cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
scilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: scillas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.
Senses: glosses: A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
examples: text: Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A bulb of Urginea scilla.
ruckman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruckmen
Etymology: From ruck + -man.
Senses: coordinate_terms: ruckwoman
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: A ruck; a player who contests rucks.
ropework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ropeworks
Etymology: From rope + -work.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The making, repairing, knotting, splicing and storing of rope, and the manufacture of devices from rope, mostly by use of the marlinspike.
glosses: A form of raised convex or painted decoration in the form of twisted rope applied to architecture, ceramics, metalwork and furniture.
Related terms: ropeworker
ropeworking
rewireable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rewire + -able.
Senses: glosses: Having adjustable wiring.
revamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æmpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revamp
restrictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restrictors
Etymology: From restrict + -or.
Senses: glosses: Anything that restricts
Derived terms: restrictor plate
replanted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replant
reorganisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorganisations
Etymology: From re- + organisation.
Senses: examples: text: Transport in Northern Ireland, after vigorous reorganisation, must pay its way.
ref: 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
glosses: Alternative spelling of reorganization.
renationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of renationalize
renationalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more renationalized
form: most renationalized
Senses: glosses: Nationalized again, after a previous privatization.
renationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: renationalizes
form: renationalizing
form: renationalized
form: renationalized
form: renationalise
Etymology: From re- + nationalize.
Senses: glosses: To nationalize again, after a previous privatization.
Derived terms: renationalization
rematched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rematch
rematched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: matched for a second or subsequent time
remastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remaster
remastered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The stereo mixes of these songs are often less hard hitting than the mono singles were, but the remastered versions, with their enriched bass, palpable drum sound and improved sense of vocal presence, no longer sound anemic.
ref: 2009 September 2, Allan Kozinn, “Long and Winding Road, Newly Repaved”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Produced by remastering.
remaster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: remasters
form: remastering
form: remastered
form: remastered
Etymology: From re- + master.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To produce a new version of a recording by remixing the original master recordings.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To create a new master copy by enhancing sound or picture quality of an older recording.
examples: text: But the remastering shows how nostalgia is driving publishers’ decision making.
ref: 2020 August 1, Imad Khan, “Like Old Hollywood Movies, Video Games Get a Polish for New Audiences”, in The New York Times:
topics: video-games
glosses: To produce a new version of a video game with updated graphics, often re-recorded music, and added features and content.
Related terms: remastered
remastering
remaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: remasters
Etymology: From re- + master.
Senses: examples: text: Like Hollywood remakes or remasters old movies, video game publishers are overhauling and rereleasing games to tap into ready-made fan bases for popular franchises like The Legend of Zelda, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon and World of Warcraft.
ref: 2020 August 1, Imad Khan, “Like Old Hollywood Movies, Video Games Get a Polish for New Audiences”, in The New York Times:
text: On Wednesday, Nightdive Studios is releasing a remaster of Dark Forces that features enhanced lighting and textures but retains the look and feel of the original game.
ref: 2024 February 28, Calum Marsh, “Between ‘Star Wars’ Trilogies, a Golden Age of Video Games”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Synonym of remastering (“new version of a piece of media”).
synonyms: word: remastering
extra: new version of a piece of media
remastering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remaster
remastering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remasterings
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The production of a new version of a recording by remixing the original master recordings.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The new version so produced.
Derived terms: digital remastering
reinstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinstitute
reinstitute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinstitutes
form: reinstituting
form: reinstituted
form: reinstituted
form: re-institute
Etymology: From re- + institute.
Senses: glosses: To institute for a second or subsequent time
Related terms: word: reinstitution
word: reinstitutionalize
rehabilitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rehabilitate
reggeaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reggaeton.
reggaetoneros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reggaetonero
reggaetonero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reggaetoneros
Etymology: From Spanish reggaetonero.
Senses: glosses: A reggaeton musician or singer.
statute of limitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statutes of limitations
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A law passed by a legislative body that sets a maximum time limit after an incident, in which legal proceedings may be initiated.
recordist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recordists
Etymology: From record + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Once the materials arrived at the stage, a dozen recordists and mix technicians required a half an hour to load the three or four dozen tracks a predub might require.
ref: 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Art of Movies:
glosses: Someone who makes sound recordings.
examples: text: Audio Devices, Inc., announce two prize contests, one for Home Recordists, and the other for Church Recordists.
ref: 1954, Kansas Music Review - Volumes 16-18, page 23:
text: A Concert for Three Recordists by Matthew Locke was the program piece.
ref: 1960, The American Recorder - Volumes 1-2, page 19:
text: The more our young recordists can be encouraged to play among themselves in groups with and without piano accompaniment, in their own homes, the better.
ref: 1961, Watkins Shaw, Music in the Secondary School, page 71:
text: For that matter Somary doesn't lack name performers: John Wilbraham is the trumpet soloist and one of the recordists is David Munrow.
ref: 1981, Arthur Cohn, Recorded Classical Music:
synonyms: recorderist
glosses: Someone who plays a recorder.
recapturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recapture
rebadged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebadge
rebadged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a new badge and/or name; rebranded.
raw_tags: of a product or service
rebadge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebadges
form: rebadging
form: rebadged
form: rebadged
Etymology: From re- + badge.
Senses: glosses: To market a version of (an existing product, especially a motor car) with a new badge and new name.
Related terms: rebrand
reskin
readmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of readmit
biographize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈɒɡɹəfaɪz/
Forms: form: biographizes
form: biographizing
form: biographized
form: biographized
form: biographise
Etymology: From biography + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: [Norman Mailer] was, though, absolutely the daddy of faction, his novels or journalism reporting every conflict from 1939 to Iraq and biographising Americans including John F Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Neil Armstrong.
ref: 2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To write a biography of.
paddymelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddymelons
form: paddy-melon
form: paddy melon
form: pademelon
Etymology: Apparently from paddy + melon. In some forms after pademelon.
Senses: examples: text: Not even an occasional clod of earth stowed in the middle of a sack, or a few hefty paddy-melons, could make the toil profitable.
ref: 1941, Kylie Tennant, The Battlers:
text: The road was a straight band of tarmac and, on either side, there were strips of red dirt with paddy-melon growing over them.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 76:
glosses: Any of various cucurbitaceous plants, especially Cucumis myriocarpus, native to Africa but naturalized in inland Australia.
paddymelon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paddymelons
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pademelon.
pantofle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpantəfl̩/
ipa: /panˈtɒfl̩/
Forms: form: pantofles
form: pantable
form: pantoble
form: pantoffle
form: pantophle
form: pantouffle
form: pantoufle
form: pantuffle
Etymology: From Middle English pantuflis pl, pantuiffillis pl, from Middle French pantoufle (“slipper”), of uncertain origin.
Senses: examples: text: And although ſhe threatned to breake his bowe and arrowes, to clip his wings, and whipped him beſides on the bare buttocks with her pantophle, yet all would not ſerue,[…].
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Heroicall loue causing melancholy. His Pedegree, Power, and Extent.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 1, subsection 1, page 356:
glosses: A slipper.
idée mère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːdeɪ ˈmɛː/
ipa: /i.deɪ ˈmɛ(ə)ɹ/
Forms: form: idées mères
Etymology: From French idée mère.
Senses: examples: text: The idée mère, the primitive element, in the formation of the notion of justice, was conformity to law.
ref: 1863, John Stewart Mill, Utilitarianism, section V:
text: M. Malot pursues this physiological development of his idée-mere with a good deal of skill, and it is, we think, the most interesting feature of his book.
ref: 1868 September 26, The Saturday Review:
glosses: A fundamental idea or guiding principle, seen as giving rise to something.
Synonyms: mother idea
bebother
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈbɑðɚ/
ipa: /bəˈbɒðə/
Forms: form: bebothers
form: bebothering
form: bebothered
form: bebothered
Etymology: From be- (“thoroughly”) + bother.
Senses: examples: text: “There is brass for all. Just home, paid off—and find my wife dead—and me saddled with the yowling kid. I’m off to sea again. Don’t see no sport widering here all bebothered with a baby.”
ref: 1896, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Broom-Squire, published 1905, page 6:
text: At present I am all upside down—nohow—bebothered—& can only write this much.
ref: 1908, Edward Lear, Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, and Frances, Countess Waldegrave, page 114:
text: ‘[…]But above all ... above all, you are the bewitching bebothering and bewildering Evita!'
ref: 1990, Pieter-Dirk Uys, A Part Hate, A Part Love: The Biography of Evita Bezuidenhout, page 185:
glosses: To bring trouble upon.
examples: text: ‘Confusticate and bebother these dwarves!’ he said aloud.
ref: 1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 1, in The Hobbit:
glosses: Damn; curse.
cheat grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheat grasses
form: cheatgrass
Etymology: From cheat + grass, reputedly because farmers felt cheated when wheat yields were lower because of the plant invading their fields.
Senses: glosses: Downy brome; drooping brome (Bromus tectorum); an annual grass native to Europe, southwestern Asia and northern Africa.
superteam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superteams
form: super team
form: super-team
Etymology: From super- + team.
Senses: glosses: Any well-respected or highly successful team (in any of several contexts)
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any well-respected or highly successful team (in any of several contexts)
A team composed of three or more high-caliber players, especially one assembled by free agency or trades rather than by drafting.
sharemarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharemarkets
Etymology: From share + market.
Senses: glosses: A stock market.
rejectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rejectionist
form: most rejectionist
Etymology: From rejection + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Having a tendency to reject the plans or proposals of others.
rejectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejectionists
Etymology: From rejection + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who rejects some plan, proposal, fact or idea.
raftsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raftsman
raftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raftsmen
Etymology: From raft + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person who transports a raft of floating logs downstream to a sawmill; a rafter.
radiophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: * radio- + -phonic
* (sound art practice): Perhaps first used by Pierre Schaeffer in his Essai Radiophoniques and subsequently taken up by the BBC to describe their famous BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Senses: glosses: Describing sound effects created to accompany radio broadcasts as background music.
glosses: Describing a type of sound art practice that extends the established radio drama and documentary form by the use of sonic abstractions.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the radiophone.
pseudohistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohistories
form: pseudo-history
Etymology: From pseudo- + history, coined around 1815, after New Latin pseudo-historia (since 1654 or earlier according to OED).
Senses: examples: text: When asked what could possibly justify their aggression, they responded with nothing but pseudohistory and mythology.
glosses: False history.
examples: text: The contemptible trick practised by Mr. Anderson, in the first chapter of his pseudo-history, must not pass without due correction.
ref: 1815, Tobias George Smollett, editor, The Critical review: or, Annals of literature, volume 1, page 152:
text: Also of note: 102 pulp novels by L. Ron Hubbard, 90 books by the Young Earth creationist pastor John F. MacArthur, and multiple works of aliens-built-the-pyramids pseudo-history by Erich von Däniken.
ref: 2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Any work claiming to be a historical account without using established historiographical methods, especially one using personal speculation or questionable evidence without necessary care or concern for the truth.
Hypernyms: pseudo-scholarship
Hyponyms: english: mythology & popular beliefs
translation: mythology & popular beliefs
word: euhemerization
Coordinate terms: quasihistorical
Related terms: pseudohistorian
pseudohistorical
antihistory
propagandistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒpəɡanˈdɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more propagandistic
form: most propagandistic
Etymology: From propagandist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For this reason some overfamiliar or recycled accounts provoke boredom or disbelief, and can be made to seem propagandistic.
ref: 2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Having the characteristics of propaganda; spreading propaganda.
privatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of privatise
preplanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ænd
Forms: form: more preplanned
form: most preplanned
Senses: glosses: Planned in advance.
preplanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preplan
preplan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preplans
form: preplanning
form: preplanned
form: preplanned
form: pre-plan
Etymology: From pre- + plan.
Senses: glosses: To plan in advance.
prehistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prehistorian
prehistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehistorians
Senses: examples: text: The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn."
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:
text: In the early 1930s, he fell under the spell of a wife-beating, alcoholic, Austrian occultist called Karl Maria Wiligut and a Dutch prehistorian called Herman Wirth, whose views further fed his fantastical illusions.
ref: 2021, Otto English, Fake History, page 46:
glosses: A student of, or expert in prehistory.
xenography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From xeno- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: As Tanya Ryder explained, for example, “We are all for it, anything that will keep you alive. But we've known about xenography for a long time. There is now a special kind of pig that is being bred for its kidneys.”
ref: 2006, Lesley A. Sharp, Strange Harvest: Organ Transplants, Denatured Bodies, and the Transformed Self, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 218:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: xenotransplantation
glosses: The process of surgically transplanting organs or tissue between different species.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The ability to write in a language which the individual has not learned.
Related terms: xenograph
xenographic
awesomer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But she's got a guy's name — his new best friend's Toni — and awesomer yet she's got her own pony.
ref: 1996, Paul Zarzyski, Barbara Van Cleve, All This Way for the Short Ride: Roughstock Sonnets, 1971-1996: Poems:
text: We can't get in!" "Where's your extra set?" asked Tad. "In my purse," Anne replied.
"Locked in the car." Awesome — and getting awesomer.
ref: 2004, Nardi Reeder Campion, Everyday Matters: A Love Story, page 150:
text: “This thing just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer.” “Awesomer?” “Well, it's in my dictionary even if not in any others.”
ref: 2005, David Drake, Tommy Powers and the Mutant Stranger, page 31:
text: I don't think you've ever looked awesomer." Caitlyn chose her words carefully.
ref: 2005, Mary Janice Davidson, Hello, Gorgeous!, page 14:
glosses: comparative form of awesome: more awesome
unworkably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unworkably
form: most unworkably
Etymology: From unworkable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unworkable fashion; not workably.
workably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more workably
form: most workably
Etymology: From workable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a workable fashion.
top-tier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more top-tier
form: most top-tier
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of top tier.
curse words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curse word
in the act
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.
text: He was caught in the act in the store after hours.
text: He was caught in the act of climbing out the window.
glosses: In the process of doing something considered criminal or otherwise wrong; used to emphasize the eye-witness evidence.
Synonyms: red-handed
in flagrante delicto
Republic of Finland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Finland
Senses: glosses: Long form of Finland: a country in Northern Europe.
schoolmastered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of schoolmaster
poppier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of poppy: more poppy
knucklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knuckler
Synonyms: knuckleball
forays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foray
forays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foray
supercars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercar
folksongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folksong
folksong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folksongs
Senses: examples: text: The fireman jumped, but Casey Jones stayed to blow the whistle to give the goods train crew time to escape. His sacrifice is commemorated in an American folksong.
ref: 1950 June, “Casey Jones Stamp”, in Railway Magazine, page 420:
text: For the former a folksong or a folkdance was a mere source for a composition, artistic arrangement, or stylization; for the latter it was important to respect the style of the traditional singer […]
ref: 2012, Ian Peddie, Popular Music and Human Rights: British and American Music, page 80:
glosses: Alternative spelling of folk song.
folk songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folksongs
Senses: glosses: plural of folk song
voicings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voicing
poetesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poetess
pragmatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pragmatist
pretences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretence
potboilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potboiler
pities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪtiz/
rhymes: -ɪtiz
Senses: glosses: plural of pity
pities
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪtiz/
rhymes: -ɪtiz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pity
preens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preen
preens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preen
preened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preen
Yama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit यम (yamá). Doublet of Enma.
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Hindu lord of death, who rides a buffalo.
Yama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese やま (Yama).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Aditya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adityas
Etymology: From Sanskrit आदित्य (ādityá).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of solar deities, the sons of Aditi and Kashyapa.
Aditya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit आदित्य (ādityá).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India and Nepal.
Bhaga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit भग (bhága).
Senses: glosses: One of the Adityas, a god of wealth and marriage in Hinduism. In the Rigveda Bhaga is the god who supervises the distribution of goods and destiny to each man corresponding to his merits.
Nataraja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Natraj
Etymology: From Sanskrit नटराज (naṭarāja), from नर्त (narta, “dancing”) + राजन् (rājan, “king”).
Senses: glosses: The dancing posture of the Hindu god Shiva, who performs his divine dance as a part of his activities of creation and destruction.
de die ad diem
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˌdiːeɪædˈdiːɛm/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dē diē ad diem.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: From day to day.
Synonyms: de die in diem
day to day
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of day-to-day.
grace notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grace note. A group of notes that enhance the melody.
Synonyms: grupetto
turn
press gaggle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: press gaggles
Etymology: By analogy with a gaggle of goose. First recorded in the briefing sense in the early 2000s.
Senses: examples: text: In 20 years of journalism, I'd never seen a public official do what McGreevey did when asked a question he didn't want to answer at a press gaggle after a public event […]
ref: 2004 November 15, Herb Jackson, “Codey can expect a cozy honeymoon”, in The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey:
topics: government
journalism
media
politics
glosses: An informal off-camera briefing given by a spokesperson or politician.
examples: text: When he returned to his hometown in Kansas over the weekend, the press gaggle made it difficult for Hart to circulate among several hundred people from Ottawa who turned out to meet him at a reception.
ref: 1988 January 22, Kurt Wilkie, “Gary Hart, Revisited”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
glosses: A noisy crowd of journalists.
press gaggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press gaggle
grupettos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grupetto
calypsos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calypso
calypsos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calypso
beautifuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beautifuler
Senses: examples: text: Many men eat finer cookery, drink dearer liquors [...] but in the heart of them, if we go out of the dyspeptic stomach, what increase of blessedness is there? Are they better, beautifuller, stronger, braver?
ref: 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Paste and Present, page 15:
text: They were three Spirits fresh from God's own hand,
And beautifuller ne'er took mortal mould
ref: 1854, Gerald Massey, Poems and Ballads, page 82:
text: I've travell'd the world all over
And many a place beside
And I never did see a beautifuller city
Than that on the banks of the navigatable river, the Clyde.
ref: 1885, Walter Geikie, Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's, page 54:
qualifier: else nonstandard
glosses: comparative form of beautiful: more beautiful
timbales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timbale
timbales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A pair of tunable single-headed, metal-shelled cylindrical drums, used in Latin American music
not a sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He said he would get in touch, but it's been over a week and not a sausage.
text: I've just looked through our accounts, and it's not good. We've got nothing, not a sausage.
glosses: absolutely nothing, none of something.
vector graphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: raster graphics
glosses: Geometrical primitives based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics, contrasted with raster graphics.
informal fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informal fallacies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: formal fallacy
hypernyms: fallacy
logical fallacy
glosses: A fallacy whose error cannot be represented by the symbols used in formal logic.
Hyponyms: ad baculum
ad hominem
appeal to accomplishment
appeal to emotion
appeal to nature
appeal to novelty
appeal to the stone
appeal to tradition
argument from incredulity
argument to moderation
argumentum ad consequentiam
argumentum ad crumenam
argumentum ad dictionarium
argumentum ad feminam
argumentum ad fidem
argumentum ad hominem
argumentum ad ignorantiam
argumentum ad invidiam
argumentum ad judicium
argumentum ad Lazarum
argumentum ad nauseam
argumentum ad passiones
argumentum ad populum
argumentum ad verecundiam
association fallacy
begging the question
broken window fallacy
Bulverism
cherry picking
chronological snobbery
circular reasoning
continuum fallacy
cum hoc ergo propter hoc
denying the correlative
divine fallacy
ecological fallacy
equivocation
false analogy
false authority
false compromise
false dilemma
false equivalence
faulty generalization
furtive fallacy
gambler's fallacy
genetic fallacy
golden mean fallacy
guilty by association
hasty generalization
historian's fallacy
historical fallacy
ignoratio elenchi
inductive fallacy
intentional fallacy
ipse dixit
Kafkatrap
magical thinking
moralistic fallacy
motte-and-bailey fallacy
naturalistic fallacy
oversimplification
package-deal fallacy
poison the well
pooh-pooh
post hoc
reverse causation
straw man
suppressed correlative
Texas sharpshooter fallacy
tone policing
traitorous critic fallacy
tu quoque
two wrongs make a right
vacuous truth
wishful thinking
Torbay sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Torbay soles
Senses: glosses: An Atlantic flatfish of species Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (syn. Pleuronectes cynoglossus); witch.
Synonyms: sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: witch flounder
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: craig fluke
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: craigfluke
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: gray sole
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: grey sole
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: witch
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
word: pole flounder
sense: Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
alt: ?
word: white sole
formal fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal fallacies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: informal fallacy
hypernyms: fallacy
logical fallacy
glosses: A pattern of reasoning which is always wrong, due to a flaw in the structure of the argument.
Hyponyms: affirming a disjunct
affirming the consequent
appeal to probability
base rate fallacy
conjunction fallacy
denying the antecedent
exclusive premises
existential fallacy
fallacy of four terms
illicit affirmative
illicit major
illicit minor
illicit negative
masked-man fallacy
illicit substitution of identicals
modal fallacy
modal scope fallacy
undistributed middle
polaritonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: From polariton + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The design and construction of devices employing polaritons.
soloing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of solo
predated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predate
precontact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-contact
Etymology: From pre- + contact.
Senses: glosses: Describing a period before contact was established (especially with an indigenous people)
Related terms: prehistoric
popularizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of popularize
mathematical logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mathematical logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: formal logic
symbolic logic
glosses: A subfield of logic and mathematics consisting of both the mathematical study of logic and the application of this study to other areas of mathematics, exemplified by questions on the expressive power of formal logics and the deductive power of formal proof systems.
polybagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polybag
formal logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal logics
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Mathematical logic.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A particular logical calculus.
polybag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polybags
Etymology: From poly- + bag.
Senses: glosses: A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine.
polybag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polybags
form: polybagging
form: polybagged
form: polybagged
Etymology: From poly- + bag.
Senses: glosses: To package in a plastic bag.
plamodel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plamodels
Etymology: Blend of plastic + model
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of plastic die-cast models, kits, or similar merchandise.
raw_tags: in Japan
formal system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal systems
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The grouping of a formal language and a set of inference rules and/or axioms.
Synonyms: logical system
logical calculus
logic
Meronyms: formal language
axiom
inference rule
theory
syntax
semantics
logical calculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logical calculi
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal system.
Synonyms: formal system
Hyponyms: propositional calculus
predicate calculus
pitlane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitlanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pit lane.
logical system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logical systems
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal system.
pipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pip
Derived terms: unpipped
phylogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phylogeography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phylogeography
Derived terms: paleophylogeographic
phylogeographically
phylogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: phylogeographies
Etymology: From phylo- + geography.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The study of the processes controlling the geographic distributions of lineages by constructing the genealogies of populations and genes
Derived terms: paleophylogeography
phylogeographic
pentosyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentosyltransferase
pastorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pastorally
form: most pastorally
Etymology: From pastoral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pastoral manner
glosses: In the role of a pastor
passivizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passivizers
Etymology: From passivize + -er.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A term, in some languages, that is used to convert a verb into the passive
parvise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvises
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of parvis.
fatherfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatherfuckers
Etymology: From father + fucker.
Senses: glosses: A generic term of abuse, similar to motherfucker.
examples: ref: 1991, Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, Euphemism & dysphemism: language used as shield and weapon, page 134:
glosses: One who engages in incestuous sex with their father.
glosses: A gay man.
examples: text: She's a total fatherfucker; all of her boyfriends have been at least twice her age.
glosses: A woman who engages in intercourse with men much older than herself, or who has an Electra complex.
Hypernyms: inbreeder
Related terms: motherfucker
sisterfucker
brotherfucker
fatherfuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatherfucker
what up
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʍʌt ˈʌp/
ipa: [wʌˈɾʌp]
rhymes: -ʌp
Forms: form: waddup
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what's up.
Related terms: what it be
what it do
what it is
Wilna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in New York.
rootbeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootbeers
Senses: examples: text: I just keep staring at all the ink we have, that wild variety of color, everything from rootbeer, midnight blue and cochineal to mauve, light doe, lilac, south sea green, maize, even pelican black, all line up in these plastic caps […]
ref: 2000, Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves, page 26:
glosses: Alternative spelling of root beer.
father-fucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: father-fuckers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fatherfucker.
father-fuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of father-fucker
sisterfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sisterfuckers
Etymology: Compound of sister + fucker. Calque of Hindustani بہن چود / बहनचोद (bahancod).
Senses: examples: text: That reminded Gustad. ‘Have you noticed how much it stinks, and all the mosquitoes?’ ‘Naturally, with the amount of piss that flows there. Every sisterfucker with a full bladder stops by the wall and pulls out his lorri.’
ref: 1992, Rohinton Mistry, Such a long journey:
text: ‘That’s what I said, sisterfucker!’ Chandu played the five of clubs.
ref: 1998, Amal Chatterjee, Across the Lakes, page 46:
text: For their benefit Vishalam uttered a Hindi obscenity—
Bhenchooth!
Sisterfucker!
And the sisterfucker fled. Vishalam collapsed on the threshold.
ref: 2007, Vivek Iyer, Whiskey's Secret, page 93:
glosses: An extremely undesirable person.
examples: ref: 1999, Julie Coleman, Love, Sex, and Marriage: A Historical Thesaurus, page 180:
glosses: One who engages in incestuous sex with their sister.
Synonyms: word: behenchod
word: sister humper
Hypernyms: inbreeder
sibling fucker
Related terms: motherfucker
fatherfucker
brotherfucker
sisterfucking
sisterfuck
inbred
sisterfuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sisterfucker
tyan
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals, from an assumed *dwau, from Proto-Brythonic *dọw.
Senses: glosses: Two in Cumbrian sheep counting.
Derived terms: tyan-a-bumfit
tyan-a-dick
methera
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Forms: form: mether
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals. Compare to Welsh mhedwerydd, nasal mutation of pedwerydd.
Senses: glosses: four in sheep counting of Northern England.
Derived terms: methera-a-dick
methera-bumfit
M-16s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: OK, soldiers, let's get our M-16s and when the captain gives the signal, we'll fire.
glosses: plural of M-16
Barack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈrɑk/
ipa: /bəˈrak
ipa: -ˈrɑːk/
ipa: /ˈbarak/
Etymology: Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical Baruch.
Senses: examples: text: "What did Marcus call you just now? Some African name, wasn't it?" "Barack." "I thought your name was Barry." "Barack's my given name. My father's name. He was Kenyan." "Does it mean something?" "It means 'Blessed'. In Arabic. My grandfather was a Muslim."
ref: 1995, 2004 Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father, Crown Publishers (2004), page 104
text: Joe Biden has had a two-word retort to recent questions about his record on civil rights and race: Barack Obama.
ref: 2019 July 12, Laura Barrón-López and Alex Thompson, “Biden under fire for mass deportations under Obama”, in POLITICO:
glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
Derived terms: Baracknophobia
BHO
Related terms: Barak
Mubarak
Barack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈræk/
Forms: form: more Barack
form: most Barack
Etymology: Anglicized spelling, used by Luo speakers, of Barak, ostensibly as an Old Testament name. A cognate of the biblical Baruch.
Senses: examples: text: It was so Joever, but now we're so Barack.
antonyms: Joever
glosses: A pun on the first name of United States President Barack Obama and back, often used in the phrase "we're so Barack" ("we're so back"). Formed antonymically to "it's Joever" ("it's over").
sethera
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals, extended from a root *hweh.
Senses: glosses: six in Cumbrian sheep counting
lethera
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals, from a mutation of an assumed *sext.
Senses: glosses: seven in Cumbrian sheep counting
hovera
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic/Cumbric numerals, from an assumed *(h)oxt. Compare hwyth, the h-mutation of the Welsh form.
Senses: glosses: Eight in Cumbrian sheep counting.
dovera
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Cumbric numerals, from an assumed Proto-Brythonic *naw (“nine”). For the initial consonant compare Lithuanian devyni and Proto-Slavic *devętь (“nine”).
Senses: glosses: nine in Cumbrian sheep counting
brotherfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brotherfuckers
Etymology: Compound of brother + fucker, after motherfucker.
Senses: examples: text: This hurts like a brotherfucker!
glosses: Motherfucker (generic term of abuse).
examples: 1963, Robert E. L. Masters, Patterns of Incest, p 269
glosses: One who engages in incestuous sex with their brother.
examples: text: Here in N tank was a pretty slim boy lover, the little brotherfucker telling tender tales of lusty sucking twelve-year boys, pants down on the sofa, […]
ref: 1973, Timothy Leary, Confessions of a Hope Fiend, page 6:
glosses: A homosexual man.
Derived terms: brotherfucking
Related terms: motherfucker
fatherfucker
sisterfucker
yan-a-dick
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Cumbric *ün gwar ðeg (literally “one over ten”). Compare Welsh un ar ddeg.
Senses: glosses: eleven in Cumbrian sheep counting
unmourned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmourned
form: most unmourned
Etymology: From un- + mourned.
Senses: examples: text: It dies a quiet, unmourned death and is buried in unharked waves.
ref: 2019, Ian Wood, Saurus:
glosses: Not mourned or grieved for.
tyan-a-dick
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals. Literally tyan a (“and”) dick.
Senses: glosses: Twelve in Cumbrian sheep counting.
overpressured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpressure
overpressured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpressured
form: most overpressured
Senses: glosses: Subject to excessive pressure
overplanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + planning.
Senses: glosses: Excessive planning
tethera-a-dick
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals. Literally tethera a (and) dick.
Senses: glosses: thirteen in Cumbrian sheep counting
overdubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Here Network Rail has the advantage of BTF, which would have required (but lacked) a separate sound unit - hence most of its output relied on overdubbed soundtracks, narrations and scores.
ref: 2021 March 10, Greg Morse, “Telling the railway's story on film”, in RAIL, number 926, page 48:
glosses: simple past and past participle of overdub
methera-a-dick
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals. Literally methera (four) a (and) dick (ten).
Senses: glosses: fourteen in Cumbrian sheep counting
bumfit
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Cumbric *pǝmtheg (compare Welsh pymtheg), eventually from Cumbric *pımp (“five”) + *deg (“ten”).
Senses: glosses: Fifteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.
Derived terms: methera-bumfit
tethera-a-bumfit
tyan-a-bumfit
yan-a-bumfit
originary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more originary
form: most originary
Etymology: From the Latin orīginārius.
Senses: examples: text: The Big Bang was the originary explosion of the universe.
glosses: Pertaining to or being the origin of something.
examples: text: Christians believe human beings to have been sinless in their originary state.
text: My only aim will be to trace the dislocating work of the two conditions that ensue, namely, the principial condition over which the foundation presides and the ground as the originary condition.
ref: 2003, Reiner Schürmann, Broken Hegemonies, page 274:
glosses: Primitive, original.
examples: text: This dish is originary of northern Asia.
glosses: Having its origin (in); originating (from).
raw_tags: preceding 'of'
originary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: originaries
Etymology: From the Latin orīginārius.
Senses: glosses: Native (a person born in a particular geographic place, such as a country or region)
Derived terms: originariness
yan-a-bumfit
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals. Literally yan a (and) bumfit.
Senses: glosses: Sixteen in Cumbrian sheep counting.
ordinands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordinand
it takes all kinds
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of it takes all kinds to make a world.
ordinand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɹdɪnænd/
ipa: /ˈɔɹdn̩ænd/
ipa: /ˈɔːdɪnænd/
Forms: form: ordinands
Etymology: From Latin ordinandus (“(the one) to be ordained”).
Senses: examples: text: I didn’t go to a seminary with a lovely chapel. I didn’t spend all my time as an ordinand swanning around in vestments.
ref: 2016 May 2, Kelvin Holdsworth, “The Seven Actual Marks of Mission”, in Thurible.net, archived from the original on 06 May 2016:
glosses: A candidate for ordination.
tyan-a-bumfit
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals. Literally tyan a (and) bumfit.
Senses: glosses: Seventeen in Cumbrian sheep counting.
it takes all kinds to make a world
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: it takes all kinds
form: it takes all sorts
form: it takes all sorts to make a world
form: it takes all types
form: it takes all types to make a world
Etymology: Calque of Spanish de todos ha de haber en el mundo (“There must be of all [types] in the world”), Miguel de Cervantes,
El ingenioso caballero Don Quijote de la Mancha, Capítulo VI, 1615 (Don Quixote, Volume 2, Chapter VI); translated 1620, Shelton, as "In the world there must surely be of all sorts." and appeared in various forms thereafter.
Senses: examples: He irons his clothes how?! That's crazy! Well, I guess it takes all kinds to make a world.
glosses: Diversity is essential: the world would be incomplete if everyone were alike; an expression of surprise at a person or people's eccentricity.
wikipedia: Miguel de Cervantes
Related terms: different strokes for different folks
horses for courses
variety is the spice of life
vive la différence
tethera-a-bumfit
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals.
Senses: glosses: eighteen in Cumbrian sheep counting
methera-bumfit
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Etymology: From Brythonic, likely Cumbric, numerals. Literally an amalgamation of methera and bumfit.
Senses: glosses: nineteen in Cumbrian sheep counting