cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
physics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪz.ɪks/
Forms: form: physicks
Etymology: 1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
Senses: glosses: plural of physic
Synonyms: word: physics
Meronyms: word: astronomy
word: astrophysics
word: biophysics
word: mechanics
word: optics
word: classical mechanics
word: statistical mechanics
word: quantum mechanics
word: particle physics
word: thermodynamics
word: cosmology
Related terms: word: space
word: time
word: matter
word: energy
word: force
word: mass
word: density
word: motion
word: velocity
word: acceleration
word: trajectory
word: pressure
word: potential
word: temperature
word: particle
word: wave
physics
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪz.ɪks/
Forms: form: physicks
Etymology: 1580s; from physic (see also -ics), from Middle English phisik, from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φυσικός (phusikós, “natural; physical”), from Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “origin; nature, property”), from Ancient Greek φύω (phúō, “produce; bear; grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of physic
oddball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːdˌbɔl/
rhymes: -ɑːdbɔl
Forms: form: oddballs
Etymology: Compound of odd + ball. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Quinn thought that Oswald spoke Russian well in view of his lack of formal training; she found the evening uninteresting. Donovan, with whom she had a date later, testified that she told him that Oswald was “kind of an oddball.”
ref: 1964, Earl Warren et al., Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, page 685:
text: "She's different, mister. A real oddball, if you know what I mean. But your little girl would love her. All kids love the Doll Lady."
ref: 1989, Maris Soule, Storybook Hero, page 5:
glosses: An eccentric or unusual person.
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A deviant stimulus that appears among repetitive stimuli during an experiment, to trigger an event-related potential in the participant.
Synonyms: sense: eccentric or unusual person
word: kook
word: odd duck
word: strange fish
word: queer fish
word: weirdo
word: strange person
Derived terms: oddballery
oddballish
oddball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːdˌbɔl/
rhymes: -ɑːdbɔl
Etymology: Compound of odd + ball. First used in late 1930s, describing an extra ball played as a bonus in pin-ball type games. Well-attested since the 1940s, with the adjective appearing earlier than the noun.
Senses: examples: text: An oddball word processor, for example, might never be supported by such helpful tools as spelling checkers, indexing programs, footnote utilities,...
ref: 1984, Steven K. Roberts, The Complete Guide to Microsystem Management:
glosses: Exotic, not mainstream.
Related terms: goofball
occupation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɒkjəˈpeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑkjʊˈpeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɑkjəˈpeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: occupations
Etymology: From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupacion, occupation, from Latin occupātiō, occupātiōnis, from occupō (“occupy, seize”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to seize, grab”). By surface analysis, occupy + -ation.
Senses: glosses: An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
examples: text: Last year it was announced that electrification of L.M.R. main lines was to be speeded up and that it would be essential for the engineers to have the longest possible occupation of the lines involved; this would mean some retrenchment of passenger train services.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London–Birmingham services – Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 98:
glosses: The act, process or state of possessing a place.
examples: text: The early years of Norman occupation saw a frenzy of castle building.
ref: 1999, Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell, “1066[:] The Normans Begin to Erect Castles”, in dictionary of english down through the ages[:] words & phrases born out of historical events great & small, 2005 edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian:
topics: geopolitics
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The control of a nation or region by a hostile military or paramilitary force.
Synonyms: sense: activity with which one occupies oneself
word: employment
word: interest
word: line of work
word: profession
word: vocation
word: avocation
word: calling
word: work
word: job
word: occupation
Hyponyms: word: vocation
Derived terms: antioccupation
deoccupation
disoccupation
inoccupation
Israeli Occupation Forces
Israel Occupation Forces
Jewish occupation government
misoccupation
nonoccupation
occupational
occupation bridge
occupationism
occupationless
occupation number
oldest occupation
overoccupation
reoccupation
reoccupational
ticket of occupation
underoccupation
unoccupation
Zionist occupation government
Related terms: word: calling
word: career
word: craft
word: profession
word: trade
word: walk of life
labour
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.bə/
ipa: /ˈleɪ.bɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: labours
form: labouring
form: laboured
form: laboured
form: labor
Etymology: From Middle English labouren, from Old French laborer, from Latin laborare (“(intransitive) to labor, strive, exert oneself, suffer, be in distress, (transitive) to work out, elaborate”), from labor (“labor, toil, work, exertion”); perhaps remotely akin to robur (“strength”). Displaced native English swink (“toil, labor”).
Senses: examples: text: Standing on the mountain above Caerphilly, one may reflect upon the gap where once stood Llanbradach Viaduct, and look near at hand upon the restored ruins of Caerphilly Castle; man labours to rebuild the mediaeval whilst he ruthlessly scraps the modern.
ref: 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 165:
text: "Crab" 2-6-0 No 42802 labours up to Beattock Summit with a northbound freight from Carlisle in August 1960.
ref: 1961 May, “Beattock Interlude”, in Trains Illustrated, page 287, photo caption:
synonyms: grind
glosses: To toil, to work.
examples: text: I think we've all got the idea. There's no need to labour the point.
text: It is needless to labor a point which is so well known. Everyone understands and appreciates the joy of finding that the long darkness is giving way, that the Sun is growing in strength, and that the days are winning a victory over the nights.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 36:
glosses: To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc).
examples: text: the stone that labours up the hill
ref: 1726, George Granville, Love:
text: The line too labours, and the words move slow.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
text: to cure the disorder under which he laboured
ref: 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: To be oppressed with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it especially hard or wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a burden.
glosses: To suffer the pangs of childbirth.
examples: text: the ship laboured so much, and took in so much water in her upper works, that we could neither eat, nor sleep dry
ref: 1808, William Gilpin, Memoirs of Josias Rogers, Esq:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To pitch or roll heavily, as a ship in a turbulent sea.
Derived terms: labourer
labourism
labourist
labourite
labour-saving
marmalade labour
Related terms: laboratory
mammary gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammary glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A gland that secretes milk for suckling an infant or offspring.
Synonyms: word: breast
word: dug
word: udder
raw_tags: referring to an animal's mammary gland
sense: usually used of a woman's mammary gland
word: boob
sense: usually used of a woman's mammary gland
word: hooter
sense: usually used of a woman's mammary gland
word: jug
sense: usually used of a woman's mammary gland
word: knocker
sense: usually used of a woman's mammary gland
word: melon
sense: usually used of a woman's mammary gland
word: tit
Hypernyms: gland
breast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: brĕst
ipa: /bɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: Brest
Forms: form: breasts
form: breasting
form: breasted
form: breasted
form: brest
Etymology: From Middle English brest, from Old English brēost, from Proto-West Germanic *breust, from Proto-Germanic *breustą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to swell”). Compare West Frisian boarst, Danish bryst, Swedish bröst; cf. also Dutch borst, German Brust.
Senses: examples: text: […]when the court, very much to the credit of their candour and firmness, breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer.
ref: 1817, William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry, page 22:
glosses: To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.
examples: text: He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.
text: Vera Nugent, a brisk woman of the world, with a fondness for vivid clothing and a Spanish air which went oddly with it, took the trouble one fine day to tackle her brother. “Look here, Jimmy," she said as they breasted a mountain pass, “are you quite sure what you are up to with these people?”
ref: 1916, Maurice Hewlett, Love and Lucy, page 247:
text: With the sea below us grey and storm swept, and the coast line vague in the driving rain, we forged our way up the bank to breast the summit at 37 m.p.h.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8:
text: But this was excelled by the remarkable feat of Iron Duke, on the second run, in accelerating from a dead start at Miller's Dale up 1 in 90 to no less than 53 m.p.h. before breasting the summit at Peak Forest.
ref: 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 178:
glosses: To reach the top of (a hill or other prominence).
examples: text: Breast the birds; wash and dry well. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place the birds in a roasting pan.
ref: 2005, Texas Judicial Cookbook: Hello There!:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To debreast.
udder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌdə/
ipa: /ˈʌdɚ/
rhymes: -ʌdə(ɹ)
homophone: other (th-stopping)
homophone: utter (flapping)
Forms: form: udders
Etymology: From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ūder (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Latin ūber.
Senses: examples: text: squeeze the udder to get milk
text: The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60:
meronyms: teat
glosses: An organ formed of the mammary glands of female quadruped mammals, particularly ruminants such as cattle, goats, sheep and deer.
glosses: A woman's breast.
boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: boobs
Etymology: Clipped form of booby (“fool”). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby § Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Not having an ear for music it annoys me to hear the boobs squeal.
ref: 1914, George Vere Hobart, Boobs, as Seen by John Henry, →OCLC, page 75:
text: [BURNS AND ENSEMBLE]: Look at all those idiots. Oh, look at all those boobs. An office full of morons. A factory full of fools. Is it any wonder that I'm singing, singing the blues!?
ref: 1990, “Look At All Those Idiots” (track 9), in The Simpsons Sing The Blues (1990), performed by The Simpsons:
text: He said he felt like such a boob in school and nobody talked to him.
ref: 2008 April 30, “Cher: I was crazy about Tom Cruise”, in Marie Claire:
glosses: An idiot; a fool.
glosses: A mistake.
Derived terms: boobery
boobish
boobocracy
booboisie
boob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: boobs
form: boobing
form: boobed
form: boobed
Etymology: Clipped form of booby (“fool”). Appeared near the beginning of the twentieth century; more information at booby § Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: After three hits his cleverness ran out. He boobed.
ref: 1969, Colin Watson, The Flaxborough Chronicle, →OCLC, page 250:
glosses: To behave stupidly; to act like a boob.
examples: text: ...the younger generation will not altogether be grateful for the book in which they are contained — especially when he boobs in calling the Weavers a rock ensemble.
ref: 1969, “Alchemy”, in The Canadian Forum, volume 49, page 211:
glosses: To make a mistake.
Derived terms: boob up
boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: boobs
Etymology: Clipped form of booby (“breast”). Appeared from the 20th century; more information at booby § Etymology 2.
Senses: examples: text: Tough luck. Too quick in covering to let them see her boobs.
ref: 1935, James T. Farrell, Studs Lonigan; A Trilogy, →OCLC, Judgement Day:
text: Her boob had fallen out of her nightgown and now lay limp against the stained sheet.
ref: 1974, Ernest Brawley, The Rap, page 256:
text: Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob was written to help families who have been affected by breast cancer.
ref: 2013, Kim Haskan, Mommy Has a Boo Boo in Her Boob, book cover:
glosses: A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.
Synonyms: breasts
Derived terms: bewb
big boob
big-boob
booba
boobage
boob augmentation
boob cancer
boob envy
boobfeed
boobfeeder
boobfest
boobgasm
Boobgate
boobilicious
boob implant
boobitis
boob job
boob juice
boobless
boob light
booblike
boob milk
boob reduction
boobsicle
boob-sling
boobtacular
boobtastic
boob tube
boobular
boob window
foob
free-boob
man boob
man-boob
manboob
megaboob
moob
on the boob
outboob
side boob
side-boob
sideboob
sore boob means more boob
underboob
boob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: boobs
Etymology: Apparently shortened from booby-hatch.
Senses: examples: text: Then he got or was brought back to Mongumber he was tired to a tree and was belted by the white officer in charge put into the boob that they have ther I think of cause we cant say for a certain he was brought out of the boob dead or nearly.
ref: 1927, William Cooper, letter, in Heiss & Minter (eds.), Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 26
text: I begin to feel homesick for the easy drifting of boob. I guess the fact is I'm afraid of life, haven't got the guts to be a real criminal.
ref: 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 29:
glosses: A prison; jail.
osmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏz-mōˈ -sĭs
enpr: ŏs-
ipa: /ɒzˈməʊ̯sɪs/
ipa: /ɒsˈməʊ̯sɪs/
ipa: /ɑzˈmoʊ̯sɪs/
ipa: /ɑsˈmoʊ̯sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
rhymes: -oʊsɪs
Forms: form: osmoses
Etymology: From endosmose and exosmose, both coined by French physician Henri Dutrochet in 1826; from (respectively) Ancient Greek ἔνδον (éndon, “within”) and Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outer, external”), plus Ancient Greek ὠσμός (ōsmós, “push, impulsion”), from ὠθέω (ōthéō).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.
examples: text: Near-synonym: serendipity
text: I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.
text: At age fourteen, by a process of osmosis, of dirty jokes, whispered secrets and filthy ballads, Tristram learned of sex.
ref: 1999, Neil Gaiman, Stardust (Perennial paperback), published 2001, pages 36–37:
glosses: Passive absorption or impartation of information, habits, etc.; the process of teaching or learning particular knowledge incidentally rather than consciously.
Derived terms: assmosis
chemiosmosis
chemosmosis
diosmosis
electroosmosis
endosmosis
exosmosis
hyperosmosis
pressure-retarded osmosis
reverse osmosis
thermoosmosis
zoosmosis
Related terms: osmotic
osmotically
osmose
window
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪndəʊ/
enpr: wĭnʹdō
ipa: /ˈwɪndoʊ/
note: colloquial, folk speech, nonstandard
enpr: wĭnʹdə
ipa: /ˈwɪndə/
note: colloquial, folk speech, nonstandard
rhymes: -ɪndəʊ
Forms: form: windows
form: windowing
form: windowed
form: windowed
Etymology: From Middle English wyndowe, wyndown, from Old Norse vindauga (“window”, literally “wind-eye; wind-hole”), equivalent to wind + eye. Cognate with Scots windae and windock, Faroese vindeyga, Norwegian Bokmål vindu, Norwegian Nynorsk vindauge, Danish vindue, archaic Swedish vindöga, Elfdalian windog. Displaced native Old English ēagþȳrel (literally “eye hole”) (the rare direct descendant is eyethurl (“window, pupil, etc.”)). The “windows” among early Germanic peoples were just unglazed holes (eyes) in the wall or roof that permitted wind to pass through .
Senses: glosses: To furnish with windows.
examples: text: Wouldst thou be windowed in great Rome and see / Thy master thus with pleach'd arms, bending down / His corrigible neck?
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 IV, scene xiii]:
glosses: To place at or in a window.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: To apply a window function to (a signal).
permeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːmiəbəl/
ipa: /ˈpɝmiəbəl/
ipa: /ˈpɜːmiəbəl/
Forms: form: more permeable
form: most permeable
Etymology: From Middle English permeable, permiable, from Latin permeābilis.
Senses: examples: text: permeable strata
text: Rainwater sinks through permeable rock to form an underground reservoir.
text: One hundred thirty-one small, highly permeable masonry wall specimens built of concrete blocks or of bricks were treated with cement-water paints or with other waterproofings.
ref: 1948, Publications of the National Bureau of Standards, page 213:
synonyms: water-permeable
antonyms: impermeable
impervious
nonpermeable
glosses: Able to be permeated; absorbing or allowing the passage of fluids.
examples: text: permeable borders
text: permeable boundaries
synonyms: penetrable
antonyms: impermeable
impenetrable
nonpermeable
glosses: Allowing the passage of persons, information, or other things, especially when such passage occurs despite hopes or expectations otherwise.
Derived terms: hyperpermeable
permalloy
permeableness
permeablise
permeably
semipermeable
unpermeable
Related terms: permeability
porous
hardware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdˌwɛə/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌwɛɹ/
Etymology: From Middle English hardware; equivalent to hard + -ware; attested since the mid-15th century.
Senses: examples: text: He needed a hammer, nails, screws, nuts, bolts and other assorted hardware, so he went to the hardware store.
glosses: Fixtures, equipment, fasteners, tools, and devices used for general-purpose construction and repair of a structure or object. Also such equipment as sold as stock by a store of the same name, e.g. hardware store.
examples: text: military hardware
text: BOWEN: The monster trucks of Mars rovers, joke scientists, equipped with an array of sophisticated hardware to look for signs of water and answer scientists questions.
ref: 2003 June 6, “Mission to Mars”, in CBS_Rather:
text: It is one thing to see an intercooler as a simple entry in a textbook, but to witness the actual hardware as it crawled down the road was awe-inspiring.
ref: 2009 May, Lee S. Langston, “plowing new ground.”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 131, number 5, page 40:
text: Smaller, turbocharged engines are one way to increase engine efficiency by 8 to 10 percent, but the extra hardware is expensive.
ref: 2011 January, “Swedish Sportster”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 188, number 1, page 27:
glosses: Equipment.
examples: text: Hardware is the generally accepted colloquism for anything inside a computer other than an engineer.
ref: 1952, R.L. Michaelson, “Binary Arithmetic”, in The Incorporated Statistician, volume 3, number 1 (Feb. 1952), pages 35–40:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Electronic equipment.
examples: text: The designers have put their logo on the hardware of this bag here.
glosses: Metal implements.
glosses: A firearm.
glosses: Medals or trophies.
glosses: Ellipsis of hardware store.
Synonyms: word: hardware
Hyponyms: word: bus
word: cache
word: card
word: fan
word: hard drive
word: memory
word: motherboard
word: port
word: processor
word: RAM
word: ROM
word: serial port
word: parallel port
word: USB port
Coordinate terms: word: software
Derived terms: biohardware
hardware-accelerated
hardware acceleration
hardware cloth
hardware description language
hardware disease
hardware engineer
hardwareless
hardwareman
hardware node
hardware store
hardware wallet
hardwarily
nonhardware
Related terms: software
vaporware
firearm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹˌɑː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: firearms
form: fire arm
Etymology: From fire (“projectile discharge”) + arm (“weapon”).
Senses: examples: text: David was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.
text: Understanding gun ownership in the US can help inform debates about firearm laws (or lack thereof). […] There are about 393 million privately owned firearms in the US, according to an estimate by the Switzerland-based Small Arms Survey – or in other words, 120 guns for every 100 Americans.
ref: 2022 June 2, Harmeet Kaur, “What studies reveal about gun ownership in the US”, in CNN:
hypernyms: gun
<
ranged weapon
<
weapon
coordinate_terms: cold weapon
white arm
;
artillery
cannon
autocannon
glosses: A personal weapon that uses explosive powder to propel a projectile often made of lead.
Synonyms: word: firearm
word: gat
word: gun
word: iron
word: piece
Hypernyms: word: ranged weapon
word: weapon
Hyponyms: word: Handguns or shot guns:
word: hand cannon
word: handgun
word: pistol
word: pocket pistol
word: revolver
word: rod
word: service revolver
word: shooting iron
word: six-gun
word: six-shooter
word: smoke wagon
word: toaster
word: zipgun
word: Long guns:
word: carbine
word: coach gun
word: culverin
word: blunderbuss
word: breechloader
word: broom
word: bruckback
word: dotty
word: fire-stick
word: harquebus
word: long gun
word: musket
word: muzzleloader
word: rifle
word: shotgun
word: smelly
word: thunderstick
word: Automatic guns:
word: automatic rifle
word: cannon
word: machine gun
word: submachine gun
word: Other:
word: bunny buster
word: hotgun
word: mop
word: wall hanger
word: Unclear whether these a exact synonyms or refer to shorter firearms/handguns.
word: artillery
word: bit
word: blammer
word: blix
word: blicky
word: broomstick
word: bucky
word: burner
word: fire
word: hardware
word: heater
word: jammy
word: knocker
word: mash
word: Russian
word: scram
word: shooter
word: skeng
word: strally
word: strap
word: smoke pole
word: swammy
word: tool
word: toolie
word: tone
word: toy
word: wap
word: whoosh
word: yogger
Meronyms: word: barrel
word: butt
word: cartridge
word: firing pin
word: frizzen
word: hammers
word: saddle ring
word: sear
word: stock
word: trigger
Derived terms: antifirearm
antifirearms
Related terms: word: :Category:Firearms
bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl.ɪt/
rhymes: -ʊlɪt
Forms: form: bullets
form: bulleting
form: bulleted
form: bulleted
Etymology: From Middle English bullet (“an official tag or badge of registration or identification”), from Old French bullete, diminutive of boule (“ball”). Later influenced by Middle French boulette and French boulet.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"
ref: 2000, Merriam-Webster's collegiate encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster, Inc, page x:
text: The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.
ref: 2004, Richard P. Pohanish, HazMat data: for first response, transportation, storage, and security, page x:
text: I had mind-mapped everything from my business to my baby girl's needs and had bulleted my talking points, brownie points, and breaking points for just about every life area
ref: 2008, Deanna Davis, The law of attraction in action, page 42:
glosses: To draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.
examples: text: Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.
text: After a little pause, during which the train bulleted through the tunnel, he said, “Poor man,” referring to his late father.
ref: 2024, Hisham Matar, My Friends, Random House (2025), page 7:
glosses: To speed, like a bullet.
examples: text: He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.
glosses: To make a shot, especially with great speed.
examples: text: They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
ref: 2021 July 18, “‘Woop’ Freestyle” (0:25 from the start), Trizz (lyrics):
glosses: To inflict bullet shots upon.
examples: text: Mowbray never had that luxury, he was bulleted after a run of bad results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season.
ref: 2012, Iain King, John Hartson, John Hartson's Celtic Dream Team:
glosses: To fire from a job; to dismiss.
bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊl.ɪt/
rhymes: -ʊlɪt
Forms: form: bullets
Etymology: From bull + -let.
Senses: examples: text: —Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets."
ref: 1886, Hamilton Literary Magazine, Clippings, page 110:
text: “I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.
ref: 1937, Quarterly Bulletin: The Historical Society of Northwestern Ohio, page 17:
text: YES — imagine, if you can, that all human beings are cows and or bulls for just one day (I just can’t stand the thoughts of being a cow for more than one day). SO — lets^([sic]) take the cow and bull side of the question first. REMEMBER — you are a cow or bull. Mrs. Cow has been home all day busy getting the cotton seed meal and hulls ready for dinner, tending to the little cowlets and bullets and baking a bale of hay.
ref: 1959, C. B. Kitchens, X-syrps from the Trickem News Chronic, page 5:
text: > Correct. No other animals drink cow's milk but cows! / Cows drink milk? Maybe their little cowlets and bullets (future steerlets) do; but I have yet to see a cow drink milk. Other animals love cow milk. My dog, the barn cats up the road.
ref: 2013 November 20, Gorio, “Re: Milk, redefined. What do you think about this????”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet), message-ID <Gorio.cd28428.923639@foodbanter.com>:
glosses: A young or little bull; a male calf.
Synonyms: word: bullock
Coordinate terms: cowlet
cowling
passage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
Forms: form: passages
form: passaging
form: passaged
form: passaged
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Senses: examples: text: He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
text: After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
examples: text: They passaged to America in 1902.
glosses: To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
passage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Senses: examples: text: Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.
topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
ipa: /ˈpasɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
Forms: form: passages
Etymology: From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
Senses: topics: dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
passage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
ipa: /ˈpasɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
Forms: form: passages
form: passaging
form: passaged
form: passaged
Etymology: From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
Senses: examples: text: After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]
ref: 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope, page 18:
topics: dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: To execute a passage movement.
programmable read-only memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmable read-only memories
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: PROM
glosses: A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.
Related terms: EEPROM
EPROM
ROM
flash memory
RAM
dynamic memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamic memories
Senses: glosses: Computer memory that requires a periodic refresh to maintain its contents. This memory is usually cheaper and faster than ROM.
refresh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈfɹɛʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrifrɛʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪˈfrɛʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛfrɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: refreshes
form: refreshing
form: refreshed
form: refreshed
Etymology: From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.
Senses: examples: text: Sleep refreshes the body and the mind.
text: Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 31:16–17:
glosses: To renew or revitalize.
glosses: To become fresh again; to be revitalized.
examples: text: She refreshed the page. She was still the high bidder. Good.
ref: 2007, Beth Harbison, Shoe Addicts Anonymous:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reload (a document, especially a webpage) and show any new changes.
examples: text: You can save your code, refresh your browser, and see a change instantly. This simple trick turns a lowly web browser into a development environment […]
ref: 2007, Philip C Plumlee, Test Driven Ajax (on Rails):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause (a web browser or similar software) to refresh its display.
glosses: To perform the periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
examples: text: We got within two miles of there, and stopped in the woods out of sight, where we refreshed with some brandy, and gave the two boys very large portions.
ref: 1972, Vermont History, volume 40, page 268:
glosses: To take refreshment; to eat or drink.
Derived terms: refresh someone's memory
refresh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈfɹɛʃ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrifrɛʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /rɪˈfrɛʃ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈrɛfrɛʃ/
rhymes: -ɛʃ
Forms: form: refreshes
Etymology: From Middle English refreshen, refreschen, refrisschen, from Old French refrescher (“to refresh”) (modern French rafraîchir), equivalent to re- + fresh.
Senses: glosses: The periodic energizing required to maintain the contents of computer memory, the display luminance of a computer screen, etc.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The update of a display (in a web browser or similar software) to show the latest version of the data.
examples: text: Experiences such as the Al Qaeda threat have provided a taste of how the landscape may have changed very fundamentally. Do these changes spell the end of the Cycle as a useful concept, or does it just need a refresh?
ref: 2013, Mark Phythian, Understanding the Intelligence Cycle, page 43:
glosses: The process of modernizing something.
Derived terms: adaptive tile refresh
refresh rate
execute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɛɡzɪˈk̬juʈ/
Forms: form: executes
form: executing
form: executed
form: executed
form: exequte
form: exequute
form: exsecute
form: exsequute
Etymology: From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor (“to follow (up/through)”, particularly in the sense “to go through with a deed or punishment”), from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).
Senses: examples: text: There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
text: According to international treaties, it is illegal to execute prisoners of war.
text: Was not thy Father, Richard, Earle of Cambridge, / For Treaſon executed in our late Kings dayes?
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 104, column 1:
coordinate_terms: murder
glosses: To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
examples: text: Your orders have been executed, sir!
text: I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
text: Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: To carry out; to put into effect.
examples: text: to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
text: to execute a turn in ballet
text: Affinity groups will plan and execute nonviolent actions to both symbolically and directly challenge weapons development.
ref: 1989 February 12, Escalating Peace: A Next Step To Resist Global Violence, “George Jarret”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 30, page 5:
glosses: To perform.
examples: text: to execute a contract
topics: law
glosses: To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
examples: text: to execute a program
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: start
launch
run
open
glosses: To start, launch, or run.
examples: text: The program executed, but data problems were discovered.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To run, usually successfully.
Synonyms: word: perform
word: carry out
word: do
Derived terms: electrocute
executability
executable
executed
execute order
execution
executioner
executive
executor
executrix
executry
misexecute
nonexecuted
nonexecuting
outexecute
reexecute
self-executing
unexecute
unexecuted
capitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æpɪtəl
ipa: /ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/
homophone: capital
Forms: form: capitols
form: Capitol
Etymology: From Middle English Capitolie, via Anglo-Norman capitolie, Old French capitoile, from Latin Capitōlium (“Capitoline Hill, its temples; any similar citadel”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (noun-forming suffix) or -ōlus (“-ole”, diminutive suffix) + -ium (toponym-forming suffix). Compare Latin capitō and capitulum. As a French magistrate, via French capitoul, from Capitole, the town hall of Toulouse. Doublet of Capitolium and capitoul.
Senses: examples: text: The state capitol is located smack-dab in the middle of the state's capital.
text: The centre of attraction was the City Hall. Two thousand flags and more ...; 2,000 electric lights... combined to make the civic capitol gorgeous... .
ref: 1901 January 1, "Twentieth Century's Triumphant Entry", The New York Times, page 1
glosses: Any building or complex of buildings in which a legislature meets.
glosses: Any citadel or complex of buildings similar to the Roman Capitol, particularly Italian and Roman citadels including temples to Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva.
glosses: Alternative form of capitoul (“the former chief magistrates of Toulouse, France”).
Synonyms: sense: building in which a legislature meets
word: statehouse
sense: former Roman and Italian citadels
word: Capitolium
Derived terms: Old Capitol Site
Related terms: english: the city in which the government center is located
translation: the city in which the government center is located
word: capital
word: Capitoline
smack-dab
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: smack bang
form: smack dab
form: right smack dab
Senses: examples: text: I tossed the water balloon and it landed smack-dab on the top of his head.
text: Things build and build, and it becomes clearer and clearer that a battle is about to take place. In “Stormborn,” a bang above deck is all the warning we get, and suddenly the Yara Greyjoy fleet is smack dab in the middle of Euron’s Iron Fleet, and the party begins.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Exactly in a place, especially the middle; directly; precisely; dead-center.
isolationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm/
Forms: form: isolationisms
Etymology: From isolation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Many hope the period of American isolationism and country-first populism under President Trump will give way to an era of renewed U.S. global leadership and embrace of multilateralism to tackle common challenges.
ref: 2020 November 7, Shibani Mahtani, Miriam Berger, “World now looks at how Biden will reshape U.S. policies after turbulent Trump era”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A national (or group) policy of non-interaction with other nations (or groups).
Related terms: isolationist
rifle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪfəl/
rhymes: -aɪfəl
Forms: form: rifles
Etymology: Originally short for “rifled gun”, referring to the spiral grooves inside the barrel. From Middle English riflen (“to rob, plunder, search through”), from Old French rifler (“to lightly scratch, scrape off, plunder”), from Old High German riffilōn (compare German riffeln (“to score, make grooves in, ripple”), archaic Dutch rijfelen (“to scrape”), Old English rifelan, riflian (“to wrinkle”)), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *rīfaną (compare Old Norse rífa (“to tear, break”)). More at rive.
Senses: examples: text: Still, a dozen men with rifles, and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: In the June days of 1848 Baudelaire reports seeing revolutionaries (he might have been one of them) going through the streets of Paris with rifles, shooting all the clocks.
ref: 1995, Richard Klein, “Introduction”, in Cigarettes are sublime, Paperback edition, Durham: Duke University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
hypernyms: firearm
<
gun
<
ranged weapon
<
weapon
glosses: A firearm fired from the shoulder; improved range and accuracy is provided by a long, rifled barrel.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A rifleman.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An artillery piece with a rifled barrel.
glosses: A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.
Derived terms: air rifle
assault rifle
automatic rifle
autorifle
battle rifle
benchrest rifle
express rifle
hog rifle
Kentucky rifle
long rifle
Minié rifle
Mississippi rifle
Parrott rifle
Pennsylvania rifle
plasma rifle
recoilless rifle
rifle cartridge
rifled slug
rifle fish
rifle green
rifle grenade
rifle is fine
rifleman
rifle pit
rifle range
rifling
rook and rabbit rifle
rook rifle
sniper rifle
Tennessee rifle
rifled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Having a spiral on the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.
Derived terms: rifled slug
Related terms: rifle
rifled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rifle
rifling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪflɪŋ
Forms: form: riflings
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The act or process of making the grooves in a rifled cannon or gun barrel.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The system of grooves in a rifled gun barrel or cannon. Shunt rifling, rifling for cannon, in which one side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The act or process of letting playing cards cascade down one at a time towards the table (or one's hand), controlling the speed and flow with one's thumb, which sits on the top edges of the cards.
rifling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪflɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪflɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rifle
centrifugal force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrifugal forces
Senses: glosses: In everyday understanding, the effect that tends to move an object away from the center of a circle it is rotating about (a consequence of inertia).
examples: text: Although the Citadel is equipped with mass-effect-generating element-zero cores, most of the gravity on the station is generated by the centrifugal force of rotation.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel Station: Statistics Codex entry:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In a rotating reference frame, the apparent force that seems to push all bodies away from the centre of rotation of the frame and is a consequence of the body's mass and the frame's angular speed. It works in conjunction with the Coriolis force to give correct motion.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In circular motion, the 'reactive' centrifugal force is a real force applied by the accelerating body that is equal and opposite to the centripetal force that is acting on the accelerating body.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In polar coordinates, the apparent radial force that acts away from the center and is a consequence of the body's angular speed around the origin.
examples: text: The abolition of feudal serfdom in 1861 and the demand for wage labor created by industrialization drew large numbers of peasants to the growing cities in search of paid work. It was this centrifugal force of capitalism in Russia that centralized an urban industrial class in the 1880s and 1890s.
ref: 2004 July 15, Leslie Feinberg, “Roots of Russian 'homosexual subculture'”, in Workers World:
qualifier: erroneous
glosses: Centripetal force.
twenty-one
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: enpr: twĕn'tē wŭnʹ
ipa: /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/
note: parts of the UK
ipa: /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/
note: parts of the US and Canada
enpr: twŭn'tē wŭnʹ
ipa: /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/
note: parts of the US and Canada
Forms: form: twenty one
form: twentyone
Senses: glosses: The cardinal number occurring after twenty and before twenty-two, represented in Roman numerals as XXI and in Arabic numerals as 21.
Synonyms: word: eleventeen
word: one and twenty
word: 21
word: XXI
Derived terms: twenty-first
Related terms: twenty
twenty-two
twenty-one
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: twĕn'tē wŭnʹ
ipa: /ˌtwɛntiˈwʌn/
note: parts of the UK
ipa: /ˌtwɛntiˈwɒn/
note: parts of the US and Canada
enpr: twŭn'tē wŭnʹ
ipa: /ˌtwʌntiˈwʌn/
note: parts of the US and Canada
Forms: form: twenty one
form: twentyone
Senses: examples: text: They were to spend many an evening together sitting round the old kitchen table playing twentyone ….
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 398
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Blackjack.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A basketball-based game in which players attempt to score exactly twenty-one points.
Related terms: baccarat
blackjack
pontoon