cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fiddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiddlings
Senses: examples: text: [W]e, her doctors […] seemed powerless to prevent [side-effects], despite all our reassurances, and all our fiddlings and manipulations with the dosage[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
text: Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, pages 52–53:
glosses: action of the verb to fiddle
fiddling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was a fiddling little fault, but ultimately proved disastrous.
glosses: Of petty or trivial importance; footling
debrief
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹiːf/
rhymes: -iːf
Forms: form: debriefs
form: debriefing
form: debriefed
form: debriefed
Etymology: From de- + brief.
Senses: examples: text: But, for whatever combination of reasons - and, to be fair, he'd been blasted in the face by shrapnel, was probably badly concussed, and, indeed, would actually remember nothing from the battle after he'd been hit when he was later debriefed - aside from two destroyers left behind to help Hiei, the rest of the Japanese forces withdrew north just before 0300 in the morning.
ref: 2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 24:41 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2022:
glosses: To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
glosses: To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.
glosses: To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
Derived terms: word: debriefer
word: debriefing
word: undebriefed
shuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌfl̩ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shuffle
shuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌfl̩ɪŋ/
Forms: form: shufflings
Senses: examples: text: Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.
ref: 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
glosses: The act or motion of one who shuffles.
examples: text: He would also have been exposed to the coughings and shufflings, comings and goings, questions and answers, wailings and slammings, snivellings and sneezings, etc., which figured so prominently in the reference room […]
ref: 2011, John O'Loughlin, Two Sides of the Same Coin:
glosses: The noise created by something moving about.
examples: text: Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill:
glosses: Trickery.
Derived terms: double-shuffling
exon shuffling
shuffling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌfl̩ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more shuffling
form: most shuffling
Senses: examples: text: This world I do renounce, and in your sights / Shake patiently my great affliction off.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: Moving with a dragging, scraping step.
examples: text: a shuffling excuse
ref: 1712, Jonathan Swift, The History of John Bull:
glosses: Evasive.
camouflaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more camouflaged
form: most camouflaged
Senses: glosses: wearing, in, or treated with, camouflage; disguised
Derived terms: noncamouflaged
uncamouflaged
camouflaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of camouflage
glumly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlʌmli/
rhymes: -ʌmli
Etymology: From glum + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Robert turned and dawdled glumly through the peace of evening[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: In a glum manner.
Synonyms: moodily
sullenly
proselytizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proselytizers
Etymology: From proselytize + -er.
Senses: synonyms: proselyter
glosses: Agent noun of proselytize; one who proselytizes.
Related terms: missionary
huffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more huffily
form: most huffily
Etymology: From huffy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Needn't answer if you don't want to," said the man huffily.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 522:
glosses: In a huffy manner.
huffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌfi/
rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: huffier
form: huffiest
Etymology: From huff + -y.
Senses: glosses: Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated.
glosses: Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy.
glosses: Haughty, arrogant.
examples: text: huffy bread
glosses: Puffed up.
Derived terms: huffily
huffiness
huffy-puffy
shiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪvə/
homophone: shiver (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: shivas
form: shibah
form: shiv'ah
form: shivah
form: shive
Etymology: From Hebrew שִׁבְעָה (shiv'á, “seven”), referring to the number of days that shiva spans.
Senses: examples: text: Did you know that some parents sit shiva […] for 30 days if their child is discovered to be gay?
ref: 1974 February 2, “Jewish Gay Group”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 32, page 2:
text: Seymour: Audrey, quick! We've got to do an emergency [flower] arrangement.
[…]
Mr. Mushnik: The Shivas are our most important funereal account. A big, enormous family, they're dropping off like flies!
ref: 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)
text: “Mo Kellman lost his wife ten years ago.” “Does that mean the shiva is over?”
ref: 2014, Suri Rosen, Playing with Matches:
glosses: A weeklong period of formal mourning for a close relative.
Derived terms: sit shiva
shibah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shibahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shiva.
shiv'ah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shiva.
shivah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shivahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shiva.
Shiva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: shēʹvə
ipa: /ˈʃiːvə/
enpr: shĭʹvə
ipa: /ˈʃɪvə/
rhymes: -iːvə
rhymes: -ɪvə
Forms: form: Śiva
form: Shiv
form: Shivan
form: Siva
Etymology: From Sanskrit शिव (śivá, “the auspicious one”).
Senses: glosses: The god of destruction and transformation, and together with Brahma and Vishnu, one of the principal deities in Hinduism. Within Shaivism he is viewed as the Supreme deity, whereas in other branches of Hinduism such as the Smarta tradition he is worshipped as one of the six manifestations of the Divine.
glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Coordinate terms: word: Hara
word: Ishvara
word: Mahadev
word: Mahakala
word: Mrityunjay
english: names of Shiva
translation: names of Shiva
word: Rudra
Related terms: Shaivism
Om Namah Shivaya
Har Har Mahadev
deities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdiː.ɪ.tiz/
/ˈdeɪ.ɪ.tiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of deity
zoogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From zoo- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: originating in, or produced by, animals rather than plants
Synonyms: zoogenous
Related terms: biogenic
zoogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: zoogenic
biogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From bio- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: produced by living organisms, or by a biological process
glosses: essential for the maintenance of life
Synonyms: sense: pertaining to life
word: biotic
sense: pertaining to life
word: biologic
sense: pertaining to life
word: living
sense: pertaining to life
word: organic
Derived terms: biogenically
biogenicity
nonbiogenic
zoologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Senses: glosses: zoological
zooplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From zooplasty + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to zooplasty
zooplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zōʹ-ə-plăs'-ti
ipa: /ˈzoʊəˌplæsti/
ipa: [ˈzəʊ.əˌplæs.ti]
ipa: [ˈzoʊ.əˌplæs.ti]
Forms: form: zooplasties
Etymology: From zoo + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: the surgical grafting of tissue from an animal to a human; zoografting
zoografting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + grafting.
Senses: glosses: zooplasty
zymologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: more zymologic
form: most zymologic
Etymology: From zymology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zymology; zymological.
cineast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cineasts
form: cineaste
Etymology: From French cinéaste.
Senses: glosses: An enthusiast of film and the cinema.
glosses: A person in the filmmaking industry.
Related terms: cineastic
memory leak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memory leaks
Senses: examples: text: I tracked down my program’s memory leak to a function that didn’t release graphics resources properly.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: memory hole
glosses: Any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable.
Scriptol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: an object-oriented programming language that uses an internal data structure based on XML.
sprints classification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprints classifications
Senses: glosses: A competition held as part of a cycle race in which the riders are awarded points for being among the first few to pass certain pre-selected sprint points along the course. The leader (or winner) in the competition wears a special sprints jersey.
Coordinate terms: topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: points classification
topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: mountains classification
topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: general classification
galaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galaxy
object-oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbdʒɛkt ɔɹɪəntɪd/
ipa: /ˈɒbdʒɪkt ɒɹɪəntɪd/
Forms: form: more object-oriented
form: most object-oriented
form: OO
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Using entities called objects that can process data and exchange messages with other objects.
Hypernyms: object-based
Hyponyms: class-based
prototype-based
Derived terms: object-oriented programming
object-oriented language
sheltered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛltɚd/
ipa: /ˈʃɛltəd/
Forms: form: more sheltered
form: most sheltered
Senses: examples: text: The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.
glosses: Protected, as from wind or weather.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: (Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills or worldly experience.
Derived terms: sheltered workshop
tax-sheltered
sheltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛltɚd/
ipa: /ˈʃɛltəd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shelter
Beavis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːvɪs/
rhymes: -iːvɪs
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French, a variant of Bevis.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
savings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪvɪŋz/
rhymes: -eɪvɪŋz
Senses: examples: text: life savings
text: personal savings
text: bank savings
text: She put her savings into a high-interest account.
text: The family dipped into their savings to buy a car.
glosses: plural of saving
Bevis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbivɪs/
/ˈbɛvɪs/
Etymology: From the French town Beauvais.
Senses: glosses: An English habitational surname of Norman French origin.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.
Related terms: Bevis Marks
Tausug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /taʊˈsuɡ/
Forms: form: Tausugs
form: Tausug
Etymology: Borrowed from Tausug Tausūg, from tau + sūg, literally "people of the current".
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Tausug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /taʊˈsuɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Tausug Tausūg, from tau + sūg, literally "people of the current".
Senses: glosses: A Visayan language (Malayo-Polynesian) spoken mainly in Sulu province in the Philippines, eastern Sabah in Malaysia and North Kalimantan in Indonesia.
Synonyms: english: from Philippine Spanish
translation: from Philippine Spanish
word: Joloano
word: Suluk
Tausug
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /taʊˈsuɡ/
Forms: form: more Tausug
form: most Tausug
Etymology: Borrowed from Tausug Tausūg, from tau + sūg, literally "people of the current".
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this ethnic group or language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tausug terms
respected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɛktɪd/
Forms: form: more respected
form: most respected
Senses: examples: text: He was a respected jurist and his death will be a loss to the profession.
glosses: Deserving of respect; due special honor or appreciation.
Synonyms: admired
well-regarded
Derived terms: well-respected
respected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɛktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of respect
experiential advertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Commercials that make you want to run to the fridge for a soda or drive to the restaurant for a burger are examples of one type of experiential advertising.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Commercials designed to evoke strong sensory responses from the audience as opposed to pitching a rational sales message.
Synonyms: emotional advertising
Related terms: advertising
Norman French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Some of us can preach, in English-Saxon, in Norman French, and even in Monk-Latin; others cannot in any language or jargon, being stupid.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 67:
glosses: A dialect of Old French spoken in medieval Normandy, and in England following the Norman Conquest.
Norman Conquest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Norman Conquest
Senses: synonyms: Norman Invasion
glosses: The invasion of England by the Normans in 1066 and their subsequent settlement.
induction heating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The heating of an electrical conductor by eddy currents induced by a varying magnetic field.
induction motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: induction motors
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alternating current motor in which currents in the secondary wiring of the rotor are created by induction from the magnetic field of the primary winding of the stator.
inductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌktɪv/
rhymes: -ʌktɪv
Forms: form: more inductive
form: most inductive
Etymology: From Middle French inductif, from Late Latin inductivus.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to logical induction, by generalizing a universal claim or principle from the observed particular instances.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, relating to, or arising from inductance.
glosses: introductory or preparatory.
examples: text: A brutish vice, / Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: They may be […] inductive of credibility.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Influencing; tending to induce or cause.
Derived terms: adipoinductive
angioinductive
autoinductive
chondroinductive
coinductive
fibrochondroinductive
hyperinductive
hypnoinductive
inductive bias
inductive circuit
inductive coupling
inductive definition
inductive dimension
inductive effect
inductive embarrassment
inductive hypothesis
inductive inference
inductive logic programming
inductively
inductive motors
inductiveness
inductive output tube
inductive reactance
inductive reasoning
inductive set
inductive statistics
inductive voltage divider
inductivism
inductivist
inductivistic
inductivity
meta-inductive
myoinductive
neuroinductive
noninductive
osteoinductive
photoinductive
uninductive
picture sort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture sorts
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A research tool used to assess the effectiveness of advertising by asking consumers to select the pictures that best describe a brand.
Related terms: copy testing
inductive voltage divider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inductive voltage dividers
Senses: glosses: an autotransformer that has its winding divided into (normally) ten equal-turn sections so that when an alternating voltage is applied to the whole winding the voltage across each section is exactly one tenth
autotransformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autotransformers
Etymology: From auto- + transformer.
Senses: examples: text: One of the principal features of the ordinary configurations of the transformer [...] is the electrical isolation that exists between the primary and secondary windings. [...] Whenever large transformation ratios are involved, safety demands that ordinary transformers be used. However, in instances where the transformation ratio is close to unity (which minimizes the hazard), a transformer employing a single tapped winding may be used with notable advantages.
[...] This arrangement is called the autotransformer.
ref: 1990, Vincent Del Toro, chapter 2, in Basic Electric Machines, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A transformer with a single winding, its output being taken from taps.
Synonyms: balancing coil
compensator
pre-test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-tests
Etymology: From pre- + test.
Senses: glosses: Any test done as practice, before an official test.
evocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evocators
Senses: glosses: Someone who evokes.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A particular factor that controls the morphogenesis of the early embryo; the inductor.
positive transition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The SUV ad featuring an ordinary man walking away from his ordinary home on his way to work, and then feeling like a daredevil behind the wheel of his SUV, utilizes a positive transition.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: One of four archetypal dramatic structures of commercials, characterized by an emotionally neutral beginning with an enormous leap in positive emotions generated by seeing the branded product in use.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A narrative structure used in commercials known as “supporting actor-type” advertising.
Related terms: advertising
inertia welding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of friction welding in which the energy comes from a rotating flywheel.
inertial guidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An automated system which directs a craft or missile, continually calculating its position from its measured acceleration.
Synonyms: inertial navigation
INS
segregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of segregate
segregated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more segregated
form: most segregated
Senses: glosses: Separated or isolated from others, or from another group.
raw_tags: of a person or thing
glosses: Having access restricted to certain groups, or excluding certain groups.
raw_tags: of an institution
semantic network
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semantic networks
Senses: examples: text: The lists capture related concepts, lexico-grammar, and semantic networks (e.g. hyponyms, synonyms, antonyms).
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 110:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: semantic net
glosses: A graph whose vertices represent concepts and edges represent semantic relations, such as synonymy—having very similar meaning, hyponymy—being a subclass, or meronymy—being a part of a whole.
examples: text: Our semantic network results showed that the phrase “good cooks use it” in our commercials was increasing sales because it made people think “fresh” and “taste” which are two of our key attributes.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A quantitative research technique that analyzes the data in a control cell against a test cell to determine how viewing an ad strengthens the linkages between related ideas in a product category.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A quantitative research technique used to develop “selling pathways” to motivate sales.
sockeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sockeyes
form: sockeye
Etymology: Borrowed from Halkomelem sθəqəy̓, probably meaning red fish.
Senses: glosses: A small salmon with red flesh, Oncorhynchus nerka, found in the coastal waters of the northern Pacific.
glosses: Edible flesh of this fish.
Synonyms: kokanee
blueback salmon
red salmon
sockeye salmon
Salish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.lɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪʃ
Etymology: From Montana Salish séliš (“Salish”).
Senses: examples: text: Muriel said that the garden was ancient and had been cultivated by the Salish for generations, but now few people harvested there, which was a pity because the gardens benefited by frequent harvesting.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 199:
glosses: A broad ethnolinguistic indigenous group native to North America, the Salish peoples.
glosses: A broad ethnolinguistic indigenous group native to North America, the Salish peoples.
The Bitterroot Salish people specifically.
Salish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.lɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪʃ
Etymology: From Montana Salish séliš (“Salish”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the family of languages spoken by these peoples.
Salish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.lɪʃ/
rhymes: -eɪlɪʃ
Etymology: From Montana Salish séliš (“Salish”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Salishan (“of or relating to the Salish people or their languages”).
synonyms: word: Salishan
extra: of or relating to the Salish people or their languages
Derived terms: Bitterroot Salish
Coast Salish
Interior Salish
Salishan
Salish Language
Salish Languages
Salish Mountains
Salish People
Salish Peoples
Salish Sea
Salish Wool Dog
stopping power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Troops in the Philippines preferred the .45 over the .38 because of its greater stopping power against charging tribesmen.
glosses: The ability of a weapon (typically a firearm or other ranged weapon) to rapidly incapacitate or immobilize a target.
examples: text: The Victoria's Secret ad's racy image generated strong stopping power ratings.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A research measure that captures a print advertisement's ability to grab the attention of the reader; also known as the attention rating.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The retarding force exerted on a high-energy particle by interactions with the medium through which it passes.
Related terms: advertising
attention
brand linkage
motivation
persuasion
subjective time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The perception of time being tied to experience: time flying by, time dragging slowly.
examples: text: Instead of selecting an image for testing every 0.2 seconds, the new research team used a subjective time approach, selecting an image to represent each significant change in the ad, no matter how fast or slow the ad’s edits may be.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A system by which intervals are measured by actions or emotions in a commercial for research purposes.
sobre-vest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sobre-vests
Senses: glosses: A decorative or identifying cover worn over chain mail or other armour by a medieval knight.
d'ya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒjʌ/
rhymes: -ʌ
Senses: glosses: do you
Related terms: word: d'ye
word: d'y'all
word: d'you
lotta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒtə/
rhymes: -ɒtə
Senses: examples: text: A whole lotta people feel the same way I do.
text: I'm gonna be good to you / There's a whole lotta things / You and I could do
ref: 1972, Al Green, “Simply Beautiful”:
glosses: Contraction of lot of.
assholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asshole
whacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whack
whacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whacked
form: most whacked
Senses: examples: text: After that all-night party, we were all whacked.
synonyms: word: exhausted
word: weary
word: bleareyed
word: bleary
word: bleary-eyed
word: bone-tired
word: bushed
word: tired out
word: spent
word: drained
word: dog-tired
word: dog-weary
word: exhausted
word: fatigued
word: forfairn
word: forlagen
word: forworn
word: heavyeyed
word: jaded
word: languid
word: enervated
word: out of gas
word: played out
word: run-down
word: shattered
word: shot
word: sleepy
word: stuffed
word: tired
word: washed out
word: weariful
word: weary
word: whacked
word: whipped
word: worn
word: worn out
word: banjaxed
word: beat
word: buggered
word: busted
word: dead tired
word: cream crackered
word: done
word: done in
word: done up
word: fagged out
word: fried
word: fucked
word: gassed
word: jiggered
word: Kerry Packered
word: knacked
word: knackered
word: nadgered
word: pooped
word: pooped out
word: pumped
word: shagged
word: shagged out
word: tuckered
word: tuckered out
word: wappened
word: zonked
glosses: Tired; fatigued.
examples: text: Big Dima said he found it 'very much sexiness' knowing we could hear him getting whacked on speed and fucking Svetlana's rather sparse brains out almost every day.
ref: 2014, Boris Mihailovic, At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of motorcycles and other drugs:
synonyms: word: blazed
word: zooted
word: baked
word: blazed
word: blitzed
word: chemically impaired
word: chopped
word: cut
word: drugged
word: drugged-out
word: fuckered up
word: fried
word: gassed
word: geeked
word: high
word: high as a kite
word: hepped up
word: hopped up
word: monged
word: munted
word: trolleyed
word: toasted
word: lifted
word: lit
word: off one's box
word: out of one's box
word: reefed
word: spaced-out
word: stoned
word: up there
word: wasted
word: whacked
word: zooted
word: zorched
glosses: Intoxicated on drugs.
Derived terms: whacked-out
wa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional proa-style outrigger canoe of the Caroline Islands.
wa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wa
Etymology: From Thai วา (waa).
Senses: glosses: A Thai unit of length, traditionally comparable to a fathom, and now officially equal to two metres.
wa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese 和 (wa).
Senses: glosses: In Japanese society, the favouring of a harmonious community over one's personal interests.
backyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bækˈjɑːd/
Forms: form: backyards
form: back-yard
form: back yard
Etymology: From back + yard.
Senses: examples: text: I think when I discovered this republic, which is in Nevada - in one man's house and backyard and front garden - I think I stumbled across what for me really typifies the whole micronational movement.
ref: 2006 November 1, Alex Chadwick, “'Lonely Planet' Explores Micronations”, in NPR, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2025:
antonyms: front yard#Noun
forecourt#Noun
hypernyms: yard#Noun
coordinate_terms: backcourt#Noun
glosses: A yard to the rear of a house or similar residence.
examples: text: The entire beach was my backyard, from the Hiltons' house in the south all the way to Steele Hunter's house in the north.
ref: 2005, Christopher Kennedy Lawford, Symptoms of withdrawal: a memoir of snapshots and redemption, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A person's neighborhood, or an area nearby to a person's usual residence or place of work and where the person is likely to go.
examples: text: However, the region was in the United States backyard and Britain should look passively on with acquiescence in whatever policy the United States saw fit to pursue about Mexico.
ref: 1942, Wilfrid Hardy Callcott, The Caribbean policy of the United States, 1890-1920, page 343:
glosses: An area nearby to a country or other jurisdiction's legal boundaries, particularly an area in which the country feels it has an interest.
Derived terms: word: backyard cricket
word: backyarder
word: in one's backyard, in one's own backyard
alt: NIMBY
word: not in my backyard
Related terms: court
curtilage
dooryard
garden
lawn
congressman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congressmen
Etymology: From congress + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male member of congress.
examples: text: For strained metaphor this has not been equaled since a bloviant congressman began his eulogy upon Senator Vance with the words […]
ref: 1919, Celebration Legal Essays: To Mark the Twenty-fifth Year of Service of John H ...:
text: There was a stampede as the congressmen jumped the banister in their hastes to be the first to sign away their souls.
ref: 2017, Russell M. Peterson, The Armies of Forever, page 368:
text: Two US congressmen on Tuesday made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan as the US races to evacuate as many people as possible from the country in the remaining days of the US military presence there, taking Democratic leadership by surprise and drawing swift criticism.
ref: 2021 August 24, Devan Cole, Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, “Two congressmen traveled to Afghanistan amid frantic evacuation efforts”, in CNN:
text: The committee’s investigation into Gaetz began in 2021 but was put on hold while a separate, yearslong federal sex-trafficking investigation into the former congressman was underway.
ref: 2024 December 23, Sarah Ferris and Jeremy Herb, “House Ethics report finds evidence Matt Gaetz paid thousands for sex and drugs including paying a 17-year-old for sex in 2017”, in CNN:
glosses: A male member of the House of Representatives.
Related terms: congresswoman
senator
classroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɑːsɹʊm/
ipa: /ˈklæsruːm/
ipa: /ˈklasruːm/
Forms: form: classrooms
Etymology: From class + room.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, preserved railways are not 24/7 operations. There are closed seasons where they can be turned into open-air classrooms.
ref: 2024 April 3, Richard Foster, “Training the next generation of engineers”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 48:
glosses: A room, often in a school, where classes take place.
Hypernyms: room
Derived terms: classroomese
classroomful
classroomless
classroomlike
cyberclassroom
extraclassroom
flipped classroom
nonclassroom
open classroom
teleclassroom
stinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Forms: form: more stinking
form: most stinking
Etymology: From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną (“to stink”), equivalent to stink + -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).
Senses: glosses: Having a pungent smell.
examples: text: I have a stinking cold.
glosses: Very bad and undesirable.
examples: text: Oh, I got stinking—and, worse, acted like the world's worst heel to top it off. I passed out mentally about the time we left the club—which must have been around 2:30—but unfortunately didn't pass out physically.
ref: 2021, Mack Morriss, South Pacific Diary, 1942-1943:
glosses: Very drunk.
examples: text: We don’t need your stinking sympathy.
glosses: An intensifier, a hypallage.
Derived terms: butt-stinking
cry stinking fish
stinking acacia
stinking ash
stinking badger
stinking cedar
stinking chamomile
stinking corpse lily
stinking goosefoot
stinking gum
stinking hawksbeard
stinking hellebore
stinking iris
stinking juniper
stinking nightshade
stinking rich
stinking toe
stinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English stynkynge, stinkinge, stinkinde, stinkende, stynkande, stynkand, from Old English stincende, from Proto-Germanic *stinkwandz (“stinking”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *stinkwaną (“to stink”), equivalent to stink + -ing. Cognate with Dutch stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), German stinkend (“stinking, stinky”), Danish stinkende (“stinking, stinky”), Norwegian stinkende (“stinking, stinky”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stink
stinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Forms: form: stinkings
Etymology: From Middle English stinkinge, stynkynge, equivalent to stink + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.
ref: 2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42:
glosses: The emission of a foul smell.
psst
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /psːː(t)/
Forms: form: pssst
form: pst
Etymology: Imitative. First attested in the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: Psst, John, don’t tell anyone, but I’ve got lots of candy stashed away.
glosses: Implies that the speaker is sending secret or whispered information to another person.
Synonyms: hist
hey
psst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /psːː(t)/
Forms: form: pssts
form: pssting
form: pssted
form: pssted
form: pssst
form: pst
Etymology: Imitative. First attested in the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: and I was just rounding the fourth-floor landing when Claudia pssted at me
ref: 2015, Dale Peck, The Garden of Lost and Found:
glosses: To say psst, to get someone's attention or to communicate with them.
virtual consumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When we see someone eat a hamburger in a commercial, we store that experience as having happened in reality when, in reality, it was a case of virtual consumption.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: The artificial memories created by experiential advertising.
Related terms: advertising
copy test
paycheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪ.t͡ʃɛk/
Forms: form: paychecks
form: pay check
form: paycheque
form: pay cheque
Etymology: From pay (“wages or salary”) + check (“means of payment”).
Senses: examples: text: He was delighted after getting his first paycheck, but subsequently blew it all on the horses.
text: The teachers are not there to help you. Most oft them are still freelancers and the last thing they want is more competition. They are there because they need a steady paycheck and they hope to score some pussy!
ref: 1991, Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential:
text: They took my whole paycheck and I know why / 'Cause I got high, 'cause I got high
ref: 2001, “Because I Got High”, in Because I Got High, performed by Afroman:
text: With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning through their lines as if they’re simultaneously texting the contractors building the additions on their houses funded by their fat sequel paychecks.
ref: 2012 July 12, Sam Adams, “Ice Age: Continental Drift”, in AV Club:
text: We're a super sad generation / Killing time and losing our paychecks
ref: 2019, “Super Sad Generation”, performed by Arlo Parks:
coordinate_terms: payslip
glosses: Money received on payday as payment for work performed.
Derived terms: live paycheck to paycheck
whole paycheck
granddad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granddads
form: grandad
Etymology: From grand- + dad (“father”).
Senses: glosses: grandfather
examples: text: Hey! Get out of my way, granddad!
glosses: A familiar or disparaging term of address to an old man.
Synonyms: gramps
granddaddy
grandpa
grandfather
pops
momma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒmə/
ipa: /ˈmɑmə/
rhymes: -ɒmə
Forms: form: mommas
Etymology: Alternative spelling of mama; see further etymology there.
Senses: examples: text: My momma’s so great: she bakes me cookies every week.
glosses: Mother.
examples: text: Whoa, that chick in the bikini is a real momma!
glosses: A voluptuous woman.
examples: text: I need to talk to momma before I buy the car.
glosses: One's wife or girlfriend.
Synonyms: sense: mother (colloquial)
word: ma
sense: mother (colloquial)
word: mama
sense: mother (colloquial)
word: mamma
sense: mother (colloquial)
word: maw
sense: mother (colloquial)
word: mom
Derived terms: mommacita
save the drama for your momma
stepmomma
yo momma
momma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒmə/
ipa: /ˈmɑmə/
rhymes: -ɒmə
Forms: form: mommas
form: moma
Etymology: Borrowed from Ilocano mama.
Senses: examples: text: No spitting of momma here.
qualifier: chiefly Cordillera
glosses: A betel nut plus other ingredients (like areca nut, betel leaves, slaked lime, and tobacco) to be chewed on.
Derived terms: momma juice
jeopardize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ə.dʌɪz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛp.ɚ.daɪz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒep.ə.dɑɪz/
Forms: form: jeopardizes
form: jeopardizing
form: jeopardized
form: jeopardized
form: jeopardise
Etymology: From jeopardy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: After having an affair with a junior, her chances of promotion were seriously jeopardized.
text: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
ref: 1968, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, spoken by HAL 9000:
glosses: To put in jeopardy, to threaten.
Derived terms: jeopardization
jeopardizer
unjeopardized
sneaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsniːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: sneakier
form: sneakiest
Etymology: From sneak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Catching those thieves will be hard: they're so sneaky!
text: Be sneaky. Fish frighten easily.
ref: 1995 April 24, Jeff Csatari, “Tackle Tips”, in Boys' Life, volume 85, number 4, Irving, Texas: Boy Scouts of America, Inc., →ISSN, page 42:
text: Some fans may have mistaken the album’s floatiness for aimlessness, but Mr. Mercer’s songs have never been sneakier, or prettier.
ref: 2007 October 25, Kelefa Sanneh, “Songs With a Sneaky Streak”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Elusive; difficult to capture or observe due to constantly outwitting the adversaries.
examples: text: They played a sneaky trick on us.
text: A contribution to a wall newspaper of which I was an editor in our sector poked fun at the never-changing menu in the school cafeteria. It centred on the various and devious methods used in serving us hamburger. One time it would be called hamburger, another time bifshtek, then cutlet, and sneakiest of all, schnitzel—the only difference among them was usually only in their shape or whether bread crumbs had been used.
ref: 1988, Peter Hunter, “Back to School: Dealing with Dissent”, in Which Side Are You On, Boys: Canadian Life on the Left, Toronto, Ont.: Lugus Productions Ltd., →ISBN, page 96:
text: Irish car bombs were a sneaky drink—they tasted like a chocolate milk shake, and more than once he'd been seduced into drinking several of them. It was only after he stood up that he realized how much of a wallop they packed.
ref: 2013, Lara Lacombe, Deadly Contact, page 12:
glosses: Dishonest; deceitful.
Synonyms: slippery
evasive
dodgy
Derived terms: sneakily
sneakiness
sneaky beak
sneaky beaky
sneaky-deaky
sneaky fucker strategy
sneaky link
sneaky Pete
sneaky suspicion
Related terms: sneak
sneaky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsniːki/
rhymes: -iːki
Forms: form: sneakies
Etymology: From sneak + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] in cooperation with the National Security Agency, installs and maintains "sneakies" throughout the U.S.S.R. and Communist China — but increasingly, denied areas are surveyed more simply.
ref: 1974, Miles Copeland, Without cloak or dagger: the truth about the new espionage, page 244:
text: […] has used travellers to plant 'sneakies' - small electronic transmitting devices which form part of a surveillance network.
ref: 1991, Chapman Pincher, The Truth about Dirty Tricks:
topics: espionage
government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any device used for covert surveillance.
reschedule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈʃɛdjuːl/
ipa: /ɹiːˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/
ipa: /ɹiːˈskɛdjuːl/
ipa: /ɹiːˈskɛd͡ʒuːl/
ipa: /ɹiˈskɛd͡ʒʊl/
ipa: /ɹiˈskɛd͡ʒəl/
ipa: /ɹiˈskɛd͡ʒuəl/
ipa: /ɹiˈskɛd͡ʒul/
ipa: /riːˈʃɛɖjuːl/
ipa: /ɹiˈskɛd͡ʒu(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹiˈskɛd͡ʒuːl/
ipa: /ɹiˈʃɛd͡ʒu(ə)l/
ipa: /ɹiˈʃɛd͡ʒuːl/
Forms: form: reschedules
form: rescheduling
form: rescheduled
form: rescheduled
Etymology: From re- + schedule.
Senses: examples: text: We'll have to reschedule next Monday's meeting because of the public holiday.
text: Network Rail says it has also rescheduled repairs and renewals work to coincide with the closures, including a full bridge replacement at Postwick and track renewals at Lowestoft, Acle and Hassingham, along with additional maintenance to the swing bridges at Reedham and Somerleyton.
ref: 2019 October 24, “February completion for Wherry lines resignalling”, in Modern Railways, page 22:
text: Seek so much as a kernel of advice on the internet in 2024 about conflicts in a relationship, a situationship or even an affair, and you may find yourself inundated with recommendations to "stand on business." A Hinge match asks to reschedule your first date with 30 minutes' notice? Stand on business. Your ex continues to hit you up months after the breakup? Stand on business.
ref: 2024 January 18, Gina Cherelus, “TikTok Is 'Standing on Business.' What Does That Mean?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Feb 2024:
glosses: To schedule again or at a different time.
examples: text: Judge Young had been considering a petition filed to have marijuana rescheduled under federal law.
ref: 1997, Mary Lynn Mathre, Cannabis in Medical Practice, page 25:
text: Moreover, marijuana could only be brought to market if it were rescheduled to acknowledge its “accepted medical use,” according to DEA standards.
ref: 2000, Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy:
topics: law
glosses: To reclassify; to change the schedule (division into which something is classified) of.
refill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.fɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪi̯.fɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [-fɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [-fɪʊ̯]
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈfɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
ipa: /ˈɹiː.fɪl/
ipa: [ˈɹʷɪi̯.fɪɫ]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [-fɪo̯]
note: l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand
ipa: [-fɪʊ̯]
Forms: form: refills
form: refilling
form: refilled
form: refilled
Etymology: From re- (“again”) + fill (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Can you refill my cup please? I've finished my coffee.
glosses: To fill up once again.
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: pharmacy
glosses: To repeat a prescription.
relaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relaxing
form: most relaxing
Senses: examples: text: a relaxing piece of music
glosses: Conducive to relaxation; helping one to relax.
Derived terms: myorelaxing
relaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relax
relaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaxings
Senses: examples: relaxings of the muscles
glosses: The process by which something is relaxed.
adores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adore
valla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vallum
unwitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwitty
form: most unwitty
Etymology: From Middle English unwitti (“foolish”), from Old English unwittiġ (“unconscious, ignorant, stupid”), equivalent to un- + witty. Cognate with German unwitzig (“unwitty”), Icelandic úvitugr (“ignorant”).
Senses: glosses: Without wit; foolish; silly.
Related terms: unwitting
unwitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwitty
form: most unwitty
Etymology: From un- + witty.
Senses: examples: text: “I put it back,” she explained, half laughing as though at an unwitty joke, the corners of her mouth turning down.
ref: 2011, Roger Ladd Memmott, Sweet Sally Ann, page 189:
glosses: Not witty; unfunny.
legit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈd͡ʒɪt/
ipa: /ləˈd͡ʒɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: legits
Etymology: Clipping of legitimate or legitimately.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A legitimate; a legitimate actor.
glosses: A legitimate child.