cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕs
ipa: /nɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: Nesses
Etymology: Named after the River Ness, of Celtic/Pictish origin, from a Proto-Celtic word *Nesta describing great currents, according to MacBain, from the same Proto-Indo-European root that gave the river Νέστος (Néstos), possibly *ned- (“water”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An Ulster princess and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa and Findchoem in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Daughter of Eochaid Sálbuide. Also the mother of Cormac Cond Longas by incest with Conchobar mac Nessa.
glosses: A placename:
A suburban village in Neston parish, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ3076).
glosses: A placename:
The northernmost area on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland.
glosses: A placename:
A short river in Highland council area, Scotland, which flows from Loch Ness through Inverness to the Beauly Firth; in full, River Ness.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Ness City.
glosses: A placename:
Ellipsis of Ness County.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Girdle Ness
Inverness
Loch Ness
nessberry
Ness City
Ness County
Nessie
Related terms: word: Great Ness
word: Little Ness
alt: landform
word: ness
one-way ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-way tickets
Etymology: From one-way + ticket.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: A ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not return.
examples: text: Voting Labour is a one way ticket to higher fuel prices.
ref: (UK) Conservative Party news story
glosses: A course of action from which there is no return.
Synonyms: word: single ticket
Derived terms: one-way ticket to Palookaville
one-way mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-way mirrors
Etymology: From one-way + mirror.
Senses: examples: "The trainee interviews a client in a one-way mirror room or in front of a video camera while being observed by the supervisor, who guides the therapy by telephoning suggestions or bringing the trainee out for discussion." — Learning and Teaching Therapy by Jay Haley
glosses: A mirror reflecting images on one side and transparent on the other, often used by the police during interrogations.
Synonyms: two-way mirror
Eochaid Sálbuide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The king of Ulster prior to the events of the Ulster Cycle in Irish mythology. Father of Ness. He was deposed as High King by Eochaid Feidlech.
Dian Cecht
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A god of healing. The healer for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the father of Cian.
Tuatha Dé Danann
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtu.əhə deɪ ˈdɑːnən/
Etymology: From Irish Tuatha Dé Danann (literally “peoples of the goddess Danu”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The fifth group of inhabitants of Ireland according to the Lebor Gabála Érenn tradition, thought to represent the gods of the Goidelic Irish. Their Christian redactors have reduced them to historical kings and heroes.
Deirdre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Republic of Ireland
ipa: /ˈdeːɹdɹə/
ipa: /ˈdɪədɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɪədɹə/
ipa: /ˈdɪɹdɹə/
ipa: /ˈdɪɹdɹi/
Forms: form: Derdriu
form: Dierdre
Etymology: From Irish Deirdre, from Old Irish Derdriu.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The foremost tragic heroine in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.
examples: text: Deirdre, it seemed to him, was the most beautiful name in the world. But Mrs. Stanley had different views on nomenclature. She had never, she declared, heard so utterly preposterous a name. […]"Theatre and saltpetre are both spelt that way, Arthur; depend upon it, it is Deirder - a sort of peasant name like Darby and Biddy, a corruption of something else."
ref: 1885, Frances Mabel Robinson, Mr. Butler's Ward, Vizetelly, page 95:
text: His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
ref: 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Irish.
keep up with the Joneses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps up with the Joneses
form: keeping up with the Joneses
form: kept up with the Joneses
form: kept up with the Joneses
Etymology: Various theories; see Wikipedia article.
Senses: examples: text: Do you really need a fancy new car or are you just trying to keep up with the Joneses?
text: One of the greatest pitfalls in the path of any young couple is the feeling that they must "keep up with the Joneses." We all think of ourselves as belonging to a certain social group—whether we express it in snobbish terms or not.
ref: 1938, William F. Bigelow, editor, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book, page 74:
text: Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.
ref: 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82:
glosses: To act or make purchases for status or image rather than out of need, especially for the purpose of competing with friends, neighbors, or society.
Related terms: conspicuous consumption
peer pressure
status symbol
dormice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dormouse
WHO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌbəljuː ˈeɪt͡ʃ ˈəʊ/
Forms: form: WHO
form: the WHO
form: W.H.O.
form: W. H. O.
Senses: examples: text: Trump initiated the year-long withdrawal process from the WHO in 2020 but six months later his successor, President Joe Biden, reversed the decision.
ref: 2024 December 23, Maggie Fick and Ahmed Aboulenein, “Trump transition team plans immediate WHO withdrawal, expert says”, in Reuters:
glosses: Initialism of World Health Organization.
Related terms: WHA
hoping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊpɪŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊpɪŋ
Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm hoping the weather will be sunny tomorrow.
text: These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 3:13:
text: The miserable man cast a wistful look towards the east, hoping to see the first faint streaks of day.
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 18.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hope
hoping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊpɪŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊpɪŋ
Forms: form: more hoping
form: most hoping
Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”).
Senses: examples: text: A hoping situation is not yet desolate.
glosses: Filled with or inspiring hope.
Derived terms: hopingly
unhoping
hoping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊpɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈhəʊpɪŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊpɪŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊpɪŋ
Forms: form: hopings
Etymology: From hope + -ing. Cognate with German Hoffnung (“hope”).
Derived terms: wishful hoping
airbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbags
form: air-bag
form: air bag
Etymology: From air + bag.
Senses: examples: text: In a fast German car / I'm amazed that I survived / An airbag saved my life
ref: 1997, “Airbag”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:
text: However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.
ref: 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.
examples: text: As part of a scene in a movie, a stuntman falls from the top of a 95-foot-tall building into a large airbag directly below him on the ground, as shown in Figure 15-3.
ref: 2005, Alan Tussy, R. Gustafson, Developmental Mathematics for College Students, page 1030:
glosses: A similar inflated bag used in performing stunts, etc.
glosses: A person who talks too much; a windbag or gossip.
Derived terms: airbagged
airbagless
whomsoever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhumsoʊˈɛvəɹ/
rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: of whosoever
form: whomsoëver
Etymology: From Middle English whom so evere, whom soever, whom-so-ever, whom-so-evere, whomsoever, whom-so-evyr. By surface analysis, whom + so + ever.
Senses: examples: text: We shall tell the good news to whomsoever we meet.
text: Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 26:48:
text: Whomsoever I've cured, I've sickened now / And whomsoever I've cradled, I've put you down
ref: 1994, Soundgarden, “Fell on Black Days”:
glosses: Whatever person or persons (as object of a verb or preposition): emphasised or elaborated form of whomever.
Related terms: whom
whomever
installed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɔːld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of install
examples: They installed the alarm.
glosses: readied for use
examples: The system came with a word processor installed.
glosses: readied for use
raw_tags: of computer software
examples: A new chancellor was installed.
glosses: put into position
examples: He was installed at the watch tower.
glosses: placed
Synonyms: sense: placed
word: set up
sense: placed
word: established
sense: readied
word: set up
sense: readied
word: put in
sense: readied
word: readied
Nemean Lion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnimi.ən ˈlai.ən/
other: /nɪˈmiːən ˈlai.ən/
Forms: form: Nemean lion
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical lion of ancient Nemea that was invulnerable to attack by weapons and was slain by Hercules as one of his labours.
Cheyenne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪˈæn/
ipa: /ʃaɪˈɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Forms: form: Cheyenne
form: Cheyennes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).
Senses: examples: text: You will want to tell him that you are Cheyenne, that that is where you are from, that Cheyennes once, up near the Great Lakes, were agricultural people, and then followed the buffalo before running for their lives like the buffalo, and that your people, they were Cheyenne wherever they went, but instead you just say the word Cheyenne, with your hand over your heart, to which he will say the word Lakota with his hand over his heart.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 108:
glosses: A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
Derived terms: Cheyenne County
Cheyenne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃaɪˈæn/
ipa: /ʃaɪˈɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).
Senses: glosses: An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
glosses: The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
glosses: A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A female or male given name of modern American usage.
Derived terms: Cheyenne Wells
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Cheyenne terms
VD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VDs
form: V.D.
form: V. D.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The design diving speed of an aircraft; the highest speed which the aircraft is planned to reach during flight testing. Always higher than VNE (the speed that must not be exceeded in service).
examples: text: One of the things I've learned traveling around America is how many people have relied on the Joy of Gay Sex as their primary source of information, about not only sexual positions and activities, but about things like V.D., sexual dysfunction, coming out with the family, and dealing with feelings of guilt related to religion.
ref: 1979 April 21, Tommi Avicolli, Edmund White, “Talking With Edmund White”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: I should download her audio on MP3 / And show the whole world how you gave Eminem VD
ref: 2000, “The Real Slim Shady”, in The Marshall Mathers LP, performed by Eminem:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: STD
glosses: Initialism of venereal disease.
Coordinate terms: V1
V2
VMO
VNE
VR
Vs0
Vs
Vxse
Vx
Vyse
Vy
soever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊˈɛvə/
ipa: /soʊˈɛvɚ/
Forms: form: somever
Etymology: From so + ever.
Senses: examples: text: How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
ref: 1669, John Owen, A Practical Exposition on the 130th Psalm:
text: For, by the fundamental Laws of the Realm, it is Capital in any Perſon, of what Quality ſoever, to make water within the Precincts of the Palace.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author by an Extraordinary Stratagem Prevents an Invasion. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 91:
text: And in the meanwhile, Society shivered a little feverishly, filled now with the scions of those who had come over with the Jewish and American Conquests. Escutcheons were becoming valueless, how sinister soever the blots and clots upon them.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/5/1”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
text: [T]hen go in silence and, though anything soever of an awful sort or man meet thee, say not thou to him any word ere thou come to the wort which on the evening before thou markedst[.]
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:soever.
glosses: In any fashion, of any kind; used for emphasis after words such as how, what, which etc.
Related terms: howsoever
whatsoever
whencesoever
whensoever
wheresoever
whethersoever
whichsoever
whithersoever
whomsoever
whosesoever
whosoever
whysoever
persiflage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.sɪ.flɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɝː.sɪ.flɑːʒ/
Forms: form: persiflages
Etymology: From French persiflage, from persifler (“to quiz, tease, mock”), from per- + siffler (“to whistle”), from Latin sībilō (“whistle”).
Senses: examples: text: After the third strike he returned to the bench to face the inevitable persiflage from his teammates.
text: No one can deny Lady Charlotte Bury's assertion, that no well-regulated young female will ever indulge in a species of amusement so improper as flirtation; but it must be admitted, that having a pleasant partner is preferable to not dancing, and that a little persiflage, a little raillery, a little flattery, go far to make a partner pleasant.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 208:
glosses: Good-natured banter; raillery.
examples: Polite dinner calls for persiflage rather than in-depth possibly offensive discussion.
glosses: Frivolous, lighthearted discussion of a topic.
Synonyms: sense: good-natured banter
word: banter
sense: good-natured banter
word: raillery
Derived terms: persiflageous
persiflate
readied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She readied the engine.
glosses: simple past and past participle of ready
Synonyms: sense: set up
word: installed
sense: set up
word: put in
sense: set up
word: set up
pertinacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɜːtɪˈneɪʃəs/
enpr: pûr-tn-ā'shəs
ipa: /pɝtn̩ˈeɪʃəs/
rhymes: -eɪʃəs
Forms: form: more pertinacious
form: most pertinacious
Etymology: From pertinace + -ious, from Old French pertinace, from Latin pertinax, from per- (“very”) + tenax (“tenacious”).
Senses: examples: text: When that divine took his leave, not a little discomfited and amazed at the pertinacious obstinacy of the women, Laura repeated her embraces and arguments with tenfold fervour to Helen, who felt that there was a great deal of cogency in most of the latter.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: He would really have to make up his mind to care for his wife or not to care for her. What would Lady Vandeleur say to one alternative, and what would little Joscelind say to the other? That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son.
ref: 1884, Henry James, “The Path of Duty”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, 2(15): 240-256:
text: For, whether they were attracted by the lantern, or by the unaccustomed smell of a white man for which they had been waiting for the last thousand years or so, I know not; but certainly we were presently attacked by tens of thousands of the most blood-thirsty, pertinacious, and huge mosquitoes that I ever saw or read of.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Holding tenaciously to an opinion or purpose.
examples: text: [O]ne of the Dissenters, which I could, but forbear, to name appeared to Dr. Sanderson to be so bold, so troublesome, and so illogical in the dispute, as forced patient Dr. Sanderson, who was then Bishop of Lincoln, and a moderator with other Bishops, to say, with an unusual earnestness, "That he had never met with a man of more pertinacious confidence, and less abilities, in all his conversation."
ref: 1678, Izaak Walton, The life of Dr. Sanderson, late Bishop of Lincoln (London: Printed for Richard Marriot) [without pagination or sections]
glosses: Stubbornly resolute or tenacious.
Derived terms: pertinaciously
Related terms: pertinaciousness
pertinacity
plangent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplænd͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ændʒənt
Forms: form: more plangent
form: most plangent
Etymology: From Latin plangēns, present participle of plangō (“I beat; I lament”).
Senses: examples: text: [S]how him a refined or powerful face, let him hear a plangent or a penetrating voice […] and his mind was instantaneously awakened.
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 1”, in The Story of a Lie:
text: Since mid-day their plangent, disquieting cries had foretold its approach.
ref: 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth (Duckworth hardback), page 49:
text: […] who then marched together into eternal glory in plangent ceremonies.
ref: 2000, Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 8:
text: In the lament about the massacre — the work’s second movement — he entered a more urgent register in the high reaches of the cello, but the sense of grief was more plangent than raw, devoid of any real outrage.
ref: 2013 Sept. 22, Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, “Music Review: A Middle East Mourned and Celebrated in Suites”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having a loud, mournful sound.
examples: text: What central sea with plume-plucked midnight strewn,
Plangent to what enormous plenilune
That lifts in silence, hinderless and stark?
ref: 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Desire of Vastness:
glosses: Beating, dashing, as waves.
Related terms: plangency
plangently
set up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: sĕt'ŭp'
Forms: form: more set up
form: most set up
Senses: examples: text: Now that I'm set up, this will take moments!
glosses: In a position to function; ready.
Synonyms: sense: In a position to function
word: prepared
word: ready
Related terms: word: setup
setup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕt'ŭp'
ipa: /ˈsɛtʌp/
Forms: form: setups
form: set-up
Etymology: Deverbal from set up.
Senses: examples: text: The laboratory included an elaborate setup for measuring the energy.
glosses: Equipment designed for a particular purpose; an apparatus.
examples: text: The classroom setup was simple and efficient.
text: Shapiro says KYW would keep two separate news staffs that would work together, similar to WBZ's setup.
ref: 1993, Billboard, volume 105, number 21, page 106:
text: For some stretches, Berhalter’s usual 4-3-3 setup played more as a 4-4-2, with Tim Weah pushing up alongside Wright and McKennie moving to the right side.
ref: 25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia Inquirer:
glosses: The fashion in which something is organized or arranged.
examples: text: Trust me, that was a setup!
glosses: A situation orchestrated to frame someone; a covert effort to place the blame on somebody.
examples: text: You still have to run the setup and select the display driver after restarting Windows. Installing Windows NT drivers was tedious (but we could back up system files), and OS/2 was tiresome; […]
ref: 1995 August 28, InfoWorld, page 80:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An installer.
examples: text: A simple setup on the bottling line involves reloading bottles and labels; emptying, cleaning, and reloading the tanks; and a test run.
synonyms: make-ready#Noun
makeready#Noun
qualifier: operations
glosses: The process or instance of arranging resources for performing a specific operation, as a run of a particular product.
examples: text: There was a strong wind setup at the south end of the lake after a day of northerly gales.
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The tendency of persistent wind to produce higher water levels at the downwind shore of a body of water and lower at the upwind shore.
examples: text: The jab is most commonly used as a setup for other strikes.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A move or set of moves which are meant to draw out a reaction which leaves an exploitable opening in defense.
Synonyms: sense: equipment
word: apparatus
sense: equipment
word: loadout
sense: the fashion in which something is organized or arranged
word: configuration
sense: the fashion in which something is organized or arranged
word: layout
sense: situation orchestrated to frame someone
word: frameup
sense: situation orchestrated to frame someone
word: stitch-up
Derived terms: setup block
setup fee
setup man
setup time
Related terms: set up
the adjective and verb
setup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕt'ŭp'
ipa: /ˈsɛtʌp/
Forms: form: set-up
Etymology: Deverbal from set up.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of set up.
-free
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹiː/
rhymes: -iː
homophone: free
Etymology: From Middle English -fre, -freo (as in scotfre, gauelfre, gafolfreo, etc.), from Old English -frēo ("free; free from"; as in scotfrēo, gafolfrēo), from Proto-West Germanic *-frī (“-free”). Compare Dutch -vrij (“-free”), German -frei (“-free”), Danish -fri (“-free”), Swedish -fri (“-free”), Norwegian -fri (“-free”). More at free.
Senses: examples: text: Sweetgreen told CNN the company was “proud to share that we are currently in the process of rolling out new PFAS-free focaccia bags that will be available in all Sweetgreen locations by the end of Q2.”
ref: 2022 March 25, Sandee LaMotte, “Dangerous chemicals found in food wrappers at major fast-food restaurants and grocery chains, report says”, in CNN:
glosses: Free from; devoid of; without.
Synonyms: sense: without
word: an-
sense: without
word: ex-
sense: without
word: -less
Derived terms: bilge-free
cage-free
cell-free
class-free
content-free
cost-free
dogfree
DRM-free
fault-free
license-free
noise-free
pollution-free
post-free
royalty-free
rust-free
shot-free
side-effect-free
smoke-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smoke + -free.
Senses: examples: text: This entire restaurant is smoke-free.
synonyms: non-smoking
glosses: In which smoking is not allowed.
Related terms: smoking
trouble-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trouble + -free.
Senses: examples: text: The construction of the bridge was trouble-free.
text: Since then we have had the unfortunate failure of a lubricating oil-pump on the diesel hauling the down "Fenman" on the Great Eastern Line, the subject of vast newspaper publicity because the Queen, who was on the train, was delayed an hour on her journey - and this, ironically, with a diesel of a type which has been as trouble-free as any other in the country.
ref: 1961 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 153–154:
glosses: Without trouble.
Nguyen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪn/
ipa: /n(ə)ˈwɪn/
ipa: /ˈnjʉwən/
ipa: /wɛn/
ipa: /nuˈjɛn/
ipa: /n(ə)-/
ipa: /wɛn/
ipa: /ŋwɪn/
ipa: /n(ə)ˈɡujən/
rhymes: -ɪn
rhymes: -uːwən
rhymes: -ɛn
rhymes: -uːjən
homophone: win
homophone: wynn
homophone: winne
Forms: form: Nguyens
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Nguyễn.
Senses: glosses: A Vietnamese surname.
split infinitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɪt ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪv/
ipa: /-nə-/
Forms: form: split infinitives
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, Ronnie! (or, the Split Infinitive of the Year, possibly the Century) – on being asked if the New York Times report was true that the 1983 deficit will be $124 billion, rather than the $91.5 billion in the Reagan budget … A: 'I couldn't answer until we have to, by law, shortly, in a couple of weeks, present an updated project.'
ref: 1982 April 4, Nick Clarke, quoting Alistair Cooke, “Keeping in Touch”, in Alistair Cooke: A Biography, 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, published 2000, →ISBN, page 487:
text: The split infinitive was regrettable, but the writers of Star Trek came up with the phrase to capture the essential idea brought to mind at the mention of the words "frontier" and "pioneer": "to boldly go where no man has gone before."
ref: 1994, Patricia Nelson Limerick, “The Adventures of the Frontier in the Twentieth Century”, in James R. Grossman, editor, The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 – January 7, 1995, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: Such fetishes as insisting on It's I, not ending sentences with prepositions, and avoiding split infinitives are all dismissed as the nonsense they are.
ref: 2001, R[obert] L[awrence] Trask, “Introduction”, in Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English (Penguin Reference Books), London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An infinitive with one or more modifiers inserted between the to and the verb.
wikipedia: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?
eugenicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈd͡ʒɛnɪsɪst/
Forms: form: eugenicists
Etymology: From eugenic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I like Scandinavians, skiing, swimming and socialists who realize it is our business to promote social progress by peaceful methods. I dislike football, economists, eugenicists, Fascists, Stalinists, and Scottish conservatives.
ref: 1936, Lancelot Hogben, Mathematics for the Million:
text: “What makes a eugenicist is this overwhelming faith that everything in human nature is determined by your genes,” he says.
ref: 2018 October 16, John Blake, “When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness ‘crusade’ marches on”, in CNN:
text: Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
ref: 2019 May 28, Ariane de Vogue, “Why Clarence Thomas wrote over a dozen pages on eugenics”, in CNN:
text: This won't be easy. The pronatalists combine conservative social nudges (get married, start a family) with liberal policy objectives (give parents more money, upzone the suburbs), which makes for tricky politics. At a time of increased abortion restrictions, many liberals find them creepy—busybodies at best and eugenicists at worst.
ref: 2025 February 23, Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: eugenist
glosses: A believer in, advocate of, or specialist regarding the principles of eugenics.
Related terms: eugenics
fancy-pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy-pants
form: fancypants
Senses: examples: text: It was in the bellows of a subterranean bar in Toronto known as And/Or, renowned, in no particular order, for its steep drinks, fancy-pants, and proprietor with well-attended-to torso.
ref: 2009, Shinan Govani, “Vile Bodies”, in Boldface Names, Toronto, Ont.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fancy pants.
examples: text: That fancy-pants came around for you.
text: You still with those fancy-pants from downtown.
glosses: Someone fancy, silly or attractive.
fancy-pants
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fancy-pants
form: most fancy-pants
form: fancypants
Senses: examples: text: What are you planning to do with that fancy-pants machine?
text: Fortified by years of greasy spoon eating, he's since borrowed nicer clothes to sneak into the more fancy-pants places.
ref: 2002, y Kasey Wilson, Best Places Vancouver, page ix:
text: The front room is a fun, inclusive (read: sing-along) place, with the back reserved for more fancy-pants cabaret events
ref: 2006, Chris Baty with Karla Zimmerman, Chicago, page 185:
glosses: overly fancy with little function; newfangled; complicated
accentuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of accentuate
lie down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies down
form: lying down
form: lay down
form: lain down
Senses: examples: text: Lie down on the bed until you feel better.
antonyms: get up
glosses: To assume a horizontal position.
antonyms: get up
glosses: To assume a horizontal position.
A standard command to a herding dog to assume this position, owing to its effect on the herd's movement.
examples: text: He never got promoted because he was always lying down on the job.
text: They may have finished 11 points behind West Ham and lost both league games, conceding eight goals, but the Tangerine dream remains alive. Holloway said: “We won’t get a bigger test than West Ham but we’ve got one chance. If you’d asked me last summer when I lost all those players I’d have said this was a dead duck, but we don’t lie down at this club.”
ref: 2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in the Telegraph:
glosses: To be lazy or remiss.
examples: text: I'm not going to lie down and take this!
glosses: To submit passively.
glosses: To have sexual intercourse (with).
raw_tags: with 'with'
Derived terms: word: lie-down
word: liedown
word: lie down on the job
word: take lying down
Related terms: go to bed
lay down
fancy pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy pants
form: fancy-pants
form: fancypants
Senses: examples: text: From what I hear fancy pants is dancing real good with that fat pig.
ref: 2008, Ivan Narayan, Kill Or Be Killed: The Henry Street Affair, page 135:
glosses: A person wearing fancy clothing; a member of a social elite.
examples: text: This fancy pants is tryin' to steal my gal away from me!
ref: 2007, William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone, Hell Town, page 118:
glosses: A person very concerned with their appearance.
Related terms: fancy-pants
master of ceremonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masters of ceremonies
Senses: synonyms: compere
host
presenter
toastmaster
MC
glosses: Someone who acts as a host at a formal event.
examples: text: In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: interlocuter
MC
glosses: Someone who conducts a programme of varied entertainment, for example by introducing performers to the audience.
synonyms: emcee
MC
qualifier: rap music
glosses: A rapper.
Related terms: mistress of ceremonies
compere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑːmpeɹ/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈkɒmpiːɾ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /-ija/
Forms: form: comperes
form: compère
Etymology: A borrowing of French compère (“partner, accomplice”), from Old French comper, from Late Latin compater (“godfather”), from Latin com- (“with”) + pater (“father”). Doublet of compeer, compadre, and goombah.
Senses: examples: text: Every year I am the compere for our Church Quiz Night.
text: The compere came onto the stage holding the gold envelope that contained the winner's name.
ref: 2008, Kerry Katona, The Footballer's Wife, →ISBN, page 157:
text: Not only for his fighting expertise but also reminiscent of a compere in a cabaret show working the crowd, as a build up to the main event.
ref: 2012, Steve Taberner, The Wigan Hammer: The Autobiography by Steve Taberner, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 249:
text: They were barely settled when the final song came to an end; the audience began to applaud and after a few more seconds the voice of the compere came over the PA.
ref: 2012, Sue Welfare, One Night Only, HarperCollins, →ISBN, unnumbered page:
glosses: A master of ceremonies, especially for a television, variety, or quiz show.
compere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmpɛː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑːmpeɹ/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈkɒmpiːɾ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /-ija/
Forms: form: comperes
form: compering
form: compered
form: compered
form: compère
Etymology: A borrowing of French compère (“partner, accomplice”), from Old French comper, from Late Latin compater (“godfather”), from Latin com- (“with”) + pater (“father”). Doublet of compeer, compadre, and goombah.
Senses: examples: text: I will be compering for next week's Village Fete.
glosses: To emcee, to act as compere.
Coordinate terms: commère
dauphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.fæ̃/
ipa: /ˈdɔː.fɪn/
ipa: /doʊˈfæ̃/
ipa: /ˈdɔ.fɪn/
ipa: /ˈdɔ.fən/
rhymes: -ɔːfɪn
Forms: form: dauphins
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English Dauphin, from Middle French dauphin, from Old French dalphin, from Latin delphinus; the modern pronunciation is sometimes remodelled on Modern French. Doublet of dolphin.
Senses: glosses: The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois.
examples: text: "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children came[…]and the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins.[…]"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: An eldest son.
Derived terms: dauphinate
Dauphin County
dauphiness
Related terms: dauphine
Dauphiné
delphinal
sem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛm/
rhymes: -ɛm
Forms: form: sems
Senses: glosses: Clipping of seminary.
glosses: Clipping of semester.
glosses: Clipping of semicolon
Derived terms: trisem
com
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coms
form: com.
form: COM
Senses: synonyms: cmte
comm
glosses: Abbreviation of committee.
synonyms: comm
glosses: Abbreviation of communication.
synonyms: cmd
glosses: Abbreviation of command.
glosses: Abbreviation of comedy.
glosses: Abbreviation of company.
Derived terms: com sec
intercom
quad com
rom com
rom-zom-com
sim-com
telecom
zom-com
com
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: com.
form: COM
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of commercial; as in .com (the most known Internet top-level domain).
examples: text: l. com. car. a.
translation: left common carotid artery
english: left common carotid artery
bold_translation_offsets: 5
11
glosses: Abbreviation of common.
Derived terms: dot-com
Related terms: com ruou
miaou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miaous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of miaow.
miaou
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miaous
form: miaouing
form: miaoued
form: miaoued
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of miaow.
skint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɪnt/
ipa: /skʌnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: skinter
form: more skint
form: skintest
form: most skint
Etymology: The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of skinned
Note also the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Senses: examples: text: There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.
ref: 2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?:
text: Mr Grave proceeded to give a stern warning to those “errant pupils” who, against the rules, had been smuggling their mobile phones into school. This was just about everyone, though Zoe was far too skint to even dream of ever owning one.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
glosses: skinned
Derived terms: skintly
skintness
saggar maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saggar makers
Senses: glosses: A skilled person who made saggars by hand, using the thumb to make a neat join between the side and the bottom.
Related terms: saggar maker's bottom knocker
saggar maker's bottom knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saggar maker's bottom knockers
Senses: glosses: A young boy employed to make the base of a saggar from a lump of fireclay, knocking it into a metal ring with a wooden mallet.
fireclay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireclays
Senses: examples: text: On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the line threads a deep tree-lined gorge.
ref: 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fire clay.
fire clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire clays
form: fireclay
Senses: glosses: a type of clay that is able to withstand intense heat; used to make firebricks, crucibles, and other ceramics
Schrödinger's cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɹoʊdɪŋɚz ˈkæt/
Forms: form: Schrödinger's cats
form: Schrödinger cat
form: Schrodinger's cat
form: Schrodinger cat
form: Schroedinger's cat
form: Schroedinger cat
Etymology: Named after Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961).
Senses: examples: text: A cat like yours is a Schrödinger's cat, sealed up in an office where someone's disintegration provides a 50-50 chance of its death.
ref: 2000, Thalia Field, Point and line, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:
glosses: A hypothetical cat that is depicted as being surrounded by perfectly uncertain circumstances that make an external observer absolutely unable to deem the cat either alive or dead, especially if the possibilities of survival of the cat are expected to be analysed from the point of view of quantum mechanics. Typically, these circumstances involve the cat being inside a box while being the victim of a danger that may or may not kill it, such as radiation.
examples: text: To see how, let us consider a nested system of Schrödinger's cats.
ref: 2004, Colin Bruce, Schrödinger's Rabbits: The Many Worlds of Quantum, page 83:
glosses: Any hypothetical situation whose circumstances make it impossible to see which among two contrary propositions is correct, especially if the situation is expected to be analysed from the point of view of quantum mechanics.
Derived terms: Schrödinger's kitten
Schrödinger's douchebag
Schrödinger's cat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃɹoʊdɪŋɚz ˈkæt/
Forms: form: Schrödinger cat
form: Schrodinger's cat
form: Schrodinger cat
form: Schroedinger's cat
form: Schroedinger cat
Etymology: Named after Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961).
Senses: glosses: The thought experiment which was devised by Erwin Schrödinger, is usually considered a paradox, involves a Schrödinger's cat and is typically supposed to be analysed from the point of view of quantum mechanics.
examples: text: Schrödinger's cat is necessarily alive or dead.
ref: 2005, Jürgen Pafel, Quantifier scope in German, illustrated edition, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 21:
text: And you thought Schrödinger's cat was schizophrenic, unsure about life and death.
ref: 2009, João Magueijo, A brilliant darkness, Basic Books, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Let us return to the laboratory, where Bob is about to lift the tarp off of the transparent box containing Schrödinger's cat.
ref: 2010, Rodrigo Enrico, The Physics of Stargates, Eridanus Press, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: A Schrödinger's cat (a hypothetical cat that may or may not be dead) in particular, especially when implied to be the only Schrödinger's cat in the world.
thought experiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought experiments
Etymology: A calque of German Gedankenexperiment.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: An attempt to solve a problem using the power of human imagination.
Derived terms: zombie thought experiment
transonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transonances
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The transmission of a sound originating in one organ through the tissue of another.
transonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: transsonic
Etymology: From trans- + sonic.
Senses: glosses: Just below, or just above, the speed of sound (0.8 < Ma < 1.2 approximately).
glosses: Passing from subsonic to supersonic, or vice versa.
glosses: Travelling through a fluid (commonly air) at a speed where regions of supersonic and subsonic flow coexist simultaneously over different portions of the surface of the moving object in question.
Coordinate terms: plasmasonic
hypersonic
supersonic
subsonic
Related terms: transonically
transonics
sound barrier
subsonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From sub- + sonic.
Senses: topics: sciences
scientific
glosses: having a frequency too low to be audible
raw_tags: of a sound
examples: The noise of the ship was all around her. The faint subsonic rumble of the reactor and drive. (Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey)
glosses: very quiet, almost inaudible
raw_tags: of a sound
examples: text: But British Airways Flight 112 made the trek in under five hours, setting a new record for the fastest subsonic commercial flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
ref: 2020 February 9, Alina Selyukh, “British Airways Sets Record, Crossing The Atlantic In Under 5 Hours In Strong Winds”, in NPR:
glosses: (aviation) less than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure)
raw_tags: of a speed
qualifier: fluid mechanics
glosses: with a Mach number such that 0.3 < Ma < 0.8 (approximately - the exact limits vary between sources)
raw_tags: of a flow
Related terms: hypersonic
plasmasonic
supersonic
transonic
subsonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: subsonics
Etymology: From sub- + sonic.
Senses: glosses: an aircraft whose maximum speed is less than the speed of sound
supersonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic.
Senses: glosses: Greater than the speed of sound (in the same medium, and at the same temperature and pressure).
raw_tags: of a speed
glosses: Ultrasonic, having a frequency too high to be audible.
raw_tags: of a sound
Derived terms: supersonic heterodyne receiver
Related terms: sense: speed
word: plasmasonic
sense: speed
word: hypersonic
sense: speed
word: transonic
sense: speed
word: subsonic
sense: sound
word: infrasonic
sense: sound
word: sonic
supersonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: supersonics
Etymology: From super- + sonic. Doublet of hypersonic.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft that can travel at the speed of sound.
Related terms: superluminal
speed of sound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The speed at which sound is propagated through some medium under specified conditions.
Related terms: sound barrier
Mach number
subsonic
transonic
supersonic
hypersonic
speed of light
hypersonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypersonic
form: most hypersonic
Etymology: From hyper- + sonic. A doublet of supersonic.
Senses: examples: text: He said there was worry among intelligence and military officials that China or Russia could be experimenting with hypersonic technology.
ref: 2021 June 3, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, “U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can’t Rule It Out, Either”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, five times the speed of sound.
raw_tags: of a speed
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Far enough above the speed of sound as to cause significant differences in behaviour due to chemical reactions or dissociation of the air.
raw_tags: of a speed
Derived terms: HGV
hypersonically
hypersonic bomb
hypersonic glide vehicle
hypersonic missile
hypersonics
hypersonic weapon
Related terms: plasmasonic
subsonic
supersonic
transonic
scramjet
Mach number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After physicist Ernst Mach.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium.
wikipedia: Ernst Mach
Coordinate terms: hypersonic
plasmasonic
subsonic
supersonic
transonic