cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
polyurethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyurethanes
Etymology: From poly- + urethane.
Senses: examples: text: Firefighters were hampered by toxic fumes from polyurethane mattresses and overstuffed furniture.
ref: 1977 December 31, “One Person Dies in Castro Baths Fire”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 3:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of various polymeric resins containing urethane links; used in many industrial and domestic applications.
Synonyms: word: PUR
Derived terms: nonpolyurethane
polyurethane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polyurethanes
form: polyurethaning
form: polyurethaned
form: polyurethaned
Etymology: From poly- + urethane.
Senses: glosses: To coat (a floor etc.) with polyurethane.
nomad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊmæd/
ipa: /ˈnoʊmæd/
Forms: form: nomads
Etymology: From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.
Senses: examples: text: The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...
ref: 1587, Philippe de Mornay, translated by Philip Sidney et al., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:
text: Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
ref: 2013 August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
glosses: Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
synonyms: word: wanderer
extra: an itinerant person
examples: text: Once again Judy was a nomad, moving to yet again another destination.
ref: 2010, J. Knight, Unloved, →ISBN, page 58:
text: I made my exit down I-75, heading south. After a 40-year odyssey as a media nomad, I will be closing the circle in a place where my life had never been better.
ref: 2014, Dan Lovett, Anybody Seen Dan Lovett?: Memoirs of a media nomad, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Poise is the posture of the nomad, moving while always at home.
ref: 2016, Daniel Coffeen, Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense, →ISBN:
glosses: A person who changes residence frequently.
examples: text: With the recruitment of South Australian football nomad, and eventual legend of the game, Phil Matson, Subiaco would improve considerably in 1912.
ref: 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, →ISBN, page 282:
text: Unlike players who were often traded, baseball nomads who carried a hobo's bindle rather than a bat on their shoulders, Musial stayed put in St. Louis.
ref: 2014, Wayne Stewart, Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Between 1996 and 2003, Lewis was a baseball nomad. At various times he signed contracts with San Diego, Detroit, Oakland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the New York Mets, Cleveland, and the Chicago Cubs.
ref: 2015, Pete Cava, Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who changes teams frequently.
glosses: A dragonfly of Afroeurasia, Sympetrum fonscolombii.
Synonyms: sense: wanderer
word: vagabond
Derived terms: digital nomad
gray nomad
grey nomad
nomade
nomadian
nomadic
nomadical
nomadism
nomadistic
nomadity
nomadization
nomadize
nomadness
nomadology
nomadship
nonnomad
seminomad
technomad
tech-nomad
nomad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊmæd/
ipa: /ˈnoʊmæd/
Forms: form: more nomad
form: most nomad
Etymology: From Middle French nomade, from Latin Nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nomadic.
synonyms: word: nomadic
harlequinade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɑːləkwɪˈneɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: harlequinades
Etymology: From French arlequinade.
Senses: glosses: A pantomime-like comedy featuring the harlequin or clown.
examples: text: Away up the gorge all diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luminous vistas of azure sunlit mountains beneath the shining azure heavens, the ranges and valleys changing with every mood of the atmosphere, with the harlequinade of the clouds and the wind.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 154:
glosses: Any comical or fantastical procedure or playfulness.
Related terms: commedia dell'arte
metallic bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallic bonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a chemical bond in which mobile electrons are shared over many nuclei; this leads to electrical conduction
Shavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ.vɪ.ən/
Etymology: From Latin Shavi(us) + -an (Latinised form of Shaw), named after George Bernard Shaw.
Senses: examples: text: Possibly more than any other Shavian character, Undershaft engenders critical disagreement and discussion, even among the other characters in the play who call him “wicked” and “immoral” and refer to him in Devilish terms such as “Mephistoles” and “The Prince of Darkness”.
ref: 1998, Christopher Innes, The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Speaking as someone who supports the Shavian argument that monarchy is a bulwark against dictatorship, I found it a dignified occasion and a reminder that, as a nation, we seem to be infinitely better at staging public spectacles than at governing the country.
ref: 2023 May 7, Michael Billington, “The Coronation review – immaculately rehearsed, touching and Shakespearean”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or relating to George Bernard Shaw or his works.
examples: text: As late as the 1960s, Shaw's own Androcles and the Lion was published in his revised alphabet—but the fact that few people have even heard of the Shavian spelling reform shows how futile the effort has been.
ref: 2011, C.M. Millward, Mary Hayes, A Biography of the English Language, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 297:
glosses: Of or relating to the Shavian alphabet.
Derived terms: Shaviana
Shavian alphabet
Shavianism
Shavianismus
Shavianity
Shavianized
Shavian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃeɪ.vɪ.ən/
Forms: form: Shavians
Etymology: From Latin Shavi(us) + -an (Latinised form of Shaw), named after George Bernard Shaw.
Senses: glosses: An admirer of Shaw, or an advocate of his ideas.
Shavian alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shavian + alphabet
Senses: glosses: A synthetic alphabet, invented by Ronald Kingsley Read in an attempt to provide a phonetic orthography for the English language. Example: water in Shavian is 𐑢𐑷𐑑𐑼.
Synonyms: sense: Shaw’s synthetic alphabet
word: Shaw alphabet
helminthoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helminth + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: vermicular; wormlike
homogenisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: homogenisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homogenization.
humic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːmɪk
Etymology: From humus + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to humus (the natural substance, not the food).
Derived terms: ferrohumic
humate
humic acid
isohumic
nitrohumic
humic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːmɪk
Forms: form: humics
Etymology: From humus + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For waters with low concentrations of aquatic humics, the coagulant dose is controlled not by the humics but by the properties of the coagulant (pH and solubility for metal coagulants).
ref: 1996, William C. Becker, Charles R. O'Melia, Optimizing Ozonation for Turbidity and Organics, page 11:
text: A number of recent publications […] claim previous studies have overestimated the importance of the aromatic moieties present in humics […]
ref: 2005, Irina V. Perminova, Kirk Hatfield, Norbert Hertkorn, Use of Humic Substances to Remediate Polluted Environments, page 16:
text: Freshwater chemists learned that rather than manipulate large volumes of water through a complex procedure in order to extract a few milligrams of humics or fulvics, a simple adsorption column of certain resins could collect […]
ref: 2020, Roger S. Wotton, The Biology of Particles in Aquatic Systems, Second Edition:
glosses: A derivative of humic acid.
humic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a complex mixture of organic acids produced by the decomposition of vegetable matter.
poubelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poubelles
Etymology: From French poubelle.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone sent her books, knowing how she dreaded a bookless day; Heywood Hill’s, Hamish Hamilton, friends and relations and writers, but she was not always pleased. ‘I can’t think what’s come over the shop, she used to say. (Heywood Hill was always ‘the shop’.) ‘How can they imagine I’m going to read this?’ and into the poubelle went the offerings.
ref: 1977, Diana Mosley, “A Vale of Tears”, in A Life of Contrasts: The Autobiography of Diana Mitford Mosley, New York, N.Y.: Times Books, →ISBN, page 277:
text: Whenever I set off down the street with the blue bag, I would say: “Just going out to the poubelle.” And so I always remembered the jolly, brave Prefect of Paris [Eugène Poubelle], who made it all possible.
ref: 2002, David Bouchier, “The Wonderful Invention of Monsieur Poubelle”, in The Cats and the Water Bottles and Other Mysteries of French Village Life, New York, N.Y.: ASJA Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part I (Village Life), page 38:
text: He's stopped making paintings, giving them away or taking them out of their frames and dragging them downhill to poubelle, stacking the little canvases against the large green container.
ref: 2013 April, Thomas Fuller, “Robaire Walks Like a Surrealist, Begins to Go Crazy”, in Monsieur Ambivalence: A Post Literate Fable, San Francisco, Calif.: IF SF Publishing, →ISBN, book 3, page 83:
text: It was part of a shopping centre, and as I entered, I went straight to a burly security guard, to ask if there was a restaurant, and more importantly, to let him know who the blue poubelle waiting outside belonged to!
ref: 2015, Mark Haubrick, “Day 90”, in Where’s Ya Bin? Across Europe!, Guildford, Surrey: Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 121:
text: Why don’t both of you grow up and put religion into the poubelle?
ref: 2016, Susunaga Weeraperuma, “Annette of Les Arcs”, in Various Kinds of Women: Short Stories, New Delhi: Satyam Books Pvt. Ltd., →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: A garbage can.
grosse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But in the groſſe and ſcope of mine opinion, / This bodes ſome ſtrange eruption to our ſtate.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of gross.
foie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of foie gras, from French foie gras, from foie (“liver”) + gras (“fat”)
Senses: examples: text: Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.
ref: 2005, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 50, number 5, page 159:
text: Season the foie and sear until dark golden brown. Drain off and reserve the foie, adding the fat back into the pan and bring heat back up.
ref: 2006, Chuck Johnson, Blanche Johnson, Savor Idaho Cookbook:
glosses: Ellipsis of foie gras.
know like the back of one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows like the back of one's hand
form: knowing like the back of one's hand
form: knew like the back of one's hand
form: known like the back of one's hand
form: know like the palm of one's hand
Senses: examples: text: He knows the software like the back of his hand, and can often solve problems over the phone, without looking.
text: "I can; know that country like the back of my hand. You haven't got a road map, I suppose. Well, no matter, I'll give you the lay of the land without it."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218:
text: “I know American audiences like the back of my hand,” she says, sitting in a dressing room in London at the end of a long day of rehearsals; […]
ref: 2024 April 27, Tim Bano, quoting Sanaz Toossi, “It's a play born of rage”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 15:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To be intimately knowledgeable about something.
Synonyms: know inside and out
know like a book
Related terms: give someone the back of one's hand
Herzog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Herzogs
form: Hartsoe
Etymology: Borrowed from German Herzog.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Frenchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɛntʃi
Forms: form: Frenchier
form: Frenchiest
form: Frenchie
Etymology: From French + -y.
Senses: glosses: With an exaggerated French manner.
Related terms: frenchify
Frenchiness
Frenchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɛntʃi
Forms: form: Frenchies
form: Frenchie
Etymology: From French + -y.
Senses: examples: text: They seek him here, they seek him there, / Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. / Is he in heaven—is he in hell? / That damned elusive Pimpernel?
ref: 1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March 1912, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: Frencher
word: frog#Etymology 2
glosses: A native or resident of France, or a francophone, or a person of French lineage.
Frenchy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃi/
rhymes: -ɛntʃi
Forms: form: Frenchie
Etymology: From French + -y.
Senses: glosses: A short form of various names: Francine, Franchelle, Francoise, etc., e.g. Franchelle "Frenchie" Davis.
on the sly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: This diversion was enjoyed on the sly, and unknown to the ladies of the house.
ref: 1857, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The Virginians:
text: He was working for us on the sly at the Herald-Traveler-Record-American (before it shortened its topheavy name), then as now a reactionary, homophobic rag. Evidently he placed himself at some risk to help us, I learned later, because he was threatened with dismissal for his unauthorized use of the typesetter.
ref: 1984 December 15, John Kyper, “Remembering David Stryker”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 5:
synonyms: clandestinely
furtively
on the down-low
on the quiet
on the Q.T.
glosses: Slyly, in an inconspicuous manner, so as not to be seen; secretly; stealthily.
ouvert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːˈvɛː/
Forms: form: ouverts
Etymology: Borrowed from French ouvert. Doublet of apert and overt.
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A position in which the feet are apart, or a movement which brings them apart.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: An open-crotch undergarment.
Related terms: misère ouvert
abonné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbəʊˈneɪ/
Forms: form: abonnés
Etymology: Borrowed from French abonné, from abonner (“subscribe”).
Senses: glosses: A subscriber; a season ticket holder.
season ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: season tickets
Senses: glosses: A ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series of related events for which individual tickets would otherwise be needed.
examples: text: One of them ended its career as a passenger carrying vehicle in 1907, by freezing in Kemp Town Tunnel, to the discomfiture of some important season ticket holders, who did not hesitate to let the directors know what they thought about the incident.
ref: 1952 April, “Notes and News: Petrol Railcars on the L.B.S.C.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
text: Rail fares rose above inflation by an average of 2.8% in January 2019, compared with a 2.5% rise in the Retail Price Index. But season tickets continued to decline in popularity - they now account for 20.6% of ticket revenue.
ref: 2020 January 2, “Upturn in train punctuality and in freight's fortunes”, in RAIL, page 13:
text: But while the decline in season ticket sales as a proportion of fares income has continued, commuting has by no means died. Instead, people are working more flexibly. Therefore, a monthly or annual season ticket is not worthwhile.
ref: 2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL, number 1043, page 57:
glosses: A ticket that is valid for multiple rides (limited by number of rides and/or time of travel) by public transit for which individual tickets would otherwise be needed.
Synonyms: sense: public-transit ticket for multiple rides
word: multi-pass ticket
reconstructivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From reconstructive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A postmodern movement concerned with the conscious reconstruction of reality, particularly, but not exclusively, with regard to social reality.
visitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: visitations
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
ref: 1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I:
text: Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
ref: 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...:
glosses: The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
glosses: An official visit to inspect or examine something.
glosses: An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
examples: text: But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81:
glosses: An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
topics: law
glosses: The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
glosses: A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
Derived terms: conjugal visitation
Nun of the Visitation
chef-d'œuvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chefs-d'œuvre
Senses: examples: text: It was there that the Romans exposed their chefs-d’œuvre of painting and of sculpture.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book IV. Rome.] Chap[ter] V.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume I, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, pages 217–218:
text: I shall have a bottle of the old Burgundy, and tell Chloe he must exert himself to send me up some slight chef-d'œuvre for supper: I am sure that one needs something, after so much annoyance!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Truth of Presentiments”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 307:
glosses: Alternative form of chef d'œuvre.
night night
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪt.naɪt/
ipa: [naɪt˥.naɪt˧]
Forms: form: night-night
form: nighty night
form: nini
Senses: glosses: Goodnight.
Derived terms: go night-night
keep out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps out
form: keeping out
form: kept out
form: kept out
Senses: examples: text: After being warned, he kept out.
glosses: To refrain from entering a place or condition.
examples: text: The warning kept him out.
text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
antonyms: let in#Verb
lock in#Verb
glosses: To restrain someone or something from entering a place or condition.
examples: text: Put me in Chanels, kept me out nice
ref: 1996, Lil' Kim, “Not Tonight”:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To dress up.
Related terms: no admittance
no trespassing
stay away
knock oneself out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks oneself out
form: knocking oneself out
form: knocked oneself out
form: knocked oneself out
Senses: examples: raw_tags: i.e., have as many as you want
text: "These cookies are my favorite! Can I have some?" "Sure, knock yourself out." (i.e., have as many as you want)
raw_tags: sarcastically, indicating lack of interest
text: (sarcastically, indicating lack of interest) "I'm going to the store." / "Knock yourself out."
glosses: To go ahead; to do as one pleases; to enjoy oneself; to endeavor very hard at a task.
Related terms: don't knock yourself out
help oneself
knock one out
knock out
suit yourself
insertion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɝʃən/
Forms: form: insertions
Etymology: From insert + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: The surgeon performed the insertion of a pacemaker.
text: The insertion of new text changed the meaning of the document.
text: The book contained the insertion of several illustrations.
glosses: The act of inserting, or something inserted.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The distal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will be moved by the muscle.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The addition of a nucleotide to a chromosome by mutation.
qualifier: atomic weapons
glosses: The process of going from subcritical to prompt critical.
Derived terms: deinsertion
disinsertion
do-insertion
indel
insertional
insertion order
insertion reaction
insertion sort
insertion time
leaf insertion
microinsertion
misinsertion
noninsertion
plane of insertion
postinsertion
postinsertional
preinsertion
preinsertional
reinsertion
Schensted insertion
self-insertion
old sod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old sods
form: ould sod
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, sod (person).
examples: text: It was good to be back on the ould sod.
ref: 1999, Dermot Bolger, Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel:
glosses: The old country; one's place of origin.
inconsolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconsolable
form: most inconsolable
Etymology: Middle French inconsolable, from Latin inconsolabilis; by surface analysis, in- + consolable, or, by surface analysis, in- + console + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: miserable, despondent; see also Thesaurus:sad
text: Salah looked inconsolable as he was led from the pitch and Sergio Ramos had some nerve offering a sympathetic hug on the way off.
ref: 2018 May 26, Daniel Taylor, “Liverpool go through after Mohamed Salah stops Manchester City fightback”, in The Guardian (London):
synonyms: unconsolable#Adjective
glosses: Not consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.
Derived terms: word: inconsolability
word: inconsolableness
word: inconsolably
Related terms: word: consolability
word: consolableness
word: unconsolability
word: unconsolable
word: unconsolably
consolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more consolable
form: most consolable
Etymology: From console + -able. Derived from French consoler, from Latin consolari, which is from con- + solari (“to soothe”).
Senses: glosses: Able or likely to be consoled.
Derived terms: consolably
inconsolable
unconsolable
Related terms: solace
fiducial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /f(a)ɪˈdjuːʃ(ɪ)əl/
ipa: /-ˈdʒuː-/
ipa: /-uːs(ɪ)əl/
ipa: /fəˈd(j)uːʃəl/
Forms: form: more fiducial
form: most fiducial
Etymology: From Late Latin fīdūciālis, from fīdūcia (“trust, reliance”) + -ālis, from fīdō (“I trust”).
Senses: examples: text: Rulers and coins make good fiducial markers in photographs.
glosses: Accepted as a fixed basis of reference.
glosses: Based on having trust.
Derived terms: fiducialization
fiducially
fiducial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /f(a)ɪˈdjuːʃ(ɪ)əl/
ipa: /-ˈdʒuː-/
ipa: /-uːs(ɪ)əl/
ipa: /fəˈd(j)uːʃəl/
Forms: form: fiducials
Etymology: From Late Latin fīdūciālis, from fīdūcia (“trust, reliance”) + -ālis, from fīdō (“I trust”).
Senses: glosses: In photography, a familiar reference object used to show size or scale, such as a ruler or a coin; a fiducial marker.
coordinate_terms: registration mark[printing]]>
glosses: In manufacturing, a small mark on a circuit board used to align components; a fiducial point.
selling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Forms: form: sellings
Senses: examples: text: buyings and sellings
glosses: Action of the verb to sell.
examples: text: You've got to work on your selling.
glosses: Skill at salesmanship.
Derived terms: best-selling
consultative selling
direct selling
flag-selling
host selling
inertia selling
panic selling
pyramid selling
selling on
selling plate
selling-plater
selling point
selling price
short selling
switch selling
top-selling
selling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sell
mycology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /maɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From myco- + -ology.
Senses: synonyms: fungology
glosses: The study of fungi.
Derived terms: aeromycology
ethnomycology
mycologize
speleomycology
Related terms: mycologic
mycological
mycologically
mycologist
Visitation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Visitation
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on May 30th in Eastern Christianity or May 31st in Western Christianity.
SOKOP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Acronym of sounds OK on paper: something that sounds like a good idea when read about, but is actually not of any practical use when trying to implement it.
Related terms: good enough for government work
isomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: īsəmô'fĭk
ipa: /ˌaɪ.səˈmɔː.fɪk/
enpr: īsōmôr'fĭk
ipa: /ˌaɪ.soʊˈmɔɹ.fɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)fɪk
Etymology: From iso- + -morphic.
Senses: examples: text: Let A, B be the ordered sets in Figure 10.3. Let C be the direct product of infinitely many copies of the two element chain 2. Then A^C is isomorphic to B^C, but A is not isomorphic to B.
ref: 2003, Bernd Siegfried Walter Schröder, Ordered Sets: An Introduction, page 254:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Related by an isomorphism; having a structure-preserving one-to-one correspondence.
examples: text: The fact that different structures can be shown to be functionally isomorphic implies that they are analogous, not homologous.
ref: 1993, Marcus Jacobson, Foundations of Neuroscience, page 106:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a similar structure or function to something that is not related genetically or through evolution.
examples: text: For example, in so far as written and spoken English are isomorphic (i.e. have the same structure), they are the same language: there is nothing but their structure that they have in common.
ref: 1981, John Lyons, Language and Linguistics: An Introduction, page 60:
glosses: Having identical relevant structure; being structure-preserving while undergoing certain invertible transformations.
examples: text: an isomorphic JavaScript app
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Able to run either client-side or server-side.
Coordinate terms: anisomorphic
heteromorphic
homomorphic
Derived terms: anisomorphic
isomorphically
unisomorphic
Related terms: isomorph
isomorphism
isomorphous
tithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪðɪŋ
Forms: form: tithings
Etymology: From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I prayed for the sick and saw some of them healed under my hands. I was given tithings of money and food by people who had not enough to eat themselves.
ref: 1998, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 294:
glosses: A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The tithe given as an offering to the church.
glosses: A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The payment of tithes.
glosses: A tithe or tenth in its various senses, (particularly):
The collection of tithes.
examples: text: I see the boys of summer in their ruin / Lay the gold tithings barren, / Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils
ref: 1934, Dylan Thomas, “I see the boys of summer”, in 18 Poems, London: The Fortune Press:
glosses: Ten sheaves of wheat (originally set up as such for the tithe proctor).
topics: law
synonyms: tenmantale
glosses: A body of households (originally a tenth of a hundred or ten households) bound by frankpledge to collective responsibility and punishment for each other's behavior.
topics: law
glosses: A part of the hundred as a rural division of territory.
Synonyms: sense: tenth
word: tenth and tithe
sense: oath-bound division of the hundred
word: decenary
sense: oath-bound division of the hundred
word: decime
sense: oath-bound division of the hundred
word: frankpledge
sense: oath-bound division of the hundred
word: fribourg
Derived terms: tithing-barn
tithing days
tithingman
tithing-man
tithing-penny
tithing port
tithing-sheaf
tithing-system
tithing table
tithing-time
Related terms: sense: oath-bound division of the hundred
word: decenary
sense: oath-bound division of the hundred, leader
word: tithingman
sense: oath-bound division of the hundred, member
word: decenary
tithing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪðɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪðɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English tithyng, from Old English tēoþung or tēoðung, from tēoða (“a tithe”) + -ing (suffix forming patronymics and diminutives) and tēoþian (“to tithe”) + -ung (suffix forming verbal nouns). Equivalent to tithe + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tithe
indecent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdiːs(ə)nt/
Forms: form: more indecent
form: most indecent
Etymology: From in- + decent.
Senses: synonyms: distasteful
in bad taste
in poor taste
offensive
glosses: Offensive to good taste.
synonyms: immodest
immoral
improper
unseemly
glosses: Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly.
qualifier: criminal law
glosses: Generally unacceptable for public broadcasting but not legally obscene.
Derived terms: indecency
indecent assault
indecent exposure
indecent liberty
indecently
indecentness
Related terms: decency
desertification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌzɜː.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /dɪˌzɝ.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Etymology: From desert + -ification (“process of becoming”).
Senses: glosses: The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.
Derived terms: antidesertification
Related terms: desertify
fossilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fossilisations
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of fossilization.
bajra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajre
form: bajree
form: bajri
form: bajury
Etymology: From Hindi बाजरा (bājrā). Compare bajri from Gujarati બાજરી (bājrī).
Senses: examples: text: When food was scarce, the children would subsist on a lump of jaggery and one bajra roti each.
ref: 2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 94:
glosses: Pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus, syn. Pennisetum glaucum).
bajra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bajras
Etymology: From Hindi बजरा (bajrā).
Senses: examples: text: ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.
ref: 1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:
glosses: Alternative form of budgerow.
blackthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblækˌθɔːn/
ipa: /ˈblækˌθɔɹn/
Forms: form: blackthorns
Etymology: Compound of black + thorn.
Senses: glosses: A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
glosses: A stick or staff taken from this tree.
Synonyms: sloe
Derived terms: blackthorn winter
Related terms: shillelagh
escadrille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escadrilles
Etymology: Borrowed from French escadrille, from Middle French, from Spanish escuadrilla, from Latin exquadrare (“to square off”).
Senses: glosses: A small squadron.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A unit of (usually) ten or more aircraft in World War I France.
SOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SOCs
form: SoC
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: SoM
SBC
glosses: Initialism of system on a chip.
topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: SOCOM
glosses: Initialism of special operations command.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of separation of concerns.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of standard outcue.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of state of charge.
glosses: Initialism of standard of care.
SOC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: SoC
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of System and Organization Controls.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of standard obstacle course.
I wish
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: - I don't know how I'm going to afford all these Christmas presents.
- Maybe you'll win the lottery and become a millionaire overnight.
- I wish!
glosses: Used to express the speaker's wish that the preceding statement were true
Synonyms: your lips to God's ears
Related terms: you wish
you wish
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "When I grow up, I'm going to be a superhero!" / "Huh, you wish!"
text: "They can't bench me. I'm the best shooter on the team." / "You wish!"
glosses: Used to express the speaker's skepticism about a preceding statement concerning some desired or assumed state of affairs.
Synonyms: in your dreams
you wish, jellyfish
Related terms: I wish
your lips to God's ears
don't knock yourself out
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'll get round to it soonish. — Well, don't knock yourself out!
glosses: Don't overexert yourself (in doing something that does not require much effort).
Related terms: knock out
knock oneself out
back scrubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back scrubbers
Senses: glosses: A utensil in the form of a brush or a sponge on a long handle, used to scrub the back while bathing.
Related terms: loofah
loofah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːfə/
rhymes: -uːfə
Forms: form: loofahs
form: loofa
form: luffa
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa).
Senses: glosses: Any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having almost cylindrical fruit with a spongy, fibrous interior; the dishcloth gourd.
glosses: The dried fibrous interior of such a plant, used as a sponge for bathing.
glosses: Any bath sponge; a sponge on a handle.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Luffa acutangula
word: angled loofah
word: smooth loofah
loofah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːfə/
rhymes: -uːfə
Forms: form: loofahs
form: loofahing
form: loofahed
form: loofahed
form: loofa
form: luffa
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic لُوفَة (lūfa).
Senses: examples: text: And she took good care of my feet, massaging them and loofahing the calluses away.
ref: 2006, Scott Dikkers, Peter Hilleren, Destined for Destiny, page 63:
text: I may have snuck in showering myself—plus shaving, loofahing, hair blow-drying, reapplying makeup, changing my outfit five times, and winding up in what I started out with.
ref: 2012, Jill Smolinski, Objects of My Affection:
glosses: To clean or scrub with a loofah.
shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪpt/
rhymes: -eɪpt
Forms: form: more shaped
form: most shaped
Etymology: From Middle English schaped, ischaped, equivalent to shape + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The shaped sides of the wardrobe give it a more attractive appearance.
glosses: Having been given a shape, especially a curved shape.
glosses: Having a particular shape (sharing the appearance of something in space, especially its outline – often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure).
examples: text: a God-shaped hole in one's heart
text: Records showed the three security agents were already dead, which bore further investigation, but that was an Ibanez-shaped problem, and Lillian's problems were taller, leaner, and perhaps even meaner, so she focused on them instead.
ref: 2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Next to Nothing”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2024:
glosses: Designed for a particular person or thing.
Synonyms: -form
shapen
Derived terms: almond-shaped
apple-shaped
ball-shaped
banana-shaped
battleship-shaped curve
bell-shaped
boat-shaped abdomen
bowl-shaped
box-shaped
brickshaped
brick-shaped
cone-shaped
crescent-shaped
cross-shaped
cube-shaped
cup-shaped
dome-shaped
domeshaped
egg-shaped
fan-shaped
friend-shaped
funnelshaped
funnel-shaped
go pear-shaped
go pear shaped
heart-shaped
hourglass-shaped
kidney-shaped
leaf-shaped
mushroom-shaped
needle-shaped
oval-shaped
pear-shaped
ring-shaped
rod-shaped
saddle-shaped tricholoma
shaped diaper
shaped nappy
spindle-shaped
star-shaped
tee-shaped
top-shaped
U-shaped recession
wedge-shaped
well-shaped
Y-shaped coffin
A-shaped - B-shaped - C-shaped - D-shaped - E-shaped - F-shaped - G-shaped - H-shaped - I-shaped - J-shaped - K-shaped - L-shaped - M-shaped - N-shaped - O-shaped - P-shaped - Q-shaped - R-shaped - S-shaped - T-shaped - U-shaped - V-shaped - W-shaped - X-shaped - Y-shaped - Z-shaped
shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪpt/
rhymes: -eɪpt
Etymology: From Middle English schaped, ischaped, equivalent to shape + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shape
satisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsætɪsfaɪd/
Etymology: From the verb satisfy, equivalent to satisfy + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of satisfy
satisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsætɪsfaɪd/
Forms: form: more satisfied
form: most satisfied
Etymology: From Middle English satisfyed, i-satisfyed, i-satisfied, past participle of Middle English satisfien, equivalent to satisfy + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I'm satisfied with your progress in your homework, so you can watch television now.
synonyms: content
happy
pleased
glosses: In a state of satisfaction.
examples: text: The judge was satisfied that the defendant did not go out with the intent to start a riot.
glosses: Convinced based on the available evidence.
Synonyms: happy
Related terms: self-satisfied
pleased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliːzd/
rhymes: -iːzd
Forms: form: more pleased
form: most pleased
Etymology: From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: She was pleased with her exam results.
text: I’m pleased to meet you at last.
text: They seemed pleased by the unexpected gift.
glosses: Happy, content
Synonyms: content
happy
satisfied
Derived terms: best pleased
is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
pleased as punch
pleased as Punch
pleasedly
pleasedness
pleased to meet you
pleased with oneself
unpleased
well-pleased
pleased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pliːzd/
rhymes: -iːzd
Etymology: From Middle English plesed, iplesed (past participle) and Middle English plesede (preterit), both equivalent to please + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of please
rigor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡɚ/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
homophone: rigger
homophone: rigour
Forms: form: rigors
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin rigor (“stiffness, rigidity, rigor, cold, harshness”), from rigere (“to be rigid”).
Senses: glosses: US spelling of rigour.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
examples: text: Heat always upped the rate at which rigor gripped a corpse.
ref: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 4, paragraph 3:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of rigor mortis.
Derived terms: break rigor
rigor caloris
rigorous
jammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæmɚ/
rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jammers
Etymology: From jam + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.
ref: 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29:
glosses: Any device used to jam radio reception.
glosses: A musician who jams.
glosses: A device (e.g. a jumar) which will slide along a rope in one direction but not the other, used in rock-climbing, caving etc.
qualifier: roller derby
glosses: A player who attempts to score points by making their way past other players.
Derived terms: game jammer
gearjammer
shrimp jammer
Related terms: Animal Jammer
windjammer
bell-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bell-shaped
form: most bell-shaped
Senses: synonyms: campaniform
campaniliform
campanulate
glosses: Having a shape or cross-section like that of a church bell.
Related terms: bell curve
pear-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pear-shaped
form: most pear-shaped
Senses: examples: text: Single egg laid directly on ledge, pear-shaped to prevent rolling off[.]
ref: 2009, Lars Svensson, Collins Bird Guide, page 210:
synonyms: lecythiform
piriform
pyriform
glosses: Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
examples: text: pear-shaped obesity versus apple-shaped obesity
text: Just as one should take sitting-up exercises every day to keep one's figure from going pear-shaped in the hips, one should spend at least a little time, even if it is only very little, sloughing off mental flabbiness by thinking, studying or just reading something that requires an exercising effort of the mind to understand, memorise or digest.
ref: 1936 March 21, Glen Innes Examiner, NSW, page 7, column 3:
text: Even at BMIs above 30, where obesity begins, men and women whose waist-to-hip ratio identified them as more pear-shaped were less likely to die -- of any cause and of cardiovascular causes -- than those with similar BMIs who were apple-shaped.
ref: 2015 September 11, Melissa Healy, “Pear-shaped vs. apple trumps body mass index as a measure of risk”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2015:
synonyms: lecythiform
piriform
pyriform
gynoid
glosses: Having a shape of a (typical western) pear, or in cross-section, like the cross-section of a pear.
Having gynoid fat distribution, not android fat distribution.
coordinate_terms: android
apple-shaped
glosses: rich, mellow, sonorous
raw_tags: of a vocal or musical tone
glosses: Wrong, awry, usually in the phrase go pear-shaped.
Derived terms: go pear-shaped
play it pear-shaped
turn pear-shaped
auscultation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːskəlˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɔskəlˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: auscultations
Etymology: From Latin auscultātio (“act of listening”).
Senses: examples: text: They thus appeared to be taking her, together, for the moment, and almost for sociability, as prepared to proceed to gratuitous extremities; the upshot of which was in turn, that after much interrogation, auscultation, exploration, much noting of his own sequences and neglecting of hers, had duly kept up the vagueness, they might have struck themselves, or may at least strike us, as coming back from an undeterred but useless voyage to the north pole.
ref: 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:
text: The movement was also responsible for the recognition of several new signs of death such as fixed, dilated pupils and auscultation of the heart.
ref: 1973, David Hendin, Death as a Fact of Life, George J. McLeod, published 1973, page 22:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Diagnosis of disorders by listening to the sounds of the internal organs, usually using a stethoscope.
Related terms: auscultate
auscult
now now
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of now, now.
decadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkədəns/
Forms: form: decadences
Etymology: From French décadence, from Medieval Latin decadentia (“decay”), from *decadens (“decaying”), present participle of *decadere (“to decay”); see decay.
Senses: examples: text: "Stability, however, is not enough. It leads too easily to stagnation, and thence to decadence."
ref: 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 35:
glosses: A state of moral or artistic decline or deterioration; decay
examples: the decadence of a five-star hotel
glosses: The quality of being luxuriously self-indulgent.
Related terms: decadent
deciduous
don't go there
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: don't go there !
Senses: examples: text: 'Surely, in hindsight, you realise she was an unsuitable wife for you,' he stated unequivocally.
'Don't go there, Dad,' Luc warned, hard ruthless steel in his own eyes. 'You've lost one son. You're very close to losing another.'
ref: 2009, Emma Darcy, Sara Craven, Diane Hamilton, The Italian's Love-Child (Mills & Boon By Request):
glosses: Do not broach that topic.
Related terms: go down that road