cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
teleprompter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləˌpɹɑmptəɹ/
Forms: form: teleprompters
Etymology: From tele- + prompter; genericized trademark, originally styled TelePrompTer.
Senses: examples: text: Ahem ... GRBLB BLABT UNT MIT SPEEB!! OOT PIFFOO BLABOO... [pause] Would someone please give the Teleprompter a swift kick...
ref: 1984 April 20, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (comic):
text: He was more at ease in reading his speech off the dual screens of a teleprompter than looking up and down at a speech text on his lectern.
ref: 2009 March 6, Mark Knoller, CBS News:
glosses: A device placed near or on a television camera that displays scrolling text, allowing a person to read a script while appearing to speak spontaneously to the camera.
Synonyms: autocue
Derived terms: teleprompterless
teleplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləˌpleɪ/
Forms: form: teleplays
Etymology: Blend of television + screenplay
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
synonyms: telescript
hypernyms: play
script
coordinate_terms: screenplay
radioplay
glosses: A script formatted like a screenplay for cinema, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.
screenplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːnˌpleɪ/
Forms: form: screenplays
form: screen play
Etymology: From screen + play.
Senses: examples: text: I know Corinne would be happy if I started writing scripts again. Since my last screenplay, I haven't written anything in over four months.
ref: 1998, Hairshirt (aka Too Smooth, movie)
topics: authorship
broadcasting
cinematography
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
hypernyms: play
script
coordinate_terms: radioplay
glosses: A script for a movie or a television show; especially, the former specifically.
Derived terms: coscreenplay
screenplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹiːnˌpleɪ/
Forms: form: screenplays
form: screenplaying
form: screenplayed
form: screenplayed
form: screen play
Etymology: From screen + play.
Senses: examples: text: Also, in the case of this novel, its adaption to the big screen in 1983, directed by James Ivory, screenplayed by Jhabvala herself—screenwriter of the year, London Critics Film Award, 1984—awarded with a BAFTA, and nominated for the Palme d'Or, gave rise to Heat and Dust's great success.
ref: 2020, Shilpa Daithota Bhat, Diasporic Inquiries into South Asian Women’s Narratives:
hypernyms: script#Verb
write#Verb
glosses: To write a screenplay.
nose candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nose-candy
Etymology: From 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I find out that I got Viola Lake under contract for the next five years, no matter what she does; and now I have to learn that she's gone and got herself addicted to nose candy! Oi Gewalt! If I had any hair, I’d tear it!”
ref: 1930 October, Anita Loos, “Elmer Bliss Scotches a Scandal”, in Cosmopolitan, page 190:
text: “Okay”—Ben walked to the doorway, then turned—“but if you secretly sniff nose candy while I'm at the office, I don't want to know about it.”
ref: 1951 April, Marcelene Cox, “Ask any Woman”, in Ladies' Home Journal, page 232:
text: You be doing nose candy on the Bowie coke mirror / My girl asked for some, but I pretended not to hear her
ref: 1989, “Car Thief”, in Paul's Boutique, performed by Beastie Boys:
text: Except for the nose candy, I'm addicted to all of them, to a greater or lesser degree.
ref: 1999, Les Roberts, A Shoot in Cleveland, →ISBN, page 1:
text: I told him that it just tasted sort of sugary and fizzy, like Pop Rocks for your nose, and he said, "Hence the name nose-candy, baby!"
ref: 2002, Joe Babcock, The Tragedy Of Miss Geneva Flowers, →ISBN, page 142:
synonyms: word: benzoylmethylecgonine
word: blow
word: Bolivian marching powder
word: booger sugar
word: boots
word: California corn flakes
word: charlie
word: ching
word: coke
word: corinne
word: crystals
word: flake
word: girl
word: hard white
word: marching powder
word: nose candy
word: nose powder
word: party powder
word: powder
word: rock
word: rocks
word: slim
word: sniff
word: snow
word: snuff
word: toot
word: wash
word: white
word: white girl
word: white lady
word: yay
word: yayo
word: yola
glosses: Cocaine.
Related terms: ear candy
eye candy
seamless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English seemles, semeles, semles, Old English *sēamlēas, equivalent to seam + -less. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål sømløs (“seamless”), Swedish sömlös (“seamless”).
Senses: examples: text: seamless clothing
glosses: Having no seams.
examples: text: a seamless transition
glosses: Without interruption; coherent
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from seamless (adjective)
word: seamless branching
sense: terms derived from seamless (adjective)
word: seamless integration
sense: terms derived from seamless (adjective)
word: seamless interconnection
sense: terms derived from seamless (adjective)
word: seamlessly
sense: terms derived from seamless (adjective)
word: seamlessness
sense: terms derived from seamless (adjective)
word: seamless stockings
KG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KGs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Knight of The Most Noble Order of the Garter.
glosses: Abbreviation of kindergarten.
somatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatizations
form: somatisation
Etymology: From somatize + -ation.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The generation of physical symptoms of a psychiatric condition such as anxiety
Derived terms: somatization disorder
Related terms: psychosomatization
illegal alien
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illegal aliens
form: IA
Senses: examples: text: This was a voluntary charter flight, not an ICE enforcement operation. All participants were offered the same benefits as any illegal alien who self-deports using the CBP Home App. They received travel assistance, a $1,000 stipend, and preserved the possibility they could one day return to the United States legally.
ref: 2025 May 19, “Project Homecoming Charter Flight Brings Self-Deporters to Honduras, Colombia”, in Department of Homeland Security:
glosses: A person who is within the boundaries of a political state without the authorization of the government of that state; a national of another country who has entered or stayed without permission.
Synonyms: word: crimmigrant
word: illegal
word: undocumented alien
word: unlawful non-citizen
Hyponyms: illegal immigrant
undocumented immigrant
hydrothermal vent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrothermal vents
Senses: examples: text: Everything fed from the heat and chemistry oozing from hydrothermal vents.
ref: 2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 37:
glosses: a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.
Related terms: black smoker
fumarole
geyser
white smoker
hyperbaric oxygen chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbaric oxygen chambers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a pressurized vessel used to administer oxygen at elevated pressure
hyperbolic navigation system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbolic navigation systems
Senses: glosses: A navigation system that produces hyperbolic lines of position by the measurement of the difference in the time of reception, or the phase, of radio signals from multiple synchronized transmitters at fixed locations.
Related terms: satellite navigation system
hyperfine structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperfine structures
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a closely spaced structure of lines in the spectrum of an atom or molecule due to nuclear isotopic effects and/or to nuclear spin
hyperfine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperfine
form: most hyperfine
Etymology: From hyper- + fine.
Senses: glosses: Extremely fine, especially of the hyperfine structure in the spectra of atoms and molecules.
Derived terms: superhyperfine
hypernucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypernuclei
Etymology: From hyper- + nucleus.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a nucleus that consists of protons, neutrons and at least one hyperon, such as a lambda baryon
hypernuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypernucleus
hypersensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersensitivities
Etymology: From hyper- + sensitivity.
Senses: glosses: Any heightened immune response to an antigen; an allergy; hypersensation.
examples: text: "I might say," remarked Professor Richet, "that the hyper-sensibility is moral as well as physical. Panbek is impressionable and full of emotion, with the temperament of the poet and all those little weaknesses, if we may call them so, which the poet pays as a ransom for his gifts."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: If our universities are teaching students that their emotions can be used effectively as weapons—or at least as evidence in administrative proceedings—then they are teaching students to nurture a kind of hypersensitivity that will lead them into countless drawn-out conflicts in college and beyond.
ref: 2015, The Atlantic, G. Lukianoff, J. Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind:
glosses: The state of being easily offended or hurt.
Derived terms: antihypersensitivity
electrohypersensitivity
electromagnetic hypersensitivity
human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
hypersensitivity pneumonitis
pseudohypersensitivity
sensory hypersensitivity
type 1 hypersensitivity
Related terms: hypersensitive
classical music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: classical musics
Etymology: From classical + music.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music of the classical period; the music of Mozart, Haydn, etc; the musical period before the romantic.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The more serious forms of music, taught through formal education and performed according to strict rules, as opposed to folk music or popular music.
Related terms: early music
romantic music
world music
oftentimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒf.ənˌtaɪmz/
ipa: /ˈɒf.tənˌtaɪmz/
ipa: /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/
ipa: /ˈɔf.tənˌtaɪmz/
ipa: /ˈɑf.ənˌtaɪmz/
ipa: /ˈɑf.tənˌtaɪmz/
Etymology: Inherited from the Middle English oftentymes; equivalent to oftentime + -s. Compare oftentime.
Senses: examples: text: But because this is oftentimes dangerous, and much hurt hath been received thereby through casualty of fire, I advise the sticking four stakes into the earth, at least five feet above the ground […]
ref: 1804, Robert Wissett, On the Cultivation and Preparation of Hemp:
text: Pique and linen also accented several coats and oftentimes were both detachable and formed an overcollar covering a collar made from the coat fabric.
ref: 1967, Ann Helen Stroup, An Investigation of the Dress of American Children from 1930 Through 1941 with Emphasis on Factors Influencing Change, page 195:
text: Over the past decade, the very nature of organized crime has changed, with many groups diversifying their income beyond drug trafficking, and large cartels splintering into smaller, oftentimes more nimble groups.
ref: 2023 January 10, Whitney Eulich, America Armenta, “Mexico arrests son of ‘El Chapo’: Why don’t citizens feel safer?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
qualifier: elsewhere archaic
glosses: Frequently; often.
Synonyms: oftentime
ofttimes
oftwhiles
often
hypervalent compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervalent compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any compound which contains more than eight formally assignable electrons in a valence shell directly associated with the central atom in direct bonding with a number of ligands
ahead of one's time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: With his practice of dream interpretation by free association, Freud was both ahead of his time and behind his time.
ref: 1990, Ken Frieden, Freud’s dream of interpretation, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 135, →ISBN:
glosses: In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be.
ancient Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ancient Greek.
ancient Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancient Greeks
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece.
ancient Greek
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Ancient Greece.
physic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭz′ĭk
ipa: /ˈfɪz.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈfəz.ək/
ipa: /ˈfiz.ik/
rhymes: -ɪzɪk
Forms: form: more physic
form: most physic
form: phisicke
form: physick
Etymology: From Middle English phisik, from Latin physicus, from Ancient Greek φῠσῐκός (phŭsĭkós, “natural; physical”), from φύσις (phúsis, “origin, birth; nature, quality; form, shape; type, kind”), from φῠ́ω (phŭ́ō, “grow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to appear, become, rise up”).
Senses: glosses: Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.
physic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭz′ĭk
ipa: /ˈfɪz.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈfəz.ək/
ipa: /ˈfiz.ik/
rhymes: -ɪzɪk
Forms: form: physics
form: phisicke
form: physick
Etymology: From Middle English fysike (noun) and phisiken, fisike (verb; from the noun), from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φῠσῐκός (phŭsĭkós, “natural; physical”), see above.
Senses: examples: text: Harke yee Lords, you ſee I haue giuen her Phiſicke, / And you muſt needs beſtovv her Funerall, […]
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], signature [G4], recto:
text: I ſhould not thinke it ſtrange, for 'tis a phyſicke / That's bitter, to ſweet end.
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 IV, scene vi], page 79, column 2:
text: Nor can thy shame give physic to my grief.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 34”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Learn before thou speak, and use physick or ever thou be sick.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Sirach 18:19:
glosses: A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
examples: text: ...and thus draw out all the unwholesome Air and Stench, which does more harm than any Physick can repair.
ref: 1743, Stephen Hales, A Description of Ventilators, page xiii:
glosses: The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
examples: text: When I left Mr. Bates, I went down to my Father; where, by the Aſſiſtance of him and my Uncle John, and ſome other Relations, I got forty Pounds, and a Promiſe of thirty Pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden: there I ſtudied Phyſick two years and ſeven months, knowing it would be uſeful in long Voyages.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 2:
glosses: Natural philosophy; physics.
examples: text: Desire is death, which physic did except.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 147”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: A physician.
Derived terms: Culver's physic
metaphysic
nonphysic
otophysic
physically
physic finger
physic garden
physician
physicism
physicker
physicky
physic nut
physic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭz′ĭk
ipa: /ˈfɪz.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈfəz.ək/
ipa: /ˈfiz.ik/
rhymes: -ɪzɪk
Forms: form: physics
form: physicking
form: physicked
form: physicked
form: phisicke
form: physick
Etymology: From Middle English fysike (noun) and phisiken, fisike (verb; from the noun), from Old French fisike (“natural science, art of healing”), from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek φυσική (phusikḗ), feminine singular of φῠσῐκός (phŭsĭkós, “natural; physical”), see above.
Senses: examples: text: Wouldſt thou not haue ſome Bulchin from the herd / To phyſicke thee of this venereall itch?
ref: 1637, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Ivpiter and Io”, in Pleasant Dialogues and Dramma’s, Selected out of Lucian, Erasmus, Textor, Ovid, &c. […], London: […] R. O[ulton] for R. H[earne], and are to be sold by Thomas Slater […], →OCLC, page 170:
glosses: To cure or heal.
examples: text: I will physic your rankness […]
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 I, scene i], lines 73-74:
text: When she had been a little girl - a very little girl - her mother had once cried at Anne in utter exasperation, "You're so contrary cheese'd physic ya!"
ref: 1987, Stephen King, The Tommyknockers:
glosses: To administer medicine to, especially a purgative.
in due time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn djuː taɪm/
ipa: /ɪn dʒuː taɪm/
ipa: /ɪn du taɪm/
Senses: synonyms: all in good time
in good time
in due course
when the time comes
time is ripe
glosses: Eventually; when ready; at an opportune moment.
Phœnicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Here we came into the part of Syria, which was the ancient Phœnicia, a country always remarkable for its commerce, the inhabitants of which went out in many colonies, and peopled Carthage, Sicily, and ſeveral other countries.
ref: 1811, John Pinkerton, A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world, page 469:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Phoenicia.
fair game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Pretending to be slow is fair game. Pretending to be injured is not.
text: The referee ruled the unprecedented play fair game.
glosses: Actions permissible by the rules.
examples: text: After the middle sister's call from a friend's house, her slice of cake was fair game.
glosses: A goal or an object that may legitimately be sought.
examples: text: Anyone running for office is fair game for criticism.
glosses: An acceptable subject or target for criticism, scrutiny, mockery, or attack.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fair, game.: a game that is fair, that does not involve cheating, etc.
jerseys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jersey
homewrecking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home-wrecking
Etymology: From home + wrecking.
Senses: glosses: The act of one who wrecks a home; the break-up of a married couple, especially of a family, by tempting either out of their commitment.
Related terms: homewreck
homewrecker
homewrecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: home-wrecking
Etymology: From home + wrecking.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of homewreck
buckshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckshots
Etymology: From buck + shot.
Senses: examples: text: Our men were all well armed with Colt's revolvers and Mississippi yagers, which last, carried a bullet, and two buckshots.
ref: 1879, Buffalo Bill, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, page 58:
hypernyms: shot
coordinate_terms: birdshot
glosses: Lead shot used in shotgun cartridges, made of larger pellets than birdshot and suitable for hunting larger game.
Derived terms: buckshot land
Related terms: scattershot
roadie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊdi/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
homophone: Rhodie
homophone: rhodie
homophone: rhody
homophone: rhoddy
Forms: form: roadies
Etymology: From road + -ie.
Senses: glosses: One of the crew for a musical group or other travelling stage production, especially a stagehand or technician.
glosses: A cyclist who rides on the roads rather than off-road.
examples: text: Sit outside after dinner, and grab a couple of drinks before hitting the dance floor and putting the night in motion. You can even get a roadie for the trip over.
ref: 2006, PartyEarth LLC, Party Italy, page 64:
text: If there was any wine at home, I'd make sure I'd bring a “roadie” with me when I left the house.
ref: 2015, Jay Keefe, And Drink I Did:
text: The ladies brought some wine coolers. I was glad I brought a roadie.
ref: 2016, Gregory Ross, Confessions of Fraternity Days:
glosses: An alcoholic beverage for the ride, for consumption while one is driving.
Related terms: roader
roadster
roadie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹəʊdi/
ipa: /ˈɹoʊdi/
rhymes: -əʊdi
homophone: Rhodie
homophone: rhodie
homophone: rhody
homophone: rhoddy
Forms: form: roadies
form: roadying
form: roadied
form: roadied
Etymology: From road + -ie.
Senses: glosses: To act as a roadie
hypervalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypervalent
form: most hypervalent
Etymology: From hyper- + -valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: having a higher than normal valence
Derived terms: hypervalent compound
Related terms: hypervalency
hypohalous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypohalous acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any oxyacid of a halogen of general formula HOX.
Related terms: hypohalite
hypofluorous acid
hypochlorous acid
hypobromous acid
hypoiodous acid
hypohalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypohalites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt of a hypohalous acid, having a general formula M(OX)ₙ
Related terms: hypofluorite
hypochlorite
hypobromite
hypoiodite
hypofluorous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Since fluorine must always be negative relative to oxygen, oxyacids analogous to those of the other halogens cannot be expected (24). Almost certainly, perfluoric acid HFO₄, or fluoric acid HFO₃, or hypofluorous acid HOF, will not therefore be prepared.
ref: 1959, American Rocket Society, “Jet Propulsion”, in ARS Journal, volume 29, American Rocket Society, page 96:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: oxyacid#Noun
<
acid#Noun
<
compound
<
substance#Noun
material#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: fluoric acid
english: other oxyacids of fluorine
translation: other oxyacids of fluorine
word: perfluoric acid
word: ;
english: hydracid of fluorine
translation: hydracid of fluorine
word: hydrofluoric acid
glosses: An oxyacid of fluorine, HOF; a short-lived species that has only been observed spectroscopically.
Related terms: hypofluorite
hypofluorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypofluorites
Etymology: By surface analysis, hypo- + fluor- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The conjugate base of hypofluorous acid; any salt or ester formed therewith.
Related terms: hypochlorite
spectroscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spectroscopic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a spectroscope
glosses: By the analysis of spectra
hypobromous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the simplest oxyacid of bromine, HOBr; formed when bromine dissolves in water; has disinfectant properties
Related terms: hypobromite
hypobromite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypobromites
Etymology: From hypo- + bromite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester of hypobromous acid
hypoiodous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the simplest oxyacid of iodine, HIO; it is formed when iodine dissolves in water, or when higher oxyacids are reduced
Related terms: hypoiodite
hypoiodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoiodites
Etymology: From hypo- + iodite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester of hypoiodous acid; they have fungicidal properties
primary hypothermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hypothermia caused by exposure to a cold environment.
Related terms: secondary hypothermia
clinical hypothermia
secondary hypothermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Hypothermia caused by an underlying pathology that prevents the body from generating enough core heat.
Related terms: primary hypothermia
clinical hypothermia
clinical hypothermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A deliberate procedure of clinically induced cooling to stop the heart during surgery.
Related terms: primary hypothermia
secondary hypothermia
telemarketer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemarketers
Etymology: From tele- + marketer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who sells products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls.
Related terms: scammer
spammer
visher
hysteresis loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteresis loops
Senses: glosses: A closed curve generated by cycling the input to a system undergoing hysteresis through an appropriate range.
hysteresis motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hysteresis motors
Senses: glosses: A type of synchronous motor in which the rotor consists of a central nonmagnetic core around which are rings of material with a high degree of magnetic hysteresis; it generates near constant torque at varying speeds, even when starting.
hit the pavement
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the pavement
form: hitting the pavement
form: hit the pavement
form: hit the pavement
Senses: examples: text: But getting people to hit the pavement is more than just a health concern. . . . [M]unicipalities are looking to combat inner-city decay by keeping the streets flush with pedestrians.
ref: 2007 July 31, Ceri Au, “Fighting for the Right to Flush”, in Time:
glosses: To travel on foot, as on a sidewalk.
examples: text: And when we hit the pavement, we found we had covered the last 54 miles in an hour and twenty minutes.
ref: 1925, "Automotive Section: "Hitting it up" (advertisement)," Ottawa Citizen, 4 July (retrieved 28 Sep 2010)
glosses: To travel or begin to move in an automobile or other road vehicle.
Synonyms: sense: begin to walk
word: hit the bricks
sense: begin to walk
word: pound the pavement
sense: begin to move in an auto
word: hit the road
I-spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of isotopic spin or isospin.
hit the ground running
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hits the ground running
form: hitting the ground running
form: hit the ground running
form: hit the ground running
Senses: examples: text: Employers these days look for candidates that can hit the ground running, so that they spend less on training.
text: Well, the years start coming and they don’t stop coming.
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground runnin’.
ref: 1999 June 8, Smash Mouth, “All Star”, in Astro Longue:
glosses: To begin an activity immediately and with full commitment.
Related terms: storm out of the blocks
liase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of liaise.
CLM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CLMs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of credit limit management.
glosses: Initialism of career-limiting move.
ice field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice fields
Senses: glosses: A network of interconnected glaciers or ice streams having a common source.
glosses: A large expanse of floating ice (several miles long).
ice sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice sheets
form: ice-sheet
Senses: glosses: A broad glacial mass with a relatively flat surface.
Related terms: ice cap
ice cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice caps
form: icecap
Senses: examples: text: The ocean beneath the arctic ice cap hosts many unique organisms adapted to the cold and shortage of light.
text: The ice cap of Kilimanjaro is shrinking, and some researchers believe it will disappear within the next one hundred years.
glosses: A permanent expanse of ice encompassing a large geographical area, as for example in Earth's polar zones (polar ice) or at high elevation.
examples: text: After the use of ice caps for some days it is well to provide cool bathing for the head, at least three times daily.
ref: 1903, Canadian Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 14, page lii:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An ice pack designed to be worn on the head.
topics: food
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative spelling of iced capp.
ice shelf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪs ˌʃɛlf/
Forms: form: ice shelves
form: ice-shelf
form: iceshelf
Senses: glosses: A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only.
Related terms: ice sheet
image tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: image tubes
Senses: glosses: A photoelectric device for intensifying faint astronomical images.
immittance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immittances
Etymology: Blend of impedance + admittance
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Either the impedance or the admittance of an electrical network, considered as alternatives.
immunochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪˌmjuːnoʊˈkɛmɪstɹi/
ipa: /ˌɪˌmjuːnəʊˈkɛmɪstri/
Etymology: From immuno- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of the structure of antibody molecules (immunoglobulins) and of their ability to bind with antigens of diverse chemical structure.
Derived terms: histoimmunochemistry
radioimmunochemistry
glassy-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪd
Forms: form: more glassy-eyed
form: most glassy-eyed
Senses: glosses: Having a fixed stare and a wide-eyed appearance, due to boredom, preoccupation, or lack of emotion, attention, or interest.
Coordinate terms: dead-eyed
fish-eyed
Related terms: word: glass eye
word: glasseye
word: glazed
word: thousand-yard stare
star-struck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more star-struck
form: most star-struck
form: starstruck
Senses: glosses: Under the malevolent influence of the stars or of one's horoscope.
examples: text: I'm just as nervous as you are to meet you for real / I get fucking starstruck when you say how you feel
ref: 2025, Fraxiom, “everybody's eyes”, performed by Food House:
glosses: Fascinated or obsessed by fame or by celebrities; awed by an encounter with a celebrity.
muthafucka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muthafuckas
form: mutha fucka
form: mutha phucka
Etymology: From mutha (“mother”) + fucka (“fucker”).
Senses: examples: text: You slipped up. It happened. Move on. Martin Luther wisely wrote, “You cannot keep birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair.” So, save the wallowing for your triumphs, unexpected wins, and moments of happiness. Comb your hair (no bird gonna nest here, muthafuckaaaaa). Brush your teeth. Smile at yourself in the mirror. Shower.
ref: 2023 November 14, Beth Romero, “Be a Weeble”, in Happy AF: Simple Strategies to Get Unstuck, Bounce Back, and Live Your Best Life, Berkeley, Calif.: She Writes Press, →ISBN, chapter 1 (The Art of Letting Go, Bouncing Back, and Being):
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: motherfucker
bailout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪlˌaʊt/
Forms: form: bailouts
form: bail-out
Etymology: Deverbal from bail out.
Senses: examples: text: The government bailout of that corporation is going to cost the taxpayers a hundred billion dollars.
text: "The no bailout' clause is violated every day."
ref: 2016, Otmar Issing, former ECB chief economist, Euro 'house of cards' to collapse, warns ECB prophet:
text: The funding arrangement was described by the Government as a "bailout".
ref: 2020 November 18, “Network News: London 'bailout' achieved with just minutes to spare”, in Rail, page 10:
coordinate_terms: bail-in#Noun
glosses: A rescue, especially a financial rescue.
examples: text: Bailouts from side doors are risky because the slipstream may carry a chutist into the plane's tail section.
ref: 1972, Popular Mechanics, volume 138, number 3, page 193:
glosses: The process of exiting an aircraft while in flight.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A backup supply of air in scuba diving.
topics: firefighting
government
glosses: The situation where a firefighter uses equipment to escape a structure where fire has proven uncontrollable.
Derived terms: antibailout
postbailout
Related terms: word: bail out
bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋ(ɡ)z/
rhymes: -æŋz
Forms: form: bang
Etymology: From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).
Senses: glosses: plural of bang
glosses: Hair hanging over the forehead.
glosses: A hairstyle including such hair, especially cut straight across the forehead.
Synonyms: sense: hair
word: forelocks
sense: hair
word: fringe
sense: hair
word: bang
topics: hairstyle
hairdressing
crafts
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
word: fringe
topics: hairstyle
hairdressing
crafts
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
word: bang
Derived terms: air bangs
baby bangs
curtain bangs
emo bangs
micro bangs
TERF bangs
bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋ(ɡ)z/
rhymes: -æŋz
Etymology: From bang (“to cut [hair], dock [an animal's tail]”), probably from the sudden manner in which docked hair appears to burst out explosively when it's cut (i.e. "with a bang"). Ultimately from bang (“to strike noisily, explode”).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bang
bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæŋ(ɡ)z/
rhymes: -æŋz
Etymology: Shortened from Bang's disease.
Senses: glosses: Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.
zealously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛləsli/
Forms: form: more zealously
form: most zealously
Etymology: From zealous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: working zealously
text: zealously defend someone
text: zealously guarded
text: It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 39:
text: Unlike Ali G Indahouse, Baron Cohen’s failed attempt to bring his most famous character into an entirely fictional universe, Borat found the comic tension in placing his Kazakhstani buffoon in delicate social situations, like a rodeo where he supports the “War Of Terror” a bit too zealously.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012:
glosses: Like, or in the manner of, a zealot; with great zeal or zealotry.
Synonyms: sense: with zealotry
word: eagerly
sense: with zealotry
word: enthusiastically
sense: with zealotry
word: heartily
sense: with zealotry
word: with a will
only child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: only children
Senses: examples: text: An only child is often stereotyped as spoiled.
text: Tali: It's my father. He's the senior member of the Admiralty Board. He's one of only five people who can overrule the decisions of the Conclave for the good of the Migrant Fleet.
Tali: My father is responsible for the lives of seventeen million people -- our entire race is in his hands. And I'm his only child.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-1:
synonyms: single child
glosses: A person who has no siblings; a person raised as the sole child in a household.
Synonyms: oneling
onlyborn
Related terms: only daughter
only son
siblingless
stage race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stage races
Etymology: From stage + race.
Senses: qualifier: cycle racing
glosses: A multi-day cycle race consisting of a series of separate races (called stages) of various types (road races, criteriums, time trials) usually held one stage per day and all linked together by the general classification (GC).
CDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDMs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: HDM
FDM
DM
glosses: Initialism of cold dark matter.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of charge description master.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of Caribbean dance music.
qualifier: UN; climate change; UN; climate change
glosses: Initialism of Clean Development Mechanism.
Hyponyms: sense: cold dark matter
word: LCDM
sense: cold dark matter
word: λCDM
protectorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈtɛktəɹɪt/
Forms: form: protectorates
Etymology: From protector + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, a system ruled by people of such office).
Senses: glosses: Government by a protector; especially, The Protectorate: government of England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1653 and 1659 under the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth Oliver Cromwell, later his son Richard Cromwell.
glosses: The office or position of the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
examples: text: Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914.
glosses: The authority assumed by a state over another state deemed inferior or dependent, whereby the former protects the latter from invasion and shares in the management of its affairs but the protected state retains its nominal sovereignty.
glosses: An autonomous state under protectorate.
synonyms: regency
glosses: The office or position of protector (sense 5).
Derived terms: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
Somali Coast Protectorate
light switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light switches
Senses: glosses: A switch, usually mounted on a wall in a building, used to turn the light or another appliance such as a fan on and off.
Related terms: word: dimmer switch
word: DPST
word: two-way switch
word: three-way switch
english: four-way switch
translation: four-way switch
word: intermediate switch
word: toggle switch
vitiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vitiate
ice barrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice barriers
Senses: glosses: a part of the Antarctic ice shelf that extends into the sea
ice dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice dams
Senses: topics: geography
glaciology
hydrology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: earthquake dam
glosses: An obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the flow of a glacier across its course.
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: pressure ridge
ice shove
glosses: An obstruction to the flow of a river caused by the concatenation of surface ice into a ridge that rises above and sinks below the surface causing a blockage, occurring frequently during spring breakup season.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A mass of ice formed at the transition from a warm to a cold roof surface, frequently formed by refreezing meltwater at the overhang of a steep roof, causing ice and water to back up under roofing materials.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: Ellipsis of ice dam membrane.
Derived terms: ice-dammed
ice diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of undersea diving in which the diver enters the water through a hole cut in the ice.
ice fishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
Related terms: ice fish
ice fishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ice fish
ice fog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice fogs
Senses: glosses: A dense fog that consists of fine particles of ice.
Synonyms: pogonip
ice foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice foots
form: ice feet
Senses: examples: text: Ice foots often persist into the spring after much of the lake ice has been melted or blown into the lake ; thus they act as breakwaters, protecting the shoreline from erosion and deposition.
ref: 1975, Richard E. Matthews, Active Microwave Workshop Report:
text: “At last we got out on to the ice foot overlooking the sea ice, and there were the Emperor Penguins,” Wilson wrote.
ref: 2011, Edward J. Larson, An Empire of Ice:
text: In the water near the surface swam Pteropocla and Copepoda, their forms and colour sharply defined against the clear “ice feet” (the extensive under-water parts of the swimming blocks).
ref: 2011, Alexander Leslie, The Arctic Voyages of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, 1858-1879, page 149:
glosses: A ledge of ice that forms along the shoreline of the sea or of a great lake.
isotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑɪ.səˈtɑː.nɪk/
Etymology: From iso- + tonic.
Senses: glosses: Having the same osmotic pressure.
raw_tags: of two solutions
examples: text: Use an isotonic saline solution in your neti pot to prevent irritation of your nasal passages.
glosses: Having the same concentration of solutes as human blood.
raw_tags: of a medical solution
glosses: Having equal tension.
raw_tags: of two muscles
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Of or involving muscular contraction against resistance in which the length of the muscle changes. Antonym is isometric. Isotonic movements are either concentric (working muscle shortens) or eccentric (working muscle lengthens). See also Wikipedia:Isotonic (exercise physiology)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having the same tone.
Derived terms: anisotonic
isotonically
isotonicity
Related terms: hypotonic
hypertonic
ice fractal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice fractals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A fractal based on a simple geometric shape and a simple generating motif.
fractal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæk.təl/
rhymes: -æktəl
Forms: form: fractals
Etymology: From French fractal, from Latin fractus (“broken”), perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension, corresponding to a geometric figure or object that is self-similar at arbitrarily small scales and thus has infinite complexity.
examples: text: In essence, you are assuming that each segment of a company is a fractal of the whole[…]
ref: 1999, John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella, The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence, →ISBN:
glosses: An object, system, or idea that exhibits a fractal-like property, such as the property of self-similarity at numerous but not infinitely many scales.
Synonyms: word: fractal
Hypernyms: word: figure
word: shape
Hyponyms: word: Mandelbrot set
word: Julia set
word: Koch snowflake
word: Sierpinski triangle
word: Menger sponge
Derived terms: curlicue fractal
fractal dimension
fractalesque
ice fractal
multifractal
fractal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹæk.təl/
rhymes: -æktəl
Etymology: From French fractal, from Latin fractus (“broken”), perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Senses: examples: text: Romanesco was my gateway cauli and I've never stopped growing it. Not a variety as much as its own thing, Romanesco is a cauliflower to the French, a calabrese to the Italians. […] Visually, it may be the most remarkable thing you can grow: it is made up of lime-green mini-spirals that coil around themselves in fractal formation.
ref: 2015 January 26, Mark Diacono, “How to grow and cook cauliflower, 2015's trendiest veg: Tricky to grow, boring to boil ... so why is the outmoded cauliflower back at the culinary cutting edge? [print version: Cauliflower power, 24 January 2015, pp. G1 & G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a fractal; having to do with fractals.
examples: text: A fractal situation emerges in this way then: the consequences of Ulysses' decision to abandon Calypso are not entirely predictable.
ref: 2007, Vincent Spina, “Three Central American writers: alone between two cultures”, in Carlota Caulfield, Darién J. Davis, editors, Companion to United States Latino Literatures, →ISBN:
ref: 2020, Frank E. Zachos, Les Christidis, Stephen Garnett, “The Tree of Life, however, is an encaptic system displaying a nested hierarchy with a fractal pattern (lineages within lineages).”, in Mammalia, volume 84, number 1, page 2:
glosses: Exhibiting a fractal-like property.
Derived terms: word: fractal antenna
word: fractal dimension
word: fractal flame
word: fractal response time
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fractalist
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fractality
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fractalization
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fractalize
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fractally
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fractalness
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: fracton
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: monofractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: nanofractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: nonfractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: pseudofractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: semifractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: subfractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: superfractal
sense: derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)
word: thermofractal
Related terms: Mandelbrot set
Julia set
KOM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KOMs
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of King of the Mountains (in the mountains classification of a cycling road race).
archaeo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχαῖος (arkhaîos).
Senses: related: word: archeo-
word: archæo-
word: archaio-
word: ;
word: archae-
word: archæ-
word: arche-
glosses: ancient, early, primitive.
Luchsinger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Luchsingers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Luchsinger. Originating from Switzerland.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Lucksinger
Yugambeh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Australian aboriginal language, spoken by peoples living on what is roughly now the Gold Coast in South East Queensland.