cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lahar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑhɑɹ/
Forms: form: lahars
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese ꦭꦲꦂ (lahar). Introduced as geological term by Berend George Escher in 1922.
Senses: examples: text: Such a highly destructive mud-flow (termed a lahar) eventually stops as a pile of debris of all shapes and sizes, as mixed up as a glacial moraine; the two deposits have often been confused.
ref: 1985, Jocelyn Thornton, Field Guide to New Zealand Geology, page 204:
text: Pyroclastic flows are often difficult to distinguish in outcrops from a similar type of fragmental debris flow known as lahars. Both are characteristically unstratified and unsorted. A deposit containing blocks of varied compositions with rounded shapes is more likely to have been formed by a lahar than by a glowing avalanche.
ref: 2000, Jacques-Marie Bardintzeff, Alexander R. McBirney, Volcanology, page 138:
text: A regime of persistent lahar activity results when eruptive activity continually supplies unconsolidated volcanic material for remobilization.
ref: 2006, Andrew J. L. Harris et al., “Downstream aggradation owing to lava dome extrusion and rainfall runoff at Volcán Santiaguito, Guatemala”, in William Ingersoll Rose, editor, Volcanic Hazards in Central America, page 86:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A volcanic mudflow.
Related terms: pyroclast
mudflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudflows
Etymology: From mud + flow.
Senses: examples: text: Some believe an earthquake set off the disaster, others that the mudflow was caused by a company drilling for natural gas.
ref: 2015 September 21, Rachel Nuwer, “Indonesia’s ‘Mud Volcano’ and Nine Years of Debate About Its Muck”, in The New York Times:
text: [A] rockflow involving at least 1.5 million m3 of material moved down the Uchau-Su river valley into the sea within a day. Some mudflows are so viscous that they come to a halt in the stream channel. On slopes, soilflow or earthflow depend[…]
ref: 2020 May 11, Alistair F. Pitty, Introduction to Geomorphology, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of landslide characterized by large flows of mud and water.
glosses: The dried-out product of such a flow.
Synonyms: mudslide
mudspate
landslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/
Forms: form: landslides
Etymology: From land + slide.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: mudflow
text: The landslides Wednesday in Zhejiang province, south of the financial hub of Shanghai, followed Typhoon Megi, which brought heavy rains and high winds to China and Taiwan this past week.[…]
The second landslide in Wencheng county killed five people, with one person still missing, an official at the county’s flood control office said Saturday.
ref: 2016 September 30, “13 dead, 20 still missing in China after typhoon landslides”, in AP News, sourced from Beijing (AP), archived from the original on 25 Sep 2024:
synonyms: earthfall
landslip
glosses: A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
examples: text: The candidate won at 61% to 39%, which most people are calling a landslide.
synonyms: landslide victory
glosses: A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
Derived terms: by a landslide
Landslide Lyndon
landslide victory
Related terms: sense: natural disaster
word: avalanche
sense: natural disaster
word: earthquake
sense: natural disaster
word: mudslide
sense: natural disaster
word: rockslide
sense: natural disaster
word: sandslide
sense: natural disaster
word: scriddan
topics: politics
government
word: clean sweep
topics: politics
government
word: shoo-in
landslide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæn(d).slaɪd/
Forms: form: landslides
form: landsliding
form: landslid
form: landslid
Etymology: From land + slide.
Senses: examples: text: So it landslid mightily, carrying off greens and fairways and all.
ref: 1921, The Illustrated London News, volume 158, page 356:
glosses: To undergo a landslide.
mud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭd
ipa: /mʌd/
ipa: /mʊd/
rhymes: -ʌd
homophone: MUD
Forms: form: muds
form: mudding
form: mudded
form: mudded
Etymology: From Middle English mud, mudde, mode, probably a borrowing from Middle Dutch mod, modde or Middle Low German mudde, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mud-, *mudra- (“mud”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mū-, *mew- (“moist”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Mudde (“mud”), Middle High German mot (“mud”), Swedish modd (“slush”). Compare also suffixed variants West Frisian modder (“mud”), Dutch modder (“mud”), German Low German Mudder (“mud”), German Moder (“moldiness, mildew, decay”), English mother (“vinegar-forming sediment in alcohol”), Danish mudder (“mud”). Alternative etymology suggests the Proto-Germanic word is possibly borrowed from a Uralic language (compare e.g. Finnish muta (“mud”), Northern Sami mođđi (“mud”), Erzya мода (moda, “earth, ground”) from Proto-Uralic *muďa).
Senses: glosses: To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
glosses: To make turbid.
glosses: To go under the mud, as an eel does.
mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭd
ipa: /mʌd/
ipa: /mʊd/
rhymes: -ʌd
homophone: MUD
Forms: form: muds
form: mudden
Etymology: From Dutch mud, from West Germanic, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and muid.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
glosses: A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
glosses: A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
Synonyms: word: Dutch bushel
word: bushel
english: Dutch contexts
translation: Dutch contexts
word: muid
mud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mŭd
ipa: /mʌd/
ipa: /mʊd/
rhymes: -ʌd
homophone: MUD
Forms: form: muds
form: mudding
form: mudded
form: mudded
Etymology: From MUD.
Senses: examples: text: Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]
ref: 1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153:
glosses: To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
rockslide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockslides
Etymology: From rock + slide.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: rockfall
glosses: A type of landslide characterized by falling rocks.
volcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/
ipa: /vɒlˈkɑː.nəʊ/
ipa: /vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/
ipa: /vɔlˈkeɪ.noʊ/
Forms: form: volcanoes
form: volcanos
form: vulcano
Etymology: From Italian vulcano, from Vulcano (“a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea”), from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane and Vulcan.
Senses: examples: text: Iceland's volcanoes are among the most active on Earth.
glosses: A vent or fissure on the surface of a planet (usually in a mountainous form) with a magma chamber attached to the mantle of a planet or moon, periodically erupting forth lava and volcanic gases onto the surface.
glosses: A kind of firework producing an upward plume of sparks.
Hypernyms: mountain
Hyponyms: active volcano
complex volcano
cryovolcano
dormant volcano
flaming volcano
ice volcano
mud volcano
shield volcano
stratovolcano
subglacial volcano
supervolcano
table volcano
Derived terms: volcanello
volcanic
volcanism
volcano boarding
volcano bowl
volcano cake
Volcano Islands
volcanology
volcano plot
volcano potato
volcano rabbit
volcano surfing
Related terms: crater
lava
lava flow
magma
vent
volcano
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɒlˈkeɪ.nəʊ/
ipa: /vɒlˈkɑː.nəʊ/
ipa: /vɑlˈkeɪ.noʊ/
ipa: /vɔlˈkeɪ.noʊ/
Forms: form: volcanos
form: volcanoes
form: volcanoing
form: volcanoed
form: volcanoed
form: vulcano
Etymology: From Italian vulcano, from Vulcano (“a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea”), from Latin Vulcānus (“Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking”). Doublet of bolcane and Vulcan.
Senses: examples: text: She shrank back, the words volcanoed, words that stabbed again, and yet again
ref: 1951, Phyllis Hambledon, Nobody's Child:
text: Startled, you look up at the horizon just in time to see a gigantic plume of ash and dust volcanoing up into the sky and spreading out to form a gigantic cloud that will persist for days, weeks, perhaps years.
ref: 2012, George Pratt, Peter Lambrou, John David Mann, Code to Joy: The Four-Step Solution to Unlocking Your Natural State of Happiness:
glosses: to erupt; to burst forth
wetland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wetlands
Etymology: From wet + land. Cognate with West Frisian wetlân.
Senses: examples: text: European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
glosses: Land that is covered mostly with water, with occasional marshy and soggy areas.
Synonyms: word: waterland
word: wetland
Hyponyms: word: bog
word: fen
word: mire
word: marsh
word: swamp: see more at swamp
word: floodplain
word: wet meadow
word: intertidal wetland
alt: descriptors of types of wetland
word: riverine
word: estuarine
word: marine
word: lacustrine
word: palustrine
word: bogland
word: boglet
word: bogmire
word: carr
word: carrland
word: everglade
word: fenland
word: flother
word: glade
word: mangrove
word: marshland
word: mireland
word: morass
word: moss
word: mossland
word: muskeg
word: pakihi
word: peat bog
word: peatland
word: petary
word: pocosin
word: quagmire
word: quag
word: slough
word: sloughland
word: slue
word: sog
word: swamp
word: swampland
word: syrt
word: syrtis
word: wash
Related terms: word: bayou
word: mangal
word: moor
word: moorland
word: slack
word: swale
word: marshy
word: lagg
word: wet meadow
word: salt marsh
word: salina
word: salting
word: mudflat
word: windwatt
brunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɹʌnʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: brunches
Etymology: Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Senses: examples: text: I normally have brunch at the café next to work.
text: Let's do brunch sometime at the salad bar!
text: Feeling a bit peckish, Sandra made herself some brunch with the leftovers in her fridge.
text: I discovered a meal between breakfast and brunch.
ref: April 15 1993, Adam I. Lapidus, “The Front”, in Rich Moore, director, The Simpsons, season 4, episode 19, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta):
glosses: A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.
Derived terms: brunchtime
brunch word
brunchy
prebrunch
Related terms: dunch
linner
lupper
brinner
brupper
dinfast
brunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹʌnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /bɹʌnʃ/
rhymes: -ʌntʃ
Forms: form: brunches
form: brunching
form: brunched
form: brunched
Etymology: Blend of breakfast + lunch. Attested from 1895 in British English and from 1930 in the United States.
Senses: glosses: To eat brunch.
tutti frutti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tutti-frutti.
hard and fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the spring of 1857, I, with several friends, left Hongkong for Shanghai, viâ Foochow, in the small coasting steamer Antelope. No noteworthy incident occurred until after leaving Foochow when, as we were enjoying our after dinner coffee and cigars, and by chance discussing the question of thirteen sitting down at table that had occurred at a dinner at which one of the party had shortly before been present, a violent thump and tremulous motion of the vessel announced the unpleasant fact that we had struck upon something. We rushed on deck and found the steamer hard and fast on a reef near Matsu Island. Fortunately the day was fine and there was no sea on.
ref: 1890 February 28, W. S. Wetmore, “RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN CHINA IN THE FIFTIES.”, in North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette, volume XLIV, number 1178, Shanghai, →OCLC, page 256, column 1:
text: Many doctors, and indeed the F.D.A., say they are going to wait for a 4,400-patient study that is under way before they draw hard and fast conclusions, but those results won't be due until 2009.
ref: 2007 June 11, David Carr, “Call The Doctor”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of hard-and-fast.
hard-and-fast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hard and fast
Etymology: First attested 1867, originally of a ship on shore.
Senses: examples: text: to stick to hard-and-fast rules
qualifier: etc
glosses: strictly maintained; not subject to variation
raw_tags: of rules
Synonyms: strict
swivel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪvəl/
rhymes: -ɪvəl
Forms: form: swivels
Etymology: From Middle English swyvel, swivel, from a derivative of Old English swīfan (“to revolve”), + -el, an instrumental suffix, equivalent to swive + -el.
Senses: examples: text: The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
examples: text: [The settlement] was entirely surrounded by a broad unfordable marsh or swamp, which prevented all communication, except by private paths under water, known only to the rebels, and before which Baron had placed loaded swivels […]
ref: 1796, John Stedman, chapter 4, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition,, volume 1, London: J. Johnson, page 81:
text: Applied to guns mounted upon the cartridges were fired without being tripods, stands, swivels, or carriages
ref: 1881, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small piece of ordnance, turning on a point or swivel; called also swivel gun.
examples: text: Bob ain't got no swivel.
glosses: Strength of mind or character that enables one to overcome adversity; confidence; force of will.
glosses: The act of swivelling.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rotating of the hips.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A small, usually ball- or barrel-shaped device used in angling to connect sections of fishing lines, consisting of two rings linked via a thrust bearing pivot joint.
Derived terms: keep one's head on a swivel
snap swivel
swivel bridge
swivel chair
swivel-chair
swivel chary
swivel eye
swivel-eyed
swivel gun
swivel-hipped
swivel hoe
swivel hook
swivel joint
swivel knife
swivelly
swivel phone
swivel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪvəl/
rhymes: -ɪvəl
Forms: form: swivels
form: swiveling
form: swivelling
form: swiveled
form: swiveled
form: swivelled
form: swivelled
Etymology: From Middle English swyvel, swivel, from a derivative of Old English swīfan (“to revolve”), + -el, an instrumental suffix, equivalent to swive + -el.
Senses: examples: text: As expected, Swansea began the game with some patient passing and the first chance fell to striker Michu in the fourth minute when he controlled a cross by Jonjo Shelvey and swivelled in the penalty box, only to fire over the bar.
ref: 2013 November 3, Delme Parfitt, “Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win”, in Wales Online:
glosses: To swing or turn, as on a pin or pivot.
pedestal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdɪstəl/
note: by conflation with stool
ipa: /ˈpɛdɪsˌtuːl/
Forms: form: pedestals
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The base or foot of a column, statue, vase, lamp.
examples: text: He has put his mother on a pedestal. You can't say a word against her.
text: But India is also where the Mahatma may have fallen furthest from the pedestal.
ref: 2019 October 2, Lauren Frayer, “Gandhi Is Deeply Revered, But His Attitudes On Race And Sex Are Under Scrutiny”, in NPR:
glosses: A place of reverence or honor.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A casting secured to the frame of a truck of a railcar and forming a jaw for holding a journal box.
topics: engineering
machining
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pillow block; a low housing.
qualifier: bridge building
glosses: An iron socket, or support, for the foot of a brace at the end of a truss where it rests on a pier.
qualifier: steam heating
glosses: a pedestal coil, group of connected straight pipes arranged side by side and one above another, used in a radiator.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A ground-level housing for a passive connection point for underground cables.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measured value when no input signal is given.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The central part of the cockpit, between the pilots, where various controls are located.
glosses: The tough protuberant pad covering a dromedary's sternum, which, when the camel lies down, causes the abdomen to be slightly above the hot ground.
Derived terms: pedestal coil
pedestal computer
pedestal drill
pedestal fan
pedestalization
pedestalize
pedestal server
pedestal telephone
place
set
put on a pedestal
unpedestal
pedestal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛdɪstəl/
note: by conflation with stool
ipa: /ˈpɛdɪsˌtuːl/
Forms: form: pedestals
form: pedestaling
form: pedestalling
form: pedestaled
form: pedestaled
form: pedestalled
form: pedestalled
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French piédestal, itself borrowed from Italian piedistallo (literally “foot stand”). Spelling influenced by Latin pēs, pedem.
Senses: glosses: To set or support on (or as if on) a pedestal.
ludibund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ludibund
form: most ludibund
Etymology: From Latin ludibundus.
Senses: glosses: sportive, playful, frolicsome
Synonyms: playful
Related terms: ludibundness
ludic
ludicrous
ludian
ludible
homophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
ipa: /ˌhɒ.mə-/
ipa: /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: homophobias
Etymology: From homo- (“from homosexual”) + -phobia. Coined by American psychologist George Weinberg in 1971 in Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
Senses: examples: text: He lost his racism when he worked with a black man in Chicago. He lost his homophobia when he was befriended and looked after by his gay neighbors, a doctor and a nurse, in Little Rock.
ref: 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life, volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 45–46:
text: Thinly-veiled homophobia – this time in early-2000s Hollywood – made Brokeback Mountain an immense challenge for Ossana and her fellow producer James Schamus.
ref: 2025 June 20, Nick Levine, “'In every theatre, people would leave': How 'gay cowboy movie' Brokeback Mountain challenged Hollywood – and the US”, in BBC:
synonyms: gay-hate
gaycism
gayphobia
heterosexism
homoerotophobia
homomisia
homophobism
antonyms: homomania
hypernyms: word: anger
word: fear
word: hatred
word: inclination
word: partiality
word: preference
word: unfairness
word: resentment
coordinate_terms: acephobia
biphobia
transphobia
glosses: Hatred, fear, dislike of, or prejudice against homosexuals, or LGBTQ people in general.
examples: text: A beautiful otter with homophobia in her 💙 eyes 🧡
ref: 2021 April 3, u/NotWurrmm, “A cat with homophobia in its eyes ♥️”, in r/aww, Reddit, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2021
text: A dog with homophobia in its eyes ✨✨
ref: 2023 September 11, @Radstads, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:
text: beautiful cat with homophobia 💛🩵
ref: 2024 June 4, (•˕ •マ.ᐟ (@lovesickdoe), Twitter, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2024:
ref: 2024 December 16, u/NintendoFanboy986, “my ex-cat had homophobia”, in r/notinteresting, Reddit, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2025
ref: 2025 April 1, u/LostWithinChaos, “stray cat with homophobia 👀”, in r/notinteresting, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2025
ref: 2025 July 31, u/Broccoletta666, “Polentina with homophobia and not a single though^([sic]) in her brain”, in r/catswithhomophobia, Reddit, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025
text: beautiful rabbit with homophobia
ref: 2025 August 2, anonymous author, /vg/ - Video Game Generals, 4chan, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2025:
text: Alice's Homophobia eyes is what make her beautiful 😔
ref: 2025 August 3, Leonata Ivan, Zenless Zone Zero Global (group), Facebook, archived from the original on 07 Aug 2025:
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of heterochromia.
Derived terms: antihomophobia
homophobiaphobia
homophobist
liberal homophobia
Related terms: homophobe
homophobic
homophobism
heterosexism
heterophobia
heterophobism
gaycism
homophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhəʊ.məˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
ipa: /ˌhɒ.mə-/
ipa: /ˌhoʊ.məˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
Etymology: Latin homo (“man”) + -phobia (“fear”)
Senses: synonyms: anthropophobia
glosses: A pathological fear of mankind.
Related terms: homophobe
homophobic
misanthropy
androphobia
gynophobia
morbidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morbidities
Etymology: Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unhealthful or diseased, sometimes including the cause.
examples: text: He taught him how to be superior to human foibles and how to give a godlike laugh at himself as a way of fending off morbidity. He did all the things for him that a woman is grateful for, except that Magnus is a man.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: The quality of being morbid; an attitude or state of mind marked by gloom.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The incidence of a disease, as a rate of a population which is affected.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An occurrence of illness or disease, or a single symptom of that illness.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Adverse effects caused by a medical treatment such as surgery.
topics: business
demographics
demography
insurance
glosses: The sickness rate of a population.
Synonyms: morbidness
unwholesomeness
Derived terms: alt: co-morbidity
word: comorbidity
word: cytomorbidity
word: hypermorbidity
word: monomorbidity
word: morbimortality
word: multimorbidity
word: neuromorbidity
word: nonmorbidity
word: polymorbidity
word: postmorbidity
word: premorbidity
Related terms: morbidezza
morbidly
morbific
morbilli
soreness
valetudinarianism
hypothermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpəʊˈθɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/
ipa: /ˌhaɪpəˈθɜː(ɹ)mi.ə/
Forms: form: hypothermias
form: hypothermy
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) + θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) + -ία (-ía, “feminine suffix”) . By surface analysis, hypo- + therm- + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Hypothermia is the systemic cold injury.
text: The stages of hypothermia begin when the body is losing heat faster than it can produce it.
ref: 2015 January 7, Ashley Fantz, “Cold casualty: What to know about hypothermia”, in CNN:
text: So far, extracorporeal temperature rise during COR had been limited to 20°C, as perfusion solutions had been used that were specifically designed for organ protection at hypothermia and might become inappropriate perfusates at increasing temperatures.
ref: 2017 September 4, Charlotte von Horn, Hideo A. Baba, Patrik Hannaert, Thierry Hauet, Henri Leuvenink, Andreas Paul, Thomas Minor, “Controlled oxygenated rewarming up to normothermia for pretransplant reconditioning of liver grafts”, in Clinical Transportation, volume 31, number 11, →DOI, page 2:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: hyperthermia
glosses: Abnormally low body temperature; specifically, below 35 degrees Celsius for humans.
Derived terms: clinical hypothermia
hypothermic
primary hypothermia
secondary hypothermia
Related terms: frostbite
blue-sky thinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He found that at the “take-off point,” every one of them began engaging in what he called “blue-sky thinking.” In blue-sky thinking, you imagine that all things are possible for you, just like looking up into a clear blue sky with no limits.
ref: 2010, Brian Tracy, Goals!: How to Get Everything You Want — Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, →ISBN, page 55:
text: Much work in future scenario planning has relied on the astute few to undertake blue-sky thinking, usually in committees, and so ‘futures thinking’ presents only a partial view of what tomorrow's society might look like and how this impacts on the future workings of the industry.
ref: 2010, Paul Chan, Rachel Cooper, Constructing Futures: Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 3:
text: If the stakeholders say they want “blue-sky thinking,” you can use carefully selected exploratory concepts to test your blue-sky ideas and watch their reactions.
ref: 2014, Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel, About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: The metaphorical blue-sky thinking recommended by startup accelerators in Silicon Valley is no substitute for the blue sky itself, which will go on shining whether we are here to look at it or not.
ref: 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: big-sky thinking
brainstorming
glosses: A form of thinking that is not grounded or in touch with the realities of the present, and can thus benefit from creative imagination.
Related terms: outside the box
chronogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronograms
Etymology: From chrono- + -gram, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + γράμμα (grámma, “writing”).
Senses: glosses: A sentence or inscription whose letters, when interpreted according to a system (such as Roman numerals) in which letters correspond to numeric values, stand for a particular date (usually the date of inscription) when rearranged.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: phylogram
glosses: A phylogenetic tree that has branch spans proportional to evolutionary time.
vert ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vert ramps
Etymology: Short for vertical ramp.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A ramp that transitions from a horizontal surface to a vertical one.
diagnose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌɪ.əɡˌnəʊz/
ipa: /ˌdʌɪ.əɡˈnəʊz/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnoʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: diagnoses
form: diagnosing
form: diagnosed
form: diagnosed
Etymology: Back-formation from diagnosis. Compare also sclerose (verb).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To determine which disease is causing a sick person's signs and symptoms; to find the diagnosis.
examples: text: But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.
ref: 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264:
text: Mechanics use this extremely portable tool to diagnose engine faults, clear fault codes, and export data.
ref: 2002, John J. Schiavone, Training for On-board Bus Electronics, page 19:
glosses: To determine the cause of a problem.
Derived terms: diagnosability
diagnosable
diagnosee
misdiagnose
nondiagnosed
overdiagnose
prediagnose
prediagnosed
rediagnose
retrodiagnose
self-diagnose
serodiagnose
telediagnose
underdiagnose
underdiagnosed
undiagnose
undiagnosed
terra firma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛɹ.ə ˈfɜː.mə/
ipa: /ˌtɛɹ.ə ˈfɝ.mə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin terra firma (“solid land”).
Senses: glosses: Continental land, as distinguished from islands.
examples: text: I […] turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. “Coo!” she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. “You gave me a start, sir!”
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:
text: Reize is a floaty character (thanks to that scarf), so this kick can be great for quickly getting back to terra firma or to that game-winning gem!
ref: 2019 November 13, “Reize – Showdown Character Highlight”, in yachtclubgames.com, Yacht Club Games, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2020, Dive Kick:
glosses: Land, as opposed to water or air.
Synonyms: sense: land, as opposed to water or air
word: dry land
sense: land, as opposed to water or air
word: solid ground
misnomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)mɪsˈnəʊmə/
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈnoʊməɹ/
text: -
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: misnomers
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English misnoumer (“(law) mistaken identification of a person; plea based on such misidentification”), from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, a noun use of Anglo-Norman mesnomer, mesnommer, and Old French mesnomer, mesnommer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly, wrongly’) + nomer, nommer (“to name”) (from Latin nōmināre, the present active infinitive of nōminō (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A mistake in the naming of a person or place; a misidentification.
examples: text: Rewilding[…]is also a misnomer, for whether by getting rid of tens of thousands of sheep in Patagonia or introducing a living species as a surrogate for an extinct one – Sayaguesa cattle in place of aurochs in Croatia’s Velebit Mountains, for instance – rewilding requires more human intervention than its name suggests.
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
text: […] plaintiff's misstyling himself as corporation in initial complaint constituted case of misnomer.
ref: 1994, Illinois. Appellate Court, Stephen Davis Porter, Illinois Appellate reports, page 257:
glosses: An incorrect use of a term, especially one which is misleading; a misname.
examples: text: The name Chinese checkers is a misnomer since the game has nothing to do with China.
text: The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.
antonyms: aptronym
glosses: A term which is misleading, even if firmly established, technically correct, or both.
examples: text: It’s a misnomer that all doctors have bad handwriting.
glosses: Something which is asserted not to be true; a mistaken belief, a falsehood, a myth.
Derived terms: word: misnome
english: attested earlier than the verb
translation: attested earlier than the verb
word: misnomered
word: misnominal
Related terms: catachresis
malapropism
misnomer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)mɪsˈnəʊmə/
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈnoʊməɹ/
text: -
rhymes: -əʊmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: misnomers
form: misnomering
form: misnomered
form: misnomered
Etymology: The noun is derived from Late Middle English misnoumer (“(law) mistaken identification of a person; plea based on such misidentification”), from Anglo-Norman mesnomer, a noun use of Anglo-Norman mesnomer, mesnommer, and Old French mesnomer, mesnommer (“to name incorrectly”), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly, wrongly’) + nomer, nommer (“to name”) (from Latin nōmināre, the present active infinitive of nōminō (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”) (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: synonyms: misnome
glosses: To use an incorrect, and especially misleading, name for (someone or something); to misidentify, to misname.
outdate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outdate
form: most outdate
Etymology: From out- + date.
Senses: glosses: old-fashioned, out of date; outdated
outdate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdates
form: outdating
form: outdated
form: outdated
Etymology: From out- + date.
Senses: examples: text: This product outdates four hours after preparation.
text: This outdates everything that has come before it.
text: The bedroom is too "themey" and this outdates in no time.
glosses: To make obsolete or out of date
hesperidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesperidia
Etymology: Linnaeus gave the name Hesperideae to an order containing the genus Citrus, in allusion to the golden apples of the Hesperides. The hesperid- stem is now used to form technical terms, such as hesperidin, relating to the citrus fruits.
Senses: glosses: Any of several kinds of true berries, including citrus fruit such as the lemon and lime, which have pulpy interiors and leathery skins containing aromatic oils.
wikipedia: Hesperides
Coordinate terms: berry
drupe
pome
vulcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanos
form: vulcanoes
Senses: examples: text: CHIMERA, a fabulous monſter... The foundation of the fable was, that in Lycia there was a burning mountain, or vulcano, of this name...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 184
glosses: Obsolete form of volcano.
bereft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Etymology: From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.
Senses: examples: text: bereft of strength
translation: powerless
english: powerless
raw_tags: Yorkshire dialect
text: bereft of gorm
translation: mindless, being an idiot
english: mindless, being an idiot
glosses: simple past and past participle of bereave
bereft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɛft/
rhymes: -ɛft
Etymology: From Middle English bireft, v. Middle English bireven. Synchronically a form of bereaved; compare leave and left.
Senses: examples: text: I was utterly bereft in the months following my wife's death.
text: [Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.
ref: 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
glosses: Pained by the loss of someone.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: And there I strove, and there I clove through the drift of icy streams; / And there I fought, and there I sought for the pay-streak of my dreams. // So twenty years, with their hopes and fears and smiles and tears and such, / Went by and left me long bereft of hope of the Midas touch; […]
ref: 1909, Robert W[illiam] Service, “The Ballad of One-eyed Mike”, in Ballads of a Cheechako, Toronto, Ont.: William Briggs, →OCLC, stanzas 3–4, page 52:
text: This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It’s expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It’s a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn’t nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!
ref: 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
text: The hosts had not lost in 12 home European games but looked shaky at the back and bereft of attacking ideas, inviting Stoke forward for further opportunities.
ref: 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1–2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.
glosses: Lacking, devoid of.
Derived terms: bereftness
unbereft
hesperidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesperidins
Etymology: From hesperidium + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a flavanone glycoside found in citrus fruit
barbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)bi/
rhymes: -ɑːbi
Forms: form: barbies
Etymology: Clipping of barbecue + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A barbecue (apparatus for grilling).
glosses: A barbecue (event: cookout).
Coordinate terms: barbecue
barbeque
BBQ
braai
barbie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑː(ɹ)bi/
rhymes: -ɑːbi
Forms: form: barbies
Etymology: Clipping of barbiturate + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: “At nights,” she says, “we were both in our own little worlds, him with his alcohol and me with my barbies.”
ref: 1971, The Bulletin, volume 93, numbers 4762–4774, page 35:
text: Then one day the King said, / Jules, you're grounded. / Absolutely grounded. / This is it. So Jules took / barbies, you know, barbiturates, / and he stayed down. Way down. / Grounded like his father said.
ref: 1989, The Pembroke Magazine, volumes 21–23, page 162:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A barbiturate.
Tierra Firme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tierra Firme (literally “mainland, terra firma”).
Senses: examples: text: As he approached Bogotá, the capital of the most powerful Chibcha kingdom, he encountered two other Spanish expeditions, both of which had penetrated the hinterland of Tierra Firme from different points on the Caribbean coast […].
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: A former province of Spain, spanning some of the northern South American mainland.
Related terms: terra firma
ice dwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice dwarfs
Senses: examples: text: Farthest from the dim red dwarf Ondeste, the ice dwarf Maisuth has attracted no interest beyond a cursory flyby by automated probe in 1874. No significant resources were noted.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Maisuth, Ondeste System:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An icy planetoid: an astronomical object, such as Pluto, Sedna or (for some authors) Ceres that is large enough to be a world and contains more ice than a typical asteroid.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A centaur or transneptunian object.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An astronomical object that is larger than the core of a typical comet and icier than a typical asteroid.
Synonyms: dwarf planet
homoerotophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homoerotic + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: homophobia; antipathy towards homosexuals
assage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ass + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Nice tattoed Baby Dolls
- Nice Assage
- The Thong Zone! Saweeet Mary
ref: 2003, Pat Hayes, blog entry for August 9, 2003 in PatHayes.Net:
text: 2002, — LDVDG in a captured IM chat
[S]he's a skinny white girl. [T]he chances for nice assage are slim.
text: The Bostonians (from Boston College), sucks [sic] major assage. Okay, well, they don't completely suck major assage, but they still weren't that good.
ref: 2001, — blog entry October 31, 2001
text: Show Up Early This Show Gonna Kick Some Major Assage.
ref: 1996, Orgillon in rec.music.industrial:
glosses: Ass, in the sense of buttocks, and in related idioms.
Related terms: ass
kiln
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪln/
ipa: /kɪl/
rhymes: -ɪln
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: kill stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kilns
form: kill
Etymology: From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).
Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.
Derived terms: anagama kiln
bottle kiln
brickkiln
climbing kiln
dragon kiln
Ju kiln
kilnhole
kilnlike
kilnman
limekiln
malt-kiln
mid-kiln
Ru kiln
kiln
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪln/
ipa: /kɪl/
rhymes: -ɪln
rhymes: -ɪl
homophone: kill stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kilns
form: kilning
form: kilned
form: kilned
form: kill
Etymology: From Middle English kilne, from Old English cyln, cylen, cylin (“large oven, kiln”), from Latin culīna (“kitchen, kitchen stove”).
Middle English -ln(e) usually becomes modern -ll as in mill. The pronunciation /kɪln/ may be based on dialects in which this simplification did not take place, but it must have been at least reinforced by spelling pronunciation.
Senses: examples: text: When making pottery we need to allow the bisque to dry before we kiln it.
glosses: To bake in a kiln; to fire.
rebel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕbʹəl
ipa: /ˈɹɛbəl/
Forms: form: rebels
Etymology: From Middle English rebel, rebell, from Old French rebelle, from Latin rebellis (“waging war again; insurgent”), from rebellō (“I wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“I wage war”).
Senses: examples: text: A group of rebels defied the general's orders and split off from the main army.
text: My little sister is such a rebel - coming home late, piercing her ears, and refusing to do any of her chores.
glosses: A person who resists an established authority, often violently.
glosses: Synonym of Confederate: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier.
synonyms: word: Confederate
extra: a citizen of the Confederate States of America, especially a Confederate soldier
Synonyms: renegade
Derived terms: Euro-rebel
Johnny Reb
reb
rebel flag
rebel without a cause
rebel yell
Related terms: rebellion
rebellious
rebel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕbʹəl
ipa: /ˈɹɛbəl/
note: URP
enpr: rĭ-bĕlʹ
ipa: /ɹɪˈbɛl/
note: URP
rhymes: -ɛl
enpr: rĕbʹəl
ipa: /ˈɹɛbəl/
Forms: form: rebels
form: rebelling
form: rebelled
form: rebelled
Etymology: From Middle English rebellen, from Old French rebeller, from Latin rebellō (“I wage war again, fight back”), from re- (“again, back”) + bellō (“I wage war”). Doublet of revel.
Senses: examples: text: to rebel against the system
text: "Tedd's feeling a bit rebellious." "I'm not rebelling! I'm self actualizing! By rebelling."
ref: 2014 April 17, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Apr 17, 2014:
glosses: To resist or become defiant toward an authority.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To forcefully subvert the law of the land in an attempt to replace it with another form of government.
Synonyms: defy
fasces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsiːz/
enpr: fas'-eez
rhymes: -æsiːz
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fasces, plural of fascis.
Senses: glosses: A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.
de novo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈnəʊvəʊ/
ipa: /dəˈnəʊvəʊ/
ipa: /deɪˈnoʊvoʊ/
ipa: /dəˈnoʊvoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dē novō (adverb, literally “from the new”), from dē (“from”) + novō, ablative singular of novus (“new”).
Senses: examples: text: He filed a motion for a de novo hearing.
glosses: Anew, afresh, from the beginning; without consideration of previous instances, proceedings or determinations.
de novo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈnəʊvəʊ/
ipa: /dəˈnəʊvəʊ/
ipa: /deɪˈnoʊvoʊ/
ipa: /dəˈnoʊvoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dē novō (adverb, literally “from the new”), from dē (“from”) + novō, ablative singular of novus (“new”).
Senses: examples: text: One luckless wight contrived to upset the gravy; and then gravy had to be got up de novo, with due care and formality,[…]
ref: 1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter VII, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC:
text: Talking of “natural selection;” if I had to commence de novo, I would have used “natural preservation.”
ref: 1887, Charles Darwin, “To C. Lyell, September 28, 1860”, in Francis Darwin, editor, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, volume II, New York: D. Appleton & Company:
text: But if I had not taken things for granted, if I had examined everything with the care which I should have shown had we approached the case de novo and had no cut-and-dried story to warp my mind, should I not then have found something more definite to go upon?
ref: 1904 September, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: anew (from the beginning)
Related terms: venire facias de novo
trial de novo
jet-set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet-sets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet set.
jet-set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet set.
jet-set
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jet-sets
form: jet-setting
form: jet-setted
form: jet-setted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jet set.
jet set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet sets
form: jetset
form: jet-set
Senses: glosses: A social class of wealthy people who travel for pleasure.
Derived terms: jet-setty
Related terms: jet setting
jet-setter
beautiful people
high society
VIP
jet set
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jetset
form: jet-set
Senses: glosses: Relating to the lifestyle of the jet set.
jet set
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jet sets
form: jet setting
form: jet setted
form: jet setted
form: jetset
form: jet-set
Senses: glosses: To follow the lifestyle of the jet set.
kives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kive
weapon of mass destruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weapons of mass destruction
Etymology: First attested in 1937 in referring to bombing campaigns during the Spanish Civil War.
Senses: glosses: Any human-made weapon causing indiscriminate large-scale death or destruction, especially a biological weapon, chemical weapon, nuclear weapon or radiological weapon.
wikipedia: Spanish Civil War
Synonyms: word: WMD
Related terms: english: nuclear, biological and chemical
translation: nuclear, biological and chemical
word: NBC
word: doomsday weapon
word: electromagnetic pulse
word: weapon of mass disruption