cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
photosensitizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosensitizers
Etymology: From photo- + sensitizer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecular or atomic species that initiates a photochemical reaction
Derived terms: biophotosensitizer
immunophotosensitizer
photosensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosensors
Etymology: From photo- + sensor.
Senses: glosses: A photodetector
chief legal officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chief legal officers
Senses: glosses: The highest-ranking corporate officer handling the legal affairs of a corporation, or agency.
Related terms: CLO
photoset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photosets
form: photosetting
form: photoset
form: photoset
Etymology: From photo- + set.
Senses: glosses: to photocompose
photoset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosets
Etymology: From photo- + set.
Senses: glosses: A set of photographs.
photospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photosphere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or occurring in the photosphere
Derived terms: subphotospheric
photostabilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photostabilizes
form: photostabilizing
form: photostabilized
form: photostabilized
Etymology: From photo- + stabilize.
Senses: glosses: To add compounds that absorb ultraviolet radiation to plastics in order to reduce photodegradation
Related terms: photostabilization
photostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photostats
Senses: examples: text: The next morning […] her suitcase was gone and a photostat of a wedding licence was on her bed, the print smudged here and there.
ref: 2000, Kamila Shamsie, Salt and Saffron, Bloomsbury, page 154:
glosses: A photocopy, especially one made by a Photostat machine.
synonyms: xerox
coordinate_terms: mimeograph
glosses: A photocopy made using a photocopier.
glosses: Positive (black on white) or negative (white on black) reproduction of printed matter or artwork made on a photostat machine, which uses photographic paper instead of a transparent negative, and uses a prism to render the paper negative readable instead of reversed.
photostat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photostats
form: photostating
form: photostatting
form: photostated
form: photostated
form: photostatted
form: photostatted
Senses: examples: text: […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
glosses: To make such a photocopy of.
Derived terms: photostatter
photostriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + striction.
Senses: glosses: A change in the dimensions of some piezoelectric materials when illuminated; only occurs if the material is also photoelectric.
Related terms: photostrictive
hammocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammock
hammocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hammock
mechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanism
blunderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blundering
hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotel
train of thought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trains of thought
form: train of thinking
form: train of thoughts
Senses: examples: text: Did Mr. Winter Wonderland / Say, "Come 'ere, kid, we really need to talk"? / Bear with me, man, I lost my train of thought
ref: 2018, Alex Turner, “One Point Perspective”, in Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
synonyms: chain of thought
thought path
thread of thought
glosses: The flow of thinking; a sequence of ideas passing through someone’s mind.
Related terms: line of thought
stream of consciousness
thought process
buoyancy aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buoyancy aids
Senses: glosses: A waterproof device in the form of a jacket, which stops one from sinking in water.
in fact
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfækt/
Etymology: From fact (“deed, action”) (now obsolete, except in law). Perhaps ultimately a calque of French en fait.
Senses: topics: law
coordinate_terms: in law
;
de jure
glosses: Resulting from the actions of parties.
examples: text: People think he's rich, but in fact he's nearly penniless.
text: Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
ref: 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
text: Menggetimur (d. 1433),¹⁸ chief of the Odoli subtribe of the Chien-chou Jurchen, had in fact moved into Korea south of the Tumen River. Because he offered tribute to the Choson court and had encamped at Hoeryŏng (Chinese: Hui-ning), the Koreans regarded him as their vassal.
ref: 1998, Donald N. Clark, “Sino-Korean tributary relations under the Ming”, in Denis Twitchett, Frederick W. Mote, editors, The Cambridge History of China, volume 8, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 286:
text: We tend to think of the seafloor a few kilometres down as a flat plain. In fact, about two-thirds of this “abyssal” seabed is made up of gentle rolling hills a few hundred metres high, says Jennifer Durden at the University of Southampton, UK.
ref: 2015 August 8, Bob Holmes, “Ocean hills yield secret ecosystems”, in New Scientist, number 3033, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2015, page 14:
synonyms: as a matter of fact
in actuality
glosses: Actually; in truth; de facto.
examples: text: I don't have the time or patience to deal with him. In fact, I barely even have time for being here at all.
synonyms: as a matter of fact
glosses: Moreover.
just like that
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In that manner.
examples: We were jogging slowly in the park when, just like that, she collapsed.
glosses: Suddenly and unexpectedly; without warning.
Synonyms: sense: suddenly and unexpectedly
word: out of the blue
sense: suddenly and unexpectedly
word: all of a sudden
Related terms: like that
shaggy-dog story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaggy-dog stories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shaggy dog story.
peace pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peace pipe
Dutch tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch tilts
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Synonym of Dutch angle.
synonyms: word: Dutch angle
Dutch angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dutch angles
Etymology: From German deutsch, after its use by German filmmakers.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A cinematic tactic achieved by tilting the camera off to the side. The shot is composed with the horizon not parallel with the bottom of the frame. The technique is often used to portray the psychological uneasiness of the subject being filmed.
Synonyms: canted angle
Dutch tilt
oblique angle
German angle
Batman angle
helmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmet
NPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NPCs
Senses: examples: text: When it comes to open-world games and larger experiences, NPCs are crucial to immersing the player in the world and allowing them to feel as though the people they meet along their journey aren’t just robots but, in fact, real individuals and smaller but important pieces to the larger puzzles of the title.
For The Witcher 4, game director Sebastian Kalemba has vowed to make every NPC in the upcoming installment look like “they’re living, with their own story.”
ref: 2025 January 5, Eleni Thomas, “The Witcher 4 Director reveals how NPCs are evolving like never before”, in Dexerto:
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Initialism of non-player character.
examples: text: Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
ref: [2018 October 16, Kevin Roose, “What Is NPC, the Pro-Trump Internet’s New Favorite Insult?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2022:
text: While watching the VOD later, xQc insinuated that Fortnite pro Bucke was an "NPC" who was only there to defend Tate and not give Piker a fair shot – and what resulted afterward has caused quite a stir in its own right.
ref: 2022 July 22, Alec Mullins, “NRG Bucke kicks off after xQc calls him an “NPC” for siding with Andrew Tate”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2022:
topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Initialism of non-player character.
A person with no ability to think for themselves; a sheeple (originally referring to opponents of former US President Donald Trump).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of no patient care.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Niemann-Pick disease type C.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of non-printing character.
glosses: Initialism of neighbourhood police center.
Related terms: FPV
POV
main character syndrome
NPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Power Corporation.
glosses: Initialism of National Privacy Commission.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of National Paralympic Committee.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Nationalist People's Coalition.
glosses: Initialism of National People's Congress.
glosses: Initialism of National Physique Committee.
glosses: Initialism of National Petroleum Council.
glosses: Initialism of Northern People's Congress.
glosses: Initialism of National Provincial Championship.
Related terms: english: International Paralympic Committee
translation: International Paralympic Committee
word: IPC
english: National Olympic Committee
translation: National Olympic Committee
word: NOC
NPC
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: All characters wish to submit to the game must be either netural or good even though the group will have to interact with evil beings as well. To preserve the group from being totally dark and paranoid, I will NPC the evil characters.
ref: 2003 November 25, PBM List Autoposter, “New: In the Light and in the Shadows (free, open-ended, email, human, fantasy, rpg)”, in rec.games.pbm (Usenet), message-ID <3fc30f0d$1@news.meer.net>:
text: [in a deleted scene, one of the signs used by the homeless Q*bert gang reads as follows]
"will npc in fps 4 food!"
ref: 2012, Wreck-It Ralph (movie)
glosses: To act as an NPC (“non-player character”) in a game.
Gustav
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gustavs
form: Gustave
form: Gustavus
Etymology: A common royal name in Sweden, from Old Swedish Gøtstaf, from Old Norse Gautr (“Geat/Goth”) + stafr (“staff”). The oldest record in Sweden dates back to the year 1225 ("Gostauus"). In Peder Swart's chronicle about Gustav Vasa dated in the mid-1500s, the name is spelled Götstaff and is assumed to mean "Staff of the Geats."
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Derived terms: Gus
Gus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Etymology: Clipping of Augustus. From the Latin name Augustus.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Augustus.
Gus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
Etymology: Clipping of Gustav, Gustave, Gustavus. From the Swedish name Gustav.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Gustav and its variants.
Derived terms: word: grumpy Gus
english: Kentucky
translation: Kentucky
word: Guston
Gus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
Etymology: Clipping of Kostas. From the Greek name Κωνσταντίνος (Konstantínos).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Konstantinos.
Gus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
ipa: /ɡuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
ipa: /ɡʌs/
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
rhymes: -ʌs
Etymology: From Gu + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Gu
wide shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wide shots
Senses: examples: text: That post-battle wide shot showing a castle full of bodies and basically only Tormund, Gendry, and Grey Worm still standing was the equivalent of the show saying anyone on screen not wearing a “Hello, my name is…” tag needed to lie down and die.
ref: 2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 May 2021:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A film or video recording made with the camera positioned to observe the most action in the performance.
Related terms: closeup
kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of kick
kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: examples: text: Fresh new kicks, and pants / You gotta like that, now you know you wanna dance
ref: 1990, “U Can't Touch This”, in Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, performed by MC Hammer:
glosses: Shoes.
examples: text: I’ve seen your kicks, inmate: you’ve got forty cents to your name.
text: He put a hundred bucks in your kicks each week.
glosses: Commissary, or the balance of a commissary account.
Related terms: for kicks
get one's kicks
get a kick out of something
kicks-and-giggles
kickseys
kickster
kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kick
Cecile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈsiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Etymology: From French Cécile, from Anglo-Norman Cecile, from Latin Caecilia.
Senses: examples: text: […] so I named my baby Lynn Cecile. My mother asked, "What are you going to call her? You can't call her "Seal" because then I'll think of something slick and wet."
ref: 1989, Ann Richards, Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 91:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: Cecil
Cecilia
Delphine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛlˈfiːn/
ipa: [dɛɫˈfiːn]
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: French form of Latin Delphina, meaning woman from Delphi; Bl. Delphine of Glandèves was a 14th century nun from Provence.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, Latin, or Ancient Greek.
closeup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkləʊs.ʌp/
Forms: form: closeups
Senses: examples: text: All right, Mr DeMille, I'm ready for my closeup.
ref: 1950, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman Jr., Sunset Blvd.:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A video or film recording made with the camera positioned close to an actor, often so that only the head or face is visible.
glosses: Alternative form of close-up
Related terms: two shot
wide shot
two shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two shots
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: two
glosses: A scene shot with the camera positioned to observe two actors.
Related terms: closeup
wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of wedge
wedges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɛd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wedge
inserts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insert
inserts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of insert
establishing shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: establishing shots
Senses: examples: text: Using mostly fixed camera positions, he will intersperse scenes with establishing shots of the clanking, pitiless machinery of the ski lift, rattling rhythmically as bits of cable and metal thunk into each other.
ref: 2015 April 9, Peter Bradshaw, “Force Majeure review – after the avalanche”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A master shot, the primary wide shot of a scene used to inform the audience of the location or situation.
Synonyms: long shot
wide shot
Related terms: closeup
roaming master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roaming masters
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A master shot in which the camera moves relative to the performance.
Related terms: master
ladies first
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: A phrase encouraging perceived polite gentlemanliness, allowing the ladies to go before the men.
Related terms: ladies' night
ladies' room
women and children first
get stuffed
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: get stuffed !
Senses: examples: text: Get stuffed! I don't want to talk to you again!
text: Eventually, she heard him say something in his deliberate, gruff voice: just two words:
“Get stuffed!”
ref: 1992, Émile Zola, translated by Douglas Parmée, Nana, published 1998, page 243:
text: “You could wear them at fancy dress parties,” I suggested.
“Get stuffed!” he growled.
ref: 2007, James Hosier, “Getting Stuffed”, in John Patrick, editor, Dreamboys: A New Collection of Erotic Tales, page 130:
text: “And what, pray tell, is that? Money? Well, you can get stuffed!” he said sitting down in the chair.
ref: 2010, Jeff Wright, Sage, Dead Gorgeous, page 593:
synonyms: word: amscray
word: away with you
word: be off with you
word: beat it
word: begone
word: bite me
word: bog off
word: bug off
word: bugger off
word: buzz off
word: clear off
word: do one
word: don't let the door hit you on the way out
word: forget you
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get to fuck
word: get bent
word: get fucked
word: get knotted
word: get lost
word: get out of here
word: get outta here
word: get out of my face
word: get screwed
word: get stuffed
word: get you gone
word: git
word: go and boil your head
word: go and eat coke
word: go away
word: go chase yourself
word: go climb a tree
word: go fly a kite
word: go fuck your mother
word: go fuck yourself sideways
word: go fuck yourself
word: go jump in the lake
word: go play in the traffic
word: go play with yourself
word: go shit yourself
word: go suck an egg
word: go tell your mother she wants you
word: go to hell
word: go to Halifax
word: go to the devil
word: hadaway and shite
word: hence
word: hit the road
word: hop it
word: kick rocks
word: jog on
word: leave
word: leave me alone
word: make like a banana and split
word: make like a tree and leave
word: make yourself scarce
word: naff off
word: nick off
word: now go away
word: off you fuck
word: on with you
word: on yer bike
word: on your bike
word: piss off
word: pound sand
word: push off
word: rack off
word: scram
word: screw off
word: screw you
word: shoo
word: shove off
word: shit off
word: skedaddle
word: sling one's hook
word: sod off
word: split
word: spread out
word: take a flying fuck at a rolling donut
word: take a flying fuck
word: take a hike
word: take a long walk on a short pier
word: up yours
word: Entries in Thesaurus:leave
word: used as imperative verbs.
word: Entries in :Category:English dismissals.
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Used to tell somebody to go away or to leave one alone.
undercrank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undercranks
form: undercranking
form: undercranked
form: undercranked
Etymology: From under- + crank; dating from a time when movie film was advanced in a camera by the turning of a crank.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
antonyms: overcrank
glosses: To shoot a scene while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will advance on playback. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.
Related terms: undercranked
non-player character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-player characters
Etymology: From non- + player character.
Senses: topics: video-games
antonyms: player character
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by a player.
glosses: A person who does not think for themselves nor make their own decisions.
Synonyms: word: NPC
english: for computer games, but not role-playing games
translation: for computer games, but not role-playing games
word: AI
english: for computer games, but not role-playing games
translation: for computer games, but not role-playing games
word: computer
undercranked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercranked
form: most undercranked
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Of a scene shot while advancing the film in the camera more slowly than it will play on screen. This results in speeding up the action in the final film.
undercranked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercrank
Related terms: undercrank
shortcomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
glosses: plural of shortcoming
vortal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔː.təl/
ipa: /ˈvɔɹ.təl/
ipa: [ˈvɔɹ.ɾɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)təl
Forms: form: vortals
Etymology: Blend of vertical + portal
Senses: examples: text: The service is a vortal, which aims to assist SMEs involved in engineering or manufacturing in the East Midlands area around Nottingham. The project builds on the concept of a human-organised regional gateway of information but also incorporates the ideas behind a vortal.
ref: 2000, Brian Stanford-Smith, Paul T. Kidd, E-business: Key Issues, Applications and Technologies, page 302:
glosses: A vertical portal; an online resource acting as an entry point for information for a single specific market or subject.
dolly grip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolly grips
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A technician trained to use a dolly.
precociously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more precociously
form: most precociously
Etymology: From precocious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: More pertinently for the plot, another marked difference from history is that the United Kingdom of this 1982 is precociously computerised. Instead of having been hounded to death for his homosexuality, the scientist Alan Turing is thriving and lauded.
ref: 2019 April 11, Marcel Theroux, “Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan review – intelligent mischief”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a precocious manner.
compels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɛlz/
rhymes: -ɛlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compel
alarmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɑɹmɪst/
Forms: form: alarmists
Etymology: From alarm + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I don't mean to be an alarmist, but I do think you should prepare yourself for the worst.
text: No German troops were mobilized along Canada's border last week, no Canadian cities had been bombed, and only by the remotest flight of fancy could alarmists see the Dominion as a battleground.
ref: 1939 November 20, “Canadian Secrecy”, in Time:
synonyms: fearmonger
panicmonger
scaremonger
glosses: One who causes others to become alarmed without cause.
Derived terms: antialarmist
ecoalarmist
nonalarmist
unalarmist
warmist
Related terms: alarm
alarmism
alarmist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɑɹmɪst/
Etymology: From alarm + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This deliberately alarmist scaremongery has since been repeated on various occasions, notably in Brazil before 1964 and in Chile under Allende.
ref: 1979, Peter Flynn, Brazil: a political analysis, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: Of or relating to causing others to become alarmed without cause.
unravels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unravel
albuminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ælˈbjuː.mɪn.əs/
Etymology: From albumin + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, containing, or having the properties of albumen or albumin.
Derived terms: albuminousness
exalbuminous
nonalbuminous
aquanaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aquanauts
Etymology: From aqua- + -naut.
Senses: glosses: An underwater explorer.
aquatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aquatic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an aquatic style or manner.
photosynthate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosynthates
Etymology: From photosynthesis + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that is a product of photosynthesis.
Related terms: autolysate
condensate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
hemolysate
leachate
lysate
perfusate
telecommuting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + commuting.
Senses: examples: text: The homeworld and capital of humanity is entering a new golden age. The resource wealth of a dozen settled colonies and a hundred industrial outposts flows back to Earth, fueling great works of industry, commerce, and art. The great cities are greening as arcology skyscrapers and telecommuting allow more efficient use of land.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Earth Codex entry:
synonyms: working from home
teleworking
cybercommuting
glosses: The practice of using telecommunications technology to do one's work at a location remote from one's office, such as one's home, an Internet café, etc.
telecommuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tele- + commuting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of telecommute
Related terms: telecommute
telecommuter
photosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosystems
Etymology: From photo- + system.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two biochemical systems, active in chloroplasts, that are part of photosynthesis
Derived terms: photosystem I
photosystem II
phototelegraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + telegraphy.
Senses: glosses: The fax system
applicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applicators
Etymology: From application + -or.
Senses: glosses: A tool or device used to apply a fluid or semi-fluid substance to a surface.
glosses: A tubular device to insert a tampon into the vagina.
Derived terms: applicatorful
microapplicator
Related terms: application
apply
alcoholically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more alcoholically
form: most alcoholically
Etymology: From alcoholic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: They stumbled alcoholically upstairs and into bed.
glosses: In the manner of an alcoholic.
examples: text: an alcoholically fermented cereal liquid containing catechin
glosses: By means of, or in terms of, alcohol.
alertly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more alertly
form: most alertly
Etymology: From alert + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Behind one of the old oaks which we have described in the preceding chapter, shrouding himself from observation like a hunter watching for his game, or an Indian for his enemy, but with different, very different purpose, Tyrrel lay on his breast near the Buck-stane, his eye on the horse-road which winded down the valley, and his ear alertly awake to every sound which mingled with the passing breeze, or with the ripple of the brook.
ref: 1823 December 23 (indicated as 1824), [Walter Scott], chapter 9, in St Ronan’s Well. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: I walked fast to avoid being overtaken. Every crossing was a danger, every passenger a thing to watch alertly.
ref: 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter 23, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: Miss Baker and I exchanged a short glance consciously devoid of meaning. I was about to speak when she sat up alertly and said “Sh!” in a warning voice.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
text: She was wearing tight white shorts and a grey tank top of Jasper’s, in which her small breasts moved alertly.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: In an alert manner; with alertness.
algebraically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.d͡ʒɪˈbɹeɪ.ɪk.li/
ipa: /ˌæl.d͡ʒɪˈbɹeɪ.ɪ.kə.li/
Forms: form: more algebraically
form: most algebraically
Etymology: From algebraic + -ally, or alternatively algebraical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Using algebra.
Derived terms: algebraically closed
algebraically independent
nonalgebraically
Related terms: algebraicize
fax machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fax machines
Etymology: Clipping of facsimile machine.
Senses: examples: text: Rachel inserted the entire stack into the hydrolab's fax machine. Knowing only a few fax numbers by heart, she had limited choices, but she had already made up her mind who would be receiving these pages and her note. Holding her breath, she carefully typed in the person’s fax number.
ref: 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, →ISBN, page 481:
text: I made my notes, by hand, collated all relevant requests, stood in the copy room by a noisy fax machine and slowly fed the documents into it, thinking of someone in New York – a dream city to me – waiting by a similar contraption as my document came through to them, at the exact same time I sent it, which felt so very modern in the doing of it, a triumph over distance and time.
ref: 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 91:
synonyms: fax
facsimile machine
telecopier
glosses: A device which scans, transmits, receives and prints documents (faxes) transmitted by telephone.
aligner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪnɚ/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: aligners
Etymology: From align + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, aligns.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A system that produces integrated circuits by precision photolithography.
glosses: A thin flexible orthodontic tool that is fitted over the teeth to move them gradually.
phototheodolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototheodolites
Etymology: From photo- + theodolite.
Senses: glosses: A theodolite with an attached camera.
glosses: An arrangement of two cameras, whose plates may be brought into exactly the same plane, used in surveying and map-making. From the differences between two pictures taken at the same moment, measurements in all dimensions of the region may be obtained.
Meriam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meriams
form: Meriam
Etymology: From Mer (“Murray Island”), off the northern coast of Australia.
Senses: examples: text: The Meriams believed in "Bomai", a shape-shifting sea spirit, who had come to them as an octopus and united the eight island tribes under his watchful eyes.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 99:
glosses: A member of an Aboriginal people who live on Mer (Murray Island), in the eastern group of Torres Strait Islands off the northern tip of Australia.
Meriam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mer (“Murray Island”), off the northern coast of Australia.
Senses: glosses: The Trans-Fly Papuan language of the Meriam people; Meryam Mir.
phototherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototherapies
Etymology: From photo- + therapy.
Senses: glosses: The use of light to treat disorders of the skin, and certain mood disorders.
Synonyms: light therapy
Derived terms: balneophototherapy
phototherapic
gym candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Steroids or other drugs taken to improve physical performance.
Related terms: pumpers
roids
pumper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈpʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pumpers
Etymology: From pump + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who pumps something.
glosses: A fire engine with a water tank and pump.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A steroid or other drug taken to improve blood flow and increase muscular size.
Derived terms: fist-pumper
Related terms: gym candy
roids
roid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -ɔɪd
Forms: form: roids
form: 'roid
Senses: examples: text: "Snow Crash is a roid. Or else it's similar to a roid. Yeah, that's it. It goes into your cell walls, just like a roid. And then it does something to the nucleus of the cell."
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 233:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Clipping of steroid Steroids, especially those used illegally for performance enhancement.
glosses: Clipping of hemorrhoid Hemorrhoids.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Clipping of android
Derived terms: roided
roided out
roid gut
roid-head
roid rage
roidtranny
Related terms: gym candy
pumper
roid rage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'roid rage
Etymology: Clipping of steroid + rage.
Senses: topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Uncontrollable anger or violent behavior resulting from the use of anabolic steroids.
Related terms: road rage
roider
grangerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪnʒəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: grangerizes
form: grangerizing
form: grangerized
form: grangerized
form: grangerise
Etymology: From Granger + -ize, after James Granger, an 18th-century English biographer. Granger's Biographical History of England (1769) included areas for readers to illustrate the pages.
Senses: glosses: To illustrate (a book) with material such as images taken from other published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
examples: text: He was a large, loose, fattish man with unintelligent brown eyes magnified by spectacles; he wore an ill-fitting frock-coat and a paper collar, and he showed me, as his great treasure and interest, a large Bible which he had grangerised with photographs of pictures.
ref: 1908, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “How I Became a London Student and Went Astray”, in Tono-Bungay […], Toronto, Ont.: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Ltd., →OCLC, 2nd book (The Rise of Tono-Bungay):
glosses: To illustrate with material taken from published sources.
examples: text: In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact.
ref: 1895, William Roberts, The book-hunter in London: historical and other studies of collectors and collecting. With numerous portraits and illustrations:
text: In more recent years many finely illustrated books (such as Audubon's The Birds of America and Bartolozzi's fine engravings of Holbein's portraits), together with books of many modern artists, have been grangerized for their individual prints.
ref: 1986, American book collector, volume 7:
glosses: To remove material, especially images, from a publication.
Related terms: grangerisation
grangerising
Grangerite
grangerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grangerises
form: grangerising
form: grangerised
form: grangerised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grangerize.
grangerisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪnʒəɹɪˌzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: grangerisations
form: grangerization
Etymology: Named after English biographer James Granger (1723–1776).
Senses: examples: text: Today, he is more remembered for the manner of his death and his habit of collecting books and illustrating them with pictures ripped out of other books, now seen as an act of vandalism and given the name ‘grangerisation’.
ref: [2021, James Hobson, Passengers: Life in Britain During the Stagecoach Era, Fonthill Media, →ISBN:
synonyms: grangerising
glosses: The practice of illustrating a book with pictures taken from published sources, such as by clipping them out for one's own use.
glosses: A book illustrated by this process.
Related terms: grangerize
Grangerite
grangerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grangerizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of grangerisation.
ankle slappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankle slapper
slappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slapper
marginal cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginal costs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The increase in cost that accompanies a unit increase in output; the unit cost of that additional output; the partial derivative of the cost function with respect to output.
glosses: Synonym of break-even point.
synonyms: word: break-even point
Derived terms: marginal cost of capital
marginal benefit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginal benefits
Senses: glosses: The extra benefit received from a unit increase in the consumption of a good or service. It is calculated as the increase in total benefit divided by the increase in consumption.
Synonyms: marginal utility
pennorth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnəθ/
rhymes: -ɛnəθ
Forms: form: pennorths
form: pennorth
form: penn'orth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pennyworth.
Derived terms: two penn’orth
twopenn’orth
two pennorth
Related terms: ha'p'orth
penn'orth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penn'orths
Senses: examples: text: Queenie May Ellis was just scooping up a penn’orth of chips when some sixth sense made her look up – straight into the sailor’s eyes.
ref: 1995, Patricia Beale, chapter 1, in Queen of the May, London: Mandarin, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pennorth.
jari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zari.
HEPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HEPAs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of high-efficiency particulate air filter.
Related terms: ULPA
alphabetizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphabetizers
Etymology: From alphabetize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, alphabetizes.
allover
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English alover. By surface analysis, all + over.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all-over.
allover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allovers
Etymology: From Middle English alover. By surface analysis, all + over.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of all-over.
Hadrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪ.dɹiː.(j)ən/
Etymology: From the Latin Hadrianus (“from the Roman harbor Hadria”), from Etruscan 𐌇𐌀𐌕𐌓𐌉𐌀 (hatria), possibly from Venetic [script needed] (adur, “water”), related to English water, Latin unda and Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr), all from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. Doublet of Adrian. See Adria.
Senses: glosses: The Roman emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus.
glosses: A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Adrian.
Derived terms: Hadrian's Wall
Related terms: Adrian
morphologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From morphological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although Roellobryon is morphologically similar to Rhodobryum and Rosulabryum, recent molecular studies suggest that it is closer to Mniaceae than Bryaceae.
ref: 2014, Flora of North America North of Mexico, page 186:
text: In a typical lexicalist approach (e.g. Koontz-Garboden 2006), the unmarked lexeme is taken as lexically listed, even if its meaning (as it often does) includes templatic entailments, and the derivational morphology is taken to operate on the underived form to yield the derived form. This is the case not only morphologically, but also semantically.
ref: 2014 September 25, Rochelle Lieber, Pavol Stekauer, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology, page 347:
glosses: With regard to morphology.
Derived terms: cytomorphologically
ecomorphologically
histomorphologically
hydromorphologically
neuromorphologically
pedomorphologically
collisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collision
thrived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrive
snuffbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuffboxes
form: snuff-box
Etymology: From snuff + box.
Senses: examples: text: He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in the centre of the lid.
ref: 1891 [September], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure III.—A Case of Identity.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II (July to December), number [9], London: […], page 248, column 2:
glosses: A small box or container to hold snuff or loose tobacco.
Synonyms: word: sneeze-box
Derived terms: anatomical snuffbox
devil's snuffbox
electric chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric chairs
Senses: examples: text: The current path in an electric chair is from a scalp electrode to a calf electrode. The current is therefore passing the brain and the brain stem, the lung and the heart. It is believed that the person becomes unconscious immediately after current onset, but it is well known that death is not immediate. The electric chair was used for the first time in 1890, and the first jolt was with 1400 V 60 Hz applied for 17 seconds, which proved insufficient.
ref: 2000, Sverre Grimnes, Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen, Bioimpedance and Bioelectricity Basics, →ISBN, page 309:
text: The electric chair has always been linked to Sing Sing.
ref: 2003, Guy Cheli, Sing Sing Prison, →ISBN:
text: The Death House was Trenton State Prison's official name for the brick and concrete vault where condemned men lived in tiny cells and an electric chair stood hard against a nearby wall.
ref: 2013, James S. Hirsch, Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.
examples: text: She much preferred her manual wheelchair, so we got into the routine of using the manual chair out of school, and the electric chair at school. The one thing that she did find amusing about the electric chair was that she had to take a 'driving test'.
ref: 2006, Molvia Maddox, Perfectly Flawed, →ISBN, page 90:
text: While I was "driving" in my electric chair to the only liquor store in town, the owner of the store would always smile when he saw me and say, "I don't know if I should sell to you. I don't want to be responsible for you drinking and driving."
ref: 2012, Sandra I. Bordenca, It's Okay to Laugh Sometimes, →ISBN, page 40:
text: He zooms his electric chair around the raggedy old snowman, tossing Velcroed stars and bells at it, asking, "Snowman go zoom zoom?"
ref: 2012, Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: An electrically powered wheelchair.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her shoulders so that they are both facing in the same direction.
Related terms: Old Sparky
bloggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blogger
one trick pony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one trick ponies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one-trick pony.
nonhygroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hygroscopic.
Senses: glosses: not hygroscopic
dual citizenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dual citizenships
Senses: glosses: The status of being a citizen of two countries.
Synonyms: dual nationality
Related terms: multiple citizenship
Sandra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsandɹə/
ipa: /ˈsɑːndɹə/
ipa: /ˈsændɹə/
rhymes: -ændɹə
Forms: form: Sandras
Etymology: A short form of Alexandra and, less often, of Cassandra.
Senses: examples: text: "Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."
ref: 1971, Hugh Hood, The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press, published 1971, page 23:
text: A young law student, Sandra Fluke, came before this body, before the Members of Congress, and testified regarding coverage for family planning and contraceptives.
ref: 2012 March 7, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, “Women's Access to Health Care”, in Congressional Record, page H1218:
text: Judge Merrilee Ehrlich was seen in video of the April 15 court appearance yelling at Sandra Faye Twiggs. The 59-year-old was in court on a simple battery charge after a dispute over a fan at her home in Lauderhill.
ref: 2018 April 23, Chuck Johnston, “Judge not allowed back to court after berating woman who died”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name.
wardriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + driving, modelled on war-dialing.
Senses: glosses: The act of searching for a Wi-Fi wireless network, usually from a moving vehicle, using a laptop or smartphone.
photothermoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + thermoelasticity.
Senses: glosses: The changes in the optical properties of a dielectric when subject to heat-induced mechanical stress.
photothyristor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photothyristors
Etymology: From photo- + thyristor.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A light-activated silicon controlled rectifier.
phototonus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: sensitivity to, or irritation caused by, light
Related terms: phototonic