cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
embarrass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbæɹəs/
ipa: /ɛm-/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /əmˈbɛɹəs/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɛm-/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɪm-/
rhymes: -æɹəs
Forms: form: embarrasses
form: embarrassing
form: embarrassed
form: embarrassed
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French embarrasser, embarasser (“to embarrass; to block, obstruct”), from Spanish embarazar, from Portuguese embaraçar, from em- (“in”) (from Latin im-) + baraço (“noose, rope”), from Arabic مَرَسَة (marasa, “rope”), ultimately from Akkadian 𒄙 (GUR /⁠markasu⁠/, “rope”).
Senses: examples: text: The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.
glosses: to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
examples: text: The motion was advanced in order to embarrass the progress of the bill.
text: If they [registers] act It all, it must be by opposing their flat surfaces to the current of rising smoke in a manner which cannot fail to embarrass and impede its motion..
ref: 1796, Benjamin Count of Rumford, “Of Chimney Fire-places”, in Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical, page 330:
text: This will... be the principal part of education; and this alone will effectively dispel that theological philosophy, which, in its decline, is still powerful enough to embarrass the course both of intellectual and social progress.
ref: 1896, Frederic Harrison, addendum to Harriet Martineau's translation of The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Vol. 3, p. 418.
text: In the case at bar, there is very little beyond bare assertions and bald statements against the unidentified and unspecified Defendant(s). The claim is vexatious in that the Defendant, if identifiable, is left both embarrassed and unable to defend itself. The Court is left with a proceeding so ill-defined that it is unable to discern an argument, or identify any specific material facts.
ref: 2004 October 15, Judith A. Snider, “kisikawpemootewin v. Canada, 2004 FC 1426”, in CanLII, retrieved 07 Nov 2020:
glosses: To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
examples: text: A man or his business is embarrassed when he cannot meet his pecuniary engagements.
glosses: To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
glosses: To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
Synonyms: sense: humiliate
word: abash
sense: humiliate
word: discomfit
sense: humiliate
word: disconcert
sense: humiliate
word: humiliate
sense: humiliate
word: shame
Derived terms: disembarrass
embarrassability
embarrassable
embarrassment
slam book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slam books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slambook.
be born yesterday
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is born yesterday
form: was born yesterday
Senses: examples: text: I was not born yesterday, you know. I have done this before!
text: "Do you think," he added, with an ironical grin, "that you'll go for to gammon me into that air! I'm hinnocent, I know, but I wasn't born yesterday exactly."
ref: 1840, Henry Cockton, chapter 60, in The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist, page 508:
text: "Say, do I look like I was born yesterday? See any green in my eye, Cactus Center?"
ref: 1915, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 6, in Steve Yeager:
text: "Compared to me, you were born yesterday."
ref: 1998, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Icy Sparks, page 155:
text: If you don't know important things about history, then it's as if you were born yesterday.
ref: 2005, Howard Zinn, Donaldo Pereira Macedo, Howard Zinn on Democratic Education, page 69:
synonyms: fall off the turnip truck
be born last week
come down in the last shower
glosses: To be new, naive, innocent, inexperienced, or easily deceived.
raw_tags: in the negative
Related terms: born at night but not last night
not one's first rodeo
today years old
trollop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒl.əp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: trollops
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently connected with the Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”). Ostensibly influenced, if not derived, in some way by a word from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, witch, mage, monster, etc.”).
Senses: examples: text: Many an unfortunate Tuppenny trollop has gone from the old hag's den to the special ward at Little Bay, but not before the fell disease of the harlotic slums has been spread broadcast among the reckless patrons.
ref: 1903 February 8, The Truth, Sydney, page 3, column 4:
text: However, terrible as it may seem to the tall maiden sisters of J.P.'s in Queen Anne houses with walled vegetable gardens, this courtesan, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, street-walker, this trollop, this trull, this baggage, this hussy, this drab, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, demirep, demimondaine, this wanton, this fornicatress, this doxy, this concubine, this frail sister, this poor Queenie--did actually solicit me, did actually say 'coming home to-night, dearie' and my soul was not blasted enough to call a policeman.
ref: 1936, Anthony Bertram, Like the Phoenix:
text: Aarfy's buxom trollop had vanished with her smutty cameo ring, and Nurse Duckett was ashamed of him because he had refused to fly more combat missions and would cause a scandal.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433:
glosses: A strumpet; a whore.
trollop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒl.əp/
rhymes: -ɒləp
Forms: form: trollops
form: trolloping
form: trolloped
form: trolloped
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently connected with the Middle English trollen (“to go about, stroll, roll from side to side”). Ostensibly influenced, if not derived, in some way by a word from Old Norse trǫll (“troll, witch, mage, monster, etc.”).
Senses: glosses: to act in a sluggish or slovenly manner
glosses: to dangle soggily: become bedraggled
glosses: to behave like a trollop
glosses: Of a horse: to move with a gait between a trot and a gallop; to canter.
Synonyms: sense: to behave like a trollop
word: harlotize
cut corners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts corners
form: cutting corners
form: cut corners
form: cut corners
Senses: examples: text: […] but I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners and joined in with them again […]
ref: 1882, Dan Seffert, quoted in “Half Hours with Dan Seffert”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 39, page 275
glosses: To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road.
examples: text: The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
text: Do you know why Wendy's has square burgers? Because they don't cut corners.
text: To obtain that data, tech companies including OpenAI, Google and Meta have cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law, according to an examination by The New York Times.
ref: 2024 April 6, Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, Nico Grant, “How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2024:
synonyms: skimp
take short cuts
follow the path of least resistance
take the easy way out
half-ass
glosses: To do a less-than-thorough or incomplete job; to do something poorly; to take inappropriate shortcuts.
cut in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts in
form: cutting in
form: cut in
form: cut in
Senses: examples: text: “If something breaks during the day, work hours up until the evening, we’ll cut in — if we’re in the middle of, let’s say, a magazine program or a podcast on tape or a re-air of the game,” Radovich said.
ref: 2023 March 8, Jonathan Tannenwald, “CBS is launching a 24/7 soccer channel online”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
text: Taxon concepts […] are being produced at a fast rate and, as long as some minimal aspect of the rules of nomenclature laid down in the relevant code is fulfilled, these concepts can become permanent even when they may be deeply flawed scientifically. It is an ideal situation for someone to cut in – inappropriately – and produce large quantities of taxon names.
ref: 2023, Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser, “Naming And Gaming: The Illicit Taxonomic Practice Of 'Nomenclatural Harvesting' And How To Avoid It”, in Journal of Zoology, volume 320, number 3, page 162:
glosses: To intrude or interrupt.
examples: This is cutting in on my free time.
glosses: To intrude or interrupt.
To take up a portion of.
examples: Cut in line
glosses: To intrude or interrupt.
To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
synonyms: jump the queue
push in
queue-jump
glosses: To intrude or interrupt.
To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: To intrude or interrupt.
To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
glosses: To intrude or interrupt.
To dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner.
glosses: When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas.
examples: text: You can cut me in on the next hand of this card game.
glosses: To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
glosses: To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
To give (someone) a share of something.
glosses: To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
To take a share of something; to push one's way into a project, game or plan.
Derived terms: cut-in
Related terms: cut into
queue-jumper
trim
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪm/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪm]
rhymes: -ɪm
Forms: form: trimmer
form: trimmest
Etymology: From Middle English trimen, trymen, trümen, from Old English trymman (“to make firm; strengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *trummjan, from Proto-Germanic *trumjaną (“to make fast; strengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *trumaz (“firm; strong; sound”).
Senses: examples: text: He goes jogging every day to keep in trim.
glosses: Physically fit.
examples: text: a trim figure
glosses: Slender, lean.
examples: text: a trim lawn
text: […]manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie and swears it.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Neat or smart in appearance.
trim
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹɪm/
ipa: [t̠ʰɹ̠̊ɪm]
rhymes: -ɪm
Etymology: From Middle English trimen, trymen, trümen, from Old English trymman (“to make firm; strengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *trummjan, from Proto-Germanic *trumjaną (“to make fast; strengthen”), from Proto-Germanic *trumaz (“firm; strong; sound”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: In good order; properly managed or maintained.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: With sails well trimmed.
touch up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌt͡ʃ ʌp/
Forms: form: touches up
form: touching up
form: touched up
form: touched up
Senses: examples: text: Use a small brush to touch up the paint anywhere it is uneven.
glosses: To make slight corrections or adjustments to; to fill in or perfect.
examples: text: The creep was trying to touch up my girlfriend.
text: I think you remember him! He made me go into the back of his shop and he touched me up, do you remember? And afterwards we shared out the money from the Cinzano. In the end he got round to doing something disgusting, that guy, something disgusting, quite disgusting.
ref: 2019, Copi, “Eva Perón”, in Four Plays, Alma Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To fondle or to grope someone, usually in an inappropriate way.
Synonyms: sense: to fondle or grope
word: caress
word: feel up
word: pet
word: fondle
Related terms: touch-up
feel up
touch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touch-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from touch up.
Senses: examples: text: The frosting just needs a little touch-up to be smooth and even.
glosses: A slight correction or adjustment.
Homecoming Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Homecoming Queens
Senses: synonyms: Hoco Queen
glosses: In colleges and high schools, a young lady chosen by her peers to reign over the traditional activities associated with the Homecoming football game.
Related terms: Homecoming King
homecoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊmˌkʌmɪŋ/
Forms: form: homecomings
Etymology: From Middle English hom-comyng, home komyng, home-cumyng, home-commynge, equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come, homkome, hame-come, ham-cume, from Old English hāmcyme (“homecoming; return”).
Senses: examples: text: His homecoming was saddened by the news of his mother's death the day before.
glosses: The act or event of returning home.
examples: text: Many alumni come back for homecoming, and many freshmen are advised to flee.
text: homecoming ball
text: homecoming game
text: homecoming party
text: homecoming rave
synonyms: hoco
glosses: In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
synonyms: hoco
glosses: In colleges and high schools, a tradition centred around a football game, a parade and the "coronation" of a Homecoming Queen.
Ellipsis of harvest homecoming, a traditional (street) party and/or dance near the start of the school year, at around fall mid-terms. It traditionally marks the start of harvest break, where students go home in autumn to harvest the crops on the family farms.
Derived terms: hoco
ECLSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of environmental control and life support system.
vint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪnt/
Forms: form: vints
form: vinting
form: vinted
form: vinted
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from vintage, interpreted as vint + -age. Ultimately from Latin vinum (“wine”).
Senses: glosses: To make wine from fruit.
Related terms: brew
distill
vint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪnt/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian винт (vint, “screw”).
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A Russian card game similar to bridge and whist.
Synonyms: Russian whist
ouvre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of oeuvre.
ultima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌltɪmə/
Forms: form: ultimas
Etymology: From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The final syllable of a word.
topics: business
finance
synonyms: DvommaDvol
hypernyms: word: Greeks
english: includes list of coordinate terms
translation: includes list of coordinate terms
glosses: A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
Coordinate terms: sense: names of syllables
english: last
translation: last
word: ult
sense: names of syllables
word: penultima
sense: names of syllables
word: penultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but one
translation: last but one
word: penult
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultime
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but two
translation: last but two
word: antepenult
sense: names of syllables
alt: præantepenultima
word: preantepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: preantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but three
translation: last but three
word: preantepenult
sense: names of syllables
word: propreantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but four
translation: last but four
word: propreantepenult
Related terms: ultima ratio
ultima Thule
floral white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floral whites
Senses: glosses: A faint pinkish white colour.
floral white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a faint pinkish white colour.
deo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deos
Etymology: Clipping of deodorant.
Senses: examples: text: Some men complain their deos don't work after regular use. Your underarm area can build up immunity to the same product. Alternating two deos can give you total protection.
ref: 2005, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, numbers 687-694, page 32:
text: He brandishes a can of deodorant (deo) spray as he says this, grinning all the time. 'I started using this about two years ago. I didn't realise deos can be so useful in controlling sweating and keeping me feeling fresh. […]
ref: 2014, Damodar Mall, Supermarketwala: Secrets To Winning Consumer India:
text: 'Maybe it's a teeny bit embarrassing, but seeing that we're good friends, Jabłonovska, don't you use any deo?' 'Any what?' 'Deo. Deodorant.' She pronounced the final T sharply and distinctly.
ref: 2014, Julia Franck, West:
glosses: deodorant
ordre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of order.
Derived terms: ordrely
ordre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ordres
form: ordring
form: ordred
form: ordred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of order.
gainsboro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.
Senses: examples: text: By using light gray or Gainsboro we are using Edward Tufte's principle of "minimum effective difference" to put in ancillary information.
ref: 2005 May 21, David Park, “Re: GridLines issue”, in comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica (Usenet):
text: When the temperature reached to^([sic]) about 40 °C, the color of characters began to change, and it changed completely from black to gainsboro when the temperature rose to about 50 °C. As the[…]film cooled down to the room temperature, the color returned to black.
ref: 2017, Guoliang Wang et al., “AgNW/Chinese Xuan paper film heaters for electro-thermochromic paper display”, in Materials Research Express, volume 4, number 11:
glosses: A neutral light grey colour.
gainsboro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A color named "gainsboro" was added to the X11 color chart by Paul Raveling in 1989. Raveling explained that he introduced a number of "light and off-white colors, copied from several Sinclair Paints color samples", of which gainsboro appears to be one.
Senses: glosses: Of a neutral light grey colour.
aspie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæspi/
rhymes: -æspi
homophone: aspy
Forms: form: aspies
form: Aspie
Etymology: From Asp(erger) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Occasionally, my Aspie traits are recognised by people who don't know that I have the condition.
ref: 2005, Chris Mitchell, Glass Half-Empty, Glass Half-Full, SAGE, →ISBN, page 89:
text: For example, I'm a 33 year-old Aspie and Aspergers wasn't even known about when I was at school. They're getting better at spotting Aspie kids now, but adults who are doing really well and achieving lots aren't anywhere in the statistics because no-one has spotted them.
ref: 2012, Sophie Walker, Grace Under Pressure, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: Aspergerian
word: Aspergian
word: Aspergic
word: sperg
hypernyms: word: autie
word: autist
word: on the spectrum
qualifier: autism
glosses: An Aspergerian: a person with Asperger’s syndrome.
Related terms: autie
stepping stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: stĕpʹĭng-stōn′
ipa: /ˈstɛp.ɪŋ stəʊn/
ipa: /ˈstɛp.ɪŋ stoʊn/
ipa: /ˈstɛp.ɪŋ stɐʉn/
Forms: form: stepping stones
form: stepping-stone
form: steppingstone
Etymology: First attested circa 1325; first used in the figurative sense circa 1653.
Senses: examples: text: Falling—her veriest stepping-stone
Shall form the pedestal of a throne— […]
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
text: Pretty stone cottages overlook the river's northern bank, and a short footpath 200 yds beyond the post office leads to stepping-stones.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 171, about Egton Bridge:
glosses: A stone that can be stepped on in crossing something, especially a marsh or creek.
examples: text: He was full of ambition, and force, and life, intending all sorts of great things, and meaning to make his position a stepping stone to all that was excellent in public life.
text: Esperanto can make a good stepping stone language to Latin, which may be difficult for amateur linguists.
text: I held it truth, with him who sings
⁠To one clear harp in divers tones,
⁠That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto I”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: It has already been shown that the Manchester South Junction & Altrincham (itself the joint property of the London & North Western and and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railways) served as a stepping stone by which the M.S.L.R. and G.N.R. extended their services from Manchester to Liverpool, […].
ref: 1957 November 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 764:
glosses: Something used as a way to progress to something or somewhere else.
Synonyms: means
way
Related terms: milestone
building block
stumbling block
stepping-stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepping-stones
Senses: examples: text: As I have said, it is not the intention of the Bundesbahn to use the diesel as a stepping-stone between steam and electric traction—a policy which, in the light of the excellent results obtained with modernised steam locomotives, it regards as uneconomical and unnecessary.
ref: 1960 November, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railways: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 678:
text: It had already been proved that paper soaked with silver chloride would blacken when exposed to sunlight; this discovery was one of the earliest stepping-stones toward the field of photography.
ref: 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, pages 50-51:
text: "Yes, it is much more Government-controlled now. That is a stepping-stone towards what we all want, which is the Government stepping away again.
ref: 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Delivering a basis for rail changes”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 32:
glosses: Alternative form of stepping stone.
steppingstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steppingstones
Senses: examples: text: When Dr. Michael Dugan took his first postdoctoral research appointment in 1985, he considered it a steppingstone to a permanent theoretical physics post on a college faculty.
ref: 2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times:
text: Dr. Lunine said that with steppingstones, people would look back positively at what had already been accomplished and be more likely to continue supporting a Mars program.
ref: 2014 June 9, Kenneth Chang, “Seeing Obstacle-Filled Path to Mars”, in The New York Times:
text: For many of the Capitol rioters and others who believe Mr. Trump won, it was not a large leap to “Stop the Steal” from a pathway of conspiratorial steppingstones that included the “Pizzagate” claim of 2016 that Democrats were running a child sex ring in the back of a popular Washington pizza parlor, the debunked allegation that a low-level Democratic National Committee aide was murdered for leaking Hillary Clinton’s emails and many more.
ref: 2021 January 27, Elizabeth Williamson, “Rioters Followed a Long Conspiratorial Road to the Capitol”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of stepping stone.
hybrid computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid computers
Senses: glosses: A computer that features the best characteristics of the analog computer and digital computer.
laser pointer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laser pointers
Senses: glosses: A device that emits a highly concentrated beam of light to highlight items of interest at some distance
solar wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar winds
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The outflow of charged particles from the solar corona into space. Because of the high temperature of the particles of the corona, they are moving at speeds higher than the solar escape velocity.
Hypernyms: stellar wind
Related terms: solar magnetosphere
heliosphere
heliosheath
heliopause
termination shock
celestial body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: celestial bodies
Senses: topics: astrology
astronomy
human-sciences
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A natural object which is located outside of Earth's atmosphere, such as a comet, an asteroid, the Moon, a planet, the Sun, or a star.
Synonyms: word: celestial object
word: heavenly body
word: celestial body
Hyponyms: word: asteroid
word: black hole
word: comet
word: detached object
word: galaxy
word: KBO
word: moon
word: planemo
word: planet
word: planetary body
word: planetary object
word: quasar
word: star
word: trans-Neptunian object
word: white hole
word: dwarf planet
word: planetoid
word: Messier object
word: deep-sky object
goldenrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊldənˌɹɑd/
Forms: form: goldenrods
Etymology: From golden + rod.
Senses: glosses: Any tall-stemmed plant principally from genus Solidago (also Oligoneuron), usually with clusters of small yellow flowers.
examples: text: She wore a goldenrod dress with a scooping neckline.
ref: 2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 160:
glosses: A golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.
Derived terms: goldenrod tree
stiff-leaf goldenrod
sweet goldenrod
goldenrod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊldənˌɹɑd/
Forms: form: more goldenrod
form: most goldenrod
Etymology: From golden + rod.
Senses: glosses: Of a golden-yellow colour, like that of the goldenrod plant.
mesocyclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesocyclones
Etymology: From meso- + cyclone.
Senses: glosses: An area of vertical atmospheric rotation in supercell thunderstorms, which signals the threat of a possible tornado.
Derived terms: mesocyclonic
supercell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercells
Etymology: From super- + cell.
Senses: examples: text: They watched the supercell that spawned the F5 killer that struck Oklahoma City spit out one tornado after another. In two cases, the researchers believe, the Dopplers captured tornadoes being formed — including the Oklahoma City monster.
ref: 1999 May 11, William K. Stevens, “Oklahoma Tornado Offers Hints Of How a Killer Storm Is Born”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The storm system was a supercell, the kind that brew the deadliest tornadoes and most damaging hail in the United States, said Walker Ashley[…]
ref: 2023 March 25, Oliver Laughland, “‘My city is gone’: ‘supercell’ tornado annihilates Mississippi town and kills 23”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A severe thunderstorm with updrafts and downdrafts that are in near balance, allowing the storm to maintain itself for several hours. Supercells often produce large hail, powerful downpours, very strong winds and sometimes tornadoes.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A repeating unit cell of a crystal that contains several primitive cells.
cumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuː.mjə.ləs/
rhymes: -uːmjələs
Forms: form: cumuli
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cumulus. Doublet of comble.
Senses: examples: text: In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
ref: 1878 November 8, C. Todd, “Observations at the Adelaide Observatory”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 39, number 1, page 18:
text: There were some new cumuli in the east, out above the water, and they began to take the late afternoon sun.
ref: 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Enlivens the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 102:
text: 2007 September 1, "Who’s afraid of Google?: The world’s internet superpower faces testing times", in The Economist, The Economist Newspaper Ltd, ISSN 0013-0613, volume 384, number 8544, page 9,
Ironically, there is something rather cloudlike about the multiple complaints surrounding Google. The issues are best parted into two cumuli: a set of “public” arguments about how to regulate Google; and a set of “private” ones for Google’s managers, to do with the strategy the firm needs to get through the coming storm.
glosses: A large white, puffy cloud that develops through convection.
glosses: A mound or heap.
Derived terms: cumulus oophorus
fumulus
pyrocumulus
roll cumulus
stratocumulus
Jedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: jĕdʹī
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛd.aɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: Jedi
form: Jedis
Etymology: Coined by American filmmaker George Lucas as early as 1973 (in the manuscript Journal of the Whills) and first used in his 1977 film Star Wars. Said to have been adapted from Japanese 時代劇 (jidaigeki, “‘period drama’ motion pictures about samurai”), or perhaps inspired by the words Jed (King) and Jeddak (Emperor) in the Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which Lucas had considered adapting to film. Another potential influence on the word "Jedi" is Hebrew ידיד (yadíd, “beloved; male friend”). In his book The Secret History of Star Wars, Michael Kaminski suggests that Lucas may have been influenced by this term when creating the name for his knights. Kaminski notes that Lucas has cited Jewish mysticism as an inspiration for his work, and that he may have been drawn to the idea of his heroes being beloved protectors.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jedi.
qualifier: Star Wars
glosses: One of a fictional order of beings from the Star Wars universe who are gifted with heightened awareness of the Force.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A follower of Jediism.
Derived terms: Jedicide
Jediism
Jediist
Jedi Knight
Jedi Master
Jedi mind trick
focaccia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈkætʃə/
ipa: /foʊˈkɑtʃə/
ipa: /fəˈkɑtʃə/
ipa: /fəˈkɑtʃi.ə/
rhymes: (UK) -ætʃə
rhymes: (US) -ɑːtʃə
Forms: form: focaccias
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian focaccia, from Late Latin focācium (via its plural focācia), derived from Latin focus (“hearth”). Doublet of fougasse and pagash. Cognate with Sicilian fugazza, Serbo-Croatian pogača (“unleavened bread”).
Senses: examples: text: The same dough can be used for bread, rolls, breadsticks, bruschetta, focaccia, calzone, or pizza. The only practical difference between pizza and focaccia is the thickness of the crust: Traditional pizza crust is thin, and something an inch or two thick […] is more like focaccia.
ref: 2001, Eve Zibart, The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion, page 47:
text: Sweetgreen told CNN the company was “proud to share that we are currently in the process of rolling out new PFAS-free focaccia bags that will be available in all Sweetgreen locations by the end of Q2.”
ref: 2022 March 25, Sandee LaMotte, “Dangerous chemicals found in food wrappers at major fast-food restaurants and grocery chains, report says”, in CNN:
synonyms: focaccia bread
glosses: A flatbread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
glosses: A sandwich made with this type of bread.
grizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzl̩/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: grizzles
Etymology: From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.
Senses: glosses: A dark grey colour.
glosses: Grey hair.
glosses: A grey wig.
Related terms: word: grizzly
english: not to be confused with
translation: not to be confused with
word: gristle
grizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzl̩/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Etymology: From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.
Senses: glosses: Of a grey colour.
grizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzl̩/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: grizzles
form: grizzling
form: grizzled
form: grizzled
Etymology: From Middle English grisel, gryselle, from Old French grisel, from gris (“grey”), from Frankish *grīs, from Proto-Germanic *grīsaz.
Senses: examples: R. F. Burton
hardship of the way such as would grizzle little children
Pall Mall Magazine
I found myself on the Nubian desert shaking hands with a grizzling man whom men addressed as Collins Bey.
glosses: To make or become grey, as with age.
grizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzəl/
ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzl̩/
rhymes: -ɪzəl
Forms: form: grizzles
form: grizzling
form: grizzled
form: grizzled
Etymology: A West Country dialect term, perhaps from Old English grisan (“shudder”), which would make it a cognate of modern English grisly (not grizzly).
Senses: glosses: To cry continuously but not very loudly (said especially of young children).
examples: text: [Wilfred:] In tears, eh? What a plague art thou grizzling for now?
ref: 1888, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Yeomen of the Guard […] , London: Chappel & Co., […], published c. 1911:
text: R. J. Tizard — What are you grizzling about now?
ref: 1976, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 4850:
text: The pin-thin girl is grizzling, whining that she has sand in her eyes.
ref: 2009, Judy Waite, Game Girls, unnumbered page:
glosses: To whinge or whine.
examples: text: New mothers frequently complain that their partner won't get up to change a wet nappy or comfort a grizzling baby.
ref: 1990, The Baby Book, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: To fuss or cry.
Related terms: grizzler
tomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomos
Senses: glosses: A shaft formed in limestone rock dissolved by groundwater.
gunmetal-grey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gunmetal-gray
Senses: examples: text: The Altamaha-ha, as the serpent has been named, is said to be from twelve to twenty feet long, about two feet in diameter, and gunmetal gray on top with a creamy underside. Most descriptions suggest a creature that is part eel, part alligator, ...
ref: 2005, Emily Ellison, Chuck Perry, Liars and Legends, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN:
glosses: Of a dark grey colour with a tint of blue.
Related terms: word: gunmetal grey
fill in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills in
form: filling in
form: filled in
form: filled in
Senses: examples: text: After you're done laying the pipe, fill in the trench.
text: Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: To fill; to replace material that is absent or has been removed.
examples: text: If you know anything about this, maybe you can fill me in.
coordinate_terms: catch up
glosses: To inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information.
examples: text: He can't go on vacation very often because there is nobody to fill in for him.
glosses: To substitute for somebody or something.
examples: text: I've gotten a form that is to be filled in in ink.
text: The findings emerged from questionnaires filled in by 2,211 staff in 145 wards of 55 hospitals in England and Wales and 105 observations of care of dementia patients. Two-thirds of staff said they had not had enough training to provide proper care, 50% said they had not been trained how to communicate properly with such patients and 54% had not been told how to handle challenging or aggressive behaviour.
ref: 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian:
synonyms: fill out
glosses: To complete a form or questionnaire with requested information.
examples: text: Talk to me like that again and I'll fill you in!
text: It's just a rumour that was spread around town
Somebody said that someone got filled in
For saying that people get killed in
The result of this shipbuilding
ref: 1982, Elvis Costello, Shipbuilding:
glosses: To beat up; to physically assault.
Derived terms: fill in the blank
fill in the blanks
tornadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ædɪk
Forms: form: more tornadic
form: most tornadic
Etymology: From tornado + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: tornadic destruction
glosses: Of or relating to a tornado.
examples: text: a tornadic thunderstorm
glosses: Having the ability to produce a tornado.
Derived terms: tornadic waterspout
mesoscale convective system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesoscale convective systems
Senses: glosses: A huge complex of thunderstorms that can sometimes reach the size of Texas.
Synonyms: MCS
mitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: mitches
form: mitching
form: mitched
form: mitched
form: mich
form: mych
form: myche
form: meech
form: meach
form: miche
Etymology: From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *myċċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mukkjan, from Proto-Germanic *mukjaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.
Senses: glosses: To pilfer; filch; steal.
glosses: To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
examples: text: "Did you ever mitch school?" he asked.
"No. But I think this is what it would feel like."
ref: 1983, Bernard MacLaverty, Cal, Chapter 4. (p.115 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
text: John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.
text: I was young once. God, the things we used to get up to in the seminary. Me and a bunch of the lads there, once we mitched off to see a Dana concert.
ref: 1996, Graham Linehan, Arthur Mathews, "Old Grey Whistle Theft" (Father Ted TV episode)
glosses: To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off.
glosses: To grumble secretly.
glosses: To pretend poverty.
Derived terms: go on the mitch
mitcher
mitchery
mitching
Norrie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive form of the female given names Noreen, Norette, and Lenore.
glosses: A diminutive form of the male given name Norman.
glosses: A census-designated place in Pitkin County, Colorado.
Norrie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norries
Senses: glosses: A person from the north side of Cork City, Ireland.
examples: text: Retinal dysplasia may occur in isolation but is usually part of a syndrome such as Edwards, Patau, Norrie, Walker–Warburg, or incontinentia pigmenti.
ref: 2014, Alastair Denniston, Philip Murray, Oxford Handbook of Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 814:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A genetic X-linked recessive disease that primarily affects the eye and leads to blindness.
Derived terms: norrin
jackeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒækiːn/
ipa: /ˈdʒakiːn/
ipa: /ˈdʒæˌkin/
Forms: form: jackeens
form: Jackeen
Etymology: From Jack + -een (“little”), from Jack being a common English name.
Senses: examples: text: A buckeen, a jackeen, a squireen, or any of the intermediate classes.
ref: 1840, Fraser's Magazine, volume 22, page 320:
text: Jackeens loitering about the Dublin theatres.
ref: 1892 July, Quarterly Review, page 138:
glosses: An arrogant lower-class person, especially in Dublin.
examples: text: To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale, that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickakafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen.
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, chapter II, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Synonym of Dubliner, especially (obsolete or historical) an excessively Anglophile one.
synonyms: word: Dubliner
extra: especially (obsolete or historical) an excessively Anglophile one
Coordinate terms: topics: country
region
location
word: culchie
West Brit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: West Brits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of West Briton.
convection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: convections
form: convexion
Etymology: From Latin convectiōnem, from convectiō (“act of carrying”), from convect-, past participle stem of convehō (“to carry together”), combination of com- and vehō.
Senses: glosses: The process of conveying something.
examples: text: The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.
Coordinate terms: topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: conduction
topics: physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: radiation
Derived terms: autoconvection
bioconvection
convectional
convectionary
convection cell
convection microwave
convection microwave oven
convection oven
electroconvection
forced convection
free convection
gravitational convection
magnetoconvection
microconvection
natural convection
photoconvection
pyroconvection
Rayleigh-Bénard convection
semiconvection
thermoconvection
trivection
Related terms: convect
interchangeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From interchangeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
ref: 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56:
glosses: With the ability of being interchanged or swapped.
Chelsea boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chelsea boys
Senses: glosses: A waxed, toned, bronzed and buff gay ideal.
sheet lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheet lightnings
Senses: examples: text: In most very warm days in summer the thermometer stands above 70 degrees on the scale of Fahrenheit, about the centre of the county; in the summer of 1811, it stood repeatedly above 80°; and on the 25th of May, 1807, during the time when the sheet lightning of tropical regions appeared, about three in the afternoon, it stood at 92° in the shade within three miles of Moffat!
ref: 1812, General view of the agriculture, state of property, and improvements in the county of Dumfries:
text: It probably belongs to the class we are accustomed to call sheet lightnings, for these are by far the most frequent in an ordinary storm.
ref: 1859 October 24, “Marvels of Thunder-Storms”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 216:
text: He was silent for a long time, redreaming the dreams that he had dreamed eight years ago, but through them all ran, as sheet-lightning through golden cloud, the light of Mrs. Hauksbee's violet eyes.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 36:
text: The occurrence of sheet lightning in a particular district did not necessarily involve that a thunderstorm was experienced there, for it frequently happened that the storm was a long way off.
ref: 1890 January 24, William Marriott, “Second report of the thunderstorm committee”, in Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, volume 16, number 73:
text: K'iche' diviners believe that they have a kind of soul in their blood in the form of sheet lightning.
ref: 2014, Karen Bassie-Sweet, Maya Sacred Geography and the Creator Deities, page 95:
glosses: A broad flash of lightning, with no visible bolt, due to reflection.
Coordinate terms: heat lightning
lightning detector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightning detectors
Senses: glosses: A device that provides an alarm to inform its user(s) that lightning has occurred nearby. Specific devices are available for a variety of applications.
freezing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːz.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːzɪŋ
Forms: form: more freezing
form: most freezing
Etymology: By surface analysis, freeze + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Suffering or causing frost
glosses: Very cold
examples: text: Despite this, the average temperature at the surface [of Mars] is 50–60K below freezing, making it hard to imagine that any plants or animals could survive.
ref: 1998, Bruce Jakosky, The Search for Life on Other Planets:
glosses: Zero °C, the freezing point of water.
raw_tags: with above or below
Synonyms: word: frosty
word: frigorific
sense: very cold
word: ice-cold
sense: very cold
word: icy
sense: very cold
word: cutting
Derived terms: freezingly
freezingness
nonfreezing
subfreezing