cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
untaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + taxed.
Senses: examples: text: During August, clothes costing less than $75 are untaxed, to try to help the poor to buy clothes and the merchants to make money.
text: If your income qualifies you to contribute to a Roth IRA, you can contribute up to $7,000 this year ($8,000 if you’re at least 50) with after-tax savings. That money will grow untaxed until retirement, at which point your withdrawals will be tax-free and penalty-free after age 59-1/2, assuming the account has been open for at least five years.
ref: 2024 March 15, Jeanne Sahadi, “The average tax refund is over $3,000. Here are 7 ways to put it to good use”, in CNN:
glosses: Not subject to being taxed.
examples: text: Bootleggers make good money selling untaxed cigarettes, until they are caught.
glosses: Not having had the required taxes paid on it.
examples: text: The motor was untaxed by the steep hill because the vehicle was so lightly loaded.
glosses: Not tired or strained, working well within capacity.
unrefereed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + refereed.
Senses: examples: text: Our friendly games of ball are unrefereed, which is fine until we have to settle a dispute by screaming at each other.
glosses: Not judged by a formal referee.
examples: text: Being printed in an unrefereed journal isn't as prestigious as being published in a refereed academic journal.
glosses: Of a journal article: not reviewed before being printed.
unravelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unraveling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unravel
unravelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unravellings
form: unraveling
Senses: examples: text: the unravelling of cellular mechanisms
text: the unravelling of the global financial system
glosses: The act of becoming unravelled.
unravelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unraveled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unravel
unriddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unriddles
form: unriddling
form: unriddled
form: unriddled
Etymology: From un- + riddle.
Senses: glosses: To figure out the answer to (a riddle).
examples: text: It vvill be found, vvhen the Myſterie of iniquitie ſhall be unriddled, that, as they vvere their ſpavvn the Anabaptiſts, the obſtructers of our Doctrinal Reformation, ſo, they are by their Miſſionaries ſent unto Corners and Hillie Countreys the obſtructers of our practical.
ref: 1702, [John Wilson], An Essay wherein National Love and Unity is Recommended, Its Opposits Exposed, Arguments for It Propounded, and Its Standard Expounded, and All Contenders Blamed. […], Edinburgh: Printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson, […], →OCLC, page 22:
text: On the right hand of [a wax figure representing] Popery sat Judaism, represented by an old man embroidered with phylacteries, and distinguished by many typical figures, which I had not skill enough to unriddle.
ref: 1710 December 11 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison; Richard Steele], “Thursday, November 30, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 257; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume III, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC, page 356:
text: 'I your Enemy, Sir!' ſays he, vvith much Amazement, and ſome Sternneſs in his Look. 'Nay, be not angry,' ſaid Benjamin, 'for I promiſe you I am not. You are perfectly innocent of having intended me any VVrong; for you vvas then an Infant; but I ſhall, I believe, unriddle all this the Moment I mention my Name. Did you never hear, Sir, of one Partridge, vvho had the honour of being reputed your Father, and the Misfortune of being ruined by that Honour?'
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “In which More of the Talents of Mr. Benjamin will Appear, as well as Who this Extraordinary Person was”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII, page 186:
glosses: To solve (a perplexing problem).
make a decision
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a decision
form: making a decision
form: made a decision
form: made a decision
Senses: examples: text: You need to make a decision whether or not to go.
glosses: To decide.
Synonyms: sense: decide
word: choose up
sense: decide
english: much less common, especially in the US
translation: much less common, especially in the US
word: take a decision
barkhan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkhans
Senses: examples: text: The structure out here was revealed immediately—desert punctuated by oases in a geography of cruelty, barkhans or traveling sand-dunes a hundred feet high, which might or might not possess consciousness, […]
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 752:
glosses: Alternative spelling of barchan.
open minds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open mind
saksaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saksauls
Senses: examples: text: Oases, or distant smoky blurs of saksaul trees, appeared like moments of remission in lives of misfortune—rumored, hallucinated, prayed for, not always where they were supposed to be.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, pages 844–5:
glosses: Alternative form of saxaul.
outeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outeats
form: outeating
form: outate
form: outeaten
Etymology: From out- + eat.
Senses: examples: text: I’m talking about Seymour. No-one can outeat him.
ref: 1997, Joseph Purdy, “Eating Contest”, in Hey Arnold!, season 2, episode 13, spoken by Helga Pataki (Francesca Marie Smith):
glosses: To eat more than.
logmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logmakers
Etymology: From log + maker.
Senses: examples: text: The Advertising Standards Authority concluded that the complaint was justified, noting that under the Act, authorisation for fuels produced by the "logmaker" would be unlikely since manufacture could not be controlled to a sufficient degree to ensure uniform quality of any fuel produced.
ref: 1983, Clean Air - Volume 13, Issues 1-4, page 108:
text: You need to soak the paper in water, squash it into the logmaker and squeeze down the handles.
ref: 2011, Natalia Marshall, Save the planet: 52 brilliant ideas for rescuing our world, →ISBN, page 93:
text: In fact nowadays, you can buy hand-cranked log-makers that will compact your newspapers, which are also cellulose, into handy burnable briquettes -- useful if you are miles from recycling facilities.
ref: 2012, Colin Smith, This Cold House: The Simple Science of Energy Efficiency, →ISBN:
text: y'know those paper logmakers where you soak some newspaper and then put it in a metal box and pull the handles to compress it? I have tried to this.
ref: 2014 May 1, John, “Paper Log Maker”, in lowery278trouperide (Usenet):
glosses: A device that creates 'logs' out of burnable waste; the device encases the burnable waste within a newspaper wrapping by the use of a special tube and plunger.
examples: text: So, on the alert for any sound which might enable him to locate logmaker or roadcutter who would put him on the track of Angus, he tramped along and it was not long before his attention was rewarded.
ref: 1922, Canada Lumberman and Woodworker - Volume 42, page 50:
text: Log making exhibited a workload which could be classified as moderate to heavy because the logmaker used a chainsaw on the landing.
ref: 1993, John Galbraith, Managing New Zealand's Forests for Future Markets:
text: A poor logmaker who managed to achieve 70% of the optimum would be loosing^([sic]) $60 per tree which is $30 per tonne or $18,000 per hectare.
ref: 1997, Woodlot Logging:
glosses: One who cuts trees at a tree farm and prepares logs for further processing; lumberman.
rabab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbæb/
Forms: form: rababs
form: rebab
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic رَبَاب (rabāb).
Senses: examples: text: The hired musicians—rabab, hand drums, and ghärawnay, or Chinese flute—had learned “Kalinka” and “Ochi Chorniya”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 846:
glosses: An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
Stoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: I pull some Stoli from underneath my bed and pour it into the one clean mug I have and we take turns drinking from it.
ref: 2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 36:
glosses: Stolichnaya vodka.
groupalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groupality
proofer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proofers
Etymology: From proof + -er.
Senses: glosses: A chamber used in baking that encourages fermentation of dough by yeast through warm temperatures and controlled humidity.
examples: text: There was a time when the half-tone photographer received considerable more in wages than did the proofer.
ref: 1913, Louis Fader, “The Cost of Production and its Relation to Salesmanship and Profit”, in Process: the photomechanics of printed illustration, volume 20, number 237, page 238:
text: The proofer would check under “Third” in the T's and find the The Third Annual Pablo Casals Festival.
ref: 1997, John Leverence, And the winner is--: using awards programs to promote your company, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: One who proofs.
examples: text: In graphic arts industry, in order to utilize color effectively, often a proofer is employed to simulate the reproductions of a press that is used to produce high-quality printed matters for clients.
ref: 2003, Mei-Chun Lo, Yui-Liang Chen, Pei-Li Sun, Ya-Hui Chiang., “The Color Rendering Between a Color Proofer and Printing Press”, in Proceedings AIC 2003 Bangkok: Color Communication and Management, →ISBN, page 181:
glosses: A printer used to make proofing copies that look like how it will come out of the press.
Related terms: proofing
banneton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bannetons
Etymology: Borrowed from French banneton.
Senses: synonyms: brotform
proofing basket
glosses: A type of basket used to provide structure for breads during proofing.
batard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈtɑɹd/
ipa: /bæˈtɑːd/
ipa: /ˈbætɑːd/
Forms: form: batards
Etymology: From French bâtard. Doublet of bastard.
Senses: glosses: A loaf of bread similar in shape to a baguette, but shorter (15 to 30 cm / 6 to 12 inches in length).
Related terms: mombin batard
roggenbrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roggenbrots
Etymology: From German Roggenbrot.
Senses: glosses: Rye bread made from sourdough
tuck into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tucks into
form: tucking into
form: tucked into
form: tucked into
Senses: examples: text: If you'll just let little Wackford tuck into something fat, I'll be obliged to you.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Nicholas Nickleby:
text: Well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin.
ref: 1983 November 28, Pico Iyer, “Battling "Spiritual Pollution"”, in Time:
glosses: To eat, especially with gusto.
Related terms: tuck in
hot and sour soup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot and sour soups
Senses: glosses: Any one of several soups, served in various Asian cuisines, which are both spicy and sour
Related terms: tom yam
date with destiny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dates with destiny
Senses: examples: text: The American people want no rendezvous with a destiny plotted on blueprints in a Washington office. When they have a date with destiny they want to know what the lady looks like.
ref: 1936 Aug. 10, ""I Preach"," Time
text: Peter Griffin: I am not gonna let my family live on the street. Not even if it means ending up like Shamus here. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a date with destiny.
ref: 2001, "A Fish Out of Water", season 3, episode 10 of Family Guy Hennessey: You need fifty grand, Griffin? I got a suggestion for you. Why don't you kill Daggermouth? Peter Griffin: Maybe I will, Hennessey. Shamus: You'd be buying yourself a ticket to a watery grave. Daggermouth is the meanest, most ruthless creature that's ever inhabited the sea. […]
text: So much has been said about Europe's long-awaited date with destiny that it was hard to sort out the predictable hyperbole from the reality.
ref: 2002 January 1, Ian Black, “The arrival of the euro: their money, our future?”, in Guardian Unlimited, UK:
glosses: An inevitable future event or anticipated occurrence, especially in the form of an encounter which is likely to be momentous.
someones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We have the perfect gifts for your special someones.
text: The someones we were talking about have been arrested.
glosses: plural of someone
underfloor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + floor.
Senses: examples: text: The ride quality is pure HST - you have a smoother ride than on any underfloor DMU, aided by less intrusive noise. Sitting at the end of the coaches (and thus over the bogies) is obviously that bit bouncier, but in the centre of the trailer cars it's lovely - and much better than so many new trains such as Voyagers or Class 180s... in fact, anything with those dreaded underfloor engines.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 54:
glosses: Located beneath the floor.
Derived terms: underfloor heating
underfloor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underfloors
Etymology: From under- + floor.
Senses: glosses: A layer of flooring beneath the main floor surface.
Synonyms: subfloor
draughtsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughtsmanships
Etymology: From draughtsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: UK standard spelling of draftsmanship.
Guan Yin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Guanyin.
hot-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-dogs
Senses: examples: text: There are hundreds of plays and combinations, plus a great two-player mode. This guide should tell you which plays work best and when to use them. Grab a hot-dog and take to the stands for a few Hail Marys followed by a quick Toss and Pass.
ref: 1993, Carl Rowley, “John Madden ’93”, in Official Sega Genesis Power Tips Book, volume 2, Rocklin, Calif.: Prima Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hot dog.
hot-dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-dogs
form: hot-dogging
form: hot-dogged
form: hot-dogged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot dog.
knowledge base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowledge bases
form: knowledgebase
Senses: glosses: A database designed to meet the complex storage and retrieval requirements of computerized knowledge management, especially in support of artificial intelligence or expert systems.
Hypernyms: base
single bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single beds
Senses: examples: text: We'll be together
With a roof right over our heads
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
ref: 1978, Bob Marley, “Is This Love”, in Kaya, performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers:
glosses: A standard-sized bed, usually for the use of only one person.
Hypernyms: bed
Related terms: double bed
twin bed
necker's knob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necker's knobs
Etymology: From the humorous portrayal of the knob's purpose as being that it helps the driver to steer with one arm so as to leave the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.
Senses: examples: text: You remember the necker's knob on your high school jalopy?
ref: 1963, Herbert Gold, Salt: A Novel, Dial Press, page 246:
related: word: necker knob
glosses: Synonym of Brodie knob.
synonyms: word: Brodie knob
Related terms: necking
necker knob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: necker knobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of necker's knob.
Brodie knob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brodie knobs
Etymology: In reference to Steve Brodie; more in Wikipedia at Brodie knob § Etymology.
Senses: related: word: Brody knob
synonyms: granny knob
suicide knob
wheel spinner
necker's knob
necker knob
glosses: A knob attached to the steering wheel of a motor vehicle or tractor, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm, especially when the steering effort is hardest (for example, while backing up with a trailer and the vehicle is nearly stationary).
wikipedia: Steve Brodie (bridge jumper)
Brody knob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brody knobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Brodie knob.
ice pellets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice pellet
glosses: Small hail, generally less than 5 mm (0.2 in) in diameter.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sleet.
ice pellet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice pellets
Senses: glosses: singular of ice pellets; a single pellet of sleet.
no screaming hell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: no hell
Senses: examples: text: In overall management skills, "he's no screaming hell," says the analyst. "He doesn't have the long view."
ref: 1979 May 5, Jay Bryan, “Jake Moore is a man used to getting his way”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 29 Aug 2011, page 48:
text: Factory speakers are no screaming hell.
ref: 2005 Nov., "Re: 6 volt speakers? old car radio question," jalopyjournal.com, posting by Poncho62 (Hanover, Ontario, Canada) (retrieved 17 Dec. 2007)
text: I hate to say it but Canadian television was no screaming hell before Corner Gas.
ref: 2007 June 28, "The Ruby," cornergas.com, posting by WandasTrainee (retrieved 17 Dec. 2007)
text: [I]f we're being honest, Markov was no screaming hell in his first four or five games back.
ref: 2010 November 16, Sean Gordon, “Sports: The only constant is change”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 29 Aug 2011:
glosses: Not particularly effective or impressive; below expectations.
tembak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Malay tembak.
Senses: glosses: to guess the answer to a multiple-choice question
smoke dope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smokes dope
form: smoking dope
form: smoked dope
form: smoked dope
Senses: examples: text: The engineers are smoking dope if they think the company can build this new computer for $100.
glosses: To engage in fanciful reverie or wishful thinking.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see smoke, dope.
mutat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmutɑt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مُتْعَة (mutʕa). Doublet of mut'ah.
Senses: examples: text: Relying on Qur'an, Sura II, verse 236, Nasir (1990a, p. 144; 1990b, pp. 96-98) shows that the amount of mutat is a matter of goodwill and of custom.
ref: 1998, David Pearl, Werner Menski, Muslim family law, →ISBN, page 184:
text: Once it has had three steers, the new owner can 'cut the linkage' (mutat) by giving back an ox and six goats or so, depending on the practice in a particular area, and the original owner will give away the ox in exchange for another calf, which will create a new cattle lineage.
ref: 2007, David J. Ndegwah, Biblical Hermeneutics as a Tool for Inculturation in Africa, page 121:
text: This is a ruling agreed upon by the Shi’ahs with the reservation that if the husband should die before consummation, without having specified a dower, nor set any portion for his wife in the contract, then nothing is due to her by way of dower or gift (mutat) (Ref. Al-Hilli, p. 21).
ref: 2009, Jamal J. Ahmad Nasir (editor), The Status of Women under Islamic Law and Modern Islamic Legislation (third edition), BRILL, chapter thirteen: “The Dower”, § 5: ‘Entitlement to the Dower’, page 95
text: This argument confirms that in traditional Muslim jurisprudence the concept of some kind of compensation for the divorced Muslim wife, in the form of mata or mutat, was not unknown.
ref: 2013, Werner Menski, Modern Indian Family Law, →ISBN, page 284:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A compensation gift given to a woman when divorced or repudiated by her husband.
neurofibromatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofibromatoses
Etymology: From neurofibroma + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A genetic disorder characterized by the presence of multiple neurofibromas under the skin.
Hyponyms: von Recklinghausen disease
neurofibroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurofibromas
form: neurofibromata
Etymology: From neuro- + fibroma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A benign tumor composed of fibroblasts surrounding nerve cells
Derived terms: neurofibromatosis
neurofibromin
plexiform neurofibroma
Jean-Pierre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jean-Pierres
form: Jeanpierre
Etymology: Borrowed from French Jean-Pierre.
Senses: examples: Karine Jean-Pierre, b. 1977
glosses: A surname from French.
Pierrette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pierrettes
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the family then invades the studio, three boys dressed as Pierrots and three girls dressed as Pierrettes.
ref: 2019, Karl Toepfer, Pantomime, page 741:
glosses: A female Pierrot character.
betwene
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of between.
Pontus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒntəs/
ipa: /ˈpɑːntəs/
rhymes: (UK) -ɒntəs
Etymology: From Latin Pontus, from Ancient Greek Πόντος (Póntos, “Black Sea, Pontus”), from πόντος (póntos, “sea”), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀵 (po-to). Doublet of pons.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A sea god, particularly of the Black Sea.
glosses: An ancient kingdom and cultural region covering the eastern half of the southern coast of the Black Sea, in Anatolia in modern Turkey; traditionally Greek-speaking.
glosses: A former province of the Roman Empire covering the western half of the Pontus region unified with Bithynia; in full, Bithynia et Pontus.
Related terms: Pontic
today is a good day to die
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈdeɪ ɪz ə ˈɡʊd deɪ tuː ˈdaɪ/
ipa: /tʊˈdeɪ ɪz ə ˈɡʊd deɪ tə ˈdaɪ/
Etymology: The phrase is frequently attributed to the Oglala Lakota war leader Crazy Horse (c. 1842 – 1877), though this is inaccurate as the earliest published reference, in the 14 August 1881 edition of the Leavenworth Times, attributes it to the Oglala Lakota chief Low Dog (c. 1846 – 1894).
Senses: examples: text: Junkies brag about the "rush" of mainlined heroin or inhaled crack cocaine; I'll put the rush of danger up against any drug. I wasn't kidding when I told Bouton it was a good day to die. Any day is a good day to die. As long as you go down fighting.
ref: [1993, Stephen Solomita, chapter 12, in A Good Day to Die, New York, N.Y.: Otto Penzler Books, →ISBN:
text: We will keep safe the heritage of this country. And if someday we must die to serve this cause, well, then, it will be a good day to die.
ref: [1997, Robert B[rown] Parker, chapter 26, in Night Passage: A Jesse Stone Novel, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN:
text: Otherwise, small business owners like those in the construction industry will have to be prescient, as well as politically and financially astute, in deciding if today is a good day to die.
ref: 2001, Engineering News-Record: Top Construction Management Firms, volume 246, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 72:
glosses: An expression of willingness, even eagerness, to give one’s life for a cause.
examples: text: To be given the strength to live without regrets, without the feeling that you should be doing something more, something different. To make today''' a good day to die. To gain fulfillment not with length of time, but with quality.
ref: [2002, Dave Collins, “Gains”, in Please Remain Seated until the Ride has Come to a Complete Stop: Dave Collins Memoir, Lincoln, Neb.: Writer's Showcase, iUniverse, →ISBN, pages 86–87:
text: The main thing is to die after having truly lived, after leaving behind a contribution. Socrates lived fully and was perfectly content to let go when the time came. As the Native American saying goes, "Today is a good day to die."
ref: 2006, Dan Millman, “On Chapter Four: The Sword is Sharpened”, in Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes Lives, Tilburon, Calif.: H. J. Kramer; Novato, Calif.: New World Library, →ISBN, page 111:
text: In the native tradition of the Pacific Northwest there is a saying: "Today is a good day to die." What it means, of course, is that today is a good day to live completely. If you were lying on that hospital bed right now, what would be on that short list?
ref: 2008, John Izzo, “The First Secret: Be True to Your Self”, in The Five Secrets You must Discover before You Die, San Francisco, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: An expression indicating that one should not live with any regrets, or tasks left undone.
chromodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chromo- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the relationship between those quarks that possess the quantum property of color, and exchange gluons; more fully quantum chromodynamics.
Angelique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French anglicized from French Angélique, occasionally used in English since the 20th century.
Eve-teasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eve-teasings
Etymology: Named after the biblical Eve, the first woman. Likely influenced by Hindi छेड़ख़ानी (cheṛxānī), छेड़-छाड़ (cheṛ-chāṛ).
Senses: glosses: sexual harassment of women by men
Derived terms: eve-tease
Related terms: roadside Romeo
taharrush
dilaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilatons
Etymology: From dilate + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical scalar field (analogous to the photon).
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle, associated with gravity, in string theory.
Derived terms: axiodilaton
dilatino
dilatonic
technidilaton
fusel oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusel oils
Etymology: Partial calque of German Fuselöl, from Fusel, referring to low-quality alcoholic beverages in general, especially to inferior wines and spirits distilled with inadequate equipment.
Senses: examples: text: As for drinking, I am something of a chemist and I have yet to find a liquor that is free from traces of a number of poisons, some of them deadly, such as fusel oil, acetic acid, ethylacetate, acetaldehyde and furfurol.
ref: 1959, Ian Fleming, chapter 11, in Goldfinger:
text: […] and many simply blamed on the Doosra's known enthusiasms for opium, ganja, and any number of local fusel oils, singly or combined, named and nameless.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 756:
synonyms: fusel
fusel alcohol
fuselol
potato oil
glosses: A mixture of several higher-order alcohols (having more than two carbon atoms) formed as byproduct in the normal fermentation process, captured as part of the tailings in distillation. An excessive concentration, as in low-quality moonshine, causes unpleasant taste.
Afghanistani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afghanistanis
Etymology: From Afghanistan + -i.
Senses: glosses: An inclusive term used for all inhabitants of Afghanistan versus Afghan which is an ethnonym.
Afghanistani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Afghanistani
form: most Afghanistani
Etymology: From Afghanistan + -i.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people.
Related terms: Afghan
Afghani
coucou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coo-coo (“Barbadian food”).
cuc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cucs
Senses: examples: text: Amazon cucs don't give rise to anything like the familiar vegetables we see in our supermarkets, and wild cucumbers are small, bitter, and in some cases poisonous.
ref: 2007, Roger Harris, Peter Hutchinson, The Amazon, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckinghamshire: Bradt Travel Guides; Guilford, C.T.: Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 110:
text: I found inspiration from the best from bars and restaurants of Los Angeles, but home bartending is as simple as combining fresh cucumbers (juiced cucs give better flavor), simple syrup and a clear alcohol.
ref: 2011 September 4, Mona Holmes, “End of Summer Cucumber Cocktails”, in Huffington Post, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2023:
text: He finished slicing the cucs and placed them in a brine of vinegar and water, floating on the top of a shallow glass bowl.
ref: 2013, Gary Griffith, A House of Stone Is Forever, Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 146:
text: If i see a cuc with a little tail I usually pick it off and toss. You need to plant more flowers to get more pollinators to your garden. You can hand pollinate but I've found it's not that great on cucs. It takes like 5-10 times before you pollinate correctly.
ref: 2025 June 18, u/therobotisjames, “What is going on with these pickling cucumbers?”, in Reddit, r/vegetablegardening, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of cuke (“cucumber”)
cooking pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking pots
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: any vessel (such as a saucepan), with or without a lid, used to cook food
cooking-pot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooking-pots
Senses: examples: text: When a hen no longer lays and a cock is no longer capable of sexual activity, their value is reduced to half a bushel, as they are fit only for the cooking-pot.
ref: 1997, Fergus Kelly, “Hens”, in Early Irish Farming: A Study Based Mainly on the Law-Texts of the 7th and 8th Centuries ad […] (Early Irish Law Series; 4), Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, published 2000, →ISBN, →ISSN, chapter 3 (Livestock), page 102:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cooking pot.
mass funeral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass funerals
Senses: glosses: The formalities that accompany a mass burial
exciton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɪtən/
ipa: /ɪkˈsaɪtɑn/
ipa: /ɛkˈsaɪtɒn/
Forms: form: excitons
Etymology: From excite + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A bound state of an electron and an electron hole in an insulator or semiconductor
Derived terms: biexciton
excitonic
excitonically
excitonics
interexciton
intraexciton
locsiton
magnetoexciton
multiexciton
orthoexciton
paraexciton
quadexciton
triexciton
internal rhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal rhymes
Senses: examples: text: We see a diverse and effective usage of internal rhyme in these ten lines. Pharoahe uses the typical internal rhyme, in which the rhymes are positioned in the middle and the end of the line (such as Lines 4, 8, and 9).
ref: 2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:
antonyms: exact rhyme
full rhyme
perfect rhyme
hypernyms: imperfect rhyme
;
rhyme
;
concord
coordinate_terms: half rhyme
quasi-rhyme
near rhyme
slant rhyme
glosses: The rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
wikipedia: Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven
Þórsdrápa
losings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One hears much more of winnings than losings.
glosses: Monetary losses, as from gambling; losses.
heterotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more heterotic
form: most heterotic
Etymology: From hetero- + -otic.
Senses: examples: text: An instructive example of a heterotic individual is ʽThe Toast of Botswana’. The Toast is a cross between a female goat and a male sheep.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 159:
glosses: Of or pertaining to heterosis.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a hybrid form of string theory (See Heterotic string theory on Wikipedia)
Derived terms: heterotically
nonheterotic
heterotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: heterotics
Etymology: From hetero- + -otic.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid organism of this kind.
fermionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fermion + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
Derived terms: antifermionic
fermionically
fermionic condensate
fermionic field
multifermionic
nonfermionic
parafermionic
pseudofermionic
pansexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæn.sɛk.ʃuˈæl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌpæn.sɛk.sjuˈæl.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: pansexualities
Etymology: From pansexual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: They know nothing of flower power or meditation, pansexuality, or mind expansion.
ref: 1976 June 7, Nik Cohn, “Inside the Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: A sexual orientation characterized by the potential for aesthetic attraction, romantic love and/or sexual desire for people regardless of their gender or sex.
examples: text: Pansexuality encompasses all kinds of sexuality. It differs, however, from pansexualism, a perspective that declares “all desire and interest are derived from the sex instinct.” Pansexuality includes heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, and sexual behavior that does not necessarily involve a coupling. It includes, for example, masturbation, celibacy, fetishism, and fantasy. Moreover, pansexuality includes heteroerotic and homoerotic play and sexual aggression, sometimes mislabeled as “horseplay.”
ref: 1999, “Jennifer A Dobrac”, in The Oncale Opinion: A Pansexual Response, 30 MCGEORGE L. REV. 1269, page 2:
glosses: Sexuality that encompasses all kinds of sexuality.
Synonyms: omnisexuality
Related terms: pansexual
Patrylo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname of Ukrainian origin.
reflex hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflex hammers
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: An instrument used by a physician to tap the body and test for certain reflexes.
live and let live
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives and lets live
form: living and letting live
form: lived and let live
form: lived and let live
Etymology: Possibly a calque of Dutch leven en laten leven, which was mentioned by Gerard de Malynes in a 1622 book about trade law (in the then-current spelling leuen ende laeten leuen).
Senses: examples: text: "Hout, neighbour," said Mrs. Howden, "we suld live and let live—we hae been young oursells, and we are no aye to judge the warst when lads and lasses forgather."
ref: 1818, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 23, in The Heart of Mid-Lothian:
text: ‘Live and let live’ is my motto: let me alone and I'll let you alone.
ref: 1903, Arthur Quiller-Couch, chapter 36, in Hetty Wesley:
text: Our Europe policy is simple: live and let live, flourish and let flourish. That is a modern and mature approach.
ref: 2004 April 22, Michael Ancram, “If the British people vote no, Europe will thank them”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 14 Jun 2008:
glosses: To be tolerant; to enjoy the pleasures and opportunities which life offers and to allow others to do the same.
wikipedia: Gerard de Malynes
Related terms: word: live-and-let-live
MediaWiki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːdi.əˌwɪki/
Etymology: A camel case compound of media + wiki, based on Wikimedia.
Senses: examples: text: MediaWiki is the most well-known wiki software because it is what runs WikiPedia. MediaWiki is simple to use and an excellent way to start collaborating on documentation or articles.
ref: 2006, Tim Jowers, The Business Guide to Free Information Technology, LuLu Press, →ISBN, page 59:
text: The architecture of MediaWiki is driven in large part by the idiosyncrasies of PHP. When MediaWiki was first developed, it used PHP 4.x, which lacked much in the way of object-oriented programming features.
ref: 2007, Mark S. Choate, Professional Wikis, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 41:
text: MediaWiki is the software platform underlying Wikipedia; he chose that software because he's "amazed and fascinated" with both Wikipedia and the software underlying it, he said. He wanted to learn more about building wikis, and thought Lostpedia was a good place to start.
ref: 2008 April 26, Mitch Wagner, “Lost Fans Find Internet Thrills Via Wikis, Games, Second Life”, in InformationWeek, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2012:
text: A notable irony of Wikipedia's popularity is that the editing process of its supporting technology, MediaWiki, is complex to learn. Editing Wikipedia pages requires significant investment to learn MediaWiki's unique and powerful code structure.
ref: 2009, Terry T. Kidd, Irene Chen, Wired for Learning: An Educator's Guide to Web 2.0, Information Age Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 187:
text: First released in 2002, MediaWiki is one of the top wiki engines and runs most of the wiki hosting sites. The name was a play on “Wikimedia,” and many people find it to be annoyingly confusing.
ref: 2010, John K. Waters, John Lester, The Everything Guide to Social Media, F+W Media Inc., →ISBN, page 166:
text: The main downside of publishing a site using MediaWiki is that it won't give you a great opportunity to use or improve your HTML skills.
ref: 2011, Laura Lemay, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day, Sams Publishing, →ISBN:
text: The site is based on Wikipedia's MediaWiki platform, which allows anyone to add or edit the available content, provided they register for an account using a verifiable email address.
ref: 2012 October 8, Neil McAllister, “Tech rivals team up for free web dev docs”, in The Register, www.theregister.co.uk, retrieved 28 Oct 2012:
glosses: The wiki software used by many websites, including the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wiktionary, etc.
boucharde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouchardes
Etymology: French boucharde
Senses: glosses: A bush hammer.
homogeneous space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homogeneous spaces
Senses: glosses: A manifold or topological space X on which G acts by symmetry in a transitive way.
I approve this message
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: a phrase said by candidates for federal office to show their consent to comply with the elective law passed in 2002.
glosses: a phrase said after or before one makes a declaration to attach a mock solemnity to a strongly held belief
Mol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moll
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Antwerp province, Belgium.
kier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kiers
form: keir
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse ker (whence also Icelandic ker (“tub”)).
Senses: examples: text: The oil is added to the saturated liquor, which is afterwards introduced into the kier. There is no change required in the bleaching operation.
ref: 1934, Harry Bennett, Two Thousand Formulas, Recipes & Trade Secrets: The Classic “Do-It-Yourself” Book of Practical Everyday Chemistry, page 265:
text: The traditional sequence of pre-treatment is shortened by single stage bleaching, where kiers are still in use.
ref: 1999, Samir Ranjan Karmakar, Chemical Technology In The Pre-Treatment Processes Of Textiles, Elsevier, page 65:
text: Inside the typically long, narrow bleaching crofts were cisterns for bleaching cotton yarn, now represented by sunken stone tanks, and sealed vats called ‘kiers’ for bleaching cloth. The kiers would have been two storeys high and made of metal, but now all that remains are the footings and brackets that show where they once stood (2004: 99).
ref: 2007, Sarah Tarlow, The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850, Cambridge University Press, page 166:
glosses: A bleaching vat.
Synonyms: keeve
impunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impunity
First Laddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: First Laddies
Etymology: A pun on the term First Lady, with laddie.
Senses: examples: Clinton suggests 'first laddie' title from UPI
The perils of having two presidents in the White House from The Australian
Imagining a Clinton White House from New York Magazine
synonyms: First Gentleman
First Guy
First Husband
First Lord
First Man
glosses: A man who is the spouse of a sitting president.
Related terms: First Gentleman
First Daughter
First Family
First Lady
clabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clabber
clabbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clabber
clabbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He clabbered the milk.
glosses: simple past and past participle of clabber
clabbered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clabbered
form: most clabbered
Senses: examples: text: The milk became clabbered.
text: He churned the milk as it soured and clabbered.
ref: 2010, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns, Vintage Books, page 82:
glosses: Thickened or curdled.
having to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of have to
progestin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progestins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic progestagen intended to mimic the effects of progesterone, often for contraceptive purposes.
Derived terms: antiprogestin
mesoprogestin
phytoprogestin
disconcertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Shadows flickered like disconcertion across their bestial faces as they saw the three men rising to meet them instead of fleeing.
ref: 1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree:
text: One of the reasons that Pee-Wee's Playhouse, and Pee-wee himself, caused so much disconcertion was that the world the characters inhabited was supposedly childlike and innocent, which, in our warped culture, means not sexual. But Pee-wee displayed that "innocence" as little more than sexual repression.
ref: 1991 August 10, Michael Bronski, “'I Know You Are, But What Am I?'”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 4, page 6:
glosses: Anxious embarrassment
Related terms: disconcerted
disconcertingly
Dianetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪəˈnɛtɪks/
Forms: form: dianetics
Etymology: Coined by author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard from Ancient Greek διά (diá, “through”) + νοῦς (noûs, “mind”); an alteration of dianoetic. Literally means "through the soul".
Senses: examples: text: In psychology, Dianetics drops into line without disturbing anything concerned with staffs or research or teaching posts, for psychology is simply the study of the psyche and now that there exists a science of the psyche it can go ahead with a will. Thus, Dianetics is the enemy of none, and Dianetics falls utterly outside all existing legislation, none of which anticipated or made any provision for a science of mind.
ref: 1950, L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics, New Era Publications, published 1999, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 220:
glosses: A self-help system designed by L. Ron Hubbard, today chiefly employed in Scientology.
Derived terms: Dianetic
Dianeticist
reactive mind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactive minds
Senses: topics: Scientology
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A portion of the brain akin to the subconscious where painful memories, or engrams, are stored.
knot span
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knot spans
Senses: glosses: The range of parameter values between two successive knots in a spline.
urogenital papilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A tubular ending of the urogenital ducts behind the anus in teleost fish.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A structure that is located ventral to the anus in female pigs.
stopword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stopwords
Etymology: From stop + word.
Senses: examples: text: “Between” is a stopword in MySQL.
glosses: Alternative form of stop word.
foundries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊndɹiz/
rhymes: -aʊndɹiz
Senses: glosses: plural of foundry
vouchsafing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vouchsafe
vouchsafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vouchsafings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who vouchsafes something.
hilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hilt
hilts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hilt
tonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonic
despotisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despotism
oral gratification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oral gratifications
Senses: examples: text: Oral gratification was offered almost continuously—between-meal nourishment, before-bed treats, chewing gum and toys which could be sucked and chewed.
ref: 1958, E. I. Falstein, H. A. Sutton, “Childhood Schizophrenia”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 58, number 5, page 669:
text: These experiences left him with a rather unsteady control over his angry impulses, particularly when denied oral gratification such as a drink of liquor.
ref: 1980, Waud Kracke, “The Complementarity of Social and Psychological Regularities: Leadership as a Mediating Phenomenon”, in Ethos, volume 8, number 4, page 281:
text: Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it.
ref: 2003 November 22, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: The Great American Smoke”, in Time, retrieved 30 Mar 2014:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: In Freudian psychology, the satisfaction felt in infancy when the need for food, especially from the mother's breast, is fulfilled, and which in later life can be associated with such dysfunctional behaviors as excessive eating, drinking, or smoking.
preceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preceptor
intrusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrusion
squashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squash
squashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of squash
smoking dope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoke dope
crucibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crucible
pantomimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantomime
pantomimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pantomime
regicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regicide
desolations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desolation
fakirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fakir
hoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: plural of hoot
hoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /huːts/
rhymes: -uːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoot
almshouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armshouses
Senses: glosses: plural of almshouse.
stenographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stenographer
bayous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bayou