cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Drunken Fist
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 醉拳 (zuìquán).
Senses: glosses: A style of martial arts which imitates the movements of a drunkard, both to make the power movements more fluid, and to deceive the opponent.
Synonyms: drunken boxing
Zui Quan
zui quan
molehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moleheads
form: mole-head
Etymology: From mole + head.
Senses: glosses: A stone bulwark forming a haven or harbour; a breakwater.
Synonyms: mole
Old Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Archaic Chinese
coordinate_terms: Old Chinese
Middle Chinese
glosses: A linguistic ancestor of the Chinese languages, spoken during roughly the first millennium BCE.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Chinese terms
Penang lawyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Penang lawyers
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of Penang liyar, the wild areca.
Senses: examples: text: It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer."
ref: 1901-02, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
glosses: A kind of walking stick made from the stem of the East Asiatic palm (Licuala acutifida).
privily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪvɪli/
Forms: form: more privily
form: most privily
form: prively
form: priuely
form: pryvely
form: pryuely
Etymology: From Middle English prively; equivalent to privy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gaveston: Why do you not commit him to the Tower?
King Edward: I dare not, for the people love him well.
Gaveston: Why, then we'll have him privily made away.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II]:
text: Thou, Richard, shalt to the Duke of Norfolk, / And tell him privily of our intent.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: […] to cause that foaming in their mouthes, which is fearefull to behold by the standers by, they have this trick, privily to convey a peece of white soape into one corner of their Jawes, which causeth that froth to come boyling forth.
ref: 1608, Thomas Dekker, “The Belman of London”, in The Guls Hornbook and The Belman of London, J.M. Dent & Sons, published 1936, page 100:
text: Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a publick example, was minded to put her away privily.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 1:19:
text: Item, because in the convents of women, men come not but underhand, privily, and by stealth; it was therefore enacted, that in this house there shall be no women in case there be not men, nor men in case there be not women.
ref: 1653, François Rabelais, translated by Thomas Urquhart, The Works of Rabelais, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1873, Book I, Chapter LII, p. 105:
text: That if any person shall be convicted of feloniously stealing any of the before mentioned articles from the person of another, whether privily and without his knowledge, or openly and avowedly before his face, he shall be deemed guilty of an higher species of larceny […]
ref: 1785, “An Act for the punishing and preventing of Larcenies”, in The Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from the Establishment of its Constitution in the Year 1780, to the End of the Year 1800, volume 1, Boston, published 1801, page 23:
text: They moved camp in the morning, without breakfast except for a crumbling chunk of dry pemmican which Aaron chewed privily.
ref: 1949, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 36, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, page 196:
text: ‘I have tidings I know you will be anxious to hear, sweet sister, but they are best spoken of privily.’
ref: 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 398:
glosses: Secretly, in secret; in a private manner; privately.
Sadia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Sadi.
purpura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːpjʊɹə/
Forms: form: purpuras
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin purpura. Doublet of purple and purpure.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.
Derived terms: anaphylactoid purpura
Henoch-Schönlein purpura
purpura rheumatica
purpuric
purpurous
Schönlein-Henoch purpura
thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
no doubt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: no-doubt
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ne doute, a calque of Old French saunz doute, itself borrowed unadapted into Middle English.
Senses: examples: No doubt you can provide a better definition (that is, there's no doubt that you can.)
glosses: without a doubt; surely.
Synonyms: without a doubt
Derived terms: no-doubter
bunny hugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bunny hug
magicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magician
mystics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪstɪks/
rhymes: -ɪstɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of mystic
illusionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illusionist
wizardesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wizardess.
necromancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necromancer
sorcerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorcerer
sorceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorcery
racial integration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racial integrations
Senses: examples: text: In this chapter, we argue that racial/ethnic health disparities can serve as a marker of racial integration.
ref: 2009, Chester Hartman, Gregory Squires, The Integration Debate: Competing Futures For American Cities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 131:
coordinate_terms: desegregation
glosses: The process of countering racial segregation by assimilating people of different races into a unified society.
sorceresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorceress
unappeasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unappeasable
form: most unappeasable
Etymology: From un- + appeasable.
Senses: examples: text: The old woman snatched the note, mouthing unappeasable resentment. "Never think ye'll get out of it for all I take your dirty money," she whistled, her breath gone in the clutch of gratified rapacity.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: Not able to be appeased or satisfied.
schoolhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskulˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: schoolhouses
form: scholehouse
form: school-house
Etymology: From Middle English scolehous, scole-hous, equivalent to school + house. Compare West Frisian skoallehûs,
skoalhûs (“schoolhouse”), Dutch schoolhuis (“schoolhouse”), German Schulhaus (“schoolhouse”).
Senses: glosses: A building housing a school, especially a small or single-room one.
Hypernyms: house
Hyponyms: one-room schoolhouse
auriculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auricula
scorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorers
Etymology: From score + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Alan Shearer finished among the top ten goal scorers in 10 out of his 14 seasons in the Premier League and won the top scorer title three times..
text: But chances were rare for the lowest scorers in the Premier League against a Newcastle defence which claimed a fourth straight clean sheet.
ref: 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: One who scores.
examples: text: The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.
text: The comment may be offered here that the 'heavies' have been the Design Award's principal scorers, both in the overall bronze plaque days and, since, in the Daily/Sunday Class 1.
ref: 1973, Allen Hutt, The changing newspaper, page 151:
glosses: One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls
Derived terms: official scorer
top scorer
trouble the scorers
try-scorer
Related terms: scoreboard
scorebox
caudae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cauda
woolly mammoth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woolly mammoths
form: wooly mammoth
Senses: examples: text: The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 204:
glosses: A very hairy mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, widespread in colder regions of the Northern Hemisphere during the Pleistocene period.
fabulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabula
self-addressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + addressed.
Senses: examples: text: Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
glosses: Addressed to oneself.
Related terms: SAE
SASE
Latinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latinities
Etymology: From Latin Latīnitās, from Latin Latīnus (“Latin”).
Senses: examples: text: The banns being published, the next difficulty was to find a bishop who would bless them. One bishop was found, says Buchanan with the severest point of his elegant Latinity, one, the Bishop of Orkney, who preferred the smiles of a court to the light of truth, while others declined the task, and pointed out the unhallowed nature of nuptials with him who had already two spouses alive, and had lately obtained himself to be repudiated by a third on the ground of his own adultery.
ref: 1834, Mark Napier, chapter III, in Memoirs of John Napier of Merchiston, His Lineage, Life, and Times, with a History of the Invention of Logarithms, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: Thomas Cadell, page 116:
text: “Well, well,” said the lawyer, when I had quite done, “this is a great epic, a great Odyssey of yours. You must tell it, sir, in a sound Latinity when your scholarship is riper; or in English if you please, though for my part I prefer the stronger tongue. […]
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
text: Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Girls might infiltrate the clubhouse but men alone remain the teachers and theorists of Latinity.
ref: 2012, Barbara Newman, “Ailments of the Tongue”, in London Review of Books, volume 34, number 6:
glosses: The quality of a particular person's Latin speech or writing; the Latin language, as an area of study or interest.
glosses: Latin character
glosses: Latin literature considered as a whole
glosses: A Latinism
Synonyms: Latinhood
Latinness
macuahuitl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macuahuitls
form: macahuitl
form: maccuahuitl
form: macquahuitl
form: maquahuitl
Etymology: From Spanish macuahuitl, from Classical Nahuatl māccuahuitl.
Senses: glosses: An Aztec obsidian sword or club.
Synonyms: macana
decalcification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˌkæɫsɪfɪˈkeɪʃən]
Forms: form: decalcifications
Etymology: From de- + calcification.
Senses: examples: text: Presectioning of the mineralized tissue to 3–4 mm thick will minimize the (often extensive) time required for decalcification.
ref: 2019, Brian G. Murphy, Cynthia M. Bell, Jason W. Soukup, Veterinary Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology:
hypernyms: demineralization
glosses: The loss of calcium, as from the soil or from teeth or bones.
Related terms: word: decalcify
semitrailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitrailers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semi-trailer.
enzymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enzyme + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using enzymes; enzymatic.
Derived terms: coenzymic
enzymically
immunoenzymic
isoenzymic
metalloenzymic
nonenzymic
Mesoamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mesoamerican
form: most Mesoamerican
Etymology: From meso- + American.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Mesoamerica.
Derived terms: Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
Mesoamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mesoamericans
Etymology: From meso- + American.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Mesoamerica.
Mesoamerica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From meso- + America. Coined by anthropologist Paul Kirchhoff.
Senses: examples: text: Intentional skull reshaping is found in burials across Asia, Europe and Mesoamerica.
ref: 2023 August 18, Mindy Weisberger, “Long-standing mystery of modified human skulls in ancient Japan solved by new analysis”, in CNN:
glosses: A pre-Columbian cultural region extending from southern Mexico to roughly the area that comprises modern Honduras and El Salvador.
wikipedia: Paul Kirchhoff
Coordinate terms: Oasisamerica
Aridoamerica
Derived terms: Mesoamerican
bestrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestrews
form: bestrewing
form: bestrewed
form: bestrewn
form: bestrow
form: bestraw
Etymology: From Middle English bistrewen, from Old English bestrēawian, bestrēowian (“to bestrew, besprinkle”), equivalent to be- + strew. Cognate with Dutch bestrooien (“to sprinkle, bestrew”), German bestreuen (“to sprinkle, cover”), Swedish beströ (“to strew, sprinkle, scatter”).
Senses: glosses: To strew or scatter about; throw or drop here and there.
glosses: To strew anything upon; strew over or about; cover or partially cover with things strewn; cover with straw or strewing.
carrying capacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrying capacities
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: The number of people or things that a vehicle is designed to carry.
examples: text: With their populations adjusted to the carrying capacity of the environment, hunters and gatherers rarely starve, for they are not dependent on the fortunes of a single crop.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 120:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The number of individuals of a particular species that an environment can support.
Derived terms: english: the standard abbreviation
translation: the standard abbreviation
word: K
Related terms: biocapacity
ecological footprint
overshoot
medullae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medulla
telae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tela
-cula
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Denoting things associated with, or compared to, Dracula: Count Chocula, Bunnicula etc.
degree of freedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degrees of freedom
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the coordinates, a minimum number of which are needed to specify the motion of a mechanical system.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of the independent variables required to specify the thermodynamic state of a system containing components and phases.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any unrestricted variable in a frequency distribution.
Synonyms: d.o.f.
DoF
df
Maryolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mary + -o- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: Our great prophet has so ordered the revelation of God's will, and of the doctrines of life, that Christians have nothing to justify or excuse this Maryolatry,—this idolatrous exaltation of Mary.
ref: 1843, Alexander Viets Griswold, The Reformation: A Brief Exposition of Some of the Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome, Boston, Mass.: James B. Dow, publisher, →OCLC, page 87:
text: Such mounting departure from truth, as Maryolatry, was instrumental in causing Christianity to be eliminated from another important segment of the Christian world. [...] [T]he overburden of superstition, especially the Maryolatry, caused Christianity to be swept away from that great land [Russia] with the revolution.
ref: 1989, Rolland E. Wolfe, How the Easter Story Grew from Gospel to Gospel, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.: The Edward Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Mariolatry.
tory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tories
Etymology: See Tory.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tory.
tory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See Tory.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Tory.
Related terms: rory-tory
tory-rory
tories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tory
mass surveillance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof.
wakeover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakeovers
form: wake-over
Etymology: Blend of wake + sleepover
Senses: examples: text: The youth group will have another wakeover this weekend.
glosses: A sleepover party in a public place, such as a church, at which little or no sleep actually takes place.
Synonyms: lock-in
snuff film
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuff films
Senses: examples: text: Their whole case that porn is violent rests on classifying s/m porn as violent, and lumping it in with the snuff film.
ref: 1981 August 15, Nancy Wechsler, Gayle Rubin, Pat Califia, “Sadomasochism: Fears, Facts, Fantasies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 7:
text: Veiksaar's half-baked .aic was running the camera feeds, and traced the path of destruction beginning in the workroom with brutal efficiency. The views snapped from scene to scene on five second intervals, and it was like watching an interpolation of every snuff film ever made. At the moment Carter snapped, a lunch break in J&M turned into a blood riot when half a dozen technicians dropped their snacks and began cannibalizing each other instead.
ref: 2024 September 28, Harry Blank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in Deadlined, →ISBN, page 604:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: snuff movie
glosses: A film that shows, or purports to show, the actual deliberate killing of one of the performers.
Related terms: snuff out
peyotl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jaensch, Havelock Ellis and Weir Mitchell began their experiments with mescalin, the active principle of peyotl.
ref: 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, Chatto & Windus, page 5:
text: Peyotl eating, as a tribal habit, is current at the present time and retains its substitutional characteristic as a replacement of the Christian sacrament.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 154:
glosses: Alternative form of peyote.
Anglo-French
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Anglo-French
form: most Anglo-French
Etymology: From Anglo- + French.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to England and France or the people thereof.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the dialect of French adopted in England after the decline of Norman.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Anglo-Norman dialect.
Anglo-French
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: AFr.
Etymology: From Anglo- + French.
Senses: glosses: Variant of Anglo-Norman.
Anglo-Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originated 1785–95 from Anglo- + Latin.
Senses: glosses: Latin language as used in Britain, especially Medieval as well as Ecclesiastical and legal Latin.
Synonyms: British Latin
Tenochtitlan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /təˈnɔt͡ʃtɪtˌlæn/
/təˈnɔt͡ʃtɪtˌlɑn/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tenochtitlán, from Classical Nahuatl Tenochtitlan.
Senses: synonyms: Mexico-Tenochtitlan
glosses: The former capital of the Aztec Empire; modern Mexico City.
chalchihuitl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalchihuitls
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl chalchihuitl.
Senses: examples: text: But such a determinate value is attached to buckskin, eagle and wild turkey feathers, pelts of the Rocky Mountain lion, chalchihuitl, abalone, olivette shells (unpierced), the perforated sea-shell beads, silver necklaces, and other ornaments[…]
ref: 1974, Theodore R. Frisbie, quoting John G. Bourke, “Hishi as Money in the Puebloan Southwest”, in The Snake-dance of the Moquis of Arizona, 1884, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 254, in reference to the Hopi, quoted in Collected Papers in Honor of Florence Hawley Ellis, Norman: Hooper Publishing Company, published 1975, page 125:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: turquoise
hemagglutinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemagglutinins
form: haemagglutinin
form: haemoagglutinin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An antigenic glycoprotein that causes agglutination of red blood cells
Derived terms: antihemagglutinin
isohemagglutinin
phytohemagglutinin
haemagglutinin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemagglutinins
Etymology: From haem- + agglutinin.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemagglutinin.
Derived terms: antihaemagglutinin
Related terms: haemagglutination
neuraminidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuraminidases
Etymology: From neuraminic + -ide + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An antigenic enzyme, found on the surfaces of viruses, that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal acylneuraminic residues from oligosaccharides, glycoproteins, and glycolipids.
Derived terms: -amivir
antineuraminidase
nasopharyngitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From naso- + pharyngitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the nasal passages and upper pharynx.
Synonyms: rhinopharyngitis
Related terms: nasopharyngeal
monoprotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + protic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a single hydrogen atom; monobasic
decarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɑːbəneɪt/
Forms: form: decarbonates
form: decarbonating
form: decarbonated
form: decarbonated
Etymology: From de- + carbonate.
Senses: glosses: To remove carbon dioxide from (something, especially a beverage).
glosses: To lose carbon dioxide.
raw_tags: of a beverage
Related terms: word: decarbonation
word: decarbonize
word: noneffervescent
decarbonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈkɑːbənaɪz/
Forms: form: decarbonizes
form: decarbonizing
form: decarbonized
form: decarbonized
form: decarbonise
Etymology: From de- + carbonize.
Senses: examples: text: During the overhaul, the cylinder heads were found to be reusable, as long as they got a good cleaning to decarbonize the valve seat areas.
text: To decarbonize piston rings and ring grooves, remove each ring carefully by spreading the ends just enough to get them clear of the piston top land and lifted off.
ref: 1968 February, Popular Science, page 115:
glosses: To remove carbon from something.
To clean hard sooty deposits from inside an internal combustion engine.
synonyms: decoke#Verb
coordinate_terms: carbonize
recarbonize
examples: text: A blast furnace decarbonizes iron enough that it can be used as input to a steelmaking furnace.
text: Repeatedly scorching a case-hardened tool will ruin the case by decarbonizing it.
glosses: To remove carbon from something.
To remove carbon content from iron or steel, either intentionally or accidentally, as by (for example) overheating steel in the presence of air, destroying its former temper and hardness.
synonyms: decarburize
coordinate_terms: carbonize
carburize
recarbonize
recarburize
examples: text: Efforts to decarbonize the automotive fleet are challenging, but no one wants nightmare-grade climate change, either.
text: In fact, at a time when it is urgent to decarbonize the economy by all means possible, carbon footprinting misses the majority of the footprint of many sectors, either due to technique or lack of data.
ref: 2015, Tessa Hebb et al., The Routledge Handbook of Responsible Investment, Routledge, →ISBN, page 617:
glosses: To remove carbon from something.
To reduce or replace fossil fuels by renewable energy in energy production and distribution systems.
troponyms: electrify
solarize
coordinate_terms: recarbonize
Derived terms: word: decarbonization
word: decarbonizer
Related terms: decarbonate
sarai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarais
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian سرای (sarây, “courtyard; dwelling; palace”).
Senses: glosses: A caravanserai.
fork out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forks out
form: forking out
form: forked out
form: forked out
Senses: examples: text: The hard drive broke down, so I forked out five hundred dollars for a new one.
text: But in the event that Giuffre’s case against Andrew proceeds and he loses it, and a multimillion-dollar payment has to be made, you get the feeling public attitudes would change overnight if the maternal bailout ran to forking out Andy’s damages for him.
ref: 2022 January 4, Marina Hyde, “Hiding behind the loophole of a dead sex trafficker? Stay classy, Andrew”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To pay out, to hand over
Synonyms: cough up
fork over
shell out
korma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kormas
form: kurma
form: qorma
form: qoorma
Etymology: From Hindustani قورْمَہ (qorma) / क़ोरमा (qormā), from Classical Persian قورْمَه (qōrma) (from which Iranian Persian قُرْمِه (ġorme)), from Turkic (likely Ottoman Turkish قاورمه (kavurma, “roasted meat”), verbal noun of قاورمق (kavurmak)).
Senses: examples: text: No.6 COMPOSITION FOR MAKING KORMAH. Take Meat, ½ ser (1lb.)
ref: 1831, Sandford Arnot (translator), “Indian Cookery, as Practised and Described by the Natives of the East”, in Miscellaneous Translations from Oriental Languages, volume I, London: J.L. Cox, retrieved 03 Jul 2016, page 18:
glosses: A curry made from various spices especially coriander and cumin; and often with yoghurt sauce or nuts.
mooli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːli/
ipa: /ˈmuli/
rhymes: -uːli
Forms: form: moolis
form: moolie
form: mouli
form: muli
form: moole
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मूली (mūlī, “[Indian] radish”) (feminine of मूल (mūl)), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀽𑀮 (mūla), from Sanskrit मूल (mūla).
Senses: examples: text: Fresh vegetables... most in use among natives are—Gájar, carrot... Múlí, radish (Raphanus sativus, L.).
ref: 1868, B.H. Powell, Handbk. Econ. Products Punjab, I. iii. 260/1:
text: Particularly delicious was mooli stuffed paratha—rich, flaky and filled with a fragrant grated radish mixture.
ref: 1981 February 1, N.Y. Times, 17/1
text: This is thanks to the introduction of a wider range of radish varieties into supermarkets, especially the long-rooted ‘mooli’ types from Japan.
ref: 1996 February 4, Sunday Telegraph, 33/1
qualifier: Indian cuisine
glosses: Synonym of daikon, particularly its Indian varieties.
synonyms: word: daikon
word: particularly its Indian varieties
Synonyms: daikon
red onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red onions
Senses: examples: text: Marcus Empiricus, a Roma physician, prescribed three scruples of cress, three of red onion, three of pine seed, three of Indian nard, for impotence.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 70:
glosses: A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.
glosses: An instance of this type.
onion ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onion rings
Senses: glosses: A ring-shaped piece of onion formed from a way of cutting through the natural shell structure of the onion.
glosses: A food composed of onions cut into rings, that are then battered and deep-fried.
glosses: By extension, any thin/small ring-shaped deep-fried crispy dough with onion contained in it.
tumble dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumble dryers
form: tumble drier
Senses: glosses: An electrical device that dries clothes in a rotating drum which tumbles the clothes in a flow of hot air.
Synonyms: clothes dryer
fridge-freezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fridge-freezers
form: fridge freezer
Senses: glosses: An electrical appliance consisting of a fridge and a freezer as one unit.
Synonyms: refrigerator-freezer
fridge freezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fridge freezers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fridge-freezer.
stripogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stripograms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of strippergram.
turn the other cheek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the other cheek
form: turning the other cheek
form: turned the other cheek
form: turned the other cheek
Etymology: From the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus rejected the eye for an eye philosophy in favour of a more humble approach.
Senses: glosses: To accept punishment or injury without retaliating.
turn heads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns heads
form: turning heads
form: turned heads
form: turned heads
Senses: glosses: To garner a considerable amount of attention.
Related terms: head-turning
turn someone's head
sene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seene
form: senie
Etymology: From Old French sene.
Senses: examples: text: My selfe have found by experience, that radish rootes are windie, and senie-leaves breede loosenes in the belly.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 37, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Senna.
sene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senes
Etymology: From Samoan sene, in turn from English cent.
Senses: glosses: A unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a Samoan tala.
seniti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senitis
Senses: glosses: A Tongan unit of currency equivalent to a hundredth of a pa'anga.
luma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈluma/
Forms: form: lumas
form: luma
Etymology: From Armenian լումա (luma). Doublet of nummus.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A currency unit of Armenia, worth one hundredth of an Armenian dram.
luma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈluma/
Etymology: luminance
Senses: glosses: The brightness in an image, as opposed to the saturation or chroma.
symphony orchestra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphony orchestras
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large orchestra that traditionally plays Western classical orchestral music.
Synonyms: philharmonic
goest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: go + -est
Senses: examples: text: Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 5:1:
text: "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of go
sittest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sit + -est.
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of sit
sayest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.ɪst/
/seɪst/
/sɛst/
Forms: form: say'st
form: saist
form: sayst
Senses: examples: text: Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Nehemiah 6:8:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of say
judgeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: judge + -eth
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of judge
sawest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sawist
form: saw'st
Etymology: saw + -est
Senses: examples: text: Thou sawest wood, mild-mannered and smooth-browed.
ref: 1907, in The New England Magazine, Volume 36, p. 492 (Google Books view)
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of saw
examples: text: Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
ref: Daniel 2:34
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of see
seest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: see'st
Etymology: see + -est
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of see
dwellest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: dwell + -est.
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of dwell
saidst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: saidest
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of say
speakest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speak'st
Etymology: speak + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of speak
scourged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scourge
makest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mak'st
Etymology: make + -est.
Senses: examples: Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. - Psalms 44:14
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of make
Colossians
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Epistle to the Colossians
word: Col.
word: Coloss.
glosses: The twelfth book of the New Testament of the Bible, an epistle to the people of Colossae which is attributed to Paul the Apostle.
Colossians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Colossian
bonkbusting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of bonk + blockbusting
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or using the style of a bonkbuster
bumsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bum + -ster + -s.
Senses: glosses: Low-cut trousers that reveal the top of the buttocks
weatherizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A protective coating, or layer of insulation, as on a house or car.
weatherizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weatherize
Clipper chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Clipper chips
Etymology: From Clipper, of unknown origin, + chip.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies, and having a back door to allow decryption by the government.
commentariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commentariats
Etymology: Probably a blend of commentary + proletariat, perhaps after proprietariat and salariat. Perhaps compare also secretariat.
Senses: examples: text: From Boston, a man who finally joined the commentariat by making his debut on CNBC’s Hardball, Esquire Magazine writer-at-large, Charlie Pierce!
ref: 2000 January 22, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
text: The world, of course, is seen by the commentariat as a side issue, yet another diversion from his real work, which is to answer whatever questions they see fit to pose.
ref: 2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32
text: As the dust settles on the Supreme Court’s cataclysmically destabilizing term, a very persistent question has bubbled up among the law professor commentariat: How the hell are we going to teach all this?
ref: 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
synonyms: punditariat
glosses: All the pundits and commentators of the news media collectively.
cyberpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberpets
Etymology: From cyber- + pet.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A virtual pet in the form of an interactive program.
Synonyms: digital pet
virtual pet
Related terms: robopet
cybrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybraries
Etymology: Blend of cyber + library
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An online collection of reference material.
glosses: A library that provides electronic access to reference material.
Synonyms: ebrary
dumbsize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumbsizes
form: dumbsizing
form: dumbsized
form: dumbsized
Etymology: Blend of dumb + downsize
Senses: glosses: To reduce the number of employees in a business without regard to organizational efficiency, such that its operations become unprofitable or inefficient.
Selah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (selāh); according to some scholars, from סָלָה (salah, “to hang”, implying “to weigh”, “to measure”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of selah.
Selah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Biblical Hebrew סֶלָה (selāh); according to some scholars, from סָלָה (salah, “to hang”, implying “to weigh”, “to measure”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew derived from the Biblical interjection (possibly mistaken for a name).
Selah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Biblical Hebrew סֶּלַע (Sela‛, “rock”); compare Arabic السلع (as-Sala‛).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sela.
geeksville
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geeks + -ville.
Senses: glosses: A place thought to be geeky
janky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæŋ.ki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: jankier
form: jankiest
Etymology: From junky.
Senses: examples: text: It's barely holding together, it's so janky.
glosses: Of poor quality.
examples: text: “And look, they don't even call them cigarettes. They call them fun tubes.” “Well, I guess,” said Hillary. “Talk about a janky role model. Candy cigarettes.”
ref: 2006, Sarah Ellis, Odd Man Out, Toronto: Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 97:
text: We're gonna do some janky shit. When you're doin' janky shit, you wear a mask.
ref: 2014 August 7, Smokin', Drinkin', and Chillin' (Black Jesus), episode 1, spoken by Maggie (Kali Hawk):
glosses: Strange, odd.
Derived terms: jankily
jankiness
janky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒæŋ.ki/
rhymes: -æŋki
Forms: form: jankier
form: jankiest
Senses: examples: text: While the asynchronous HTTP call is running on a background thread (preventing a janky UI, or ANRs), the user can navigate away from the activity after the request has been sent but before the response has been received by the device.
ref: 2016, Adam Stroud, Android Database Best Practices, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN:
text: If you love B-movies, crazy sci-fi and intense, janky-as-all-hell videogames, you’ve come to the right place.
ref: 2016 September, “Earth Defense Force”, in Play, number 273, →ISSN, page 64:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
Derived terms: jankily
jankiness
Related terms: jank
limoncello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪmənˈtʃɛləʊ/
ipa: /ˌlɪmənˈt͡ʃɛloʊ/
rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Forms: form: limoncellos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian limoncello, a diminutive of limone (“lemon”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of Italian lemon-flavoured liqueur.
glosses: A glass of this drink.
Derived terms: orangecello
mail bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail bombs
Senses: glosses: An explosive device sent through the post; a letter bomb or parcel bomb.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A large number of e-mails sent to one destination, or an e-mail with a very large attachment, as a denial-of-service attack.
mail bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mail bombs
form: mail bombing
form: mail bombed
form: mail bombed
Senses: glosses: To send a mail bomb (of either sense).
media wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: media wasps
Senses: synonyms: Euro wasp
median wasp
glosses: A large European wasp, Dolichovespula media, that became established in Britain in the 1980s
assclown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæsˌklaʊn/
Forms: form: assclowns
form: arseclown
form: arse-clown
Etymology: From ass + clown.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: assmonkey, assmuncher
text: This newsgroup--misc.immigration.usa--has a wide range of posters, some of which have legitimate concerns about legal immigration. Do you like being the AssClown. Let these people be, let them ask their immigration question free from your xenophobic harassments.
ref: 1996 August 25, Ben Holstrom, “Re: Birth Certificate for Citizenship”, in misc.immigration.usa (Usenet), retrieved 04 Oct 2018, message-ID <3220c9cc.5271157@nntp.ix.netcom.com>:
glosses: A jerk; a buffoon; a person who is inept or ill-behaved to the point of being found laughable by others.
examples: text: I'm a little loaded, and this assclown behind me has bumped me four times in a row.
ref: 2006, Brad Bauer, Hitting in the Clutch, iUniverse, published 2006, →ISBN, page 141:
text: "Pretentious, ambitionless assclown," I corrected.
ref: 2006, Megan McCafferty, Charmed Thirds, Three Rivers Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 261:
text: Card is a raging homophobic assclown who believes that America should rise up violently and overthrow the government for any hint of support of same-sex marriage.
ref: 2012 June 19, Jef With One F, “5 Horrible Lessons Ender's Game Teaches Kids”, in Houston Press:
glosses: A jerk; a buffoon; a person who uses their nature to bring humor to others, but ends up being the butt of a joke.
Derived terms: assclownery
Related terms: asshat
Metcalfe's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Robert Metcalfe, American technology pioneer.
Senses: glosses: The law that states that the usefulness of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of its users
Metcalfe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Metcalfes
Etymology: Variant of Metcalf.
Senses: glosses: A surname, either characteristical or occupational in origin.
glosses: A place name:
A neighbourhood of the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A village in Thomas County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A town in Washington County, Mississippi, United States.
glosses: A place name:
A locality in the Shire of Mount Alexander, Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Metcalfe bean
Metcalfe County
Metcalf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Metcalfs
form: Medcalf
form: Medcalfe
form: Metcalfe
form: Mitcalfe
Etymology: Possibly from Old English *metecealf (“meat calf”), a calf to be fattened up for eating. The use as a surname could have started off as a jocular nickname for an individual thought to be as "fat as a prize-calf"; or else in reference to the occupation involved in fattening up such a calf.
Senses: examples: text: The online fundraising site GiveSendGo continues to face criticism over a page that has raised more than $320,000 for Karmelo Anthony, the teen arrested for stabbing fellow 17-year-old student-athlete Austin Metcalf to death at a Texas track meet last week.
ref: 2025 April 10, Bobby Burack, “GiveSendGo's $300,000 Page For Karmelo Anthony Is Consistent With Company Policy”, in OutKick:
glosses: A Northern English surname.
microdermabrasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdermabrasions
Etymology: From micro- + dermabrasion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several related procedures in which the outermost surface of the skin is removed for cosmetic purposes
mis-sold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missold
Senses: examples: text: Rohit was mis-sold his endowment mortgage.
text: Annuities are being routinely mis-sold to unsuspecting clients.
glosses: simple past and past participle of mis-sell
MUDder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MUDders
Etymology: From MUD + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of mudder (“person who participates in MUD games”).
MUDding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Participation in MUD games
jansky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janskys
form: janskies
Etymology: Named after radio astronomer Karl Guthe Jansky.
Senses: glosses: A non-SI unit (symbol Jy) measuring electromagnetic flux density equal to 10⁻²⁶ watts per square meter per hertz.
wikipedia: Karl Guthe Jansky
Derived terms: microjansky
millijansky
mwah-mwah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mwah-mwahs
form: mwah-mwahing
form: mwah-mwahed
form: mwah-mwahed
Etymology: Imitative, repeating mwah.
Senses: glosses: To kiss in an exaggerated fashion, especially without making contact.
Coordinate terms: air kiss
nanobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to nanobacteria
nanobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanobacterium
nanobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanobacteria
Etymology: From nano- + bacterium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any supposed microorganism much smaller than a bacterium.
Related terms: bacteria
bacterium
nano-
nano
nanobe
nanometer
nanoscale
ultramicrobacteria
ultramicrobacterium
gyroscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroscope
corvi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corvus
chimo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃi.moʊ/
rhymes: -iːməʊ
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᓴᐃᒧ (saimo, “goodbye; peace be with you”).
Senses: glosses: Hello; goodbye.