cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
earthwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɝθwɝk/
ipa: /ˈɜːθwɜːk/
Forms: form: earthworks
Etymology: From earth + work. First attested in the 1630s.
Senses: examples: text: At the moment only some 35 miles of earthwork have been completed from Qum, and no permanent way has been laid.
ref: 1946 July and August, “The Railways of Persia”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
text: The line was built by navvies using little more than wheelbarrows and shovels, with whatever material was close at hand, and the railway suffered from earthworks problems right from the start.
ref: 2022 July 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Fareham Tunnel blockade aids landslip prevention”, in RAIL, number 961, page 32:
synonyms: earthenwork
glosses: Any structure made from earth, especially an embankment used for fortification or flood control.
Hyponyms: english: flood control
translation: flood control
word: dyke
english: Roman contexts
translation: Roman contexts
word: agger
Derived terms: earthworked
easiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːzɪnəs/
Forms: form: easinesses
Etymology: From easy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of difficulty; quality of not being frustrating, difficult, or dense (compact).
glosses: Looseness or pliancy, often derogatory
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Freedom from discomfort and worry: comfort.
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Freedom from inhibition and awkwardness: grace.
examples: text: Custome hath made it in him a propertie of easines.
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 V, scene i], line 68:
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Lack of concern or care: carelessness, indolence.
examples: text: […]Refraine night,
And that shall lend a kind of easines
To the next abstinence.
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 III, scene iv], line 153:
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Lack of difficulty or trouble: facility; simplicity.
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Lack of harshness: gentleness, kindness.
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
Lack of firm conviction: gullibility, credulity.
glosses: The state or quality of being easy (in various senses). particularly:
State or quality of being promiscuous, of consenting readily to sex; sluttiness.
easterner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: easterners
Etymology: From eastern + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the eastern United States.
Related terms: northerner
southerner
westerner
northerner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northerners
Etymology: From Middle English northerner, equivalent to northern + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "The Pacers have kept millions of northerners on the move. But while they have served us well and provided some communities with rail services they may have otherwise lost, it is time to give them a well-earned rest," said Northern Regional Director Chris Jackson.
ref: 2020 December 16, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: A new era as Northern bids a final farewell to Pacers”, in Rail, page 10:
synonyms: Northron
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.
Related terms: easterner
southerner
westerner
eatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eatable
form: most eatable
Etymology: From eat + -able (“able, capable”).
Senses: examples: text: The contents of the pan began to boil, and he turned to plunge his hand into the bowl; I conjectured that this preparation was probably for our supper, and, being hungry, I resolved it should be eatable;
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: When the seeds are larger, softer, and more eatable, they are protected by an excessively hard and stony covering, as in the plum and peach tribe ; or they are enclosed in a tough horny core, as with crabs and apples.
ref: 1891, Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural selection and tropical nature, page 399:
text: Their diet includes practically everything eatable they can capture or kill.
ref: 1911, “Baboon”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
glosses: Able to be eaten; edible.
Synonyms: comestible
edible
Coordinate terms: drinkable
potable
Derived terms: eatableness
noneatable
eatable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eatables
Etymology: From eat + -able (“able, capable”).
Senses: examples: text: The Excise which is laid very high throughout all Sicily, especially upon all eatables and wearing apparel is usually there […]
ref: 1675, E. W., An Exact Relation of All the Late Revolutions in Messina, London, page 2:
text: Ecod, your worship, I never have courage till I see the eatables and drinkables brought upo’ the table, and then I’m as bauld as a lion.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, London: F. Newbery, act II, page 18:
text: […] the ground […] was already being occupied by the “cheap Jacks,” with their green-covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown’s School Days, Part I, Chapter 2:
text: Someplace in the Hegdehaugen area I stopped outside a grocer's where some food was displayed in the window. A cat lay asleep beside a round loaf of white bread, and just behind it was a bowl of lard and several jars of oats. I stood eyeing these eatables a while, but since I didn't have anything to buy with I turned away from them and continued my tramp.
ref: 1890, Knut Hamsen, Sult (Hunger), Part One, at p.45 (Canongate Books Ltd. 2016 paperback edition), Sverre Lyngstad translation
text: “You’ll be using the best tea-set, of course, Marilla,” she said. “Can I fix up the table with ferns and wild roses?”
“I think that’s all nonsense,” sniffed Marilla. “In my opinion it’s the eatables that matter and not flummery decorations.”
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 21, in Anne of Green Gables, London: L.C. Page & Co, page 222:
text: The presence of a large number of people ensured that vendors selling eatables made brisk business.
ref: 2011 January 8, “For kids’ sake, a long, cold wake”, in Deccan Herald:
glosses: Anything edible; food.
Synonyms: comestible
edible
eatables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eatable
haloperidol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhal.ə(ʊ)ˈpɛ.ɹɪd.ɒl/
ipa: /ˌheɪ.lə(ʊ)ˈpɛ.ɹɪd.ɒl/
ipa: /ˌhæl.oʊˈpɛɹ.ɪˌdɔl/
Forms: form: haloperidols
Etymology: From halo- + (pi)perid(ine) + -ol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic antidepressant drug used chiefly in the treatment of psychotic conditions.
Synonyms: haldol
Derived terms: -peridol
haldol
falsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: falsy
Forms: form: falsies
Etymology: From false + -ie (“a diminutive”).
Senses: synonyms: chicken fillet
outplant
glosses: Padding worn inside a brassiere to make the breasts appear larger or appear to exist.
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
synonyms: false eyelashes
glosses: A false eyelash, used as a cosmetic enhancement.
Derived terms: wig and falsies
neuroleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroleptics
Etymology: Borrowed from French neuroleptique, coined by Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker in 1955. Constructed from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “neuron”) and λῆψις (lêpsis), noun form of λαμβάνω (lambánō, “take hold of”).
Senses: examples: text: The time has come, therefore, to establish some definite criteria for the new drugs that Delay called neuroleptics, of which chlorpromazine and reserpine are the primary ones, although chemically different.
ref: 1956, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology & Quarterly Review of Psychiatry and Neurology, volume 17, page 383:
text: Neuroleptics, the first psychopharmacological treatments reported to be effective in adults, were interpreted as potent antianxiety drugs giving rise to the term "major tranquilizer" that was popular in the United States until the early 1970s and were also used to treat anxiety symptoms in children (as were other agents, including psychostimulants and antihistamintes).
ref: 1990, N. Sartorius, Anxiety: Psychobiological and Clinical Perspectives, page 259:
text: Thus initially neuroleptics may increase DA turnover and possibly even its action depending on the degree of postsynaptic block.
ref: 2001, Roy Webster, Neurotransmitters, Drugs and Brain Function, page 359:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug.
Synonyms: antipsychotic
Related terms: thymoleptic
neuroleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French neuroleptique, coined by Jean Delay and Pierre Deniker in 1955. Constructed from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “neuron”) and λῆψις (lêpsis), noun form of λαμβάνω (lambánō, “take hold of”).
Senses: examples: text: By mouth in doses of 2 to 3 grains, combined with neuroleptic drugs, it has enabled us to bring about a certain number of improvements in chronic schizophrenics.
ref: 1959, Psychopharmacology frontiers : proceedings of the pyschopharmacology symposium, page 131:
text: The mechanisms underlying the appearance of the parkinson-like symptoms during neuroleptic treatments are not ascertained.
ref: 1965, Horizons in Neuropsychopharmacology, page 121:
text: The neuroleptic drugs, and especially the phenothiazines, interact with a number of neurotransmitter systems in the brain and these actions can account for many of the pharmacological properties of the drugs.
ref: 2014, Philip B. Bradley, Introduction to Neuropharmacology, page 212:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Having antipsychotic properties.
Synonyms: antipsychotic
Derived terms: neuroleptanesthesia
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
nonneuroleptic
falsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsie
fanzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfænˌziːn/
Forms: form: fanzines
Etymology: Blend of fan + magazine. Coined by American chess player and SF fandom founder Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his own science fiction fanzine Detours, to replace the earlier fanmag.
Senses: examples: text: I don't know how many fanzines there've been, but surely no fewer than 500 different items, some running for one issue and some for several dozen.
ref: 1950 September, Francis Towner Laney, “Syllabus for a Fanzine”, in Spacewarp, number 42, page 8:
text: "Well, long ago," said the Tin Woodsfan, "a fan and I were feuding, and the fan decided to drive me out of fandom. But no one can leave Iz because of the great burning desert called Public Contempt which surrounds this fannish land, and since nobody ever gafiates while still inside the country, he had to cast a spell of immobility upon me. One day when I was chopping wood to make paper for my fanzine, he cast his spell, and there I've been until you came along."
ref: 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Tin Woodsfan”, in The BNF of Iz, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2013:
text: Maybe a few dozen hours of collective neofans, all reading him fanzine press at once, would cure him of these paternal instincts.
ref: 1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The US jazz magazine Coda began in 1958 as a 12-page mimeographed fanzine, put together by its editor and a team of volunteers working for beer and pizza.
ref: 2013, Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, volume 1, →ISBN, Fanzines, page 227:
text: “Do you think Cal Bodian's over there? Do you think he'll sign my zine?” “♪♪ Bum, bada-dum. ♪♪ My P.I. Undercover fanzine. I've done everything myself. I just took a guess about the chest hair.”
ref: 2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (5:35 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Guillermo de la Cruz (Harvey Guillén):
synonyms: dōjinshi
doujinshi
glosses: A magazine, normally produced by amateurs, intended for people who share a common interest.
Derived terms: word: fanziner
word: fmz
word: stfanzine
word: zine
farmstead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farmsteads
Etymology: From farm + stead, modelled after homestead.
Senses: glosses: The main building of a farm.
examples: text: Young people no longer work on the farmstead
They go to school and to the big town instead
ref: 1974, Tunji Oyelana, “Which Way Africa”:
glosses: A farm, including its buildings.
Related terms: farmsteading
fatback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatbacks
Etymology: From fat + back.
Senses: glosses: A layer of fat, along the back of a pig, used as a cut of meat or to make lard
glosses: A fish, the menhaden.
fathomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæ.ðəm.ləs/
ipa: /ˈfæ.ðəm.lɪs/
Forms: form: more fathomless
form: most fathomless
Etymology: From fathom + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Prais’d be the fathomless universe, / For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, / And for love, sweet love—but praise! praise! praise! / For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
glosses: Very deep (especially of water deeper than a lead line can measure); bottomless, immeasurable.
glosses: unfathomable or incomprehensible.
Synonyms: sense: very deep
word: soundless
sense: incomprehensible
word: ungraspable
word: unknowable
Derived terms: fathomlessly
fathomlessness
fauvist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French fauviste.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to fauvism.
fauvist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fauvists
Etymology: Borrowed from French fauviste.
Senses: glosses: An artist who used this style.
featherweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛðɚˌweɪt/
Forms: form: featherweights
Etymology: From feather + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.
ref: 2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:
glosses: A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.
examples: text: Watson specializes in adiposeness; none of his chorus beauties may be considered featherweights.
ref: 1923 November 14, Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio, 5/3:
glosses: A sportsman who fights in this division.
glosses: The lightest weight that may be carried by a racehorse.
femora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femurs
Senses: glosses: plural of femur
femoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin femorālis. Equivalent to femur + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or near the femur or thigh.
Derived terms: acetabulofemoral
aortofemoral
axillofemoral
bifemoral
caudofemoral
coxofemoral
femoral artery
femoral canal
femoral gland
femoral hernia
femoral nerve
femoral ring
femoral sheath
femoral triangle
femoral vein
genitofemoral
gluteofemoral
humerofemoral
iliacofemoral
iliofemoral
inguinofemoral
interfemoral
intrafemoral
ischiofemoral
meniscofemoral
mesofemoral
metafemoral
midfemoral
nonfemoral
patella femoral pain syndrome
patellofemoral
perifemoral
postfemoral
prefemoral
profemoral
pubofemoral
sacrofemoral
saphenofemoral
scrotofemoral
tibiofemoral
transfemoral
trochanterofemoral
vertebrofemoral
fibril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪbɹ(ə)l/
Forms: form: fibrils
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fibrilla, diminutive of Latin fibra. Doublet of fibrilla. Compare fibre.
Senses: glosses: A fine fibre or filament.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any fine, filamentous structure in animals or plants.
Derived terms: actinofibril
antifibril
fibrilization
fibrilize
fibrillar
fibrillary
fibrilliferous
fibrilliform
fibrillin
fibrillization
fibrillogenesis
heterofibril
interfibrillar
macrofibril
melanofibril
microfibril
myofibril
nanofibril
neurofibril
profibril
protofibril
subfibril
tonofibril
fibrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪˈbɹoʊsɪs/
Forms: form: fibroses
Etymology: From fibro- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The formation of (excess) fibrous connective tissue in an organ.
Derived terms: anthracofibrosis
antifibrosis
arthrofibrosis
cholangiofibrosis
cystic fibrosis
dermatofibrosis
fibrotic
hepatofibrosis
hyperfibrosis
immunofibrosis
microfibrosis
myelofibrosis
myofibrosis
osteofibrosis
pneumofibrosis
profibrosis
pulmonary fibrosis
spongiofibrosis
steatofibrosis
Related terms: alanine aminotransferase
fibulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibula
fibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibula + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fibula
Synonyms: peroneal
Derived terms: astragalofibular
calcaneofibular
contrafibularities
femorofibular
fibular artery
fibular hemimelia
fibular nerve
ischiofibular
parafibular
talofibular
tibiofibular
transfibular
diamond crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond crossings
Etymology: From the diamond shape that is formed by the four rails at the intersection.
Senses: examples: Holonym: diamond crossover
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: flat crossing
flat junction
diamond junction
level junction
coordinate_terms: level crossing
glosses: An at-grade junction between two crossing railroad tracks.
fleecing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fleece
fleecing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleecings
Senses: glosses: A confidence trick.
diamond junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond junctions
Etymology: From the diamond shape that is formed by the four rails at the intersection.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An at-grade junction between two crossing railroad tracks.
Synonyms: flat crossing
flat junction
diamond crossing
level junction
level junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: level junctions
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: diamond crossing
diamond junction
flat crossing
flat junction
coordinate_terms: level crossing
glosses: An at-grade junction between two crossing railroad tracks.
flat junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat junctions
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An at-grade junction between two crossing railroad tracks.
Synonyms: diamond crossing
diamond junction
flat crossing
level junction
railroad track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railroad tracks
Senses: examples: Holonym: permanent way
Meronyms: rail, railroad tie, railway tie, railway sleeper, sleeper
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: railway track
rail track
railtrack
train track
glosses: A pair of formed steel rails, separated and supported usually on wooden or concrete ties or sleepers, forming a track along which flange-wheeled railroad vehicles may travel.
cyanidiophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanidiophytes
Senses: glosses: Any thermophilic red alga of class Cyanidiophyceae.
red alga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red algae
Senses: synonyms: red seaweed
glosses: Any algae of the phyla Rhodophyta, principally, and Glaucophyta, mostly reddish in color.
dictyostelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictyostelids
Senses: glosses: Any slime mold of the order Dictyosteliida, which exist either as individual amoebae or aggregated as a pseudoplasmodium.
security procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security procedures
Senses: glosses: A procedure or set of procedures followed to ensure that state secrets, trade secrets, data, etc. are not compromised.
terms and conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: According to the terms and conditions, we're allowed to make a single copy of the software for backup purposes.
text: Variously abbreviated as T&C, T&Cs, Ts & Cs
topics: law
glosses: A specification of restrictions for the use of goods or services.
scandalmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scandalmongers
Etymology: From scandal + monger.
Senses: examples: text: The reporter for the tabloid called himself a journalist but was really nothing more than a scandalmonger.
glosses: One who trades in gossip; one who collects and disseminates rumors.
Derived terms: scandalmongering
Related terms: gossipmonger
newsmonger
rumormonger
monger
scandalmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scandalmonger
scandalously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scandalously
form: most scandalously
Etymology: From scandalous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was seen running for her life scandalously underclad.
text: English is scandalously lacking in politically and linguistically correct antonyms of this sort. The Queen can create the Duchess of Cambridge, so surely I can create the much-needed expressions "cisgress" (be a good boy), "cisvestite" (bloke wearing trousers), "cisaction" (no deal), and "cisom" (something that isn't a lintel). Anyone who doesn't disagree is a transsy.
ref: 2011 June 26, “Linguistically correct”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a scandalous manner.
scoopful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scoopfuls
form: scoopsful
Etymology: From scoop + -ful.
Senses: glosses: The quantity in a scoop.
scorner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɔɹnɚ/
ipa: /ˈskɔːnə/
Forms: form: scorners
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English scornere, scorner; equivalent to scorn + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When the ſcoꝛner is puniſhed, the ſimple is made wiſe: and when the wiſe is inſtructed, he receiueth knowledge.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 21:11:
glosses: One who mocks or scoffs; a mocker.
glosses: One who views something contemptuously or scornfully.
swankiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From swanky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The hotel was noted for its swankiness, but to me it looked tacky.
glosses: The state or quality of being swanky.
swampland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swamplands
Etymology: From swamp + land.
Senses: examples: text: Trading in their battered RV and Louisiana swamplands for a sumptuous pink mansionette with swimming pool, the Malloys pull off their ruse with skill and also childish naïveté.
ref: 2007 December 3, Alessandra Stanley, “For This Family of Pros, the Con Is Everything”, in The New York Times:
text: The swampland is an extensive pegasse swamp, which is rich in organic matter and intensely acidic.
ref: 2015, Ramesh Gampat, Guyana: from Slavery to the Present, volume 2:
glosses: Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The set of effective low-energy physical theories that are not compatible with quantum gravity.
galeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galea
is-to-be
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "We'll argue that point," replied Jack; "he has attempted the life of my is-to-be, please God, father-in-law, and therefore I have the best claim to him."
ref: 1836, Frederick Marryat, Mr Midshipman Easy:
text: But in regard to the is-to-be façade of the British Museum, nothing is suffered to transpire, nor is curiosity allowed to be gratified. The only positive information relative to it, afforded at present, is that furnished by a ground-plan […]
ref: 1843, The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, volume 6, page 263:
glosses: Something that is potential, eventual, or prospective.
incendiarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɛndɪəɹɪzm/
Forms: form: incendiarisms
Etymology: From incendiary + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Incendiarism is a major fire problem in many cities; Mr. Fairtrace here recommends needed changes in insurance and fire protection methods.
ref: 1933, Public Management, volume 15, page 263:
text: In the surrounding black slums incendiarism shoots up in the summer, an index, soem say, of psychopathology. Although the love of flames it's also religious.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: The act or practice of burning property; arson.
examples: text: But the charge sheet is not just a recapitulation of instances of imperial incendiarism, such as the Amritsar massacre or the bombings of Iraqi villages.
ref: 2012, Piers Brendon, ‘Beginning the Dissent’, Literary Review, volume 401:
glosses: Inflammatory or provocative action; instigation.
paladar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paladars
form: paladares
Etymology: From Spanish paladar, from Old Spanish, from Vulgar Latin *palātārem, from Latin palātum.
Senses: glosses: A small family-run restaurant in a Cuban home
Related terms: palate
paramotoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paramotor + -ing.
Senses: glosses: flying a paramotor
paramotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramotors
Etymology: From para- + motor.
Senses: glosses: A steerable parachute powered by a propeller attached to the pilot's back
Related terms: paramotoring
maculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macula
phytonutrient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytonutrients
Etymology: From phyto- + nutrient.
Senses: glosses: Any substance, of plant origin, that provides nutrition; a phytochemical
Related terms: nutraceutical
plutino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plutinos
Etymology: From Plut(o) + -ino (“diminutive suffix”), meaning "little Pluto" (compare neutrino); coined by David C. Jewitt, et al.
Senses: examples: text: We present a study of the dynamical evolution of plutinos recently escaped from the resonance through numerical simulations. It was shown in previous works the existence of weakly chaotic orbits in the plutino population that diffuse very slowly finally diving into a strong chaotic region.
ref: 2010, Romina P. Di Sisto, Adrián Brunini, Gonzalo C. de Elía, “The contribution of plutinos to the Centaur population”, in Julio A. Fernández, Daniela Lazzaro, Dina Prialnik, Rita Schulz, editors, Icy Bodies of the Solar System: IAU Symposium S263, Cambridge University Press, page 89:
text: This is dubbed a 3:2 resonance (with Neptune), Pluto being the largest Plutino.
About one fourth of the KBOs are Plutinos. Plutinos may be debris from the collision of another KBO with Pluto, resulting in the formation of Pluto's largest moon, Charon.
ref: 2018, C Sivaram, Kenath Arun, Kiren O V, Current Trends in Astrobiology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 39:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any planetoid in the Kuiper belt whose orbit, like that of Pluto, has a resonance of 3:2 with that of Neptune.
wikipedia: David C. Jewitt
Derived terms: fourtino
twotino
Related terms: cubewano
KBO
EKO
TNO
kuiperoid
sandboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandboards
Etymology: From sand + board.
Senses: glosses: A board similar to a snowboard used to descend sand dunes
sandboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sandboards
form: sandboarding
form: sandboarded
form: sandboarded
Etymology: From sand + board.
Senses: glosses: To ride on a sandboard
slap-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a bald or shaven head
Related terms: slaphead
telnetable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telnet + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Accessible over the Internet using telnet.
telnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telnets
form: Telnet
form: TELNET
Etymology: Short for telecommunication network.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A network protocol that enables one computer to communicate with another via a local area network or the Internet.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The program that acts as the client for such communication.
telnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telnets
form: telnetting
form: telneting
form: telnetted
form: telnetted
form: telneted
form: telneted
form: Telnet
form: TELNET
Etymology: Short for telecommunication network.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To use such a program to make such a connection
chancre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæŋ.kɚ/
rhymes: -æŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chancres
Etymology: Borrowed from French chancre (“cancer”), from Latin cancer (“crab”). Cognate to canker and cancer.
Senses: examples: text: The nurse stood up and went towards the door. At that point the caretaker said to me, "It's a chancre she's got." I didn't understand, so I looked at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage round her head just below the eyes. Where her nose should have been, the bandage was flat. Her face seemed to be nothing but a white bandage.
ref: 1942, Albert Camus, 'The Stranger' (a.k.a 'The Outsider'), Joseph Laredo translation, Ch.1:
text: If the primary stage is not treated the chancre will disappear after four to eight weeks but remember that the germ is still in the body.
ref: 1981 February 14, Robert Taylor, “Stages Of Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 17:
text: As Hiro approaches, Vitaly watches his sword uncertainly. Vitaly's eyes are dry and red, and on his lower lip he is sporting a chancre the size of a tangerine.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 97:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Skin lesion, sometimes associated with certain contagious diseases such as syphilis.
wikipedia: primary syphilis
Derived terms: chancre mechanic
chancriform
chancroid
soft chancre
Related terms: canker
Toronto blessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Toronto blessings
Senses: glosses: A form of mass religious ecstasy, involving speaking in tongues etc, associated with an evangelical revivalist fellowship whose first meeting was in Toronto
trip hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪp.hɒp/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪp.hɑp/
Forms: form: triphop
form: trip-hop
Etymology: Journalistic coinage as a blend of trip (“drug-induced hallucinations”, alluding to psychedelic music) + hip-hop.
Senses: examples: text: Trip-hop, on the other hand, takes the opposite approach. The genre can be described as a slower and dub-influenced reworking of African American hip-hop, aptly described by writer Phil Johnson as “dubbed-up hip-hop derived music...beats whose customary urgency is deconstructed into dreamy, erotic soundscapes.”
ref: 2013, Michael Veal, Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: A genre of slow electronica combining elements of hip hop with melodic, often psychedelic, sounds and impressionistic lyrics.
nicka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nickas
Senses: glosses: nigga.
train track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train tracks
Senses: glosses: A railroad track; a railway track.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A set of curves lying in a surface, meeting one another at their respective endpoints in a specific way that resembles railroad tracks.
Derived terms: train track braces
monster truck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monster trucks
Etymology: Literally, monster (“very large”) + truck (“motor vehicle”). Reportedly coined by Bob George, an owner of a motorsports promotion company, in the early 1980s, when referring to a popularly oversized truck named Bigfoot. Through semantic generalization, it came to refer to any of these oversized trucks.
Senses: glosses: A large truck designed specifically to perform in monster truck shows, typically based on a lifted pickup truck with oversized wheels and modified suspension.
verbomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From verbum (“word”) + mania.
Senses: glosses: Obsession with words.
glosses: An abnormal talkativeness; a psychotic flow of speech.
cook the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cooks the books
form: cooking the books
form: cooked the books
form: cooked the books
Etymology: From the mid-17th century. A metaphor based on cooking, whereby ingredients are changed, altered and improved. Thus financial statements can also be so modified to the benefit of the "cook".
Senses: examples: text: Enron Corp., once a major U.S. corporation, is now famous for cooking the books.
glosses: To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.
examples: text: Those that cooked the books and presented them with bias minds; They sugar-coated the stories; and twisted and exaggerated events
ref: 2012, R.I. Iyemere, The Ordeals: Poems in Memory of Ada-Emilia Valmori, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Two years after he received his piece of the Nobel Prize, Mann was drawn into controversy over a series of e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom that some climate change skeptics charged provided proof that Mann and his fellow scientists were cooking the books on climate, though for what reason, the skeptics never made clear.
ref: 2015, Seamus McGraw, Betting the Farm on a Drought, →ISBN:
text: One does suspect that the authors of Numbers cooked the books a bit to make the more important and respected tribes (Judah, for instance) look good with higher population numbers.
ref: 2017, Stephen Warde Anderson, The Anderson Revisionist Bible: The Books of Moses, →ISBN, page 280:
glosses: To falsify an account of an event.
Related terms: off the books
creative accounting
double bookkeeping
goose is cooked
Hollywood accounting
Hollywood bookkeeping
white-collar crime
CSV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSVs
Senses: coordinate_terms: TSV
qualifier: file format
glosses: Initialism of comma-separated values: a simple plain text data format, usually with values delimited by commas.
CSV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Community Service Volunteers, the former name of Volunteering Matters, a UK charity.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Certified Server Validation.
bookbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookbuilds
Etymology: From book + build.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A float of shares where the final price is determined only after a bidding phase.
libri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liber
cold spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold spots
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A sensory area in the skin that responds to a decrease in temperature.
cold spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold spot
good standing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A corporation may be convicted of crimes, have its entire board of direcors be indicted for price fixing, be sued for nonpayment of state payroll taxes, have its property seized by the IRS for unpaid income taxes, and be under state and federal investigation for securities fraud, and other things, but as long as its paperwork and fees are current with the chartering agency, it will still be a corporation in good standing.
glosses: The status of a member of a profession who is not suspended or disbarred, and is registered with a proper authority and has paid any registration fees.
glosses: The status of a person who is known to be of good character and to be trustworthy.
Related terms: in good stead
paleosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleosols
form: palaeosoil
form: paleosoil
form: palaeosol
Etymology: From paleo- + -sol.
Senses: qualifier: soil science
glosses: A layer of fossil soil buried beneath other sediments or deposits.
Derived terms: paleosolic
sotto voce
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒtəʊ ˈvəʊtʃeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɑtoʊ ˈvoʊtʃi/
ipa: /-tʃeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sottovoce (literally “under [the] voice”).
Senses: examples: text: Then a man called for her, and began to make coarse jokes. But Mr. Pappleworth nodded his head in the direction of the boy, and the talk went on sotto voce.
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 5, in Sons and Lovers:
text: ‘Hello?’ she shouted, but still her voice came out barely louder than a sotto voce whisper.
ref: 1985, Gary Russell, Divided Loyalties, page 38:
text: The Boyz also regularly speak in sotto voce, mimicking the grave, hushed tones often adopted by nature/wildlife programming hosts.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 89:
qualifier: etc
glosses: In soft tones; quiet.
raw_tags: of a voice
of speech
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: sotto
glosses: Soft, instruments or voice.
sotto voce
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒtəʊ ˈvəʊtʃeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɑtoʊ ˈvoʊtʃi/
ipa: /-tʃeɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sottovoce (literally “under [the] voice”).
Senses: examples: text: "I am not your dear; I cannot lie down. Send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here." I will indeed send her to school soon," murmured Mrs. Reed sotto voce; and gathering up her work, she abruptly quitted the apartment.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: “Darling,” she says, “a working-class hero is something to be. “Of course,” she adds, sotto voce, “I wouldn’t know.”
ref: 2007 February 25, William Shaw, quoting Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, “We Are Not a Muse”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: etc
glosses: Quietly.
raw_tags: of a voice
of speech
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: word: sotto
glosses: Sung or played softly, instruments or voice.
sotto voce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒtəʊ ˈvəʊtʃeɪ/
ipa: /ˌsɑtoʊ ˈvoʊtʃi/
ipa: /-tʃeɪ/
Forms: form: sotto voci
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sottovoce (literally “under [the] voice”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A direction in a score that a passage in a piece should be played softly, or sung in a low voice, when applied to vocal music.
Kevins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kevin
argumentum ad verecundiam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: argumenta ad verecundiam
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: An argument from authority, or an appeal to authority.
Related terms: ipse dixit
disproportionation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disproportionations
Etymology: Possibly from disproportion + -ation, or from disproportionate + -ion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of redox reaction in which part of a reactant is oxidized and part of it is reduced simultaneously
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction wherein a single reactant generates two chemical species which are different from each other and the initial reactant.
Related terms: comproportionation
dismutation
crudo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹuːdəʊ/
Forms: form: crudos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crudo (literally “raw”). Doublet of crude.
Senses: examples: text: Food, like fashion, has a brutally short trend cycle, as the trickle-down from San Sebastián to Smith Street takes barely a season. So, this year's crudo could be next year's tuna carpaccio.
ref: 2004 November 7, Christine Muhlke, “The Remix; Expiration Date”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Then, a few years back, poke started appearing on stray restaurant menus, sometimes identified as Hawaiian crudo or ceviche.
ref: 2016 February 4, Ligaya Mishan, “Poke Reaches the Shores of Manhattan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A dish made of raw fish or seafood.
Related terms: ceviche
poke
cubic capacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubic capacities
Senses: glosses: A volume; especially the volume of a cylinder head when the piston is at its lower dead centre.
cubica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubicas
Senses: glosses: A fine unglazed fabric resembling shalloon.
radicand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radicands
Etymology: From radix (“root”) + -and.
Senses: examples: text: 3 is the radicand in the expression #92;sqrt#91;n#93;#123;3#125;.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number or expression whose square root or other root is being considered.
Related terms: word: successor
sense: addition, summation
english: addend; total
translation: addend; total
alt: augend
word: + =
sense: addition, summation
english: sum
translation: sum
alt: summand
word: + +... =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication, factorization; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: product
translation: product
word: × =
sense: multiplication, factorization; factor
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × ×... =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient
english: with remaining
translation: with remaining
alt: quotient
word: Or sometimes
sense: exponentiation; base
english: power
translation: power
alt: exponent
word: =
sense: root extraction; degree
roman: radicand
word: √ =
sense: logarithmization
english: logarithm
translation: logarithm
alt: antilogarithm
word: log(base) =
word: radix
respiratorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From respiratory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to respiration.
sheisty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sheistier
form: more sheisty
form: sheistiest
form: most sheisty
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shiesty.
sheisty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheisties
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shiesty.
stardom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹdəm/
Forms: form: stardoms
Etymology: From star + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The status or position of a performer acknowledged to be a star; fame; celebrity.
Derived terms: nonstardom
wazz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: wazzes
Senses: examples: text: Here was a man who took so much cocaine that he took to keeping his urine in bottles, in the fridge, because he was scared that wizards ‘might steal it’. And yet despite storing his rotting wazz next to his ham, it doesn't stop him being cool.
ref: 2011, Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman:
glosses: An act of urination, a piss or a leak; urine.
wazz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæz/
rhymes: -æz
Forms: form: wazzes
form: wazzing
form: wazzed
form: wazzed
Senses: examples: text: Both wazzed out their cups. Danny looked at his watch. 23 minutes since he saw them drinking the blue poison. If the stuff he'd read on the Internet was right, in 7 minutes they would be sleeping like babies. This, however, would be of[…]
ref: 2008 02, Scott M. Liddell, The Beatle Man, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 67:
text: The enigmatic old lady had traversed the room with impressive speed and was practically face to face with Mattie when she looked up. 'Sorry?' 'Pardon me for noticing. Only you look like someone wazzed on your chips, love.
ref: 2016 October 20, Miranda Dickinson, Searching for a Silver Lining, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 32:
text: How many people have wazzed in this layby? Must be millions. Billions. Ye olde travellers on the trunk road into the west, unable to wait until the next rest facility. Services: twenty-one miles and twelve miles.
ref: 2022 April 28, Tom Cox, Villager, Unbound Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To urinate.
webmeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: webmeisters
Senses: examples: text: (The O.E.D. might have gone overboard by including a couple of iffy web-words: webliography, for a Web-based bibliography, and webmeister, a silly alternative to webmaster.)
ref: [2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A webmaster.
webzine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɛbˌziːn/
Forms: form: webzines
Etymology: From Web + zine.
Senses: examples: text: In the spring, the museum launched its new Internet magazine, ¡del Corazón! (“From the Heart”). This interactive webzine focuses on Latino artists in the collection, such as Carmen Lomas Garza, Aguela Martinez, and Irvin Trujillo.
ref: 1998, Elizabeth Broun, “National Museum of American Art”, in Smithsonian Year: Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year Ended September 30, 1997, Smithsonian Institution Press, page 37:
text: Dickinson, 42, takes the magazine’s helm after working 14 years for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He edited a bimonthly webzine, Fish and Wildlife Today, wrote frequently for the department’s magazine, and managed communications for the agency’s Wildlife, Fisheries, and Ecological Services divisions.
ref: 2002, “Dickinson takes the reins of Montana Outdoors”, in Tom Dickinson, editor, Montana Outdoors, page 32:
text: Readers of the story by Zak Jason ’11 titled “Curtain Call: The Secretary and the Blogger” (Summer 2011) will remember how the recent Commencement speaker, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, singled out Allison Lantero, a graduating senior, in his remarks. Writing for the webzine Her Campus, Lantero had blogged in part, “Now that our sighs of disappointment have subsided, what we really wand to know is: Who is Ray LaHood?” adding, “all we can hope is that the speech is short.”
ref: 2011, “Update”, in Ben Birnbaum, editor, Boston College Magazine, volume 71, number 4, Boston College, →ISSN, page 3:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A magazine published on the World Wide Web.
Synonyms: webmag
Hypernyms: e-zine
cyberzine
Xenical
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A marketing coinage.
Senses: qualifier: brand name
glosses: orlistat
orlistat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug designed to treat obesity
Synonyms: Xenical
vagarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagarities
Etymology: From vagary + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The character or state of being vagarious; capriciousness; irregularity.
glosses: Vagary.
vagarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagarity