cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæləɹi/
Forms: form: calories
form: calory
Etymology: Borrowed from French calorie, formed from Latin calor. It was originally defined as the large calorie in the early 19th century, with the small calorie being defined some decades later.
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
text: Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
text: Biotics possess extraordinary abilities, but they must live with minor inconveniences. The most obvious issue is getting adequate nutrition. Creating biotic mass effects takes such a toll on metabolism that active biotics develop ravenous appetites. The standard Alliance combat ration for a soldier is 3000 calories per day; biotics are given 4500, as well as a canteen of potent energy drink for quick refreshment after hard combat.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Biotics: Life as a Biotic Codex entry:
text: Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
ref: 2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3:
synonyms: large calorie
kilocalorie
Calorie
kilogram calorie
qualifier: nutrition
glosses: A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 kilojoules, that can raise the temperature of a kilogram of water by one degree Celsius. This is the unit normally used in food labeling.
examples: Holonyms: kilocalorie, calorie (large-calorie sense), large calorie, Calorie (capital C) < megacalorie < gigacalorie
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: small calorie
gram calorie
thermochemical calorie
glosses: A non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to 4.184 joules, that can raise the temperature of a gram of water by one degree Celsius. This unit was formerly widely used in chemistry and physics.
Derived terms: word: 15° calorie
word: 20° calorie
word: 4° calorie
word: a calorie is a calorie
word: a calorie is a calorie is a calorie
word: caloric
word: calorics
word: Calorie
word: calorie bomb
word: calorie-conscious
word: calorie deficit
word: calorie-ful
word: calorieless
word: calorie-restricted
word: calorific
word: calorific value
word: calorimetre
word: calorize
word: empty calorie
word: food calorie
word: gram calorie
english: noun modifier
translation: noun modifier
word: high-calorie
word: kilogram calorie
word: large calorie
english: noun modifier
translation: noun modifier
word: low-calorie
word: mean calorie
word: megacalorie
word: microcalorie
word: millicalorie
word: small calorie
word: thermochemical calorie
Related terms: caldera
cauldron
chalorous
chowder
nonchalant
scald
evaporite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈvæp.əˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: evaporites
Senses: examples: text: Astonished scientists conducted a drilling program, and a decade later confirmed that the layers of salts and other evaporites could mean only one thing: at some point the Mediterranean Sea had dried out.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 129:
glosses: The salty, crusty sediment that remains after salt water evaporates.
Derived terms: endoevaporite
evaporitic
afterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæf.təɹ.ɪŋz/
Senses: examples: text: All that was left in the cow were the afterings.
glosses: The last milk that is obtained when milking a cow. Often considered the poorest quality of milk.
glosses: The last of any substance that is of a poorer quality than the earlier substance, e.g. the dregs of coffee.
Synonyms: dregs
independently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪndɪˈpɛndəntli/
Forms: form: more independently
form: most independently
Etymology: From independent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Both teams worked out the answers independently.
text: The business partners had radically different ideas for the company, and each decided to work on a project independently of the other.
text: The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.
ref: 2014 September 29, Douglas Quenqua, “Toolmaking May Have Risen Independently”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an independent manner.
Derived terms: independently wealthy
separately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛpɹətli/
ipa: /ˈsɛpəɹətli/
Etymology: From separate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We've been living separately for three years.
text: Tackle the different parts of the climb separately before attempting the whole thing in one go.
text: Syntactically, hendiadic constructions differ from synthetonic sequences in that the latter are separate clauses, and hence are separately negatable and may have different tenses and aspects and different subjects.
ref: 2002, Joan L. Bybee, Michael Noonan, Complex Sentences in Grammar and Discourse, page 152:
glosses: In a separate manner; not together; apart.
Synonyms: sunderling
Malthusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mælˈθjuːzɪən/
Forms: form: more Malthusian
form: most Malthusian
Etymology: From Malthus + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: For first, this college life, opening to scholarships, and ending, perchance, as you political economists would desire, in Malthusian fellowships,—premiums for celibacy,— consider what manner of thing it is!
ref: 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons:
text: Even under the best of circumstances, however, no one would depend on this Malthusian adjustment process to account for the ability of modern economies to maintain a constant saving rate and steady growth for 20 years at a time without catastrophe.
ref: 1970, Robert M. Solow, Growth Theory: An Exposition, Oxford University Press, page 13:
text: A mixture of this Malthusian and ethno-nationalist thinking is being distilled into political campaigning, as in a political pamphlet described in Turner and Bailey’s research paper from SVP, the largest party in Switzerland’s federal assembly, which shows a city crowded by people and cars belching out pollution, with a tagline that translates to “stop massive immigration”.
ref: 2021 November 21, Oliver Milman, “Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be just as scary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, or relating to Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) or his views on human population and world resources.
Derived terms: Malthusian catastrophe
Malthusian check
Malthusian crisis
Malthusian crunch
Malthusianism
Malthusian spectre
Malthusian trap
neo-Malthusian
Malthusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mælˈθjuːzɪən/
Forms: form: Malthusians
Etymology: From Malthus + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: As Tess grew older, and began to see how matters stood, she felt quite a Malthusian towards her mother for thoughtlessly giving her so many little sisters and brothers, when it was such a trouble to nurse and provide for them.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter V, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A supporter of the ideas of Thomas Malthus.
percentage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɾ).senʈeːd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /pa(ɾ)ˌsenˈʈeːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: percentages
form: per-centage
Etymology: From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).
Senses: examples: text: A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
text: The replacement percentages are based largely on household spending data from the Department of Labor's Consumer Expenditure Survey.
ref: 2017 November 29, Walter Updegrave, “How much income will you actually need in retirement?”, in CNN Money:
text: Kramer said California’s legislation is weak compared to the laws in Norway and other European countries, which require a certain percentage of women on boards.
ref: 2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business:
synonyms: centage
glosses: The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
examples: text: She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
glosses: A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
examples: text: There was no percentage in staying at home.
glosses: Benefit or advantage.
Derived terms: baker's percentage
field goal percentage
free throw percentage
on-base percentage
percentage dice
percentage point
percentage rate
percentagewise
slugging percentage
subpercentage
Related terms: percent
percentile
permillage
permyriad
per cent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: per cent
Etymology: From Latin per centum.
Senses: examples: text: London Transport fares are now about 92 per cent. above prewar, but it is claimed that costs have risen by 140 per cent.
ref: 1954 October 24, “Notes and News: London Fares Increase”, in Railway Magazine, page 726:
text: The wānangas are largely oriented to Māori people, who represent 16 per cent of the New Zealand population.
ref: 2018, Shantha Liyanage, Antonio Díaz Andrade, “Changing role of research and innovation in New Zealand universities”, in V. V. Krishna, editor, Universities in the National Innovation Systems: Experiences from the Asia-Pacific, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Japan, Australia and New Zealand):
text: The South Americans had turned back two military deportation flights but changed course when faced with up to 50 per cent duty on their exports.
ref: 2025 January 27, David Charter, “Fafo diplomacy: How Colombia found out Trump meant business”, in The Times, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2025:
glosses: Form of percent (%)
per cent
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Latin per centum.
Senses: glosses: Form of percent.
kilocalorie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilocalories
Etymology: From kilo- + calorie.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: megacalorie < gigacalorie
Meronyms: calorie (small-calorie sense), small calorie, gram calorie, thermochemical calorie
synonyms: calorie
large calorie
Calorie
kilogram calorie
glosses: A non-SI unit of energy equal to 1,000 calories (small calories), used (now rare) in chemistry or physics; equal to 1 calorie as used in nutrition. Symbol kcal.
Malthus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compare Malthouse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
examples: text: Enough for us to understand that Heuschrecke is a disciple of Malthus ; and so zealous for the doctrine, that his zeal almost literally eats him up.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Helotage”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 156:
glosses: A surname from Middle English.
Ellipsis of Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.
Derived terms: Malthusian
Malthusianism
lungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌŋz/
rhymes: -ʌŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of lung
Malthusianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malthusianisms
Etymology: From Malthusian + -ism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The viewpoint that the population will always grow faster than the food supply that it needs to survive and prosper.
Derived terms: Neo-Malthusianism
jigaboo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jigaboos
form: gigaboo
form: jiggaboo
form: zigaboo
form: ziggaboo
Etymology: Possibly an African word akin to Bantu tshikabo (“they bow the head docilely”). Alternatively, perhaps from jig, formed similarly to bug and bugaboo.
Senses: glosses: A black person.
glosses: Any dark-skinned person.
Derived terms: jig
nigaboo
bow-wow
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: bow wow
form: bowwow
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Harke, harke, bowgh wawgh: the watch-Dogges barke, bowgh-wawgh.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 5, column 1:
text: She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
ref: 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 181:
glosses: Representing the sound of a dog barking.
bow-wow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bow-wows
form: bow wow
form: bowwow
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: And a chorus of quadruped, white and brown, / Bark’d affirmative, “gone to town,” / With affable bursts of French bow-wow; / (As part of the family they knew how!)
ref: 1864, Bessie Rayner Parkes, “Fontainebleau”, in Good Words, volume 5, page 224:
text: The pack commenced to work back and forth along the ridge. We neared a hollow where Prince barked eagerly. Curley answered, and likewise Queen. Mux’s short, angry bow-wow showed that he was in line.
ref: 1911, Zane Grey, “VI. Trails”, in The Young Lion Hunter, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, →OL, page 63:
glosses: The sound of a dog barking.
examples: text: 1902, Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Kermit Roosevelt dated 13 October, 1902, in Joseph Bucklin Bishop (editor), Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children, New York: Scribner, 1919, p. 36,
Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit.
text: My grandchild, who, when walking, wobbles,
Calls dogs Bow-wows, and turkeys, Gobbles.
Today I called a cow Moo-moo;
She’s got me talking that way too.
ref: 1953, Ogden Nash, “The Pushover”, in You Can’t Get There From Here, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., page 56:
glosses: A dog.
Coordinate terms: sense: sound of a dog
word: arf
sense: sound of a dog
word: bark
sense: sound of a dog
word: growl
sense: sound of a dog
word: grr
sense: sound of a dog
word: howl
sense: sound of a dog
word: ruff
sense: sound of a dog
word: snarl
sense: sound of a dog
word: whimper
sense: sound of a dog
word: whine
sense: sound of a dog
word: woof
sense: sound of a dog
word: woof-woof
sense: sound of a dog
word: yap
sense: sound of a dog
word: yelp
sense: sound of a dog
word: yip
Derived terms: bow-wow theory
go to the bow-wows
Related terms: yap and yip
bark
growl
howl
snarl
whimper
whine
woof
yelp
bow-wow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bow-wows
form: bow-wowing
form: bow-wowed
form: bow-wowed
form: bow wow
form: bowwow
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To make the sound of a dog, to bark, to bow-wow
bow-wow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bow wow
form: bowwow
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry, and some truth, that “Dr. Johnson’s sayings would not appear so extraordinary were it not for his bow-wow way;” but I admit the truth of this only on some occasions.
ref: 1785, James Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, London: Charles Dilly, page 8:
text: 1826, Walter Scott, Diary entry for 14 March, 1826, in The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott; with a Biography, New York: Conner & Cooke, 1833, Volume 7, Chapter 68, p. 475,
Miss Austen […] had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
glosses: Grandiose.
raw_tags: of language
antidisestablishmentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidisestablishmentarians
Etymology: From anti- + disestablishment + -arian.
Senses: examples: 1892, letter of Edward White Benson, quoted in James Anderson Carr, The life-work of Edward White Benson, D.D., sometime Archbishop of Canterbury. London: Elliot Stock, 1898.
But the Free Kirk of the north of Scotland are strong anti-Disestablishmentarians. A meeting for Disestablishment can't be got up, even by popular Ministers.
1900 letter to Pall Mall Gazette
A correspondent gives "nonintercommunicability" as the longest word In the English language. While reading the life of Archbishop Benson I came across the following extract from his diary for September, 1892 (page 411): "But the free kirk of the north of Scotland are strong antidisestablishmentarians"—ten syllables, twenty-six letters!
glosses: One who believes that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.
antidisestablishmentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antidisestablishmentarian
form: most antidisestablishmentarian
Etymology: From anti- + disestablishment + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the belief that the Church of England should retain its formal constitutional relationship with the state.
Related terms: antidisestablishmentarianism
abortionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From abortion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The advocacy or practice of abortion.
Derived terms: anti-abortionism
pro-abortionism
safe seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe seats
Senses: glosses: A seat in a legislature that is traditionally held by one political party because of the make-up of the local electorate.
Related terms: marginal seat
rotten borough
gerrymander
footy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊti/
rhymes: -ʊti
Forms: form: footies
form: footie
Senses: glosses: Football (association football) (soccer in US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand).
examples: text: But footy, especially this kind of footy, transcended family drama — that went without saying — so Erik Falk had of course invited his son.
ref: 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 118:
glosses: The game or sport of football, usually Australian rules football or rugby league, but not soccer.
examples: text: Me and Charlie and Ben were out there one afternoon, messing around, kicking a footy and stuff, and this girl rode by.
ref: 2022, Jane Harper, Exiles, page 105:
glosses: The ball used in a game of footy.
glosses: A short sock.
examples: text: Sam is a real footy, he's always watching it on TV and talking about it.
glosses: A football fan.
examples: text: He didn't even play footy under the table. I kept wishing he would!
ref: 1932, Movie Mirror, volume 3, page 76:
text: […] playing footy under the table with Bee Amidon finished that for her.
ref: 1994, Tim Page, Dawn Powell at Her Best, page 361:
glosses: Footsy (flirting game where two people touch their feet together).
examples: he's getting a footy under the table
glosses: A footjob.
Derived terms: footy tipping
touch footy
footy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊti/
rhymes: -ʊti
Forms: form: more footy
form: most footy
form: foughty
Etymology: Compare Dutch vochtig.
Senses: examples: text: footy oil or molasses
synonyms: dreggish
dreggy
glosses: Having foots (settlings).
examples: text: [N]obody wants you to shoot crooked. Take good iron to it, and not footy paving-stones.
ref: 1855, Charles Kingsley, “How Amyas Kept His Christmas Day”, in Westward Ho!: Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, […], volume II, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 6:
text: 'Those sketches look rather footy,' I said; 'but I had to put something in my notebook.'
ref: 1911, R. Austin Freeman, chapter XV, in The Eye of Osiris & the Vanishing Man:
glosses: Of bad quality; mean, poor.
rotten borough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɒtn̩ ˈbʌɹə/
ipa: /ˌɹɑtn̩ ˈbʌɹoʊ/
ipa: /-ˈbɜ-/
ipa: [ˌɹɑʔn̩-]
rhymes: -ʌɹə
Forms: form: rotten boroughs
Etymology: From rotten (“in a state of decay”) + borough (“type of administrative district”), because such boroughs were regarded as having “decayed” due to their voters moving away to other places.
Senses: examples: text: […] Queen's Crawley was no longer so populous a place as it had been in Queen Bess's time—nay, was come down to that condition of borough which used to be denominated rotten–yet, as Sir Pitt Crawley would say with perfect justice in his elegant way, "Rotten! be hanged—it produces me a good fifteen hundred a year."
ref: [1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Crawley of Queen’s Crawley”, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 57:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A parliamentary borough that was represented in Parliament although the number of voters had diminished so greatly that they were largely controlled by the main landowner; such boroughs were abolished in the 19th century.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A parliamentary constituency or electoral district in a similar situation.
Hypernyms: nomination borough
proprietorial borough
Coordinate terms: close borough
pocket borough
Related terms: safe seat
designer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: designers
Etymology: From design + -er.
Senses: examples: text: While the thought of a home urinal may seem vaguely “Animal House,” Mr. Scherer’s interior designer, Ashley Astleford, wasn’t surprised by his request. This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects.
ref: 2007 January 25, Suzanne Gannon, “For the High-End Bathroom, Something Unexpected”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
text: The ­festival, held every two years, showcases work by more than 180 designers across disciplines including textiles, homeware and more. […] “For us, it’s about getting design and creativity out into communities across the city. With the festival, we want to build capacity, grow skills, employ people and create opportunities to make a living from being a designer here.”
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person who designs something, or who designs things as a profession.
glosses: A plotter or schemer.
examples: text: a font designer
text: a level designer for a video game
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software tool for designing things.
Derived terms: codesigner
designerati
designer dyke
designer label
designerless
designerly
designership
designer stubble
designerwear
fashion designer
graphic designer
industrial designer
intelligent designer
interior designer
motion designer
nondesigner
set designer
sound designer
type designer
web designer
designer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪnɚ/
rhymes: -aɪnə(ɹ)
Etymology: From design + -er.
Senses: examples: text: designer swimwear
text: a designer briefcase
glosses: Created by a designer, especially a fashion designer.
Derived terms: designer baby
designer dog
designer drug
browser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹaʊ.zə/
ipa: /ˈbɹaʊ.zəɹ/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: browsers
Etymology: From browse + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Giraffe have a long, muscular tongue, which aids in gathering leaves into the mouth; and the dentition is typical of browsers.
ref: 1988, R. Norman Owen-Smith, Megaherbivores: The Influence of Very Large Body Size on Ecology, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 14:
coordinate_terms: grazer
glosses: One who or which browses.
examples: text: While still in the mood for antique bartering, The Emerald City on the South End section of Dartmouth St. has expanded just in time for browsers and buyers. Allow some time here as it's a poke-and-find shop of 1800's pictures and prints, turn-of-the-century kitchen ware, and some very unusual furnishings and lamps.
ref: 1976 December 18, David Holland, “Dear Santa...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 11:
coordinate_terms: grazer
glosses: One who or which browses.
A person who examines goods for sale but purchases nothing.
antonyms: nonbrowser
examples: text: A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser.
ref: [1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C):
glosses: Ellipsis of web browser.
examples: text: The real strengthof AR browsers is their discoverability. Today, browsers have most of the attention and it's amazing how many people have yet to experience a browser for themselves. Browsers are incredibly useful ways to discover information about places and objects around you.
ref: 2011, Lester Madden, Professional Augmented Reality Browsers for Smartphones: Programming for junaio, Layar and Wikitude, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any other type of information browser.
Derived terms: browser cache
browser hijacking
browserify
browserish
browserless
browser narcotic
cross-browser
headless browser
lockdown browser
man-in-the-browser
master browser
mesobrowser
microbrowser
minibrowser
nonbrowser
potential browser
web browser
portions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɹʃənz/
ipa: /ˈpɔːʃənz/
note: Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoəɹʃənz/
note: Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoːɹʃənz/
note: Scotland, Ireland, other varieties without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈpoɹʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of portion
otic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˈɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.tɪk/
rhymes: -əʊtɪk
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: Mid 17th century borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠτῐκός (ōtĭkós, “of or for the ear”), from οὖς (oûs, “ear”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Otic preparations are used to treat infections of the ear canal.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: acoustic
auditory
auricular
glosses: Of, relating/pertaining to, or located near the ear.
Derived terms: binotic
diotic
entotic
epiotic
metotic
microtic
midotic
monotic
opisthotic
otic bone
otic capsule
otic ganglion
periotic
postotic
preotic
prootic
sphenotic
transotic
cross-dresser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsˌdɹɛ.sə/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/
ipa: /ˌkɹɔsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑsˌdɹɛ.sɚ/
ipa: /ˌkɹɑsˈdɹɛ.sɚ/
Forms: form: cross-dressers
form: crossdresser
form: xdresser
Etymology: From cross-dress + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Tedd: "Between seeing me, knowing my name, and hearing two guys arguing about skirts, he's going to be able to figure out that it was me who answered the door! He's going to know I was transformed!"
ref: 2006 March 6, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Mar 6, 2006:
text: For the buildings John uses plastic sheeting employed in the window banners of a particular ladies' clothing chain. [...] I asked John if the sales assistants in those shops thought he was odd, walking in and asking for bits of plastic. 'What you've got to remember,' he said, 'is that they get a lot of cross-dressers going in there, so I'm not that weird in comparison.'
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: A person who wears clothing which society considers appropriate only for members of the opposite sex.
Synonyms: word: x-dresser
word: CD
word: CDer
english: abbreviated forms
translation: abbreviated forms
word: XD
english: pejorative or clinical
translation: pejorative or clinical
word: transvestite
Related terms: cross-dress
cross-dressing
tomboyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tomboyish
form: most tomboyish
Etymology: From tomboy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Displaying behavior associated with a tomboy.
Derived terms: tomboyishly
tomboyishness
kiss of death
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kisses of death
Etymology: From the Biblical reference that when Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, he kissed Jesus.
Senses: glosses: A kiss on the cheek that signifies the death of the receiver, as delivered by a mob boss or one with such influence.
examples: text: The role in the soap opera was the kiss of death for Ann's career as a theatrical actress.
text: Confronted with the savage defenses, many of the Japanese pilots flinched. Failure to hold formation was the kiss of death. As they reached the crucial moment of decision—push ahead and drop the torpedo, or lose nerve and turn away—most chose the latter. Turning, they lost airspeed and showed their bellies to the hungry Navy gunners, and that was it. The twenties and forties lit them like fuses. The five-inch guns "seemed to literally hammer them down," Captain Hoover of the Helena remarked.
ref: 2011, James D. Hornfischer, “26: Suicide”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, retrieved 17 Dec 2022, page 256:
glosses: Something that may seem good and favorable but that actually brings ruin to hopes, plans, etc.
Related terms: kiss of life
A-frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪˌfɹeɪm/
Forms: form: A-frames
Senses: glosses: An architectural structure, in the shape of an "A", having two straight sides meeting at the top.
euryhaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eury- + haline.
Senses: glosses: Able to tolerate various saltwater concentrations.
Derived terms: euryhalinity
Related terms: stenohaline
eucaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪn
Forms: form: eucaines
Etymology: From German Eukain; comparable to eu- + -caine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A derivative of cocaine used as a local anesthetic in veterinary medicine.
Derived terms: eucatropine
evaporable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: For so it is, that the apparently most inflammable or evaporable of all earthly things, wood and water, are, in this view, immensely the most endurable.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
antonyms: inevaporable
nonevaporable
unevaporable
glosses: Capable of evaporation.
Derived terms: inevaporable
nonevaporable
unevaporable
polymorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒlɪˈmɔːfɪz(ə)m/
enpr: päl-ē-môrʹfĭz-əm
ipa: /pɑliˈmɔɹfɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: polymorphisms
Etymology: From poly- + -morphism.
Senses: glosses: The ability to assume different forms or shapes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A feature pertaining to the dynamic treatment of data elements based on their type, allowing for a method to have several definitions.
topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: type theory
glosses: The property of certain typed formal systems of allowing for the use of type variables and binders/quantifiers over those type variables; likewise, the property of certain expressions (within such typed formal systems) of making use of at least one such typed variable.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ability of a solid material to exist in more than one form or crystal structure; pleomorphism.
examples: text: Since 1990 they have found an entirely new role: they promise understanding of how and why our genes are all so different. They hold the key to human polymorphism.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 137:
text: Some polymorphisms can be quite stable – so stable that they span the change from an ancestral to a descendant species.
ref: 2004, Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, Phoenix, published 2005, page 63:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The regular existence of two or more different genotypes within a given species or population; also, variability of amino acid sequences within a gene's protein.
Hyponyms: ad-hoc polymorphism
copy number polymorphism
dynamic polymorphism
inclusion polymorphism
parametric polymorphism
static polymorphism
subtype polymorphism
Derived terms: micropolymorphism
Related terms: dimorphism
metamorphism
monomorphism
polymorph
polymorphic
polymorphistic
polymorphous
RFLP
riflip
litro
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪt.ɹəʊ/
text: Audio (US)
Etymology: Clipping of literally + -o (diminutive suffix). Literally is pronounced (in British English) with a reduced or completely absent ⟨e⟩, which may explain the syncope of the ⟨e⟩ in this term.
Senses: examples: text: yh bro i litro used a cosine graph for that q
glosses: Abbreviation of literally.
rim-job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rim-jobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rimjob.
aftertaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæftɚˌteɪst/
Forms: form: aftertastes
form: after-taste
form: after taste
Etymology: From after- + taste.
Senses: examples: text: Canopy 19 is perfectly placed
For the reasonably frightening fall from the aftertaste
You'll have to slip away, I am unhappy to say
Behold as the crook in the hammock plays
ref: 2009, Alex Turner, “Pretty Visitors”, in Humbug (album), performed by Arctic Monkeys:
glosses: A taste of something that persists when it is no longer present.
examples: text: Many people think certain artificial sweeteners have an unpleasant aftertaste.
glosses: The persistence of the taste of something no longer present.
glosses: finish.
raw_tags: of wine
meteoritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːtɪəˈɹɪtɪks/
Etymology: From meteorite + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: From the beginning of the nineteenth century forward, meteoritics progressed steadily to an exacting and highly interdisciplinary field.
ref: 1999, Harry Y. McSween, Jr., Meteorites and Their Parent Planets, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 7:
text: Following the precedents set in previous editions of the Catalogue of Meteorites, it is not the intention of this Introduction to discuss the science of meteoritics, but simply to provide a summary of the nomenclature and classification of meteorites and the system of entries adopted.
ref: 2000, Monica M. Grady, Catalogue of Meteorites, 5th edition, Cambridge University Press, page 1:
text: Meteoritics, the laboratory study of meteorites, was regarded as our best window on events at the time of the origin of the planets even before their age could be measured.[…]Recently, discoveries in both meteoritics and asteroid research have brought forward several interesting connections with comets, and even the Voyager revelation of the nature of ice-rich satellites has influenced our understanding of meteorite origins.
ref: 2004, John S. Lewis, Physics and Chemistry of the Solar System, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 350:
topics: astronomy
chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: geochemistry
glosses: The science that deals with meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids.
Derived terms: meteoriticist
Related terms: meteor
meteoric
meteorite
meteoritic
meteoroid
meteoroidal
meteorology
distro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪstɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪstɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪstɹəʊ
Forms: form: distros
Etymology: Shortened form of distribution, + -o.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.
examples: text: If anyone can help me with obtaining a source with an updated ftp list, either distro sites or non ratio sites, please contact me on ICQ […]
ref: 1998, “Bubba Zenetti”, in Need Good FTP sites....Distro's and non-ratio sites-Please.:
glosses: The propagation of warez by distributing it to various sites.
examples: text: I started writing my own zine, Thought Bombs, and organized a distro of other good, anarchist, anti-racist/abolitionist and feminist zines.
ref: 2004, Anthony Rayson, “South Chicago ABC Zine distro”, in Fifth Estate, volume 364:
glosses: The act of distributing printed material such as magazines or newspapers.
Derived terms: distro-hopping
Related terms: software package
distro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪstɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈdɪstɹoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪstɹəʊ
Forms: form: distros
Etymology: Shortened form of distributor, + -o.
Senses: examples: text: JASON: Hey Tommy, get over here! TOMMY (played by Joseph Sikora): I was just loading up my shipment, what’s up?. JASON: There’s someone I want you to meet. My guy right here, one of my highest earning distros in New York City, Tommy Egan. Tommy, Rodolfo Ramirez.
ref: 2019 October 7, Courtney A. Kemp, Theo Travers, Andre J. Ferguson, 21:00 from the start, in Power(Like Father, Like Son), season 6, episode 7 (TV series), spoken by Jason Micic (Mike Dopud):
glosses: A mid-level drug dealer; A distributor.
examples: text: I went on to explain that we would continue to work with Mordam—who had recently merged with another indie distributor, Lumberjack, to become a much larger distro—for record store distribution but that "now we get the best of both worlds: the best music distributor in the country getting Punk Planet into record stores and the best newsstand distro getting us onto magazine racks."
ref: 2025 April 30, Dan Sinker, Things Fall Apart: Punk Planet, Year 12:
glosses: An organization that distributes printed material such as magazines or newspapers.
falsificationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From falsification + -ism.
Senses: topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted, then it is not a scientific claim.
Derived terms: naive falsificationism
sophisticated falsificationism
Related terms: false
falsification
falsify
critical rationalism
naive falsificationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Under naive falsificationism, the birth control pill would be considered as ineffective since there are instances (3 in 1000) in which it does not work.
glosses: An invalid scientific philosophy in which any single instance of refuting data is enough to falsify the entire claim.
Related terms: falsificationism
sophisticated falsificationism
sophisticated falsificationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The birth control pill, under sophisticated falsificationism, is considered extremely effective since the statistics show only a 0.3% failure rate.
glosses: A form of falsificationism in which claims are evaluated statistically, as opposed to naive falsificationism, which takes an absolutist perspective.
patrol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊl
ipa: /pəˈtɹəʊl/
ipa: /pəˈtɹoʊl/
note: Indic
ipa: /pæʈɾol/
Forms: form: patrols
form: patrolling
form: patrolled
form: patrolled
form: patrole
form: patrole
Etymology: From French patrouiller, from Old French patrouiller (“to paddle, paw about, patrol”), from patte (“a paw”).
Senses: glosses: To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
examples: text: to patrol a frontier
text: to patrol a beat
text: Watchmen are stationed continuously at each end of the bridge, and the main spans are patrolled twice during the night.
ref: 1950 March, H. A. Vallance, “On Foot Across the Forth Bridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
text: Whether attempting to keep the peace in Bosnia, evacuating American citizens from Albania, or patrolling the world's seas and skies, our service men and women risk capture by unfriendly foreign forces.
ref: April 8 1997, Bill Clinton, Proclamation 6983
glosses: To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman
Derived terms: autopatrolled
patrollable
patroller
repatrol
unpatrollable
unpatrolled
full and by
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We sailed full and by for quite a while before getting down to serious navigation.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Keeping the sails full and steering by the wind.
polysyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɔ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɑ.li.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Etymology: From poly- + syllabic.
Senses: examples: text: "Antidisestablishmentarianism" definitely qualifies as a polysyllabic word.
glosses: Having more than one syllable; having multiple or many syllables.
raw_tags: of a word
examples: text: I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.
glosses: Characterized by or consisting of words having numerous syllables.
raw_tags: of spoken or written language
Synonyms: sense: of a word
word: multisyllabic
Derived terms: hyperpolysyllabic
nonpolysyllabic
polysyllabically
Related terms: polysyllable
polysyllabicism
polysyllabicity
polysyllabism
polysyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɔ.lɪ.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɑ.li.sɪˈlæ.bɪk/
rhymes: -æbɪk
Forms: form: polysyllabics
Etymology: From poly- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: A word having more than one syllable
frontal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontal bones
form: frontal
Senses: examples: text: The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of the pair of bones from which the frontal bone is formed by fusion in infancy.
parietal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parietal bones
Etymology: From Latin parietalis (“pertaining to walls”), from paries (“wall”) + bone.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of two bones that together form the sides and top of the skull.
temporal bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporal bones
Senses: glosses: Either of two compound bones that collectively make up the sides and base of the skull.
bucket bong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucket bongs
Senses: glosses: A type of bong for smoking marijuana, usually consisting of a bucket or similar device for holding water, a large bottle with its bottom cut off, and a socket for holding the marijuana in the cap.
Synonyms: gravity bong
conepiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conepieces
Etymology: From cone + piece.
Senses: glosses: An implement used for holding marijuana while it is smoked, used in conjunction with a pipe or bong.
Related terms: cone
occipital bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occipital bones
Etymology: From Latin occiput; compare ob- (“towards, against”) and caput (“head”)
Senses: glosses: The bone at the back of the skull in humans and various other animals.
Related terms: word: occiput
word: occipita
word: occiputs
word: occiput
word: occipita
shot-glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot-glasses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shot glass.
sphenoid bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphenoid bones
Senses: glosses: A compound bone at the base of the skull behind the eyes in humans and various other animals.
Related terms: bones
aptonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæp.toʊ.nɪm/
ipa: /ˈæp.tə.nɪm/
Forms: form: aptonyms
Etymology: From apt + -onym, on the model of other terms suffixed with -onym.
Senses: examples: text: The following is a selected list of aptonyms, i.e., people whose names and occupations or situation (e.g., workplace) have a close correspondence
ref: 1992, Frank H. Nuessel, The study of names: a guide to the principles and topics, page 42:
text: New aptonyms appeared for both Matt and Donna at this juncture — "DoorMatt" and "Donnasaur."
ref: 2004, Christine Scodari, Serial monogamy: soap opera, lifespan, and the gendered politics of fantasy, page 96:
text: Stocked with characters whose names are representative of their failings (aptonyms, a standard comic technique), The Stepsure Letters is not read today outside the university classroom
ref: 2005, Maurice Charney, Comedy: A Geographic and Historical Guide, volume 1, page 201:
glosses: A proper name that aptly describes the occupation or character of the person, especially by coincidence.
Synonyms: sense: apt name
word: aptronym
sense: apt name
word: euonym
sense: apt name
word: attributive name
sense: apt name
word: characterizing name
sense: apt name
word: character-revealing name
sense: apt name
word: charactonym
sense: apt name
word: characternym
sense: apt name
word: label name
sense: apt name
word: ticket name
sense: apt name
word: type name
Derived terms: aptonymy
aptonymous
ethmoid bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethmoid bones
Senses: glosses: The bone of the skull between the eyes and at the roof of the nose.