cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pincher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪntʃə/
ipa: /ˈpɪnt͡ʃɚ/
homophone: pinscher
Forms: form: pinchers
Etymology: From pinch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The troubles can be endless: a mix-up on meals, a shortage of liquor, engine difficulties, other mechanical quirks, male pinchers, female whiners, vomiting children, two-timing stewardesses who steal your man, and, once in awhile,^([sic]) a plane that takes a good friend to a fiery death.
ref: 1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New York: Bantam Books, page 3:
glosses: A person or thing that pinches, as in squeezing; e.g. a miser or penny pincher.
examples: text: “And they would certainly take offence, were their son to be accused of theft.” “It would stir them up like an egg whisk. I mean, however well they know that Wilbert is a pincher, they don't want to have it rubbed in.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: “And if ever a man needed to be constantly under an eye, it's the above kleptomaniac.” “The what?” “Haven't you been told? Wilbert's a pincher. […] He pinches things. Everything that isn't nailed down is grist to his mill.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A person or thing that pinches, as in stealing; e.g. a thief or kleptomaniac.
glosses: Dated form of pincer.
glosses: Eggcorn of pincer.
Derived terms: Pincher Creek
approximations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approximation
archaisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaism
autopilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autopilot
claxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claxons
Senses: examples: text: When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.
ref: 2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, chapter 11, in The Shield and the Shark, Cambridge: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Alternative spelling of klaxon.
à contrecœur
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ ˌkɒn.tɹəˈkɜː/
ipa: /-ˌkɒ̃-/
ipa: /-ˈkəː/
ipa: /ˌɑ ˌkɑn.tɹəˈkɚ/
Forms: form: à contre-coeur
form: à contre-cœur
form: à contrecoeur
Etymology: Borrowed from French à contrecœur, à contre-cœur, from Old French avoir a contrecuer, avoir contrecœur (“to dislike”), from à (“for, with”) + contre-cœur (“aversion, dislike”) (contre (“against”) + cœur (“heart”)); compare Old French estre contre coer a (“to be adverse to”).
Senses: examples: text: Xtien was young at the time and had met him after her father's death, didn't know then what she knows now, and when the man died there she was alone with her child – forsaken, without a penny. À contrecœur went on the streets, became ill, was taken to hospital, in all sorts of trouble …
ref: 1882 May 14, Vincent van Gogh, “Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh”, in Masters of Art – Vincent van Gogh, Hastings, East Sussex: Delphi Classics, published 2014:
text: Œdipe is another matter: he can't simply be ejected from the plot. So Dircé in the end has to take back everything she had said earlier about Œdipe's tyrannical behaviour and claims that she had said it à contrecœur anyway.
ref: 1988, Terence Cave, Recognitions: A Study in Poetics, Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 319:
text: This is not to say, of course, that countries would be prevented from adopting common initiatives in these areas. But no longer would sceptical states be dragged à contrecœur into policies that their people disliked. The more federally minded governments would be free to use EU structures and institutions to amalgamate to their hearts’ content, with no pressure on the more reluctant nations to join them.
ref: 2004 June 26, Daniel Hannan, “The way ahead for Europe”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 19 May 2006:
text: Following the award of the Nobel Prize, [Samuel] Beckett was pressured to make a new work available for publication. Finally, and almost à contrecoeur, he turned over to Les Editions de Minuit a story—"Premier Amour"—which he had written in 1946 but had withheld from publication.
ref: 2006, “The Nobel Prize”, in Fathoms from Anywhere – A Samuel Beckett Centenary Exhibition, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2015:
glosses: Reluctantly, unwillingly, with disgust.
discoverers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discoverer
extraneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extraneously
form: most extraneously
Etymology: From extraneous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an extraneous manner.
tridecennary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The order of days in every month was computed, according to him, first by what he calls a tridecennary progression of days from one to thirteen, […]
ref: 1856, William Robertson, The History of the Discovery and Settlement of America:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the number thirteen
tricenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trīcēnārius, from trīcēnus (“thirty each”) + -ārius (“-ary: forming adjectives and related nouns”).
Senses: glosses: Of or related to the number thirty.
examples: text: After Solon's time, the Civill year was Lunary... though diverse places of Greece,... did not for a long time after part with their tricenary months.
ref: 1655, T. Stanley, History of Philosophy, Vol. I, Ch. 3
glosses: Lasting thirty days.
tricenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtraɪˈsiːnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈtraɪsɪn(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈtraɪ.səˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈtrɪsəˌ-/
ipa: /traɪˈsinəɹi/
ipa: /-ˈsɛnəɹi/
Forms: form: tricenaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin trīcēnārium, from Latin trīcēnārius + -ium.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of trental, a set of 30 requiem masses.
synonyms: word: trental
extra: a set of 30 requiem masses
bones of contention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bone of contention
concept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.sɛpt/
Forms: form: concepts
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Senses: glosses: An abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
examples: text: The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term.
ref: 1855, Thomas Reid, Sir W. Hamilton, James Walker, “Essay IV. Of Conception”, in Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man:
text: Frege's concepts are very nearly propositional functions in the modern sense. Frege explicitly recognizes them as functions. Like Peirce's rhema, a concept is unsaturated. They are in some sense incomplete. Although Frege never gets beyond the metaphorical in his description of the incompleteness of concepts and other functions, one thing is clear: the distinction between objects and functions is the main division in his metaphysics. There is something special about functions that makes them very different from objects.
ref: 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
text: Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
ref: 2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:
glosses: Understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and imagination; a generalization (generic, basic form), or abstraction (mental impression), of a particular set of instances or occurrences (specific, though different, recorded manifestations of the concept).
qualifier: generic programming
glosses: A description of supported operations on a type, including their syntax and semantics.
Synonyms: conception
notion
abstraction
Hyponyms: conceptualization
conceptualisation
conceptuality
notion
scheme
rule
regulation
property
attribute
dimension
abstraction
abstract
quantity
part
section
division
whole
law
natural law
law of nature
hypothesis
possibility
theory
fact
Derived terms: closed-concept
concept album
concept art
concept artist
concept car
concept drift
conceptious
conceptless
concept map
concept of operations
conceptor
concept video
gap concept
high concept
high-concept
macroconcept
metaconcept
microconcept
multiconcept
open-concept
operating concept
preconcept
primitive concept
proof of concept
proof-of-concept
pseudoconcept
puncept
self-concept
subconcept
Related terms: conceive
conceptional
conceptive
conceptual
misconceive
misconception
essential
fundamental
idea
meaning
pattern
thought
concept
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒn.sɛpt/
ipa: /ˈkɑn.sɛpt/
Forms: form: concepts
form: concepting
form: concepted
form: concepted
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French concept, from Latin conceptus (“a thought, purpose, also a conceiving, etc.”), from concipiō (“to take in, conceive”). Doublet of conceit and concetto. See conceive.
Senses: glosses: to conceive; to dream up
tipa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipas
Etymology: From Spanish.
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Tipuana tipu
shibilant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shibilants
Etymology: Blend of esh + sibilant.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sibilant (fricative or affricate) pronounced further back in the mouth than [s] and [z]: [ʃ], [ʒ], [t͡ʃ], [d͡ʒ], etc.
Sini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Malayalam, meaning “a fair-skinned girl”, of Indian usage.
glosses: A rare surname from Italian
sumptuary tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumptuary taxes
Senses: examples: text: The author seems favourable to a tax on dress, when, exceeding the limits of necessity and decency, it luxuriates in finery and ornament. A tax which should fall only on the superfluous embellishments, and costliness, of apparel would be a sumptuary tax, and might form a new source of supply to the necessities of the state, if an easy, simple, and economical mode of raising it could be devised. We have taxes on hats, and on hair-powder; and might not a salutary tax be levied on jewels and lace, and various other exterior decorations
ref: 1810, “[review of] What is the Influence of the different Species of Taxation on the Morality, the Activity, and the Industry of Nations? By M. de Monthion, formerly Counsellor of State. Paris”, in The Critical Review:
text: Although the influence of a very patriotic sumptuary tax has diminished the number of dogs, we have still “ thousands too many.”
ref: 1812, Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, page 125:
text: I do not consider that the Carriage Tax is a tax intended to pay for the upkeep of the roads at all; I do not think that ever entered into the idea of it. I think it was a purely sumptuary tax intended to hit a luxury. / 14905. Like the Window Tax, which was also aimed at a supposed luxury ? / —Yes.
ref: 1906, “[testimony of] Sir Henry William Primrose, 8 Feb. 1906”, in Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command:
text: A sumptuary tax is a tax whose effects are desired on moral or ethical grounds. It is levied on certain products or services the consumption of which is discouraged. Example of sumptuary taxes are those imposed on the production, sale, or consumption of tobacco products, alcoholic drinks, playing cards, billiard tables, cabaret admissions, and many others. A tax for regulatory purposes should be distinguished from sumptuary tax.
ref: 1982, Florentino G. Ayson, C. O. Resurreccion, The fundamentals of agrarian reform, page 173:
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: A government levy on goods considered to be socially undesirable goods or nonessential luxuries, most commonly alcohol and tobacco.
Synonyms: topics: economics
sciences
word: sin tax
Hypernyms: excise tax
zoomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoomorphisms
form: zoömorphism
Etymology: From zoo- + -morphism.
Senses: glosses: The representation of gods as animals or the attributing of animal characteristics to gods.
topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The use of animal figures in art and design or of animal symbols in literature.
glosses: The viewing of human behavior in terms of the behavior of animals.
Related terms: anthropomorphism
kemonomimi
nahualism
throwing wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwing wheels
Senses: glosses: A small, rotating circular table of variable speed used in the manufacture of ceramics.
dead of night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead of the night
Senses: examples: text: Write loyal cantons of contemnèd love / And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
text: I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:
text: Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly
ref: 1968, “Blackbird”, in Paul McCartney (lyrics), The Beatles, performed by The Beatles:
synonyms: word: deep of night
word: 00:00
word: 12 o'clock
word: 12 midnight
word: 12 a.m.
word: 24:00
word: dead of night
word: midnight
word: noon
word: noon of night
glosses: Middle of the night.
Orcadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.diː.ən/
rhymes: -eɪdiːən
Forms: form: more Orcadian
form: most Orcadian
Etymology: From Latin Orcades + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the late Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown wrote. “The islands have been inhabited for a very long time, from before the day of the plough.”
ref: 2025, Peter Ross, “Discover the Astounding Secrets of Scotland’s Stone Age Settlements. In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable Neolithic discoveries”, in Smithsonian, volume 55, number 7: January/February:
synonyms: Orkneyan
glosses: Of or relating to the Orkney Islands.
Orcadian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔː(ɹ)ˈkeɪ.diː.ən/
rhymes: -eɪdiːən
Forms: form: Orcadians
Etymology: From Latin Orcades + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Orkneyan
glosses: Someone from the Orkney Islands.
Shetlander
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Shetland + -er.
Senses: glosses: From, or related to, the Shetland Islands.
Shetlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shetlanders
Etymology: From Shetland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Shetland Islands.
Orkneys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Orkney Islands
Shetland pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shetland ponies
Senses: glosses: A small horse of a breed originally from the Shetland Islands
Synonyms: Sheltie
Shetland sheepdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shetland sheepdogs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A breed of small sheepdogs, originally from the Shetland Islands.
Synonyms: word: Sheltie
sense: improper
word: toy collie
Sheltie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shelties
form: sholtie
form: sheltie
form: Shelty
form: shelty
Etymology: Probably ultimately representing Old Norse Hjalti (“Shetlander”).
Senses: examples: text: You, sir, doubtless, are well mounted, and I, for the present, travel upon foot, or on a Highland shelty, that does not help me much faster forward.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 86–87:
glosses: A Shetland pony; by extension, any small pony.
glosses: A Shetland sheepdog.
glosses: A Shetlander.
Kirkwall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A folk-etymological alteration of Scots Kirkwaa, from Norn Kirkavå (literally “church bay”), from Old Norse Kirkjuvágr.
Senses: glosses: A town in and the administrative centre of the Orkney Islands council area, Scotland.
Lerwick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛɹɪk/
ipa: /ˈlɜːwɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Etymology: From Norn Larvik, from Old Norse Leirvík, from leir (“clay”) + vík (“bay”).
Senses: glosses: A town in and the administrative centre of the Shetland Islands council area, Scotland.
Shetlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Shetland Islands.
Derived terms: Shitlands
Shetlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Shetland
ritzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ritzy: more ritzy
n.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of note.
topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of footnote.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: n
glosses: Abbreviation of noun.
related: word: n
glosses: Abbreviation of north.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of intransitive (“neutral”).
Derived terms: hist. n.
n. pub.
rptr. n.
vb. n.
n.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of neuter.
glosses: Abbreviation of northern.
cosign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.saɪn/
homophone: cosine
Forms: form: cosigns
form: cosigning
form: cosigned
form: cosigned
form: co-sign
Etymology: From co- + sign.
Senses: glosses: To sign a document jointly with another person, sometimes as an endorsement.
examples: text: [Ilhan] Omar was left twisting in the wind earlier this year after facing spurious charges of antisemitism, a display of Democratic cowardice co-signed by Chelsea Clinton, Chuck Schumer, and most every other Democrat with a congressional leadership position.
ref: 2019 July 19, Noah Kulwin, “Democrats Fail the Left, Once Again”, in Jewish Currents:
glosses: To agree with or endorse.
Derived terms: cosignatory
cosignee
cosign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəʊ.saɪn/
ipa: /ˈkoʊ.saɪn/
homophone: cosine
Forms: form: cosigns
form: co-sign
Etymology: From co- + sign.
Senses: examples: text: Also, you can't base your entire career on cosigns and big features. At some point, your music has to stand on its own.
ref: 2013, Jesse Atkinson, The Independent Music Grind:
text: Big pump, don't stunt when it's showtime / Kinda funny how I didn't need a cosign
ref: 2017, Stormzy, Swifta Beater, “Cold” (track 15), in Gang Signs & Prayer, performed by Stormzy:
glosses: The promotion of one musical artist (usually less successful) by another.
cosignatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosignatories
Etymology: From co- + signatory.
Senses: glosses: Any of several people who sign a document together (especially a treaty)
cosignatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + signatory.
Senses: glosses: signed or signing jointly
cosigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosigners
Etymology: From co- + signer or cosign + -er.
Senses: glosses: A cosignatory
topics: law
glosses: A person who accepts joint responsibility for the debt of another
cosmological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cosmologic
Etymology: From cosmology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Within the standard cosmological framework, however, the new satellite data underscored the existence of puzzling anomalies that may yet lead theorists back to the drawing board.
ref: 2013 March 21, Dennis Overbye, “Universe as an Infant: Fatter Than Expected and Kind of Lumpy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to cosmology, or to the overall structure of the universe.
Derived terms: cosmological argument
cosmological city
cosmological constant
cosmological decade
cosmological event horizon
cosmological horizon
cosmologically
cosmological natural selection
cosmological perturbation theory
cosmological principle
cosmological redshift
cosmological scale
cosmological term
cosmological theorem
noncosmological
psychocosmological
Related terms: cosmic
cosmos
cosmovision
cosmological argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmological arguments
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: A type of argument for the existence of God arguing that since every thing and event that begins at a point in time has a cause, there must be an uncaused first cause.
Hypernyms: argument
Related terms: ontological argument
teleological argument
cosmological city
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmological cities
Senses: glosses: Any city whose design is intended to reflect that of the cosmos
cosmological constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmological constants
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A term added by Albert Einstein to his equations of general relativity in order to account for a supposed static universe, since used to describe vacuum energy as a form of dark energy.
Synonyms: Λ
lambda
Coordinate terms: dark energy
vacuum energy
dark sector
quintessence
phantom energy
cosmological decade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmological decades
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several divisions in the life of the universe on a logarithmic scale
cosmological horizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmological horizons
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The distance from an observer in a universe beyond which it is impossible for the observer to see, as the light (or other luminal particles) cannot have travelled that distance over the current age of that universe.
Synonyms: comoving horizon
cosmic event horizon
cosmic light horizon
cosmological event horizon
Hubble horizon
particle horizon
cosmological natural selection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical alternative to the anthropic principle that attempts to explain the complexity of the universe
Orlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From orl- (perhaps after Orleans) + -on (compare nylon, rayon, developed by the same company).
Senses: examples: 1971: This garish, deep orlon-carpeted lobby of the Desert Inn seemed an inappropriate place to be haggling about nickel/dime bribes for the parking lot attendant. — Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 44)
glosses: a synthetic fibre used in yarn and knitwear
cosmological perturbation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A mathematical theory that attempts to describe the evolution of the constituents of the universe following the Big Bang
cosmological principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The assumption that the universe, on a large enough scale, is homogeneous and isotropic.
cosmological redshift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That part of any redshift that is accounted for by the expansion of spacetime following the Big Bang
fixable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪks.ə.bəl/
Forms: form: more fixable
form: most fixable
Etymology: From fix + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being fixed, repairable.
examples: text: The word has no fixable meaning.
glosses: attachable
Derived terms: unfixable
cosmological scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The order of magnitude of time and space in the universe
fixed asset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed assets
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
synonyms: non-current asset
coordinate_terms: current asset
glosses: Asset or property which cannot easily be converted into cash, such as land, buildings and machinery.
Hyponyms: property plant and equipment
PP&E
Related terms: fixed capital
capital asset
chargeable asset
cosmological term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The cosmological constant.
fixed assets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixed asset
hexapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛk.sə.pɒd/
ipa: /ˈhɛk.sə.pɑd/
Forms: form: hexapods
Etymology: From hexa- + -pod, from Ancient Greek ἑξαποδ- (hexapod-), oblique stem of ἑξάπους (hexápous, “six-footed”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: examples: text: My lips will be even more firmly sealed about the various suggestions put forward concerning the interpersonal relationships of Alpha Centauri, the hermaphrodite hexapod.
ref: 1983, Jean-Marc Lofficier, The Doctor Who Programme Guide, volume 2, page 8:
text: The bizarre hexapods did indeed feed upon those unfortunate creatures who had been caught and killed by the flames. But the striped carnivores were not scavengers; They were hunters.
ref: 2000, Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls:
text: These concepts are applied to a robotic hexapod, which, through the use of compliant microspines on its feet, is capable of climbing hard vertical textured surfaces, such as stucco
ref: 2007, Gaurav Suhas Sukhatme, Stefan Schaal, Wolfram Burgard, editors, Robotics: Science and Systems II, page 97:
glosses: Any organism, being or robot with six legs.
glosses: An arthropod with six feet; a member of subphylum Hexapoda.
glosses: An insect.
Derived terms: hexapodal
hyperhexapod
Related terms: decapod
isopod
octopod
tetrapod
hexapod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛk.sə.pɒd/
ipa: /ˈhɛk.sə.pɑd/
Etymology: From hexa- + -pod, from Ancient Greek ἑξαποδ- (hexapod-), oblique stem of ἑξάπους (hexápous, “six-footed”), from ἑξα- (hexa-, “six”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: glosses: Having six feet, six-footed; belonging to the subphylum Hexapoda; hexapodous.
fixed charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed charges
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An unvarying charge such as rent or property tax.
Related terms: fixed cost
fixed costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixed cost
fixed head coupé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed head coupés
Senses: glosses: A four-seated car or coupé with the appearance of a sports car, with a sloping rear and hardtop.
Related terms: drophead coupé
convertible
soft top
debuggee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌbʌˈɡi/
ipa: /diːˌbʊˈɡi/
Forms: form: debuggees
Etymology: From debug + -ee.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A process or application being debugged.
drophead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropheads
Etymology: From drop + head.
Senses: glosses: A drophead coupé.
drophead coupé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drophead coupés
Senses: glosses: A four-seated sports car with two doors, a folding roof and a sloping rear; a soft top.
Related terms: fixed head coupé
convertible
hardtop
soft top
cosponsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosponsors
form: co-sponsor
Etymology: From co- + sponsor.
Senses: glosses: A joint sponsor.
cosponsor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cosponsors
form: cosponsoring
form: cosponsored
form: cosponsored
form: co-sponsor
Etymology: From co- + sponsor.
Senses: glosses: To sponsor jointly with another.
costumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒstjuːmə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑstumɚ/
Forms: form: costumers
Etymology: From costume + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (Variety “-er”).
Senses: glosses: A person who designs, makes or supplies theatrical costumes; a costumier.
glosses: A person who wears a costume or takes part in cosplay.
examples: text: The success of this lush costumer encouraged Woo to try his hand at comedy.
ref: 2000, Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, The Wallflower Critical Guide to Contemporary North American Directors:
glosses: A costume drama.
Synonyms: costumier
cottony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cottony
form: most cottony
Etymology: From cotton + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having some characteristics of cotton; soft and fluffy
hardtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardtops
Etymology: From hard + top.
Senses: glosses: The removable rigid roof of a convertible or sports car.
glosses: A car with such a roof.
glosses: An indoor cinema with a roof, as opposed to a drive-in.
Related terms: convertible
drophead coupé
fixed head coupé
soft top
councilperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councilpersons
form: councilpeople
Etymology: From council + person.
Senses: glosses: A councilor
Related terms: councilman
councilwoman
soft top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft tops
Senses: synonyms: foldable rooftop
folding rooftop
hood
retractable rooftop
retracting rooftop
glosses: The foldable roof of a convertible or sports car which is made of fabric.
glosses: A car with such a roof.
Related terms: convertible
drophead coupé
fixed head coupé
hardtop
counselling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counsellings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counseling.
Derived terms: co-counselling
telecounselling
counselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counsel
counteraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteractions
Etymology: From counter- + action.
Senses: glosses: An act of retaliation; a counterattack.
examples: text: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
ref: 2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any action in opposition to a previous action.
Related terms: neutralization
counteractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more counteractive
form: most counteractive
Senses: glosses: That counteracts
Derived terms: counteractively
counterman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermen
Etymology: From counter + man.
Senses: examples: text: I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179:
glosses: A man who serves behind a counter, especially in a diner.
counteroffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteroffers
form: counter-offer
Etymology: From counter- + offer.
Senses: glosses: An offer made in reply to an unacceptable offer.
counteroffer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counteroffers
form: counteroffering
form: counteroffered
form: counteroffered
form: counter-offer
Etymology: From counter- + offer.
Senses: examples: text: Obama counteroffered one town hall and an extra debate, which McCain waved away.
ref: 2008 June 14, Gail Collins, “Candidates, Fly Away Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: To offer as a counteroffer.
counterrevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counterrevolutionary
form: most counterrevolutionary
form: counter-revolutionary
Etymology: From counter- + revolutionary. Originally applied to thinkers who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution.
Senses: examples: text: In early 1990, he was sentenced to two years by the Loudi Prefecture Intermediate Court on a charge of "counterrevolutionary propaganda and incitement." He was then sent to Longxi Prison for reform through labor, and has since been released.
ref: 1992, “Data on Pro-Democracy Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners in Hunan Province”, in Anthems of Defeat: Crackdown in Hunan Province, 1989-1992, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 155, column 1:
text: It seems likely that states in the Middle East and North Africa could divide into three camps. […] In the second, Egypt and Tunisia will struggle to realize their revolutionary promise and ideals while resisting the counterrevolutionary forces of the old regimes.
ref: 2011 March 28, Steven A. Cook, “After the Arab Spring”, in The Atlantic:
text: To go back in time, as it were, the counterrevolutionary bloc—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, and their allies in Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere—believes the future must be more authoritarian than ever.
ref: 2018 November 3, Hassan Hassan, “The Arab Winter Is Coming”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: In opposition to a revolution.
Derived terms: counterrevolutionaryism
Related terms: counterrevolution
counterrevolutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterrevolutionaries
form: counter-revolutionary
Etymology: From counter- + revolutionary. Originally applied to thinkers who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution.
Senses: examples: text: Two “counterrevolutionaries” were sentenced to death and executed publicly before cheering thousands in Shanghai Aug. 28, according to a Shanghai radio report received in Tokyo today.
ref: 1967 September 7, “2 Executed in Shanghai As ‘Counterrevolutionaries’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who opposes a revolution and attempts to reverse the changes made by it.
Synonyms: counterrevolutionist
countersignature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersignatures
Etymology: From counter- + signature.
Senses: glosses: A signature made to confirm or endorse another.
countersunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of countersink
countersunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has a flat conical top allowing it to be inserted flush with a surface
raw_tags: of a bolt or screw
Derived terms: countersunk hole
countervail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊntəveɪl/
Forms: form: countervails
form: countervailing
form: countervailed
form: countervailed
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman countrevaloir (Old French contrevaloir), from Latin contrā valēre (“to be strong against”).
Senses: examples: text: Nay could their numbers counteruaile the ſtars
Or [euer] driſling drops of April ſhowers,
Or withered leaues that Autume ſhaketh down,
Yet would the Souldane by his conquering power:
So ſcatter and conſume them in his rage,
That not a man ſhal liue to rue their fall.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
glosses: To have the same value or number as.
examples: text: It cannot counteruaile the exchange of joy / That one ſhort minute giues me in her ſight:
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 63, column 2:
text: […] should I find thine ear closed and thy heart hardened, what hope for myself could countervail the despair for thee?
ref: 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter II, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC, book IV, page 209:
text: When justice stops being effective (or when crimes of corruption stop being punished) and when political vio­lence is no longer a threat, there is nothing left to cause fear in those who govern shamelessly, that is, buoyed by a mood they aren’t in control of and that no one is on hand to countervail.
ref: 2020 February 8, Patrick Boucheron, “'Real power is fear': what Machiavelli tells us about Trump in 2020”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To counter, counteract, counterbalance, neutralize, or negate.
examples: text: I am one of those who thinke their fruit can no way countervaile this losse.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 38, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: countervail a very confiderable Advantage to all Men of Letters
ref: c. 1700, Roger L'Estrange, Seneca's Morals:
text: If [Wilfred] Owen preserves his youthful romanticism, or at least a shell of it, he uses it to countervail the horrifying scenes he describes, just as he poses his own youth against the age-old spectacle of men dying in pain and futility.
ref: 1988, Richard Ellmann, The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, 2nd edition, New York: W.W. Norton, page 539:
glosses: To compensate for.
Derived terms: countervailability
countervailable
countervailance
countervailingly
uncountervailed
Related terms: counterargue
counterexample
prevail
country-and-western
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing country music.
countrywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countrywomen
Etymology: From country + -woman.
Senses: hypernyms: countryperson
compatriot
woman
<
person
coordinate_terms: countryman
glosses: A feminine compatriot.
examples: text: (to Prince Philip) You don't think I would have preferred to grow up out of the spotlight? Away from court, away from the scrutiny and the visibility? A simpler life, happier life, as a wife, a mother, an ordinary English countrywoman?
ref: 2016, Peter Morgan, “Windsor”, in The Crown, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Queen Elizabeth II:
hypernyms: countryperson
woman
<
person
coordinate_terms: countryman
;
farmgirl
farmboy
glosses: A woman who lives in the country (countryside) or has retained country ways.
coveralls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A coverall.
Synonyms: overalls
coverup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cover-up.
cowhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊˌhænd/
ipa: [ˈkaʊˌhɛənd]
ipa: [ˈkaʊˌheənd]
ipa: [ˈkaʊˌhɛːnd]
Forms: form: cowhands
form: cow hand
Etymology: From cow + hand, or perhaps blend of cowboy + farmhand.
Senses: examples: text: Though a first rate cow hand he very shortly proved himself to be wholly incapable of acting as head.
ref: 1886 April, Theodore Roosevelt, “Ranch Life and Game Shooting in the West”, in Outing, volume 8, number 1, page 3:
text: I'm an old cowhand from the Rio Grande / but my legs ain't bowed and my cheeks ain't tan […]
ref: 1936, “I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)”, Mercer, Johnny (music):
synonyms: cowperson
cowpoke
cattleman
glosses: One who tends free-range cattle, especially in the American West.
glosses: Cowman or herdsman, especially to a dairy cattle herd.
cowherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowherds
form: cowheard
Etymology: From Middle English couherde, from Old English cūhierde, equivalent to cow + herd (“herder”). Doublet of Coward (the surname). Cognate with German Kuhhirte (“cowherd”). Compare shepherd, goatherd, swineherd, etc.
Senses: synonyms: cowherder
;
cowboy
glosses: One who herds cattle; a cowboy.
Derived terms: Coward
Cowherd
cowherdess
Related terms: word: bearherd
word: cow
word: cowboy
word: cowgirl
word: cowman
word: cowperson
word: cowpoke
word: cowwoman
word: cow-woman
word: goatherd
word: gooseherd
word: herd
word: herder
word: herding dog
word: herd instinct
word: herdsman
alt: the constellation Boötes
word: Herdsman
word: herdswoman
word: hogherd
word: horseherd
word: neatherd
word: oxherd
word: swanherd
word: swineherd
cowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowlings
Etymology: From cow + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: She nuzzled between the legs—a bull calf. She continued to nuzzle and clean the little pea-green body that was blue with white patches about his cowling parts.
ref: 2003, David Gilet, The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales:
glosses: A young or little cow; calf.
Synonyms: cowlet
Coordinate terms: bullet
cowling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowlings
Etymology: From cowl + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A removable protective covering for the engine of an aircraft, motorcycle, etc.
cowling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cowl + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cowl
cowpuncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpunchers
form: cow-puncher
Etymology: From cow + puncher.
Senses: examples: text: The miscellaneous setting of horses, dogs, saddles, wagons, guns, and cow-punchers' paraphernalia oppressed the metropolitan eye of the wrecked sportsman.
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 174, column 1:
text: "They might keep you in jail six months before trial, that's a scheme this new prosecutor's got to break a man and make him so weak he'll convict himself. My advice to you is keep out of it. A cowpuncher's got no business to set up as a killer in these degenerate times, Gustin; that's a luxurious distinction only a man with money can afford. Let that feller go. If he deserves killin', somebody'll come along in time and do it, and save you the trouble and expense."
ref: 1923, George Washington Ogden, “Chapter 1”, in The Baron of Diamond Tail:
glosses: A cowboy
cozily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cozily
form: most cozily
Etymology: From cozy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cozy manner
ignaro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignaros
form: ignaroes
Senses: examples: text: And foster father of the Gyaunt dead ; His name Ignaro did his nature right aread
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: An ignorant person.
fellatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellatrix
glosses: plural of fellatrice
power of attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpaʊə(r)əv əˈtɜː(r)niː/
Forms: form: powers of attorney
Etymology: From attorney (“any personal representative”). Attorney now rarely has that sense outside of fixed expressions like this one.
Senses: examples: text: He confirmed that he had power of attorney.
topics: law
glosses: The legal authorisation of one person to act as the agent of another.
examples: text: Here you can apply for a power of attorney.
topics: law
glosses: A legal document allowing one person to act as the agent of another.
Related terms: attorney-in-fact
fixed satellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fixed satellites
Senses: glosses: A geostationary satellite
letter of attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: letters of attorney
Senses: glosses: A power of attorney document.
warrant of attorney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrants of attorney
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A document in which someone admits liability for a debt and allows an attorney to admit this in court so that no action will be taken.
crabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabbers
Etymology: From crab (“crustacean having five pairs of legs”) + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Many shrimpers complain that the crabbers place their traps too close together and that they can't go between the traps without snagging their nets.
ref: 1989, National Fisherman, volumes 70-71, page 26:
glosses: A person who catches crabs.
examples: text: In the bright haze of morning they came into Hort Harbor, where a hundred craft were moored or setting forth: fishermen's boats, crabbers, trawlers, trading-ships, two galleys of twenty oars […]
ref: 1972, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A boat used for catching crabs.
crabber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crabbers
Etymology: From crab (“to be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: There were one or two crabbers, of course—people who wanted his job—but no one paid any attention to the likes of them.
ref: 1936, Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, published 1998, →ISBN, page 103:
synonyms: word: criticizer
word: bellyacher
word: carper
word: castigator
word: caviler
word: censurer
word: complainer
word: crabber
word: critic
word: criticizer
word: faultfinder
word: findfault
word: grouch
word: grumbler
word: hafter
word: kvetcher
word: latrant
word: nitpicker
word: pettifogger
word: pick-fault
word: quibbler
word: scolder
word: smellfungus
word: sourpuss
word: squeaky wheel
word: troublemaker
word: vituperator
word: whiner
word: whinger
word: whining Willy
glosses: A person who finds fault or criticizes.
crabbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crabbily
form: most crabbily
Etymology: From crabby + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crabby manner.
crankily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crankily
form: most crankily
Etymology: From cranky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cranky manner.
crassly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more crassly
form: most crassly
Etymology: From crass + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a crass manner.
fizzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fizzers
Etymology: From fizz + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something which fizzes.
examples: text: It's probably for the best you didn't come to the birthday party on Saturday: it was a fizzer.
glosses: A party or social gathering which turns out to be a disappointment.
examples: text: The soldier was put on a fizzer for being improperly dressed.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A disciplinary charge.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fast ball.
creakily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more creakily
form: most creakily
Etymology: From creaky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a creaky manner.
creamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more creamily
form: most creamily
Etymology: From creamy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a creamy manner.
creatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/
ipa: /kɹiˈeɪtɪvli/
ipa: /-ɾəv-/
Forms: form: more creatively
form: most creatively
Etymology: From creative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Postcards that are billboardlike communications with an immediate message stated boldly and creatively.
ref: 2000, Mark Oldach, Creativity for graphic designers:
text: However, this can also cause increasing problems for those not prepared to think differently and creatively in an escalatingly competitive and crowded global marketplace.
ref: 2005, Ian Fillis, Creative Marketing For SMEs, page i:
glosses: In a creative manner.
Related terms: creatify
creative
creativeness
creativity
creativize