cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chafery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaferies
Senses: examples: text: The open hearths of finery and chafery are surmounted each by a huge chimney.
ref: 1957, H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 224:
glosses: An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
woollen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:
glosses: Alternative spelling of woolen.
woollen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woollens
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woolen.
woolly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊli/
rhymes: -ʊli
Forms: form: woollier
form: woolliest
form: wooly
Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).
Senses: examples: text: Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
text: Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.
ref: 1995 [1969], Gilbert Adair, transl., A Void, translation of La Disparition by Georges Perec:
glosses: Made of wool.
examples: text: woolly hair
text: There was nothing left in the fruit bowl but a brown banana and a couple of woolly pears.
text: My skin is black / My arms are long / My hair is woolly / My back is strong
ref: 1966, Nina Simone, “Four Women”, in Wild Is the Wind:
glosses: Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
examples: text: That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
text: To call David Lean's Dr Zhivago a translation of Pasternak's novel is not only to disregard the specificity of film art, but to make such woolly use of the word ‘translation’ as to fit it to refer to any kind of transformation. Knitting included.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, chapter 29, in Is that a Fish in Your Ear?:
glosses: Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
examples: text: woolly breeders
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Clothed in wool.
examples: text: […] and don't get woolly because some of your little "deals" don't come off. You'd soon consider yourself the superior of God Almighty Himself if He didn't set you in your place once in a while.
ref: 1911, Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 25, page 27:
glosses: Cross; irritable.
Derived terms: wild and woolly
woolly adelgid
woolly aphid
woollyback
woolly bear
woolly bear caterpillar
woolly bluecurls
woolly fringe moss
woolly-haired
woolly hat
woolly-head
woolly-headed
woolly hippopotamus
woollyish
woolly lemur
woolly mammoth
woolly marbles
woolly-minded
woolly monkey
woolly mouse
woolly mouse opossum
woolly nightshade
woolly opossum
woolly poison
woolly rhino
woolly rhinoceros
woolly woofter
woolly worm
woolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊli/
rhymes: -ʊli
Forms: form: woollies
form: wooly
Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wullich (“woolly”), Dutch wollig (“woolly”), German wollig (“woolly”), Swedish ullig (“woolly”).
Senses: examples: text: `I've got a rotten cold and I'm not taking my woollies off until it's better.'
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 82:
text: Being an innocent Australian abroad in a European winter, I had taken with me every winter woolly I could borrow or squeeze out of friends and associates.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 83:
glosses: A sweater or similar garment made of wool.
glosses: A sheep not yet shorn.
glosses: A piece of woolwork.
woolly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊli/
rhymes: -ʊli
Forms: form: woollies
form: wooly
Etymology: From woolly back.
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool slang
glosses: A woolly back; someone from the area around Liverpool, not from Liverpool itself.
wooly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: woolier
form: wooliest
Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y.
Senses: examples: text: wooly hair
text: Put on a wooly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
text: That's the sort of wooly thinking that causes wars to start.
glosses: Alternative form of woolly.
wooly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolies
Etymology: From Middle English wolly, equivalent to wool + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of woolly.
daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dăd'i
ipa: /ˈdæd.i/
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: daddies
form: daddying
form: daddied
form: daddied
Etymology: From dad + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "Just supposin' Mister has daddied a pup here and there," said old man Rivers. "What's wrong with that? Ain't your foxhounds han'some and hard-runnin'?" "But they all pint birds," said my Pa. "Whoever heered of a foxhound pintin' birds?"
ref: 1965, Havilah Babcock, Jaybirds Go to Hell on Friday: And Other Stories:
text: Grieving apparently wasn't a full-time job, however, since Hank up and married a gal named Billie Jean and daddied a daughter by yet another consoler.
ref: 1997, Larry L. King, True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure Fiction, →ISBN:
glosses: To father; to sire.
daddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dăd'i
ipa: /ˈdæd.i/
rhymes: -ædi
Forms: form: daddier
form: daddiest
Etymology: From dad + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In 1989, Hollywood brought us Field of Dreams, one of the daddiest dad movies ever.
ref: 2003 June 15, Jay Boyar, “Dad as dude”, in Orlando Sentinel, page F9:
text: Stark flinched and fired, and he wished, instead, that he’d held the revolver in the kid’s face, telling the frightened boy to drop his rifle in the loudest, deepest, daddiest voice he could muster.
ref: 2006, Barth Anderson, The Patron Saint of Plagues, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Curiously, many of the younger dads were more comfortable saying that they listen to dad rock, while older dads were more defensive about it, despite pledging allegiance to some of the daddiest classic rock dinosaurs in the history of dads.
ref: 2014 June 16, Zach Schonfeld, “We Interviewed a Ton of Dads About Dad Rock”, in Vice, archived from the original on 28 May 2019:
text: “But I’m bored.” He chucked her on the chin. “It builds character.” “Ghod,” Valentine huffed. “That is the daddiest thing you could say ever. Don’t listen to him, Aliyah, all boredom ever builds is naps.”
ref: 2015, Ferrett Steinmetz [pen name; William Steinmetz], The Flux, Angry Robot, →ISBN:
text: The only music we had besides the radio were three songs Jordan had downloaded to his phone: Billy Joel’s “Vienna,” Bob Seger’s “We’ve Got Tonight,” and Bad Company’s “Bad Company”—the daddiest of all dad rock, but our only reprieve during the long stretches of static.
ref: 2017, Erin Chack, This Is Really Happening, Razorbill, →ISBN, page 80:
text: He’s the daddiest dad I’ve ever had.
ref: 2020, Sophie Labelle, My Dad Thinks I’m a Boy?!: A Trans Positive Children’s Book, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: mommy#Adjective
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a dad.
raw_tags: in the superlative
Related terms: word: mom
word: mommy
word: mum
word: mummy
MPEG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛm.pɛɡ/
Senses: glosses: Moving Pictures Experts Group
MPEG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛm.pɛɡ/
Forms: form: MPEGs
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of computer file formats for the compression and storage of digital video and audio data.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer file (as of a movie) in an MPEG format.
Related terms: JPEG
screenshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/
ipa: /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: screenshots
Etymology: From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).
Senses: examples: text: I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: screencast
screen capture
screen dump
screengrab
screenie
screencap
glosses: An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.
Derived terms: bullshot
screenshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/
ipa: /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: screenshots
form: screenshotting
form: screenshotted
form: screenshotted
form: screenshot
form: screenshot
Etymology: From screen + shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).
Senses: examples: text: To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.
text: Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.
ref: 2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:
text: It was one of the funnier, somewhat surprising screw-ups we’d seen from Gemini, which like all publicly available artificial intelligence tools is prone to what the tech industry calls “hallucinations.” He screenshot the answer so that we could have a laugh about it, and then scrolled down to find the first non-sponsored, non-AI search result: an entry from one of the most reliable places on the internet, Wikipedia.
ref: 2025 January 14, Allison Morrow, “In a minefield of glitchy AI search and social media, Wikipedia becomes one of the most reliable places on the internet”, in CNN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To take a screenshot of something.
set on fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets on fire
form: setting on fire
form: set on fire
form: set on fire
form: setten on fire
Senses: examples: text: I don't want to set the world on fire / I just want to start a flame in your heart
ref: 1941 [1938], Bennie Benjamin, Eddie Durham, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler, “I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire” (0:05 from the start), performed by The Ink Spots, Decca:
synonyms: word: set afire
word: set alight
word: set fire to
word: set ablaze
word: set aflame
word: alight
word: conflagrate
word: fire
word: fire up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: kindle
word: light
word: light up
word: set ablaze
word: set afire
word: set aflame
word: set alight
word: set fire
word: set on fire
word: torch
glosses: To cause to begin to burn.
examples: text: You set my heart on fire.
synonyms: word: set fire to
word: inflame
word: ignite
word: inspire
word: excite
word: rouse
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To arouse passionate feelings in.
Derived terms: set one's hair on fire
set the Thames on fire
set the world on fire
firefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əˌflaɪ/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌflaɪ/
Forms: form: fireflies
form: fire-fly
Etymology: From fire + fly, because the insects glow; whence also lightning bug. Compare lanternfly.
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Exploring Life Science, 2: Bats—Cave Life, Marshall Cavendish, page 96,
Fireflies are the best-known insects that produce light. […] Many fireflies use their light to communicate, particularly at mating time when males and females have to get together.
text: The luciferins are different in different species and today both the luciferin and luciferase in the firefly are available in the crystalline form.
ref: 2004, B. V. David, T. N. Ananthakrishnan, “Chapter 20: Bioluminescence”, in General and Applied Entomology, 2nd edition, Tata McGraw-Hill, page 130:
text: Various other luciferase genes, especially the firefly luciferase gene, are also used for the study of gene regulation.[…]The classic use of bioluminescence, however, is the use of a luciferin-luciferase mixture from fireflies as an assay for ATP.
ref: 2007, Lars Olof Björn, Helen Ghiradella, “23: Bioluminescence”, in Lars Olof Björn, editor, Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light, 2nd edition, Springer, page 607:
glosses: Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.
Synonyms: sense: lightning bug
word: beetle
Derived terms: femme fatale firefly
fireflied
firefly squid
Related terms: glowworm
lightning bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning bugs
Etymology: From lightning + bug, because the insects glow; whence also firefly. Compare lanternfly.
Senses: examples: text: I watched as lightning bugs drifted in, glowing yellow against the shadows.
ref: 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Water Dancer, Penguin Books (2020), page 18:
glosses: A firefly.
Derived terms: femme fatale lightning bug
shite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shīt
ipa: /ʃaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: shites
Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
Senses: examples: text: That’s a load of shite.
text: Look at all this shite.
glosses: Shit; trash; rubbish; nonsense
examples: text: He's a useless shite.
glosses: A foolish or deceitful person.
Derived terms: chat shite
give a shite
gobshite
hadaway and shite
load of shite
piece of shite
pile of shite
shitebag
shiteface
shitehawk
shitehead
shiteload
shitepoke
shitey
shower of shite
talk shite
shite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shīt
ipa: /ʃaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: more shite
form: most shite
Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
Senses: examples: text: The film was utter shite.
glosses: Bad; awful; shit.
shite
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: shīt
ipa: /ʃaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Etymology: From the Middle English shite, schite, scīte (“excrement”), cognate with Middle Low German schīte, Middle High German schīze, Dutch schijt. Compare Middle English shitel, scitel, scytel (“dung, excrement”), from Old English sċitel. More at shit. Doublet of scheisse.
Senses: examples: text: Shite! I left my wallet at home.
glosses: An expression of annoyance or dismay.
shite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shīt
ipa: /ʃaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: shites
form: shiting
form: shited
form: shit
form: shat
form: shited
form: shit
form: shat
form: shitten
Etymology: From Middle English schiten, from Old English sċītan (“to defecate, shit”), from Proto-West Germanic *skītan, from Proto-Germanic *skītaną (“to defecate”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyd-, *skeyt- (“to vomit, retch, shit”, literally “to shed”). Cognate with Dutch schijten (“to shit”), German scheißen (“to shit”), Swedish skita (“to shit”), Irish sceith, sgeith (“act of spewing, vomiting, shedding”), Albanian shqit (“to tear, separate”).
Senses: examples: text: […] it still softened my heart to see a man hurt so badly he sobbed and shited on himself.
ref: 2004, Robert Morgan, Brave enemies, page 38:
text: He would probably have a head full of locks. Who has time to be pretty when people are hurting? Crying. Shiting on themselves trying to beat heroin.
ref: 2007, Talonie Starr, Growth Manifesto, page 173:
text: I have eaten a dishful of curds,
And I have shitten your mouth full of turds.
ref: 2011, Douglas Bruster, Eric Rasmussen, Everyman and Mankind:
glosses: To defecate.
Synonyms: defecate
Related terms: shitten
shit oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shits oneself
form: shitting oneself
form: shit oneself
form: shit oneself
form: shitted oneself
form: shitted oneself
form: shat oneself
form: shat oneself
Senses: glosses: To soil oneself.
glosses: To be very frightened or astonished (to the extent that one might lose control of one's bowels).
examples: text: My AC completely shit itself as soon as the heat wave started
glosses: To stop working, break.
Synonyms: sense: literal sense; standard terms
word: fill one's pants
sense: literal sense; standard terms
word: soil oneself
sense: literal sense; standard terms
word: soil one's pants
sense: literal sense; vulgar slang terms
word: shit one's pants
sense: literal sense
word: crap one's pants
sense: figurative sense; non-vulgar slang terms
word: fill one's pants
sense: figurative sense; non-vulgar slang terms
word: be petrified
sense: figurative sense; non-vulgar slang terms
word: be terrified
sense: figurative sense; non-vulgar slang terms
word: wet oneself
sense: figurative sense; vulgar slang terms
word: piss oneself
sense: figurative sense; vulgar slang terms
word: shit one's pants
sense: figurative sense; vulgar slang terms
word: shit bricks
Related terms: cream in one's jeans
eff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕf
ipa: /ɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: ef
Forms: form: effs
Senses: examples: text: Why against printers all this noise? This summoning of blackguard boys? Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and eſſes? Take my advice; to make you safe, I know a shorter way be half.
ref: a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “On the Irish Club”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VIII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 78:
text: ‘Eff. You. En,’ said Mr Banstead. ‘Fun![…]’
ref: 1969, Michael Feld, The Sabbatical Year, London: Alan Ross Ltd, page 301:
text: A or an? When an indefinite article precedes an acronym or initialism, the choice between a and an follows from the pronunciation: / a FAQ file (“fack”; but “an FAQ file” with the alternate pronunciation “eff-ay-cue”) / an FTC commissioner (“eff-tee-cee”)
ref: 2019, Amy Einsohn, Marilyn Schwartz, “[Abbreviations and Symbols] Abbreviations”, in The Copyeditor’s Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, 4th edition, University of California Press, →ISBN, part 2 (Editorial Style), page 242:
text: ‘S-S-C…sitting on a tree…eff-you-cee-kay-i-en-ji.’
ref: 2019, Anand Ranganathan, Chitra Subramaniam, The Rat Eater, Bloomsbury India, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ef; the name of the Latin-script letter F/f.
Derived terms: effell
eff why eye
eff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕf
ipa: /ɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: ef
Forms: form: effs
form: effing
form: effed
form: effed
Etymology: A variant spelling of the letter f, the initial letter of fuck. Compare pee.
Senses: examples: text: Eff off!
text: And he kept saying, "Effing this, effing that."
text: “Holy moly. What the heck is happening here? Hey, hey! Let me out of here. Hey, you. Give me back control of my body.” “[scoffs] Nah, dude, this is my body. You already effed it up.” “No, it's not.” “Whatever, man. I don't take orders from a reflection. [chuckles]” “I'm not a reflection. Help! I think an anaphasic alien took over my body.”
ref: 2022 September 22, Mike McMahan, “Reflections” (4:41 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero):
text: “So what do you think?” “Am I supposed to eff him or, you know, what's the plan here?” “I mean, you can if you want, but, no, that's not why I brought him here.” “Well, why did you bring him here? PS: I probably will eff him. But more out of boredom than anything else. [sighs] Such is the plight of The Guide.”
ref: 2024 October 21, Paul Simms, “The Return of Jerry” (21:03 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 1, spoken by The Guide (Kristen Schaal):
synonyms: word: feck
word: frak
word: frig
word: fork
word: funk
word: fuck
glosses: Synonym of fuck.
Derived terms: effable
eff all
eff and blind
eff and jeff
effing
eff off
eff up
what the eff
eff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕf
ipa: /ɛf/
rhymes: -ɛf
homophone: ef
Forms: form: effs
form: effing
form: effed
form: effed
Etymology: Back-formation from ineffable, ultimately from Latin effor (“utter”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and perhaps also because what we know partakes in no small measure of the nature of what has so happily been called the unutterable or ineffable, so that any attempt to utter or eff it is doomed to fail, doomed, doomed to fail.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: They, no more than we, found it hard to eff the ineffable, but they, you see, needed to console themselves more.
ref: 2001, Paul West, Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop, page 57:
text: It is another way of effing the ineffable, one with potentially serious practical effects.
ref: 2018, Wesley J. Wildman, Effing the Ineffable: Existential Mumblings at the Limits of Language, page 83:
text: Douglas Adams (1952–2001), author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, puts it memorably: “Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
ref: 2020, Tim Vivian, Other Voices, Other Rooms: Poems, page 100:
glosses: To put into words; to express.
Related terms: effable
ineffable
clusterfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/
ipa: /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/
Forms: form: clusterfucks
form: cluster fuck
Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other.
Senses: examples: text: [Colonel Meyers:] That's for sure. What's your assessment of this exercise? [Highway:] It's a cluster fuck.
ref: 1986, Clint Eastwood, Heartbreak Ridge, IMDB tt0091187:
text: 1989: P. J. O'Rourke, Holidays in Hell
"Mongolian Cluster Fuck" is the technical term journalists use for a preplanned, wholly scripted, news-free event.
text: They had a name for something like this in the army—a cluster fuck. Yes. Good name. ... He was sitting here in the middle of a great big cluster fuck
ref: 1990, Stephen King, Dark Half, →ISBN, page 151:
text: A simple sweep-and-clear turned into a total clusterfuck: T-Bird, trying to explain to Eric how the situation escalated on Devil's Night […]
ref: 1994, James O'Barr, Alex Proyas, The Crow:
text: Please note also my request that henceforth I wish to be reminded of the possibility of a clusterfuck in any contingency plan or operations proposal […]
ref: 1995, John Barnes, Mother of Storms:
text: My cousin was in the Army over here in '68. He says don't trust anybody to know what they're doing, calls it a cluster-fuck. Fucked-up-beyond-all-repair, FUBAR he says.
ref: 2004, Ray Kopp, Thunder in the Night: A Sailor's Perspective on Vietnam, →ISBN, page 87:
text: […] and you will still only begin to get a sense of the constitutionally mandated clusterfuck that is the modern presidency.
ref: 2004, Jon Stewart, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction:
text: It was a clusterfuck, a deadly clusterfuck. When the doughs finally got off the ground in some numbers and charged into the woods, the Krauts broke contact […]
ref: 2005, Charles W. Sasser, Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion in World War II:
text: [CIA-Superior:] Okay. Okay. If he wakes up we'll worry about it then. Jesus, what a clusterfuck.
ref: 2008, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Burn After Reading, IMDB tt0887883
text: 2013: Barbara Kruger: What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I’m waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement in response to the Supreme v Married To The Mob battle
glosses: A chaotic situation where everything seems to go wrong, often caused by communication failure, a complex environment, or incompetence.
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: A sexual orgy.
Synonyms: word: car crash
word: CF
word: Charlie Foxtrot
word: cluster
word: clusterball
word: comedy of errors
word: debacle
word: dumpster fire
word: dysfunction
word: fiasco
word: FUBAR
word: goatfuck
word: goat rope
word: gong show
word: imbroglio
word: omnishambles
word: quagmire
word: SNAFU
word: train wreck
Derived terms: clusterbumble
clusterbùrach
clusterfuckery
fustercluck
clusterfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌs.təˌfʌk/
ipa: /ˈklʌs.tɚˌfʌk/
Forms: form: clusterfucks
form: clusterfucking
form: clusterfucked
form: clusterfucked
form: cluster fuck
Etymology: From cluster + fuck. Reportedly coined by Hippie poet Ed Sanders as Mongolian Cluster Fuck. First use appears c. 1965 in East Village Other.
Senses: glosses: To fuck (something) up, to make a total mess of.
Related terms: FUBAR
rape
fuck
material
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/
ipa: /məˈtɪɹ.i.əl/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛˈʈir(ɪ)jəl/
Forms: form: more material
form: most material
Etymology: From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.
Senses: examples: text: This compound has a number of interesting material properties.
text: the material elements of the universe
ref: 1913, Alfred Bowyer Sharpe, Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Evil:
glosses: Of, relating to, or consisting of matter, especially physical.
examples: text: material needs
antonyms: spiritual
glosses: Of, relating to, or affecting physical well-being; corporeal; bodily.
examples: text: material cause
text: the material aspect of being
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the matter of reasoning, as distinguished from the form of it, especially empirical.
examples: text: found a material difference between two things
text: You've made several material contributions to this project.
text: This is the most material fact in this lawsuit.
text: discourse, which was always material, not trifling
ref: 1685 March 20 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 10 March 1685]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […]; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, […], published 1819, →OCLC:
text: I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I, page 3:
topics: law
antonyms: immaterial
glosses: Having real importance or great consequences; significant; substantial.
examples: text: the material world
text: interested only in material progress
text: Don't let material concerns get in the way of living a happy life.
text: 'Cause we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl / You know that we are living in a material world / And I am a material girl
ref: 1984, Peter Brown and Robert Rans, “Material Girl”, in Like a Virgin, performed by Madonna:
glosses: Relating to or concerned with what is purely physical rather than intellectual or spiritual, especially excessively so; materialistic.
synonyms: bulky
massive
solid
meaty
glosses: Full of substance or otherwise meaning.
glosses: In an important degree.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from material (adjective)
word: material breach
sense: Terms derived from material (adjective)
word: material cause
sense: Terms derived from material (adjective)
word: material nonimplication
sense: Terms derived from material (adjective)
word: unmaterial
material
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɪə.ɹi.əl/
ipa: /məˈtɪɹ.i.əl/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɛˈʈir(ɪ)jəl/
Forms: form: materials
form: materialing
form: materialling
form: materialed
form: materialed
form: materialled
form: materialled
Etymology: From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.
Senses: examples: text: I believe that the whole frame of a beast doth perish, and is left in the same state after death as before it was materialled unto life.
ref: 1642, [Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in Religio Medici, London: […] Andrew Crooke, →OCLC:
glosses: To form from matter; to materialize.
significant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/
ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/
Forms: form: more significant
form: most significant
Etymology: From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Senses: examples: text: a significant word or sound
text: a significant look
text: It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient.
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
text: As evening came on, it grew prematurely dark and cloudy; while the waves acquired that dull indigo tint so significant of ugly weather.
ref: 1856, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, chapter III, in The Wreck of the Golden Mary, part two, page 99:
synonyms: meaningful
glosses: Signifying something; carrying meaning.
examples: text: That was a significant step in the right direction.
text: The First World War was a significant event.
text: The “little green men”—faces covered, wearing unmarked olive uniforms, speaking Russian and using Russian weapons—have played a significant role in both the occupation of Crimea and the civil war in eastern Ukraine.¹⁹⁶
ref: 2015, Shane R. Reeves, David Wallace, “The Combatant Status of the “Little Green Men” and Other Participants in the Ukraine Conflict”, in International Law Studies, US Naval War College, volume 91, number 361, Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, page 393:
synonyms: notable
pregnant
glosses: Having a noticeable or major effect.
glosses: Reasonably large in number or amount.
glosses: Having a covert or hidden meaning.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a digit or figure, see significant figure.
Synonyms: important
Derived terms: least significant bit
least significant byte
most significant bit
most significant byte
nonsignificant
significant digit
significant figure
significant other
significant wave height
statistically significant
Related terms: significance
significand
signify
significant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt/
ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt/
ipa: /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.ɡənt/
Forms: form: significants
Etymology: From Latin significans, present participle of significare, from signum (“sign”) + ficare (“do, make”), variant of facere.
Senses: examples: text: In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: And in my glass significants there are
ref: a. 1850, William Wordsworth, The Egyptian Maid:
glosses: That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɹtɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɔːtə/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoətə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: porters
Etymology: From Middle English porter, portere, portier, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French porteor, from Late Latin portātor, from past participle of Latin portāre (“to carry”). By surface analysis, port (“to carry”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: By the time I reached the train station I was exhausted, but fortunately there was a porter waiting.
text: Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: the unsmotherable delight of all the porters and by - standers
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
text: The man who carries your luggage at the station is a "red cap", not a porter. The Canadian porter is the man who makes up the beds in the sleeping cars.
ref: 1954 February, Trevor Holloway, “Canada's Transcontinental Routes”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
text: As soon as we had come to a stand in Kamina Station, a swarm of porters pushed their way into the compartment to get my luggage. I selected one, and ordered the others out, and then detrained.
ref: 1958 February 24, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, in Railway Magazine, page 125:
text: Tips were an important part of porters' income, and at Christmas passengers felt there was extra pressure to give them - despite some perceiving the level of service to be poor.
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
glosses: A person who carries luggage and related objects.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An ant having the specialized role of carrying.
examples: text: […] useful only if you are a Perl porter or implementor and you want to check the efficiency of the hashing algorithm.
ref: 1998, Michael McMillan, Perl from the Ground Up, page 45:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who ports software (makes it usable on another platform).
Hyponyms: sense: carrier of burdens
alt: jampan-bearer
word: jampani
sense: carrier of burdens
english: dandy-bearer
translation: dandy-bearer
word: dandy-wallah
sense: carrier of burdens
word: skycap
Derived terms: Porterfield
porterless
porterlike
porterly
portress
rope porter
symporter
teleporter
underporter
uniporter
porter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɹtɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɔːtə/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoətə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: porters
Etymology: From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).
Senses: glosses: A person in control of the entrance to a building.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: stout
glosses: A strong, dark ale, originally favored by porters (etymology 1, sense 1), similar to a stout but less strong.
examples: text: ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Counterparts”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 107:
topics: beer
beverages
food
lifestyle
glosses: Stout (malt brew).
Derived terms: groom-porter
hall porter
light porter
porterhouse
portership
tackle-porter
ticket-porter
porter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɹtɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɔːtə/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpo(ː)ɹtɚ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoətə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: porters
form: portering
form: portered
form: portered
Etymology: From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).
Senses: glosses: To serve as a porter; to carry.
gairaigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gairaigo
Etymology: From Japanese 外来語.
Senses: glosses: A foreign, typically non-Sinitic loanword into Japanese.
stocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
homophone: stalking (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: stockings
Etymology: From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
Senses: examples: text: a pair of stockings
qualifier: footwear
glosses: A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
glosses: A large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
glosses: A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
glosses: A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
Derived terms: bluestocking
body stocking
Christmas stocking
mob stocking
openwork stocking
overstocking
seamed stocking
silk-stocking
stirrup stocking
stocking cap
stockinger
stocking filler
stocking-foot
stocking frame
stocking-maker
stocking-stuffer
stocking stuffer
surgical stocking
understocking
wear yellow stockings
Related terms: hose
netherstock
pantyhose
sock
stocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
homophone: stalking (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: From stock + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I've almost finished stocking these groceries.
glosses: present participle and gerund of stock
stocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈstɒkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪŋ
homophone: stalking (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: From stock + -ing.
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
-s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /s/
ipa: /z/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əz/
homophone: -'s
homophone: 's
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -s, -es, from Old English -as, nominative-accusative plural ending of masculine a-stem (i.e. strong) declension nouns, from Proto-West Germanic *-ōs, from Proto-Germanic *-ōs, *‑ōz, from Proto-Indo-European *-es, *-oes (plural endings). The spread of this ending in later Middle English was once argued to have been the result of Anglo-Norman influence; however, -as was already the most common Old English plural marker (used in approximately 40% of Old English nouns), and was initially more common in the North of England where French influence was weakest, only later gradually spreading south, replacing the usual southern plural ending -en. Cognate with Scots -s (plural ending), Saterland Frisian -s (plural ending), West Frisian -s (plural ending), Dutch -s (plural ending), Low German -s (plural ending), Danish -er (plural ending), Swedish -r, -ar, -or (plural ending), Icelandic -ar (plural ending), Gothic -𐍉𐍃 (-ōs, nominative plural ending of a-stem masculine nouns). Not directly related to German -er (plural ending) which has a different origin.
Senses: examples: text: one computer → five computers; Kennedy → Kennedys; hanger-on → hangers-on; lapful → lapfuls; cul-de-sac → cul-de-sacs; standby → standbys; push-up → push-ups; gin and tonic → gin and tonics; pair → pairs; beef → beefs
glosses: Used to form regular plurals of nouns.
examples: text: shorts
text: sunglasses
glosses: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).
examples: text: We often look back on the 1960s [the years from 1960 to 1969] with rose-tinted glasses.
text: The Industrial Revolution went into full-swing during the 1800s [the years from 1800 to 1899 – but see usage notes].
text: The temperature today will be in the low 30s.
text: He placed in the 200s in the end.
text: High indicators of PFAS (in the 500s) were also found in a Chick-fil-A sandwich wrapper and in fiber bowls at Cava, a Mediterranean restaurant chain.
Indicator levels in the 300s and 400s were found in a bag of cookies at Arby’s, bamboo paper plates at Stop & Shop, and in a bag for both cookies and French toast sticks at Burger King.
Levels of PFAS indicators in the 200s were found in a Sweetgreen paper bag for focaccia, additional items at Cava, and in bags for french fries, cookies and Chicken McNuggets at McDonald’s.
ref: 2022 March 25, Sandee LaMotte, “Dangerous chemicals found in food wrappers at major fast-food restaurants and grocery chains, report says”, in CNN:
glosses: When appended to a number ending in at least one 0, expresses a range of numbers which share the digits before some or (usually) all of the 0s; frequently used for decades, centuries and temperatures.
Related terms: sense: other plural-forming suffixes
word: -a
sense: other plural-forming suffixes
word: -en
sense: other plural-forming suffixes
word: -es
sense: other plural-forming suffixes
word: -i
sense: other plural-forming suffixes
word: -ir
sense: other plural-forming suffixes
word: -z
-s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /s/
ipa: /z/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əz/
homophone: -'s
homophone: 's
Etymology: From Middle English -(e)s (third-person singular ending), from Northumbrian Old English -es, -as (third-person singular endings). Gradually replaced the older -eth, from Old English -(e)þ, -aþ, during the Middle English and Early Modern English periods.
It is predominantly believed that -(e)s is identical to the Old English second-person singular ending -es, -est (cf. archaic Modern English -est, as in thou singest). The use for the third-person singular would have been caused by speakers of Old Norse who switched to speaking English and confounded the endings due to analogy with their native tongue. In Old Norse, the second and third person singular indicative forms were identical (e.g. þú masar, hann masar; þú þekkir, hann þekkir; etc.).
An alternative theory sees the shift from /θ/ in -eth to /s/ (later /z/) in -(e)s as a mere phonetic simplification due to the frequency of the ending, but the objection to this is that no such development can be observed anywhere else in English. Nevertheless the relative similarity in sound between both forms may have facilitated the spread of -es.
Senses: examples: to eat → he eats
glosses: Used to form the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs.
examples: I likes what I likes
glosses: Used in various other indicative present tenses
Related terms: sense: other verb endings
word: -ed
sense: other verb endings
word: -en
sense: other verb endings
word: -ing
sense: other verb endings
word: -t
-s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /s/
ipa: /z/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əz/
homophone: -'s
homophone: 's
Etymology: From Middle English -es, from Old English -es, the masculine and neuter genitive singular ending of strong nouns. More at -'s.
Senses: examples: forward + -s → forwards
downward + -s → downwards
alway + -s → always
sometime + -s → sometimes
betime + -s → betimes
while + -s → whiles
betide + -s → betides
toward + -s → towards
beside + -s → besides
evening + -s → evenings
unaware + -s → unawares
Sunday + -s → Sundays
night + -s → nights
glosses: Used in the formation of certain English adverbs.
Derived terms: -st
-s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /s/
ipa: /z/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əz/
homophone: -'s
homophone: 's
Forms: form: -'s
form: -es
Etymology: A variant spelling of -'s, partly an archaism, partly by dropping the apostrophe.
Senses: examples: hers; its; ones (now one’s); theirs
(neopronouns): eirs; hirs; pers; thons; xyrs; zirs
qualifier: on pronouns
glosses: Possessive marker, indicating that an object belongs to the word bearing the marker.
examples: devils doorbell; dogs-bane; St. Marys; (obsolete) kings
qualifier: on nouns
glosses: Alternative form of -'s.
-s
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /s/
ipa: /z/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əz/
homophone: -'s
homophone: 's
Etymology: Modern sense in slang [circa 1936]. According to OED, a colloquial clipping of the hypocoristic diminutive suffix -sy. As AHD writes, -sy itself usually being informal, ironic and/or jocular, and possibly a combination of -s (“plural marker”) and conflation of -y as adjectival with its sense as a diminutive suffix (e.g., puppy, kitty), the latter notion probably from Scots.
Senses: examples: Babs; moms; pops; homes; toots
glosses: Hypocoristic suffix
Related terms: -sies
-s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /s/
ipa: /z/
ipa: /ɪz/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əz/
homophone: -'s
homophone: 's
Etymology: Derived from 's.
Senses: examples: text: whats he talking about
glosses: Alternative spelling of 's.
-in
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Clipping of -ine.
Senses: examples: text: albumin, casein, chitin, pepsin, saponin
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used, as a modification of -ine, to form the names of a variety of types of compound; examples include proteins (globulin), carbohydrates (dextrin), dyes (alizarin) and others (vanillin).
A neutral chemical compound.
examples: text: renin, pancreatin
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used, as a modification of -ine, to form the names of a variety of types of compound; examples include proteins (globulin), carbohydrates (dextrin), dyes (alizarin) and others (vanillin).
An enzyme.
examples: text: penicillin, streptomycin
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used, as a modification of -ine, to form the names of a variety of types of compound; examples include proteins (globulin), carbohydrates (dextrin), dyes (alizarin) and others (vanillin).
An antibiotic.
examples: text: cobalamin, niacin, vitamin
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used, as a modification of -ine, to form the names of a variety of types of compound; examples include proteins (globulin), carbohydrates (dextrin), dyes (alizarin) and others (vanillin).
A pharmaceutical product.
-in
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From the particle in, modelled after sit-in. Compare -off.
Senses: glosses: Attached to a word (usually a verb) to denote a protest, demonstration or other type of gathering characterized by the activity denoted by the base word.