cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pitchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: pitchier
form: pitchiest
Etymology: From Middle English pycchy, pychy, equivalent to pitch + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
examples: text: Mancunium, Manceaster, what we now call Manchester, spins no cotton […] The Creek of the Mersey gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a Lither-Pool, a lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 5, Twelfth Century”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
text: In front of me the road became pitchy black as though it was tarred, and I saw a contorted shape lying across the pathway.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 280:
text: To make it worse, something went wrong wit the Glow-worm's lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness.
ref: 1961, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, Knopf, page 44:
glosses: Very dark black; pitch-black.
Derived terms: pitchily
pitchiness
pitchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɪtʃi
Forms: form: pitchier
form: pitchiest
Etymology: From pitch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] “Auto Tune”—digital voice processing initially designed to correct a “pitchy” (out-of-tune) singer's voice.
ref: 2014, Mellonee V. Burnim, Portia K. Maultsby, African American Music, page 381:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Off pitch; out of tune.
twinship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twin-ship
Etymology: From twin + -ship.
Senses: examples: 1858 Charles Arad Joy et. al. - Addresses of the Newly-appointed Professors of Columbia College
In this twinship of right and duty lies the embryonic genesis of liberty . . .
synonyms: twindom
twinhood
twinness
glosses: The condition of being a twin
twinship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinships
form: twin ship
form: twin-ship
Etymology: From twin + ship.
Senses: examples: text: The Royal George, a twinship, was nearly as much approved of; and these two ships, by their fast sailing, were the principal, causes of the defeat of the enemy's fleets . . .
ref: 1837, Edward Pelham Brenton, The Naval History of Great Britain:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Either of a pair of ships of exactly the same design
snugged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snug
unconditional surrender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconditional surrenders
Senses: examples: text: So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.
ref: 1945 April 16, Harry S. Truman, 10:06 from the start, in MP72-20 President Roosevelt’s Funeral and Procession; Truman – New President of U.S., Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, via YouTube, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
glosses: A surrender without conditions (beyond those imposed by the basic laws of war).
dabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæbɪŋ/
rhymes: -æbɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dab
dabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæbɪŋ/
rhymes: -æbɪŋ
Forms: form: dabbings
Senses: examples: text: About 10 o'clock A.M. the second dabbing or washing was repeated, and was this time extended above the knees. Two more dabbings followed in the course of the day […]
ref: 1852, The Journal of Health, page 226:
glosses: The act by which something is dabbed.
pried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹaɪd/
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: pride
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pry
pay one's last respects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pays one's last respects
form: paying one's last respects
form: paid one's last respects
form: paid one's last respects
Senses: examples: text: 1822 The Christian Journal, and Literary Register
Mr. Thompson performed the service, and I preached a sermon to a crowded congregation of friends and mourners, who came together to pay their last respects to the remains of their friend and benefactor
text: The persons that attended funerals were the friends and relations of the deceased, who thought themselves obliged to pay their last respects to the dead.
ref: 1827, John Robinson, Archæologia Græca:
text: And now to-day you've done your duty by her; paid your last respects to her memory, as I may say, and so you have nothing to reproach yourself with.
ref: 1851, Charles Dickens, Household Words:
glosses: To visit the place where the remains of a dead person has been prepared for burial or cremation, either as a private act of remembrance or as a public display to others.
coset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosets
Etymology: From co- + set; apparently first used 1910 by American mathematician George Abram Miller.
Senses: examples: text: 1970 [Addison Wesley], Frederick W. Byron, Robert W. Fuller, Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics, Volumes 1-2, Dover, 1992, page 597,
Theorem 10.5. The collection consisting of an invariant subgroup H and all its distinct cosets is itself a group, called the factor group of G, usually denoted by G/H. (Remember that the left and right cosets of an invariant subgroup are identical.) Multiplication of two cosets aH and bH is defined as the set of all distinct products z = xy, with x ∈ aH and y ∈ bH; the identity element of the factor group is the subgroup H itself.
text: 1982 [Stanley Thornes], Linda Bostock, Suzanne Chandler, C. Rourke, Further Pure Mathematics, Nelson Thornes, 2002 Reprint, page 614,
In general, the coset in row x consists of all the elements xh as h runs through the various elements of H.
text: Example 3. Let G#61;#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; (the operation is #43;), H#61;2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125;. Then the coset 1#43;2#92;mathbb#123;Z#125; is the set of integers of the form 1#43;2k where k runs through all elements of #92;mathbb#123;Z#125;.
ref: 2009, Lindsay N. Childs, A Concrete Introduction to Higher Algebra, 3rd edition, Springer, page 231:
topics: algebra
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The set that results from applying a group's binary operation with a given fixed element of the group on each element of a given subgroup.
wikipedia: George Abram Miller
Derived terms: double coset
left coset
multicoset
right coset
supercoset
left coset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left cosets
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A left coset of a subgroup is a copy of that subgroup, multiplied on the left by some element from the parent group
right coset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right cosets
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A copy of a subgroup, multiplied on the right by some element from the parent group.
ADS-B
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of Automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast (“automated broadcast of aircraft location information from satellite navigation systems to air traffic control networks”).
Coordinate terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Mode C
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: Mode S
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: primary radar
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: secondary radar
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: TIS-B
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: transponder
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: UAT
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-A
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-C
topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: ADS-R
morning room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning rooms
form: morning-room
Senses: glosses: A sitting-room in a large house, typically used only in daytime.
wikipedia: Waddesdon Manor
sitting-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitting-rooms
Senses: examples: text: They crossed the strip of garden, the only thing the Curate had to be proud of,—and he was proud of it,—and the door (a glass door) of a very small sitting-room stood open to receive them.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: After a not-too-intrusive hunt he discovered Paige’s address book in a drawer in the sitting-room.
ref: 2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 27, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: Alternative form of sitting room.
sitting room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitting rooms
form: sitting-room
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: living room, living-room, lounge, parlor, parlour, front room
text: “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared.[…]”
ref: 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Fate of the Artemis”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
synonyms: sitter
hypernyms: room#Noun
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place#Noun
space#Noun
coordinate_terms: family room
den#Noun
sunroom#Noun
Florida room#Noun
Arizona room#Noun
rec room#Noun
playroom#Noun
glosses: A room in a house where people (residents or guests) pass the time in leisure.
living-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living-rooms
Senses: examples: text: He blundered into the living-room, lay on the davenport, hands behind his head.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I, page 273:
text: Beyond the living-room is a glassery low-studded and heavily beamed.
ref: 1922, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta, volume 46, page 377:
text: Because they had named her Cecilia, her parents fancied that the matter of her life and character had been fairly well settled. She would, of course, be quiet and pale and mystical, like the saint whose picture hung above the old upright piano in the Kirby living-room.
ref: 1928, Lynn Montross, “Silent Minstrel”, in American Magazine, volume 106, page 14:
text: Light flooded the small living-room, with its rope flooring, utility chairs and tables, electric storage heater, and gaudy red bawneen curtains.
ref: 1973, John Broderick, An Apology for Roses, Calder & Boyars, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Open layout includes kitchen, a formal dining-room, living-room, half bath and laundry.
ref: 2022 May 13, Athol Daily News, volume LXXXVII, number 389, page B9:
text: Yet, that [Christmas] tree has seen a lot over the years; it represents so much of the distant and recent past that it deserves to have its place in the living-room. I see in its glow so many faces and events worth remembering and re-living that I am tempted to keep it in place permanently. But 40 days will do.
ref: 2023 January 15, Don Wooten, “Reasons to keep tree up until Feb. 2”, in Quad-City Times, volume 167, number 94, page A13:
glosses: Alternative form of living room.
morning suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning suits
Senses: glosses: Formal daywear consisting of a (usually) gray tailcoat and matching trousers, grey top hat, white shirt and tie or cravat. Morning dress can be worn up to 5:00 pm.
Synonyms: morning dress
Derived terms: morning-suited
Related terms: black tie
white tie
coffee morning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee mornings
Senses: glosses: A social gathering where people talk over coffee and cakes, usually to raise money for a charity.
alphas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæɫ.fəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of alpha
transition metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transition metals
Senses: glosses: Synonym of transition element.
synonyms: word: transition element
eka-boron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + boron: the name given by Dmitri Mendeleev to the then undiscovered element at the position of scandium in his periodic table.
Senses: examples: text: In 1880, Nilson and Cleve discovered in a Scandinavian mineral a new element which had the properties of eka-boron. They called it Scandium.
ref: 1902, John Charles Hessler, Albert Lincoln Smith, Essentials of Chemistry:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: scandium
Yorkshire Terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɔː(ɹ)kʃɪə(ɹ)ˈtɛɹɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Yorkshire Terriers
Senses: glosses: A breed of toy dog having a long, glossy coat.
Synonyms: Yorkie
video projector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video projectors
Senses: glosses: A device that takes a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system.
baryonic matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baryonic matters
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Matter composed of baryons and electrons.
Related terms: baryonic dark matter
baryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baryon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of baryons.
Derived terms: antibaryonic
baryonic dark matter
baryonic matter
isobaryonic
multibaryonic
nonbaryonic
non-baryonic dark matter
quarkyonic
robust association of massive baryonic objects
ice swimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The most serious cold water swimmers participate in competitive ice swimming events in bodies of water less than 41 °F (5 °C), sometimes carved out of frozen rivers or lakes and part of the International Winter Swimming Association and the International Ice Swimming Association.
ref: 2011, Steven Munatones, Open Water Swimming, Human Kinetics, page 8:
text: 2015, Alexander Armstrong, Land of the Midnight Sun: My Arctic Adventures, 2016, Penguin Random House (Corgi), page 62,
Because I am going Ice Swimming, I am meeting a club of Tromsø Ice Swimmers.
text: Winter swimming (or ice swimming) is not for everybody. People with a heart condition should not practice it.
ref: 2016, Harald Haarmann, Modern Finland, McFarland & Company, page 100:
glosses: The practice of swimming in a gap or hole in the ice of an iced-over body of water.
Hypernyms: sense: swimming in icy water
word: winter swimming
Related terms: ice swimmer
baryonic dark matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any large aggregate of ordinary matter that does not emit light.
brookite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brookites
Etymology: From Brooke + -ite, named in 1825 for English crystallographer Henry James Brooke.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown mineral form of titanium dioxide, with the chemical formula TiO₂.
wikipedia: Henry James Brooke
Derived terms: pseudobrookite
ilmenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilmenites
Etymology: Named after Ilmen Mountains in Russia + -ite in 1827.
Senses: examples: text: The basalt of Goose Island of the Ice Harbor Member is unique for the occurrence of microphenocrysts of ilmenite and titanmagnetite.
ref: 1983, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, page 9:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A weakly magnetic dark gray mineral found in metamorphic and igneous rocks; it is a mixed oxide of iron and titanium, FeTiO₃
Synonyms: menaccanite
Derived terms: ilmenitite
cuprotitanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cupro- + titanium.
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloy of copper and titanium obtained by reducing a mixture of copper and rutile.
ferrocarbon titanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alloy made by the reduction of ilmenite with coke in an electric furnace
manganotitanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mangano- + titanium.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of manganese and titanium made by reduction of a mixture of rutile and manganese
ferrotitanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + titanium.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron with 15-45% titanium; used in the manufacture of specialist steel
titanium alloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanium alloys
Senses: glosses: Any alloy of titanium and a metal or nonmetal
titanium aluminide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermetallic compound of titanium and aluminium, TiAl, used as a heat-resistant material in high-speed aircraft
in pari materia
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in pari materia.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, we seem to derive some assistance from the special nature of acts saying something by contrast with ordinary physical actions: for with these latter even the minimum physical action, which we are seeking to detach from its consequences, is, being a bodily movement, in pari materia with at least many of its immediate and natural consequences, whereas, whatever the immediate and natural consequences of an act of saying something may be, they are at least not normally other further acts of saying something, whether more particular on the speaker's own part or even on the part of others.
ref: 1962, J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (OUP paperback edition, page 113)
glosses: Dealing with the same matter or subject.
topics: law
glosses: A canon of construction holding that the meaning of an ambiguous law can be determined in light of other statutes on the same subject matter.
aluminide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aluminides
Etymology: From aluminium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any intermetallic compound of aluminium and a more electropositive element
Derived terms: columbium aluminide
copper aluminide
ferric aluminide
iron aluminide
magnesium aluminide
nickel aluminide
niobium aluminide
platinum aluminide
tantalum aluminide
titanium aluminide
uranium aluminide
titanium boride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A very hard ceramic material, TiB₂, used as a refractory and in high-temperature electrical applications
titanium carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanium carbides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A very hard ceramic material with chemical formula TiC, used in tool bits and in the preparation of cermets
genital wart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genital warts
Senses: glosses: A wart associated with a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection, caused by some types of human papillomavirus.
Synonyms: condyloma
condylomata acuminata
composite material
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composite materials
Senses: glosses: Any engineered material composed of two radically different materials in a tightly bonded matrix and having properties significantly different from either constituent.
orisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orison
block heater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: block heaters
Etymology: block+heater: From being a heating unit for a vehicular engine block
Senses: glosses: An electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather.
wikipedia: block heater
Synonyms: cylinder-block heater
engine-block heater
Hyponyms: headbolt heater
brushwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushworks
Etymology: From brush + work.
Senses: examples: text: The fake was easy to spot because of its inferior brushwork.
qualifier: painting
glosses: The technique or practice of applying and manipulating paint (usually oil or gouache) in a painting.
brewpub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brewpubs
Etymology: From brew + pub.
Senses: glosses: A public house with a brewery (usually a microbrewery) attached.
Related terms: craft brewery
microbrewery
micro-brewery
micro-brewery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-breweries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microbrewery.
fossility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fossil + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a genuine fossil.
glosses: Having qualities usually attributed to fossils, such as age combined with an absence of contemporary traits.
extremophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extremophilic
form: most extremophilic
Etymology: From extremophile + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Collect samples in volcanic springs or superheated hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and you'll find extremophilic microbes living apparently unfazed.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 95:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to the extremophiles
Derived terms: polyextremophilic
raisinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raisinates
form: raisinating
form: raisinated
form: raisinated
Etymology: From raisin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: After picking, they're left to "raisinate" (dry and shrivel) on straw mats.
ref: 2005, Kevin Zraly, Windows On The World Complete Wine Course:
glosses: To take on the qualities of raisins
raw_tags: of grapes
raisinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raisinate
form: most raisinate
Etymology: From raisin + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: You squeeze these raisinate berries and the rich, concentrated juice slowly ferments.
ref: 2004, Jean Pierre Rossouw, Mixed Case: A Unique Guide to the Cape Winelands:
glosses: Having the qualities of raisins.
coffee maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee makers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffeemaker.
coffeemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeemakers
form: coffee maker
form: coffee-maker
Etymology: From coffee + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Upholsterer, Letter-Carrier, Foreign-Post, Coffee-maker, of each one.
ref: 1681, Thomas De Laune, The Present State of London, page 113:
text: If your cook is not habitually a good coffee-maker, the coffee will most probably be sent in cold, thick, and weak—for want of some previous supervision.
ref: 1839, Eliza Leslie, The Behaviour Book, page 35:
text: To be sure it had to be taken without milk, but there was plenty of sugar, and when Rod passed his tin cup for a second helping, the coffee-maker's face fairly beamed with gratified pride.
ref: 1892, Kirk Munroe, Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy, page 47:
text: One of the tests by which a Greek goddess is measured is the quality of her Greek coffee. There are many ways to prepare it, and a flawless result is uncontestable proof of proper technique. Medium, sweet, plain, “heavy” and sweet, “heavy” with no sugar, with or without a film of foamy bubbles are some of the many variations of an expert coffee maker. Can she prepare good coffee? She’s a goddess!
ref: 2018, Katerina Tsemperlidou, translated by Alexandra Kalapothaki, Greek Women are Goddesses, AKAKIA Publications, →ISBN:
synonyms: coffeeman
coffeewoman
glosses: A person who makes coffee.
examples: text: There is also the Fountain coffee-maker, in which a body of steam, passing upwards through the body of ground coffee, carries over the infusion, which collects in a chamber.
ref: 1883, A Cup of Coffee, London, page 79:
text: As he poured water into the coffeemaker, Ben watched several deer grazing ... While the coffeemaker gurgled, Ben remained entranced by the deer.
ref: 2005, Bill Schneider, Second Chapter:
glosses: Any of several different types of kitchen apparatus used to brew and filter coffee.
raise a stink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises a stink
form: raising a stink
form: raised a stink
form: raised a stink
Senses: examples: text: If nothing happens when you ask nicely, raise a stink until something gets done.
glosses: To complain; to demand attention or remedy for a problem.
Synonyms: make a stink
prorupted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prorupt
prorupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prorupted
form: most prorupted
Senses: glosses: Having burst forth.
prorupt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prorupts
form: prorupting
form: prorupted
form: prorupted
Senses: glosses: To cause something to burst forth.
prorupt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prorupt
form: most prorupt
Senses: examples: text: When a country - Thailand for example - is nearly compact in shape but also has part of its territory in the form of a corridor leading away from its main body, it is said to have a prorupt shape.
ref: 1999, Milan N. Vego, Naval Strategy and Operations in Narrow Seas:
glosses: Split into a major part and a minor part joined by a short corridor.
raw_tags: of a landmass or other shape
Related terms: proruption
sliding door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sliding doors
Senses: examples: text: However, before Zoe could open the first cage, Burt’s van, looking decidedly the worse for wear, came thundering into the warehouse, smashing the huge metal sliding door into the air as it did so
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: Thus, the ScotRail plan was to totally refurbish the trailer vehicles, with new sliding doors and a host of other improvements.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 50:
glosses: A door that opens and closes by sliding to the side; sometimes one of a pair.
examples: sliding door(s) moment, sliding door(s) decision
glosses: Denotes a crucial decision point at which outcomes diverge depending on which of two courses is followed.
raw_tags: from the plot of the film 'Sliding Doors'
Related terms: up and over door
up and over door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: up and over doors
Senses: glosses: A door that is hinged so that, when it opens, the bottom part rises vertically and the top part is drawn back; often used in garages.
Related terms: sliding door
negotiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of negotiate
heliology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helio- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: heliophysics
hoss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔːs
Forms: form: hosses
form: hawss
Etymology: Non-rhotic pronunciation of horse; see also 'oss in English dialects with h-dropping.
Senses: examples: text: "Them hosses are feeling their oats," said McGuire. "Can't tell what they'd be up to the minute I turned my back on 'em. Might jump that old fence and be off, for all I know."
ref: 1922, Max Brand [pseudonym; Frederick Schiller Faust], Alcatraz:
text: “That ole black hoss let out a whinny.”
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 563:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of horse.
examples: text: So here I was, fondling all sorts of fine mats, when a hoss of a woman screeched into her cell phone, rattling the lamps in the light fixture aisle.
ref: 2004 December 8, Susan Reinhardt, “Facing my fear: Doing Disney with the crowds”, in Asbury Park Press, page 18:
glosses: A big, strong and respected or dependable person, usually a man; one who is large like a horse.
examples: text: What's up, hoss?
glosses: Term of address for a man.
glosses: A car.
Synonyms: sense: man
word: dude
sense: man
word: man
sense: man
word: brother
sense: man
word: guy
sense: man
word: chap
sense: man
word: comrade
sense: man
word: bub
Derived terms: hoss opera
one-hoss shay
easterlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of easterly
nilghai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nilghais
form: nilghai
Senses: examples: text: […]when the Pack drives the nilghai, the big blue cow, before them, and it seemed to come from the very ends of the earth, nearer, and nearer, and nearer, till it ended in a shriek snapped off short.
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book:
glosses: Alternative form of nilgai.
negligibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbli/
ipa: /ˈnɛɡləd͡ʒəbli/
Etymology: From negligible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thus if the spherical surface beings are living on a planet of which the solar system occupies only a negligibly small part of the spherical universe, they have no means of determining whether they are living in a finite or in an infinite universe.
ref: 1920, Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory:
glosses: To a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored.
Synonyms: insignificantly
Derived terms: nonnegligibly
Related terms: neglect
neglectful
negligence
negligent
negligently
negligibility
negligible
pistillum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistilla
Etymology: From Latin pistillum. Doublet of pestle and pistil.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pistil.
pestling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛsəlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pestle
pestled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛsəld/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pestle
salt cellars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt cellar
pepper pots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pepper pot
hosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoss
epimorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimorphisms
Etymology: From epi- + morphism.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A morphism p such that for any other pair of morphisms f and g, if f∘p=g∘p, then f = g.
Synonyms: epi
Hyponyms: isomorphism
bimorphism | split epimorphism
coequalizer
Derived terms: epimorphic
Related terms: epic
isomorphism
monomorphism
codomain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊ.doʊˈmeɪn/
Forms: form: codomains
Etymology: From co- + domain.
Senses: examples: text: Definition 2.5. A function is onto if each element of the codomain has at least one element of the domain assigned to it. In other words, a function is onto if the range equals the codomain.
ref: 1994, Richard A. Holmgren, A First Course in Discrete Dynamical Systems, Springer, page 11:
text: Once we have described f as a function from A to B, by convention we will call B the codomain, even though other sets, of which B is a subset, could have been used.[…]If y is an element of the codomain, then y#92;in#92;mathit#123;Img#125;(f,A) iff there is some x in the domain such that f maps x to y.
ref: 2006, Robert L. Causey, Logic, Sets, and Recursion, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 192:
text: For example, the codomain of g(X)#61;X³ consists of all real numbers. A function links each element in its domain to some element in its codomain. Each domain element is linked to exactly one codomain element.
ref: 2017, Alan Garfinkel, Jane Shevtsov, Yina Guo, Modeling Life: The Mathematics of Biological Systems, Springer, page 12:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The target set into which a function is formally defined to map elements of its domain; the set denoted Y in the notation f : X → Y.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The target set into which a function is formally defined to map elements of its domain; the set denoted Y in the notation f : X → Y.
The set B.
raw_tags: of a binary relation R between A and B
Synonyms: sense: target set of a function
word: range
share dilution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: share dilutions
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The loss in value of the shares of a company or a lowering of someone’s stake in it resulting from the issuance of new shares.
Synonyms: stock dilution
access control
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: access controls
Senses: glosses: The practice of restricting entrance to a property, a building, or a room to authorized persons.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
technology
glosses: Permitting or denying the use of a particular resource.
Synonyms: AC
Derived terms: access control list
calefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calefies
form: calefying
form: calefied
form: calefied
form: calefie
Senses: glosses: To become warm or hot.
glosses: To make warm or hot.
Related terms: calefaction
unwrinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwrinkled
form: most unwrinkled
Etymology: From un- + wrinkled.
Senses: examples: text: an unwrinkled face
text: Where hee beheld the Sea’s unwrinkled face,
Smile again on him with alluring Grace.
ref: 1649, Leonard Willan (translator), The Phrygian Fabulist or, The Fables of Æsop, London: Nicolas Bourn, 101. “The Shipwrackct Shepherd,” p. 84, Emtie escaping, home return’d again; A few daies after to the same place came
text: Where pity, to the mind conveyed
In pleasure, is the darkest shade
That Time, unwrinkled grandsire, flings
From his smoothly gliding wings.
ref: 1832, William Wordsworth, “The Gleaner (Suggested by a picture)”, in The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, volume 3, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, page 253:
text: His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
ref: 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:
text: Muley’s face was smooth and unwrinkled, but it wore the truculent look of a bad child’s, the mouth held tight and small, the little eyes half scowling, half petulant.
ref: 1939, John Steinbeck, chapter 6, in The Grapes of Wrath, Pengin, published 1992, page 61:
text: The lieutenant of the watch, his telescope quite dazzling with polished brass and pipe-clayed twine, wore spotless and unwrinkled white trousers; the buttons on his well-fitting coat winked in the sunshine.
ref: 1953, C. S. Forester, chapter 9, in Hornblower and the Atropos, London: Michael Joseph:
synonyms: wrinkle-free
wrinkleless
glosses: Without wrinkles.
unwrinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + wrinkled.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwrinkle
wrinkle-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrinkle-free
form: most wrinkle-free
form: wrinkle free
Etymology: From wrinkle + -free.
Senses: examples: text: At 67, her face was remarkably wrinkle-free.
synonyms: smooth
unlined
unwrinkled
wrinkleless
glosses: Without wrinkles.
glosses: wrinkle resistant
broad across the beam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of broad in the beam.
Related terms: broad-beamed
broad in the beam
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: broad across the beam
form: broad-beamed
Senses: examples: text: Ah! She's not that old green launch with a yellow line, very broad in the beam?
ref: 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Baker Street Irregulars”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 145:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Wide across the hull.
raw_tags: of a ship
examples: text: [T]he women of Falesa are a handsome lot to see. If they have a fault, they are a trifle broad in the beam.
ref: 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 1, in Island Nights' Entertainments:
qualifier: especially a female
glosses: Wide across the hips, with large buttocks.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: broad on the beam
emic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːmɪk/
rhymes: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more emic
form: most emic
Etymology: Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonemic.
* Kenneth Lee Pike (1982), Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics, page 44: “Generalizing from phonemics, I coined the term emic in 1954.”
Senses: examples: text: A useful example of the emic-etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the perspective of a European American with that of a Truk Islander […] The proposed etics here might be that both cultures understand the use of waves as vehicles for surfing and as movement reflecting the transfer of energy […] certain differences, or emics exist, for European Americans the waves may be sources of beauty — the Truk Islander has learned to use them […] as a road map.
ref: 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention:
text: In contemporary Anglophone usage, the term 'dhow' has come to refer generically and exonymically to traditional wooden vessels of the western Indian Ocean, whatever their particular forms or emic classification.
ref: 2015, John P. Cooper, Dionisius A. Agius, Tom Collie, Faisal al-Naimi, “Boat and ship engravings at al-Zubārah, Qatar: the dāw exposed?”, in Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, volume 45: Papers from the forty-eighth meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at the British Museum, London, 25 to 27 July 2014 (2015), →ISSN, pages 35–47:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the analysis of a cultural system or its features from the perspective of a participant in that culture.
Coordinate terms: etic
Derived terms: emically
emicness
etic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: more etic
form: most etic
Etymology: Coined by American linguist Kenneth Pike in 1954 from phonetic.
* Kenneth Lee Pike (1962), With Heart and Mind: A Personal Synthesis of Scholarship and Devotion, page 37: “I have coined the term etic to refer to the detached observer’s view […]”
Senses: examples: text: A useful example of the emic-etic distinction may be made by comparing the concept “waves on the ocean or sea” from the perspective of a European American with that of a Truk Islander […] The proposed etics here might be that both cultures understand the use of waves as vehicles for surfing and as movement reflecting the transfer of energy […] certain differences, or emics exist, for European Americans the waves may be sources of beauty — the Truk Islander has learned to use them […] as a road map.
ref: 1996, Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for Substance Abuse Prevention:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
Coordinate terms: emic
Derived terms: etically
eticness
rugger bugger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rugger buggers
Etymology: Chosen for the rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is fanatical about sports, especially rugby union, and who can be loud and unpleasant to other people.
anthropic principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropic principles
Senses: examples: text: The Anthropic Principle states that the universe seems to be arranged in a way that favours the appearance and survival of life.
ref: 1994, Anthony Weir, Dispatches from the War Against the World:
text: A remarkably delicate balance between the small scale phenomena of atomic and nuclear physics and the large scale phenomena of astronomy and cosmology is required for the Universe to be hospitable to chemically based life. Efforts to prove that this must be so are sometimes dignified by the name "anthropic principle."
ref: 1997 Virginia Trimble - Cosmology: Where in the $&#** - Beam Line: Fall 1997
text: Sheldon: The anthropic principle states that if we wish to explain why our universe exists the way it does, the answer is that it must have qualities that allow intelligent creatures to arise who are capable of asking the question, as I am doing so eloquently right now.
Leonard: I know what the anthropic principle is.
Sheldon: Of course, I just explained it to you. Now, where do you stand on it?
Leonard: Where do you stand on it?
Sheldon: Strongly pro.
Leonard: Then I believe that God created the world in six days, and on the seventh he made you to annoy me.
ref: 2012 September 27, “The Date Night Variable”, in The Big Bang Theory, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter:
glosses: Any of several similar explanations for the nature of the universe, and for the values of its fundamental constants, that states either that the universe is as it is because otherwise we wouldn't be here to observe it, or that the very presence of intelligent life constrains the universe to be as it is.
Derived terms: strong anthropic principle
weak anthropic principle
Related terms: fine-tuned universe
Goldilocks principle
mud volcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud volcanoes
form: mud volcanos
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
synonyms: hervidero
macaluba
mud cone
mud dome
salse
glosses: A conical structure formed by the eruption of rock fragments and wet mud along with hot gases.
visto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪstəʊ/
Forms: form: vistos
Etymology: From Italian visto.
Senses: examples: text: Through the long visto of a thousand years
ref: 1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim’d. In Two Parts. Containing, the Nature, Proof, and Importance of Immortality. Part the First. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:
glosses: A vista or a prospect.
veduta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vedutas
form: vedute
Etymology: From Italian veduta. Doublet of view.
Senses: glosses: A highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista.
gekko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gekkos
form: gekkoes
Senses: examples: text: Egrets, shrikes, and Louisiana herons rose and settled lazily, and there were strange insect noises and the call of frogs and gekkos.
ref: 1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 7, in The Man with the Golden Gun:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gecko.
tax clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax clinics
Senses: glosses: A volunteer organization where income tax returns are prepared for qualifying low income tax payers.
falseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falsenesses
Etymology: From false + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All falseness collapses under the weight of denied truth.
ref: 2016, Justin Deschamps, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: The characteristic of being false.
Synonyms: fabrication
falsehood
falsity
fiction
untruth
petrodollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrodollar
examples: text: The mid-east is awash in petrodollars that need to be invested.
glosses: Money earned through the sale of petroleum.
petrodollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtɹə(ʊ)ˌdɒlə/
ipa: /ˈpɛtɹoʊˌdɑlɚ/
Forms: form: petrodollars
Etymology: From petro- (prefix meaning ‘petroleum; oil export’) + dollar, possibly modelled after Eurodollar.
Senses: qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Money (either notionally or specifically in dollars or other currencies) earned from the sale of oil, often especially as considered among a national economy's principal revenue streams.
Coordinate terms: agridollars
ecodollars
narcodollars
Related terms: petrocurrency
petroeuro
petromoney
petropound
foul-smelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foul-smelling
form: most foul-smelling
Senses: glosses: Having an unpleasant odor.
giornata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giornatas
form: giornate
Etymology: Italian giornata (literally “day”)
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The amount of painting that can be done in a day, important in producing frescos.
giornate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giornata
sweet-smelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sweet-smelling
form: sweeter-smelling
form: most sweet-smelling
form: sweetest-smelling
form: sweet smelling
form: sweetsmelling
Senses: examples: text: It was always rather refreshing to find oneself among the sweet-smelling timber and the more peaceful atmosphere of a wood-working place, on a day-work and not piece-work basis.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
text: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., which tried and failed to market a smokeless cigarette in the late 1980s, announced plans for a sweeter-smelling cigarette Monday.
ref: 1994 October 11, Times Wire Services, “R.J. Reynolds to Introduce Less-Smelly Cigarette […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 Jun 2025:
text: Before each game, before the final pep talk, Krystkowiak lights the rope, spreading the scent and giving Utah the sweetest-smelling locker room in college basketball.
ref: 2015 March 16, John Branch, “Utah’s Season Is So Sweet, Even the Lockers Smell Nice”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Having a pleasant scent.
glosses: Liked, appreciated or respected.
Synonyms: sense: having a pleasant scent
word: suaveolent
sense: having a pleasant scent
word: sweet-scented