cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
electoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛk.tə.ɹəl/
ipa: /ɪˈlɛk.tɹəl/
ipa: /ɪ.lɛkˈtɔɹ.əl/
ipa: /əˈlɛk.tɚ.əl/
ipa: /ə.lɛkˈtoɹ.əl/
ipa: /ˌɛ.lɛkˈtoɹ.əl/
ipa: /ˌiː.lɛkˈtoɹ.əl/
ipa: /əˈlek.tə.ɹəl/
ipa: /əˈlek.tɹəl/
Etymology: From elector + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or composed of electors.
examples: text: Even in Austria, a largely uneventful democracy, the far right Freedom Party has achieved startling electoral success on the strength of its ability to play up people’s suspicions and anger that "everything is rigged" and that the system is weighted to discount the popular will.
ref: 2016 August 31, Rashmee Roshan Lall, “Nationalism is the new normal in global politics”, in The National:
glosses: Of, or relating to elections.
Synonyms: word: electorial
Derived terms: electoral college
electoral district
electoral fraud
electoralism
electoralist
electorally
electoral observer
electoral register
electoral roll
electoral system
electoral tightening
electoral vote
nonelectoral
postelectoral
two can play that game
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: two can play at that game
form: two can play at this game
Senses: glosses: The tactics or strategies of an adversary can also be used against them.
Related terms: give as good as one gets
taste of one's own medicine
turnabout is fair play
two-handed game
kill the fatted calf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills the fatted calf
form: killing the fatted calf
form: killed the fatted calf
form: killed the fatted calf
Etymology: From the parable of the prodigal son in the New Testament.
Senses: glosses: To begin a festive celebration and rejoice for someone's long-awaited return.
gafiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæfiˌɪt/
Forms: form: gafiates
Etymology: From GAFIA (“getting away from it all”) + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Westlake's piece is so reminiscent of the old days of fandom, when no gafiate felt he had actually departed until he had alienated everybody on his mailing list.
ref: 1962, J. Baxter, Xero:
text: Herman Stowell King, a long-time gafiate (we first met in the 60s) and collector, turned up in the local Sunday paper with a well-written review of Whitley Streiber's The Forbidden Zone.
ref: 1993 October, It Goes On The Shelf, number 10:
text: Perhaps the disappearance of the vast majority of the copies Dan mailed out in 1981 granted him limited immunity; he did just run for TAFF and win last year, hardly the act of an over-the-hill gafiate.
ref: 1996 November, Andy Hooper, “Walking into Midnight”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 10, page 37:
topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A science fiction fan who has become inactive in the fandom community.
gafiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæfiˌɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡæfiˌeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɡæfiˌɪt/
Forms: form: gafiates
form: gafiating
form: gafiated
form: gafiated
Etymology: From GAFIA (“getting away from it all”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She gafiated the moment she first picked up a pulp magazine.
topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To leave the mundane world and enter the science fiction fandom community.
examples: text: QUANDRY (Hoffwoman) The famous fanzine published by Lee Hoffman of Savannah Ga. before she gafiated for the first time.
ref: 1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II:
text: He was quite active in the 1940's, vanished for a long while, then reappeared in the 1960's to put out lots of issues of this fanzine with the help of his wife, only to gafiate a second time as abruptly and totally as anyone ever has quit fandom.
ref: 1976 November, Harry Warner, Jr., “In One Lustrum and Out the Other”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 6, page 11:
text: And I didn't so much gafiate as move to Asia.
ref: 2003 December 3, Marian Rosenberg (brucianna), “Re: Fandom”, in alt.polyamory (Usenet), message-ID <4VPxb.514513$6C4.365955@pd7tw1no>:
topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To drop out of fandom community activities, with the implication of "getting a life".
Coordinate terms: fafiate
Derived terms: degafiate
ungafiate
Related terms: GAFIA
get away from it all
turnabout is fair play
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: turn about is fair play
Etymology: 1755, British/Irish.
Senses: examples: text: My Endeavours were used to perplex their Thoughts and Judgments; I told them, that at next Wednesday’s Dinner I hoped we would be informed who were to rule the Roast, that hitherto honest Men were kept from shuffling the Cards, because they would cast Knaves out from the Company of Kings, but we would make them know, Turn about was fair Play, and that two and three made five, though many Words did not fill a Bushel.
ref: 1755, Dudley Bradstreet, The Life and Uncommon Adventures of Captain Dudley Bradstreet, S. Powell, Dublin, p. 216
text: No, I won't, — I went to my bed last, — let my bed come to me now, turn about is fair play.
ref: 1795, Archibald MacLaren, The Scottish Volunteers, page 23:
glosses: It is allowable to retaliate against an enemy's dirty tricks by using the same ones against them.
examples: text: A good way to get started on a little sexual assertiveness training is to agree to take turns being “dominant.” One evening the man takes ... Well, turnabout is fair play, and it's time for the woman to do the work, to try to please her man. . . and to take pleasure from him in any way she can.
ref: 1996, Doctor James White, Peter Kent, The Best Sex of Your Life, page 214:
text: For both mayor parties rotation in office came to embrace the doctrine of taking turns in the distribution of prizes. More than once in his quest for the Whig nomination to Congress Lincoln employed the slogan, “turnabout is fair play." By fair play he referred not to the Youngian antipower notions but to the context for the prize of office.
ref: 1998, Hugh Douglas Price, Nelson W. Polsby, Explorations in the Evolution of Congress, page 92:
text: Turnabout is fair play, right? We'll start it low and take turns, I'll tase you, and then you can tase me, and we'll see who the last man standing is.
ref: 2015, Richard Thomas, Disintegration: A Novel:
text: Most of us, I suspect, first learn about fair play in the context of games. One of the first things we learn, even in such simple games as tag and hide-and-seek, is that “turnabout is fair play.”
ref: 2018, Richard Dagger, Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problems of Punishment, page 47:
glosses: Taking turns is morally right.
Related terms: even a worm will turn
eye for an eye
fair play
fight fire with fire
taste of one's own medicine
two can play that game
what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
sidekick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdkɪk/
Forms: form: sidekicks
Etymology: From side + kick, which in the late 19th and early 20th century was a slang term for the front side pocket of a pair of trousers, known as the pocket safest from theft. Thus, by analogy, a "side-kick" was a person's closest companion.
Senses: examples: text: In the abstract, Stuhlbarg’s twinkly-eyed sidekick suggests Joe Pesci in Lethal Weapon 2 by way of late-period Robin Williams with an alien twist, but Stuhlbarg makes a character that easily could have come across as precious into a surprisingly palatable, even charming man.
ref: 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: If representation and recruitment is an objective, self-styled mavericks like Kelly and his Queensland sidekick George Christensen have some utility.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
text: Elon Musk, Mr. Trump’s new sidekick, shared on his social media platform X an NBC News video of Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman, who suggested the Gaetz pick was a strategic move to upset Democrats.
ref: 2024 November 14, Linda Feldmann, Henry Gass, “Trump’s eye-popping Cabinet picks show his top priority: Loyalty”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: An assistant to another person, especially to a superior or more important person.
examples: text: So even though he had – no question – the best lines in Friends, he was never what he would have been in an earlier era: the sidekick.
ref: 2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘An ironic, self-deprecating metrosexual’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: In literature, theatre, etc., a good foil of the protagonist, a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character.
Synonyms: acolyte
deuteragonist
pupil
wingman
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: From Latin statim (“immediately”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Immediately; now.
examples: text: TBH, I’d get to shopping STAT because these hoodies will for sure sell like hotcakes once season 2 premieres on June 28. So make sure to snag one for yourself before they sell out and mark your calendar for the big day!
ref: 2022 June 27, Megan Uy, “Where to Get That Cute Tie-Dye Hoodie on ‘Only Murders in the Building’”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Immediately.
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Etymology: From Latin statim (“immediately”).
Senses: examples: stat dose
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: With no delay; at once.
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: stats
Etymology: Clipping of statistic.
Senses: examples: text: There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:
glosses: Clipping of statistic.
Derived terms: dump stat
outstat
stat padder
stat padding
statty
stat whore
statwise
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: stats
form: statting
form: statted
form: statted
Etymology: Clipping of statistic.
Senses: examples: text: "I went back and statted that match," Shondell said. "Seventy percent of the points, we either finished them with a kill or making an error. So we were in control, it's just that we weren't in control the way we needed to be on a regular basis."
ref: 2014 September 16, Sam King, “Purdue volleyball notes: Madness in Mackey Arena”, in Journal & Courier:
text: The most important part of the collection, however, is Howe’s folders of stats. […] All up, he reckons he’s statted over 10,000 Australian matches at all levels. It’s all been digitised now, of course, but to this day Howe maintains a hand-written record.
ref: 2015 July 27, Joe Gorman, “The stats guru helping keep alive football history in Australia”, in The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To collect or interpret statistics related to (a match etc.).
examples: text: If you stat it, they will kill it.
synonyms: stat out
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To assign statistics to (a monster etc. in a game).
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: stats
Etymology: Clipping of statutory.
Senses: glosses: A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday).
Derived terms: stat dec
stat max
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: stats
Etymology: Clipping of photostat.
Senses: examples: text: These Poloroids ^([sic]) are then enlarged by a stat camera or a copier with an enlarging feature, colored electrographically, transferred to acetate pieces, and fused or sewn together into quilts.
ref: 1983 February 12, F. W. Leupold, “Lesbirotic Electrographics”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 12:
glosses: Clipping of photostat.
stat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: stats
form: statting
form: statted
form: statted
Etymology: Clipping of photostat.
Senses: examples: text: These overlays were then statted using a screen of etched glass to break up the solid black into small rows of black dots. A different sized screen was used to create a different sized dot for each percentage.
ref: 2009, Kevin Tinsley, Digital Prepress for Comic Books, New York, NY: Stickman Graphics, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: Clipping of photostat.
Related terms: stat mech
icosasphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icosaspheres
Etymology: From icosa- (“twenty”) + sphere.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geometric figure with twenty or more triangular faces producing a semi-spherical solid.
Madalene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Magdalene.
link whoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of going out of one's way to place links to one's website on someone else's web page.
Related terms: link whore
link doping
psychrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychrophiles
Etymology: From psychro- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: An organism that can live and thrive at temperatures much lower than normal; a form of extremophile.
Related terms: thermophile
psychrotrophic
antipope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈantɪpəʊp/
ipa: /ˈæntiˌpoʊp/
ipa: /ˈænˌtaɪˌpoʊp/
Forms: form: antipopes
form: anti-pope
Etymology: From Middle French antipape (later assimilated to anti- + pope), from Medieval Latin antipāpa.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile support for the ‘puppet’ antipope Nicholas V, deprived of his protector and by now excommunicated along with his emperor, rapidly withered away.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 59:
topics: Christianity
hypernyms: pretender
coordinate_terms: antibishop
anticardinal
pseudocardinal
glosses: A person who claims or claimed to be the pope, usually as the result of a disputed election or deposition, but is not considered by the Roman Catholic Church to be the real pope.
Related terms: antipapism
antipopery
schism
antichrist
frame up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frames up
form: framing up
form: framed up
form: framed up
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
synonyms: frame out
glosses: To erect the initial walls and roof of (a new building).
synonyms: frame#Verb
put up
set up
glosses: To arrange fraudulent evidence to falsely implicate (a person) of a crime.
Derived terms: word: frame-up
word: frameup
Roman Catholic Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Roman Catholic Church
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Catholic Church.
synonyms: word: Catholic Church
glosses: Latin Church, the largest of the autonomous particular churches of the Catholic Church.
Synonyms: Church of Rome
Related terms: Eastern Catholic
Greek Catholic
Roman Catholic
sidecar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdkɑɹ/
Forms: form: sidecars
Etymology: From side + car.
Senses: coordinate_terms: forecar
glosses: A one-wheeled attachment to the side of a motorcycle to allow for a separate seat for a passenger or cargo space.
examples: text: Faux 19th-century bartenders in sleeve garters and baroque facial hair ply their trade in pre-Prohibition bars. Women wearing cloche hats order sidecars at speakeasies.
ref: 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A cocktail made with cognac (or brandy), triple sec liqueur, and lemon juice.
examples: text: Using generic sidecars for multiple microservices may introduce functionality overhead.
ref: Ali Heydarimoghaddam, Microservices Design Patterns (page 83)
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A software component that runs in a separate process from the rest of the software, to provide isolation and encapsulation.
Derived terms: sidecar file
tangi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌŋi/
ipa: /ˈtaŋi/
Forms: form: tangis
form: tangi
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori tangi (“lament, mourning, funeral ceremony”).
Senses: glosses: A Maori dirge, or song for the dead.
examples: text: He goes on to say that the Government, The Maori Sanitary Councils, and the Native Land Court have endeavoured to prevent Maori tangis lasting for more than three or four days […].
ref: 1906, The District Court and Magistrate's Court Reports:
text: Late in the nineteenth century Māori women began to adopt the Victorian mourning costume of black clothes for tangi, and the practice continued long after Pākehā New Zealanders had dropped the custom.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 243:
glosses: Funeral rites; a funeral ceremony, a tangihanga.
glosses: Crying, wailing, especially when seeing someone after a long absence.
phallocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfalə(ʊ)ˈsɛntɹɪk/
Forms: form: more phallocentric
form: most phallocentric
Etymology: From phallo- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: His shame at what she might on the other hand perceive as his slimy phallocentric conduct toward her made it easier for him to avoid her, as well.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 25:
antonyms: gynocentric
glosses: Focused on the phallus, especially as a symbol of male dominance; characterised by male attitudes, focused on men.
Derived terms: phallocentrically
phallocentricity
phallogocentric
Related terms: phallocentrism
phallocratic
phallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæləs/
rhymes: -æləs
Forms: form: phalli
form: phalluses
form: phallos
Etymology: From Latin phallus (“membrum virile, phallus, or a figure thereof”) from Ancient Greek φαλλός (phallós).
Senses: examples: text: The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159:
text: If the priests of Diana of Ephesus castrated themselves and offered their genitals on the altar, it was because the phallus was the symbol of the dying body.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 129:
glosses: A penis, especially when erect.
examples: text: The initiated member gave a gift of a coin for the goddess, for which he received in turn a phallus and some salt.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 86:
glosses: A representation of an erect penis, especially symbolising fertility or potency.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The signifier of the desire of the Other, and the signifier of jouissance.
Coordinate terms: yoni
Derived terms: diphallia
diphallism
diphallus
ectophallus
endophallus
epiphallus
macrophallus
megalophallus
megaphallus
microphallus
neophallus
phallectomy
phallic
phallically
phallicism
phallin
phallobase
phallocentric
phallocentrism
phallocracy
phallocrat
phallocratic
phallogocentric
phallogocentrism
phalloidin
phalloidine
phallological
phallologist
phallologocentric
phallologocentrism
phallology
phallolysin
phallometric
phallometry
phalloplasty
phallostethid
phallotomy
phallotoxin
phallused
phalluslike
phallusy
primordial phallus
Related terms: ithyphallic
lingam
nimble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: nimbler
form: nimblest
Etymology: From Middle English nymyl, nemel, nemyll, nymell (“agile, quick, ready, able, capable”), merger of Old English nǣmel (“receptive, quick to grasp”) and Old English numol (“able to take, capable of holding”), both from niman (“to take”) + -el, -ol (associative suffix), corresponding to nim + -le. Compare German nehmen, Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman), Old Norse nema (“to take”). More at nim.
Senses: examples: text: nimble fingers
glosses: Adept at taking or grasping.
examples: text: He was too nimble for the assailant and easily escaped his grasp.
text: […] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?
ref: 1656, Robert Sanderson, Twenty Sermons, London: Henry Seile, Sermon 13, p. 267:
text: Attempts to introduce versions of "market communism" — in China, Hungary or Yugoslavia — have shown how hard it is to make mainly state-owned economies as nimble as mainly private ones.
ref: 1988, The Economist, volume 306, numbers 7532-7539, page 13:
text: The quickest and nimblest were probably the oxycones, throwing themselves through the water like discuses.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Quick and light in movement or action.
examples: text: He has a nimble mind and can improvise in any situation.
text: "It requires you to be flexible and nimble in your thinking and Huw has already demonstrated that," said Greenwood, [...]
ref: 2020 May 20, “Merriman praised over handling of TSC's 'virtual' transition”, in Rail, page 12:
glosses: Quickwitted and alert.
Derived terms: nimbility
nimble-chops
nimble-fingered
nimbleness
nimblesome
nimblewill
nimble-witted
nimbly
overnimble
unnimble
nimble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪmbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Forms: form: nimbles
form: nimbling
form: nimbled
form: nimbled
Etymology: From Middle English nymyl, nemel, nemyll, nymell (“agile, quick, ready, able, capable”), merger of Old English nǣmel (“receptive, quick to grasp”) and Old English numol (“able to take, capable of holding”), both from niman (“to take”) + -el, -ol (associative suffix), corresponding to nim + -le. Compare German nehmen, Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 (niman), Old Norse nema (“to take”). More at nim.
Senses: examples: text: Their teeth are regularly and assiduously cleaned by shrimp that nimble in and out of the moray's mouth like ballet dancers in the jaws of a mechanical stage dragon.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 72:
glosses: To move nimbly.
macerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ə.ɹeɪt/
Forms: form: macerates
form: macerating
form: macerated
form: macerated
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”), whence make. Cognate with French macérer.
Senses: glosses: To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
glosses: To reduce solids to small pieces (in a macerator).
examples: text: Baal scuttles with ten tails
Between as many legs as he could carry—
Perhaps Thomas poking through the holes
And finding resolution beyond the scales
And incorporeal pain of the hammered Messiah,
ref: 2006, David Tibet; Michael Cashmore (lyrics and music), “The Dissolution Of The Boat ‘Millions Of Years’”, in Black Ships Ate the Sky, performed by Current 93
roman: Immaculately macerated God.
glosses: To make lean; to cause to waste away.
glosses: To subdue the appetite by poor or scanty diet; to mortify.
examples: text: “My dear child, how are you employed?” I knew the voice of the Superior, and I replied, “My father, I was sleeping.” “And I was macerating myself at the foot of the altar for you, my child,—the scourge is red with my blood.” I returned no answer, for I felt the maceration was better merited by the betrayer than the betrayed.
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: To mortify the flesh in general.
glosses: past participle of macerate
Derived terms: macerater
macerative
macerator
unmacerated
macerate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ə.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: macerates
Etymology: First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin mācerātus, perfect passive participle of mācerō (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from Proto-Indo-European *mag-, *mak- (“to knead”), whence make. Cognate with French macérer.
Senses: glosses: A macerated substance.
atrophied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of atrophy
atrophied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atrophied
form: most atrophied
Senses: glosses: Characterized by atrophy.
Derived terms: unatrophied
hardliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardliners
Senses: examples: text: On the other side, RMT General Secretary Mick Lynch (a moderate) has to contend with the hardliners on his executive, whose intentions go way beyond trying to sort out their members' terms and conditions.
ref: 2022 June 29, Christian Wolmar, “Strike settlement held back by ministers”, in RAIL, number 960, page 43:
glosses: Alternative form of hard-liner.
boutye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊtjə/
[ˈbɐʏt͡ʃə]
Etymology: Contraction of "How about you?"
Senses: glosses: an informal greeting
Lisburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪzbɜːn/
ipa: /ˈlɪsbɜːn/
ipa: /ˈlɪzbɝn/
ipa: /ˈlɪsbɝn/
Etymology: From Irish lios + English burn (The fort on the river).
Senses: glosses: A city and administrative region mainly in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Synonyms: Lisnagarvey
Downe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /daʊn/
rhymes: -aʊn
Senses: glosses: County Down in Ireland; also Downshire.
glosses: A village in the borough of Bromley, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ4361).
glosses: A township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A surname.
dosimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosimeters
form: dosemeter
Senses: examples: text: Dosimeters normally take the form of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), photographic film, thermoluminescent devices (TLD) or electronic personal dosimeters (PDM).
glosses: A device used to measure a dose of ionizing radiation.
Derived terms: biodosimeter
chemodosimeter
Related terms: Geiger counter
scintillation counter
sound dosimiter
back-bench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-benches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backbench.
back-bencher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-benchers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backbencher.
backbenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backbench
exceed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: exceeds
form: exceeding
form: exceeded
form: exceeded
form: excede
Etymology: From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excēdō (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with cēdō (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc. Partly displaced native Old English ofersteppan, whence Modern English overstep.
Senses: examples: text: The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
glosses: To be larger, greater than (something).
examples: text: The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
glosses: To be better than (something).
examples: text: Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
text: Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
ref: 2012 January 24, Stephen Ledoux, “Behaviorism at 100”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 60:
glosses: To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.
glosses: To predominate.
examples: text: And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:
glosses: To go too far; to be excessive.
Synonyms: sense: to be larger than something
word: outbalance
sense: to be larger than something
word: outweigh
sense: to be larger than something
word: top
sense: to be better than something
word: excel
word: top
word: outperform
word: surpass
sense: to go beyond some limit
word: outstep
word: overstep
word: transcend
sense: to be excessive
word: cross the line
word: bear away the bell
word: best
word: better
word: overtake
word: dwarf
word: eclipse
word: exceed
word: hold the cards
word: outclass
word: outdo
word: outmatch
word: outrival
word: outrun
word: outshadow
word: outshine
word: outstrip
word: outvie
word: overmatch
word: overshadow
word: pass
word: prevail
word: put to shame
word: run away with
word: trump
word: upstage
Hypernyms: word: be unequal
Derived terms: exceedable
exceedance
exceeder
exceeding
exceedingly
unexceeded
Related terms: excess
excessive
excessively
back benches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back bench
back-benches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-bench
back-hander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-handers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backhander.
ionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ionizing
form: most ionizing
Senses: glosses: Capable of producing ions.
ionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ionize
Derived terms: ionizing radiation
decomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: decompositions
Etymology: From de- + composition.
Senses: glosses: A biological process through which organic material is reduced to e.g. compost.
examples: text: Speech decomposition into a periodic and a non-periodic part is a subject of considerable importance with applications in speech synthesis, […]
ref: 2005, Gerard Chollet, Anna Esposito, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Nonlinear Speech Modeling and Applications:
glosses: The act of taking something apart, e.g. for analysis.
glosses: The splitting (of e.g. a matrix, an atom, or a compound) into constituent parts.
Derived terms: autodecomposition
Białynicki-Birula decomposition
branch-decomposition
chemical decomposition
Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition
decompositional
decomposition potential
double decomposition
eigen decomposition
eigendecomposition
Heegaard decomposition
Hodge decomposition
matrix decomposition
nano-decomposition
nanodecomposition
nondecomposition
open book decomposition
photodecomposition
predecomposition
prime decomposition
QR decomposition
Schur decomposition
singular value decomposition
square root decomposition
tree decomposition
Related terms: decompose
ionizing radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionizing radiations
form: ionising radiation
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: High-energy radiation that is capable of causing ionization in substances through which it passes; also includes high-energy particles.
Hyponyms: far ultraviolet light
X-rays
cosmic rays
gamma rays
particle radiation
back-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Deverbal from back up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of backup
back-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from back up.
Senses: examples: text: Despite deploying a contingency workforce of fully trained non-striking and non-union back-up staff, Network Rail was forced to issue a limited timetable with only 20% of services running on June 21, 23 and 25.
ref: 2022 June 29, “Network News: Emergency timetables: just 20% of services set to run”, in RAIL, number 960, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of backup.
high-energy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high-energy
form: most high-energy
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: or the equivalent electromagnetic radiation
glosses: Having an energy greater than 100,000 electron volts.
raw_tags: of an elementary particle
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Producing a large amount of energy when reacting.
glosses: Vigorous, energetic, or dynamic.
Related terms: Hi-NRG
timidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈmɪdɪti/
rhymes: -ɪdɪti
Forms: form: timidities
Etymology: From timid + -ity, from Middle French timidité, from Latin timiditātem.
Senses: examples: text: […] instead of the joyous voices of his playfellows he hears the rough commands of an unindulgent master or a scolding mistress; — he is continually reproached for his awkwardness and timidity, and reminded of his pauper origin.
ref: 1849, Minutes of the committee of council on education, page 82:
glosses: The state of being timid; shyness.
Synonyms: timidness
electron volt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron volts
form: eV
form: electronvolt
Senses: examples: text: To get a feel for the size, the energy required to completely liberate an electron from the ground state of a hydrogen atom is 13.6 electron volts.
ref: 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, page 158n:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit for measuring the energy of subatomic particles; the energy equal to that attained by an electron moving through a potential difference of one volt. Equivalent to 1.6022 × 10⁻¹⁹ joules.
Derived terms: gigaelectronvolt
GeV
BeV
kiloelectronvolt
KeV
megaelectronvolt
MeV
millielectronvolt
meV
teraelectronvolt
TeV
electronvolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronvolts
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative spelling of electron volt.
Derived terms: femtoelectronvolt
gigaelectron volt
kiloelectronvolt
microelectronvolt
millielectronvolt
nanoelectronvolt
picoelectronvolt
teraelectronvolt
eV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eV
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electron volt.
Derived terms: english: teraelectronvolt / trillion electron volts
translation: teraelectronvolt / trillion electron volts
word: TeV
english: billion electron volts
translation: billion electron volts
word: BeV
english: gigaelectronvolt
translation: gigaelectronvolt
word: GeV
english: megaelectronvolt / million electron volts
translation: megaelectronvolt / million electron volts
word: MeV
word: keV
english: kilo-electron-volt
translation: kilo-electron-volt
word: KeV
english: millielectronvolt
translation: millielectronvolt
word: meV
word: μeV
english: microelectronvolt
translation: microelectronvolt
word: ueV
english: nanoelectronvolt
translation: nanoelectronvolt
word: neV
english: picoelectronvolt
translation: picoelectronvolt
word: peV
english: femtoelectronvolt
translation: femtoelectronvolt
word: feV
word: zevatron
Related terms: alt: volt
word: V
english: electron
translation: electron
word: e
efficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈfɪʃ.ən.si/
ipa: [ɪˈfɪʃn̩si]
ipa: /ɪˈfɪʃ.ɪn.si/
Forms: form: efficiencies
Etymology: From Latin efficientia, equivalent to efficient + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: In a letter DeJoy sent to Congress on Thursday, he said DOGE teams will “assist us in identifying and achieving further efficiencies,” saying the Elon Musk-led agency will focus on improving the management of USPS retirement assets and the Workers’ Compensation Program, as well as addressing the agency’s legislative mandates and regulatory requirements.
ref: 2025 March 13, Gabe Cohen, “Head of Postal Service agrees to let DOGE work with USPS”, in CNN:
antonyms: inefficiency
wastefulness
glosses: The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
examples: text: The efficiency of this loudspeaker is 40%.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: inefficiency
wastefulness
glosses: The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Often given the symbol η.
examples: text: The efficiency of the planning department is deplorable.
text: Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
ref: 1951 October 24, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
text: The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years.
ref: 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
antonyms: inefficiency
wastefulness
glosses: The extent to which a resource is used for the intended purpose.
The extent to which time is well used for the intended task.
examples: text: The manner of this divine efficiency being far above us.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: The quality of producing an effect or effects.
examples: text: I have an efficiency available June through July.
text: fully-furnished efficiencies
synonyms: word: efficiency apartment
word: studio apartment
word: bedsit
glosses: A one-room apartment.
Hyponyms: algorithmic efficiency
allocative efficiency
business efficiency
dynamic efficiency
electrical efficiency
energy efficiency
fuel efficiency
Kaldor-Hicks efficiency
material efficiency
Pareto efficiency
productive efficiency
quantum efficiency
static efficiency
tax efficiency
thermal efficiency
Derived terms: coefficiency
cost efficiency
ecoefficiency
efficiency engineer
efficiency ratio
equiefficiency
high-efficiency
low-efficiency
nonefficiency
photoefficiency
superefficiency
Related terms: effect
effective
effectiveness
effectivity
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficient
efficiently
potential difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potential differences
Senses: glosses: the difference in potential energy between two points in an electric field; the difference in charge between two points in an electrical circuit; voltage
ingenuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti/
Forms: form: ingenuities
Etymology: From Latin ingenuitās.
Senses: examples: text: The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
text: Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.
text: Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
text: Half the ingenuity lavished on news—by news we mean the topics of the day as connected with their own circle—half this ingenuity would set up a whole Society of Antiquaries, and immortalise at least a dozen of them.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 189:
text: The heavy freight traffic which shares the double line between Paddington and Wolverhampton with the passenger traffic has taxed the ingenuity of the timetable planners.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 103:
glosses: The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.
examples: text: Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
glosses: An ingenuous action or thought.
examples: text: And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness
Derived terms: disingenuity
hyperingenuity
ingenuitive
overingenuity
superingenuity
Yankee ingenuity
Related terms: ingenious
ingenuous
industriousness
potential energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potential energies
Senses: glosses: The energy possessed by an object because of its position (in a gravitational or electric field), or its condition (as a stretched or compressed spring, as a chemical reactant, or by having rest mass).
Related terms: kinetic energy
E=mc²
stretched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹɛt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ɛtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stretch
circus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːkəs/
ipa: /ˈsɝkəs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəs
Forms: form: circuses
form: circusses
form: circi
Etymology: From Middle English circus, circo, from Latin circus (“ring, circle”), from Ancient Greek κρίκος (kríkos), κίρκος (kírkos, “ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Doublet of cirque. Cognate with Old English hring (whence English ring) and Old English hringsetl (“circus”, literally “ring-seat”).
Senses: examples: text: The circus will be in town next week.
glosses: A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent.
examples: text: Oxford Circus in London is at the north end of Regent Street.
glosses: A round open space in a town or city where multiple streets meet.
examples: text: The village would be turned into a circus over this. He groaned, it was just the sort of case the media had a field day over. He had to get the whole thing sorted fast before anyone got wind of it.
ref: 2009, Christine Brooks, A Quiet Village, page 81:
glosses: A spectacle; a noisy fuss; a chaotic and/or crowded place.
glosses: In the ancient Roman Empire, a building for chariot racing.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: World War II
glosses: A code name for bomber attacks with fighter escorts in the day time. The attacks were against short-range targets with the intention of occupying enemy fighters and keeping their fighter units in the area concerned.
examples: text: The narrow circus of my dungeon wall.
ref: 1817, Lord Byron, The Lament of Tasso:
glosses: Circuit; space; enclosure.
Coordinate terms: sense: open space
word: concourse
Derived terms: a few clowns short of a circus
anticircus
bread and circuses
circus act
circus freak
circusgoer
circus-goer
circusiana
circusless
circuslike
circus peanut
circus ring
circusy
contemporary circus
crap circus
flea circus
flying circus
let's get this circus on the road
media circus
new circus
noncircus
Piccadilly Circus
psychedelic circus
shit circus
three-ring circus
Related terms: circle
circular
circus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːkəs/
ipa: /ˈsɝkəs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəs
Forms: form: circuses
form: circusses
form: circusing
form: circussing
form: circused
form: circused
form: circussed
form: circussed
Etymology: From Middle English circus, circo, from Latin circus (“ring, circle”), from Ancient Greek κρίκος (kríkos), κίρκος (kírkos, “ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). Doublet of cirque. Cognate with Old English hring (whence English ring) and Old English hringsetl (“circus”, literally “ring-seat”).
Senses: glosses: To take part in a circus; or to be displayed as if in a circus
compressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: more compressed
form: most compressed
Senses: glosses: Pressed tightly together.
glosses: Flattened, especially when along its entire length.
Hyponyms: topics: engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
software
computing
mathematics
sciences
word: delta-compressed
Derived terms: bit-compressed
compressed air
compressedly
compressed sensing
compressed yeast
noncompressed
obcompressed
subcompressed
supercompressed
Related terms: word: compress
word: compressible
word: compression
word: compressor
compressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compress
reactant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reactants
Etymology: From react + -ant.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: reagent
glosses: Any of the participants present at the start of a chemical reaction, specifically one that is consumed during the reaction.
sweetheart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːtˌhɑːt/
ipa: /ˈswitˌhɑɹt/
ipa: [ˈswiˌɾ(ʱ)ɑɹt̠̚]
Forms: form: sweethearts
Etymology: From Middle English swete hert, swete heorte (phrase of endearment); equivalent to sweet + heart.
Senses: examples: text: She is such a sweetheart: she never complains about me being late.
glosses: A person who is always very kind.
examples: text: John married his high-school sweetheart in 1981.
text: Why Lambe, why Lady, fie you ſluggabed, / Why Loue I ſay, Madam, ſweeteheart, why Bride: / What not a word, you take your penniworths now, / Sleepe for a weeke, […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
glosses: A person very much liked or loved by someone, especially when both partners are young.
glosses: A term of endearment, especially for a lover or child.
glosses: A female member of a college or university fraternity.
Synonyms: sense: kind person
word: sweetie
sense: romantic term of endearment
word: babe
word: baby
word: dear
word: darling
word: sweetie
word: babber
word: precious
word: bae
word: babycakes
word: bubba
word: bully
word: buttercup
word: cabbage
word: chickabiddy
word: chickadee
word: chuck
word: cupcake
word: cutie
word: dag
word: dear heart
word: dearest
word: dearie
word: dearling
word: doll
word: doodlebug
word: dove
word: duck
word: ducky
word: dumpling
word: fam
word: heart
word: heartface
word: heartling
word: heartmate
word: hinny
word: hon
word: honey
word: honey bun
word: honeybunch
word: honeybug
word: honeybunny
word: honeycakes
word: honeypie
word: jewel
word: jo
word: kidder
word: lambchop
word: lambkin
word: lass (archaic except UK
word: dialectal (chiefly Geordie
word: Wearside)
word: informal or poetic)
word: liefling
word: little one
word: love
word: lovebug
word: loveling
word: lovie
word: luvvy
word: m'dear
word: miting
word: moppet
word: mopsy
word: mouse
word: muffin
word: muss
word: old bean
word: old sport
word: pally
word: pet
word: petal
word: poppet
word: pug
word: pumpkin
word: pussums
word: pussy
word: sausage
word: schnookums
word: shug
word: snicklefritz
word: snookums
word: snuggums
word: squishy
word: sug
word: sugar
word: sugar baby
word: sugar beet
word: sugar-plum
word: sugarpie
word: sweet pea
word: sweetcheeks
word: sweetheart
word: sweetie pie
word: sweets
word: sweetling
word: treasure
word: woobie
Hypernyms: word: term of endearment
Hyponyms: word: Female only
word: girl
word: lady
word: old lady
word: gal
word: old girl
word: lass
word: lassie
word: mummykins
word: princess
word: rosebud
word: young lady
word: Male only
word: baby boy
word: boy
word: boychik
word: daddy-o
word: daddykins
word: hubs
word: hubby
word: lad
word: old boy
word: old chap
word: uncle
word: young man
Derived terms: sweetheart cabbage
sweetheart cake
sweetheart contract
sweetheart deal
sweetheart neckline
sweetheart tax deal
Related terms: word: sweet
word: sweetie
word: child
word: friend
word: lover
word: :Category:English endearing terms