cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
misvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misvalues
form: misvaluing
form: misvalued
form: misvalued
Etymology: From mis- + value.
Senses: examples: text: Gombrich generalizes his argument: all norms of progress misvalue art by over-rating their own achievement, under-rating other styles, and by viewing previous styles as precursors to their own work.
ref: 1994, Sheldon Saul Richmond, Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
Hönne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a branch of the river Ruhr.
is-ought problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: is–ought problem
form: is-ought problems
form: is/ought problem
Senses: glosses: The problem of whether prescriptive statements, stating what the case ought to be, can be derived from descriptive statements—stating what the case is.
Related terms: Hume's law
naturalistic fallacy
NRW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German NRW.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Gabun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Gabon.
in so far as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Asked if such a service could be put in place again, rather than buses, Mellors said: "I think the key thing is the first two weeks of January are pretty unique, in so far as the renewal of a bridge over the M6 at Penrith is very much a once-in-a-generation project.
ref: 2025 October 1, David Stubbings, “News: S&C to carry AWC services during West Coast closure”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 17:
glosses: Alternative spelling of insofar as.
impressionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭm-prĕsh′ə-nə-bĭl′ĭ-tē
ipa: /ɪmˌpɹɛʃ.ə.nəˈbɪl.ɪ.tiː/
ipa: /ɪmˌpɹɛʃ.ə.nəˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /ɪmˌpɹeʃ.ə.nəˈbɪl.ɪ.tiː/
ipa: /əmˌpɹeʃ.ə.nəˈbəl.ə.tiː/
ipa: /ɪmˌpɾɛʃ.i̯o.naˈbɪl.ɪ.ʈiː/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Etymology: From impression + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Originally written in the era of the Cold War, Clavell's enduringly relevant, extraordinary allegory on the impressionability of the human mind is still read in schools around the globe today, and is a call to every person to keep questioning and keep learning.
ref: 1963, James Clavell, The Children's Story, page inside cover:
synonyms: impressionableness
antonyms: unimpressionability
unimpressionableness
glosses: The quality of being impressionable.
ocrea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocreas
form: ocreae
form: ochrea
Etymology: From Latin ocrea (“greave, legging”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf.
locked fault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locked faults
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fault that does not slip due to high friction. Such faults accumulate stress which is finally released as an earthquake.
gaymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪmə/
ipa: /ˈɡeɪmɚ/
homophone: gamer
Forms: form: gaymers
Etymology: Blend of gay + gamer.
Senses: examples: text: You're a gaymer aintcha? :)
ref: 2003, Gorf, “FA:Fzero Jap”, in uk.games.video.gamecube (Usenet):
text: > Are you a gaymer then?
No, I'm just a gay man that enjoys computer games in exactly the same way that non-gay men enjoy computer games.
ref: 2003, Nick, “Gaymers”, in uk.games.video.gamecube (Usenet):
text: How is this self-ostracism? Is anyone who would choose to post there thus prevented from posting here, or to any of the planet* websites Gamespy owns? Or to any of the publisher/developer forums available for discussion? I post to a mailing list for gay gaymers, and yet I post here. How am I ostracized?
ref: 2003, Julie d'Aubigny, “Gaymers”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: A homosexual gamer.
celebrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Involving celebration; having the nature of a celebration.
Related terms: celebratory
straight up
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.
Senses: glosses: Truthfully; honestly.
examples: text: She told me straight up that she didn't want to go, then surprised me by coming.
text: She straight up hates him.
text: "You lied. Straight up lied to me to my face. I thought we were better than that, Nickey. I asked you if you were sleeping with him, if you two were serious. You said no."
ref: 2008 March 25, La Jill Hunt, No More Drama, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 108:
text: "It took a while though," he lied straight up to his brother. I knew damn well that if he could read minds, then his brother could too, but I guessed he wouldn't have wanted to.
ref: 2020 November 24, Eileen Aiyana Taylor, The Vampire Peasant: A Sinister Heart Novel, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
glosses: Unambiguously; bluntly; plainly and directly.
examples: text: Wow, this food is straight up delicious.
glosses: To the utmost degree; really.
raw_tags: modifying an adjective
examples: text: Gimme a margarita, straight up.
glosses: Of an alcoholic drink, chilled, (stirred or shaken over ice) and served in a cocktail glass, with no ice.
Synonyms: sense: alcoholic drink
word: up
Coordinate terms: sense: alcoholic drink
word: neat
straight up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English streight up (“straight, erect, not curved or crooked, direct, honest”), equivalent to straight + up.
Senses: examples: text: I support what you are attempting to do, but quite frankly, I think we should be straight up about what some of the consequences are.
ref: 1984, Joe Biden, “Women in Development: Looking to the Future”, in parliamentary debates (United States Senate):
glosses: Open, frank.
glosses: Alternative form of straight-up.
antiscience
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + science.
Senses: examples: text: Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
ref: 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
text: “The playbook presents an antiscience, antidata, and antimedicine agenda,” according to a piece last year by Boston University researchers in JAMA.
ref: 2025 February 21, Stephanie Armour, “Trump’s team is using Project 2025 as a blueprint to make changes to federal health programs”, in CNN:
antonyms: proscience
coordinate_terms: word: anti-intellectual#Adjective
english: overlapping
translation: overlapping
word: antieducation
word: ;
word: pseudoscientific
english: including being [[indifferent]]
translation: including being [[indifferent]]
word: ;
word: nonscientific
word: unscientific
glosses: Opposed to science and scientific progress.
antiscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antisciences
Etymology: From anti- + science.
Senses: examples: text: Genealogies are antisciences. Of course, genealogy is not an unproblematic enterprise, since it is a struggle against forms of power that are associated with certain forms of (scientific) knowledge.
ref: 2007, Martin Griffiths, International relations theory for the twenty-first century, page 95:
coordinate_terms: word: anti-intellectualism
english: overlapping
translation: overlapping
word: ;
word: pseudoscience
english: including [[indifference]]
translation: including [[indifference]]
word: ;
word: nonscience
glosses: The abuse or rejection of traditional science; scholarship in which traditional science is abused or disregarded.
gundog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gundogs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gun dog.
Venizelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Venizelos + -ism, after Eleftherios Venizelos.
Senses: glosses: A Greek political movement characterized by the opposition to monarchy, support of the Megali Idea, and protectionist policies.
wikipedia: Eleftherios Venizelos
Related terms: Venizelist
Venizelist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Venizelist
form: most Venizelist
Etymology: From the name of Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), Greek politician.
Senses: examples: text: Four Venizelist republicans listened to Hector and wondered bitterly how it was that all the bands had somehow ended up with a committee of three leaders who were Communist and were against Britain, the only country that had ever tried to help them since the war began.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 229:
text: But the events of that Friday became the signal for a rampage throughout the city against anyone and everyone suspected of Venizelist sympathies.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 213:
glosses: Pertaining to or supportive of Eleftherios Venizelos or his political policies.
Venizelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venizelists
Etymology: From the name of Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), Greek politician.
Senses: glosses: A supporter or adherent of Eleftherios Venizelos or his political policies.
kriya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kriyas
Etymology: From Sanskrit क्रिया (kriyā).
Senses: qualifier: yoga
glosses: A technique or practice within a yoga discipline.
qualifier: yoga
glosses: An outward physical manifestation of awakened kundalini, such as spontaneous body movement.
Samkhya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sankhya
Etymology: From Sanskrit सांख्य (sāṃkhya, “enumerating, reckoning up”).
Senses: glosses: One of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy.
Sankhya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Samkhya.
Nyaya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit न्याय (ny-āyá, “syllogism, inference”).
Senses: glosses: One of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy — specifically the school of logic.
astika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit आस्तिक (āstika, “orthodox, believing, pious, faithful”), from अस्ति (asti, “to be, exist”) + -क (-ka).
Senses: antonyms: nastika
glosses: A philosophical school or individual accepting certain tenets fundamental to Hinduism, by various definitions:
The supreme authority of the Vedas.
antonyms: nastika
glosses: A philosophical school or individual accepting certain tenets fundamental to Hinduism, by various definitions:
The existence of atman (roughly "soul").
antonyms: nastika
glosses: A philosophical school or individual accepting certain tenets fundamental to Hinduism, by various definitions:
The existence of ishvara (a supreme deity).
postillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postillions
Senses: examples: text: So saying, he ordered the postillion to the horses' heads, there to await his return.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XXIII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 295:
text: Barouches with gleaming lamps, a couple of gendarmes posted before the doors, a babel of postillions’ cries—nothing...
ref: 1842, Nikolai Gogol, translated by D. J. Hogarth, Dead Souls:
glosses: Alternative spelling of postilion.
postillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postillion (alternative spelling of postilions).
nastika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit नास्तिक (nāstika, “heterodox”), from नस्ति (nasti, “to not exist”), negative of अस्ति (asti, “exists”).
Senses: glosses: Not astika, see there for more.
Related terms: astika
white glove test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white glove tests
form: white-glove test
Etymology: From the 1950s American image of putting on a white glove and running a finger along a spot to see how much dirt and dust is accumulated as a way of measuring how well the area has been kept clean.
Senses: examples: text: Looking at the imprint his hand had left on the visible layer of dust, he realized his home would certainly not pass his mother's white glove test.
glosses: An examination of cleanliness, hygiene or other cleaning-related standards.
white-glove test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-glove tests
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of white glove test.
gorno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gornos
Etymology: Blend of gore + porno
Senses: glosses: A film which uses gratuitous, intentionally over-the-top violence in combination with overly sexual themes to attract audiences.
Related terms: splatstick
sexigesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The French use the Decimal division, but its general introduction would have rendered useless all the existing tables, which were calculated with much labor to the sexigesimal division.
ref: 1841, Francis Henney Smith, Lecture on the History of Mathematics, Virginia Military Institute:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sexagesimal.
war of words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wars of words
Senses: examples: text: The young man much resented this directness of attack, and in the war of words which followed when they met he did not scruple publicly to insult Mr Clare, without respect for his gray hairs.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter 26, in Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
text: The lower classes live in a state of war, a war of words. Their readiness is the product of the same fiery individualism as the readiness of the old fighting oligarchs. Any cabman has to be ready with his tongue, as any gentleman of the last century had to be ready with his sword.
ref: 1901, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 13, in The Defendant:
text: [T]hese two have brutal, contemptuous wars of words — the kind you might expect from divorcing 40-somethings.
ref: 2007 February 22, Virginia Heffernan, “Television: No Sex, Please, We’re Engaged”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Aug 2017:
text: In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
glosses: A heated exchange of threatening or inflammatory statements.
devolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːvəluːt/
/ˈdiːvəljuːt/
Forms: form: devolutes
form: devoluting
form: devoluted
form: devoluted
Etymology: From Latin devolutus.
Senses: examples: text: the right of the Aduowson was deuoluted vnto him
ref: 1596, Willial Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent:
glosses: To devolve.
detentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more detentive
form: most detentive
Senses: glosses: That detains; relating to detention.
Cgy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cgy.
form: CGY
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Calgary.
Ott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ott.
form: OTT
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Ottawa.
Edm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: EDM
form: Edm.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Edmonton.
St. Lucia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Saint Lucia.
baby mama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby mamas
form: baby-mama
form: babymama
form: baby mamma
form: baby-mamma
form: babymamma
form: baby momma
form: baby-momma
form: babymomma
Etymology: Formed in African-American Vernacular English, attested since c. 1986 and popularized in the 2000s. Possibly from or influenced by same term in Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole baby-mother (“pregnant woman”) (1966), alternatively due simply to grammatical similarities between AAVE and Jamaican Creole.
Senses: examples: text: She's not his girlfriend now, but she's one of his baby mamas.
text: Except for Rasheena, the rest of the baby mamas was at least struggling to live halfway right. They used to clown and act shitty whenever they came by Noojie's and saw Carmiesha there. But every last one of them ended up being grateful to her for the things she did for their kids.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:
text: For men who must deal with these situations and others like them, the result is what has now been deemed as "baby-mama drama."
ref: 2008, Ebony Vol. 63, No. 8, Sidestepping Baby Mama Drama - Jun 2008, page 154
synonyms: babymother
coordinate_terms: baby daddy
glosses: The mother of a child in common, particularly unmarried.
wikipedia: African-American Vernacular English
Related terms: birth mother
sperm donor
serpette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜː(ɹ)ˈpɛt/
Forms: form: serpettes
Etymology: From French serpette.
Senses: examples: text: Everywhere the vintagers are busy detaching the grapes with their little hook-shaped serpettes[…]
ref: 2008, Henry Vizetelly, Facts about Champagne and Other Sparkling Wine (Illustrated Edition), page 32:
glosses: A pruning knife with a curved blade.
OV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OVs
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of orbiter vehicle.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of office visit.
coordinate_terms: CV
UB
AV
BV
qualifier: among vorarephiles
glosses: Initialism of oral vore.
ASW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “You know, I really didn't have much to do with Vietnam. In the summer of 1964, I went to work for the assistant CNO for submarine warfare, Op 02. But that summer, Op 03—that's surface warfare—was developing new ASW strategies.”
ref: 1996, William Martin, Annapolis, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, published 2010, →ISBN, page 761:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of antisubmarine warfare.
Coordinate terms: sense: anti-submarine warfare
word: AAW
sense: anti-submarine warfare
word: ASuW
sense: anti-submarine warfare
word: ASW carrier
out of context
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more out of context
form: most out of context
form: out-of-context
Senses: examples: text: They took his statements out of context and made him sound like an extremist.
glosses: Without context that may be needed for understanding the original meaning.
Related terms: contextomy
decontextualize
out-of-context
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more out-of-context
form: most out-of-context
form: out of context
Senses: glosses: Not in the context necessary to show original meaning.
Venizelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Venizelist
compound imperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound imperatives
Senses: examples: e.g. speak now or forever hold your peace
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Two or more imperative clauses joined in a single sentence
examples: e.g. (in Italian) portiamoglieli - let's take them to him
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word constructed from the imperative of a verb plus one or more pronouns
raw_tags: in some languages
lean towards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leans towards
form: leaning towards
form: leaned towards
form: leaned towards
form: leant towards
form: leant towards
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lean, towards.
glosses: To favor in a decision.
three-martini lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: three-martini lunches
Senses: topics: business
glosses: A leisurely, expensive midday meal associated with drinking, which is tax-deductible because business is discussed.
outta sight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outta sight
form: most outta sight
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of out of sight.
dolo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊ.loʊ/
Forms: form: more dolo
form: most dolo
Etymology: Possibly a blend of down low or modelled on solo. It can also be an example of so called dunn lingo.
Senses: examples: text: I, dolo, challenge any team or solo
You must be buggin' out — new to my shit, home on a furlough
ref: 1996, Nas, “Take It in Blood”, in It Was Written:
text: What's goin' on in the ghetto? Still struggle and strive
I still roll with the heater, smokin' Chocolate Thai
In '94, I'll be goin' solo
Too many problems of my own so I'm rollin' dolo, fuck all y'all
ref: 1997, Tupac Shakur, “Fuck All Y’all”, in R U Still Down? (Remember Me):
topics: dancing
hip-hop
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: alone, by oneself, without a companion
wikipedia: Mobb Deep#Legacy
doli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolus
doli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolis
Senses: examples: text: This is a very miserable conveyance, used by the middling rank of native men; but has been improved, by Europeans, into the Doli for conveying the sick, by lengthening it so as to admit the passenger to lie at length.
ref: 1838, Montgomery Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India..., volume III, page 119:
text: ...bahlis, chakras, bullock-carts, dolis, tattus, palkis, miyanas, kharkharinas, bajras and chaupalas, were the common vehicles.
ref: 1911, Calendar of Persian Correspondence..., page xxvi:
text: The Muslim ladies who earlier moved out in covered palanquins, dolis and muhafas or completely veiled coaches and victorias are now obliged to go about in tongas, rikshaws and buses leaving aside the earlier scruples.
ref: 1972, Abulhasan 'Ali Nadvi, The Musalman, page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of dooly (“basic Indian litter”).
Related terms: doli incapax
edictal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edictal
form: most edictal
Etymology: From edict + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from edicts
Derived terms: edictally
saxophonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saxophonist
serenading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of serenade
serenading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serenadings
Senses: examples: text: the amatory serenadings of the London cats
ref: 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary:
glosses: The act of one who serenades.
serenaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of serenade
scoutmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoutmaster
OWTTE
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: For one mark, candidates should state that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (OWTTE).
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of or words to that effect, used in academic rubrics.
owtte
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Initialism of or words to that effect.
Senses: qualifier: exam mark schemes
glosses: Or words to that effect.
equiparate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equiparates
form: equiparating
form: equiparated
form: equiparated
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin aequiparātus, past participle of aequiparō (“put on a level with, compare”), from aequus (“equal”) + parō (“place”).
Senses: glosses: To perform equiparation; to transfer attributes from one object or concept to another.
glosses: To compare.
Related terms: equiparable
völkisch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German völkisch. (Morphologically, compare English folkish.)
Senses: examples: text: It is led by Björn Höcke, who is considered to be part of the AfD’s far right or völkisch wing, which was officially disbanded but is still widely believed to exist.
ref: 2023 June 26, Kate Connolly, “Far-right AfD wins local election in ‘watershed moment’ for German politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Pertaining to a German populist, identity-nationalist or ethnonationalist ideology found since the late 19th century.
out-of-order
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime.
ref: 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of out of order.
balusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baluster
zoosexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoosexual + -ity. First attested in the 1980s.
Senses: examples: text: 3. The term "zoosexuality", understood as sexual orientation towards animals, has been in use since the 1980s; it was popularized by Miletski's research in the 1990s.
ref: [2009, Monika Bakke, “Human-nonhuman libidinal relations”, in Tom Tyler, Manuela Rossini, editor, Animal Encounters, page 224:
text: ZSB posters effectively suggest that zoosexuals are misunderstood outcasts who are demonized as deviant because most people lack the mental capacity to understand human-animal sexuality. This point is further crystallized when posters neutralize the deviance of zoosexuality by comparison to other alternative sexualities that have attained some measure of social acceptability.
ref: 2017, R.J. Maratea, Philip R. Kavanaugh, and Joshua Tafoya, “Zoosexual Identity Talk and the Disciplining of Discourse”, in Routledge Handbook on Deviance:
glosses: Zoophilia regarded as a sexual orientation.
live-and-let-live
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Buyers in Andersonville seek the quality of life here, Finegan said, referring to the live-and-let-live attitude of the diverse neighborhood.
ref: 2008 June 13, “Andersonville: A slice of life”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: An eccentric city with a live-and-let-live vibe, London is a place where people can be free to be themselves, find the communities to which they belong and write whatever they want.
ref: 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or expressing a belief in mutual tolerance.
Related terms: live and let live
EDMIn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of ethyldimethylindium, the Liquid indium Metalorganic precursor for MOCVD of Indium containing compound semiconductors.
salvifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more salvifically
form: most salvifically
Etymology: From salvifical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Jesus was salvifically crucified, according to the New Testament.
glosses: For the purpose of salvation.
salvifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more salvifical
form: most salvifical
Etymology: From salvific + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The salvifical nature of Jesus' death is frequently referred to throughout Christian literature.
glosses: pertaining to salvation.
Derived terms: salvifically
snap bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap beans
Senses: examples: text: Their Sunday dinner always included snap beans cooked with fatback.
glosses: The unripe or green edible fruit pod of a bean plant such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
special damages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Damages that can be quantified precisely, including such things as plaintiff's medical expenses, lost wages, and similar out-of-pocket costs (as contrasted with general damages, such as pain and suffering, which must be estimated).
Synonyms: sense: damages covering out-of-pocket costs
word: specials
Related terms: general damages
nominal damages
out-of-band
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In this additional spectrum, in-band signaling was sent down the wires outside the frequencies used for conversation. Actually, the signals were sent across the 3,500- and 3,700-Hz frequencies. Although these worked and were not in the talk path (out of the band) they were limited in the number of tones that could be sent.
ref: 2001, Regis J. Bates, Donald W. Gregory, Voice and Data Communications Handbook, page 841:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Relating to activity outside of a defined telecommunications frequency band.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Relating to communication on a different channel, or by a different method, from that of the primary communication channel.
examples: text: One great way of solving the phishing problem is doing out-of-band authentication.
ref: 2007, Simon Willison, Google Tech Talks: The Implications of OpenID, archived from the original on 13 May 2008:
text: Defaulting to chaos still causes a lot of disruption, and would require out-of-band social coordination to resolve, but it places a much larger barrier in front of the attacker, and makes attackers much less confident that they will be able to get away with a clean victory, making them much less motivated to even try to start an attack.
ref: 2020, Vitalik Buterin, “A Philosophy of Blockchain Validation”, in vitalik.ca, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2020:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: Relating to communication, such as identity verification, via a method other than the primary means of accessing the software.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Referring to a value returned by a function that is not in its natural range of return values, but rather signals an exception.
Derived terms: out-of-band signaling
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.ləˈbæ.məˌkoʊwəˈsa.ti ˈtɹaɪbəl taʊ̯n/
rhymes: -aʊn
Senses: glosses: A tribe and township of Alabama-Coushatta peoples (Creek Nation) living in Oklahoma and headquartered in Wetumka, Oklahoma. The members of the tribe speak the Muskogean languages of Alabama, Koasati, and Creek.
horse of a different colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse of a different color.
petanque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petanques
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pétanque (“French boules game”).
examples: text: First-discovered mine in the District; gave much "petanque" (stephanite, or silver glance).
ref: 1883, Charles Bunker Dahlgren, Historic Mines of Mexico:
text: There are other openings on the ledge between the ends of these claims, but all are small and filled with debris, but it is an interesting and notable fact that all the workings show the rich sulphide of silver, or petanque ore […]
ref: 1902, Reports Mining Engineers, Cieneguita Copper Company, page 26:
text: Petanque, or "gray copper ore" (tetrahedrite) is the sort for which the Mexican prospector is constantly on the lookout.
ref: 1906, Engineering and Mining Journal, volume 82, page 629:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Any of various ores, including forms of silver sulfide (such as stephanite) and the copper ore tetrahedrite.
Andrei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːndɹeɪ/
/ˈɒndɹeɪ/
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.
esperite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esperites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare complex calcium lead zinc silicate mineral with the formula PbCa₃Zn₄(SiO₄)₄.
pandemonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandemoniums
Senses: glosses: plural of pandemonium
hitodama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitodama
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A floating ball of fire, believed to be a spirit of the dead.
jurisprudential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jurisprudential
form: most jurisprudential
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to jurisprudence
Derived terms: jurisprudentially
salvifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin salvificare (“to save”).
Senses: examples: text: The salvifying message of the gospels is central to the Christian faith.
glosses: giving salvation
Related terms: salvific
salvifical
salvifically
Vmp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vmps
Senses: examples: text: By taking many readings, we determined the Vmp to a high degree of accuracy.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of voltage at maximum power; used when analysing solar panels.
glanceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glance + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being glanceable.
glanceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glanceable
form: most glanceable
Etymology: From glance + -able.
Senses: glosses: Understandable at a glance, or with occasional glances, and therefore requiring only minimal attention.
raw_tags: of graphics
kapocs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kapoc
bacteriophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəʊˌfəʊbɪə/
Etymology: From bacterio- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal fear of bacteria
derat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derats
form: deratting
form: deratted
form: deratted
Etymology: From de- + rat.
Senses: synonyms: deratize
glosses: To rid of rats.
derats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derat
autarkic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːˈtɑːkɪk/
Forms: form: more autarkic
form: most autarkic
Etymology: From autarky + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The countryside, in short, was becoming more archaic and more autarkic.
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2015, page 687:
text: Fascists had no particular economic doctrine aside from preparing for war. They wanted to build autarkic economies that could withstand blockade and did not rely on foreign trade except for bilateral deals with weaker countries.
ref: 2020, John McNeill, “How fascist is President Trump? There’s still a formula for that,”, in Washington Post:
glosses: Pertaining to an autarky; self-sufficient.
Derived terms: autarkically
hypervisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypervisors
Etymology: Blend of hyper- + supervisor.
Senses: examples: text: The hypervisor is the component that translates the virtual machines into the underlying hardware. There are two types of hypervisors: The type 1 hypervisor runs directly on the host hardware; the type 2 or hosted hypervisor runs in software.
ref: 2011, Edward Whalen, Oracle VM Implementation and Administration Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 17:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: virtual machine monitor
glosses: A firmware or software system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.
Derived terms: storage hypervisor
lost wages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Income that a plaintiff in a lawsuit would have received but for the actions of the defendant, and for which the defendant is therefore liable.
bitrot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bit rot.
bitrot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bitrots
form: bitrotting
form: bitrotted
form: bitrotted
Senses: glosses: To undergo bit rot
bit rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitrot
Senses: examples: text: The rise of gaming has its own place in the story of digital culture, but Cerf warns that important political and historical documents will also be lost to bit rot.
ref: 2015 February 13, Ian Sample, “Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk”, in The Guardian:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: bit decay
software rot
glosses: The putative tendency of content in storage to become corrupt over time.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: bit decay
software rot
glosses: The tendency of software in storage to develop bugs over time due to minor incompatibilities with newer operating environments.
Related terms: disc rot
data rot
link rot
bit decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of bit rot.
synonyms: word: bit rot
monome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomes
Etymology: From mono- + -ome; compare binomial, polynomial.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An expression with a single term, such as a product of numeric variables (with no addition) or a conjunction of possibly negated Boolean variables (with no disjunction).
puncturer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puncturers
Etymology: From puncture + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of puncture; one who punctures.
puncturers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncturer
additive inverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæd.ɪ.tɪv ˈɪn.vɜːs/
ipa: /ˌæd.ə.t̬ɪv ˈɪn.vɝːs/
Forms: form: additive inverses
Etymology: So-called because the sum of a number and its additive inverse is the additive identity.
Senses: examples: The additive inverse of 12 is −12.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The inverse with respect to addition; the opposite.
Synonyms: sense: inverse with respect to addition
word: negative
sense: inverse with respect to addition
word: opposite
Related terms: additive identity
multiplicative inverse
pollutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollutive
form: most pollutive
Etymology: From pollute + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That causes environmental pollution; polluting
avunculocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin avunculus (“maternal uncle”).
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: culture; or system; culture; or system
glosses: Characterized by couples living with the husband's maternal uncle.
raw_tags: of a society
Derived terms: avunculocality
Related terms: matrilocal
patrilocal
inficiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭnfĭsh′iāt′
ipa: /ɪnˈfɪʃiˌeɪt/
Forms: form: inficiates
form: inficiating
form: inficiated
form: inficiated
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian inficiare + English -ate (suffix forming verbs), from Medieval Latin īnficior, alteration of Classical Latin īnfitior (“to deny, contradict”), from *īnfitiae (“denial”) (see īnfitiās eō), from fateor (“to admit, acknowledge”).
Presumably originally a mistranslation by Italian speakers; compare aprimorate (“to elevate, improve”), taken from Portuguese in a similar manner.
Earlier mentions of the word in Randle Cotgrave and Henry Cockeram's Early Modern English dictionaries are likely unconnected to the modern borrowing from Italian.
Senses: examples: text: This logical contradiction which therefore inficiates the validity of a notion can have two aspects: either the notion reached by our argument is uncertain, that is it is not the only one which may be derived as a conclusion from our syllogism and then we have the aniścita or it is a petitio principi^([sic]), the sādhyasama.
ref: 1930, G[iuseppe] Tucci, “The Beginning of Buddhist Logic”, in On Some Aspects of the Doctrines of Māitreya [Nātha] and Asanga, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 69:
text: In connection with this last point it would be of interest to see if Favaroni inficiates the necessity of the sacrament of penance, and in this would be a forerunner of the lutherans^([sic]).
ref: 1958 April 24, Nicolaus Toner, “The doctrine of justification according to Augustine of Rome (Favaroni) (✝ 1443)”, in Augustiniana, volume 8, number 1/2, Augustinian Historical Institute, page 187:
text: The massive usage of the same peptide blocks in microbial and human proteomes inficiates any causal relationship(s) between sharing of microbial amino acid motifs/structures and autoimmune reactions in humans.
ref: 2012 June 1, Darja Kanduc, “Peptide cross-reactivity: the original sin of vaccines”, in Frontiers in Bioscience: Scholar Edition, volume 4, number 4, IMR Press, →DOI, →PMID, page 1395:
synonyms: invalidate
disprove
qualifier: especially non-native speakers' English
glosses: To render or demonstrate to be invalid; to invalidate or disprove.
wikipedia: Henry Cockeram
Randle Cotgrave
way of all flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the way of all flesh
Senses: examples: text: Taking a page from Court TV, some enterprising soul will start Death TV. If there are stations devoted to food, sex and weather, why not one to the way of all flesh?
ref: 1998 July 5, Maureen Dowd, “Liberties; Prime Time Dead”, in New York Times:
text: He abhors his decaying portrait, which pitilessly shows him the way of all flesh.
ref: 2004, Elana Gomel, “Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the (Un)Death of the Author”, in Narrative, volume 12, number 1, page 84:
glosses: The inevitable road to death; mortality.
Related terms: go the way of all flesh
go the way of all flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes the way of all flesh
form: going the way of all flesh
form: went the way of all flesh
form: gone the way of all flesh
Etymology: Equivalent to Danish gå al kødets gang, German den Weg allen Fleisches gehen.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hough the body be going the vvay of all fleſh, yet that ſoule is going the vvay of all Saints.
ref: 1624, John Donne, chapter XVII, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 434:
text: The first stranger handed his neighbor the family mug—a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge worn away like a threshold by the rub of whole generations of thirsty lips that had gone the way of all flesh.
ref: 1879–1888, Thomas Hardy, “(please specify the page)”, in Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC:
text: What could one do? Buy them and stick them in a lumber-room? No; they had to go the way of all flesh and furniture, and be worn out.
ref: 1921 September, John Galsworthy, chapter 11, in To Let, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part III, page 310:
text: On the U.S. West Coast, the clubs and restaurants that feature topless female entertainers and waitresses also seemed to be going the way of all flesh. In Los Angeles, 20% of the joints have closed.
ref: 1967 August 18, “Tops & Bottoms”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Dec 2008:
text: Laurence of Oxford went the way of all flesh on the gallows.
ref: 2006, Laura Wertheimer, “Clerical Dissent, Popular Piety, and Sanctity in 14th-Century Peterborough”, in Journal of British Studies, volume 45, number 1, page 3:
glosses: To die; to follow a course leading to death or extinction.
Synonyms: pass away
pay the debt of nature
cellarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellarers
Etymology: From cellar + -er.
Senses: glosses: The person, usually in a monastery, responsible for providing food and drink
cellarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellarer
Schreiner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schreiners
form: Shreiner
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schreiner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
korai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kore
boom and bust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booms and busts
form: boom-and-bust
form: boom or bust
form: boom-bust
Senses: examples: text: The reason such comments provoke scepticism is because Brown's mantra during his 10 years at the Treasury was that his prudence as chancellor of the exchequer would ensure there would never be a return to “boom and bust” economics.
ref: 2008 September 11, Deborah Summers, “‘No return to boom and bust’: what Brown said when he was chancellor”, in The Guardian:
text: Boom and bust is a long-running theme with rail suppliers. [...] I sympathise with those complaining of the ill-effects of boom and bust. [...] If boom and bust has been going on for decades (and it has), then perhaps it's an enduring characteristic and one that companies must work with, saving cash in the good times to see them through the bad.
ref: 2019 November 20, Philip Haigh, “An important to-do list for NR and its many suppliers”, in Rail, page 66:
topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A pattern of high prices in a given market or in the entire economy followed by ruinously low prices, falling production, and bankruptcies by producers; prosperity followed by recession.
feather one's nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feathers one's nest
form: feathering one's nest
form: feathered one's nest
form: feathered one's nest
form: feather one's own nest
Senses: examples: text: It may do him some harm, perhaps, but Dempster must have feathered his nest pretty well; he can afford to lose a little business.
ref: 1857, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “[Janet’s Repentance.] Chapter 13”, in Scenes of Clerical Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published January 1858, →OCLC, page 229:
text: “It's a handful of west coast financiers doing what Wall Street bankers have long done—feathering their nests,” says Michael Moritz, the billionaire former leader of Sequoia Capital.
ref: 2024 July 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, Hannah Murphy, Alex Rogers, quoting Michael Moritz, “Has Silicon Valley gone Maga?”, in FT Weekend, Big Read, page 6:
synonyms: line one's pockets
look out for number one
hypernyms: enrich
glosses: To achieve benefits, especially financial ones, by taking advantage of the opportunities with which one is presented; to amass a comfortable amount of personal wealth; especially, to do so to a degree that involves venality.
Related terms: every man for himself
featherbed
nest egg
feather one's own nest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feathers one's own nest
form: feathering one's own nest
form: feathered one's own nest
form: feathered one's own nest
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feather one's nest.
harpagon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)pəɡɒn/
Forms: form: harpagons
Etymology: Adapted from Latin harpagō, gen. harpagōnis, from Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of harpoon.
Senses: glosses: A grappling hook.