cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
in the zone
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: It's when I'm in the zone that I feel by myself, the most vibrantly alone.
ref: 1999, Ann McCutchan, The Muse that Sings: Composers Speak about the Creative Process, page 214:
text: Just let yourself play, enjoying all of the feelings and sensations that come when you are in the zone.
ref: 2000, Donald R. Liggett, Sport Hypnosis, page 15:
text: Athletes in these circumstances comment on the pain, but often refer to the experience as being "in the zone," a condition of distraction ...
ref: 2002, Robert C. Scaer, The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease, page 94:
text: Indeed, game researchers Bryce and Rutter (2001) reported that the feeling many gamers have of being in the zone (ie, totally engrossed, losing sense of time) is comparable to what athletes experience on the field.
ref: 2005, Curtis P. Haugtvedt, Karen A. Machleit, Richard Yalch, Online Consumer Psychology: Understanding And Influencing Consumer Behavior, page 184:
text: These elements represent the essential features of optimal performances, which athletes have described as "hot," "in a groove," "on a roll," or "in the zone".
ref: 2006, Robert Stephen Weinberg, Daniel Gould, Foundations of Sport And Exercise Psychology, page 148:
glosses: In a mental state of focused concentration on the performance of an activity, in which one dissociates oneself from distracting or irrelevant aspects of one's environment.
Synonyms: word: in the groove
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: in the pocket
waylayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waylaid
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of waylay
nonindigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + indigenous.
Senses: glosses: Not indigenous; not native to an area.
nonsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒns(j)uːt/
ipa: /ˈnɑnsut/
Forms: form: nonsuits
form: non-suit
Etymology: From non- + suit.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A lawsuit that is dismissed as having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
examples: text: [A]ltho the party be indicted as vvell as appeald, yet upon the nonſuit of the plaintiff, the proceeding for the king ſhall not be upon the indictment, but upon the appeal.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Where a Man shall be Put of Answer in Criminal and Capital Offenses without Indictment at the King’s Suit”, in Sollom Emlyn, editor, Historia Placitorum Coronæ: The History of the Pleas of the Crown, […], volume II, In the Savoy [London]: […] E[lizabeth] and R[ichard] Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.), for F. Gyles […], T. Woodward […], and C. Davis […], published 1736, →OCLC, page *149:
topics: law
glosses: A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff.
nonsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒns(j)uːt/
ipa: /ˈnɑnsut/
Forms: form: nonsuits
form: nonsuiting
form: nonsuited
form: nonsuited
Etymology: From non- + suit.
Senses: examples: text: [W]here an appeal is brought at the ſuit of the party, and the plaintiff is nonſuit upon that appeal, yet the offender ſhall be arraigned at the king's ſuit upon ſuch appeal; […]
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, “Where a Man shall be Put of Answer in Criminal and Capital Offenses without Indictment at the King’s Suit”, in Sollom Emlyn, editor, Historia Placitorum Coronæ: The History of the Pleas of the Crown, […], volume II, In the Savoy [London]: […] E[lizabeth] and R[ichard] Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq.), for F. Gyles […], T. Woodward […], and C. Davis […], published 1736, →OCLC, page *149:
text: In short, the attorney was nonsuited, to the satisfaction of all who knew him […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter XV, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: he shall be nonsuited , and pay cost to the defendant
ref: c. 1821, Zephaniah Swift, The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut:
topics: law
glosses: To dismiss (a suit or plaintiff) on the grounds of his or her lawsuit having been brought without cause, prior to an adjudication on the merits.
nonsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsuit
exercitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exercitive
form: most exercitive
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: Having the character of an exercitive act.
exercitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercitives
Senses: examples: text: An exercitive is the giving of a decision in favour of or against a certain course of action, or advocacy of it.
ref: 1962, J.L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (paperback), Oxford, published 1965, page 154:
text: Exercitives are not so common. Philosopher-authors are rarely in the position to tell people what to do or think.
ref: 1999, Jeffrey A. Mason, The Philosopher's Address: Writing and the Perception of Philosophy, →ISBN, page 51:
text: The hearer's recognition of the speaker's locutionary intention is also an important felicity condition of Austinian exercitives.
ref: 2003, Mary Kathryn McGowan, “Conversational Exercitives and the Force of Pornography”, in Philosophy & Public Affairs, volume 31, number 2, pages 155–189:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
pragmatics
sciences
qualifier: hermeneutics
glosses: A speech act in which a decision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission.
Coordinate terms: sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: behabitive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: commissive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: expositive
sense: Other classical types of illocutionary acts
word: verdictive
sinologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinologist
dyssynchrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyssynchronies
form: dys-synchrony
form: dysynchrony
Etymology: From dys- + synchrony.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lack of proper synchrony.
A medical condition wherein the activation of different parts of the heart is improperly synchronized.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A lack of proper synchrony.
A neurological condition wherein auditory stimuli are not processed synchronously.
examples: text: External dyssynchrony refers to lack of natural fit between the gifted child and a school curriculum geared to average children of the same chronological age.
ref: 1992 January 24, Martha J. Morelock, “Giftedness: The view from within”, in Understanding Our Gifted, volume 4, number 3, United States, archived from the original on 08 Sep 2025, pages 10-15:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A term created by Jean-Charles Terrassier in 1985 to define the disparity of a gifted child to his surroundings.
Synonyms: english: not always interchangeable
translation: not always interchangeable
word: asynchrony
english: not always interchangeable
translation: not always interchangeable
word: asynchronization
english: not always interchangeable
translation: not always interchangeable
word: dyssynchronization
dys-synchrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dys-synchronies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dyssynchrony.
dysynchrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysynchronies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dyssynchrony.
proto-oncogene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proto-oncogenes
form: protooncogene
Etymology: From proto- + oncogene.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, proto-oncogenes are normal cellular genes that, when activated by mutation or overexpression, promote cancer.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 534:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene, promoting the specialization and division of normal cells, that could become an oncogene due to mutation.
Derived terms: proto-oncogenic
Related terms: oncogene
oncogenesis
oncogenetic
oncogenetics
oncogenic
oncogenics
oncogenome
oncogenomic
oncogenomics
oncologic
oncological
oncology
oncoprotein
oncoproteogenome
oncoproteogenomic
oncoproteogenomics
oncoproteome
oncoproteomic
oncoproteomics
subspecialty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subspecialties
form: subspeciality
Etymology: From sub- + specialty.
Senses: glosses: A specialty within a specialty.
Derived terms: subspecialist
spammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæm.i/
rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: spammier
form: spammiest
Etymology: From spam + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling spam (junk e-mail).
raise the stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises the stakes
form: raising the stakes
form: raised the stakes
form: raised the stakes
Senses: examples: text: The bank robber decided to take a hostage in order to raise the stakes.
glosses: To increase in significance or risk.
examples: text: With a royal flush, he decided to raise the stakes.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, stakes (used literally e. g. of a hand of poker)
Synonyms: sweeten the pot
up the ante
escalate
badgerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badgerers
Etymology: From badger + -er.
Senses: examples: text: All other persons rejoice at his being exposed: the Ministerial people, because they get rid of a sturdy badgerer ; and the Radicals, because they saw in him a deceptious friend.
ref: 1826, William Cobbett, Cobbett's Weekly Register, page 587:
text: Since you've bought this book and intend to make a will, I won't badger you with dire warnings about what would happen if you die without a will. (Anyway, I've never been an effective badgerer.)
ref: 2006, Denis Clifford, Quick & Legal Will Book, Nolo, →ISBN, page 6:
glosses: One who badgers.
examples: text: And when the second-best ambition of his life arrived by coach — that notable dog, "Pablo" — if Christopher could have sniffed lightest scent of Beckley, or Shotover, in the black dog- winkles of his nostrils, the odds are ten to one that Oxford never would have sighed (as all through the October term she did) at the loss of her finest badgerer.
ref: 1883, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Cripps, the Carrier: A Woodland Tale, publ. S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, pg. 417
glosses: A dog used in baiting badgers.
hunyack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunyacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of honyock.
hunyacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunyack
hopheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hophead
punnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punnet
fretboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fretboard
desire lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desire line
phytobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + biology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of biology that involves plants.
Synonyms: botany
Derived terms: phytobiological
pauldron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɔl.dɹən/
Forms: form: pauldrons
form: pouldron
form: powldron
form: puldron
form: polron
Etymology: From earlier pouldron, poleron, paleron from Middle English polron, palerns, pollerons. This may have been borrowed from Old French paleron, which derives from elements corresponding to French pale (“blade (of a shovel, etc)”) + -eron but was semantically influenced by Old French espaule (“shoulder”) (whence French épaule). Alternatively, some references derive the Middle English word from Middle French espalleron, espauleron, from Old French espaule. Although a form with d at the end is found in Middle English (polrondys, compare Early Modern English polrynges c. 1550), the interpolation of a d between the l and the r dates to the 1500s; the d, and the preference since the early 1800s for the spelling and pronunciation with paul- rather than poul-, may be due to the influence of spaulder.
Senses: examples: text: Upon the espaulieres are placed pauldrons, also ridged, with the edges turned up, so as to form the prototypes of pass-guards.
ref: 1834, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to the Eighteenth Century:
text: […] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy […]
ref: 1976, Apollo: A Journal of the Arts:
text: […] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.
ref: 2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:
text: This rim involved a raised rolled edge on the rerebrace that was inserted into a raised lip on the lower lame of the pauldron.
ref: 2013, Paul F. Walker, The History of Armour, 1100-1700:
coordinate_terms: spaulder
epauliere
espauliere
glosses: A component of plate armor that protects the shoulder, generally covering more than a spaulder, also protecting the armpit and overlapping with other armor over the upper chest and back.
Related terms: vambrace
epaulette
photoreversible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + reversible.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any compound or system that can exist in two forms, and can be changed from one to the other by the appropriate influence of light
Related terms: photoreversibility
photoreversion
photorheological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + rheological.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any rheological property that can be modified by exposure to light.
photostability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photostabilities
Etymology: From photo- + stability.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: stability against photochemical change
cyesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyeses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύησις (kúēsis).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
coordinate_terms: pseudocyesis
glosses: Pregnancy.
Derived terms: abdominocyesis
eccyesis
monocyesis
oocyesis
ovariocyesis
polycyesis
pseudocyesis
Related terms: cyesiology
polarography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: polarographies
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An electrochemical technique for the analysis of redox reactions.
Related terms: polarogram
polarograph
polarographic
symbiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more symbiotically
form: most symbiotically
Etymology: From symbiotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a symbiotic manner
glosses: By means of symbiosis
potentiometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of electrical potential (voltage) using a potentiometer
Derived terms: bipotentiometry
chronopotentiometry spectropotentiometry
Related terms: potentiometric
preadded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-added
Etymology: From pre- + added.
Senses: glosses: added in advance
precalibrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-calibrated
Etymology: From pre- + calibrated.
Senses: glosses: calibrated in advance
preirradiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preirradiated
form: most preirradiated
form: pre-irradiated
Etymology: From pre- + irradiated.
Senses: glosses: irradiated in advance
Dianna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, a less common spelling of Diana.
radiochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + chemical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to radiochemistry
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a chemical change that is the result of ionizing radiation
radiochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiochemicals
Etymology: From radio- + chemical.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing one of more atoms of a radioactive isotope; a radiolabel or radiotracer
recalibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recalibrations
Etymology: From re- + calibration.
Senses: glosses: A second, subsequent or corrected calibration.
Related terms: readjustment
realignment
dugnad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dugnads
Etymology: From Norwegian dugnad, from Old Norse dugnaðr (“help”).
Senses: glosses: Unpaid voluntary, orchestrated community work.
thermoelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoelements
Etymology: From thermo- + element.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A thermoelectric couple used to convert heat into electricity; a thermocouple
turbidimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turbid + -i- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: the measurement of turbidity by means of a turbidimeter
Related terms: turbidimetric
Leighton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪtən/
homophone: Leyton
Etymology: Various place names in England, Old English leac (“leek”) + tun (“settlement”), also in the sense of a herb garden.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A civil parish in Huntingdonshire district, Cambridgeshire, England, which includes Leighton Bromswold.
glosses: A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A civil parish (served by Leighton, Minshull Vernon and Woolstanwood Parish Council) in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.
glosses: A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Healey parish, North Yorkshire, England, previously in Harrogate district (OS grid ref SE1679).
glosses: A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A village in Leighton and Eaton Constantine parish, Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6105).
glosses: A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A hamlet in Wanstrow parish, Somerset, England (OS grid ref ST7043).
glosses: A number of places in the United Kingdom:
A small village in Forden with Leighton and Trelystan community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SJ2405).
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Colbert County, Alabama.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Mahaska County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Allegan County, Michigan; in full, Leighton Township.
glosses: A coastal area in North Fremantle, City of Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia.
Derived terms: Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
Leighton and Eaton Constantine
Leighton Bromswold
Leighton Buzzard
Leighton Hill
Leighton-Linslade
Related terms: Layton
Leyton
valerophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From valer(ian) + -o- + phenone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ketone 1-phenyl-1-pentanone that is used in photochemistry
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Maran Australian Aboriginal prefixing language spoken in southeastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Derived terms: Maran
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew מָרָא (mara, “bitterness”), derived from Hebrew מַר (mar, “bitter”). The modern given name may also be shortened from Maria or Tamara.
Senses: examples: text: Call me not Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ruth 1:20:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Marah
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From O'Mara, a variant of O'Meara.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit मर (mara), from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”). Doublet of mortality.
Senses: glosses: The Hindu god of death; opposite of Kama.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Buddhist demon who tempts people away from enlightenment
Related terms: mara
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Slavic mythology
glosses: The Slavic goddess of winter and death; Marena or Maržanna.
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maras
Senses: synonyms: Lakher
glosses: A member of a predominantly agricultural tribe of southern Assam and western Burma.
Mara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Mara
Senses: examples: text: In the dry season, when the Mara becomes narrower and shallower, certain stretches of it become especially thick with hippos—and their dung.
ref: 2018 May 16, Ed Yong, “Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A river in Tanzania and Kenya.
deadenylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deadenylates
form: deadenylating
form: deadenylated
form: deadenylated
Etymology: From de- + adenylate.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove an adenylate group from a protein; especially to activate an enzyme by this means
Related terms: deadenylase
deadenylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadenylases
Etymology: From de- + adenyl + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes a deadenylation reaction
Marty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑɹti/
Etymology: From Martin + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 'Martin', Martin said.
'Marty', she said, smiling at him. He didn't correct her mistake. No one had ever called him Marty before. He liked the way 'Marty' seemed a more entertaining man than he knew himself to be.
ref: 2006, Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn, Black Swan, published 2007, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Martin or Marten.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Martha, or less often, of Martina.
deadenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadenylations
Etymology: From de- + adenylation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of an adenylate group from a protein
Related terms: deadenylase
deadenylate
parasporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parasporal
form: most parasporal
Etymology: From para- + sporal.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a crystalline protein that forms around a spore in some bacteria that acts as a toxin precursor when digested
Derived terms: parasporal body
parasporal crystal
multidetector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multidetector
form: most multidetector
Etymology: From multi- + detector.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple detectors
Derived terms: multidetector computed tomography
multidetector CT
nonextractable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-extractable
Etymology: From non- + extractable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be extracted (in a specified procedure)
oxohalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxohalides
Etymology: From oxo- + halide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several anions or complexes that contain both an oxide and a halide group
Related terms: oxobromide
oxochloride
oxofluoride
oxoiodide
oxobromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxobromides
Etymology: From oxo- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxohalide in which the halide is bromide
oxochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxochlorides
Etymology: From oxo- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxohalide in which the halide is chloride
oxofluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxofluorides
Etymology: From oxo- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxohalide in which the halide is fluoride
oxoiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxoiodides
Etymology: From oxo- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxohalide in which the halide is iodide
pentahalide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentahalides
Etymology: From penta- + halide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halide containing five halogen atoms
Related terms: pentabromide
pentachloride
pentafluoride
pentaiodide
pentaiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentaiodides
Etymology: From penta- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any iodide having five iodine atoms
Derived terms: antimony pentaiodide
bromine pentaiodide
phosphorus pentaiodide
plead the fifth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pleads the fifth
form: pleading the fifth
form: pled the fifth
form: pled the fifth
form: pleaded the fifth
form: pleaded the fifth
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of plead the Fifth (both senses)
Synonyms: take the fifth
Myles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Myles
form: Myleses
form: Miles
Senses: examples: text: The Louisville Metro Police Department terminated Detective Myles Cosgrove in January for use of deadly force for firing 16 rounds into Taylor’s home and failing to activate his body camera, according to a copy of his termination letter.
ref: 2021 December 13, Amir Vera, “Louisville detective who fatally shot Breonna Taylor is appealing his termination from the police department”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages. Alternative spelling of Miles, a less common one.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
bistouries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bistoury
legiferate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: legiferates
form: legiferating
form: legiferated
form: legiferated
Senses: examples: text: […] he who possesses power to legiferate a fortiori is entitled to interpret.
ref: 1979, Gaetano Arangio Ruiz, The United Nations Declaration on Friendly Relations and the System of the Sources of International Law, BRILL, page 82:
text: […] logic simply cannot legiferate in ignorance of geometric covariance, because its very argumentation is mentally pictured in spacetime.
ref: 1993, O. Costa de Beauregard, “Relativity and probability: The logic of intersubjectivity”, in Symposium On The Foundations Of Modern Physics 1993, page 155:
text: Subsidiarity in criminal law, in fact, can hardly cope with the European subsidiarity, because the latter deprives the EU organs of a general power to legiferate in this sensitive field […]
ref: 2019, Silvia Allegrezza, “On Legality in Criminal Matters between Primacy of EU Law and National Constitutional Traditions: A Study of the Taricco Saga”, in The Court of Justice and European Criminal Law: Leading Cases in a Contextual Analysis, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 186:
glosses: To make law.
Synonyms: legislate
dactylograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactylogram
mud room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mudroom.
mud rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud room
sis boom bah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ɑː
Etymology: Onomatopoeic
Senses: topics: cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An exclamation of encouragement.
glosses: The characteristic sound made by fireworks.
Related terms: cheering
rahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rah
common good
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common goods
Senses: examples: text: Post-liberals share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. They envision a counter-revolution in which they take over government bureaucracy and institutions such as universities from within, replacing entrenched “elites” with their own and acting upon their vision of the “common good”.
ref: 2025 April 19, “JD Vance had ‘exchange of opinions’ with senior cardinal, Vatican says”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press, →ISSN:
synonyms: public interest
public good
glosses: The general interest of the population as a whole.
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: CPR
common-pool resource
coordinate_terms: private good
club good
public good
glosses: A good that is rivalrous and nonexcludable.
glosses: The corporate property of a burgh in Scotland.
public interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:
text: The culture, media and sport select committee criticised the News of the World in its report in February, stating that the story had not been in the public interest. "We found the News of the World editor's attempts to justify the Max Mosley story on public interest grounds wholly unpersuasive, although we have no doubt that public was interested in it," it said.
ref: 2011 January 11, Afua Hirsch, Max Mosley's privacy claim reaches the European court of human rights, The Guardian:
hypernyms: interest
coordinate_terms: self-interest
enlightened self-interest
glosses: Common good.
examples: text: Given her complex history with public interest in her dating life, I say, it seems noteworthy that her relationship with Kelce has played out so publicly.
ref: 2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: public interest.
Related terms: public debt
public purse
letcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛt͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɛtʃə
Etymology: From let + -cha.
Senses: examples: text: I'll letcha do it.
glosses: Let you.
de-escalate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɛskəleɪt/
Forms: form: de-escalates
form: de-escalating
form: de-escalated
form: de-escalated
form: deescalate
Etymology: From de- + escalate.
Senses: glosses: To decrease in intensity or magnitude.
Derived terms: de-escalation
enhypostasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˌhaɪ.pəˈsteɪ.sɪs/
Forms: form: enhypostases
Senses: examples: text: The doctrine of the person of Christ is argued with greatest fullness, and he [John of Damascus] evinces no little ingenuity and dialectic skill in treating of the personal unity in Christ's twofold nature (which he conceived as enhypostasis, not anhypostasis, of the human nature in the Logos), […]
ref: 1872, John M'Clintock [i.e., John McClintock]; James Strong, “John of Damascus”, in Cyclopædia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature, volume IV (H, I, J), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, pages 964–965:
text: When, for instance, theology speaks of Jesus' anhypostasis and his enhypostasis, these ontological terms must be understood in the light of the concrete ways in which Jesus acted and spoke in the name of God, the ways in which he maintained the distinctions between himself and God through his self-abnegation, and how he left others with no impression of pedantry or dogmatism.
ref: 1992, Wiel Logister, “In the Name of Jesus Christ: Christology and the Interreligious Dialogue”, in Catherine Cornille, Valeer Neckebrouck, editors, A Universal Faith?: Peoples, Cultures, Religions, and the Christ … Essays in Honor of Prof. Dr. Frank De Graeve (Louvain Theological & Pastoral Monographs; 9), Louvain: Peeters Press; [Grand Rapids, Mich.]: W[illiam] B. Eerdmans, →ISBN, pages 172–173:
text: The two natures of Christ are two enhypostases but not two hypostases.
ref: 1997, Joseph P. Farrell, “The Deconstruction of Dialectical Christology”, in God, History, and Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of the Two Europes and Their Cultural Consequences, [s.l.]: Joseph P. Farrell, →ISBN, page 235:
text: Del Colle [Ralph del Colle] introduces the concept of the enhypostasia of the Spirit. This is analogous to the two enhypostases of the Son [Jesus Christ]. First, the Son is generated by the Father immanently, and in the economy of God the Son as a human person comes through generation (from the Virgin's womb). But there is a second enhypostasis of the Son: "The eternal Son now incarnate … in his human nature undergoes an in-personing in the Spirit."
ref: 2006, Simon Chan, “Encountering the Triune God: Spirituality since the Azusa Street Revival”, in Harold D. Hunter, Cecil M. Robeck Jr., editors, The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy, Cleveland, Tenn.: Pathway Press, →ISBN; republished Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2009 October 23, →ISBN, page 218:
glosses: Alternative form of enhypostasia.
AFAICS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of as far as I can see.
Related terms: AFAIC
AFAICT
AFAIK
podestà
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of podesta.
ISA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: individual savings account
ipa: /ˈaɪsə/
rhymes: -aɪsə
Forms: form: ISAs
Senses: examples: text: Everyone has their own way of explaining it. The ISA is the bridge, or the interface, between the hardware and the software. Or it’s the blueprint. Or it’s the computer’s DNA. These are helpful enough, as is the common comparison of an ISA to a language. “You and I are using English,” as [Calista Redmond] said to me at the conference. “That’s our ISA.” But it gets confusing. Software speaks in languages too—programming languages. That’s why [David Patterson] prefers dictionary or vocabulary. The ISA is less a specific language, more a set of generally available words.
ref: 2025 March 25, Jason Kehe, “Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers. “RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever”, in Wired:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of instruction set architecture.
topics: business
finance
hypernyms: account#Noun
coordinate_terms: IRA#Noun
HSA#Noun
FSA#Noun
glosses: Initialism of individual savings account, a financial account for investment with special tax rules.
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of International Standard on Auditing, one of a set of professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information issued by the IAASB.
topics: transport
glosses: Initialism of intelligent speed assistance / adaptation.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of isosaccharinic acid.
examples: text: They have come to think of the universities, the civil service, and the media – the old Althusserian ISAs – with its orthodoxy of egalitarianism, democracy and social constructionism, as the Cathedral; a quasi-religious structure that functions hegemonically to supress^([sic]) dissent.
ref: 2018 September 29, Roger Burrows, “On Neoreaction”, in The Sociological Review Magazine:
glosses: Initialism of ideological state apparatus.
ISA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: individual savings account
ipa: /ˈaɪsə/
rhymes: -aɪsə
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Industry Standard Architecture, an early type of personal computer expansion slot bus.
examples: text: If this compromised the expedition, it wasn’t exactly a shock – corporate sponsorship always seemed to lurk in the small print, and ISA had been authorising seafloor surveys for years.
ref: 2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 49:
glosses: Initialism of International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body set up to regulate deep seabed mining and ensure the marine environment is protected from any harmful effects.
Coordinate terms: AGP
EISA
MCA
PCI
PCIe
VLB
astanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astangas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ashtanga.
television channels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of television channel
Disneyfy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Disneyfies
form: Disneyfying
form: Disneyfied
form: Disneyfied
Etymology: From Disney + -fy, with reference to the Disney theme parks.
Senses: examples: text: Jazz was not always an accepted music, and, of course, today we have the problem of remaining faithful to the cultural roots of jazz, not just candifying, Disneyfying the music.
ref: 1994, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests, Workshop and hearing on New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park:
text: The overall feel on today is prehistoric. There is a mood of dilophosauri and raptors lurking hungrily in the oak copses—of the savagery that lurks to recapture even the most Disneyfied of environments in the absence of vigilance.
ref: 1996, Douglas Coupland, “Postcard from Palo Alto”, in Polaroids from the Dead, New York, N.Y.: ReganBooks, →ISBN, part 2 (Portraits of People and Places), page 117:
text: Every summer, the most popular European destinations get stuffed to the gills with tourists, who outnumber locals by many multiples, turning hot spots into sweaty, selfie-stick-clogged, “Disneyfied” towns.
ref: 2018 August 29, Farhad Manjoo, “‘Overtourism’ Worries Europe. How Much Did Technology Help Get Us There?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2018:
text: Frieze has become a corporate snooze. Have the galleries been actively encouraged by its big-business owners to Disneyfy themselves?
ref: 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2023:
glosses: To make something (especially a location) more acceptable or marketable by removing potentially distasteful, controversial or boring elements, particularly at the cost of its history and culture.
Related terms: Disneyfication
Disneylandification
G-rated
IP addresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of IP address
hind legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The rabbit jumps using its hind legs.
glosses: plural of hind leg
scale model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scale models
Senses: examples: text: To test the hydrodynamics of the dam, the civil engineers not only ran computer simulations but also even built and flooded a scale model of the dam and the surrounding valley.
text: A scale model of a cargo aircraft was perched on the desk of the air force officer. "As they say, guns start wars, but logistics win them," he said.
synonyms: miniature#Noun
mini#Noun
hypernyms: model#Noun
glosses: A three-dimensional copy or representation of something in which all parts have dimensions in the same proportion to that of the original (i.e., all aspect ratios are preserved).
Derived terms: scale modeler
Related terms: modelbuilding
modeling
modelmaker
modelmaking
small-scale
large-scale
to scale
not-to-scale
replica
representation
simulacrum
simulation
a'a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A'a is thick, sticky lava which forms jagged, chunky rock when it cools.
ref: 1999, A. Ganeri, Violent Volcanoes:
text: I overheard a geologist say that a good pair of boots can be rasped to bits on a‘a in a couple of months.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 44:
glosses: Alternative form of aa.
abaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abakas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of abaca.
abakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abaka
TLB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TLBs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: Milky Way
glosses: Initialism of The Local Bulb.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of translation lookaside buffer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of three-letter bullshit.
kinesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kinesic
form: most kinesic
Etymology: From kinesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to non-verbal behaviour related to movement, either of any part of the body or the body as a whole.
Derived terms: kinesically
Related terms: kinesia
kinesics
comproportionation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comproportionations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A redox reaction where two reactants that share an atom but differ in oxidation number react to a single reaction product.
Synonyms: symproportionation
alrighty
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: all rightie
form: all righty
form: alrightie
Etymology: From alright + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Alrighty, let's go then.
glosses: Used to affirm, indicate agreement, or consent.
flukeworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flukeworms
Etymology: From fluke + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any usually parasitic worm in the class Trematoda.
EOL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EOLs
Senses: coordinate_terms: CR
CRLF
LF
glosses: Initialism of end of line.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of end-of-life: the point where hardware or software becomes obsolete or obsolescent and ceases to be supported by the maker.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of end-of-life: period immediately prior to dying.
Derived terms: EOLed
beresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹesk/
ipa: /bəˈɹɛsk/
Forms: form: more beresque
form: most beresque
Etymology: A jocular misspelling of berserk, used as a recurring joke in the 1970s Australian television series Number 96.
Senses: glosses: Injuriously, maniacally, or furiously violent or out of control; berserk.
prodigate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prodigates
form: prodigating
form: prodigated
form: prodigated
Etymology: From Latin prodigo.
Senses: examples: text: His gold is prodigated in every direction which his stupid menaces fail to frighten.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 63, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: To squander.
agreeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French agréance, from agréer (“to agree”); as if agree + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: And the diversity of our fasting setteth forth the more the agreeance of our faith.
ref: 1840, Henry Geast DUGDALE, Edmund Guest, The Life and Character of Edmund Geste, the Principal Compiler of the Liturgy of the Church of England, London, →OCLC, page 164:
text: Yes, Your Grace. I am in agreeance with you on this.
ref: 2019, C. Tarradell, Sins of Greed: A Tale of Two Fools, Book One, Italy, →ISBN, →ISBN:
text: Instead of disagreeing with them or getting their back up and potentially causing an argument, you get them in agreeance with you and the conversation ends in favor.
ref: 2021, Ryan James, Negotiation: 2 Manuscripts - Persuasion: The Complete Step by Step Guide, Manipulation: The Complete Step by Step Guide, SD Publishing LLC:
glosses: The sharing of a view or opinion; agreement.
ridgy-didge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ridgy-didge
form: most ridgy-didge
form: ridgy didge
Etymology: Fanciful diminutive of obsolete ridge (“real; used in reference to gold”). Australian from 1953.
Senses: examples: text: Are you ridgy-didge? - Do you really mean that? Are you telling the truth?
text: ‘Colin Reeves,’ I said. ‘He′s ridgy-didge, is he?’
‘Yeah, young Reeves is solid,’ Bob said. ‘Straight up and down. Although you′d never know it from the way he looks these days . . .’
ref: 2003, Gabrielle Lord, Lethal Factor, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: ‘Bullshit.′
‘No, it′s ridgy-didge. I kid you not.’
ref: 2011, Bill King, King of the Outback, page 162:
text: In the normal scheme of things a senior editor would have agreed on the sum with the seller having already defrayed the costs around the group, asking for, say, $3000 from each of the Sundays after assuring them the photos were ‘ridgy-didge’.
ref: 2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 280:
glosses: Genuine, authentic, true; honest, upright.
examples: text: 2001, Bryce Courtenay, Four Fires, Volume 1, 2010, Large print edition, page 278,
Sit them in the dam, wait for the fire to pass over, everything will be ridgy-didge.
text: ‘[…]I don′t know if I would have managed a commission. I don′t know if I was bright enough for that. But I was a pretty ridgy-didge soldier.’
ref: 2004, John Little, Down to the Sea, published 2012, unnumbered page:
glosses: Good, fine.
Synonyms: sense: genuine
word: dinkum
sense: genuine
word: dinky-die
sense: genuine
word: fair dinkum
sense: genuine
word: for real
autonomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔːˈtɒnəmɪst/
Forms: form: autonomists
Etymology: From autonomy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of autonomy or autonomism.
autonomism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From autonomy + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The village-like clusters making up Jewish Birobidzhan are only passingly described, the geopolitical motivations for the region’s creation are never fleshed out and the influence of the noted historian and ideologue of Jewish autonomism Simon Dubnow is repeatedly mentioned but left undiagnosed.
ref: 2016 July 11, Steven J. Zipperstein, “Masha Gessen on a Planned Jewish Homeland in Soviet Russia”, in The New York Times:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A set of anti-authoritarian left-wing political and social movements originating from Italy in the 1960s.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A political doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving political autonomy of a nation or a region.
Related terms: autonomistic
a to z
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of A to Z.
apologie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologies
Senses: examples: ref: 1609, William Heale, An apologie for women, or, An opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his assertion, who held in the act at Oxforde, anno 1608, that it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives, Joseph Barnes:
ref: 1659, John Evelyn, An apologie for the royal party : written in a letter to a person of the late Councel of State. By a lover of peace and of his country. With a touch at the pretended plea for the army:
glosses: Archaic spelling of apology.
pignoli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian pinoli (“pine nuts”) (by confusion with pignoli (“fussy people”)?).
Senses: glosses: pine nuts
glosses: A cookie made with pine nuts, a type of amaretto.