cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
between a rock and a hard place
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Originated in the United States before 1918 in southwest, possibly in connection with mining. Related to the concept of the Ancient Greeks: between Scylla and Charybdis.
Senses: examples: text: After meeting again that afternoon with Donna, Wilbur had advised her that she was indeed between a rock and a hard place. She could not hope to recover and build back the lost business until the suits were settled, and it appeared that the only way to settle the suits without going to court was to liquidate the mortuary assets or tap into the Clifton's personal funds.
ref: 2008, David Merde, Beyond Final Arrangements, page 511:
text: A dish gone awry after adding the wrong ingredient. Chewing your way through this won't be fun, but it will fill you up when you're between a rock and a hard place.
ref: 2017 March 3, Nintendo EPD, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo, description for Rock-Hard Food
glosses: In a difficult and inescapable position.
examples: text: Husbands, it seems to me, are caught between the Rock of Feminism and the Hard Place of their own marriages […]
ref: 1970, David Sim, Tangent:
text: If Washington Mutual needs to raise capital quickly, it will very likely find itself between a rock and a hard place, because credit markets have all but closed their doors to troubled banks.
ref: 2008 September 11, Eric Dash, Geraldine Fabrikant, “Washington Mutual stock falls on investor fears”, in New York Times, retrieved 24 Aug 2012:
synonyms: word: between Scylla and Charybdis
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
word: between a rock and a hard place
word: between Scylla and Charybdis
word: between the devil and the deep blue sea
word: between the hammer and the anvil
word: between two fires
word: damned if one does and damned if one doesn't
word: doomed if you do
word: doomed if you don't
word: in a cleft stick
word: in bad bread
word: on the horns of a dilemma
glosses: Having the choice between two unpleasant or distasteful options; in a predicament or quandary.
epexegeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epexegesis
big bang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big bangs
Etymology: See Big Bang.
Senses: examples: text: Millions of big bangs may be happening as we speak.
topics: astrophysics
glosses: An explosion giving rise to a universe.
glosses: A large implementation of a system rather than phased or gradual delivery
Derived terms: big bang testing
biological big bang
bikie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɪ.kiː/
Forms: form: bikies
form: bikey
Etymology: From bike (“short for motorbike”) + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: A luxury waterfront flat believed to be owned by a Hells Angels bikie in Sydney was searched by police this afternoon.
ref: 2008 February 19, Dylan Welch, Sydney Morning Herald:
text: What so you're a bikie now?
ref: 2018 October 9, “Clean Slate”, in Wentworth:
glosses: A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker.
bio queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bio queens
Senses: synonyms: faux queen
glosses: A cis female performance artist who performs in female drag at drag shows, or acts like a drag queen.
jet ski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet skis
form: jetski
form: jet-ski
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Jet Ski. By surface analysis, jet + ski.
Senses: examples: text: "Jet ski" is actually Kawasaki's name for their PWC (personal water craft) models, but like hoovers and speedos has become genericised.
ref: 2006 October, “Gimme Fuel: High Octane Advise for Buying a Ski”, in Tracks magazine, page 154:
synonyms: PWC
personal water craft
water scooter
aquabike
waverunner
hypernyms: watercraft
glosses: A small motorized watercraft with a flattish hull and an upright centre, which a rider sits astride.
jet ski
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jet skis
form: jet skiing
form: jet skied
form: jet skied
form: jetski
form: jet-ski
Etymology: Genericized trademark of Jet Ski. By surface analysis, jet + ski.
Senses: glosses: To ride on a jet ski.
black-on-black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: statistics dealing with black-on-black crime
glosses: Taking place between black people.
Related terms: white-on-white
phonebank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonebanks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phone bank.
phonebank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phonebanks
form: phonebanking
form: phonebanked
form: phonebanked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phone bank.
whizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whiz
glosses: present participle and gerund of whizz
whizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whizzings
Senses: examples: text: For, when the line is darting out, to be seated then in the boat, is like being seated in the midst of the manifold whizzings of a steam-engine in full play[…]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 60, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The sound or action of something that whizzes.
whizzing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whizzing
form: most whizzing
Senses: glosses: Spinning rapidly.
examples: text: From inside the mill there came a whizzing, whirring, and clashing sound, and now and then a bright saw-blade flashed in the air, as if in combat with the spirits of the night, to cut the stumps and uneven ends off the logs.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 154:
glosses: Producing a whizz; giving off a whizzing noise.
blacktress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacktresses
Etymology: Blend of black + actress
Senses: examples: text: […] this literary/arts center presents Manifesto Night, with readings by such notable playwrights, poets, teachers, and blacktresses as John Baldessari, Max Benevidez, Pam Gregg, Sue Spaid, David Schweizer, and Ms. Vaginal Creme Davis.
ref: 1991, The Advocate, numbers 585-588:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An African American woman who is a pioneer of the film industry.
blanket term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanket terms
Senses: synonyms: word: umbrella term
word: hypernym
topics: technical
engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
glosses: A word or phrase that is used to describe multiple groups of related things.
Blore's razor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A humorous adage suggesting that, when given a choice between two theories, one should prefer the one that is funnier.
Related terms: Occam's razor
Hanlon's razor
Murphy's law
toeprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toeprints
Etymology: From toe + print.
Senses: examples: text: A misleading toeprint may not only be planted on the scene of crime, but just as well on crime objects such as anonymous letters and other articles. In that case there is full and quiet opportunity for the "planting".
ref: 1955, The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science:
text: “It was, in fact, her natural walk,” he wrote in his autobiography. “Her footprints on a beach would be in astraight line, the heel descending exactly before the last toeprint, throwing her pelvis into motion."
ref: 2010, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins, Encyclopedia of the Exquisite:
glosses: The mark left by a toe.
examples: text: Total toeprint including keyboard for the miniature workstation is 83 square inches […]
ref: 1989, InfoWorld, volume 11, number 35:
text: The tiny, shall we say, "toeprint" of the machine is due to a remarkable feat of miniaturization by Intel […]
ref: 1991, Byte, volume 16, page 44:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).
examples: text: In the absence of IF3, the 10-fold molar excess of tRNAᴾʰᵉ produces a strong +18 toeprint relative to the +15 toeprint.
ref: 2010, Single Molecule Tools, Part A: Fluorescence Based Approaches:
text: In the case of the entrapment model on the contrary, one does not expect the toeprint to disappear with increasing repressor concentrations, since in this case, both repressor and ribosome can bind the same mRNA.
ref: 2012, E. C. C. Lin, A. Simon Lynch, Regulation of Gene Expression in Escherichia coli:
text: Lastly, a "toeprint" of 30S subunits bound to T4 gene 32 mRNA has been observed with MMLV reverse transcriptase; while the experiment has not been quantitated, appearance of a signal at a subunit concentration of 0.02 μM is consistent with a binding constant on the order of 10⁷ M⁻¹ (Hartz et al., 1991).
ref: 2012, K.H. Nierhaus, F. Franceschi, A.R. Subramanian, The Translational Apparatus: Structure, Function, Regulation, Evolution, page 198:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of 30S-mRNA binding.
Related terms: fingerprint
Bob's your uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: Bob is your uncle
Etymology: Unknown. Several unsupported theories exist about its origin. A common explanation, involving Arthur Balfour gaining a promotion through the supposed intercession of his uncle, Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, is doubted because the expression did not appear in print until 1924.
Senses: examples: text: Insert the plug, press the switch, and Bob's your uncle.
text: You want to go to the stadium? Go straight on until you reach the park, take the first left and Bob's your uncle!
text: And you're not going to give me that stuff about just shoving over the lever and bob's your uncle. You forget the times the fellow gets caught and has to be kicked off the edge of the trap hole.
ref: 1954, Brendan Behan, The Quare Fellow, act 3; republished in Cóilín Owens, Joan Newlon Radner, editors, Irish Drama, 1900–1980, 1990, page 591:
text: Click the Import Contacts button and—Bob's your uncle (that's "Tada!" for my readers)—you should see a confirmation that all went according to plan, and your contacts have been imported into your Gmail address book.
ref: 2007, Preston Gralla, Big Book of Windows Hacks, O'Reilly Media, page 314:
text: Simply type in a description of your item and Bob's your uncle: someone, somewhere in the eBay virtual universe will be selling something similar.
ref: 2008, Julian Knight, Wills, Probate, & Inheritance Tax For Dummies, UK, unnumbered page:
text: All you need to do is learn to make these little loops and Bob's your uncle, you're a real live knitter.
ref: 2011, Lauren O'Farrel, Stitch London: 20 Kooky Ways to Knit the City and More, page 112:
synonyms: Bob's your father's brother
Bob's your mother's brother
Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt
hey presto
job's a good 'un
Robert's your father's brother
Robert's your mother's brother
Robert's your uncle
voilà
glosses: No problem, the solution is simple, there you have it, it's that easy, you have what you want, all will be well: indicates a desirable conclusion has been reached with ease.
wikipedia: Arthur Balfour
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
subproblem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subproblems
form: sub-problem
Etymology: From sub- + problem.
Senses: synonyms: subissue
glosses: A problem whose solution contributes to the solution of a larger problem.
Derived terms: subsubproblem
bota bag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bota bags
Etymology: From the Spanish bota.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Greek or Spanish wineskin bag. Typically it is made of leather, and is used to carry wine, although any liquid can be carried.
Related terms: bagpipe
bought the farm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buy the farm
subring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭb′rĭng′
ipa: /ˈsʌbˌɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɐbˌɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsabˌɹəŋ/
ipa: /ˈsabˌɾiŋ/
Forms: form: subrings
Etymology: From sub- + ring.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ring which is contained in a larger ring, such that the multiplication and addition on the former are a restriction of those on the latter. When rings are required to have a multiplicative identity (as is standard in most branches of algebra), the subring must also have the same multiplicative identity as the larger ring.
Derived terms: prime subring
subfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfields
Etymology: From sub- + field.
Senses: glosses: A smaller, more specialized area of study or occupation within a larger one
examples: text: Let us describe in general the subfield generated by a given element. Let K be a given field, F a subfield of K, and c an element of K. Consider those elements of K which are given by polynomial expressions of the form
(1)#92;qquadf(c)#61;a#95;0#43;a#95;1c#43;a#95;2c²#43;...#43;a#95;ncⁿ#92;qquad#92;qquad#92;mbox#123;(each#125;a#95;i#92;mbox#123;in#125;F#92;mbox#123;).#125;
[...]
 If f(c) and g(c) ≠ 0 are polynomial expressions like (1), their quotient f(c)/g(c) is an element of K, called a rational expression in c with coefficients in F. The set of all such quotients is a subfield; it is the field generated by F and c and is conventionally denoted by F(c), with round brackets.
ref: 1953, Garrett Birkhoff with Saunders Mac Lane, A Survey Of Modern Algebra, Revised edition, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Company, published 1960, §XIV.1, page 394:
text: We are now in a position to describe the subfield of K generated by F and our algebraic element u. This subfield F(u) clearly contains the subdomain F[u] of all elements expressible as polynomials f(u) with coefficients in F (cf. (1)). Actually, this domain F[u] is a subfield of K. Indeed, let us find an inverse for any element f(u) ≠ 0 in F[u]. [...] This shows that F[u] is a subfield of K.
 Since, conversely, every subfield of K which contains F and u evidently contains every polynomial f(u) in F[u], we see that F[u] is the subfield of K generated by F and u.
ref: 1953, Garrett Birkhoff with Saunders Mac Lane, A Survey Of Modern Algebra, Revised edition, U.S.A.: The Macmillan Company, published 1960, §XIV.2, page 397:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subring of a field, containing the multiplicative identity and closed under inversion.
brachyology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachyologies
form: brachylogia
form: brachylogy
Etymology: From Late Latin brachiologia, from Ancient Greek βραχύς (brakhús, “short”) + -λογία (-logía, “speech”); compare brachylogy.
Senses: examples: text: In the words [...of] Acts x. 39. there might be a brachyology, in case the sense were: we are witnesses of all that he did, of this also, that they put him to death. But such an omission is not necessary.
ref: 1840, Georg Benedikt Winer, A grammar of the idioms of the Greek language of the New Testament, translated from German to English by J. H. Agnew and O. G. Ebbeke, page 442
text: So also in Ps 118²⁷ the preposition עד might include the verb ‘come,’ which connects itself so naturally with ‘until,’ and a poetical mode of expression, which is naturally disposed to vivid brachyology (cf. Ps 118), might discover a self-evident point in the circumstance that not the victims themselves but their blood, the precious part of them (Lv 17¹¹), is at last to touch the alter-horns.
ref: 1900 September, Ed. König, “Psalm cxviii 27b”, in James Hastings (editor), The Expository Times, Volume XI, Number 12, T. & T. Clark (publisher), page 566
text: The only trouble is with "over all things;" what is His relation to them? Evidently that of Head also. No other view is admissible exegetically; the question becoming thus a purely grammatical one: Shall we accept a brachyology and understand a second κεφαλην before τη εκκλησια (MEYER, STIER, HODGE approvingly): "gave Him the Head over all things (to be the Head) to the church," or [...]
ref: 1870, Philip Schaff (translator) in John Peter Lange, A commentary on the Holy Scriptures: critical, doctrinal, and homiletical, volume 7, page 68:
text: The author employs a brachyology in the last phrase: the hearers of the phrase "than Abel" [...] will be able to fill this out as "than the blood of Abel" from the mention of "blood speaking" [...] in the preceding phrase.
ref: 2000, David Arthur deSilva, Perseverance in gratitude: a socio-rhetorical commentary on the Epistle "to the Hebrews", page 468:
text: The expression "being-in-Christ" is, therefore, according to Schweitzer, "merely a brachyology for being partakers in the Mystical Body of Christ."
ref: 2001, Sang-Won (Aaron) Son, Corporate elements in Pauline anthropology: a study of the selected terms, idioms, and concepts in the light of Paul's usage and background, page 35:
glosses: A figure of speech that is an abbreviated expression, for example, the omission of "good" from "good morning!" (resulting in the abbreviated greeting "morning!").
raw_tags: in discussions of grammar
of Biblical grammar
brand avatar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brand avatars
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A company's online brand personality, which is an online overview of the feedback of the organization and its brands.
homomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homomorphisms
Etymology: From homo- + morphism.
Senses: examples: text: A field homomorphism is a map from one field to another one which is additive, multiplicative, zero-preserving, and unit-preserving.
text: 1954, Kuo-Tsai Chen, Iterated Integrals and Exponential Homomorphisms, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Reprinted in 2001, Philippe Tondeur (editor), Collected Papers of K.-T. Chen, Birkhäuser, page 54,
This motivates a generalization, and exponential homomorphisms are now defined, in an algebraic fashion, from certain free products to formal power series rings with non-commutative indeterminates.
text: A homomorphism of presheaves h#58;A#92;rightarrowB is a collection of homomorphisms h#95;U#58;A(U)#92;rightarrowB(U) commuting with restrictions.
ref: 1997, Glen E. Bredon, Sheaf Theory, 2nd edition, Springer, page 8:
text: Definition 1.15. Let G and H be matrix Lie groups. A map #92;Phi from G to H is called a Lie group homomorphism if (1) #92;Phi is a group homomorphism and (2) #92;Phi is continuous.
ref: 2003, Brian C. Hall, Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations: An Elementary Introduction, Springer, page 17:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: homology
glosses: A structure-preserving map between two algebraic structures of the same type, such as groups, rings, or vector spaces.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: homology
glosses: A similar appearance of two unrelated organisms or structures, as for example with fish and whales.
Hyponyms: sense: structure-preserving map between algebraic structures
word: automorphism
sense: structure-preserving map between algebraic structures
word: endomorphism
sense: structure-preserving map between algebraic structures
word: epimorphism
sense: structure-preserving map between algebraic structures
word: isomorphism
sense: structure-preserving map between algebraic structures
word: linear map
sense: structure-preserving map between algebraic structures
word: monomorphism
Derived terms: antihomomorphism
boundary homomorphism
connecting homomorphism
graph homomorphism
homomorphous
ring homomorphism
semigroup homomorphism
Related terms: word: morphism
topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: convergent evolution
brick by brick
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Created or built in a steady, step-by-step fashion.
bright-line rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bright-line rules
Senses: glosses: A clear-cut rule, so that it is easy to make a decision.
topics: law
glosses: A clearly defined rule or standard, composed of objective factors, which leaves little or no room for varying interpretation.
Related terms: bright line
bubbe meise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubbe meises
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish באָבע־מעשׂה (bobe-mayse).
Senses: examples: text: If you look ahead to the second book of the Maccabees, you will see that Judah did not embrace the life of the tzaddik […] No, Judah discovered […] that war, not holiness, is good business. He spent the years after the Maccabean victory pillaging whatever small settlements happened to strike his fancy. So if some Hebrew school teacher feeds you full of bubbemeises about the Jews only having enough sacred oil to light the eternal flame for one day […] don't believe it for a minute.
ref: 1988 December 4, Liz Galst, “Lesbian Maccabee Unmasked!”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 21, page 7:
glosses: An old wives' tale; a fairytale.
buck-passing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From buck + passing.
Senses: examples: text: It's from here onwards that the whole web of buck-passing and excuses began.
ref: 2020 July 29, Barry Doe, “GWR climbs down... but it took too long to issue refund”, in Rail, page 58:
synonyms: blame game
glosses: Blameshifting; the act of absolving oneself of responsibility or concern for a given matter by claiming to lack authority or jurisdiction.
Related terms: pass the buck
the buck stops here
arias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aria
buppie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌpi
Forms: form: buppies
form: buppy
Etymology: Blend of black + yuppie or an abbreviation of black urban professional, modelled on yuppie (“young urban professional”).
Senses: examples: text: In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.
ref: 1991 June, Ella Taylor, “Identity crises”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A black urban professional; an African-American professional or executive in their late twenties or early thirties.
burble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: burbles
Etymology: From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.
ref: 1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
examples: text: He could hear the music in the distance, and the burble and laughter from the library, and a high ringing in his own ears.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A gush of rapid speech.
glosses: The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.
burble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: burbles
form: burbling
form: burbled
form: burbled
Etymology: From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative.
Senses: glosses: To bubble; to gurgle.
examples: text: She burbled on, as if I cared to listen.
text: "No, Jo, it wasn't one bit crowded, there was room enought ^([sic]) for everyone," she burbled on. "And we were there, and all these other wymeen too, of all shapes, sizes, and colors..."
ref: 1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:
text: “No way this one’s going to miss us this time,” burbles one bebooted doomsdayer to another.
ref: 1995 December 21, Tony Chamberlain, “We all love snow games: Some take time to play; others seize chance to panic”, in The Boston Globe, volume 248, number 174, Boston, Mass., page 91:
glosses: To babble; to speak in an excited rush.
Derived terms: burbler
burbly
burble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Etymology: Scottish; probably connected Old French barbouiller (“to confound”).
Senses: glosses: Trouble; disorder.
burble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝ.bl̩/
ipa: /ˈbɜː.bl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: burbles
form: burbling
form: burbled
form: burbled
Etymology: Scottish; probably connected Old French barbouiller (“to confound”).
Senses: glosses: To trouble or confuse.
bury the hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buries the hatchet
form: burying the hatchet
form: buried the hatchet
form: buried the hatchet
Etymology: The phrase is an allusion to the figurative or literal practice of putting away the tomahawk at the cessation of hostilities among or by Native Americans in the Eastern United States, specifically during the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, and in Iroquois custom in general. Weapons were to be buried or otherwise cached in time of peace.
Senses: examples: text: They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt.
antonyms: take up the hatchet
glosses: To cease fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.
Related terms: peace pipe
remix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːˌmɪks/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌmɪks/
ipa: /ɹiːˈmɪks/
ipa: /ɹiˈmɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: remixes
Etymology: re- + mix
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rearrangement of an older piece of music, possibly including various cosmetic changes.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece of music formed by combining existing pieces of music together, possibly including various other cosmetic changes
Derived terms: Sparta remix
work it out on the remix
remix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːˌmɪks/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌmɪks/
ipa: /ɹiːˈmɪks/
ipa: /ɹiˈmɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: remixes
form: remixing
form: remixed
form: remixed
Etymology: re- + mix
Senses: examples: text: Overhauling serves to remix the brine and to shift the meat so that all pieces will be exposed to the brine.
ref: 1955, Farmers' Bulletin, number 1807, page 20:
glosses: To mix again.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To create a remix.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To rearrange or radically alter (a particular piece of music).
examples: text: It is essential that we maintain focus on originality as an ethical issue. A broader idea of creativity does not mean that 'anything goes' and sometimes attempts to reuse or remix the work of others becomes an ethical, even a legal, problem […]
ref: 2010, Scott Beattie, Tonia Walden, The Law Workbook, page 102:
glosses: To modify (a work in any medium).
Related terms: megamix
megamix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamixes
Etymology: From mega- + mix.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A remix taking the form of a medley, with radical alterations and many constituent pieces of music.
exhilarates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exhilarate
by the numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: by-the-numbers
Etymology: The origin of this phrase goes back to the American Revolutionary War where a book containing numbered positions for rifle and bayonet practice was used to train soldiers. In the book, each diagram was numbered.
Senses: synonyms: by the book
by numbers
glosses: exactly, precisely, or in a formulaic way.
Related terms: paint-by-numbers
camel's nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camels' noses
Etymology: The root phrase is usually claimed to be a saying of Arabs or Middle Eastern cultures, roughly as follows:
: Do not allow a camel to put his nose under the edge of your tent, for soon you will have a camel in your tent.
Senses: glosses: A situation where the permitting of some small act will lead to a larger undesirable act or circumstance.
Related terms: foot in the door
give them an inch and they'll take a mile
slippery slope
thin edge of the wedge
carnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin carnis (“meat”) and Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ, “writing”), by analogy to pornography. Although it is often taken to be a blend carnage and pornography, this is not the case.
Senses: examples: text: In 1986, Philip Brophy noted in Screen magazine that the horror film defied critics' attempts to deal with it as other than plotless carnography, gore, and effects for an increasingly brutalized mass audience.
ref: 1995, Linda Badley, Film, horror, and the body fantastic, page 6:
glosses: Any writing, films, images, or other material that contains gratuitous amounts of bloodshed or violence.
Synonyms: violence porn
carrot and stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrots and sticks
form: stick and carrot
Etymology: From combining two ways to motivate a beast of burden, with the lure of a carrot placed just out of reach, and the threat of a stick behind.
Senses: examples: text: It was this carrot and stick discipline to which Mr. John Mill was subjected, and which he accepted dutifully as flowing from that perfect wisdom of which up to this time his father had been the representative.
ref: 1876, Lord Blachford, “The Reality of Duty, as Illustrated by the Autobiography of Mr. John Stuart Mill”, in The Contemporary Review, page 523:
text: There was no similar carrot and stick for use against the French land armaments.
ref: 1928, Joseph Montague with George Young, Freedom of the Seas, page 159:
text: The proposal to use the world trade order as a source of carrots and sticks for the pursuit of environmental objectives is based on three illusions.
ref: 2000, Anne O. Krueger with Chonira Aturupane, The WTO as an International Organization, page 225:
text: the artful tactic of carrot and stick bore relatively plentiful fruit.
ref: 2008, Paul Lendvai with Ann Major, One Day that Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy, page 227:
glosses: The simultaneous rewarding of good behavior and punishing of bad behavior.
cartooney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartoonies
form: cartooneys
form: cart00ney
Etymology: Blend of cartoon + attorney, or a variation of cartoony.
Senses: examples: text: Because we who don’t like spam need a good laugh once in a while (other than the occasional guffaws induced by cartooneys), let me share a few samples from my incoming spam cesspool.
ref: 2004, Danny Goodman, “Rule #3: Spammers Are Stupid”, in Spam Wars: Our Last Best Chance to Defeat Spammers, Scammers, and Hackers, SelectBooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: An empty and comically overstated threat of legal action, or a mock legal action.
cartooney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cartoony.
catbird seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catbird seats
Etymology: The expression, as it was in use in the 19th century in the southern United States, may originate in regard to the gray catbird (Dumetella carolinensis). It was featured in the 1942 short story "The Catbird Seat" by James Thurber, and popularized by baseball commentator Red Barber, and often referred to baseball. The expression, according to James Thurber, comes from the observation of the catbird (an Australian bird) of the family Ptilonorhynchidae. Some of the male birds will assemble several hundred colored rocks or shells, arranging them in a remarkable artistic display, in order to build a "seat" atop which his mate will eventually be enthroned.
Senses: examples: text: With a big victory in the primary, he was sitting in the catbird seat.
glosses: An enviable position, often one of great advantage.
wikipedia: James Thurber
Red Barber
cattle station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle stations
Senses: glosses: A large farm in Australia, (the equivalent of ranch), usually in the outback, whose main activity is the raising of cattle, and run by a grazier. In most cases the stations are in a rangeland context on pastoral leases. Many are larger than small countries.
Related terms: grazier
sheep station
CCSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCSIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of certified Cisco Systems instructor.
charientism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χαριεντισμός (kharientismós).
Senses: glosses: A figure of speech wherein an insult is disguised as or softened by a jest.
Chicago Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A method for the testing of appliances that perform any kind of combustion (household heaters, stoves, etc.) for carbon monoxide emissions.
choreology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the aesthetic and science of forms of dance and other human movement, by means of notation.
Derived terms: choreological
choreologist
choreomusicology
ethnochoreology
Christmas tree bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas tree bills
Etymology: From Christmas tree + bill.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A bill consisting of many riders that attracts many, often unrelated, floor amendments, which may provide special benefits to various groups or interests.
Circean poison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the Greek mythological figure of Circe, who (in the Odyssey) tempted men to excess before turning them into pigs.
Senses: examples: text: And the riven Tree in the West withered; and the broken Car was changed by the Circean poison of the golden plumes into a two-natured monster, half-bird, half-beast — a mockery of the holy Griffin.
ref: 1926, Essays in memory of Barrett Wendell, page 77:
glosses: A poison or potion that changes the body but not the mind.
examples: text: O foulest Circean draught, thou poison of Popular Applause! madness is in thee, and death; thy end is Bedlam and the Grave.
ref: 1834, Thomas Carlyle, "The Death of Edward Irving," essay from Fraser's Magazine 61 (1834)http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/carlyle/irving.html
text: "Is not this herd," he continues, "worse than Circean poison?"
ref: 1878, John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, page 242:
text: So soon the worm that dies not is also upon him—in its fang Circean poison to make the victim one with his plague...
ref: 1908, John Ruskin, St. Mark's Rest: The History of Venice Written for the Help of the Few ..., page 236:
glosses: Anything magically (and fatally) captivating, such as a potion or applause.
city father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city fathers
Senses: glosses: A senior municipal official, especially an elected official such as a mayor, a controller, or a municipal legislator.
Coordinate terms: town father
village elder
climate canary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: climate canaries
Etymology: Similar to the miner's canary, from which the term is derived.
Senses: glosses: A species that is affected by an environmental danger prior to other species, thus serving as an early warning system for the other species with regard to a danger.
Hypernyms: bioindicator
COAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: chief of army staff
glosses: courses of action
glosses: charter ownership agreements
co-create with God
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-creates with God
form: co-creating with God
form: co-created with God
form: co-created with God
Senses: glosses: As a spiritual practitioner who feels that he or she has attained a type of communication with God: to work with God to bring desirable things into the practitioner's life.
topics: Christianity
glosses: To work to create things or bring about circumstances, with the attitude that one is doing God's work.
communitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communitates
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin commūnitās. Doublet of community.
Senses: examples: text: Monastic life, pilgrimage, bonds of friendship formed among the group of young initiates, contemporary teenage counter-culture movements are all good examples of communitates.
ref: 2012, Helena Bassil-Morozow, The Trickster in Contemporary Film, →ISBN, pages 17–18:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An unstructured community of common experience.
examples: text: A sense of harmony with the universe is made evident and the whole planet is felt to be communitas.
ref: 1986, Victor W. Turner, The Anthropology of Experience, University of Illinois Press, page 43:
text: The achievement of communitas is the pilgrim's fundamental motivation.
ref: 1986, Victor W. Turner, Contesting the Sacred, Routledge, published 1991:
text: Their focus is on group bonding, and the euphoric, almost transcendental experience of becoming one with the music and the crowd (which sounds like a version of what the anthropologist Victor Turner called ‘communitas’—an intense, intimate, liberating kind of group bonding, experienced only in ‘liminal’ states).
ref: [2004, Kate Fox, “Rules of Sex”, in Watching the English, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 330:
text: Liminality, in other words, engenders communitas by levelling social distinctions while at the same time destabilizing normative structures and inspiring criticism.
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 81:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The very spirit of community; an intense community spirit, the feeling of great social equality, solidarity, and togetherness.
communiversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communiversities
Etymology: Blend of community + university
Senses: glosses: An organization that is formed by a relationship between a university and a community.
comprador bourgeoisie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpɹədɔː(ɹ)ˌbʊə(ɹ)ʒwɑːˈziː/
Forms: form: comprador bourgeoisies
Etymology: From comprador + bourgeoisie.
Senses: glosses: A section of an indigenous middle class allied with foreign investors, multinational corporations, bankers, and military interests.
Conformist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Conformists
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: In English history, a person whose religious practices conformed with the requirements of the Act of Uniformity and who was therefore in concert with the established Church of England, as opposed to those of the Nonconformists, whose practices were not acceptable to the Church of England.
confusopoly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌfjuːˈzɒpəli/
rhymes: -ɒpəli
Forms: form: confusopolies
Etymology: From confuse + -opoly, coined by Scott Adams in The Dilbert Future.
Senses: examples: text: Be aware that BT have just cut some prices, *and* introduced a new tariff that you can buy your way onto. Beware however that it's an even bigger confusopoly than it was before.
ref: 1999, David Marshall, “ADSL for 200 quid a month?”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet):
text: Instead of the power of monopoly, consumers lose to the power of confusopoly.
ref: 2001, Herbert Jack Rotfeld, Adventures in Misplaced Marketing:
text: One of the main reasons to have competition is that it leads to lower prices. So now we have a confusopoly where innumerable providers are all offering us special deals but actual prices are being kept artificially high.
ref: 2003, Stevie D, “Regulating privatised companies (rail versus telecom, water, electricity, gas)”, in uk.railway (Usenet):
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: An economic condition whereby the market force of competition is evaded via intentional obfuscation.
wikipedia: Scott Adams
The Dilbert Future
consilium abeundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin cōnsilium abeundī (literally “advice to leave”).
Senses: examples: text: There is no Room to doubt, but the Court of France will have the Complaisance for that of Great Britain, to give the Consilium abeundi (or Warning to depart) to the Duke of Wharton, who continues upon the Coast of Normandy, meditating the Subversion of the present Government, agreeable to the Dictates of his turbulent Spirit, for which he was noted among us many Years ago, when a Student in the University of Leyden.
ref: 1728, The Historical Register, volume 13, number 52:
text: Whereas this evil Counsellor knew that C. Z. had a Consilium abeundi, 20th March 1736, and therefore cound not possibly be present at a Place 18th May 1736, from which he had Consilium abeundi two Months before; […]
ref: 1755, An exposition, or, true state, of the matters objected in England to the people known by the name of Unitas Fratrum, page 35:
text: The appeal from the sentence of the amtmann, lies to the senate, which also pronounces the consilium abeundi and the relegation, on the motion of the amtmann.
ref: 1849, William Howitt, Life in Germany: Or, Scenes, Impressions, and Every-day Life of the Germans:
text: Finally Saint-Saëns, along with Romain Bussine, was more or less given a consilium abeundi (advice to leave); both tendered their resignations.
ref: 1991, Michael Stegemann, Camille Saint-Saëns and the French solo concerto from 1850 to 1920:
glosses: A traditional form of expulsion from an organization or school.
match drill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: match drills
form: match drilling
form: match drilled
form: match drilled
Senses: glosses: To drill a hole through multiple assembled parts at once, so as to ensure that the parts align properly in the final assembly.
convener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveners
Etymology: From convene + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who convenes or calls a meeting
Synonyms: convoker
Derived terms: convenership
copper captain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copper captains
Senses: examples: text: Michael Perez, the copper captain
ref: 1777, Francis Beaumont, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (play), page 4
text: To this copper captain therefore, was confided the command of the troops.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York: (books III-VII):
glosses: A person falsely giving themselves the title of captain.
cosmic joker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosmic jokers
Etymology: A term attributed to author Charles Fort. The exact term does not appear in Fort's writings, but related terms and concepts certainly do, such that later writers acknowledge and attribute Fort for the phrase.
Senses: glosses: A higher power who is responsible for various anomalous phenomena on Earth, and whose manifestations are of a perverse and black-humored nature.
Related terms: resistentialism
trickster
county family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: county families
Senses: examples: text: Walford's County Families (title)
ref: 1880, Edward Walford, Walford's County Families, Chatto & Windus
glosses: In Britain and Ireland, a family of the landed gentry.
crash pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crash pads
form: crashpad
Senses: glosses: Any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
examples: text: The first officer did not have a crash pad in the EWR area. A captain who had flown with the first officer when she was based at ORF stated that she planned to stay overnight at hotels once she began commuting from SEA to EWR. According to a cargo air carrier captain who met the first officer in December 2008 while they were jumpseat passengers, the first officer stated that she did not need a crash pad at EWR because she could stay in the crew lounge.
ref: 2010 February 2, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.5.2 The First Officer”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Loss of Control on Approach, Colgan Air, Inc., Operating as Continental Connection Flight 3407, Bombardier DHC-8-400, N200WQ, Clarence Center, New York, February 12, 2009, archived from the original on 12 May 2022, page 13:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any place used for temporary lodging, especially without payment or permission.
A place of temporary lodging for airline flight crews.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: crashmat
bouldering mat
glosses: A protective foam pad placed on the ground, used as protection in case of falling from the wall.
examples: text: They may then go to a hippie clinic crash pad to be "talked down."
ref: 1969, American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 125, number 4, page 154:
text: Ideally, he could be referred to a nearby "crash pad" where a peer "guide" that he should have taken with him on his trip to begin with could bring him back to sanity in a safe, but nonmedical environment.
ref: 1973, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee, Evaluating the Federal effort to control drug abuse:
text: Because of the fear of a bad trip (a bummer), many LSD users will not take the drug except in controlled settings or in a crash pad.
ref: 1979, Jay Strack, Drugs and drinking: what every teen and parent should know, →ISBN, page 49:
text: One lovely scene in his bachelor apartment-turned-crash-pad is dominated by a 300-pound man having a bad trip on LSD, amid countless other frenzied happenings.
ref: 1982, Michael Starks, Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness:
glosses: A room where one can recover after a bad trip.
Related terms: flophouse
punk house
craythur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cratur
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of creature.
Senses: examples: text: Now Tim had a sort o' the tipplin' way
With a love of the liquor poor Tim was born
And to help him on with his work each day
ref: 1850 (approx.), Anonymous, Finnegan's Wake
roman: He'd a drop of the craythur ev'ry morn.
glosses: Whiskey.
examples: text: [...] why, at home, if a craythur hasn't a hat to pull, he'll pull the hair off his head, sooner than not make a bow.
Shut ye'r mouth, do, and go on, ye little ill-reared winkle; [...]
ref: 1857, Anna Maria Hall, A woman's story, page 215:
text: Then he answered thickly, "Och, sure, and it's far enough from well it is, yer honour, and it's far enough from well yer honour would be if he'd seen the soights that Pathrick Moriarty, as harmless a craythur as ever was born, has seen thi noight."
ref: 1901, “Water-Kelpies”, in Country Life, page 471:
glosses: Alternative form of creature.
crossed fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fingers crossed (“hopefully, wishfully”).
crossed fingers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A superstitious hand gesture of good luck.
Related terms: cross one's fingers
culturgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culturgens
Etymology: Introduced by Charles Lumsden and Edward O. Wilson in their book Genes, Mind, and Culture: The Coevolutionary Process (1981); from culture + -gen.
Senses: synonyms: meme
glosses: One of the propagating mutating cultural units that form the subject of memetics.
wikipedia: Charles J. Lumsden
E. O. Wilson
Richard Dawkins