cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
formstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From form + stone.
Senses: examples: text: He turned into Singleton and found a block of row houses that gave a sense of having been skimped on. […] Most were covered in formstone, but the bricks of Number 16 had been painted a rubbery maroon.
ref: 1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, Knopf, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: A plaster compound creating the trompe l'oeil appearance of rock.
to the brim
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The van was stuffed to the brim with camping equipment.
text: With an own goal, two penalties and two red cards, this match was full to the brim with controversy.
text: The full measure of life and happiness which we have in mind as the educational goal can only be attained when each individual life is full to the brim.
ref: 1898, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 53, page 159:
text: We've had so much luck here, it's been effortless,” LeMay said as she rested on the shopping cart full to the brim with gifts […]
ref: 2009 November 28, Nashua Telegraph:
synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: To the point of being full, almost overflowing.
examples: text: Fill the glass to the brim.
text: Like the tank wagons, the churns are dairy property, but farmers often have other ideas, and find their own uses for them—it has not been unknown for dairy inspectors to find missing churns tucked away in an unsuspected corner of a farmhouse, filled to the brim with banknotes!
ref: 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to, brim.
kerblam
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: a sudden, loud sound, as the sound of an explosion
Synonyms: kaboom
kerblam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kerblams
form: kerblamming
form: kerblammed
form: kerblammed
Senses: examples: text: And didn't he think her hair was hopeless, kerblamming out the way it did in the slightest bit of humidity?
ref: 1985, Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist, Knopf, →ISBN, page 211:
glosses: To explode.
caffeina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Its salts resemble those of caffeina. The tannate is soluble in an excess of tannic acid, in alcohol and boiling water.
ref: 1864, Edward Parrish, A Treatise on Pharmacy, page 640:
glosses: Obsolete form of caffeine.
allurements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allurement
startlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more startlingly
form: most startlingly
Etymology: From startling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards I took it back when it was borne in upon me startlingly with what extreme nicety he had estimated the time requisite for the ‘affair.’
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 212:
text: Economically, too, London is startlingly different. The capital, unlike the country as a whole, has no budget deficit: London’s public spending matches the taxes paid in the city. The average Londoner contributes 70 percent more to Britain’s national income than people in the rest of the country.
ref: 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, “London Is Special, but Not That Special”, in New York Times, retrieved 28 Sep 2013:
text: A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
ref: 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:
glosses: In a startling manner; surprisingly; shockingly.
disbelieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disbelieve
disbelieved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disbelieved
form: most disbelieved
Senses: synonyms: discredited
glosses: Not believed; discounted; ignored
disbelieves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disbelieve
exhalations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exhalation
conveyances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conveyance
caressingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more caressingly
form: most caressingly
Etymology: From caressing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Is my gloom, after all,
Shade of His hand, outstretched caressingly?
ref: 1893, Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven, lines 178–9:
text: "You," he said, addressing the breeze caressingly "were in Christminster city between one and two hours ago, floating along the streets, pulling round the weather-cocks, touching Mr. Phillotson's face, being breathed by him; and now you are here, breathed by me—you, the very same."
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, chapter III, in Jude the Obscure:
text: The mash grass, through which the Indian canoes had slithered so caressingly, turned harsh and brittle.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Grown Up”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: In a caressing manner; soothingly.
unfriended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfriended
form: most unfriended
Senses: examples: text: […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]
ref: 1857, London Quarterly Review, volume 7, page 498:
text: Alone, if need be, alone and unfriended, we must advance, and do battle for the cause of God: alone and unfriended, and yet not alone, for He is with us, and His hosts are fighting on our side: […]
ref: 1858, Leopold John BERNAYS, Sir Henry HAVELOCK, Havelock, the Good Soldier. A sermon, etc, page 9:
glosses: Having no friends; friendless.
Derived terms: unfriendedness
unfriended
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unfriend
landholders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landholder
commonplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonplace
commonplaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commonplace
enthusiasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Parsons was Winston's fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms
ref: 1948, George Orwell, 1984, page 21:
glosses: plural of enthusiasm
presentiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentiment
reorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reorganize
reorganized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reorganized
form: most reorganized
Senses: glosses: That has been subjected to reorganization
Derived terms: Reorganite
reorganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reorganize
reorganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reorganize
recreations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recreation
disinfectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disinfectant
Meridith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Meredith.
my way or the highway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Gingrich . . . My Way or the Highway [title]
ref: 1995 June 2, “Gingrich . . . My Way or the Highway”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Oct 2010:
text: His my-way-or-the-highway attitude doesn't fit U.S. foreign-policy concerns or domestic issues.
ref: 2004 May 1, Chuck Knowlton, “Letters”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
synonyms: fit in or fuck off
glosses: An expression suggesting an ultimatum which indicates the listener(s) will either conform to the desires or teachings of the speaker or else be excluded.
fishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisher
fisher cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisher cat
catguts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Sir Anthony got out a lute and began to strum, pausing every so often to adjust the tension on the catguts.
glosses: plural of catgut
Southern Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sociopolitical region of Europe including such countries as Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.
Derived terms: Southern European
Related terms: Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Northern Europe
Western Europe
Northern Europe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sociopolitical region of Europe including such countries as Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Derived terms: Northern European
Related terms: Central Europe
Eastern Europe
Southern Europe
Western Europe
gemsbok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛmzˌbɑk/
Forms: form: gemsboks
form: gemsbok
Etymology: From Afrikaans gemsbok, from Dutch gemsbok, from gems (“chamois”) + bok (“buck”), the former from German Gämse, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A large African antelope (Oryx gazella).
Synonyms: gemsbuck
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hippotragus equinus
word: bastard gemsbok
word: gemsbok bean
word: gemsbok cucumber
gemsbuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemsbucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gemsbok.
gemsbucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemsbuck
gemsboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemsbok
sturm and drang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sturm und Drang.
Old Tupi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Classical Tupi
Lingoa Geral
glosses: An extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Tupi terms
Classical Tupi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Lingoa Geral
Old Tupi
glosses: An extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil.
jarosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarosites
Etymology: After the place Jaroso ravine in Spain, named in 1852.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with rhombohedral crystals, KFe₃³⁺(SO₄)₂(OH)₆.
Derived terms: ammoniojarosite
argentojarosite
natrojarosite
plumbojarosite
Polyanna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Pollyanna.
Obed
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אובד or עוֹבֵד (Oved, “servant”).
Senses: examples: And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
glosses: The son of Ruth and Boaz, father of Jesse and grandfather of David, grandson of Naomi.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A stream draining a part of the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee, USA.
Related terms: Obadiah
patchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patch + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Thersites: Here is ſuch patchery, ſuch juggling and ſuch knavery!
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Timon: I, and you heare him cogge, ſee him diſſemble / Know his groſſe patchery, loue him, feede him / Keepe in your boſome: yet ramain aſſur’d / That he’s a made-up villaine.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: at Aix-la-Chappelle there is always a mighty preponderance of poverty and dullness, except in a few of the shewiest of the streets, and even there, a flashy meanness, a slight patchery of things falling to pieces is everywhere visible.
ref: 1820 July 20, Dorothy Woodsworth, Journal:
text: the learned Dr. Lightfoot...in a sermon preached in St. Margaret’s, Westminster, before the House of Commons in 1643, spoke of the “wretched Apocrypha” as “a patchery of human invention,” divorcing the end of the law from the beginning of the Gospel.
ref: 1888, Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, and James Moffatt (editors), “The Books of the Apocrypha”, The Expositor, Hodder and Stoughton, page 340
text: It sounds prettily; and is, in parts, very carefully and mystically wrapped up in the gaudy envelope of poetical patchery.
ref: 1978, Derek Roper, Reviewing Before the Edinburgh 1788-1802, University of Delaware Press, page 281
glosses: Hypocrisy; trickery.
examples: text: [The Clergy] find all that is absolutely requisite, provided in some way or other; they succeed in feeding, clothing, and educating their children, and live in sufficient comfort not to feel the ridicule which belong to dilapidation and patchery.
ref: 1856, Henry Mason Baum, “The Ministry a Pleasant Work”, in The Church Review., page 532:
text: The Chinese mourn in white, and some of us in Harlequin-like patchery, as though believing motley to be the only wear.
ref: 1863, “Naples and Lake Avernus”, The Eagle., volume 3, W. Metcalfe (Cambridge), page 285
text: In the corner next to the oven was a huge heap of black rags covering the couch. Among the patchery was a large piece of tapestry
ref: 1998, Gioia Timpanelli, “Rusina, Not Quite in Love”, Sometimes the Soul, Two Novellas of Sicily, W. W. Norton & Company (Sicily), page 131
glosses: That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork.
patchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patcheries
form: parcherry
form: patcheree
form: patcherry
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Living quarters for married soldiers.
Eurodollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurodollars
form: eurodollar
Etymology: From Euro- + dollar, perhaps from one of the initial telex addresses.
Senses: examples: text: We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars/ All the way from Washington to Tokyo
ref: 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: Asiadollar
reserve currency
glosses: A deposit, in US dollars, held in a bank outside of the United States (no longer necessarily in Europe)
glosses: Synonym of euro (“€”) (nickname used for the unified European currency prior to its introduction and naming; in conversation, media, and fiction)
synonyms: word: euro
extra: (“€”) (nickname used for the unified European currency prior to its introduction and naming; in conversation, media, and fiction)
Related terms: Eurobond
euro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Euro-.
remain to be seen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remains to be seen
form: remaining to be seen
form: remained to be seen
form: remained to be seen
Senses: examples: text: It remains to be seen whether he will win the election.
text: Then came the leak (to the AP) that [Lance Armstrong] had in fact told Oprah he'd been a doper. So all that remained to be seen were what words Armstrong would use and what demeanor he would display.
ref: 2013 January 18, Howard Kurtz, “A loss for Lance, a win for Oprah”, in CNN:
text: It remains to be seen if goalkeeper Ederson will be available for those games after he was forced off in the eighth minute following a collision with City full-back Walker and Sean Longstaff that saw Newcastle have a goal disallowed for offside.
ref: 2024 January 13, Callum Matthews, “Newcastle United 2-3 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To have not yet happened; to be as yet unknown.
tinpot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tin-pot.
tinpot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tinpots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tin-pot.
high seas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. . . . For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
ref: 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: open ocean
open sea
glosses: Regions of the ocean that are far from shore, especially those regions that do not belong to any country.
examples: text: I was out on the high seas yesterday and got myself a new mathematics book.
glosses: Regions of the Internet in which piracy (i.e. copyright infringement) is prevalent.
intraspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + species.
Senses: examples: text: The estimation of the intraspecies variability in dynamics was also based on drug responses in a similar human population.
ref: 2001, National Research Council, Standing Operating Procedures for Developing Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Hazardous Chemicals, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Between or among members of a single (taxonomical) species; within a species.
Synonyms: intraspecific
Humpty Dumpty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly baby talk forms of Humphrey, since Dump and Dumphrey have been recorded as pet forms of this given name. Various suggestions have been offered for the original meaning of the nursery rhyme, chiefly concerning the English Civil War, although none has received general acceptance.
Senses: examples: text: ... she sits perched high up, astride a man's saddle, looking in her balloon garments, and doubtless feeling, more insecure than Humpty Dumpty on the wall.
ref: 1907, Annie van Sommer et al., Our Moslem Sisters..., page 210:
text: For many people, traditional Christian theology is a Humpty-Dumpty: it has tumbled from its perch and can't be put together again.
ref: 2009, Philip Kennedy, A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs:
glosses: A nursery rhyme character who falls from a wall and breaks irreparably in the manner of an egg; (figurative) by extension, anything similarly fragile, irreparably damaged, or insecure, precariously at risk of such irreparable damage.
Derived terms: Humpty-Dumptyish
Humpty Dumptyism
Humpty Dumpty word
Related terms: humpty
Humpty Dumpty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly baby talk forms of Humphrey, since Dump and Dumphrey have been recorded as pet forms of this given name. Various suggestions have been offered for the original meaning of the nursery rhyme, chiefly concerning the English Civil War, although none has received general acceptance.
Senses: glosses: A Romani drink of ale boiled with brandy.
Chinese Walls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese Wall
swiftboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swiftboats
form: swift boat
Etymology: Uncertain: Possibly, swift + boat, or possibly based on an acronym for Shallow Water Inshore Fast Tactical Craft.
The use as a political term derives from a smear campaign against John Kerry when Texas tycoon Robert J. Perry hired several Navy swiftboat veterans to form the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which questioned the legitimacy of Kerry's status as a war hero.
Senses: examples: text: The men narrowly missed death when the swiftboat in front of theirs took a direct hit from a Communist rocket-propelled grenade.
ref: 1973, Glenn MacDonald, Report or distort?, page 116:
text: Kilgore represents one of Willard's guides into the heart of darkness. The swiftboat captain represents another.
ref: 1999, WLA: War, Literature & the Arts, page 289:
text: We felt like Athenian sailors waiting for Persian triremes to blunder into the straits of Messina, but we were probably more like Vietcong irregulars waiting to ambush American swiftboat captains.
ref: 2006, William Sargent, Writing Naturally: A Memoir, →ISBN, page 5:
text: When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC. We all took care of him, and he stayed with us and loved riding on the swiftboat deck.
ref: 2008, Scott Swett, Tim Ziegler, To set the record straight:
glosses: A type of gunboat used by the United States military on inland waterways.
examples: text: Lately, however, Republican swiftboat attacks have begun to fall short.
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Feldman, Framing the Debate, →ISBN:
text: So I saw this swiftboat TV attack on Jefferson.
ref: 2008, JB Azneer, D R Spice, Opposition Research: Stealing The White House, →ISBN:
text: The Swiftboat strategy aims at hitting the target at his/her perceived area of strength, to discredit and degrade what would have been a political advantage.
ref: 2011, Laura Westra, Klaus Bosselman, Colin Soskolne, Globalisation and Ecological Integrity in Science and International Law, →ISBN:
text: Morano went on to become the pit bull of the climate change denial movement, launching swiftboat-like attacks as before, but this time directed against climate science and climate scientists.
ref: 2013, Michael E. Mann, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines, →ISBN:
glosses: A smear campaign based on specious claims.
swiftboat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swiftboats
form: swiftboating
form: swiftboated
form: swiftboated
form: swift boat
Etymology: Uncertain: Possibly, swift + boat, or possibly based on an acronym for Shallow Water Inshore Fast Tactical Craft.
The use as a political term derives from a smear campaign against John Kerry when Texas tycoon Robert J. Perry hired several Navy swiftboat veterans to form the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which questioned the legitimacy of Kerry's status as a war hero.
Senses: examples: text: No one should have been surprised that the Republicans would try to swiftboat Hillary in 2016, turning an accomplished diplomat into a feckless bungler who lied to cover up her own failures.
ref: 2015, David Brock, Killing the Messenger, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To attack a politician with specious claims.
examples: text: The Borgia family has had such a bad reputation over all these hundreds of years. Some of it is merited, and for some of it, they were swiftboated. The cardinals hired writers to write bad things about them.
ref: 2013 January 7, Sam Thielman, “The Man From Oz Finds Religion”, in Adweek:
text: My wife suggested that in absence of a response by Woody, he was being swiftboated.
ref: 2014 January 27, Robert B. Weide, “The Woody Allen Allegations: Not So Fast”, in Daily Beast:
text: So you were swiftboated? I was about to be! I was about to be! No, I just said, That's bullshit—first of all, it's William Oliver Stone. And then Dale went back for the files and found them. I did have a record that they couldn't expunge.
ref: 2016, Matt Zoller Seitz, The Oliver Stone Experience, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: To smear; to attack someone or something's reputation using slander, misrepresentation, or false accusations.
Related terms: bork
eerier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of eerie: more eerie
eeriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of eerie: most eerie
obdormition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒb.dɔːˈmɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɑb.dɔːɹˈmɪ.ʃən/
Etymology: From ob- + dormition.
Senses: glosses: The sensation of numbness that occurs in a limb when it "falls asleep" due to pressure on a nerve.
glosses: Falling asleep; the condition of being asleep.
Related terms: pins and needles
underscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underscore
underscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underscorings
Senses: examples: text: Parkington swung his chair away, keeping the book in his hand and his back to Anthony. “He underscored whole passages,” he said. “I can't abide reading a book with underscorings in it.”
ref: 2002, Jane Toombs, Nightingale Man, page 62:
glosses: An underline.
underscored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underscore
spankee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋ.kiː/
Forms: form: spankees
Etymology: From spank + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: When you add in the kinkier heteros—fetishists, jock sniffers, Jesus freaks, doll collectors, day traders, spankers and spankees—queers are the moral majority for sure.
ref: 2006, Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh:
text: The spanker is often also the spankee.
ref: 2007, Tom Beaudoin, Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy:
glosses: The receiver or victim of a spanking
Related terms: spanker
prop comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prop comedies
Senses: examples: text: In his zany prop comedy Gallagher would sometimes smash watermelons and splatter the front rows of the audience.
glosses: A style of comedic performance in which common and/or unusual objects are used as physical aids to help achieve a humorous effect.
Related terms: prop comic
prop comic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prop comics
Senses: examples: text: Carrot Top is a well-known prop comic; he often comes on stage with a huge box of odd objects.
glosses: A comedian whose performances use common or unusual objects as physical aids to help achieve a humorous effect.
Related terms: prop comedy
prop comedian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prop comedians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of prop comic.
blue flash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue flashes
Senses: topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very rare phenomenon observed in the morning or evening when the sun is crossing or immediately below the horizon, in which a momentary flash of blue light appears above the upper rim of the solar disk, caused by refraction of light in the atmosphere.
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A phenomenon sometimes observed when a criticality accident occurs in nuclear materials, inducing a discharge of radiation into the environment.
Related terms: green flash
anacoloutha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anacolutha
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνακόλουθος (anakólouthos, “inconsequent”).
Senses: glosses: plural of anacolouthon
anacoloutha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anacolutha
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνακόλουθος (anakólouthos, “inconsequent”).
Senses: glosses: A non-reciprocal synonym; a word of meaning similar to a word but that cannot substitute for that word in all uses.
anacolouthons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacolouthon
glosses: Alternative spelling of anacoluthons.
anacoluthons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacoluthon
anacolutha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacoluthon
anacolutha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anacoloutha.
oustee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oustees
Etymology: From oust + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The state government will consider constitution of a fact finding committee to take up issues of Pong Dam oustees so that relief can be provided to them.
ref: 2005 January 17, “Panel to take up dam oustee issues”, in The Tribune Online Edition, India:
glosses: A person who is ousted, especially one who is removed from his place of residence or land to make room for an infrastructure improvement or public works project.
protestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protestors
Etymology: From protest + -or.
Senses: examples: text: No flashy dressers, skimpily dressed starlets, or celebrities stepping out of stretch limos. Instead, on a warm Friday evening in June 2009, one hundred protestors sang prayers, chanted slogans, and carried signs […]
ref: 2013, Julian Sher, Somebody's Daughter:
text: We also talk about dealing with protestors, whose actions are creating additional costs of tens of millions of pounds.
ref: 2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 43:
glosses: Alternative spelling of protester.
Argive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹɡaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑɹd͡ʒaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑːɡaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑːdʒaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɐːɡɒev/
ipa: /ˈɐːdʒɒev/
Etymology: From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Argos.
examples: text: […] And many an old philosophy
⁠On Argive heights divinely sang,
⁠And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 40:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: Greek.
Argive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹɡaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑɹd͡ʒaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑːɡaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɑːdʒaɪv/
ipa: /ˈɐːɡɒev/
ipa: /ˈɐːdʒɒev/
Forms: form: Argives
Etymology: From Latin Argīvus, from Ancient Greek Ἀργεῖος (Argeîos).
Senses: examples: text: The Greeks generally think that this fate came upon him because he induced the Pythoness to pronounce against Demaratus; the Athenians differ from all others in saying that it was because he cut down the sacred grove of the goddesses when he made his invasion by Eleusis; while the Argives ascribe it to his having taken from their refuge and cut to pieces certain argives who had fled from battle into a precinct sacred to Argus, where Cleomenes slew them, burning likewise at the same time, through irreverence, the grove itself.
ref: 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: An inhabitant of Argos.
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.
Synonyms: Argot
unreadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + read + -ability. Compare unreadable, readability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being impossible to read.
glosses: The property of being unfit for reading.
Synonyms: sense: impossibility
word: illegibility
sense: impossibility
word: inscrutability
sense: impossibility
word: indecipherability
division ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: division rings
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A ring with 0 ≠ 1, such that every non-zero element a has a multiplicative inverse, meaning an element x with ax = 1.
Synonyms: skew field
Hypernyms: noncommutative ring
Hyponyms: division algebra
field
Tim.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Abbreviation of Timothy.
Related terms: 1 Tim.
2 Tim.
multiset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multisets
Etymology: Coined by Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, multi- + set.
Senses: examples: text: Two words are anagrams if they are made up of the same multiset of letters.
text: Membrane computing essentially deals with multisets, which are sets with multiplicities associated with their elements.
ref: 2002, Gheorghe Pǎun, Membrane Computing: An Introduction, Springer, page 49:
text: 2006, Xin Chen, Lan Liu, Zheng Liu, Tao Jiang, On the Minimum Common Integer Partition Problem, Tiziana Calamoneri, Irene Finocchi, Giuseppe F. Italiano (editors), Algorithms and Complexity: 6th Italian Conference CIAC 2006, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 3998, page 236,
A partition of a positive integer n is a multiset of positive integers that add up to exactly n, and an integer partition of a multiset S of integers is defined as the multiset union of partitions of integers in S.
text: 2012, Edward A. Scheinerman, Mathematics: A Discrete Introduction Brooks/Cole (Cengage Learning), page 102,
Two multisets are the same provided they contain the same elements with the same multiplicities. For example, {1, 2, 3, 3} = {3, 1, 3, 2}, but {1, 2, 3, 3} ≠ {1, 2, 3, 3, 3}.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
synonyms: bag
mset
glosses: A generalized type of set in which multiple occurrences of an element are permitted.
Related terms: multisubset
submultiset
multigraph
multirelation
1 Timothy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
head_nr: 2
synonyms: word: 1 Tim.
glosses: The fifteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle to Timothy.
wikipedia: fi:Ensimmäinen kirje Timoteukselle
Related terms: 2 Timothy
2 Timothy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: 2 Tim.
glosses: The sixteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle to Timothy.
Related terms: 1 Timothy
1 Tim.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 1 Timothy.
Related terms: 2 Tim.
2 Tim.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of 2 Timothy.
Related terms: 1 Tim.
Tit.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Titus.
Wisdom of Solomon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants.
Synonyms: Wisdom
Zeph.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Zephaniah.
Zech.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Zechariah.
Wisd.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Wisdom of Solomon.
1 John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The twenty-third book of the New Testament of the Bible, the first epistle of John.
Related terms: 2 John
3 John
2 John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: 2 Joh.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The twenty-fourth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the second epistle of John.
Related terms: 1 John
3 John
3 John
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The antepenultimate book of the New Testament of the Bible, the third epistle of John.
Related terms: 1 John
2 John
skrik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skriks
Etymology: Perhaps from an Afrikaans derivative of Dutch schrik ("shock, terror").
Senses: examples: text: I was brought up on a farm in the Free Sate a long time ago. Jong, when I first came to Johannesburg I got such a skrik.
ref: 2005, Morag Vlaming, Gogo's Magic, page 89:
glosses: A shock; a fright.
cavalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavallas
Senses: glosses: Any of several fishes in the families Carangidae and Scombridae.
Derived terms: blue striped cavalla
Ferdau's cavalla
longfin cavalla
longnose cavalla
Malabar cavalla
whitefin cavalla
4-3-3
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: England had started in a 4-3-3 formation that had Welbeck and Oxlade-Chamberlain coming in from the wings, with James Milner and Stewart Downing operating alongside Jack Wilshere in more deep-lying positions.
ref: 18 November 2014, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A popular soccer formation with 4 defenders, 3 midfielders and 3 strikers
4-5-1
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A popular soccer formation with 4 defenders, 5 midfielders and 1 striker
carcerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carcerates
form: carcerating
form: carcerated
form: carcerated
Senses: glosses: To imprison or confine.
Synonyms: incarcerate
carriole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrioles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cariole.
state space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state spaces
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
probability-theory
science
sciences
glosses: A (mathematical) space of all possible states of a system or process.
qualifier: control engineering
glosses: A mathematical model of a physical system as a set of input, output and state variables related by first-order differential equations.
Related terms: phase space
physical system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physical systems
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The portion of the physical universe chosen for analysis, with everything outside the system known as the environment.
origan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oregano (“wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare”).
branle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɑːl/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔːl/
ipa: /ˈbɹæn(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈbɹɑl/
ipa: /ˈbɹæn(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -ɔːl
rhymes: -ænl
rhymes: -ænəl
rhymes: -ɑl
Forms: form: branles
form: brawl
Etymology: From French branler (“to shake”); see further at brawl, etymology 2.
Senses: synonyms: word: brangle
word: bransle
word: brantle
glosses: A dance of French origin dating from the 16th century, performed by couples in a circle or a line; the music for this dance.
overfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfishes
form: overfishing
form: overfished
form: overfished
Etymology: From over- + fish.
Senses: glosses: To fish (an area or a species) excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
Derived terms: overfisher
fishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪʃəbəl/
Forms: form: more fishable
form: most fishable
Etymology: From fish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be fished legally
raw_tags: of a species of fish
qualifier: pond etc.
glosses: Able to be fished in, able to be used for fishing
raw_tags: of a lake
examples: text: Even if it could be salvaged, it would have to almost entirely be remade before it was fishable again.
ref: 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Able to be used for fishing.
raw_tags: of fishing equipment
ascitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈsɪtɪk/
Forms: form: more ascitic
form: most ascitic
Etymology: From ascites + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from ascites
Derived terms: ascitic tap
have other fish to fry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has other fish to fry
form: having other fish to fry
form: had other fish to fry
form: had other fish to fry
Senses: examples: text: I have other fish to fry; so good-morrow, my ladies all, good-morrow.
ref: c. 1710, The Journal to Stella, Jonathan Swift, ch. 2, Letter 15:
text: Your uncle will not return yet; he has other fish to fry: he will be galloping backwards and forwards from Briarfield to Stilbro' all day, […]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “To-Morrow”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 212:
text: "May I ask whether you will be persuaded to come?"
"No, for certain. I have other fish to fry here."
ref: 1905, George Bernard Shaw, chapter 15, in The Irrational Knot:
glosses: To have more important things to do.
Related terms: another kettle of fish
fish to fry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A matter to attend to.
Derived terms: bigger fish to fry
other fish to fry
BH
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Boko Haram.
glosses: Abbreviation of Bihar: a state of India.
BH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BHs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of heavy battleship.
glosses: Initialism of bank holiday.
examples: text: Work 7 BH's on left side for man's sweater, on right side for woman's sweater.
ref: 1998, Kristin Nicholas, Knitting the New Classics, page 86:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of buttonhole.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of black hole.
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: SMBH
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: StMBH
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: NBH
BH
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of baruch Hashem
piacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piacles
Etymology: From Latin piāculum.
Senses: glosses: A heinous offense that requires expiation.
paradisiacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæɹədɪˈsaɪəkəl/
rhymes: -aɪəkəl
Forms: form: more paradisiacal
form: most paradisiacal
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin paradīsiacus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I read and re-read her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 102:
text: We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
ref: 1842, Joseph Smith, Articles of Faith:
synonyms: paradisiac
hyponyms: Edenic
glosses: Of or resembling paradise.
mass murder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass murders
Senses: glosses: The killing of a large number of people over a short period of time.
Derived terms: mass murderer
Related terms: mass shooting
killing spree
massacre
genocide
mass murderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mass murderers
Senses: glosses: Someone who commits a mass murder.
Related terms: serial killer
cicale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cicales
Senses: examples: text: The cicale above in the lime, / And the lizards below in the grass, / Were as silent as ever old Tmolus was, / Listening to my sweet pipings.
ref: a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Hymn of Pan”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 169:
text: These were too old to fight, but they were fluent orators, and sat on the tower like cicales that chirrup delicately from the boughs of some high tree in a wood.
ref: 1921, Homer, translated by Samuel Butler, The Iliad of Homer: Rendered Into English Prose for the Use of Those who Cannot Read the Original, III, line 150:
glosses: Alternative form of cicala (“a cicada”).
heat up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heats up
form: heating up
form: heated up
form: heated up
form: heat up
form: heat up
form: het up
form: het up
Senses: glosses: To heat, to cause to become hotter.
glosses: To become busier or more exciting or intense.
raw_tags: of a situation
glosses: To infuriate or annoy (someone).
Derived terms: word: het up
Related terms: hot up
hot
expelleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Water expelleth fire.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of expel
root cause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root causes
Senses: examples: text: However, the report finds that the "root cause has not yet been established".
ref: 2021 September 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Hitachi cracks due to fatigue and corrosion”, in RAIL, number 940, page 22:
glosses: An initiating cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.
Derived terms: RCA
root cause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: root causes
form: root causing
form: root caused
form: root caused
form: root-cause
Senses: examples: text: Fishbones are a great tool for collecting, categorizing, and root-causing feedback from staff.
ref: 2017, Charles Protzman, Joyce Kerpchar, George Mayzell, Leveraging Lean in Ancillary Hospital Services, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 108:
text: After the effect of the bug is observed using post-silicon tests, the next step is to localize the source of error, root-cause bugs, and fix them.
ref: 2018, Prabhat Mishra, Farimah Farahmandi, chapter 1, in Post-Silicon Validation and Debug, Springer, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: To identify the cause of a chain of events which leads to an outcome or effect of interest.
skin color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin colors
form: skin colour
Senses: glosses: The color of human skin.
glosses: One's ethnicity.
pentanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentanols
Etymology: From pentane + -ol?
Senses: examples: pentan-1-ol
pentan-2-ol
pentan-3-ol
2-methylbutan-1-ol
3-methylbutan-1-ol
3-methylbutan-2-ol (2 stereoisomers)
2,2-dimethylpropan-1-ol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomers of the alcohol C₅H₁₁OH; the principal constituents of fusel oil.
Synonyms: amyl alcohol
pentyl alcohol
Derived terms: isopentanol
cachinnation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kakɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: cachinnations
Etymology: From cachinnate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Palmer had a keen perception of the ludicrous; he was naturally a humourist, which was indicated by a peculiar twinkle of the eye-lid at those times when he determined to repress a hearty cachinnation, and pursue the subject that tickled him to its utmost.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter LVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 116:
text: While reforming the language I crave leave to introduce an improvement of punctuation—the snigger point, or note of cachinnation. It is written thus ‿ and represents, as early as may be, a smiling mouth.
ref: 1912, Ambrose Bierce, “For Brevity and Clarity”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, volume 11, pages 386–387:
text: His shrill, mirthless cachinnation followed Monica as she headed up-hill.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter V, in The Understanding Heart:
text: After midnight their shrill notes burst into a kind of pandemoniac cachinnation which filled all the countryside, and not until dawn did they finally quiet down.
ref: 1928, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror:
glosses: Loud, convulsive laughter.
Related terms: cachinnator
cachinnatory
cachinnations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cachinnation
hallucinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallucinoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A mental state of hallucination.
Derived terms: Lhermitte's hallucinosis
excusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of excursion.
glosses: Misspelling of exclusion.