cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
langer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋəɹ/
rhymes: -æŋə(ɹ)
homophone: Langer
Forms: form: langers
Etymology: Uncertain. Suggestions include:
* from langur monkeys, via the Munster Fusiliers regiment stationed in India
* from languor
* from lang, variant of long
* from "on the lang", supposed variant of on the lam
* from leangaire, a word in Cnósach Focal ó Bhaile Bhúirne, a dictionary of the Muskerry Gaeltacht. It means an unusually long slender salmon.
Senses: glosses: Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
examples: text: "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer!"
ref: 1996, Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs, →ISBN, page 8:
text: And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".
ref: 2006, September 3, Brendan O'Connor Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent
text: Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy.
ref: 2006 November 22, Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent
glosses: An annoying person.
raw_tags: used in Cork
examples: text: Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.
ref: 2006, Eoin Colfer, “Taking on PJ”, in Ken Bruen, editor, Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American, →ISBN, page 23:
text: He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.
ref: 2005, Fergal Keane, All of These People: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Penis.
Synonyms: sense: annoying or contemptible person
word: dickhead
sense: annoying or contemptible person
word: knob
sense: annoying or contemptible person
word: asshole
sense: annoying or contemptible person
word: shithead
sense: annoying or contemptible person
word: tool
sense: annoying or contemptible person
word: wanker
Derived terms: langers
langered
acting the langer
langerload
Related terms: scanger
holistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈlɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /həʊˈlɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /hoʊˈlɪs.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
homophone: wholistic
Forms: form: more holistic
form: most holistic
form: wholistic
Etymology: From hol- + -istic. See holism.
Senses: glosses: Related to holism.
examples: text: Our holistic study of these modern-day traces suggests it to be a complex trace arising from domichnial, fodinichnial and possibly pascichnial behavior of polychaetes.
ref: 2015 October 7, “New Insights into Polychaete Traces and Fecal Pellets: Another Complex Ichnotaxon?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
synonyms: systemic
antonyms: atomistic
glosses: Relating to a study of the whole instead of a separation into parts.
Derived terms: antiholistic
holistically
holisticness
nonholistic
unholistic
jungle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ʌŋɡəl
Forms: form: jangal
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani جَن٘گَل (jaṅgal) / जंगल (jaṅgal), from Sanskrit जङ्गल (jaṅgala, “arid, sterile, desert”). First appears c. 1776 in a translation by Nathaniel Halhed.
Senses: examples: text: She gave her first performance at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles, offering festival dances, Moro tribal rituals, primitive jungle rhythms and rice harvest ceremonials.
ref: 1939 January 8, The Tribune, Manila, page 13, column 2:
text: Somewhere further up the valley a bunch of hippies were getting back to nature by loading up on mind altering chemicals and overwhelming their senses with five million decibels of digital bass and jungle beats.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 9:
qualifier: Of musical beat; rhythm; Of musical beat; rhythm
glosses: resembling the fast-paced drumming of traditional peoples of the jungle.
Related terms: rainforest
SUV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.juːˈviː/
ipa: /suv/
ipa: /ˌɛs.juˈvi/
Forms: form: SUVs
Senses: examples: text: A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
ref: 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
text: As SUVs are higher and heavier, they are more likely to kill the people they hit. Driving an SUV in an urban area is an antisocial act.
ref: 2019 March 7, George Monbiot, “Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out”, in The Guardian:
text: Audi, which markets a variety of electrified S.U.V.s like the E-tron, is developing other designs as pure electrics, said an Audi of America spokesman, Mark Dahncke.
ref: 2021 February 4, Stephen Williams, “E.V.s Force Carmakers to Reinvent the Wheel, and Brakes, and Mirrors …”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2021:
text: For the whole year, the exotic automaker sold 7,430 cars and SUVs, down 9.5% compared to 2019. But the last quarter of 2020 was the best in the Italian supercar maker’s history and its order banks are already filled for the first nine months of 2021, Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann said.
ref: 2021 April 1, Peter Valdes-Dapena, “Sales of Bentleys and Lamborghinis are booming because rich people are bored”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of sport utility vehicle; also S.U.V.
Hyponyms: english: compact utility vehicle
translation: compact utility vehicle
word: CUV
english: crossover utility vehicle
translation: crossover utility vehicle
word: XUV
english: electric utility vehicle
translation: electric utility vehicle
word: EUV
harakiri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hara-kiri.
feline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːlaɪn/
rhymes: -iːlaɪn
Forms: form: more feline
form: most feline
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fēlīnus, from fēlēs (“wildcat, marten”).
Senses: examples: text: feline behaviour
text: feline expert
text: The tiger is a feline predator.
glosses: Of or pertaining to cats.
examples: text: feline character
text: feline movement
text: She moved with feline grace.
glosses: catlike (resembling a cat); sleek, graceful, inscrutable, sensual, and/or cunning.
Synonyms: catly
Derived terms: feline distemper
feline hyperesthesia syndrome
feline infectious peritonitis
felinekind
felinely
felineness
felinize
felinoid
felinology
felinophile
felinophobe
felinophobia
nonfeline
unfeline
feline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːlaɪn/
rhymes: -iːlaɪn
Forms: form: felines
Etymology: Substantive use of the adjective feline, from Latin fēlīnus.
Senses: glosses: A cat; member of the cat family Felidae.
glosses: Any member of Felinae, one of the two extant subdivisions of Felidae.
Synonyms: word: feline
word: cat
word: felid
Hypernyms: word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: cheetah
word: jaguar
word: leopard
word: lion
word: lynx
word: ocelot
word: puma
word: tiger
word: big cat
Related terms: word: Felicia
word: Felicity
word: felid
word: feliform
word: felinely
word: felinity
word: felis
word: Felix
word: feloid
word: canine
word: cattus
word: catus
word: Felidae
word: gatus
word: :Category:Cats
pessary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛsəɹi/
Forms: form: pessaries
Etymology: From Middle English pessarie, from Old French pessaire, from Latin pessarium.
Senses: glosses: A medical device similar to the outer ring of a contraceptive diaphragm, most commonly used to support a displaced uterus; also called therapeutic pessary.
qualifier: contraception
glosses: A diaphragm or cervical cap.
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: suppository#Noun
glosses: A vaginal suppository.
Synonyms: sense: contraceptive device
word: diaphragm
sense: contraceptive device
word: cervical cap
fishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
homophone: phishing
Forms: form: fishings
Etymology: From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
text: Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
glosses: The act of catching fish.
glosses: The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
examples: text: This is good news for the fishing industry.
glosses: Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
examples: text: the rent of the fishings
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
text: Generally speaking, the only fishings which appear separately in Valuation Rolls as having a lettable value in their actual state from year to year are salmon-fishings.
ref: 1917, The Scots Law Times, volume 2, page 190:
glosses: A fishery, a place for catching fish.
Synonyms: sense: act
word: piscatology
sense: act
word: piscation
sense: act
word: piscicide
sense: act
word: piscicapture
sense: act
word: the gentle craft
topics: business
word: fishery
topics: business
word: the fish industry
topics: business
word: the seafood industry
sense: sport
word: sportfishing
word: fishery
Derived terms: antifishing
bottom-fishing
compliment fishing
cormorant fishing
cyanide fishing
drift fishing
electrofishing
fishing eagle
fishing frog
fishingly
fishing net
fishing owl
fishing room
fishing-smack
fishing-tube
fishing worm
fly-fishing
fly fishing
gone fishing
gorge fishing
ice fishing
Jonah fishing
line fishing
mucus fishing syndrome
nonfishing
rodfishing
shellfishing
skishing
spearfishing
Related terms: word: halieutically
topics: science
sciences
word: halieutics
topics: science
sciences
word: piscatology
sense: writing on fishing
word: halieutics
sense: writing on fishing
word: piscatory
word: piscatorious
word: piscatory
word: piscatorial
word: piscatorical
word: piscatorian
word: piscatorially
fishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
homophone: phishing
Etymology: From fish + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fish
Derived terms: bottom fishing
fishing boat
fishing cat
fishing expedition
fishing ground
fishing hook
fishing line
fishing pole
fishing rod
fishing space
fishing vessel
magnet fishing
phishing
sportfishing
sportsfishing
ailurophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfəʊbɪ.ə/
ipa: /aɪˌlʊɹəˈfoʊbi.ə/
ipa: /eɪˌlʊɹəˈfoʊbi.ə/
Forms: form: ailurophobias
form: aelurophobia
form: ailourophobia
form: elurophobia
Etymology: First recorded in 1905. From ailuro- (“cat”) + -phobia (“fear, hatred”), both from Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: text: Ailourophobia†, (Katiphobia, or Gatophobia,) is a typical monomania. The fear of cats in certain monopsychoneurotic and psychopathic persons dates back to the beginning of the life of the feline.
ref: 1906, Charles H. Hughes, “Psychoencephalonasthenia or Cerebrasthenia Simplex, and Psychoencephalonasthenia or Cerebrasthenia Insaniens”, in The Alienist and Neurologist, volume 27, St. Louis, Mo.: Henry L. Hughes, page 166:
text: Whatever the cause there are many recorded instances of persons suffering from ailurophobia exhibiting symptoms of distress in rooms which apparently contained no cats; later cats would be discovered, hidden behind curtains or in closets.
ref: 1920, Carl Can Vechten, The Tiger In The House, pages 62–63:
synonyms: felinophobia
gatophobia
galeophobia
antonyms: ailurophilia
glosses: An irrational fear or hatred of cats or other felines.
Related terms: ailurophobe
ailurophobic
Ailuroidea
ailurophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪljʊəɹəˈfɪlɪ.ə/
ipa: /aɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪli.ə/
ipa: /eɪˌlʊɹəˈfɪli.ə/
Forms: form: aelurophilia
form: ailourophilia
form: elurophilia
Etymology: From ailuro- (“cat”) + -philia (“love”), from Ancient Greek αἴλουρος (aílouros, “cat”) + φίλος (phílos, “dear, beloved”).
Senses: glosses: A fondness or love for cats or other felines.
Related terms: ailurophile
ailurophiliac
ailurophilic
aelurophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ailurophobia.
advertize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: advertizes
form: advertizing
form: advertized
form: advertized
Etymology: Modelled on advertise, with the -ize suffix.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of advertise.
Derived terms: advertizer
confetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛ.ti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Etymology: Borrowed (possibly via French) from Italian confetti (literally “confections”), used to describe sugar-coated almonds, and by extension things imitating them (like pellets of plaster), which were thrown in Italy during festivities like Carnival and weddings. (This practice is mentioned in English since at least the 1810s.) The French and the English adopted the practice of celebrating weddings and other festivities by throwing such candies, or (by the late 1800s) tiny pieces of colored paper symbolizing them, partially displacing their earlier practice of throwing rice.
Senses: glosses: Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
examples: text: … a pale and fair devotee of fashion who has left off eating confetti, and recovered her bloom.
ref: 1870, Henry T. Tuckerman, in the Boston Transcript, quoted in The New York Observer Yearbook and Almanac, page 143
text: "Why, if you and Teresa, our own best man and maid of honor . . . oh, how wonderful that would be, to eat confetti at your wedding!"
ref: 1959, Loren Wahl, Lorenzo Madalena, Confetti for Gino:
text: Emilio and Roberto had pooled their resources in money and had arranged with the cafe keeper for steaming thick chocolate, a slow-pouring syrup-like drink, the richest boccotoni, cream-filled heavy sfogliate, and almond confetti.
ref: 1975, Garibaldi Marto Lapolla, The grand Gennaro, Ayer Co. Pub.
text: There were large trays with assorted pastries and colored almond confetti for a wedding, and he remembered with a pang that this very day was the wedding anniversary, the day Pino and Maria had married (so long ago!) in Rome.
ref: 1986, Anne Paolucci, Sepia tones: seven short stories, Council on Natl Literature, →ISBN:
glosses: Edible Italian sugar-coated almonds, especially those which are used as part of a traditional Italian wedding.
Derived terms: Belfast confetti
cakefetti
champagne confetti
confetti cake
confettilike
funfetti
Irish confetti
confetti
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛ.ti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: confettis
form: confettiing
form: confettied
form: confettied
Etymology: Borrowed (possibly via French) from Italian confetti (literally “confections”), used to describe sugar-coated almonds, and by extension things imitating them (like pellets of plaster), which were thrown in Italy during festivities like Carnival and weddings. (This practice is mentioned in English since at least the 1810s.) The French and the English adopted the practice of celebrating weddings and other festivities by throwing such candies, or (by the late 1800s) tiny pieces of colored paper symbolizing them, partially displacing their earlier practice of throwing rice.
Senses: glosses: To scatter with confetti.
weakness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːk.nəs/
Forms: form: weaknesses
form: weakenes
Etymology: From Middle English wayknesse, weykenesse, replacing earlier Middle English wocnesse, wakenes, wacnesse (“weakness”), from Old English wācnes (“weakness”). Equivalent to weak + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: debility, frailty, vulnerability; vincibility
text: In a small number of horses, muscle weakness may progress to paralysis.
antonyms: strength#Noun
power#Noun
powerfulness
;
invulnerability
invincibility
coordinate_terms: powerlessness
impotence
incapacity
glosses: The condition of being weak.
examples: text: His inability to speak in front of an audience was his weakness.
text: The only weakness in her plan was its reliance on the electricity being up and running.
text: The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249:
text: Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.
ref: 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
text: The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
ref: 2013, Deborah Hay, My Body, The Buddhist, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Such a male-dominated environment is also likely to contribute to the lingering presence of an outdated belief that expressing feelings and demonstrating emotion is a sign of weakness, deterring some men from discussing their problems.
ref: 2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Vital Connections”, in Rail, page 41:
synonyms: defect#Noun
flaw#Noun
hole#Noun
antonyms: strength#Noun
forte#Noun
glosses: An inadequate quality; fault.
examples: text: She is an athlete who has a weakness for chocolate.
synonyms: soft spot
glosses: A special fondness or obsessing desire.
Higgins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪnz
Forms: form: Higgin
form: O'Higgin
form: Higgans
form: Higgens
form: O'Higgins
Etymology: An anglicised version of Irish Ó hUiginn (“descendant of a Viking”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish, from County Sligo.
glosses: A place name, which could be of either etymology:
A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
glosses: A place name, which could be of either etymology:
A township in Roscommon County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: A place name, which could be of either etymology:
An unincorporated community in Yancey County, North Carolina, United States.
glosses: A place name, which could be of either etymology:
A town in Lipscomb County, Texas, United States, named after G. H. Higgins, Santa Fe Railway stockholder.
Higgins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡɪnz/
rhymes: -ɪɡɪnz
Etymology: A Middle English patronymic surname derived from a diminutive of Hick ( Richard).
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name.
placemat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placemats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of place mat.
place mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place mats
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 1
synonyms: table mat
glosses: A protective mat, usually heat-resistant, placed under a single person's tableware (including cutlery) at the dining table.
Related terms: table mat
tablecloth
sleepover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleepovers
Etymology: From sleep + over.
Senses: examples: text: Since it would be too late to notify the many people whom we hope are coming, we are really working hard to find other facilities — probably to rent a hall for the meetings; perhaps arrange sleep-overs at Israeli members' homes.
ref: 1979 August 18, Ilana Weinstock, “Holy Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 10:
glosses: The act of spending the night as a guest in another's house, especially when the participants are children.
glosses: An overnight guest.
reify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.ə.faɪ/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.ə.faɪ/
Forms: form: reifies
form: reifying
form: reified
form: reified
Etymology: Back-formation from reification, calque from German. Formed as Latin rēs (“thing”) + -ify (English suffix).
Senses: examples: 2024 September, Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, page 349. "What I've always appreciated about this concept of coincidence ... is how it reifies our search for causality, our need to establish logical connections among disparate events."
glosses: To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
Synonyms: concretize
objectify
picture
thingify
Coordinate terms: english: make real
translation: make real
word: realize
Related terms: dereify
dereification
reification
conceptualize
hypostatize
personify
mammary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæməɹi/
Etymology: From French mammaire, from Latin mamma (“breast”).
Senses: examples: text: mammary arteries and veins
text: It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
ref: 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to mamma or breast (of a woman or a female animal).
Derived terms: enteromammary
extramammary
inframammary
intermammary
intramammary
limb-mammary syndrome
mammaric
mammary Paget's disease
perimammary
retromammary
submammary
supramammary
transmammary
mammary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæməɹi/
Forms: form: mammaries
Etymology: From French mammaire, from Latin mamma (“breast”).
Senses: glosses: A mamma (milk-secreting organ of a woman or a female animal).
Related terms: mamma
mammal
mammary crest
mammary gland
mammary ridge
Baum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Baum.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
diagnostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diagnostic + -ics.
Senses: glosses: plural of diagnostic
diagnostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagnostics
Etymology: From diagnostic + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: diagnosis
text: Diagnostics is the area in which this molecule is most useful, whereas it is not a treatment target in itself.
text: The diagnostics were extensive, with scores of laboratory tests.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The process of arriving at a diagnosis (through diagnostic efforts: tests, analysis, thought).
Diagnostic methods considered collectively.
raw_tags: in construction
examples: text: Diagnostics is the area in which the cost of hiring a factory-certified technician might easily pay for itself through downtime reduction.
text: The diagnostics were a nightmare, but we finally isolated the problem to a specific one of the many ECUs — of which this ridiculous design has at least fourteen that we know of.
glosses: The process of arriving at a diagnosis (through diagnostic efforts: tests, analysis, thought).
The process of determining the state of or capability of a component to perform its function(s).
raw_tags: of devices
in construction
Derived terms: biodiagnostics
immunodiagnostics
nanodiagnostics
neurodiagnostics
pharmacodiagnostics
phytodiagnostics
psychodiagnostics
radiodiagnostics
telediagnostics
theranostics
Related terms: diagnostician
differential diagnosis
prognostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnɑstɪks/
ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of prognostic
prognostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnɑstɪks/
ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪks/
Senses: glosses: An engineering discipline focused on predicting the time at which a system or a component will no longer perform its intended function.
defalcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɛfəɫˈkeɪʃən]
Forms: form: defalcations
Etymology: Late 15th century, from Medieval Latin dēfalcātiōnem, accusative singular of dēfalcātiō (literally “cutting off, lopping off with a sickle”), nominalization of dēfalcō, from Latin dē (“off”) + falx (“sickle, scythe, pruning hook”), from which also English falcate (“sickle-shaped”).
By surface analysis, defalcate + -ion (“the act of”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The act of cancelling part of a claim by deducting a smaller claim which the claimant owes to the defendant.
examples: text: Granting that Mr. Ireland had gone into his office at ten minutes to ten o'clock at night for the purpose of extracting £5000 worth of notes and gold from the bank safe, whilst giving the theft the appearance of a night burglary; […] why should he, at nine o'clock the following morning, fall in a dead faint and get cerebral congestion at sight of a defalcation he knew had occurred?
ref: 1909, Emma Orczy, chapter XIX, in The Old Man in the Corner:
text: “Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. He had settled down in Estrepps. There were several persons in the town who had suffered from his defalcations.[…]”
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
glosses: Embezzlement.
Related terms: defalcate
falcate
littoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹəl/
homophone: literal
Forms: form: litoral
Etymology: From Late Latin littoralis, from litoris (genitive of litus). The doubled 't' is a late medieval addition, and the more classical litoral is also sometimes found. Cognate to French littoral, Spanish litoral, Portuguese litoral, and more distantly to English lido (“outdoor pool”), via Italian lido (“beach, shore”).
Senses: examples: text: The deep-sea fauna has probably been formed almost entirely from the littoral, not in the remotest antiquity, but only after food derived from the débris of the littoral and terrestrial faunas and floras became abundant.
ref: 1885, H. N. Moseley, “The Fauna of the Sea-Shore”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 27:
synonyms: intertidal
maritime
glosses: Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.
Hypernyms: marine
limnic
coastal
Hyponyms: word: supralittoral
word: eulittoral
sense: can also be considered coordinate terms
word: sublittoral
word: neritic
Coordinate terms: word: pelagic
word: limnetic
word: profundal
word: benthic
sense: riverbank
word: riparian
Derived terms: circalittoral
circumlittoral
epilittoral
eulittoral
infralittoral
littoralization
mediolittoral
midlittoral
sublittoral
supralittoral
Related terms: lido
littoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtəɹəl/
homophone: literal
Forms: form: littorals
form: litoral
Etymology: From Late Latin littoralis, from litoris (genitive of litus). The doubled 't' is a late medieval addition, and the more classical litoral is also sometimes found. Cognate to French littoral, Spanish litoral, Portuguese litoral, and more distantly to English lido (“outdoor pool”), via Italian lido (“beach, shore”).
Senses: examples: text: […] these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea […]
ref: 1921, Sir Charles Eliot, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The railway running along the littoral from Brighton westward to Portsmouth forms an important section of the L.B.S.C.R. (Central) secion of the Southern Railway.
ref: 1946 January and February, G. A. Sekon, “The L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
text: Just beyond the locomotive depot is the junction of the Anecho line, which curves sharply eastwards. It runs for the whole way along the flat, sandy littoral among coconut plantations, usually a mile or so inland.
ref: 1955 May, H. P. White, “The Togoland Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 344:
glosses: A shore.
examples: text: The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 6, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
synonyms: intertidal zone
foreshore
littoral range
glosses: The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
ripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪpə/
enpr: rĭpʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɪpɚ/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rippers
Etymology: From rip + -er; originated 1605–15.
Senses: glosses: Something that rips something else.
glosses: Someone who rips something.
glosses: A legislative bill or act that transfers powers of appointment from the usual holders to a chief executive or a board of officials.
examples: text: Jack the Ripper
glosses: A murderer who kills and often mutilates victims with a blade or similar sharp weapon.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A hook-like tool used to tear away ore, rock, etc.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person employed to tear away ore, rock, etc. to make a passage for material to be carried to the surface.
examples: text: He [Rafael Nadal] didn't convert that but gained the advantage and launched another ripper of a forehand to force the error from Tsitsipas on the volley. (Thurston, E. November 15, 2019, Rafael Nadal digs deep to beat Stefanos Tsitsipas at ATP Finals. Sky UK https://www.skysports.com/tennis/news/12110/11862011/rafael-nadal-digs-deep-to-beat-stefanos-tsitsipas-at-atp-finals accessed August 29, 2020)
text: Martin walked around the vehicle, viewing it from all angles and giggling as he did so. “She's a ripper, Bert, a real ripper!”
ref: 2001, Filton Hebbard, Memories of Kalgoorlie: Tales from the Australian Outback, page 334:
text: Really, the Strauss Ball was in a category of its own, which is why we are making such a fuss about it; an absolute ripper of a ball whatever the hell it should be called in technical terms.
ref: 2018, Gary Cox, Cricket Ball, page 242:
glosses: Something that is an excellent example of its kind.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software that extracts content from files or storage media.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A tool or plant used to reduce soil compaction.
glosses: A hot dog deep-fried in oil until the casing bursts.
glosses: A foghorn.
Derived terms: bodice ripper
bonnet ripper
double-ripper
radish ripper
ripper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪpə/
enpr: rĭpʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɪpɚ/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Etymology: From rip + -er; originated 1605–15.
Senses: examples: 2019 Kobe Howard, Coaches Wrap Brisbane Lions, 30 April 2019. Accessed 6 May 2019.
Not only did Lachie Neale have another stand out game with 28 disposals and a ripper goal from outside 50, but Lions debutant Noah Answerth slotted in nicely picking up 5 intercept marks.
glosses: Very good; excellent; fantastic.
ripper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪpə/
enpr: rĭpʹər
ipa: /ˈɹɪpɚ/
rhymes: -ɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rippers
form: ripier
form: rippier
Etymology: Compare rip (“a basket”), or riparian (“relating to a river bank”).
Senses: examples: text: But what's the action we are for now? Robbing a ripper of his fish.
ref: c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
glosses: One who brings fish from the seacoast to markets in inland towns.
bitrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitrates
form: bit rate
Etymology: From bit + rate.
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The frequency at which bits (binary digits) pass a given physical or metaphorical point, measured in bps (bits per second).
Related terms: transfer rate
bit interval
byte
dood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doods
Etymology: Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is উট (uṭ).
Senses: examples: text: The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin.
ref: 1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858–9, volume 2, London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, page 25:
text: “I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.”
“What is a dood?”
“A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”
ref: 1892, George Manville Fenn, Gil the Gummer, Or, The Youngest Officer in the East, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 42:
glosses: A riding camel or dromedary.
dood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doods
form: doodz
Senses: examples: text: "Talk about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train last night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September."
ref: 1884 August, “The Boston Dude”, in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 18, number 8:
text: An' now Oi suppose if Oi don't get thim rolls riddy fer der brikfus' av that small dood that comes ter see Alice, Oi'll niver hear der end av it. Wot do Oi kee-ur? If he gives me a quarter whin he goes, it's more'n he'll do, fer all he's a dood an' all.
ref: 1888 November 17, “The Cook's Soliloquy”, in Time, volume 8, number 223, page 7:
text: On the dood ranch the dweller from the city can renew his almost forgotten ambition to be one with the rider of the Western plains --the cowpuncher, the Indian fighter, the pony express rider, the buffalo hunter, the scout.
ref: 1925, Collier's - Volume 76, page 34:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of dude.
Related terms: d00d
dood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doot.
dood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: doods
form: dooding
form: dooded
form: dooded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doot.
uni-directional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unidirectional.
kurtosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kər-tō′sĭs
ipa: /kəˈtəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɜːˈtəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /kɚˈtoʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɝˈtoʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /kəˈtəʉ.sɪs/
ipa: /kəˈtɐʉ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɜːˈtəʉ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɜːˈtɐʉ.sɪs/
Forms: form: kurtoses
form: kurtosises
Etymology: Coined by English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist Karl Pearson c. 1895 (published 1899 in "On certain Properties of the Hypergeometrical Series, and so on the fitting of such series to Observation Polygons in the Theory of Chance", Phil. Mag.).
From Ancient Greek κύρτωσις (kúrtōsis, “a bulging, convexity”), from κυρτός (kurtós, “bulging, convex”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.
Derived terms: excess kurtosis
heterokurtosis
homokurtosis
leptokurtic
leptokurtosis
mesokurtic
mesokurtosis
platykurtic
platykurtosis
RSS feed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSS feeds
Senses: synonyms: syndication feed
web feed
glosses: An XML document that follows the RSS ("Rich Site Summary") specification, used for syndication.
ley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: leys
Etymology: See lea.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
examples: text: For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
ref: 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:
glosses: A ley line.
glosses: Alternative spelling of lea.
Derived terms: Blackbird Leys
ley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: See lea.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Fallow; unseeded.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
ley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of lye.
ley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪ/
ipa: /liː/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -iː
Senses: glosses: Law.
Related terms: peso ley
lettuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: Lettice
ipa: /ˈlɛt.ɪs/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈlɛt.əs/
ipa: /ˈlɛtus/
note: Indic, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /lɛˈʈjus/
Forms: form: lettuces
Etymology: From Middle English letuse, of uncertain precise origin, probably from the plural form Old French laitues, derived from Latin lactūca (“lettuce”), from lac (“milk”), because of the milky fluid in its stalks. Replaced Old English lēahtric.
(money): Likely from the green color of US banknotes.
Senses: synonyms: sleepwort
glosses: An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green or purple leaves.
examples: text: I’ll have a ham sandwich with lettuce and tomato.
topics: food
lifestyle
vegetable
glosses: The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.
examples: text: To steady himself he counts the money left in his wallet. Seventy-three; today was payday. Fingering so much lettuce strengthens his nerves.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 26:
text: Twenty dollars an hour? That's a lot of lettuce!
synonyms: cabbage
greenbacks
glosses: United States paper currency; dollars.
glosses: A strong yellow-green color, like that of lettuce (also called lettuce green).
glosses: Marijuana.
glosses: Long, curly hair, as worn by followers of bro culture.
Derived terms: asparagus lettuce
Bibb lettuce
bibb lettuce
Boston lettuce
butterhead lettuce
cabbage lettuce
celtuce
chalk lettuce
cos lettuce
devil's lettuce
green leaf lettuce
hare's lettuce
iceberg lettuce
lamb's lettuce
lettuce-bird
lettuce edge
lettuce edging
lettuce hem
lettuce keeper
lettuce leaf
lettuceless
lettucelike
lettuce opium
lettuce sea slug
lettuce trim
lettucey
miner's lettuce
nut lettuce
prickly lettuce
purple lettuce
Romaine lettuce
romaine lettuce
sand lettuce
sea lettuce
slender sea lettuce
water-lettuce
water lettuce
white lettuce
wild lettuce
Related terms: cabbage
xeno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: xen-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξένος (xénos, “foreign, of a stranger”).
Senses: examples: text: xenophilia, xenophobia
glosses: Having to do with foreigners.
glosses: Relating to strangers or strangeness.
examples: text: xenolith, xenomenia
glosses: From a foreign place.
examples: text: porcine xenograft
text: We suggest defining such females as xenoparous, meaning they need to produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle. This shows the evolution of xenoparity (xeno-, meaning ‘foreign, strange, different’, and -parity, meaning ‘produce, bring forth, give birth’), which is the need to propagate another species’ genome by means of its own eggs.
ref: 2025 September 3, Y. Juvé, C. Lutrat, A. Ha, et al., “One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants”, in Nature, →DOI:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: hetero-
coordinate_terms: allo-
auto-
self-
glosses: From a donor of another species.
examples: xeno- + archaeology → xenoarchaeology
glosses: Of extraterrestrial origin.
Related terms: xenelasy
Xenia
xenon
commensurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/
ipa: /kəˈmɛnsəɹət/
ipa: /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/
Forms: form: more commensurate
form: most commensurate
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: commensurate punishments
text: If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own.
ref: 1962, Senator Mike Mansfield, Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam:
text: The $100 settlement was hardly commensurate with the humiliation his client had experienced.
ref: 1981 February 7, David Morris, “Gay Man Wins Suit Against Police”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 4:
text: Kettering will become an important interchange for passengers making these journeys, and EMR is considering improvements to the station's facilities commensurate with this status.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 54:
text: Mr. Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr. Biden’s physical state.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: appropriate
word: apropos
word: apposite
word: apt
word: comely
word: commensurate
word: correct
word: decorous
word: expedient
word: felicitous
word: fit
word: fit for purpose
word: fitting
word: gainand
word: idoneous
word: in line
word: likely
word: meet
word: opportune
word: proper
word: right
word: seemly
word: sensible
word: sortable
word: suitable
word: tidy
word: up to standard
word: commensurate
word: compatible
word: compliant
word: conformant
word: congruent
word: congruous
word: consistent
word: in line
word: in step
word: proportionate
antonyms: word: incommensurate
word: discommensurate
word: suitable
glosses: Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
Derived terms: commensurately
commensurateness
uncommensurate
commensurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/
ipa: /kəˈmɛnsəɹət/
ipa: /kəˈmɛnʃəɹət/
Forms: form: commensurates
form: commensurating
form: commensurated
form: commensurated
Etymology: First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: For that division is not naturally founded, but artificially set down, and by agreement, as the aptest terms to define or commensurate the longitude of places.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To reduce to a common measure.
examples: text: The rare temper and proportion, which the Church of England useth in commensurating the Forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity, is to be observed
ref: 1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted:
glosses: To proportionate; to adjust.
outlaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊt.lɔː/
rhymes: -aʊtlɔː
ipa: /ˈaʊt.lɔ/
ipa: /ˈaʊt.lɑ/
ipa: /ˈæɔt.loː/
Forms: form: outlaws
Etymology: From Middle English outlawe, outlagh, utlaȝe, from Old English ūtlaga (“outlaw”), borrowed from Old Norse útlagi (“outlaw, fugitive”), equivalent to out- + law. Cognate with Icelandic útlagi (“outlaw”).
Senses: examples: text: “I am going to a certain tower, one of three that were built in my grandsire’s time to guard Lantern Waste against certain perilous outlaws who dwelled there in his day. […]"
ref: 1956, C. S. Lewis, chapter 5, in The Last Battle, Collins, published 1998:
glosses: A fugitive from the law.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without legal penalty.
examples: text: The main character in the play was a bit of an outlaw who refused to shake hands or say thank you.
glosses: A person who operates outside established norms.
glosses: A wild or violent animal, such as a horse.
glosses: An in-law: a relative by marriage.
glosses: One who would be an in-law except that the marriage-like relationship is unofficial.
examples: text: Without a pimp, she was an "outlaw," likely to be harassed, or threatened with assault or robbery on the street.
ref: 1977, Joseph Julian, Social Problems, page 463:
text: She was an outlaw. Chance is doing some double-checking to see if she had a pimp nobody knew about, but it doesn't look likely.
ref: 2010, Lawrence Block, Eight Million Ways To Die:
glosses: A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
Synonyms: sense: fugitive
word: absconder
sense: fugitive
word: fugitive
sense: criminal
word: bandit
sense: criminal
word: wolf's head
sense: person who operates outside established norms
word: anti-hero
sense: person who operates outside established norms
word: deviant
Hypernyms: sense: criminal
word: criminal
sense: prostitute
word: prostitute
Derived terms: outlaw country
outlawdom
outlawish
outlawism
outlawness
outlawry
Related terms: scofflaw