cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
punny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌni/
ipa: /ˈpʌnɪ/
ipa: /ˈpʌni/
ipa: /ˈpʊnɪ/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: punnier
form: punniest
Etymology: From pun + -y, possibly influenced by funny.
Senses: examples: text: And though [Terry] Border's overly punny captions fall flat for me, the images themselves exude enough delight to make it all a treat.
ref: 2011 November 20, Maria Popova, “Artist Terry Border Places Everyday Objects in Romantic Scenarios”, in The Atlantic:
text: Along Main Street, where crowds popped in and out of boutiques, one woman savored samples at the specialty food store. A punny T-shirt urging “SOCIALism DISTANCING” hung prominently in one of the shop windows […].
ref: 2020 December 18, Alexandra Villarreal, “‘Like ants on sugar’: Covid-fatigued Texans shrug off mandates for holiday fun”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: This is typical [Maurizio] Cattelan, whose work toys with double meanings and punny juxtapositions, flirting with the boundaries between good and bad, to expose bigger truths.
ref: 2025 April 14, Eddy Frankel, “‘Gunshots were my obsession’: the nicked golden toilet’s creator on his new pump-action art”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: punnish
glosses: Resembling a pun; involving the use of a pun.
examples: text: From Battersea Flower Station to Blonde Dye Bleach, everyone wants to be punny. What's your favourite?
ref: 2014 May 30, Gary Nunn, “A good pun is its own reword”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Fond of puns.
raw_tags: of a person
synonyms: puntastic
glosses: Funny.
raw_tags: of a pun
Related terms: punster
punny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌni/
ipa: /ˈpʌnɪ/
ipa: /ˈpʌni/
ipa: /ˈpʊnɪ/
rhymes: -ʌni
Forms: form: punnies
Etymology: Clipping of punishment + -y.
Senses: qualifier: school slang
glosses: A punishment.
Related terms: english: small
translation: small
word: puny
recovery position
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recovery positions
Senses: glosses: The position, into which helpers will typically place an unconscious person, of lying on the floor three-quarters prone, on one's side; this position maximizes the likelihood of the person's airway remaining open.
clanky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæŋki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: clankier
form: clankiest
Etymology: From clank + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My father's first car was a clanky old Volkswagen Beetle.
text: The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter.
ref: 2008 January 13, Ben Ratliff, “Easy Slogans, Twinkly Funk and One Busy String”, in New York Times:
text: "But if so, why do you see so many young children on steam trains - apart, that is, from being dragged along by their fathers, or grandfathers?
"I think they enjoy them because they are simply so different, so mechanical, so hot, oily and clanky, so dirty, so 'analogue' in a digital world. They are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness. Kids love that.
ref: 2022 February 23, Benedict le Vay, “Part of rail's past... present... and future”, in RAIL, number 951, page 56:
glosses: Making a clanking metallic sound.
glosses: Providing audible indication of imminent mechanical failure.
Derived terms: clankily
civvie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civvies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of civvy.
civvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪvi/
Forms: form: civvies
form: civie
form: civvie
Etymology: Shortening of civilian + -y.
Senses: glosses: A civilian; someone who is not in the military.
examples: text: I reached across and offered him the packet of civvies.
ref: 2012, John Hoskison, INSIDE (One Man's Experience of Prison):
synonyms: straight
tailor-made
glosses: A manufactured cigarette, as opposed to a rollup.
Derived terms: civvy cat
civvy street
allocutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allocution
commissive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commissive
form: most commissive
Senses: examples: text: This error was commissive rather than omissive.
glosses: By commission; resulting from a positive act.
examples: text: "I will kill you if you do that" is a commissive statement.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: Making a commitment, such as a promise or threat, by illocutionary means.
Derived terms: commissively
commissive mood
commissive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commissives
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: A speech act by which a commitment is made, such as a promise or threat.
Coordinate terms: sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: behabitive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: exercitive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: expositive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: verdictive
commissives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commissive
Veepstakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Veepstakes
Senses: examples: text: What America needs now is comedy—so hurray, we're getting ready to elect a Vice-President! Sure, we elect a Boss Man too, but it'll be the Veepstakes that'll provide the laughs.
ref: 1952 May 13, Earl Wilson, “It happened last night: Veepstakes provide laughs even in serious campaign”, in W. E. Christenson, editor, Evening World-Herald, number 222, Omaha, Neb.: World Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 25, column 3:
text: If [Spiro] Agnew abandoned his inflammatory rhetoric during the 1972 campaign, he did not abandon his corrosive wit altogether. The more restrained Agnew twitted Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate in the Veepstakes, on his personal wealth.
ref: 1994, Gerald [Clifford] Gardner, “Campaign 1972: So I Made a Mistake”, in Campaign Comedy: Political Humor from Clinton to Kennedy (Humor in Life and Letters), Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 194:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of veepstakes.
Eastern Orthodoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
unlistenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlistenable
form: most unlistenable
Etymology: From un- + listenable.
Senses: examples: text: Many older adults find rap music unlistenable.
text: '[…] you'd prefer some Stravinsky or Stockhausen. Something unlistenable.'
ref: 1997, Keith Topping, Martin Day, chapter 6, in The Devil Goblins from Neptune, page 69:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: Of a sound quality or characteristic that a person cannot long listen to.
Derived terms: unlistenability
put on airs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts on airs
form: putting on airs
form: put on airs
form: put on airs
Senses: examples: text: Even Timothy, the jointed wooden lion, who was made by the disabled soldiers, and should have had broader views, put on airs and pretended he was connected with Government.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
synonyms: give oneself airs
glosses: To become haughty, to assume a pretentious manner.
Related terms: lord it over
trip cord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trip cords
Senses: examples: text: Seeing the trip cord of a bouncing Betty nearby gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods.
glosses: A cord, line, lanyard, or wire that, when pulled, mechanically activates a device.
glosses: A type of electrical extension cord: see pad.
Synonyms: tripline
tripwire
Related terms: fuse
fuze
land mine
explosive
better safe than sorry
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɹi
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, apart from official restrictions, drivers do not a little easing of their engines on their own account, where they consider that the feel of the track makes this desirable; and they can hardly be blamed in consequence. It is better to be safe than sorry.
ref: 1947 September and October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:
text: But I'll be stumbling away / Slowly learning that life is OK / Say after me / It's no better to be safe than sorry
ref: 1985, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, “Take On Me”, in Hunting High and Low, performed by a-ha:
glosses: It is preferable to be cautious in one's choices and actions than to act recklessly and suffer afterwards.
Related terms: err on the side of caution
measure twice, cut once
better late than never
play it safe
prevention is better than cure
Homeric laughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: With reference to the "unquenchable laughter" (ἄσβεστος (ásbestos, “unceasing”) γέλως (gélōs, “laughter”)) of the gods in e.g. Iliad I. 599, Odyssey XX. 346.
Senses: examples: text: The words were scarcely out of her mouth, when they were greeted with a roar of Homeric laughter that literally shook the room, and this time not at the expense of the innocent speaker.
ref: 1873, Charles Reade, chapter VI, in A Simpleton: A Story of the Day […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 193:
text: But the Professor! He ought to have exploded in a burst of Homeric laughter, or else to have shaken his head at her and warned her where little girls go to who do this sort of thing.
ref: 1916, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter III, in Malvina of Brittany:
glosses: Boisterous laughter, prolonged belly laughing; long or uncontrollable laughing.
Related terms: Homeric laugh
cluestick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cluesticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clue stick.
isosceles trapezoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isosceles trapezoids
Senses: glosses: A quadrilateral with two parallel sides and a separate pair of congruent sides which are not parallel.
isosceles trapezoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isosceles trapezoid
pick up speed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks up speed
form: picking up speed
form: picked up speed
form: picked up speed
Senses: synonyms: gather speed
gather pace
glosses: To accelerate.
Related terms: pick up steam
gather steam
Bahreyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Bahrain.
hawkshaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawkshaws
Etymology: From Hawkshaw the Detective, a character in Tom Taylor's 1863 play The Ticket of Leave Man. The name was later borrowed in the early 20th century for a character in an American comic strip.
Senses: glosses: A detective.
wikipedia: Hawkshaw the Detective
steamliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steamliners
Etymology: From steam + liner.
Senses: glosses: A steam-powered ocean liner.
glosses: A streamlined steam powered train locomotive.
Jim Crow law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jim Crow laws
Etymology: From the song Jump Jim Crow (c. 1830) which mockingly portrayed African-Americans. It became a generic term for African-Americans in the early- to mid-19th century.
Senses: glosses: Any law that racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965.
wikipedia: Jump Jim Crow
Related terms: apartheid
Jim Crow
panji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panjis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punji.
bignesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigness
glosses: plural of bignesse
CCI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of co-channel interference.
CCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Center for Copyright Information.
examples: text: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has asked Google to modify its conduct in relation to anti-competitive practices. […] “The Commission opined that the markets should be allowed to compete on merits and the onus is on the dominant players (in the present case, Google) that its conduct does not impinge this competition on merits,” the CCI said Thursday in a press release.
ref: 2022 October 21, Swati Gupta, “Google hit with $162 million fine from Indian regulators over anti-competitive practices”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of Competition Commission of India.
micrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrographs
Etymology: From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph.
Senses: glosses: An image such as a photograph that presents the microscopic at a macroscopic scale; an image produced with a microscope.
glosses: A pantograph instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
Derived terms: cryomicrograph
cryo-transmission electron micrograph
electron micrograph
histomicrograph
immunomicrograph
optical micrograph
photomicrograph
pictomicrograph
scanning electron micrograph
stereomicrograph
ultramicrograph
videomicrograph
micrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: micrographs
form: micrographing
form: micrographed
form: micrographed
Etymology: From micro- + -graph, perhaps by analogy with microscope and photograph.
Senses: glosses: To produce such an image by micrography.
electron micrograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron micrographs
form: electronmicrograph
Senses: hypernyms: micrograph
coordinate_terms: photomicrograph
glosses: A micrograph produced using an electron microscope.
Derived terms: cryo-transmission electron micrograph
electronmicrographic
scanning electron micrograph
Walia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Walias
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਵਾਲੀਆ (vālīā), a surname of unexplained origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Punjabi.
zerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zerg
SEATO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -iːtəʊ
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, in existence from 1955 to 1977.
Coordinate terms: PACOM
USPACCOM
Related terms: NATO
ASEAN
as a matter of fact
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth; a pocket-edition of the larger mansions of their friends, but with less excuse for the overelaboration since the dimensions were only twenty by a hundred. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space the eyes might rest on[…]."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Greedo: Going somewhere, Solo? / Han Solo: Yes, Greedo. As a matter of fact, I was just going to see your boss. Tell Jabba that I've got his money.
ref: 1977 May 25, 48:03 from the start, in Star Wars (Star Wars), episode IV (Science Fiction), Lucasfilm Ltd.:
text: R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
ref: 1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
glosses: Actually, in fact.
Synonyms: in reality
really
truthfully
truth to tell
actually
Derived terms: as a matter of factly
hierocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪəˈɹɑkɹəsi/
rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi
Forms: form: hierocracies
Etymology: From hiero- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Government by ecclesiastics.
glosses: The doctrine that the pope held supreme temporal, and not just spiritual, power.
Derived terms: hierocrat
hierocratic
plantocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɑːnˈtɒkɹəsi/
ipa: /plænˈtɑkɹəsi/
Forms: form: plantocracies
Etymology: From plant + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Too many, however, who might take an honourable stand, fear the petty spleen of the plantocracy; preferring the most disgusting adulation, to the blessing of him ready to perish.
ref: 1843, “A Voice from Trinidad”, in Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, page 465:
glosses: Government by plantation owners.
examples: text: Although remnants of the plantocracy retained positions of economic and political importance into the 1960s and represented the hardest core of Jamaican conservatism, its significance was historical rather than contemporary.
ref: 1977, Terry Lacey, Violence and Politics in Jamaica, 1960-70: Internal Security in a Developing Country, The plantocracy and slavery:
glosses: The group of plantation owners who have power in such a government.
Related terms: plantocrat
pigmentocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigmentocracies
Etymology: From pigment + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.
ref: 2011, Don Lemon, Transparent, Las Vegas: Farrah Gray, →ISBN:
glosses: Government by or social hierarchy of those with a certain skin tone, regardless of race or socioeconomic status.
phylarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylarchies
Etymology: From phylo- + -archy.
Senses: glosses: Government by a class or tribe.
pedantocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedantocracies
Etymology: From pedant + -ocracy.
Senses: examples: text: […] if we would not have our bureaucracy degenerate into a pedantocracy, this body must not engross all the occupations which form and cultivate the faculties required for the government of mankind.
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, page 148:
text: Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims.
ref: 1980, F[rancis] W[illiam] Garforth, “Conclusion”, in Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (University of Hull Publications), Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: […] [F]or the University of Hull by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: Government by pedants.
neocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neocracies
Etymology: From neo- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Government by the new or inexperienced.
glosses: new power non-representative government.
partocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partocracies
form: particracy
form: partitocracy
Etymology: From party + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Government by political parties or factions.
catechu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæt.ɪt͡ʃ.uː/
ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌt͡ʃuː/
ipa: /ˈkæt.əˌʃuː/
Forms: form: catechus
form: cachou
form: cashoo
form: catchoo
form: cutch
Etymology: Probably a corruption of the Malay kacu.
Senses: examples: text: The pale catechus are usually sweeter and more pleasant for chewing.
ref: 1837, Jonathan Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica: Lecture LXI”, in London Medical Gazette, volume XX, page 107:
glosses: A gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae, but especially Senegalia catechu, produced by boiling the wood of the tree in water and evaporating the resulting liquid.
Synonyms: sense: extract of acacia
word: Japanese earth
Derived terms: catechol
catechuic
short-acting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-acting
form: most short-acting
Senses: examples: text: Short-acting insulin is maximally effective for one to three hours.
text: I have tried all the medium and short acting non-barbiturate sedatives since the war (including thalidomide) but they don’t work and I don’t trust the newfangled long acting, “safe” analgesics.
ref: 1988, E[dward] J[ames] Moran Campbell, Not Always on the Level, [London]: British Medical Journal, →ISBN, page 194:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Having a pharmaceutical effect principally in the short term.
Synonyms: fast-acting
kiełbasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Polish music, the Polish language, a display of photographs from the President’s trip to Poland and, of course, an array of Polish foods such as: kiełbasa, pierogi,[…]
ref: 1978, The Chronicle, page 42, column 2:
text: Bring the sauce to a boil and into it place the kiełbasa, cut into pieces diagonally. The kiełbasa may also be served in a spicily seasoned onion or tomato sauce.
ref: 1979, Maria Lemnis, Henryk Vitry [double pen name; Tadeusz Żakiej], Old Polish Traditions in the Kitchen and at the Table, Warsaw: Interpress Publishers, →ISBN, page 273:
text: The food is good and inexpensive, and includes daily specials like kiełbasa, pierogi, and gołąbki.
ref: 1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind.; London: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, page 48:
text: What would be a typical Polish meal? Around these parts Polish people say it is gołąbki, pierogi and kiełbasa.
ref: 1991, Joseph Alecks, quotee, Polish Digest, page 23, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of kielbasa.
Haack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German and Dutch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German or Dutch.
Derived terms: Sears-Haack body
gaffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gaffas
Senses: examples: text: A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.
ref: 2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin, published 2014, page 250:
glosses: Gaffer tape.
markworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːkˈwɜːði/
Forms: form: more markworthy
form: most markworthy
Etymology: From mark + -worthy. Compare German merkwürdig (“strange, odd”).
Senses: examples: text: The scholar found something markworthy while reading the Bible for the eighth time.
text: That the ancient Britons eat of the nuts and berries and other fruits which were borne by the more wooded land of their time, we may well believe, and a markworthy proof of it was many years ago afforded in the neighbourhood of Dorchester.
ref: 1858, William Barnes, “Food of the Britons”, in Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons, London: John Russell Smith, page 3:
text: In character-drawing, Mr. Cable does not surpass his Bonaventure, but the cunning of his art when applied to incident and description is quite as markworthy in the latter as in the earlier part of the book.
ref: 1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic:
text: Another complained that his mother-in-law had put him in jail for bigamy. In the case of another the incident was more markworthy. I will call him Gritto.
ref: 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, “In Cowboy Land”, in An Autobiography, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 137:
text: Indeed, in communicating with the Chiefs-of-Police in the United States concerning the ravages of drug-intoxication, it was markworthy that those bearing German names were especially prompt and thorough in reply to my enquiries, and in making suggestions as to the applications of practical remedies.
ref: 1922, Emily F. Murphy, “International Rings”, in The Black Candle, Toronto: Thomas Allen, page 184:
synonyms: word: eminent
word: noteworthy
word: remarkable
word: distinguished
word: eminent
word: forestanding
word: markworthy
word: mentionable
word: nameable
word: namely
word: nameworthy
word: notable
word: noteworthy
word: extraordinaire
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: pass-remarkable
word: ponderable
word: prominent
word: remarkable
word: signal
word: sovereign
glosses: Worthy of note or remark.
go spare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes spare
form: going spare
form: went spare
form: gone spare
Senses: examples: text: There's some bacon going spare if anyone wants some more.
glosses: To be available or unused.
examples: text: When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.
text: The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.
glosses: To become very angry; to become frustrated or distraught: see spare.
glosses: To be unemployed.
red dwarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red dwarf
assn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assns
form: Assn
form: assn.
form: ass'n
form: ass'n.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of association.
Synonyms: assoc
assoc.
brake mean effective pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brake mean effective pressures
Senses: glosses: The average (mean) pressure which, if imposed on the pistons uniformly from the top to the bottom of each power stroke, would produce the measured (brake) power output.
Synonyms: BMEP
Adi-Buddha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit आदिबुद्ध (ādibuddha).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Primordial Buddha, a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed.
wikipedia: Adi-Buddha
CAGR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAGRs
Senses: examples: text: The concept of CAGR is similar to the idea of compound interest. It is the average annual growth rate when compounding is taken into account.
ref: 2009, Emily Chan, Harvard Business School Confidential: Secrets of Success, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 185:
text: The global vertical lift module (VLM) market is expected to be valued at US$ 595.86 mn by 2025 from US$ 358.15 mn in 2018. The market will register at a CAGR of 7.58% throughout the forecast period.
ref: 2019 June 4, “Global Vertical Lift Module (VLM) Market Will Register at a CAGR of 7.58% by 2025, Predicts QY Research”, in PR Newswire, United States, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of compound annual growth rate.
feedbacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedbackers
Etymology: From feedback + -er.
Senses: examples: text: How far can you trust the experience of these feedbackers? How representative are their views?
ref: 2003, Duriya Aziz Singapore Wala, “Publishing a Coursebook”, in Brian Tomlinson, editor, Developing Materials for Language Teaching, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: One who provides feedback.
feedbackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feedbacker
unquantified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quantified.
Senses: examples: text: "It is clear" the Review adds, "that over and above the financial return from passengers, there are other hitherto unquantified benefits which accrue to the community but not to London Transport. This line of argument was accepted by the London Transport Committee in their report of 1959 on the Victoria Line".
ref: 1963 October, “A London Transport progress report”, in Modern Railways, page 260:
glosses: Not quantified (in any sense).
Synonyms: non-quantified
quadrilaterals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrilateral
quarried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Now I am bravely quarried.
ref: c. 1608–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, “Four Playes, or Morall Representations, in One”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, [The Triumph Of Death, scene vi], page 44, column 1:
glosses: Provided with quarry or prey.
quarried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarry
quarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quarry
quarrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarryings
Senses: examples: text: In 1765 only 80 men were employed, and the annual output of slates did not exceed 1,000 tons, and large-scale quarrying was not begun by Lord Penrhyn until 1782.
ref: 1945 May and June, Charles E. Lee, “The Penrhyn Railway and its Locomotives—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 138:
glosses: The extraction of material from a quarry.
glosses: A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry.
quarterlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarterly
queerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: queerers
Etymology: From queer (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The large crop of independents, emerging, at all events, as queerers of the democratic pitch, are evidence of the deeper cuts […]
ref: 1967, Syed Mohammad Naqavi, Democracy in India:
text: The people spoke and grew queerer “as the Spirit gave them ability” (Acts 2:4). God is the Queer doing the queering. God is the one pulling the tongues out of the people. God is the great queerer of every moment.
ref: 2015, Jeff Hood, The Courage to Be Queer, page 81:
glosses: One who queers something.
queerer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɹə(ɹ)
Etymology: From queer (adjective) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: I know that my life is different since I'm a bisexual, a butch, and a pervert. […] And even when I found a queer community, I discovered I was queerer than I thought.
ref: 1995, Robin Sweeney, “Too Butch to Be Bi (or You Can't Judge a Boy by Her Lover)”, in Naomi Tucker, Liz Highleyman, Rebecca Kaplan, editors, Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions, Binghamton: The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: comparative form of queer: more queer.
queerest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of queer: most queer
Jacquelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Faith laughed, pointing out, "All of their names rhyme—Gwendolyn, Jacquelyn, Joelyn. It's kind of weird, don't you think?'
ref: 2009, Karin Slaughter, Genesis, Century, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: A female given name from French, one of the spelling variants of Jacqueline.
fiddle the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fiddles the books
form: fiddling the books
form: fiddled the books
form: fiddled the books
Senses: glosses: To alter financial records in order to commit or conceal fraud, tax evasion or theft.
Ramona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈmoʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: From Spanish Ramona.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in San Diego County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Marion County, Kansas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Oklahoma, named after the Ramona novel.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Lake County, South Dakota.
Kosti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in White Nile state, Sudan.
glosses: A village in Burgas Province, Bulgaria.
Constantin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Cōnstantīnus, the name of Roman emperors, Latin cōnstāns (“constant, steadfast”). Doublet of Konstadinos.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Cloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkloʊ.i/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, an alternative spelling of Chloe.
Cloe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkloʊ.i/
Forms: form: Cloes
Etymology: Possibly a variant of French Clouet.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
blandiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blandiloquent
form: most blandiloquent
Etymology: From Latin blandus (“flattering”) + loquēns (“speaking”).
Senses: examples: text: Graunt to me no learning, Muses, thou Pagan Apollo,
Cynthia, with Charites, thou blandiloquent mery Pytho,
ref: 1599, anonymous author, “The Epistel to the Queenes most excellent Majesty”, in The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry the vij., London:
text: Saulsbury, who was very drunk—or, to use the blandiloquent expression of the reporters—who is “in the habit of visiting the refectory very frequently,” gave utterance […] to the following disloyal sentiment:
ref: 1863 February, Vanity Fair, volume 7, number 159, page 29:
text: For Ralegh at his most blandiloquent the Queen, rather than any mere beloved, is the woman set apart, the inaccessible ideal, the paragon untouched by human mortality, and the mistress who commands love and service.
ref: 2000, Andrew Sanders, chapter 3, in The Short Oxford History of English Literature, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, page 126:
glosses: Speaking, or spoken, in a mild, flattering manner.
Derived terms: blandiloquently
Related terms: blandiloquence
blandiloquous
Arron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.
nail-biting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nail-biting
form: most nail-biting
form: nailbiting
Senses: glosses: That causes nervous anticipation or suspense.
Derived terms: nail-bitingly
landlocked salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landlocked salmon
form: landlocked salmons
form: land-locked salmon
Senses: glosses: Populations of the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar that inhabit freshwater only.
Synonyms: fresh-water salmon
ouananiche
Sebago salmon
nail-bitingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nail-bitingly
form: most nail-bitingly
Etymology: From nail-biting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nail-biting manner.
orange grove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orange groves
Senses: glosses: A group of cultivated orange trees
Erivan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Yerevan: the capital city of Armenia.
Sofya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sophia, A female given name.
acoustic emission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic emissions
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A phenomenon wherein external stimuli such as mechanical loading generate physical vibrations.
examples: text: Acoustic emissions are only generated when some abrupt and permanent change takes place somewhere in the material.
ref: 1990, Adrian A. Pollock, “Acoustic Emission Inspection”, in ASM Handbook, 17th edition, →ISBN, page 287:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A physical vibration caused by sudden movement within a material subjected to physical stress, often symptomatic of a defect.
querying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of query
querying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Questioning, or prone to asking questions.
querying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queryings
Senses: examples: text: God's word suffers nothing from such captious queryings and cavillings as deface the pages of the modern destructive school.
ref: 1864, Melancthon Williams Jacobus, Notes, critical and explanatory, on the book of Genesis, page iii:
glosses: The act of making a query.
quenches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quench
quainter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Not everybody welcomes standardisation as a principle, because it reduces variety (and, incidentally, tends to dispose of the quainter and more picturesque anomalies).
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:
glosses: comparative form of quaint: more quaint
quaintest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of quaint: most quaint
queasier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of queasy: more queasy
queasiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of queasy: most queasy
quilters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quilter
dumbnut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbnuts
Etymology: From dumb + nut.
Senses: glosses: A stupid person
wedgelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wedgelike
form: most wedgelike
form: wedge-like
Etymology: From wedge + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He looks, he feels, and satisfies himself: the driving forward with fury, its prodigious stiffness, thus impacted, wedgelike, breaks the union of those parts, and gain'd him just the insertion of the tip of it, lip-deep; which being sensible of, he improved his advantage, and following well his stroke, in a straight line, forcibly deepens his penetration
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
synonyms: cuneate
cuneiform
wedge-shaped
wedgy
glosses: Shaped like a wedge.
hero sandwich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hero sandwiches
Etymology: The New York term hero is first attested in 1937. Unlikely to be related to gyro, since those were not well known in the US at the time.
Senses: glosses: A large sandwich on a long thick bun.
Synonyms: sense: sandwich
word: sub
vadouvan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French vadouvan, from Tamil வடகம் (vaṭakam).
Senses: glosses: A paste of burnt garlic and onion with herbs, from India; a type of masala.
jade stalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jade stalks
Senses: examples: Then he inserts the Jade Stalk in her interior.
glosses: The penis, especially in reference to sex.
raw_tags: in East Asian literature
Related terms: jade gate
jade portal
rarefies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rarefy
jade gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jade gates
Senses: examples: the female’s feet are lifted toward the heavens and the jade stalk is inserted deeply into the jade gate.
glosses: The vagina, especially in reference to sex.
Related terms: jade portal
jade stalk
rarefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rarefy
repeatably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repeatably
form: most repeatably
Etymology: From repeatable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a repeatable manner, capable of being repeated.
restorers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restorer
sundowning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sundown + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Impaired judgment and sundowning (increased confusion when orienting cues diminish at night) often makes it necessary to restrict and protect the delirious patient.
ref: 1986, Norma Sullivan, Barry Fogel, “Could This Be Delirium?”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 86, number 12, page 1363:
text: Polysomnography and othersleep measures show sleep fragmentation with shortening of N3 sleep togetherwith excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and sundowning as the main findings in AD patients.
ref: 2023 April 24, Abhijit Satpati, Thomas Neylan, Lea T. Grinberg, “Histaminergic neurotransmission in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A review of therapeutic opportunities and gaps”, in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, volume 9, number 2, Wiley, →DOI, →ISSN:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
synonyms: nocturnal delirium
sundowner syndrome
glosses: A state of agitation, confusion, or delirium, especially in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.
Related terms: sundowner
sundowning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From sundown + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sundown
Related terms: seasonal affective disorder
nocturnal delirium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nocturnal deliria
Senses: examples: text: Nocturnal delirium of the senile patient is primarily due to the fact that the severe retention defect, and more particularly the greatly accelerated secondary elaboration (Cameron, 1940) found in senile patients, does not permit of the preservation of the spatial image after darkness has interfered with direct visualization.
ref: 1941, D. Ewen Cameron MD, “Studies in senile nocturnal delirium”, in Psychiatric Quarterly, volume 15, number 1, page 51:
text: The nocturnal deliria were piled together with the daytime intoxications and obsessions in order to build a particularly adaptable dream machine, which still awaits a visit from social psychoanalysis in order to penetrate a bit more lucidly into the ancien régime's intricate labryinth of dreams.
ref: 1996, Piero Camporesi, Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe, page 128:
text: Preliminary observations by means of motor activity recordings made it possible to classify demented patients with delirium into different groups according to their motor activity, e.g. nocturnal delirium type, wandering type, hypoboulic type, and lying-down type (Honma et a., 1998).
ref: 2011, Augusto Caraceni, Delirium: Acute Confusional States in Palliative Medicine, page 56:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A state of agitation or confusion, especially in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.
Synonyms: sundowner syndrome
sundowning
muckles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of muckle
sundowner syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sundown syndrome
form: sundowner's syndrome
form: sundowners syndrome
Senses: examples: text: Patients who become easily confused, such as elderly patients with "sundowner syndrome" or dementia, and patients recovering from drug-related hallucinations may manifest symptoms during flight regardless of the time of day.
ref: 2003, Susan B. Connor, “Ch. 10: Nursing Care in Flight”, in Aeromedical Evacuation, New York: Springer, →ISBN, page 139:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A state of agitation, confusion, or delirium, especially in elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, which begins daily at nightfall and which is alleviated by daylight.
Synonyms: nocturnal delirium
sundowning
sundown syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sundowner syndrome.
sundowner's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sundowner syndrome.
sundowners syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sundowner syndrome.
muckling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muckle
tilleul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French tilleul (“linden”).
Senses: glosses: A pale yellowish-green color.
muckled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muckle
placet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsɛt/
homophone: playset
Forms: form: placets
Etymology: Latin placet (“it is pleasing”), inflection of placeō (“I am pleasing”).
Senses: glosses: A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
examples: 1882, J. P. Peter (translator), Political History of Recent Times, 1816-1875: With Special Reference to Germany originally by Wilhelm Müller
The king […] annulled the royal placet.
glosses: The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.
Related terms: non placet
placet
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪsɛt/
homophone: playset
Etymology: Latin placet (“it is pleasing”), inflection of placeō (“I am pleasing”).
Senses: glosses: Expression of assent to a vote in the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
fullsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fullsome
form: most fullsome
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fulsome.
corpulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pjʊlənsi/
Forms: form: corpulencies
Etymology: From corpulence + -y or corpulent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: the heaviness and corpulency of the water requiring a great force to divide it
ref: 1691, John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC:
text: His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.
ref: 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, “3”, in Through the Magic Door:
text: No man, however indulgent (as I am) to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon.
ref: 1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “The Priest of Spring,”, in A Miscellany of Men:
glosses: Alternative form of corpulence.
bowery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊəɹi/
Forms: form: boweries
Etymology: From bower + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle.
ref: 2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University Press of Colorado:
text: This year’s Easter egg hunt will be at the community bowery on Saturday, April 15.
ref: 2017, Lacie Kotter, “Howell Hotline - Awaiting a welcome sign,”, in The Herald Journal:
glosses: Structure with roof for shade but with no walls used for public gatherings. A pavilion.
bowery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊəɹi/
Forms: form: bowerier
form: more bowery
form: boweriest
form: most bowery
Etymology: From bower + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Such a man had no chance whatever in this flowery and bowery little suburb.
ref: 1906, George Gissing, “Fate and the Apothecary,”, in The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories:
glosses: Sheltered by trees; leafy; shady.
Related terms: bower
bowery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊəɹi/
Forms: form: boweries
Etymology: From bower + -y, calque of Dutch bouwerij.
Senses: examples: text: His estate, or bowery, as it was called, has ever continued in the possession of his descendants.
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, chapter 65, in Knickerbocker's History of New York:
text: The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations[…]
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
glosses: In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
affreightment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affreightments
Etymology: From affreight + -ment.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The act of hiring, or the contract for use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.
rubor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rubor.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: redness, one of the main signs of inflammation