cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
to-come
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tocome
form: to come
Etymology: From to + come, perhaps continuing Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme (“a coming, an arrival, an approach, an advent”).
Senses: examples: text: They denote a factual to-come. Heidegger, on the other hand, holds that time originates in the to-come, regardless of contents.
ref: 1999, James Risser, Heidegger toward the Turn, page 267:
text: Of a discourse to come – on the to-come and repetition.
ref: 2013, Maria-Daniella Dick, Derrida Wordbook, page 416:
glosses: Something which is to come.
examples: text: The Past / Now stands before thee like an Incarnation / Of the To-come;
ref: 1822, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hellas, page 49:
text: But, it is plain, they would not be competent to grapple with the 'To-come.'
ref: 1849 January, Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, “The Literature of Gothic Architecture”, in The Eclectic Review, volume 25, page 37:
text: Hope, not only as concerning the future state: that, it is to be trusted, all men possess: but hope as regards the present, and the to-come, of our little narrow world.
ref: 1871 June 1, Charles William Wood, “Of Hope”, in The Argosy, volume 11, number 6, London: J. Ogden & Co., page 429:
text: You are the future, the to-come, of the world. I congratulate you, boys and girls, that you live in this generation.
ref: 1893, Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston, page 464:
text: With leave to clench the past, chain the to-come,
Put out an arm and touch and take the sun […]
ref: 1899, Robert Browning, The Complete Works of Robert Browning, published 1912, page 476:
text: (In the to-come [future], however, I am hoping we will score our toneworks with the full resources of the most lavish orchestra!)
ref: 2006, Malcolm Gillies, David Pear, Mark Carroll, Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger, page 122:
text: The to-come, let us say, the “absolute” future, as opposed to the future-present, is the object of our hope and desire, the stuff of a certain faith.
ref: 2018, Jim Kanaris, Reconfigurations of Philosophy of Religion: A Possible Future, page 214:
glosses: The future.
Synonyms: sense: the future
word: to-be
word: the future
tocome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From to + come, or from Middle English tocome, from Old English tōcyme.
Senses: examples: text: Legion was perhaps the only one of all the forty who looked forward to wearing his Majesty's uniform with satisfaction, a lad to whom the Tocome seemed always promising, and the Present never unbearable.
ref: 1870, J. Payn, The F. B.; being a history of the school and college life of two young men, page 166:
text: This will ensure that we shall not need to depend on a^([sic]) outside uranium to make electricity in the tocome.
ref: 2015, LT Wolf, The World King - Book I: The Reckoning:
glosses: Alternative form of to-come (“future”).
whang-doodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whang-doodles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whangdoodle.
whang-doodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whang-doodle
tofall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tofalls
form: to-fall
form: two-fall
form: toofall
form: tuefall
form: teefall
form: toofal
Etymology: From Middle English tofal, equivalent to to- + fall. Compare Dutch toeval, German Zufall, Danish tilfælde, Swedish tillfälle, Icelandic tilfelli. More at to, fall.
Senses: examples: text: at to-fall of the day
ref: 1936, A. E. Housman, chapter XLIV, in More Poems:
glosses: Decline; settling; end; close.
topics: architecture
glosses: A shed or building annexed to the wall of a larger one, having its roof formed in a single slope with the top resting against the wall; lean-to.
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy and Hermann Amandus Schwarz.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem which states that the absolute value of the dot product between two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the two vectors.
wikipedia: Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Hermann Amandus Schwarz
tobeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /təˈbiːt/
Forms: form: tobeats
form: tobeating
form: tobeat
form: tobeaten
Etymology: From Middle English tobeten, from Old English tōbēatan (“to beat severely, beat to death”), equivalent to to- + beat.
Senses: glosses: To beat excessively.
Schwarz inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schwarz inequalities
Etymology: Named after Hermann Amandus Schwarz.
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
wikipedia: Hermann Amandus Schwarz
real vector space
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real vector spaces
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector space over the field of real numbers.
Hypernyms: vector space
Hyponyms: Euclidean space
k-cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: k-cells
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of k-dimensional Euclidean space which is obtained by taking the Cartesian product of k intervals (closed, open, or half-closed) which are subsets of the coordinate axes of the ambient Euclidean space.
Hyponyms: δ-box
δ-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: δ-boxes
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A k-cell which is a Cartesian product of half-closed intervals which are closed at their infima and open at their suprema, and such that the infimum of each interval is the coordinate of a given point (called "the corner" of the δ-box), and the length (i.e., measure) of each interval is equal to (the given value) δ.
Hypernyms: k-cell
Silenus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /saɪˈliːnəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Sīlēnus, from Ancient Greek Σῑληνός (Sīlēnós). Doublet of Silvanus.
Senses: examples: text: As a goat he [Dionysus] can hardly be separated from the minor divinities, the Pans, Satyrs, and Silenuses, all of whom are closely associated with him and are represented more or less completely in the form of goats.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 34:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A companion and tutor to the wine god Dionysus.
Derived terms: Silenic
wisdom of Silenus
prowfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prowfishes
form: prowfish
Etymology: From prow + fish.
Senses: glosses: A species of subtropical perciform saltwater fish, Zaprora silenus, found in the North Pacific.
glosses: An Australian prowfish (any fish of the family Pataecidae, characterized by a long dorsal fin that begins far forward on the head, forming a "prow" shape, and extends all the way to the caudal fin).
obvious by inspection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is obvious by inspection that the set #92;#123;#91;0,1),#91;1,2),#91;2,3),...#92;#125; is a partition of #91;0,#92;infty).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: evident in the mind's eye, without formal proof being necessary.
raw_tags: of a claim
complete measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complete measures
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A measure such that, for every set of measure zero belonging to its domain, all subsets of that set are also assigned measure zero by the given measure.
Hypernyms: positive measure
measure
Hyponyms: Lebesgue–Stieltjes measure > Lebesgue measure
Related terms: μ-completion
dead first
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But when the Great Kroger Bagoff ended the other day at the Alexandria Drive store it was 22-year-old Daniel Vichitbandha who finished dead first.
ref: 1987, "Snake tale didn't have a leg to stand on," Lexington Herald Leader (Kentucky, USA), 15 Oct. (retrieved 20 Oct 2010)
text: When I was going through basic training in the army, we had some physical tests, running, pushups, and such like stuff, and I finished dead last by a sizable margin. We also had an intelligence test, and I finished dead first, again by a sizable margin.
ref: 1990, Isaac Asimov, “Editorial: Sharing Universes”, in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, volume 140, page 5:
text: Pittsburgh had finished second in the software firm's 1993 study, when Philadelphia also finished dead first.
ref: 1998 November 5, Len Boselovic, "Pittsburgh's Tax Bite 4th Highest of 27 Big U.S. Cities", in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page E-7
text: Once [sic] race I came in dead first and the other dead last.
ref: 2007, Kathy Sherwin, Road Race - The Hell of the North, blogspot.com, 7 April (retrieved 20 Oct. 2010)
text: The Rams, meanwhile, finished dead first in last year's NFL Draft.
ref: 2010 October 17, Derek Estes, “Upset Alert: Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams Bucking the Odds at Halftime”, in Bleacher Report, retrieved 20 Oct 2010:
glosses: First, especially first place in a competition.
Related terms: dead last
circle the drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circles the drain
form: circling the drain
form: circled the drain
form: circled the drain
Senses: examples: text: Our emergency medical services are, nonetheless, circling the drain.
ref: 1989 January 29, Brian D. Johnston, “L.A.'s Crippled Emergency Care:”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 17 Oct 2010:
text: Presciently, the high-end Japanese bathroom-fixtures manufacturer Toto chose a time when the economy is circling the drain to launch its newest product—a $5,000 commode with a super-efficient flush.
ref: 2008 October 10, Belinda Luscombe, “Just What the Economy Needs: A $5,000 Toilet”, in Time:
text: Needless to say, the guy on the phone would be watching his life circle the drain, imagining the horrific press and the life-destroying damage this false accusation would cause.
ref: 2010, Douglas Coupland, Generation A, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: To be in a rapid decline or in a state of downfall, especially as leading to an inevitable utter failure or destruction.
Related terms: down the drain
down the tubes
downward spiral
go down the toilet
circling the drain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circle the drain
counterargues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterargue
counterarguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterargue
counterargued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterargue
trochus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochuses
form: trochi
Etymology: From New Latin Trochus, from Ancient Greek τροχός (trokhós, “wheel”).
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Trochus, or more generally of the family Trochidae; in non-specialist usage, including species formerly classified in that family, particularly Tectus niloticus.
Hyponyms: topshell
trochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trochus
Ferrer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
xylon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xyla
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon).
Senses: examples: text: The xylon, in which naubia are measured. The royal (xylon) 9 comprises 3 cubits, 18 palms, 72 fingers; 10 the private (xylon) comprises 2⅔ cubits, 16 palms, 64 fingers, so that the surveyor's schoinion comprises 32 royal xyla, and 36 private (xyla).
ref: 2020, Roger S. Bagnall, Alexander Jones, Mathematics, Metrology, and Model Contracts, page 81:
glosses: A unit of length in Ancient Greece.
first-aider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-aiders
Etymology: From first aid + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is able to administer first aid.
softa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softas
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish صوفته (“theology student”) (modern Turkish softa), from Classical Persian سوخته (sōxta).
Senses: examples: text: The softas, concerning whose exploits we have heard so much of late, are the theological students who wish to become ulemas, or, literally, learned men.
ref: 1896, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, Living Age, volume 208, page 330:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religious student, especially in Turkey
glosses: A fanatic adherent, blind follower
tighten one's belt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tightens one's belt
form: tightening one's belt
form: tightened one's belt
form: tightened one's belt
Senses: examples: text: In the current crisis, we will have to tighten our belts.
synonyms: tighten the purse strings
glosses: To be more frugal; to make difficult economic savings due to a lowering of expected income.
Related terms: belt-tighten
belt-tightened
belt-tightener
belt-tightening
cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
gird up one's loins
Aleutian Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæliːˈuːʃən ˈɑɪlændz/
Etymology: Possibly from Chukchi aliat (“island”).
Senses: glosses: An archipelago of more than three hundred small volcanic islands forming an island arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, between Alaska and the Kamchatka Peninsula of Asia; part of the United States.
Synonyms: Catherine Archipelago
Aleutic Islands
Aleut Islands
Related terms: Alaska
Bering Strait
postjudices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postjudice
white roe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: milt
soft roe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: milt, fish semen
hard roe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: roe (eggs of fish), as opposed to milt (sperm of fish), which is also known as soft roe or white roe
snot rockets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snot rocket
anycasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The routing of data over a network using an anycast scheme.
inslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inslopes
Senses: glosses: A slope that is tilted towards a road.
septempartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕp'tĕmpärʹtīt
ipa: /ˌsɛptɛmˈpɑːtaɪt/
Forms: form: septipartite
Etymology: Latin septem (“seven”) + English partite
Senses: glosses: Divided or separated into seven parts or sections.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting division into seven parts nearly to the base.
Synonyms: heptamerous
mythohistorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mythohistorically
form: most mythohistorically
Etymology: From mythohistorical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mythohistorical manner or context.
instant mash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Instant mashed potatoes.
done and done
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌn ˈænd ˈdʌn/
Senses: examples: text: “‘Done,’ says my master; ‘I’ll lay you a hundred golden guineas to a tester you don’t.’ ‘Done,’ says the gauger; and done and done’s enough between two gentlemen.”
ref: 1800, Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent:
text: “I’ll take your bet — there. And so Done and Done.”
ref: 1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians:
text: “Done and done between gentlemen, is enough, sir.”
ref: 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, The Crater:
glosses: Agreed upon, mutually accepted.
examples: text: Done and done, he said to himself. And he felt pretty good. The anger and hurt that only a few hours before had been sharp and deep had dulled.
ref: 1985, Robert Elman, Seasons of the hunter: an anthology, page 133:
text: > Bob, you've done good work setting up and maintaining your site, and if you
> want to setup^([sic]) a WinACE page as a service to the empire community, I have no
> objection. Feel free to link simons@iglou.com as the email address for
Done and done! It will be up in a few days and it will have it's^([sic]) own separate section with screen shots, etc. If you don't like what you see just let me know privately via my email address and I'll fix it.
ref: 2001, Bob Dalton, “WinACE client offer”, in rec.games.empire (Usenet):
ref: 2007, CLM in ND, “OT: It's over! Done and done!”, in alt.vacation.las-vegas (Usenet):
glosses: Done thoroughly and satisfactorily.
offsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: off-suit
form: off suit
Etymology: From off + suit.
Senses: examples: text: He has jack-ten offsuit in the big blind
topics: card-games
games
poker
glosses: Of two or more cards, not of the same suit.
astrologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrologues
form: astrolog
Etymology: From Middle English astrolog, from Latin astrologus. Equivalent to astro- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: An astrologer.
astrologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrologue
chum salmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tʃʌm ˈsæmən/
Forms: form: chum salmons
form: chum salmon
Etymology: From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”) (from Chinook) + English salmon.
Senses: glosses: A salmon species, Oncorhynchus keta.
Synonyms: dog salmon
keta salmon
silverbrite salmon
win out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins out
form: winning out
form: won out
form: won out
Senses: examples: text: Love always wins out over hate.
text: You can be sure that justice will win out in the end.
glosses: To be victorious. Usually of emotions and human qualities.
win round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins round
form: winning round
form: won round
form: won round
Senses: examples: text: My parents didn't want me to see him any more, but I finally won them round.
glosses: To persuade or convince (someone who does not initially agree).
Synonyms: win around
win over
win around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wins around
form: winning around
form: won around
form: won around
Senses: examples: text: My parents didn't want me to see him any more, but I finally won them around.
glosses: To persuade someone who disagrees to agree with one's own point of view.
Synonyms: win round
win over
chok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /xoʊk/
/xok/
Forms: form: choks
form: chukim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew חֹק (khók).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A law or commandment without a comprehensible explanation or purpose.
Related terms: mishpat
you win
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Okay, you win. I can't spend all day arguing over such a small detail.
glosses: Used to express resignation, or concede defeat even though one is not convinced of the opposing arguments.
superglobal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superglobals
Etymology: From super- + global.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of special predefined variables that can be accessed at any point in a program without the need to be explicitly declared as global.
raw_tags: in the PHP programming language
superglobals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superglobal
nonvested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vested.
Senses: glosses: Not vested.
nonmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + meal.
Senses: examples: text: The other most salient fact about children's maintenance activities is the sheer amount of time spent in nonmeal eating.
ref: 1999, Artin Göncü, Children's engagement in the world: sociocultural perspectives, page 41:
glosses: Not being or pertaining to a meal.
Related terms: nonmealtime
unbankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bankable.
Senses: glosses: Not bankable.
nonbankable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + bankable.
Senses: glosses: Not bankable.
spoilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoilable
form: most spoilable
Etymology: From spoil + -able.
Senses: glosses: Liable to spoil or go bad.
Related terms: spoilability
cherishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cherishable
form: most cherishable
Etymology: From cherish + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Building a cherishable memory is equally necessary in divorce situations.
ref: 1983, Kenneth R. Mitchell, Herbert Anderson, All Our Losses, All Our Griefs: Resources for Pastoral Care, page 128:
text: Those of us who carry HIV around owe more than a bit of gratitude to Paul Monette, who makes a person living with AIDS not only a reliable narrator, but a cherishable character, and, for Christ's sake, a love interest.
ref: 1991 May 4, Walta Borawksi, “A Sort of Homecoming”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: He said that objects first become cherishable, after which they get nostalgic value. Finally they end up being antiques.
ref: 1997, Ed van Hinte, Eternally yours: visions on product endurance:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being cherished.
Derived terms: cherishably
uncherishable
moongazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + gazing.
Senses: examples: text: Starrs guide captures the myriad recreational opportunities along the South Carolina coast, from shell collecting and moongazing to beer drinking and shag dancing.
ref: 2001, William W. Starr, A Guide to South Carolina Beaches:
glosses: Observing the Moon in the sky.
sungazing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sun + gazing.
Senses: examples: text: Young Petala, told nothing about the sungazing ceremony, had watched the affair more interested than alarmed.
ref: 1979, Ruth Beebe Hill, Hanta yo, page 123:
text: Rarely, solar retinopathy has been described in sunbathers with no history of direct sungazing.
ref: 2000, Frederick T. Fraunfelder, Frederick Hampton Roy, Joan Randall, Current ocular therapy, Volume 5, page 554:
synonyms: sunwatching
glosses: The act or practice of observing the sun in the sky.
freshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of fresh
freshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fresh
sideboobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideboob
perlocutionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perlocution + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten years ago.
ref: 2002, Dave Hill, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory, page 257:
text: Threats and offers have many perlocutionary effects, not all of which determine their effect on freedom.
ref: 2007, Ian Carter, Matthew H. Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Freedom: a philosophical anthology, page 301:
glosses: Of or pertaining to perlocution.
loserish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loserish
form: most loserish
Etymology: From loser + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: […] the ascent of a kind of stubborn geekiness that doubtless reflected a big chunk of MTV's demographics: young, male, white, and vaguely loserish, if only in their own tortured teenage minds.
ref: 1999, Karen Kelly, Evelyn McDonnell, Stars don't stand still in the sky: music and myth, page 92:
text: My friends might be insulted and I'd feel loserish and left out and otherwise controlled by my diet.
ref: 2004, Courtney Rubin, The Weight-Loss Diaries, page 71:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a loser (contemptible person or habitual failure).
Derived terms: loserishness
torturedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more torturedly
form: most torturedly
Etymology: From tortured + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: At one point he torturedly mimics his own emotions to provide Lucy's gasps as she lies dying of syphilis.
ref: 2007, Bruce Babington, A history of the New Zealand fiction feature film, page 214:
glosses: In a tortured manner.
torturedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tortured + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The noble man must be praised (and perhaps also debunked) and the rogue condemned (with appreciation, where relevant, of his charm or torturedness).
ref: 1973, D. G. Dufty, Grant Stewart Harman, Keith John Swan, Historians at work: investigating and recreating the past, page 59:
glosses: The quality of being tortured.
debunkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˈbʌŋkəbəɫ]
ipa: [diːˈbʊŋkəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more debunkable
form: most debunkable
Etymology: From debunk + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Knowledge must be debunkable and stands only until it is debunked. In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.
ref: 1995, Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, page 51:
glosses: Capable of being debunked.
preamplification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preamplifications
Etymology: From pre- + amplification.
Senses: glosses: The use of a preamplifier.
preamplifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preamplification
loserness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loser + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "All I'd need to complete the picture of loserness is a roommate who talks about girls he never dates."
ref: 2004, Geoff Hoff, Steve Mancini, Weeping Willow: Volume One: Welcome to River Bend, page 33:
text: Unfortunately, this association with Lambo forced me out of my invisible loserness bleachers and into the wide, bright, blaring stadium of DORK.
ref: 2006, Steve Monas, Chemistry and Numbers 2, page 81:
glosses: The quality of being a loser.
Synonyms: loserdom
loserhood
entertailing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of entertaining + retailing
Senses: examples: text: Begelman's strategy borrows from the trend toward entertailing, which combines retailing with entertainment.
ref: 1999, Michael R. Solomon, Elnora W. Stuart, Marketing: real people, real choices, page 420:
text: Not all entertailing is sports-focused.
ref: 1999, Richard W. Oliver, The shape of things to come, page 141:
text: The primary goal of entertailing is to catch customers' attention and engage them in some kind of entertaining experience so that they shop longer and buy more goods or services.
ref: 2003, Norman M. Scarborough, Thomas Zimmerer, Effective small business management: an entrepreneurial approach, page 197:
glosses: A commercially-designed experience intended to combine entertainment and retailing.
Synonyms: retailtainment
retailtainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of retail + entertainment
Senses: examples: text: We also are able to achieve that connection with retailtainment — our Oreo Stacking Contest, Grandparents Day, and our Wal-Mart Live broadcasts of exclusive concert performances from Garth Brooks, Britney Spears, Faith Hill, and others.
ref: 2001, Barry Berman, Joel R. Evans, Retail management: a strategic approach, page 631:
text: China "is the world leader in retailtainment," Mr. Menzer says. "You go into the store and there's a fashion show of some of your apparel lines.
ref: 2006, John E. Richardson, Annual Editions: Marketing 07/08, page 158:
text: Therefore, we anticipate consumers' perceived value and satisfaction with retailtainment will be different for consumers with high versus low likelihood to use instore technologies.
ref: 2023, Theodore Tarnanidis, Maro Vlachopoulou, Jason Papathanasiou, Influences of Social Media on Consumer Decision-Making Processes in the Food and Grocery Industry, page 88:
glosses: A commercially-designed experience that combines entertainment and retailing.
Synonyms: entertailing
shoppertainment
Shapiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈpɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ʃəˈpaɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ʃəˈpɪəɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: Shapiros
form: Sapiro
form: Schapira
form: Schapiro
form: Shapeero
form: Shapero
form: Shapera
form: Shapira
form: Szpiro
form: Szapiro
form: Sapir
form: Spiro
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish שאַפּיראָ (shapiro). This surname is derived from the Medieval name of Speyer, Germany (compare Spire, the French name for that city). Other name variants attributed to Speyer include Sapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Szpiro, Sapir, and Spear. The Jewish community of Speyer was one of three leading cities central to the development of Ashkenazi culture, the others being Worms and Mainz. The family name Speyer (based on the modern German name for the same city) has also become a well known surname that was spread by Jews from Frankfurt to England, the United States, and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some suggest that the surname derives from the Aramaic word שפירא (Shappirā), meaning "handsome."
Senses: examples: text: On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.
ref: 2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
Derived terms: Shapiro delay
Shapiro effect
Shapiro syndrome
Shapiro time delay
tetra-amelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraamelia
Etymology: From tetra- + amelia, tetra- from combining form of Ancient Greek τέτταρες (téttares) and τέσσαρες (téssares, “four”), and amelia from a- and Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”) and -ia.
Senses: glosses: A particular congenital disorder, whose main symptom is the lack of legs, arms, and hands.
tetraamelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tetra-amelia.
handsewn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hand + sewn.
Senses: glosses: Sewn by hand, without the use of a sewing machine.
erotomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniæk
Forms: form: erotomaniacs
Etymology: From eroto- + -maniac.
Senses: glosses: A person suffering from erotomania (in either sense).
Related terms: erotomania
erotomane
nonrecirculating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recirculating.
Senses: examples: a nonrecirculating wind tunnel
glosses: Not recirculating.
crible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cribles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cribble.
R Us
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: After Toys "R" Us, American toy-store chain, itself a phonetic rendering of "toys are us".
Senses: examples: text: "Geeks R Us" was a phrase that would often pop into my twisted little brain while I was initially learning to surf the 'Net.
ref: 1996, Dan DePardo, “Catching the Electronic Wave (The Article) "Way Long"”, in alt.sport.jet-ski (Usenet):
text: A board poster referred to Brandon as coming straight from the "Flaming Gays R Us" catalog!
ref: 2002, Joy in Virginia, “Mar 13, Show Summary”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet):
text: Scenario: Someone wants to deliberately annoy you by phoning your number over and over again, or by putting your phone number on a Jerks R Us webforum.
ref: 2005, geminii@tpg.com.au, “What do I win?”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):
glosses: Suggesting a group of people or repository of products of the specified kind.
wikipedia: Toys "R" Us
Related terms: McWord
joss sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of joss stick
Romo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Romantic Modernism, a musical and clubbing movement in the UK in the 1990s, influenced by New Romanticism.
water-closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-closets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water closet.
all to
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more all to
form: most all to
Etymology: From expressions such as all to break, all to split, all to broken, formed from the incorrect division of words containing the prefix to- (e.g. all tobreak, all tosplit, all tobroken). Equivalent to all + to-.
Senses: glosses: completely, totally.
all to
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From expressions such as all to break, all to split, all to broken, formed from the incorrect division of words containing the prefix to- (e.g. all tobreak, all tosplit, all tobroken). Equivalent to all + to-.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of all too.
Related terms: all too
tobroken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of tobreak
bilipid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilipids
Etymology: From bi- + lipid.
Senses: glosses: Used attributively to describe a lipid bilayer
cartograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartographs
Senses: glosses: cartogram
decoheres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decohere
micropillars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropillar
nanodielectric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanodielectrics
Etymology: From nano- + dielectric.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale dielectric
tobrest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toburst.
unstiffened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stiffened.
Senses: examples: text: 1832, G. P. R. James, Henry Masterton, or The Adventures of a Young Cavalier, London: Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley, Volume 3, Chapter 8, pp. 180-181,
He then approached the body of the Benedictine, who had fallen forward on his face; and after gazing on it for a moment as it lay, he turned it over with his foot, even while the yet unstiffened limbs hung languidly back in the position they had assumed, with the flaccid relaxation of late death.
text: The booths of the bazaar, which shuts at midday, were contained in a narrow lane, exhibiting beads and mirror-topped boxes from India, the rejected Homburg hats of the whole world, piles of loose turquoises, rows of Gyantse head-dresses, unstiffened and neatly folded, and a peculiar species of scissors whose blades resembled battered table-knives.
ref: 1933, Robert Byron, First Russia, Then Tibet, Part II, Chapter 6:
glosses: Not stiffened.
unstarched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + starched.
Senses: glosses: Not starched.
a bridge too far
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to Operation Market Garden, Allied airborne military operation of 1944. General Roy E. Urquhart, in his 1958 memoir Arnhem, ascribed the phrase to general Frederick “Boy” Browning. It was popularized by being chosen as the title of Cornelius Ryan’s 1974 book on Operation Market Garden and the subsequent 1977 epic war film.
Senses: examples: text: Cloning was an interesting concept. Cloning body parts was again just man's search for immortality riding on the back of naive altruistic medicinal benevolence. But cloning a person was a bridge too far.
ref: 2006, Adair Broughton, Crossing the Bridge of Infinity, page 40:
text: “Maybe we are seeing a similar phenomenon with NFTs — but it could be a bridge too far for people with collections in other media.”
ref: 2021 April 28, Zachary Small, quoting William Goetzmann, “As Auctioneers and Artists Rush Into NFTs, Many Collectors Stay Away”, in New York Times:
glosses: A step or action that is too ambitious; an act of overreaching.
wikipedia: A Bridge Too Far (book)
A Bridge Too Far (film)
Cornelius Ryan
Frederick Browning
Operation Market Garden
Roy Urquhart
nonstarched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + starched.
Senses: examples: text: In many institutions and home settings, the cloister-style uniform has given way to nonstarched wash-and-wear clothing.
ref: 1978, Lillian Margaret Simms, Janice B. Lindberg, The nurse person: developing perspectives for contemporary nursing, page 156:
glosses: Not starched.
Undine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Undine (“undine”), first used as a given name in the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and in 19th-century operas based on the book.
Senses: examples: text: The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city.
ref: 1818 Translation by George Soane of Undine (1811) by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, W.Simpkin and R. Marshall, pages 24-25
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
wikipedia: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
nonbenevolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + benevolent.
Senses: examples: a nonbenevolent dictatorship
glosses: Not benevolent.
JAPHs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JAPH
outvoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outvoters
Etymology: From out + voter.
Senses: glosses: One who casts a vote in an election held in an area in which they do not live.
outvoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outvoter
pingee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pingees
Etymology: From ping + -ee.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The recipient of a ping (packet sent over a network to determine the presence of a host).
pingees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pingee
nonsuperpower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsuperpowers
Etymology: From non- + superpower.
Senses: glosses: A state that is not a superpower.
nonsuperpowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsuperpower
supertyphoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertyphoons
Etymology: From super- + typhoon.
Senses: glosses: An exceptionally large and powerful typhoon.
supertyphoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertyphoon
militation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: militations
Etymology: Probably from militate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: How shall they be induced to sympathise with our principles, unless they can be convinced that those principles impel us to sympathise with them in their abhorrence of men and measures, whose iniquity consists in their militation against all principles?
ref: 1799 December 12, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Advice to the friends of freedom”, in The Morning Post:
text: To withhold offices form men who are satisfied with their country's constitution, because they do not love the present administration, when they are better qualified than others, would be no less than a militation with the principles of a free government.
ref: 1802, James Sullivan, letter, in Amory 1859, Life and Writings, vol. 2, p. 94
text: This militation by the long poem against the designs of its poet is fascinating in Paterson and Maximus because their poets keep a careful vigil on the progress of The Cantos yet still do not avoid its fate of self-interrogation for their poems.
ref: 1995, Peter Stoicheff, The Hall of Mirrors, page 166:
glosses: Conflict, struggle.
hordeola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hordeolum
growth factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: growth factors
Senses: glosses: A naturally-occurring substance capable of stimulating cellular growth, proliferation, and cellular differentiation.
Derived terms: word: GF
alt: PlGF
word: placental growth factor
Related terms: english: GH
translation: GH
word: growth hormone
emacses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emacs
emaciations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emaciation
nonthematically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonthematic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a nonthematic manner; not thematically.
Lebesgue measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbɛːɡ ˈmɛ.ʒɚ/
Forms: form: Lebesgue measures
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Henri Lebesgue.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A unique complete translation-invariant measure for the σ-algebra which contains all k-cells in a given Euclidean space, and which assigns a measure to each k-cell which is equal to that k-cell's volume (as defined in Euclidean geometry: i.e., the volume of the k-cell equals the product of the lengths of its sides).
wikipedia: Henri Lebesgue
Hypernyms: Lebesgue–Stieltjes measure < complete measure < positive measure < measure
Lebesgue measurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: After Henri Lebesgue
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a set in some k-dimensional Euclidean space) That it is an element of the domain of the Lebesgue measure of the ambient Euclidean space.
wikipedia: Henri Lebesgue
uniform continuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being uniformly continuous.
raw_tags: of a function
eczemalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eczemalike
form: most eczemalike
Etymology: From eczema + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of eczema.
back-of-an-envelope
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On one defense item, somebody kept referring to it as a back-of-an-envelope cost estimate. Do you have a back-on-an-envelope cost estimate?
ref: 1979 February 22, Thomas F[rancis] Eagleton, “Department of Labor: Labor-management Services Administration: Statement of Jack A. Warshaw, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Labor-management Relations …”, in Departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1980: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session: Part 1 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 464:
text: The reader will not need to be warned that the calculations involved are of the back of an envelope type and statements of the form ‘a equals b’ should be read ‘a equals b approximately’ or even ‘with a bit of luck, a and b will be of the same order of magnitude’.
ref: 1996, T[homas] W[illiam] Körner, “Biology in a Darkened Room”, in The Pleasures of Counting, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, published 2002, →ISBN, part II (Meditations on Measurement), pages 112–113:
text: Misapplying a basic feature of diffusion theory, [Werner] Heisenberg arrived at an impossibly high figure for a critical mass of pure U235. This was done by means of a seductively simple "back of an envelope" calculation in 1940, […]
ref: 1998, Paul Lawrence Rose, “The Bomb as Reactor: The U235 Bomb Misconceived, 1940”, in Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: A Study in German Culture, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Now, those Treasury mandarins unfamiliar with the railway might assume on the back of an envelope that if only 80% of trains are running, then that will cost 20% less. If only it were that simple.
ref: [2021 March 24, Christian Wolmar, “Railways Must Sell Themselves and Offer a Better Product”, in The Railway Magazine, number 927, Sutton, London: IPC Transport Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Alternative form of back-of-the-envelope.
uniformly continuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A uniformly continuous function is a function whose derivative is bounded.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: That for every real ε > 0 there exists a real δ > 0 such that for all pairs of points x and y in X for which D_X(x,y)<δ, it must be the case that D_Y(f(x),f(y))<ϵ (where D_X and D_Y are the metrics of X and Y, respectively).
raw_tags: of a function from a metric space X to a metric space Y
Related terms: uniform continuity
quadrangularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quadrangular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quadrangular shape or manner.
nonlaparoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + laparoscopic.
Senses: glosses: Not laparoscopic.
antibias
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antibias
form: most antibias
Etymology: From anti- + bias.
Senses: examples: text: Proud Boys have also taken great pains to phrase their bigotry politely. They not only avoid explicitly racist terms but have an antibias statement.
ref: 2021 November 11, Tom Mockaitis, “‘Legacy American’ is the latest catchphrase in the racist lexicon”, in The Hill:
glosses: Opposing or countering bias.
Synonyms: impartiality
impartialness
disinterested § Synonyms
scratchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scratchable
form: most scratchable
Etymology: From scratch + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Diamonds are not scratchable, being one of the hardest substances known.
text: Scratchable media such as compact discs are easily damaged.
glosses: Capable of being scratched.
Derived terms: scratchability
tocleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tocleaves
form: tocleaving
form: toclove
form: tocleft
form: tocleaved
form: tocloven
form: tocleft
form: tocleaved
Etymology: From Middle English tocleven, from Old English tōclēofan (“to split apart, cleave asunder”), from Proto-Germanic *tōkliubaną (“to split apart”), equivalent to to- + cleave (“to split”). Cognate with Old High German zechluiban (“to split apart, cleave asunder”).
Senses: glosses: To divide; split open; cleave asunder.
glosses: To split apart; break.
todash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: todashes
form: todashing
form: todashed
form: todashed
Etymology: From Middle English todasshen, todaisshen, equivalent to to- + dash.
Senses: glosses: To strike violently; dash to pieces.
todraw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: todraws
form: todrawing
form: todrew
form: todrawn
Etymology: From Middle English todrawen, todraȝen, from Old English *tōdragan (“to pull apart”), equivalent to to- + draw.
Senses: glosses: To pull apart, dismember; draw asunder.
glosses: To drag violently.
todrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: todrives
form: todriving
form: todrove
form: todriven
Etymology: From Middle English todriven, from Old English tōdrīfan (“to drive away, repel”), from Proto-Germanic *tōdrībaną (“to drive apart”), equivalent to to- + drive. Cognate with Old Frisian todrīva, Middle High German zetrīben (“to drive asunder”).
Senses: examples: text: Swift was the flight todriven; The Hord lord singed houses.
ref: 1895, Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris, The Saga Library:
glosses: To scatter.
tofrush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tofrushes
form: tofrushing
form: tofrushed
form: tofrushed
Etymology: From Middle English tofrusshen, tofruschen, equivalent to to- + frush.
Senses: glosses: To break or dash to pieces.
togrind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: togrinds
form: togrinding
form: toground
form: toground
Etymology: From Middle English togrinden, equivalent to to- + grind.
Senses: glosses: To grind or break to pieces; crush.
to-heap
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more to-heap
form: most to-heap
Etymology: From Middle English tohepe, equivalent to to- + heap. Compare Old Frisian tohape, tehape, tohope, Danish tilhobe, Swedish tillhopa.
Senses: glosses: Together.