cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
swift boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swift boats
form: swiftboat
form: Swift Boat
Senses: glosses: A small, shallow draft water vessel used by the United States navy for counterinsurgency (COIN) operations during the Vietnam War; Fast Patrol Craft (PCF).
swift boat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swift boats
form: swift boating
form: swift boated
form: swift boated
form: swiftboat
form: Swift Boat
Etymology: From a 2004 campaign by political group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to challenge the legitimacy of each combat medal awarded by the U.S. Navy to presidential candidate John Kerry, and the disposition of his discharge.
Senses: examples: text: “There is simply the desire to paint an entire religion as the enemy,” he said. Referring to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the founder of the proposed Muslim center near ground zero, “What they did to Imam Feisal was highly strategic. The signal was, we can Swift Boat your most moderate leaders.”
ref: 2010 September 6, Laurie Goodstein, “American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?”, in New York Times:
text: Swift-boating is the new term used to describe a dirty campaign that tries to paint a war hero as unpatriotic.
ref: 2007, Lee Iacocca, Where have all the leaders gone?:
text: Swift-boating's essence is a particular kind of dishonesty, or rather a particular combination of shadowy dishonesties. It usually involves a complex web of facts, many of which may even be true.
ref: 2008, Michael Kinsley, “To Swift-Boat or Not”, in Time:
glosses: to put forth sensational negative stories about a political figure as part of a smear campaign against them, especially regarding their military record
Related terms: front organization
mined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: mīnd
ipa: /maɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
homophone: mind
Forms: form: more mined
form: most mined
Senses: examples: text: The mined block is added to the "blockchain", a big, unbreakable ledger that lives on the bitcoin network and serves as a record of all transactions.
ref: 2015 January 9, “How do bitcoin transactions work?”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2020:
text: Fifteen years after the end of one of Africa's longest wars, Angola remains one of the world's most heavily mined countries. Swaths of Angola are still littered with land mines, some produced decades ago in countries that no longer exist.
ref: 2017 April 26, Norimitsu Onishi, “In Angolan Town, Land Mines Still Lurk 'Behind Every Bush'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2022:
text: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled in 2018 that lab-grown diamonds are included in the same definitional universe as mined diamonds but warned against the use of terms like "natural" in marketing that confused the two categories.
ref: 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:
text: Some diamond industry analysts believe artificial diamonds are about to become their own market, separate from that for the traditional – and more exclusive – one for mined diamonds.
ref: 2023 June 9, Erica Alini, “Natural vs. lab-grown diamonds: Why the world’s most popular stone is becoming increasingly affordable”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2023:
text: In a year and a half of conflict, land mines — along with unexploded bombs, artillery shells and other deadly byproducts of war — have contaminated a swath of Ukraine roughly the size of Florida or Uruguay. It has become the world's most mined country.
ref: 2023 July 22, Eve Sampson, Samuel Granados, “Ukraine’s land mines are a legacy of war that will linger for decades”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jul 2023:
antonyms: unmined
glosses: That has been mined (in various senses).
Derived terms: nonmined
overmined
mined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mīnd
ipa: /maɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
homophone: mind
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mine
high-level language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-level languages
Etymology: From high-level + language.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
related: word: HLL
coordinate_terms: intermediate language
low-level language
assembly language
machine language
glosses: A programming language requiring a compiler to translate it into a form that a particular machine understands, focusing on user-friendly code development by automating core tasks such as accessing memory.
wikipedia: high-level language
Related terms: assembler
bytecode
compiler
computer architecture
instruction set
ACTU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Council of Trade Unions.
double crossover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double crossovers
Senses: glosses: two pairs of railway switches forming two connections that cross over between two parallel tracks
scissors crossover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scissors crossovers
Senses: examples: text: Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard.
ref: 1951 September, B. D. J. Walsh, “The Sudbury and Haverhill Line, Eastern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 619:
text: Included in the new layout are four new scissors crossovers.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Liverpool Street layout remodelled”, in Modern Railways, page 222:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: diamond crossover
scissor crossover
scissors crossing
hypernyms: double crossover
glosses: A superimposed pair of railway crossovers, resembling the letter X, permitting travel in either direction between a pair of parallel tracks.
positivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒzɪtɪvˌɪzm/
ipa: /ˈpɑzɪtɪvˌɪzm/
Forms: form: positivisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French positivisme, from positif (“positive”). Equivalent to positive + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The goal of positivism is to construct an objective, empirical and systematic foundation for knowledge. Given the above five tenets, it follows that positivists would hold that the world is composed of ‘facts’, or ‘sense data’ (or ‘atoms’).
ref: 1980, David Held, Introduction to Critical Theory, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 164:
text: History, and its literary expression, narrative, were not scientific, and so did not deserve the attention that true sciences did. Only science could yield positive knowledge—hence the passion for positivism, and the origin of the term.
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: antipositivism
glosses: A doctrine that states that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge, and that such knowledge can only come from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific method, refusing every form of metaphysics.
topics: law
synonyms: legal positivism
glosses: A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values; i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).
Derived terms: legal positivism
logical positivism
neopositivism
postpositivism
Related terms: positivist
Comtism
doorstep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)stɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: doorsteps
Etymology: From door + step.
Senses: examples: text: Ailie was standing by the doorstep as he came down the road, and her heart stood still with joy.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 10, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: The narrow streets that twist and turn through the compact heart of Dent are surfaced with cobbles which, in the absence of pavements, spread right across from doorstep to doorstep.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 150:
topics: architecture
synonyms: doorsill
glosses: An outside step leading up to the door of a building, usually a home.
examples: text: They want to build the prison right on our doorstep; it will only be half a mile away and being that close scares me.
text: As a Hitchin signalman once pointed out to me, when a regulating quandary arises concerning a fast-moving Class A train there is no time to consult Control and get their answer before the express is on one's doorstep.
ref: 1962 May, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 343:
text: Milk from the Eden Valley could be on London doorsteps the next morning. Limestone and agricultural lime from the Ribble Valley and gypsum from further north could at last be transported long distances by the trainload. The railway had been driven along, over and through the valuable substances that were on its doorstep, much akin to the situation in Britain's coalfields.
ref: 2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 52:
glosses: One's immediate neighbourhood or locality.
examples: text: I cut myself a doorstep of bread with masses of butter and went along to see Romanov while I was eating it.
ref: 2003, Diana Wynne Jones, The Merlin Conspiracy, P 241, →ISBN:
glosses: A thick slice, especially of bread.
Derived terms: darken someone's doorstep
doorstepper
doorsteppy
on death's doorstep
on someone's doorstep
sit on death's doorstep
doorstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)stɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: doorsteps
form: doorstepping
form: doorstepped
form: doorstepped
Etymology: From door + step.
Senses: glosses: To visit one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
examples: text: Throughout her time in journalism, she doorstepped politicians, the child of a politician, crime victims, armed robbers, murderers, suspected murderers...
ref: 1998, Emily O'Reilly, Veronica Guerin: The Life and Death of a Crime Reporter:
text: Surprisingly few people refused to talk, even those I doorstepped or telephoned out of the blue.
ref: 2006, Denis O'Hearn, Nothing But an Unfinished Song:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: To corner somebody for an unexpected interview.
Related terms: ambush journalism
colonialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈləʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: /kəˈləʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: /kəˈloʊ.njə.lɪ.zəm/
ipa: /kəˈloʊ.ni.ə.lɪ.zəm/
Forms: form: colonialisms
Etymology: From colonial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
ref: 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
text: It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: The policy of a country seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of economic dominance.
glosses: Any form of foreign influence seen as undesirable.
examples: text: Although the settlement seems so far to have made but slow progress, there are many things which show that, to use a colonialism, "the place was going ahead."
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 239:
glosses: A colonial word, phrase, concept, or habit.
glosses: Colonial life.
Derived terms: anticolonialism
biocolonialism
biocolonialist
Coca-Colonialism
cybercolonialism
Eurocolonialism
green colonialism
internal colonialism
neocolonialism
paracolonialism
postcolonialism
pseudocolonialism
semicolonialism
settler colonialism
cereologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cereologists
Etymology: From cereology + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: croppie
glosses: Someone who studies crop circles, especially one who believes that they are not man-made or formed by other terrestrial processes.
Related terms: cerealogy
orientalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orientalisms
form: Orientalism
Etymology: From French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental”). Equivalent to Oriental + -ism.
Senses: topics: architecture
art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
glosses: An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
glosses: A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
Derived terms: techno-orientalism
mannerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: mannerisms
Etymology: From manner + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A noticeable personal habit, a verbal or other (often, but not necessarily unconscious) habitual behavior peculiar to an individual.
examples: text: artists […] dabblingly pursuing a kind of formalist mannerism merely in the interest of careerism
ref: 1984, Rasheed Araeen, Guy Brett, Making myself visible:
text: He generally spoke without academic mannerism, though on occasion he dipped into the over-wrought thickets of eduspeak to find words like “antithetical” or “foci” or “interface.”
ref: 1992, C Fraser Smith, Lenny, Lefty, and the Chancellor:
glosses: Exaggerated or affected style in art, speech, or other behavior.
Synonyms: idiosyncrasy
quirk
mannerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænəˌɹɪzəm/
Forms: form: mannerisms
form: Mannerism
Etymology: From Italian manierismo, from maniera, coined by Luigi Lanzi at the end of the 18ᵗʰ century.
Senses: topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: In literature, an ostentatious and unnatural style of the second half of the sixteenth century. In the contemporary criticism, described as a negation of the classicist equilibrium, pre-Baroque, and deforming expressiveness.
topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: In fine art, a style that is inspired by previous models, aiming to reproduce subjects in an expressive language.
Derived terms: Counter-Mannerism
roadrunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊdˌɹʌnə/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊdˌɹʌnɚ/
Forms: form: roadrunners
Etymology: From road + runner, probably a calque of Spanish correcaminos (“roadrunner”), from correr (“to run”) + caminos (“roads”).
Senses: synonyms: word: chaparral bird
word: chaparral cock
word: chaparral hen
word: paisano
glosses: Either of two species of fast-running bird in the genus Geococcyx of the cuckoo family native to North and Central America, the lesser roadrunner (Geococcyx velox) and, especially, the greater roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus).
wikipedia: Death Valley National Park
Derived terms: greater roadrunner
lesser roadrunner
all systems go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Originally used in the aerospace industry to indicate preparedness to launch.
Senses: glosses: Everything is ready.
secretary bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛkɹəˌtɛɹɪ bɜːd/
Forms: form: secretary birds
form: secretarybird
Etymology: Probably so named because its crest of long feathers resembles quill pens stuck behind the ears of an office clerk. Alternatively, possibly from Arabic صَقْر اَلطَّائِر (ṣaqr aṭ-ṭāʔir, “hunter bird”), from صَقْر (ṣaqr, “falcon, hawk”) طَائِر (ṭāʔir, “bird”).
Senses: glosses: A large terrestrial bird of prey, Sagittarius serpentarius, native to Africa with very long legs that preys on reptiles, especially snakes.
LRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lord's Resistance Army.
glosses: Initialism of Land Registration Authority (Philippines).
LRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LRAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of locked rotor amp.
topics: business
commerce
glosses: Initialism of last rate available.
tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of tag
tags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tag
orbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orb
robs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rob
spiritualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtjuəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃuəlɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪt͡ʃəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: spiritualisms
Etymology: From spiritual + -ism. In Allan Kardec's book The Spirits Book (1857) (Le Livre des Esprits in the original French), in which a distinction between spiritism and spiritualism is defined.
Senses: examples: text: What is called spiritualism should, I think, be called a mental species of materialism.
ref: 1880, R. H. Hutton, “Preface”, in Theological essays:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A doctrine, opposing materialism, that claims transcendency of the divine being, the altogether spiritual character of reality and the value of inwardness of consciousness.
examples: text: I wish it were possible to impress this truth upon people who rush into spiritualism from curiosity, or who try "table rapping" or some similar phenomenon "for fun".
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 229:
glosses: A belief that the dead communicate with the living, especially through a medium. Used in a broader sense than spiritism.
glosses: The quality or state of being spiritual.
Hyponyms: topics: spiritism
spiritualism
religion
lifestyle
word: belief that dead communicate with the living
Derived terms: spiritualist
shearwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shearwaters
form: sheerwater
Etymology: From shear + water.
Senses: examples: text: At first I would not eat a frigate bird, a booby or a shearwater, but after a few months on the island I tried one broiled over coconut-shell coals, and I have never since missed an opportunity for such a feast.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 53:
glosses: Any of the long-winged pelagic seabirds of the family Procellariidae in genera Puffinus, Ardenna, and Calonectris, that breed on islands and coastal cliffs.
glosses: Any of the entire family Procellariidae, including certain of the petrels.
Synonyms: haglet
Derived terms: taxonomic: Puffinus lherminieri
word: Audubon's shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus bailloni
word: Baillon's shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus mauretanicus
word: Balearic shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus bannermani
word: Bannerman's shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus baroli
word: Barolo shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus opisthomelas
word: black-vented shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus boydi
word: Boyd's shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus bryani
word: Bryan's shearwater
taxonomic: Ardenna bulleri
word: Buller's shearwater
taxonomic: Calonectris edwardsii
word: Cape Verde shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus nativatis
word: Christmas shearwater
taxonomic: Calonectris borealis
word: Cory's shearwater
taxonomic: Ardenna carneipes
word: flesh-footed shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus gavia
word: fluttering shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus subalaris
word: Galápagos shearwater
english: formerly Puffinus gravis
translation: formerly Puffinus gravis
taxonomic: Ardenna gravis
word: great shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus newelli
word: Hawaiian shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus heinrothi
word: Heinroth's shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus huttoni
word: Hutton's shearwater
alt: †Puffinus olsoni
word: lava shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus assimilis
word: little shearwater
alt: Puffinus lherminieri baroli or Puffinus baroli
word: Macronesian shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus puffinus
word: Manx shearwater
word: Mediterranean shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus newelli
word: Newell's shearwater
alt: †Puffinus olsoni
word: Olson's shearwater
alt: Puffinus lherminieri persicus or Puffinus persicus
word: Persian shearwater
taxonomic: Ardenna creatopus
word: pink-footed shearwater
taxonomic: Calonectris diomedea
word: Scopoli's shearwater
taxonomic: Ardenna tenuirostris
word: short-tailed shearwater
taxonomic: Ardenna grisea
word: sooty shearwater
taxonomic: Calonectris leucomelas
word: streaked shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus elegans
word: subantarctic shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus auriculatus
word: Townsend's shearwater
alt: Puffinus lherminieri bailloni or Puffinus bailloni
word: tropical shearwater
taxonomic: Ardenna pacifica
word: wedge-tailed shearwater
word: yelkouan shearwater
taxonomic: Puffinus yelkouan
word: Yelkouan shearwater
provincialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provincialisms
Etymology: From French provincialisme, equivalent to provincial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The blacksmith's provincialism showed in his speech and manner
glosses: The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
examples: text: Prose is allowed less liberty in this respect; but no one nowadays would maintain that the adoption of a provincialism into the literary dialect is absolutely prohibited.
ref: 1875, Andrew Dousa Hepburn, Manual of English Rhetoric, New York: American Book Company, page 79:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
synonyms: word: regionalism
extra: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments
Synonyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: regionalism
shoveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelers
form: shoveller
Etymology: From Middle English schoveler, equivalent to shovel + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The sand was loaded by 3 shovelers into wheelbarrows holding 3.6 cu. ft. each...
ref: 1910, Halbert Powers Gillette, Handbook of cost data for contractors and engineers:
glosses: One who, or that which, shovels.
shoveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shovelers
form: shoveller
Etymology: From Middle English shoulere, shovellewre, shovelere, schoueler, alteration of earlier schovelerd, schulerde, schevelard (“shovelard”), from schovel (“shovel”), perhaps influenced by malard (“mallard”), on model of Middle Dutch lepelaar (“spoonbill”), with Middle English -ard replacing -aar and later itself replaced by Middle English -er, but not completely certain. Probably at least influenced by the shape of the bill and its feeding behavior.
Senses: glosses: Any of four species of dabbling duck, in the genus Anas, with distinctive spatulate bills.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anas rhynchotis
word: Australasian shoveler
taxonomic: Anas smithii
word: Cape shoveler
taxonomic: Spatula clypeata
alt: fomerly Anas clypeata
word: northern shoveler
taxonomic: Anas platalea
word: red shoveler
regionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regionalisms
Etymology: From regional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Whereas organizations such as the WIFA and CU confirmed regional West Indian identifications and represented the connections between transnational West Indian organizations and black diaspora politics, the JPL, as a transnational Jamaican organization, demonstrates that the regionalism that took root among many West Indian expatriates in these years did not negate all expatriates' islandist perspectives and allegiances.
ref: 2018, Eric D. Duke, Building a Nation: Caribbean Federation in the Black Diaspora:
glosses: Affection, often excessive, for one's own region and to everything related to it.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to regional governments.
examples: text: ... the formal normative variety of the language as it is used today in formal writing by educated native speakers. As a result, we have eschewed dialectisms and regionalisms. The English variety employed in the book is formal British English, ...
ref: 2013, Ronak Husni, Daniel L. Newman, A to Z of Arabic - English - Arabic Translation, Saqi, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or phrase originating in, characteristic of, or limited to a region.
examples: text: Director Deitch has filled the sountrack with country music classics […] and this adds to the regionalism of the film as well as to the feeling which buoys the movie up from simplistic formula to romantic reverie.
ref: 1986 April 19, Michael Bronski, “Two Views on Desert Hearts: Sexy? or simply Slow?”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: Regional character, local color.
Synonyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: provincialism
sense: political
word: federalism
sense: political
word: provincialism
sense: political
word: statism
Hyponyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
regionalism
politics
government
word: Americanism
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
regionalism
politics
government
word: Australianism
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
regionalism
politics
government
word: Briticism
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
regionalism
politics
government
word: Britishism
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
regionalism
politics
government
word: Canadianism
Related terms: regionalist
regionism
smee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smees
Senses: glosses: The pintail, wigeon, pochard, or smew.
floozie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfluː.zi/
rhymes: -uːzi
Forms: form: floozies
form: floozy
form: floosy
form: floosie
form: floogy
Etymology: Corruption of flossy in the sense of showy.
Senses: examples: text: A bunch of ugly-looking gangsters had taken the joint over for a big party, and they were all wobbling around the floor with their floozies, so drunk they could hardly stand.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “If You Can’t Make Money”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 183:
text: «Sure thing. You going with that little Mexican floozy?»
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 13, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 1:
text: Now I was a forsaken codger snuffling disgracefully from a beautiful floozy's abuse.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 418:
text: [T]he lead singer found his girlfriend bumping uglies in the dark with the roadie. But then said singer was with a blonde floozie himself—see what being on an L.A. trash-band bill can do to ya?
ref: 1984 September 27, Serena, “L.A. Dee Da: On The Streets”, in L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles, page 46:
glosses: A vulgar or sexually promiscuous woman; a hussy or slattern.
examples: text: There are refugees and black marketers, defrocked bankers and resistance fighters, gamblers, floozies, French colonial policemen, American and Spanish entertainers, and, eventually, Nazi officers (who in reality never set foot in Casablanca).
ref: 2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: A prostitute who attracts customers by walking the streets.
Synonyms: promiscuous woman
tin foil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tinfoil.
Related terms: aluminium foil
smew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmjuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: smews
Etymology: Origin unknown. In use since the 17th century.
Senses: glosses: A small compact diving duck, Mergellus albellus, that breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia and winters on sheltered coasts or inland lakes.
pintail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnˌteɪl/
Forms: form: pintails
Etymology: From pin + tail.
Senses: glosses: A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
glosses: A pintail duck, a type of dabbling duck with a characteristic pointed tail.
A northern pintail, Anas acuta, a dabbling duck of the northern hemisphere that has a long pointed tail.
glosses: A pin-tailed snipe, Gallinago stenura.
glosses: Any of various species of libellulid dragonfly of the genus Acisoma, endemic to Africa and Asia.
examples: text: The collar is placed over the fastener pintail and the installation tool is placed over the pintail. The tool pulls on the pin drawing the parts together until the collar is swaged into locking grooves.
ref: 1994, James William Fitch, Motor Truck Engineering Handbook, page 110:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The end of a fastening pin or mandrel on a Huckbolt or pop rivet that is broken off when installation is complete.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A surfboard with a pointed back end.
Synonyms: sense: Anas acuta
word: cracker
sense: Anas acuta
word: northern pintail
sense: Anas acuta
word: sea pheasant
sense: Anas acuta
word: sea-pheasant
sense: Anas acuta
word: sprigtail
Derived terms: pintail comb
Related terms: pin-tailed
peregrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹin/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn/
Forms: form: more peregrine
form: most peregrine
Etymology: From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim.
Senses: examples: text: The Romani are perpetually peregrine people.
glosses: Wandering, travelling, migratory.
glosses: Not native to a region or country; foreign; alien.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Lacking essential debility.
raw_tags: of a planet
examples: text: peregrine and preternatural heat
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: As soon as she had smiled her face altered again, and the petulant expression peregrine to her features took control.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:
glosses: Extrinsic or from without; exotic.
glosses: With "tone" Referring to the tonus peregrinus or 'wandering tone' in ecclesiastical chant and mode theory.
Derived terms: peregrinism
peregrinity
perlin
peregrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹin/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹəɡɹɪn/
Forms: form: peregrines
Etymology: From Middle English peregrin, borrowed from Old French peregrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreign”). Doublet of pilgrim.
Senses: glosses: The peregrine falcon.
glosses: A foreigner; a person resident in a country other than his or her own.
Synonyms: sense: foreigner
word: alien
word: outlander
word: strangeling
word: foreigner
Related terms: peregrine hawk
peregrinate
peregrination
mandolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændə(ˌ)lɪn/
ipa: /ˌmændəˈlɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: mandolins
form: mandoline
Etymology: From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.
glosses: A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.
Derived terms: banjo mandolin
banjo-mandolin
combolin
guitalin
Japanese mandolin
mandocello
mandolin-banjo
mandolinist
mandoliner
mandolinlike
mandolute
potato bug mandolin
Related terms: mandola
manjo
mandolin-banjo
banjo-mandolin
banjolin
mandolin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmændə(ˌ)lɪn/
ipa: /ˌmændəˈlɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: mandolins
form: mandolining
form: mandolined
form: mandolined
form: mandoline
Etymology: From French mandoline, from Italian mandolino, diminutive of mandola, a large stringed instrument.
Senses: examples: text: One Monday night I peeled potatoes over the sink, ready to mandolin them into thin slices and bake on top of a pie I had a recipe for in the newspaper on Saturday.
ref: 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: To slice using a madolin; to julienne.
phalarope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæləɹəʊp/
Forms: form: phalaropes
Etymology: From New Latin Phalaropus, formed irregularly from Ancient Greek φαλαρίς (phalarís, “coot”) + πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: synonyms: little swimmer
sea goose
glosses: Any of three small wading birds in the genus Phalaropus, of the family Scolopacidae, that have lobed toes.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Phalaropus fulicarius
word: grey phalarope
taxonomic: Phalaropus lobatus
word: red-necked phalarope
taxonomic: Phalaropus fulicarius
word: red phalarope
taxonomic: Phalaropus tricolor
word: Wilson's phalarope
bloodhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌd.haʊnd/
Forms: form: bloodhounds
form: blood-hound
form: bloudhound
form: bloud-hound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English blodhound, blodhond; equivalent to blood + hound. Cognate with Dutch bloedhond (“bloodhound”), Middle Low German blōthunt (“bloodhound”), German Bluthund (“bloodhound”), Danish blodhund (“bloodhound”), Swedish blodhund (“bloodhound”). The detective sense follows from the dog's ability to follow a trail.
Senses: examples: text: Someone stole our bloodhounds, but we got the backup bloodhounds to chase the first tier of bloodhounds.
ref: 2007, Xavier: Renegade Angel, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Police Officer:
glosses: A large scenthound famed for its ability to follow a scent many days old, over vast distances. This dog is often used as a police dog to track missing people, fleeing suspects, or escaped prisoners.
glosses: A detective or other person skilled at finding people or clues.
examples: text: For now the despot’s blood-hounds with their prey,
Unarmed and unaware, were gorging deep
Their gluttony of death; the loose array
Of horsemen o’er the wide fields murdering sweep,
And with loud laughter for their tyrant reap
A harvest sown with other hopes; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: A bloodthirsty person.
Derived terms: bloodhounding
bloodhoundish
secret Santa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secret Santas
Senses: glosses: A Christmas tradition where a group of people give anonymous gifts to each other, with each person randomly selected to give a gift to one other person.
examples: text: I could tell Mary was my secret Santa.
synonyms: Kris Kringle
glosses: The person who buys a present for another in a secret-Santa exchange.
santa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santas
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Santa (noun).
noel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈɛl/
Forms: form: noels
form: noël
form: nowell
form: nowel
Etymology: From Middle English nowel, from Anglo-Norman noel, Middle French noel, a variant of nael, from Latin adjective nātālis (“natal, having to do with birth”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in honor of the birth of Christ; a Christmas carol.
noel
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈɛl/
Forms: form: noels
form: noël
form: nowell
form: nowel
Etymology: From Middle English nowel, from Anglo-Norman noel, Middle French noel, a variant of nael, from Latin adjective nātālis (“natal, having to do with birth”).
Senses: examples: text: And may all my enemies go to hell! / Noël! Noël! Noël! Noël!
ref: 1911, Hilaire Belloc, The Four Men: A Farrago, page 243:
glosses: A wish or expression of commemoration of Christmas.
mockumentary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mockumentaries
Etymology: Blend of mock + documentary.
Senses: examples: text: “This Is Spinal Tap” is one of the most famous mockumentaries.
text: Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.
ref: 2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:
text: The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]
ref: 2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:
text: In the 2004 film A Day Without a Mexican, Sergio Arau imagines, in mockumentary style, what would happen to California if its entire Mexican-immigrant population vanished. With so many housekeepers and farmworkers, teachers and gardeners, line cooks and police gone, the state seizes up.
ref: 2021 October 5, Ian Bogost, “A Day Without Facebook”, in The Atlantic:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: false documentary
fictional documentary
glosses: A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.
Related terms: documentarylike
situation comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: situation comedies
form: sitcom
Senses: examples: text: […] in a time of peril and opportunity, the old complacent, unbalanced fare of action-adventure and situation comedies is simply not good enough.
ref: 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
topics: broadcasting
comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
media
television
synonyms: sitcom
hypernyms: comedy
glosses: An episodic comedy radio or television program with a plot or storyline based around a particular humorous situation with the same set of characters.
credentialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈdɛn.ʃə.lɪ.zəm/
Etymology: From credential + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Excessive emphasis on the importance of educational, academic, legal, or regulatory qualifications.
Related terms: credential inflation
paper ceiling
sheepskin effect
baby of the family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babies of the family
Senses: synonyms: lastborn
glosses: The youngest member of an immediate family.
glosses: A member of an immediate family who behaves as, or is treated as though they were the youngest member of a family.
glosses: An adult member of an immediate family who is treated by others in the family, especially the parents, as though they were a child.
Related terms: firstborn
middle child
immediate family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immediate families
Senses: glosses: A family unit consisting of a parent or parents and their children.
Coordinate terms: nuclear family
extended family
family
all-seeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːɪŋ
Etymology: From all- + seeing.
Senses: synonyms: omnivident
glosses: Seeing everything.
synonyms: all-knowing
omniscient
glosses: Having knowledge of all things said or done.
Derived terms: all-seeing eye
all-seeingness
Related terms: omnipotent
all-powerful
omnipresent
ever-present
translating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of translate
showstopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showstoppers
form: show-stopper
form: show stopper
Etymology: From show + stopper.
Senses: glosses: A performance or segment of a theatrical production that induces a positive audience reaction strong enough to pause the production.
glosses: Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any impediment that prevents all further progress.
A software bug that must be fixed before any further development is possible.
synonyms: blocker
Related terms: showstopping
deal breaker
candle power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candle powers
Senses: examples: text: The electric light system at Paddington is a very large one. There are 101 of these big lights of 2.000 candle power each, 4,000 of 25, and 23 of 100 candle power respectively, […].
ref: 1944 July and August, “London Railway Stations in 1893”, in Railway Magazine, page 201, taken from The English Illustrated Magazine of June 1893:
glosses: Alternative spelling of candlepower.
minimal pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimal pairs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.
Related terms: near-minimal pair
near-minimal pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: near-minimal pairs
form: near minimal pair
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.
bootilicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bootilicious
form: most bootilicious
Senses: examples: text: Beautiful Betty “BeBe” Brown. / Bamboozled, but bedazzled by big, / Bold, bodacious, bootilicious, boy bods / Became baby-bound.
ref: 2003, Syieve Locklair, “'bout B”, in Sayings of a Soul: A Collection of Poetry:
text: Off the Hook is Friday's bootilicious Gatehouse hip hop night.
ref: 2004, Jonathan Rich, The Push Guide to Which University:
text: If you weren't born with Cameron Diaz's lanky body or with Beyoncé's bootilicious features ...
ref: 2005, Jennifer Musselman, Patti Degregori, Hip Girl's Handbook For The Working World:
text: Bootilicious body language for saying goodbye
ref: 2005, Eve Marx, Read My Hips: The Sexy Art of Flirtation:
text: Bootilicious benefit ... I’m going to see Destiny’s Child tonight ... not close enough for a stage dive toward Beyonce but I guess we’re all better off for that.
ref: 2005, Dave, Daily Dose of Dave:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bootylicious.
Malé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Maldives
ipa: /ˈmɑːlɛ/
ipa: /ˈmɑːleɪ/
Etymology: From Dhivehi މާލެ (māle).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of the Maldives.
Related terms: Malé Svatoňovice
Mendelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mendel + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The whole body of principles of heredity, formulated by G. Mendel, that represent the basis of genetics.
glosses: The study of heredity of character.
Synonyms: Mendelianism
malevolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛvələns/
Forms: form: malevolences
Etymology: From Middle French malevolence, from Latin malevolentia (“malevolence”), derived from malevolēns (“malevolent”).
Senses: examples: text: to show someone malevolence
text: He said it with malevolence.
text: Esai Morales appears as the enforcer for “the entity‘’ and brings such simmering malevolence to the character that he should have been the villain instead.
ref: 2023 July 5, Murtada Elfadl, “Mission: Impossible—Dead Reckoning Part One review: Tom Cruise runs, jumps, and delivers again”, in AV Club:
glosses: Hostile attitude or feeling.
glosses: Behavior exhibiting a hostile attitude.
Synonyms: sense: attitude or feeling
word: ill-will
sense: attitude or feeling
word: malice
sense: attitude or feeling
word: spite
Derived terms: omnimalevolence
Related terms: malevolent
imposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impose
imposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of impose
proficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: prəˈfiSHənsē
ipa: /pɹəˈfɪʃənsi/
Forms: form: proficiencies
form: proficience
Etymology: From proficient or its etymon, Latin prōficiēns (present participle of prōficiō), + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: a test of proficiency in English
text: to attain (or to reach) proficiency
text: But Pirates! comes with all the usual Aardman strengths intact, particularly the sense that its characters and creators alike are too good-hearted and sweet to nitpick. The ambition is all in the craft rather than in the storytelling, but it’s hard to say no to the proficiency of that craft, or the mild good cheer behind it.
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Ability, skill, competence.
Synonyms: ability
command
competence
skill
Derived terms: language proficiency
proficiency badge
dobra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊbɹə/
ipa: /ˈdɒbɹə/
Forms: form: dobras
Etymology: From Portuguese dobra.
Senses: glosses: The official or principal currency of São Tomé and Príncipe, divided into 100 cêntimos.
tuath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuaths
form: tuatha
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Irish túath.
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing fixed or enduring about many tuatha, and reflecting the itinerant character of much of Irish society, the Church developed the peculiar phenomenon of roving ecclesiastic families [...].
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 331:
glosses: A tribe or group of people in Ireland, having a loose voluntary system of governance entered into through contracts by all members.
heuristically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /hjuˈɹɪstɪkəli/
Forms: form: more heuristically
form: most heuristically
Etymology: From heuristic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a heuristic manner
smalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smalts
Etymology: A borrowing from Italian smalto, from Medieval Latin smaltum, from Frankish *smalt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt, smelt”). A doublet of smalto.
Senses: synonyms: Dumont's blue
eschel
glosses: A deep blue pigment made from powdered glass mixed with cobalt oxide.
irreducible complexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Michael Behe in his 1996 book Darwin's Black Box.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
pseudoscience
glosses: The proposition that complex organs such as eyes and flagella must have started existing in their current form; i.e., that they cannot have evolved from previous, less complex stages.
wikipedia: Darwin's Black Box
Michael Behe
Related terms: irreducibly complex
evolution
creationism
natural selection