cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
predictably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more predictably
form: most predictably
Etymology: From predictable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Predictably he returned to the scene of his crime, where the police were waiting to arrest him.
text: The wholesale slaughter of thousands of pigs has predictably drawn the protests of animal welfare and rights groups.
ref: 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 324–325:
text: Capello was keen to use Phil Jones, normally a defender, in central midfield - but it was hard work for the Manchester United teenager and his England colleagues in the first half as Spain predictably dominated possession.
ref: 2011 November 12, Phil McNulty, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a manner that can be expected or anticipated.
predictively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more predictively
form: most predictively
Etymology: From predictive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The computer program predictively scheduled the number of employees we'd need each day of the year based on past workloads.
glosses: In the manner of something that attempts to or succeeds in predicting, anticipating or expecting.
predictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪk.tə/
ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪk.tɚ/
Forms: form: predictors
Etymology: From predict + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The rainfall in April is a predictor for the number of mosquitoes in May.
text: The predictor in the traffic-light control circuit tries to figure out how fast to change the lights.
glosses: Something that anticipates, predicts, or foretells.
glosses: A predictor variable.
examples: text: THE only individual in this great city who has had a really easy time is the weather predictor; his only task from day to day has been to announce rain and gales, and through it all he has readily ranked as a prophet with honor in […]
ref: 1900, Fur Trade Review Weekly, volume 28, page 223:
text: The “Annual Register” for 1809 contains an extract from a remarkable letter, dated Bath, April 2nd, in which the writer describes the effects of an extraordinary panic arising from a supposed prophecy of the end of the world. The account is headed “Bath Credulity,” and the writer states:—“[…] Some affirmed that Joanna Southcott was the predictor, others that it was a prophet now living at Midford, near this city, who was with Noah in the Ark, and has been travelling over various parts of the world ever since; but the greater part affixed the name of a female fortune-teller residing at Bath.[…],” etc.
ref: 1907 April 6, “Curiosities of the Calendar”, in Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire Graphic, number 5,072, Cheltenham, Glos, page 8, column 4:
text: The All Over Arkansas Man marks a prediction and calls for the next predictor. If a predictress will do as well, I will proceed to predict that within 10 years from this date there will not be a fly in the state of Arkansas.
ref: 1916 August 25, “All Over Arkansas”, in Arkansas Gazette, Little Rock, Ark., page four, column 7:
text: And I look at, for example, on Weather Service, and thinking only in my lifetime, the evolution of how we have come on Weather Service, where we have been able to get down to that regional level, where people, if you talk to them in communities, I mean, maybe it is not such a bad idea that they think that their local weatherperson is the weather predictor.
ref: 2009, Expanding Climate Services at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Developing the National Climate Service: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, May 5, 2009 (Serial No. 111-24), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 79:
text: So if a prophet isn’t primarily a future predictor, what is a prophet?
ref: 2015, Thomas Calnan Sorenson, Liberating the Bible: A Pastor’s Guided Tour for Seeking Christians, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: One who predicts.
Synonyms: word: predictor
Hyponyms: word: crystal ball
word: horoscope
word: I Ching
word: tarot
Derived terms: branch predictor
Kerrison predictor
predictor variable
predictress
Vickers predictor
Related terms: word: Ouija
word: divination
word: oracle
word: precognition
word: precognitive
word: predict
predictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predictor
predictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: more predictive
form: most predictive
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The amount of rain in April is predictive of the number of mosquitoes in May.
glosses: Useful in predicting.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing a predictor.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Expressing the expected accuracy of a statistical measure or of a diagnostic test.
Derived terms: predictive coding
predictive market
predictive parser
predictive power
predictive programming
predictive text
predictive texting
predictive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɪk.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: predictives
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedictivus, from praedico. Equivalent to predict + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Also, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, predictive conditionals show a high degree of integration thanks to the patterns of verb forms which are characteristic for predictives and which normally do not mix freely with other, non-predictive forms.
ref: 1999, Barbara Dancygier, Conditionals and Prediction: Time, Knowledge and Causation in Conditional Constructions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 76:
text: In contrast, English-speaking children appropriately differentiate if future predictives from when future predictives, a distinction relevant for English but not for, say, German.
ref: 2008, Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Routes to Language: Studies in Honor of Melissa Bowerman, page xiv:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A conditional statement that includes a prediction in the dependent clause (e.g. "if it rains, the game will be cancelled", "give her an inch and she'll take a mile.").
examples: text: However, the posterior predictives combine two sources of information: what we might term the structural effect of WIC participation as well as an unobserved correlation between the errors of the participation and outcome equations.
ref: 2008, Siddhartha Chib, William Griffiths, Bayesian Econometrics, page 160:
text: Alternatively, we can use prior predictives to help define prior distributions.
ref: 2018, Simon Farrell, Stephan Lewandowsky, Computational Modeling of Cognition and Behavior, page 308:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Simulated data generated from a statistical model, based on the estimates for the real data.
reactive armour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactive armours
form: reactive armor
Senses: glosses: Vehicle armor which reacts to the impact of a weapon in such a way as to reduce the damage done, typically by exploding to disrupt the penetrating jet of a shaped-charge weapon.
Synonyms: explosive reactive armour
explosive reactive armor
ERA
Related terms: word: armour
reactive armor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactive armors
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of reactive armour.
detonating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detonate
snarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snarlier
form: snarliest
Etymology: From snarl + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The snarly dog scared me for years until I learned it was very friendly and just lonely.
glosses: Given to snarling or growling.
examples: snarly hair
glosses: Full of snarls.
socialistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more socialistic
form: most socialistic
Etymology: From socialist + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to socialism.
glosses: Having socialist tendencies.
Synonyms: socialist
Socialist
Derived terms: socialistically
sociability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsəʊ.ʃəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.ʃəˈbɪləti/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.sjəˈbɪləti/
Forms: form: sociabilities
Etymology: From Middle French sociabilité, from Latin sociābilis.
Senses: examples: text: He was a true introvert, and his sociability lagged behind others of his age in the school.
glosses: The skill, tendency or property of being sociable or social, of interacting well with others.
socialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socializations
form: socialisation
Etymology: From socialize + -ation or social + -ization.
Senses: examples: Socialization skills are important things to learn in kindergarten.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The process of learning how to live in a way acceptable to one's own society, said especially about children.
examples: text: Forced socialization rarely creates strong friendships, but there are exceptions.
glosses: The act of interacting with others, of being social.
examples: text: socialization of the means of production
glosses: Taking under government control as implementing socialism.
Derived terms: oversocialization
sonatina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonatinas
form: sonatine
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sonatina (literally “small sonata”).
Senses: examples: text: A sonatina usually has 2 or 3 rather short movements. While these movements provide contrasts of tempo and mood, they also complement one another, combining to fulfill the overall plan for a complete work in several parts.
ref: 2005, Willard A. Palmer, First Sonatina Book: Alfred Masterwork Edition - Piano Sheet Music Collection, Alfred Music, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A musical composition resembling a sonata but shorter or simpler.
sonatinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonatina
soul-destroying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soul-destroying
form: most soul-destroying
Senses: examples: text: War is a soul-destroying experience for soldiers: you're never the same easy-going person after you've killed.
text: The daily rat race is soul-destroying: you soon give up all aspirations and just try to survive the boredom.
text: The results of such excessive concentration and production are, sooner or later, huge, soul-destroying Trusts, immense national rivalries, and appalling bloody wars largely occasioned by the existence and ever-growing needs of such insatiable machines.
ref: 1916, Friedrich von Hügel, The German Soul, pages 183–184:
text: A spate of graffiti attacks on West Midlands Railway trains has prompted the operator to warn vandals that they are posing a risk to public health. [...] "At a time when our cleaning teams are working extremely hard in challenging conditions, it is soul-destroying for them to face this pointless additional workload just to get carriages back on the tracks.
ref: 2020 June 3, “Network News: Graffiti attacks on WMR trains”, in Rail, page 15:
text: Generative AI won’t be the end of employment, we are told, only “boring work” – with chatbots helpfully doing all the soul-destroying, repetitive tasks and humans merely supervising them.
ref: 2023 May 8, Naomi Klein, “AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The Harry Potter star, who has not acted in a film since 2018, says she found promotion duties ‘soul-destroying’ but is now ‘maybe the happiest and healthiest I’ve ever been’
ref: 2025 September 23, Catherine Shoard, “Emma Watson explains long break from acting: ‘I do not miss selling things’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Causing erosion of moral fortitude or that eliminates hope or motivation
soignee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: soignée
Senses: glosses: Showing elegance and sophistication.
barrel organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel organs
form: barrel-organ
Senses: examples: text: Poor Mrs. Cranch was bulky, and, breathing asthmatically, had the additional motive for making her remarks unexceptionable and giving them a general bearing, that even her whispers were loud and liable to sudden bursts like those of a deranged barrel-organ.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book (please specify |book=I to VIII):
text: Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: roller organ
street organ
glosses: A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
Derived terms: barrel organist
Related terms: organ grinder
sneakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sneakingly
form: most sneakingly
Etymology: From sneaking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: In the manner of one who is sneaking or sneaky; slyly, covertly.
snoopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: snoopier
form: more snoopy
form: snoopiest
form: most snoopy
Etymology: From snoop + -y.
Senses: glosses: Given to snooping.
Derived terms: snoopily
snoopiness
snoopish
snorkeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snorkelling
Senses: glosses: The act of swimming using a snorkel.
Derived terms: bog snorkeling
snorkeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snorkelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snorkel
slantwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From slant + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: I can see it all now,—the slantwise rain / Of light through the leaves, / The sundown's blaze on her window-pane, / The bloom of her roses under the eaves.
ref: 1858, John Greenleaf Whittier, "Telling the Bees" in The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Vol. I, Narrative and Legendary Poems, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9567/9567-h/9567-h.htm#link2H_4_0045
glosses: diagonal, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes
slantwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slantwise
form: most slantwise
Etymology: From slant + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: […] he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 8, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: Slantwise, a salamander-shaped sea came at them, growing.
ref: 1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 113:
glosses: diagonally, in a direction or orientation between cardinal axes
slash and burn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slash-and-burn
Senses: examples: text: His slash and burn approach to management resulted in few friends and many enemies.
glosses: Rough, coarse and lacking finesse, performed with little skill.
slash and burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slash-and-burn
Senses: glosses: A technique in agriculture where plant matter is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare fields for the next crop.
Related terms: burn-beat
crash and burn
jhum
slash and burn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slashes and burns
form: slashing and burning
form: slashed and burned
form: slashed and burned
form: slashed and burnt
form: slashed and burnt
form: slash-and-burn
Senses: examples: text: We'll slash and burn this week and plant next.
glosses: To apply the slash and burn technique.
slash-and-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slash and burn.
slash-and-burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of slash and burn.
slenderize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slenderizes
form: slenderizing
form: slenderized
form: slenderized
Etymology: From slender + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: There’s no sugar-coating it: this direct-injection V-6 seems a compromise, a slenderized version of the CTS’s 3.6-liter.
ref: 2009 July 26, Lawrence Ulrich, “A Redesign Aims Lower and Yet Comes Up Short”, in New York Times:
text: You will sequence through upper and lower-body exercises that are designed to lift, reduce, and slenderize your hips, thighs, and booty while giving you sleek, sexy arms!
ref: 2011, Amy Cotta, Six Weeks to Skinny Jeans, page 10:
text: When dressing up for a night out, let's not forget the sex appeal, allure, and slenderizing effect of ultrasheer black hosiery under that little black dress.
ref: 2012, Rebecca Apsan, Lessons in Lingerie: Finding Your Perfect Shade of Seduction:
glosses: To make more slender.
slip-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A moccasin is a slip-on shoe.
glosses: Describing a garment that can be pulled on without adjusting fasteners such as buttons or zippers.
slip-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slip-ons
Senses: synonyms: pull-on
glosses: A garment that can be pulled on without adjusting fasteners such as buttons or zippers.
slithery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slitherier
form: slitheriest
Etymology: From Middle English slidery; equivalent to and remodelled as slither + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Do you feel a creeping, shrinking sensation, Watson, when you stand before the serpents in the Zoo, and see the slithery, gliding, venomous creatures, with their deadly eyes and wicked, flattened faces? Well, that’s how Milverton impresses me.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:
text: […] we set out for the cannery. There, men with spiked poles would swarm into the scow, hook each fish under the gills. The creatures would hurtle through the air like silver streaks, landing into the cannery chutes with slithery thumps, and pass on to the ripping knives
ref: 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck:
text: They are doubts from the abyss that drag their cold and slithery bodies across the soul.
ref: 2001, Fernando Pessoa, “Triangular Dream”, in Richard Zenith, transl., The Book of Disquiet, Penguin, page 243:
glosses: That slithers; that moves like a snake.
examples: text: The suspects include mischievous caricatures from the New York art world-a guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on.
ref: 1977 August 29, John Show, “Stilled Life”, in Time:
glosses: Sneaky, underhanded; insincere.
examples: text: But a little while only would he suffer us to halt; then right we turned, up along the ridge, where the way was yet worse than in the dale had been, with rocks and pits hidden in the heather, and slithery slabs of granite.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 26, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC:
text: She led the way, stepping gingerly on the slithery moss.
ref: 1926, Edgar Wallace, chapter 29, in The Black Abbot:
text: Attempted but never conquered was a possible fifth way, the Grand Pilastre, a 5,000-ft. perpendicular wall of gripless, smooth rock and slithery green ice that looms over empty space toward the summit.
ref: 1957 August 19, “How to Lose Fear”, in Time:
glosses: Slippery, causing one to slither.
slithered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slither
slangy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slangier
form: slangiest
Etymology: From slang + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His slangy speech was almost uncomprehensible to anyone over the age of 18.
text: [T]he names of places and horses and slangy technicalities of the turf, had interlarded the poor girl's brain-sick babble; […]
ref: 1862 January – 1863 January, M[ary] E[lizabeth] Braddon, “Fighting the Battle”, in Aurora Floyd. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1863, →OCLC, page 224:
synonyms: word: slangular
antonyms: nonslangy
glosses: Including or given to slang.
glosses: Loud in dress, manner, and conversation; flashy, vulgar.
slam-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slam-dances
Senses: glosses: A form of dancing where participants intentionally collide.
slam-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slam-dances
form: slam-dancing
form: slam-danced
form: slam-danced
form: slam dance
Senses: glosses: To dance in this style.
slouchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slouchier
form: slouchiest
Etymology: From slouch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: His slouchy posture led to back problems.
glosses: Given to slouching.
glosses: floppy; baggy
Derived terms: slouchily
slummy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslʌmi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: slummier
form: slummiest
Etymology: From slum + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Cars and unemployment increased. Council houses took on a slummier look.
ref: 2003, Alasdair Gray, “Miss Kincaid's Autumn”, in Every Short Story, Canongate, published 2012, page 745:
text: The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the safely marked general highways of the day, but the adventure of the special, dimly audible call that comes to those whose ears are open within as well as without, she has had to make her way alone, through difficulties not commonly encountered, "through slummy, muddy streets"; she has known the dark night of the soul, Dante's "dark wood, midway in the journey of our life," and the sorrows of the pits of hell[.]
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 21:
glosses: Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.
slipcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɪpkeɪs/
Forms: form: slipcases
Etymology: From slip + case.
Senses: glosses: A box, open on one end, for keeping a set of books together.
Derived terms: slipcased
slipcasing
slipcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipcase
slow-motion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Slow-motion replay seems jerky because there really aren't enough frames.
glosses: slower than regular speed.
slow motion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A technique of film, photography, and video to stretch time and allow visibility of things normally happening too fast to be conveniently examined.
examples: text: Without this foresight, many more structures would now be suffering the fate of the viaduct at Nuneham, which was literally collapsing in plain sight (albeit in extreme slow motion).
ref: 2023 June 28, Sir Michael Holden, “Comment: 'There will be more Nunehams'”, in RAIL, number 986, page 3:
glosses: Movement at a slow pace.
Synonyms: slo-mo
slowmo
Derived terms: digital slow motion
slow-motion
slow-motional
trainwreck in slow motion
slumberous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slumberous
form: most slumberous
Etymology: From slumber + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: word: slumbery
word: somnolent
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: Sleepy, drowsy.
synonyms: word: hypnotic
word: somnolent
word: dormitive
word: hypnic
word: hypnotic
word: slumberous
word: somniferous
word: somnific
word: somnolent
word: soporiferous
word: soporific
word: soporous
word: stupefacient
word: stupefactive
word: tranquilizing
word: vapid
glosses: Sleep-inducing.
Derived terms: slumberously
slumberousness
slumbrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slumbrous
form: most slumbrous
Senses: examples: text: Night is worn,
And the morn
Rises from the slumbrous mass.
ref: 1794, William Blake, Introduction (Songs of Experience), lines 13-14-15
text: 1935, P. G. Wodehouse, 'Blandings Castle', Herbert Jenkins, 1957, page 179.
When she had entered his employment a few days before, he had noticed, of course, that she had a sort of ethereal beauty; but then every girl you see in Hollywood has either ethereal beauty or roguish gaminerie or a dark, slumbrous face that hints at hidden passion.
glosses: Alternative form of slumberous.
Derived terms: slumbrously
slumbrousness
slaphappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæpˌhæpi/
Forms: form: slaphappier
form: slaphappiest
form: slap-happy
Etymology: From slap + happy.
Senses: glosses: Incoherent from being struck; punch drunk.
glosses: In a humorous mood as a result of fatigue; silly from being tired.
glosses: Irresponsibly free.
airmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From airman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Skill in and knowledge of the work of navigating and operating an aircraft.
punctuating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of punctuate
high-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-handed
form: most high-handed
form: highhanded
Senses: examples: text: Critics accuse her [von der Leyen] of serious missteps over the pandemic, the Gaza war, alleged cronyism, – and of having a high-handed manner.
ref: 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Using power or authority without proper consideration for the feelings or rights of others.
Synonyms: arrogant
autocratic
overbearing
Derived terms: high-handedly
high-handedness
high-hat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-hat
form: most high-hat
Senses: examples: text: If she hasn't time for this or that, if she refuses to make or keep appointments, if her face does not greet all comers with a sweet and charming smile, then the word is passed around that ‘So-and-So is getting high-hat and up-stage.’
ref: 1929 December, Betty Boone, “The Price of this Stardom”, in Screenland, page 22:
synonyms: word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
glosses: disdainful; haughty
high-hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-hats
Senses: glosses: A person who acts in a superior manner.
examples: text: A young Chinese woman with a plait down to her waist bowed to them both and then continued cutting up the bricks of opium into smaller pieces. […] "High-hats. Five dollars a pound," he explained to Mannion, pointing to the large pills or 'pocks' that the girl held over a candle flame at the end of a long needle.
ref: 2011, Dominic Lagan, The Coming Storm:
synonyms: word: aunti/aunti Emma
word: big O
word: chandu
word: Chinese tobacco
word: dopium
word: dream gun
word: dream stick
word: fi-do-nie
word: gee
word: God's medicine
word: gondola
word: goric
word: guma
word: hop/hops
word: meconium
word: midnight oil
word: mud
word: ope
word: pen yan
word: pin gon
word: pox
word: skee
word: toxy
word: when-shee
word: yen
word: ze
word: zero
glosses: A large pill of opium for smoking.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A low camera mount without tripod legs.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative form of hi-hat.
high-hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: high-hats
form: high-hatting
form: high-hatted
form: high-hatted
Senses: examples: text: I don't high-hat technical words, because I know there a lot of things that can't be said any other way, but the doctor's lengthy explanation simply boiled down to this, that[…].
ref: 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: To snub or treat condescendingly.
Related terms: hi-hat
effective energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effective energies
Senses: examples: text: Consequently the ‘intuitive' theory can be taken directly into the quantum theory of waves, including the nonlinear effective energy density . . .
ref: 1995, Arthur I. Miller, Early Quantum Electrodynamics:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy of a heterogeneous (polychromatic) photon beam calculated as if it were monochromatic
hi-hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hi-hats
Senses: examples: text: This hi-hat drum beat sounds really cute!
glosses: A pair of cymbals as part of a drum kit that clash together when actuated by the foot pedal.
Hypernyms: sock cymbal
Related terms: low-hat
clanger
high-hat
low-sock
tuyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuya
tuya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuyas
Etymology: Coined by Canadian volcanologist Bill Matthews in 1947. Named after Tuya Butte, in British Columbia.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: table mountain
mesa
butte
glosses: Table mountain formed during subglacial volcanic eruptions, consisting primarily of a mound of pyroclastic palagonitic tuff, lava delta hyaloclastites, and pillow lavas erupted subaqueously in an englacial lake, capped by a resistant layer of subaerially-emplaced lava.
wikipedia: American Journal of Science
Bill Matthews
Elsevier
Quaternary Science Reviews
Tuya Butte
Related terms: tindar
móberg
glaciovolcanism
coltish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coltish
form: most coltish
Etymology: From Middle English coltyssh. By surface analysis, colt + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Commeth he in the morning to do his dutie and bid thee good morrow, belching sowre and smelling strongly of wine, which the day before he drunke at the taverne with companions like himselfe? seeme to know nothing. Senteth he of sweete perfumes and costly pomanders? Hold thy peace and say nothing. These are the means to tame and breake a wilde and coltish youth.
ref: 1603, “The Education of Children”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals written by the learned philosopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London, page 16:
text: Plants rais’d with tenderness are seldom strong,
Man’s coltish disposition asks the thong [i.e. whip],
And without discipline the fav’rite child,
Like a neglected forrester runs wild.
ref: 1782, William Cowper, “The Progress of Error”, in Poems,, London: J. Johnson, page 59:
text: […] the batsmen were running and stretching bats, and the ball flying away, flying back, and others after it, and still the batsmen running, till it seemed that the ball had escaped control and was leading the fielders on a coltish innings of its own, defiant of bowlers.
ref: 1885, George Meredith, chapter 12, in Diana of the Crossways, volume 3, London: Chapman & Hall, pages 231–232:
glosses: Resembling a colt, especially:
Lively, playful and undisciplined (often in a manner judged to be immature).
synonyms: exuberant
frisky
frolicsome
high-spirited
spirited
unrestrained
antonyms: serious
sober
examples: text: He had a tangle of shock hair, the colour of wool; his mouth was a grin; although as strong as a horse, he looked neither heavy nor yet adroit, only leggy, coltish, and in the road.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Hunter’s Family”, in The Silverado Squatters, London: Chatto & Windus, page 138:
text: ‘Darling boy, how are you?’ she said. ‘Do you know, you’re beginning to look rather lovely in a coltish kind of way. Don’t you think so, Otto?’
ref: 1928, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 3, in Decline and Fall, London: Chapman & Hall:
glosses: Resembling a colt, especially:
Tall, thin and awkward (especially of an older child or adolescent).
synonyms: gangly
Derived terms: coltishly
coltishness
suya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suyas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hausa suya.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth started eating her suya, her eyes on my face.
ref: 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 186:
glosses: A marinated spicy kebab from Nigeria.
suyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suya
unit fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit fractions
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A fraction whose numerator is 1 and whose denominator is a positive integer; for example, 1/2 or 1/7.
Synonyms: Egyptian fraction
cytol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cytology.
imaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnəl/
rhymes: -ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: From imagine + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.
ref: 1992, Spirited Women Book Company (publisher), At the Crossroads, page 48:
glosses: Of or relating to the imagination, or to a mental image.
glosses: Of or relating to the insect imago.
Derived terms: imaginal disk
imaginal disc
preimaginal
subimaginal
flavin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: flā-vən
Forms: form: flavins
Etymology: From flavus + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of tricyclic heterocyclic compounds derived from riboflavin; found especially as the adenine dinucleotide (FAD)
Derived terms: deazaflavin
flavination
Related terms: flavinate
flavinyl
hepatoflavin
lyxoflavin
peroxyflavin
riboflavin
footboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtbɔɪ/
Forms: form: footboys
Etymology: From foot + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Our troopes are now all confounded and disordered, by reason of bag and baggage, or carriages, of lackies, and foot-boies, which because of their masters armes they carry, can never leave them.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book II.9, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A serving boy, attendant, page with similar duties to those of an adult footman.
jaculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaculations
Senses: glosses: The act of throwing or tossing something
narghile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narghiles
form: nargeela
form: nargeelah
form: narghil
form: narghileh
form: narghilly
form: narghily
form: nargil
form: nargile
form: nargileh
form: nargili
form: nargilly
form: nargily
form: narguileh
Etymology: From French narghilé, from Turkish nargile, from Persian نارگیله (nârgile) from نارگیل (nârgil, “coconut”), which used to be used to construct the bowl, likely ultimately from Sanskrit नारिकेल (nārikela, “coconut”), from a Dravidian language.
Senses: examples: text: He went to the Pyramids and Syria, and there left his malady behind him, and returned with a fine beard, and a supply of tarbooshes and nargillies, with which he regales all his friends.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 76, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
synonyms: hookah
shisha
waterpipe
coordinate_terms: hubbly bubbly
glosses: A large Oriental tobacco pipe wherein the smoke is drawn through water to filter and cool it.
combinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combinates
Senses: glosses: The result of a combining of two or more components.
combinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: united; joined; betrothed
episomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From episome + -al.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to an episome or DNA fragments not contained within a chromosome
Derived terms: episomally
Related terms: episome
feh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Directly imported from Yiddish פֿע (fe).
Senses: examples: text: Kvola made a face. "It’s worse than an outhouse." She covered her nose. "Uh!" "It is" "Feh!" We all agreed and covered our noses. But Ma wasn't interested in our complaints.
...
It smelled like rotten food, stinking bodies, and stale air. Feh!
ref: 2005, Linda Glaser, Bridge to America: Based on a True Story, page 116:
text: "A gangster. Feh! Disgusting” she said roughly grabbing Marty by the arm. "We go across the street."
ref: 2000, Sidney Weissman, East Side Stories: Tales of Jewish Life in the Lower East Side of New York in the 1930’s, page 100:
text: "Look at it, how its pale skin blotches — and that evil-smelling thatch on top. Feh! The smell!
ref: 1980, Barry B. Longyear, Enemy Mine, page 81:
glosses: An expression of disgust or contempt.
Synonyms: sense: contempt
word: pht
word: pooh
word: pshaw
word: pish
word: bah
word: poh
sense: disgust
word: yuck
word: bleah
word: eww
word: ick
word: uck
word: yuck
feh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pe (“Semitic letter”).
icosihenagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icosihenagons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εἰκοσιέν (eikosién, “twenty-one”) + -gon, from εἴκοσι (eíkosi) (twenty) + ἕν (hén) (one).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polygon with twenty-one edges and twenty-one angles.
Synonyms: 21-gon
webmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛbˌmɪstrɛs/
Forms: form: webmistresses
form: Web mistress
Etymology: From web + mistress.
Senses: glosses: A female webmaster.
webmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of webmistress
on impulse
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on an impulse
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: on a whim
glosses: Without prior consideration; spontaneously, impulsively.
red hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red hairs
Senses: glosses: Hair of a ginger or auburn color.
Related terms: ginger
redhead
black belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black belts
Etymology: Calque of Japanese 黒帯 (kuroobi)
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
synonyms: dan
glosses: The highest belt colour in various martial arts.
examples: text: Raymond is a black belt in karate.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
synonyms: dan
glosses: Someone who has attained the black belt in martial arts.
glosses: Great skill in any field.
examples: text: I had the good fortune of being engaged to participate as a trainer to GE Capital Corporation, where we helped to launch their now well-known and highly regarded black belt program.
ref: 2011, Bob Paladino, Five Key Principles of Corporate Performance Management, →ISBN:
topics: management
glosses: A senior manager who is expert in one of various management systems such as Six Sigma or DMAIC and acts in a project leader or mentor role.
Coordinate terms: green belt
white belt
black belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black belts
form: Black Belt
Etymology: From black + belt, originally named after the dark soil.
Senses: examples: text: Bernard Cosman found that in Georgia, it was the black belt whites who gave Goldwater his largest percentage of the vote.
ref: 1992, Hanes Walton, The Native Son Presidential Candidate: The Carter Vote in Georgia, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A geographic region where the residents are predominantly or exclusively African-American.
examples: text: The Black Belt region, also called the Black Prairie, extends 300 miles across central Alabama and northeast Mississippi and into Tennessee. […] The dark soil for which the Black Belt was named was once famous for its richness and the abundant cotton produced in it.
ref: 2014, Richard Pillsbury, editor, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, volume 2, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 157:
text: The most politically powerful southerners were those who hailed from the black belt region— distinguished by its dark and fertile soil—which contained the bulk of large-scale plantation and hence the highest percentage of slaves.
ref: 2018, Seth C. McKee, The Dynamics of Southern Politics: Causes and Consequences, CQ Press, →ISBN, page 9:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States.
Coordinate terms: sense: region of United States
word: Bible Belt
sense: region of United States
word: Rust Belt
sense: region of United States
word: white belt
Related terms: sense: dark fertile soil
word: black earth
mashed potato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mashed potatoes
Senses: examples: text: “I would like a little lamb and some mashed potatoes,” said the diner to the waiter. The waiter called back to the kitchen: “One lamb and one mashed potato.”
ref: 1924 May 3, “Lucid Intervals”, in George D[ePui] Mitchell, editor, The Pathfinder, 21st year, number 1583, Washington, D.C.: The Pathfinder Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
text: ‘You get used to the non-stop chattering and teasing,’ said Sorcha, with four-year-old Finn beside her, eagerly eating mashed potato and his own mini portion of turkey.
ref: 2014, Cathy Kelly, chapter 5, in It Started With Paris, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 73:
text: I believe I want a steak, well done, steamed broccoli and a mashed potato. For my appetizer I want clam chowder.
ref: 2019 December 27, Michael Fountain, “The Cruise”, in Brass September, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, book 2:
glosses: Alternative form of mashed potatoes (“a dish consisting of potatoes that have been boiled, mashed to a pulpy consistency, and mixed with such ingredients as butter or milk”).
examples: text: But what God wants is mashed potatoes. Not many potatoes—one mashed potato. No potato can stand up and say, “Here I am! I’m a potato.” The word must be we.
ref: 1975 May, Juan Carlos Ortiz, “Mashed Potato Love”, in Disciple, Carol Stream, Ill.: Creation House, published November 1975, →ISBN, part 1 (The New Wine), page 62:
text: I have a vivid early memory of eating a meal of boiled shredded cotton flannel mixed with one mashed potato, as a soup which served our family for our one daily meal.
ref: 1979 July, Janet Frame, chapter 24, in Living in the Maniototo, New York, N.Y.: George Braziller, published August 1979, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Remember how I said we eat just a few bites of carrot but a whole potato? Well, a single carrot has a glycemic index of 131 and contains only 4 grams of carbs, so its glycemic load is (1.31 x 4), or about 5. One mashed potato has a glycemic index of 104 and 37 grams of carbohydrates, so its glycemic load is (1.04 x 37), or just over 38.
ref: 2012, JJ Virgin, “Your Glycemic Load”, in The Virgin Diet: Drop 7 Foods, Lose 7 Pounds, Just 7 Days, Toronto, Ont.: Harlequin, →ISBN, part II (7 Foods to Avoid), chapter 7 (The Sweetness Trap), page 130:
glosses: A single potato prepared in this manner.
examples: text: Well, let's dance, well let's dance.
We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too
Any old dance that you want to do
But let's dance.
ref: 1962, “Let's Dance”, Jim Lee (lyrics), performed by Chris Montez:
related: word: Mashed Potato
glosses: A dance or a dance move popular in Western culture the 1960s.
Derived terms: mashed-potatoey
mash potato
Related terms: mashed potatoes
IBAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IBANs
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of International Bank Account Number.
Related terms: BIC
shodan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shodans
Etymology: From Japanese 初段.
Senses: glosses: The lowest black belt rank in Japanese martial arts.
glosses: One who has attained this rank.
Related terms: dan
tagline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taglines
form: tag line
Etymology: From tag + line.
Senses: glosses: The punch line of a joke.
examples: text: Microsoft, Pfizer and JP Morgan Chase have set up offices in the country, a streamlined visa program has incentivized thousands of digital nomads to relocate to Athens, and a relentless tourism push — “You will want to stay forever!” runs the tagline — has lured a record number of Americans to the Aegean this summer.
ref: 2022 August 22, Alexander Clapp, “The Rot at the Heart of Greece Is Now Clear for Everyone to See”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2022:
topics: business
marketing
synonyms: strapline
glosses: An advertising slogan.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
glosses: A line attached to a draft of cargo or a container to provide control and minimize pendulation of cargo during lifting operations.
glosses: A light rope attached to an object being hoisted by a crane, used to guide it while lifting or lowering.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: Synonym of subheadline.
synonyms: word: subheadline
Related terms: snowclone
slogan
tagline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: taglines
form: taglining
form: taglined
form: taglined
form: tag line
Etymology: From tag + line.
Senses: glosses: To supply with an advertising slogan; to market as.
freak accident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freak accidents
Senses: examples: text: For the Union Carbide Company, the chemical industry, and other businesses, Bhopal is an unfortunate chain of coincidences, a freak accident, a regrettable loss of lives.
ref: 1990, Gary Cohen, John O'Connor, Barry Commoner, Fighting Toxics: A Manual for Protecting Your Family, Community, and Workplace, page 135:
text: A freak accident during basic training left his son crushed beneath the body of an overturned supply truck.
ref: 1996, George W. Proctor, Before Honor, page 39:
text: Even though I know what happened with my brother was a freak accident, I wish I had made choices that would have led to a different outcome.
ref: 2006, Hill Harper, Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny, page 100:
glosses: An incident, especially one that is harmful, occurring under highly unusual and unlikely circumstances.