cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outflow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outflows
Etymology: From Middle English outflowen, from late Old English ūtflōwan (attested in the past tense as ūt flēow), equivalent to out- + flow. The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: The process of flowing out.
examples: text: Borg’s home, which he built with his wife and two sons among tall conifers 33 years ago, overlooks the Nipigon River, an outflow from the lake of the same name.
ref: December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic:
glosses: A fluid that flows out.
glosses: Any outward movement.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stream of gaseous material emanating from an active galactic nucleus.
glosses: The part of a system that allows material to flow out.
qualifier: sewage
glosses: Something that flows out of a sewage treatment plant.
Synonyms: sense: process of flowing out
word: effluence
sense: process of flowing out
word: efflux
sense: process of flowing out
word: effluxion
Derived terms: bipolar outflow
circumstellar outflow
galactic outflow
galactic-scale outflow
mass outflow
Mediterranean outflow
molecular outflow
outflow boundary
outflow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outflows
form: outflowing
form: outflowed
form: outflowed
Etymology: From Middle English outflowen, from late Old English ūtflōwan (attested in the past tense as ūt flēow), equivalent to out- + flow. The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: glosses: To flow outward.
transient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːn.zi.ənt/
ipa: /-si.ənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.si.ənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zi.ənt/
Forms: form: more transient
form: most transient
Etymology: From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of transire (“to go over, to pass”).
Senses: examples: text: a transient pleasure
text: this transient world
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Or doth she only seem to take
⁠The touch of change in calm or storm;
⁠But knows no more of transient form
In her deep self, than some dead lake
That holds the shadow of a lark
⁠Hung in the shadow of a heaven?
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26:
glosses: Passing or disappearing with time; transitory.
examples: text: a transient view of a landscape
text: a transient disease
text: Taking advantage of the surprise, which assured him at least transient attention, he continued, addressing himself particularly to Evelyn.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 27:
text: Traditionally, alumnae have more impact than students, whom the administration views as transient.
ref: 1980 August 9, Robin Bechhofer, Emmy Goldknopf, “Class Reunion”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Remaining for only a brief time.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Decaying with time, especially exponentially.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: stochastic processes
glosses: having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again.
raw_tags: of a state
glosses: Occasional; isolated; one-off
glosses: Passing through; passing from one person to another.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Intermediate.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Operating beyond itself; having an external effect.
Synonyms: sense: passing
word: passing
sense: passing
word: transitory
sense: passing
word: temporary
sense: brief
word: brief
sense: brief
word: ephemeral
sense: brief
word: fleeting
sense: brief
word: flighty
sense: brief
word: fugacious
Derived terms: rotating radio transient
transience
transiency
transient apical ballooning syndrome
transient ischaemic attack
transient ischemic attack
transient luminous event
transiently
transientness
transitoriness
transient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹan.zi.ənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑːn.zi.ənt/
ipa: /-si.ənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.ʃənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.si.ənt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæn.zi.ənt/
Forms: form: transients
Etymology: From Late Latin transiēnt- (for classical transeunt-), stem of transiēns, present participle of transire (“to go over, to pass”).
Senses: glosses: Something that is transient.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge.
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum.
examples: text: Then, within the space of a few months, there were more transients than there were locals, and the imbalance seemed morally wrong.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 3:
glosses: A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker.
glosses: A homeless person.
examples: text: The overhead in loading transients is a big time-waster.
ref: 1978, Computerworld, volume 12, number 25, page 26:
text: These areas function to single thread supervisor routines that are loaded as needed. The Logical Transient Area (LTA) processes $$B transients.
ref: 1990, Gary A. Stotts, DOS/VSE: Introduction to the Operating System, page 102:
text: Like with setting and getting transients, WordPress packages a delete_transient() function for deleting a transient from the database.
ref: 2020, Brad Williams, Justin Tadlock, John James Jacoby, Professional WordPress Plugin Development, page 102:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time.
glosses: A homestay.
Synonyms: sense: traveller
word: itinerant
sense: traveller
word: migrant
sense: traveller
word: traveller
sense: homeless person
word: homeless
word: temporary
word: fleeting
word: ephemeral
word: momentary
Derived terms: astronomical transient
fast blue optical transient
fast-evolving luminous transient
permease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permeases
Etymology: From permeate + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that transport membrane proteins.
regulon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regulons
Etymology: From regulate + -on.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of genes that are regulated by the same regulatory molecule. The genes of a regulon share a common regulatory element binding site or promoter. The genes comprising a regulon may be located non-contiguously in the genome
Derived terms: panregulon
Related terms: operon
stimulon
aggregator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɡɹɪˌɡeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈæɡɹɪˌɡeɪtɚ/
Forms: form: aggregators
Etymology: From aggregate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn't care if there are any subscribers.
ref: 2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175:
text: What we have seen in recent years is the emergence of the aggregator as the immediate customer of our traditional rail freight operating businesses, meaning that the future model is likely to feature rail freight companies with strong expertise in rail movement of freight, and aggregators with strong expertise in intermodal operation. Thus the final customer relationship (Tesco, Amazon, and so on) is increasingly likely to be owned by the aggregator rather than the rail freight company.
ref: 2021 October 20, Michael Holden, “Time for action... and a new plan to develop rail freight”, in RAIL, number 942, pages 38–39:
glosses: Someone or something which aggregates.
glosses: An online feed reader used to keep track of updates to blogs, etc.
Derived terms: disaggregator
nonaggregator
website aggregator
delegatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delegatees
Etymology: From delegate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something to which something is delegated.
non-goal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-goals
Senses: examples: That's a hard problem, but it's a non-goal for us here.
glosses: A potential goal or requirement which is explicitly excluded from the scope of a project.
econobabble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From econo- + babble.
Senses: examples: text: Once you cut through all the econobabble, it says we're headed for a recession.
text: Politicians now use econobabble as a tool of mass confusion, aimed at scaring the public into doing things they don't want to do while narrowing our policy choices.
text: Today's orthodoxy (free market economy) is being spearheaded by the Bank and the Fund through the Structural Adjustment Programme that has a rather suggestive acronym of SAP. The phrase, now part of the current econobabble […]
ref: 1992, Iqbal Jafar, The last frontier and other essays, page 143:
glosses: Excessively obscure economic jargon.
Related terms: technobabble
boomlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomlets
Etymology: From boom + -let.
Senses: examples: text: This is the twentysomething generation, those 48 million young Americans ages 18 through 29 who fall between the famous baby boomers and the boomlet of children the baby boomers are producing.
ref: 1990 July 16, David M. Gross, Sophfronia Scott, “Proceeding With Caution”, in Time:
text: There was a boomlet in fitness centers as corporations sweetened their programs to pay for part of their employees' gym memberships […].
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A small period of rapid growth.
Related terms: baby boomlet
boom
all over the board
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The numbers I got for that were all over the board.
glosses: All over the map.
latke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːt.ki/
ipa: /ˈlɑːt.kə/
Forms: form: latkes
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish לאַטקע (latke), from either Russian ла́тка (látka, “pastry, patch”) or Ukrainian оладка (oladka, “pancake, fritter”). In Polish łatka (“patch”) or placek, placki (“fritter, fritters”).
Senses: examples: text: Her favorite Chanukah memories were of eating latkes and sour cream while her mother gossiped with the aunts and cousins.
text: We do not spend our days huddled in smoke-filled rooms plotting world domination while Jared Kushner plays dreidel in the back with Noam Chomsky and George Soros sneaks the last latke.
ref: 2022 January 19, Yair Rosenberg, “Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 19 Jan 2022:
glosses: A pancake fried in oil, usually made from potatoes and sometimes also onions, traditionally served on Hanukkah.
tromboon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tromboons
Etymology: Blend of trombone + bassoon, humorously coined by composer Peter Schickele, attributed to fictitious composer P. D. Q. Bach.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A trombone with the reed and bocal of a bassoon placed instead of the usual mouthpiece, which combines the limitations of both instruments, producing a loud comical sound.
glosses: An awkward union of disparate elements combining the disadvantages of both.
clickwrap license
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickwrap licenses
Etymology: By analogy with shrinkwrap license.
Senses: examples: text: The second example, the so-called “clickwrap” license, is more likely to create an enforceable contract. In this variation, the user is required to view, however fleetingly, the terms of the license and to take some affirmative action to agree to its terms, such as by clicking a button that says “Yes, I have read this license and I agree to its terms,” before accessing the licensed software.
ref: 2004, Andrew M. St. Laurent, Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Like the more familiar “clickwrap” license, which we encounter every time we download a software update or buy an item on the Internet, this license employs the law of contract to limit the use of an invention by others.
ref: 2012, Kal Raustiala, Christopher Sprigman, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A license which is implicitly agreed to when the user clicks on a particular user interface element, such as a button or link.
stagflationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stagflation + -ary.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Tending to induce stagflation.
multiple expansion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple expansions
Senses: examples: text: The recent rise in the market is due more to multiple expansion than any increase in earnings.
topics: business
finance
glosses: An increase in the price-earnings ratio, or multiple, of a stock or group of stocks.
Candlemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæn.dəl.məs/
Forms: form: Candlemases
form: Candlemass
Etymology: From Middle English Candelmasse, from Old English Candelmæsse, equivalent to candle + -mas, following the tradition that the candles to be used in church during the following year are blessed on this day. Compare Old Norse kyndilsmessa (“Candlemas”).
Senses: examples: text: To make Capons […] [S]ome for this Purpoſe make it their Buſineſs after Harveſt-time to go to Markets for buying up Chickens, and between Michaelmas and All-hollantide caponize the Cocks, when they have got large enough to have Stones [i.e., testes] of ſuch a Bigneſs that they may be pulled out; for if they are too little, it can't be done; […] [M]aking a Cut here big enough to put her Finger in, which ſhe thruſts under the Guts, and with it rakes or tears out the Stone that lies neareſt to it. This done, ſhe performs the very ſame Operation on the other Side of the Cock's Body, and there takes out the other Stone; then ſhe ſtitches up the Wounds, and lets the Fowl go about as at other Times, till the Capon is fatted in a Coup, which is commonly done from Chriſtmas to Candlemas, and after.
ref: 1750, W[illiam] Ellis, The Country Housewife's Family Companion: Or Profitable Directions for Whatever Relates to the Management and Good Œconomy of the Domestick Concerns of a Country Life, According to the Present Practice of the Country Gentleman's, the Yeoman's, the Farmer's, &c. Wives, in the Counties of Hertford, Bucks, and Other Parts of England: Shewing how Great Savings may be Made in Housekeeping: … With Variety of Curious Matters … The Whole Founded on Near Thirty Years Experience, London: Printed for James Hodges, at the Looking-glass, facing St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge; and B. Collins, bookseller, at Salisbury, →OCLC, page 157:
text: They held high holiday from Christmas-day until Candlemas (February 2nd ), […]
ref: 1890, Algernon Blackwood, Christmas in England, Methodist Magazine Volume 32 1890 pg481
glosses: The festival in the Christian year celebrated on February 2nd. It commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of the infant Jesus in the Temple.
glosses: A quarter day in Scotland.
Derived terms: Burnt Candlemas
Candlemas term
Related terms: Groundhog Day
verbiage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ).bi.ɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈvɝ.bi.ɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: verbiages
Etymology: From French verbiage. Compare verb meaning "word" in verbal and verbigerate.
Senses: examples: text: bureaucratic verbiage
text: We're done drafting our paper except for the final check to see whether any verbiage can be reduced.
text: A very garrulous person, he approached the counter in a fog of verbiage.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 39:
synonyms: word: wordiness
word: verbosity
word: verboseness
word: long-windedness
word: prolixity
word: ;
word: circumlocution
word: ;
word: wordage
word: wordishness
coordinate_terms: sesquipedalianism
glosses: Overabundance of words.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: phrasing; terminology; phraseology
text: In each article of this series, there is a paragraph on nutrition; the verbiage for it was developed by consensus among the section editors, and therefore no elective rewording should be done (by others) in any such paragraph.
text: We're done drafting our paper except for the final verbiage on fire safety, which will be supplied by the safety engineers.
text: The comparison of coincidences in the verbiage of different languages, and affinity of etymological formation, are interesting subjects of philological investigation.
ref: 1846, Margaret Thornley, The True End of Education and the Means Adapted to It:
text: Use concise military verbiage.
ref: 1947, George S. Patton, War as I Knew It:
synonyms: wording#Noun
;
diction
;
wordage
glosses: The manner in which something is expressed in words; word choice.
Synonyms: verbalism
Related terms: word: verbage
word: verbal
word: verbose
hypoglycemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoglycemias
form: hypoglycaemia
form: hypoglycæmia
Etymology: From hypo- + glycemia or hypo- + glyc- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A too low level of blood glucose.
Synonyms: word: hypoglycosemia
Coordinate terms: word: euglycemia
english: polysemic; may be hypernym or coordinate term, depending on sense used
translation: polysemic; may be hypernym or coordinate term, depending on sense used
word: glycemia
word: normoglycemia
Derived terms: antihypoglycemic
hypoglycin
typoglycemia
hypoglycemic
hypo
hoopoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhupu/
ipa: /ˈhupoʊ/
ipa: /ˈhuːpuː/
ipa: /ˈhupəʊ/
Forms: form: hoopoes
Etymology: Alteration of obsolete hoopoop, from earlier hoop, from Middle French and Old French huppe, from Latin upupa, ultimately onomatopoeic; Compare Ancient Greek ἔποψ (épops), Persian پوپو (popo).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:hoopoe.
glosses: Any Old World bird of genus Upupa, especially Upupa epops (Eurasian hoopoe), known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Upupa africana
word: African hoopoe
taxonomic: Upupa epops
word: Eurasian hoopoe
word: hoopoe-lark
taxonomic: Upupa marginata
word: Madagascar hoopoe
word: woodhoopoe
taxonomic: Phoeniculidae spp.
word: wood hoopoe
assassinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsæsɪneɪt/
ipa: /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/
Forms: form: assassinates
form: assassinating
form: assassinated
form: assassinated
Etymology: From assassin + -ate, after Middle French assassiner.
Senses: examples: text: The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists[…]. And thus was our Earle Raymond of Tripoli murthered or assassinated (this word is borrowed from their name) in the middest of his Citie, during the time of our warres in the holy land[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Vertue”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 408:
glosses: To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons.
examples: text: He assassinated his rival's character.
text: Such uſage as your honourable Lords / Afford me aſſaſſinated and betray'd, […]
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 67:
text: But vvhen your Rhimes aſſaſſinate our Fame, / You hug your nauſeous, blund'ring Ballad-vvits, / And pay 'em as if Nonſence vvere a merit, / If it can mean but Treaſon.
ref: 1682 December 15 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, The Duke of Guise. A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for R[ichard] Bentley […], and J[acob] Tonson […], published 1683, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 62:
glosses: To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
Derived terms: assassinatee
assassinative
assassinator
assassinatrix
unassassinated
Related terms: assassin
assassination
assassinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsæsɪneɪt/
ipa: /əˈsæs(ə)nˌeɪt/
Forms: form: assassinates
Etymology: From assassin + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Mor. Why? if I had made an assassinate upon your Father; vitiated your Mother: ravished your Sisters―
Tru. I would kill you, Sir, I would kill you, if you had.
 Mor. Why? you do more in this, Sir: it were a vengeance centuple, for all facinorous Acts, that could be nam'd, to do that you do.
glosses: Assassination, murder.
examples: text: Yet again, many of them deſperat hairebraines, raſh, careleſſe, fit to be Aſſaſinates, as being voide of all Feare and Sorrow […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of the minde”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 3, member 1, subsection 2, page 164:
glosses: An assassin.
Related terms: murder
regicide
potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈteɪtəʊz/
enpr: pə-tāʹtōz
ipa: /pəˈteɪtoʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of potato
glosses: plural of potatoe
potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈteɪtəʊz/
enpr: pə-tāʹtōz
ipa: /pəˈteɪtoʊz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potato
calligraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kə-lĭg'rə-fi
ipa: /kəˈlɪɡɹəfi/
Forms: form: calligraphies
Etymology: Borrowed from French calligraphie, from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía, literally “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).
Senses: examples: text: This paper will explore the role of calligraphy on three royal mosques built during the reign of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1628-1658):[…].
ref: 1981, Wayne E. Begley, “2: The Symbolic Role of Calligraphy on Three Imperial Mosques of Shāh Jahān”, in Joanna Gottfried Williams, editor, Kalādarśana: American Studies in the Art of India, page 7:
text: There is, however, a temporal separation between the earthly crystallization of Quranic calligraphy and the advent of the Quranic revelation.
ref: 1987, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamic Art and Spirituality, page 27:
text: Calligraphy, however, can seem like a live concert recording with a shallow, raw sound and awkward "accidentals." But calligraphy has grown on me, and a distinction must be made between the calligraphy of high school diplomas and that of experts whose work is often breathtakingly beautiful.
ref: 2004, Leslie Cabarga, Logo, Font & Lettering Bible, page 78:
glosses: The art or practice of writing letters and words in a decorative style; the letters and words so written.
examples: text: Around the corner, at Goedhuis, among more contemporary calligraphies, the fat and fuzzy brushwork of Zeng Yizeng (born 1973) stands out.
ref: 2008 March 15, Roberta Smith, “Fair Goes From Feast to Tasting Menu”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any such style of decorative writing.
examples: 2004, Diana J, Mukpo, Carolyn Rose Gimian (editors), Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, Volume 7, page 169,
Only a small number of Trungpa Rinpoche's calligraphies have been reproduced heretofore, some in very limited editions.
glosses: A document written in decorative style.
Synonyms: sense: art or practice of decorative writing
word: chirography
sense: art or practice of decorative writing
word: penmanship
Derived terms: calligraffiti
fauxligraphy
microcalligraphy
Related terms: calligrapher
calligraphic
calligrapher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: r
enpr: kə-lĭg'rə-fə
ipa: /kəˈlɪɡɹəfɚ/
Forms: form: calligraphers
Etymology: From calligraphy + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who practices calligraphy
Synonyms: calligraphist
Related terms: calligraphic
calligraphy
genie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiː.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: genii
form: genies
form: jinn
form: djinn
form: djinni
form: djinny
form: jinni
form: jinnie
form: jinnee
Etymology: From French génie (“genius, genie”), a phono-semantic matching of Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.
examples: text: genie in a bottle
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.
Derived terms: genielike
put the genie back in the bottle
the genie is out of the bottle
Related terms: 🧞♂️
🧞♀️
jann
nasnas
ghoul
shaitan
angel
jinx
glue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡluː/
ipa: /ɡljuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: glues
Etymology: From Middle English glew, glue, from Old French glu (“glue, birdlime”), from Late Latin glūs (stem glūt-), from Latin glūten. Related to clay.
Partially displaced native Old English līm (“glue”) and ġelīman (“to glue”) (whence modern lime).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: adhesive, cement
text: The wasp has always made the paper from which it constructs its nest, by uniting vegetable fibres with glue, while man was vexing himself with attempts to write on the bark of trees or a waxen or metallic table.
ref: 1832 July 24, “Review: Habits of Insects”, in North American Review, volume 35, number 76, →JSTOR, page 217:
text: During the next few days, while the meat dried, they were both busy. They finished the bowl boat and coated it with the glue Jondalar made by boiling down the hooves, bone, and hide scraps.
ref: 1990, Jean Marie Auel, chapter 9, in The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children), New York: Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.
examples: text: What is a kiss ? Why this, as some approve, / The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “A Kiss”, in Hesperides, London: H. G. Bohn, published 1852, page 159:
text: In other words, the railways are the glue which holds the country together for those without cars, and for those of us who want to get between major cities sustainably and rapidly. The railways are not a 'nice to have extra', but a key component of our infrastructure.
ref: 2022 December 28, Christian Wolmar, “Annus horribilus must mark a turning point for our railway”, in RAIL, number 973, page 45:
glosses: Anything that binds two things or people together.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.
Derived terms: bee glue
beglue
crazy glue
desert glue
englue
fish glue
flesh glue
glueball
glueboard
glue boiler
glue cell
glue code
glue dot
glue ear
glue friend
glue gun
gluehead
glueless
gluelike
gluelump
gluemaker
gluemaking
glueman
glue-on
glue plant
glue-pot
gluepot
glue record
glue sniffer
glue-sniffing
glue stick
gluey
gluino
gluish
gluon
hot glue
hot glue gun
hot melt glue
I'm rubber, you're glue
marine glue
meat glue
nonglue
rice glue
school glue
Scotch glue
send to the glue factory
skin glue
superglue
unglue
wood glue
semivowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semivowels
form: semi-vowel
Etymology: From semi- + vowel.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: glide
semiconsonant
glosses: A sound in speech which has some qualities of a consonant and some qualities of a vowel.
glosses: A letter which represents a semivowel sound, such as w or y in English.
Related terms: consonant
vocoid
docile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊ.saɪl/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.səl/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.saɪl/
rhymes: (US) -ɑːsəl
Forms: form: more docile
form: most docile
Etymology: From Middle English docyle, from Middle French docile, from Latin docilis, from docēre (“teach”).
Compare Spanish dócil ("docile").
Senses: examples: text: With that he dropped his head again, lamenting over and caressing her, and there was not a sound in all the house for a long, long time; they remaining clasped in one another’s arms, in the glorious sunshine that had crept in with Florence.
He dressed himself for going out, with a docile submission to her entreaty; and walking with a feeble gait, and looking back, with a tremble, at the room in which he had been so long shut up, and where he had seen the picture in the glass, passed out with her into the hall.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Harriet certainly was not clever, but she had a sweet, docile, grateful disposition; was totally free from conceit; and only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
glosses: Ready to accept instruction or direction; obedient; subservient.
examples: text: Such literature may well be anathema to those, who are too docile and petty for their own good.
glosses: Yielding to control or supervision, direction, or management.
Synonyms: sense: ready to accept instruction
word: amenable
sense: ready to accept instruction
word: compliant
sense: ready to accept instruction
word: teachable
sense: yielding to control
word: compliant
sense: yielding to control
word: malleable
sense: yielding to control
word: meek
sense: yielding to control
word: submissive
sense: yielding to control
word: tractable
sense: yielding to control
word: manageable
word: biddable
word: docile
word: passive
word: pliant
word: yielding
Hyponyms: word: obedient
word: submissive
Derived terms: docilely
docileness
docility
docilization
docilize
nondocile
undocile
Related terms: word: docent
word: doctor
word: doctorate
word: doctrinaire
word: doctrinal
word: doctrine
word: document
word: indoctrinate
word: humble
clipboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clipboards
form: clip board
Etymology: From clip + board.
Senses: glosses: A flat piece of rigid material, such as card or plastic, with a clip at one end under which papers can be held.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or between applications.
clipboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clipboards
form: clipboarding
form: clipboarded
form: clipboarded
Etymology: From clip + board.
Senses: glosses: To attach to a clipboard.
Lakota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkəʊtə/
ipa: /ləˈkoʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Forms: form: Lakotas
form: Lakota
form: Lakhota
form: Lak'ota
Etymology: Borrowed from Lakota Lakȟóta (“alliance of friends”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, now living primarily on the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Lower Brule, Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations.
Lakota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈkəʊtə/
ipa: /ləˈkoʊtə/
rhymes: -əʊtə
Forms: form: Lakhota
form: Lak'ota
Etymology: Borrowed from Lakota Lakȟóta (“alliance of friends”).
Senses: examples: text: This park’s strange and beautiful rock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through the rock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands.
ref: 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: The language spoken by the Lakota.
glosses: A city in Kossuth County, Iowa.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Nelson County, North Dakota, United States.
Derived terms: Lakota squash
Related terms: Dakota
Sioux
Nakota
Siouan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.ən/
rhymes: -uːən
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Sioux people, culture or languages.
Related terms: Sioux
Siouan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.ən/
rhymes: -uːən
Forms: form: Siouans
Senses: glosses: A member of the Sioux people.
Siouan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.ən/
rhymes: -uːən
Senses: glosses: A primary language family containing the Sioux and Catawban languages.
potatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of potatoes.
you guys
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈju ˌɡaɪz/
ipa: /ˌju ˈɡaɪz/
Forms: form: yous guys
form: youse guys
form: youze guys
Senses: examples: text: Hey you guys!
glosses: You.
Synonyms: the list of other second-person pronouns in you
Related terms: you gals
yinz
Googlish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Googlish
form: most Googlish
Etymology: From Google + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: This is the Googlish way to do directory services.
text: "Innovation" has become a key word in journalism education, as schools attempt to create a Googlish culture that provides students with the ability to create their own platforms, technologies, and techniques for journalistic reporting and storytelling.
ref: 2017, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control:
synonyms: Googley
glosses: Resembling or in the manner of Google.
Googlish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Google + English
Senses: glosses: The result of translating foreign-language text via any of various popular web-translation engines.
examples: text: One of our Austrian readers who speaks and writes excellent English has translated the German, and placed it here, if the Googlish translation is doing your brain in.
ref: 2003 June 15, “SCO's evidence unveiled?”, in The Inquirer:
glosses: A notional language, not quite identical to English, resembling the result of such translation.
eight-bar blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eight-bar blues
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A blues form built on an eight-measure chord pattern, most typically I, I, IV, I, V7, IV, I, V7, where I, IV and V7 represent the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords respectively.
Related terms: blues
turnaround
twelve-bar blues
immund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immund
form: most immund
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin immundus.
Senses: glosses: unclean or impure
Related terms: immundicity
immundity
mundatory
buffalo fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo fishes
form: buffalo fish
Senses: glosses: Any of several North American freshwater sucker fishes of the genus Ictiobus, similar to carp but having a humped back.
Related terms: Catostomidae
wapanese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wæpəˈniːz/
Forms: form: wapanese
form: Wapanese
Etymology: Blend of wannabe + Japanese, popularized by the message board 4chan.
Senses: examples: text: Now, I know some of you Wapanese (Caucasian Japan fanboys) might get your panties in a bunch, but it's my opinion. LIVE WITH IT.
ref: 2003 December 16, I. B. Blaqman [username], “I really hate the way Japanese media sensationalizes their so-called "superstars"”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):
text: She wasn't the best, Wapanese.
ref: 2006 February 28, Blowhole911 [username], “Re: Arakawa”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):
text: His making the greatest samurai legend in Japanese history a white guy in the middle of the closed country era pretty much sealed it that he's a Wapanese with a pen.
ref: 2007 November 5, WrestlingizReel [username], “Re: Too much Hiro in ancient Japan?”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
glosses: Synonym of weeaboo: a person from elsewhere, particularly an unsocial white male, considered overly infatuated with Japanese culture.
synonyms: word: weeaboo
extra: a person from elsewhere, particularly an unsocial white male, considered overly infatuated with Japanese culture
wikipedia: 4chan
tummy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌ.mi/
rhymes: -ʌmi
Forms: form: tummies
form: tummie
Etymology: Imitating a child's attempt to say stomach, via archaic colloquialism stummy. Compare twee and pasghetti for similar phonetic reductions.
Senses: examples: text: "So I broke away early this mornin', gave my guard a kick in the tummy that laid him out, and sprinted for the camp."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: I got love in my tummy and a tiny little pain / And a ten ton catastrophe on a 60 pound chain
ref: 2013, “Jubilee Street”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
text: Oh man —pal! You didn't swallow that gum, did you?? It stays in your tummy for seven years and all the other bad stuff sticks to it and then a doctor has to cut it out with an axe!
ref: 2019 December 16, Chesca & J Hause, “The Lies”, in Litter Box Comics:
synonyms: belly
glosses: Stomach or belly.
synonyms: word: belly
word: bay window
word: beer baby
word: beer belly
word: beer gut
word: beer muscles
word: Buddha belly
word: corporation
word: German goitre
word: gorbelly
word: Milwaukee goiter
word: Molson muscle
word: paunch
word: pot
word: potbelly
word: spare tire
word: swagbelly
word: tummy
glosses: Stomach or belly.
Protruding belly, paunch.
synonyms: belly
glosses: Stomach or belly.
In reference to where a baby is carried, the abdomen, or specifically the womb, especially of a woman, but also of animals in general (usually mammals).
Derived terms: gyppy tummy
jiffy tummy
tummyache
tummy button
tummy time
tummy tuck
Related terms: english: referring to abdomen, not stomach
translation: referring to abdomen, not stomach
word: belly
schlep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃlɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: schleps
Etymology: From Yiddish שלעפּן (shlepn, “to drag”), from Middle High German slepen, from Middle Low German slêpen, from or related to Old High German sleifen (“to drag”) and slifan (“to slip”), from Proto-West Germanic *sleupan.
Compare German schleppen (“to haul”) and its inherited doublet schleifen (“to drag”), Dutch slepen (“to drag”), Danish slæbe (“to haul”).
Senses: examples: text: Sure you can go across town to get that, but it'd be a schlep.
text: The walk was a schlep, but it was a schlep Wallace and I did together. I was singing the song about the letters of the alphabet and about alligators and balloons from the Maurice Sendak book that Carole King put to music.
ref: 2011, Isabel Gillies, A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A long or burdensome journey.
examples: text: For every genuine, sincere, perceptive resident who is capable and willing to work and sacrifice, you've got 200-plus who are permanently classifiable as either hustlers, rip-off artists, freeloaders, ganefs, shleps, or out-and-out shmucks!
ref: 1976 January 26, William F. Winkler, “Letters”, in New York, volume 9, number 4, New York, N.Y.: NYM Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6:
text: You dug Albert King. You notice his band is absolutely nothing. They were dead schleps, dead schleps playing behind him and Albert was the only one who really measured up to Albert's own sound. It was like they were old tired blues players and it was a drag. But Albert was exquisite.
ref: 1983, Ed Ward, Michael Bloomfield: The Rise and Fall of an American Guitar Hero, New York, N.Y.: Cherry Lane Books, →ISBN:
text: The shocking thing was that he was forty and still chasing girls, still a schlep who was obviously stuck in his adolescent pursuit of sex.
ref: 2000, Marion Meade, The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 114:
text: Economic scholars might assert that unscholarly, middle class schleps outside the field of economics have no authority to write essays that make such ignorant claims.
ref: 2009, Kirk D. Sinclair, Systems Out of Balance: How Misinformation Hurts the Middle Class, Minneapolis, Minn.: Hill City Press, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: A boring person, a drag; a good-for-nothing person.
examples: text: My father had class? I was completely taken aback. I had never heard my father described that way. To me, he was not a European gentleman but a schlep, someone who preferred chinos to gabardine, comfort to style. My mother used to say that if she hadn't made him go shopping, he would still be wearing the same ugly suits he wore in the fifties.
ref: 2005, Nancy Gerber, Losing a Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Lanham, Md.: Hamilton Press, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A sloppy or slovenly person.
examples: text: He must have had a lot of schlep to get such good seats.
glosses: A “pull” or influence.
Derived terms: schlepper
schleppy
twelve-bar blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A blues form built on a twelve-measure chord progression, most typically based around the tonic, subdominant and dominant seventh chords of a key.
Related terms: blues
eight-bar blues
turnaround
tonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more tonic
form: most tonic
form: tonick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τονικός (tonikós), from τόνος (tónos). 17th century writers believed health to be derived from firmly stretched muscles, thus tonic; the extension of tonic medicine appeared in the late 18th century. By surface analysis, ton(e) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Out in front and across the street, Doc noted half a dozen or so young men, not loitering or doing substances but poised and tonic, as if waiting for some standing order to take effect.
ref: 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 316:
topics: medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
examples: text: The arrival of the new members had a tonic effect on the team.
glosses: Restorative, curative or invigorating.
examples: Peter Redgrave (2007) Basal ganglia. Scholarpedia, 2(6):1825.
GABAergic neurones in the basal ganglia output nuclei have high tonic firing rates (40-80 Hz).
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: In a state of continuous unremitting action.
Derived terms: Adie's tonic pupil
tonic-clonic
tonic immobility
tonic tensor tympani syndrome
tonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: tonics
form: tonick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τονικός (tonikós), from τόνος (tónos). 17th century writers believed health to be derived from firmly stretched muscles, thus tonic; the extension of tonic medicine appeared in the late 18th century. By surface analysis, ton(e) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We used to brew a tonic from a particular kind of root.
glosses: A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
glosses: Tonic water.
qualifier: Eastern Massachusetts
glosses: Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
examples: text: Charlie ain't no Nazi / She likes to wear her leather boots / 'Cause it's exciting for the veterans / And it's a tonic for the troops.
ref: 1978, “She's So Modern”, performed by The Boomtown Rats:
text: 'You're a tonic, Dee,' she said. 'And a real friend. Thanks.'
ref: 2011, Cathy Kelly, She's the One:
text: The result is the perfect tonic for Newcastle, coming at the end of a week that saw the departure of Andy Carroll to Liverpool on Monday and an injury to Shola Ameobi during Wednesday's defeat at Fulham.
ref: 2011 February 5, Paul Fletcher, “Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
Derived terms: gin and tonic
hair tonic
love tonic
tonic and gin
vodka tonic
tonic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: tonics
form: tonicking
form: tonicked
form: tonicked
form: tonick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τονικός (tonikós), from τόνος (tónos). 17th century writers believed health to be derived from firmly stretched muscles, thus tonic; the extension of tonic medicine appeared in the late 18th century. By surface analysis, ton(e) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
ref: 1887, Medical Press and Circular, volume 94, page 461:
text: The Persians, as a nation, were first to discover that fish were edible. The time is fixed at about 3000 B.C. This was their secret for some centuries—until the Assyrians learned about the elegance of fish for tonicking the brain.
ref: 1939, Frank Grant Menke, Encyclopedia of Sports, page 17:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To restore or invigorate.
tonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: tonick
Etymology: From tone + -ic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
glosses: Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
glosses: Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
Derived terms: tonic accent
tonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˈtɑ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: tonics
form: tonick
Etymology: From tone + -ic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The triad built on the tonic note.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
Related terms: tonal center
subdominant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdominants
Etymology: From sub- + dominant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The fourth tone of a scale.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The triad built on the subdominant tone.
Related terms: subdominance
dominant seventh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: G7, the dominant seventh chord of a C major scale:
1
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The chord consisting of the fifth, major seventh, ninth and eleventh of a given scale; a seventh chord built on the dominant tone.
bioaccumulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioaccumulates
form: bioaccumulating
form: bioaccumulated
form: bioaccumulated
Etymology: From bio- + accumulate.
Senses: glosses: To accumulate in a biological system over time.
raw_tags: of a toxin
Derived terms: bioaccumulation
bioaccumulative
bioaccumulativity