cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
centenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɛnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛntəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /sɛnˈtiːn(ə)ri/
ipa: /sənˈtiːn(ə)ri/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɛn(ə)ri/
ipa: /sənˈtɛn(ə)ri/
Forms: form: centenaries
Etymology: From Latin centēnārius (“containing 100; local official overseeing a hundred”) either directly or via French centenaire, from centēnī (“100 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of centner, kantar, and quintal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of centurion: An officer commanding 100 men, especially (historical) in the Roman army.
synonyms: word: centurion
extra: An officer commanding 100 men, especially (historical) in the Roman army
glosses: Synonym of century: a period of 100 years.
synonyms: word: century
extra: a period of 100 years
examples: text: In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record.
ref: 1941 September, “Notes and News: The London & Blackwall Cable Railway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 424–425:
glosses: Synonym of centennial: a hundredth anniversary.
synonyms: word: centennial
extra: a hundredth anniversary
glosses: Synonym of hundredweight, especially (historical) in Greek and Roman contexts.
synonyms: word: hundredweight
extra: especially (historical) in Greek and Roman contexts
glosses: Synonym of centgrave: a position in the Frankish Empire overseeing local administration.
synonyms: word: centgrave
extra: a position in the Frankish Empire overseeing local administration
glosses: Synonym of hundredman: a position in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms overseeing local administration.
synonyms: word: hundredman
extra: a position in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms overseeing local administration
glosses: Synonym of hundred: a collection of 100 things.
synonyms: word: hundred
extra: a collection of 100 things
glosses: Synonym of centenarian: a person 100 or more years old.
synonyms: word: centenarian
extra: a person 100 or more years old
Derived terms: semicentenary
sesquicentenary
bicentenary
tricentenary
quadricentenary
quincentenary
sexcentenary
septicentenary
octocentenary
novocentenary
centenary
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɛnəɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɛntəˌnɛɹi/
ipa: /sɛnˈtiːn(ə)ri/
ipa: /sənˈtiːn(ə)ri/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɛn(ə)ri/
ipa: /sənˈtɛn(ə)ri/
Forms: form: centenaries
form: centenarying
form: centenaried
form: centenaried
Etymology: From Latin centēnārius (“containing 100; local official overseeing a hundred”) either directly or via French centenaire, from centēnī (“100 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from centum (“hundred”). Doublet of centner, kantar, and quintal.
Senses: glosses: To celebrate the centennial of.
Related terms: frequency
honest broker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honest brokers
Senses: glosses: A person or party that is considered to be neutral and thus suitable to serve as a mediator.
phantom limb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phantom limbs
Senses: examples: text: Weak or pulverized
No better medicine
Angels have been advised
Don't want no requiem
I'll just haunt you like a phantom limb
ref: 2013, “Phantom Limb”, performed by Alice in Chains:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The false sensation, which is often painful, that an amputated limb is still present and attached.
Synonyms: phantom pain
phantom sensations
pseudesthesia
Related terms: paresthesia
octopoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octopoids
Etymology: From octopus + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The scene lit up like a horror ride in an amusement park: Hundreds of yellow octopoids hung from the roof above him; a huge orange octopoid the size of a desk pulsated on the floor four meters in front of him; […]
ref: 1987, Thomas R. McDonough, The Architects of hyperspace, Avon Books, →ISBN:
text: He could not see the octopoid he had assigned to block the tunnel, but sensed it was performing its task nonetheless, out of sight beyond a curve in the ramp; after the bladefish had dispatched the guards, it had slid down the harbor wall and […]
ref: 1988, Mark E. Rogers, Nightmare of God, Ace Books, →ISBN:
text: A smaller native species that the settlers called a bobber was swimming into the octopoid's visual range. The globular, jellylike bobber was unaware of its danger. Tentacles lashed out, grasping at the prospective meal. The contest was even.
ref: 1989, Juanita Coulson, Legacy of earth, Del Rey, →ISBN:
text: The blue octopoid made no protest as Denise pried open the disk.
ref: 2013, Don Webb, The War with the Belatrin, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: An octopuslike creature.
ankylosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ankylose + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ankylose
ankylosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ankylosed
form: most ankylosed
Etymology: From ankylose + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Stiffened or inflexible.
raw_tags: of bones or joints
examples: text: The pipy arms, ending in bony claws were outthrust as if ankylosed in the posture of an eternal dreadful groping.
ref: August 1935, Clark Ashton Smith, Weird Tales, "The Treader of the Dust"
text: it was a strange spot, this forest of dark petrifacts, this grove of ankylosed trees.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 133:
glosses: Stiff, cramped, rigid.
Related terms: arthrodesis
arthrosis
nanny state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanny states
Etymology: Of British origin.
Senses: examples: text: Scapegoating an impotent government (running around to clean up the messes made by its business friends) arises from bad faith, from a continuing hostility to the Nanny State that nevertheless goes alongside a refusal to accept the consequences of the sidelining of government in global capitalism […]
ref: 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 8, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A state whose government institutions are authoritative and over-paternalistic, interfering with and controlling people's lives.
Derived terms: nanny stater
intentionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intentionalists
Etymology: From intentional + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of intentionalism.
small arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small arm
Senses: examples: text: The helicopter was attacked by small arms fire.
glosses: Firearms designed to be carried and fired by a single person, and often held in the hand.
anilingus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.nɪˈlɪŋ.ɡəs/
Forms: form: analingus
form: anilinctus
Etymology: Allegedly coined by sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing who had already used cunnilingus in such a sense of denoting the practice instead of its actor and spread by the tenth edition of Psychopathia sexualis of 1898 (English edition page 185, German edition page 124, referencing a description of his in Centralblatt für die Krankheiten der Harn- und Sexual-Organe Vol. VI of 1895 pages 355–357). However that usage of this word is just one incidental one and such an attribution may be transferred from the observation of other sexological terms having spread by Krafft-Ebing’s book. Likely independently coined at various occasions by analogy to more frequently known cunnilingus, that is a translingual blend of anus + cunnilingus.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cunnilingus
fellatio
glosses: Performance of oral sex upon the anus.
wikipedia: Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Synonyms: word: anilinction
word: anilinctus
word: anilingus
word: analingus
word: arse-licking
word: ass-licking
word: reaming
word: rimming
word: salad tossing
Hyponyms: word: eating ass
Derived terms: anilingual
anilinguist
anilinguistic
Related terms: word: oral sex
word: rusty trombone
word: rim job
word: tossed salad
word: sexual activity
intentionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intentional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The theory that the meaning of any text is determined by the intentions of its author, whether stated or not.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of act psychology.
synonyms: word: act psychology
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: functionalism
glosses: The theory that the Holocaust was the result of a preconceived plan and decision by Adolf Hitler.
Related terms: intentionalist
negative equity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative equities
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The amount by which the market value of a property falls below the amount of the mortgage secured upon it.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The situation in which a property is worth less than its mortgage.
effluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfluːənt/
ipa: /ˈɛfluənt/
Etymology: From French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis. By surface analysis, e- + fluent.
Senses: examples: text: But while the effluent beams of the sun, and their quickening power in the natural sphere, furnish a good illustration of my idea of the Holy Spirit, I may, perhaps, illustrate the idea still better by a reference to human thoughts and affections […]
ref: 1860, Benjamin Franklin Barrett, Letters on the Divine Trinity: Addressed to Henry Ward Beecher:
glosses: Flowing out; outflowing.
Derived terms: noneffluent
effluent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛfluːənt/
ipa: /ˈɛfluənt/
Forms: form: effluents
Etymology: From French effluent, from Latin effluens, effluentis. By surface analysis, e- + fluent.
Senses: examples: text: The landscape was dotted with reservoirs and many many effluent streams.
glosses: A stream that flows out, such as from a lake or reservoir; an outflow; effluence.
examples: text: Residents have little control over the industrial effluent that pollutes their rivers.
text: One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
ref: 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
synonyms: discharge#Noun
glosses: Sewage or waste water discharged into a natural body of water.
tetrahedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tetrahedric
Etymology: From tetra- + -hedral.
Senses: examples: text: Of the convex polyhedra with regular faces, the only ones that have tetrahedral, octahedral, or icosahedral symmetry are the Platonic and Archimedean solids.
ref: 1966, Norman W. Johnson, “Convex Polyhedra with Regular Faces”, in Canadian Journal of Mathematics, volume XVIII, number I, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, page 181:
glosses: Of, relating to, or having the shape of a tetrahedron.
Derived terms: ditetrahedral
nontetrahedral
orthotetrahedral
polytetrahedral
pseudotetrahedral
tetrahedralisable
tetrahedrality
tetrahedralization
tetrahedrally
tetrahedral number
tristetrahedral
Related terms: tetrahedron
theophilanthropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theo- + philanthropic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to theophilanthropism.
theophilanthropist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theophilanthropists
Etymology: From theo- + philanthropist.
Senses: glosses: an advocate of theophilanthropism
theophilosophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theo- + philosophic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to theophilosophy.
theophilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theophilosophies
Etymology: From theo- + philosophy.
Senses: glosses: A combination of theism and philosophy.
theopneusted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: divinely inspired
Synonyms: theopneustic
theopneustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: divinely inspired
Synonyms: theopneusted
above average
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: supernormal
antonyms: below average
glosses: Better than average.
abrasive disc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abrasive discs
Senses: glosses: A disc of abrasive material that rotates in a tool such as a sander.
two-bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: two-baggers
Senses: examples: text: Jones got a two-bagger in the first.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A double (a two-base hit).
examples: Zach got a two-bagger in yesterday after work. Felt great to relieve stress before going home.
qualifier: running
glosses: A two-miler when running miles for conditioning.
synonyms: double-bagger
glosses: An extremely unattractive person (usually female), the insinuation being that one bag covering her face would not be adequate, but that a second one is needed, usually on the observer's head, sometimes specifically during sex. This meaning is often associated with a joke by comedian Rodney Dangerfield.
Coordinate terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
english: running
translation: running
word: three-bagger
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
english: running
translation: running
word: four-bagger
english: running
translation: running
word: six-bagger
Related terms: paper bag job
four-bagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four-baggers
Senses: examples: text: Jones popped a four-bagger into the upper-deck in the fifth.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A home run.
Coordinate terms: two-bagger
three-bagger
back to back jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back to back jacks
Senses: examples: text: Smith, Jones... back to back jacks in the sixth chasing the starter.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Two home runs hit by consecutive batters
strike zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strike zones
Senses: examples: text: That umpire often compresses the strike zone late in the game.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area through which if a pitched ball passes, it will be called a strike, typically from the batter's knees to the belt and the width of home plate.
passed ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passed balls
Senses: examples: text: Jones let a passed ball get behind him.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play where the catcher fails to stop a normally playable pitch and a runner advances.
wild pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild pitches
Senses: examples: text: Jones uncorked a wild pitch, which went to the screen.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A play where the pitcher throws a non-catchable pitch and a runner advances.
sadness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsædnəs/
Forms: form: sadnesses
form: sadnesse
Etymology: From Middle English sadnesse, equivalent to sad + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: I mean not then under the name of Sadneſs to defend effeminate Bewailings and Lamentations; let them that ſubject themſelves to this weakeſt Impatience, be alſo ſubject to the Lycian Law, that bound theſe kind of Lamenters to be array'd like Women: […]
ref: 1707, John Dunton, “Mourning Joy: or a Paradox in Praiſe of Sadneſs”, in Athenian Sport[:] […] , page 423:
text: The survey found increasing mental health challenges, experiences of violence, and suicidal thoughts and behavior among all teens. More than 40% of high school students said that feelings of sadness or hopelessness prevented them from engaging in their regular activities for at least two weeks of the year.
ref: 2023 February 13, Deidre McPhillips, “Teens, especially girls, are experiencing more violence, suicidal thoughts and mental health challenges, CDC survey finds”, in CNN:
text: The compassion to yourself comes in validating the feelings your inner child is having –– the stress, fear, anger or sadness — and make adult decisions about the best way to move forward, Lev said.
ref: 2025 April 28, Madeline Holcombe, “It might be time to ‘reparent’ yourself. Here’s how to get started”, in CNN:
synonyms: forlornness
melancholy
glosses: The state or emotion of being sad.
examples: text: She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.
synonyms: word: misfortune
word: woe
word: affliction
word: aggrievance
word: distress
word: grief
word: grievance
word: hardship
word: misery
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: undelight
word: vexation
word: woe
word: wrong
glosses: An event in one's life that causes sadness.
Synonyms: word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
Hypernyms: word: emotion
Hyponyms: word: compassion
word: hopelessness
word: loneliness
word: remorse
Norse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nôrs
ipa: /noɹs/
ipa: [no̞ɹs]
ipa: /nɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
ipa: /nɔːɹs/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /nɔːs/
Forms: form: more Norse
form: most Norse
Etymology: Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the people, language and culture of Scandinavia.
glosses: Of or relating to the North Germanic group of languages.
Derived terms: Norse-American
Norseland
Norseman
Norseness
Norsewoman
Norse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nôrs
ipa: /noɹs/
ipa: [no̞ɹs]
ipa: /nɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
ipa: /nɔːɹs/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /nɔːs/
Etymology: Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.
Senses: glosses: The collective Scandinavian (historically Norwegian) people.
glosses: Speakers of any of the North Germanic languages.
Norse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: nôrs
ipa: /noɹs/
ipa: [no̞ɹs]
ipa: /nɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
ipa: /nɔːɹs/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /nɔːs/
Etymology: Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Old Norse.
synonyms: word: Old Norse
Derived terms: Norseland
Norseman
Norseness
Norsewoman
Proto-Norse
Norse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nôrs
ipa: /noɹs/
ipa: [no̞ɹs]
ipa: /nɔːs/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
note: rhotic
ipa: /nɔːɹs/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /nɔːs/
Etymology: Partly from Dutch Noorsch (now Noors (“Norwegian”)), from noordsch (“northern; nordic”); and partly from Danish norsk (“Norwegian”). Both equivalent to north + -ish. Doublet of Norsk.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A size of type between Saxon and excelsior, 2+¹⁄₂-point type.
Related terms: Middle Norse
New Norse
Nordic
Nordish
filling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɪɫɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fill
filling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɪɫɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more filling
form: most filling
Senses: examples: text: a filling meal
text: We had oatmeal porridge for breakfast, which was fairly filling, but I always starved at lunch and dinner. My friend continually reasoned with me to eat meat, but I always pleaded my vow and then remained silent.
ref: 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xiv
text: Plain and unexciting, perhaps, but they are solid, well cooked, appetising and filling, and moreover cheap.
ref: 1964 April, “Letters: London stations—a consumers' guide”, in Modern Railways, page 274:
glosses: Of food, that satisfies the appetite by filling the stomach.
Derived terms: fillingly
fillingness
mouthfilling
Related terms: stick to one's ribs
filling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪlɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɪɫɪŋ]
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: fillings
Senses: glosses: Anything that is used to fill something.
glosses: The contents of a pie, etc.
examples: text: I will be using a rapid-setting cement filling.
text: My temporary filling fell out and got lost.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: stopping
glosses: Any material used to fill a cavity in a tooth or the result of using such material.
glosses: The woof in woven fabrics.
glosses: Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it.
examples: text: 1903, William Edward Biederwolf, A Help to the Study of the Holy Spirit, James H. Earle & Company (publ.), page 100.
As learned Dr. Hodge has reminded us, any impartation of the Holy Spirit is a baptism, and certainly, apart from biblical phraseology, a filling with the Spirit may be called a baptism with the Spirit.
text: All these terms referencing the work of the Holy Spirit—coming upon, falling upon, being filled with the Holy Spirit, receiving the promise of the Father—can best be understood as synonymous with baptism in the Holy Spirit, with the key to understanding being “one baptism, many fillings.”
ref: 2011, Raymond F. Culpepper, Understanding the Ministry of the Holy Spirit, Pathway Press, page 33:
text: Other signs followed their subsequent fillings with the Holy Spirit, but the first filling was immediately followed by the speaking in other tongues.
ref: 2016, Zacharias Tanee Fomum, You Can Receive The Baptism Into The Holy Spirit Now, self-published:
topics: Christianity
Protestantism
synonyms: enduement
second baptism
glosses: A religious experience attributed to the Holy Ghost "filling" a believer.
Derived terms: filling site
form filling
formfilling
infilling
lipofilling
underfilling
waterfilling
Related terms: filing
balcony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbælkəni/
ipa: /bælˈkəʊni/
ipa: /ˈbælkəni/
Forms: form: balconies
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *balkô
Frankish *balkōbor.
Medieval Latin balcōbor.
Italian balconebor.
English balcony
From Italian balcone (“balcony, floor-length window”), from Old Italian balcone (“scaffold”) from Lombardic *balk, *balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, pile, prop”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho (“beam”), Old English balca (“beam, ridge”). More at balk.
Senses: examples: text: I sprang a step forward; when two shadows were distinctly traced on the moonlit myrtle! Then two figures stood upon the balcony. A young cavalier jumped from the balustrade, and hurried down the path that led to the garden, where I well remember a gate opened on an unfrequented lane.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 132:
text: The next day as the three travelers were approaching the town, Peter went out on the balcony to pray.
ref: 2002, The Message translation of The Bible, Book of Acts 10:9–13
topics: architecture
glosses: An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
examples: text: Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
Derived terms: balconette
balconette bra
balconic
balconied
balcony bra
balconylike
Juliet balcony
pitch out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The pitch out enabled the catcher to throw out the runner.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitch which was intentionally thrown outside to the catcher who stands up with the pitch for the purpose of enabling the catcher to throw out a runner.
pitch out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pitches out
form: pitching out
form: pitched out
form: pitched out
Senses: examples: text: Jones pitched out twice to no avail.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To intentionally throw the ball outside to the catcher who stands up with the pitch for the purpose of enabling the catcher to throw out a runner
pitch around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pitches around
form: pitching around
form: pitched around
form: pitched around
Senses: examples: text: Jones pitched around the slugger.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To intentionally throw pitches which are slightly out of the strike zone, hoping that the batter will swing wildly at a pitch, but assuming that you will walk him
Red Sox
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From red and sox (slang form of socks) - the footwear worn by the members of the team.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The Boston Red Sox, an American baseball team.
Synonyms: word: Bosox
sense: the
word: Sox
Related terms: White Sox
Black Sox
PawSox
WooSox
mediatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediatory
form: most mediatory
Senses: examples: text: This Mediatory Honour is very glorious, because Christ sits as a King at the right hand of the Majesty on high, and every one must confesse that our Royall Mediatour is not onely man but God also […].
ref: 1650, Francis Cheynell, The Divine Trinunity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, London: S. Gellibrand, page 346:
text: […] we do earnestly entreat his majesty, as yet the only mediatory power between the several states of the British empire, to recommend to his parliament of Great Britain the total revocation of these acts […]
ref: 1774, Thomas Jefferson, A Summary View of the Rights of British North America, Williamsburg: Clementina Rind, page 27:
text: [T]here was a widespread ambition that the United States should evoke some sort of permanent arbitration council alone, or in concert with the other Powers still neutral, which should stand, so to speak, on the edge of the battlefield and continue to offer its mediatory services to the warring governments until they were accepted.
ref: 1933 September, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Impulse to Abolish War; the Episode of the Ford Peace Ship”, in The Shape of Things to Come, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, 1st book (Today and Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns), page 68:
text: He said the EU supported the mediatory efforts of Zuma to forge agreement between the squabbling political parties.
ref: 2013 July 18, “Zim polls in spotlight at SA-EU summit”, in Independent Online:
glosses: Of or relating to mediation.
authoritarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authoritarianisms
Etymology: From authoritarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: dictatorialism; autocratism; totalitarianism (see usage note there)
text: This is the struggle of our time. The forces of freedom, openness and global community against the forces of authoritarianism, isolationism and nationalism.
ref: 2017 May 25, Mark Zuckerberg, “Mark Zuckerberg’s Commencement address at Harvard”, in The Harvard Gazette:
text: Working from a psycho-dynamic perspective, Fromm explained authoritarianism as a response to the breakdown of traditional social structures brought about by industrialization and modernization.
ref: 2021, Stanley Feldman, Vittorio Mérola, and Justin Dollman, “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AUTHORITARIANISM AND SUPPORT FOR ILLIBERAL POLICIES AND PARTIES”, in Vittorio Merola, page 635:
text: Instead of three co-equal branches acting as a check on each other, power has become increasingly concentrated over the years in the White House – a trend that is now being supercharged under Mr. Trump in ways that, to critics, raise the specter of authoritarianism.
ref: 2025 February 25, Linda Feldmann, “How Trump skirts checks and balances unlike any modern-day US president”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: If Trump defies the Court here, then America will have taken an important step toward authoritarianism and anti-constitutional government.
ref: 2025 April 10, Adam Serwer, “The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2025:
glosses: A form of government in which the governing body has absolute, or almost absolute, control. Typically this control is maintained by force, and little heed is paid to public opinion or the judicial system.
Derived terms: anti-authoritarianism
competitive authoritarianism
ecoauthoritarianism
neo-authoritarianism
performative authoritarianism
green light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green lights
Etymology: From the standard red-green color scheme used in traffic lights and railway signals.
Senses: examples: text: The drive home was much faster than usual; somehow we managed to hit every green light.
glosses: A traffic light in its green state (indicating that vehicles may proceed).
examples: text: We have a green light on the project. Work starts today.
text: And Crossrail's Class 345 Aventra fleet finally has the green light to carry passengers to Heathrow Airport, after the Office of Rail and Road granted approval for the European Train Control System (ETCS) Level 2 overlay system.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Network News: Class 345s finally able to serve Heathrow Airport”, in Rail, page 15:
synonyms: go
glosses: Approval, or permission to proceed.
examples: text: Yo man, I heard someone had put a green light out on you, so watch your back.
glosses: A go-ahead to commit a crime, specifically to carry out a hit on someone (i.e. to kill).
Coordinate terms: word: green arrow
word: red light
word: stoplight
english: = red light
translation: = red light
word: stop light
word: yellow light
Derived terms: word: get the green light
english: to
translation: to
word: give the green light
word: greenlight
word: green lights to Malibu
word: green wave
Related terms: 🔴
🟡
🟢
in-between hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in-between hops
Senses: examples: text: Errors are more frequent when the play happens on an in-between hop.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bounce larger than a short hop and smaller than a long hop, often difficult to field.
breaking ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaking balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A curveball.
Related terms: fastball
front door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front doors
form: frontdoor
form: front-door
Senses: qualifier: literal
glosses: The door at the main entrance to a building or house, normally fronts onto a street.
glosses: The entire main entrance to a building or house.
examples: Entry through the toilet's front door.
glosses: The habitual or designated main entrance to a room that has more than one door.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The normal portal page to a website.
examples: text: His front door slider is hard to handle.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The path of a pitch which starts inside and then slides over the plate.
glosses: vagina or penis, as a means of sexual intercourse, contrasted with the anus or "back door"
Related terms: back door
back door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back doors
form: backdoor
form: back-door
Senses: examples: text: "Charles II, who was crowned here a little while before, occupied an old house (which is still standing) in New Street [Worcester], from which he escaped by the back door, as the enemy rushed in at the front."
ref: 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 57:
glosses: A subsidiary entrance to a building or house at its rear, normally away from the street.
examples: text: Scoring three goals at home should guarantee you three points, but when you go on the attack a little bit more, you leave the back door open. That's not always a good idea with this team.
ref: 2021 November 29, Alan Shearer, “Why Newcastle have to win their next two games to give them hope of staying in the Premier League - Alan Shearer analysis”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A means of access, often secret and unprotected, to something.
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A secret means of access to a program or system.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A rear side door of a car, or at the back of a van.
examples: text: backdoor action
text: go up the back door
text: Oh, don't be so judgmental. You could use a little back door.
ref: 1998 June 28, Michael Patrick King, “Valley of the Twenty-Something Guys”, in Sex and the City, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Samantha:
synonyms: backgate
glosses: The anus; (by extension) anal sex.
examples: text: Sometimes the ball will curve around and enter from the back-door.
ref: 2010, Bob Glanville, Golf: The Game of Lessening Failures, page 14:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The rear side of the hole, furthest from the golfer.
Hyponyms: bugdoor
Derived terms: back-door bandit
back-door man
back-door pilot
back door
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: backdoor
form: back-door
Senses: examples: text: He has a nasty back door slider.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The path of a pitch which starts outside and then slides over the plate.
glosses: Achieved through indirect means.
examples: text: The flop had the ace of spades, queen of spades, and two of diamonds, and I was holding the king of spades and the three of hearts. I bet big, hoping for a jack and a ten to make my back door straight-draw, or a spade to make my back door flush-draw. But when the turn card was the five of clubs, I had to fold.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Requiring consecutive cards on the turn and river to be achieved.
raw_tags: of a draw
Related terms: back door slider
back door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: back doors
form: back dooring
form: back doored
form: back doored
form: backdoor
form: back-door
Senses: glosses: To attempt to accomplish by indirect means, especially when direct means are proscribed.
examples: text: If you survive the heavy take-off at 'The Chair' (which is very close to the rocks) you will find you're in 'The Suck-up', which offers either a spectacular barrel or a bonecrunching wipeout, but you might find you have to back door it.
ref: 1999, Mark Warren, Mark Warren's Atlas of Australian Surfing, traveller's, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: To enter a tube by accelerating from behind; to surf into an already formed hollow wave, in contrast to the normal method of slowing to allow a surfable wave to form.
examples: text: Now that we have backdoored the notepad.exe binary, we will go back to the Meterpreter session and upload our backdoor: 3. Then, we need to start a listener so we. meterpreter > upload notepad-backdoored.exe [*] uploading[…]
ref: 2018 February 26, Abhinav Singh, Nipun Jaswal, Monika Agarwal, Daniel Teixeira, Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook: Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework, 3rd Edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 213:
text: As an example, the generation algorithm for backdoored Dual EC picks a fixed group element Q, a random exponent d, and outputs as public key the pair P = Qd and Q. The secret key is d. (We use multiplicative notation for simplicity.)[…]
ref: 2015 April 13, Elisabeth Oswald, Marc Fischlin, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2015: 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Sofia, Bulgaria, April 26-30, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Back in the session, we will rename the httpd.exe file to httpd.exe.backup, upload the backdoored version, and rename it to httpd.exe: msf exploit(handler) > sessions -i 1 [*] Starting interaction with 1... meterpreter > cd[…]
ref: 2019 July 18, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Daniel Teixeira, Abhinav Singh, Improving your Penetration Testing Skills: Strengthen your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux and Metasploit, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 453:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: To add a backdoor (a secret means of access) to a program or system.
Related terms: front door
dibbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dib
graphomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹæfəˈmeɪni.ə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: graphomanias
Etymology: From grapho- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: Wagner’s graphomania is shown not only by the substance, but also by the outward form of his writings.
ref: 1898, Howard Fertig, transl., Degeneration, London: William Heinemann, translation of original by Max Nordau:
glosses: The compulsion to write.
examples: text: A devoted explorer of decalcomania, fumage, frottage, collage and other methods of pictorial automatism, Colquhoun invented several magic-inspired techniques of her own, including graphomania, stillomania, and parsemage.
ref: 1998, Penelope Rosemont, editor, Surrealist Women: An International Anthology, University of Texas Press, page 113:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Used as part of the name of various surrealist techniques, e.g., a method in which dots are made at the sites of impurities in a blank sheet of paper, and lines are then made between the dots; see "Entoptic graphomania".
Derived terms: entopic graphomania
erotographomania
Related terms: graphomaniac
zymase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymases
Etymology: By surface analysis, zym- + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: In 1905, Harden and Young found that the zymase of Buchner consisted of a thermolabile ferment fraction, which was later designated as "apo-zymase" by Neuberg and v. Euler, and of a thermostable ultrafiltrable factor, "co-zymase," the presence of which is necessary for the fermentation of sugar.
ref: 1934 November, Carl Neuberg, Maria Kobel, “Present Status of the Problem of Sugar Fermentation”, in Journal of Bacteriology, volume 28, number 5, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the fermentation of simple carbohydrates to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
zygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zygote + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: zygotic divergence (analysis)
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or existing as a zygote.
Derived terms: dizygotic
monozygotic
non-zygotic
zwitterion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtsvɪtəɹ.aɪən/
/ˈzwɪtəɹ.aɪən/
/ˈtswɪtəɹ.aɪən/
Forms: form: zwitterions
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Zwitterion, from Zwitter (“hermaphrodite”) + Ion (“ion”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A molecule, such as an amino acid, that carries both a positive and a negative charge.
Synonyms: inner salt
dipolar ion
Zwinglian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), Swiss Protestant reformer, + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating or referring to Zwingli, his beliefs, or his followers and adherents.
Derived terms: Zwinglianism
Zwinglianist
Zwinglian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zwinglians
Etymology: From Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531), Swiss Protestant reformer, + -an.
Senses: glosses: A follower of Zwingli, who disagreed with Luther in rejecting the doctrine of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
zouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuk/
ipa: /zuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: zouks
Etymology: From French secouer (“to shake up”), via creole.
Senses: examples: text: From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again.
ref: 2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of dance music originating in the French Antilles, combining Latin American, African and Western disco rhythms; a dance to this music
Derived terms: zoukify
zouk-like
zouk love
zouk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /zuk/
ipa: /zuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: zouks
form: zouking
form: zouked
form: zouked
Etymology: From French secouer (“to shake up”), via creole.
Senses: glosses: To dance to zouk music.
zoster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɑstɚ/
ipa: /ˈzɒstə/
Forms: form: zosters
Etymology: From Latin zōstēr, from Ancient Greek ζωστήρ (zōstḗr).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek waist-belt for men.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease called herpes zoster (from the typically beltlike pattern of its rash); shingles.
Derived terms: herpes zoster
varicella zoster virus
zoster sine herpete
Related terms: chicken pox
Zoroastrianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪəˌnɪzəm/
ipa: /ˌzoʊɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.əˌnɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˌzɔɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.əˌnɪz.əm/
Forms: form: Zoroastrism
Etymology: From Zoroastrian + -ism, influenced by Greek, Latin, Arabic and Syriac reports of Zoroaster (“Zarathustra”) as the “lawgiver” of the Iranian peoples, as reviewed in Thomas Hyde's Veterum Persarum et Parthorum et Medorum Religionis Historia, 1700.
Senses: glosses: Mazdaism, the surviving form of the indigenous (pre-Islamic) Iranian ethnic religion.
topics: scholarly
sciences
glosses: The historical (pre-Islamic) indigenous beliefs and practices of the Iranian peoples.
Related terms: word: Zoroastrian
english: Avestan language name of Zoroaster
translation: Avestan language name of Zoroaster
alt: coined by Hermann Lommel (and popularized by Ilya Gershevitch) to denote the prophet's own doctrine as distinguished from later accretions; from Zarathustra
word: Zarathustrianism
english: the teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions
translation: the teachings of Younger Avestan texts, as distinct from Zarathustrianism and also from later accretions
word: Zarathustricism
english: the religion in which Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity
translation: the religion in which Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity
word: Mazdaism
english: archaic: the religion of the Parsees of the Indian subcontinent, long believed to be the only surviving community of Zoroastrians
translation: archaic: the religion of the Parsees of the Indian subcontinent, long believed to be the only surviving community of Zoroastrians
word: Parseeism
Zoroastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌzoʊɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌzɔɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.ən/
Forms: form: Zoroastrians
Etymology: From Latin Zōroastrēs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a follower of Zoroastrianism
Hypernyms: religionist
Hyponyms: Mazdakite
Zoroastrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɒɹəʊˈæstɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌzoʊɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌzɔɹ.oʊˈæs.tɹi.ən/
Etymology: From Latin Zōroastrēs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: relating to or characteristic of Zoroastrianism.
examples: text: the Zoroastrian teachings that began the religion
glosses: of, by or pertaining to Zoroastrianism.
Hyponyms: Mazdakite
mediocrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miː.dɪˈɒk.ɹɪ.ti/
ipa: /mi.dɪˈɑk.ɹɪ.ti/
ipa: [mi.dɪˈɑk.ɹɪ.ɾi]
Forms: form: mediocrities
Etymology: From Middle French médiocrité, from Latin mediocritās, from mediocris; by surface analysis, mediocre + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Flexibility is good, but a tolerance for mediocrity carried far enough impairs operational capacity.
text: England captain Harry Kane lifted the mediocrity of an attritional first half on a slow surface when he scored his 33rd goal for his country, a superbly guided diving header from Luke Shaw's cross seven minutes before the interval.
ref: 2021 March 28, Phil McNulty, “Albania 0-2 England”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: middlingness
coordinate_terms: midness
;
inadequacy
insufficiency
poorness
;
excellence
glosses: The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.
examples: text: populated with mediocrities
text: surrounded by mediocrities
glosses: A person with mediocre abilities or achievements.
glosses: The quality of being intermediate between two extremes; a mean.
examples: text: Sundrie other Gent[lemen] reſt beholden to this hundred, for their dvvellings, vvho, in an enuiable mediocritie of fortune, do happilie poſſeſſe themſelues, and communicate their ſufficient means to the ſeruice of their prince, the good of their neighbours, and the bettering of their ovvn eſtate: […]
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, “The Second Booke”, in The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC, folio 117, verso:
text: In adversity I wish for prosperity, and in prosperity I am afraid of adversity. What mediocrity may be found?
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: A middle course of action; moderation, balance.
Derived terms: golden mediocrity
mediocritist
mediocritize
mediocrity principle
multimediocrity
submediocrity
Related terms: mean
median
mediate
mediation
mediator
mediocre
medium
zooplanktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zooplankton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to zooplankton.
zoophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊəfaɪt/
ipa: /ˈzuːfaɪt/
Forms: form: zoophytes
form: zoöphyte
form: zoophite
form: zoöphite
Etymology: From zoo- + -phyte, after Middle French zoophyte; later reinforced by scientific Latin Zoophyta.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An animal thought to have the characteristics of a plant, later specifically an invertebrate of the (former) group Zoophyta, comprising sponges, corals and sea anemones.
examples: text: And besides, as there are many Zoophyts, and sensitive Plants […] so have we, in some Authors, Instances of Plants turning into Animals, and Animals into Plants, and the like […]
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XIX:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant believed to have the characteristics of an animal, especially a sensitive plant or vegetable lamb.
Derived terms: zoophytal
zoophytic
zoophytical
zoophytish
zoophytist
zoophytography
zoophytoid
zoophytological
zoophytologist
zoophytology
zooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːmɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoom
zooming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzuːmɪŋ/
Forms: form: zoomings
Senses: examples: text: the zoomings of myriad insects
ref: 1937, Ida Hurst, A Vagabond Typist in Africa, Abyssinia & the Gulf:
text: What care we took over the cleaning realistic zoomings, honkings, and […] preserving of that horror
ref: 1942, Blackwood's Magazine:
text: a propensity for rhizomatic zoomings characterizes the cyborg of the electronic age
ref: 1998, Cynthia Haynes, Jan Rune Holmevik, High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs:
glosses: A sound or motion that zooms.