cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bare minimum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Belgian colonies, if they adhere to these limits, must provide for all their wants at a lower cost by one half than the French as a bare minimum.
ref: 1852, Joseph Fletcher, “Statistics of the Farm School System of the Continent,”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 15, number 1, page 32:
text: It is the old problem of what a victor is to do with the vanquished, if the latter is to gain the bare minimum of economic independence.
ref: 1948, D. B. Copland, “United States Policy in China,”, in Pacific Affairs, volume 21, number 4, page 344:
text: The foreign companies would punish Bolivia by refusing to invest and only sustaining the bare minimum of operations here.
ref: 2006 November 1, Jean Friedman, “Can Bolivia's Revolution Pay Dividends?”, in Time:
glosses: The smallest possible quantity or the least fulfilling, but still adequate, condition that is required, acceptable, or suitable for some purpose.
Synonyms: modicum
Derived terms: bare minimum Monday
puli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpuːli/
Forms: form: pulik
form: pulis
Etymology: From Hungarian puli.
Senses: examples: text: Other dogs competing in Best in Show were a standard poodle, a Scottish terrier, a puli, a Brussels griffon and a Scottish deerhound.
ref: 2009 February 11, Katie Thomas, “10-Year-Old Spaniel Completes Comeback”, in New York Times:
glosses: One of a breed of Hungarian sheepdog with a distinctive thick, corded coat.
Synonyms: Hungarian Puli
arm candy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Presumably derived from eye candy; the term has been attested in the USA since 1992.
Senses: examples: text: All About Eve (1950, FoxVideo). [Marilyn Monroe had] already had mini-roles in eight movies when she turned up as George Sanders' arm candy in the party scenes of this film.
ref: 1992 August 21, Marcia Froelke Coburn, “Marilyn’s enduring appeal”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2016:
text: Friends described her as always ready to serve as "arm candy"—that is, a pretty date—to industry players, in hopes of landing a role.
ref: 2003 February 17, Jeffrey Ressner, “Shot on location”, in Time, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2016:
text: James is arm candy. His wife buys him all these expensive clothes. The two of them look like something out of a travel brochure: the perfect couple on vacation.
ref: 2023 March 17, Ryan Gilbey, quoting Alexander Skarsgård, “Alexander Skarsgård: ‘There’s a politeness to Swedes. It’s a facade. Deep down we’re animals’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: armpiece
glosses: An attractive, seemingly romantic companion who accompanies a person in public simply so that one or both of the individuals can gain attention, enhance social status, or create an impression of sexual appeal.
examples: text: Beyond just looking the part, this arm candy is a world-class piece of technology.
ref: 2016 March, “Do You”, in Ebony, page 50:
text: Rack up your arm candy with this schmancy bangle, watch, and bracelet set from Anne Klein.
ref: 2024 October 8, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “65+ Fall Prime Day Fashion Deals Your Closet Is Begging You to Shop”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: A luxury wristwatch or some other accessory worn on the wrist.
Related terms: chest candy
eye candy
social handbag
trophy wife
easy-going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more easy-going
form: easy-goinger
form: most easy-going
form: easy-goingest
Senses: examples: text: In short, the old town—the lovablest, old-timiest, easy-goingest old town that ever was—sits there by the River, hugging its traditions, and hoarding its stories, of which it has enough to make a new Thousand and One Nights.
ref: 1895, M[ollie] E[velyn] M[oore] Davis, “Prologue. The Town and the River.”, in Under the Man-Fig, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, page 6:
text: He dropped gradually back into his old frivolous and easy-going ways and conditions of feeling and manner of speech, and no familiar of his could have detected anything in him that differentiated him from the weak and careless Tom of other days.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter X”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 126:
text: The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined. Rockwell Kent, the noted Eskimophile, claims they are a polite and happy race.
ref: 1935 July 2, W. E. Farbstein, “Marginal Notes”, in Washington Herald, volume XIII, number 219, Washington, D.C.: American Newspapers, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7:
text: The easy-goingest mushroom grower I know is a remarkable Florida lady named Rachel Jackson. She lives on the Linger Longer Ranch at Barberville, Florida, and is always looking for sharecroppers who will come trailer and all and help garden her land in return for three-quarters of the produce.
ref: 1974 March, Carla Emery, “Mushrooms”, in Old Fashioned Recipe Book: An Encyclopedia of Country Living, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published March 1981 (6th printing), →ISBN, page 173, column 1:
text: Having chatted to the guys, I am impressed with the really positive easy-going atmosphere.
ref: 2021 March 10, Paul Bigland, “They can leave their problems at the gate”, in RAIL, number 926, page 61:
glosses: Alternative spelling of easygoing.
membership marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: The process of acquiring, engaging, upgrading, and renewing members for an association or relationship-driven organization.
rotoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotolo
dumbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dumb
flatfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A dozen flatfoots cleaned the place out.
glosses: plural of flatfoot
flatfoots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flatfoot
moral authority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The people adopted the government they had framed, and thus gave it its moral authority.
ref: 1835, John Orville Taylor, The District School or National Education 3rd ed., Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, Philadelphia, p. 287
text: There was an essay . . . devoted to a consideration of the many questions which must be reopened and reconsidered on their merits if the teaching of the Church of England were to cease to carry moral authority.
ref: 1903, Samuel Butler, chapter 85, in The Way of All Flesh:
text: While the Dalai Lama is lauded in much of the world as a figure of moral authority, Beijing reviles the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
ref: 2007 October 16, “Bush to Meet With Dalai Lama Today”, in Time:
qualifier: institution; or written work; institution; or written work
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being respected for having good character or knowledge, especially as a source of guidance or an exemplar of proper conduct.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: At first Martin Luther King Jr. invoked Booker as a moral authority for King's ethic of love and his posture of passive resistance to white hatred.
ref: 2009, Robert Jefferson Norrell, Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington, page 431:
text: No less a moral authority than Elie Wiesel, the celebrated holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, urged President Bush to invade Iraq to defend freedom and liberate the Iraqi people.
ref: 2010, Dan P. McAdams, George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream, page 207:
text: Santa is not only a moral authority, like a strict father, but he is also like a nurturing parent, traditionally, a mother.
ref: 2011, Scott C. Lowe, Christmas - Philosophy for Everyone: Better Than a Lump of Coal, page 100:
glosses: One possessing this characteristic.
examples: text: Thus, when the military breaches the existing political order, it will be forced to claim a moral authority for its actions.
ref: 2002, Samuel Edward Finer, The Man on Horseback: The Role of the Military in Politics, page 20:
text: Victims of palpable injustice enjoy a moral authority that is likely to provide access to even busy players.
ref: 2008, Philip B. Heymann, Living the Policy Process, page 121:
text: In that knowledge I realized that while I lacked any legal authority, I already possessed all the necessary moral authority to confront and interview Watson for his crimes.
ref: 2011, Daniel Walker, God in a Brothel: An Undercover Journey into Sex Trafficking and Rescue, page 124:
glosses: The right or power to act (or direct others to act), based on the belief that the actor is moral, rather than on the actor having or needing some formal power to do so.
beta radiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta radiations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The radiation of beta particles as a result of radioactive decay.
Related terms: β
beta
beta ray
beta particle
lithotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotomies
Etymology: From litho- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: A surgical method for removal of calculi, such as kidney stones and gallstones.
Synonyms: lithectomy
Derived terms: choledocholithotomy
cholelithotomy
cystolithotomy
lithotomist
nephrolithotomy
pyelolithotomy
ureterolithotomy
lithotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotomy
two-fisted drinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-fisted drinkers
Senses: glosses: Someone who can handle their liquor well
examples: text: Are you holding that for your girlfriend, or are you a two-fisted drinker tonight?
glosses: A person clutching a drink in each hand.
liberins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberin
life of Reilly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of life of Riley.
complexities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complexity
moribunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moribund
calls out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call out
calling out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of call out
föhn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: föhns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of foehn.
Japonica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈpɑn.ɪˌkə/
Forms: form: japonica
Etymology: From New Latin iaponicus (“Japanese”), from Iaponia.
Senses: glosses: A species of camellia (Camellia japonica), a native flower of Japan, bearing beautiful red or white flowers.
japonica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japonicas
Etymology: From New Latin japō̆nica, the species name.
Senses: examples: text: To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
And to-day we have naming of parts.
ref: 1942 August 8, Henry Reed, “Naming of Parts”, in The New Statesman and Nation: The Week-end Review, volume 24, number 598, page 92:
glosses: Any of several plants originally native to Japan.
A species of camellia, Camellia japonica.
examples: text: The isograms were typical of differences between two subspecies but also of those between different lines of japonicas or indicas.
ref: 1986, Rice Genetics: Proceedings of the International Rice Genetics Symposium, 27-31 May 1985, International Rice Research Institute:
glosses: Any of several plants originally native to Japan.
A subspecies of the rice Oryza sativa.
Derived terms: japonicadom
Related terms: terra-japonica
nonhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-human
Etymology: From non- + human.
Senses: examples: text: nonhuman animals
text: nonhuman agents
text: Other examples of nonhuman self-domestication in the wild exist—for instance, the Zanzibar red colobus monkey diverged from the mainland African red colobus in similar ways during its island isolation—but bonobos are the closest and most relevant to us.
ref: 2019 January 29, Melvin Konner, “A Bold New Theory Proposes That Humans Tamed Themselves”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Jul 2019:
text: Much, perhaps most, Minecraft fiction follows the robinsonade template, emphasizing the day-to-day life of a character, including nonhuman characters, striving to survive and thrive in a recognizably Minecraftian world by utilizing its resources.
ref: 2020, Michael T. Wilson, “Minecraft Fiction”, in Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell, editors, The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN:
synonyms: ahuman
glosses: Not human; not of the human race.
Derived terms: nonhumanness
nonhuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonhumans
form: non-human
Etymology: From non- + human.
Senses: examples: text: The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans.
ref: 2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190:
glosses: A creature or thing that is not human.
non-human
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.
ref: 1968, Robert Conquest, “The Purge Begins”, in The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 75:
glosses: Alternative form of nonhuman.
non-human
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-humans
Senses: examples: text: The reclusive tycoon calling himself the Illusive Man is a human nationalist focused on advancing human interests, whatever the cost to non-humans. The Citadel Council regards him as a fanatic posing a serious threat to galactic security.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cerberus: The Illusive Man Codex entry:
glosses: Alternative form of nonhuman.
Aanya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit [Term?] (“inexhaustible”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
nonhumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-humans
Senses: glosses: plural of nonhuman
non-humans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-human
glosses: Alternative spelling of nonhumans.
bas reliefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bas relief
air travel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Journeying through the sky, usually in an aeroplane.
bas-reliefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bas-relief
Chassidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Chassid + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hasidic.
Argives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Argive
auriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈɹɪfɔːm/
Forms: form: more auriform
form: most auriform
Etymology: From aur- + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: The gastropod mollusc abalone is auriform, and therefore also known as the ear shell.
glosses: Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.
Baja Midnight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The earliest known use of the term is from the southern cape of Baja California, as used by the windsurfers and fishermen from the United States. Its earliest use has been placed to 1990, Los Barrilles, BCS, though it may have been in use prior to that time.
Senses: qualifier: Baja California
glosses: A time of night when one is tired or feels as if it were midnight before it actually is, usually considered to be between 8pm and 9pm local time.
bilge keel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilge keels
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a strake, or small keel or blister, running along much of the length of the hull. It is used to reduce the hull's tendency to roll. They are typically fitted one on each side, low down on the side of the hull, so as not to increase the draft of the vessel. In battleships they were often quite large and used as part of the torpedo protection system.
bisbigliando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian bisbigliando (“whispering”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Tremolo produced by a bowed or plucked string instrument such as a harp.
brown bagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brown bag
brown bagging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of carrying lunch to work (or school), frequently in a brown paper bag.
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The agricultural practice of planting seed saved from the farmer's own harvest, as opposed to buying new seed from a seed company.
bus ministry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus ministries
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: An outreach program of a religious institution that regularly uses buses or jitneys to transport people, typically children, to a site of religious practice.
capuche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈpuːtʃ/
ipa: /kaˈpuːʃ/
Forms: form: capuches
Etymology: From French capuche.
Senses: glosses: A long, pointed hood, as that worn by the Augustinians, Capuchins or Franciscans.
Derived terms: capuched
casualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casualisations
Etymology: From casual + -isation.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The process by which employment shifts from a preponderance of full-time and permanent or contract positions to higher levels of casual positions.
examples: text: While there are some Cockney elements observable in northern English (such as /t/ fronting), other regions of Britain have manifested their own casualisations of RP towards the local vernaculars. So people talk of 'posh Geordie', 'posh Brummy', 'posh Scouse', 'posh Yorkshire Leeds' and so on […]
ref: 2002, Peter Stockwell, Sociolinguistics: A Resource Book for Students, page 40:
glosses: The process of making anything casual.
liberin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberins
Etymology: From liberate + -in.
Senses: topics: endocrinology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A releasing hormone; a hormone that is involved primarily in stimulating the release of another hormone.
Derived terms: thyroliberin
CDO-squared
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CDO-squareds
form: CDO squared
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A type of CDO (collateralized debt obligation) that invests in other CDOs.
Related terms: CDO-cubed
cherry graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry graphs
Etymology: Coined by Cedric Chauve, and popularized at the RECOMB-CG conference on comparative genomics, September 16th, 2007, in reference to the fact that cherries often come in pairs.
Senses: glosses: A subtree in a graph consisting of an internal node with exactly two leaves.
chondromucoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chondromucoids
Etymology: From chondro- + mucoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The combination of chondroitin sulfate and collagen fibres that gives cartilage its resilience and flexibility.
Cooranbong
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicized spelling of the Aboriginal word kouranbong, meaning either "water over rocks" or "rocky bottom creek." The word has changed spelling over the years from its original spelling of Kuringbong (1834) to Coorumbung (1841) and Corumbong (1879). In the year of 1866 the word was officially adopted by Cooranbong, New South Wales and its current spelling was secured.
Senses: glosses: The name of a town and suburb in New South Wales.
copy typist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copy typists
Senses: glosses: A typist who types up written notes or drafts, rather than typing from dictation.
counterknowledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From counter- + knowledge.
Senses: glosses: Misinformation packaged to look like fact.
Synonyms: alternative facts
craplet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craplets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crapplet.
daylight overdraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daylight overdrafts
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: A debit balance in the customer’s account that occurs in the course of the banking day and is expected to be repaid by a credit to the account prior to the end of the banking day.
OFDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
communications
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing.
Hypernyms: sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: frequency division multiplexing
translation: frequency division multiplexing
word: FDM
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: multiplexing
translation: multiplexing
word: MUX
Coordinate terms: sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: multiple-in multiple-out
translation: multiple-in multiple-out
word: MIMO
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: spread spectrum
Derived terms: sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
translation: coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: COFDM
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Hand-off — Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
translation: Fast Low-latency Access with Seamless Hand-off — Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
word: FLASH-OFDM
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: multiple-input–multiple-output—orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
translation: multiple-input–multiple-output—orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: MIMO-OFDM
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: non-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
translation: non-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: N-OFDM
Related terms: sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: code division multiplexing
translation: code division multiplexing
word: CDM
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: code division multiple access
translation: code division multiple access
word: CDMA
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: division
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: frequency division multiple access
translation: frequency division multiple access
word: FDMA
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: frequency
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: multiplexing
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: orthogonal frequency division multiple access
translation: orthogonal frequency division multiple access
word: OFDMA
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
word: orthogonal
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: time division multiplexing
translation: time division multiplexing
word: TDM
sense: orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
english: time division multiple access
translation: time division multiple access
word: TDMA
dex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dexes
Etymology: Contraction of decimal exponent.
Senses: examples: 2004, Cartledge et al 2004, The Homogeneity of Interstellar Oxygen in the Galactic Disk, Abstract, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 613, Issue 2, pp. 1037-1048,
The data points for low-<nH> paths are scattered more widely than those for denser sight lines, because O/H ratios for such paths shorter than 800 pc are generally about 0.10 dex lower than the values for longer ones.
topics: astrophysics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An order or factor of ten.
Related terms: order of magnitude
decibel
dex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Establish a proccing percentage of a weapon by putting it in the primary hand and then put it in your offhand and check the proccing percentage with varying levels of dual wield skill (while keeping level and dex constant).
ref: 2000, Billy Shields, “The truth about offhand procs”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: Dexterity.
dex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of various drug names.
Senses: glosses: Dextromethorphan.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Dexamethasone.
examples: text: Two blocks west of the Chat, in a teashop called the Jarre de Thé, Case washed down the night's first pill with a double espresso. It was a flat pink octagon, a potent species of Brazilian dex he bought from one of Zone's girls.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: Dextroamphetamine/dexedrine.
GMPLS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of generalized multi-protocol label switching.
dictated but not read
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dictated, as to a secretary or stenographer, but not proofread by the person who dictated it.
dimensioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimensioners
Etymology: From dimension + -er.
Senses: glosses: A weight and volume measuring device or machine for measuring three-dimensional or cuboidal objects such as parcels, cartons or boxes.
EDFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EDFAs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier.
dog and cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogs and cats
Senses: glosses: A team comprising one male and one female, either working as associates or having one as the second-in-command to the other.
egonomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌiːɡə(ʊ)ˈnɒmɪks/
/ˌɛɡə(ʊ)ˈnɒmɪks/
Etymology: From ego + -nomics. The term was first proposed by Thomas Schelling in his paper Egonomics, or the Art of Self-Management.
Senses: glosses: The act or practice of self-management.
ex nunc
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin ex (“from”) + nunc (“now”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: “from now on”. Used to describe certain legal effects which are applicable solely from this point (in time) on and therefore do not affect past actions.
exophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exophyte + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: In pathology, pertaining to growth of a tumor outward.
glosses: The proliferating on the exterior or surface epithelium of an organ or other structure in which the growth originated.
Derived terms: exophytically
exophyticity
Related terms: endophytic
ex tunc
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: /ˌɛks ˈtʌŋk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin ex tunc.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: from the beginning, from the outset. Used to describe certain legal effects that can affect situations prior to this point in time and therefore can affect past actions.
fac brat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fac brats
Senses: glosses: A child of a faculty member at a high school, university, or college.
FORML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of formal object role modeling language.
Related terms: ORM
FORM
Google stalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Google stalks
form: Google stalking
form: Google stalked
form: Google stalked
Senses: glosses: To enter a person's name into the search engine Google to find personal information about them.
grins-and-giggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grins and giggles.
hic Rhodus, hic salta
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: The phrase arises from the Latin form of Aesop's Fables (Gibbs 209; Perry 33; Chambry 51), as translated from Ancient Greek "Αὐτοῦ γὰρ καὶ Ῥόδος καὶ πήδημα" (literally) "Here is Rhodes, jump here!". In the fable, a boastful athlete brags that he once achieved a stupendous long jump in competition on the island of Rhodes. A bystander challenges him to dispense with the reports of the witnesses and simply repeat his accomplishment on the spot: "Here is Rhodes, jump here!"
Senses: examples: text: 1820, Hegel, “Philosophy of Right”, Preface, from SW Dyde 1896 translation
As a philosophic writing, it must be on its guard against constructing a state as it ought to be. Philosophy cannot teach the state what it should be, but only how it, the ethical universe, is to be known. Idou Podos, idou kai to pidima / Hic Rhodus, hic saltus.
text: On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out: Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
ref: 1852, Karl Marx, “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte”, Chapter 1, from Saul K Padover English translation, published 1937
text: The repeated retreat of the mass of the European workers' movement in the face of the Hic Rhodus, hic salta of the 1918-1920 period, a retreat which included the violent destruction of its radical minority, favored the completion of the Bolshevik development and let this false result present itself to the world as the only proletarian solution.
ref: 1967, Guy Debord, “The Society of the Spectacle”, Chapter 4, from Black and Red translation, published 1970
text: 1992, Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History and the Last Man”, Part IV, Leaping Over Rhodes (quoted as epigram).
Hic Rhodus, hic saltus
topics: government
politics
glosses: Prove what you can do, here and now.
Hindawi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic هِنْدَاوِيّ (hindāwiyy, “Indian”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Related terms: Hindavi
-idine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Derived from the ending of pyridine, which comes from German Pyridin which in turn comes from a combination of pyro- -id and -in (-ide and -ine)
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Denotes a chemical compound containing a ring containing nitrogen
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: alpha-2 adrenergic receptor agonists.
in irons
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The "trapped" condition a sailing ship finds itself in when the bow of the ship is headed into the wind and the ship has stalled and is unable to maneuver.
glosses: The state of screw-powered ships which become stalled between crests of waves or swells during a typhoon, for instance, and the ship's rudder does not respond to the commands from the helm, leaving the ship at the mercy of the sea and in danger of capsizing.
Synonyms: cold iron
intervasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intervasions
Etymology: Blend of inter- + invasion
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of intervention in some troubled situation.
Osler node
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Osler nodes
form: Osler's node
Senses: examples: text: The patient had fever and sweats for weeks, but the diagnosis was uncertain until Osler nodes appeared on her fingers.
glosses: A painful, red, raised skin lesion, usually on the pads of the fingers or toes, indicative of the heart disease bacterial endocarditis.
anteposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æntɪpəˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: antepositions
Etymology: From Latin anteponere.
Senses: glosses: The placing of something in front of something else, especially of words in a sentence.
Osler nodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Osler node
theologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theologues
form: theolog
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin theologus, from Ancient Greek θεολόγος (theológos). Equivalent to theo- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: A student of theology
glosses: A theologian
Juretzko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Juretzka
form: Juretzki
form: Joretzko
form: Joreczka
form: Jureczko
form: Juretschko
form: Jureczka
form: Jureczki
form: Jurecsko
Senses: glosses: A surname. The earliest known records of the Juretzko surname are from Silesia.
bar association
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar associations
Senses: glosses: An organization of lawyers which regulates their ability to practice law in a jurisdiction, and/or serves the interests of lawyers in that jurisdiction.
abuse of process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbjuːs əv ˈpɹəʊ.sɛs/
ipa: /əˈbjus əv ˈpɹɑsɛs/
Forms: form: abuses of process
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A cause of action in tort arising from one party making a malicious and deliberate misuse or perversion of regularly issued court process (civil or criminal) that is not justified by the underlying legal action.
Related terms: malicious prosecution
knob-thatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knob-thatchers
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes wigs.
malicious prosecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malicious prosecutions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The wrongful initiation or continuation of criminal or civil proceedings against an individual without reasonable grounds and with improper motives.
Related terms: abuse of process
lucimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucimeters
Etymology: From Latin lux, lucis (“light”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure light intensity.
Related terms: photometer
minor premise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor premises
form: minor
Senses: examples: text: The minor premise in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is 'Socrates is a man'.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The second premise in a categorical syllogism, whose subject is the minor term and whose predicate is the middle term.
Synonyms: subsumption
Coordinate terms: major premise
nailist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nailists
Etymology: From nail + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone whose occupation is to trim and beautify the fingernail or toenails; a manicurist, in Japan and parts of Southeast Asia.
laundries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laundry
night soil man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night soil men
Senses: examples: 1935. Mulk Raj Anand. Untouchable.http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=untouchable+by+mulk+raj+anand
1967. T. Wignesan. Night Soil Man. 1967 & 2007. (eBook)
glosses: A person whose occupation it was to collect the contents of chamber pots (faeces) in the morning from domestic households, principally in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Synonyms: nightman
loaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loan
loaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: loanings
Senses: examples: text: […] and the comparison will be made by years, of the maximum weekly shortages (and surplus, if such exists coincidentally) with the ownership of cars and with the loanings of cars.
ref: 1952, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics, The Capacity and Capital Requirements of the Railroad Industry, page 89:
glosses: The granting of a loan.
loaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈloʊnɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: loanings
Etymology: From loanin, an alternative spelling of the Northern English noun lonnen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: She moved about the country like a ghost, gathering herbs in dark loanings, lingering in kirkyairds, and casting a blight on innocent bairns.
ref: 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 231:
glosses: A lane.
Derived terms: english: right of way
translation: right of way
word: free loaning
north of the border
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Scotland
glosses: Canada
old fogey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old fogies
form: old fogy
Etymology: In 1811, an Old Fogey was a nickname for an invalid, wounded soldier; derived from the French fougueux (“fierce or fiery”). Alternatively, compare fogey.
Senses: examples: text: "No; the Athletic. Tell you: Course they're always asking me to join the Union, but I always say, 'No, sir! Nothing doing!' I don't mind the expense but I can't stand all the old fogies."
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXVIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: ager
word: antique
word: badge-cove
word: cheeser
word: coffin dodger
word: crinkly
word: eld
word: elder
word: elderly
word: geriatric
word: genarian
word: geezer
word: grayhead
word: greyhead
word: hoarhead
word: mzee
word: old
word: no spring chicken
word: old timer
word: old-timer
word: oldtimer
word: older adult
word: oldie
word: oldster
word: senior
word: senior citizen
word: silver top
word: twirly
word: weazen
word: wrinkly
glosses: An old and overly conservative person.
Related terms: young fogey
fogey
-osin
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: An alpha-1 adrenergic receptor antagonist
Derived terms: prazosin
terazosin
solar engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar engines
Senses: glosses: Any engine that converts energy from the sun into electrical or mechanical energy; especially such an engine used for the propulsion of a spacecraft.
paraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹəf/
ipa: /ˈpɛrəf/
ipa: /pəˈræf/
Forms: form: paraphs
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English paraf, from Medieval Latin paraffus or its etymon Middle French paraphe, paraffe, shortening of paragraphe,
from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos).
Senses: synonyms: flourish
glosses: A flourish made after or below one's signature, originally to prevent forgery.
examples: text: Commencing with a C-shaped paraph-sign in the same brown ink, the glosses are linked to their corresponding passages by alphabetic signs comprising single letters in a sequence beginning with a in each margin, moving on to b, c, and d down the page, and, ideally, linking with the same letter in the adjacent column. Such a pairing allows for matching the gloss with the specific location in the text where its comment should be considered.
ref: 2016 October 3, “It’s A Wrap”, in Research Group on Manuscript Evidence:
glosses: A mark used by medieval rubricators to indicate textual division.
Related terms: autograph
pilcrow
paraph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹəf/
ipa: /ˈpɛrəf/
ipa: /pəˈræf/
Forms: form: paraphs
form: paraphing
form: paraphed
form: paraphed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English paraf, from Medieval Latin paraffus or its etymon Middle French paraphe, paraffe, shortening of paragraphe,
from Ancient Greek παράγραφος (parágraphos).
Senses: glosses: To add a paraph to; to sign, especially with one's initials.
penup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penups
Etymology: pen + up
Senses: glosses: The stage during the process of handwriting after a pen lift event, where the pen's tip hovers above the writing pad, before a pendown landing.
Related terms: graphonomics
PGDipLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of postgraduate diploma in legal practice. Often used after the names of those who have studied and passed the Legal Practice Course, and who have not yet attained solicitor status.
Related terms: DipLP
VPL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VPLs
Senses: examples: text: You’re whispering. Should I be suspicious? Is my fly down? Do I have VPL issues?
ref: 2006, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Number 539: Quick Thinking:
glosses: Initialism of visible panty line.
glosses: Initialism of visible penis line.
examples: text: Implementing a visual programming language (VPL) is much harder man implementing a textual programming language (Myers 1990).
ref: 2010, Kang Zhang, Visual Languages and Applications, →ISBN, page 167:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of visual programming language.
examples: text: The ventral posterior complex is the main relay for sensory inputs to reach the cerebral cortex and it can be divided into at least three main parts: the ventral posterolateral nucleus (VPL) receiving spinal somatosensory inputs, the ventral posteromedial nucleaus (VPM) receiving trigeminal somatosensory inputs, and the parvicellular medial parts of both the VPL and VPM, i.e., the VPPC, which forms the main thalamic relay for gustatory and visceral ascending pathways.
ref: 2004, George Paxinos, The Rat Nervous System, →ISBN, page 414:
glosses: Initialism of ventral posterolateral nucleus.
unleashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unleash
unleashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unleashings
Senses: examples: text: His great power consists in his building plays not upon the broad basis of general and tested character values, but upon the psychology of our occasional lapses away from the average, our hidden emotional unleashings, sudden angers and momentary caprices.
ref: 1917 October, “Concerning the Drama”, in Albert Shaw, editor, The American Review of Reviews, New York, N.Y.: The Review of Reviews Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, “The New Books” section, page 444, column 2:
text: We can see in the dozen years between 1517 and the Protestation of the second diet in Speier in 1529 the mighty outwellings of a religious movement comparable only to the unleashings of the dogs of war and the releasing of religious, humanitarian, national and international idealisms, fanaticisms, and new tyrannies in the dozen years or so since 1914.
ref: 1929 January, John W. Johnson, “Balthasar Huebmaier and Baptist Historic Commitments”, in Shirley Jackson Case, editor, The Journal of Religion, volume IX, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: The University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: How now I can understand the inconceivable before where worlds have been gained or lost in no more than a kiss, if it be a kiss such as this. I feel the overfloodings of our worlds, the unleashings of trapped winds and the release of stormclouded sunshine.
ref: 2013 April, Paul Argentini, chapter 15, in A Matter of Love in Da Bronx: A Novel: A 1950’s Diary, Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Sunbury Press, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: The act by which something is unleashed.
unleashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unleash
the other way round
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: the other way around
Senses: examples: text: At dinner Marigold had the Rector on her right and the Colonel on her left, Francis had their wives the other way round to avoid any signs of preference, […]
ref: 1979, Honor Tracy, The Ballad of Castle Reef, page 45:
text: One answer which has gained scientific popularity puts the egg first – 'no egg, no chicken': […] A competing answer puts it the other way round – 'no chicken, no egg': […]
ref: 2007, Michael Clark, Paradoxes from A to Z, page 44:
glosses: The same but with the mentioned things or people in reverse order or position.
examples: text: If it isn't working, try turning the battery the other way round.
glosses: In reversed orientation.
Synonyms: sense: same, but with mentioned things in reverse order
word: conversely
word: vice versa
sense: in reversed orientation
word: backwards
quiche-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiche-eaters
Etymology: The idiom derives from the book on stereotypes about masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche, by Bruce Feirstein, published in 1982. The computer circle version was popularised by a 1983 article Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, that specifically accuses the creator of the Pascal language, Niklaus Wirth, of being a "quiche eater" due to the nature of Pascal.
Senses: glosses: A man who is effeminate or who lacks some putative masculine virtue.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In computer programming circles, a person far removed from practice and concerned only with academic matters, unwilling to "get their hands dirty".
Synonyms: sense: effeminate man
word: cockney
word: pansy
word: posy sniffer
word: effeminate man
Related terms: real men don't eat quiche
beaver dam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaver dams
form: beaverdam
Senses: glosses: The lodge of a beaver, in the form of a river dam with an underwater entrance.
the other way around
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: the other way round
Senses: examples: text: “After all, he’s speaking our language, not the other way around.
ref: 1988, Michael Crichton, Sphere, page 185:
glosses: The same but with the things or people mentioned in reverse order.
Synonyms: vice versa
conversely
the other way about
Radhesh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Hindi words radha (Lord Krishna's devotee) and eesh (God). Hindi grammar thus give the meaning as radha's god i.e. Krishna.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Indian usage.
rim lock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rim locks
Senses: glosses: A lock and plate fixed to the surface of a door rather than morticed within the door.
robbing Peter to pay Paul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rob Peter to pay Paul
vacates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vacate
vacating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vacate
valiantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English vaillauntnesse, valiauntnes, valyauntenesse; equivalent to valiant + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Albeit his lusty valiantnes, force, and Skill in Chiualrous feates and exercises: his humblenes, and frendelynes to all men, were thinges, openly, of the world perceiued.
ref: 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
glosses: The property of being valiant.
valvelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvelets
Etymology: From valve + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small valve.