cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
peng
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋ
ipa: [p˭eŋ(˦)]
note: some speakers
ipa: [p˭ɪŋ(˦)]
ipa: /pɛŋ/
rhymes: -ɛŋ
Etymology: From Hokkien 冰 (peng, “ice”).
Senses: examples: text: Gimme two laksa, one milo peng!
ref: 1992 February 21, HanLin Goh, “touchy subject”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet):
text: Mamak, give me a "capati", extra large, bawang banyak-banyak; one ice kacang, two milo peng, tiga teh tarik...
ref: 1992 August 4, Beng Ting, “Malaysian food”, in soc.culture.asean (Usenet):
text: *sputters kopi peng across monitor screen*
ref: 2005 May 14, Ir. Liew, “Re: XX Pc User 2 - usb2COM.jpg”, in tmnet.communities (Usenet):
text: I make various types of hot and cold drinks but the most popular is my kopi peng.
ref: 2018 August, Trisha N, quoting Everling Ang, “Ang’s ‘kopi peng’ is worth waiting half an hour for”, in The Star, →OCLC:
glosses: Iced; with ice added.
raw_tags: of a drink
zeng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zhng.
she'll be right
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪəl bi ɹʌɪt/
Forms: form: she’ll be right
form: she'll be all right
form: she'll be alright
Senses: examples: text: So there’s shuffling, like, and a bit o’ coughing and spitting, and someone else says: ‘She’ll be right, mate. She’s on her way if you’ll hang on a tick. You’re at the party.’
ref: 1988, Janette Turner Hospital, Charades, page 77:
text: “Nah, she’ll be right. You go.”
“You’ll have to start mixing with the others at some point, you know.”
“It’s not just that, I got homework to do. Gotta catch up.”
ref: 2001, Anthony Eaton, A New Kind of Dreaming, page 122:
text: In a whisper, I suggested to Ian that we reattach the winch cable to a tree in the clearing, but of course his reply was, “Naaahh, she’ll be right, mate.”
ref: 2010, Robin Easton, Naked in Eden: My Adventure and Awakening in the Australian Rainforest, page 77:
glosses: OK, no problem, everything will be all right.
Synonyms: sense: everything will be all right
word: no probs
sense: everything will be all right
word: no worries
sense: everything will be all right
word: she'll be apples
Related terms: right as rain
seat cushion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seat cushions
Senses: examples: text: He places the seat cushion on the seat and sits on it.
text: The seat cushions are only 5cm thick.
ref: 2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 60:
glosses: Something you can sit on, or an integral part of a seat (e.g. on a bus or train).
icthyoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ichthyoid.
ideaphoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An experience where one feels a constant onslaught of new ideas; creativity.
IDK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: IDK what you're talking about.
glosses: Initialism of I don't know.
Related terms: IDEK
IDEFK
IDFK
IDRK
IDC
immunogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunogenicities
Etymology: From immunogenic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: One of the first examples of the immunogenicity of recombinantly derived antibodies was with murine anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody (OKT3) used in the induction of immunosupression after organ transplantation.
ref: 2002, Gilbert S. Banker, Christopher T. Rhodes, Modern Pharmaceutics, 4th edition, Informa Health Care, →ISBN, page 699:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ability of a particular substance to provoke an immune response.
Derived terms: hypoimmunogenicity
nonimmunogenicity
immurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immurements
Etymology: From immure + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Capital punishment, human sacrifice or life imprisonment by entombing for life or sealing behind walls.
in character
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It was difficult to stay in character, because I kept wanting to laugh.
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
antonyms: out of character
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Acting as the character, not as oneself.
Related terms: kayfabe
in character
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in character
form: most in character
Senses: examples: text: That kind of shouting wasn't very in character for her.
glosses: Consistent with one's personality, or the typical behavior one is known for.
indicia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin indicia, plural of indicium (“a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token”), from index (“index”); see index.
Senses: glosses: plural of indicium
examples: text: This document has none of the indicia of a contract of adhesion.
text: Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else.
ref: 2018 May 28, Jessica Pressler, “Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”, in New York Magazine:
glosses: Indications or signs.
examples: text: Spiderman,^([sic]) The Thing, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, the distinctive names and likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc.
ref: 2003, Scott Bukatman, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century:
glosses: Distinctive markings.
indicia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicias
Etymology: From Latin indicia, plural of indicium (“a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token”), from index (“index”); see index.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A preprinted marking on a mailpiece which shows that postage has been paid by the sender.
Related terms: index
indicate
indicial
individual sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individual sports
Senses: glosses: A sport which is practiced by two opposing individuals or one individual, rather than a team.
Indophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indophiles
Etymology: From Indo- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Someone who loves India, Indian culture, its cuisine, religions, its history or its people.
Related terms: Indophilia
Indophilism
Indophilist
Indophobe
xenophile
instinctive drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The tendency of an organism to revert to instinctive behaviors that can interfere with the conditioned response.
integrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɛɡɹəs/
Forms: form: more integrous
form: most integrous
Etymology: Integr- (the root of integr(ity)) + -ous (adjectival suffix: “full of, characterised by, possessing”).
Senses: examples: text: No doubt hard, no doubt proud, unpleasant in self-esteem, and singularly blind to much of what was going on, and yet such a high-minded and integrous woman, […]
ref: 1899, Arthur Christopher Benson, The Life of Edward White Benson, Sometime Archbishop of Canterbury, Macmillan, page 435:
text: And Smiths of Policie shall invent,
To cast new Molds of Government;
While vulgar Birds, of weakest wing,
Grow stout against the Eagle King,
Whose just integrous heart shall prove
The Adamant of Subjects love.
ref: 1968, Joseph Frank, Hobbled Pegasus: A Descriptive Bibliography of Minor English Poetry, 1641-1660, University of New Mexico Press, page 221:
text: He concluded by writing that ‘Hillsong is the most integrous church in the country, and its leadership is above reproach’.
ref: 2007, Tanya Levin, People in Glass Houses: An Insider’s Story of a Life in and Out of Hillsong, Black Inc., →ISBN, pages 266–267, →ISBN:
glosses: Having or characterized by integrity.
intramedullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + medullary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Inside the medulla
Irish confetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A brick or bricks thrown during a fight.
iron bloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iron blooms
Senses: glosses: A mixture of fine iron particles, unreacted iron oxide (ore), slag and charcoal residue.
isocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isocracies
Etymology: From iso- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: A form of government where all citizens have equal political power.
Derived terms: pantisocracy
Jack of all trades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacks of all trades
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of jack of all trades.
Penge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɛndʒ
Senses: glosses: A suburb in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ3570).
jewel-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewel-necks
Senses: glosses: A round neckline that follows the base of the neck.
jimador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jimadors
form: jimadores
Senses: glosses: A field worker who harvests agave plants for mezcal and tequila production using a coa.
joss stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joss sticks
form: joss-stick
Etymology: From joss (“Chinese idol”) + stick.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, Hawkins, Lewis, Hankin and Sengupta all cover the word agarbatti, an incense stick or joss stick, but there is no way of knowing when this term was first used in Indian English, nor whether it is now current or obsolete.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 300:
glosses: A stick of incense, especially (Taoism, Buddhism, etc.) those burned as an offering before a Chinese shrine.
verruciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more verruciform
form: most verruciform
Etymology: From verruca + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having a shape like a wart or warts.
lanai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈnaɪ/
ipa: /lɑːˈnaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: lanais
Etymology: From Hawaiian lānai.
Senses: examples: text: ‘If they vomit in the lanai, that's for the butler to handle.’
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 22:
text: In Honolulu, Nancy Peacock, an architect, said her clients increasingly requested “punees,” as daybeds are known in Hawaii — sometimes on the lanai, the covered porch of the house.
ref: 2007 March 11, Tracie Rozhon, “To Have, Hold and Cherish, Until Bedtime”, in New York Times:
text: Afterward, Lili‘u and Stevenson found time to talk quietly with each other on the bungalow's lānai.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 158:
glosses: A Hawaiian-style roofed patio.
prevailing party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prevailing parties
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The party in a civil lawsuit whom the factfinder determines to be right, and who, in some jurisdictions, may recover attorney's fees and other expenses associated with the prosecution or defense of the lawsuit.
attorney's fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attorneys' fee
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The fee charged by an attorney for work done in relation to a lawsuit or other work done by an attorney.
examples: text: In March 2017, the judge appointed a special master — the former federal judge Gerald E. Rosen — to look into the appropriateness of the fee package, including the issues of double-counting attorney hours spent on the case and the reasonableness of the rates charged by the lawyers. But during a 14-month investigation, Mr. Rosen made a startling discovery: Labaton had paid a lawyer in Texas a finder’s fee equal to 20 percent of the attorneys’ fee it received in the litigation.
ref: 2018 October 10, Matthew Goldstein, “Law Firm’s Fee Settlement Could Shake Up Securities Class Actions”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Oct 2018, Business Day:
topics: law
glosses: An amount set by a court to be awarded to a prevailing party based on the reasonable fee that their attorney should have charged, based on the length and complexity of the case.
attorneys fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attorneys fee (alternative spelling of attorney's fees).
mass grave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass graves
Senses: examples: text: Amid yellow pagodas pointing heavenward, Mr. Peng and a small group of volunteers built memorial arches across the park’s steep roads and paths lined with riotous subtropical vegetation. The site, in the Chenghai district of Shantou, was an appropriate place for memory — Buddhist pagodas are associated with the dead, and many local victims of the Cultural Revolution lie here, many buried in mass graves.
ref: 2016 October 2, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Fate Catches Up to a Cultural Revolution Museum in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2016, Asia Pacific:
text: Udo found it unsettlingly easy not to think about the mass grave she and Imrich were leaving far behind them. She had laughed away the stress of almost dying — her companion was still shooting her concerned glances over that — and the euphoria was still real to her in a way the increasingly-distant dismal scene was not. It hadn't happened in her lifetime, not the version she'd been living. She hadn't experienced it. She'd been late to the tragedy. If she stopped to think about it, it would overwhelm her, so...
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: A grave (in any of the countable senses) containing many corpses.
Related terms: potter's field
plague pit
natural disaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural disasters
Senses: glosses: Any natural phenomenon that causes great damage and loss of life.
glosses: The emergency situation that is the consequence of such an event.
Related terms: disaster area
eye for an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Hebrew עין תחת עין (ayin tahat ayin), in reference to Exodus 21:23-25: "And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe" (King James Version; spelling modernized).
Senses: glosses: Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.
Synonyms: a Roland for an Oliver
tit for tat
Related terms: eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
fight fire with fire
internecine
lex talionis
mirror punishment
mutual assured destruction
race to the bottom
two wrongs don't make a right
striped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪpt/
rhymes: -aɪpt
Etymology: From stripe + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Jim is the boy in the striped polo.
synonyms: stripy
glosses: Having stripes, decorated or marked with bands differing in color.
Derived terms: black-striped wallaby
candy-striped
Chinese three-striped box turtle
Cuban striped curlytail
eleven-striped blind snake
Fergusson Island striped possum
Himalayan striped squirrel
Laredo striped whiptail
larger Pacific striped octopus
parti-striped
pin-striped
side-striped jackal
striped alder
striped bass
striped beakfish
striped blister beetle
striped catfish
striped catshark
striped cowfish
striped cucumber beetle
striped dolphin
striped field mouse
striped gopher
striped honeyeater
striped hyena
striped maple
striped marlin
striped muscle
striped owl
striped panchax
striped-pants
striped ruffe
striped shield bug
striped skunk
striped swampdragon
striped threadfin
striped whipsnake
striped wren-babbler
Tate's three-striped dasyure
three-striped ground squirrel
three-striped palm civet
two-striped grasshopper
striped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹaɪpt/
rhymes: -aɪpt
Etymology: From stripe + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stripe
rudeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudenesses
Etymology: From Middle English rudenesse, equivalent to rude + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His rudeness was inexcusable.
text: The rudeness of the cabin gave it a rustic charm but little comfort.
text: The house was apparently very old; it had an almost prehistoric look about it, so rude and weatherbeaten was it, but the rudeness of the masonry and the lichening of the stones were no real indications of antiquity […]
ref: 1892, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill Magazine, page 230:
text: The woman who deliberately yelled out in the second set, when Henin was about to serve at 5-3 for the championship, was the epitome of the absolute self-centered rudeness that was exhibited at the Open, as well as in our society today.
ref: 2007 September 16, “Letters to the Editor”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2021:
glosses: The property of being rude.
examples: text: I'm sick of his rudenesses.
glosses: A rude remark or behaviour.
slanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slanted
form: most slanted
Senses: glosses: Placed at an angle, on a slant.
glosses: Biased.
slanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slant
steering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steer
steering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: steerings
Senses: examples: text: I hit a rock with my car and broke the steering.
glosses: Equipment used to control direction; something used to steer.
Derived terms: beam steering
beam-steering
differential steering
dry steering
power steering
steering arm
steering column
steering committee
steering gear
steering group
steering head
steering wheel
steering wheel becket
steering wheel spinner
steering wheel spinner knob
lynx-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lynx-eyed
form: most lynx-eyed
Senses: examples: text: Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131:
text: It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.
ref: 1940 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 264:
glosses: Possessing particularly good vision.
Synonyms: eagle-eyed
hawk-eyed
luridness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luridnesses
Etymology: From lurid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The luridness of the author's descriptions turned off the critics.
glosses: The property of being lurid.
lushly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lushly
form: most lushly
Etymology: From lush + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The lushly verdant jungle harbored many plants unknown to outsiders.
glosses: In a lush way.
lysogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lysogenies
Etymology: From lyso- + -geny.
Senses: glosses: The incorporation of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage into that of a host bacterium; sometimes transmitted to daughter cells following lysis
Derived terms: lysogeny broth
pseudolysogeny
Related terms: lysogenesis
lysogenetic
lysogenic
lytic
lysogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lyso- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or causing lysis.
glosses: Of, or relating to lysogeny.
Derived terms: lysogenically
lysogenic bacterium
lysogenic conversion
lysogenic cycle
lysogenicity
nonlysogenic
polylysogenic
pseudolysogenic
lysosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪsəˌsoʊm/
Forms: form: lysosomes
Etymology: From lyso- + -some.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organelle found in all types of animal cells which contains a large range of digestive enzymes capable of splitting most biological macromolecules.
Derived terms: autolysosome
autophagolysosome
cytolysosome
endolysosome
heterolysosome
lysosomal
lysosomatic
lysosomic
lysosomotropic
lysosomotropism
melanolysosome
phagolysosome
lysozyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪsəzaɪm/
Forms: form: lysozymes
Etymology: From lyso- + enzyme.
Senses: examples: text: [Alexander Fleming] had in 1923 discovered lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme found in saliva, mucus and tears as part of the body’s first line of defence against invading pathogens.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), pages 47–48:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A bacteriolytic (or antibiotic) enzyme found in many animal secretions, and in egg white.
Synonyms: E1105 when used as a preservative
Derived terms: lysozymal
bacteriolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bacteriolytic
form: most bacteriolytic
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or causing bacteriolysis
glosses: antibiotic
Derived terms: antibacteriolytic
bacteriolytically
cyanobacteriolytic
nonbacteriolytic
bacteriolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: bacteriolyses
Etymology: From bacterio- + -lysis.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of bacteria by lysis
lytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or causing lysis
glosses: of or relating to lysin
Derived terms: antilytic
lytically
lyticase
lytic cocktail
lytic cycle
lytic infection
nonlytic
pyrolytic
sublytic
lytic infection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lytic infections
Senses: glosses: The infection of a bacterium by a bacteriophage with subsequent production of more phage particles, and lysis of the cell.
macrocyclic compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocyclic compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a macrocycle
macrocyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrocyclic
form: most macrocyclic
Etymology: From macro- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of an organic compound: having a closed ring of more than about twelve atoms.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a macrocycle.
examples: text: Almost all the rusts occurring on the ferns are both heteroecious and macrocyclic; so also are most of those occurring on the conifers.
ref: 1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 259:
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a rust fungus whose life cycle includes all five spore stages: pycniospore (spermatium), aeciospore, urediniospore, teliospore, and basidiospore.
Derived terms: azamacrocyclic
macrocyclic compound
nonmacrocyclic
polymacrocyclic
Carly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Carley
form: Carlie
form: Carlee
form: Carli
form: Karly
form: Karlie
form: Karli
form: Karley
form: Karlee
form: Carleigh
form: Karleigh
form: Carls
Etymology: A feminine form of Carl, taken to use in the latter half of the 20th century; also a pet form of Carla, Carlene and Carlotta.
Senses: examples: text: She introduced herself. I said, 'Where'd you get a name like Carly?' and she said, from her aunt.
ref: 2008, Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- And the Journey of a Generation, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
crown ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown ethers
Etymology: So called because its structure is shaped like a crown (the royal headgear).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of macrocyclic compounds containing repeat units of -CH₂CH₂O-
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any similar compound containing atoms of nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus or silicon instead of, or as well as, oxygen
Related terms: cryptand
lariat ether
repeat unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repeat units
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A specific arrangement of atoms that repeats within a macromolecule
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A specific sequence of bases that repeats within a nucleic acid (or of amino acids within a protein)
Related terms: monomer
zebra finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebra finches
Senses: glosses: A small Australasian weaverbird of the genus Taeniopygia that has markings similar to a zebra.
cryptand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptands
Etymology: From crypt- + -and?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of polycyclic compounds related to the crown ethers, having three chains attached at two nitrogen atoms
abstention doctrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstention doctrines
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A rule under which a federal court in the United States will decline to exercise jurisdiction over a lawsuit because the suit could or should instead be heard by a state court.
acyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪˈsaɪklɪk/
/eɪˈsɪklɪk/
Forms: form: more acyclic
form: most acyclic
Etymology: From a- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
antonyms: cyclic
glosses: Not cyclic; having an open chain structure.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Containing no cycles.
raw_tags: of a graph
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a flower, having its parts inserted spirally on the receptacle.
Derived terms: acyclically
acyclic digraph
acyclicity
directed acyclic graph
directed acyclic word graph
semiacyclic
Related terms: aliphatic
weaverbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weaverbirds
Etymology: From weaver + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.
Ploceidae, the family most commonly known by this name
glosses: Any of various Old World passerine birds in either of two families known for building nests of intricately woven vegetation.
The family Estrildidae, better known as estrildid finches or weaver finches
Synonyms: sense: Ploceidae
word: weaver
sense: Estrildidae
word: estrildid finch
sense: Estrildidae
word: weaver finch
Derived terms: sociable weaverbird
social weaverbird
lariat ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lariat ethers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crown ether having a side chain of similar structure.
forum shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: jurisdiction shopping
glosses: An attempt to file a lawsuit in (or have it transferred to) the jurisdiction most favorable to the party filing the suit.
Derived terms: law shopping
asylum shopping
Related terms: choice of forum agreement
jurisdiction clause
shaughraun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːxɹɑː/
/ˈʃɑːxɹɑːn/
Forms: form: shaughrauns
Etymology: From Irish seachrán.
Senses: glosses: A wanderer; a vagabond.
examples: text: We’ll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmaking in the Clarence.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A state of travelling or wandering.
swearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English sweryng; equivalent to swear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
ref: 2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:
glosses: present participle and gerund of swear
swearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: swearings
Etymology: From Middle English sweryng; equivalent to swear + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: No man is believed a jot the more for all the asseverations, damnings, and swearings he makes.
ref: 1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The act of swearing, or making an oath.
Synonyms: word: billingsgate
word: blasphemy
word: curse
word: cuss
word: cussword
word: expletive
word: imprecation
word: invective
word: malediction
word: oath
word: obscenity
word: profanity
word: swear
word: swear word
word: vituperation
word: vulgarity
word: French
word: dirty word
word: foul language
word: four letter word
word: industrial language
Derived terms: hard swearing
swearing contest
swearing-in
Related terms: word: swearword
drunkest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of drunk: most drunk
drunkest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of drink
fascinated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fascinate
fascinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæsɪneɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more fascinated
form: most fascinated
Senses: examples: text: utterly fascinated
text: deeply fascinated
text: fascinated by nature
text: The children were fascinated by the magician’s tricks.
text: She was fascinated with ancient history.
glosses: extremely interested
Derived terms: fascinatedly
unfascinated
spring to mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: springs to mind
form: springing to mind
form: sprang to mind
form: sprung to mind
Senses: examples: text: Two good reasons spring to mind at once.
ref: 1987, R.C.D. Jasper, Geoffrey J. Cuming, Prayer of the Eucharist: Early and Reformed, page 3:
glosses: To appear suddenly in one's thoughts, often as an example of something.
Synonyms: come to mind
leap to mind
Related terms: call to mind
bring to mind
shawm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɔːm/
rhymes: -ɔːm
Forms: form: shawms
Etymology: From Middle English shalmuse, from Old French chalemel (modern French chalumeau), from Late Latin calamellus, from Latin calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of caramel and chalumeau, as well as related to calame, calamus, culm, and haulm.
Senses: examples: text: And all the field is thick with companies
Of fair-clothed men that play on shawms and lutes
And gather honey of the yellow fruits
Between the branches waxen soft and wide
ref: 1866, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “St. Dorothy”, in Poems and Ballads, London: J. C. Hotten, page 288:
text: There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.
ref: 1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson & Co., →ISBN:
glosses: A mediaeval double-reed wind instrument with a conical wooden body.
Synonyms: zurna
Derived terms: Catalan shawm
shawmist
shawmer
still shawm
take a dive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a dive
form: taking a dive
form: took a dive
form: taken a dive
Senses: examples: text: Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%.
ref: 2008 December 1, John Curran, “The Recession Is Made Official — and Stocks Take a Dive”, in Time:
glosses: To decline rapidly.
examples: text: I decided there could be a nice bit of irony in a situation where a boxer, with a crown his for the taking, deliberately takes a dive to get revenge on the man he hates, who is betting everything on the boxer's victory.
ref: 1950, Jules Archer, I Sell What I Write, page 44:
text: "You got a fight next weekend. You take a dive in the fourth round, understand?"
ref: 2012, Gary Lovisi, “Boxing, Babes & Bullets”, in Battling Boxing Stories, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 165:
text: The businessman turned promoter rejected some of overseas rumors going around that Klitschko bet a large portion of funds on himself and then took a dive to collect.
ref: 2015 December 31, Vadim Pushkin, “Povetkin Promoter Praises Fury, Rejects Klitschko Dive Claim”, in Boxing Scene, retrieved 03 Aug 2016:
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally.
glosses: To lose or fail intentionally.
Synonyms: english: to intentionally lose a game
translation: to intentionally lose a game
word: throw
take lying down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes lying down
form: taking lying down
form: took lying down
form: taken lying down
Senses: examples: text: I don't know what they expect, but I am certainly not going to take this lying down.
text: Thai police prevented a commemoration on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre from taking place outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok. Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, the event's young organizer, didn't take it lying down, though.
ref: 2020 June 4, UCA News Reporter, “Thai activists get creative to mark Tianamen massacre”, in La Croix International, Bayard, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2020:
glosses: To endure without complaint or protest.
take the wind out of someone's sails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the wind out of someone's sails
form: taking the wind out of someone's sails
form: took the wind out of someone's sails
form: taken the wind out of someone's sails
form: knock the wind out of someone's sails
Etymology: Referring to the idea of a ship that intercepts the wind of another, causing it to slow or stop.
Senses: examples: text: "I tell you Van Bahr Lamb is a fool." […]
But Polly […] completely took the wind out of her sails, by coolly remarking,— "I like fools."
ref: c. 1860, Louisa May Alcott, Aunt Kipp:
text: Could he have some elderly idea of wanting a youngster for a wife? Occasionally an old chap did. Serve him right if some young chap took the wind out of his sails.
ref: 1922, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 31, in The Head of the House of Coombe:
text: [T]he Republicans […] have been repeatedly battered in the polls since German unification became a mainstream German concern and took the wind out of their sails.
ref: 1990 May 27, Serge Schmemann, “German rightist quits after party suffers setback”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 Jul 2011:
text: "It took the wind out of our sails," he says. "I had no Plan B. I was a wreck."
ref: 2011 April 14, “Quotes of the Day”, in Time:
text: A bunch of myths, a bunch of tales / To take the wind out of our sails / They even say that we must die / I don't believe it, that's a lie
ref: 2023, “Let the Sun Come In”, in Relentless, performed by The Pretenders:
glosses: To discourage someone greatly; to cause someone to lose hope or the will to continue; to thwart or minimize someone's ambitions.
Synonyms: deflate
flummox
stultify
stymie
thwart
Related terms: cut the ground from under someone's feet
pull the rug out from under
take the piss
take the field
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the field
form: taking the field
form: took the field
form: taken the field
Senses: examples: text: The national anthem having been played, both teams took the field and prepared for play.
synonyms: take to the field
glosses: To go out onto the playing field.
synonyms: take to the field
glosses: To begin military operations.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To stake one's money against the favourite, taking the chances of the field against the chance of one horse.
take kindly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes kindly
form: taking kindly
form: took kindly
form: taken kindly
Senses: examples: text: An English passenger, taking kindly to me, drew me into conversation. He was older than I. He asked me what I ate, what I was, where I was going, why I was shy, and so on. He also advised me to come to table. He laughed at my insistence on abjuring meat, […]
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xiii
text: My correspondent, who was riding in the first coach, comments that the small standard tender did not take kindly to this gay progress, and signified its disapproval from time to time by bombarding the train with lumps of coal!
ref: 1954 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 488:
text: The host of business travellers between Bishops Stortford and London would scarcely take kindly to devious routing via the Southbury line; on the other hand, it is not desirable that they should overcrowd the business trains to and from Cambridge.
ref: 1961 January, “The North-East London electrification of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 19:
text: It seemed to John like the sort of place where the people all knew one another, were likely to have guns for protection, and rarely took kindly to strangers.
ref: 2014, Sean Platt, David W. Wright, Available Darkness:
text: The young Darrow did not always take kindly to his father's strict ways. He was a disciplined student only when he liked what he was doing.
ref: 2020, Diana Klebanon, Franklin L. Jonas, Diana Klebanow, People's Lawyers: Crusaders for Justice in American History:
glosses: To like, accept, or condone.
raw_tags: in the negative
connotate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnəteɪt/
Forms: form: connotates
form: connotating
form: connotated
form: connotated
Etymology: First attested in 1596; borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātus, perfect passive participle of connotō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of connote.
Senses: examples: text: George stared at her curiously. To his mind the word rompers connotated a garment extraneously smeared, as this one.
ref: 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 3, in The Lees of Happiness:
text: A symbol, for Claudel, was a word, a picture, or an action which connotates a higher meaning.
ref: 1965, Herman Lawrence Zillmer, A Study of the Use of the Symbol in the Dramatic Aesthetics ...:
glosses: To connote; to suggest or designate (something) as additional or representative; to imply.
Related terms: connotation
connotative
connotate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnəteɪt/
Forms: form: connotates
Etymology: First attested in 1596; borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātus, perfect passive participle of connotō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix). Doublet of connote.
Senses: glosses: A meaning or thing connotated.
take effect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes effect
form: taking effect
form: took effect
form: taken effect
Senses: examples: text: The medication won't begin to take effect for 3-4 hours.
glosses: To become active; to become effective.
raw_tags: of a drug
examples: text: The new regulations will take effect once they are approved by the Office of Administrative Law.
glosses: To come into force, to come into effect, to inure.
raw_tags: of a law
Synonyms: sense: to become active
word: kick in
sheeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: sheenies
form: sheeney
form: sheenie
Etymology: Attested since the early 19th century. May be a mockery of Yiddish שיין (sheyn, “beautiful, nice”), much used in praising wares.
Senses: examples: text: May I never get groggy, if I shall ever forget the joke between you and the old Sheenie, when you threatened to throw him overboard for selling you a dumb time-keeper. ‘Blesh ma heart,’ said the Jew, while his under works shook like a cutter’s foresail going about, ‘how could you expect de vatch to go well, ven de ship vas all in confusion?’ an excuse that saved him from sailing ashore in a skuttle-bucket.
ref: 1825/6, Charles Molloy Westmacott, The English spy, an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous, comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society... drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle:
text: Shylock chimes with the jewbaiting that followed the hanging and quartering of the queen’s leech Lopez, his jew’s heart being plucked forth while the sheeny was yet alive.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: "I've told you before now not to push that long, sheeny beak of yours into my affairs."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: One time in Humboldt Park Leo "Bow" Gisensohn, our leader, didn't like the way a cop down by the lake called him "sheeny."
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 6:
text: Max Baer ain't no Jew.
Sure he is. Everybody knows that. Sheeny to the core.
ref: 2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17:
synonyms: word: Yid
english: not always pejorative
translation: not always pejorative
word: heeb
word: Hymie
word: kike
word: shylock
glosses: A Jew.
glosses: A cheat or fraudster.
sheeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: sheenier
form: sheeniest
Etymology: From sheen + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having a sheen; glossy.
examples: text: And many a sheeny summer-morn, / Adown the Tigris I was borne, / By Bagdat's shrines of fretted gold, / High-walled gardens green and old; […]
ref: 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Recollections of the Arabian Nights”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, part I, page 22:
glosses: Bright; radiant; shining.
bust one's chops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: busts one's chops
form: busting one's chops
form: busted one's chops
form: busted one's chops
form: bust one's chops
form: bust one's chops
Senses: examples: text: I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day.
glosses: To exert oneself.
Related terms: bust someone's chops
bust chops
Lusatian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /luːˈseɪʃən/
Etymology: From Lusatia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Lusatia or its people.
Synonyms: Sorbian
Wendish
Lusatian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /luːˈseɪʃən/
Etymology: From Lusatia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Slavic language spoken by the Lusatian people, closely related to Czech.
Synonyms: Sorbian
Wendish
Lusatian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /luːˈseɪʃən/
Forms: form: Lusatians
Etymology: From Lusatia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Lusatian people.
Synonyms: Sorb
Wend
egotist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egotists
Etymology: ego + -t- inserted to avoid hiatus, or after the analogy of dramatist, epigrammatist, etc. + -ist
Senses: glosses: A person who talks excessively about themselves.
glosses: A person who believes in their own importance or superiority.
qualifier: by confusion of the similar words
glosses: An egoist (advocate of egoism).
Derived terms: egotistic
Related terms: egotism
egotistical
amerce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɝs/
ipa: /əˈmɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: amerces
form: amercing
form: amerced
form: amerced
form: amercy
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman amercier, from Old French a (“at”) + merci (“mercy”), thus “at the mercy of”.
Senses: examples: text: But I'll amerce you with so strong a fine
That you shall all repent the loss of mine:
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: The person, in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum.
ref: 1754–1762, David Hume, [The History of England ], volume (please specify |volume=1 to 6), London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], page 10:
text: Lords responded to these offences by amercing (fining) them in the manor court, the revenues of which could provide a twentieth, or even a higher proportion of estate income.
ref: 2002, Christopher Dyer, Making a Living in the Middle Ages: The People of Britain 850-1520, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 180:
glosses: To impose a fine on; to fine.
examples: text: The fellows of his crime, the followers rather
(Far other once beheld in bliss), condemn'd
For ever now to have their lot in pain,
Millions of Spirits for his fault amerc't
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book XXI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 607-609:
text: Thou know'st thou art naked! Must the time
Come thou shalt be amerced for sins unknown,
ref: 1821, Lord Byron, Cain, act III, scene I:
glosses: To punish; to make an exaction.
Derived terms: amerceable
amercement
amercer
unamerced
Related terms: mercy
northeastern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɔːˈθiː.stn̩/
ipa: /ˌnorˈθiː.stɚn/
rhymes: -iːstə(ɹ)n
Forms: form: more northeastern
form: most northeastern
form: north-eastern
Etymology: From Middle English norþesterne, from Old English norþēasterne, equivalent to north + eastern.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, located in, or from the northeast.
Derived terms: northeasterner
northeasternmost
Related terms: east-northeastern
northeasterly
North-Eastern Rhodesia
northeastern water tick
north-northeastern
northeasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more northeasterly
form: most northeasterly
form: north-easterly
Senses: glosses: Situated in, or pointing towards, the northeast.
glosses: Coming from the northeast.
raw_tags: of a wind etc
northeasterly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northeasterlies
form: north-easterly
Senses: synonyms: northeaster
glosses: A persistent wind from the northeast
Related terms: northeastern
pissing contest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pissing contests
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: a competition to determine who can urinate the furthest up a wall.
examples: text: I'm not getting into a pissing contest with him over who has the fastest car.
text: She won him in a pissing contest.
ref: 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir, Scribner, →ISBN:
text: Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Yeah, it's not a big deal. I lobbied for fuel-cell technology on Capitol Hill. I'm friends with Sandy Bullock, really good friends. Who cares? It's not a pissing contest, right, J?
ref: 2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)
glosses: A pointless competition, dispute or conflict, often over some trivial matter.
Synonyms: sense: pointless competition or dispute
word: pissing match
sense: pointless competition or dispute
word: pissing war
sense: pointless competition or dispute
word: shitting match
sense: pointless competition or dispute
word: dick-measuring contest
thalassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thalassic
form: most thalassic
Etymology: From French thalassique, from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thálassa, “sea”) + -ique.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to seas and oceans
glosses: pelagic
admiralty law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The area of law that deals with ships at sea and the rights of sailors, passengers, and owners of cargo.
Synonyms: maritime law