cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ZF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In the case of the ZF detector, we suppress the interference among the transmit streams by multiplying the received signal vector y with the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse of the channel matrix […]
ref: 2008, Byeong Gi Lee, Sunghyun Choi, Broadband Wireless Access and Local Networks:
text: However, due to its simplicity, ZF equalization is a good choice when the channel is known and fixed, and also when there is no frequency notch in the channel frequency response […]
ref: 2010, Dayan Adionel Guimaraes, Digital Transmission, page 348:
text: Thus, the importance of the upper bound is in showing that even in the most optimistic case, the achievable rate cannot exceed the ZF rates by more than 10%.
ref: 2013, Academic Press Library in Signal Processing, page 308:
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of zero forcing.
Related terms: topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: NBG
topics: set-theory
mathematics
sciences
word: ZFC
jetty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: jetties
form: jettee
Etymology: From Middle English gete, getee, gettee, jette, jetty, jety, from Middle French jeté, geté (“pier, jetty, causeway”) (modern French jetée), from the past participle of jeter. Compare jet, jutty.
Senses: examples: text: [I]nſtead of demolition, they found conſtruction; for the French vvere then at vvork on the repair of the jettees. On the remonſtrances of General [Henry Seymour] Convvay, ſome parts of theſe jettees were immediately deſtroyed.
ref: 1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 86:
synonyms: breakwater
mole
glosses: A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
synonyms: pier
glosses: A dock or wharf extending from the shore; a pier.
topics: architecture
glosses: A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
Hypernyms: sense: pier
word: wharf
sense: pier
word: dock
Coordinate terms: sense: pier
word: quay
sense: pier
word: levee
jetty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: jetties
form: jettying
form: jettied
form: jettied
Etymology: From Middle English gete, getee, gettee, jette, jetty, jety, from Middle French jeté, geté (“pier, jetty, causeway”) (modern French jetée), from the past participle of jeter. Compare jet, jutty.
Senses: examples: text: ADENTELLARE […] It is properly to jetty out, or indent stones or timber of any unfinished building, that another may the easier be joyned unto, or that finished.
ref: 1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues:
glosses: To jut out; to project.
jetty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛti/
rhymes: -ɛti
Forms: form: jettier
form: jettiest
Etymology: From jet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Blacke are his colloures, blacke Pauillion,
His ſpeare, his ſhield, his horſe, his armour, plumes,
And Ietty Feathers menace death and hell,
UUithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene i:
text: those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.75:
text: But there was only Glorvina of the jetty ringlets with whom his intercourse was familiar, and this dashing young woman was not bent upon loving the Major, but rather on making the Major admire her […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: She raised her face veil […] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing […]
ref: 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 1:
glosses: Made of jet, or like jet in color.
Derived terms: jettiness
seachanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seachangers
Etymology: From sea change + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The hardest challenge – one to be faced by every aspiring seachanger – is the slide back down the greasy corporate pole.
ref: 2008, James Woodford, Real Dirt: How I Beat My Grid-Life Crisis, page 89:
text: Rapid rail links with the rest of the country have today made the Atlantic Coast popular with seachangers, as well as with students attending the area′s many major universities.
ref: 2009, Nicola Williams, Oliver Berry, Steve Fallon, France, Lonely Planet, page 651:
text: Both seachangers and treechangers have become a common phenomena in the tropics as the southern boom drives housing prices higher and higher, enabling many, both self funded retirees and even younger folk to move north with expactation of a relaxed and idle lifestyle, far removed from the pace and pressures of city living.
ref: 2010, Adrian Walker, Diary of a Snake Whisperer, page 6:
glosses: One who moves to a location in proximity to the ocean, for whom such a move is an extreme shift in one's life.
Related terms: seachange
treechanger
SIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both.
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: The AAP, therefore, is expanding its recommendations from focusing only on SIDS to focusing on a safe sleep environment that can reduce the risk of all sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS.
ref: 2011 November 24, “SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Expansion of Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment”, in American Academy of Pediatrics, volume 128, number 5, page 1030:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Acronym of sudden infant death syndrome.
Coordinate terms: SUD
Related terms: SUDC
SIDS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Small Island Developing States.
EOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of explanation of benefits.
synonyms: COB
antonyms: SOB
glosses: Initialism of end of business (“the end of the business day”).
HELOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HELOCs
form: HELC
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of home equity line of credit.
Barnaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: * English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).
Senses: examples: text: Bounce cry the port-holes, out they fly
And make the world dance Barnaby.
ref: 1640-1687, Charles Cotton, in his burlesque of Virgil
text: It was a regular Barnaby dance; I'd never seen anyone move so quickly. Before the culprit bolted out the door into the night,
ref: 1985, Gregory Sass, Redcoat, page 28:
text: "Owell gave me this. Said to get it to you in a Barnaby dance. 'Ere it is." His tongue scraped across his lower lip as he stared at Charity.
ref: 1996, Jo Ann Ferguson, Miss Charity's Case, page 182:
text: We were now doing a strange sort of Barnaby dance: shuffling to and fro as I blocked his attempts to set off in pursuit.
ref: 2009, Julia Golding, The Diamond of Drury Lane, page 434:
glosses: A lively and fast-paced dance; (by extension) any quick and uneven movement.
Barnaby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).
Senses: examples: text: This day the sun is in his chiefest height
With Barnaby the Bright.
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, Epithalamium:
text: The name Barnaby may strike the reader as out of place in so Celtic a pedigree; but this was an anglicisation of the true name, Brian Oge - - - Now, times are altered, and his anglicised descendants will probably begin to use Brian as a family name again, rejecting Barnaby as less respectable.
ref: 1848, John O'Donovan, “The Annals of the Four Masters”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 31, page 577:
text: Barnaby liked his own name. He was proud of its differentness and would never answer to "Barney", or any other nickname.
ref: 1962, Edward Eager, Seven-Day Magic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 1999, →ISBN, page 8:
text: But instead of pressing the button that would have taped the play she pressed the button that activated the built-in microphone and recorded a hundred and twenty minutes of hers and Barnaby's home life, which aurally consisted of 'Want a cup of tea?' 'No thanks.'
ref: 2000, Alexei Sayle, Barcelona Plates:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, from the medieval vernacular form of Barnabas.
Derived terms: long Barnaby
LOC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Library of Congress.
LOC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOCs
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of level of consciousness; also LoC.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of loss of consciousness; also LoC.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
synonyms: SLOC
LoC
glosses: Initialism of lines of code.
glosses: Initialism of lab on a chip.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: Initialism of line of credit; also LoC.
glosses: Initialism of letter of contract.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of letter of comment; also LoC, loc.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of localizer.
examples: text: WARNING: If CSS is not selected immediately for some 2 EO RTLS contingency abort situations, the vehicle may pitch up and out of control, due to the low thrust-to-weight situation and relatively high dynamic pressure. When a second engine fails, the vehicle will pitch up and try to maintain its trajectory at a lower thrust to weight. However, the dynamic pressure may be too high to maintain this attitude at this angle of attack and the flight control system will quickly become saturated, resulting in LOC.
ref: 2007 February 14, NASA, “4.5.4 RTLS Two-Engine-Out CSS Required”, in Contingency Aborts 21007/31007, archived from the original on 26 Feb 2021, page 46:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of loss of control.
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of loss of crew.
glosses: Line of Control
Derived terms: sense: lines of code
word: GLOC
sense: lines of code
word: KLOC
sense: lines of code
word: LLOC
sense: lines of code
word: MLOC
sense: loss of crew
word: LOCV
SNL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Clinton, playing a bartender, was told by an SNL cast member that she was "really easy to talk to."
ref: 2024 November 3, “Harris joins line of politicians appearing on 'Saturday Night Live'”, in Reuters:
text: The comedian and talk show host worked as a writer on “SNL” between 2008 and 2012.
ref: 2025 May 23, Alli Rosenbloom, “John Mulaney had a hilarious response to speculation about an ‘SNL’ succession plan”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Saturday Night Live.
RPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RPMs
Senses: related: word: rpm
word: R.P.M.
word: R. P. M.
glosses: Initialism of revolutions per minute.
RPM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Royapuram railway station in India.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of RPM Package Manager or (formerly) Red Hat Package Manager, a package management system used by some Linux distributions, especially by Red Hat.
NYT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: That original list of 2,315 solutions was embedded in the game’s code. That means the game was playable offline and could be downloaded onto phones or computers. The solutions to the original Wordle game were predetermined through October 20, 2027. The New York Times (NYT) hasn’t said if it plans to make any more changes or additions to that initial list.
ref: 2022 February 15, David Goldman, “Why your Wordle answers might now be different than your friends’”, in CNN Business:
text: And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”
ref: 2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of New York Times (a US newspaper)
barrow man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrow men
Etymology: Short for wheel-barrow man
Senses: examples: text: As the term "barrow men" is all but incomprehensible to readers of the present day, it may be pertinent to explain they were convicts who were hired out to do paving and similar work on the city streets. The jail at that time was at the southeast corner of Sixth and Walnut Streets. The five "barrow men," it appears, while at work on Market Street near Thirteenth accidentally discovered a drover who had in his possession a large sum of money just received from a sale of live stock.
ref: 1922, Quaint Corners in Philadelphia:
text: In those days convicts from the prison at Sixth and Walnut streets were taken out to mend the highways, do grading, and other similar tasks. They were popularly known as barrow- men.
ref: 1926, Joseph Jackson, America's most historic highway, Market street, Philadelphia, page 286:
text: Essentially, the first reform took the "barrow men" off the streets and placed them within the prison walls, to labor there at the pleasure of the keeper/agent.
ref: 1980, Martin B. Miller, Dread and Terror:
text: With late eighteenth-century prisons bursting at the seams, a new system had to be developed. 1787 saw the 'first fleet' arrive at the penal colony of Botany Bay, and transportation, the original use of lagging (today meaning any sentence), lasted for sixty years. Where lagging dues were concerned, the convicts- lags or barrow men (those awaiting their ship did hard labour- took a punning botanica ...
ref: 2006, Susie Dent -, The Language Report, page 72:
glosses: Alternative form of wheel-barrow man.
Related terms: barrowman
barrow boy
WP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: newspaper
glosses: Initialism of Washington Post.
qualifier: international law
glosses: Initialism of Warsaw Pact.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of WordPress.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of WordPerfect.
glosses: Initialism of Wattpad.
glosses: Initialism of Wirtualna Polska.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
mobile-telephony
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of Windows Phone.
taxonomic: Wikimedia jargon
glosses: Initialism of Wikipedia.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Western Pacific.
WP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WPs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of word processor.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of word processing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of weakest precondition.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of wild pitch.
glosses: Initialism of white privilege.
glosses: Initialism of white people.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of white phosphorus.
topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of wilting point.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of weapons procurement.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of war prison.
WP
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: wp
Senses: glosses: Initialism of well played.
Derived terms: GGWP
IPTV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Internet Protocol television.
SNRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SNRIs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.
Coordinate terms: SSRI
DAW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diː eɪ ˈdʌbəljuː/
ipa: /dɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: d'aw
homophone: daw
homophone: door (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: DAWs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of digital audio workstation.
DAW
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diː eɪ ˈdʌbəljuː/
ipa: /dɔː/
rhymes: -ɔː
homophone: d'aw
homophone: daw
homophone: door (non-rhotic)
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dispense as written.
NDC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Defence College (Bangladesh).
NDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NDCs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: NDR
glosses: Initialism of negative differential conductance.
glosses: Initialism of National Drug Code.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of network daughter card.
examples: text: “I don’t see that many new NDCs on the horizon, frankly,” he said, pointing to Australia, with its new government, as a rare exception.
ref: 2022 July 18, Fiona Harvey, quoting Frans Timmermans, “Humanity faces ‘collective suicide’ over climate crisis, warns UN chief”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: INDC
qualifier: climate change
glosses: Initialism of nationally determined contribution.
PTT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PTTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of professional technical trainer.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of postal telephone and telegraph.
glosses: Initialism of platform terminal transmitter.
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: Initialism of Partitioning tracer test.
topics: hematology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of partial thromboplastin time.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polytrimethylene terephthalate.
glosses: Initialism of protein truncation test.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of part task trainer (See Flight simulator at Wikipedia).
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of push-to-talk.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of push-to-transmit.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of press-to-talk.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of press-to-transmit.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Pizza Time Theatre, an old name for Chuck E. Cheese.
examples: text: Ordered goods (to the stores or online sales) are picked by employees at pick to tote (PTT) picking stations. PTT stations are able to handle around 750 order lines and 500 to 600 orders per hour. When an order is released to the WMS from the host, MFS starts to allocate storing totes for a right picking sequence.
ref: 2017 February 24, Santeri Suni, “Improvement of shuttle and lift positioning in an automated warehouse system”, in Tampere University of Technology, Finland, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025:
glosses: Initialism of pick-to-tote.
bastardly gullion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bastardly gullions
Senses: examples: text: An evil, clever, murderin', bastardly gullion of a Malouin corsair, [...]
ref: 2002, Dewey Lambdin, Sea of Grey, page 377:
glosses: A bastard's bastard.
CIO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: labor union
glosses: Initialism of Congress of Industrial Organizations.
CIO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CIOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of chief information officer.
glosses: Initialism of chief investment officer.
glosses: Initialism of chief innovation officer.
glosses: Initialism of Charitable incorporated organisation.
CIO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cry it out (in reference to the Ferber method).
uproar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpɹɔː/
ipa: /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/
Forms: form: uproars
Etymology: Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar.
Senses: glosses: Tumultuous, noisy excitement.
glosses: Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
examples: text: This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.
Synonyms: hue and cry
Derived terms: get one's bowels in an uproar
uproarious
uproarish
uproar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌpɹɔː/
ipa: /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/
Forms: form: uproars
form: uproaring
form: uproared
form: uproared
Etymology: Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar.
Senses: examples: text: […] had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To throw into uproar or confusion.
examples: text: […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
ref: 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, published 1698, Part II, page 110, note:
text: […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
ref: 1824, “Chapter 8”, in Thomas Carlyle, transl., Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels, book 4, New York: A.L. Burt, translation of original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published 1839, pages 210–211:
text: When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
ref: 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, page 56:
text: Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
ref: 1829, Mason Locke Weems, “Chapter 12”, in The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, page 106:
glosses: To make an uproar.
CCO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCOs
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief compliance officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief communications officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief change officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief commercial officer.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of chief content officer.
Related terms: CEO
CFO
CGO
CIO
CSO
CTO
CSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CSOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of chief security officer.
glosses: Initialism of chief sustainability officer.
glosses: Initialism of civil society organisation.
glosses: Initialism of combined sewer overflow.
glosses: Initialism of community service officer.
coordinate_terms: MMP
qualifier: legal system
glosses: Initialism of conditional sentencing order.
CTO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of cancelled to order.
CTO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: CTOs
Senses: examples: text: Senior employees can also pitch project ideas to upper-management and get funding to work on them, while junior employees are encouraged to “take ownership” over their assigned projects and to act as if they were the CTO of it.
ref: 2023 November 28, JS Tan, “It's All Bullshit”, in The Baffler:
glosses: Initialism of chief technology officer or chief technical officer.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of confidential treatment order.
Related terms: CCO
CEO
CFO
CIO
CSO
basting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: bastings
Senses: examples: text: Use repeated bastings to prevent the chicken from drying out.
glosses: The act by which a food item is basted.
glosses: A (physical) beating.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: The use of long or loose stitches; the act by which something is basted.
basting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of baste
jinx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪŋks/
homophone: jynx
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: jinxes
Etymology: From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.
Senses: synonyms: curse
hoodoo
Indian sign
spell
glosses: A hex; an evil spell.
glosses: A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
Derived terms: reverse jinx
jinx
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪŋks/
homophone: jynx
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Forms: form: jinxes
form: jinxing
form: jinxed
form: jinxed
Etymology: From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.
Senses: glosses: To cast a spell on.
glosses: To bring bad luck to.
examples: text: “So you'll all be near New York!” Maggie says. “We don't know for sure yet.” Sara stresses. “Don't jinx it.”
ref: 2008, Susane Colasanti, chapter 46, in When It Happens, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: I've no idea if she guessed what I was intending to do. I don't know why I was so reluctant to talk about it, even to her. Maybe I was afraid that verbalising my intentions would jinx it in some way.
ref: 2012, Sally Heinrich, Hungry Ghosts, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically.
Derived terms: jinxee
jinxer
unjinx
jinx
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪŋks/
homophone: jynx
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Etymology: From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.
Senses: examples: text: Bart: I'm telling Mom and Dad! / Lisa: You're telling who? / Bart: Mom and Dad! / Girls: MOM AND DAD? JINX! / Janey Powell: Now you can't talk, 'til somebody says your name!
ref: 1991, Robert Cohen, “Flaming Moe's”, in The Simpsons, season 3, episode 10 (television production):
synonyms: snap
glosses: Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously.
IE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: See also: PIE
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Indo-European.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Initialism of Iarnród Éireann (“Irish Railways”).
examples: text: more widely and more freely in Indian English (IE) than in other international varieties
ref: 2007 March 23, Claudia Lange, “Focus marking in Indian English”, in English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English, volume 28, number 1, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 89–118:
text: I examine three theses: (1) that IE is a substratum-laden
ref: 2007 December 19, Rajendra Singh, “The Nature, Structure, and Status of Indian English”, in Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, Mouton de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 33–46:
text: Indian English (IE) is considered
ref: 2012 May 28, Pingali Sailaja, “Indian English: Features and Sociolinguistic Aspects”, in Language and Linguistics Compass, volume 6, number 6, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 359–370:
glosses: Abbreviation of Indian English.
IE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of infective endocarditis.
IE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: IE linguistics
glosses: Initialism of Indo-European.
bastonade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bastonades
form: bastonading
form: bastonaded
form: bastonaded
Etymology: From baston, early spelling of baton + -ade.
Senses: examples: text: A lady, injured by an Austrian soldier, reproached him, and was bastonaded. Repeating her reproaches while under the bastonado, she was bastonaded more.
ref: 1851, Theodore Dwight, The Roman Republic of 1849:
glosses: To beat a person with a stick, especially on the soles of the feet.
IAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of identity and access management.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of immobilized artificial membrane.
IAM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: IAMAW
glosses: Initialism of International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
FCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Farm Credit Corporation.
examples: text: The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
ref: 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
text: So the FCC won't let me be / Or let me be me, so let me see / They tried to shut me down on MTV
ref: 2002, Eminem, “Without Me”:
text: That’s what prompted new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to send a “letter of inquiry” to CBS, asking the network to hand over the unedited tapes and transcript.
ref: 2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Federal Communications Commission.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: LHC
glosses: Initialism of Future Circular Collider.
FCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FCCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Federal Correctional Complex.
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
qualifier: cruising
glosses: Abbreviation of future cruise credit.
FCC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of fcc (“face-centered cubic”).
RFC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Royal Flying Corps (previous title of the Royal Air Force)
glosses: Initialism of Rangers Football Club.
glosses: Initialism of Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Related terms: topics: military
war
government
politics
english: successor, post-WWI
translation: successor, post-WWI
word: RAF
topics: military
war
government
politics
word: RNAS
RFC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RFCs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of remote function call.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Request for Comments.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: Initialism of rugby football club.
Related terms: sense: request for comments
english: request for information
translation: request for information
word: RFI
sense: request for comments
english: request for proposal
translation: request for proposal
word: RFP
SBSi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Special Broadcasting Service independent.
ESL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: EFL (broadly synonymous), EAL
coordinate_terms: E1L
EIL
glosses: Initialism of English as a second language.
glosses: Initialism of extended shelf life.
Related terms: ELL
NNES
NNSE
TEFL
TESL
TESOL
TOEFL
ESL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: STL
glosses: Initialism of East St. Louis.
LOTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOTEs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of language(s) other than English.
TOEFL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtoʊfəl/
Forms: form: TOEFLs
Senses: examples: text: For example, it is fairly common for TOEFL “practice tests” to be used repeatedly and for changes in individuals’ scores on TOEFL practice tests or institutional TOEFLs to be the basis for their placement into a course level, or for pre- and post-“TOEFL” scores to be used to prove or disprove learning.
ref: 2003, Liz Hamp-Lyons, “Writing teachers as assessors of writing”, in Barbara Kroll, editor, Exploring the Dynamics of Second Language Writing (Cambridge Applied Linguistics), Cambridge University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: Acronym of Test of English as a Foreign Language.
COBRA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Cobra
Senses: topics: government
politics
hypernyms: COBR
glosses: Initialism of Cabinet Office Briefing Room A.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: COBR
glosses: Acronym of Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms.
examples: text: There were COBRA forms to fill out for insurance, and unemployment to file for.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 478:
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, especially the provision that allows some employees to continue their group-based health insurance after leaving a job; also, health insurance obtained under this law.
COBRA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COBRAs
form: Cobra
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
topics: government
politics
glosses: A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
Related terms: cobra
APTN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Associated Press Television News.
AAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AAPs
Senses: topics: government
human-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Initialism of affirmative action program.
glosses: Abbreviation of autoandrophilia.
AAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: AAPs
Senses: qualifier: Indian politics
glosses: Initialism of Aam Aadmi Party, a political party.
glosses: Initialism of Accredited ACH Professional.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: NATO
glosses: Initialism of Allied Administrative Publication.
examples: text: The AAP is strongly recommending COVID-19 shots for children ages 6 months to 2 years. Shots also are advised for older children if parents want their kids vaccinated, the AAP said.
ref: 2025 August 19, Mike Stobbe, “US pediatricians’ new COVID-19 shot recommendations differ from CDC advice”, in AP News, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2025:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of American Academy of Pediatrics.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Associated Press.
VHF
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The FCC says it decided to attempt standardization of VHF receivers after getting "thousands of complaints" from disgruntled boatmen who found their sets brought in mostly a lot of garble and static.
ref: 1976, Boating (volume 40, numbers 1-2, page 152)
text: VHF radio
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of very high frequency.
Related terms: HF
UHF
SHF
VLF
LW
MW
SW
RF
VHF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of viral haemorrhagic fever.
OFLC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Office of Film and Literature Classification.
MAV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MAVs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of mature adult audience (“Strong Violence”).
examples: text: The MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) could tip over and they’d be stranded. Mark, now inside the Hab (the Mars Lander ‘Habitat’), says they should wait it out.
ref: 2016 August 31, “GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Mark Watney”, in Industrial Scripts:
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of Mars ascent vehicle.
Related terms: sense: Mars ascent vehicle
english: Mars transfer vehicle / Mars transit vehicle
translation: Mars transfer vehicle / Mars transit vehicle
word: MTV
english: lunar excursion module
translation: lunar excursion module
word: LEM
english: lunar module
translation: lunar module
word: LM
LOTR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)
Forms: form: Lotr
form: LotR
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lord of the Rings.
WSPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of World Society for the Protection of Animals.
dpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Senses: glosses: Initialism of dots per inch.
Related terms: resolution
cpi
ppi
JIC
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Initialism of just in case.
JIC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Joint Intelligence Committee.
RSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Royal Shakespeare Company.
glosses: Initialism of Royal Society of Chemistry.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of Revised Statutes of Canada.
RSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RSCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of reticle shape correction.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Initialism of referee stops the contest.
NMN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of no middle name.
examples: text: Sinclair also takes 1 gram of NMN, or nicotinamide mononucleotide, which in the body turns into NAD+, or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide.
ref: 2022 June 2, Sandee LaMotte, “The ‘Benjamin Button’ effect: Scientists can reverse aging in mice. The goal is to do the same for humans”, in CNN:
text: Research on the effects of NMN supplements is still emerging, and more investigation is needed. Here, a primer on NMN and the research available so far on its potential benefits, optimal dosage, side effects, and safety.
ref: 2025 May 29, Morgan Meissner, “What to Know About NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) Supplements”, in Healthline:
glosses: Initialism of nicotinamide mononucleotide.
EPA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: First the U.S. had to “show leadership” by promising to cut emissions, many self-styled climate hawks had argued during the debates over cap and trade and the president’s E.P.A. regulations, because then and only then the world’s developing economies would be pressured/shamed/persuaded into following along.
ref: 2014 November 13, Ross Douthat, “A Test For Climate Hawks”, in The New York Times:
text: Both the EPA and the HDOH received and submitted comments on the report without any mention of a need for permitting discharges from the wells.
ref: 2020 April 23, “COUNTY OF MAUI, HAWAII v. HAWAII WILDLIFE FUND ET AL.”, in Supreme Court of the United States, page 36:
text: The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health.
ref: 2021 November 2, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “Poison in the Air”, in ProPublica:
synonyms: USEPA
glosses: Initialism of Environmental Protection Agency.
EPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EPAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of eicosapentaenoic acid.
examples: text: I’ve noticed that the chief distinguishing factor between American pale ales and their English counterparts is the hop taste — APAs all seem to finish with a metallic, grapefruit, or pine bitterness (it differs depending on who you talk to), while EPAs mostly seem to finish with a leafy, earthy hop profile that’s less explicitly bitter.
ref: 2014 February 14, Adam Cowden, “The Man Who Invented Beer: Three Floyds Pride and Joy”, in HEAVE Media:
text: Beers brewed: CB's branded beers include Caged Alpha Monkey, Canandaigua Lake Pale Ale, EPA (English Pale Ale), Double Dark Cream Porter, and many seasonals and oneoff beers.
ref: 2014, Lew Bryson, Don Cazentre, New York Breweries, →ISBN:
text: We had a bonus taster of an EPA, or English Pale Ale (IPA is Indian Pale Ale), which went by the name Rhythm Stick, and according my notes was delicious, and full of peachy aromas.
ref: 2015 April 8, Bianca Coleman, “Craft beers go down with great ease”, in Independent Online:
text: It’s the Black Swan EPA which is the brewery’s best seller and the one most frequently found in local restaurants.
ref: 2017 June 30, Wayne Newton, “Canada’s theatre jewel has tasty choices for food and drink to rival Stratford’s onstage offerings”, in London Free Press:
text: I'm a bit twitchy myself, thirsting for some more Marston's, so we crack some bottles of Marston's EPA (English Pale Ale) a light, citrusy, beer that's very refreshing, although perhaps not best drunk in the freezing dusk wind that's now storming inland.
ref: 2017 November 17, Nick Harman, “The Unbeatable Barley of Holkham”, in Foodepedia:
coordinate_terms: APA
IPA
glosses: Initialism of English pale ale.
topics: law
coordinate_terms: LPA
glosses: Initialism of enduring power of attorney.
DOE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DOEs
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of Design Of Experiments.
DOE
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Initialism of depends on experience.
DOE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Dictionary of Old English.
glosses: Initialism of Department of Energy.
examples: text: The DOE and EPA have tried to keep everyone happy with the final rules.
ref: 2024 March 20, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “New EPA, DOE fuel regs give automakers longer to reduce CO₂ emissions”, in Ars Technica:
glosses: Initialism of Department of Energy.
examples: text: “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
ref: 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN:
synonyms: ED
glosses: Initialism of Department of Education.
DNR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of digital noise reduction.
glosses: Initialism of do not rent (a blacklist of individuals who are forbidden from renting a property).
DNR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: The hospital ignored the DNR order because it wasn't entered on the charts.
text: After reviewing the patient’s case, the ethics consultants advised us to honor the patient’s do not resuscitate (DNR) tattoo.
ref: 2017 November 30, Gregory E. Holt, Bianca Sarmento, Daniel Kett, Kenneth W. Goodman, “An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 377, number 22, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 2192–2193:
text: Caplan noted that while there are no legal penalties for ignoring such a tattoo, there may be legal problems if the doctors let a patient die without having their official DNR paperwork.
ref: 2020, Brian Christian, “Uncertainty”, in The Alignment Problem, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of do not resuscitate, a legal document by which a patient may direct which medical procedures they do and do not wish to undergo in the case that they are incapacitated.
DNR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Department of Natural Resources.
PII
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: DOGE’s access of BFS records puts vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril and endangers the PII of States’ residents whose information is stored on the payment systems.
ref: 2025 February 8, “COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY AND INJUNCTIVE RELIEF”, in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, page 7:
glosses: Initialism of personally identifiable information; personal data.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of public-interest immunity.
FTD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FTDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of financial transaction device.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of frontotemporal dementia.
Hypernyms: sense: frontotemporal dementia
word: dementia
RCMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: R.C.M.P.
form: R. C. M. P.
Senses: examples: text: Canada had an international reputation for politeness. The RCMP Special Branch did not.
ref: 2020, Patrick Ness, Burn, Walker Books Ltd (2021), page 50:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Related terms: Mountie
Queen's cowboy
gravel road cop
RCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of resource consumption accounting.
glosses: Initialism of reliable component analysis.
glosses: Initialism of root cause analysis.
glosses: Initialism of road controlling authority.
glosses: Initialism of right coronary artery.
RCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Radio Corporation of America: a US communications and entertainment corporation.
glosses: Initialism of Reformed Church of America.
glosses: Initialism of Rajasthan Cricket Association.
RC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: CBC
RCI
glosses: Initialism of Radio Canada.
glosses: Initialism of Republic of the Congo.
glosses: Initialism of Red Crescent.
glosses: Initialism of Red Cross.
RC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RCs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of race committee.
glosses: Initialism of radio control.
glosses: Initialism of reformed church.
glosses: Initialism of reinforced concrete.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of receiving and concealing (stolen property).
glosses: Initialism of remote control.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of release candidate.
glosses: Initialism of reverse circulation (drilling rig).
glosses: Initialism of remote/radio controlled model.
glosses: Initialism of research chemicals (designer drug).
glosses: Initialism of red crystal, a Jewish symbol.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Initialism of Roman Catholic.
glosses: Initialism of royal crown.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of return code.