cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
EMI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMIs
Senses: coordinate_terms: EM
EMC
EMF
EMR
glosses: Initialism of electromagnetic interference.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of external machine interface.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of external memory interface.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of electromagnetic induction.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of elderly and mentally infirm.
glosses: Initialism of equal / estimated monthly installments.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Electronic Money Institution.
bortz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boart
form: bort
Senses: examples: text: 1906 September, X-Rays and a Diamond Thief, Popular Mechanics, page 932,
It is also noticeable that the black diamond, No. 20, a dull and lusterless substance, is as transparent to the X-rays as the brilliants, while the diamond bortz, No. 6, is much less transparent than either, though more so than the imitation, No 19.
text: These main categories of industrial diamonds, gem stones, bortz, and carbonados, are further subdivided into smaller classes. For instance, particularly fine bortz of a round form composed of crystals radiating from a common center are known as ballas.
ref: 1939, Materials Engineering, volume 10, page 358:
text: A large part of the production of the Belgian Congo is crushing bortz.
ref: 1951, James Deans Cumming, Diamond Drill Handbook, page 482:
glosses: Diamond of inferior quality, commonly used for drill tips; abrasive diamond powder; bort.
mousy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊsi/
rhymes: -aʊsi
Forms: form: mousier
form: mousiest
form: mousey
Etymology: From mouse + -y (forms adjectives from nouns).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: mouselike, murine
glosses: Resembling a mouse.
glosses: Resembling a mouse.
Quiet; stealthy.
glosses: Resembling a mouse.
Timid.
examples: text: It's a god-awful small affair
To the girl with the mousy hair
ref: 1971, “Life on Mars?”, performed by David Bowie:
glosses: Resembling a mouse.
Of a greyish-brown colour.
glosses: Abounding in or infested with mice.
Derived terms: mousily
mousiness
mousy brown
mousy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaʊsi/
rhymes: -aʊsi
Forms: form: mousies
form: mousey
form: mousie
Etymology: From mouse + -y (forms diminutives).
Senses: synonyms: mousekin
mouselet
mouseling
glosses: Diminutive of mouse.
Related terms: mousie
mousey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mousier
form: mousiest
Senses: examples: text: Yes, it must be hell. It hasn't stopped Hathaway, though. The star of The Princess Diaries and The Princess Diaries 2 is now the star of One Day, playing complicated, mousey Yorkshireperson Emma Morley.
ref: 2011 August 21, “Pass notes, No 3,030: Anne Hathaway”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mousy.
mousey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouseys
Senses: examples: text: It came back again, and would run on the strings / When all were at rest in the house, / And backward and forward, from treble to bass, / Sometimes in a trot, and sometimes in a race— / Huzza for my musical mouse! / At night, when the house would be still, and the moon / Behind the high hill would retire, / By harmony’s magical powers impress’d, / This gay little mousey would steal from its nest, / And run up and down on each wire.
ref: 1828, [Margaret Graves Derenzy], “The Mysterious Music. A Fact.”, in The Flowers of the Forest, Wellington, Salop: […] Houlston & Son. […], pages 42–43:
text: It was so much better to have things that are alive, he said, than mere wooden playthings, that he would rather have his mice than all his other playthings together. “I wonder what this little mousey is thinking about,” said he, one day, as he sat looking at them; “he must be thinking about something, he sits so still. How nice it would be if we could look into the minds of such creatures, wouldn’t it mother?”
ref: 1846, Louisa Payson Hopkins, chapter V, in Henry Langdon, or, What Was I Made For?: Designed to Illustrate the First Question and Answer in the Westminster Catechism, New York, N.Y.: Gates & Stedman, […], pages 47–48:
text: Little mousey is off to school; / She wears her sweater because it’s cool. / Mother tells her to be good / And behave like little mouseys should. / Just before she is ready to leave / Mother Mouse tells her to fix her sleeve. / She gives her a lunch she knows will please, / Because the box is filled with cheese.
ref: 1949 January, Ann Lee Hollinger, “Off to School”, in Wee Wisdom, volume LIV, number 6, page 32, column 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mousy.
swallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɑl.oʊd/
ipa: /ˈswɒl.əʊd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swallow
holler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: hauler (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hollers
Etymology: American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.
Senses: examples: text: I heard a holler from over the fence.
glosses: A yell, shout.
examples: text: If you need anything, just give me a holler.
glosses: Any communication to get somebody's attention.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A field holler.
Synonyms: hollering
cry
outcry
howl
hurl
scream
shout
Derived terms: a hoot and a holler
holler
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: hauler (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hollers
form: hollering
form: hollered
form: hollered
Etymology: American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.
Senses: examples: text: You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.
glosses: To yell or shout.
glosses: To call out one or more words.
glosses: To complain, to gripe.
Synonyms: shout
Derived terms: a hit dog will holler
holler at
holler back
holler copper
holleration
hollerer
holler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: hauler (cot–caught merger)
Forms: form: hollers
Etymology: Variation of hollow.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hollow (narrow valley between mountains).
holler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑ.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɒl.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒlə(ɹ)
homophone: hauler (cot–caught merger)
Etymology: Variation of hollow.
Senses: examples: the holler tree
glosses: Alternative form of hollow.
grand-uncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grand-uncles
Senses: examples: text: When I was eighteen I obtained Master Zhang Kongzhao’s Hand Combat Classic (Quan jing), which he compiled while serving under my clan’s remote great-uncle in Huguan County (in Southeastern Shanxi, near Henan’s border).
ref: 2008, Meir Shahar, “Hand Combat”, in The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 125:
glosses: Alternative form of granduncle.
cerebral cortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebral cortices
form: cerebral cortexes
Senses: examples: text: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems— […]. Such a slow-release device containing angiogenic factors could be placed on the pia mater covering the cerebral cortex and tested in persons with senile dementia in long term studies.
ref: 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The grey, folded, outermost layer of the cerebrum that is responsible for higher brain processes such as sensation, voluntary muscle movement, thought, reasoning, and memory.
Synonyms: word: pallium
word: cerebral cortex
Meronyms: neocortex
archicortex
paleocortex
allocortex
venule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venules
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small vein, especially one that connects capillaries to a larger vein.
Synonyms: veinlet
venula
Derived terms: venular
venulopathy
moriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moriform
form: most moriform
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin morus (“mulberry”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: A moriform (blackberry-like) capitulum is one in which the flower-buds are longer than the interfloral bracts prior to anthesis; when the buds are concealed prior to anthesis by imbricated bracts or by interlocking bracteal setae the capitulum is termed conelike.
ref: 1985, Rupert C. Barneby, The Genus Mimosa (Mimosaceae) in Bahia, Brazil: New Taxa and Nomenclatural Adjustments, in Brittonia, vol. 37, no. 2
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Mulberry-like.
anglicisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡlɪ.saɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡlɪ.səˈzeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: anglicisations
form: Anglicisation
form: anglicization
form: Anglicization
Etymology: From anglicise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Dublin, the name of the capital of Ireland, is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Dubh Linn.
synonyms: Anglification
glosses: The process by which something or someone (usually a word) is made more English. Usually applied to language or culture.
Related terms: anglicise
anglicize
anglicised
anglicized
Englishification
linn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪn/
homophone: lin
homophone: Lynn
homophone: lyn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: linns
form: lin
form: lyn
form: lynn
Etymology: From Middle English *linne, from Old English hlynn (“torrent”).
Senses: examples: text: What seek we here / Amid this waste where desolation scowls, / And the red torrent, brawling down the linn, / Sings everlasting discord?
ref: 1814, J. H. Craig [pseudonym; James Hogg], The Hunting of Badlewe: A Dramatic Tale, London: H[enry] Colburn; Edinburgh: G. Goldie, →OCLC, page 1; quoted in “The Hunting of Badlewe, a Dramatic Tale. 8vo. Edin. 1814. [From the Scottish Review.]”, in The Analectic Magazine, Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, together with Original Miscellaneous Compositions, volume V (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published and sold by Moses Thomas, […], May 1815, →OCLC, pages 353–354:
text: "For it's o'er the bank, and it's o'er the linn,
"And it's up to the meadow ridge—"
"Ay," quo' the Stumpie hirpling in,
ref: 1844 December, “The Legend of Stumpie's Brae”, in The Dublin University Magazine, page 720:
text: And the roaring of the linn.
ref: 1866, John Harland, Lancashire Lyrics: Modern Songs & Ballads of the County Balatine, section 85:
text: Hear! now, Yon linn's melodious thunder!
ref: 1896, Lewis Proudlock, The Borderland Muse, page 51:
glosses: A waterfall or cataract (torrent of water running over a rocky bed), or a ravine down which such a waterfall rushes.
linn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪn/
homophone: lin
homophone: Lynn
homophone: lyn
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: linns
form: lin
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic or Irish linn (“pool, pond”), or else a Brythonic source such as Cumbric *lınn, all from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”). Conflated to some extent with linn (“waterfall”).
Senses: examples: text: There frisks the freckl'd finny tribe,
In linns both wide and steep.
ref: 1812, “Poems”, in Forbes, section 49:
text: In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice.
ref: 1823, Galt, Gilhaize, section XXVIII:
text: The pool is there — the true linn, in the original acceptance of the word — dark and bottomless.
ref: 1868 September 24, James Hardy, addressed delivered at Chirnside, quoted in the History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, volume 5, page 386
text: A trellised path led down into the valley of the brook, and he turned to follow it. The stream was a breakneck, boiling Highland river. Hard by the farm, it leaped a little precipice in a thick grey-mare's tail of twisted filaments, and then lay and worked and bubbled in a linn. Into the middle of this quaking pool a rock protruded, shelving to a cape; and thither Otto scrambled and sat down to ponder.
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Prince Otto:
text: His successful angler landing the linn-lier [fish that inhabits a pool of water].
ref: 1894, Haliburton, Furth, 177
text: The running of deep water in a linn.
ref: 1896, Crockett, Grey Man, vii
glosses: A pool of water, especially one formed and agitated by the water from a cascade.
Wanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔndə/
ipa: /ˈwɑndə/
ipa: /ˈwɒndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə
Etymology: From Polish Wanda, possibly derived from an ethnic term for “a Wend”.
Senses: examples: text: "Speaking of names, you're the first white Wanda I ever met."
Wanda peeled off two sweaters and a woolen scarf." Well, you're the fifth or sixth colored I've had to tell that Wanda is an old Polish name I inherited from my Polish great-grandmother on me sweet dead mother's side;
ref: 1998, Barbara Neely, Blanche Cleans Up, Penguin, published 1999, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A female given name from Polish.
Wanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔndə/
ipa: /ˈwɑndə/
ipa: /ˈwɒndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə
ipa: /ˈwɑːndə/
ipa: /ˈwɒndə/
ipa: /ˈwɔndə/
ipa: /ˈwɑndə/
ipa: /ˈwɒndə/
rhymes: -ɒndə
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania.
rheumatoid arthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rheumatoid arthritides
Senses: examples: text: Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), often referred to by doctors today as juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), is a type of arthritis that causes joint inflammation and stiffness for more than six weeks in a child aged 16 or younger. It affects approximately 50,000 children in the United States. Inflammation causes redness, swelling, warmth, and soreness in the joints, although many children with JRA do not complain of joint pain.
ref: 2024 September 6, David Zelman, “Understanding Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis -- the Basics”, in WebMD:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chronic and progressive disease in which the immune system attacks the joints. It is characterised by pain, inflammation and swelling of the joints, stiffness, weakness, loss of mobility and deformity. Tissues throughout the body can be affected, including the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and muscles.
Synonyms: atrophic arthritis
rheumarthritis
Hypernyms: rheumatism
Coordinate terms: septic arthritis
osteoarthritis
Related terms: pseudorheumatoid
osteoarthritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteoarthritides
form: osteoarthritises
Etymology: From osteo- + arthritis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: degenerative arthritis
degenerative joint disease
DJD
hypernyms: arthritis
coordinate_terms: rheumatoid arthritis
w:septic arthritis
glosses: A form of arthritis, affecting mainly older people, caused by chronic degeneration of the cartilage and synovial membrane of the joints, leading to pain and stiffness.
Derived terms: osteoarthritic
synovia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/
ipa: /saɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin synovia.
Senses: glosses: plural of synovium
synovia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/
ipa: /saɪˈnoʊ.vi.ə/
Forms: form: synovias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin synovia.
Senses: examples: the immunoglobulins of synovias from normal and arthritic horses and foals
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of synovial fluid.
synonyms: word: synovial fluid
Derived terms: word: synovial
word: synovium
synovial membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synovial membranes
form: synovium
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin membrane that lines the ligamentous surfaces of joint capsules, tendon sheaths where free movement is necessary, and bursae; it is composed of dense connective tissue and secretes synovial fluid.
Related terms: bursa
doni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhoni.
commanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmændɪŋ/
ipa: /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/
Forms: form: more commanding
form: most commanding
Senses: examples: text: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
examples: text: a commanding structure
text: a man with a commanding presence
text: Her colleagues say that [Dalia] Stasevska is eager to challenge the status quo both in the artistic realm and in life. Claire Chase, a prominent flutist and educator, described her as a “supernova,” praising her collaborative and commanding style.
ref: 2023 January 18, Javier C. Hernández, “A Conductor on a Mission to Help Ukraine”, in The New York Times:
text: Pierre Boulez, one of the most commanding musicians of the past century, must have been asked countless times, before his death in 2016, what he thought his legacy might be.
ref: 2023 March 23, David Allen, “‘It Needs You’: The Human Side to Boulez’s Demanding Music”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Impressively dominant; very good and impressive.
examples: text: 2018, Rail, issue 857, July 18-July 31, article on Severn Bridge Junction signal box at Shrewsbury
On the top floor is the lever frame where signalmen are afforded an uninterrupted and commanding view of the junction below, and of Shrewsbury station's five working platforms.
glosses: Dominating from above, giving a wide view (of a place or position)
commanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmændɪŋ/
ipa: /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of command
Synonyms: sense: tending to give commands
word: bossy
word: imposing
Derived terms: commanding general
commanding heights
commandingly
commandingness
commanding officer
uncommanding
commanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmændɪŋ/
ipa: /kəˈmɑːndɪŋ/
Forms: form: commandings
Senses: examples: text: God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.
ref: 2006, William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions, page 172:
glosses: The act of giving a command.
colourise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colourises
form: colourising
form: colourised
form: colourised
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of colorize.
humanisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: humanisations
Etymology: From human + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of humanization.
spondulics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Jimminy Crickets! The idea of what was about to become of all my things opened vistas. They’d think I took French leave lacking spondulics. I’d talked about rubber, but never shown my certificates, and I’d been losing heavily in the Casino. The Baroness was busted!
ref: 1919, Violet Irwin, chapter XXIV, in Wits and the Woman, Boston, Mass.: Small, Maynard & Company, →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: Alternative form of spondulicks.
Sherri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Sherry or Cheri.
doubled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌbl̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double
Derived terms: undoubled
inescapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inescapable
form: most inescapable
form: inescapeable
Etymology: From in- + escapable.
Senses: examples: text: The Rugby flyover, too, is now an inescapable feature of the West Coast main line landscape.
ref: 1961 March, “Talking of trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 130:
text: Wages absorbed 80% of the total revenue (which was inescapable), and they were rising at almost twice the rate of fares, which were pegged by law.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
text: Later, the US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told CNN that Ukraine could not join Nato immediately as it was “an inescapable fact” that the treaty’s mutual defence clause would mean allies would be obliged to enter a direct war with Russia.
ref: 2023 July 12, Dan Sabbagh, quoting Jake Sullivan, “Zelenskiy forced to recalibrate to avert Nato summit falling-out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: inevitable
word: unescapable
word: avoidless
word: certain
word: fatal
word: foregone
word: impreventable
word: ineluctable
word: inescapable
word: inevitable
word: inexorable
word: irresistible
word: necessary
word: predictable
word: unavoidable
word: unforestallable
word: unescapable
word: unpreventable
antonyms: escapable
evitable
glosses: Impossible (unable) to avoid or escape; not escapable.
Derived terms: inescapableness
inescapably
Related terms: escapability
escapably
inescapability
unescapability
unescapably
spondulic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spondulics (“money”).
poison pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poison pens
Senses: examples: text: Peter Isaacson continued his attack on Hearst and the poison pen of his editors.
ref: 1936 August 31, “Maine Politics Afield”, in Lewiston Evening Journal, USA, retrieved 27 Aug 2010:
text: After Mr. Rowland spoke, his wife, Patricia, delivered a spoof on the poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas," that was a stinging sing-song rebuke of the news organizations that had reported on her husband's shortcomings and the widening federal investigation into his administration. Referring to the news media, she said: "They used to be good girls and boys, Santa said. But the poison pen's power has gone to their head."
ref: 2003 December 17, Marc Santora, “Rowland Vows to Stay On as Governor”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Aug 2010:
text: The centrepiece of her work was a weekly column that could brim with venom . . . . Cherie Blair, Geri Halliwell, Sarah Ferguson, Victoria Beckham and Princess Diana all found themselves the subjects of Lee-Potter's poison pen.
ref: 2004 October 21, Matt Wells, “Lynda Lee-Potter, doyenne of columnists, dies”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 27 Aug 2010:
glosses: A manner, means, or tone of expression had by a written work, characterized by spitefulness, defamation, and/or intimidation directed toward a person, organization, or point of view.
examples: text: In a fair political fight in which neither side wishes to take unfair advantage of an opponent, last-minute poison-pen circulars should be banned.
ref: 1938 November 5, “Editorial: Watch Out For The Poison Pen”, in The Afro-American, retrieved 27 Aug 2010, page 4:
text: This collection of garbage and guilt-by-association was slipped into the files of the White House personnel office last fall. . . . Who was responsible for the poison-pen attack? No one signed it, and no one has taken responsibility.
ref: 1982 May 25, Anthony Lewis, “The poisoning of the well”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 27 Aug 2010, page 10A:
text: He's been harsh, too, reacting with the swift kick of a poison-pen reviewer when he doesn't like what he sees on his stage.
ref: 2004 August 24, Anthony McCarron, “Baseball in the Bronx playing like New York's greatest theater”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 27 Aug 2010:
qualifier: sometimes hyphenated
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or possessing such a manner of expression.
Derived terms: poison-pen letter
poisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: poiʹzənd
ipa: /ˈpɔɪzn̩d/
Forms: form: more poisoned
form: most poisoned
Senses: examples: text: The snake left its poisoned prey to die.
glosses: Killed, paralysed, or harmed by receiving a dose of poison.
raw_tags: of a living thing
examples: text: The hunters began to fire their poisoned darts.
glosses: Containing poison; poisonous.
examples: text: This is a poisoned work environment.
glosses: Having a strongly negative effect; harmful.
Derived terms: nonpoisoned
poisoned chalice
poisoned compliment
poisoned pawn
unpoisoned
poisoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: poiʹzənd
ipa: /ˈpɔɪzn̩d/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of poison
deking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deke
circumscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.kəm.skɹaɪb/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.kəm.skɹaɪb/
rhymes: -aɪb
Forms: form: circumscribes
form: circumscribing
form: circumscribed
form: circumscribed
Etymology: From Latin circumscrībō, from circum (“around”) + scrībō (“write”). By surface analysis, circum- + scribe.
Senses: glosses: To draw a line around; to encircle.
examples: text: "Well, I promise you to circumscribe her conquests as much as possible by extending my own," returned Henrietta. "It will be an easy task; for Miss Churchill does not do 'the honours of her eyes.' I often tell her her beauty is quite wasted upon her."
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Asking for an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 29:
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: To limit narrowly; to restrict.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Derived terms: circumscribability
circumscribable
circumscriber
Related terms: circumscribed
circumscript
circumscription
accelerated graphics port
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accelerated graphics ports
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A high-speed port used to attach a display adapter to a personal computer.
sleep together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sleeps together
form: sleeping together
form: slept together
form: slept together
Senses: glosses: To have sex with each other.
glosses: To be intimate with each other in the same bed.
examples: text: The twins slept together, the straw doll between them.
ref: 2013, K. B. Forrest, The Sorcerer and the Shaman, page 11:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sleep, together.
Synonyms: sense: to have sex with
word: have sex
word: make love
word: share a bed
word: copulate
sense: literal meaning
english: together
translation: together
word: sleep +
telephony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈlɛf.ə.ni/
Forms: form: telephonies
Etymology: From telephone + -y.
Senses: glosses: The act of sound transmission via the electromagnetic spectrum.
glosses: The study and application of telephone technology.
Derived terms: IP telephony
radio telephony
wireless telephony
crippleware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cripple + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program.
Related terms: abandonware
adware
baitware
bloatware
censorware
demoware
donationware
freeware
malware
postcardware
shareware
software
trialware
anti-feature
demoware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demo + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A cut-down demonstration version of a computer program so that it can be tried before purchase.
Related terms: abandonware
baitware
bloatware
crippleware
donationware
freeware
malware
postcardware
shareware
software
trialware
donationware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From donation + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
synonyms: honorware
glosses: A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
offensive line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensive lines
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The five players of the team possessing the ball comprising the center, the left and right offensive guards, and the left and right offensive tackles who are positioned around the ball at the line of scrimmage.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The seven players required to be within one yard of the line of scrimmage in an offensive formation.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: All of the offensive players, whether obligatory or not, lined up one yard or less from the line of scrimmage.
trialware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trial + -ware, a contraction of software.
Senses: glosses: Software that can be tried for a limited time, after which it expires or has limited functionality.
Related terms: abandonware
baitware
bloatware
crippleware
demoware
donationware
freeware
malware
postcardware
shareware
software
lateral pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lateral passes
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a pass thrown laterally and that counts as a hand-off
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: any hand-off, whether lateral or backward
backward pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backward passes
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pass thrown backwards instead of forward, equivalent in the rules to a hand-off.
Hyponyms: lateral pass
Coordinate terms: forward pass
supply-side economics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: voodoo economics
coordinate_terms: demand-side economics
glosses: A branch of economics that focuses on the supply side of the economy and on tax reductions.
Related terms: trickle down
trickle-down
trickle-down hypothesis
supply side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply sides
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: In a market trade, the side where the supply comes from.
Derived terms: supply-side economics
Related terms: trickle down
trickle-down
trickle-down hypothesis
tax reduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax reductions
Senses: glosses: The reduction of one or more tax rates.
Synonyms: tax cut
tax rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax rates
Senses: glosses: A rate, usually a percentage rate, at which something is taxed.
percentage rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percentage rates
Senses: examples: text: the annual percentage rate on the mortgage loan is 4.5%, indicating the cost of borrowing money on an annual basis, including interest and fees.
glosses: A measure to show a change or relationship between two numbers as a fraction of 100, over a certain time.
topics: business
finance
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A coefficient, expressed as a fraction of 100, of the quotient of two numbers over a specified period of time, where the denominator has the same units as the numerator but is adjusted by a unit of time. This measure indicates the proportion of a part in relation to a whole and is commonly used to describe rates of interest, growth, or change in financial and economic contexts, expressed in percentage points.
Related terms: Annual percentage rate
percentage point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: percentage points
Senses: examples: text: The difference between 20 percent and 30 percent is 10 percentage points, not 10 percent. In fact, an increase from 20 to 30 percent is an increase of 50 percent. Only if, for example, 20 percent of buyers choose a certain company's products in one year and 22 percent do so the next year, can one speak of an increase of 10 percent.
text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: One hundredth of a given value, used to measure the difference between two percentages.
Synonyms: word: ppt
word: pp
word: %p
Related terms: percentage rate
supply-side
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supply-side
form: most supply-side
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: demand-side
text: Brown told her that she sounded very supply-side, but what about that memo to Muskie, which had recently surfaced, denouncing supply-siders as a “right-wing claque”?
ref: 1984, Peter Craig Roberts, The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider’s Account of Policymaking in Washington, →ISBN, page 66:
text: While the George W. Bush tax cuts were supply-side in principle, a look at the provisions doesn’t support the progressive argument that they favored the rich at the expense of the poor.
ref: 2009, George Melloan, The Great Money Binge: Spending Our Way to Socialism, →ISBN, page 99:
text: Born out of a history of highly supply-side interventions, these programs lacked targeting and analysis of the local relevant determinants of malnutrition, and did not have a cost-eff ective impact on malnutrition […]
ref: 2014, Learning from World Bank History: Agriculture and Food-Based Approaches for Addressing Malnutrition, World Bank, page 6:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Regarding or promoting the supply side of the economy.
supply-sider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supply-siders
Etymology: From supply-side + -er.
Senses: glosses: an economist, student or follower of supply-side economics
bludge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌdʒ/
Etymology: Back-formation from bludger.
Senses: examples: text: A friend offered him a job working as a handyman in his carpet factory – a Mr Fix-it. Effectively off the bludge and back on track.
ref: 2007, Anne Barry, Playing with Fire, page 136:
glosses: The act of bludging.
examples: text: Oh, my name is Gecko and I just thought the whole unit was a bludge, sometimes it got really boring. But like I said I could just fall asleep and let my group members do all the work. And still almost pass.
ref: 1997, Wendy Morgan, Critical Literacy in the Classroom: The Art of the Possible, page 145:
text: ‘Seriously, you′ve got sheep at school?’ I said.
‘Yeah, heaps of kids here do Ag. Reckon it′s a big bludge, like drama.’
ref: 2011, Irini Savvides, Sky Legs:
synonyms: doddle
glosses: Easy work, especially a subject at school that requires little effort.
bludge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blʌdʒ/
Forms: form: bludges
form: bludging
form: bludged
form: bludged
Etymology: Back-formation from bludger.
Senses: glosses: To live off the earnings of a prostitute.
synonyms: freeload
sponge
glosses: To not earn one's keep, to live off someone else or off welfare when one could be working.
examples: text: The second last Thursday in first term of Year Nine, Jason and I bludged school for the first time together. It wasn't Jason's first time. He bludged school regularly, but I never used to miss days unless I was really sick.
ref: 1999, Tony Shillitoe, Joy Ride, page 64:
text: One of the mess orderlies had consistently bludged on the rest of us all day.
ref: 2002, Donald Friend, edited by Anne Gray, The Diaries of Donald Friend, volume 1, page 343:
synonyms: shirk
glosses: To avoid one's responsibilities; to leave it to others to perform duties that one is expected to perform.
examples: text: We had the member for Piako saying as recently as last year, when dealing with social security benefits and increases, “I feel myself that when we have able-bodied men and women who would bludge and draw the pension, there is something wrong.”
ref: 1967, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 3164:
text: Now, you get back out there and you bludge! I don't want to see anyone working, OK? I don't want to see any pick-axes, any hammers, or nothing.
ref: 1998, Marion Halligan, Rosanne Fitzgibbon, The gift of story: Three decades of UQP short stories, page 96:
text: I mean, school′s like a job. If you work for it you get your grades; if you work your hours you get your money. But if you bludge, you don't get money; if you bludge you don't get any grades. That's something that I didn't realize when I was young.
ref: 2004, John Smyth, Robert Hattam, et al., ‘Dropping Out,’ Drifting Off, Being Excluded: Becoming Somebody Without School, page 53:
synonyms: idle
laze
lounge
glosses: To do nothing, to be idle, especially when there is work to be done.
examples: text: Can I bludge a cigarette off you?
text: Gabriel was a classic bludger. He was a drop-out in the very modern sense of the word. The Rossettis were anything but well-heeled. Solid old brother William kept the show on the road. Gabriel bludged on the family. He bludged on his mates.
ref: 1983, Max Harris, The Unknown Great Australian and other psychobiographical portraits, page 105:
text: Now an adult with his own family, this man has become conscious of different norms among his children's white friends, and that whites often see sharing as bludging.
ref: 2004, Gillian Cowlishaw, Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, page 135:
synonyms: cadge
scrounge
glosses: To take some benefit and give nothing in return.
Related terms: bludger
trojan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: trojans
Etymology: From Trojan horse.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge or consent.
Hypernyms: malware
trojan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/
Etymology: From Trojan horse.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a satellite (moon or minor planet) that shares an orbit with another
trojan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹəʊd͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈtɹoʊd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: trojans
form: trojaning
form: trojaned
form: trojaned
Etymology: From Trojan horse.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To infect (a system) with a trojan.
Trojan horse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trojan horse
form: Trojan Horse
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The hollow wooden horse by which the Greeks allegedly gained access to Troy during the Trojan War.
Related terms: wooden horse
Trojan horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trojan horses
form: Trojan Horse
Senses: glosses: A subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy.
examples: text: Worse than what could be observed about the program was the fear that it might be a Trojan horse program -- apparently innocent, but carrying a string of code instructing the computer to carry out a specific damaging instruction at some later time.
ref: 1991, Katie Hafner, John Markoff, Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, revised edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 255–256:
synonyms: Trojan
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software.
topics: business
glosses: A seemingly favorable offer designed to trick customers into making exorbitant payments.
examples: text: Russia thinks of an atomic authority as a Trojan horse to get behind the iron curtain and impair her defense, and there is some reason historically for this view.
ref: 1946 October, John Foster Dulles, quotee, American Bar Association Journal, volume 32, number 10, page 681:
text: Seen like this, huge western companies function like a Trojan horse when they are invited inside the boundaries of LDCs.
ref: 1995, Peter Saunders, Capitalism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Had the Israelis and the Americans realized that the Oslo accords were merely a “Trojan horse” designed to promote the higher goal of Palestine’s complete liberation, he argued, “they would never have opened their fortified gates and let it inside their walls.”
ref: 2003, Efraim Karsh, Arafat's War, New York: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: Indeed, it may turn out to be a Trojan horse that finally allows conservative ideologues, who have unsuccessfully laid siege to Medicare since the days of Barry Goldwater, to breach its political defenses.
ref: 2003, Krugman, Paul R., The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2004, →ISBN, page 449:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A person, organization, social movement, piece of legislation, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions.
Related terms: stalking horse
Trojan horse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Trojan horses
form: Trojan horsing
form: Trojan horsed
form: Trojan horsed
form: Trojan Horse
Senses: examples: text: You will disarm a group or person that holds simplistic attitudes—about relationships, education, financial success, morality, business ethics, religion, raising children—by giving that group or person Trojan Horsed instructions seemingly about how to do something mundane and unrelated.
ref: 1999, Gary Hoffman, Glynis Hoffman, Adios, Strunk and White, 2nd edition, Huntington Beach, Calif.: Verve Press, →ISBN, page 180:
text: But still, despite my initial shock at being expected to do a grownup job for my new grown-up salary, I was determined to keep the dream alive to some extent, by ticking a few of the sensible boxes while Trojan Horsing (yes, as a verb) some dot com fun in the back […]
ref: 2008, Paul Carr, Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 88:
text: In its place arose a bilateral treaty that spelled out in basic terms that advances made in freedom of movement would be kept, under safeguards; free trade would be advanced bilaterally; goods imported from third countries would not be Trojan horsed; and countries would cooperate in areas of common interest.
ref: 2009, Lee Rotherham, Ten Years On: Britain without the European Union, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: Alternative form of Trojan-horse.
backdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backdoors
Etymology: From back + door.
Senses: examples: text: South Western Railway is introducing "backdoor price hikes" of "up to 28%" from September 5, claims pressure group SWR Watch, which has asked the operator: "When were you going to tell passengers?"
ref: 2021 September 8, “Network News: SWR accused of "backdoor price hikes"”, in RAIL, number 939, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of back door.
Derived terms: backdoor pilot
backdoor progression
backdoor trots
backdoor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backdoors
form: backdooring
form: backdoored
form: backdoored
Etymology: From back + door.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of back door.
rootkit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rootkits
form: root kit
Etymology: From root + kit.
Senses: qualifier: computer security
glosses: A set of software tools used by a third party to gain unauthorized access to a computer system and control the system while concealing itself from the user.
Hypernyms: malware
rootkit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rootkits
form: rootkitting
form: rootkitted
form: rootkitted
form: root kit
Etymology: From root + kit.
Senses: examples: text: Given crackers' propensity for "rootkitting" systems — installing altered system binaries to facilitate future access — systematic integrity checks using message digest algorithms or one-way hash functions can be an important detection safeguard.
ref: 2000, Seth T. Ross, UNIX system security tools:
text: If not, your system might have been rootkitted.
ref: 2006, Ed Skoudis, Tom Liston, Counter hack reloaded:
glosses: To infect (a computer system) with a rootkit.
Related terms: backdoor
trojan
virus
worm
lounged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lounge
trestle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛsəl/
rhymes: -ɛsəl
Forms: form: trestles
Etymology: From Middle English trestel, from Old French trestel (“crossbeam”) (French tréteau), from Latin trānstellum, diminutive of trānstrum.
Senses: glosses: A horizontal member supported near each end by a pair of divergent legs, such as sawhorses.
examples: text: He turned the knob, but the door was locked. Retracing his steps past a vacant lot, the young man entered a shop where a colored man was employed in varnishing a coffin, which stood on two trestles in the middle of the floor.
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
glosses: A folding or fixed set of legs used to support a tabletop or planks.
glosses: A framework, using spreading, divergent pairs of legs used to support a bridge.
glosses: A trestle bridge.
Derived terms: saw-trestle
trestle bed
trestle board
trestle table
trestle tree
trestlework
immune system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immune systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The system that differentiates self from non-self and protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing an immune response. It includes organs such as the thymus, the spleen and lymph nodes; tissue such as bone marrow, and lymphoid tissues such as the tonsils; cells such as lymphocytes including the B cells and T cells, and cell products such as antibodies.
Coordinate terms: lymphatic system
Derived terms: adaptive immune system
artificial immune system
innate immune system