cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
grandfather clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandfather clauses
Etymology: From late 19th-century legislation and constitutional amendments passed by a number of U.S. Southern states, which created new literacy and property restrictions on voting, but exempted those whose grandfathers had the right to vote before the American Civil War. The intent and effect of such rules was to prevent poor and illiterate African American former slaves and their descendants from voting, but without denying poor and illiterate whites the right to vote.
Senses: examples: text: Many building codes include a grandfather clause exempting older buildings until some amount of remodeling occurs.
text: The “grandfather clause” provides that no man whose grandfather could not vote, can exercise the right of franchise. It will thus disenfranchise many negroes, whose grandfathers were slaves.
ref: 1910 October 27, “Grandfather's Clause”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Under the Fifteenth Amendment there is little political legislation, except the effort in Southern States by educational or property qualifications, and most questionably by the so-called "grandfather clause," to exclude most negroes from the right of suffrage.
ref: 1911, Frederic Jesup Stimson, chapter XVI, in Popular Law-making:
text: The compromise that was finally struck will eliminate the minimum benefit for future retirees. But a “grandfather” clause allows the three million pensioners already receiving it to keep on getting it.
ref: 1981 December 17, “Santa Claus? No, Grandfather Clause”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: A grandfather clause will allow senior members retiring this year to transfer these funds to their personal bank accounts.
ref: 1992 January 18, “Undeserving 'Grandfathers'”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Guinn v. United States that grandfather clauses were unconstitutional. The court in those days upheld any number of segregationist laws — and even in Guinn specified that literacy tests untethered from grandfather clauses were OK.
ref: 2013 October 22, Alan Greenblatt, “The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'”, in NPR.org:
glosses: A clause or section, especially in a law, granting exceptions for people or organisations who were affected by previous conditions.
Derived terms: word: grandfather
word: grandfather in
WIMP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WIMPs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: MACHO
RAMBO
SIMP
glosses: Acronym of weakly interacting massive particle.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of window, icon, menu, pointer, a graphical interface paradigm.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of window-icon-mouse program.
Derived terms: WIMPzilla
superWIMP
post-WIMP
WIMP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Windows, Internet Information Services, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Perl/Python.
weakly interacting massive particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weakly interacting massive particles
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical class of particle, proposed to explain the dark matter problem.
Synonyms: word: WIMP
Hypernyms: dark matter
Coordinate terms: alt: SIMP
word: strongly interacting massive particle
alt: RAMBO
word: robust associations of massive baryonic objects
alt: MACHO
word: massive compact halo object
Derived terms: word: WIMP
word: WIMPzilla
UHT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of ultra-high temperature.
Derived terms: UHT milk
red tape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Alluding to the former practice of binding government documents in red-colored tape. First use appears c. 1658 in the publication Public Intelligencer. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: The use of red tape for tying up papers is of considerable antiquity. An advertisement in the Public Intelligencer, December 6, 1658, offers the reward for a restoration of a 'A little bundle of papers tied with a red tape, were lost on Friday last was a sevennight, between Worcester House and Lincoln's Inn.
ref: 1884, Eliezer Edwards, Words, Facts and Phrases ...curious, Quaint and Out-of-the Way Matters, page 469:
text: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The binding tape once used for holding important documents together.
examples: text: All the red tape and paperwork that goes on there prevents any progress.
text: That committee does not cut through red tape ; it merely provides better scheduling for different agencies so you do not have sequential review by different agencies , so that you have some kind of simultaneity in the review by different agencies.
ref: 1979, United States Senate, Committee on Finance, Crude Oil Tax, U.S. Government Printing Office:
text: One conspicuous cost of the compromise reached was a promise made by Senator Chuck Schumer to Manchin on what was vaguely called permitting reform: a catchall phrase referring to a whole host of efforts to cut red tape and ease the rollout of energy infrastructure.
ref: 2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times:
text: They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. […] Post-Brexit red tape is strangling thousands of small businesses, whether travelling musicians or exporters of goods, tying them up in daunting forms or extra charges that cost time and money they don’t have.
ref: 2023 June 23, Jonathan Freedland, “With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: administrivia
administrativia
paperwork
glosses: Time-consuming regulations or bureaucratic procedures.
Derived terms: green tape
red-tapism
red-tapist
suffragette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌf.ɹəˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: suffragettes
Etymology: From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.
ref: 2018 February 2, “Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London”, in The Guardian, retrieved 11 Jul 2021:
hypernyms: suffragist
coordinate_terms: suffragent
glosses: A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
wikipedia: Daily Mail
Derived terms: suffragettism
trade name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade names
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: brandname, brand name, trademark
antonyms: generic name
;
description
glosses: A name used to identify a commercial product or service; may or may not be a registered trademark.
examples: text: Patients who come to the pharmacy counter may remember the trade name of their prescription but not the nonproprietary name, or vice versa.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
antonyms: generic name
;
description
glosses: A name used to identify a commercial product or service; may or may not be a registered trademark.
The company-specific name for a drug (medication), in contrast with a nonproprietary name such as an INN (international nonproprietary name), USAN (United States adopted name), JAN (Japanese accepted name), and so on.
examples: text: Their corporation has been doing business under a different trade name in recent years; the terms of service say something about "Acme Incorporated dba Apex Advanced International Systems."
text: While British Railways has remained the official title, it is perhaps of interest that this is not a statutory body but is really only a trade-name!
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 11:
glosses: The name under which a business or firm operates.
Related terms: dba
rock shandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock shandies
Etymology: From Blackrock, a town near Dublin in Ireland.https://web.archive.org/web/20040427211509/http://www.cantrell.ie/our_brands/club.htm See on the rocks (“served with ice”).
Senses: glosses: In Ireland, a soft drink whose constituents vary regionally, typically made by mixing orange and lemon sodas.
glosses: A glass of this drink.
shandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: shăn'di
ipa: /ˈʃændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: shandies
Etymology: Shortening of shandygaff.
Senses: glosses: A drink made by mixing beer and lemonade.
examples: text: ‘Even the Methodist minister’s wife had a shandy at the sportsground.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 95:
glosses: A glass of this drink.
Derived terms: hand shandy
rock shandy
Related terms: black and tan
portergaff
shandy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: shăn'di
ipa: /ˈʃændi/
rhymes: -ændi
Forms: form: shandier
form: shandiest
Etymology: From an extension of dialectal shand (“worthless”), or from shand (“disgrace, dishonour”) + -y.
Senses: glosses: wild, energetic, romping, boisterous, rambunctious
glosses: unsteady, lacking self-discipline or control, somewhat dissipated
glosses: empty-headed, crackbrained, half-crazy
glosses: mild, gentle; shy, bashful, timid, reluctant, unmotivated
glosses: poor-looking, miserable, broken-down, low, common, mean; shabby, untidy
Related terms: word: shan
word: shanny
english: probably etymologically unrelated
translation: probably etymologically unrelated
word: dandy shandy
soft drink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft drinks
form: softdrink
Etymology: So called in contrast to strong alcoholic beverages, which are "hard liquors".
Senses: glosses: Any non-alcoholic drink that is carbonated, and usually also sweet. (In this sense, juice, milk, tea and coffee are not soft drinks.)
examples: text: "And then they run to him with whisky, and so they teach him to rely on the bottle and you get another case of a drunken medium. I know them. You keep off it, Tom!" "Yes, one of our trade should stick to soft drinks."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Any non-alcoholic drink.
Synonyms: word: soft drink
Hypernyms: word: beverage
Hyponyms: english: most common term in the Southeastern US
translation: most common term in the Southeastern US
word: coke
word: fizzy drink
word: fizzy juice
word: juice
word: lemonade
english: most common term in Canada and the upper West and upper Midwest of the US, including western WI, most of IL including Chicago, MI, IN, OH, WV and western PA
translation: most common term in Canada and the upper West and upper Midwest of the US, including western WI, most of IL including Chicago, MI, IN, OH, WV and western PA
word: pop
alt: most common term in HI, CA, eastern MO, southwestern IL, eastern WI and New England
word: soda
word: soda pop
word: tonic water
word: cola
Coordinate terms: hard liquor
Related terms: word: cola
word: alcoholic beverage [[[Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage|WS]]]
carbonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)bɒneɪtəd/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/
Forms: form: more carbonated
form: most carbonated
Senses: examples: Soda pop, lemon soda and soda water are carbonated drinks. Champagne and beer are naturally carbonated through fermentation.
glosses: Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing calcium carbonate, often as a result of mineral carbonation.
Synonyms: sense: of a beverage
word: sparkling
sense: of a beverage
word: fizzy
sense: of a beverage
word: effervescent
Derived terms: carbonated water
carbonated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː(ɹ)bɒneɪtəd/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.bəˌneɪ.təd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carbonate
wild goose chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild goose chases
Senses: examples: text: "I'm inquiring after a Miss Tomson, please. I don't know the number of her apartment."
"Nobody here called Tomson. Does she have a dog?"
"Goliath was his name."
"Well, you want Dizzy Darling. The model. But if she's who you're looking for she still ain't here. She's nearly gone two months. Just a minute I'll look here and see if I can find a forwarding address. Nope. Don't see a forwarding address. Sorry you come on a wild goose chase. Here, have a piece of chewing gum."
"Thank you."
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 230, 231, 232, 233:
glosses: Alternative form of wild-goose chase.
MLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MLAs
form: M.L.A.
form: M. L. A.
Senses: examples: text: Wanglin Lowangdong, incumbent MLA of Borduria Bogapani trails in the constituency.
ref: 2019 May 23, The Hindu Net Desk, “Arunachal Pradesh Assembly results live updates | BJP wins 7 Assembly seats, leads in both LS seats”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2022:
text: MLAs past and present gathered for an event at Stormont on Friday to mark the agreement's 25th anniversary.
ref: 2023 April 7, Chris Andrews, “Good Friday Agreement: Use courage and vision of 1998, says George Mitchell”, in BBC News:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of member of the legislative assembly.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Initialism of master of liberal arts.
raw_tags: in the US
topics: architecture
synonyms: M. Land. Arch.
glosses: Initialism of master of landscape architecture.
Related terms: word: MPP
word: MHA
word: MNA
word: MP
word: senator
MLA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Modern Language Association.
raw_tags: in the US
TEFL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛfl̩/
ipa: /ˈtɛf(ə)l/
Etymology: Acronym of teaching (of) English as a foreign language.
Senses: topics: education
synonyms: TESL
TESOL
coordinate_terms: EAL
EFL
EIL
ELL
ESL
glosses: Teaching of English as a foreign language.
Derived terms: TEFLer
B2C
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of business-to-consumer.
Synonyms: D2C
DTC
Related terms: B2B
retail
2IC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of second-in-command.
Devonshire tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Devonshire teas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cream tea, specifically as traditionally served in Devonshire.
synonyms: word: cream tea
word: specifically as traditionally served in Devonshire
ploughman's lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughman's lunches
form: ploughmen's lunches
Etymology: Originally devised by a marketing executive of the Dairy Council in a 1960-61 advertising campaign to sell English cheese and beer.
Senses: glosses: A light meal of bread, cheese, and pickled onions (or cucumbers), etc., especially one served in a pub at lunchtime.
Related terms: ploughman's sandwich
ploughperson
till the cows come home
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of until the cows come home.
'til the cows come home
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of until the cows come home.
hand shandy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand shandies
Senses: glosses: An act of masturbation.
Synonyms: ham shank
Gunther
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnθɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡʌntɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡuːnθɚ/
ipa: /ˈɡuːntɚ/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
Etymology: From German Gunther. Compare variants: Gunter, Günter, Guenter, Günther, Guenther, Ginter, Ginther.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from German.
glosses: A surname.
mind one's ps and qs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minds one's ps and qs
form: minding one's ps and qs
form: minded one's ps and qs
form: minded one's ps and qs
form: mind one's pees and cues
form: be on one's pees and cues
form: mind one's peas and cues
form: be on one's peas and cues
form: mind one's pees and kews
form: be on one's pees and kews
form: mind one's pees and ques
form: be on one's pees and ques
form: mind one's P's and Q's
form: be on one's P's and Q's
form: mind one's p's and q's
form: be on one's p's and q's
form: mind one's Ps and Qs
form: be on one's Ps and Qs
Etymology: Uncertain; OED (3rd edition 2007) says that the origin of the phrase is unknown and states that a common suggestion is that the phrase originates with the distinction of the minuscule letters p and q in either the school-room or the printing-office, but goes on to say that the chronology of the senses argues against this since no such connotation is evident in the earliest quotations.
In the early 17th century, however, there is the expression pee and kew in the sense of “highest quality, best possible”. Also recorded as in thy Pee and Kue in 1602.
Alternatively folk etymology claims that it comes from the sense that Ps and Qs mean 'Pints and Quarts' which were listed as 'Ps and Qs' before payment. The phrase would then come from minding your alcohol consumption as a result
Senses: examples: text: When we go to visit, do remember to mind your ps and qs, children – we don't want another incident like last time.
glosses: To be very careful to behave correctly.
hominid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑ.mə.nɪd/
Forms: form: hominids
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Italic *hemō
Latin hemō
Latin homōlbor.
Translingual Homo
Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs)bor.
Latin -ideslbor.
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)influ.
Translingual -idae
Translingual Hominidaelbor.
English hominid
Learned borrowing from translingual Hominidae.
Senses: glosses: Any human, the only members of the family Hominidae as traditionally defined.
synonyms: great ape
hominiform
glosses: Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the nonhuman great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.
Synonyms: word: great ape
word: hominid
word: hominiform
Hypernyms: word: hominoid
word: catarrhine
word: simian
word: simiiform
word: haplorhine
word: primate
word: mammal
Hyponyms: word: bonobo
word: chimpanzee
word: gorilla
word: hominin
word: human
word: orangutan
Derived terms: nonhominid
prehominid
protohominid
Related terms: word: :Category:en:Hominids
hominid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑ.mə.nɪd/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Italic *hemō
Latin hemō
Latin homōlbor.
Translingual Homo
Ancient Greek -ίδης (-ídēs)bor.
Latin -ideslbor.
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)influ.
Translingual -idae
Translingual Hominidaelbor.
English hominid
Learned borrowing from translingual Hominidae.
Senses: glosses: Of the Hominidae.
Related terms: pongid
Pongidae
protuberance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈtjuːbəɹəns/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtuːbəɹəns/
Forms: form: protuberances
Etymology: From French protubérance, from Latin prōtubērantia (“bulge; protuberance”), from prō + tūber (“swelling; protuberance”) + -antia (“-ance”).
Senses: examples: text: For the most part they were small standard gauge 0-6-0 side tanks of the type illustrated, with long tapered chimneys and an unusual feature for the Continent in the shape of domeless boilers, the protuberance just behind the chimney being a sandbox.
ref: 1941 August, “Notes and News: The Swiss South Eastern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 376:
text: Oluanpi's lighthouse looks toward Lanyu, or Orchid Island, a tiny, rocky protuberance sixty-eight miles to the southeast and important because it is the home of the Yami, the smallest and most primitive tribe of aborigines in Taiwan.
ref: 1979 November, Irene Corbally Kuhn, “Gourmet Holidays Taiwan”, in Gourmet, volume XXXIX, number 11, page 164:
text: Ever since their creation the Daleks have been attempting to conquer and enslave as much of the universe as they could get their grubby little protuberances on.
ref: 1989, Ben Aaronovitch, Remembrance of the Daleks:
text: The orchestra is gone. All seventy of them. The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh. Each has, at its top, a heavy protuberance studded with goopy biological sensors and rubbery openings, and, sprouting from the very cap, lengths of various kinds of vile, off-coloured moss. They are draped in black and white fabrics, weirdly cut to either conceal or highlight their blobby, inconsistent body structures.
ref: 2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137:
synonyms: bulge
bump
protrusion
tuberosity
glosses: A bulge, knob, swelling, spine, or anything that protrudes.
Derived terms: internal occipital protuberance
mental protuberance
Related terms: protuberant
knob
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nŏb
ipa: /nɒb/
enpr: nŏb
ipa: /nɑb/
homophone: nob
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: knobs
form: knobbing
form: knobbed
form: knobbed
Etymology: From Middle English knobbe, from Middle Low German knobbe (“knob; knot in wood”), probably via Old Saxon from a variant of Proto-Germanic *knappô (“knob, lump”), one of several kn- words related to *knudaną (“to knead”).
Cognate with Dutch knob, knobbel (“knob”), German Knubbe, Knubbel (“knob”). See also knop. For the sense of a rounded hill, see nab and knab.
Senses: glosses: protrude
glosses: furnish or produce with a knob, knobble
examples: text: One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’
ref: 1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 17:
text: Had Jack knobbed her as well? Molly wondered.
ref: 2013, Sarah-Kate Lynch, Finding Tom Connor:
glosses: To have sex with.
raw_tags: of a man
Synonyms: dick
get up in
schlong
copulate with
pommel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒ.məl/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.məl/
rhymes: -ɒməl
Forms: form: pommels
form: pommeling
form: pommelling
form: pommeled
form: pommeled
form: pommelled
form: pommelled
form: pummel
Etymology: From Middle English pomel, from Old French pomel and Medieval Latin pomellum, pumellum, presumedly via Vulgar Latin *pomellum (“ball, knob”), the diminutive of Late Latin pōmum (“apple”). Compare French pommeau, Spanish pomo, and Swedish pumla.
Senses: examples: text: The scaling him with chairs for ladders to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round his neck, pommel his back, and kick his legs in irrepressible affection!
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
text: I will not say as schoolboys do to bullies—Take some one of your own size; don’t pommel me! No, ye’ve knocked me down, and I am up again; but ye have run and hidden.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, “37”, in Moby Dick:
text: I began to fight him, pommeling him with my fists, screaming at him, all the while he was yelling, “Dani, it's me, Dani, it's your brother. It's Yoram.”
ref: 2012, Dan Alon, Munich Memoir:
glosses: To pound or beat.
Derived terms: bepommel
pommeller
Related terms: pummel
pommel horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pommel horses
Senses: glosses: An apparatus for gymnastic exercises with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright pommels, as hand grips, near the centre; held upright with adjustable legs.
glosses: An athletic event in which the pommel horse is used.
Related terms: vaulting horse
Bengal tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bengal tigers
Senses: examples: text: Bengal tiger is considered sacred by Hindus and the antipodes (so-called no-caste tribes) living in the forests of India.[…]In addition to this, the health of forests is determined by the presence of Bengal tigers.
ref: 2011, Devidas K. Belsare, Vanishing Roar of Bengal Tigers, RoseDog Books, page ix:
text: Bengal tigers are endangered animals. Their numbers have been dropping for more than a century. In the early 1900s, about 40,000 Bengal tigers lived in India. Today, that number stands at around 1,400. About 400 more Bengal tigers live in nearby countries.
ref: 2012, Colleen A. Sexton, The Bengal Tiger, Bellwether Media, page 18:
synonyms: royal Bengal tiger
glosses: Any tiger of a specific, fragmented population of the subspecies Panthera tigris tigris in the Indian subcontinent.
Coordinate terms: Indochinese tiger
Malayan tiger
Siberian tiger
South China tiger
Caspian tiger†
red lemonade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red lemonades
Senses: glosses: Lemonade coloured with natural food colouring, giving it a red appearance and a slightly sweeter taste.
subspecies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbspiːʃiːz/
ipa: /-ʃɪz/
ipa: /-siːz/
Forms: form: subspecies
Etymology: From sub- + species.
Senses: examples: text: I believe it [the trilobite Calymene blumenbachii] has been divided into several forms, which cannot claim more than the rank of subspecies, as they pass by slight gradations into forms which no author has yet thought it right to separate from the type species.
ref: 1866, A[ndrew] C[rombie] Ramsay, “Trilobita”, in The Geology of North Wales (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology; [III]), London: Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office; published by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, →OCLC, page 325:
text: Ant taxonomists have decided that anything that's worth separating should be separated at the species level, and have no truck with subspecies at all. Butterfly taxonomists, however, like the triple-barrelled name approach and dote on subspecies. As a result, the numbers of ant species and butterfly species are not directly comparable.
ref: 2007 March 14, Emma Marris, “The Species and the Specious”, in Nature, number 446:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A rank in the classification of organisms, below species.
examples: text: But these slight differences will not justify us in considering the West African chiquera as a true species distinct from the Indian true chiquera; it is only a subspecies of the latter true species.
ref: 1851, [Johann Jakob] Kaup, “Descriptions of Some New Birds in the Museum of the Earl of Derby”, in Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, part XIX, London: Printed for the Society; sold at their house in Hanover Square, and by Messrs. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster Row, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxon at that rank, often indicated with trinomial nomenclature (such as Felis silvestris silvestris in zoology and Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii in botany).
examples: text: Granular Augite. […] This subspecies of augite has been hitherto found principally in primitive rocks at Arendal in Norway, in several of the iron-mines, particularly that named Ulve-Grube.
ref: 1821, Robert Jameson, Manual of Mineralogy: Containing an Account of Simple Minerals, and also a Description and Arrangement of Mountain Rocks, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., →OCLC, page 166:
glosses: A subdivision of a species in other scientific disciplines.
Synonyms: word: ssp.
word: subsp.
Derived terms: chronosubspecies
ecosubspecies
ichnosubspecies
infrasubspecies
intersubspecies
intrasubspecies
microsubspecies
nothosubspecies
palaeosubspecies
subspecific
Related terms: infraspecific
infraspecific epithet
quasispecies
subspecific
subspecific epithet
subspecific name
cultivar
strain
variety
Siberian tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Siberian tigers
Senses: glosses: A tiger of a specific Panthera tigris tigris population, now confined to Outer Manchuria in Russia.
Synonyms: Manchurian tiger
Amur tiger
Sumatran tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sumatran tigers
Senses: glosses: A population of Panthera tigris sondaica, found only on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
prosperity theology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosperity theologies
Senses: glosses: Religious belief that wealth is a divine reward for a person's faith in god.
Synonyms: prosperity gospel
rev
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛv/
rhymes: -ɛv
Forms: form: revs
form: revving
form: revved
form: revved
Etymology: Abbreviation of revolutions, rpm
Senses: examples: text: He revved the engine in a rather macho style.
text: You could hear the engines revving from a mile away.
text: Two in a row, everybody knows at the green light you rev it on the red line.
ref: 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
text: It is impossible to see inside the mind of a killer. What was he thinking, the young man who sat at the wheel of the white van at the top of Las Ramblas and purposefully revved the engine? What warped ideology, what distorted belief system, what bitter life experience had brought him to this fateful tipping point?
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer:
glosses: To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed.
Derived terms: overrev
rev up
rev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛv/
rhymes: -ɛv
Forms: form: revs
Senses: examples: text: Up came the revs again, slam the door shut, kick the stick off the throttle and up through the gears, down the others side! Whee! Made it again!
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 175:
glosses: Clipping of revolution (of something spinning).
Derived terms: panic rev
revvy
rev counter
rev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛv/
rhymes: -ɛv
Senses: examples: text: ad rev
glosses: Clipping of revenue
rev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛv/
rhymes: -ɛv
Forms: form: revs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of reverend
Related terms: sense: other terms containing the word "rev", not derived from previous entries
word: nonrev
sense: other terms containing the word "rev", not derived from previous entries
word: rev st st
'nuff
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: knuff
Forms: form: 'nough
Etymology: Aphetic form of enough.
Senses: glosses: Enough.
'nuff
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌf/
rhymes: -ʌf
homophone: knuff
Forms: form: 'nough
Etymology: Aphetic form of enough.
Senses: glosses: Enough.
Derived terms: 'nuff said
Dzongkha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdzɒŋkə/
ipa: /ˈzɒŋkə/
rhymes: -ɒŋkə
Etymology: Borrowed from Dzongkha རྫོང་ཁ (rdzong kha), from རྫོང (rdzong, “jong”) + ཁ (kha, “language”).
Senses: glosses: The national language of Bhutan; Bhutanese.
jog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɒɡ/
ipa: /d͡ʒɑɡ/
rhymes: -ɒɡ
Forms: form: jogs
Etymology: Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”).
Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.
Senses: glosses: An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
examples: text: Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me.
ref: 2016, Kes Gray, Daisy and the Trouble With Jack:
glosses: A sudden push or nudge.
examples: text: This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs.
ref: 1974, Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre, page 143:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
synonyms: return piece
glosses: A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
glosses: In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
herbalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herbalists
Etymology: From herbal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who treats diseases by means of medicinal herbs.
Synonyms: herb doctor
vermiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)mɪfɔː(ɹ)m/
Etymology: From Latin vermis (“worm”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a worm.
Derived terms: vermiform appendix
vermiform body
languish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪʃ/
rhymes: -æŋɡwɪʃ
Forms: form: languishes
form: languishing
form: languished
form: languished
Etymology: From Middle English languysshen, from the present participle stem of Anglo-Norman and Middle French languir, from Late Latin languīre, alteration of Latin languēre (“to be faint, unwell”).
: Compare languor and lax.
: Cognate with slack.
Senses: examples: text: We […] do languish of such diseases.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Esdras 8:31:
glosses: To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness.
examples: text: He languished without his girlfriend.
glosses: To pine away in longing for something; to have low spirits, especially from lovesickness.
examples: text: He languished in prison for years.
text: An elderly Hungarian found languishing in a Russian mental hospital could finally be allowed to return home - 55 years after being taken prisoner by the Russian Army.
ref: 2000 August 2, “Hungarian POW to go home after 55 years”, in BBC News:
synonyms: rot
glosses: To live in miserable or disheartening conditions.
examples: text: The case languished for years before coming to trial.
glosses: To be neglected; to make little progress, be unsuccessful.
glosses: To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
examples: text: He is an excellent young man, and will suit Harriet exactly: it will be an "exactly so," as he says himself; but he does sigh and languish, and study for compliments rather more than I could endure as a principal.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma:
text: His bowstring slackened, languid Love, / Leaning his cheek upon his hand, / Droops both his wings, regarding thee, / And so would languish evermore, / Serene, imperial Eleänore.
ref: a. 1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Eleänore”, in Poems, page 31:
glosses: To affect a languid air, especially disingenuously.
Derived terms: languisher
languishment
languishness
Related terms: languid
languor
languorous
linoleic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪn.ə(ʊ)ˈliː.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌlɪn.ə(ʊ)ˈleɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌlɪn.əˈliː.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌlɪn.əˈleɪ.ɪk/
rhymes: -iːɪk
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Etymology: From Latin linum (“flax”) + oleic acid, for saturating its omega-6 double bond produces oleic acid.
Senses: glosses: Of, or derived from linoleum, or linseed oil
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: designating an organic fatty acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as an ester of glycerol in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts; it is a polyunsaturated fatty acid with 18 carbon atoms and two double bonds.
Derived terms: linoleate
linoleic acid
linolenic
linoxin
Related terms: oleic acid
linolenic acid
orthogonalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthogonalizations
Etymology: From orthogonal + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of converting a set of functions or vectors into orthogonal ones.
glosses: the process of splitting a problem or system into its distinct components.
Derived terms: biorthogonalization
reorthogonalization
Related terms: orthogonal
dishonest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɒnɪst/
ipa: /dɪˈsɑnɪst/
ipa: /dɪzˈɒnɛst/
ipa: /dɪzˈɒnɪst/
Forms: form: more dishonest
form: most dishonest
Etymology: From Middle English dishoneste (“dishonourable”), from Old French deshoneste, from Latin dehonestus. Equivalent to dis- + honest. Displaced native Old English unsōþfæst.
Senses: glosses: Not honest; shoddy.
glosses: Interfering with honesty.
examples: text: inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars
ref: 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: speake dishonest word
ref: c. 1560, Thomas North, Archontorologion:
glosses: Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
examples: text: Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, / Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.
Derived terms: dishonestness
Related terms: dishonestly
dishonesty
orthograde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -grade.
Senses: glosses: Walking or standing with the body upright.
Coordinate terms: bipedal
dishonesty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈɒnɪ.sti/
Forms: form: dishonesties
Etymology: From Middle English dishoneste (“disgrace, filth”), from Old French deshoneste, equivalent to dis- + honesty or dishonest + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He added: "We've always had spin, especially from Government. But this is not spin. This is dishonesty and so it's our rail media's urgent responsibility to call it out because non-specialist journalists across the country will report this and gradually these untruths will be accepted.
ref: 2022 January 26, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Government's IRP claims condemned as "dishonest"”, in RAIL, number 949, page 7:
glosses: The characteristic or condition of being dishonest.
glosses: An act which is fraudulent or otherwise dishonest.
examples: text: His dishonesty appears in leaving his friend here in necessity and denying him.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
glosses: Shamefulness, disgrace.
orthograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔː(ɹ)θəɡɹæf/
/ˈɔː(ɹ)θəɡɹɑːf/
Forms: form: orthographs
Etymology: From ortho- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: An orthographic projection.
orthographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːθəˈɡɹæfɪk/
ipa: /ˌɔːɹθəˈɡɹæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
Forms: form: orthographick
Etymology: From ortho- + -graph + -ic. Compare French orthographique, Latin orthographus, Ancient Greek ὀρθογράφος (orthográphos).
Senses: glosses: Of a projection used in maps, architecture etc., in which the rays are parallel.
examples: text: This overlapping is reflective of hybrid languages, where certain features (phonetic, orthographic, semantic, syntactic) are also difficult to disentangle.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:
glosses: Of, or relating to, orthography.
Synonyms: sense: maps
word: orthographical
Derived terms: nonorthographic
orthographic neighbor
orthographic neighborhood
orthographic neighbour
orthographic neighbourhood
unorthographic
orthographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -graphical.
(Alternatively from orthography + -ical)
Senses: examples: text: Such citations are given to demonstrate a particular orthographical form occurring at a certain date.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 492:
glosses: Of, or relating to orthography or spelling.
glosses: Spelled correctly.
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Orthographic.
Derived terms: nonorthographical
orthographically
unorthographical
orthohelium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliəm
Etymology: From ortho- + helium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: form of the helium atom in which the spins of the two electrons form a triplet state (a state with definite total spin).
Related terms: parahelium
ego surfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of egosurfing.
orthohydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthohydrogens
Etymology: From ortho- + hydrogen.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: form of the hydrogen molecule (H₂) in which the two nuclei have parallel spin; about 75% of natural hydrogen
orthology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Correct speaking or the correct use of words.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Homologous sequences descended from the same ancestral sequence for which function of the gene or sequence has been conserved across evolutionary time.
Derived terms: orthological
orthologous
orthometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + -metric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having axes at right angles.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: Being corrected for the curvature of the Earth.
Derived terms: orthometrically
orthonormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of orthogonal + normal, equivalent to ortho- + normal.
Senses: examples: text: Given a set of linearly independent vectors, it is often useful to convert them into an orthonormal set of vectors.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “Lesson 10”, in University College London, 6.4 Gram-Schmidt Process, page 2:
topics: geometry
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: Of a set of vectors, both orthogonal and normalized.
topics: geometry
linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: Of a linear transformation: that preserves both angles and lengths.
Derived terms: biorthonormal
orthonormal function
orthonormality
orthonormalization
orthonormalize
Related terms: orthogonal
orthopedics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːθəˈpiːdɪks/
ipa: /ˌɔɹθəˈpidɪks/
Forms: form: orthopaedics
form: orthopædics
Etymology: From ortho- + Ancient Greek παιδεία (paideía, “upbringing, training”). Originally a branch of medicine correcting deformities in children.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: orthopedic surgery
word: orthosurgery
glosses: The branch of medicine that deals with the prevention or correction of disorders of the bones and associated muscles and joints
Derived terms: orthopedic bed
orthopedic shoe
Related terms: musculoskeletal
osteology
orthopedic bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopedic beds
Senses: hypernyms: bed#Noun
<
DME
durable medical equipment
<
equipment#Noun
coordinate_terms: hospital bed
glosses: A bed designed to relieve specific skeletal symptoms, typically having a very firm mattress or a board.
orthopedic shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopedic shoes
Senses: glosses: A shoe designed to correct a specific deformity of the foot.
orthopedist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔɹθə(ʊ)ˈpiːdɪst/
rhymes: -iːdɪst
Forms: form: orthopedists
form: orthopaedist
form: orthopædist
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: orthopedic surgeon
word: orthosurgeon
glosses: A surgeon who specializes in orthopedics.
blackboard bold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A typeface used for representing bold characters, mainly used in mathematical texts, that allows these characters to be easily distinguished from non-bold characters when written by hand.
Related terms: ℂ
ℍ
ℕ
ℙ
ℚ
ℝ
ℤ
disconcerted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtəd/
Senses: glosses: past participle of disconcert
disconcerted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪskənˈsɜːtəd/
Forms: form: more disconcerted
form: most disconcerted
Senses: glosses: Ruffled; upset and embarrassed.
glosses: Self-consciously distressed.
glosses: Frustrated and disarranged.
Derived terms: disconcertedly
disconcertedness
undisconcerted
sarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /sɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: sarges
form: Sarge
Etymology: From sergeant, q.v. In reference to PUA slang, coined by American writer and television personality Ross Jeffries after the behavior of his cat Sarge.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Clipping of sergeant.
examples: text: I did not interpret this advice correctly at first and in the same sarge as the hand-slap Juggler observed that she was really into me and liking my game but a little annoyed that I kept encroaching on her by moving myself closer to her while keeping myself square.
ref: 2003 March 4, SexPDX, “Juggler Workshop Review and Lay Report (VERY LONG)”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):
text: I thought it would be funny and depressing to join them on what they call the "Saturday Sarge." A sarge is when a group of morons roam around looking for girls to annoy. Sounds gr8 right?
ref: 2012 September 25, Matt Jenkins, Bertie Brandes, “My Day Out with the London Seduction Society”, in VICE, archived from the original on 23 Jul 2023:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: An instance of sarging.
sarge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɑːd͡ʒ/
ipa: /sɑɹd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: sarges
form: sarging
form: sarged
form: sarged
form: Sarge
Etymology: From sergeant, q.v. In reference to PUA slang, coined by American writer and television personality Ross Jeffries after the behavior of his cat Sarge.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, the echoes of PUA raise concerns and I have no doubt Saturday Sarge has its fair share of men just wanting to pick up women for sex (Phil says in the four years he's sarged he's only slept with about 10 – the same amount another sarger says he's slept with in the last six months).
ref: 2014 October 18, Gareth May, “Saturday Sarge: meet the men who go hunting for women”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2019:
topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
glosses: To go out and engage women in order to pick them up.
Derived terms: sarger