cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
job description
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: job descriptions
Senses: examples: text: Meet Whistle the dog: Northern's new mascot who has a job description to encourage more people to travel by rail.
ref: 2022 November 30, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 971, page 87:
glosses: An outline of the description of the tasks and responsibilities in a post within an organization.
Related terms: job title
yautia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yautias
form: yautía
Etymology: Via Spanish, from Taíno [Term?] or more broadly some Arawak language.
Senses: glosses: An edible plant commonly found in the Caribbean: Xanthosoma sagittifolium, new cocoyam.
Synonyms: english: see that entry for more
translation: see that entry for more
word: cocoyam
Related terms: old cocoyam
nidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nidus
yaw-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yaw-haws
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: examples: text: […] it was greeted with "a loud, tremendous yaw haw from all quarters," […]
ref: 1965, George Rawlings Poage, Henry Clay and the Whig Party:
glosses: A loud, coarse laugh.
yaw-haw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yaw-haws
form: yaw-hawing
form: yaw-hawed
form: yaw-hawed
Etymology: Imitative
Senses: glosses: To laugh loudly
yawny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: yawnier
form: yawniest
Etymology: From yawn + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...
ref: 1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All:
glosses: Prone to yawning.
examples: text: I drew the deepest, yawniest breath I could fake and swiftly lifted my right arm.
ref: 2011, Craig Groeschel, Love, Sex, and Happily Ever After, page 13:
glosses: Sounding like a yawn.
glosses: Boring, uninteresting, causing yawns.
ybaptized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: y- + baptized
Senses: glosses: past participle of baptize: baptized
ybent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ibent
Etymology: From Middle English ybende, i-bente, from Old English *ġebended, past participle of Old English bendan as well as ġebendan. Equivalent to y- + bend + -t.
Senses: examples: text: Though Tytius doe indure his Liuer to be rent Of Vultures tyring on the same unto his spoyle ybent:
ref: 1567, George Turbervile, Of the Tormets of Hell and the Paines of Loue:
text: And for I was in thilke ſame looſer yeares,
 (Whether the Muſe, ſo wrought me from my birth,
 Or I tomuch beleeued my ſhepherd peres)
 Somedele ybent to ſong and muſicks mirth,
 A good olde ſhephearde, Wrenock was his name,
 Made me by arte more cunning in the ſame.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folios 49, recto:
text: My boy shew me thy hand, blesse thee my boy, For in thy palme I see a many troubles are ybent to dwel, But thou shalt scape them all, and doe full well.
ref: 1611, William Shakespeare, The Troublesome Raigne of King Iohn:
glosses: past participle of bend: bent
ybought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of buy: bought
Avernus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Avernus, from Ancient Greek ἄορνος (áornos), ἄϝορνος (áwornos, “birdless”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”). The lack of birds was likely due to fatal gases like carbon dioxide seeping from the volcanically active lake.
Senses: examples: text: His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth.
As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme:
Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts.
To pull the triple headed dog from hell.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
glosses: The entrance to Hell or the underworld, or the underworld itself.
examples: text: I perceive the Lake Avernus, an extinguished volcano, whose waves once inspired terror.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 234:
glosses: A lake in Southern Italy.
avocadoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of avocado
arrangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arranger
tequila sunrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tequila sunrises
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made with tequila, crème de cassis, lime juice, and soda water.
glosses: A cocktail made with tequila, orange juice, and grenadine syrup.
B-52
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-52s
Etymology: Named for Boeing's B-52 Stratofortress, a bomber aircraft used in the Vietnam War.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail shooter consisting of three distinct layers of coffee liqueur, Baileys and Grand Marnier.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A combination of diphenhydramine, 5 mg of haloperidol, and 2 mg of lorazepam, widely used for the sedation of acutely agitated patients.
garlics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "For all these reasons, they are not a commercially viable crop, which means that just about the only garlics you have ever found available in your..."
ref: 1997, Chester Aaron, The Great Garlic Book: A Guide with Recipes:
glosses: plural of garlic
garlics
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of garlic
-'er
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: 4-H'er, 49'er
glosses: Variant form of -er used in words ending with an abbreviation or (sometimes) a number.
examples: text: Li’er said hello to his father.
glosses: Variant form of -er (“in Chinese literature: junior”) using the apostrophe which marks syllable boundaries in pinyin.
nomen agentis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nomina agentis
form: nomina agentium
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nōmen agentis.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: agent noun
Coordinate terms: nomen actionis
nomen instrumenti
nomen obiecti
nomen qualitatis
yashmaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yashmak
coll.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of colloquial.
bucks' party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucks' parties
Senses: examples: text: The lovers prepare for marriage. There's a shower tea and a bucks' party. Then the groom walks out.
ref: 1991, J. Haynes, J.F. Archibald, The Bulletin, numbers 5759-5767, page 96:
glosses: Alternative form of buck's party.
gallipot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallipots
form: galleypot
form: gallypot
Etymology: From uncertain first element + pot.
Senses: examples: text: VVhy, by his skill, / Of vvhich he has left you the inheritance, / Here in a pot: this little gally pot, / Of tincture, high roſe tincture.
ref: 1625 January 19 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [Ben Jonson], The Fortunate Isles and Their Union. […], [London: s.n.], published [1625], →OCLC, signature [A4], verso:
text: Take a Sheet of Lead, and have a piece of Lead made like a Slickſtone; then betvveen them tvvo grind vvhite Lead and Sallet-Oil till 'tis very fine, put it in a Gallipot for uſe.
ref: 1729, E[liza] S[mith], “Medicines and Salves. [Another for the Same [Piles]]”, in The Compleat Housewife: Or, Accomplished Gentlewoman’s Companion: […], 3rd edition, London: […] J[ohn] Pemberton, […], →OCLC, page 286:
text: Here gallypots and vials placed, / Some filled with washes, some with paste, / Some with pomatum, paints and slops, / And ointments good for scabby chops.
ref: 1732, Jonathan Swift, The Lady's Dressing Room:
text: Cut away all the hard part of your Asparagus, and just boil them up with Butter and Salt, then fling them into cold Water, and presently take them out again and let them drain; when they are cold, put them in a Gallipot, large enough for them to lie without bending […]
ref: 1736, Richard Bradley, The Country Housewife and Lady's Director, 6th edition, London: D. Brown, page 68:
text: The walls and ceiling were blackened with flies. Mrs Bangham, expert in sudden device, with one hand fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf, and with the other set traps of vinegar and sugar in gallipots; at the same time enunciating sentiments of an encouraging and congratulatory nature, adapted to the occasion.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
text: Then we swept up the litter from the floor, threw down fresh sawdust, and swallowed gallipots of wine or coffee or water—anything, so long as it was wet.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XI, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small, glazed earthenware jar once used by apothecaries for holding medicine and ointment.
examples: text: ‘We are physicians' gallipots. Don't you want the sick healed?’
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Someone who uses such pots; an apothecary.
Derived terms: gallipot word
Heath Robinson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Heath Robinsons
Etymology: In reference to the drawings by William Heath Robinson.
Senses: examples: text: Among the many Heath Robinson contraptions he devised were the Light Vessels (the Sun and the Moon) which would ferry the rescued Light-Particles back to their land of origin along the Milky Way.
ref: 1998, Samuel Lieu, Manichaeism in Central Asia and China, →ISBN, page 16:
text: And that is how we came to mow our lake weed, although we eventually found it easier to tie two ropes, one to each side of the inner tube, and to pull the Heath Robinson contraption back and forwards across the water with Chris and I standing on opposite banks, each holding one of the lines.
ref: 2014, Ivan M. Donaldson, The Truant from Medicine: A Memoir, →ISBN:
glosses: Anything ingenious (and often complex) but absurdly impractical or even useless.
wikipedia: W. Heath Robinson
Related terms: Heath Robinsonesque
Heath Robinsonian
Rube Goldberg machine
ganged up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gang up
gangs up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gang up on
ganging up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gang up on
ganged up on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gang up on
handing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hand down
handed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hand down
hands in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hand in
handing in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hand in
handed in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hand in
handing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hand off
handed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hand off
hands out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hand out
epitrochoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epitrochoids
Etymology: From epi- + trochoid.
Senses: glosses: A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on one circle which rotates around the perimeter of another circle. Examples include the shape of the Wankel engine
Derived terms: epitrochoidal
handed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hand out
hangs about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang about
hanging about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang about
hung about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang about
hangs around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang around
hanging around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang around
hung around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hang around
hangs up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hang up
hanging up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hang up
heats up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heat up
heating up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of heat up
heated up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heat up
hits out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit out
hitting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit out
hits up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit up
Wankel engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wankel engines
Etymology: From the name of the inventor, engineer Felix Wankel.
Senses: glosses: A rotary internal combustion engine, without pistons, using instead an epitrochoid-shaped housing.
wikipedia: Felix Wankel
hitting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit up
hits upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit upon
hitting upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hit upon
holds off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold off
holding off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold off
held off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hold off
holding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hold up
holds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold up
change up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: changes up
form: changing up
form: changed up
form: changed up
Senses: examples: text: He changed up on Wilson after three fastballs and struck him out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To throw a pitch at a much slower than expected speed.
examples: text: I thought that we were going to study the project some more, but then he came back from the weekend and changed up, making it a top priority.
glosses: To confuse someone by doing something unexpected or in an unexpected way.
examples: text: change it up
text: The more accessories you have (cheaper than clothing and can be worn multiple times) it's easier to change up your look. So, imagine having one dress that you can accessorise 4 different ways, simply with a shoe change […]
ref: 2019, Chitra Balasubramaniam, Change Your Look Change Your Life:
glosses: To vary.
synonyms: upshift
glosses: To change to a higher gear in a vehicle.
Derived terms: word: change-up
boy-crazy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boy-crazy
form: most boy-crazy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of boy crazy.
boy wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy wonders
Senses: coordinate_terms: girl wonder
glosses: A male child prodigy; wonderboy.
Related terms: child prodigy
hypotrochoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pə(ʊ)ˈtɹəʊ.kɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.poʊˈtɹoʊ.kɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pəˈtɹoʊ.kɔɪd/
Forms: form: hypotrochoids
Etymology: From hypo- + trochoid.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geometric curve traced by a fixed point on the radius line outside one circle which rotates inside the perimeter of another circle.
Derived terms: hypotrochoidal
Related terms: epitrochoid
cycloid
epicycloid
hypocycloid
spirograph
zileuton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪˈlu.tn̩/
rhymes: -uːtən
Etymology: Probably from (ben)z(oth)i(ophene) + leu(ko)t(riene) + -on.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An asthma drug that blocks leukotriene synthesis by inhibiting 5-lipoxygenase, an enzyme of the eicosanoid synthesis pathway.
rethrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rethrow
kolkhoz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəlˈkɒz/
ipa: /kɒl-/
ipa: /kɔːl-/
ipa: /kol-/
ipa: /-kɔz/
ipa: /-kɒs/
ipa: /-kɔs/
Forms: form: kolkhozes
form: kolkhozy
Etymology: From Russian колхо́з (kolxóz), contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство (kollektívnoje xozjájstvo, “collective farm, household”).
Senses: examples: text: And books were demanded of them, books on Russia, on sailors, on aeroplanes, on scientists, on metro-workers, on kolkhoz labourers, on women and schoolchildren and parachute heroes.
ref: 2013, Lucy Renner Jones, translating Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Death in Persia, Seagull Books 2013, p. 21
glosses: A farming collective in the former Soviet Union.
Synonyms: kolhosp
Related terms: kolkhoznik
sovkhoz
immunomodulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunomodulators
Etymology: From immuno- + modulator.
Senses: glosses: A drug used for its effect on the immune system.
Derived terms: immunomodulation
immunomodulatory
neuroimmunomodulator
grows on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grow on
growing on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grow on
grew on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of grow on
grown on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of grow on
going through with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go through with
went through with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go through with
gone through with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go through with
goes out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go out
going out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go out
went out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go out
gone out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go out
goes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go off
going off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go off
went off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go off
gone off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go off
goes down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go down on
going down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go down on
went down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go down on
gone down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go down on
goes by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go by
going by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go by
went by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go by
gone by
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go by
goes back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of go back
going back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go back
went back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of go back
gone back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go back
glosses over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gloss over
glossing over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gloss over
glossed over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gloss over
gives over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give over
giving over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give over
gave over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give over
given over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give over
gives up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give up
giving up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give up
gave up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give up
given up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give up
gives in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give in
giving in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give in
given in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give in
gives away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give away
giving away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give away
gave away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give away
given away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give away
gives forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give forth
giving forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give forth
gave forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of give forth
given forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give forth
gets over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get over
getting over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of get over
got over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gotten over
Senses: glosses: past participle of get over
gotten over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: got over
Senses: glosses: past participle of get over
gets off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get off
got off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of get off
metered-dose inhaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metered-dose inhalers
Senses: glosses: A device that helps to deliver a specific amount of medication to the lungs, usually by supplying a short burst of aerosolized medicine that is inhaled by the patient.
Synonyms: MDI
Related terms: dry powder inhaler
dry powder inhaler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry powder inhalers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device with a canister holding a medicine in a dry powder form, ready to be sucked or sprayed out as aerosols, with the purpose of being inhaled by a patient into the lungs, commonly used for the treatment of asthma and other types of respiratory diseases.
Synonyms: DPI
Related terms: metered-dose inhaler
finickity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˌfɪnˈɪk.ɪ.ti/
rhymes: -ɪkɪti
Forms: form: more finickity
form: most finickity
Etymology: Possibly a blend of finicky + pernickety
Senses: examples: text: It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.
ref: 1993 October 7, David Covey, “Re: unix is user-friendly”, in comp.unix.user-friendly (Usenet), retrieved 21 Sep 2008:
text: We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.
ref: 1997, Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True, →ISBN, page 327:
text: Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.
ref: 2005, House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain, Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report : Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, →ISBN, page 9:
text: I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.
ref: 2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.
raw_tags: said of a person
Synonyms: fastidious
zinc pyrithione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a coordination complex of zinc
asymmetric cryptography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One advantage of asymmetric cryptography is that you can exchange data without sharing the ability to read it.
glosses: cryptography in which the key used in decryption is different from that used for encryption.
manducation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manducations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin manducatio, from mandūcō (“to chew, to eat”) + -tiō; alternatively or French manducation.
Senses: glosses: The act of eating.
examples: text: a literal, corporal and oral manducation of the very substance of his flesh and blood
ref: 1590-1600, Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, volume V.lxvii.9:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The belief that eating the bread of Eucharist is eating the actual flesh of Jesus.
Related terms: manducate
spheksophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: A few episodes of harvesting ripe peaches and plums and getting viciously stung by the winged insects hiding inside the splitting fruit is more than sufficient to trigger a bout of spheksophobia, the fear of wasps.
ref: 2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, page 211:
text: I want to hear from others who are scared of being stung so they stay away from fun occasions to avoid the possibility.
ref: 2006 December 7, A MUZEing.., “It's nearly summer.. spheksophobia season!”, in Plenty Of Fish (Usenet), retrieved 28 Jun 2010:
glosses: Fear of wasps.
otitis media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the middle ear.
interoceanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəɹəʊʃiːˈænɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪntəɹˌoʊʃiˈænɪk/
Etymology: First attested in 1850. From inter- + oceanic.
Senses: examples: text: We are thinking of building an interoceanic railway.
glosses: Between oceans; connecting two oceans.
palpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpus
mammocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mammock
compossible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compossible
form: most compossible
Etymology: From com- + possible.
Senses: examples: text: In other words, the qualitative nature or content of a property determines its logic, which in turn logically determines the properties with which it can be coinstantiated or be compossible. Considered purely logically, the totality of compossibilities of a particular property—the totality of possible coinstantiations with other properties—may be called the logical form of that property. It should also be noted that while the logical form of a property allows for its coinstantiation with a whole host of other properties, it does not allow for coinstantiation with more than one property of a particular type at any one time. Such multiple coinstantiation is excluded as a matter of logic. For instance, and continuing with the preceding example, while the property green may be coinstantiated with the properties soft and hard respectively, it cannot be coinstantiated with each of these at one and the same time because the one logically excludes the other.
ref: 2008, Eike-Henner W. Kluge, “Scotus On Accidental And Essential Causes”, in Franciscan Studies, volumes 66, John Duns Scotus Doctor Subtilis, In Memoriam 1308-2008, →JSTOR, pages 233–246:
glosses: compatible or consistent with another statement.
Derived terms: compossibility
compossibly
belah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wiradjuri.
Senses: glosses: beefwood
kabaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbɑːkə/
Forms: form: kabakas
Etymology: Borrowed from Luganda akabaka.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, Buganda's identification between Crown and Church was so great that when in 1953 the British Governor of Uganda exiled the Kabaka of Buganda for political reasons, the Mothers' Union of the Anglican Church was loud among the chorus of furious protest.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin Books, published 2010, page 886:
glosses: The title of the king of Buganda.
torrefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɒ.ɹɪ.faɪ/
ipa: /ˈtɔ.ɹɪ.faɪ/
Forms: form: torrefies
form: torrefying
form: torrefied
form: torrefied
form: torrify
Etymology: From Latin torrefaciō.
Senses: glosses: To subject to intense heat; to parch, to roast.
Related terms: torrefaction
torrefication
torrification
Uncle Scrooge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Uncle Scrooges
Etymology: From a Disney character, named in reference to Charles Dickens' fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
Senses: examples: text: It is an anomaly of our times that an Uncle Sam spending at a rate of some $128 billion yearly should become an Uncle Scrooge in the treatment of government workers!
ref: 1967, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, “Federal Pay Legislation: Hearings, Ninetieth Congress, first session”, in parliamentary debates, U.S. Congress, page 282:
glosses: A rich miser.
wikipedia: Ebenezer Scrooge
Related terms: Scrooge McDuck
scrooge
subungual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ungual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: under a toenail or fingernail
glosses: under a hoof
Synonyms: subunguinal
Derived terms: subungual hematoma
subungually
kolinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolinskies
form: kolinski
Etymology: From Russian колинский (kolinskij, literally “from the Kola peninsula”).
Senses: glosses: The Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica
glosses: The fur of the Siberian weasel
Siberian weasel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siberian weasels
Senses: glosses: A rust-colored weasel, Mustela sibirica, used for its fur.
Synonyms: sense: Mustela sibirica
word: kolinsky
sense: Mustela sibirica
word: kolonok
sense: Mustela sibirica
word: Siberian mountain weasel
sense: Mustela sibirica
word: Himalayan weasel
Swabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪbi.ən/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Forms: form: more Swabian
form: most Swabian
Etymology: From Swabia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to Swabia, its people, or its dialect of the German language.
Synonyms: Swabish
Swabian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪbi.ən/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Etymology: From Swabia + -an.
Senses: glosses: An Upper German dialects of High German chiefly spoken in the region of Swabia.
Synonyms: Swabish
Swabian German
Swabish German
Hypernyms: Upper German
High German
German
Swabian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsweɪbi.ən/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Forms: form: Swabians
Etymology: From Swabia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The Swabians, for their part, resent their reputation as carpetbaggers and the slights they have been forced to endure, with graffiti reading “Schwaben raus,” or “Swabians out,” a slogan often directed at foreigners, an increasingly common sight.
ref: 2013 January 18, Nicholas Kulish, “Swabian Separatists Fling Spätzle to Make Their Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A person from Swabia.
Synonyms: Swabish
Hypernyms: German
Derived terms: Banat Swabian
Danube Swabian
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Swabian terms
roturier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roturiers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French roturier.
Senses: examples: text: ‘This fellow has imbibed all the insolent consequence of those among whom he had lived; and, though roturier himself, conceives, that he derives from the honour of being the idle valet to a nobleman, a right to despise and trample on the honest man who draws his subsistence from the ground by independent industry.’
ref: 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 128:
text: This fact shows our British independence and honest feeling—our higher orders are not such mere haughty aristocrats as the ignorant represent them: on the contrary, if a man have money they will hold out their hands to him, eat his dinners, dance at his balls, marry his daughters, or give their own lovely girls to his sons, as affably as your commonest roturier would do.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: He cannot forgive Socrates for his humble origin; he calls him a "roturier," and accuses him of corrupting the noble Athenian youth with a democratic moral bias.
ref: 1945, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:
glosses: A commoner or plebeian; a person of low rank; especially, in pre-Revolutionary France, a member of the social class comprising all who were not nobles or clergy.
sofas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sofa
sofas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sofa
concrete jungle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete jungles
Senses: examples: text: There is nothing quite like the affection of a transplanted New Yorker for his native concrete jungle.
ref: 1948 April 9, Richard Coe, “Hellinger Mixed Real Manhattan”, in Washington Post, page 24:
text: Spain plans to restore a fifth of its coastline from overdeveloped concrete jungle to a more natural state.
ref: 2007 October 29, “Spain aims to restore overdeveloped coastlines to a more natural look”, in International Herald Tribune:
glosses: An urban or other populated area containing a high density of buildings constructed of concrete or similar materials, especially one which lacks greenery and which seems unattractive, harsh, or unsafe.
Synonyms: concrete desert
Related terms: asphalt jungle
makes over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make over
making over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make over
made over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make over
points out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of point out
pointing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of point out
pointed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of point out
polishes off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polish off
polishing off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polish off
rounds down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of round down
rounding down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of round down
makes up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make up
maps out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of map out
mapping out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of map out
mapped out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of map out
potters about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potter about
pottering about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potter about
pottered about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potter about
potters around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of potter around
pottering around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of potter around
pottered around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of potter around
rounds out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of round out
rounding out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of round out
rounded out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of round out
rounds up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of round up
rounding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of round up
rubs out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rub out
rubbing out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rub out
rubbed out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rub out
powers up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of power up
powering up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of power up
powered up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of power up
parent nuclide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parent nuclides
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the nuclide whose radioactive decay product is a specific daughter nuclide
d-pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d-pads
form: D-pad
Etymology: Shortened from directional pad.
Senses: examples: text: The strategy that has dominated recently for the last couple of years is to tap the d-pad as fast as humanly possible with one finger, known as hypertapping in the gaming community. In NES Tetris, this skill is crucial, since the speed increases when moving up levels, culminating in level 29, where the pieces usually drop to the bottom of the board in less than ⅓ of a second. However, hypertapping has several limitations.
ref: 2021 June 16, Tzvi Kalb, “What is Old is New Again: NES Tetris”, in The Science Survey:
text: Like the name implies, a hypertapping player simply presses left or right on the NES d-pad their desired number of times.
ref: 2023 December 1, Evelynn Kersting, “GAMES AND TIME”, in University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, page 251, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2025:
topics: video-games
glosses: A plus-shaped directional input pad on a video game controller that allows for eight degrees of movement, now largely superseded by the thumbstick.
Synonyms: control pad
directional pad
JRPG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JRPGs
Etymology: From J- (“Japanese”) + RPG (“role-playing game”).
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Japanese role-playing game, a traditional genre of role-playing video game derived from design traditions originating in Japan; generally understood as involving a pre-determined story and player characters, a party of multiple controllable characters, and an emphasis on narrative and storytelling.
Hypernyms: RPG
Related terms: CRPG
WRPG
go to the mattresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the mattresses
form: going to the mattresses
form: went to the mattresses
form: gone to the mattresses
Etymology: From Mario Puzo's gangster novel The Godfather (1969). Those involved in such a conflict might be expected to stay in hideouts where they would sleep on mattresses rather than in beds.
Senses: examples: text: I want Sollozzo. If not, it's all-out war. We'll go to the mattresses.
ref: 1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, Putnam, page 132:
text: They will have to go to the mattresses; that is they will have to risk a long ugly strike.
ref: 1988 December 18, Glen Waggoner, “Sports: Collusion Is Over, but Excess Is Back”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Sep 2008:
text: Now, when you're fighting Republicans . . . Democrats are all rallied around and ready to go ahead and go to the mattresses.
ref: 2008, "Transcript: CNN LARRY KING LIVE—Interview with Senator Hillary Clinton," CNN analyst Jamal Simmons speaking, 21 Apr.
glosses: To go to war; to use ruthless tactics; to act without restraint.
wikipedia: Mario Puzo
Related terms: go to the mat
civision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The use of encryption when broadcasting television signals.
whole numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whole number
immunotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immunotherapeutic
form: most immunotherapeutic
Etymology: From immuno- + therapeutic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a pharmaceutical, acting on the immune system to treat disease; used in immunotherapy.
Derived terms: chemoimmunotherapeutic
photoimmunotherapeutic
radioimmunotherapeutic
immunotherapeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotherapeutics
Etymology: From immuno- + therapeutic.
Senses: glosses: A pharmaceutical that treats a disease via action on the immune system
intraoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + operative.
Senses: glosses: Happening during a surgical operation.
Derived terms: intraoperatively
motor glider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor gliders
Etymology: motor + glider
Senses: glosses: A sailplane (glider) equipped with an auxiliary motor.
ecesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἴκισις (oíkisis, “colonization”).
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of the successful establishment of a plant or animal species in a habitat that was barren previously or was left barren due to some catastrophe.
zero air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: For calibration, first pass a known range of concentrations of the gas through the gas chromatograph, for comparison with zero air that contains effectively none of the gas to be measured.
topics: chemistry
chromatography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Atmospheric air specially cleaned so that it contains less than 0.1 ppm of hydrocarbon impurities.
debuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbʌf/
ipa: /diːˈbʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
ipa: /ˈdiː.bʌf/
Forms: form: debuffs
Etymology: From de- + buff (“to make a player or item stronger”).
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: An effect that makes a game character weaker; a negative status effect.
Synonyms: nerf
status ailment
debuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbʌf/
ipa: /diːˈbʊf/
rhymes: -ʌf
ipa: /ˈdiː.bʌf/
Forms: form: debuffs
form: debuffing
form: debuffed
form: debuffed
Etymology: From de- + buff (“to make a player or item stronger”).
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: To make a character or unit weaker.
Derived terms: debuffer
Related terms: status effect
thermal turbulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermal turbulences
Senses: glosses: atmospheric turbulence due to convection currents.
Astroturfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Astroturf
Astroturfing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Astroturf
Astroturfed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Astroturf
Bangalores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bangalore
Bangalores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Bangalore
Bangaloring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Bangalore
BASE jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BASE jump
BASE jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of BASE jump
BASE jumped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of BASE jump
FedExes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of FedEx
FedExing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of FedEx
FedExed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of FedEx
Hispanicizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hispanicize
Hispanicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Hispanicize
Hispanicized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hispanicize
Hebraizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hebraize
Hebraized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hebraize