cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
moralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moralists
Etymology: From moral + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who bases all decisions on perceived morals, especially one who enforces them with censorship.
examples: text: What must the old man have felt as, in ghastly terrifying solitude, by the light of one lamp feebly illuminating a little space of gloom, he in a few brief lines daubed the history of his nation's death upon the cavern wall? What a subject for the moralist, or the painter, or indeed for any one who can think!
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A teacher of morals; a person who studies morality; a moral philosopher.
Derived terms: antimoralist
Related terms: morals
morality
moralistic
moralism
monseigneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnsɛˈnjəː/
ipa: /mɒnˈsinjəɹ/
Forms: form: monseigneurs
form: messeigneurs
form: Monseigneur
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French monseigneur. Doublet of monsieur and monsignor.
Senses: glosses: An honorific form of address for an eminent person in France, especially under the Ancien Régime.
glosses: (in particular) A title of the Dauphin of France.
revengeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒfʊl/
Forms: form: more revengeful
form: most revengeful
Etymology: From revenge + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: the baser mind it selfe displayes / In cancred malice and revengefull spight […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: avengeful
word: pluckcrow
word: revengeful
word: vengeable
word: vengeful
word: vengesome
word: vindical
word: vindictive
word: wreakful
glosses: Vengeful, vindictive.
Derived terms: revengefully
revengefulness
outspread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outspreads
form: outspreading
form: outspread
form: outspread
Etymology: From Middle English outspreden, equivalent to out- + spread. Cognate with Dutch uitspreiden (“to outspread, stretch, unfold”), Danish udsprede (“to outspread”), Swedish utspridda (“to outspread”).
Senses: glosses: To spread out; expand; extend.
Derived terms: outspreadingly
outspread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outspread
form: most outspread
Etymology: From Middle English outspreden, equivalent to out- + spread. Cognate with Dutch uitspreiden (“to outspread, stretch, unfold”), Danish udsprede (“to outspread”), Swedish utspridda (“to outspread”).
Senses: examples: text: She longed to fall into his outspread arms once again.
text: Brutes […] / Ruminate heedleſs of the ſcene outſpread / Beneath, beyond, and ſtretching far away / From inland regions to the diſtant main.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book V. The Winter Morning Walk.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 221:
glosses: Extended outward, as one's arms.
traceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsəbəl/
ipa: [ˈt͡ʃɹeɪsəbəl]
Forms: form: more traceable
form: most traceable
Etymology: From trace + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There was no traceable evidence left when the detectives arrived.
text: Homosexuality is easily traceable in India. Dubois referred to houses devoted to male prostitution, with men dressed as women, and imitating the ways of women.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
text: The course of the abandoned line is still clearly traceable.
ref: 1951 January, “Notes and News: Parsonstown & Portumna Bridge Rly.”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:
text: For those who do not have the money, as well as for those who are reluctant to commit any potentially traceable act of positive support, the boycott serves our purpose well.
ref: 1978 February 11, Donald Cameron Scot, “Controversy and Boycott Must Continue”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 31, page 5:
text: The source of this characteristic is easily traceable to the wrestlerlike postures of the typical round-volumed sculptures.
ref: 1988, J. Halley Cox, William H. Davenport, Hawaiian Sculpture: Revised Edition, page 96:
glosses: Capable of being traced; possible to track down.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Containing a Hamiltonian path.
Derived terms: traceability
sherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Forms: form: sherds
Senses: examples: text: the thigh […] which all in sherds it drove
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of shard.
Derived terms: potsherd
resumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌmpʃən
Forms: form: resumptions
Senses: examples: text: And that supremacy was confirmed six minutes after the resumption with their second goal. Dzeko was again involved, slipping a neat pass through to the foraging Toure, who poked a right-foot finish past Butt.
ref: 2011 December 7, Phil McNulty, “Man City 2 - 0 Bayern Munich”, in BBC Sport:
text: But Murphy remains upbeat about the longer-term prospect of recovery and a resumption of the record growth in passenger volumes experienced in the UK in the two decades following privatisation.
ref: 2022 August 24, Steve Murphy tells Paul Stephen, “Rail + property: a winning combination”, in RAIL, number 964, page 48:
glosses: The act of resuming or starting something again.
glosses: eminent domain
Synonyms: sense: act of resuming
word: restart
unseasonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unseasonable
form: most unseasonable
Etymology: From Middle English unseasonable, unsesonable, equivalent to un- + seasonable.
Senses: examples: text: The snow in April was unseasonable.
glosses: Not in accordance with the season.
examples: text: There is a mania in every class to be mistaken for what it is not. Many things innocent, nay, even graceful in themselves, become injurious and awkward by unseasonable imitation.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 44:
text: The King looked sourly upon Lord Gro, and said, “Thy counsel is unacceptable and unseasonable. What lieth behind it?”
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 23:
glosses: Not at the right or fitting time.
Synonyms: ill-timed
inopportune
untimely
Derived terms: unseasonableness
unseasonably
disloyalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈlɔɪ.(j)əɫ.ti/
Forms: form: disloyalties
Etymology: From Old French desloiauté (Modern French déloyauté), from des- + loiauté (“loyalty”).
Senses: glosses: An act of being disloyal; a betrayal, faithbreach.
glosses: The quality of being disloyal.
Derived terms: disloyalty card
Related terms: disloyal
loyalty
disaffection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsəˈfɛkʃən/
Forms: form: disaffections
Etymology: From disaffect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: public disaffection
text: growing disaffection
glosses: Discontent; unrest.
examples: text: political disaffection
text: The policy caused disaffection among young voters.
glosses: Alienation; loss of loyalty.
sherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sherd
pot-sherd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot-sherds
Senses: examples: text: [I]n the case of pottery, it [epigraphy] is usually taken to include graffiti scratched with a sharp point, and even painted inscriptions which are made before firing as part of the design of a vase, but not written documents (ostraka), in which pot-sherds are merely used as a material to write on instead of papyrus.
ref: 1916, E. S. Roberts, E[rnest] A[rthur] Gardner, “Criticism and Interpretation [VIII. 2. Epigraphy.]”, in Leonard Whibley, editor, A Companion to Greek Studies: Edited for the Syndics of the University Press, 3rd revised and enlarged edition, Cambridge: At the University Press, →OCLC, section 737 (Definition and Scope), page 687:
glosses: Alternative form of potsherd.
on the right track
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I don't think he has the final answer just yet, but he seems to be on the right track.
text: She looked at me with that familiar desire
Her eyes lit up like they were on fire
She said, "My name's Flo, and you're on the right track,
But look here, daddy, I wear furs on my back,
So if you want to have fun in this man's land,
Let Lincoln and Jackson start shaking hands."
ref: 1955, Ray Charles, Greenbacks:
text: And there was perhaps a good sign when I took the last train of the day back from Derby to London recently. The service started late from Sheffield, because it was held to wait for a connection. Now, it may be that this was common practice for that service, but it does represent the way that railways should be run. Anyway, I took it as a sign that (just possibly) that railways are on the right track.
ref: 2024 August 7, Christian Wolmar, “Labour in a hurry to implement changes on the railway”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 43:
antonyms: on the wrong track
glosses: Using the correct general approach to a particular task or problem; pursuing something in a promising way.
Related terms: on track
horse around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: horses around
form: horsing around
form: horsed around
form: horsed around
Senses: examples: text: Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?
text: Stop horsing around with the controls, before you break something.
text: As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.
ref: 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2017:
text: A novel about writing a novel; a narrator who is and is not the author; general metafictional horsing around reflecting both the author’s and reader’s ambivalence about the novel.
ref: 2015 January 14, Catherine O'Flynn, “10:04 by Ben Lerner review”, in The Guardian:
text: "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
ref: 1989, Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
text: I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
ref: 1943, Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo:
glosses: To engage in horseplay.
Synonyms: sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: fool around
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: act out
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: clown around
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: goof off
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: muck about
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: muck around
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: muck up
sense: behave clownishly, idly
word: yuk it up
Related terms: horseplay
booby prize
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booby prizes
Senses: examples: text: At the end of the conference, they awarded him with a rubber chicken as a booby prize for complaining the loudest.
text: "Network Rail needs to take all the booby prizes going, for a ham-fisted, over-budget, over-time infrastructure project," local activist John Mair told RAIL.
ref: 2025 June 25, “Network News: Network Rail to pay compensation for Oxford Botley Road delays”, in RAIL, number 1038, page 9:
glosses: A prize or status, often unwelcome, awarded as a joke or disincentive to the loser of a contest or for poor performance.
Related terms: wooden spoon
highwaymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highwayman
one-percenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-percenters
form: 1-percenter
form: one percenter
Etymology: From one percent + -er. After Thomas Edison: Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. The motorcycling sense comes from a supposed statement made by the American Motorcycle Association in 1948 that 99% of motorcyclists are good people enjoying a clean sport, and it is only 1% who are antisocial.
Senses: examples: text: An upper one-percenter in the income and wealth distributions, Rubin commuted by private jet between the tony Jefferson Hotel in Washington and his Park home in New York.
ref: 2000, E. Ray Canterbery, Wall Street Capitalism: The Theory of the Bondholding Class, page 138:
text: When critics pointer out that the bulk of his tax cut went to the wealthiest one percent of American […], after Bush got finished spinning, it's amazing how many Americans ended up feeling sorry for those poor, deprived one percenters.
ref: 2002, Bill Press, Spin This!: All the Ways We Don't Tell the Truth, page 17:
text: "But a few survive, those with the right genetic trait, the one-percenters that will carry on and reproduce that trait."
ref: 2004, George Black, The Trout Pool Paradox: The American Lives of Three Rivers, page 204:
text: [Y]ou've been one of the "one-percenters." You've always been in that rarefied top one percent of the people doing whatever you were doing at any given moment in your life.
ref: 2006, David Weber, In Fury Born:
text: I'd perfected my game, flying first-class all over the world, staying in five-star resort hotels, and seducing scores of one-percenters into stashing their fortunes in Swiss numbered accounts, no questions asked.
ref: 2018, Oliver Bullough, quoting Bradley Birkenfeld, chapter 17, in Moneyland, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 243:
glosses: A member of the top one percent of a population by wealth, ability, etc. (same as the ninety-ninth percentile), especially in a society with high wealth inequality.
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: An esoteric joke which is unlikely to be appreciated by a general audience.
glosses: One who wishes to be recognized for an idea without putting forth the "ninety-nine percent perspiration" needed to implement that idea.
examples: text: The patch holders themselves recognize that within the framework of the club there exists a radical faction - "the heavies" or "one percenters".
ref: 1991, Daniel R. Wolf, The Rebels: A Brotherhood of Outlaw Bikers, page 272:
text: It was Sonny's idea to ally the various clubs under a diamond-shaped "one-percenter" patch. He took it a step further by becoming the first Hells Angel to have the famous "one-percenter" drawn on his arm.
ref: 2002, Chuck Zito, Street Justice, page 106:
text: There is, without a doubt, the "one-percenter" subculture consisting of individuals who are social renegades in the criminal sense.
ref: 2004, Karen Larsen, Breaking the Limit: One Woman's Motorcycle Journey Through North America, page 271:
glosses: An outlaw biker, such as a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
maiolica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maiolicas
Senses: examples: text: The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
ref: 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
text: Minton did not use the word maiolica themselves, relying instead on the Victorian version, majolica, which they used to mean wares of Renaissance inspiration, featuring hand painting on an opaque white glaze.
ref: 1999, Paul Atterbury and Maureen Batkin, Dictionary of Minton, ACC Art Books (2nd Revised edition 1 Jan. 1999), page #:124
glosses: Alternative form of majolica (“earthenware coated with opaque white tin glaze”).
Derived terms: maiolicaware
billy buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of many species of daisy-like plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae native to Australia and New Zealand
especially any of several flowering plants, of the genus Craspedia (but especially Craspedia globosa), native to Australia, having globes of yellow flowers.
glosses: Any of many species of daisy-like plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae native to Australia and New Zealand
Any of several species of the genus Leiocarpa.
glosses: Any of many species of daisy-like plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae native to Australia and New Zealand
Any of several species of the genus Leiocarpa.
The plains plover daisy (Leiocarpa brevicompta, formerly Ixiolaena brevicompta), found in floodplains of Queensland and New South Wales; it is poisonous to sheep.
glosses: Any of many species of daisy-like plants in the tribe Gnaphalieae native to Australia and New Zealand
Any of several species of the genus Pycnosorus, formerly in Craspedia.
herl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herls
Senses: glosses: a strand of hair
glosses: the fibrous shaft or barb of a feather (especially that of the ostrich or peacock) used to make artificial flies for angling
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: an artificial fly made with this barb
fiance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/
ipa: /fiˈɒnseɪ/
ipa: /fiˈɑnseɪ/
ipa: /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/
rhymes: -ɒnseɪ
Forms: form: fiances
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fiancé.
fiance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/
ipa: /fiˈɒnseɪ/
ipa: /fiˈɑnseɪ/
ipa: /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/
rhymes: -ɒnseɪ
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əns/
ipa: /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/
ipa: /fiˈɒnseɪ/
ipa: /fiˈɑnseɪ/
ipa: /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/
rhymes: -ɒnseɪ
Forms: form: fiances
form: fiancing
form: fianced
form: fianced
Etymology: From Middle English fyancen, fyauncen, from Middle French fiancer.
Senses: examples: text: he[…]therfore fianced he his daughter
ref: 1569, Thomas Stocker, A righte noble and pleasant history of the successors of Alexander surnamed the Great:
text: he should become so lusty over a lady of such questionable motives? He was fianced, after all. Perhaps that was it. Since his engagement, he had abstained from any liaisons, feeling it was only proper in a man soon to be married
ref: 1993, Cindy Holbrook, A Daring Deception, page 91:
glosses: To betroth; to affiance.
fictionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪk.ʃən.əl.aɪz/
Forms: form: fictionalizes
form: fictionalizing
form: fictionalized
form: fictionalized
form: fictionalise
Etymology: From fictional + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: a lightly fictionalized account of [X]
glosses: To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).
glosses: To retell (something) real (e.g., an event or series of events) as if it were fiction; especially, to do so in a way that departs from reality in any extent from mild to extensive (from minor details to essential substance).
To convert (something) real into a novel or other dramatic work.
Derived terms: fictionalizer
semifictionalized
unfictionalized
Related terms: word: fictionalization
word: docudrama
word: docufiction
word: faction
english: a type of fictionalization
translation: a type of fictionalization
word: roman à clef
fictionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪk.ʃən.əl.aɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌfɪk.ʃən.əl.əˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: fictionalizations
form: fictionalisation
Etymology: From fictionalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Remembering is an act of re-creation and therefore subject to distortion and fictionalization: 'real' memories become tales, and tales become 'memories'.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 204:
glosses: The act of fictionalizing.
examples: Near-synonym: faction
glosses: Something fictionalized.
Derived terms: defictionalization
Related terms: docudrama
docufiction
fidgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fidget
examples: text: But the evils of diseased nerves do not stop here. […] They not only inflict the creevles and the fidgets upon the body, but still more upon the mind.
ref: 1884, Orson Squire Fowler, Physiology, Animal and Mental, Applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind, page 263:
text: ‘Sit down, do, — I can’t abide to see folks standing; it gives me the fidgets.’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: His voice was deep and rich and somehow took the fidgets out of them. They now felt glad and quiet and it didn't seem awkward to them to stand and say nothing.
ref: 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
glosses: A state of nervous restlessness, causing a person to fidget.
fidgets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fidget
potter's field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potter's fields
form: pottersfield
Etymology: This phrase derives from the reference to the potter's field in the New Testament, Matthew 27:7. After Judas Iscariot committed suicide and left the 30 pieces of silver from betraying Jesus, the chief priest use the money to purchase a potter's field to bury gentiles.
Senses: examples: text: The despised pauper, most likely a foreigner, when his spirit has gone to its final resting-place, is probably carried to the Potter's Field.
ref: 1862, David W. Mitchell, Ten Years in the United States, Elder Smith, page 157:
text: There was a Potter's Field, a cemetery for the poor and friendless, far out in the country.
ref: 1917. Anna Alice Chapin, Greenwich Village (Mead Dodd, p. 10)
text: Hart's Island has been used for the past 50 years as a potter's field for the burial of the paupers.
ref: 1925. Hastings Hornell Hart, Two Reports on the Reorganization and Reconstruction of the New York Prison System (Prison Association of New York 1925, p. 30)
text: Potter's field. The commissioner shall have charge of the Potter's Fields, and when the necessity therefor shall arise, shall have power to lay out additional Potter's Fields or other public burial places for the poor and strangers and from time to time enclose and extend the same to make enclosures therein and to build vaults therein, and to provide all necessary labor and for interments therein. The Potter's Field on Hart's island, however, shall remain under the control of the department of correction, and the burial of deceased paupers therein shall continue under rules and regulations established by the joint action of the departments of social services and correction, or in case of disagreement between such departments, under such regulations as may be established by the mayor.
ref: 1941 (amendment): Administrative Code of the City of New York, 21-110, originally chapter 24, Department of Public Welfare, Title A, 603-10.0 (also 1953; this is the current, 2007, version)
text: Humboldt had been buried not in potter's field but far out in Deathsille, New Jersey, one of those vast, necropolitan developments …
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 467:
text: The old, helpless, bedridden inmates lying often in their own filth awaiting death and burial in potters field, alone and unknown.
ref: 1984 December 29, Raymond Latham, “The Plight of a Lover”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 5:
synonyms: pauper's grave
common grave
glosses: A public place where strangers, paupers, and criminals are buried.
morning gift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morning gifts
form: morning-gift
Etymology: Normalisation (after morning and gift) of Middle English morgengive, morhȝive, from Old English morgenġifu, morgenġiefu (“morning gift”), from Proto-Germanic *murgnagebō (“morning gift”), equivalent to morning + gift. Cognate with Dutch morgengave (“morning gift”), German Morgengabe (“morning gift”).
Senses: glosses: A gift traditionally given in some (especially Germanic) cultures by the husband to his wife on the first morning after they were married.
Related terms: morganatic
field-test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: field-tests
form: field-testing
form: field-tested
form: field-tested
Senses: examples: text: The JNR [Japan National Railways] is field-testing other ideas.
ref: 1964 December, “Automatic Railways: How far are they practicable?”, in Modern Railways, page 388:
glosses: To test something using the conditions that it was designed to operate under, especially out in the real world instead of in a laboratory or workshop.
Related terms: word: field test
word: field study
word: ground truth
binaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary
fieldworker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fieldworkers
Etymology: From field + worker.
Senses: glosses: A person who does fieldwork.
arbitrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arbitrate
filibusterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filibusterers
Etymology: From filibuster + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who filibusters.
filigreed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filigreed
form: most filigreed
Senses: glosses: Having filigree ornamentation.
filigreed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of filigree
filmmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmmakers
form: film-maker
form: film maker
Etymology: From film + maker.
Senses: examples: text: I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.
ref: 2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
text: Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.
ref: 2015, B. Forshaw, Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema:
glosses: A producer or director of films/movies.
Synonyms: moviemaker
Derived terms: cofilmmaker
filmstrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmstrips
Etymology: From film + strip.
Senses: glosses: A length of film containing individual photographs or diagrams intended to be shown in sequence as instruction or as a visual aid.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file containing a sequence of images or video frames.
Related terms: slideshow
filterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filterable
form: most filterable
Etymology: From filter + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be separated by filtration
glosses: That can pass through a specified filter
Derived terms: filterable virus
nonfilterable
filterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filterers
Etymology: From filter + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or device that, filters
Derived terms: hyperfilterer
normofilterer
Eli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈilaɪ/
Etymology: From Hebrew עֵלִי (“ascent”); cognate to the Arabic-derived Ali.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The priest who brought up Samuel.
Eli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈilaɪ/
Forms: form: Elis
Etymology: From the name of Elihu Yale.
Senses: glosses: A student at Yale University.
Synonyms: Yalie
Eli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈilaɪ/
Etymology: Short versions of male given names.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Elijah.
glosses: Clipping of Elisha.
finagler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finaglers
Etymology: From finagle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who finagles; a cheat or swindler
finalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finalizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of finalisation.
Derived terms: prefinalization
Related terms: postfinalization
refinalization
financing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: financings
Senses: examples: text: The successive equity financings were at higher and higher valuations.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A transaction that provides funds for a business.
Derived terms: mezzanine financing
microfinancing
financing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of finance
fin-de-siecle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fin de siècle.
reinvestigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinvestigates
form: reinvestigating
form: reinvestigated
form: reinvestigated
form: re-investigate
Etymology: From re- + investigate.
Senses: glosses: To investigate again
finespun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more finespun
form: most finespun
form: fine-spun
Etymology: From fine + spun.
Senses: glosses: spun into a fine thread
glosses: delicate and subtle, with fine detail
fine-tune
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fine-tunes
form: fine-tuning
form: fine-tuned
form: fine-tuned
form: fine tune
form: finetune
Senses: examples: text: Jim fine-tuned the radio until the sound was perfect.
text: Tevez, however, may need to fine-tune his penalty-taking technique. In the 57th minute he had the chance to soothe any lingering nerves, when he ran clear from Kolarov's pass and again exposed the high line of Leicester's defence, only for Hobbs to hack him down. The centre-half was fortunate not to be shown a red card – a point Mancini made on the touchline – but Tevez aimed his penalty low and hard, straight down the middle, and Weale saved with his feet.
ref: 2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online:
text: As Google, YouTube’s parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students’ access to selected content, the video-sharing Web site is gaining popularity as a trove of free educational materials.
ref: 2012 March 9, Stephanie Strom, “YouTube Subtracts Racy and Raucous to Add a Teaching Tool”, in The New York Times:
text: When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13].
ref: 2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432:
text: I also show in the paper that LLMs are easily steerable into target locations of the political spectrum via supervised fine-tuning (SFT) requiring only modest compute and customized data, suggesting the critical role of SFT to imprint political preferences onto LLMs.
ref: 2024 February 2, David Rozado, “The Political Preferences of LLMs”, in Rozado’s Visual Analytics:
glosses: To make small adjustments to (something) until it is optimal.
Derived terms: fine-tuned universe
fingerling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡəɹlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɪŋəɹlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: fingerlings
Etymology: From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.
glosses: A type of small potato grown primarily in North America.
glosses: An infant weasel, stoat, ferret; esp. weasels.
examples: text: Oh, but those little crab-lingered fingerlings really wanted to get in! Now some were trying to claw up through an old knothole whose bole had aged and didn’t sit true in the plank. […] But here came the dwarf opening her door, and the spiderlets melted away.
ref: 2011, Gregory Maguire, “The Patchwork Conscience of Oz”, in Out of Oz (The Wicked Years), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Any finger-sized version of something typically larger.
fingerpaint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerpaints
Etymology: From finger + paint.
Senses: glosses: A form of paint designed to be applied using the fingers, especially by children.
fingerpaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fingerpaints
form: fingerpainting
form: fingerpainted
form: fingerpainted
Etymology: From finger + paint.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of finger paint.
finger-paint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finger-paints
form: finger-painting
form: finger-painted
form: finger-painted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of finger paint.
finger paint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: finger paints
form: finger painting
form: finger painted
form: finger painted
form: fingerpaint
form: finger-paint
Senses: glosses: To paint using fingerpaint.
finny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪni
Forms: form: finnier
form: finniest
Etymology: From fin + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The silent fisher […] waits the finny prize (Book XII)
ref: 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, The Odyssey:
text: The finny trophies he brought back in the form of numerous fat pickerel were ample evidence of his fishermanship.
ref: 1928, RG&E News, volume 16, page 334:
glosses: Having one or more fins.
raw_tags: of a fish
glosses: Resembling a fin.
examples: 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,
Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes;
With patient angle trolls the finny deep,
Or drives his venturous ploughshare to the steep;
glosses: Abounding in fishes.
finny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪni
Forms: form: finnies
Etymology: From fin + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I passed a good many in drapers’ shops, also at tailors’ shops. I never tried jewellers, they’re reckoned too good judges. The notes were all finnies, (5l. notes), and a good imitation.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
synonyms: fin
fiver
glosses: A five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
firehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firehouses
Etymology: From Middle English firhous, fyrehous, from Old English fȳrhūs (“a fire-house, a room with a fire; furnace”), equivalent to fire + house. Compare Icelandic eldhús (“kitchen”).
Senses: glosses: A house containing a fire to heat it; a dwelling-house, as opposed to a barn, a stable, or other outhouse.
firehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firehouses
Etymology: From fire + house.
Senses: topics: firefighting
government
glosses: A fire station
Derived terms: firehouse caucus
firehouse primary
firer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: firers
Etymology: From fire + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who fires a weapon; a shooter.
glosses: A person responsible for firing staff; a person who fires another.
glosses: A pyromaniac.
glosses: A person who fires pottery.
Derived terms: shotfirer
firetruck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firetrucks
Etymology: From fire + truck.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fire truck.
firetruck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Fuck.
first-generation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student.
ref: 2017 March 11, Rochelle Sharpe, “Are You First Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to an immigrant or their family.
glosses: Of or relating to the initial version of a class of products.
numero uno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numero unos
Etymology: From either Spanish número uno or Italian numero uno. Piecewise doublet of number one.
Senses: examples: text: Our internal airwaves are priority numero uno. Good news? You’re the spin master; you’re in charge.
ref: 2023 November 14, Beth Romero, “Be a Weeble”, in Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Art of Letting Go, Bouncing Back, and Being):
synonyms: word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: The most important of a group.
examples: text: In his business ventures, he always looks after numero uno.
glosses: Oneself, especially one’s own interests.
Related terms: look out for number one
first-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: first rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Of a Royal Navy ship of the line in the Napoleonic Era: having at least 100 guns across three gun decks, a complement of 850–875, and weighing approximately 2,500 tons burthen.
examples: text: Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
ref: 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature:
text: He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 2:
text: "I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate."
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 92:
glosses: Superb, exceptional; of the best sort; very high quality.
Derived terms: first-rateness
Related terms: a-number-one
fifth-rate
fourth-rate
second-rate
sixth-rate
third-rate
top notch
top of the line
first-rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-rates
form: first rate
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A first-rate ship of the line.
Related terms: man-of-war
three-decker
first-stringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-stringers
Etymology: From first string + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of a first string.
fistulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fistulous
form: most fistulous
Etymology: Possibly from Latin fistulōsus (“pipe-shaped, hole-filled, fistulous”), or a English medical pseudo-Latinism via fistula + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: syringoid
glosses: Of or pertaining to a fistula.
glosses: Resembling a reed; hollow and tubular
Derived terms: fistulous withers
fixate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪkˈseɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɪkseɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: fixates
form: fixating
form: fixated
form: fixated
Etymology: From fix + -ate (verb-forming suffix) or Latin fixus (“fixed, solid”) + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To make something fixed and stable; to fix.
glosses: To stare fixedly at something.
examples: text: He needed something to fixate on now that the repainting was done.
ref: 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber Ltd, page 202:
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on]
glosses: To attend to something to the exclusion of all others.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
info_templates: extra_data: words: on
expansion: [with on]
glosses: To attach oneself to a person or thing in a pathological, neurotic, or obsessive manner.
Derived terms: fixatory
refixate
fixated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪkˈseɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fixate
fixated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪkˈseɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: more fixated
form: most fixated
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: attached to someone or something in a neurotic or pathological manner
Derived terms: hyperfixated
unfixated
fixings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fixing
fixings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: all the fixings for a salad
text: Julia's got all the fixings for a great party!
glosses: The necessary ingredients or components (for something, especially food or a social event).
examples: text: I'll have all of the fixings on Thanksgiving!
text: a sandwich with all the fixings
glosses: Side dishes or other appropriate accompaniments such as condiments; trimmings.
Related terms: fittings
fixtures
supplies
fixity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɪksɪti/
Forms: form: fixities
form: fixety
Etymology: From fix + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: [O]therwise, it is almost inescapable that there must be some sort of centralized mechanism guaranteeing the fixity of prices[.]
ref: 1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 557:
glosses: The state or condition of being fixed.
glosses: Something fixed.
examples: text: One may use a fixity declaration in Haskell to describe an operator's precedence and direction of associativity.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).
Synonyms: sense: state or condition of being fixed
word: fixedness
Derived terms: unfixity
Related terms: fixidity
hypocaust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocausts
Etymology: From Latin hypocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὑπόκαυστον (hupókauston), from Ancient Greek ὑπό (hupó, “underneath”) + καυστόν (kaustón, “burnt offering”).
Senses: glosses: An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.
glosses: An underfloor heating system, even without such an underfloor space or flue, as adapted for modern housing.
Synonyms: word: hippocaust
sense: heating system
word: floor heating
sense: heating system
word: underfloor heating
sorts out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sort out
cayo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cayos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cayo, from Taíno cayo (“small island”). Doublet of key.
Senses: glosses: A small island or ledge of rock in the water; a key.
crowbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowbar
crowbars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crowbar
hoida
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of heard of.
Related terms: hoid
complementation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complementations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The replacement of a set by its complement
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
Derived terms: complementational
complon
decomplementation
hemicomplementation
intercomplementation
noncomplementation
orthocomplementation
recomplementation
transcomplementation
composite laminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composite laminates
Senses: hypernyms: composite material
glosses: An assemblage of two or more layers of material consisting of fibres in a matrix; its engineering properties can be tailored by changing the composition of the layers.
Compton effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Compton effects
Etymology: Named after American physicist Arthur Compton (1892–1962).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the energy, of photons (especially of X-rays and gamma rays) when scattered by interaction with matter
Synonyms: Compton scattering
Related terms: Comptonization
Compton scattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American physicist Arthur Compton (1892–1962).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the energy, of photons (especially of X-rays and gamma rays) when scattered by interaction with matter
Synonyms: Compton effect
Compton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cumpton
Etymology: From Old English Cumbtūn. Equivalent to combe (“valley”) + -ton (“town”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A village and civil parish in West Berkshire district, Berkshire (OS grid ref SU5279).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A suburban area in Ashbourne parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1846).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A hamlet in Marldon parish, South Hams district, Devon, the location of Compton Castle (OS grid ref SX8664).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A village in Compton and Shawford parish, Winchester district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4625).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A village and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU9547).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A suburban area in Farnham parish, Waverley borough, Surrey (OS grid ref SU8546).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in England:
A suburb of Wolverhampton, West Midlands (OS grid ref SO8898).
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Newton County, Arkansas.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in the United States:
A city in Los Angeles County, California.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in the United States:
A village in Brooklyn Township, Lee County, Illinois.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in the United States:
A township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Page County, Virginia.
glosses: Any of several placenames in England and the United States.
A municipality in Coaticook Regional County Municipality, Estrie, Quebec, Canada.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English from the placenames.
Derived terms: Clifton and Compton
Compton and Shawford
Compton Bassett
Compton Beauchamp
Compton Bishop
Compton Dando
Compton Dundon
Compton Pauncefoot
Fenny Compton
Little Compton
Long Compton