cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
methanol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛθənɒl/
Forms: form: methanols
Etymology: From methane + -ol.
French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot, after determining methanol's chemical structure, introduced "methylene" from the Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + ὕλη (húlē, “wood, material”) with the intention of highlighting its origins, "alcohol made from wood (substance)".
Senses: examples: text: Eight staff members of a backpacker hostel in Laos have been detained by local authorities as they investigate the deaths of six foreign tourists from suspected methanol poisoning, according to state-affiliated media in the Southeast Asian country.
ref: 2024 November 27, Jessie Yeung and Isaac Yee, “Laos detains foreign hostel staff over backpacker methanol poisonings as families and travelers demand answers”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH₃OH; a colourless, toxic, inflammable liquid, used as a solvent, antifreeze, in the chemical industry, and in the preparation of methylated spirit.
wikipedia: Eugene Peligot
Jean-Baptiste Dumas
Synonyms: methyl alcohol
methyl hydrate
methyl hydroxide
methylol
monohydroxymethane
wood alcohol
wood naphtha
wood spirits
Derived terms: diphenylmethanol
methanolic
methanolized
phenanthrenemethanol
quinolinemethanol
triphenylmethanol
wood alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood alcohols
Etymology: Originally manufactured by the destructive distillation of wood.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: wood spirit
glosses: The compound methyl alcohol or methanol.
runaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌnəweɪ/
Forms: form: run-away
Etymology: Deverbal from run away.
Senses: examples: text: a runaway thief
glosses: Having run away; escaped; fugitive.
examples: text: a runaway donkey
glosses: Having run away; escaped; fugitive.
Having escaped from the control of the rider or driver.
raw_tags: of a horse or other animal
examples: text: a runaway marriage
glosses: Having run away; escaped; fugitive.
Pertaining to or accomplished by running away or eloping.
examples: text: a runaway victory at the polls
glosses: Easily won, as a contest.
examples: text: a runaway train
text: a runaway greenhouse effect
text: These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
glosses: Accelerating out of control.
examples: text: runaway prices
glosses: Unchecked; rampant.
examples: text: The runaway delegates nominated their own candidate.
glosses: Deserting or revolting against one's group, duties, expected conduct, or the like, especially to establish or join a rival group, change one's life drastically, etc.
Derived terms: runaway backtracking
runaway diesel
Fisherian runaway
Robin runaway
runaway bride
run-awayer
runaway selection
runaway shop
runaway star
runaway truck ramp
zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
Related terms: run away
lemon chiffon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lemon chiffons
Senses: glosses: A very light yellow, like that of lemon chiffon pie.
lemon chiffon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a very light yellow, like that of lemon chiffon pie.
aeronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Etymology: From aero- (“air”) + -nomy (“a system of rules or laws about a particular field”).
Senses: glosses: A branch of science that deals with the upper atmosphere of the Earth and the other planets with reference to their chemical composition, physical properties, relative motion, and responses to radiation from space.
Derived terms: aeronomic
aeronomical
aeronomist
genericize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒɪˈnɛɹ.ɪˌsaɪz/
Forms: form: genericizes
form: genericizing
form: genericized
form: genericized
form: genericise
form: generitize
Etymology: From generic + -ize.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To make generic.
To turn into a genericized trademark.
examples: text: However, the loss of exclusivity of the drugs led the market more genericized, creating a competitive environment for new entrants. For instance, non-benzodiazepines and low dose sedating anti-depressants, still considered as a first line of medication for the insomnia, are facing stiff competition from the generics.
ref: 2020, Insomnia therapeutics Market Analysis, Coherent Insights, Summary:
glosses: To make generic.
To make generics out of.
qualifier: pharmacy
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To make generic.
To make more generic: usable in more contexts.
glosses: To make generic.
To make generic: bland.
Synonyms: topics: programming
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: generify
Derived terms: genericized trademark
ethylene glycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethyleneglycol
Senses: examples: text: It is concerned in the manufacture of ethylene glycol, a principal raw material in the production of Terylene, and a block train of eleven 25-ton tank wagons, designed by I.C.I., has been specially constructed by B.R. to convey output to I.C.I.'s Wilton works in North Yorkshire.
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: New I.C.I. block tank train”, in Modern Railways, page 224:
text: ‘Antifreeze contains ethylene glycol, rather good stuff.’
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 50:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound, HO-CH₂-CH₂-OH, and the chemical structure at right. It is a clear, colorless liquid under normal conditions, and is widely used as a vehicle engine coolant due to its anti-freeze properties.
Synonyms: EG
ethane-1,2-diol
monoethylene glycol
MEG
Hypernyms: ethane diol
ethane glycol
ethanyl diol
ethanyldiol
ethanyl glycol
ethanylglycol
ethyl diol
ethyldiol
ethyl glycol
ethylglycol
Derived terms: ethylene glycol demethalcrylate
ethylene glycol diniitrate
ethylene glycol tetraacetic acid
monoethylene glycol
MEG
Related terms: diethylene glycol
DEG
-ene
ethyl
ethylene
glycol
monoethylene
monoethylene glycol
MEG
-ol
polyethylene
polyethylene glycol
PEG
triethylene glycol
TEG
ethene diol
ethene glycol
ethenyl diol
ethenyldiol
ethenyl glycol
ethenylglycol
ethylene diol
ethylenediol
urethra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹiːθɹə/
Forms: form: urethras
form: urethrae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek οὐρήθρα (ourḗthra, “the passage for urine”), from οὐρέω (ouréō, “to make water”). Recorded in English since 1634.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The tube through which urine exits the body and, in male placental mammals, through which semen is ejaculated.
Hypernyms: urogenital sinus - embryological precursor
Derived terms: prostatic urethra
urethritis
Related terms: ureter
urinary tract
lovat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌˈvæt/
ipa: /ˈlʌ.vət/
Forms: form: lovats
Senses: glosses: A dusty blue-green colour.
lovat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌˈvæt/
ipa: /ˈlʌ.vət/
Senses: glosses: Of a dusty blue-green colour.
malachite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæl.əˌkaɪt/
Forms: form: malachites
Etymology: From Middle French malachite, from Latin molochītis, from Ancient Greek μολόχη (molókhē, “[leaf of the ... ] mallow plant”).
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: green mineral
glosses: A bright green mineral, a basic copper carbonate, Cu₂CO₃(OH)₂; one of the principal ores of copper.
glosses: A mild green color, like that of the mineral.
Derived terms: azurite-malachite
malachite green
pseudomalachite
malachite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmæl.əˌkaɪt/
Forms: form: more malachite
form: most malachite
Etymology: From Middle French malachite, from Latin molochītis, from Ancient Greek μολόχη (molókhē, “[leaf of the ... ] mallow plant”).
Senses: glosses: Of a color ranging from olive-taupe to a mild to deeply-rich (at times seemingly translucent) green, like that of the mineral which is present on oxidized copper.
mazarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazarines
Etymology: Perhaps from the name either of Cardinal Mazarin or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, but the Oxford English Dictionary states that the evidence is lacking and that it is not found in French dictionaries.
Senses: glosses: A dark blue color.
mazarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps from the name either of Cardinal Mazarin or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, but the Oxford English Dictionary states that the evidence is lacking and that it is not found in French dictionaries.
Senses: glosses: Of a dark blue color.
Derived terms: mazarine blue
mazarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazarines
Etymology: Of obscure history. The Oxford English Dictionary notes that “Phillips 1706 mentions a phrase à la mazarine (not given by Fr[ench] lexicographers), used to designate a particular mode of dressing fowls, and possibly f[rom] the name of Cardinal Mazarin (died 1662) prime minister of France, or of the Duchesse de Mazarin, who died at Chelsea in 1699.”
Senses: examples: text: An hour before dinnertime, steam the mazarine in the usual way, and when done, turn it out of the mould on its dish […]
ref: 1846, Charles Elmé Francatelli, The Modern Cook, page 243:
glosses: A forcemeat entrée.
mazarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazarines
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of mezzanine.
Senses: glosses: The platform beneath the stage in a large theater.
hydrogeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogeologies
Etymology: From hydro- + geology.
Senses: examples: text: This issue led to an interim battle among the parties to exclude various expert witnesses regarding the aquifer's hydrogeology and a five-day evidentiary hearing before Special Master Eugene Siler in May 2019.
ref: 2021 October 1, Robin Craig, “In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater”, in SCOTUSblog:
glosses: The geology of groundwater, especially concerning the physical, biological and chemical properties of its occurrence and movement.
Derived terms: hydrogeologist
New Age
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more New Age
form: most New Age
form: new age
form: new-age
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a broad movement in Western culture, covering a wide variety of alternative spiritual and philosophical ideas, often spirituality, mysticism, holism, and environmentalism, and partially based on eastern religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, that developed towards the end of the 20th century.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to New Age music.
Derived terms: New Ageism
New Ageist
New Ager
New Age traveller
New Agey
New-Agey
New Age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: new age
form: new-age
Senses: examples: text: At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the "edge of history." There would be a real New Age.
ref: 1995, Ken Wilber, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality:
glosses: A modern spiritual and religious movement.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Ellipsis of New Age music.
New Age traveller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Age travellers
form: new age traveller
Senses: glosses: A member of a community of people, many of whom hold New Age beliefs, who travel among fairs and music festivals.
New Age music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: New age music is a general term for a wide and eclectic range of music styles blended together under one label to form a new crossover style of music. It is also closely linked with a lifestyle that is broadly called new age, which centers on […]
ref: 2019, Janet Sturman, The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: New Age
glosses: A genre of music of a mystical and meditative nature, associated with New Age philosophies, usually in the style of world music and using the sounds of nature.
midinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪdɪˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: midinettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French midinette, from midi (“midday”) + dinette, diminutive of diner (“dinner”).
Senses: glosses: A female salesperson, a shopgirl, especially in Paris.
examples: text: This? One finds them in every other midinette’s haunt, literally for sous.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 611:
glosses: A vacuous but fashionable young woman.
glosses: A type of miniature climbing rose.
now and then
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnaʊ ən(d)ˈðɛn/
Etymology: Compare Dutch nu en dan, West Frisian no en dan.
Senses: examples: text: Call your mother now and then and let her know you care.
text: Turn around, bright eyes / Every now and then, I fall apart
ref: 1983, Jim Steinman, “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, performed by Bonnie Tyler ft. Rory Dodd:
text: I'm a writer first, but I do have my HGV licence, and I use it every now and then.
ref: 2024 March 6, Pip Dunn, “Freight's future is in ISO containers”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 36:
synonyms: word: every now and again
word: every now and then
word: now and again
word: occasionally
word: sometimes
word: intermittently
glosses: Synonym of occasionally, sometimes, intermittently.
Derived terms: every now and then
Related terms: time to time
now and again
now or never
sometimes
matrilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæ.tɹɪˈləʊ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌmæ.tɹɪˈloʊ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌmæ.tɹəˈloʊ.kəl/
Etymology: From matri- + local.
Senses: glosses: Living with the family of the wife; uxorilocal.
raw_tags: of a married couple
examples: text: In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: In which newly married couples live with the wife's family.
raw_tags: of a people or culture
Synonyms: uxorilocal
Derived terms: matrilocality
matrilocally
Related terms: neolocal
duolocal
reinforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːɪnˈfɔːsmənt/
ipa: /ˌɹiɪnˈfɔɹsmənt/
ipa: /ˌɹiːɪnˈfoːsmənt/
Forms: form: reinforcements
form: re-enforcement
form: reenforcement
form: reënforcement
Etymology: From reinforce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: If a journalist speaks for herself, let her say so. If something is true of "a few" or "some" or "many" or, even, "most" of us, then let her say that. It may cost a few extra modifiers, but it will prevent the unconscionable reinforcement of the myth that we are all alike.
ref: 1976 February 14, Thom Willenbecher, “Gremlins Inside The Press”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 5:
glosses: The act, process, or state of reinforcing or being reinforced.
examples: text: There's a website that can be a good learning reinforcement.
glosses: A thing that reinforces.
examples: text: Send in the reinforcements!
glosses: Additional troops or materiel sent to support a military action.
qualifier: behavioral psychology
glosses: The process whereby a behavior with desirable consequences comes to be repeated.
glosses: A small round white sticker placed around a punched hole in a piece of paper to prevent the binder's rings from tearing through the paper.
Derived terms: negative reinforcement
positive reinforcement
primary reinforcement
reinforcement learning
reinforcement ring
ring reinforcement
self-reinforcement
vicarious reinforcement
Related terms: punishment
operant conditioning
classical conditioning
Master of Science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Masters of Science
Senses: glosses: A degree that usually requires 2-3 years beyond a Bachelor of Science and emphasizes science and scientific applications. The degree is less advanced than a Doctorate degree.
Synonyms: MSc
Masters
MS
Sc.M.
bleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: blegs
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)
ref: 4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo:
text: #*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.
ref: 7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo:
text: The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.
ref: 29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, in Sunderland Echo:
text: Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.
ref: 10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo:
glosses: A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
bleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: blegs
Etymology: Blend of blog + beg. by British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.
Senses: examples: text: I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
text: Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
ref: 2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic:
text: Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
ref: 2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2013:
text: This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]
ref: 2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, acknowledgments section, page 267:
glosses: An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
bleg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: blegs
form: blegging
form: blegged
form: blegged
Etymology: Blend of blog + beg. by British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.
Senses: examples: text: That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
text: The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
ref: 2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
text: About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
ref: 2009 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online:
text: Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
ref: 2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
text: Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
ref: 2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:
glosses: To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
Related terms: lazyweb
kecapi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈt͡ʃɑ.pi/
Forms: form: kecapis
Etymology: From Indonesian kecapi, from Sundanese ᮊᮎᮕᮤ (kacapi, “zither”), probably from Sanskrit कच्छपी (kacchapī, “lute”).
Senses: examples: text: These stories have been handed down from generation to generation in the form of ballads, performed with accompanying music by the "kecapi," a kind of zither.
ref: 1967, Focus on Indonesia, page 27:
text: She attributes the initial idea to her husband, who suggested combining the kecapi with suling in 1960, shortly after their move to the kabupaten Sidenreng-Rappang (Sidrap), where he had been assigned as district head (Ind. bupati).
ref: 2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Alternative form of kacapi.
Related terms: kecapi suling
suling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Forms: form: sulings
Etymology: Borrowed from Sundanese ᮞᮥᮜᮤᮀ (suling). Compare with Acehnese suléng and Malay seruling.
Senses: examples: text: She attributes the initial idea to her husband, who suggested combining the kecapi with suling in 1960, shortly after their move to the kabupaten Sidenreng-Rappang (Sidrap), where he had been assigned as district head (Ind. bupati).
ref: 2002, R. Anderson Sutton, Calling Back the Spirit: Music, Dance, and Cultural Politics in Lowland South Sulawesi, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An Indonesian flute made of bamboo.
Related terms: kecapi
kecapi suling
suling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuːlɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːlɪŋ
Forms: form: sulings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sulung.
DSM-IV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In the new “DSM-5” manual, “the criteria will incorporate several diagnoses from DSM-IV including autistic disorder, Asperger’s disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder and pervasive developmental disorder (not otherwise specified) into the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder for DSM-5 to help more accurately and consistently diagnose children with autism,” according to an APA statement Saturday.
ref: 2012 December 2, Miriam Falco, “Psychiatric association approves changes to diagnostic manual”, in CNN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association in 1994.
Related terms: DSM-I
DSM-II
DSM-III
DSM-III-R
DSM-IV-TR
DSM-5
lignite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪɡnaɪ̯t/
enpr: lĭgnīt
Forms: form: lignites
Etymology: From French lignite, from Latin lignum (“firewood”) + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Texas industry is turning to lignite, a kind of poor man's coal, to replace its dwindling allocations of natural gas. The Lone Star State now gets an estimated 12 percent of its electricity from lignite, and that figure is expected to double by 1985.
ref: 1978 February 14, “Texas Turning to Its Reserves of Lignite”, in New York Times:
text: [Robert] Habeck, who has found himself in the extremely uncomfortable position of turning from a long-term campaigner against fossil fuels to a short-term defender of them, said: “Putin’s war of aggression is forcing us to temporarily make greater use of lignite so that we save gas in electricity generation. This is painful but necessary in view of the shortage of gas.”
ref: 2023 January 10, Kate Connolly, “Climate activists ‘prepared to risk lives’ to stop German coalmine”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: brown coal
dirty coal
glosses: A low-grade, brownish-black coal.
Derived terms: lignitic
lignitiferous
pyrolignite
Fula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːlə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Forms: form: Fulas
form: Fula
Etymology: * From Manding languages, ultimately from Fula root ful- (pul-)
Senses: glosses: A member of a largely pastoral Muslim people of West Africa.
Synonyms: alt: from Hausa; ultimately from Fula root ful- [pul-]
word: Fulani
alt: from Fula plural noun Fulɓe
word: Fulbe
word: Fulah
word: Foolah
alt: French equivalent; ultimately from Fula root ful- [pul-] via Wolof
word: Peul
Fula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfuːlə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Etymology: * From Manding languages, ultimately from Fula root ful- (pul-)
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in West Africa.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Fula terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ful
word: ff
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/ful
word: ful
word: ful ⁠
word: a macrolanguage including:
word: fuh ⁠
word: fuq ⁠
word: fuv ⁠
word: fub ⁠
word: fui ⁠
word: ffm ⁠
word: fue ⁠
word: fuf ⁠
word: fuc ⁠
Fulfulde
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Google Translate, for instance, says the Fulfulde word for January means June, while ChatGPT says it’s August or September. The programs also suggest the Fulfulde word for “harvest” means “fever” or “well-being,” among other possibilities.
ref: 2025 September 25, Jacob Judah, “How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral”, in MIT Technology Review:
glosses: Synonym of Fula (“language”).
synonyms: word: Fula
extra: language
tussiculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˌsɪkjʊˈleɪʃən/
Etymology: From tussicula + -ation, from tussis + -cule.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: hacking cough
flic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: flick
Forms: form: flics
Etymology: From flick in the cinematographic sense.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data file containing computer animations.
flic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: flick
Forms: form: flics
Etymology: From French flic (“cop, policeman”).
Senses: glosses: A French policeman.
Related terms: word: flicflac
english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: flic-flac
configure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈfɪɡ(j)ɚ/
ipa: /kənˈfɪɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /kənˈfəɡə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /kənˈfɪɡə(r)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkɔnfɪɡə(r)/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪɡjə(ɹ)
Forms: form: configures
form: configuring
form: configured
form: configured
Etymology: From Old French configurer, from Latin configurare. See configurate.
Senses: examples: text: Users may configure the settings to enhance their experience.
glosses: To set up or arrange something in such a way that it is ready for operation for a particular purpose, or to someone's particular liking
Derived terms: autoconfigure
configurability
configurable
configurative
deconfigure
misconfigure
preconfigure
reconfigure
reverse configure
unconfigure
Related terms: configuration
configurator
pædophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pædophiles
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of paedophile.
pædophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, pædo- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of pedophilia.
nolo contendere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnoʊloʊ kənˈtɛndəɹiː/
Forms: form: nolo contenderes
Etymology: Directly from Latin nōlō contendere (“I do not wish to contend”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: No contest. A plea by a defendant accused of a crime that, without admitting guilt, does not dispute the charge.
Synonyms: no contest
pedophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pedophilic
form: most pedophilic
form: paedophilic
form: pædophilic
Etymology: From pedophile + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In a consumerist hypersexualized environment where bare-midriffed fifteen-year-olds are the pedophilic standard of desirability, becoming older is coded as a set of deficiencies.
ref: 2011, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America, page 125:
glosses: Of, relating to, or pertaining to pedophilia.
Derived terms: pedophilically
pedophilic disorder
Related terms: pedophile
paedophile
pedophilia
paedophilia
pedosexual
pedosexuality
pedophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedophilics
form: paedophilic
form: pædophilic
Etymology: From pedophile + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [N]ot all child sexual abusers are pedophilics.
ref: 1996, Irwin G. Sarason, Barbara R. Sarason, Abnormal Psychology: The Problem of Maladaptive Behavior, page 230:
glosses: A pedophile.
paedophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paedophilic
form: most paedophilic
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of pedophilic.
négligée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɡlɪʒeɪ/
Forms: form: négligé
form: negligee
form: negligée
Etymology: From French négligée f (past participle, adjective), from French négligé m (“underdressed; loose garment”, past participle, adjective, noun), past participle of négliger (“to neglect”), from Latin negligere.
Senses: glosses: Carelessly or unceremoniously dressed.
glosses: In the style of a negligee; revealing, titillating.
raw_tags: of clothing
négligée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛɡlɪʒeɪ/
Forms: form: négligées
form: négligé
form: negligee
form: negligée
Etymology: From French négligée f (past participle, adjective), from French négligé m (“underdressed; loose garment”, past participle, adjective, noun), past participle of négliger (“to neglect”), from Latin negligere.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he had on a lilac Negligee, Gause Cuffs trimmed richly, with Flowers and spangles, spangled shoes, Bows of Gause and Flowers, and a Cap!
ref: 1777, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 78:
glosses: A woman's lightweight gown of the eighteenth century.
glosses: A necklace of beads, pearls etc.
examples: text: “Good! My lady will be sitting in her boudoir, very much in negligee, about now.”
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:
glosses: A state of careless undress or very informal attire.
examples: text: Enkhbayar has promised more jobs, free education and higher public service wages to the poverty-ravaged country. But who needs those when you've got dancing girls in black negligees?
ref: 2000 July 3, “No: 1669 Mongolia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A woman's loose-fitting nightgown, especially when short, lacy and/or revealing; a nightie.
zaibatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zaɪˈbætsuː/
ipa: /zaɪˈbɑtsu/
rhymes: -ætsuː
Forms: form: zaibatsu
form: zaibatsus
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 財閥(ざいばつ) (zaibatsu), coined from Middle Chinese 財 (d͡zoj, “wealth”) + 閥 (bjot, “powerful family”). Doublet of chaebol.
Senses: examples: text: He wondered briefly what it would be like, working all your life for one zaibatsu. Company housing, company hymn, company funeral.
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 37:
text: At other points, the film suggests the motive is financial, depicting the Kobayashi clan as staging an industrial coup of sorts, like a quirky Andersonian take on the zaibatsu (a term for the family-controlled business monopolies that dominated Japan until the end of World War II).
ref: 2018 March 31, Nina Li Coomes, “Unpacking the Fictional Japan of ‘Isle of Dogs’”, in The Atlantic:
topics: business
glosses: A large business conglomerate founded under the Empire of Japan, generally controlled by a single family or individual.
examples: Near-synonyms: megacorporation, supercorporation
glosses: Any large corporation.
Related terms: english: relating to South Korea
translation: relating to South Korea
word: chaebol
word: keiretsu
ninjutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɪnd͡ʒɪtsu/
/nɪnd͡ʒutsu/
Forms: form: ninjitsu
Etymology: From Japanese 忍術 (ninjutsu).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A Japanese martial art that is a collection of techniques originally practiced for Japanese espionage purposes, and includes methods of gathering information, nondetection, avoidance, and misdirection techniques. Used by ninja (忍者).
Synonyms: ninpo
ninjitsu
Coordinate terms: english: a female ninja
translation: a female ninja
word: kunoichi
english: a male ninja
translation: a male ninja
word: shinobi
english: a warrior that practices ninjutsu
translation: a warrior that practices ninjutsu
word: ninja
RIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RIBs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of rigid inflatable boat (“a lightweight inflatable boat with a rigid hull”).
glosses: routing information base
Synonyms: sense: boat
word: rigid inflatable boat
sense: boat
word: rigid-hulled inflatable boat
sense: boat
word: rhibbie
sense: boat
word: ribbie
sense: boat
word: RHIB
madrigal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæd͡ɹɪɡəl/
Forms: form: madrigals
Etymology: From Italian madrigale, from Latin mātrīcālis.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A song for a small number of unaccompanied voices; from 13th century Italy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A polyphonic song for about six voices, from 16th century Italy.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A short poem, often pastoral, and suitable to be set to music.
Derived terms: madrigaler
madrigalian
madrigalic
madrigalist
madrigalistic
sedate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈdeɪt/
ipa: /səˈdeɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: sedates
form: sedating
form: sedated
form: sedated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1646, the adjective in 1661; borrowed from Latin sēdātus, perfect passive participle of sēdō (“to settle”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Though he may have been sedated, he knew I was there, knew who I was, knew I was talking to him.
ref: 1990, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 2, in Age of Iron, New York: Random House, page 80:
synonyms: tranquilize
glosses: To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug.
synonyms: calm
soothe
tranquilize
glosses: To make tranquil.
Derived terms: resedate
Related terms: sedation
sedative
bridal wear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bridalwear.
casting agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casting agents
Senses: glosses: A person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in the entertainment business.
cheche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheches
Senses: examples: text: A pale khaki cheche or desert scarf became popular, worn in various ways at the commander's whim - either looped round the neck, crossed on the chest, or wrapped all around the head and neck...
ref: 1999. Martin Windrow, French Foreign Legion 1914-1945, Osprey Publishing, page 43
text: Mossa scrawled his name, pulled his cheche down over his mouth, and actually smiled. ... I wore a blue cheche to filter sand out of the air I was breathing.
ref: 2003. "Outside" Magazine. Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure, W. W. Norton & Company, page 14
glosses: A piece of clothing used commonly in hot deserts to protect oneself from the sun or sandstorms.
exuvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from the plurale tantum exuviae (“the skin of an animal sloughed off”), from exuō (“to take off”). See also exuvium.
Senses: synonyms: moult
glosses: plural of exuvium
false start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: false starts
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: jump-start
flyer
glosses: The act of an athlete starting a race before being signaled to do so.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The act of an offensive player moving across the line of scrimmage prior to the snap.
examples: text: After a "false start" that was too vigorous, overloading the motors, No. D171 made a very successful unassisted run from Tyne Dock to Consett.
ref: 1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: North Eastern Region”, in Modern Railways, page 422:
text: He spent nearly 20 years developing the movie, keeping at it through false starts and heartbreaking dead ends. And when he got the chance to make it, he went all in, devising entire societies full of baroquely souped-up death machines and screaming war-cults.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 06 Jan 2018:
glosses: An attempt at something that does not work, requiring one to start over.
frybread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹaɪˌbɹɛd/
Forms: form: frybreads
form: fry bread
Etymology: From fry + bread.
Senses: glosses: Fried bread.
Synonyms: Baptist cakes
dough gob
dough goddy
doughbelly
doughboy
fried dough
holy poke
huffjuffs
puffy sticks
scone
niveau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niveaus
Etymology: From French niveau; see there for more. Doublet of level and libella.
Senses: glosses: level, grade, standard
huckaback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huckabacks
Senses: examples: text: "Say I can't dress a window, you thundering old Humbug," he said, and hurled the huckaback at his master. He followed this up by pitching first a blanket, then an armful of silesia, then a window support out of the window into the shop.
ref: 1910, H G Wells, The History of Mr Polly, page 27:
glosses: A type of coarse, absorbent cotton or linen fabric used for making towels.
hyperchlorhydria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + chlorhydria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of an excessive amount of hydrochloric acid in the stomach. Often treatable with antacid.
patrilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patri- + local.
Senses: glosses: living with the family of the husband.
raw_tags: of a married couple
examples: text: In barring the way, he is enacting a ritual which demands that the new way of patrilocal marriage pay its respect to the more ancient way of matrilocal marriage.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 191:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: In which newly married couples live with the husband's family.
raw_tags: of a people or culture
Synonyms: virilocal
Derived terms: patrilocality
patrilocally
Related terms: matrilocal
uxorilocal
neolocal
duolocal
neolocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + local.
Senses: glosses: living together at a new residence.
raw_tags: of a married couple
Derived terms: neolocally
Related terms: matrilocal
patrilocal
duolocal
duolocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From duo- + local.
Senses: glosses: living at separate residences
raw_tags: of a married couple
Related terms: matrilocal
patrilocal
neolocal
jidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jidders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jitter.
long-lining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longlining
Senses: glosses: A type of commercial fishing using a very long line with many baited hooks attached along its length.
mitching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: miching
form: micking
Etymology: From mitch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mitch
mitching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miching
form: micking
Etymology: From mitch + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Pilfering; skulking.
examples: text: As soon as she was out of the front gate, my father would say, ‘Come along, son: let's go mitchin'!’ and we'd go out to the shed at the back [...].
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 6:
glosses: Playing truant.
glosses: A pretense of poverty.
CTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTRs
Senses: examples: text: Remember Click-thru rate (CTR) is the number of people who click on an ad …
ref: 2008, Jerri L. Ledford, Google AdSense for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of click-through rate.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of cash transaction report.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of currency transaction report.
examples: text: Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.
ref: 1997, Louis V. Avioli, Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders, page 98:
text: Once more significant differences were observed for CTR w/o LIF. (E)- Protein levels for Hexokinase I and II, GAPDH and PKM1/2 were determined by western Blot and quantified by densiometric evaluation.
ref: 2015 July 6, “Dichloroacetate, the Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex and the Modulation of mESC Pluripotency”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of calcitonin receptor.
CTR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Choose the Right.
octostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octostyles
Etymology: From octo- + -style.
Senses: examples: text: The Parthenon in Athens is an octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastyle.
topics: architecture
glosses: A temple or portico with eight columns in front.
Related terms: tetrastyle
hexastyle
decastyle
piscivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪs(k)ɪvɔː/
ipa: /ˈpɪsɪvɔɹ/
Forms: form: piscivores
Etymology: From pisci- (“fish”) + -vore (“eater”).
Senses: synonyms: word: ichthyophage
word: pescatarian
english: of a person
translation: of a person
glosses: A fish eater.
Derived terms: piscivorous
Rabelaisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rabelaisian
form: most Rabelaisian
form: Rabelaisan
Etymology: Calque of French rabelaisien.
Senses: examples: text: In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word.
ref: 2006, Todd P. Olson, “The Street Has Its Masters: Caravaggio and the Socially Maerginal”, in Genevieve Warwick, editor, Caravaggio: Realism, Rebellion, Reception, page 72:
glosses: Pertaining to the works or period of Rabelais.
examples: text: For although of unexceptionable morality, and addressed virginibus puerisque, the stories and illustrations with which this and others of these collections abound are frequently of a very Rabelaisian character.
ref: 1889, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, Book VI, chapter VII, page 343:
text: The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.
ref: 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 13:
glosses: Possessing a style of satirical humour characterized by exaggerated or grotesque characters and coarse jokes.
scarcity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛɹsɪti/
ipa: /ˈskɛəsɪti/
Forms: form: scarcities
Etymology: From Old Northern French escarcete; by surface analysis, scarce + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Praise […] owes its value only to its scarcity.
ref: July 6, 1751, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 136
text: To understand the events of the next fifty years, then, one must understand environmental scarcity, cultural and racial clash, geographic destiny, and the transformation of war.
ref: 1994 February, Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The condition of something being scarce or deficient.
examples: text: a scarcity of grain
text: The crucial and intersecting challenges of scarcities, both emerging and intensifying, will consume China’s custodians over the next decade.
ref: 2013 September 24, Damien Ma, William Adams, “China's Next Great Challenge: Scarcity”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An inadequate amount of something; a shortage.
Synonyms: sense: condition of something being scarce
word: infrequency
word: rareness
word: rarity
sense: inadequate amount of something
word: dearth
word: deficiency
word: lack
word: infrequency
word: penury
word: want
Derived terms: artificial scarcity
digital scarcity
postscarcity
root of scarcity
mint cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mint creams
Senses: glosses: A very faint green color, like that of crème de menthe.
glosses: A chocolate filled with peppermint fondant.
mint cream
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a very faint green color, like that of crème de menthe.
Related terms: crème de menthe
SCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of Scotland.
examples: text: The bilateral meeting was one of several for Xi on Sunday, who is hosting the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin. The SCO is a 10-member bloc of Eurasian nations, and the summit is also being attended by the leaders of 16 observer or “dialogue partner” nations.
ref: 2025 August 31, Helen Davidson, “Putin, Modi and Erdoğan among leaders in China for talks with Xi”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a bloc of Eurasian nations established in 2001.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Santa Cruz Operation, a software company based in Santa Cruz, California.
SCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCOs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sharable content object, a standardized learning object that can communicate to learning management and content management systems.
Related terms: english: Sharable Content Object Reference Mode
translation: Sharable Content Object Reference Mode
word: SCORM
stiletto heel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiletto heels
Senses: glosses: A heel of a shoe that is very narrow the bottom - the base has less than one square centimeter of surface. They are typically 5 to 10 centimeters (2 to 4 inches) high, but can be much higher. Lower ones are sometimes called kitten heels.
Synonyms: sense: high and narrow heel
word: spike heel
terricolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Living in, on, or near ground.
misty rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misty roses
Senses: glosses: A very faint pink color, like that of a rose veiled in mist.
misty rose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of very faint pink color, like that of a rose veiled in mist.