cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
whole cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whole cloths
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
synonyms: broadcloth
glosses: A newly made textile which has not yet been cut.
examples: text: Mr. Doe's account of the accident was made from whole cloth.
text: All those tales that came clicking over the wireless of the capture of huge stores of grain and oil were fables out of whole cloth.
ref: 1917, Sydney Brooks, “What Great Britain is Doing”, in National Geographic:
qualifier: used attributively or preceded by various prepositions
glosses: The fictitious material from which complete fabrications, lies with no basis in truth, are made.
examples: text: The plans for the widget were drawn from whole cloth.
text: And, mind you, emotions are among the toughest things in the world to manufacture out of whole cloth; it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 27, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:
text: Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
ref: 1852, Daniel De Leon, transl., chapter 1, in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, translation of original by Karl Marx:
text: The decisions made by judges, however, and the interpretations that they advance or accept must be plausibly inferable from something in the Charter. It is not for the courts to manufacture a constitutional right out of whole cloth.
ref: 1988, Supreme Court of Canada, R. v. Morgentaler:
text: Susan Wojcicki became YouTube's leader during the obvious phase. She didn't need to invent YouTube's business plan from whole cloth.
ref: 2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Something made completely new, with no history, and not based on anything else.
whole cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Some are strangely detailed, like the hugely antlered white deer-creature-cum-forest-god seemingly stolen whole cloth from Princess Mononoke.
ref: 2012 May 31, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman”, in The A.V. Club:
glosses: in full extent, wholesale, entirely, without changes or additions
leaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leakers
Etymology: From leak + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas the government had to dig up a nearly 150-year-old case to support its aiding-the-enemy charge, it has had an easier time using the Espionage Act against Manning and other leakers.
ref: 2019, Jason Ross Arnold, Whistleblowers, Leakers, and Their Networks: From Snowden to Samizdat, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 121:
glosses: Somebody who leaks information.
examples: text: The team decided on a group comparison with eight leakers and eight nonleakers. They selected eight trucks that had failed the leak test with an upper ditch leak. Obtaining trucks that did not leak was more difficult […]
ref: 2005, Stefan H. Steiner, R. Jock MacKay, Statistical Engineering:
glosses: Anything that leaks.
Derived terms: nonleaker
leakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaker
horse whisperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse whisperers
Senses: glosses: A horse trainer who adopts a sympathetic view of the motives, needs, and desires of the horse, based on modern equine psychology.
examples: text: The curious feature of the art was that "horse-whisperers" actually talked to the animal, usually from mouth to ear, in an unintelligible tongue; which, however, the horses appeared to understand.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 216:
text: Nothing irks me more than when people call me a Horse Whisperer. Let me say once and for all – I’m not a Horse Whisperer. There are no special gifts or secret magic powers when it comes to training horses. No-one can teach a horse by ‘whispering’ or looking into his eyes. No-one can apply some ‘secret’ process and have horses instantly understand everything forever more.
ref: 2015 July 28, Neil Davies, “Archived copy”, in There’s no such thing as a ‘horse whisperer’, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2020:
glosses: A person who purportedly has a magical ability that enables them to speak to horses or to have control over horses through whispering.
holiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊlinəs/
ipa: /ˈhəʊlinəs/
Forms: form: holinesses
form: holinesse
form: holyness
form: holynesse
Etymology: From Middle English holynesse, holinesse, halinesse, from Old English hāliġnes (“holiness, a holy thing, rites”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailagnassī, equivalent to holy + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hilligens (“holiness”), Old High German heilagnissi, heilīgnissi (“holiness”), whence Middle High German heilignis (“halidom”).
Senses: examples: text: R. Moskowitz charges cisgender readers to be as conscious and deliberate with our religious identities as transgender and gender non-conforming people are with theirs, arguing that holiness is only achieved through continuous and unrelenting struggle and change.
ref: 2019, Rachel Timoner, “Book Review: Textual Activism by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz”, in Tikkun:
text: “Through the Sacraments, God shares his holiness with us so that we, in turn, can make the world holier,” the conference says on its website.
ref: 2022 February 14, Chuck Johnston and Steve Almasy, “A pastor baptized people for decades using one wrong word. Now those are all considered invalid”, in CNN:
glosses: The state or condition of being holy.
Synonyms: sacrality
sacredness
sanctity
Derived terms: His Holiness
holiness movement
Their Holinesses
Your Holiness
Harlemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harlemer
Arizonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arizonian
woodsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodsman
lumberjacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumberjack
communists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of communist
botanica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botanicas
Senses: glosses: A shop that deals in herbs and charms used especially by followers of santería.
activists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of activist
life after death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of afterlife; existence in heaven.
Synonyms: word: hereafter
word: eternal life
word: afterlife
word: eternity
word: great beyond
word: life after death
word: life eternal
word: unknown
Hypernyms: word: existence
near-death experience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near-death experiences
form: near death experience
Etymology: Calque of French expérience de mort imminente, coined by Raymond Moody in 1975.
Senses: examples: text: Everybody has the same story of the near-death experience—my entire life flashed in front of me, the white light and all that—but no one really knows it.
ref: 1995 November 26, Laura Mansnerus, quoting Timothy Leary, “At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: NDE
glosses: A sensation of detachment from one's body, the presence of a tunnel of light, the apparent viewing of one's own body from on high, and similar manifestations, experienced by people whose heart and brain have temporarily ceased to function.
Derived terms: NDEer
Harlemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harlemers
Etymology: From Harlem + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Harlem.
lumberjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
ipa: /ˈlʌm.bə.d͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: lumberjacks
Etymology: From lumber + jack, of Canadian origin.
Senses: examples: text: He's a lumberjack and he's OK / He sleeps all night and works all day / I cut down trees, I eat my lunch / I go to the lavatory
ref: 1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python:
synonyms: faller
feller
logger
lumberman
woodcutter
glosses: A person whose work is to fell trees.
glosses: A lumberjacket.
Derived terms: lumberjack breakfast
lumberjacket
lumberjack shirt
lumberjill
lumbersexual
urban lumberjack
lumberjack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
ipa: /ˈlʌm.bə.d͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: lumberjacks
form: lumberjacking
form: lumberjacked
form: lumberjacked
Etymology: From lumber + jack, of Canadian origin.
Senses: examples: text: Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.
ref: 2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times:
glosses: To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
Related terms: lumbermill
undue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdjuː/
ipa: /ʌnˈduː/
ipa: /ʌnˈdjuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: undo (yod-dropping)
Forms: form: more undue
form: most undue
Etymology: From un- + due.
Senses: examples: text: To individuals who despise killings in any form, death penalty is undue punishment.
text: But even if they don’t announce themselves on the cover of the Times business section, groups of millionaires exercise undue influence on every aspect of American life every day.
ref: 2016 January 17, “Wealthy cabals run America”, in Al Jazeera America, retrieved 18 Jan 2016:
synonyms: word: immoderate
word: unrestrained
word: excessive
word: extravagant
word: unmeasured
word: unreasonable
word: extreme
word: immoderate
word: intemperate
word: lavish
word: nimious
word: obscene
word: overmuch
word: overweening
word: over the top
word: prodigal
word: undue
word: unrestrained
word: wanton
glosses: Excessive; going beyond that what is natural or sufficient.
glosses: That which ought not to be done; illegal; unjustified.
glosses: Not owing or payable.
raw_tags: of a payment etc
Derived terms: undue enrichment
undueful
undue influence
undueness
unduly
holyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holynesses
Senses: examples: 1871, Congregation of Holy Cross, Rules of the Congregation
The foundation of every Religious Congregation, as of all holyness, is in obedience, ...
1875, The Genealogist
...sett yourself to your business and resolve to run the race that he has sett before you with holyness and righteousness...
glosses: Alternative spelling of holiness.
Holiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Holinesses
Senses: examples: text: Your Holiness
text: Currently he is a firm pillar that is supporting the Tibetan diaspora, holding them all together—but I worry about what will happen to Tibetans when His Holiness leaves his current body.
ref: 2021, The Extraordinary Life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illuminated Journey, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:
glosses: Used in connection with His or Your to address the leader of some religious traditions, notably the pope.
cardinal beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal beetles
Senses: glosses: A bright-red-colored beetle, Pyrochroa serraticornis.
glosses: A related species, Pyrochroa coccinea
glosses: A more distantly related species, Schizotus pectinicornis
geocoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geocorises
Senses: glosses: The big-eyed bug.
Bisquick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bisquick.
Arizonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Arizona + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arizonan.
synonyms: word: Arizonan
Arizonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Arizonians
Etymology: From Arizona + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Arizonan.
synonyms: word: Arizonan
Hypernyms: American
starburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starbursts
Etymology: From star + burst.
Senses: examples: text: […] his arm striking brick and the bottle shattering in a starburst of black […]
ref: 2002, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror:
text: A starburst of red exploded on his chest and he flew backward a good six or seven feet.
ref: 2003, Tim Cockey, Murder in the Hearse Degree: A Novel:
text: […] and another that creates a cicatrix starburst from her right eye to her temple. This scar is the result of an accident when she was ten years old, […]
ref: 2004, Elizabeth George, Write Away: One Novelist's Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life:
glosses: A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A symbol similar to an asterisk, but with additional rays: ✺.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A region of space with an unusually high rate of star formation.
examples: text: The Milky Way will see a starburst in approximately 200,000,000 years.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A period in time during which a region of space experiences an unusually high rate of star formation.
Derived terms: Mombasa golden starburst tarantula
starburst display
starburst galaxy
starburst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: starbursts
form: starbursting
form: starbursted
form: starbursted
Etymology: From star + burst.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To experience an unusually high rate of star formation.
raw_tags: of a region of space
glosses: To explode; to burst out violently via, or in such a manner as to cause, an explosion.
examples: text: The faint light from the sky starbursted on a tear. Suddenly there was something appallingly human about her.
ref: 1998, Graham Joyce, The Tooth Fairy:
glosses: To make a starburst pattern.
bang out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs out
form: banging out
form: banged out
form: banged out
Senses: examples: text: I've got this paper due tomorrow, but I think I can bang it out in one night.
text: The band were banging out a vaguely recognisable version of the Star Spangled Banner.
text: They bang out bubblegum punk that couldn't be more reductive if Joey Ramone himself were hovering over their shoulders with his Gabba Gabba Hey! sign.
ref: 2001 May 25, Caroline Sullivan, “Bubblegum punk from the Donnas”, in The Guardian:
text: Punters put up with all this for the thrill of seeing someone perform live – not for a ghoulish sanitised projection, soullessly banging out the hits.
ref: 2019 February 24, Barbara Ellen, “Amy Winehouse could belt out a tune – her naff hologram can’t”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To do (something) quickly, in a slipshod, or unprofessional manner, especially performing or composing music or a piece of writing.
examples: text: The pilot promptly banged out and the aircraft flew almost as far as the airfield, eventually crashing into a farmer's field.
ref: 2010, Tony Doyle, Flying at the Edge, →ISBN, page 253:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To eject.
examples: text: As Hill left, his colleagues on the foreign desk started to bang him out – the traditional printers' farewell that involves thumping the desk as loudly as possible. According to reports the whole of the Telegraph's vast multimedia newsroom, said to be the largest in Europe, was shaking as staff banged out yet another colleague.
ref: 2008 June 26, “Hill and Dryden off with a bang”, in The Guardian:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To celebrate (a fellow printing or newspaper industry worker) to mark their completion of an apprenticeship or their retirement by (formerly) hitting metal furniture in the printing room or (more recently) hitting one's desk in the newsroom.
glosses: To beat up (someone).
bang out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bang outs
Senses: examples: text: Jamie finished the paper and did all the homework. He's such a bang out.
glosses: Someone who works or studies seemingly way too much.
bang out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of bang out of order
Senses: glosses: Completely unacceptable.
Mustafa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic مُصْطَفَى (muṣṭafā, “the chosen one”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic used by Muslims.
puts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of put
puts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʊts/
rhymes: -ʊts
Senses: glosses: plural of put
Related terms: putz
putts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: plural of putt
putts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of putt
welcomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welcomers
Etymology: From Middle English welcomer, welcomere, equivalent to welcome + -er (agent suffix).
Senses: examples: text: 1764, Sir Humphrey Lunatic (pseudonym of Francis Gentleman), A Trip to the Moon, London: S. Crowder, 2nd edition, 1765, Volume I, Chapter 2, p. 21,
At this Point of Time my Host, as I may call my sage Welcomer, directed a Kind of Procession, which tho’ not grand, nor very regular, appeared to be calculated as a high Compliment to me […]
text: On their arrival the station was lively with straw-hatted young men, welcoming young girls who bore a remarkable family likeness to their welcomers, and who were dressed up in the brightest and lightest of raiment.
ref: 1895, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, Part Six, Chapter 1:
text: It transpired that my welcomers, without whose kindness I should now have been in tears, had made me an honorary member of the Sind Club, a palace of comfort, good food, and eternal drinks, set in a compound of flowering trees, where I found myself in possession of a suite of three rooms and the usual offices.
ref: 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 2:
text: ...but I never thought that my first "welcomer" to the sea would be a pilot whale.
ref: 2006, William Pinkney, As Long as it Takes: Meeting the Challenge, →ISBN, page 83:
glosses: Something which or someone who welcomes people, especially newcomers.
examples: text: Farewell, thou woful welcomer of glory!
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Bloodroot in the leafless wood, Companion of gray Solitude, When the birds begin to sing, Thou, frail welcomer of Spring, Dost thy whitcray'd star unfold, With its seedheart of green'gold, And remindest us how Faith Blooms victorious over Death.
ref: 1915, Paul Shivell, Stillwater Pastorals: And Other Poems, page 25:
text: The window - sign of human life, wink to the passerby, eye of the building allowing one to gaze at the outside world without being seen, welcomer of the daylight and the sun's ray highlighting surfaces and objects, source of fresh air and sometimes place of exchange of words and smells . . . but also a break in the wall's structural continuity, and thus place of vulnerability, fragility, thermal sensitivity, leakage.
ref: 2013, Pierre von Meiss, Elements of Architecture: From Form to Place, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Something or someone that greets or is present for the arrival of something.
welcomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From welcome + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of welcome: more welcome
annoyingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From annoying + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being annoying.
mamogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamograms
Senses: examples: text: For example, one of the things we have been negotiating with our radiologists is control of our costs in terms of common procedures like mamograms. One of the things they have just found we have almost doubled the rate in our program of mamograms and what we are finding is that the standards are substantially changing in that area.
ref: 1985, United States House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment, Health and the Environment, Miscellaneous:
text: mamogram la mamografía
ref: 2000, Thomas B Kohnstamm, Lonely Planet Costa Rica Spanish Phrasebook,:
text: 2002, T. Hartkens et al., “Using Points and Surfaces to Improve Voxel-Based Non-rigid Registration,” Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention — MICCAI 2002, Takeyoshi Dohi, Ron Kikinis edd. http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=IbHfDN-E0KoC&pg=RA1-PA565&lpg=RA1-PA565&sig=na86YUwbN1WBBcn_NGCdkmacg4w
The voxel-based non-rigid registration algorithm with which we have the greatest experience works well on a wide variety of data including pre-and post contrast MR mamograms …
glosses: Non-standard spelling of mammogram.
Clintonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clintonisms
Etymology: From Clinton + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The policies of U.S. president Bill Clinton.
glosses: A statement made by Bill Clinton.
Related terms: Clintonian
Clintonize
idealist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idealists
Etymology: From French idéaliste, from Late Latin idealis (“ideal”), from Latin idea (“idea”), equivalent to ideal + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who adheres to idealism.
glosses: Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
glosses: An unrealistic or impractical visionary.
Derived terms: idealistic
idealistically
neoidealist
nonidealist
Related terms: idea
idealism
soler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solers
Etymology: From sole + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was a great mender and soler of shoes, and even could make new ones very strong and coarse.
ref: 1890, John Martine, Reminiscences and Notices of Fourteen Parishes of the County of Haddington, page 88:
glosses: One who fits the soles to shoes.
civil procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A body of rules that regulate the administration of civil trials and appeals.
biting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bite
biting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: bitings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something being bitten.
examples: text: Here the guests were lavishly entertained with drinks and bitings even before sitting down to dinner.
ref: 1997, Women in Kenya, page 20:
text: More of a cafeteria than a purebreed coffeehouse, the neat little 21 does both full meals and snacks or 'bitings'.
ref: 2006, Kenya, page 116:
glosses: A bite-sized snack.
Derived terms: cockbiting
nail biting
nailbiting
biting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ
Forms: form: more biting
form: most biting
Senses: examples: a biting wind
glosses: Causing a stinging sensation.
examples: a biting criticism
glosses: Cutting or incisive.
examples: a biting insect
glosses: Tending to bite.
Derived terms: bitingly
bitingness
nail-biting
nailbiting
nonbiting
nationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nationalistic
form: most nationalistic
Etymology: From nationalist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Nationalistic attachment to the coloured races is usually mixed up with the belief that their sex lives are superior, and there is a large underground mythology about the sexual prowess of Negroes.
ref: 1945, George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism:
glosses: Of, relating to, or advocating nationalism.
Synonyms: nationalist
Derived terms: antinationalistic
hypernationalistic
micronationalistic
nationalistically
nonnationalistic
ultranationalistic
unnationalistic
quartzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈk(w)ɔːtˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈk(w)ɔɹtˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: quartzites
Etymology: From quartz + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Following the course of the river from New Ulm to Fort Ridgely, there are several exposures of reddish-brown “granite” or quartzites, which has been quarried in a few places, but I do not feel entirely sure of its connection with the rocks in the prairie or at the Ferry below.
ref: 1869, James Hall, “Notes upon the Geology of Some Portions of Minnesota, from St. Paul to the Western Part of the State”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume XIII, page 331:
text: The stone experimented upon being of the hardest and toughest kind the effect is not seen for several strokes ; but within two minutes, during which the writer watched the experiment, a steel chisel was completely blunted and rendered useless, and there was a hole made about two inches deep in the mass of quartzite placed to operate upon.
ref: 1870 November 24, Professor Ansted, “The Passage of the Mont Cenis”, in Sylvanus Urban (pseudonym of Edward Cave), editor, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 229, page 656:
text: Granites of the usual type, compact reddish or greyish quartz-felsite or rhyolite alternate one with another. A mica-trap is also found. Evidently this is an extension of the last group of rocks. A specimen of epidotic quartzite proves that there are, at any rate, some indications of the metamorphic series.
ref: 1883, T. G. Bonney, “On a Collection of Rock Specimens from the Island of Socotra”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, volume 174, page 273:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A metamorphic rock from sandstone, consisting of interlocking grains of quartz.
tendencious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tendencious
form: most tendencious
Senses: examples: text: The most diligent censorship, the most tendencious Military communiques could not hide from the people of Brussels that the Allies were holding their own, and even gaining ground.
ref: 1929, Reginald Berkeley, Dawn, page 45:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tendentious.
idiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Dr Esterson's next book, The Leaves of Spring - a Study in the Dialectics of Madness, is an illuminating idiographic study, devoted for the major part to the painstaking, detailed study of a patient and her family, investigated and treated as the interacting elements of a unity.
ref: 1999 August 14, The Herald:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to individuals
glosses: Of or pertaining to idiography or to an idiograph
Derived terms: idiographically
Related terms: ideographic
nomothetic
potluck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒtˈlʌk/
ipa: /ˈpɑtˌlʌk/
ipa: /-ˌlək/
ipa: /ˌpɑtˈlʌk/
ipa: /ˌpɒtˈlʊk/
rhymes: -ʌk
rhymes: -ɒtlʌk
Forms: form: potlucks
form: potlucking
form: potlucked
form: potlucked
Etymology: From pot + luck. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, sense 3 (“a shared meal consisting of whatever guests have brought”) is unlikely to have been influenced by potlatch even though it has the same meaning.
Senses: glosses: To take part in a potluck, where each participant brings a meal to be shared by all.
Related terms: brown bag
angular velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angular velocities
Senses: examples: 1963, Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1963) Ch. 18 Rotation in Two Dimensions, 18–2 Rotation of a rigid body.
First, we have the angle θ which defines how far the body has gone around; this replaces the distance s, which defines how far it has gone along. In the same manner, we have a velocity of turning, ω=dθ/dt, which tells us how much the angle changes in a second, just as v=ds/dt describes how fast a thing moves, or how far it moves in a second. If the angle is measured in radians, then the angular velocity ω will be so and so many radians per second. The greater the angular velocity, the faster the object is turning, the faster the angle changes.
Wikipedia: Differential
A differential is a device, usually, but not necessarily, employing gears, which is connected to the outside world by three shafts, through which it transmits torque and rotation. The gears or other components make the three shafts rotate in such a way that a=pb+qc, where a, b, and c are the angular velocities of the three shafts, and p and q are constants. … In automobiles and other wheeled vehicles, a differential allows the driving road wheels to rotate at different speeds. This is necessary when the vehicle turns, making the wheel that is traveling around the outside of the turning curve roll farther and faster than the other. The engine is connected to the shaft rotating at angular velocity a. The driving wheels are connected to the other two shafts, and p and q are equal.ᵂᴾ
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The angle turned, per unit time, by a body rotating about an axis; the rate of rotation through an angle.
Related terms: angle
angular acceleration
radian
angular acceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡjʊ.lə(ɹ)əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡju.lɚ(ɹ)əkˌsɛl.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: angular accelerations
Senses: qualifier: classical mechanics
glosses: The rate of change of angular velocity, often represented by α.
pendejo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛnˈdeɪhəʊ/
enpr: pĕn-dā􂀽'hō
ipa: /penˈdehəʉ/
enpr: pĕn-dĕ􂀽'hō
ipa: /pɛnˈdeɪhoʊ/
ipa: /pɛnˈdɛhoʊ/
enpr: pĕn-dā􂀽'hō
enpr: pĕn-dĕ􂀽'hō
Forms: form: pendejos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pendejo.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person.
chemical nomenclature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chemical + nomenclature.
Senses: glosses: The system for naming chemical compounds. There are two systems of chemical nomenclature:
Wikipedia article on the naming of organic compounds.
glosses: The system for naming chemical compounds. There are two systems of chemical nomenclature:
Wikipedia article on the naming of inorganic compounds.
hibakusha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪbəˌkuːʃə/
ipa: /hɪˈbɑːkʊʃə/
ipa: /ˌhibəˈkuʃə/
rhymes: -uːʃə
Forms: form: hibakushas
form: hibakusha
Etymology: Attested in the mid-20th century, borrowed from Japanese 被爆者 (hibakusha, literally “bomb-affected person”).
Senses: examples: text: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons took effect in January after years of civil effort joined by atomic bombing survivors, or hibakusha.
ref: 2021 August 6, Mari Yamaguchi, “Hiroshima marks 76th anniversary of US atomic bombing”, in AP News:
glosses: A survivor of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
spina bifida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪnə ˈbɪfɪdə/
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A birth defect resulting in a cleft in the spinal column through which the spinal membranes and spinal cord may protrude. It is characterised by hydrocephalus and other neurological disorders.
spinal column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinal columns
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: backbone
spine
vertebral column
glosses: The vertebral column.
slipped disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slipped disks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slipped disc.
spinal canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinal canals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The canal which runs down through the vertebrae and contains the spinal cord and spinal meninges.
Synonyms: vertebral canal
somnolism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state of being in hypnotic sleep
glosses: The process of inducing the hypnotic state; hypnotism
Derived terms: somnolite
Related terms: hypnosis
mesmerism
somnolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somnolites
Senses: glosses: a person in the state of hypnotic sleep
Related terms: somnolism
hypnosis
mesmerism
hydr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hydro- used before a vowel.
Hypernyms: ly-
second rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of second-rate.
second rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second rates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of second-rate.
second-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: second rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having 80–98 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 700–750, and weighing approximately 2,200 tons burthen.
examples: text: ‘Revelation’, to a philosopher such as Plotinus, was not merely irrational: it led to second-rate counterfeits of traditional academic philosophical culture. It was as if the inhabitants of an underdeveloped country were to seek to catch up with western technology by claiming to have learnt nuclear physics through dreams and oracles.
ref: 1971, Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150—750, Thames & Hudson LTD, published 2013, →ISBN, page 53:
text: They are intrigued by Mrs Deelville; she is dowdy, languid-voiced, and ill-dressed, in every way appearing second-rate, who nonetheless - rather tiresomely - seems to have the knack of attracting men.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, A Second-rate Woman:
glosses: Of mediocre quality; not first-rate.
Related terms: fifth-rate
first-rate
fourth-rate
mediocre
second-class
sixth-rate
subpar
substandard
third-rate
second-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-rates
form: second rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A second-rate ship of the line.
Related terms: three-decker
Preussen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹɔɪsən/
Etymology: From German Preußen.
Senses: examples: text: the hypochondriac Duke of Preussen’s daughters
ref: 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The German state of Prussia.
meningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛnɪnˈdʒaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: meningitides
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μῆνῐγξ (mênĭnx) + -itis, equivalent to meninge + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.
Coordinate terms: encephalitis
Derived terms: antimeningitic
antimeningitis
aseptic meningitis
bacterial meningitis
cephalomeningitis
cerebromeningitis
cerebrospinal meningitis
choriomeningitis
encephalomeningitis
meningism
meningitic
meningitis W
Mollaret's meningitis
myelomeningitis
pachymeningitis
perimeningitis
postmeningitis
pseudomeningitis
tuberculous meningitis
uveomeningitis
myalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myalgias
Etymology: From my- (“muscle”) + -algia (“pain”).
Senses: examples: text: Southern physicians were prone to calling all fevers, malaises, myalgias, and headaches "malaria" and to treating them with quinine.
ref: 2001, Margaret Humphreys, Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Muscular pain or tenderness.
Derived terms: arthromyalgia
fibromyalgia
myalgic
polymyalgia
blood poisoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood poisonings
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence in the bloodstream of microorganisms or their toxins in a sufficient quantity to cause serious illness; sepsis or septicemia.
Related terms: septicaemia
pyaemia
toxemia
bacteremia
power surge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power surges
Senses: glosses: An unexpected, temporary, uncontrolled increase in current or voltage in an electrical circuit; a voltage spike.
examples: text: The pilot quickly recovered from the power surge caused by the faulty fuel system.
glosses: An unexpected and uncontrolled increase in the output power of an engine or motor.
Silesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈliːzi.ən/
Etymology: From Silesia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Silesia.
Derived terms: Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Moravian-Silesian Region
Silesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈliːzi.ən/
Forms: form: Silesians
Etymology: From Silesia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Silesia.
Silesian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈliːzi.ən/
Etymology: From Silesia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Lower Silesian, a Germanic language or dialect spoken in southwestern parts of what is now Poland (Lower Silesia).
glosses: Upper Silesian, a West Slavic language spoken in southwestern parts of Poland and the Czech Republic.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Silesian German
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Lower Silesian
sense: Slavic language
word: Upper Silesian
voltage spike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voltage spikes
Senses: glosses: A fast, short duration surge (overvoltage) in the electric potential of a circuit; a power surge.
print head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: print heads
form: printhead
Senses: glosses: That part of a printer that transfers a character or image to the paper.
printhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printheads
Etymology: From print + head.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of print head.
ksar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ksars
form: ksour
Etymology: From a Maghrebi form of Arabic قَصْر (qaṣr).
Senses: glosses: a granary, or village containing a granary, in the Maghreb (Berber countries).
Maghreb
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɑːɡɹɛb/
/ˈmʌɡɹəb/
Forms: form: Maghrib
Etymology: From Arabic مَغْرِب (maḡrib, literally “where the sun sets, the West”), noun of place from غَرَبَ (ḡaraba, “to set, to go down”).
Senses: glosses: The predominantly Arabic-speaking geographic region comprising northwest Africa, particularly the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile; the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and western Libya.
Coordinate terms: Maghrebi
Maghrebian
Maghrebin
Derived terms: Little Maghreb
Maghrebi
Maghrebin
kempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛm(p)t/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Etymology: Originally a past participle of kemb, from Middle English kemben, from Old English cemban (“to comb”). Modern uses are back-formations from the negative unkempt. More at kemb, comb.
Senses: examples: text: For a moment Boshy thought his senses were playing up with him, for there in the door entrance stood the identical girl - the same turkey-egg complexion, stubby nose, and her red hair only changed from unkempt to kempt.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 189:
text: He could see her now: middle-aged, gray hair, well kempt, European-looking.
ref: 1982, Michael Blodgett, Captain Blood, page iii. 342:
glosses: Neat and tidy; especially used of hair.
Synonyms: well-groomed
Related terms: ill-kempt
smart casual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A style that is informal yet smart enough for a particular situation.
smart casual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Designating such a style.
raw_tags: of a style of dress
Hyponyms: business casual
Coordinate terms: business formal
throw one's toys out of the pram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws one's toys out of the pram
form: throwing one's toys out of the pram
form: threw one's toys out of the pram
form: thrown one's toys out of the pram
Senses: glosses: To lose one's temper; to throw a tantrum.
Synonyms: chuck one's toys out of the cot
chuck one's toys out of the pram
throw one's rattle out of the cot
throw one's rattle out of the pram
throw one's toys out of the cot
spit the dummy
tikka masala
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiːkə məˈsɑːlə/
ipa: /ˌtɪkə məˈsɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Etymology: First attested in the 1970s. Borrowed from Hindi टिक्का मसाला (ṭikkā masālā, “spicy pieces”).
Senses: glosses: Of a style of Indian dish in which the main ingredient (such as chicken) is marinated, usually (but not necessarily) cooked in a tandoor and served in a masala sauce.
tikka masala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtiːkə məˈsɑːlə/
ipa: /ˌtɪkə məˈsɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: tikka masalas
Etymology: First attested in the 1970s. Borrowed from Hindi टिक्का मसाला (ṭikkā masālā, “spicy pieces”).
Senses: glosses: A dish prepared in this manner.
tikka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪk.ə/
ipa: /tiː.kə/
rhymes: -ɪkə or Rhymes: -iːkə
Forms: form: tikkas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani टिक्का (ṭikkā, “piece”) / ٹِکّہ (ṭikka), ultimately from Classical Persian تکه (tikka).
Senses: glosses: A marinade made from various aromatic spices usually with a yoghurt base; often used in Indian cuisine prior to grilling in a tandoor.
Derived terms: tikka masala
Related terms: tandoori
tikka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪk.ə/
ipa: /tiː.kə/
rhymes: -ɪkə or Rhymes: -iːkə
Forms: form: tikkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tilak (“Hindu caste mark on forehead”).
tandoori
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tænˈdʊɹi/
ipa: /tɑnˈdʊɹi/
ipa: /tænˈdʊəɹi/
ipa: /tænˈdɔːɹi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani तन्दूरी (tandūrī) / تندوری (tandūrī), from Classical Persian تنوری (tanūrī).
Senses: glosses: Cooked in a tandoor.
raw_tags: of food
tandoori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tænˈdʊɹi/
ipa: /tɑnˈdʊɹi/
ipa: /tænˈdʊəɹi/
ipa: /tænˈdɔːɹi/
Forms: form: tandooris
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani तन्दूरी (tandūrī) / تندوری (tandūrī), from Classical Persian تنوری (tanūrī).
Senses: glosses: A dish that was cooked in a tandoor.
raw_tags: of food
examples: text: Call me when you get in and invite me out for a tandoori — Oh, and by the way, Jude e-mailed to say she's still having a ball with Marcus and everything's as sweet as a nut.
ref: 2004 10, Terence Strong, Cold Monday, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Having a relaxing stress-free pint with my fiancée, going for a tandoori afterwards and hoping that she'll come back to my place for B and B, or who knows, maybe even invite me to hers.'
ref: 2010 January 7, Quintin Jardine, Gallery Whispers (Bob Skinner series, Book 9): A gritty Edinburgh crime thriller, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 64:
text: 'Let's go down the Shahbag for a tandoori!'
ref: 2013 February 4, Jacky Hyams, White Boots & Miniskirts - A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties: The follow up to Bombsites and Lollipops, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A curry meal.
examples: text: He's done those lads at a tandoori when they started giving him grief.
ref: 1991 03, Punch:
text: Now, of course, there is a tandoori in every high street (and a balti and a Thai takeaway as well); proving, if proof were needed, that people's tastes even in conservative Britain are nothing like so conservative as is often supposed.
ref: 2004 August 26, Colin Tudge, So Shall We Reap: What's Gone Wrong with the World's Food - and How to Fix it, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: A sandwich at three, and dinner out at a tandoori this evening.
ref: 2014 September 11, Stanley Middleton, An After-Dinner’s Sleep, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: An Indian restaurant, especially one with a tandoor.
Related terms: tandoor
tandoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tænˈdʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /tɑːnˈdʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: tandoors
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani तंदूर (tandūr) / تندور (tandūr), from Classical Persian تنور (tannūr), from Middle Persian [script needed] (tnwl /⁠tanūr⁠/, “oven”), Ultimately from Sumerian 𒅎𒋗𒆸 (šurin) via Akkadian 𒋾𒂟 (tinūru), all meaning (clay) oven. Compare also Avestan 𐬙𐬀𐬥𐬏𐬭𐬀 (tanūra). Doublet of athanor.
Senses: examples: text: You can cook naan in a normal oven, but the results will inevitably disappoint; even Indians generally wait to savour them in restaurants, as very few homes are equipped with a tandoor.
ref: 2001, Martin Hughes, World Food: India, Lonely Planet, page 53:
glosses: A cylindrical clay oven used in the cuisine of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Indian subcontinent to make flat bread or to cook meat.
Related terms: tandoori
sorority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈrɒrɪti/
ipa: /səˈrɔrəti/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: sororities
Etymology: PIE word
 *swésōr
From Renaissance Latin sorōritās, from Latin soror (“sister”), from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr. Akin to Spanish sororidad, Portuguese sororidade, French sororité.
Senses: glosses: A group of girls or women associated for a common purpose; a sisterhood.
examples: text: Every day is a party at this sorority!
text: And Florida State University suspended all frats and sororities for two months after the November 2017 death of Pi Kappa Phi pledge Andrew Coffey, which has since been determined to have been due to hazing, according to police. […] When Jo Hannah Burch pledged a sorority at Young Harris College, a private liberal arts college in North Georgia, she too was looking to meet new people.
ref: 2018 August 25, Dakin Andone, “They pledge. Get hazed. The cycle continues”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2024:
synonyms: srat
glosses: A social organization of female students at a college or university; usually identified by Greek letters.
Synonyms: women's fraternity
Related terms: fraternity
steamroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstimˌroʊlɚ/
Forms: form: steamrollers
form: steam roller
Etymology: From steam + roller.
Senses: glosses: A steam-powered heavy road roller.
glosses: Any heavy road roller.
examples: text: Well, I'm a steamroller, babe / I'm bound to roll all over you
ref: 1970, James Taylor, “Steamroller Blues”:
text: England's last line-out in World Cup rugby had been stolen by New Zealand in a dramatic conclusion to the final three years ago, but the driving maul remains a potent weapon and flanker Sadia Kabeya was decisive as England fired up the steamroller once more.
ref: 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Any seemingly irresistible force.
examples: text: It's more about him testing his wares. He rolls joints. He doesn't own a bong, hookah, smoking pipe, chillum, vaporizer, scale, dugout system, grinder, or steamroller.
ref: 2005, Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, editors, Best New American Voices 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
Derived terms: Russian steamroller
steamroller
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstimˌroʊlɚ/
Forms: form: steamrollers
form: steamrollering
form: steamrollered
form: steamrollered
form: steam roller
Etymology: From steam + roller.
Senses: synonyms: steamroll
glosses: To level a road using a steamroller.
synonyms: overpower
steamroll
glosses: To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.
Related terms: steam power
steam engine
steam tractor
steam locomotive
steam shovel
pan pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan pipe
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panpipes.
Synonyms: sense: see
word: panpipes