cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
capisce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpiːʃ/
ipa: /kəˈpiʃ/
rhymes: -iːʃ
Forms: form: capisces
form: capiscing
form: capisced
form: capisced
form: capeesh
form: capiche
form: capisch
form: capische
form: capishe
form: coppish
form: kabish
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from the spoken Neapolitan and Sicilian equivalents of either of the following:
* Italian capisce (literally “he, she, etc., understands”), the third-person singular present indicative form; or
* capisci (literally “you understand”) (possibly with the final vowel dropped or reduced in informal speech), the second-person singular present indicative form;
of capire (“to understand”), from Latin capere, the present active infinitive of capiō (“to capture, catch, seize; to comprehend, understand; etc.”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to grab, seize; to hold”).
Senses: examples: text: "I need at least a B-plus, and no one—I repeat, NO ONE—can know that I didn't write it. This paper is vitally important to my future. Do you capisce what I'm saying to you? Very important." / We grumbled our understanding into the phone. "Yeah, yeah, we capisce," Ellie said.
ref: 2013, Cindy Callaghan, chapter 12, in Lost in London, New York, N.Y.: Aladdin M!X, →ISBN, page 83:
text: "Nothing they say would stop me from thinking you're the greatest, smartest, bravest little girl in the whole world. Do you capisce me?" / "I capisce you," she nodded and her big eyes blinked back tears.
ref: 2014, RoseAnn DeFranco, chapter 5, in The Right Chord (Brothers of Audubon Springs; 3), Adams Basin, N.Y.: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To understand (someone or something).
examples: text: "Shoo, shoo, shoo, go help Pierfranco. He'll be bringing up heavy baskets, capisce?" I certainly capisced.
ref: 2020 February, Stephanie Cole, chapter 18, in Al Dente’s Inferno (Tuscan Cooking School Mystery; 1), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 290:
text: "I'm just saying. Because I don't know if you ladies got a brownshirt vibe off those dudes like I did, but I've got two grandparents who would smack me sideways if I didn't say this. The others died in a concentration camp. Capisce?” / Bronca capisces, nodding slowly in grim agreement. Because, well. She grew up missing a few elders, too—and contemporaries, for that matter.
ref: 2020, N[ora] K[eita] Jemisin, “The Interdimensional Art Critic Dr. White”, in The City We Became (Great Cities; 1), London: Orbit, →ISBN:
glosses: To understand.
shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
Senses: examples: text: Shooting beams of light played over the sea.
synonyms: darting
glosses: Moving or growing quickly
examples: text: I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.
synonyms: splitting
glosses: Of a pain, sudden and darting
Derived terms: angle shooting
angle-shooting
cowboy action shooting
crap shooting
drive by shooting
hip-shooting
instinct shooting
like shooting fish in a barrel
mall shooting
mass shooting
officer-involved shooting
school shooting
shooting box
shooting brake
shooting-brake
shooting circle
shooting gallery
shooting glasses
shooting guard
shooting-iron
shooting iron
shooting-jacket
shooting lodge
shooting match
shooting party
shooting preserve
shooting range
shooting ratio
shooting rights
shooting script
shooting seat
shooting spree
shooting star
shooting stick
shooting suit
shooting war
skeet shooting
sure as shooting
trap shooting
western action shooting
whole shooting match
wing shooting
shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːtɪŋ
Forms: form: shootings
Etymology: From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
Senses: examples: text: Police are hunting the people who carried out the shootings last week.
text: Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
ref: 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5
text: The Gun Violence Archive[…] defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people were killed or injured.
As of late March, the Gun Violence Archive has counted 130 mass shootings in the United States this year.
ref: 2023 March 28, Daniel Victor, “U.S. Mass Shootings in 2023: A Partial List”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023:
glosses: an instance of shooting with a gun or other weapon
examples: text: Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate.
ref: 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5
text: I take part in shooting at the local archery club.
glosses: the sport or activity of firing a gun or other weapon
glosses: a district in which people have the right to kill game with firearms
examples: text: the shooting of rays of light
glosses: the act of one who, or that which, shoots
examples: text: a shooting in one's head
glosses: a sensation of darting pain
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: filming
Derived terms: line shooting
para-shooting
shooting and crying
shooting board
shooting ground
shooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃuːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːtɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoot; forcefully projecting
vart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: varts
Etymology: Blend of vagina + fart.
Senses: glosses: An emission of air from the vagina, especially when audible; a queef.
vart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: varts
form: varting
form: varted
form: varted
Etymology: Blend of vagina + fart.
Senses: glosses: To queef.
kidology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kid + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The art of kidding, teasing mocking.
glosses: Studied deception.
Synonyms: codology
diallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + allele + -ic.
Senses: glosses: having two alleles
Related terms: diallelism
scavenger's daughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scavenger's daughters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Skeffington's daughter.
proliferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˌlɪf.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /pɹəˌlɪf.əˈɹæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: proliferations
Etymology: Borrowed from French prolifération.
Senses: glosses: The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
examples: text: One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
ref: 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
text: Internationally, the shipping container had already proven its worth, and by the early 1960s battles were being fought over what their standardised dimensions would be (their expected proliferation was not in question).
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
glosses: The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
examples: text: ... to combat proliferation by assisting them in gaining and assuring greater control over their dual-use equipment and technology. States that gain weapons of mass destruction are able to pose a significant military threat to the[…]
ref: 1997 11, William J. Perry, Proliferation: Threat and Response, DIANE Publishing, →ISBN, page 47:
text: [Efforts] to fight proliferation will require more than just new targets for collection; intelligence analysis will also have to change. In particular, to support policymakers looking for opportunities to disrupt, slow, or stop a[…]
ref: 1996, Air University (U.S.). Press, Fighting Proliferation: New Concerns for the Nineties:
glosses: The act of increasing, rising, or proliferating; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
In paticular, the spread (proliferating) of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.
glosses: The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
Derived terms: alloproliferation
angioproliferation
antiproliferation
autoproliferation
counterproliferation
endoproliferation
fibroproliferation
horizontal proliferation
hyperproliferation
hypoproliferation
immunoproliferation
lymphoproliferation
malproliferation
myeloproliferation
neuroproliferation
nonproliferation
non-proliferation
osteoproliferation
overproliferation
proliferate
proliferational
proliferation therapy
reproliferation
underproliferation
vertical proliferation
procreation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: procreations
Etymology: Recorded since circa 1386, from Old French procreacion (14th century; Modern French procréation), from Latin procreatio (“generation”), the noun of action from procreare (“to bring forth (offspring)”), itself from pro- (“forth”) + creare (“to create”)
Senses: glosses: The process by which an organism produces others of its biological kind
glosses: The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring
Synonyms: reproduction
Derived terms: family of procreation
Related terms: creation
procreant
procreate
procreating
procreative
procreator
propagation
xanthosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zænˈθoʊsɪs/
ipa: /zænˈθoʊsəs/
Forms: form: xanthoses
Etymology: From xanth- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A yellowish discolouration of tissues undergoing degeneration.
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: Synonym of citrinitas.
synonyms: word: citrinitas
Related terms: flavedo
escalation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.kəˈleɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌes.kəˈlæɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: escalations
Etymology: From escalate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of escalating.
examples: text: Thousands of violent videos are still available on the internet, according to Alexander, who claims they lead to an escalation in offline tensions between rival gangs. "I believe some young people are losing their lives as result of this material on the internet," she said.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
glosses: An increase or rise, especially to counteract a perceived discrepancy.
examples: text: The 1840s saw a further escalation, with new laws treating most slave ships captured as pirates, and a number of military expeditions being mounted to destroy slaving centres on the African coast and depose, or even kill, remaining local kings and chiefs who had refused to end slavery in their territory.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:35 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: A deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict.
examples: text: The manager ensures that the escalation team generates a continuous stream of root cause analysis exercises and the subsequent corrective actions.
ref: 2003, Garry Schultz, The Customer Care and Contact Center Handbook, →ISBN, page 229:
text: Resolving escalations tends to require large amounts of time and energy from the support engineer working on an escalation and from the manager driving it. If those individuals are also required to attend to other issues, they will either neglect other customers (not good) or do a poor job of driving the escalation (very bad).
ref: 2016, Francoise Tourniaire, The Art of Support, →ISBN, page 154:
qualifier: support
glosses: The reassignment of a difficult problem to someone whose job is dedicated to handling such cases.
Hyponyms: conflict escalation
cost escalation
horizontal escalation
privilege escalation
re-escalation
technological escalation
vertical escalation
Derived terms: escalation dominance
escalation hypothesis
escalation of commitment
escalation plan
Related terms: escalatory
premeditated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of premeditate
premeditated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: premeditated assault
text: a premeditated act of aggression
text: a premeditated breach of contract
text: in the face of premeditated criminal acts
text: caused by grossly negligent or premeditated infringement of duty
text: There is no proof of premeditated or grossly negligent wrongdoing.
text: "The second function is for seers who have used magic, but do not know about the second function. This criteria selects the informed while preventing premeditated exploitation of this function."
ref: 2018 January 22, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Jan 22, 2018:
antonyms: nonpremeditated
unpremeditated
glosses: Planned, considered, or estimated in advance; deliberate.
Synonyms: word: advised
word: aforethought
word: forebegotten
word: foreconceived
word: preconceived
word: predesigned
word: premeditated
word: prepense
word: preplanned
Hypernyms: word: intentional
word: planned
Related terms: premeditating
premeditation
unpremeditated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + premeditated.
Senses: examples: text: Hail to thee, blithe spirit! / Bird thou never wert, / That from heaven, or near it, / Pourest thy full heart / In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
ref: 1820 June (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To a Skylark”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 201:
synonyms: nonpremeditated
antonyms: premeditated
glosses: Performed, but not planned or thought out in advance; extemporaneous, but not unintentional.
discolouration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discolourations
Etymology: From discolour + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: […] one tablet completely sterilises a quart of water, tastelessly, without discolouration or odour.
ref: 1938, The Homestead, numbers 1170-1196, page 14:
text: We detect wrinkles, discolourations and pores, and subtract them from a woman’s beauty in ways we don’t if that same face is presented to us as masculine.
ref: 2018 March 6, Lili Loofbourow, “The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of discoloration.
UXO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UXOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of unexploded ordnance.
Related terms: sense: explosives
word: UXB
word: EOD
word: ERW
UXB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UXBs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of unexploded bomb.
Laplace distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution consisting of two exponential distributions, one positive and one negative.
Synonyms: double exponential distribution
probability distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probability distributions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A distribution of all possible values of a random variable together with an indication of their probabilities.
Synonyms: word: probability distribution
Hyponyms: word: normal distribution
word: chi-square distribution
word: Poisson distribution
word: Pareto distribution
word: Gaussian distribution
word: Laplace distribution
word: Bernoulli distribution
word: Cauchy distribution
word: Student's t-distribution
word: exponential distribution
word: Landau distribution
word: hypergeometric distribution
word: polar distribution
word: bimodal distribution
Related terms: word: gamma distribution
word: Landau distribution
word: Poisson distribution
word: polar distribution
word: probability density
word: statistic
word: :Category:Statistics
exponential distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exponential distributions
Senses: examples: text: The exponential distribution is a basic distribution for constructing a number of other distributions. For example, the gamma distribution is obtained from the distribution of the sum of random variables where each variable follows an exponential distribution.
ref: 1998, Vijay Singh, Entropy-Based Parameter Estimation in Hydrology, Kluwer Academic, page 49:
text: In addition, PH distributions provide a simple framework to demonstrate how one can extend many simple results on exponential distributions to more complex models without losing computational tractability.
ref: 1999, G. Latouche, V. Ramaswami, Introduction to Matrix Analytic Methods in Stochastic Modeling, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, page 33:
text: The exponential distribution was introduced briefly in Chapter 3 in connection with the Poisson discrete probability distribution function. There it was shown that if the number of failures in a given time period t was Poisson distributed, then the time to failure is distributed as an exponential distribution.
ref: 2012, Kenneth S. Stephens, Reliability Data Analysis with Excel and Minitab, ASQ Quality Press, page 145:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of a class of continuous probability distributions used to model the time between events that occur independently at a constant average rate.
Synonyms: sense: probability distribution
word: negative exponential distribution
Related terms: Poisson distribution
Poisson process
Laplace plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laplace planes
Senses: topics: astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The mean plane occupied by the orbit of a satellite during a precession cycle; the plane normal to the orbital precession pole of the satellite.
Coordinate terms: ecliptic plane
equatorial plane
precession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precessions
form: præcession
Etymology: From Middle English precessioun, precession, from Medieval Latin prēcessiōn-, prēcessio, from Latin praecēdō.
Senses: examples: text: But as it will not do to talk entirely at random, as Montaigne does, and Ralph Waldo Emerson tries to do, we must take up some little thread or threads. and string our thoughts thereupon, keeping up also a relation among them of precession and succession.
glosses: Precedence.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The wobbling motion of the axis of a spinning body when there is an external force acting on the axis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The slow gyration of the earth's axis around the pole of the ecliptic, caused mainly by the gravitational torque of the sun and moon.
glosses: Any of several slow changes in an astronomical body's rotational or orbital parameters.
Hyponyms: sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: apsidal precession
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: axial precession
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: Larmor precession
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: Lense-Thirring precession
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: orbital precession
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: perihelion precession
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: precession of the ecliptic
sense: astronomy: Hyponyms of precession
word: precession of the equinoxes
Related terms: precess
precession of the equinoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precessions of the equinoxes
Senses: examples: text: Some three thousand years ago (owing to the Precession of the Equinoxes) that star at the winter solstice did not stand at midnight where you now see it, but almost exactly ON the meridian line.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 29:
glosses: The slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic, resulting from precession of the earth's axis of rotation, and causing the equinoxes to occur earlier each year.
coordinate system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coordinate systems
Senses: examples: text: 1992, D. H. Maling, Coordinate Systems and Map Projections, 2nd Edition, Pergamon Press, page 27,
In this chapter we review some of the fundamental ideas about the plane coordinate systems which are used in surveying and mapping, both from the viewpoint of studying the mathematics of map projections and the practical tasks which arise in cartography.
text: Note that the orientation of Squire's coordinate system relative to the physical coordinate system is changing as a function of wavenumbervector.
ref: 2003, Vejapong Juttijudata, Proper Orthogonal Decomposition in Squire's Coordinate System and Its Low-dimensional Model of Channel Turbulence, Cornell University, page 22:
text: In Chapter 1 the choice of the origin and orientation of the analysis Cartesian coordinate system was made arbitrarily.[…]Note that nothing was said about the origins of the above two Cartesian coordinate systems.
ref: 2008, Bruce K. Donaldson, Analysis of Aircraft Structures, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 38:
topics: geometry
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A method of representing the position of any individual point in a space of given dimensionality as a tuple of numerical coordinates.
Related terms: analytic geometry
axis
Cartesian coordinate
coordinate plane
polar coordinates
tuple
Laplace transform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laplace transforms
Etymology: Named after French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace.
Senses: examples: F(s)=∫₀ ᪲f(t)e⁻ˢᵗ,dt.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: an integral transform of positive real function f(t) to a complex function F(s); given by
Hypernyms: integral transform
Related terms: ℒ
legislator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legislators
form: legislatour
Etymology: From Latin lēgislātor.
Senses: examples: text: Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 249:
glosses: Someone who creates or enacts laws.
especially a member of a legislative body.
synonyms: lawmaker
glosses: Someone who creates or enacts laws.
especially not any individual member of a legislative body but the abstracted author of a statute or statutes relevant for the principles of interpretation.
synonyms: lawmaker
Derived terms: colegislator
legislatorship
legislatress
nonlegislator
mysteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹt(ə)rēz
ipa: /ˈmɪst(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mystery
mysteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹt(ə)rēz
ipa: /ˈmɪst(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: a number of secret societies or cults
Laplacian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Laplace + -ian, after Pierre-Simon Laplace.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Laplacean.
Laplacian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laplacians
Etymology: From Laplace + -ian, after Pierre-Simon Laplace.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The Laplace operator.
snooze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /snuːz/
ipa: /snʉːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: snoozes
form: snoozing
form: snoozed
form: snoozed
Etymology: Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Confer also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”).
Senses: examples: text: The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
glosses: To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze.
examples: text: It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock[…]
ref: 2003, Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, page 110:
text: Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
ref: 2007, Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming, page 359:
text: To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.
ref: 2011, Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies, page 40:
glosses: To pause; to postpone for a short while.
Derived terms: snooze off
snoozer
you snooze you lose
snooze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snuːz/
ipa: /snʉːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: snoozes
Etymology: Unknown, attested since 18th century. Compare Dutch snoezelen (“to snooze”) or Swedish snusa (“to snore lightly”). Confer also Ancient Greek νυστάζω (nustázō, “to doze, drowse”) and Russian сон (son, “sleep, dream”).
Senses: examples: text: The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
synonyms: word: bed booger(s)
word: crusty
word: eye booger(s)
word: eye bogie(s)
word: eye crust
word: eye goop
word: eye gunk
word: eye sand
word: eye snot
word: gound
word: sleeper
word: sleepies
word: sleepy
word: sleepy booger(s)
word: sleepy dust
word: sleepy sand
glosses: A brief period of sleep; a nap.
glosses: The snooze button on an alarm clock.
examples: text: The whole movie was a snooze.
glosses: Something boring.
Derived terms: snoozapalooza
snooze button
snoozefest
tiger snooze
Related terms: catnap
nap
shuteye
slumber
Neoplatonism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: neo-Platonism
form: Neo-Platonism
Etymology: From neo- + Platonism.
Senses: glosses: A school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism.
Related terms: Neoplatonic
Neoplatonist
Neoplatonizing
Plato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪ.təʊ/
ipa: /ˈpleɪ.toʊ/
rhymes: -eɪtəʊ
Etymology: Via Latin Plato, from Ancient Greek Πλάτων (Plátōn), from πλατύς (platús, “broad, wide”), either because of Plato's robust body, or wide forehead or the breadth of his eloquence.
Senses: examples: text: My name is Plato Jones. Plato Constantine Jones. Plato because my mother is Greek, and Jones because my father is Welsh, and Constantine after his father, my grandfather, who is Constantine Llewellyn Jones.
ref: 1993, Nina Bawden, The Real Plato Jones, Houghton Miffin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
The Greek philosopher, 427–347 BC, follower of Socrates.
Derived terms: platonic hydrocarbons
platonic love
Platonic
platonic
Platonics
platonic solid
Platonism
Platonist
Related terms: Archimedes
Aristotle
Plethon
Pythagoras
Socrates
Laplace operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Laplace operators
Senses: examples: text: 1975, Various translators, V. Ja. Sikjrjavyĭ, A Quasidifferentiation Operator and Boundary Value Problems Connected With It, V. I. Averbvh, M. S. Birman, A. A. Blahin (editors), Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society for the Year 1972, Volume 27, [ТРУДЫ МОСКОВКОГО МАТЕМАҬИЧЕСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА ТОМ 27 (1972)], American Mathematical Society, page 202,
The first notion of a Laplace operator for functionals on a Hilbert space was introduced by Levy in [l], and the idea was developed further in [2]. Levy's results depended on the posthumous work of Gateaux [3] in which the Dirichlet problem in Hilbert space was considered (without any concise definition of the Laplace operator).
text: Nevertheless, a systematic analysis of heat semigroups for Laplace operators on metric graphs is still missing.[…]Below we will prove an upper bound on the number of negative eigenvalues (Theorem 3.7) and a lower bound on the spectrum of Laplace operators (Theorem 3.10).
ref: 2006, Vadim Kostrykin, Robert Schrader, “Laplacians on Metric Graphs: Eigenvalues, Resolvents, and Semigroups”, in Gregory Berkolaiko, Robert Carlson, Stephen A. Fulling, Peter Kuchment, editors, Quantum Graphs and Their Applications: Proceedings of an AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, American Mathematical Society, page 201:
text: There are lots of approaches to get rational approximation of fractional order Laplace operator.[…]The rational function approximation gives direction to realize this fractional order Laplace operator in circuit impedance and admittance forms. This section gives insight into simple method of approximating the fractional Laplace operator.
ref: 2008, Shantanu Das, Functional Fractional Calculus for System Identification and Controls, Springer, page 153:
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A differential operator,denoted ∆ and defined on ℝⁿ as Δ=∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ(∂²)/(∂x_i²), used in the modeling of wave propagation, heat flow and many other applications.
Synonyms: sense: differential operator
word: Laplacian
Hypernyms: sense: operator
word: differential operator
sense: operator
word: elliptic operator
sense: operator
word: Laplace–Beltrami operator
sense: operator
word: Laplace-de Rham operator
ludography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: ludographies
Etymology: From Latin ludus (“game”), and from -graphy, after bibliography.
Senses: examples: text: Examples are drawn from a range of games, both digital and non-digital—from Bioshock and World of Warcraft to Monopoly—and the book provides a variety of exercises and sample analyses, as well as a comprehensive ludography and glossary.
ref: 2014, Clara Fernández-Vara, Introduction to Game Analysis, Routledge, →ISBN, cover notes:
glosses: A curated list of games
A list of the games mentioned in a publication
examples: text: Some very specific obsessions recur throughout his ludography: themes involving the subconscious, the nature of the mind, and the manipulated hero.
ref: 2019 Nicolas Courcier, Mehdi El Kanafi, The Legend of Final Fantasy VII: Creation - Universe - Decryption "Nomura's Influence" (Third Editions →ISBN)
glosses: A curated list of games
The oeuvre of a game designer
examples: text: In 2021, among other things, the revised CATAN 3D Edition was published. Other exciting titles are currently in the works and will then be included in the ludography here.
ref: 2023, Klaus Teuber, Ludography:
glosses: A curated list of games
a list of all the board games a designer created.
Synonyms: gameography
nutgraf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌtˌɡɹɑːf/
ipa: /ˈnʌtˌɡɹæf/
Forms: form: nutgrafs
form: nut graf
form: nut graph
form: nutgraph
Etymology: Clipping of nutshell paragraph.
Senses: topics: journalism
media
glosses: The sentence or paragraph that summarizes a story.
doze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: does
homophone: dos
homophone: doughs
Forms: form: dozes
form: dozing
form: dozed
form: dozed
form: dose
Etymology: From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”).
Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.
Senses: examples: text: I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
text: If he Happen'd to Doze a little no and then in a Morning, the Jolly Cobbler Wak'd him.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: She dozes, too. Lies there for a minute or two, all these thoughts going through her head.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 357:
glosses: To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.
examples: text: I was an hour […] in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
ref: 1666, Samuel Pepys, diary dated 13 October, 1666:
text: October 29, 1693, Robert South, a sermon preached at Christ-church in Oxford before the university
They left for a long time (as it were) dozed and benumbed.
glosses: To make dull; to stupefy.
Synonyms: sense: sleep lightly
word: nod
Derived terms: adoze
Windoze
doze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: does
homophone: dos
homophone: doughs
Forms: form: dozes
form: dose
Etymology: From Middle English *dosen, from Old Norse dúsa (“to doze, rest, remain quiet”), from Proto-Germanic *dusāną (“to be dizzy”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to fly, whirl”), from *dʰew- (“to fly, shake, reek, steam, smolder”).
Cognate with Old Frisian dusia (“to be dizzy”), German Low German dösen (“to doze”), German dösen (“to doze”), Danish døse (“to doze”), dialectal Swedish dusa (“to doze, slumber”), Icelandic dúsa (“to doze”), Old English dysiġ (“foolish, stupid”), Scots dosnit (“stunned, stupefied”), Icelandic dúra (“to nap, slumber”), also compare Dutch doezelen (“to doze”). More at dizzy.
Senses: examples: text: I felt much better after a short doze.
text: Others who conscientiously attended the Technical College at night often drooped over their desks in a doze, and one does not wonder at it.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
text: At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:
glosses: A light, short sleep or nap.
Synonyms: sleep
Derived terms: dozer
doze off
dozy
Related terms: catnap
nap
shuteye
sleep
slumber
doze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: does
homophone: dos
homophone: doughs
Forms: form: dozes
form: dozing
form: dozed
form: dozed
Etymology: Clipping of bulldoze.
Senses: glosses: To bulldoze.
doze
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: does
homophone: dos
homophone: doughs
Senses: examples: text: Donald Duck: I'll give you $20 for those old license plates on your fence posts!
Other man: Hah? No chance! I bought dis house 'cause it has dis address! It's me lucky number! […] It was me prison number at Leavenworst and de winning number in de weekly parole lottery! I wudn't never sell doze plates!
ref: 1987, Don Rosa, Recalled Wreck:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of those.
make sense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes sense
form: making sense
form: made sense
form: made sense
Senses: examples: text: The thing doesn’t make sense to me.
text: Somehow the combination didn’t make sense, but Cranston took it at face value, whatever that was worth.
text: I was in your arms
Thinking I belonged there
I figured it made sense
Building me a fence
ref: 1980, ABBA, “The Winner Takes It All”:
text: Of course you're not coming over / Snap out of it / You're not making any sense
ref: 2002, Frou Frou, “Psychobabble”, in Details:
text: Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this could make real sense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring or third rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line?
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
synonyms: add up
glosses: To be sensible, coherent, reasonable.
examples: text: Can you make sense of her handwriting?
synonyms: make head or tail of
glosses: To decipher or understand.
examples: text: Maybe we should take a break. I mean, our relationship just isn't making much sense anymore.
glosses: Used to express interest or desire in something; to be pleasing or beneficial; to work, be operative, or be advantageous to.
examples: text: If you want to grow spinal erectors that don’t make sense, you have to do a lot of bent-over compound lifts.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: ridiculous
absurd
qualifier: generally negated
glosses: To be in the realm of the ordinary, to be not particularly developed.
radome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dəʊm/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪˌdoʊm/
Forms: form: radomes
Etymology: Blend of radar + dome, originating from the 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: Radar antennas were distributed in large quantities throughout the base, half of them in white radomes that looked as if some gigantic bird had laid a clutch of eggs at random.
ref: 2019, Joel Martinsen, transl., Supernova Era, Tor, page 233:
text: And it took my mother just twenty or so minutes to get to her new job at the NSA, whose boxy futuristic headquarters, topped with radomes and sheathed in copper to seal in the communications signals, forms the heart of Fort Meade.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A radar dome.
off the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: An accession of the Republic of Turkey to the European Union seems to have moved off the radar.
synonyms: under the radar
glosses: Unlikely to happen or be important in the near future, or tending to escape detection or attention.
landaulette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landaulettes
form: landaulet
Etymology: Diminutive of landau; see -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small landau.
examples: text: A weather-worn Vauxhall thirty landaulette was awaiting us, and bumped us for six or seven miles over by-paths and lanes which, in spite of their natural seclusion, were deeply rutted and showed every sign of heavy traffic.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
glosses: A motor car with an open driver’s seat and an enclosed rear section with one cross-seat and a collapsible roof; sometimes used for weddings.
under the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: An allusion to flying an airplane at an altitude too low for radar detection.
Senses: examples: text: Institutional change has not happened. But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places.
ref: 2004 August 30, Andrea Sachs, “About-Face”, in Time:
text: Look, we keep our hand in with Maitland as well as this Partick thing. But we do it under the radar.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 48:
glosses: Without attracting notice; in an undetected or secretive manner.
Derived terms: fly under the radar
slip under the radar
set apart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets apart
form: setting apart
form: set apart
form: set apart
Senses: glosses: To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose.
examples: text: It is one of the ironies of capital cities that each acts as a symbol of its nation, and yet few are even remotely representative of it. London has always set itself apart from the rest of Britain — but political, economic and social trends are conspiring to drive that wedge deeper.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
text: "This is a particularly good example of a timber railway station, with its Royal connection giving rise to some outstanding internal and external detailing. The swan-necked iron lamps, the porte-cochère and outstanding decoration in the Royal waiting room set the station apart."
ref: 2022 June 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Wonderful waiting rooms on the waiting list”, in RAIL, number 960, pages 59–60:
glosses: To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of (something).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to separate or isolate.
examples: text: As I sat in fast and testimony meeting last week a sister in the congregation got up and talked about what it means to be set apart as a missionary..
ref: 2009 November 8, Kristine Frederickson, “Remembering what 'set apart' means”, in Deseret News, Deseret News Publishing Co.:
glosses: To perform a blessing which formally invests a person with authority to serve in a calling or leadership position, typically by laying on of hands.
Synonyms: sense: select for a purpose
word: appropriate
word: dedicate
sense: distinguish
word: discriminate
word: distinguish
word: tell apart
word: allocate
word: assign
word: detach
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: designate
word: earmark
word: preselect
word: put aside
word: secern
word: secernate
word: separate
word: sepose
word: sequester
word: set apart
word: set aside
Hypernyms: word: choose
word: segregate
Hyponyms: word: block off
Related terms: word: tell apart
shpadoinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Coined 1993 by Trey Parker in film Cannibal! The Musical as a nonsense word. Later used in episode “The Gift” (May 22, 2001) of TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon, thence popularized by fans.
Senses: examples: text: Holy Shpadoinkle Danny, you killed like, everything in town.
ref: 2007. James M. Stillwell. Stand Strong Crew: A Super Tale
glosses: An exclamation meaning "great" or denoting surprise.
wikipedia: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Cannibal! The Musical
Joss Whedon
Trey Parker
leave well enough alone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːv ˈwɛl ɪˌnʌf əˈləʊn/
Forms: form: leaves well enough alone
form: leaving well enough alone
form: left well enough alone
form: left well enough alone
Senses: examples: text: We should have left well enough alone when we had it working the first time.
synonyms: leave well alone
glosses: To leave something alone; to avoid trying to correct, fix, or improve what is already adequate.
Synonyms: if it ain't broke, don't fix it
let well enough alone
Related terms: over-egg the pudding
perfect is the enemy of good
droop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: drūp
ipa: /ˈdɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: drupe
Forms: form: droops
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.
Senses: glosses: Something which is limp or sagging.
examples: text: He walked with a discouraged droop.
glosses: A condition or posture of drooping.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
Coordinate terms: slat
Derived terms: brewer's droop
droop nose
droop snoot
droop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: drūp
ipa: /ˈdɹuːp/
rhymes: -uːp
homophone: drupe
Forms: form: more droop
form: most droop
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *drūpaną, *drupōną (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewb- (“to drip, drop”). Doublet of drip and drop.
Senses: examples: text: But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud,
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all.
And hides the green hill in an April shroud :
ref: c. 1880s, C. M. Kirtland, “Ode on Melancholy”, in Poetry of the Flowers, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., page 505:
glosses: Drooping; adroop.
Related terms: drooped
drooping
droopy
drooped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹuːpt/
rhymes: -uːpt
Senses: examples: text: She was too young to realize the full horror of her position, and ere long she had fallen asleep, curled up like a kitten, with the silken, tangled curls of her hair blown about her pretty, drooped face […]
ref: 1883, Adah M. Howard, Irene Gray's Legacy, page 6:
glosses: Lacking stiffness.
Related terms: droop
droopy
drooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹuːpt/
rhymes: -uːpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of droop
take it from me
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes it from me
form: taking it from me
form: took it from me
form: taken it from me
form: you can take it from me
form: you may take it from me
Senses: examples: text: Take it from me, if you can't learn how to communicate with each other, your marriage will never work.
text: Take it from me, someday we'll all be free
ref: 1973, Donny Hathaway, Edward Howard, “Someday We'll All Be Free”, in Extension of a Man, performed by Donny Hathaway:
glosses: Believe me; rest assured.
Related terms: take someone's word for it
rest assured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rests assured
form: resting assured
form: rested assured
form: rested assured
Senses: examples: text: You may rest assured that our best efforts will be put forth to give you complete satisfaction.
text: Rest assured, this will not last.
Take a turn for the worse.
Your hate, clipped and distant.
Your luck, [a] two-headed cow.
ref: 1983 April 12, “Pilgrimage”, in Murmur, performed by R.E.M.:
glosses: Be sure; not need to worry; trust.
sexagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: sexagenarians
Etymology: From Latin sexāgēnārius (“containing 60”) + -an (forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnus (“60 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from sexāgintā (“six tens, 60”).
Senses: examples: text: Luxury hotels and travel planners must be licking their lips at the prospect that a significant portion of those new sexagenarians will want the trip of a lifetime (and hang the kids' inheritance…).
ref: 2010 December 7, J.A., “Travel in style”, in The Economist:
glosses: Synonym of sixtysomething: a person between 60 and 69 years old.
synonyms: word: sixtysomething
extra: a person between 60 and 69 years old
sexagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌsɛksəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Etymology: From Latin sexāgēnārius (“containing 60”) + -an (forming adjectives and representative nouns), either directly or via French sexagénaire, from Latin sexāgēnus (“60 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from sexāgintā (“six tens, 60”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: vicenarian
tricenarian
quadragenarian
quinquagenarian
semicentenarian
septuagenarian
nonagenarian
centenarian
supercentenarian
glosses: Of or related to sixtysomethings.
Synonyms: sexagenary
hexagenarian
Derived terms: sexagenarianism
Related terms: sexagesimal