cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vinegary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vinegary
form: most vinegary
Etymology: From vinegar + -y.
Senses: examples: text: When Martha reopened the bottle of wine from the previous week's party, a vinegary whiff indicated that drinking it was out of the question.
text: Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:42 from the start, in Succession, season 4, episode 1: “I like my wine thin and vinegary.”
glosses: Sour; like vinegar.
examples: text: Then she remembered Jalil's disgusting behaviour of the previous evening and turned to give him vinegary words.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 562:
text: Edward's maiden aunt was a vinegary old soul with a sharp tongue and quick temper; she would not be receiving a wedding invitation.
text: A vinegary face has Mrs Miff, and a mortified bonnet, and eke a thirsty soul for sixpences and shillings.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Acerbic, bitter, irritable.
glosses: Of a liquid, having turned partially or fully to vinegar.
Synonyms: sense: sour, like vinegar
word: acerbic
sense: sour, like vinegar
word: acrid
sense: sour, like vinegar
word: sour
sense: sour, like vinegar
word: tart
sense: sour, like vinegar
word: vinegarish
sense: figurative: acerbic, bitter
word: acerbic
word: bitter
word: nasty
word: sour
word: vitriolic
Derived terms: vinegariness
virologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: virologists
Etymology: From virology + -ist.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A scientist or doctor who studies or specializes in viruses.
virologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virologist
vitrifaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vitrification.
vibes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪbz/
rhymes: -aɪbz
Senses: glosses: plural of vibe
vibes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vaɪbz/
rhymes: -aɪbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vibe
vibraphonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibraphonists
Etymology: From vibraphone + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Since the 1960s, the keyboardist, vibraphonist and percussionist Mulatu Astatke has been a prime mover in Ethio-jazz: unmistakably Ethiopian music that also draws on American jazz, Afro-Caribbean music and more.
ref: 2025 August 15, Jon Pareles, “10 New Songs You Need to Hear: Khalid, Jay Som, Steve Lacy and More”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2025:
glosses: Someone who plays the vibraphone.
vibraphonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vibraphonist
vibratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vibratory
form: most vibratory
Etymology: From vibrate + -ory.
Senses: synonyms: vibrating
antonyms: antivibratory
glosses: Causing or exhibiting vibrations.
examples: text: The seven levels would, therefore, correspond to the various vibratory planes of the subtle bodies of the world.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 202:
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: Of or relating to vibrations of a spiritual, etheric, or astral nature.
Related terms: vibrate
vibrating
vibration
conatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōnāʹtəs
ipa: /kəʊˈneɪ.təs/
ipa: /koʊˈneɪ.təs/
enpr: kōnāʹto͞os
ipa: /kəʊˈneɪtuːs/
ipa: /koʊˈneɪ.tus/
Forms: form: conatuses
form: conatus
Etymology: From Latin cōnātus.
Senses: glosses: An effort, an endeavour, a striving.
examples: text: [E]ach part so moved does by that motion exert a conatus of protruding and displacing all the adjacent Particles.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
glosses: A force or impulse; a nisus.
Related terms: conation
conative
presidencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presidency
bathrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathroom
vice-presidency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice-presidencies
form: vice presidency
Etymology: From vice- + presidency.
Senses: examples: text: Richardson stressed that the war which had erupted in the Middle East the previous day made it doubly imperative to move me out of the vice-presidency.
ref: 1980, Spiro Agnew, Go Quietly . . . Or Else, New York: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 194:
glosses: The office or role of vice-president.
glosses: The bureaucratic organization and governmental initiatives devolving directly from the vice-president.
glosses: The time during which one is vice-president; a vice-president's term of office.
vice presidency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vice presidencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vice-presidency.
banana hammocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banana hammock
enter into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enters into
form: entering into
form: entered into
form: entered into
Senses: glosses: to penetrate
examples: text: One must be of legal age to enter into a contract.
topics: law
glosses: To become legally committed to.
examples: text: The country entered into peace talks with the militants.
text: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: To engage in a formal or informal process.
examples: text: He did the crime and will go to jail - the fact that he did not know it was illegal does not enter into it.
text: [Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!
[Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
ref: 1969, Monty Python, “Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, in Dead Parrot sketch:
glosses: To be relevant; to be a contributing factor in.
mobile games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mobile game
cardinal spider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal spiders
Senses: glosses: A large European spider, Tegenaria parietina.
analgesics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analgesic
jazzier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jazzy: more jazzy
jazziest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jazzy: most jazzy
diversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diversion
actuators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actuator
nonentities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonentity
plumicorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumicorn
argute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈɡjuːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: more argute
form: most argute
Etymology: From Latin argūtus, perfect passive participle of arguō (“I clarify”).
Senses: examples: text: “Suppose,” said Roland Græme, “we should begin as in a tale-book, by asking each others names and histories.” “It is right well imagined,” said Catherine, “and shews an argute judgment. Do you begin, and I will listen, and only put in a question or two at the dark parts of the story. Come, unfold then your name and history, my new acquaintance.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: Sharp; perceptive; shrewd.
glosses: Shrill in sound.
Derived terms: argutely
arguteness
argutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈɡjuːtli/
Forms: form: more argutely
form: most argutely
Etymology: From argute + -ly.
Senses: examples: 1762, You are wrong,—said my father argutely, and for this plain reason — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 352)
glosses: In an argute manner.
spiculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɪkjʊləm/
Forms: form: spicula
Etymology: From Latin spīculum (“a little sharp point”), from spīcum, alternative form of spīca (“point, spike”).
Senses: glosses: A thrusting javelin used by Romans that replaced the pilum in the late 3rd century.
glosses: A sharp, pointed crystal, especially of ice.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A sharp, needle-like structure, especially those making up the skeleton of a sponge.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small radial emission of gas seen in the chromosphere and corona of the sun.
Synonyms: sense: sharp, pointed crystal
word: spicula
sense: sharp, needle-like strucutre
word: spicule
sense: small radial emission of gas
word: spicule
Derived terms: spiculum amoris
keypads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keypad
event horizons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of event horizon
de luxe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French de luxe.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deluxe.
deuces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deuce
deuces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A pair of twos.
Synonyms: sense: pair of twos
word: twos
sense: pair of twos
word: ducks
deuces
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Nigga! You got until tonight to get your shit, deuces nigga!
ref: 2011, Zuri, The Player's Rule, page 70:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: peace; goodbye (because of the associated gesture holding up two fingers)
bylines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byline
phimosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌɪˈməʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /faɪˈmoʊ.sɪs/
Forms: form: phimoses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φίμωσις (phímōsis, “muzzling; contraction of the prepuce”), from φῑμόω (phīmóō, “to muzzle”) + -σις (-sis, nominal suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ’Twill end in a phimosis, replied Dr. Slop.
ref: 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 361:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A contraction of the foreskin (either as a stage of development or a pathological condition), which prevents it from being retracted.
Derived terms: blepharophimosis
paraphimosis
phimosiectomy
racialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racialists
Etymology: 1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).
Senses: examples: text: It was a fundamentally racialist attitude which regarded the native people of empire countries as primitive simpletons only fit to be led by a breed of men of higher intellect and moral fibre.
ref: 2023, David Brandon, The General Strike 1926: A New History, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 48:
hypernyms: racist
glosses: A believer or advocate of racialism, the ideology of racial nationalism.
glosses: A racist.
chamade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈmɑːd/
rhymes: -ɑːd
Forms: form: chamades
Etymology: Borrowed from French chamade, from Italian or Portuguese, from Latin clamare.
Senses: examples: text: But when the chamade was beat, and the corporal helped my uncle up it, and followed with the colours in his hand, to fix them upon the ramparts.
ref: 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 6, Penguin, published 2003, page 402:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A signal sounded on a drum or trumpet inviting a parley.
tabid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtæbid/
Forms: form: more tabid
form: most tabid
Etymology: From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.
Senses: examples: text: The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]
ref: 1897, F[rancis] de Havilland Hall, “Lettsomian Lectures: Diseases of the Nose and Throat in Relation to General Medicine”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of London, page 198:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to tabes.
examples: text: he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the old Roman ſouls, of which he had read, without reflecting how much, by a gradual and moſt tabid decline, in a courſe of eighteen hundred years, they muſt unavoidably have ſhrunk, ſo as to have come, when he wrote, almoſt to nothing.
ref: 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: Wasting away, declining.
animists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animist
UNIFIL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːnɪfɪl/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: UN
glosses: Acronym of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
tea ceremonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea ceremony
periclitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: periclitates
form: periclitating
form: periclitated
form: periclitated
Etymology: From the past participle stem of Latin periclitari, from periculum (“experiment, risk”). Compare peril.
Senses: examples: text: And why so many grains of calomel? santa Maria! and such a dose of opium! periclitating, pardi! the whole family of ye, from head to tail.
ref: 1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, volume 8, Penguin, published 2003, page 491:
glosses: To endanger.
sexploitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexploitations
Etymology: Blend of sex + exploitation (c. 1942)
Senses: glosses: Sexual exploitation in the media (especially film).
Related terms: topics: film
television
broadcasting
media
word: blaxploitation
sense: martial arts films
word: Bruceploitation
word: jiggle television
photo finish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo finishes
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: blanket finish
glosses: The finish of a race in which the leaders are so close together that the winner cannot be identified using the naked eye but is determined by means of a photograph.
glosses: A very close outcome of any competition.
Related terms: neck and neck
photo opportunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo opportunities
Senses: synonyms: photo op
glosses: Any occasion when a politician or other celebrity may be photographed to their advantage.
Related terms: pool spray
photo op
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo ops
Senses: examples: text: Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska on Tuesday declared himself “against clearing out a peaceful protest for a photo op that treats the Word of God as a political prop.”
ref: 2020 June 2, Matt Flegenheimer, “What Democracy Scholars Thought of Trump’s Bible Photo Op”, in New York Times:
glosses: A photo opportunity.
xylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xylene
pith helmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pith helmet
billfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of billfold
mercaptans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mercaptan
cash cows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cash cow
spiral passes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiral pass
aeroplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeə.ɹə.pleɪnz/
Senses: glosses: plural of aeroplane
aeroplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈeə.ɹə.pleɪnz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aeroplane
proligerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈlɪdʒəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more proligerous
form: most proligerous
Etymology: From modern Latin proliger (from Latin proles + -ger) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Productive, generative; prolific.
Derived terms: proligerous disc
proligerous layer
proligerous pellicle
needling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlings
Etymology: From need + -ling.
Senses: glosses: A needy person.
needling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From needle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of needle
Derived terms: needlingly
needling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlings
Etymology: From needle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is a steady drip drip of small imperceptible needlings and irritations, coming day after day between a man and his wife, […]
ref: 2017, Paul Chrystal, When in Rome: Social Life in Ancient Rome:
glosses: The act of one who needles or annoys.
Derived terms: dry needling
microneedling
needled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Hedgehogs are needled creatures, just like porcupines.
glosses: Covered or armored with needles.
Derived terms: unneedled
needled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of needle
adi-guru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adi-gurus
Senses: glosses: The "first spiritual master" of a disciplic succession.
hedges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge
hedges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛd͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hedge
Advaita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ədˈvaɪ.tə/
Senses: glosses: A Sanskrit philosophical term that may be literally rendered in English as nonduality: denoting that though differences and variegation appear in the human condition they are unreal or illusory and are not ultimately true.
glosses: Contraction of Advaita Vedanta (an orthodox philosophical school of Hinduism).
Synonyms: advaita vedanta
Related terms: vedanta
goldmine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldmines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gold mine
bad faith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * (philosophy): a semantic loan from French mauvaise foi, coined by existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: dishonesty, insincerity, bloody-mindedness
text: bad-faith interpretation
antonyms: good faith
glosses: The misrepresentation of one's own true motive.
topics: law
glosses: An intent to deceive or mislead another to gain some advantage; dishonesty or fraud in a transaction (such as knowingly misrepresenting the quality of something that is being bought or sold).
topics: law
glosses: A malicious motive by a party in a lawsuit, which has an effect on the ability to maintain causes of action and obtain legal remedies.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The existentialist concept of denying one's total freedom of will.
Synonyms: Punic faith
Related terms: bona fide
good faith
mala fide
angle bisector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle bisectors
Senses: glosses: A ray that divides an angle into two equal parts.
bugaboos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugaboo
vaccination marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaccination mark
antivaccinationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antivaccinationist
800 number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 800 numbers
Etymology: In the original North American Numbering Plan, phone numbers beginning with an area code of "800" were reserved for so called toll-free numbers, where the party receiving the call pays the charges. As more toll-free numbers were needed, additional area codes were added to the scheme including 888, 877, 866, 855, 844, 833 and one more was reserved: 822. The term "800 number" is used colloquially to refer to all of these.
Senses: glosses: A toll-free telephone number.
Related terms: 1-800
900 number
protocols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊtəˌkɒls/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɑls/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊtəˌkɔls/
Senses: glosses: plural of protocol
seclusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seclusion
scorpion kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpion kick
begorra
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /biˈɡɑɹə/
Forms: form: begorrah
form: begorry
form: bigorra
form: bigorrah
Etymology: A minced oath from alteration of by God.
Senses: examples: text: But, begorra, whin they seen it was raly Bill Malowney himself that was in it, it was only who'd be foremost out agin, tumblin' backways, one over another, and his raverence roarin' an' cursin' them like mad for not waitin' for him.
ref: January - June 1850, “Bill Malowney's Taste of Love and Glory”, in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, volume 35, page 698:
text: Begorra, an' 'twas th' foinest sight yez niver saw to' see th' refor-rumed naughty-twos mate their dear lovin' home-definder, Carrie Nation.
ref: 1902, University of Michigan, The Wolverine, volume 2, number 12, page 18:
text: But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorra, I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean?
B.W. Wooster: My dear old Gussie, that is how people think Irish people talk.
ref: 1992 April 26, “Hot Off the Press”, in Jeeves and Wooster, season 3, episode 5, spoken by A. Fink-Nottle (Richard Garnett):
text: Sure and begorra, 'twas the second time I lost me balance and fell into yer drink.
ref: 2009, Patti B. Pruitt, Spring Break with Paddy O'Rourke, book II, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of by God.
Synonyms: wow
Derived terms: faith and begorra
begorrah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of begorra.
gird up one's loins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: girds up one's loins
form: girding up one's loins
form: girded up one's loins
form: girded up one's loins
form: girt up one's loins
form: girt up one's loins
form: gird one's loins
form: girdle one's loins
Etymology: Likely a Hebraism, often used in the King James Bible (e.g., 2 Kings 4:29). Literally referred to the need to strap a belt around one's waist, i.e. when getting up, in order to avoid the cloak falling off; or otherwise before battle, to free the legs for running.
Senses: examples: text: Man came into this world, not to sit down and muse, not to befog himself with vain subtleties, but to gird up his loins and to work.
ref: 1857, Herman Melville, chapter 37, in The Confidence Man:
text: Then Tom girded up his loins, so to speak, and went to work to “get his verses.”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IV, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 42:
text: Then Susan said briskly, "Well, we must just gird up our loins and pitch in."
ref: 1920, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 9, in Rilla of Ingleside:
text: King Gyanendra must gird up his loins and prepare himself for all exigencies.
ref: 2004, "Editorial," nepalnews.com (Nepal), vol. 24, no. 6 (Aug 3-19)
synonyms: brace oneself
eat one's Wheaties
roll up one's sleeves
shape up
steel oneself
suck it up
glosses: To prepare oneself for something demanding.
Related terms: batten down the hatches
tighten one's belt
distance formula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distance formulas
form: distance formulae
Senses: glosses: Any algebraic expression that gives the distance between two points in a particular coordinate system in a particular number of dimensions
buckaroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buckaroo
fantasy lands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasy land
fantasylands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fantasyland
compatriots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compatriot
anality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analities
Etymology: From anal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: If the relationship between Protestantism and repressed anality is so close, then anality loosed from repression can be powerful to the point of political […]
ref: 1980, Arthur Asa Berger, Film in Society, page 133:
text: It is important to note that not only anality, but also orality, causes pleasure […]
ref: 1994, Arleen B. Dallery, Transitions in Continental Philosophy, page 93:
text: no one has ever thought to praise him for the anality of his humor.
ref: 2003, Frank Krutnik, Richard Bradley, Hollywood Comedians: the Film Reader, page 79:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
glosses: The state of being anal.
Cliff notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliff notes
Etymology: From the given name Clifton. Derived from Cliff's notes, a series of literature study guides published by Clifton Hillegass.
Senses: examples: text: Ryker stepped forward and blurted out the cliff notes of the current crisis.
ref: 2012, Gary Wayne Clark, The Devolution Chronicles: Rise of the Chimera, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 105:
text: Well, of course there's more, a lot more. But that's the cliff notes of what faces us once we find Sanderson.
ref: 2014, CP Moore, Legacy of the Gods, CP Moore, →ISBN:
text: “If this is you being serious, I'll just give you the cliff notes of the plan for tonight,” said Ray.
ref: 2015, Jack Fisher, The Escort and the Gigolo, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
text: Can you give us the, the Cliff notes version of that?
ref: 2017, “What North Korea Wants”, in Reuters War College:
glosses: A rundown (rough outline) of a situation, event, etc.
wikipedia: en:Cliff's notes
en:Clifton Hillegass
Synonyms: word: CliffsNotes version
word: Coles Notes
Related terms: cheat sheet
crib
crib sheet
place card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: place cards
Senses: examples: text: Rachel was sitting at the table writing place cards with her italic fountain pen.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 5, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: A card set down at a table to inform a guest (named on the card) where they are to sit.
place cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place card
Geneva mechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Geneva mechanisms
Etymology: So called from Geneva in Switzerland, an important center of watchmaking.
Senses: topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion, using an intermittent gear where the drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel and thereby advances it by one step, and having a raised circular blocking disc that locks the driven wheel in position between steps.
Geneva mechanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Geneva mechanism
condo-hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condo-hotels
Senses: glosses: A residential building featuring both condominium units and hotel suites, possibly including units used for both purposes.
condo-hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condo-hotel
condo hotels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of condo hotel
condo hotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condo hotels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of condo-hotel.
Wiktionarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiktionarian
morceau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)səʊ/
ipa: /mɔː(ɹ)ˈsəʊ/
Forms: form: morceaus
form: morceaux
Etymology: From French morceau, from Old French morsel, from Medieval Latin morsellum (“a bit, a little piece”), diminutive of Latin morsum (“a bit”), neuter of morsus, past participle of mordeō, mordēre (“bite, nibble, gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)merd- (“to rub, wipe; to pack, rob”). Doublet of morsel.
Senses: examples: text: M. De Luc has a specimen of the uranite (Peckblend) mixed with titan and crystals of quartz, a morceau of singular beauty
ref: 1816, Henry Coxe, The Traveller's Guide in Switzerland:
text: Amongſt a variety of urns, sepulchral fragments, and different morceaus of antiquity, are the known and celebrated buſts of Alexander the Great, and Brutus
ref: 1796, John Owen, Travels Into Different Parts of Europe […] :
glosses: A small bit; a morsel or snippet.
Synonyms: modicum
photo-essay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo-essays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of photo essay.
photo-offset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photo-offsets
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A method of offset printing that uses photolithographic plates.
photo-offset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: photo-offsets
form: photo-offsetting
form: photo-offset
form: photo-offset
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To print by this method.
photomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to any of several methods of printing via a plate which has been prepared photographically, and can contain both text and images
Derived terms: photomechanically
photographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a photographic manner.
glosses: Using photography.
photo-realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of photorealism.
hyperrealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperrealistic
form: most hyperrealistic
Etymology: From hyper- + realistic.
Senses: glosses: Very realistic.
glosses: Of or relating to hyperrealism.
hyperrealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperrealisms
Etymology: From hyper- + realism.
Senses: glosses: A style in art that attempts to reproduce highly realistic graphic representations
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A compositional style defined by Noah Creshevsky as "an electroacoustic musical language constructed from sounds that are found in our shared environment (realism), handled in ways that are somehow exaggerated or excessive (hyper)."
Related terms: photo-realism
superrealism
songer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒŋə(ɹ)
Forms: form: songers
Etymology: Perhaps dialectally inherited from Middle English songere, from Old English sangere, from Proto-Germanic *sangwārijaz (“singer”), whence German Sänger, Dutch zanger etc. Equivalent to song + -er. Alternatively newly formed from these components.
Senses: examples: text: If a man who plays at ping pong is a "ponger," Then a singer of a "singsong" is a "songer"; If the "songer" is a singer. Then the "ponger" is a "pinger," And the man who says it's wrong must be a "wronger."
ref: 1902, Interstate Druggist, volume 3:
text: Will he sing it, I wonder?"
"Chantoozie, I ain't much of a songer any more. I just done that because I was told it was a colorful trait."
ref: 1976, Katie Lee, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle:
text: No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.
ref: 2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies:
glosses: A singer (of songs); a songster.
songe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of song.
hashbrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hashbrown
hashbrowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hash browns.
opposingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more opposingly
form: most opposingly
Etymology: From opposing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a manner that opposes
moshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mosh
folktale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfoʊkteɪl/
Forms: form: folktales
form: folk tale
Etymology: From folk + tale.
Senses: synonyms: folk story
glosses: A tale or story that is part of the oral tradition of a people or a place.
Related terms: folklore
unwinnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + winnable.
Senses: examples: text: The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.
ref: 2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88:
synonyms: word: walking dead
topics: video-games
glosses: Unable to be won.
disconfirming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disconfirm
enjambed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enjamb
enjambed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: continued without a pause
raw_tags: of two syntactic units
anathematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: anathemic
anathematical
glosses: Having the characteristic of anathema.
layabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪəˌbaʊt/
Forms: form: layabouts
Etymology: From lay + about.
Senses: examples: text: “That’s better. Gilbert Goodie! I should have known it was you. The one-legged layabout. The uni-ped idler. The stumpy skiver. Stealing coins from a wishing well now, are we? You couldn’t make it up!”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A lazy person.
unsuppressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsuppressible
form: most unsuppressible
Etymology: From un- + suppressible.
Senses: glosses: unable to be suppressed.
Elisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Elise.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
inconsolate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + consolate; compare French inconsolé, Portuguese inconsolado.
Senses: glosses: Inconsolable; disconsolate.
tanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankas
form: tanka
Etymology: From Japanese 短歌 (tanka, “short song”), from Middle Chinese 短 (MC twanX) 歌 (MC ka) (compare Mandarin 短歌 (duǎngē) duǎngē).
Senses: examples: text: Like haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century.
ref: 1996, Makoto Ueda, Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology, →ISBN:
text: One tanka poet who directly influenced Kenji is Ishikawa takuboku, who lineated tanka—an extraordinary break with the tradition of writing tanka in one line.
ref: 2007, Hiroaki Sato, Miyazawa Kenji: Selections, page 38:
text: The notion of rhyming in Japanese tanka poetry is applied differently from what we observe in the Western poetry tradition.
ref: 2016, Noriko Iwasaki, Peter Sells, Kimi Akita, The Grammar of Japanese Mimetics, page 121:
glosses: A form of Japanese verse in five lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 morae.
tanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankas
Etymology: See thangka.
Senses: examples: text: In the practice of yoga certain functions which were previously subconscious become open to consciousness; this opening of the subconscious is well pictured in certain Tibetan tankas, or in Western art, in the Temptation of St. Anthony paintings by Bosch and Grünewald.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 224:
text: A powerful 17th to 18th century example of the endless cycle of rebirth is this primitively painted tanka called “The Wheel of Existence." It was displayed with alarming vividness at the entrance to most Tibetan temples.
ref: 1981 January-April, News Tibet, volume 16, number 1, page 15:
text: He has hung up his tanka (Tibetan thaṅka, a religious painting that is usually mounted on fabric) on the wall and is sitting down to the left of it.
ref: 1988, Victor H. Mair, Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis, page 123:
text: Tashi is unable to establish himself yet as a tanka painter in Dharamsala, so he has taken a job at the Tibetan Library assisting other tanka painters.
ref: 1997, Anne Maiden Brown, Edie Farwell, Dickey Nyerongsha, The Tibetan Art of Parenting: From Before Conception Through Early Childhood, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of thangka (“Tibetan religious artwork”).
tanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankas
Etymology: See Tanka.
Senses: examples: text: And when foreigners go and come from Whampoa to Canton, tanka-boats and boats with families must not be employed.
ref: 1831, The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia:
text: At every landing place behind the hongs, (i. e. in the front of the factories,) where barbarians reside, they must not allow the tanka boats to anchor.
ref: 1835, The Chinese Repository, page 392:
text: In Macao roads, where vessels usually stop before proceeding up to the Canton anchorage, the tanka boats are generally navigated by young girls, in competition with whom the old women meet with poor encouragement.
ref: 1845, Miscellaneous Remarks Upon the Government, History, Religions, Literature, Agriculture, Arts, Trades, Manners, and Customs of the Chinese:
text: Speaking of an interesting group of people near Canton, he says : Both the Tanka (boat people) and Hakka (another ethnic group, distinct from the Cantonese, living on land) have distinctive dialects and differ in phvsique from The Cantonese.
ref: 1927, Herbert Ernest Gregory, Report of the director for 1926, page 6:
glosses: Alternative form of Tanka (“ethnic group of boat people living in China”).
examples: text: Immediately on our nearing the harbour, a race took place among the amphibious damsels that inhabit the numerous sampans, tanka or egg-boats, which always lie within a short distance of the shore.
ref: 1837, Edmund Roberts, Embassy to the eastern courts of CochinChina, Siam and Muscat:
text: The tanka is a small boat, almost as wide as long, and differing therein much from the sharp and narrow canoes of the Malays. The crew generally consists of an elderly woman, who sits or stands at the stern, rotating with a vigorous and experienced arm the long oar which is the great propeller of all boats in the Celestial Empire.
ref: 1866, William Ainsworth, All Around the World:
text: These craft, the tanka, were the homes of thousands of true seamen — people who rarely came ashore ;
ref: 1967, Stan Hugill, Sailortown, page 56:
glosses: A kind of boat used in Guangdong, about 25 feet long and often rowed by Tanka women; junk.
tanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankas
form: taka
form: tucka
Etymology: Ultimately from Sanskrit टङ्क (ṭaṅka, “chisel; tanka”).
Senses: examples: text: In Uzbek Turan Shah Rukh's tanka remained the standard silver coin and weighed an average of slightly more than 5 g throughout the sixteenth century.
ref: 1994, Stephen Frederic Dale, Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750, page 29:
text: The last of the gifts was fifteen horses with velvet and jewelled trappings and one hundred thousand tankas in cash.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42:
text: A major shift in the usage of silver and billion coinage came about in the second quarter of the fourteenth century when Muḥammad Tughluq, after striking the ṭanka of 169.8 grains in the beginning, replaced it with a coin of lower weight (144 grains) called ‘adli, which was then treated as the standard ṭanka.
ref: 2011, Najaf Haider, edited by Irfan Habib, Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500, Vol. VIII part 1, p. 152:
glosses: A coin and unit of currency of varying value, formerly used in parts of India and Central Asia.
renga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rengas
form: renga
Etymology: From Japanese 連歌 (renga, literally “connected verse”).
Senses: glosses: A form of Japanese verse in which short poems are connected together, the origin of haikai and haiku.
haikai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haikai
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 俳(はい)諧(かい) (haikai).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A form of Japanese comic verse, featuring satire and puns.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A poem written in such a style.
Related terms: haiku
hokku
self-justificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-justificatory
form: most self-justificatory
Etymology: From self- + justificatory.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of justifying itself.
Peripatetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Peripatetic
Platonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Platonist
Platonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Platonists
Etymology: From Latin Platonista, from Plato + -ista, equivalent to Plato + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [St Augustine of Hippo] became of a Maniche, and of a platoniste a good christian.
ref: 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Seconde Sermon... Preached before the Kynges Maiestie:
glosses: A member of the philosophical school of thought established by Plato; a believer in Platonism.
examples: text: I suspect that in their hearts most working mathematicians are Platonists, in that they take it as a matter of unassailable if unprovable fact that mathematical reality stands apart from the world, and is at least as real as the world, and possibly gives shape to the world, as Plato suggested.
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: One who holds similar beliefs, particularly that abstract ideas are real.
glosses: A platonic lover.
Derived terms: Neoplatonist
undichotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dichotomized.
Senses: glosses: not having been dichotomized, that is, not having been broken into opposing parts.
dichotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dichotomize.
dichotomized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Divided into dichotomous parts.
Derived terms: undichotomized
justificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌstɪfəˌkeɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /d͡ʒəˈstɪ.fə.kəˌtɔ.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒʌs.tɪ.fəˌkeɪ.tə.ɹi/
Senses: examples: text: Goal abandonment in the case of means-rational agents is precisely like taking a pill that removes both an agent’s goal and the agent’s justificatory basis for achieving that goal […]
ref: 2025 June 13, Rhys Southan, Helena Ward, Jen Semler, “A timing problem for instrumental convergence”, in Philosophical Studies, Springer Science+Business Media, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: Providing or related to justification; justificational.
Derived terms: self-justificatory
ataraxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ætəˈɹæksiə/
Forms: form: ataraxias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀταραξία (ataraxía), ἀ- (a-, negative prefix) + ταράσσω (tarássō, “trouble, disturb”). Doublet of ataraxy.
Senses: examples: text: And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius, London: E. Cotes, page 168:
text: O, for that apathy of soul, that sweet ataraxia, of which I have heard, which forbids alike the approaches of pleasure and pain, hope and despair!
ref: 1838, Piomingo, John Robinson, The Savage, 2nd edition, Philadelphia: J. Ferral, →OCLC, →OL, page 194:
text: That terrible Latin poet Lucretius, whose apparent serenity and Epicurean ataraxia conceal so much despair, said that piety consists in the power to contemplate all things with a serene soul—pacata posse mente omnia tueri.
ref: 1921, J.E. Crawford Flitch, transl., The Tragic Sense Of Life, translation of Del sentimiento trágico de la vida by Miguel de Unamuno:
text: […] he was an Epicurean not in the commonly misunderstood sense, as a seeker after luxury, but in the true meaning, as a pursuer of what the Greeks call ataraxia, or freedom from disturbance.
ref: 2006, Robert Harris, Imperium, London: Arrow Books, Part 2, Chapter 15, p. 400:
text: Once they’d seen that the world is nothing but atoms and void, and that we simply disintegrate after death, and so have no need to fear the Torments of Hell, they would be in a better position to cultivate ataraxia—the Greek word for the calm, unruffled composure that was the Epicurean ideal.
ref: 2020, Coulter H. George, How Dead Languages Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 3 'Latin' p.67:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: peace of mind
ataraxy
glosses: Tranquility of mind; absence of mental disturbance.
Related terms: ataractic
ataraxy
Epicureanism
Jainist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jainists
Senses: glosses: a follower of Jainism, a religion based primarily in India
pentathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentathlons
form: pentathla
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek πένταθλον (péntathlon), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + ἆθλον (âthlon, “contest”). By surface analysis, penta- + -athlon.
Senses: synonyms: ancient pentathlon
Greek pentathlon
ancient Greek pentathlon
glosses: An ancient athletics discipline, featuring five events: stadion, wrestling, long jump, javelin and discus
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of women's pentathlon (“a 20th-century athletics discipline for women, the women's counterpart of the men's decathlon, the predecessor to the women's heptathlon, featuring five events: hurdles, shot put, high jump, long jump, and a run”).
examples: text: In the end, why not be happy with both, with the BMXes and the pentathlons, with the swans of synchro and the Quasimodos of wrestling? Sweet.
ref: 2008 August 21, “The old school survives at the Olympics, amid new events”, in The New York Times:
text: Dwindling interest and a reputation for being outdated couldn’t change modern pentathlon. A brief video clip of a coach punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics has altered it forever.
ref: 2021 March 11, Victor Mather, “Modern Pentathlon Drops Equestrian Competition After Abuse Claims”, in The New York Times:
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of modern pentathlon, a discipline with five events based on late-19th century basic military skills.
Derived terms: snow pentathlon
Related terms: pentathlete
priceyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: priciness
Etymology: From pricey + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pricey, that is, expensive.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being pricey
word: expensiveness
sense: quality of being pricey
word: costliness
unresolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unresolvable
form: most unresolvable
Etymology: From un- + resolvable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be resolved.
unresolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unresolvables
Etymology: From un- + resolvable.
Senses: glosses: A problem that cannot be resolved.
romanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That is written in the Latin alphabet.
glosses: That has been brought under the authority or influence of Rome.
glosses: That has been made or become Roman in character or style.
glosses: That has been made or become Roman Catholic in religion, character or style.