cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'vər-plā'
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: overplays
form: overplaying
form: overplayed
form: overplayed
Etymology: From over- + play.
Senses: examples: text: When Chris overacted his part again, the director warned that anyone overplaying would be barred from the next production.
text: Nevertheless, 3 Body Problem does well to pull us onward, as much through the relentless, but never overplayed, suffering and hardening of Ye Wenjie as she endures her effective imprisonment in the project grounds – and the stealing of her work by others – as by the present day mystery.
ref: 2024 March 21, Lucy Mangan, “3 Body Problem review – the creators of Game of Thrones have done it again”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: To overdo or overact one's effect or role.
examples: text: A lot of times I don't want to overplay songs that I really like, because I know that then I'll get sick of them and I don't want to get sick of them.
ref: 2008, Walter Douglas Crigler, iMusic/myMusic, page 75:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To play (a song or record) too frequently, often to the point of causing weariness and annoyance.
examples: text: Jack won the last match of blackjack; Theo overplayed.
text: Some of San Francisco's life-long Democrats believe the trend is being overplayed, the work of a small number of influential figures with big megaphones.
ref: 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
glosses: To overestimate one's strength in a game or event, which ultimately may end in a defeat.
examples: text: The first few shots went wonderfully, but Robin overplayed the last and lost.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To accidentally hit (one's golf ball) beyond "the green".
Derived terms: overplay one's hand
semiweekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semi-weekly.
semiweekly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiweeklies
Etymology: From semi- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: A periodical published twice a week.
anti-catarrhal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + catarrhal.
Senses: glosses: Counteracting, or suppressing catarrh.
anti-catarrhal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-catarrhals
Etymology: From anti- + catarrhal.
Senses: glosses: Such an agent.
antineoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntaɪni.əplæstɪk/
ipa: /æntini.əplæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Etymology: From anti- + neoplastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Inhibiting the development of tumours.
Derived terms: antineoplasticity
antineoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntaɪni.əplæstɪk/
ipa: /æntini.əplæstɪk/
rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: antineoplastics
Etymology: From anti- + neoplastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any such agent, used in chemotherapy.
compulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kəm-pŭl'shən
ipa: /kəmˈpʌl.ʃən/
ipa: /kəmˈpʌl.ʃən/
Forms: form: compulsions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compulsion, from Late Latin compulsiō, from Latin compellere (“to compel, coerce”); see compel.
Senses: examples: text: During the basketball game, I had a sudden compulsion to have a smoke.
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: An irrational need or irresistible urge to perform some action, often despite negative consequences.
examples: text: From the opening of the City & South London Railway independent electric locomotives were used under compulsion of the Board of Trade.
ref: 1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:
text: But Treaty translator and Ottawa leader Andrew Blackbird described the Treaty as made “not with the free will of the Indians, but by compulsion.”
ref: 2016 January 17, “Wealthy cabals run America”, in Al Jazeera America, retrieved 18 Jan 2016:
glosses: The use of authority, influence, or other power to force (compel) a person or persons to act.
glosses: The lawful use of violence (i.e. by the administration).
Derived terms: compulsional
compulsionary
compulsion loop
noncompulsion
Related terms: compulsive
compulsory
extrospection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrospections
Etymology: From extrospect + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The observation of things external to one's own mind, as opposed to introspection. Ordinary sense perception or reasoning concerning the things perceived.
hypervelocity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + velocity.
Senses: examples: text: The satellite was destroyed by a hypervelocity impact.
glosses: Having, or occurring at, extreme velocity.
hypervelocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervelocities
Etymology: From hyper- + velocity.
Senses: glosses: A very high velocity.
glosses: A hypersonic velocity.
examples: text: But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades.
ref: 2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is”, in CNN:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A velocity greater than escape velocity.
Related terms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: high velocity
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: intermediate velocity
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: low velocity
slop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒp/
ipa: /slɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: slops
Etymology: From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).
Senses: glosses: A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.
synonyms: word: beach sandal
word: chancla
word: go-ahead
word: jandal
word: plugger
word: slop
word: thong
word: zori
glosses: A flip-flop.
slop
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒp/
ipa: /slɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology: From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).
slop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒp/
ipa: /slɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: slops
form: slopping
form: slopped
form: slopped
Etymology: Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cūsloppe), alternative form of Old English slyppe. Related to slip.
Senses: examples: text: I slopped water all over my shirt.
text: a little Durham bull butted the pail and slopped him with the milk
ref: 1950, Howard William Troyer, The salt and the savor, page 58:
glosses: To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.
topics: games
glosses: In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.
glosses: To feed pigs.
examples: text: We slopped through paddies in 100-degree-plus heat and slept with one eye open at night.
ref: 1980, The Leatherneck, volume 63, page 13:
glosses: To make one's way through soggy terrain.
Derived terms: sloppy
slop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɒp/
ipa: /slɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: slops
Etymology: Alteration of ecilop, back slang for police.
Senses: examples: text: Harry looked rather bulky, you know, Tom, and the slop (policeman) says, 'Hallo, what you got here?' and by [blank] he took us both before the beak. After hearing the slop tell his tale, he says to me: 'What do you know of this man? […]
ref: 1866, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers:
text: Covey’s most stimulating impression on the sense of colour is in the blue of the police. He says he shouldn’t have thought that there were so many ‘slops’ in the world, and he seems to yield for a moment to the depressing conviction that we are too much governed.
ref: 1899, Richard Whiteing, chapter XXIV, in No. 5 John Street, page 240:
synonyms: word: 5-O
word: alphabet
word: barney
word: beatsman
word: bizzie
word: bluebottle
word: bluecoat
word: blue heeler
word: blue meanie
word: bobby
word: body snatcher
word: bogey
word: boy in blue
word: bull
word: bullyman
word: buttons
word: centenier
word: charpering omi
word: chazzer
word: cobbler
word: cop
word: copper
word: cozzer
word: cracker
word: crusher
word: crowns
word: dibble
word: fed
word: filth
word: finest
word: finger
word: five-o
word: flatfoot
word: flatty
word: fuzz
word: garda
word: gendarme
word: glowie
word: guardian of the peace
word: harman
word: harman-beck
word: jack
word: jackboot
word: jake
word: John Law
word: John Q. Law
word: Johnny Hopper
word: lawman
word: mee-maw
word: monarch
word: Mr Plod
word: mutton shunter
word: nuthook
word: oinker
word: Officer Friendly
word: Old Bill
word: PC Plod
word: pig
word: piggy
word: peeler
word: plod
word: police
word: police officer
word: policeman
word: policeperson
word: polis
word: po-po
word: raw lobster
word: roller
word: rozzer
word: scufter
word: slop
word: swine
word: statie
word: twelve
word: tyre biter
word: unboiled lobster
word: walloper
word: wooden-top
qualifier: costermongers
glosses: A policeman.
Related terms: namesclop
visual proximity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: visual proximities
Senses: glosses: The spatial relationship between design elements (objects, images or text) in a visual medium.
labiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪbiət/
ipa: /ˈleɪbieɪt/
Forms: form: more labiate
form: most labiate
Senses: glosses: Having lips or liplike parts.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the corolla divided into two liplike parts.
raw_tags: of flowers such as the snapdragon
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: of, or belonging to the mint family (Labiatae, now Lamiaceae).
Derived terms: bilabiate
labiatifloral
trilabiate
unilabiate
unlabiate
labiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪbiət/
ipa: /ˈleɪbieɪt/
Forms: form: labiates
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant of the mint family (Labiatae)
labiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪbiət/
ipa: /ˈleɪbieɪt/
Forms: form: labiates
form: labiating
form: labiated
form: labiated
Senses: examples: text: The flowers grow in spikes , and consist of a single , labiated , purple petal
ref: 1763, Richard Brookes, The Natural History of Insects:
glosses: To labialize.
labia majora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labium majus
Etymology: From Latin (meaning “larger lips”).
Senses: examples: text: A new technology has enabled man to take gardening away from women and turn it into agriculture; the plow is the great phallus that separates the labia majora of the furrows of earth, and the plow is under the majesty of Enki.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 162:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The two outer rounded folds of adipose tissue that lie on either side of the opening of the vagina.
Hypernyms: labioscrotal swelling - embryological precursor
Related terms: labia minora
labia minora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labium minus
Etymology: From Latin (meaning “smaller lips”).
Senses: examples: text: The ventral skin of the penis is homologous to the labia minora.
text: When performed poorly, a labiaplasty — a procedure to reduce the size of the labia minora, and one of the fastest-growing cosmetic surgeries worldwide — can also damage nerves, leading to genital pain and loss of sexual sensation.
ref: 2022 October 17, Rachel E. Gross, “Half the World Has a Clitoris. Why Don’t Doctors Study It?”, in The New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The two inner folds of skin within the cleft of the labia majora.
Hypernyms: urogenital fold - embryological precursor
Related terms: labia majora
au pair
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ ˈpɛə/
ipa: /oʊ ˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/
Etymology: Borrowed from French au pair.
Senses: examples: text: Several thousand girls now come over from the continent to live for six months au pair with British families to learn English—and to perform ‘light domestic duties’.
ref: 1958 March 29, The Economist:
text: ‘I shall try to get a position au pair to pay my expenses.’
ref: 1973, Christina Stead, The Little Hotel, Text Classics, published 2016, page 84:
glosses: On a working basis by which work done by one party is rewarded by benefits (especially board and lodging) rather than by monetary remuneration.
au pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊ ˈpɛə/
ipa: /oʊ ˈpɛ(ə)ɹ/
Forms: form: au pairs
Etymology: Borrowed from French au pair.
Senses: glosses: An au pair working arrangement (see Adverb).
examples: text: H-2B visas are for unskilled seasonal workers, including landscapers, forestry workers and summer resort workers, while J-1s are for exchange visitors who come for short stays, typically for summer work, brief internships or to be au pairs.
ref: 2020 June 26, Susan Cohen and Jennifer Hunt, “By blocking visas for foreign workers, Trump is further hurting the US economy”, in CNN:
glosses: A person (especially a young woman) working in such a way; now specifically, a foreign worker who helps a host family with childcare, housework, or both while staying as a guest with a host family, and generally receives a small allowance (or pocket money).
Related terms: nursemaid
grandkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌkɪd/
Forms: form: grandkids
Etymology: From grand- + kid.
Senses: examples: text: They love spending time with all six of their grandkids, and they carry the photos to prove it.
glosses: A grandchild.
Derived terms: great-grandkid
debug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbʌɡ/
ipa: /ˈdiː.bʌɡ/
rhymes: -ʌɡ
Forms: form: debugs
Etymology: From de- + bug.
Senses: examples: text: It may appear odd in the example that the no debug all command was entered before and after the debug was done. The first command is unnecessary, but getting into this habit can save you!
ref: 2009, Dale Liu, Cisco CCNA/CCENT Exam 640-802, 640-822, 640-816 Preparation Kit:
text: What should be the next steps following a test failure during debug?
ref: 2019, James K. Peckol, Embedded Systems: A Contemporary Design Tool, page 539:
glosses: The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors.
HYPSM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Further, he need NOT go to a name college (i.e., HYPSM) to make me happy (i.e., to affirm that I have passed my role as a father).
ref: 2000, shaker, "Confessions of the Father of A Prospective College Student," soc.college.admissions http://groups.google.com/group/soc.college.admissions/browse_thread/thread/e238ba2fb2551249/2cb6f9ceb182d97c?lnk=st&q=hypsm&rnum=2#2cb6f9ceb182d97c
text: "Your list should not include HYPSM plus your local state university. That's just irresponsible and foolish."
ref: 2001, Dave Berry, David Hawsey, America's Elite Colleges, page 145:
glosses: Initialism of Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford/MIT.
Related terms: Oxbridge
HYP
HYPS
HYPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I see my Chinese friends given the ultimatum “HYPS or nothing”
ref: 2010 November 28, Edward Ngai, “On being “Too Asian?””, in The Vancouver Observer:
text: I'm not trying to console you because your kid didn't get into HYPS or her first choice, or your beloved alma mater.
ref: 2013, Karen Karbo, Julia Child Rules: Lessons On Savoring Life, →ISBN, page 52:
text: On the College Confidential website, users simply reference HYP (or HYPS if they deign to include Stanford and its 5 percent acceptance rate).
ref: 2017 August 8, David Nathan, Nick Accrocco, “There are many good colleges. Find one that's a good fit.”, in Houston Chronicle:
glosses: Initialism of Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Stanford.
Related terms: Oxbridge
HYP
HYPSM
HYP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Dartmouth has always been one of the foremost academic institutions in the country. What, then, is Sehgal’s real complaint? He worries that the "yield numbers" indicate more students want admission to HYP than Dartmouth."
ref: 2004 June 11, Stefan M. Beck, “Buzzing, Blabbering Idiots”, in The Dartmouth Review, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2004:
text: But we do know that the acceptance rate for legacy applicants at "HYP" (Harvard, Yale, Princeton), Georgetown, and Stanford is between two and three times higher than the general admission rate, as shown in figure 6-2.
ref: 2018, Richard V. Reeves, Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It:
glosses: Initialism of Harvard/Yale/Princeton.
Related terms: Oxbridge
HYPS
HYPSM
come to grips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to grips
form: coming to grips
form: came to grips
form: come to grips
Senses: examples: text: The armies finally came to grips at Stalingrad.
glosses: To confront each other decisively.
raw_tags: of two opponents
examples: text: It was not until five years after graduation that she finally came to grips and began a career.
text: The country is coming to grips and accepting its responsibilities.
glosses: To attempt to face or resolve an internal contradiction or difficulty.
Synonyms: sense: to confront directly
word: get to grips
Derived terms: come to grips with
come to terms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to terms
form: coming to terms
form: came to terms
form: come to terms
Senses: examples: text: We hope someday she and her mother will come to terms on the matter.
text: In the rumbustious atmosphere of the mania years, 1845 and 1846, this state of things gave rise to acrimony which both sides faced with confidence; but as the reaction set in during 1847, it seemed better to come to terms.
ref: 1955 February, Michael Robbins, “A Railway Treaty: The Brighton and South Eastern Agreement of 1848”, in Railway Magazine, page 98:
glosses: To reach an agreement or settle a dispute.
raw_tags: of two or more parties
with a prepositional phrase
Derived terms: come to terms with
Related terms: come to grips
antiperspirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiperspirants
form: anti-perspirant
Etymology: From anti- + perspirant.
Senses: glosses: A substance used to minimize sweating or perspiration, and usually applied to the underarm area.
Coordinate terms: armpit
deodorant
Related terms: antitranspirant
deodorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈəʊ.də.ɹənt/
ipa: /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/
Forms: form: deodorants
form: deodourant
Etymology: From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor. By surface analysis, de- + odor + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The only apparent difference between Playtex deodorant and nondeodorant tampons was the deodorant, yet the deodorant tampons did not stimulate the production of TSST-1.
ref: 1987, Amy C Lee Wong, Factors affecting growth of Staphylococcus aureus and production of toxic shock syndrome-1:
glosses: Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
examples: text: Banned are newspapers and books, noncotton clothing, after-shave lotions and deodorants, all nonorganic or processed foods[…].
ref: 1988 January 22, Robert McClory, “The Yeast of Our Problems”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Any agent acting to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
An odor-controlling substance applied to the underarm to counteract odor from perspiration.
Derived terms: nondeodorant
stick deodorant
success is a great deodorant
winning is a great deodorant
Related terms: odor
odorous
deodorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈəʊ.də.ɹənt/
ipa: /diˈoʊ.də.ɹənt/
Forms: form: deodourant
Etymology: From Latin de- + odorans, present participle of odorare (“to smell”), from odor (“a smell”); see odor. By surface analysis, de- + odor + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: The only apparent difference between Playtex deodorant and nondeodorant tampons was the deodorant, yet the deodorant tampons did not stimulate the production of TSST-1.
ref: 1987, Amy C Lee Wong, Factors affecting growth of Staphylococcus aureus and production of toxic shock syndrome-1:
glosses: acting or including an agent to eliminate, reduce, mask, or control odor.
Related terms: antiperspirant
Oxford comma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oxford commas
Etymology: From Oxford University Press, where such use is the house style.
Senses: examples: text: It was Collins who invented the ‘Oxford comma’, for which he obtained supported from Herbert Spencer.
ref: 2002 [1978], Peter Sutcliffe, “Making the Press what it ought to be”, in The Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, page 114:
text: Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma? / I've seen those English dramas too; they're cruel / So if there's any other way to spell the word / It's fine with me, with me
ref: 2008, “Oxford Comma”, in Vampire Weekend, performed by Vampire Weekend:
text: It is a debate that has torn the nation in two, ripped friends and family apart, and entrenched deep and uncrossable lines throughout the land. Should the Royal Mint have used an Oxford comma on its Brexit 50p piece?
ref: 2020 January 27, Alison Flood, “Philip Pullman calls for boycott of Brexit 50p coin over 'missing' Oxford comma”, in The Guardian:
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: word: serial comma
english: UK & US
translation: UK & US
word: Harvard comma
glosses: The serial comma.
serial comma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serial commas
Senses: synonyms: word: Oxford comma
english: UK & US
translation: UK & US
word: Harvard comma
glosses: A comma preceding the final conjunction in a list of three or more items, especially to provide clarity.
Harvard comma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harvard commas
Etymology: From Harvard University Press, where such use is the house style.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: word: Oxford comma
english: UK & US
translation: UK & US
word: serial comma
english: UK & US
translation: UK & US
glosses: The serial comma.
wikipedia: Harvard University Press
copyvio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpiˌvaɪ.əʊ/
ipa: /ˈkɑpiˌvaɪ.oʊ/
Forms: form: copyvios
Etymology: Blend of copyright violation.
Senses: examples: text: My suggestion is to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations to see our mechanism that deals with copyvios.
ref: 2005 January 3, ta bu shi da yu, “Re: Wikipedia - Check pages for copied articles”, in misc.transport.road (Usenet):
text: These are the edits made to this article before the deletion of versions that included copyvio.
ref: 2005 June 24, “TheoClarke” (username), in “Gun Quarter, Birmingham/Deleted history”, Wikipedia, quoted in Deleting: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases, ICON Group International (2008), page 44
text: Despite gazillions of copyvios, there are still valid and legitimate groups there which are not harmed in the least by this.
ref: 2007 February 1, cpghost, “Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server”, in list.freebsd.questions (Usenet):
ref: 2009 June 19, Jon Dowland <[email removed]>, “new freedoom packages for stable and oldstable to fix copyvio”, in linux.debian.devel.release (Usenet):
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: A violation of copyright laws: copyright infringement.
antioxidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈɒksɪdənt/
Forms: form: antioxidants
Etymology: From anti- + oxidant.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that slows or prevents the oxidation of another chemical.
examples: text: Although BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole) and BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) are avoided by some consumers because several studies have suggested they may be toxic or carcinogenic (they are banned in Britain), these antioxidants have also been shown to inhibit the action of cancer-causing chemicals, and BHT has been shown to suppress the growth of harmful viruses.
ref: 1985 May 1, Jane E. Brody, “PERSONAL HEALTH; HOW INNOVATIONS AFFECT SAFETY AND NUTRITION”, in The New York Times:
text: The postulated mechanism for the reaction of coumarin 4 as an antioxidant, as indicated in Fig 3, relies on the mercapto hydrogen atom (bold), which is under the influence of resonance and inductive effects.
ref: 2015 July 6, “Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging Activity of Novel Coumarins Synthesized Using Different Approaches”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: One of a group of vitamins that act against the effects of free radicals.
Coordinate terms: antiozonant
antioxidant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæntiˈɒksɪdənt/
Etymology: From anti- + oxidant.
Senses: examples: text: In Philasterides dicentrarchi, a scuticociliate pathogen of turbot, resveratrol causes oxidative stress, inhibition of antioxidant enzymes and morphological alterations in the mitochondria [17 ,54 ].
ref: 2016 January 6, “Resveratrol Induces Apoptosis-Like Death and Prevents In Vitro and In Vivo Virulence of Entamoeba histolytica”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Acting or having agents that act against oxidation.
Derived terms: coantioxidant
nonantioxidant
superantioxidant
ne plus ultra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nā' plŭs ŭl'trə/
/nē' plŭs ŭl'trə/
/nā' plo͝os o͝ol'trə/
Forms: form: ne plus ultras
form: nec plus ultra
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nē plūs ultrā.
Senses: examples: text: Suppers were the ne plus ultra of human invention; it could go no further, and was obliged to degenerate; dinner is too much matter of business, it is a necessity: now, a necessity is too like a duty ever to be pleasant.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Success”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74:
text: November 30, 2014, Julia Kavanagh, Rome: The ‘ne plus ultra’ of Arthttps://camel76.wordpress.com/2014/11/20/rome-the-ne-plus-ultra-of-art/
It doesn’t get any better than this because Rome, like Florence, is the ne plus ultra of art.
glosses: The highest, ultimate point of achievement which can be reached; perfection.
glosses: The perfect or most extreme example of its kind; the ultimate.
glosses: A prohibition against proceeding further; an insuperable obstacle or limiting condition.
house arrest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house arrests
Senses: examples: text: Convicted in Federal District Court in Brooklyn of insurance fraud, a 35-year-old legal secretary could have received up to 50 years in prison and a $56,000 fine. The judge sentenced her instead to house arrest for two years.
ref: 1986 July 20, Richard Haitch, “Follow-up on the News: House Arrest Instead of Prison”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Apr 2014:
topics: law
glosses: Confinement of a person to his or her residence, sometimes with a limited travel allowance, ordered by a judge or other authority as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment.
reserved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɝvd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɜːvd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reserve
reserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɝvd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈzɜːvd/
Forms: form: more reserved
form: most reserved
Senses: examples: text: He was a quiet, reserved person.
text: Before I met Mr. Bowen Cooke I had been given to understand that he was of a reserved nature, and on occasion could be a "bit of a martinet"; [...].
ref: 1942 July-August, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: II—C. J. Bowen Cooke”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:
synonyms: word: remote
word: standoffish
word: aloof
word: cool
word: distant
word: frosty
word: hankty
word: hard-to-get
word: offish
word: quiet
word: remote
word: reserved
word: standoffish
word: strange
word: thorny
word: touch-me-not-ish
word: unapproachable
word: unbending
word: undemonstrative
word: unimpressionable
word: uninvolved
word: taciturn
word: reticent
word: unloquacious
word: untalkative
word: quiet
word: reserved
word: silent
word: silentious
glosses: Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
examples: text: I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.
text: A special reserved enclosure with sandbags and a corrugated iron roof was set aside for three members of the Royal Family.
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
text: The LNER website, for example, tries to stop people buying off-peak tickets for services that the company reckons are full, even though there is nothing to prevent people without a seat reservation from getting on a particular service. Indeed, I did so recently on the Inverness midday train, which is a superb service to York, and inevitably there were plenty of reserved seats where the passengers had not turned up.
ref: 2024 July 24, Christian Wolmar, “Overcrowded trains... and inconvenience for passengers”, in RAIL, number 1014, page 44:
synonyms: allocated
assigned
dedicated
glosses: Set aside for a particular person or purpose; spoken for.
Derived terms: word: all rights reserved
word: no rights reserved
word: reserved bus lane
word: reserved case
word: reserved list
word: reservedly
word: reservedness
word: reserved powers
word: reserved track
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: reserved word
word: some rights reserved
Related terms: shy
advocates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd'və-kəts
ipa: /ˈæd.və.kəts/
Senses: glosses: plural of advocate
advocates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăd'və-kāts
ipa: /ˈæd.və.keɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of advocate
authoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˌθɒɹ.ɪˈtɛə̯.ɹɪən/
ipa: /əˌθɔɹ.əˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /ɔˌθɔɹ.əˈtɛɹ.i.ən/
Forms: form: authoritarians
Etymology: From authority + -arian, circa 1880.
Senses: examples: text: The dictator was an authoritarian.
text: Trump may be a Schmittian by instinct and aspiration, but he’s a fair-weather Schmittian only. A true authoritarian, confronted by limits on his power, might have ripped through them in service of establishing his authority.
ref: 2020 April 14, Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes, “Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump”, in The Atlantic:
text: While his two predecessors had been authoritarians – they knew what they thought on the most contentious matters within Catholicism and imposed that view on the church regardless of dissenters – Francis preferred to work away patiently at building consensus and accommodating a variety of perspectives. To that end, he breathed new life into the system of regular gatherings – or synods – of bishops in Rome to debate pressing matters.
ref: 2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who commands absolute obedience to his or her authority.
glosses: One who follows and is excessively obedient to authority.
sex toy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex toys
Senses: examples: text: It is illegal to go to Mexico with more than three sex toys.
text: A man was arrested Saturday in College Park, Georgia, after he was accused of throwing a sex toy on to the court during the Dream’s 29 July game with the Golden State Valkyries, according to a police report. The report said he threw another sex toy during the Dream’s game on Friday against the Phoenix Mercury.
ref: 2025 August 8, “Another WNBA game disrupted by sex toy thrown on court in Chicago”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025:
glosses: Any physical object or device that is primarily used to facilitate human sexual pleasure.
glosses: A person willing to provide sexual pleasure to another at their beckoning.
Synonyms: word: marital aid
word: sex aid
word: sexcessory
Hyponyms: sense: physical object or device
word: dildo
sense: physical object or device
word: fleshlight
sense: physical object or device
word: love doll
sense: physical object or device
word: vibrator
ochlocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒkˈlɒk.ɹə.si/
ipa: /ɑkˈlɑ.kɹə.si/
ipa: /ɔkˈlɔ.kɹə.si/
Forms: form: ochlocracies
Etymology: From Middle French ochlocratie, from Ancient Greek ὀχλοκρατία (okhlokratía), from ὄχλος (ókhlos, “multitude, crowd”) + κράτος (krátos, “power”). Equivalent to ochlo- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Referendums are snapshots of sentiment at a given point in time. Government by referendum is government by crowd acclamation: not democracy, but ochlocracy. That is exactly why we have representative democracy. If referendums would be a poor way to decide on health and safety, air traffic control, or education, they are an exceedingly poor way to decide a matter as momentous as membership of the EU. This is and should be a matter for Parliament, taking all factors into account.
ref: 2016 July 1, A[nthony] C[lifford] Grayling, “Professor A C Grayling’s letter to all 650 MPs urging Parliament not to support a motion to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty”, in New College of the Humanities, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2016:
text: This constitutes a grave threat to the American Republic and degrades it into an Ochlocracy, or government by mob rule.
ref: 2021, Ronald T. Libby, American Ochlocracy: Black Lives Matter & Mob Rule, independently published →ISBN, back of the book
glosses: Mob rule; government by the masses; mobocracy.
Derived terms: ochlocrat
ochlocratic
ochlocratical
ochlocratically
lightweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.weɪt/
ipa: /laɪtˈweɪt/
rhymes: (adjective) -eɪt
Forms: form: lightweights
form: light-weight
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).
Senses: qualifier: combat sports
glosses: A particular weight class, or member of such, as prescribed by the rules, between that of the heavier welterweight and the lighter featherweight. See Wikipedia for the specifics of each sport.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: A particular weight category as prescribed by the rules, separate from an open or heavyweight class.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: A competitive weight division as prescribed by the rules, between the heavier middleweight and the lighter featherweight.
glosses: One of little consequence or ability.
examples: text: "Wait, is this about the other night when you two lightweights totally went on that bender?"
ref: 2005 August 23, Haley Hazelton, Misfile (webcomic), 2005-08-23:
glosses: A person who cannot handle their drink; one who gets drunk on very little alcohol.
glosses: A person with low endurance.
glosses: A political candidate with little chance of winning.
lightweight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.weɪt/
ipa: /laɪtˈweɪt/
rhymes: (adjective) -eɪt
Forms: form: more lightweight
form: lighterweight
form: most lightweight
form: lightestweight
form: light-weight
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).
Senses: glosses: Lacking in earnestness, ability, or profundity.
examples: text: […] the Plan incorporates in proper combination every available modern technique, including extensive electrification on the new standard high-voltage a.c. system at a frequency of 50 cycles; main-line diesel traction as a half-way house to electrification; lightweight diesel trains for secondary and branch services; and a smaller wagon fleet doing more work by the use of continuous brakes in conjunction with modernised terminals and marshalling yards.
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 15:
text: For example, lightweight construction and Jacobs bogies save weight, and a lighter train uses less power.
ref: 2021 May 19, David Clough, “Swiss precision meets UK growth”, in RAIL, number 931, page 57:
text: Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
ref: 2023 June 26, Lauren Caruso and Jillian Tracy, “The 22 best sunglasses for summer, according to style experts”, in CNN:
glosses: Having less than average weight.
examples: text: With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post.
ref: 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 - 1 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: Lacking in strength.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a small footprint or performance impact.
Derived terms: lightweightness
lightweight spaceship
superlightweight
ultralightweight
lightweight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt.weɪt/
ipa: /laɪtˈweɪt/
rhymes: (adjective) -eɪt
Forms: form: lightweights
form: lightweighting
form: lightweighted
form: lightweighted
form: light-weight
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + weight (noun).
Senses: examples: text: By extending the producer’s responsibility to the product’s disposal (its post-consumer life), issues previously outside the business calculus become of paramount importance. Because a producer knows it will have to bear the cost of collecting and valorizing the product, it must manage a new set of business matters. Can the packaging be lightweighted? Are the materials all recyclable?
ref: 1997 December 22, James Salzman, “Sustainable consumption and the law”, in Environmental Law:
text: The solar photovoltaic array, GPS antennae and telephony antenna all would be lightweighted and integrated into the balloon structure, and the sensor-module would be ruggedized and miniaturized.
ref: 2002, Edward Teller, Cecil Leith, Gregory Canavan, Lowell Wood, “Long-Range Weather Prediction III: Miniaturized Distributed Sensors for Global Atmospheric Measurements”, in A. Zichichi, R. Ragaini, editors, International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 26th Session (The Science and Culture Series: Nuclear Strategy and Peace Technology), World Scientific, page 328:
text: According to Klausner, “lightweighting” all cars and planes in the US would save 121 billion litres of fuel a year and cut carbon emissions by about 5 per cent.
ref: 2015 February 28, Hal Hodson, “Heavy metal is so last year”, in New Scientist, page 23:
glosses: To reduce the amount or weight of.
chat up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chats up
form: chatting up
form: chatted up
form: chatted up
Senses: examples: text: Have you been chatting up my girlfriend?
text: He spent all evening chatting her up.
glosses: To talk to (someone) in a friendly, open, or casual manner, sometimes also in a charming or affected manner, usually to curry favor, and sometimes flirtatiously with the intention of establishing a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship with that person.
Related terms: hit on
pick up
talk to
chaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chatons
Etymology: Borrowed from French.
Senses: examples: text: Another ring, from the same locality, with a cross of simpler form engraved on the chaton was found attached to a chain.
ref: 2012, George Frederick Kunz, Rings for the Finger, page 257:
glosses: Collet, bezel (around a jewel, on a ring).
qualifier: watches
glosses: chaton (movement component: a circular piece of metal inserted in a round hole, in which a ruby is inserted. The ruby is used as bearing for the pin (or pivot) of a shaft of a wheel)
gatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gattas
Senses: examples: text: They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.
ref: 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: A police officer.
drooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Etymology: From droop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of droop
drooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Forms: form: droopings
Etymology: From droop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: An instance of something drooping.
drooping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹuːpɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːpɪŋ
Forms: form: more drooping
form: most drooping
Etymology: From droop + -ing.
Senses: examples: drooping flowers
glosses: That droops or droop.
Derived terms: droopingly
droopingness
undrooping
swooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -uːpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swoop
swooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːpɪŋ
Forms: form: swoopings
Senses: examples: text: I rarely dared to write there after dark, but once in a while, gripped by the need to type a fresh version of a certain passage, I would type by candle or kerosene lamp and be treated to their [bats'] swoopings through the room.
ref: 2007, Annie Finch, On Her Poems and Her Life as a Poet:
glosses: The motion of something that swoops.
glosses: A high-speed landing technique in skydiving.
Derived terms: swooping season
swooping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːpɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky.
ref: 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 142:
glosses: That swoops or swoop.
bejeaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːnd
Etymology: From be- + jeaned.
Senses: glosses: Wearing jeans.
Synonyms: bejeansed
jeaned
Related terms: betrousered
votive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈvoʊ.tɪv/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪv
rhymes: (General American) -oʊtɪv
Forms: form: more votive
form: most votive
Etymology: From Middle French votif, from Latin vōtīvus (“votive”), from vōtum (“vow”).
Senses: examples: text: She placed a votive offering at the shrine.
text: embellishments of flowers and votive garlands
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Part 1/Chapter 1:
text: We reached a votive stone, that bears the name / Of Aloys Reding.
ref: 1822, William Wordsworth, Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun:
glosses: Dedicated or given in fulfillment of a vow or pledge.
examples: text: The church was lit by votive candles.
glosses: Of, expressing, or symbolizing a vow. Often used to describe thick cylindrical candles found in many churches, lit when making a private vow or asking a private intention.
votive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈvoʊ.tɪv/
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊtɪv
rhymes: (General American) -oʊtɪv
Forms: form: votives
Etymology: From Middle French votif, from Latin vōtīvus (“votive”), from vōtum (“vow”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a hymn or chant dedicated to a particular saint, or to the Virgin Mary
Related terms: ex-voto
votive candle
votive mass
votive offering
reinvent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːɪnˈvɛnt/
ipa: /ˌɹiɪnˈvɛnt/
ipa: /ˌɹiɪnˈvɛnt/
ipa: [ˌɹiɪnˈvænt]
ipa: /ˌɹiɪnˈvɛnt/
ipa: [ˌɹiɪnˈvɜnt]
ipa: [ˌɹiɪnˈvɐnt]
ipa: [ˌɹiɪnˈvænt]
ipa: /ɹiːɪnˈvent/
rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: reinvents
form: reinventing
form: reinvented
form: reinvented
Etymology: From re- + invent.
Senses: examples: text: A narrative circulates at Mitchell, Hall about a naive young employee who, in his eagerness to be creative, "reinvents the wheel," devoting so many hours reformulating work that has already been done that he drives himself into a nervous breakdown.
ref: 1993, Marsha Witten, “Narrative and the Culture of Obedience at the Workplace”, in Dennis K. Mumby, editor, Narrative and Social Control: Critical Perspectives (Sage Annual Reviews of Communications Research; 21), Newbury Park, Calif.; London: SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Overprocessing. The big problem in this area is a lack of standardization. A lot of time is spent reinventing the wheel. There are a lot of similar activities, and the lead time (set-up time) for reinventing the process should be eliminated.
ref: 2012, Gerhard J[ohannes] Plenert, “How Can Lean Help IT?”, in Lean Management Principles for Information Technology (Series on Resource Management), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, table 5.4 (The 7 Wastes in IT), page 129:
glosses: To invent again something that has already been invented.
examples: text: He had the ability to reinvent himself as needed.
text: The compulsion to expose, renegotiate, or reinvent the strengths and weaknesses of dance tradition offers little in its final outcome to attract the average dance-goer.
ref: 2013, Deborah Hay, My Body, The Buddhist, →ISBN, page 78:
text: When Lew Wasserman reinvented the studio system, leadership skills grew harder to find and the number of modern studio conglomerates boiled down to six, as discussed in chapters 15 to 20.
ref: 2019, Douglas Gomery, The Hollywood Studio System: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: To adapt into a different form; to give a new style or image to.
Derived terms: reinvent the wheel
lancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancers
Etymology: From French lancier (“lancer”).
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cavalry soldier armed with a lance weapon.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various Asian hesperiid butterflies of the genus Plastingia.
examples: text: The evolutional descendants of those early shavers of beards and lancers of boils have made good (and, perhaps, nearly exclusive) use of the title […]
ref: 1968, Journal of Secondary Education:
glosses: One who lances something.
Synonyms: uhlan
Coordinate terms: cavalryman
cuirassier
dragoon
hussar
trooper
uhlan
yeoman
threesome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹiː.səm/
ipa: /ˈθɹi.səm/
rhymes: -iːsəm
Forms: form: threesomes
form: 3some
form: 3sum
Etymology: From three + -some.
Senses: synonyms: word: triad
word: trine
word: trinity
word: trio
word: troika
word: triumvirate
word: tern
word: ternary
word: ternion
word: threeness
word: threesome
word: triad
word: trinary
word: trine
word: trinity
word: trio
word: triplet
word: troika
glosses: A group of three people or things.
examples: text: Threesomes are huge right now. They're the blow job of the '90s.
ref: 1998 July 26, Jenny Bicks, “Three's a Crowd”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Samantha:
text: ‘Tell me everything,’ she said to Losse, and when she’d heard everything, got the colleague who kept suggesting a threesome discreetly demoted.
ref: 2013, Joanna Biggs, “Tell me everything”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 7:
text: Being polyamorous isn't inherently wrong. Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex.
ref: 2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2022:
text: That’s a threesome joke about her fucking children! It was in the first season and they gave her another one!
ref: 2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Charter Schools”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 22, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
synonyms: ménage à trois
three-way
troilism
3P
glosses: An instance of sexual activity involving three people.
Derived terms: devil's threesome
Related terms: twosome
foursome
fivesome
moresome