cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: more wis
form: most wis
form: wiss
form: ywis
form: iwis
form: wiss
form: ywis
form: iwis
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wis (“certain, sure”), from an aphetic form of Middle English iwis, ywis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)), or of North Germanic origin, cognate with Icelandic viss (“certain, sure”), Dutch gewis (“certain, sure”), and German gewiss (“certain, sure”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. More at iwis.
Senses: examples: text: So I wis would the Dragon under him […]
ref: 1884, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The armourer's prentices:
glosses: Certainly, surely.
glosses: Really, truly.
examples: text: As wis God help me.
ref: c. 1368-1372, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess:
glosses: Indeed.
Derived terms: I wis
wis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: more wis
form: most wis
form: wiss
form: ywis
form: iwis
form: wiss
form: ywis
form: iwis
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wis (“certain, sure”), from an aphetic form of Middle English iwis, ywis (“certain, sure”) (from Old English ġewiss (“certain, sure”)), or of North Germanic origin, cognate with Icelandic viss (“certain, sure”), Dutch gewis (“certain, sure”), and German gewiss (“certain, sure”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz. More at iwis.
Senses: glosses: Certain.
examples: text: He was wis on his word.
text: I am wis that it will happen.
glosses: Sure.
Derived terms: wisly
wis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: wis
form: wist
form: wissed
form: wiss
form: ywis
form: iwis
form: wiss
form: ywis
form: iwis
Etymology: From an incorrect division, mistaking iwis (“certain”) for I wis (“I know”). See ywis for more information. The German verb wissen may appear similar, but in fact corresponds etymologically to the English verb wit; both of those verbs ultimately descend from the same Proto-Indo-European root as this one.
Senses: examples: text: "The fire seven times tried this: / Seven times tried that judgement is, / That did never choose amiss. / Some there be that shadows kiss: / Such have but a shadow's bliss. / There be fools alive, I wis, / Silver'd o'er; and so was this. / I will ever be your head: / So be gone: you are sped."
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ix]:
glosses: To know.
examples: text: Howe'er you wis.
ref: 1850, Robert Browning, “(please specify the page)”, in Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day. A Poem, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To think, suppose.
examples: text: And oh, that I should see that star remote / Yet His near Glory miss / Whereto the sun itself and stars do float / As motes, I wis!
ref: 1889, Harriet McEwen Kimball, Poems, "In the Garden":
text: As sure as Heaven shall rescue me, / I have no thought what men they be; / Nor do I know how long it is / (For I have lain in fits, I wis) […]
ref: 1797, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Christabel. Part I.”, in Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision: The Pains of Sleep, London: […] John Murray, […], by William Bulmer and Co. […], published 1816, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: To imagine, ween; to deem.
eaglehawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eaglehawks
form: eagle-hawk
Etymology: From eagle + hawk.
Senses: examples: text: As they turn a wedge-tail and black body shows. They are eaglehawks.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 128:
text: We needed to hear the birds chirping, the eaglehawk crying out something from the thermals high above, but the eery silence lingered on.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 412:
glosses: Any large bird of prey, especially the wedge-tailed eagle, Aquila audax.
Synonyms: wedge-tailed eagle
wedgetail
ferrosilicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrosilicons
Etymology: From ferro- + silicon.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron and silicon used in steelmaking.
float-zone silicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a very pure form of crystalline silicon, made by vertical zone melting
Silicon Alley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area of Manhattan, New York, which is home to a group of Internet-related companies.
silicon-based
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: silicon-based life
text: Core samples rich with the fossils of simple silicon-based organisms indicate Therum was more habitable in the past than it is at present.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therum, Knossos System:
coordinate_terms: carbon-based
glosses: Based on silicon.
silicon chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon chips
Senses: examples: text: The silicon chip inside her head / gets switched to overload
ref: 1979, The Boomtown Rats, “I Don't Like Mondays”, in The Fine Art of Surfacing:
glosses: A wafer of silicon on which an integrated circuit has been built; a microchip
Related terms: chip
silicon-controlled rectifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon-controlled rectifiers
Senses: qualifier: trademark
glosses: a form of thyristor
silicon alkoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon alkoxides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of general formula Si(OR)₄, the tetraalkyl orthosilicates; they react with water to for aerogels of silica.
orthosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthosilicates
Etymology: From ortho- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of orthosilicic acid, (M⁺)₄SiO₄⁴⁻ or Si(OR)₄.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: nesosilicate
island silicate
glosses: Any silicate mineral, such as garnet or olivine, in which the SiO₄ tetrahedra do not share oxygen atoms with each other.
Hypernyms: topics: mineralogy
geology
chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
geography
word: silicate
Derived terms: oxyorthosilicate
tetraethylorthosilicate
orthosilicic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The hypothetical compound Si(OH)₄; it is only known as the orthosilicate salts or esters.
orthosilicic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + silicic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, relating to or derived from orthosilicic acid.
brolga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brolgas
Etymology: From Gamilaraay burralga.
Senses: examples: text: But he did not value Red Ochre simply as a grazing-lease. At times it was to him six hundred square miles where grazing grew and brolgas danced in the painted sunset and emus ran to the silver dawn […].
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 90:
text: We wade through the delicate water, the moon spilling on our colourless bodies. Brolgas ruffling their wings against water ribbons, making the muddy bath flinch in coiling waves.
ref: 2006, Tara June Winch, Swallow the Air, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 241
glosses: A large grey crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda), of northern and eastern Australia.
Synonyms: Australian crane
native companion
native companion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: native companions
form: native's companion
Senses: glosses: The brolga or Australian crane (Antigone rubicunda, syn. Grus rubicunda).
silicon ester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silicon esters
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound of silicon containing multiple alkoxide groups.
Related terms: silicon alkoxide
fesnyng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĕsʹ-nĭng
enpr: fĕzʹ-nĭng
ipa: /ˈfɛs.nɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɛz.nɪŋ/
other: /ˈfɛz.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛsnɪŋ
rhymes: -ɛznɪŋ
Forms: form: fesnyngs
Etymology: From business by a series of misprints and copying errors; hence, a ghost word. It has been mentioned written as *feamyng, too.
Senses: examples: text: ... where I consoled myself with a fesnyng of pet ferrets I then kept
ref: 1991, Noel Perrin, A Noel Perrin Sampler, Dartmouth College Press
text: Ferrets are fiercely solitary animals. They are no more likely to get together in a fesnyng that you or I are. […] 'Well, there was a fesnyng in your bathtub..."
ref: 2012, Sue Ellery, Gallimaufry, →ISBN:
text: “You should 'ave seen 'er attack a fox. She's got guts, she 'as, and she's a ferret for your information.” “A ferret, eh? That's worth more than a weasel, isn't it? And if she's that good, we'll 'ave ter find a mate for 'er. Breed our own fesnyng of the beasts[…]”
ref: 2016, Richard Blackburn, Rise of the Gatekeeper (Book 3 Guardians of the Gate), Lachesis Publishing Inc, →ISBN, page 81:
text: A pride of lions, a murder of crows, a crash of rhinos, a fesnyng of ferrets, a pity, no, a piteousness of doves, a memory of elephants, an ascension of larks. He wasn't crazy. He'd measure and check the marks, then maybe they'd let him fold for ...
ref: 2018, Charlton Pettus, Exit Strategy, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: A group (of ferrets); a business; the collective noun for ferrets.
doxycycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒk.sɪˈsʌɪ.kliːn/
ipa: /ˌdɑk.sɪˈsaɪˌklin/
Etymology: Blend of d(e)oxy- + oxy(tetra)cycline.
Senses: examples: text: When his symptoms didnʼt improve, he was admitted to a local hospital and given doxycycline, a drug for tick-bite infections.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 373:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₄N₂O₈ of the tetracycline class, which has a long half-life in the body and used orally to treat various bacterial infections.
dracunculiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Dracunculus + -iasis
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an infection caused by an infestation of the parasite Dracunculus medinensis
Synonyms: Guinea worm disease
drawing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawing rooms
form: drawing-room
form: drawingroom
Etymology: Shortening of withdrawing room.
Senses: examples: text: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
qualifier: somewhat dated outside of India
glosses: Any room where visitors may be entertained; now, the living room.
glosses: A multifunctional room that can be used for any purpose in a palace or castle.
examples: text: The concluding ceremony came off at twelve o’clock on the day of departure; when Miss Twinkleton, supported by Mrs. Tisher, held a drawing-room in her own apartment (the globes already covered with brown Holland), where glasses of white-wine and plates of cut pound-cake were discovered on the table.
ref: 1870 April–September, Charles Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1870, →OCLC:
text: [A] great deal of conversation had taken place about the drawing-room, and whether or not young ladies wore powder as well as hoops when presented, and whether she was to have that honour: to the Lord Mayor's ball she knew she was to go.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 2, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: ‘Mrs Vane of Castle Marling is staying with us; she came up to present my child at the last Drawing-room but I think I heard something about her dining out to-day.’
ref: 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin, published 2005, page 11:
glosses: A levée where ladies are presented at court or to society.
glosses: A private room on a railroad sleeping car.
drawing room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawing rooms
form: drawing-room
form: drawingroom
Senses: synonyms: drawing office
glosses: A room where engineers draw up plans and patterns.
duodecimo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodecimos
Etymology: Latin ablative of duodecimus (“twelfth”) (from duodecim 'twelve', from duo 'two' + decem 'ten')
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
qualifier: paper
glosses: A size of paper, so called because it is originally made by folding and cutting a single sheet from a printing press into 12 leaves; (5 by 7¾ inches): 6.5 to 7.5 inches high, approximately 4.5 inches wide.
glosses: A sheet or page of that size.
examples: text: In recent years, I have taken to reading while walking. I believe the Romantics were guilty of such behavior; a duodecimo was small enough to fit into a jacket pocket.
ref: 2015, William Logan, “A Critics Notebook”, in Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure, page 304:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A book having pages of that size.
Synonyms: sense: paper size
word: twelvemo
sense: paper size
word: 12mo
sense: paper size
word: 12º
sense: book size
word: twelvemo
sense: book size
word: 12mo
sense: book size
word: 12º
sense: book size
word: D
wrang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæŋ/
homophone: rang
rhymes: -æŋ
Senses: glosses: simple past of wring
unified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪ.faɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unify
unified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪ.faɪd/
Senses: examples: text: British Railways are, however, pressing on with the introduction of standard equipment, and in this, the fourth year of unified working, standard locomotives and rolling stock will be coming into service in considerable numbers.
ref: 1951 April, D. S. Barrie, “British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 225:
glosses: united into a whole
glosses: that operates as a single entity
glosses: that serves all grade levels between kindergarten and twelfth grade.
raw_tags: of a school district
Derived terms: grand unified theory
unified atomic mass unit
unified rear triangle
unified type system
evocative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evocative
form: most evocative
Etymology: From Latin ēvocātīvus (“pertaining to summoning”). By surface analysis, evoke + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: Using loose but evocative language, one might say that player 2 is threatening to play R' if player 1 plays R.
ref: 1992, Robert Gibbons, A Primer in Game Theory, Prentice-Hall, page 127f.:
glosses: That which evokes (brings to mind) a memory, mood, idea, feeling, or image; redolent or reminiscent.
Synonyms: reminiscent
redolent
remindful
resonant
suggestive
Derived terms: evocatively
evocativeness
unevocative
Related terms: expressive
vivid
graphic
powerful
haunting
moving
poignant
dysmnesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: poor memory
Related terms: amnesia
dysmnesic
dyslipidemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyslipidemias
Etymology: From dys- + lipid + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an imbalance of lipids (especially cholesterol) in the blood; hypercholesterolemia
Hyponyms: hyperlipidemia
hypolipidemia
Related terms: dyslipidemic
hypercholesterolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercholesterolemias
form: hypercholesterolaemia
Etymology: From hyper- + cholesterol + -emia.
Senses: examples: text: An inherited predisposition to heart disease, called familial hypercholesterolaemia, results from a rare ‘spelling change’ in the gene for cholesterol receptors.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 260:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An excess of cholesterol in the blood.
Hypernyms: hyperlipidemia
Derived terms: antihypercholesterolemia
Related terms: hypercholesterolemic
earflap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earflaps
Etymology: From ear + flap.
Senses: glosses: either of two flaps attached to a cap that cover the ears
Synonyms: earlap
ellipsometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellipsometers
Etymology: From ellipse + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: an instrument that uses polarized light to investigate the surface layers of semiconductor wafers etc. Used in ellipsometry.
English saddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English saddles
Senses: glosses: Any of several saddles which, unlike a Western saddle, do not have a horn, but have padded panels so do not need a separate saddle blanket.
ensconced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Even if you are ensconced in a pandemic pod with a romantic partner or family members, you can still feel lonely — often camouflaged as sadness, irritability, anger and lethargy — because you’re not getting the full range of human interactions that you need, almost like not eating a balanced diet.
ref: 2020 September 1, Kate Murphy, “We’re All Socially Awkward Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Placed in a secure environment.
examples: text: Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Late Breakfast”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 72:
text: Though ensconced in the seat of the Supreme One, Lahiri Mahasaya showed reverence to all men, irrespective of their differing merits.
ref: 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 35, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
glosses: Settled comfortably.
Derived terms: unensconced
ensconced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensconce
evening wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evening wraps
Senses: glosses: An elegant shawl worn in the evening.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: The last of a series of news programmes broadcast in the evening.
examining room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: examining rooms
Senses: glosses: A small room in a hospital etc where a physician may examine a patient with some privacy.
Synonyms: exam room
excursion steamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excursion steamers
Senses: glosses: A steamboat used to take people on coastal, lake or river pleasure-trips.
facial expression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facial expressions
Senses: examples: text: But the yokel, being a yokel, was not good at the reading of facial expression, and only knew that a remarkably fine woman had gone by smiling.
ref: 1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts, Volume 3, page 2:
text: The sullen clerk there did not return my greetings or my farewell, did not say a word, and did not show a single facial expression except irritation that I had interrupted his customerless routine.
ref: 2003, Paul Collins, Sixpence House, page 140:
text: 2017, Jennifer S. Holland, For These Monkeys, It’s a Fight for Survival., National Geographic (March 2017)http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/03/macaques-monkeys-indonesia-endangered-pet-trade/
Facial expressions convey moods: Ritualized yawning—which starts with an oval mouth that breaks into a gaping one as the animal flings its head back—suggests tension.
glosses: A particular configuration of the facial muscles that conveys certain emotions or intentions.
Synonyms: word: expression
word: face
word: facial expression
word: look
word: mien
Hyponyms: word: frown
word: fuck face
word: game face
word: grimace
word: grin
word: gurn
word: long face
word: poker face
word: pout
word: puppy dog eyes
word: rictus
word: smile
word: sneer
word: squint
word: straight face
word: wink
Meronyms: word: eye
word: eyebrow
word: mouth
Related terms: word: :Category:Facial expressions
facially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪʃəli/
ipa: /ˈfeɪʃli/
Etymology: From facial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "The results showed that women were significantly more facially expressive than men for all emotion clips."
ref: 2012, Janet Shibley Hyde, Nicole Else-Quest, Half the Human Experience:
glosses: Using or involving the face.
examples: text: Near-synonym: superficially
text: If a judicial authorization is facially valid, the party challenging it will have the burden of proving that it was invalid.
text: [I]t is no answer to a claim of discrimination from a litigant in a wheelchair to say that everyone is expected to climb the stairs in front of a courthouse to have their day in Court, and that the wheelchair-bound litigant was treated no differently than anyone else. Facially neutral legislation can be discriminatory [...]
ref: 2023 July 7, Justice Anne MacTavish, “Haynes v. Canada (Attorney General), 2023 FCA 158”, in CanLII, retrieved 27 Oct 2024:
text: An independent forensic accountant found evidence of gross financial mismanagement while Hegseth was administering two small nonprofits. This information is redundant evidence of what is facially obvious: his unreadiness to manage the Pentagon’s almost $900 billion budget […]
ref: 2025 January 24, George F. Will, “There are ample reasons, not about his personal life, for rejecting Hegseth. Opinion”, in Washington Post:
topics: law
glosses: In a facial manner; on its face; as something appears to an initial impression, prior to a deeper analysis.
Derived terms: exofacially
Related terms: in someone's face
choate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more choate
form: most choate
Etymology: By back-formation from inchoate.
Senses: examples: text: 1988 [Routledge], Anthony O'Hear, The Element of Fire: Science, Art and the Human World, 2014, Taylor & Francis (Routledge Revivals), page 119,
The abandonment of style in art is less likely to lead to an authentic expression of one's actual feelings than to a self-dramatising display of adolescent brutality, in which one screams because, deprived of the stylistic means to express anything more choate, or articulated, one simply expresses that.
text: Unlike this particular image of Emerson's, however, Bloom's visions are more particularized and more choate in the grimness of his tone.
ref: 1996, Orrin N. C. Wang, “Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory”, in Paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, published 2000, page 180:
text: They used Islam—though admittedly much more inchoate in the seventh century than in the twelfth–to give definition to Judaism, again one more choate in the twelfth century than in the seventh.
ref: 2017, Aaron W. Hughes, Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam, Oxford University Press, page 144:
glosses: Complete, fully formed.
Synonyms: developed
matured
complete
finished
realized
formed
façonné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: façonnés
form: faconne
Etymology: From French façonné (“fashioned”).
Senses: glosses: A fabric having a pattern woven into it, especially one in which the pattern stands out from a sheer background.
glosses: The pattern itself.
faconne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faconnes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of façonné.
fade to white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fades to white
form: fading to white
form: faded to white
form: faded to white
Senses: glosses: To employ a form of film punctuation in which the picture brightens until it is completely white.
fade to white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fades to white
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: An ending of this kind.
Related terms: fade to black
color fade
color fade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color fades
form: colour fade
Senses: glosses: a film punctuation in which the picture brightens until it is completely a single color
Related terms: fade to black
fade to white
film punctuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of several techniques to form transitions between scenes in a film.
Related terms: color fade
cut to black
direct cut
dissolve
fade to black
fade to white
cut to black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuts to black
Senses: glosses: A form of film punctuation in which the picture is instantaneously darkened.
Related terms: fade to black
direct cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct cuts
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A film punctuation in which there is a direct instantaneous transition between one scene and the next.
Related terms: dissolve
cash machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cash machines
Senses: examples: text: I need to find a cash machine. I paid the tab at lunch, and now I have no cash left.
topics: banking
business
glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
examples: text: Near-synonym: money bag
text: They say he's her boyfriend, but I think he's mostly just her cash machine.
glosses: Any person or thing alleged to be an easy source of cash.
examples: text: These hustle-life influencers are portraying landlording as a cash machine, but really, more specifically, slumlording is what they're hyping.
glosses: Any person or thing alleged to be an easy source of cash.
A business perceived as reliably generating good cash flow and profit.
Related terms: cash advance
cash money
cash-strapped
fair copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fair copies
Senses: glosses: A handwritten document that has been written neatly and correctly without scratch-outs and revisions.
far be it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Calque of Latin absit ("may it be away"), found in the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible as part of the phrase absit hoc a me ("may this [thing] be away from me") at 1 Samuel 2:30, 1 Samuel 22:15 and 2 Samuel 20:20. Wyclif translated the phrase "Fer be this fro me"; the King James Version at 2 Samuel 20:20 has "Far be it from me".
Senses: examples: text: Samuel 20:20,
And Joab answered and said, Far be it, far be it from me, that I should swallow up or destroy.
text: October 1761, Oliver Cromwell, letter to Mr. Storie
Far be it that soe much guilt should sticke to your hands, who live in a citye so renowned for the clere shininge light of the Gospell.
text: 1969, Eric Idle, "Marriage Guidance Counsellor", in Episode 2 of Monty Python's Flying Circus, also in And Now For Something Completely Different
Deirdre (that's my wife) and I have always been very close companions, and I never particularly anticipated any marital strife. Indeed, the very idea of consulting such a professional marital advisor as yourself has always been of the greatest repugnance to me. Although, (chuckles) far be it from me to impugn the nature of your trade, or ... or profession.
text: `Far be it from me,' he said, `to tell you, Weston, that any girl you'd find for me would meet with no danger on this expedition."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 7:
text: Shepard: I don't have time for this, Conrad. I'm not here to be a role model.
Conrad Verner: Oh, I see how it is. Commander Shepard doesn't have time for the little people!
Conrad Verner: Far be it for me to get in your way! You go be a hero.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: A disclaimer stating that something should not come to pass, or that a person would never do or think a certain thing.
Related terms: God forbid
fatherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatherlike
form: most fatherlike
Etymology: From father + -like. Doublet of fatherly.
Senses: glosses: having the qualities of a father
Synonyms: fatherly
paternal
Derived terms: unfatherlike
ferreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ferret
ferreting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferretings
Senses: glosses: Hunting with ferrets.
glosses: ferret (tape used to tie documents)
cool it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cools it
form: cooling it
form: cooled it
form: cooled it
Senses: examples: text: We did tell him to cool it but he just got more and more irate.
text: MCDERMOTT: Oh my God, Bateman, you want me to fry you up some fucking potato pancakes? Some latkes?
 BATEMAN: No, just cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
ref: 2000, Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, American Psycho:
glosses: Calm down, relax, take a time out.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cool, it.
Synonyms: cool one's jets
rough and ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rough and ready
form: most rough and ready
form: rough-and-ready
Senses: examples: text: [A] dozen Americans could, at any time, construct a house, the ‘rough and ready’ habits of the people usually teaching them, in a rude way, a good deal of a great many other arts, besides this of the carpenter.
ref: 1849, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 15, in The Sea Lions:
text: There was a rough and ready rule-of-thumb test of truth[…]
ref: 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter LXV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 291:
text: "Things were a lot more rough and ready, but there was a kind of raw beauty about it."
ref: 1996 December 4, Roderick Conway Morris, “10 Years of Enlightenment: An Unusual Orchestra Celebrates”, in New York Times, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:
text: Doctors define overweight and obesity by a rough-and-ready measurement called the body mass index (BMI).
ref: 2004 November 8, Michael D. Lemonick, Bryan Walsh, “How We Grew So Big”, in Time, retrieved 04 Jun 2014:
qualifier: often hyphenated when placed immediately before the modified noun
glosses: Crude or unpolished, but still fit for use; good enough.
Related terms: word: cheap and cheerful
word: diamond in the rough
word: quick-and-dirty
word: rough around the edges
rough around the edges
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rougher around the edges
form: roughest around the edges
form: rough round the edges
Senses: examples: text: While rough around the edges, the church is really a wonderful place to be.
text: The north side of town is a less expensive, rougher round the edges choice for a young family.
text: His writing is appealing, but a bit rough around the edges.
glosses: In need of refinement; unsophisticated.
Related terms: rough edges
rough and ready
tiger kidnap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tiger kidnaps
form: tiger kidnapping
form: tiger kidnaping
form: tiger kidnapped
form: tiger kidnapped
form: tiger kidnaped
form: tiger kidnaped
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: To abduct someone, or to hold someone hostage, in order to persuade someone else to assist in a crime.
tiger kidnap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiger kidnaps
Senses: qualifier: crime
glosses: An abduction or hostage-taking of this kind.
Derived terms: tiger kidnapping
cramp someone's style
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cramps someone's style
form: cramping someone's style
form: cramped someone's style
form: cramped someone's style
Etymology: In 1819, Charles Lamb wrote in a letter to Wordsworth: “I will never write another letter with alternate inks. You cannot imagine how it cramps the flow of the style.” Lamb’s letters were published in book form in 1837 and saw several editions and reprints. The letter was also included in volume 7 of the 12-volume book The Life and Works of Charles Lamb, thus appearing again in print at the beginning of the 20th century. It was again included in volume 6 of The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, which was first published in 1905. It is possible that the idiomatic use, which dates from the early 1900s, originated with this passage by Lamb.
Senses: examples: text: I don't want my Mum to go to the party: she'd really cramp my style.
text: What are you doing? I'm trying to get a date, you're cramping my style!
ref: 1987, David Simkins, Adventures in Babysitting (motion picture), spoken by Daryl Coopersmith (Anthony Rapp):
glosses: To restrict someone's free action or expression.
wikipedia: Charles Lamb
Letters of Charles Lamb
Wordsworth
Internet address
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Internet addresses
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any address that is used to identify a place or resource on the Internet, such as a URL, an IP address, or a domain name.
break the bank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks the bank
form: breaking the bank
form: broke the bank
form: broken the bank
Senses: glosses: At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.
glosses: To exhaust one's financial resources.
preamplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preamplifiers
form: pre-amplifier
Etymology: From pre- + amplifier.
Senses: glosses: A voltage amplifier for amplifying a low-level input signal; its output is the input to a higher-level amplifier.
Synonyms: pre-amp
I'm in love with you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘I’m in love with you, Michael,’ Camilla said longingly.
glosses: A declaration of passion or romantic feeling.
Related terms: I love you
prebiotic organic synthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any plausible pathway by which the molecular precursors of life (amino acids, bases and ribose phosphates) may have been formed in the early Earth.
prebiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/
Forms: form: prebiotics
Etymology: From pre- + biotic.
Senses: examples: text: The table below includes plant foods we consider to be prebiotic “stars” since they are the foods listed in the scientific literature as sources of prebiotics.
ref: 2009, Jo Ann Hattner, Susan Anderes, Gut Insight, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Prebiotics are nowhere near as well researched as probiotics, although there are already some sound results pertaining to how they work.
ref: 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 240:
glosses: A substance in food that is hard to digest and promotes the growth of beneficial intestinal microorganisms.
prebiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːbaɪˈɒtɪk/
Etymology: From pre- + biotic.
Senses: examples: text: There are three compelling reasons that suggest that the first set of prebiotic coding sequences to be translated were repeats of base oligomers, the numbers of bases in oligomeric units not being multiples of three.
ref: 1986, Herrick Baltscheffsky, Hans Jornvall, Rudolf Rigler, Molecular Evolution of Life, →ISBN, page 43:
text: As a result, studies of uncoded peptide bond formation are founded in using NCAs as substrates (even when obtained as the reactive species of the non-prebiotic CDI activation) for mimicking prebiotic processes.
ref: 2005, Peter Walde, Laurent Boiteau, Prebiotic Chemistry: From Simple Amphiphiles to Protocell Models, →ISBN:
text: The chemistry of cyanoacetylene, HC₃N, can lead in aqueous solution to the prebiotic synthesis of pyrimidines.
ref: 2006, Bernard Barbier, Hervé Martin, Jacques Reisse, Lectures in Astrobiology: Vol I, →ISBN:
text: The amino acids which were formed through prebiotic reactions were surely chiral.
ref: 2010, Giovanni Occhipinti, Prebiotic chemistry and the origin of life, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Home to 51 moons, including the prebiotic moon Anafiel, Dumah is a standard hydrogen-helium gas giant with violent surface winds exceeding 1,900 kph.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Dumah, Micah System:
text: Artificial prebiotic experiments were designed to mimic what might have occurred before life appeared.
ref: 2014, Theodore R. Johnstone, Boundaries of Evolution, →ISBN:
glosses: Before the advent of life.
examples: text: The table below includes plant foods we consider to be prebiotic “stars” since they are the foods listed in the scientific literature as sources of prebiotics.
ref: 2009, Jo Ann Hattner, Susan Anderes, Gut Insight, →ISBN, page 35:
text: Evidence of the prebiotic properties of polydextrose (PDX), resistant maltodextrin (RMD), and other soluble fiber sources are slowly emerging, but the body of evidence is small compared to the gold standard of fructo oligosaccharides (FOS) and inulin.
ref: 2011, Teresa M. Paeschke, William R. Aimutis, Nondigestible Carbohydrates and Digestive Health, →ISBN:
text: Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Reading, “The ability to mediate a prebiotic modulation of gut microbiota has recently been suggested to have an inverse correlation with risk of cardiometabolic disease..."
ref: 2013, Polysaccharides—Advances in Research and Application, →ISBN:
glosses: Not digestible, but beneficial.
raw_tags: of a food
Derived terms: prebiotic organic synthesis
precipitin test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precipitin tests
Senses: glosses: any of several tests to measure a specific reaction between antigen and antibody which results in a visible precipitate
precipitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precipitins
Etymology: From precipitate + -in.
Senses: glosses: Any antibody that reacts with an antigen to form a precipitate.
Derived terms: coctoprecipitin
precipitinogen
precipitin test
prehnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prehnites
Etymology: Named after Dutch colonial governor of Cape of Good Hope Hendrik van Prehn in 1788, Dutch colonial governor. This was the first mineral to be named after a person.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, a basic calcium, aluminium and iron aluminosilicate, which occurs in stalactitic aggregates or curved crystals, Ca₂Al₂Si₃O₁₀(OH)₂.
prestressed concrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestressed concretes
Senses: glosses: concrete with stresses induced in it before use so as to counteract stresses that will be produced by load; often contains stretched steel bars or wires called tendons
prestressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prestressed
form: most prestressed
Etymology: From pre- + stressed.
Senses: glosses: having been stressed before use
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Standing before a stressed syllable.
Derived terms: prestressed concrete
prilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: In air prilling, molten sulphur is sprayed from the top of a tower against an upward flow of air. As the sulphur falls, the sulphur droplets break into small droplets and cools into prills.
ref: 2005, Douglas K. Louie, Handbook of Sulfuric Acid Manufacturing, pages 5–11:
glosses: The solidification of droplets of molten material falling against an upward stream of air; used especially to agglomerate ammonium nitrate and urea for use as a fertilizer.
Related terms: prill
prilling tower
prill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: prills
form: prilling
form: prilled
form: prilled
Etymology: A variant of purl, 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: the Thames, prillingfrom her naked breast
ref: 1598, John Stow, A Survey of London:
glosses: to flow, spurt
prill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: prills
Etymology: A variant of purl, 17th century.
Senses: examples: text: Each silver Prill gliding on golden Sand
ref: 1603, John Davies, Microcosmos:
glosses: a rill, a small stream
glosses: a spinning top
prill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: prills
Etymology: Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.
Senses: examples: text: Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.
ref: 2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275:
text: The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.
ref: 2007, Stan A. David, Trends in Welding Research: Proceedings of the 7Th International, page 661:
glosses: a pellet, a granule, a small bead
glosses: rich copper ore remaining after removal of low-grade material; a droplet of copper suspended in molten slag
topics: business
mining
glosses: A nugget of virgin metal.
glosses: The button of metal from an assay.
prill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: prills
form: prilling
form: prilled
form: prilled
Etymology: Unknown. OED mentions Cornish pryl (“sheep-droppings”) as a likely loan from English.
Senses: glosses: to produce pellets by forming a molten substance into droplets which solidify while falling
Synonyms: pelletize
Derived terms: prilling
prill sulfur
prill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: prills
Senses: glosses: The brill, a kind of flatfish.
prill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪl/
rhymes: -ɪl
Forms: form: prills
form: prilling
form: prilled
form: prilled
Senses: glosses: To grow sour.
glosses: To become tipsy.
prilling tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prilling towers
Senses: glosses: the device used for producing prill agglomerates
prime mover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime movers
Etymology: Originally in translation of Latin primum mobile.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: first cause
first mover
primum mobile
unmoved mover
glosses: The initial agent that is the cause of all things.
glosses: A machine, such as a water wheel or steam engine, that receives and modifies energy as supplied by some natural source or fuel and transforms it into mechanical work
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The front part of a semi-trailer type truck, i.e., the tractor to which the trailer part attaches.
glosses: A military or heavy construction vehicle.
examples: text: "I need not remind this audience that, though Professor Summerlee, as the head of the Committee of Investigation, has been put up to speak to-night, still it is I who am the real prime mover in this business, and that it is mainly to me that any successful result must be ascribed."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Seeger was a prime mover in the folk-music revival and was accepted by collegians and young people outside the South, regardless of his alleged Communist sympathies […]
ref: 1986, R. Serge Denisoff, Tarnished Gold, page 381:
text: This first article looked at the present situation and asks if lessons can be learned from the past, when the railways were the prime mover in the development of tourism and leisure travel.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 37:
glosses: A person or thing that is seminal and influential.
private branch exchange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: private branch exchanges
form: PBX
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A telecommunications switching system, physically located at a customer's place of business, that provides internal communication between users and also access to outside (trunk) telephone lines.
revered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɪə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: The villagers revered their religious leader for his example of pious conduct.
glosses: simple past and past participle of revere
revered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈvɪə(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: more revered
form: most revered
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: reverend, estimable
text: The scholar kept his revered books in a special part of the library.
synonyms: esteemed
glosses: Respected or given reverence.
clockwork universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clockwork universes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: A universe in which all of the actions of matter and energy operate as reactions according to predetermined rules set down by a creator, like the movements of a clock.
Related terms: clockmaker
like clockwork
deism
determinism
mechanistic
pandeism
polydeism
clockwork universes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clockwork universe
universes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universe
full tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tilt (“encounter in jousting”).
Senses: examples: text: She can type 65 words per minute, and sometimes as much as 80, if she's going at it full tilt.
glosses: As quickly as possible; very rapidly.
Derived terms: full tilt boogie
actinobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From actino- + biology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the effects of radiation upon living organisms.
Synonyms: radiation biology
radiobiology
actinology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæk.tɪˈnɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌæk.təˈnɒ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌæk.tɪˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌæk.təˈnɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Etymology: From actino- + -logy.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The study of the effect of light on chemicals.
Derived terms: actinological
actinologist
allergology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ă′-lər-jŏ′-lə-jē
ipa: /ˌæ.ləɹˈd͡ʒɑ.le.d͡ʒi/
enpr: ă′-lər-gŏ′-lə-jē
ipa: /ˌæ.ləɹˈɡɑ.le.d͡ʒi/
Forms: form: allergologies
Etymology: By surface analysis, allergy + -ology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the causes and treatment of allergies.
Derived terms: allergologic
allergological
allergologist
immunoallergology
archaeozoology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archeozoology
Etymology: From archaeo- + zoology.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of relationships between humans and animals over time.
Derived terms: archaeozoologist
Related terms: zooarchaeology
prochirality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prochiralities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The property exhibited by a prochiral molecule or other entity; protostereoisomerism.
Related terms: proprochirality
prochiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pro- + chiral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: having two constitutionally identical ligands (atoms or groups), replacement of either one by a different ligand making the molecule chiral
Related terms: prochirality
proprochiral
projective geometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of mathematics that investigates those properties of figures that are invariant under homographies, special kinds of spaces called projective spaces, and the geometric structures that inhabit them.
Related terms: algebraic geometry
analytic geometry
differential geometry
projective plane
domain name service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domain name services
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A service provided by the Domain Name System, allowing domain names to be resolved to IP addresses.
Related terms: domain name server