cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
more or less
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔɹ ɔɹ lɛs/
Forms: form: more-or-less
Senses: examples: text: There were a hundred people in the room, more or less.
text: The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk[…], and is sessile on the calyptra base[…]
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 5:
synonyms: word: -ish
word: about
word: all but
word: almost
word: approaching
word: around
word: by and large
word: circa
word: close
word: close to
word: essentially
word: for all practical purposes
word: fornigh
word: give or take
word: imprecisely
word: just about
word: kind of
word: loosely
word: more or less
word: nearly
word: near
word: nearabout
word: nigh on
word: odd
word: or so
word: plus or minus
word: roundly
word: roughly
word: say
word: some
word: -some
word: sort of
word: thereabout
word: virtually
word: well-nigh
word: ±
glosses: Approximately.
examples: text: I've more or less guaranteed myself a top mark in my final exams.
synonyms: word: all but
word: almost
word: as good as
word: as near as makes no difference
word: close to
word: fornigh
word: just about
word: more or less
word: near
word: near as damn it
word: nearly
word: next to
word: nigh
word: nigh on
word: nighwhat
word: not quite
word: practically
word: pretty much
word: tantamount to
word: well-nigh
word: virtually
glosses: Almost.
examples: text: [X] is always more or less of a [Y]
text: Entrepreneurship is always more or less of a gamble.
text: The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Discipleship is a degenerating process to all parties concerned. People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
ref: 1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined from a Life of Love, Laugher and Work, William H. Wise and Company, page 197:
text: The big complaint you hear is that when you [a farmer] take your product to the market, you take what they give you. And when you go buy on the other end, you pay what they say. So you’re at their mercy on both ends, more or less.
ref: 2011 [1974], Pierce Walker, quotee, edited by Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, Kindle edition, New Press, →ISBN, pages 73-74:
glosses: To varying extents, across instances; to an extent that varies among cases.
diarsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarsines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic derivative of diarsane
triarsine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triarsines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic derivative of triarsane
triarsane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triarsanes
Etymology: From tri- + arsane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The arsenic hydride As₃H₅ having a chain of three arsenic atoms.
Related terms: triarsine
diarsane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarsanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The arsenic hydride As₂H₄, having a chain of two arsenic atoms
Related terms: diarsine
montre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montres
Etymology: French montre (“show, show case, organ case”).
Senses: glosses: An organ stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes on display as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
glosses: A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces inside can be judged.
instalment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn-stôlʹmənt
ipa: /ɪnˈstɔːlmənt/
Forms: form: instalments
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of installment.
Derived terms: reinstalment
sliding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Children were swinging and sliding in the playground.
glosses: present participle and gerund of slide
sliding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: slidings
Senses: examples: text: Her driver was new to the country; he mightn't be prepared for the leaping of the yellow water down dry arroyos, swift as the pouncings of a cat, or the snake-like slidings of tons of loosened rock and clay from the steep potreros […]
ref: 1931, Mary Hunter Austin, Starry Adventure, page 274:
glosses: The motion of something that slides.
sliding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Our yard is just outside the sliding door.
glosses: Designed or able to slide.
Derived terms: sliding door
sliding filament model
sliding keel
sliding pond
sliding-rule
sliding scale
sliding tackle
sliding window
water-sliding
way-sliding
moka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moka
form: mokas
Etymology: Probably from Italian moka.
Senses: examples: text: In a moka, water boils in a closed chamber with enough headroom to allow a head of steam to collect. The pressure from the steam forces the hot water to escape from the chamber and pass through the ground coffee.
ref: 1997, Corby Kummer, The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: A moka pot.
moka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A ritualized system of exchange in the Mount Hagen area of Papua New Guinea, involving reciprocal gifts of pigs that regulate social status.
peters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peter
peters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of peter
lep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leps
Etymology: Short for Lepidoptera.
Senses: examples: text: Butterflies and moths belong to the insect order Lepidoptera (“leps” for short), which means “scale-wing.”
ref: 2006, Lori A. Spencer, Don R. Simons, Arkansas Butterflies and Moths, page 3:
topics: sciences
glosses: A butterfly or moth.
eye sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyesight.
captives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of captive
chariots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chariot
stati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstætaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of status.
Related terms: stati quo
popular culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popular cultures
Senses: glosses: The prevailing vernacular culture in any given society, including art, cooking, clothing/fashion, entertainment, fads, films, mass media, music, sports, and style.
Synonyms: pop culture
normal subgroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: normal subgroups
Etymology: The term was coined by Évariste Galois.
Senses: topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subgroup H of a group G that is invariant under conjugation; that is, for all elements h of H and for all elements g in G, the element ghg⁻¹ is in H.
wikipedia: Évariste Galois
cast out nines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts out nines
form: casting out nines
form: cast out nines
form: cast out nines
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: To apply a procedure for verifying whether an arithmetic operation is probably correct or certainly incorrect using modulo characteristics of the digit 9.
rabdology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhabdology
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: The practice of performing arithmetic using Napier's bones.
rhabdology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rabdology.
Napier's bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Napier's rods
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A set of numbered rods used for multiplication and division (see the Wikipedia article for a fuller explanation).
Napier's rods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: Napier's bones
promptuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promptuaries
Etymology: Latin promptuarium (“storehouse”).
Senses: glosses: A magazine, repository, or handbook.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: A device described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ, consisting of a large set of strips used to multiply multi-digit numbers more easily than Napier’s bones.
promptuary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin promptuarium (“storehouse”).
Senses: examples: text: such things as frequently happen and come in dispute ; and this we call the promptuary way
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or relating to preparation.
location arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Latin arithmeticae localis, coined by Scottish landowner and mathematician John Napier (1550–1617) in his 1617 treatise Rabdologiæ (written in Latin).
Senses: topics: arithmetic
glosses: A device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.
wikipedia: John Napier
Rabdology
Related terms: Napier's bones
promptuary
rabdology
bacteriophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bacterio- (“bacteria”) + -phagous (“eating”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the predation and consumption of bacterium.
Related terms: bacteriophage
bacteriophagy
bait and switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Seereeram and other critics say it was a sort of bait and switch. Citibank met with Trintomar three times in the spring of 1992 to pitch its original $66 million refinancing proposal, and in a letter dated Sept. 9, Trintomar asked for a formal proposal. The next day, Citibank sent a letter outlining the extra $96.5 million loan in several pages of eye-glazing detail.
ref: 2002 October 7, Jyoti Thottam, “Predators in Paradise?”, in Time:
synonyms: bait advertising
switch selling
glosses: An unscrupulous and sometimes illegal sales technique, in which an inexpensive product is advertised to attract prospective customers who are then told by sales personnel that the inexpensive product is unavailable or of poor quality and are instead urged to buy a more expensive product.
examples: text: Jon: Hey, Garfield, let's get a pizza!
[…]
Jon:On the way we'll stop at the vet.
Garfield: It's the old bait and switch!
ref: 1986 February 4, Jim Davis, Garfield:
glosses: Any similar deceptive behavior, especially in politics and romantic relationships.
Related terms: word: bait-and-switch
word: upsell
bait and switch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baits and switches
form: baiting and switching
form: baited and switched
form: baited and switched
Senses: examples: text: Not when you are baiting and switching down from a stately antebellum manse to a tenement crack house.
ref: 2008, Sarah Bird, How Perfect is That, page 242:
text: ... she baits and switches then baits again.
ref: 2011, Tim Palmer, Brutal Intimacy: Analyzing Contemporary French Cinema, page 178:
text: they often baited and switched: promised top people but sent the third string.
ref: 2015, Stephen B. Peterson, Public Finance and Economic Growth in Developing Countries:
glosses: To lure someone with an offer of some kind, but substitute something of greater advantage to the offerer.
bait dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bait dogs
Senses: glosses: A dog that is used to test another dog's fighting instinct. The "bait" is mauled or killed in the process.
bannimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Historically, from Medieval Latin bannimus (“we banish, we expel”), from bannō, bandō (“denounce, ban, banish, proclaim, proscribe”, verb), influenced in meaning by bannum (“ordinance, ban”), from Frankish *bannjan (“to proclaim, order or prohibit under penalty”), from Proto-Germanic *bannijaną (“to curse, damn”), *bannaną (“to request”). Cognate with Old High German bannen (“to order under penalty, proscribe, cast a spell on”), ban (“order under penalty”). More at ban.
Senses: glosses: A form of expulsion of any individual from the University of Oxford, by putting the proctorial edict up in some public place, as a denunciation or promulgation of it. It also served to prevent the individual from claiming the cause of expulsion.
Related terms: bannition
base communications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
telecommunications
war
glosses: Communications services, such as the installation, operation, maintenance, augmentation, modification, and rehabilitation of communications networks, systems, facilities, and equipment, including off-post extensions, provided for the operation of a military post, camp, installation, station, or activity.
Synonyms: base station
batboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batboys
Etymology: From bat + boy.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: A boy employed to watch over the bats, and assist the players in retrieving them during play.
Related terms: batgirl
batty boy
lectureship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lectureships
Etymology: From lecture + -ship.
Senses: glosses: A position as a lecturer.
glosses: A series of lectures, possibly by different lecturers, on a common theme.
glosses: Something that provides for lectures to be presented.
lexicographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lexicographical
form: most lexicographical
Etymology: From lexicographic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: More importantly, there is an untold multitude of Indian English terms that have never been given lexicographical treatment in any dictionary.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 301:
glosses: Relating to lexicography.
glosses: Meeting lexicographical standards or requirements; worthy of being included in a dictionary.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: lexical
glosses: Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
Synonyms: lexicographic
Derived terms: lexicographically
metalexicographical
nonlexicographical
unlexicographical
Related terms: lexical
Bhalavali Bhasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Indian language spoken in the two districts of the state of Karnataka, namely Dakshina Kannada district (with Mangalore as its head-quarters) and Kodagu. It is a form of Marathi that has been heavily influenced by Kannada, Tulu, and other Dravidian languages.
Bharatiya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bhartiya
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi भारतीय (bhārtīya),
Senses: glosses: Indian: a person nationally identified with the Republic of India.
Bharatiya
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bharatiya
form: most Bharatiya
form: Bhartiya
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi भारतीय (bhārtīya),
Senses: glosses: Indian, especially in a nationalist context.
Derived terms: Bharatiya Janata Party
Related terms: Bharat
Bharatwasi
livability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livabilities
form: liveability
Etymology: From live + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The livability of the shack was questioned, but the old man had lived there for 50 years.
glosses: The property of being livable.
livelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: live-long
Etymology: From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).
Senses: examples: text: I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.
text: How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “I'm Nobody! Who are you?”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 21:
text: […] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 7:
glosses: total, complete, whole
examples: text: Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a live-long monument.
ref: 1630, John Milton, On Shakespeare:
glosses: lasting; durable.
Related terms: lifelong
livelong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livelongs
form: live-long
Etymology: From Middle English live long, leve-long, lefe long (as in Alle the lefe longe daye), equivalent to lief + long. Compare Dutch heel den lieven langen dag (“all the livelong day”), German der liebe lange Tag (“the livelong day”) and German die liebe lange Nacht (“the livelong night”).
Senses: glosses: orpine (Hylotelephium telephium syn. Sedum telephium)
bilateran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Humans are bilateran organisms.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having bilateral symmetry, i.e. an axis of symmetry that goes down from the top to the bottom.
bilateran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilaterans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bilaterian.
loggia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈlɒd͡ʒiə/
ipa: /ˈloʊd͡ʒə/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə
Forms: form: loggias
form: logge
form: loggie
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian loggia, from Old French loge, from Medieval Latin laubĭa, from Frankish *laubijā. Doublet of lobby and lodge.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A roofed, open gallery, usually on an upper level.
Derived terms: loggiaed
palmo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmos
form: palma
form: pam
Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese palmo (“handspan”), from Latin palmus. Doublet of palm, palma, and pam.
Senses: qualifier: measure
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 20.8 cm.
qualifier: measure
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of length, usually equivalent to about 22 cm.
Synonyms: word: Portuguese span
word: Spanish span
word: cuarta
word: span
word: handspan
english: in Spanish or Portuguese contexts
translation: in Spanish or Portuguese contexts
word: palm
Coordinate terms: sense: Spanish unit
word: dedo (1⁄12 palmo)
sense: Spanish unit
word: pulgada (1⁄9 palmo)
sense: Spanish unit
word: coto (1⁄2 palmo)
sense: Spanish unit
word: sesma (2⁄3 palmo)
sense: Spanish unit
word: pie (1+1⁄3 palmos)
sense: Spanish unit
word: codo (2 palmos)
sense: Spanish unit
word: vara (4 palmos)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: dedo (1⁄12 palmo)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: polegada (1⁄8 palmo)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: Portuguese foot (1+1⁄2 palmos)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: covado (3 palmos)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: vara (5 palmos)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: passo (7+1⁄2 palmos)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: toesa (9 palmos)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: braça (10 palmos)
bixie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈʃeɪ/
ipa: /biːʃiˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: bixies
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 辟邪 (bìxié).
Senses: glosses: A chimaera-like figure common in Chinese and Persian art.
Synonyms: sense: mythical beast
word: chimaera
sense: mythical beast
word: cloud deer
bixie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːˈʃeɪ/
ipa: /biːʃiˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
ipa: /ˈbɪksi/
rhymes: -ɪksi
ipa: /biːˈʃeɪ/
ipa: /biːʃiˈeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: bixies
Etymology: From BIX, acronym for the Byte Information Exchange, a BBS on which these emoticons became popular.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of emoticon such as <@_@>, which represents an unrotated expression, unlike a smiley.
bleah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: You bought that green station wagon? Bleah!
text: Reviewing my list of ickisms - yuck, yecch, bleah, ew and ick - the linguist [David McNeill] observes, "Negative words having to do with disgust seem to be embodied in the experience of expelling unwanted, possibly poisonous, materials from the mouth. […]
ref: 2005 September 25, William Safire, “The Ick Factor”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Expresses negative feeling. The quality of the emotion expressed is more negative than that of blah and has a slight feeling of disgust, verging on nausea.
blind ecash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of ecash that gives the customer ability to spend money without the sender bank tracking where it goes.
Boudreaux
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːdɹoʊ/
ipa: [ˈbuːd͡ʒɹəw]
rhymes: -uːdroʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from French Boudreaux.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French, especially common among Cajun people.
Boutcher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from butcher, of Norman influence. The name first entered English history by reference in the Domesday Book of 1086.
Senses: glosses: An English surname originating as an occupation common throughout the Midlands.
brass ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass rings
Etymology: Some fairground carousels offer a prize to a rider who manages to grab a brass ring.
Senses: examples: text: He's going for the brass ring.
text: Another Kennedy Reaches for the Brass Ring [title] The latest entry in the political Irish sweepstakes is Teddy Kennedy, the President's 30-year-old brother.
ref: 1962 March 11, James Reston, “Another Kennedy Reaches for the Brass Ring”, in New York Times, page 8E:
text: I'm holdin' on / I can't fall back / Now that big brass ring / Is a shade of black
ref: 1967, Bob Gaudio, Peggy Farina, “Beggin'”, performed by The Four Seasons:
text: As a perversion of freedom it was, like any perversion, erotic; as alienation it carried the frisson of having just missed the brass ring, a sensation that always brought one back for more.
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
text: The one thing considered the brass ring in selling insurance was making a sale on a cold canvass. Cold canvassing was the most dreaded exercise for most insurance salesmen.
ref: 2019, Kelly D. Harrison, Air Force Cop: An Autobiography, page 100:
text: The key on immigration — and I’m anti- any immigration. I want a moratorium on all immigration right now because I want American citizens to get a shot at the brass ring.
ref: 2025 January 31, Ross Douthat, quoting Steve Bannon, “Steve Bannon on ‘Broligarchs’ vs. Populism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A prize or goal, often a chance to advance in one's career.
débridement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: débridements
Senses: examples: text: In view of the underlying pathology, débridement is usually combined with late synovectomy.
ref: 2003, Rodriguez-Merchan, The Haemophilic Joints: New Perspectives (Blackwell 2003), page 96
text: The goal of débridement is removal of obviously contaminated, devitalized, or necrotic tissue and elimination of foreign debris from the wound.
ref: 2014, Bianca F. Hettlich, Daniel J. Burba, “Wound Management and Bandaging”, in Joanna M. Bassert, John A. Thomas, editors, McCurnin’s Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 8th edition, Elsevier, →ISBN, part five (Emergency and Critical Care), page 976, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of debridement.
struthonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /stɹuːˈθəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: struthonians
Etymology: Coined by Arthur Koestler in 1963, irregularly formed from Late Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”)
Senses: glosses: A person like an ostrich; someone who ignores facts or reality or someone who lacks responsibility.
Related terms: struthious
iminent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of imminent.
checkpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: checkpoints
Etymology: From check + point.
Senses: examples: text: The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.
text: 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
A few days later I ford the Jordan River on a bus: Foot travel across Allenby Bridge checkpoint is strictly prohibited.
glosses: A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection.
examples: text: After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event.
examples: text: You can't finish the race if you haven't passed all of the checkpoints on the track.
text: This is not a videogame, this is real life! People get hurt! There is no restart from last checkpoint.
ref: 2010 March 8, 20:40, in Chuck Versus the Beard (Chuck), season 3, episode 9, spoken by Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi):
topics: video-games
synonyms: savepoint
glosses: A predetermined point in a map, level or scenario that the player may resume from if they die or restart.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A biological control mechanism ensuring correct progression through the cell cycle.
Derived terms: checkpoint protein
immunocheckpoint
checkpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/
Forms: form: checkpoints
form: checkpointing
form: checkpointed
form: checkpointed
Etymology: From check + point.
Senses: glosses: To set a checkpoint.
muttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mutter
muttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutterings
Senses: examples: text: I managed to catch a few of his mutterings.
glosses: Something that is muttered.
glosses: A rumour.
Synonyms: sense: something muttered
word: mumblage
organon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon). Doublet of organ, organum, and orgue.
Senses: examples: 1999, Kant (Guyer and Wood trans.), Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press.
Hence pure reason is that which contains the principles for cognizing something absolutely a priori. An organon of pure reason would be a sum total of those principles.
synonyms: organum
glosses: A set of principles that are used in science or philosophy.
examples: text: He thought that it might not be so bad with Merlyn, who might be able to make even the old Organon interesting, particularly if he would do some magic.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter V, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: The name given by Aristotle's followers to his six works on logic.
Derived terms: organonic
uckfay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Pig Latin version of fuck.
Senses: examples: text: "Uckfay offyay," Woodward seethed.
ref: 1974, B. Clarence Hall, The Burning Season, page 238:
text: The good kids said, "Honk you, Larry," and the medium kids said, "Uckfay ooyay," but the bad kids said "Fuck" loud and clear.
ref: 1976, Tony Martin, Cyd Charisse, Dick Kleiner, The Two of Us, page 18:
text: "Listen," I said to Rock,"ixnay on the uckfay."
ref: 2001, Elizabeth McCracken, Niagara Falls All Over Again, page 83:
text: "Yeah, Dorothy, but you don't have to uck-fay him no more. I still do."
ref: 2001, Stephen Hunter, Hot Springs, page 255:
text: Uttway the uckfay are you talking about?
ref: 2007, David Ives, Polish Joke and Other Plays:
text: That mean I don't get so much as another uckfay from you and the unexpected baloney pony?
ref: 2014, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Red Delicious: A Siobhan Quinn Novel:
glosses: A slightly less offensive variation of fuck.
bundle buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bundle buggies
Senses: examples: text: For the harried, automobileless housewife there was a ‘Bundle Buggy’ for bringing home the groceries.
ref: 1942 August 3, The New York Times:
text: One 75-year-old neighbor tells of having to get other tenants to help her lift her bundle-buggy up five floors.
ref: 1987 August 31, Paul Bilodeau, “Tenants Protest 'Cockroach Haven' in Downtown Core”, in Toronto Star, page B7:
glosses: A bag on wheels with an extendable handle, usually used for grocery shopping.
buycott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪkɒt/
Forms: form: buycotts
Etymology: Blend of buy + boycott.
Senses: examples: text: And, in addition to the boycott, double your power via the "buycott" by giving your cash to firms and services that are notably behaving themselves.
ref: 2005 October 4, Leo Hickman, “Should I ... support a consumer boycott?”, in The Guardian:
text: Within days, conservative celebrities and politicians called for a boycott of the brand. These calls were then followed by calls for a reverse boycott, or buycott, encouraging people to buy Bud Light to show support for the marketing.
ref: 2023 April 25, Amanda Holpuch, Julie Creswell, “2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With Transgender Influencer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The opposite of a boycott: deliberately purchasing a company's or a country's products in support of their policies, or to counter a boycott.
buycott
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪkɒt/
Forms: form: buycotts
form: buycotting
form: buycotted
form: buycotted
Etymology: Blend of buy + boycott.
Senses: examples: text: Proponents of buycotting see these premiums as pure political expression: citizens’ parting with money to refine the world.
ref: 2009 October 11, Anand Giridharadas, “Boycotts Minus the Pain”, in New York Times:
glosses: To support (a company, country, etc.) by buying its products.
situational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪtjuːˈeɪʃənəl/
ipa: /sɪt͡ʃuˈ(w)eɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more situational
form: most situational
Etymology: From situation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a particular situation or situations in general.
Derived terms: situational awareness
Rockefeller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the German place name Rockenfeld.
Senses: glosses: An American surname from German.
glosses: American capitalist. Founder, leader, and owner of Standard Oil Company.
Derived terms: Rockefellerian
Rockefeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rockefellers
Etymology: From John D. Rockefeller, the American industrialist who founded Standard Oil, also recognized for his 20th century philanthropy.
Senses: examples: text: "You don't have to be a Rockefeller to have an air conditioner," she said.
ref: 1970, Donald Kaul, How to Light a Water Heater and Other War Stories, page 127:
text: Annie: You're acting like you won the lotto yourself.
Jackie: Aye, aye, Rockefeller, that's me.
ref: 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films:
glosses: A very rich person.
je ne sais quoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʒə nə seɪ ˈkwɑː/
ipa: /ˌʒə nə seɪ ˈkwɑ/
note: emulating French
ipa: /ˌʒə n(ə)sɛ ˈkwɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: je ne sais quoi
Etymology: Borrowed from French je ne sais quoi (literally “I don't know what”).
Senses: examples: text: She has a certain je ne sais quoi about her.
text: "Say, you others, I find that the Englishman has something of truly distinguished in the voice, something of sympathetic, of touching—something of je ne sais quoi!" Bouchardy: "Yes, yes—something of je ne sais quoi! That's the very phrase— […]"
ref: 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Second”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: An indefinable quality that makes something distinctive or attractive.
c'est la vie
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌseɪ.læˈviː/
ipa: /ˌsɛ.læˈviː/
ipa: /ˌseɪ.lɑˈvi/
Etymology: Borrowed from French c'est la vie.
Senses: examples: text: Incidentally, it is common to store Prolog code in files with a .pl suffix. It’s an indication of what the file contains (namely Prolog code) and with some Prolog implementations you don’t actually have to type in the .pl suffix when you consult a file. Nice — but there is a drawback. Files containing Perl scripts usually have a .pl suffix too, and nowadays there are a lot of Perl scripts in use, so this can cause confusion. C’est la vie.
ref: 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §1.4
synonyms: word: c'est la vie
word: it is as it is
word: it is how it is
word: it is what it is
word: life's a bitch
word: shit happens
word: so be it
word: so is life
word: so it goes
word: such is life
word: that's that and this is this
word: that's the way it goes
word: that’s the way it plays
word: that's the way life is
word: that's the way the ball bounces
word: that's the way the cookie crumbles
word: that's the way the mop flops
word: them's the breaks
glosses: An expression of acceptance of misfortune in life; that's life; such is life; so it goes
Related terms: that's life
it is what it is
things happen
it can't be helped
this is the life
life's a bitch
shit happens
m'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Clitic form of my.
glosses: Prevocalic form of my.
Derived terms: m'lady
m'learned friends
m'lord
Janey Mack
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: janey mac
form: Janey mac
form: Janey Mac
form: janey mack
form: Janey mack
Senses: examples: text: Jackie: Oh, Janey Mack! I wish I had.
ref: 1998, Kirk Jones, Waking Ned, Tomboy films:
text: — Have you the key? a voice asked.
— Dedalus has it, Buck Mulligan said. Janey Mack, I'm choked.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, chapter 1, in Ulysses:
glosses: gosh!
abductive reasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: abductive + reasoning
Senses: synonyms: abduction
inference to the best explanation
glosses: Determining plausibility based on a set of evidence.
canaliculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canaliculate
form: most canaliculate
Etymology: From Latin canāliculātus (“channelled”).
Senses: examples: text: The leafstalks of most palms are canaliculate.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Channeled lengthwise; grooved.
Synonyms: canaliculated
Derived terms: angusticanaliculate
foveocanaliculate
lagenocanaliculate
multicanaliculate
obliquicanaliculate
prolatocanaliculate
rimocanaliculate
subcanaliculate
tubocanaliculate
swears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of swear
swears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of swear
CASM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Acronym of cost per available seat-mile, a method of calculating operating costs in the travel industry, derived by dividing total operating expenses by total ASMs.
CASM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Centre for the Analysis of Social Media.
cablegami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkeɪbəlˈɡɑːmɪ/
ipa: /ˌkeɪbəlˈɡɑmi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Etymology: Blend of cable + origami.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A technique used in the building of computer systems that involves the complex folding of flat ribbon cables as if they were origami, or the routing and organization of non-flat cables.
call delay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: call delays
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process the call.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The time between the instant a system receives a call attempt and the instant of initiation of ringing at the target device.
rerailer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerailers
Etymology: From rerail + -er.
Senses: glosses: any of several devices used to assist in putting a derailed locomotive back on the rails
grinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grind
grinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹaɪndz/
rhymes: -aɪndz
Senses: glosses: plural of grind
examples: text: You're not top of the class in English, he points out. She licks her teeth, unconcerned. Maybe you should give me grinds, Connell, she says.
ref: 2018, Sally Rooney, Normal People, page 2:
glosses: Tutoring; extra lessons in a specific subject outside of school hours.
glosses: Food, eats.
examples: text: That was a song that Ida sometimes sang, puttering inefficiently about the kitchen, which always seemed sandy with coffee grinds and vaguely immoral with dead cigarettes on the burnt, blistered paint of the shelves.
ref: 1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, page 313:
qualifier: coffee
glosses: Used ground coffee, coffee grounds.
four by two
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: four by twos
form: four-by-two
Senses: examples: text: She would sit here sometimes, perched on a bag of concrete looking at the big lumps of four by two and imagining what she might do with them if she had a chance.
ref: 1994, Peter Carey, Collected Stories, page 206:
text: He eyed Norman, who was lifting one end of a four-by-two and sighting down it, as his Bendigo uncle had taught him to sight new beams, seeking out the bow.
ref: 2009, Joy Dettman, Pearl in a Cage, page 110:
text: I found myself in overalls, work boots, gloves and protective glasses splitting planks of four-by-two and stacking them on pallets.[…]From rock star to Rajah of the Radio (Paul Keating′s line) to the ARIA Hall of Fame to being John Farnham′s manager for twenty-five years to a convicted criminal splitting four-by-twos.
ref: 2010, Glenn Wheatley, Glenn Wheatley: Facing the Music, page 109:
glosses: A length of sawn wood of cross section 4 inches by 2 inches, most often employed as structural framing lumber / timber.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A cotton cloth 4 inches wide with lines two inches apart, conveniently torn into two inch lengths for cleaning a rifle barrel using a pull through.
glosses: A Jew.
Synonyms: sense: length of wood
word: two by four
Hypernyms: sense: length of wood
word: dimensional lumber
sense: length of wood
word: dimension lumber
caravan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kărˈə-văn
ipa: /ˈkæɹəvæn/
ipa: /kaɾəˈvan/
Forms: form: caravans
form: caravanning
form: caravaning
form: caravanned
form: caravanned
form: caravaned
form: caravaned
Etymology: From Middle French caravane, from Old French carvane, from Persian کاروان (kârvân), from Middle Persian kʾlwʾn' (kārawān), from Old Persian 𐎣𐎠𐎼 (k-a-r, “people, subjects”).
The word was used to designate a group of people who were travelling by camel or horse on the Silk Road. Doublet of Kairouan.
Senses: examples: text: The wedding party got in their cars and caravaned from the chapel to the reception hall.
text: The provisions of the Vehicle Code covering caravaning of vehicles have been clarified to expedite this type of operation and still result in the proper observance of the objectives of that law.
ref: 1957, California State Assembly, Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California, volume 1, page 92:
text: 1984, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Information Retrieval Limited, Animal Behaviour Abstracts, Volume 12, page 73,
Observations of caravaning were made on the domesticated musk shrew (Suncus murinus) with particular reference to its developmental aspects.
text: Brando, Dee, Omar, Jeanette, and Clymenthia caravanned up to the La Brea summit and down Overhill Drive, just past Slauson Avenue, to La Louisianne for drinks and a late-night snack.
ref: 2007, Stanley Bennett Clay, Looker, page 89:
glosses: To travel in a caravan (procession).
examples: text: When my parents retired they really got back into caravanning.
text: 1932, Walter Meade, Caravanning, Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin, The Cecil Aldin Book, page 55,
It has to be remembered that, however enchanting the idea of caravanning may be, it is unlikely that it will consist entirely of watching sunsets and other people working — two of the most fascinating sights I know — but there are, regrettably enough, other and less romantic elements.
text: British interest in camping and caravaning has recently increased considerably — so much so that today, camp parks are available in all parts of the country.
ref: 1986, James Wilson Brown, Shirley N. Brown, Before You Go To Great Britain: A Resource Directory and Planning Guide, page 94:
text: Norm writes, ‘My wife and I did a lot of caravaning and it certainly didn′t pull the car out of shape, although lots of people thought it would!’
ref: 2002, Don Loffler, The FJ Holden: A Favourite Australian Car, page 181:
text: The world, in turn, watched, clicked, cried, danced, sang along, swooned, caravanned to stadiums and movie theaters, let her work soundtrack their lives.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:
glosses: To travel and/or live in a caravan (vehicle).
Derived terms: caravanner
cattle car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cattle cars
Senses: glosses: A car, often a train car or semi-trailer, used to transport cattle.
glosses: A paddy wagon: a van for transporting people who have been arrested.
Synonyms: cattle wagon
cephalocaudal trend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalocaudal trends
Senses: glosses: An aspect of motor development in children in which they develop their ability of moving the upper parts of the body before the lower parts.
chambering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chamber
examples: text: Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 13:13:
glosses: Sexual immorality.
chambering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamberings
Senses: glosses: The chamber of a gun or other firearm.
ums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of um
ums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of um
change order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: change orders
Senses: examples: text: We'd lose money on most of our jobs if it wasn't for change orders.
topics: business
management
glosses: A description of changes to be made to a work order that describes the new work to be done (and any modifications) and the price to be paid for this new work.
charmeuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmeuses
Etymology: Borrowed from French charmeuse.
Senses: examples: text: One evening Edith outshone herself, wearing a smartly tailored black charmeuse dress designed especially for her by Worth, the leading Paris designer, and a pair of gold slippers […]
ref: 2013, A. Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 359:
glosses: A fine semi-lustrous crepe in satin weave.
chilihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiliheads
Etymology: From chili + -head.
Senses: glosses: Someone who enjoys eating spicy foods and/or chili peppers.
Chirag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈɹɑːɡ/
rhymes: -ɑːɡ
Etymology: A male given name meaning “lamp, lightsource”, borrowed from Persian چراغ (čerâġ, čarâġ).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Persia often used in India.
Chirag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈɹɑːɡ/
rhymes: -ɑːɡ
Senses: glosses: A language in the Northeast Caucasian family spoken in Dagestan, Russia.
mix apples and oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mixes apples and oranges
form: mixing apples and oranges
form: mixed apples and oranges
form: mixed apples and oranges
Senses: glosses: To mix or confuse two completely different objects or ideas.
Related terms: apples and oranges
computeristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computeristic
form: most computeristic
Etymology: From computer + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a computer; mechanistic.
examples: text: This movie looks computeristic.
glosses: As if created by a computer.
co-agonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-agonists
Etymology: From co- + agonist.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A drug or other chemical that can combine with a receptor on a cell to produce a physiologic reaction typical of a naturally occurring substance. Co-agonist implies it is one of other agonists working in conjunction.
code of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codes of honour
form: code of honor
Senses: glosses: Certain rules by which social intercourse is regulated among a social group, and which are founded on a regard for reputation.
Related terms: code of conduct
Lalaland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of La-La Land.
congenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Having the same origin.
conserved sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conserved sequences
Senses: glosses: A DNA or protein sequence with a high degree of sequence identity to other sequences in that species, or in others.
common man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common men
Senses: examples: text: While the common man is holding the brunt of the taxes, there are groups, special-interest groups, that are getting off with paying none.
ref: 1971, Nevada State AFL-CIO, Proceedings, volume 15, page 98:
glosses: An average citizen, in contrast to the social, political or cultural elite.
Related terms: word: everyman
word: Jane Doe
word: John Doe
word: John Q. Public
english: American working class and small businesses
translation: American working class and small businesses
word: Main Street
word: populism