercalary meristem
Related terms: intercalate
intercalation
intercalary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnt.ɚˈkæl.ɚ.i/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɝː.kə.lɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: intercalaries
Etymology: From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
Senses: glosses: Such a time period
Related terms: bissextile
bissextile month
bissextile year
leap year
leap day
blacklist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæklɪst/
Forms: form: blacklists
Etymology: From black + list.
Senses: examples: text: The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: blocklist
denylist
hotlist
antonyms: allowlist
fair list
greylist
whitelist
glosses: A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
blacklist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæklɪst/
Forms: form: blacklists
form: blacklisting
form: blacklisted
form: blacklisted
Etymology: From black + list.
Senses: examples: text: You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
text: As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
ref: 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
glosses: To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
Synonyms: blackball
send to Coventry
ignore
boycott
Derived terms: blacklistable
blacklistee
blacklister
Related terms: blocklist
hit list
shitlist
stop list
wanted list