cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
finishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: finishings
Senses: glosses: The act of completing something.
examples: text: That guy's a slow and lazy player, but he's got excellent finishing.
text: Benítez's team had been subjected to some intense pressure and will be grateful that Benfica's finishing was not as refined as their buildup play. Jorge Jesus's side pinned them back at times but they were guilty of being too elaborate in front of goal.
ref: 2013 May 15, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Shooting ability.
glosses: The final work upon or ornamentation of a thing; finish.
Derived terms: finishing coat
finishing line
finishing move
finishing nail
finishing press
finishing rolls
finishing school
finishing touch
mass finishing
nonfinishing
photo finishing
photofinishing
superfinishing
wood finishing
fiancee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiancees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fiancée.
brand image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brand images
Senses: examples: text: Whenever Sally drinks her favorite beer, Duff's brand image floods her senses with scenes of being on a hot beach drinking something refreshing.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A consumer's perception of a brand.
sitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsɪtɚ/
ipa: [ˈsɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sitters
Etymology: From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The photograph caused a stir last week because it was shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery’s prestigious Taylor Wessing prize, despite the rule that “all photographs must have been taken by the entrant from life and with a living sitter”.
However realistic Erica may be, and to me she looks more like a sex doll than a real person, she was certainly not a living sitter.
ref: 2017 September 10, Nigel Warburton, “What does a portrait of Erica the android tell us about being human?”, in The Observer:
glosses: Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
examples: text: It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
text: Those domestic worries came through in pop-culture depictions of the sitter. In the midst of the 1960s sexual revolution, she was often portrayed as a temptress, seducing fathers when mom was away; in the ’70s, she started showing up in horror movies, trapped with a killer in the house and kids to protect[…]
ref: 2024 March 19, Faith Hill, “Don’t Tell America the Babysitter’s Dead”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
glosses: A sitting room.
examples: text: "The sitters had better just take their own places," said the medium.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A participant in a séance.
glosses: A broody hen.
examples: text: How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
text: Aaron Ramsey, a hero last season against Hull, missed a sitter at the end of normal time that would have made the game safe and must have been relieved that his shot against a post from four yards out did not cost his side more dearly.
ref: 2015 April 18, Paul Wilson, The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
soccer
sports
glosses: A very easy scoring chance.
Derived terms: aisle sitter
babysitter
bedsitter
bed-sitter
catsitter
dogsitter
fence sitter
fence-sitter
granny-sitter
hand-sitter
homesitter
house-sitter
house sitter
petsitter
pole-sitter
puppysitter
sitter-in
trip sitter
window sitter
Related terms: Irish setter
seater
setter
sitting duck
detention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛnʃən/
Forms: form: detentions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French détention, from Latin detentio, detentionem. Equivalent to detain + -tion.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of rail-borne traffic, permission is given to each sender to load and forward his traffic so that it will be available for loading into the vessel with a minimum of detention to wagons, unless arrangements have been made for the traffic to be put into store to await the arrival of the ship.
ref: 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
text: "[…] On the 18th of October, 1841, a very intense magnetic disturbance was recorded, and amongst other curious facts mentioned is that of the detention of the 10:05pm express train at Exeter for 16 minutes, as from the magnetic disturbance affecting the needles so powerfully, it was impossible to ascertain if the line was clear at Starcross. The superintendent at Exeter reported the next morning that someone was playing tricks with the instruments, and would not let them work."
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: The act of detaining or the state of being detained.
topics: law
glosses: A temporary state of custody or confinement.
Confinement of a prisoner awaiting trial.
examples: text: be stuck in detention
glosses: A temporary state of custody or confinement.
A punishment given to a student for a minor infraction, typically requiring the student to report to a designated room during recess or outside of school hours to work on homework or perform busywork.
qualifier: civil law
glosses: The bare physical control without the mental element of intention required for possession.
Synonyms: sense: punishment given to a student for a minor infraction
word: DT
topics: Roman-Catholicism
Catholicism
Christianity
sense: punishment given to a student for a minor infraction
word: jug
Derived terms: detention basin
detention cell
detention center
detention centre
detention home
detention officer
detention pond
detention time
detention warrant
house of detention
mandatory detention
nondetention
predetention
redetention
Related terms: detain
coffeehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeehouses
form: coffee house
form: coffee-house
Etymology: From coffee + house.
Senses: examples: text: […] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.
ref: 1714 (date written), [Jonathan Swift], Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs. […], Dublin; London: […] T. Cooper, […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 3:
text: In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
ref: 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2012:
synonyms: coffee shop
hypernyms: house
glosses: An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
Related terms: basket house
coffee bar
coffee shop
hiya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ(j)ə/
rhymes: -aɪə
rhymes: -aɪjə
homophone: higher (in some non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: hi-ya
form: hia
form: hiyah
form: heya
Etymology: Shortened from how are you?, with influence from hi. US, 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: Hiya, love, how's you?
synonyms: word: ciao
word: good morning
word: good day
word: good evening
word: good morrow
word: greetings
word: heaveno
word: hello
word: hello there
word: heyday
word: hi
word: hi there
word: hiya
word: hey hey
word: heyo
word: how
word: how are you
word: salaam
word: salaam alaikum
word: salutations
word: shalom
word: shalom aleichem
word: sup
word: wassup
word: well met
word: what's doing
word: what's going on
word: what's new
word: what's up
word: yello
word: yo
word: g'day
word: hey
word: howdy
word: cheerio
word: how's it going
word: top of the morning
word: namaste
word: wagwan
word: ayubowan
word: privet
word: howzit
word: alright
word: alright me babber
word: alright me lover
word: ay up me duck
word: ey up
word: hallo
word: hullo
word: wotcher
word: aloha
word: ayo
glosses: An informal greeting, hi, hello.
Related terms: hiya doin'
hiya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ(j)ə/
rhymes: -aɪə
rhymes: -aɪjə
homophone: higher (in some non-rhotic accents)
Forms: form: hi-ya
form: hiyah
form: hi-yah
form: haiya
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A kiai, shouted as a limb is swung in attack.
Spaulding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spauldings
Etymology: Variant of Spalding.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
A village in Sangamon County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
A small town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A placename, from the surname:
An unincorporated community in the town of City Point, Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States.
finals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of final
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place or prize, 2nd place or prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
Derived terms: finals week
finals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnəlz/
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Clipping of final approach.
finals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪnəlz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of final
voyeurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voyeurists
Etymology: From voyeur + -ist?
Senses: glosses: spy or voyeur
voyeurist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more voyeurist
form: most voyeurist
Etymology: From voyeur + -ist?
Senses: glosses: voyeuristic
Spalding
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Spaulding
Senses: glosses: A market town in South Holland district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF2422).
glosses: A rural municipality and village therein, in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A town north of the Clare Valley in South Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Geraldton in the City of Greater Geraldton, Western Australia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Macon County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Nez Perce County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Menominee County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ralls County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Greeley County, Nebraska.
glosses: An English and Scottish habitational surname.
Derived terms: Holme-on-Spalding-Moor
Spalding County
Spalding peafowl
Spaldonian
apar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apars
Senses: examples: text: The apar is mainly diurnal in its habits; and trusts for defence to its power of rolling itself into a ball, not dwelling in burrows like the members of the other genera.
ref: 1895, Richard Lydekker, The Royal Natural History, page 224:
text: The apars are noted, indeed, for their lively and restless manners.
ref: 1907, Ernest Ingersoll, The Life of Animals: The Mammals, page 478:
glosses: The three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus
rueful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːfl̩/
Forms: form: more rueful
form: most rueful
form: ruefull
Etymology: From Middle English ruful, rewful. By surface analysis, rue + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Merely, he received it with the rueful indulgence that he would show towards Tom when he came through with one of his solutions for ending world poverty or the arms race.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
synonyms: word: deplorable
word: pitiful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: Causing, feeling, or expressing regret or sorrow, especially in a wry or humorous way.
synonyms: pathetic
pitiable
pitiful
pitisome
glosses: Inspiring pity or compassion.
synonyms: word: unfavorable
word: negative
word: abysmal
word: awful
word: chronic
word: coarse
word: crap
word: crummy
word: dire
word: disagreeable
word: dismal
word: dreadful
word: foul
word: hideous
word: hopeless
word: horrendous
word: horrid
word: horrible
word: inadequate
word: incompetent
word: inelegant
word: intolerable
word: inferior
word: loathsome
word: lousy
word: miserable
word: naff
word: negative
word: odious
word: pathetic
word: peak
word: rotten
word: rubbish
word: shitawful
word: sloppy
word: terrible
word: unfavorable
glosses: Bad; woeful; deplorable.
Derived terms: ruefully
ruefulness
Related terms: rue
conglobe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəŋˈɡləʊb/
ipa: /kəŋˈɡloʊb/
rhymes: -əʊb
Forms: form: conglobes
form: conglobing
form: conglobed
form: conglobed
Etymology: PIE word
 *ḱóm
From French conglober, from Latin conglobāre, the present active infinitive of conglobō (“to gather into a ball; to accumulate; to crowd together”), from con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several objects) + globus (“round object, globe, sphere; glob; group”) (from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball; a ball”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
Senses: examples: text: His brooding wings the Spirit of God outspread, / And vital virtue infused and vital warmth, / Throughout the fluid mass, but downward purged / The black, tartareous, cold, infernal, dregs / Adverse to life: then founded, then conglobed / Like things to like.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: But what means this? The downy swathes combine, / Conglobe, the smothery coy-caressing stuff / Curdles about her!
ref: 1880, Robert Browning, “Pan and Luna”, in Dramatic Idyls: Second Series, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
conglobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conglobate
form: most conglobate
Etymology: First attested in 1635; borrowed from Latin conglobātus, perfect passive participial of conglobō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + globus (“ball”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix)
Senses: examples: text: By the motion of the Heart, through the Emulgent Branches, the Blood is brought to the Kidneys, and is there freed of its Serum by their little Glands, […] Much after the ſame manner, are their proper Fluids ſeparated from the Blood in the Liver, Sweetbread, Teſticles, and the other Conglobat and Conglomerate Glands of the Body[…].
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, “Of the Existence of a Deity”, in Philosophical Principles of Natural Religion: […], London: Printed for George Strahan […], →OCLC, § XXXV, page 213:
text: He who has not made the experiment, or who is not accustomed to require rigorous accuracy from himself, will scarcely believe how much a few hours take from certainty of knowledge, and distinctness of imagery; how the succession of objects will be broken, how separate parts will be confused, and how many particular features and discriminations will be compressed and conglobated into one gross and general idea.
ref: 1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Volume 1, page 239:
glosses: Shaped like or formed into a ball.
conglobate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conglobates
form: conglobating
form: conglobated
form: conglobated
Etymology: First attested in 1635; borrowed from Latin conglobātus, perfect passive participial of conglobō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + globus (“ball”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix)
Senses: examples: text: How rich a dower was yours!
By how much toil of sinew and of mind
Collected, conglobated, were Earth’s stores
Treasured in Rome,—the Eternal!—throne assigned
By Nature and the Gods for sway of human kind!
ref: 1850, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides: A Prison-Rhyme, second edition:
glosses: To form into a globe or ball.
Derived terms: conglobation
conglobateous
Related terms: conglobe
globe
round
spherical
look for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks for
form: looking for
form: looked for
form: looked for
form: lf
form: LF
Senses: examples: text: He spent his life looking for the truth.
text: In July, when classes are over, most college-goers go looking for jobs.
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: You may be right
I may be crazy
Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for
ref: 1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses:
text: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
synonyms: search for
glosses: To seek.
synonyms: look after
glosses: To expect.
Derived terms: I'm looking for a grocery store
I'm looking for a job
solution looking for a problem
general classification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: general classifications
Senses: glosses: The overall standings in a bicycle stage race, based on a rider's total elapsed time in all stages of the race with the lowest time being the leader.
qualifier: film classification
glosses: suitable for all ages.
Coordinate terms: topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: mountains classification
topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: sprints classification
topics: cycling
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: points classification
brand linkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brand linkages
Senses: examples: text: If viewers remember a funny commercial was for tissues instead of the brand Puffs, then the ad has poor brand linkage.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: The degree to which the consumer understands a commercial's message is for a specific brand of product rather than the product category.
brand stretch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brand stretches
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: the degree to which an advertiser alters consumer perceptions of a brand without alienating the consumer by creating messages that do not fit with the brand's image.
Related terms: brand linkage
copy test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy tests
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
synonyms: pre-test
glosses: A method of market research that predicts in-market performance of an advertisement before it airs.
copy test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copy tests
form: copy testing
form: copy tested
form: copy tested
Senses: glosses: To carry out such research.
day-after recall test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day-after recall tests
Senses: examples: text: The day-after recall test is one of the original forms of advertising research, but few people still use it because the data and analysis are limited.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A method of advertising research measuring the proportion of people who remember seeing an advertisement the day after it was shown on television.
Related terms: brand image
brand linkage
copy test
dramatic structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dramatic structures
Senses: glosses: The sequence that a five-act play follows, including exposition, rising action, climax or turning point, falling action, and denouement or catastrophe.
examples: text: The laptop ad that first showed an IT team with a problem and then showed FooCorp as the solution used emotional pivot as its dramatic structure.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: One of four formats used in commercials that are designed to affect the audience emotionally, not just rationally: emotional pivot, positive transition, emotional build, and sustained emotion.
Related terms: advertising
emotional build
emotional pivot
positive transition
sustained emotion
emotional pivot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotional pivots
Senses: examples: text: IBM utilized the dramatic structure known as emotional pivot in their ads about a company needing to cut costs and IBM products being the solution.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: one of four archetypal dramatic structures of commercials characterized by the ad’s deliberate use of negative emotions early in the ad to establish dramatic tension which allows the brand to resolve the negative situation and appear the hero or star at the end.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: a narrative structure used in commercials known as “star-type” advertising.
Related terms: advertising
dramatic structure
positive transition
sustained emotion
entry point for the eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entry points for the eye
Senses: examples: text: We thought the entry point for the eye in this ad would be the actress’ face, but it was actually her legs.
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: The first spot in a print advertisement noticed by the reader.
Related terms: advertising
attention
stopping power
aesthetic information
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esthetic information
Etymology: Calque of French information esthétique, as used by French social psychologist and philosopher Abraham Moles in his Théorie de l’information et perception esthétique (1958).
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: semantic information
text: If esthetic information is a key element in the structure of political cognitions, it is clearly of crucial importance to learn as much as possible about the dynamics of their generation. Which forms of political cues convey or reinforce which meanings in mass publics?
ref: 1971, Murray Edelman, Politics as Symbolic Action: Mass Arousal and Quiescence, page 36:
text: That is to say that the feeling we experience when we see leaves fluttering in the wind is difficult to translate into a verbal description or a drawing. Aesthetic information has no immediate, direct use.
ref: 2020 [2015], Jörg Kurt Grütter, Basics of Perception in Architecture, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Skimming and scanning were two of the main hyper-reading techniques encouraged by the abundance of aesthetic information in the turn-of-the-century ILN and Graphic numbers.
ref: 2021, Alison Hedley, Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885–1918, →ISBN, page 82:
topics: arts
design
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Sensory information that cannot be articulated in language.
wikipedia: Abraham Moles
give about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives about
form: giving about
form: gave about
form: given about
Etymology: (to surround):
Calque of Latin circumdō (“to surround”), which is formed from circum- (“around, about”) + dō (“give”).
Senses: glosses: to distribute or circulate something
glosses: to spread a rumour
glosses: to encompass or surround something
give against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives against
form: giving against
form: gave against
form: given against
Senses: glosses: to attack or assault
glosses: to impinge against
give into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives into
form: giving into
form: gave into
form: given into
Senses: glosses: to give in to.
give forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives forth
form: giving forth
form: gave forth
form: given forth
Senses: examples: The chimney gave forth a cloud of grey smoke.
glosses: To emit or release something.
examples: The roses give forth a very heady scent at this time of the year.
glosses: To emanate.
examples: text: It is John alone who records the interview between Jesus and the woman of Samaria, in which he gave forth that memorable testimony concerning worship.
ref: 1886, Friends Intelligencer, volume 43, page 726:
glosses: To utter or publish.
NEA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NEAs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of near-Earth asteroid.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of non-examination assessment.
Hypernyms: sense: near-Earth asteroid
english: near-Earth object
translation: near-Earth object
word: NEO
Hyponyms: sense: near-Earth asteroid
english: potentially hazardous asteroid
translation: potentially hazardous asteroid
word: PHA
Coordinate terms: sense: near-Earth asteroid
english: potentially hazardous object
translation: potentially hazardous object
word: PHO
Related terms: sense: near-Earth asteroid
english: near-Earth comet
translation: near-Earth comet
word: NEC
sense: near-Earth asteroid
english: near-Earth object
translation: near-Earth object
word: NEO
NEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of New Enterprise Associates.
glosses: Initialism of National Environment Agency.
examples: text: High on the list of proposals educators said they support to combat burnout – after raising salaries and hiring more teachers — was providing additional mental health and behavioral support for students, according to the 2022 NEA survey.
ref: 2023 May 31, Annette Choi, “Teachers are calling it quits amid rising school violence, burnout and stagnating salaries”, in CNN:
text: Two rallies were held Wednesday outside the convention hall, one by the Educators for Palestine group – which is made up of NEA members - and a counter rally by StandWithUs, a nonprofit pro-Israel advocacy organization. StandWithUs has characterized several proposed agenda items being discussed as antisemitic.
ref: 2024 July 3, Rebekah Reiss, “Pro-Israel education group warns of ‘antisemitism and anti-Israel bias’ in teachers’ union proposals”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National Education Association.
examples: text: “The Budget proposes to begin shutting down the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in 2018, given the notable funding support provided by private and other public sources and because the Administration does not consider NEA activities to be core Federal responsibilities.”
ref: 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of National Endowment for the Arts.
give by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives by
form: giving by
form: gave by
form: given by
Senses: glosses: to stand aside
give me
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives me
form: giving me
form: gave me
form: given me
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, me.
examples: text: Give me the good old times!
ref: 1873, Edward Lytton, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Give me the pliant minde, whose gentle measure Complies and suits with all estates.
ref: 1633, George Herbert, Temple, Church, Content:
glosses: An expression of strong preference or approbation for a named thing.
examples: text: Give me the president.
glosses: A request by a telephone user to be connected with a specified person, number, etc.
examples: text: Drop and give me twenty!
qualifier: paired with a number
glosses: A command to do a given number of repetitions of an exercise (usually push-ups).
Synonyms: gimme
give the lie to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the lie to
form: giving the lie to
form: gave the lie to
form: given the lie to
Senses: examples: text: They found plenty of emails that gave the lie to his assertion that he didn't know about the incident.
text: As you like this, give me the lie another time.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 103, line 84:
text: The automatic under his pillow gave the lie to that statement.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 262:
text: The bet against Treasuries gave the lie to a criticism sometimes made of Dalio—that he is basically a bond-market investor, who has benefitted from a twenty-year rally in bonds.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: To reveal or prove (something) to be false; to refute.
Synonyms: give lie to
put the lie to
put lie to
put to lie
belie
contradict
give of oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives of oneself
form: giving of oneself
form: gave of oneself
form: given of oneself
Senses: examples: text: Thank you to all our dedicated volunteers who have given of themselves to make this project a success.
glosses: To devote oneself unselfishly to a task, especially to give time and energy.
give oneself airs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives oneself airs
form: giving oneself airs
form: gave oneself airs
form: given oneself airs
Senses: glosses: To act pretentiously, or in a snobbish manner; to swagger.
Synonyms: put on airs
Related terms: airs and graces
give place
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives place
form: giving place
form: gave place
form: given place
Senses: examples: text: Telephone boxes have largely given place to mobile phones.
text: The line from Nyon to La Cure (17½ miles) was opened in 1916, and is on independent track throughout, leaving the road immediately after passing under the Swiss Federal line from Lausanne to Geneva, where grooved tramrails with tie-bars give place to steel-sleepered track.
ref: 1954 September, George Behrend, “The Nyon-St. Cergue-Morez Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 605:
text: When Nos. 1870 to 1879 emerged, in 1902, the circular front windows of the cab had given place to much larger windows, conforming to the shape of the cab roof on top and the firebox top below, [...].
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Salute to the "Claud Hamiltons" & "Directors"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 115:
glosses: To be replaced by something.
examples: text: Neither give place to the Devil.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 4:27:
synonyms: give ground
give way
glosses: To yield.
Synonyms: give way
give out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives out
form: giving out
form: gave out
form: given out
Etymology: Cognate with German ausgeben (“spend, pay, output”).
Senses: examples: text: The best news is that we have safely found
Our king and company: the next, our ship,—
Which but three glasses since we gave out split,—
Is tight and yare, and bravely rigg'd as when
We first put out to sea.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: So soon as I hear that such or such a man gives himself out for a philosopher, I conclude that, like the dyspeptic old woman, he must have “broken his digester.”
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter X, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Simon is found in the book of Acts. The bible tells us that he gave out that he was some great one, that he was the great power of God. This is a characteristic of both the circumcision and the spirit of Antichrist.
ref: 2010, Don Preece, Revelation Of The Antichrist: Who He Is And What He Does:
glosses: To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
glosses: To utter, publish; to announce, proclaim, report.
To announce (a hymn) to be sung; to read out (the words) for the congregation to sing.
glosses: To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
glosses: To send forth, emit; to cause to be sent forth.
To put forth, utter (prayers).
examples: text: Can you help me to give out the new books to the class, please?
glosses: To issue; to distribute.
glosses: To cease functioning in some way.
To desist.
raw_tags: of persons
glosses: To cease functioning in some way.
To desist through exhaustion of strength or patience.
examples: So your old car finally gave out, did it?
glosses: To cease functioning in some way.
To break down, get out of order, fail.
qualifier: a limb; a machine; a limb; a machine
raw_tags: of an implement
glosses: To cease functioning in some way.
To run short, come to an end.
raw_tags: of a supply
examples: text: You shouldn't give out to your brother like that.
text: He was always giving out about the weather.
glosses: To complain, sulk, chastise.
examples: text: I gave out that I was at home, but they didn't ask for an alibi.
glosses: To pretend or act as if something is true.
examples: text: He's been giving out for hours.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To express oneself intensely emotionally, either by talking or in a musical performance.
Derived terms: give out stink
give voice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives voice
form: giving voice
form: gave voice
form: given voice
Senses: glosses: To sing.
glosses: To give tongue; to bark.
examples: text: We will be able to give voice to our concerns at next week's meeting.
glosses: To voice; to express an opinion or a feeling.
raw_tags: with to
give a hundred percent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives a hundred percent
form: giving a hundred percent
form: gave a hundred percent
form: given a hundred percent
Senses: glosses: to commit oneself totally to something; to do one's utmost
give rise to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives rise to
form: giving rise to
form: gave rise to
form: given rise to
Senses: glosses: To be the origin of; to produce; to result in.
Synonyms: spawn
Related terms: give birth
be born
beget
penetrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penetration
pediatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpiːdɪˈætɹɪks/
ipa: /ˌpidiˈætɹɪks/
Forms: form: paediatrics
form: pædiatrics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs, “child”) ped + -iatrics.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: peds
word: pedes
word: paediatry
word: pediatry
glosses: The branch of medicine that deals with the treatment of children and adolescents.
Derived terms: immunopediatrics
neuropediatrics
odontopediatrics
telepediatrics
Related terms: pediatric
pediatrician
crevette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crevettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French crevette.
Senses: glosses: A shrimp.
unhoused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhaʊzd/
rhymes: -aʊzd
Etymology: From un- + house + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Driven from one's home.
examples: text: This combination of law and design can sometimes be so effective that it renders the entire problem of homelessness—and also the unhoused people themselves—invisible to others.
ref: 2017, Robert Rosenberger, Callous Objects: Designs against the Homeless, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
text: In a remote stretch of southern California desert, at least 200 unhoused people live outside, battling the extremes: blazing hot temperatures in the summer, snow in winter, rugged terrain inaccessible to many vehicles, a constant wind that blankets everything with silt, and no running water for miles.
ref: 2022 July 18, Sam Levin, “As police crack down on homelessness, unhoused end up in Mojave desert”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Homeless.
examples: text: an unhoused engine
glosses: Not located within a housing.
unhoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈhaʊzd/
rhymes: -aʊzd
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhouse
lilikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hawaiian lilikoʻi.
Senses: glosses: passionfruit
footage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fo͝otʹĭj
ipa: /ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ʊtɪdʒ
Forms: form: footages
Etymology: From foot (unit of length) + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
text: The footage of this scene has been re-used in several later films where a good, convincing train smash was required, notably in "Seven Sinners" (1937).
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: The weaponry at their disposal was said and shown in numerous video footages to be mainly small arms and anti-tank rocket launchers, etc.—the 'classical' arms of the guerrilla.
ref: 2009, N. C. Asthana, Anjali Nirmal, Urban Terrorism: Myths and Realities, page 126:
text: “The footages were sick and sickening – portraying adults engaging in sexual acts with each other and performing sexual acts on infants and children, in addition to physically abusing them,” the lawsuit said, adding that Zoom admitted the hacker was a “known serial offender” who had been reported “multiple times to the authorities.”
ref: 2020 May 14, Alicia Lee, “California church sues Zoom after ‘zoombomber’ streamed porn in a Bible study class”, in CNN:
text: The sheriff’s office released a compilation of bodycam footage Friday from deputies at the scene that shows them handcuffing Earl and pinning him down for more than 20 minutes as he struggles and repeatedly shouts for help.
ref: 2024 September 30, Chelsea Bailey, “‘Take his pulse, he’s blue’: Bodycam footage shows fatal encounter between epileptic Indiana man and first responders”, in CNN:
glosses: An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.
examples: text: […]more and more contractors are buying Southern pine in greater footages per order.
ref: 1965, The Southern Lumberman, volume 211, page 36:
text: Starting footages should go above the line at the start of the sound and finishing footages beneath the line at the end of it.
ref: 1976, John Burder, 16mm Film Cutting, CRC Press:
glosses: A measurement in feet.
Derived terms: file footage
found footage
square footage
stock footage
anaclastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνακλάω (anakláō, “bend back, reflect”).
Senses: examples: text: anaclastic curves
glosses: Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water.
examples: text: The Double reflects the drama of the lonely man of our time as in an anaclastic glass. What is piquant is that the costs of the fruitless emancipation are borne, not by a hero, a great personage, but by an amusing little fellow, one of the poor people .
ref: 1928, Julius Meier-Graefe, Dostoevsky: The Man and His Work, page 70:
glosses: Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass.
Derived terms: anaclastic glass
melanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlæn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more melanic
form: most melanic
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting melanism.
qualifier: soil science
glosses: Melanocratic.
examples: text: The melanic, or black class, includes all individuals or races who have black hair; […]
ref: 1842, James Laurie, System of Universal Geography: Founded on the Works of Malte-Brun and Balbi, London: Stevenson & Co., page 106:
topics: anthropology
ethnology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: black-haired
Derived terms: acromelanic
eumelanic
hypermelanic
lipomelanic
melanate
melanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlæn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: melanics
Senses: glosses: A creature, such as a moth, exhibiting melanism.
melanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melanisms
Etymology: From French mélanisme; by surface analysis, melan(o)- + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Congenital abundance or excess of melanin pigmentation in the skin, hair, feathers and/or eyes, more than is typical for the species.
Derived terms: acromelanism
amelanism
eumelanism
hypermelanism
Related terms: leucism
leukism
melanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlənɪn/
Forms: form: melanins
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek stem of μέλας (mélas, “black”) + -in; by surface analysis, melan(o)- + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Generally, cephalopod ink includes melanin, enzymes related to melanin production, catecholamines, peptidoglycans, free amino acids and metals (Derby 2014) .
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of naturally occurring dark pigments, especially the pigment found in skin, hair, fur, and feathers.
Derived terms: allomelanin
amelanosis
biomelanin
dopamelanin
eumelanin
melanated
melanin-challenged
melaninization
melaninlike
melaninogenesis
melanistic
melanize
melatonin
neuromelanin
pheomelanin
phytomelanin
prepromelanin
promelanin
pyomelanin
zoomelanin
Related terms: english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: melano-
word: melatonin
diaglyph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əˌɡlɪf/
Forms: form: diaglyphs
Etymology: From dia- + glyph.
Senses: glosses: Glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem.
Hypernyms: intaglio
Derived terms: diaglyphic
debriefing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹiːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːfɪŋ
Forms: form: debriefings
Senses: glosses: The act of debriefing, or the state of being debriefed.
glosses: The report of a mission or project, or the information so obtained.
Derived terms: postdebriefing
predebriefing
debriefing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹiːfɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debrief
anurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + uro- + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having no tail.
assassins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈsæsɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of assassin
zealotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛlətɹi/
Forms: form: zealotries
Etymology: From zealot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.
ref: 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE:
glosses: Something characteristic of a zealot; excessive zeal; fanaticism.
Related terms: zealot
zealous
zealousness
probation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹə(ʊ)ˈbeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊˈbeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: probations
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English probacioun, from Middle French probation, from Old French probacion, from Latin probatio (“a trying, inspection, examination”), from probare, past participle probatus (“to test, examine”); see probate, probe, prove.
Senses: examples: text: You'll be on probation for first six months. After that, if you work out, they'll hire you permanently.
glosses: A period of time when a person occupies a position only conditionally and may be removed if certain conditions are not met.
examples: text: He got two years probation for robbery.
topics: law
glosses: A type of sentence where convicted criminals are permitted to continue living in a community but will automatically be sent to jail if they violate certain conditions.
examples: text: A probation of long and shameful years must be gone through; each one with the endurance more bitter, suffering yet more intolerable, before the debtor can arrive at that system of reckless evasion which is the last stage of poverty.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 109–110:
glosses: A testing period of time.
examples: text: And I shall proceed to consider the testimony of Experience, when I shall have first advertis'd You, that if Men were as perfectly rational as 'tis to be wish'd they were, this sensible way of Probation would be as needless as 'tis wont to be imperfect.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 20:
text: And then it started like a guilty thing / Upon a fearful summons. I have heard, / The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, / Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat / Awake the god of day; and, at his warning, / Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air / The extravagant and erring spirit hies / To his confine: and of the truth herein / This present object made probation.
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], lines 148-156:
text: Such assessment of others' organizational morality is a crucial aspect of a more general set of probations that are intrinsic to managerial work.
ref: 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The act of testing; proof.
Derived terms: academic probation
come on vacation, leave on probation
probational
probationary
probation officer
Related terms: probate
probe
prove
zealousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zealous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being zealous; zeal.
yardmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yardmasters
Etymology: From yard + master.
Senses: examples: text: Each evening the Yardmaster in charge of each yard prepares a list of the freight trains (booked and special) which he proposes to run next day.
ref: 1943 September and October, T. F. Cameron, “Train and Traffic Control”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
text: The London Midland Region has announced receipt of authority from the Ministry of Transport to resume the reconstruction of Stafford station and layout, interrupted at the Minister's behest; contracts have now been placed for the erection of the new station buildings and the yardmaster's office.
ref: 1961 May, “Talking of Trains: Stourton and Stafford approved”, in Trains Illustrated, page 260:
coordinate_terms: yardman
glosses: A railway employee who is in charge of a railway yard.
yammerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yammerers
Etymology: From yammer + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who complains or whines peevishly or whimperingly.