cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
motte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒt/
Forms: form: mottes
Etymology: From French motte, from Anglo-Norman/Old French motte (“mound, hillock”). Doublet of moat.
Senses: examples: text: The motte was a mound made of earth and surrounded by a ditch.
ref: 2013 September 13, Richard Huscroft, The Norman Conquest: A New Introduction, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A raised earth mound, often topped with a wooden or stone structure and surrounded with a ditch.
examples: text: Coordinate term: bailey
text: "Birds are dinosaurs" is the bailey; "birds are more similar to dinosaurs than anything else" is the motte.
ref: 2023 February 10, “Why Birds Are Not Dinosaurs (And Why It Matters)”, in Answers in Genesis, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023:
glosses: An argument which is uncontroversial and easy to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
Derived terms: motte and bailey
Related terms: moat
motte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒt/
Forms: form: mottes
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mott.
vena cava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌviːnə ˈkeɪvə/
rhymes: -eɪvə
Forms: form: venae cavae
form: vena cavas
Etymology: Literally "hollow vein."
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the two large veins that take oxygen depleted blood, from the upper body and from the lower body, and return it to the right atrium of the heart.
Derived terms: vena caval
inferior vena cava
superior vena cava
superior vena cava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superior venae cavae
form: superior vena cavas
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large vein which returns blood from the head, neck, thorax and both upper limbs to the right atrium of the heart.
Synonyms: word: SVC
inferior vena cava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferior venae cavae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large vein which returns blood from the lower extremities, and the pelvic and abdominal organs, to the right atrium of the heart.
Synonyms: word: IVC
fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Forms: form: more fucked
form: most fucked
Etymology: From fuck + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I can't repair your computer: it's fucked, mate.
text: Let this train wreck burn more slowly / Kids are victims in this story / Drown our youth with useless warnings / Teenage rules, they're fucked and boring
ref: 2001, “Anthem Part Two”, in Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (CD), performed by Blink-182, MCA, →OCLC:
glosses: Irreparably or catastrophically broken.
examples: text: He's lost his map in the middle of a desert! He's fucked.
text: They're inspecting the plant tomorrow and our maintenance person is out sick? I guess we're fucked, then!
text: We're so fucked! We couldn't escape at the refugee camp!
glosses: In trouble; in a hopeless situation.
examples: text: Man, I was mixing all sorts of drinks, and by the end of the night I was so fucked!
glosses: Very drunk.
examples: text: I'll be awake all night finishing all the work I had to bring home. That is so fucked!
text: This is fucked! We got to figure out how to get an escape plan!
text: It seems a lot of problems could be solved by doing a bit less bitching and a bit more banging. Julian has advice for the recently divorced, the infertile, and the cowardly. Plus: how Americans should deal with their fucked election.
ref: 2023 November 24 (last accessed), IMDb:
glosses: Clipping of fucked up (“disturbing or reprehensible”).
examples: text: I'm so fucked – I didn't get home until 5am.
glosses: Tired.
examples: text: I can’t be fucked to look it up.
glosses: Bothered to do something.
Synonyms: sense: broken
word: Donald Ducked
sense: in trouble
word: screwed
word: dicked
word: doomed
sense: bothered
word: arsed
Derived terms: can't be fucked
fucked in the head
fuckedness
fucked off
fucked over
fucked up
get fucked
turbofucked
underfucked
unfucked
fucked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌkt/
rhymes: -ʌkt
Etymology: From fuck + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuck
antithrombin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæntɪˈθɹɒmbɪn/
/ˌæntaɪˈθɹɒmbɪn/
Forms: form: antithrombins
Senses: synonyms: AT
glosses: A small molecule that inactivates several enzymes of the coagulation system.
Derived terms: alpha-antithrombin
beta-antithrombin
L-antithrombin
α-antithrombin
β-antithrombin
knees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: plural of knee
knees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /niːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of knee
pullout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullouts
form: pull-out
Etymology: Deverbal from pull out.
Senses: glosses: A withdrawal, especially of armed forces.
glosses: The change of the flight of an aircraft from a dive to level or climbing flight.
glosses: An object, such as a newspaper supplement, that can be pulled out from something else.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of liftout (“quotation given special visual treatment”).
synonyms: word: liftout
extra: quotation given special visual treatment
examples: text: Capt. Greg Baarts with the CHP Northern Division says information pulled from the SUV's software shows the vehicle was stopped at the highway pullout before it accelerated straight off the cliff.
ref: 2018 April 1, Paul Elias, Phoung Le, “CHP: Deadly SUV Cliff Crash May Have Been Intentional”, in www.usnews.com, Associated Press; U.S. News and World Report, retrieved 05 Apr 2018:
synonyms: turnout
glosses: An area by the side of a road where vehicles may temporarily stop in safety. Typical pullouts allow drivers and passengers to safely exit the vehicle but rarely have additional amenities.
examples: text: Here's a pretty strange pullout. An "El Rollo." When Corky does something strange, everyone for 50 yards knows all about it.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
text: Most pullouts, then and today, are done by simply angling or pivoting the board up and over the wave crest.
ref: 2005, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, page 482:
text: […] Machado, who turns what might seem like a handicap, that lankiness, to rubbery advantage in his sinuous carving and slackly cool pullouts.
ref: 2015, John Engle, Surfing in the Movies: A Critical History, page 131:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: The ending of a period of surfing by navigating the surfboard into or over the back of a wave.
glosses: The coitus interruptus method of birth control.
armed forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armed force
Senses: examples: text: What dictators fear most is losing the support of the armed forces, and when this happens, it's as if a ferocious beast has lost its teeth.
ref: 2020 September 23, Shi Chuan, “When Police Officers No Longer Work for Dictators”, in Minghui:
glosses: The military forces of a nation, such as the army, navy, air force, marines, and sometimes, coastguard or border guard, which are tasked with the defence of the nation and its citizens, if necessary through use of deadly force.
supplement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌp.lɪ.mənt/
ipa: /ˈsʌp.lə.mənt/
ipa: /ˈsɐp.lə.mənt/
ipa: /ˈsap.lə.mənt/
Forms: form: supplements
form: supplementing
form: supplemented
form: supplemented
Etymology: From Latin supplementum (“that which is added to supply a shortage”), from supplere (“to provide something”).
Senses: examples: text: I supplement my income by working as a model.
text: Using the countless tons of rock from the cliff-face, supplemented by much more from inland, they threw out a huge breakwater, 2,000 ft. long and 80 ft. high, roughly at right angles to the quay, so forming an almost completely sheltered corner. Fifty years later, this massive mole is still standing up to the worst that the Irish Sea can do.
ref: 1956 September, F. F. Nicholls, “Neyland, A Forgotten Harbour”, in Railway Magazine, page 632:
glosses: To provide or make a supplement to something.
Synonyms: eke out
Ludgate Hill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌdɡeɪt hɪl/
Etymology: Despite the claim by the Norman-Welsh Geoffry of Monmouth in his Historia Regum Britanniae that Ludgate was so called for having been built by the ancient British king called Lud—a manifestation of the god Nodens—the name is believed by later writers to be derived from "flood gate" or "Fleet gate", from "ludgeat", meaning "back gate" or "postern", or from the Old English term "hlid-geat", meaning "postern" or "swing gate".
Senses: examples: text: As for the other syllable of London’s name, the “ Dun ” or “ Strong Place,” was undoubtedly on the hill called Ludgate Hill, on which St. Paul’s Cathedral stands to-day.
ref: 1918, Burton Holmes, Burton Holmes Travelogues: London. Paris. Berlin, The Travelogue Bureau, page 11
glosses: The hill on which St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is built.
examples: text: It belonged to that incredible trio, St. Paul's, Ludgate Hill and Holborn, so close together that a long train could almost be in all three stations at once. Ludgate Hill has gone into the dusty limbo of forgotten stations, but its subterranean brassy bar long survived in the arches below, [...].
ref: 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:
glosses: A street in the City of London that runs from St Paul's Churchyard, joining Fleet Street at Ludgate Circus. There was once a railway station named Ludgate Hill.
Anglo-Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglo-Indians
Etymology: From Anglo- + Indian.
Senses: glosses: A person with mixed Indian and English or British ancestry.
glosses: A person of English or British citizenship or ancestry living in India.
Anglo-Indian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglo- + Indian.
Senses: examples: text: Anglo-Indian relations
synonyms: Anglo
glosses: Of, relating to, or between India and England or Britain.
glosses: Of or relating to British or Company rule in India.
Derived terms: Anglo-Indian English
Anglo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.ɡləʊ/
Forms: form: anglo-
Etymology: From New Latin Anglo-, from Late Latin Anglī, Anglus (“Anglo-Saxon(s)”), derived from Latin Anglia (“England”), ultimately from Germanic. Influenced by French anglo-. Displaced native Old English Angel-.
Senses: examples: text: Anglo-Indian rule brought railroads, but also some of the worst famines in history.
text: Anglo-German naval rivalry was a contributing factor to the First World War.
text: The identification of the border between England and Scotland always has been a source of interest to railway travellers. For many years, however, the exact points north of Berwick and Carlisle at which the Anglo-Scottish main lines passed from one country to the other were not defined, but the erection of clear and unmistakable lineside signs has put the matter beyond all doubt.
ref: 1950 January, “Crossing the Border”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:
glosses: A combining form relating to England or, by extension, the United Kingdom.
examples: text: The Anglo-Indian Cliff Richard's 1952 "Move It" is sometimes credited as the first British rock hit.
text: T.S. Eliot was an anglophile.
text: Anglo-Kirghiz mares, now better known as Novokirghiz, produce more milk than representatives of either separate lineage.
glosses: A combining form relating to the English or British people, culture, or livestock.
examples: text: Japanese anglophones—but not Chinese ones—often struggle with distinguishing /r/ and /l/.
glosses: A combining form relating to the English language.
Derived terms: english: Anglo-
translation: Anglo-
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jugular vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugular veins
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several veins on each side of the neck, which drain the brain, face and neck of deoxygenated blood.
Derived terms: go for the jugular vein
internal jugular vein
deoxygenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈɒksɪdʒɪneɪt/
Forms: form: deoxygenates
form: deoxygenating
form: deoxygenated
form: deoxygenated
Etymology: From de- + oxygenate.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: To remove dissolved oxygen from (something, such as water or blood).
Derived terms: deoxygenation
tuppence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌp(ə)ns/
Forms: form: tuppences
Etymology: By surface analysis, two + pence, collective plural of penny.
Same for the definition: "Ellipsis of tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”)" however, this idiom is derived from this fact; in Britain it used to cost two pence ("tuppence") to post a letter, usually holding one's opinion.
Senses: examples: text: Milk has gone up to tuppence ha’penny a pint.
text: In less than four days twenty-three men had paid their tuppences to Henery, who ’ad been made the seckitary.
ref: 1909, W. W. Jacobs, “Prize Money,”, in Sailor's Knots:
text: ‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together.’
ref: 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Two pence (in pre- or post-decimalisation currency).
glosses: Ellipsis of tuppence worth (“one’s opinion”).
examples: text: "Fucksticks!" When some smart-arse bastard gives me my comeuppance / "Fucksticks!" When it’s ages since I’ve seen a lady’s tuppence
ref: 2011, Kunt and the Gang, Fucksticks (song)
text: The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”
ref: 2012, Richard Johns, Diagnosis of the Soul: The Long Road to the Beginning:
glosses: The vulva or vagina.
Derived terms: don't give tuppence
not worth tuppence
penny plain and tuppence coloured
tuppence worth
Related terms: threepence
fourpence
fivepence
sixpence
eightpence
tenpence
tuppenny
sphincter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsfɪŋk.tɚ/
Forms: form: sphincters
form: sphincteres
Etymology: Etymology tree
Late Latin sphinctērlbor.
English sphincter
Learned borrowing from Late Latin sphinctēr (“the muscle of the anus”), from Ancient Greek σφῐγκτήρ (sphĭnktḗr, “lace, band; contractile muscle”), ultimately of Pre-Greek origin. Possibly related to sphinx (“the strangler”).
Senses: examples: text: the sphincter of the bladder
text: the iris sphincter in the eye
text: She decided that she would force him to climax first by the sheer strength of her young animal control, the strength of her sphincters […]
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (The Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, page 836:
text: The ink sac feeds into the rectum, controlled by a sphincter and in some inking events mucus from another organ, the funnel organ is ejected with water and ink through the anus and the siphon to create a cloud of ink.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
text: Polygraph operators place their subjects on a pad that can sense the clenching of their sphincters, a device known by those who’ve sat on them as the “whoopee cushion.” Maguire took his seat, his sphincter already tight enough to crush walnuts.
ref: 2017 September 24, Drew Kann, “How a CIA traitor turned his son into a Russian spy”, in CNN:
text: Go ahead, use your eye sphincters and watch the roof opening and closing.
ref: 2019 February 1, AJ Willingham, “How to watch the Super Bowl and actually keep up”, in CNN:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening (such as the anus or the openings of the stomach), constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning.
Derived terms: sphincteral
sphincteric
sphinctero-
Related terms: sphinx
cardia
thyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaɪ.ɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɹɔɪd
Forms: form: thyreoid
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin thyreoīdēs, from Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs, “shield-shaped”), from θῠρεός (thŭreós, “oblong shield”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being the thyroid cartilage.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.
examples: text: a thyroid personality
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or being the thyroid gland.
Suggestive of a disordered thyroid gland.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shield-shaped; peltiform.
Derived terms: antithyroid
anti-thyroid
cricothyroid
dysthyroid
euthyroid
extrathyroid
hyperthyroid
hypothyroid
intrathyroid
nonthyroid
parathyroid
sternothyroid
thyroid artery
thyroid cartilage
thyroid eye disease
thyroid gland
thyroid panel
thyroid storm
thyro-
thyr-
Wilson's thyroid syndrome
thyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθaɪ.ɹɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪɹɔɪd
Forms: form: thyroids
form: thyreoid
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin thyreoīdēs, from Ancient Greek θῠρεοειδής (thŭreoeidḗs, “shield-shaped”), from θῠρεός (thŭreós, “oblong shield”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of thyroid cartilage.
examples: text: Israel is one of the few countries that widely fluoridates, besides the United States, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia. Fluoridation, the addition of fluoride to public drinking water supplies to reduce cavities, is the subject of intense controversy, especially outside of the United States. But opposition to the practice, on the grounds that fluoride has adverse effects on the thyroid, brain and bones, and is an unethical form of mass-medication, appears to be growing.
ref: 2013 August 9, Douglas Main, “Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation”, in Live Science, retrieved 30 Sep 2013:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of thyroid gland.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of thyroid gland.
An extract prepared from the thyroid gland of animals and used in treating deficiency of thyroid hormones.
Derived terms: athyroidism
dysthyroidism
thyroidal
thyroideal
thyroidectomy
thyroid hormone
thyroiditis
thyroidization
thyroidologist
thyroidopathy
thyroidotomy
thyroid-stimulating hormone
thyroid gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyroid glands
Etymology: From New Latin glandula thyreoidea, coined by Thomas Wharton in 1656.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A large butterfly-shaped endocrine gland situated on the front of the neck that produces various hormones.
Related terms: hyperthyroidism
hypothyroidism
thyroidectomy
goitre
roman à clef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /rəʊˌmɑn.əˈkleɪ/
/rə-/
/-ˌmɑn.ɑ-/
/-ˈklef/
Forms: form: romans à clef
Etymology: Borrowed from French roman à clef (literally “novel with a key”).
Senses: examples: text: I want to emphasize that in this respect my account of romance differs substantially from both Annabel Patterson's argument that the primary purpose of roman à clef in early modern England was to avoid censorship and Michael McKeon's […]
ref: 2007, A. Zurcher, Seventeenth-Century English Romance: Allegory, Ethics, and Politics, Springer, →ISBN, page 9:
text: In the end, the fragmentary nature of the text and Dora's abrupt decision to terminate her treatment indicate that as a narrative technology, the roman à clef fails. This owes less to the particulars of the individual case, however, than to Freud's […]
ref: 2009, Sean Latham, The Art of Scandal: Modernism, Libel Law, and the Roman à Clef, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
text: However, I would argue that this feature of the roman à clef need not be characterized as an impediment to interpretation. If the layered address contained in novels that encrypt references to the 'real' is acknowledged as itself a characteristic […]
ref: 2011, S. Nair, Secrecy and Sapphic Modernism: Writing Romans à Clef Between the Wars, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: A piece of fiction, especially a novel, describing real-life people or events.
Hypernyms: fictionalisation
fictionalization
Related terms: film à clef
luddite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luddite
form: most luddite
Senses: examples: text: For me, what luddite success would look like would be a societal shift where we ask ourselves, ‘Why are we burning our planet? Making our lives shittier? Getting rid of every last bit of our autonomy and privacy just to make a few guys rich?’
ref: 2024 February 17, Tom Lamont, quoting Molly Crabapple, “‘Humanity’s remaining timeline? It looks more like five years than 50’: meet the neo-luddites warning of an AI apocalypse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Luddite.
luddite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luddites
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Luddite.
matins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmætɪnz/
Forms: form: mattins
Etymology: From Middle English matyns, matynes, from Old French matines.
Senses: examples: text: This chant was sung in many cathedrals both at First Vespers and at Matins for Christmas Day. In Notre Dame and many other churches, however, it was only performed at First Vespers.
ref: 2017, Edward H. Roesner, editor, Ars antiqua: Organum, Conductus, Motet, Routledge, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Together with lauds, the earliest of the canonical hours; traditionally prayed at sunrise or earlier.
examples: text: The monk must arise when the matins ring, / The abbot may sleep to their chime; / But the yeoman must start when the bugles sing / ’Tis time, my hearts, ’tis time.
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Morning prayers.
Derived terms: mumble-matins
matins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmætɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of matin
sext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkst/
homophone: sexed
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: sexts
Etymology: From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”). Doublet of siesta.
Senses: synonyms: word: midday
word: noontide
word: 12 o'clock
word: 12 noon
word: 12 p.m.
word: high noon
word: meridian
word: meridiem
word: midday
word: nones
word: noon
word: noonday
word: noontime
word: noon-time
word: noontide
word: sext
word: twelve
word: undern
word: undermeal
word: undertide
glosses: Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The service appointed for this hour.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
Hypernyms: sense: both
word: hour
sense: both
word: canonical hour
sense: service
word: liturgy of the hours
sense: service
word: little hour
sext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkst/
homophone: sexed
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: sexts
Etymology: Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message
ref: 2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, page 37:
glosses: An electronic message, especially one sent by cell phone, involving sexual language or images.
sext
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛkst/
homophone: sexed
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: sexts
form: sexting
form: sexted
form: sexted
Etymology: Blend of sex + text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham
ref: 2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption)
text: […] trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.
ref: 2009 March 1, Wendyl Nissen, “Sexts Suk... Go 4 a Real D8”, in New Zealand Herald, page 35:
text: The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.
ref: 2010 October 16, Victoria Gehman, “Sex Suspended, Celibacy Supreme”, in Albany Student Press:
text: We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.
ref: 2013, Olukemi Lawani, First Steps to Flight, page 3:
text: Sexting sonnets / Under the tables
ref: 2022, “Billions”, performed by Caroline Polachek:
text: She describes her content as “Valentine’s Day style” and says that for people who have grown up sexting friends, posting bikini shots of themselves on Instagram and becoming influencers, OnlyFans can feel like a “natural progression”.
ref: 2025 September 11, Amelia Gentleman, “Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To send a sext.
Synonyms: sex-text
Derived terms: sexter
sextual
sextually
compline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒmplɪn/
ipa: /ˈkɑmplɪn/
Forms: form: complines
form: complin
Etymology: From Middle English compelin, cumplie, from Old French complie, from Latin complēta (hōra) (literally “finished hour”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The last of the canonical hours, sung just before retiring to bed.
complin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of compline.
Blairite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blairites
Etymology: From Blair + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The Blairites came up with young country and new this, new that, but it was cosmetic.
ref: 2001 August 27, Madeleine Bunting, “The end is nigh: pessimism rules”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of Tony Blair, British prime minister from 1997 to 2007, or his policies.
Blairite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Blair + -ite.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Relating to Blairites or to Tony Blair's government and policies.
Related terms: Blairism
Blairist
Brownite
Majorite
New Labour
Old Labour
Thatcherite
Tony's Cronies
Tony crony
Brownism
Third Way
dissuasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsweɪʒən/
Forms: form: dissuasions
Etymology: From Middle English dissuasioun, from Middle French dissuasion.
Senses: antonyms: persuasion
glosses: the act or an instance of dissuading
Derived terms: dissuasionary
technological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˌtɛk.nəˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪ.kl̩]
ipa: /ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/
ipa: [ˌtɛk.nəˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kl̩]
Forms: form: more technological
form: most technological
Etymology: From technology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: US-Gulf relations have improved significantly since Trump returned to office. Frustrated at the perceived lack of US interest in their needs under the Biden administration, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had sought to diversify their military, technological and economic ties.
ref: 2025 May 11, Nadeen Ebrahim and Abbas Al Lawati, “Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish list”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, relating to, or involving technology, especially modern scientific technology.
Derived terms: aerotechnological
agrotechnological
antitechnological
biotechnological
chemico-technological
chief technological officer
cybertechnological
cytotechnological
ecotechnological
electrotechnological
geotechnological
histotechnological
hypertechnological
infotechnological
macrotechnological
medicotechnological
microtechnological
nanotechnological
neurotechnological
nontechnological
physicotechnological
pretechnological
psychotechnological
pyrotechnological
sociotechnological
super-technological
supertechnological
technological advancement
technologically
technological singularity
technological unemployment
technological university
teme
Treknological
zymotechnological
teeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: teenier
form: teeniest
Etymology: Modified from tiny [1825], perhaps with a childish or fanciful intention.
Senses: glosses: Very small; tiny.
Synonyms: sense: very small
word: minuscule
sense: very small
word: minute
sense: very small
word: tiny
sense: very small
word: teensy
sense: very small
word: teensy-weensy
sense: very small
word: teeny-weeny
sense: very small
word: weeny
sense: very small
word: eeny
Derived terms: teeny-bopper
teeny-tiny
teeny weeny
teething
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːðɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtiðɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːðɪŋ
Forms: form: teethings
Etymology: From teethe + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: But with night feedings and night teethings, often the greatest challenge of all for a young mother is simply fatigue.
ref: 2009, Katie Van Dyke, Unlikely Truths of Motherhood:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth; dentition.
Derived terms: teething issues
teething ring
teething problems
teething problem
teething trouble
teething troubles
teething
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːðɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtiðɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːðɪŋ
Etymology: From teethe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teethe
plesiochronous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plesio- + chrono- + -ous from Ancient Greek πλησίον (plēsíon, “near”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Senses: examples: text: The DS-3 standard uses bit stuffing to allow the clocks of its tributaries to be plesiochronous.
topics: communication
communications
glosses: Almost, but not quite, synchronous.
teething troubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːðɪŋ ˈtɹʌb(ə)lz/
ipa: /ˈtiðɪŋ ˈtɹʌb(ə)lz/
ipa: /ˈtɹə-/
Etymology: A reference to teething (“the eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth”) and the accompanying discomfort, which occur during early life.
Senses: examples: text: No doubt the new form of drive will have its teething troubles and this may be expected; but even if each ship manages to unload one cargo where it is badly needed and then it is beached, mechanical troubles will be comparatively unimportant provided all the crew are safe.
ref: 1941 October, “Novel Armed Freighter Adopted by Navy”, in T. Orchard Lisle, editor, The Log, volume 36, number 13, San Francisco, Calif.: Miller Freeman, Inc., →OCLC, page 58, column 1:
text: But we think that, for something which is so new, it is far better and easier for them to recoup if it is only a 16,000 run. If it is up in the millions it is a bigger problem, and it is far better to get your teething troubles out of the way on a smaller one.
ref: 1961 October 16, R. Emerick, “Mr. R. Emerick, Mr. S. Clegg, Mr. T. Warburton, on Behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers”, in Royal Commission on the Press: Minutes of Oral Evidence […] (Cmnd. 1812), volumes II (Witnesses: Trades Unions and Associations, […]), London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, published September 1962, →OCLC, paragraph 9041, page 25:
text: He admitted that in their early days these units suffered a number of teething troubles, which, he said, "one may now look back upon with some wonder", as their causes were not hard to find.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Diesel performance improving”, in Trains Illustrated, page 642:
text: They have survived four nights in the forest, and after a few teething troubles they are getting on surprisingly well.
ref: 2015, Paula Lichtarowicz, “The Nice New Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Ape-ish Folk”, in Creative Truths in Provincial Policing, paperback edition, London: Windmill Books, Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 293:
text: He was on his way to Cleveland, Ohio to visit the steelworks there, review their working practices and sort out any problems. He knew there would be some, they had recently installed a new casting system that he had helped to develop, and the plant back home had experienced some teething troubles.
ref: 2015, Liz Vincent, chapter 14, in Meddling Mother Madge + Dutiful Daughter Alice = Malice, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Teething troubles with software forced the brief return of the old Class 507/508 stock at the beginning of March, but the issues are understood to have been quickly resolved.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Network News: New Class 777s make inroads on Merseyside”, in RAIL, number 979, page 12:
synonyms: teething issues
teething problems
glosses: Problems that are to be expected with any new and untried product, system, or venture.
Related terms: growing pains
telegraph post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telegraph posts
Etymology: From their original purpose of carrying telegraph lines, first used around 1843 by William Fothergill Cooke.
Senses: examples: text: Here the protection consists of a 50lb per mile cadmium copper trip-wire mounted on short telegraph posts on both sides of the line, 4ft above rail level.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: Aircraft on rail tracks”, in Trains Illustrated, page 650:
glosses: A pole, usually wooden, that carries telephone lines above a street.
Synonyms: telegraph pole
telephone pole
utility pole
telegraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈlɛɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˈtɛləˌɡɹɑːfi/
ipa: /təˈlɛɡɹəfi/
ipa: /ˈtɛləˌɡɹæfi/
Forms: form: telegraphies
Etymology: From telegraph + -y (suffix forming abstract nouns), q.v., equivalent to tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + -graphy (“writings on a subject, area of study, etc.”).
Senses: glosses: Any process for transmitting arbitrarily long messages over a long distance using a code, especially by means of electrified wires or radio waves using Morse code.
glosses: The science and techniques used to enact this process.
glosses: The devices and networks used to enact this process.
Derived terms: radio telegraphy
radiotelegraphy
wireless telegraphy
telemeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemeters
form: telemetre
Etymology: From French télémètre (“device used for measuring distance”) coined by Selligue from télé- + -mètre, possibly from a blend of télescope and micromètre.
Senses: glosses: Any measuring device used in telemetry.
glosses: A device used for rangefinding, especially of military targets.
telemeter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telemeters
form: telemetering
form: telemetered
form: telemetered
form: telemetre
Etymology: From French télémètre (“device used for measuring distance”) coined by Selligue from télé- + -mètre, possibly from a blend of télescope and micromètre.
Senses: glosses: To transmit by telemetry.
endocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛndə(ʊ)kɹaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛndə(ʊ)kɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛnd.oʊ.kɹɪn/
Forms: form: endocrin
Etymology: From French endocrine, from endo- + Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to separate”).
Senses: glosses: Producing internal secretions that are transported around the body by the bloodstream.
glosses: Pertaining to the endocrine glands or their secretions.
Coordinate terms: autocrine
exocrine
heterocrine
paracrine
Derived terms: endocrinal
endocrine gland
endocrine system
endocrinology
endocrinopathy
endocrinosis
enteroendocrine
immunoendocrine
myoendocrine
neoendocrine
neuroendocrine
nonendocrine
polyendocrine
polyendocrinopathy
proendocrine
psychoendocrine
psychoneuroendocrine
radiendocrinator
synaptocrine
endocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛndə(ʊ)kɹaɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛndə(ʊ)kɹɪn/
ipa: /ˈɛnd.oʊ.kɹɪn/
Forms: form: endocrines
form: endocrin
Etymology: From French endocrine, from endo- + Ancient Greek κρίνω (krínō, “to separate”).
Senses: glosses: The secretion of an endocrine gland.
glosses: An endocrine gland.
teleost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλεος (téleos, “complete”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the Teleostei - fish with bony skeletons.
teleost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleosts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλεος (téleos, “complete”) + ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: examples: text: 1969, W. S. Hoar, D. J. Randall (editors), Fish Physiology, Volume 2: The Endocrine System, page 156,
There are no direct studies of the effects of arginine vasotocin or 4 Ser, 8 Ile oxytocin in the holostean bony fish. It can only be suggested that the histological evidence suggests a possible role in the control of the adenohypophysis and that systemic effects might well parallel those found in the closely related teleosts.
text: After antigenic stimulation, increased amounts of lymphoid tissue does appear, in the spleen of teleosts. The lymphoid tissue of teleost spleen consists of lymphoid cells, mainly small, medium, and large lymphocytes arranged in a supporting reticular cell meshwork.
ref: 1997, Academic Press, The Fish Immune System: Organism, Pathogen, and Environment, page 35:
text: Nevertheless, an element of real danger adds a piscine frisson to most encounters with this mysterious teleost.
ref: 2013 April, David Profumo, “Dances with Swords”, in Literary Review:
glosses: A fish of the taxonomic infraclass Teleostei.
telepathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛlɪˈpæθɪk/
rhymes: -æθɪk
Forms: form: more telepathic
form: most telepathic
Etymology: From telepathy + -ic.
Senses: topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Of, relating to, or using telepathy.
Synonyms: teep
telephone call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone calls
Senses: glosses: A connection established over a telephone network between two parties.
glosses: The conversation held by the two parties on this connection.
topics: law
glosses: A quick, informal consultation or conversation with a lawyer, usually by a party in distress or that is about to be placed under arrest.
Synonyms: call
phone call
Hyponyms: collect call
Related terms: call tree
telephone number
wrong number
telephone directory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone directories
Senses: glosses: A listing of telephone subscribers in a specific geographical area, together with their telephone numbers and, sometimes, a street address.
Synonyms: directory
phonebook
telephone book
Related terms: ex-directory
unlisted
yellow pages
yellow pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow pages
Etymology: From such directories being printed on yellow paper.
Senses: glosses: A telephone directory that lists commercial organizations, organized by type of organization.
Related terms: blue pages
white pages
telephone exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone exchanges
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Any equipment that establishes connections between telephones.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: The rooms or building housing such equipment (a central office, as it was termed by the Bell System).
examples: text: This valley didn't have a telephone exchange until 1903, when the leading citizens of this town invested in a company to establish one.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: A local or locoregional network of such switched connections, of which a central office was the hub; the local company formed to create and maintain this network and its central office.
examples: text: Holonyms: telephone number, phone number
text: A: You can telephone him at 2719. B: What's the [telephone] exchange? A: LA6. I'm sorry, that's LA6-2719.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
related: word: area code
word: dialling code
word: country code
glosses: The portion of a telephone number representing that network, among the other networks of the larger system: the central office code. In the North American Numbering Plan, this is the "555" portion of "+1-212-555-6789".
Related terms: Strowger switch
switchboard
telco
telephone operator
telephone operator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone operators
Senses: examples: text: Since the outbreak of war women have been recruited for many grades of railway work. The number of women clerks has been increased greatly, and women are performing invaluable work as porters, motor drivers, carriage cleaners, and telephone operators, as well as in a variety of other capacities.
ref: 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
glosses: A person who operates a telephone switchboard.
glosses: A person who provides assistance in establishing a connection, or who provides information or takes messages via the telephone.
Synonyms: telephonist
telephone booth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone booths
Senses: examples: text: Then it occurred to me that I might be doing a rash thing in going off to an unknown house in a seedy suburb. So I went into a public telephone-booth, rang up the Club, and told the porter that if Colonel Arbuthnot called, I was at 4 Palmyra Square, N.W.—I made him write down the address—and would be back before ten o'clock.
ref: 1924 July, John Buchan, “The House in Gospel Oak”, in The Three Hostages, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 85:
synonyms: phone booth
phone box
telephone box
telephone kiosk
glosses: A small enclosure housing a public telephone.
Related terms: police box
telephone box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone boxes
Senses: synonyms: phone box
telephone booth
telephone kiosk
call box
glosses: A small enclosure housing a public telephone (usually a payphone).
Hypernyms: box
Related terms: police box
police box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police boxes
Senses: glosses: A telephone kiosk where members of the public may telephone the police.
glosses: A small community police station; a koban.
Related terms: TARDIS
TARDIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːdɪs/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹdɪs/
Forms: form: TARDISes
Etymology: Coined in 1963 for the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who; said to stand for "Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space".
Senses: examples: text: 'While I was in the Rani's TARDIS, I made an adjustment or two.' He chuckled, remembering the occasion.
ref: 1986, Pip & Jane Baker, chapter 19, in The Mark of the Rani, page 129:
text: The Master's essence escapes his funeral urn and lands the TARDIS in San Francisco on December 30, 1999.
ref: 2000, Fraser A. Sherman, Cyborgs, Santa Claus, and Satan, page 57:
text: I want the ground to swallow me up. I want to hide in a corner, curl up, and weep, sucking my thumb. I want the TARDIS to appear and take me away.
ref: 2004, Will Hadcroft, The Feeling's Unmutual: Growing up with Asperger Syndrome (Undiagnosed), page 16:
glosses: The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.
Derived terms: Tardis
TARDIS blue
Tardis-like
TARDIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑːdɪs/
ipa: /ˈtɑɹdɪs/
Forms: form: TARDISes
Etymology: Coined in 1963 for the British science-fiction programme Doctor Who; said to stand for "Time and Relative Dimension(s) in Space".
Senses: examples: text: This unassuming Georgian terrace house, located within five minutes walk of the busy commercial and tourist heart of Bath in Somerset, is like a veritable TARDIS of astronomical history and discovery, with more to see on the inside than its [exterior suggests].
ref: 2008, in Astronomy Now, volume 22, issues 7–12, page 36
glosses: Alternative form of Tardis (something which resembles the bigger-on-the-inside time machine from the series Doctor Who).
telephone book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephone books
Senses: examples: text: Because they are generally quite thick, old telephone books are sometimes used in informal tests of a weapon's cutting ability.
glosses: A printed telephone directory.
Hyponyms: yellow pages
white pages
telephonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telephonists
Etymology: From telephone + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A telephone operator.
COSP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of consumer-operated services program.
CMHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Center for Mental Health Services.
trichording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + coordinate + -ing, referring to simultaneous movement along three orthogonal axes.
Senses: examples: text: I know nothing about elite players but I belive^([sic]) trichording works at its best in dogfights.
ref: 1997, micnet, “SpaceOrb Debate (was: auto-levelling)”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet):
text: In order to know when someone's cheating, one has to know everything about the weapons in Descent 3. One must know reload rates, relative shield damage, and physics (to a small degree). One should also know about ship physics for each ship, and of course know about trichording and know what it looks like when a certain ship is trichording.
ref: 2002, Samus, “Releasing the 1.5 patch unofficially...”, in alt.games.descent (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: Moving in three directions, about three axes.
SAMHSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
IST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of InterSwitch Trunk.
glosses: Initialism of India Standard Time.
Related terms: trunking
MLT
SLPP
SMLT
DSMLT
RSMLT
IST
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of incompetent to stand trial.
NGRI
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: NGRI means not guilty by reason of insanity. You’re not guilty of murder.
ref: 2013, 0:51:26 from the start, in Steven Soderbergh, director, Side Effects, spoken by Dr. Jonathan Banks (Jude Law):
glosses: Initialism of not guilty by reason of insanity.
DHHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Health and Human Service.