cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Aspergerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aspergerians
Etymology: From Asperger + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Someone with Asperger's syndrome
Synonyms: word: Aspergian
word: Aspergic
word: Aspie
word: sperg
word: sperglord
word: assburger
Hypernyms: word: autie
answer back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: answers back
form: answering back
form: answered back
form: answered back
Senses: examples: text: I'll thank you not to answer back like that! Where are your manners?
text: She answered him back rudely.
glosses: To reply impertinently to (someone); to talk back.
examples: text: Please answer me back before the end of the week.
glosses: To reply to a question from (someone) at a later time.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To match an opponent’s recent scoring effort.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To issue echo characters, protocol responses, reflexive connection requests, etc.
Related terms: answerback
anti-glare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + glare.
Senses: glosses: designed to reduce glare from secondary light sources
megapolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈɡæp.ə.lɪs/
Forms: form: megapolises
form: megapoleis
Etymology: From mega- (“great”) + -polis (“city”), from Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas, “large”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Senses: glosses: A very large city or urban complex; a metropolis.
Derived terms: megapolitan
Related terms: acropolis
ecumenopolis
megalopolis
metropolis
polis
ecumenopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕ'kyo͞omĕnŏʹpəlĭs
ipa: /ˌɛkjuːmɛˈnɒpəlɪs/
homophone: Ecumenopolis
Forms: form: ecumenopolises
form: ecumenopoleis
form: ecumenopoli
Etymology: From ecumene (“inhabited world”) + -polis (“city”).
From use as a common noun of Ecumenopolis, applying the concept to diverse scenarios. Ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A city spanning an entire planet or large moon.
wikipedia: ecumenopolis
Derived terms: ecumenopolitan
Related terms: acropolis
eperopolis
megalopolis
megapolis
metropolis
hebephrenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːbɪˈfɹiːnɪə/
Forms: form: hebephrenias
form: hebephrene
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἥβη (hḗbē, “youthful beauty”) (also Ἥβη (Hḗbē, “the goddess Hebe”)) + φρήν (phrḗn, “mind”).
Senses: examples: text: Sir: drinking is a problem without doubt: / Whether or not we like it, whether or not / The goddamn thing will put you on the spot / With heebiejeebies hebephrene or gout: / Or lumbago will set you tapping out / On brass ferrule to stool, to rest, to rot.
ref: 1937, Malcolm Lowry, Prelude To Mammon:
topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A form of schizophrenia characterized by inappropriate behavior and emotional responses.
glosses: A type of mental disorder occurring during puberty characterized by silly behavior and inappropriate laughter.
Derived terms: hebephrenic
spondylosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌspɒndɪˈləʊsɪs/
Forms: form: spondyloses
Etymology: From spondyl- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A degenerative disease in which the vertebral joints of the spine become stiff and then fused.
Related terms: ankylosis
exaggerating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exaggerating
form: most exaggerating
Senses: examples: text: Bombastic Style is an affectation in the composition, either in presenting simple or common ideas under sonorous and pompous expressions, or in speaking of things which have but a vain appearance of grandeur in the most exaggerating manner.
ref: 1846, Gabriel Surenne, A practical Grammar of French Rhetoric, page 264:
text: Then there are many men in the world, who, from a sincere desire of doing good, are, to say the least, very exaggerating in their phraseology, exalting mere indications of good into realities; and leaving altogether out of sight the reasoning of St. Paul on the subject, in the Epistle to the Romans, the 3rd chapter and 7th verse.
ref: 1864, Paul L. Sandberg, God's Way to Man in Olden Times:
text: Now, I say it don't show anything, it is not a material point; but it shows how ridiculous men will be in their testimony, when actuated by violent motives, and it is one thing that I have noticed, gentlemen, that as a general thing lawyers are more ridiculous and more exaggerating when they give testimony than any other class of men.
ref: 1882, Journal of the Senate of Minnesota Sitting as a High Court of Impeachment for the Trial of Hon. E. St Julien Cox, page 2466:
text: Bridget fanned her face in a very exaggerating way.
ref: 2023, Alison Bellringer, The Bronson Escapades:
glosses: Given to exaggeration or serving to exaggerate; overblown.
Derived terms: exaggeratingly
unexaggerating
exaggerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exaggerate
Pimentón de La Vera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a paprika from Spain's western region of Extremadura, from dried, smoked, and smoothly ground mature red peppers
Synonyms: pimenton
concrescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrescences
Etymology: From Latin concrescentia.
Senses: glosses: The growing together and merging of similar or dissimilar parts.
glosses: A growing together of cells or other organisms.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The juxtaposing of dissimilar forms or devices that are harmonized at their point of intersection into hybrid transitional shapes or designs.
glosses: Increment.
Synonyms: sense: growing together and merging
word: coalescence
Related terms: concretion
neon lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neon lamps
Senses: glosses: A small gas discharge lamp containing neon gas, sometimes with other noble gases to add colour.
permeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permeances
Etymology: From stem of Latin permeare (“to penetrate”) + -ance.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the degree to which a material allows a fluid to permeate it.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The reciprocal of reluctance in a magnetic circuit; the analogue of conductance in an electrical circuit.
Related terms: permeable
permeability
permeate
permeameter
permittivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: permittivities
Etymology: From permittive + -ity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A property of a dielectric medium that determines the forces that electric charges placed in the medium exert on each other.
Derived terms: absolute permittivity
chromopermittivity
relative permittivity
perovskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perovskites
Etymology: From Perovski + -ite. Named for Russian mineralogist L. A. Perovski (1792-1856) in 1839.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A minor accessory mineral, CaTiO₃, occurring in basic rocks, as orthorhombic crystals.
Derived terms: fluoroperovskite
perovskitic
post-perovskite
postperovskite
silicate perovskite
Related terms: bridgmanite
ferropericase
garnet
majorite
olivine
pyroxene
ringwoodite
wadsleyite
accessory mineral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessory minerals
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any mineral that is present in small amounts in a rock, but is not considered to be characteristic of the rock
Synonyms: accessory constituent
peroxisome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxisomes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An intracellular organelle found in all eukaryotes (except Archezoa) which is the source of the enzymes that catalyze the production and breakdown of hydrogen peroxide, and are responsible for the oxidation of long-chain fatty acids.
Synonyms: microbody
Derived terms: peroxisomal
peroxynitrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peroxynitrites
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The unstable oxyanion O=N-O-O⁻, a structural isomer of the nitrate anion; it exhibits cis-trans isomerism
clepsydra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĕp'sĭdrə
ipa: /ˈklɛpsɪdɹə/
Forms: form: clepsydras
form: clepsydrae
form: klepsydra
form: klepsudra
Etymology: From Latin clepsydra, from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra), from κλέπτειν (kléptein, “to steal”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).
Senses: examples: text: "The dull, unflavoured drops from life's clepsydra".
ref: 1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 124:
text: They sat among the choiring clepsydras of the evening garden, time elapsing in a dozen ways, allowing their cigars to go out, keeping a companionable silence.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 856:
glosses: Synonym of water clock, especially (historical) ancient Greek and Roman forms.
synonyms: word: water clock
extra: especially (historical) ancient Greek and Roman forms
Derived terms: clepsydroid
breathlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breathlessnesses
Etymology: From breathless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Climbing eight flights of stairs while the elevator is out of service can easily produce some breathlessness in people whose physical fitness is otherwise not noticeably impaired.
text: Dickinson's longer lines and use of ampersands ^([Bronski means dashes]) creates a breathlessness that evokes sexual excitement, an urgency that precludes, or at least, overshadows thought.
ref: 1980 December 13, Michael Bronski, “A Longing For Passion To Transcend Thought”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:
glosses: The state of being breathless or out of breath, especially merely temporarily from exertion.
examples: text: Since he'd entered the urgent care center, his breathlessness had only gotten worse, even though he'd been sitting quietly.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: shortness of breath
SOB
dyspnea
dyspnoea
glosses: Difficult or labored breathing, as a symptom or sign of a medical condition.
Related terms: dyspnea
hottish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hottish
form: most hottish
Etymology: From hot + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat hot.
hotspur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɒtspɜː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: hotspurs
Etymology: From hot + spur.
Senses: synonyms: hothead
glosses: somebody who is rash, impetuous or impulsive
Related terms: hotspurred
magicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of magic
maravedi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mæɹəˈveɪdi/
Forms: form: maravedis
Etymology: From Spanish maravedí, from Arabic مُرَابِطِين (murābiṭīn), an inflected plural of مُرَابِط (murābiṭ, “holy man”), the name of the Almoravid rulers of Muslim Spain during the 12th century. Compare marabout.
Senses: examples: text: an thou dost go on to put thy filthy lucre in the balance with thy daughter’s life and honour, by Heaven, I will strip thee of every maravedi thou hast in the world, before three days are out!
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: A former Spanish coin and unit of currency, originally issued in gold but later in silver and copper, discontinued in 1848.
examples: text: I think I know myself; I am not prone to suspicion; but for those strange words, I should not have cared a maravedi for her painting that cursed flower.
ref: 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Alienated Manor, act 1, page 160:
synonyms: jot
shred
whit
farthing
glosses: A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount.
musings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musing (thoughts; ideas)
musing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of muse
musing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more musing
form: most musing
Senses: glosses: Absorbed in thought; contemplative
Synonyms: broody
pensive
reflective
Derived terms: musingly
musing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musings
Senses: examples: daydreaming or imaginative musings
glosses: thought, meditation, contemplation
Synonyms: consideration
drog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drogs
form: drogging
form: drogged
form: drogged
form: drouge
Senses: glosses: To carry in a drogher.
aseptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛptɪk/
Etymology: From a- + septic.
Senses: examples: text: The lack of aseptic tools during surgery has resulted in many deaths.
glosses: Free of disease-causing microbes.
examples: text: Pharmaceuticals are packaged using aseptic techniques.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Used to protect against infection by disease-causing microbes.
qualifier: food industry
glosses: pasteurised.
Derived terms: aseptically
asepticise
asepticism
asepticize
aseptic meningitis
aseptic technique
nonaseptic
preaseptic
Related terms: antiseptic
septic
aseptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛptɪk/
Forms: form: aseptics
Etymology: From a- + septic.
Senses: glosses: An antiseptic.
switchback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃbæk/
ipa: /ˈswɪt͡ʃˌbæk/
Forms: form: switchbacks
form: switchbacking
form: switchbacked
form: switchbacked
Etymology: The noun is derived from switch (“to turn (a train) from one railway track to another using a switch”, verb) + back (“so as to reverse direction and return”, adverb).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I climbed 6,683-foot Velka Svistovka, not the highest mountain in the Tatras but arguably the one with the best view. I started from Zelene pleso chata (pleso means "lake" and chata means "hut" in Slovak), and right after turning the first corner I started switchbacking.
ref: 2015 June 25, John Henderson, “A secret range of stunning mountains? Hikers, meet Slovakia’s High Tatras”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2021:
synonyms: zigzag
glosses: To take a zigzag course or path.
Derived terms: word: switchbacked
word: switchbacking
syntagma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭntăgʹmə
ipa: /sɪnˈtæɡmə/
Forms: form: syntagmata
form: syntagmas
form: syntagm
Etymology: From Late Latin syntagma, from Ancient Greek σύνταγμα (súntagma, “orderly arrangement”), from συντάσσω (suntássō, “arrange together”, “to order”).
Senses: examples: text: The syntagma “the God of peace” (in Greek ὁ Θεὸς τῆς εἰρήνης) occurs in all undisputed Pauline letters.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hyponyms: phoneme
word
phrase
sentence
glosses: A constituent segment within a text, such as a word or a phrase that forms a syntactic unit.
examples: text: To combine a sequence of shots into a larger syntagma, there has to be a connection between the successive shots.
text: The Gospel is not a system of Theology, nor a Syntagma of theoretical propositions and conclusions for the enlargement of speculative knowledge, ethical or metaphysical.
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Aphorisms on that which is indeed spiritual religion”, in Aids to Reflection, page 198:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: An arrangement of units that together bears a meaning.
examples: text: The men forming the syntagma were arranged in a square of sixteen files of sixteen.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Macedonian phalanx fighting formation consisting of 256 men with long spears (sarissae).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organized structural, functional unit of anatomical or chemical subunits: equivalent to "tagma", or a structure comprising several tagmata in various contexts.
Derived terms: syntagmatic
Related terms: syntax
syntaxis
tagma
paradigm
tölt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolt
Etymology: Borrowed from Icelandic tölt.
Senses: glosses: A four-beat lateral ambling gait mainly found in Icelandic horses.
tölt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tölts
form: tölting
form: tölted
form: tölted
form: tolt
Etymology: Borrowed from Icelandic tölt.
Senses: glosses: to perform the tölt
genny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛni
Forms: form: gennies
Etymology: Short for gentrifier.
Senses: glosses: A person from the suburbs who moves to a low-income urban area.
genny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛni
Forms: form: gennies
Senses: synonyms: gen
glosses: Clipping of generator (“device that converts mechanical to electrical energy”).
Knopf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Knopfs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Knopf.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Bernstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈbɝnstaɪn/
/ˈbɝnstiːn/
Forms: form: Bernsteins
form: Bernshteyn
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bernstein and Yiddish בערנשטיין (bernshteyn).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German or Yiddish.
glosses: A transliteration of the Russian surname Бернштейн (Bernštejn).
juhar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of johar.
congresswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congresswomen
Etymology: From congress + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female member of congress.
examples: text: When they got to talking, these five would-be congresswomen realized that they had a lot in common, despite being from different parts of the country: they all had careers in national security they were trying to parlay into elected office.
ref: 2019 September 28, Dana Bash and Bridget Nolan, “These five freshman congresswomen changed history by becoming unlikely leaders on impeachment”, in CNN:
text: Representative Nancy Pelosi, our California congresswoman, has affirmed that the United States stands “unwaveringly” by Israel as it conducts its defense[…]
ref: 2023 October 18, “We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: President-elect Donald J. Trump on Wednesday chose Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who became one of his most enthusiastic backers, to serve as the director of national intelligence.
ref: 2024 November 13, Julian E. Barnes, “Trump Chooses Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2024:
glosses: A female member of the House of Representatives.
Related terms: congressman
congresswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congresswoman
SRES
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Part 3 we take a look at the scenarios in detail, consider the technical aspects, the differences between the four RCPs, and how they compare to earlier SRES scenarios.
ref: 2013 August 30, GP Wayne, “Now available: a guide to the IPCC's new RCP emissions pathways”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Special report on emissions scenarios.
SRES
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The network sends a challenge to the mobile at each connection, and the mobile must send an SRES back to the network before it will allow access.
topics: communications
computing
cryptography
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Acronym of signed response (to an authentication challenge on GSM mobile networks).
Kelch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kelchs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kelch.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Brahui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian براهویی / браҳуӣ, from Baluchi براهوئی, ultimately from Saraiki براہوئی (brāho'ī).
Senses: glosses: A pastoral people of Eastern Balochistan.
Brahui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian براهویی / браҳуӣ, from Baluchi براهوئی, ultimately from Saraiki براہوئی (brāho'ī).
Senses: glosses: The Dravidian language of this people.
Bena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benas
form: Bena
Senses: glosses: A member of a people who live north of Lake Nyasa.
Bena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Bantu language of this people.
Bena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Benas
Etymology: Various origins:
* Borrowed from Italian Benà, a reduced form of the medieval personal name Benenato.
* Borrowed from Hungarian Béna, a nickname from béna (“lame”).
* Borrowed from Czech and Slovak Béňa, a diminutive of Benedikt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Various place names, etymology shown individually if known.
Senses: glosses: An unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Cass County, Minnesota, United States.
glosses: A village in Kebbi state, north-west Nigeria.
glosses: A small town in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia; from an Aboriginal name for the lyrebird.
Bena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Adamawa language of Nigeria.
carbon dating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon datings
Senses: glosses: radiocarbon dating.
carbon debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon debts
Senses: glosses: the overuse, by an individual or state, of the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of the world's oceans, vegetation and soil
carbon emissions trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The trading of emission allowances for carbon dioxide.
Related terms: carbon market
carbon fixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon fixations
Senses: glosses: any process, such as photosynthesis, whereby atmospheric carbon dioxide is converted into organic compounds
carbon group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The vertical group of the periodic table containing carbon, silicon, germanium, tin and lead; the elements have a valence of 4, and show the typical gradation from nonmetal to metal
Synonyms: tetrel
crystallogen
carbonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carbonises
form: carbonising
form: carbonised
form: carbonised
Etymology: From carbon + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of carbonize.
Derived terms: decarbonise
recarbonise
carbons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbon
carbonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonites
Etymology: From carbon + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: He was pleased with bellite, he found that carbonite made more fumes than bellite, but the explosive he liked best was ammonite.
ref: 1898, Federated Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, volume 14, page 398:
text: Although this proved safe in the usual pit gas mixtures, yet it was found impossible to manipulate it, so another explosive, carbonite, made by the same firm, was tried. This was safe in small charges only ; improvements were made, and in September 1887 a carbonite consisting of saltpetre, cellulose, nitro-glycerine, and sulphuretted oil was found to be absolutely safe.
ref: 1909, Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, volume 79, page 550:
text: Even these explosives are, however, dangerous if the charges are large (above 300 grams for roburite and westphalite, and above 1000 grams for the carbonites), since then a momentary pressure on the air is developed (especially if the velocity of explosion is high) and a decided rise of temperature.
ref: 1921, Ettore Molinari, Treatise on general and industrial organic chemistry, volume 1, page 306:
glosses: An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
glosses: An explosive composed of nitrobenzene, saltpetre, sulfur, and kieselguhr.
examples: text: In some Scottish localities, in the neighbourhood of trap dykes, coal is found to have been changed to coke ("carbonite"). Similar effects have been noticed (1882) in Midlothian, Chesterfield Co., Va., where the carbonite seam is 15 feet thick.
ref: 1889, Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Knapp, Chemical Technology, page 119:
glosses: A naturally occurring carbonaceous material formed from coal, natural coke.
Related terms: carbonitic
lujvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈluʒvoʊ/
Forms: form: lujvo
Etymology: Borrowed from Lojban lujvo.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A Lojban compound word, made up of several gismu (“root words”) in their rafsi (“abbreviated”) form, joined together.
Hypernyms: english: content words/predicates
translation: content words/predicates
word: brivla
Coordinate terms: english: root word
translation: root word
word: gismu
english: loanword
translation: loanword
word: fu'ivla
Related terms: english: meaning
translation: meaning
word: tanru
carbon microphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon microphones
Senses: glosses: A microphone containing carbon granules, whose electrical resistance varies with pressure.
tanru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtænɹuː/
Forms: form: tanru
Etymology: From Lojban tanru.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A compound brivla (“content word”): that is, a sequence of two or more brivla with possible intervention/incrustation of cmavo to modify the way in which the brivla associate. (Left on their own, the brivla behave in a left-associative manner, where each brivla is modified by the brivla or sub-tanru to its left, before going on to modify the brivla to its right.) The component brivla maintain their separateness (i.e., they are separated by spaces), making tanru different from lujvo.
Related terms: bo
ke
ke'e
carbon nanofiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon nanofibers
form: carbon nanofibre
Senses: glosses: Any nanostructure of graphene layers arranged as stacked cones, cups or plates.
Related terms: carbon nanotube
carbon nanotube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon nanotubes
Senses: glosses: Any nanostructure, a member of the fullerene family, having graphene layers wrapped into perfect cylinders.
Synonyms: word: buckytube
word: CNT
Derived terms: word: carbon nanotube reinforced plastic
word: carbon nanotube reinforced polymer
word: CNRP
word: CNT
word: CNTRP
buckytube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckytubes
Etymology: Blend of buckyball + tube
Senses: glosses: a carbon nanotube
djembe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛmbeɪ/
Forms: form: djembes
form: djembé
form: jembe
form: jenbe
form: djimbe
form: jimbe
form: dyinbe
Etymology: From French djembé, from Mandinka jembe which derives from the Bambara language, "djé" is the verb for "gather" and "bé" translates as "peace." As a result, "Anke djé, anke bé" which translates to "everyone gather together in peace" and defines the drum's purpose.
Senses: examples: text: There are three principal types of traditional drums in Guinean Sousou culture: the djembe, the dundun, and the tama. The djembe is a single-headed goblet-shaped drum with a relatively high-pitched tone.
ref: 2007, Karin Gaynell Patterson, Expressions of Africa in Los Angeles Public Performance, 1781—1994, page 133:
text: The djembe is one of the best-known and popular African drums, particular with those in the West who are interested in learning a drumming tradition.
ref: 2009, Tamara Dean, Composition for Computer Musicians, page 51:
text: The djembe has become the most recognizable drum from West Africa, with a history that can be traced to the twelfth century Mali Empire and the Mandinka people.
ref: 2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play the World: The 101 World Instrument Primer, page 91:
text: Very few djembes are perfectly round. Most are slightly egg- or triangle-shaped. Lack of roundness is not a problem for sound: many such djembes sound excellent.
ref: 2012, Michi Henning, Djembe Construction: A Comprehensive Guide, page 13:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.
carbon nanofoam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon nanofoams
Senses: glosses: An allotropic form of carbon consisting of a low-density, three-dimensional web of graphene plates, distorted by the inclusion of some seven-member rings
carbon-neutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carbon-neutral
form: most carbon-neutral
Senses: examples: text: De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.
ref: 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:
text: What should not happen is an order for new diesel multiple units, as it is a universal view that a programme of electrification must start quickly to meet future carbon-neutral objectives for rail operations.
ref: 2020 June 17, Industry Insider, “Growth in the North”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: Alternative spelling of carbon neutral.
guembri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guembris
form: gimbri
form: ginbri
form: guimbri
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَمْبْرِي (kambrī).
Senses: examples: text: A mu'alim (master musician) directs his musicians even as he also actively participates by playing an instrument known as the guembri to help draw the attention of the spirit world. The guembri, a three-stringed lute plucked with the fingers to […]
ref: 2016, Abdelmajid Hannoum, Practicing Sufism: Sufi Politics and Performance in Africa, Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: sintir
hypernyms: lute
glosses: A kind of lute used by Berber musicians.
carbon offset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon offsets
Senses: examples: text: Today, if you want to counter the carbon impacts you create from flying, you too can buy carbon offsets.
ref: 2016, Jayson Lusk, Unnaturally Delicious, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Carbon offsets do seem to offer the most direct way to assuage traveler’s guilt. In theory, they magically expiate your sins.
ref: 2019 June 3, Andy Newman, “If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Money from carbon offsets can provide vital financial support for projects seeking to protect and restore some of the most beautiful threatened ecosystems around the world.
ref: 2021 May 4, Patrick Greenfield, “Carbon offsets used by major airlines based on flawed system, warn experts”, in The Guardian, retrieved 04 May 2021:
text: Carbon offsets are a popular route for reaching “net zero” – Oliver cited one study which found that two-thirds of companies in heavily polluting industries relied on offsets instead of emissions reductions to reach carbon neutrality.
ref: 2022 August 22, Adrian Horton, “John Oliver on corporate ‘net zero’ proposals: ‘We cannot offset our way out of climate change’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: CO₂ offset
glosses: A reduction in carbon dioxide emission by a third party purchased by a heavy carbon dioxide producer as part of carbon emissions trading.
Derived terms: carbon inset
carbonometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonometers
Etymology: From carbon + -o- + -meter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An early device for measuring the concentration of carbon dioxide in a gas, by bubbling it through limewater and measuring the cloudiness.
limewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limewaters
form: lime water
Etymology: From lime + water.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a solution of calcium hydroxide in water, used as a simple test for carbon dioxide, and in skin preparations.
Synonyms: pickling lime
lime water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lime waters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of limewater.
cloudiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloudinesses
Etymology: From cloudy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Expect considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers.
text: [W]hy vvhat's the matter? / That you haue ſuch a Februarie face, / So full of froſt, of ſtorme, and clovvdineſſe.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv], page 121, column 1:
glosses: Of the sky, weather, etc.: the state of being cloudy.
examples: text: Cloudiness in the water is most often caused in new aquariums by white bacteria.
text: The cloudiness of the windows on the cars, caused by the degradation of the polycarbonate material of which they are made.
ref: 2024 11, David Peter Alan, “Multilevel Cards to Get Their Trucks Overhauled, but What About the Windows?”, in Lackawanna Coalition Railgram:
glosses: Of a liquid: the property of being murky.
examples: text: Avoid cloudiness in your essay-writing.
glosses: Of information, a writing style, etc.: the property of being obscure.
Related terms: cloud ceiling
cloud cover
Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of American
carbonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carbon + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or containing carbon.
carbon oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon oxides
Senses: glosses: carbon monoxide
glosses: carbon dioxide
glosses: carbon suboxide
foist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Forms: form: foists
form: foisting
form: foisted
form: foisted
Etymology: Probably from archaic Dutch vuisten (“to take into one’s hand”), from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst (“fist”); akin to Old English fyst (“fist”).
Senses: examples: text: But apart from this, it is difficult for a man like Watt to tell a long story like Watt's without leaving out some things, and foisting in others.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: the Tale of Zayn al-Asnám is one of two which Galland repudiated, as having been foisted into his 8th volume without his knowledge
ref: a. 1896, William Alexander Clouston, Variants and Analogues of some of the Tales in the Supplemental Nights: Volume 2:
text: attempts to foist alleged grammatical “correctness” on native speakers of an “incorrect” dialect are nothing but the unacknowledged and oppressive exercise of social control
ref: 2006, Theodore Dalrymple, The Gift of Language:
glosses: To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
examples: text: I am, of course, perfectly aware of how old men try to foist on the public the decay of their intellects and all the rest of their senile shortcomings as valuable qualities, the possession of which gives them special authority.
ref: 1933 August, [George] Bernard Shaw, The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home: A Lecture, London: Constable & Co, →OCLC, page 11:
text: It is only a decade or so since the air was thick with muttering that L.M.S. influence was far too strong on the newly-born Railway Executive and that too many L.M.S. practices were being foisted on the rest of the system.
ref: 1961 May, “Editorial: Mr. M. presents Dr. B. - for a limited season only”, in Trains Illustrated, page 257:
glosses: To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick.
examples: text: foist costly and valueless products on the public
ref: 1969, Jonathan Spivak, “Competitive Problems in the Drug Industry”, in The Wall Street Journal:
glosses: To pass off as genuine or worthy.
Synonyms: fob off
pass off
pawn off
palm off
Derived terms: foister
foist off
foistware
unfoisted
foist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Forms: form: foists
Etymology: Probably from archaic Dutch vuisten (“to take into one’s hand”), from Middle Dutch vuysten, from vuyst (“fist”); akin to Old English fyst (“fist”).
Senses: examples: text: The foist had lately arrived form the country and was known to be doing a thriving trade in and around Westminster Hall where many country folk and others came to see lawyers.
ref: 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 54:
glosses: A thief or pickpocket.
Synonyms: pickpocket
foist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Forms: form: foists
Etymology: From Old French fuste (“stick, boat”), from Latin fustis (“cudgel”).
Senses: examples: text: These are mad boys, I tell you; these are things That will not strike their top-sails to a foist, / And let a man of war, an argosy, Hull and cry cockles.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Philaster: Or, Love Lies a Bleeding”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
synonyms: fuste
fusta
glosses: A type of light and fast-sailing ship.
foist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Forms: form: foists
Etymology: From Old French fust (whence also French fût), from Latin fustis.
Senses: glosses: A cask for wine.
glosses: Fustiness; mustiness.
Derived terms: foisty
foist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Senses: examples: text: Cause if yer did the foist thing yer know along would come a blizzard an’ make yer out a liar.
ref: 1906, The Elevator Constructor, page 11:
text: Guess that brandy the doc give me was the foist thing set me straight.
ref: 1911, Our Paper, page 491:
text: You know more about sculpture than what I do, Dirk, but you don’t know the foist thing about rugs.
ref: 1913, Rupert Hughes, The Amiable Crimes of Dirk Memling, New York, N.Y.; London: D. Appleton and Company, page 84:
text: Now, the foist thing we gotta do is put a guard on the door an’ see that nobody leaves the house.
ref: 1933, James Reach, Tom Taggart, Oh! Clarissa!: A Comedy in Three Acts, page 54:
text: And the foist thing you know, he’s a musician, no less![…]They noticed I looked worried, and started givin’ me the third degree, and the foist thing you know they got it odda me.
ref: 1936, Post Stories of 1936, pages 126 and 136:
text: The foist thing is the govnement gung to take away a big bunch money fa texis, you shouldn’t go to jail.
ref: 1939, The New Yorker, page 22:
text: The foist thing I’m gonna do when this mess is over is to find me a pretty strumpet in Paris and stay in bed for a Goddamn week!
ref: 1996, Bill Hutton, A History of America, Coach House Books, page 18:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of first.
reforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reform
reforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reformings
Senses: glosses: reformation
examples: text: In the course of the present Five Year Plan period (1966-1970) it is planned to complete nine big units for primary processing and 15 catalytic reformings.
ref: 1969, Petroleum Times, volume 73, page 1051:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A catalytic process, whereby short-chain molecules are combined to make larger ones; used in the petrochemical industry.
Derived terms: steam reforming
Related terms: catalytic reforming
cracking
hydroforming
platforming
rexforming
selectoforming
thermal reforming
out of bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: You can play wherever you want, but remember that the cemetery is out of bounds.
glosses: Where one is prohibited to enter.
examples: text: You were out of bounds to call him a criminal.
text: Intellectually, the four-year-old is in a growthsome age. He learns best from firsthand experience. He is having fun with language and is liable to run out of bounds verbally.
ref: 1962, California Journal of Elementary Education, volume 31, page 205:
glosses: Beyond the bounds of civility, morality, or normality.
examples: text: The ball went out of bounds.
glosses: Outside the area of play; beyond the sideline of a playing field or court.
Synonyms: beyond the pale
no-go
off-limits
out of bounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: out of bounds
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sideline marking the edge of a playing field or court.
examples: text: Although Oklahoma outyarded the Jays 339 to 155, Kansas fought magnificently and earned its 13-13 tie. Royal's punting had begun to jell. He kicked four out-of-bounds against the Crimson and Blue.
ref: 1984, Harold Keith, Forty-Seven Straight: The Wilkinson Era at Oklahoma, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 28:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An instance of a player or the ball going out of bounds.
examples: text: Out of bounds starts at the white stake.
glosses: Ground that one is not permitted to enter, or that is outside the permitted playing area.
Related terms: out-of-bounds
bit on the side
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bits on the side
Senses: examples: text: I'm married to Paula, but Jackie, my bit on the side, is far more fun.
glosses: A secondary lover, a mistress.
Synonyms: side bitch
side chick
side piece
side ting
kvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kvases
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kvass.
fight fire with fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fights fire with fire
form: fighting fire with fire
form: fought fire with fire
form: fought fire with fire
Etymology: Either from the practice of starting back fires to prevent the uncontrolled spread of wildfires, or from gunfire which is fought by firing back at the enemy.
Senses: examples: text: Close enough but not too far / Maybe you know where you are / Fightin' fire with fire
ref: 1983, Talking Heads, “Burning Down the House”, in Speaking in Tongues:
text: Fight fire with fire
ref: 2010 July 27, Blizzard, quoting Firebat, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, v1.0, Blizzard Entertainment, Microsoft Windows:
glosses: To respond to an attack with a similar or identical counter-attack (e.g. to respond to gunfire with reciprocal gunfire).
Related terms: bring a knife to a gunfight
eye for an eye
set a thief to catch a thief
take a hair of the dog that bit one
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
take one's hat off to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's hat off to
form: taking one's hat off to
form: took one's hat off to
form: taken one's hat off to
Senses: glosses: To remove one's hat as a sign of respect to.
examples: text: 'You will excuse me,' he said, 'but no one would believe it to look at you. I take my hat off to you. I do, indeed.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 8, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 255:
glosses: To praise or thank; to congratulate.
Derived terms: hats off
Related terms: tip one's hat
put one's hands together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's hands together
form: putting one's hands together
form: put one's hands together
form: put one's hands together
Senses: examples: text: Ladies and gentleman, put your hands together for Sir Elton John!
glosses: To clap; to applaud.
Big Easy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Big Easy
Senses: examples: text: The Big Easy doesn't want fewer bachelor parties. It just wants more bachelor's degrees.
ref: 2013 April 8, Derek Thompson, “The Big Comeback: Is New Orleans America's Next Great Innovation Hub?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Frisco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪskoʊ/
Forms: form: 'frisco
form: 'Frisco
Etymology: Abbreviation of San Francisco through shortening by omission of syllables. “Frisco City” was chosen as the name of the Texas city by its residents in 1904 in honor of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway that was being built through the area, commonly called “the Frisco”.
Senses: examples: text: Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.
ref: 1872, "Emperor" Joshua A. Norton, Edict:
text: Left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay,
I had nothin' to live for, looks like nothin's gonna come my way,
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay, watchin' the tide roll away,
sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.
ref: 1968, Otis Redding, “(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay”:
text: My baby's always dancin' and it wouldn't be a bad thing / But I don't get no lovin' and that's no lie / We spent the night in Frisco at every kinda disco / From that night, I kissed our love goodbye
ref: 1978 September 8, Mick Jackson, David Jackson, Elmar Krohn, “Blame It on the Boogie”, in Destiny, performed by the Jacksons, track 1:
text: I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco Bay
ref: 2009, Violent J, Miracles (Insane Clown Posse song)
glosses: Nickname for San Francisco: a major city in California, United States.
examples: text: The spokesman for the family of Karmelo Anthony launched into yet another racial tirade after the 18-year-old was indicted Tuesday for allegedly stabbing Frisco, Texas, track star Austin Metcalf to death. […] Jeff and Austin Metcalf after a Frisco Memorial Football game.
ref: 2025 June 26, Peter D'Abrosca, “Austin Metcalf’s accused killer Karmelo Anthony needs support fighting ‘white supremacy’ after murder indictment: spox”, in New York Post:
glosses: A city in Texas, United States, within the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area.
Derived terms: Frisco Bay
Greater Frisco
Related terms: Francisco
San Francisco
San Francisco Bay
single-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: singlehandedly
Etymology: From single-handed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She single-handedly organized the whole event, and even set up all the chairs herself.
text: Charlie Chaplin, the poignant little tramp with the cane and comic walk who almost single — handedly elevated the novelty entertainment medium of motion pictures into art, died peacefully yesterday at his home in Switzerland[…]
ref: 1977 December 26, “Charlie Chaplin Dead at 88; Made the Film an Art Form”, in The New York Times:
text: “Despite the surge in prices weighing on their purchasing power, the U.S. consumer now appears to be single-handedly keeping the global economy afloat,” Paul Ashworth, an economist at Capital Economics, wrote in a note.
ref: 2022 May 17, Coral Murphy Marcos, “Retail sales rise for the fourth straight month as prices keep climbing.”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: alone
word: by oneself
word: by one's lonesome
word: on one's lonesome
word: on one's own
word: single-handed
word: single-handedly
word: singly
word: unaidedly
word: unassisted
word: unassistedly
glosses: Alone; without assistance; by oneself.
beer garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer gardens
form: beergarden
Etymology: A calque of German Biergarten, equivalent to beer + garden.
Senses: glosses: The outdoor section of a public house, where customers can sit in the sun and enjoy their beverages.
topics: business
marketing
qualifier: branding
glosses: A restobar, a pub restaurant, a restaurant known for serving beer and food.
Synonyms: word: biergarten
word: open-air garden
word: pub garden
Related terms: tea garden