cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tomophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tomo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Tomophobia is the fear of surgical procedures or medical intervention.
ref: 2020 May 15, “What is tomophobia?”, in Tomophobia: When the Fear of Surgery and Other Medical Procedures Becomes a Phobia:
text: If you have tomophobia, it might be hard to get to the doctor at all; it’s the fear of surgical procedures and medical interventions.
ref: 2020 December 29, “Tomophobia: fear of medical procedures”, in Five common medical phobias:
text: Tomophobia refers to fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.
ref: 2009 November 18, “Introduction”, in Tomophobia, the phobic fear caused by an invasive medical procedure - an emerging anxiety disorder: a case report:
text: Tomophobia is the fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.
ref: 2021 February 16, Tomophobia - the fear that isn’t:
text: “Uncle, tomophobia is in your mind. Doctor is your friend. Trust them and let them give you anesthesia and after that you won't even feel a thing. And then Karan bhaiya will be present there too. How many people can boast of having a relative with them in the operation theater? You will be perfectly fine,” Rishabh said, like 50th time in the last hour that he was sitting in Raizada Mansion, but boy’s energy level refused to go down.
ref: 2015 March 22, Anamika G. K., Making Khushi Mine, volume 2, Indic Publication, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 236, →ISBN:
text: He wasn't keen on spiders and snakes, but his major one, the one that had always haunted and taunted him is referred to medically as tomophobia; the fear of surgical operations.
ref: 2015 February 11, Michael Foxx, Spiteful Jack 2: Vengeance, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:
text: Don't you mean tomophobia? I mean, why use magic when there's a perfectly good scalpel at hand? :)
ref: 2003, Spuddie, “You read it first here”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet):
glosses: An unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.
emperor penguin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emperor penguins
Etymology: By analogy with the king penguin, which was believed to be the largest.
Senses: glosses: The largest of penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri), that inhabits Antarctica.
Related terms: Aptenodytes forsteri
Ruy Lopez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for Ruy López de Segura, a Spanish priest who wrote a book about chess openings in 1561.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A common chess opening, an Open Game characterized by the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, in which White moves king's bishop to the fifth rank.
wikipedia: Ruy López de Segura
Synonyms: Spanish Game
Spanish Opening
Spanish Torture
Maxwell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækswɛl/
homophone: maxwell
Etymology: From an earlier form Mackeswell, meaning "Mack's well or spring", from Old English welle (“well”).
Senses: examples: text: A woman who testified Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell said she met the close confidante of Jeffrey Epstein and the billionaire businessman when she was 14 and eating ice cream with friends at a camp where he was a benefactor.
ref: 2021 November 30, Parija Kavilanz, “Woman testifies Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein started sexually abusing her when she was 14”, in CNN:
glosses: A Scottish habitational surname from Mackeswell near Melrose.
glosses: Any of various widely known persons so named, such as James Clerk Maxwell.
examples: text: A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.”
ref: 2025 February 7, Alex Baumhardt, “Oregon Rep. Bonamici among electeds inexplicably locked out of U.S. Education Department”, in Oregon Capital Chronicle:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Colusa County, California.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sangamon County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Center Township, Hancock County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Story County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Lincoln County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Colfax County, New Mexico.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas.
glosses: A hamlet in Grey Highlands municipality, Grey County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: maxwell
Maxwell time
Maxwellian
Maxwellisation
Maxwellization
Related terms: Max
Aberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An American surname from Swedish derived from the Scandinavian Åberg or Aaberg.
folkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folkies
Etymology: From folk + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: When I say "political" I don't just mean lesbian or gay. I'm a folkie deep at heart and regularly attend concerts of Si Kahn, Fred Small, Bright Morning Star, Marcia Taylor, Debra Silverstein, Solid Ground, and many other groups and individuals from the political folk tradition.
ref: 1983 December 17, Nancy Wechsler, “Is There Room For Criticism”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 5:
text: He had come to Carnegie Hall not to imitate him but to channel him with the self he happened to be at that moment, not at all the green folkie who had set the world ablaze just a few years earlier.
ref: 2011, David Yaffe, Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, page 16:
glosses: A folk singer, or an enthusiast of folk music.
folkie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: folkier
form: folkiest
Etymology: From folk + -ie.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to folk music
sesterce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛstɜːs/
Forms: form: sesterces
Etymology: From Latin sēstertius (“two-and-a-half (asses)”).
Senses: examples: text: Among the people (of Rome) beſide x. modij of corne, & as many pints of oyle, he diſtributed & dealt 300 Seſterces alſo by the poll, vvhich hee had in times paſt promiſed, vvith an overdeale of 100. a peece to boote, for time.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Caius Iulius Cesar Dictator”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 38, page 16:
text: Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces […]
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 3, member 3:
text: At every pause in the music she gracefully waved her flower-basket round, inviting the loiterers to buy; and many a sesterce was showered into the basket, either in compliment to the music or in compassion to the songstress—for she was blind.
ref: 1834, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter II, in The Last Days of Pompeii. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […]; successor to Henry Colburn, →OCLC:
text: For him I must convert one of my sheep or goats to sesterces and slaughter another for his entertainment.
ref: 1985 September 1, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson & Co., →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A sestertius.
Synonyms: sestertius
DVD burner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DVD burners
Senses: glosses: A device that permanently records (burns) information onto a DVD.
Synonyms: DVD-R machine
doek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doeke
form: doeks
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans doek (“cloth”), from Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *duok, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz. Doublet of duck.
Senses: glosses: A cloth.
examples: text: He said: “What have you got that filthy doek on your head for?”
ref: 1965, Doris Lessing, Landlocked, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 227:
text: 1982, Can Themba, The Will to Die,
"Mama, how about a doek for Janet?"
The doek! God save our gracious doek! A doek is a colourful piece of cloth that the African woman wears as headgear. It is tied stylistically into various shapes from Accra to Cape Town. I do not know the history of this innocuous piece of cloth. In Afrikans, the language of those of our white masters who are of Dutch and Huguenot descent, doek meant, variously, a tablecloth, a dirty rag, or a symbol of the slave. Perhaps it was later used by African women in contact with European ideas of beauty who realised that 'they had no hair' and subconsciously hid their heads under the doek. Whatever else, the doek had come to designate the African woman. So that evening when I said, 'Mama, how about a doek for Janet', I was proposing to transform her, despite her colour and her deep blue eyes, into an African woman for the while.
hypernyms: headwrap
glosses: A kopdoek: a kerchief or bandanna worn as a head covering.
coffeeshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffeeshops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coffee shop.
genever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genevers
Senses: examples: text: Its current lineup includes a full-bodied Eastern European-style rye vodka; a rounded, aromatic gin loosely inspired by Dutch genever; and an aquavit.
ref: 2007 February 28, Rob Willey, “Craft Brewers Turn to Whiskey Chasers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jenever.
give some skin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives some skin
form: giving some skin
form: gave some skin
form: given some skin
Senses: examples: text: Long time, bro. Give me some skin.
glosses: To greet or congratulate someone by slapping their palm.
Related terms: give the skins
slap me five
jenever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jenevers
form: genever
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch jenever (“jenever”), from Old French genevre, from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”).
Senses: glosses: A Dutch and Flemish alcoholic spirit, flavoured with juniper, rather like gin.
Synonyms: Dutch gin
infusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfjuːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: infusions
Etymology: From Middle English infusioun, from Old French infusion, from Latin infusio, infusionem (“a pouring into, a wetting, a dyeing, a flow”), from infundo.
Senses: examples: text: An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion.
glosses: A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
glosses: The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
glosses: The act of installing a quality into a person.
examples: text: He made a number of other changes at the Transit Police, including revamping audio equipment, moving the force to nine-millimeter semiautomatic weapons, and designing new uniforms. These changes were all part of a $40 million infusion into the Transit Police in 1990 from Governor Mario Cuomo.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
text: [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A giving of money or other resources, typically a large amount, to an organization.
glosses: The act of dipping into a fluid.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The administration of liquid substances directly into a vein for medical purposes; perfusion.
Derived terms: amnioinfusion
autoinfusion
chemoinfusion
chronoinfusion
coinfusion
infusional
infusionism
infusionist
microinfusion
overinfusion
postinfusion
preinfusion
propofol infusion syndrome
radioinfusion
reinfusion
superinfusion
Related terms: infuse
recognised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more recognised
form: most recognised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of recognized.
recognised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recognise
atomiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomisers
Etymology: From atomise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of atomizer.
Related terms: atomise
space cadet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: space cadets
Etymology: From the title of the 1948 science fiction novel Space Cadet, by Robert A. Heinlein.
Senses: glosses: A person in training to be a (generally military) astronaut.
synonyms: space case
glosses: One who deals with reality in a way consistent with being under the influence of (or "spaced out on") drugs.
glosses: One who forgets, daydreams, or otherwise is distracted from reality more often than most.
Derived terms: space-cadet keyboard
codified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of codify
codified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more codified
form: most codified
Senses: examples: text: highly codified
antonyms: uncodified
non-codified
noncodified
glosses: organized; Put in a systematic arrangement.
examples: text: A codified law is also necessary in this regard.
ref: 1999, Lily Y. Kiminami, A Basic Analysis of the Poverty Problem in China, page 248:
glosses: Officially enacted by a governing body.
unpasteurized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unpasteurised
Etymology: From the French scientist Louis Pasteur; un- + pasteurized.
Senses: glosses: Not pasteurized.
unpasteurised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the French scientist Louis Pasteur; un- + pasteurised.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unpasteurized.
above the law
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The emperor is above the law.
text: You may think you're above the law, but you're not.
text: 'The law,' she laughed with scorn - 'the law! Canst thou not understand, oh Holly, that I am above the law, and so shall my Kallikrates be also? All human law will be to us as the north wind to a mountain.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: If we hesitate to call those actions and their perpetrator criminal, then we are saying he is above the law and giving license to future presidents to do whatever they want.
ref: 2022 August 26, “Donald Trump Is Not Above the Law”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: below the law
glosses: Exempt from the laws that apply to everyone else.
Related terms: law unto oneself
scarper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɑːpə/
ipa: /ˈskɑɹpəɹ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scarpers
Etymology: The verb is probably borrowed from Italian scappare (“to run away, escape, flee”), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape”), from Latin ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + cappa (“(Late Latin) cape, cloak (usually with a hood); (Medieval Latin) cap; headwear”) (further etymology uncertain, probably ultimately from caput (“head”), from dialectal Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”)) + -āre (the present active infinitive of -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)). Around World War I (1914–1918), the English word was influenced by the Cockney rhyming slang term Scapa Flow (“to go”). Doublet of escape and scape.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Senses: examples: text: As a matter of fact we were all pritty flabergasted, for although we had all planned to do a scarper none of us realy thought we would have the guts to do it.
ref: 1958, Frank Norman, “Part Two: Chelmsford”, in Bang to Rights: An Account of Prison Life, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 63:
glosses: Chiefly in do a scarper: an act of departing quickly or running away; an escape, a flight.
splendour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɛndɚ/
ipa: /ˈsplɛndə/
rhymes: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: splendours
Senses: examples: text: If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
ref: 1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
glosses: British, Canadian, Ireland, South Africa, Australian, and New Zealand standard spelling of splendor.
coffee shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee shops
form: coffeeshop
Etymology: From coffee + shop.
Senses: examples: text: He went to the nearby coffee shop with his friends.
text: "From behind the counter of this provincial train station coffee shop, Joanna was barista and unofficial shrink to wildly varied London-bound travellers," writes author Laline Paull. Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1 was published on February 9 by The Firle Press [...].
ref: 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:
text: Over time, the concern is that the cafe’s role as the heart of Parisian society will become obsolete, Mr. Fontaine said, as the younger generation turns to the coffee shop.
ref: 2025 January 21, Vivian Song, “Specialty Coffee Shops and Parisian Cafes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: café
coffeehouse
diner
glosses: A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
glosses: A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
glosses: Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
synonyms: word: kopitiam
extra: traditional eatery
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.
Derived terms: coffice
Related terms: coffee bar
coffee house
teashop
pub
budgie smuggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budgie smugglers
Senses: glosses: A small bag attached to the belt or with an integral strap; a bum bag.
Related terms: budgie smugglers
budgie smugglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A jocular reference to a man's tight-fitting swimming costume or swimsuit appearing as if he has a budgerigar concealed inside it, i.e. his bulging genitals.
Senses: examples: text: Roughly, the rule goes: if you have just swum, are planning to swim soon or are reasonably proximate to a place where others are swimming, then your budgie smugglers are perfectly acceptable.
ref: 2006 July 9, Annabel Crabb, “UK learns rules of Texas hold 'em”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: "Mr Baillieu has popped out of the water in his budgie-smugglers, but he doesn't reckon that climate change is a problem," Garrett scoffed. "I mean, give me a break."
ref: 2006 November 23, Stuart Rintoul, “Bracks's walk was on the wild side”, in The Australian:
text: “If you think that men in budgie smugglers don’t look good, well all the blokes in this race still have it and they looked great,” she joked.
ref: 2012 January 11, Amy Findlay, “Awesome Ironman!”, in Milton Ulladulla Times:
text: A MAN has been fined and banned from recreational fishing in Victoria after confusing his budgie smugglers for abalone smugglers.
ref: 2012 January 12, Kate Starke, “Smuggler hid illegal abalone in underpants”, in Herald Sun:
text: Next, on with his favourite budgie smugglers. His sequined posing pouch. No winky shrinkage for him.
ref: 2023 April 21, John Crace, “Psycho goes down raging: the liberal wokerati finally get to Raab”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
related: word: budgie-smugglers
synonyms: word: banana hammock
word: bikini
word: budgie smugglers
word: cock jocks
word: competition briefs
word: dick pointers
word: dick togs
word: nut huggers
word: posing briefs
word: sluggos
word: racer bathers
word: racing briefs
word: Speedo
word: speedo
word: Speedos
word: speedos
word: swim briefs
word: swimming briefs
word: thong
glosses: A style of tightfitting men's swimming costume cut like underwear briefs that covers the buttocks and groin but not the legs and reveals the bulge of the genitals; especially worn in surf lifesaving and in swimming races.
budgie smugglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A jocular reference to a man's tight-fitting swimming costume or swimsuit appearing as if he has a budgerigar concealed inside it, i.e. his bulging genitals.
Senses: glosses: plural of budgie smuggler (“small bag attached to the belt”)
magnetic polarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic polarities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the state of being a north pole or south pole; the magnetic equivalent of electric charge
Related terms: magnetic monopole
magnetic monopole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetic monopoles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical particle having an isolated north or south pole; the magnetic equivalent of an isolated electric charge.
monopole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopoles
Etymology: From the Middle French monopole or its etymon the Late Latin monopōlium (“a monopoly”).
Senses: glosses: An appellation owned by a single winery.
Derived terms: antimonopole
bimonopole
hypermonopole
monopole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monopoles
Etymology: From mono- + pole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A magnetic monopole.
glosses: A monopole antenna.
glosses: An electrical power transmission line having one direct-current conductor and a ground (earth) connection.
object lesson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: object lessons
Senses: glosses: A lesson taught (especially to young children) using a familiar or unusual object as a focus.
examples: text: Vertebrates are limited to two eyes each, but the variations they have played on this plain vanilla starting point are an object lesson in how much can be made from a little.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 107:
glosses: An example from real life that explains a principle or teaches a lesson.
examples: text: Let that be an object lesson to him.
text: Of the announcement, Osborne said: "They have spent a hundred billion pounds of public money and they've got a massive raspberry from everyone as far as I can see. As a PR exercise, it's been an object lesson in how not to make a government announcement."
ref: 2021 December 1, “Network News: Integrated Rail Plan: Osborne predicts HS2 eastern leg will return”, in RAIL, number 945, page 8:
text: Yet China, like Russia, is now giving us an object lesson in the usefulness of having an open society, where strongmen don’t get to invent their own reality.
ref: 2022 March 17, Paul Krugman, “Another Dictator Is Having a Bad Year”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The U.K. is now an object lesson for other countries dealing with a dark triad of deindustrialization, degrowth, and denigration of foreigners.
ref: 2022 October 25, Derek Thompson, “How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe”, in The Atlantic:
text: Thames Water has become the latest object lesson in the predictable and predicted folly of privatised monopolies, aided by a regulator that’s an even bigger wet wipe than the fatbergs bunging up the sewers.
ref: 2023 June 30, Marina Hyde, “The tide is coming in fast on Rishi Sunak – and it’s full of sewage”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Anything used as an example or lesson which serves to warn others as to the outcomes that result from a particular action or behavior, as exemplified by the fates of those who followed that course.
Related terms: life lesson
realtor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹi(ə)l.təɹ/
ipa: /ˈɹi(ə)l.tɔɹ/
other: /ˈɹil.ə.təɹ/
Forms: form: realtors
Etymology: From real (in real estate) and -or. Coined by Charles N. Chadbourn in 1916, on the model of Latin agent nouns ending in -tor (such as actor, creator), to refer to real-estate professionals who are members of the National Association of Realtors, a trade association in the United States. Equivalent to realt(y) + -or.
Senses: examples: text: It was composed of an engineer, if I remember correctly, a town planner, a realtor, and occasionally an architect […]
ref: 1919, Mr. Shannon, U.S. Housing Corporation. Hearings Before a Subcommittee, United States Senate:
text: First place, we ought to insist that folks call us ‘realtors’ and not ‘real-estate men.’ Sounds more like a reg’lar profession.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: Intrigued by the prospect of an additional commission, the realtor hurriedly assured me he foresaw no problem in obtaining the lease.
ref: 1975, Jerzy Kosiński, Cockpit, Grove Press, published 1998, page 189:
text: The terms agent, broker, and realtor are often used interchangeably.
ref: 1997, Douglas A. Gray, Canadian home buying made easy, second edition, page 72:
text: The realtor was like a carnivore, ready to spring. He was originally from New York and he seemed like the kind of guy who could smell a deal.
ref: 2003, Gary Andrew Dresden, Confessions of a Gynecologist, iUniverse, page 111:
glosses: A person or business that sells or leases out real estate, acting as an agent for the property owner.
wikipedia: National Association of Realtors
Synonyms: word: estate agent
word: real estate agent
dogballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + balls, since a figure eight on its side resembles a male dog's genitalia.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: snowman
glosses: A score of eight on any one hole, generally regarded as a very poor score, because the maximum number (par) for any golf hole is five.
cream cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cream cheeses
form: creamcheese
Etymology: Named after the cream the cheese was made from.
Senses: examples: text: Would you like some cream cheese in your sandwich?
text: This is one of the best cream cheeses I have ever tasted!
glosses: A soft, mild-tasting, white cheese that comes from cow’s milk.
Derived terms: cream-cheesy
adipose tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adipose tissues
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Connective tissue which stores fat, and which cushions and insulates the body.
Derived terms: brown adipose tissue
white adipose tissue
Related terms: adipocyte
blubber
bodyfat
haps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hap
haps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hap
limerence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪməɹəns/
Forms: form: limerences
form: limerance
Etymology: From arbitrary first element + -ence. Coined by American psychologist Dorothy Tennov in 1977 as an arbitrary euphonious replacement or alteration of amorance.
Senses: examples: text: I first used the term ‘amorance’ then changed it back to ‘limerence’ […]. It has no roots whatsoever. It looks nice. It works well in French. Take it from me it has no etymology whatsoever.
ref: 1977 September 11, Dorothy Tennov, The Observer:
text: When someone is under the spell of limerence, not even being rejected dampens down the madness.
ref: 2003 December 14, Andrew G Marshall, The Observer:
text: But limerence, lovely as it feels, is a time-limited event—it lasts about five years for most couples.
ref: 2010, Alyson Schafer, Breaking the Good mom Myth:
text: Limerence is a state of overwhelming and unexpected longing for emotional reciprocation from another human, known as a limerent object (LO), who is often perceived as perfect but unavailable.
ref: 2024 January 27, Amanda McCracken, The New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated.
Synonyms: infatuation
Related terms: limerent
nonlimerent
crush
catacombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catacomb
according to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: According to the directions, the glue takes 24 hours to dry.
text: According to Captain Smith, we are not to spend more than 20 minutes on this task.
text: According to him, every person was to be bought.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter II, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Certain parts of a species of strombus, found in the Black Sea, were used among Somali women as an aphrodisiac, according to Dr. Jacobus X.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 229:
text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
synonyms: as per
per#Preposition
following#Preposition
coordinate_terms: on the basis of
glosses: Based on what is said or stated by; on the authority of; by the order of.
examples: text: Near-synonym: on the basis of
text: You might expect him to balk, according to his temperament.
text: Our zeal should be according to knowledge.
ref: 1695, Thomas Sprat, A Discourse Made by Ld Bishop of Rochester To the Clergy of his Diocese:
text: there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
text: Over the past 20 years, the station complex - including the main platform buildings, signal box and level crossing gates - has been lovingly restored, with the gates replaced according to original plans.
ref: 2022 December 14, Robin Leleux, “A royal occasion as heritage projects honoured: Wolferton”, in RAIL, number 972, page 61:
synonyms: as per
per#Preposition
following#Preposition
glosses: In a manner conforming or corresponding to; in proportion to; in accordance with.
examples: text: They might come or not, according to their whim.
text: The young’s chances of getting a job vary according to whether they live in the Northern or the Southern Europe..
glosses: Depending on.
Derived terms: according to Cocker
according to Gunter
according to Hoyle
according to one's lights
according to one's understanding
according to plan
cut one's coat according to one's cloth
in toto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin in tōtō (“in all”).
Senses: examples: text: Reverting to Mr. Thompson's letter, I am afraid I differ from him in toto.
ref: 1943 May and June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:
text: Republican Governor Robert Ray has personally been urging the legislature to pass the bill with all aspects in toto, and has promised to sign it.
ref: 1976 April 17, “Iowa Law Reform”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
synonyms: altogether
completely
on the whole
totally
glosses: In total.
Indic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo.
Senses: examples: ref: 1986, Margie J. Cunningham O'Bryan, The History and Development of the Verbal System of Early Middle Indic:
text: Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.
ref: 1983, Philip Baldi, An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Similar transfers in Indic are fewer in number owing to the early loss of the aor.: for example, the pres. cayate 'notices' (aoristic root ci-, PIE *kʷey) is in origin the subj. of root aorist ácet, and displaces the earlier redup. Pres cikéṣi (AV), imperf. áciket (RV).
ref: 2008 November 13, Andrew L Sihler, New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: Indo-Aryan
glosses: A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
Indic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indic
form: most Indic
Etymology: From Latin indicus from Ancient Greek ἰνδικός (indikós), from Ἰνδία (Indía). Doublet of indigo.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
glosses: Relating to the Brahmic scripts.
examples: text: Clearly, men like ʿAin al-Mulk and Aravit Rama Raja could not have migrated successfully between the predominantly Islamicate world of Bijapur and Golconda and the more Indic world of Vijayanagara had they not been proficient in Telugu or Kannada as well as in Dakhni or Persian.
ref: 2003, Sushil Mittal, Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Quite different in style from the red stone torso, it also shows links to later Indic art (Fig. 2.5). Found at Mohenjo-Daro in one of the later strata, this small image is probably of a date late in the history of the site.
ref: 2014 January 1, Susan L. Huntington, John C. Huntington, The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Motilal Banarsidass, →ISBN, page 16:
text: Indic philosophy, on the other hand, divides people into three groups, as it has two separate definitions for Dharma and religion.
ref: 2022 February 19, Deepak Jena, Decoding India, FanatiXx Publication, page 138:
glosses: Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian.
Derived terms: Indic script
tenets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism; at least it's an ethos.
ref: 1998, Joel and Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski (motion picture), spoken by Walter Sobchak (John Goodman):
glosses: plural of tenet
wheel of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheels of life
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A mandala, representing the continuous cycle of birth, life and death.
Synonyms: dharmachakra
Related terms: chakra
shadoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈduːf/
enpr: shə-do͞of􂀽'
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: shadoofs
form: shadouf
form: shaduf
Etymology: From Egyptian Arabic شادوف (šadūf).
Senses: examples: text: The shadoof can be traced back 5,400 years, or to about 3500 B. C., and the indications are that it was considered an ancient device even at that remote time. It is much like the old-fashioned well sweep, consisting of a pivoted pole, supported on two uprights, at one end of which is suspended a rope or pole with a bucket at the lower end.
ref: 1914 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 22, number 2, page 172:
synonyms: dhenkli
picota
counterpoise-lift
swape
glosses: An ancient device used to gather water, consisting of a pivoted stick with a bucket on the end of it.
wikipedia: Kom Ombo
shaduf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadufs
Senses: examples: text: Were there a thousand – or was it five thousand slaves? – cranking the long poles of these shadufs to raise our water?
ref: 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
glosses: Alternative spelling of shadoof.
seaside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːˈsaɪd/
Forms: form: seasides
Etymology: From Middle English see-syde, sey-syde, see syde, se side, equivalent to sea + side.
Senses: examples: text: This summer, I'm going to the seaside at Weymouth - I'm very excited about it!
text: I do like to be beside the seaside!
Oh, I do like to be beside the sea!
I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom,
While the brass bands play Tiddely-om-pom-pom!
ref: 1907, John A. Glover-Kind, “I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside”:
text: James never cared much for the sea-side, but developed a passionate love for the Westmoreland mountains, getting to know most of them as an energetic fell walker, preferring this to rock climbing.
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 128:
text: The arrival of the railway turned this isolated fishing village into a popular seaside destination for Victorians who came to breathe fresh sea air, clear their lungs or take the waters.
ref: 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Grange-over-Sands”, in RAIL, number 948, page 27:
glosses: The area by and around the sea; including the beach, promenade or cliffs
Derived terms: bushy seaside tansy
seaside fescue
seaside grape
seaside oxeye
seaside plantain
seaside plum
seaside resort
seaside rock
seaside sparrow
seaside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsiːˈsaɪd/
Etymology: From Middle English see-syde, sey-syde, see syde, se side, equivalent to sea + side.
Senses: glosses: Related to a seaside.
Pavo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by Dutch explorers Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman between 1595 and 1597. From Latin pāvō (“peacock”). Doublet of pea.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a peacock. It lies between the constellations Telescopium and Octans.
wikipedia: Frederick de Houtman
Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser
Related terms: Pavonis
Indies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪndiz/
Forms: form: the Indies
Etymology: From Latin India.
Senses: examples: text: There followed a remarkable period of maritime expansion by the Portuguese, who by the end of the century would establish a sea route to the Indies, rounding Africa and crossing the Indian Ocean to reach the subcontinent itself and the Spice Islands that lay beyond.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: The East Indies, including India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and adjacent lands.
glosses: The West Indies, including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and other islands of the Caribbean.
examples: text: the Spanish Indies
glosses: The Western Hemisphere, during the early period of European colonization and exploration.
Derived terms: East Indies
West Indies
Indian
Related terms: Dutch East Indies
zils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zil
Markab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Arabic مَرْكَب الفَرَس (markab al-faras, “the saddle of the horse”), from مَرْكَب (markab).
Senses: examples: text: [Markab (the south-westernmost star in the square) is one of the stars from which the moon's distance is calculated in the Nautical Almanac, for the purpose of finding the longitude by lunar observations.]
ref: 1821, Thomas Kerigan, The Young Navigator's Guide to the Sidereal and Planetary Parts of Nautical Astronomy: Being the Theory and Practice of Finding the Latitude, the Longitude, and the Variation of the Compass by the Fixed Stars and Planets. […], London: Baldwin, Cradock & Joy, page 67:
text: [Markab—Flamsteed's Marchab—is the Arabs' word for a Saddle, Ship, or Vehicle,—anything ridden upon,—that was early applied to this star; but they also designated it as Matn al Faras, the Horse's Withers or Shoulder, and Bayer cited Yed Alpheras, the Horse's Hand, or, more properly, Forearm,—the Arabian Yad.]
ref: 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 324:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
related: word: Marchab
word: Markeb
synonyms: mul:α
mul:Pegasi
mul:α Peg
Alpha Pegasi
Mankib
holonyms: Pegasus
glosses: A subgiant, visible as a second-magnitude bluish star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus, one of the lunar stars observed in navigation.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
related: word: Markeb
glosses: A star in the constellation Puppis; Kappa (κ) Puppis.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
related: word: Markeb
glosses: A star in the constellation Vela; Kappa (κ) Velorum.
aerial railway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerial railways
Senses: glosses: A system involving an enclosed carriage suspended on a series of wires, usually attached to a steep mountain slope, used for personal transportation over normally untraversable territory.
aerial ropeway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerial ropeways
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of overhead cables suspended from towers and supporting travelling buckets used for transporting ore, rock, materials and or people, usually over rough terrain.
agelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more agelastic
form: most agelastic
Etymology: From a- + gelastic.
Senses: antonyms: word: jokeproof
word: laughless
word: amused
word: funny
word: abderian
word: hypergelastic
glosses: Not jovial; never laughing.
Related terms: agelast
gelastic
alexithymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌlɛk.sɪˈθaɪ.mi.ə/
ipa: /eɪˌlɛk.səˈθaɪ.mi.ə/
Etymology: From a- + lexi + -thymia.
Created by psychiatrists John Case Nemiah and Peter Sifneos from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + λέξις (léxis, “speaking”) + θυμός (thumós, “heart”), meaning “without words for emotions”.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, schizophrenic disorders involve impairments of perceptions, including hallucinations and delusions, symptoms that often impair patients’ social and occupational functioning and can create alexithymia (Maggini and Raballo 2004; van ‛t Wout et al. 2007), an inability to recognize one’s own feelings.
ref: 2008, Amy Kroska and Sarah K. Harkness, “Exploring the Role of Diagnosis in the Modified Labeling Theory of Mental Illness” in Social Psychology Quarterly LXXI, № 2 (Wrestling with Social Psychology, June 2008), page 195
glosses: A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
wikipedia: John Case Nemiah
Derived terms: alexithymic
alloplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Forms: form: alloplastics
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Any artificial material substituted for tissue grafts.
alloplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɪk
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Related to an alloplast or to alloplasty.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: autoplastic
glosses: Involving a subject changing the environment or situation rather than oneself.
Derived terms: alloplastically
all-overish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more all-overish
form: most all-overish
Etymology: From all over + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was uncommonly old and uncommonly ugly, and he had a pair of the most extraordinary eyes I ever saw, — they gave me a sort of all-overish feeling when I saw them glaring at me through the pigeon hole.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: The drink was beginning to tell on them; she felt quite unsteady and all-overish.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 694:
glosses: Vaguely uncomfortable; having a general feeling of illness or malaise.
Derived terms: all-overishness
Related terms: all-overs
telecommuter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecommuters
Etymology: From tele- + commuter.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Someone who telecommutes, using a computer connected to an employer's network or via the Internet.
Related terms: telecommute
telecommuting
telecommute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telecommutes
form: telecommuting
form: telecommuted
form: telecommuted
Etymology: From tele- + commute.
Senses: glosses: To work from home, sometimes for part of a working day or week, using a computer connected to one's employer's network or via the Internet.
Synonyms: telework
Derived terms: telecommuter
telecommuting
telecommute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + commute.
Senses: examples: text: a telecommute position; a telecommute program
glosses: Telecommuting.
vending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vend
Derived terms: vending machine
organizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːɡənaɪˈzeɪʃənz/
ipa: /ˌɔɹɡənɪˈzeɪʃənz/
Forms: form: organisations
Senses: glosses: plural of organization
armoury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑɹməɹi/
ipa: /ˈɑːməɹi/
Forms: form: armouries
form: armory
Etymology: From Middle English armerie, armurie, armorye, from Anglo-Norman armurrie, from armure (“arms, armor”) + -ie (“-y”). By surface analysis, armour + -y.
Senses: glosses: A place where arms are kept, an arsenal.
glosses: A collection of weapons and materiel.
glosses: A place where arms are made.
examples: text: (1.) *Armorist. n. s. [from armour.] A person skilled in heraldry. Dict. (2.) Armorist, signifies also a person skilled in armory.
ref: 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, page 530:
text: He replied that he intended to pass through there to his own land, since he could not go by sea {because of the Turks}, and the ambassador was going in order, if he could find a way, to bring back some craftsmen skilled in armoury and[…]
ref: 2020 April 28, Isabel Boavida, Hervé Pennec, Manuel João Ramos, Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia, 1622 / Volume II, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:
glosses: The manufacture of armour and arms; arming, armouring.
glosses: Heraldry.
Related terms: armourer
armory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armories
Senses: glosses: American standard spelling of armoury.
Related terms: armorer
armorial
Pictor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.
Derived terms: Pictoris
Related terms: Kapteyn's Star
yawned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yawn
Piscis Austrinus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Piscis Australis
Etymology: From Latin piscis austrīnus (“southern fish”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An autumn constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a fish. It contains the star Fomalhaut.
Derived terms: Piscis Austrini
Related terms: Fomalhaut
Pisces
Piscis Australis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Piscis Austrinus
Etymology: From Latin piscis australis (“southern fish”).
Senses: glosses: The constellation Piscis Austrinus.
FIGJAM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Acronym of fuck I'm good, just ask me.
ABH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of actual bodily harm.
Puppis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin puppis (“stern of a ship”). Doublet of poop.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble the stern of a ship. Until 1763, it was part of a larger constellation, Argo Navis.
Related terms: poop deck
Argo
Argo Navis
Carina
Pyxis
Vela