cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
susceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [səˈsɛptɪbl̩]
ipa: [səˈseptɪbl̩]
Forms: form: more susceptible
form: most susceptible
Etymology: From Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.
Senses: examples: text: He was susceptible to minor ailments.
glosses: Likely to be affected by something.
glosses: Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Especially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.
examples: text: Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
text: A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.
glosses: That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.
examples: text: The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
ref: 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: Vulnerable.
examples: text: In the next several chapters, we put the basic tools to work in different contexts with particular specification of return and transition equations designed to render the Bellman equation susceptible to further analysis and computation.
ref: 2018, Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent, Recursive Macroeconomic Theory, fourth edition, MIT Press, page 114:
glosses: Amenable.
Synonyms: word: exposed
word: impaired
word: open
word: prone
word: receptive
word: sensitive
word: subject
word: susceptible
word: unguarded
word: vulnerable
word: weak
Derived terms: atherosusceptible
hypersusceptible
immunosusceptible
insusceptible
nonsusceptible
oversusceptible
pansusceptible
supersusceptible
suscept
susceptibility
susceptibleness
susceptibly
trypanosusceptible
unsusceptible
susceptible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [səˈsɛptɪbl̩]
ipa: [səˈseptɪbl̩]
Forms: form: susceptibles
Etymology: From Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus, from suscipiō.
Senses: examples: text: In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.
ref: 1983, Topley & Wilson, editors, General Microbiology & Immunity, →ISBN, page 417:
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease
Coordinate terms: immune
infective
bouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Climbing, without ropes, on large boulders or boulder-sized objects.
Derived terms: buildering
bouldering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boulder
crammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cram
ovo-viviparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ovoviviparous.
Gaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.zə/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.zə/
note: in bibical contexts
ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.zə/
rhymes: -ɑːzə
rhymes: -æzə
rhymes: -eɪzə
Forms: form: Aza
form: Azzah
form: Ghazza
form: Ghazzah
form: Ghazze
form: Ghazzeh
form: G4z4
Etymology: From Latin Gaza, from Ancient Greek Γάζα (Gáza), from Biblical Hebrew עַזָּה (ʿazzā ~ ġazzā). The Greek form of the Septuagint reflects the older Hebrew pronunciation with /ɣ~ʁ/, a phoneme that later merged with /ʕ/.
Senses: glosses: A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant; in full, Gaza City.
glosses: A governorate of the Gaza Strip, Palestine, around the city.
examples: text: One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
ref: 2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic:
text: The video – posted by Trump on his Truth Social account last week – depicts a family emerging from the wreckage of war-torn Gaza into a beachside resort town lined with skyscrapers.
ref: 2025 March 6, Rachel Hall, “‘Trump Gaza’ AI video intended as political satire, says creator”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Ellipsis of the Gaza Strip: a region of Palestine, a north–south strip of land bordering the Mediterranean and the Sinai Peninsula at the southwestern end of the Levant.
glosses: Ellipsis of Wadi Gaza: a wadi, a valley in the Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Derived terms: G4z4
Gaza City
Gaza Envelope
Gazan
Gaza Strip
Wadi Gaza
Gaza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑː.zə/
ipa: /ˈɡæ.zə/
note: in bibical contexts
ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.zə/
rhymes: -ɑːzə
rhymes: -æzə
rhymes: -eɪzə
Senses: glosses: A Nguni ethnic group in Southern Africa.
synonyms: Gazaland
glosses: A historical empire in Southern Africa; in full, Gaza Empire.
glosses: A province of Mozambique.
Derived terms: Gaza Empire
Gazaland
Darwin Award
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darwin Awards
Senses: glosses: One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner.
Related terms: autodarwinate
Darwinism
Darwin out
FAFO
Herman Cain Award
Leopards Eating People's Faces Party
natural selection
Nobel Prize
survival of the fittest
fæder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fæders
Senses: examples: text: Linear dimensions (mm) of female, intermediate (fæder) and male Ruffs, respectively, all measured by Joop Jukema. The material on females and males was all collected during the spring migrations of 2002 and 2003. All birds, except one fæder of 1 year old, were adult.
ref: 2004, Joop Jukema, Theunis Piersma, “Kleine mannelijke Kemphanen met vrouwelijk broedkleed: bestaat er een derde voortplantingsstrategie, de faar?”, in Limosa, volume 77, Sovon Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology, page 3:
text: The fraction of fæders was estimated in five morphometric data sets that were collected over four decades in four different countries in three different seasons (comprising 9133 Ruffs). The regression of fæder–female fractions was tested against the null model assuming that the number of fæders is 1.0% of females.
ref: 2008, Yvonne I[ngje] Verkuil, Joop Jukema, Jennifer A. Gill, Natalia Karlionova, Johannes Melter, Jos C[orstiaan] E[lbert] W[outer] Hooijmeijer, Theunis Piersma, “Non-breeding fæder Ruffs Philomachus pugnax associate according to sex, not morphology”, in Bird Study, volume 55, number 3, British Trust for Ornithology, →DOI, page 421:
text: The survival costs to fæders linked to the use of sub-optimal habitats as a result of competition from their larger counterparts may be compensated by higher breeding success.
ref: 2010 June, Neil Calbrade, Chas Holt, Graham Austin, Heidi Mellan, Richard Hearn, David Stroud, Simon Wotton, Andy Musgrove, “Waders”, in Waterbirds in the UK 2008/09: The Wetland Bird Survey, Thetford, Norfolk: British Trust for Ornithology, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Joint Nature Conservation Committee in association with Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, →ISBN, →ISSN, section “Ruff: Philomachus pugnax”, page 128:
text: As females are a third smaller than males, most birds could easily be assigned a sex, while the fæders, female-mimicking males, were discriminated using wing length (Jukema and Piersma 2006).
ref: 2014 October 21, Lucie Emilie Schmaltz, Cédric Juillet, Joost Marius Tinbergen, Yvonne Ingje Verkuil, Joslyn Corstiaan Elbert Wouter Hooijmeijer, Theunis Piersma, “Apparent annual survival of staging ruffs during a period of population decline: insights from sex and site-use related differences”, in Population Ecology, volume 57, Springer, published 2015, →DOI, section “Field methods and data collection”, page 615, column 1:
text: Fæder males travel with females and, like Satellites, they are nonterritorial and nonagonistic.
ref: 2016, Clemens Küpper, “Ruff Shorebird, The”, in Todd K. Shackelford, Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, editors, Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Springer, →DOI, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of faeder.
ready, steady, go
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ready, set, go.
Synonyms: on your marks, get set, go
ready, set, go
Related terms: lights, camera, action
ready, aim, fire
two, six, heave
on your marks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: on your mark
Senses: glosses: Used to start a race, followed by "Get set, go!" or "Set, go!".
Synonyms: topics: swimming
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: take your marks
Related terms: on your mark, get set, go
lapdance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapdances
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lap dance.
lapdance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lapdances
form: lapdancing
form: lapdanced
form: lapdanced
Senses: examples: text: We know that many male City employees still go to lapdancing clubs for a fun night out. We know City organisations have struggled in their vaunted attempts to get more women on boards.
ref: 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lap dance.
lap-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lap-dances
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lap dance.
yachty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: yachties
form: yachtie
Etymology: From yacht + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A yachtsman or yachtswoman.
yachty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: yachtier
form: yachtiest
Etymology: From yacht + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to yachts.
Francophonie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: francophonie
form: Francophony
Etymology: 1968, from French francophonie (“French speakers, collectively”), from francophone (“French speaker”) + -ie.
Senses: glosses: French speakers, collectively; the French-speaking world.
glosses: The International Organization of the Francophonie, an organization of countries having French as an official, first, or important language (in Canada, often the Francophonie or la Francophonie).
glosses: French speakers in Canada, collectively (often francophonie).
blind pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind pigs
Senses: examples: text: Then the harpooner carried away a pink flask to be filled in some blind pig, for there were no licensed saloons in that locality. We drank the cheap rotgut out of tumblers.
ref: 1913 August, Jack London, chapter VI, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 48:
text: This was […] the woman whose every look and movement stirred him in a way he couldn't describe (but had tried to, time and again, to his classmates, to the rare Barnard girl he asked to the theater or a concert, and to the tarts and working girls he discovered in the blind pigs and outside the vaudeville houses).
ref: 1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 29:
text: According to a Rutgers University Web site dedicated to the riots, “The Detroit Riot of 1967 began when police vice squad officers executed a raid on an after hours drinking club or 'blind pig' in a predominantly black neighborhoods located at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue […]
ref: 2012, Jeremy Williams, Detroit: The Black Bottom Community:
glosses: A blind tiger or speakeasy.
glosses: A police officer who has been bribed to ignore illegal activities.
examples: text: The Web address isn't officially registered, it's a blind pig.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 197:
glosses: A Web address on the Deep Web that piggybacks on a public domain but is not visible to the system.
Derived terms: blind pigger
bush pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush pigs
form: bush-pig
form: bushpig
Senses: examples: text: The commonest game animals are vervet and colobus monkey, baboon, common duiker, bush-pig and grysbok.
ref: 1969, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, volume 63, page 19:
text: There are two types of bohonda net hunts. One type is directed by a nkangohonda (bush pig charmer), a sorcerer-hunter who handles bush pigs as easily as if they were dogs, gathering herds of them about him and even holding them by their necks.
ref: 2006, Armin Prinz, editor, Hunting Food and Drinking Wine: Proceedings of the conference in Poysdorf, 2003, page 208:
text: The bush pig (Potamochoerus porcus) is an African member of the pig family, Suidae, resembling a boar but with long body hair and tassels of hair on its ears.
ref: 2011, Britannica Educational Publishing, Grazers, page 175:
synonyms: boschvark
glosses: An African pig of the genus Potamochoerus; Potamochoerus porcus or Potamochoerus larvatus.
glosses: A feral pig living in the bush.
examples: text: I find Clinton to be the greatest president because of all unintended humor he's supplied and for his parade of bush pigs like Lewinsky, Trip and Paula Jones.
ref: 1999 August 31, Phillip Germond, “Looking for your FAQ sheet”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):
text: Funny as that never really happens to me when I was drinking at a pub or a club and I see a bush pig no matter how drunk I am I still see a bush pig.
ref: 2005 January 11, Dan, “Miss Summarnats”, in aus.cars (Usenet):
text: She's a shocker - tits and body aside, she looks like a bush pig, acts like a bush pig, speaks like a bush pig and thus *is* a bush pig. She'd win the ugliest girl football pull anyday.^([sic])
ref: 2005 July 9, Sanctify, “The Christie comparison”, in alt.tv.big-brother.australia (Usenet):
glosses: A very ugly woman.
Hyponyms: sense: Potamochoerus porcus
word: red river hog
in a pig's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: A euphemism for in a pig's arse.
Senses: examples: text: “Then he planned to kill you, and take over himself as governor.” “Hah, in a pig's eye,” said Nasty Three.
ref: 2011, Izzy Auld, chapter 64, in Aggie's Double Dollies, →ISBN, page 366:
glosses: Under very unlikely circumstances; probably never.
Related terms: when pigs fly
pig bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig beds
Senses: glosses: A mold, made in a bed of sand, in which pig iron is cast; a pig.
piggery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggeries
Etymology: From pig + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Two heavy pails of swill—meat scraps floating in custard—from the school kitchens to be carried with a friend, Hans Solish, all the way to the piggery.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 99:
glosses: A place, such as a farm, where pigs are kept or raised.
glosses: Piggish behaviour.
Related terms: pig farm
piggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piggery
piggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɡɪʃ/
Forms: form: more piggish
form: most piggish
Etymology: From pig + -ish.
Senses: glosses: greedy or gluttonous
glosses: pigheaded
glosses: unpleasant or unclean
Derived terms: piggishly
piggishness
pigheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pigheaded
form: most pigheaded
form: pig-headed
Etymology: From pig + headed.
Senses: examples: text: "[…]I know yeh, yeh pig-headed devil. Yeh wanta go trompin' off with a bad hurt. It ain't right—now—Tom Jamison—it ain't.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 105:
glosses: Obstinate and stubborn to the point of stupidity.
Derived terms: pigheadedly
pigheadedness
pig in a poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigs in a poke
form: pigs in pokes
Etymology: Reportedly from the practice of substituting a butchered cat, etc. for a suckling pig when sold in a sack at a market. Other theories circulate but all involve the purchase of a cat in a bag, where the buyer expected better.
poke refers to a bag or sack, and is related to pouch.
Senses: glosses: Something whose true value is concealed or unknown and may be lower than expected by the buyer or claimed by the seller, especially something offered for sale.
Related terms: puss in a bag
sell someone a pup
I have a bridge to sell you
let the cat out of the bag
pig it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pigs it
form: pigging it
form: pigged it
form: pigged it
Senses: examples: text: "I've had ten years of it, scratching enough out of it to dress and feed myself when the going's good and sharing a room with a girl friend or pigging it in some cheap boarding-house, and doing a perish when I've been out of a job."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5:
glosses: To live slovenly, in squalor.
pig lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Road-rails, pig-lead,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
ref: 1902, John Masefield, Cargoes:
glosses: unrefined lead, cast in blocks called pigs
pig-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pig-outs
Senses: glosses: The action of pigging out.
pigskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡˌskɪn/
Forms: form: pigskins
Etymology: Compound of pig + skin.
The American football is a direct descendant of the ball used in the game of rugby. The rugby ball originally was made of a pig’s bladder with a leather cover; the earliest versions of the leather exterior sometimes were made of pigskin.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, most gelatins made today are produced from pigskins, which are not subject to this consideration.
ref: 2009, Zushe Yosef Blech, Kosher Food Production, page 318:
text: Adding a porky layer of fried skin not only gives heft and flavor to the snack menu, pigskin is just sort of fun to serve at football games. Pigskin is no longer a food best left to Southerners and late-night partiers.
ref: 2010 February 3, Kim Severson, “For the Big Game? Why, Pigskins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2010:
glosses: The skin of a pig.
examples: text: Those killed fighting his troops would be buried in pigskins.
ref: 2016, Robert Maddock, The 1,300 Years’ War: Volume One:
synonyms: hoghide
glosses: Leather made from the skin of a pig.
examples: text: To paraphrase a renowned pigskin philosopher, speed is not everything, it is the only thing.
ref: 1998, Kenneth Judd, Numerical Methods in Economics, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 29:
text: “We gotta find those pigskins!” Squat insisted. “Pigskins?” Diddly asked. With obvious disdain, Squat replied, “Yeah, you know, that is what they call footballs, dummy.”
ref: 2011, J. H. Holland, Dsi: Diddly Squat Investigation, page 35:
glosses: A football.
Hyponyms: skin
pigtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡ.teɪl/
Forms: form: pigtails
form: pig-tail
Etymology: From pig + tail.
Senses: glosses: The tail of a pig.
examples: text: One person […] continued constantly to ply him with the very best pig-tail tobacco, which he had most carefully cut in very small pieces purposely for him.
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 265:
glosses: Tobacco twisted into a string or roll.
examples: text: Let padded breasts, high coat collars, stiff stocks, broad-shouldered straps, tight belts, trowser-straps and boots be consigned to the tomb of pigtails and powder.
ref: 1861 May 1, “Volunteer Uniforms”, in The New York Times, volume X, number 3000, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025, page 4, column 5:
text: Such a filthy spectacle as we presented I have never seen before or since, and it will perhaps give some idea of the almost superhuman dignity of Billali's appearance when I say that, coughing, half-drowned, and covered with mud and green slime as he was, with his beautiful beard coming to a dripping point, like a Chinaman's freshly-oiled pigtail, he still looked venerable and imposing.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Speculations”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 123:
glosses: A braided plait of hair; queue.
examples: text: [I]t was something that every schoolboy of my generation almost `had' to do, as obligatory a proof of impending manliness as scrumping apples or pulling girls' pigtails.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 12:
glosses: A braided plait of hair; queue.
Either of a pair of braids or tails worn on the sides of the head.
glosses: A braided plait of hair; queue.
A hairstyle with a pair of pigtails.
examples: text: […] Chinese, whom he called “pigtails”; or Indians, whom he dismissed as “baboos.”
ref: [2021 October 26, Peter Baker, “The Case Against Winston Churchill”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A braided plait of hair; queue.
A person who wears pigtails.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: tail
glosses: A short length of twisted electrical wire.
glosses: The flamingo flower (anthurium)
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Twisted stent terminal; stent-end, usually but not necessarily a different fastened part.
Derived terms: pigtailed
pigtail macaque
potbellied pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potbellied pigs
Senses: glosses: A small Vietnamese domesticated pig, sometimes kept as a pet.
whistle pig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whistle pigs
Senses: glosses: The woodchuck.
if pigs had wings
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: when pigs fly
Etymology: An ellipsis (anapodoton) of if pigs had wings they would fly
Senses: glosses: Never.
hellraiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hellraisers
Etymology: From hell + raiser. Coined in 1914.
Senses: glosses: A person who engages in wild, wanton behavior: one who raises hell.
Related terms: give someone hell
hellion
necromancer
shitmonger
shit-stirrer
helminthology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From helminth + -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The branch of zoology related to the study of helminths (parasitic worms).
Related terms: helminthologic
helminthological
helminthologist
helot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlət/
rhymes: -ɛlət
Forms: form: helots
Etymology: From Latin Hīlōta, from Ancient Greek Εἵλωτες (Heílōtes), possibly from ἁλίσκομαι (halískomai, “to be captured, to be made prisoner”) or from Ἕλος (Hélos, “Elos”), a Laconian town.
Senses: examples: text: […] when one of their kings dies, not only the Spartans, but a certain number of the country people from every part of Laconia are forced, whether they will or no, to attend the funeral. So these persons and the helots, and likewise the Spartans themselves, flock together to the number of several thousands, men and women intermingled; and all of them smite their foreheads violently, and weep and wall without stint, saying always that their last king was the best.
ref: 1942, “Erato”, in George Rawlinson, transl., The Persian Wars, translation of original by Herodotus:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A member of the ancient Spartan class of serfs.
examples: text: A man who conceives and writes a great book, my friend, has done more work than all the helots that laboured on these pyramidal futilities.
ref: 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Probing the Trivial”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the first (In the Exchange), pages 10–11:
text: All wore a costume suggestive of a more tranquil and prosperous age than this — Dame Clara Butt singing, in a voice not quite so deep as Arumugam's, 'Land of Hope and Glory', the gold squeezed from tropical helots enhancing the upper-class comforts of a cold climate.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 611:
text: “In part, the blame falls on the corporate elite,” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote back in 1989, “which demands ever more bankers and lawyers, on the one hand, and low-paid helots on the other.” These low-paid helots are now unpaid interns and networked amateurs.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, quoting Barbara Ehrenreich, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: A serf; a slave.
Derived terms: helotage
helotism
helotry
Related terms: Elos
do the trick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the trick
form: doing the trick
form: did the trick
form: done the trick
Senses: examples: text: [J]ust that little extra second did the trick.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 3, in King Solomon's Mines:
text: "It was the chemicals from this young man's airship that did the trick!"
ref: 1921, Victor Appleton, chapter 24, in Tom Swift Among The Fire Fighters:
text: Sometimes hormone therapy does the trick, but many infertile couples require more sophisticated manipulation of sperm and eggs.
ref: 2002 April 15, Laura Bradford, “Three Ways To Give Nature A Helping Hand”, in Time:
glosses: To work; to be successful; to solve a problem; to be sufficient or adequate to fulfill a purpose.
Synonyms: do the job
hit the mark
turn the trick
mists of time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: lost in the mists of time
text: Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.
ref: 1979 October 12, Douglas Adams, chapter 15, in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Any time so long ago that history is no longer clear, as though lost in a mist or fog.
Related terms: sands of time
dawn of time
time immemorial
shaitan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪtan/
Forms: form: shaitans
form: shaytan
form: sheytân
form: sheitan
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān, “satan, devil”). Doublet of Satan.
Senses: examples: text: '... hence, we are always malā'ika (angels), forgetting that ashayṭān was once a malāk (angel).
ref: 2014, Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad, Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, page 141:
text: '... 'A man and a jinni became friends. One day, the man asked the jinni, 'How come you look like a real human being?' [The jinni answered,]'We... shayāṭīn 'devils/demons' appear to people in whatever form we want, and we disappear whenever we want.'.
ref: 2014, Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad, Burning issues in Afro-Asiatic linguistics, page 140:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a demon/devil; or evil jinn.
examples: text: Dust columns are called shaitans or devils by the Beloochees, who have a superstitious feeling with regard to them.
ref: 1888, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:
text: The dust borne in these shaitans of wind is often carried for vast distances […]
ref: 1925, Henry Michael Collins, From pigeon post to wireless, page 158:
glosses: A dust storm.
Related terms: jinn
jann
nasnas
ghoul
angel
knock on wood
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒk ɒn ˈwʊd/
ipa: /ˌnɑk ɑn ˈwʊd/
ipa: [ˌnäk än ˈwʊd]
note: Southern US, Midland US
ipa: /ˌnɑk ɔn ˈwʊd/
Forms: form: knocks on wood
form: knocking on wood
form: knocked on wood
form: knocked on wood
Etymology: From a folk practice of unclear origin.
Senses: synonyms: word: touch wood
glosses: To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.
knock on wood
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒk ɒn ˈwʊd/
ipa: /ˌnɑk ɑn ˈwʊd/
ipa: [ˌnäk än ˈwʊd]
note: Southern US, Midland US
ipa: /ˌnɑk ɔn ˈwʊd/
Etymology: From a folk practice of unclear origin.
Senses: examples: text: I do a lot of walking, and I have never had any knee problems yet, knock on wood.
synonyms: word: touch wood
glosses: Hopefully; a self-directive to undertake the customary action to ward off bad luck.
Related terms: burn bread
thrashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrash
thrashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹæʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -æʃɪŋ
Forms: form: thrashings
Senses: examples: text: the thrashings of a fish on a hook
glosses: Action of the verb to thrash.
glosses: A beating, especially a severe one.
examples: text: Now Hodgson just has to work out a makeshift forward line against a Ukraine team who warmed up for Tuesday by doling out the obligatory thrashing to San Marino, knocking in four goals by half-time and another five in the second half.
ref: 6 September 2013, Daniel Taylor, “Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A heavy defeat.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Excessive paging within virtual storage.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Slam dancing.
glosses: Threshing. (of cereal crop, etc)
Derived terms: thrashing floor
thrash out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thrashes out
form: thrashing out
form: thrashed out
form: thrashed out
Senses: examples: text: They spent an afternoon on it, but thrashed out a solution in the end.
text: It's important to understand that all lesbians of color do not feel the same way on all issues. Thrashing things out is not divisive. It's respectful.
ref: 1989 April 15, Angela Bowen, “Towards a National Lesbian Conference”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
glosses: To discuss something so fully as to resolve a problem or conflict; to hammer out.
three-cornered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having three corners; triangular.
examples: a three-cornered stem
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having three prominent longitudinal angles.
threefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: three-fold
form: 3-fold
Etymology: From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: "We recognise that electrifying more of the railway is likely to be necessary to deliver decarbonisation," it stated.
There's clearly a growing momentum in that direction, but some significant hurdles have still to be overcome - not least the legacy of the three-fold increase in cost on the Great Western Electrification Programme, which has become the poster project for expensive wiring.
ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: Three times as great.
glosses: Triple.
Synonyms: sense: three times as great
word: thrissome
sense: triple
word: ternary
word: trine
word: triple
word: triplicate
word: threefold
Hypernyms: word: manifold
Derived terms: thick and threefold
threefold law
threefold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: three-fold
form: 3-fold
Etymology: From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of three.
Synonyms: thrice
trebly
threefold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threefolds
form: three-fold
form: 3-fold
Etymology: From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: In this way, we find some new pairs (h#123;1,1#125;,#92;#59;h#123;2,1#125;) of Hodge numbers of Calabi-Yau threefolds.
ref: 2015, Xun Yu, “McKay correspondence and new Calabi-Yau threefolds”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebraic variety of dimension 3.
threefold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: threefolds
form: threefolding
form: threefolded
form: threefolded
form: three-fold
form: 3-fold
Etymology: From Middle English threfold, from Old English þrīfeald. Equivalent to three + -fold.
Senses: glosses: To make threefold; to triple.
three-quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹiˈk(w)ɔɹtɚz/
ipa: /θɹiːˈkwɔːtəz/
Forms: form: three quarters
Senses: examples: text: three-quarters of the population
text: three-quarters majority
text: The role of men is evolving even in the three-quarters of dual-parent families in which fathers are the primary breadwinners.
ref: 2013 June 3, Brad Harrington, “Behind the Data on Breadwinner Mothers”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: three-quarter
word: three-fourths
glosses: Three of four equal parts (3/4, ¾, 0.75).
examples: text: It took two hours and three-quarters to get home.
glosses: forty-five minutes
Related terms: fraction
three-quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a three-quarter length coat.
glosses: of three fourths of the usual dimension
glosses: with the subject turned slightly away from a frontal view
raw_tags: of a portrait
Synonyms: three-quarters
Derived terms: three-quarter bathroom
three-quarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-quarters
Senses: examples: text: England's superior conditioning began to show in the final quarter and as the game began to break up, their three-quarters began to stamp their authority on the game. And when Foden went on a mazy run from inside his own 22 and put Ashton in for a long-range try, any threat of an upset was when and truly snuffed out.
ref: 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A player positioned between the half-backs and the full-backs (properly a three-quarter back)
examples: text: Europe has around a three-quarter billion/milliard (i.e. 750 million) inhabitants.
synonyms: ¾
glosses: A fraction with three of four equal parts (=75 %)
thriftless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thriftless
form: most thriftless
Etymology: From Middle English thrifteles, þriftles, equivalent to thrift + -less.
Senses: glosses: Wastefully reckless in the use of money or resources.
topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
horticulture
lifestyle
natural-sciences
glosses: Not thriving.
Derived terms: thriftlessly
thriftlessness
thriving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹaɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: more thriving
form: most thriving
Senses: synonyms: fortunate
prosperous
successful
glosses: That thrives; successful; flourishing or prospering.
Derived terms: unthriving
thriving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹaɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Forms: form: thrivings
Senses: glosses: The action of the verb to thrive.
thriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɹaɪ.vɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈθɹɑɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrive
zoaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zoʊˈi.ə/
Forms: form: zoaeas
form: zoaeae
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoëa.
zoea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zoʊˈi.ə/
Forms: form: zoeae
form: zoeas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of zoëa.
caesious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cæsious
Etymology: Latin caesius (“bluish-grey”); probably akin to Latin caelum (“sky”); see celestial.
Senses: glosses: Having a blue color very low in chroma.
Related terms: caesium
Mithraic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mithras + -ic. First attested in English circa 1678. More at Mithras.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat the Druids deliberately adopted Mithraic, Serapic or other exotic rituals is, to me, unthinkable.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page xii. 249:
glosses: Of or relating to Mithraism.
Related terms: Mithra
Mithras
Mithraism
Mithraist
ooecium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ooecia
Etymology: From New Latin ōoecium, from Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión, “egg”) + οἰκίον (oikíon, “dwelling, abode”). By surface analysis, oo- + oecium.
Senses: glosses: An ovicell of a bryozoan.
libels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libel
libels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of libel
restrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈstɹeɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Forms: form: more restrained
form: most restrained
Senses: examples: text: He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.
glosses: Held back, limited, kept in check or under control.
examples: text: Ha? fie, these filthy vices. It were as good
To pardon him, that hath from nature stolne a man already made, as to remit
Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image
In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easie,
Falsely to take away a life true made,
As to put mettle in restrained meanes
To make a false one.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], page 69, columns 1-2:
glosses: Proscribed, restricted.
Synonyms: low-key
understated
restrained
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈstɹeɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
Senses: examples: text: He was restrained by the straight jacket.
glosses: simple past and past participle of restrain
embraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈbɹeɪsɪz/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of embrace
embraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈbɹeɪsɪz/
ipa: /ɪmˈbɹeɪsɪz/
rhymes: -eɪsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrace
sophisticated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sophisticated
form: most sophisticated
Etymology: First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
Senses: examples: text: Set against the background of the American civil war, with Keaton a cunning but unskilled driver, unaided, of the ponderous giant of a locomotive, it remains not only probably the funniest film about railways ever made, but one of the funniest silent films to retain its comic power over today's more sophisticated audiences.
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
synonyms: sophisticate
worldly
antonyms: provincial
glosses: Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise.
synonyms: sophisticate
glosses: Of art or other things: appealing to the tastes of an intellectual or sophisticated (sense 1) person; cerebral; also, cultured, elegant, refined.
glosses: Complicated, especially of complex technology.
synonyms: sophisticate
glosses: Mixed with a foreign or inferior substance; not genuine or pure; unrefined, adulterated, impure.
synonyms: sophisticate
glosses: Of a thing: having its meaning changed in a deceptive or misleading way.
Derived terms: pseudo-sophisticated
sophisticated falsificationism
Related terms: sophisticate
sophist
sophistry
philosophy
sophisticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: First English usage circa 1601. From Medieval Latin sophisticatus.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sophisticate
endurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdjʊəɹəns/
ipa: /ɪnˈdjɔːɹəns/
ipa: /ɪnˈdʊɹəns/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɝəns/
Forms: form: endurances
form: enduraunce
form: indurance
form: induraunce
Etymology: First attested in the late 15th century. From Middle French endurance, from Old French endurance. Morphologically endure + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: He has great endurance: he ran a marathon and then cycled home.
glosses: The measure of a person's stamina or persistence.
synonyms: staying power
glosses: An ability to endure hardship.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The length of time that a ship's rations will supply.
Synonyms: word: thole
Derived terms: endurance art
muscular endurance
nonendurance
superendurance
Related terms: endura
enduration
endure
persistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/
Forms: form: persistences
Etymology: From Middle French persistance.
Senses: examples: text: You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
text: The Thaumatrope was based on the persistence of vision. The disc of card was rotated so rapidly by means of threads attached to it that the eye saw both sides of the card simultaneously.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 182:
glosses: The property of being persistent.
examples: text: Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Of data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Continuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).
examples: text: The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.
Synonyms: persistency
Derived terms: antipersistence
biopersistence
lactase persistence
nonpersistence
persistence hunter
persistence hunting
obstinately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏbʹstĭnətlē
ipa: /ˈɑbstɪnətli/
ipa: /ˈɒbstɪnətli/
Forms: form: more obstinately
form: most obstinately
Etymology: From obstinate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He obstinately made his motion at every meeting, even though no one else ever supported it and everyone else was bored with it.
text: 'She'll do no such thing,' said the old man obstinately.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 53:
glosses: In an obstinate manner.
stubbornly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stubbornly
form: most stubbornly
Etymology: From stubborn + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times.
text: It is the outpost which the devil and the flesh most stubbornly maintain against the assaults of grace; and until it be subdued, and its barriers levelled with the very earth, there is more hope of a fool than of the sinner.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 109:
text: The novel he lends his name to is an account of that life, taking more or less the form of a memoir set down in the years immediately after World War II by an old man mentally preparing for death, not quite at home in the twentieth century (and a little proud of it, stubbornly clinging to his eartrumpet), whose significant memories reach back to the early 1890s and beyond.
ref: 2000, Bill Manhire, Doubtful Sounds: Essays and Interviews, page 124:
text: Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
ref: 2013 January 22, Phil McNulty, “Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (3-4)”, in BBC:
glosses: In a stubborn manner.
tenaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈneɪʃəsli/
Forms: form: more tenaciously
form: most tenaciously
Etymology: From tenacious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He continued tenaciously, doggedly continuing over all obstacles.
text: […] tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke (if this day ever broke), adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 1, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: In a tenacious manner.
inbetween
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in-between.
inbetween
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in between.
inbetween
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in between.
Derived terms: inbetweening
Rutledge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ratledge
Senses: glosses: A surname of uncertain etymology.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
A town in Crenshaw County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
An unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
A minor city in Morgan County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
A minor city in Pine County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
A village in Scotland County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
An unincorporated community in Sherman County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
A borough in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
A town, the county seat of Grainger County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States, named for bearers of the surname:
An unincorporated community in the town of Jamestown, Grant County, Wisconsin.
keep one's pecker up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps one's pecker up
form: keeping one's pecker up
form: kept one's pecker up
form: kept one's pecker up
Etymology: From pecker, meaning "nose", by analogy with beak.
Senses: examples: text: “Of course you will,” said Wraysford, cheerily; “it’s hard lines at first. Keep your pecker up, young ’un.” The young ’un, despite this friendly advice, felt very far from keeping up his pecker. But he did his best, and worked his face into a melancholy sort of a smile.
ref: 1880, Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's:
text: , Episode 12, The Cyclops
--Keep your pecker up, says Joe. She'd have won the money only for the other dog.
text: "Nerves a bit dicky, eh? Playing a tune to keep your pecker up?"
ref: 1977, W. Somerset Maugham, Collected short stories:
text: All you need is a box of goodies to keep your pecker up, ...
ref: 2003, Janet Floyd, Laurel Forster, The recipe reader: narratives, contexts, traditions:
glosses: To remain cheerful; keep smiling.
Related terms: keep one's chin up
maharaja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑ.hɑˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˌmɑ.hɑˈɹɑː.d͡ʒɑ/
ipa: /ˌmɑ.həˈɹɑː.d͡ʒə/
rhymes: -ɑːdʒə
Forms: form: maharajas
form: maharajah
form: maharana
form: maharanah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi महाराजा (mahārājā). First attested in 1698.
Senses: examples: text: I speak from a very intimate knowledge of their ways and habits after having spent a very happy twenty years amongst them with friends in every degree, from the Maharaja himself to some of the humblest coolies.
ref: 1909, John Claude White, Sikhim and Bhutan, pages 7–8:
text: Benny: Hey, T.C., what's a maharaja?
Top Cat: What's a what?
Benny: A maharaja.
Top Cat: Oh, do I look like Daniel Webster? I didn't write no dictionary.
ref: 1961 October 4, “The Maharajah of Pookajee” (2:33 from the start), in Top Cat, season 1, episode 2:
glosses: A Hindu monarch ranking above a raja, an emperor.
Coordinate terms: maharani