cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coattail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coattails
form: coattailing
form: coattailed
form: coattailed
form: coat-tail
Etymology: From coat + tail.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't like I just coattailed the auditor's work. Based on the names on the time cards, I was able to conduct interviews with the employees whose labor was mischarged, and they told me which contracts they had actually worked on.
ref: 2014, Charles E. Piper, Investigator and Fraud Fighter Guidebook: Operation War Stories, page 139:
text: The first of these is what Holt calls coat-tailing on cultural epicenters. Through coat-tailing, the brand becomes part of a social movement or emergent meaning-making sub-culture such that it stands as a vested community member […]
ref: 2018, Curtis P. Haugtvedt, Paul M. Herr, Frank R. Kardes, Handbook of Consumer Psychology:
glosses: To ride the coattails of.
deictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪktɪk/
ipa: /ˈdaɪktɪk/
Forms: form: more deictic
form: most deictic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεικτικός (deiktikós, “capable of proof”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: exophoric#Etymology_2
coordinate_terms: homophoric
glosses: Of or pertaining to deixis; to a word whose meaning is dependent on context.
glosses: Directly pointing out; specifying.
Derived terms: deictically
deictic center
nondeictic
deictic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪktɪk/
ipa: /ˈdaɪktɪk/
Forms: form: deictics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δεικτικός (deiktikós, “capable of proof”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Such a word (such as I or here).
Hyponyms: pronoun
search term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search terms
Senses: examples: text: The final number of search terms was 40.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 119:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The word or phrase that a user searches for, e.g. in a search engine.
lifeworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeworlds
Etymology: Calque of German Lebenswelt, coined by German philosopher Edmund Husserl.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The world "as lived" prior to reflective representation or analysis.
wikipedia: Edmund Husserl
Synonyms: Lebenswelt
McMahon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məkˈmæhən/
ipa: /məkˈmeɪən/
ipa: /məkˈmæn/
ipa: /məkˈmɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: McMahons
form: MacMahon
form: McMahan
form: McMeans
Etymology: Anglicized form of Irish Mac Mathúna, earlier spelling Mac Mathghamhna (literally “son of the bear”), from Middle Irish mac (“son”) and mathgamain (“bear”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Coulee, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
technoscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛknoʊˌsaɪ.əns/
Etymology: From techno- + science.
Senses: glosses: The long-standing global human activity of technology combined with the scientific method that occurred primarily in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
examples: text: Briefly put, strategies of globalization undertaken by the state, capital and technoscience all attempt to negotiate the production of locality in a non place- based way that induces increasingly delocalizing effects.
ref: 2002, Ginette Verstraete, Tim Cresswell, Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World, Rodopi, page 20:
text: Technoscience, when well directed, can produce important means of improving the quality of human life, from useful domestic appliances to great transportation systems, bridges, buildings and public spaces.
ref: 2015, Pope Francis I, Laudato Si': Encyclical Letter on care for our common home:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The study of the technological and social context of science.
coattails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coattail
coattails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coattail
deictics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deictic
Picassos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Picasso
debounces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debounce
debouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debounce
debounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of debounce
search terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search term
powerbrokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of powerbroker
millenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millenarian
monoploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoploid
mixoploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mixoploid
category theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: math, maths, mathematics
text: As mentioned earlier set theory provides a general conceptual framework for mathematics. Now, since category theory, through the notion of topos, has succeeded in axiomatising set-theory, the outcome is an entirely new categorial foundation of mathematics! The category-theorists attitude that "function" rather than "set membership" can be seen as the fundamental mathematical concept has been entirely vindicated. The pre-eminent role of set theory in contemporary mathematics is suddenly challenged. A revolution has occurred in the history of mathematical ideas (albeit a peaceful one) that will undoubtedly influence the direction of the path to the future.
ref: 1984, Robert Goldblatt, Topoi, the categorial analysis of logic, page 3:
text: [Eugenia Cheng] We don't talk about this enough. We make choices about what to count as the same and what to count as different, and we should be aware that we're making them. [Katrina Miller:] What kind of math do you explore in the book? [Cheng 2025: Unequal: The Math of When Things Do and Don't Add Up] [Cheng:] Category theory is a branch of math with this radical idea that when you study things, you don’t have to know what they are. What you have to know is how they interact with other things. It's all about relationships rather than intrinsic characteristics. And one of the most important relationships is sameness and equivalence. When is a relationship good enough to count as things being the same? One of my favorite tongue-in-cheek examples is if you need to temporarily take over someone's role at work because they're on leave. It typically doesn't matter what you look like. Unless the work is being a body double!
ref: 2025 August 30, Katrina Miller, “You Don't Need to Be Good at Math to Enjoy It. In her latest book, Eugenia Cheng, a mathematician, explores the choices we make to determine if two things — numbers, shapes, words and even people — are equal. 'A Conversation With' column”, in New York Times:
topics: mathematics
sciences
hypernyms: theory
math
maths
mathematics
coordinate_terms: set theory
glosses: A branch of mathematics which deals with spaces and maps between them in abstraction, taking similar theorems from various disparate more concrete branches of mathematics and unifying them.
Related terms: categorization
abstract algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ˈæl.d͡ʒɪ.bɹə/
ipa: /ˈæbˌstɹækt ˈæl.d͡ʒə.bɹə/
Etymology: From 1860, The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science
Senses: examples: text: The operations are necessarily algebraic, because the relative magnitudes of the given quantities and the quantity sought for are unknown; and it is the essential principle of abstract algebra to furnish rules and symbols of operation which are proper for calculating independently of the knowledge of relative magnitudes.
ref: 1860, Prof. Challis, VIII: On the possibility of finding a Root, real or imaginary, of every Equation: The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, page 46:
text: This is neither the best nor the worst of the many abstract algebra texts written for advanced undergraduate courses. The author devotes 300 pages to a first course in abstract algebra and 200 pages to a (presumably) second course in linear algebra.
ref: 1973, “AAAS Science Books: A Quarterly Review, Volume 9”, in American Association for the Advancement of Science, page 29:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics concerned with algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, and fields.
Synonyms: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
word: branch of algebra
real analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with the real numbers and related structures.
discrete mathematics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Collectively, most discrete or computer science-related branches of mathematics, such as graph theory and combinatorics.
discrete math
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Discrete mathematics.
ring theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with the algebraic structure of rings.
Derived terms: ring theoretic
ring theoretical
ring theorist
field theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field theories
Senses: glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with the algebraic structure of fields.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A theory which examines patterns of interaction between individuals and their environment.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A theory concerning the relationship between social actors and local social orders.
Derived terms: classical field theory
Galois theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡælwɑ ˈθi.əɹi/
Forms: form: Galois theories
Etymology: Standardly constructed calque of French théorie de Galois (which was used as a section heading in 1870, Camille Jordan, Traité des substitutions et des équations algébriques). First appeared in print in 1893, Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society.
Ultimately, named after French mathematician Evariste Galois (1811-1832), who first developed the theory to explore how the roots of a given polynomial equation relate to each other.
Senses: examples: text: In this chapter we present the Galois theory which may be described as the analysis of field extensions by means of automorphism groups.
ref: 1989, G. Karpilovsky, Topics in Field Theory, North-Holland, page 299:
text: The Galois theory of noncommutative rings is a natural outgrowth of the Galois theory of fields.
ref: 1989, Donald S. Passman, Infinite Crossed Products, Academic Press, page 297:
text: 1992, Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Analysis, Volume 27, Allerton Press, page 4,
Though often our results are prompted by the classical or parallel Galois theories, their proofs are completely different and are based on the set-theoretical approach.
text: Classical Galois theory has developed a number of extensions and ramifications into more specific theories, which combine it with other areas of mathematics or restate its main problems in different situations. Three of the most important are geometric Galois theory, differential Galois theory, and Lie Galois theory, all of which have undergone very rapid development in recent years.
ref: 2003, “Introduction”, in Leila Schneps, editor, Galois Groups and Fundamental Groups, Cambridge University Press, page ix:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: field theory
glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with Galois groups, Galois fields, and polynomial equations. It provides a link between field theory and group theory: it permits certain problems in the former to be reduced to the latter, which in some respects is simpler and better understood.
wikipedia: Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society
Camille Jordan
Evariste Galois
character theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of abstract algebra dealing with group characters.
universal algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal algebras
Senses: glosses: A branch of mathematics dealing with equational classes of algebras, where similar theorems from disparate branches of algebra are unified.
glosses: An algebraic structure studied therein.
computability theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Recursion theory.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The branch of the theory of computation that studies which problems are computationally solvable using different models.
recursion theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A branch of mathematical logic studying computable functions and Turing degrees, concerned with questions such as "What does it mean for a function on the natural numbers to be computable?" and "Can noncomputable functions be classified into a hierarchy based on their level of noncomputability?".
Synonyms: computability theory
coding theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with the art of transmitting messages reliably over a noisy channel by adding redundancy to the message.
defrags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defrag
Ramsey theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey.
Senses: examples: text: Ramsey theory can be loosely described as the study of structure which is preserved under finite decomposition.
ref: 1987, R. L. Graham, V. Rôdl, “Numbers in Ramsey Theory”, in C. Whitehead, editor, Surveys in Combinatorics 1987: Invited Papers for the Eleventh British Combinatorial Conference, Cambridge University Press, page 111:
text: 1999, Randall McCutcheon, Elemental Methods in Ergodic Ramsey Theory, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics: 1722, page 8,
We are now ready to offer a loose definition of Ramsey theory.
Ramsey theory is a collection of results which, given a finite coloring of some structure, guarantee the existence of certain monochromatic configurations or substructures.
text: In the 35 years since the lectures which form this book were given the area of Ramsey theory has continued to undergo tremendous growth, particularly in the last decade.
ref: 2015, Ron Graham, Steve Butler, Rudiments of Ramsey Theory, 2nd edition, American Mathematical Society, page vii:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of mathematics which deals with patterns that inevitably arise in sufficiently large sets (i.e., subsets of some structure).
wikipedia: Frank P. Ramsey
functional analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with infinite-dimensional vector spaces, whose elements are actually functions, as well as generalizations such as Banach spaces and Hilbert spaces.
wikipedia: functional analysis
simple:
bifurcation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of mathematics concerned with dynamical systems which suffer sudden qualitative changes from an infinitesimal change in a parameter.
Related terms: chaos theory
catastrophe theory
catastrophe theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics dealing with dynamical systems which can undergo abrupt irreversible qualitative changes due to a tiny change in parameters.
Related terms: bifurcation theory
chaos theory
Punnett square
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punnett squares
Etymology: For Reginald Punnett, British geneticist.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A graphical representation used to determine the probability of an offspring expressing a particular genotype.
alienage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alienages
Etymology: From alien + -age.
Senses: glosses: The status of being an alien; origin from elsewhere.
refugeehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From refugee + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a refugee.
brachialis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin bracchialis, brachialis. Doublet of brachial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle in the upper arm that flexes the elbow joint, in conjunction with the biceps brachii.
Synonyms: brachialis anticus
Derived terms: coracobrachialis
charter school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charter schools
Senses: qualifier: Alberta
glosses: A school that receives government funding but operates independently of the established state school system in which it is located, and in some cases is privately owned.
Synonyms: word: academy
bad check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad checks
Senses: examples: text: I'm here for five years for writing a $30 bad check. The judge was prejudice ^([sic]) because he knew I was gay.
ref: 1982 August 28, Norman L. Rice, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 7, page 19:
glosses: A check/cheque written against a bank account with insufficient funds to pay the bearer the amount of the check.
Synonyms: sense: check written against an account with insufficient funds to cover it
word: bounced check
sense: check written against an account with insufficient funds to cover it
word: rubber check
Hyponyms: sense: check written against an account with insufficient funds to cover it
word: hot check
Related terms: word: bounce
word: NSF
word: bounced check
blank check
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blank checks
form: blank cheque
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: A signed check of the type used to draw money from a bank account, containing no information as to the amount to be paid with it, so that any amount can be filled in.
examples: text: Nixon and Kissinger had established a blank check policy, giving the Shah a free hand to buy as many American weapons systems as he wanted, even the most technologically advanced, so long as they were not nuclear.
ref: 1992, Leon T. Hadar, Quagmire: America in the Middle East, page 55:
synonyms: carte blanche
glosses: A grant of complete authority to spend an unlimited amount of money, or to take other actions without restraint.
Derived terms: blank check company
bad checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bad check
blank checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blank check
common minnow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common minnows
Senses: glosses: A species of minnow widespread in the fresh waters of northern Eurasia, Phoxinus phoxinus.
Synonyms: sense: Phoxinus phoxinus
word: Eurasian minnow
sense: Phoxinus phoxinus
word: European minnow
loach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: loaches
Etymology: From Middle English loche, from Old French loche, further origin uncertain, possibly from Vulgar Latin *laukka (“loach”), which could be from Gaulish *leuca (“loach, slug”), also attested as the feminine name Leuca, from leux (“bright, light”), a reference to slugs' bright appearance, the fish later being associated due to similarities to the slug.
Senses: glosses: A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea.
Any true loach, of the family Cobitidae.
glosses: A bottom-feeding freshwater fish in the superfamily or suborder Cobitoidea.
A similar fish in one of three other families of Cypriniformes: Botiidae, Balitoridae, and Gyrinocheilidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Chromobotia macracanthus
word: clown loach
taxonomic: Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
word: dojo loach
english: Balitoridae
translation: Balitoridae
word: hillstream loach
taxonomic: Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
word: muddy loach
taxonomic: Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
word: oriental loach
taxonomic: Yaoshania pachychilus
word: panda loach
taxonomic: Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
word: pond loach
english: Balitoridae
translation: Balitoridae
word: river loach
word: sea loach
word: sergeant major loach
taxonomic: Cobitis taenia
word: spined loach
word: stone loach
taxonomic: Gyrinocheilus spp.
word: sucking loach
taxonomic: Misgurnus spp.
word: weather loach
loach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -əʊtʃ
Forms: form: loaches
Etymology: From the pronunciation of the acronym LOH (“loach”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of LOH (light observation helicopter)
synonyms: word: LOH
extra: light observation helicopter
common minnows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common minnow
charter schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charter school
Punnett squares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punnett square
calipash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɪpæʃ/
Forms: form: calipashes
form: calapash
form: callipash
Etymology: From French carapace, Spanish carapacho; further etymology uncertain. Doublet of carapace.
Senses: examples: text: The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:
text: Dobbin helped him to it; for the lady of the house, before whom the tureen was placed, was so ignorant of the contents that she was going to help Mr. Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: The edible greenish material found underneath the upper half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
Related terms: calipee
calipee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɪpiː/
Forms: form: calipees
form: calapee
form: callipee
Senses: examples: text: The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:
text: Dobbin helped him to it; for the lady of the house, before whom the tureen was placed, was so ignorant of the contents that she was going to help Mr. Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A food of the yellowish material found inside the lower half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
Related terms: calipash
string theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string theories
Senses: examples: text: String theory denies the existence of a hypothetical eleventh dimension.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A candidate unified theory of all physical forces and particles; a theory which suggests that subatomic particles are one-dimensional strings rather than zero-dimensional points. It also suggests that space-time can have up to nine dimensions, plus the dimension of time.
Derived terms: superstring theory
carapaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carapace
gob stoppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gob stopper
spare rib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare ribs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sparerib.
spare ribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spare rib (alternative form of spareribs).
aneuploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aneuploid
cheese crisps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheese crisp
proteasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteasome
neo soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neosoul
form: neo-soul
Etymology: From neo- + soul.
Senses: examples: text: She want neo-soul, this hip-hop is old / She don't want no Rock n' Roll
ref: 2002, “The Seed (2.0)”, in Phrenology, performed by The Roots:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A subgenre of rhythm and blues that combines the elements of contemporary rhythm and blues, 1970s-style soul music, hip hop, rap, jazz, funk, and classical music.
Related terms: crunk&B
hip hop soul
new jack swing
snap R&B
synthpop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synth-pop
Etymology: From synth (“synthesizer”) + pop.
Senses: examples: text: As well as being forefathers of the synthpop that would dominate the 1980s and beyond, the title track of Trans-Europe Express was sampled in 1982 by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force for one of the earliest hip-hop hits, Planet Rock, while Computer World was hugely influential on the house and techno music that emerged from Chicago and Detroit that decade.
ref: 2020 May 6, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk co-founder, dies aged 73”, in The Guardian:
text: Steve Bronski, a founding member of the trailblazing British synth-pop trio Bronski Beat, has died, a source close to the group has confirmed.
ref: 2021 December 9, Laura Snapes, “Steve Bronski: co-founder of Bronski Beat dies aged 61”, in The Guardian:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: electropop
glosses: A style of pop music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument.
Eurodance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Euro- + dance.
Senses: examples: text: A left field U.S. pick, this combination of big beat Eurodisco (or is that Eurodance now?) and westernized Japanese musical motifs is the unlikely work of a Scottish doctor’s wife and singer of traditional Gaelic folk songs.
ref: 1981 November 14, “Singles Review”, in Cash Box, volume XLIII, number 26, →ISSN, page 11:
text: Though the genre's formation took place in several countries across Europe, 20 years later Eurodance became the internationally most widespread popular music from Germany.
ref: 2020, Oliver Seibt, Martin Ringsmut, David-Emil Wickström, editors, Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: Europop
glosses: A type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s and continuing up until today.
scat singing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: jazz; singing; jazz; singing
glosses: The act of vocalizing, using nonsense syllables or sounds (e.g. "dool-yuh doot-n dwee-dah") to create an improvised melodic solo, often imitative of other musical instruments.
Related terms: word: scat
oenocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oenocytes
form: œnocyte
Etymology: From oeno- + -cyte.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large secretory cell found in clusters underlying the epidermis of larval abdominal segments.
Derived terms: oenocytic
oenocytoid
idiot light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiot lights
Etymology: From idiot + light, suggesting that even a stupid person with no mechanical knowledge can recognize a problem when thus indicated.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Any warning light or indicator on the dashboard of a car, designed to alert the driver to problems, such as the parking brake being on or the oil being low.
Synonyms: dummy light
Hypernyms: warning light
lour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaʊə/
ipa: /ˈlaʊ.ə/
ipa: /ˈlaʊɚ/
ipa: /ˈlaʊɹ/
ipa: /ˈlaʊ.ɚ/
rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)
rhymes: -aʊ.ə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lours
Etymology: The verb is derived from Middle English louren, lour, loure (“to frown or scowl; to be dark or overcast; to droop, fade, wither; to lurk, skulk”), probably from Old English *lūran, *lūrian, from Proto-Germanic *lūraną (“to lie in wait, lurk”).
The English word is cognate with Danish lure (“to lie in ambush; to take a nap”), Middle Dutch loeren (modern Dutch loeren (“to lurk, spy on”)), Middle Low German lûren (“to lie in ambush”), German Low German luren (“to lurk”), Middle High German lūren (“to lie in ambush”) (modern German lauern (“to lie in ambush; to lurk”)), Icelandic lúra (“to take a nap”), Saterland Frisian luurje (“to lie in wait”), West Frisian loere (“to lurk”), and Swedish lura (“to lie in ambush; to deceive, fool, trick; to lure; to take a nap”); and is related to lurk.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: I have ſuch averſion to ill temper, that I could ſooner forgive my wife adultery, than croſſneſs. I cannot taſte Caſſio's kiſs on her lips; but I can ſee a lour on her brow.
ref: 1798, attributed to Richard Griffith or Laurence Sterne, The Koran: Or, Essays, Sentiments, Characters, and Callimachies, of Tria Juncta in Uno, M.N.A. or Master of No Arts. Three Volumes Complete in One, volume II, Vienna: Printed for R[udolf] Sammer, bookseller, →OCLC, paragraph 49, page 156:
glosses: A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look.
synonyms: gloom
gloominess
glosses: Of the sky, the weather, etc.: a dark, gloomy, and threatening appearance.
palatine uvula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palatine uvulas
form: palatine uvulae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The uvula in the mouth (as distinguished from uvulae elsewhere in the body).
BOAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British Overseas Airways Corporation.
BEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of British European Airways.
topics: government
glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Economic Analysis.
BEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initialism of French BEA (“Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'analyses pour la sécurité de l'Aviation civile”).
Senses: glosses: Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile, the French civil aviation accident investigation bureau.
Hypernyms: english: transport[ation] safety [bureau/board]
translation: transport[ation] safety [bureau/board]
word: TSB
Coordinate terms: word: AAIB
word: ANSV
word: ATSB
word: MTSB
word: NTSB
word: TSB
mechanotransduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanotransductions
Etymology: From mechano- + transduction.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The conversion of a mechanical stimulus into chemical activity
Related terms: mechanotransductor
mechanotransduce
lamellipodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamellipodia
Etymology: From lamella + -podium (“leg-like structure”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cytoskeletal actin projection on the mobile edge of the cell.
Derived terms: lamellipodial
lamellipodin
lamellipodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lamellipodium
cytoskeletal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + skeletal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cytoskeleton.
Derived terms: cytoskeletally
myocytoskeletal
neurocytoskeletal
noncytoskeletal
nucleocytoskeletal
louvred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The problem is to design this louvred cladding to produce an impression of power, speed and efficiency.
ref: 1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 300:
glosses: Alternative form of louvered.
coracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coracoids
Etymology: From Latin corax + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Part of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals; the coracoid process
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: coracoideum
glosses: A small bone linking the scapula and sternum in birds, reptiles and some other vertebrates
coracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin corax + -oid.
Senses: glosses: hooked like the beak of a crow
glosses: Relating to the coracoid process
Derived terms: acrocoracohumeral
acrocoracoid
acromiocoracoid
coracoidal
coracoid ligament
coracoid process
costocoracoid
ectocoracoid
endocoracoid
epicoracoid
hypercoracoid
hypocoracoid
intercoracoid
mesocoracoid
metacoracoid
postcoracoid
precoracoid
procoracoid
scapulocoracoid
sternocoracoid
subcoracoid
supracoracoid
acrocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrocoracoids
Etymology: From acro- + coracoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dorsal expansion of the coracoid bone which completes the opening for the triosseal canal.
acrocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From acro- + coracoid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to this extension.
Derived terms: acrocoracoid process
acrocoracoidal
acrocoracoid process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrocoracoid processes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A dorsal expansion of the coracoid process which completes the opening for the triosseal canal.
coracoid process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coracoid processes
Senses: glosses: Part of the scapula that projects towards the sternum in mammals
acrocoracohumeral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: That connects the acrocoracoid process to the humerus.
Derived terms: acrocoracohumeral ligament
acrocoracohumeral ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrocoracohumeral ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A ligament that connects the humerus to the shoulder joint; its evolution was critical to the origin of flight in birds.
patch pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patch pockets
Senses: glosses: A pocket made of a piece of fabric by sewing it onto the outside of a garment.
Coordinate terms: sense: imitation pocket
word: decorative pocket
sense: imitation pocket
word: fake pocket
sense: imitation pocket
word: false pocket
sense: imitation pocket
word: besom pocket
massage parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massage parlours
form: massage parlor
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of massage parlor.
minimalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimalisms
Etymology: From minimal + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A style of art that emphasises extreme simplicity of form.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music that emphasises extreme simplicity of rhythms and melodic forms to achieve a trancelike effect.
Derived terms: nonminimalism
postminimalism
skinimalism
Related terms: minimalist
minimism
massage parlor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: massage parlors
form: massage parlour
Senses: glosses: A place where clients can pay for a massage.
glosses: A place that offers a happy ending (a hand job) after the massage; a front organization for a brothel.
Synonyms: sense: brothel
word: rub and tug
word: brothel
concrete nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrete noun
salutations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæljʊˈteɪʃənz/
Etymology: The interjection is an application of the noun.
Senses: glosses: plural of salutation
salutations
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsæljʊˈteɪʃənz/
Etymology: The interjection is an application of the noun.
Senses: examples: text: Greetings and salutations. You a Heather?
ref: 1989, Daniel Waters, 11:50 from the start, in Michael Lehmann, director, Heathers, spoken by Jason Dean (Christian Slater):
glosses: A greeting.
cathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkat.haʊs/
Forms: form: cathouses
form: cat-house
form: cat house
Etymology: Compound of cat + house.
Senses: examples: text: Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses, listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars […]?
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 5:
synonyms: word: academy
word: bagnio
word: bawdy house
word: bawdy-house
word: bawdyhouse
word: bordello
word: brothel
word: brothel house
word: cat house
word: cat-house
word: cathouse
word: common house
word: disorderly house
word: crib
word: escort agency
word: fuckhouse
word: hookshop
word: house of accommodation
word: house of ill fame
word: house of ill repute
word: knocking shop
word: leaping house
word: leaping-house
word: lupanar
word: nunnery
word: prostibule
word: pushing school
word: riding academy
word: sporting house
word: stew
word: vaulting school
word: wapping ken
word: whore-house
word: whorehouse
glosses: A brothel.
examples: text: Alot^([sic]) of great work is being done all throughout blog land in terms of raising the money to build a cathouse for homeless kitties here at the daily dose.
ref: 2012, Chrystal Parker, Daily Dose of Dogs (Aka Cats with Your Coffee), page 490:
glosses: Any small house, structure or fold used to house a cat.
Related terms: red light district
prostitute
red light district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red light districts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red-light district.
Obon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese お盆 (おぼん, Obon).
Senses: examples: text: It was coming up to Obon, and spirits were cruising about like travelers arriving at the airport with their suitcases, looking for a place to check in. Obon was their summer vacation, too, when they could come back from the land of the dead to visit us here, in the land of the so-called living.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 222:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Japanese festival to honour the spirits of one's ancestors.
Synonyms: Bon
Bon Festival
autoregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoregulations
Etymology: From auto- + regulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several physiological processes in which an inhibitory feedback system counteracts change.
glosses: The process that maintains a constant flow of blood to an organ despite changes in arterial pressure.
Derived terms: dysautoregulation
Related terms: autoregulate
autoregulative
autoregulator
autoregulatory
autovasoregulation
homeostasis
wheelchair user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelchair users
form: wheelchair-user
Senses: examples: text: "A number of companies claimed the dedicated space for wheelchairs is somehow a multi-user space. It isn't - the space for wheelchair users is prioritised for those users by law. That puts parents with pushchairs in conflict. […] A wheelchair user should not have to ask a parent with an unfolded buggy to move from that space, […].
ref: 2023 September 6, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Merseyrail and LNER top family-friendly survey”, in RAIL, number 991, page 15:
glosses: A person who is injured or disabled and uses a wheelchair for mobility, usually long-term.
Synonyms: word: roller
Related terms: wheelchair sport
stage of the game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stages of the game
Senses: examples: text: At that stage of the game it was too late for diplomacy.
glosses: A point in the progress of an ongoing dispute or process.
glenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːnɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈɡlɛnɔɪd/
Forms: form: glenoids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γληνοειδής (glēnoeidḗs, “socket like”), equivalent to
From glene + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A shallow depression in a bone, especially in the scapula.
Derived terms: ectoglenoid
interglenoid
preglenoid
retroglenoid
supraglenoid
glenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːnɔɪd/
ipa: /ˈɡlɛnɔɪd/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γληνοειδής (glēnoeidḗs, “socket like”), equivalent to
From glene + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to this depression.
Derived terms: ectoglenoiden
glenoidal
glenoid cavity
glenoid fossa
glenoid labrum
infraglenoid
postglenoid
hovercar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hovercars
Etymology: From hover + car.
Senses: glosses: A fictional motor car that hovers a short distance above the ground.
scapulocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scapulo- + coracoid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the scapula and coracoid bones of the shoulder.
scapulocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scapulocoracoids
Etymology: From scapulo- + coracoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A fusion of the scapula and coracoid bones found in lower vertebrates.
chondrichthyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondrichthyans
Senses: glosses: Any of the cartilaginous fish, especially those of the class Chondrichthyes.
Derived terms: euchondrichthyan
Related terms: osteichthyan
osteichthyan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteichthyans
Etymology: Osteichthyes + -an
Senses: glosses: A bony fish of the class Osteichthyes.
Related terms: chondrichthyan
SPGB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Socialist Party of Great Britain.
hit it big
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits it big
form: hitting it big
form: hit it big
form: hit it big
Senses: examples: text: I wasn't expecting it to work, but I hit it big when I tried the new approach.
glosses: To have great success
hit the big time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the big time
form: hitting the big time
form: hit the big time
form: hit the big time
Senses: examples: text: After years of hard work, they finally hit the big time with their sixth album.
glosses: To become successful and widely known.
the bigs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He played AA ball for years, but never made it to the bigs.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The major leagues.
sipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sip
interleukin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interleukins
Etymology: From inter- + leuko- + -in;
*inter-: from Latin inter- (“between, amid”), a form of prepositional inter (“between”).
*leuko: from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”)
*-in: from French -ine, from Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus "of" or "belonging to"
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, it’s possible to create the full storm of cold symptoms with no cold virus at all, but only a potent cocktail of the so-called inflammatory mediators that the body makes itself[,] among them, cytokines, kinins, prostaglandins and interleukins, powerful little chemical messengers that cause the blood vessels in the nose to dilate and leak, stimulate the secretion of mucus, activate sneeze and cough reflexes and set off pain in our nerve fibers.
ref: 2010 October 4, Jennifer Ackerman, “How Not to Fight Colds”, in The New York Times:
text: As another interleukin 12/23 antagonist, briakinumab, was withdrawn from further development in part due to concerns about cardiovascular safety, discussion has also emerged on cardiovascular safety of ustekinumab.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Patient Preferences for Biologicals in Psoriasis: Top Priority of Safety for Cardiovascular Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cytokine proteins important in the regulation of lymphocyte function.
grousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grouse
grousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grousings
Senses: examples: text: I'm sick of your grousings!
text: Cue the grousing: This was computer science, not physics or chemistry! Indeed, of the five laureates on Tuesday and Wednesday, arguably only one, the University of Washington biochemist David Baker, works in the field he was awarded in.
ref: 2024 October 13, Alan Burdick, Katrina Miller, “A Shift in the World of Science”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Peevish complaining.
glosses: The hunting of grouse
anticonstitutionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anticonstitutionally
form: most anticonstitutionally
Etymology: From anticonstitutional + -ly.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In an anticonstitutional manner.
seismo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós, “earthquake”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an earthquake.
grouching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: more grouching
form: most grouching
Senses: glosses: grouchy
Derived terms: grouchingly
grouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grouch
griping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gripe
griping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: gripings
Senses: examples: text: The gripings are always severe, and a sort of painful descent of the bowels accompanies every evacuation.
ref: 1824, John Mason Good, The study of medicine: with a physiological system of nosology:
glosses: Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
sponsorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponsorships
Etymology: From sponsor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: I find that for me, my sponsorship of a child via a charitable NGO provides a sense of great satisfaction.
glosses: The state or practice of being a sponsor.
examples: text: The company provided sponsorship to the research team.
text: The university awarded five sponsorships to the five most qualified applicants.
glosses: The aid or support provided by a sponsor; backing or patronage.
Synonyms: gossipred
Derived terms: sponsorship-linked marketing
burial chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burial chambers
Senses: synonyms: sepulchre
sepulcher
tomb
vault
;
grave
coordinate_terms: grave
glosses: A chamber, often below ground level, used to bury the remains of the dead.
dayroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayrooms
Etymology: From day + room.
Senses: glosses: A common room in a residential total institution such as barracks, psychiatric hospital, prison, or dormitory where the inhabitants can mingle and socialize.
glosses: A person who switches up or acts fake
day room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dayroom.
stratified columnar epithelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stratified columnar epithelium