cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
surefooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surefooted
form: most surefooted
form: sure-footed
Etymology: From sure + footed.
Senses: examples: text: The mules of Piedmont are exceeding strong and hardy. […] They are the only carriage that can be used in crossing the mountains, being very sure-footed: and it is observed that in choosing their steps, they always march upon the brink of the precipice.
ref: 1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, Letter XX:
text: For many years I didn't learn to walk, because I was carried everywhere—not by my parents, who had grown frail, but by the most sure-footed of the servants.
ref: 1997, Emma Donoghue, “The Tale of the Needle”, in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins, New York: HarperCollins, page 169:
text: Testers reported the locomotive as very surefooted and said it did not lose traction.
ref: 2024 June 12, Pip Dunn, “Network News: Class 93 tri-mode completes first UK main line tests”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 6:
glosses: Walking steadily, without stumbling; capable of finding good footing.
examples: text: Her performance was described as "stunning, surefooted, breathtaking."
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: Confident and capable.
brit milah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brit milahs
form: berit milah
form: berith milah
form: bris milah
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew בְּרִית מִילָה (literally “covenant of circumcision”).
Senses: synonyms: bris
coordinate_terms: brit shalom
glosses: The Jewish ceremony of circumcision normally performed on the eighth day of life.
glosses: A modern reinvention of the Jewish ceremony.
survivalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survivalists
Etymology: From survival + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But why would survivalists flock to Pinterest, a site that was adopted early-on by people who wanted to share design ideas for home goods? In a way, preppers are actually the ideal user for the site.
ref: 2014 May 15, Colette Shade, “How to Prep for the Apocalypse on Pinterest”, in The Atlantic:
text: The arrival of a starving mother and daughter (perfectly embodied by Olwen Fouéré and Mia Goth) disrupts the survivalist’s methodical routines and hardened emotions. Sex can be traded for food and shelter, but trust has no price;[…]
ref: 2017 May 17, Jeannette Catsoulis, “Review: Three Must Become Two in ‘The Survivalist’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But there are also French “survivalists” who – at least until about a decade ago – shared the drawbridge mentality of the Americans stocking up on peanut butter and ammo.
ref: 2020 October 11, Laura Spinney, “‘Humans weren’t always here. We could disappear’: meet the collapsologists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A person who believes in being prepared to survive and is actively preparing for possible future emergencies and disruptions in local, regional, national, or international social or political order.
Synonyms: prepper
Related terms: survivalism
chlorofluorocarbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlorofluorocarbon
bubbe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʊbə/
ipa: /ˈbʌ-/
ipa: /-bi/
ipa: /ˈbʊbə/
ipa: /ˈbʌ-/
ipa: /ˈbɔ-/
ipa: /-bi/
rhymes: -ʊbə
rhymes: -ʊbi
rhymes: -ʌbi
rhymes: -ɔːbə
rhymes: -ɔːbi
Forms: form: bubbes
form: bobbe
form: bobeh
form: bubbeh
form: bubbie
form: bubby
form: bubah
form: bube
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish באָבע (bobe, “grandmother”), and then either from a Slavic language or from eastern Middle High German bābe (“old woman”), both from Proto-Slavic *baba (“old woman”) and ultimately imitative of a child’s babbling. Doublet of baba.
Senses: examples: text: The Bube explained the situation in voluble Yiddish, and made Esther wince again under the impassioned invective on her clumsiness. […] If the family died of starvation, their blood would be upon her grand-daughter's head.
ref: 1892, I[srael] Zangwill, “The Sweater”, in Children of the Ghetto […], volume I, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I (The Children of the Ghetto), page 34:
text: I never met my bubbe, my grandma, the source of all my mother's Yiddish proverbs, […]
ref: 1987, Linda Barnes, chapter 1, in A Trouble of Fools (A Fawcett Crest Book), New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 1:
text: I dedicate this book to my late grandparents, Morris and Bala Baellow. My bubbe’s inability to write in English turned out to be a blessing: she pressed me into service as her scribe at an early age.
ref: 1992, Steven C. Dubin, “Acknowledgements”, in Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 1994, →ISBN, page x:
text: Once, when I poked my stick in a bed of brown leaves, I found a shimmery snakeskin. When I showed my bubbe, she said I had found a memory of the snake, and that memories were precious.
ref: 1998, Elizabeth Sussman Nassau, “Raisins and Almonds”, in Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Dov Peretz Elkins, editors, Chicken Soup for the Jewish Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, Deerfield Beach, Fla.: Health Communications, published 2001, →ISBN, part 5 (Family), page 238:
glosses: A grandmother.
raw_tags: in Jewish contexts
examples: text: "I wanna more chocolate, bubbe," said Karl. […] "You heard the bubbe," said Josie. "There isn't any. You act up and cry and I'll give you the back of my hand."
ref: 1979 December, Stephen Longstreet, chapter 15, in The Dream Seekers, Los Angeles, Calif.: Pinnacle Books, published January 1981, →ISBN, page 174:
glosses: An elderly woman.
raw_tags: in Jewish contexts
Coordinate terms: zayde
Related terms: word: bubbe meise
english: possibly cognate
translation: possibly cognate
word: babushka
you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: Everybody's hustling for a buck and a dime / I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine
ref: 1974, “Nobody Loves You (When You're Down And Out)”, in John Lennon (lyrics), Walls and Bridges, performed by John Lennon:
glosses: If you do me a favor then I will do you a favor; quid pro quo.
Tom Collins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tom Collinses
Etymology: Various theories; see the Wikipedia article.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail containing gin, lemon juice, sugar and a splash of soda.
Derived terms: word: Collins
english: drink
translation: drink
word: collins
word: Collins glass
Related terms: John Collins
survivalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: survivalisms
Etymology: From survival + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A belief, expressed by survivalists, in being prepared to survive disasters and cataclysms including the collapse of civilization.
stagione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian stagione (“season”). Doublet of station.
Senses: examples: text: Again, for New York to have a stagione house is an interesting departure.
ref: 2008 June 4, Anthony Tommasini, “In Charting Its Future, City Opera Chooses an Adventurous Path”, in New York Times:
glosses: A system for presenting opera, whereby each production is cast separately and has a brief but intensive run of performances.
Related terms: repertory
Russian Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Russian Empire
Senses: glosses: The Russian state from 1721 to 1917.
baggywrinkle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggywrinkles
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A brush-like pad made of rope, attached to a shroud in order to prevent wear on sails.
Pasqua
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pasquas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Pasqua.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
line of best fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lines of best fit
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line on a scatter plot that best defines or expresses the trend shown in the plotted points. It is chosen so that the sum of the squares of the distances from the points to the line is a minimum. It also illustrates the correlation (positive, negative, or zero correlation) between the plotted variables.
Related terms: trend line
regression line
pompatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First used in the lyrics of Steve Miller's 1972 rock song "Enter Maurice" ("whisper sweet words of epismetology in your ear and speak to you of the pompatus of love.") and popularized in his 1973 rock song "The Joker" ("Cause I speak of the pompatus of love"), but having no apparent meaning in either song. Inspired by the lyric "Oh my darling, let me whisper sweet words of pizmotality and discuss the puppetutes of love" in The Medallions "The Letter" written by Vernon Green. ("Puppetutes" described a fantasy paper-doll or puppet-like girl.)
Senses: examples: text: She loved the way the lecturer stated it, offhand, but with the air of a pompatus.
ref: 2000, Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost, Picador,, →ISBN, page 140:
text: It's a good job there was no need for a baseball infographic about “The joker” because I'd have been forced to use a terrible pun: the pompatus of glove.
ref: 2011, Craig Robinson, Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, →ISBN:
text: Ryan Mallett is the pompatus of offense.
ref: 2014 November 6, Barryfromtexas, “Week 9 Thingy - Not Enough Heh to Go Around (Now with grammarfication)”, in SBNation:
text: “And my mom is the pompatus of love,” Will said.
ref: 2015, Suanne Laqueur, Give Me Your Answer True, →ISBN:
glosses: One who is pompous or splendid.
examples: text: It could be a whang-dang-doodle, a cloche hat made out of coyote fur, or a phylactery testifying to the pompatus of love.
ref: 2004, Michael Chabon, Michael Mignola, McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Got my pompatus up; my rave'll be on in a few. I must have popped too many; the Iowa donkeys are starting to bray in my ears.
ref: 2010, Loren Berengere, Satirical Denouncements of the Wicked Americans and We Anti-Matriarchalists, page 98:
text: All the pompatus of war. It would come.
ref: 2015, John Hornor Jacobs, Foreign Devils, →ISBN:
text: If you're into the pompatus of Twitter, send email to […] and I'll sign you up for the newsletter that alerts you when the week's poll is posted.
ref: 2015 June 26, Eric Zorn, “What same-sex marriage backers 'lost'”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: Pomp, ostentatiousness, or spectacle.
soundscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: soundscapes
Etymology: From sound + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: Kleist’s drama is in that tradition and Mr. Bakewell was always in command of it. His soundscape of the field of Fehrbellin presented a tremendous panorama to the mind’s eye.
ref: 1958, British Broadcasting Corporation, The Listener, volume 59, page 475:
glosses: An acoustic environment, a virtual/emotional environment created using sound.
glosses: An electroacoustic musical composition creating a sound portrait of a sound environment.
soundscape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: soundscapes
form: soundscaping
form: soundscaped
form: soundscaped
Etymology: From sound + -scape.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:soundscaped.
glosses: To establish or define an acoustic environment, either a virtual one created using sound or a physical one created architecturally to have specific effects on sound.
packie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packies
Senses: glosses: A package store, otherwise known as a liquor store.
Synonyms: liquor store
beautyful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of beautiful.
selflessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more selflessly
form: most selflessly
Etymology: From selfless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They’re the first non-mammals observed helping each other in this way, suggesting other animals have evolved the ability to act selflessly.
ref: 2020 September 1, Elizabeth Preston, “Parrots Show Off Selfless Behavior”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a selfless manner; done in a way that disregards concerns for the self and places other first.
shantytown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shantytowns
form: shanty town
Etymology: From shanty + town.
Senses: examples: text: The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old.
ref: 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, N.Y.: Vintage Books, page 173:
glosses: An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
Synonyms: sense: area containing a collection of shacks
word: Hooverville
sense: area containing a collection of shacks
word: slum
sheerness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheernesses
Etymology: From sheer + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sheer.
glosses: The result or product of being sheer.
shillelagh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃəˈleɪli/
rhymes: -eɪli
Forms: form: shillelaghs
form: shillala
form: shillalah
form: shillelah
form: shillalagh
form: shillaly
form: shillely
Etymology: From Irish sail éille (“shillelagh”, literally “cudgel of a thong”), altered to match the name of the village of Shillelagh (from Irish Síol Éalaigh (literally “descendants of Éalach”), because the forest near it provided wood from which such clubs could be made.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he stem of a stout young oak or ash tree, into the end of which, where the roots had been rounded off, a quantity of molten lead was poured, making the shillelagh more formidable in such hands than a sword would have been – much harder to parry, and impossible to break.
ref: 1842, Charlotte Elizabeth, “Letter IX. The Dumb Boy.”, in Personal Recollections. … From the London Edition, New York, N.Y.: John S. Taylor & Co. No. 145 Nassau-Street, Brick Church Chapel, →OCLC, pages 151–152:
text: It beats all your guns and your rifles, / For it goes off whene'er you desire, / And it's sure to hit just what it aims at, / For shillelaghs they never miss fire.
ref: [1864], T. Maclagan, “The Twig of the Shannon”, in Maclagan's Musical Age Songster, Containing All the Most Popular Songs Sung by T. Maclagan, London: The Music-Publishing Company, 19 Peter's Hill, St. Paul's, E.C., →OCLC, page 27:
text: "My sorrow!" cried Toirdealbhach. "What do I want to be a saint for at all, is my puzzle! If I could fetch one crack at somebody with me ould shillelagh"—here he produced a frightful-looking weapon from under his gown—"wouldn't it be better than all the saints in Ireland?"
ref: 1958, Terence Hanbury White, The Once and Future King, London: William Collins, Sons, →OCLC:
text: The precise size and shape of a shillelagh can be hard to agree upon, but most of those who have an interest in Irish culture will readily acknowledge that a knobbed stick, made of oak or blackthorn, are the distinguishing characteristics of a shillelagh.
ref: 2007, John W. Hurley, “Irish Martial Arts”, in Shillelagh: The Irish Fighting Stick, Pipersville, Pa.: Caravat Press, →ISBN, page 15:
glosses: A wooden (traditionally blackthorn (sloe) wood) club ending with a large knob.
glosses: Any cudgel, whether or not of Irish origin.
Related terms: blackthorn
shinguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪnˌɡɑɹd/
Forms: form: shinguards
Etymology: From shin + guard.
Senses: synonyms: shin pad
glosses: A piece of apparel to protect the front of the lower leg (the shin), usually worn when playing sports.
shirker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shirkers
Etymology: From shirk + -er.
Senses: synonyms: derelict
glosses: One who shirks a duty or responsibility.
examples: text: the shirkers in the family complain when she gets them chopping up wood for a few hours in the woodshed
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 353:
glosses: One who is lazy.
Synonyms: word: goldbrick
word: slacker
Related terms: malingerer
shoebill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃu.bɪl/
Forms: form: shoebills
Etymology: From shoe + bill.
Senses: examples: text: The Shoebill is distinctive in many aspects of its biology, and is thus, we feel, most appropriately placed in its own family, the Balaenicipitidae (L. Buxton et al. 1978, Kahl 1979a). The fact that we have included it in this book, while excluding the Hamerkop, indicates that we believe the Shoebill to be closer to the storks (Kahl 1967b, 1979c); however the jury remains out as to how close.
ref: 1992, James Hancock, James A. Kushlan, M. Philip Kahl, Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills of the World, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: Nevertheless, Birdlife International recently classified it as near-globally threatened, and it is classed as CITES Appendix 2, which means that trade in shoebills, or their capture for any harmful activity, is forbidden by international law.
ref: 2009, Philip Briggs, Janice Booth, Rwanda, 4th edition, Bradt Travel Guides, page 405:
text: The monstrous and awesome shoebill is possibly the most bizarre bird on the African continent.
ref: 2014, Jamie Frater, Listverse.com's Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Lists, page 605:
glosses: Balaeniceps rex, a tall wading bird related to the stork, native to tropical African swamps; the sole species of the family Balaenicipitidae.
Synonyms: sense: Balaeniceps rex
word: whalehead
escort agency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escort agencies
Senses: glosses: A company that provides customers with companions for a fee, usually for sexual services, which services are not performed on company premises.
Synonyms: escort service
unruliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unrulinesses
Etymology: From unruly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being unruly.
escort service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escort services
Senses: glosses: A company that provides customers with companions or prostitutes for a fee.
Synonyms: escort agency
improves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of improve
phoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊnd/
ipa: /foʊnd/
rhymes: -əʊnd
rhymes: -oʊnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phone
immunisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunisations
Etymology: From French immunisation. Equivalent to immunise + -ation or immune + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: The larger the number of immunised people in the community the less easy is the spread of disease from one person to another. […] For the purpose of creating ‘herd immunity’, as this process is sometimes called, it is necessary to achieve 80 per cent immunisation of the community.
ref: 1978, G. J. Ebrahim, Practical Mother and Child Health in Developing Countries (Macmillan Tropical Community Health Manuals), revised edition, London: The Macmillan Press, →ISBN; ELBS edition, London: English Language Book Society and Macmillan Education, 1980 (1982 printing), →ISBN, page 56:
text: All babies born in the UK will receive the hepatitis B jab as part of their routine immunisations from the autumn in an effort to drive down viral infections that cause cirrhosis and liver cancer.
ref: 2017 July 9, Ian Sample, “Hepatitis B jab to be added to immunisations of babies born in UK”, in The Guardian:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of immunization.
examples: text: "Secondly, we have to find more cost-effective ways of electrifying. And we've had a real breakthrough in the last couple of years in terms of bridge clearances and immunisation, meaning we've been able to take hundreds of millions of pounds off the cost of electrification.
ref: 2020 May 20, Andrew Haines talks to Stefanie Foster, “Repurpose rail for the 2020s”, in Rail, page 33:
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The process of immunising signalling and traction power supplies so they don't interfere with each other.
Derived terms: hyperimmunisation
postimmunisation
incited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incite
zigzagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zigzag
zigzags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zigzag
zigzags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zigzag
memorialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: memorializes
form: memorializing
form: memorialized
form: memorialized
form: memorialise
Etymology: From memorial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In this passage, Andromaque sees Astyanax only through the memorializing lens of his attribution to Hector, his status as "gage."
ref: 2008, Roland Racevskis, Tragic Passages: Jean Racine's Art of the Threshold, page 85:
text: President Emmanuel Macron decided this summer that 46 years after her death, Baker would become only the sixth woman to be memorialised in the Panthéon in a ceremony on 30 November – the anniversary of the marriage to Jean Lion that allowed her to acquire French nationality.
ref: 2021 November 28, Jon Henley, “Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To provide a memorial for someone; to commemorate.
examples: text: Facebook says people with memorialized accounts do not appear in advertisements or birthday reminders on the site and are also excluded from the People You May Know list of friend suggestions.
ref: 2015 May 20, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Unlike You, Your Facebook Account Can Be Immortal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: social media
glosses: To convert (someone’s profile) into a memorial site/page (e.g. on Facebook).
examples: text: Most of the time, the National Security Council — the foreign policy arm of the White House — memorializes presidential phone or video calls with foreign heads of state on the so-called TNet system, the officials said.
ref: 2019 October 1, Charlie Savage, Matthew Rosenberg and Adam Goldman, “The Extra-Secret White House Computer System, Explained”, in The New York Times:
topics: law
glosses: To create a written record of a meeting or conversation.
examples: text: Why, you'll—you'll ask till they tell you. Then you'll memorialize that Department (according to regular forms which you'll find out) for leave to memorialize this Department.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To petition with a memorial, or statement of facts.
Derived terms: memorializable
memorialization
memorializer
rememorialize
honky-tonks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honky-tonk
honkytonks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honkytonk
manages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of manage
incorporates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incorporate
matures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mature
meddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of meddle
Derived terms: co-meddled
unmeddled
neglects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neglect
nourishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nourish
nourishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nourish
Christmas time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christmas times
form: Christmastime
form: Christmas-time
Senses: glosses: The Christmas season.
glosses: Yuletide.
glosses: Christmastide.
Related terms: Twelve Days of Christmas
ramparts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rampart
informateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informateurs
Senses: glosses: politician who researches the possible coalition options before a new cabinet is formed, particularly in one of the Benelux countries
Related terms: formateur
formateur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formateurs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: chief political negotiator for formal talks that are intended to lead to the formation of a cabinet, particularly in one of the Benelux countries
Related terms: informateur
P U
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: P.U.
form: P. U.
form: PU
form: peeyoo
form: pee-ew
form: pee-yew
form: peeyew
Etymology: Possibly from Spanish fu, an interjection indicating disgust, or from French puer (“to stink”)
Senses: examples: text: What is that awful smell? P U!
glosses: An interjection in response to smelling an unpleasant scent.
undulipodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.djə.ləˈpəʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˌʌn.djʊ.ləˈpəʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˌʌn.d͡ʒə.ləˈpoʊ.di.əm/
ipa: /ˌʌn.djʊ.ləˈpoʊ.di.əm/
Forms: form: undulipodia
Etymology: From Latin undula (“wave”) + -podium.
Senses: glosses: An intracellular projection of a eukaryotic cell containing a microtubule array, used for locomotion or for propelling fluids.
Derived terms: undulipodial
Related terms: pseudopodium
undulate
undulation
flagellum
cilium
paternalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paternalistic
form: most paternalistic
Etymology: From paternal + -istic.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being paternal, i.e. like a father, e.g. characterized by behaving in benevolent and yet intrusive manner towards underlings
examples: text: With a scanty supply of laws in Hellenic commonwealths or city states what an immense vista for an Aristotle, of that grand, complex, efficient machinery of law, turning out yearly thousands of laws and taboos for the paternalistic control and alleged welfare of the citizen!
ref: 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
glosses: of, pertaining to, characteristic of or practicing paternalism
Derived terms: antipaternalistic
overpaternalistic
paternalistically
rasterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasterizations
Etymology: From raster + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The process of taking an image described in a vector graphics format (shapes) and converting it into a raster image.
F clef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: F clefs
Senses: examples: The F clef may be placed on the third or fourth or fifth line (from the bottom) of a five-line staff, and is then called the baritone clef, bass clef, or subbass clef, respectively.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a clef which indicates the position of F below middle C in a given staff.
bass clef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪsklɛf/
Forms: form: bass clefs
form: bass cliff
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A symbol showing that the second line from the top of the staff represents the F below middle C.
Synonyms: F clef
middle C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle Cs
form: middle C's
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The musical note note C4, with a pitch of approximately 261.6 hertz in concert pitch.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The key on a piano or other keyboard instrument corresponding to this note.
Related terms: bass C
high C
low C
treble C
grand C
Flintstonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪntˈstəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /flɪntˈstoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Flintstonian
form: most Flintstonian
Etymology: After The Flintstones, an animated American television sitcom of the 1960s, set in the Stone Age; + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: My bike is Flintstonian but it gets me around.
glosses: Outdated or no longer in vogue.
examples: text: You can't stay the night: my parents are a bit Flintstonian.
glosses: Preferring the customs of earlier times.
examples: text: The brakes on my bike failed, so I had to come to a Flintstonian stop, that is, by dragging my feet on the pavement.
glosses: Evoking the Flintstones cartoon series.
Related terms: Flintstonesque
Jetsonian
treble C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treble C's
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the C note exactly one octave above middle C
yabba dabba doo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjæbə ˈdæbə ˈduː/
rhymes: -uː
Etymology: Catchphrase of the animated character Fred Flintstone, of onomatopoeic origin.
Senses: examples: text: Yabba dabba doo! I'm off work!
glosses: An expression of happiness or excitement.
wikipedia: Fred Flintstone
Derived terms: yabba dabba don't
Related terms: quitting time
bass C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass Cs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the C note exactly one octave below middle C
high C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high Cs
form: high C's
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The note exactly two octaves above middle C.
low C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: low C's
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: the C note exactly two octaves below middle C
treble staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treble staffs
form: treble staves
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A staff that starts with a treble clef.
bass staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass staffs
form: bass staves
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a staff which starts with a bass clef
grand staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand staffs
form: grand staves
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a treble staff joined to a bass staff by means of a brace, with the treble staff on top
grand staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grand staff
judgment day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judgment days
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of judgement day.
furnaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furnace
discomfiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌmfɪtʃə(ɹ)/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʊmfɪtʃə/
Forms: form: discomfitures
Etymology: From Old French desconfiture (“rout, defeat”); compare French déconfiture.
Senses: glosses: Defeat in battle.
examples: text: Some of us are concerned because as yet the South shows no penitence. But what exactly do we mean by this? Since down to the close of the war she never confessed any for braving it, the only penitence now left her is that which springs solely from the sense of discomfiture; and since this evidently would be a contrition hypocritical, it would be unworthy in us to demand it.
ref: 1866, Herman Melville, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Supplement:
text: One of them ended its career as a passenger carrying vehicle in 1907, by freezing in Kemp Town Tunnel, to the discomfiture of some important season ticket holders, who did not hesitate to let the directors know what they thought about the incident.
ref: 1952 April, “Notes and News: Petrol Railcars on the L.B.S.C.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:
text: Other countries are not so much angry as avid to exploit the discomfiture of the US or the chaos in the region or both.
ref: 2023 October 22, Jason Burke, “The week the world tried to stop Gaza spinning out of control”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: An emotional state similar to that arising from defeat; frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment.
Related terms: discomfit
spalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
Etymology: Compare German Spalt (“stein”), from spalten (“to split”).
Senses: glosses: spelter.
spalt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
Forms: form: more spalt
form: most spalt
Etymology: Compare German Spalt (“stein”), from spalten (“to split”).
Senses: examples: text: Note: (US) Spalted wood is that which has been cut from a naturally cured, dead, or dying hardwood tree whose wood is normally light in color (such as pecan), and which exhibits patterns of dark stain (crazed) lines and splotches caused by microorganisms and/or fungus. Although slightly more brittle and porous than normal wood from the same species of tree, spalted wood nevertheless can be used to make decorative items and small pieces of furniture.
text: a brittle, spalt wood
ref: 1772, William Ellis, Husbandry, Abridged:
glosses: brittle.
raw_tags: of wood
glosses: heedless; clumsy; pert; saucy.
spalt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɔːlt/
rhymes: -ɔːlt
Forms: form: spalts
form: spalting
form: spalted
form: spalted
Etymology: Compare German Spalt (“stein”), from spalten (“to split”).
Senses: synonyms: spall
glosses: To break off pieces, or have them broken off, especially with an axe etc; to splinter.
decremental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌdɛkɹəˈməntəɫ]
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From decrement + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to a decrement
glosses: decreasing
Derived terms: decrementally
nondecremental
tabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tab
tabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabbings
Senses: examples: text: These juxtapositions of perspective are generally indicated typographically, by a verse being tabbed in or out from the one above it: such tabbings indicate breaks in time, space, or voice.
ref: 2003, Stephen J. Hartnett, Incarceration Nation, page 23:
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Tabulation.
tabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tab + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Letter up a tabbed folder for each different catalog you intend to issue. As you collect matter for this catalog, put it in the one place — the folder devoted to that catalog.
ref: 1907, Joseph Meadon, Walter Lawrence Tobey, The Graphic Arts and Crafts Year Book:
glosses: Having a tab (protruding strip of material).
examples: text: A tabbed browser can display a different webpage on each tab.
text: If you're a stranger to tabbed browsing, you're probably trapped in a somewhat old-fashioned Web surfing pattern. Perhaps you click on an interesting link, wait for that link to load, then press the Back button when you've finished reading that new page.
ref: 2005, Cheah Chu Yeow, Firefox Secrets, SitePoint, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having tabs (the user interface element).
tabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From tab + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tab
genomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genome
unidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.nɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl
ipa: -daɪ-
ipa: -ˈɹɛkʃ.nəl/
ipa: [ˌjuː.nɨ.dɨˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩
ipa: -ˈɹɛkʃ.nl̩]
enpr: yo͞o'nĭ-dĭ-rĕkʹshə-nəl
enpr: -dī-
ipa: /ˌjuː.nɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl
ipa: -daɪ-/
ipa: [ˌjuː.nɪ̈.dɪ̈ˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩
ipa: -daɪ-]
rhymes: -ɛkʃənəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃnəl
Etymology: From uni- + directional.
Senses: examples: text: [...] a reversible booster was fitted to the trailing bogie; all previous applications on the L.N.E.R. for use in main line traffic had been of unidirectional boosters, […]
ref: 1941 November, O. S. Nock, “The Locomotives of Sir Nigel Gresley: Part VI—Experiments and Rebuilds 1927-33”, in Railway Magazine, page 483:
text: Equally important is the class mailing list, which facilitates two-way communication at a distance. (By contrast, the web page is basically a unidirectional teacher-to-student communication.)
ref: 2005, Richard Samson, edited by Martha Tennent, Training for the New Millennium: Pedagogies for translation and interpreting, Benjamins Translation Library, page 119:
synonyms: simplex
glosses: Pertaining to only one direction, e.g.: where all component parts are aligned in the same direction in space.
glosses: Not subject to change or reversal of direction.
Related terms: omnidirectional
unidirectional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.nɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl
ipa: -daɪ-
ipa: -ˈɹɛkʃ.nəl/
ipa: [ˌjuː.nɨ.dɨˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩
ipa: -ˈɹɛkʃ.nl̩]
enpr: yo͞o'nĭ-dĭ-rĕkʹshə-nəl
enpr: -dī-
ipa: /ˌjuː.nɪ.dɪˈɹɛk.ʃə.nəl
ipa: -daɪ-/
ipa: [ˌjuː.nɪ̈.dɪ̈ˈɹɛk.ʃə.nl̩
ipa: -daɪ-]
rhymes: -ɛkʃənəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃnəl
Forms: form: unidirectionals
Etymology: From uni- + directional.
Senses: glosses: A fabric in which the majority of fibers run in the same single direction.
hunting horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting horns
form: hunting-horn
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bugle, being either simply curved (especially in heraldry), or having from one (in e.g. some Roman horns) to three (in many modern musical horns) spirals, on which signals are blown during a hunt.
hunting-horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting-horns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hunting horn.
caroler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carolers
form: caroller
Etymology: From carol + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It's Christmas at ground zero / There's music in the air / The sleigh bells are ringing / And the carolers are singing / While the air raid sirens blare
ref: 1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!:
glosses: A carol singer.
carol singer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carol singers
Senses: glosses: A person, often one of a group, who sings carols, especially at Christmas.
Synonyms: caroler
caroller
wild strawberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild strawberries
Senses: glosses: A plant of the species of strawberry growing naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, Fragaria vesca.
glosses: A berry of such a plant.
Synonyms: wood strawberry
woodland strawberry
Alpine strawberry
European strawberry
Related terms: taxonomic: Potentilla indica
alt: Duchesnia indica in older references
word: mock strawberry
word: a groundcover that resembles wild strawberries
dottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dottle
dottles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dottle
wood strawberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wood strawberries
Senses: glosses: The European wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca
reed stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reed stops
form: reedstop
form: reed-stop
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An organ stop having the tone of a reed instrument.
Hyponyms: Bombarde
en chamade
ophicleide
trichterregal
Trompette Militaire
trumpet
vox humana
highbush blueberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highbush blueberries
Senses: glosses: The common species of blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, grown for its fruit.
Synonyms: sense: Vaccinium corymbosum
word: northern highbush blueberry
Related terms: lowbush blueberry
lowbush blueberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowbush blueberries
Senses: glosses: A wild North American blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, sometimes grown commercially for its fruit
Related terms: highbush blueberry
wild blueberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild blueberries
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of blueberry, of the genus Vaccinium, having blue berries, that are not normally cultivated.
Puebla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Puebla.
Senses: glosses: A city in central Mexico.
glosses: A municipality of Mexico, whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
glosses: A state of Mexico, whose capital is the city of the same name.
glosses: A Roman Catholic archdiocese in Mexico.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Puebla City
compulsory purchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The power of a state to expropriate private land within its jurisdiction for public use.
Synonyms: word: compulsory acquisition
word: eminent domain
word: expropriation
Derived terms: compulsory purchase order
cargo hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargo holds
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hold on a ship (including the forehold and stern hold), used to store cargo during a voyage.
hifalutin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hifalutin
form: most hifalutin
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of highfalutin.
mesmerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mesmerises
form: mesmerising
form: mesmerised
form: mesmerised
Senses: examples: text: There is, we fear, a tendency to be mesmerised by the glamour of something new and to refrain from the cold hard look that monorail concepts deserve.
ref: 1964 July, “The mythology of monorails”, in Modern Railways, page 57:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of mesmerize.
Derived terms: mesmerisee
diddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diddlers
Etymology: From diddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who diddles; a cheat or swindler.
Derived terms: child diddler
Related terms: Jeremy Diddler
streaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of streak
streaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streakings
Senses: examples: the streakings of fat in bacon
glosses: Condition of being streaked; a streak.
examples: text: The fad began with a lone male running naked across the Florida State University campus several weeks ago. Students on other campuses began streaking in pairs, then groups, and were joined by some coeds. Then it became a numbers game for the “national streaking title.”
ref: 1974 March 4, Hendrick O'Neil, “Streaking runs its course”, in UPIs 20th Century Top Stories (wire feed):
text: By February 1974, a fad labeled “streaking” had crystalized on scores of college, and even some high school, campuses across the United States.
ref: 1977 July, William Anderson, “The Social Organization and Social Control of a Fad: ‘Streaking on a College Campus’”, in Urban Life, volume 6, number 2, Newbury Park, California, page 221:
text: Canadian Football League spokesman Shawn Lackie called streaking the “flavour of the day,” but added it's not a growing problem.
ref: 2003, Stuart Hunter, “Lions beef up security in wake of streakings”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page A13:
glosses: The act of running naked through a public area.
zebroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebroids
Etymology: From zebr(a) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A cross between a zebra and any other equine animal, but especially a horse.
zebroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zebroid
form: most zebroid
Etymology: From zebr(a) + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to such a cross.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a zebra; zebrine.
zebrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zebrine
form: most zebrine
Etymology: From zebr(a) + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Of, like, or pertaining to a zebra.
Synonyms: hippotigrine
zebroid
zebrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zebrines
Etymology: From zebr(a) + -ine.
Senses: glosses: A zebra or similar (notably equine) animal.
Synonyms: zebroid
winterise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: winterises
form: winterising
form: winterised
form: winterised
Etymology: From winter + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of winterize.
ball lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball lightnings
Etymology: A calque of German Kugelblitz.
Senses: synonyms: globe lightning
globular lightning
glosses: A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.
venture capitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venture capitalists
Etymology: From venture capital + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An investor who invests money in an innovative enterprise for which the potential for high profit and the risk of loss are both considerable.
Derived terms: vulture capitalist
Related terms: angel investor
corporate raider
takeover artist
turnaround artist
vulture capitalism
haglaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagalaz
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *haglaz (“hail”). Doublet of hail.
Senses: glosses: The h rune symbol in esotericism, Germanic neopaganism and Germanic philology.
bundt cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bundt cakes
Etymology: See bundt.
Senses: glosses: A ring-shaped cake, of German origin, baked in a decorative, often fluted, mould.
Candomblé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Candomblé, from Kimbundu kandombe + Yoruba ilé (“house”), meaning “candombe house”.
Senses: examples: text: It wasn’t until the 20th century that mainstream society began to tolerate expressions of Candomblé in an effort to recognize Brazil’s African heritage and cultivate a stronger Brazilian national identity, said Luis Nicolau Parés, a professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, who wrote a book about Candomblé.
ref: 2024 May 18, Orlando Mayorquín, quoting Luis Nicolau Parés, “Backlash to Anitta’s Music Video Evokes a Painful History in Brazil”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A religion, practiced mostly in Brazil, that blends African and Roman Catholic elements.
Coordinate terms: Umbanda
Quimbanda
macumba
chedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chedis
Etymology: From Thai เจดีย์ (jee-dii), from Pali cetiya (Devanagari spelling: चेतिय (cetiya)), from Sanskrit चैत्य (caitya, “hall, temple, or place of worship”).
Senses: glosses: A Thai Buddhist monument similar to a stupa.
child-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: childfree
Etymology: From child + -free.
Senses: examples: text: Persons who choose to have child-free marriages tend to be stereotyped by friends and relatives as deviant, self-centered, or immature (Somers, 1993).
ref: 1996, J. Kenneth Davidson, Nelwyn B. Moore, Marriage and Family: Change and Continuity, Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN:
text: Indeed, the tenor of the book was a direct invitation to confront the challenge that there may be benefits to choosing a childfree lifestyle.
ref: 1999, Annily Campbell, Childfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Many studies of child-free marriages indicate a higher degree of marital adjustment or satisfaction than is found among couples with children.
ref: 2010, Bryan Strong, Christine DeVault, Theodore F. Cohen, The Marriage and Family Experience, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 338:
text: Being single, and childless—or child-free, as she would put it—she can do that.
ref: 2012, Suzanne Bugler, The Child Inside, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: childless
glosses: Having no children, biological, step, or adopted, as a matter of choice.
raw_tags: of a person or couple
examples: text: A writer in the Economist in 1998 also suggested creating more comfortable environments for themselves by excluding children: "All airlines, trains and restaurants should create child-free zones."
ref: 2023 October 18, Dr David Turner, “Family values...”, in RAIL, number 994, pages 47-48:
glosses: Of an area, where children are excluded.
Derived terms: childfreeness
childfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the caption, Felt noted that the break is “totally worth it” if you have the money. She’s “childfree” and had saved up “a sizable chunk” of funds before quitting her 9-to-5.
ref: 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post:
glosses: Alternative spelling of child-free.
chuffing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌfɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chuff