cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
weenie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weenies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wienie (“sausage”).
examples: text: Weenies and beer had not been a part of ASN/29's stores.
ref: 1984, Stephen King, Beachworld:
text: “The fucking weenie gets hard and I fucking lose this brain and this happened,” he said.
ref: 2023 March 8, Mark Leibovich, quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger, “Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Last Act”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative form of wienie (“penis”).
glosses: Someone weak and unimportant, a wimp.
glosses: A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life.
examples: text: Over and over again you'll dump a horde of weenies, and if you're^([sic]) opponent's^([sic]) too slow, he'll die right off the bat.
ref: 1996 February 20, ChrisMims [username], “White Hordes Part I: Extensive Pontifications”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):
text: He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.
ref: 1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):
text: Most of the opponents^([sic]) quick creature removal will be taken out by the early flood of weenies.
ref: 1997 March 19, Craig Sivils, “Mono-Green, I don't get it.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy (Usenet):
qualifier: collectible card games
glosses: A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures.
Synonyms: sense: someone weak and unimportant
word: nestle-cock
word: softy
word: wuss
word: milksop
sense: a computer user with a deficient social life
word: propeller head
word: dork
Derived terms: green weenie
hide the weenie
Unix weenie
weenie roast
weight weenie
bedwetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdwɛtɚ/
Forms: form: bedwetters
form: bed-wetter
form: bed wetter
Etymology: From bed + wetter.
Senses: glosses: A person who (habitually) urinates in their bed (during sleep).
glosses: A cowardly person.
Related terms: wet the bed
bedwetting
pisspants
prayer beads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prayer bead
Etymology: An interesting example of a compound that is diachronically pleonastic, although not synchronically so; the head by itself originally meant the relevant meaning (see bead), but as the head's meaning broadened by extension, the compound then became necessary to specify the relevant meaning by narrowing down.
Senses: examples: text: Suits didn't wear suits any more—they wore Tibetan prayer beads coiled around their wrists. But they slithered in a suitlike way.
ref: 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A string of beads used by members of various religions to count prayers, chants, or devotions.
Related terms: prayer book
punchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: punchier
form: punchiest
Etymology: From punch (“short fat person”) + y.
Senses: examples: text: Behind him, Saretha looked bewildered as a small, punchy man in a chartreuse Lawyer’s suit raced up to her, talking fast.
ref: 2017, Gregory Scott Katsoulis, “Terms: $3.99”, in All Rights Reserved, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Teen, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: Short and thick; fat; paunchy.
polygynandry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒlid͡ʒɪˈnændɹi/
ipa: /pɑlid͡ʒɪˈnændɹi/
Etymology: From polygyn(y) + (poly)andry.
Senses: examples: text: If you've never heard of polygynandry before, this isn't surprising because it is a very unusual mating system, found only in a tiny number of vertebrate species and in no other primates.
ref: 2016, David P. Barash, Out of Eden, Oxford, page 29:
topics: anthropology
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: A mating pattern involving multiple males and multiple females.
Derived terms: polygynandrous
osteocalcin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteocalcins
Etymology: From osteo- + calc- + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Comparison of the sequences of the various osteocalcins indicates that the central portion of the molecule is highly conserved.
ref: 1994, Hideaki Ogura, Pharmacological Approach to the Study of the Formation and the Resorption Mechanism of Hard Tissues, Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, page 134:
text: Osteocalcin has recently been identified as a bone-derived hormone with significant functional impacts on sex steroid production by the testis, completing the circle of mutual interdependence between the skeletal system and gonad (for reviews, see Refs 536–538).
ref: 2014, Lee B. Smith, William H. Walker, “16: Hormone Signaling in the Testis”, in Tony M. Plant, Anthony J. Zeleznik, editors, Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 669:
text: Osteocalcin together with the other Gla-protein MGP belongs to a distinct subgroup of the larger vitamin K-dependent protein family, the constituents of which are primarily involved in blood coagulation.
ref: 2017, Olena V. Andrukhova, Reinhold G. Erben, “11: Kidney—Bone: Interaction”, in Susan Y. Smith, Aurore Varela, Rana Samadfam, editors, Bone Toxicology, Springer, page 349:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, found in bone and dentin and manufactured by osteoblasts, that plays a role in mineralization and calcium ion homeostasis.
holograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holographs
Etymology: From holo- + -graph.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
textual-criticism
glosses: A handwritten document that is solely the work of the person whose signature it bears, especially a letter, deed, or will; an original manuscript, a protograph.
examples: text: But when a holograph is placed backwards in its holder and illuminated with laser light, it can produce a real image […]
ref: 1966, Electronic Design, volume 14, numbers 14-17, page 18:
text: Producing a holograph involves illumination of an object through the use of intersecting laser beams.
ref: 1972, Army Research and Development, volumes 13-14, page 10:
text: Of course, it is impossible to show what a holograph is really like in a two dimensional picture such as this.
ref: 1983, Ellen Nevins, Encyclopedia of Computers and Electronics, page 108:
glosses: A hologram.
holograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holographs
form: holographing
form: holographed
form: holographed
Etymology: From holo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: To record by means of holography.
hotness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotnesses
Etymology: From Middle English hotnes, from Old English hātnes (“hotness, heat”), equivalent to hot + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hot.
Derived terms: new hotness
hotheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hotheaded
form: most hotheaded
form: hot-headed
Etymology: From hot + headed.
Senses: examples: text: Such an opportunity can hardly again occur to an ancient and grey-haired man; and to see it lost by the madcap spleen of a hot-headed boy!
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Antiquary—Volume II:
text: "But I am!" flashed the young man, as if he had been misunderstood.
"Listen. You're like all boys—hot-headed an' hasty. Let me talk a little," resumed Anderson.
ref: 1919, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in The Desert of Wheat:
text: Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of a hothead or hotheadedness; (of a person) easily excited or angered.
Synonyms: fiery
hasty
hot-tempered
impetuous
rash
vehement
violent
temperamental
reckless
Derived terms: hotheadedly
hotheadedness
frigidarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɹɪd͡ʒɪˈdɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌfɹɪd͡ʒəˈdɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: frigidaria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frīgidārium, from frīgidus (“cold”). Doublet of frigidaire.
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Roman baths, a room with a bath of cold water.
Related terms: caldarium
tepidarium
thermae
foxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒkst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fox; baffled; outwitted.
foxed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkst
Forms: form: more foxed
form: most foxed
Senses: examples: text: My copy of “Lolita” is all foxed pages and spindly spine, battered and beloved.
ref: 2021 February 26, Parul Sehgal, “Reviewing the Book Review”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Of paper, having yellowish-brown stains.
Derived terms: unfoxed
Related terms: foxing
Antiochus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ænˈtaɪəkəs/
Etymology: From Latin Antiochus, from Ancient Greek Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀντίοχος (Antíokhos), notably borne by the thirteen kings of the Seleucid dynasty.
Abimelech
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈbɪm.əˌlɛk/
Etymology: From Hebrew אֲבִימֶלֶךְ (avimelek, “Abimelech”).
Senses: examples: text: And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 26:8:
glosses: Any of several Philistine kings.
Absalom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sə.ləm/
Etymology: From Hebrew אַבְשָׁלוֹם (avshalóm, literally “father of peace”), from אָב (av, “father”) + שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”).
Senses: examples: text: A student who doesn't know the slow movement of Schubert's B-flat major op post sonata, or the story of David and Absalom, needs to go back to school and learn better.
ref: 2017 February 23, Conor Friedersdorf, “20 Ideas From the Mind of David Gelernter”, in The Atlantic:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The third son of David, king of Israel.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Axel
Achab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 1808, Charles Thomson, The Old Covenant, Commonly Called Old Testament; translated from the Septuagint, Jane Aitken (publ.), IV Kings (II Kings) VIII, 26.
And he walked in the way of Achab and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, like the house of Achab.
text: 1857, The Holy Bible Translated from the Latin Vulgate, James Duffy (publ.), III Kings (I Kings) XXI, 2, page 260.
And Achab spoke to Naboth, saying: Give me thy vineyard, that I may make me a garden of herbs, because it is nigh, and joining to my house, and I will give thee for it a better vineyard; or if thou think it more convenient for thee, I will give thee the worth of it in money.
text: 1875, Liévin de Hamme (OFM), Guide to the Holy Places and Historical Sites in the Holy Land, C. Poelman (publ.), page 407.
Achab called on all the prophets of Baal to prophesy, and they were unanimous in saying he would be victorious.
text: 1995, Fabrizio Lomonaco, "Huguenot Critical Theory and "Ius Maiestatis" in Huber and Althusius", in John Christian Laursen (ed.), New Essays on the Political Thought of the Huguenots of the Refuge, E. J. Brill (publ.), page 180.
Achab, king of Samaria, was punished by God for being possessed unjustly of the vineyard of Naboth (Kings III, 21), but was still allowed under the constitution to commit an iniquitous act: […]
text: The Talmud in Tractate Sandhedrin lists King Achab as one of three kings who have forfeited their share in the World to Come for the sin of proliferating idolatry in the extreme.
ref: 2007, Yechezkel Hirshman, One Above and Seven Below: A Consumer's Guide to Orthodox Judaism from the Perspective of the Chareidim, Mazo Publishers, page 107:
glosses: Alternative form of Ahab.
raw_tags: used by native speakers
Demetrius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmiːtɹɪəs/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δημήτριος (Dēmḗtrios, literally “belonging to Δημήτηρ (Dēmḗtēr), the earth goddess”); from Δή (Dḗ), an early form of γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”). Doublet of Dimitris and Dmitry.
Senses: examples: text: Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the trueth it ſelfe: yea, and we alſo beare record, and ye know that our record is true.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 3 John 1:12, column 2:
text: The easy names were the ones she forgot. But this one wasn't easy and it was like the swaggering name of some football player from Alabama and that's how she remembered it, Demetrius, badly burned in the other tower, the south tower.
ref: 2007, Don DeLillo, Falling Man, Scribner, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Demeter
Demetria
Demi
Dmitry
Edom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹdəm
ipa: /ˈi.dəm/
rhymes: -iːdəm
Etymology: Via Late Latin Edōm from Koine Greek Ἐδώμ (Edṓm) from Biblical Hebrew אֱדוֹם (ʾĔḏōm).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible.
glosses: A region whose inhabitants, the Edomites, traditionally traced their ancestry to Esau.
glosses: Rome, the Roman Empire.
glosses: Christianity; Christendom, the Christian countries.
Synonyms: sense: Esau
word: Esau
Derived terms: Edomite
Elias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlaɪəs/
ipa: /ˈɛliəs/
Etymology: The New Testament form of Elijah, a Hebrew prophet, from Ancient Greek Ἠλίας (Ēlías).
Senses: examples: text: Some ſay that thou art John the Baptiſt, ſome Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of yͤ Prophets.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 16:14, column 2:
text: In a 2017 GoFundMe page that included his photo, a testimonial attributed to Elias Rodriguez described how, when he was 11, his father’s deployment to Iraq sparked his political awakening and mobilized him to prevent “another generation of Americans coming home from genocidal imperialist wars.”
ref: 2025 May 22, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Audrey Ash, Holmes Lybrand, Sara Smart and John Miller, “‘Only sane thing to do:’ Writings, interviews tied to suspect in Israeli embassy staffer killings show political activism”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Elias delta code
Elias delta coding
Elias gamma code
Elias gamma coding
Elias omega code
Elias omega coding
Saint Elias Mountains
Joab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊ.æb/
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The nephew of King David, and son of Zeruiah
Byzantine Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪzəntiːn ˈɛmpaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: the Byzantine Empire
Senses: synonyms: Byzantium
Eastern Roman Empire
Rum
Romania
Medieval Roman Empire
coordinate_terms: Roman Kingdom
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire
glosses: An ancient Greek empire in Southeastern Europe and Western Asia; the predominantly Greek-speaking continuation of the Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages with its capital at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), originally known as Byzantium, which fell in 1453.
fulfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more fulfilling
form: most fulfilling
Senses: glosses: Which causes fulfilment; emotionally or artistically satisfying.
Derived terms: nonfulfilling
unfulfilling
fulfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fulfill
glosses: present participle and gerund of fulfil
Derived terms: self-fulfilling
fulfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: fulfillings
Senses: examples: text: Absolute promises have therefore a sufficiency in themselves to bring about their own fulfillings; the conditional have not so.
ref: 1678, John Bunyan, Come and Welcome to Jesus Christ:
glosses: fulfilment
fluttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutterings
Senses: examples: text: It is indubitably certain, therefore, that he is able to attend, and actually attends, to all things at the same moment; to the motions of a seed, or a leaf, or an atom; to the creepings of a worm, the flutterings of an insect, and the journeys of a mite […]
ref: 1824, Timothy Dwight, Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons:
text: Miss Greta closed her eyes. Quickly, however, did she open them again; for a dull noise, with certain whiskings-about and flutterings, together with low clatterings, approached her ear.
ref: 1844, Fredrika Bremer, The Neighbours: A Story of Every-day Life, page 59:
glosses: Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
fluttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flutter
Derived terms: flutteringly
unfluttering
vriddhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vriddhis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vṛddhi.
refining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refine
refining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnɪŋ
Forms: form: refinings
Senses: examples: text: Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.
ref: 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists, page 64:
glosses: Refinement (process of refining)
Derived terms: oil refining
zone refining
scolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskoʊldɪŋ/
rhymes: (US) -oʊldɪŋ
Forms: form: scoldings
Etymology: From scold + -ing.
Senses: glosses: An unloving succession of critical remarks, such as those directed by a parent towards a misbehaving child; an earful; dressing down.
Derived terms: scolding stool
scolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskoʊldɪŋ/
rhymes: (US) -oʊldɪŋ
Etymology: From scold + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scold
tumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tumble
tumbling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumblings
Senses: examples: text: These so many conquests must needs bring with them many tumblings and tossings, many disturbances and changes in government[…]
ref: 1677, James Howell, The Pre-eminence and Pedigree of Parlement:
text: Having feasted our souls with this sublime spectacle, we ministered to the wants of the body by a plentiful breakfast, and about noon we commenced the descent, rendered ludicrous enough by various tumblings and sprawlings on the part of the more inexpert mountaineers.
ref: 1838, Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 176:
text: And you have left off tumbling when you waltz now?
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of something that tumbles.
Derived terms: rebound tumbling
vrddhi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vrddhis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vṛddhi.
fading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: fading light; fading memory; fading reputation
text: With fading eyesight and reactions, the runs have dried up. That Mr Tendulkar has nonetheless kept his place in the national [cricket] side is a more dismal exemplum: of the impunity enjoyed by all India’s rich and powerful.
ref: 2013 October 19, Banyan, “The meaning of Sachin”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858:
glosses: present participle and gerund of fade.
fading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: fadings
Senses: examples: text: […] the rude earth of the wall had no painted lustre to shed off all fadings and tarnish […]
ref: 1854, Herman Melville, Israel Potter:
glosses: The process by which something fades; gradual diminishment.
examples: text: Fading is a fine jig.
ref: 1607 (first performance), Francis Beaumont, “The Knight of the Burning Pestle”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene v:
glosses: An Irish dance.
examples: text: He has the prettiest love songs for maids, so without bawdry, which is strange with such delicate burdens of dildos and fadings
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
glosses: The burden of a song.
Derived terms: antifading
fadingness
fading time
nonfading
photofading
Ricean fading
Rician fading
Troxler fading
Troxler's fading
unfading
embracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrace
embracing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embracings
Senses: examples: text: There are some secret moving Springs in the Affections, which when they are set a going by some Object in view, or be it some Object, though not in view, yet rendred present to the Mind by the Power of Imagination, that Motion carries out the Soul by its Impetuosity to such violent eager embracings of the Object, that the Absence of it is insupportable.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 222:
text: Ay, in so doing you will but voluntarily throw yourself into her arms, and, with fond embracings, proclaim yourself a willing servant; do not, in the wild endeavor to win fame, strive to crush her power!
ref: 1849, Charles Frederick Briggs, Holden's Dollar Magazine, volumes 3-4, page 240:
text: […] a moment later such cheering and shouting, such jumps and reels of joy, such hand-shakings and kissings and embracings of everybody by everybody else broke out that the tears came into Jill’s eyes.
ref: 1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 15, in The Silver Chair, London: Geoffrey Bles:
glosses: The act by which something is embraced (in various senses).
Derived terms: all-embracing
embracing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of amplectant.
synonyms: word: amplectant
pneumatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatoses
Etymology: From pneumat- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The abnormal accumulation of air or other gas in the body.
Synonyms: english: broadest sense
translation: broadest sense
word: emphysema
commitology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of comitology.
comitologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comitology
transporting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From transport + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of transport
transporting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transportings
Etymology: From Middle English transportyng, equivalent to transport + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The transportation of a criminal.
CSU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: synonyms: Colorado State
coordinate_terms: CU
glosses: Initialism of Colorado State University
examples: text: “I am extremely pleased and deeply appreciative that we have reached common ground with CFA that will end the strike immediately,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said in a separate statement.
ref: 2024 January 23, Melissa Alonzo, “Cal State faculty members end strike after one day”, in CNN:
synonyms: Cal State
California State
coordinate_terms: UC
w:University of California
;
USC
;
Caltech
glosses: Initialism of California State University.
glosses: Initialism of Cagayan State University.
Hypernyms: sense: "C" State University
word: state university
sense: "C" State University
word: university
CSU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German CSU. Also an initialism of Christian Social Union.
Senses: examples: text: The ever-present two dominant parties of German politics, the Christian Democrats (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU), unofficially known as the Union, make up one grouping. The Social Democrats, or SPD, form another.
Given the German system of proportional representation, the government tends to be formed in a coalition, usually headed by the CDU/CSU or the SPD.
ref: 2024 December 16, Sebastian Shukla, Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto, “Germany’s Scholz has lost a confidence vote. Here’s what comes next”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The Bavarian Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union), a major mainstream right-wing political party in Bavaria.
Coordinate terms: sense: Christlich-Soziale Union
word: AfD
sense: Christlich-Soziale Union
word: CDU
sense: Christlich-Soziale Union
word: FDP
sense: Christlich-Soziale Union
word: SPD
goodness me
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: word: goodness
glosses: An expression of mild surprise.
Synonyms: wow
Related terms: my goodness
my word
oh my
finger tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: finger-tight
form: fingertight
Senses: glosses: tightened using the fingers, and no tools, to a torque of about 15 to 20 inlb or 1.7 to 2.3 Nm
raw_tags: of a screwed connection
whithersoever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English whidersoevere. By surface analysis, whither + so + ever.
Senses: examples: text: And a certaine Scribe came, and ſaid vnto him, Maſter, I will follow thee whitherſoeuer thou goeſt.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:19, column 1:
text: JONES was commanded to leave the Houſe immediately, and told, that his Clothes and every thing elſe ſhould be ſent to him whitherſoever he ſhould order them.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “XII. Containing Love Letters, &c.”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VI, page 305:
text: Whithersoever you choose; but by what means of conveyance[?]
ref: 1859, George Augustus Sala, “Seven o’Clock a.m.—A Parliamentary Train”, in Twice Round the Clock; or The Hours of the Day and Night in London. […], London: Houlston and Wright, […], →OCLC, page 58:
text: […] whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXXV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 270:
text: [T]he flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: 1926, H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 8, No.3, 373-80.
But again I thought of the emptiness and horror of reality, and boldly prepared to follow whithersoever I might be led.
synonyms: anywhither
glosses: To what place soever; wherever.
edged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɛdʒd
Etymology: From Middle English egged, from Old English ecged; equivalent to edge + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Already a mentally fragile boy, he now edged towards insanity.
glosses: simple past and past participle of edge
edged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɛdʒd
Forms: form: more edged
form: most edged
Etymology: From Middle English egged, from Old English ecged; equivalent to edge + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The monks were forbidden to carry edged weapons such as swords and axes.
glosses: That has a sharp planar surface.
examples: text: a coat edged with fur
text: black feathers edged with gray
text: a smooth-edged table
glosses: Having an edging of a certain material, color, and so on.
raw_tags: followed by with or in a compound adjective
Derived terms: deckle-edged
double-edged
double-edged sword
dual-edged sword
gilt-edged
hard-edged
nonedged
play with edged tools
rough-edged
saw-edged
sharp-edged
single-edged
two-edged
two-edged sword
white-edged hunter hawkmoth
wire-edged
yellow-edged pygarctia
infected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.
glosses: simple past and past participle of infect
infected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infected
form: most infected
Senses: examples: text: The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.
glosses: Having an infection.
Derived terms: coinfected
hyperinfected
infected abortion
infectedness
monoinfected
noninfected
preinfected
transinfected
uninfected
infected
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infecteds
Senses: examples: text: I = the number of infecteds, the people who are currently sick
ref: 2017, Deborah Hughes-Hallett, Andrew M. Gleason, Patti Frazer Lock, Applied Calculus, page 427:
text: Some infecteds tried to pick their way through the debris, but shards of brick cut their bare feet.
ref: 2019, Marcus Martin, Convulsive: The Complete Series:
glosses: One who has an infection.
boneyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊnˌjɑɹd/
Forms: form: boneyards
Etymology: From bone + yard.
Senses: glosses: A graveyard.
topics: dominoes
games
glosses: In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
examples: text: B-52s in a boneyard
text: a 440 V-8 from the boneyard
text: Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that "the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it"?
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
text: The “Boneyard” is a place of antiques and historic symbolism, a burial ground for aircraft.
ref: 1999, Naval Aviation News, volumes 82-83, page 37:
text: Beginning in December 1969, the entire fleet was retired to the “boneyard” at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.
ref: 2017, William A. Flanagan, Aviation Records in the Jet Age:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.
Synonyms: sense: graveyard
word: cemetery
sense: dumpsite for aircraft
word: aircraft graveyard
Derived terms: boneyard sale
phytotronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of plants under controlled environmental conditions in order to determine the effects of one or more environmental parameters.
Related terms: phytotron
phytotronic
pigeonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonites
Etymology: From pigeon + -ite, named from its type locality on Lake Superior's shores at Pigeon Point, Minnesota, United States.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any monoclinic pyroxene that is a mixed calcium, magnesium and ferrous silicate.
pilotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: pilotages
Etymology: From pilot + -age.
Senses: examples: text: "It will not be light this half hour, and I will answer for his safe pilotage while dark; but if the day once break, the fishermen will be abroad, and there will not be a chance of escape."
ref: 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 35:
synonyms: pilotry
piloting#Noun
glosses: The use of landmarks to guide a vessel or aircraft to its destination.
examples: Near-synonym: (aviation pilot) flying
synonyms: piloting#Noun
glosses: The occupation of a pilot.
coordinate_terms: wharfage
dockage
glosses: The fee paid to a pilot who guides a ship to its anchorage (a roadstead or wharf) or to its outbound channel.
Related terms: hydrography
piloting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pilot
piloting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪŋ/
Forms: form: pilotings
Senses: glosses: The form of navigation in which position is determined by relation to external reference points.
Derived terms: canopy piloting
pinch effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinch effects
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the magnetic self-attraction of parallel electric currents having the same direction; the restriction of a flowing plasma because of this attraction
pine nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌnʌt/
Forms: form: pine nuts
form: pinenut
form: pine-nut
Etymology: From Middle English pinnote, pynote, from Old English pīnhnutu (“pinenut”), equivalent to pine + nut. Cognate with Swedish pinjenöt (“pinenut”).
Senses: synonyms: neoza
pignoli
pine kernel
glosses: The edible seed of any of several species of evergreen pine, especially Pinus pinea, Pinus cembra, and Pinus cembroides.
Derived terms: pine nut porridge
pine nut syndrome
pine nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪn ˌnʌt/
Forms: form: pinenut
form: pine-nut
Etymology: Blend of pineapple + coconut.
Senses: examples: pine nut soda
glosses: The flavor that results from mixing pineapple and coconut.
pine terpene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine terpenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: pinene
carene
menthadiene
glosses: A mixture of terpenoid hydrocarbons that is the principal component of essential oils obtained from various species of Pinus.
Related terms: pine oil
turpentine
pine oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine oils
Senses: glosses: a mixture of monoterpene alcohols obtained from various species of Pinus, rich in α-terpineol
Related terms: pine terpene
pionium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pioniums
Etymology: From pion + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an exotic atom equivalent to a hydrogen atom with the proton replaced by a pion
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an onium where the bound antiparticle-particle pair is a pion and an antipion.
Synonyms: sense: exotic atom
word: pi-mu atom
auspiciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more auspiciously
form: most auspiciously
Etymology: From auspicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an auspicious way.
Synonyms: promisingly
fortunately
Pirani gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pirani gauges
form: Pirani gage
Etymology: Named after Marcello Stefano Pirani.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A robust thermal conductivity gauge used for the measurement of the pressures in vacuum systems.
pitchstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitchstones
Etymology: From pitch + stone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a natural glass, rich in microscopic crystallites, formed by the rapid cooling of lava or magma
placentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placentations
Etymology: From placenta + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Specialized hemophagous regions are a striking characteristic of some of these placentas yet absent in hyraxes, elephant shrews, and golden moles. It is possible that the common ancestor of the Afrotheria had an endotheliochorial placenta.
ref: 2004, “Placentation in species of phylogenetic importance: the Afrotheria”, in Animal Reproduction Science:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The local fusion of the embryonic stage of an animal to its parent for physiological exchange to promote the growth and development of the young; involves a placenta in non-egglaying mammals.
examples: text: Parietal placentation occurs in the Brassicaceae family.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The manner in which the seeds are attached to the placenta within the ovary locules.
Derived terms: malplacentation
plane curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plane curves
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The locus of points in the Euclidean plane that satisfies some geometric or algebraic definition; a curve in a plane (as opposed to higher-dimensional space).
Euclidean plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Euclidean planes
Senses: glosses: Two-dimensional Euclidean space.
multidimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-dimensional
Etymology: From multi- + dimensional.
Senses: examples: text: Rosa's whole life as a revolutionary, as a theoretician, as a multidimensional woman, was so preoccupied with the spontaneity of revolution […]
ref: 1996, Raya Dunayevskaya, Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution, →ISBN, page 230:
text: Even for El’s supportive parents, conceiving of gender as a multidimensional sprawl has not been so easy to grasp.
ref: 2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019:
glosses: Having multiple dimensions (aspects).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having multiple dimensions (aspects).
Having more than two dimensions.
examples: text: The Cosmic Woman is an integrated, multidimensional woman who has crossed both the Zodiacal and cosmic planes.
ref: 1998, Judith Bennett, Sex Signs, →ISBN, page 336:
glosses: Crossing through or existing in multiple dimensions (spacial planes).
Synonyms: pluridimensional
Derived terms: multidimensional array
multidimensionality
multidimensionally
multidimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multidimensionals
form: multi-dimensional
Etymology: From multi- + dimensional.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
religion
science-fiction
glosses: a being that exists in more than one dimension
tabacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This Tabacco is not dried Boy, or elſe the Pipe’s defectiue.
ref: 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, signature [K iiij], recto:
glosses: Obsolete form of tobacco.
talla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tella (“African beer”).
tallest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔː.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈtaː.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɔ.lɪst/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.lɪst/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪst
Senses: examples: text: It's not the longest or tallest viaduct in Britain, but the landscape upon which it sits makes for a stunning backdrop.
ref: 2025 October 1, Chris Howe, “Top 10: Britain's most significant rail bridges: Ribblehead Viaduct”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 57:
glosses: superlative form of tall: most tall
politico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɪtɪkəʊ/
ipa: /pəˈlɪtɪkoʊ/
Forms: form: politicos
form: politicoes
Etymology: From Italian politico or Spanish político.
Senses: examples: text: The French have a word for it: cohabitation. It can mean politicos of different persuasions tolerating each other, or loving couples moving in together.
ref: 2004 July 13, Suzy Menkes, “Cohabitating in luxury”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
text: And when the National Journal polled political ‘insiders’ this month, it found a majority of Democratic politicos, lobbyists and strategists in favour of making gay marriage legal.
ref: 2011 July 30, “Connubial bliss in America”, in The Economist:
glosses: A politician.
glosses: Someone involved in the professional life of a politician or a political campaign to varying degrees.
glosses: A prominent activist.
glosses: Someone with strong views regarding a political cause.
glosses: Someone who follows politics regularly and is knowledgeable about at least the political news in their local area.
Derived terms: politicospeak
contessa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contessas
Etymology: From Italian contessa. Doublet of countess.
Senses: examples: text: […] Ms. Boris choreographed a tale about a haughty contessa who tries to seduce a young man with wondrous perfumes.
ref: 2007 January 8, Jack Anderson, “Ruthanna Boris, Versatile Ballet Russe Dancer, Dies at 88”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: conte
glosses: A countess, often specifically an Italian countess
miau
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meow.
ocre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of okra.
ocher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ochers
Senses: examples: text: […] facing the sea with buff and ocher houses that rise five or six stories above a curving boulevard […]
ref: 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, “Homeward with Ulysses”, in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ochre.
Derived terms: ocheraceous
ocherish
ochery
red ocher
ocher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊkɚ/
ipa: /ˈəʊkə/
rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: ochers
form: ochering
form: ochered
form: ochered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ochre.
lambing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lamb
lambing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lambings
Senses: glosses: the act of a ewe giving birth to a lamb
Derived terms: lambing season
oxygen debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygen debts
Senses: glosses: the amount of extra oxygen required to oxidize lactic acid in the muscles built up during vigorous exercise
oxygen deficit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygen deficits
Senses: glosses: the difference between the oxygen uptake of the body at rest and during exercise
Related terms: oxygen debt
oxygen demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygen demands
Senses: glosses: biochemical oxygen demand
Cuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːnə
Forms: form: Cunas
form: Cuna
form: Kuna
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous group of Panama and Colombia.
Cuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -uːnə
Forms: form: Kuna
Senses: glosses: The language of the Cuna people.
biochemical oxygen demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biochemical oxygen demands
Senses: glosses: The amount of oxygen needed by aerobic microorganisms to decompose all the organic matter in a sample of water, used as a measure of pollution.
Synonyms: BOD
biological oxygen demand
biological oxygen demand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biological oxygen demands
Senses: glosses: Synonym of biochemical oxygen demand.
synonyms: word: biochemical oxygen demand
oxygen depletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxygen depletions
Senses: glosses: The reduction in the concentration of dissolved oxygen in water, especially as a result of pollution.
depletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpliːʃən/
Forms: form: depletions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin depletio, depletionem, from depleō.
Senses: examples: text: The Great Northern 4-4-0s have all vanished, and there has been some depletion in the ranks of North British "Glens" and "Scotts."
ref: 1954 May, John W. Grant, “A Railway Requiem”, in Railway Magazine, page 351:
glosses: The act of depleting, or the state of being depleted; exhaustion.
glosses: The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of relieving congestion or plethora, by purging, blood-letting, or reduction of the system by abstinence.
topics: accounting
business
finance
mining
qualifier: timber industry; oil industry; timber industry; oil industry
glosses: gradual expense or use of natural resources over time.
Derived terms: allodepletion
codepletion
depletional
haplodepletion
hemodepletion
hyperdepletion
immunodepletion
leucodepletion
leukodepletion
lymphodepletion
magnetodepletion
mucodepletion
myelodepletion
nondepletion
oxygen depletion
photodepletion
ribodepletion
stimulated emission depletion microscope
stimulated emission depletion microscopy
Related terms: deplete
cline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: clines
Etymology: From c(ircle) + line; compare circline.
Senses: examples: text: Let C₁ and C₂ be two nonintersecting clines. Prove that there is a unique pair of points that are simultaneously symmetric to both C₁ and C₂.
ref: 2001, Michael Henle, Modern Geometries: Non-Euclidean, Projective, and Discrete, page 77:
text: To visualize Möbius transformations, it is helpful to focus on fixed points and, in the case of two fixed points, on two families of clines with respect to these points.
ref: 2009, Michael P. Hitchman, Geometry with an Introduction to Cosmic Topology, page 64:
text: 2011, Dominique Michelucci, What is a Line?, Pascal Schreck, Julien Narboux, Jürgen Richter-Gebert (editors), Automated Deduction in Geometry, 8th International Workshop, ADG 2010, Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 6877, page 139,
Let Ω be a fixed, arbitrary, point. Then circles (in the classical sense) through Ω can be considered as lines. For convenience, such circles are called clines in this section. Two distinct clines cut in one point (ignoring Ω and the two cyclic points); it can happen that Ω is a double intersection point; in this case, one may say that the two clines are parallel, and that they meet at a point at infinity, which is Ω.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: inversive geometry
glosses: A generalized circle.
Synonyms: sense: generalized circle
word: circline
sense: generalized circle
word: generalized circle
White Cloud Mountain minnow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: White Cloud Mountain minnows
Etymology: After the White Cloud Mountain in Canton, China. The Latin name is in honour of Tan, a boy scout who first discovered the minnows in the 1950s and brought them to the attention of ichthyologist Lin Shu Yen.
Senses: glosses: A popular aquarium fish, Tanichthys albonubes.
wikipedia: White Cloud Mountain
ineptitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.tjud/
ipa: /ɪˈnɛp.tɪ.t(j)ud/
ipa: /ɪˈnep.tə.t͡ʃʉd/
Forms: form: ineptitudes
Etymology: From Latin ineptitūdō. By surface analysis, inept + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: The curse has been Spanish ineptitude feeding Gibraltarian intransigence. Border hold-ups are counterproductive to winning hearts and minds, as were blundering Argentinian landings on the outer Falklands.
ref: 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian:
glosses: The quality of being inept.
examples: text: He droned on with platitudes and ineptitudes while Malone whispered to Enid that if Alasha was a fair specimen of the population it was just as well that his native land was safely engulfed in the Atlantic Ocean.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: An instance of being inept.
Synonyms: incompetence
ineptness
schmuckiness