cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
optical rotatory dispersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optical rotatory dispersions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the variation in the optical rotation of a substance with the wavelength of light
circular dichroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields.
ref: 2016, S. Hamed Shams Mousavi, Sajanlal R. Panikkanvalappil, Mostafa A. El-Sayed, Ali A. Eftekhar, Ali Adibi, “Large Enhancement of Circular Dichroism Using an Embossed Chiral Metamaterial”, in arXiv:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: the differential absorption of left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized light
absorption band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ bænd/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ bænd/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.ʃn̩ bænd/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.ʃn̩ bænd/
Forms: form: absorption bands
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of any number of ranges of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation absorbed by a substance.
accomodation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accommodation.
JFYI
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of just for your information.
Related terms: FYI
housebroken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: housbrōk'ən
ipa: /haʊsbɹəʊkən/
Forms: form: house-broken
Etymology: From house + broken.
Senses: examples: text: Hey. At least I'm housebroken.
ref: 1998, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, The Big Lebowski, spoken by The Dude (Jeff Bridges):
text: Week in and week out you come back like a housebroken Pomeranian loyal to the bitter end. Good boy.
ref: 2012 September 1, 0:14 from the start, in Putin Learns Putin Behind Plot To Assassinate Putin, The Onion, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2016:
synonyms: house-trained
glosses: trained to avoid urinating or defecating in the house, except within a litterbox, toilet, or other receptacle.
raw_tags: of animals
Derived terms: unhousebroken
Coulomb's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the fundamental law of electrostatics - the force between two point charges is proportional to the product of their charges, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
Related terms: Coulomb's constant
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb's constant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the constant of proportionality in the equation of Coulomb's law; numerical value depends on the units used
Related terms: Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb attraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the attraction between opposite charges due to Coulomb force
Related terms: Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb force
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The electrostatic force between two charges, as described by Coulomb's law.
Related terms: Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb repulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The repulsive force between two positive or two negative charges, as described by Coulomb's law.
Derived terms: Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coulomb barriers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the barrier between two atomic nuclei, due to Coulomb repulsion, that has to be overcome for nuclear fusion to proceed
Related terms: Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb blockade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coulomb blockades
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the increased resistance observed at low temperatures in some semiconductor devices
Related terms: Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb collision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coulomb collisions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the interaction between two moving electric charges at close range
Related terms: Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb explosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coulomb explosions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The effect of a molecule moving at high speed striking a solid; binding electrons being torn off, and the resulting charged constituents separating due to Coulomb repulsion.
Synonyms: tunnel ionization
Related terms: Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb force
Coulomb gauge
Coulomb repulsion
coulometer
coulometric
coulometry
SSB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSBs
Senses: topics: business
communication
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: SB
VSB
DSB
glosses: Initialism of single sideband, a type of radio emission.
glosses: Initialism of social security board.
glosses: Initialism of sub surface ballistic, a diesel powered submarine carrying ballistic missiles.
examples: text: To get a bit technical for a moment, the specific feature that Mozilla abandoned is called “site-specific browsers,” or SSBs.
ref: 2021 January 26, Jared Newman, “Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web”, in Fast Company:
glosses: Initialism of site-specific browser.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of star schema benchmark.
SSB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Standard Southern British.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Super Smash Bros..
coulometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coulometers
Etymology: From coulomb + -meter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a device, used in coulometry, to determine the amount of substance released during electrolysis.
Related terms: coulometric
coulometry
Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb repulsion
coulometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coulo- + -metric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of, or relating to coulometry
Derived terms: chronocoulometric
coulometrically
Related terms: coulometer
Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb repulsion
coulometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coulometries
Etymology: From coulo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technique in analytical chemistry in which the amount of substance released during electrolysis, and the amount of electricity used, are measured.
Derived terms: chronocoulometry
Related terms: coulometer
coulometric
Coulomb's constant
Coulomb's law
Coulomb attraction
Coulomb barrier
Coulomb blockade
Coulomb collision
Coulomb explosion
Coulomb force
Coulomb repulsion
CPT symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the fundamental symmetry of physical laws under transformations that involve the simultaneous inversions of charge, parity and time
critical mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical masses
Senses: examples: text: […] Rhodes calculated the uranium bomb would eventually need “about 42 kilograms – 92.6 pounds,” which Rhodes then stated was approximately 2.8 critical masses. In other words, critical mass can be calculated to be about 15 kilograms.
ref: 2016, Carter Hydrick, Critical Mass […] , 3rd edition, TrineDay, →ISBN:
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: The minimum amount of fissile material needed to support a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
examples: text: […] depending on the rare circumstance of there being a critical mass of persons whose combination of interests and resources is high enough to overcome the feasibility problem.
ref: 1993, Gerald Marwell, Pamela Oliver, The Critical Mass in Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 87:
text: The critical mass comprises the pioneers of an SNS who pay the start-up costs and set up a circle of acquaintances for newcomers; thereafter new subscribers to a mature SNS can join one after another rather than as a group (Heijden, 2004).
ref: 2015, Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso, editors, The Psychology of Social Networking, volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 204:
text: The problem was not just that they had never quite reached that point of critical mass where their income would finally exceed their many costs and liabilities, it was that breaking good, for Mira at least, had always meant more than simply breaking even.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 19:
glosses: The minimum amount of something or the minimum number of people needed to trigger a phenomenon.
Related terms: subcritical mass
supercritical mass
tipping point
self-sustaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-sustaining
form: most self-sustaining
Etymology: From self- + sustaining.
Senses: examples: text: There was nothing odd, or futuristic, or exotically “eco” about the house — no solar panels to be seen, no giant arrays of thermopane windows passively drinking up light and heat; yet here, I’d been told, in the Sourland Mountains in New Jersey, an hour from Manhattan, was a house that had the potential — not long from now, not 20 years from now, but maybe within 5 to 10 years — to help turn millions of American homes into fully self-sustaining power plants, each one capable of producing hydrogen to fuel cars as well.
ref: 2007 May 20, Mark Svenvold, “The Zero-Energy Solution”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
glosses: Able to provide for one's own needs without help from others; self-sufficient.
Able to sustain itself without the need for additional fuel.
raw_tags: of a nuclear chain reaction
glosses: Opposing or rejecting exterior influence; independent.
Related terms: self-sufficient
fissile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪsˌaɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˈfɪsˌəl/
Forms: form: more fissile
form: most fissile
Etymology: From Latin fissilis.
Senses: glosses: Able to be split.
examples: text: This Cryſtal is a pellucid fiſſile Stone, clear as Water or Cryſtal of the Rock, and without Colour; enduring a red Heat without loſing its tranſparency, and in a very ſtrong Heat calcining without Fuſion.
ref: a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “[The Third Book of Opticks.] [Qu[estion] 25. Are there not other original Properties of the Rays of Light, besides those already described?]”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. […], 4th edition, London: […] William Innys […], published 1730, →OCLC, page 329:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Easily split along a grain.
examples: text: North Korea may soon have access to regular amounts of fissile material if it doesn’t already and could be preparing Punggye-ri for a number of nuclear tests if the above analysis is correct.
ref: 2014 March 20, Jeffrey Lewis, “The Tunnels at Punggye-ri: An Alternative View”, in 38 North, archived from the original on 03 Apr 2014:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Capable of sustaining a nuclear fission chain reaction.
Derived terms: fissban
fissileness
fissility
nonfissile
subfissile
unfissile
nuclear fission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuclear fissions
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A nuclear reaction in which a large nucleus splits into smaller ones, sometimes accompanied by the simultaneous release of energy.
Hyponyms: induced fission
spontaneous fission
Related terms: nucleomitophobia
not long for this world
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: not long for the world
Senses: examples: text: Townsend went there with us, but found himself so unwell that he went home very early. His cough has return'd, with several disagreeable symptoms. I fear exceedingly that he is not long for this world.
ref: 1787, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, editor, Life in a New England Town, 1787, 1788: Diary of John Quincy Adams (1903), page 109
text: He thinks that said soul will have to be resuscitated from its asphyxia; that if it prove irresuscitable, the man is not long for this world.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 6, Hero-Worship”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem):
text: But I've had a warning, and I'm not long for this world."
"Not long for this world? Oh, nonsense, Plunkett. You mustn't talk like that. A touch of indigestion, that's what you've got, I expect.
ref: 1928, Dorothy L. Sayers, “The Undignified Melodrama of the Bone of Contention”, in Dorothy L. Sayers: the complete stories, published 2002, page 92:
text: Though Aunt Maud had always maintained she was not long for this world, she outlived all her generation.
ref: 2006, Richard Peck, The Teacher's Funeral: A Comedy in Three Parts, page 188:
text: With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers. The ship's crew patch holes as fast as they can, but the ship is literally gradually being taken apart by repeated salvos. The fact that this particular set of Japanese ships is STILL using armor-piercing instead of high explosive is the only saving grace.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 31:46 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: Unlikely to endure for much more time.
Related terms: make old bones
one's days are numbered
infiniverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infiniverses
Etymology: Blend of infinite + universe
Senses: glosses: Theoretically, everything that exists, seen or unseen; the infinite multiverse.
accomodating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accommodating.
doco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒ.kəʊ/
rhymes: -ɒkəʊ
Forms: form: docos
Etymology: From documentary + -o (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Seibert has many complaints about nature docos, not the least of which is the music that seems to suggest that animals are constantly shadowed by symphony orchestras.
ref: 1994, Phillip Adams, Classic Columns, page 144:
text: Now we spend about a third of our time in the US working on docos, working with US wildlife.
ref: 1999, Reptiles, volume 7, page 20:
text: I started thinking that I had to get back to where I was when I was put into the field to do docos [documentaries] and put in situations to capture sound as simply as I could and be sure to get what I could get.
ref: 2000, Tom Kenny, Sound for Picture: Film Sound through the 1990s, page 160:
glosses: Abbreviation of documentary.
examples: text: - Can you use asterisks in a filename?
- I don't know. Check the doco.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of documentation.
Rocco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɒkəʊ
Etymology: From the Italian form of the name of French 14th century saint Roch, of Germanic origin. The meaning is obscure; Old High German hruoh (“crow”) (from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz), hrok (“rest”) (modern Ruhe) and rohōn (“to roar”) (modern röhren) have been suggested.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian, of mostly American usage.
airgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airguns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air gun.
boorishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boorishly
form: most boorishly
Etymology: From boorish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a boorish manner; uncultured.
Related terms: boor
boorish
boorishness
languorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋɡərəs/
ipa: /ˈlæŋ(ɡ)ərəs/
Forms: form: more languorous
form: most languorous
form: langorous
form: langourous
form: languourous
Etymology: From Middle French langoreux.
Senses: examples: text: The atmosphere beneath is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes also of that hue, while the horizon beyond is of the deepest ultramarine.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 12:
text: Warm as a Lesbian valley's afternoon Made langourous ^([sic]) with June
ref: 1911, George Sterling, The House of Orchids:
text: 8 August 2018, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky in AV Club, Jason Statham fighting a giant shark should be a lot more fun than The Meg
After a languorous stretch of exposition that introduces a lot of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo and enough supporting characters to fill a Dickens novel (played by the likes of Rainn Wilson, Cliff Curtis, and Ruby Rose), we follow a three-person submersible down to the ocean depths.
synonyms: word: listless
word: unenthusiastic
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
glosses: lacking energy, spirit, liveliness or vitality; languid, lackadaisical.
Derived terms: languorously
languorousness
unlanguorous
Related terms: languid
languish
languor
service station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: service stations
Senses: glosses: a service area
glosses: a filling station, gas station or petrol station; a facility selling fuel for road motor vehicles
Synonyms: word: servo
fat cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat cats
form: fatcat
form: fat-cat
Etymology: The phrase was first used in the 1920s in the United States to describe rich political donors.
By the middle of the 20th century, the term was being applied more widely to any wealthy individual.
Senses: synonyms: angel
big money man
qualifier: originally
glosses: A rich person who contributes to a political campaign.
examples: text: A staggering 57% of American workers believe there is a very real chance they will be unemployed in the next 5 to 7 years. But what does that matter to a bloated millionaire fat-cat like you?
ref: 1997, John Brancato and Michael Ferris, The Game (motion picture), Daniel Schorr (actor):
text: For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.
ref: 2020 September 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: We MUST seize the moment”, in Rail, page 3:
text: In America, where we moralize our money and monetize our morals, fat cats who go bust tend to be viewed as cautionary figures, singular exemplars of malfeasance, not routine casualties of the fickle system that exalted them in the first place.
ref: 2020 October 23, Walter Kirn, “The Cautionary Tale of Adam Neumann and WeWork”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labor of others; and/or not to care about those of lesser means.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fat, cat.
pasteurize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæst͡ʃəɹaɪz/
ipa: /ˈpɑːstʃəɹaɪz/
Forms: form: pasteurizes
form: pasteurizing
form: pasteurized
form: pasteurized
form: pasteurise
Etymology: Borrowed from French pasteuriser. From Louis Pasteur, the inventor of the process, + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To heat food for the purpose of killing harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, molds, and yeasts.
wikipedia: Louis Pasteur
Derived terms: nonpasteurized
pasteurizable
pasteurizer
radiopasteurize
repasteurize
ultrapasteurized
underpasteurized
unpasteurized
a.k.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: coordinate_terms: f.k.a.
glosses: Alternative form of AKA (“also known as”).
tune in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tunes in
form: tuning in
form: tuned in
form: tuned in
Senses: glosses: To select a channel, station, etc., as on television or radio.
coordinate_terms: zero in
glosses: To pay attention.
Hypernyms: tune
Derived terms: tune in, turn on, drop out
Related terms: tune out
stay tuned
dial in
tune out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tunes out
form: tuning out
form: tuned out
form: tuned out
Etymology: From tune + out.
Senses: examples: text: I have a hard time tuning out a television that is on.
text: Ants are everywhere, in such abundance that we tune them out like we tune out traffic noise.
ref: 2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: To stop paying attention to; to ignore; to zone out.
examples: text: I was tired of talk radio so I tuned out of that station and tuned into one playing all music.
glosses: To change the channel or frequency away from.
Synonyms: sense: ignore
word: space out
word: zone out
word: ignore
Hypernyms: tune
Related terms: tune in
critical opalescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the milky turbidity observed in a fluid as it is slowly cooled to just above its critical point, at which point two clear phases (gas and liquid) form
critical point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical points
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The temperature and pressure at which the vapour density of the gas and liquid phases of a fluid are equal, at which point there is no difference between gas and liquid.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point at which the derivative of a function is zero or undefined, such as a minimum, a maximum, a point of inflection or, in multivariate calculus, a saddle point.
glosses: A juncture at which time a critical decision must be made.
Related terms: tipping point
point of inflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points of inflection
form: inflection point
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point on a curve at which the sign of the curvature changes; at this point the second derivative of the underlying function will be zero, but positive on one side and negative on the other.
Synonyms: flex
inflection point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflection points
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point of inflection.
examples: text: Moscow has been targeted with a large-scale drone attack for the first time in its 15-month-old war in Ukraine, marking a new inflection point in the conflict, with the Kremlin threatening to take the “harshest possible measures” in response to the strikes.
ref: 2023 May 30, Andrew Roth, Pjotr Sauer, “Large-scale drone attack hits Moscow for first time in Ukraine war”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: These companies are at an inflection point. With Mr. Trump’s election, Silicon Valley’s power will reach new heights.
ref: 2025 May 30, Karen Hao, “Silicon Valley Is at an Inflection Point”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: He's hazy on the ideas or moments that definitely shifted his political worldview, but he says: “I've always been good at spotting inflection points and trends.”
ref: 2025 August 2, Anna Gross, quoting Zia Yusuf, “Lunch with the FT: Zia Yusuf”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Synonym of turning point.
synonyms: word: turning point
arras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹəs/
rhymes: -æɹəs
Forms: form: arrases
Etymology: From Middle English arras, from Middle French draps d'Arras, from the city of Arras, which was a major source for tapestries in the 15th century.
Senses: examples: text: At such a time I'll loose my daughter to him: / Be you and I behind an arras then
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 159-160:
text: And with their conſorts chaſte at night they ſleep / On ſtatelieſt couches with rich arras ſpread.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book X.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 219, lines 13–14:
text: The room was hung with coarſe arras, which concealed the cloſet; […]
ref: 1794, Charlotte Smith, chapter VII, in The Banished Man. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, (successors to Mr. [Thomas] Cadell) […], →OCLC, page 133:
text: Dozens of walls were covered with arrases like acts of homage, recognition, or flattery.
ref: 1982, Stephen R. Donaldson, The One Tree, page 241:
glosses: A tapestry or wall hanging.
Derived terms: arrased
arrasene
SIDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of single integrated digital device.
gooch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: gooches
Etymology: A corruption of guiche, another slang term for perineum.
Senses: examples: text: For those unfamiliar, Johnson helpfully informs us that 'it's for your gooch, your Biffin's bridge, your perineum (the bit on your bum that after days in the saddle starts to chaffe).'
ref: 2008, Blueprint, Issues 266-269, page 46
text: The feather traced the crevices in Dan's ball-skin. It danced lightly around his gooch (it really liked that, staying there for a whole ten minutes). It traced along the inside of his thigh, and then lightly licked the base [of] Dan's cock.
ref: 2012, James T Medak, My, What Ticklish Feet You Have, The Nazca Plains Corporation, published 2012, →ISBN, page 59:
text: His whole life Albert Fish had this habit/fascination with jamming sewing needles up into his gooch, that weird little area between your ass and balls.
ref: 2013, Geoffrey Girard, Project Cain, Simon & Schuster BFYR, published 2013, →ISBN:
glosses: The perineum.
gooch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡuːt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -uːtʃ
Forms: form: gooches
form: gooching
form: gooched
form: gooched
Etymology: A corruption of guiche, another slang term for perineum.
Senses: examples: 2017 Ansi, "Rise and Shine Sleepyhead", Welcome to the Wayne episode 1, 10 minutes
Olly, you gooched it! Fix it!
glosses: To blunder or bungle; goof.
Related terms: english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: gooch-eyed
iamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪəm/
ipa: /ˈaɪˌæm/
ipa: /ˈaɪˌæm/
Forms: form: iambs
Etymology: From French iambe in the mid-1800s, from Latin ïambus, from Ancient Greek ἴαμβος (íambos). Displaced iambus which shares the same classical origin.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Synonyms: iambus
jambus
Derived terms: diiamb
iambist
iambize
limping iamb
Related terms: trochee
trochee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹəʊki/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊ.ki/
homophone: troche
rhymes: -əʊki
Forms: form: trochees
form: troch.
form: trocheus
Etymology: Borrowed from French trochée, via Latin trochaeus from the Ancient Greek τροχαῖος (trokhaîos), derived from τρέχω (trékhō, “run”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘He made us read James Fenton on the genius of the trochee.’
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 152:
glosses: A metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
Related terms: trochaic
iamb
-leptic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λῆψις (lêpsis, “taking hold, seizing”) + -ic, as in Ancient Greek ληπτικός (lēptikós).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a condition of seizing, as in nympholeptic.
glosses: A person who is afflicted with a condition prone to cause violent seizures, as in epileptic.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a coordination compound having some type(s) of ligand.
Derived terms: epileptic
organoleptic
narcoleptic
neuroleptic
Related terms: -lepsy
pentatonic scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentatonic scales
Senses: examples: text: Japanese mode pentatonic scale:
{\set Staff.midiInstrument=#"koto"\override Score.TimeSignature#'stencil =##f{\time6/4 e'f'a'b'c2
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A scale having five notes per octave.
Derived terms: hemitonic pentatonic scale
anhemitonic pentatonic scale
nympholeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nympholeptic
form: most nympholeptic
Etymology: From nympho- + -leptic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, or having characteristics of an instance of nympholepsy.
Related terms: nympholept
nympholepsy
bleakly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbliːk.li/
rhymes: -iːk.li
Forms: form: more bleakly
form: most bleakly
Etymology: From bleak + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bleak manner.
CVT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CVTs
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of continuously variable transmission.
glosses: Initialism of certified veterinary technician.
Related terms: automatic transmission
automatic
auto
A/T
AT
manual transmission
manual
stick
stick shift
M/T
MT
semi-automatic transmission
semi-automatic
semi-auto
semi
semi-manual transmission
semi-manual
dual-clutch transmission
DCT
multi clutch transmission
MCT
SBM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SBMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of small to medium business.
coordinate_terms: MBM
DBM
glosses: Initialism of single black male.
raw_tags: in personal ads
CRM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CRMs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of crew/cockpit resource management.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of cluster resource manager.
examples: text: Let’s take B2B salespeople as an example. Today, most salespeople rely upon email communications, a CRM platform and conference calls to connect with prospects and engage leads.
ref: 2021 October 8, Ori Manor Zuckerman, “The Importance Of Subtext In Digital Communications”, in Forbes:
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of customer relationship management.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of customer relationship manager.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of contact relationship management.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of contact relationship manager.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of credit risk management.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of certified reference material.
glosses: Initialism of cultural resource management.
glosses: Initialism of crew resource management.
CRM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Contingent Reimbursement Model.
bn
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: examples: Holonyms: tn, trn
related: word: bn.
word: bln
glosses: Billion.
examples: text: Holonyms: T, trn
text: Meronyms: mn, mn., mln, mln., M
text: The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects.
ref: 2007 December 5, Randeep Ramesh, “Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car”, in The Guardian:
text: This year companies will spend $400bn on the infrastructure needed to run artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Predictions of the eventual bill are uniformly enormous. Analysts at Morgan Stanley reckon $2.9trn will be spent on data centres and related infrastructure by the end of 2028; consultants at McKinsey put it at $6.7trn by 2030. Like a bad party at a good restaurant, nobody is quite sure who will pick up the tab.
ref: 2025 July 31, Reporting staff, “Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom? A technological revolution meets a financial one”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025:
related: word: bn.
word: bln
glosses: Billion.
Billion short scale.
synonyms: mul:B
related: word: bn.
word: bln
glosses: Billion.
Billion long scale.
bn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of brand new.
OSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OSSes
form: OSS's
form: OSSs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: FLOSS
FOSS
COSS
glosses: Initialism of open-source software.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of out-of-school suspension.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of operations/operational support system.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Initialism of over-the-shoulder shot.
OSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Office of Strategic Services (a United States intelligence agency formed during World War II).
fine structure constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fine-structure constant.
all the same
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: all one
text: It's all the same to me if you want to leave early.
text: Certainly, many women have found me interesting. All the same, the women closest to me are invariably deeply dissatisfied.
glosses: Making no significant difference.
examples: text: His speeches are all the same.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, same.
Derived terms: if it's all the same
Related terms: close enough
distinction without a difference
much of a muchness
of a kind
of a piece
same difference
all the same
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He knew it was risky. He did it all the same.
text: It's sleeting. All the same, I'll take the dog out.
text: So GCN calls and I'm thinking — what can I say in the pages of an anti-racist, but all the same White newspaper? What will I choose not to say?
ref: 1989 February 5, Colin Robinson, “You Dared Us To Dream That We Are Worth Wanting Each Other”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 29, page 10:
text: It's a distant solar system / I tried to phone but they don't list 'em / So I asked her for a number all the same
ref: 1996, “Cosmic Girl”, in Travelling Without Moving, performed by Jamiroquai:
synonyms: word: even so
word: just the same
word: still
word: withal
word: all that said
word: anyhow
word: all the same
word: be it as it may
word: be that as it may
word: but
word: even so
word: having said that
word: howbeit
word: however
word: just the same
word: maugre
word: natheless
word: nevertheless
word: nonetheless
word: notwithstanding
word: still
word: still and all
word: that being said
word: that said
word: though
word: withal
word: yet
glosses: Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.
if it's all the same
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer to stay at a hotel instead of at your house.
text: “Well, am I goin' your way, or are you comin' mine?” he asked. “I'll come with you, if it's all the same,” said Miss Moss. And she sailed after the little yacht out of the café.
ref: 1919, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Pictures”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 171:
glosses: If it makes no difference; if nobody minds; if it doesn't bother anyone.
tongue-in-cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tongue-in-cheek
form: most tongue-in-cheek
form: tongue in cheek
Etymology: This phrase alludes to the facial expression created by putting one's tongue in one's cheek. The term first appeared in print in 1828, but it isn't entirely clear that it was used with the modern, rather than a literal, sense. A later citation from Richard Barham is unambiguous.
Senses: examples: text: He gave a tongue-in-cheek explanation of why the sky was blue, offering a theory about some primordial discount on light blue paint.
text: It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.
ref: 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:
text: The tongue-in-cheek sendup wasn’t far from Silicon Valley’s reality.
ref: 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:
synonyms: word: witty
word: amusing
word: bright
word: diverting
word: droll
word: entertaining
word: humorous
word: jocose
word: jocular
word: piquant
word: quick
word: quick on the draw
word: quick-witted
word: sharp
word: tongue-in-cheek
glosses: Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
tongue-in-cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: tongue in cheek
Etymology: This phrase alludes to the facial expression created by putting one's tongue in one's cheek. The term first appeared in print in 1828, but it isn't entirely clear that it was used with the modern, rather than a literal, sense. A later citation from Richard Barham is unambiguous.
Senses: glosses: With contempt.
examples: text: He portrayed them tongue-in-cheek as great lawgivers, as Solons.
glosses: With irony.
diamond frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond frames
Etymology: From the diamond shape of a conventional bicycle frame created by the two triangles head tube, top tube, down tube and seat tube, chain stays and seat stays.
Senses: glosses: A modern, upright bicycle shape or design, as distinguished from a penny-farthing bicycle, a recumbent, etc.
tongue in cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tongue in cheek
form: most tongue in cheek
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tongue-in-cheek.
time after time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Time after time he tries, and time and again, he fails.
synonyms: word: again and again
word: once and again
word: over and over
word: over and over again
word: repeatedly
word: time after time
word: time and again
word: time and time again
glosses: Again and again; repeatedly; every time; always; time and again.
company front
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: company fronts
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a marching formation consisting of the entire band or corps standing side by side in a single row.
duke it out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dukes it out
form: duking it out
form: duked it out
form: duked it out
Etymology: See put up one's dukes.
Senses: examples: text: A large crowd came to watch the boxers duke it out.
glosses: To fight, especially with the fists.
examples: text: The candidates duked it out on the proposal for hours.
text: Like pharmaceutical companies that sue generic drug makers over their patents or technology companies that duke it out over who owns the right to microchip designs, Levi’s says it is trying to protect its most valuable asset, its trademarks.
ref: 2007 January 29, Michael Barbaro, Julie Creswell, “Levi’s Turns to Suing Its Rivals”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Twitter and Mr. Musk have assembled legal teams to duke it out.
ref: 2022 July 12, Kate Conger, Lauren Hirsch, “Twitter Sues Musk After He Tries Backing Out of $44 Billion Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To argue heavily or at length.
Derived terms: duke out
Related terms: fight it out
put up one's dukes
bitty box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitty boxes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer of limited memory and computing power.
neighboring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈneɪbɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: neighbouring
Senses: examples: text: Han-yang is the smallest of the three cities. It was founded about A.D. 600 but, like neighboring Han-k'ou, remained relatively unimportant until the last half of the 19th century.
ref: 1975, Wu-han (Briefs on Selected PRC Cities), Central Intelligence Agency, page 4:
glosses: Situated or living nearby or adjacent to.
neighboring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbəɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈneɪbɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: neighbouring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neighbor
neighbors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbours
Senses: glosses: plural of neighbor
neighbors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neighbours
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neighbor
neighbored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neighboured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neighbor
encode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkoʊd/
ipa: /ɪnˈkəʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: encodes
form: encoding
form: encoded
form: encoded
Etymology: From en- + code.
Senses: examples: text: encode a secret message to be sent
synonyms: encipher
encrypt
antonyms: decode
decipher
decrypt
coordinate_terms: recode
recipher
glosses: To convert (plain text) into code.
examples: text: The blotchy black mark she impresses on my hand will still be there tomorrow morning, a confused barcode, unsure of what exactly it encodes.
ref: 2012, Ben Masters, Noughties:
topics: communication
communications
coordinate_terms: transcode
glosses: To convert source information into another form.
examples: Berg, Jeremy M. with Tymoczko, John and Stryer, Lubert (2002), “RNA Synthesis and Splicing”, in Biochemistry, Fifth eidtion edition, W H Freeman and Company, →ISBN, retrieved 05 Dec 2009: “The ability of one gene to encode more than one distinct mRNA and, hence, more than one protein may play a key role in expanding the repertoire of our genomes.”
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material.
Derived terms: encodability
encodable
encodement
encoder
encoding
misencode
re-encode
reencoder
unencode
Related terms: code
codec
encode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkoʊd/
ipa: /ɪnˈkəʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: encodes
Etymology: From en- + code.
Senses: examples: text: When each encode is finished a notification will appear on your screen to let you know it's completed […]
ref: 2017, Tom Wolsky, From iMovie to Final Cut Pro X: Making the Creative Leap, page 378:
glosses: An encoding operation.
encodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encode
encodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encode
encoded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more encoded
form: most encoded
Senses: examples: text: Curiously, background sound can be quite complex without becoming confusing, because it comprises elements that vary from very encoded to highly embodied.
ref: 2007, Joseph D Anderson, Barbara Fisher Anderson, Moving Image Theory: Ecological Considerations, page 74:
text: The data discussed above have considerable implications for the Liberman et al. (1967) theory of encodednes—consonants being very encoded and vowels being less encoded and therefore perceived continuously whereas consonants are perceived categorically.
ref: 2013, G. Underwood, Attention and Memory, page 48:
text: While sitting in the hospital, the captain asked me since I was the Ordnance Officer what should we do, and I told him we needed to report this immediaqtely, but we needed to report it in such a way that it didn't sound like it was as bad as it was. I crafted up a message and sent it out that night, and the message was very encoded as we wrote it.
ref: 2021, Allen F Maxwell, The System is Unforgiving: Play by the Rules and Win:
text: The beginning of relative decline of New York City, financially and culturally, was also the point at which the artistic production turned from a very encoded, private, “talking to ourselves," abstract minimalism, to a more broadly intelligible narrative, decorative, realistic form of language across the different arts.
ref: 2022, Robert Wuthnow, Vocabularies of Public Life, page 179:
glosses: Having a meaning that is different from a simple straightforward interpretation; acting as code for another meaning.
Derived terms: autoencoded
nonencoded
unencoded
encoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encode