cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
on the half hour
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Trains leave here for New York every hour on the half hour.
glosses: Happening hourly, but at 30 minutes past each hour; ie, 08:30, 09:30 etc.
examples: text: In one corner is an old grandfather's clock; the chimes are on the half-hour.
ref: 2011, Studs Terkel, "The Good War": An Oral History of World War II:
text: He bought and framed Japanese prints, and she chose a bronze mantelpiece clock with a silver bell that struck on the half hour.
ref: 2010, Stephanie Cowell, Claude & Camille, page 248:
glosses: Happening on the hour and at 30 minutes after the hour.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: At thirty minutes into a half.
Related terms: on the hour
top of the hour
top of the hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tops of the hours
form: tops of the hour
Senses: examples: text: If not done at the top of the hour, however, the station ID should come at the next possible break in the programme.
ref: 2005, Simran Kohli, The Radio Jockey Handbook, page 93:
glosses: The time at (or very close to) the start of the next hour of time.
Related terms: top of the morning
on the hour
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: hourly, beginning at the start of each hour.
Related terms: on the half hour
top of the hour
sil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, Vitruvius and Pliny the Elder attest that in Greece ochra was the name of the yellow quality, corresponding to what the Romans called sil.
ref: 2017, Pier Luigi Tucci, The Temple of Peace in Rome, page 278:
glosses: A yellowish pigment used by painters in ancient times.
Related terms: sil-green
centre of lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centres of lift
form: center of lift
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That point on an aircraft where all the various lifting forces act. If the centre or lift is not coincident with the centre of gravity on the fore/aft axis, the plane will pitch, if not coincident on the lateral axis, it will roll.
center of lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centers of lift
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of centre of lift.
attitude indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attitude indicators
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: An instrument that displays attitude of an aircraft in pitch and roll.
Synonyms: artificial horizon
navball
validator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: validators
Etymology: From validate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who validates.
examples: text: Use the HTML validator to check that your web page is correctly coded.
glosses: Something that validates.
rate of climb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rates of climb
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rate at which an aircraft gains altitude. A negative rate of climb implies descent.
Synonyms: climb rate
Coordinate terms: airspeed
groundspeed
Derived terms: rate of climb indicator
Related terms: rate of ascent
rate of descent
rate of climb indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rate of climb indicators
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An instrument installed in an aircraft that indicates the rate at which the aircraft is gaining or losing altitude.
tsien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsien
Senses: glosses: Synonym of mace (“old Chinese unit of weight”).
synonyms: word: mace
extra: old Chinese unit of weight
bachelordom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bachelor + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The state of a male who is a bachelor, i.e. unwed.
early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
Senses: glosses: A person who goes to bed early and wakes up early will lead a more successful life.
wikipedia: Benjamin Franklin
Synonyms: the early bird gets the worm
Related terms: early-to-bedder
keep good hours
seemly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmli/
Forms: form: seemlier
form: seemliest
Etymology: From Middle English semly, semely, semelich, from Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”); equivalent to seem + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”), Danish sømmelig (“seemly”).
Senses: examples: text: His behavior was seemly, as befits a gentleman.
text: I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: Of behavior, appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
Synonyms: apposite
Derived terms: seemlihead
seemlily
seemliness
seemly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːmli/
Forms: form: more seemly
form: most seemly
Etymology: From Middle English semly, semely, semelich, from Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”); equivalent to seem + -ly. Cognate with Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”), Danish sømmelig (“seemly”).
Senses: examples: text: The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Appropriately, fittingly.
sensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sensible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “Talk of my private life”, “widespread press reports of my cronyism and embezzlement”, “my cut-price hair transplant that went hilariously wrong”, “the relentless clip-clop of my amazing shoes” – such things can become a distraction thanks to the silly media and their inability to just sit still and listen to the barrage of sensibleness that the government is trying to present.
ref: 2024 October 13, David Mitchell, “What went wrong with Starmer’s Gray matter?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The property of being sensible; good sense, common sense.
four-on-the-floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four on the floor
form: 4-on-the-floor
form: four-to-the-floor
Senses: coordinate_terms: three-on-the-tree
qualifier: motor vehicles
glosses: A four-speed manual transmission whose gearshift lever is mounted beside the driver on the floor of the vehicle; (metonymic) a vehicle with such a transmission.
examples: text: A four-on-the-floor rhythm:
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topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A steady, uniformly accented beat with a 4/4 time signature in which the bass drum is hit on every beat.
Related terms: drive stick
gear change
shift gears
stickshift
cumberbund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumberbunds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cummerbund.
P-plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: P-plates
Senses: glosses: A plastic square sticker or sign bearing a large letter P, placed on a vehicle to indicate that the driver only has a probationary driver's licence, for various possible reasons.
glosses: A plastic square sticker or sign bearing a large green letter P - optional not mandatory - placed on a vehicle, probably to indicate that the driver has recently passed his or her driving test.
Derived terms: P-plater
on one's P's
Related terms: L-plate
Tuzla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Tuzla/Тузла, from Ottoman Turkish طوزله (Tuzla), from طوز (tuz, “salt”).
Senses: examples: text: The security situation forced me to cancel my trip to Sarajevo, but the people I was to meet were so disappointed that they insisted on braving the journey along fifty miles of treacherous roads to meet me in Tuzla.
ref: 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “War Zones”, in Living History, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 344:
glosses: A city in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the northeastern part of the country.
tuzla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuzlas
Etymology: From Turkish tuzla
Senses: glosses: A kind of central Anatolian rug.
super organism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super organisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of superorganism.
mafic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmafɪk/
ipa: /ˈmeɪfɪk/
ipa: /ˈmæfɪk/
Forms: form: more mafic
form: most mafic
Etymology: Blend of magnesium + ferric.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.
ref: 1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 261, page 22:
text: As a whole, rocks of this type are referred to as mafic, because of the importance of magnesium and iron in their composition.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 60:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: ferromagnesic
basic
antonyms: felsic
acidic
glosses: Describing rocks, such as silicate minerals, magmas, and volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks, which contain relatively high concentrations of magnesium and iron.
Derived terms: nonmafic
ultramafic
mafic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmafɪk/
ipa: /ˈmeɪfɪk/
ipa: /ˈmæfɪk/
Forms: form: mafics
Etymology: Blend of magnesium + ferric.
Senses: glosses: A rock with such properties.
winningest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪnɪŋɪst/
Etymology: From winning + -est.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of winning: most winning
examples: She has the winningest smile.
glosses: superlative form of winning: most winning
Most winning; most attractive.
examples: text: There can be little doubt that Carroll Shelby deserves the high praise he has received from many quarters. On the record he’s America’s winningest big car driver.
ref: 1958, Charles Beaumont, William F. Nolan, editors, Omnibus of Speed: An Introduction to the World of Motor Sport, Putnam, page 183:
text: [Jody Conradt] is the winningest all-time coach in women's basketball with more than 650 victories.
ref: 1996, David F. Salter, Crashing the Old Boys’ Network: The Tragedies and Triumphs of Girls and Women in Sports, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 83:
text: In just a few short years, Don Shula turned the Dolphins from a laughingstock expansion team into an NFL dynasty. He then went on to become the winningest coach in NFL history.
ref: 2004, Walter Harvey, The Super Bowl’s Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Big-Game Heroes, Pigskin Zeroes, and Championship Oddities, Brassey’s, →ISBN, page 42:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having the most wins.
DUCivR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of District of Utah civil rules, the United States District Court for the District of Utah Rules of Practice.
cheapen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃiːpən/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: cheapens
form: cheapening
form: cheapened
form: cheapened
Etymology: From cheap + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Now, covered concrete troughs to house the cables are laid parallel with the railway lines, cheapening maintenance because of improved accessibility for inspection and repair.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: The North Eastern's new rail-mounted piling unit”, in Trains Illustrated, page 646:
glosses: To decrease the value or price of; to make cheaper.
examples: text: The pace of the season can't help but cheapen these scenes, but I can’t deny that it's a blast. I’ve been critical of both the relative depopulation of the cast in this final run and the speedy, schematic narrative that checks off high points and moves on without really building to them.
ref: 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown Offers One Last Game-changing Secret as Game of Thrones Goes behind Enemy Lines (Newbies)”, in The Onion A.V. Club:
glosses: To make vulgar.
glosses: To become cheaper.
examples: text: I should like to have seen that noble old madcap Peterborough in his boots (he actually had the audacity to walk about Bath in boots!), with his blue ribbon and stars, and a cabbage under each arm, and a chicken in his hand, which he had been cheapening for his dinner.
ref: 1861 November, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “George the First”, in The Four Georges: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 34–35:
text: The maid was on the step, cheapening fish with a virulent lady who had a sieve-full to dispose of.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bargain for, ask the price of.
Derived terms: cheapener
cheapen out
Related terms: sense: lower the value or price
word: affordability
Beetlejuice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Compound of beetle + juice, from the similar sound to Betelgeuse.
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of Betelgeuse.
alpinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈælpɪnɪzəm/
Forms: form: alpinisms
Etymology: From alpine + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: . . . our rapidly increasing knowledge of the Rocky Mountains of Canada for which geography is so greatly indebted to alpinism.
ref: 1912, “New Maps,”, in Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, volume 44, number 7, page 558:
synonyms: mountaineering
mountain climbing
glosses: Mountain climbing.
Related terms: alpinist
mountain climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: mountaineering
glosses: The activity of climbing mountains, or scaling rock faces.
Related terms: mountain to climb
mountain climber
anconad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ancon + -ad.
Senses: examples: text: This articulation of the metacarpal bone of the thumb is luxated either thenad or anconad of the os trapezium; when thenad, there is a prominence in the palm of the hand, the finger is extended anconad, and cannot be inflected thenad; when luxated anconad, there is a projection on the anconal aspect of the wrist, the thumb is inflected thenad, and cannot be extended.
ref: 1823, John Lizars, A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body, volume 1:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located towards the elbow.
Related terms: anconal
griefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Surely, he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 53:4:
glosses: plural of grief
griefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grief
pouty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: poutier
form: poutiest
Etymology: From pout + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1799, Cassandra Leigh Cook, Battleridge, London: Cawthorn, Volume 1, Chapter 5, p. 77,
‘My dear Doctor,’ said he, ‘this wrathful man thinks you have been unsuccessful, and is primed to be pouty; let us enjoy the pleasure of discovery by a little delay; […] ’
text: Long ago when Jade used to come for holiday visits, Margaret found her awkward and pouty, but now that she was grown up, she was pretty and a lot of fun.
ref: 1981, Tony Morrison, Tar Baby, New York: New American Library, published 1983, page 72:
synonyms: sulky
sullen
glosses: Tending to pout; angry in a childish or cute way; showing mock anger. (of a person)
examples: text: 1851, Donald Grant Mitchell (as Ik. Marvel.), Dream Life, New York: Scribner, Chapter 5, pp. 239-240,
Was there ever a baby seen, or even read of, like that baby! […] he is a little pouty about the mouth—but such a mouth!
text: Those girls, who could have been her daughters, were beautiful. […] Their mouths were pouty little cupid’s bows.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 16, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Random House, page 104:
text: a pale brunette whose pouty Maybelline red lips put Scarlett O’Hara’s sneer to shame
ref: 2016, Paul Beatty, chapter 6, in The Sellout, New York: Picador, page 84:
glosses: Shaped into a pout; (of lips) protruding (often implying sulkiness or flirtiness). (of a mouth)
examples: text: Where other actresses offer us a sort of pouty boredom which yet seeks to flirt with the audience, Huppert presents severity, anger, and an irritation raised to the condition of nausea.
ref: 2002, Julian Barnes, Something to Declare, London: Picador, page 278:
text: 2006, Gary Shteyngart, Absurdistan, London: Granta, 2008, Chapter 27, p. 214,
Only their full red lips bore similarity, the father’s bubbly wedges endowing him with a drag queen’s pouty glamour.
text: He suffered on his journey, delivering a pouty soliloquy on hunger, cold, and wild beasts.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, London: Fleet, page 157:
glosses: Characterized by pouting. (of an action or quality)
Synonyms: poutish
Derived terms: poutily
poutiness
Him
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: ☐ Try a conversational journaling approach, where you talk with God about what you are learning and write what you 'hear' Him saying to you (see Appendix 1 for examples)
ref: 2015, Helen Calder, “Consider a Fresh Approach to Bible Study”, in Deeper: 6 Steps to Greater Intimacy with God and His Word, David McCracken Ministries, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Honorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Related terms: He
Himself
His
Him
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hims
Etymology: A surname of Khmer origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Khmer.
ilama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilamas
Senses: glosses: A Central American fruit related to the cherimoya, Annona diversifolia.
right ascension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right ascensions
Senses: examples: text: The sun's right ascension in time is useful to the practical astronomer in regular observatories, who adjusts his clock by sidereal time.
ref: 1809, William Nicholson, “ASCENSION”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: The right ascensions and declinations obtained by the preceding calculations, are the mean values, to which must be applied the corrections for the Nutation and Aberration Tables XLII. XLIII. in cases where great accuracy is required, as is now done in the Nautical Almanac for 24 of the brightest stars for 10 days in the year, and those numbers in the Nautical Almanac are to be preferred.
ref: 1826, Nathaniel Bowditch, Jonathan Ingersoll Bowditch, American Practical Navigator, US Hydrographic Office, page 280:
text: 1988, Peter Duffett-Smith, Practical Astronomy with Your Calculator, page 35,
The hour-angle, H, and the right ascension, α, are related by the simple formula
H = LST − α,
where LST is the local sidereal time.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The angular distance east of the vernal point (“the solar zenith at the March equinox”); the celestial equivalent of longitude.
Synonyms: α
Coordinate terms: declination
Related terms: celestial coordinate system
equatorial coordinate system
hour angle
oblique ascension
knobology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knob + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: 1982, Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1982, Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies, U.S. Senate
The proposed replacement of enroute computerized traffic control systems will undoubtedly confront the controller with a new "learning curve" to assimilate the different "knobology" and advanced display techniques.
text: Knobology directly relates to "KISS," the acronym for "keep it simple, stupid."
ref: 1995 April, Frederick L. Gould, Radar for Technicians: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 248:
text: Micro-level guidelines are concerned with knobology and recommend specific button styles or control and indicator choices (to use LabVIEW terminology).
ref: 2001 November, David J. Ritter, LabVIEW GUI: Essential Techniques, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 156:
text: As a beginner, you should not try to learn all the fine points of “knobology” right away.
ref: 2004 July, Terry C. Telger, transl., The Practice Of Ultrasound: A Step-by-step Guide to Abdominal Scanning, Thieme Medical Publishers, page 2:
text: Leaders need to know more than the “knobology” of the new technology. They must understand the underlying technology’s principles...
ref: 2006 February, Something Old, Something New: Army Leader Development in a Dynamic Environment, Rand Corporation, page 36:
glosses: The functionality of controls on an instrument as relevant to their application.
bung up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bungs up
form: bunging up
form: bunged up
form: bunged up
Senses: examples: text: He used a piece of putty to temporarily bung up the leaking gutter.
glosses: To close (an opening) with a cork, cork-like object or other improvised obstruction.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: The fallen leaves were bunging up the drain.
text: By dose is bunged up with snot!
glosses: To block or obstruct (an opening or passage).
raw_tags: of debris
examples: text: He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years.
ref: 1612, Thomas Shelton (translator), he History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha (originally by Miguel de Cervantes)
text: Bunged up he was, plenty. A scar on his nose, healed up, but showing the marks of where human teeth had bit him in a fight, as neat and clear as a dentist’s signboard.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 20:
glosses: To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of asymmetric digital subscriber line.
SDSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: symmetric digital subscriber line
glosses: A communications system (or part thereof) characterised by moderately high speeds, the same in each direction
warp factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warp factors
Etymology: From the science-fiction series Star Trek.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical figure indicating a space vessel's speed greater than the speed of light.
anconal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ancon + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the elbow
Related terms: anconad
lose the number of one's mess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses the number of one's mess
form: losing the number of one's mess
form: lost the number of one's mess
form: lost the number of one's mess
Senses: examples: text: "What do you think we come to sea for? If we can take a man-of-war of our own size she's worth half a dozen merchant craft, though, to be sure, some of us may lose the number of our mess; but we all know that, and make no count of it."
ref: 1870, W.H.G. Kingston, From Powder Monkey to Admiral:
text: Shore folk think sailors are heartless, and that when a poor chap is lost overboard, they only say that "So-and-so has lost the number of his mess!" and, after having an auction over his kit in the fo'c's'le, then dismiss him from their memory!
ref: 1880, J.C. Hutcheson, Fritz and Eric:
text: "And then before the mast, there was poor John Proby, who lost the number of his mess two days out of Callao."
ref: 1993, Patrick O'Brian, The wine-dark sea:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To die, to perish.
lip piercing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip piercings
Senses: glosses: Any form of body piercing involving the lips.
dispermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The penetration of an ovum by two spermatozoa.
take the red pill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the red pill
form: taking the red pill
form: took the red pill
form: taken the red pill
Senses: examples: text: If you want to be a successful bootstrapper, you have to take the red pill and determine how deep the rabbit hole called your organization goes.
ref: 2004 September 9, Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything, Portfolio, →ISBN, →OL, page 92:
text: As much as we, our generation, start to believe this fictionalized new version of reality we become complicit.... The only way out is to take the Red pill and see what things really look like.
ref: 2005 June 1, Terry Allen, Dugout, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 172:
text: In this day and time, we must begin to take the “red pill” and open our first eye to see what's really going on, and who's behind this madness involving Hip Hop videos.
ref: 2005 December 1, The Black Dot, Hip Hop Decoded: From Its Ancient Origin To Its Modern Day Matrix, →ISBN, →OL, page 144:
synonyms: face facts
wise up
glosses: To perceive the world in its previously unknown, usually harsher, reality.
Related terms: word: red pill
word: red pilled
word: drink the Kool-Aid
on the skids
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids.
ref: 1938 June 27, “Work Undone”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 May 2008:
glosses: In decline; going downhill; in trouble.
Related terms: hit the skids
skid row
aleptinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a- + leptin + -emia; compare the more common hypoleptinemia.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, we now know of two distinct human diseases where the correction of near aleptinemia is of major therapeutic benefit.
ref: 2002 May 15, D.B. Savage, S. O’Rahilly, “Leptin: a novel therapeutic role in lipodystrophy”, in Journal of Clinical Investigation, volume 109, number 10, pages 1285–6:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The absence of the hormone leptin in the bloodstream
pass the hat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes the hat
form: passing the hat
form: passed the hat
form: passed the hat
Etymology: From the practice of placing money in a hat circulated to collect funds from a small group.
Senses: examples: text: Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, "Let HIM pass the hat around!"
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 20, in Huckleberry Finn:
text: A consensus developed that those individuals who believed in this type of activism would pursue it independently, while enlisting help from interested members. When financial contributions were called for, we would "pass the hat" rather than tap our meager treasury.
ref: 1988 February 14, Richard Tremblay, “A Boat With A Sail”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 5:
text: The institutions are opening development offices, hiring professional fund raisers, investing in slick billion-dollar campaigns, and trotting out their presidents to pass the hat.
ref: 2008 December 5, Martha Ann Overland, “In Asia, American-Style Fund Raising Takes Off”, in Chronicle of Higher Education, retrieved 11 Dec 2008:
glosses: To ask for money, especially from a group of people; to solicit donations or contributions.
Synonyms: take up a collection
Related terms: whip-round
toe-tappingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toe-tappingly
form: most toe-tappingly
Etymology: From tap one's toes. Also from toe-tapping.
Senses: examples: text: I saw this at the end of last week, and it struck me how much more toe tappingly infectious and resonant NBC's score and songs were than The Lion King's.
ref: 1994 December 15, Pete Clinch, “Nightmare before Christmas”, in bit.listserv.cinema-l (Usenet):
text: the "goth rap" bit isn't quite as toe-tappingly catchy as it was before.
ref: 1996 April 24, Richard Stuart, “Review of Cradle Of Filth - 'Vempire'”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.death (Usenet):
text: Zoidberg: It's toe-tappingly tragic!
ref: 2001 April, Matt Groening, “Bendin' in the Wind”, in Futurama, season 3, episode 13:
glosses: In the manner of pleasing rhythmic music, as would make one tap one's toes.
Épila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
population density
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: population densities
Senses: examples: text: It couldn't make the Sligo case, noting "Given the relatively low population density and lack of larger towns across the region, the review has found that expansion of rail is difficult to justify in much of the region."
ref: 2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 25:
glosses: Average population per unit area; especially, the average number of people who live per square kilometer (or square mile) of land.
Prince of Darkness
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Princes of Darkness
Etymology: Calque of Latin prīnceps tenebrārum, used in the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667).
Senses: synonyms: word: Aduwallah
word: Adversary
word: Al-Shaytaan
word: Antichrist
word: archfiend
word: Ash-Shaytan
word: Azazel
word: Beast
word: Beelzebub
word: bogey
word: cosmocrat
word: deceiver
word: deuce
word: Devil
word: diablo
word: Diabolus
word: dickens
word: Dragon
word: Enemy
word: Evil One
word: Father of Lies
word: Gog
word: Iblis
word: Jack Ketch
word: leviathan
word: lord of the flies
word: Lucifer
word: Mephistopheles
word: Old Gentleman
word: Old Hairy
word: Old Harry
word: Old Nick
word: Old One
word: Old Scratch
word: Old Serpent
word: Prince of Darkness
word: Prince of Demons
word: Prince of Evil
word: Sam Scratch
word: Satan
word: Serpent
word: shaitan
word: Son of the Dawn
glosses: Satan; the Devil.
glosses: A particularly evil person.
examples: text: The highest level of promotion for a human in the Dark Kingdom is in the Ruler of Darkness hierarchy as a Prince of Darkness. A Prince or Princess of Darkness is among the elite in the Dark Kingdom and has the privileges of a Power.
ref: 1991, J. P. Timmons, chapter 11, in Mysterious Secrets of the Dark Kingdom:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prince, darkness.
alpha privative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪvətɪv
Forms: form: alpha privatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: alpha privativum
;
privative a
glosses: The prefix a- (or an- when prefixing a root which begins with a vowel) found in some English words of Greek derivation. It expresses negation or absence. The prefix has cognates in other Indo-European languages, including in- in Latin and un- in English, all traceable back to Proto-Indo-European *n̥-.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: alpha privativum
glosses: Either the aforementioned privative a or the Greek ἀ- (a-) itself (from which the English descendant derives).
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word formed using such prefixes.
Related terms: word: deprivation
word: privation
word: privative adjective
roman: a-
word: ἀ-
word: a-
swan boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swan boats
Senses: glosses: A paddleboat.
glosses: A longboat similar to a dragon boat, traditional in Thailand.
glosses: A novelty swan-shaped boat, associated with tourism and rides for couples/lovers.
Attic salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈatɪk sɔːlt/
ipa: /ˈatɪk sɒlt/
ipa: /ˈætɪk sɑlt/
ipa: /ˈætɪk sɔlt/
ipa: /-ɾɪk/
Etymology: Attic + salt; a calque of Latin sāl Atticus or sāl Atticum. In classical times “salt” was a frequent metaphor for “wit”.
Senses: examples: text: His [Lucan's] wit, ſays Ablancourt, was full of urbanity, that Attic ſalt which the French call fine raillery; not obſcene, not groſs, not rude, but facetious, well-mannered, and well-bred.
ref: 1760, Thomas Flloyd, “LUCANUS (Marcus Annæus)”, in Bibliotheca Biographica: A Synopsis of Universal Biography, Ancient and Modern. Containing a Circumstantial and Curious Detail of the Lives, Actions, Opinions, Writings, and Characters of the Most Celebrated Persons, of Both Sexes, of All Ranks, in All Countries, and in All Ages: Alphabetically Disposed. …, volumes II (Dac–Nor), London: Printed for J. Hinton, in Newgate-Street; L. Davis and C. Reymers, opposite Gray's-Inn, Holborn; R[ichard] Baldwin in Pater-noster-Row; and J[ohn] Walter, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC:
text: Koznyshev, who knew better than anyone how at the end of a most abstract and serious dispute unexpectedly to administer a grain of Attic salt and thereby to change his interlocutor's frame of mind, did so now.
ref: 1918, Leo Tolstoy; Louise and Aylmer Maude, translators, chapter IX, in Anna Karenina, a Novel (World's Classics; 210–211), volume I, [Cambridge?]: Oxford University Press, →OCLC; republished London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, publisher to the University, 1923, →OCLC, part IV, page 435:
text: But Attic salt is not the sole preservative against the decay that threatens all human writings; nor can mere eloquence rekindle the ashes of a dead controversy.
ref: 1941, H[ugh] F[raser] Stewart, “Pascal in Debate”, in The Secret of Pascal, Cambridge: At the University Press, →OCLC; 1st paperback edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Pointed and delicate wit.
wikipedia: Demosthenes
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ
by-the-numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Done in a predictable manner; formulaic.
queendom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwiːndəm/
Forms: form: queendoms
Etymology: From queen + -dom.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: queenship
coordinate_terms: kingdom#Noun
kingship#Noun
princessdom#Noun
princessship#Noun
princedom#Noun
princeship#Noun
glosses: The condition or character of a queen; queenly rule, power, or authority.
examples: text: She was the fairest maiden in all the queendom.
glosses: A realm ruled by a queen.
examples: text: The whole queendom was outraged by the diplomatic slight.
glosses: The subjects of such a realm.
Related terms: word: drag-queendom
word: kingdom
english: womankind
translation: womankind
word: femdom
easy on the eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easy on the eyes
form: most easy on the eyes
form: easy on the eye
Senses: examples: text: Truly was this maiden, as his Chamberlain had said, noticeably easy on the eyes. Her beauty was as water in the desert, as fire on a frosty night, as diamonds, rubies, pearls, sapphires, and amethysts.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, “The Coming of Gowf”, in The Clicking of Cuthbert:
text: Those lovers, played by Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz, are certainly easy on the eyes, but their romantic chemistry is tentative at best.
ref: 1998 Jan. 23, Stephen Holden, "Ukrainian Patient: A Romance In the Rain" (film review of Swept from the Sea), New York Times (retrieved 2 Oct 2013)
antonyms: hard on the eyes
glosses: Physically attractive; beautiful.
Related terms: eye candy
contemptibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contemptibly
form: most contemptibly
Etymology: From contemptible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contemptible manner.
fanciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancinesses
Etymology: From fancy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being fancy.
schoolmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolmates
form: school mate
Etymology: From school + -mate.
Senses: examples: text: I've lost touch with all my old schoolmates: I only see them at class reunions.
text: The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Introduction”, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: A person who was a fellow attendee at one's school.
Synonyms: word: fellow
word: schoolfellow
Hyponyms: deskmate
classmate
schoolfriend
schoolmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolmate
second-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a second-class train ticket, second-class postage, a second-class honours degree
qualifier: neutral or mildly positive connotation
glosses: Of a standard or grade one level below the best.
examples: text: He complained he felt like a second-class citizen, but everyone felt put upon that day.
text: Using second-class parts for the repair was false economy because they soon broke and had to be fixed again.
synonyms: second-rate
qualifier: negative connotation
glosses: Inferior in quality or standing.
Derived terms: second-class citizen
second-class entity
second-class object
second-class value
Related terms: first-class
third-class
third-class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Travelling third-class isn't just slow, it's painful.
text: Third-class carriages are grossly overcrowded, with passengers lying on the luggage racks, standing between the benches, and occasionally even riding on the footboards and clinging to the outsides of the coaches for short distances.
ref: 1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120:
glosses: Most inferior in quality or standing.
Related terms: first-class
second-class
second class
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of second-class.
second class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The second-lowest rank in the Boy Scouts of America, between tenderfoot and first class.
examples: text: Allport's decision in 1872 to abolish Second Class on the Midland and effectively upgrade Third Class to the standards of Second, most notably with upholstered seating, sent shockwaves through the Victorian railway.
ref: 2023 February 8, Conrad Landin, “Bon appetit: 150 years of railway dining”, in RAIL, number 976, page 47:
glosses: A class of travel, inferior to first class.
glosses: A class of postage with delivery times slower than first class.
Derived terms: chief petty officer second class
petty officer second class
ship of the line ensign second class
segmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segmentations
Etymology: From segment + -ation.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: sectioning
antonyms: desegmentation
nonsegmentation
glosses: The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
glosses: The state of being divided into segments
glosses: The partitioning of an image into groups of pixels
Derived terms: autosegmentation
benefit segmentation
biosegmentation
bisegmentation
cosegmentation
desegmentation
hypersegmentation
market segmentation
multisegmentation
myosegmentation
nonsegmentation
oversegmentation
presegmentation
pseudosegmentation
resegmentation
segmentational
segmentation clock
segmentation fault
self-segmentation
subsegmentation
trisegmentation
undersegmentation
seismologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seismology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the field of seismology.
Earthican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː.θɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈɝ.θɪ.kən/
Etymology: Blend of Earth + American. Possibly popularized by the adult animated sitcom Futurama.
Senses: examples: text: I went to an Earth Day event in San Francisco and there was this huge Earthican flag, circa 3000 A.D., with the red and white stripes and an image of Earth up in the corner.
ref: 2002 April 23, Jym Dyer, “Earthican Day”, in alt.tv.futurama (Usenet):
text: Just consider that, over time, on a scale of millions of years, earthican continents have had *lots* of different configurations
ref: 2004 October 18, Wayne Throop, “Early parallel-universe stories”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: You may remember him [Paul Hellyer] from such news articles as "Is there a party Paul hasn't belonged to or at least tried to join?" and "How dare the Americans threaten the delicate Earthican-Alien relationship by [planning] to emplace armed bases on the Moon?"
ref: 2006 May 25, James Nicoll, “Spider's Heinlein novel [was: Re: ConCarolinas 2006 is coming!]”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):
text: that first step is enough to make direct attacks rather tricky, to make most of the Earthican powers' armed forces useless.
ref: 2006 June 27, John Schilling, “David Drake - Leary and the RCN”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Of or from the planet Earth.
Earthican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɜː.θɪ.kən/
ipa: /ˈɝ.θɪ.kən/
Forms: form: Earthicans
Etymology: Blend of Earth + American. Possibly popularized by the adult animated sitcom Futurama.
Senses: examples: text: Fry: Well, if you're going to be Earthicans, we're going to have to teach you.
ref: 2001 April, “A Leela of Her Own”, in Futurama, season 4, episode 10:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An inhabitant of planet Earth.
Synonyms: Earthling
Terran
Tellurian
Hypernyms: Solarian
Hyponyms: Earthgirl
Earthman
Earthwoman
apparitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparition
acquires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acquire
Prolog
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Prolog, abbreviation of Programmation en Logique.
Senses: examples: text: Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.
ref: 2006, Patrick Blackburn, Johan Bos, Kristina Striegnitz, “§7.1”, in Learn Prolog Now!, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2015:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
vendange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vendanges
Etymology: Borrowed from French vendange.
Senses: examples: text: 1953, Patrick O'Brian, The Frozen Flame, 2007, republished as The Catalans, W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, page 179,
For them the vendange was a feast, a ritual, a time of strange excitement, more intense by far than the harvest of the corn in the north, more religious.
text: ‘I could, of course, stay until after the vendanges, if I wished,’ said the Prince.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 534:
glosses: The annual grape harvest, especially in France.
vendanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vendange
circumjacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, where one may view with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, with the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.
ref: 1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: [Alex. Murray & Son, 15 June 1869], →OCLC, page 21:
text: [H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.
ref: 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 289:
text: [W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 36:
text: He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.
ref: 1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, 1st book (The Prince), 2nd part, page 148:
synonyms: circumambient
surrounding
glosses: Lying or located in the area arround something.
Derived terms: circumjacently
Related terms: adjacent
interjacent
jacent
subjacent
superjacent
suprajacent
extemporise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əkˈstɛmpəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: extemporises
form: extemporising
form: extemporised
form: extemporised
form: extemporize
Senses: glosses: To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.
glosses: To do something in a makeshift way.
glosses: To make or create ex tempore.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To compose extemporaneously or improvise.
Derived terms: extemporiser
Related terms: extemporaneous
extemporaneously
extemporisation
extemporization
off the cuff
off the top of one's head
interjacent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˈd͡ʒeɪsənt/
Etymology: From Latin inter- (“between”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).
Senses: examples: text: The interjacent islands between Asia and America admit his passing from one continent to the other […]
ref: 1785, Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia:
glosses: Situated between; lying among.
Coordinate terms: intervening
Derived terms: interjacence
interjacency
interjacently
Related terms: adjacent
circumjacent
priapulid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priapulids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Priapulus (genus name) + -id.
Senses: examples: text: Like Kimberella’s scrape marks that connect it to modern mollusks, these ancient burrows were certainly created, if not by true priapulids, then by something very similar indeed.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The holes that litter the seabed are entrances to the burrows of priapulids – ‘penis worms’, named for their appearance – and their armoured cousins, the palaeoscolecids.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 254:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any small marine worm of the phylum Priapulida.
Synonyms: penis worm
Related terms: Priapulida
priapulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priapulid
ICCD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICCDs
Senses: qualifier: integrated circuits
glosses: Initialism of Intensified Charge-Coupled Device.