cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forethought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)θɔːt/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈθɔːt/
Etymology: From Middle English forethouht, forethoght, from Old English *foreþōht (“forethought”); equivalent to fore- + thought. See also forethink.
Senses: examples: c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
Forethought malice.
synonyms: aforethought
premeditated
glosses: Thought of, or planned, beforehand.
forethought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)θɔːt/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈθɔːt/
Etymology: From Middle English forethouht, forethoght, from Old English *foreþōht (“forethought”); equivalent to fore- + thought. See also forethink.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forethink
ride one's luck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides one's luck
form: riding one's luck
form: rode one's luck
form: ridden one's luck
Senses: examples: text: Blackburn rode their luck to beat a battling West Brom as they moved up to seventh in the Premier League table.
ref: 2011 January 23, Alistair Magowan, “Blackburn 2 - 0 West Brom”, in BBC:
glosses: To avoid failure only by good fortune.
remotely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmoʊtli/
Forms: form: more remotely
form: most remotely
Etymology: From remote + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “We have an accommodation and an acceptance that people will work from home one to two days a week,” says McConnell. But some people work remotely more than others, and she’s empowered her management team to make decisions that work for their direct reports.
ref: 2021 April 21, Amy Gunia, “What Will Office Life Be Like After the Pandemic? This Australian Fintech Company May Have the Answer”, in Time:
glosses: At a distance, far away.
examples: text: I'm not remotely in love with you.
glosses: Not much; scarcely; hardly.
populated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more populated
form: most populated
Senses: glosses: That has, or is supplied with, inhabitants or content.
Derived terms: equipopulated
nonpopulated
overpopulated
superpopulated
underpopulated
populated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of populate
semantically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more semantically
form: most semantically
Etymology: From semantic + -ally.
Senses: examples: 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: In the manner of or referring to semantics.
self-contained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlf.kənˌteɪnd/
Forms: form: more self-contained
form: most self-contained
Etymology: From self- + contained.
Senses: examples: text: a self-contained apartment
text: The software is self-contained, and doesn't interface with anything except the user.
text: Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
text: All these were based broadly on the management framework of the old companies, except that the former Southern and North Eastern Areas of the old L.N.E.R. became separate management units, while the former L.M.S.R. and L.N.E.R. lines north of the Border were fused into a self-contained Scottish Region.
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
text: Each of these can be further sub-divided into self-contained divisions; the technical research department, for example, includes Engineering and Chemical Divisions.
ref: 1961 February, R. K. Evans, “The role of research on British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 92:
text: Whereas the history of the London Underground is generally very fiddly, the history of the Waterloo & City is blessedly self-contained and simple.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 109:
text: Merseyrail is, in effect, a self-contained network with eight termini. At six of these [...], passengers can transfer onto national rail network services.
ref: 2020 December 16, Chris Howe, “Merseyrail sets its sights on network expansion”, in Rail, page 34:
glosses: Not requiring external or additional support; complete in itself.
glosses: Of a person, wrapped up in oneself; reserved.
self-contained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlf.kənˌteɪnd/
Etymology: From self- + contained.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-contain
Hypernyms: contained
shipbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipbuildings
form: ship-building
Etymology: From ship + building.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The construction of ships.
glosses: A construction of a ship.
Related terms: shipbuilder
boatbuilding
self-assured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-assured
form: most self-assured
Etymology: From self- + assured.
Senses: synonyms: assured#Adjective
coordinate_terms: self-righteous
;
self-satisfied
;
smug#Adjective
;
complacent
glosses: Assured by or of one's self; confident in one's own abilities.
Related terms: self-insured
on the back foot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on the back footing
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having the weight on the back foot in order to play a defensive stroke
raw_tags: of a batsman
examples: text: Lawson wasn't going to be put on the back foot by Brian Duff. "I don't know what you're on about. But I've kept my nose clean for over twenty years.
ref: 2003, Val McDermid, The distant echo, page 184:
text: Now I was the one on the back foot. He liked me. "Really?" "I'd like to take you out when we're back in LA"
ref: 2005, Clare Naylor with Mimi Hare, The Second Assistant: A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder, page 289:
text: She was on the back foot now. I had taken the initiative good and proper.
ref: 2008, Sue Limb, Zoe & Chloe on the Prowl, page 112:
text: Thitinan said Yingluck's decision to skip the verdict hearing will have "emboldened" the military government. "They would not have wanted to put her in jail, in this scenario, (but her not showing up today) puts her on the back foot and gives them an edge."
ref: 2017 August 25, Euan McKirdy et al, "Arrest warrant to be issued for former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra", in edition.cnn.com, CNN
text: HS2 Ltd is presumably on the back foot in its relations with Government, because of its cost increases.
ref: 2021 November 17, William Barter, “Will ten platforms do for HS2 at Euston terminus?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 33:
glosses: in a defensive posture; on the defensive; off balance; at a disadvantage.
Related terms: backfoot
wrong-foot
quarterfinalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterfinalists
Etymology: From quarter + finalist or quarterfinal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a person or team that takes part in a quarterfinal
packaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of package
packaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packagings
Senses: glosses: The act of packing something.
examples: text: Nearly 200 chemicals connected to breast cancer are used in the making of food packaging and plastic tableware, and dozens of those carcinogens can migrate into the human body, a new study found.
ref: 2024 September 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: The materials used to pack something.
glosses: The industry that produces such material.
examples: text: Do Amaral seems to belong more to a Europian ^([sic]) tradition than to any of the artistic pigeonholes currently in vogue in the States. His failure to show allegiance to any one medium makes him resistant to the relentless packaging that is a feature even of much avant garde American art.
ref: 1982 December 18, Rob Schmieder, “A Welcome Anomaly”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 22, page 10:
glosses: The manner in which a person or product is promoted.
Derived terms: nanopackaging
nonpackaging
packaging gas
postage and packaging
salary packaging
wackaging
hot shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot shoes
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A fixture on a camera to which a separate flash unit may be attached, equipped with an electrical connection which transmits the firing signal from the camera to the flash.
Related terms: accessory shoe
cold shoe
hot-spirited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot-spirited
form: most hot-spirited
Senses: glosses: hotheaded
hot spring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot springs
Senses: meronyms: onsen
glosses: A natural spring producing water whose temperature is greater than about 20 °C (68 °F).
Synonyms: word: geyser
word: thermae
Derived terms: Ainsworth Hot Springs
hot tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot taps
Senses: glosses: The tap (of a pair) that produces hot water (the other being the cold tap)
cold tap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold taps
Senses: glosses: The tap (of a pair) that produces cold water (the other being the hot tap)
hot tear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tears
Senses: topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fracture in a metal casting that occurs during solidification as a result of hindered contraction.
hot tearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tearings
Senses: glosses: the formation of a fracture in a metal casting during solidification as a result of hindered contraction
agnolotti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌanjəˈlɒtɪ/
ipa: /ˌænjəˈlɑti/
ipa: /ˌɑnjəˈlɑti/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: agnolottis
Etymology: From Italian agnolotti, plural of agnolotto; see there for more.
Senses: glosses: A type of square or rectangular ravioli from Piedmont made from a small sheet of pasta folded up.
zero-length launching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: zero-length launch
glosses: A technique in which the first motion of the missile or aircraft removes it from the launcher, typically before the missile fuel or aircraft engine is fired.
Related terms: JATO
RATO
bavette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: bavettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French bavette (“slobber-inducing”).
Senses: topics: food
lifestyle
meat
meats
glosses: A kind of beefsteak
beef flank steak
topics: food
lifestyle
meat
meats
glosses: A kind of beefsteak
beef flap steak
topics: food
lifestyle
meat
meats
glosses: A kind of beefsteak
beef skirt steak
bavette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: From Italian bavette (“bavetta”) (dribble-inducing).
Senses: qualifier: pasta
glosses: A type of thick spaghetti.
zero point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero points
Etymology: From early restandardization, possibly under influence of established US military terms such as zero hour, of the prior term point zero, which was coined during the Trinity Project, as point + zero, with zero being the code name for the Trinity test location. The original sense was that of ground zero and referred to only latitude and longitude, without regard to altitude, until the latter term's coinage in 1946.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The location of the center of a burst of a nuclear weapon at the instant of detonation. The zero point may be in the air, or on or beneath the surface of land or water, depending upon the type of burst, and it is thus to be distinguished from ground zero.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Ground zero.
zero point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: synonyms: yeh yeh
glosses: A children's game involving jumping over a chain of linked elastic bands.
Related terms: zero-point energy
bigoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bigoli.
Senses: glosses: A type of spaghetti, with a rough texture, from the Veneto.
inspissant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspissants
Senses: glosses: A thickening agent.
inspissant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That thickens.
Related terms: inspissate
zone of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zones of fire
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An area into which a designated ground unit or fire support ship delivers, or is prepared to deliver, fire support. Fire may or may not be observed.
zone of action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zones of action
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A tactical subdivision of a larger area, the responsibility for which is assigned to a tactical unit; generally applied to offensive action.
Related terms: sector
scientific name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientific names
Senses: examples: text: From the point of view of biology, a bird has both a scientific name and a common name.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
text: There’s the Thor fly in tribute of the God of Thunder, played in Marvel by Chris Hemsworth. Its scientific name is “Daptolestes bronteflavus,” which is derived from Latin like most scientific names – and translates to “blond thunder.” […] There’s the Loki fly, in honor of the tortured God of Mischief, whose scientific name is “Daptolestes illusiolautus,” meaning elegant deception.
ref: 2020 July 29, Jessie Yeung, “Australia names new species after Deadpool, Thor, and other Marvel favorites”, in CNN:
glosses: A formal name according to an internationally accepted standard, especially the formal name of a taxon.
Synonyms: word: Latin name
Hyponyms: botanical name
zoological name: valid name
binomen
binomial
binomial name
binominal
binominal name
dionym
species name
trinomial name
area of influence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: areas of influence
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see area, influence.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A geographical area wherein a commander is directly capable of influencing operations by maneuver or fire support systems normally under the commander’s command or control.
Related terms: sector
cheating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheat
cheating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Forms: form: cheatings
Senses: examples: text: the cheatings and impositions of your pitiful trade
ref: 1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Disowned:
glosses: An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity.
examples: text: Cheating is the sixth C of Cinematography ... it is the art of arranging people, objects or actions, during filming or editing
ref: 1965, Joseph V. Mascelli, The Five C’s of Cinematography:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: The arrangement of people or items in a film so as to give the (false) impression that shots are taken from different angles in the same location.
Derived terms: anticheating
contract cheating
cybercheating
cheating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃiːtɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːtɪŋ
Forms: form: more cheating
form: most cheating
Senses: glosses: Unsporting or underhand.
glosses: Unfaithful or adulterous.
Derived terms: cheatingly
noncheating
uncheating
Related terms: Cheating in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
intervening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intervenings
Senses: glosses: intervention; mediation
intervening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That intervenes or mediates.
examples: text: This is not to criticise Ghosh's use of such lexis, but just to point out that Ghosh's use of such lexis must be regarded as examples of re-use and not as evidence of continued use over the intervening period.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256:
glosses: Falling between two periods or events.
Derived terms: interveningly
unintervening
intervening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intervene
Derived terms: intervening cause
intervening variable
Hist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: History (in journal titles such as "J Hist Neurosci" - "Journal of the History of Neuroscience").
burdens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of burden
burdens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burden
skiagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiagrams
form: sciagram
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A picture or image created from shadows, especially with X-rays.
Synonyms: sense: image created from shadows
word: radiograph
sense: image created from shadows
word: skiagraph
trimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪmd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trim
trimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪmd/
Forms: form: more trimmed
form: most trimmed
Senses: glosses: that has been trimmed
glosses: furnished with trimmings
pulvil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pulvillio.
assigned servant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assigned servants
Senses: examples: text: And be it further Enacted, by the authority and with the advice aforesaid, That the time during which every offender shall continue in or at any gaol, port, or place of confinement, penitentiary or factory, or as an assigned servant, shall be taken and reckoned in part discharge of the term of his or her transportation.
ref: 1831, British House of Commons, House of Commons Papers, volume 9, page 34:
text: To be sure, the assigned servant is liable to be called upon, even in the middle of the night, “upon any necessary occasion or emergency;” but as this is an affliction, incident to every servant, bond or free, we must not consider it in any manner as a drawback upon his general advantages.[…]In the first place, where is the master, who, upon receiving an assigned servant, applies himself with all his energy to reform him ?
ref: 1833, The Hobart Town Magazine, volume 1, page 71:
text: The assigned servant had the right to make a complaint of his master, but this was, in the nature of things, hardly more than a nominal limitation of the power of the master over the servant.
ref: 1949, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Sir John Franklin in Tasmania, 1837-1843, page 76:
text: An assigned servant had greater freedom than those in the Female Factory, but was away from the company and society of other women convicts, and under much closer 24-hour surveillance by the master or mistress of the house.
ref: 2005, Jeff Atkinson, Mary Proctor: Convict, Pioneer and Settler, page 36:
glosses: A convict assigned to work as a servant for a free settler (either a male or female convict, and either a male or female settler).
government man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: government men
Senses: glosses: A representative of the government.
glosses: A supporter of the government.
examples: text: Whatever it was that had happened to him in the old times when he was a Government man he didn′t talk about.
ref: 1888, Rolf Boldrewood, Robbery Under Arms, Gutenberg eBook #1198:
glosses: A convict.
public servant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public servants
Senses: examples: text: Whitlam redefined the Labor Party as the party of Deakinite liberalism and the natural home of good public servants like his father. He was, he said, the first Prime Minister of Australia who had lived in Canberra, ‘the son of a great public servant, among whose colleagues were great public servants’.
ref: 2003, Judith Brett, Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class: From Alfred Deakin to John Howard, page 145:
text: Today, Fraser says of Tange: ‘He was one of the best public servants Australia has ever had’.
ref: 2010, Malcolm Fraser, Margaret Simons, Malcolm Fraser: The Political Memoirs, page 192:
text: While the Westminster system has not changed over the past 30 years, there has been major cultural change amongst Australian public servants.
ref: 2012, Rodney Smith, Ariadne Vromen, Ian Cook, Contemporary Politics in Australia: Theories, Practices and Issues, page 242:
synonyms: civil servant
glosses: A person employed by the government.
examples: text: And whosoever shall refuse any one of his three Essays [...] shall be deem'd a Helot or public Servant, shall pay a fifth part of his yearly Revenue, besides all other Taxes, to the Common-wealth for his Protection, and be incapable of bearing any Magistracy except such as is proper to the Law.
ref: 1656, James Harrington, Oceana:
text: Immediately / Was Samson as a public servant brought, / In thir state Livery clad; before him Pipes / And Timbrels, on each side went armed guards, / Both horse and foot before him and behind / Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears.
ref: 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes:
text: […]notwithstanding an order which was given by Governor Phillip, in which the colony were informed, that the public servants (convicts) had no property, their clothing, time, and labour, being the property of the Government, and not at their own disposal.
ref: 1802, George Barrington, The history of New South Wales including Botany Bay, Port Jackson, Parramatta, Sydney, and all its Dependancies, page 250:
text: For special reasons, the use of convicts as public servants warrants separate attention.
ref: 1994, Noel George Butlin, Forming a Colonial Economy: Australia 1810-1850, page 75:
glosses: Someone who labours for the public good; a convict assigned to work on public projects.
interphalangeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + phalangeal.
Senses: glosses: Between phalanges, as with an interphalangeal joint.
interphalangeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interphalangeals
Etymology: From inter- + phalangeal.
Senses: glosses: Any such bone
satisfice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsætɪsfaɪs/
Forms: form: satisfices
form: satisficing
form: satisficed
form: satisficed
Etymology: 1560, Northern alteration of satisfy, probably influenced in form by Latin satisfacere.
Senses: glosses: To satisfy.
satisfice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsætɪsfaɪs/
Forms: form: satisfices
form: satisficing
form: satisficed
form: satisficed
Etymology: Blend of satisfy + suffice, coined by American political scientist and psychologist Herbert A. Simon in 1956.
Senses: examples: text: Evidently, organisms adapt well enough to ‘satisfice’; they do not, in general, ‘optimize’.
ref: 1956, H[erbert] A. Simon, “Rational Choice and the Structure of the Environment”, in Psychological Review, volume 63, number 2, page 129:
text: [T]here are two contrasting types of decision-making mentalities, maximizing and satisficing. If you're choosing a marriage partner, you probably want to maximize. You want to find the very best person you are totally in love with. […] But politics is not like that. Politics is a prosaic activity most of the time. You probably want to satisfice, pick the person who's good enough, who seems reasonably responsible.
ref: 2015 December 4, David Brooks, “No, Donald Trump won't win [print version: International New York Times, 5–6 December 2015, page 9]”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2015:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of human behavior: to make a choice that suffices to fulfill the minimum requirements to achieve an objective, without special regard for utility maximization or optimization of one's preferences.
Related terms: satisficer
sparrow hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparrow hawks
form: sparrow-hawk
form: sparrowhawk
Senses: glosses: The American kestrel or American sparrowhawk (Falco sparverius), a small falcon found in North and South America that preys on grasshoppers and small animals.
glosses: Alternative form of sparrowhawk; the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), a small, short-winged European hawk and other similar Old World hawks in the subfamily Accipitrinae, that prey on smaller birds.
camarilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæməˈɹɪlə/
ipa: /ˌkæməˈɹiː(j)ə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: camarillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish camarilla, from cámara (“chamber”) and the diminutive suffix -illa.
Senses: examples: text: The same lack of accountability has been even more disastrous for the two state-owned banks, which exist primarily to funnel IMF and World Bank funds to the president and his camarilla in the form of unsecured loans.
ref: 1990 September 20, Wall Street Journal:
text: The negotiation dripped with bad faith on both sides, with a powerful Austrian camarilla always seeing it as a short-term deal with the Hungarians to be followed by retribution in due course.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 369:
glosses: A secret, usually sinister, group of conspiring advisors close to the leadership; a cabal.
CAPEX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CapEx
Senses: topics: business
finance
coordinate_terms: OPEX
glosses: Acronym of capital expense or capital expenditure.
irides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪɹɪˌdiz/
/ˈaɪɹɪˌdiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of iris (part of the eye)
appendectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: appendectomies
form: appendicectomy
Etymology: From appendix + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure for the removal of the vermiform appendix.
Derived terms: appendectomize
autoappendectomy
postappendectomy
Rabe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
koniology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coniology
Etymology: Ancient Greek κονία (konía, “dust”) + -logy.
Senses: glosses: the study of dust, pollen and other airborne particles.
Related terms: koniscope
Rappe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rappes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rappe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rede
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Probably from Old English hrēod (“reed”).
Senses: glosses: A river in Northumberland, England, which joins the River North Tyne at Redesmouth.
boccale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boccales
form: boccali
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian boccale. Doublet of bocal and pokal.
Senses: examples: text: Proceeding to the small commercial liquid-measures devised to meet convenience in the retail sale of liquids, ale, beer, wine, oil, and honey, there is a marked accordance among the whole of the quarts, pots, mass, and crushka of Northern Europe, and the boccale and bozze of Southern Europe; […]
ref: 2025 July 10, Lowis D'Aguilar Jackson, Modern Metrology. A Manual of the Metrical Units and Systems of the Present Century with an Apendix Containing a Proposed English System, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: A unit of volume formerly used in Italy, varying by region.
Riegel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹiːɡəl/
Forms: form: Riegels
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Riegel am Kaiserstuhl, a municipality in the district of Emmendingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Derived terms: New Riegel
Riegelsville
Related terms: riegel
Riff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Rif (“mountains in Morocco”).
Rinne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rinnes
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Finnish Rinne, a topographic or ornamental surname from rinne (“slope”).
* Borrowed from German Rinne, a topographic surname from Middle High German rinne (“stream, spring; channel, pipe, groove”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ruck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rucks
Etymology: * As a German surname, from the noun Rücken (“back”).
* Also as a German surname, shortened from derivatives of Rüdiger.
* As an English surname, variant of Rook, itself from the noun rook (“type of crow”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Ruhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruhes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Ruhe.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Saite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saite
form: most Saite
Etymology: From Sais + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Saïs, Egypt.
glosses: Of or relating to the twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (the ‘Saite Period’).
iron filings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: small fragments of iron, filed from a bar; used to visualize the presence of a magnetic field, and as a food additive
filings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filing
Derived terms: iron filings
cerebral palsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebral palsies
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: A group of non-progressive, non-contagious conditions, caused by brain damage before birth or during infancy, characterized by impairment of muscular coordination.
Synonyms: CP
Derived terms: cerebral palsied
hot trod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot trods
Senses: glosses: The legal pursuit of Border Reivers across the English-Scottish border in order to recover stolen goods.
Related terms: hue and cry
hot-trod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-trods
form: hot-trodding
form: hot-trod
form: hot-trod
Senses: glosses: To perform the hot trod.
designer baby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designer babies
Senses: examples: text: In theory, a designer baby may be made-to-order according to a parent's desire for a particular sex, hair and eye color, and maybe even athletic ability.
ref: 2011, Tara Rodden Robinson, Genetics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 315:
glosses: A child whose genotype, and thus physical characteristics and susceptibility to hereditary disease, is selected by its parents.
beatboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beat boxing
form: beat-boxing
Senses: glosses: The practice of using one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats, rhythms and melodies for music, mainly hip hop.
beatboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beat boxing
form: beat-boxing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of beatbox
Related terms: mouth drums
mbube
gangmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌmɑːstə/
ipa: /ˈɡæŋˌmæstəɹ/
Forms: form: gangmasters
Etymology: From gang + master.
Senses: examples: text: Many who immigrate illegally fall victim to gangmasters, who exploit them for low pay under extreme conditions.
glosses: A person who employs and directs large groups of (usually agricultural) manual labourers, especially those who are poorly paid and illegally employed.
Related terms: gangmastering
hot tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot tubes
Senses: glosses: A device in some early internal combustion engines that ignited the fuel/air mixture in a tube heated by a flame
hot up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hots up
form: hotting up
form: hotted up
form: hotted up
Senses: examples: Wait for the water to hot up before adding the salt.
I hotted up my scones.
glosses: To heat up:
To increase in temperature.
examples: The choice of a new leader hots up.
Bayern München hotted up the title race with a win.
glosses: To heat up:
To become more heated.
examples: text: We move to Twankey's launderette, where the Aladdin/Bathroomdoor romance hots up.
ref: 1997, Theatre Record, volume 17, numbers 18-26, page 1644:
text: Arvind and Shiela's romance hotted up.
ref: 2001, Sayan Chatterjee, It all adds up to love, page 40:
glosses: To heat up:
To make or become more sexually appealing, enticing or exciting.
Synonyms: sense: to increase in temperature
word: heat up
sense: to increase in temperature
word: warm up
sense: to make more sexually appealing
word: sex up
RIFF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Resource Interchange File Format.
hot wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot walls
Senses: glosses: A brick wall, having enclosed flues connected to a fire, to which fruit trees are attached in order to hasten growth and ripening
Red Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Red Sea
Etymology: From Middle English Red See, Reede See, Rede See, reade sea, from Old English Rēad Sǣ, a calque of Latin Mare Rubrum, itself a calque of Ancient Greek Ἐρυθρᾱ̀ θάλασσα (Eruthrā̀ thálassa); equivalent to red + sea.
Senses: glosses: A long, narrow sea between Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; links the Suez Canal with the Arabian Sea.
glosses: A governorate in eastern Egypt
topics: government
politics
glosses: The states of the western and southern United States which consistently vote Republican in presidential elections.
hot war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot wars
Etymology: By analogy with cold war.
Senses: synonyms: shooting war
antonyms: cold war
hypernyms: war
coordinate_terms: cyberwar
glosses: A conflict in which physically violent fighting takes place between the belligerent parties.
hot well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot wells
Senses: glosses: A well whose water is supplied by a hot spring.
qualifier: condensing engines
glosses: A receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump.
hot wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot winds
Senses: examples: text: I feel a hot wind on my shoulder / And the touch of a world that is older
ref: 1982, Wall of Voodoo, “Mexican Radio”, in Call of the West:
glosses: Any wind characterized by intense heat and low relative humidity
Related terms: Leste
Levanto
leveche
Santa Ana wind
sirocco
housemother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊsˈmʌðə(ɹ)/
ipa: [haʊsˈmɐðə(ɹ)]
ipa: /hʌʊsˈmʌðɚ/
Forms: form: housemothers
Etymology: From house + mother. First use appears c. 1822. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: At length, the aged house-mother died, or rather slept away into the other world, without pain or sickness, from absolute decay; leaving her solitary partner to mourn her loss, and with an unfeigned longing to join her in the grave.
ref: 1822, Purvis and Co. (publisher), The Literary Melange; Or, Weekly Register of Literature and the Arts, page 264:
glosses: The mother of a family; the female head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.
glosses: A woman in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.
Derived terms: housemotherly
Related terms: housefather
houseparent
calced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælst/
ipa: /kalst/
rhymes: -ælst
Etymology: A back-formation from discalced, with reference to Latin calceus (“calceus, footwear”).
Senses: examples: text: In Ireland there appear to be seven or eight Carmelite Friaries, calced and discalced.
ref: 1884, William Edward Addis et al., “Carmelite”, in A Catholic Dictionary...:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:calced.
glosses: Synonym of shod, wearing shoes, particularly (Christianity) religious orders that do not eschew normal footwear.
synonyms: word: shod
extra: (Christianity) religious orders that do not eschew normal footwear
word: wearing shoes
extra: (Christianity) religious orders that do not eschew normal footwear
word: particularly
extra: (Christianity) religious orders that do not eschew normal footwear
Schall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schalls
Senses: glosses: A surname.
overemotional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəɹɪˈməʊʃənəl/
ipa: /oʊvəɹiˈmoʊʃənəl/
rhymes: -əʊʃənəl
Forms: form: more overemotional
form: most overemotional
Etymology: From over- + emotional.
Senses: glosses: Showing too much emotion.
Derived terms: overemotionally
Suez Canal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A canal in Egypt linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
diz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: dizzes
Etymology: Probably from dizen, dize (“to dress with flax for spinning”), equivalent to the first element of distaff.
Senses: examples: text: A diz is a tool that helps you remove fiber from a comb and create a nice length of top that is a consistent thickness and ready to spin. Many dizzes have holes of varying sizes, so that you can choose the size most appropriate for the yarn you intend to spin: a large hole for bulky yarn, a smaller hole for finer yarn.
ref: 2014, Beth Smith, The Spinner's Book of Fleece, page 118:
glosses: A tool, often a flat circle, with one or more holes for passing wool through to form roving of a specified thickness.
diz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: dizzes
form: dizzing
form: dizzed
form: dizzed
Etymology: Probably from dizen, dize (“to dress with flax for spinning”), equivalent to the first element of distaff.
Senses: glosses: To pass wool through a diz.
diz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪz/
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of de
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dee
hunchbacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hunchbacked
form: most hunchbacked
Etymology: From hunch + backed.
Senses: glosses: Having an abnormally curved or hunched back
Synonyms: humpbacked
kyphotic
Derived terms: hunchback
oenophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oeno- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: You open it randomly, hit several pages devoted to "Cote de Nuits" alone, and go into advanced hypertensive oenophobia (wine-sticker shock).
ref: 1997 February 17, Tony Hendra, “Best Cellars”, in New York, page 48:
text: A new wine club called 600 Grapes asks us if we suffer from "oenophobia" -- a fear of wine.
ref: 2006 October 3, Larry Lipson, “Wineline For The Republic Of Sauvignon Blanc Fanciers”, in Daily News, Los Angeles:
text: Even avid wine lovers can be struck with a temporary case of oenophobia -- fear of wine -- around Thanksgiving.
ref: 2007 November 14, Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg, “With These Strategies, Pick Your Pour”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: The fear or hatred of wine; anxiety related to wine.
hunky punk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunky punks
Senses: glosses: a grotesque carving, usually of a squatting animal, on the side of a building, especially a church.
Related terms: gargoyle
Hurrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌ.ɹɪ.ən/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹ.i.ən/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhɝ.i.ən/
Forms: form: Hurrians
form: Khurrite
Etymology: From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (Ḫu-ur-ri). Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 (ḫur-ru-um /⁠ḫurrum⁠/, “a mountain cave, cavern”) when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient people who lived in northern Mesopotamia and created a powerful kingdom called Mitanni in the 16th-13th century BC.
Hurrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌ.ɹɪ.ən/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹ.i.ən/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhɝ.i.ən/
Forms: form: more Hurrian
form: most Hurrian
form: Khurrite
Etymology: From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (Ḫu-ur-ri). Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 (ḫur-ru-um /⁠ḫurrum⁠/, “a mountain cave, cavern”) when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Hurrians or their language or culture.
Hurrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌ.ɹɪ.ən/
note: without the hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhʌɹ.i.ən/
note: US, hurry–furry merger
ipa: /ˈhɝ.i.ən/
Forms: form: Khurrite
Etymology: From Hurrian 𒄷𒌨𒊑 (Ḫu-ur-ri). Falkenstein and Kramer had once connected it to Sumerian 𒄯𒊒𒌝 (ḫur-ru-um /⁠ḫurrum⁠/, “a mountain cave, cavern”) when it was misidentified as a proper name of a mountain rather than a generic term; see the epic Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave.
Senses: glosses: The language of Hurrians, neither Indo-European nor Semitic, whose only known relative is the Urartian.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Hurrian terms
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/xhu
word: xhu
huskarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huskarls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of housecarl.
housecarl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊsˌkɑː(ɹ)l/
Forms: form: housecarls
form: huscarl
form: huskarl
Etymology: From Middle English houscarl, from Old English hūscarl, from Old Norse húskarl, equivalent to house + carl. Cognate with Old English hūsċeorl, Old Frisian hūskerl.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Scandinavian royal household troops.
hybridity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybridities
Etymology: From hybrid + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: One reason for the popularity of portmanteau words in naming language hybrids may be the fact that the names themselves embody a type of hybridity.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
glosses: Synonym of hybridism.
synonyms: word: hybridism
hyperplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to hyperplasia
Derived terms: hyperplastic gingivitis
hyperplastic polyp
nonhyperplastic
hypoallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: hypoallergenic
hypoblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypoblast + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to the hypoblast
hypoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, or pertaining to hypoplasia or hypoplasty.
Derived terms: hypoplastic anaemia
hypoplastic left heart syndrome
hypoplastic right heart syndrome
hypoplasticity
Schau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schaus
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from North German Schau, a variant of Schuh.
* Borrowed from Norwegian Schau, a variant of Skau, a topographic surname from skau (“forest”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schenkel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schenkels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schenkel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
bucatini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian bucatini, diminutive of buco (“hole”).
Senses: examples: text: You could make this with spaghetti or linguine or other types of long skinny pasta, but bucatini are what's used in Rome.
ref: 2012, Nancy Harmon Jenkins, The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, Random House Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 197:
synonyms: perciatelli
glosses: A thicker form of spaghetti with a hole running through it.
sugar honey ice tea
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Derived from the words chosen so that their initials, in sequential order, spell out shit.
Senses: glosses: Shit.
Related terms: you next Tuesday
cannelloni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannellone
Etymology: From Italian cannelloni, from Latin canna (“reed”).
Senses: examples: text: Hey, I gotta get going, my grandma is visiting so my mom is making me come home for lunch. / What's your mom making? / I dunno, cannelloni?
ref: 2025, S.E. Case, chapter 1, in Rigsby WI, volume 1: Foothold, →ISBN, retrieved 23 Aug 2025, page 4:
glosses: Wide tubes of pasta filled with a savoury stuffing and baked in the oven.
Synonyms: manicotti
Schlag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlags
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlag.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Schlauch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlauchs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlauch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
osteosarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteosarcomas
form: osteosarcomata
Etymology: From osteo- + sarcoma.
Senses: examples: text: Even small osteosarcomas can be unimaginably painful.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 43:
glosses: A type of cancer of the bone.
Derived terms: osteosarcomagenesis
cappelletti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Diminutive plural of Italian cappello (“hat”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A circular form of ravioli.
piggy in the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggies in the middle
Senses: glosses: A game where one group has to keep an object, normally a ball, within their group and away from another group or individual.
glosses: The player in that game from whom the object is kept away.
glosses: Keeping something between one's own group, away from others.
examples: text: Millions of us who work in companies of all sizes are piggies in the middle. We are trussed up, torn between the old and the new, and just trying to make things work.
ref: 2009, Susan Rice Lincoln, Mastering Web 2.0:
glosses: A person caught in an awkward situation between two other people.
Related terms: keep-away
capelli d'angelo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˌpɛli ˈdænd͡ʒələʊ/
/kəˌpɛli ˈdɑːnd͡ʒələʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian capelli d'angelo (literally “angel hair”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of angel hair (“type of pasta”).
synonyms: word: angel hair
extra: type of pasta
knuckle duster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckle dusters
form: knuckleduster
Senses: examples: text: “People like you will always be inferior to people like me ... Get fucking used to it,” the American soldier of fortune tells Leng during one of the film’s final blood-soaked battle scenes, as he prepares to puncture the Chinese hero’s throat with a razor-sharp knuckleduster.
ref: 2017 September 23, Tom Phillips, “China finds its own Top Gun and Rambo in wave of patriotic movies”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
synonyms: brass knuckles
glosses: A weapon made of metal worn around the knuckles that strengthens the impact of a punch.
knuckleduster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckledusters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of knuckle duster.
conchiglie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kɑnˈkiːljeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian conchiglie, plural of conchiglia (“animal shell; pasta shell”).
Senses: glosses: pasta shells
Related terms: conchiglioni
conchigliette
appeasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appeasing
form: most appeasing
Senses: glosses: appeasive
appeasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of appease
crespelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crespelle, plural of crespella.
Senses: glosses: Small, folded pancakes, with a savoury (or sweet) filling, sometimes served with a sauce.
Schnorchel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Schnorchel.
Senses: glosses: submarine snorkel, snort