cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
attributable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹɪbjuːtəbəl/
Etymology: From attribute + -able.
Senses: examples: text: His lack of conversation is attributable to his shyness.
text: Timekeeping is better than on many Irish main lines; indeed, such delays as do occur are often attributable to late running of the Dublin-Sligo trains.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
text: The Shark Attack File shows twenty-seven attacks, definitely attributable to Galeocerdo cuvieri, and they have occurred all over the world, from Australia to Florida.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 124:
text: [T]he ‘fun’ factor may be in part attributable the novelty of the feedback mechanism, and the sense of fun might wear thin after longer exposure to the feedback method.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1090:
glosses: Capable of being attributed.
glosses: Allowed to be attributed.
Derived terms: inattributable
nonattributable
unattributable
have got
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has got
form: having got
form: had got
form: had got
Etymology: From the present perfect of get.
Senses: examples: text: I'd got her by the collar.
text: Jim's got his eyes closed, so you don't have to worry about him seeing you undressed.
text: Jose's got a car, hasn't he?
text: Sorry, I haven't got beer. We don’t keep any alcohol in the house.
text: I’ve got a terrible headache. - Have you, dear? I’ll get you an aspirin rightaway.
text: “Well, your mother has got three windows into my dancing room, and you have three into my garret.”
ref: 1868, George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind:
glosses: To have.
examples: text: I've got to do my homework.
glosses: To be obliged or obligated; must, have to, got to
Derived terms: you never know what you've got till it's gone
Brangelina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹænd͡ʒəˈlinə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Etymology: Blend of Brad + Angelina.
Senses: examples: text: This tabloid has three separate Brangelina articles.
head_nr: 2
glosses: The couple consisting of celebrities Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, together from 2005 to 2016.
Related terms: Bennifer
tax resisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax resister
tax protesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax protester
protesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protester
bong hit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bong hits
Etymology: From bong + hit. First use in English appears c. 1978, in the periodical Washingtonian.
Senses: examples: text: Jim took such a big bong hit that he coughed for a whole minute.
glosses: The inhalation of marijuana smoke through a bong.
wikipedia: Washingtonian (magazine)
bongwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bong + water.
Senses: glosses: The water through which smoke is filtered in a bong or water pipe.
spamming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spam
spamming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spammings
Senses: examples: text: Any reply perversely tells the spammer that you're a "live one" and that your e-mail address should be kept active for future spammings.
ref: 2005, Joel Dubin, The Little Black Book of Computer Security, page 53:
glosses: The act of sending unwanted electronic mail.
trail mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trail mixes
Senses: examples: text: ORIGINALLY a highcalorie energy sustainer for extended hiking, trail mix started becoming very popular in the late 1960s. Affectionately nicknamed Gorp, the basic recipe has been modified to suit the different blood types.
ref: 2000, Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, Catherine Whitney, Cook Right 4 Your Type, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A blend of foods for snacking on the go, as during hikes, usually consisting of some combination of dried fruit, nuts, seeds, granola, and sometimes small candies, cereal, etc.
Synonyms: word: gorp
word: scroggin
keyframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: keyframes
form: key frame
Etymology: From key + frame.
Senses: examples: text: Lightning is a very quick and simple animation technique that can easily be overanimated. Don't try and animate the lightning bolt into the frame by building it up over a sequence of keyframes.
ref: 2013, Chris Georgenes, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS6: The Art of Design and Animation:
glosses: A single frame in an animation sequence drawn by an artist, between which others are tweened.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A complete video frame, used as a reference for subsequent interframes in video compression.
Synonyms: sense: complete video frame
word: reference frame
sense: complete video frame
word: intraframe
Derived terms: keyframer
Related terms: interframe
I-frame
B-frame
P-frame
keyframe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkiˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: keyframes
form: keyframing
form: keyframed
form: keyframed
form: key frame
Etymology: From key + frame.
Senses: glosses: To animate by interpolation between successive keyframes.
orienting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of orient
Related terms: orientating
orienteering
pills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of pill
pills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪlz/
rhymes: -ɪlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pill
pilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pill
pilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillings
Senses: glosses: Balls of fibre formed on clothing through usage, often called pill or pills.
Derived terms: antipilling
Będzin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɛnd͡ʒiːn/
enpr: bĕnʹjĭn
enpr: bĕnʹjēn
rhymes: -ɛnd͡ʒɪn
Forms: form: Bedzin
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Polish Będzin.
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Poland.
glosses: A village in Gmina Lipiany district, Pyrzyce, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland.
glosses: A village in Gmina Twardogóra district, Oleśnica, Lower Silesian, Poland.
glosses: A lake in Pojezierze Myśliborskie district, Poland.
Australian pelican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian pelicans
form: Australian Pelican
Senses: glosses: a species of pelican, Pelecanus conspicillatus, found primarily in Australia and New Guinea.
wrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wrily
form: most wrily
Senses: examples: text: But Redburn, from the start, had linked himself to those ambiguous red men, in an image part physical, part wrily metaphysical.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn, Penguin, published 1986, page 20:
text: He grinned wrily. “I guess she keeps me on my toes.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Adler, Legacy of Secrets, Island, published 1994, page 434:
glosses: Alternative form of wryly.
stark raving mad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The British ambassador reported: ‘The day before yesterday, Berlin went stark raving mad. There was a fall of six points in German securities on the Bourse and a genuine impression that war was about to break out between England and Germany.
ref: 1931, R. B. Mowat, Great Britain and Germany in the Early Twentieth Century, in The English Historical Review, Vol. 46, No. 183
glosses: Completely insane
Related terms: hopping mad
stark staring mad
metropolises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɛˈtɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: examples: text: The development of cities and metropolises has made it necessary to review this scheme.
ref: 2020, Louis Boisgibault, Fahad Al Kabbani, Energy Transition in Metropolises, Rural Areas, and Deserts, page 18:
glosses: plural of metropolis
metropolises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɛˈtɹɒ.pɒ.lɪs.ɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of metropolise
scheelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scheelites
Etymology: Named after the Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: mineral
;
ore
coordinate_terms: wolframite
glosses: A mineral composed of calcium tungstate, with the chemical formula CaWO₄; one of the principal ores for tungsten.
wikipedia: scheelite
Related terms: scheelium
schematic drawing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schematic drawings
Senses: glosses: a concise graphical system of connected symbols used to show the functional relationships of the parts of an electrical or mechanical component, and the components of a system
butties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butty
glosses: plural of buttie
schistosomiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schistosomiases
Etymology: From schistosome + -iasis.
From scientific name Schistosoma + Ancient Greek -σις (-sis, nouns of action).
Senses: examples: text: Investigation of Egyptian mummies has revealed calcified eggs in liver and kidney tissues, proving the presence of schistosomiasis in ancient Egypt.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 18:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: bilharzia
bilharziasis
bilharziosis
snail fever
Katayama fever
glosses: Any of various diseases of humans caused by parasitic blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma.
Derived terms: antischistosomiasis
neuroschistosomiasis
schistosomiasis haematobium
schistosomiasis japonicum
schistosomiasis mansoni
schistosomiasis mekongi
Related terms: schistosome
schistosomiatic
schistosomicidal
schistosomicidally
schistosomicide
schlieren photography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several techniques used to record regions of different refractive index in a fluid; especially used to visualize the flow of air around objects
schlieren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃlɪɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈʃlɪəɹən/
Forms: form: schliere
Etymology: From German Schlieren, plural of Schliere (“streak”). Compare with Latin calere, whence English scald.
Senses: glosses: Regions of a fluid having different refractive index because of their different density.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Irregular streaks of different composition in some igneous rocks.
Derived terms: schlieren photography
Related terms: schlieric
Schmidt telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schmidt telescopes
Etymology: From Bernhard Schmidt, German optician.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A telescope, having a wide field of view, comprising a thin aspheric lens and a large concave mirror
Synonyms: Schmidt camera
Schmidt camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schmidt cameras
Etymology: From Bernhard Schmidt, German optician.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A camera mounted in a Schmidt telescope
wikipedia: Bernhard Schmidt
Schottky anomaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schottky anomalies
Etymology: From Walter H. Schottky, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A variation in the heat capacity of a solid at low temperatures which arises from the thermal population of discrete energy levels as the temperature is raised
myne
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: ...leauyng with me then hys poore widow and a great sort of orphanes a good comfort in the hope of your good continuance, which I haue truly found to me and myne, and therfore do duely and dayly pray for you and yours...
ref: 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mine.
Schottky diode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schottky diodes
Etymology: From Walter H. Schottky, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A metal-semiconductor diode that exhibits a nonlinear voltage/current relationship
Synonyms: metallic disk rectifier
Related terms: Schottky anomaly
Schottky barrier
Schottky barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schottky barriers
Etymology: From Walter H. Schottky, German physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A metal-semiconductor junction which functions as a rectifier.
wikipedia: Walter H. Schottky
Synonyms: metallic disk rectifier
Related terms: Schottky anomaly
heat capacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat capacities
Senses: examples: text: 500 J introduced to a system caused the temperature of the system to increase by 2 K; thus, the heat capacity is 250 J/K. If the system consists of a single material with a mass of 500 g, the specific heat capacity of that material is 500 J/K/kg.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The capability of a system to absorb heat energy; the amount of thermal energy required to raise the temperature of a system by one temperature unit without any change of phase.
Derived terms: heat capacity ratio
axion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axions
Etymology: Coined by American physicist Frank Wilczek in 1978 after Axion, a brand of laundry detergent, for its -on suffix and the notion that the new particle could "clean up" a problem in physics or a learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄξιον (áxion). Compare with Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axle”) and Sanskrit अक्ष (akṣa, “axle, axis, balance beam”).
Senses: examples: text: 2000 Summer/Fall, John Clarke, Superconductivity: A Macroscopic Quantum Phenomenon, Rene Donaldson, Bill Kirk (editors), Beam Line, Volume 30, Number 2, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, page 47,
The axion is a candidate particle for the cold dark matter that constitutes a large fraction of the mass of the Universe.
text: In summary, the first version of gravity-mediated supersymmetry breaking has the advantage of giving an axion mass that is within cosmological bounds, while the second version has the advantage of giving the gauginos masses that are comparable to the masses of the squarks and sleptons.
ref: 2000, Steven Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, volume 3, Supersymmetry, page 375:
text: Let us begin with a disclaimer: axions, a, have been conjectured to exist on theoretical grounds, but have not as yet been observed. They are supposed to be very light particles that interact very weakly with matter.
ref: 2013, Adrian C. Melissinos, Reminiscences: A Journey Through Particle Physics, page 93:
text: Theoretical considerations appear to indicate that the axion mass should be somewhere between the microelectron volt and millielectron volt range.
ref: 2015, Paul Seidel, editor, Applied Superconductivity: Handbook on Devices and Applications, page 857:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical subatomic particle postulated to resolve certain symmetry problems concerning the strong nuclear force.
Derived terms: axionic
axionlike
axiverse
axizilla
saxion
chloroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chloroid
form: most chloroid
Etymology: From chloro- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling chlorine.
glosses: yellow-green in color.
sulphureo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Used as a combining form to indicate sulphureous and some other property
Derived terms: sulphureo-aerial
sulphureo-nitrous
sulphureo-reguline
sulphureo-saline
sulphureo-virescent
greasepaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡriːs.peɪnt/
Forms: form: greasepaints
form: grease-paint
Etymology: From grease + paint.
Senses: hyponyms: five and nine
glosses: A mixture of grease and coloring matter used as theatrical makeup.
Derived terms: greasepainted
watered stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watered stocks
Etymology: Derived from the practice of "watering" livestock before sale, where the seller gives an animal a large quantity of water to drink before a potential buyer weighs the animal to determine its value.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Shares of stock in a business that are inflated by parties colluding with the seller making inflated offers for the property that the stock represents, which are reported to potential sellers as indicative of the value of the stock.
colluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of collude
colluding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That colludes
Derived terms: colludingly
noncolluding
holographic wills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holographic will
dichlorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈklɔːɹiːn/
Etymology: From di- + chlorine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Two atoms of chlorine in a molecule
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: molecular chlorine, Cl₂
Derived terms: dichlorine heptoxide
dichlorine hexoxide
dichlorine monoxide
organochlorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organochlorines
Etymology: From organo- + chlorine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many chlorine substituted organic compounds, many of which are solvents or insecticides etc.
Synonyms: chlorocarbon
organochloride
organochlorine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + chlorine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: containing chlorine
raw_tags: of an organic compound
organochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organochlorides
Etymology: From organo- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: organochlorine
chlorurated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chlorurated
form: most chlorurated
Etymology: Borrowed from French chloruré + -ated.
Senses: glosses: chlorinated
carnallite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnallites
Etymology: Named after the mineralogist Von Carnall (1804-74), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite composed of a mixture of potassium chloride and magnesium chloride, with the chemical formula KMgCl₃·6H₂O.
tercio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tercios
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tercio.
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: Any of the three stages of a bullfight: the vara, the banderilla and finally the death.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A mutually supportive infantry formation made up of pikemen, swordsmen and arquebusiers or musketeers.
daemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daemon
forwarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forward
bendy bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bendy buses
Senses: examples: text: Mr Johnson is proud that London will soon be free of these buses. Conservative Home, a website, quotes him as saying at a fringe meeting at the Conservative conference on Monday night, that: “The last breeding pair of bendy buses will be despatched this year to the happy hunting ground of some Scandinavian airport.”
ref: 2011 October 6, Boris Johnson, quotee, “Bus conduct”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: At the same time, Johnson scrapped the so-called “bendy buses,” long, articulated buses that Johnson claimed were unsuitable for London roads and allowed people to avoid paying fares.
ref: [2022, Victoria R. Williams, London: Geography, History, and Culture, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
glosses: An articulated bus.
round character
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round characters
Senses: glosses: A complex literary character with fully developed and dynamic traits.
WYMM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of will you marry me.
mia mia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mia mias
form: mia-mia
Etymology: Borrowed from Kurnai mai-mai or Wathaurong [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: 1913, William Henry Fitchett, The New World of the South: Australia in the Making, 2006 Elibron Classics, page 391,
On the point of this “spear” they erected what looked like a mia-mia, a hut made of branches by the blacks ; across the road opposite to it the trunk of a tree was dragged, leaving a narrow track along which the escort must defile.
text: Decorated with this mop of hair and the chaplet, the girl was led by her father to the mia-mia and put inside this with the four boys.
ref: 1914, Baldwin Spencer, Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, page 109:
text: Exhausted, he threw himself down at the door of the mia-mia of the emu and lay there as if dead.
ref: 1932, W. Ramsay Smith, “The Flood and its Results”, in Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, Dover, published 2003, page 160:
text: "Dan is creeping through the bushes on the other side of the mia-mia."
ref: 1944, H. Lorna Bingham, Tuckonie's Warrior Friend, page 15, column 2:
glosses: An aboriginal shelter made from bark, a gunya.
Synonyms: gunya
humpy
wurly
broken arrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broken arrows
Senses: examples: text: A broken arrow A - - -> B indicates that an occasional result of Section A is used in Section B, but that Section B is essentially independent of Section A.
ref: 2003, Thomas W. Hungerford, Algebra, →ISBN, page 371:
text: Longitudinal scan of focal thickening and disruption of the median nerve (broken arrow), at the level volar to the distal radius, in keeping with scarring from prior trauma. (F) Sagittal proton density MR image of nonspecific thickening of the 2. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 3. 4. median nerve (broken arrow), with a similar configuration.
ref: 2012, Diana Gaitini, Musculoskeletal Ultrasound, An Issue of Ultrasound Clinics, →ISBN:
text: Note that the uptake of pertechnetate (i.e., darkness) is comparable between the two thyroid lobes (solid arrow) and the salivary glands (broken arrow).
ref: 2014, Richard W. Nelson, C. Guillermo Couto, Small Animal Internal Medicine, →ISBN, page 761:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see broken, arrow.
common or garden variety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common or garden varieties
Senses: glosses: An ordinary, standard kind.
Related terms: common
garden variety
common-or-garden
answer on a postcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: answers on a postcard
form: answers on postcards
Senses: examples: text: John sent me a three-page report when I just wanted an answer on a postcard.
glosses: A brief answer or opinion.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see answer, on, a, postcard.
big C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the big C
Etymology: From the first letter of cancer.
Senses: examples: text: You can always count on John Wayne, 57; he never steps out of character. "I kicked the Big C," growled the movie toughie, admitting that it was lung cancer that put him in Los Angeles' Good Samaritan Hospital for surgery last September.
ref: 1965, Time:
glosses: cancer.
little man in the boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its physical appearance.
Senses: examples: text: I'm sorry, Mayor, but I couldn't find the little man in the boat.
ref: 1998 June 24, “Summer Sucks”, in South Park, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Officer Barbrady:
text: “You shitheads know how to eat pussy?” He sprayed the nearest among us with spittle.[…]“What you do,” continued Kennington in high bellow, “what you do is get down there and find the little man in the boat. That's who you gotta find. The little man in the boat.”
ref: 2011, P. G. Sturges, Shortcut Man, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 63:
synonyms: word: boy in the boat
word: bean
word: butter bean
word: boy in the boat
word: button
word: clit
word: clitoris
word: devil's doorbell
word: happy button
word: jewel
word: kernel
word: knob
word: little man in the boat
word: lovebud
word: love button
word: nub
word: nubbin
word: panic button
word: pearl
word: skittle
word: sugar plum
word: sweet spot
glosses: The clitoris.
peak oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Or more worrying, that after many years of false alarms, the world is truly beginning to run out of oil? That last question is at the center of a fierce debate. Adherents of the “peak oil” theory warn of a permanent oil shortage.
ref: 2004 April 4, Daniel Yergin, “Imagining a $7-a-Gallon Future”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Another consequence of reaching "peak oil" is the debate it will surely provoke in the United States over whether we should avert the coming crisis by drilling in pristine lands and waters long considered off limits or by engaging in conservation and development of alternative fuel sources.
ref: 2005 September 4, Carrie Abels Brattleboro, “The Breaking Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In this view the 21st-century poison is peak oil theory, the idea that the world has reached its maximum oil production or soon will, and that we are entering a period when escalating energy costs will make the suburban lifestyle untenable.
ref: 2005 March 13, Natalie Canavor, “Running on Empty”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: By the time the last guitar duo performed “Here Comes the Sun,” everyone in the room was so keyed up — so ready to turn the impending dark age of peak oil and climate change into a renaissance — that no one heard the slightest menace in the line “Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting.”
ref: 2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Peak oil hasn't happened, and it's unlikely to happen for a very long time.
ref: 2012 July 2, George Monbiot, “We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all”, in The Guardian:
text: What follows from this is that the idea of peak oil has gone up in flames. We do not have too little fossil fuel, we have far too much.
ref: 2012 November 12, Damian Carrington, “IEA report reminds us peak oil idea has gone up in flames”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The peak of the Earth's oil production.
Related terms: peaknik
peakist
peakism
tenace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenaces
Etymology: Borrowed from French tenace.
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: An interrupted sequence of high cards of the same suit, such as the king and jack or the ace and queen.
Derived terms: sense: major tenace
word: the first- and third-best cards
sense: minor tenace
word: the second- and fourth-best cards
taxonomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxonomists
Etymology: From taxonomy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
text: Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
ref: 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446:
text: “People have biases towards species that are glamorous,” said Dr. Ernie Small, author of the study and taxonomist for Agriculture Canada.
ref: 2012 May 6, Eoghan Macguire, “Beauty trumps beast in conservation efforts”, in CNN:
text: Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.
ref: 2024 March 11, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover 100 potential new deep-sea species, including mystery creature”, in CNN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Someone whose profession is taxonomy, or who performs taxonomy at a professional level.
Derived terms: chemotaxonomist
cytotaxonomist
evolutionary taxonomist
numerical taxonomist
dead ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They are dead ducks if they are still in the car when it explodes!
glosses: plural of dead duck
exit stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exits stage left
form: exit stage right
Etymology: From the direction in theatrical scripts: "Exit stage left", marking the disappearance of a character from the stage in the normal manner.
Senses: examples: text: We played until our fellow participants began to reenter the gym. Then we pulled on our shirts, left the ball for dead on the foul line, and made a quick exit stage left.
ref: 2001, Phil Jackson, Charles Rosen, More Than a Game:
text: But like the career paths of so many Israeli politicians, his exit stage left was really a prelude to entering stage right: "I'll continue to serve," Peres told NEWSWEEK...
ref: 2005, Dan Ephron, Joanna Chen, Israel: Peres—Exit Stage Left:
glosses: An orderly and uneventful departure, timed so as not to detract or distract.
exit stage left
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exits stage left
form: exiting stage left
form: exited stage left
form: exited stage left
form: exit stage right
Etymology: From the direction in theatrical scripts: "Exit stage left", marking the disappearance of a character from the stage in the normal manner.
Senses: examples: text: 1998: C.M. from Manitowac, WI, Mike and Carrie https://web.archive.org/web/20041227101650/http://www.baileydoginc.com/mcangels/magconnect/march17.html
DAYS teased us with Mike and Carrie all through Carrie and Austin's honeymoon, and continues to tease us today as the newlyweds settle into everyday life. Austin better exit stage left soon, and give Carrie and Mike a chance for love.
text: "Bears are at their most dangerous when taken by surprise... If you do happen to come across one, you should exit stage left at normal pace (you won't outrun a bear) and without your picnic basket.".
ref: 2004, Setsunai, chapter IV, in On Gaien Higashi Dori: The Bells:
glosses: To exit or disappear in a quiet, non-dramatic fashion, making way for more interesting events.
examples: text: Exit stage left 47 dead bodies of the 112 known people who suffered from the unexplained attacks. This is a mortality rate of 42 percent.
ref: 1974: U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, Nutrition and Human Needs--1972 http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN72602216&id=K03BhndHtK8C&q=%22exit+stage+left%22+date:1800-1980&dq=%22exit+stage+left%22+date:1800-1980&pgis=1
text: Suddenly, all the animals we see around dive into and disappear into the bush. […] There was some kind of communication (that we humans didn’t hear) among the animals that said, “Exit stage left, now!”
ref: 2019, Ernie Nylander, “Animals with Whom We Share the Planet”, in Splendid South Africa and Swaziland, New York, N.Y.: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Leave the scene, and don't make a fuss.
Related terms: don't let the door hit you on the way out
just ducky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Well, that's just ducky!
glosses: Great or going well.
confidence trickster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confidence tricksters
Senses: synonyms: word: bamboozler
word: bouncer
word: bullshitter
word: cheat
word: cheater
word: cogger
word: cony-catcher
word: crammer
word: deceiver
word: deceptor
word: fabricator
word: fabulist
word: falser
word: gabber
word: grifter
word: guiler
word: liar
word: losenger
word: mocker
word: pseudologist
word: rook
word: Scandaroon
word: shammer
word: Spanish athlete
word: swindler
word: swike
word: treacher
word: trickster
word: trucker
word: wernard
glosses: Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust, a conman or con artist.
Synonyms: word: bristler
word: bunco artist
word: bunco-steerer
word: chiseler
word: con artist
word: confidence artist
word: confidence trickster
word: conman
word: flimflammer
word: grifter
word: lugger
word: magsman
word: mountebank
word: saltimbanco
word: sharpster
word: sharker
word: shark-gull
word: slicker
word: smooth operator
word: spiv
Hypernyms: word: criminal
word: deceiver
word: fraudster
word: thief
Hyponyms: word: autem gogler
word: con woman
word: paperhanger
Related terms: word: deceive
word: dupe
con man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: con men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of conman.
gavel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡa.vəl/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Forms: form: gavels
Etymology: From Middle English gavel, from Old English gafol, from Proto-West Germanic *gabul, from Proto-Germanic *gabulą, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”), equivalent to give + -el.
Senses: glosses: Rent.
glosses: Usury; interest on money.
glosses: An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
Derived terms: gaveller
gavel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡa.vəl/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Forms: form: gavels
form: gaveling
form: gavelling
form: gaveled
form: gaveled
form: gavelled
form: gavelled
Etymology: From Middle English gavel, from Old English gafol, from Proto-West Germanic *gabul, from Proto-Germanic *gabulą, from Proto-Germanic *gebaną (“to give”), equivalent to give + -el.
Senses: glosses: To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
gavel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡa.vəl/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Forms: form: gavels
Etymology: Origin obscure. Possibly an alteration of dialectal cavel, a variant of kevel (“a stone mason's axe with a flat face, a cleat or bollard”), from Middle English kevel (“a mason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli (“a piece of wood, stick, cylinder, mangle”). Cognate with Norwegian kjevle (“rolling pin”).
Senses: examples: text: More than three decades later, Ms. Pelosi is all but assured on Thursday of reclaiming her former title as speaker of the House, the first lawmaker in more than half a century to hold the office twice. With the gavel in hand, she will cement her status as the highest-ranking and most powerful elected woman in American political history.
ref: 2019 January 2, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Nancy Pelosi, Icon of Female Power, Will Reclaim Role as Speaker and Seal a Place in History”, in New York Times:
glosses: A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
glosses: The beginning or end of legal proceedings.
glosses: The legal system as a whole.
glosses: A mason's setting maul.
Derived terms: gavel-to-gavel
gavel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡa.vəl/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Forms: form: gavels
form: gaveling
form: gavelling
form: gaveled
form: gaveled
form: gavelled
form: gavelled
Etymology: Origin obscure. Possibly an alteration of dialectal cavel, a variant of kevel (“a stone mason's axe with a flat face, a cleat or bollard”), from Middle English kevel (“a mason's hammer”), from Old Norse kefli (“a piece of wood, stick, cylinder, mangle”). Cognate with Norwegian kjevle (“rolling pin”).
Senses: glosses: To use a gavel.
examples: text: The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.
glosses: To begin or end legal proceedings
Derived terms: gavel out
gavel to order
gavel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡa.vəl/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Forms: form: gavels
Etymology: From Old French gavelle (cf. Modern French javelle) probably diminutive from Latin capulus (“handle”), from capere (“to lay hold of, seize”); or compare Welsh gafael (“hold, grasp”). Compare heave.
Senses: examples: text: The combination with a mechanical rake of the roof or screen herein described, or the equivalent thereof, to intervene and keep the gavel of grain collected on the platform separated during its discharge
ref: 1857, United States Patent Office, Commissioner of Patents Annual Report:
glosses: A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
gavel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡa.vəl/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.vəl/
Forms: form: gavels
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A gable.
Gina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Forms: form: Ginas
form: Geena
form: Gena
form: Jena
Etymology: * (name from Greek): Clipping of Georgina.
* (name from Latin): Clipping of Regina.
* (name from Italian): Italian Gina
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Diminutive of names ending in -gina
A diminutive of the female given name Georgina, from Ancient Greek.
coordinate_terms: George
glosses: A female given name.
Diminutive of names ending in -gina
A diminutive of the female given name Regina, from Latin.
coordinate_terms: Rex
examples: text: Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo proudly held up the progress of American industry on semiconductor manufacturing Sunday, declaring the U.S. has “outinnovated” China as the two nations fight to advance their domestic technology manufacturing.
ref: 2024 April 21, Nick Robertson, “Gina Raimondo says ‘we’ve outinnovated China’ amid chips war”, in The Hill:
glosses: A female given name.
A female given name from Italian.
coordinate_terms: Gino
glosses: A surname.
pirate ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪ.ɹət ˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: pirate ships
form: pirateship
Senses: examples: text: The Sea Angel was a massive ship shaped like a pirate ship.
ref: 2008, J. Henry, Genie in My Lager, page 5:
glosses: Any ship manned by pirates, especially a large wooden sailing ship armed with cannons and flying a Jolly Roger, as stereotyped in literature and film.
glosses: A theme park ride in the form of a pirate ship that swings back and forth with seated riders secured on the deck.
Related terms: letter of marque
privateer
Mongolic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒŋˈɡɒlɪk/
ipa: /mɑŋˈɡɑlɪk/
ipa: /mɑŋˈɡoʊlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
rhymes: -əʊlɪk
Etymology: From Mongol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A major language family spoken primarily in Mongolia and surroundings.
Mongolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒŋˈɡɒlɪk/
ipa: /mɑŋˈɡɑlɪk/
ipa: /mɑŋˈɡoʊlɪk/
rhymes: -ɒlɪk
rhymes: -əʊlɪk
Etymology: From Mongol + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Mongolic language family.
glosses: Mongolian (relating to Mongolia).
Derived terms: Proto-Mongolic
catch a buzz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches a buzz
form: catching a buzz
form: caught a buzz
form: caught a buzz
Senses: glosses: To become slightly inebriated, but not yet quite drunk.
lomcevak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lomcevaks
Etymology: Derived from a Czech word which roughly means "headache" or "hangover", the expression "lomcovák" (sometimes spelled incorrectly by non-Czech speakers as "lomcevak") originated from the Moravia region, now in eastern part of Czech Republic, famous for its Jelinek slivovitz, a traditional Czechoslovakian alcoholic drink, and is commonly used to describe the rotating motions of one who has had one too many. The English use originates from Czechoslovakian aerobatic pilot Ladislav Bezák's mechanic, who at a 1958 air show in Brno, Czechoslovakia, jokingly called Bezák's tumble maneuvres "lomcováks" when asked by journalists what they were.
Senses: examples: text: The pilot ended his performance with the most dangerous stunt in the aerobatic book, a lomcovak.
ref: 2004, Thomas Fleming, Conquerors of the Sky, page 462:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aerobatic flying maneuvre in which the pilot follows a knife-edge roll by flipping the airplane end-over-end and into a spin, from which the pilot then recovers control of the airplane.
rhombic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rhombick
form: rhombical
Senses: examples: text: rhombic prism
glosses: Having the characteristics of a rhombus.
Derived terms: orthorhombic
rhombic dodecahedron
rhombic disphenoid
fulfilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝ol-fĭlʹmənt
ipa: /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/
Forms: form: fulfilments
form: fulfillment
Etymology: From Middle English fulfillen, from Old English fullfyllan, from full (“full”) + fyllan (“to fill”). Equivalent to fulfill + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: To achieve fulfilment of one's hopes.
text: Fulfilment of contractual obligations.
text: We have yet to see the fulfilment of his potential.
text: Civilisation has imbued man's minds with false ideas of the evil of sex and its fulfilment.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 159:
text: In questi casi, la morte non è dunque una fine, ma un compimento.
ref: 1995, Julius Evola, “The Two Paths in the Afterlife”, in Guido Stucco, transl., Revolt against the Modern World, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, translation of Rivolta contro il mondo moderno, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: The act of fulfilling or the state or quality of being fulfilled; consummation; completion; realization.
examples: text: What brings you fulfilment in life?
text: Personal fulfilment comes from having a sense of purpose.
glosses: A feeling of satisfaction obtained from one's aspirations or needs being fulfilled.
topics: business
glosses: The activities performed once an order is received to fulfill the order; packaging, distributing and shipping goods.
Derived terms: fulfiller
fulfilment centre
non-fulfilment
overfulfill
unfulfill
unfulfillment
wish fulfilment
triumphantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /traɪˈʌmfəntli/
Forms: form: more triumphantly
form: most triumphantly
Etymology: From triumphant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Caesar—this to me?
The heritage of a kingly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly with human kind.
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
text: “Another double,” said the old lady: triumphantly making a memorandum of the circumstance, by placing one sixpence and a battered halfpenny, under the candlestick.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 53:
text: "Spuds - Jim - Jimmy?" he ran his fingers reflectively through his hair, and frowned. "Bowles," he added triumphantly.
ref: 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 6:
text: All around the Giants are signs and symbols of change and progression, from the once-isolated head coach, who was spotted Sunday night triumphantly bearhugging a player, to the acutely boyish quarterback, who stepped to the podium wearing the flattering look of whiskered grunge.
ref: 2008 January 15, Harvey Araton, “In Big Ways and Small, the Giants Grew Into a Team”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: In a triumphant manner.
enriched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enrich
Derived terms: enriched uranium
nonenriched
overenriched
underenriched
unenriched
needlework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needleworks
form: needle-work
Etymology: From needle + -work.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of working with a needle especially in embroidery or needlepoint.
glosses: The product of such art or process.
hyponyms: sewing
stitchery
glosses: The occupation or employment of a person skilled in embroidery, needlepoint, etc.
Synonyms: needlecraft
needlecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlecrafts
Etymology: From needle + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The art or process of working with a needle esp. in embroidery or needlepoint.
glosses: The product of such art or process.
glosses: The occupation or employment of a person skilled in embroidery, needlepoint, etc.
Synonyms: needlework
Derived terms: needlecrafter
like nobody's business
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: like it's nobody's business
Senses: examples: text: His customers reimburse him for the equipment he buys, but he seems to spend money like nobody's business.
qualifier: simile
glosses: In an extreme manner; excessively; like crazy.
Related terms: like it's going out of style
like water
as if there were no tomorrow
like a house on fire
phragmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phragmo- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Positioning behind a barrier (or down a hole, etc.) as a means of defense.
emissions test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emissions tests
Senses: glosses: A measurement performed on motor vehicles, required by the DMV, to prevent issuing valid registration if an excessive amount of waste fumes are produced during typical use. Cars typically are placed on a dynamometer to simulate different driving speeds.
Derived terms: emissions testing
evergreens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evergreen
evergreens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evergreen
aerobatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛːɹ.əˈbæ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛːɹ.əʊˈ-/
ipa: /ˌɛɚ.əˈbæ.tɪk/
ipa: /ɛɚ.oʊˈ-/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more aerobatic
form: most aerobatic
Etymology: Blend of aero- + acrobatic
Senses: glosses: Having to do with acrobatic maneuvers, such as spins, twirls, and flips, performed by an airplane.
Derived terms: aerobatically
Heimlich manoeuver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heimlich manoeuvers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Heimlich maneuver.
first aid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He slipped and fell under the wagon's wheels, losing his left leg. His presence of mind was quite amazing. The report notes that Webb's knowledge of first aid probably saved his life, and he was able to instruct others who came to help him.
ref: 2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, pages 58–59:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Basic medical care that is administered to a victim of an injury, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is unavailable.
Derived terms: first-aid box
first-aider
first aid kit
first aid kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first aid kits
form: first-aid kit
Etymology: From first aid + kit.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: first-aid box
glosses: A collection of first aid supplies for treatment of minor injuries or stabilization of major injuries.
first aid kits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first aid kit
kits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of kit
kits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kit
ducky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: duckier
form: duckiest
Etymology: From duck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A barrage of very ducky kazoo blats filled the air.
ref: 2016, Helaine Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a duck.
Derived terms: duckiness