cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
common purpose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common purposes
Senses: examples: text: These tasks may be summarised as comprising the maintenance and improvement of railway services and facilities during a transitional period; the reorganising of systems of management and technical practices, so as to secure maximum efficiency and economy from the fusion of four major railway systems (using for these purposes all the resources and traditional skill of the former companies); and the building-up of a sense of common purpose and esprit de corps among a staff of more than 600,000 men and women.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 223:
text: Where 12 or more persons who are present together or threaten unlawful violence for a common purpose and the conduct of them (taken together) is such as would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for use his personal safety, each of the persons using unlawful violence for the common purpose is guilty of riot.
ref: 1986, Parliament of the United Kingdom, “Part I, section 1(1)”, in Public Order Act 1986ᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ, pages 3-4:
glosses: A purpose or intent shared by all members of a group.
memorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: memorises
form: memorising
form: memorised
form: memorised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of memorize.
Derived terms: memorisable
unmemorised
eclaircissement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˌklɛə(ɹ)siːsˈmɒ̃n/
Forms: form: eclaircissements
form: éclaircissement
Etymology: From French éclaircissement, from éclaircir (“to enlighten, to clarify”).
Senses: examples: text: One of the heroes discovered, in the prize he had made, the very wife of his bosom; and his companion perceived that he had stumbled in the dark upon his own mother. Their mutual astonishment was unspeakable at this eclaircissement […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 91, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: There is a name written with this pencil over the principal figure; if you wish for any further eclaircissement, apply to me.”
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 345:
text: But either her courage failed, or some other sentiment impeded her seeking an eclaircissement.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 47:
text: "I also fear," added Lady Anne, "that some improper overture, some absolutely shocking eclaircissement will follow your acceptance of the present you speak of, and which has been so lavishly given, as to derogate from the duchess's stand exceedingly, and will, therefore, mortify her,...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 186:
text: [W]hen the éclaircissement comes there will be a scene, and hysterics, and a great quarrel, and then a great reconciliation […].
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 15, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: An explanation of something obscure or unknown; clarification, enlightenment.
tetrahydropalmatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + hydro- + palmatine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A neuroactive alkaloid with analgesic and hypnotic action.
volata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A code of football developed and promoted by Italian fascists during the late 1920s and early 1930s.
lo-cal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lo-cal
form: most lo-cal
Etymology: low + calories
Senses: glosses: (of food or drink) That contains fewer calories than normal.
amanita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæməˈnaɪtə/
Forms: form: amanitas
Etymology: From the genus name, from Ancient Greek ἀμανίτης (amanítēs), mushrooms.
Senses: glosses: Any of very many agaric mushrooms, of the genus Amanita, most of which are very poisonous.
Derived terms: amanitin
amanitoid
amatoxin
deadly amanita
fly amanita
hormogonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hormogonium
hormogonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hormogonia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁρμή (hormḗ, “first movements”) + -gonium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: hormogone
glosses: A small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament.
nitroglycerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitroglycerins
Etymology: From nitro- + glycerin.
Senses: examples: text: Officials in San Bernardino, California, report what is feared to be one of the most uneradicable dangers to gay people yet: the armoured crab. Armoured crabs […] are impervious to not only traditional commercial remedies but to unorthodox cures as well, such as sand blasting, nitroglycerin, and plastic surgery.
ref: 1977 April 2, “Giant Crabs Infest West Coast”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
text: The observation that topical application of nitroglycerin to the penis may lead to erection adequate for sexual intercourse (Talley and Crawley 1985) has stimulated several investigations on the efficacy of this potential mode of treatment of erectile dysfunction.
ref: 1998, Alvaro Morales, editor, Erectile Dysfunction: Issues in Current Pharmacotherapy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Alternative spelling of nitroglycerine.
nonacid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æsɪd
Etymology: From non- + acid.
Senses: glosses: Having no acidic properties or content.
nonacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æsɪd
Forms: form: nonacids
Etymology: From non- + acid.
Senses: glosses: A substance that is not an acid.
nonbasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonbasic
form: most nonbasic
Etymology: From non- + basic.
Senses: glosses: not basic (in any sense)
contraharmonic mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contraharmonic means
Etymology: The contraharmonic mean of two variables is at the same distance from their arithmetic mean as their harmonic mean but on the opposite side.
Senses: examples: text: The contraharmonic mean of two numbers a and c is the number b such that #123;a-b#92;overc#125;#61;#123;b-c#92;overa#125;. Combining the two ratios: #123;b-c#92;overa#125;#61;#123;(a-b)#43;(b-c)#92;overc#43;a#125;#61;#123;a-c#92;overa#43;c#125;. Rotating the proportion 90° clockwise: #123;a#92;overa#43;c#125;#61;#123;b-c#92;overa-c#125;; transposing twice to isolate the b: b#61;c#43;a#92;left(#123;a-c#92;overa#43;c#125;#92;right). Likewise b#61;a-c#92;left(#123;a-c#92;overa#43;c#125;#92;right); these are both equivalent to the more symmetrical b#61;#123;a²#43;c²#92;overa#43;c#125;.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of average calculated as the arithmetic mean of the squares of the values divided by the arithmetic mean of the values, i.e. C=(x_1²+x_2²+...+x_n²)/n/(x_1+x_2+...+x_n)/norC(x_1,x_2,...,x_n)=x_1²+x_2²+...+x_n²/x_1+x_2+...+x_n
Related terms: arithmetic mean
centroidal mean
harmonic mean
heronian mean
geometric mean
quadratic mean
nonevent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonevents
form: non-event
Etymology: From non- + event.
Senses: glosses: An anticipated event that does not occur, or one that has a disappointing anticlimax.
nonstarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonstarters
Etymology: From non- + starter.
Senses: examples: text: The problem with the CRFB and CBO ideas is that they would be nonstarters politically.
ref: 2024 December 28, Jonathan Nicholson, “Yes, There Are Ways To Cut The Budget Deficit. 'DOGE' Hasn’t Found Them So Far.”, in HuffPost:
glosses: A project that has no chance of success.
glosses: A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.
examples: text: But Berg was just a fool, a buffoon, a nonentity, a nonstarter so inept he took naps under bear bair.
ref: 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A loser; a person who is bound to fail.
device driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: device drivers
Senses: examples: text: The identity of the device driver process is returned by the process manager to the file manager[…]
ref: 1978, Dennis M. Ritchie, Unix Time-Sharing System, page 2064:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software, usually supplied with the operating system or by a hardware manufacturer, that communicates between the operating system of a personal computer and a specific hardware device.
convect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: convects
form: convecting
form: convected
form: convected
Etymology: Back-formation from convection.
Senses: glosses: To move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer (heat or a fluid) by convection.
examples: text: The heated surface caused the air to convect.
glosses: To undergo convection.
Derived terms: convective
Related terms: convection
convector
convects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of convect
convected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convect
convecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of convect
convecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convecting
form: most convecting
Senses: glosses: That which convects.
stipulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stipulate
stipulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stipulate
nuclear power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear powers
Senses: glosses: Power, especially electrical power, obtained using nuclear fission or nuclear fusion.
glosses: A nation that possesses nuclear weapons.
Synonyms: english: normally sense 1
translation: normally sense 1
word: atomic power
number-crunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number crunching
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any computing application that requires large amounts of numerical calculation.
numerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numerable
form: most numerable
Etymology: From Latin numerābilis.
Senses: glosses: Able to be counted; countable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In one to one correspondence with the set of natural integers.
glosses: numerous
Derived terms: numerableness
numerably
unnumerable
numeracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹəsi/
Forms: form: numeracies
Etymology: From numerate + -cy, from Latin numerus; coined with numerate in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.
Senses: examples: text: John Allen Paulos and others have asked our society to consider numeracy and innumeracy in a way closer to how we view literacy and illiteracy.
text: Numeracy includes such things as comprehending intuitively that a mean can sometimes be vastly different from a median and thus does not always represent a typical specimen, even despite being called "average".
antonyms: innumeracy
dyscalculia
hypernyms: competence
coordinate_terms: literacy
glosses: Numerical skill.
Competence with mathematics and with how to apply it to practical applications; sufficient ability to think critically in a quantitative way.
examples: text: The man lost all numeracy when he had a stroke, so he now depended on his wife for even the simplest financial matters, such as making change or paying a cashier.
antonyms: innumeracy
dyscalculia
hypernyms: competence
coordinate_terms: literacy
glosses: Numerical skill.
Ability to manipulate numbers at all, even for the simplest of arithmetic, such as adding two and two.
Related terms: word: numerate
word: innumerate
numerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/
enpr: no͞oʹmə-rāt
ipa: /ˈnuːməɹeɪt/
Forms: form: numerates
form: numerating
form: numerated
form: numerated
Etymology: From Latin numerātus, perfect past participle of numerō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix, of participial origin)). By surface analysis, Latin numerus + -ate.
Senses: glosses: To count.
Synonyms: sense: count
word: count
word: enumerate
word: number
word: count
Derived terms: misnumerate
subnumerate
numerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/
enpr: no͞oʹmə-rāt
ipa: /ˈnuːməɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹət/
enpr: no͞oʹmə-rĭt
ipa: /ˈnuːməɹət/
ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/
enpr: no͞oʹmə-rāt
ipa: /ˈnuːməɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more numerate
form: most numerate
Etymology: From Latin numerus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), by analogy with literate. Coined with numeracy in 1959 by the UK Committee on Education, presided over by Sir Geoffrey Crowther.
Senses: examples: text: In these days when the age of pulse was giving way to the age of tone. When the epoch of analogue (which was to say also of the richness of language, of analogy) was giving way to the digital era, the final victory of the numerate over the literate.
ref: 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 8:
antonyms: innumerate
dyscalculic
hypernyms: competent#Adjective
coordinate_terms: literate#Adjective
glosses: Having numeracy.
Derived terms: numerately
numerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹeɪt/
enpr: no͞oʹmə-rāt
ipa: /ˈnuːməɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈnjuːməɹət/
enpr: no͞oʹmə-rĭt
ipa: /ˈnuːməɹət/
Etymology: From Middle English numerat, numerate, from Latin numerātus, perfect past participle of numerō (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix, of participial origin)).
Senses: examples: text: Which Ratification foresaid is granted by Laurence Lord Oliphant and his Foresaids upon the saids Earle’s paying in numerate Money to the said Lord at the Date thereof the Sum of Twenty Nine Thousand Seven Hunder and 24 Mercks Scots […]
ref: 1623 (compiled 1750–1751), “Genealogy of the Oliphants”, in James Toshach Clark, editor, compiled by Walter MacFarlane, Genealogical Collections Concerning Families in Scotland, […] (Publications of the Scottish History Society; 34), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [A]t the University Press by T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable for the Scottish History Society, published 1900, →OCLC, page 114:
text: Now if the Monads are equall in number to all numerate things, of which the word One is prædicated, by participation of which Monads every particular is ſaid to be one, there will be infinite Monads thus participated.
ref: 1659–1660, Thomas Stanley, “[Of Physick.] Chap[ter] XVIII. Of Number.”, in The History of Philosophy, the Third and Last Volume, […], volume III, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, and Thomas Dring, […], →OCLC, 4th part (Containing the Sceptick Sect), pages 88–89:
text: Whereas Patrick Hepburn of Kingſton, in the county of Haddington, hath advanced to us, by the hands of Col. Lauchlan Maclauchlan of that Ilk, the ſum of 740 l. Sterling, in numerate money of Britain; […]
ref: 1745 October 28 (Gregorian calendar), Charles Prince of Wales [i.e., Charles Edward Stuart], “A Plea betwixt Kingston and Maclauchlan”, in The Scots Magazine, volume XIV, Edinburgh: W[illiam] Sands, A[lexander] Murray, and J[ames] Cochran, published April 1752, →OCLC, page 187, column 1:
glosses: Numbered; counted.
numeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: n(y)o͞o'-mə-rāʹ-shən
ipa: /ˌn(j)uː.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
other: [ˌnu.mɚˈeɪ.ʃən]
other: [ˌnjuː.məˈɹeɪ.ʃən]
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: numerations
Etymology: From Middle English numeracioun, from Latin numerātiō. By surface analysis, numerate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of counting or numbering; enumeration.
glosses: Any system of giving names to numbers.
Synonyms: sense: act of counting or numbering
word: enumeration
word: numbering
word: counting
Hyponyms: bijective numeration
Ostrowski numeration
Derived terms: prenumeration
system of numeration
transnumeration
numerically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more numerically
form: most numerically
Etymology: From numerical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Our forces are numerically inferior to those of the enemy.
glosses: In a numerical manner.
glosses: In terms of numbers.
numerologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: numerologists
Etymology: From numerology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of numerology
numerously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more numerously
form: most numerously
Etymology: From numerous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: People voted more numerously this year than last year.
glosses: In a numerous manner; in great numbers.
Synonyms: manifoldly
numismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French numismatique.
Senses: examples: text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
text: The most prevalent use of the acronym for the phrase is not in texts — which allowed for expansive writing — but upon numismatic evidence (i.e. coinage) where space was limited and thus often had familiar abbreviations.
ref: 2018 August 30, Sarah E. Bond, “The Misuse of an Ancient Roman Acronym by White Nationalist Groups”, in Hyperallergic:
glosses: Of or pertaining to currency, especially to coins.
examples: text: Numismatic associations had argued before a State Department advisory committee that import restrictions on ancient coins could not fairly be enforced.
ref: 2007 July 18, Jeremy Kahn, “U.S. Imposes Restrictions on Importing Cypriot Coins”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 Jun 2020:
glosses: Of or pertaining to numismatics.
Synonyms: numismatical
Derived terms: nonnumismatic
numismatically
numismatician
numismatic value
numismatist
paleolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Paleolithic.
examples: text: These laws are absolutely paleolithic.
glosses: Extremely outdated.
Derived terms: postpaleolithic
paleographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleographers
form: palaeographer
form: palæographer
Etymology: From paleo- + -grapher.
Senses: examples: text: Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality which is the natural fruit of a conveyancing practice.
ref: 1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press:
text: Finally Mark reports Christ as saying, after his resurrection, that those who believe in him will be saved and those who do not, damned; but it is impossible to discover whether he means anything by a state of damnation beyond a state of error. The paleographers regard this passage as tacked on by a later scribe. On the whole Mark leaves the modern reader where Matthew left him.
ref: 1915 December (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Androcles and the Lion. Preface on the Prospects of Christianity.”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page xl:
synonyms: paleographist
glosses: A person skilled in paleography.
palaeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeographers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleographer.
palimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pal (“close friend”) + alimony (“maintenance”). Coined by celebrity divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson in 1977 in suit of his client Michelle Triola Marvin against the actor Lee Marvin.
Senses: examples: text: Who won, huh? Nobody. Used to be sex was the only free thing, No longer. Alimony… palimony… it's all financial. Love is an illusion.
ref: 1985, Joel Schumacher, Carl Kurlander, St. Elmo's Fire (motion picture), spoken by Kevin Dolenz (Andrew McCarthy):
text: Audball's latest pickup didn't seem to care where they were, or anything at all about alimony, palimony, or child support […]
ref: 2002, James A. Abrahamson, Confessions of a Diplomatic Pouch Clerk, page 192:
topics: law
glosses: A form of alimony paid to a former partner in a nonmarital relationship.
wikipedia: Lee Marvin
Michelle Triola Marvin
panchromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + chromatic.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: sensitive to all visible colours
raw_tags: of black and white film
qualifier: digital imaging
glosses: sensitive to a wide range of wavelengths of light, typically most of the visible spectrum
Hypernyms: chromatic
Derived terms: panchromatically
Related terms: orthochromatic
pancreatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæŋ.kɹɪˈæ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌpeɪŋ-/
ipa: /ˌpæn-/
ipa: /ˌpeɪn-/
Senses: glosses: Belonging or relating to the pancreas.
Derived terms: apancreatic
biliopancreatic
duodenopancreatic
enteropancreatic
extrapancreatic
gastroenteropancreatic
gastropancreatic
hepatopancreatic
hypothalamo-pancreatic
interpancreatic
intrapancreatic
lienopancreatic
nasopancreatic
nonpancreatic
pancreatically
pancreatic artery
pancreatic bud
pancreatic cancer
pancreatic diverticulum
pancreatic duct
pancreatic fistula
pancreatic insufficiency
pancreatic juice
pancreatic lipase
pancreatic notch
pancreatic plexus
pancreatic polypeptide
pancreatic pseudocyst
pancreatic vein
pancrelipase
peripancreatic
retropancreatic
splenopancreatic
suprapancreatic
transpancreatic
parabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: more parabolic
form: most parabolic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραβολικός (parabolikós).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: linear
hyperbolic
glosses: Of, or pertaining to, or in the shape of a parabola or paraboloid.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a parable.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a leaf: ovate-oblong or ovate, obtuse and contracted below the apex.
Synonyms: parabolical
Derived terms: mirabolic
nonparabolic
parabolically
parabolic comet
parabolic cup
parabolicity
parabolic mirror
parabolicness
parabolic reflector
semiparabolic
parabolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlɪk
Forms: form: parabolics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παραβολικός (parabolikós).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A parabolic function, equation etc.
intromittent organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intromittent organs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A male copulatory organ
paraboloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraboloids
Etymology: From parabola + -oid.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Short for elliptic paraboloid
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Short for hyperbolic paraboloid
Hypernyms: quadric surface
quadric
Derived terms: elliptic paraboloid
hyperbolic paraboloid
paraboloid of revolution
paraboloidal
grasp at a straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grasps at a straw
form: grasping at a straw
form: grasped at a straw
form: grasped at a straw
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grasp at straws.
grab at a straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grabs at a straw
form: grabbing at a straw
form: grabbed at a straw
form: grabbed at a straw
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grasp at straws.
grab at straws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grabs at straws
form: grabbing at straws
form: grabbed at straws
form: grabbed at straws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grasp at straws.
clutch at a straw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clutches at a straw
form: clutching at a straw
form: clutched at a straw
form: clutched at a straw
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grasp at straws.
synonyms: word: grasp at straws
clutch at straws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clutches at straws
form: clutching at straws
form: clutched at straws
form: clutched at straws
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grasp at straws.
synonyms: word: grasp at straws
in a pickle
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: The term refers to being in pickling solution, presumably unpleasant. It was first used in English by William Shakespeare in The Tempest (1611), although the phrase had been used in Dutch earlier.
Senses: examples: text: How cam'ſt thou in this pickle? / Tri. I haue bin in ſuch a pickle ſince I ſaw you laſt, / That I feare me will neuer out of my bones:
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 18, column 2:
text: Cody Ko, a YouTube star with 5.7 million subscribers, found himself in a pickle in May.
ref: 2021 September 1, Taylor Lorenz, “She’s the Investor Guru for Online Creators”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In a difficult situation or a troubling quandary.
Synonyms: in a fix
troubled
Unix-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Unix-like
form: most Unix-like
form: unix-like
form: Unixlike
Etymology: From Unix + -like.
Senses: examples: text: NetBSD provides its users with a free Unix-like system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Behaving similarly to Unix. Often used to describe systems which do not qualify for use of the Unix trademark.
examples: text: This program is much more Unix-like: it operates on standard I/O instead of prompting the user for filenames.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having design principles consistent with those of Unix.
Synonyms: word: Unixish
word: Unixoid
word: Unixy
Hypernyms: like
smell-o-rama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smell-o-ramas
Etymology: From smell + -o-rama.
Senses: examples: text: Scoffers will duly scoff as they did at sound, color, and wide screen. On the other hand, Smellorama did not catch on -- most movies manage to smell without it.
ref: 1995 May 15, John Simon, “Wings of Courage”, in National Review:
text: I inhale slowly not wanting to miss any ounce of nature’s freely provided version of smell-o-rama.
ref: 2000 September, L. B. Sedlacek, Suicide Pumpkins: A Love Story, Xlibris Corporation, page 86:
text: At the end, I had managed to transform my humiliation into a triumph of smell-o-rama weaponry. I wore my odors now as a badge, a rite of passage
ref: 2002 October, Reginald E. Zelnik, Robert Cohen, The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s, University of California Press, page 188:
text: 2003±, David R. Ambos, Letters from The Nude Lake (and other Historic Monuments), page 137, Trafford Publishing
the 4:44 Geary is one of the few buses also produced in Full Stereophonic Smell-O-Rama.
text: The cashier gave us Smell-o-rama cards with scratch-n-sniff odors like sweaty sneakers and shit.
ref: 2006 May, Richard Grayson, And to Think That He Kissed Him on Lorimer Street, Lulu.com, page 136:
glosses: A fictional name for technology that reproduces odor.
to the letter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: You should follow what your boss said to the letter. Otherwise, you'll lose your job.
text: Capello warned his players that caution was not an option as they went in search of the result that would take England to Euro 2012. And his message was carried out to the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, “Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England”, in BBC News:
glosses: Literally, exactly, following the rules as written.
Coordinate terms: without fail
Related terms: by the book
by the numbers
letter of the law
literalism
thermonuclear weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermonuclear weapons
Senses: glosses: A weapon whose power is derived from nuclear fusion at high temperature
Synonyms: hydrogen bomb
cheapskate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃipˌskeɪt/
Forms: form: cheapskates
form: cheap skate
form: cheap-skate
Etymology: From cheap + skite (“contemptible person”). Compare blatherskite.
Senses: examples: text: He is such a cheapskate, he found that jumper in a dustbin.
synonyms: word: miser
word: carl
word: cheapass
word: cheapie
word: cheapskate
word: cheapo
word: churl
word: clutchfist
word: el cheapo
word: last of the big spenders
word: magpie
word: miser
word: moneygrubber
word: muckworm
word: nickel nurser
word: nig
word: niggard
word: nigon
word: nipcheese
word: nipfarthing
word: penny-father
word: penny pincher
word: pickpenny
word: piker
word: pinch-commons
word: pinch-gut
word: pincher
word: pinchfist
word: pinchpenny
word: scrimp
word: scrooge
word: snudge
word: squirrel
word: skinflint
word: tight-arse
word: tightwad
antonyms: spendthrift
glosses: Someone who stingily avoids spending money.
examples: text: My mum is such a cheapskate that she didn't lend me money to go shopping.
glosses: Someone who does not give freely.
searchingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more searchingly
form: most searchingly
Etymology: From searching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stared at me searchingly, trying to determine if I was lying.
text: Away to the left along a side track his eyes travelled searchingly, as they came to a gate.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 50:
text: 'Hey, what's that?' he exclaimed gruffly, staring searchingly at her as he took her hand.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 48:
glosses: In a searching manner.
seatmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seatmates
Etymology: From seat + -mate.
Senses: glosses: One who shares a seat (such as a bench or other surface that seats more than one).
examples: text: My seatmate on the airplane snored incessantly.
text: The Buzzis' older son, Rocco, and I had been high school buddies, then roommates at BU, seatmates at Sox games.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.15
text: Last month, the cryptographer and coder known as Moxie Marlinspike was getting settled on an airplane when his seatmate, a Midwestern-looking man in his sixties, asked for help.
ref: 2020 February 14, Andy Greenberg, “Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses”, in Wired:
text: Several years ago, I was sitting on a flight to San Francisco, when my seatmate, a man a little older than me, struck up a conversation. Perhaps you hate it when that happens; I love it.
ref: 2021 January 14, Arthur C. Brooks, “Find the Place You Love. Then Move There.”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: One who sits next to another.
seaborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sea-borne
form: sea borne
Etymology: From sea + borne (“carried, supported”).
Senses: glosses: Transported on the sea or ocean, especially by floating on the sea.
secretaryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretaryships
Etymology: From secretary + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His secretaryship was marred by accusations of corruption, but the next secretary of state was called incompetent.
glosses: A person's term in office with a title including the term secretary, such as secretary of state.
glosses: The office or position of being secretary.
secondarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛkənˈdɛɹəli/
Etymology: From Middle English secundarili. By surface analysis, secondar(i) + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Primarily, this will cause deaths; secondarily, it will also cost a lot of money.
glosses: In a secondary manner or degree.
With lesser importance.
examples: text: And God hath ſet ſome in the Church, firſt Apoſtles, ſecondarily Pꝛophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmẽts, diuerſities of tongues.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 12:28:
glosses: In a secondary manner or degree.
Secondly; in the second place.
autoroutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoroute
joual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joual
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French joual.
Senses: examples: text: As inflammatory as what the joual ‘is’—a mixed, oral sociolect—is its function as a kind of self-image for Québécois. In Jean-Claude Germain's terms, joual ‘bears in its flesh the scars of life and history.’
ref: 2011, Erin Hurley, National Performance: Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Céline Dion, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The dialect of working-class Quebecers.
dawgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dawg
ginchy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪn(t)ʃi/
Forms: form: ginchier
form: ginchiest
Etymology: From ginch + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Wow, those shoes are the ginchiest!
text: You should carry a few silver dollars—they are the ginchiest.
ref: 1961, Stanton Delaplane, And How She Grew, Coward-McCann, page 187:
text: Anyway, it was ginchy while it lasted.
ref: 2005, John Darling, Woman in Black, page 159:
text: Its awninged entrance was next door to “Dino's Lodge,” where the hair-obsessed Kookie parked cars. The actual building used in those shots is long gone. But anyone making the ginchy pilgrimage will find a series of sidewalk tiles here solemnly decreeing that, yes, 77 Sunset Strip was filmed on this site.
ref: 2013, Kristan Lawson, Anneli Rufus, California Babylon:
glosses: Awesome, cool, excellent.
examples: text: I got very ginchy about being left alone with Eileen, very hopeful and very anxious both at once.
text: Except somehow he did know, just as he'd somehow known all along that this was a setup. And maybe that was why he'd been so ginchy in Albuquerque, all those months ago.
ref: 2010, Lawrence Block, Hit and Run:
glosses: Leery; wary or nervous.
American cocker spaniel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American cocker spaniels
Senses: glosses: A sporting dog of a breed ranging between 18 and 30 lbs., originally bred in Britain as the English cocker spaniel for the sport of cocking, or bird hunting. Breed divided by colors: black, sable, parti, tri, and ASCOB.
circumventive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumventive
form: most circumventive
Etymology: From circumvent + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: A circumventive unauthorised user was accessing secure information.
glosses: evading or overcoming some protective measure.
Derived terms: circumventively
go around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes around
form: going around
form: went around
form: gone around
Senses: examples: text: The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.
text: “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To move or spread from person to person.
examples: text: I'm going around to John's house later.
glosses: To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
glosses: To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
examples: text: There's plenty of fish to go around.
glosses: To be shared with everyone.
examples: text: ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform a go-around maneuver.
examples: text: Let's make the wheels go around.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
Derived terms: go around with
make the world go around
make this world go around
plenty to go around
what goes around comes around
you only go around once
you only go around once in life
Related terms: get around
go round
Bhagavad-gita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bhagavad-gitas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bhagavad Gita.
Hindus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hindu
vocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊkəlz/
ipa: /ˈvoʊkəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of vocal
vocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvəʊkəlz/
ipa: /ˈvoʊkəlz/
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The words of a song together with other sounds sung by a vocalist
Derived terms: backup vocals
lead vocals
backup vocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The chorus and other lyrics and sounds sung by backup vocalists to provide an accompaniment to a song.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The singers who perform these vocals.
Related terms: lead vocals
lead vocals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The primary words of a song, sung by the lead vocalist to the same tune as the primary melody.
Related terms: backup vocals
backup vocalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backup vocalists
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: backup singer
backing vocalist
glosses: A member of a group of singers who provide backup vocals to a song
Related terms: lead vocalist
lead vocalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead vocalists
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A singer (or one of a small group of singers) who provides lead vocals to a song
Synonyms: lead singer
Related terms: backup vocalist
negros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of negroes.
twenty to the dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: As if saying twenty words to another's dozen.
Senses: examples: text: He can talk French twenty to the dozen.
glosses: very fast, fluently
touch and go
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touch and go
form: most touch and go
Etymology: The original sense, now obsolete, seems to have been that of brief encounters. The subsequent nautical sense then gave rise first to the abstract sense (indicating a hazardous situation) and later, by physical analogy, to the aeronautical sense.
Senses: examples: text: Madam, I’m gone; no wonder, for you know,
Lovers' encounters are but touch and go.
ref: 1665, Richard Head, The English Rogue:
glosses: Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
examples: text: His condition was touch and go for a time after the accident, but they think he will recover.
text: I could sense it was touch and go whether I could get the lay.
glosses: Precarious, delicate, risky, sensitive; of uncertain outcome (by analogy with a ship in shallow water).
touch and go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches and goes
form: touching and going
form: touched and went
form: touched and gone
Etymology: The original sense, now obsolete, seems to have been that of brief encounters. The subsequent nautical sense then gave rise first to the abstract sense (indicating a hazardous situation) and later, by physical analogy, to the aeronautical sense.
Senses: examples: text: As the text doth rise, I will touch and go a little in euery place, untill I come unto too much.
ref: 1607, Hugh Latimer, “The first Sermon preached by M. Latimer before King Edward”, in Fruitfull Sermons Preached by the right Reuerend Father, and constant Martyr of Iesus Christ, M. Hugh Latimer, page 16:
glosses: To briefly encounter before moving on.
examples: text: Whilst they were disputing the vessel touched the ground, but soon got off again.
"Ay," says the captain, "he is a good pilot that can touch and go."
ref: 1771, Francis Fleming, The Life and Extraordinary Adventures, the Perils and Critical Escapes, of Timothy Ginnadrake, that Child of checquer'd Fortune, volume 2, page 29:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To touch bottom lightly and continue without damage, as a vessel in motion.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform a touch-and-go landing.
unmossed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mossed.
Senses: glosses: Having no moss.
raw_tags: of flower arrangements etc
soe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: sew
homophone: so
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: soes
Etymology: From Middle English sō (“large tub, vat”), from Old English sā (“a tub, pail, vessel”) and/or Old Norse sár (“large cask”) (acc. s.sá), both from Proto-Germanic *saihaz (“bucket, vat”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to reach, grasp”). Cognate with Swedish så (“large wooden water vessel”).
Senses: examples: text: "[…] no more then a Pump grown dry will yield any water, unless you pour a little water into it first, and then for one Bason-ful you may fetch up so many Soe-fuls".
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 55
glosses: a large wooden vessel for carrying water, especially one to be carried on a pole between two people.
soe
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
homophone: seau
homophone: sew
homophone: so
homophone: soh
homophone: sow stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: examples: text: Many of the lupus piscis I have seen, and have bin informed by the king's fishmonger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfied for some reasons of his relation soe as to enter it into my Pinax […]
ref: 1830, Christopher Merrett, letter to Thomas Browne:
glosses: Obsolete form of so.
quick match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick matches
form: quickmatch
Senses: examples: text: Cast off all the covers of the fire barrels, and hang the quick match loose over their sides, and place leaders of quick match from the reeds into the barrels, and from thence into the vent of the chambers, [..]
ref: 1817, John Campbell, John Berkenhout, Henry Redhead Yorke, William Stevenson, Lives of the British Admirals: Containing Also a New and Accurate Naval History, from the Earliest Periods:
text: The Recent Chinese quick match has another property that may cause it to appear to be especially fierce burning.
ref: 2012, B. J. Kosanke, Barry T. Sturman, Robert M. Winokur, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Pyrotechnics: (and Related Subjects) - B&W, Journal of Pyrotechnics, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A pyrotechnic fuse consisting of a cotton string, coated with black powder, confined in a paper tube.
examples: text: Hi,
Whenever I try to play a quickmatch, I always find that someone leaves the
game basically as soon as the game has started.
This pi**es me off, wondered if anyone else was having the same prob.
ref: 2002 May 16, Chris Pay, “Annoying quickmatch games”, in alt.games.redalert2 (Usenet):
text: Though the bug hinders players attempting to use the optimatch option,
they can still readily play the game online using the quick match
mode.
ref: 2004 March 26, Pluvious, “Splinter Cell: PT freezing in Live?”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet):
text: In quick match, players choose their characters before beginning a match, and the matchmaker assembles two opposing teams of players using these preselected characters.
ref: 2019 July 11, Günter Wallner, Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment (Data Analytics Applications), CRC Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:
topics: video-games
glosses: An unranked match in a format that is more casual compared to the game's skirmish and competitive modes.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see quick, match.
black powder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A simple form of gunpowder, consisting of a mixture of saltpetre, charcoal, and sulfur.
changements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of changement
evolutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From evolution + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Man is the probable evolutional successor to the chimpanzee.
glosses: Of or pertaining to evolution, or coming about as a result of the principles of evolution.
Derived terms: coevolutional
evolutionally
microevolutional
nonevolutional
non-evolutional
Related terms: evolutionary
hermaphrodite brig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hermaphrodite brigs
Etymology: So called because it is a hybrid of the two main types of sail plan.
Senses: examples: text: About noon we saw a vessel on a wind to leeward of us, which was a source of great delight to us all, and we bore down to her. We soon made her out to be an hermaphrodite brig, under her close-reefed topsails and trysails.
ref: 1846, Frederick Marryat, The Privateersman:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A two-masted sailing ship which has square sails on the foremast combined with a schooner rig on the mainmast (triangular topsail over a gaff mainsail).
Synonyms: sense: two-masted sailing ship
word: brig-schooner
sense: two-masted sailing ship
word: schooner-brig
rudder authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At slow taxiing speed, there is insufficient rudder authority to steer the aeroplane.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree of control that the rudder can exert over the yawing motion of an aircraft; related to rudder design and airspeed.
elevator authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The airspeed was so low that there was insufficient elevator authority to recover from the stall.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree of control that the elevators can exert over the pitching motion of an aircraft; related to elevator design and airspeed.
aileron authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: At higher airspeeds there is sufficient aileron authority to perform extremely fast rolls.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree of control that the ailerons can exert over the rolling motion of an aircraft; related to aileron design and airspeed.
control surface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control surfaces
Senses: examples: text: Before flight, it is vital to ensure all control surfaces are clear of obstruction and can move smoothly and freely.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A moveable surface attached to a machine such as an aircraft or submarine that can be used to control the machine's motion in roll, pitch or yaw.
Synonyms: english: in a submarine
translation: in a submarine
word: diving plane
Hyponyms: aileron
elevator
rudder