cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
faird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairds
form: fard
form: farde
form: ferde
Senses: examples: text: And ſone as he perſavys quhar that went / Forganyſt him, cumand throu greſy ſward, / Hys derreſt ſon Ene with hasty fard, / Baith his handys joyfull furthſtracht he than;[…]
ref: [a. 1522, Virgil, chapter XI, in Gawin Douglas [i.e., Gavin Douglas], transl., edited by [George Dundas], The Æneid of Virgil: Translated into Scottish Verse (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 64, no. 1), volume I, Edinburgh: T. Constable, printer, published 1839, →OCLC, page 355, lines 14–17:
text: Sire, I remember it is recordit, that in the Pharſalick conflict Cæſar obſerued that Pompeye, be his wntymeous reſtraint of his ſouldiers in the chock of the battel, in ſtaying them of thair force and faird, ſo abbaited their courage, that they wer aine eaſie praye to the Cæſarians, fewar in number, and of leſſe valour; […]
ref: 1609, Archbishop of St. Andrews [George Gledstanes], “CXXVIII. The Archbishop of St Andrews to King James”, in Original Letters Relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, Chiefly Written by, or Addressed to, His Majesty King James the Sixth after His Accession to the English Throne (Bannatyne Club, Publications; 92, no. 1), volumes I (M.DC.III.–M.DC.XIV.), Edinburgh: Printed by John Hughes, […], published 1851, →OCLC, page 216:
text: But ne'er a ane of them he ſpar'd, / E'en tho' there was a drunken laird / To draw his ſword, and make a faird / In their defence, […] [Footnote: Make a faird.) A buſtle like a bully.]
ref: 1714, Allan Ramsay, “Elegy on John Cowper, Kirk-treasurer’s Man, anno 1714”, in Poems by Allan Ramsay. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and W. Johnston, […], published 1751, →OCLC, page 16, lines 43–46:
glosses: Alternative form of ferd (“effort”).
private life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private lives
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: life; daily life, real life
text: Meronyms: dream life, nightlife, love life, sex life
text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
The researchers are teasing out fine details of the yaki’s private life.
text: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: personal life
antonyms: public life
work life
glosses: The aspects of one's life that are personal, such as family, friends and other personal relationships, as opposed to the elements that make up one's public or professional life.
private lives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private life
furisode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furisodes
form: furisode
Etymology: From Japanese 振袖 (ふりそで, furisode).
Senses: glosses: A style of colourful silk kimono distinguishable by its long sleeves, associated with the formal celebration of Coming of Age Day by a young woman reaching the age of 20.
you'ren't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈjoɹnt/
Senses: glosses: Contraction of you are not.
Bay of Plenty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bay of Plenty
Etymology: From bay (“embayment”) + plenty (“abundant food”). Coined by James Cook in 1769, from observations of plentiful amounts of food in the villages surrounding the bay.
Senses: glosses: A wide bay on the northern side of the North Island, New Zealand.
glosses: A region surrounding the bay in North Island, New Zealand.
Synonyms: Te Moana-a-Toi
Bay of Pigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small inlet on the southern side of Cuba, site of a famous failed invasion in 1961.
Derived terms: Bayou of Pigs
reportedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reported + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In Albanian, admiratives are used to express reportedness.
glosses: The quality or state of being or having been reported (as opposed, for example, to being known directly).
miratives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirative
Quds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of al-Quds.
synonyms: word: al-Quds
Al-Quds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of al-Quds.
froth at the mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɒθ ət ðə ˈmaʊθ/
ipa: /ˈfɹɔθ ət ðə ˈmaʊθ/
Forms: form: froths at the mouth
form: frothing at the mouth
form: frothed at the mouth
form: frothed at the mouth
Senses: examples: text: What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady's carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way. Before that, I never knew what it was to foam at the mouth, but now the action of the sharp bit on my tongue and jaw, and the constrained position of my head and throat, always caused me to froth at the mouth more or less.
ref: [1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 109:
text: Police said that he bought a 54-gallon drum of poisonous methyl alcohol, often used for hot-rod fuel, and mixed it with well water, peach flavoring, regular moonshine and a "beading oil" calculated to make it foam when shaken. Seventy-seven gallons were delivered. Within hours Atlanta's Grady Negro Clinic began to fill with men and women who panted, frothed at the mouth and writhed in horrible convulsions.
ref: 1951 November 5, “Manners & Morals: Americana”, in Time, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2010:
text: The symptoms of acute nitrate poisoning are quite characteristic provided the affected animals are not disturbed. In the early stages the animal stops eating, froths at the mouth and has abdominal pain and diarrhoea.
ref: 1963 August 15, “[Trends and Discoveries:] Nitrate Poisoning in Ruminants”, in New Scientist, volume 19, number 352, London: New Science Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 348, column 3:
text: He was so excited, he was almost frothing at the mouth.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: To spew saliva as froth.
examples: text: She was almost frothing at the mouth when she heard about the cost of the car repairs.
text: 'Damn the Whitecoats!' cried Snitter, frothing at the mouth. 'Damn Annie, damn the policeman and the white bell-car! Damn you all, damn you! You've killed my master!'
ref: 1977, Richard Adams, “Friday the 15th October”, in The Plague Dogs, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN; republished Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books in association with Rex Collings Ltd and Allen Lane, 1978, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: To rage, to vent one's anger.
Synonyms: foam at the mouth
froth at the gash
Hamad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hammad
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَمَد (ḥamad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “praise”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Arkansawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arkansawyers
Etymology: From Arkansaw (older spelling of Arkansas) + -yer.
Senses: examples: text: One opponent accused him of being "to the left of Hubert Humphrey," which was a hard thing to say about an Arkansawyer in 1970.
ref: 2003 March 9, Roy Reed, "Another Guy From Arkansas" (Book review of The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir by Dale Bumpers), New York Times (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)
text: The words Arkansan, Arkansawyer and Arkie are in common use. Each term has its partisans and its detractors.
ref: 2007 Dec. 26, "Sizing up Arkansan vs. Arkansawyer," The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (reposted at Arkansas Online) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)
glosses: A native or resident of the state of Arkansas in the United States of America.
Synonyms: Arkansan
Arkansasan
Arkansasian
Arkie
Arkansasan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kənˌsɔːn/
Forms: form: Arkansasans
Etymology: From Arkansas + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arkansan.
synonyms: word: Arkansan
Arkansasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arkansasians
Etymology: From Arkansas + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arkansan.
synonyms: word: Arkansan
transl.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of translate.
transl.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of translated.
transl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transll.
form: transls.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of translation.
glosses: Abbreviation of translator.
Auth. Ver.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Authorized Version (King James Version of the Bible).
ver.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verr.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of verification.
glosses: Abbreviation of vermilion.
glosses: Abbreviation of verse.
glosses: Abbreviation of version.
Derived terms: english: Bible
translation: Bible
word: Auth. Ver.
ver.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of verify.
megagauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megagauss
Etymology: From mega- + gauss.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to one million gauss.
gigagauss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigagauss
Etymology: From giga- + gauss.
Senses: glosses: A unit equal to 10⁹ gauss. Symbol: GG
edit.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of edited.
glosses: Abbreviation of editorial.
edit.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: editt.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of edition.
glosses: Abbreviation of editor.
glosses: Abbreviation of editorial.
nonsemantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + semantic.
Senses: glosses: Not semantic.
steato-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From στέατος (stéatos), the genitive singular of Ancient Greek στέαρ (stéar, “hard fat, suet”).
Senses: glosses: fat
pseudopassive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopassives
form: pseudo-passive
Etymology: From pseudo- + passive.
Senses: examples: text: Consider the English pseudo-passive in (4). (4) This bed has not been slept in for many years
ref: 1991, Reineke Bok-Bennema, Case and Agreement in Inuit, Berlin: Foris, →ISBN, page 97:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction where the object of a preposition has been promoted to the role of subject, as in The problem was talked about.
examples: text: Consider now the pseudo-passive, Er werd gefloten "There was whistling." Here, just as in the true passive, the morphology asserts high participant not focussed.
ref: 1976, Robert Kirsner, “On the subjectless 'pseudo-passive' in Standard Dutch and the semantics of background agents”, in Charles N. Li, editor, Subject and Topic, New York: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 391:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: impersonal passive
glosses: A construction that removes the subject from an intransitive verb, as in the Dutch sentence Er wordt gefloten ("[Someone] whistled").
pseudopassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pseudo-passive
Etymology: From pseudo- + passive.
Senses: examples: text: A kind of ‘pseudo-passive’ construction is possible, though, with intransitive verbs having a prepositional phrase complement.
ref: 1971, Manindra K. Verma, The Structure of the Noun Phrase in English and Hindi, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, →OCLC, page 157:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or related to the pseudopassive.
examples: text: The magnitude of the current density within the region is, of course, too high to be regarded as passive in the conventional sense, and we coin the term "pseudopassive" to describe it.
ref: 1996, G.T. Burstein, V.C. Salter, “The growth of pits during the electrograining of aluminum”, in Madhav Datta, B.R. MacDougall, James Fenton, editors, Proceedings of the Symposium on High Rate Metal Dissolution Processes, Pennington, NJ: Electrochemical Society, →ISBN, page 133:
glosses: Nearly passive; relatively passive.
examples: text: Some patients who look passive-aggressive are still pseudopassive-aggressive because though they are difficult, covertly hostile people [...] they are suffering from another emotional disorder.
ref: 2002, Martin Kantor, Passive-aggression: A Guide for the Therapist, the Patient, and the Victim, Westport, CT: Praeger, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: Resembling (something) passive.
pseudopassives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopassive
edd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ed.
edd.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: Short for Latin ediderunt (“they have published”).
Senses: examples: text: Nineteen Eighty-Four edd. Secker & Warburg, 1949
glosses: Published by.
Songhay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Songhays
form: Songhay
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Songhai.
Songhay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Songhai.
Songhays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Songhay
trr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tr.
diaphoneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪəˌfoʊnim/
ipa: /ˌdaɪəˈfoʊnim/
ipa: /daɪəˈfəʊniːm/
Forms: form: diaphonemes
Etymology: From dia- + phoneme.
Senses: examples: text: The transcription /oː‖əʊ‖oʊ/ or {oː} represents the diaphoneme descended from the ancestral Old English phoneme /oː/, which is preserved in Irish English as [oː] but has become [əʊ] in Received Pronunciation and as [oʊ] in General American.
text: The series with the long a as a point of departure…today has the diaphoneme /o‖u/, and to be exhaustive the diaphoneme should be rendered /o‖u‖au‖oi/, for in western Yiddish there are also the articulations /šlaufn/ and /šloifn/ (sleep). From the point of departure of long e (Early Vowel E₂) Yiddish arrived at the diaphoneme /ei‖ai/, for example in veynik (little) (cf. MHG wênic). In groys (big; Early Vowel O₂) (cf. MHG groȥ), Yiddish has the diaphoneme /ei‖oi/; with the variant of Samogitia–Latvia (7.35), the symbolization will become still more complicated: /ei‖øu‖oi‖ou/.
ref: 1980, S. Noble & J.A. Fishman (trr.), M. Weinrich (auth.), P. Glasser (ed.), History of the Yiddish Language II (2008), ch. vii, pp. 467f.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: An abstract phonological unit that represents collectively the dialectal variants of a phoneme.
Derived terms: diaphonematic
diaphonemic
diaphonemically
diaphonemics
Related terms: archiphoneme
diaphone
diaphonology
diasystem
corpus separatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin.
Senses: glosses: A city or region which is given a special legal and political status different from its environment, but which falls short of being sovereign, or an independent city state.
glosses: A city or region which is given a special legal and political status different from its environment, but which falls short of being sovereign, or an independent city state.
A proposed internationally-governed area encompassing the city of Jerusalem in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
shutter priority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutter-priority
Senses: examples: text: Most digital cameras (except for inexpensive auto-only models) have a shutter priority shooting mode. . . . [O]nce you select this setting, you can freely choose the shutter speed and the camera will set the matching aperture to properly expose the photo.
ref: 2006 August 22, Dave Johnson, "Making the Most of Shutter Priority Mode," PC World (reposted on techhive.com) (retrieved 25 Feb 2014)
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the shutter speed of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct aperture setting for that exposure.
Related terms: aperture priority
epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epis
Etymology: Clipping of epinephrine.
Senses: glosses: A syringe or autoinjector filled with epinephrine, most frequently used for the treatment of acute allergic reactions to avoid or treat the onset of anaphylactic shock.
qualifier: medical jargon
glosses: epinephrine
epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epis
Etymology: Clipping of epimorphism.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of epimorphism.
epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epis
Etymology: Clipping of epidural.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of epidural.
epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epis
Etymology: Clipping of episiotomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of episiotomy.
epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epis
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: examples: text: You're so goated that even your lowest rated epi is an 8.1.
glosses: Abbreviation of episode.
epi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epis
Etymology: Clipping of epithelial.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of epithelial cell.
Related terms: epi curve
Staph epi
aperture priority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aperture-priority
Senses: examples: text: For landscapes, still lifes, portraits and the like, you'll want an aperture-priority camera. It lets you set the lens opening, while it sets the shutter speed automatically.
ref: 1978 October, “One of these cameras was made just for you”, in Penthouse, retrieved 25 Feb 2014, page 22:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A setting in many professional-grade and advanced-amateur-grade cameras which allows a photographer to manually set the aperture setting of an exposure while the camera then automatically selects the correct shutter speed for that exposure.
Related terms: shutter priority
shutter-priority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shutter priority.
aperture-priority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aperture priority.
para-hypotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of parataxis + hypotaxis.
Senses: glosses: A linguistic phenomenon in which coordination and subordination (e.g. of conjunctions) are mixed or not distinguished.
polling booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polling booths
Senses: glosses: A voting booth.
polling booths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polling booth
polling stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polling station
voting stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voting station
Grimbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Grimbarian
form: most Grimbarian
Etymology: From Grimsby + -arian.
Senses: glosses: of or from Grimsby
Grimbarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grimbarians
Etymology: From Grimsby + -arian.
Senses: glosses: someone from Grimsby
Synonyms: word: codhead
unergativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + ergativity.
Senses: examples: text: Unergativity/unaccusativity is perhaps the most famous split in linguistics.
ref: 2021, González, Luis H., The Fundamentally Simple Logic of Language, Routledge Focus, 2021
glosses: The state or property of being unergative.
daydreamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more daydreamingly
form: most daydreamingly
Etymology: From daydreaming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While daydreaming.
steatocystomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steatocystoma
steatocystomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steatocystoma
steatogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to steatogenesis.
Wemale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wemale
Senses: glosses: A member of an ethnic group of Seram Island, Indonesia.
Wemale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Malayo-Polynesian language, divided into northern and southern forms.
unrepressedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrepressedly
form: most unrepressedly
Etymology: From unrepressed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unrepressed way.
repressedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repressedly
form: most repressedly
Etymology: From repressed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a repressed way.
Aga sagas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aga saga
Euromyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euromyths
Etymology: From Euro- + myth.
Senses: glosses: A commonly-held false belief about the European Commission or European Union.
Euromyths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euromyth
Euronesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Euronesian
Eurolinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Euro- + linguistic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Eurolinguistics.
euroizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of euroize
euroized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of euroize
euroizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of euroize
skipful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skipfuls
form: skipsful
Etymology: From skip + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a skip (rubbish container).
skipload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiploads
Etymology: From skip + load.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a skip (rubbish container).
skipfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skipful
skipsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skipful
skiploads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skipload
strippeuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strippeuse
West Britons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of West Briton
West Brits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of West Brit
character witnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of character witness
processed cheeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of processed cheese
tokogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tokogenetic
form: most tokogenetic
form: tocogenetic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth, gestation; offspring”) + γένεσις (génesis, “origin, source”) + -ic.
Senses: qualifier: systematics
glosses: Of or concerning the relationships between individuals in a species.
glosses: Alternative form of tocogenetic.
Synonyms: sense: systematics
word: genealogical
Coordinate terms: sense: systematics
word: phylogenetic
Wrangell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A borough in southern Alaska.
sumos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sumo
in contrast
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
glosses: Contrarily.
AQI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of air quality index.
AQI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
outfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfuck
outfucking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfuck
outfucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfuck
overfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overfuck
no win, no fee
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I work on a no win, no fee basis.
topics: law
glosses: conditional fee agreement, a form of lawsuit for which the hired legal representative charges no fees to the plaintiff if the plaintiff does not win.
juvenile offending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: juvenile delinquency
youth crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: juvenile delinquency
artful dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artful dodgers
form: Artful Dodger
Etymology: From the nickname of a skillful young pickpocket and rascal in Oliver Twist (1838) by Charles Dickens.
Senses: examples: text: Meg made many moral rules, and tried to keep them, but what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
ref: 1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 45, in Little Women:
text: Timothy Mack has spent 13 years spiriting wallets from the pockets and purses of Los Angelenos, an artful dodger's career that has been interrupted by 20 arrests and two jail terms.
ref: 1971 October 4, “The Nation: Crime and Punishment...”, in Time, retrieved 25 Feb 2014:
text: Perfect little con man and artful dodger, always on the make for some angle or another.
ref: 2011, P. T. Deutermann, The Edge of Honor, →ISBN, page 183:
synonyms: rapscallion
slyboots
trickster
glosses: A crafty person who commits minor crimes or behaves in a rather unscrupulous manner.
examples: text: I was a pussyfoot, an artful dodger, sidestepping abandoned children, waifs and strays, foundlings, castaways, and junk-people.
ref: 2003, Michael O'Brien, A Cry of Stone, →ISBN, page 742:
text: I could see the traps and landmines ahead and avoid them, a real artful dodger.
ref: 2005, Jim Cherry, The Last Stage, →ISBN, page 81:
text: For the second time in two weeks, Oliver, a 9-year-old capuchin monkey at a Mississippi zoo, escaped his cage, and this time, his keepers said he proved to be an even more artful dodger.
ref: 2007 August 15, Brenda Goodman, “Will No Cage Hold Him? Monkey Again Escapes Zoo”, in New York Times, retrieved 25 Feb 2014:
synonyms: eluder
evader
qualifier: set phrase
glosses: One who deftly evades obstacles, pursuers, inconveniences, or other difficulties.
Artful Dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Artful Dodgers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of artful dodger.
meta data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of metadata.
pipe band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe bands
Senses: glosses: A musical band featuring bagpipes with musicians (pipers) dressed as kilted Scotsmen.
dakka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Onomatopoeic for a firing machine gun. Popularised by the invented Ork lexicon in the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop war game.
Senses: examples: text: Right, now I'll try to get on your tail and I want you to take evasive action. Understood? […] Dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka dakka.
ref: 1969, James Kennaway, Wilfred Greatorex, Battle of Britain, spoken by Squadron Leader "Skipper" (Robert Shaw), United Kingdom: Spitfire Productions; distributed by United Artists:
glosses: The sound of a firing machine gun.
synonyms: barrage
firestorm
volley
salvo
bombardment
qualifier: especially board games
glosses: Firepower, especially done in excess.
stat padding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: an action that improves a player's statistics despite being of little benefit to his or her team or its chance of winning
Related terms: stat padder
full steam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Supposing she were at full steam during the whole time, taking the 16 days' consumption of fuel […]
ref: 1834, Report from the Select Committee on Steam-navigation to India:
glosses: Alternative form of full speed ahead.
full steam
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: They have formed the Community Research Initiatives of New England (CRINE), an organization that could be up and running full steam this summer if it receives the $400,000 in grant money it has applied for from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Foundation for AIDS Research (AMFAR) to cover its first year of operating cost.
ref: 1989 April 22, Judy Harris, “Community-Based AIDS Research Group Forming For New England”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of full steam ahead.
Erzgebirgskreis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Erzgebirgskreis.
Senses: glosses: A rural district of Saxony, Germany.
isoluminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isoluminant
form: most isoluminant
Etymology: From iso- + luminant.
Senses: examples: text: When visual fields are isoluminant, they look the same to our luminance processing pathway, while potentially looking quite different to the color processing path. This creates a perceptual tension exploited by skilled artists.
ref: 2005, Luong et al., “Isoluminant Color Picking for Non-Photorealistic Rendering”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: An isoluminant chromatic display is a color display in which the component colors have been so carefully equated in luminance that they stimulate only color-sensitive perceptual mechanisms and not luminance-sensitive mechanisms.
ref: 1999, Zhong-Lin Lu et al., “The mechanism of isoluminant chromatic motion perception”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Equally luminant.
Synonyms: equiluminant
Related terms: equiluminance
ISNA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Islamic Society of North America.
Muslimist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Muslimist
form: most Muslimist
form: Moslemist
Etymology: From Muslim + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Supporting or advocating Muslimism.
Muslimist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muslimists
form: Moslemist
Etymology: From Muslim + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who espouses or practices Muslimism.
Muslimism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Moslemism
Etymology: From Muslim + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: If a person truly believes in the mythology of Black Muslimism — or Judaism, or Christianity — then he does not need the ersatz mythology of medicalism and therapeutism.
ref: 1996, Thomas Szasz, Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market, page 122:
glosses: The religion of Islam.
glosses: Muslim civilization or society.
Related terms: Muslimistic
bruckle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bruckle
form: most bruckle
Senses: examples: text: The beast of foot sings Holdfast only,
For flesh is bruckle and foot is slee.
Strength to the strong and the lordly and lonely,
Timor Mortis Exultat Me.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter VIII, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: Frail, weak, fragile.
fakakta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fakakta
form: most fakakta
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of verkakte.
Vale of Kashmir
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It is however to the northernmost portion of this immense mountain range that I wish more particularly to draw the attention of my readers; for here, beyond the rugged ridges that skirt the Punjab, whose snow-clad peaks are discernible by the traveller long before his arrival at their base, lies the country we are about to visit—the far-famed Vale of Kashmir, the ‘Happy Valley,’ the scene of the poet Moore’s inimitable Lalla Rookh.
ref: 1879, William Wakefield, The Happy Valley: Sketches of Kashmir & the Kashmiris, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, page 2:
glosses: The Kashmir Valley.
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district, formerly known as Nawanshahr district, in the Indian state of Punjab.
nonvictory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonvictories
Etymology: From non- + victory.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a victory; a loss or tie.
nonvictories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonvictory
cheese-eating surrender monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese-eating surrender monkeys
Etymology: Coined by American television writer and producer Ken Keeler in 1995, for the television series The Simpsons. Derived from the stereotype of the French being quick to surrender and the fact that cheese is a delicacy in France.
Senses: examples: text: Bonjour, you cheese-eating surrender monkeys!
ref: 1995 April 30, “'Round Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 6, episode 22, spoken by Groundskeeper Willie (Dan Castellaneta):
text: In turn, we British may feel disillusioned with what's left of the special relationship, increasingly out of sympathy with American attitudes, and rather more in sympathy with the cheese-eating surrender monkeys and their friends across the Channel.
ref: 2003 April 12, Alexander Chancellor, “Europe still matters”, in The Guardian:
text: IN PRAISE OF CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS OR WASHINGTON FUNDAMENTALISTS VS PARISIAN MONKEYS
ref: 2005, Stephen Chan, Out of Evil: New International Politics and Old Doctrines of War, →ISBN, page 134:
text: It's all about the “French Paradox,” that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
ref: 2005, Julie Powell, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, →ISBN, page 178:
text: Maybe it's their French blood. If it is, we sure don't need cheese-eating surrender monkeys in the Kaw River Valley!
ref: 2008, Sara Paretsky, Bleeding Kansas, →ISBN, page 170:
text: We've lived with terrorism for years, and we know you can lick it, especially if we don't overreact and make unnecessary sacrifices of liberty in the name of security - for freedom is its own best defence. Between cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fire-eating war junkies, we look for a middle way.
ref: 2006 July 5, Timothy Garton Ash, “Between cheese-eating surrender monkeys and fire-eating war junkies”, in The Guardian, retrieved 31 May 2021:
text: But despite their seemingly rampant Anglophilia, there are still some things the French miss—a good steak tartare, for instance, or the chance to cheer on their rugby team without being shouted down as ‘cheese-eating surrender monkeys’.
ref: 2008 March 23, Elizabeth Day, “The great French love affair with la vie anglaise”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: Groundskeeper Willie called us cheese-eating surrender monkeys: he almost had it right. But it isn't just the French—as a species we are all cheese-eating surrender monkeys.
ref: [2009, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: A French person.
wikipedia: The Simpsons
Derived terms: cheese monkey
surrender monkey
main roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of main road
inactivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inactivity
anacardate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anacardates
Etymology: From anacardic + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of anacardic acid.
anacardates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacardate
Afrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈfɹeɪ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /æˈfɹeɪ.ʒi.ən/
ipa: /æˈfɹeɪʒ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Etymology: Blend of Afro- (prefix meaning ‘Africa’) + Asian, possibly a calque of Russian афрази́йский (afrazíjskij, “of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia”).
Senses: synonyms: Afro-Asian
glosses: Of or relating to both Africa and Asia.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: Hamito-Semitic
word: Semito-Hamitic
word: Afroasiatic
extra: of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages
glosses: Synonym of Afroasiatic (“of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages”).
Derived terms: word: Proto-Afrasian
Afrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈfɹeɪ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /æˈfɹeɪ.ʒi.ən/
ipa: /æˈfɹeɪʒ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Forms: form: Afrasians
Etymology: Blend of Afro- (prefix meaning ‘Africa’) + Asian, possibly a calque of Russian афрази́йский (afrazíjskij, “of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia”).
Senses: glosses: A thing that relates to both Africa and Asia.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Afro-Asian
glosses: A person who comes from a region where Afroasiatic languages are spoken.
Afrasian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /æˈfɹeɪ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /æˈfɹeɪ.ʒi.ən/
ipa: /æˈfɹeɪʒ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʒən
Etymology: Blend of Afro- (prefix meaning ‘Africa’) + Asian, possibly a calque of Russian афрази́йский (afrazíjskij, “of, pertaining to, or being a language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: word: Hamito-Semitic
word: Afroasiatic
extra: the language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages
glosses: Synonym of Afroasiatic (“the language family spoken in northern Africa and southwest Asia, and including Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Egyptian, Semitic, and possibly Omotic languages”).
Derived terms: word: Proto-Afrasian
bromoanisoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bromoanisole
butylscopolamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From butyl + scopolamine.
Senses: glosses: An antimuscarinic and anticholinergic derived from scopolamine.
suprematistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suprematistic
form: most suprematistic
Senses: examples: text: This painting is an exquisite example of suprematistic art.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Suprematism; suprematist.
crowdfund
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crowdfunds
form: crowdfunding
form: crowdfunded
form: crowdfunded
Etymology: From crowd + fund.
Senses: glosses: To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
Derived terms: crowdfunder
crowdfunds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crowdfund
crowdfunded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: On July 8, environmentalist Chris Packham was back in court with his crowdfunded appeal against the High Court's refusal to grant him a Judicial Review and pause construction work.
ref: 2020 August 12, Paul Bigland, “High Speed 2 is starting to accelerate”, in Rail, page 59:
glosses: simple past and past participle of crowdfund
lexifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexifiers
Etymology: From lexify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A great deal of linguistic evidence reveals that creole creators transformed the lexifier in a fashion unexplainable as just hybridization, but well known from studies of pidginization and second-language acquisition.
ref: 2018, John H. McWhorter, The Creole Debate, Cambridge University Press, page 9:
topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The language of a pidgin or creole that serves as the basis for most of its vocabulary.
Derived terms: English-lexifier
Related terms: lexified
lexifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexifier
hawknuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawknut
swarten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swartens
form: swartening
form: swartened
form: swartened
Etymology: From swart + -en (verbal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Clad in rags, swartened by the sun, irritable, arrogant, and having at their head officers [...]
ref: 1814, Adolphe Thiers, Historical Works:
glosses: to make swart, dark, or swarty; darken
glosses: to become dark; darken
MEM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Master of Engineering Management.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Master of Environmental Management.
examples: text: All along he made drugs: 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine, or MEM for short, was his Rosetta stone, a "valuable and dramatic compound" that opened the door to a whole class of drugs based on changes at the "4 position" of a molecule's central carbon ring.
ref: 2005 January 30, Drake Bennett, “Dr. Ecstasy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of 2 or 5-Dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of β-Methoxyethoxymethyl ether, a protecting group in chemistry.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of monocular estimate method.
glosses: Initialism of model exercise mode.
bell tents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bell tent
toreadores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toreador
wataa
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly onomatopoeic, as an expression of shock, or from a pronunciation spelling of what up.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: chudai
glosses: Shocking; explicit, risqué, provocative.
Schiffmann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schiffmanns
form: Schiffman
form: Shiffman
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schiffmann.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
moon rocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moon rockets
Senses: glosses: A ground-launched rocket-propelled vehicle that delivers a payload to orbit or land on the moon
topics: business
finance
glosses: A company whose stock price rises dramatically following an initial public offering
Euribor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euribors
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of Euro Interbank Offered Rate.
Mena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Polk County, Arkansas, United States.
glosses: Either one of two towns in Mali
glosses: A city in Ukraine.
Cove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊv/
homophone: Cobh
Forms: form: Coves
Etymology: From Old English cofa (“cave, cove, hollow, cavern”).
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Polk County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Union County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Chambers County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.
glosses: A small village in Tiverton parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9519).
glosses: A suburb of Farnborough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8556).
glosses: Three villages in Scotland:
A coastal village on the Rosneath peninsula, Argyll and Bute council area (OS grid ref NS2282).
glosses: Three villages in Scotland:
A hamlet on Loch Ewe, Highland council area (OS grid ref NG8090).
glosses: Three villages in Scotland:
A coastal village near Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT7871).
glosses: Three villages in Scotland:
Ellipsis of Cove Bay, Aberdeen.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Cove
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊv/
homophone: Cobh
Forms: form: the Cove
Etymology: From Sydney Cove.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The official active supporters' group of Sydney FC (an Australian soccer club based in Sydney).
Diaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Díaz.
Senses: glosses: A city in Arkansas.
glosses: A surname.
Saroyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /səˈɹɔɪ.ən/
Etymology: From Armenian Սարոյան (Saroyan).
Senses: examples: text: William Saroyan
glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Derived terms: Saroyanesque
Emmet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emmett
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of the female given name Emma.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A ghost town in Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A city in Nevada and Hempstead, Arkansas.
glosses: A village in Holt County, Nebraska.
glosses: An unincorporated community in McLean County, North Dakota.
glosses: A ghost town in Union County, South Dakota.
glosses: A town in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Derived terms: Emmet County
Emmetsburg
kurtotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kurtotic
form: most kurtotic
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, kurtosis.
Derived terms: leptokurtotic
platykurtotic
peakednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peakedness
transtheoretical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + theoretical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a model of behavior change that assesses an individual's readiness to act on a new healthier behavior and provides strategies or processes to guide the individual through the stages of change.
multimethodology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimethodologies
Etymology: From multi- + methodology.
Senses: glosses: A research approach that uses both quantitative and qualitative data.
multimethodologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimethodology
multimethodological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + methodological.
Senses: glosses: Involving more than one methodology, specifically both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Derived terms: multimethodologically
Related terms: multimethodology
autoflush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + flush.
Senses: examples: text: If the writer is set to autoflush mode, then all characters in the buffer are sent to their destination whenever println is called.
ref: 2001, Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell, Core Java 2: Fundamentals, page 715:
text: With autoflush off, you can easily start generating content, have your code throw it away halfway through, and then issue a redirect.
ref: 2002, Dave Rolsky, Ken Williams, Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Automatic flushing of a buffer.