cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flutterby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutterbies
Senses: glosses: Spoonerism of butterfly
aluminising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aluminise
aluminised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aluminized
Senses: glosses: Having the property of being coated with aluminium.
aluminised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aluminized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aluminise
Coordinate terms: blued
bronzed
galvanised
galvanized
plated
Derived terms: HDA
PAR lamp
unaluminised
anodises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anodise
anodising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of anodise
anodised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anodise
anodised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Metalwork is either silver or gold anodised aluminium, the latter being used experimentally in one of the six schemes.
ref: 1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 8:
glosses: Alternative form of anodized.
flutterbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutterby
shake and bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shake and bakes
form: shake-and-bake
form: shake 'n bake
form: shake 'n' bake
Etymology: From the brand name Shake 'n Bake, a powdered seasoning, so called because one could put it in a plastic bag with meat, then easily season the meat by shaking.
Senses: examples: text: Yet, until the last few decades of the twentieth century, the approach that Levi describes, which chemists like to call ‘shake and bake’, was often the best they could do.
ref: 2001, Philip Ball, Molecules: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, published 2003, page 24:
glosses: Something fast, or easy to use or perform; a simple, crude object or action.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A non-commissioned officer with little experience, qualified through a special course.
shake and bake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shake and bake
form: most shake and bake
form: shake-and-bake
form: shake 'n bake
form: shake 'n' bake
Etymology: From the brand name Shake 'n Bake, a powdered seasoning, so called because one could put it in a plastic bag with meat, then easily season the meat by shaking.
Senses: glosses: Crude, unsophisticated; not professionally done, improvised.
Related terms: bake-off
dump-and-bake
quick-and-dirty
ready-made
calzoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calzonis
form: calzonies
Senses: examples: text: We cannot claim to have entirely duplicated her calzoni, but we have made an earnest effort and are particularly proud of the result.
ref: 1982 January 3, Craig Claiborne With Pierre Franey, “Food; Rolling in Dough”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Alternative form of calzone.
calzoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calzone
nonenforceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + enforceable.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Not enforceable; not able to be enforced; unenforcible.
dysdiadochokinesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysdiadochokinesias
form: dysdiadochocinesia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-) + διάδοχος (diádokhos) + κίνησις (kínēsis) + -ία (-ía).
Senses: glosses: The impairment of the ability to perform rapidly alternating movements.
nonwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-white
form: non-White
Etymology: From non- + white.
Senses: glosses: Not white in color.
examples: text: By 2016, however, a divide that started appearing in the preceding few years came into full relief—that year, 29% of nonwhite liberals (28% of nonwhite Democrats) and 38% of Black liberals (34% of Black Democrats), disagreed that “Blacks should work their way up without special favors.”
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 98:
glosses: Not belonging to the white race.
glosses: Not associated with white people.
Synonyms: word: unwhite
nonwhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonwhites
form: non-white
form: non-White
Etymology: From non- + white.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s already clear that the 2020 electorate will be unique in several ways. Nonwhites will account for a third of eligible voters — their largest share ever — driven by long-term increases among certain groups, especially Hispanics,” according to a Pew Research report.
ref: 2020 July 28, Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Is Trying to Bend Reality to His Will”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2020:
text: That said, and as I reiterate and elaborate on later below, there is nothing in this dissertation’s theory that precludes similar post-Floyd shifts in the racial attitudes of nonwhites. I leave it up to future research, though, to tackle this question.
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 433:
glosses: A person who is not white.
Synonyms: word: unwhite
nonwhites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonwhite
nummular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌmjʊlə/
ipa: /ˈnʌmjʊlɚ/
Forms: form: more nummular
form: most nummular
Etymology: From Latin nummulus (“(small amount of) money”) + English -ar (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of, pertaining to, or near’). Nummulus is the diminutive of nummus (“a coin; piece of money”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); while nummus is from Doric Greek νοῦμμος (noûmmos), from Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “kind of coin”), from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns).
Senses: synonyms: monetary
numismatic
nummary
nummulary
glosses: Of or relating to coins or money.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: coinlike
glosses: Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
Characterized by lesions (especially on the cornea or skin) which are round with well-defined borders.
examples: text: NUMMULAR […] An epithet applied to the sputa in phthisis, when they flatten at the bottom of the vessel, like a piece of money.
ref: [1839, Robley Dunglison, “NUMMULAR”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 421, column 2:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: coinlike
word: nummulary
word: nummulated
glosses: Flattened with a rounded form, as a disc; coin-shaped.
Of sputum: forming flat, round shapes (formerly thought to be a symptom of tuberculosis).
Related terms: word: nummary
word: nummulary
word: nummulated
word: nummulation
word: nummuline
word: nummulite
word: nummulitic
word: nummulitid
word: nummus
nudum pactum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuda pacta
Etymology: From Latin nūdum, the neuter form of nūdus (“nude, bare”) + pāctum (“bargain, agreement”).
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: nude pact
glosses: In common law, a promise that is not legally enforceable due to lack of consideration.
opiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opium
zoolatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zoʊˈɑlətɹi/
ipa: /zuˈɑlətɹi/
ipa: /zəʊˈɒlətɹi/
ipa: /zuːˈɒlətɹi/
Forms: form: zoolatries
form: zoölatry
Etymology: Borrowed from French zoolâtrie, New Latin zoolatria, from zoo- + -latry.
Senses: examples: text: our souls in infancy are scarred with ancient fears as of big eyes, teeth, fur. This stratum is one of the very richest layers in paleopsychic development, and its outcrops in the many varied zoolatries of savage life[…] [illustrate] the way in which the stages of a child’s development repeat those through which the race has passed.
ref: 1904, Granville Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education, volume 2, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 222:
text: Excessive zoolatry and heka practices had always been fundamental aspects of Egyptian religion and lifestyles, but from about the Late Period (c. 747 BC), they increasingly became tinged with fundamentalism and fanaticism.
ref: 2004, Simson R Najovits, Egypt, Trunk of the Tree: A Modern Survey of an Ancient Land, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: The worship of animals.
Related terms: zoolater
zoolatrous
opia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Forms: form: opias
form: opia
Senses: examples: text: Heat burned in my cheeks, for I had kissed the opia quite passionately before I realized he was the spirit of a dead ancestor.
ref: 2013, Kate Elliott, Cold Steel, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of hupia.
opia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Senses: glosses: plural of opium
Judæa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: If we consider his immense reputation for Hebrew learning, the atrocity of his character, and the strange machinations he set on foot, we may not unreasonably conjecture that the apocrypha of the School of Auditors were a fraud organized by Rabbi Akiba, the standard‐bearer of the anti‐Christ Bar‐Cochab in that fatal war which destroyed 50 cities, 980 villages, and 580000 souls, in Judæa.
ref: 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, pages 10– 11:
text: `The Romans burnt it, and the Roman eagles flew across its ruins, and now Judæa is a desert.'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Judea.
Phœnician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1833, Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva, Phœnician Ireland.
text: "What diverts me the most," continued Sir George, " is, Ulysses being always called 'the much enduring man.' After all his ten years of wandering are past, pleasantly enough, the greater portion of them being spent with Circe and Calypso—to be sure, it was rather tiresome staying so long with the last—how he must have enjoyed his flirtation with the Phœnician princess!"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Introduction”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 138:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Phoenician.
Phœnician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phœnicians
Senses: examples: text: Plutarch, and others ascribe its introduction to the West to Cadmus—a Phœnician who founded Thebes, B.C. 1500.
ref: 1859, George E. Eyre, William Spottiswoode, Patents for Invention. Abridgments of Specifications relating to Printing, page 15:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Phoenician.
Phœnicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Hiſtory of the Phœnicians.
ref: 1779, chapter VI, in An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time, volume II, page 1:
glosses: plural of Phœnician
limbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪmbl̩/
rhymes: -ɪmbəl
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a limbus
Derived terms: circumlimbal
corneolimbal
keratolimbal
limbal ring
paralimbal
perilimbal
postlimbal
translimbal
limbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmbəs
Forms: form: limbuses
form: limbi
Etymology: From Middle English limbus, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”).
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A border of an anatomical part, such as the edge of the cornea.
Derived terms: limbal
limbal ring
Related terms: limbate
misomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misomaniacs
Senses: glosses: A person who shows symptoms of misomania (hating everything).
Related terms: misomaniacal
misomaniacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misomaniacal
form: most misomaniacal
Senses: glosses: Having the tendencies of misomania.
Related terms: misomaniac
unenforcible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenforcible
form: most unenforcible
Etymology: From un- + enforcible.
Senses: glosses: Not enforceable; not able to be enforced.
Synonyms: nonenforceable
shotgun pleading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shotgun pleadings
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal complaint or an answer to a complaint which sets forth an excessive number of facts with no clear organization, and then asserts that those facts describe a cause of action or a defense.
shotgun pleadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotgun pleading
genuine issues of material fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genuine issue of material fact
summary judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summary judgments
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The determination by a court that no factual issues are in dispute, and that the legal issues require the case to be decided in favor of one party or the other.
summary judgments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summary judgment
splittist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From split + -ist, as a translation of the Chinese terms 分裂 (fēnliè) and 分裂主義分子／分裂主义分子.
Senses: examples: text: The Politburo had already met on 1 April to agree that the Nanking incident had been splittist and supportive of Teng Hsiao-p'ing.
ref: 1978, John King Fairbank, The Cambridge History of China, →ISBN, page 362:
glosses: Favoring a split or separation from the Party or the nation.
splittist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splittists
Etymology: From split + -ist, as a translation of the Chinese terms 分裂 (fēnliè) and 分裂主義分子／分裂主义分子.
Senses: examples: text: Our Party and the Government of the Republic have till now done all they can to check and frustrate the colonial enslavement policy of US imperialism towards Korea and the nation-splitting manoeuvres of the domestic and foreign splittists and achieve the independent, peaceful reunification of the country.
ref: 1974, Kim Il Sung, Answers to the Questions Raised by Secretary-general of Peru-Korea Institute of Culture and Friendship, page 7:
text: "Trouble. I'll tell you frankly, little Han, we have a lot of splittists here. You know what I mean by a splittist?" ¶ "Of course. People who want to split the Motherland."
ref: 2001, John Derbyshire, Fire From the Sun, →ISBN, page 21:
qualifier: Korea
glosses: A separatist.
Synonyms: sectarian
separatist
Related terms: splittism
move heaven and earth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves heaven and earth
form: moving heaven and earth
form: moved heaven and earth
form: moved heaven and earth
Senses: examples: text: He would move heaven and earth to make sure his family is healthy.
text: Our policy reflects too little of this. The official line is enduring commitment, and promises to move heaven and earth for those most in danger. But in practice Afghanistan is being swept under the carpet.
ref: 2023 March 9, Dan Jarvis, “Britain promised to move heaven and earth for all who helped us in Afghanistan. It wasn’t true”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: move mountains
glosses: To do whatever is necessary, including extreme or unusual actions; to go to extremes.
Related terms: leave no stone unturned
splittists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splittist
colonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colon + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Colitis.
Synonyms: colitis
alphabetisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphabetisations
Etymology: From alphabetise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetization.
Derived terms: realphabetisation
caporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French caporal.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he seats were uncomfortable, the place was crowded, the air thick with caporal horrible to breathe, but in their young enthusiasm they were indifferent.
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 44, in Of Human Bondage:
text: She had been sitting there for nearly an hour and a half, and during that time she had drunk two glasses of black coffee, smoked six caporal cigarettes and read the week's Candide.
ref: 1928, Jean Rhys, Quartet, Penguin, published 2000, page 7:
glosses: A type of shag tobacco.
caporal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caporals
Etymology: From Spanish caporal.
Senses: glosses: A foreman or overseer.
tabescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more tabescent
form: most tabescent
Etymology: From Latin tabescens, present participle of tabescere.
Senses: examples: text: He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.
ref: 1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 42:
glosses: Wasting away, or becoming emaciated.
Related terms: tabescence
langouste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langoustes
Etymology: Borrowed from French langouste. Doublet of locust.
Senses: glosses: The spiny lobster
tartuffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɑɹˈtuːf/
/tɑɹˈtʊf/
Forms: form: tartuffes
Etymology: From French tartuffe, from the protagonist Tartuffe (from Italian tartufo (“truffle”)) in the play of the same name by Molière. Doublet of tartufo.
Senses: hypernyms: hypocrite
glosses: A religious hypocrite.
Derived terms: tartuffian
tartufian
tartuffery
tartufery
tartuffish
tartufish
tartuffism
tartufism
camerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: camerates
form: camerating
form: camerated
form: camerated
Etymology: From Latin camerātus, perfect passive participle of camerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To build in the form of a vault; to arch over.
glosses: To divide into chambers.
camerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin camerātus, perfect passive participle of camerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Divided into chambers
Derived terms: acamerate
multicamerate
procamerate
unicamerate
ad rem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad rem (“pertinent, relevant”), from ad (“to”) + rem, accusative of res (“matter”).
Senses: glosses: Pertinent; relevant.
ad rem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad rem (“pertinent, relevant”), from ad (“to”) + rem, accusative of res (“matter”).
Senses: examples: text: To speak ad rem, who is free from passion?
ref: , New York Review of Books 2001, p.75
glosses: Pertinently; to the purpose.
afterwit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterwits
form: after-wit
Etymology: From after- + wit.
Senses: examples: text: After wits are dearely bought, / Let thy fore-wit guide thy thought.
ref: 1595, Robert Southwell, “Losse in Delayes”, in Saint Peters Complaynt With Other Poems, London: Gabriel Cawood, page 50:
text: 1692, Roger L’Estrange (translator), Fables of Æsop, London: R. Sare et al., Fable 162, “A Nightingale and a Bat,”
There’s No Recalling of what’s Gone and Past; so that After-Wit comes too Late when the Mischief is Done.
text: Trust me, dear Yorick, this unwary pleasantry of thine will sooner or later bring thee into scrapes and difficulties, which no after-wit can extricate thee out of.
ref: 1760, Laurence Sterne, chapter 12, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 1, page 63:
text: There is always a danger of afterwit in estimating the early achievements of men who have achieved fame […].
ref: 1894, “On the Relation of Tennyson’s Life to His Works”, in M. F. Libby, editor, Selections from Tennyson, Toronto: Copp, Clark, page 11:
glosses: Wisdom which comes after the event.
antonyms: forewit
glosses: The lack of forethought.
synonyms: l'esprit de l'escalier
staircase wit
(neologism) retrotort
glosses: A good comeback, retort one thinks of only after the end of discussion or after leaving a social gathering.
fruit-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit-bearings
form: fruitbearing
Etymology: From Middle English *fruit-berende, *fruit-berand (found in compounds: olife froite berand, oliue fruitberand), equivalent to fruit + bearing. Compare Old English wæstmbǣre (literally “fruit-bearing”).
Senses: glosses: The act or process of bearing or producing fruit.
fruit-bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fruitbearing
Etymology: From Middle English *fruit-berende, *fruit-berand (found in compounds: olife froite berand, oliue fruitberand), equivalent to fruit + bearing. Compare Old English wæstmbǣre (literally “fruit-bearing”).
Senses: synonyms: fructiferous
qualifier: a specific tree; a branch; a specific tree; a branch
glosses: Bearing fruit.
raw_tags: of a species of tree
boyuvke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyuvkes
form: boyuvka
Etymology: From Russian "boy", combat, battle; hence, Yiddish "boyuvke", combat unit, commando.
e.g. The last decade of the 19th century in Babruysk was characterized by pogroms as a result of the assassination of the Russian emperor Alexander II. However, most of the attacks were repelled by self-organized Jewish armed units called boyuvkes.
Senses: glosses: A Jewish armed self-defence unit during the first Russian revolution
hither and thither
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪðəɹ‿n̩ ˈðɪðə/
ipa: /-ˈθɪðə/
ipa: /ˌhɪðɚ‿n̩ ˈðɪðɚ/
ipa: /-ˈθɪðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hithers and thithers
form: hithering and thithering
form: hithered and thithered
form: hithered and thithered
Etymology: The adverb is derived from hither + and + thither. The verb is derived from the phrase “to come hither and go thither”.
Senses: examples: text: I have been too long waiting for certainties; hithering''' and thithering being a condition under which I find it almost impossible to write, or indeed to do anything except fret myself to fiddlestrings.
ref: 1837 August 29 (date written), Jane Welsh Carlyle, “Letter 21: To T[homas] Carlyle, Scotsbrig”, in Alexander Carlyle, editor, New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, published 1903, →OCLC, page 61:
text: Mr. C. [i.e., Thomas Carlyle] always hithers and thithers in a weary interminable way, before he can make up his mind what he would like most to do.
ref: 1856 July 3 (date written), Jane Welsh Carlyle, “Letter 164. Mrs. Russell, Thornhill.”, in James Anthony Froude, editor, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle […], volume II, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1883, →OCLC, page 275:
text: [F]or three months more, follows waiting and hesitation and negotiation, also quite obscure. Confused hithering and thithering about permission for Plombières, about repentance, sorrow, amendment, blame; in the end, reconciliation, or what is to pass for such.
ref: 1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Third Act and Catastrophe of the Voltaire Visit”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XVI, page 436:
glosses: To move here and then there; to move in different directions.
cribriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cribriform
form: most cribriform
Etymology: From Latin cribrum (“sieve”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone; a cribriform compress
text: "To conclude this portion of our investigation therefore," cried Barbican, clearing his throat, and occupying Aldan's right ear,—"the Moon's surface is a honey combed, perforated, punctured—"
"A fistulous, a rugose, salebrous,—" cut in the Captain, close on the left.
—"And highly cribriform superficies—" cried Barbican.
—"A sieve, a riddle, a colander—" shouted the Captain.
ref: 1876, Jules Verne, chapter 11, in Edward Roth, transl., All Around the Moon:
glosses: Perforated, as in the manner of a sieve.
Synonyms: cribrous
Derived terms: cribriform plate
boyuvkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boyuvke
free-flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-flowing
form: most free-flowing
Etymology: From free + flowing.
Senses: examples: text: a free-flowing river
text: free-flowing traffic
text: The free-flowing pixelated compositions, while full of angles, owe something to automatist drawing.
ref: 2008 March 14, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Moving freely.
Synonyms: flowy
fluxive
runny
flowing
miasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miasms
Senses: glosses: An unhealthy vapor or atmosphere; a miasma.
topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A predisposition to a particular disease, which interferes with subsequent treatment of it.
BVDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the initials of an early manufacturer: Bradley, Voorhees & Day (founded 1876).
Senses: examples: text: The dealers apparently got a big inventory and since the war all nobody seems to be buying pajamas. Learned to sleep in their ‘BVDs’ during the war years in the armed services all these young men did.
ref: 1953, Richard Bissell, “7½ Cents”, in Atlantic, Little, Brown, page 53:
text: Thus, the light switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.
ref: 1953 September 18, Saul Bellow, chapter V, in The Adventures of Augie March […], New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, →OCLC, pages 64–65:
text: We frolicked like dolphins – Graeme and I in shorts and Bob in his B.V.D.'s – and then stretched out on the ancient waveworn shingle to let the sinking sun dry and warm us.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 97:
glosses: Underpants; usually, men's underpants.
Derived terms: bibidees
bebadees
Related terms: jockey shorts
Speedo
skivvies
cardinal-nephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal-nephews
form: cardinal nephew
Senses: glosses: Any cardinal created by the nepotism of a Pope
cardinal nephew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal nephews
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cardinal-nephew.
optical art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Op art.
MRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of machine-readable passport.
synonyms: ERP
glosses: Initialism of mature roleplay.
glosses: Initialism of manufacturer's recommended price.
examples: text: MRP stands for Multilevel Regression Post-stratification.
ref: 2024 June 28th, “A Different Bias” (channel name of Phil Moorhouse), What is an MRP Election Poll?, via YouTube, 2:11–2:14:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of multilevel regression and poststratification (“a technique for estimating public opinion within a specific subgroup”).
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Master in Regional Planning.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: operations; supply chain; operations; supply chain
glosses: Initialism of material requirements planning (a type of application software system used to schedule and monitor the use of components and other materials in a manufacturing operation).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: ERP
qualifier: operations
glosses: Initialism of manufacturing resource planning (a type of application software system used to schedule and monitor the full range of resources required for a manufacturing operation, sometimes called MRP II).
MRP II
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: operations
glosses: Acronym of manufacturing resource planning, a type of application software system used to schedule and monitor the full range of resources required for a manufacturing operation.
Related terms: ERP
MRP
applications program
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: applications programs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of application program.
Dehn surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dehn surgeries
Etymology: Named after Max Dehn.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The removal of a solid torus from a 3-dimensional manifold, followed by its being replaced via a homeomorphism of its boundary.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The same, but with the manifold in question being the 3-dimensional sphere.
solid torus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solid tori
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The topological space that is a Cartesian product of the two-dimensional disk and the circle.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The standard representation of that topological space within Euclidean 3-dimensional space.
Euler method
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Euler's method
Senses: qualifier: differential equations
glosses: A method for numerically approximating the solution to an ordinary differential equation with a given initial value.
incompressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: incompressable
form: uncompressable
form: uncompressible
Etymology: From French incompressible, from in- + compressible.
Senses: examples: text: As water [trapped in the cylinders] is incompressible, a momentary leap in [steam] pressure is liable to occur in starting; […].
ref: 1951 March, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 188:
glosses: Not compressible.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a divergence equal to zero.
raw_tags: of a vector field
Derived terms: incompressibleness
Euler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔɪlə/
ipa: /ˈjuːlə/
ipa: /ˈɔɪləɹ/
ipa: /ˈjuːləɹ/
homophone: oiler
rhymes: -ɔɪlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -uːlə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from German Euler.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A surname.
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician and physicist.
Derived terms: Euler-Fokker genus
Euler genus
Eulerian
Euler-Maclaurin formula
Euler method
Euler's continued fraction formula
Euler's formula
Euler's function
Euler's identity
Euler's polyhedron formula
Euler square
Euler's totient function
List of things named after Leonhard Euler
bionecrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bionecroses
Etymology: From bio- + necrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: necrobiosis
bionecroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bionecrosis
necrobioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of necrobiosis
picklock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picklocks
Etymology: From pick + lock.
Senses: examples: text: Marry, sir, he hath offended the law; and, sir, we take him to be a thief too, sir, for we have found upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the deputy.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: A device designed to pick locks.
examples: text: 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
a picklock of secrets
glosses: One who picks locks; a thief.
Synonyms: lock pick
pick
exoduses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exodus
picklocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picklock
hell for leather
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A few minutes later I was driving hell for leather to Parel, some six miles out of Bombay, where Colonel Liston was in charge of the government laboratory.
ref: 1963, Frederick Barnardo, An Active Life, Bodley Head, page 194:
text: It was one of the pleasures of the country to be able to ride hell for leather in the early morning... .
ref: 1988, Emma Lange, The Cost of Honor, →ISBN, page 96:
text: Of course, we were programmers, so we knew how hard it was, and what really impressed us was that this wasn't just smart programming, it was smart maths. Somebody had gone hell for leather making the absolute best that was possible.
ref: 2003 October 18, Francis Spufford, “Masters of their universe”, in The Guardian:
text: When Alfie had breathlessly told him that Sarah had gone into labour and was on her way to hospital, he'd dropped the lead rein and headed back hell for leather.
ref: 2004, Jennifer Marshall, The Christie Legacy, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 290:
glosses: Less common form of hell-for-leather
Pareto distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pareto distributions
Etymology: Named after Vilfredo Pareto.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution such that for a random variable X with that distribution holds that the probability that X is greater than some number x is given by
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution such that for a random variable X with that distribution holds that the probability that X is greater than some number x is given by
 Pr (X>x)=(x/(x_m))⁻ᵏ
for all x ≥ xₘ, where xₘ is the (necessarily positive) minimum possible value of X, and k is a positive parameter.
Pr (X>x)=(x/(x_m))⁻ᵏ
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A probability distribution such that for a random variable X with that distribution holds that the probability that X is greater than some number x is given by
 Pr (X>x)=(x/(x_m))⁻ᵏ
for all x ≥ xₘ, where xₘ is the (necessarily positive) minimum possible value of X, and k is a positive parameter.
for all x ≥ xₘ, where xₘ is the (necessarily positive) minimum possible value of X, and k is a positive parameter.
application software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of computer programs that work together to solve a particular problem or to be used for a particular user-defined application.
Hypernyms: software
Related terms: application program
applications software
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of application software.
BCF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bromochlorodifluoromethane.
Salafi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Arabic سَلَفِيّ (salafiyy).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or pertaining to Salafism.
Synonyms: word: Wahhabi
word: nasibi
Salafi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salafis
Etymology: From Arabic سَلَفِيّ (salafiyy).
Senses: examples: text: Many Salafis are not violent; most are actually apolitical.
ref: 2016 November, David Patrikarakos, “Progression through Regression”, in Literary Review:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Salafist
glosses: An adherent of Salafism.
Salafism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Salafi + -ism or salaf + -ism.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A movement comparing itself to Sunni Islam, claiming to taking the pious ancestors, the salaf of the patristic period of early Islam, as exemplary models.
Hypernyms: Islam
Hyponyms: Wahhabism
Related terms: Salafi
Salafist
Salafiyya
shash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: shashes
Etymology: See sash.
Senses: examples: text: So much for the ſilk in Judea called Sheſh in Hebrevv, vvhence haply, that fine linen or ſilk is called Shaſhes vvorn at this day about the heads of eaſtern people.
ref: 1650, Thomas Fuller, “The Land of Moriah”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John Williams […], →OCLC, book II, paragraph 24, page 303:
glosses: The scarf of a turban.
glosses: A sash.
shash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology: Imitative?
Senses: examples: text: Even productions designed for office or home video viewing usually need a title sequence to mark off the empty tape, hiss and shash from the prepared recording […]
ref: 1997, Paul Kriwaczek, Documentary for the Small Screen:
text: No one sees shash now, but it was naked television. Shash was the term for those black-and-burst patterns that danced across the screen when there was nothing being broadcast.
ref: 2012, Paul Farley, Michael Symmons Roberts, Edgelands: Journeys Into England's True Wilderness, page 159:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Synonym of snow (“random pattern of dots when there is no signal”).
synonyms: word: snow
extra: random pattern of dots when there is no signal
shash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: shashes
form: shashing
form: shashed
form: shashed
Etymology: Imitative?
Senses: examples: text: The machine shashed and crackled, broadcasting silence. Urgently the man repeated, 'Shearwater, Shearwater, Shearwater. This is Brewmarine. Keith speaking. Over. Over.' More shashing, more silence.
ref: 2003, Libby Purves, Casting Off:
glosses: To produce white noise.
gah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “And stop calling it soccerball! gah! do any of the tickets say soccerball? no!“”
ref: 2009 January 20, Alison Godfrey, quoting Bronwyn Lovejoy, “Coles, Woolworths and IGA workers vent about customers on Facebook”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2009:
glosses: Expressing exasperation or annoyance.
Related terms: gah dai
semi-easy chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-easy chairs
Senses: examples: text: Her room contains a bed which is a divan by day, a chest-of-drawers, a concealed washbasin, a table or desk, a semi-easy chair, and one ordinary chair.
ref: 1938, Keith Briant, Oxford Limited, Farrar & Rinehart, page 114:
text: Most of the furniture belonged to a maplewood "set": two day beds, a night table, two boyishly small, knee-cramping desks, two chiffoniers, two semi-easy chairs.
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, Zooey:
text: "There was only one chair, a semi-easy chair with wooden arms that sported a huge, sharp, dangerous coil spring that poked way up from the middle of where the cushion used to be, like a bad joke."
ref: 2005, James Segrest, Mark Hoffman, Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 246:
glosses: A chair that is designed to be partially like an easy chair.
itinerant worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itinerant workers
Senses: glosses: A temporary worker, particularly for exhausting manual labor.
glosses: One who maintains no permanent residence, one who is homeless
Synonyms: day laborer
simply connected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Having its fundamental group a singleton.
raw_tags: of a topological space
Synonyms: 1-connected
Related terms: simple connectivity
simple connectedness
simple connectivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The state of being simply connected.
Synonyms: simple connectedness
simple connectedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From simple connected + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The state of being simply connected.
Synonyms: simple connectivity
Proto-Oceanic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Oceanic.
Senses: glosses: A proposed common ancestor of the group of Oceanic languages.
Synonyms: Common Oceanian
Common Oceanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Proto-Oceanic language.
you are welcome
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: She reached out and handed me a steaming bowl of porridge. / “Thank you!” / Her eyes smiled back at me. “You are welcome.”
ref: 2000, Eric Walters, Caged Eagles, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of you're welcome.
examples: text: You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Council with The Munchkins”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see you, are, welcome.
levirate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvɪɹət/
Etymology: From Latin lēvir (“husband's brother, brother-in-law”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr (“one's brother-in-law”).
Senses: glosses: Having to do with one's husband's brother.
Derived terms: leviratic
leviratical
leviration
levirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛvɪɹət/
Forms: form: levirates
Etymology: From Latin lēvir (“husband's brother, brother-in-law”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr (“one's brother-in-law”).
Senses: glosses: A marriage between a widow and her deceased husband's brother or, sometimes, heir.
examples: text: And it is, he says, impossible not to believe that the Levirate—that is, the practice of marrying a dead brother's widow—is derived from polyandry.
ref: 1894, Edward Westermarck, The History of Human Marriage, 2nd edition, Macmillan and Co., page 510:
text: It is only a secondary purpose of the levirate that the property of the deceased passes on to the one who is heir to his name, and is probably a later accretion.
ref: 1986, Claus Westermann, translated by John S. Scullion, Genesis 37-50: A Continental Commentary, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 52:
text: The levirate is found in patrilineal societies in which the bride marries into her husband's family while essentially severing her ties with her original family.
ref: 2006, Gary P. Ferraro, Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective, Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 219:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The institution of levirate marriage.
bus station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bus stations
Senses: examples: text: In the bus station the father handed me five dollars and pointed me to the lunch counter. "Get yourself something to eat." He went into the men's room... .
ref: 2000, Lynda Barry, Cruddy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85:
text: We're in my car heading toward the bus station to get to New York.
ref: 2002, Ted Heller, Funnymen, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 66:
text: The square was near the bus station in the new part of Antibes.
ref: 2003, Andy McNab, Liberation Day, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 273:
glosses: A major bus stop, one that serves as a transfer point between a large number of routes.
Synonyms: english: for one bus operator
translation: for one bus operator
word: bus depot
Derived terms: how do I get to the bus station
Related terms: bus stand
bus stop
departure stand
stand
natural monopoly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural monopolies
Senses: glosses: Control over the market for a product which occurs when a firm gains large benefit from economies of scale, or from a superior business model or product, and is thus able to produce a very large percentage of the total market demand for a given product and unintentionally exclude meaningful competition via price structures.
proposita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propositae
Senses: examples: text: The proposita was an elderly woman who passed on the disorder to three of her four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.
glosses: The first identified female case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
Coordinate terms: word: propositus
propositus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propositi
Etymology: From Latin propositus.
Senses: examples: text: The propositus was an elderly man who passed on the disorder to three of his four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.
glosses: The first identified male case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
Coordinate terms: word: proposita
herp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Forms: form: herps
Etymology: Back-formation from herpetology, or via simplification of herptile.
Senses: glosses: A reptile or amphibian.
Derived terms: herper
herp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)p
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: Herpes.
Chic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Charles.
pron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prons
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pronoun.
related: word: pron.
glosses: Abbreviation of pronunciation.
related: word: pr0n
glosses: Filter-avoidance spelling of porn.
Derived terms: pos pron
willful ignorance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: vincible ignorance
willful blindness
glosses: A decision in bad faith to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.
Related terms: Nelsonian knowledge
ostrich instruction
turn a blind eye
spectator sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectator sport
spectator sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectator sports
Senses: examples: text: Today harness racing is a $430 million-a-year business, the fastest-growing spectator sport in the U.S.
ref: 1953 October 5, “Yonkers Doodle”, in Time:
glosses: A sporting activity which has a relatively high ratio of watchers to direct participants.
examples: text: Politics for me was strictly a spectator sport.
ref: 1977, Muriel Clara Bradbrook, My Cambridge, →ISBN, page 120:
text: The singer Britney Spears, whose descent into a personal abyss has become a ghoulish worldwide spectator sport, yesterday left a Los Angeles hospital.
ref: 2008 January 6, David Randall, “Britney Spears, one-woman disaster zone, leaves hospital after two days”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 31 Aug 2009:
glosses: Something, especially a process or activity, which is a popular object of observation; an activity which a person prefers to watch rather than to participate in.
examples: text: Thompson, who's the digest's publisher, says bird watching is a hobby, a pastime and a spectator sport that can be enjoyed anywhere.
ref: 2007 June 1, Brian Dakss, “Expert Offers Basics On What Some Call Nation's No. 1 Spectator Sport”, in CBS News, retrieved 31 Aug 2009:
text: Rubbernecking is only a spectator sport.
ref: 2008, Andrew Savva, Trisomy 13, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: An activity which consists of watching or observing.
amusement parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amusement park