cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
neon light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neon lights
Senses: glosses: A neon lamp.
glosses: The light from such a lamp.
neon lighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neon lightings
Senses: glosses: lighting by neon lamps
Related terms: neon sign
disodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + sodium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: two atoms of sodium in a compound
Derived terms: calcium disodium EDTA
disodium aurothiomalate
disodium glutamate
disodium guanylate
disodium hydrogen phosphate
disodium inosinate
disodium oxalate
tipranavir disodium
monosodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + sodium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: one atom of sodium in a compound
Derived terms: monosodium glutamate
monosodium methyl arsenate
trisodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + sodium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Three atoms of sodium in a compound.
Derived terms: trisodium phosphate
traffic signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traffic signals
Senses: glosses: A traffic light.
sodio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: compound of sodium
compound_of: sodium
sodium-cooled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: that uses liquid sodium as a coolant
raw_tags: of a nuclear reactor
sodium lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium lamps
Senses: glosses: A sodium vapor lamp.
sodium vapor lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium vapor lamps
form: sodium vapour lamp
Senses: glosses: A street lamp in which electricity is passed through sodium vapour to emit a yellow light.
Synonyms: sodium lamp
sodium vapour lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium-vapour lamp
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sodium vapor lamp.
autogynephilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔː.təʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ˌɔ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ˌɑ.toʊˌɡaɪ.nəˈfɪ.li.ə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Forms: form: AGP
Etymology: From auto- + gynephilia.
Senses: examples: Charles Moser (2010), “Blanchard’s Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 57, number 6, →DOI, pages 790–809: “If autogynephilia were a paraphilia, we would expect that MTFs would want estrogens to feminize themselves, but decline anti-androgens or report that they disliked the effect. This is contrary to the observation that MTFs request and like the effects of anti-androgens.”
synonyms: autogynophilia
coordinate_terms: autoandrophilia
glosses: In Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the supposed paraphilic tendency of a male person to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.
Related terms: autogynephile
autogynephilic
autosexuality
bedworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bedworthy
form: most bedworthy
Etymology: From bed + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Vandeuvres was undressing her with his eyes. 'Yes, she's bedworthy all right', he said, 'but I'm a bit suspicious of her thighs. Will you take a bet, she's got lousy thighs?'
ref: 1880, Émile Zola, translated by Douglas Parmée, Nana:
text: I had fleetingly noticed, had not perhaps noticed enough, how attractive, bedworthy, she looked with her fair hair down around her shoulders.
ref: 1988, Muriel Spark, A far cry from Kensington:
glosses: Sexually attractive.
brucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name Brucea + -ine; thus indirectly after Scottish traveller James Bruce.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkaloid related to strychnine, found in several plant species, notably Strychnos nux-vomica (nux vomica).
wikipedia: James Bruce
cannabinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænəbəˌnɔɪd/
Forms: form: cannabinoids
Etymology: From cannab(is) + -in + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: White blood cells of the immune system, the gut and the spleen also have another type of cannabinoid receptor, known as CB2.
ref: 2019 May 14, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, “Can CBD Really Do All That?”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 18 Mar 2022:
text: Similar in chemical structure to cannabis, the cannabinoids made by our bodies surge in number during pleasant activities, such as orgasms, and also when we run, studies show.
ref: 2021 March 10, Gretchen Reynolds, “Getting to the Bottom of the Runner’s High”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Substance that is structurally related to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a psychoactive compound present in cannabis, or that bind to cannabinoid receptors.
Hyponyms: cannabinol
CBN
cannabidiol
CBD
cannabigerol
CBG
endocannabinoid
tetrahydrocannabinol
THC
exogenous cannabinoid
Derived terms: alternative cannabinoid
cannabinoidergic
cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome
cannabinoid receptor
endocannabinoid
noncannabinoid
phytocannabinoid
cannabinoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænəbəˌnɔɪd/
Etymology: From cannab(is) + -in + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Structurally related to tetrahydrocannabinol
caprolactam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caprolactams
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A lactam (cyclic amide) manufactured from cyclohexanone and used in the manufacture of nylon.
Derived terms: polycaprolactam
accommodatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more accommodatingly
form: most accommodatingly
Etymology: From accommodating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an accommodating manner.
Related terms: accommodate
accommodatively
acerbically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more acerbically
form: most acerbically
Etymology: From acerbic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: sourly; bitterly
glosses: In a sarcastic or cynical manner.
Synonyms: acidly
tartly
Related terms: acerb
sourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sourly
form: most sourly
Etymology: From sour + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sour manner.
Synonyms: acidly
tartly
ded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ded
form: most ded
Senses: qualifier: long obsolete outside eye-dialect
glosses: Alternative form of dead.
Related terms: ded reckoning
ded
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deds
Etymology: From Russian military slang дед (ded, “soldiers after their third or fourth half-year of compulsory military service”, literally “grandfather”).
Senses: glosses: A person who inflicts dedovshchina (a kind of hazing ritual).
acridly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɘkˈɹ̠ɪdli/
ipa: /ˈæk.ɹɪdli/
Forms: form: more acridly
form: most acridly
Etymology: From acrid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a harsh or corrosive manner.
actualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæktju.əlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈæktʃu.əlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈæktʃəlaɪz/
Forms: form: actualizes
form: actualizing
form: actualized
form: actualized
form: actualise
Etymology: From actual + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make real; to realize.
glosses: To become actual or real.
glosses: To realize one's full potential.
Derived terms: actualizable
actualization
actualizer
self-actualize
Related terms: actuate
reactualize
adenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adenoid
deop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deops
form: deopping
form: deopped
form: deopped
Etymology: From de- + op.
Senses: examples: text: True, better clients will remember that a person had a voice before they were opped and will return the + when they are deopped, but that doesn't solve the problem. Suppose someone joins the room after the user is opped and before the user is deopped.
ref: 1999, Cory McWilliams, “IRC Oddities”, in alt.irc (Usenet):
glosses: To demote (an IRC operator) from operator status.
activator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: activators
form: activater
Etymology: From activate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, activates.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Something that activates a catalyst
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any chemical or agent which regulates one or more genes by increasing the rate of transcription.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of effector that increases the rate of enzyme-mediated reactions.
glosses: A type of dopant used in phosphors and scintillators.
topics: business
mining
glosses: An agent that enables the flotation of a mineral or minerals.
glosses: A hand-held device that delivers a controlled fast thrust to a joint, muscle, etc., to help stimulate nervous system activity.
Derived terms: antiactivator
autoactivator
bioactivator
coactivator
continuous erythropoietin receptor activator
ferroactivator
immunoactivator
transactivator
vasoactivator
wawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wawas
Etymology: Perhaps related to wavey (“snow goose”)?
Senses: examples: text: The last of the morning flight of noisy wawas going fieldwards were streaming from the water when I pushed out in the canoe […]
ref: 1914, Poultney Bigelow, James Henry Worman, Ben James Worman, Outing Magazine: The Outdoor Magazine of Human Interest, page 14:
glosses: A snow goose.
wawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaˌwa/
Forms: form: wa-wa
Etymology: Shortened and simplified form of water.
Senses: glosses: Water.
across-the-board
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: They recently made across-the-board changes to the benefits package.
text: Added to these woes was the Treasury's demands for across-the-board train operator cost-cutting of broadly 10%. Passenger rail's slow, patchy and fragile recovery had the stuffing knocked out of it once more.
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
text: Former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance continue to falsely describe how one of their major policy proposals, across-the-board tariffs, would work.
ref: 2024 September 9, Katie Lobosco, “Fact check: Trump and Vance keep falsely describing how tariffs work”, in CNN:
glosses: wide or comprehensive in scope or applicability.
examples: text: ABC-TV this week put into effect its long anticipated plans to move into daytime programming in a bigger way by opening up its 4-5 across-the-board strip. The web is using its "Mickey Mouse Club," which is stoutly anchored in the 5-6 p.m. slot, as a backing up point for its afternoon expansion.
ref: 1955, Billboard, page 5:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays).
Synonyms: exhaustive
thorough
comprehensive
spagyric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: spageric
form: spagiric
Etymology: From Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”).
Senses: examples: text: As such compromises and syntheses suggest, it was not only hardline Paracelsans who embraced spagyric remedies.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 200:
text: The necessary spagyric substances having been obtained, they were shut up in a glass phial and left to incubate in horse dung for forty days.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 135:
glosses: Pertaining to alchemy; alchemical, especially regarding medicine.
Related terms: spagyrist
spagyric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /spəˈd͡ʒɪɹɪk/
Forms: form: spagyrics
form: spageric
form: spagiric
Etymology: From Late Latin spagyricus, from Ancient Greek σπάω (spáō, “I draw, pull”) + ἀγείρω (ageírō, “I assemble”).
Senses: glosses: A spagyrist.
applicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applicabilities
Senses: glosses: The degree to which a thing is applicable; relevancy.
Related terms: applicable
relevancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛlɪvənsi/
Forms: form: relevancies
Etymology: From relevant + -cy.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Sufficiency (of a statement, claim etc.) to carry weight in law; legal pertinence.
examples: text: It is the malpractice of the courts to confine evidence and discussion to the bounds of apparent relevancy.
ref: 1842, Edgar Allan Poe, The Myster of Marie Rogêt:
glosses: The degree to which a thing is relevant; relevance, applicability.
examples: text: To believe that such talk really ever came out of people's mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man's mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there.
ref: 1895, Mark Twain, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences:
glosses: A relevant thing.
Related terms: relevant
relevance
spagyrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spagyrists
Etymology: From modern Latin spagirista, from spagiricus (“alchemy”) (probably invented by Paracelsus).
Senses: examples: text: It has, of late more particularly, assumed not only an unforbidding, but even an engaging form, by the facility with which many of its most important researches are now conducted, and by the extension of them to numerous objects which had not before been attended to by the old spagyrists.
ref: 1780, Francis de Wasserberg, “Chemical Institutions for the Use of Students”, in The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, volume 63, page 502:
text: The Carmelite enjoyed the general amazement, and he told father and son how the secret of this substance had been revealed to him by an Arab; it was medicine far more powerful than the one Christian spagyrists called unguentum armarium.
ref: 1994, Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before, Harcourt Brace, published 1995, page 21:
text: Back when I was still a junior alchemist, passing through What Cheer, Iowa, met up with this old-school spagyrist name of Doddling, who showed me how to get silver to grow just like a tree.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 1060:
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: An alchemist, especially one who tried to discover remedies for diseases.
Related terms: spagyric
iatrochemist
spagyrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spagyrist
iatrochemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iatrochemists
Etymology: Back-formation from iatrochemistry.
Senses: examples: text: Around 1604, Ribit and Mayerne helped a fellow Huguenot and iatrochemist named Jean Béguin establish a pharmaceutical laboratory in Paris, where he offered public lectures on chemical medicine.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 374:
glosses: Someone who practices iatrochemistry.
iatrochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˌæt.ɹoʊˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/
Etymology: From iatro- + chemistry.
Senses: examples: text: A parallel bid to read the body in terms of the new science came from iatrochemistry.
ref: 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, published 2004, page 53:
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An early branch of chemistry, having roots in alchemy, that tried to provide chemical remedies to diseases; alternatively, the application of chemistry to medical theory.
Related terms: iatrochemist
iatrochemical
iatrochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˌæt.ɹoʊˈkɛm.ɪ.kəl/
Etymology: From iatro- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to iatrochemistry.
unal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: single, based on the number one
Related terms: dual
trial
quadral
marauding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of maraud
marauding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marauding
form: most marauding
Senses: examples: a marauding band
glosses: raiding and pillaging
examples: text: A marauding stoat entered the rabbit warren and killed fifteen bunnies.
glosses: killing in wanton fashion.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: The marauding lion jumped the fence and killed the goat.
glosses: killing domestic animals.
raw_tags: of an animal
Related terms: maraud
marauder
marauding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maraudings
Senses: examples: text: On the 22d, the corporation of Albany passed a vote of thanks to General Heath, for the alacrity which he had displayed in defending the northern frontiers of the state of New York against the maraudings of the enemy.
ref: 1834, R Thomas, The Glory Of America, page 514:
glosses: Raiding and pillaging.
ramed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French rame (“a branch”) + -ed.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; — said of a ship on the stocks.
marauders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marauder
despoil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈspɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
Forms: form: despoils
Etymology: From Middle English despoylle, dispoyll, from Old French despoille, despueille, deverbal from despoillier.
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis done;—despoil and desolation / O’er Rylstone’s fair domain have blown; […]
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, “Canto Seventh”, in The White Doe of Rylstone; or The Fate of the Nortons. A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: Plunder; spoliation.
furnishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furnishing
furnishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Furniture generally.
glosses: The objects, other than furniture, that occupy an interior space.
glosses: Accessories used with a dress.
glosses: Items of furniture and/or accessories by which something is equipped so as to be more useful, convenient, or comfortable.
funner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 1979, Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in Wyoming, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency
"I wish I would have played basketball when I was out. It's a lot more funner."
1992, Ana Malinow Rajkovic, Manual for (Relatively) Painless Medical Spanish http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN029275146X&id=6MVFwbhxaT0C&pg=PP15&lpg=PP15&dq=funner&sig=d5BINTBWGlKwMJu78EG3p1TSGWg
Sounds like a great vacation, doesn’t it? It would be much funner, undoubtedly, to spend four weeks learning intensive Spanish in Guadalajara... but what do you expect for this price?
2000, Julia Bourland, The Go-Girl Guide http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0809224763&id=MMkjJFEnojgC&pg=PA300&lpg=PA300&dq=funner&sig=4u7kb12DOAmU8tPlh9vX_QjE2yA
Every wardrobe needs an all-purpose cocktail dress, but these are often funner if you can find a retro party dress in flawless shape at a vintage clothing store.
glosses: comparative form of fun: more fun
funnest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That was one of the funnest games I've ever been a part of until the very end, and then it rapidly became a whole lot not of fun. We lost in kind of an ugly fashion at the end.
ref: 2007, Terry Francona, Pressure on Red Sox as ALCS shifts to Cleveland http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/preview?gameId=271015105
glosses: superlative degree of fun
spoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spoliates
form: spoliating
form: spoliated
form: spoliated
Etymology: From Latin spoliātus, perfect passive participle of spoliō (“plunder, pillage, rob”).
Senses: synonyms: pillage
despoil
rob
glosses: To plunder
glosses: To engage in robbery; to plunder.
Related terms: despoil
despoliation
spoil
spoliation
spoliative
spoliator
spoliatory
spolium
statistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kə.li/
ipa: [stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kl̩.i]
ipa: /stəˈtɪs.tɪ.kli/
Etymology: From statistical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He made his point statistically.
glosses: In a statistical way.
examples: text: Statistically, the study was almost worthless.
glosses: From a statistical point of view.
examples: text: Statistically, what he said is true.
text: Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.
ref: 2002, James F. Vail, Outrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Data were tested for equiproportionality and Chi-square test associated p-value is reported when the difference is statistically significant.
ref: 2016 January 13, “USP2-45 Is a Circadian Clock Output Effector Regulating Calcium Absorption at the Post-Translational Level”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: From statistical evidence.
Derived terms: statistically improbable phrase
statistically significant
despoilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despoilments
Etymology: From despoil + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: On such a view, the despoilment of pristine wilderness is the loss of something intrinsically good.
ref: 1994, Noah M. Lemos, Intrinsic Value:
glosses: The act of despoiling; a plundering; despoliation.
despoiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: despoilers
Etymology: From Middle English dispoyler, dispoylere, equivalent to despoil + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A wild and unreasoning craving for vengeance took possession of Ferris’s soul. Passing by the real despoiler of Angela’s peace, it clamoured like an evil spirit against the man from whom he had received benefits, which his distorted imagination construed into insults.
ref: 1881, Rosa Campbell Praed, chapter 30, in Policy and Passion:
text: […] he, who had been the untamable despoiler of their daughters, and thief of their women, their walking prince of darkness!
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):
text: 1985, Stephen Jay Gould, The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, New York: Norton, 1987, Chapter 1,
Other despoilers of our natural heritage killed bison with even greater abandon, removed the tongue only (considered a great delicacy in some quarters), and left the rest of the carcass to rot.
glosses: One who despoils; one who strips by force; a plunderer.
willow grouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: willow grouses
Senses: synonyms: willow ptarmigan
awebo
glosses: Lagopus lagopus, a medium-sized bird in the grouse family.
unclothe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊð
Forms: form: unclothes
form: unclothing
form: unclothed
form: unclothed
Etymology: From Middle English unclothen, equivalent to un- + clothe.
Senses: examples: text: For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
ref: , 2 Corinthians, chapter 5
glosses: To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
sweatshirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛtʃəːt/
Forms: form: sweatshirts
form: sweat shirt
Etymology: From sweat + shirt.
Senses: glosses: A loose shirt, usually made of a knit fleece, for athletic wear and now often used as casual apparel.
synonyms: undershirt
glosses: A shirt worn against the skin, usually under other clothing, to absorb sweat.
Derived terms: sweatshirting
pointlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪntləsli/
Forms: form: more pointlessly
form: most pointlessly
Etymology: From pointless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He sat there, pointlessly tossing the ball into the air and letting it fall, over and over.
text: […]as a result of which, the two scenarios in which the Harwich Force caught up with the battle while it was still going on were considered and brought forward into the main timeline, as it meant that both sides' light screening forces actually got to do something other than die pointlessly.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 30:58 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022:
glosses: Without point; in a pointless manner; so as to lack purpose or importance.
pointlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointlessnesses
Etymology: From pointless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The pointlessness of the discussion only compounded her boredom.
text: But with unstructured improvisation, the risk that directionlessness will give way to pointlessness is high.
ref: 2007 April 8, Allan Kozinn, “The Generation of ’38, Still Kicking”, in The New York Times:
text: Few political careers start when people are in their 70s, but Hendy is actually relishing it, although he is incensed sometimes by the pointlessness of the posturing by the opposition, which keeps him up late. "The bit I don't like is getting home at 0100 or 0200 in the morning because the opposition have been fruitlessly arguing for a long time."
ref: 2025 October 1, Christian Wolmar, “Rail Minister at the heart of rail reform”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 35:
glosses: The lack of meaning, purpose, or ideas; the characteristic or condition of being pointless.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The quality of not mentioning points.
Derived terms: PowerPointlessness
Related terms: astigmatism
great aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great aunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of great-aunt.
apply oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: applies oneself
form: applying oneself
form: applied oneself
form: applied oneself
Senses: examples: text: His parents wish he had applied himself better while he was in school, but he couldn't give a toss.
glosses: Synonym of strive: to work hard, to complete an activity with good effort and focus.
synonyms: word: strive
extra: to work hard, to complete an activity with good effort and focus
get one's butt somewhere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's butt somewhere
form: getting one's butt somewhere
form: got one's butt somewhere
form: got one's butt somewhere
form: gotten one's butt somewhere
Senses: examples: text: Get your butt here this instant! You're in big trouble!
text: I've got to get my butt to class.
glosses: Go somewhere, especially quickly.
Synonyms: get one's ass somewhere
undisturbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisturbed
form: most undisturbed
Etymology: From un- + disturbed.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, the Italian authorities examine passports and hand-baggage, except in the case of sleeping-car passengers, who are usually left undisturbed.
ref: 1951 November, 'Pausanias', “To Greece by the "Simplon-Orient Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 728:
text: WORF: The air --
KOR: Foul, isn't it? This place has been undisturbed for hundreds of years. Come!
ref: 1995, “The Sword of Kahless”, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, season 4, episode 8 (Science Fiction), →OCLC:
glosses: Not disturbed or agitated.
glosses: calm
notification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnəʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: notifications
Etymology: From Middle French notification, from Old French notificacion, from Latin nōtificātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of notifying.
glosses: A specific piece of information that serves to notify.
examples: text: A notification popped up on my computer.
text: I received an e-mail notification on my phone.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A message, alert, or signal displayed by a system or application to inform the user of an event, update, new message, etc.
Derived terms: casualty notification
counternotification
death notification
denotification
e-notification
misnotification
nonnotification
notification appliance
notification area
prenotification
push notification
renotification
toast notification
undernotification
expired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expire
expired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: that is no longer valid
glosses: that has been breathed out
glosses: dead
Synonyms: sense: that is no longer valid
word: invalid
word: passé
word: dated
word: concluded
word: irrelevant
word: lapsed
word: obsolete
Derived terms: life-expired
nonexpired
time-expired
unexpired
forester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresters
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: A person who practices forestry.
glosses: A person who lives in a forest.
glosses: Any of various species of kangaroo that inhabit bushland, especially the eastern grey kangaroo.
glosses: A moth in the family Zygaenidae.
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Lethe, Euphaedra and Harmilla.
Derived terms: agroforester
forestership
forestress
Justicia Themis forester
proto-forester
Forester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as an occupation for someone who lived, or worked in a forest.
glosses: A pupil of Forest School in Walthamstow
Related terms: Forrester
Forster
wind shear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind shears
form: windshear
Senses: examples: text: Wind shear from a microburst, as compared to wind shear resulting from a gust front, is particularly hazardous because it is a short-period event which creates very strong wind gusts with a large variation in direction over a very short distance (1/2 to 2 1/2 miles in diameter).
ref: 1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.7.3 Weather Analysis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 14:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
weather
glosses: Variation in wind speed or direction over a short spatial distance.
examples: text: The first effect of a wind shear was detected at 34 to 42 seconds into the takeoff, at a speed of about 115 KIAS with the airplane about 3,800 feet down the runway. An average shear rate of about 2.5 knots per second resulted in an interruption in acceleration at this point with the airspeed remaining at 115 to 120 KIAS for 7 to 10 seconds.
ref: 1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.3 Airplane Takeoff Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 41:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
weather
glosses: A specific instance of variation in wind speed or direction over a short spatial distance.
Synonyms: shear
the whole world and his dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: I'd love to go to the Harry Potter opening, but the whole world and his dog will be there and I don't like crowds
glosses: Everybody; too many people; a huge crowd.
Synonyms: everyone and their dog
everybody
Related terms: word: the whole world
english: whole ___; everything / the whole thing
translation: whole ___; everything / the whole thing
word: for a list of terms that mean
word: the whole nine yards
english: almost nobody
translation: almost nobody
word: one man and his dog
chokepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokepoints
form: choke point
Etymology: From choke + point.
Senses: examples: text: First, a hostile state could invade and occupy an oil producer or cut off a key chokepoint such as the Strait of Hormuz.
ref: 2016, Jeremi Suri, Benjamin A. Valentino, Sustainable Security:
glosses: A point at which traffic or other movement can easily become blocked.
Synonyms: bottleneck
virga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vûrʹgə
ipa: /ˈvɜːɡə/
Forms: form: virgas
form: virgae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin virga (“rod”). Doublet of verge.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
examples: text: Strong gusts of wind buffeted the train, and ghostly virga of ice followed it through the night.
ref: 2003, Erik Larson, “Pilgrimage”, in The Devil in the White City, Vintage Books, page 78:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
qualifier: measurement
glosses: A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.
Synonyms: topics: musical-note
music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: virgula
bathykolpian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: băth-i-kol-pē-en
Forms: form: more bathykolpian
form: most bathykolpian
form: bathukolpian
form: bathycolpian
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek words βαθύς (bathús, “deep”) and κόλπος (kólpos, “bosom”), therefore βαθύκολπος.
Senses: examples: text: The bathykolpian Heré […] sent down Iris.
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:
synonyms: bathukolpic
callimastian
glosses: Deep-bosomed: big-breasted.
bathukolpian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bathukolpian
form: most bathukolpian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bathykolpian.
shoebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoeboxes
Etymology: From shoe + box.
Senses: examples: text: In one shoebox he had a whole collection of seeds he had saved from last year.
glosses: The box in which shoes are sold.
examples: text: She wondered how come Ho had a garden when everyone she knew lived in shoeboxes.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 249:
glosses: A small, cramped residence or similar space.
tropopause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropopauses
Etymology: From tropo- (“troposphere”) + -pause (“discontinuance”).
Senses: glosses: The zone of transition between the troposphere and the stratosphere (approximately 13 kilometers). The tropopause normally occurs at an altitude of between 25,000 and 45,000 feet in polar and temperate zones. It occurs at 55,000 feet in the tropics.
people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
form: people that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
form: people that live in glass houses should not throw stones
form: those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
form: those who live in glass houses should not throw stones
Senses: glosses: One should not criticize others if one has similar weaknesses.
Synonyms: judge not, that ye be not judged
Related terms: cast the first stone
hypocrisy
pot calling the kettle black
clip strip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clip strips
Senses: examples: text: Some retailers use clip strips to boost impulse purchases of related merchandise. Clip strips are plastic strips that clip onto store shelving and display small items, which complement the merchandise in the main display area.
ref: 2006, Rosemary Varley, Retail Product Management: Buying and Merchandising, page 152:
text: As a result, battery manufacturers have tried to meet the diverse needs of the retailers by providing different displays and other tools such as clip-strips, which are small hangers attached on the end of a grocery or merchandise aisle, to place batteries in limited spaces.
ref: 2007, Kevin K. Boeh, Paul W. Beamish, Mergers and Acquisitions: Text and Cases, page 381:
text: The Hotdog EZ Bun Steamer® was best suited to become a clip strip product hanging next to the hotdog buns in every grocery store in America […]
ref: 2011, Janessa Castle, Your Complete Guide to Making Millions with Your Simple Idea or Invention, page 174:
text: Clip strips are used to display high profit, impulse items that are displayed throughout the store.
ref: 2011, Judith Adkins-Spears, Jump-Start Your Merchandising Career:
glosses: A retail product display consisting of a length of plastic or metal with clips or hooks at regular intervals, upon which merchandise is hung.
Coriolis force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coriolis forces
Etymology: From French Coriolis (“a surname”) + English force, after French scientist Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis.
Senses: examples: text: On a rotor, Coriolis forces will appear whenever there is a radial lengthening or shortening of the blade about the rotational axis, which will be a result of blade flapping or bending.
ref: 2006, J. Gordon Leishman, Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics, page 197:
text: These terms are generally thought of as due to Coriolis forces, and represent a coupling of the modes of vibration ω₂ and ω₃ Coriolis forces in the rotating molecule. The Coriolis force is a fictitious force which must be introduced if mechanical motion is studied in a rotating coordinate system and the rotation is otherwise overlooked.
ref: 2013, C. H. Townes, A.L. Schawlow, Microwave Spectroscopy, page 30:
text: First, we'll look at a simplified picture of how the pressure gradient and Coriolis forces affect an air parcel high above the ground.
ref: 2013, Jack Williams, The AMS Weather Book: The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather, page 56:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fictitious force apparently exerted on any moving body (including a parcel of air) due to the rotation of the earth, observed as a deflection of the body to the right of its direction of travel (i.e., clockwise) in the Northern Hemisphere, or to the left (anticlockwise) in the Southern Hemisphere; any equivalent apparent force that deflects objects in a rotating reference frame.
wikipedia: Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis
Synonyms: sense: apparent force due to the rotation of the earth
word: Coriolis effect
Related terms: Coriolis effect
Coriolis frequency
Coriolis parameter
ionosphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionospheres
Etymology: From iono- + -sphere.
Senses: examples: text: Dave frowned as he tried to answer. "Well, I suppose the atmosphere is oxygen and nitrogen, mostly; then there's the ionosphere and the ozone layer. As I remember, the color of the sky is due to the scattering of light—light rays being diffracted in the air."
ref: 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
text: Solar storms drive currents of millions of amps through the electrically conductive upper layer of our atmosphere (known as the ionosphere). These currents, which can fluctuate rapidly, drive powerful magnetic disturbances at the Earth's surface that in turn induce electrical currents in the planet's crust.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: The part of the Earth's atmosphere beginning at an altitude of about 50 kilometers (31 miles) and extending outward 500 kilometers (310 miles) or more.
glosses: The similar region of the atmosphere of another planet.
Hypernyms: atmosphere
Meronyms: exosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere
Related terms: ionospheric
ionospherically
ionospherist
ayr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: air
ere
Ayr
heir
Etymology: Borrowed from Manx ayr. Doublet of faeder, father, padre, pater, and père.
Senses: qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: father
ayr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: air
ere
Ayr
heir
Senses: examples: text: "But that Coyne, which is not considerable for the Matter, but for the Stamp of the place, being unable to endure change of ayr, hath its effect at home only; where also it is subject to the change of Laws, and thereby to have the value diminished, to the prejudice many times of those that have it."
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Chapter 24”, in Leviathan:
glosses: Alternative spelling of air (especially when referring to the form of music).
fedan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fedans
Senses: examples: text: Tubbs, in the fall of 1862, sent emissaries to Cairo to pressure Ismail, heir to the throne, into planting several thousand fedans – which Tubbs promised to buy.
ref: 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 71:
glosses: A measure of land used in Sudan and Egypt, slightly more than an English acre. One fedan is about 4200 square meters.
comeover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comeovers
Etymology: Deverbal from come over.
Senses: examples: text: Some laborer, a comeover for sure, perhaps had stolen it, disabused his bosses of it, and for what?
ref: 2008, Kathleen M. Henry, Critical Mass, →ISBN, page 46:
text: It was a comeover who told me that she disliked the Manx because they were so “provincial.” She was quite wrong. The Manx were not in the least provincial; they were profoundly insular—and the distinction is essential.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Raban, Coasting: A Private Voyage, →ISBN:
qualifier: Isle of Man
glosses: An immigrant: a non-Manx person living on the Isle of Man.
flocc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of floc.
tropical depression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical depressions
Senses: examples: text: Janice was a tropical depression 10 days ago, a tropical storm 5 days ago, and a hurricane yesterday and today.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: word: tropical storm
english: all stronger
translation: all stronger
word: ;
word: hurricane
word: typhoon
word: cyclone
word: tropical cyclone
word: ;
word: cyclone
word: storm
glosses: An organized low-pressure system of thunderclouds with closed surface circulation and maximum sustained winds of less than 34 knots (63 km) per hour.
suicide pact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide pacts
Senses: examples: text: […] with only three exceptions, no locomotives built since 1906 have been scrapped. One of the exceptions was an experimental high-pressure shunting locomotive; the other two made a suicide pact and collided.
ref: 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 558:
glosses: An agreement between two or more people to commit suicide.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An arrangement or system of rules that is followed despite restricting the ability to deal with critical issues.
sodium amalgam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium amalgams
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An alloy of sodium and mercury; used as a powerful reducing agent, and in certain types of sodium lamp.
sodium pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sodium pumps
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transport of sodium ions across biological membranes using the metabolic energy of ATP.
sodium soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: any soap made by the reaction of fat with sodium hydroxide
natron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French natron, from Spanish natrón, from Arabic نَطْرُون (naṭrūn), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron, “nitre”), ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”): R9
Doublet of niter and trona.
Senses: examples: text: Natron and salt are soluble by liquid, but not all liquid but only such as is cold. Hence water and any of its varieties melt them, but oil does not.
ref: 1931, Aristotle, translated by E.W. Webster, Meteorologica, Bk. IV, ch. 6:
text: You know the mysterious idols they were supposed to set up to worship in their chapters – were they really human heads treated with natron after the Ancient Egyptian pattern – idols of Persian or Syrian provenance?
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 242:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline mixture of hydrous sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, with the chemical formula Na₂CO₃·10H₂O.
Related terms: natrium
sodium hydroxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A strong, caustic alkali (NaOH) used in the manufacture of soap, detergents, paper, textiles and having many other industrial applications.
Synonyms: caustic soda
E524 when used as an acidity regulator
lye
soda lye
Hypernyms: alkali
trap-bath split
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trăp′ bäth′ splĭt′
ipa: /ˈtɹæp ˈbɑːθ ˌsplɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæp ˈbɑθ ˌsplɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæp ˈbɒθ ˌsplɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹæp ˈbɐːθ ˌsplɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛp ˈbaːθ ˌsplət/
ipa: /ˈtɹap ˈbaθ ˌsplɪt/
ipa: /ˈʈɾæp ˈbaːt̪ ˌspliʈ/
enpr: trăp′ băth′ splĭt′
ipa: /ˈtɹæp ˈbæθ ˌsplɪt/
ipa: /ˈtɹɛp ˈbɛθ ˌsplət/
ipa: /ˈʈɾæp ˈbæt̪ ˌspliʈ/
Forms: form: the trap–bath split
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A vowel split in some varieties of English (such as British English as spoken in southern England, American English spoken in Boston, and Australian, New Zealand and South African English) in which the phoneme /æ/ (AHD: ă), as pronounced in other varieties of English, is pronounced in some words as /ɑː/ (AHD: ä).
Related terms: æ-tensing
bad-lad split
bad-lad split
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: a phonemic split of the phoneme /æ/ into a short /æ/ and a long /æː/, as heard in some varieties of British and Australian English, in which "bad" is pronounced /bæːd/ and "lad" is pronounced /læd/
Related terms: æ-tensing
trap-bath split
æ-tensing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: a process that occurs almost ubiquitously in North American English in which the phoneme /æ/ is raised and lengthened or diphthongized in certain or all environments.
Related terms: bad-lad split
trap-bath split
table football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game, based on football (soccer), in which opposing players are represented by small figures mounted on rotating bars.
Synonyms: foosball
table soccer
one good turn deserves another
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: antonyms: one bad turn deserves another
glosses: One act of kindness should be paid back by another act of kindness.
Derived terms: good turn
absence makes the heart grow fonder
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: absence makes the heart fonder
Senses: glosses: One feels more love or affection for those one loves when parted from them.
Coordinate terms: long absent, soon forgotten
out of sight, out of mind
when the cat's away the mice will play
Derived terms: absence makes the heart go yonder
Related terms: hunger is the best sauce
phyllo pastry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllo pastries
form: fillo pastry
form: filo pastry
form: fyllo pastry
Senses: glosses: Synonym of phyllo.
synonyms: word: phyllo