cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
follicular dendritic cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of follicular dendritic cell
ochlagogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒkləɡɒɡ/
Forms: form: ochlagogues
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀχλαγωγός (okhlagōgós), from ὄχλος (ókhlos, “mob”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading, guiding”).
Senses: examples: text: Ochlagogue! What a name for an Irish horse! EVOK.
ref: 1931, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, Punch Publications Ltd, page 310:
glosses: A manipulator of a mob who holds sway by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; an extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogue; one who practises ochlagogy.
Related terms: demagogue
ochlagogy
ochlocrat
pedagogue
ochlagogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒkləˌɡɒd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈɒkləˌɡɒɡi/
ipa: /ˈɑkləˌɡɑd͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˈɑkləˌɡoʊd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒdʒi
rhymes: -ɒɡi
rhymes: -əʊdʒi
Etymology: Ochl- (“mob-”) (from Ancient Greek ὄχλος (ókhlos, “mob”)) + -agogy (“-leading, -leadership”), on the pattern of demagogy.
Senses: examples: text: One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.
ref: 1962: Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome, “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene — II”, page 21 (The Clarendon Press)
glosses: Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
Related terms: demagogy
ochlagogue
ochlocracy
pedagogy
hold sway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds sway
form: holding sway
form: held sway
form: held sway
Senses: examples: text: Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:
text: Not only is Jon’s claim to the Iron Throne stronger than hers, thanks to a patriarchal society, but her heroic deeds—and the attendant risks—hold no sway in the North.
ref: 2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
text: Neither appeal seemed to hold sway with Kaplan, who stated that while he took into account that Bankman-Fried has autism and is socially awkward, he had committed a very serious crime.
ref: 2024 March 28, Nick Robins-Early, “‘He knew it was wrong’: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison over FTX fraud”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To have the greatest influence (over someone or something); to be pre-eminent; to dominate.
burleycue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Flapper days and bootleg hootch hysteria / Vaudeville and burley-cue and ooh, la - la / Let yourself go back to days of wah-wah-wah (Singing tune of "Some of These Days" from wings OFF STAGE RIGHT.)
ref: 1974, Dick Poston, There Goes The Old Ball Game, Pioneer Drama Service, Inc., page 2:
text: The more rarefied world of vaudeville was a considerable step up from this, but even there, as Mae herself noted [...] Secured from unwanted 'Pom Tiddley Om Pom' by her marriage with Wallace, Mae toured the burley-cue circuits[…]
ref: 2006 November 14, Simon Louvish, Mae West: It Ain't No Sin, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: Alternative form of burlecue.
butanethiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butanethiols
Etymology: From butane + thiol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The thiol, derived from butane, that is the sulfur equivalent of butanol; it is partly responsible for the smell of skunk
cahow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cahows
Etymology: Imitative of its cry.
Senses: examples: text: The cahow was known to colonists in Bermuda during the early part of the seventeenth century, and these people relied on it quite heavily for food.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 60:
synonyms: Bermuda petrel
glosses: An endangered nocturnal burrowing bird (Pterodroma cahow), from Bermuda.
cash instrument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash instruments
Senses: examples: text: In a liquidity crisis, some securities lose their claim to being cash instruments.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial instrument that is marketable at close to par under almost all circumstances.
cellulolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cellulolytic
form: most cellulolytic
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That causes the hydrolysis of cellulose
Derived terms: holocellulolytic
hypercellulolytic
noncellulolytic
cellulolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellulolytics
Senses: glosses: Any such material
cete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetes
Senses: glosses: A cetacean.
cete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetes
Senses: glosses: A company of badgers.
chachalaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chä′-chə-lä′-kə
ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɑ.t͡ʃəˈlɑ.kə/
rhymes: -ɑːkə
Forms: form: chachalacas
Etymology: Late 19th century. From South American Spanish chachalaca, from Classical Nahuatl chachalacani (“tattler, gossiper”), from chāchalāni (“to make a hubbub, create an uproar”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several cracid birds, of the genus Ortalis, limited to the Americas, that resemble the guans.
Derived terms: word: buff-browed chachalaca
word: Ortalis superciliaris
word: Chaco chachalaca
word: Ortalis canicollis
word: chestnut-winged chachalaca
word: Ortalis garrula
word: Colombian chachalaca
english: subspecies of speckled chachalaca
translation: subspecies of speckled chachalaca
word: Ortalis columbiana
word: grey-headed chachalaca
word: Ortalis cinereiceps
word: little chachalaca
word: Ortalis motmot
word: plain chachalaca
word: Ortalis vetula
word: rufous-bellied chachalaca
word: Ortalis wagleri
word: rufous-headed chachalaca
word: Ortalis erythroptera
word: rufous-vented chachalaca
word: Ortalis ruficauda
word: speckled chachalaca
word: chestnut-headed chachalaca
word: East Brazilian chachalaca
word: scaled chachalaca
word: Ortalis guttata
word: West Mexican chachalaca
word: Ortalis poliocephala
word: white-bellied chachalaca
word: Ortalis leucogastra
dereligionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dereligionizes
form: dereligionizing
form: dereligionized
form: dereligionized
Etymology: From de- + religionize.
Senses: glosses: To render nonreligious; to transform (something) from religious into secular.
Related terms: dereligionization
dereligionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dereligionises
form: dereligionising
form: dereligionised
form: dereligionised
Etymology: From de- + religion + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dereligionize.
cracid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to birds of the taxonomic family Cracidae.
cracid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cracids
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, if anything it^([the chachalaca]) is further from the Galliformes than the duck; but because of the slight uncertainties in the method Prager and Wilson argued for a three-way split between ducks, cracids, and non-cracid galliforms.
ref: 1982 May 20, Jeremy Charfas, “Proving the pattern of life”, in New Scientist, number 1306, page 485:
text: Cracraft (1973b, p. 507) asserted that Gallinuloides was closer to phasianids than cracids, but never presented evidence to substantiate his claim.
ref: 2012, Storrs L. Olson, “Chapter 2: The Fossil Record of Birds”, in Donald Farner, editor, Avian Biology, volume 3, page 115:
text: Two of the five Galliform families, the cracids (guans, curassows and chachalacas) and the New World quails, are confined to the Americas, with most species in Central and especially South America.
ref: 2013, Erik Hirschfeld, Andy Swash, Robert Still, The World's Rarest Birds, page 278:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any bird of the family Cracidae.
Aesop
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːsɒp/
homophone: ESOP
Forms: form: Æsop
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Αἴσωπος (Aísōpos).
Senses: examples: text: I'll win them by politeness, and... and... show them that I've nothing to do with that Aesop, that buffoon, that Pierrot, and have merely been taken in over this affair, just as they have.
ref: 1912, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, Book II, chapter 8:
glosses: An Ancient Greek author, famous for the fables ascribed to him.
Derived terms: Aesopian
Aesopic
Aesopical
Aesopish
Aesop-like
Aesop prawn
Aesop shrimp
blitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blitters
Etymology: From blit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Not only is the Amiga blitter fully integrated with and supported by the system as a whole, it also has access to its own direct memory channel […]
ref: 1986 December 8, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 49, page 46:
text: Using the hardware blitter to move bitmaps from VRAM to VRAM is much faster than moving them from system memory to VRAM.
ref: 2002, André LaMothe, Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, page 315:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software or hardware mechanism that blits.
Derived terms: bob
shadebob
bush telegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush telegraphs
form: bush-telegraph
Senses: examples: text: When I was born, family and friends came from all over, thanks to the bush telegraph. There were very few telephones where I grew up, so my father mentioned my birth to someone at the market. And that woman told a man who was delivering rice to a place up the road. He told someone there, who was taking a herd of cattle south, toward the villages. And pretty soon the news of my birth had spread far and wide.
ref: 2007, "From Sudan to supermodel stardom," msnbc.com, 28 Aug. (retrieved 19 Sep. 2008)
glosses: A system used by undeveloped societies in remote regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds, word-of-mouth relay, or smoke signals.
examples: text: I suppose you've received information, by bush-telegraph, that that third assistant understrapper and ex-sailorman at Tulagi is going to deport me as an undesirable immigrant.
ref: 1911, Jack London, chapter 9, in Adventure:
glosses: A gossip network.
Synonyms: sense: communication system used by undeveloped societies
word: jungle telegraph
sense: gossip network
word: jungle telegraph
sense: gossip network
word: grapevine
sense: gossip network
word: rumor mill
bush-telegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush-telegraphs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bush telegraph.
miner's canary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miners' canaries
form: miner's canaries
form: canary in a coal mine
form: miners' canary
Senses: glosses: A bird caged in mines because its death provided a warning of dangerous levels of toxic gases.
glosses: Anything, especially an organism, whose death or distress provides an early warning of danger.
Derived terms: climate canary
Related terms: bioindicator
jungle telegraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungle telegraphs
Senses: examples: text: Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph.
ref: 1958 August 11, “Live Virus in the Jungle”, in Times:
glosses: A system used by primitive cultures in remote tropical regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds or a relay of runners.
examples: text: And the jungle telegraph at Bryant Park is alive with rumors that the show's biggest name, Lauren Conrad, will be here any day.
ref: 2008, Lisa Marsh "‘Hills’ Under Tents," New York Post, 5 Feb. (retrieved 19 Sep. 2008)
glosses: A gossip network; an informal communication system within a group or organization.
Synonyms: sense: communication system used by primitive cultures
word: bush telegraph
sense: gossip
word: bush telegraph
sense: gossip
word: grapevine
sense: gossip
word: rumor mill
sniffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniffer
Xylokastro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Xilokastro
form: Xylokastron
form: Xilokastron
Etymology: From Greek Ξυλόκαστρο (Xylókastro), from ξύλον (xýlon) + κάστρο (kástro), literally "wooden castle".
Senses: glosses: A town in the northern part of the Korinthia prefecture in southwestern Greece
Erymanthos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erimanthos
form: Erymanthus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἐρύμανθος (Erúmanthos).
Senses: glosses: A mountain in the southcentral part of the Achaia prefecture in southwestern Greece
glosses: A river in the southwestern Peloponnese in southwestern Greece, it flows into the Achaia and the Ilia prefectures
Related terms: Erymanthian Boar
Aroania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain the southeastern part of the Achaia prefecture, in southwestern Greece.
glosses: A village and municipality in southern Achaia prefecture, in southwestern Greece.
Leonidi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leonidio
form: Leonidion
Senses: glosses: A town in the eastern part of the Arcadia prefecture in southern Greece.
Xylokastron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Xylokastro.
Xilokastron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Xylokastro.
Erymanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Erymanthus.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Erymanthos.
Leonidio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Leonidi.
Leonidion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Leonidi.
Megalopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Megalopoli.
Xilokastro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Xylokastro.
rumor mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumor mills
form: rumour mill
Senses: examples: text: For months the Washington rumor mill has ground out gossip about who might replace U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting Jr.
ref: 1963 July 5, “A Kennedy Speaks to a Lodge”, in Time:
text: Unofficial results instead traveled through the rumor mill, passed along on mobile phones from one part of the country to another.
ref: 2008 March 30, “Zimbabwe Opposition Claims Victory”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Sep 2008:
text: The rumour mill is also abuzz with chat that Alessandro Michele, who parted with Gucci last year, is to make a return to the fashion frontline.
ref: 2023 September 26, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Dior opens Paris fashion week with feminist sloganeering on the catwalk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: gossip mill
glosses: A process in which a group or network of persons originate or promulgate gossip and other unsubstantiated claims.
rumour mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rumour mills
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rumor mill.
fidelities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fidelity
nuclein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuː.klɪ.ɪn/
ipa: /ˈn(j)u.kli.ɪn/
Forms: form: nucleins
Etymology: From German Nuclein, corresponding to nucleus + -in.
Senses: examples: text: While delving microscopically through the pus in surgical bandages, Miescher found a substance he didn't recognize and called it nuclein (because it resided in the nuclei of cells).
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 354:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phosphorus-rich protein found in the nucleus of a cell, later specifically nucleohistone or nucleoprotamine; also, any similar compound present in the cell nucleus.
Related terms: nucleic acid
protein
tonofilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonofilaments
Etymology: From tono- + filament.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A structural filament of keratin present in the cytoplasm
Related terms: tonofibril
tonofibril
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonofibrils
Etymology: From tono- + fibril.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structural fibril of tonofilaments found in the cytoplasm of epithelial cells
Related terms: tonofibrillar
Haumea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌhɑː.uːˈmeɪ.ə/
/haʊˈmeɪ.ə/
Etymology: From Hawaiian hau (“ruler”) (archaic) + mea (“reddish brown”), "red ruler".
Senses: qualifier: Hawaiian mythology
glosses: The goddess of fertility and childbirth.
examples: text: Deep searches for regular satellites around Kuiper belt objects are difficult due to observational limitations, but Haumea is one of the few for which sufficient data exist.
ref: 2016 May 27, Luke D. Burkhart, Darin Ragozzine, Michael E. Brown, “A Deep Search for Additional Satellites around the Dwarf Planet Haumea”, in The Astronomical Journal, volume 151, number 6, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2025:
glosses: A dwarf planet with two known moons orbiting in the Kuiper belt, roughly one-third the mass of Pluto.
Synonyms: sense: celestial body
word: 🝻
Related terms: Haumea's moons
Namaka and Hiʻiaka
Haumeid
fourbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourberies
Etymology: Borrowed from French fourberie.
Senses: glosses: deceit, an unprincipled action.
Synonyms: knavery
four-by-four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-by-fours
Senses: glosses: A four-wheel-drive vehicle with a four-speed transmission.
glosses: A four-wheel vehicle with four-wheel-drive.
glosses: any four-wheel-drive vehicle.
glosses: A four-inch per four-inch gauze or similar material.
glosses: A woman who has had four children by four different fathers.
Synonyms: 4by4
4 by 4
4-by-4
fourbyfour
four by four
4x4
4WD
four-eyed fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-eyed fishes
Senses: synonyms: foureyes
foureyed fish
glosses: A member of a genus Anableps of fish in the family Anablepidae having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided in two different parts, so that they can see below and above the water surface at the same time, inhabiting fresh and brackish waters of Mexico, Honduras, and northern South America.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anableps anableps
word: largescale four-eyed fish
taxonomic: Anableps microlepis
word: finescale four-eyed fish
taxonomic: Anableps dowei
word: Pacific four-eyed fish
Fourier series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fourier series
Etymology: Named after French mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), who pioneered research into such series and their application to problems of heat transfer and vibration.
Senses: examples: text: 1951 [Blackie & Son], R. C. H. Young (translator), Konrad Knopp, Theory and Application of Infinite Series, [1947, Konrad Knopp, Theorie und Anwendung der unendlichen Reihen, 4th Edition], 1990, Dover, Unabridged unaltered reprint of 2nd English Edition, page 493,
As we have seen (pp. 369—370), the question of the necessary and sufficient conditions under which the Fourier series of an integrable function converges and represents the given function is one which presents very great difficulties.
text: 2001, David Cruz-Uribe (translator), Javier Duoandikoetxea Zuazo, Fourier Analysis, [1995, Javier Duoandikoetxea Zuazo, Análisis de Fourier], American Mathematical Society, page 20,
There are excellent discussions of Fourier series and integrals in Katznelson [10] and Dym and McKean [4]. The book by R. E. Edwards [5] is an exhaustive study of Fourier series from a more modern perspective.
text: Unlike Taylor series, a Fourier series can describe functions that are not everywhere continuous and/or differentiable.
ref: 2006, K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson, S. J. Bence, Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 415:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any series resulting from the decomposition of a periodic function into terms involving cosines and sines (or, equivalently, complex exponentials).
wikipedia: Joseph Fourier
Derived terms: Fourier sine series
Fourier cosine series
Related terms: Fourier analysis
Fourier integral
Fourier transform
fowlery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fowleries
Etymology: From fowl + -ery.
Senses: glosses: A place where fowl are raised.
foxery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English foxerie, equivalent to fox + -ery.
Senses: glosses: cunning behavior; trickery; deceit
charet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of charret.
charette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃəˈɹɛt/
Forms: form: charettes
form: charrette
form: charret
Etymology: Borrowed from French charrette (“cart”).
Senses: glosses: A period of intense work, especially group work undertaken to meet a deadline.
glosses: Alternative spelling of charret.
fpm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fpms
Etymology: By initialism.
Senses: coordinate_terms: fps
glosses: Initialism of feet per minute.
cheekpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheekpieces
Etymology: From cheek + piece.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cheek guard
cheek plate
glosses: A piece of armour, or the bridle of a horse, that protects the cheek.
fraudulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraudulencies
Senses: glosses: fraudulence
choristodere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choristoderes
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the order Choristodera of extinct reptiles
free alongside ship
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: free alongside ships
Senses: synonyms: word: FAS
glosses: A situation in which the seller pays for transportation to the port, and the buyer pays for the rest of the transportation.
Related terms: free alongside
cost and freight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: CFR
coordinate_terms: cost, insurance and freight
glosses: A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation.
cost, insurance and freight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Goods, transportation to the port of destination, and marine insurance (as paid for by a seller).
Synonyms: CIF
cif
Coordinate terms: cost and freight
Carriage Paid To
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CPT
Senses: coordinate_terms: carriage forward
glosses: The seller pays for the freight to the named destination, but the buyer pays for the insurance during the transportation.
Delivered At Frontier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DAF
Senses: glosses: A previously used Incoterm meaning the seller pays for the transportation of the goods, usually to a place on a border or frontier, and the buyer pays for the transportation from the frontier.
Delivered Duty Paid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: DDP
Senses: glosses: Meaning the seller pays for the all transportation to a named place in the country of import.
Related terms: Delivered Duty Unpaid
T-bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: T-bills
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A Treasury bill.
Delivered Duty Unpaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: DDU
Senses: glosses: Meaning the seller delivers the goods to the named destination, and pays for all transportation expect for the unloading, duty and the further transportation to a named place in the country of import, which is the responsibility of the buyer.
Related terms: Delivered Duty Paid
Delivered Ex Quay
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: DEQ
Senses: glosses: The seller pays for all transportation and insurance until the goods have been unloaded at the port of destination.
Related terms: Delivered Duty Paid
Delivered Duty Unpaid
Delivered Ex Ship
Delivered Ex Ship
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: DES
Senses: glosses: The seller pays for all transportation and insurance until the transporting ship has arrived at the port of destination.
Related terms: Delivered Duty Paid
Delivered Duty Unpaid
Delivered Ex Quay
Ex Works
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EXW
Senses: glosses: Meaning the buyer pays for all insurance and transportation from the seller's premises, and the seller's only responsibility is making the goods available at the seller's premises.
Free Carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FCA
Senses: glosses: Meaning the seller incurs all costs of transportation up to a named carrier, after which the responsibility is with the buyer.
cerebrotonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebrotonias
Senses: glosses: In the somatotype theories of William Herbert Sheldon, an intellectual personality type characterised by emotional restraint and alertness correlated with the ectomorph body type.
INCO term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: INCO terms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Incoterm.
croaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹoʊkɚ/
Forms: form: croakers
Etymology: From croak + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something that makes a croaking sound.
examples: text: There are croakers in every country, always boding its ruin.
ref: 1771, Benjamin Franklin, edited by John Bigelow, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1st complete English edition from Franklin's English Manuscript, J.B. Loppincott & Co., published 1868, →OL, part one, page 167:
text: It is thought by many, and said by some, that this Republic has already seen its best days; that the historian may now write the story of its decline and fall. Two classes of men are just now especially afflicted with such forebodings. The first are those who are croakers by nature – the men who have a taste for funerals, and especially national funerals. They never see the bright side of anything, and probably never will.
ref: 1869, Frederick Douglass, Our Composite Nationality:
text: Nor did the croakers have long to wait. The second night after the drowning of the mate the little yacht was suddenly wracked from stem to stern.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 114:
text: "It is my advice," the speaker continued, "that we go easier upon the small men. On the day that they have all been driven out the power of this society will have been broken." Unwelcome truths are not popular. There were angry cries as the speaker resumed his seat. McGinty rose with gloom upon his brow. "Brother Morris," said he, "you were always a croaker..."
ref: 1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear:
glosses: A vocal pessimist, grumbler, or doomsayer.
examples: text: Frogs are also sensitive to vibrations through the ground, a footfall usually being sufficient to instil silence in a pond full of croakers.
ref: 1974, Clive Roots, Animals of the Dark, page 41:
glosses: A frog.
glosses: Certain fish in the family Sciaenidae, known for the throbbing sounds they make.
examples: text: "Lungs," said McGuire comprehensively. "I got it. The croaker says I'll come to time for four months longer—maybe six if I hold my gait.[…]"
ref: 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 173, column 1:
text: He located a doctor in Brooklyn who was a writing fool. This croaker would go three scripts a day for as high as thirty tablets a script.
ref: 1977 [1953], William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A doctor.
Derived terms: Atlantic croaker
croakerlike
kingcroaker
nibe croaker
spot croaker
spotfin croaker
white croaker
yellowfin croaker
free lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free lunches
Senses: glosses: Something obtained without any payment, obligation or effort.
Derived terms: NFL
no free lunch theorem
there's no such thing as a free lunch
there's no such thing as a free lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: there ain't no such thing as a free lunch
form: there is no free lunch
form: there is no such thing as a free lunch
Etymology: In use since the 1930s. Popularized by the American economist Milton Friedman through the title of a 1975 book, and frequently misattributed to him.
Senses: synonyms: TANSTAAFL
TINSTAAFL
glosses: Nothing is free; even things that appear free often have to be paid for in the end.
wikipedia: Milton Friedman
Related terms: free lunch
BNPL
freedom is not free
point of sale
tragedy of the commons
you don't get something for nothing
there ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: TANSTAAFL
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there's no such thing as a free lunch.
tacks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tack up
takes on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take on
tears away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tear away
tees off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tee off
throws away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw away
throws down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw down
throws up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of throw up
Frenchism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛnt͡ʃɪzəm/
Forms: form: Frenchisms
Etymology: From French + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A custom peculiar to France.
glosses: A word, phrase or linguistic feature typical of French.
Synonyms: Gallicism
teeing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tee off
tearing away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tear away
taking on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take on
tacking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tack up
tacked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tack up
Fresno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɛznoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish fresno (“ash tree”).
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Fresno County, in central California, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in White Eyes Township, Coshocton County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A census-designated place in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A town and municipality in Tolima department, Colombia.
Derived terms: Fresno County
throwing away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw away
throwing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of throw down
friendess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friendesses
Etymology: From Middle English frendesse, equivalent to friend + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female friend.
Friendly Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named as such because of the friendly reception Captain James Cook received on his first visit to Tonga in 1773.
Senses: glosses: The kingdom of Tonga.
tore away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of tear away
took on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take on
threw away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw away
threw down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw down
torn away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tear away
taken on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take on
thrown away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw away
thrown down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw down
free lunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of free lunch
turns on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn on
turning on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turn on
turned on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn on
turned on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more turned on
form: most turned on
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That has been switched on or placed in the on position.
glosses: Sexually aroused.
organocatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From organo- + catalytic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to organocatalysis.
Derived terms: organocatalytically
hedgehog signalling pathway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A key regulator of animal development present in many organisms from flies to humans.
Related terms: sonic hedgehog
Cetti's warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɛtiz/
Forms: form: Cetti's warblers
Etymology: Named after the Italian zoologist Francesco Cetti
Senses: glosses: A small, Old World passerine bird, Cettia cetti, of the warbler family (Sylviidae).
hypovolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypovolemias
form: hypovolaemia
form: hypovolæmia
Etymology: From hypo- + volemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: oligaemia
oligemia
antonyms: hypervolemia
glosses: A state of decreased blood plasma volume.
Derived terms: hypovolemic
Related terms: hypotension
volemia
gatecrashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gatecrash
gatecrashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gatecrash
gatecrashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gatecrash
gatecrashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatecrashings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gatecrash.
cirl bunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səːl ˈbʌntɪŋ/
Forms: form: cirl buntings
Etymology: Anglicized form of Latin name Emberiza cirlus, probably originally from Italian zirlare (“to whistle”).
Senses: examples: text: A minute or two later, a female cirl bunting dropped down into the field in front of us, soon followed by a male.
ref: 2010 July 19, Stephen Moss, “Birdwatch”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A small Old World passerine bird, Emberiza cirlus, of the bunting family (Emberizidae), very similar to the yellowhammer.
Related terms: Emberiza cirlus
gatecrashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gatecrash
geckos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geckoes
Senses: glosses: plural of gecko
geckos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: geckoes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gecko
imponent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin impōnēns (“laying aside”), present active participle of impōnō (“I put upon”), from im- + pōnō (“put, place”).
Senses: glosses: That imposes a rule.
imponent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imponents
Etymology: From Latin impōnēns (“laying aside”), present active participle of impōnō (“I put upon”), from im- + pōnō (“put, place”).
Senses: glosses: One who imposes a rule.
Related terms: impose
imposing
geckoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geckos
Senses: glosses: plural of gecko
gelatinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gelatinizes
form: gelatinizing
form: gelatinized
form: gelatinized
form: gelatinise
Etymology: From gelatin + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To cause to become gelatinous.
examples: text: We allow that to cook long enough to gelatinize so we can mix it easily.
glosses: To become gelatinous.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To coat or treat with gelatin.
Derived terms: degelatinized
gelatinizable
gelatinizer
nongelatinized
nongelatinizing
pregelatinize
ungelatinized
Related terms: gelatinization
gelatinise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gelatinises
form: gelatinising
form: gelatinised
form: gelatinised
form: gelatinize
Etymology: From gelatin + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gelatinize.
Derived terms: pregelatinised
ungelatinised
gelatinizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gelatinize
touches up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of touch up
touching up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of touch up
touched up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of touch up
tries on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of try on
trying on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of try on
tried on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of try on
tries out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of try out
trying out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of try out
tried out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of try out
tucks in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tuck in
tucking in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tuck in
tucked in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tuck in
turns around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of turn around
turning around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Petraeus’s admission and resignation represent a remarkable fall from grace for one of the most prominent figures in America’s modern military and intelligence community, a commander who helped lead the nation’s wartime activities in the decade after the Sept. 11 attacks and was credited with turning around the failing war effort in Iraq.
ref: 2012 November 9, Michael D. Shear, “Petraeus Quits; Evidence of Affair Was Found by F.B.I.”, in New York Times:
glosses: present participle and gerund of turn around
yaffingale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjæfɪŋɡeɪl/
Forms: form: yaffingales
Etymology: From English dialect yaffle (and under the influence of nightingale), from the sound.
Senses: glosses: the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis
Synonyms: yaffle
turned around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turn around
coelutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coelute
yaffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yafflers
Senses: glosses: the European green woodpecker, Picus viridis
glosses: A loud-mouthed, obnoxious person
Synonyms: sense: Picus viridis
word: yaffingale
sense: Picus viridis
word: yaffle
coeluting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coelute
coeluted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coelute
threw up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of throw up
thrown up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of throw up
turn arounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn around
scotch eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scotch egg
tank engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tank engine
gas syringes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas syringe
yagona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jɑˈɡoʊnə/
Forms: form: yagonas
form: yaqona
Etymology: From Fijian yaqona.
Senses: glosses: The kava plant.
raw_tags: in the Pacific islands
examples: text: Indo-Fijians have taken to drinking yagona or kava, the traditional drink in Fiji.
ref: 2003, Migration in the Asia Pacific: Population, Settlement and Citizenship Issues, page 380:
glosses: The drink made from the kava plant.
raw_tags: in the Pacific islands
electron capture detectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electron capture detector
liquid scintillation counters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquid scintillation counter
X-ray diffractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of X-ray diffraction
microtiter plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microtiter plate
yaguarondi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaguarondis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
jaguarondi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaguarondis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
assay plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assay plate
yagouarondi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
yagouarundi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jaguarundi.
sampling straws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sampling straw
scintillation cocktails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scintillation cocktail
yah boo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: yah-boo
form: yaa-boo
form: ya boo
form: ya-boo
Senses: examples: text: I don't care about your stupid party anyway, so yah boo to you.
glosses: An expression of derision or scorn.
Synonyms: ya boo sucks
yah boo sucks
yah boo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: yah-boo
form: yaa-boo
form: ya boo
form: ya-boo
Senses: examples: text: People are fed up with yah-boo politics.
glosses: Characterised by derision or scorn.
yaguarondis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yaguarondi
jaguarondis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jaguarondi
chromatographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chromatograph
uncheatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cheat + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Amoz Zahavi^([sic]) argued, however, that natural selection should favor signals that cannot be cheated.³² Uncheatable signals carry a cost, a handicap.
ref: 2002, George W. Barlow, The Cichlid Fishes: Nature’s Grand Experiment In Evolution, Da Capo Press, →ISBN, page 100:
text: We show that the signer can disavow any valid signature to the verifier. In other words, we show that the disavowal of their scheme is not uncheatable.
ref: 2005, Song Han, Elizabeth Chang, Jie Wang, “Attack on Undeniable Partially Blind Signatures”, in Andrew Blyth, editor, EC2ND 2005: Proceedings Of The First European Conference on Computer Network Defence, School Of Computing, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, Birkhäuser, published 2006, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: Not subject to cheating, impossible to cheat (at).
Yahtzee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːtsi/
Etymology: Trademarked by the Milton Bradley Company in 1956, as an alteration of Yatzie, derived from yacht (see Yacht (dice game)).
Senses: topics: dice
games
glosses: A probability game where players amass scores depending on the values of the five dice they roll.
Yahtzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːtsi/
Forms: form: Yahtzees
Etymology: Trademarked by the Milton Bradley Company in 1956, as an alteration of Yatzie, derived from yacht (see Yacht (dice game)).
Senses: glosses: In the game of Yahtzee, a five-of-a-kind, where all dice show the same value, which is the highest-scoring combination.
glosses: A Nazi.
Related terms: Crag
Generala
Poker Dice
Yacht
yatzy
yajna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʌdʒnə/
ipa: /jʌdʒnjə/
Forms: form: yajnas
form: yajña
form: yagna
form: yadnya
form: yagnya
form: yagya
Etymology: From Sanskrit यज्ञ (yajñá).
Senses: examples: text: The visit to Pushkar is, however, a little more than the obligatory obeisance done at the site where Brahma carelessly dropped a lotus blossom as he was wondering where to perform a yagnya.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 501:
glosses: A ritual of sacrifice to the Devas.
Yalie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yalies
Etymology: From Yale + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The neons and spandex of the “Safety Dance” lend Yalies a fleeting escape from their normal selves, the self who un-tags Facebook photos that may hurt their future electability.
ref: 2009 October 23, Claire Gordon, “The decade that never dies”, in Yale Daily News, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2010:
text: Hart, on the other hand, was a cool young Yalie whose 1974 Senate campaign stump speech was actually called “The End of the New Deal.”
ref: 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: Eli
glosses: A student at Yale University; a Yale University graduate.
yamboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jæmˈbuː/
Forms: form: yamboos
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of yuanbao
yampee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yampees
form: yampe
form: yampi
form: yampie
Senses: glosses: A variety of yam, Dioscorea trifida, smaller than a regular yam.
Synonyms: cush cush
yamstchik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yamstchiks
Senses: glosses: In 19th-century Russia, someone who delivered post by means of a horse-drawn carriage.
could have done with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of could do with
glosses: simple past of can do with
Related terms: could do with
could do without
can do with
can do without
could have done without
guard station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guard stations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of guardhouse.
synonyms: word: guardhouse
yamun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yamuns
Etymology: Irregular romanization of Mandarin 衙門／衙门 (yámen).
Senses: examples: text: [The] Hai Ie district yamun has a department whose sole business is the rental of fields alloted to resident troops.
ref: 1883, Adele Marion Fielde, “屯 (thûn)”, in A Pronouncing and Defining Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, Arranged According to Syllables and Tones, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, page 600:
glosses: Alternative form of yamen.