cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhumans
Etymology: From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional).
Senses: examples: text: In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.”
ref: 2007, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Charles A. Anderson, Michael J. Sleasman, Everyday Theology (Cultural Exegesis), →ISBN:
glosses: An enhanced human:
An individual having characteristics transitional between a human and a posthuman species.
qualifier: strictly
examples: text: On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.
ref: 2008, Christopher Ejsmond, Reflections on Life, →ISBN, page 100:
text: In practice, this technological transhumation would wreak havoc on the earth. While modern transhumans are meant to come into being through technology, Augustine offers two models of transhumans made by a divine rather than a human creator -- Adam and Eve in Eden and the resurrected saints in heaven.
ref: 2011, Andrea Nightingale, Once Out of Nature: Augustine on Time and the Body, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Will it happen again if we transition from human to transhuman?
ref: 2014, Calvin Mercer, Tracy J. Trothen, Religion and Transhumanism: The Unknown Future of Human Enhancement, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: An enhanced human:
An individual of a posthuman species.
examples: text: I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.
ref: 2002, Vernor Vinge, The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, →ISBN:
text: Imagine a living computer running a simulation where math functions within the simulation think. Then consider an implication of anthrocosmology: if human consciousness created reality and transhumans can simulate any reality they can imagine, that suggest the physical universe has no special status above any other virtual reality.
ref: 2004, Lou Anders, Projections: Science Fiction in Literature and Film, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Now ask yourself a question, don't these transhumans have as much a right in killing us for food as we do in killing cows?
ref: 2015, David Lane, The Thinking Text, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
transhumanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhumanisms
form: H+
form: h+
form: H-plus
Etymology: From trans- + humanism, coined by British evolutionary biologist, philosopher, author Julian Huxley in 1957.
Senses: examples: text: Those who favor transhumanism speak the language of individual choice and freedom from institutional authoritarianism; those who challenge it speak the language of human dignity and human nature as embodied in the individual.
ref: 2011, Braden R. Allenby, Daniel Sarewitz, The Techno-Human Condition, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: A philosophy favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
wikipedia: transhumanism
Related terms: transhuman
transhumanist
bioconservatism
posthumanism
transhumanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhumanists
Etymology: From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.
Senses: examples: text: Many transhumanists such as Kurzweil contend that they are carrying on the legacy of the Enlightenment – that theirs is a philosophy grounded in reason and empiricism, even if they do lapse occasionally into metaphysical language about “transcendence” and “eternal life”.
ref: 2017 April 18, Meghan O'Gieblyn, The Guardian:
glosses: An advocate of transhumanism.
transhumanist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transhumanist
form: most transhumanist
Etymology: From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't like what you see in the now-popular clichés of tech culture and Silicon Valley. It was not a transhumanist cult.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
glosses: Relating to transhumanism.
beat off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beats off
form: beating off
form: beat off
form: beaten off
form: beat off
Senses: examples: text: ...which Action did not so much grieve the English, as trouble and vex the Picts and Scots, who were incessantly gauled and frequently beat off by these Danish Troops.
ref: 1697, Carradoc Of Lhancarvan, The history of Wales, page 33:
text: First reports were that the Reds, in five gunboats and swarms of junks, succeeded in landing on tiny Wuchiu in Formosa Strait, but were beaten off with many captured.
ref: 1954 November 27, “Red Assault on Tiny Isle Beaten Off, Say Nationalists”, in The Daily Colonist, volume 96, number 294, Victoria, British Columbia, page 1, column 6:
text: (Betty) Did you have any trouble rescuing me?
(Archie) I sure did, Betty! I had to beat off three other guys!
ref: 1968 September 24, Betty & Me, volume 16, Archie Comics, front cover:
text: London Liverpool Street beat off stiff competition to be highly commended in this category, despite having had no major redevelopment for three decades.
ref: 2021 September 22, “National Rail Awards 2021: London Liverpool Street - Network Rail”, in RAIL, number 940, page 47:
glosses: To drive something away with blows or military force.
examples: text: Example 1: "I don't need a girlfriend. I just need some swimsuit catalogs, so I can beat off six or seven times a day."
ref: 2003, David Burke, The Slangman guide to dirty English: dangerous expressions Americans use, page 13:
synonyms: word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate by stimulating one's own penis.
examples: text: I beat off at work all day; I didn't get anything done.
glosses: To waste time.
examples: text: He beat his pistol off into the air.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To shoot (a gun).
transhydrogenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transhydrogenases
Etymology: From trans- + hydrogen + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mitochondrial enzyme that transports protons across a cell membrane.
mitochondrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmaɪ.təˈkɑːn.dɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌmaɪ.təˈkɒn.dɹi.əl/
Etymology: From mitochondria + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Sperm pass on none of their mitochondria during conception, so all mitochondrial information is transferred from generation to generation through mothers alone.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 329:
text: A coenzyme that exists in all living cells, NAD+ plays a central role in the body’s biological processes, such as regulating cellular energy, increasing insulin sensitivity and reversing mitochondrial dysfunction.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to mitochondria.
Derived terms: word: amitochondrial
word: antimitochondrial
word: extramitochondrial
word: intermitochondrial
word: intramitochondrial
word: mitochondrial DNA
word: Mitochondrial Eve
word: mitochondrially
word: mitochondrial matrix
word: mitochondrial megachannel
word: mitophagy
word: mt
word: nonmitochondrial
word: perimitochondrial
word: postmitochondrial
word: protomitochondrial
word: submitochondrial
word: transmitochondrial
word: xenomitochondrial
transience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transiences
Etymology: From transient + -ence.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
glosses: An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being transient
word: temporariness
word: impermanence
word: transiency
word: transientness
word: brevity
word: briefness
word: caducity
word: ephemerality
word: ephemeralness
word: fleetingness
word: fugacity
word: transience
word: transitoriness
Hypernyms: word: finity
Hyponyms: word: evanescence
Related terms: word: transient
word: transiently
word: ephemeral
word: moment
word: temporarily
impromanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impromangas
Etymology: From impro + manga.
Senses: glosses: A comic story told in relay format. Typically, one person begins the story, taking it to a cliffhanger ending. Later artists then follow up the story taking it in new and different directions.
-trophy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹə.fi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “food, nourishment”), from τρέφω (tréphō, “I congeal, thicken”).
Senses: glosses: nutrition
glosses: growth, development
Derived terms: alogotrophy
amyelotrophy
brephotrophy
chemoheterotrophy
chemolithoautotrophy
chemoorganotrophy
chondrodystrophy
cytotrophy
epistrophy
hemiatrophy
hemihypertrophy
kakotrophy
methylotrophy
minerotrophy
myzotrophy
ophthalmatrophy
orphanotrophy
paedotrophy
pantatrophy
paratrophy
phagotrophy
photoautotrophy
photolithotrophy
photoorganotrophy
prototrophy
zootrophy
Related terms: -trophic
tieback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiebacks
Etymology: From tie + back.
Senses: glosses: A loop of cloth, cord, etc., which is placed around a curtain to hold it open to one side.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A newspaper rewrite or short synopsis of the information presented in the original story. in order to refresh the memories of readers who saw the old story and to update new readers.
Derived terms: tieback wall
uffdah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: A term with Scandinavian origins (either Swedish or Norwegian).
Senses: glosses: A term for sensory overload. Can be used as an expression of surprise, astonishment and sometimes dismay.
quesadilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiː(l)jə/
ipa: [ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈdiːl(j)ə]
ipa: /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdiːə/
enpr: kāsədē′ə
ipa: /ˌkeɪ̯səˈdi(j)ə/
ipa: [ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈdi(j)ə]
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: quesadillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quesadilla.
Senses: glosses: A Mexican dish made by filling a tortilla with cheese and sometimes other ingredients and then cooking it until the cheese is melted.
Derived terms: pizzadilla
quesalada
quesalupa
quesarito
mung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌŋ/
ipa: /muːŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: mungs
form: moong
form: munge
Etymology: From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).
Senses: glosses: mung bean (Vigna radiata, syn. Phaseolus aureus), cultivated for its sprouts.
mung
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌŋ/
ipa: /muːŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
ipa: /mʌŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
ipa: /mʌŋ/
ipa: /muːŋ/
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: mungs
form: munging
form: munged
form: munged
form: munge
form: moong
form: munge
Etymology: Often doubtfully explained as mash until no good, or a self-referencing (recursive) acronym, mung until no good. Rumored to have originated from one of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer groups in the 1970s or 1980s. Potentially related to mangle.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make repeated changes to a file or data which individually may be reversible, yet which ultimately result in an unintentional irreversible destruction of large portions of the original data.
glosses: To harm, to damage; to destroy.
Derived terms: munger
unmunged
petrol sniffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrol sniffers
Senses: glosses: One who sniffs petrol to experience a high.
glosses: An Australian Aboriginal.
fremitus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: frĕm'ĭ-təs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fremitus.
Senses: glosses: A vibration which is perceptible on palpation or auscultation.
Müllerian mimicry
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mullerian mimicry
Etymology: Named after German naturalist Fritz Müller.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The resemblance of two or more poisonous species with each other, giving the effect that they are all more recognisable to potential predators. For example, the monarch butterfly and the viceroy butterfly.
Related terms: Compare with Batesian mimicry
mish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mishes
Senses: examples: text: I haven't been on a mish in ages. I need some excitement. Do you get mad toey and hungry afterwards?
ref: 2015, Marlee Jane Ward, Welcome to Orphancorp:
glosses: Clipping of mission
examples: text: The sex became mechanical sex a lot of the time, formula porn: 'blow, dog, mish, pop!' blow-job, then doggy style, then missionary position, followed by pop shot', as Jeremy Sullivan explains. And then amateur came along.
ref: 1999, Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, Serpents Tail
text: Highlight: the massive testicular licking as they 69ed, and I traded doggie to mish and back again.
ref: 2013, King Starr, The Hobbyist, Vagabondage Press LLC, page 123
glosses: Clipping of missionary (sex position)
palpate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pălʹpāt
ipa: /ˈpælpeɪt/
Forms: form: palpates
form: palpating
form: palpated
form: palpated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”).
Senses: examples: text: I palpated his expired heart.
text: David reached inside with his fingers and palpated a logic board.
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: To examine or otherwise explore through touch, particularly (medicine) in reference to an area or organ of the human body.
Synonyms: touch
Derived terms: palpative
repalpate
palpate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pălʹpāt
ipa: /ˈpælpeɪt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin palpātus, perfect passive participle of palpō (“touch softly”).
Senses: glosses: Of palp, or having palp.
Derived terms: longipalpate
Related terms: palp
palpability
palpable
palpation
palpiform
palpitate
palpitation
Batesian mimicry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for Henry Walter Bates.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The resemblance of one or more non-poisonous species to a poisonous species, for example, the scarlet king snake and the coral snake.
wikipedia: Henry Walter Bates
Related terms: Compare with Müllerian mimicry
palp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pælp/
rhymes: -ælp
Forms: form: palps
form: palpi
Etymology: * (verb): From French palper.
* (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
* Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).
Senses: examples: text: Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache.
ref: 2015, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time, Pan Books (2016), page 20:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of pedipalp.
synonyms: word: pedipalp
Derived terms: palpless
palp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pælp/
rhymes: -ælp
Forms: form: palps
Etymology: * (verb): From French palper.
* (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
* Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).
Senses: examples: text: He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: The palps of her fingers itched, thickened, erected with the need to touch the bent head. Plunge into the dust-moted rough blackness of his hair, smooth back downward over the deep-brown nape of his neck.
ref: 1964, K. B. Gilden, Hurry Sundown:
text: With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.
ref: 1984, W. Boyd, Stars & Bars, i.i.11:
text: When Mariuchi caresses the plant, for example, sensuously emitting from the palps of her fingers, a siren song.
ref: 1998, Renny Christopher, Linda Strom, Lisa Orr, Working Class Studies: 1 & 2, Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN, page 165:
text: He tested the blade against the palp of his thumb, then returned to the living room and decisively, scrape by scrape, cut away the hex sign, leaving a halo of ragged wood.
ref: 2008, John Gardner, Mickelsson's Ghosts, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 130:
text: The bag seethed in her hand, not unpleasantly, as computational monofilaments shifted and flowed under her touch until they cradled the palps of her fingers.
ref: 2012, Sean Stewart, Star Wars: Dark Rendezvous, Random House, →ISBN:
synonyms: pulp
glosses: A fleshy part of a fingertip.
examples: text: pain on palp
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of palpation.
Derived terms: maxillary palp
palp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pælp/
rhymes: -ælp
Forms: form: palps
form: palping
form: palped
form: palped
Etymology: * (verb): From French palper.
* (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
* Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).
Senses: examples: text: It is not possible to examine a male patient without making him undress and actually palping him all over.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 729:
glosses: To feel, to explore by touch.
palp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pælp/
rhymes: -ælp
Etymology: * (verb): From French palper.
* (noun): From New Latin palpus (“a feeler”).
* Both ultimately from Latin palpō (“to stroke, touch softly, feel”).
Senses: examples: palp blood pressure
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Palpatory; obtained by palpation.
Related terms: palpability
palpable
palpate
palpation
palpiform
palpitate
palpitation
fearful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪə(ɹ)fəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪə(ɹ)fʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɹfəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɹfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɚfəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɚfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)fəl/
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)fʊl/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fəl
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fʊl
Forms: form: more fearful
form: most fearful
form: fearefull
form: fearfull
Etymology: From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak to me,
But let them hear what fearful words I utter.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: In the later Hebrew midrash Lilith is presented as the woman who knows how to recite the fearful name of God to work calamity; that this little girl cries out the fearful name of the sun god and thereby causes an earthquake would indicate that this girl is linked in the structure of the myth with Lilith.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 184:
glosses: Frightening; causing fear.
examples: text: a fearful boy
glosses: Tending to fear; timid.
examples: text: But every day after dinner, for an hour, we were all together, and then the Favourite and the rest of the Royal Hareem competed who should most beguile the leisure of the Serene Haroun reposing from the cares of State — which were generally, as in most affairs of State, of an arithmetical character, the Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
glosses: Terrible; shockingly bad.
examples: text: kings ſhall crouch vnto our conquering ſwords,
And hoſtes of Souldiers ſtand amazd at vs,
When with their fearfull tongues they ſhall confeſſe
Theſe are the men that al the world admires,
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Frightened; filled with terror.
Synonyms: sense: frightened
word: frightened
sense: frightened
word: timid
sense: frightened
word: timorous
Derived terms: fearfulness
overfearful
unfearful
fearful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪə(ɹ)fəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪə(ɹ)fʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɹfəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɹfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɚfəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɚfʊl/
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)fəl/
ipa: /ˈfɜː(ɹ)fʊl/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fəl
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)fʊl
Forms: form: more fearful
form: most fearful
form: fearefull
form: fearfull
Etymology: From Middle English ferful, fervol, equivalent to fear + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: “He is fearful handsome, as you know,” she said remorsefully, “you cannot imagine, Georgiana, the joy when I first fell in love with him.”
ref: 2009, Juliette Shapiro, Mr. Darcy's Decision: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice:
text: “It's a fearful strong charm needs dragon's blood,” he said plaintively.
ref: 2014, Diana Wynne Jones, The Chrestomanci series:
text: His Dardanelles expedition gave the Turk a fearful long start.
ref: 2014, Michael Brock, Eleanor Brock, Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916:
glosses: Extremely; fearfully.
frightening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɹaɪtnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Forms: form: more frightening
form: most frightening
Etymology: From frighten + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Riding the rollercoaster was a frightening experience.
text: The Owl is flying high, frightening to the eye.
The Rattler is nearby, Cool is on the fly.
Danger is his business.
ref: 1966, “Cool McCool (theme song)”, Bernie Green (music) (Cool McCool (television series)), performed by Bob McFadden:
glosses: Causing fear; or capable of causing fear; scary.
glosses: Awful, terrible, very bad.
Synonyms: word: affreux
word: alarming
word: spine-tingling
word: appalling
word: awful
word: buggish
word: butt-clenching
word: buttock-clenching
word: dismayful
word: dreadful
word: fearful
word: flaysome
word: flesh-crawling
word: formidable
word: freaky
word: frightening
word: frightensome
word: frightful
word: ghastly
word: ghostly
word: grisly
word: hair-curling
word: hair-raising
word: horrible
word: horrid
word: horrific
word: horrifying
word: horripilating
word: pulse-pounding
word: scaring
word: scary
word: shocking
word: skin-crawling
word: terrible
word: terrifying
word: terrorsome
Hypernyms: word: moving
word: unpleasant
Hyponyms: word: creeptacular
word: spooktacular
Derived terms: frighteningly
nonfrightening
unfrightening
Related terms: word: frighten
word: fear
word: disheartening
word: afraid
frightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaɪtənɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɹaɪtnɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ
Etymology: From frighten + -ing.
Senses: examples: The scientist was frightening the timid children.
glosses: present participle and gerund of frighten
scary
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: skâr'ē
ipa: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈskɛː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈskɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈskeːɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈskeəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈskiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈskeɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈskeɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈskɜːɹɪ/
homophone: skerry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: scarey
Etymology: From scare + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:
text: [T]he main reason I don't want to give her a GA is she's so scary fat!
ref: 2020, S. Clarence Dodge, Beyond Blood: Inside the Mind of an Anesthesiologist, Xlibris Corporation:
glosses: To a scary extent; scarily.
scary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skâr'ē
ipa: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈskɛː.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈskɛə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈskɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈskeːɹi/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈskeəɹi/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈskiəɹi/
ipa: /ˈskeɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈskeɹe/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈskɜːɹɪ/
homophone: skerry stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛəɹi
Forms: form: scarey
Etymology: From dialectal English scare (“scraggy”).
Senses: glosses: Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
expertise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌɛkspɚˈtis/
ipa: /ˌɛkspɚˈtiz/
ipa: /ˌekspɜːˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌekspəˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌekspøːˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌekspəˈtiːz/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɛkspə(r)ʈiz/
note: Indic
ipa: /-(a)ɪz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: expertises
Etymology: Borrowed from French expertise.
Senses: examples: text: The scientist has expertise in the field of nuclear fusion.
text: He spoke of Scotland's hydroelectric projects in Africa, local expertise shared with the world's poor.
ref: 8 September 2014, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Great skill or knowledge in a particular field or hobby.
glosses: Advice, or opinion, of an expert.
Derived terms: inexpertise
sexpertise
Related terms: competence
knowledge
proficiency
skill
expertise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌɛkspəˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌɛkspɚˈtis/
ipa: /ˌɛkspɚˈtiz/
ipa: /ˌekspɜːˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌekspəˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌekspøːˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌekspəˈtiːz/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɛkspə(r)ʈiz/
note: Indic
ipa: /-(a)ɪz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: expertises
form: expertising
form: expertised
form: expertised
Etymology: Borrowed from French expertise.
Senses: examples: text: Since 1979, we have developed a method for expertising the design of the processes and improving them.
ref: 1985, Energy Research Abstracts, page 2720:
text: Including a plurality of different expertise in the decision-making processes corresponds to expertising the democratic procedures.
ref: 2010, Donald Gray, Laura Colucci-Gray, Elena Camino, Science, Society and Sustainability, page 20:
text: If experts shall lose their expertise, wherewith shall they be expertised? The fact that only the rare economists can be entrusted with economics is not reason to discard economics, but to go and find the rare men.
ref: 2011, Jens O. Parsson, Dying of Money, page 249:
glosses: To supply with expert knowledge or advice.
regatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈɡætə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈɡɑtə/
rhymes: -ætə
rhymes: -ɑːtə
Forms: form: regattas
form: regatte
Etymology: From Italian (Venetian dialect) regatta (“contention for mastery”), from regattare (“compete, haggle, sell at retail”), possibly from ricattare; or from Italian regata (“boat race, regatta”), via Vulgar Latin *aurigata from Latin auriga.
Senses: examples: text: […] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Regatta”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: The novice eights race demonstrated one of the reasons UVa manages to be so good year after year; the UVa novs finished first and second in the event, while Clemson's novice crew, the surprise of the regatta, took third.
ref: 1999, Oli Rosenbladt, “Virginia Women Sweep Rivanna Romp”, in Rowing News, volume 6, number 21, page 8:
glosses: A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
glosses: A striped cotton fabric.
Derived terms: Regatta Point
pedal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕdʹəl
ipa: /ˈpɛdəl/
enpr: pēdʹəl
ipa: /ˈpiːdəl/
homophone: peddle
homophone: petal stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛdəl
rhymes: -iːdəl
Forms: form: pedals
Etymology: Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: There are three pedals on manual cars, two on automatics.
text: A piano usually has two or three pedals.
text: the pedal of a loom
text: Of the Adirondackers who make their homes here and then rarely use them—the outdoorsiest of the outdoorspeople—some climb mountains, others cliffs; some push pedals, other paddles; […]
ref: 1996, Galen Crane, “Gear without Fear”, in Adirondack Life, volumes 27–28, Keene, N.Y.: Adirondack Life, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: A lever operated by one's foot that is used to control or power a machine or mechanism, such as a bicycle or piano.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an orthopedic structure or a footlike part.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An effects unit, especially one designed to be activated by being stepped on.
topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A stirrup.
examples: text: A small organ commonly has only one or two ranks on the pedal.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The ranks of pipes played from the pedal-board of an organ.
Derived terms: ambipedal
back-pedal
backpedal
back pedal brake
brake pedal
carpopedal
cerebropedal
clutch pedal
combination pedal
equipedal
footpedal
gas pedal
go pedal
hexapedal
hydropedal
interpedal
intrapedal
lateropedal
loop pedal
monopedal
multipedal
overpedal
pedal bin
pedalboard
pedalboat
pedal bone
pedal car
pedal curve
pedal cycle
pedal cyclist
pedality
pedal keyboard
pedaller
pedally
pedal note
pedal point
pedal pub
pedal pusher
pedal pushers
pedal squares
pedal steel
pedal steel guitar
pedal steel guitarist
pedal stool
pedal-stool
pedal stroke
pedal to the metal
pentapedal
plesiopedal
pleuropedal
put pedal to the metal
put the pedal to the metal
quadripedal
sesquipedal
soft-pedal
soft pedal
sostenuto pedal
suprapedal
sustaining pedal
una corda pedal
unipedal
wah pedal
wah-wah pedal
pedal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕdʹəl
ipa: /ˈpɛdəl/
enpr: pēdʹəl
ipa: /ˈpiːdəl/
homophone: peddle
homophone: petal stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛdəl
rhymes: -iːdəl
Forms: form: pedals
form: pedaling
form: pedalling
form: pedaled
form: pedaled
form: pedalled
form: pedalled
Etymology: Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: to pedal one's loom
glosses: To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion.
examples: text: He was out of breath from pedalling up the steep hill.
text: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
ref: 1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3:
text: Crucial to the crankset is the bottom bracket. Of all the bearings on a bike, the bottom bracket is the one that has to bear the heaviest load. Not only does the bottom bracket have to spin while you pedal, but it takes the force of all the twisting and turning that occurs during pedaling.
ref: 2009, Dennis Bailey, Keith Gates, Bike Repair and Maintenance For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: The old man's backside fizgigged with laughter. "See ya, kid!" he called as Dave pedaled away.
ref: 2010 June, Wendelin Van Draanen, “Vinnie Gets Grilled”, in The Power Potion (The Gecko & Sticky), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Pinot was among those involved in the huge pile-up just as the race entered the final three kilometres. Grazes were visible under his torn clothing as he pedalled, with a face like thunder, to the finish line.
ref: 2020 August 29, Jeremy Whittle, “Alexander Kristoff takes Tour de France yellow jersey after day of crashe”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To operate a bicycle.
pedal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pĕdʹəl
ipa: /ˈpɛdəl/
enpr: pēdʹəl
ipa: /ˈpiːdəl/
homophone: peddle
homophone: petal stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛdəl
rhymes: -iːdəl
Etymology: Borrowed from French pédale, Latin pedāl(is). By surface analysis, ped- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the foot.
Coordinate terms: manual
relating to the hand
murmurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murmurers
Etymology: From murmur + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] in a genre dominated by loud beats and wailing pleas, Mr. Thicke is a hard-core murmurer.
ref: 2007 March 17, Kelefa Sanneh, “An R&B Star Who Doesn’t Look Like One”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who murmurs
frame rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frame rates
Senses: glosses: The measurement of how quickly an imaging device can produce unique consecutive images called frames, most often expressed in frames per second (often abbreviated "fps") or, equivalently, hertz (Hz).
Synonyms: frame frequency
refresh rate
Related terms: fps
Hz
judder
fps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FPS
Senses: glosses: Initialism of frames per second.
coordinate_terms: fpm
glosses: Initialism of feet per second.
fess up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fesses up
form: fessing up
form: fessed up
form: fessed up
form: 'fess up
Etymology: Clipping of confess up.
Senses: examples: text: "‛Fess up," she persisted. "Have you boys been quarreling again?"
ref: 1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 26, in The Winds of Chance:
text: And you know, one of the things that I hope is that the American people will find when we make a mistake, we're willing to 'fess up to it and change.
ref: 2008 December 18, Barack Obama, President-elect press conference:
text: “I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was happening in the financial industry, and I came to the conclusion that people weren’t fessing up,” he said.
ref: 2009 February 26, Roy Furchgott, “You’ve Sold Your Stocks. Now What?”, in New York Times:
synonyms: own up
glosses: To confess to something; to admit something.
mumble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: mumbles
form: mumbling
form: mumbled
form: mumbled
Etymology: From Middle English momelen, a frequentative of mum (sense 3) (“silent”). Compare German mümmeln, Middle Dutch mommelen and Dutch mompelen. Perhaps related to Norwegian Nynorsk mumpa (“to gum, to chew without teeth”).
Senses: examples: text: Please try not to mumble so I can hear you better.
text: Peace, you mumbling fool.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
text: A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, / Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.
ref: 1680, Thomas Otway, The Orphan:
glosses: To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate.
glosses: To chew something gently with closed lips.
Derived terms: mismumble
mumblage
mumblecore
mumble-matins
mumblement
mumblenews
mumbler
mumble rap
mumblesome
mumblety peg
mumblingly
mumbly
mumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌmbəl/
rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Forms: form: mumbles
Etymology: From Middle English momelen, a frequentative of mum (sense 3) (“silent”). Compare German mümmeln, Middle Dutch mommelen and Dutch mompelen. Perhaps related to Norwegian Nynorsk mumpa (“to gum, to chew without teeth”).
Senses: examples: text: All I could hear was a mumble from the next room.
text: He spoke in a barely comprehensible mumble.
glosses: A quiet or unintelligible vocalization; a low tone of voice.
Derived terms: mumble-bee
randomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹændəmnəs/
Forms: form: randomnesses
Etymology: From random + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of all possible outcomes being equally likely.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of circumstance or event that is described by a probability distribution.
examples: text: There was no randomness in the teacher's selection of the class representative.
text: "[…] We were seeing a randomness about failures that was very hard to manage, but with a better understanding we're able to prioritise more effectively."
ref: 2023 June 14, Philip Haigh, “Landslips: NR strives to turn back the tide”, in RAIL, number 985, page 35:
glosses: A measure of the lack of purpose, logic, or objectivity of an event.
Derived terms: algorithmic randomness
Kolmogorov randomness
pseudo-randomness
statistical randomness
Related terms: random
at random
fu
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From fuck + you.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fuck you.
fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fus
Etymology: * Abbreviation
Senses: glosses: flux unit
fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fu
Etymology: From Mandarin 賦／赋 (fù).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese literary form developed during the times of the Han dynasty that combines prose and poetry, sometimes called rhymed prose.
fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But the commercial timing was right—fu flicks were everywhere, and David Carradine and Bruce Lee were cult figures.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: kung fu
fu
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: UNIX fu
glosses: Alternative spelling of -fu.
tee hee hee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: The sound of a giggle.
annulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.jʊ.lət/
other: /ˈæn.jə.lət/
rhymes: -ænjʊlət
Forms: form: annulets
Etymology: From Latin ānnulus (“small ring”) + -et.
Senses: glosses: A small ring.
topics: architecture
glosses: A ring-shaped molding at the top of a column.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A small circle borne as a charge in coats of arms.
glosses: Charissa obscurata (also Scotch annulet), a moth of the family Geometridae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Gnophos obfuscata
word: Scotch annulet
HTR
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Initialism of hard to receive.
HTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HTRs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hard tissue replacement.
examples: text: The double-heterogeneity characterising pebble-bed high temperature reactors (HTRs) makes Monte Carlo based calculation tools the most suitable for detailed core analysis.
ref: 2009, Bomboni et al.: Comparison among MCNP-based depletion codes applied to burnup calculation of pebble-bed HTR lattices, page 918:
text: The penetration by light water reactors would be large even if other thermal reactors like the HTR were present, according to our preliminary evaluations, because the LWR is the best plutonium producer.
ref: 1972, Vincenti et al.: Spacedependent reactor dynamics, page 131:
text: Of the nuclear reactors the HTR now produces heat at the highest temperature.
ref: 1970, De Beni and Matchetti: Hydrogen, key to the energy market, page 49:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of high temperature reactor.
stoical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstoʊ.ɪk.əl/
ipa: /ˈstəʊ.ɪk.əl/
Forms: form: more stoical
form: most stoical
Etymology: From Middle English stoicalle, from Latin stōicus + -al. By surface analysis, stoic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: "More and more, the shrewdest thinkers and artists are precocious archeologists of ... ruins-in-the-making, indignant or stoical diagnosticians of defeat, enigmatic choreographers of the complex spiritual movements useful for individual survival in an era or permanent apocalypse."
ref: 1969 July 13, Lawrence M. Bensky, “Susan Sontag, Indignant, Stoical, Complex, Useful -- and Moral”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint.
Derived terms: stoically
Related terms: stoic
Stoic
stoicism
bodkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒdkɪn/
Forms: form: bodkins
form: bodikin
form: bodkine
form: botkin
form: boidken
Etymology: From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).
Senses: glosses: A small sharp pointed tool for making holes in cloth or leather.
examples: text: As with compulsory Sunday worship, death for blasphemy was for the third offence. A bodkin, a large blunt needle, was thrust through the tongue for the second offence.
ref: 2017, Barry R. Harker, It’s Sunday in America, →ISBN:
glosses: A blunt needle used for threading ribbon or cord through a hem or casing.
examples: text: A rich, flushed colour—large black eyes—teeth that shone from their brilliant whiteness—a slender shape—and most minute feet, in such little shoes of Cordova leather—a silver chain round her neck, to which hung a medal of the Madonna—a dark-brown boddice and short skirt, relieved by a lacing of scarlet riband—long black hair, bound in one large plait round the head, and fastened by a silver bodkin.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 533:
glosses: A hairpin.
examples: text: When he himſelfe might his Quietus make / With a bare Bodkin?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265:
text: And he smote Corinius on his shaven jowl with the dice box, calling him cheat and mangy rascal, whereupon Corinius drew forth a bodkin to smite him in the neck withal; […]
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: And can a man his own quietus make / with a bare bodkin? / With daggers, bodkins, bullets, man can make / a bruise or break of exit for his life; / but is that a quietus, O tell me, is it quietus?
ref: 1932, D. H. Lawrence, The Ship of Death:
glosses: A dagger.
glosses: A type of long thin arrowhead.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A sharp tool, like an awl, formerly used for pressing down individual type characters (e.g. letters) from a column or page in making corrections.
Derived terms: bodkined
bodkinwise
bodkin
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒdkɪn/
Forms: form: bodikin
form: bodkine
form: botkin
form: boidken
Etymology: From Middle English boydekin (“dagger”), apparently from *boyde, *boide (of unknown [Celtic?] origin) + -kin. Cognate with Scots botkin, boitkin, boikin (“bodkin”).
Senses: examples: text: to sit bodkin
text: He's too big to travel bodkin between you and me.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “In Which Becky Is Recognised by the Family”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 366:
text: Either he must come between us and be what is known as bodkin, or some one must get out and walk; and the bodkin solution not commending itself to me it was plain that if some one walked it must be myself.
ref: 1904, Elizabeth von Arnim, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen, MacMillan, published 1904:
text: Moreover, Mr. Jorrocks insisted upon riding bodkin — a very awkward-sized bodkin he was — especially as he would have all three to sit back, so that the conversation might be general.
ref: 2018, Delphi Complete Works of R. S. Surtees (Illustrated)
glosses: Closely wedged between two people.
bod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒd/
ipa: /bɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: bods
Etymology: Clipping of body. The sense of “person” may alternatively derive from Scottish Gaelic bodach (“old man”) via Scots.
Senses: examples: text: Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.
text: We are talking about a major bod here, and I don't care if half of it is plastic.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 129:
text: Harkin: Hey there, sweetheart. You looking for some fun? 'Cause I gotta say that soldier getup looks real good on that bod of yours.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chora's Den, Citadel:
glosses: The body.
examples: text: He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 113:
text: There were cameras covering car parks, offices, corridors and storage areas in the basement. Result. The security bods started watching as if their lives depended on it.
ref: 2005, Richard Templar, The Rules of Management, page 73:
text: People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
glosses: A person.
Derived terms: dad bod
mom bod
odd bod
Related terms: bod veal
bass guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪsɡɪˈtɑːɹ/
Forms: form: bass guitars
Senses: glosses: A long-necked and solid-bodied stringed instrument (chordophone), tuned to produce bass or low notes, usually with a fretted fingerboard and four thick strings, and requiring the use of an amplifier.
Derived terms: acoustic bass guitar
bass guitarist
bassist
double bass
electric bass
electric guitar
fretless bass
stand-up bass
string bass
tea chest bass
upright bass
washtub bass
head start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head starts
Senses: examples: text: Fred gave his younger brother a five minute head start in the Easter egg hunt.
text: I want to set off at dawn to get a head start over the competition.
glosses: An advantage consisting in starting a competition or task earlier than might be expected; given (or taken), for example, prior to the beginning of a race.
examples: text: His father's money gave him a head start in life.
glosses: A factor conducive to superiority and success.
Synonyms: forestart
Related terms: steal a march
shock absorber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shock absorbers
Senses: examples: text: Hydraulic shock absorbers are used to damp out vertical and lateral oscillations.
ref: 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93:
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: shox
glosses: A mechanical device designed to smooth out or damp any sudden shock impulse and dissipate kinetic energy; usually consists of a combination of a spring and a dashpot.
Related terms: shock absorption
'fess up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'fesses up
form: 'fessing up
form: 'fessed up
form: 'fessed up
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fess up.