cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
constraint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹeɪnt/
ipa: /kənˈstɹæɪnt/
rhymes: -eɪnt
Forms: form: constraints
Etymology: From Middle English constreynt, constreynte, from Old French constreinte, past participle of constreindre (“to constrain”), from Latin cōnstringō (corresponding to the past participle cōnstrictus).
Senses: examples: text: An engineer must recognize the difference between a constraint (to work within) and a problem (to be eliminated via resolution).
text: Today’s electricity demand (65 EJ/a) is well covered by the range, but constraints may occur in the long run locally. Amongst large countries, Nigeria and India may need imports to meet electricity demand.
ref: 2015, Quantifying a realistic:
coordinate_terms: problem
glosses: Something that constrains; a restriction.
examples: text: They confessed, but only under severe constraint.
glosses: An irresistible force or compulsion.
examples: text: Although his blood so rose against this man, and his wrath so stirred within him, that he could have struck him dead, he put such fierce constraint upon himself that he passed him without a word or look. Yes, and he would have gone on, and not turned, though to resist the Devil who poured such hot temptation in his brain, required an effort scarcely to be achieved, if this man had not himself summoned him to stop
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The repression of one's feelings.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A condition that a solution to an optimization problem must satisfy.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A linkage or other restriction that maintains database integrity.
Derived terms: budget constraint
constraint cluster
constrainted
constraintive
constraintless
constraint logic programming
constraint satisfaction
Hamiltonian constraint
holonomic constraint
integrity constraint
liquidity constraint
markedness constraint
metaconstraint
multiconstraint
nonconstraint
subconstraint
theory of constraints
time constraint
unconstraint
unconstrainted
Related terms: constrain
constrict
restraint
dika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dikas
Etymology: Native West African name.
Senses: glosses: A tree of species Irvingia gabonensis.
synonyms: Gaboon chocolate
glosses: A West African food made from the almond-like seeds of Irvingia gabonensis.
Derived terms: dika bread
Raney nickel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raney nickels
Etymology: It was developed in 1926 by American engineer Murray Raney.
Senses: glosses: A finely divided nickel-aluminum alloy that has been treated with NaOH to dissolve out most of the aluminum.
Synonyms: spongy nickel
shid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪd/
Forms: form: shids
Senses: glosses: A piece of firewood four feet long.
glosses: A unit of length equal to four feet.
shid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Well, gen'lemen, this is better, but a record property shid fetch a record price.
ref: 1920, John Galsworthy, The Skin Game, act II, scene I:
glosses: Alternative spelling of should.
shid
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪd/
Etymology: Alteration of shit.
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of shit.
shid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪd/
Forms: form: shids
form: shidding
form: shid
form: shid
form: shidded
form: shidded
Etymology: Alteration of shit.
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of shit.
shid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɪd/
Forms: form: shids
Etymology: Alteration of shit.
Senses: glosses: Euphemistic form of shit.
boom town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boom towns
form: boomtown
Senses: examples: text: Do you remember the good old days before the ghost town? / We danced and sang, and the music played in a de boomtown
ref: 1981, Jerry Dammers, “Ghost Town”, performed by The Specials:
text: But, as in other boom towns, growth creates problems and doubts about how long it can be sustained. Water supplies are limited and the lack of experienced casino employees could make it easier for cheaters to bilk casinos, whether at blackjack tables or by rigging slot machines.
ref: 1986 August 22, Nicholas D. Kristof, “Hot Spot in Sun Belt: Boom Town for Gambling”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A town that is experiencing or has experienced a period of rapid growth due to some temporary activity.
Related terms: ghost town
mesmerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛzməɹaɪz/
Forms: form: mesmerizes
form: mesmerizing
form: mesmerized
form: mesmerized
form: mesmerise
Etymology: Back-formation from mesmerism, thus mesmerism + -ize; first attested in 1829.
Senses: examples: text: Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 142:
glosses: To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.
examples: text: She mesmerized the audience with her tricks
text: Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 99:
glosses: To spellbind; to enthrall.
Synonyms: sense: exercise mesmerism on
word: spellbind
sense: exercise mesmerism on
word: hypnotize
sense: exercise mesmerism on
word: enthrall
sense: exercise mesmerism on
word: fascinate
Derived terms: demesmerize
mesmeree
mesmerizable
mesmerization
mesmerizer
unmesmerize
Related terms: hypnotize
mesmerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛz.məˌɹɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈmɛz.mɚˌɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈmez.məˌɹɪz.əm/
Forms: form: mesmerisms
Etymology: From French mesmérisme, analysable as Mesmer + -ism; so called after Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815), a German physician who developed the animal magnetism theory.
Senses: examples: text: What is the secret mesmerism which friendship possesses, and under the operation of which a person ordinarily sluggish, or cold, or timid, becomes wise, active, and resolute, in another's behalf?
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: The method or power of gaining control over someone's personality or actions, as in hypnosis or suggestion.
examples: text: ...the fact stood proven that I had seen it in my vision. Lawks! ...When the magician's engagement closed there was but one person in the village who did not believe in mesmerism, and I was the one. All the others were converted, but I was to remain an implacable and unpersuadable disbeliever in mesmerism and hypnotism for close upon fifty years.
ref: 2010, Mark Twain, Autobiography of Mark Twain, volume 2, page 302:
glosses: The state induced by hypnotic methods (especially that of Mesmer himself).
Derived terms: mesmeric
phrenomesmerism
mesmerist
mesmerize
mesmerized
mesmerizing
Related terms: hypnosis
somnolism
tard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)d
homophone: tarred
Forms: form: tards
form: 'tard
Etymology: Aphetic form of retard.
Senses: glosses: A person with mental retardation.
glosses: A person who acts stupidly.
Related terms: /b/tard
celebutard
chantard
flattard
fucktard
globetard
libertard
libtard
spamtard
tard guard
tard wrangler
tard wrangle
Twitard
racket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
Forms: form: rackets
form: racquet
form: racketeering
Etymology: From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin.
Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”).
Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Senses: examples: text: He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.
text: Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
ref: 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: bat
paddle
racquet
glosses: An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.
glosses: A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
glosses: A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
Derived terms: badminton racket
ladies' rackets
racket abuse
racket sport
racket-tail
squash racket
tennis racket
racket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
Forms: form: rackets
form: racketing
form: racketed
form: racketed
form: racquet
form: racketeering
Etymology: From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin.
Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”).
Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Senses: examples: text: Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
ref: 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons:
glosses: To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
racket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹækɪt/
rhymes: -ækɪt
Forms: form: rackets
form: racketing
form: racketed
form: racketed
form: racquet
form: racketeering
Etymology: Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“to shake, rattle”).
Senses: glosses: To make a clattering noise.
glosses: To be dissipated; to carouse.
ruckus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌkəs/
rhymes: -ʌkəs
ipa: /ˈɹukəs/
Forms: form: ruckuses
Etymology: Recorded since 1890; probably a blend of ruction (“disturbance”) + rumpus (“disturbance, fracas”).
Senses: examples: text: “Hey, hey, hey, what's the ruckus? I'm trying to conduct important business back there.” “We finished with the tile. And now we're trying to move the pool table back.” “All right, all right, all right. Have you done the urinal? Because the urinal, you flush it, and it sprays all over the place.”
ref: 2006 July 6, Charlie Day & Glenn Howerton & Rob McElhenney, “Dennis and Dee Go on Welfare” (3:13 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Frank Reynolds (Danny DeVito):
glosses: A raucous disturbance and/or commotion.
glosses: A row, fight.
Synonyms: ruction
rumpus
uproar
Derived terms: ruckus juice
ruckus room
ruckusy
Related terms: raucous
manhandle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌhæn.dəl/
Forms: form: manhandles
form: manhandling
form: manhandled
form: manhandled
form: man-handle
Etymology: From Middle English manne-handlen, man handelen, equivalent to man (“male person”) + handle.
Senses: examples: text: I see him—Tom—on horse-block standing,
Trumpet at mouth, thrown up all amain,
An elephant's bugle, vociferous demanding
Of topmen aloft in the hurricane of rain,
"Letting that sail there your faces flog?
Manhandle it, men, and you'll get the good grog!"
ref: 1876, Herman Melville, Bridegroom Dick:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To move something heavy by force of men, without aid of levers, pulleys, machine, or tackles.
examples: text: The polls were guarded by bullies who did not hesitate at command to manhandle any decent citizen indicated by the local leaders.
ref: 1918, Stewart Edward White, chapter 13, in The Forty-Niners, page 177:
synonyms: rough up
glosses: To assault or beat up a person.
examples: text: She yells at people who manhandle the tomatoes or break the beans.
ref: 1996 April 21, Barbara Stewart, “Another Harvest: One Farm, One Life”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Nov 2012:
text: Britain’s most senior police chief defied pressure to resign as she dismissed “armchair” critics amid widespread outrage over officers manhandling women who were mourning the killing of Sarah Everard.
ref: 2021 March 14, Vikram Dodd, Aamna Mohdin, Aubrey Allegretti, “Cressida Dick refuses to quit over vigil policing and dismisses 'armchair critics'”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: mistreat
maltreat
glosses: To mishandle; to handle roughly; to mangle.
examples: text: Riders who succeed on this terrain are able to manhandle their bike as it rattles over the bumps.
ref: 2010 July 3, Juliet Macur, “Riders Gird for Four Challenging, Engrossing Stages of the Tour”, in New York Times, retrieved 06 Nov 2012:
glosses: To control (a machine, vehicle, situation, etc.) by means of physical strength.
Derived terms: manhandler
unmanhandled
down and out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: down-and-out
Senses: examples: text: People who are down and out need some place to turn.
text: So if I ever get my hand on a dollar again, I'm gonna hold on to it 'til them eagles grin
Nobody knows you, when you down and out
In my pocket not one penny, and my friends I haven't any
ref: 1923, Jimmy Cox, “Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out”:
text: Didn't take too long 'fore I found out
 What people mean by down and out
ref: 1971, Led Zeppelin, “Black Dog”:
glosses: In a condition of poverty or debility, especially as a result of experiencing a financial or personal setback.
Synonyms: destitute
down at heel
homeless
Derived terms: down-and-outer
down and out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down and outs
form: down-and-out
Senses: glosses: Synonym of down-and-outer.
synonyms: word: down-and-outer
Related terms: down but not out
homelessness
on one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He's very quick on his feet.
text: She's so light on her feet that we couldn't hear her coming.
glosses: While standing up or walking, running, etc.
examples: text: Welcome back! It's good to see you back on your feet.
glosses: Able to stand; hence, healthy, well, especially after some previous illness.
examples: text: The organization provides training and assistance to help the unemployed get back on their feet.
text: It took some time for the lady to get back on her feet after the death of her husband.
text: Knock me down, it's all in vain
I get right back on my feet again
ref: 1980, Eddie Schwartz, “Hit Me with Your Best Shot”, in Crimes of Passion, performed by Pat Benatar:
synonyms: on one's legs
upon one's legs
glosses: In a satisfactory (non-physical) condition; happy financially, emotionally, etc.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, feet.
Derived terms: think on one's feet
land on one's feet
fall on one's feet
dead on one's feet
give someone the runaround
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the runaround
form: giving someone the runaround
form: gave someone the runaround
form: given someone the runaround
Senses: examples: text: Deitch decided seven years ago that she wanted to film a lesbian love story. When major producers gave her the run-around, she formed her own production company, hustled for backers and gathered the right crew of technicians and actors to make it happen.
ref: 1986 April 19, Loie Hayes, Donna Deitch, “Leapin' Lesbians!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
coordinate_terms: get the runaround
glosses: To delay, dodge, or frustrate (someone), especially by providing useless information or directions.
dodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /dɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: dodges
Etymology: Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Senses: glosses: An act of dodging.
examples: text: The dodges of women beat all comprehension; and I am sure she wouldn’t let the lad off so easily, if she had not some other scheme on hand.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 12, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
ref: 1869, Punch, volume 57, page 257:
text: He knows everybody, and is up to all the dodges of editorial management and newspaper cliques.
ref: 1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published 1896, →OCLC, page 14:
glosses: A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
examples: text: In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.
ref: 1992, Time, volume 140, numbers 1-9, page 74:
text: Through a series of unconventional circumstances, some my fault, Jackie had found herself working both civil and criminal sides of the real estate dodge, which put her among a rare breed of attorney […]
ref: 2009, Chris Knopf, Head Wounds, page 233:
glosses: A line of work.
Derived terms: scaldrum dodge
dodge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒd͡ʒ/
ipa: /dɑd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒ
Forms: form: more dodge
form: most dodge
Etymology: Likely from dialectal dodge, dod, dodd (“to jog, trudge along, totter", also "to jerk, jig”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from unrecorded Middle English *dodden, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dud- (“to move”), related to Old English dydrian, dyderian (“to delude, deceive”), Middle English dideren (“to tremble, quake, shiver”), English dodder, Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Senses: glosses: Dodgy.
roleplaying game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roleplaying games
form: role-playing game
form: role playing game
form: rôle-playing game
Senses: topics: games
synonyms: RPG
glosses: A type of game where one or more players assume the roles of characters (usually one each) to interact with a fictional world either defined by themselves or through the moderation of a neutral judge (usually referred to as the game master).
topics: video-games
glosses: A type of computer game where the player takes the role of a character or party, normally lacking tests of physical skill and including more story-telling and narrative aspects than traditional action games.
Derived terms: CRPG
JRPG
massively multiplayer online role-playing game
RPG
WRPG
Related terms: game master
in character
LARP
out of character
frustrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹʌˈstɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/
rhymes: (UK) -eɪt
Forms: form: more frustrate
form: most frustrate
Etymology: From Middle English frustrat (“prevented, disappointed, rendered useless”, adjective as well as past participle of frustraten (see Etymology 1)), from Latin frūstrātus, perfect passive participle of frūstrō (“to deceive”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Our frustrate search.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: In all eternity I had one chance
One few years' term of gracious human life
[…]
And this sole chance was frustrate from my birth
A mockery, a delusion; […]
ref: 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, volume XVI:
glosses: ineffectual; useless; fruitless.
sidestep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌstɛp/
Forms: form: sidesteps
Etymology: From side + step.
Senses: glosses: A step to the side.
glosses: A physical motion or metaphorical act to avoid or dodge something.
sidestep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪdˌstɛp/
Forms: form: sidesteps
form: sidestepping
form: sidestepped
form: sidestepped
Etymology: From side + step.
Senses: examples: text: I […] knocked and waited. […] He sidestepped, and I went in.
ref: 1955 October, Rex Stout, “Die Like a Dog”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 180:
text: Kilmarnock ought to have taken the lead on the stroke of half-time when Hefferman set up Kroca and, although the defender neatly sidestepped his marker, he fired straight into the chest of Enckelman.
ref: 2011 October 1, Clive Lindsay, “Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To step to the side.
examples: text: They sidestepped the issue.
text: It was noticeable that he sidestepped questions about continuation south of Crewe, on the grounds that he must await the report of Sir Ivan Stedeford's Advisory Group.
ref: 1960 November 24, “Talking of Trains: That engine change at Crewe”, in Trains Illustrated, page 641:
text: Adams repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether the Justice Department is taking specific steps to seize assets belonging to Putin but suggested that prosecutors have mapped out how the Russian President and wealthy kleptocrats are attempting to hide their money.
ref: 2022 May 5, Kara Scannell and Zachary Cohen, “DOJ unwinds complex web in hunt for Russian wealth belonging to Putin and influential players”, in CNN:
glosses: To avoid or dodge.
no-frills
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: no frills
Senses: examples: text: He rented a no-frills apartment and cooked his own meals.
text: Another friend […] gathered a group to go to […] a no-frills comfort food restaurant, with a vast menu of classics sold at extraordinarily low prices: the only item in the 11-page menu over 1,000 forints was a bottle of sparkling wine, a reasonable 1,190 forints for 0.7 liters.
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
text: Although it is a pain whenever I want to double a consonant before a suffix, per New Yorker style, and the spell-check prefers the no-frills version—“mislabeled,” say, instead of “mislabelled”—and I have to go back and poke in the extra letter and then put up with a disapproving red line under the word, I would never disable spell-check.
ref: 2015 April 6, Mary Norris, “Spelling Is for Weirdos”, in Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, published 2016, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Other stops retain no-frills brick-built shelters, although local community rail groups do their best to improve the ambience with planting, posters and artwork.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:
glosses: Basic or simple; providing only what is necessary, without anything extra or fancy.
boondoggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːndɒɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈbundɑɡl̩/
Forms: form: boondoggles
Etymology: Coined by American scout leader Robert H. Link in 1929; alternatively “boon doggle”. Compare woggle of similar sense, which is attested in the same period. In the sense of a “wasteful government program”, popularized in 1935 by The New York Times, in reference to New Deal programs which were claimed to feature people making such braids.
Senses: synonyms: woggle
qualifier: especially scouting
glosses: A braided ring to hold a neckerchief.
examples: text: Opponents consider this another billion-dollar government boondoggle.
text: Senator John Stennis […] has been active and effective for so long as a member of the Armed Services Committee that he knows as well as any man can where the bodies are buried in the Pentagon and the boondoggles are buried in the defense budget.
ref: 1972 September 19, Tom Wicker, “In the Nation”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022, retrieved 13 Aug 2018:
text: By its strictest definition, a boondoggle is a recreational trip out of town, but it has been blurred by threadbare jokes to mean any trip that is desirable, whether for work or not.
ref: 2005, Nicholas Johnson, “Chapter 3 Notes”, in Big Dead Place, →ISBN:
text: “Oh, for the-- how much did you waste on that little boondoggle?” “Well, it's not that so much as--” “Krieger.” “Well, I needed ballast, and what better to simulate bricks of cocaine than, you know, bricks of cocaine.”
ref: 2014 March 24, Adam Reed, “On the Carpet” (18:08 from the start), in Archer, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Malory Archer (Jessica Walter):
text: Klein dismantles the boondoggle that is cap and trade.
ref: 2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2022:
text: For cynics, it is a boondoggle plagued by delays (it began in 2007 and was supposed to begin experiments in 2016, but this will not now happen until 2025), questionable management and ballooning costs (double the original estimate).
ref: 2019 May 2, “Iter, a reactor in France, may deliver fusion power as early as 2045”, in The Economist, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2022:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: white elephant
glosses: A waste of time or money; a pointless activity.
examples: text: A non-work excursion away from the station in US Antarctic English is a “boondoggle”, or a “jolly” for the Britons.
ref: 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: Antarctica
glosses: A non-work trip away from a research station.
Derived terms: boondoggler
moondoggle
boondoggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːndɒɡl̩/
ipa: /ˈbundɑɡl̩/
Forms: form: boondoggles
form: boondoggling
form: boondoggled
form: boondoggled
Etymology: Coined by American scout leader Robert H. Link in 1929; alternatively “boon doggle”. Compare woggle of similar sense, which is attested in the same period. In the sense of a “wasteful government program”, popularized in 1935 by The New York Times, in reference to New Deal programs which were claimed to feature people making such braids.
Senses: glosses: To waste time on a pointless activity.
rehydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rehydrates
form: rehydrating
form: rehydrated
form: rehydrated
Etymology: From re- + hydrate.
Senses: glosses: To resupply with water that has been removed or lost; to moisten something that has dried.
Synonyms: topics: brewing
beverages
manufacturing
business
food
lifestyle
baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
english: ambiguous
translation: ambiguous
word: proof
topics: brewing
beverages
manufacturing
business
food
lifestyle
baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
word: bloom
Related terms: dehydrate
hydrate
reconstitute
dehydrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːhaɪˈdɹeɪt/
ipa: /diːˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˌdihaɪˈdɹeɪt/
ipa: /diˈhaɪdɹeɪt/
ipa: /diːhɑɪˈdɹæɪt/
ipa: /diːˈhɑɪdɹæɪt/
Forms: form: dehydrates
form: dehydrating
form: dehydrated
form: dehydrated
Etymology: From de- + hydrate.
Senses: examples: text: dehydrate food
text: Running in the heat can quickly dehydrate you.
text: The fruit was dehydrated and packed for storage.
glosses: To remove water from; to dry up.
examples: text: dehydrate rapidly
glosses: To lose water from one's body; to become dehydrated.
Synonyms: desiccate
exsiccate
parch
Derived terms: cryodehydrate
dehydratable
dehydratase
dehydrative
dehydrator
diedrate
pink slip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pink slips
Etymology: From pink + slip (“piece of paper”), referring to the colour of the paper, in some cases as it was in past, and not necessarily present, practice.
* (automobile title): Most likely from California, where the title is printed on a smaller index-card sized piece of pink paper; in other states the title is typically a full-size 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, usually printed on blue or blue-green paper with borders, similar to a stock certificate.
Senses: examples: text: Pink slips are being handed out faster in corporate America than you can say, “Recession? What recession?”
ref: 2003, Erica Orloff, Kathy Levinson, The 60-Second Commute: A Guide to Your 24/7 Home Office Life, page 139:
text: From 2002 to 2004, many individuals received pink slips as a result of a slow economy.
ref: 2008, Chioma Isiadinso, The Best Business Schools' Admissions Secrets, page 4:
text: 2008, Warren Richard Plunkett, Raymond F. Attner, Gemmy S. Allen, Management: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations, Thomson, 9th Edition, page 400,
Oracle chose a weekend in which to notify PeopleSoft employees of their termination: the company sent them pink slips via express mail.
glosses: A notice of termination of employment.
examples: text: But when she visited the bank, all she found inside were the pink slip to her car, a passport she′d acquired two years ago before a vacation trip to Australia and a few other documents.
ref: 1997, Jacqueline Diamond, Million-Dollar Mommy, Harlequin, unnumbered page:
glosses: The title document for an automobile.
examples: text: My car mechanic does the pink slip for my bike - he doesn't know anything about them but does know that I keep it in tip top condition.
ref: 2001 March 21, Sharon, “Obtaining Pink Slip”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet):
text: If the car is still currently registered, then you can drive it to anyone, anywhere to get the pink slip. If its just out of registration ( within 3 months of the rego expiring) then you take it to the nearest one ( or so they say)
ref: 2002 March 3, Terry, “Pink slip inspection?”, in aus.legal (Usenet):
text: Demand to see the pink slip (certificate of roadworthiness), as it proves the car is safe.
ref: 2003, Margo Daly, Anne Dehne, Rough Guide to Australia, 6th edition, page 194:
glosses: An automobile roadworthiness inspection certificate.
Synonyms: sense: employment termination notice
english: United Kingdom
translation: United Kingdom
word: P45
Related terms: green slip
pink slip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pink slips
form: pink slipping
form: pink slipped
form: pink slipped
Etymology: From pink + slip (“piece of paper”), referring to the colour of the paper, in some cases as it was in past, and not necessarily present, practice.
* (automobile title): Most likely from California, where the title is printed on a smaller index-card sized piece of pink paper; in other states the title is typically a full-size 8 1/2" x 11" sheet, usually printed on blue or blue-green paper with borders, similar to a stock certificate.
Senses: examples: text: After a week of anxiously watching the mailbox through little Japanese binoculars his wife had given him for a going-away present (she'd left him the day after he was pink-slipped) and getting nothing but sucker-list stuff through the regular deliveries that came each noon, he was jolted out of a boozy, black-and-white dream of jumping off The Stack into rush-hour traffic, by an insistent banging at the door.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 84:
synonyms: word: fire
word: let go
word: sack
word: axe
word: can
word: decruit
word: dehire
word: discard
word: remove
word: discharge
word: dismiss
word: downsize
word: fire
word: give the axe
word: give someone the boot
word: give someone their cards
word: give the chop
word: give the elbow
word: give someone the heave-ho
word: give someone the old heave-ho
word: lay off
word: let go
word: let someone go
word: make redundant
word: pink slip
word: promote to customer
word: retrench
word: sack
word: serve notice
word: shit-can
word: term
word: terminate
word: throw out
word: unhire
glosses: To terminate the employment of.
rimose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rimose
form: most rimose
Etymology: From Latin rimosus, from rima (“fissure”).
Senses: examples: text: the rimose head of a mushroom
text: a tree with rimose bark
synonyms: rimate
glosses: Having a surface covered with cracks, fissures, or crevices.
Derived terms: birimose
rimosely
rimosity
recall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːkɔːl/
enpr: rē′kôl′
enpr: rēkôl′
enpr: rĭkôl′
ipa: /ˈɹiˌkɔl/
ipa: /ɹiˈkɔl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɔl/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌkɑl/
ipa: /ɹiˈkɑl/
ipa: /ɹɪˈkɑl/
ipa: [ɹiˈkʰɑɫ]
rhymes: -iːkɔːl
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: recalls
form: recal
form: re-call
Etymology: From re- + call, probably modelled on Latin revocāre, French rappeler, English withcall.
Senses: examples: text: recall campaign
text: The recall said that no injuries related to the potentially unsterile facility have been reported.
ref: 2024 February 28, Ramishah Maruf, “Popular eye ointments may not be sterile, recall warns”, in CNN:
glosses: The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
Request of the return of a faulty product.
examples: text: recall petition
text: representative recall
topics: government
politics
glosses: The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
The right or procedure by which a public official may be removed from office before the end of their term of office, by a vote of the people to be taken on the filing of a petition signed by a required number or percentage of qualified voters.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The action or fact of calling someone or something back.
The right or procedure by which the decision of a court may be directly reversed or annulled by popular vote, as was advocated, in 1912, in the platform of the Progressive Party for certain cases involving the police power of the state.
examples: text: One little-known incident in No. 49's life is worth recall.
ref: 1959 June, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Cardeans" of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 310:
glosses: Memory; the ability to remember.
examples: text: precision and recall
synonyms: sensitivity
qualifier: information retrieval; machine learning; information retrieval; machine learning
glosses: The fraction of (all) relevant material that is returned by a search.
Derived terms: day-after recall test
letter of recall
pedestrian recall
sensory recall
total recall
boarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔədə/
ipa: /ˈbɔːdə/
ipa: /ˈbɔɹdɚ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈbo(ː)ɹdɚ/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈboədə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
homophone: border (horse–hoarse merger)
Forms: form: boarders
Etymology: From board + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The student body consisted primarily of boarders, except for a few children belonging to the school staff.
glosses: A pupil who lives at school during term time.
examples: text: When I left for college, my parents took on a boarder in my old room to help defray expenses.
glosses: Someone who pays for meals and lodging in a house rather than a hotel.
examples: text: "Calls to set down only" sounds more exciting. What station or train staff has the specific duty of repelling would-be boarders? Are the occupants of the train of such exalted main-line status that suburban interlopers are personae non gratae?
ref: 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253:
text: I have found holding all doors open solves much of this problem, as late boarders can enter the rear and tag in rather than wait the time it takes to get to the front, particularly if the bus shelter or some other obstacle hinders vision and boarding.
ref: 2013, Douglas Meriwether, The Dao of Doug:
glosses: One who boards a vehicle.
examples: text: The captain shouted at the crew to grab arms and repel boarders.
text: Sensors show inbound Covenant boarding craft. Stand by to repel boarders.
ref: 2001 November 15, Bungie, Halo: Combat Evolved, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Pillar of Autumn:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sailor attacking an enemy ship by boarding her, or one repelling such attempts by an enemy.
examples: text: A group of boarders swept past us as we climbed the side of the ski run.
glosses: Someone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.
Clipping of skateboarder.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Someone who takes part in a boardsport, such as surfing or snowboarding.
Clipping of snowboarder.
glosses: Misspelling of border.
Derived terms: boarder baby
boarder-cross
boardercross
boarder cross
boarder X
boarder-X
bodyboarder
nonboarder
parlour boarder
riverboarder
summer boarder
table boarder
Related terms: boarding house
boarding party
room and board
rooming house
roommate
pink pound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋk ˈpaʊnd/
Senses: glosses: The business generated by providing goods and services to the gay community.
Synonyms: word: pink money
word: Dorothy dollar
word: pink dollar
boarding party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarding parties
Senses: examples: text: Enemy boarding parties on starboard decks Eight through Ten.
ref: 2001 November 15, Bungie, Halo: Combat Evolved, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Pillar of Autumn:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The group of sailors who were selected to board an enemy ship and, when in control, to make such repairs to rigging and sail that the ship could be taken to port as a prize
boarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, board + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of board
boarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪŋ
Forms: form: boardings
Etymology: By surface analysis, board + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.
ref: 2000, Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring, page 24:
glosses: The act of people getting aboard a ship aircraft, train, bus, etc.; embarkation.
glosses: The act of a sailor or boarding party attacking an enemy ship by boarding it.
glosses: A structure made of boards.
glosses: The riding of a skateboard.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: A penalty called for pushing into the boards.
Derived terms: antiboarding
boarding card
boarding craft
boarding-house
boarding pass
boarding school
droneboarding
e-boarding
flexi-boarding
heliboarding
nonboarding
open boarding
riverboarding
volcano boarding
lodging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɒd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪŋ
Forms: form: lodgings
Etymology: From lodge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A place to live or lodge.
examples: text: When I was a Cloister-monk, I was once sent to Durham on business of our Church; and coming home again, the dark night caught me at Risby, and I had to beg a lodging there.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: Sleeping accommodation.
glosses: Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
Derived terms: board and lodging
dry lodging
lodging house
lodgingless
nonlodging
outlodging
Related terms: lodge
lodging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɒd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪŋ
Etymology: From lodge + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lodge
Poseidon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsaɪdn̩/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ποσειδῶν (Poseidôn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the sea and other waters, earthquakes and horses; corresponds to the Roman god Neptune.
Derived terms: apoposeidion
periposeidion
Poseidonia
Poseidonian
boatswain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊ.sən/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈbəʊt.sweɪn/
ipa: /ˈboʊ.sən/
rhymes: (UK) -əʊsən
rhymes: (US, Canada) -oʊsən
Forms: form: boatswains
form: bosun
form: bo'sun
form: boson
form: bos'n
form: bo's'n
Etymology: From Middle English botswain, botswein, bote-swayn, from late Old English bātsweġen, from bāt (“boat”) + sweġen (“swain”), the latter element a borrowing from Old Norse sveinn (“boy”); equivalent to boat + swain (“boy, servant”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The officer (or warrant officer) in charge of sails, rigging, anchors, cables etc. and all work on deck of a sailing ship.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The petty officer of a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
glosses: A kind of gull, the jaeger.
glosses: The tropicbird.
Derived terms: boatswain-bird
boatswain's call
boatswain's chair
boatswain's mate
boatswain's pipe
cellphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈsɛlfoʊn/
homophone: self-own
Forms: form: cellphones
Senses: examples: text: Six years later, the Transportation Department advises drivers to avoid cellphones except in emergencies.
ref: 2009 July 23, “The Truth About Cars and Cellphones”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: Nakasone added that the NSA does not purchase cellphone location data of Americans or location data generated by automotive infotainment systems in the United States.
ref: 2024 January 26, Brian Fung, “The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Alternative form of cell phone.
Derived terms: cellevision
cellphone lot
direct-to-cellphone
fauxcellarm
cellphone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈsɛlfoʊn/
homophone: self-own
Forms: form: cellphones
form: cellphoning
form: cellphoned
form: cellphoned
Senses: examples: text: They stood on line, and slept and ate and cellphoned, all night and into the day.
ref: 2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record:
text: That information — including estimates that cellphoning drivers caused 955 fatalities and 240,000 accidents in 2002 — was finally pried loose this week by a freedom of information lawsuit.
ref: 2009 July 23, “The Truth About Cars and Cellphones”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
glosses: To make a call on a cellphone.
petty officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty officers
Senses: glosses: A non-commissioned officer in the Canadian, US and UK Navy and the US Coast Guard; roughly equivalent to a sergeant in the army
Synonyms: word: PO
Coordinate terms: non-commissioned officer
warrant officer
commissioned officer
general officer
field officer
staff officer
Derived terms: chief petty officer
master chief petty officer
petty officer first class
petty officer second class
petty officer third class
senior chief petty officer
boatswain-bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatswain-birds
Senses: glosses: A tropical bird, Phaethon aethereus, often found far from land, whose cry resembles the whistle of a boatswain's pipe.
boatswain's chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatswain's chairs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A short board or other seating, secured in a bridle of ropes, used to hoist a man aloft or over the ship’s side for painting and similar work.
Synonyms: bosun's chair
boatswain's pipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatswain's pipes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: boatswain's call
glosses: A whistle, previously used by boatswain's mates to pipe orders throughout a ship; now used for the ceremonial piping onboard of visiting dignitaries.
dignitary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡnɪtɹi/
Forms: form: dignitaries
Etymology: From French dignitaire.
Senses: examples: text: Chinese dignitaries traveled with us from place to place, and when ready to depart from Urumchi, or Tihwa, we were introduced to the high officials who were going along in the plane.
ref: 1948, Henry A. Wallace, Andrew Jacob Steiger, Soviet Asia Mission, →OCLC, →OL, page 156:
text: It was a remarkable climax to a match that ended with another of those disappearing acts from John Terry only to re-emerge, in full kit, so he could climb the steps, shake the hands of Eusébio, Michel Platini and all the other dignitaries, then help Frank Lampard to lift the trophy.
ref: 15 May 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic climbs highest to sink Benfica”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An important or influential person, or one of high rank or position.
dignitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡnɪtɹi/
Etymology: From French dignitaire.
Senses: examples: text: The badness of a dignitary harm derives from the victim's belief that a perpetrator is willing to override or ignore her standing as a person with rights, with dignity, as evidenced by the wrongful criminal deed; […]
ref: 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 140:
glosses: Relating to dignity.
bobstay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: bobstays
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A strong rope or chain rigging running from the end of the bowsprit to the ship's stem or cutwater.
bollard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɒləɹd/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɒlɑːd/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈbɒləd/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: bollards
Etymology: From Middle English bollard, probably from Middle English bole (“tree trunk”), from Old Norse bolr (“stump, trunk”), equivalent to bole + -ard (pejorative or diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Today he had for bollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist.
ref: 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone:
text: He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected.
ref: 1965, Poul Anderson, The Star Fox:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: bitt#Noun
coordinate_terms: cleat#Noun
glosses: A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured.
glosses: A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.
Derived terms: bollard condition
bollarded
bollarding
Related terms: sense: traffic bollard
word: traffic cone
sense: ship's mooring line attachment
word: capstan
tens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnz
Senses: glosses: plural of ten