cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intubate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɪntʃʊbeɪt/
note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɪntʃəbeɪt/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɪntjʊbeɪt/
note: General American, yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈɪntʊbeɪt/
note: General American, yod-dropping
ipa: /ˈɪntəbeɪt/
Forms: form: intubates
form: intubating
form: intubated
form: intubated
Etymology: From in- + tube + -ate (verb-forming suffix). First appears c. 1612 in the publications of Simon Sturtevant.
Senses: examples: text: The doctor is about to intubate the patient's trachea.
text: you have no right to withhold it, unless you intubate. Intubation of the larynx I have never tried, but I have a tube ready in my office ever since I read an article on it a short time ago
ref: 1886 July 6, J. K. White, “HINTS IN PRACTICE”, in Canadian Practitioner:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To insert a tube into.
Derived terms: intubation
intubator
nonintubated
reintubate
unintubated
fixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
Forms: form: fixtures
Etymology: Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture.
Senses: examples: text: The residence was sold with fixtures and fittings.
topics: law
glosses: Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
examples: text: I had to tell her all about my illness, and in return I had to endure a very long and circumstantial account of her rheumatism and her asthmatical ailments, which fortunately was interrupted by the noisy arrival of the children from the kitchen, where they had paid a visit to old Stine, a fixture in the house.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
text: Jones and Palin became fixtures on the booming TV satire scene, writing for, among other BBC shows, The Frost Report (1966-67) and The Kathy Kirby Show (1964), as well as the ITV comedy sketch series Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967-69).
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
text: […] the guest list, which hovers around 200, may include Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Oprah (a fixture at any self-respecting million-dollar wedding), Donald Trump Jr and the country singer Jewel.
ref: 2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 22:
glosses: A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
glosses: A lighting unit; a luminaire.
glosses: A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A scheduled match.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
Derived terms: fixtureless
light fixture
fixture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
ipa: /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
Forms: form: fixtures
form: fixturing
form: fixtured
form: fixtured
Etymology: Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture.
Senses: examples: text: The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models.
glosses: To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
examples: text: Other items to be discussed include fixturing from 2012 onwards, preparations for this year's scheduled Champions Trophy and the Indian Cricket League's bid for recognition from the ICC.
ref: 2009 January 30, AAP, “Zimbabwe cricket head Chingoka refused entry to Australia”, in Herald Sun:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To schedule (a match).
fatso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæ.t͡soʊ/
ipa: /ˈfæt.soʊ/
Forms: form: fatsos
form: fatsoes
Etymology: From fats + -o.
Senses: examples: text: He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 113:
glosses: Someone who is overweight.
dipshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪpʃɪt/
Forms: form: dipshits
Etymology: Compound of dip (“foolish person”) + shit. First attested in c. 1960s.
Senses: examples: text: That guy at work is such a dipshit!
text: "First place, I never trust them little dipshit street boys," Barton growled.
ref: 1967, Robin Moore, The Country Team, page 88:
text: But here’s something you should know: we’re barely one step ahead of hackers at all times that when you idiots lose your phone, your information doesn’t wind up the hands of guys like Gary.
Hey, I’m Gary. Thanks for losing your phone, dipshit.
ref: 2016 March 13, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Encryption”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
text: Just saying, I'm sure a lot of republican dipshits like to watch it, and personally even if I do have an IUD I'm not gonna risk my life and health unless I get paid enough to fly across (or leave) the country for a safe and legal abortion.
ref: 2022 June 24, Siri Dahl, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022:
text: Don't think I'll find forgiveness as fast as mom did
And God, I love you, but you're such a dipshit
ref: 2022, “Emails I Can't Send”, performed by Sabrina Carpenter:
text: “I used a midwestern euphemism. I said that he was prancing and dancing around like a dipshit. That is exactly what it was,” Walz said, prompting cheers from the crowd.
ref: 2024 October 26, Joan E. Greve, quoting Tim Walz, “‘It’s going to be tight’: Tim Walz rallies Pennsylvanians for final stretch in Biden’s home town”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The gunman had anti-ICE messaging carved on the bullets he used. What, precisely, did I get wrong, dipshit?
ref: 2025 September 24, JD Vance, Twitter:
glosses: A stupid, obnoxious, or undesirable person.
Derived terms: dipshidiot
dipshittery
dipshitty
Related terms: dipstick
dumbshit
dinnertime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinnertimes
form: dinner time
form: dinner-time
Etymology: From dinner + time.
Senses: examples: text: An hour before dinnertime, steam the mazarine in the usual way, and when done, turn it out of the mould on its dish […]
ref: 1846, Charles Elmé Francatelli, The Modern Cook, page 243:
text: By the thirteenth century mustard was a staple of Paris saucemakers, who peddled the product on the street every evening around dinnertime.
ref: 2004, Vince Staten, Why Is The Foul Pole Fair?, page 204:
synonyms: dinner hour
dining time
glosses: The time when dinner takes place, as
synonyms: dinner hour
dining time
glosses: The time when dinner takes place, as:
The midday mealtime as the main one: lunchtime.
synonyms: dinner hour
dining time
glosses: The time when dinner takes place, as:
The evening mealtime as the main one: suppertime.
Hypernyms: mealtime
Coordinate terms: breakfast-time
teatime
crayons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crayon
crayons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crayon
cesspool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛsˌpuːl/
Forms: form: cesspools
form: cess pool
form: sesspool
Etymology: From earlier sesspool. Origin uncertain.
Perhaps from Italian cesso (“privy, toilet”) + English pool. Alternatively, an alteration of English dialectal suspool, from suss, soss (“puddle; mire”) + pool. Another possible derivation is from a folk etymology (influence from pool) from earlier cesperalle, alteration of Middle English suspiral, from Middle French souspirail (“air hole”), from soupirer, souspirer (“to sigh, breathe”), from Latin suspirare.
Senses: glosses: An underground pit where sewage is held.
examples: text: Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
ref: 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter I (Mr. Sherlock Holmes), page 2:
glosses: A filthy place.
Synonyms: cesspit
gongpit
Coordinate terms: septic tank
Derived terms: cesspipe
bitsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtsi/
rhymes: -ɪtsi
Forms: form: bitsier
form: bitsiest
form: bitty
Etymology: From bits + -y.
Senses: glosses: Fragmented.
examples: text: The models are all made to scale — twelve inches for our big new battle wagons and the carriers; the older battleships and the others, cruisers, destroyers, get littler and littler, down to the bitsiest ones.
ref: 1994, Josette Dermody Wingo, Mother Was a Gunner's Mate: World War II in the Waves, published 2000, page 25:
text: 1995, J.D. Robb (Nora Roberts), Glory in Death, 2000, unnumbered page,
He never leaves anything out, not the tiniest memo, the bitsiest note.
text: “It won′t be making the bitsiest bit of difference, Fielder.[…]”
ref: 2001, Eugene Cunningham, Gun Bulldogger, page 34:
glosses: Very small, tiny.
Derived terms: itsy-bitsy
itsy bitsy
itsy bitsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: itsy bitsier
form: itsy bitsiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of itsy-bitsy.
pucker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puckers up
form: puckering up
form: puckered up
form: puckered up
Senses: examples: text: Pucker up your lips!
text: Pucker up and gimme a kiss!
text: Sucker love is heaven sent / You pucker up, our passion's spent
ref: 1998, “Every You Every Me”, in Without You I’m Nothing, performed by Placebo:
glosses: To contract a facial feature so as to form wrinkles; used especially of the lips when whistling or kissing.
headhunter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdˌhʌntɚ/
Forms: form: headhunters
form: head hunter
Etymology: From head + hunter.
Senses: examples: text: Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who practises headhunting, the taking and preserving of a person's head after killing them.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: recruiter, talent scout
text: A headhunter called me out of the blue with an offer I couldn't refuse.
topics: business
glosses: One who recruits skilled personnel, especially executive-level ones, for a company.
examples: text: Thankfully, there aren't many headhunters in the modern game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher who throws at the batter's head.
examples: text: He is known as a goon and a headhunter.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A player who uses a hockey stick to attempt to strike an opponent's head.
Related terms: word: headhunt
word: headhunted
word: headhunting
sense: baseball pitching
word: duster
hacksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hacksaws
form: hack saw
Etymology: From hack + saw. Attested since 1867.
Senses: glosses: A saw, with a blade that is put under tension, for cutting metal
hacksaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hacksaws
form: hacksawing
form: hacksawed
form: hacksawed
form: hacksawn
form: hack saw
Etymology: From hack + saw. Attested since 1867.
Senses: examples: text: This bolt is so rusted I'll have to hacksaw it off.
glosses: To cut with a hacksaw.
speciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speciousnesses
Etymology: From specious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being specious.
glosses: The result or product of being specious.
wet check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet checks
Senses: glosses: a condom.
Commonwealth Games
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The station will also play a key role in next summer's Commonwealth Games, which is scheduled to begin on July 28 2022. The University of Birmingham is one of several sites across the region which will host major events. In the university's case, squash and hockey matches will be played there.
ref: 2021 July 28, Peter Plisner, “The race to the Games has begun”, in RAIL, number 936, page 54:
glosses: A sporting event, somewhat like the Olympic Games, held every four years and involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations.
Commonwealth of Nations
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Commonwealth of Nations
Senses: synonyms: British Commonwealth
Commonwealth
British Commonwealth of Nations
glosses: An association of independent, sovereign states most of which formerly constituted the British Empire.
British Commonwealth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the British Commonwealth
Senses: glosses: The Commonwealth of Nations.
electronic organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A keyboard musical instrument, resembling a spinet, or upright, piano in size and general shape, in which tone is generated by electronic circuits and radiated by loudspeaker.
Synonyms: electric organ
electrophonic organ
nibbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nibblers
Etymology: From nibble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But whether unripe years did want conceit, / Or he refused to take her figured proffer, / The tender nibbler would not touch the bait, / But smile and jest at every gentle offer:
ref: 1599, anonymous author, “Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook”, in The Passionate Pilgrim:
text: The dog's lean, powerful body dashed down the hill. When the dust of his violence cleared, a sea of dirty white backs was wobbling up the hill, a black-and-white quickness darting now here, now there, straightening the line, hurrying a nibbler, urging a straggler.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, Chapter:
text: 1949, Guiding Family Spending, U.S. Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication No. 661, p. 10, https://books.google.ca/books?id=wxsuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
In carrying out a spending plan, accounts are usually most important for controlling small recurring expenditures as for newspapers, magazines, tobacco, movies, soft drinks, ice cream, and meals eaten out. Many families look upon these as incidentals and may treat them as unimportant. But they may be nibblers, eating away day by day money that is wanted for other things.
glosses: Someone who nibbles (in various senses).
glosses: A tool for cutting sheet metal.
glosses: A fish of the sea chub subfamily Girellinae.
examples: text: A-Copier. MegaSoft, Ltd. Full Featured Nibbler.
ref: 1988, The Software Encyclopedia, volume 2, page 688:
text: We used a program call Fast Hack 'Em. It had what was called a 'Nibbler'. It had the copy protection schemes for various games stored on one of the program disks, and you would load that up before copying the game. It then 'nibbled' away the protection from the data as it was copied.
ref: a. 2005, Kleener (Internet forum user) quoted in 2005, Fiona Macmillan, New Directions in Copyright Law (page 234)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program for copying floppy disks at a low level (typically one bit at a time) to circumvent protection systems.
Derived terms: bit nibbler
wonderland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌndəˌlænd/
ipa: /ˈwʌndɚˌlænd/
Forms: form: wonderlands
Etymology: From wonder + land.
Senses: examples: text: Where other trav'lers, fraught with terror, roam, Lo! Bruce in Wonder-land is quite at home.
ref: 1790 J. Wolcot Compl. Epist. to Bruce 332, in Wks. (1812) II. 368
text: It's a geological wonderland, with great exposures of colorful and varied sedimentary rocks.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
glosses: A place full of wonder or marvels.
examples: Typically only used in tulpamancy circles.
qualifier: multiplicity slang
glosses: Synonym of headspace.
synonyms: word: headspace
Coordinate terms: Oz
Lovecraft Country
Derived terms: Alice in Wonderland
winter wonderland
groaning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊnɪŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊnɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English gronynge (“groaning”), from Old English grānung; equivalent to groan + -ing. Conflated with Middle English gronende, present participle of gronen, from Old English grāniende, present participle of grānian (“to groan”). Analyzable as groan + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That groans.
examples: text: We sat down to a groaning table and feasted all evening.
glosses: Heavily laden, as if to creak under the strain.
Derived terms: groaningly
ungroaning
groaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊnɪŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: groanings
Etymology: From Middle English gronynge (“groaning”), from Old English grānung; equivalent to groan + -ing. Conflated with Middle English gronende, present participle of gronen, from Old English grāniende, present participle of grānian (“to groan”). Analyzable as groan + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: From the nearby rail yards came clangings, groanings, chuggings.
ref: 1997, Helen Papanikolas, A Greek Odyssey in the American West, page 5:
glosses: A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil.
glosses: Ellipsis of groaning time (“childbirth, labour”).
Derived terms: sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning ale
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning beer
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning board
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning bread
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning cake
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning cheese
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning drink
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning malt
sense: labour, childbirth
word: groaning pie
groaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹoʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹəʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊnɪŋ
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊnɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English gronynge (“groaning”), from Old English grānung; equivalent to groan + -ing. Conflated with Middle English gronende, present participle of gronen, from Old English grāniende, present participle of grānian (“to groan”). Analyzable as groan + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of groan
pregnant pause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pregnant pauses
Senses: glosses: A pause that gives the impression that it will be followed by something significant.
stela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstiːlə/
rhymes: -iːlə
Forms: form: stelas
form: stelae
form: steles
Etymology: From Latin stēla, from Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē). Doublet of stele.
Senses: examples: text: In the courts of the houses lie many round stelæ, or pillars, once placed on the graves of the Athenians.
ref: 1776, R. Chandler, Trav. Greece, VIII 35:
text: He erected a stela, with an inscription in the sacred character, to commemorate his successes.
ref: 1837, J. G. Wilkinson, Manners & Customs of the Anc. Egyptians, I ii 101:
text: The upright blocks or stelas are among the most curious parts of the present ruin.
ref: 1876, S. Manning, Land of Pharaohs, section 203:
text: Thothmes I. set up two stelæ near the Euphrates.
ref: 1893, E. A. T. W. Budge, Mummy, section 30:
text: A shore excursion had been arranged for the passengers who were interested in visiting the stelae of San Ignacio.
ref: 1966, Paul Bowles, Up Above the World:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: an obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone
Synonyms: stele
interdigitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: interdigitates
form: interdigitating
form: interdigitated
form: interdigitated
Etymology: From inter- + digitate.
Senses: glosses: To fold or lock together, as when the fingers of one hand are laced between those of the other.
examples: text: Figure 1.4 shows a modern thyristor encapsulated in a presspack housing and Figure 1.5 illustrates a typical interdigitated gate geometry in a high-power thyristor; the black areas indicate silicon ( Si0₂ ) and the white areas the Al metallisation.
ref: 1998, J. Arrillaga, High Voltage Direct Current Transmission, page 6:
glosses: To become folded or locked together, like the fingers of a folded hand.
examples: text: Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
glosses: To intermingle; to present alternately items from one group and then another.
Derived terms: interdigitation
Related terms: collate
finger joint
XOR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛks ˈɔɹ/
/ˈzɔɹ/
Forms: form: XORs
Etymology: Short for exclusive or.
Senses: examples: text: The XOR of (0,0) is 0; (0,1) is 1; (1,0) is 1; and (1,1) is 0.
text: The XOR gate can take only two inputs at a time and give an output. The output of the XOR gate is high (1) only when its two inputs are dissimilar i.e., if one of them is low (0) then other one will be high (1).
ref: 2025 August 30, “Logic Gates - Definition, Types, Uses”, in GeeksforGeeks, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The connective "exclusive or". One way to state its meaning in plain English is "if either A or B, but not if both."
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A logic gate that implements "exclusive or".
examples: text: XOR can be used to add bits without carrying.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".
Synonyms: exclusive OR
XOR gate
ex-or
NOT equivalence
XOR
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɛks ˈɔɹ/
/ˈzɔɹ/
Forms: form: XORs
form: XORing
form: XORed
form: XORed
Etymology: Short for exclusive or.
Senses: examples: text: The XORed sequence has the same period as the sequence that is not XORed.
ref: 1989, IEEE Communications Society, Conference Record:
text: XORing different constants into the four s-boxes in such a cipher has exactly the same effect as XORing a single constant into each round function output.
ref: 1998, Stafford Tavares, Henk Meijer, Selected Areas in Cryptography:
text: There are weak keys in the sense that their use by foisting chosen plaintexts can be proved, which could be interesting for chip cards with a ‘burnt-in key’. First of all, however, these keys can be easily avoided—one only needs to XOR all subkeys with the hexadecimal number 0x0dae—and second, the probability that such a key can be caught is 2⁻⁹⁶; that is about one out of 10²⁹ randomly selected keys (this number even has a name: 100 quadrilliards).
ref: 2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Life After DES: New Methods, New Attacks”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 3 (IDEA: A Special-Class Algoritmh), subsection 5 (Cryptanalyzing IDEA), page 239:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To perform the XOR function upon.
Synonyms: ⊻
Related terms: AND
OR
NAND
NOR
NOT
XNOR
macrofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrofaunae
form: macrofaunas
Etymology: From macro- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: Any large animal that is not quite large enough to be considered megafauna, but larger than microfauna. Some include larger species of insects and annelids in this group.
Derived terms: macrofaunal
meiofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meiofaunas
form: meiofaunae
Etymology: From meio- + fauna. Meio- is from Ancient Greek μεῖον (meîon, “less”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
synonyms: meiobenthos
glosses: A group of marine or freshwater, typically benthic organisms that are intermediate in terms of size between macrofauna and microfauna, and which can pass through a 1 mm sieve, but are retained by a 45 μm sieve.
Derived terms: meiofaunal
microfauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfaunae
form: microfaunas
Etymology: From micro- (“small, tiny”) + fauna (“animals”).
Senses: glosses: The smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc.
Derived terms: microfaunal
Related terms: microbiota
microflora
mesofauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesofaunae
form: mesofaunas
Etymology: From meso- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: Any animal of intermediate size, typically invertebrates, such as bivalves, arthropods, insects, and annelids.
Derived terms: mesofaunal
Reggie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɛdʒi
Etymology: From Reg + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday, Buzzfeed published a long piece by Reggie Ugwu, looking at how a variant of instrumental electronic music had become the favoured soundtrack of the “alt-right”, the US-based far-right movement. Within hours, a website whose strapline declares it is “destroying Jewish tyranny” had picked up on the piece.
ref: 2016 December 14, Michael Hann, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Jul 2018:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Reginald.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Regina.
Indianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indianisms
Etymology: From Indian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: What this means is that academic interest in Indian English lexis has been largely confined to "Indianisms".
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 305:
hyponyms: babuism
glosses: A word or phrase peculiar to a language spoken in India, such as Indian English.
glosses: The idealized portrayal of indigenous people as national heroes.
infix notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Notation where operators appear between operands, for example a+b
Related terms: Polish notation
prefix notation
reverse Polish notation
postfix notation
Pekingese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːz
Forms: form: Pekinese
form: Pekingnese
form: pekinese
form: pekingese
Etymology: From Peking + -ese; Peking is the Postal Map romanization of Beijing.
Senses: glosses: The Beijing dialect of Chinese, as distinct from standardized Mandarin.
Synonyms: Beijingese
Beijingnese
Pekingese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːz
Forms: form: Pekingese A Pekingese dog
form: Pekingeses
form: Pekingese
form: Pekinese
form: Pekingnese
form: pekinese
form: pekingese
Etymology: From Peking + -ese; Peking is the Postal Map romanization of Beijing.
Senses: glosses: A small toy dog from China.
glosses: Synonym of Beijinger (“person from Beijing”).
synonyms: word: Beijinger
extra: person from Beijing
Derived terms: peekapoo
Pekingese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːz
Forms: form: Pekinese
form: Pekingnese
form: pekinese
form: pekingese
Etymology: From Peking + -ese; Peking is the Postal Map romanization of Beijing.
Senses: glosses: of or related to Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China
Synonyms: Beijing
Beijingese
Beijingnese
Peiping
Pekin
Peking
cougher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒfə/
ipa: /ˈkɔfɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɑfɚ/
homophone: coffer
rhymes: -ɒfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coughers
Etymology: From cough + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A frequent cougher in a church sets nearly the whole congregation to coughing.
ref: 1873, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 31, page 322:
text: The widow turned her usually unemotional face to the cougher, and the concern on her countenance showed that the innuendo of the reverend alarmist had reached even her. But the organist's pretty eyes had forestalled her, and the glance she sent to the cougher said plainly: 'You want my care and attention.'
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 161:
text: In New York and Chicago, laws were passed making it illegal to sneeze or cough in public without using a handkerchief. Police dutifully hauled sneezers and coughers to court, where they were given stiff fines.
ref: 2002, Joy Hakim, War, Peace, and All that Jazz, page 22:
glosses: A person who coughs.
coughers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cougher
indurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊɹət/
Forms: form: indurates
form: indurating
form: indurated
form: indurated
Senses: examples: text: The ear, small and shapely, the arch of the foot, the curve in mouth and nostril, even the indurated hand dyed to the orange-tawny of the toucan's bill, a hand telling alike of the halyards and tar-bucket […] all this strangely indicated a lineage in direct contradiction to his lot.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: The superficial temporal artery (or arteries) may become exquisitely tender to the touch and visibly indurated.
ref: 1970, Oliver Sacks, chapter 1, in Migraine, London: Picador, published 1995, page 15:
glosses: To harden or to grow hard.
examples: text: Oh, no ! it is the curse of revolutionary calamities to indurate the heart — the revolutionary impulse is too swift to admit of a pause at the sight of individual misery — the tempest is too loud to hear the wailings of the wretch that perishes beneath its billows […]
ref: 1801, Helen Maria Williams, Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French ..., Volume 1:
glosses: To make callous or unfeeling.
examples: text: The afternoon was not particularly warm: our noses and eyes were running; his were dry. He was evidently indurated against natural hardships.
ref: 1992, Saul Bellow, “Winter in Tuscany”, in It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future, New York: Viking, published 1994, page 257:
glosses: To inure; to strengthen; to make hardy or robust.
Synonyms: inure
Derived terms: induration
indurative
indurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊɹeɪt/
ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊɹət/
Forms: form: more indurate
form: most indurate
Senses: examples: text: The doctor removed a lot of indurate skin from his wound.
glosses: Hardened.
examples: text: Now are they indurate ⁊ tough as Pharao ⁊ will not bow vnto any ryghte waie oꝛ oꝛdꝛe.
ref: 1528 October 12 (Gregorian calendar), William Tyndale, “A Compendious Rehersall of That Which Goeth Before”, in The Obediẽce of a Christen Man […], [Antwerp]: [Johannes Hoochstraten], →OCLC, folio clvj, recto:
glosses: Obstinate, unfeeling, callous.
Derived terms: indurateness
induratize
subindurate
relictual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relictual
form: most relictual
Etymology: From relict + -ual.
Senses: examples: text: Climatic warming during the past 10,000 years led to the extirpation of most low-elevation pika populations, producing the modern-day relictual distribution of the species.
ref: 2003 December, Erik A. Beever, “Persistence of pikas in two low-elevation national monuments in the western United States”, in Sierra Nature Notes, volume 3, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2005:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a relict.
Synonyms: remnant
surviving
Related terms: relict
Otaheite apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Otaheite apples
Senses: synonyms: ambarella
great hog-plum
glosses: A fruit native to Pacific islands such as Tahiti.
synonyms: ambarella
glosses: The tree that bears this fruit, Spondias dulcis (syn. S. cytherea)
slugabed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌɡəbɛd/
ipa: /ˈslʌɡəˌbɛd/
ipa: /ˈsləɡ-/
Forms: form: slugabeds
form: slug-a-bed
form: sluggabed
form: slugabug
Etymology: From slug (“(obsolete) to move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle”) + abed (“in bed”).
Senses: examples: text: Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
text: [O]n rising one morning, I entered the cabin, and found Oriana, as usual, up before me, for I always was a sad slug-a-bed, […]
ref: 1855, William Hurton, chapter XXIII, in The Doomed Ship; or, The Wreck of the Arctic Regions, London: Willoughby & Co., […], →OCLC, page 103:
text: You men have had baths, while Aunt Hilda and I haven't had a chance to get clean for fear of waking you slugabeds.
ref: 1980 August, Robert A[nson] Heinlein, “‘—A Wedding Ring is Not a Ring in My Nose—’”, in The Number of the Beast, New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine, →ISBN; republished as The Number of the Beast (Fawcett Gold Medal Book), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, July 1982, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Sometimes the dedicated slugabed is rudely awakened by the yelling of builders, the bustle of housemates, the entreaties of toddlers or even dawn's rosy figures coming in at the window. These impediments to sleep must be blocked out if you are to enjoy your morning doze.
ref: 2004, Tom Hodgkinson, “8 a.m.: Waking Up is Hard to Do”, in How to Be Idle, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; How to Be Idle: A Loafer’s Manifesto, paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2007, →ISBN, page 12:
synonyms: word: late riser
word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: A lazy person who lies in bed after the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.
engrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engram
second unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second units
Senses: examples: text: It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.
ref: 2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.
first unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first units
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The team that shoots footage which is of primary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, including all scenes involving actors, or at least stars of the motion picture.
stealth bomber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stealth bombers
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A bomber (military aircraft) with a smaller than usual radar signature, due to its body shape, outer coating, and thermal dissipation.
wikipedia: stealth bomber
Related terms: stealth fighter
cryokinesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːsɪs
Etymology: From cryo- + -kinesis.
Senses: topics: fantasy
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The psychic ability to control and create ice and cold temperatures.
Related terms: cryokinetic
cryokinetics
acedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈsiːdɪə/
Etymology: From Latin acēdia. Doublet of accidie.
Senses: synonyms: accedie
ennui
Weltschmerz
glosses: Spiritual or mental sloth.
synonyms: apathy
indifference
glosses: Apathy; a lack of care or interest; indifference.
synonyms: ennui
accidie
Weltschmerz
glosses: Boredom; a melancholy leading to desperation.
Derived terms: acedious
Related terms: acediast
endosymbiotic theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The theory that mitochondria and chloroplasts, which are organelles of eukaryotic cells, originated as independent organisms.
Related terms: endosymbiont
endosymbiosis
endosymbiotic
symbiosis
symbiotic
endosymbiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + symbiotic.
Senses: examples: text: The person perhaps most responsible for resurrecting and then establishing the serial endosymbiotic theory, thus creating the new field of endocytobiology, is Lynn Margulis, one of the world's foremost authorities on the evolutionary biology of the microbial world and a cofounder with Max Taylor of the Society for Evolutionary Protistology.
ref: 1989 Fall, Arthur Fisher, “The Wheels Within Wheels in the Superkingdom Eucaryotae”, in Mosaic, volume 20, number 3, page 5:
text: The endosymbiotic theory, as it came to be known, rewrote the history of life.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 91:
glosses: Of or pertaining to endosymbiosis.
glosses: That lives within a body or cells of another organism. Forming an endosymbiosis.
Derived terms: endosymbiotically
Related terms: endosymbiont
endosymbiosis
endosymbiotic theory
symbiosis
symbiotic
endosymbiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosymbionts
Etymology: From endo- + symbiont.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that lives within the body or cells of another organism.
Derived terms: photoendosymbiont
Related terms: endosymbiosis
endosymbiotic
endosymbiotic theory
symbiosis
symbiotic
endosymbiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosymbioses
Etymology: From endo- + symbiosis.
Senses: examples: text: Interspecific associations are currently believed to take part in evolution by improving a partner's fitness through integrated endosymbioses or by causing reproductive isolation and subsequent host speciation, such as in the Wolbachia endosymbioses (Nardon and Grenier, 1991; Margulis, 1993a; Bordenstein et al., 2001).
ref: 2003, Abdelaziz Heddi, “5: Endosymbiosis in the Weevil of the Genus Sitophilus: Genetic, Physiological, and Molecular Interactions among Associated Genomes”, in Kostas Bourtzis, Thomas A. Miller, editors, Insect Symbiosis, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 67:
text: 2014, Robert E. Blankenship, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, Wiley Blackwell, 2nd Edition, page 226,
Evidence is now overwhelming that several groups of eukaryotic algae originated from a secondary endosymbiosis, in which a eukaryotic alga was incorporated into a second host (Palmer and Delwiche, 1996; Delwiche and Palmer, 1997; Delwiche, 1999; Keeling, 2010, 2013; Curtis et al., 2012).
text: The second chapter (by David Smith) describes the primary endosymbiosis as an introduction for secondary endosymbioses. He illustrates the origin of primary endosymbiosis, plastid genome evolution, and loss of photosynthesis in some lineages of Archaeplastida.
ref: 2017, “Secondary Endosymbioses”, in Yoshihisa Hirakawa, editor, Advances in Botanical Research, volume 84, Elsevier (Academic Press), page xi:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The condition of living within the body or cells of another organism; an instance of an organism so living.
Derived terms: primary endosymbiosis
secondary endosymbiosis
Related terms: endosymbiogenesis
endosymbiont
endosymbiotic
endosymbiotic theory
symbiosis
symbiotic
arnica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arnicas
Etymology: From translingual Arnica.
Senses: examples: text: His only remark was, "There's some new stuff, cuticura or something, which is better than arnica." Some people have such extraordinary notions of humor.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Arnica, considered to have medicinal properties, especially Arnica montana.
wikipedia: Arnica montana
Derived terms: arnicine
come down with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes down with
form: coming down with
form: came down with
form: come down with
Senses: examples: text: With a scratchy throat and a cough, it feels like I'm coming down with a cold.
text: It is further reported that when tremendously large doses of virus are given intravenously, from 250 to 500 c.c., the animals come down with the disease.
ref: 1917 April 21, George Draper, “Acute Poliomyelitis: Early Diagnosis and Serum Therapy”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 68, number 16, Chicago, Ill., →DOI, page 1153:
glosses: To contract or get (an illness); to show symptoms of.
examples: text: So I diddled around, then came down with the money, and we were finally ready to roll.
ref: 2011, Charley Rosen, The Wizard of Odds:
glosses: To lay down (money) in payment; to pay.
Derived terms: come down with the dust
Related terms: go down with
hostryinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English, from hostry.
Senses: glosses: A hostel or lodgings of temporary nature; entertainment.
fatliquoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fat + liquoring.
Senses: glosses: A process in the production of some leathers in which oils and fats are used to soften the leather, and sometimes to add a fat-soluble dye.
jawsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jawsmiths
Etymology: From jaw + smith.
Senses: examples: text: [Phil LaGassly] had a knack for winning over tough audiences, throwing in little asides and an unscripted joke or two as he went along. […] Andy [LaGassly's speechwriter] would sprinkle in a fair amount of substance here and there, wherever he could, always making sure he came up with a few catchy phrases that were conducive to huzzah; and LaGassly could be counted on to deliver them in exactly the right way. It had been quite an act–the jawsmith and the wordsmith […]
ref: 2002, John Quirt, Jackboots in the Heartland, pages 58–59:
glosses: An orator, especially a demagogue.
examples: text: One professional jaw-smith, who came as the self-appointed messenger of American labor wanted a Chinese-wall tariff, and subsidized ships to carry cargoes one way and ballast the other.
ref: 1891 January 16, Congressional Record, volume 22, 51st Congress, 2nd session, House, page 1476:
text: The evolutions and involutions of a maiden effort at Dress Parade are incomprehensible as ravings of the salaried jawsmith in a labor strike, who has burst into a profuse state of prevarication as the rosy beer-froth mantles his sublime cheek.
ref: 1898, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, volume 29, page 253:
text: Many Wobblies became "jawsmiths," or organizers, themselves. While working at their regular jobs they would hitchhike and boxcar-hop across the country, stopping off at factory towns and lumber camps, speaking and singing at the top of their lungs.
ref: 1986, Pete Seeger, Carry it on!: a history in song and picture of the working men and women of America, page 104:
text: The life of a "jawsmith", as IWW speakers and agitators were called […] Fatigue, burnout and overexhaustion are the diseases of the jawsmith trade.
ref: 1987, Rosalyn Baxandall, editor, Words on Fire: The Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, pages 11, 19:
glosses: A union organizer; later especially of the International Workers of the World.
luminaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluːməˈnɛɹ/
Forms: form: luminaires
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French luminaire. Doublet of luminary.
Senses: synonyms: light fixture
lighting fixture
glosses: An electrical device that contains an electric lamp that provides illumination.
discrepant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskɹɪpənt/
ipa: /dɪˈskɹɛpənt/
Forms: form: more discrepant
form: most discrepant
Etymology: From Latin discrepāns, present participle of discrepō (“to differ in sound, differ, disagree”), from dis- (“apart”) + crepō (“to make a noise, crackle”).
Senses: examples: text: The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]
ref: 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, chapter IV, in The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
text: But the term 'godlike,' […] becomes exceedingly vague, for many gods have flourished in religious history, and their attributes have been discrepant enough.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: Showing difference; inconsistent, dissimilar.
Synonyms: inconsistent
incompatible
at variance
Derived terms: discrepantly
nondiscrepant
serodiscrepant
Related terms: discrepancy
discrepant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪskɹɪpənt/
ipa: /dɪˈskɹɛpənt/
Forms: form: discrepants
Etymology: From Latin discrepāns, present participle of discrepō (“to differ in sound, differ, disagree”), from dis- (“apart”) + crepō (“to make a noise, crackle”).
Senses: examples: text: If you persecute heretics or discrepants, they unite themselves as to a common defence […]
ref: 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
glosses: A dissident.
furth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: A Scots form of forth.
Senses: glosses: out or outside
glosses: Alternative form of forth.
grammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of grammar.
grammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of 'grammer (“Instagrammer”).
hahnium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for the German chemist Otto Hahn (1879–1968), formed as Hahn + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (obsolete) A rejected name for dubnium.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: (obsolete) A rejected name for hassium.