cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fadeaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fadeaways
form: fade-away
Etymology: Deverbal from fade away.
Senses: examples: text: In his final years he [John Ogdon] gave an interview to an American journalist who noticed that "his handshake is a boneless fadeaway["].
ref: 2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: An instance of fading away, of diminishing in proximity or intensity.
examples: text: He taunted the Knicks instead with hanging jumpers, impossible fadeaways and layups in traffic.
ref: 2009 February 3, Howard Beck, “Bryant Puts on a Show, Setting Garden Records”, in New York Times:
text: [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.
ref: 2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A jump shot made while jumping backwards, away from the basket, with the goal to create space between the shooter and the defender, making it much harder to block.
examples: text: Why some people choose to do the infamous "fadeaway" instead of a clean break?
glosses: The ending of a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation.
fade away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fades away
form: fading away
form: faded away
form: faded away
Senses: examples: text: I was angry at first, but my rage faded away over time.
text: The stars shall fade away.
ref: 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene v, page 1:
text: "I felt my strength fading away, and I was in a half swoon. How long this horrible thing lasted I know not, but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with the fresh blood!"
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: The sun is fading away
That's the end of the day
ref: 1963, The Beatles, “I'll Be on My Way”:
coordinate_terms: fall away
slip away
tail off
taper off
trail off
glosses: To lose strength, become weaker; to wane; to disappear or reduce slowly.
Synonyms: wither
Derived terms: word: fade-away
word: fadeaway
fade away
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Phillips became known for the "fade away, in which the main figures' clothing is the same color as the background, allowing the elements to partially blend.
ref: 2009, Alison A. Nieder, Jim Heimann, 100 Ans de Pubs de Mode, page 1879:
text: Hirschfeld captured many scenes in line and employed Coles Phillips's "fade away" technique in his painting on the left.
ref: 2015, David Leopold, The Hirschfeld Century:
text: In Phillip's "Fade Away" style, he is literally editing out elements (by making them the same flat color as the background), but those elements are still there.
ref: 2019, Coles Phillips, Fadeaway: The Remarkable Imagery of Coles Phillips:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting technique in which young women's clothes fade into the background.
lovesick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lovesick
form: most lovesick
Etymology: From love + sick.
Senses: examples: text: And she looked to Mr. –––– / And leered like a love-sick pigeon.
ref: 1834 [1799], Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, “The Devil's Thoughts”, in The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge, volume II, London: W. Pickering, page 86:
text: I'm sick of love / I hear the clock tick / This kind of love / I'm lovesick
ref: 1997, Bob Dylan, “Love Sick”, in Time Out of Mind:
glosses: Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of unrequited or unfulfilled love.
glosses: Having an aching desire for one's beloved.
Derived terms: lovesickly
lovesickness
Related terms: limerence
n'est-ce pas
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛsˈpa/
ipa: /nɛsˈpɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Etymology: Borrowed from French n'est-ce pas ? (“isn't it?”).
Senses: examples: text: I know him well, we artists have the common touch, n'est-ce pas?
ref: 1935, Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River, page 763:
text: It is just a little quarrel of two most worthy women, n'est-ce pas
ref: 2003, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, The Adolescent, translation of original by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, published 1875, page 527:
glosses: Used to form tag questions.
Perioikoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɛɹiˈɔɪkɔɪ/
Etymology: Transliteration of Ancient Greek Περίοικοι (Períoikoi).
Senses: glosses: The ancient inhabitants of Laconia who were free residents of the mountains and the beaches of Laconia.
Derived terms: Perioikos
presbycusis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɹɛzbəˈkjuːsəs/
Forms: form: presbyacusis
Etymology: See presbyacusis § Etymology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
qualifier: otolaryngology
glosses: Inability of the ears, due to aging, to perceive and focus on high-pitched sounds.
avunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avunculates
Etymology: From Latin avunculus (“uncle”).
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The relationship between a man and his sister's children, generally her sons.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Among certain tribal peoples, for example, the Korowai, a special relationship between a man and a maternal uncle, and the mutual responsibilities between them.
avunculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin avunculus (“uncle”).
Senses: examples: text: avunculate society
glosses: Pertaining to a society where the avunculate is of central importance.
examples: text: avunculate marriage
glosses: Pertaining to a marriage to one's aunt, uncle, niece or nephew.
Related terms: avuncular
price gouging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: price gougings
Senses: examples: text: The farmers aren't really guilty of price gouging, but they are trying to recoup some of their losses from the flooding earlier this spring.
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: The act of or an instance of charging services or pricing goods at unreasonably high prices.
price gouging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of price gouge
Related terms: excuseflation
greedflation
market power
perfect competition
profiteering
valvulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvulitides
Etymology: From valvule + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a valve, especially a heart valve.
veraison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French véraison.
Senses: glosses: A stage in the ripening process of grapes or olives. It is the relatively short period during which the firm, green berries begin to soften and change colour.
verbigeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbigerations
Senses: glosses: An obsessive repetition of meaningless words and phrases, especially as a symptom of mental illness.
Verma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vermas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi वर्मा (varmā). Variant of Varma.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hindi.
Verma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Rauma municipality, Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.
villenage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villenages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of villeinage.
virescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɪˈrɛsəns/
/vaɪˈrɛsəns/
Forms: form: virescences
Etymology: Late 19th century. From Latin virescens, present participle of virescō.
Senses: glosses: The act of becoming green; greening.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The abnormal development of green pigmentation in plants that are not normally green, like flowers and shoots. It may indicate phytoplasma infection.
glosses: Greenishness.
Coordinate terms: sense: becoming green
english: becoming white
translation: becoming white
word: albescence
sense: becoming green
english: becoming blue
translation: becoming blue
word: cerulescence
sense: becoming green
english: becoming red
translation: becoming red
word: erubescence
sense: becoming green
english: becoming yellow
translation: becoming yellow
word: flavescence
sense: becoming green
english: becoming black
translation: becoming black
word: nigrescence
Related terms: sense: becoming green
word: virescent
Visuvabharathy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit [Term?], from the root words visuva (worldly) and bharathy (man of India).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India.
chewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chew
chewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: more chewed
form: most chewed
Senses: glosses: That has been chewed; masticated.
Derived terms: unchewed
coldie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coldies
Etymology: From cold + -ie (“diminutive suffix”), for cold one. Compare tinnie.
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe, in 2011, Underdogs (omnibus edition), page 255,
As expected, she's sitting in the stand, holding a hot dog in one hand and balancing a coldie and a cigarette in the other.
text: He reached under his seat and pulled out a Foster′s. “I don't suppose you′d care for a coldie?”
“I don′t mind if I do.”
“There′s a girl!” He popped the tab and passed it over.
ref: 2010, Jeanne Matthews, Bones of Contention, page 302:
text: “G′day love. You look like you could use a coldie.”
His thick Australian accent made her smile.
ref: 2011, Craig Odanovich, The Black Widow Trainer, page 71:
glosses: A cold bottle or can of beer.
ukaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ukase.
kolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolks
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kolk.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.
kolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kolks
Etymology: Borrowed from Low German Kolk, possibly via German Kolk. Cognate with Dutch kolk.
Senses: examples: text: […] bogs, but only around pools or kolks. The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog. The quaking bog community on the kolk edge, similar to that[…]
ref: 1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341:
text: […] bog hollows and kolks.
ref: 1998, R. S. Ambasht, Modern Trends in Ecology and Environment:
glosses: A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.
build a better mousetrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: builds a better mousetrap
form: building a better mousetrap
form: built a better mousetrap
form: built a better mousetrap
Etymology: A shortening of build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Derived from:
:If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Senses: examples: text: Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson
text: Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap.
glosses: To invent the next great thing; to have a better idea.
arbit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arbit
form: most arbit
Etymology: Shortened form of arbitrary.
Senses: examples: text: Although he seemed arbit at first, a few minutes of talking exposed a decent and well-mannered human being.
glosses: Strange, random or weird.
anchorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæŋ.kə(ˌ)ɹaɪt/
Forms: form: anchorites
form: anachoret
form: anachorete
form: anachorite
form: anchoret
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀναχωρητής (anakhōrētḗs, “anchorite”), from ἀναχωρέω (anakhōréō, “to withdraw, retire”), via Latin anchorēta, a variant of anachorēta (“anchorite”), see -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, hang him? He's a very Anchorite—a young Hermit!
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, IV.iii:
text: The household was diminished, and its expenses curtailed. There was a very blank anchorite repast when Pen dined from home: and he himself headed the remonstrance from the kitchen regarding the deteriorated quality of the Fairoaks beer.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: “Haven't you been in love since you came to Paris?”
“I haven't got time for that sort of nonsense. Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
“Your appearance doesn't suggest the anchorite.”
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XXI, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St. Basil, and spread throughout Palestine; when the Moslems captured the Holy Land these "Carmelites" migrated to Cyprus, Sicily, France, and England.
ref: 1950, Will Durant, The Age of Faith, Simon and Schuster,, page 792:
synonyms: word: anchor
word: anchorist
word: eremite
word: hermit
word: recluse
coordinate_terms: anchoress
glosses: One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons; hermit.
Derived terms: anchoritess
anchoritic
anchoritism
Related terms: anchor
clumsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/
Forms: form: clumsinesses
Etymology: From clumsy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He dropped them not out of spite, but out of clumsiness.
glosses: A lack of coordination or elegance; the condition or quality of being clumsy.
overwinter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɪn.tə/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɪn.tɚ/
Forms: form: overwinters
form: overwintering
form: overwintered
form: overwintered
Etymology: From over- + winter. Compare Dutch overwinteren, German überwintern.
Senses: examples: text: It is best to overwinter tender plants indoors.
text: Well, if you're fortunate, you'll be able to overwinter your bees and keep them alive during the winter months.
ref: 2014, Philip Hasheider, Samantha Johnson, The Complete Illustrated Guide to Farming, page 114:
text: We overwinter our blueberry bushes in an unheated greenhouse, but when re-tubbed this year they will be too big to move. What are their chances of surviving winter outside?
ref: 2014 April 8, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I revive a forsythia hedge? [print version 5 April 2014, p. G9]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening), London:
glosses: To keep or preserve for the winter.
examples: text: Insects may overwinter in fallen fruit if it is not removed.
text: Fish only overwinter in streams having a sufficient source of groundwater.
ref: 1975, Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System:
text: Different insects also differ in the way in which they overwinter. Most insects overwinter as eggs or pupae, but others overwinter as larvae or nymphs, whilst quite a few hibernate in the adult phase.
ref: 2011, Bob Gibbons, Field Guide to Insects of Britain and Northern Europe:
text: 'Early Purple Sprouting' broccoli is so hardy you can let it overwinter and it rewards you with—yes, you guessed it—early purple sprouts that are tender and delicious.
ref: 2012, Marie Iannotti, The Beginner's Guide to Growing Heirloom Vegetables:
glosses: To spend the winter (in a particular place).
Coordinate terms: oversummer
Derived terms: overwinterer
Related terms: snowbird
overwinter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɪn.tə/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɪn.tɚ/
Etymology: From over- + winter. Compare Dutch overwinteren, German überwintern.
Senses: examples: text: The effect of seedling size on overwinter injury was analyzed separately by analysis of covariance.
ref: 1996, Marek Jacek Krasowski, Measures to Reduce Overwinter Injury to Planted Spruce in Boreal Forest of British Columbia, page 4:
text: Overwinter survival ranged from 0% to 100% and increased with increasing fall total length and winter temperatures among all cohorts and reservoirs.
ref: 2012, Issues in Global Environment:
text: A replicated site comparison study on 1, 031 agricultural sites across England in 2004–2008 (29) found that in three out of four year-on-year comparisons, grey partridge Perdix perdix density changes and overwinter survival were higher on sites under agri-environment schemes, than on sites not under schemes (density changes were more positive on agri-environment scheme sites than non-agi-environment scheme sites in all comparisons except 2007-2008; overwinter survival was higher for all except 2006-2007).
ref: 2013, David R. Williams, Robert G. Pople, David A. Showler, Bird Conservation:
glosses: Occurring over the winter season.
overwinter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊ.vəˈwɪn.tə/
ipa: /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɪn.tɚ/
Etymology: From over- + winter. Compare Dutch overwinteren, German überwintern.
Senses: examples: text: Ground cover of perennial grasses declined seriously under plots covered overwinter with dead thistle plants.
ref: 1968, Earl F. Aldon, Detrimental Effect of Russian thistle on Semidesert Range in West Central New Mexico:
text: Moreover, each year of continuous corn cropping the corn stover would be turned under by fall plowing in preparation for the next spring planting, leaving the land bare overwinter.
ref: 1985, Technologies to Benefit Agriculture and Wildlife, page 63:
text: The copepod Thermocyclops oithonoides rests overwinter as copepodids in lake mud in the Mugglesee and other lakes in Europe.
ref: 2014, Lee Hannah, Climate Change Biology, page 95:
glosses: During the winter.
stranglehold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strangleholds
Etymology: From strangle + hold.
Senses: examples: text: For years the company had a stranglehold on the rest of the industry.
text: Numerous witnesses had come forward at that time to state that they had watched Kelly tackle Symaco and pin her on the floor in a strangle-hold until investigating officers arrived to pry him loose.
ref: 1979 August 25, Jil Clark, “Police Officer Convicted in Beating of Lesbians”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 1:
text: That record felt like ancient history as the Djokovic of 2011 overcame a slightly edgy start to take a stranglehold on the match.
ref: 2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A grip or control so strong as to stifle or cut off.
Synonyms: chokehold
throttlehold
stranglehold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strangleholds
form: strangleholding
form: strangleheld
form: strangleheld
Etymology: From strangle + hold.
Senses: examples: text: "She does not hold a partner; she strangleholds him. As soon as a man realizes how tightly she holds on, he leaves her."
ref: 2014, David Richo, When Love Meets Fear: How to Become Defense-less and Resource-full:
glosses: To hold a tight grip or control.
Synonyms: clasp
grasp
grip
inspissator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspissators
Etymology: From inspissate + -or.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for evaporating liquids; an evaporator
carefree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛəfɹiː/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹfɹi/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: more carefree
form: most carefree
Etymology: From care + -free.
Senses: examples: text: He left his cell phone behind and enjoyed a carefree summer day at the beach.
text: You know: sometimes, baby, I'm so carefree / With a joy that's hard to hide
ref: 1964, Sol Marcus, Gloria Caldwell, Bennie Benjamin, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, performed by Nina Simone:
text: Many of these parks still honor the lazy, carefree tradition of floating down a slow-moving stream in an inflated inner tube.
ref: 2013 July 31, Thom Patterson, “How to get soaking wet this summer”, in CNN:
synonyms: laid-back
unconcerned
glosses: Without cares or worries; free of concern or worries; without difficulty.
Synonyms: word: airy
word: at ease
word: at peace
word: carefree
word: careless
word: casual
word: chill
word: cool
word: devil-may-care
word: easy-breezy
word: easygoing
word: happy-go-lucky
word: indifferent
word: insouciant
word: laid-back
word: leisurely
word: lighthearted
word: loose
word: mellow
word: nonchalant
word: pococurante
word: relaxed
word: serene
word: solute
word: tranquil
word: unanxious
word: unbothered
word: unconcerned
word: undisturbed
word: unruffled
word: untroubled
word: unworried
word: wanton
Hypernyms: word: calm
word: placid
Derived terms: carefreedom
carefreely
carefreeness
Related terms: word: blasé
word: blithe
word: breezy
word: contented
word: easy
word: feel-good
word: feckless
word: free and easy
word: irresponsible
word: reckless
word: resilient
word: unrestrained
word: uninhibited
word: wild
word: apathetic
word: happy
word: blissful
worries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹiz/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹiz/
ipa: /ˈwɝiz/
Senses: examples: text: Leave your worries behind.
glosses: plural of worry
worries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌɹiz/
ipa: /ˈwʌɹiz/
ipa: /ˈwɝiz/
Senses: examples: text: He worries that he will not have enough money to pay rent.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of worry
loss leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒs ˈliːdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈlɔs ˈlidɚ/
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: loss leaders
Senses: examples: text: Sugar was a strategic product in the scheme; in part, because it was the chief source of ‘disturbance’ in the wholesale and retail trades owing to its use as what would now be called a ‘loss leader’, and, in part, because on the supply side the industry was dominated by one refiner behind a substantial tariff wall, thereby facilitating ‘stabilised’ pricing.
ref: 1966, L. K. Skeoch, “Canada”, in B[asil] S. Yamey, editor, Resale Price Maintenance, 3rd edition, Chicago, Ill.: Aldine Publishers, →OCLC; republished as Resale Price Maintenance: A Comparative American–European Perspective, 1st paperback edition, Piscataway, N.J.: AldineTransaction, Transaction Publishers, 2008, →ISBN, page 26:
text: Meanwhile, entrepreneurs were quick to capitalize on these shifts to stimulate purchase of their new wares, using new types of advertising, endorsements by prominent people, creation of shop displays, "loss leaders" (selling a popular item at a loss as a way to pull customers into a store), creative financial options, even consumer research and the stoking of new fads.
ref: 2010, Erik Assadourian, “The Rise and Fall of Consumer Cultures”, in Linda Starke, Lisa Mastny, editors, State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures: From Consumerism to Sustainability: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 11, column 1:
text: Krystof Zizka, a co-owner of the restaurant, says he doesn't make a penny on the oysters, though they are one of the reasons his three-year-old restaurant is so successful. The cheap late-afternoon oyster is to a restaurant what a liter bottle of Coca-Cola is to a supermarket: the loss leader that gets customers in the door, at which point they buy something else at full price.
ref: 2014 February 22, Karen Stabiner, “Loss leaders on the half shell”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 May 2017:
text: Siri can at least be a loss leader for iPhone sales, but Apple is also hunting around for more continual revenue from ads.
ref: 2022 November 21, Ron Amadeo, “Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year”, in Ars Technica:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: An item that is sold at or below cost in an effort to stimulate other profitable sales.
Groceries Order
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Groceries Order
Senses: glosses: The Restrictive Practices (Groceries) Order 1987, a law that (until revoked in 2006) prohibited below-cost selling.
rural sanitary district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rural sanitary districts
Senses: glosses: A sanitary district established in an area not having a town government.
Related terms: rural district
urban sanitary district
urban sanitary district
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urban sanitary districts
Senses: glosses: A sanitary district that was established in a municipal borough.
Related terms: urban district
rural sanitary district
CAO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Central Applications Office, the official body tasked with handling applications for students' first year of college.
CAO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of conscious, alert and oriented.
municipal borough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: municipal boroughs
Etymology: 1838.
Senses: examples: text: The increase in the number may perhaps in a great degree be attributed to the increased proportion of apprehensions consequent upon the extensive establishment of an efficient Police in the municipal boroughs, and to the greater facilities in criminal proceedings afforded by the extended grants of local sessions.
ref: 1838, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, volume 1, London: Charles Knight, page 231:
glosses: A city or town in England and Wales with an elected town council consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors.
local government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local governments
Senses: glosses: A government lower than the central government of a country covering only a part of it.
aminoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: the anion H₂NO⁻, and its derivatives R₂NO⁻, formed from hydroxylamines by loss of a proton
Related terms: amine oxide
aminoxyl radical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminoxyl radicals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The uncharged form of an aminoxide derived from hydroxylamines by removal of a proton; their structure is best represented as R₂NO^. <=> R₂N^(.+)-O⁻.
uncharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + charged.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: chargeless
neutral
glosses: Not carrying an overall or net electric charge.
topics: law
glosses: Not charged with a criminal act.
examples: text: On inquiring how a charge of 20 per cent, for uncharged labour was obtained, he was told that it was estimated.
ref: 1901, Cassier's magazine:
synonyms: feeless
glosses: Not charged for; given away for free.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Without a heraldic charge.
Related terms: chargeback
aminylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminylenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrene.
aminediyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminediyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrene.
azene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrene.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen that have -N=N- double bonds
Derived terms: bisazene
triazene
imidogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidogens
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nitrene.
aminyl oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminyl oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An aminoxyl radical.
aminyl radical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminyl radicals
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The uncharged radical H₂N^. formally derived from ammonia by removing a hydrogen atom; and any of its derivatives R₂N^.
ammonium imine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammonium imines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An amine imide.
Related terms: ylide
ammonium ylide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammonium ylides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any dipolar organic compound of general formula R₃N⁺-C⁻R₂
dipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From di- + polar.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having north and south magnetic poles.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Possessing a dipole.
Derived terms: dipolar ion
dipolarophile
dipolar polarization
dipolar theism
nondipolar
Related terms: bipolar
subgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌɡɹuːp/
Forms: form: subgroups
Etymology: From sub- + group.
Senses: examples: text: 1998, Robert A. Johnson, Prevalence of Substance Use Among Racial and Ethnic Subgroups in the United States, 1991-1993, Department of Health and Human Services, page B-11,
Based on U.S. Bureau of the Census (1992c), other metropolitan areas that might be suitable for oversampling specific racial/ethnic subgroups include Miami (18% Cuban), New York City (7% Puerto Rican), Los Angeles (26% Mexican), and Honolulu (23% Japanese). Three techniques might be used to increase the yield of rare subgroup members within metropolitan areas where they are concentrated: 1) oversampling of areal segments containing high percentages of the subgroup, […] .
text: The most important application of dysprosium and terbium, which belong to a subgroup known as the heavy rare earths, is in devices called neodymium boron magnets, or neo magnets for short.
ref: 2025 July 18, Timothy McLaughlin, “A Rebel Army Is Building a Rare-Earth Empire on China's Border. The Kachin Independence Organization fought for decades in obscurity. Now it's supplying essential minerals to manufacturers around the world”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025:
glosses: A group within a larger group; a group whose members are some, but not all, of the members of a larger group.
examples: text: Much of the information about a group can be gleaned from a study of its subgroups. For these reasons it is important to study the subgroup structure of the almost simple groups, and in particular their maximal subgroups.
ref: 1990, Peter B. Kleidman, Martin W. Liebeck, The Subgroup Structure of the Finite Classical Groups, Cambridge University Press, page 1:
text: A subgroup H of an algebraic group G is called algebraic if H is an algebraic subvariety of G. Algebraic subgroups defined over k (as algebraic subvarieties) are called k-subgroups. An algebraic subgroup of an algebraic group is called k-closed or closed over k (resp. k-defined or defined over k) if it is k-closed (resp. k-defined) as an algebraic subvariety.
ref: 1991, Gregori A. Margulis, Discrete Subgroups of Semisimple Lie Groups, Springer-Verlag, page 13:
text: This is applied in Chapter 9 to prove the first congruence subgroup theorem, which asserts that g.z = z for all z in the center of the Drinfel'd double D(H) and all g in the principal congruence subgroup.
ref: 2012, Yorck Sommerhäuser, Yongchang Zhu, Hopf Algebras and Congruence Subgroups, American Mathematical Society, page 3:
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset H of a group G that is itself a group and has the same binary operation as G.
Synonyms: sense: group within a group
word: subset
Derived terms: Cartan subgroup
commutator subgroup
derived subgroup
Fitting subgroup
normal subgroup
proper subgroup
stabilizer subgroup
stable subgroup
subgroupiness
subsubgroup
torsion subgroup
trivial subgroup
subgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌɡɹuːp/
Forms: form: subgroups
form: subgrouping
form: subgrouped
form: subgrouped
Etymology: From sub- + group.
Senses: glosses: To divide or classify into subgroups
anilide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilides
Etymology: From aniline + -(am)ide, from anil.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound derived from an oxoacid by replacement of a hydroxyl group by an aniline residue; an amide of aniline.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound in which one of the nitrogen-bound protons of aniline is replaced by a metal or other cation.
Derived terms: acetanilide
acylanilide
fentanyl
nitroanilide
salicylanilide
suberoylanilide
anil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anils
Etymology: From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil.
Senses: glosses: The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,4-Benzoquinones including chloranil, DDQ, bromanil, & cyanil.
Related terms: aniline
nosedive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊzdaɪv/
Forms: form: nosedives
Etymology: From nose + dive.
Senses: glosses: A headfirst fall or jump.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A drop in altitude with the nose of the craft angled downwards.
examples: text: Byers was frequently at odds with Rail Regulator Sir Tom Winsor, but quit after 11 months - his career took a nosedive when he admitted false claims for £125,000 expenses, and he was banned from the House of Commons for two years.
ref: 2022 April 6, Howard Johnston, “SRA: Lets not make the same mistakes with GBR”, in RAIL, number 954, page 34:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A rapid fall, e.g. in price or value.
nosedive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊzdaɪv/
Forms: form: nosedives
form: nosediving
form: nosedived
form: nosedove
form: nosedived
Etymology: From nose + dive.
Senses: glosses: To dive down in a steep angle.
raw_tags: of aircraft
examples: text: With punctuality nosediving and both overcrowding and cancellations on the rise, a new simplified timetable was introduced in December amid threats from the Mayor that he would ask the Secretary of State for Transport to strip Abellio of the franchise.
ref: 2020 July 29, Paul Stephen, “A new collaboration centred on New Street”, in Rail, page 56:
qualifier: economy
glosses: To perform a rapid fall in price or value.
Related terms: crash dive
power dive
arccosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kˌkɒʃ/
Etymology: From arc- + cosh.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of arcosh (“the inverse hyperbolic cosine function”).
Related terms: arcsinh
arctanh
arcsinh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kˌsaɪnʃ/
/ˈɑː(ɹ)kˌʃaɪn/
Etymology: From arc- + sinh.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: Alternative form of arsinh (“the inverse hyperbolic sine function”)
Related terms: arccosh
arctanh
arctanh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ)kˌtænʃ/
Etymology: From arc- + tanh.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
trigonometry
glosses: Alternative form of artanh (“the inverse hyberbolic tangent function”)
Related terms: arccosh
arcsinh
tanh
annulene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annulenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any monocyclic hydrocarbon, of general formula CₙHₙ (where n is even), or CₙHₙ₊₁ (where n is odd).
Synonyms: mancude-ring system
Rohypnol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹoʊˈhɪpnɑl/
Forms: form: rohypnol
Etymology: From the F. Hoffmann-La Roche brand name for flunitrazepam, a blend of Roche + hypno- + -ol.
Senses: examples: text: Rohypnol like a chloroform / Sugar from the day you are born / Washed out like a dinosaur
ref: 2003, “Brothers and Sisters”, in Think Tank, performed by Blur:
text: Moss: [sniff] Why are you drinking rohypnol, Jen? Flunitrazepam, histomet... Yep, that's definitely rohypnol. Are you having problems with insomnia or?
ref: 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: roofie
rope
roaches
Rufalin
hypernyms: benzodiazepine
glosses: Flunitrazepam, a powerful sedative sometimes used as a date rape drug.
wikipedia: F. Hoffmann-La Roche
Derived terms: roofie
rope
roaches
mancude-ring system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mancude-ring systems
Etymology: Shortened from MAximum number of NonCUmulative DoublE bonds.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound, in the form of a ring, that has the maximum number of noncumulative double bonds; e.g. benzene or indole.
Related terms: annulene
date rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: date rapes
Senses: examples: text: However, from a more practical point of view it would be wise to adopt a distinction between "date rape" and "stranger rape" since jurors are likely to adopt such a distinction on their own.
ref: 1974, Noreen Connell, Cassandra Wilson, Rape: the first sourcebook for women, New American Library, page 155:
glosses: A rape committed by an acquaintance of the victim while out on a date.
examples: text: In this light, it is not very surprising that so many date-rape charges fly after these "hook-ups".
ref: 2000, Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, page 29:
text: Some even say it's not really date rape if you meet a guy at a party, hook up, and then he forces you to have sex with him.
ref: 2009, Patti Feuereisen, Invisible Girls: The Truth about Sexual Abuse, page 184:
text: The hospital didn't find signs of forced sex and didn't initially test for date-rape drugs — Prenter had time to dispose of his home chemistry lab. There had been circumstantial evidence that Prenter targeted other victims online. He'd hook up, drug and rape them, and drop them at their house.
ref: 2010, Allison Brennan, Love Me to Death, page 11:
text: The date rape brigade has arrived.
ref: 2024 August 18, Mueller, She Wrote, Twitter, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2024:
glosses: A rape committed after a perpetrator first secretly administers a sedative or memory-inhibiting drug (a date rape drug) to a victim under the cover of a social setting.
Synonyms: acquaintance rape
Derived terms: word: date-rape
sense: verbal form
word: date rape drug
word: date rapist
Related terms: gray rape
rapee
rapist
annulenylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annulenylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any carbene derived from an odd-numbered annulene by conversion of the CH₂ group to C
squiggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪɡəli
ipa: /ˈskwɪɡli/
Forms: form: squigglier
form: squiggliest
form: squiggley
Etymology: From squiggle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points.
text: My first memories of eating are bowls of squiggly pasta with red sauce and lots of white cheese.
ref: 2013, Lucinda Scala Quinn, Mad Hungry Cravings, page 291:
glosses: Not straight; wavy and irregular.
squiggly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪɡəli
ipa: /ˈskwɪɡli/
Forms: form: squigglies
form: squiggley
Etymology: From squiggle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If you have dynamic spell checking enabled, your pamphlet will become a sea of red squigglies.
ref: 2007, Pariah S. Burke, Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production, page 72:
text: Coding errors have colored squigglies beneath them to indicate the kind of error. For example, syntax errors appear with red squigglies beneath them...
ref: 2008, Rick Leinecker, Vanessa L. Williams, Visual Studio 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, page 484:
text: The next blue squiggly is in the word Dimm. That should be an easy fix. Change it to Dim. Again, that swats two bugs with one fix.
ref: 2010, James S. McKeown, Jim McKeown, Programming in Visual Basic 2010: The Very Beginner's Guide, page 75:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or source code.
Related terms: squiggle
anomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomers
Etymology: From ano- (“upwards, above”) + -mer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any diastereoisomer of a sugar or derivative differing in configuration only at C-1 of an aldose or C-2 of a ketose.
Derived terms: anomerase
anomeric
anomerisation
ansa compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ansa compounds
Etymology: From Latin ansa (“handle”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cyclophane in which the para positions of a benzene ring are connected by a bridge of at least 10 atoms.
anthocyanidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthocyanidins
Etymology: From antho- + cyanidin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aglycone of an anthocyanin.
Derived terms: deoxyanthocyanidin
leucoanthocyanidin
proanthocyanidin
Related terms: flavonoid
antiaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + aromatic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a cyclic compound having an even number of alternating single and double bonds, e.g. cyclobutadiene.
Related terms: antiaromaticity
aromatic
antiaromaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + aromaticity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The state of being antiaromatic.
arene epoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arene epoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any epoxide formally derived from an arene by the addition of an oxygen atom to a double bond.
Synonyms: arene oxide
arene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹiːn/
Forms: form: arenes
Etymology: From ar(omatic) + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any monocyclic or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
Derived terms: alkylarene
arene epoxide
arene oxide
arenic
arenide
arenonitrile
azaarene
azoarene
bromoarene
chloroarene
circumarene
dehydroarene
fluoroarene
haloarene
heteroarene
iodoarene
monohaloarene
nitroarene
polyarene
arene oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arene oxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An arene epoxide.
arenium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arenium ions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation formed by the addition of a proton or other cationic species to an arene.
arenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenol.
Derived terms: homoarenol
arenonium ion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arenonium ions
Senses: glosses: An arenium ion.
grammarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grə-mârʹē-ən
ipa: /ɡɹəˈmɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: grammarians
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English gramarien, from Middle French gramarien, gramairien.
Senses: examples: text: Huddleston and Pullum are well-known grammarians of the 21st century.
synonyms: grammatician
grammaticist
hypernyms: person
glosses: A person who studies grammar, either scientifically or (traditionally) unscientifically.
examples: text: They spent hours disabusing the misinformed rants of various armchair grammarians.
glosses: A person who pedantically critiques the grammar of others' speech or writing, especially when unscientifically and misguidedly.
Derived terms: Neogrammarian
Related terms: word: grammarization
word: grammarizing
word: grammatical
word: grammaticality
word: grammaticalization
word: grammaticity
word: grammaticization
word: grammatization
word: ungrammatical
word: descriptivist
english: often hypernymous
translation: often hypernymous
word: linguist
word: prescriptivist