cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slɔː/
ipa: /slɔ/
ipa: /slɑ/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: slaws
Etymology: Borrowed (around 1861) from Dutch sla, shortened from salade (“salad, lettuce”).
Senses: examples: text: Barbecue is always served with slaw in North Carolina and always has been.
ref: 1996, Jerry Bledsoe, “Slaw Crazy”, in Lee Harrison Child, editor, Close to Home: Revelations and Reminiscences by North Carolina Authors, page 66:
text: My boss, whose daughter was a working chef, told me that I made the best slaws that she had ever tasted. The secret is that slaws deserve as much care in their preparation as any other good meal.
ref: 2002, Alex Haas, Everyday Low Carb Cooking, page 73:
text: Slaws go well with grilled lean protein items and sandwiches.
ref: 2010, Judy Doherty, Salad Secrets: 100 of the Most Creative, Healthful Recipes, page 103:
glosses: Coleslaw.
Derived terms: barbecue slaw
cheese slaw
kimslaw
North Carolina slaw
rainbow slaw
red slaw
white slaw
great grey shrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great grey shrikes
Senses: glosses: Lanius excubitor, a species of shrike.
brocard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹəʊkəd/
ipa: /ˈbɹəʊkɑːd/
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊkɚd/
ipa: /ˈbɹoʊkɑrd/
homophone: brokered
Forms: form: brocards
Etymology: From French brocard, cognate with Medieval Latin brocarda, brocardicorum opus, a collection of canonical laws written by the bishop Burchard of Worms.
Senses: examples: text: The other question was as to the proper legal meaning of the brocard, “heres heredis mei est heres meus.”
ref: 1860, “The Journal of Jurisprudence”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume IV, Edinburgh, page 414:
text: Blackstone, with a like tenderness of conscience, endeavors to withdraw a single case, a sale of provisions, from the old brocard caveat emptor, and tells us that in such a contract there is a warranty that the provisions are wholesome.
ref: 1853, Samuel Owen, “The New York Legal Observer”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume XI, pages 73–4:
topics: law
glosses: A legal principle usually expressed in Latin, traditionally used to concisely express a wider legal concept or rule.
Derived terms: brocardic
googles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of google
googles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of google
nenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nenias
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nēnia.
Senses: examples: text: Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they will parentare still, omit no good office that may tend to the preservation of their names, honours, and eternal memory.
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Honest Objects of Love”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
text: The corpse of L’Escuyer, stretched on a bier, the ghastly head girt with laurel, is borne through the streets; with many-voiced unmelodious Nenia; funeral-wail still deeper than it is loud!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Avignon”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First):
text: And as I nodded, with forehead propped on my left hand, and the packet of pemmican cakes in my right, there was in my head, somehow, an old street-song of my childhood: and I groaned it sleepily, like coronachs and drear funereal nenias, dirging; and the packet beat time in my right hand, falling and raising, falling heavily and rising, in time.
ref: 1901, M. P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
glosses: A funeral song; an elegy.
niveous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nĭv'ē-əs
ipa: /ˈnɪvi.əs/
Forms: form: more niveous
form: most niveous
Etymology: From Latin niveus, from nix (“snow”).
Senses: examples: text: So Cinabar becomes red by the acide exhalation of sulphur, which otherwise presents a pure and niveous white.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
text: One solitary author, Beckman, declares that he saw niveous crystallizations in the form of hexangular pillars, that they occurred at Frankfort, upon the Oder, in 1667.
ref: 1818 May 24, The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review:
text: Shining to polished with some metallic colors except the cinereous face which is more niveous on the parafacies, and is slightly dusted on the dorsal surfaces, excepting the two apical tergites.
ref: 1946, Transactions of the American Entomological Society, page 257:
glosses: Snowy; resembling snow.
pop-up advertisement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop-up advertisements
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: An advertisement that takes the form of a window that appears automatically on a computer screen when certain websites are visited.
Synonyms: pop-up
popup
Hyponyms: voken
Related terms: interstitial
popup blocker
pop-under
popup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popups
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pop-up.
Related terms: popup blocker
popup menu
popup blocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popup blockers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A piece of software that prevents pop-up advertisements from being displayed.
seisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seisins
form: seizin
Etymology: From Middle English seisin, seysen, from Old French seisin, from the verb seisir, from Early Medieval Latin sacīre, from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (satjan) and Old English settan. More at seize, seise.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An entitlement to a freehold estate with a right to immediate possession.
glosses: The act of taking possession.
examples: text: Diſſeiſin is a large Title, and is an unlawful Entry and Ouſter of him that has an actual Seiſin and Freehold.
ref: 1713, [Matthew Hale], “[The Analysis of the Law: […].] Sect. XLIII. Concerning Wrongs which Carry with Them an Amotion of Possession.”, in The History and Analysis of the Common Law of England: […], [London]: […] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, […], →OCLC, page 131:
glosses: The thing possessed; property.
Related terms: sasine
livery of seisin
longshore drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process whereby sand and shingle move along a beach shoreline when waves approach the shore at an angle.
headnote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headnotes
form: head-note
form: head note
Etymology: From head + note.
Senses: coordinate_terms: endnote
footnote
hatnote
marginal note
strapline
glosses: A note at the head of a page, chapter, dictionary entry, or other document element.
topics: law
glosses: A summary of the relevant aspects of a legal case, usually found at the beginning of a case report.
Related terms: heading
headline
longshore
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Aphesis of alongshore.
Senses: examples: text: a longshore fisherman
glosses: Of, relating to, or living along a seacoast.
examples: text: a dangerous longshore current
glosses: Flowing parallel to the shoreline, or diagonal to it, rather than perpendicular to it. (of a current)
Derived terms: longshore drift
longshoreman
longshoreperson
longshorewoman
seacoast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seacoasts
Etymology: From Middle English see-cost, see-coste, see coost, equivalent to sea + coast. Compare West Frisian seekoast (“seacoast”), Dutch zeekust (“seacoast”), German Seeküste (“seacoast”).
Senses: examples: text: Neither chick nor child was left living the length of the seacoast.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:
glosses: The coastal land bordering a sea or ocean.
Synonyms: seashore
coast
obiter dictum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊbɪtə ˈdɪktəm/
ipa: /ˌoʊbɪɾɚ ˈdɪktəm/
Forms: form: obiter dicta
Etymology: From Latin obiter dictum (“something said by the way”).
Senses: examples: text: Casual obiter dicta by men of accepted godliness belonged to a different category from the ecstatic claims to immediate revelation made by obscure persons who thrust themselves into the limelight […].
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 128:
text: However, McHugh J noted obiter dicta that if the meaning of the word was construed at that level of abstraction today, ‘it would deny the Parliament of the Commonwealth the power to legislate for same sex marriages[…]’.
ref: 2010, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, “The Text through Time”, in Statute Law Review:
glosses: An incidental remark; especially (law) a statement or remark in a court's judgment that is not essential to the disposition of the case.
seashore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sēʹshô
ipa: /ˈsiːʃɔː/
enpr: sēʹshôr
ipa: /ˈsiːʃoɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: sēʹshōr
ipa: /ˈsiːʃo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈsiːʃoə/
Forms: form: seashores
form: sea-shore
Etymology: From sea + shore.
Senses: glosses: The coastal land bordering a sea or an ocean.
glosses: The foreshore, the strip of land between low water and high water.
Synonyms: sense: land bordering the sea
word: seacoast
sense: land bordering the sea
word: sea marge
sense: strip between high and low water marks
word: foreshore
sense: strip between high and low water marks
word: intertidal zone
sense: strip between high and low water marks
word: littoral
Hypernyms: sense: land bordering the sea
word: shore
sense: land bordering the sea
word: coast
sense: land bordering the sea
word: strand
foreshore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshores
Etymology: From fore- + shore or fore + shore.
Senses: examples: text: The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75.
ref: 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:
text: It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore.
ref: 2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country, page 397:
glosses: The part of a shore between high water and low water.
Synonyms: intertidal zone
Coordinate terms: backshore
per curiam
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Latin per (“by means of”) curiam (“the court”)
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An opinion delivered by an entire court rather than a single judge.
blockquote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɑk.kwoʊt/
ipa: /ˈblɒk.kwəʊt/
Forms: form: blockquotes
Etymology: From the name of an HTML element for this purpose, from block + quote.
Senses: glosses: a lengthy quotation that is formatted so as to be set off from the main text on a webpage, as by italicization and indentation
ming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: mings
form: minging
form: minged
form: minged
form: meint
form: meint
form: ment
form: ment
form: meynt
form: meynt
form: minge
form: meng
Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.
Senses: examples: text: I founde here and there litle peces of marquesites and stones, menged with copper, but I could by no sense or wit perceyue, that the bathes had any notable qualitie thereof.
ref: 1562, William Turner, Baths:
synonyms: word: bemingle
word: combine
word: mang
word: meddle
word: admix
word: amalgamate
word: bemingle
word: blend
word: combine
word: commingle
word: intermingle
word: intermix
word: mang
word: meddle
word: ming
word: mingle
word: mix
word: mix up
glosses: To mix, blend, mingle.
examples: text: the old man [...] him brought into a secret part, / Where that false couple were full closely ment / In wanton lust and lewd embracement [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To bring (people, animals etc.) together; to be joined, in marriage or sexual intercourse.
glosses: To produce through mixing; especially, to knead.
ming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: mings
form: minge
form: meng
Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, from Old English mengan (“to mix, combine, unite, associate with, consort, cohabit with, disturb, converse”), from Proto-West Germanic *mangijan (“to mix, knead”), from Proto-Indo-European *menk- (“to rumple, knead”). Cognate with Dutch mengen (“to mix, blend, mingle”), German mengen (“to mix”), Danish mænge (“to rub”), Old English ġemang (“mixture, union, troop, crowd, multitude, congregation, assembly, business, cohabitation”). More at among.
Senses: glosses: A mixture.
examples: 17 September 1811, [Description of] Counterpart of Demise from John Thorold to John Wilson of Grantham, Lincolnshire Archives, Ref. Thor 1/2/ZA25/4 Published by The National Archives, Accessed 19 June 2022.
Property: 1. 6 acres of land in ming with a meadow of Glebe land of the rectory of Grayingham.
qualifier: land
glosses: The state of being under mixed ownership; land under mixed ownership, particularly without physical demarcations designating ownership.
ming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: mings
form: minging
form: minged
form: minged
Etymology: Backformation from minging.
Senses: glosses: To be unattractive (person or object).
glosses: To be foul-smelling.
Related terms: minger
minging
ming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: mings
form: minging
form: minged
form: minged
form: minge
Etymology: From Middle English mingen, mengen, mungen, muneȝen, from Old English myngian, mynegian, ġemynegian (“to bring to mind, have in mind”), from myne (“mind”), from ġemunan (“to remember”), from Proto-Germanic *munaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Merged in Middle English with Old English ġemyndgian (“to remember, be mindful, remind, intend, commemorate, mention, exhort, impel, warn, demand payment”). More at mind.
Senses: glosses: To speak of, to mention.
ming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From Chinese 命 (mìng, “destiny, fate; luck”).
Senses: qualifier: Confucianism
glosses: Destiny, fate.
Related terms: ming vase
minging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Forms: form: more minging
form: most minging
Etymology: From Scots mingin (“stinking”), present participle of ming (“to stink”), from Middle English mengen (“to mix”), from Old English mengan (“to mix”).
Senses: examples: text: Once, Cookie even tried to get me to give it a go with Jez – can you believe the nerve of that? 'Why would I want to do that? He's minging.' 'Why not? It won't hurt. He never gets a shag.' 'No, Cookie. Bloody hell.' He hasn't got a clue. 'Wouldn't you be jealous?' 'No.' 'You're an idiot. Why do you think he never gets a shag?' 'Why?' 'Because he's minging!' 'So? I'm minging. We're all minging. None of us are exactly page three, are we, Billie?'
ref: 2011, Melvin Burgess, Kill All Enemies, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Very unattractive; ugly.
examples: text: Cleaners are always prime suspects for office thefts but in my long experience it's nearly all employees, with a tiny remainder down to traditional burglary. My advice is to presume the Nike-clad cleaner innocent and take personal stuff home, especially minging sportswear.
ref: 2011, Lucy Kellaway, The Answers: All the office questions you never dared to ask, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 82:
text: How can you shag bare lads? / Is your fanny not stinging? / I bet your fanny's fucking minging
ref: 2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:
glosses: Unclean or dirty; disgusting and foul-smelling.
minging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪŋɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋɪŋ
Etymology: From the present participle of mengen (“stir up someone's mind”) or formed from English ming (“to bring to (someone's) mind”). In Middle English, came to mean 'an exhortation'. In the 17th and 18th centuries attaining a specialized medical sense before becoming obsolete.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A premonitory symptom.
gender bender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender benders
Senses: glosses: A person who dresses in the clothes of another sex, or in clothes which make their gender identity ambiguous.
glosses: An event where people are encouraged to dress in the clothes of another sex, even if they would normally not.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A person capable of changing their physical sex.
topics: fantasy
glosses: An instance of someone's physical sex being changed, usually via magic.
Related terms: genderbending
genderbent
androgynous
gender changer
'twould
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: ’twou’d
Senses: examples: text: ‘It is well the earth gave way’, the sexton was saying, ‘on a night when we were here to find it. I was in the graveyard myself after midday, and all was snug and tight then. ’Twould have been awkward enough to have the hole stand open through the day, for any passer-by to light on.’
ref: [1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC:
glosses: Contraction of it would.
Synonyms: it’d
terabyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/
ipa: [ˈtʰɛɹəˌbaɪ̯t]
Forms: form: terabytes
Etymology: From tera- + byte.
Senses: glosses: One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tebibyte.
Synonyms: TB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: gigabyte
sense: Next
word: petabyte
Related terms: tebibit
tebibyte
terabit
tebibyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜbɪˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: tebibytes
Etymology: From tebi- + byte.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibytes, as opposed to a terabyte.
Synonyms: TiB
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: gibibyte
sense: Next
word: pebibyte
like the back end of a bus
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Not really fighting over her (puns aside). When you get a current beau and an ex, full of booze and testosterone, meeting up, their common interest isn't much of an issue in the subsequent display of machismo. I think she looks like the back end of a bus but, to them, she was a 'possession'.
ref: 2001, "Richard", "A sign of our times...", demon.local http://groups.google.com/group/demon.local/browse_thread/thread/3e3e39af204c46cb/06729fc6d595ef98?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=21#06729fc6d595ef98
text: Must admit, I like the *original* 911s - the original, late-1960s ones back before they fitted bulgey wheelarches and silly tea-tray rear spoilers. They look much more like delicate, precision instruments compared with the later 'sledgehammer" versions [which IMHO are about as attractive as the back end of a bus].
ref: 2002, Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, “I drove a...”, in uk.rec.cars.modifications (Usenet):
text: You surely can't be comparing Alicia Witt with Sarah Fergusson? Alicia Witt looks stunning, while the duchess of Pork looks like the back end of a bus.
ref: 2004, David Platt, “DUCHESS OF YORK NUDE”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):
text: ‘You’ve got a face like the back end of a bus,’ he spat, his eyes raw and burning. Then he grinned, his yellow-stained teeth spreading across his mush [...]
ref: 2005, Will Hadcroft, Anne Droyd And Century Lodge:
text: As I once told him, being British, looking like the back end of a bus or weighing 30 stone, was utterly irrelevant to the posting i made
ref: 2006, "sheelagh", "Bookie: Did you adopt the blind cat?", rec.pats.cats.health+behav http://groups.google.com/group/rec.pets.cats.health+behav/browse_thread/thread/d6ce604519cdefbb/a5f305d13e68a960?lnk=st&q=%22the+back+end+of+a+bus%22&rnum=10#a5f305d13e68a960
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very unattractive.
Related terms: face for radio
face only a mother could love
weirdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪədəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪəɹdoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ
Forms: form: weirdoes
form: weirdos
Etymology: From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”).
Senses: glosses: A strange, odd, eccentric person.
glosses: An insane, possibly dangerous person.
Synonyms: sense: strange person
word: strange person
sense: insane person
word: mad person
Derived terms: geardo
queerdo
Related terms: oddball
wingnut
weirdo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪədəʊ/
ipa: /ˈwɪəɹdoʊ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)dəʊ
Etymology: From weird + -o (“person with characteristic”).
Senses: examples: text: What's going on in this weirdo town?
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town:
ref: 2019 December 8, Neal McCluskey, “Here’s The Trump Administration’s Weirdo Plan For The Student Aid Crisis”, in The National Interest:
glosses: Weird.
cero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceros
form: ceroes
Etymology: Corruption of Spanish sierra (“sawfish”).
Senses: glosses: A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.
rincón
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rincons
form: rincones
Etymology: Loaned from Spanish rincón.
Senses: glosses: A meadow on the south-facing upper slopes of a mountain.
glosses: An abandoned meander.
glosses: An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, etc.
Tupperware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tupperware
form: Tupperwares
form: tupperware
Etymology: From Tupper + -ware. Named after American businessman Earl Tupper (1907–1983), who invented the product in 1942 and founded the company that produced it. Thus it is a genericised trademark.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tupperware.
synonyms: plastic container
food container
glosses: A food-storage container (often plastic), or a set of such containers.
Related terms: Tupperize
Tupperware lady
Tupperware party
Tupperware party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tupperware parties
Senses: examples: text: One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue […]
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Identified with her role as Tupperware party hostess, Ann doesn't seem happily at home in the social world.
ref: 2008, Don Herzog, Cunning, page 154:
glosses: A party arranged by Tupperware ladies in their homes to sell Tupperware on the party plan, as a direct marketing concept.
Related terms: party plan
Tupperware lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tupperware ladies
Senses: glosses: A woman organising a Tupperware party.
diacetylmorphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˌæsɪtl̩ˈmɔɹfiːn/
/ˌdaɪəˌsɛtlˈmɔɹfiːn/
Etymology: From diacetyl + morphine; 1870-75.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The INN name for the drug heroin.
Synonyms: english: BAN name
translation: BAN name
word: diamorphine
microphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfoʊn/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [ˈmʌɪ̯.kɹəˌfoʊ̯n]
ipa: /ˈmɑe.kɹəˌfəʉn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfɐʉn/
ipa: [ˈmɑe̯.kɹəˌfɐʉ̯n]
Forms: form: microphones
Etymology: From micro- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family.
ref: 1965, Charles McDowell, Campaign Fever: The National Folk Festival, from New Hampshire to November, 1964, Morrow, page 11:
text: It rained hard through most of Roosevelt's Second Inaugural. Audio tape recordings of the speech feature the tattoo of the rain on Roosevelt's microphone[…]
ref: 1994, High Definition Television: An Annotated Multidisciplinary Bibliography, 1981-1992, page 112:
glosses: A device (transducer) used to convert sound waves into a varying electric current; normally fed into an amplifier and either recorded or transmitted over radio.
Synonyms: sense: transducer of sound waves to electricity
word: mic
sense: transducer of sound waves to electricity
word: mike
Derived terms: carbon microphone
hot microphone
human microphone
lavalier microphone
microphonics
microphonograph
minimicrophone
multimicrophone
nonmicrophone
people's microphone
ribbon microphone
seismomicrophone
shotgun microphone
throat microphone
microphone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfoʊn/
note: Canadian raising
ipa: [ˈmʌɪ̯.kɹəˌfoʊ̯n]
ipa: /ˈmɑe.kɹəˌfəʉn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfɐʉn/
ipa: [ˈmɑe̯.kɹəˌfɐʉ̯n]
Forms: form: microphones
form: microphoning
form: microphoned
form: microphoned
Etymology: From micro- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: To put one or more microphones on or in.
Synonyms: word: mike
word: mike up
english: if covert
translation: if covert
word: bug
word: wire up
hard drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard drives
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.
Synonyms: word: hard disc
word: hard disk
word: hard disc drive
word: hard disk drive
word: HD
word: HDD
Related terms: Compare with floppy drive
bowling alley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bowling alleys
Senses: synonyms: bowladrome
glosses: A building or room which contains lanes for bowling.
flash drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash drives
Etymology: So called because it is a storage device that uses flash memory.
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: data stick
word: disk on key
word: flash drive /flashdrive
word: jump drive /jumpdrive
word: key drive
word: memory drive
word: memory stick
word: pen drive /pendrive
word: thumb drive
word: USB
word: USB drive
word: USB key
word: USB stick
glosses: A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.
inquest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋkwɛst/
Forms: form: inquests
form: enquest
Etymology: From Middle English enquest, from Old French enqueste (Modern French enquête), from Vulgar Latin inquirere, or from Medieval Latin inquesta < in + Latin quaesita.
Senses: examples: text: The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 4, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.
ref: 2021 August 25, Christian Wolmar, “Croydon tram crash: the questions haven't been answered”, in RAIL, number 938, page 58:
glosses: A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death
glosses: An inquiry, typically into an undesired outcome
glosses: The jury hearing such an inquiry, and the result of the inquiry
examples: text: the laborious and vexatious inquest that the soul must make after science
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
text: Hauing of late by diligent inquest,
Prouided him a sword of meanest sort
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: enquiry; quest; search
Synonyms: inquisition
Derived terms: mental inquest warrant
inquest of office
Related terms: inquisitor
inquisition
inquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: inquisitions
Etymology: From Old French inquisicion, from Latin inquisitio, from inquirere. The sense implying persecution is influenced by the name of the Spanish Inquisition, which is a cardinal exemplar of government inquisitions that give inquisitions a bad name.
Senses: examples: text: But as farrefoorth as I coulde learne, through earneſt inquiſition I thoughte in my conſcience the woman was not gilty, all the circumſtances well conſydered.
ref: 1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folios 5, verso – 6, recto:
text: Let not search and inquisition quail / To bring again these foolish runaways.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
synonyms: disquisition
glosses: An inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter.
synonyms: disquisition
glosses: An inquiry or investigation into the truth of some matter.
Such an investigation that is asserted to be persecutory by its adversaries.
glosses: An inquest.
glosses: A questioning.
examples: text: The justices in eyre had it formerly in charge to make inquisition concerning them by a jury of the county.
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The finding of a jury, especially such a finding under a writ of inquiry.
Derived terms: inquisitional
inquisitionist
inquisition post mortem
literary inquisition
inquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪŋkwɪˈzɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: inquisitions
form: inquisitioning
form: inquisitioned
form: inquisitioned
Etymology: From Old French inquisicion, from Latin inquisitio, from inquirere. The sense implying persecution is influenced by the name of the Spanish Inquisition, which is a cardinal exemplar of government inquisitions that give inquisitions a bad name.
Senses: examples: text: And in their name I shall for neither friend nor foe conceal what the general murmur is ; that if it come to inquisitioning again
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
glosses: To make inquisition concerning; to inquire into.
habanera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɑbəˈnerə/
Forms: form: habaneras
Etymology: Borrowed from Cuban Spanish habanera.
Senses: examples: text: The programming was far from random. The habanera is a hybrid seed of great potency. An adaptation of the European contradanza by slaves from West Africa, it is not only an early version of a New World rhythm that took over the globe, but also a direct ancestor for much of jazz and rock ‘n’ roll.
ref: 2018 March 5, Brian Seibert, “Review: Tapping Out Some New World Rhythms”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
glosses: A style of music from Cuba.
examples: text: The music of Cuba has had a worldwide influence on forms of song and dance. René Buch who conceived and directed a musical “collage” called “¡Habana!” at the Repertorio Español on East 27th Street, points out the influence on Spain, for example, which received ‘habaneras’ and ‘contradanzas’ from Cuba; in this century, in the 1920's, the “rumba” and such songs as “El Manisero” and “Siboney” made their way north to become part of United States culture.
ref: 1982 December 27, Edward Rothstein, “Music: 40 Songs of Cuba”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Sep 2023, page C12:
glosses: A dance performed to this music.
Related terms: habanero
interim order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interim orders
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a court order entered at the beginning of a lawsuit to preserve a semblance of organisational order or to maintain the status quo pending the final disposition of the case
insider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsaɪdɚ/
ipa: /ˈɪnsaɪdɚ/
homophone: inciter
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: insiders
Etymology: From inside + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: initiate, old hand, habitué
text: Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public.
ref: 1923 July 2, “‘Big Board’ Failures”, in Time:
text: He is also an astute ANC insider who spent ten years on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela and the other “grandees” of the movement.
ref: 2007 December 19, Jonathan Clayton, “Profile: Zuma charmed wives and a nation”, in Times of London, UK:
text: In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
ref: 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: outsider
glosses: A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
examples: text: To the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, chapter 33, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person who is within an enclosed space.
Derived terms: insider baseball
insider dealing
insiderdom
insiderish
insiderism
insiderly
insiderness
insider trade
insider trading
insidery
noninsider
Related terms: ingroup
in-group
outgroup
out-group
invitee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnvəˈtiː/
ipa: /ˌinvaɪˈtiː/
ipa: /ɪnˌvaɪˈtiː/
Forms: form: invitees
Etymology: From invite + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is invited.
jaywalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: jāʹwôk
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɔːk/
enpr: jāʹwôk
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɔːk/
enpr: jāʹwäk
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒeɪ.wɑːk/
Forms: form: jaywalks
form: jaywalking
form: jaywalked
form: jaywalked
form: J walk
form: J-walk
Etymology: Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jay (“a stupid person”) + walk.
Senses: topics: automotive
law
transport
vehicles
glosses: To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles rather than on the sidewalk.
Derived terms: jaywalker
jaywalking
Related terms: jayrun
jayrunner
jayrunning
joyride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪˌɹaɪd/
Forms: form: joyrides
form: joy ride
Etymology: From joy + ride.
Senses: examples: text: Joyrides and hikes: Commuters keep these 11 new Thomson-East Coast Line stations buzzing on the first day of operations
ref: 2022 November 13, Jessie Lim, AsiaOne (Singapore):
text: Launched last March, the H.C.C. is similar to a country club-except, instead of playing golf, members take joyrides or leisurely weekend trips in any of the top-of-the-line cars housed in a Century City garage.
ref: 2004 October, John Brodie, “Driving Privileges”, in Vanity Fair, number 530, New York: Condé Nast, page 158:
text: It's called the Beast for a reason: You literally hold on to your hat -- and your sunglasses, and anything else that isn't secured -- for a 30-minute joyride. Painted to look like a bright green, sharp-toothed shark, this 70-foot racing boat zips down the Hudson, skips over waves and zooms past the Empire State Building and other landmarks at up to 45 mph.
ref: 2013 July 7, Heather Salerno, “Go for a Wet and Wild Joyride Down the Hudson”, in The Journal News, White Plains, New York: Gannett Co.:
synonyms: word: rip
glosses: A ride in a vehicle taken solely for pleasure or enjoyment, especially a vehicle ride taken with no particular goal or purpose and just for the pleasure or enjoyment of a vehicle ride.
examples: text: Thieves took three go-karts for a joyride through the streets of Norwich.
ref: 2008 September 13, Sam Emanuel, “Thieves go for spin in stolen go-karts”, in Norwich Evening News, retrieved 25 Sep 2008:
glosses: An instance of driving a motor vehicle in a carefree or reckless manner, especially a vehicle which has been taken without the permission of the owner.
examples: text: Hello, you fool, I love you / Come on, join the joyride
ref: 1991, Per Gessle, “Joyride”, in Joyride, performed by Roxette:
text: Treat your taste buds. A good meal is a three-hour joyride for the senses — as rich as visiting an art gallery and as stimulating as a good massage.
ref: 2018 March 13, Rick Steves, “First time in France? Here are some tips from Rick Steves”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington:
glosses: A very pleasant experience.
Hyponyms: sense: ride taken for enjoyment
word: joyflight
joyride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔɪˌɹaɪd/
Forms: form: joyrides
form: joyriding
form: joyrode
form: joyridden
form: joy ride
Etymology: From joy + ride.
Senses: examples: text: You joyride around for a while listening / to the radio, and then abandon death, walk / away, and leave death for the police / to find.
ref: c. 1969, Richard Brautigan, Death is a Beautiful Parked Car Only:
text: His parents were out shopping and he used the opportunity to snatch the keys to the 1999 Suzuki Esteem and joyride around the neighborhood.
ref: 2008 August 27, Laura Albanese, “Joyriding teen arrested on delinquency charge”, in Newsday, retrieved 25 Sep 2008:
glosses: To take a joyride.
Related terms: joyrider
joyriding
joy riding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of joy ride
judicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuˈdɪʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: more judicial
form: most judicial
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the administration of justice.
examples: text: It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
ref: 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
glosses: Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
examples: text: judicial rent, judicial lease
glosses: specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881
glosses: Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
glosses: Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).
Synonyms: justiciary
Derived terms: extract from the judicial record
extrajudicial
injudicial
intrajudicial
judicare
judicial activism
judicial astrology
judicial conference
judicial day
judicialese
judicial factor
judicialization
judicialize
judicially
judicialness
judicial notice
judicial officer
judicial police
judicial relief
judicial remedy
judicial restraint
judicial review
judicial separation
judicial temperament
nonjudicial
parajudicial
politicojudicial
psychojudicial
quasijudicial
quasi-judicial agency
semijudicial
unjudicial
Related terms: adjudged
adjudicated
judge
judiciary
judicial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuˈdɪʃəl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.
Senses: synonyms: judiciary
glosses: That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.
Related terms: juridicial
jury box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury boxes
Senses: glosses: The area in a courtroom wherein the jury is seated during a trial.
jury nullification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury nullifications
Senses: examples: text: The prosecutor thought he lost the case, not due to the creation of reasonable doubt, but due to jury nullification.
topics: law
glosses: An acquittal by a jury of a defendant ignoring the facts of the case and/or the law.
jury panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury panels
Senses: glosses: A group of people from which a certain number are selected to sit on a jury.
jury pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jury pools
Senses: topics: law
glosses: the eligible population from which jury members can be selected
matter of record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matters of record
Senses: examples: text: When Dick Larkin asked to see his credentials, the inspector not only produced them, but gave the owner's name and the county in which the brand was a matter of record.
ref: 1906, Andy Adams, The Story of a Poker Steer:
text: It is a matter of record in history that asphalt was used in the construction of a highway in Peru, being built by prehistoric races.
ref: 1905, The Inland Architect and News Record, volume 45, page 65:
text: This has now been privately printed and deposited in several of the leading libraries as a matter of record.
ref: 1920, “Memoirs of Capt. Andrew Talcott”, in Engineering News-record, volume 85, page 805:
text: Indeed, African American history, like all history, remains as much a matter of argument as a matter of record.
ref: 2004, John Ernest, Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794-1861, page 1:
text: My feelings about share buybacks in an R&D driven industry like this one have been a matter of record for some time, for all the good that does.
ref: 2018 February 27, Derek Lowe, “Business and Markets: Where’s All That Money Going? (Pharma Edition)”, in Science Translational Medicine:
glosses: A fact or statement that is recorded in governmental records or in publications.
topics: law
glosses: A fact that is contained within court files or has otherwise been entered into evidence before the court.
mens rea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛnz ˈɹiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: mentes reae
Etymology: From Latin mēns + reus (literally “guilty mind”), from the English common law precept Actus non facit reum nisi mens rea sit ("The act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty").
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A reactive mind, a conscious knowing by the individual that an act was committed, either by themselves or by another.
examples: text: As a general rule the act (or omission) causing death and the relevant mens rea must occur at the same time. The most obvious application of this rule to exclude liability is the case where the mens rea is formed after the actus reus has taken place.
ref: 2006, David Lanham, David Wood, Bronwyn Bartal, Rob Evans, Criminal Laws in Australia, page 198:
text: The criminal offences not requiring a mens rea proof for convictions are then specifically indicated in the legislature as being under “strict liability.”
ref: 2007, Nikolaj Nottelmann, Blameworthy Belief: A Study in Epistemic Deontologism, page 10:
text: The majority of serious criminal offences require, in addition to the actus reus, a specific state of mind on the part of the accused, usually referred to as the mens rea. Many less serious crimes require no mens rea, but simply proof that the defendant caused the prohibited harm.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Herring, Criminal Law, 7th edition, page 67:
text: The individual mentes reae of the joint perpetrators have to be considered separately.
ref: 2016, Dennis J. Baker, Reinterpreting Criminal Complicity and Inchoate Participation Offences, page 174:
text: In “Winner,” [Susanna] Fogel dramatizes, onscreen, Reality [Winner]’s mens rea, showing the elaborate details of her plan to print, purloin, and disclose the relevant pages of the Russia file—and the combination of forethought and improvisation on which the plan’s success depends.
ref: 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker:
topics: law
glosses: A guilty mind, the conscious knowing of a perpetrator while committing an act that the act is illicit.
Related terms: actus reus
pro per
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: short form of the Latin “in propria persona”
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of in propria persona.
Related terms: word: litigant in person
word: pro se
in propria persona
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in propria persona.
Senses: examples: text: She became a subscriber—amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way; to be a renter, a chuser of books!
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 191:
glosses: By the person themselves; often used when a defendant is representing themselves in court without an attorney.
Derived terms: pro per
Related terms: word: litigant in person
word: on behalf of
word: pro se
capital offense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital offenses
form: capital offence
Senses: glosses: A crime for which the maximum penalty is capital punishment.
glosses: A crime for which the maximum penalty is life in prison without parole.