cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calvous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælvəs/
Forms: form: more calvous
form: most calvous
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin calvus (“bald, hairless”) (of unclear origin, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥h₂wós or *kalw- (“bald; naked”), from a root *kl̥H- + *-wós (suffix forming adjectives from verb stems)) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, denoting possession or presence of a quality).
Senses: examples: text: Hubert had given me his passport, in great excitement. [...] Admittedly most old, bloated, calvous Germans could double for me, and even if he hadn't been doppelganger material, with the beard I had started growing and the two black eyes, you'd need x-rays to spot the difference.
ref: 1994, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, Edinburgh: Polygon Books, →ISBN; 1st Scribner Paperback Fiction edition, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, 1997, →ISBN, page 119:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: glabrous
antonyms: word: hairy
word: hirsute
word: bald
word: callow
word: calvous
word: depilous
word: glabrous
word: hairless
word: smooth
glosses: Lacking most or all of one's hair; bald, hairless.
examples: text: LXII. MORYSIA. Cass. / Achenium calvous, terete, furrowed, wingless. [...] Glabrous shrubs, with scattered oblong, dentate, or entire leaves, and corymbose yellow flowers: closely related to Athanasia, from which they differ in the calvous achenia.
ref: 1838, William Henry Harvey, The Genera of South African Plants, Arranged According to the Natural System, Cape Town: A. S. Robertson, […], →OCLC, order 62 (Compositæ), tribe 4 (Senecionideæ), sub tribe 4 (Anthemideæ), division 4 (Athanasieæ), page 183:
text: In almost every family enumerated, the per centage is in favour of naked or wingless seeds, remarkably so in Dipsaceæ, where 11 per cent. of species with calvous seeds are widely dispersed, while only 3 per cent. of those furnished with pappus enjoy as wide a range. Among the Compositæ the proportions are as 4·5 to 2·9 per cent. in favour of calvous seeds, by which it should follow that daisies were twice as diffusable as thistles or dandelion.
ref: 1857, W[illiam] H[enry] H[arvey], “Geographie Botanique raisonee ou Exposition des faits principaux et des lois concernant la distribution geographique des plantes des l’époque actuelle. Par M. Alphonse De Candolle. 2 Vols. Paris. 1855. [book review]”, in A[lexander] H[enry] Halliday, W[illiam] H[enry] Harvey, S. Houghton, et al., editors, The Natural History Review: A Quarterly Journal of Zoology, Botany, Geology, and Palæontology, volume IV, London: Williams & Norgate, […]; Dublin: Hodges, Smith & Co.; Edinburgh: Williams & Norgate, […], →OCLC, page 52:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking bristles or pappuses.
Related terms: calvities
calvity
off the mark
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: His answers are consistently off the mark. None of them quite make sense.
text: Whatever the outcome, Fleet Street's introspective pundits will say: "I told you so", and make dire predictions for the future, which are likely to be off the mark.
ref: 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Inaccurate; not correct or appropriate.
examples: text: Sarafov was the first off the mark, but the other divisions did not jump off until an hour later and achieved nothing.
ref: 2017, E. R. Hooton, Prelude to the First World War: The Balkan Wars 1912-1913, page iv:
glosses: Making a start (generally in comparison to others).
Synonyms: wide of the mark
Related terms: get off the mark
sister in law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sisters in law
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sister-in-law.
ethylene-vinyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethylene + vinyl acetate.
Senses: glosses: The copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate.
Synonyms: EVA
Derived terms: EVA
polyphenylene vinylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A conducting polymer of the rigid-rod polymer host family, used in polymer-based organic light-emitting diodes. Abbreviation: PPV
Synonyms: poly(p-phenylene vinylene)
poly(p-phenylene vinylene)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polyphenylene vinylene
polyvinyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: PVA
PVAc
school glue
wood glue
glosses: A rubbery synthetic polymer prepared by polymerization of vinyl acetate, used as an adhesive for light materials such as paper, wood and cloth.
Derived terms: PVA
PVAc
Related terms: carpenter's glue
white glue
PVAc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVA
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of polyvinyl acetate.
polyvinyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvinyl alcohols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A water-soluble synthetic polymer prepared by partial or complete hydrolysis of polyvinyl acetate to remove acetate groups, having many uses, including as an adhesive and surfactant and in freshwater angling.
Synonyms: PVA
PVAL
PVOH
Derived terms: polyvinyl alcohol oxidase
slipper lobster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipper lobsters
Etymology: From slipper + lobster.
Senses: glosses: Any achelate (clawless) decapod crustacean of the family Scyllaridae.
Related terms: Balmain bug
furry lobster
Moreton Bay bug
shovelnose lobster
spiny lobster
land down under
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the land down under
Etymology: Referring to Australia's and New Zealand's location at the southern hemisphere, when observed at a map or a globe.
Senses: examples: text: "Do you come from the land down under?"
ref: 1982, Men at Work, Down Under:
glosses: Australia or New Zealand.
Related terms: land up over
insano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insanos
Etymology: From insane + -o.
Senses: examples: text: The only woman my hubby plays with is me! You really think with an insano like yours truly around he EVER gets bored and needs to go play "naughty, naughty in closets".
ref: 1998 October 17, RO...@webtv.net, “"Stinkerton" upstages Madama Butterfly (To Bruce and My Friends)”, in alt.support.arthritis (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: The more such people you come in contact with, the more people will see what an insano you are. Eventually maybe in addition to suspending your DSL service with verizon, maybe someone will have you committed.
ref: 2002 May 2, Brainlessbrian, “Rosanne Barrett TOS violations: Reported to Abuse@bellatlantic.net”, in sci.med.diseases.lyme (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: Only an insano would take Rex Ballard seriously.
ref: 2006 June 21, DFS, “Rex Ballard: I helped write the actual words of the GPL”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
glosses: An insane person.
insano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insano
form: most insano
Etymology: From insane + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Now that was an insano rant.
ref: 2000 May 31, Dvddaddy2, “thoughts on SOTC--so far”, in alt.books.stephen-king (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: Uhm, in the that last post I forgot to specify that in the second paragraph, I was refering^([sic]) to the hole being opened and Xander being on an insano power trip in the second season ender, Becoming part 2, I believe.
ref: 2002 October 23, Amanda, “Various Thoughts on Selfless.....”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: You have the most insano psychiatric fools in all of Europe.
ref: 2006 August 31, Newsgroup Leader Kathleen ActionLyme, “I might as well be complaining to SmithKline. (NIH's Biodefense Partnerships; SmithKline and Yale)”, in alt.france (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: Man, are the "BuffyTheProfitHater"/"Lowbrow"/"Robo Alien"/"Piddy-full"/"Hamish The 17-Year-Old Haifa-Based Palestinian Usenet Terrorist" aliases on an insano roll lately!!!
ref: 2008 August 14, Bill Reid, “commodity trading anyone?”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: At that point, after having missed other targets Gainey probably says to himself "Well, these guys used to work magic together, and did it for a defensive team. What the hell?" and then threw an insano contract Gionta's way.
ref: 2009 July 3, Marty, “Gainey's hope”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.mtl-canadiens (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
text: Well, the whole gallery has the most insano security staff I've ever seen - complete with camera attached to each security dude etc; so I'd imagine stuff would be pretty safe.
ref: 2011 September 27, Gareth, “Meeting at Dublin Contemporary”, in open-learning-ireland (Usenet), retrieved 24 Dec 2021:
glosses: Insane.
clarifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈklæɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clarify
clarifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklæɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: clarifyings
Senses: examples: text: Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.
ref: 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists, page 64:
glosses: A clarification.
clarifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈklæɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more clarifying
form: most clarifying
Senses: examples: text: I found the book to be insightful and clarifying in a way that traditional career-focused books for women rarely are. Rather than lay out a prescriptive path, they really listened to women talk about their lives and challenges — how novel! — and illuminated areas of overlap, surfaced and clarified themes, and pointed out commonalities that extend beyond the borders of their graduating class.
2015 April 24, Erin Keane, “The Cooper Union Tragedy”, in The New Yorker:
Perhaps the Attorney General’s investigation will shed an equally clarifying light upon the inner workings of the institution today.
ref: The witness gave some clarifying information about the event. 2018 June 23, Erin Keane, “Inside women's “Ambition Decisions”: On opting out, buying in or embracing the "flex life"”, in Salon
glosses: Providing clarity; making clear.
examples: text: Wash your hair with clarifying shampoo.
glosses: Removing impurities or particulates.
Derived terms: clarifyingly
unclarifying
concentrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concentrate
concentrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of concentrate
privatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privative
postictal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + ictal.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring after an epileptic seizure.
Derived terms: postictally
Related terms: preictal
interictal
ictal
numbest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of numb: most numb
vitellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitelli
form: vitelluses
Etymology: From Latin vitellus (“the yolk of an egg”). Doublet of veal.
Senses: examples: text: In the sarcodo there takes place a process which may be in some measure compared with what occurs in the vitellus after the fecundation of an ovum. The granules becoming united together form groups, which soon divide and subdivide […]
ref: 1861, F. Rymer Jones, The General Structure of the Animal Kingdom, page 48:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Perisperm in an early condition.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An oily substance adhering to the spores of Lycopodium.
Related terms: vitellophage
-man
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /mən/
/mæn/
Forms: form: -men
form: -woman
Etymology: From the noun man.
Senses: examples: text: horse + -man → horseman
text: sports + -man → sportsman
glosses: Someone (possibly implied male) who is an expert in an area or who takes part in an activity.
examples: text: law + -man → lawman
text: news + -man → newsman
glosses: Someone (possibly implied male) who is employed or holds a position in an area.
examples: text: free + -man → freeman
text: ice + -man → iceman
text: super + -man → superman
glosses: Someone (possibly implied male) who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
examples: text: Scots + -man → Scotsman
text: Dutch + -man → Dutchman
text: China + -man → Chinaman
text: Yorkshire + -man → Yorkshireman
glosses: Someone (possibly implied male) who has a particular nationality.
examples: text: H + -man → H-man (“man whose name starts with H, e.g. Harry”)
text: J + -man → J-man (“man whose name starts with an J”)
glosses: A man whose name begins with the preceding letter.
examples: text: Guinea + -man → Guineaman (“ship of the West African slave trade”)
text: East India + -man → East Indiaman
text: merchant + -man → merchantman
text: Greenland + -man → Greenlandman (“a whaling ship”)
text: China + -man → Chinaman (“sailing ship engaged in the Old China Trade”)
glosses: A ship which has special characteristics relating to a trade or area.
Hypernyms: -person
Derived terms: airman
bogeyman
committeeman
fireman
freeman
gunman
horseman
iceman
lawman
newsman
sandman
seaman
sportsman
superman
-manship
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Combination of -man and -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Stephen Potter is best known for his gamesmanship theory, a cunning, psychological tactic used to best a competitor, on or off the field. His basic "-manship" principle was later incorporate to include many everyday events.
ref: 1996, Steven H. Gale, Encyclopedia of British Humorists: Geoffrey Chaucer to John Cleese, page 874:
text: Quippmanship n.
The ability to produce a catchy soundbyte, witty remark, or clever turn of phrase. The art, skill, or ability to create a catchy soundbyte, witty remark, or clever turn of phrase. Formed by an unknown word formation process.
[affixation; formed from 'quip' + 'manship'].
ref: 2007, Rice University Neologisms Database:
glosses: Expertise, involvement, or special status in an area.
icemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iceman
diluents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diluent
diluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dilute
Cartesian diver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian divers
Senses: glosses: A toy or a science experiment in which the "diver", usually a small glass tube, is placed in a larger container with flexible walls. The "diver" falls when the large container is pressed, and rises as the pressure is released.
Synonyms: bottle imp
Cartesian devil
dilutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilutant
slimly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slimly
form: most slimly
Etymology: From slim + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We were slimly staffed yesterday.
glosses: In a slim manner; slenderly.
cameltoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cameltoes
form: camel toe
Etymology: Compound of camel + toe, from a reference to the visual similarity in appearance to the two toes of a camel’s hoof.
Senses: examples: text: fix yourself girl / you got a cameltoe
ref: 2003, Matt Goias, “Cameltoe”, performed by FannyPack:
text: A good question, although answering it requires a certain tact. Cameltoe is slang for a fashion faux pas caused by women wearing snug pants; the term suggests a visual analogy. The song is a cautionary tale, intended to help victims – help them, that is, by ridiculing them – into recovery.
ref: 2003 May 23, Kelefah Sanneh, “Fashion Tip in Rap for Brooklyn Girls”, in New York Times:
text: Most of the time, camel toe is rarely the extreme you see on certain websites; it's more subtle than that. Most of the time, camel toe is caused by wearing pants that are too big—in one specific area—making a reciprocal area too small. It's an engineering problem, not a weight problem. In fact, here's a skinny mannequin. If she's got a camel toe, everyone else will too.
ref: 2006 April 21, Kathleen Fasanella, “Anatomy of a Cameltoe, part 1”, in Fashion Incubator, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2015:
text: Alicia Keyes generously saves me from having to explain what exactly a camel toe is in anatomical detail, but for those who need a little help, let's just say the words "crotch outline" and let that suffice.
ref: 2007 November 27, Hadley Freeman, “Miaow!”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: frontal wedgie
moose knuckle
ninja foot
glosses: The visible outline of a woman's labia or vulva, as a consequence of wearing tight pants.
glosses: The pudendal cleft itself.
Synonyms: word: cameltoe
word: frontal wedgie
word: pussy print
Coordinate terms: word: manbulge
Derived terms: Cameltoe Harris
cameltoe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cameltoes
form: cameltoeing
form: cameltoed
form: cameltoed
form: camel toe
Etymology: Compound of camel + toe, from a reference to the visual similarity in appearance to the two toes of a camel’s hoof.
Senses: glosses: To wear a piece of clothing such that the outline of the labia is visible.
hermaphrodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermaphrodite
pee off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pees off
form: peeing off
form: peed off
form: peed off
Etymology: From piss off, pee being the first letter of (and a euphemism for) piss.
Senses: examples: 1973, Leo Simpson, The Peacock Papers, Macmillan,
page 9 (dialogue): He pees me off on TV. Have we anything of his I could read?
page 37 (dialogue): Pee off, this is a private conversation, hey?
1984, William Goldman, The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway, Limelight Editions, →ISBN, page 131,
I think, subconsciously, this is every performer's nightmare: that you're going to pee them off so much they're going to come up on stage and kill you.
2005, "BC–The Cycling Geek", quoted in Graham Pond, London by London, The Friday Project Ltd (2005), →ISBN, page 150,
Anyway, back to the red light point – it's knackering cycling around, and if one thing pees me off it's getting some good momentum up and then having to stop at a pedestrian crossing because someone's pressed the button then crossed anyway […]
synonyms: word: cheese off
word: tee off
word: tick off
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
word: piss off
extra: all senses
glosses: Synonym of piss off (all senses)
Derived terms: peed off
sportsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportsman
airmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airman
Frenchwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frenchwoman
instadeath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstəˌdɛθ/
Forms: form: instadeaths
Etymology: From insta- + death.
Senses: examples: text: It may seem rather harsh, but if one's going to play a cyborg (or the equivalent), the benefits of almost unlimited cyberware counterbalance the risk of dying in pure zones (or InstaDeath due to transformation).
ref: 1994 February 11, Jacob Bara-Skowronek, “Re: Space Gods (was Re: Demographics)”, in alt.games.torg (Usenet):
text: It's way too powerful, the point with the inferno SRM-2 was that it needed to close into a range where the infantry might have a chance of firing back before suffering instadeath.
ref: 1995, Robert J Chverchko, “Re: Napalm LRM's”, in rec.games.mecha (Usenet):
text: "Dylan O'Donnell", "Re: New spoiler - instadeath"http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.nethack/msg/d0a9feedf4d1b605, rec.games.roguelike.nethack Usenet
It's still only on the 5-turn timer if you're hit by a monster-thrown egg, though, as opposed to the instadeath from "elementary physics" if you throw one upwards yourself.
text: 2007, "Mark Mackey", "Lost char due to bug in Crawl SS 0.7"http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.roguelike.misc/msg/cce4ed2df23f1e64?dmode=source, rec.games.roguelike.misc Usenet
One of the nice things added to Crawl in the dc400 beta days was the removal of typo instadeaths: back in the bad days accidentally moving onto a lava or deep water square was effectively an instadeath.
topics: video-games
glosses: instant death
Related terms: instakill
permadeath
Leninist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛnɪnɪst/
/ˈlɛnənɪst/
Forms: form: more Leninist
form: most Leninist
Etymology: From Lenin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Vladimir Lenin (Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин), a Russian revolutionary and politician.
glosses: Of or relating to Leninism.
Synonyms: sense: of or pertaining to Lenin
word: Leninian
Leninist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛnɪnɪst/
/ˈlɛnənɪst/
Forms: form: Leninists
Etymology: From Lenin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who follows or supports Lenin or the philosophy of Leninism.
Derived terms: Marxist-Leninist
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
Related terms: Leninite
Communist
Marxist
Stalinist
Trotskyist
instakill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstəˌkɪl/
Forms: form: instakills
Etymology: From insta- + kill.
Senses: examples: text: Poisoned projectiles have a 10% chance of an instakill vs non-poison-resistant monsters. (Note that the Tsurugi of Murumasa and Vorpal Blade only have a 5% chance of an instakill.)
ref: 2006, Joe Bednorz, “Re: How do warrior types ever get the hang of spells?”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet):
topics: video-games
qualifier: board games
glosses: An instant kill.
instakill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstəˌkɪl/
Etymology: From insta- + kill.
Senses: examples: text: Quite true re 3 hit DP instakill combo.
ref: 1994, Mike Hall, “Re: Best incarnations of characters..”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet):
text: The level of frustration is subjective. As long as everyone has the same instakill mobs there is a level playing field ergo I live with it. The instakill mobs do decrease the amount of adventuring you can do w/o being high level, so that is a personal pain in the butt for me.
ref: 1999, Richard Cortese, “Re: Aren't games supposed to be fun?”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):
topics: video-games
qualifier: board games
glosses: Having the ability to instantly kill.
instakill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstəˌkɪl/
Forms: form: instakills
form: instakilling
form: instakilled
form: instakilled
Etymology: From insta- + kill.
Senses: glosses: To perform an instakill; to kill instantly.
Synonyms: one-hit kill
OHK
Related terms: instadeath
permadeath
Leninism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛnɪnɪzm̩/
Forms: form: Leninisms
Etymology: From Lenin + -ism, named after Vladimir Lenin.
Senses: glosses: A political ideology developed by Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism.
wikipedia: Vladimir Lenin
Related terms: Leninist
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Stalinism
Trotskyism
Stalinist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Stalinist
form: most Stalinist
Etymology: From Stalin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling Joseph Stalin, a Bolshevik revolutionary.
glosses: Of or relating to Stalinism.
examples: text: Stalinist architecture
text: An unispired Stalinist mural on the side of the building shows happy workers, farmers, intellectuals, and young people marching together under the banners of the SED and the Free German Youth (FDJ).
ref: 2022, Nathaniel Flakin, Revolutionary Berlin: A Walking Guide:
glosses: Of, relating to, or resembling the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin; Stalin-era.
Stalinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stalinists
Etymology: From Stalin + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who accepts the philosophy of Stalinism.
permadeath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɝmədɛθ/
Forms: form: permadeaths
Etymology: From perma- + death.
Senses: examples: text: And yes, especially 'special' mobs coming back is a bit of a stretch. But then the players coming back is a stretch too, no? (yes, I know, many have implemented some form of permadeath).
ref: 1996 April 21, Jay Sax, “Re: Best features of a mud.”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet), message-ID <ayudanteDq7xJB.9LG@netcom.com>:
text: If you are doing your job right designing a game, the newbie experience should be almost good enough that people don't care about permadeath any more then they would picking up a new novel.
ref: 2001 February 4, Rick Cortese, “Re: Permadeath Debate Today”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.series (Usenet), message-ID <t7s713pgas0b26@corp.supernews.com>:
text: I don't consider permadeath a reasonable solution for most virtual worlds.
ref: 2004 June 15, Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, page 401:
text: Permadeath is simply a way to encourage the playing of more than one game so they can try everything.
ref: 2007 January 12, Ray Dillinger, “Re: Roguelike developer diary”, in rec.games.roguelike.development (Usenet), message-ID <45a7f875$0$68978$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>:
topics: video-games
glosses: Permanent death, where the player cannot continue but is obliged to restart the game from the beginning.
examples: text: Last week, as you might recall, I promised to play Fire Emblem: Awakening with permadeath on. I also promised to continue battling no matter what happened: in other words, if any of my party members died in combat, they'd be dead for good.
ref: 2013 February 8, Jason Schreier, “A List Of Characters I Accidentally Killed In Fire Emblem: Awakening”, in Kotaku (Usenet):
text: For many fans of the dungeon crawler genre, the ultimate risk is permadeath. And it’s just what it sounds like. If you die in a game with permadeath, your character is toast. Gone. Permanently.
ref: 2015 April 4, Laura Hardgrave, “Darkest Dungeon and Permanent Death in Video Games”, in Den of Geek (Usenet):
text: Combat gets a lot more challenging in the back half of the story, especially if you ratchet up the sliding difficulty gauge to hard (which, notably, features Fire Emblem’s signature permadeath for added consequences to your actions).
ref: 2017 October 26, Meghan Sullivan, “Fire Emblem Warriors Review.”, in IGN (Usenet):
text: it features character permadeath which can’t be disabled; as the press release puts it, “in this Fire Emblem game, if your soldiers meet their end, they’re gone forever.”
ref: 2023 June 16, Oli Welsh, “A classic Fire Emblem is coming to Switch Online very soon”, in Polygon (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: Likewise, any situation where a player character or characters who die are lost permanently but do not trigger a game over, allowing the player to proceed without the character(s). Particularly applies if said deaths are avoidable (not forced by the plot) and occur only as a result of player blunder.
Related terms: permadead
permadie
instadeath
instakill
insta-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Clipping of instant.
Senses: glosses: Instant.
tip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips out
form: tipping out
form: tipped out
form: tipped out
Etymology: From tip (“tilt”).
Senses: examples: text: After baking and cooling, tip the cake out of its pan.
text: Tip it out of the jar.
glosses: To extract (something) by tipping over the container that contains it.
Related terms: tip over
tip out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip outs
Etymology: From tip (“give a gratuity”).
Senses: glosses: An amount or percentage of a server's tips that the server shares, either voluntarily or as mandated in a tip sharing or tip pooling agreement, with other employees such as bussers, bartenders, back waiters and host/hostesses whose job duties indirectly assist the server.
tip out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tips out
form: tipping out
form: tipped out
form: tipped out
Etymology: From tip (“give a gratuity”).
Senses: examples: text: It was my first day on the job, so when I tipped out the bus boy but didn't tip out the bartender, my shift supervisor let me know that bartenders should be tipped out too, and to make sure that my tip outs were at least 5% of my day's total tips.
text: "You cannot deduct tip-outs (the tips you split with other employees) on your tax return. Nor can you deduct them from your allocated tips. The practice of tipping-out is one of the reasons you should keep a detailed daily log of your tips. If you documented that you tip-out, and you reported all your tips to your employer, then you do not include in your income the allocated tips in box 8 of Form W-2." [extract from U.S. Internal Revenue Service Bulletin 4.12 Interest/Dividends/Other Types of Income]
glosses: To provide a percentage of tips to certain co-workers who support the work done by the waiter.
raw_tags: of a person who receives tips for their work
salesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salesman
specialness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specialnesses
Etymology: From special + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He was vain about his specialness until he realized he was really very common.
glosses: The state or quality of being special.
vainness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vain + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His vainness resulted in his perpetual mirror staring.
glosses: The property of being vain.
glosses: Futility; fruitlessness.
scuzzball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌzbɔl/
rhymes: -ʌzbɔl
Forms: form: scuzzballs
form: scuzz ball
form: scuzz-ball
Senses: examples: text: Of course, if you're a sneaky, manipulative scuzzball, then maybe you don't want your boss to know you very well.
ref: 2000, Robert Bacal, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dealing With Difficult Employees:
text: Was she really in bed with Marlucci and a sorry scuzzball like Snyder? What was her angle, other than money?
ref: 2004, Jay Brida, G.O.P. D.O.A.:
text: […] the codependence of the friends of liberty and the deviant: 'Our fundamental civil rights often depend on defending some scuzzball you don't like.'
ref: 2005, John Durham Peters, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition:
glosses: Someone who does nasty things or plays harmful tricks; a person of very low ethics; a lowlife.
Related terms: scuzz
scuzzbucket
scuzzy
sleazeball
sleazebag
scumbag
scumbucket
sex scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex scenes
Senses: examples: text: I most remember the sex scene in the woods. The night it was due to go out, I went to buy a Sunday newspaper from my local shop, and the headline read: “BBC braces itself for biggest sex shock ever.”
ref: 2023 March 30, Rich Pelley, quoting Alison Steadman, “Alison Steadman: ‘We filmed the sex scene in the New Forest, so it was quite prickly’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A segment in a film or television program in which characters engage in simulated or real sexual activity.
Related terms: love scene
sex scenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sex scene
Stalinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Stalinist
heman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of he-man.
phylogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylogeneses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Phylogenese, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. By surface analysis, phylo- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: Evolutionary development of a species.
Synonyms: phylogeny
Related terms: ontogenesis
disestablishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪs.ɪsˈtæblɪʃ.mənt/
Forms: form: disestablishments
Etymology: By surface analysis, dis- + establishment, or, by surface analysis, dis- + establish + -ment.
Senses: antonyms: establishment
coordinate_terms: nonestablishment
;
abolition
ban#Noun
banning#Noun
prohibition
glosses: The downgrading or dissolution of something that had been established.
examples: text: Disestablishment of the church would deprive the gentry of another property right – the right of presentation to a living, a right for which they or their ancestors had paid hard cash and which gave them useful opportunities of providing for a younger son or a poor relation.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 77:
text: As evangelicals defect in one direction and traditionalists in the other, and disestablishment beckons with the reform of the House of Lords […].
ref: 2009 October 21, Ruth Gledhill, The Times:
antonyms: establishment
establishment
coordinate_terms: nonestablishment
;
abolition
ban#Noun
banning#Noun
prohibition
nonestablishment
glosses: The downgrading or dissolution of something that had been established.
Specifically, the removal of state privileges or patronage from a given church; the removal of a policy of having an official governing religion.
Derived terms: antidisestablishment
antidisestablishmentarian
disestablishmentarian
Related terms: word: disestablish
disestablishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disestablishment
antidisestablishment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidisestablishment
form: most antidisestablishment
Etymology: From anti- + disestablishment.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to the separation of church and state.
canvasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canvases
Senses: glosses: plural of canvas (UK spelling)
glosses: plural of canvass
canvasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: canvases
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of canvas
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of canvass
canvassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canvas
Derived terms: over-canvassed
uncanvassed
canvasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canvas
canvasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canvasings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who canvases or solicits.
Gonzalo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gonzalos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Gonzalo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A male given name from Spanish.
eyeblink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeblinks
Etymology: From eye + blink. Cognate with Afrikaans oomblik, Dutch ogenblik, German Augenblick, German Low German Ogenblick.
Senses: glosses: An act of blinking one's eyelids one time.
synonyms: word: bat of an eye
word: blink of an eye
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A moment (a very short period of time).
eyeblinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyeblink
brown adipose tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown adipose tissues
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: One of the two types of adipose tissue present in many newborn or hibernating mammals which primarily serves to generate body heat, and which contains several small vacuoles and a relatively high number of mitochondria and capillaries.
Synonyms: BAT
brown fat
Coordinate terms: white adipose tissue
beige fat
fat
Related terms: white adipose tissue
adipose tissue
adipose
tissue
white adipose tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white adipose tissues
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: One of the two types of adipose tissue present in mammals, providing heat insulation, mechanical cushion, and a source of energy, and comprising as much as 20% of the body weight in men and 25% of the body weight in women.
Synonyms: WAT
white fat
Coordinate terms: brown adipose tissue
beige fat
fat
Related terms: brown adipose tissue
adipose tissue
adipose
tissue
Cartesian circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian circles
Senses: glosses: A supposed error in reasoning attributed to René Descartes. A form of circular argument.
fantasist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fantasists
form: phantasist
Etymology: From fantasy + -ist.
Senses: examples: 2008 Oct 31 James Bond fantasist jailed by James Sturcke and agencies in The Guardian.co.uk
A fantasist was beginning a two-year stint behind bars today for conning police into thinking he was a James Bond-style secret agent.
glosses: One who creates fantasies.
examples: text: I resurrect this piece as antidote, I hope, to the gripping lies of a cinematic fantasist who suffers delusions of reality.
ref: 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 6:
glosses: One living in a fantasy world.
examples: text: "Like the other fantasists dealt with in this volume, Rossetti used fantasy to subvert and undermine traditionalist notions, in this instance notions of male power and female submissiveness."
ref: 1991, Kath Filmer, Kath Filmer-Davies, The Victorian Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Society and Belief in the Mythopoeic Fiction of the Victorian Age:
glosses: A writer who writes in the fantasy style.
Related terms: word: fantast
english: Pretend Indian
translation: Pretend Indian
word: Pretendian
engobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engobes
Etymology: From French engobe; see en-, gober.
Senses: glosses: A non-black clay slip coating applied to a ceramic body to give it decorative color or improved texture.
glosses: A clay slip which is colored with metal oxides or stains, used for coating the surface of a pot either before or after bisque firing.
czarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of czarist
decenniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decennium
decennia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decennium
pennyworth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pennyworths
form: penniworth
Etymology: From penny + worth.
Senses: examples: text: She was learned in decocting all kinds of herb-tea, infallible in curing burns, sprains, and scalds ; and not a few pennyworths of gingerbread and paradise (for the latter she was very famous) went among her young customers, for which the till was never the richer.
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Knife, page 127:
coordinate_terms: halfpennyworth
tuppence worth
glosses: The amount that can be bought for a penny.
examples: text: VVhy Lambe, vvhy Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / VVhy Loue I ſay, Madam, ſvveeteheart, vvhy Bride: / VVhat not a vvord, you take your pennivvorths novv, / Sleepe for a vveeke, […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
synonyms: word: halfpennyworth
word: tuppence worth
word: ace
word: tinge
word: atom
word: trace element
word: aught
word: bissel
word: bit
word: crumb
word: glimpse
word: dab
word: damn
word: dash
word: diddly
word: glint
word: dot
word: spatter
word: drop
word: dusting
word: fleck
word: hint
word: flip
word: flyspeck
word: grain
word: halfpennyworth
word: inch
word: iota
word: jot
word: lick
word: mite
word: modicum
word: molecule
word: morceau
word: morsel
word: mote
word: ooch
word: ounce
word: particle
word: pennyworth
word: piece
word: pinch
word: scantling
word: semblance
word: scent
word: scintilla
word: scooch
word: scrap
word: scruple
word: shred
word: skerrick
word: skoosh
word: skosh
word: sliver
word: smattering
word: smidge
word: smidgen
word: smidget
word: smidgy
word: smitch
word: smithereen
word: soupçon
word: spark
word: speck
word: speckle
word: spot
word: sprinkle
word: sprinkling
word: strain
word: tad
word: tidbit
word: tidge
word: tittle
word: toddick
word: touch
word: trace
word: trifle
word: tuppence worth
word: vestige
word: whiff
word: whit
glosses: A small quantity or value.
examples: text: VVilt thou purchaſe it Nic.? thou ſhalt have a lumping Pennyvvorth; nay, rather than vve ſhould differ, I'll give thee ſomething to take it off my Hands.
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Discourse that Pass’d between Nic. Frog and Esquire South, which John Bull Overheard”, in Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, and John Bull Politician. Being the Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 30:
glosses: A good bargain.
Related terms: penny-wise
money's worth
pennyworths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pennyworth
0-10-0
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 0-10-0s
Senses: examples: text: For the most part they are of straightforward design and the largest group is the ex-Prussian "T16" Class 0-10-0 of Type "94", [...].
ref: 1960 September 24, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 553:
glosses: Under the Whyte notation system, a steam locomotive, with five axles connecting ten powered driving wheels, and no leading wheels or trailing wheels.
Hypernyms: Decapod
0-4-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 0-4-2
0-10-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 0-10-0
0-4-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 0-4-4
2-10-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-10-2
2-12-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-12-2
2-12-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-12-4
2-4-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-4-0
2-4-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-4-2
2-4-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-4-4
2-6-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-6-2
2-6-0+0-6-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-6-0+0-6-2
2-6-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-6-4
2-8-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-0
2-8-0+0-8-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-0+0-8-2
2-8-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-2
2-8-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-4
2-8-8-8-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-8-8-2
2-8-8-8-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-8-8-8-4
4-10-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-10-2
4-12-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-12-2
4-14-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-14-4
4-2-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-2-0
4-4-0s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-4-0
4-4-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-4-4
4-4-4-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-4-4-4
4-4-6-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-4-6-4
4-6-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-6-2
4-6-2+2-6-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-6-2+2-6-4
4-6-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-6-4
4-6-4-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-6-4-4
4-8-2s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-8-2
4-8-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-8-4
4-8-4+4-8-4s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-8-4+4-8-4
4-8-6s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 4-8-6
6-4-4-6s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 6-4-4-6
6-8-6s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 6-8-6
national archives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of national archive
national archive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national archives
Senses: glosses: A repository for storing materials relating to the history of a nation, usually operated by the government of that nation.
appraisal cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appraisal costs
Senses: topics: business
real-estate
glosses: The costs that are incurred in assessing that products/services conform to the requirements. It relates to testing, executing, and examination to assess whether specified quality is being maintained. Some example component items of the total appraisal costs are: product quality audits, process control monitoring, inspection and testing of goods, and maintenance of test equipment.
Attri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Attris
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਅੱਤ੍ਰੀ (attrī).
Caste: From Punjab, Jatt
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
bis key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bis keys
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key using alternative fingerings for certain notes on woodwind instruments.
cade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
raw_tags: of an animal
cade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: cades
Etymology: From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Then on the verdrous Bank, where Spices rose, Rowl on the balmy Grass, or smiling play With her young Cade, her caded Lamb with Smiles Answer'd her Love, and lickt her dainty hand.
ref: 1720, John Bulkeley, The Last-Day: Poem in XII Books, page 54:
glosses: An animal brought up or nourished by hand.