cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
ipa: /tɹaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
homophone: tries
ipa: /tɹɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
rhymes: -ɪs
homophone: Tris
Etymology: From tri + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of tri
Related terms: tris legomenon
ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælət/
ipa: /ˈbælət/
rhymes: -ælət
Forms: form: ballots
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (suffix forming diminutive nouns); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *ballu (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz (“ball”).
Senses: examples: text: Imagine if the outcome in Michigan is close, and 75% of Biden supporters vote absentee, yet 10% or more of those ballots are rejected.
ref: 2020 September 14, Richard H. Pildes, “The three words that can avert an election nightmare”, in CNN:
text: In Wyoming, a GOP state senator forwarded an FGA draft bill to Secretary of State Chuck Gray that would prohibit sending out unsolicited absentee ballot request forms.
ref: 2024 March 17, Daniel Medina and Bob Ortega, “Emails show how a right-wing group steers GOP leaders on major policy issues”, in CNN:
qualifier: originally
glosses: A small ball placed in a container to cast a vote; now, by extension, a piece of paper or card used for this purpose, or some other means used to signify a vote.
examples: text: July 1836, A. B. (initials of author), London and Westminster Review Article XI, Bribery and Intimidation at Elections
the insufficiency of the ballot
text: In the TSSA ballot, 80% of management grade and 60% of general grade members voted to accept, on an overall turnout of 57%.
ref: 2023 March 9, Mel Holley, “TSSA accepts offer, but RMT sets new strike dates”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11:
glosses: The process of voting, especially in secret; a round of voting.
glosses: The total of all the votes cast in an election.
glosses: A list of candidates running for office; a ticket.
Synonyms: sense: paper or card used to cast a vote
word: ballot paper
sense: paper or card used to cast a vote
word: voting slip
Derived terms: absentee ballot
Australian ballot
ballotation
ballot box
ballot candy
ballot chasing
ballot collecting
ballot curing
balloter
ballotful
ballot harvesting
ballotist
ballotless
bedsheet ballot
blanket ballot
bullet ballot
butterfly ballot
down-ballot
e-ballot
long ballot
Massachusetts ballot
paper ballot
postal ballot
preballot
ranked ballot
secret ballot
short ballot
straw ballot
ballot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælət/
ipa: /ˈbælət/
rhymes: -ælət
Forms: form: ballots
form: balloting
form: balloted
form: balloted
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian balota (obsolete), ballotta (“small ball, especially one used to register a vote”), from balla (“bale, bundle”) + -otta (suffix forming diminutive nouns); or from Middle French balote (obsolete), ballotte (“small ball used to register a vote”) (also compare Middle French balotiage, French ballottage (“second ballot, runoff”)); both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *ballu (“ball”), from Proto-Germanic *balluz (“ball”).
Senses: examples: text: to ballot for a candidate
glosses: To vote or decide by ballot.
glosses: To draw lots.
examples: text: The trade union balloted its members for strike action.
glosses: To invite to vote on a proposal.
Derived terms: reballot
Related terms: english: also derived from the old practice of using balls to vote
translation: also derived from the old practice of using balls to vote
word: blackballing
polling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of poll
Derived terms: nonpolling
prepolling
telepolling
polling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollings
Senses: glosses: The action of taking a poll.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.
topics: government
politics
glosses: the process of voting in an election.
Derived terms: long polling
polling booth
polling day
polling place
polling station
prepolling
push polling
telepolling
flick off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flicks off
form: flicking off
form: flicked off
form: flicked off
Senses: glosses: To insult (someone) by showing them the back of one's fist with the middle finger extended.
glosses: To masturbate by flicking the clitoris with one's finger or fingers.
Synonyms: sense: to insult
word: give someone the finger
sense: to insult
word: flip off
sense: to insult
word: flip the bird
bifocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bi- + focal (see focus), coined in 1824 by John Isaac Hawkins, inventor of trifocals. When the concept of bifocals was originally conceived by Benjamin Franklin, he called them double spectacles.
Senses: examples: text: He unfolded a pair of bifocals and thrust them as far up the bridge of his nose as possible.
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 116:
glosses: Spectacles that have corrective lenses of two different powers; used by people who need both distance and reading glasses.
Derived terms: bifocaled
Related terms: bifocal
multifocals
trifocals
gynogenetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gynogenetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of gynogenesis.
globalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡləʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ.bə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ.bə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ.bləˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡləʉ.bə.lɑeˈzæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡlɐʉ.bə.laɪˈzæɪ.ʃən/
ipa: [ˌɡlɐʉ.bə.lɑe̯ˈzæɪ.ʃən]
Forms: form: globalizations
Etymology: From globalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: He presents Hitler’s rise as an element of the collapse of a republic confronting dilemmas of globalization with imperfect instruments and flawed leaders.
ref: 2018 June 14, Timothy Snyder, “How Did the Nazis Gain Power in Germany?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of globalisation.
Derived terms: alter-globalization
anti-globalization
antiglobalization
deglobalization
globalizationism
globalizationist
preglobalization
reglobalization
semiglobalization
slowbalization
gynogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyno- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Female parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only maternal chromosomes due to the failure of the sperm to fuse with the egg nucleus.
Derived terms: meiogynogenesis
Grignard reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grignard reactions
Etymology: After François Auguste Victor Grignard, a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The reaction of a Grignard reagent (an organo-magnesium halide) with aldehydes or ketones to form secondary or tertiary alcohols
Grignard reagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grignard reagents
Etymology: Named for François Auguste Victor Grignard, a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkyl or aryl magnesium halide, used in the Grignard reaction to form substituted alcohols; they are formed from alkyl or aryl halides and metallic magnesium
wikipedia: Victor Grignard
Grignard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A French surname.
Derived terms: Grignard reagent
Grignard reaction
Nobel laureate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nō-bĕl' lôr'ē-ĭt/
Forms: form: Nobel laureates
Senses: glosses: A person who has been awarded a Nobel Prize.
Synonyms: Nobelist
croquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krō-kĕt'
ipa: /kɹoʊˈkɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: croquettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French croquette, from croquer (“to crunch”) + -ette (suffix indicating diminution). Doublet of korokke.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A minced, cooked food (usually meat or vegetables), which is deep-fried in fat and sometimes sprinkled with breadcrumbs.
Related terms: croquet
landau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæn.dɔː/
ipa: /ˈlæn.daʊ/
enpr: lăn'dô'
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: landaus
Etymology: Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields contained a prodigious number of quarterings, betokening the antiquity and splendour of the house of Clavering and Snell.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well to follow them, when up the lane came a neat little landau, the coachman with his coat only half buttoned, and his tie under his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of the buckles.
ref: 1891 June 25, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Adventure I.—A Scandal in Bohemia.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume II, London: George Newnes, Limited, […], published July 1891, →OCLC, page 68, column 2:
coordinate_terms: berlin
calèche
glosses: A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
glosses: A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.
Derived terms: landaulet
landaulette
Terrence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, variant of Terence.
poignant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪnjənt/
ipa: [ˈpɔɪɲ.ənt]
ipa: /ˈpɔɪnənt/
ipa: /ˈpɔɪɡnənt/
Forms: form: more poignant
form: most poignant
Etymology: From Middle English poynaunt, poynant, borrowed from Anglo-Norman puignant, poynaunt etc., present participle of poindre (“to prick”), from Latin pungō (“prick”). Doublet of pungent.
Senses: examples: text: His siluer shield, now idle maisterlesse; / His poynant speare, that many made to bleed [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Sharp-pointed; keen.
raw_tags: of a weapon
examples: text: A poignant reply will garner more credence than hours of blown smoke.
glosses: Neat; eloquent; applicable; relevant.
examples: text: Flipping through his high school yearbook evoked many a poignant memory of yesteryear.
text: The shabby chest of drawers was spread with a lace cover, and set out with a few gold-topped boxes and bottles, a rose-coloured pin-cushion, a glass tray strewn with tortoise-shell hair[-]pins—he shrank from the poignant intimacy of these trifles, and from the blank surface of the toilet-mirror above them.
ref: 1905, Edith Wharton, chapter XIV, in The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 528:
text: A particularly poignant example of this is a child called Genie (see Curtiss 1977; Rymer 1993), who was deprived of speech input and kept locked up on her own in a room until age thirteen. When eventually taken into care and exposed to intensive language input, her vocabulary grew enormously, but her syntax never developed.
ref: 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of English, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, §1.4, page 13:
text: Hanks shepherds the young girl to safety – first brusquely, and then with a sudden outburst of affection made all the more poignant for the way it is reserved previously. He once again reminds us, quite literally, that he is in many ways the ultimate dad.
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
synonyms: distressing
moving
glosses: Evoking strong mental sensation, to the point of distress; emotionally moving.
qualifier: taste
glosses: Piquant, pungent.
raw_tags: of a smell
examples: text: His comments were poignant and witty.
qualifier: word
glosses: Incisive; penetrating; piercing.
raw_tags: of a look
glosses: Inducing sharp physical pain.
Derived terms: poignance
unpoignant
Related terms: poignancy
poignantly
invited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of invite
invited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: Having been asked to attend.
glosses: Having an invitation.
Derived terms: noninvited
uninvited
invited
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvaɪtɪd/
Forms: form: inviteds
Senses: examples: text: In the future, if you know that you're going to be mixing inviteds and uninviteds while out, call them all ahead of time to caution the inviteds against talking about the wedding and to tell the uninviteds about your guest list so they know you didn't forget about them […]
ref: 2011, Sam Scholfield, Awkward.: What to Do When Life Makes You Cringe-A Survival Guide:
glosses: One who was given an invitation.
cockmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockmasters
Etymology: From cock (“rooster”) + master.
Senses: glosses: One who breeds gamecocks.
cockmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockmasters
Etymology: From cock (“penis”) + master.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse.
displacement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpleɪsmɪnt/
ipa: /dɪzˈpleɪsmənt/
rhymes: -eɪsmənt
Forms: form: displacements
Etymology: From French déplacement. Morphologically displace + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Unnecessary displacement of funds.
ref: 1793, Alexander Hamilton, Loans […] :
text: The displacement of the sun by parallax.
ref: 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
glosses: The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.
glosses: The weight of a ship or other floating vessel, traditionally measured or calculated by finding the volume of the vessel below the waterline when afloat, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the whole displacing body.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of extracting soluble substances from organic material and the like, whereby a quantity of saturated solvent is displaced, or removed, for another quantity of the solvent.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Moving the target to avoid an attack; dodging.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A vector quantity which denotes distance with a directional component.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The capability of a communication system to refer to things that are not present (that existed or will exist at another time, or that exist at another location).
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The transfer of feelings or emotions from their intended recipient to another object or person.
qualifier: fluid mechanics
glosses: The amount of liquid displaced by a submerged object.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Ellipsis of engine displacement.
Derived terms: word: absement
word: microdisplacement
word: nondisplacement
word: postdisplacement
word: predisplacement
word: redisplacement
word: retrodisplacement
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: displacement activity
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: displacement current
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: displacement mapping
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: displacement speed
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: displacement ton
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: engine displacement
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: positive displacement pump
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: there is no replacement for displacement
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: Wien's displacement law
city symphony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: city symphonies
Etymology: From city + symphony.
Senses: glosses: A member of a genre of documentary films from the 1920s and 1930s featuring scenes of city life.
extrapolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: extrapolations
Etymology: Morphologically extrapolate + -ion
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values.
examples: text: Casting further doubt on Kerner’s extrapolations from Gebhard’s data, it’s unclear what happened during those 21 minutes of foreplay. Blow jobs? Kissing? Role-playing? We don’t know.
ref: 2018, Suzannah Weiss, The Establishment, What A Fake ‘Female Orgasm’ Statistic Says About Gender Bias:
glosses: An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The diametric opposite of interpolation.
Derived terms: misextrapolation
nonextrapolation
overextrapolation
underextrapolation
Related terms: extrapolative
extrapolatory
interpolation
alkyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælkaɪl/
ipa: /ˈælkɪl/
Forms: form: alkyls
Etymology: From alc(ohol) + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁ derived from aliphatic hydrocarbons. In other words, an alkane minus one hydrogen atom.
Derived terms: alkylamine
alkylamino
alkylammonium
alkylarene
alkylate
alkylation
alkylbenzene
alkylbenzoic
alkylborane
alkyl chloride
alkylglycerol
alkylglycine
alkylguanine
alkyl halide
alkylic
alkyllysinase
alkylmercury
alkylmetal
alkylnitrate
alkyl nitrite
alkyloxonium
alkylphenol
alkyl phosphate
alkylphosphine
alkylpurine
alkylresorcinol
alkylsilane
alkylstibine
alkylsulfanyl
alkyltransferase
alkylurea
alkylzinc
alkyne
aminoalkyl
aralkyl
arylalkylamine
benzalkonium
carboxyalkyl
chloroalkyl
cyanoalkyl
cycloalkyl
dialkyl
dialkylamine
dialkylsilylene
fluoroalkyl
haloalkyl
heteroalkyl
hydroxyalkyl
iodoalkyl
mercaptoalkyl
metalloalkyl
monoalkyl
oxoalkyl
perfluoroalkyl
tetraalkylammonium
thioalkyl
trialkyl
Related terms: alkane
alkenyl
alkynyl
-yl
aryl
methyl
ethyl
propyl
butyl
amyl
pentyl
hexyl
heptyl
octyl
nonyl
decyl
and so on
Nobel Prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊˈbɛl ˌpɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈnoʊˌbɛl ˈpɹaɪz/
Forms: form: Nobel Prizes
Senses: glosses: Any of the international prizes awarded annually by the Nobel Foundation for outstanding achievements in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and for the promotion of world peace; or the prize in economics awarded by the Swedish National Bank, in memorial of Alfred Nobel.
Related terms: Nobel laureate
bowl a googly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bowls a googly
form: bowling a googly
form: bowled a googly
form: bowled a googly
Etymology: From the cricket term.
Senses: examples: text: Fred bowled me a googly when he asked me to explain those statistics in the meeting.
glosses: to surprise (someone); to introduce (to someone) something unexpected, underhand or requiring a quick reaction or correction.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bowl, googly.
Synonyms: catch unawares
catch off guard
wrong-foot
Related terms: throw for a loop
throw somebody a curve
curveball
rearm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːˈɑː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: rearms
form: rearming
form: rearmed
form: rearmed
form: re-arm
Etymology: From re- + arm.
Senses: glosses: To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body.
glosses: To arm, or prepare for use, again.
Derived terms: rearmament
disappointing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔɪntɪŋ
Forms: form: more disappointing
form: most disappointing
Senses: examples: text: disappointing results / news; a disappointing experience
glosses: Causing disappointment.
Derived terms: disappointingly
disappointingness
undisappointing
disappointing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔɪntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disappoint
punctuation mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctuation marks
Senses: glosses: Any of various symbols used in writing and printing to indicate pauses, divisions, etc. and to aid the reader in understanding what is written.
Synonyms: word: punctuation mark
Hypernyms: word: symbol
Hyponyms: word: apostrophe: ' or ’
word: bracket [⇒ thesaurus]: ] or [ or ) or (
word: colon: :
word: comma:
word: dash [⇒ thesaurus]: — or –
word: ellipsis: …
word: endmark: .
word: exclamation mark: !
word: full stop: .
word: period [⇒ thesaurus]: .
word: hyphen: -
word: interrobang: ‽ or ?!
word: question mark: ?
word: quotation mark: " or ” or “ or ' or ’ or ‘
word: semicolon: ;
word: slash: /
word: solidus: /
word: space:
word: interpunct: ·
word: virgule: /
Related terms: alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket
word: bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: …
word: ellipsis
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket
word: parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „
word: quotation marks
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
alt: "; '
word: quotation marks
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space
sex on legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She thinks he is sex on legs.
glosses: A person or persons considered to be very sexually attractive.
Synonyms: sex on a stick
Terence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəns/
Forms: form: Terrance
form: Terrence
form: Terance
Etymology: From Latin Terentius, a Roman family name of obscure origin, borne by a Roman playwright and by early Christian saints.
* In Ireland, it has been used to represent Turlough.
Senses: examples: text: "Very likely the ragged scion of one of those Irish gentry, who has taken naturally to 'the road'. He should be at school - though I warrant me his knowledge of Terence will not extend beyond his own name," said Lord Henry Somerset, aid-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant.
ref: 1867, Bret Harte, chapter I, in Terence Denville:
text: They had an expensive, well-cut air which was like a uniform, and their conversation was all about people with names like Terence and Geoffrey, Philippa and Vivien, who lived in London and County Wicklow and who were "terribly amusing".
ref: 1963, Jane McIlvaine, Cammie's Cousin, Bobbs-Merrill, page 58:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, popular in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century.
Derived terms: Terry
flick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: flic
Forms: form: flicks
Etymology: From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker.
The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.
Senses: examples: text: He removed the speck of dust with a flick of his finger.
text: She gave a disdainful flick of her hair and marched out of the room.
text: On this occasion it was Nolan's deft flick that fooled West Ham's sleepy defenders Danny Gabbidon and Tomkins. The ball found its way to Best, who smashed in with confidence from the edge of the area.
ref: 2011 January 5, Saj Chowdhury, “Newcastle 0 - 0 West Ham”, in BBC:
glosses: A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
examples: text: My all-time favorite flick is "Gone with the Wind."
text: Want to go to the flicks tonight?
glosses: A motion picture, movie, film; (in plural, usually preceded by "the") movie theater, cinema.
topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.
examples: text: The fourth seed was dominating her 20-year-old opponent with a series of stinging groundstrokes and athletic drive-volleys, striking again in game five when Paszek flicked a forehand pick-up into the tramlines.
ref: 2011 June 28, David Ornstein, “Wimbledon 2011: Victoria Azarenka beats Tamira Paszek in quarters”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A powerful underarm volley shot.
glosses: The act of pressing a place on a touch screen device.
examples: text: a flick of bacon
glosses: A flitch.
glosses: A unit of time, equal to 1/705,600,000 of a second
examples: text: 'All that I have, dear old flick, is yours for the asking. What can I do?'
ref: 1920, H. C. McNeile, Bulldog Drummond:
glosses: A chap or fellow; sometimes as a friendly term of address.
examples: text: I was taking some flicks of the [p]arade […] and [someone] asked […] if I would like to take a picture of him[.]
ref: 1968 April 29, William Gilson, “Loyalty Day”, in Berkley Barb:
glosses: A photo.
Synonyms: sense: short, quick movement
english: of the finger
translation: of the finger
word: fillip
sense: cinema
word: the picture
Derived terms: Ardiles flick
chick flick
flick book
flicky
frock flick
horror flick
kiddie flick
lit flick
Netflix
penalty flick
skin flick
slasher flick
flick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: flic
Forms: form: flicks
form: flicking
form: flicked
form: flicked
Etymology: From Middle English flykke (“light blow or stroke”). Later uses apparently interpreted as a back-formation from flicker.
The use of flick to mean a film or movie derives from the fact that early films had a low frame rate, thus causing the film to "flick" rapidly when projected onto a screen.
Senses: examples: text: flick one's hair
text: to flick the dirt from boots
text: Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
text: the Queen, flicking the snuff off her sleeve[…]
ref: 1860, William Makepeace Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century and Charity and Humour:
glosses: To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion.
examples: text: Near-synonym: flit
text: They were quiet for a time, watching the fields and lanes flick past.
ref: 1997, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone:
glosses: To pass by rapidly, so as not to be perceived clearly.
Derived terms: flickable
flick knife
flick off
flick-on
flick one's bean
flick over
flick-screen
flick the bean
flick through
tick and flick
unflicked
Related terms: flicker
vivisepulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪvɪˈsɛpəlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌvɪvɪˈsɛpəltjʊə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Latin vivus (“alive”) + sepulture.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, to characterize the Victorian worry about premature burial as a product of 'morbid romanticism,' or of the 'sheer mythopoeic force' of vivisepulture, is to ignore the deep confusion over human physiology that persisted into the twentieth century.
ref: 2003 April, Journal of British Studies:
text: As in most hot climates so in Egypt the dead are buried at once despite the risk of vivisepulture. This seems an instinct with the Semitic (Arabian) race teste Abraham, as with the Gypsy.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: The practice of burying someone alive.
ECCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are countermeasures to deceptive jamming, too, just as there are ECCCM to ECCM, all the way to infinity. It’s a giant chess game out there, moves to countermoves, and it never stops.
ref: 1983, Michael Skinner, USAFE, a primer of modern air combat in Europe, page 69:
glosses: Initialism of electronic counter-countermeasures.
double bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌ.bl̩beɪs/
Forms: form: double basses
form: double-bass
Senses: synonyms: bass fiddle
bass viol
bass violin
bull fiddle
contrabass
doghouse bass
stand-up bass
string bass
upright bass
glosses: The largest stringed instrument of the violin family.
examples: text: Voice of a double bass, or simply, a double bass.
glosses: The deepest of all male voices.
Derived terms: double bassist
concomitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concomitances
Etymology: First attested 1607, from French concomitant, from Latin concomitari (“accompany”), from con- (“together”) + comitari (“to company”), from comes, comitis (“companion”).
Senses: glosses: occurrence or existence together or in connection with one another, coexistence
glosses: A concomitant.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Roman Catholic doctrine of the existence of the entire body of Christ in the Eucharist, under each element, so that the body and blood are both received by communication in one kind only.
cello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: cellos
form: celli
form: 'cello
Etymology: Clipping of violoncello, the original name, from Italian violoncello (“little violone”), from violone (“an early form of the double bass”) + -cello (“-elle”, forming diminutives), violone (“big viola”) itself being derived from viola + -one (“-oon”, forming augmentatives).
Senses: examples: text: I haven't always been this cool because I haven't always played guitar. I started out on the cello. Yeah, the cello is a wonderful, beautiful instrument. It's cool to be an adult that plays the cello. Being a kid that played the cello sucked, cause there's no way to be cool when your instrument is larger than you. When you walk to school with a cello you're like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, man. The bullies just smell you coming from a mile away.
ref: 2006 Nov. 22, Rob Paravonian, "Pachabel Rant", 00:00:33
text: Fitzgerald saw that Hemingway, oppressed by his mother's influence, was "still rebelling against having been made to take cello lessons when growing up."
ref: 2020 Aug. 9, Jeffrey Meyers, "Fitzgerald and Hemingway: A Tortured Friendship", The Article
synonyms: violoncello
glosses: A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
Meronyms: back
upper bout
c-bout
lower bout
bout
bridge
endpin stopper
endpin
spike
tail spike
f-hole
sound hole
fine tuner
fingerboard
front
top
belly
table
neck
purfling
edgework
upper rib
c-rib
lower rib
rib
saddle
peg
pegbox
nut
scroll
shoulder
sound post
string
tailgut
tailpiece
waist
Derived terms: cellist
celloist
cellolike
cello player
electric cello
guitar cello
guitar-cello
mandocello
violoncello
cello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
ipa: /ˈsɛləʊ/
ipa: /ˈsɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
ipa: /ˈtʃɛləʊ/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Etymology: Shortening of cellophane.
Senses: examples: text: Chocolates arranged in a candy dish or basket, antique or purchased in accordance to^([sic]) the personal taste of the host/hostess, wrapped with cello wrap and tied with a lovely ribbon—decadent!
ref: 2011, Ava Carroll-Brown, Where Is Your Mother?:
glosses: cellophane
swart
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /swɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: swarter
form: swartest
Etymology: From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-. Doublet of Schwarz.
Senses: examples: text: 1400s: Thomas Occleve, Hymns to the Virgin
Men schalle then sone se / Att mydday hytt shalle swarte be
text: A nation strange, with visage swart
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious,
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Of shades , and wanton winds , and gushing brooks ,
On whose fresh lap the swart - star sparely looks
ref: 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
text: I'll choose a gaoler, whose swart monstrous face
Shall be a hell to look upon […]
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act II, scene I, verses 91-92:
text: The merry soldiers footing it with the swart savage maids
ref: 1836, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Old Ticonderoga:
text: The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.
ref: 1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277:
text: […] unpierced ever
With glitter of sun rays
Nor with stars stretched, nor looking back from heaven
Swartest night stretched over wretched men there.
ref: 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
glosses: Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
glosses: Black.
examples: text: Suddenly the swart figure of Time stood up before the gods, with both hands dripping with blood and a red sword dangling idly from his fingers, and said: “Sardathrion is gone! I have overthrown it!”
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 4:
glosses: Gloomy; malignant.
Derived terms: swarten
swarty
Related terms: forswart
swartness
swart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /swɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology: From Middle English swart, from Old English sweart, from Proto-West Germanic *swart, from Proto-Germanic *swartaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swerd-. Doublet of Schwarz.
Senses: glosses: Black or dark dyestuff.
Related terms: swarth
swart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /swɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: swarts
form: swarting
form: swarted
form: swarted
Etymology: From Middle English swarten, from Old English sweartian, from Proto-West Germanic *swartōn, from Proto-Germanic *swartōną. By surface analysis, swart + -en.
Senses: examples: text: to swart a living part
text: […] the heate of the Sun, whose fervor may swarte a living part, and even black a dead or dissolving flesh,
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
glosses: To make swart or tawny; blacken; tan.
swart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /swɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Etymology: Variant of sward.
Senses: examples: text: Howbeit where the rocks and quarrie grounds are, I take the swart of the earth to be so thin, that no tree of anie greatnesse, other than shrubs and bushes, is able to grow or prosper long therein for want of sufficient moisture wherewith to feed them with fresh humour, or at the leastwise of mould […]
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed, Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of sward.
swart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /swɔː(ɹ)t/
ipa: /swɔɹt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: swarts
Senses: glosses: Variant of swath.
placeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsman/
ipa: /ˈpleɪsmən/
Forms: form: placemen
Etymology: From place + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Plus, contrary to hysterical prediction and uninformed innuendo, Bryant Lemuel's influence did not fill this pilot project with compliant placemen, instead leaving all appointments to the university science faculty.
ref: 2007, Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Predictably, the brow-beaten Clement in the end submitted to Philip's demands that the papal commission, which was eventually convened in November 1309, should consist predominantly of clerics who were known to be royal placemen.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 32:
topics: government
politics
glosses: One appointed to an office, especially in government, as a reward for political or other support; an appointee, a yes-man.
Derived terms: placemanship
Dii Majores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dei Majores
form: Di Majores
form: geminatio vocalium
Etymology: From Latin di maiores (literally “greater gods”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The twelve great gods of Roman mythology, namely Juno, Vesta, Minerva, Ceres, Diana, Venus, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Neptune, Vulcan, and Apollo.
examples: text: the twelve Di Majores of Latin letters
glosses: By extension, any illustrious or eminent group of people, not necessarily twelve in number; most frequently applied to writers of literature.
geminatio vocalium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin geminatio vocalium (“doubling of vowels”).
Senses: examples: text: The least-used method is geminatio vocalium, as in Oscan and (occasionally) Umbrian: PAASTORES.
ref: 2008, Andrew L Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin:
topics: epigraphy
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: The process of indicating that a vowel is pronounced long by writing it twice, especially as was sometimes done in Latin due to influence from Oscan.
specialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
Forms: form: more specialist
form: most specialist
Etymology: Borrowed from French spécialiste, equivalent to special + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This was a highly specialist job, and it has been very carefully carried out so that it is very hard to see that these windows are now modern replacements.
ref: 2021 December 15, Robin Leleux, “Awards honour the best restoration projects: Special Award: Signal Box Restoration”, in RAIL, number 946, page 57:
glosses: Specialised, involving detailed knowledge of a restricted topic.
specialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛʃəlɪst/
Forms: form: specialists
Etymology: Borrowed from French spécialiste, equivalent to special + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: aficionado
enthusiast
connoisseur
glosses: Someone who is an expert in, or devoted to, some specific branch of study or research.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
antonyms: all-rounder
glosses: A player on a team who primarily employs one particular skill or takes one particular role.
examples: text: Dr. Robert Leroy Hutton, a retired specialist in internal medicine and a well‐known diagnostician, died yesterday here.
ref: 1964 September 24, “ROBERT L. HUTTON, DIAGNOSTICIAN, 83; Internist Dies —Had Been on Lincoln Hospital Staff”, in The New York Times:
text: Most Americans mistakenly believe that they must see specialists for almost every medical problem.
ref: 2017 March 6, Jamie Koufman, “The Specialists’ Stranglehold on Medicine”, in The New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: word: worker
glosses: A physician whose practice is limited to a particular branch of medicine or surgery.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any of several non-commissioned ranks corresponding to that of corporal.
examples: text: The tree Lepidothamnus laxifolius is a high alpine specialist found in high-altitude bog communities and in scrub.
glosses: An organism that is specialized for a particular environment.
glosses: A stenotopic species.
glosses: A sixth-former at Eton College.
Derived terms: infectious disease specialist
left-handed specialist
non-specialist
nonspecialist
specialistic
Related terms: specialize
subspecialty
subspecialist
great grandfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great grandfathers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of great-grandfather.
Eleusinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eleusinian
form: most Eleusinian
Etymology: From Latin eleusīnius + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Drives the profane from Mystery's bolted door, / And Suilence guards the Eleusinian lore.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 89:
text: We must remember that a number of mystery cults besides the Eleusinian were current in the early centuries of Christianity and that there was abundant literature on the telete of the Orphic mysteries and doctrines.
ref: 1961, George Emmanuel Mylonas, Eleusis and the Eleusinian Mysteries, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: Pertaining to ancient Eleusis, in Attica, or the Eleusinian Mysteries of Demeter celebrated there.
glosses: Pertaining to modern Eleusina.
Laplace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈplɑs/
rhymes: (US) -ɑs
Forms: form: Laplaces
form: laPlace
form: LaPlace
form: la Place
form: La Place
form: Place
Etymology: Borrowed from French Laplace.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French, famously held by
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A surname from French, famously held by:
Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician 1749-1827, used attributively in the names of various mathematical concepts named after him (see "Derived terms" below)
Derived terms: de Moivre-Laplace theorem
Laplacean
Laplace-Beltrami operator
Laplace distribution
Laplace limit
Laplace-Mehler integral
Laplace operator
Laplace plane
Laplace's demon
Laplace's equation
Laplace series
Laplace's integral
Laplace-Stieltjes transform
Laplace transform
Laplacian
solon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlən
-əʊlɒn
Forms: form: solons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn), the name of an influential Athenian statesman.
Senses: glosses: A wise legislator or lawgiver.
examples: text: In the wake of the death of two first responders in La Trinidad town, Rep. Eric Go Yap seeks to amend the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010 or Republic Act (RA) 10121. [...] The solon is set to file a bill to amend RA 10121 on Aug. 4, particularly Section 13, as he seeks to institutionalize protection for those serving in the front lines, providing death benefits including funeral services and extending educational allowances to their children to support them through their studies.
ref: 2025 August 5, Harley Palangchao, “Lawmaker seeks protection of rescuers on duty”, in The Manila Times, retrieved 07 Sep 2025:
text: "I strongly and categorically deny the baseless accusations lnking me to alleged corrupt practices and illegal acts. The ongoing flood-control nvestigation is a serious matter. am totally surprised that my name has been mentioned," USWAG ILONGGO Party-list Rep. James "Jojo" Ang Jr. said in a statement, referring to the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing Monday, Sept, 8 where the solons' names were dropped.
ref: 2025 September 9, Ellson Quismorio, “More House members issue denials on Discaya allegations”, in The Manila Bulletin, retrieved 09 Sep 2025:
glosses: Any legislator.
Derived terms: solonic
troubleshoot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: trŭbʹəl-shūt'
ipa: /ˈtɹʌbl̩ˌʃuːt/
Forms: form: troubleshoots
form: troubleshooting
form: troubleshot
form: troubleshot
form: troubleshooted
form: troubleshooted
Etymology: Back-formation from troubleshooter; by surface analysis, trouble + shoot.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: debug, diagnose, check, investigate
synonyms: shoot trouble#Verb
glosses: To analyze or diagnose (a problem, or something faulty) to the point of determining a solution.
Related terms: word: troubleshooter
word: troubleshooting
airframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɹ.fɹe(ɪ)m/
enpr: âr'frām'
Forms: form: airframes
Etymology: From air + frame.
Senses: examples: This airframe has 2600 flight hours on it; the powerplant has just over 800.
glosses: The main body and structure of an aircraft (without the powerplant).
Derived terms: airframer
Related terms: powerplant
powerplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerplants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power plant.
power plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaʊə ˌplɑːnt/
ipa: /ˈpaʊəɹ ˌplænt/
Forms: form: power plants
form: powerplant
Senses: examples: text: All of this areas power comes from the nuclear power plant across the river.
text: Fortuitously, Marge is looking for a job after an endless hiatus from the working world. After Lisa helps her mother “polish” up her résumé so that she now appears to be the most accomplished woman in the world, Marge lands a job at the power plant operating a machine her ridiculously padded résumé claims she helped invent.
ref: 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A station built for the production of electric power; a power station.
examples: A train without the power plant is just a bunch of metal boxes on wheels.
glosses: The portion of a vehicle devoted to providing energy for motion; the engine or motor.
Synonyms: power station
Derived terms: wind power plant