cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
limitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: limitations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin limitatio. Morphologically limit + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of limiting or the state of being limited.
examples: text: Getting into his wheelchair after his amputation, it felt like a limitation you could roll in.
text: He understood the exam material, but his fear was a limitation he could not overcome.
text: The coaches are similar to those of the Hampshire diesel-electric units, which went into service in September, 1957, but have 8ft 6in wide bodies, instead of 9ft, because of loading gauge limitations on the South Eastern Division.
ref: 1962 December, “The Oxted Line diesel-electric multiple-units”, in Modern Railways, page 383:
text: Now, Nielsen is sending all hotel employees through EI training to help them become more open and confident, understand their own limitations and fears, and to boost their self-worth and comfort in dealing with other people.
ref: 2011 November 9, Susanne Gargiulo, “Emotional intelligence in the workplace”, in CNN:
text: Telling a story is like an invitation for others to share their stories with you. That’s what I discovered at TED when I shared my story about a limitation that held me back from my dream.
ref: 2013 June 2, Phil Hansen, “Art that embraces our limits”, in CNN:
glosses: A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
examples: text: Both the MI score and the t-score have their limitations. MI computes a logarithm representing the number of co-occurrences of words compared to their occurrences apart in the corpus, which can highlight rare collocations if the components tend not to occur with other words. The t-score formula is less susceptible to this but its numerical result cannot be meaningfully compared across corpora of different sizes.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI, page 5:
glosses: An imperfection or shortcoming that limits something's use or value.
examples: text: The lawyer obtained impunity by dragging his obviously guilty client's case beyond the ten-year limitation.
topics: law
glosses: A time period after which some legal action may no longer be brought.
Synonyms: sense: time period
word: prescription
Derived terms: colimitation
fee simple subject to executory limitation
limitational
limitationist
nonlimitation
self-limitation
statute of limitations
Related terms: limitative
kill the rabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills the rabbit
form: killing the rabbit
form: killed the rabbit
form: killed the rabbit
Etymology: Before the days of instant pregnancy tests, a woman's sample was injected into a rabbit. There were several varieties of tests; one allegedly would kill the rabbit if the pregnancy hormone was present in the sample (most accounts indicate the rabbit was killed and dissected either way.)
Senses: examples: text: "What about her?" "She killed the rabbit."
glosses: To get a positive test result from an old-fashioned pregnancy test.
Related terms: the rabbit died
honeydew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌnɪdjuː/
ipa: /-dʒuː/
ipa: /ˈhʌniˌd(j)u/
Forms: form: more honeydew
form: most honeydew
Etymology: The noun is derived from honey + dew, originally believed to be a form of dew that fell from the sky like rain onto plants (see sense 1).
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Senses: glosses: Of a light green colour, like the flesh of some honeydew melons.
hot pink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot pinks
Senses: examples: text: If you love hot pinks but your partner doesn't, try turning to red and matching it with pale petal pinks to soften the effect so you both get your way.
ref: Color Harmony for Interior Design (page 62)
glosses: A bright vibrant pink colour.
hot pink
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot pink
form: most hot pink
Senses: glosses: Of a bright vibrant pink colour.
postmodernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/
Forms: form: postmodernisms
Etymology: From post- + modernism.
Senses: coordinate_terms: modernism
metamodernism
post-postmodernism
glosses: Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
examples: text: The most famous definition of postmodernism is Lyotard's: “I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.” […] To accept Lyotard's definition of postmodernism is to accept the premise that postmodernism is the first movement since the Enlightenment to think critically about such narratives.
ref: 2001, Daniel Gordon, editor, Postmodernism and the Enlightenment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 202:
glosses: An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.
Derived terms: postmodernist
postpostmodernism
post-postmodernism
Related terms: postmodern
postmodernity
then again
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I think I'll take three pairs of shoes. Then again, I only plan to stay two days.
glosses: From another point of view; on the other hand; on second thought; again.
Synonyms: there again
releases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of release
releases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of release
timpan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timpans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tympan (“musical instrument”).
Jonathan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒnəθən/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑnəθɪn/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɒnəθɪn/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔnəθɪn/
Forms: form: Jonathans
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יְהוֹנָתָן (yəhōnāṯān), יוֹנָתָן (yōnāṯān, literally “God has given”), apparently with influence from Aramaic [Term?].
Senses: examples: And it came to pass, when he had made an end to speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A son of Saul, first mentioned in 1 Samuel.
examples: text: Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Maccabees 9:19:
glosses: Jonathan Apphus, a son of Mattathias, brother of Joannan Caddis, Simon Thassi, Judas Maccabeus and Eleazar Avara.
examples: text: “Well indeed,” said Foley, “’tis a mystery to me how the sergeant puts up with her. If any woman up and called me an outlandish name like Jonathan when everyone knew my name was plain John I’d do fourteen days for her - by God, I would, and a calendar month.”
ref: 1936 Frank O'Connor, In The Train. The Stories of Frank O’Connor, Knopf, 1952. page 166
text: So I’d change to names I really like. I mean, Jonathan. If I ever have a son I’m going to call him Jonathan, so I’d have that. And then I like monosyllabic surnames that aren’t too common, so I’d have Dean or Bell or King. There you are, how about Jonathan King?
ref: 1998, Barbara Vine, The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy, →ISBN, page 168:
text: It is billed as a one-way trip, which by definition will make the Most Interesting Man, played till now by 77-year-old Jonathan Goldsmith, no longer the most interesting man in this world.
ref: 2016 March 10, Phil Rosenthal, “Who’s really interested in the second Most Interesting Man, Dos Equis?”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2025:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
Related terms: word: Jonathon
word: Johnathan
sense: pet forms
word: Jon
sense: pet forms
word: Jonty
sense: pet forms
word: Jonny
sense: pet forms
word: Nathan
scheduled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schedule
scheduled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Planned; according to schedule.
examples: text: scheduled caste; scheduled tribe; scheduled language
glosses: Included in a Schedule of the Indian Constitution, and as such is recognised by the government as eligible for special protection and consideration; afforded special concessions
Derived terms: scheduled territory
scheduled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scheduleds
Senses: examples: text: However, one cannot help finding some similarity between these sharp words and those which became familiar when - well before the oil crisis - the fight between the scheduleds and non-scheduleds was in full swing.
ref: 1975, ITA Bulletin - Issues 1-26, page 137:
text: If you have a curfew for the scheduleds, I think you should have them for the nonscheduleds, and of course in general aviation you have a wide range of corporate jet aircraft, and some of these corporate jet aircraft actually make more noise than the usual light-body airline jets, so I think it should stay the way it is.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Aviation, DOT/FAA Proposed New Policy for Airports in the Metropolitan Washington Area:
text: Finally, as election time approached, the Congress, in a last desperate attempt to induce backwards and scheduleds to return to the party fold, raised the overall reservation quota to 68 per cent, then 73 per cent, and finally 80 per cent.
ref: 1997, Economic and Political Weekly - Volume 32, page 2340:
glosses: Synonym of schedulee.
synonyms: word: schedulee
criticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of criticize
bolt bucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolt buckets
Senses: examples: text: He's still driving the old boltbucket he drove while he was in school.
glosses: A machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.
Related terms: beater
clunker
rust bucket
coined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪnd/
rhymes: -ɔɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coin
ceased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cease
facing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: (Concluded on facing page)
glosses: Positioned so as to face (in a particular direction)
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Diverging in the direction of travel.
raw_tags: of points and crossovers
Hyponyms: Earth-facing
front-facing
Internet-facing
moon-facing
Moon-facing
Pluto-facing
Sun-facing
Web-facing
Derived terms: downward-facing dog
facing points
nonfacing
upward-facing dog
facing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: facings
Senses: glosses: The most external portion of exterior siding.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: Fabric applied to a garment edge on the underside.
topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.
examples: text: Red coats were worn by the King's Life Guards and Queen's Life Guards in 1645, while other regiments wore white, blue or grey. Prince Rupert's Footguards wore scarlet, and in Cromwell's army some wore scarlet coats with different facings.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 189:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The collar and cuffs of a military coat, commonly of a different colour from the rest of the coat.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The movement of soldiers by turning on their heels to the right, left, or about.
facing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: This side (facing) up.
glosses: present participle and gerund of face
companion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpænjən/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəmˈpænɪən/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəmˈpenɪən/
note: Indic
ipa: /kəmp(ə)ˈnɪən/
rhymes: -ænjən
Forms: form: companions
form: companioning
form: companioned
form: companioned
Etymology: From Middle English companion, from Old French compaignon (“companion”) (modern French compagnon), from Late Latin compāniōn- (nominative singular compāniō, whence French copain), from com- + pānis (literally, with + bread), a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from Proto-Germanic *gahlaibô. Compare also Old High German galeipo (“messmate”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”); and, for the semantics, compare Old Armenian ընկեր (ənker, “friend”, literally “messmate”). More at co-, loaf. Displaced native Old English ġefēra (literally “fellow traveler”). Compare company and mate.
Senses: examples: text: we had better turn south quickly and compare the elements of education which formed , and of creation which companioned , Salvator .
ref: 1865, John Ruskin, Precious Thoughts:
glosses: To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
examples: text: Finde me to marrie me with Octauius Cæſar, and companion me with my Miſtris.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 341, column 1:
glosses: To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
psych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: sike
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: psychs
form: sike
form: sike
form: syke
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: I took psych my freshman year in university.
glosses: Psychology or psychiatry.
examples: text: She had attended a conference of psychs at which he had presided and they had taken a fancy to each other.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 476:
glosses: A psychologist; a psychiatrist.
examples: text: A fool who had never seen reality would think an old lady is harmless or weak. Perhaps the morons in the outside world believe an old lady locked-up in psych is akin to a sweet little grandmother, a poor old dear who is just a little confused.
ref: 2014 August 15, Desha Blue, “News 2013”, in Psychiatric Abuse Poetry.....: Shattering the Bloody Glass Ceiling, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN:
text: “I couldn’t stay in the psych. I had to get out, before Rudolf got to me. He is alive; he set me up,” I tell him, looking around, and trying to figure out why I’m not in prison or at the police station.
ref: 2016 March 6, Joanna Mazurkiewicz, “Detective Lee”, in Skimming the Surface (Love & Hate; 4), published 2020, →ISBN:
text: I still stood by my assessment that she should’ve checked into psych. Body dysmorphia was one thing but actually believing Barbie was a real person walking among us? That was a little too much.
ref: 2025 June 30, Lexy Timms, “Clay”, in Not Another Love Story, part 2, Dark Shadow Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A psychiatric hospital; psychiatric treatment.
Derived terms: topics: psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: evo-psych
topics: psychology
human-sciences
sciences
word: pop psych
psych
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: sike
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: more psych
form: most psych
form: sike
form: sike
form: syke
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: curtains with psych colors
text: a psych band; a psych album; psych-rock and psych-folk music
glosses: Psychedelic.
examples: text: involuntarily committed to the psych ward
glosses: Psychiatric.
Derived terms: sense: psychedelic
word: psych-fi
sense: psychedelic
word: psych folk
sense: psychiatric
word: geri-psych
sense: psychiatric
word: psych hospital
sense: psychiatric
word: psych ward
psych
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: sike
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: psychs
form: psyching
form: psyched
form: psyched
form: sike
form: sike
form: syke
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Hip hop always gets me psyched, so I put it on before a race.
text: On the stage, what we have to try to have shine through is our love for each other. Sometimes it's difficult, we have to try to psych ourselves out of the places we're at and go to a higher spiritual plane.
ref: 1979 August 18, Maida Tilchen, Nancy Vogl, Debbie Lempke, Susan Shanbaum, Bonnie Lockhart, “The Diversity of Women's Music”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 913:
glosses: To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind (also psych up).
glosses: To intimidate (someone) emotionally or using psychology (also psych out).
glosses: To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis.
Derived terms: psych out
psych up
psych
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: sike
homophone: cyc
Forms: form: sike
form: sike
form: syke
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Here, have fifty dollars. Psych! That was two dollars!
text: I broke up with my ex girl. Here's her number. Psych! That's the wrong number!
glosses: Indicating that one's preceding statement was false and that one has successfully fooled one's interlocutor.
examples: text: Psych! I just found my missing bracelet!
glosses: An interjection of surprised happiness.
Related terms: psych-
psyche
psycho-
psych verb
costed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: raw_tags: simple past tense
text: We costed the project at $1,000,000.
raw_tags: past participle
text: We've costed the project at £1,000,000.
text: Am I a regret yet? / I thought you were my best bet / Was it worth what it costed? / I am exhausted
ref: 2022, “Love Sux”, performed by Avril Lavigne:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cost
costed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This was a badly costed project.
glosses: Having a specified (type of) cost
Derived terms: uncosted
introspect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈspɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: introspects
form: introspecting
form: introspected
form: introspected
Etymology: From Latin intrōspectus, past participle of intrōspiciō. By surface analysis, intro- + -spect.
Senses: glosses: To engage in introspection.
examples: text: Second, to say that something is introspectible, that we can introspect it, is not to imply that we are in fact aware of it. What's more, I haven't claimed that we even can introspect all the thoughts we have, only that we can introspect that we have two important sorts of thoughts.
ref: 2012, J. R. Mendola, Human Thought:
glosses: To look into.
examples: text: DynamicMBeanFacade uses Java's reflection API to introspect the managed resource and discover data type information for attributes.
ref: 2002, Java Enterprise Best Practices, O'Reilly:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To examine by means of type introspection.
Derived terms: extrospect
introspectability
introspectable
Hercegovina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Herzegovina: A historical region consisting of the southern one-fourth of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Derived terms: Bosnia and Hercegovina
Bosna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: At the far end, they would be greeted by the green sun-dappled waters of the Bosna as they gurgled up in streams and pools dotted with islands.
ref: 2022, Priscilla Morris, Black Butterflies, Duckworth, page 70:
glosses: A major river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
j'accuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒəˈkjuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Forms: form: j'accuses
Etymology: Borrowing from French J'Accuse ("I accuse"), the title of an 1898 open letter from writer Emile Zola to the president of France during the Dreyfus Affair.
Senses: examples: text: It was a rare combination of circumstances that led Cramer to agree to sit still and listen to Stewart engage in his j'accuse.
ref: 2009, Jack Balkin, The Guardian (online), 17 Mar 2009
text: Buried within Dudley's petition, then, was a veiled ‘j'accuse’.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 369:
text: In his j’accuse, Mattis excoriates the president for setting Americans against one another.
ref: 2020 June 3, Jeffrey Goldberg, “James Mattis Denounces President Trump”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: word: indictment
word: tirade
word: admonition
word: condemnation
word: diatribe
word: dithyramb
word: harangue
word: impugnation
word: j'accuse
word: jeremiad
word: philippic
word: polemic
word: rant
word: screed
word: slanging match
word: tirade
glosses: An accusation, especially one made publicly.
wikipedia: Dreyfus Affair
Emile Zola
J'Accuse…!
Related terms: accusation
accuse
accuser
companionway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companionways
Etymology: From companion + way.
Senses: examples: text: I went up the steerage companionway two steps at a time, with nothing distinct in my mind except joy and the hope that Maud would sleep on until the surprise breakfast was quite ready for her.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A staircase or ladder from one deck to another on a ship.
Serbia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.bi.ə/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.bi.ə/
ipa: /ˈsɝb.jɐ/
Forms: form: Servia
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin Serbia, equivalent to modern Serb + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: The 153-page ruling from the International Court of Justice means that modern-day Serbia will not have to pay restitution to Croatia, which in 1991 split from what was then Yugoslavia.
ref: 2015 February 3, Greg Botelho, “U.N. court: Serbs’ actions in Croatia not considered genocide”, in CNN:
glosses: A country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Serbia. Capital and largest city: Belgrade. Part of Yugoslavia until 1992, then part of Serbia and Montenegro until 2006.
glosses: A geographic region of Southeast Europe.
Related terms: Serb
Serbian
Serbinization
Kosovo
Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro
Vojvodina
Yugoslavia
psych-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of psycho-.
sexe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of sex.
Related terms: cache-sexe
modernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modernisms
Etymology: From modern + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Modern or contemporary ideas, thought, practices, etc.
glosses: Anything that is characteristic of modernity.
examples: text: Penrod is so referential as to be almost a work of postmodernism—assuming Tarkington could have imagined such a thing with modernism itself just beginning to steamroll over him.
ref: 2004 May, Thomas Mallon, “Hoosiers”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Any of several styles of art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that flourished in the 20th century.
glosses: A religious movement in the early 20th century, condemned as heretical by Pope Pius X, which tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy.
Derived terms: anamodernism
antimodernism
comodernism
ecomodernism
high modernism
hypermodernism
metamodernism
modernist
neomodernism
postmodernism
protomodernism
remodernism
supermodernism
ultramodernism
modernist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From modern + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It survived the overreach of progress once before, escaping demolition and rebuilding in the 1970s. That survival was a triumph against the "stridently modernist" plans then put forth.
ref: 2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53, about Liverpool Street station in London:
glosses: Of, or relating to modernism.
modernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modernists
Etymology: From modern + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower or proponent of modernism.
Derived terms: antimodernist
archmodernist
ecomodernist
metamodernist
modernistic
neomodernist
postmodernist
protomodernist
pseudomodernist
ultramodernist
unmodernist
modernist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modernist
form: most modernist
Etymology: Clipping of Modernist Cuisine (molecular gastronomy)
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Pertaining to the culinary arts of molecular gastronomy
Derived terms: modernist cuisine
modernist cooking
postmodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postmodernist
form: most postmodernist
Etymology: From postmodern + -ist.
Senses: glosses: postmodern
Derived terms: post-postmodernist
postmodernist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmodernists
Etymology: From postmodern + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate or follower of postmodernism.
Related terms: modernist
modernity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdɜːnɪti/
ipa: /məˈdɝnɪti/
note: Indic
ipa: /mɵˈɖɜ(r)nɪʈi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈmɔɖə(r)nɪʈi/
Forms: form: modernities
Etymology: From modern + -ity, a calque of Latin modernitās.
Senses: examples: text: He was impressed by the architecture's modernity.
text: While the rolling-stock lacks modernity, the line equipment, with its single catenary suspension, has a surprisingly up-to-date appearance.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Notes and News: Lancaster-Heysham Electrification, L.M.S.”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
text: There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
ref: 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
glosses: The quality of being modern or contemporary.
examples: text: The organization survived from ancient times to modernity.
glosses: Modern times.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Quality of being of the modern period of contemporary historiography.
Synonyms: modernness
Derived terms: antimodernity
behavioural modernity
high modernity
hypermodernity
late modernity
nonmodernity
petromodernity
postmodernity
premodernity
ultramodernity
Related terms: modern
heraldic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ældɪk
Forms: form: more heraldic
form: most heraldic
Etymology: From herald + -ic; probably modelled on French héraldique.
Senses: examples: text: a heraldic device
text: That ceiling was covered with square compartments, each filled with strange figures, flowers, fruit, heraldic devices—all blazoned in the richest colours,...
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 113:
synonyms: heraldric
antonyms: unheraldic
glosses: Of, or relating to heraldry or heralds.
Derived terms: heraldically
nonheraldic
unheraldic
scunner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scunners
form: scunnering
form: scunnered
form: scunnered
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner (“to shrink back; flinch”), from Middle English skoneren (“to feel sick or disgusted”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English scurnen (“to flinch”), English scare, English scorn.
Senses: glosses: To be sick of.
glosses: To dislike.
examples: text: But maybe she'd just got scunnered with Glasgow, fucked off to try her luck someplace else.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 123:
related: word: scunder
glosses: To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
scunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scunners
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots scunner, skunner, from Old Scots skunnyr, skowner (“to shrink back; flinch”), from Middle English skoneren (“to feel sick or disgusted”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a frequentative of shun. If so, etymologically shun + -er (frequentative suffix). Compare also Middle English scurnen (“to flinch”), English scare, English scorn.
Senses: glosses: Dislike or aversion.
glosses: A young chav.
Synonyms: word: charva
word: charver
word: chav
word: scally
Heine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Heine.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German, notably of Heinrich Heine, a German poet.
take the mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the mickey
form: taking the mickey
form: took the mickey
form: taken the mickey
form: mickey-take
form: take the Michael
form: take the mick
form: take the micky
Etymology: Possibly from Cockney rhyming slang “to take the Mickey Bliss” (for take the piss).
Senses: examples: text: Are you takin’ the mickey? You’ll get yer ’ead bashed in.
text: For the last eight years, taking the mickey out of George Bush has been great, victimless fun. Like taking candy from babies or shooting aquatically-challenged fish in size-challenged barrels.
ref: 2008 November 15, Kenneth Nguyen, “Who's laughing now?”, in The Age newspaper:
synonyms: word: take the piss
word: befool
word: frump
word: gibe
word: gird
word: gleek
word: jape
word: jeer
word: jive
word: josh
word: kid
word: lampoon
word: mimic
word: mock
word: needle
word: niggle
word: razz
word: rib
word: roast
word: satirize
word: scoff
word: scorn
word: tease
word: twit
word: bust on
word: clown around
word: make a fool of
word: make fun of
word: make sport of
word: poke fun at
glosses: To ridicule or mock.
take the Michael
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the Michael
form: taking the Michael
form: took the Michael
form: taken the Michael
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the mickey, (usually considered more polite)
take the mick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the mick
form: taking the mick
form: took the mick
form: taken the mick
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the mickey.
pigpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪɡ.pɛn/
ipa: [ˈpʰɪɡˌpʰɛn]
Forms: form: pigpens
Etymology: Compound of pig + pen.
Senses: examples: text: The lower pasture also contains a pigpen.
text: This room is a pigpen. When are you going to clean it?
glosses: Synonym of pigsty.
synonyms: word: pigsty
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The pigpen cipher.
Kambojas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kamboja
take five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes five
form: taking five
form: took five
form: taken five
form: take a five
Senses: examples: text: Hey, stop fighting! Take five, people!
glosses: To take a short, typically five-minute, break from some activity.
Related terms: take ten
take silk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes silk
form: taking silk
form: took silk
form: taken silk
Etymology: In reference to the silk gowns they wear.
Senses: glosses: to be appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) or King's Counsel (KC)
takings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taking
loan translation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loan translations
Etymology: From loan + translation, calque of German Lehnübersetzung.
Senses: examples: text: To support his definition, Betz discusses various examples of loan translation from Latin and English as in German Wolkenkratzer after English skyscraper, Gegengift ('antidote') after Latin contravenenum, Mitleid ('compasssion') after Latin compassio, and Gewissen ('conscience') after Latin conscientia (1949: 27,32).
ref: 2007, Alexander Onysko, Anglicisms in German:
glosses: Synonym of calque.
synonyms: word: calque
Related terms: loanword
energy field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energy fields
Senses: examples: text: The state of your energy field indicates that you are emotionally troubled.
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The spiritual or etheric energy produced by an individual living being.
Related terms: aura
chakra
Kirlian photography
assemblage point
vivaxis
fandom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfændəm/
rhymes: -ændəm
Forms: form: fandoms
Etymology: From fan + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: "'Who is this Swain?' is the question that is being bowled about in local fandom."
ref: 1896, Washington Post October 10, 1896, p. 8, column 6
text: So I was like, ‘When this comes out, fans are going to lose their s–t!’ And I was half-right. I’ve watched fandoms get mad at creators before like Rian Johnson on ‘The Last Jedi.’
ref: 2021 July 26, Lauren Sarner, quoting Kevin Smith, “Kevin Smith on ‘Masters of the Universe’ and fan backlash”, in New York Post:
synonyms: fan base
fanship
fanhood
antonyms: anti-fandom
hatedom
glosses: The fans of a sport, activity, work, person etc., taken as a group.
glosses: The subculture of fans.
examples: text: Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
ref: 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions, volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being a fan.
Derived terms: word: acafandom
word: bandom
word: fandom bicycle
word: fandom frollo
english: Twitter communities of specific fandoms or groups
translation: Twitter communities of specific fandoms or groups
word: fandomtwt
word: fandumb
word: FNDM
word: interfandom
word: intrafandom
word: Milifandom
word: multifandom
word: panfandom
word: stfandom
word: subfandom
word: superfandom
word: Trekfandom
Related terms: for various names of different fandoms
peanuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːnʌts/
ipa: /ˈpiˌnʌts/
Senses: glosses: plural of peanut
peanuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːnʌts/
ipa: /ˈpiˌnʌts/
Senses: examples: text: It’s a fun job, but it pays peanuts.
synonyms: pittance
trifle
glosses: Especially of a salary: a very insufficient or small amount.
Derived terms: if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
peanuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːnʌts/
ipa: /ˈpiˌnʌts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peanut
Kamboh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kambohs
form: Kamboh
Etymology: Urdu-influenced variant of Kamboj; see Kamboj for more information.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kamboj (“a community of north India and Pakistan”).
benevolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈnɛvələns/
Forms: form: benevolences
Etymology: Circa 1400, original sense “good will, disposition to do good”, Old French benivolence from Latin benevolentia (also directly from Latin), literally “good will”, from bene (“well, good”) + volentia, form of volēns, form of volō (“I wish”), components cognate to English benefit and voluntary, more distantly will (via Proto-Indo-European).
Senses: examples: text: gesture of benevolence
text: show benevolence
text: spirit of benevolence
text: She smiled with benevolence at the children.
glosses: Disposition to do good.
examples: text: His acts of benevolence earned him great respect.
glosses: Charitable kindness.
glosses: An altruistic gift or act.
glosses: A kind of forced loan or contribution levied by kings without legal authority, first so called under Edward IV in 1473.
Derived terms: omnibenevolence
unbenevolence
loyalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɔɪəlti/
Forms: form: loyalties
form: lealty
form: loialty
form: loyaltie
Etymology: From Middle English loialte, borrowed from Old French loialte, loiauté (Modern loyauté) from loial + -té, equivalent to loyal + -ty.
Senses: examples: text: brand loyalty
glosses: The state of being loyal; fidelity.
examples: text: He showed loyalty to his local football club after successive relegations.
text: Over the violence and the proud loyalties, over the sold-out-ness and the cruel indifference, there is light reclothing us in a kind of strange innocence.
ref: 2007, Michael P. Knowles, The Folly of Preaching: Models and Methods:
text: The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast.
The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise.
How the Vice President discharges this constitutional obligation is not a question of his loyalty to the President any more than it would be a test of a President’s loyalty to his Vice President
whether the President assented to the impeachment and prosecution of his Vice President for the commission of high crimes while in office.
No President and no Vice President would—or should—consider either event as a test of political loyalty of one to the other.
And if either did, he would have to accept that political loyalty must yield to constitutional obligation.
Neither the President nor the Vice President has any higher loyalty than to the Constitution.
ref: 2021 January 5, J. Michael Luttig, Twitter, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2021; republished as Washington Post, 2021 January 5:
text: One reason why many Asian countries oppose dual nationality is a belief that it can create divided loyalties among citizens, said Jelena Dzankic, co-director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), an international citizenship research network. […] Japan drafted its current nationality laws shortly after World War II, when many Japanese Americans were put in internment camps in the US; other dual citizens renounced their loyalty to the Japanese Emperor for their own safety, said Atsushi Kondo, a law professor at Japan’s Meijo University.
ref: 2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN:
synonyms: sympathy
glosses: Faithfulness or devotion to some person, cause or nation.
Synonyms: trueness
faith
Derived terms: brand loyalty
loyalty card
loyalty penalty
loyalty price
loyalty pricing
loyalty tax
semiloyalty
unloyalty
Related terms: allegiance
fealty
fidelity
ethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθɪkəl/
Forms: form: more ethical
form: most ethical
Etymology: From ethic + -al, from Late Latin ethicus (“moral, ethical”), from Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”).
Senses: examples: text: The philosopher Kant is particularly known for his ethical writings.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the study of ethics.
examples: text: All employees must familiarize themselves with our ethical guidelines.
text: An angry dispute between an animal welfare charity and its former employee will be the first case in Britain to decide whether ethical veganism is a “philosophical belief” that should be afforded the same protections as religion.
ref: 2018 December 3, Tara John, “Veganism could get the same legal protections as religion”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or relating to the accepted principles of right and wrong, especially those of some organization or profession.
examples: text: We are trying to decide what the most ethical course of action would be.
glosses: Morally approvable; good.
examples: text: In most jurisdictions, morphine is classified as an ethical drug.
glosses: Only dispensed on the prescription of a physician.
raw_tags: of a drug
Coordinate terms: english: often differentiated on the basis of a distinction between societally conventional and innately righteous
translation: often differentiated on the basis of a distinction between societally conventional and innately righteous
word: moral
Derived terms: word: anethical
word: astroethical
word: bioethical
word: cyberethical
word: ethical egoism
word: ethical investment
word: ethicalism
word: ethicality
word: ethically
word: ethicalness
word: ethical programming
word: ethical screen
word: ethical system
word: ethical Ten Commandments
word: ethical wall
word: ethify
word: hyperethical
word: meta-ethical
word: metaethical
sense: morally approvable
word: unethical
word: neuroethical
word: nonethical
word: politicoethical
word: preethical
word: protoethical
word: pseudoethical
word: psychoethical
word: religioethical
word: socioethical
word: superethical
Related terms: ethic
ethics
ethos
ethical dative
ethical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθɪkəl/
Forms: form: ethicals
Etymology: From ethic + -al, from Late Latin ethicus (“moral, ethical”), from Ancient Greek ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”).
Senses: glosses: An ethical drug, one only dispensed on the prescription of a physician.
meths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛθs
Etymology: Clipping of methylated spirit.
Senses: glosses: methylated spirits.
meths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛθs
Etymology: From meths or methylated spirits, as stereotypically drunk by tramps.
Senses: glosses: plural of meth
meth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Forms: form: meths
Etymology: Clipping of methamphetamine.
Senses: glosses: Methamphetamine, especially in the form of the crystalline hydrochloride.
Derived terms: crystal meth
methaqualone
methhead
meth mouth
Related terms: tweaker
meth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Forms: form: meths
Etymology: Clipping of methadone.
Senses: examples: text: Dunno why you want to try and make last any longer than it already does. Meth has to be the single most wicked shit I ever involved myself with. But as far as what it actually does, your best bet would be to trot down to the local library and look it up.
ref: 1998 November 14, Markus, “Re: METH”, in alt.recovery (Usenet):
glosses: Methadone.
meth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Forms: form: meths
form: meff
Etymology: From meths or methylated spirits, as stereotypically drunk by tramps.
Senses: qualifier: Liverpool; Manchester; Liverpool; Manchester
glosses: A tramp.
Related terms: wino
meth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Forms: form: meths
Etymology: From metheglin, from Welsh meddyglyn, from meddyg (“medicinal”) (from Latin medicus) + llyn (“liquor”) (cognate with Irish lionn and Gaelic leann).
Senses: examples: text: The Russians, Swedes, Danes, and those of Northern Inhabitants, exceed all the rest, having made the drinking of Brandy, Aqua Vitae, Hydromel, Beer, Mum, Meth, and other Liquors in great quantitites, so familiar to them, that they usually drink our countrymen to death.
ref: 1678, John Worlidge, Vinetum Britannicum, or a Treatise of Cider, 3rd edit.:
glosses: A spiced mead, originally from Wales.
meth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛθ/
rhymes: -ɛθ
Forms: form: meths
Etymology: Clipping of method, which see.
Senses: glosses: Marijuana.
rond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɒnd/
Forms: form: ronds
Senses: glosses: A bank of a river or a canal.
Derived terms: rond-anchor
Related terms: rond de jambe
rond-de-cuir
methylated spirit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: methylated spirits
form: methylated spirits
Senses: glosses: Ethyl alcohol used as a fuel and a solvent, and usually free of taxes on alcohol; denatured alcohol.
Derived terms: industrial methylated spirit
Related terms: industrial methylated spirit
methylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of methylate
methylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: denatured by the addition of methyl alcohol
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: subject to methylation
Derived terms: chloromethylated
dimethylated
hemimethylated
hydroxymethylated
hypermethylated
hypomethylated
methylated spirit
multimethylated
nonmethylated
normomethylated
permethylated
polymethylated
premethylated
remethylated
supermethylated
tetramethylated
undermethylated
unmethylated
methyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound methanol.
ethyl alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ethanol, a type of alcohol.
Synonyms: word: ethanol
word: spirits of wine
spastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspastɪk/
ipa: /ˈspæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more spastic
form: most spastic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin spasticus, from Ancient Greek σπαστικός (spastikós, “drawing in”). By surface analysis, spasm + -tic + -spas(m). Cf. French spastique and see also spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or affected by spasm.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to spastic paralysis.
glosses: Incompetent or physically uncoordinated.
raw_tags: in the UK and Ireland
glosses: Hyperactive or behaving erratically.
raw_tags: in the UK and Ireland
Derived terms: spastic abasia
spastic colitis
spastic colon
spastic tetraplegia
spastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspastɪk/
ipa: /ˈspæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: spastics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin spasticus, from Ancient Greek σπαστικός (spastikós, “drawing in”). By surface analysis, spasm + -tic + -spas(m). Cf. French spastique and see also spasm.
Senses: glosses: A person affected by spastic paralysis or spastic cerebral palsy.
raw_tags: in the UK and Ireland
examples: text: ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Jed Maxwell: See you next week then. We'll have that pint.
Alan Partridge: Yep.
Jed Maxwell: ...go and see my brother.
Alan Partridge: No way, you big spastic! You're a mentalist!
ref: 1997 December 1, Peter Baynham, Steve Coogan, Armando Iannucci, “To Kill a Mocking Alan”, in I'm Alan Partridge:
text: Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky): Show Link! This is nuts—she can't even dance.
Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes): Plastic little spastic.
Tracy Turnblad: Oh, Link, I can dance so much better than her.
Penny Pingleton: Mhm!
Tracy Turnblad: Why don't you notice me at school?
ref: 2007 July 20, Leslie Dixon, Hairspray, spoken by Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes), Ingenious Media, Zadan/Meron Productions; distributed by New Line Cinema:
glosses: A stupid, clumsy person.
raw_tags: in the UK and Ireland
Derived terms: word: scoper
word: spack
word: spacker
word: spasticated
word: spaz
word: spazz