cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spillovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spillover
elementary particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementary particle
scourging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scourge
scourging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scourgings
Senses: examples: text: The penalty for the breach of various contracts is scourging with stripes[…]
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusservanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 114:
glosses: A beating with a scourge; a flogging.
F minus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F minuses
form: F-
form: F−
Senses: examples: text: A conservative watchdog group concerned about the integrity of the electoral process, the Free Congress Foundation, later did an audit of new voting systems around the country and deemed Georgia's to be the worst, giving it an F-minus grade.
ref: 2005, Andrew Gumbel, Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America, page 264:
text: […] he tried to cheer her up by painting a portrait of himself as the ultimate fuck-up: "It was super hard for me in high school. I got an F minus on a geometry test.
ref: 2005, Lawrence Sutin, Divine Invasions: A Life of Philip K. Dick, page 46:
text: What you've got now is a company that went from an A- plus to an F-minus. And now it's going back to a B.
ref: 2003, Matt Haig, Brand Failures: The Truth About the 100 Biggest Branding Mistakes of All Time, page 211:
text: Is that an A plus for New York, or is that an F minus?
ref: 1990, Dean M. Sagar, Franchising in the U.S. Economy: Prospects and Problems, page 27:
text: It seems to me that this administration ought to be given an F, if we are talking about grades here, on its war on drugs, an F, in fact, an F minus.
ref: 1988, National Capital Area--drug Trafficking: Joint Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs and Health, page 69:
glosses: A (generally hypothetical) grade lower than an "F"; a grade representing not merely a failure, but a complete and utter failure.
F minuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of F minus
minuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minus
minuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of minus
wind chill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪndt͡ʃɪl/
Forms: form: wind chills
form: wind-chill
form: windchill
Etymology: From wind + chill.
Senses: examples: text: The thermometer says zero, but with the wind chill it's more like minus five.
text: A steady northwest breeze will keep wind chills in the teens and single digits for the remainder of your weekend.
ref: 2021 January 16, Derek Van Dam, “Northeast will be wet and chilly while Southern California should sizzle during holiday weekend”, in CNN:
text: The air temperature that day was -13 degrees with a wind chill at -48, according to the NFL.
ref: 2024 January 13, Ashley R. Williams, “NFL moves Pittsburgh at Buffalo playoff game to Monday due to winter storm, Miami at Kansas City is still on for tonight”, in CNN:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cooling effect of wind, especially on the human body, which causes the "feels like" temperature to be lower than the thermometer temperature.
glosses: The still-air temperature equivalent to a given combination of temperature and wind speed, as far as its cooling effect on exposed flesh is concerned
Derived terms: wind chill factor
Related terms: humidex
heat index
insanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈseɪnli/
Forms: form: more insanely
form: most insanely
Etymology: From insane + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gloating silently, she laved handfuls of hot sand over her, her mind alternating sanely and insanely.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 296:
glosses: In an insane manner; not sanely.
examples: text: That ramp is insanely difficult to jump.
text: Disney has some insanely fun roller coasters.
text: The way you made this look like the trans flag is actually insanely clever got^([sic]) damn
ref: 2022 June 29, DXL44_, “Comment on 'Get in we're going to the trans lake (SCP-6113)'”, in r/SCP, Reddit, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2023:
glosses: To a great degree; very much.
notifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of notify
Aceh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acheen
form: Acheh
form: Achem
form: Achih
form: Achin
Etymology: From Indonesian Aceh, Acehnese Acèh.
Senses: glosses: A special autonomous province of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra.
glosses: The Acehnese language.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Acehnese
word: Achehnese
word: Achinese
Related terms: Banda Aceh
Dangme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Niger-Congo language spoken in southeastern Ghana.
Synonyms: Adangme
Related terms: ada ⁠
chrome horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrome horns
Etymology: The phrase most likely originated during NASCAR broadcasts in the 1970s, when stock cars still had chrome bumpers.
Senses: examples: text: Dale Earnhardt just put the chrome horn to that lapped car in front of him.
glosses: The front bumper of a car when used to bump another vehicle, usually to inform the driver of the other vehicle that the first car would like to pass.
oneirophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oneiro- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Presenting 14 unnerving segments, featured phobias include caetophobia (fear of hairs), henophobia (fear of young virgin girls), coprophobia (fear of feces), mysophobia (fear of contamination and germs), mazeophobia (fear of being lost), astrophobia (fear of celestial objects), mageirocophobia (fear of cooking) and oneirophobia (fear of dreams).
ref: 2018 March 7, Chewie, “Artsploitation Acquires ‘A Taste of Phobia’”, in ScareTissue:
glosses: The fear of dreams.
wet boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wet boys
Senses: glosses: A contractor assassin or hit man
iyoba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iyobas
Etymology: Borrowed from Yoruba iyọba.
Senses: glosses: A queen mother of the Kingdom of Benin.
Related terms: oba
Spitfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spitfires
Senses: glosses: A single-seat fighter used by the RAF and allies during World War II, especially during the Battle of Britain.
zoftig
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zoftig
form: most zoftig
Senses: examples: text: Short and zoftig, she wore muumuus and rose-tinted, oversize glasses, was loud, abrasive, and very funny.
ref: 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Bloomsbury, published 1999, page 132:
glosses: Alternative spelling of zaftig.
big crunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big crunches
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A singularity at the centre of a black hole, or the final result of the Big Crunch.
imparity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: imparities
Etymology: From im- + parity.
Senses: glosses: inequality
glosses: inability to be divided into equal parts
glosses: disparity
Big Rip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Rip
Senses: topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical end of the universe in which its rate of expansion becomes infinite in finite time, resulting in all matter being torn apart.
Related terms: Big Bang
Big Crunch
Mohammad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic: alternative spelling of Muhammad.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Muhammad (the prophet who introduced Islam).
Derived terms: Hadji Mohammad Ajul
astroturf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: astroturfs
form: astroturfing
form: astroturfed
form: astroturfed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Astroturf.
astroturf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroturfs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of AstroTurf.
Golconda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒlˈkɒndə/
ipa: /ɡɑlˈkɑndə/
Forms: form: Golkonda
Etymology: From Urdu گولْکُنْڈَہ (golkunḍa), itself from Telugu గొల్లకొండ (gollakoṇḍa), from గొల్ల (golla, “of or pertaining to shepherds”) + కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill”).
Senses: examples: text: Fifty years ago, there were more than twenty places in the kingdom of Golconda, in which diamonds of different sizes were found…
ref: 1827, John Lee Comstock, Elements of Mineralogy:
glosses: A fortress and ruined city in Telangana, India, historically famous for nearby diamond mining.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Pope County, Illinois, United States; named after Golconda in India.
glosses: A census-designated place in Humboldt County, Nevada, United States.
Golconda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒlˈkɒndə/
ipa: /ɡɑlˈkɑndə/
Forms: form: Golcondas
form: Golkonda
Etymology: From Urdu گولْکُنْڈَہ (golkunḍa), itself from Telugu గొల్లకొండ (gollakoṇḍa), from గొల్ల (golla, “of or pertaining to shepherds”) + కొండ (koṇḍa, “hill”).
Senses: glosses: A source of great wealth, especially a mine.
naos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.ɒs/
rhymes: -eɪɒs
Forms: form: naoses
form: naosoi
form: naoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ναός (naós, “inner part of the temple”).
Senses: examples: text: The simplest form of the rectangular temple was that in which the two side walls were carried out from the naos to form the porch at one or both extremities of the building.
ref: 1846, Henry Ellis, The Elgin and Phigaleian marbles of the classical ages, in the British museum:
text: The uncertainty that exists, from the condition of the ruins, as to the height originally assigned by the architect to the interior of the naos and of the opisthodomus,^([sic – meaning opisthodomos]) hampers our investigation of the considerations by which he decided the distribution of the plan.
ref: 1868, William Watkiss Lloyd, On the General Theory of Proportion in Architectural Design, John Weale, page 18:
text: The interior breadth of the naos of the temple as octastyle may, therefore, be deduced within very narrow limits of error;[…].
ref: 1888, H. H. Statham, editor, The Builder, Volume 54, page 114:
topics: architecture
glosses: The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension) the Roman cella, which it later gave rise to.
Derived terms: naometry
Related terms: pronaos
naos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.ɒs/
rhymes: -eɪɒs
ipa: /naʊz/
ipa: /ˈneɪ.ɒs/
rhymes: -eɪɒs
Senses: glosses: plural of nao
pinstripe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnˌstɹaɪp/
Forms: form: pinstripes
form: pin stripe
form: pin-stripe
Etymology: From pin + stripe.
Senses: examples: text: Deep blue fuselage-length pinstripes begin at the belly and get gradually narrower as they approach the windowline, each trimmed either side in red.
ref: 1985, Nigel Milton Tomkins, World Airline Colours, volume 1, page 37:
coordinate_terms: chalkstripe
glosses: A very thin stripe on a fabric or other surface.
glosses: A fabric decorated with such stripes.
glosses: A suit made of such fabric.
Derived terms: pinstriped
pinstriper
pinstriped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pinstriped
form: most pinstriped
form: pin striped
form: pin-striped
Etymology: From pin + striped.
Senses: glosses: Having pinstripes.
raw_tags: of fabric
glosses: Made from such fabric.
raw_tags: of a suit
examples: a pinstriped gentleman
glosses: Wearing a suit of this fabric.
suppositum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the past participle of Latin supponere (“to suppose”).
Senses: examples: text: The answer may be that these relation-ships are generated in every possible world, given any suppositum of a certain least complexity.
ref: 1977, David Joel, Weissman - Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Something supposed to be true; an assumption
mineral makeup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineral makeups
Senses: glosses: The range of minerals in a diet or a rock.
glosses: A cosmetic made and of any of several finely ground minerals, mixed with a base such as cocoa butter.
round off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rounds off
form: rounding off
form: rounded off
form: rounded off
Senses: antonyms: square off
glosses: To change the shape of (an object) to make it smoother and especially more circular or ovoid.
examples: text: The instructions say that we are not to round off until we reach the final figure. [in a calculation with interim steps]
text: Round off 15.4 to 15, round off 15.51 to 15.5 or to 16, round off 0.499 to 0, and round off 970,000 to 1 million.
text: "This product contains no PCBs" is a typical commercial distortion if it actually contains 0.498 of the measurement unit, rounded off to "0"
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To change (a number) to an approximation having fewer significant digits.
examples: text: After this general training the apprentices are usually employed for a year or two as supernumeraries, being engaged to a large extent on special enquiries, a type of work well suited to rounding off their training and also to assisting both the company and the men to ascertain the type of work for which they are best suited.
ref: 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 206:
text: Manchester United's in-form striker rose to head home Stewart Downing's corner and then rounded off a sweeping counter-attack involving Theo Walcott and Ashley Young to wrap up the formalities seconds before the break.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
antonyms: finish up
polish off
coordinate_terms: round out#English:_flesh out with more details
glosses: To complete or finish something.
Derived terms: word: round-off
word: roundoff
Related terms: word: rounding error
word: round number
word: round out
english: the nearest
translation: the nearest
word: round to
dozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doze
espoused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more espoused
form: most espoused
Senses: examples: text: Contrary to most espoused wisdom, most distance hikers travel alone.
ref: 2009, Don Defreeze, Please Read:
text: Yet, all these potential criticisms run counter to the very espoused (if albeit non-universal) types of claims that critical researchers tend to make.
ref: 2009, Carole Brooke, Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems, page 21:
text: At this early stage, the benefits of Africa's integration have become very espoused by some proactive afrocrats and leaders such as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Tafawa Balewa, among others.
ref: 2023, Vincent Okwudiba Anyika, Kelechi Johnmary Ani, “Changing Dynamics of African Diplomacy"Concluding Thoughts from Pre-colonial Era to Contemporary Times”, in Kelechi Johnmary Ani, editor, Political Economy of Colonial Relations and Crisis of Contemporary African Diplomacy, page 279:
glosses: Having been espoused or claimed; held (as a belief or position).
examples: text: Eliezer immediately brought jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and raiment, and offered them to her as the espoused wife of Isaac.
ref: 1866, Alexander Lindsay, Espoused to Christ, page 50:
text: You could daily see a purely white common goose having become a monogamist, being paired with a Canada male bird, taking her lofty aerial flights in company with her foreign mate, forgettering her former, and her naturally domestic habits, appearing now as an espoused partner, and assuming in all her nuptial felicity, the varied habits of her wild paramour.
ref: 1866, Richard Hobson, Charles Waterton : His Home, Habits, and Handiwork, page 86:
text: If an engaged person was caught having sex with someone other than their espoused partner, it was considered adultery, and the law was clear regarding the punishment for such sin: " If a man is found sleeping with another man's wife (those engaged were referred to as 'husband and wife'), both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge this eveil from Israel." (Deut. 22:22)
ref: 2003, Phyllis Rawlins, The Power of the Dream, page 98:
text: Already in the thinking of Luther, where this process was only barely developed and fell together with the emphatic commandment to the husband to love his espoused partner, there is an indication of the mechanism that was later employed to place limits on the.liberatory element this development harbors, namely, via a gender-specific division of labor and the associated process of the "polarizing of sexual steriotypes."
ref: 2006, Dagmar Reese, Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany, page 118:
glosses: Married, engaged, or in a committed monogamous relationship.
Derived terms: unespoused
espoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of espouse
intersected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intersect
poked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊkt/
ipa: /poʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
rhymes: -oʊkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poke
relapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relapse
slackened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slacken
soared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔːd/
ipa: /sɔɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /so(ː)ɹd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /soəd/
homophone: sword
homophone: sawed (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of soar
impeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impede
black gold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: (crude oil; coal; black pepper): From its black colour and high value.
Senses: examples: text: With the black gold already gushing from his country's wells, the Iranian monarch did not show much interest in what the Republic of China had to offer in agricultural know-how, commerce, and cultural interflow.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Rejoining the Government”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
glosses: Raw petroleum; crude oil.
glosses: Black pepper, in the context of being a historically valuable spice.
glosses: Black-coloured gold, variously produced by patination, deposition, oxidation, etc. and used in jewellery or in high-technology applications.
examples: text: They [the railways] are mostly remnants of a long-gone coal industry, laid out largely to bring the black gold from the mines to the waterways.
ref: 2022 April 20, Christian Wolmar, “Northumberland Line reopening is not the end of the journey”, in RAIL, number 955, page 46:
glosses: Coal.
busbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busbars
form: bus bar
Etymology: From bus + bar.
Senses: glosses: An electrical conductor that carries a large current, especially one that is part of a power distribution system; typically a thick strip, or a tube, of copper or aluminium.
bus bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus bars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of busbar.
oppressing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oppressing
form: most oppressing
Senses: glosses: oppressive
Derived terms: oppressingly
unoppressing
oppressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oppress
framed decision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framed decisions
Senses: glosses: A decisionmaker's conception of what will happen as the outcome of a decision.
haviour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English havour, from Anglo-Norman aveyr, Old French aveir.
Senses: examples: text: To Faery court she came, where many one
 Admyrd her goodly haueour […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
 Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
 Together with all forms, moods and shapes of grief,
 That can denote me truly.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: Put thy ſelfe
 Into a hauiour of leſſe feare, ere wildneſſe
 Vanquiſh my ſtayder Senſes.
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 382, column 2:
glosses: Demeanour, behaviour, comportment.
spherically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spherical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a sphere or globe.
spirea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spireas
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra, “coil”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the many flowering shrubs of the genus Spiraea, that have clusters of white or pink flowers.
glosses: Any of the flowering plants of the genus Astilbe.
Related terms: aspirin
spiral
speedwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspiːdˌwɛl/
Forms: form: speedwells
Etymology: From speed + well.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Veronica
Synonyms: sense: Veronica
word: veronica
sense: Veronica
word: bird's eye
sense: Veronica
word: gypsyweed
sense: Veronica
word: fluellin
Derived terms: word: bastard speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica officinalis
word: common speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica arvensis
word: corn speedwell
alt: Veronica peduncularis; Veronica plebeia
word: creeping speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica agrestes
word: field speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica chamaedrys
word: germander speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica officinalis
word: heath speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica peregrina
word: purslane speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica serpyllifolia
word: thyme-leaved speedwell
taxonomic: Veronica anagallis-aquatica
word: water speedwell
re-speak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: re-speaks
form: re-speaking
form: re-spoke
form: re-spake
form: re-spoken
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of respeak (“speak back, echo”).
speedwells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedwell
spelldown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spelldowns
Etymology: From spell + down.
Senses: glosses: A type of spelling bee in which participants sit down as they are eliminated.
spelldowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spelldown
spicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spicules
Etymology: From Latin spīculum.
Senses: glosses: A sharp, needle-like piece.
glosses: A tiny glass flake formed during the manufacture of glass vials.
examples: text: Tear it up, and put a fragment under the microscope, and, wonder of wonders! see the maze of geometric forms exhibited in the bones of the creature; for who can help regarding the spicules as bones, even though a sponge be invertebrate?
ref: 1860, Recreative Science, page 110:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges.
glosses: A needle-like mating structure found only in male nematodes.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun.
glosses: A small spike of flowers.
spicules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spicule
speedup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedups
form: speed-up
Etymology: Deverbal from speed up.
Senses: examples: text: The results of this generalized speedup of the corporate metabolism are multiple: shorter product life cycles, more leasing and renting, more frequent buying and selling, more ephemeral consumption patterns, […]
ref: 1980, Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave, page 230:
antonyms: slowdown
coordinate_terms: bottleneck
glosses: An amount or rate of decrease in time taken to do a certain amount of work.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The relationship between time taken and number of processors used.
examples: text: There were, of course, those observers who argued that since in some industries 50 or 60 per cent of those employed were scientific, technical, and administrative staff, the employer would soon include them in his speedup plans.
ref: 1975 March 20, New Scientist, volume 65, number 941, page 711:
text: For the mass of new workers who had not come out of a syndicalist or craft tradition, incentive pay and the speedup idea carried relatively little negative meaning.
ref: 1987, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II, page 145:
text: The strike was over a speedup of the assembly line, which in the previous week had increased from 49 to 58 cars per hour. Out of this strike emerged the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM).
ref: 1997, Vincent Harding, Robin D. G. Kelley, Earl Lewis, We Changed the World: African Americans 1945-1970, page 171:
text: With constant speedup of the line and with the cold temperatures of the plant, one angry worker told me, “After ten years, people walk like they're sixty or seventy."
ref: 2007, Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of, page 54:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: stretch-out
antonyms: go-slow
slowdown
work-to-rule
qualifier: labour
glosses: An employer's demand for more output without more pay.
Derived terms: Blum's speedup theorem
spindling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spindle
spindling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spindling
form: most spindling
Senses: examples: a spindling tree
a spindling boy
glosses: spindly; very long and slender
spindling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spindlings
Senses: glosses: Anything long and slender, like a shoot.
soreheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorehead
asteism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asteisms
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀστεῖος (asteîos, “of the town; urbane”), from ἄστυ (ástu, “town”). Compare Greek αστεϊσμός (asteïsmós).
Senses: glosses: Polite irony; a genteel and ingenious manner of deriding another.
Related terms: asteistic
U-235
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From U (“the chemical symbol for uranium”).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of uranium-235.
madonna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madonnas
Etymology: Said to be named after the American singer Madonna.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A one-footed lien-to-tail trick, where the front foot is taken off and kicked out straight down behind the board.
uranium-235
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uranium + 235 (the atomic mass of the isotope).
Senses: examples: text: The Zaporizhzhia plant provided about a fifth of Ukraine’s electricity before Russia’s invasion, and has been forced to operate on backup generators a number of times. It has six Soviet-designed water-cooled and water-moderated reactors containing uranium-235.
ref: 2022 November 21, Lorenzo Tondo, Peter Beaumont, “Ukraine to start evacuations in Kherson and Mykolaiv regions as winter sets in”, in The Guardian:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fissile isotope of uranium, used for energy generation and in atomic weapons, containing 143 neutrons. It has a half-life of 7.038×10⁸ years; it decays into thorium-231 and ultimately lead.
Related terms: uranium-232
uranium-233
uranium-234
uranium-238
uranium-239
uranium-240
decays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkeɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decay
arctic hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctic hares
Senses: glosses: A North-American hare of species Lepus arcticus, that is white, usually year round, found in the Arctic.
Related terms: arctic wolf
arctic fox
brown hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown hares
Senses: glosses: European hare (Lepus europaeus).
Chanti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From an Indian language.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India. A common nickname in Andhra Pradesh, India.
acacias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acacia
Zweihänder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtsvaɪhɛndɚ/
/ˈtsvaɪ.hæn.dɚ/
/ˈtsvaɪhɛndə/
Forms: form: Zweihänder
form: zweihänder
form: Zweihander
form: zweihander
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zweihänder (literally “two hander”), from zwei (“two”) + Hand (“hand”) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Their major weapon was the pike, which could be up to 18 feet in length, but those whose duty it was to advance in the front line carried instead the fearsome Zweihänder; an enormous battle-sword around 66 inches in length.
ref: 1994, Douglas Miller, The Landsknechts, page 42:
text: […] and even the two-handed sword, Zweihänder […]
ref: 1995, R. Coltman Clephan, The Mediaeval Tournament, page 105:
synonyms: Bidenhänder
Bihänder
hypernyms: two-hander
glosses: A two-handed sword primarily of Renaissance Germany, up to a fathom in length, invented in the 14th century.
franglais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The play presents a kind of war of different languages: office jargon; franglais marketing jargon; old-fashioned academic language; new media slang; jazzmen’s roughtalk; salesmen’s smoothtalk; high-finance talk, etc.
ref: 1984, David Bradby, “Michel Vinaver”, in Modern French Drama 1940–1980, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, chapter 10 (Playwrights of the seventies), page 244:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Franglais.
hyperekplexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pɚ.ɛkˈplɛk.si.ə/
Forms: form: hyperekplexias
form: hyperexplexia
Etymology: From hyper- + Ancient Greek ἐκπληξία (ekplēxía, “amazement, terror”), from Ancient Greek ἔκπληξις (ékplēxis, “consternation”) + -ία (-ía, nominal suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A neurological disorder characterized by an exaggerated startle response in situations of distress.
Derived terms: hyperekplexic
Yapese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Yap + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Austronesian language spoken in the Federated States of Micronesia, especially by the inhabitants of Yap.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Yapese terms
Yapese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Yapese
form: most Yapese
Etymology: From Yap + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the people of the island of Yap or the Yapese language.
Yapese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yapese
Etymology: From Yap + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike most money, stones sometimes can buy happiness, of a sort; if a Yapese wants to settle an argument, he brings his adversary stone money as a token.
ref: 2009, Patrick J. Welch, Gerry F. Welch, Economics: Theory and Practice, page 206:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Yap.
calculated mistake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calculated mistakes
Senses: glosses: An intentional error, usually to avoid some worse outcome, especially when done as a ruse.
semifinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + finite.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: (Of a measure space) in which every nonzero measurable set has a subset with finite nonzero measure
saving throw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saving throws
Senses: qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: In certain games, primarily role-playing games, an effort to ward off a specific threat by rolling a die or dice and coming up with a particular number.
Related terms: save vs.
death throe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛθ θɹoʊ/
homophone: death row
Forms: form: death throes
Senses: glosses: Struggle that is followed by death.
examples: text: In her death throes, she made a sound and reached outward.
text: One thing, however, was certain, the death throes ceased - at first I thought because he had got beyond them, and crossed the awful river.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: The final movements or sounds, often erratic, of a living being as it dies.
examples: text: As part of its death throes, the printer made a grinding sound and then never worked again.
glosses: The final actions or output of a machine or other object before it ceases to function.
Related terms: on one's last legs
in articulo mortis
at death's door
Junior Circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The American League, the younger of Major League Baseball's two leagues.
lightswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightswitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of light switch.
Senior Circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The National League, the older of Major League Baseball's two leagues.
tarbaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarbabies
Senses: examples: text: ...en de Tar-Baby, she keep on sayin' nothin', twel present'y Brer Rabbit draw back wid his fis', he did, en blip he tuck 'er side er de head. Right dar's whar he broke his merlasses jug. His fis' stuck, en he can't pull loose. De tar hilt 'im. But Tar-Baby, she stay still...
"'Ef you don't lemme loose, I'll knock you agin," sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, en wid dat he fotch 'er a wipe wid de udder han', en dat stuck. Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin'...
" 'Tu'n me loose, fo' I kick de natal stuffin' outen you,' sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, but de Tar-Baby, she ain't sayin' nothin'. She des hilt on, en den Brer Rabbit lose de use er his feet in de same way. Brer Fox, he lay low. Den Brer Rabbit squall out dat ef de Tar-Baby don't tu'n 'im loose he butt 'er cranksided. En den he butted, en his head got stuck...
"Who ax you fer ter come en strike up a 'quaintance wid dish yer Tar-Baby? En who stuck you up dar whar you iz? Nobody in de roun' worril. You des tuck en jam yo'se'f on dat Tar-Baby widout waitin' fer enny invite," sez Brer Fox, "en dar you is, en dar you'll stay..."
ref: 1898, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings:
text: It is important to emphasize the basic difference between "tar baby" and the previous American approach to southern Africa. As defended by Morris and its other creators, the new approach was designed to assist peaceful change in the area. The danger was that if it failed to meet its purpose, the new policy would simply provide a thin excuse for normalization of relations with the white regimes.
ref: 2000, Anthony Lake, The Tar Baby Option: American Policy toward Southern Rhodesia, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of tar baby (“difficult, "sticky" situation”).
glosses: Alternative form of tar baby (“(ethnic slur) black person”).
sourish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sourish
form: most sourish
Etymology: From Middle English sourisch, sourissh, sowrische, sowrishe, sowrisshe, sowryssh; equivalent to sour + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: a sourish taste
text: a sourish disposition
glosses: Somewhat sour.
soul-searching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊlsəːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊlˌsəɹtʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: soul-searchings
form: soul searching
form: soulsearching
Etymology: From soul + searching; the noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: After much soul-searching I decided to confess.
text: You’d better do some serious soul-searching before you decide to leave her.
text: So it is with great regret, after long soul-searching, that I must inform you that I cannot in good conscience support your decision to pardon former President [Richard] Nixon even before he has been charged with the commission of any crime.
ref: 1974 September 8, Jerald F[ranklin] terHorst, letter of resignation as White House Press Secretary, quoted in Jerald F. terHorst, Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency, New York, N.Y.: Third Press, 1974, page 236
text: To the militarists foreign conquest offered a solution to several problems at once: how to expand markets for Japanese products, how to guarantee sources of raw materials, how to restore national self-confidence at a moment of soulsearching, and how to consolidate political power at home.
ref: 1992, H[enry] W[illiam] Brands, “The Bottom Line: 1927–1934”, in Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
text: Much soul-searching is going on at the west London club who, just seven weeks ago, were five points clear at the top of the table and playing with the verve with which they won the title last season.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 – 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016:
text: And yet, arresting figures suggesting a decline in early season ratings have prompted an outbreak of soul‑searching at those broadcasters and head‑scratching among analysts.
ref: 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2017:
text: There was little soul-searching about how and why things have gone so wrong, or about the flawed, hyper-optimistic reasoning that prevailed during globalisation’s heyday.
ref: 2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian:
text: In a way, a bit of soul-searching and humility would be no bad thing, because for those struggling to get by, there are few things more nauseating than the self-styled masters of the universe wringing their hands about the need to address inequality.
ref: 2023 January 15, Larry Elliott, “Davos’s elite will need to do some soul-searching in a world falling apart”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Probing introspection; a critical consideration of one's conscience; also, an instance of such consideration.
soul-searching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊlsəːtʃɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊlˌsəɹtʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: soul searching
form: soulsearching
Etymology: From soul + searching; the noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of soul-search
Related terms: man in the mirror
snuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuffers
Etymology: From snuff + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
ref: 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
glosses: A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
glosses: The common porpoise.
glosses: The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).
Synonyms: sense: device to extinguish candle
word: candle snuffer
candle snuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candle snuffers
form: candlesnuffer
Senses: synonyms: snuffer
glosses: A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
candlesnuffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlesnuffers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candle snuffer.
candlesnuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candlesnuffer
candle snuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candle snuffer
snuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snuffer
snuffers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuffers
Senses: examples: text: This typical example of a snuffers works like a pair of scissors; the blades are used to cut the wick.
ref: 1982, Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Robert Trent, New England Begins: Mentality and environment, page 254:
glosses: Synonym of snuffer (“device to extinguish candles”).
synonyms: word: snuffer
extra: device to extinguish candles
assfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsfʌk/
Forms: form: assfucks
form: arsefuck
Etymology: From ass + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: Too much wetness ruins a good assfuck. The friction is part of what gets me off.
ref: 2001, Penthouse Magazine, Letters to Penthouse XII: It Just Gets Hotter, page 124:
text: And they go on, hanging around me in the pit, talking loudly about assfucks and who spits, who swallows, and how loud they can be when they come.
ref: 2001, Phyllis Coletta, Prior Bad Acts, page 43:
glosses: Sodomy, anal sex, an act of anal intercourse.
examples: text: He'd cruised in after work, the week's aggravating assfucks sloughed off...
ref: 2005, Michael Amorel, Horror Between the Sheets, page cdxxxviii:
text: Can't anyone take a nice warm and relaxing bubblebath without some assfuck ruining it?!
ref: 2004, Robert Montague, Amerikkka:
text: Eat my dust, assfuck!
ref: 1996-99, Daniel Curzon, "Drivers from Hell", Collected Plays of Daniel Curzon, Volume VI, page 199
glosses: A jerk; an obnoxious person.
glosses: An act of stunning betrayal.
Related terms: mindfuck
assfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsfʌk/
Forms: form: assfucks
form: assfucking
form: assfucked
form: assfucked
form: arsefuck
Etymology: From ass + fuck.
Senses: examples: text: But she can't look away, either, when Barbara and Jack start to assfuck. To Agnes, it looks grotesque. The angle is wrong, like the angle of a broken limb.
ref: 2001, Patrick Flynn, Agnes Among the Gargoyles, page 32:
glosses: To engage in anal intercourse.
examples: text: "You boys tried to assfuck me," he said softly, menacingly, "...and it backfired."
ref: 2000, Francis Dipietro, Nest: 28 Tales of Pulp Fiction, page 78:
text: We assfuck their minds.
ref: 1997, Meredith Sue Willis, Trespassers, page 218:
glosses: To betray.
assfuck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsfʌk/
Forms: form: more assfuck
form: most assfuck
form: arsefuck
Etymology: From ass + fuck.
Senses: glosses: Isolated and neglected, undesirable, or held in contempt.
Related terms: boof
buttfuck
sodomize
assfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assfuck
assfucks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assfuck
swordbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordbearers
form: sword-bearer
Etymology: From Middle English swerde berer, swerdeberer, swyrd berere, swyrdeberer; equivalent to sword + bearer.
Senses: glosses: One who bears or carries a sword, especially as a symbol of their authority.
Related terms: swordbearing
shieldbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shieldbearers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shield-bearer.
ringbearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringbearers
Etymology: From ring + bearer.
Senses: glosses: A person who carries a ring, especially a wedding ring as part of a wedding ceremony.
ringwraith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringwraiths
Etymology: From Ringwraith (fantasy character), in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; from ring + wraith.
Senses: examples: text: It is twisted out of shape and used for base purposes by the ringwraiths, the bent ones among the intellectuals, for purposes that are transient...
ref: 1976, Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, page 192:
text: ...or shandy quaffers at tennis with Joan Hunter-Dunn, even though many of them are mere ringwraiths of the Thomson Empire.
ref: 1982, William Ready, Files on Parade: A Memoir, page 231:
text: This book, then, is a sort of tribute: an ode to the Himalaya of heavy rock, a paganish take on rock and roll, ringwraiths, and the iconic fetish of the gatefold LP."
ref: 2005, Erik Davis, Led Zeppelin IV, page 9:
glosses: A person who is loyal, as if bound or entranced, to a band, group or organization.
rearview
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪəvjuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɪɹvjuː/
ipa: /ˈɹiɹvjuː/
Etymology: From rear + view.
Senses: examples: text: Tesla is recalling roughly 27,000 Cybertrucks because of a rearview camera issue that delays the image being displayed on the dashboard, increasing the risk of a crash.
ref: 2024 October 3, Jordan Valinsky, “Tesla recalls 27,000 Cybertrucks due to a rearview camera issue”, in CNN:
glosses: That provides a view from or to the rear.
Derived terms: rearview camera
rearview mirror
rearview
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪəvjuː/
ipa: /ˈɹɪɹvjuː/
ipa: /ˈɹiɹvjuː/
Forms: form: rearviews
Etymology: From rear + view.
Senses: examples: text: My reflection checks me out in the rearview. I'm... kind of beau... tiful!?
ref: 2019 December, Justin Blackburn, The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues, page 50:
text: Bag of little yellow pills for thе nerves / But it makes it еven worse when the Xannys don't work / And he panic, ears ringing, when you call, he can't hear you / Every seven seconds, eyes back up in the rearview
ref: 2020, clipping., “Check the Lock”, in Visions of Bodies Being Burned:
glosses: Synonym of rearview mirror.
synonyms: word: rearview mirror
rearview mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rearview mirrors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rear-view mirror.
infinitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infinitudes
Etymology: From Old French infinité, from Latin infinitas (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + finis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tas.
Senses: examples: text: Euclid proved the infinitude of primes.
glosses: The state or quality of being infinite or having no limit.
come true
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes true
form: coming true
form: came true
form: come true
Senses: examples: text: If you wish really hard, it just might come true.
text: Many of their predictions came true, but of course, many did not.
text: So happy Christmas / I love you baby / I can see a better time / When all our dreams come true
ref: 1987, Jem Finer, Shane MacGowan, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues:
glosses: To become real: to become true or existent.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: race
glosses: To breed true; to maintain identity of salient characteristics through propagation processes.
Related terms: dream come true
frustrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Incorrect analogy with frustrate, also of Latin origin.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of frustum.
red squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red squirrels
Senses: glosses: Sciurus vulgaris (Eurasian red squirrel), common in Europe and Asia.
glosses: Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, the American red squirrel, found in parts of North America.
Derived terms: Mount Graham red squirrel
bald wig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bald wigs
Senses: glosses: A headpiece worn usually by stage and film actors so as to appear bald on top without the necessity of shaving their scalps.
Synonyms: bald cap