cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pathetic fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathetic fallacies
Etymology: Coined by British cultural critic John Ruskin in 1856 in his work Modern Painters. Here, fallacy does not refer to a logical fallacy, but should be understood as “a falsehood, something that is untrue”, while pathetic here means “caused by an excited state of the feelings”; thus, "emotional misrepresentation", not "contemptible illogic".
Senses: examples: text: Taking, therefore, this wide field, it is surely a very notable circumstance, to begin with, that this pathetic fallacy is eminently characteristic of modern painting. For instance, Keats, describing a wave, breaking, out at sea, says of it
 Down whose green back the short-lived foam, all hoar,
 Bursts gradual, with a wayward indolence.
ref: 1856, John Ruskin, chapter XII, in Modern Painters […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part IV (Of Many Things), § 2, page 184:
text: The next generation of AI will put the pathetic fallacy on steroids.
ref: 2022 June 14, Ian Bogost, “Google’s ‘Sentient’ Chatbot Is Our Self-Deceiving Future”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A metaphor which consists in treating inanimate objects or concepts as if they were human beings, for instance having thoughts or feelings.
wikipedia: Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
Modern Painters
Related terms: personification
anthropomorphism
reification
lay off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of lie off
Synonyms: word: axe
word: can
word: decruit
word: dehire
word: discard
word: remove
word: discharge
word: dismiss
word: downsize
word: fire
word: give the axe
word: give someone the boot
word: give someone their cards
word: give the chop
word: give the elbow
word: give someone the heave-ho
word: give someone the old heave-ho
word: lay off
word: let go
word: let someone go
word: make redundant
word: pink slip
word: promote to customer
word: retrench
word: sack
word: serve notice
word: shit-can
word: term
word: terminate
word: throw out
word: unhire
Hypernyms: word: end
word: kick out
word: punish
Hyponyms: word: drum out
word: furlough
word: strike off
word: relieve
word: disbar
word: disbench
word: defrock
word: disfrock
word: unfrock
word: unpriest
Related terms: word: be surplus to requirements
word: get sacked
word: get the ax
word: get the boot
word: get the chop
word: get the heave-ho
word: get the sack
word: unemployed
bookmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊkmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: bookmakers
Etymology: From Middle English bokmakere, boke maker, equivalent to book + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person who prints or binds books.
glosses: A person who compiles books from the writings of others.
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.
Related terms: make a book
sportsbook
betting shop
bookbinding
urea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹiːə/
ipa: /ˈjʊəɹɪə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈjurɪjɑ/
note: Indic
ipa: /jʊˈrɪjɑ/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: ureas
Etymology: From New Latin, from French urée, from Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A water-soluble organic compound, CO(NH₂)₂, formed by the metabolism of proteins and excreted in the urine.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any N-substituted derivative of urea, with the general formula (R₁R₂N)CO(NR₃R₄).
Synonyms: carbamide
Derived terms: alkylurea
alpha-naphthylthiourea
bisurea
bromerguride
bromovalerylurea
carbamylurea
carburazepam
diallylurea
dicyclohexylurea
dimethylurea
diphenylurea
glibornuride
glyburide
glycolylurea
hydroxyurea
imidazolidinyl urea
isourea
malonylurea
methylol urea
nitrosoethylurea
nitrosourea
nitrourea
nonurea
oligourea
phenylthiourea
polyurea
pseudourea
selenourea
sulfonylurea
sulfourea
suramin
tetramethylurea
thiourea
triurea
uraemia
urea cycle
urea-formaldehyde
ureagenesis
ureal
urealytic
ureameter
ureametry
urease
ureic
ureido-
uremia
Related terms: biuret
cycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cycle
cycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/
Forms: form: cyclings
Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing.
Senses: synonyms: biking
glosses: The activity of riding cycles, especially bicycles (for transport, sport, physical exercise, recreation, tourism...)
examples: text: In all my years as a cycling fan, I've never seen a breakaway like this.
synonyms: cycle sport
race cycling
glosses: The sport of riding and racing cycles, especially bicycles.
synonyms: cyclism
glosses: Any cyclic action or process
Derived terms: anticycling
autocycling
cycling shorts
gravel cycling
microcycling
noncycling
overcycling
paracycling
road cycling
subcycling
thermocycling
track cycling
vehicular cycling
cycling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪk(ə)lɪŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, cycle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That undergoes a cyclic motion or process.
bicycling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bicycle
bicycling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicyclings
Senses: examples: text: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
ref: 1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3:
text: It was as if she had that morning been transferred back over forty years to her youth again, and was having the good times that she had longed for, such as other girls had—the swings, and the rides, and the skatings, and bicyclings.
ref: 2019, Grace Livingston Hill, Aunt Crete's Emancipation:
synonyms: cycling
glosses: The act of riding a bicycle.
Derived terms: bicycling monarchy
bicycling shorts
groupetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groupetti
form: groupettos
Etymology: Alteration of Italian grupetto after group.
Senses: examples: text: I used to be a master of the groupetto, but it has been many years since I’ve been forced to ride in a bona fide, terminally dropped group. It’s strange to be back. Riding in the groupetto requires a different mentality and skill set.
ref: 2005, Bradley McGee, Riding in the Groupetto:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: Alternative form of gruppetto.
peleton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peletons
Etymology: From the French peloton (“little ball”); compare peloton.
Senses: examples: text: […] who continu'd still to pelter him with Heaps and Clouds of those Historical Balls or Librarian Bullets, or Pelotes or Peletons; […]
ref: 1716, Miles Davies, “Of Medals, and Writings and Writers thereupon.”, in Athenæ Britannicæ: or, A critical history of the Oxford and Cambrige writers and writings, page 93:
glosses: A small pellet or ball.
examples: text: It is a tribute to the past of bicycle racing and is full of antique equipment, faded photographs and videos of sprints and peletons past.
ref: 2009 January 18, Christopher Clarey, “Armstrong Returns to Riding With a Purpose”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misspelling of peloton.
breakaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪkəweɪ/
Etymology: From break + away, a deverbal from break away.
Senses: examples: text: The breakaway republic is slowly establishing order and civil society.
text: 1946, William Brown, Hansard, 19 November, 1946, Trade Unions Closed Shop, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
Nor is it true, although it has been suggested as true, that I am in favour of breakaway or splinter unions
text: As Actaeon turned, Melanchaetes / The ringleader of this breakaway trio / Grabbed a rear ankle / In the trap of his jaws.
ref: 1997, Ted Hughes, “Actaeon”, in Tales from Ovid, London: Faber & Faber, page 111, lines 144–147:
text: […] the Sunday Times said some 20 MPs are ready to form a breakaway party if Mrs Leadsom is elected as leader over Home Secretary Theresa May […]
ref: 2016 July 10, “Iain Duncan Smith claims 'black ops' bid to 'denigrate' Leadsom”, in BBC News:
text: The breakaway party espouses land expropriation without compensation and sweeping state nationalism, including nationalizing the Reserve Bank.
ref: 2024 June 5, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “Jacob Zuma has made a dramatic comeback in South Africa’s elections. Will he have the last laugh over Ramaphosa?”, in CNN:
glosses: Having broken away from a larger unit.
examples: text: a breakaway wall
text: In Hollywood, rehearsing for his show, Red Skelton plunged headlong into a "breakaway" door. It didn't break, and Red was hospitalized with concussion and a mild case of shock.
ref: 1954 August 30, “The Week in Review”, in Time:
glosses: Capable of breaking off without damaging the larger structure.
examples: 2016, Scott Feschuk, "Counting down the most annoying in video review, by sport," sportsnet.ca, 10 July, 2016, http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/counting-annoying-video-review-sport/
In a league starved for scoring, the challenge ensures that some super-sweet breakaway goals will be overturned because a dude was three microns offside.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Occurring during or as a result of a breakaway (see Noun)
examples: text: The New York quintet call themselves Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, and their RCA debut LP is this season's breakaway disco act.
ref: 1976 November 1, “Sass and Class”, in Time:
text: In that season, NBC added another first-year breakaway hit, Friends.
ref: 1996 November 14, Bill Carter, “So Many New Shows, but Not One Hit”, in The New York Times:
text: 2016, Chris Riotta, "Rihanna's 'Anti' Has Extensive Alternative Music Career," mic.com, 11 February, 2016, https://mic.com/articles/134964/who-is-sza-artist-featured-on-rihanna-s-anti-has-extensive-alternative-music-career#.7Jn5cfh5u
When Rihanna released her rebellious breakaway album Anti, it marked a definitive turning point in the singer's career.
topics: economics
entertainment
entertainment-industry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: Enjoying rapid popular success.
Derived terms: breakaway glass
uric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjʊɹɪk/
rhymes: -ʊɹɪk
Etymology: Borrowed from French urique. By surface analysis, urine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, contained in, or obtained from urine.
Derived terms: uric acid
macromanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macro-management
Etymology: From macro- + management.
Senses: glosses: The day-to-day management of macroprojects that are completed and operational.
topics: games
gaming
antonyms: micromanagement
glosses: The management of long-term or large-scale aspects of a strategy game.
Freon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of freon.
gall bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gall bladders
form: gallbladder
form: gall-bladder
Senses: examples: text: Giraffes, oddly, sometimes have gall bladders and sometimes donʼt.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 178:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cholecyst
cholecysto-
vesica biliaris
vesica fellea
;
gall
glosses: A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.
Derived terms: nasogallbladder
strawberry gallbladder
freon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːɒn/
rhymes: -iɒn
Forms: form: freons
form: Freon
Etymology: A genericization of the Chemours trademark "Freon." According to Flood, the name was formed from freeze and the arbitrary suffix -on.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several nonflammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23.
qualifier: refrigeration
glosses: A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant.
glosses: A chlorofluorocarbon.
Related terms: CFC
fatwah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatwahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fatwa.
fatwah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fatwahs
form: fatwahing
form: fatwahed
form: fatwahed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fatwa.
feeding frenzy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeding frenzies
Senses: examples: text: When the terrified, bleeding cow was washed overboard into the river, the hungry piranhas entered a feeding frenzy, turning the water red with blood.
glosses: A wild, turbulent situation in which multiple sharks or other predatory fish attack one or more edible creatures simultaneously, in competition with each other.
examples: text: The manager hesitated to open the doors to the thronging holiday crowds, knowing that a feeding frenzy would soon ensue near the display of coveted toys.
glosses: A voracious competition among would-be purchasers, etc. for limited resources.
examples: text: Karen's new students thought treat day was a feeding frenzy and horded the snack table.
glosses: An event in which participants erratically grab and eat food.
Related terms: chum in the water
hoarded
feel-bad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Yes, you get to see Cruise having a fight in his underpants, and doing another of his hanging-off-a-plane routines, but even so, it could be the feel-bad film of the summer.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
glosses: Creating a feeling of anxiety or despair.
culpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌlpəbəl/
ipa: /ˈkɐlpəbəl/
Forms: form: more culpable
form: most culpable
Etymology: From Middle English culpable, from Old French culpable, from Latin culpābilis (“blameworthy”), from culpō (“to blame, condemn”), from culpa (“a fault, crime, mistake”). Compare also culprit.
Senses: examples: text: I am culpable for stealing your money.
glosses: Meriting condemnation, censure or blame, especially as something wrong, harmful or injurious; blameworthy, guilty.
Derived terms: culpability
culpable homicide
culpable negligence
culpableness
culpably
inculpable
nonculpable
unculpable
Related terms: culpate
culprit
disculp
disculpate
exculpate
inculpate
mea culpa
feel-good
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feel-good
form: most feel-good
form: feelgood
Senses: examples: text: the feel-good hit of the summer
text: Personally, I think all of this upgraded, feel-good language is a further sign of America's increasing uncertainty about itself.
ref: 2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 105:
text: Wilson: An' if they don't, at least they get to see a beggin’-ass white man on his knees. Always a feel-good moment for the folks.
ref: 2006 October 1, Dennis Lehane, “Refugees” (00:32:06), in The Wire, season 4, episode 4:
glosses: Creating a feeling of happiness.
Derived terms: feel-good factor
feel-goodism
feel-good factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feel-good factors
Senses: glosses: The collective feeling of well-being (or otherwise) of an electorate, a high one supposedly favouring the incumbent party in an election.
neolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nioʊˈlɪθɪk/
rhymes: -ɪθɪk
Forms: form: more neolithic
form: most neolithic
Senses: examples: text: With this thought in his mind, Challenger gave a contemptuous and condescending consent to the proposal that he should grace with his presence a proceeding which was, in his opinion, more fitted to the stone cabin of a neolithic savage than to the serious attention of one who represented the accumulated culture and wisdom of the human race.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Neolithic.
examples: text: What am I supposed to do with this neolithic piece of machinery?
glosses: hopelessly outdated
Derived terms: aneolithic
zydeco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪdɪˌkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈzaɪdiːˌkəʊ/
ipa: /ˈzaɪdəˌkoʊ/
ipa: /ˈzaɪdɪˌkoʊ/
ipa: /ˈzaɪdiːˌkoʊ/
Forms: form: zarico
form: zodico
Etymology: From Louisiana Creole zydéco, compare French zarico; possibly from a metanalysis of French les haricots (“beans”) as French le zarico (“beans”) in a dance-tune title.
Senses: examples: text: Sunpie—in real life, a park ranger and an accordionist who leads a good zydeco band—taunted Harrison […].
ref: 2008, Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans, Lawrence Hill Books, published 2009, page 307:
glosses: A form of Louisiana Creole music, characteristically performed by accordion and washboard bands, that combines Cajun and Creole roots music with elements of African American music.
feminazi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛmɪˈnɑːtsi/
enpr: fĕm'ĭ-nätʹsē
Forms: form: more feminazi
form: most feminazi
form: femi-Nazi
form: femme-Nazi
Etymology: Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).
Senses: qualifier: potentially offensive
glosses: Relating to a radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views, or a female chauvinist.
feminazi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɛmɪˈnɑːtsi/
enpr: fĕm'ĭ-nätʹsē
Forms: form: feminazis
form: femi-Nazi
form: femme-Nazi
Etymology: Blend of feminist + Nazi, popularized in 1992 by conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Thomas Hazlett, a professor of law and economics at George Mason University, with coining the term (1987).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:feminazi.
synonyms: word: fembitch
word: femcunt
raw_tags: used by anti-feminists
word: femifascist
qualifier: potentially offensive
glosses: A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.
Derived terms: feminazism
Related terms: feminut
acciacatura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acciaccatura.
acapnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæp.ni.ə/
ipa: /eɪˈkæp.ni.ə/
rhymes: -æpniə
Etymology: From New Latin acapnia, from Ancient Greek ἄκαπνος (ákapnos, “without smoke”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + καπνός (kapnós, “smoke”).
Senses: glosses: The state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood and tissue is significantly lower than normal.
Synonyms: hypocapnia
Derived terms: acapnial
acapnic
halogenate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: halogenates
form: halogenating
form: halogenated
form: halogenated
Etymology: From halogen + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To treat with, or react with, a halogen or a hydrohalic acid.
Derived terms: dehalogenate
halogenation
Related terms: fluorinate
chlorinate
brominate
iodinate
halogenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halogenations
Etymology: By surface analysis, halogenate + -ion, or, by surface analysis, halogen + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: dehalogenation
glosses: The reaction of a halogen with something, especially the replacement of a hydrogen atom of an organic compound with a halogen one.
Derived terms: biohalogenation
Darzens halogenation
dehalogenation
hydrohalogenation
monohalogenation
oxyhalogenation
perhalogenation
polyhalogenation
radiohalogenation
transhalogenation
Related terms: word: halogenate
word: fluoridate
word: fluoridated
word: fluorinate
word: fluorinated
word: fluoridize
word: fluoridized
word: chlorinate
word: chlorinated
word: brominate
word: brominated
word: iodinate
word: iodinated
word: iodize
word: iodized
word: iodization
word: noniodized
word: uniodized
quercitron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quercitrons
Senses: glosses: A yellow dye obtained from the bark of the black oak.
glosses: The black oak tree, Quercus velutina, indigenous to North America.
Phaistos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛstɒs/
enpr: fĕsʹtŏs
Forms: form: Phaestus
form: Phæstus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φαιστός (Phaistós).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Minoan city in southern Crete prefecture, in modern Greece.
Derived terms: Phaistian
space-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space-times
Senses: examples: text: A mass effect drive core decreases the mass of a bubble of space-time around a ship. This gives the ship the potential to move quickly, but does not apply any motive power.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Thrusters Codex entry:
text: Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way.
ref: 2025 July 13, Ian Sample, “Scientists detect biggest ever merger of two massive black holes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternative form of spacetime.
quincunx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪŋkʌŋks/
ipa: /ˈkwɪnkʌŋks/
rhymes: -ʌŋks
Forms: form: quincunxes
form: quincunces
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quīncunx.
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of five units with four forming the corners of a square and the fifth at the centre of the square, a pattern corresponding to the five-spot on dice, playing cards, or dominoes.
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An angle of five-twelfths of a circle, or 150°, between two objects.
examples: text: In 1873–74 Sir Francis Galton (Charles Darwin’s cousin) designed an apparatus that he later named the quincunx.
ref: 1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 104:
glosses: A Galton board.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A bronze coin minted during the Roman Republic, valued at five-twelfths of an as.
Derived terms: quincuncial
navvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnævi/
rhymes: -ævi
Forms: form: navvies
Etymology: Clipping of navigator, in reference to the navigation canals upon which these workers first toiled, + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Suppose two lads, fresh from school, go out into the world to earn their living; one becomes a navvy and one a clerk. In five years' time these two young men will probably be very different in appearance from one another. The navvy will have developed his muscles; he will be broad-built, broad-chested, and strong.
ref: 1909, B. Lindsay, Stories of the Universe: Animal Life:
text: His proper trade's a navvy; and he works at it sometimes too—for exercise—and earns good money at it.
ref: 1912 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “Pygmalion”, in Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion, London: Constable and Company, published 1916, →OCLC, Act II, page 143:
text: The navvies of the Midland Railway toiled for years to build it, enduring grim conditions in shanty towns that were built miles from civilisation. But build it they did, to form part of the Midland's main line between London St Pancras and Carlisle via Sheffield and Leeds from 1876.
ref: 2020 May 20, Philip Haigh, “Ribblehead: at the heart of the S&C's survival and its revival”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
glosses: an unskilled laborer
Derived terms: French navvy
steam navvy
Related terms: navigation
navigator
navvy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnævi/
rhymes: -ævi
Forms: form: navvies
form: navvying
form: navvied
form: navvied
Etymology: Clipping of navigator, in reference to the navigation canals upon which these workers first toiled, + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But by pretending to believe he's navvied before, I've given him double reason to drive himself hard.
ref: 1974, Malcolm MacDonald, World From Rough Stones, published 2013, unnumbered page:
text: Before my time of navvying I believe the times were still worse.
ref: 1978, John Shaw Neilson, The Autobiography of John Shaw Neilson, page 104:
text: Three terms to use for George Eliot: the feminine imagination and sensibility; Intellect, the capacity for higher navvying; Intelligence.
ref: 1995, F. R. Leavis, Ian Duncan MacKillop, Richard Storer, editors, F.R. Leavis: Essays and Documents, published 2005, page 89:
glosses: To carry out physical labor on a civil engineering project.
neurilemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurilemmas
form: neurilemmata
Etymology: From neuri- (variation of neuro-) + lemma.
Senses: glosses: The outer membranous covering of a nerve fiber.
Derived terms: neurilemmal
neurilemmitis
neurilemmoma
flame war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flame wars
form: flamewar
Etymology: From flame + war.
Senses: examples: text: Remember, Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can prevent flame wars".
ref: 2008 July 12, Megan McArdle, “Note to trolls”, in The Atlantic:
text: That post was the starting point for a flame war between Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Tanenbaum and a bunch of other enthusiasts, who later became the first Linux developers.
ref: 2019, Kamran Amini, Extreme C, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.
Related terms: flame bait
flaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: more flaming
form: most flaming
Senses: examples: text: The flaming debris kept the firefighter well back, and the sparks threatened the neighborhood.
text: On Christmas Day, the pudding was served piping hot, with flaming brandy on top.
ref: 2011, Stephanie Owen Reeder, Amazing Grace: An Adventure at Sea, page 76:
glosses: On fire with visible flames.
examples: text: In the evening she reveled in the flaming sunsets, with their spectacular orange glows that seemed to set the whole world on fire.
ref: 1994, J.A. Jance, Death of a Snowbird:
text: Edward was twelve when he had seen his first painting by Titian of a woman with flowing red locks. Since that day, he had always wanted to find a model he could paint who possessed the flaming hair that was Titian's trademark.
ref: 2014, M. A. Meadowcroft -, The Windsurf Girl: A story of intrigue, avarice and romance, →ISBN, page 135:
text: The sun had not yet risen, but the splendour in the East, lighting the sky with wondrous colourings of gold and crimson and green, announced the speedy coming of that god which many of the inhabitants of Baalbek still worshipped. The temples and palaces of the city took their tints from the flaming sky, and Haziddin, the ambassador, thought he had never seen anything so beautiful, notwithstanding the eulogy Mahomet himself had pronounced upon his own metropolis of Damascus.
ref: 2014, Robert Barr, The Strong Arm: And Other Stories, →ISBN, page 323:
glosses: Very bright and the color of flame.
examples: text: To call him a flaming homosexual would be an understatement, but I think he acts that way just to see people react.
qualifier: typically of a gay man
glosses: Extremely obvious; visibly evident.
examples: text: I wasted three hours in that flaming traffic jam!
glosses: Damned, bloody.
examples: text: I hate it with a flaming passion!
text: Before he had brought it into the study that morning, he had read in the journal a flaming account of "Festivities at Gaunt House," with the names of all the distinguished personages invited by the Marquis of Steyne to meet his Royal Highness.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Very enthusiastic or passionate.
Derived terms: flaming Katy
flaming Lamborghini
flamingly
flaming mad
flaming Nora
flaming onion
flaming queen
flaming sword
flaming volcano
Newton's flaming laser sword
unflaming
flaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flame
flaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: flamings
Senses: examples: text: The burning is done before the crop has come up, and usually two flamings are necessary to kill all weeds […]
ref: 1950, Market Growers Journal, volume 79, page 12:
glosses: An emission or application of fire; act of burning with flames.
glosses: Sterilization by holding an object in a hot flame.
examples: text: You can expect a flaming if you post irrelevant spam to a newsgroup.
glosses: Vitriolic criticism.
Related terms: flame war
flame bait
flamage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flameage
Etymology: From flame + -age.
Senses: examples: text: If you insist on posting your baby photos to that abortion newsgroup, get ready for some flamage.
glosses: flame postings considered as a group
Related terms: flame war
flame bait
flame bait
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A deliberately provocative posting intended to start a flame war.
principle of relativity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: The principle that only the motion of objects relative to one another can be measured, and that there is no absolute frame of reference.
Related terms: relativity
special relativity
general relativity
CGS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cgs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
related: word: cgs
coordinate_terms: mul:SI
mks
MKS
glosses: Initialism of centimetre-gram-second: a system of measurement taking these as its fundamental units, now replaced by the SI system.
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Government Ship.
qualifier: cultural anthropology
glosses: Initialism of cultural group selection.
glosses: Initialism of contiguous gene syndrome.
Coordinate terms: word: mks
sense: Canadian Government Ship
word: DGS
Related terms: sense: SI
word: centimetre-gram-second
sense: Canadian Government Ship
word: HMCS
sense: Canadian Government Ship
word: CCGS
all elbows
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the idea that these programs rudely elbow others out of their way.
Senses: examples: text: Multicom goes beyond lame. It's about the worst example of
an 'all elbows' 1984 vintage DOS program that I've seen in
a long time. Yuk!
ref: 1995 October 12, Randy Reames, “MFJ-1278 Software?”, in rec.radio.amateur.digital.misc (Usenet):
text: It /will/ nuke NT's loader, but that's because NT is all
elbows when it comes to booting.
ref: 1998 December 20, Iain Georgeson, “Boot sector woes”, in alt.dur.general (Usenet):
text: Amen, even more than most games poor `all elbows' behavior, modern
games are generally boring to the extreme.
ref: 2002 March 22, Dowe Keller, “Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: of a program that steals whatever resources it needs without consideration for other tasks.
purse seine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purse seines
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishing seine consisting of a purse cable which acts as a draw string for the bottom of the net allowing entire schools of fish to be enclosed and brought up.
Related terms: english: Seine Fishing
translation: Seine Fishing
word: Wikipedia description in
PO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: POs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of post office.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of purchase order.
topics: government
law-enforcement
hypernyms: LEO
<
officer#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: Initialism of police officer.
examples: text: I gotta take a whiz test to my PO / I know I failed 'cause I done smoked major weed, bro
ref: 1995, “I Got 5 on It”, in Operation Stackola, performed by Luniz:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of probation officer.
topics: government
military
politics
war
hypernyms: officer#Noun
<
person#Noun
coordinate_terms: CPO
WO
CWO
glosses: Initialism of petty officer.
glosses: Initialism of principal officer.
glosses: Initialism of playoff.
PO
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
antonyms: NPO
parenterally
glosses: Initialism of per os (“by mouth, orally”).
PO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of peroral.
mooncalf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnkɑːf/
Forms: form: mooncalves
form: moon-calf
Etymology: From moon + calf, after a superstition that the moon caused abnormal fetal development.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How camest thou to be the siege of this moon-calf? Can he vent Trinculos?
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 II, scene ii]:
glosses: An abnormal mass within the uterus; a false conception.
glosses: A poorly-conceived idea or plan.
examples: text: “[…] you’re a jobbernowl and a doodle, a maundering mooncalf and a blockheaded numps, a gaby and a loon; you’re a Hatter!” I shrieked the last epithet.
ref: 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, chapter 10, in Olympian Nights, New York: Harper & Bros., page 185:
text: But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby
Who would trust their own child to raise a baby.
ref: 1957, Ogden Nash, “Come On In, The Senility Is Fine”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 66:
text: He slipped it softly onto her unresisting finger and, like the unwise moncalf he was, kissed it.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 463:
glosses: A dreamer, someone absent-minded or distracted; a fool, simpleton.
Related terms: moon
moonstruck
moonbat
book of condolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: books of condolence
Senses: glosses: A book, containing blank pages, in which people may sign their name and write a short message as a symbol of sympathy; often in response to a high-profile death or series of deaths.
rat-arsed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rat-arsed
form: most rat-arsed
Senses: examples: text: I got completely rat-arsed last night, and ended up tied naked to a lamp post. I'm not going to do that again.
glosses: Extremely drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
high profile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high profiles
Senses: glosses: a conspicuous position, intentionally attracting attention
high profile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more high profile
form: most high profile
Senses: glosses: Synonym of high-profile.
synonyms: word: high-profile
high-profile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: higher-profile
form: highest-profile
Senses: examples: text: Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:
text: Pacers should have all been withdrawn by now, but that has been scuppered by a failure to deliver new trains on time and delays to infrastructure projects.
The most high-profile withdrawals were to be Northern's Class 142s and '144s' (the latter by the end of 2018, and the '142s' by the end of last year).
ref: 2020 May 20, John Crosse, “Soon to be gone... but never forgotten”, in Rail, page 62:
text: The incident, which happened on August 5, came to light after officers leaked footage from the station's CCTV camera to a high-profile lawyer and a popular investigative TV show.
ref: 2021 August 25, SCMP Reporter, “Death of Thai man after police extortion attempt captured on viral video, sparks public anger”, in This Week in Asia, South China Morning Post, retrieved 25 Aug 2021:
antonyms: low-profile
glosses: Important or well publicized.
pickaxe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkˌæks/
Forms: form: pickaxes
form: pickax
form: pick-axe
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of Middle English pikeyse, pikeys, pykois, from Anglo-Norman *pikeis, Old French picois, pecois, from Latin picōsa (“pickaxe”), from picca, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“sharp point, pike”). Doublet of pique and pike.
Senses: examples: text: He was mining stone using a pickaxe.
glosses: A heavy iron tool with a wooden handle; one end of the head is pointed, the other has a chisel edge.
Derived terms: pickaxer
pickaxe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪkˌæks/
Forms: form: pickaxes
form: pickaxing
form: pickaxed
form: pickaxed
form: pickax
form: pick-axe
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pykeaxe, pecaxe, pyke exe (“pickaxe”), an alteration (due to folk etymology association with pick and axe) of Middle English pikeyse, pikeys, pykois, from Anglo-Norman *pikeis, Old French picois, pecois, from Latin picōsa (“pickaxe”), from picca, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pīk (“sharp point, pike”). Doublet of pique and pike.
Senses: glosses: To use a pickaxe.
Styx
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
homophone: sticks
Forms: form: Stix
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Στύξ (Stúx).
Senses: examples: text: A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:
text: For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):
text: Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone
ref: 2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: Acheron
Cocytus
Eridanus
Lethe
Phlegethon
glosses: The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: Charon
Nix
Kerberos
Hydra
glosses: The 5th moon of Pluto, discovered in 2012.
Derived terms: cross the Styx
Related terms: stygian
Stygian
defender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɛndə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: defenders
form: defendor
form: defendour
Etymology: From Middle English defender, deffender, defendere, defendour, defendoure, partly from Anglo-Norman defendour, from Old French defendëor; partly from Middle English defenden + -ere, equivalent to defend + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who defends people or property.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.
synonyms: forefighter
protector
glosses: A fighter who seeks to repel an attack.
examples: text: There was another protection to which she was intitled by that law, namely, a defender; but she had none.
ref: 1822, Thomas Bayly Howell, A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783, page 729:
text: So, what is contemplated under this model is that the defender would work with civil legal services lawyers to address the clients' needs.
ref: 2007, Barry Krisberg, Susan Marchionna, Christopher Baird, Continuing the Struggle for Justice, →ISBN, page 248:
text: It puts you at the head of the table, at a right angle to the witness; the court reporter sits to your right, and the defender sits on the witness's far side.
ref: 2010, Henry L. Hecht, Effective Depositions, →ISBN, page 243:
topics: law
glosses: A lawyer who represents defendants, especially a public defender; a defense attorney (US) or defence counsel (UK).
qualifier: Scots law
glosses: A defendant in a civil action.
Derived terms: defenderless
defendership
defendress
ear defender
key defender
two-minute silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-minute silences
Senses: glosses: A respectful ritual in which normal activity ceases and people stand in silent meditation for two minutes; held regularly on Armistice Day, Remembrance Day, and on other occasions, to remember the dead.
Related terms: moment of silence
oliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑlɪvɚ/
ipa: /ˈɒlɪvə/
Forms: form: olivers
Senses: examples: text: I hear, with the song that she sings me in lullaby tones, / The noise of the nailshops, the ringing of hammers, the groans / Of deep-heaving bellows, the "oliver's" thud on the die, […]
ref: 1903, John Cotton, Chimes and Rhymes, page 66:
glosses: A small tilt hammer, worked by the foot.
pickax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pickaxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pickaxe.
pickax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pickaxes
form: pickaxing
form: pickaxed
form: pickaxed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pickaxe.
Oliver Twist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oliver Twist
form: most Oliver Twist
Etymology: From the name of the main character in the eponymous novel by Charles Dickens.
Senses: glosses: Drunk, pissed.
Synonyms: Oliver
drunk
Derived terms: Oliver Twistian
house points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Point awarded to a member of the house of a grammar school or public school for sporting and other achievement.
glosses: "Points" awarded in jest in a domestic environment for performing chores.
Related terms: brownie point
grammar school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammar schools
Etymology: From Middle English gramere scole.
Senses: glosses: A school that teaches its pupils the grammar system of a European language, especially Latin and Greek.
examples: text: The largest building at one end, now used as a church hall, was originally the village's one-roomed grammar school, also endowed by the Lumleys.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Thornton Dale:
text: It is a world where grammar school is the only way up, but at the cost of subjugation to educational tyranny and eventual estrangement from the family that was once so "proud" of your achievements.
ref: 2008 July 12, John Mullan, “Where are they now?”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Dec 2013:
text: Bradshaw eulogises again about "considerable manufactures of woollen cloth", plus the "excellent grammar school, founded by Edward VI".
ref: 2022 October 5, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Reading to Southampton: Frome”, in RAIL, number 967, page 56:
synonyms: grammar
glosses: A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.
glosses: Elementary school.
Derived terms: direct grant grammar school
Related terms: Latin grammar school
secondary modern school
comprehensive school
11-plus examination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 11-plus examinations
Senses: glosses: An examination, now mostly phased out, taken at age 11, to select the type of secondary education – either a grammar school or a secondary modern school.
Synonyms: 11-plus
eleven plus
Related terms: comprehensive school
pixelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪk.səˌleɪt.əd/
Forms: form: more pixelated
form: most pixelated
form: pixellated
Senses: examples: text: The photo may be pixelated if you print it too large.
text: The free-flowing pixelated compositions, while full of angles, owe something to automatist drawing.
ref: 2008 March 14, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of an image, visibly made of discrete pixels.
Derived terms: unpixelated
pixelated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪk.səˌleɪt.əd/
Forms: form: pixellated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pixelate
secondary modern school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary modern schools
Senses: glosses: a type of school, for pupils who had failed the 11-plus examination, that concentrated on practical and vocational rather than academic subjects
Related terms: grammar school
comprehensive school
comprehensive school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comprehensive schools
Senses: synonyms: comp
glosses: a normal secondary school, accepting pupils of all abilities; replaced the secondary modern schools and grammar schools
f.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The "and the following" sense is derived from an abbreviation of Latin foliō (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of feminine.
glosses: Abbreviation of figure.
f.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The "and the following" sense is derived from an abbreviation of Latin foliō (“on the (next) page”), ablative of folium (“leaf, page”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of feminine.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of form; used in certain three-part names.
examples: text: “Alphabet of Rabbi Akiba,” 51. 66. 360 f., 364 f., 367
ref: 1941, Gershom Gerhard Scholem, “Index”, in Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, reprint of third revised edition, published 1995, →ISBN, page 445:
glosses: and the following (page, paragraph, etc.)
Synonyms: sense: and the following
word: et seq.
Related terms: sense: and the following
word: ff.
back-handed compliment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-handed compliments
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of backhanded compliment.