cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
push-pull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push-pulls
Senses: examples: text: In Europe, the debate around abortion access has been regalvanised by the pandemic, and last year Poland passed a near total ban, […]. Elsewhere we’ve seen a swing in the opposite direction, […]. The overall effect of this push-pull is an atmosphere of intense instability as we face up to a new phase in the struggle for reproductive justice.
ref: 2022 April 22, Rachel Pronger, “‘Silence guarantees nothing will change’: film-makers challenge the anti-abortion movement”, in The Guardian:
text: The push-pull puts us more or less in the same shoes as protagonist Lucy (Grace Van Patten), who spends years wriggling on his hook before she’s finally able to cut herself free — and it’s that keen understanding of the psychology driving its central relationship that distinguishes Tell Me Lies from any number of dramas about steamy but doomed romances.
ref: 2022 September 6, Angie Han, “‘Tell Me Lies’ Review: Hulu’s Bad Romance Is Very Good”, in The Hollywood Reporter:
synonyms: push-and-pull
glosses: An alternation or fluctuation between two opposites; a back-and-forth dispute, a tug of war.
intuitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪvnəs/
Etymology: From intuitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being intuitive.
Synonyms: intuitivity
Minix
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Coined by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a contraction of mini-Unix.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Unix-like operating system for teaching the principles of operating systems.
Related terms: Unix
Linux
crystals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪstəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of crystal
footnotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footnote
footnotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of footnote
avoids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɔɪdz/
rhymes: -ɔɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of avoid
bucket brigade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucket brigades
Senses: synonyms: human chain
glosses: The long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique, who pass buckets of water hand-to-hand from the nearest water source to the site of a fire, in an attempt to douse it.
glosses: Any process in which something is passed along a chain.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A discrete-time analogue delay line that moves a signal along a line of capacitors, one step at each clock cycle.
Related terms: fire brigade
douser
retrieved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrieve
guanylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the nucleotide guanosine monophosphate formed during protein synthesis
Synonyms: E626 when used as a flavour enhancer
GMP
Related terms: guanylate
guanylate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɑːnɪleɪt/
/ˈɡwɑːnɪlət/
Forms: form: guanylates
Etymology: From guanylic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of guanylic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
Derived terms: calcium guanylate
diguanylate
disodium guanylate
guanylate cyclase
potassium guanylate
mud flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud flats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mudflat.
newel post
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newel posts
Senses: synonyms: newel
coordinate_terms: baluster
glosses: A sturdy supporting post at one end or at a turning point of a staircase banister railing, often topped with a decorative finial.
inosinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a nucleotide, inosine phosphate, found in muscle tissue
Synonyms: E630 when used as a flavour enhancer
Related terms: inosinate
inosinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inosinates
Etymology: From inosinic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt or ester of inosinic acid; the salts are used as flavour enhancers.
Derived terms: calcium inosinate
disodium inosinate
potassium inosinate
spick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: spicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spic.
spick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: spicks
Etymology: Variant of spike.
Senses: glosses: A nail, a spike (slender piece of wood or metal, used as a fastener).
spick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: spicker
form: spickest
Etymology: Variant of spike.
Senses: glosses: Tidy; fresh.
Derived terms: spick-and-span
spick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Senses: examples: text: “Spick Italiano?” he asked.
“No.”
“Spick Français?”
“Oui,” said Dick, glowering.
ref: 1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished as Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance … With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, →OCLC, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 243:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of speak.
on site
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: If we can't figure out how to diagnose this problem remotely, we're going to have to go on site again.
text: The final paint touch-ups will be performed on site, after installation.
text: Working around an ancient monument has meant having an archaeologist on site whenever there were excavations.
ref: 2024 January 24, Peter Plisner, “Rising to the University challenge”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 61:
synonyms: on the premises
on location
antonyms: offsite
glosses: At the site of a job, or at the location of the customer of a product or service, as opposed to at the vendor's factory or office.
Related terms: in situ
on sight
onsight
maltol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltols
Etymology: From malt + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a substituted pyranone found in the bark and needles of some conifers and in roasted malt
Synonyms: E636 when used as a flavour enhancer
Derived terms: maltolate
furkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furkids
Etymology: From fur + kid.
Senses: glosses: A pet (normally a cat or dog) that the owner treats as if it were a child.
Synonyms: furbaby
skid row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌskɪd ˈɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˌskɪd ˈɹoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: skid rows
form: skidrow
form: Skid Row
Etymology: An alteration of skid road (“road along which logs are dragged or skidded; (Canada, US, informal) downtown streets where loggers go for recreation on their time off”). In 1852, skid road was first applied to a slum area at the loggers’ part of town in Seattle, Washington, USA, and before 1900 it had come into common usage in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Over time, the variant skid row came to refer to a district or slum frequented by alcoholics and hobos, even in areas without a lumber industry.
Senses: synonyms: favela
skid road
glosses: An especially dilapidated section of a city, characterized by abandoned or run-down buildings and vices such as drug dealing and prostitution, and frequented by homeless people.
glosses: A situation of great desperation or misfortune.
Related terms: hit the skids
on the skids
banlieue
ghetto
shanty town
stairwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stairwells
Etymology: From stair + well.
Senses: glosses: A shaft in a multi-story building enclosing a stairway or staircase.
infrarenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + renal.
Senses: antonyms: suprarenal
hypernyms: adrenal
;
extrarenal
coordinate_terms: intrarenal
glosses: Below the kidney.
Derived terms: infrarenally
pararenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Located next to the kidney.
mountain building
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The geological processes, such as tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity, by which mountains are formed.
Synonyms: orogeny
exhaustive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔː.stɪv/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɔ.stɪv/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzɑ.stɪv/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzoː.stɪv/
Forms: form: more exhaustive
form: most exhaustive
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustīvus
Senses: examples: text: We made an exhaustive list.
synonyms: all-encompassing
hypernyms: thorough
comprehensive
glosses: Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
examples: text: Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.
ref: 1878, John Henry Blunt, The Reformation of the Church of England: A. D. 1514-1547, page 98:
text: Chopping and hauling wood was exhaustive work. Scraping the flesh off the heavy hides and hanging them to dry also taxed her physical strength.
ref: 2013, Gloria Linkey, Native American Women: Three Who Changed History:
synonyms: word: tiring
word: weariful
word: draining
word: exhausting
word: exhaustive
word: fatiguing
word: tiresome
word: tiring
word: weariful
word: wearing
word: wearisome
word: weary
glosses: Causing exhaustion; very tiring.
Derived terms: collectively exhaustive
exhaustively
exhaustiveness
exhaustivity
inexhaustive
nonexhaustive
unexhaustive
conservative treatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conservative treatments
Senses: examples: text: Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.
ref: 2000, G. Puddu et al., “Achilles Tendon Injuries”, in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, →ISBN, page 200:
text: For the treatment of humeral shaft fractures, conservative treatment still competes with the operative approach to a much greater degree than is the case for fractures of the long bones of the lower extremity.
ref: 2006, J. Franke, “Intramedullary Nailing of Humeral Shaft Fractures”, in Practice of Intramedullary Locked Nails: New Developments in Techniques and Applications, →ISBN, page 179:
text: Conservative treatment could also include short-arm casting with the fingers and thumb free for 2-6 weeks.
ref: 2007, Thomas E. Hyde, Marianne S. Gengenbach, Conservative Management of Sports Injuries, →ISBN, page 597:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A treatment that does not include any operation or intervention.
valediction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvæl.əˈdɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: valedictions
Etymology: First attested in 1614; borrowed from New Latin valedictiō, from valedīcō (“to bid farewell”) + -tiō, from valē (“farewell, so long”) + dīcō (“to say”). By surface analysis, valedict + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A speech made when leaving or parting company.
synonyms: leave-taking
glosses: The act of parting company.
examples: text: Yes, the tide will surely turn, and meanwhile may one who is proud to call himself a partisan, invite whomever may feel disposed to bid the "T14s" adieux, to pause before giving them valediction and accord to them the respect that is assuredly their due.
ref: 1952 January, Henry Maxwell, “Farewell to the "T14s"”, in Railway Magazine, page 57:
glosses: A word or phrase said upon leaving, such as "farewell" or "adieu".
synonyms: complimentary close
complimentary closing
glosses: A word or phrase used to end a letter or message.
Hyponyms: sense: phrase ending message
word: sincerely
Related terms: diction
vale
valedict
valedictorian
valedictory
salutation
Fil-Am
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of Filipino American.
Fil-Am
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fil-Ams
Senses: glosses: Syllabic abbreviation of Filipino American.
Fil-Am
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Phil-am.
uninterrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninterrupted
form: most uninterrupted
Etymology: From un- + interrupted.
Senses: examples: text: Having departed Inverness on time, I take the advice of several guidebooks and sit in a right-hand-side seat, which should afford me uninterrupted views of the sea as the train winds its way north.
ref: 2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48:
glosses: continuing with no interruption
honorary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/
enpr: ŏnʹə-rĕr'ē
Forms: form: honourary
Etymology: From honor + -ary, modelled after French honoraire, from Latin honōrārius.
Senses: examples: text: honorary degree; honorary citizen
glosses: Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment.
glosses: Voluntary.
examples: text: Megsie is an honorary employee because she helps other customers while she shops here.
text: I consider you an honorary member of our family because you've been with us for so long.
glosses: Unofficial; practically. Describes the holder of an unofficial position or title that is assigned as a special honor rather than by normal channels.
Derived terms: honorarily
honorary Aryan
honorary authorship
honorary colonel
honorary consul
honorary consulate
honorary degree
honorary doctor
honorary doctorate
honorary master
honorary master's degree
honorary mention
honorary officer
honorary steam engine
honorary steam locomotive
honorary title
honorary trust
honorary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/
enpr: ŏnʹə-rĕr'ē
Forms: form: honoraries
form: honourary
Etymology: From honor + -ary, modelled after French honoraire, from Latin honōrārius.
Senses: glosses: A person who holds an honorary appointment.
glosses: A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.
honorary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑn.əˌɹɛɹ.i/
enpr: ŏnʹə-rĕr'ē
Forms: form: honoraries
form: honourary
Etymology: From Latin honōrārium.
Senses: glosses: An honorarium; a fee for services of no fixed value.
honorary officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honorary officers
Senses: glosses: A voluntary, unpaid officer of an organization.
hookgun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hookguns
Etymology: From hook + gun.
Senses: glosses: a harquebus
hot blast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot blasts
Senses: glosses: preheated air blown into a blast furnace
blast furnace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blast furnaces
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: ironworks, steelworks
text: Meronym: tuyeres
text: Just before Bloworth Crossing, you'll walk a short distance along the trackbed of the old mineral railway that connected the old ironstone mines at Rosedale with the blast furnaces of Middlesbrough.
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 64:
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
As above, but specifically such a furnace where the fuel and the ore are intermixed, as for example when coke and iron ore are burned together.
Derived terms: blast furnace gas
horse power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse powers
Senses: examples: text: In that era, they powered their corn sheller and their thresher with a horse power.
related: word: horse-power
synonyms: horse engine
coordinate_terms: donkey engine
water engine
wind engine
watermill
windmill
glosses: Any of a class of machines that used draft horses as a source of power to an output shaft or sheave. Treadmill types and merry-go-round–like types existed.
coordinate_terms: donkey power
glosses: Alternative spelling of horsepower (“unit of power equaling 745 watts or similar figure”).
examples: text: In the 1920s through 1940s, the push for power farming aimed to replace horse power with tractor power on the farm.
related: word: horsepower
word: horse-power
coordinate_terms: donkey power
manpower
humanpower
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: motive effort supplied by one or more horses.
horse-power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horsepower.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of horse power.
hot-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: impetuous and rash; hot-headed
hot bulb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot bulbs
Senses: glosses: An internal combustion engine in which the fuel is ignited by hot, compressed gas rather than a spark
hot cathode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot cathodes
Senses: glosses: The heated cathode of a thermionic valve
Hypernyms: cathode
Coordinate terms: cold cathode
hot chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot chairs
Senses: glosses: hot seat
hot seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot seats
form: hotseat
Senses: examples: text: Looks like you for the hot seat, kid. Come along, both of you.
ref: 1932, Ward Morehouse, Lillie Hayward, Big City Blues:
text: With deep creases slanting across the jowls of his dark bony face from the corners of his wide full mouth, and his sunken dark eyes, he was certainly a prime subject for the artists who sketch candidates for the hot seat for the tabloids, and for three days they had been making the most of it.
ref: 1955, Rex Stout, “The Next Witness”, in Three Witnesses, Bantam, published 1994, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: The electric chair.
glosses: The seat occupied by a game show contestant at a stage where they are answering questions alone.
examples: text: Now just a minute. You turn up out of nowhere, a routine space shot goes wrong, a new planet appears and you tell us you know all about it. That puts you slap bang in the hot seat, right?
ref: 1966 October 8, Kit Pedler, “The Tenth Planet, episode 1” (19:29 from the start), in Doctor Who, season 4, episode 5, spoken by General Cutler (Robert Beatty), via BBC:
glosses: Any stressful situation.
examples: text: In addition to traditional LAN play and online modes, there's […] a hot seat mode in which multiple players take their turns on the same computer […].
ref: 2008 September 14, Jonathan Miller, “Civilization IV: Colonization Multiplayer Hands-On”, in GameSpot:
topics: video-games
glosses: A multiplayer game mode where the players take turns playing the game.
Derived terms: in the hot seat
hot chisel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot chisels
Senses: glosses: A chisel designed to cut metal that has been heated in a forge.
Related terms: cold chisel
hot coppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] gets drunk, he wakes up in the morning with a bad headache or with what, in the colonies, are called "hot coppers."
ref: 1892, Harold Brodrick, The Son of Man, volume 2, page 40:
text: The drunkard’s mouth a-wash for something drinkable,
The drunkard’s eye alert for casual toppers,
The drunkard’s neck stooped to a lot scarce thinkable,
A living, crawling blazoning of Hot-Coppers […]
ref: 1901, William Henley, Sandwich Man:
text: In those days the doctor was often half-seas over when he attended his drunken patient; the parson was often drunk in the pulpit; judge, counsel and attorneys pursued their avocation in court in a prevailing atmosphere of hot coppers.
ref: 1913, Wine and Spirit News and Australian Vigneron, volume 24, page 206:
glosses: A hangover.
fronting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Forms: form: frontings
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A process whereby a vowel or a consonant is pronounced farther to the front of the vocal tract than some reference point.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A phonological relationship where a front vowel is found in place of a relative back vowel in an inflected form of a word.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An analogous relationship between the vowel sounds in a dialect of a language relative to the language standard or an earlier form of the language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
syntax
glosses: The movement of a word of phrase to nearer the beginning of a sentence or clause than it would usually appear, often for emphasis. May also occur as part of the standard syntax of particular constructions (e.g. wh-fronting).
glosses: An act of putting on a false façade to impress people.
Derived terms: th-fronting
fronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹʌntɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌntɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of front
hot cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot cupboards
Senses: glosses: A container, normally of stainless steel, and sometimes portable, in which cooked food may be kept warm until being served; sometimes fitted with a bain marie
hot date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot dates
Senses: glosses: A social outing with a current or potential lover which holds the possibility of a sexual encounter.
hot diggety
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: hot diggety dog
hot diggety dog
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: hot diggety dog !
Etymology: Expressive form of hot dog! with alliteration, with the likely nonce element diggety of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: shows delight or enthusiasm.
Derived terms: hot diggety
brown out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: browns out
form: browning out
form: browned out
form: browned out
Senses: examples: text: The pilot pulled up hard into a tight loop and browned out, losing sight of the target.
text: “I mean, what is she even talking about? Got her pregnant at the Halloween party? What does that mean? I don't even remember that party. I was wasted.” “Yeah, me too. I browned out that evening.” “"browned out"? What's "browned out"?” “Oh, it's when you drink so much that everything goes brown. It's not as severe as a blackout, 'cause I remember bits and pieces. I like to call it "browning out."”
ref: 2010 October 28, Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney, “Who Got Dee Pregnant?” (2:13 from the start), in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, season 6, episode 7, spoken by Mac (Rob McElhenney):
synonyms: greyout
glosses: To experience a partial loss of vision having the characteristics of a brownout, to suffer a brownout.
brown out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown outs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brownout.
Related terms: black out
white out
brevirostrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brevirostrate
form: most brevirostrate
Etymology: From brevi- + rostrate.
Senses: glosses: Short-beaked; having a short bill.
Synonyms: brevirostral
pure finder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pure finders
form: pure collector
form: pure gatherer
Senses: examples: text: The pure-finders meet with a ready market for all the dogs’-dung they are able to collect, at the numerous tanyards in Bermondsey.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 14:
glosses: Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.
examples: text: As one commentator has noted, although a pure finder may "induce the purchase or sale of" a security within the meaning of Section 15(a)(1), he or she is not normally a "broker" because he or she effects no transactions.
ref: 2001 July, Howard S. Meyers, Finder's fee agreements: Potential pitfalls and considerations, The Attorney-CPA, published 2002, page 3:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pure, finder.
ching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭngʹ
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: From Thai ฉิ่ง (chìng).
Senses: glosses: A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.
Synonyms: chhing
ching
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭngʹ
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The sound of metal or glass clinking.
Derived terms: ba-dum ching
ka-ching
ching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭngʹ
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: chings
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The hoe banged against a spade on the wall, making a loud "ching!"
ref: 1992, Paul McCusker, The Secret Cave of Robinwood, Focus on the Family Publishing, published 1992, →ISBN, page 40:
text: "To predictions coming true," Riley agreed, touching her rim to his with a quiet ching of crystal.
ref: 2004, Jacquie D'Alessandro, We've Got Tonight, Harlequin, published 2004, →ISBN:
text: Joseph gulped and drew his sword with a loud ching.
ref: 2008, Greg Weston, Ocean View Terrace and the Blue Pirate Eater, Lulu, published 2008, →ISBN, page 196:
glosses: A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
examples: text: "Supposedly, it was worth millions back then, so it could be worth maybe ten times as much now."
Tatorrio whistled. "That's a lot of ching."
ref: 2005, Paul Lindsay, The Big Scam, Simon & Schuster, published 2005, →ISBN, page 100:
text: If there are any people owing you money, it's a good time to drive to their houses and look for your "ching".
ref: 2006 April 7, Neville Basson, “The Golden Hour”, in New Era:
text: Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy / Hold onto your ching
ref: 2012, Die Antwoord, “Fatty Boom Boom”, in Ten$Ion:
text: If you know how to play your cards when buying, you can definitely save some ching here, especially on bigger ops.
ref: 2012 July 18, Erik Biksa, “Ask Erik: Raw! — Shopping Savvy”, in Rosebud:
glosses: Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A high-pitched mating call made by the male kakapo.
glosses: A knife.
ching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭngʹ
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: chings
form: chinging
form: chinged
form: chinged
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: The cutlery was chinging as the boat swayed around on the sea.
text: These shadows, black as the earth they emerged from, were wearing what looked like dull German helmets, their webgear and canteens chinging as they ran.
ref: 2004, David J. Morris, Storm on the Horizon: Khafji — The Battle that Changed the Course of the Gulf War, Free Press, published 2004, →ISBN:
text: Crystal chings and we sip.
ref: 2004, Devlin O'Neill, A Maid's Friends and Fantasies: Short Stories, Blue Moon Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 4:
text: One of the braves had an ankle bell that chinged when he walked.
ref: 2009, Dean Nelson, God Hides in Plain Sight: How to See the Sacred in a Chaotic World, Brazos Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
examples: text: No verbal, just chinging, like everyone know that we are on tings.
ref: 2019 August 12, “Deep In It”, Fizzler (lyrics):
text: Stickin' 'em, none of my niggas are innocent. (On s-, on s-) On sight man are just chinging him.
ref: 2021 March 25, “Body” (track 34), in NOW That's What I Call Music! 109 [UK], performed by Russ Millions,Tion Wayne:
text: I try chest shot, he blocked it, so I chinged him in his hand
ref: 2023 June 18, “100mph Freestyle x3”, Clavish (lyrics), 0:59:
synonyms: word: chef
word: shank
word: splash
word: chef
word: chib
word: ching
word: chive
word: enthrill
word: foin
word: gore
word: gride
word: jab
word: job
word: juke
word: kebab
word: knifecrime
word: lancinate
word: pigstick
word: pink
word: poach
word: run through
word: shank
word: shiv
word: spear
word: speet
word: splash
word: stab
word: stick
word: stob
word: stog
word: thrust
word: yerk
glosses: To stab.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of the male kakapo: to make its high-pitched mating call.
Related terms: cha-ching
ching chong
kerching
ching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chĭngʹ
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: I'll leave the message, but Simon's very much a free spirit, I state to the receiver as I use a fifty-pound note to hoover up some ching.
ref: 2002, Irvine Welsh, Porno, Random House, published 2002, →ISBN:
text: Then back again to merely scoring some ching and getting fucking wasted.
ref: 2006, Niall Griffiths, Wreckage, Graywolf Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 70:
text: She said: "We were all drinking and snorting ching (cocaine). […]
ref: 2011 June 30, David Taylor, “Revealed: Sick prison boasts of woman who stabbed young mum to death in revenge attack”, in Daily Record, Scotland:
glosses: Cocaine.
on the down-low
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on the down low
form: on the DL
form: on the low
form: on the downlow
Senses: examples: text: I'll tell you, but keep it on the down-low.
glosses: In secret or nearly so, on a need-to-know basis.
examples: text: And keep it on the down low
Nobody has to know
ref: 1995 December 11, “Down Low (Nobody Has to Know)”performed by R. Kelly:
glosses: Secretly sleeping with someone other than one's partner.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Of a man, publicly identifying as heterosexual but secretly having sex with men.
Related terms: keep it in the family
scombral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin scomber, scombri (“mackerel”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to mackerel.
confirming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confirm
confirming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmings
Senses: glosses: An act of confirmation.
in house
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in house
form: most in house
form: in-house
form: inhouse
Etymology: From Middle English in house.
Senses: glosses: Belonging to or part of an organization; internal.
in house
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: in-house
form: inhouse
Etymology: From Middle English in house.
Senses: examples: text: All of the Disney World character costumes were developed in house, using materials like rubber for Mickey Mouse's face and crushed velvet for his black fur.
text: We like to keep our product and process development in house to help protect our intellectual property rights.
text: Max was anticipating paperbacking The Bodley Head's books in house rather than licensing the paperback rights to a third party, like Penguin, which reduced his royalties and might eventually lose him authors to vertical publishers.
ref: 2009, J. Adamson, Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing, page 71:
glosses: Occurring within an establishment, using existing personnel, facilities, and supplies, as opposed to at some external supplier or customer.
golden ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden ratios
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: golden number
golden section
glosses: The irrational number (approximately 1.618), usually denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi), which is equal to the sum of its own reciprocal and 1, or, equivalently, is the square root of the sum of itself and 1.
Hypernyms: algebraic number
algebraic integer
irrational number
quadratic integer
Related terms: divine proportion
extreme ratio
golden cut
golden mean
golden proportion
golden rectangle
golden section
mean ratio
plastic ratio
sectio divina
supergolden ratio
φ
compact disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compact disks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of compact disc.
globose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more globose
form: most globose
form: globous
Etymology: From Latin globosus (“round as a ball, spherical, globular”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a globular form.
Derived terms: biglobose
globosely
globoseness
globose physa
semiglobose
subglobose
globous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more globous
form: most globous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of globose.
reneger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renegers
Etymology: From renege + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who reneges.
Mangel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mangels
Etymology: * As a German surname, variant of Mangold.
* As a Jewish surname, from German Mangel (“scarcity, lacking, need”).
* As an English surname, variant of Mangnall, from Mankinholes in Lancashire, usually said to be from the Irish name Manchán (compare manach (“monk”)) + Old English hol (“hollow”).
* As a French surname, variant of Mange, shortened from the personal name Demange, a dialect form of Dominique.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
wikipedia: Mankinholes
marquise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑː(ɹ)ˈkiːz/
Forms: form: marquises
Etymology: Borrowed from French marquise.
Senses: examples: text: In 1986, she appeared in the stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuse opposite Alan Rickman, playing the manipulative marquise whose icy demeanour seems to have clung to Duncan's image like frost ever since, even though it is so at odds with her warmth in person.
ref: 2009 February 14, Emine Saner, “'She was a mass of contradictions - we all are'”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: marchioness
glosses: A marchioness, especially one who is French.
glosses: A marquee.
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: An oval cut gemstone with pointed ends.
examples: text: The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: A canopy, usually of glass, set as a shelter over a door opening onto a terrace or pavement.
glosses: A style of parasol of the mid-19th century.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A rich dessert made with dark chocolate, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, and cream.
Derived terms: marquee
go up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes up
form: going up
form: went up
form: gone up
Senses: synonyms: ascend
rise
descend
go down
glosses: To move upwards.
examples: text: There are new offices going up in town.
glosses: To be built or erected.
examples: text: Bananas have gone up because of a shortage.
synonyms: rise
increase
glosses: To rise or increase in price, cost, or value.
examples: text: The building went up in smoke. Once the fire got out of the basement, the building went up in minutes.
synonyms: word: burn up
word: burn
word: combust
word: forburn
word: go up
word: outburn
word: torch
glosses: To be consumed by fire.
examples: text: The producer hopes nobody goes up opening night.
synonyms: foul up
qualifier: performing arts
glosses: To forget lines or blocks during public performance.
synonyms: go to
read
study
glosses: To attend university.
examples: text: He went up in the spring.
synonyms: go under
glosses: To be imprisoned.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To appeal for a dismissal.
synonyms: go bust
zero out
glosses: To go bankrupt; to be ruined.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, up.
Derived terms: what goes up must come down
crawl with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crawls with
form: crawling with
form: crawled with
form: crawled with
Senses: examples: text: The kitchen was crawling with cockroaches.
text: The scene of the incident was crawling with reporters for days afterwards.
glosses: To include or be covered with swarms or large numbers of (something, especially insects or people); to have in great numbers or multitudes.
Synonyms: sense: to include or be covered with
word: teem with
sense: to include or be covered with
word: pullulate
distaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-tāstʹ
ipa: /dɪsˈteɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: distastes
Etymology: From dis- + taste.
Senses: glosses: A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
examples: text: Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
examples: text: Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: Discomfort; uneasiness.
examples: text: On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 8–9:
glosses: Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
Derived terms: distasteful
distaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭs-tāstʹ
ipa: /dɪsˈteɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: distastes
form: distasting
form: distasted
form: distasted
Etymology: From dis- + taste.
Senses: examples: text: How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], column 1:
text: Plato made it a great ſigne of an intemperate and corrupt common-wealth, where Lawyers and Phyſitians did abound, and the Romanes diſtaſted them ſo much, that they were often baniſhed out of theire city, as Pliny and Celſus relate, for 600 yeares not admitted.
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 1, subsection 1, page 296:
glosses: To dislike.
examples: text: Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: to be distasteful; to taste bad
examples: text: He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
ref: 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued:
glosses: To offend; to disgust; to displease.
examples: text: And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]
ref: 1630, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, →OCLC, stanza 81, page 151:
glosses: To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
specific epithet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific epithets
Senses: examples: Holonyms: species name (the binomial unit), binominal name, binomial name
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: species epithet
hypernyms: epithet
<
name
<
word
<
term
coordinate_terms: specific name
;
subspecific epithet
;
genus name
glosses: The second (uncapitalized) word in the scientific name of a species, following the name of the genus.
Related terms: genus name
species name
retrieval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹiːvəl/
Forms: form: retrievals
Senses: glosses: The act of retrieving or something retrieved.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The operation of accessing data, either from memory or from a storage device.
glosses: The cognitive process of bringing stored information into consciousness.
Derived terms: document retrieval
information retrieval
text retrieval
predetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From predetermine + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predetermine
predetermined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + determined.
Senses: glosses: Determined in advance.
Synonyms: sense: determined in advance
word: foredetermined
sense: determined in advance
word: preplanned
sense: determined in advance
word: preidentified
sense: determined in advance
word: fixed
sense: determined in advance
word: designated
sense: determined in advance
word: predesignated
sense: determined in advance
word: as is
real-valued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having only real values: having as its codomain the set of real numbers or a subset thereof.
raw_tags: of a function
Müller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Müllers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Muller.
Derived terms: Müllerian
scrubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌbi/
Forms: form: scrubbier
form: scrubbiest
Etymology: From scrub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a scrubby landscape
glosses: Covered with or consisting of scrub.
examples: text: scrubby crops
text: scrubby cattle
text: This sort of literary slop-work will not suffice for your walking in the roads of life to any good purpose. It is bad work. It is scrubby work.
ref: 1883, Hargrave Jennings, The Childishness and Brutality of the Time:
text: Too little Potash in the fertilizer used produces a "scrubby" crop, just as a lack of sufficient grain fed to stock means a "scrubby" animal. Free: An illustrated book which tells what Potash is, how it should be used, and how much Potash a well-balanced fertilizer should contain, is sent free to all applicants. Send your address. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 92 Nassau St., New York.
ref: 1897 July 17, “Potash. [booklet advertisement]”, in The Farmer's Guide: A Weekly Journal of Progressive Agriculture, volume 9, number 29, Huntington, Indiana: The Guide Publishing Company, page 6:
text: The red clay of Oklahoma and the sands of the west Texas desert country produce scrubby crops, oil and football players. For the hardy, lean and tough people who inhabit this country, the crops are a last resort, oil a hopeful dream and football a religion.
ref: 1957 November 18, Tex Maule, “A+$+X+F+B = Invincibility. This Formula Belongs to Oklahoma, Where It Was Developed to Equate With Unbeatable Football. It Is Explained Below”, in Sports Illustrated:
glosses: Inferior in size or quality.
Related terms: english: vegetation
translation: vegetation
word: scrub
english: livestock animal
translation: livestock animal
word: scrub
word: scrub
scrubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹʌbi/
Forms: form: scrubbies
form: scrubbie
Etymology: From scrub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: dish scrubby
text: shower scrubby
glosses: Diminutive of scrubber: a small scrubber for light washing tasks.
glosses: a loofah.
Ngindo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
sunna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunnas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunnah.
Ngoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ngoni
form: Ngonis
form: Nguni
Senses: glosses: A member of a particular ethnic group of East Africa, mainly living in Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia.
Ngoni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nguni
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
Ngoni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ngoni
form: most Ngoni
form: Nguni
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Ngoni or their language.
boxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boxer
boxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Across the street was the well-adorned window of an underwear store. In amongst the displays of briefs, boxers and boxer-briefs, Forrest detected a square-jawed man staring straight back at him.
ref: 2011, Damon Norko, The Delilah Factor, page 157:
text: But right now I'm waiting at the bus stop, waiting to go to work, bundled in two jackets and a coat, briefs under boxers under sweat pants under jeans.
ref: 2015, Max Reagan, Thoughts of Ink, page 46:
glosses: Boxer shorts.
Related terms: briefs
midways
trunks
bikinis
conveyancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conveyancers
Etymology: From conveyance + -er.
Senses: examples: ref: 2006, “Conveyancers in Cape Town are furious over long delays holding up the issue of rates clearance certificates by the City of Cape Town that are playing havoc with property transfers and deed registrations.”, in Weekend Argus June 24 2006:
topics: law
glosses: An attorney who passes transfer of immovable property from one party to another.
examples: text: The wind-up is, that the father becomes bankrupt; the wife and daughters town-traders; the sons Greeks, Fancy-swells, Conveyancers (pickpockets), or Cracksmen (house breakers), and the New Drop is the last drop they ever take.
ref: 1822, A Morning in Cork-Street: or, Raising the wind, page 102:
text: Then will Lincoln's Inn change its sombre hue to Lincoln green. There will be no conveyancers, i. e. no thieves, no pickpockets.
ref: 1857, Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson), Tea-table Talk, Ennobled Actresses, and Other Miscellanies (page 209)
glosses: A pickpocket.
interj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interjs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of interjection.
NEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Economic Policy.
glosses: Initialism of National Energy Program.
glosses: Initialism of National Election Pool.
Derived terms: Nepman
NEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of noise-equivalent power.
glosses: Initialism of nanosatellite engineering professional.
topics: government
coordinate_terms: LEP
glosses: Initialism of non-English proficient.