cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
churchgoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchgoings
Etymology: From church + going.
Senses: examples: text: In the midst of depression, religious activities rose in importance and more families went to church than even in 1918, when churchgoing was the most important social activity.
ref: 1994, Clair Brown, American Standards of Living, 1918-1988:
glosses: The practice of regularly attending church.
churner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churners
Etymology: From churn + -er.
Senses: glosses: The vessel in which cream is churned to make butter.
manuka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mä'no͝okə
ipa: /ˈmɑːnʊkə/
Forms: form: manukas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori mānuka.
Senses: examples: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
There was nothing to be seen but wave after wave of tussock grass - patched with purple orchids and manuka bushes covered with thick spider webs.
glosses: Leptospermum scoparium, a shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia.
glosses: The wood of this plant.
Synonyms: New Zealand tea tree
tea tree
Derived terms: manuka honey
tea tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea trees
Senses: glosses: The tea plant (Camellia sinensis), from which black, green, oolong and white tea are all obtained.
examples: text: It was a subject requiring the figure. The figure of a girl standing in the water, dappled by light and shade through the tea-tree, with the sunlit bank behind her. Bradly scanned the lagoon up and down, searching the clumps of mangrove for the figure of a girl.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: The tree Melaleuca alternifolia, from which tea tree oil is obtained.
glosses: A shrub or small tree native to New Zealand and southeast Australia (Leptospermum scoparium).
glosses: The kanuka, Kunzea ericoides.
glosses: The duke of Argyll's tea tree (Lycium barbarum), also known as wolfberry or matrimony vine.
glosses: The shrub ti (Cordyline fruticosa).
Synonyms: sense: Leptospermum scoparium
word: manuka
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: Tea Tree Gully
tea tree oil
galatea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galateas
Etymology: After Galatea, a British man-of-war, since the material was used for children's sailor suits.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A strong cotton fabric with diagonal twill weave.
transcutaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + cutaneous.
Senses: examples: text: Transcutaneous measurement of oxygen is a helpful monitoring procedure.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Penetrating, entering, passing through, or shining through the intact skin (as by light waves or sound waves); in contrast to percutaneous meaning through a disruption in the skin.
Synonyms: transdermal
Coordinate terms: percutaneous
wideawake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wideawakes
form: wide-awake
Etymology: * From wide awake.
* (hat): From a pun in Punch magazine, relating to the fact that the hat had no nap.
Senses: glosses: A bird, the sooty tern.
examples: 1884, Henry James, "The Author of Beltraffio" in The English Illustrated Magazine 1 (9–10) (June–July 1884).
"He carried his benevolence to the point of coming to meet me at the little station at which I was to alight, and my heart beat very fast as I saw his handsome face, surmounted with a soft wide-awake, and which I knew by a photograph long since enshrined upon my mantel shelf, scanning the carriage windows as the train rolled up."
1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from "Selected Short Stories"
Wisps of white hair straggled from under his wideawake […]
synonyms: wideawake hat
glosses: A type of hat with a broad brim made of black or brown felt.
fly biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly biscuits
Senses: examples: 1912?, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store
At noon we had lunched off fly biscuits and apricots by the side of a swampy creek.
glosses: garibaldi biscuit; currants squashed between two thin, rectangular biscuits.
Synonyms: dead fly biscuit
squashed fly biscuit
BoM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔm/
homophone: bomb
rhymes: -ɔm
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Book of Mormon.
glosses: Initialism of Bureau of Meteorology.
BoM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɔm/
homophone: bomb
rhymes: -ɔm
Forms: form: BoMs
Senses: topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of bill of materials.
PEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: He also wants the full-time missionaries to attend not only PEC and ward council but also auxiliary meetings.
ref: 2007 August, R. Val Johnson, “How to Be a Great Member Missionary”, in Ensign, pages 50–55:
glosses: Priesthood Executive Committee.
fireside chat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireside chats
Senses: glosses: Any one of a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
glosses: An informal address delivered by a political leader over radio, television, or the Internet.
blutchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blutcher
healthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɛlθɪli
-ɛlθəli
Forms: form: more healthily
form: most healthily
Etymology: From healthy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You can eat badly and feel crapola or eat healthily and feel great. The choice is yours...
ref: 2005, Cathy Hopkins, The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Luscious:
glosses: In a healthy manner.
tmg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TMG
Senses: glosses: Trimethylgallium, the most preferred metalorganic source of Gallium used in MOCVD of compound semiconductors for opto-electronics applications.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: trimethylglycine
tmg
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: TMG
Senses: glosses: too much government
water devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water devils
Senses: examples: text: We saw a water devil form in the late afternoon on the lake.
glosses: Any water-based cyclone, usually much smaller than a tornado in magnitude.
Related terms: dust devil
off one's dot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
"Gone a bit off 'er dot", he whispered […]
glosses: Mad; insane.
sweet-william
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet-williams
Senses: examples: text: No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him who had not much to do, they required a great deal of sticking and tying.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 162:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sweet william.
sweet william
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet williams
form: sweet-william
form: Sweet William
Senses: examples: text: Of flowers there were double poppies and sweet-williams.
ref: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman At The Store:
synonyms: bunch pink
glosses: A flowering plant, Dianthus barbatus, in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to the mountains of southern Europe from the Pyrenees east to the Carpathians and the Balkans.
synonyms: rock salmon
glosses: Various dogfish, especially when sold as food.
Related terms: sweet John
Sweet William
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sweet william.
brainlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more brainlessly
form: most brainlessly
Etymology: From brainless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a brainless manner; stupidly; foolishly
pawa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawas
Senses: examples: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store, from "Selected Short Stories"
One little patch was divided off by pawa shells […]
glosses: An edible univalve mollusc of the genus Haliotis, having a shell lined with mother-of-pearl.
Synonyms: word: pāua
word: abalone
word: ear-shell
word: ormer
word: perlemoen
wash tub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash tubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of washtub.
bucketful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucketfuls
form: bucketsful
Etymology: From bucket + -ful. Compare Old English būcful, būcfull (“bucketful”).
Senses: examples: text: "I had a fire lit there, and there is a bucketful of coals. You will be pretty comfortable, I hope."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
synonyms: pailful
glosses: The quantity contained in a bucket.
examples: text: But out of the water he dared not put his head; for the rain came down by bucketsful, and the hail hammered like shot on the stream, and churned it into foam; […]
ref: 1863, Charles Kingsley, The Water Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby:
synonyms: word: abundance
word: arseload
word: assload
word: bellyload
word: boatload
word: brimful
word: busload
word: bucketful
word: bucketload
word: butt-ton
word: bumload
word: buttload
word: cartload
word: crapload
word: deal
word: fuckload
word: fuckton
word: fuckwad
word: great deal
word: hantle
word: heap
word: hecatomb
word: helluvalot
word: horseload
word: lashings
word: load
word: lot
word: mampus
word: many
word: mass
word: metric fuckton
word: metric shitload
word: mickle
word: mountain
word: muckle
word: multiplicity
word: multitude
word: pile
word: ream
word: shedload
word: shitful
word: shitload
word: shitton
word: slew
word: spadeloads
word: sum
word: superflux
word: ton
word: trainload
word: truckload
word: tun
word: vaultful
word: wagonload
glosses: A large quantity.
treacle paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treacle papers
Senses: examples: text: Flies buzzed in circles round the ceiling, and the treacle papers and bundles of dried clover were pinned to the window curtains.
ref: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, The Woman at the Store:
glosses: Paper covered in treacle, meant to attract and catch flies.
boog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boogs
form: booging
form: booged
form: booged
Etymology: Originated in 1930s (boogie-woogie).
Senses: glosses: Clipping of boogie (“to dance”)
glosses: Clipping of boogie (“to move, go, leave”)
Qapla'
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑˈplɑʔ/
ipa: /kæpˈlæʔ/
ipa: /q͡χɑpʰˈlɑʔ/
Forms: form: Qapla
Etymology: From Klingon Qapla' (“success”).
Senses: examples: text: success (n) Qapla'
ref: 1985, Marc Okrand, The Klingon Dictionary, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 103, 155:
text: It is hoped that this report . . . will help lead to the reconciliation of the two governments. Qapla'.
ref: 1996, Marc Okrand, The Klingon Way: A Warrior's Guide, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page x:
text: Maltz, we are honored to still be your students. Qapla'.
ref: 1997, Marc Okrand, Klingon for the Galactic Traveler, Pocket Books,, →ISBN, page 5:
text: “Well, in that case, good luck and—er—Qapla'.”
ref: 2003, L. A. Graf et al., Day Of Honor: The bestselling Klingon™ saga—complete in one volume!:
text: Thank you for all the years of patiently being there, especially on those dark and stormy nights when things detonated unexpectedly and I needed rescuing yet again. Qapla'!
ref: 2004, Jacqueline Guest, Racing Fear, James Lorimer & Company, 5
text: 2004, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady, Team America: World Police, Paramount Pictures
Sean Penn: Qapla’!
text: Unable to resist a sudden temptation, he threw out his arm in a Klingon salute. / “Qapla’!” / He vanished into the photo on his phone.
ref: 2009, Greg Cox, The 4400: Welcome to Promise City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 187:
glosses: A phrase said to wish fortune on someone, particularly fortune in some form of honourable battle.
hemiplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhem.ɪˈpliː.dʒ(i.)ə/
ipa: /ˌhem.ɪˈpli.dʒə/
Forms: form: hemiplegias
form: hemiplegy
Etymology: From New Latin hemiplegia, from Ancient Greek ἡμιπλήξ (hēmiplḗx), also ἡμιπληγής (hēmiplēgḗs, “stricken on one side”), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “half”) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”). By surface analysis, hemi- + -plegia.
Senses: examples: text: I call the series Dubliners to betray the soul of that hemiplegia or paralysis which many consider a city.
ref: 1904, James Joyce, letter to C. P. Curran, August 1904
glosses: Total or partial inability to move one side of the body.
Derived terms: alternating hemiplegia
Brown-Séquard's hemiplegia
cerebral hemiplegia
double hemiplegia
facial hemiplegia
spastic hemiplegia
amusement park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amusement parks
Senses: glosses: A commercially-operated collection of rides, games and other entertainment attractions.
Synonyms: fun park
holiday park
Related terms: theme park
highlighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.laɪt.ə/
ipa: /ˈhaɪ.laɪt.ɚ/
ipa: [ˈhaɪ.laɪɾ.ɚ]
Forms: form: highlighters
Etymology: From highlight + -er.
Senses: glosses: A marker pen used to highlight text.
glosses: A cosmetic product that reflects light, used to emphasize the contours of the face etc.
examples: text: The IPL was supposed to be a symbol of an ever-more influential, dynamic and prosperous India, a highlighter of its organizational skills and wealth.
ref: 2012, Samir Chopra, Brave New Pitch:
text: At the same time, art rooted in nature is eminently ephemeral, as human life itself is, and fairy lore again operates as a highlighter of this essential condition through its own distinctive world picture[…]
ref: 2011, Dani Cavallaro, The Fairy Tale and Anime, page 147:
glosses: That which highlights or emphasizes something.
smarten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smartens up
form: smartening up
form: smartened up
form: smartened up
Senses: glosses: To wear smart clothes and look more stylish
glosses: To become less stupid or naive
glosses: To make less stupid or naive
Related terms: sense: look more stylish
word: tart up
sense: become/make less stupid
word: dumb down
stalking horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stalking horses
form: stalking-horse
Senses: topics: hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
glosses: A horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game.
examples: text: The Ministry had their candidate, a stalking-horse, useful only to receive the purely Ministerial votes. The votes, thus divided, gave no result.
ref: 1842, Honoré de Balzac, chapter 8, in Ellen Marriage, transl., Albert Savarus:
text: Any open challenge would likely come first as trial balloons from backbench "stalking horse" candidates, who could never win.
ref: 2008 May 23, James Graff, “Lost: Labour's Love for Brown”, in Time, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
text: But the other narrative goes after Biden as though the Democrats had actually nominated Bernie Sanders, insisting that his advancing age makes him a decrepit vessel for the radical left, a stalking horse not just for Kamala Harris but also for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and antifa.
ref: 2020 October 20, Ross Douthat, “Trump Is Giving Up”, in New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A candidate put forward to serve a hidden, ulterior purpose in a political campaign, such as testing the field for another potential candidate by gauging voter sentiment or covertly helping another candidate by attracting voters away from a third candidate.
examples: text: Do you think my daughter […] fit for nothing but to be a stalking horse, to stand before you, while you take aim at my wife?
ref: 1694, William Congreve, The Double-Dealer, act 2, scene 4:
text: "Let the great of the earth give but half the care to prevent, that they show to punish, offences against themselves, and what is now called justice will no longer be a stalking-horse to enable a few to live at the cost of the rest.
ref: 1833, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 29, in The Headsman:
text: Environmentalists have used the owl as a stalking horse to save the last 10% of old-growth forest in the Northwest.
ref: 1992 May 25, “One for The Loggers”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2014:
text: The post, culling online chatter from supremacist sites, said hate groups were increasingly worried that law enforcement authorities would use Mr. Obama’s candidacy as a stalking horse to justify a government clampdown.
ref: 2008 August 27, Kirk Johnson, Eric Lichtblau, “Officials See No ‘Credible Threat’ to Obama in Racist Rants”, in New York Times:
synonyms: pretext
ruse
glosses: A person, thing, or expedient used in a deceptive manner, to achieve some hidden purpose.
Related terms: Trojan horse
salinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salina
underclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underclasses
Etymology: From under- + class.
Senses: examples: text: The two are immediately caught up in a terrorist plot to rid the earth of its underclass, and this gives Nobby the chance to live out a James Bond fantasy of Englishness, with his own lager-swilling twist.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
text: Still, among New York’s creative underclass — cash poor but culturally potent — it feels like everything but socialism is now irrelevant.
ref: 2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine:
text: While there are reasons to be optimistic about this trend, there is also something queasy about the emergence of a new underclass of urban servants.
ref: 2019 August 12, Derek Thompson, “America's Hot New Job Is Being a Rich Person's Servant”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The poorest class of people in a given society.
Derived terms: underclasser
underclassness
underclassperson
underclasswoman
Related terms: subculture
beano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
Forms: form: beanos
Etymology: Clipping of beanfeast + -o.
Senses: examples: text: You gas like a kid at a Sunday School beano.
ref: 1912, Katherine Mansfield, “The Woman at the Store”, in Selected Short Stories:
text: For all she knew, Upjohn might have got the holiday spirit and be planning to remain burning up the boulevards indefinitely, and of course nothing gives a big beano a black eye more surely than the failure to show up of the principal speaker.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: ‘Every year,’ said Lord Galen happily, ‘I have this little beano as a farewell treat before leaving France.’
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 419:
text: “Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.”
ref: 2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England fans in Benidorm in high spirits before Euro final”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A beanfeast; any noisy celebration, a party.
glosses: Any home-made gas or indigestion remedy.
beano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːnəʊ/
rhymes: -iːnəʊ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bingo (“game of chance”).
Liam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliːəm/
rhymes: -iːəm
Etymology: From Irish Liam, a clipping of Uilliam, itself from English William.
Senses: examples: text: Tall. Glasses. Wearing this yellow hoodie. - - - Liam. I'm pretty sure that's his name. Like, ninety-percent sure. I think it suits him. Liam. The kind of name you never normally hear outside a novel or a movie or whatever.
ref: 2003, Alasdair Duncan, Sushi Central, University of Queensland Press, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.
ref: 2024 October 16, Dan Heching, Manuela Castro, Mauricio Torres, Alli Rosenbloom and Christian Edwards, “Liam Payne, former One Direction member, dies after hotel balcony fall”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from Irish, currently popular in Ireland, England, Scotland, and the United States.
hillo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: But, hillo! here comes another questioner for you, my poor quest.
ref: 1890, William Morris, News from Nowhere, in the journal The Commonweal. (First published in book form 1890.)
text: Why, hillo! Look here, now; this ain’t lucky! You’ve gone and cut this out of a Bible.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of hello.
hillo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hillos
form: hilloes
form: hilloing
form: hilloed
form: hilloed
Senses: glosses: To holler, shout loudly at someone
pianoforti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pi.a.nəʊˈfɔːɹ.ti/
/pi.a.nɒˈfɒɹ.ti/
Senses: examples: text: He has played the grandest of grand sonatas and symphonies on the grandest of pianoforti…
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, page 470:
text: Private persons and companies possessing, as owners or otherwise, pianos (pianoforti) and billiard tables (bigliardi) for their own use are subject to tax thereon.
ref: 1941, Trade Promotion Series, United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, page 116:
text: …3 oboi, 3 clarinetti in si bemol, 2 fagotti, 2 trombe in do, 2 corni in fa, 2 tromboni, Arpa, 2 pianoforti, and four greatly enlarged percussion groups.
ref: 1968, Polish Music, Polish Music III №1 (8), page 38:
text: The year will be marked with a white stone by the lovers of pianoforti music.
ref: 1990, Alan J Day, Verena Hoffman, The Annual Register of World Events: A Record of World Events 1989, page 100:
text: …to introduce the concerts at which he and his son Sviatoslav (Soulima) gave the initial performances of the Concerto per due pianoforti soli…
ref: 1997, Richard Taruskin, Defining Russia Musically: Historical and Hermeneutical Essays, page 366:
glosses: plural of pianoforte Another word for the word 'pianos'.
mushroomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌʃ.ɹuːmd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mushroom
rosado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosados
Etymology: From Spanish rosado.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish rosé wine.
facund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more facund
form: most facund
Senses: examples: text: In persuading the Lord Sun Ce, which many modern tacticians judged as nothing short of a feat, Zhuge Liang was considered quite facund.
glosses: eloquent, articulate
afficionado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afficionados
form: afficionadi
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aficionado (“one who likes, knows about, and appreciates an interest”).
afficionadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Stated succinctly, the position of the afficionadi of interleaving semantics seems to be as follows.
ref: 1981, Josep Díaz, Isidro Ramos, Formalization of Programming Concepts: International Colloquium: Peniscola, Spain, April 1981: Proceedings, pages 147–148:
text: Virgil in particular was called to mind: the landscape at Stourhead was inflected so as to call to mind episodes from the Aeneid (Virgil’s account of the wanderings of Aeneas, from Troy to Rome) but for afficionadi of landscape his other poems had a more widespread influence.
ref: 2002, Paul Smith, Carolyn Wilde, A Companion to Art Theory, page 121:
text: Yet he sees such work as potentially crowd-pleasing or, more charitably perhaps, as being attractive to afficionadi of painterly technique.
ref: 2002, John Elsner, Roger Cardinal, The Cultures of Collecting, page 214:
text: So an account of its making — its construction, to use a favourite word of Brussels afficionadi — is of great value: not only for planners, but more widely for any serious student of the processes of policy making and governance within the European Union.
ref: 2003, Andreas Faludi, Bas Waterhout, The Making of the European Spatial Development Perspective: Essays in the Philosophy of Language, page VII:
glosses: plural of afficionado
Synonyms: afficionados
hydrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrinos
Etymology: From hydro- + -ino.
Senses: glosses: A supposed form of hydrogen having a lower energy than that of the normal ground state; postulated to explain the outcome of early cold fusion experiments.
TNLN
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of took nothing, left nothing.
ZFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: Initialism of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with Choice; the standard axiomatization of set theory, including the axiom of choice.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of zero-field cooling; the act of cooling with no magnetic field applied.
Coordinate terms: sense: formulations of set theory
word: ZF
sense: formulations of set theory
word: NBG
direct product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct products
Senses: examples: text: If A and B are sets, their direct product is the set of ordered pairs (a,b) with a in A and b in B.
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: The set of all possible tuples whose elements are elements of given, separately specified, sets.
examples: text: Theorem 3.2.3. A periodic Abelian group is the direct product of its Sylow subgroups, S(p).
ref: 1976, Marshall Hall, Jr., The Theory of Groups, 2nd edition, page 40:
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such a set of tuples formed from two or more groups, forming another group whose group operation is the component-wise application of the original group operations and of which the original groups are normal subgroups.
examples: text: A Boolean ring of order 2ⁿ (or dimension n) may be constructed as the direct product of n Boolean rings of dimension one.
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: Such a set of tuples formed from two or more rings, forming another ring whose operations arise from the component-wise application of the corresponding original ring operations.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A topological space analogously formed from two or more (up to an infinite number of) topological spaces.
examples: text: Let us start with the definition of the direct product of two probability measures. Let P#95;1 and P#95;2 be probability measures on #92;Omega#95;1 and #92;Omega#95;2, respectively, and denote #92;Omega#95;1#92;times#92;Omega#95;2 by #92;Omega. A probability measure P on #92;Omega with #92;mathfrak#123;D#125;#92;left(P#92;right)#61;#92;mathfrak#123;D#125;#92;left(P#95;1#92;right)#92;times#92;mathfrak#123;D#125;#92;left(P#95;2#92;right) is called the direct product of P#95;1 and P#95;2 (written P#95;1#92;timesP#95;2) if
P(B_1×B_2)=P(B_1)P(B_2) B_i∈𝔇(P_i);i=1,2.
The probability space (Ω,P) is called the direct product of (Ω₁,P_1) and (Ω₂,P_2), written
(Ω,P)=(Ω₁,P_1)×(Ω₂,P_2).
For example, the Lebesgue measure on [0, 1]² is the direct product of that on [0, 1] and itself.
ref: 1978, K. Itô, An Introduction to Probability Theory, page 53
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of mathematical objects analogously derived from a given ordered set of objects.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A high-level generalization of the preceding that applies to objects in an arbitrary category and produces a new object constructable by morphisms from each of the original objects.
Synonyms: sense: product of sets
word: Cartesian product
sense: product of objects in a category
word: categorical product
sense: product of objects in a category
word: product
Related terms: english: synonymous in specific domains
translation: synonymous in specific domains
word: direct sum
word: product ring
word: product space
word: product topology
universal property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: universal properties
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of there being a unique morphism from an arbitrary object to the universal morphism of a comma category which is from a functor to a fixed object; or, dually, the property of there being a unique morphism from the universal morphism to an arbitrary object of a comma category which is from a fixed object to a functor. (Caveat: the uniqueness is up to isomorphism.)
transfer earnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The amount that a factor of production must be paid in order to prevent it from transferring to an alternative use.
Related terms: economic rent
sharp-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sharp-witted
form: most sharp-witted
form: sharpwitted
Etymology: From sharp + witted.
Senses: synonyms: word: quickwitted
word: astute
word: brainy
word: bright
word: brilliant
word: clever
word: educated
word: genius
word: gifted
word: ingenious
word: intellectual
word: intelligent
word: keen
word: knowledgeable
word: piquant
word: quick
word: quick-witted
word: rational
word: sagacious
word: savvy
word: scholared
word: sharp
word: smart
word: talented
word: whip-smart
word: wise
antonyms: word: dull-witted
word: intelligent
glosses: Clever, keen of intellect, swift of thought.
slumlord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slumlords
Etymology: Blend of slum + landlord
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: slumlady
text: The slumlord was collecting over $100 a month for this horrible place.
ref: 1959, Senate Hearings September 23 and 24, 1959: Vol 1, page 484:
text: The first rule in the slumlord business is: “The poorer the tenant, the bigger the profit!” The explanation is simplicity itself. For example, a poor family needs a two-room apartment, but can't afford the $40.00 a month rent. So you divide the two rooms into four smaller apartments, and rent each one for $20.00 a month. The poor families are happy with the low rent, and the slumlord is happy with the increased profit.
ref: 1960, Mad Magazine April 1960, page 10:
text: The guy's a real bastard, a real slumlord. He never did anything to maintain the place. He wouldn't give us a written lease—we only had a verbal agreement.
ref: 1989 December 3, Laura Briggs, quoting Mike Mamone, “'Somewhere Else' Plans January Opening”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 3:
glosses: A person who makes money by renting housing that is kept in poor condition.
Related terms: Rachmanism
rack rent
slumlords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slumlord
slow-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slow-witted
form: most slow-witted
Senses: examples: text: The ape-man was all attention in an instant. He asked questions as rapidly as the slow-witted anthropoid could answer them.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 199:
synonyms: word: slow on the uptake
word: dull-witted
word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
antonyms: word: quick-witted
word: sharp-witted
word: brainless
word: dumb
word: foolish
word: idiotic
word: imbecile
word: insensible
word: lowbrow
word: mindless
word: stupid
word: unintelligent
word: witless
glosses: Lacking a keen or swift intellect, not too bright or not too swift.
Derived terms: slow-wittedly
slow-wittedness
sizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪzəbəl/
Forms: form: more sizable
form: most sizable
form: sizeable
Etymology: From size + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He gave a sizable cash donation, sizable enough that the IRS wondered where all that money came from.
text: A vulture can wolf more than two pounds of meat in a minute; a sizable crowd can strip a zebra—nose to tail—in 30 minutes.
ref: 2015 December, Elizabeth Royte, “Vultures Are Revolting. Here's Why We Need to Save Them.”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2015:
glosses: Fairly large.
Synonyms: goodly
prodigious
Derived terms: sizableness
sizably
unsizable
Related terms: resizable
sorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sorters
Etymology: From sort + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.
ref: 1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
glosses: A person employed to sort.
glosses: A machine or algorithm that performs sorting.
Derived terms: cross-belt sorter
universal sorter
woolsorter
sorters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorter
spiderweb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ̯dəwɛb/
ipa: /ˈspaɪ̯dɚwɛb/
Forms: form: spiderwebs
form: spider's web
form: spider’s web
form: spider web
form: spider-web
Etymology: From Middle English spiþere webb, equivalent to spider + web.
Senses: glosses: The net-like construct of a spider containing sticky strands to catch prey.
glosses: Something that resembles a spider's web in being mesh-like, entrapping, or fragile.
Hypernyms: web
Related terms: cobweb
web
spiderweb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪ̯dəwɛb/
ipa: /ˈspaɪ̯dɚwɛb/
Forms: form: spiderwebs
form: spiderwebbing
form: spiderwebbed
form: spiderwebbed
form: spider's web
form: spider’s web
form: spider web
form: spider-web
Etymology: From Middle English spiþere webb, equivalent to spider + web.
Senses: glosses: To connect or cover as if with spiderwebs.
fragileness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fragile + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The slender sculpture's beauty was enhanced by its apparent fragileness.
glosses: The property of being fragile.
spider webs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider web
spider's web
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider's webs
form: spiders' webs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spiderweb.
glosses: A kind of maypole dance.
spider's webs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider's web
spiderwebs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiderweb
spiritless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiritless
form: most spiritless
Etymology: From spirit + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The team played a spiritless first half, just going through the motions. But the realization they were playing for their sick friend energized them for the second half.
synonyms: word: languid
word: low-spirited
word: adiaphroistic
word: apathetic
word: apathistical
word: blasé
word: deaf
word: cool
word: shiftless
word: dispassionate
word: dull
word: enervated
word: gallionic
word: halfhearted
word: heartless
word: impassive
word: ineffervescible
word: insouciant
word: indifferent
word: insensible
word: jaded
word: languid
word: languorous
word: Laodicean
word: lethargic
word: listless
word: lackadaisical
word: lotophagous
word: lukewarm
word: mopey
word: nonchalant
word: nonplussed
word: phlegmatic
word: pococurante
word: spiritless
word: supine
word: tepid
word: torpid
word: torpedinous
word: unaroused
word: uncaring
word: unconcerned
word: unenthusiastic
word: unimpressible
word: uninterested
word: unlively
word: unmoved
word: untouched
word: unzealous
word: world-weary
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
Derived terms: spiritlessly
spiritlessness
splashiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From splashy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being splashy.
splashdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splashdowns
Etymology: Deverbal from splash down.
Senses: glosses: The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
splashdowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splashdown
cang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cangue (“type of pillory”).
cariostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cariostats
Senses: glosses: A machine for detecting dental caries, especially in children.
mellismatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In contrast to the Western structure, the vocal style is usually distinctively Middle Eastern, distinguished by a nasal timbre and a mellismatic singing ornamentation.
ref: 1996, Eliezer Moshe Finegold, Musika Mizrahit: From the Margins to the Mainstream, page 7:
text: Music Content: highly florid and mellismatic melodies; background instrumental riffs and chordal harmonies; limited instrumental solos or instrumental features.
ref: 2012, Lenard C. Bowie, African American Musical Heritage, →ISBN:
text: As evidence of Reynold's duo model, Annie Lennox's vocals maintain a strong connection to earthier human roots, in a soul tradition of mellismatic elaboration.
ref: 2013, Nick Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson, Electronic Music, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Misspelling of melismatic.
puchito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puchitos
Etymology: The Spanish word pucho evolved in Bierzo, a sub-region of Castile and Leon. Normally used as slang for "buddy", it has also loosely been used as a descriptor for a smaller, lesser person by adding the suffix -ito.
Senses: glosses: buddy.
unadopted road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unadopted roads
Senses: glosses: A private road, where the local borough council is not responsible for the road's maintenance.
parasitical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parasitical
form: most parasitical
Senses: examples: text: The parasitical plants render the forests impassable in many places
ref: 1826, Conrad Malte-Brun, Universal Geography:
text: Unconventional, circulating, parasitical, the rogue state that is the essence of American empire enters the political bloodstream of world terrorism . . .
ref: 2005, Stephen J. Pfohl, Culture, Power, and History:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of a parasite; parasitic.
Derived terms: antiparasitical
hyperparasitical
mycoparasitical
parasiticalness
unparasitical
cankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canker
cankers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of canker
cankering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of canker
cankered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cankered
form: most cankered
form: cankred
Etymology: From Middle English cankered, y-cancred, past participle of Middle English cankren, equivalent to canker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Infected with a canker or having a cankerous part
glosses: Ulcerated
glosses: Corrupted; morally corrupt
glosses: bad-tempered
Derived terms: cankeredly
cankeredness
uncankered
cankered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English cancrede (preterite) and Middle English cankered, y-cancred (past participle) of Middle English cankren (“to canker”), equivalent to canker + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of canker
vertical stabilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vertical stabilizers
form: vertical stabiliser
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: horizontal stabilizer
glosses: The fin on the tail of an aircraft; it includes the rudder on its trailing edge.
trailing edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trailing edges
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rearmost edge of a wing or other airfoil.
Related terms: control surface
leading edge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leading edges
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The frontmost edge of a wing or other airfoil of an aircraft; sometimes contains slots or slats.
examples: text: the leading edge of a cricket bat
glosses: The foremost part of any physical object.
glosses: The foremost part of a trend etc; a vanguard.
examples: text: DiBattista advocated balanced webmastery: Don't go to the leading edge if it forces users to buy the latest and greatest Web stuff.
ref: 1996, Computerworld, volume 30, number 21:
synonyms: bleeding edge
glosses: The forefront of practice or technology.
Derived terms: leading-edge
Related terms: trailing edge
cutting edge
bleeding edge
frontmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From front + -most.
Senses: glosses: Located at the front; foremost.
leading-edge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the leading edge of an airfoil
examples: text: The former Shell vice-president said: "I don't see leading-edge technology being developed on the railway. [...]."
ref: 2020 November 18, “Network News: Railway is years behind the curve”, in Rail, page 9:
glosses: leading, latest or most up-to-date
calamondin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæləˈmɒndɪn/
Forms: form: calamondins
form: calomondin
Etymology: Borrowed from Kapampangan kalamunding.
Senses: glosses: A small decorative evergreen citrus tree, of the hybrid Citrus × microcarpa (syn. ×Citrofortunella mitis), sometimes cultivated for its fruit.
glosses: The fruit of this tree.
Synonyms: calamansi
calamandarin
Philippine lemon
Philippine lime
Derived terms: citrangedin
Cannaregio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The northernmost and most populous of the six sestieri of Venice.
Dorsoduro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six sestieri of Venice; includes the Giudecca
San Marco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The central, and most tourist-oriented, of the six sestieri of Venice; includes Saint Mark's Square.
San Polo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The smallest of the six sestieri of Venice; includes the Rialto market.
Santa Croce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The northwestern of the six sestieri of Venice, including the main port and the modern part of the city.
belt drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belt drives
Senses: glosses: A method of power transmission by means of belts that connect pulleys on shafts.
Related terms: belt-driven
infringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infringe
balsams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsam
balsams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of balsam
hire purchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hire purchases
Senses: examples: text: Maggie Thatcher, you can't match her, she's the darling of us all. She's the curse of the Irish nation, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail. She's destroyed me hire purchase and she's put me on the dole. If I could only get my hands on her, I'd kick her up the hole!
ref: 1983, “The Thatcher Song”performed by Seán Brady:
glosses: A method of purchasing an item, where the buyer hires it and takes possession of it and pays regular instalments. Ownership is only transferred on payment of the final amount. Abbreviated as HP.
Synonyms: word: installment plan
word: long finger
word: never-never
Related terms: rent-to-own