cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biologism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biologisms
Etymology: From biology + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: But Sophocles and Rhode are both very much concerned with crude biologism vis-à-vis the Oedipal situation.
ref: 1988, Angela Carter, “Eric Rhode: On Birth and Madness”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 95:
glosses: The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social, behavior.
Derived terms: neurobiologism
Related terms: biological determinism
butter-box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter-boxes
Etymology: The idiom may have derived from the flag of Holland, which at the time had an orange stripe on top.
Senses: glosses: A Dutch person; used in the era of the Anglo-Dutch Wars.
cabinet window
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabinet windows
Senses: glosses: A projecting shop window, usually with curved sides, common in the 19th century.
casing shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: casing shoes
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: guide shoe
glosses: In drilling, a bullnosed device attached to the bottom of the casing string. A casing hanger, which allows the casing to be suspended from the wellhead, is also attached to the top of the casing.
cross the Rubicon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses the Rubicon
form: crossing the Rubicon
form: crossed the Rubicon
form: crossed the Rubicon
Etymology: Refers to Julius Caesar's crossing of the Rubicon to wage civil war with Rome, on January 10, 49 BCE, in violation of law. Suetonius' use of the phrase the die is cast in describing this act popularized the use of that phrase, which was first attributed to the Greek dramatist Menander.
Senses: examples: text: He knew that by coming out to his family he would be crossing the Rubicon, but he could not live a lie anymore.
text: Britain will cross a “legal and ethical Rubicon” if parliament votes to permit terminally ill patients to end their lives, said the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, as leaders of all the UK’s major faith groups call on MPs to reject plans to allow assisted suicide.
ref: 2015 September 5, Toby Helm, quoting Justin Welby, “Welby urges MPs: reject right-to-die bill that ‘crosses the Rubicon’”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
text: Having crossed the Rubicon, we can't go back. The impact of this transition is underlined by the fact that, despite our long evolutionary history as foragers, we generally can't survive by hunting and gathering when we have been stripped of that relevant culturally acquired know-how.
ref: 2016, Joseph Henrich, chapter 17, in The Secret of Our Success […] , Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN:
text: Will China cross the Rubicon by sending its military to Hong Kong?[…]
As the world contemplates whether Beijing will cross the Rubicon and use military force to quell protests in Hong Kong, one question naturally comes to mind: Would the existing garrison be used, or would tanks and soldiers, recently seen moving toward the border in nearby Shenzhen, come across from the mainland? Would they conceivably act as a combined force?
ref: 2019 August 16, Bonnie Girard, “Battle-Ready: The PLA’s Hong Kong Garrison”, in The Diplomat, archived from the original on 16 Aug 2019:
text: With the invasion of Ukraine the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has thrown himself into the unthinkable. He has crossed the Rubicon into a time of war. He has no way back.
ref: 2022 March 9, Luuk van Middelaar, “History is brutally back, and Ukraine will test Europe’s appetite for the consequences”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: When the inevitable moment arrives to cross the romantic Rubicon in “Ticket to Paradise,” the machinery of the screenplay and the far-fetched nature of the moment don’t matter — they can just look at each other and sell it.
ref: 2022 October 21, Jason Bailey, “How George Clooney and Julia Roberts Quietly Became the Tracy-Hepburn of Our Time”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To make an irreversible decision or to take an action with consequences.
wikipedia: Julius Caesar
Menander
Derived terms: rubicon
Related terms: burn one's boats
burn one's bridges
cross the line
point of no return
the die is cast
unmask one's batteries
cyclostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclostyles
Etymology: From cyclo- + style (as in stylus). Late 19th century.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A circular group of columns without a core.
glosses: A device used to make copies of a drawing or writing, via small punctures made in the outline
Derived terms: cyclostylar
cyclostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cyclostyles
form: cyclostyling
form: cyclostyled
form: cyclostyled
Etymology: From cyclo- + style (as in stylus). Late 19th century.
Senses: glosses: To use such a wheel and puncture device to make copies.
diaschisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈæskəsəs/
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A sudden loss of function in a portion of the brain connected to but at a distance from a damaged area.
embayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embay
embayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈbeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more embayed
form: most embayed
Senses: examples: text: Yet ere thou be where thou would'st be embay'd, / Thou shalt upon another Forest set [...].
ref: 1661, John Donne, Elegie XVIII:
glosses: Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
glosses: Of water: formed into a bay or bays.
Derived terms: unembayed
fissility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissilities
Etymology: From fissile + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fissile (in any sense).
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of mudstones to split along layers, more or less parallel to the plane of bedding, thus becoming described as shales.
Related terms: foliation
hallucinaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallucinauts
Etymology: Derived from the verb to hallucinate with suffix -naut (voyager, traveller).
Senses: examples: text: Ravaillac, who assassinated Henri IV., imagined that he smelt fire and brimstone exhaling from his feet; he beheld figures dancing before him, ...and one day he fancied that he saw a death's head upon a statue, all which with many other hallucinations induced him to believe that his victim had been sentenced to be damned, and that it was necessary that he should perish by his hand. The details of the cruel execution of this hallucinaut need not here be recapitulated.
ref: 1849. Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Page 548 http://books.google.com/books?id=OXgn9fbZxoYC&printsec=titlepage&dq=Hallucinaut
text: Hallucinaut Psychedelic Hallucinogenic Artwork By Patrick Gosch. Drawings, Fluorescent Blacklight Paintings And Other Psilocybin Mushroom DMT LSD Acid Inspired Art.
ref: 1999, Penny Brawley, Fractal Daydreams:
glosses: A person who is hallucinating.
jure uxoris
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin iūre (“by right”) uxōris (“of wife”).
Senses: examples: Robert Bruce, whom genealogists name "Robert Bruce IV" (c 1250 - c 1304), 6th Lord of Annandale, was titled Earl of Carrick jure uxoris.
topics: law
glosses: By right of wife.
landed cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landed costs
form: landed-cost
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The end cost of an internationally shipped item. This includes purchase price, freight, insurance, and other costs and may sometimes include duties and taxes.
queer someone's pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: queers someone's pitch
form: queering someone's pitch
form: queered someone's pitch
form: queered someone's pitch
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, the Mayor's coming, is he?"
"Yes, but he's very little good. Mayors don't draw as they used; nothing don't draw as it used. The game is pretty well up. What with amateur dramatics, choral unions, and local talent of all sorts, your pitch is queered wherever you go."
ref: 1880, The Era Almanack:
text: —no question, global buffeting has queered our pitch for growth in many ways, currency down-down, oil prices up-up—
ref: 2002, Nadine Gordimer, The Pickup, Bloomsbury, published 2001, page 45:
glosses: To make a task more difficult for someone.
meat market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meat markets
Etymology: The colloquial sense was coined in the 1950s. Sex has been likened to meat since as early as the 16th century, with such references to it as "have a jumble in the giblets" and "have a bit of mutton", not to mention "carnal relations".
Senses: glosses: A market where meat is sold.
examples: text: The rumors about Carnival 7NC’s are legion, one such rumor being that their Cruises are kind of like floating meat-market bars and that their ships bob with a conspicuous carnal squeakatasqueakata at night.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
synonyms: meet market
glosses: A place where one goes for a casual sexual encounter, such as a bar (establishment) or nightclub.
glosses: A place or situation abounding in men, especially beefcake.
sphaeristerium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphaeristeria
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A large open space connected with the Ancient Roman thermae, for exercise with balls after the bather had been anointed.
U-Haul lesbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: U-Haul lesbians
Etymology: The expression may have been originated in the early 1980s by comic Lea DeLaria, who joked:
: Q: What does a lesbian bring on a second date?
: A: A U-Haul.
Senses: glosses: A lesbian in a relationship that progresses very quickly, for example moving in together after only a short period of time.
wikipedia: Lea DeLaria
vicarious reinforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicarious reinforcements
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of learning process that occurs when someone observes others receive positive consequences for a behavior and then imitates that behavior themselves.
woo woo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːˌwuː/
Forms: form: woo woos
form: woo
form: woo-woo
form: woowoo
Etymology: Uncertain. It has been suggested that "woo woo" is intended to imitate the eerie background music of sci-fi/horror films and television shows. A connection has also been suggested to stereotypical sounds of ghosts (see boo and compare goetia).
Senses: examples: text: That reporter is a bit of a woo woo.
glosses: A person readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.
examples: text: He is really into all that woo woo.
text: […] there would still be realists who did not buy the woo-woo.
ref: 2017 May 16, Kevin R, “When your food is a sin against God”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), message-ID <500f03b2-b72d-44cc-aff3-c45aec3d3da8@googlegroups.com>:
glosses: Supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.
woo woo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːˌwuː/
Forms: form: more woo woo
form: most woo woo
form: woo
form: woo-woo
form: woowoo
Etymology: Uncertain. It has been suggested that "woo woo" is intended to imitate the eerie background music of sci-fi/horror films and television shows. A connection has also been suggested to stereotypical sounds of ghosts (see boo and compare goetia).
Senses: examples: text: He made a living out of woo woo beliefs.
text: One person's wonderful supplement is another person's quackery. There are continual skirmishes—if not outright war—between some of the more woo-woo elements of the wellness industry and science and fact-based solutions.
ref: 2020 April 3, Brigid Delaney, “Elle Macpherson Is Our May Cover Star”, in Harper's Bazaar, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2020:
glosses: Supernatural, pseudoscientific.
examples: text: Pert is a talented scientist who went woo woo many years ago for reasons I don’t have time to go into here.
ref: 2005 April 18, “What the (Bleep) Were They Thinking?”, in Skeptico, retrieved 12 Sep 2020:
text: Open-minded and vaguely woo-woo herself, she, too, left Jeffrey's chamber of Yoni floating.
ref: 2016, Melissa Broder, So Sad Today:
text: Paltrow’s family wasn’t especially woo-woo.
ref: 2020 April 8, Marisa Meltzer, “Gwyneth Paltrow Has the Last Laugh”, in Town & Country:
glosses: Readily accepting supernatural, paranormal, occult, or pseudoscientific phenomena, or emotion-based beliefs and explanations.
Derived terms: woo-wooness
woo woo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːˌwuː/
Forms: form: woo woos
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: Only top-shelf liquor is served, though Sasha refuses to serve drinks he deems fratlike. These include woo woos, kamikazes and shots of any kind.
ref: 2000 May 7, Julia Chaplin, “Buzz Off: Secret Bars That Spurn Hype”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:
glosses: An alcoholic cocktail consisting of peach schnapps, vodka and cranberry juice.
woo woo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwuːˌwuː/
Forms: form: woo woos
Etymology: Imitative of a siren.
Senses: glosses: The sound of a siren.
Yankee dime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yankee dimes
Senses: examples: text: If you bring me a glass of sweet iced tea, I will give you a Yankee dime.
qualifier: American South
glosses: A kiss.
palmist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmists
Etymology: Back-formation from palmistry, equivalent to palm + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: While one can find lots of individual astrologers and graphologists, as well as an occasional palmist, psycho metrist or those astute in the reading of tarot cards or I Ching—Psychic Dimensions, Inc., has got it all together.
ref: 1970 November 28, Lisa Hammel, “Need an Occultist? Name Your Choice”, in The New York Times:
text: Most palmists find that reading the marriage lines is a lot like predicting the weather: sometimes they are right on, and sometimes they're not even in the ballpark.
ref: 2008, Jon Saint-Germain, Lover's Guide to Palmistry: Finding Love in the Palm of Your Hand, →ISBN:
glosses: A fortuneteller who uses palmistry.
Synonyms: chiromancer
handreader
palmister
palmster
fortuneteller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortunetellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fortune-teller.
fortune teller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fortune tellers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fortune-teller.
tightie-whities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Here are 5 more reasons to hate Chris Jefford: 5 He’s the only date that’s truly from hell. 4 He THINKS that his body his cool. 3 He wants his dates to to tell him so 2 “I want to have sex”. 1 Cool guys don’t wear "tightie-whities". - Someone else who knows.
ref: 1988 November 16, The Observer (Notre Dame and Saint Mary's), volume XXII, number 5, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of tighty whities.
Y-fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Setting a spatted foot on the bench that ran down the middle of the changing-room with elegant distain, Adrian began to flip through a pile of Y-fronts and rugger shorts with his cane.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 6:
text: I did the latter, so in writing this I have put it on record that I am one of the few men who has spent Christmas Eve running across a Kentish marsh in his Y-fronts with two horses trotting after him in close company.
ref: 2013, Mike Peyton, Mike Peyton’s Floating Assets, page 4:
glosses: Men's or boys' briefs that have a fly as part of an inverted Y formed by the seams.
Synonyms: underwear
Related terms: jocks
bibidees
bikini briefs
palpably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more palpably
form: most palpably
Etymology: From palpable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Brown withdrawn, Phoebe came presently to bed to me, and what with the answers she drew from me, what with her own method of palpably satisfying herself
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter XXII, in Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: In the case of senior police or government officials who were palpably guilty of serving Nazi interests via the puppet regimes that employed them, this defence was at best disingenuous.
ref: 2005, Tony Judt, “Retribution”, in Postwar: A history of Europe since 1945, London: Vintage Books, published 2010, →ISBN:
glosses: In a palpable manner; tangibly.
scorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Etymology: Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.
Senses: examples: text: And recompenst him with a better scorse.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 55:
glosses: barter; exchange; trade
scorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɔː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: scorses
form: scorsing
form: scorsed
form: scorsed
Etymology: Compare Italian scorsa (“a course”), and English discourse.
Senses: examples: text: But Paridell sore brused with the blow, / Could not arise, the counterchaunge to scorse […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To barter or exchange.
examples: text: Him first from court he to the citties coursed,
And from the citties to the townes him prest,
And from the townes into the countrie forsed
, And from the country back to private farmes he scorsed
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To chase.
lose one's virginity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses one's virginity
form: losing one's virginity
form: lost one's virginity
form: lost one's virginity
Senses: examples: text: Born in Chicago on April 9th, 1926, he was the son of Methodists, served as a noncombatant in World War II, earned a bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Illinois and didn't lose his virginity until he was 22.
ref: 2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: To have sexual intercourse for the first time.
Synonyms: pop the cherry
Coordinate terms: virginity
chaste
chastity
virgin
mostarda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mostardas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mostarda. Doublet of mustard.
Senses: glosses: An Italian condiment made of candied fruit and a mustard-flavoured syrup.
Globish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡloʊbɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɡləʊbɪʃ/
Etymology: Blend of global + English, late 20th c.
Senses: examples: text: The typical conversation in Globish could be grating to a native speaker, but get the job done between, say, a Kenyan and a Korean trying to navigate a business deal or asking for help at the airport check-in.
ref: 2006 August 6, Noam Cohen, “Language not pronounced trippingly on native tongue”, in New York Times:
text: Nobody is likely to grow up speaking Globish as a mother tongue.
ref: 2008, Mark Abley, The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English, page 98:
text: Across a dozen different time zones, financial journalists in each of these cities filed reports for their national desks, but the language of the crisis was unvaryingly Globish.
ref: 2011, Robert McCrum, Globish: How English Became the World's Language, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 280:
text: Perhaps most importantly, Globish cannot draw on the history and idioms of any one culture.
ref: 2012, Gerard Kelly, Church Actually: Rediscovering the Brilliance of God's Plan, page 144:
text: Meanwhile, the local Englishes of Asian and African countries will become increasingly regional in flavour. But the rise of Globish may be prevented by the Babel chip.
ref: 2018, Gaston Dorren, Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages:
synonyms: International English
coordinate_terms: ELF
glosses: A simplified version of the English language, not created but consisting of the most common English words and phrases, enabling non-English-speakers to communicate.
Related terms: Franglais
Hinglish
Newspeak
Spanglish
Franglais
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɒŋɡleɪ/
ipa: /ˌfɹɑŋˈɡleɪ/
ipa: /ˌfɹɑːŋˈɡleɪ/
Forms: form: franglais
Etymology: From French franglais, blend of français (“French”) + anglais (“English”).
Senses: glosses: French terms or expressions recently borrowed from the English language.
glosses: The poor French spoken by anglophones.
glosses: Colloquial speech that is a mix of English and French terms, conjugation, and grammar.
Synonyms: Frenglish
Derived terms: Camfranglais
Related terms: Globish
Hinglish
Newspeak
Spanglish
Newspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.
Senses: examples: text: In Orwell’s 1984, the use of ambiguous and confusing language with restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, known as Newspeak, diminishes the range of a person’s thought process. For example, in Newspeak, the term “Fake News” would replace the words: accurate, correct, factual and reliable news reporting.
ref: 2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record:
text: The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
ref: 2021 January 5, Peter Foster, “Peter Foster: Sustainable Newspeak by 2050”, in Financial Post:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
glosses: The fictional language devised to meet the needs of Ingsoc and designed to restrict the words, and thereby the thoughts, of the citizens of Oceania in the 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
examples: text: Many modern languages like Haskell, Scala, and Newspeak offer parser combinators as libraries on top of the core language.
ref: 2010, Debasish Ghosh, DSLs in Action, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A highly dynamic and reflective programming language descended from Smalltalk, supporting both object-oriented and functional programming.
Derived terms: fanspeak
newspeak
Newspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Newspeaks
Etymology: From new + speak, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The programming language was so named because of its “shrinkable” design, following Orwell's idea of a continually diminishing vocabulary in Newspeak.
Senses: examples: text: All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show.
ref: 1995 June 22, Umberto Eco, “Ur-Fascism”, in The New York Review of Books, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2017:
text: In 2020, Trump has provided the American people with plenty of Newspeak to explain away the current and growing nationwide spread of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
ref: 2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of newspeak.
Related terms: political correctness
spin
to the power of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: Two to the power of four equals sixteen. 2⁴=16.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Indicating an exponent.
Synonyms: to the
Related terms: exponentiation
to the
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Two to the fourth equals sixteen.
= Two to the fourth power equals sixteen.
= Two to the four equals sixteen.
= (Two to the power of four equals sixteen.)
text: =Ten to the four
ref: Ten to the fourth (10,000)
text: Ten to the minus four (1/10,000)
text: Ten to the zero (1)
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of to the power of or to the ... (nth) power.
examples: J to the L-O
glosses: used in rap songs between the letters of a word being spelled
Related terms: word: to the power of
english: to the
translation: to the
urls: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English+lemmas&from=to+the#mw-pages
word: English terms starting with
Roman candles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman candle, a type of firework.
bonable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bonable
form: most bonable
form: boneable
Etymology: From bone + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Pete discovers the pitfalls to dating highly-bonable actress-type Hollywood women from 1/2 a world away
ref: 2001 January 31, Kenneth R. Crudup, “Re: Are we all geeks or what?”, in alt.video.dvd (Usenet):
text: Nikomis still hurts my eyes. Yikes, what a horror show.
At least Holly is bonable.
ref: 2005 July 22, Petey Poblano, “Re: Ouch! My ears!”, in alt.tv.big-brother (Usenet):
text: 2006 September 7, Jason Lammers, “Re: [horrog] Re: g banger sister”, Horrog, Google groups
if we put all our own bits of information together we might get a clearer picture.
I heard she's pretty bonable! How about you guys. Does she have a fat rack?
glosses: Able to be or worthy of being boned; sexually attractive.
Derived terms: bonability
lametta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈmɛtə/
rhymes: -ɛtə
Etymology: From Italian lametta (literally “small blade”).
Senses: synonyms: tinsel
glosses: Thin wire or foil made of brass, gold or silver; now especially thin strips of metallic foil used as Christmas decoration.
spinto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spintos
Etymology: From Italian spinto (literally “pushed”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A soprano or tenor voice of a weight between lyric and dramatic, capable of handling large musical climaxes in opera at moderate intervals.
ciné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cine.
Related terms: ciné à clef
ciné camera
ciné film
successe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: successes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of success.
technological unemployment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Unemployment caused by technological advances. This includes machines and software substituting for human labor, advances in efficiency negating the need for friction-based jobs, and increased data availability undermining professions that rely on information asymmetry.
Related terms: classical unemployment
cyclical unemployment
frictional unemployment
Marxian unemployment
seasonal unemployment
structural unemployment
aficionada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aficionadas
Senses: glosses: A devoted female admirer; a female aficionado.
glosses: A lesser aficionado; alternative spelling of aficionado.
soulful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊlfəl/
rhymes: -əʊlfəl
Forms: form: more soulful
form: most soulful
Etymology: From soul + -ful (adjective suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In the United States, Mr. Besson is primarily known as a superior director of stylish, mayhemic, even soulful films like “La Femme Nikita” and “Léon: The Professional.”
ref: 2007 May 20, Jaime Wolf, “Le Cinéma du Blockbuster”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Full of emotion and vigor.
glosses: Full of soul.
Derived terms: soulfully
soulfulness
soulful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊlfəl/
rhymes: -əʊlfəl
Forms: form: soulfuls
form: soulsful
Etymology: From soul + -ful (noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: At Sebago we hauled in Perch and whole soulfuls of lovely scenery.
ref: 1958 September 24, Edwin D. Merry, “Float plane trolling”, in Flying Magazine, volume 63, number 3, page 35:
text: Bodiless soulsful of mud / Gurgled and settled down;
ref: 1961, America Sings, page 122:
text: He grabbed his chin and went off to brood in a dark corner of Godel's office, then swished into space, hopping from planet to planet like someone walking off a soulful of problems.
ref: 2008, Joseph Wechsler, Look, Ma!: Stories with Points to Ponder, page 174:
text: Could anyone use a strong dose of self-discipline? How about a heaping soulful of joy?
ref: 2014, Beth Moore, Portraits of Devotion, page 304:
glosses: An amount enough to fill one's soul.
soulfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊlfəli/
Forms: form: more soulfully
form: most soulfully
Etymology: From soulful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a soulful manner.
soulfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsoʊlfəlnəs/
Forms: form: soulfulnesses
Etymology: From soulful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being soulful.
Related terms: soul
soulful
soulfully
technophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technophobes
Etymology: From techno- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: My Dad can't answer his mobile phone. He's a real technophobe.
text: "It's kind of unfortunate that it depends on spectacular violence by somebody, or whoever it is, to get it into print," said that man, John Zerzan, a leading pamphleteer and self-described anarchist and technophobe who has become a guru of sorts for anti-technology leftists.
ref: 1995 May 7, Kenneth B. Noble, “Prominent Anarchist Finds Unsought Ally in Serial Bomber”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Somebody who suffers from technophobia; somebody afraid of new technology.
playlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playlets
Etymology: From play + -let.
Senses: glosses: A short play (dramatic work).
Synonyms: playette
Jadon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew יָדוֹן (yadón, “Jadon”).
Senses: examples: And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew of Biblical origin. Taken into regular use the 1990s, apparently seen as a variant of the more popular Jayden.
auric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound, HAuO₂, formed from the hydrated oxide Au(OH)₃ as a brown powder
Related terms: chloroauric acid
philtra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philtrum
ultramarathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramarathons
Etymology: From ultra- + marathon.
Senses: examples: text: In South Africa, one of our most popular ultramarathon races is over 56 miles.
ref: 1977, The Marathon: Physiological, Medical, Epidemiological, and Psychological Studies, New York Academy of Sciences:
glosses: A running race over a distance longer than 42.195 km (26 miles 385 yard), the length of a standard marathon.
Derived terms: ultramarathoner
elephantitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elephantitus
Etymology: By confusion with -itis (“inflammation”).
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of elephantiasis.
filtrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filtra
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of philtrum.
quarter-century
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-centuries
Etymology: From quarter + century.
Senses: examples: text: In the present writer's opinion there was no greater and more successful locomotive engineer in the country, during the first quarter-century, than George Jackson Churchward of the Great Western Railway. This statement is made without prejudice, for I was brought up on the other line extending from Waterloo to Padstow, and between Swindon and Eastleigh there was a great gulf fixed.
ref: 1957 July 24, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Six Decades of Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 471:
text: I spent my second quarter-century
Losing what I had learnt at university
And refusing to take in what had happened since […]
ref: 1978, Philip Larkin, The Winter Palace:
glosses: A period of twenty-five years.
Related terms: half-century
authigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αὖθι (aûthi, “on the spot”) + -genic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Generated where it is found or observed.
Derived terms: authigenically
nonauthigenic
Related terms: allogenic
Braden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹeɪdən/
rhymes: -eɪdən
Forms: form: Bradens
form: Braeden
form: Braiden
form: Brayden
Etymology: Anglicised from an Irish surname Ó Bradáin (“descendant of Bradán”), from a personal name meaning "salmon".
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of 1990s and 2000s usage.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Flannigan Township, Hamilton County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Fayette County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Union County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Bradenton
diff EQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪ.fiˈkjuː/
Forms: form: diff EQs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A differential equation.
examples: text: Are you taking diff EQ this semester?
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A college course in differential equations, usually as part of a standardized calculus curriculum.
ordinary differential equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ordinary differential equations
Senses: topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equation involving the derivatives of a function of only one independent variable.
Related terms: delay differential equation
partial differential equation
stochastic differential equation
melty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: meltier
form: meltiest
Etymology: From melt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This creamy, melty cheese dip is delicious with crisp fresh vegetables.
ref: 2008, Linda Larsen, The $7 a Meal Slow Cooker Cookbook:
text: I must say that the meltiest, most evocative entry in this theme set is BRA OF CHOCOLATE, which, of course, started out as a bar of chocolate until Mr. Berry and the made up “Victoria’s Sweetness catalog” got hold of it.
ref: 2014 August 23, Deb Amlen, “Second Shift”, in The New York Times:
text: If you’ve ever eaten Buffalo chicken wings and thought, “These are so good, I just wish they were meltier and cheesier so I could scoop them up with tortilla chips,” here’s Ali’s Buffalo chicken dip.
ref: 2024 January 27, The New York Times Cooking, “Chips as Chicken and Wings as Dip”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having a high tendency to melt.
examples: text: "Melt," Ms. Martinet directed Ms. Velko, as the young dancer assumed a deep arabesque. "This is really the meltiest of them all."
ref: 1991 April 14, Barbara Gilford, “DANCE; Capturing the Beauty In Ballet of Goddesses”, in The New York Times:
text: Let the cookies cool for about 20 minutes before eating. They’re best when they’re slightly warm and the chocolate chips are still melty. Enjoy!
ref: 2020, Jenna Barnard, Butternut Bakery:
glosses: In the state of being melted.
Derived terms: meltiness
devil's food cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devil's food cakes
form: devil's-food cake
Senses: glosses: A particularly rich form of chocolate cake.
Related terms: chocolate nemesis
death by chocolate
angel food cake
devil's food cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devil's food cake
Al-Andalus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of al-Andalus.
catcall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætkɔl/
Forms: form: catcalls
form: cat-call
Etymology: Mid-17th c., from the resemblance to cats' nocturnal cries. From cat + call.
Senses: examples: text: There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual:
ref: 1998 Aug, Vibe, page 44:
glosses: A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo.
examples: text: In the Room for Debate forum Stopping Street Harassment, the editors ask four people to weigh in on the question, Should current laws dealing with harassment be strengthened to include catcalling, or will that go too far in controlling speech and behavior? (A catcall in this context is defined as “a whistle, shout, or comment of a sexual nature to a woman passing by.”)
ref: 2014 November 12, Kathering Schulten, “What Have Been Your Experiences With Catcalling or Other Kinds of Street Harassment?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A shout, whistle, or comment of a harassingly sexual nature, usually made toward a passing woman.
examples: text: At what period was the custom of blowing catcalls at the theatre discontinued?
ref: 1823, The Drama, Or, Theatrical Pocket Magazine, page 289:
glosses: A whistle blown by a theatre-goer to express disapproval.
Related terms: swit swoo
wit woo
catcall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætkɔl/
Forms: form: catcalls
form: catcalling
form: catcalled
form: catcalled
form: cat-call
Etymology: Mid-17th c., from the resemblance to cats' nocturnal cries. From cat + call.
Senses: examples: text: When Susan Seligson thinks about breasts — and, since she’s a DDD-endowed (touché) middle-aged woman who’s been groped and catcalled her whole life, that’s often, too — she thinks about ... her own DDDs.
ref: 2007 January 4, Ada Calhoun, “Up Front”, in New York Times:
glosses: To make such an exclamation.
Derived terms: catcallee
catcaller
catcall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætkɔl/
Forms: form: catcalls
Etymology: Short for change availability or type + call.
Senses: examples: text: Java does not let you make members more private than they are in parent classes, so has no catcall problem for changing availability. Thus to avoid catcalls with export problems, you should adopt a once-public, always-public policy.
ref: 1999, Ian Joyner, Objects Unencapsulated: Java, Eiffel, and C++?, page 244:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
huehuetl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huehuetls
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An ancient Mesoamerican percussion instrument, an upright tubular drum made from a wooden body opened at the bottom that stands on three legs cut from its base, with skin stretched over the top, and played by hand or with a mallet.
cow-orker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cow-orkers
form: cow orker
Etymology: Deliberate corruption of co-worker, perhaps in imitation of pronunciation errors in early text-to-speech software.
Senses: examples: text: The above quote has been rated as gross, digusting,^([sic]) and tacky by my cow-orkers at work...are you a cow orker?
ref: 1989, Charles Anderson, “Re: Words (mundane)”, in alt.sca (Usenet):
text: 1998, cluelessnewbie, Re: I give up on alt.slack, alt.slack, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.slack/msg/2e925ed61ecb16d0?dmode=source&hl=en
At this point, my cow-orker got real pissed off and firmly and courageously said: Hey, as a result of channeling, I discovered I used to be a cow in a previous lifetime.
text: You must be a popular cow-orker.
ref: 2006, Richard Bos, “Re: Casting malloc (was: Reading a string of unknown size)”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):
glosses: co-worker
co-worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-workers
Etymology: From co- + worker.
Senses: examples: text: After graduating from a Seoul university, Park's brother settled in the North Korean coastal town of Wonsan as a dentist in 1946. After the war broke out, Park was told by a co-worker that his brother refused to flee to the South because he had a family in the North and was a surgeon in the North Korean army.
ref: 2018 August 20, “After decades apart, South Koreans head to North for family reunions”, in France 24, sourced from NEWS WIRES, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2018, Asia / Pacific:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coworker.
gracilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡras.ɪ.lɪs/
ipa: /ˈɡræs.ə.lɪs/
Forms: form: graciles
Etymology: From Latin gracilis (“slender”). Doublet of gracile.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A slender superficial muscle of the inner thigh.
elites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elite
papilio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papilios
form: papiliones
Etymology: From the genus name and its source, Latin pāpiliō. Doublet of papillon and pavilion.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any butterfly of the genus Papilio.
nahualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nagualism
Etymology: From nahual + -ism. The first element is from Nahuatl nahualli (“sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take”).
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: The Mesoamerican belief that certain human beings can transform into animals.
Related terms: alt: nagual
word: nahual
alt: tona, tonalli
word: tonal
word: skinwalking
clogged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clog
clogged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: the toilet is clogged
glosses: Having an obstructed flow; blocked.
splinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splinter
Golgotha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒlɡəθə/
ipa: /ɡɒlˈɡɒθə/
Etymology: * From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ) from the Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā).
* (rooms of the heads of the colleges; a hat): Punning on "the place of the skulls/heads".
Senses: examples: text: "And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha"
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 19:17:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Calvary
glosses: The hill outside Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
examples: text: But Printing is not the only, nor the principal uſe, for which theſe ſtupendous ſtone-walls were erected; for here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, i.e. the place of Sculls or Heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs, which occur within the precincts of their juriſdiction.
ref: 1726, Nicholas Amhurst, Terræ-filius: or, the Secret History of the University of Oxford (No. XI), page 59
text: Graduates […] will never forget that majestic stature, that massive brow, that commanding look, as its possessor paced the ante-chapel of his college, or took his seat of presidence among the skulls of Golgotha.
ref: 1881, The Academy, page 407:
qualifier: Oxbridge slang
glosses: The rooms of the heads of the colleges.
Golgotha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒlɡəθə/
ipa: /ɡɒlˈɡɒθə/
Forms: form: Golgothas
Etymology: * From the Ancient Greek Γολγοθᾶ (Golgothâ) from the Aramaic גּוּלְגּוּלְתָּא (gulgultā).
* (rooms of the heads of the colleges; a hat): Punning on "the place of the skulls/heads".
Senses: glosses: A charnel house.
examples: text: […] to the hat-rail; when Wigg went to put it on, it of course resisted, and giving it a spatch, off came the brim. In his fury at the destruction of his “Golgotha,” Wigg rushed to the counter, and seizing a fifty sovereign brass weight, hurled it […]
ref: 1879, Thomas Southwell, Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, page 271:
text: […] and finally raised his hat and put it on again, cocked back on one side of his head in exact imitation of the manner in which the tall man carried his golgotha.
ref: 1887, W. T. Eady, I.D.B. Or, The Adventures of Solomon Davis on the Diamond Fields and Elsewhere, page 165:
glosses: A hat.
egg ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg rings
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A round metal ring, used when cooking to prevent an egg spreading across the cooking surface.
don't give up your day job
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: When the accounting department's barbershop quartet was warming up, the sales team was ribbing them, yelling, "Don't give up your day job!"
text: "I remember after the school was over," he said, "I went up to the instructor just completely wound up like: ‘O.K. man, how do I do this and become a real racecar driver? I want to quit my job and do this.’ . . . And he goes: ‘Other Sports Beckon. You suck. Don't give up your day job.’ "
ref: 2006 July 3, Viv Bernstein, “Said Makes His Case for Success in Nascar”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Oct 2015:
synonyms: don't quit your day job
glosses: Somewhat sarcastic but usually good-natured advice used to criticise a person's degree of talent (especially in music or other performing arts), implying that they are unlikely to be successful.
MABS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of methyl methacrylate acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.
MABS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Money Advice and Budgeting Service a service run by the Irish government to assist low income families with budgeting, debt control, and saving schemes.
fibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibre
dog tags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dog tag
dog tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog tags
Senses: coordinate_terms: pet tag
glosses: A small metal disk, attached to a dog's collar, containing identification information.
glosses: The identification tag worn around the neck by military personnel.
Derived terms: dogtagged
chimney stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chimney stacks
form: chimneystack
Senses: examples: text: The smoke-pall of industrial Lancashire hung over the landscape; perhaps slagscape would be a more fitting term. The general prospect was a succession of chimney-stacks, factories, pit-heads, slagheaps, junctions, sidings and coal wagons.
ref: 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
topics: architecture
glosses: A vertical structure, normally of brick, rising from a roof, containing one or more flues, each one terminating in a chimney pot.
fannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fanny