cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tetherball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛðɚˌbɔl/
ipa: /ˈtɛðɚˌbɑl/
ipa: /ˈtɛðəˌbɔːl/
Forms: form: tetherballs
Etymology: Compound of tether + ball.
Senses: glosses: A two-person sport where players hit a ball on the end of a tether attached to the top of a pole in opposite directions, and the winner is the one who manages to make the tether wrap all the way round the pole.
glosses: The ball in the sport of tetherball.
tendonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendonitises
form: tendonitides
form: tendonites
Etymology: From tendon + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tendinitis.
strychnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɪk.niːn/
ipa: /ˈstrɪknɪn/
ipa: /ˈstrɪkˌnaɪn/
ipa: /ˈstrɪkˌnin/
Forms: form: strychnines
Etymology: From French strychnine, from Greek στρύχνος (strýchnos, “sleepy nightshade”) (or directly from Ancient Greek στρύχνον (strúkhnon)) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A very toxic, colorless crystalline alkaloid, derived from nux vomica, used as a pesticide.
Derived terms: hydrochloride of strychnine
strychnic
strychnine hydrochloride
strychnine tree
strychninism
straddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæd.l̩/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: straddles
form: straddling
form: straddled
form: straddled
Etymology: As a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.
Senses: examples: text: But guess my surprise, when I saw the lazy young rogue lie down on his back, and gently pull down Polly upon him, who giving way to his humour, straddled, and with her hands conducted her blind favourite to the right place
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: As they approached the entrance of the port, the giant straddled clear across it, with a foot firmly planted on each headland,
ref: 1853, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Minotaur:
synonyms: stride
glosses: To sit or stand with a leg on each side of something; to sit astride.
examples: text: The mountain-ringed Yukon Flats basin straddles the Arctic Circle and is bisected by the Yukon River.
ref: 1978, Jimmy Carter, Proclamation 4627:
text: Those in our movement who are Black and must straddle two movements, fighting the racism of the gay community along with the heterosexism in white institutions and in communities of color.
ref: 1985 February 9, “Black History Month”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 4:
synonyms: arch
traverse
glosses: To be on both sides of something; to have parts that are in different places, regions, etc.
examples: text: Wanting to please both sides, he straddled the issue.
glosses: To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
examples: text: This weed straddles the entire garden.
text: Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
glosses: To form a disorderly sprawl; to spread out irregularly.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To place a voluntary raise prior to receiving cards (only by the first player after the blinds).
glosses: To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: To execute a commodities market spread.
Related terms: astride
bestride
straddler
straddling bus
stride
straddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæd.l̩/
rhymes: -ædəl
Forms: form: straddles
Etymology: As a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.
Senses: glosses: A posture in which one straddles something.
examples: text: The first salvo fell short; the next was long; the third was a straddle.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A pair or salvo of successive artillery shots falling both in front of and behind a target.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A voluntary raise made prior to receiving cards by the first player after the blinds.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A vertical mine-timber supporting a set.
glosses: A part of a harness placed on the back of a beast of burden (such as a horse or donkey) to carry the weight of a load.
Derived terms: double straddle
short straddle
side-straddle hop
straddle carrier
straddle
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæd.l̩/
rhymes: -ædəl
Etymology: As a verb, attested since the 1560s. Most likely, an alteration of dialectal striddle. The noun is first attested in the 1610s.
Senses: glosses: Astride.
stamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæmpɚ/
ipa: /ˈstæmpə/
rhymes: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stampers
Etymology: From stamp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who stamps.
examples: text: The best crushing seasons had to be wasted, for this reason - for months the busy din of the stampers was not to be heard, the machinery lay idle, and the only thing those men who were able to hold on for better times could do was to see, at all events, they were not left without a sufficient supply of food.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 211:
glosses: An instrument for pounding or stamping.
glosses: A physical template from which many identical vinyl records or compact discs can be produced.
sloshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒʃt/
ipa: /ˈslɑʃt/
rhymes: -ɒʃt
rhymes: -ɑʃt
Forms: form: more sloshed
form: most sloshed
Etymology: In sense “drunk”, circa 1946.
Senses: glosses: Very drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
Derived terms: sloshed to the gills
sloshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɒʃt/
ipa: /ˈslɑʃt/
rhymes: -ɒʃt
rhymes: -ɑʃt
Etymology: In sense “drunk”, circa 1946.
Senses: glosses: simple past of slosh
glosses: past participle of slosh
DIRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Deposit Interest Retention Tax.
schnauzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃnaʊzɚ/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: schnauzers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schnauzer.
Senses: examples: text: The five-year-old Giant Schnauzer was also awarded Best in Show at the AKC National Championship in December.
ref: 2025 February 11, Kevin Dotson and Thomas Schlachter, “Monty the Giant Schnauzer wins Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show”, in CNN:
glosses: A dog of a particular breed originating in Germany.
paintball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪntbɔːl/
Forms: form: paintballs
Etymology: From paint + ball.
Senses: glosses: A sport where teams shoot each other with gelatin capsules filled with paint-like dye.
glosses: The dye-filled capsule fired in the sport of paintball.
Related terms: airsoft
archery tag
dart tag
laser tag
MilSim
tagball
wargames
paintball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪntbɔːl/
Forms: form: paintballs
form: paintballing
form: paintballed
form: paintballed
Etymology: From paint + ball.
Senses: glosses: To engage in the sport of paintball.
glosses: To shoot someone using a paintball gun.
Derived terms: paintballer
minimalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/
Forms: form: more minimalist
form: most minimalist
Etymology: From minimal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I am sure such a minimalist style of furniture would never fit well with my packrat nature.
glosses: Believing in or seeking a minimal state; seeking to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
Synonyms: minimalistic
bare-bones
minimalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ə.məl.ɪst/
Forms: form: minimalists
Etymology: From minimal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He's a minimalist: when it comes to formal processes, the fewer the better.
glosses: One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
Derived terms: neominimalist
nonminimalist
postminimalist
protominimalist
ultraminimalist
Related terms: minimalism
minimist
straggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæɡlə/
ipa: /ˈstɹæɡlɚ/
ipa: /ˈstɹæɡl̩ɚ/
Forms: form: stragglers
Etymology: From straggle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She recounted her life in pre-World War II Eastern Europe and how a ragtag band of Red Army stragglers, escaped prisoners of war and Jewish and gentile Resistance fighters — including some women — harassed the Germans behind the Wehrmacht’s front lines in the forests and swamps of what is now Belarus.
ref: 2021 May 28, Sam Roberts, “Faye Schulman Dies; Fought Nazis With a Rifle and a Camera”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Someone who goes against the direct or proper course, or from the company to which they belong.
examples: text: This isn't the 1970s, when the UK stood out as the European straggler.
ref: 2025 July 31, Janan Ganesh, “Britain is not a broken society”, in Financial Times, page 17:
glosses: One who falls behind the rest, for example in a race.
glosses: One who roams without any settled direction.
glosses: A migratory animal found away from its usual range.
glosses: A roving vagabond.
glosses: Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
glosses: Something that stands alone or by itself.
Derived terms: blue straggler
straggler daisy
lederhosen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪdəˌhəʊzən/
ipa: /ˈleɪdɚˌhoʊzən/
rhymes: -əʊzən
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lederhose (literally “leather trousers”). The final -n probably from the German plural; alternatively influenced by Bavarian Lederhosn (singular and plural).
Senses: glosses: A pair of knee-breeches made of leather, typical of Bavaria and Austria.
Derived terms: lederhosened
hydrolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪdɹəleɪz/
Forms: form: hydrolases
Etymology: From hydrolysis + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of a substrate.
Derived terms: abhydrolase
acetylhydrolase
amidohydrolase
aminohydrolase
amylohydrolase
anhydrolase
carboxyhydrolase
cyclohydrolase
dihydrolase
dimethylaminohydrolase
endohydrolase
exohydrolase
fructanohydrolase
fructohydrolase
glucanohydrolase
glucohydrolase
glycanohydrolase
glycohydrolase
glycosylhydrolase
hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase
iminohydrolase
maltohydrolase
metallohydrolase
perhydrolase
phosphohydrolase
pyrophosphohydrolase
ribosylhydrolase
sulfohydrolase
thiohydrolase
triphosphohydrolase
ureohydrolase
xylanohydrolase
helipad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helipads
Etymology: From heli- + pad.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A small landing place for helicopters, denoted by a large "H".
exporter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exporters
Etymology: From export + -er.
Senses: examples: text: India is the leading exporter of guar gum, making up nearly 85 per cent of the global production.
antonyms: importer
glosses: One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.
Related terms: exportability
exportable
exportation
cackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkækəl/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: cackles
Etymology: From Middle English caclen, cakelen, perhaps from Old English *caclian, *cacolian, from Proto-West Germanic *kakulōn, *kakilōn (“to cackle, gaggle, yelp, snarl”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kakelen (“to cackle”), German Low German kakeln (“to cackle”), German kakeln (“to blather”), Danish kagle (“to cackle”), Swedish kackla (“to cackle”). Compare also Old English cahhetan, ċeahhettan (“to laugh loudly; cackle”), German gackern (“to cackle”).
Senses: examples: text: I heard a grey hen cackling among the ling; I called and thought, "If I could get a sight of you now, it would be your last cackle;" just then I heard something moving behind me on the path.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28:
glosses: The cry of a hen or goose, especially when laying an egg.
glosses: A laugh resembling the cry of a hen or goose.
examples: text: There's no time to waste on silly cackle.
ref: 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet: All Quiet on the Greyfriars Front:
glosses: Futile or excessively noisy talk.
glosses: A group of hyenas.
Derived terms: cackleberry
cackle-fart
cackly
hen-cackle
cackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkækəl/
rhymes: -ækəl
Forms: form: cackles
form: cackling
form: cackled
form: cackled
Etymology: From Middle English caclen, cakelen, perhaps from Old English *caclian, *cacolian, from Proto-West Germanic *kakulōn, *kakilōn (“to cackle, gaggle, yelp, snarl”), perhaps of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kakelen (“to cackle”), German Low German kakeln (“to cackle”), German kakeln (“to blather”), Danish kagle (“to cackle”), Swedish kackla (“to cackle”). Compare also Old English cahhetan, ċeahhettan (“to laugh loudly; cackle”), German gackern (“to cackle”).
Senses: examples: text: When every goose is cackling.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: I heard a grey hen cackling among the ling; I called and thought, "If I could get a sight of you now, it would be your last cackle;" just then I heard something moving behind me on the path.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 28:
glosses: To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
examples: text: The witch cackled evilly.
text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry.
examples: text: It is also the business of a sensible government, not to cackle on its discoveries
ref: 1860, P. Thomspon, Audi Alteration[???]:
glosses: To talk in a silly manner; to prattle.
examples: text: Danny cackled the dice furiously in his cupped hand, then rolled them so they stopped inches from Slattery's hands. The result was the same as before – a seven.
ref: 1941, Mignon Good Eberhart, The Third Mystery Book: Six Short Mysteries, page 120:
text: […] they spun all right, or so it seemed, and hit the wall all right, or so it seemed, but bottom line was this: The stirring of the dice was merely cackling, the cubes artfully framed so that the spots in the kid's fists showed 4‐4 up‐right and weren't really rattled but rather, held in control by the pinky, forefinger and thumb; […]
ref: 2015, Jack Engelhard, The Prince of Dice, page 11:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: To pretend to rattle (dice) in one's hand while gripping them so that they maintain their orientation.
Derived terms: cackle bladder
cackle-bladder
cackle fruit
cackler
cackling goose
cacklingly
Related terms: cluck
subjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subjections
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman subjectioun, from Old French subjection (Modern French sujétion), from Latin subjectiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of bringing something under the control of something else.
examples: text: Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:
text: The smallest incidents were to serve as pretexts for demonstrations of force and for demands for indemnities and reparations which increased China's subjection. For example, in 1876 China was constrained to sign the Conventions of Chih-fu (near Yen-tʻai, in north-eastern Shantung) with Great Britain after the murder of an English interpreter on the borders of Yunnan and Burma; the result was five new 'open ports' on top of the fifteen or so already existing.
ref: 1996, Jacques Gernet, translated by J. R. Foster and Charles Hartman, A History of Chinese Civilization, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 580:
glosses: The state of being subjected.
navigatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more navigatable
form: most navigatable
Etymology: From navigate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Rivers were made navigatable, irrigation was improved, and the use of hydraulics was greatly increased.
ref: 1992, Peter Sammartino, William Roberts, Sicily: An Informal History, page 45:
text: The second is that it has potentials for information exploration, because the displayed network is navigatable.
ref: 1998, Flexible Query Answering Systems, page 83:
text: The following year, Heyerdahl tried again—this time having learned from his mistakes—and the Ra II was built by the South American Aymara Indians from Lake Titicaca (the world's highest navigatable lake).
ref: 2008, Michael R. Ash, Of Faith and Reason, page 67:
text: Key characteristics of the Web are that it is simple to understand and use, deeply integrated in the user's desktop and working practices, navigatable through linking, loosely coupled and has unparalleled support in terms of tools and support.
ref: 2008, Euro-Par 2007 Workshops: Parallel Processing, page 72:
glosses: Navigable.
Derived terms: navigatability
unnavigatable
aroint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɹɔɪnt/
rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: aroints
form: arointing
form: arointed
form: arointed
Etymology: Uncertain, and subject to various attempts to connect it to multiple Germanic and Romance etymons; first attested in the First Folio, and sometimes posited to be an error for anoint, referring to a witch’s supposed flight-facilitating ointment, and thus being a commandment for her to anele herself and fly away; also said to be taken from the phrase rowan tree, thought to dispel witches.
Senses: examples: text: And aroynt thee Witch, aroynt thee.
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, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpe-fed Ronyon cryes.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: avaunt; begone; go away; leave!
examples: text: Whiskered cats arointed flee,
Sturdy stoppers keep from thee
Cologne distillations.
ref: 1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, To Flush, My Dog:
glosses: to dispel; to send away.
deposit interest retention tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: In Ireland, a tax on interest from savings.
brach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
ipa: /bɹæk/
rhymes: -æk
ipa: /bɹæt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ætʃ
Forms: form: brachs
Etymology: Clipping of brach(iopod).
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Clipping of brachiopod.
PQLI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Physical Quality of Life Index.
motion sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A feeling of nausea or dizziness caused by a disagreement between visually perceived movement and the vestibular system's sense of movement; typically resulting from travel in a vehicle such as a ship or car.
Synonyms: kinesia
kinetosis
swing sickness
Hyponyms: airsickness
barfogenesis
carsickness
cybersickness
seasickness
naupathia
trainsickness
travel sickness
lacework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lace + work.
Senses: glosses: A piece or example of lace.
lallygag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lallygags
form: lollygag
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Biggs paused and turned the flesh of the succulent lobster over with his finger. The gentleman inside addressed him: ‘Try er lobstaw, bossy?’ ‘Ain't got no money,’ said Mr. Biggs, still fingering the morsels. ‘Oh, come now, none o' that ere lallygag,’ responded the gentleman.
ref: 1862 August, Harper's Magazine:
glosses: Horseplay, fooling around.
examples: text: ["]Why, you ought to have been ready half an hour ago!" she said, pushing him into his room fondly. "You're a lackadaisical lallygag, that's what you are! Do you realize how much you've got to do to-day, Mr. Bonistelle?"
ref: 1913, Gelett Burgess, Love in a Hurry, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 8:
synonyms: word: lollygagger
word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: A layabout, one who lallygags.
lallygag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lallygags
form: lallygagging
form: lallygagged
form: lallygagged
form: lollygag
Senses: examples: text: And don't you dare to lallygag about so that you don't get home till after dark, or I'll have every policeman in Parañaque out after you! Now, take care of yourselves, all of you.
ref: 1955, Agnes Newton Keith, Bare Feet in the Palace, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, page 125:
glosses: To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort.
examples: text: "She's goin' to wait fer us down to Rothschild's bridge. 'N' her 'n' me 's goin' to set on the back seat together—" / "'N' lallygag," interrupted his mother. […] / "Oh, we allus lallygag when we git together, me 'n' Cynthy does." […]
ref: 1894, Frederick Thickstun Clark, On Cloud Mountain: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, page 115:
text: Kissing is a game that should always be played in private. Those who must lallygag or perish should pull down the blinds.
ref: 1898, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, page 257:
glosses: To pet, kiss, or otherwise demonstrate overt affection, generally in public.
lame-duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lame-ducks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lame duck.
lamination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌlæm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: laminations
Senses: glosses: The process of laminating, joining together thin layers.
glosses: Something made by laminating.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A foliation of a closed subset of a manifold by subspaces of one dimension less.
glosses: A layer of something that is laminated.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small scale sequence of fine layers that occurs in sedimentary rocks.
Derived terms: delamination
dyslamination
interlamination
microlamination
multilamination
nanolamination
neolamination
prelamination
lights-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪts.aʊt/
Senses: glosses: The time at night at which artificial lights are to be turned off, a curfew or bedtime.
examples: text: We were all expected to be in bed by lights-out.
glosses: The prescribed bedtime for persons living in a boarding school or staying in a hospital.
examples: text: It's gonna be lights out for you, pal!
text: Hardy landed a picture perfect right uppercut square on Padilla's jaw. It was lights out for the formerly undefeated pugilist.
ref: 1990 Feb, “Sparring in the Financial Markets”, in Black Enterprise, volume 20, number 7, page 162:
text: Then, come November, the hunters are sitting there waiting for the unsuspecting gullible deer, and then it's lights out for the deer.
ref: 2010, “A Memo from the devil”, in Catholic Bible 101, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2010:
glosses: Something hopeless, over; unconsciousness.
examples: text: No one could really stop him in the second half and he was lights-out in OHL playoffs.
ref: 2017 July 17, Mike G. Morreale, “'Super Buddies' McLeod, Bastian look to make mark with Devils”, in NHL.com:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Decisive play.
Related terms: curfew
lights-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪts.aʊt/
Senses: examples: text: lights-out manufacturing
text: lights-out production
text: Their night shift is lights-out production. Their day shift handles tooling, setup, and staging to make sure that everything is ready for the next lights-out run.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: Done in the dark because fully automated. Often describes night shift or third shift work.
Related terms: dark factory
out like a light
put someone's light out
seasickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːsɪk.nəs/
Forms: form: seasicknesses
form: sea-sickness
form: sea sickness
Etymology: From seasick + -ness and/or sea + sickness. Compare Middle English seknesse of the see (“seasickness”, literally “sickness of the sea”).
Senses: synonyms: naupathia
glosses: Nausea, dizziness etc caused by the motion of a ship; a form of motion sickness.
Hypernyms: motion sickness
Coordinate terms: airsickness
carsickness
trainsickness
lightheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: lītʹhär't(ĭ)d-nĕs
Forms: form: lightheartednesses
form: light-heartedness
Etymology: From lighthearted (adjective) (any sense) + -ness (suffix forming nouns).
Senses: glosses: The state of being lighthearted, joyous, cheerful, without a care.
examples: text: I focus on communal descriptive problems—what I call American race talk dilemmas—rather than on all the lightheartednesses and small triumphs of daily life at Columbus.
ref: 2009, Mica Pollock, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School, →ISBN, page x:
glosses: An amusement or item of a pleasant but inconsequential nature.
Synonyms: topics: property
word: joyousness
raw_tags: of being lighthearted
word: cheerfulness
word: carefreedom
word: carefreeness
word: playfulness
sense: an amusement
word: amusement
word: pleasantry
Related terms: word: lightheartedly
like-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more like-minded
form: most like-minded
Etymology: From like + mind + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The like-minded politicians voted the same way so often they were thought of as one person rather than two.
text: With the ability to network with like-minded young professionals from across the railway industry, while experiencing the history and culture of Japan and its railway network, YRTs first inter-continental tour can be deemed a great success!
ref: 2020 July 29, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
text: Even friends and advisers working with [Zohran] Mamdani’s campaign and like-minded allies on the city council, among the three dozen New York leaders who spoke with CNN, say privately that they fear Mamdani is behind in preparing for what’s ahead if he wins November’s election, as reliable public polls show he is in strong position to do.
ref: 2025 September 18, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Obama’s advice, socialists’ demands, meetings with skeptics: Inside Mamdani’s prep to run New York City”, in CNN:
antonyms: unlike-minded
glosses: Of similar opinion, given to holding similar opinions.
Derived terms: like-mindedness
unlike-minded
Pangasinan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐŋ.ɡɐ.sɪˈnan/
Etymology: From Spanish Pangasinán, from Pangasinan Pangasinan.
Senses: glosses: A province of the Ilocos Region, Luzon, Philippines. Capital: Lingayen. Largest city: San Carlos.
glosses: A language of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family of languages; it is one of the major languages of the Philippines and the primary language in the province of Pangasinan, as well as northern Tarlac.
Pangasinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐŋ.ɡɐ.sɪˈnan/
Forms: form: Pangasinans
Etymology: From Spanish Pangasinán, from Pangasinan Pangasinan.
Senses: glosses: A person from Pangasinan or having Pangasinan ancestry.
Pangasinan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɐŋ.ɡɐ.sɪˈnan/
Etymology: From Spanish Pangasinán, from Pangasinan Pangasinan.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pangasinan people, language, or province
Related terms: Pangasinense
Panggalatok
quadrilogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrilogies
Etymology: From quadri- + -logy, by analogy with trilogy.
Senses: glosses: A tetralogy.
Related terms: duology
like-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From like-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being like-minded, of holding similar opinions.
lily-white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lily-white
form: most lily-white
Etymology: From Middle English liliwhite, lilye-white, lilye-whyt, equivalent to lily + white.
Senses: glosses: A shade of the color white.
examples: text: Not a pimple nor freckle marred her lily-white skin
text: Four for the Gospel makers, / Three, three, the rivals, / Two, two, the lily-white boys, Clothed all in green, O
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Green Grow the Rushes, O”:
glosses: Pure, unblemished, immaculate.
glosses: Innocent, having a reputation beyond reproach.
examples: text: The film was shot on location in Notting Hill, but observers noticed how its streets were suspiciously free of black people, and instead “wholly populated with mindless, twittering, wittering, lily-white rich”, as writer China Miéville put it.
ref: 2023 March 7, Steve Rose, quoting China Miéville, “The romcom effect: will a new movie gentrify Peckham as Richard Curtis gentrified Notting Hill?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of the Caucasian race; white.
limy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌɪ.mi/
rhymes: -aɪmi
homophone: limey
Forms: form: limier
form: limiest
Etymology: From lime + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Limy muds accumulated there as sediments, and entombed the remains of the animals living on the sea-floor.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 6:
glosses: containing or resembling lime
Derived terms: liminess
alpha-lactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha-lactams
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A lactam having a three-membered ring structure.
Related terms: beta-lactam
marination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marinations
Senses: glosses: The process of marinating.
beta-lactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta-lactams
form: β-lactam
form: betalactam
Etymology: From beta + lactam, where beta refers to the position of the carbon atom to which the nitrogen is attached.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
hypernyms: lactam
glosses: A lactam having a four-membered ring structure; a structural element of many antibiotics such as penicillin.
Derived terms: beta-lactamase
beta-lactamic
monobactam
Related terms: alpha-lactam
penam
mastication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæstɪˈkeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mastications
Etymology: From Late Latin masticātiō, equivalent to masticate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: “It is no more blasphemous than that thing which is swiping our meat,” I replied, for whatever the thing was, it had leaped upon our deer and was devouring it in great mouthfuls which it swallowed without mastication. The creature appeared to be a great lizard at least ten feet high, with a huge, powerful tail as long as its torso, mighty hind legs and short forelegs.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 1002:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The process of chewing.
glosses: The process of crushing as though chewed.
Derived terms: demastication
muscle of mastication
premastication
remastication
Related terms: masticate
masticatory
métier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛtjeɪ/
ipa: /meɪˈtjeɪ/
Forms: form: métiers
Etymology: Borrowed from French métier. Doublet of mister (“employment, trade”).
Senses: glosses: Any activity that is pursued as a trade or profession; a calling.
synonyms: word: forte
word: bent
word: forte
word: gift
word: knack
word: long suit
word: métier
word: speciality
word: strength
word: strong suit
word: talent
glosses: An activity to which a person is particularly suited.
glosses: An outstanding or beneficial feature.
Cartesian product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian products
form: cartesian product
Etymology: From Cartesian + product, after French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist René Descartes (1596–1650), whose formulation of analytic geometry gave rise to the concept.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set of all possible ordered pairs of elements, the being first from X, the second from Y, written X×Y. Formally, the set (x,y);|;x∈X;and;y∈Y.
raw_tags: of two sets X and Y
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.
examples: text: On the Cartesian product of two manifolds a differentiable structure can be constructed in the following way.
ref: 1987, M. Göckeler, T. Schücker, Differential Geometry, Gauge Theories, and Gravity, published 1989, page 98:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An (m+n)-dimensional space, formally composed of all possible ordered pairs of points from X and Y, but thought of as an independent (m+n)-dimensional space (in the sense that if, e.g. X and Y are vector spaces, the elements of X×Y are thought of as (m+n)-tuples instead of ordered pairs) and written X×Y.
raw_tags: of an m-dimensional space X and an n-dimensional space Y
examples: text: The hypercube is the simplest example of a Cartesian product of graphs; indeed, the m-hypercube is nothing but (K₂)ᵐ.
ref: 1997, Michel Marie Deza, Monique Laurent, Geometry of Cuts and Metrics, published 2009, page 297:
text: A moment's thought convinces us of the following:
The Cartesian product of two Riemannian Einstein metrics with the same constant Ricci scalar ρ is again Ricci-constant, and has Ric
ref: 2004, David Bao, Colleen Robles, “Ricci and Flag Curvatures in Finsler Geometry”, in David Dai-Wai Bao, Robert L. Bryant, Shiing-Shen Chern, Zhomgmin Shen, editors, A Sampler of Riemann-Finsler Geometry, page 246:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several generalizations of the set-theoretic sense, especially one which shares the geometrical intuition outlined above, i.e. one such that the product can be thought of as an object in its own right and not just as a set of pairs.
Synonyms: sense: set of possible pairs
word: direct product
presidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪdi.əm/
Forms: form: presidia
form: presidiums
form: praesidium
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian прези́диум (prezídium), from Latin praesidium. Doublet of praesidium and presidio.
Senses: glosses: A permanent executive committee, used primarily in Communist countries, with the power to act for a larger governing body when the latter is in recess.
glosses: Such an executive committee headed by the President of the Supreme Soviet.
Related terms: presidio
presidio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presidios
Etymology: From Spanish presidio (“garrison”), from Latin praesidium, 1763. Doublet of praesidium and presidium.
Senses: examples: text: While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
ref: 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25:
glosses: A garrisoned place, especially one that is or was once under Spanish control.
Derived terms: Presidio County
chametz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɛts/
ipa: /ˈhʌmɪts/
ipa: /ˈhɑːmɪts/
ipa: /x-/
rhymes: -ɛts
Forms: form: chamets
form: chometz
form: hamets
form: hametz
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חָמֵץ (khaméts).
Senses: examples: text: The eating of chametz (leavened products) is explicitly prohibited on Passover (Exod. 12:19–20; 13:3), for the Israelites “took their dough before it was leavened” (Exod. 12:34) and left Egypt in great haste.
ref: 2010, Ronald Eisenberg, What the Rabbis Said: 250 Topics from the Talmud, page 219:
text: A chametz-free total environment is the Passover goal, so any place where chametz was or might have been used during the year is thoroughly checked and cleaned lest any chametz has been left behind.
ref: 2011, Irving Greenberg, The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays, page 43:
glosses: Food products made from leavened grain flour, which may not be consumed on Passover.
Derived terms: chametz-based
chametz-free
non-chametz
Related terms: bedikat chametz
biur chametz
chametz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɛts/
ipa: /ˈhʌmɪts/
ipa: /ˈhɑːmɪts/
ipa: /x-/
rhymes: -ɛts
Forms: form: chamets
form: chometz
form: hamets
form: hametz
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חָמֵץ (khaméts).
Senses: examples: text: It is permitted, therefore, to store and use all types of ointments, hand lotions, nail polish or medicated drops (for the ear or nose), etc., even if they contain an active chametz ingredient. […]
ref: 1999, Rabbi Doniel Neustadt, “Medicines and Cosmetics for Pesach”, in Kashrut.com:
synonyms: chametz-based
antonyms: chametz-free
non-chametz
glosses: Made of chametz.
examples: text: One of the many preparations one must make for Pesach is kashering (a process to prepare a non-kosher vessel for kosher use or a chametz vessel for use on Pesach). […] All chametz utensils that will be used for Pesach must be thoroughly cleaned. […] Remove the filter covering the drain and put it away for Pesach with the chametz dishes. […] The pots may be chametz pots. […] Where needed, one can use a chametz microwave on Pesach by[…]
ref: 2004, “The Quintessential Kashering Primer”, in Jewish Action, volume 64 (Spring 2004/5764), number 3:
glosses: Used with or to be used with chametz.
chamets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chametz.
chometz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chametz.
hamets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chametz.
hametz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chametz.
-ive
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɪv/
Etymology: From Middle English -yf, from Anglo-Norman -if from Latin -īvus. Until the fourteenth century, all Middle English loanwords from Anglo-Norman ended in -if (compare actif, natif, sensitif, pensif etc.). Under the influence of literary Neo-Latin, both languages introduced the form -ive. Those forms that have not been replaced were subsequently changed to end in -y (compare hasty, from hastif, jolly, from jolif etc.).
Like the Latin suffix -iō (genitive -iōnis), the Latin suffix -ivus is appended to the perfect passive participle to form an adjective of action.
Senses: glosses: An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to, or serving to; as: affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.
maundy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːn.di/
ipa: /ˈmɑn.di/
ipa: /ˈmoːn.di/
Forms: form: maundies
Etymology: From Middle English maundee, maunde, from Old French mandée (“mandated”), from Latin mandatum (“commandment”). Doublet of mandate. The word came to refer to the foot-washing ceremony performed on Thursday before Easter because of the phrase used by Jesus to explain his act of foot-washing, which in the Latin Vulgate begins: Mandatum novum do vobis ut diligatis invicem ..., i.e. "A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another …" (John 13:34).
Senses: glosses: A commandment.
examples: text: And also they make their sacrament of the altar of Therf bread, for our Lord made it of such bread, when he made his Maundy.
ref: 1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville:
glosses: The sacrament of the Lord's supper.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The ceremony of washing the feet of poor persons or inferiors, performed as a religious rite on Maundy Thursday in commemoration of Christ's washing the disciples' feet at the Last Supper.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The office appointed to be read during the religious ceremony of foot-washing.
Synonyms: sense: foot-washing ceremony
word: nipter
Derived terms: Maundy Thursday
Maundy money
bloodstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌdˌstoʊn/
Forms: form: bloodstones
Etymology: From blood + stone, from the fact that the red inclusions in the stone resemble blood.
Senses: examples: text: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: The magician wore a blood-stone ring […]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 148:
synonyms: heliotrope
glosses: A green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite.
glosses: Hematite.
scutella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: plural of scutellum
scutella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: scutellae
Senses: glosses: A scutellum.
bloodmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodmobiles
Etymology: From blood + -mobile.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle outfitted to collect blood from donors.
blood-and-guts
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined in 1937.
Senses: glosses: Performed with vigor, ferocity, passion, or violence (especially in competition).
Related terms: knockdown-dragout
rip-and-tear
Cade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: Caide
form: Kade
form: Kayde
Etymology: * As an English surname, from an old personal name Cada, from a Germanic root meaning "lump, swelling" and perhaps related to the next sense.
* Also as an English occupational surname for a cooper, from Old French cade (“barrel, cask”), from Latin cadus.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun cade (sense 1) (“domestic animal”).
* As a French surname, spelling variant of Cadé, from cade (“juniper”).
Senses: examples: text: Jack Cade hath gotten London bridge; / The citizens fly and forsake their houses; / The rascal people, thirsting after prey, / Join with the traitor;
ref: ,Scene IV
glosses: An English metonymic surname originating as an occupation for a cooper.
examples: text: They're fine lads, but if it's Cade Calvert you're setting your cap after, why, 'tis the same with me.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
interaction design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The structure and definition of the behavior of a system, the surrounding environment, corresponding artifacts, and the elements that communicate the aforementioned behavior.
Related terms: alt: GDD
word: goal-directed design
Gringolandia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: gringolandia
Etymology: From gringo + -landia.
Senses: examples: text: The three gringos had all hucked themselves off Cerro Potosi, an imposing peak on the road to Gringolandia. Their idea was to try to fly as far north as possible. North after all, was the way out — the way out of Mexico and back to Gringolandia.
ref: 2009 November 24, John Quinn Olson, Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *TAKING MEXICO FLYING* (Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder), Dust Devil Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:
text: The film renders meaningless nativist claims of insider status in contrast to the supposed alien status of Mexicans, dissolving these claims in the nightmarish reality of having no more Mexican and Latin American labor on the highways, in the kitchens, in the factories, in the vineyards, or anywhere else in the infrastructure of Gringolandia.
ref: 2012 July 9, María DeGuzmán, Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Aura showed Anna the list of countries the program had partnered with and pointed out to USA and said, "I am going to apply and study here at the University of Gringolandia!"
ref: 2016 April 26, Gregg Abello, Angel Warriors, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: 'Why were those men singing to me last night?' Sam asked the manager, who spoke English because of his time working in 'gringolandia'.
ref: 2022 April 28, PJ Skinner, Fool's Gold: Classic Adventure Novel (Sam Harris Adventure Series), PJ Skinner:
synonyms: Gringoland
glosses: The United States of America.
stake of Zion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stakes of Zion
Senses: glosses: A territorial subdivision of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints consisting of several wards and, possibly, branches.
Synonyms: stake
plain-song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain-songs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plainsong.
breast augmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast augmentations
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A cosmetic procedure to increase the size of a breast (the organ on the front of the chest).
Synonyms: word: boob job
word: breastwork
Hypernyms: top surgery
Related terms: breast implant