cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
halohydrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halohydrins
Etymology: From halo- + hydro- + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic compound having a hydroxyl functional group and a halogen on neighbouring carbon atoms.
Related terms: bromohydrin
chlorohydrin
fluorohydrin
iodohydrin
cyanohydrin
epoxide
alkylene oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An epoxide.
ethylene oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simplest epoxide; used as a sterilizing agent and in the production of ethylene glycol.
Synonyms: word: EtO
Derived terms: word: EtO
unsaponifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + saponifiable.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Not able to be saponified
unsaponifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unsaponifiables
Etymology: From un- + saponifiable.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: lipids (such as steroids) that are not glycerides and thus cannot be saponified
ergativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜː(ɹ)ɡəˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/
Etymology: From ergative + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: We can speak of ergative/absolutive organization whenever intransitive subjects pattern with transitive objects (to the exclusion of transitive subjects). So defined, ergativity is independent of case marking and has many linguistic manifestations, some being observable in any given language. At the same time, ergativity competes with accusativity even in languages where it represents the predominant pattern.
ref: 1991, Ronald W. Langacker, Foundations of Cognitive Grammar: Descriptive Application, Volume 2, Stanford University Press, page 386:
text: Ergativity is thus complementary to the familiar grammatical pattern of accusativity, in which one case (nominative) marks both intransitive and transitive subject, with another case (accusative) being employed for transitive object.
ref: 1994, R. M. W. Dixon, Ergativity, Cambridge University Press, page 1:
text: 2000, Javier Rivas, Ergativity and Transitive Gradients in the Accusative and Infinitive Construction, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Imprenta Universitaría, page 153,
Apart from the types of split ergativity-accusativity dealt with in the previous section, there are languages which show degrees of ergativity in their morphology and also —although less frequently— in their syntax, […] . Actually, Dixon (1994: 172) claims that syntactic ergativity is much stranger cross-linguistically than some degree of morphological ergativity. […] There are many languages in the world which show some degree of ergativity.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The property of a grammar's (or, by extension, a language's) being ergative; the attribute of possessing a grammatical pattern such that the object of a transitive verb is treated the same way as the subject of an intransitive one, while the subject of the transitive verb is treated differently.
Coordinate terms: accusativity
Derived terms: split ergativity
unergativity
Related terms: absolutive case
accusativity
ergative case
glyceride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɪsəɹaɪd/
Forms: form: glycerides
Etymology: From glycerine + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ester of glycerol and one or more fatty acid; they are the major constituents of lipids.
Derived terms: boroglyceride
diglyceride
glyceridase
glyceridic
lactoglyceride
monoglyceride
nonglyceride
phosphoglyceride
triglyceride
Related terms: glycerolipid
phospholipid
syntactician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪntækˈtɪʃən/
Forms: form: syntacticians
Etymology: From syntactic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, Jackendoff's analysis of Aspectual Auxiliaries as Specifiers which expand V-bar into V-double-bar seems to have some empirical support (though we should point out that by no means all X-bar syntacticians are happy to treat Aspectuals as Specifiers which expand V-bar into V-double-bar: some prefer to treat them as Verbs which head their own VP, for reasons which you can work out for yourself when you come to Exercise VII).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 240:
synonyms: syntacticist
hypernyms: grammarian
<
person
coordinate_terms: morphologist
;
phonologist
;
semantician
semanticist
pragmatician
glosses: One who studies syntax; especially, a linguist who does so expertly.
Related terms: english: usually hypernymous
translation: usually hypernymous
word: linguist
intercom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercoms
Etymology: Clipping of intercommunicator.
Senses: examples: text: emergency intercom
text: talk on the intercom
glosses: An electronic communication system, especially one between rooms in a building.
Derived terms: video intercom
intercom system
intercom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercoms
form: intercomming
form: intercoming
form: intercommed
form: intercommed
form: intercomed
form: intercomed
Etymology: Clipping of intercommunicator.
Senses: glosses: To communicate (with) by intercom.
slot-car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slot-cars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slot car.
Cecilia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈsiːli.ə/
ipa: /sɪˈsɪli.ə/
rhymes: -iːliə
Etymology: From Latin Caecilia, feminine form of Caecilius, a Roman family name possibly derived from the byname caecus (“blind”). Popularized by Saint Cecilia, third century Roman martyr, the patron saint of music. Doublet of Sheila.
Senses: examples: text: Hark how the flutes and trumpets raise / At bright Cecilia's name, their lays!
ref: 1694, Joseph Addison, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day:
text: ‘Sissy is not a name,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Don’t call yourself Sissy. Call yourself Cecilia.’ ‘It’s father as calls me Sissy, sir,’ returned the young girl in a trembling voice, and with another curtsey. ‘Then he has no business to do it,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Tell him he mustn’t. Cecilia Jupe. Let me see. What is your father?’
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Book I, Chapter II”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
text: Because they had named her Cecilia, her parents fancied that the matter of her life and character had been fairly well settled. She would, of course, be quiet and pale and mystical, like the saint whose picture hung above the old upright piano in the Kirby living-room.
ref: 1928, Lynn Montross, “Silent Minstrel”, in American Magazine, volume 106, page 14:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: sense: pet forms
word: Sissy
sense: pet forms
word: Ceecee
sense: pet forms
word: CeeCee
sense: pet forms
word: Cici
sense: pet forms
word: Ceci
word: Cecelia
word: Cecile
word: Cecily
word: Cicely
sense: male form
word: Cecil
sense: related names
alt: alternate spellings: Sheela, Sheelagh, Shelagh, Sheilagh, Sile
word: Sheila
english: often regarded as a short form of Cecilia
translation: often regarded as a short form of Cecilia
word: Celia
english: Latin: Caelia, from Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven
translation: Latin: Caelia, from Caelius, probably from caelum (“heaven
word: Celia”)
coupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌplɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English couplynge; equivalent to couple + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of couple
PVT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PVTs
form: Pte
form: Pte.
form: Pvt
form: Pvt.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of pressure, volume, temperature.
qualifier: motor control
glosses: Initialism of position, velocity, time.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of private (“soldier”).
glosses: Initialism of psychomotor vigilance task/test.
glosses: Initialism of polyvagal theory.
heartening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartening
form: most heartening
Senses: antonyms: disheartening
glosses: Cheerfully encouraging.
Derived terms: hearteningly
unheartening
heartening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hearten
accommodationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accommodationists
form: accommodationalist
Etymology: By surface analysis, accommodation + ist, or, by surface analysis, accommodation(ism) + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
glosses: Someone who tries to accommodate an opposition, usually a political one.
Someone who argues that freedom of religion does not necessarily force a government to demonstrably prove nonestablishment (for example, an argument that state-funded schools don't have to ban the presence of religious things (e.g., Bibles, Torahs, Qur'ans, voluntary prayers) to prove governmental neutrality about religion and nonreligion).
Related terms: word: accommodationism
word: appeaser
english: these imply corruption of the person's own values, which accommodationism construes as different
translation: these imply corruption of the person's own values, which accommodationism construes as different
word: compromiser
word: coexister
english: sometimes hyponymous
translation: sometimes hyponymous
word: cultural Christian
wet dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet dreams
form: wetdream
Senses: examples: text: His mother is having an affair with the man next door, is reading Germain Greer's The Female Eunuch—which spawns Adrian's first wet dream.
ref: 1985, David Lewis, "British playwright makes a mountain out of a Mole" (review of The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend), The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 9 Jan., page E22
glosses: An erotic dream (imaginary vision while sleeping) bringing the sleeper to orgasm.
glosses: The orgasm in such a dream.
examples: text: Bruce Springsteen may become middle America's wet dream.
ref: 1986 October 24, Liam Lacey, “Same old irresistible Seeger”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page D11:
text: The plan is, if all goes well, to have these batteries, an eco warrior's wet dream due to their non-toxicity, on sale in two or three years.
ref: 2007, Addy Dugdale, "Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years," gizmodo.com, 2 Oct
glosses: An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
Synonyms: sense: ejaculation
word: night emission
sense: ejaculation
word: nocturnal emission
wet dream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wet dreams
form: wet dreaming
form: wet dreamed
form: wet dreamed
form: wet dreamt
form: wet dreamt
form: wetdream
Senses: examples: text: He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells, […]
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 99:
text: […] he’d been wet dreaming for several months about such an opportunity as was obviously creeping up on both of them,
ref: 1978, Larry Kramer, Faggots, New York: Warner Books, published 1979, page 85:
text: That was the only sex she had ever wet-dreamed about.
ref: 1997, Nik Cohn, Need, New York: Knopf, page 137:
text: 2005, Tyehimba Jess, Leadbelly, Amherst, MA: Verse Press, p. 33,
you is more a man than they ever wet dreamed to be
glosses: To produce fluids from the sex organs as a result of sexual arousal during sleep; to have an erotic dream; (figurative) to fantasize (about something, especially in a sexual way).
examples: text: […] the Bakst drawings imposed themselves on the shadowy sultans, sultanas, eunuchs, and pages […] the pageboy of the Fairy Cherry in panniered skirt and cherry-tree headdress―the very same he had dreamed, wet dreamed no doubt as well, pressed down, hemmed in by his wooden box.
ref: 1967, Angus Wilson, No Laughing Matter, New York: Viking, Book 4, p. 136:
text: […] she left so few traces of having ever existed at all that he began to wonder whether he hadn’t just wet-dreamt her into being.
ref: 2010, Paul Burman, The Grease Monkey’s Tale, London: PaperBooks, Part 1, Chapter 12, p. 71:
text: A rebel is a gleaming individual in tight Levi’s, a sneering and pretty face. The kind Sal Mineo wet-dreams.
ref: 2013, Rachel Kushner, chapter 11, in The Flamethrowers, New York: Scribner, page 163:
glosses: To have an erotic dream about (someone or something); (figurative) to fantasize about (someone or something) sexually.
bad boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad boys
form: bad-boy
form: badboy
Senses: examples: text: Yeah, I fit the profile all right. Perfect made-to-order malcontent. Let's sign this bad boy up and sic him on somebody fast, before the foam dries on his mouth.
ref: 2012, Douglas MacKinnon, Vengeance Is Mine, →ISBN:
text: Among the 'students' receiving below average marks was 22-year-old Vsevolod Raube from Bobruisk, who was considered the 'bad boy of the party'.
ref: 2012, N. Arielli, B. Collins, Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era, →ISBN:
text: Like so many dark and delicious bad boys, there's more to Damien than meets the eye.
ref: 2012, Kendra Leigh Castle, Shadow Rising, →ISBN:
text: Born in the small town of Rockwood, east Tennessee, Carter’s bubblegum sound and mini-bad boy image made him the definitive millennium child star.
ref: 2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A man whose rebellious nature makes him dangerous or attractive.
glosses: A male criminal.
examples: text: Let's get this bad boy done!
glosses: An undesirable or difficult task.
examples: text: Many school music teachers and directors are not primarily clarinetists and, knowing little of the subtle intricacies of this "bad boy" of instruments, can teach little more than the fingering.
ref: 1949 November-December, Floyd E. Low, “Keep that pitch UP!”, in The Instrumentalist, volume 4, Association for the Advancement of Instrumental Music, page 38:
text: […] he groaned as he twisted his arm over his head to follow the groove to the right wheel well, "if this bad boy connects right there, then it can't be a light."
ref: 1988, Writers Forum, numbers 14-17, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs:
text: So isn't it time you took this bad boy for a test drive?
ref: 1992 November 16, “The POWERstation 220: Here today. More tomorrow. [Advertisement]”, in InfoWorld, volume 14, number 46, page 137:
text: “Oh yeah,I remember, you already bagged one of those bad boys backin the city.”Sal chuckled.
ref: 2014, David Vengley, Mars Base Red Seven, →ISBN:
text: This bad boy wasn't shy in letting us know either, as three of us struggled to pull it ashore. Again, it felt totally bizarre to be physically straining every sinew to drag a massive dangerous animal towards me.
ref: 2016, Max Dickins, My Groupon Adventure, →ISBN, page 93:
synonyms: bad baby
glosses: A powerful or impressive product or item.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bad, boy.
Related terms: baby
big boy
Chad
tall, dark and handsome
bain
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: more bain
form: most bain
form: bane
Etymology: From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”).
Senses: glosses: Ready; willing.
examples: text: That is the bainest way.
glosses: Direct; near; short; gain.
qualifier: Now chiefly dialectal
glosses: Limber; pliant; flexible.
bain
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: more bain
form: most bain
form: bane
Etymology: From Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), from Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”).
Senses: glosses: Readily; willingly.
glosses: Nearby; at hand.
Derived terms: bainly
bain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: bains
form: bane
form: bayne
Etymology: From Middle English bayne~baine, from Old French bain, from Latin baneum, variant of balneum. Doublet of bagnio, balaneion, and banya.
Senses: examples: text: THus was sir Tramtryst longe there wel cherysshed / with the kynge and the quene /[…]/ So vpon a daye / the quene and la beale Isoud made a bayne for syre Tramtryst / And whan he was in his bayne / the quene and Isoud her doughter romed vp & doune in the chamber / and there whyles Gouernail and Heles attendyd vpon Tramtryst
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII:
glosses: A bath.
ballon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈlɒn/
Forms: form: ballons
Etymology: From French ballon. Doublet of balloon.
Senses: examples: text: Tall and slender, with a superb ballon and effortless flight in air, Malakhov […] will unquestionably have an extraordinary career.
ref: 1988 November 18, Dorothy Samachson, “Moscow Classical Ballet”, in Chicago Reader:
qualifier: ballet
glosses: The quality of a jump by which a ballet dancer appears to pause in midair
ebonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ē-bŏnʹĭks
enpr: ĭ-
enpr: ĕ-
ipa: /iˈbɑnɪks/
ipa: /ɪ̈-/
ipa: /ɛ-/
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Senses: examples: text: But with exotic dancers, binge-drinking, tooth-ripping, show tunes, time travel, ebonics and murder, it's an approach not usually seen onstage.
ref: 2009 January 29, Momoko Price, “Getting angry is better than getting even”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ebonics.
Derived terms: aolbonics
backstab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌstæb/
Forms: form: backstabs
form: backstabbing
form: backstabbed
form: backstabbed
Etymology: From back + stab.
Senses: synonyms: stab in the back
glosses: To attack someone (especially verbally) unfairly in a deceitful, underhand, or treacherous manner, especially when they're not present in the place or situation that it happens.
Derived terms: backstabbee
backstabber
backstabby
backstab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækˌstæb/
Forms: form: backstabs
Etymology: From back + stab.
Senses: examples: text: After this conversation I was shocked; he asked me to leave the car so he would stay with her alone. Everything fell on me, I felt my body heavy and my heart beating very fast. It was such a backstab that it still hurts today.
ref: 2016, Mauro Paulino, Forensic Psychology of Spousal Violence, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 160:
synonyms: stab in the back
glosses: An act of backstabbing.
kodomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 子供(こども) (kodomo, literally “children”).
Senses: glosses: Japanese manga or anime specifically made for children
banana republic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana republics
Etymology: Coined by American author O. Henry in 1901 in his short story Money Maze, set in the fictional "Anchuria", which was based on his 1896–97 stay in Honduras.
Senses: examples: text: At that time we had a treaty with about every foreign country except Belgium, and that banana republic, Anchuria.
ref: 1901 May 24, O. Henry, “Money Maze”, in Ainslee's Magazine, volume vii, number 4, New York, page 305:
text: The banana workers of this former banana republic were exceptionally well organized and effective in their demands from the very beginning of the revolution.
ref: 2001, Cindy Forster, The Time of Freedom: Campesino Workers in Guatemala's October Revolution, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 117:
text: The McCanns, it is hinted and sometimes expressed explicitly, cannot possibly be treated fairly under this inadequate Portuguese system. There is a touch of arrogant xenophobia here, as if Portugal was some backward banana republic […]
ref: 2007 September 10, Marcel Berlins, “Media have rushed to judge Portuguese police”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
hypernyms: kleptocracy
glosses: A small country, especially one in Central America or the West Indies, that is dependent on a single export commodity (traditionally bananas) and that has a corrupt, dictatorial government.
Related terms: Bananagate
hepatica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepaticas
Etymology: See hepatic.
Senses: examples: text: Tufts of primroses grew under the still leafless trees; the hepatica had succeeded the snowdrop.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 281:
glosses: Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Hepatica of the buttercup family, notably the common hepatica.
Derived terms: round-lobed hepatica
hepatica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See hepatic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Medicines to treat the liver.
birthright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɝθ.ɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈbɜːθ.ɹaɪt/
Forms: form: birthrights
Etymology: From birth + right.
Senses: examples: text: Not only has suburban life separated the great concentrated masses of our people from their birthright of meadows, fields and woods; of Nature, in her untamed splendour and mystery, most of them have never had so much as a momentary glimpse.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:
text: Though it's the birthright of man to unify and live his life as one / A whisper of the word will let you soar with your soul
ref: 1973, “California Saga (The Beaks Of Eagles)”, in Robinson Jeffers (lyrics), Holland, performed by The Beach Boys:
text: But a practically solo sequence of Dany walking through her old empty house without saying anything for minutes on end is, let’s say, a lot to ask of Emilia Clarke. She’s back at Dragonstone to reclaim her birthright, the seven or so kingdoms.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Something a person is entitled to due to the circumstances of their birth, such as an inheritance or citizenship.
Derived terms: birthright citizenship
sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage
materia medica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin materia (“material”) + medica (“curative, medical”).
Senses: examples: text: Later on, in the Middle Ages, medical knowledge advanced to such an extent that textbooks on materia medica and germane subjects often treated this area of erotica.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 126:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of pharmacology, particularly its development in early modern Europe.
synonyms: word: pharmacology
word: particularly its development in early modern Europe
materia medica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin materia (“material”) + medica (“curative, medical”).
Senses: examples: text: CHIAN earth, in pharmacy, one of the medicinal earths of the ancients, the name of which is preſerved in the catalogues of the materia medica but of which nothing more than the name has been known for many ages in the ſhops...
ref: 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., volume II, page 183:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of medicine: the substances so used, particularly traditional cures prepared from animals and plants such as herbal medicines but inclusive of early drugs.
synonyms: word: medicine
extra: the substances so used, particularly traditional cures prepared from animals and plants such as herbal medicines but inclusive of early drugs
Related terms: pharmacopoeia
cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Forms: form: crackings
Etymology: From Middle English crakynge.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: The thermal decomposition of a substance, especially that of crude petroleum in order to produce petrol / gasoline.
glosses: The formation of cracks on a surface.
examples: text: the crackings of whips
glosses: The production of a crack sound.
Derived terms: anticracking
hydrocracking
Isocracking
macrocracking
mud cracking
noncracking
quiet cracking
safecracking
steam cracking
thermocracking
Related terms: wisecracking
wit-cracking
cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English crakynge.
Senses: examples: text: From the spot where the body lay came a fierce fizzing and cracking sound, which ceased, however, before the fumes had cleared away.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: That cracks; that produces a sharp sound as of something splitting or breaking.
examples: text: Near-synonym: crackerjack
text: The race started at a cracking pace.
text: That's a cracking example of what we've been looking for.
glosses: Great; excellent.
examples: text: We had a cracking time.
text: Near the back of the concourse is a piano, [...]. Explains Reeve: "It was donated by a lady who had written to me. My Duty Manager at the time had a qualification and so was able to restore it to full working order. I've heard some cracking tunes on it."
ref: 2020 December 30, Richard Clinnick, “Greater Anglia strikes again...”, in Rail, page 43:
glosses: Enjoyable.
cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English crakynge.
Senses: examples: text: It was a cracking good show.
glosses: Very, usually associated with praise.
cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹækɪŋ/
rhymes: -ækɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English crakynge.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crack
Derived terms: get cracking
renditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rendition
renditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renditionings
Senses: glosses: The ability of a television or monitor to display all colours and grey tones accurately.
glosses: The practice of removing a suspect to a foreign country for interrogation (such that the original countries laws do not apply).
blast from the past
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blasts from the past
Senses: examples: text: Now there's a golden oldie, a blast from the past, when the heavyweight division was still strong and vibrant and unified (...)
ref: 1981 May 9, Bill Lyon, “An Old Warhorse Still Has His Dream”, in The Evening Independent:
text: In the process, he managed to make the Republican tax cut sound like a blast from the past.
ref: 1996 August 31, “Mr. Clinton's Bridge”, in The New York Times:
text: "Ellie!" he shouted. "What a blast from the past! This is just like old times, when you used to walk in that very door!"
ref: 2002, Hillary Frank, Better Than Running at Night, →ISBN, page 227:
text: But their early celebration was interrupted by a blast from the past: gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell's controversial 1989 graduate-school thesis (...)
ref: 2009 September 6, Jeff E. Schapiro, “Thesis fracas may not give Deeds the boost he needs”, in Richmond Times-Dispatch, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2009:
glosses: Something or someone that a person has not seen for a long time that evokes nostalgic feelings.
Related terms: golden oldie
houseplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊsˌplænt/
Forms: form: houseplants
form: house plant
Etymology: From house + plant.
Senses: examples: text: Herbert thought that adding some houseplants would brighten up his desk.
glosses: A plant that is grown indoors in places such as a house or office for decorative purposes.
examples: text: "I always thought a begonia was a houseplant!" exclaimed Sue, staring at the towering tropical specimen.
glosses: A variety of plant that is especially suited to such cultivation, or that is frequently grown in such settings.
Hypernyms: plant
Related terms: flowerpot
potted plant
point of view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points of view
form: point-of-view
Etymology: Calque of French point de vue.
Senses: examples: text: From the operator's point of view, there is a large blind spot on one side of the machine.
text: From an economist's point of view, business is all about money.
text: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: It has been suggested that Prothean data recording is highly dependent on a certain point of view, what Carl Jung described as the collective unconscious. The 'cipher' needed to comprehend the images implanted in Shepard's mind is the cultural knowledge of a Prothean: the archetypes, biological instincts, and common experiences universal to the race.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Protheans: Cipher Codex entry:
glosses: A position from which something is perceived; outlook; standpoint.
examples: text: His point of view is that there is only one true religion.
synonyms: outlook
glosses: An attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs.
examples: text: The storyline in the film “The Usual Suspects” is presented from the point of view of an unreliable narrator.
text: Therefore, there may be no overt indication of viewpoint, either because the speaker fails to mark his or her viewpoint, or because he or she takes a neutral point of view.
ref: 1999, Lise Menn, Akio Kamio, Makoto Hayashi, Ikuyo Fujita, Sumiko Sasanuma, Larry Boles, “The Role of Empathy in Sentence Production”, in Akio Kamio, Ken-ichi Takami, editors, Function and Structure, page 331:
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: The perspective from which a narrative is related.
Synonyms: standpoint
viewpoint
perspective
POV
slant
Derived terms: NPOV
point-of-viewlessness
Related terms: first person
second person
third person
point of reference
point of sight
point of vision
worldview
bricoleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bricoleurs
Etymology: From French bricoleur; apparently a borrowing from the work of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Senses: examples: text: The engineer has science to guide him; the bricoleur has intuition. Significantly, while the bricoleur can only classify perceived differences, the engineer's scientific system enables him to classify things not yet seen.
ref: 2002, Sherene H. Razack, editor, Introduction: Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society, page 12:
text: The bricoleur’s awareness of constructivism and historicity helps her point out these omissions and their effects on the knowledge-production processes.
In this context critical hermeneutics facilitates bricoleurs’ attempts to identify socially oppressive forms of meaning-making and research processes.
ref: 2004, Joe L. Kincheloe, Kathleen S. Berry, Rigour and Complexity in Educational Research: Conceptualizing the bricolage, page 11:
text: Glassie was attracted to Claude Lévi-Strauss's metaphor of the artisan as bricoleur — someone who brings together materials that happen to be at hand and uses them to carry out the task of building what needs to be built.
ref: 2005, Sandra K. Dolby, Self-Help Books: Why Americans Keep Reading Them, page 85:
text: The bricoleur is a specialist in combinatorial logic, a craftsman who creates objects by rearranging other objects.
ref: 2007, Boris Wiseman, Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press, page 208:
text: Through playful exploration (rather than deductive/analytic reasoning) of what is possible, the bricoleur adjusts past solutions, reframes, or manipulates technical memories of past events and projects to make them bear upon or even redefine the problem at hand.[…]Rather than having been designed in advance with specific purposes in mind, the bricoleur’s instrumental resources are experiential leftovers that summarize his technical life journey.
ref: 2012, Jannis Kallinikos, “4: Form, Function, and Matter: Crossing the Border of Materiality”, in Paul M. Leonardi, Bonnie A. Nardi, Jannis Kallinikos, editors, Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World, page 75:
text: We see in this picture what a potent political bricoleur he is, borrowing images and rhetoric from any source and combining them in new, lucid collages with changed meanings.
ref: 2024 July 15, Jonathan Jones, “‘Is this what a second Trump presidency will be like?’ – our art critic on the chilling shooting image”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: anthropology
art
arts
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who constructs bricolages; one who creates using whatever materials are available.
Related terms: bricolage
disavowal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪsəˈvaʊ(ə)ɫ]
rhymes: -aʊəl
Forms: form: disavowals
Etymology: From disavow + -al or dis- + avowal.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever pleas may be urged for a disavowal of engagements formed by diplomatic functionaries in cases where by the terms of the engagements a mutual ratification is reserved, or where notice at the time may have been given of a departure from instructions, or in extraordinary cases essentially violating the principles of equity, a disavowal could not have been apprehended in a case where no such notice or violation existed, where no such ratification was reserved, and more especially where, as is now in proof, an engagement to be executed without any such ratification was contemplated by the instructions given, and where it had with good faith been carried into immediate execution on the part of the United nations.
ref: 1809, James Madison, First State of the Union address:
text: Last week, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected as “condescending” President Trump’s proposal for a more merit-based immigration policy, she provided a metaphor not just for the shattered condition of Washington’s governance of immigration, but also for the Democratic Party’s ideologically rigid disavowal of all principles of immigration constraint.
ref: 2019 May 20, Jerry Kammer, “Pelosi's Anti-Merit Metaphor for Governance”, in Center for Immigration Studies:
glosses: A denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.
Related terms: disavow
disavowed
bees and honey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: money
blooter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blooters
form: bluiter
Senses: examples: text: A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.
ref: 1627, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems:
text: ‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’
ref: 1907, Neil Munro, Daft Days:
text: Women go into pubs... to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.
ref: 1999 July 13, Glasgow Daily Record:
glosses: A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.
examples: text: He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.
ref: 2002 December 23, Daily Mail:
glosses: A hard, often wild kick of a ball.
glosses: A ball kicked in such a way.
glosses: An unattractive woman.
blooter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blooters
form: blootering
form: blootered
form: blootered
form: bluiter
Senses: examples: text: There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it.
ref: 1996, M. Munro, Complete Patter:
glosses: To do poor work, to botch (a job).
examples: text: Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’
ref: 1913, J. Service, The Memorables of Robin Cummell:
glosses: To talk foolishly, to babble.
examples: text: The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo.
ref: 1793, R. Brown, Carlop Green:
glosses: To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner.
examples: text: We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.
ref: 2001 August 19, Glasgow Sunday Herald:
glosses: To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.
examples: text: A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.
ref: 1990, J. Byrne, Your Cheatin' Heart:
glosses: To smash; to bludgeon.
sternway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternways
Etymology: From stern + way.
Senses: examples: text: The mass of iron fell half in-board upon the now stayed boat, and gave her sternway, with a splintered plank.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 138:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Movement towards the stern; backwards motion of a vessel.
flambé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flambe
Etymology: Borrowed from French flambé.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Being, or having been, flambéed.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.
raw_tags: of Chinese porcelain
Derived terms: Florida flambe
flambé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flambés
form: flambe
Etymology: Borrowed from French flambé.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A showy cooking technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
glosses: A flambéed dish.
flambé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flambés
form: flambéing
form: flambéed
form: flambéed
form: flambéd
form: flambéd
form: flambe
Etymology: Borrowed from French flambé.
Senses: examples: text: “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”
glosses: To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.
foremast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foremasts
form: fore-mast
Etymology: From fore + mast.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The mast nearest the bow, on a sailing ship with more than one mast or a non-sailing ship with any masts; the second-tallest mast on a full-rigged ship.
Derived terms: foremastman
Related terms: mainmast
jiggermast
mizzenmast
spankermast
foresail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresails
Etymology: From fore- + sail. Compare Dutch voorzeil, German Vorsegel, Danish forsejl, Swedish försegel.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: on a square-rigged ship
glosses: The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A square fore-and-aft sail set on the foremast, but behind it, on a schooner or other similar vessel.
topics: nautical
transport
qualifier: on a sloop
glosses: A triangular sail set forward of the foremast: forestaysail.
rowlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rōlŏk
enpr: rä'lək
enpr: rŭ'lək
ipa: /ˈɹoʊˌlɑk/
ipa: /ˈɹɑlək/
ipa: /ˈɹʌlək/
enpr: rŭ'lək
enpr: rŏ'lək
enpr: rōlŏk
ipa: /ˈɹʌlək/
ipa: /ˈɹɒlək/
ipa: /ˈɹəʊˌlɒk/
Forms: form: rowlocks
form: rollick
form: rollock
form: rullock
Etymology: An alteration, based on row, of earlier oarlock, from Old English ārlōc, equivalent to oar + lock.
Senses: examples: text: I took a good gap and a stretch, and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water. I listened. Pretty soon I made it out. It was that dull kind of a regular sound that comes from oars working in rowlocks when it's a still night.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: Everything smelled salt and there was no noise except the swishing of water and the clop-clop of water against the sides and the splash of the oars and the jolting noise of the rowlocks.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 8, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: word: oarlock
glosses: A usually U-shaped pivot attached to the gunwale (outrigger in a sport boat) of a boat that supports and guides an oar, and provides a fulcrum for rowing; an oarlock.
glosses: A brick, for example in a course of brickwork, that is laid vertically with its tallest but slimmest side facing down, and its shortest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that it is taller than it is wide).
Related terms: thole
tholepin
thowel
freeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeboards
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The vertical distance between the waterline and the uppermost watertight deck of a vessel.
glosses: The distance between a water level and the top of something that contains or restrains it (such as a dam).
glosses: The distance between the top of sea ice and the water level.
Derived terms: freeboard deck
freeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freeboards
Etymology: From being a skateboard with an additional degree of freedom of movement (yaw) and some additional rocking (roll) movement.
Senses: glosses: A type of skateboard which simulates the movement of a snowboard when used on a downhill coarse, allowing snowboarding techniques, which has an addition of two centerline casters that extend below the traditional skateboard wheels and bogies.
Hypernyms: skateboard
Coordinate terms: snowboard
skateboard
Related terms: skateboard
longboard
street luge
roller ski
inline skate
campsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmpˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: campsites
form: camp site
Etymology: From camp + site.
Senses: glosses: A place where one or more tents may be pitched for an overnight stay in an outdoor area.
Synonyms: camping site
Derived terms: glampsite
Related terms: camp
campground
camping ground
encampment
jurymast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jurymasts
Etymology: jury + mast. From the early 17th century.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A temporary mast constructed when a vessel has been dismasted, usually in heavy weather.
Related terms: jury-rig
skeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: skegs
Etymology: From a dialectal term for a stump, branch, or wooden peg; compare Swedish skog. Compare also shaw.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel.
glosses: A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard.
glosses: A surfer; a person who leads a surfing lifestyle.
examples: text: Some take them for Damascen plums, or rather for Bullois, Skegs, or such like wilde Plums.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).
examples: text: SKEGS. A kind of oat, sometimes cultivated as a crop in Nottinghamshire. It is the Avena stipiformis of Linnaeus.
ref: 1842, Cuthbert William Johnson, The farmer's encyclopædia, and dictionary of rural affairs:
glosses: A kind of oat.
glosses: A look or glance.
vanillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈnɪlɪn/
Forms: form: vanillins
Etymology: From vanilla + -in.
Senses: glosses: A chemical compound, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde, that is the primary constituent of vanilla.
glosses: A synthetic compound used as a substitute for the extract of the vanilla bean.
vanilla extract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanilla extracts
Senses: examples: text: Vanilla extract makes these cookies taste great, but the straight extract tastes bad because the alcohol hasn't evaporated yet.
glosses: A liquid, technically a tincture, used in cooking, prepared by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol.
Synonyms: vanilla essence
imitation vanilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imitation vanillas
Senses: glosses: Synthetically produced vanillin, used in place of vanilla extract from vanilla beans.
breasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Senses: glosses: plural of breast
Synonyms: word: assets
word: babylons
word: balloons
word: baps
word: badonkers
word: bangers
word: bazongas
word: bazookas
word: bazoombas
word: bazooms
word: bewbs
word: bobas
word: booba
word: boobage
word: boobs
word: boobers
word: boobies
word: boosies
word: bosom
word: breast [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: breasticles
word: bristols
word: bubby
word: bubs
word: bust
word: calcium cannons
word: cans
word: cantaloupes
word: casabas
word: charlies
word: chebs
word: chesticles
word: chest melons
word: chichis
word: coconuts
word: diddy
word: ding-dongs
word: dirty pillows
word: double Ds
word: dugs
word: frontage
word: front bumpers
word: funbags
word: gazongas
word: girls
word: globes
word: grapefruits
word: headlights
word: honkers
word: hooters
word: itty-bittys
word: jahoobies
word: jigglies
word: jubblies
word: jugs
word: knockers
word: lady lumps
word: love pillows
word: mammaries
word: mammary glands
word: mammas
word: maracas
word: megaboobs
word: melons
word: milkbags
word: milk jugs
word: milkers
word: mommy milkers
word: money makers
word: mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s
word: norks
word: paps
word: pair
word: personality
word: puppies
word: rack
word: sweater puppies
word: tatas
word: teats
word: tiddies
word: tits
word: titters
word: titties
word: threepenny bits
word: top bollocks
word: torpedos
word: twin peaks
word: twins
word: udders
word: waps
word: watermelons
word: yabos
word: zoomers
Hyponyms: word: bee stings
word: falsies
word: implants
word: milk factories
word: milk makers
word: mosquito bites
word: naturals
word: silicones
Meronyms: word: mammary gland
word: nipples
Related terms: word: cleavage
word: décolletage
word: intermammary
word: mastoid
word: push-up
word: spathic
word: busty
breasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breast