cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chapeau
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæˈpəʊ/
ipa: /ʃæˈpoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French chappeau. The interjection is after Modern French chapeau in similar use, originally short for chapeau bas.
Senses: examples: text: Chapeau to you for the presence of mind.
ref: 2012, Kfir Luzzatto, The Evelyn Project, PINE TEN, LLC, →ISBN:
text: I fully understand the mother's concerns; and I say chapeau to her twice. The first for allowing her daughter the opportunity to study abroad, and secondly for accompanying her during the first months of study to ease her homelessness.
ref: 2017, Jamal AlShehhi, Uncle Sam & Myself: Living in the land of Uncle Sam, Kuttab Publishing, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Hopefully you see it as a good promotion for your blog and chapeau to you for being awesome!
ref: 2019, Carly Findlay, Say Hello, HarperCollins Australia, →ISBN:
glosses: well done, thank you a verbal representation of a hat tip
heteroclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteroclitic
form: most heteroclitic
Etymology: From hetero- + clitic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Irregular in inflection.
glosses: Signifying a nominal stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case, particularly in the suffix, most often between *-r- in the strong stem and *-n- in the weak stem(s). Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- (“water”) (nominoaccusative *wódr̥; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékʷ-r/n- (“liver”) (nominoaccusative *yékʷr̥, genitive *ikʷnés).
examples: text: […] a heteroclitic response was never observed after the immunization with the deamidated peptide […]
ref: 2011, Eric J. Toone, Advances in Enzymology and Related Areas of Molecular Biology, page 300:
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
Coordinate terms: suppletive
Related terms: heteroclite
heteroclitical
heteroclitic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroclitics
Etymology: From hetero- + clitic.
Senses: glosses: A heteroclitic noun.
Related terms: heteroclisis
heteroclite
Gott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from German Gott ("God").
Senses: glosses: A surname.
nominoaccusative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nomino- + accusative.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to both the nominative and accusative cases at once, capable of conveying either the subject or direct object of the verb.
rinse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪns/
rhymes: -ɪns
ipa: /ɹɛns/
Forms: form: rinses
form: rinsing
form: rinsed
form: rinsed
Etymology: From Middle English rinsen, rincen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”).
Cognate with French rincer. From the Germanic verb are Danish rense, Norwegian rense, Swedish rensa (all “to clean”), Old High German reinisōn (“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related to German rein (“pure”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean”), and English riddle. The Latin verb is related to recent.
Senses: examples: text: You'd better rinse that stain before putting the shirt in the washing machine.
glosses: To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap.
examples: text: Rinse the dishes after you wash them.
glosses: To remove soap from (something) using water.
examples: text: Let's Rinse later tonight at my house.
glosses: To drink and hangout with friends.
examples: text: Oscar uncapped his beer, rinsed the first mouthful around.
ref: 1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 51:
glosses: To swish (a liquid) around the inside of something.
examples: text: You got rinsed.
text: I think that's a British thing though. Like, I got rinsed for playing video games.
ref: 2020 August 7, Joseph Bizinger, Garnt Maneetapho, Connor Marc Colquhoun, “Our Dark Past with Anime YouTube” (2:25 from the start), in Trash Taste, season 1, episode 10 (podcast), spoken by Connor Marc Colquhoun (Connor Marc Colquhoun), Tokyo, Japan: YouTube, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2020:
glosses: To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition.
Derived terms: rinse and repeat
rinse down
rinse off
rinse out
rinse-pitcher
rinse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪns/
rhymes: -ɪns
ipa: /ɹɛns/
Forms: form: rinses
Etymology: From Middle English rinsen, rincen, rencen (“to rinse”), from Old French rincier, reinser, Old Northern French raïncer (“to rinse, cleanse”). Of contested origin. Possibly from Old Norse hreinsa, from Proto-Germanic *hrainisōną (“to clean, purify”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to separate, divide”). Alternatively from a dissimilation of Old French recincier, from Latin recentare (“to make fresh”).
Cognate with French rincer. From the Germanic verb are Danish rense, Norwegian rense, Swedish rensa (all “to clean”), Old High German reinisōn (“to clean, purify, atone”). It is related to German rein (“pure”), Gothic 𐌷𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (hrains, “clean”), and English riddle. The Latin verb is related to recent.
Senses: examples: text: I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.
glosses: The action of rinsing.
examples: text: I had a henna rinse yesterday.
glosses: A liquid used to rinse, now particularly a hair dye.
Synonyms: sense: rinsing, a rinsing
word: lavatory
sense: anything used to rinse
word: lavatory
sense: anything used to rinse
word: wash
Derived terms: blue rinse
cream rinse
rinse aid
nomino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Abbreviated form of nominative
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the nominative case.
aequalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin aequālis (“equal”). Doublet of equal and egal.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The case conveying an equality with another noun, equivalent to “like” or “as” in English. This case is used in some languages like Inuktitut.
rink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: rinks
Etymology: From Middle English rink, renk, from Old English rinc (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-Germanic *rankiz (“upright man”), from *rankaz (“straight, upright”), from Proto-Indo-European *reǵ- (“straight, direct”).
Cognate with Scots rink, renk (“man, warrior, hero”), Old Saxon rink (“man”), Old Norse rekkr (“a straight or upright man”), Old English ranc (“proud, noble, valiant”). More at rank.
Senses: glosses: A man, especially a warrior or hero.
rink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: rinks
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots rink, renk (“course, battlefield”), from Middle French renc, from Old French reng, from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of rank and ring.
Senses: glosses: A ring; a circle.
examples: text: We played hockey all winter until the rink melted.
glosses: A sheet of ice prepared for playing certain sports, such as hockey or curling.
glosses: A surface for roller skating.
glosses: A building housing an ice rink.
examples: text: The Schmirler rink won the Silver Broom.
topics: ball-games
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team in a competition.
Derived terms: hockey rink
ice rink
ice skating rink
ice-skating rink
rink rash
rink rat
rink skate
roller rink
skating rink
rink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪŋk/
rhymes: -ɪŋk
Forms: form: rinks
form: rinking
form: rinked
form: rinked
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots rink, renk (“course, battlefield”), from Middle French renc, from Old French reng, from Frankish *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz. Doublet of rank and ring.
Senses: examples: text: Jack, who has a knack of knowing, seeing, and doing everything from its very beginning, had of course "rinked" on the only compo at that time laid down in London for the purpose, and visited by London's upper twenty.
ref: 1877, Temple Bar, volume 49, page 479:
glosses: To skate on an ice rink.
curling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəɹlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Forms: form: curlings
Senses: examples: text: curlings of smoke
text: a scornful curling of the lip
text: Wherefore are all your sleekings, and your curlings,
Crispings, and paintings, and your skin made soft,
And your face smooth with ointments […]
ref: 1631, Shackerley Marmion, Holland's Leaguer:
glosses: The action or motion of something that curls or is curled.
glosses: A winter sport where players aim and slide stones down a sheet of ice and attempt to get their color stones closest to the house (a circular target marked on the ice).
Coordinate terms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: rink
Derived terms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: crokicurl
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: curling parent
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: curling stick
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: curling stone
topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: wheelchair curling
curling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəɹlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)lɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of curl
Hittite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪ.taɪt/
Forms: form: Hittites
form: Hitt.
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti. In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as [script needed] (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /⁠nešumeneš⁠/, “people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.
Senses: glosses: A person of the Hittite Kingdom, a Bronze Age kingdom of Anatolia.
Derived terms: Hittitologist
Hittitology
Hittite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪ.taɪt/
Forms: form: Hitt.
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti. In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as [script needed] (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /⁠nešumeneš⁠/, “people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.
Senses: examples: text: The study of the main body of Hittite texts was intrusted^([sic]) to the Austrian scholar Hrozny, who in 1915 published a preliminary account of his results[…]
ref: 1920, Carl D. Buck, “Hittite an Indo-European Language?”, in Classical Philology, volume 15, number 2, →DOI, page 185:
glosses: An ancient Indo-European language of the Anatolian branch, attested from the 16th century BC until the 13th century BC.
Hittite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪ.taɪt/
Forms: form: Hitt.
Etymology: From Biblical Hebrew חִתִּי (ḥittî), from Hittite 𒄩𒋾 (ḫati), perhaps ultimately an exonym related to Hatti. In reference to the Indo-European-speaking people of Asia Minor (as opposed to the Biblical Hittites), this term was first used in the early 20th century in confusion with the neighboring Hattites (Hattic) whose language was recorded in discovered texts as [script needed] (ḫattili). It is now known that the Hittites called themselves 𒉈𒋗𒈨𒉌𒌍 (ne-šu-me-né-eš /⁠nešumeneš⁠/, “people from the city of Nesha”), hence the much less used alternative name Nesite or Neshite.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Hittite people.
glosses: Of or relating to the Hittite language.
glosses: Of or relating to the Hittite Kingdom, located in central Anatolia (modern Turkey), that flourished from about 1800 to 1400 B.C.E.
Derived terms: Indo-Hittite
Proto-Hittite
bonspiel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒnspiːl/
ipa: /ˈbɑnspil/
ipa: /ˈbɒnspil/
Forms: form: bonspiels
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots bonspiel, from Middle Scots bonspele, possibly from Dutch bond (“league”) + spel (“game”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and he never took his ee aff them, or said another word, or gave another glance at the bonspiel, though there was the finest fun amang the curlers ever was seen; […]
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: A tournament in the sport of curling.
wikipedia: Dutch language
Derived terms: cashspiel
séance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪˌɑns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
Forms: form: séances
form: seance
Etymology: Borrowed from French séance (“sitting, session”).
Senses: examples: text: [B]ut only too often séances degenerate into pure sorcery or necromancy, attracting all kinds of undeveloped and earth-bound entities.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 231:
glosses: A ceremony where people try to communicate with the spirits of dead people, usually led by a medium.
glosses: The sitting of an assembly to discuss a matter.
séance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪˌɑns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
Forms: form: séances
form: séancing
form: séanced
form: séanced
form: seance
Etymology: Borrowed from French séance (“sitting, session”).
Senses: glosses: To hold a séance (communication with spirits).
seance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪˌɑns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
Forms: form: seances
Etymology: Borrowed from French séance.
Senses: examples: text: Even when she doesn’t host a seance for months (to appease her husband), they’re always waiting, trying to get her attention.
ref: 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 139:
glosses: Alternative spelling of séance.
seance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪˌɑns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
Forms: form: seances
form: seancing
form: seanced
form: seanced
Etymology: Borrowed from French séance.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of séance.
soirée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soirées
Etymology: Borrowed from French soirée.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of soiree.
tell all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛl ˈɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: tells all
form: telling all
form: told all
form: told all
Senses: examples: text: The suspect told all when he saw the surveillance tapes linking him to the crime scene.
text: The actress's earthy new book tells all.
glosses: To reveal everything, particularly information that is normally withheld.
examples: text: She told all of the news to her friends.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see tell, all.
Synonyms: sense: reveal everything
word: confess
word: spill the beans
word: dish
clicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of click
clicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of click
iwi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːwi/
rhymes: -iːwi
Forms: form: iwis
form: iwi
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori iwi (literally “bone”), ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *duʀi (“thorn”). Doublet of durian, from Malay.
Senses: examples: text: Through her, the women of my iwi are also beautiful, strong and powerful.
ref: 1996, Diane Bell, Renate Klein, Radically speaking: feminism reclaimed, page 505:
text: Ngati Porou and the related iwi Ngāti Kahungunu were major tribes down the East Coast of the North Island.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 78:
glosses: An extended group of Maori kin groups or families, sharing common ancestry; a tribe. (An iwi is smaller than a waka and larger than a hapu.)
kurī
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kuri (“an extinct, bushy-tailed, short-legged dog of New Zealand”).
Saint Bernard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsənt ˈbɜːnəd/
ipa: /ˌseɪnt bɚˈnɑɹd/
Forms: form: Saint Bernards
form: St. Bernard
Etymology: The dogs were originally bred for rescue at the Great St Bernard Pass on the Italian-Swiss border, and Little St Bernard Pass in the Italian-French border, located close to one another.
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of large dog, famous for rescuing people on mountains.
St. Bernard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St. Bernards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saint Bernard.
Derived terms: St. Bernard Parish
informative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfɔːmətɪv/
ipa: /ɪnˈfɔɹmətɪv/
ipa: [ɪnˈfɔɹməɾɪv]
ipa: /ɪnˈfoːmətɪv/
ipa: [ɪnˈfoːməɾɪv]
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪnfɵ(ɾ)ˈmeʈɪv/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɪnˌfɔ(ɾ)ˈmeʈɪv/
Forms: form: more informative
form: most informative
Etymology: From inform + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: I read a very informative newspaper article on that subject last week.
synonyms: informatory
instructive
antonyms: uninformative
glosses: Providing information; especially, providing useful or interesting information.
antonyms: normative
glosses: Not specifying requirements, but merely providing information.
raw_tags: in standards and specifications
glosses: Formative; having power to form.
Derived terms: bioinformative
counterinformative
disinformative
informatively
informativeness
informativity
metainformative
misinformative
noninformative
overinformative
superinformative
underinformative
Related terms: inform
information
informational
informatory
tell-all
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The statesman's tell-all memoirs were not published until long after death.
text: Open source is a tell-all software development strategy.
text: Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue.
ref: 1997 February 1, Walter Goodman, “The Role of Partisans in a Neutral Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: More unsettling was the origin story of the infamous tell-all book Princess in Love. Diana claimed to be outraged in 1994 when Daily Express journalist Anna Pasternak spilled the beans of her affair with former army officer James Hewitt[…]
ref: 2022 April 5, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
text: The Princess of Canada is a “sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim”, while her husband, the prince, has written a tell-all book about his family and the media called “Waaagh!”.
ref: 2023 February 22, Alexi Duggins, “‘Baseless nonsense’: Meghan and Harry won’t sue South Park for mocking them”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Telling all; revealing everything, particularly details or information that are normally withheld.
tell-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tell-alls
Senses: examples: text: At this point, we could all write a tell-all about our tabloid childhoods and contrive an autobiographical performance about the pleasures of humiliation.
ref: 1998, Laurie Stone, Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire, page xi:
text: Mikerra had been offered a seven-figure book deal for a tell-all chronicling her relationship with Senator McCaffrey, his death, and the project's ultimate demise.
ref: 2009, Kennedy Shaw, Tour of Duty, page 308:
text: Surprise! I wrote a tell-all about each and every one of you!
ref: 2010, Zoe Fishman, Balancing Acts: A Novel, page 357:
text: Of all the people in the world to write a tell-all about The Lunch Club, it had to be Missy Adams?!
ref: 2011, Star Jones, Satan's Sisters: A Novel Work of Fiction, page 23:
text: The highly anticipated proceedings are poised to serve as a tell-all on FTX and Alameda’s shocking downfall, with jurors weighing whether Bankman-Fried callously lined his pockets with hapless investors’ money. Ellison will play a pivotal role in the case.
ref: 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A publication, usually a book or magazine article, which tells all, revealing every detail, particularly information that is normally withheld.
for-pay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Senses: examples: text: The website's for-pay access provides premium options.
text: The freeware version will be supplanted by an overhauled for-pay release.
glosses: Available by subscription; used to describe a product or service that must be purchased to use; synonymous with pay in pay version.
Calgary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælɡəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkælɡɹi/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic cala (“harbor”) + ghearraidh, genitive of gearraidh (“pasture”) (compare Old Norse garðr (“courtyard, enclosed space”)). The Canadian city was named after the village on Mull, Scotland.
Senses: synonyms: CGY
Cgy
Cgy.
glosses: The largest city in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A village on the island of Mull, Scotland, the eponym of the Canadian city.
Derived terms: Calgarian
Wall Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːl stɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈwɔl ˌstɹit/
ipa: /ˈwɑl-/
Etymology: From wall + street. The term is the name of a street in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S.A., where the palisade of New Amsterdam was once located. The street is known for the many major U.S. financial institutions located there.
Senses: examples: text: The causes of income stagnation are varied and lack the political simplicity of calls to bring down the deficit or avert another Wall Street meltdown.
ref: 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, “Standard of living is in the shadows as election issue”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2022:
synonyms: the Street
antonyms: Main Street
glosses: American financial institutions or financial markets as a whole; (by extension) big-business interests.
Coordinate terms: The City
Bay Street
Sand Hill Road
Derived terms: Black Wall Street
Wall Streeter
Wall Streety
wolf of Wall Street
wheel war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheel wars
Etymology: From wheel (“superuser on certain systems”) + war.
Senses: examples: text: WHEEL WARS. A period during which student wheels hack each other by attempting to log each other out of the system, delete each other’s files, or otherwise wreak havoc—usually at the expense of the lesser users. A battle of Titans (heh heh).
ref: [1983, Guy L. Steele Jr., Donald R. Woods, Raphael A. Finkel, Mark R. Crispin, Richard M. Stallman, Geoffrey S. Goodfellow, The Hacker’s Dictionary: A Guide to the Computer Underground, New York: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 123:
text: Wikipedia policy prohibits “wheel wars”—cases in which a Wikipedia administrator repeatedly undoes the action of another—just as it prohibits edit wars.
ref: 2008, Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 290:
text: Many of us prefer to ask a colleague to intervene in a situation in which we risk entering a “wheel war” (when two or more editors revert each others’ edits over and over) or when we believe we need a consultation with a fresh eye.
ref: 2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 52:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the system or repeatedly attempt to reverse each other’s administrative actions.
demo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”).
Senses: examples: e.g. democracy, demolatry, demonym
glosses: people
examples: e.g. demogenetics, demography, demology
glosses: population
examples: e.g. demographer, demolinguistic, demoeconomic
glosses: demography
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from people
word: demagogue
sense: terms derived from people
word: demarchy
sense: terms derived from people
word: democracy
sense: terms derived from people
word: democrat
sense: terms derived from people
word: democratic
sense: terms derived from people
word: democratizing
sense: terms derived from people
word: demogenic
sense: terms derived from people
word: demolater
sense: terms derived from people
word: demolatry
sense: terms derived from people
word: demonym
sense: terms derived from people
word: demonymy
sense: terms derived from people
word: demophilic
sense: terms derived from people
word: demophobic
sense: terms derived from people
word: demopolitics
sense: terms derived from people
word: demoscopy
sense: terms derived from people
word: demosophy
sense: terms derived from people
word: demotic
sense: terms derived from people
word: Philodemician
sense: terms derived from people
word: Tridemism
sense: terms derived from population
word: demogenetic
sense: terms derived from population
word: demogenetics
sense: terms derived from population
word: demography
sense: terms derived from population
word: demology
sense: terms derived from demography
word: demoeconomic
sense: terms derived from demography
word: demograph
sense: terms derived from demography
word: demographer
sense: terms derived from demography
word: demographics
sense: terms derived from demography
word: demolinguistic
sense: terms derived from demography
word: demolinguistics
jagoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jagoffs
Etymology: From jag.
Senses: examples: text: You don't look like a Mullen. In fact, you look like a Chekov, or a jag-off.
ref: 1940, Joseph Shannon, "Hodge-Podge", in Spring Hill Quarterly (Spring 1940), Spring Hill College, page 20
text: “Listen, jaggoff, I've got a whole treasure trove of Philly magazines, okay? One of 'em's got a picture of Darren Daulton in a tux eating a hotdog.” “That one where he got the mustard on his face?” “Yeah, that's the one.” “Oh, that would move here for sure.”
ref: 2014 March 4, Nick Kroll, “Mercury Poisoning” (5:10 from the start), in Kroll Show, season 2, episode 8, spoken by Don (Jon Daly):
qualifier: Chicago
glosses: An irritating, inept, or repugnant person.
Synonyms: dickwad
douchebag
idiot
jerk
jagwagon
for more
cock sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cock suckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cocksucker.
massless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.ləs/
ipa: /ˈmæs.lɪs/
rhymes: -æsləs
Etymology: From mass + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The photon is a massless particle.
text: On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed a massless, chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation.
ref: 2014, Mark A. Cunningham, Neoclassical Physics, page 241:
glosses: Having no mass.
Derived terms: masslessness
icebreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪsˌbɹeɪkəɹ/
Forms: form: icebreakers
form: ice breaker
form: ice-breaker
Etymology: From ice + breaker, in the figurative sense from the expression to break the ice.
Senses: examples: text: The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.
text: My father's Bonneville was cutting its way toward us like an icebreaker moving through my whole state of consciousness.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Fearless, Immune, and Ready for All”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: slushbreaker
glosses: A ship designed to break through ice so that it, or other ships coming behind, can navigate on frozen seas.
examples: text: The new college hallmates were awkward with each other at first, but after a game of charades as an icebreaker, they were laughing like old friends.
text: The key purpose of an icebreaker is to introduce your group members to each other and to introduce your training session topic. A well-planned icebreaker ensures that a training session will start with more involvement and focus.
ref: 2011, Elaine Biech, chapter 11, in The Book of Road-Tested Activities, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
glosses: A game, activity, humorous anecdote, etc., designed to ease tension and encourage interaction among individuals in a situation where they do not know each other well.
examples: text: At the moment the curtain went up there had to be a lively ensemble number of principals and chorus singing and dancing, the traditional “icebreaker” that also covered up the noise of late-arriving ticket holders getting to their seats.
ref: 2014, Maggie Davis, Stage Door Canteen:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A lively song and dance routine at the start of a musical.
Derived terms: heavy icebreaker
light icebreaker
medium icebreaker
oblique icebreaker
Related terms: break the ice
passagemaker
social lubricant
ice breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice breakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of icebreaker.
idolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪˈdɑlətəɹ/
Forms: form: idolaters
form: idolatress
form: idolator
Etymology: From Middle English ydolatrer, from Middle French idolatre, from Latin idololatra. Displaced native Old English dēofolġielda (literally “devil worshiper”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]he state of idolaters is two ways miserable: first, in that which they worship they find no succour; and secondly, at his hands, whom they ought to serve, there is no other thing to be looked for but the effects of most just displeasure, the withdrawing of grace, dereliction in this world, and in the world to come confusion.
ref: 1597, Richard Hooker, “Their pretenſe that would haue Churches vtterly razed”, in J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], 2nd edition, London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, book V, page 209:
text: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 5:9-12:
text: You who can smash the idols, do so with a good courage; but do not be too fierce with the idolaters,—they worship the best thing they know.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: One who worships idols; (historical) a pagan.
Related terms: idol
idolatry
illusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭ-lo͞o′sə-rē
enpr: -zə-rē
ipa: /ɪˈluː.sə.ɹiː/
ipa: /-zə.ɹiː/
ipa: /ɪˈlu.sə.ɹi/
ipa: /-zə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɪˈlʉː.sə.ɹiː/
ipa: /-zə.ɹiː/
ipa: /əˈlʉː.sə.ɹiː/
ipa: /-zə.ɹiː/
ipa: /ɪˈlʉ.sə.ɹi/
ipa: /-zə.ɹi/
ipa: /iˈluː.so.ɾiː/
ipa: /-zo.ɾiː/
rhymes: -uːsəɹiː
rhymes: -uːzəɹiː
Forms: form: more illusory
form: most illusory
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French illusorie (modern French illusoire), derived from Latin illūsōrius (“mocking, ironical”).
Senses: examples: text: The invalidity of a cognition is the otherwiseness of its object, and is known by a sublating cognition. The illusory cognition of silver knows illusory silver, but does not know its otherwiseness.
ref: 1973, Jadunath Sinha, A History of Indian Philosophy, volume 4, page 174:
text: Yet for this new womanosphere, the response is not advancing policies like paid family leave or affordable childcare, but to return to an idealized, illusory past where being a wife and mother was viewed as a woman’s sole purpose.
ref: 2025 April 24, Anna Silman, “Now comes the ‘womanosphere’: the anti-feminist media telling women to be thin, fertile and Republican”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Resulting from an illusion; deceptive, imaginary, unreal.
Derived terms: illusorily
illusoriness
nonillusory
unillusory
Related terms: illusion
illusionary
illusive
illustrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪləˌstɹeɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: illustrators
Etymology: From illustrate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Mary is one of the best illustrators of children's books in the country.
glosses: a person who draws pictures (especially illustrations in books or magazines)
Derived terms: illustratress
paleoillustrator
Related terms: illustrate
illustration
artist
immaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪ.məˈtɪə.ɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /ˌɪ.məˈtɪ.ɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌɪ.məˈti.ɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɪɹiəl
Forms: form: immaterials
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English immaterial, inmateriall (“incorporeal; spiritual”), from Middle French immateriel (“not material”) (modern French immatériel), and from its etymon Medieval Latin immāteriālis (“not material”), from Latin im- (a variant of in- (prefix meaning ‘not’)) + māteriālis (“made of matter, material”) (from māteria (“matter, substance, material”) (from māter, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr, + ia) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)). The English word is analysable as im- + material.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: glosses: A being or entity having no matter or substance.
examples: text: Lodge immaterials in thy Head: aſcend unto inviſibles: fill thy Spirit vvith Spirituals, vvith the myſteries of Faith, the magnalities of Religion, and thy Life vvith the Honour of God; […]
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] XIV”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part III, page 100:
text: And we do absolutely know that these men's inborn temperaments have remained unchanged through all the vicissitudes of their material affairs. Let us see how it is with their immaterials.
ref: 1906, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “What Is Man? Chapter VI. Instinct and Thought.”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 107:
glosses: A thing which is abstract or intangible; (uncountable) chiefly preceded by the: things which are abstract or intangible considered collectively.
ivories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪvəɹiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ivory
ivories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪvəɹiːz/
Senses: glosses: The keys of a piano.
glosses: The teeth.
Derived terms: box of ivories
Related terms: tinkle the ivories
tickle the ivories
tinkle the ivories
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tinkles the ivories
form: tinkling the ivories
form: tinkled the ivories
form: tinkled the ivories
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tickle the ivories.
dyspeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛptɪk
Forms: form: more dyspeptic
form: most dyspeptic
Etymology: First attested in 1694. From Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος (dúspeptos, “difficult to digest”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + πέπτω (péptō, “to digest”).
Senses: examples: text: ...but Lady Anne could not be deceived—in five years' time he would become dyspeptic, be surrounded by physicians, consigned to all the Badens in Germany, and think much more of a renovating draught than a beautiful young wife.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 272–273:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.
examples: text: He was a sallow, dyspeptic man, with a premature shock of grey hair, attached to the stage as an occupation but not a vocation. His only passion was gambling on the race-course, which was attended with perpetual bad luck, though that appeared to act as a stimulus rather than to dampen his fervour.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 23:
text: Sir Maurice made a rough, dyspeptic sound, as if chewing a mint.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
synonyms: bad-tempered
bilious
irritable
morose
glosses: Irritable or morose.
Derived terms: antidyspeptic
dyspeptone
nondyspeptic
dyspeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpɛp.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɛptɪk
Forms: form: dyspeptics
Etymology: First attested in 1694. From Ancient Greek δύσπεπτος (dúspeptos, “difficult to digest”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + πέπτω (péptō, “to digest”).
Senses: examples: text: Medical management of peptic ulcers is employed along with psychotherapy to greater advantage than the multitude of operations employed twenty years ago for the unfortunate dyspeptic.
ref: 1951 February, Forrest H. Howard, “The Physiologic Position for Delivery”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 2, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 98:
text: There is, for example, the hamburg-steak, of which the alliaceousness can seduce all but saints and the worst of dyspeptics.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 175:
glosses: A dyspeptic person.
Related terms: dyspepsia
dyspeptically
peptic
oligosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligosynthetic
form: most oligosynthetic
Etymology: From oligo- + synthetic.
Senses: examples: text: Talking of which, the grammar of oligosynthetic languages is not always particularly well explained – the designers sometimes seem to have been too focused on the vocabulary.
ref: 2021 April 10, Simon Davies, “Conlang Excursions 4: Saying a Lot with a Little”, in ESF Connected:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Using a relatively small number of morphemes which combine synthetically to form compound words.
raw_tags: of a language
oligo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: olig-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀλίγος (olígos, “few”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ligos (“poor, miserable”).
Senses: synonyms: pauci-
poly-
;
multi-
pluri-
glosses: few, several
oligochaete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligochaetes
form: oligochete
Senses: glosses: Any of various hermaphroditic aquatic and terrestrial annelid worms, of the subclass Oligochaeta, that have single bristles along the body.
Derived terms: intraoligochaete
Related terms: oligochaetologist
oligochaetotic
oligochaetous
oligodendroglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligodendroglias
form: oligodendroglia
Etymology: From oligo- + dendro- + glia.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: tissue (neuroglia) consisting of glial cells that are smaller than astrocytes and form the myelin sheath
Synonyms: oligodendrocyte
Derived terms: oligodendroglial
oligodendroglion
oligophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oligo- + -phagous.
Senses: glosses: that feed on a restricted range of food
raw_tags: of insects
Related terms: oligophagy
oligophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: Feeding on few specific types of food (e.g. a single plant genus or family).
Related terms: oligophage
oligophagous
oligopolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligopoly
oligopsony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligopsonies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀλίγοι (olígoi, “few”) + ὀψωνία (opsōnía, “purchase”).
Senses: glosses: An economic condition in which a small number of buyers exert control over the market price of a commodity.
Related terms: oligopsonist
oligopsonistic
oligopsonistically
monopsony
oligopoly
oligopsonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligopsony
oligotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oligotrophic
form: most oligotrophic
Etymology: From oligo- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: deficient in nutrition (providing little nourishment)
raw_tags: of a diet
topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: eutrophic
glosses: being poor in nutrients and minerals
raw_tags: of a body of water
examples: ref: 1969 July, Fred W. Rabe, Robert C. Wissmar, “Some Effects of Antimycin in an Oligotrophic Lake”, in The Progressive Fish-Culturist, volume XXXI, № 3, page 163:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: deficient in plant nutrients, such as nitrogen or phosphorus.
raw_tags: of a wetland
Derived terms: oligotrophication
ultraoligotrophic
Related terms: oligotrophy
eutrophy
hypereutrophy
oligotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oligo- (“few”) + -trophy (“nutrition”).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: a body of water
glosses: the quality of having a low level of nutrients and minerals
Derived terms: ultraoligotrophy
Related terms: oligotrophic
eutrophy
mesotrophy
hypereutrophy
top hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top hands
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman's hand that is further up the handle; used for control rather than power.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see top, hand.
Related terms: bottom hand
top order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top orders
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the batsmen who bat in the first few positions
Related terms: opener
middle order
lower order
bottom order
top-spinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: top-spinners
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a type of ball, bowled by a leg spin bowler, that spins forward and, when bouncing off the pitch, bounces higher than expected and slows down
tour match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tour matches
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a cricket match played between a touring side and a local side
touring side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touring sides
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the visiting side on a tour
touring squad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touring squads
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the group of players who go on a tour as a pool from which teams are selected for individual matches
triple century
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple centuries
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A total of three hundred runs scored by a single batsman in one innings, or by two batsmen in a partnership.
Miller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪlɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɪlə(ɹ)/
homophone: miller
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Millers
Etymology: English surname, capitalization of miller. Doublet of Muller. Also compare Milner, Millward, Müller, Mueller, Mulder, Molenaar, Muenier, Molinaro, Molinero, Molnár, Mlinar, Mlynarczyk.
Senses: examples: text: Ewan McGregor is back as the lead character, Renton, perhaps best remembered for his visit in the first film to the “Worst Toilet in Scotland.” Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; Ewen Bremner returns as the dimwitted Spud, who, in the first movie, has a memorable job interview while high on speed; and Jonny Lee Miller is back as Sick Boy, now known as Simon.
ref: 2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2025:
text: By 2025, of course, Trump and Miller were back in the White House, pursuing a campaign promise to “remigrate” millions of everyday people out of America.
ref: 2025 June 14, Christopher Mathias, “JD Vance threatened to deport him. The ‘menswear guy’ is posting through it”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as an occupation for a miller.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hancock County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Kansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Fulton County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Perry County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clay Township, St. Clair County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Lawrence County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Buffalo County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Lawrence County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A small city, the county seat of Hand County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Miller Township.
glosses: A neighbourhood in north-east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A suburb in the City of Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Derived terms: Andrew Miller
Joe Miller
Miller-Abbott tube
Millerchip
Miller County
Miller-Dieker syndrome
Miller effect
Miller Fisher syndrome
Miller flip
Millerian
Millerite
millerite
Miller-Rabin test
Millersburg
Miller's Dale
Miller test
Millertown
Rabin-Miller test
Related terms: Millward