cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
peritoneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛrətəˈni.əl/
ipa: /ˌpɛrɪtəˈniːəl/
rhymes: -iːəl
Forms: form: peritonæal
Senses: examples: text: After opening the bladder (incision extending 1 inch pubically from peritoneal fold) the prostate was injected deeply with 1 per cent. cocain while the pericapsular region was injected with the 1 : 400 novocain solution.
ref: 1914, Transactions of the Section on Genito-Urinary Diseases of the American Medical Association, page 80:
glosses: Of, relating to, or affecting the peritoneum.
Derived terms: extraperitoneal
hemoperitoneal
inguinoperitoneal
lumboperitoneal
metroperitoneal
neoperitoneal
nonperitoneal
pericardioperitoneal
peritoneal dialysis
peritonealize
peritoneally
pleuroperitoneal
pneumoperitoneal
preperitoneal
properitoneal
retroperitoneal
subperitoneal
uteroperitoneal
vaginoperitoneal
ventriculoperitoneal
visceroperitoneal
pleural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈplʊɹ.əl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
homophone: plural
Etymology: From pleura + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The areas of lung dysventilation with an absence of alveolar air are visualized in the form of consolidations adjacent to the pleural line.
ref: 2015 May 21, Vincenzo Basile et al., “Lung ultrasound: a useful tool in diagnosis and management of bronchiolitis”, in BMC Pediatrics, volume 15, →DOI:
glosses: Of, relating to, or affecting the pleura, or the sides of the thorax.
glosses: Thin and transparent.
Derived terms: bronchopleural
cerebropleural
costopleural
coxopleural
epipleural
extrapleural
interpleural
intrapleural
juxtapleural
pericardiopleural
pleural cavity
pleural lobe
pleurally
pleural tap
pleuro-
pleur-
pleuri-
prepleural
propleural
splanchnopleural
sternopleural
subpleural
transpleural
ventriculopleural
zygopleural
pleural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplʊə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈplʊɹ.əl/
rhymes: -ʊəɹəl
homophone: plural
Forms: form: pleurals
Etymology: From pleura + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An internal segment of the turtle carapace.
problematization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: problematizations
Etymology: From problematize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of problematizing, or something problematized.
Related terms: problematize
problematize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒbləmətaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑbləmətaɪz/
Forms: form: problematizes
form: problematizing
form: problematized
form: problematized
form: problematise
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρόβλημα, προβλήματος (próblēma, problḗmatos) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: "If the mob are involved in building a casino," Tina says, "offing some guy who's problematizing their plans is nothing to them. […]
ref: 2021, Cate Quinn, Black Widows, page 289:
glosses: To make something into a problem.
examples: text: Dr Allen said it could affect social cohesion and potentially drive harmful rhetoric around migration when Australia's population change was problematised.
ref: 2024 September 19, Ahmed Yussuf, “Australia's population reaches 27 million with growth largely driven by overseas migration”, in ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
glosses: To consider something as if it were a problem.
examples: Act II, Scene vi
Hear him problematize.
glosses: To propose problems.
panettone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpænəˈtoʊni/
ipa: /ˌpanɪˈtəʊnɪ/
ipa: /ˌpanɪˈtəʊneɪ/
rhymes: -əʊni
rhymes: -əʊneɪ
Forms: form: panettones
form: panettoni
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian panettone, from Lombard panaton, an augmentative of pan (“bread”).
Senses: examples: text: I have long admired panettone, the ultimate raisin bread, the ideal toast and French toast, a great base for poached fruit, and a substitute for bread in bread pudding which redefines the dish. Panettone looks like the back of an Italian Renaissance cathedral […]
ref: 1989, The Atlantic, volume 263, page 52:
text: In this tasty holiday recipe, traditional panettone is stuffed with a creamy filling. This is a traditional Christmas bread recipe from Milano which can now not only be found across Italy, but worldwide.
ref: 2005, Anthony Parkinson, Italian Desserts, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: A soft Italian sourdough brioche from Milan, with candied fruit, usually prepared for Christmas as a dessert.
Related terms: pandoro
pandoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /panˈdɔːɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəʊ
Forms: form: pandoros
form: pandori
form: pan d'oro
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pandoro (literally “golden bread”).
Senses: glosses: A sweet bread loaf of Veronese origin, in the shape of a star, traditionally eaten at Christmas.
Related terms: panettone
panforte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panfortes
form: panforti
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: A dense flat cake, a speciality of Siena, made with honey, hazelnuts, almonds, candied fruit, cocoa and spices.
Related terms: panettone
pandoro
honey bee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey bees
form: honeybee
Etymology: From Middle English hony bee.
Senses: glosses: Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.
Hyponyms: sense: species in Apis
word: entry for Apis
Derived terms: taxonomic: Apis andreniformis
word: black dwarf honey bee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera capensis
word: Cape honey bee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera carnica
word: Carniolan honey bee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera caucasia
word: Caucasian honey bee
taxonomic: Apis florea
word: dwarf honeybee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera scutellata
word: East African lowland honey bee
taxonomic: Apis cerana
word: eastern honey bee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera
word: European honeybee
taxonomic: Apis dorsata
word: giant honey bee
taxonomic: Apis cerana japonica
word: Japanese honey bee
taxonomic: Apis laboriosa
word: Himalayan giant honey bee
taxonomic: Apis dorsata laboriosa
word: Himalayan honey bee
taxonomic: Apis dorsata binghami
word: Indonesian honey bee
taxonomic: Apis koschevnikovi
word: Koschevnikov's honey bee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera ruttneri
word: Maltese honey bee
taxonomic: Apis nigrocincta
word: Philippine honey bee
taxonomic: Apis florea
word: red dwarf honey bee
taxonomic: Apis mellifera
word: western honeybee
Related terms: drone
wax
mauling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːlɪŋ
Forms: form: maulings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something being mauled.
mauling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maul
cat state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A superposition of the most extreme states possible in a system, analogous with Schrödinger's cat, which is in a superposition of "dead" and "alive".
Elizabethan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌlɪzəˈbiːθ(ə)n/
ipa: /əˌlɪzəˈbiθ(ə)n/
rhymes: -iːθən
Forms: form: Elizabethans
Etymology: From Elizabeth + -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming agent nouns), referring to Elizabeth I (1533–1603), Elizabeth II (1926–2022), and Elizabeth of Russia (1709–1762).
Senses: examples: text: Here too [Francis] Drake had luck: he took advantage of the Sultan of Ternate's war with the Portuguese garrison upon Tidore to make a treaty with him to sell his produce exclusively to the English. The literal-minded Elizabethans attached great importance to this: on the principle of never throwing an argument away, they regarded it as giving them a right to share in the spice-trade.
ref: 1966, A[lfred] L[eslie] Rowse, “Drake’s Voyage”, in The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake, 1628 and The Relation of a Wonderfull Voiage by William Cornelison Schouten, 1619 […], Cleveland, Oh.: World Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: A person (especially a writer) who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, monarch of England and Ireland, from 1558 to 1603.
examples: text: The ‘New Elizabethans’ were to be in continuity with their past, but also youthful, inventive, exploratory – a spirit most clearly to be seen in the arts.
ref: 2017 February 19, Peter Webster, “The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II [book review]”, in LSE Review of Books, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2022:
glosses: A person who lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, monarch of the United Kingdom, from 1952 to 2022.
Soames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soameses
Etymology: Variant of Soame.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Batista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batistas
Etymology: From Romance (Spanish Batista and Portuguese Batista).
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Romance languages, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Related terms: Baptista
Batista bomb
Bautista
branding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbrændɪŋ/
Forms: form: brandings
Senses: examples: text: Punishment for theft was inflicted, either by fine, imprisonment, or hard labour, or by branding.
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 115:
text: Tattoos, in particular, are not the radical brandings, the bold violations of flesh and propriety, they once were.
ref: 2008 May 18, Mitch Keller, “Ink-Stained and Loving It”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living animal or person (usually a livestock animal).
examples: Near-synonyms: marketing, promotion
glosses: The promotion of a commercial brand of product or service in order to give it greater public awareness.
examples: text: Near-synonym: labeling
text: They are contractually obligated to remove all of our branding from the merchandise if they sell it to anyone else. That means they have to cut open the packages and then either sell the kitchenware in bulk or repackage it.
glosses: The trade dress thus presented (trademarks, wordmarks, colorways, liveries, and so on).
Derived terms: antibranding
co-branding
multibranding
self-branding
single-minded branding moment
sonic branding
branding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbrændɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brand
Related terms: branding iron
branding moment
running iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running irons
Senses: examples: text: So flagrantly did these gentlemen miswield the “running iron,” that several States eventually forbade its use by anybody, and everywhere its mere possession gave rise to suspicion.
ref: 2007, Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy, page 183:
glosses: A branding iron which is not bent into the shape of the mark but rather requires the user to write the desired brand (and thus allows writing any brand).
medicine men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medicine man
Medicine Hat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Blackfoot saamis (“eagle-feather headdress worn by medicine men”)
Senses: examples: text: Smith, speaking during a town hall in Medicine Hat Tuesday, said step one for the premiers was to agree to the federal government’s staggered countertariff plan targeting exports to the U.S. that Canada can easily get elsewhere.
ref: 2025 March 4, Eli J. Ridder, “Canada’s premiers taking ‘decisive action’ to eliminate internal trade barriers, Smith says”, in CHAT News Today:
synonyms: Gas City
The Gas City
glosses: A city in Cypress, Alberta, Canada.
wikipedia: +, Alberta
quaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quakings
Etymology: From Middle English quakinge, quakyng, from Old English cwacung (“quaking, trembling”), equivalent to quake + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: quivering
trembling
tremor
glosses: The action of the verb quake.
quaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English quakynge, quakand, from Old English cwaciende (“quaking”), present participle of Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble”); equivalent to quake + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Shaking uncontrollably, especially due to fear or awe; trembling or shivering.
Derived terms: quaking aspen
quaking bog
quaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English quakynge, quakand, from Old English cwaciende (“quaking”), present participle of Old English cwacian (“to quake, tremble”); equivalent to quake + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quake
scald
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔld/
ipa: /skɑld/
ipa: /skɔːld/
ipa: /skɒld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: skald
Forms: form: scalds
form: scalding
form: scalded
form: scalded
Etymology: From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (cf. central Old French eschauder, eschalder), from Late Latin excaldāre (“bathe in hot water”), from ex- (“off, out”) + cal(i)dus (“hot”).
Senses: examples: text: to scald the hand
text: Mine own tears / Do scald like molten lead.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals), page vii, line 48:
text: Here the blue flames of scalding brimstone fall.
ref: 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:
text: The fireman was scalded by steam, but he did not fare so badly as the enemy pilot, whose dead body was found on a bank about 100 yd. away from the train.
ref: 1943 March and April, “Notes and News: Southern Locomotive Destroys Raider”, in Railway Magazine, page 119:
glosses: To burn with hot liquid.
examples: text: Scald the milk until little bubbles form.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To heat almost to boiling.
scald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔld/
ipa: /skɑld/
ipa: /skɔːld/
ipa: /skɒld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: skald
Forms: form: scalds
Etymology: From Middle English scalden, from Old Northern French escalder (cf. central Old French eschauder, eschalder), from Late Latin excaldāre (“bathe in hot water”), from ex- (“off, out”) + cal(i)dus (“hot”).
Senses: glosses: A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by hot liquid or steam.
glosses: Poor or bad land.
Derived terms: barley scald
scald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔld/
ipa: /skɑld/
ipa: /skɔːld/
ipa: /skɒld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: skald
Etymology: Alteration of scall or scalled.
Senses: examples: text: Her craftie head was altogether bald, / And as in hate of honorable eld, / Was ouergrowne with scurfe and filthy scald[…].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Some heale Horses, some cure men, some the plague, some the scald [translating teigne], some the cough, some one kinde of scab, and some another[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Scaliness; a scabby skin disease.
scald
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔld/
ipa: /skɑld/
ipa: /skɔːld/
ipa: /skɒld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: skald
Forms: form: more scald
form: most scald
Etymology: Alteration of scall or scalled.
Senses: examples: text: and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,
ref: 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act III, scene i, line 110:
synonyms: scalled
glosses: Affected with the scab; scabby.
examples: text: Would it not grieue a King to be so abuſ’d?
And haue a thouſand horſmen tane away?
And which is worſe to haue his Diadem
Sought for by ſuch ſcalde knaues as loue him not?
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 II, scene ii:
text: Saucy lictors / Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers / Ballad us out o' tune.
ref: 1598, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, act V, scene ii, line 215:
glosses: Paltry; worthless.
Synonyms: sense: scabby
word: roynish
word: scurvy
word: scabby
sense: paltry
word: contemptible
word: miserable
word: trashy
word: despicable
Derived terms: scald-crow
scald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔld/
ipa: /skɑld/
ipa: /skɔːld/
ipa: /skɒld/
rhymes: -ɔːld
homophone: skald
Forms: form: scalds
Senses: examples: text: The fire was spreading rapidly through all parts of the castle, when Ulrica, who had first kindled it, appeared on a turret, in the guise of one of the ancient furies, yelling forth a war-song, such as was of yore chaunted on the field of battle by the scalds of the yet heathen Saxons.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter I, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of skald.
Related terms: english: possibly etymologically related to above
translation: possibly etymologically related to above
word: scald-crow
medicine man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicine men
Etymology: Probably a calque of Ojibwe mashkikiiwinini (“doctor”), from mashkiki (“medicine”) + inini (“man”).
Senses: examples: text: And the Jossakeeds, the Prophets,
The Wabenos, the Magicians,
And the Medicine-men, the Medas,
Painted upon bark and deer-skin
Figures for the songs they chanted
ref: 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, section XIV:
text: Sitting Bull is commonly thought of as a warrior. In point of fact he was not. He was a “medicine man;” which means that he included within himself the three professions of the priesthood, medicine and law.
ref: 1891, W. Fletcher Johnson, Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-’91, Edgewood Publishing Co., page 41:
hypernyms: shaman
glosses: A Native American shamanistic healer.
examples: text: When, however, the plant spirits were not strong enough in themselves, then the family called in the Medicine Man. He appeared, a "monster of so frightful mien", with noise making apparatus which produced such a terrifying din that even the hardiest demon was likely to flee.
ref: 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 254:
text: "I'm sorry kiddies," he said, "but I haven't very much faith in Medicine Men."
ref: 1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 11, column 1:
text: After the death of Ekwefi's second child, Okonkwo had gone to a medicine man, who was also a diviner of the Afa Oracle, to enquire what was amiss.
ref: 1958, Chinua Achebe, chapter 9, in Things Fall Apart, New York: Astor-Honor, published 1959:
glosses: A traditional healer among other indigenous or ancient peoples.
examples: text: One of the most successful of the tent road-showmen is Dr. J. Van Cleve, old-time medicine man, who operates out of Portland. Van Cleve pitches his tent for a week and shows a different film program each night combined with a vaude show.
ref: 1942 September 19, “Van Cleve Shows Pix Under Canvas On Coast”, in Billboard, volume 54, number 37, page 26:
text: the medicine man offered free entertainment in exchange for an opportunity to sell hope to a nation of individually troubled people.
ref: 1991, Quentin J. Schultze, Televangelism and American Culture; The Business of Popular Religion, Baker Book House, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: The pitchman at a medicine show.
Coordinate terms: medicine woman
Related terms: folk medicine
herbal medicine
indigenous medicine
medicinal
traditional medicine
witch doctor
containment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈteɪnmənt/
Forms: form: containments
Etymology: From contain + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: A new siding and turnback facility at Midleton will also be developed, along with new cable containment routes.
ref: 2024 September 18, “Network News: Cork twin-tracking set to begin”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 13:
glosses: The state of being contained.
glosses: The state of containing.
examples: text: The containment of a rich man's estate.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: Something contained.
examples: text: Mr. Putin has reinvigorated an alliance that spent years confused about its purpose once it lost the adversary it was formed to contain, the Soviet Union. Now, containment is back.
ref: 2022 February 18, David E. Sanger, “The United States’ Message to Russia: Prove Us Wrong”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: rollback
regime change
détente
glosses: A policy of checking the expansion of a hostile foreign power by creating alliances with other states; especially the foreign policy strategy of the United States in the early years of the Cold War.
glosses: A physical system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive or other dangerous materials from a nuclear reactor or industrial plant.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An inclusion.
Derived terms: biocontainment
break containment
cat containment
containment boom
containment line
nanocontainment
TriBeCa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Kim Hastreiter, a founder of Paper Magazine, credits Mr. McNally with helping establish TriBeCa as an artists’ haven in the 1980s.
ref: 2021 July 17, Jacob Bernstein, “Keith McNally Stirs the Pot”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Tribeca.
Tribeca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹaɪˈbɛkə/
rhymes: -ɛkə
Forms: form: TriBeCa
Etymology: Blend of triangle + below + canal (“Canal Street, New York”)
Senses: glosses: A region of lower-west Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States; the Triangle Below Canal Street.
synchicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French synchicité.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The degree of synchronization between multimedia elements, e.g. between audio and video or between audio and subtitles.
soaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soak
soaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
Forms: form: more soaked
form: most soaked
Senses: synonyms: word: saturated
word: sodden
word: bewatered
word: damp
word: drenched
word: dripping
word: drunk
word: humid
word: irriguous
word: madid
word: moist
word: moisty
word: overwatered
word: plashy
word: saturated
word: soaked
word: sodden
word: soggy
word: spewy
word: spongy
word: squidgy
word: thoan
word: thone
word: undried
word: watered
word: waterlogged
word: watery
word: wet
word: wetter than an otter's pocket
word: wiery
glosses: Drenched with water, or other liquid.
glosses: Very drunk; inebriated.
glosses: Punched; beaten up; physically assaulted.
Derived terms: blood-soaked
cum-soaked
rain-soaked
soaked to the bones
soaked to the skin
nihilartikel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnaɪ.(h)ɪlˌɑɹt.ɪkl̩/
note: copying Latin and German
ipa: /ˈniː.hiːl.ɑːɹtˌiː.kəl/
Forms: form: nihilartikels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Nihilartikel, apparently coined as a hoax in the German-language Wikipedia in 2003 and later picked up by the English Wikipedia, from where it spread to blogs, books, etc., which are now used again as references for these sites, leading to a form of citogenesis.
Senses: examples: text: 2005 May 1, Eve Maler, “The Language Log”, Pushing String, at www.xmlgrrl.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061111100505/http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2005/05/01/the-language-log/
The post never does find the word it’s looking for, but it eventually alights on a discussion of the Nihilartikel, a fake dictionary or encyclopedia entry created for playful or copyright-trap reasons.
text: A nihilartikel was once inserted into Wikipedia that lasted for five months.
ref: 2005 December 17, Marc Goodman, “Interesting slam on Wikipedia”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet), message-ID <aYqdnU-48IgKJznenZ2dnUVZ_sydnZ2d@newedgenetworks.com>:
text: There are also fake entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias, known as nihilartikels, which serve the same purpose.
ref: [2005 December 18, Tom Anderson, “Putney Green”, in uk.transport.london (Usenet):
synonyms: Mountweazel
glosses: A deliberately fictitious entry in an encyclopedia or academic work, generally identifiable as false, usually included to brand the intellectual property so copies can be identified.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Hypernyms: copyright trap
Related terms: trap street
syntactically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more syntactically
form: most syntactically
Etymology: From syntactic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.
text: Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.
ref: 1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 24 Feb 2014:
glosses: According to the rules of syntax.
Related terms: syntactic
syntactical
didactic
grammatical
mulled wine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulled wines
Senses: glosses: Red wine with spices (e.g. cinnamon sticks, cloves and ginger) served hot.
Related terms: mulled cider
gluhwein
mulled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌld/
rhymes: -ʌld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mull
ASE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Automotive Service Excellence.
glosses: Initialism of Association for Science Education.
glosses: Initialism of Alliance to Save Energy.
glosses: Initialism of American Society of Echocardiography.
glosses: Initialism of The All-Seeing Eye.
glosses: Initialism of Automated Software Engineering (a journal published by Springer, and an unrelated series of conferences)
glosses: Initialism of Adaptive Server Enterprise.
glosses: Initialism of Amman Stock Exchange.
glosses: Initialism of Association for Social Economics.
examples: text: Currently, it is possible to run PHP scripts on Android via PFA's unofficial ASE build or its PhpForAndroid application.
ref: 2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters:
glosses: Initialism of Android Scripting Environment.
examples: text: A high-end IC packaging and testing plant in Kaohsiung owned by Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc., a 100-percent-owned subsidiary of ASE Technology Holding Co., has been selected as a "lighthouse factory" by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
In a statement, ASE said on Saturday that the Kaohsiung bumping plant had been included by the WEF in the organization's Global Lighthouse Network (GLN), a community of manufacturing sites and value chains that are leaders in the adoption of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies.
ref: 2023 January 14, Han Ting-ting, Frances Huang, “ASE's plant in Kaohsiung selected as WEF 'lighthouse factory'”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2023, Science & Tech:
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Semiconductor Engineering.
glosses: Initialism of [https: /studyabroadbath.org Advanced Studies in England].
glosses: Initialism of [https: /www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/10480 Annals of Software Engineering].
glosses: Initialism of [https: /www.ecotox.org.au/aje Australasian Society for Ecotoxicology].
glosses: Initialism of Association of Space Explorers.
glosses: Initialism of [https: /surgicaleducation.com Association for Surgical Education].
glosses: Initialism of [https: /www.astronomyedinburgh.org Astronomical Society of Edinburgh].
glosses: Initialism of [https: /ethnohistory.org American Society for Ethnohistory].
glosses: Initialism of [https: /ase.org.au Australian Society of Endodontology].
ASE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of aromatic stabilization energy.
AUT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Auckland University of Technology.
glosses: Initialism of American University of Technology.
glosses: Initialism of Advanced Universal Technologies.
glosses: Initialism of Amirkabir University of Technology.
glosses: Initialism of Association of University Teachers.
BD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BDs
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Blu-ray Disc.
glosses: Initialism of birthday.
synonyms: BDiv
glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Divinity.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of battledress.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Behçet's disease.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bipolar disorder.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Bowen's disease.
glosses: Initialism of biographical dictionary.
topics: entertainment
handbells
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of brush damp.
glosses: Initialism of business development.
topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
synonyms: B and D
B & D
B/D
glosses: Initialism of bondage and discipline.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of broker-dealer.
Related terms: sense: Blu-ray Disc
word: HD-DVD
sense: Blu-ray Disc
word: DVD
sense: Blu-ray Disc
word: SVCD
sense: Blu-ray Disc
word: VCD
sense: Blu-ray Disc
word: CDDV
sense: Blu-ray Disc
word: LD
BD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Building Design: a British architectural magazine founded in 1970.
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Book of the Dead.
BD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BDs
Etymology: Borrowed from French BD.
Senses: glosses: Comics.
BD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BDs
Etymology: Initialism of baby dance.
Senses: glosses: An act of sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
BD
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: BDs
form: BDing
form: BDed
form: BDed
form: BD'd
form: BD'd
Etymology: Initialism of baby dance.
Senses: examples: text: We haven't BD since day 21 (we had already BD 11 times in past 2 weeks).
ref: 1997 July 15, “I Need Advice on Temps!”, in misc.kids.pregnancy (Usenet):
text: Temperature is up. That means I ovulated yesterday, so I can figure out how well we did this cycle. Hmmm, BD’d two days before ovulation and the day of. That’s pretty good.
ref: 2012, Jean M. Twenge, Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant, New York: Atria Paperback, published 2016, →ISBN, page 165:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse for the purpose of conception.
CBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBDs
form: CBD's
Senses: glosses: Initialism of case-based discussion.
glosses: Initialism of central business district.
glosses: Initialism of consortium board of directors.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: CBSE
glosses: Initialism of component-based development.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of chemical and biological defence.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chronic beryllium disease.
topics: arts
crafts
hairdressing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of cut and blow-dry.
examples: text: It’s hard to say the precise moment when CBD, the voguish cannabis derivative, went from being a fidget spinner alternative for stoners to a mainstream panacea.
ref: 2018 October 27, Alex Williams, “Why Is CBD Everywhere?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 May 2022:
text: “It is a kind of a new snake oil in the sense that there are a lot of claims and not so much evidence,” said Dustin Lee, an assistant professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins University who is planning a human trial of CBD for use in quitting smoking.
ref: 2019 February 25, Roni Caryn Rabin, quoting Dustin Lee, “CBD Is Everywhere, but Scientists Still Don’t Know Much About It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2019:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: CBDV
THC
glosses: Abbreviation of cannabidiol.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of common bile duct.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
coordinate_terms: MSA
PSP
glosses: Initialism of corticobasal degeneration.
tangentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tangentialities
Etymology: From tangential + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being tangential.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mental condition in which one tends to digress from the topic under discussion, especially by word association.
tiered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /tiɹd/
ipa: /tiɚd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tier
tiered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪə(ɹ)d/
ipa: /tiɹd/
ipa: /tiɚd/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more tiered
form: most tiered
Senses: examples: a tiered wedding cake
tiered seating
glosses: Having or made of tiers
Derived terms: three-tiered
tri-tiered
two-tiered
murrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murrines
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: glosses: a glass mosaic cane made by fusing together layers of coloured glass
murrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of murrhine (“made of murra”).
CCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of controller of certifying/certification authorities.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of cocurricular activity.
glosses: Initialism of certified cropadvisor.
glosses: Initialism of Citrix certified administrator.
glosses: Initialism of chromated copper arsenate.
glosses: Initialism of consumer and corporate affairs.
glosses: Initialism of clear channel assessment.
glosses: Initialism of cold cranking amperes.
glosses: Initialism of congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of common carotid artery.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of continuous configuration automation.
glosses: Initialism of customer care assistant.
CCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of California College of the Arts.
glosses: Initialism of Centre for Contemporary Arts.
glosses: Initialism of Coastal Conservation Association.
glosses: Initialism of Corrections Corp of America.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Cat Association.
glosses: Initialism of California Culinary Academy.
glosses: Initialism of Call Centre Association.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Construction Association.
glosses: Initialism of Christian Conference of Asia.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Cycling Association, former name of Cycling Canada Cyclisme.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Computational Aesthetics.
glosses: Initialism of Chandigarh College of Architecture.
glosses: Initialism of Centre for Corporate Accountability, closed down in 2009.
glosses: Initialism of Corporate Council on Africa.
glosses: Initialism of Career College Association.
glosses: Initialism of Commonwealth Copyright Administration.
glosses: Initialism of Computer Corporation of America, a computing company founded in 1965 and acquired in 2010 by Rocket Software.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Chiropractic Association.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Council of Archives.
glosses: Initialism of Caribbean Contemporary Arts.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Conference of the Arts, discontinued in 2012.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Cartographic Association.
glosses: Initialism of Calgary Construction Association.
glosses: Initialism of Common Component Architecture.
glosses: Initialism of Computability and Complexity in Analysis, a book.
glosses: Initialism of Coca-Cola Amatil.
glosses: Initialism of Centre for Creative Arts.
glosses: Initialism of C Code Analyzer.
glosses: Initialism of Conference of Consulting Actuaries.
glosses: Initialism of Colon Cancer Alliance.
glosses: Initialism of Continental Chess Association.
stormy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: stôr'mē
ipa: /ˈstɔɹmi/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mi
Forms: form: stormier
form: stormiest
Etymology: From Middle English stormy, stormi, from Old English *stormiġ (“stormy”), equivalent to storm + -y. Cognate with Dutch stormig (“stormy”), German stürmisch (“stormy”), Swedish stormig (“stormy”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to storms.
examples: text: a stormy season or a stormy day
text: It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets […]
ref: 1830, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in Paul Clifford. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: Fabio Capello insisted [Wayne] Rooney was in the right frame of mind to play in stormy Podgorica despite his father's arrest on Thursday in a probe into alleged betting irregularities, but his flash of temper - when he kicked out at Miodrag Dzudovic - suggested otherwise.
ref: 2011 October 7, Phil McNulty, “Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: angry
glosses: Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with strong winds and heavy rain.
examples: text: a stormy sound or stormy shocks
glosses: Proceeding from violent agitation or fury.
examples: text: stormy passions    a stormy relationship
text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
She was real at ease & at peace with herself. Didn't seem to have the stormy feeling I've had lately.
text: This new anti-military consciousness surfaced at the Gay Academic Union Conference held last month in New York, where two broadsides and a meeting were held to discuss the situation. And in San Francisco, after a stormy meeting of Bay Area Gay Liberation (BAGEL), the group refused to co-sponsor a fund-raising event for former T/Sgt. Leonard Matlovich.
ref: 1975 December 27, Neil Miller, “Anti-Military Backlash Surfaces”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 3:
glosses: Violent; passionate; rough.
Synonyms: storm-wracked
Derived terms: dark and stormy
stormily
storminess
stormy petrel
stormy weather
CED
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialisms or acronyms
Senses: glosses: Initialism of community economic development.
glosses: Initialism of computer education and design.
glosses: Initialism of counseling and educational development.
glosses: Initialism of Camurati-Engelmann disease.
glosses: Initialism of Capacitance Electronic Disc.
glosses: Civil Engineering Department
glosses: Community and Economic Development
glosses: Cooperative Education Division
CED
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialisms or acronyms
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Collins English Dictionary.
glosses: Initialism of Cultural Entomology Digest, an entomology magazine.
glosses: Initialism of Committee for Economic Development.
glosses: Cambridge Electronic Design
glosses: Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc.
glosses: Council for Entrepreneurial Development
glosses: Capacitance Electronic Disc
glosses: College of Environmental Design
glosses: Christian Engineers in Development
glosses: Centre for Education and Documentation
examples: text: CED gives suppliers data preparation sheets for collecting details on each product.
ref: 1989, Dougleas Mowat, “Chemical Exchange Directory — advertising chemicals online”, in Online Review, volume 13, page 308:
text: CED provides online access to the Service and also offers the Supplier Information Service (SIS), an online product catalog for suppliers.
ref: 1997, Information Industry Directory - Volumes 1-2, page 737:
glosses: Chemical Exchange Directory
glosses: Centre for Executive Development
glosses: Council on the Education of the Deaf
glosses: Centre for Educational Development
glosses: Canada Economic Development
glosses: California Environmental Dialogue
glosses: Consolidated Energy Design
glosses: CONNECT: Entrepreneur Development
AUC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: ab urbe condita
form: ab Urbe condita
Etymology: From Latin AUC, (anno) ab urbe condita (“in the year from the city having been founded”) or anno urbis conditae (“in the year of the city's having been founded”), both in reference to Rome's legendary establishment by Romulus. The era was not in common use by the Romans, who preferred dating by the years' consuls, but Roman historians give several dates for this era. The one most commonly used in the present day is Varro's, which dates from the third year of the sixth Olympiad (753 bc).
Senses: examples: text: The Senate (A.U.C. 514) decreed that the eldest son alone should bear his father's praenomen.
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
glosses: According to the Roman era, which reckons the number of years passed from the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus, now usually taken as 753 bc.
AUC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AUCs
Etymology: English initialisms.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of area under curve (the area under the curve in a plot of concentration of drug in blood plasma against time).
Related terms: AUROC
AUC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of Spanish Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia.
Senses: examples: text: The payments continued after the U.S. government designated the AUC as a foreign terrorist organization in September 2001.
ref: 2007 March 19, Andy Sullivan, “Chiquita pleads guilty to Colombia terror payments”, in Reuters:
glosses: United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a paramilitary group active from 1997 to 2006.
AUC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of assets under custody.
abhorrences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abhorrence
aberrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aberration
abeles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbiːlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of abele
abductions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌk.ʃn̩s/
Senses: glosses: plural of abduction
abductees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.dəkˈtiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of abductee
abducted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abduct
abducted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdʌktɪd/
Senses: glosses: Having been kidnapped; having become the victim of an abduction
Derived terms: unabducted
abdications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdication
CET
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Durov appeared in a Parisian court at 10 am CET on Dec. 6, alongside his lawyers David-Olivier Kaminski and Christophe Ingrain.
ref: 2024 December 7, Zoltan Vardai, “Telegram founder Pavel Durov questioned in Paris court for first time: Report”, in Cointelegraph:
glosses: Initialism of Central European Time.
glosses: Initialism of CERN Expenditure Tracking.
glosses: Initialism of Comcast Entertainment Television.
glosses: Abbreviation of Cetus.
glosses: Initialism of College of Engineering, Trivandrum.
glosses: Initialism of Computer Education Trust.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Educational Technology/ies.
glosses: Initialism of Centre for English Teaching.
glosses: Initialism of Creative Energy Technologies.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Educational Telecommunications.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Employment Training.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Entrepreneurship and Technologies.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Excellence in Teaching.
glosses: Initialism of Center for Ecological Technology.
glosses: Initialism of Centre for Environmental Technology.
glosses: Initialism of College of Engineering and Technology.
glosses: Initialism of Centre for Education and Training.
CET
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Central England temperature.
glosses: Initialism of Common Entrance Test.
glosses: Initialism of College English Test.
Hamiltonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hamilton + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1954, L. M. Hacker, “The Anticapitalist Bias of American Historians,” in Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich A Hayek ed. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0226320723&id=Z80ZQbpaD8UC&pg=RA1-PA84&lpg=RA1-PA84&sig=gZMnjufIPytwIAUuEn2Nmf8z7TU
Politically, to these leveling historians, Hamiltonism was evil; and by the same token a moral and not an economic judgment is passed on his extraordinary achievements.
text: As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism, Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.
ref: 2000, Thomas Fleming, Duel:
text: Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power.
ref: 2004, Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare,:
glosses: The economic policy attributed to Alexander Hamilton.
CORE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of corporate responsibility.
CORE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: “I start heading back up to 125th and people are all buzzing, saying the police have beat up and arrested some CORE people.”
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, page 220:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Acronym of Congress of Racial Equality.
glosses: Acronym of Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
glosses: Acronym of Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education.
glosses: Acronym of Council on Rehabilitation Education.
glosses: Acronym of Computing Research and Education Association.
halvans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An impure or dirty ore.
halurgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halurgists
Etymology: Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “salt”) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”).
Senses: glosses: A salt worker.
halurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From halo- + -urgy.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of working with salt.
Synonyms: salt-working
haltingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more haltingly
form: most haltingly
Etymology: From halting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke haltingly of his battle with cancer and its affect on his family.
text: I just learned how to read Korean this summer and am still new to the language, so I still read and pronounce the words haltingly when I try to read a sentence in Korean. I take over a minute, whereas one with an excellent command of the Korean language would take 12.5 seconds.
text: Mr. Biden’s core supporters expressed confidence in his performance, in which he spoke knowledgeably, if haltingly, about foreign policy after hosting a summit of NATO leaders in Washington.
ref: 2024 July 12, Linda Feldmann, “Biden is on a knife’s edge: Can he hang on?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: In a halting or limping manner; full of pauses or hesitation.
togs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of tog