cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
noblesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nə(ʊ)ˈblɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Etymology: From Middle English noblesse, from Anglo-Norman noblesse, noblesce et al., Old French noblace, nobleche et al., from noble (“noble”).
Senses: examples: text: Faire braunch of noblesse, flowre of cheualrie, / That with your worth the world amazed make, / How shall I quite the paines, ye suffer for my sake?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: All gentlemen are almost obliged to it: and I know no reason we should give that advantage to the commonalty of England to be foremost in brave actions, which the noblesse of France would never suffer in their peasants
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):
glosses: The nobility; peerage.
Related terms: ignoblesse
noblesse oblige
quiescing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quiesce
disir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In that story, no tribute was paid to the disir at the ‘winter-nights’, but they took their revenge, killing the favourite son of the house.
ref: 1963, Arthur Brown, ed, Early English and Norse Studies: Presented to Hugh Smith in Honour of His Sixtieth Birthday:
glosses: plural of dis
caboshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbɒt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɒtʃ
Forms: form: caboched
form: cabossed
Etymology: From French caboché, past participle of cabocher, from caboche (“head”) (compare cabbage). See -ed.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Shown face-on, showing the full face, but cut off immediately behind the ears and hence showing nothing of the neck.
raw_tags: of an animal
mercurico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: mercuric
Derived terms: mercurico-barytic
mercurico-calcic
mercurico-cupric
mercurico-potassic
plumbate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumbates
Etymology: From plumb- + -ate (“derivative”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing the plumbate ion PbO₃²⁻ or Pb(OH)₆²⁻.
Derived terms: plumbate of potash
plumbate of potassium
potassium plumbate
sodium plumbate
plumb-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of plumbo-; used before a vowel.
Derived terms: plumballophane
plumbate
plumbethyl
plumbiodite
plumbo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: plumb-
Etymology: From Latin plumbum (“lead”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: lead
Derived terms: plumbocuprite
plumbomanganite
plumbomethyl
plumboresinite
plumborosinite
plumbscheelite
plumbostannite
plumbostib
plumbostibnite
plumbotetramethyl
plumbotrimethyl
sulfenamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfenamides
form: sulphenamide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, of general formula RSNR₂, derived from a sulfenic acid by replacement of the hydroxyl by an amino group
Derived terms: methylsulfenamide
sulfenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfenic acids
form: sulphenic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RSOH
Derived terms: sulfenate
sulphenic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphenic acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfenic acid.
screw it
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: screw it !
Senses: examples: text: This mathematical problem is really difficult. Oh, screw it! I can't be bothered.
glosses: Expression of frustration or contempt.
Synonyms: word: fuck it
word: fuck this
word: screw this
word: whatever
sulphenamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphenamides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfenamide.
sulfene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfenes
form: sulphene
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any S-dioxide of a thioaldehyde or thioketone; R₂SO₂.
sulphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfene.
sulfenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfenyls
form: sulphenyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical, R-S-, derived from sulfane.
Derived terms: sulfenylate
sulfenylation
sulphenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphenyls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfenyl.
sulfenylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfenyliums
form: sulphenylium
Etymology: From sulfenyl + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any univalent cation of general formula RS⁺ (where R is not H)
Synonyms: sulfenium
sulphenylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphenyliums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfenylium.
menstrual cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛn.stɹu.əl kʌp/
Forms: form: menstrual cups
Senses: glosses: A receptacle worn inside the vagina during menstruation to collect menstrual fluid.
sulfilimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfilimines
form: sulphilimine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfimide
sulphilimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphilimines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfilimine.
sulfimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfimides
form: sulphimide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound H₂S=NH, or any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives R₂S=NR'.
Synonyms: sulfimine
sulphimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphimides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfimide.
sulfimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfimines
form: sulphimine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfimide
sulphimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphimines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfimine.
sulfinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfinamides
form: sulphinamide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amide of a sulfinic acid RS(=O)NR'₂.
sulphinamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphinamides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfinamide.
sulfinamidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfinamidines
form: sulphinamidine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any amidine of a sulfinic acid RS(=NR')NR''₂
sulphinamidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphinamidines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfinamidine.
past perfect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense.
Derived terms: past perfect continuous
munga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungas
Senses: glosses: The bonnet monkey.
munga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of mungaree.
Senses: glosses: Food
munga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muga (“type of silk”).
wanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wankas
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of wanker.
anti-caking agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-caking agents
Etymology: From anti- + caking + agent.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anticaking agent.
anticaking agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticaking agents
Etymology: From anticaking + agent.
Senses: glosses: Any substance added to another product to prevent it from forming lumps.
sulfine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfines
form: sulphine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any S-oxide of a thioaldehyde or thioketone R₂C=S=O
sulphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfine.
sulfinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfinic acids
form: sulphinic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound HS(=O)OH, and any of its S-hydrocarbyl derivatives
sulphinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphinic acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfinic acid.
sulfinic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfinic anhydrides
form: sulphinic anhydride
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound, of general formula RS(=O)-O-S(=O)R, that is an acid anhydride of a sulfinic acid
sulphinic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphinic anhydrides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfinic anhydride.
sulfinimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfinimines
form: sulphinimine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfimide
sulphinimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphinimines
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of sulfinimine
sulfinylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfinylamines
form: sulphinylamine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound with general formula RN=S=O
Synonyms: thionylamine
sulphinylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphinylamines
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of sulfinylamine
sulfolipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌl.fəˌlɪ.pəd/
Forms: form: sulfolipids
form: sulpholipid
Etymology: From sulfo- + lipid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any sulfate ester of a glycolipid
Related terms: sulfatide
sulfonolipid
sulpholipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulpholipids
Etymology: From sulpho- + lipid.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfolipid.
sulfonamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonamides
form: sulphonamide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any amide of a sulfonic acid RS(=O)₂NR'₂
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of antibiotics; a sulfa drug
Derived terms: cefsumide
furosemide
glibenclamide
glibornuride
glicaramide
gliflumide
glipalamide
glisentide
glisindamide
glisolamide
glyclopyramide
glycyclamide
methanesulfonamide
nimesulide
perfluorooctanesulfonamide
salazosulfamide
sonepiprazole
sulfonamidic
susalimod
tamsulosin
zonisamide
sulphonamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonamides
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1930s, researchers in Germany produced a group of antibacterial drugs known as sulphonamides, but they didn’t always work well and often had serious side effects.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 48:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfonamide.
platinum blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of platinum blond A color of hair
platinum blonde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinum blondes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of platinum blond A woman with platinum blonde hair.
Synonyms: atomic blonde
titanium blonde
Related terms: atomic blonde
dirty blonde
honey blonde
strawberry blonde
titanium blonde
sulfonediimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonediimines
form: sulphonediimine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, of general formula RS(=NR)₂R, derived from a sulfone by replacing each =O with =NR.
sulphonediimine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonediimines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfonediimine.
platiniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more platiniferous
form: most platiniferous
Etymology: From platinum + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: yielding, or containing platinum
sulfonic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonic anhydrides
form: sulphonic anhydride
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound, of general formula RS(=O)₂OS(=O)₂R, that is the acid anhydride of a sulfonic acid
platinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platinisation
Senses: glosses: the process of coating (something) with platinum.
Related terms: platinise
platinize
platinisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of platinization.
sulphonic anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonic anhydrides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfonic anhydride.
Simmons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmənz/
Forms: form: Simmonds
form: Symonds
Senses: examples: text: Mega rock star, businessman, marketing genius, and self-proclaimed free spirit Gene Simmons follows up his bestselling books "Kiss and Make-Up," and "Sex Money Kiss" with this examination of the history of prostitution.
ref: 2008, Gene Simmons, Ladies of the Night:
glosses: A southern English surname originating as a patronymic, of the given name Simon.
glosses: An unincorporated community and coal town in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri, United States, named after an early postmaster.
posthumous execution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthumous executions
Senses: glosses: The ritual desecration of the body of a dead person for punishment.
sulfonimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonimides
form: sulphonimide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfoximide
sulphonimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonimides
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of sulfonimide
religious toleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the condition of permitting people to worship according to the practices of any religion they choose
sulfonphthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonphthaleins
form: sulphonphthalein
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical compound, analogous to a phthalein, formed by the condensation of o-sulfobenzoic acid with a phenol.
sulphonphthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonphthaleins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfonphthalein.
sulfonylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonylamines
form: sulphonylamine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula RN=S(=O)₂
sulphonylamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphonylamines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfonylamine.
record label
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: record labels
Senses: glosses: The round sticker in the centre of a phonograph record that contains the record company's logo and information about the recording.
synonyms: record company
label
glosses: The record company itself, as identified by its logo.
sulfoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfoxides
form: sulphoxide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula R₂S=O.
Derived terms: diethyl sulfoxide
dimethyl sulfoxide
diphenyl sulfoxide
sulphoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphoxides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfoxide.
sulfoximide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfoximides
form: sulphoximide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound of general formula R₂S(=O)=NR
sulphoximide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphoximides
Senses: glosses: alternative spelling of sulfoximide
sulfoximine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfoximines
form: sulphoximine
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfoximide
sulphoximine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphoximines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulfoximine.
wanta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: wanna
Etymology: Written form of a reduction of want to, used informally in most English dialects.
Senses: examples: text: “We don’t wanta. Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”
ref: 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial, published 2000, page 163:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of want to.
wikipedia: reduction (linguistics)
Related terms: gotta
gonna
mimbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪmbɑː/
Forms: form: mimbars
form: minbar
Etymology: From Classical Arabic مِنْبَر (minbar), from نَبَرَ (nabara, “raise”).
Senses: examples: text: Here too the pulpit was like a mimbar in a mosque [...].
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 795:
text: There is only a pulpit for the preacher, which stands along the left side, and on the right is the mimbar, that is a flight of stairs with ten steps.
ref: 2002, John Avetaranian, Richard Schafer, The Muslim Who Became a Christian, Authors On Line 2003, p. 122:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A pulpit in a mosque from which the leader of prayers delivers the khutbah.
light bulb joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light bulb jokes
form: lightbulb joke
Senses: glosses: Any joke of the form "How many X does it take to change a light bulb?" followed by a witty riposte, where X is some usually stereotypical class of people.
tari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taris
Senses: glosses: A small gold coin, worth a quarter of a dinar, struck by the Arabs of Sicily in the 9th century.
nul point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nul points.
nul points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nʊl ˈpwɑː(n)/
/nʌl-/
Forms: form: nil points
Etymology: French, literally "nil points" in the style of score announcements at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Senses: examples: text: Danish jury representative: Germany, six points.
Toto Cutugno: Germany, six points!
Terry Wogan: That's the first six points for Germany! Now only Austria is left with the dreaded nul points.
ref: 1991, Eurovision Song Contest, BBC commentary by Terry Wogan
text: A small blonde girl appeared, wrapped in a terrible pale pink padded jacket. "Nul points for the clothes," said Jess. "She looks like a prawn."
ref: 2010, Sue Limb, Flirting for England, page 56:
glosses: No points (as a score); zero, nothing.
renders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of render
renders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of render
vastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæstli/
Forms: form: more vastly
form: most vastly
Etymology: From vast + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
text: After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.
ref: 2018 July 24, Kaitlan Collins, “Exclusive: White House stops announcing calls with foreign leaders”, in CNN:
glosses: Greatly, in a vast manner.
Synonyms: exceedingly
extremely
highly
immensely
supremely
tremendously
launching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of launch
launching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: launchings
Senses: examples: text: The launching of the Titanic.
text: By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.
ref: 2010, Raymond Friedman, A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets, page 123:
glosses: The act by which something is launched; a launch.
Derived terms: zero-length launching
mortification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɔːtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmoɹtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /-tə-/
ipa: /-fə-/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mortifications
Etymology: From Middle French mortification, from Old French, from Latin mortificatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of mortifying.
examples: text: Certainly a little mortification appears very becoming in a wife—don't you think it will do her good to let her Pine a little.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.ii:
text: He felt stunned—mortification, sorrow, and anger, mingled together: the past was like a dream, and the future swam indistinctly before him.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 152:
text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
examples: text: And then there's the fever and the mortification—if it took bad ways he'd quickly be gone.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The death of part of the body.
glosses: A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
topics: law
glosses: A bequest to a charitable institution.
Synonyms: sense: a sensation of extreme shame
word: shame
sense: a sensation of extreme shame
word: humiliation
Derived terms: immortification
mortification root
Bosniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒznɪæk/
Forms: form: Bosniacs
Senses: synonyms: Bosnian
glosses: A person from Bosnia.
glosses: Alternative form of Bosniak.
Bosniac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒznɪæk/
Senses: synonyms: Bosnian
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Bosnia or its population.
glosses: Alternative form of Bosniak.
ascetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascetic
practices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹæktɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of practice
practices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹæktɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of practice
pebble dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pebble dashes
form: pebbledash
form: pebble-dash
Senses: glosses: A coating of small pebbles sprayed onto soft plaster or cement, used as decoration on exterior walls.
glosses: Diarrhea
pebble dash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pebble dashes
form: pebble dashing
form: pebble dashed
form: pebble dashed
form: pebbledash
form: pebble-dash
Senses: examples: text: The roads were lined with cramped little semis and 1960s bungalows: Britain's cheapest houses, in their flimsy, pebble-dashed glory.
ref: 2012, Tim Moore, You Are Awful (But I Like You): Travels Around Unloved Britain, Vintage, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: To apply pebble dash to a wall.
Related terms: roughcast
spatterdash
set out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛt‿aʊt/
Forms: form: sets out
form: setting out
form: set out
form: set out
Senses: examples: text: This contract sets out all the terms of the agreement as we discussed.
glosses: To explain something, or give exact details, usually in writing.
examples: text: Tomorrow we set out for America.
text: I had been calling Nobs in the meantime and was about to set out in search of him, fearing, to tell the truth, to do so lest I find him mangled and dead among the trees of the acacia grove, when he suddenly emerged from among the boles, his ears flattened, his tail between his legs and his body screwed into a suppliant S. He was unharmed except for minor bruises; but he was the most chastened dog I have ever seen.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: To go out, leave.
examples: text: He set out with the aim of writing the book in less than 3 months.
text: Many young people set out to change the world.
glosses: To start an activity with the intention of finishing it.
examples: text: Following the acquisition of Di María, a winger, there was almost as much interest in the manner in which Van Gaal would set out his team as there was in the personnel. It was probably as well, considering only the goalkeeper David De Gea was retained from the XI who started Sunday’s draw at Sunderland.
ref: 26 August 2014, Richard Rae, “Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To position, to put in a position
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To arrange the necessary type into a printing press in preparation to run it.
Derived terms: outset
set out one's stall
appreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appreciate
appreciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appreciated
form: most appreciated
Senses: glosses: Recognized as having value.
glosses: Having risen in value.
raw_tags: of an investment
Derived terms: overappreciated
unappreciated
broche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broches
Etymology: Borrowed from French broche.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of brooch.
broche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: broches
form: broching
form: broched
form: broched
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of broach.
boardmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boardsmanship
Etymology: From boardman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: In the photo below, Art Greene, LSBA assistant executive secretary, shown standing, cites the ethics of good boardmanship in an orientation […]
ref: 1970, The Boardman, volumes 25-26, page 37:
text: Recognition that inservice training and self-study are essential to effective boardmanship.
ref: 2003, PSBA Bulletin, volume 67, page 19:
glosses: The skills or position of serving on a board.
Related terms: board member
hot and bothered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot and bothered
form: most hot and bothered
Senses: glosses: Aggravated or irritated.
glosses: Sexually aroused.
hot box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotbox.
hot box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot boxes
form: hot boxing
form: hot boxed
form: hot boxed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hotbox.
Antabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Antabuses
form: antabuse
Senses: glosses: Disulfiram, prescribed to recovering alcoholics.
gold digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəʊld ˈdɪɡə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: gold diggers
form: gold-digger
form: golddigger
Etymology: Literal sense from 1830s; figurative sense (woman who seeks money in a relationship) from 1915.
Senses: synonyms: gold miner
glosses: Someone who digs or mines for gold.
examples: text: If she sends her son for the money she is a gold digger, and if she sends her daughter, she is a gold digger teaching her daughter how to be a gold digger—two offenses for the price of one. Whether it is the misinterpretation of the hustle, recognizing the game, or asking for legitimate funds for child care, the black woman is often seen as a gold digger.
ref: 2009, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 189:
synonyms: fortune hunter
hypernyms: word: boyfriend
word: girlfriend
word: partner
word: spouse
coordinate_terms: fame digger
fame whore[coinstantial]]>
glosses: A person who cultivates a personal relationship in order to attain wealth.
Derived terms: word: gold-dig
hot stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hey, hot stuff, wanna dance?
glosses: An attractive person. (often used as a come-on or pickup line)
examples: text: Both teams think they're hot stuff this year.
glosses: Something excellent or exciting.
glosses: Hot bitumen used by roofers.
examples: text: That's some real hot stuff you got there on your pizza!
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hot, stuff. (colloquial)
jim-dandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jimdandy
form: jim dandy
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a reference to the song Dandy Jim of Caroline (words by Silas Sexton Steel and music by J. Richard Myers), which was popular in the 1840s, around the time the term emerged. It was subsequently popularized by sports announcers in the late 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: As its speed increased, and the black masses of chaparral went whizzing past on either side, the express messenger, lighting his pipe, looked through his window and remarked, feelingly: "What a jim-dandy place for a hold-up!"
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, The Passing of Black Eagle:
text: We could not wait for Atticus to come home for dinner, but called and said we had a big surprise for him. He seemed surprised when he saw most of the back yard in the front yard, but he said we had done a jim-dandy job. "I didn't know how you were going to do it," he said to Jem, "but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea."
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 8, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Excellent, outstanding.
jim-dandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jim-dandies
form: jimdandy
form: jim dandy
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly a reference to the song Dandy Jim of Caroline (words by Silas Sexton Steel and music by J. Richard Myers), which was popular in the 1840s, around the time the term emerged. It was subsequently popularized by sports announcers in the late 1800s.
Senses: examples: text: The tattered man stood musing.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 100:
glosses: Something that is a very superior example of its kind.
lay bare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays bare
form: laying bare
form: laid bare
form: laid bare
Senses: examples: text: And laid those proud roofs bare to Summer's rain—
ref: 1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, stanza LVIII, page 34:
glosses: To make bare; strip.
examples: text: The central and centralized, imperial governments, guided by the big interests of the country, induced in their unfortunate subjects this last pestilential epidemic of military mania by means of a persistent course of direct and indirect suggestion in which the conditions of normal and abnormal suggestibility were specially emphasized, laying bare the social subconscious, stimulating in it the fear of invasion and attack by neighboring nations, stirring up the impulse of self-preservation, rousing the entranced, hypnotized mind of the populace to a frenzy of self-defense, while the junkers, the officers, the soldiers, the professors, the journalists of the middle-classes were entranced with beatific visions of world-dominion.
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
text: "This is further proof that ASLEF is willing to negotiate in good faith and modernise our railway. And further proof that the failure of negotiations with the TOCs in England is the responsibility of Transport Secretary Mark Harper, the Department for Transport, and the Rail Delivery Group. That has been laid bare for all to see."
ref: 2023 May 31, Mel Holley, “Network News: ASLEF recommends £71,000 pay deal for TfW drivers”, in RAIL, number 984, page 20:
glosses: To expose to view, reveal, uncover.
Synonyms: sense: to make bare
word: crack
sense: to make bare
word: open
sense: to make bare
word: unseal
sense: to expose to view
word: nake
word: reveal
clearance hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearance holes
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hole through an object which is large enough to enable threads of a screw or bolt to pass through but not the head of the screw or bolt. Standards for clearance holes provide specific allowances added to the fastener's diameter.
countersunk hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countersunk holes
Senses: glosses: A hole drilled into a surface so that, when a screw is inserted, the screw head is level with the surface.
pilot hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilot holes
form: pilot-hole
Senses: examples: text: During the sinking of the last 150 feet, a pilot-hole was kept in advance, so as to prevent any unforeseen inrush of water.
ref: 1908, W. McKay, “The Boultham Well at Lincoln,”, in Transactions of the Manchester Geological and Mining Society, volume 30, page 29:
text: 1970, Andy Lang, "Right Nail Hits the Spot," St Petersburg Times, 25 Oct., p. 5-G (retrieved 7 Dec. 2008),
Nothing prevents splitting the wood as much as first driving a pilot hole, especially for hard wood.
glosses: A narrow hole drilled or punched into a surface, to facilitate the insertion of a wider screw, nail, drill bit, or other boring tool.
queen-size
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiːn.saɪz/
Forms: form: queen-sized
Etymology: Compound of queen + size.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a larger-than-average dress, blouse, skirt, pant or stocking size for women.
examples: text: If you have a queen-size bed, you'll need some queen-size sheets to go on it, and maybe a queen-size comforter as well.
glosses: Pertaining to a bed or mattress measuring 60 inches wide by 80 inches long and approximately 9 to 12 inches thick.
gold-digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold-diggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gold digger.
Mebin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew.
Senses: glosses: A surname. The meaning of this name in Hebrew is "to understand"
mediazation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediasation
Etymology: From media + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The increasing importance of broadcast and other rapid communications media relative to traditional means of communication.
gong show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gong shows
Etymology: After The Gong Show, a televised absurdist amateur talent contest first broadcast in the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: Last night, we all went drinking, and the whole thing turned into a total gong show.
text: That biology class was a gong show.
glosses: An event that proves to be a disaster, often in a fun or memorable way.
wikipedia: The Gong Show
Synonyms: amateur hour
clusterfuck
comedy of errors
fiasco
shit show
and all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: an all
form: n'all
form: anaw
Senses: examples: text: He ate the whole fish, bones and all.
text: Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all.
ref: 1995 August 21, “Pros and Cons of the Balanced Budget Amendment”, in Ind_Limbaugh:
text: The facts of the accident, however, are too ambiguous to reek of malice or recklessness. And the drivers involved, flaws and all, are hardly demons.
ref: 1998 May 15, Barry Bearak, “Hailing Danger; Behind the Wheel: Long Hours and Hard Feelings”, in New York Times:
text: We had six large trees ripped from the ground, roots and all. A firefighter told me that the wind hit 110 mph in West U.
ref: 2008 September 16, Ken Hoffman, “An oak tree is no longer mighty”, in Houston Chronicle, page STAR 1:
glosses: Including every object, attribute, or process associated with preceding item or series of items.
examples: text: What with you saying he was sick and all, I figured neither of you were coming.
synonyms: and all that
and that
and stuff
and so on
et cetera
glosses: Used to suggest certain unstated relevant implications of what has been stated.
examples: text: He starts yelling and we come running to help, but a fat load of thanks we get and all!
glosses: Used to add emphasis.
examples: text: I'll have some of the red ones, some green ones, and them yellow ones and all.
text: “You leave my son alone!”
The woman turned her head slowly towards him. When her eyes met his, she said, “Gilbert, you are forgetting something. Frank is my son and all.”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: As well; in addition.
Derived terms: one and all
still and all
Uncle Tom Cobley and all
warts and all
baggage carousel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggage carousels
Etymology: From baggage + carousel.
Senses: glosses: A machine that delivers checked luggage to the passengers at the baggage claim area at their final destination. The luggage rotates in the carousel until it is picked up.
Related terms: baggage claim
memocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memocides
Etymology: From meme + -cide.
Senses: glosses: An attempt to eradicate one or more ideas; for example eradication by book burning and censorship.
make hay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes hay
form: making hay
form: made hay
form: made hay
Senses: glosses: To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed.
examples: text: I suggested that this was a mistake, particularly at a time of national crisis on the railways, because it opened the way for critics of the railway to make hay - which Institute of Economic Affairs Director Richard Wellings duly did in an anti-rail article in the Daily Telegraph.
ref: 2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Little-used stations”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 46:
glosses: To take advantage of an opportunity.
Derived terms: make hay while the sun shines
wide-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wide-eyed
form: most wide-eyed
Senses: examples: text: The magician’s trick left the audience wide-eyed.
glosses: Astonished or surprised.
examples: text: Country life doesn’t protect you from real life. A rural childhood may leave you wide-eyed a bit longer about some things, but it doesn’t confer the insulating innocence that some parents seem to hope.
ref: 2014 December 20, Rebecca Ley, “City versus country childhoods”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Naive; innocent; like a baby.
examples: text: She was like her mother: tiny, curly-haired, and wide-eyed.
text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Cartoonish, wide-eyed infants cling to their mothers or play together low to the ground.
synonyms: moon-eyed
owly-eyed
pie-eyed
saucer-eyed
goggle-eyed
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wide, eye, -ed.
Related terms: jaw-dropping
wall-eyed
ten-four
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of 10-4.
hot-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-wires
form: hot-wiring
form: hot-wired
form: hot-wired
form: hotwire
Etymology: From hot + wire, with hot referring to electrical current.
Senses: glosses: To start an automobile engine by bypassing the ignition key wiring.
examples: text: Never broke into a car, never hotwired a car. Never broke into a truck. 'I shall not cause harm to any vehicle nor the personal contents thereof, nor through inaction let the personal contents thereof come to harm' It's what I call the Repo Code, kid!
ref: 1984, Alex Cox, Repo Man, spoken by Bud (Harry Dean Stanton):
text: His attitude grew worse and his crimes escalated: he broke into garages in his neighborhood, he hot-wired cars, and his punches grew harder.
ref: 2021, Zara Stone, Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 148:
glosses: To steal a vehicle by bypassing the ignition key's security.
deep-fried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep fried
form: deepfried
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deep-fry
deep-fried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: deep fried
form: deepfried
Senses: synonyms: deep-fat-fried
antonyms: shallow-fried
glosses: Cooked in a deep fryer, typically after being coated in batter.
raw_tags: of food
glosses: Having been deliberately reduced in quality by applying many filters.
raw_tags: of an image
Related terms: Southern-fried
make room
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes room
form: making room
form: made room
form: made room
Senses: examples: text: I moved the books off my desk to make room for my labtop.
text: This tunnel was 326 yd. long, and the portals were designed by Brunel to represent Norman archways. It was converted into an open cutting, between 1887 and 1889, to make room for the shunting necks of the sidings at Bristol East Depot.
ref: 1949 May and June, “A Middlesex Inn Sign”, in Railway Magazine, page 142:
glosses: To rearrange or organize existing people, objects, furniture, belongings, etc., to create space for new objects.
blue movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue movies
Senses: glosses: a pornographic film
Synonyms: skin flick
quadraphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌqwɒdɹəˈfɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˌqwɑdɹəˈfɑnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: quadrophonic
Etymology: From quadra- + -phonic.
Senses: glosses: Employing four independent channels or speakers.
raw_tags: of a sound system
Synonyms: quadrasonic
Related terms: stereophonic
microshock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microshocks
Etymology: From micro- + shock.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small-scale shock.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small electric current passing directly through the heart, sending the patient directly into ventricular fibrillation.
midspan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midspans
Etymology: From mid- + span.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In structural engineering, the point on a flexural member (typically a beam, girder, or spandrel panel) that is equidistant from the two end supports.
migrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: migrators
Etymology: From migrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Any creature that migrates.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that helps move objects between locations, e.g. from a legacy system to a new technology.
put one's back into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's back into
form: putting one's back into
form: put one's back into
form: put one's back into
Etymology: From the literal action of straining with one's whole body to push a heavy object. Compare put one's shoulder to the wheel.
Senses: examples: text: When he puts his back into the work, he gets quite a lot done.
glosses: Synonym of strive: to apply oneself.
synonyms: word: strive
extra: to apply oneself
tombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ndonga otombo.
Senses: glosses: A traditional sweet beer made from the bamboo palm.
tombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese トンボ (tonbo, “dragonfly”, a nickname for the albacore tuna).
Senses: synonyms: word: tombo ahi
glosses: Albacore, longfin tuna (Thunnus alalunga)
mousambi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousambis
form: mausambi
form: mosambi
Senses: glosses: A sweet lime (citrus), Citrus limetta.
MPPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of million packets per second.
MPPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MPP
hot pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: Her hot pants were so short, I could see her butt cheeks.
synonyms: booty shorts
glosses: Very brief, tight shorts mainly worn by women and girls.
examples: text: And if any fat little old lady with gray hair could have hot pants, she's got hot pants for you.
ref: 2014, Stanley Ellin, The Dark Fantastic:
glosses: A lustful attraction toward somebody.
Derived terms: hot-pantsed
hot pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot pants
Etymology: From the 1970s.
Senses: examples: text: ‘That goddamned little hot pants!’ he shouted.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 89:
text: “I don’t wish to hurt your feelings, but KC has always been something of a hot pants.”
“Damn,” I said, “I thought maybe you had told her what a Roscoe I was in bed.”
ref: 2012, Robert B. Parker, Hush Money, page 112:
glosses: Someone (especially a woman) with a high sexual appetite.
Asheton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ashetons
Etymology: Variant of Ashton.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
disharmonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪshɑːˈməʊni.əs/
rhymes: -əʊniəs
Forms: form: more disharmonious
form: most disharmonious
Etymology: From dis- + harmonious.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of inharmonious: lacking harmony.
synonyms: word: inharmonious
extra: lacking harmony
Derived terms: disharmoniously
disharmoniousness
quadratic mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadratic means
Etymology: Quadratic in the phrase refers to the squaring on the terms.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of average, calculated as the square root of the mean of the squares, i.e. Q=√x_1²+x_2²+...+x_n²/n.
Synonyms: root mean square
RMS
Hypernyms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: measure of central tendency
word: generalized mean
word: power mean
word: Hölder mean
Related terms: arithmetic mean
geometric mean
harmonic mean
sultam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultams
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a cyclic sulfonamide in which the S-N bond is part of the ring
Related terms: sultim
sultone
sultim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultims
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a tautomeric form of a sultam in which the S=N double bond is part of the ring
islanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of islander
sultine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclic ester of a hydroxy sulfinic acid.
sultone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sultones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any cyclic ester of a hydroxy sulfonic acid; analogous to a lactone