cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calypsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calypses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καλύπτω (kalúptō, “cover, conceal”).
Senses: glosses: The act of covering, concealing, hiding, or veiling. In kinesics, the science of body language, calypsis is the act of covering or concealing one’s face, or sexually attractive parts, especially in the presence of someone who is a sexual turn-off (extremely anerotic), or someone who is uncomfortable to be around.
glosses: A type of closed or negative body language often expressing extremely anerotic feelings, sexual abhorrence, scorn and contempt toward someone viewed as a sexual turn-off in terms of physical appearance, in terms of personality and social behavior, or both.
glosses: The term calypsis can also refer to a bride placing a veil over her face during her wedding while preparing to marry her groom, or to a criminal concealing his/her face with a ski mask while perpetrating a burglary, robbery, or sniper attack.
spare tire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare tires
form: spare tyre
Senses: synonyms: spare wheel
glosses: An extra wheel carried as a replacement in case of a flat.
glosses: Excess weight or fat accumulated near the waist.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see spare, tire.
Hyponyms: sense: extra wheel
word: donut
Related terms: beer belly
Kummerspeck
love handle
saddlebags
calypses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calypsis
name of the game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the microprocessor business, speed is the name of the game.
text: Behind the turntables is DJ Train / Mixin' and scratchin' is the name of the game
ref: 1988, “Supersonic”, performed by J. J. Fad:
text: Some recipes also use raising agents, but I don’t think they’re really necessary – fluffiness is not the name of the game here.
ref: 2020 January 8, Felicity Cloake, “How to make the perfect gluten-free chocolate brownies”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: almost always preceded by the
glosses: The essential element (needed to reach the principal goal or objective); the overall purpose.
Pallas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæləs/
rhymes: -æləs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Παλλάς (Pallás) (f.) or Πάλλας (Pállas) (m.), from πάλλω (pállō, “to poise, sway, or swing”), but explained here by the ancients as more specifically meaning to brandish something. In Athena's conventional iconography, she was often depicted with a spear or a shield. Thus the epithet was explained as referring to her brandishing these things.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of several people in Greek mythology:
An epithet for Athena, always used together with the name, as Pallas Athena, rather than alone.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of several people in Greek mythology:
One of the Titans, according to Hesiod the son of the Titans Crius and Eurybia.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of several people in Greek mythology:
A goatish giant.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The second asteroid discovered, and third largest, (2) Pallas.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek of mythological origin; rare in English.
glosses: A surname from ?.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
astrology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: ⚴
Derived terms: Palladian
palladium
pallasite
Related terms: Palladius
Pallas's bunting
Pallas' cat
Pallas's grasshopper warbler
Pallas's gull
Pallas' kitten
Pallas's leaf warbler
Pallas's sandgrouse
overshadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overshadow
overshadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superseded by, covered up by, overtaken or eclipsed
relatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ɹɪˈleɪ.tə.bl̩]
ipa: [ɹɪˈleɪ.tə.bl̩]
ipa: [ɹɪˈleɪ.ɾə.bl̩]
ipa: [ɹɪˈlæɪ.tə.bl̩]
ipa: [ɹɪˈlæɪ.ɾə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more relatable
form: most relatable
form: relateable
Etymology: From relate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The damage was relatable to the recent earthquake.
glosses: Able to be related to something else; connected with.
examples: text: The characters in the play are very warm and relatable.
glosses: Able to be related to on a personal level.
examples: text: His verbal abuse was not relatable to polite ears.
glosses: Able to be passed on verbally; capable of being narrated or suitable for relating.
Derived terms: nonrelatable
relatability
relatably
unrelatable
A-gang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A-gangs
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: Auxiliary division onboard a ship or submarine. Responsible for sanitary, heating/AC, emergency diesels, hydraulics, high pressure air, low pressure air, oxygen generating equipment, potable water, hatch maintenance, and assorted systems.
admin vortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admin vortexes
form: admin vortices
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A disorganized soldier.
Admiral's eighth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Admiral's eighths
Senses: qualifier: Royal Navy slang
glosses: The Admiral's share of any booty or prize captured by any ship under his command.
Admiralty ham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: Royal Navy slang
glosses: Tinned meat or fish.
ogoneks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ogonek
huntsmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huntsman, in the sense of a spider.
Pandora's box
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A box given to Pandora by Zeus, whose instructions stated that it must not be opened, and were then ignored, leading to disastrous consequences.
Pandora's box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pandora's boxes
Senses: examples: text: There was an evil in Pandora's box
Beyond all other ones, yet it came forth
In guise so lovely, that men crowded round
And sought it as the dearest of all treasure.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses—smallpox, influenza and so on.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, →ISBN, page 371:
synonyms: Pandora's jar
glosses: A source of unforeseen trouble.
Related terms: can of worms
genie is out of the bottle
kettle of fish
open Pandora's box
tar baby
zendik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zendiks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zindiq.
lowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lower
breaking change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breaking changes
Senses: examples: text: Not possible to fix old entries without a breaking change, so remap old to new in import lib.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple applications.
Related terms: backward compatibility
regression
semantic versioning
Deutsche Mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɪt͡ʃmɑːk/
ipa: /ˈdɔɪt͡ʃmɑɹk/
rhymes: -ɔɪt͡ʃmɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: Deutsche Marks
form: Deutsche Mark
form: Deutschmark
form: deutschmark
form: deutsche mark
form: D-Mark
Etymology: Borrowed from German Deutsche Mark.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: The former currency unit of Germany (now replaced by the euro), abbreviated as DM or DEM.
Related terms: ostmark
reichsmark
death ray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death rays
Senses: examples: text: The evil aliens' death rays could not penetrate our mighty force fields!
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
hypernyms: ray#Noun
beam#Noun
coordinate_terms: shrink ray#Noun
glosses: A beam of radiation that can kill.
examples: text: Near-synonym: heat-ray
text: The evil alien pointed a death ray at me and ordered me to start marching toward the distant fortress!
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
hypernyms: weapon#Noun
coordinate_terms: shrink ray#Noun
glosses: A weapon that emits such a ray: a ray gun.
Related terms: cosmic ray
gamma ray
x-ray
ray gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ray guns
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: heat-ray
text: Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe / Put your ray gun to my head
ref: 1972, “Moonage Daydream”, in The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, performed by David Bowie:
topics: engineering
government
literature
media
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
publishing
science-fiction
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: energy weapon
w:directed energy weapon
DEW
;
death ray
hypernyms: gun#Noun
<
weapon#Noun
glosses: A weapon that shoots harmful rays.
Related terms: phaser
Maine Coon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maine Coons
form: Coonie
Etymology: The attribute “Maine” is after the region where the breed originally became popular. For the second part, there are several theories. The dominant one is that it refers to a resemblance of the breed to the raccoon, leading some to propose the theoretical impossibility of the cat being a crossbreed with the raccoon. Another theory is that the name derives from a legendary Captain Tom Coon, who is said to have brought over such exotic cats.
Senses: glosses: A large, fluffy semi-longhair domestic cat of a breed that originated in Maine.
Synonyms: American longhair
phorusrhacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phorusrhacids
Senses: examples: text: Phorusrhacids have excellent eyesight, so as the Earth continues its path around the sun, and the seasons change, the darkness will not be an encumbrance.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 90:
synonyms: terror bird
glosses: Any of the extinct flightless birds of the family Phorusrhacidae, which inhabited South America from the early Cenozoic era until about 0.1 million years ago.
hatchet job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatchet jobs
Senses: examples: text: That article about the mayor is nothing more than a hatchet job.
text: In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.
ref: 2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Even the tabloid Bild, hardly known as a haven of art-house snobbery, published a hatchet job. “There are good literary adaptations and there are bad ones, and then there is All Quiet on the Western Front by director Edward Berger,” Bild’s critic wrote.
ref: 2023 January 27, Philip Oltermann, “German critics pan Oscar-nominated All Quiet On the Western Front”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: slam piece
hit piece
traducement
calumny
calumniation
obloquy
defamation
antonyms: puff piece
glosses: A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
examples: text: This so-called reform of our wage agreement was really just one big hatchet job!
glosses: An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.
Related terms: hatchet man
chopping block
take an axe to
metagenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + genomics.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The study of genomes recovered from environmental samples; especially the differentiation of genomes from multiple organisms or individuals, either in a symbiotic relationship, or at a crime scene.
Related terms: metabiome
metagenome
metagenomic
metallochaperone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallochaperones
Etymology: From metallo- + chaperone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins that move metal ions to specific sites within a cell, normally to bind with metalloenzymes and cofactors
cuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: cuddies
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a contraction from Dutch kajuit (“cabin”).
Senses: examples: text: Being summoned to the cuddy to breakfast, I had not been there five minutes when I turned deadly sick, was obliged to retire to my cot […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 77
text: It was a strong measure I own, walking into your cuddy, and calling for drink as if I was the Captain […]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 44, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The sight of that watery-eyed old Jones mopping his bald head with a red cotton handkerchief, the sorrowing yelp of the dog, the squalor of that fly-blown cuddy which was the only shrine of his memory, threw a veil of inexpressibly mean pathos over Brierly’s remembered figure, the posthumous revenge of fate for that belief in his own splendour which had almost cheated his life of its legitimate terrors.
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 6, in Lord Jim:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cabin, for the use of the captain, in the after part of a sailing ship under the poop deck.
glosses: a small cupboard or closet.
examples: text: folk said the cuddy had bided so long with Pooty that whenever it opened its mouth to give a bit bray it started to stutter.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:
qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: A donkey, especially one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A pony that works in a mine.
examples: 1840-1841, Thomas Hood, "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg"
It cost more tricks and trouble, by half,
Than it takes to exhibit a six-legged calf
To a boothful of country cuddies.
glosses: A blockhead; a lout.
glosses: A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc.
Derived terms: hunch cuddy hunch
cuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: cuddies
form: cuddie
form: cudden
form: cuth
Etymology: From Scots cuddie; compare Gaelic cudaig, cudainn, or English cuttlefish, or cod.
Senses: glosses: A coalfish (Pollachius virens).
cuddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌdi/
rhymes: -ʌdi
Forms: form: cuddies
Etymology: From buddy, with the initial "B" replaced with "C" in Crip slang.
Senses: examples: text: I can't lie, I like to get high and figure-8 when I drive / Blow doja rope in the sky for all my cuddies that died
ref: 1996 April 23, “Get Right”, in Untouchable, performed by Mac Mall ft. LeVitti:
text: I could never imagine myself raising my hand to hit my Jasmine. She's my cuddy. We practically grew up together.
ref: 2012, Zonie Felder, January Jackson & Friends: The Premiere, Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, page 71:
text: Good night to my cuddies.. meek.. drake.. the ghostwriter and el chapo
ref: 2015 July 22, @kevinedwardsjr, Twitter, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2024:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A close friend or buddy.
currach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌɹə/
ipa: /ˈkʌɹəx/
homophone: Curragh
Forms: form: currachs
form: curagh
form: curragh
Etymology: From Irish curach, corrach, from Proto-Celtic *korukos (“boat”).
Senses: examples: text: Some days he went out in the currach with her father and her brothers, out past Blue Island and Inishlackan, where the mackerel and sea salmon were fat as piglets.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 53:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An Irish boat, constructed like a coracle, and originally the same shape; now a boat of similar construction but conventional shape and large enough to be operated by up to eight oars.
curragh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curraghs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of currach.
Curragh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌɹə/
homophone: currach
Forms: form: the Curragh
Etymology: From Irish an Currach.
Senses: glosses: A plain in County Kildare, Ireland; the site of a racecourse (Irish grid ref N 7613).
cut and run
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts and runs
form: cutting and running
form: cut and ran
form: cut and run
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To cut the anchor cable and not wait to weigh it.
examples: text: “I just say it’s curious, that’s all. Here’s a young man who ought to cut and run, but he doesn’t cut and run. He stays here, and gives us every facility for comparing footmarks.”
ref: 1925, Agatha Christie, The Secret of Chimneys:
text: Gap, the US clothing giant, will not "cut and run" when an international textile agreement ends next year, threatening the closure of hundreds of factories in the developing world, the company's chief executive said last night.
ref: 2004 November 11, Tobias Webb, quoting Paul Pressler, “Gap pledges not to 'cut and run'”, in The Guardian:
text: Calls to cut and run without paying a penny in the Brexit settlement are unlawful and unethical.
ref: 2017 May 3, Helena Kennedy, “You can’t just cut and run from Europe, Theresa May – it’s illegal”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To hurry away; to escape.
examples: text: They held on as long as they could, but when the heavy artillery fire started, they had to cut and run.
text: The President laid out the scenario we face if the United States decides to cut and run.
text: Mr Blair promised that the UK would not "cut and run". "Don't be under any doubts at all, British troops remain until the job is done and that job is moving up the Iraqi capabilities so that, for example, in Basra Iraqi forces can carry out the security work."
ref: 2006 December 18, Patrick Wintour, quoting Tony Blair, “UK will not cut and run in fight for democracy, troops told”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To abandon a position as quickly as possible.
Derived terms: cut-and-run
cut splice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cut splices
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Two ropes spliced together to form an eye which lies shut when taut.
Synonyms: cunt splice
cunt splice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cunt splices
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cut splice.
cutch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutches
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong the life of a sail or net
glosses: Alternative form of cultch.
glosses: Alternative form of catechu.
cutwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutwaters
Etymology: From cut + water.
Senses: examples: text: For two hours we laboured, Mahomed, Job, and I, who was supposed to be strong enough to pull against the two of them, on the bank, while Leo sat in the bow of the boat, and brushed away the weeds which collected round the cutwater with Mahomed's sword.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The forward curve of the stem of a ship.
examples: text: TARKA became one with the river, finding his course among the slimy stones so that his back was always covered. He rose beside the middle pier, whose cutwater was hidden by a faggot of flood sticks. Under the sticks was dimness, streaked and blurred with sunlight. Tarka hid and listened.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: The wedge of a bridge pier, that resists the flow of water and ice.
glosses: A black skimmer; a sea bird of the species Rynchops niger, that flies low over the sea, "cutting" the water surface with its lower mandible to catch small fish.
-bility
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -ability (in certain restricted contexts of word formation)
glosses: Alternative form of -ibility (in certain restricted contexts of word formation)
dagger board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dagger boards
form: daggerboard
form: dagger-board
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sliding centreboard used in some Chinese junks and dinghies, allowing for speedy maneuvering.
damelopre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damelopres
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A Dutch sailing barge having a mast that can be lowered for passing under a bridge
dan buoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæn ˈbɔɪ/
ipa: /dæn ˈbɔɪ/
ipa: /dæn ˈbu.i/
Forms: form: dan buoys
Etymology: Uncertain. One theory is that the term comes from "danger buoy".
Senses: examples: text: A dan buoy is usually laid from aft, the anchor and sinker being hung outboard through an after fairlead and the dan buoy hung from a tripping hook on a whip from the minesweeping davit, the mooring being led outboard.
ref: 1970 [1938], Great Britain. Hydrographic Department, chapter 1, in Admiralty Manual of Hydrographic Surveying, volume 2, United Kingdom: Hydrographer of the Navy, Dan Buoys (section 18), page 19:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small buoy, sometimes made of cork with a small flag, used to temporarily mark a position at sea, normally to mark a fishing ground, a minesweeping area, or a man overboard.
last rites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [...] withdrawal of the Neath-Brecon passenger service [...] was carried out as scheduled on October 15, when 14 intermediate stations and halts were closed to passengers. [...] Our South Wales correspondent writes that the last rites attracted so many people that a relief had to be run to the 4.10 p.m. from Neath.
ref: 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Brecon cuts begin”, in Modern Railways, page 372:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Final treatment of a dead man.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Final treatment of a dead man.
The Catholic sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.
non-vascular plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-vascular plants
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant that does not have a vascular system
Related terms: vascular plant
anapodeictic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anapodeictic
form: most anapodeictic
Etymology: From an- + apodeictic.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be shown or proved by argument; undemonstrable.
anisometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aniso- + -metric or an- + isometric.
Senses: glosses: Not isometric or symmetrical
Derived terms: anisometrically
Related terms: anisometry
spermatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɚˈmætɪk/
ipa: /spəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more spermatic
form: most spermatic
form: spermatick
Etymology: From Middle English spermatik, from Latin spermaticus, from Ancient Greek σπερματικός (spermatikós).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling sperm.
glosses: Producing, conveying or containing sperm; seminiferous.
examples: text: […] or some hidden Spermatick power has gendered these both Anchors, Urnes, Coins, and Sculls in the ground […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 11
glosses: Generative.
Derived terms: aspermatic
spermatic artery
spermatic chord
spermatic fascia
spermatic plexus
spermatic vein
spermatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɚˈmætɪk/
ipa: /spəˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: spermatics
form: spermatick
Etymology: From Middle English spermatik, from Latin spermaticus, from Ancient Greek σπερματικός (spermatikós).
Senses: examples: text: The abdominal portion is supplied from the spermatics, the lumbar, and in some instances the mesocolic artery.
ref: 1853, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page 791:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of spermatic artery.
quaternary industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sector of industry that involves the intellectual services: research, development, and information. It is considered the fourth basic industry.
hempen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛmpən/
Etymology: From Middle English hempen, hempyn, from Old English *hænepen (“made of hemp, hempen”), equivalent to hemp + -en. Cognate with Dutch hennepen (“hempen”), German hanfen (“hempen”). More at hemp.
Senses: examples: text: In fowle reproch of knighthoodes fayre degree, / About his neck an hempen rope he weares, / That with his gliſtring armes does ill agree;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 125:
text: A quiet land is this—a land where the slow-moving Basque, with his flat biretta-cap, his red sash and his hempen sandals, tills his scanty farm […]
ref: 1891, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “How the Army made the passage of Roncesvalles”, in The White Company […], London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: Trains from Lime Street to Edge Hill were hauled by an endless hempen rope worked by a stationary engine on the platform at the latter station.
ref: 1942 May-June, “Cable Operation at Liverpool and London”, in Railway Magazine, page 174:
text: Apparently, Bridport is noted for "its hempen manufactures. Its staple productions are twine, fishing nets, and canvas, and much hemp for the purpose is grown."
ref: 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 53:
glosses: Made of hemp
examples: text: […] but rid himself also of the companionship of this ruffianly Sir Crispin, to whom no doubt a hempen justice would be meted.
ref: 1904, Rafael Sabatini, The Tavern Night:
glosses: Related to hempen ropes, i.e., to hanging as capital punishment.
Derived terms: dance the hempen jig
hempen collar
hempen cravat
hempen widow
heritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛɹɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more heritable
form: most heritable
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English heritable, from Anglo-Norman heritable; equivalent to herit + -able.
Senses: examples: text: An heritable crown, or an heritable throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are heritable property.
ref: 1791, Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man:
glosses: That can legally be inherited.
examples: text: But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...
ref: 1909, Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science:
text: Whether they are involved in carcinogenesis by induction of a heritable lesion would depend, I believe, on their ability either to mispair or to misrepair.
ref: 1982, Yutaka Kawazoe, “Molecular Mechanism of Chemical Modification of Cellular Nucleic Acid Bases by 4-Hydroxyaminoquinoline 1-oxide”, in Carcinogenic and Mutagenic N-substituted Aryl Compounds, page 185:
text: The colour of a person’s hair is one of the most heritable features of their appearance, with studies on twins suggesting that genetics explains up to 97% of hair colour.
ref: 2018 April 16, Ian Sample, The Guardian:
glosses: Genetically transmissible from parent to offspring; hereditary.
Synonyms: inheritable
Derived terms: heritableness
heritably
nonheritable
unheritable
Related terms: inheritance
sub atomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subatomic.
sub-atomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subatomic.
megastar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastars
Etymology: From mega- + star.
Senses: glosses: A very famous or successful celebrity.
Derived terms: megastardom
rabbinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈbɪnəkəl/
Etymology: From rabbi + -n- + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: 1581, Robert Parsons, A Brief Censure vppon Two Bookes Written in Answere to M. Edmonde Campions Offer of Disputation, Doway: John Lyon, “Towching the Societie,” section heading,
Three kyndes of Rabbinical expositions of the Law.
text: to gain a little Rabbinical Learning, and find out some unobvious signification of a Word or Phrase, he must devour the tedious and voluminous Rhapsodies that make up the Talmud, in many of which he can scarce learn any thing but the Art of saying nothing in a multitude of words;
ref: 1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subiects, London: Henry Herringman, Reflection 7, pp. 168-169:
text: 1766, Elizabeth Griffith, The Double Mistake, London: J. Almon et al., Act I, Scene 3,
Her father was a very learned divine, and who can tell but she may understand the rabbinical text?
text: Deronda was reading a piece of rabbinical Hebrew under Ezra’s correction and comment […]
ref: 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Book 8, Chapter 68:
text: Oh, please, […] I’m a big boy now—so you can knock off the rabbinical righteousness. It turns out to be a little laughable at this stage of the game.
ref: 1969, Philip Roth, chapter 5, in Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 203:
text: The new book enlarges the genealogical pyramid, connecting it to Rabbi Jehiel Lurie, head of the 13th-century rabbinical court in Brest-Litovsk, then back to Rashi and beyond.
ref: 2004 October 24, Bill Gladstone, “The oldest family in the world”, in Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
synonyms: rabbinic
glosses: Of or relating to rabbis, their writings, or their work.
radiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɪ.ə(ʊ).ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /-oʊ-/
Forms: form: radiograms
Etymology: From radio- (prefix denoting radioactivity or radiation) + -gram (suffix denoting something drawn, written, or otherwise recorded).
Senses: examples: text: Following my usual custom, with some difficulty I removed the radiogram from the mount and found in the upper one half of the left border a radiopaque shadow in the area previously covered by the film mount frame. […] This indicated that another radiogram should be made, which revealed an impacted third molar in disto-oblique position.
ref: 1928 July, C. S. Klinkert, “An Unusual Dental Anomaly”, in B. W. Carr, editor, United States Veterans’ Bureau Medical Bulletin, volume IV, number VII, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 626:
text: The method I use is to outline the contour of the chest wall on an X-ray film and to transpose it on a sheet of paper. If the radiogram has been taken correctly, the outline of the chest will be clearly visible on the film, the edge of the ribs contrasting quite sharply against the shadow of less density given by soft parts covering the thorax.
ref: 1937 January 2, H. H. Moll, “Chest Deformities in Asthma”, in Squire Sprigge, Egbert [Coleby] Morland, editors, The Lancet: A Journal of British and Foreign Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics, Physiology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Public Health, and News, volume CCXXXII, part I, London: The Lancet Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:
text: [F]ractures in animals, which were on a diet that deranged their calcium and phosphorus metabolism healed normally as judged from histological sections. But when radiograms were taken of these fractures they revealed little callus and hence the radiograms would normally be interpreted as indicating non-union; that is, that a bony callus had not formed. […] Accordingly, radiograms do not always give an accurate indication of whether or not osteogenesis has occurred.
ref: 1956, A[rthur] W[orth] Ham, W. R. Harris, “Repair and Transplantation of Bone”, in Geoffrey H[oward] Bourne, editor, The Biochemistry and Physiology of Bone, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, page 494:
glosses: Synonym of radiograph (“an image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than ordinary light; especially an X-ray photograph”).
synonyms: word: radiograph
extra: an image, often a photographic negative, produced by radiation other than ordinary light; especially an X-ray photograph
Derived terms: autoradiogram
microradiogram
radiogrammatic
radiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɪ.ə(ʊ).ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /-oʊ-/
Forms: form: radiograms
Etymology: Probably either:
* from radio- (prefix denoting radio broadcasting) + -gram (suffix denoting something drawn, written, or otherwise recorded); or
* a clipping of radio(tele)gram.
Senses: examples: text: Sec. 7. That a person, company, or corporation within the jurisdiction of the United States shall not knowingly utter or transmit, or cause to be uttered or transmitted, any false or fraudulent distress signal or call or false or fraudulent signal, call, or other radiogram of any kind.
ref: 1912 August 13, “[Laws and Regulations] An Act to Regulate Radio-communication, Approved August 13th, 1912”, in The Year-book of Wireless Telegraphy & Telephony, New York, N.Y.: Wireless Press, published 1917, →OCLC, page 362:
text: If the War Department at that time had considered it necessary to alert the Hawaiian Department against air and ground attack, it undoubtedly would have so directed instead of sending a long radiogram outlining the various steps that should be taken in connection with sabotage and subversive activities.
ref: 1946, Walter C[ampbell] Short, “Statement by Major General Walter C. Short of Events and Conditions Leading Up to the Japanese Attack, December 7, 1941”, in Pearl Harbor Attack: Hearings before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Con. Res. 27: A Concurrent Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Events and Circumstances Relating thereto: Part 24: Proceedings of Roberts Commission […], Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1778:
text: On 3 June, 1898, Lord Kelvin visited [Guglielmo] Marconi's Alum Bay station, on the Isle of Wight, and sent from there the first paid radiograms.
ref: 1963, Linwood S. Howeth, “Birth of Science of Radio and Development of Usable Components”, in History of Communications-electronics in the United States Navy, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 20, column 2:
text: But in his February 12 radiogram Brett had also ordered Barnes to send two pursuit squadrons to Darwin, one for local protection and the other to provide escort for a convoy to Koepang and to provide cover for its unloading, then to remain at Koepang.
ref: 2010, William H. Bartsch, “Part Three: ‘You are Not Forgotten Men’”, in Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941–1942, College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 103:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
glosses: Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”).
synonyms: word: radiotelegram
extra: (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission cables”)”)
radiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.dɪ.ə(ʊ).ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əˌɡɹæm/
ipa: /-oʊ-/
Forms: form: radiograms
Etymology: Either:
* a blend of radio + gram(ophone); or
* a clipping of radiogram(ophone).
Senses: examples: text: She comes in with a worried, puzzled expression. Then her spirits suddenly revive; she switches on the radiogram and dances gaily for her own amusement.
ref: 1935, Michael Egan, The Dominant Sex: A Play in Three Acts, London: Victor Gollancz, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 86:
text: Inter-train radio communication facilities between the Royal and pilot trains are provided, as well as train to land station contact, and the lounges throughout the train have radiograms. The King's study will have a radio receiving set of wide range.
ref: 1947 January–February, “South African Royal Train”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 36:
text: He opens the plywood door that conceals the radiogram. The record is already on the turntable: Miles Davis letting loose.
ref: 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, Auckland: RHNZ Vintage, →ISBN, page 96:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Synonym of radiogramophone (“a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver”).
synonyms: word: radiogramophone
extra: a gramophone record player that incorporates a radio receiver
Related terms: stereogram
radiometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɹɪk
Etymology: From radiometry + -ic.
Senses: antonyms: nonradiometric
glosses: Referring to the science of radiometry.
Derived terms: immunoradiometric
radiometric age
radiometrically
radiometric dating
radiometric magnitude
spectroradiometric
radiotelegraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹeɪ.di.əʊ.təˈlɛɡ.ɹə.fi/
Etymology: From radio- + telegraphy.
Senses: synonyms: wireless telegraphy
glosses: The process and techniques of sending telegrams using radio waves rather than wires.
Related terms: radiotelegram
radio telemetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiotelemetry
Etymology: From radio + telemetry.
Senses: glosses: Any form of telemetry that uses radio waves to transmit the data.
expressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expressible
form: most expressible
form: expressable
Etymology: From express + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Able to be expressed.
Synonyms: articulable
enunciable
pronounceable
Derived terms: expressibly
nonexpressible
unexpressible
Related terms: expressibility
unparliamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unparliamentary
form: most unparliamentary
Etymology: From un- + parliamentary.
Senses: examples: unparliamentary language
glosses: unsuitable to be used in parliament
glosses: contrary to the rules of parliament
Derived terms: unparliamentary language
unparliamentary language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Language considered inappropriate for use during a parliamentary session; especially profanity or suggestions of dishonesty.
plenteous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛn.ti.əs/
Forms: form: more plenteous
form: most plenteous
Etymology: From Middle English plentewos, plentevous, et al., circa 1300, from Old French plentiveus (“fertile, rich”) (early 13th century), from plentif (“abundant”), from plenté (“abundance”) (Modern French pleinté, English plenty), from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Senses: examples: text: His farm, though small, nevertheless allowed him a plenteous supply of healthy food.
text: Reaping plenteous crop.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: In plenty; abundant.
examples: text: The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 28:11:
glosses: Having plenty; abounding; rich.
Derived terms: overplenteous
Related terms: plenteously
plenteousness
plentiful
plenty
don't mention it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: - Thank you for doing that.
- Don't mention it.
glosses: A polite way of responding to thanks, by suggesting that the service is too trivial or humble to warrant thanks; you're welcome.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see don't, mention, it.
Synonyms: it's all right
it's a pleasure
you're welcome
no mention
my pleasure
not at all
no problem
no worries
anytime
cheaper by the dozen
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Handled more efficiently as a group, rather than individually.
regretfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more regretfully
form: most regretfully
Etymology: From regretful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So after learning a great deal about iron founding and much more about pike fishing, one regretfully took leave of a shop full of kindly characters and proceeded to a worse lot of odours in the brass foundry.
ref: 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
glosses: In a regretful manner, with regret.
glosses: Unfortunately, in a manner inspiring or deserving regret; used only as a sentence adverb (to introduce and modify an entire sentence).
Synonyms: sense: in a regretful manner
word: sorrowfully
sense: in a regretful manner
word: ruefully
sense: unfortunately
word: sadly
sense: unfortunately
word: unfortunately
sense: unfortunately
word: sad to say
sense: unfortunately
word: regrettably
sense: unfortunately
word: alas
regrew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of regrow
regrow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: regrows
form: regrowing
form: regrew
form: regrown
Etymology: From re- + grow.
Senses: examples: text: Humans cannot regrow lost limbs but some amphibians can.
text: Deciduous trees regrow their leaves every year.
glosses: To grow again a part that has been lost, shed or destroyed.
plentitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plentitudes
Etymology: From an error for plenitude, influenced by plenty.
Senses: examples: text: Of quotations in the OED there are indeed a plentitude.
glosses: Abundance, fullness, completeness; an instance of this.
Synonyms: plenitude
pleocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition where an unusually high quantity of white blood cells (normally lymphocytes) are present in the cerebrospinal fluid.
cerebrospinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From cerebro- + spinal.
Senses: examples: text: There was an infection of the cerebrospinal fluid.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to brain or spine (particularly the spinal cord).
Derived terms: cerebrospinal axis
cerebrospinal fever
cerebrospinal fluid
cerebrospinal meningitis
regrown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From re- + grown.
Senses: examples: text: The regrown weed is almost as big now as before I mowed it down.
glosses: That grew, was lost or destroyed, and regrew.
regrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From re- + grown.
Senses: glosses: past participle of regrow
religiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more religiously
form: most religiously
Etymology: From religious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of religion.
examples: text: It is odd he gets so many cavities since he brushes his teeth religiously, every night, rain or shine.
text: “My wife and I use Notion religiously to manage our day-to-day life,” he wrote on X. “I turned this into a template, let me know if you’d like to see it!”
ref: 2024 May 12, Erin Griffith, quoting Ben Lang, “Honey, I Love You. Didn’t You See My Slack About It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Passionately or diligently; faithfully; conscientiously.
relentlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɛntləsnəs/
Etymology: From relentless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The more I learned about transkids, the more I grilled you, every day. I'm ashamed of my relentlessness, but I had to know.
“Why do you want to be a boy?”
“I don't know.”
ref: 2012, Rachel Pepper, Transitions of the Heart:
glosses: The condition of being relentless.
peremptorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɛmpt(ə)ɹəli/
Forms: form: more peremptorily
form: most peremptorily
Etymology: From peremptory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He was peremptorily summoned to see the commanding officer.
text: 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays, New York: T.Y. Cromwell, 1901, LVII, "Of Anger", p. 233, https://archive.org/details/essaysoffrancisb00baco
[…] that you doe not peremptorily break off, in any Businesse, in a Fitt of Anger: But howsoever you shew Bitternes, do not Act any thing, that is not Revocable.
text: I shall not peremptorily deny, that from most of such mixt bodies as partake either of animal or vegetable nature, there may by the help of the fire be actually obtained a determinate number […] of substances, worthy of differing denominations.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, published 1911, page 34:
text: How have I offended you? Twice have I called this morning, and each time you have been peremptorily denied.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Discovery”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 165:
text: […] the door-bell jingled peremptorily, and the girl left waiting on the table to go and answer it.
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, chapter XIII, in The Rise of Silas Lapham:
text: "Never mind that!" here peremptorily broke in the superior, his face altering with anger […]
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter XVI.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
glosses: In a peremptory manner; in a commanding tone, brooking no delay.
blow smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows smoke
form: blowing smoke
form: blew smoke
form: blown smoke
form: blow smoke up someone's ass
Etymology: By shortening of the full expression blow smoke up someone's ass, deemed less vulgar.
Senses: examples: text: Are these "statistics" they cite verifiable, or are they just blowing smoke, trying to scare people?
glosses: To speak with a lack of credibility, sense, purpose, or truth; to speak nonsense.
Synonyms: nonsense
deceive
Related terms: blow hot air
pass the bottle of smoke
smoke and mirrors
smoke blower
Tobacco smoke enema
brooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brook
extension cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extension cables
Senses: glosses: A cable that can be used to extend a signal or power cable or move the connexion point for a signal or power source.
Synonyms: word: extension cord
word: trip cord
Related terms: power board
powerboard
power strip
power source
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power sources
Senses: examples: text: He would have liked to use the electric drill, but there was no convenient power source.
glosses: A source of power such as a generator or mains outlet.
Derived terms: uninterruptible power source
power supply
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power supplies
Senses: examples: text: The utility will invest in power plants and transmission lines to ensure a stable power supply.
text: The track-sectioning cabins house not only switchgear for the traction current, but also transformers to provide power supplies to the signalling equipment.
ref: 1961 December, “Planning the London Midland main-line electrification”, in Trains Illustrated, page 722:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see power, supply.
glosses: A source of power such as the mains or a generator.
glosses: That part of a piece of electronic apparatus that provides appropriate voltages for the rest of the electronics from the connected AC source.
Hyponyms: power adaptor
power adapter
power brick
power supply unit
PSU
P.S.U.
P. S. U.
wall wart
Related terms: charger
low-power mode
power unit
voltages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voltage