cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
revolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revolutes
form: revoluting
form: revoluted
form: revoluted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin revolūtus, perfect passive participle of revolvō (“roll back”).
Senses: glosses: to roll back, curve upwards
revolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revolutes
form: revoluting
form: revoluted
form: revoluted
Etymology: Back-formation from revolution.
Senses: examples: text: The Hawaiians have ‘revoluted’ and dethroned the fat squaw they have hitherto chosen to call a queen.
ref: 1893, Daily Evening Expositor, editorial, January 28
text: Christmas always thought himself a “patriotic American,” but, as he saw the matter, a little “revoluting” on behalf of his benefactors—Manuel Bonilla and Estrada Cabrera—in no sense harmed the interestes of the United States.
ref: 1996, Lester D. Langley, The Banana Men: American Mercenaries and Entrepreneurs in Central America, 1880-1930
text: Achimota was Fraser’s life’s work, evidence that ‘the glorious West African people’ were gradually changing their conditions by ‘evolving not revoluting [sic]’.
ref: 2000, Barbara Bush, Imperialism, Race and Resistance: Africa and Britain 1919-1945
text: 2003, Ed McClanahan, Famous People I Have Known
I rocked and rolled. I ingested illicit substances. I revoluted.
text: 2004, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Unspeakable Perk
“Pins through scarabs,” she laughed, “while beneath you Caracuna riots and revolutes and massacres foreigners.
glosses: to participate in or incite a revolution or revolt
retifism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of German Retifismus + -ism, coined by German dermatologist and sexologist Iwan Bloch in reference to the French novelist Nicolas-Edme Rétif’s Le Pied de Fanchette (Fanchette’s Foot, 1769), about a girl who is hounded by shoe-fetishists.
Senses: examples: 2004, Cameron Kippen, Curtin University of Technology (Perth, Western Australia) Department of Podiatry https://web.archive.org/web/20071018035445/http://podiatry.curtin.edu.au/fetish.html
In the interests of intellectual exchange the author attempts to describe foot fetish and shoe retifism.
glosses: The sexual fetish of attraction to shoes.
wikipedia: Nicolas-Edme Rétif
Related terms: foot fetish
Dharuk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌrʊk/
Forms: form: Darug
form: Dharruk
form: Dharug
Etymology: From Dharug dharug (“language”).
Senses: glosses: The extinct Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language, within the Yuin-Kuric group, formerly spoken by people who lived in the Sydney region, from the southern shore of Port Jackson south to Botany Bay and as far inland as Camden and Penrith. Closely related to Dhurga and Thurawal.
Related terms: Sydney language
Eora
Iora
Iyora
Wiktionary’s coverage of Dharug terms
warrigal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warrigals
form: warragal
form: warragle
form: warragul
Etymology: Borrowed from Dharug wuragal (“wild and undomesticated dingo”).
Senses: glosses: A wild dingo.
glosses: A wild horse.
Derived terms: warrigal cabbage
warrigal greens
black velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black velvets
Senses: examples: text: ‘Just can’t imagine anybody else havin’ a go at your missus while you’re away chasing black velvet in Mt Isa, can ya?’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 125:
text: But the Krater who introduces Mark to black velvet is totally human and, in his gestures, culpable.
ref: 1989, John Joseph Healy, Literature and the Aborigine in Australia, page 162:
text: Writer, Xavier Herbert, said that white men would refuse to work on remote stations without available Aboriginal women or ‘black velvet’.
ref: 2002, John Maynard, Aboriginal Stars of the Turf: Jockeys of Australian Racing History, page 105:
glosses: Australian aboriginal women with whom white men have sex.
examples: text: Black velvet — that is, the sexual abuse of Aboriginal women — had become highly topical with the publication of Coonardoo and Capricornia, and Miles’ choices in this area still seem reasonable.
ref: 2009, Jill Roe, Her Brilliant Career: The Life of Stella Miles Franklin, page 494:
glosses: Sexual intercourse with an Australian aboriginal woman.
glosses: A cocktail of stout and champagne (or sometimes a cheaper type of sparkling white wine).
Derived terms: poor man's black velvet
boong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʊŋ/
rhymes: -ʊŋ
Forms: form: boongs
form: bung
form: bong
Etymology: Suggested sources are
* Malay bung (“brother”),
* Indonesian dialectal bung (“brother”)
* A New Guinea native language
* An Aboriginal Australian language.
Previously the word Binghi was used widely in similar fashion to the present-day use of the term Negro for peoples of African ancestry; see titles from this booklist and also writings of Xavier Herbert (e.g. in Capricornia), for example.
Senses: examples: text: I heard Bruce tell one of the drinkers he'd bought a place in Queensland where you could ‘still call a Boong a Boong’.
ref: 1988, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, page 92:
text: ‘[…]I quit the feds because I didn't want to be a showpiece boong cop.’
ref: 2010, Peter Temple, The Broken Shore, page 82:
text: “Yeah,” he said, “them boongs are a useless lot. The sooner they all die off, the better.”
“And why is that?” Bill asked.
“The Abos are nothing but a pack of boozers. All they wanna' do is get pissed.” The man glared at his beer. “Useless, they are.”
ref: 2011, Linda Lee Rathbun, Tjuringa, unnumbered page:
glosses: An Australian Aboriginal person.
examples: text: A couple of boongs came down and carried me up to the hut where our R.A.P. corporal was.
ref: 1943, Australian Army, “Timor Souvenir”, in Khaki and Green: With the Australian Army at Home and Overseas, page 119:
text: During the War the soldiers generally referred to Papua New Guineans as “Boongs,” a name also given to black Americans. It is not a nice word, but is fair to say that the Aussies held the boongs in quite some affection during the War.
ref: 1998, August Ibrum K. Kituai, My Gun, My Brother: The World of the Papua New Guinea Colonial Police, 1920-1960, page 282:
text: [Department of Information cameraman Damien] Parer's views on mateship encompassed both the Papuans and the soldiers: at one point he wrote ‘“no boongs, no battle”, implying that natives and diggers were equal partners in their fight against the Japanese.’⁷¹
ref: 2000, Prue Torney-Parlicki, Somewhere in Asia: War, Journalism and Australia's Neighbours 1941-75, page 48:
glosses: A native of New Guinea or Malaysia.
Synonyms: sense: Asian or dark-skinned person
word: Fuzzy Wuzzy Angel
sense: aboriginal
word: abo
sense: aboriginal
word: Jacky
native cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native cats
Senses: examples: text: 1907, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, The Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, Volume 17, page 154,
We have found the greatest enemies to be rats, native cats, hawks and crows.
text: The Native Cat, or Tjilpa, is not a real cat but a small marsupial (Dasyurus geoffreyi) with outsize whiskers and a banded tail held vertically above its back.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 290:
text: The mesonephros of the native cat is a functional excretory organ at birth which begins to degenerate on day 15 and is completely repressed by day 30 post partum. In this regard, the native cat does not differ markedly from other marsupials,[…].
ref: 1992, Acta Anatomica, volumes 143-144, page 341:
text: Widjingara, the native cat or quoll (Dasyurus hallucatus), made the spring by shaking his shoulders and flinging water from his fur.
ref: 2010, Robert Layton, Australian Rock Art: A New Synthesis, page 43:
glosses: The quoll; any member of the genus Dasyurus of carnivorous marsupials.
Related terms: dasyure
soothes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soothe
blames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bleɪmz/
rhymes: -eɪmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blame
baby-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪbiˌfeɪst/
Forms: form: more baby-faced
form: most baby-faced
form: babyfaced
form: baby faced
Senses: examples: text: Michelle was of the opinion that all the best con artists were baby-faced, since that inspires trust in others.
glosses: Having a face that appears childlike, innocent, or youthful.
Synonyms: sense: appearance
word: fresh-faced
sense: youthfulness
word: juvenile
word: youngsome
babyfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more babyfaced
form: most babyfaced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baby-faced.
baby faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baby faced
form: most baby faced
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baby-faced.
backslapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backslappers
Etymology: From backslap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Charming and funny as he was in small groups, he was no glad-hander, backslapper, or baby-kisser.
ref: 2008, Andrew Cohen, Saul John Ralston, Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson, →ISBN:
glosses: One who makes a show of liking another person with profuse or excessive displays of camaraderie, such as vigorous hand clasping, back-slapping, hearty words of greeting, etc.
Synonyms: english: always pejorative
translation: always pejorative
word: sycophant
backslappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backslapper
backslides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backslide
backslides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backslide
backslid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backslide
backslider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbakslaɪdə/
ipa: /ˈbækslaɪdɚ/
Forms: form: backsliders
Etymology: From backslide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.
text: At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders.’
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Judgement of Dungara”, in Black and White, volume 1, Folio Society, published 2004, page 382:
text: The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.
ref: 2009, Andrew F. Cooper, “Confronting Vulnerability through Resilient Diplomacy: Antigua and the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute with the United States”, in Andrew F. Cooper, Timothy M. Shaw, editors, The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience, Palgrave Macmillan, page 216:
text: You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion. Do you get grief from fellow militant singles for being a backslider?
ref: 2012 June 20, Brian Bethune, “Two against one: About coupledom and the stigma of being single”, in Maclean's:
glosses: A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
glosses: One who will not do his work or shoulder his responsiblities.
backsliders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backslider
bagful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbæɡfʊɫ]
Forms: form: bagfuls
form: bagsful
Etymology: From Middle English bage-ful, bage full, baggeful, bagg-ful; equivalent to bag + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: She carried a bagful of groceries into the house.
glosses: The amount that fills a bag.
examples: text: The politician had a bagful of humorous anecdotes she could interject into any spur of the moment stump speech.
text: They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., published October 1970, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):
glosses: A large assortment.
Synonyms: sense: amount of one bag
word: bag
sense: amount of one bag
word: sackful
sense: large assortment
word: oodles
sense: large assortment
word: quantity
sense: large assortment
word: stockpile
sense: large assortment
word: scads
bagfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bagful
baggie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡi/
rhymes: -æɡi
Forms: form: baggies
form: baggy
Etymology: From bag + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A small bag, especially a small, clear, plastic bag.
glosses: Alternative form of baggy (bag filled with marijuana)
Synonyms: sandwich bag
ziploc
Related terms: bindle
baggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of baggie
glosses: plural of baggy
baggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæɡiz/
Senses: examples: text: If everybody had an ocean across the U.S.A. / Then everybody'd be surfin' like Californi-a / You'd seem 'em wearin' their baggies, Huarachi sandals too
ref: 1963, Brian Wilson, “Surfin' U.S.A.”, performed by Beach Boys:
synonyms: word: board bags
glosses: Baggy shorts worn by surfers.
examples: text: But if you are going to say hello or wave to other riders, don't make distinctions based on whether they are riding fat tyres or thin, wear their socks above or below their knee warmers, or wear Lycra or baggies.
ref: 2021, Hannah Reynolds, 1001 Cycling Tips: The essential cyclists' guide:
glosses: Baggy cycling shorts.
sores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sore
dorados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorado
upscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpskeɪl/
Forms: form: more upscale
form: most upscale
Etymology: From up + scale, 1966 (adjective), 1963 (verb).
Senses: examples: text: For example, a good location for resale, such as an upscale suburb of new homes, will cost more money than a piece of land in an established neighborhood of small, postwar houses.
ref: 1998, Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky, The not so so big house: a blueprint for the way we really live, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 147:
text: In Rio de Janeiro, thousands protested in a gritty area far from the city’s upscale seaside districts. In other cities, demonstrators blocked roads, barged into City Council meetings or interrupted sessions of local lawmakers, clapping loudly and sometimes taking over the microphone.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
synonyms: upmarket
high-class
antonyms: downscale
glosses: Expensive and designed to appeal to affluent consumers.
raw_tags: of a place
upscale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpskeɪl/
Forms: form: upscales
form: upscaling
form: upscaled
form: upscaled
Etymology: From up + scale, 1966 (adjective), 1963 (verb).
Senses: glosses: To increase in size, to scale up.
Derived terms: upscaler
cassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cassette
glob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑb/
ipa: /ɡlɒb/
rhymes: -ɑb
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: globs
Etymology: Possibly a blend of blob + gob or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, blob, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)
In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.
Senses: examples: text: He put a glob of paint into the cup and went on painting.
glosses: A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
Derived terms: globby
oh my glob
glob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑb/
ipa: /ɡlɒb/
rhymes: -ɑb
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: globs
form: globbing
form: globbed
form: globbed
Etymology: Possibly a blend of blob + gob or a clipping of globule. An element of sound symbolism is clearly involved: compare such phonetically and semantically similar words as glop, gop, blob, clump and clod. (Still, globe, clump and clod may be related via the Proto-Indo-European root *gel-; compare clew.)
In the biological sense, proposed by Bevil R. Conway and Doris Y. Tsao, by analogy with the cytochrome-oxidase "blobs" of V1, an earlier stage in the hierarchical elaboration of colour.
Senses: examples: text: […] paint globbed on the canvas, marring the careful shadowing he'd created on the snowbank. It was an amateurish mistake, completely unworthy of an artist of Teddy's skill.
ref: 2024, Mimi Matthews, The Muse of Maiden Lane, page 58:
glosses: To stick in globs or lumps.
glob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑb/
ipa: /ɡlɒb/
rhymes: -ɑb
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: globs
Etymology: Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression; such a pattern.
glob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑb/
ipa: /ɡlɒb/
rhymes: -ɑb
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: globs
form: globbing
form: globbed
form: globbed
Etymology: Originates from the early (c. 1970) Unix command glob; clipping of global.
Senses: examples: text: In filename globbing, * means any character, group of characters, or no characters at all.
ref: 2000, Jon Lasser, Think Unix, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
semisolid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + solid.
Senses: glosses: Having properties intermediate between those of a solid and a liquid.
semisolid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisolids
Etymology: From semi- + solid.
Senses: glosses: Any substance with such properties.
Related terms: semiliquid
colloid
abstention doctrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstention doctrine
positive law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positive laws
Etymology: 1651: From Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan
Senses: examples: text: We know that generally in all commonwealths, the execution of corporal punishments, was either put upon the guards, or other soldiers of the sovereign power; or given to those, in whom want of means, contempt of honour, and hardness of heart, concurred, to make them sue for such an office. But amongst the Israelites it was a positive law of God their sovereign, that he that was convicted of a capital crime, should be stoned to death by the people.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan:
text: But the same term, positive law, is also very often used to designate statute law or positive legislation, as distinguished from customary or unwritten law derived by the judicial application of natural reason.
ref: a. 1862, John Codman Hurd, The Law Of Freedom And Bondage In The United States, page 576:
text: There are four kinds of law: the eternal law, the natural law, the divine positive law and human positive law.
ref: 1962, Frederick Copleston, A history of philosophy, volume 2, page 418:
topics: law
glosses: Law explicitly made, as compared to natural law; law prescribed by express enactment or institution.
wikipedia: The Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Coordinate terms: common law
divine law
natural law
daisy-chain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪzit͡ʃeɪn/
ipa: /ˈdeɪziˌt͡ʃeɪn/
Forms: form: daisy-chains
form: daisy-chaining
form: daisy-chained
form: daisy-chained
form: daisychain
form: daisy chain
Etymology: The verb is derived from daisy chain (noun).
Senses: topics: business
glosses: To artificially increase (the price of a commodity; originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
examples: text: We daisy-chained several USB hubs to see if we could reach the far side of the room.
text: The jacks can be ‘daisy-chained’ and controlled as a synchronised set.
ref: 2021 November 3, “Network News: Lifting Jacks for SWR”, in Rail, number 943, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 29:
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one component forms the input of another; also (followed by to), to connect (a computer device, peripheral, or other component) to another component in such a sequence.
glosses: Of people, animals, etc.: to position in a line and move like a chain.
topics: business
glosses: To artificially increase the price of a commodity (originally crude oil, especially in a single shipment) by a group of dealers buying and selling it among themselves before it is sold to a party outside the group.
examples: text: These peripherals are designed to daisy-chain easily with each other.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Especially of a computer device, peripheral, or other component: to be capable of being connected with other components in sequence.
Derived terms: word: daisy-chained
word: daisy-chaining
daisy-chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪzit͡ʃeɪn/
ipa: /ˈdeɪziˌt͡ʃeɪn/
Forms: form: daisy-chains
Etymology: The verb is derived from daisy chain (noun).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daisy chain.
unlink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlinks
form: unlinking
form: unlinked
form: unlinked
Etymology: From un- + link.
Senses: glosses: To decouple; to remove a link from, or separate the links of.
examples: text: That's because the permission to unlink a file doesn't depend upon the permission bits on the file itself; it's the permission bits on the directory that contains the file that matter.
ref: 2001, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 175:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To delete (a file).
unlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlinks
Etymology: From un- + link.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: knot theory
glosses: A link that is equivalent (under ambient isotopy) to finitely many disjoint circles in the plane.
prickly pear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɪkli ˈpɛː/
rhymes: -ɛː
homophone: Prickly Pear
Forms: form: prickly pears
Etymology: From prickly + pear, from the nature of the plant's fruit, which, like the cactus it grows on, has spines on its surface.
Senses: glosses: Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.
glosses: The fruit, often edible, of such a plant.
Synonyms: Indian fig
cactus pear
desert pear
pimploe
tuna
Derived terms: Prickly Pear
Prickly Pear Cays
Prickly Pear Island
exclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exclaiming
form: most exclaiming
Senses: glosses: Uttering an exclamation.
Derived terms: exclaimingly
unexclaiming
exclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exclaim
exclaiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclaimings
Senses: examples: text: The singular half hour under the trees by the pool, spent, after the first hysteric moments were over, in vague exclaimings and questions […]
ref: 1907, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Shuttle:
glosses: exclamation
Indian fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian figs
Senses: glosses: Certain species of Asian fig
Ficus benghalensis, a species of banyan tree also known as East Indian fig.
glosses: Certain species of Asian fig
Synonym of cluster fig (Ficus racemosa, a species of plant in the family Moraceae)
synonyms: word: cluster fig
extra: Ficus racemosa, a species of plant in the family Moraceae
examples: text: The Indian fig is very different from other figs; when ripe, it is of an oval form, and of a colour inclining to yellow; it has a thick succulent rind, so covered with fine sharp prickles, as to render gloves, or some other substitute necessary, when peeling it.
ref: 1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, page 77:
glosses: Certain prickly pears (genus Opuntia), in family Cactaceae
glosses: Certain prickly pears (genus Opuntia), in family Cactaceae:
Opuntia ficus-indica, a species of cactus also known as Indian fig opuntia.
glosses: Certain prickly pears (genus Opuntia), in family Cactaceae:
Opuntia humifusa, a species of cactus also known as eastern prickly pear.
foley session
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foley sessions
Senses: glosses: A session in which sound effects are added to a film or TV scene
yields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The agricultural yields were lower this year.
glosses: plural of yield
yields
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yield
rattled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rattle
foley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfoʊli/
Forms: form: foleys
Etymology: From the surname Foley, itself from Irish Ó Foghlú and Old Irish Ó Foghladha (“plunderer”).
The meanings related to sound effects are named after sound effects pioneer Jack Foley.
Senses: glosses: The creation of sound effects, and their addition to film and TV images.
glosses: A foley artist.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A Foley catheter.
Derived terms: foley session
successors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of successor
gripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grip
gripped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɪpt/
rhymes: -ɪpt
Forms: form: more gripped
form: most gripped
Senses: glosses: excited; mesmerized
glosses: Having a grip, or grips
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Afraid; too anxious to continue a climb.
Derived terms: ungripped
foley artist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foley artists
Senses: glosses: A person who creates sound effects and adds them to film and TV images.
Related terms: foley
Foley
foley stage
foley studio
foley work
mastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of master
Derived terms: unmastered
resorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Once cornered, the bank robbers resorted to using their guns.
glosses: simple past and past participle of resort
sound effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound effects
Senses: glosses: An artificially created or enhanced sound, used to accompany the action of a dramatic production, such as a film, play or video game.
examples: text: It's also becoming more commonplace for artists to add some of their own sound effects while they're drawing the art. If they haven't drawn all of the sound effects, you may decide to mimic the style of their existing sound effects with digital brushes for a more homogenous look.
ref: 2021, Nate Piekos, The Essential Guide to Comic Book Lettering, page 184:
glosses: A caption in a comic strip representing a sound.
Related terms: foley
jerked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jerk
dynamometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪnəˈmɒmɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dynamometers
Etymology: From dynamo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: Any of various devices used to measure mechanical power, force, or torque.
Derived terms: absorption dynamometer
dynamometer car
dynamometric
dynamometry
electrodynamometer
gnathodynamometer
hydrodynamometer
microdynamometer
myodynamometer
ophthalmodynamometer
split dynamometer
dynamometer car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamometer cars
Senses: examples: text: Wide open, a 4000 consumed up to 22 tons of coal and 100,000 pounds of water an hour and produced in one authenticated dynamometer-car test 6290 drawbar horsepower at 41.4 miles per hour.
ref: 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., referring to the Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4-8-8-4
text: More trials of diesel locomotives with fitted mineral trains have been observed. On October 31 a Brush Type 2, No. D5834, was seen on the Doncaster-Scunthorpe line with dynamometer car and 32 loaded wagons.
ref: 1963 January, “Motive power miscellany”, in Modern Railways, page 64:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A piece of railway rolling stock used to measure various aspects of a locomotive's performance.
container ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: container ships
form: containership
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cargo vessel designed to carry cargo prepacked into containers, especially shipping containers.
Synonyms: container vessel
CV
Hyponyms: LCV
ULCV
VLCV
Coordinate terms: TEU
Derived terms: conbulker
Related terms: containerization
containerload
cargo vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo vessels
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: cargo ship, freighter, cargoman
topics: nautical
transport
hypernyms: watercraft
vessel
<
vessel
coordinate_terms: passenger ship
warship
glosses: Any vessel designed to carry cargo.
Related terms: coaler
merchantman
merchant ship
oiler
bulk carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulk carriers
Senses: examples: text: Otherwise, overseas coking coal will be moved to the UK by bulk ocean carrier, which are among the filthiest polluting objects on the face of the Earth we seek to protect.
ref: 2022 November 16, Nigel Harris, “Endless news... little context”, in RAIL, number 970, page 3:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: bulker
glosses: Any ocean-going cargo vessel (merchant ship) designed to carry unpackaged bulk cargo, such as grains, coal, ore, steel coils and cement, in its holds.
bulk cargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulk cargoes
form: bulk cargos
Senses: examples: text: Almost all modern cranes are electrically operated and a quick-acting type of 30 cwt. capacity is suitable for general cargo, but not powerful enough to operate grabs for discharge of bulk cargoes.
ref: 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
glosses: Any cargo, either liquid or dry, that is shipped in volume without being packed into containers.
Related terms: bulk carrier
Continental Navy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The United States Navy between 1775 and 1794.
continental shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continental shelves
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: The outer area of a land mass covered by a shallow sea that extends into open ocean.
contline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contlines
form: cantline
form: cuntline
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The spiral groove between the strands of a rope.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The space between casks stowed side by side.
cuntline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuntlines
Senses: examples: text: A waxed line is middled, and a loose loop laid around one strand, then both ends are brought out at the opposite cuntline.
ref: Ashley Book Of Knots, knot number 3448 (page 547)
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of contline.
cheque book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛk.bʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: cheque books
Senses: examples: text: He must have lost his head, or he never would have left the stick or above all, burned the cheque book.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chequebook.
chequebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛk.bʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: chequebooks
form: cheque book
form: checkbook
Etymology: From cheque + book.
Senses: glosses: A folder or booklet containing preprinted cheques for use by the holder of a bank account.
Derived terms: chequebook diplomacy
chequebook journalism
mug up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mugs up
form: mugging up
form: mugged up
form: mugged up
Senses: examples: text: I mugged up on the meaning of road signs before taking my driving test.
synonyms: bone up
buff up
cram
glosses: To study intensely.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: To paint one's face or put on a costume for the purpose of impersonation.
coppered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copper
coppered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coppered
form: most coppered
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: (of the hull of a wooden ship) sheathed below the waterline with thin sheets of copper to prevent the attack of teredo shipworms and limit the buildup of weed
Synonyms: copper-bottomed
coracle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒɹəkəl/
Forms: form: coracles
Etymology: Of Celtic origin; related to Welsh corwg, Irish curach (“boat”) and Cornish gorhel (“ship”), from Proto-Celtic *kurukos (“boat”).
Senses: examples: text: The White Hart, overlooking the bridge, has a bar named after the coracles that may still be seen on this part of the Teifi.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 110:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small circular or oblong boat made of wickerwork and made watertight with hides or pitch, propelled and steered with a single paddle and light enough to be carried on a person's back.
Derived terms: coracler
Related terms: currach
merchant ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merchant ships
Senses: examples: text: Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
ref: 1980, Bob Marley, Redemption Song:
ref: 2021 February 9, “There are those outstanding final moments in real-life hostage drama Captain Phillips (2013), about the hijacking of a US merchant ship by Somali pirates, in which his traumatised mariner is moved to near-hysteria by his ordeal”, in BBC:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: merchantman
hypernyms: ship
<
watercraft
vessel
<
vessel
coordinate_terms: warship
glosses: A ship that is principally or (usually) entirely civilian, engaged in trade, which carries cargo, passengers, or both.
Related terms: merchant fleet
merchant marine
merchant navy
merchant shipping
cargo vessel
corinthian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corinthians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Corinthian (a sailboat owner who helms his or her own boat in competitive racing)
Corinthians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Epistle to the Corinthians
word: Cor.
word: Cr.
glosses: Either of the two books in the New Testament of the Bible that are written as epistles to the people of Corinth and which are attributed to Paul the Apostle, Sosthenes and Timothy.
Related terms: 1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Corinthians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Corinthian
iora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ioras
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of passerine birds, of the genus Aegithina, found in India and other parts of Asia
polycount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycounts
Etymology: From poly- + count.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The total number of polygons found in a three-dimensional model.
for the sake of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: for sake of
form: for something's sake
Senses: examples: text: Release this man, for the sake of justice!
glosses: Because of; out of consideration for; in the interest of.
Derived terms: for Christ's sake
for fuck's sake
for God's sake
for goodness' sake
for heaven's sake
for mercy's sake
for Pete's sake
for pity's sake
Garífuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Garifuna.
electrodynamometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrodynamometers
Etymology: From electro- + dynamometer.
Senses: glosses: An instrument, having a fixed and a moveable coil, that measures the power flowing in an electric circuit; a type of wattmeter.
wattmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattmeters
Etymology: From watt + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring electric power in watts.
Hyponyms: electrodynamometer
revisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revision
revisions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revision
pickup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkʌp/
Forms: form: pick-up
form: pick up
Etymology: From pick + up.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pick up.
pickups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickup
equivalents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equivalent
rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of rail
rails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪlz/
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rail
diminutives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ-mĭn′yə-tĭvz
ipa: /dɪˈmɪn.jə.tɪvz/
ipa: /dəˈmən.jə.təvz/
ipa: /ɖɪˈmɪn.ju.tɪvz/
rhymes: -ɪnjətɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of diminutive
nimbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪmd/
rhymes: -ɪmd
Etymology: From nimb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She sprang out from their midst like the Virgin in a busy Annunciation, calm as Mary and nimbed with that unmistakable aura of the chosen.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: Having a nimb or halo.
Derived terms: unnimbed
trademarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trademark
trademarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trademark
intrigo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrigoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian intrigo.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of intrigue (all senses).
synonyms: word: intrigue
extra: all senses
undergoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undergo
nimb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪm/
ipa: /nɪmb/
rhymes: -ɪm
rhymes: -ɪmb
Forms: form: nimbs
Etymology: From Latin nimbus. Doublet of nimbus.
Senses: glosses: A nimbus or halo.
Derived terms: nimbed
behaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of behave
behaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behavings
Senses: examples: text: After that, he watched the semichivalrous behavings of the three English with quiet amusement; he thought Fielding had been incredibly silly and weak, and he was amazed by the younger people's want of proper pride.
ref: 1924, E. M. Forster, A Passage to India:
text: For any such thing can play the role in an individual life which philosophers have thought could, or at least should, be played only by things which were universal, common to us all. It can symbolise the blind impress all our behavings bear.
ref: 1998, Daniel W. Conway, Peter S. Groff, Nietzsche: The world as will to power, page 315:
glosses: Behaviour.
Derived terms: unbehaving
trademarking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trademark
handles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handle
handles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handle
extraordinarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extraordinarily
form: most extraordinarily
Etymology: From extraordinary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: In an extraordinary manner.
Derived terms: superextraordinarily
replaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of replace
slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slice
slices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slice
nop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒp/
ipa: /nɔp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: nops
form: NOP
Senses: examples: text: The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
ref: 1999, Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run:
text: 2004, Patterson et al, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
Synonyms: no-op
Derived terms: NOP sled
NOP slide
nop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒp/
ipa: /nɔp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: nops
form: nopping
form: nopped
form: nopped
form: NOP
Senses: examples: text: For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.
ref: 1992, The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual:
text: Worse, some patching can result in codes which cannot be executed: for example nopping the load which provides the value for the denominator of a division can result in a division by zero.
ref: 2012, Michael W. Berry, Kyle A. Gallivan, Efstratios Gallopoulos, High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
nop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɒp/
ipa: /nɔp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nope.
constructions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of construction
standardizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of standardize
headwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headword
Italianate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Italianate
form: most Italianate
Etymology: From Italian + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: "This was a residence designed for living on a grand scale, with gilt chandeliers dangling overhead, rich oil paintings adorning walls, and Italianate marble fireplaces in every room."
ref: 2001, Death by Darjeeling, Laura Childs, page 15:
text: Charlbury, between Oxford and Worcester, is one of the few surviving Italianate stations designed by Brunel. Built in 1853, it is characterised by the broad overhanging hipped roof, providing shelter at front and rear.
ref: 2020 December 2, Anthony Lambert, “Reimagining Railway Stations”, in Rail, page 42, photo caption:
glosses: Italian in style or character.
examples: text: Work on how Latin would have sounded in music settings using the vernacular version of pronunciation is now under way and singers are beginning to adopt the appropriate sounds as far as these are known. The differences from Italianate Latin are often striking.
ref: 1992, Alison Wray, “Authentic pronunciation for Early Music”, in John Paynter et al., editors, Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought, volume 2, →ISBN, page 1059:
text: The Liber usualis of 1896 was eventually expanded to include pronunciation, and it resulted in the uniform adoption of an Italianate pronunciation of Latin throughout the Roman Catholic church.
ref: 1996, A. G. Rigg, “Introduction: Latin”, in Timothy J. McGee, editor, Singing Early Music: The Pronunciation of European Languages in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, →ISBN, page 7:
text: W. W. Story, in his 1879 article “The Pronunciation of the Latin Language,” does not temper his thoughts on the emergence, then hegemony, of Italianate pronunciation of classical Latin: […]
ref: 2022, David Friddle, Sing Romantic Music Romantically: Nineteenth-Century Choral Performance Practices, →ISBN, page 93:
glosses: Pertaining to a style of Latin pronunciation imitating the modern Roman dialect of Italian, originally popularized outside of Italy by ultramontane Roman Catholics in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Italianate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Italianates
form: Italianating
form: Italianated
form: Italianated
Etymology: From Italian + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To Italianize.
tallish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tall + -ish.
Senses: glosses: somewhat tall
decorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decorate
decorating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decoratings
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes, at business meetings, bazaars, banquets, decoratings, celebratings, and what not, our animosities like wild tigers escape and create havoc in the flock.
ref: 1961, Leonard J. Lea, Views from the Mountain, page 162:
glosses: decoration
retyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retype
updating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of update
updating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updatings
Senses: examples: text: Later manuals in the United States as best illustrated by Sabetti went through many revisions and updatings.
ref: 1997, Charles E. Curran, The Origins of Moral Theology in the United States, page 81:
glosses: The act by which something is updated.
lazing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laze
redecorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redecorates
form: redecorating
form: redecorated
form: redecorated
Etymology: From re- + decorate.
Senses: glosses: To change the appearance of a place by altering the decor.
glosses: To refurbish.
varnished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of varnish
varnished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: coated or decorated with varnish
toured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tour
analysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of analyse
tinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭnd
ipa: /tɪnd/
rhymes: -ɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tin