cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
backloading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backloadings
Etymology: From back + loading or backload + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: One State fauna authority believes that Australian fauna is smuggled out and backloadings of drugs are made.
ref: 1978, Australian Government Publication Service, Parliamentary Papers, page 32:
text: A structural weakness in Cairns tourism is the lack of an outbound market. Asiana, owned by the South Korean tyre manufacturer Kumho, established its office in Cairns two years ago but failed to attract passenger backloadings.
ref: 1998, Business Review Weekly, volume 20, numbers 1-6, page 145:
topics: transport
glosses: The transportation of cargo or shipment on a return trip, using the space already paid for and used for the outward leg.
backloading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backload
Beckwith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English bēċe ("beech") + Old Norse viðr (“wood”) 'Beechwood'
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English of Old English origin.
glosses: A number of places:
A small settlement in Beckwithshaw parish, Harrogate borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE2852).
glosses: A number of places:
A township in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A number of places:
An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A number of places:
Former name of Beckwourth, California, United States.
Derived terms: Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
tutorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuːˈtɔːɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /tuˈtɔɹijəl/
ipa: /tʊˈtɔɹijəl/
ipa: /t͡ʃʉˈtoːɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: The adjective is from tutor (noun) + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (“watcher, protector, defender”). The noun is transferred from the adjective.
Senses: examples: text: The probability is that any verse of this nature, in which the lines are worn smooth, is one which has been causing tutorial ears to tingle for a generation at least; and very probably it is known in a variety of forms.
ref: 1959, Iona Opie, Peter Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren, page 363:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a tutor; belonging to, or exercised by, a tutor.
tutorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tjuːˈtɔːɹɪ.əl/
ipa: /tuˈtɔɹijəl/
ipa: /tʊˈtɔɹijəl/
ipa: /t͡ʃʉˈtoːɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: tutorials
Etymology: The adjective is from tutor (noun) + -ial, ultimately from Latin tūtor (“watcher, protector, defender”). The noun is transferred from the adjective.
Senses: topics: education
glosses: A self-paced learning exercise; a lesson prepared so that a student can learn at their own speed or convenience.
topics: education
glosses: An interactive class taught by a tutor to students at university or college, individually or in small groups.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A video or text guide or instruction about a specific topic (generally a how-to).
Derived terms: slime tutorial
bed load
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed loads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bedload.
behind the scenes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd ðə siːnz/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd ðə siːnz/
Forms: form: behind-the-scenes
form: BTS
Senses: examples: text: Many videos come with features that show what went on behind the scenes to make the movie and special effects.
text: The men who stood behind the scenes and worked the religious puppet-show by hidden wires to the awe and astonishment of the gaping vulgar.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 134:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: behind the scenery and stage area; backstage; among the actors; during the production or rehearsal
examples: text: The government has been negotiating behind the scenes with the separatists for months.
text: He was more comfortable behind the scenes, he admitted, writing articles, drafting speeches for others. “I don't really have what it takes to be a hand-shaker or a baby-kisser,” he said.
ref: 2013, Tracy Daugherty, The Boy Orator: A Novel, →ISBN:
text: They told me it was because they knew the Hur report was about to drop. And they knew it would have all this stuff about classified information and about him seeming superold and addled behind the scenes.
ref: 2025 May 21, Ezra Klein, quoting Jake Tapper, “How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In secret; out of public view.
behind the scenes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈhaɪnd ðə siːnz/
ipa: /bəˈhaɪnd ðə siːnz/
Forms: form: behind-the-scenes
form: BTS
Senses: glosses: Being or working out in secret or out of public view.
glosses: Divulging or reporting hidden workings.
bellyflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellyflops
Etymology: From belly + flop.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of belly flop.
bellyflop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bellyflops
form: bellyflopping
form: bellyflopped
form: bellyflopped
Etymology: From belly + flop.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of belly flop.
neutrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːˈtɹæləti/
ipa: /nuˈtɹæləti/
Forms: form: neutralities
Etymology: From Middle French neutralité, from Medieval Latin neutralitas. Morphologically neutral + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: And what happineſs is there in a ſtorm of paſſions? On this account the Scepticks affected an indifferent æquipondious neutrality as the only means to their Ataraxia, and freedom from paßionate diſturbances.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter XXVII, in Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing, and Confident Opinion with a Reply to the Exceptions of the Learned Thomas Albius, London: E. Cotes, page 168:
text: Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects.
ref: 1709, Joseph Addison, The Tatler:
text: The official pretence of a scrupulous solicitude to maintain neutrality is flagrantly insincere.
ref: 1856 June 14, “England and America”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 141:
text: Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others.
ref: 2023 May 29, Madeline Holcombe, “Lizzo is teaching us about body neutrality. Here is what it means and how to get there”, in CNN:
synonyms: indifferent
on the fence
glosses: The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side.
examples: text: There is no health; physicians say that we
At best enjoy but a neutrality.
ref: 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World:
glosses: Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor bad.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The quality or state of being neutral.
qualifier: international law
glosses: The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers.
glosses: Those who are neutral; a combination of neutral powers or states.
Derived terms: antineutrality
carbon neutrality
climate neutrality
electroneutrality
exegetical neutrality
gender neutrality
nonneutrality
nutrient neutrality
positive neutrality
proneutrality
quasineutrality
superneutrality
thermoneutrality
Related terms: net neutrality
network neutrality
internet neutrality
NN
best of both worlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That movie was both hilarious and touching; it was the best of both worlds.
antonyms: worst of both worlds
glosses: A combination of two seemingly contradictory benefits.
bully pulpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʊli ˈpʊlpɪt/
ipa: /-ˈpʌl-/
ipa: /ˌbʊli ˈpʊlpɪt/
ipa: /-ˈpʌl-/
ipa: /-ˈpəlpət/
Forms: form: bully pulpits
Etymology: From bully (“(US, slang) very good”) + pulpit (“raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker”), said to have been coined by the United States President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) who used the term to refer to his office, by which he meant a terrific platform from which one can advocate an agenda: see the 1909 quotation.
Senses: examples: text: He [Theodore Roosevelt] was sitting at his desk reading to us his forthcoming Message. He had just finished a paragraph of a distinctly ethical character, when he suddenly stopped, swung round in his swivel chair, and said: "I suppose my critics will call that preaching, but I have got such a bully pulpit!"
ref: 1909 February 27, Lyman Abbott, “A Review of President Roosevelt’s Administration: Its Influence on Patriotism and Public Service”, in Lyman Abbott, editor, The Outlook, volume XCI, New York, N.Y.: The Outlook Company, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:
text: “The only option is to continue raising the issue, making it a political fight and using the bully pulpit to get more attention,” the [White House] source said.
ref: 2024, unnamed source, quoted in: James Oliphant, Joseph Ax, and Bad Brooks, Republicans scramble to contain backlash from IVF court ruling, Reuters, published in: The Christian Science Monitor, February 26 2024
text: At a leadership level, Ms. Hurst wishes that lawmakers would use their bully pulpit to convene constituents for more of the sorts of conversations that took place in Portugal.
ref: 2024 July 10, Stephen Humphries, Alfredo Sosa, “Stick, meet Carrot. How Portland police and activists teamed up to fight addiction.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
text: But the 2024 year-end report has a much sharper message—with the Chief Justice using his bully pulpit to rail, quite aggressively, against four types of attacks on judicial independence[.]
ref: 2025 January 2, Steve Vladeck, “Bonus 115: The Chief Justice's Tone-Deaf Year-End Report”, in One First:
text: In his final days in office, Mr. Biden has used both his presidential power and his bully pulpit.
ref: 2025 January 16, Linda Feldmann, “Joe Biden served just one term. What will his legacy be?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An advantageous position from which to express one's views, especially a political office.
wikipedia: Theodore Roosevelt
Burkinabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɜɹkinəˈbeɪ/
ipa: /bɜɹˌkinəˈbeɪ/
ipa: /ˌbɜː(ɹ)kiːnəˈbeɪ/
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)ˌkiːnəˈbeɪ/
Forms: form: Burkinabes
form: Burkinabé
Etymology: From French burkinabé, from Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Fula -ɓe (plural ending for a people noun), coined by Burkinabe revolutionary Thomas Sankara.
Senses: synonyms: Burkina Fasoan
glosses: A person from Burkina Faso or of Burkinabe descent.
Hypernyms: sub-Saharan
African
Burkinabe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɜɹkinəˈbeɪ/
ipa: /bɜɹˌkinəˈbeɪ/
ipa: /ˌbɜː(ɹ)kiːnəˈbeɪ/
ipa: /bɜː(ɹ)ˌkiːnəˈbeɪ/
Forms: form: Burkinabé
Etymology: From French burkinabé, from Moore burkĩna (“honest”) + Fula -ɓe (plural ending for a people noun), coined by Burkinabe revolutionary Thomas Sankara.
Senses: synonyms: Burkina Fasoan
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Burkina Faso, the Burkinabe people or the Burkinabe language.
Casta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese casta (“lineage; breed; race”), either from Gothic *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts) or a derivative of Latin castus (“pure”).
Senses: glosses: The institutionalized system of racial and social stratification in 17th-century Mexico.
glosses: Variety, in reference to and in names of Portugal grapes or wine.
Related terms: caste
cercus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)kəs
Forms: form: cerci
Etymology: From New Latin cercus, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: cercopod
glosses: A structure on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid.
Derived terms: procercus
Related terms: cercal
close, but no cigar
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊs bʌt nəʊ sɪˈɡɑː/
ipa: /ˈkloʊs bʌt noʊ sɪˈɡɑɹ/
Forms: form: close but no cigar
Etymology: From the practice of giving cigars as prizes at carnivals in the United States in the 20th century; those who did not win would fail to receive a cigar, even if they came close.
Senses: examples: text: Betty ran all out in the sprint race; yet, it was close, but no cigar.
text: The long distance trophy [for alumni who had traveled the furthest to attend the reunion], an appropriately inscribed silver cigarette case, was awarded to Em Gooch who had made the trip from Lincoln, Neb. for the occasion. Several other members came close, but no cigar, and we trust that all those in New York and Philadelphia who failed to show up, without reason, will read these lines with a quiver.
ref: 1929 July 2, J. C. R., “’28’s First”, in Asa S[mith] Bushnell [III], editor, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume XXIX, number 36, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1166, column 2:
synonyms: almost doesn't count
a miss is as good as a mile
glosses: Used to indicate that one is almost correct or has almost succeeded, but not quite.
phaneromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phaneromanias
Etymology: Possibly from phanero- and -mania
Senses: glosses: An uncontrollable impulse to pick at a spot or growth on one's body; the habit of picking at scabs, biting one's nails, or picking pimples.
glosses: The constant preoccupation with some external part of the body, as plucking the beard, pulling the lobe of the ear, etc.
subfund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subfunds
Etymology: From sub- + fund.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A fund making up part of a larger fund.
vest date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vest dates
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The date on which stock award restrictions lapse and the stock becomes available for transfer to buyer. Also the date on which stock options become available for exercise.
Hypernyms: date
vesting schedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The schedule setting forth when and to what extent options become exercisable (for example, 20% per year over five years); could apply to restricted or deferred stocks also.
warwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From war + walking, modelled on war-dialing.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of walking around with a wireless device to find an access point for a wireless network.
encircle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɜːkl̩/
ipa: /ɪnˈsɝkl̩/
ipa: [n̩.sɹ̩.kɫ̩]
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kəl
Forms: form: encircles
form: encircling
form: encircled
form: encircled
Etymology: From en- + circle.
Senses: examples: text: "Friday!" she called out, bursting open the doors and quickly encircling her friend in the warmth of her arms.
ref: 1983 February 5, Andrea Loewenstein, “Snowbound”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 28, page 10:
text: […]two Russian armies would advance into East Prussia, one westward from the Niemen, the other northward from the Narew, with the object of encircling and immobilizing all enemy forces there.
ref: 1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Down through the centuries, as the Holy Spirit graces person after person in land after land, they form together a grand company of "friends of God and prophets" (Wis. 7:27); a community of holy people endeavoring to live their lives praising God, loving each other and struggling for justice and peace. This is a company that not only encircles the globe in space but stretches backward and forward in time.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
glosses: To surround, form a circle around.
examples: text: It is also customary in the Orient and among Sephardim for the mourners to encircle the coffin of an erudite person seven times and recite Yoshayv besayter while making each circuit.
ref: 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 385:
glosses: To move or go around completely.
Synonyms: circulize
encompass
orb
Derived terms: encirclement
encircler
encirclet
encirclingly
unencircled
chasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæzəm/
note: General American, uncommon, spelling pronunciation
ipa: /t͡ʃæzəm/
rhymes: -æzəm
Forms: form: chasms
form: chasma
Etymology: From Latin chasma, from Ancient Greek χάσμα (khásma, “abyss, cleft”). Doublet of chasma. Compare schism.
Senses: examples: text: But always and ever there is a yawning chasm below[.]
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 1:
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A deep, steep-sided rift, gap or fissure; a gorge or abyss.
examples: text: Chelsea may not have regarded themselves as title rivals to City over the whole season but this was a harrowing illustration of the current chasm between the two sides and made for disturbing viewing for the Italian.
ref: 2019 February 10, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A large difference of opinion.
Derived terms: word: chasmal
word: chasmatical
word: chasmed
word: chasmic
word: chasmlike
word: chasmophyte
word: chasmous
word: chasmy
sufficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈfɪʃəntli/
Forms: form: more sufficiently
form: most sufficiently
Etymology: From sufficient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Once we had eaten and drunk sufficiently, we padded off to sleep.
text: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 112:
topics: manner
glosses: In a sufficient manner; enough.
examples: text: We wanted to build a tepee, but we couldn't find sufficiently long sticks.
text: There are those who value a seat sufficiently highly that they prefer to make their daily journeys by the Western Region Vine Street line.
ref: 1952 March, R. K. Kirkland, “The Railways of Uxbridge”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
text: Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged.
ref: 1962 March, “The New Year Freeze-up on British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 159:
qualifier: degree
glosses: To a sufficient extent.
Derived terms: self-sufficiently
sociolinguistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsəʊsi.əʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
ipa: /ˌsəʊʃjəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
Etymology: From socio- + linguistic.
Senses: examples: text: At an individual level then, sociolinguistic theory would predict that in Scotland, as elsewhere, individual speakers who have the skills may switch and shift between one variety and another in a predictable way.
ref: 2023, Clive Young, “chapter two: The Social Life of Scots”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath Press Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 42:
glosses: Pertaining to sociolinguistics.
Derived terms: macrosociolinguistic
microsociolinguistic
nonsociolinguistic
sociolinguistically
sociolinguistic variable
Related terms: sociolinguistics
compatible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/
ipa: [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more compatible
form: most compatible
Etymology: from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
Senses: examples: text: This printer isn't compatible with my computer.
glosses: Capable of easy interaction.
examples: text: My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.
glosses: Able to get along well.
examples: text: His actions were compatible with his sermons.
text: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: Consistent; congruous.
Hyponyms: autocompatible
backward compatible
backward-compatible
backwards-compatible
backwards compatible
binary-compatible
biocompatible
C++-compatible
C#-compatible
COBOL-compatible
compatibilise
compatibilism
compatibilist
compatibilization
compatibilize
compatibleness
compatibly
cross-compatible
cytobiocompatible
cytocompatible
FORTRAN-compatible
Fortran-compatible
forward compatible
forwards compatible
genocompatible
haemocompatible
hemocompatible
histocompatible
IBM-compatible
immunocompatible
intercompatible
JSF-compatible
JSP-compatible
JSX-compatible
metrically compatible
metric-compatible
osteocompatible
PC-compatible
plug compatible
plug-compatible
self-compatible
serocompatible
signature-compatible
uncompatible
upward compatible
Related terms: compassion
compatibility
compatible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/
ipa: [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩]
Forms: form: compatibles
Etymology: from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
Senses: examples: a computer company that sells IBM compatibles
glosses: Something that is compatible with something else.
not out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: not dismissed and having not retired.
raw_tags: of a batsman at the end of an innings
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, out.
Synonyms: in
Coordinate terms: topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: out
topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: retired
leg bye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leg byes
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A run scored by a batting side arising from the ball striking any part of the batsman's body (other than the hand) without touching the bat.
Related terms: bye
wide
ner
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɜː/
rhymes: -ɜː
Etymology: Formed by onomatopoeia. The extended form is neener.
Senses: examples: text: You're wrong, so ner!
text: I don't care what you think, so ner!
text: I've got more sweets than you. Ner ner ner ner ner!
glosses: An interjection generally used when gloating about a perceived cause of humiliation or inferiority for the person being addressed, often when disagreeing with a statement considered incorrect or irrelevant.
Derived terms: word: Emphatic form of ner — pronounced 
word: nɜː nɜː nə nɜː nɜː
word:  and sung
word: spoken with the rhythm: crotchet
word: dotted quaver
word: semiquaver
word: crotchet
word: crotchet. Spelling is not canonical
english: ner ner na ner ner
translation: ner ner na ner ner
word: alternatives are
english: ner ner ne ner ner
translation: ner ner ne ner ner
word: .
word: ner ner ner ner ner
sociolinguistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsoʊsi.oʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
ipa: /ˌsəʊsi.əʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
ipa: /ˌsəʊʃjəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
Etymology: From socio- + linguistics.
Senses: examples: text: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
ref: 2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
Derived terms: microsociolinguistics
macrosociolinguistics
Related terms: sociolinguist
sociolinguistic
sociolect
synchronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪŋ.kɹə.naɪːz/
ipa: /ˈsɪŋ.kɹə.naɪz/
Forms: form: synchronizes
form: synchronizing
form: synchronized
form: synchronized
form: synchronise
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συγχρονίζω (sunkhronízō), equivalent to syn- + chrono- + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The path of this great empire, through its arch of progress, synchronized with that of Christianity.
ref: 1839, Thomas De Quincey, Philosophy of Roman History:
glosses: To cause two or more events or actions to happen at exactly the same time or same rate, or in a time-coordinated way.
To occur at the same time or with coordinated timing.
glosses: To cause two or more events or actions to happen at exactly the same time or same rate, or in a time-coordinated way.
To cause (video and audio) to play in a coordinated way.
examples: text: We synchronized our watches and agreed to meet at four o'clock precisely.
glosses: To set (a clock or watch) to display the same time as another.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.
glosses: To agree, be coordinated with, or complement well.
raw_tags: of inanimate entities
glosses: To coordinate or combine.
Derived terms: self-synchronize
sync
synch
synchicity
synchronicity
synchronisation
synchronization
synchroniser
synchronizer
synchronized skating
synchronized swimming
synchrony
Related terms: SMIL
deviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dē'vēāt
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈdi.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.æɪt/
ipa: [ˈdɪi.vi.æɪt]
enpr: dē'vēət
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.ət/
ipa: /ˈdi.vi.ət/
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.ət/
ipa: [ˈdɪi.vi.ət]
enpr: dē'vēāt
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈdi.vi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.æɪt/
ipa: [ˈdɪi.vi.æɪt]
enpr: dē'vēət
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.ət/
ipa: /ˈdi.vi.ət/
ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.ət/
ipa: [ˈdɪi.vi.ət]
Forms: form: deviates
form: deviating
form: deviated
form: deviated
Etymology: From Late Latin dēviātus, perfect passive participle of dēviō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Compare French dévier.
Senses: examples: text: These two circumstances, however, happening both unfortunately to intervene, our travellers deviated into a much less frequented track; and after riding full six miles, instead of arriving at the stately spires of Coventry, they found themselves still in a very dirty lane, where they saw no symptoms of approaching the suburbs of a large city.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: Thus Pegasus, a nearer way to take, / May boldly deviate from the common track.
ref: 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
glosses: To go off course from; to change course; to change plans.
examples: text: His exhibition of nude paintings deviated from the norm.
ref: 2021 February 9, “The double-edged sword of movie stardom remains the same as it ever was: when a persona is so fixed in the public mind, it's what people love you for, and it becomes difficult to deviate from.”, in BBC:
glosses: To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.
glosses: To cause to diverge.
Synonyms: sense: change course
word: swerve
sense: change course
word: veer
sense: stray
word: stray
sense: stray
word: wander
Derived terms: deviative
deviator
deviatory
nondeviating
undeviating
Related terms: deviant
deviation
deviate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deviates
Etymology: From a substantivation of Late Latin dēviātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: […] Walton has suggested that it is desirable "to name the phenomena signs of deviation, and call their possessors deviates or a deviate as the case may be […]
ref: 1915, James Cornelius Wilson, A Handbook of medical diagnosis:
text: Under these conditions the person who appears as a deviate is a deviate only because we have chosen, somewhat arbitrarily, to call him a member of the court […]
ref: 1959, Leon Festinger, Stanley Schachter, Kurt W. Back, Social Pressures in Informal Groups: A Study of Human Factors in Housing:
text: […] The second confederate was also to be a deviate initially […]
ref: 2001, Rupert Brown, Group Processes:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: deviant
degenerate
pervert
glosses: A person with deviant behaviour; a deviant, degenerate or pervert.
examples: text: It will be noted that for a deviate x = 1.5, the ordinate z will have the value .130 […]
ref: 1928, Karl J. Holzinger, Statistical Methods for Students in Education:
text: This difference is called a deviate. When a deviate is divided by its SD a, it is called a relative deviate or a standard deviate.
ref: 2001, Sanjeev B. Sarmukaddam, Indrayan Indrayan, Abhaya Indrayan, Medical Biostatistics:
text: This is a deviate so the appropriate function is qt. We need to supply it with the probability (in this case p = 0.975) and the degrees of freedom...
ref: 2005, Michael J. Crawley, Statistics: An Introduction Using R:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A value equal to the difference between a measured variable factor and a fixed or algorithmic reference value.
deviate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin dēviātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: examples: text: It's somewhat in vogue to give special attention and consideration to the alternative lifestyle, which five years ago we would have called the deviate lifestyle.
ref: 1987 February 1, Kim Westheimer, quoting John Gillespie, “Rawhide Boys”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 28, page 2:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: deviant
salamander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæləˌmændə/
ipa: /ˈsæləˌmɑːndə/
ipa: /ˈsæləˌmændɚ/
rhymes: calamander
Forms: form: salamanders
form: salamandering
form: salamandered
form: salamandered
Etymology: From Middle English salamandre, from Anglo-Norman salamandre, from Latin salamandra, from Ancient Greek σαλαμάνδρα (salamándra), of uncertain origin (per Beekes, likely Pre-Greek); possibly of Iranian origin, see Persian سمندر (samandar) for more information.
Senses: examples: text: When cold, sprinkle the custard thickly with sugar and salamander it.
ref: 19th century (quoted 1977), Richard Daunton-Fear, Penelope Vigar, Australian Colonial Cookery, Rigby, →ISBN, page 41:
text: Overfired grills, or salamanders, can, in addition, be used for making toast and salamandering. They have the heat source above the food […]. This may comprise sets of burners firing below refractory or metal frets, or surface combustion plaques.
ref: 2006, Frank Saxon, editor, Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice [Gas Service Technology; 3], 4th edition, Oxford; Burlington, Mass.: Elsevier Newnes, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: To use a salamander (cooking utensil) in a cooking process.
philatelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪləˈtɛlɪk/
rhymes: -ɛlɪk
Forms: form: more philatelic
form: most philatelic
Etymology: From philately + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Jane was a member of the Philatelic Society.
glosses: Of or relating to philately or of interest to philatelists.
Derived terms: aerophilatelic
nonphilatelic
philatelically
philatelic forgery
prephilatelic
Knossos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈ(k)nɔs.əs/
Forms: form: Cnossus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κνωσός (Knōsós); perhaps from pre-Greek.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city and archaeological site in the island of Crete, in modern Greece.
cosmocrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒzməkɹat/
enpr: kŏz'-mə-krăt
Forms: form: cosmocrats
Etymology: From cosmo- (“world, universe”) + -crat (“ruler”), originally (in the plural) seemingly in reference to demonic powers in Ephesians 6:12; later used as a variant of cosmocrator, translating Ancient Greek κοσμοκράτωρ (kosmokrátōr) in various ancient texts.
Senses: glosses: One who rules the world.
synonyms: word: god
word: godship
word: deity
word: divinity
word: manitou
word: sky daddy
word: sky fairy
word: supreme being
word: Azazel
word: devil
word: demon
word: imp
glosses: an epithet for God or Satan.
synonyms: Master of the Universe
glosses: A prosperous globalist.
Related terms: cosmocrator
cosmocratic
toothache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuθˌeɪk/
Forms: form: toothaches
Etymology: From Middle English toth-ake, from Old English tōþeċe (“toothache”). By surface analysis, tooth + ache.
Senses: examples: I often have toothache.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: dentalgia
odontalgia
teethache
glosses: A pain or ache in a tooth.
Derived terms: African toothache
I have a toothache
toothache bark
toothache grass
toothache plant
toothache tree
toothachy
toothachey
slava
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslɑːvə/
rhymes: -ɑːvə
Forms: form: slavas
Etymology: From South Slavic slava / слава (slava), literally "fame, honour". The word is also used in some Slavic languages to wish blessings to another person.
Senses: examples: 1942: I was also enchanted at the opportunity of seeing a Slava (the word means ‘Holy’), which is the distinctive social custom of the Serbs. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 753)
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The custom of honoring a family patron saint, celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians and Gorani.
Related terms: heroiam slava
Köln
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Köln. Doublet of Cologne, Colonia, and colony.
Senses: examples: text: Class A., for instance, comprised the English spies. They were to go to Köln.
ref: 1915, E. St. Clair Storbart, “Within the Enemy's Lands”, in The Fortnighty, volume 103, page 680:
glosses: Synonym of Cologne, the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany.
synonyms: word: Cologne
extra: the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in northwestern Germany
fundus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌn.dəs/
Forms: form: fundi
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
From Latin fundus (“bottom”). Doublet of fond and fund.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
The top, hollow portion of the uterus.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
The back, interior part of the eye, accommodating the retina and associated blood vessels, etc.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
The uppermost hollow of the stomach, which in humans forms a bulge above where the oesophagus enters the stomach.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large, hollow part of an organ farthest from an opening; especially:
The deepest part of a sulcus, such as of the sulci of the human cerebral cortex.
Derived terms: fundectomy
fundic
fundoplasty
funduscope
fundusectomy
unwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unwrought
form: most unwrought
Etymology: From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrouȝt, equivalent to un- + wrought. Doublet of unworked.
Senses: glosses: In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal
unwrought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrouȝt, equivalent to un- + wrought. Doublet of unworked.
Senses: examples: text: […]Do not say
‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way
Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ —
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.[…]
ref: c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in If Thou Must Love Me:
glosses: simple past and past participle of unwork
burn the midnight oil
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns the midnight oil
form: burning the midnight oil
form: burned the midnight oil
form: burned the midnight oil
form: burnt the midnight oil
form: burnt the midnight oil
Etymology: Originally referring to the act of burning lamp oil in oil lamps for light at night. The collocation midnight oil in its literal sense is attested from mid 17th c.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: pull an all-nighter
text: He was burning the midnight oil to finish his paper.
text: She was burning the midnight oil to finish her part of the project.
text: You worked at whatever task you were engaged in — churning out steel nuts for the car companies or churning out essays in college — until you were done, even if you had to burn the midnight oil. No excuses, no whining, no cheating.
ref: 2013, Phil Cousineau, Burning the Midnight Oil: Illuminating Words for the Long Night's Journey Into Day, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
synonyms: elucubrate#Verb
glosses: To work studiously, especially late into the night.
Related terms: burn the candle at both ends
candlewasting
catch-as-catch-can
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: catch as catch can
Senses: examples: text: My efforts lately have been catch-as-catch-can, not carefully planned.
text: My wife did indeed provide the more dependable contributions to our income while mine came catch-as-catch-can.
ref: 1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page x:
glosses: Only when possible or when the opportunity presents itself; intermittent.
examples: text: In Lancashire and the north of Ireland, the catch-hold or catch-as-catch-can system still finds favour.
ref: 1980, Walter Armstrong, Wrestling, page x:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Relating to catch wrestling, a folk style of wrestling with minimal restrictions.
catch-as-catch-can
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more catch-as-catch-can
form: most catch-as-catch-can
form: catch as catch can
Senses: glosses: Ad hoc; in any way possible.
Related terms: catch as catch can
attendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndənt/
Forms: form: attendants
form: attendaunt
Etymology: From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.
Senses: examples: text: Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.
synonyms: attender
glosses: One who attends; one who works with or watches over someone or something.
glosses: A servant or valet.
examples: text: The most remarkable of all the attendants of the exhibition at the grove near Rockville, was the grace and loveliness of the young beauties, who, mingling with the crowd of farmers, were all intent and gazing upon the stock and other agricultural products, unconscious that they were themselves ‘the observed of all observers;’ […]
ref: 1852, “Appendix”, in Address of Benjamin Hallowell, (of Alexandria, Virginia,) at the Meeting of the Agricultural Society of Montgomery County, Md., Held at Rockville, Montgomery Co., September 9, 1852, Washington, D.C.: […] [T]he Congressional Globe Office, page 16, column 2:
text: In early life our subject was an attendant of Public School No. 17 in Brooklyn, and after fitting himself for business he engaged in various occupations in New York city up to the year 1889, at which time he removed to the town of Hempstead, and during the succeeding six years followed fanning as an occupation.
ref: 1903, William S[mith] Pelletreau, A History of Long island from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, volume III, New York, N.Y.; Chicago, Ill.: The Lewis Publishing Company, page 129, column 2:
glosses: A visitor or caller; one who attends (is present at or regularly goes to) some event or place.
glosses: That which accompanies or follows.
topics: law
glosses: One who owes a duty or service to another.
Synonyms: word: assistant
word: attendant
Hyponyms: word: adjunct
word: apprentice
word: butler
word: doorman
word: equerry
word: familiar
word: lackey
word: servant
word: squire
word: valet
Derived terms: attendantly
cabin attendant
car attendant
cloakroom attendant
flight attendant
gaming attendant
meter attendant
nonattendant
parking attendant
pump attendant
school crossing attendant
traditional birth attendant
unattendant
Related terms: word: acquaintance
word: associate
word: friend
attendant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɛndənt/
Forms: form: attendaunt
Etymology: From Middle English attendant, attendaunt, from Old French attendant.
Senses: examples: text: They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
text: The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: Both Carey Schofield's Jagger and Chet Flippo's On the Road with the Rolling Stones: Twenty Years of Lipstick, Handcuffs and Chemicals are glib, gonzo journalism about the world's favorite musical sex purveyors. Both avoid much mention of the homosexuality which has always been attendant to the group.
ref: 1985 August 24, Michael Bronski, “Titles of Interest from the Mainstream Press”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 7, page 11:
text: The applicants […] seek to argue that because of the dire prognosis attaching to their medical condition, they should have been allowed to assume the risks attendant on a potentially life‑saving experimental product.
ref: 2012 November 13, European Court of Human Rights, Hristozov and others v. Bulgaria, number 47039/11 358/12, marginal 120:
glosses: Going with; associated; concomitant.
examples: text: the widow attendant to the heir
text: The tenant in dower[…]shall be attendant unto them by the rate and portion of the rent.
ref: 1528, John Perkins, Profitable Booke:
topics: law
glosses: Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
Related terms: part and parcel
predator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tə/
Forms: form: predators
form: prædator
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedātor, from praedor (“loot, pillage”), from praeda (“booty, spoils, prey”).
Senses: examples: text: Hives should be positioned, oriented and protected to avoid predators and ensure survival in the meliponary. A study (pers. obs.) of predators shows that the main culprits in a Malaysian meliponary are frogs and lizards.
ref: 2018 October 15, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners: Volume 2, Food & Agriculture Org., →ISBN, page 73:
text: So if you're the only thing worth eating in the middle of the ocean, the predator that grabs you will probably have gotten there by a Levy walk.
ref: 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Any animal or other organism that hunts and kills other non-plant organisms (their prey), primarily for food.
glosses: Someone who attacks and plunders for gain.
glosses: A sexual predator.
Hyponyms: mesopredator
Derived terms: ambush predator
anti-predator
apex predator
cyberpredator
hyperpredator
interpredator
kleptopredator
macropredator
micropredator
nonpredator
predator bug
predatorial
predatorious
predatorism
predatorlike
predator satiation
Predditor
predophile
sexual predator
sit-and-wait predator
superpredator
Related terms: predation
predatory
prey
engagor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engagors
Etymology: From engage + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of engager.
educate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɛd.jʊˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈed͡ʒ.ɘˌkæet/
Forms: form: educates
form: educating
form: educated
form: educated
form: educamate
form: edumacate
Etymology: From Middle English educaten, from educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten) + -en (verb-forming suffix), from Latin ēducātus, the perfect passive participle of ēducō (“(of a child, physically or mentally) to bring up, train, nourish; (of a person in learning or art) to rear, educate, train; (plants or animals) to nourish, support, or produce”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), further from an intensive/frequentative formed on ēducō (“lead out, draw out; to raise up, erect”) + -ō.
Senses: examples: text: Wang said such changes to the Baishui glacier provide the chance to educate visitors about global warming.
synonyms: instruct
teach
antonyms: ignorize
glosses: To instruct or train.
Derived terms: word: co-educate
word: educatability
word: educatable
word: educatee
english: uncommon adjectival form
translation: uncommon adjectival form
word: educating
word: education
word: educative
word: educatory
word: miseducate
word: overeducate
word: reeducate
word: self-educate
word: undereducate
word: uneducate
educate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
note: without the yod-coalescence
ipa: /ˈɛd.jʊˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒ.əˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒ.ʊˌkeɪt/
ipa: /ˈed͡ʒ.ɘˌkæet/
Forms: form: more educate
form: most educate
form: educamate
form: edumacate
Etymology: From Middle English educat(e) (“educated”, also used as the past participle of educaten), borrowed from Latin ēducātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: glosses: educated
beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Senses: glosses: plural of bed
beds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛdz/
rhymes: -ɛdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bed
catch as catch can
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catch as catch can . See Usage notes.
form: catches as catch can
form: catching as catch can
Senses: examples: text: Which being done, the Women run in the dark to catch as catch can; and whatever Lot they light on,[…]
ref: 1698, John Fryer, “Carries Us to Jelfa; Where Is Treated of the Gabers, or Original Persians, the Armenians, Georgians, and Europe Artisans”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter V (Travels into Persia), page 266:
glosses: To use any available means or methods.
Related terms: catch-as-catch-can
get as get can
find as find can
do as do can
have as have can