cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
welfare queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welfare queens
Etymology: 1970s, popularized during Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign, but not used by Reagan himself.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Taylor, who is 40 years old, has been called Illinois’ “welfare queen” for allegedly defrauding Illinois and other states out of welfare payments while using a number of aliases.
ref: 1976 February 29, “‘Welfare Queen’ Loses Her Cadillac Limousine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Martin isn't a typecast welfare queen sucking the nation dry, as Thomas seemed to suggest, but a single woman like his own mother, who worked low-paying jobs without benefits to support her family and turned to relatives for help.
ref: 1994, Lisa Jones, Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, and Hair, Anchor Books, published 1995, →ISBN:
text: Welfare queens can't hold a candle to corporate kings in raiding the public purse.
ref: 1994, Marian Wright Edelman, Measure of Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, Beacon Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 113:
text: […] You need to go on back to the ghetto and make a bunch of ghetto babies and live off of welfare. I heard that you and your mama were welfare queens.”
ref: 2008, Earl Sewell, If I Were Your Boyfriend, Kimani TRU, published 2008, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: A woman collecting welfare, seen as doing so out of laziness, rather than genuine need.
wikipedia: Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan 1976 presidential campaign
Related terms: welfare bum
welfare parasite
nancyboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæn.siˌbɔɪ/
Forms: form: nancyboys
form: nancy boy
Etymology: From nancy + boy.
Senses: examples: text: With Mum out of earshot, he continued: "I don't believe you did six girls. I think you're a liar. I think you're either a virgin or a nancyboy."
ref: 2003, Alan Grayson, Mile End, Ragged Sky Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 84:
text: This was Marcus, this effeminate, mincing nancyboy, picking his way fastidiously across the grass?
ref: 2009, Andrew Chapman, Pagan, →ISBN, page 303:
text: Always having to look over your shoulder for some prissy little nancyboy from the ACLU trying to get you bounced from the force.
ref: 2009, Peter S. Fischer, The Blood of Tyrants, The Grove Point Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: Synonym of nancy: an effeminate man, especially an effeminate homosexual.
synonyms: word: nancy
extra: an effeminate man, especially an effeminate homosexual
Synonyms: sense: effeminate man
word: cockney
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: effeminate man
sense: homosexual man
word: friend of Dorothy
word: omi-palone
word: male homosexual
con sord
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of con sordino.
cæteris paribus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: caeteris paribus
Etymology: Used in English first by Thomas Wright in 1601.
Senses: examples: text: yet my meaning is always cæteris paribus
ref: 1601, Thomas Wright, The passions of the minde, page Preface A 4 b:
glosses: Alternative spelling of ceteris paribus.
Lissajous curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lissajous curve
amœbic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amœb- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Important infectious diseases in man and animals are caused by protozoa; e.g., malaria, amœbic dysentery, trypanosomiasis, piroplasmosis, and possibly yellow and scarlet fever.
ref: 1907, Ludvig Hektoen, chapter I, in Modern Medicine, volume II, Lea Brothers & Co., page 19:
glosses: Obsolete form of amoebic.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
macroörganism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroörganisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of macroorganism.
electroösmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of electroosmosis.
useful idiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: useful idiots
Etymology: The earliest known usage in Western media is in a 1948 article in the social-democratic Italian paper L'Umanità – as cited in the New York Times article on Italian politics (see quotations). Often misattributed to Vladimir Lenin.
Senses: examples: text: L'Umanita said the Communists would give the “useful idiots” of the left-wing Socialist party the choice of merging with the Communist party or getting out.
ref: 1948 June 21, Arnold Cortesi, “Communist Shift Is Seen In Europe”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2025, page 14:
text: During the 1930s and ’40s and ’50s, the right had derided liberal writers and editors as Communists’ “useful idiots,” unwittingly doing the Communists’ propaganda work; it looks in retrospect as if, starting in the 1970s, a lot of them—of us—became capitalists’ useful idiots.
ref: 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2020:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A Communist sympathizer in Western countries, from the perspective of the political right.
examples: text: But what should the Obama Cult do now? The man has turned off the switch on the "Hopenosis" and has revealed the "Change Brigade" for the useful idiots they were.
ref: 2009 January 22, Alex Knepper, “Obama's cabinet appointments contradict with message”, in The Mirror (Fairfield University), volume 34, number 15, page 3:
text: “President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin,” he says.
ref: 2020 September 14, Jeffrey Goldberg, quoting Alexander Vindman, “Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01 Nov 2020:
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who unwittingly supports a malignant cause through naive attempts to be a force for good.
Laplace planes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laplace plane
marginal farmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginal farmers
Senses: examples: text: In India, the percentage of marginal farmers among all farmers is nearly 70%.
glosses: A farmer with a bare subsistence level of income from their own land, sometimes working as an agricultural laborer.
examples: text: First, in equilibrium the marginal (last) farmer finds that the cost of the last unit of fertilizer (i.e. the market price) is just equal to its benefit.
ref: 2007, Liam Brunt, “Where there’s muck, there’s brass”, in The Economic History Review, volume 60, number 2, Wiley Online Library, →DOI, →ISSN, page 357:
text: (“Marginal” in an economic sense means “additional” or “incremental,” but has no normative or pejorative connotation.) At that point, adding more workers to a unit of farmland leads to less and less additional output, because the land cannot accommodate so many workers. […] No marginal product, or even a negative marginal product, results from the marginal farmer.
ref: 2015, Raj Bhala, Dictionary of International Trade Law, 3rd Edition (2015), →ISBN:
text: Farmers maximise expected profit under each technology and government maximises welfare. This determines when the marginal farmer chooses legal GM seed rather than illegal GM seed or conventional seed.
ref: 2015, Anne Jillian Arnold, A game-theoretic approach to modelling crop royalties. (thesis), University of Adelaide, page 62:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see marginal, farmer.
of a certain age
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Perhaps a calque of French d'un certain âge.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (indeterminate) getting on in years, on in years, long in the tooth; (past middle age) older, senior, elderly, geriatric; see also Thesaurus:elderly
text: a lady of a certain age
text: Now that I'm of a certain age, I need reading glasses to see up close.
text: Women of a certain age / They learn to rely and your job is responses / Having played the mating game
ref: 1989, Graham Lyle, Albert Hammond, “I Don't Wanna Lose You”, in Foreign Affair, performed by Tina Turner:
glosses: Middle-aged or older.
raw_tags: of a person
Related terms: time of life
electromagnetic pulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromagnetic pulses
form: EMP
Senses: glosses: A short-duration burst of high-intensity electromagnetic radiation generated by a physical event, in particular by a large thermonuclear explosion in the atmosphere. The pulse causes a damaging surge of voltage within electrical and electronic systems.
glosses: Compton-recoil electrons and photoelectrons from photons scattered in the materials of a nuclear event causing electric and magnetic fields to couple with electrical and electronic systems to produce damaging current surges.
Synonyms: EMP
Hyponyms: english: HEMP
translation: HEMP
word: high-altitude electromagnetic pulse
alt: NEMP
word: nuclear magnetic pulse
roman: NEMP
alt: NEMP
word: nuclear electromagnetic pulse
Derived terms: english: HEMP
translation: HEMP
word: high-altitude electromagnetic pulse
alt: NEMP
word: nuclear electromagnetic pulse
homo oeconomicus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Homo economicus.
archæologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archæology
precellence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: excellence, superiority, preeminence
Synonyms: precellency
precellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more precellent
form: most precellent
Senses: glosses: excellent, surpassing
Related terms: precellence
precellency
precellency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] then be put upon so much immodesty my self as to speak anything that may seem to give it any precellency above what is already extant in the world about the same matter.
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, page 1:
glosses: excellence, superiority, preeminence
Synonyms: precellence
Takeshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
œsophageal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of esophageal.
gainsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪnsʌm/
Forms: form: more gainsome
form: most gainsome
Etymology: From gain (“profit, advantage, foredeal, benefit”) + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The cotton grower felt delight at the gainsome expansion of his cotton fields.
ref: 1843, Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy, The Legion of Liberty!:
text: We have the feasible potential to be competitive in a gainsome way in many sectors.
ref: 2008, Raj Kumar, International Economics:
text: It not consisteth all of pleasant words, / More gainsome tricks are there still to be found; …
ref: 2013 (original 1480), Sarah Annes Brown, Andrew Taylor, Ovid in English, 1480-1625. Part One: Metamorphoses
glosses: Marked by gain; gainful; profitable.
Derived terms: ungainsome
gainsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡeɪnsʌm/
Forms: form: more gainsome
form: most gainsome
Etymology: From gain (“straight, direct, immediate, short”) + -some.
Senses: glosses: Well-formed; handsome; gainly.
ædification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ædifications
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of edification.
Dunn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌn/
ipa: [dɐn]
ipa: /dʌn/
rhymes: -ʌn
homophone: dun
homophone: Donn
homophone: Donne
homophone: done
homophone: Dunne
Forms: form: Dunns
form: Doyne
form: Dunne
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duinn (“descendant of Donn”), a byname from donn (“brown, brown-haired”).
Senses: examples: text: In a statement posted on social media, Bondi said that the man, identified in court documents as 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn, has since been fired. […] On Wednesday night, the FBI director, Kash Patel, said that Dunn had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer.
ref: 2025 August 14, Anna Betts, “Alleged DC sandwich-thrower worked at justice department, attorney general says”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Benton County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Harnett County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Dane County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Dunn County, Wisconsin.
thought balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thought balloon
thought balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thought balloons
Senses: glosses: Synonym of thought bubble (“shape denoting thought in comics”).
synonyms: word: thought bubble
extra: shape denoting thought in comics
Boll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bolls
form: Boell
Etymology: * As a Danish and German surname, from Danish Bøll, German Böll.
* Also as a German surname, from the personal name Baldo (see Bold). Compare Boell.
* As an English surname, variant of Bull.
* Also as an English surname, from the noun bowl. Compare Bowler.
* As a Scottish surname, variant of Boyle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from German.
glosses: A surname from the Germanic languages.
A surname from Danish.
Knapp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Napp
Etymology: * As a German surname, from the noun Knabe (“boy, young unmarried man”). This is also found as the variant Knap.
* As an English surname related to the above, from the noun knave, similar to Nave.
* Also as an English surname, from Middle English knappe (“hillock”), from Old English cnæpp (“summit”), probably from the same source as Icelandic hnappur (“button”).
* As a Jewish surname, from the German adjective knapp (“scarce, tight”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Ampfield parish, Test Valley district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4023).
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in North Curry parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST3025).
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Broad Chalke parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0225).
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Perth and Kinross council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2831).
glosses: A place name:
A village in Dunn County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Jackson County, Wisconsin.
Seiji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese せいじ (Seiji).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
nanomanipulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanomanipulator
thermal rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermal rocket
zip-wires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zip-wire
snarlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snarler
works one's tail off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of work one's tail off
working one's tail off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of work one's tail off
worked one's tail off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of work one's tail off
yuppie food stamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yuppie food stamp
board-rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of board-room
catchlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchlight
sour pusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sour puss
neck rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neck ring
nephalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephalists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νηφάλιος (nēphálios, “sober”), from νήφω (nḗphō, “to be sober”).
Senses: examples: text: Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.
ref: 1883, James Miller, The dietetic reformer, and vegetarian messenger a monthly record of moral and physical progress volix third series, page 335:
text: Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.
ref: 1881, The National Temperance League's annual, page 39:
text: [...] but he was at the same time so zealous and scrupulously honest a nephalist, as he called himself, that he immediately gave up the use of wine when the distinctness of the need for it became obscured.
ref: 1865, “Obituary: The Late Professor Miller”, in Edinburgh medical journal, Volume 10, Part 1, page 92:
qualifier: Temperance movement
glosses: One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
Related terms: nephalism
hydrogen gas electrodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrogen gas electrode
number twos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number two
number three
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number threes
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats third.
examples: text: His transfer, controversial for 18 months now, may also rank as the most tetchy ever to have involved a mere left-back. He may claim the highest wage in the history of the number three...
ref: 2006 August 13, Ian Hawkey, “The £20m question”, in The Sunday Times:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A left back.
examples: text: With his quality, I wouldn’t want him sitting here being number three or number two, he’s a good enough goalkeeper to go and play in the Championship.
ref: 2022 May 6, Alex Dicken, quoting Tony Roberts, “Wolves respond to Birmingham City interest in Matija Sarkic transfer”, in Birmingham Live:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player who is the backup to the two primary goalkeepers - number one and number two.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A small town where theatrical performances are unlikely to meet with much success.
glosses: The act of masturbation, especially when done in a bathroom.
Coordinate terms: number two
number four
and so on
number four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number fours
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats fourth.
glosses: heroin
Coordinate terms: number three
number five
and so on
number five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number fives
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats fifth.
Coordinate terms: number four
number six
and so on
number six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number sixes
Senses: examples: text: The number six adds additional defensive cover, balance, screening and protection just ahead of the central defence.
ref: 2022 February 12, “Number six position in football”, in Premier League:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A defensive midfielder.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats sixth.
examples: text: Bessy knew it was called “Calverton's School” — and though many who attended it were big men who ought to have known their letters better, yet others were only youths, and a few quite little boys, who wore their hair in “number sixes” at the temples, when law had left them hair sufficient for such ornamentation.
ref: 1861, Frederick William Robinson, No Church, page 252:
glosses: Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”).
synonyms: word: Newgate knocker
extra: a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear
glosses: One’s brain or common sense.
Coordinate terms: number five
number seven
and so on
number seven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number sevens
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats seventh.
Coordinate terms: number six
number eight
and so on
number nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number nines
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats ninth.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The centre forward
examples: text: A number nine pill was all they could hope for if they went sick.
ref: 1930, Siegfried Sassoon, The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, London: Faber and Faber, page 310 (Faber Paper 1972 edition):
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A laxative pill.
Coordinate terms: number eight
number ten
and so on
number ten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number tens
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who bats tenth.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The main offensive playmaker in a team, usually an attacking midfielder.
Coordinate terms: number nine
number eleven
and so on
salpicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpicon
c&b
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: on a scorecard
glosses: Initialism of Caught and bowled.
respiratory syncytial viruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respiratory syncytial virus
salt in the wound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Something that increases someone's pain.
Related terms: rub salt in the wounds
countermoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of countermove
sofa beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofa bed
Geck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gecks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Geck.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Kaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kauls
Etymology: Borrowed from Kashmiri कौल (kaul).
Senses: examples: Nitasha Kaul, b. 1976
glosses: A surname from Kashmiri.
Kaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kauls
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kaul.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Kaul festival
Fal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A river in Cornwall, England.
Derived terms: Falmouth
heap insult on injury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heaps insult on injury
form: heaping insult on injury
form: heaped insult on injury
form: heaped insult on injury
Senses: glosses: Synonym of add insult to injury.
synonyms: word: add insult to injury
gainfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gainful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
profitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From profitable + -ness.
Senses: examples: the profitableness of trade
glosses: The quality of being profitable; gainfulness; usefulness; advantageousness.
equijoins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equijoin
equijoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equijoin
equijoin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equijoins
form: equi-join
Etymology: From equi- + join.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: theta join
glosses: A join whose predicate uses only equality comparisons.
Hypernyms: join
equijoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equijoins
form: equijoining
form: equijoined
form: equijoined
form: equi-join
Etymology: From equi- + join.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To join with a predicate using only equality comparisons.
gaincoming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gain- + coming. Compare gaincome and gainsay.
Senses: examples: text: The mass he meant to impugn was "not the blissed institution of the Lord Jesus, which he hath commanded to be used in his kirk, to his gaincoming, but that which is cropen in into the kirk visible, without all approbation of ye word of God."
ref: 1864, James Paterson, History of the counties of Ayr and Wigton: Volume 2:
text: [...] has in the last days revealed from the bosom of His Father, whereof He made His apostles messengers, and which they preached and established among His faithful till the 'gaincoming of our Lord Jesus Christ; [...]
ref: 1867, Alexander Taylor Innes, The law of creeds in Scotland::
glosses: Return; a coming again; second coming or advent.
Coordinate terms: second coming
rockoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɒˈkuːn/
ipa: /ɹɑˈkun/
rhymes: -uːn
Forms: form: rockoons
Etymology: Blend of rocket + balloon
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronautics
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rocket, powered by solid fuel, that is not lit while on the ground but first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and automatically ignited to allow it to achieve a higher altitude.
Coordinate terms: english: aeroplane-launched high-altitude rocket
translation: aeroplane-launched high-altitude rocket
word: rockaire
rockoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockoon
Proto-Altaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Altaic.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Altaic languages, the existence of which is now often rejected.
MGySgt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Master Gunnery Sergeant.
BBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
government
law
politics
glosses: Initialism of balanced budget amendment.
coordinate_terms: MBA
DBA
glosses: Initialism of bachelor's of business administration.
triservice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + service.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to three services, especially an army, navy, and air force.
wicket maidens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wicket maiden
number ones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number one
number threes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number three
number fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number four
number fives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number five
number sixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number six
number sevens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number seven
number eights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number eight
number nines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of number nine
number tens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number ten
Number Ten
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: No 10
form: Number 10
Senses: topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: Number 11
glosses: Synonym of 10 Downing Street.
synonyms: word: 10 Downing Street
coprosmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copro- + -osmia.
Senses: glosses: A form of cacosmia in which the odor of feces is imagined.
claybeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claybegs
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic claidheamh beag (literally “small sword”). First attested in 1825 as Clay-beg.
Senses: examples: text: When Sir Walter Scott speaks, prior to 1715, of the inferiority of the claymore to the rapier, he refers not to the claybeg or Andrew Ferrara, now worn by the officers and sergeants of the Highland corps, and which has usurped the venerable name of the ancient Scottish weapon.
ref: 1835, letter to the editor of The United Service Magazine, page 109
glosses: The Scottish broadsword used during the Early Modern period.
Toshimitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese としみつ (Toshimitsu).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
up-plow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: up-plows
form: up-plowing
form: up-plowed
form: up-plowed
Etymology: From up- + plow.
Senses: glosses: To plow up; tear up as by plowing.
nuclear magnetic pulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear magnetic pulses
Senses: glosses: An electromagnetic pulse caused by a nuclear explosion
Synonyms: NEMP
nuclear electromagnetic pulse
Hypernyms: electromagnetic pulse
EMP
vision panels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vision panel
New World monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New World monkey
blacksmelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacksmelts
Etymology: From black + smelt.
Senses: glosses: Any of various ray-finned fish in the genus Bathylagus.
Derived terms: popeye blacksmelt
robust blacksmelt
upstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: upstands
form: upstanding
form: upstood
form: upstood
Etymology: From Middle English upstanden, equivalent to up- + stand. Cognate with Dutch opstaan (“to rise, stand up”), German aufstehen (“to arise, get up, stand up”), Swedish uppstå (“to arise, emerge, come up”).
Senses: examples: text: At once, upstood the monarch, and upstood / The wise Ulysses.
ref: 1820, Homer, William Cowper, translated by into English blank verse, The Iliad of Homer: with notes:
text: The combination with a closet seat, of a flexible mat having sockets, plates secured upon the seat and having recesses, and a standard pivoted upon each plate and fold- able to lie in the respective socket or to upstand from the seat, […]
ref: 1912, United States. Patent Office, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office: Volume 174:
text: Put differently, attention to norms and rules did not increase the likelihood that a student would choose to upstand or intervene. Students who were more likely to recommend direct support for the victim (choosing to upstand), however, […]
ref: 2010, Lonnie R. Sherrod, Judith Torney-Purta, Constance A. Flanagan, Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement in Youth:
glosses: To stand up; arise; be erect; rise.
Related terms: upstanding
upstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: upstands
Etymology: From Middle English upstanden, equivalent to up- + stand. Cognate with Dutch opstaan (“to rise, stand up”), German aufstehen (“to arise, get up, stand up”), Swedish uppstå (“to arise, emerge, come up”).
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: A section of a roof covering or flashing which turns up against a vertical surface.
Synonyms: upturn
upstand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Etymology: From Middle English upstanden, equivalent to up- + stand. Cognate with Dutch opstaan (“to rise, stand up”), German aufstehen (“to arise, get up, stand up”), Swedish uppstå (“to arise, emerge, come up”).
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: (of a beam) Having its top surface above the slab with which it integrates; "an upstand beam".
Ee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ees
Etymology: Borrowed from Hokkien 余 (Î).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
make someone's blood boil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes someone's blood boil
form: making someone's blood boil
form: made someone's blood boil
form: made someone's blood boil
Senses: examples: text: Dove says it makes her blood boil to see the way the poor young gentleman is treated.
ref: 1880, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 21, in Love and Life:
text: The hypocritical smugness of the English makes my blood boil.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter 23, in The Voyage Out:
text: Most men gave him a wide berth, and for the sake of peace accepted sneers and insults that made the blood boil.
ref: 1922, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 4, in Man Size:
text: Yet, I also know how intimidating it is to have a tailgater behind; it makes my blood boil.
ref: 1989 June 25, Jacquie Herz, “Beware: Teen-Age Driver, Nervous Mother”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jul 2011:
text: A day earlier, he had said wage disparities between genders made his "blood boil".
ref: 2008 Aug. 21, Joe Klein, "Where's Obama's Passion?, Time
glosses: To cause a person to feel angry or very annoyed, especially in situation in which one cannot fully display that feeling to others.
Related terms: make someone's blood run cold
blood-boiling
upstare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upstares
form: upstaring
form: upstared
form: upstared
Etymology: From up- + stare.
Senses: examples: text: […]With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair—[…]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]
ref: 1896, Edward Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley:
text: Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.
ref: 1903, Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42:
text: I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare
ref: 1927, Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven:
text: […] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!
ref: 1999, Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana:
glosses: To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
representers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of representer
OSI layer 8
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The OSI model is a reference model consisting of 7 abstract layers, with the physical network hardware being the lowest level, and the application being used the highest level; the human user might humorously be regarded as a layer on top of this.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The user.
Old World monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Old World monkey
Newton's cradle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newton's cradles
form: Newton's Cradle
Etymology: Named after Isaac Newton.
Senses: glosses: A device that demonstrates conservation of momentum and energy via a series of swinging spheres. When a sphere at one end is lifted and released, the resulting force travels through the line and pushes the opposite sphere upward, repeating the process as it swings back down.
wikipedia: Isaac Newton
Synonyms: Executive Ball Clicker
lampboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampboards
Etymology: From lamp + board.
Senses: glosses: A board housing a number of lamps that may be lit by an electrical circuit.
lampboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampboard
lampads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lampad
sugarlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sugarless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of sugar.
Smithsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪθˈsəʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Smithsonian
form: most Smithsonian
Etymology: From Smithson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to James Smithson (c.1765–1829), British mineralogist and chemist whose bequest was used to set up the Smithsonian Institution in the United States.
Smithsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɪθˈsəʊni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: the Smithsonian
Etymology: From Smithson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Published in 1982, the now out-of-print computer guide is a real relic, full of dozens of black-and-white pictures of large, bulky computers that you would sooner find in the Smithsonian than on anybody's desk today.
ref: 1991, U.S. News & World Report, volume 116, numbers 9-16, page 72:
glosses: The Smithsonian Institution, a group of museums and research centers established in 1846 and administered by the United States government.
Derived terms: Blacksonian
Bur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Burs
Etymology: Three possible origins:
* Borrowed from French Bur, probably a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name.
* Borrowed from Alemannic German Bur (“peasant, farmer”) and Low German Bur (“peasant, farmer”).
* Borrowed from Slovak Búr, a surname of unexplained origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Wellingtonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wellingtonian
antiwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + water.
Senses: examples: text: Thus antiwater would boil and freeze at the same temperatures as ordinary water.
ref: 1979, William Darrach Halsey, Merit students encyclopedia: Volume 2:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical substance resembling water but made from antimatter.
subclassify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subclassifies
form: subclassifying
form: subclassified
form: subclassified
Etymology: From sub- + classify.
Senses: glosses: To classify into a subclass.
subclassifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subclassify
subclassifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subclassify
sublogics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublogic
Hee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hees
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Hee.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch
Hee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hees
Etymology: Borrowed from Puxian Min 許 /许 (hy³).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Puxian Min
Hong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Hong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hongs
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 洪 (Hóng) or Taishanese 湯 /汤 (hong¹).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Mandarin or Taishanese.
upsnatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsnatches
form: upsnatching
form: upsnatched
form: upsnatched
Etymology: From up- + snatch.
Senses: examples: text: With pity struck, with horror for my deed, The babe upsnatch'd away I bore with speed ; And, knowing Zion should be captive led, Far to these mountains of the East I sped.
ref: 1832, Blackwood's magazine, volume 31:
text: With Zephyr from his palace in the west, thou dost upsnatch the Twins from cradled rest, And strain them to thy breast, [...]
ref: 1855, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, The poets and poetry of America:
text: To her the wood-ivy, like a spirit, hovers round the old hawthorn, and everywhere "mystic Presences of power" "upsnatch" her "to the timeless, then return" her "to the Hour."
ref: 1907, Martha Foote Crow, Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
glosses: To seize or snatch up.
upsolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsolves
form: upsolving
form: upsolved
form: upsolved
Etymology: From up- + solve.
Senses: examples: text: They were both broiled o' th' coles i and a man may smell broil'd meat, I hope ? you are a scholar, upsolve me that, now.
ref: 1756, Ben Jonson, Peter Whalley, The Works of Ben. Jonson:
text: Pray you, upsolve me this question : What holiday is this, Latter Lammas or St. Ginnyes Even? […] Upsolve me that question.
ref: 1951, Peter Hausted, The rival friends: Issues 23-25:
glosses: To solve; explain.
qualifier: competitive programming
glosses: To solve a problem after the end of a contest.
upsway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upsways
form: upswaying
form: upswayed
form: upswayed
Etymology: From up- + sway.
Senses: glosses: To sway or swing up; brandish.
cross-sell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-sells
form: cross-selling
form: cross-sold
form: cross-sold
Etymology: From cross- + sell.
Senses: examples: text: The sales training program on cross-selling our best customers profitable advisory services.
text: We want salesmen who know how to cross-sell.
glosses: To sell (additional products) to existing customers.
cross-sell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-sells
Etymology: From cross- + sell.
Senses: glosses: The act of making such a sale.
bestood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʊd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bestand
offstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offstands
form: offstanding
form: offstood
form: offstood
Etymology: From Middle English ofstonden, from Old English ofstandan (“to remain, persist, continue; restore, make restitution”), from Proto-Germanic *afstandaną, *afstāną, equivalent to off- + stand. Cognate with Dutch afstaan (“to cede, yield, relinquish”), German abstehen (“to project, stick out, stand away”), Swedish avstå (“to refrain, desist, give up, relinquish”).
Senses: examples: text: Those who are involved in long enmities sacrifice continually to the hidit in order to offstand such affliction.
ref: 1919, Roy Franklin Barton, Ifugao economics: Volume 15, Issues 1-5:
text: […] announced in its issue of October tenth that New Jersey's Governor, Livingston, had received word of the intended attack and was planning measures to offstand it.
ref: 1983, Henry Charlton Beck, Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey:
text: […] and hope to build with such permanency and force as to offstand the headwaters which will surely come again.
ref: 2001, Paulina Ann Batterson, Columbia College:
text: "His excellency is wise not to waste breath renewing it. He grows fat, and his breath is short" "What can you expect to gain by resistance, save death?" Gonzales asked. "How can you hope to offstand a score and a half of us?
ref: 2003, Johnston McCulley, The Mark of Zorro:
glosses: To endure against; stand or ward off; defend against; withstand; resist.
examples: text: To offstand the dire effects of its hoarding policy, the Secretary, from March 4, 1885, began lending money to the national banks — that is he deposited it in those institutions.
ref: 1886, The Current: politics, literature, science and art: Volume 6
text: Smith paid seven thousand pounds for the copyright, though it was not a financial success ; George Eliot, in fact, afterward gave a short story, "Brother Jacob," to offstand the publisher's loss.
ref: 1913, The Bookman: a review of books and life: Volume 36
glosses: To offset; compensate for; make restitution for.
offstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English ofstonden, from Old English ofstandan (“to remain, persist, continue; restore, make restitution”), from Proto-Germanic *afstandaną, *afstāną, equivalent to off- + stand. Cognate with Dutch afstaan (“to cede, yield, relinquish”), German abstehen (“to project, stick out, stand away”), Swedish avstå (“to refrain, desist, give up, relinquish”).
Senses: examples: text: […] but there is partially in a few instances where the person has two-thirds of the away-going crop, and where he has that two-thirds, generally their agreement is that they do not pay any offstand; they have it clear.
ref: 1886, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, House of Commons papers: Volume 6:
glosses: Offset; restitution.
offstood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offstand
pudendum virile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pudenda virilia
Etymology: From Latin pudendum (“a thing to be ashamed of”) + virile, neuter form of virilis (“of a man”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A part of the male pudenda; the principal male organ of intromission and micturition; the penis.
Synonyms: penis
yard
membrum virile
Related terms: vulva
vagina
testes
pudendum muliebre
AdjP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AdjPs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of adjective phrase.
Coordinate terms: NP
VP
PP
AdvP
AdvP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AdvPs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of adverbial phrase.
Coordinate terms: NP
VP
PP
AdjP
stone loach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone loaches
Senses: glosses: Barbatula barbatula, a species of ray-finned fish in the family Nemacheilidae or subfamily Nemacheilinae in family Balitoridae (hillstream loaches).
blennorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Coneal ulcers, however, were only observed in those instances where gonococci were present, both in the blennorrhœic and non‐blennorrhœic cases.
ref: 1901, Karl Grossmann, The Ophthalmic Review, volume XX, J. & A. Churchill, page 161:
glosses: Obsolete form of blennorrheic.
superly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superly
form: most superly
Etymology: From super + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The funeral car was superly arranged. It consisted of a platform, on which was erected a canopy of black cloth and velvet, trimmed with silver lace.
ref: 1853, Bizarre: Volume 2 - Page 94
text: A superly adorned creature, the Callithea Markii, having wings of a thick texture, coloured sapphire, blue, and orange, was only an occasional visitor.
ref: 1865, The ladies' companion - Page 9
glosses: In an excellent manner; excellently.
cry in one's beer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries in one's beer
form: crying in one's beer
form: cried in one's beer
form: cried in one's beer
form: cry into one's beer
form: weep in one's beer
Senses: examples: text: It was a pleasure to talk to a movie producer who wasn't crying in his beer over what the European war has done to the picture business.
ref: 1940 June 16, Frederick C. Othman, “Here's Film Director Who Says War Helps Business”, in St. Petersburg Times, US, retrieved 15 Jul 2011, page 21:
text: He was bitter about the whole thing, but he wasn't crying in his beer.
ref: 1956 July 27, Harris Powers, “The Circus Gets In One's Blood”, in Sarasota Journal, US, retrieved 15 Jul 2011, page 4:
text: "When you win, you're supposed to drink to celebrate, and when you lose, you're supposed to cry in your beer."
ref: 2003 April 17, Ian O'Connor, “Alcohol puts a damper on fun and games”, in USA Today, retrieved 15 Jul 2011:
text: Christopher Nolan need not cry in his beer over Inception's demotion to the No. 2 spot.
ref: 2010 August 8, Richard Corliss, “Box Office Weekend”, in Time:
glosses: To feel sorry for oneself; to feel sadness or regret, especially in combination with self-pity.
Related terms: drown one's sorrows
cry into one's beer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cries into one's beer
form: crying into one's beer
form: cried into one's beer
form: cried into one's beer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cry in one's beer.
weep in one's beer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weeps in one's beer
form: weeping in one's beer
form: wept in one's beer
form: wept in one's beer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cry in one's beer.
weep into one's beer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weeps into one's beer
form: weeping into one's beer
form: wept into one's beer
form: wept into one's beer
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cry in one's beer.
a treat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: An ellipsis of like a treat (“thing that gives pleasure”).
Senses: examples: text: The plan worked a treat.
text: That meal went down a treat.
glosses: Very nicely or effectively.
Synonyms: like a charm