cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
charvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charver
snowclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊ.kləʊn/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊ.kloʊn/
Forms: form: snowclones
Etymology: Blend of snow cone + clone, in reference to the phrase “If Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, [blank] have as many for [blank]” (which is an example of a snowclone). Coined by Glen Whitman in response to Geoffrey Pullum on the blog Language Log.
Senses: examples: text: The snowclone “to [blank] or not to [blank]” derives from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
text: I stumbled upon the site the other day, when I was looking up the origins of the "Im not an X, but I play one on TV" snowclone.
ref: 2005 November 5, auuV, “Some articles that I like. They are about language,”, in alt.running.out.of.newsgroup.names (Usenet):
text: Suddenly snowclone hunters were documenting media usages suggesting that, in space, no one can hear you belch, bitch, blog, speak, squeak or suck.
ref: 2005 December 3, David Rowan, “"Snowclone" journalism”, Trendsurfing, in The Times, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2006:
text: Regular readers learned there first about snowclones, the basic building blocks of cliches, like "X is the new Y" or "you don't need a degree in A to do B."
ref: 2006 June 20, Michael Erard, “Analyzing Eggcorns and Snowclones, and Challenging Strunk and White”, in The New York Times, page F4:
text: If so, you're being snowed under by snowclones — a category of fill-in-the-blank cliché identified by linguists.
ref: 2006 July 24, Mark Peters, “Not Your Father's Cliché”, in Columbia Journalism Review, volume 45, number 2, page 14:
text: When you read phrases like these in a newspaper, you've stumbled across a particular type of cliché: the snowclone.
ref: 2006 November 18, anonymous author, “Snowclone”, in New Scientist, volume 192, number 2578, →DOI, page 80:
text: The concept of ‘snowclones’ has gained interest in recent research on linguistic creativity and in studies of extravagance and expressiveness in language. However, no clear criteria for identifying snowclones have yet been established[.]
ref: 2024 August 24 [2023 April 14], Journal of Linguistics, volume 60, number 3, →DOI, page 599:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A formulaic phrase that can be customized so as to fit a variety of contexts.
Related terms: catchphrase
cliché
meme
proverb
snowclone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊ.kləʊn/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊ.kloʊn/
Forms: form: snowclones
form: snowcloning
form: snowcloned
form: snowcloned
Etymology: Blend of snow cone + clone, in reference to the phrase “If Eskimos have dozens of words for snow, [blank] have as many for [blank]” (which is an example of a snowclone). Coined by Glen Whitman in response to Geoffrey Pullum on the blog Language Log.
Senses: examples: text: Many journalists are guilty of serial snowcloning, but snowclones aren't always a symptom of laziness – they can be a cultural in-joke.
ref: 2006 November 15, “The word: Snowclone”, in New Scientist, number 2578:
glosses: To use a snowclone in speech or writing.
make an effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes an effort
form: making an effort
form: made an effort
form: made an effort
Senses: glosses: To try; to work towards a goal.
Synonyms: take pains
making an effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make an effort
makes an effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make an effort
made an effort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make an effort
deploy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈplɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: deploys
form: deploying
form: deployed
form: deployed
Etymology: Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display.
Senses: examples: text: "Deploy two units of infantry along the enemy's flank," the general ordered.
text: deploy some lifeguards on the beach
text: Teachers can deploy a wide range of resources in their classrooms.
text: The carriage, which was at full gallop, stopped suddenly; the guards deployed round, and Mademoiselle alighted. She advanced with the step of an empress, till she came beside the Queen, when, dropping on her knee, she kissed the hem of her robe, and then the royal hand.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 293:
text: EMR will deploy 18 of the 21 '360s' in daily service, operating them in 12-car formations at peak times.
ref: 2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 53:
text: It is unlikely City will play that deep consistently going forward, but it was interesting to see such an attacking manager like Guardiola deploy a shape without a recognised striker, given his previous quotes about the formation.
ref: 2025 September 21, Shamoon Hafez, “Guardiola gamble almost pays off as Liverpool cash in”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
examples: text: He waited tensely for his parachute to deploy.
text: deploy the airbag
text: The airbag will deploy on collision.
text: At first she thought she would be embarrassed that she had deployed her air bag, that the other expert skiers she was with, more than a dozen of them, would have a good laugh at her panicked overreaction.
ref: 2012 December 26, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2013:
glosses: To unfold, open, or otherwise become ready for use.
examples: text: The process for the deployment scenario includes: building a master installation of the operating system, creating its image and deploying the image onto a destination computer.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To install, test and implement a computer system or application.
Derived terms: deployability
deployable
deployee
deployer
nondeployed
outdeploy
predeployed
undeploy
undeployed
Related terms: deployment
redeploy
deploy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈplɔɪ/
rhymes: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: deploys
Etymology: Borrowed from French déployer (“to unroll, unfold”), from Old French desploiier, itself from des- + ploiier, or possibly from Late Latin displicāre (“to unfold, display”), from Latin dis- (“apart”) + plicare (“to fold”). Compare Middle English desployen, dysployen (“to unfold, display”). Doublet of display.
Senses: examples: text: Rolling back the bad deploy will usually solve the immediate production problem, but your team isn't done yet.
ref: 2021, James Shore, Shane Warden, The Art of Agile Development, page 433:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Deployment.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Deployment.
deploying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deploy
Thelma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A literary invention, first appeared in the Swedish novel Kyrkoinvigningen i Hammarby (1840-1841) by Emilie Flygare-Carlén, translated into English as "The Magic Goblet" (1845). Similar names of ambiguous origin, Elma, Selma, Velma, appeared in the 19th century.
By folk etymology explained as Ancient Greek θέλημα (thélēma, “will”). Notice also the Spanish and Portuguese Telma, a rare feminine form of Telmo, ultimately from Santelmo or Saint Elmo.
Senses: examples: text: "Just the sort of name to suit a Norwegian nymph or goddess. Thelma is quaint and appropriate, and as far as I can remember there's no rhyme to it in the English language. Thelma!"
ref: 1887, Marie Corelli, Thelma, a Norwegian Princess, R. Bentley, published 1896, page 14:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
wikipedia: Marie Corelli
Thelma (novel)
sidereal year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidereal years
Senses: glosses: The orbital period of the Earth with respect to the fixed stars.
glosses: The time it takes for any astronomical object in orbit around a central star to orbit that star, with respect to distant stars.
Related terms: mean solar day
tropical year
solar year
defence accord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defence accords
Senses: glosses: A political agreement of mutual military assistance.
saditty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-dĭ′-tē
ipa: /səˈdɪ.ti/
Forms: form: more saditty
form: most saditty
form: hasadity
form: sadity
form: saddity
form: sadiddy
form: seditty
form: seddity
form: siditty
form: siddity
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of sedate (see quotation below) or another word. Attested from the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: This desire for the group was voiced by its president in her attempts to get the girls to be “ladies and cultivated”—or, as frequently stated by them, to be more “seditty” (sedate), a colloquialism referring to the respectable and controlled behavior associated with middle-class standards.
ref: 1948, Grace Longwell Coyle, Group Work with American Youth: A Guide to the Practice of Leadership, page 39:
text: I would stop the car when we reached the kiosk and put on my siddity air. I would speak to him like the peasant he was. I would order him to start the car and then tip him a quarter or even a dollar from Dad’s pocket before driving on.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 30, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 232:
text: You know who I mean – them saditty splibs, them e-lites that's so hung up on bein white that they cant even pronounce stuff right. They be talkin bout marking bird insteada mockin bird.
ref: 1970, Al Young, “Snakes”, in Ishmael Reed, editor, 19 Necromancers from Now, page 355:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: Acting snobbish, arrogant, or superior; uppity; perceived to be trying to associate with a higher social class.
venous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈviː.nəs/
rhymes: -iːnəs
homophone: Venus
homophone: venus
Forms: form: more venous
form: most venous
Etymology: Morphologically vein + -ous, which is a borrowing from Latin vēnōsus (“full of veins, veiny”), from vēna (“a blood vessel, vein”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of venose.
Senses: examples: text: Her venous circulation was poor, leading to varicose veins.
glosses: Of or pertaining to veins.
glosses: Having passed through the capillaries and given up oxygen for the tissues and become charged with carbon dioxide.
raw_tags: of blood
examples: text: It was a sample of venous tissue.
glosses: Possessing veins.
examples: text: The tree has highly serrated and venous leaves.
glosses: Having numerous veins.
Derived terms: allovenous
arteriolovenous
arteriovenous
atriovenous
cerebrovenous
endovenous
fibrovenous
hepatovenous
intervenous
intravenous
jugular venous pressure
lymphaticovenous
lymphovenous
microvenous
nonvenous
paravenous
peritoneovenous
perivenous
portal venous
portovenous
pyelovenous
retrovenous
sinovenous
transvenous
venously
venous plexus
venous sinus
venous star
venous stasis
venovenous
Related terms: venal
venturesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛntjʊə(ɹ)səm/
ipa: /ˈvɛnt͡ʃə(ɹ)səm/
rhymes: -ɛntʃə(ɹ)səm
Forms: form: more venturesome
form: most venturesome
form: ventersome
Etymology: From venture + -some.
Senses: glosses: Bold; willing to take risks; adventurous.
glosses: Potentially hazardous; risky.
Synonyms: adventuresome
daring
Derived terms: venturesomely
venturesomeness
unventuresome
venturesomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more venturesomely
form: most venturesomely
Etymology: From venturesome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is bold and willing to take risks; adventurously.
Synonyms: boldly
pretexting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pretext
actresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actress
asthenopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ăs'thə-nōʹpē-ə
Etymology: From astheno- (“loss of strength”) + -opia (“relating to the eyes”).
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: An eye condition that manifests itself through nonspecific symptoms such as fatigue, red eyes, eyestrain, pain in or around the eyes, blurred vision, headache and occasional double vision.
Synonyms: eyestrain
Derived terms: asthenopic
lochs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loch
buyout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buyouts
form: buy-out
Etymology: Deverbal from buy out.
Senses: examples: text: The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump’s broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
ref: 2025 February 4, Katie Bo Lillis and Kaitlan Collins, “CIA sends ‘buyout’ offers to entire workforce”, in CNN:
text: Those orders frustrated the administration’s attempt to bring a quick close to the so-called buyout offer.
ref: 2025 February 12, Paula Reid, Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, “Federal judge lets Trump’s ‘buyout’ plan for federal employees proceed”, in CNN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: The acquisition of a controlling interest in a business or corporation by outright purchase or by purchase of a majority of issued shares of stock.
glosses: The use of grant monies to pay for another person to perform the usual duties, especially teaching duties, of someone engaged on the funded project.
Derived terms: antibuyout
leveraged buyout
management buyout
postbuyout
prebuyout
teaching buyout
Related terms: word: buy out
word: merger
word: sellout
word: takeover
buyouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buyout
ginch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Variation of gotch, from Ukrainian га́чі (háči), ґа́чі (gáči).
Senses: examples: text: She stowed the ginch she had just received as a gift in the dresser out of harm's way.
ref: 2000, John Farrow, City of Ice, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN, page 71:
text: Grabbing clean pants and ginch, I get re-dressed.
ref: 2012, Kim Firmston, Hook Up, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., published 2012, →ISBN, page 25:
text: I got the hang of it after about 20 or 30 sheets and was settling into the routine when, reaching into the trolley, I was horrified to spy a pair of men’s Jockey underpants in amongst the sheets. I stopped cold and let out a shriek (remember, I was 14). Shirley calmly looked into the trolley and said, “Oh for Christ’s sake – it’s just a pair of ginch!”
ref: 2012 July 14, Sandi Bezanson-Chan, “Summer Jobs Series: Learning to handle 'ginch' in the hotel laundry”, in National Post:
qualifier: Alberta
glosses: Underwear, especially men's briefs.
Synonyms: underwear
ginch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ginches
Senses: examples: text: She probably up there getting her ginch plowed right this minute by some drummer out of Richmond.
ref: 1977, Dotson Rader, Miracle, page 67:
glosses: vagina, pussy.
examples: text: The unquenchable Hagen of the Screw Shack prowls the Stampede for ginch ahoof and comes back to the bus with nice little girl with lips as raunchy as a swig of grape soda, tender in age but ne'mind, ready to go, and she is on the bus, christened Anonymous, down to her bra and panties, which she prefers.
ref: 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test:
text: What reason would he have to try it, even, except to show off for this ginch?
ref: 2014, R. V. Cassill, The Happy Marriage: And Other Stories:
text: I mean, it was possible—theoretically, like Art always says—that Lisa had just lucked out, that Leslie Plunkett just happened to be on the Bad Boy's shitlist, all unbeknownst to his pet ginch, and that the Bad Boy had, conveniently for her, eliminated the little shyster.
ref: 2014, Anne W. Shubert, Bad Boy:
glosses: A woman, viewed as a potential or actual sexual partner.
examples: text: But, you know, she's struggling, she's got a kid. Just don't be a ginch, all right?" So, of course, you don't want anyone to think you're a ginch, plus maybe you're not particularly thrilled about the idea of using a hooker either.
ref: 2000, Andrew Klavan, Hunting Down Amanda, page 11:
glosses: An effeminate man.
Synonyms: sense: vagina
word: fanny
word: monosyllable
word: quim
word: vagina
sense: woman
word: bint
word: mort
word: pussy
word: woman
sense: effeminate man
word: cockney
word: pansy
word: sissy
word: effeminate man
air resistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air resistances
Senses: examples: synonym: drag
topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: force on an object directed against its direction of movement through air
Related terms: fluid dynamics
terminal velocity
viscosity
fluid dynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluid dynamics
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scientific study of the properties and behavior of moving fluids.
bar stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar stools
form: barstool
Senses: examples: text: Although we are no longer consigned to the bar stool and bottle, we still generally frequent these places to enhance our difficult egos.
ref: 1973 December 22, W. Emerson Smith, “Friends are Hard to Come By”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:
synonyms: bar chair
glosses: A stool used for sitting, often taller than a chair and usually having a foot rest, commonly placed in bars and in front of kitchen counters.
examples: text: barstool conservatism
text: I have many male friends, and they frequently include me in barstool-punditry sessions where they pontificate, often with wisdom and insight, on the issues of the day.
ref: 2024 July 25, Xochitl Gonzalez, “What the Kamala Harris Doubters Don’t Understand”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 12 Aug 2025:
text: Accordingly, Trump and Von’s conversation rambled through classic barstool topics: their favorite fighters, Kid Rock’s golf swing, and the question of why people no longer have heart attacks from the excitement at sporting events.
ref: 2024 August 23, Helen Lewis, “Trump and the Cocaine Owl”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The male-dominated milieu typically associated with bars, in particular sports bars.
net force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net forces
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The combination of all the forces that act on an object.
Newton's second law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: Newton's first law
Newton's third law
glosses: Newton's observation that the rate of change of the momentum of a body is directly proportional to, and in the same direction as, the net force acting on it. Often stated as F = ma: F = force, m = mass, a = acceleration.
Related terms: law of nature
baits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
homophone: bates
homophone: Bates
Senses: glosses: plural of bait
baits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
homophone: bates
homophone: Bates
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bait
baited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
homophone: bated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bait
normal force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal forces
Senses: glosses: Any force acting normal, to a surface, or perpendicular to the tangent plane.
likee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Attributed to various forms of pidgin English, most prominently from Chinese Pidgin English.
Senses: examples: text: [C]onsider the disaster which overtook the young American who found himself seated next to the eminent Chinese, Wellington Koo, at a diplomatic banquet. Completely at a loss as to what to say to a Chinese, this young man, with a touch of genius such as may be detected only in real faux pas-masters, said: "Likee soupee?" Mr. Koo smiled and nodded. Several moments later, when called upon to say a few words, he delivered a brilliant little talk in flawless English, sat down while the applause was still resounding, turned to the young man and said: "Likee speechee?"
ref: 1963, Meredith Scott, editor, The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor, page 374:
glosses: To like (to have affection for).
Related terms: likey
lookee-likee
acrocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acrocentric
form: most acrocentric
Etymology: From acro- + -centric.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a chromosome) Having the centromere very near to one end, and thus having a long arm, and a very short arm.
acrocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrocentrics
Etymology: From acro- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: This may be the result of misalignment, nonallelic gene conversion or other biological mechanisms that maintain large-scale homology between the short arms of the acrocentrics—a phenomenon that we have studied in an associated paper²².
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
glosses: A chromosome that has the centromere very near to one end, and thus has a long arm, and a very short arm.
chop chop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chop-chop.
chop chop
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chop-chop.
chop chop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chop-chop.
esbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esbats
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French esbat, from Old French esbatre (“to frolic, to have fun”), cognate to modern ébat (“frolic”).
Senses: examples: text: Latter day witches, continuing the age-long cult, frequently made use of these old circles as meeting places, holding esbats, sabbats, and performing their ritual "ring" dances within the circumference of the tall granite stones.
ref: 1965, Ruth E. St. Leger-Gordon, Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor, page xviii. 146:
glosses: A Wiccan coven gathering other than one of the Sabbats. While a full moon ritual may be held during an esbat, esbats encompass coven business meetings, social occasions, and opportunities for merriment.
no can do
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Chinese Pidgin English, calquing Chinese 不能做 (bùnéng zuò, “cannot do”).
Senses: examples: text: But I can't go for that, no no / No can do
ref: 1981, “I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)”, in Private Eyes, performed by Hall & Oates:
text: Tony Stark: If Thanos needs all six, why don't we just stick this one down a garbage disposal?
Doctor Strange: No can do.
Wong: We swore an oath to protect the Time Stone with our lives.
ref: 2018, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Avengers: Infinity War:
glosses: I cannot do it.
Related terms: nothing doing
M'Naghten rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of McNaughton rules.
anglecized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: now obsolete or erroneous
glosses: Rare spelling of anglicized.
raspberry vinegar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raspberry vinegars
Senses: glosses: A drink made from soaking very ripe raspberries in white wine vinegar overnight, then straining and adding sugar. Believed to improve the appetite, and used to disguise foul-tasting water.
noyau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noyaus
form: noyaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French noyau, from Middle French noyau, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”) or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”). Doublet of newel and noil.
Senses: examples: text: His coffee was excellent, and then came a case of liqueurs, noyau both white and red, etc.
ref: 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 178
glosses: A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots.
examples: text: Borders are violated by hungering males and famished females, and the ordered animosities of the noyau give way to a saturnalia of sexual adventure.
ref: 1966 August 26, Richard Ardrey, “Strongest Bond of All - The Space We Own”, in LIFE, page 58:
text: The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) also exhibits the noyau system and appears to be the only diurnal primate with a largely solitary lifestyle.
ref: 1999, Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Primates of the World, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 27:
text: This "noyau" pattern is found among various nocturnal strepsirrhines.
ref: 2000, Sergio M. Pellis, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, “Adult-Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of Its Origin, Distribution and Evolution”, in Ethology, 106, page 1089:
qualifier: ethology
glosses: A small nucleus or core group of people or animals.
dispelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dispel
ringbark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ringbarks
form: ringbarking
form: ringbarked
form: ringbarked
form: ring-bark
Etymology: From ring + bark.
Senses: examples: text: After the passing of this Act no lessee of Crown Lands shall ringbark any trees on Crown Lands unless he be the holder of a permission to ringbark under the hand of the Minister.
ref: 1888, “An Act to regulate Ringbarking on Crown Lands and to limit claims for compensation under the fifteenth section of the "Lands Acts further Amendment Act of 1880."”, in Public Statutes of New South Wales, page 19:
glosses: To remove the bark, phloem, and cambium from a tree in a ring all the way around its trunk, thereby normally killing the tree.
dressing stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressing sticks
Senses: glosses: A block of silicon carbide or aluminium oxide used to dress diamond tools by removing the build-up of metal etc.
glosses: Any of several sticks, often with a hook, used by the elderly or infirm to help put on clothes.
explosives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explosive
milkbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkbars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of milk bar.
pork sword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pork swords
Senses: examples: text: 'Yes,' screamed the patient hysterically, 'I mean penis, prick, pork sword, knob, the lot. What's it matter...
ref: 1973, Tom Sharpe, Indecent Exposure:
text: I wanted to make it very clear I wasn't 'interested in only one thing', i.e., 'burying my pork sword'. Basically, I didn't want to be judged/attacked for wanting sex.
ref: 1997, Daniel DuBois, “South Bay beware! Weirdo alert! (Was :Re: Sex, marriage, conflict...)”, in soc.singles (Usenet):
text: ...is that really you partaking of the pork sword?? if it is never go near my car as I wouldn't want the chrome sucked off the bumper...
ref: 1998, Judy Hodgson, alt.fan.suzanne-sutherland in alt.fan.jerry-springer http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jerry-springer/browse_frm/thread/e95df5ba1ad4aef4/ef43232a3e722435?lnk=st&q=%22pork+sword%22&rnum=14&hl=en#ef43232a3e722435
text: ...John's manhood is more cocktail stick than pork sword
ref: 1999, Mark Simpson, It's a Queer World: Deviant Adventures in Pop Culture, page 81:
text: He stood there with a big silly grin on his face and let Price's dirty mind take the bait. 'Lets just say it gets dreadfully boring in quarantine.' he smiled. 'You dirty bugger, she saves you from a samurai sword and you thank her with the pork sword!' laughed Price.
ref: 2004, Peter J Krebs, Operation Sleeping Dragon, page 270:
glosses: The penis.
Taj Mahal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˌtɑːʒ məˈhɑːl/
ipa: /ˌtɑːdʒ məˈhɑːl/
note: Indic
ipa: /t̪ɑd͡ʒ mɛhɛl̪/
note: Indic
ipa: /t̪ɑd͡ʒ mɛhɛl/
Forms: form: the Taj Mahal
Etymology: From Hindustani ताज महल / تاج محل (tāj mahal, “crown of palaces”), from Classical Persian, ultimately from Arabic, corresponding to English taj + mahal.
Senses: glosses: A monument in Agra, India, constructed between 1631 and 1654, considered one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture in the world.
Derived terms: Garage Mahal
Dieri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪəriː/
Forms: form: Dayerrie
form: Deerie
form: Diari
form: Dieyerie
form: Diyari
form: Diyeri
form: Dthee-eri
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of the South Australian desert.
Dieri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪəriː/
Forms: form: Dayerrie
form: Deerie
form: Diari
form: Dieyerie
form: Diyari
form: Diyeri
form: Dthee-eri
Senses: glosses: A Pama-Nyungan Australian Aboriginal suffixing language spoken by the Dieri people in the Lake Eyre region of South Australia.
Synonyms: Kunari
Taïwan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Taïwan, from Mandarin Chinese.
Senses: examples: text: Taïwan is the largest producer of first quality preserved mushrooms in the world. The second largest producer is France.
ref: 1975, Official Journal of the European Communities: Legislation:
text: The final 1.08 BIOS version (not a beta!!) for the TX97 MoBo series is now available on the Asus Taïwan FTP site.
ref: 1997 December 9, Michel Bouissou, “Final 1.08 BIOS available!”, in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus (Usenet), retrieved 24 May 2022:
text: I'll be available through my AOL mailbox during the trip to Taïwan.
ref: 2001 October 6, GeirSmith, “Pal Taïwan stop-over can go to Nepal”, in de.soc.weltanschauung.buddhismus (Usenet), retrieved 24 May 2022:
text: Taïwan is not part of the United-Nations for historical reasons, since China took the place of its reprentatives in the United-Nations. Taïwan is not a recognized state. The Taïwanese flag does not have international recognition.
ref: 2004 May 5, Jean-Michel POURE, “Re: Resignation”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet), retrieved 24 May 2022:
glosses: Alternative form of Taiwan.
Viet Nam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: One man who had received two purple hearts and a bronze star while serving as a medic in Viet Nam told us that he had been dishonorably discharged "for loving a man".
ref: 1979 April 7, Jil Clark, “Hearing Held for Mass. Bills”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: Alternative form of Vietnam.
cocky's joy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔɪ
Senses: examples: text: There are, incidentally, few things more Australian than damper with ‘cocky′s joy’, which is the bushman′s name for golden syrup.
ref: 2000, Barbara Santich, In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A Gastronomic Miscellany, page 156:
text: Tradition has it that their main meal in later colonial times consisted chiefly of salt meat, potatoes and pumpkin stewed in a camp oven all day,¹³⁹ with damper and golden syrup (cocky′s joy) for pudding, and no fruit at all. Tasmanian jam was available from the 1860s onwards, but it was up to four times as expensive as the cocky′s joy,¹⁴⁰ which consisted entirely of caramelised sugar.
ref: 2007, Ted Henzell, Australian Agriculture: Its History and Challenges, page 246:
text: Aussie food was a refined version of what the early convicts used to eat. Bully beef and spuds, tripe, fish′n chips, Anzac bikkies, damper with cocky′s joy (golden syrup), snags (or mystery bags) and hot custard and jelly for sweets.
ref: 2010, Kathleen M. McGinley, Out of the Daydream: Based on the Autobiography of Barry Mcginley Jones, page 20:
glosses: Golden syrup.
boughten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːtən/
rhymes: -ɔːtən
Etymology: From bought + -en (past participle ending of some verbs).
Senses: examples: text: Is that a boughten chair?
text: Poor people had to wear homespun on Sundays, and Royal and Almanzo wore fullcloth. But Father and Mother and the girls were very fine, in clothes that Mother had made of store-boughten cloth, woven by machines.
ref: 1933, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy, Harper, published 1971, →ISBN, page 86:
text: (After the children's mothers cut their hair): "It's all right for you guys to laugh. You're in the same room at school and you can stick together, but I'll be the only one in my room who doesn't have a boughten haircut."
ref: 1954, Beverly Cleary, Henry and Ribsy, 2001 1st Scholastic edition, page 113
text: "Did you build it all by yourself?"[…]
"I have a boughten one at home," said Mitchell, indignant at the way he was being treated. "I just wanted to see if I could make one that would work."
ref: 1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, HarperCollins, published 2009, →ISBN, page 17:
hyponyms: store-boughten
glosses: Having been purchased or bought (rather than homemade), storebought.
boughten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔːtən/
rhymes: -ɔːtən
Etymology: From bought + -en (past participle ending of some verbs).
Senses: examples: text: He has boughten that brand of cereal before.
glosses: past participle of buy
cetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetologies
Etymology: From cet- + -o- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The branch of zoology concerned with the infraorder Cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
Related terms: cetologist
cetological
whalelore
pedanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedandas
form: pedanda
Etymology: From Balinese pedanda, padanda, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Senses: examples: text: There are records of bitter village conflicts in which Pande families were denied the right to bury their dead in the village cemetery because the families did not obtain holy water from pedandas, and the villagers said the unpurified bodies would contaminate the cemetery.
ref: 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 80:
text: The only people who are conversant with all the rituals of agama Hindu are the high priests, or pedanda, men and a few women of the Brahman caste who spend years studying the complex theology.
ref: 2002, Lesley Reader, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide Bali and Lombok, page 510:
text: Instead of the temple having an annual festival, services are carried out every new and full moon day and on other holy days, and the presiding pedanda, after performing a ritual to make holy water, gives a sermon, yet another innovation and departure from traditional practice.
ref: 2005, Leo Howe, The Changing World Of Bali: Religion, Society and Tourism, page 92:
glosses: In Bali, a Hindu priest or priestess.
imperatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imperatrices
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin imperātrīx. By surface analysis, imperator + -trix. Doublet of empress.
Senses: examples: text: When I went back, years and years later, she was a drunken, painted sham, still thinking herself the imperatrix of Mareshank, pretending sweet in that broken-down big house. I'd gone north, married, traveled the world.
ref: 2007, Katherine Baccaro, Precipice: A Novel of Lust and Lies, →ISBN, page 307:
glosses: Female equivalent of imperator: empress.
Coordinate terms: word: imperator
raw_tags: of imperatrix
postface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postfaces
Etymology: Blend of post- + preface
Senses: glosses: A piece of text, containing information normally included in a preface, placed at the back of a publication.
Related terms: afterword
epilogue
kiore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiˈɔːɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈkiːɒɹɛ/
ipa: /kiˈoɹeɪ/
ipa: /kiˈoɹi/
ipa: /kiːˈoːɹe/
ipa: /ˈkiːoːɹe/
rhymes: -ɔːɹeɪ
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: kiores
form: kiore
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: examples: text: The only means of transport available to kiore was Polynesian vessels.
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 6:
glosses: The Polynesian rat, Rattus exulans.
one foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one foots
Senses: examples: text: Dude, doing one foots is suicidal.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A trick with one foot free from the bindings; instead it is placed beside the rear binding and boned far away from the board during airtime.
UNEP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The UNEP report said about a third of climate-heating emissions came from the global food system and these were set to double by 2050.
ref: 2022 October 27, Damian Carrington, “Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: UN
glosses: Initialism of United Nations Environment Programme.
hardbitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hard-bitten.
sounder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndɚ/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Middle English *soundere, from Old English ġesundra, from Proto-Germanic *sundizô, equivalent to sound + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The Northern Division Traffic Manager has said that there is no present intention of terminating the service, but the hopes previously entertained of expanding it cannot be entertained until it is operating on a sounder economic basis.
ref: 1961 April, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 199:
glosses: comparative form of sound: more sound
sounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndɚ/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sounders
Etymology: From Middle English soundar, sownere, equivalent to sound + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a telephone with an electronic sounder
glosses: Something or someone who makes a sound.
glosses: An instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stethoscope.
glosses: Synonym of sting (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
synonyms: word: sting
extra: (“brief musical sequence in television etc.”).
Derived terms: depth sounder
echo sounder
telegraph sounder
sounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndɚ/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sounders
Etymology: From French sonder.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A device for making soundings at sea.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A person who takes soundings.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A fishfinder.
sounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndɚ/
rhymes: -aʊndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sounders
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English soundre, from Anglo-Norman soundre, Old Northern French sondre, from a Germanic language, probably Old English sunor (“herd of swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *suniʀu, plural of *sun (“swine, boar”), from Proto-Germanic *sunaz (“boar”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewH- (“to bring forth, bear, give birth”). Cognate with Dutch zeunie (“trough, drinking bowl”).
Senses: examples: text: It was not only that there were wild boars in it, whose sounders would at this season be furiously rooting about, nor that one of the surviving wolves might be slinking behind any tree, with pale eyes and slavering chops.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter II, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: A group of wild boar.
glosses: A young boar.
psychopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪ̯kɒpəˈθɒlədʒɪ/
Forms: form: psychopathologies
Etymology: From psycho- + pathology.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The study of the origin, development, diagnosis and treatment of mental and behavioural disorders.
examples: text: Our fear and loathing for parasites is obviously adaptive. But this fear can itself mutate into a psychopathology.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 91:
text: The prevalence and risks of the four psychopathologies and their comorbidities, serious mental illness, and suicidalities increased significantly with internet addiction severity (p values from 0·0003 to <0·0001), and most increments in risk were large (ORs increasing more than four times, except for suicidalities) for students with moderate and severe internet addiction.
ref: 2019 October 24, Wan-jun Guo, Yu-jie Tao, Xiao-jing Li, Xia Lin, Ya-jing Meng, Xia Yang, et al., “Internet addiction severity and risk for psychopathology, serious mental illness, and suicidalities: a cross-sectional study”, in The Lancet^(https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32424-9/fulltext), volume 394:
glosses: A mental or behavioral disorder.
Derived terms: eating psychopathology
psychopathologic
psychopathological
Related terms: psychiatry
hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtɪd/
Etymology: From Middle English herted, hertid; equivalent to heart + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heart
hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtɪd/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtɪd/
Etymology: From Middle English herted, hertid; equivalent to heart + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a hard-hearted woman
text: It is said that she is "two-hearted," which means that she now has to nourish and fulfill the desires of both her baby and herself.
ref: 2001, Kumuda Reddy, Linda Egenes, Margaret Mullins, For a Blissful Baby:
glosses: Having a specified kind or number of heart.
glosses: Seated or fixed in the heart.
Derived terms: big-hearted
bighearted
black-hearted
bold-hearted
brokenhearted
broken-hearted
broken hearted
chicken-hearted
chickenhearted
cold-hearted
coldhearted
cow-hearted
cowhearted
cruelhearted
cruel-hearted
dark hearted
dark-hearted
dead-hearted
deadhearted
dog-hearted
double-hearted
doublehearted
downhearted
down-hearted
faint-hearted
fainthearted
false-hearted
falsehearted
flint-hearted
fool-hearted
free-hearted
freehearted
fullhearted
full-hearted
gentlehearted
gentle-hearted
gladhearted
good-hearted
goodhearted
greathearted
great-hearted
half-hearted
halfhearted
hard-hearted
hardhearted
hare-hearted
heartedly
heartedness
heavyhearted
heavy-hearted
hen hearted
hen-hearted
highhearted
high-hearted
hollowhearted
hollow-hearted
hot-hearted
humblehearted
humble-hearted
ice-hearted
iron-hearted
kind-hearted
kindhearted
largehearted
large-hearted
leaden-hearted
light-hearted
lighthearted
lion-hearted
lionhearted
liver-hearted
lonely-hearted
lonelyhearted
low-hearted
lowhearted
marble-hearted
mouse-hearted
open-hearted
openhearted
pigeon-hearted
plain-hearted
proud-hearted
proudhearted
public-hearted
pure-hearted
quick-hearted
rabbit-hearted
right-hearted
shallowhearted
shallow-hearted
simplehearted
simple-hearted
singlehearted
single-hearted
soft-hearted
softhearted
soft-heartedly
stiff-hearted
stonehearted
stone-hearted
stony-hearted
stonyhearted
stouthearted
stout-hearted
straight-hearted
stronghearted
strong-hearted
tenderhearted
tender-hearted
toughhearted
true-hearted
warmhearted
warm-hearted
weak-hearted
weakhearted
wholehearted
whole-hearted
wise-hearted
young-hearted
Related terms: heartful
heartless
hearty
javazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: javazons
Etymology: Blend of javelin + Amazon
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An Amazon character focusing on javelin skills.
Related terms: bowazon
spearazon
alkalimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkalimeters
Etymology: From alkali + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure alkalinity.
Related terms: alkalimetry
ammeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammeters
form: ammetre
form: Ampère meter
Etymology: From ampere + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The controllers of these diesels do not move round in notches, so that the driver's only sure guide to the way in which he is working his locomotive is his ammeter, corresponding in a way to the steam-chest pressure gauge of a steam locomotive. When the diesel was being worked full out, the ammeter normally showed about 1,500-1,600 amps, with occasional surges of current at starting or up the steepest gradients to 1,700 or even 1,800 amps.
ref: 1959 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 131–132:
synonyms: amperemeter
amperimeter
amperometer
glosses: A device that measures the magnitude of an electric current, especially one calibrated in amperes.
Derived terms: microammeter
milliammeter
picoammeter
voltammeter
Related terms: ammetry
voltammeter
multimeter
atmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmometers
Etymology: From atmo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures the rate of evaporation of a liquid.
Synonyms: evaporimeter
evaporimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evaporimeters
Senses: glosses: An atmometer
Related terms: evaporate
evaporimetry
kage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kages
Senses: glosses: A chantry chapel enclosed with latticework or screenwork.
bathometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathometers
form: bathymeter
Etymology: From batho- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument that measures the depth of water, used especially to measure the depth of ocean water.
Coordinate terms: depth sounder
echo sounder
sounding line
Related terms: barometer
bathythermograph
greets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːts/
rhymes: -iːts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of greet
greets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹiːts/
rhymes: -iːts
Forms: form: greetz
Senses: examples: text: greets to […]
text: I was just considering the term 'lamer' (because of all these ROM D00DZ who I think of as 'emulamers') and I was wondering: is 'lamer' a term that is unique to the C64 scene? I haven't seen in used it other circles, but it sure used to crop up a hell of a lot in demos, cracktro greets, etc.
ref: 1998, andreww, “C64 slang”, in comp.emulators.cbm (Usenet):
text: At this time, I do not really think it was hypocrisis^([sic]) to write "no greets to", or "fucking greets goes to"... The immediate effect was to release some other demoes^([sic]), proving you're not lame, and that you can beat your "fucker" :)
ref: 1999, Mickael Pointier, “Oldskool”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Greetings sent to other demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo.
bolometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolometers
Etymology: Coined in 1878 by Samuel Pierpont Langley from Ancient Greek βολή (bolḗ, “a strike, a throw”) + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A sensitive device for detecting and measuring the energy of electromagnetic radiation.
wikipedia: Samuel Pierpont Langley
Derived terms: microbolometer
spectrobolometer
Related terms: bolometric
bolometry
grat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæt/
rhymes: -æt
Forms: form: grats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A gratuity or tip.
Related terms: autograt
bolometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bolo- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bolometry
glosses: as measured using a bolometer
Derived terms: bolometrically
bolometric correction
bolometric magnitude
bolometric neutrino detection
microbolometric