cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
specific energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy of a substance measured per unit mass
spin-spin energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spin-spin energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy due to the interaction of two spinning systems; the dot product of their spin angular momenta
strain energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strain energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The potential energy stored in a body due to elastic deformation
sublimation energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublimation energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The increase in internal energy of a unit mass of solid when it undergoes sublimation at constant temperature and pressure
tende
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
ref: c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book I, page 80, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of tend.
thermal energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The internal energy of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium due to its temperature
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of energy; sensible energy; heat
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The energy released by an explosion
cotransduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotransductions
Etymology: From co- + transduction.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous transduction of multiple genes, especially of two bacterial marker genes
Related terms: cotransductant
tidal energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy contained in a tide flowing in or out of an estuary or similar enclosed place, especially that part of the energy that can be converted to electricity.
Synonyms: tidal power
marker gene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marker genes
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene with a known location in a chromosome; used to track the insertion of DNA into organisms
crowd surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowdsurfing
form: crowd-surfing
Senses: glosses: The act of being carried over the heads of a densely-packed crowd, especially at a rock concert.
Related terms: crowd surf
crowd surfer
crowd surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crowdsurfing
form: crowd-surfing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crowd surf
Related terms: stage diving
Chalca
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chalca
form: most Chalca
Etymology: From Nahuatl chālcatl, chālcah.
Senses: glosses: Of Chalco.
Synonyms: Chalcan
Chalcese
Chalca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Nahuatl chālcatl, chālcah.
Senses: glosses: The people of Chalco.
Synonyms: Chalcans
Chalcese
crowd surfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowd surfers
Senses: glosses: Someone carried by a crowd, in crowd surfing.
translational energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: translational energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy of the molecules of a fluid due to their (translational, as opposed to rotational or vibrational) motion.
sink in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sinks in
form: sinking in
form: sank in
form: sunk in
form: sunken in
Senses: examples: text: He knows he's been naughty, but it will take a while for it to sink in.
text: The gravity of what I had done hadn't sunken in yet.
glosses: To become completely known, felt, or understood.
Synonyms: dawn on
register
penetrate
unavailable energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unavailable energies
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see unavailable, energy.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Energy that is converted by an irreversible process into a form that is unavailable to do work
in too deep
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By a swimming metaphor.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: outmatched, outgunned
text: But he didn’t regret killing Qian. The doctor was in too deep. The notes on the flash drive showed a steady progression into dementia, a deteriorating mental state directly linked to incidents of exposure to Sovereign.
ref: 2007, Drew Karpyshyn, Mass Effect: Revelation (Science Fiction), Del Rey Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 321:
text: We are simply in too deep to consider extrication from today's technologically infused world. To assert the contrary is akin to seeking disconnection from the human race itself.
ref: 2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats:
text: I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe / That I'm in too deep / And jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy / Get the best in me
ref: 2017, Halsey, Ricky Reed, Justin Tranter, Rogét Chahayed, “Bad at Love”, in Hopeless Fountain Kingdom, performed by Halsey:
synonyms: out of one's depth
over one's head
hypernyms: fucked#Adjective
glosses: Involved in a situation to the extent that one cannot cope or escape.
vibrational energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrational energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy in a vibrating system, otherwise at rest; especially that in a molecule due to the vibrations of its atoms
glosses: According to certain New Age beliefs, a kind of pervasive life force.
vibrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vibration + -al.
Senses: examples: text: We live in a vibrational reality Brian, long as we align our energy with our interpretation of the vibe of our desire, it must appear.
ref: 2019, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 18:
glosses: Of or pertaining to vibration.
Derived terms: vibrational energy
vibrational level
vibrational partition function
vibrational psychology
vibrational quantum number
vibrational spectroscopy
fluoroalkanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoroalkane
Bibles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bible
Bibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bible
fluoroalkane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroalkanes
Etymology: From fluoro- + alkane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alkane in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine
wall energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wall energies
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy per unit area of the boundary between adjoining ferromagnetic domains in a solid
Wigner energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wigner energies
Etymology: For E. P. Wigner, Hungarian physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Energy stored in the graphite moderators of a nuclear reactor
wikipedia: E. P. Wigner
Related terms: Wigner effect
Zeeman energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zeeman energies
Etymology: For Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy of the interaction between the magnetic moment of an atom or molecule or the magnetization and an applied magnetic field
Related terms: Zeeman effect
zonal kinetic energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The kinetic energy of the zonal wind at a specified latitude.
roleplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈrol.pleɪ/
Forms: form: roleplays
form: roleplaying
form: roleplayed
form: roleplayed
form: rôleplay
form: role-play
Etymology: From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”).
Senses: examples: text: To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.
glosses: To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
examples: text: He likes to roleplay a vampire.
text: The particular person roleplaying Beatty in that battle suggested summarily executing Seymour and dumping him overboard.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 30:18 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
examples: text: He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.
text: Realizing that she was an 'other' not only as a black woman but also as a black lesbian, she struggles to fiind someplace where she and other black lesbians like herself could live out their existence without role-playing or conforming to the ideals that were prevalent in the bars at that time.
ref: 1982 December 11, Catherine Joseph, “Breaking Barriers”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 10:
glosses: To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to.
Coordinate terms: sense: act out a social role
word: pass
roleplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈrol.pleɪ/
Forms: form: roleplays
form: rôleplay
form: role-play
Etymology: From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”).
Senses: examples: text: Lesbian, 34, seeks lesbians who enjoy occasional anal sex and role plays. Light s/m ok too.
ref: 1985 August 17, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 13:
text: Roy: Let's do some roleplay, OK? Do you think that would be a good idea?
Moss: It helped me learn how to buy sandwiches.
ref: 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
glosses: The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying.
glosses: The practice of roleplaying.
Synonyms: RP
Related terms: RPG
LARP
roleplayer
zonal wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zonal winds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The component of a wind along a particular parallel of latitude
Related terms: meridional wind
meridional wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meridional winds
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The component of a wind along a particular meridian
Related terms: zonal wind
doomsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doomsayings
Etymology: From doom + saying.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
ref: 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The action of making dire predictions about the future
doomsaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From doom + saying.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doomsay
doomsayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈduːmˌseɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈdumˌseɪ.ɚ/
Forms: form: doomsayers
Etymology: From doom + sayer.
Senses: examples: text: Even from the doomsayers you hear reflections of hope. Nobody wants "it" to happen. In his darkest moments, man is aware that, while he may be limited, humankind need not be.
ref: 1970, Frank Herbert, New world or no world, page 141:
text: 4: THE DOOMSAYERS¶ So many people have written so many books and articles forecasting doom at the end of the twentieth century that we cannot possibly do credit to all of them here.
ref: 1983, John R. Gribbin, Stephen H. Plagemann, Beyond the Jupiter effect, page 76:
text: He is not a doomsayer or a conspiracy theorist. A ceramist, Mr. Kunze simply inhabits a longer view of history, one in which humans are the dinosaurs, facing down a probable extinction.
ref: 2020 December 31, Lauren Jackson, “News That Can Last a Million Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Critics of the doomsayers, meanwhile, are becoming more outspoken.
ref: 2023 November 25, Richard Waters, John Thornhill, “Tech's philosophical rift over AI”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
glosses: One who makes dire predictions about the future; one who predicts doom.
Synonyms: word: apocalyptic
word: apocalypticist
word: doomsdayer
word: doomtard
Derived terms: boomsayer
Related terms: doomsaying
doomer
doomist
pessimist
millenarian
millenarianist
millenarist
millenialist
soothsayer
doomsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doomsays
form: doomsaying
form: doomsaid
form: doomsaid
Etymology: Back-formation from doomsayer.
Senses: glosses: To make dire predictions about the future.
Related terms: doomsaying
doomsayer
mindwipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mindwipes
form: mindwiping
form: mindwiped
form: mindwiped
Etymology: From mind + wipe.
Senses: examples: text: Whether they were mindwiped upon their return to base, or simply terminated like useless equipment, Deutsch never knew.
ref: 2001, Jeffrey A Carver, James A Carver, Eternity's End:
text: In Adventures of Superman #636, Superman told Wonder Woman and Batman about how the League had mindwiped Dr. Light...
ref: 2006, Jeffery Klaehn, Inside the World of Comic Books:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. This is frequently portrayed as a form of capital punishment, which leaves a viable body into which a different personality or mind can be uploaded.
Synonyms: brainwipe
erase
deprogram
mindwipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindwipes
Etymology: From mind + wipe.
Senses: examples: text: The mindwipe of Magneto is a necessary action and it is also a wrong one, but it appears to be the only way to save the human population from extinction.
ref: 2009, Andrew Terjesen, “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: The Ethics of Mind Reading and Mindwriting”, in X-Men and Philosophy:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The act of mindwiping.
scherenschnitte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛəɹənˌʃnɪtə/
Etymology: From German Scherenschnitte, plural of Scherenschnitt (literally “scissor cut”).
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An art of papercutting, cutting continuous paper designs, which began in Switzerland and Germany in the 1500s and was brought to Colonial America in the 1700s by immigrants who settled primarily in Pennsylvania.
Coordinate terms: list in papercutting
Venices
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The historical places named Venice within Northern Italy, i.e. the current Italian regions of Venezia Tridentina-Sud Tirol/Alto Adige, Venezia Euganea, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and the current provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona (i.e. Venezia Orobica), and Mantua.
raison d'etre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raisons d'etre
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raison d'être.
bassa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bassas
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of bashaw.
cross-lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-lags
Etymology: From cross- + lag.
Senses: glosses: The statistical relation between two facts at two different times
Related terms: cross-lagged
basse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of bass (“perch”).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The bass voice or part within French music
Related terms: basse court
basse-taille
benaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bename
little by little
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "[…]Everything else has gone from me, little by little, but I have kept this.[…]"
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XX, in Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 342:
text: Little by little his head cleared, and he began once more to take a personal interest in the battle.
ref: 1905, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in The Head of Kay's:
text: Cos little by little / We gave you everything / You ever dreamed of. / Little by little / The wheels of your life / Have slowly fallen off.
ref: 2002, “Little by Little”, in Heathen Chemistry, performed by Oasis:
text: Iraq's government has been removing blast walls little by little since late 2008, trying to restore a semblance of normalcy to this bunker city.
ref: 2011 March 6, Jack Healy, “Baghdad Neighborhood Celebrates as a Wall Is Taken Away”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Nov 2011:
text: What came instead over the following years were many of the same projects delivered individually to little-by-little add capacity.
ref: 2021 December 15, Philip Haigh, “Remaining ECML upgrades in the 'really difficult' category”, in RAIL, number 946, page 52:
glosses: A small amount at a time.
hip hip hooray
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hip hip hoorah
form: hip hip hurrah
Etymology: Recorded as far back as 1803. The word hip was in use then as a meaningless syllable to get someone's attention. Hooray (or hurrah) goes back to 1686, and also had no specific meaning, used instead to get a person's attention.
A folk etymology for this interjection suggests it comes from the anti-Semitic 1819 German Hep-Hep riots, however many examples of "Hip Hip" exist in English prior to 1819, for example:
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1813, Edmond Temple, The Life of Pill Garlick, London, page 243:
The first toast “Success to Pill Garlick lick and his saucy crew,” was drank with nine times nine, hip! hip! hip! and a hoorra! The tumult was excessive.
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of congratulations or celebration, especially in response to a call for "three cheers for" the person. Often the person calling for the cheers will yell "Hip! Hip!", the crowd replying "Hooray!"
wikipedia: Hep-Hep riots
Related terms: three cheers
nice one
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of praise or encouragement.
good for someone
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: good on someone
Senses: examples: text: You got married? Good for you!
text: The president doesn’t dodge “what if” questions. Good for him!
synonyms: word: well done
word: get you
word: bravissimo
word: bravo
word: bully
word: cock on
word: congrats
word: congratulations
word: encore
word: fair fucks
word: full marks
word: get you
word: good for someone
word: good for you
word: good going
word: good job
word: good on you
word: good show
word: good work
word: hats off
word: hon
word: hoorah
word: hooray
word: hurrah
word: hurray
word: huzza
word: huzzah
word: jolly good show
word: keep it up
word: kudos
word: mazal tov
word: mazel tov
word: nice one
word: proper job
word: right on
word: shabash
word: there you go
word: way to go
word: well done
word: well said
glosses: An exclamation of encouragement or congratulation to a person.
examples: text: He has a diploma from Harvard? Good for him: he's still not qualified for this job.
synonyms: I don't care
glosses: Sarcastically belittling a person for an unimportant achievement.
good for someone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better for someone
form: best for someone
Senses: examples: text: Eating fruit is good for you.
text: The litigation is not good for anybody.
text: Sometimes on television they tell you a product is "good for headaches." I don't want something that's good for headaches. I want something that's bad for headaches. And good for me.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, “GOOD FOR HEADACHES”, in Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 68:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see good, for.
small-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: smaller-minded
form: more small-minded
form: smallest-minded
form: most small-minded
Senses: examples: text: Dinwiddie was evidently actuated by the petty pique of a narrow and illiberal mind, impatient of contradiction, even when in error. . . . It may excite a grave smile at the present day to find Washington charged by this very small-minded man with looseness in his way of writing to him.
ref: 1855–1859, Washington Irving, chapter 22, in The Life of George Washington, volume 1:
text: [C]onsider the case of the solemn articles in praise of the men who own newspapers—men of the type of Cadbury or Harmsworth, men of the type of the small club of millionaires. . . . These few small-minded men publish papers to praise themselves.
ref: 1907, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Tyranny of Bad Journalism”, in Utopia of Usurers and other Essays:
text: That someone given the escape valve of biraciality would choose to be black, would see some beauty in his darker self and still care more about health care and public education than reparations and Confederate flags is just too much for many small-minded racists, both black and white, to comprehend.
ref: 2007 February 1, Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, “Is Obama Black Enough?”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2021:
glosses: Selfish, petty; constrained in thought, limited in scope of consideration, not mindful of the big picture.
small-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From small-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being small-minded.
small-timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small-timers
form: smalltimer
Etymology: From small time + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She hated Ed Feinberg, the sleazy, lying, blood-sucking small-timer. Still he was a man; if he had called her up in the old days, in Seattle, she'd have entertained him.
ref: 1934, Lew Levenson, chapter VIII, in Butterfly Man:
text: The small-timers, as he put it, kept their currency in their homes, in safes, in false ceilings, under beds. When necessary, our tax people know where to look. The big-timers, however, use Swiss banks.
ref: 1992, Shashi Tharoor, Show Business: A Novel, page 144:
text: “If he's smooth, he don't have to worry too much about the cops, because he's such a small-timer, and when they come around, he cooperates. […]”
ref: 1997, John Sandford, The Night Crew, Putnam, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: A person who is limited to small, petty or unimportant things.
simple-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simple-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being simple-minded:
The property of lacking subtlety or sophistication.
glosses: The property of being simple-minded:
The property of lacking mental capacity; feeble-mindedness.
snorkeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snorkel
philosophizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophizers
Etymology: From philosophize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A philosopher, a person who writes or reasons in philosophy.
glosses: A person who creates superficial arguments or offers meaningless solutions, instead of practical ones.
Related terms: philosopher
philosophize
philosophizing
philosophy
glare filter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glare filters
Senses: glosses: A transparent sheet (usually of glass or plastic) placed over a monitor to reduce glare.
philosophizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philosophizer
staple remover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staple removers
Senses: synonyms: staple puller
glosses: A device with two jawlike pincers which is used to remove staples.
side scroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side scrollers
form: sidescroller
form: side-scroller
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A video game where the player views the world from the side, controlling a character who mostly travels horizontally (usually left to right) through a level.
Related terms: platform game
gooseflesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goose flesh.
Derived terms: goosefleshed
goosefleshy
salivary gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salivary glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several exocrine glands that produce saliva to break down carbohydrates in food enzymatically.
enzymatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From enzymatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by using, enzymes.
Derived terms: coenzymatically
nonenzymatically
total revenue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: total revenues
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The revenue from each item multiplied by the number of items sold
Derived terms: total revenue test
ecophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + -phobia, from Ancient Greek: οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) and φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: (archaic, rare)
text: Many of our teenage hippies are in the streets today because they suffer from ecophobia.
ref: 1995, International Reading Association, Journal of Reading:
synonyms: œcophobia
oecophobia
oikophobia
glosses: Fear of one’s home.
examples: text: No wonder the mood of the moment is ecophobia, the fear that the planet is increasingly inhospitable.
ref: 1990, George F Will, Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home:
glosses: A feeling of powerlessness to prevent cataclysmic environmental change, apocalypse, etc.
cockiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being cocky.
entropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entropion
glosses: plural of entropium
codependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codependencies
Etymology: From co- + dependency.
Senses: glosses: The state of being codependent; codependence
glosses: Something that is codependent
precisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precisionists
Etymology: From precision + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who values precision.
glosses: An artist working in the style of precisionism.
glosses: Alternative form of precisianist: precisian; a religious purist or Puritan.
Related terms: pedant
cookware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookwares
Etymology: From cook + -ware.
Senses: glosses: The assorted objects, such as pots, pans, baking sheets, etc., used for cooking
Synonyms: word: cookingware
word: cookware
Hypernyms: word: kitchenware
Hyponyms: word: frying pan
word: pan
word: pot
word: saucepan
word: stewpan
word: wok
word: cauldron
word: vegetable mill
Related terms: word: :Category:Cookware
office mate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office mates
form: officemate
Etymology: From office + mate.
Senses: glosses: one who shares an office with another
glosses: co-worker
Related terms: work wife
officemate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officemates
Etymology: From office + -mate.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of office mate.
interlunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: interlunary
Etymology: From inter- + lunar: compare Latin interlunis.
Senses: glosses: Of the four-day period between an old moon and a new moon, when the moon is not visible.
Related terms: interlunation
thwarting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thwart
thwarting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thwartings
Senses: examples: text: […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 266:
glosses: An instance of blocking or obstructing.
proper adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proper adjective
go back on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes back on
form: going back on
form: went back on
form: gone back on
Senses: examples: text: to go back on friends
glosses: To be treacherous or faithless to; to betray.
examples: text: to go back on one's promises
text: BBC News
On Sunday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not go back on its nuclear programme.
glosses: To fail to keep; to renege on.
examples: text: He went back on the same path.
text: They said the electricity will go back on before midnight.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, back, go back, on.
royale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɔˈjæl/
Forms: form: royales
Senses: glosses: A garnish of a consommé made with unsweetened cooked custard, usually cut into decorative shapes.
royale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɔˈjæl/
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of royal.
Related terms: battle royale
café royale
kir royale
synthetic fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthetic fibers
form: synthetic fibre
Senses: glosses: Any fiber made by extruding a synthetic substance through spinnerets to make a thread.
Hypernyms: man-made fiber
mistrial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mistrials
Etymology: From mis- + trial.
Senses: examples: text: “We move for a mistrial based on the testimony this morning,” Blanche said. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view.”
ref: 2024 May 7, Victoria Bekiempis, quoting Todd Blanche, “Trump hush-money trial: Stormy Daniels describes being ‘startled’ by sexual encounter”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: law
glosses: A trial that is prematurely ended upon being declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of a hung jury.
Derived terms: mistry
multimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimers
Etymology: From multi- + -mer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein consisting of multiple monomers.
Derived terms: homomultimer
multimerisation
multimerize
Related terms: biopolymer
oligomer
polymer
bunkmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunkmates
Etymology: From bunk + -mate.
Senses: glosses: One who sleeps in the same area as another person.
glosses: Especially, one who shares a bunk bed.
Synonyms: bunkie
Related terms: roommate
number 2 pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number 2 pencils
form: № 2 pencil
Senses: examples: text: I snapped to rigid attention when the teacher barked, "Clear your desks, get your number two pencils out, and get ready for your exam." Exam! What exam?
ref: 1990, Allender Crabb, Lawrence J. Crabb, Larry Crabb, Dan B. Allender, Encouragement: The Key to Caring, page 30:
text: You shall not, I repeat, not, touch them with your finely sharpened number-two pencils or any other marking instrument until you are explicitly told to do so.
ref: 2003, Trey Ellis, Platitudes: & the New Black Aesthetic, page 64:
text: In using this system, absentee voters were instructed to mark their ballots with number two pencils. The optical scanner rejected ballots which were marked with instruments other than number two pencils.
ref: 2006, Barry H. Weinberg, The Resolution of Election Disputes: Legal Principles That Control Election, page 128:
text: "Mrs. Landry, I forgot to bring my number two pencils! Does that mean I flunk this test?" Big tears filled Joey's eyes.
ref: 2006, Barbara Slater Stern, curriculum and teaching dialogue: V. 8, page 33:
glosses: A pencil which produces a specific shade of dark gray. One can usually identify a number 2 pencil by looking for the number "2" conspicuously emblazoned on the pencil. Often required for test-taking and the completion of official forms.
examples: text: How would that yellow number 2 pencil look as an ornament, inserted through a pierced ear-lobe or nasal septum?
ref: 1997, Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, page 1:
text: Stand back as we attempt to capture and charm the most poisonous lead on your desk — the diamondback Number 2 pencil!
ref: 2002, Irv Furman, Amazing Irv's Handbook of Everyday Magic, page 78:
text: I do the actual writing on my computer, of course, but I find that jotting down notes with a number 2 pencil gets my brain working in a new way, helps me see the facts from a different angle.
ref: 2004, Kate White, 'Til Death Do Us Part, page 28:
glosses: A standard, ordinary pencil; one which is not colored or mechanical or in any other way unusual.
Synonyms: The European equivalent is an HB pencil
alley cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alley cats
Senses: hypernyms: feral cat
glosses: An urban feral cat.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:alley cat.
glosses: A sexually promiscuous person, especially a woman.
glosses: A sexually promiscuous person, especially a woman.
A (female) prostitute.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An informal bicycle race with checkpoints.
alley cat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alley cats
form: alley catting
form: alley catted
form: alley catted
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cat around (“engage in sex with various partners”).
synonyms: word: cat around
extra: engage in sex with various partners
Related terms: word: stray dog
english: brothel
translation: brothel
word: cathouse
alley cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alley cat
alley cats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alley cat
quodlibet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quodlibets
Etymology: From Latin quod libet (“that which is pleasing”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of music with melodies in counterpoint.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A form of trompe l'oeil which realistically renders domestic items (paper-knives, playing-cards, ribbons, etc).
topics: card-games
games
glosses: A card game that combines several different contracts.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages, in which any question could be posed extemporaneously.
Related terms: quidlibet
quodlibetarian
quodlibetic
quodlibetical
quodlibetically
quodlibetificate
quodlibeting
quodlibetist
tortillon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɔː(ɹ)tiˈjɒn/
Forms: form: tortillons
Etymology: From French tortillon.
Senses: glosses: An artist’s tool used to smudge and blend a drawing made from charcoal, pencil, or pastel, consisting of a tightly-wound stick of soft, fibrous paper, sanded to a point at one end like a pencil.
diphenhydramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌɪ.fɛnˈhʌɪ.dɹəm.iːn/
ipa: /ˌdaɪˌfɛnˈhaɪ.dɹəˌmiːn/
Forms: form: diphenhydramines
Etymology: From diphen(yl) + (benz)hydr(yl) + -amine.
Senses: examples: text: Diphenhydramine is a convenient and cheap antihistamine for use, but there are other drugs that do not make the user tired.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: ZzzQuil
Benadryl
glosses: An antihistamine and anticholinergic drug that blocks the effect of histamine at H₁ receptor sites, relieving allergy symptoms. It also reduces smooth muscle contraction, increases heart rate, and sedates the user by blocking muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs).
bit by bit
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bit + by + bit. Compare West Frisian bytsje by bytsje (“bit by bit”), Dutch beetje bij beetje (“bit by bit”).
Senses: synonyms: little by little
incrementally
step by step
stepwise
footmeal
gradatim
piece by piece
glosses: A small amount at a time
Hippocratic oath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hippocratic oaths
Senses: examples: text: Technology doesn't have a Hippocratic oath.
ref: 2019, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, page 182:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An oath sworn by newly-qualified physicians that they will observe the medical ethics that derived from Hippocrates.
Related terms: do no harm
sidelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidelights
Etymology: From side + light.
Senses: examples: text: If it starts getting misty, put your sidelights on.
text: After dark the train is a lighted snake, as, even when the passengers' lights are out, each carriage has a side-light in the middle just under the eaves.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
glosses: A light found at the side of something; especially of a vehicle.
glosses: A window found at one or both sides of a door.
examples: text: A book of this type is necessarily mainly factual, but it is diversified by many incidents and sidelights which help to give life to a story now accorded its due place in railway history.
ref: 1957 December 24, “Railway Literature: Southern Electric. By G. T. Moody”, in Railway Magazine, page 892:
text: He is well up to form when dealing with passenger stock, notably Victorian and Edwardian and on this and on East Coast motive power he throws many sidelights.
ref: 1962 October, “New Reading on Railways: The Flying Scotsman 1862-1962. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Allen & Unwin. 6s.”, in Modern Railways, unnumbered page:
glosses: A piece of incidental information that helps one understand a subject.
unitary government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitary governments
Senses: glosses: A form of government in which the powers of all provincial and local governments are specified by a single national government.
plastic cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic cheeses
Etymology: From the cheese's resemblance to glossy plastic.
Senses: glosses: Any soft cheese that can be moulded.
glosses: Any processed cheese of an inferior quality, often sliced and wrapped in plastic film.
overtired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtire
overtired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: "I am a little overtired by my drive, my dear," said he, creeping from the blaze of daylight towards a snug sofa beside the fireplace.
ref: 1855, Catherine Grace Frances Gore, Mammon; Or, The Hardships of an Heiress:
text: "Today is what day?" I asked.
"It's Monday, Caelum. Monday, the nineteenth."
"Monday. Yeah, that's right. I'm a little disoriented."
"Well, that's understandable. You were travelling all day yesterday. Plus, the time change. And you're probably overtired on top of that."
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.5, at p.114
glosses: Overly tired
Derived terms: overtiredness
overtire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: overtires
form: overtiring
form: overtired
form: overtired
Etymology: From over- + tire.
Senses: glosses: To tire excessively.
glosses: To become excessively tired.
functional requirement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functional requirements
Senses: glosses: A condition or capability that a system, person or object has to satisfy, fulfill or comply with.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the functions of a software system, described formally.
Hypernyms: requirement
Derived terms: word: FR
non-baryonic dark matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonbaryonic dark matter
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: dark matter comprising elementary particles whose composition is as yet unknown, but is presumed to be unlike normal protons, neutrons and electrons etc.
prolactin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹoʊˈlæktɪn/
Forms: form: prolactins
Etymology: From pro- (from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”)) + lact- (variation of lacto-, from Latin lac (“milk”)) + -in (modification of -ine).
Senses: examples: text: Men get a dose of the hormone prolactin after orgasm and this acts as a sedative.
ref: 2019, Sara Pascoe, Sex Power Money:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide gonadotrophic hormone secreted by the pituitary gland; it stimulates growth of the mammary glands and lactation in females.
Synonyms: lactotropin
luteotropic hormone
luteotropin
mammotropin
Derived terms: macroprolactin
prolactinic
prolactinoma
gonadotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gonado- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or stimulating the functions of the gonads
Derived terms: antigonadotrophic
gonadotrophin
biocalorimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + calorimetry.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The measurement of the energetics of biological and biochemical processes.
token economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: token economies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A system of behavior modification based on the principles of operant conditioning; patients are rewarded with tokens (reinforcers) for engaging in desirable activities.
examples: text: The supply of any token is also important in the operation of a token economy, as well as for the more fundamental issue of token valuation.
ref: 2019, Chris Brummer, Cryptoassets: Legal, Regulatory, and Monetary Perspectives, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 165:
topics: business
cryptocurrencies
cryptocurrency
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: An economy based on cryptocurrency tokens.
Related terms: tokenomics
bioelectromagnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + electromagnetics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the effects of electromagnetic radiation (normally with the exception of visible light) upon biological systems and organisms.
bioelectronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: From bio- + electronics.
Senses: topics: biology
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The application of electronics in the field of biology
topics: biology
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The proposed construction of electronic-like circuits from proteins or other biological macromolecules
Derived terms: nanobioelectronics
bioherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioherms
Etymology: From bio- (“life”) + Ancient Greek ἕρμα (hérma, “sunken rock, reef”).
Senses: examples: text: Bioherms are built quickly. Over the course of a century, one will rise by up to 7 metres, and expand across the sea floor, following the contours and topology of what already exists.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 143:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of rock constructed from the remains of marine organisms such as coral or algae, especially in a mound or dome shape.
Derived terms: biohermal
bioleaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + leaching.
Senses: glosses: The dissolution of metals from their ores by the use of microorganisms such as bacteria
compression wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compression waves
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any wave that is propagated by the compression of a fluid; examples include sound
Synonyms: longitudinal wave
biological clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biological clocks
Senses: examples: 2005 US Department of Health - Your guide to healthy sleep
Your biological clock is actually a tiny bundle of cells in your brain that responds to light signals received through your eyes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several mechanisms that regulate the periodicity of biological functions, such as the circadian rhythm.
examples: text: Her biological clock is ticking.
text: Take Linda, a thirty-nine-year-old newscaster who relished her career but began to hear the alarm ringing on her biological clock.
ref: 1994, Rugh Winter, Bonnie Eaker-Weil, Adultery, the Forgivable Sin:
glosses: A notional clock to which people should pay attention, lest menopause or andropause kicks in and it is too late for them to have children.
Synonyms: body clock
Derived terms: tick-tock biological clock
Related terms: biorhythm
circadian rhythm
Greek Orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Orthodox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Greek Orthodox
Senses: glosses: A member of the Greek Orthodox Church
Hypernyms: Eastern Orthodox
Derived terms: Greek Orthodox Church
biomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production or detection of a magnetic field by a living organism.
Related terms: biomagnetic
biopyribole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopyriboles
Etymology: Blend of biotite + pyribole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the rock-forming minerals pyroxene, amphibole, and mica.
biorheology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + rheology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the deformation and flow of biological materials, especially biological fluids.
Related terms: biorheological
biorheologist
make do and mend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪk ˈduː ən ˈmɛnd/
Forms: form: makes do and mends
form: making do and mending
form: made do and mended
form: made do and mended
Etymology: From the title of a booklet issued by the UK Ministry of Information.
Senses: examples: text: The 'make do and mend' campaign was the Board of Trade's central propaganda effort directed at housewives. It gave advice on preservation, renovation, and repair of clothing and other household goods.
ref: 2000 Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955
glosses: To follow a philosophy, during World War II, of repairing clothes etc that would normally be discarded due to shortages and rationing.
glosses: Generally, to repair and reuse.
glosses: To make the best of a situation.