cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Volans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. Shortened from Piscis Volans, from Latin piscis volāns (“flying fish”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small circumpolar constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a flying fish.
Derived terms: Volantis
packaged petroleum product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packaged petroleum products
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A petroleum product (generally a lubricant, oil, grease, or specialty item) other than fuel, which is packaged (normally by a manufacturer).
Coma Berenices
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named in antiquity after the hair of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. From Latin coma (“hair of the head”) + Berenīcē, from Ancient Greek Κώμη Βερενίκης (Kṓmē Bereníkēs), from κώμη (kome) "hair" + Doric Greek Βερενίκη (Berenike) "bringer of victory"
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small dim summer constellation of the northern sky, said to represent an offering of hair from Queen Berenice II of Egypt. Originally considered to represent the tuft of hair on the end of Leo's tail.
Synonyms: Berenice's Hair
Derived terms: Comae Berenices
Corona Australis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin corona australis (“southern crown”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small summer constellation of the northern sky said to resemble a crown.
Synonyms: Corona Austrina
Derived terms: Coronae Australis
Related terms: Corona Borealis
pack-up kit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack-up kits
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Service-provided maintenance gear including spare parts and consumables most commonly needed by the deployed helicopter detachment. Supplies are sufficient for a short-term deployment but do not include all material needed for every maintenance task. Also called PUK.
Corona Borealis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin corōna boreālis (“northern crown”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small constellation said to resemble a crown.
Derived terms: Coronae Borealis
Related terms: Corona Australis
Cor Caroli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Cor Caroli (literally “Charles' Heart”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The star α2 Canum Venaticorum in the constellation Canes Venatici.
wikipedia: Charles I of England
Related terms: Canes Venatici
elegize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elegizes
form: elegizing
form: elegized
form: elegized
Etymology: From elegy + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To compose an elegy for.
glosses: To compose an elegy.
coordinate_terms: eulogize#Verb
glosses: To lament, as if in an elegy.
kamp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmp/
note: General American, Canada, /æ/ raising
ipa: [kʰɛəmp]
note: General American, Canada, /æ/ raising
other: [kʰeəmp]
rhymes: -æmp
Etymology: Spelling variant of camp (“homosexual”).
Senses: glosses: homosexual
raw_tags: of males
examples: text: Finally we found the Western Park, a scungy unpopular pub then, which agreed to allow kamp girls to drink there.
ref: 1990, Julia Penelope, Sarah Valentine, Finding the Lesbians: Personal Accounts from Around the World, page 74:
text: It was 1961 and the kamp girls' scene had grown larger. Many Maori had begun moving to the cities, and among them were not only many more Maori drag queens but also Maori kamp girls.
ref: 1992, Stephan Likosky, Coming Out, page 264:
glosses: lesbian (in Maori communities)
hotlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hotlists
form: hot-list
Etymology: From hot + list.
Senses: examples: text: There were 22 schools on the hotlist to close, consolidate or be turned around.
ref: 2009 February 24, “Six CPS schools to stay open”, in ABC7Chicago.com:
text: The federal government is proposing to add a number of substances to a hotlist that will prevent them from being used in cosmetics.
ref: 2009 March 7, “Health, environment departments take action on four substances”, in The Canadian Press TORONTO:
synonyms: hit list
hot sheet
short list
hypernyms: list#Noun
coordinate_terms: warmlist
glosses: A list of items of special interest (such as highest priority, likelihood, risk, or otherwise).
examples: text: The Hotlist is used to keep the cosmetic industry aware of substances that are restricted or prohibited in cosmetics
ref: 2004 June 18, “Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist”, in Health Canada:
synonyms: blacklist
glosses: A list of banned items.
Related terms: bucket list
checklist
laundry list
shopping list
to-do list
wish list
hotlist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hotlists
form: hotlisting
form: hotlisted
form: hotlisted
form: hot-list
Etymology: From hot + list.
Senses: glosses: To add something to such a list, or to be added to such a list.
examples: text: one must also check that the certificate is not hot-listed by Its issuer
ref: 1993 August 1, Stephen T. Kent, “Internet Privacy Enhanced Mail”, in Commun. ACM, volume 36, number 8, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 48–60:
text: In case of loss/theft of card, the cardholder should immediately block/hotlist the card to avoid any misuse for safety reasons
ref: 2024 May 30, Sneha Kulkarni, “How to block a debit card: 4 ways to block, hotlist PNB debit card”, in The Economic Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To blacklist.
indefatigableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indefatigable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: . . . but too much security on the republican part will give time to his talents and indefatigableness to extricate them.
ref: 1829, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: from the papers of Thomas Jefferson:
glosses: The state of being indefatigable.
Synonyms: indefatigability
persistence
stamina
tirelessness
multiethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiethnic
form: most multiethnic
form: multi-ethnic
Etymology: From multi- + ethnic.
Senses: examples: text: In general, they are propagating the image of Ukrainians as the European descendants of good peasant stock, of multiethnic pioneers, and of an ancient multiethnic state.
ref: 1993, Alexander J. Motyl, Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine After Totalitarianism:
text: As a multicultural and multiethnic society, Singapore has four official languages: Malay, Mandarin, Tamil, and English, with Malay considered the national language and English as a nominally neutral ‘working language’ allowing communication across all communities.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or consisting of several ethnic groups.
Derived terms: multiethnically
multiethnicity
multiethnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiethnics
form: multi-ethnic
Etymology: From multi- + ethnic.
Senses: glosses: A member of more than one ethnic group.
multiethnicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiethnicities
Etymology: From multi- + ethnicity.
Senses: examples: text: Some might argue that Yugoslavia, as a mosaic of southern Slavs and other assorted Balkan peoples, ranked higher on the multiethnicity scale than Slovenia.
ref: 1996, Richard Henri Ullman, The World and Yugoslavia's Wars:
glosses: The state of being multiethnic.
pantser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænt.sə/
ipa: /ˈpænt.sɚ/
rhymes: -æntsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pantsers
Etymology: From the expression fly by the seat of one's pants.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
coordinate_terms: plotter
glosses: An author who writes their story without a plan or an outline.
Related terms: pantsing
metabolome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolomes
Etymology: From metabolism + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: In this study, we propose a means of studying metabolism, using the concept of the “metabolome”, or total complement of metabolites in a cell, to look at global shifts in cellular function under different growth conditions.
ref: 1998 October 24, Helen Tweeddale, “Effect of Slow Growth on Metabolism of Escherichia coli, as Revealed by Global Metabolite Pool (“Metabolome”) Analysis”, in Journal of Bacteriology, volume 180, number 19, page 5109:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of metabolites found in a biological sample; especially that found in a person's body under normal conditions, and when suffering from a disease.
Derived terms: endometabolome
exometabolome
immunometabolome
metametabolome
Related terms: metabolomics
submetabolome
transcriptome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transcriptomes
Etymology: From transcript + -ome.
Senses: examples: text: Within three weeks, he had a partial ‘transcriptome’ of the ctenophore – some 5,000 or 6,000 gene sequences that were actively turned on in the animal’s nerve cells.
ref: 2017 August 1, Douglas Fox, “Aliens in our midst”, in Aeon:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell or a population of cells.
Derived terms: macrotranscriptome
microtranscriptome
neurotranscriptome
retrotranscriptome
transcriptomal
transcriptomic
Related terms: translatome
long ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long tons
Etymology: Distinguishing this measure from the "short ton" of 2000 pounds.
Senses: synonyms: ton[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous in some times and places>
tun#Noun
hypernyms: ton#Noun
coordinate_terms: short ton
metric ton
tonne
measurement ton
register ton
glosses: A traditional unit of mass equal to 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each, equivalent to approximately 1016 kilograms.
short ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short tons
Senses: synonyms: ton[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous in the US>
hypernyms: ton#Noun
coordinate_terms: long ton
metric ton
tonne
measurement ton
register ton
glosses: A unit of ship capacity or weight equal to 2000 U.S. or avoirdupois pounds, approximately 907 kilograms.
Related terms: ton of refrigeration
register ton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: register tons
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A unit of a ship's capacity equal to 100 cubic feet or 2.83 m³.
Derived terms: gross register ton
net register ton
register tonnage
pedipalp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedipalps
Etymology: From New Latin pedipalpus, from ped-, pēs (“foot”) + palpus (“palpus”).
Senses: examples: text: The defensive movements, on the other hand, involve the whole of the pedipalp being drawn in towards the midline.
ref: 1950, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:
text: The pedipalp trochanter has a prominent process on its inferior surface, separated by a large area not haired nor spinulated: it serves for the allodgement of the ventral spine of the pedipalp basitarsus when the tibia closes to the femur;
ref: 1986, Redia - Volumes 69-70, page 160:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: Either of a second pair of appendages near the mouth of many arachnids, variously specialized as pincers, sensory or locomotory organs.
Synonyms: palp
palpus
pedipalpus
Derived terms: pedipalpal
pedipalpous
Pedipalpida
ponente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A westerly Mediterranean wind
on-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: on/off
Senses: examples: text: John loved being with his sister, but from time to time he wished she had an on-off switch.
glosses: That is either fully on or fully off, and is used to toggle a status between on and off; as in an on-off switch
glosses: Synonym of on-again, off-again.
synonyms: word: on-again
word: off-again
raw_tags: of a relationship
supremo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈpɹiːməʊ/
text: Audio (US)
rhymes: -iːməʊ
Forms: form: supremos
form: supremoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian supremo (“supreme”). Doublet of supreme.
Senses: examples: text: Kitchener was, of course, Secretary of State for War and virtual military supremo.
ref: 1986, Peter King, The Viceroy's Fall: How Kitchener Destroyed Curzon:
text: Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king's dark skin colour.
ref: Sep 25, 2007 - Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief (AFP)
text: The hard launch of what appeared to be the hottest new relationship in town – Billanna? Winty? – at the 2023 Met Gala saw Vogue supremo Wintour, who has hosted the Met Gala for 30 years, walk the red carpet arm in arm with the dashing and debonair Love Actually star, a man Clive James named “the nation’s leading male sexpot”.
ref: 2023 May 2, Samuel Fishwick, “The ‘secret romance’ that got everybody talking at the Met Gala”, in The Independent:
glosses: The most important person in an organization.
killa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killas
Senses: examples: text: Rude Boy was a killa and, to him, taking life was as simple as eating a hamburger.
ref: 2011, Maurice Rice, Seeds of a New Breed, page 159:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of killer.
ONFI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.fi/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Open NAND Flash Interface.
buyback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buybacks
Etymology: Deverbal from buy back.
Senses: examples: text: Infosys Ltd., Bengaluru-based tech services and digital transformation firm, has announced its biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 crore at a 19% premium, as per a regulatory filing it made in the late evening on Thursday. […] This is Infosys' 5th buyback. Earlier, it had announced buybacks worth ₹13,000 crore in 2017, ₹ 8,260 crore in 2019, ₹9,200 crore in 2021 and ₹9,300 crore in 2023.
ref: 2025 September 12, “Infosys announces biggest-ever share buyback of ₹18,000 cr. The buyback, through the tender offer, is its biggest ever since the company's listing”, in The Hindu:
antonyms: sellback
glosses: The repurchase of something previously sold, especially of stock by the company that issued it.
glosses: A government purchase scheme intended to achieve a specific goal such as habitat protection or a reduction in firearm numbers.
glosses: A free drink given to a patron by a bartender.
send out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: send outs
Senses: glosses: A send off; a farewell celebration.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A networking broadcast transmission.
glosses: A shout out; an appreciative public mention of someone.
send out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends out
form: sending out
form: sent out
form: sent out
Senses: glosses: To issue, dispatch or transmit.
Derived terms: send out for
send out for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends out for
form: sending out for
form: sent out for
form: sent out for
Senses: examples: text: There's nothing in the fridge. Let's send out for pizza.
glosses: To make an order for something to be delivered, especially takeaway food.
rapaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rapacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text
THE VULTURE MAY be the most maligned bird on the planet, a living metaphor for greed and rapaciousness.
glosses: The state of being rapacious; extreme gluttony
vertiginously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vertiginously
form: most vertiginously
Etymology: From vertiginous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He walked through the world vertiginously, as if on a tightrope.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 17:
glosses: In a vertiginous manner.
payed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: ...and the use and proffitt therof cominge shalbe payed to my saied Sister Jone...
ref: 1616, William Shakespeare, Last will and testament:
text: It was but just in time, for, as the frigate flew round, describing a circle, as she payed off before the wind, they could perceive the breakers lashing the precipitous coast, not two cables' length from them.
ref: 1836, Frederick Marryat, chapter 25, in Mr. Midshipman Easy:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of paid.
glosses: Misspelling of paid.
payed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: simple past and past participle of pay (to cover with a waterproof substance)
tongue ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue rings
Senses: glosses: A decorative ring that is worn in a person's pierced tongue.
tongue rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue ring
neotenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /niˈɒtənəs/
ipa: /niˈɑːtənəs/
Forms: form: more neotenous
form: most neotenous
Etymology: From neoteny + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting retention of juvenile characteristics in the adult.
glosses: Babyfaced.
Synonyms: sense: juvenile in adult
word: neotenic
word: babyfaced
Derived terms: neotenously
Related terms: neotenic
neoteny
preliminarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From preliminary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a preliminary manner.
Derived terms: preliminarily enjoin
preliminary injunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preliminary injunctions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A court order prohibiting a party to litigation from carrying on a course of action until a trial has determined whether the course of action is proper.
Derived terms: preliminarily enjoin
preliminary injunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preliminary injunction
shrubberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrubbery
solidness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solidnesses
Etymology: From solid + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: When something melts it loses its solidness and becomes a liquid.
glosses: The state or quality of being solid.
Synonyms: solidity
soliloquize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soliloquizes
form: soliloquizing
form: soliloquized
form: soliloquized
form: soliloquise
Etymology: From soliloquy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: "Now, I am quite sure that our beautiful hostess has been making an assignation," soliloquised Charles, who, for want of something better to do, had been watching the various actions of the group in the principal chamber in the castle, […]
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 276:
text: I rubbed my hands with delight over my happy notion, and soliloquised aloud, "What a joy there is in going about doing good actions."
ref: 1899, Knut Hamsun, “Part III”, in George Egerton [pseudonym; Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright], transl., Hunger […], London: Leonard Smithers and Co […], →OCLC, page 164:
topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: Of a character: to perform a soliloquy, to talk to oneself.
examples: text: Far up in the mountains he heard a lion roar. How much safer one was, he soliloquized, in the haunts of wild beasts than in the haunts of men.
ref: 1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Through the Valley of the Shadow”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 132:
glosses: To think to oneself.
Related terms: monologize
soldierly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊld͡ʒəɹli/
Forms: form: more soldierly
form: most soldierly
Etymology: From soldier + -ly. Compare soldierlike.
Senses: examples: text: His soldierly demeanour stood him good stead in civilian life when vicissitudes would assail him.
text: People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, “Coming Home—A Cry”, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 99–100:
glosses: Appropriate to, or in the way of, a soldier.
soldierly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊld͡ʒəɹli/
Forms: form: more soldierly
form: most soldierly
Etymology: From soldier + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a soldier.
sons-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son-in-law
magnetic equator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic equators
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A line drawn on a map or chart connecting all points at which the magnetic dip (or magnetic inclination) is zero for a specified epoch.
Synonyms: aclinic line
sogginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sogginesses
Etymology: From soggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being soggy.
solderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solderers
Etymology: From solder + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who solders
glosses: A tool that is used to solder.
Coordinate terms: solderess
solderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solderer
ruttish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruttish
form: most ruttish
Etymology: From rut + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: rutty
lustful
glosses: Related to a rut; being in a state of sexual arousal
Derived terms: ruttishness
ruttishly
ruttishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ruttish + -ness.
Senses: examples: I looked her over without either embarrassment or ruttishness. - "The Big Sleep", by Raymond Chandler
glosses: Feeling ruttish; sexual arousal.
Related terms: ruttish
rutty
rut
somnambulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒmˈnæmbjʊlɪzəm/
Forms: form: somnambulisms
Etymology: From French somnambulisme, from New Latin somnambulus, from Latin somnus (“sleep”) + ambulō (“I walk”), + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, towards the twelfth century, there come to be two weaknesses attached to this state of half-grown youth: by night somnambulism; in the daytime seeing of visions, trance, and the gift of tears.
ref: 1862, Jules Michelet, La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages:
glosses: sleepwalking
Synonyms: word: sleepwalking
word: noctambulism
word: somnambulance
word: somnambulation
ZULU time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Zulu time.
hot toddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot toddies
Senses: examples: text: After that I sat around in the apartment and drank too much hot toddy trying to crack the code in Geiger's blue indexed notebook.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
glosses: A drink made from alcoholic liquor mixed with sugar, spice and hot water.
nose pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose pads
Senses: glosses: Either of the small pieces on many eyeglasses that rest on the wearer's nose.
glosses: The small leathery part of a cat's nose
legger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leggers
Etymology: From leg + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
glosses: A bootlegger.
glosses: A man employed by the owners of a canal to push boats through narrow canal tunnels. The legger would lie on his back on a piece of wood on the boat with his feet reaching to the tunnel wall, and walk it along. This could be done by the boat's crew, but the canals employed men specifically for the task because they could do it faster and prevent a tunnel becoming a bottleneck for traffic.
examples: text: Won't your ladyship condescend to use a three legger. (offers a stool)
ref: 1842, James Bruton, Bathing: a farce, in one act (page 6)
glosses: Something having the specified number of legs.
Related terms: thousand-legger
flashcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: flăshʹkärd'
ipa: /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/
Forms: form: flashcards
form: flash card
Etymology: From flash + card.
Senses: examples: text: Many people use flashcards to learn languages.
text: I know I'm bad at this
I didn't have much practice
I had a flashcard deck but I left it in my desk last Friday
ref: 2022, Patricia Taxxon, “Like”, in Agnes & Hilda:
text: “Looking snazzy, Mr. Sarner.” “[screams] I have a body.” “Fucking hell. Yes, we brought you back to life.” “I was floating in the eternal glow for a million years. Safe, warm.” “You need to remember what you were going to say to the board of directors to justify expensing a ping ping table.” “I've been here before.” “I've made some flashcards to help jog your memory. "Ping ping increases productivity by 50 percent." I mean, that's bullshit, but let's see if it flies.” “How did I get back on this plane of existence?” “Would you shut up? Literally no one has ever cared about what happens after you die.” “The board is here.” “I need more time, Terry. Sarner's being a baby about his resurrection.” “I traversed the black mountain. Why am I back?” “Okay, I'll just have to stall them with the old razzle-dazzle.”
ref: 2023 August 14, Dominic Dierkes, “The Ping Pong Table” (17:50 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 4, episode 1, spoken by Korvo Opposites (Dan Stevens):
synonyms: flipcard
coordinate_terms: index card
notecard[coinstantial]]>
glosses: A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: memory card
memory cartridge
glosses: A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.
Related terms: memory card
memory stick
flash card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash cards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flashcard.
bureaucracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bureaucracy
hotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtʃə/
rhymes: -ɒtʃə
Forms: form: more hotcha
form: most hotcha
form: hot-cha
Etymology: Fanciful extension of hot.
Senses: examples: text: ‘It seems he run Sternwood's hotcha daughter, the young one, off to Yuma.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 53:
glosses: Flashy, vivacious, attractive, desirable.
examples: text: I've got a job down at the hotcha night club as a featured entertainer.
ref: 1935, The Collegiate, Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, Sarnia, Ontario, May 1935, page 143
text: ‘Here come the hotcha gals from Havana.’
ref: 1933, Havana Widows (motion picture press book), Warner Bros. publicity dept., New York, page 11:
text: ‘It becomes a hotcha curb-service by girls with bare thighs.’
ref: 1942, Bulletin of The American Association of University Professors, October 1942, page 542::
glosses: Exciting, lively.
examples: text: The passing of Harlem as a hotcha after-dark entertainment center, to a great extent, coupled with the drift towards Broadway of the Harlem spots.
ref: 1935 May 4, The Billboard, page 13:
text: The band […] gives her [Blanche Calloway] excellent support, blaring out the hotcha special arrangements in typical Harlem style.
ref: The Billboard, March 9 1935, p. 16
text: Listen, pal, you gotta swing and grab your gal / and do that thing. / Learn that jig-time dancing / called hotcha-razz-ma-tazz […] / Swing your partners one and all / to hotcha razz-ma-tazz.
ref: Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra, song Hotcha Razz-Ma-Tazz (Andy Razaf, Will Hudson, Irving Mills), recorded January 1934 (Victor 24690)
glosses: Of or relating to a Harlem style of hot rhythm music, especially jazz.
hotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtʃə/
rhymes: -ɒtʃə
Forms: form: hotchas
form: hot-cha
Etymology: Fanciful extension of hot.
Senses: examples: text: Jazz - Hotcha v. Swing [...] I seemed to notice a tendency, towards the end of 1936, for [...] 'Hotcha' music to be replaced by 'Swing' music.
ref: 1937, King-Hall Survey 1936, by Stephen King-Hall, Newnes, London, page 93:
text: NBC Music Library […] the files have to be stocked with every kind of score that exists, including […] Harlem hotchas.
ref: 1935 July, NBC Reception Staff Review, National Broadcasting Company, New York, page 4:
text: The dining and dancing establishments have been springing up [...] each adding its bit to the neon glow and the hotcha chorus [...] More hotcha per square inch than any other joint in town.
ref: 1933 November, The Lehigh Burr (vol. 51 no.2), Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., page 12:
glosses: A musical composition in the hotcha style.
glosses: An attractive young woman.
hotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒtʃə/
rhymes: -ɒtʃə
Forms: form: hot-cha
Etymology: Fanciful extension of hot.
Senses: examples: text: Hotcha! Here comes a serving of beer.
ref: La Mezcla, Armijo High School, Fairfield, Calif., June 1933, p. 17
text: Did you ever see her in a bathing suit? Hotcha!
ref: John O'Hara, Appointment in Samarra, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1935, p. 21
glosses: An exclamation of excitement, delight or high approval.
Related terms: hot
tailboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tailboards
Etymology: From tail + board.
Senses: examples: text: She got one knee up under him and hurled him off, and was over the tail-board in a flash, landing on her feet like a cat, and panting hard, by the sudden release of a violent emotion.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 171:
text: The man in the very new overalls was just heaving a box up on the tailboard.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
glosses: A hinged board or hatch at the rear of a vehicle that can be lowered for loading and unloading; a tailgate.
wilden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪldən/
Forms: form: wildens
form: wildening
form: wildened
form: wildened
Etymology: From wild + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The glorification of the business-man which is the effect of the present government's capital profits, expense account and pension fund policies is ‘wildening’ our capitalism.
ref: 1965, Wayland Hilton Young, Wayland Kennet, Thirty-four Articles, page 70:
text: His alembic furnished Highland spring water. We sat for a while in companionable silence. The weather wildened.
ref: 2010, Poul Anderson, Operation Luna:
text: In any event, our relations with Dorthillion have become poor since the ways have wildened.
ref: 2011, K. S. Mulholland, Varlarsaga, volume 2, page 114:
glosses: to make or become wild or wilder
street elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: street elbows
Senses: glosses: In plumbing, a fitting that turns a corner (typically at an angle of 90, 45 or 22.5 degrees) and has a male connection at one end and a female connection at the other.
undeleted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been deleted.
undeleted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undelete
signboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signboard
rain cheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rain cheques
Senses: glosses: rain check
checking account
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: checking accounts
form: chequing account
form: cheque account
Senses: glosses: A current account; a bank account from which money can easily be transferred, by check(US)/cheque(UK) or other means.
Synonyms: word: current account
checkbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛk.bʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: checkbooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chequebook.
neotenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neoteny + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Devils Lake is where I began my career as a limnologist in 1964, studying the lake’s neotenic salamanders and chironomids, or midge flies. […] The Devils Lake Basin is an endorheic, or closed, basin covering about 9,800 square kilometers in northeastern North Dakota.
ref: 2012 January 24, Douglas Larson, “Runaway Devils Lake”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 23 May 2012, page 46:
glosses: Exhibiting neoteny
Synonyms: pedomorphic
Derived terms: neotenic complex syndrome
neotenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neotenics
Etymology: From neoteny + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Such an organism
uninflected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inflected.
Senses: glosses: That does not use inflection.
raw_tags: of a language
examples: text: It seems that many such technical words (grada, minuta, introitus) were left in the uninflected state when contracted in any customary form such as we have […]
ref: 1955: Geoffrey Chaucer, Richard Middlewood Wilson, Simon Bredon, Derek John de Solla Price, and Peterhouse (University of Cambridge) Library, The Equatorie of the Planetis, page 161 (Cambridge University Press)
glosses: That has not been inflected.
raw_tags: of a word
Yellowhammer State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Yellowhammer State
Senses: glosses: An unofficial nickname for Alabama, a state of the United States.
Synonyms: Heart of Dixie
OOXML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Office Open XML: a Microsoft file format for spreadsheets, charts, wordprocessed documents, etc.
OpenDocument
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: ODF
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A standard file format, based on XML, for office applications.
ODF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of OpenDocument format.
ODF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: ODP
glosses: Initialism of open defecation-free.
lip plug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip plugs
Senses: glosses: A labret.
posi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒzi/
Senses: examples: text: Think positive thoughts...k fuck...even posi thoughts like people are mirrors showing me parts of myself I don't love feel too intense.
ref: 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 92:
glosses: positive (optimistic, uplifting)
Derived terms: posi vibes
ponga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒŋə/
Forms: form: pongas
form: punga
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori ponga.
Senses: examples: text: Hilltop behind hilltop, / A mile of green pungas / In the grey afternoon / Bow their heads to the slanting spears of rain.
ref: 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘He Waiata mo Te Kare’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 265
text: Ponga logs tended to be used vertically for house walls on the mainland and horizontally (a style known as wakawaka) on the Chatham Islands.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 232:
glosses: A medium-sized tree fern endemic to New Zealand, of species Alsophila tricolor (syns .Alsophila dealbata, Cyathea dealbata et al.).
Synonyms: silver fern
somm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somms
form: som
Senses: examples: text: The original sommeliers were butlers and had to verify the identity of wines, not in labeled bottles as today but in large casks when delivered to their rooms. The court teaches this skill for modern somms.
ref: 2014 March 5, Bill St. John, “Learning the master sommelier way”, in Chicago Tribune, section 6, page 3, columns 1–2:
text: But today’s somms, as they often style themselves, are much more likely to be true enthusiasts, ready to make recommendations at different price levels.
ref: 2016, Jancis Robinson, The 24-Hour Wine Expert, Penguin Books, →ISBN:
text: Matt [Fowles] carried on explaining: ‘The high-acid thing is really important because acid sort of acts like the equivalent of a highlighter pen. It highlights the ingredients in food. So, a high-acid wine like riesling is generally good for food and wine pairing. That’s partly why somms are so obsessed.’ ‘What are “somms”?’ ‘A somm is a sommelier, a wine expert.[…]’
ref: 2022, Peter Coleman, Matt Fowles, Weekends with Matt, Affirm Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of sommelier.
Yana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː.nə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: Cognate to English Jane, ultimately from Hebrew, feminine form of Ioannes ( =John).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Slavic languages. A romanization of the Bulgarian or Russian or Ukrainian name Я́на (Jána).
glosses: A river in Sakha (Yakutia), Russia that rises near Verkhoyansk and flows into the Yana Bay of the Laptev Sea.
Yana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː.nə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Forms: form: Yanas
form: Yana
Etymology: From Yana yana (“person, people”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a North American Indian people who once resided in the eastern portion of the upper Sacramento River valley in California.
Yana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑː.nə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: From Yana yana (“person, people”).
Senses: glosses: The now extinct language of the Yana people, best known for a systematic differentiation between men's and women's speech.
Synonyms: Yanan
-gen
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Borrowed from French -gène, from the Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs).
Senses: examples: mutagen ― an agent that gives rise to mutations
tormogen ― a cell that forms a socket
glosses: A producer of something, or an agent in the production of something.
Related terms: gene
-gene
genesis
genetic
-genic
-genous
-geny
Guanche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guanches
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal inhabitant originally of the island of Tenerife only, but now often of extinct pre-Hispanic population of the Canary Islands in general.
Guanche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of the Guanches, believed to belong to the Berber family.
contre-jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French contre-jour
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Synonym of backlighting.
synonyms: word: backlighting
topics: art
arts
glosses: A similar effect achieved in painting.
Jeevesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Jeeves, famous valet from the stories of P. G. Wodehouse, + -ian.
Senses: examples: But we should hoot briefly and diplomatically (apologetically like a Jeevesian cough), not in a roar of self-righteous rage. – 22/01/2007, "Modern Manners", The Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,641-2560365,00.html
glosses: Typical of a perfect servant, valet, or butler.
Related terms: Jeeves
Woosterian
Woosterism
microcausality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + causality.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: (in quantum field theory) The spacelike local commutativity or anticommutativity of fields.
Related terms: quantum locality
commutativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commutativities
Etymology: From commutative + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The state of being commutative.
Synonyms: english: much less common
translation: much less common
word: commutativeness
Derived terms: anticommutativity
cocommutativity
noncommutativity
anticommutativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + commutativity.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The state of being anticommutative.
Related terms: commutativity
anticommutative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + commutative.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an operator * for which a * b = − (b * a)
Related terms: commutative
anthroposcopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒskəpi
Etymology: From anthropo- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: text: Only when both anthroposcopy and anthropometry brings us to the same result are we satisfied with the outcome.
ref: 1970, William Herbert Sheldon, Varieties of Human Physique: an introduction to constitutional psychology:
glosses: A form of anthropology based upon visual observation of the physical characteristics of the human body.
antiresonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiresonances
Etymology: From anti- + resonance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the condition, in an electric circuit containing a capacitor and coil in parallel and in which the alternating current line voltage and the resultant current are in phase, in which the impedance approaches infinity.
anyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anyons
Etymology: From any + -on, since they can have any phase when particles are interchanged. Coined by Frank Wilczek in 1982 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Senses: examples: text: The anyon concept has been used to describe phenomena in connection with the fractional quantum Hall effect (FOHE).
ref: 1995, Erik B Karlsson, Solid State Phenomena: As Seen by Muons, Protons, and Excited Nuclei:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any particle that obeys a continuum of quantum statistics, only two of which are the standard Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics.
wikipedia: Physical Review Letters
Derived terms: anyonic
mitzvah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪts.və/
Forms: form: mitzvahs
form: mitzvot
form: mitzvoth
form: mitzvos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מצווה (mitsvá, “commandment”).
Senses: examples: text: She called Penansky regularly to remind her to observe the mitzvahs.
ref: 1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Any of the 613 commandments of Jewish law.
examples: text: ‘You heard about them pulling my license. That was indirectly Joel. Who, without meaning to, did me such a mitzvah.’
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 17:
glosses: An act of kindness, a good deed.
examples: text: Glenview Mansion is an elegant 1926 home included on the National Register of Historic Places. Located in the 153-acre Rockville Civic Center Park, it is the perfect location for weddings, private parties, mitzvahs, conferences, and many other special occasions. Every rental includes a customized set-up to support the unique needs of your event.
ref: 2016 August 24, “Glenview Mansion”, in City of Rockville, Maryland - Official Website, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2016:
qualifier: event planning industry; usually only with the plural mitzvahs; event planning industry; usually only with the plural mitzvahs
glosses: A Jewish celebration, but particularly a clipping of bar mitzvah and/or bat mitzvah.
Related terms: bark mitzvah
bar mitzvah
bas mitzvah
bat mitzvah
met mitzvah
milchemet mitzvah
seudat mitzvah
Hitlerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hitler + -ism, named after German politician Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).
Senses: glosses: The political philosophy and practices of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
wikipedia: Adolf Hitler
Synonyms: Nazism
National Socialism
Coordinate terms: Fascism
Stalinism
Pétainism
Strasserism
Related terms: Hitler
neo-Nazism
aplite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fine-grained granitic rock composed mostly of quartz and feldspars.
Derived terms: aplitic
thenceforwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: From then on; from that time on
Synonyms: sense: from then on
word: thenceforth
sense: from then on
word: thenceforward
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
caecilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈsɪlɪən/
homophone: Sicilian
Forms: form: caecilians
Etymology: From Latin caecus (“blind”).
Senses: examples: text: Today we have just three major lineages of amphibians - the anurans (frogs and toads), the newts and salamanders, and the worm-like caecilians, all of which can trace their ancestry back to long before the dinosaurs.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 50:
glosses: Any of a group of burrowing amphibians of the order Gymnophiona that resemble earthworms or snakes.
Derived terms: São Paulo caecilian
caecilians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caecilian
apophyllite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apophyllites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several forms of a pale pink or green mineral being a mixed fluoride and silicate of potassium and calcium.
Derived terms: fluorapophyllite
hydroxyapophyllite
natroapophyllite