cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pentaquark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛntəkwɔːk/
ipa: /-kwɑːk/
ipa: /ˈpɛntəkwɔɹk/
ipa: /-kwɑɹk/
Forms: form: pentaquarks
Etymology: From penta- + quark.
Senses: examples: text: Evidence for and against the heavier pentaquark states, the #92;Xi(1862) and the #92;Theta⁰#95;c(3100) observed at CERN and at HERA, respectively, are also discussed. I conclude that the evidence against the latter two heavier pentaquark baryons is rapidly increasing making their existence highly questionable.
ref: 2006, Volker D. Burkert, “Have Pentaquark States Been Seen?”, in Richard Brenner, Carlos P. De Los Heros, Johan Rathsman, editors, Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies: Proceedings of the XXII International Symposium, Sweden 30 June – 5 July 2005, River Edge, N.J.; Singapore: World Scientific Publishing, →ISBN, abstract, page 185:
text: A more recent famous example of false discoveries is the finding of a new particle called the pentaquark in experiments performed at accelerator laboratories in the mid-2000s. The pentaquark supposedly consists of four quarks and an antiquark bound together—a much different particle than the three quarks making up proton and neutron. Viewing the plots that were published in the literature between 2003 and 2005, we see a significant excess of events for the pentaquark, reaching almost 5 sigma—the gold-plated standard for the confirmation of new particles. Yet, further data and more detailed analysis again made the particle disappear.
ref: 2014, John W. Moffat, “Data that Go Bump in the Night”, in Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson, →ISBN, page 113:
text: It's a particle so elusive that even the world's largest physics experiment could only discover it by accident. The pentaquark has at last been found. […] "Pentaquarks have been reported several times in the past," says [Patrick] Koppenburg, "but they all appeared to be fakes." So when the team at the LHCb experiment detected what looked like the signature of a pentaquark, they were determined to take their time with the analysis. Now they are pretty certain they have it. The signal has a "10 sigma" stamp of accuracy, meaning that there is only a 1 in 10²² chance of it being a statistical fluctuation.
ref: 2015 July 15, “Pentaquark discovery at LHC shows long-sought new form of matter [print version: LHC bags another new particle, 18 July 2015, page 7]”, in New Scientist, number 3030:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of subatomic particles (previously hypothetical, since detected, subject to confirmation) consisting of a group of five quarks (compared to three quarks in normal baryons and two in mesons), or more specifically four quarks and one antiquark (symbol Θ).
Related terms: tetraquark
quarkonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarkoniums
form: quarkonia
Etymology: From quark + -onium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A flavorless meson whose constituents are a quark and its own antiquark.
Related terms: bottomonium
charmonium
strangeonium
toponium
unsurmisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + surmisable.
Senses: examples: text: The noncoincidence of time, an expression of temporalizing differentiality, draws us into an unsurmisable, incalculable relationship with the world that, quite mysteriously, maintains a fine line of continuity.
ref: 2005, Gray Kocchar-Lindgren, Technologics: Ghosts, The Incalculable, and the Suspension of Animation, SUNY Press, P. 192:
glosses: Unable to be surmised.
quarkonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarkonium
bustles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bustle
bustles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bustle
bustled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bustle
bustled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a bustled dress
glosses: Having a bustle, as clothing.
company clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: company clinics
Senses: topics: business
glosses: a primary care medical center run by and on the premises of a non-medical company office or factory
dark energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American cosmologist Michael Turner in 1998, in reference to the earlier term dark matter.
Senses: examples: text: Even Albert Einstein, who first proposed it as the Cosmological Constant in his 1916 General Theory of Relativity, doubted dark energy existed. He called it his "greatest blunder". Now, after a five-year survey of nearly 240,000 galaxies reflecting eight billion years of cosmic history, a team of astrophysicists has shown the elusive force exists. The data were obtained using the Anglo-Australian Telescope, and 26 scientists contributed to the so-called WiggleZ Dark Energy Survey.
ref: 2011 May 20, “After study of 240,000 galaxies, dark energy comes to light”, in The Australian:
topics: astronomy
astrophysics
natural-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical form of energy thought to be spread uniformly throughout space (and time) and to have anti-gravitational properties: it represents a possible mechanism for the cosmological constant, and thus is one of the possible explanations for the current accelerating rate of expansion of the universe; and it is estimated to account for about 74% of the mass-energy of the universe.
Related terms: dark matter
dark sector
dark light
baryonic matter
cosmological constant
Sealand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From sea + -land.
In sense 3, calqued from Old Babylonian Akkadian 𒆳 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (Sumerogram KUR A.AB.BA, Akkadian: māt tâmti).
Senses: examples: text: A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of… one.
ref: 2024 August 4, Jon Wertheim, “Sealand, world's smallest state, has 1 permanent resident and its own royal family”, in CBS News:
glosses: A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.
glosses: A hamlet and community in Flintshire, Wales, close to Chester in England (OS grid ref SJ3568). It is on land reclaimed from the sea on the Chester side of the River Dee.
glosses: A dynasty of Bronze Age kings ruling from an as yet unknown capital in southern Babylonia, in what is now Iraq; or the country they ruled.
Derived terms: Sealander
Sealandic
Mr. Big
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mr. Bigs
form: Mister Big
form: Mr Big
Senses: examples: text: Now the quality of arrests will presumably receive an emphasis that long overdue. The “Mr. Bigs” will properly become targets.
ref: 1971 November 26, “Getting ‘Mr. Big’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: In this view the very idea of there being these marvelous Government secrets is comforting. As long as our guys have the secrets, we are safe. If Mr. Big, or Blofeld, or Ming of the planet Mungo, or the K.G.B. should get our secrets, they might be able to control the world.
ref: 1973 May 26, Russell Baker, “The Mr. Big Myth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: Aaron
word: crime lord
word: ganglord
word: Mr. Big
glosses: The head of a crime syndicate, a high-ranking criminal.
mussels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: muscles
Senses: glosses: plural of mussel
decreased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decrease
drink off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drinks off
form: drinking off
form: drank off
form: drunk off
Senses: examples: text: Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor drink thou off; […]
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Hamlet: Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, / Drink off this potion. Is thy union here? / Follow my mother.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: 1639, Henry Glapthorne, The Tragedy of Albertus Wallenstein, Late Duke of Friedland, and General to the Emperor Ferdinand the Second, Thomas Paine, page 66,
An ’twere the Tun of Heidleberg, I’d drink it / Off with as much ease as a leaguer can / In a grim sutler’s house of thatch.
text: 1656, John Cleveland, "Upon Tom of Chriſt-Church," in The Works of Mr. John Cleveland, Containing his Poems, Orations, Epiſtles, Collected into One Volume, With the Life Of the Author, R. Holt (1687), page 374,
We in all haſte drink off our Wine, / As if we never ſhould drink more : / So that the Reck’ning after nine / Is larger now than that before.
text: I then obliged a Man to drink off the Bowl, who immediately expired.
ref: 1758, Sarah Fielding, The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, page 164:
text: 1810, Nicolas Gouin Dufief, Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man, T. & G. Palmer, page 341,
When you are thirsty, you drink off the whole cup at once.
text: 1901, Henry D. Sheldon, Student Life and Customs, D. Appleton and Company, page 32,
At the beginning of a Kommers the students sing a drinking song, “The foxes under the ban have gone,” after which the crass foxes, bareheaded, must rise and drink off half a Schoppen, while the brand foxes, sitting, each drink an entire Schoppen.
text: 1979, Irving Goldman, The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 211,
When each guest has had his two portions of mihí the hosts drink off two portions and then serve one portion to each guest again.
text: 2006, Loren D. Estleman, Nicotine Kiss, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 10,
She was older than any two of them combined and looked as if she could drink off a case with one hand and arm-wrestle all three of them with the other.
glosses: To drink the entirety of in a short period; originally and especially, in a single gulp.
Corona Corona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An expensive Cuban cigar.
man page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man pages
form: manpage
Etymology: man, short for manual, is the command used to display help pages.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A helpfile in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
Related terms: RTFM
helpfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpfiles
Etymology: From help + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer file explaining how to use the associated software.
codebase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codebases
form: code base
Etymology: From code + base.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The body of source code used to create a particular computer program or software component.
Hypernyms: base
sourcecode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [O]ne observed that the sourcecode itself would be inoperable without a particular item of hardware over which it maintained tight and exclusive control[.]
ref: 1984, The Journal of Industrial Economics
text: To look at the sourcecode, just open the .java file that you are interested in.
ref: 2004, Ivor Horton, Beginning Java™ 2
text: The interface files lack the navigational context which was to be extracted from the sourcecode.
ref: 2012, Roberto Moreno-Díaz, Franz Pichler, Alexis Quesada-Arencibia, editors, Computer Aided Systems Theory:
glosses: Alternative form of source code.
sweet science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the sweet science
Senses: glosses: The sport of boxing.
timeshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time shifting.
timeshifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of timeshift
butter bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butter bars
form: butterbar
Etymology: Derived from the insignia of an O-1 in the US Military, which consists of a single yellow bar.
Senses: qualifier: US Air Force; US Army; US Marines; US Air Force; US Army; US Marines
glosses: A second lieutenant.
qualifier: US Coast Guard
glosses: An ensign.
pararescue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + rescue.
Senses: glosses: A military career field whose practitioners parachute into enemy territory to provide emergency medical help and to rescue fellow soldiers.
rescueman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescuemen
Etymology: From rescue + man.
Senses: glosses: A man who rescues people.
pararescueman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pararescuemen
Etymology: From para- + rescue + -man.
Senses: glosses: A soldier who parachutes into hostile territory to rescue fellow soldiers.
miniaturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From miniature + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Miniature size; tendency towards miniature size.
glosses: Tendency towards detail.
Related terms: sociological miniaturism
miniature
miniaturist
a non domino
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æ nɒn dɒmɪnəʊ/
Etymology: From Latin, literally "from the non-owner".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Describing a disposition of property granted by a party who has no title to it.
baricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baricities
Etymology: From baric + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Baricity is used in anesthesia to determine the manner in which a particular drug will spread in the intrathecal space.
topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The density of a substance compared to the density of human cerebral spinal fluid.
BSC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Border Security Command.
glosses: Initialism of British Society of Cinematographers.
glosses: Initialism of Better Sleep Council.
BSC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Basic Spacing between Centers: Used in integrated circuits to specify package mechanical dimensions. This is a theoretical true position dimension and has no tolerance.
glosses: Initialism of biological safety cabinet.
bit interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit intervals
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The time required to send one signal bit.
Related terms: bit rate
camera ready
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of camera-ready.
commonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒməˈnalɪti/
Forms: form: commonalities
Etymology: From common + -ality.
Senses: examples: text: Zunin sold the idea to his military superiors in the fearful jargon of his profession: "In a situation where commonality of loss of the husband is present, the group can be exceedingly supportive."
ref: 25 June 1969, “Second life for war widows”, in Time:
glosses: The joint possession of a set of attributes or characteristics.
glosses: Such a shared attribute or characteristic
examples: text: 2003, NASA, Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Transcript, transcript of radio communication,
KLING: FYI I've just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle, hydraulic return temperatures. (pause) Two of them on system one and one in each of systems 2 and 3.
CAIN: Four hyd return temps?
KLING: To the left outboard and left inboard elevons.
CAIN: OK, is there anything common to them, DSC or MDM or anything? I mean, you're telling me you lost them all at exactly the same time?
KLING: No, not exactly. They were within probably four or five seconds of each other.
CAIN: OK, where are those? Where is that instrumentation located?
KLING: All four of them are located in the aft part of the left wing, right in front of the elevons, elevon actuators. And there is no commonality.
CAIN: No commonality.
(long pause)
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be utilized, or operated and maintained in common; (b) having interchangeable repair parts and/or components; (c) applying to consumable items interchangeably equivalent without adjustment.
Synonyms: sense: shared characteristic
word: commonship
commonality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒməˈnalɪti/
Forms: form: commonalities
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English comunalite, remodelling of comunalte (modern English commonalty) as if from a putative Medieval Latin *commūnālitās.
Senses: glosses: The common people; the commonalty.
control brief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control briefs
Senses: qualifier: generally used in the plural when referral to a single garment
glosses: A type of panty girdle with longer legs and a higher waist, normally worn by a woman to lift and shape her buttocks area while flattening the stomach area.
cyber squatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyber squatters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cybersquatter.
dichocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dichocephalic
form: most dichocephalic
Etymology: Probably originated from the description of the autodidact in Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to someone who is 'broad-headed', either actually or figuratively having a large head or exceptional intelligence.
Related terms: giganticism
direct initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct initiatives
Senses: glosses: A measure put directly to a vote after being submitted by a petition.
dog bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog bones
Senses: glosses: a bone that is given to a dog to chew on and play with, similar to a dog biscuit. They can be real bones, or they can be made of other materials like plastic or leather
examples: "The First Nanochips", Scientific American, April 2004, p. 81.
If ... the pattern on the mask were designed to look more like a dog bone, the result would better approximate a rectangle with sharp corners.
glosses: a 2- or 3-dimensional compound shape, evocative of a dog biscuit or dog-bone toy with a central shaft and two lobes (analogous to femoral condyles) at each end
examples: text: Me and D-Money keep smokin' that bomb
Need a little game, you better log on
Girls get naked
Lickin' on my dog bone
ref: 2003, “PimpandHo.com”, in Married to the Game, performed by Too $hort:
qualifier: possibly African-American Vernacular
glosses: the penis
Derived terms: throw him a bone
toss them a bone
ex stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ex-stock
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Goods which are available immediately from a supplier's stock-holding and therefore with little or no lead time (other than delivery).
floppydock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floppydocks
Senses: glosses: The foxglove Digitalis purpurea.
FYA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of for your action (commonly used in corporate e-mail forwarding).
glosses: Initialism of for your attention.
glosses: Initialism of fuck you all.
Related terms: english: For your information
translation: For your information
word: FYI
english: Fuck it all
translation: Fuck it all
word: FIA
gender-blind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛndəˌblaɪnd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛndɚˌblaɪnd/
Forms: form: more gender-blind
form: most gender-blind
form: gender blind
form: genderblind
Etymology: From gender + blind, by analogy with color blind (“holding no prejudice based on skin color; not paying attention to skin color”).
Senses: examples: text: I note, however, no universal gender-blind pronoun is recommended. If we all use different third pronouns, they’ll become fourth, fifth, 200th pronouns, and clarity will be lost.
ref: 2015 January 30, Gary Nunn, “Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun?”, in The Guardian:
text: And Dachs’s decision to have women play some of the male roles, most prominently Kira, is very effective. / Gender-blind casting is, of course, not uncommon in Japanese theater, and Dachs herself is a former member of that country’s all-female Takarazuka Revue company […].
ref: 2022 October 24, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “‘Chushingura — 47 Ronin’ Review: A Sprawling Tale of Loyalty”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Having the quality of ignoring gender, such as organizations that accept and/or house people together without discriminating on the basis of gender.
greaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹivz/
Etymology: From Low German (compare German Low German Greev, Greve (“greaves”)), from Middle Low German grêve, from Old Saxon *griovo, from Proto-West Germanic *greubō (“roughage, brushwood, kindling”), perhaps related to *grubaz (“rough, coarse”), the root of German Griebe (“greaves, crackling”). Possibly related to gruff. Also compare Old High German grob (“coarse”) (modern German grob).
Senses: examples: text: Rendering is done by boiling the animal carcasses to separate the fat from the meat. At high temperatures, the fat floats as a creamy white substance called tallow, while the heavier protein sinks to the bottom, producing greaves, which can be fed to animals. Tallow is used to make candle wax or is mixed with ash and heated again to form soap.
ref: 2005, Carmen Ferreiro, Mad Cow Disease, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: The unmeltable residue left after animal fat has been rendered.
Related terms: word: graves
word: greven
word: gribenes
word: grave
word: greave
greaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹivz/
Senses: glosses: plural of greave
Hobbesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hobbesian
form: most Hobbesian
form: Hobbian
form: Hobbsian
Etymology: From Hobbes (a surname) + -ian; referring to the 17th century English author Thomas Hobbes, whose best-known work, Leviathan, describes the state of nature in terms of unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition.
Senses: examples: text: a Hobbesian theory of the state
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: word: Hobbist
word: Hobbistical
word: Hobbish
glosses: Of, relating to, or influenced by Thomas Hobbes or his philosophical theories.
examples: text: a cutthroat, Hobbesian environment
text: In Hammett's writings, the social is constructed as a vast Hobbesian landscape of grim functionaries and desperate scrabblers […]
ref: 1995, Fred Pfeil, White Guys: Studies in Postmodern Domination and Difference, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Yet the focus on pushing for the best result has also fueled what current and former Uber employees describe as a Hobbesian environment at the company, in which workers are sometimes pitted against one another and where a blind eye is turned to infractions from top performers.
ref: 2017 February 22, Mike Isaac, “Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture”, in New York Times:
glosses: Involving unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition.
Hobbesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hobbesians
form: Hobbian
form: Hobbsian
Etymology: From Hobbes (a surname) + -ian; referring to the 17th century English author Thomas Hobbes, whose best-known work, Leviathan, describes the state of nature in terms of unrestrained, selfish, and uncivilized competition.
Senses: examples: text: Hobbesians purport to describe social order as it is: a constant, iron-fisted effort to crush enemies and to incapacitate criminals.
ref: 2019, François Bonnet, The Upper Limit: How Low-Wage Work Defines Punishment and Welfare, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Hobbist
glosses: A follower of the theories of Thomas Hobbes.
housecall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housecalls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of house call.
housecall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: housecalls
form: housecalling
form: housecalled
form: housecalled
Senses: examples: text: Overcoming racial and ethnic divisions starts by asking each other questions, housecalling together, going to events together— the practical experiences of building a union.
ref: 1993, Labor Research Review - Issues 20-21, page 41:
text: So I started housecalling myself. The door always opened. I went around housecalling for five months in Charlotte and the surrounding rural area.
ref: 2000, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, The New Rank and File, →ISBN, page 51:
text: I was assigned to housecall them, and I told the lead organizer that I was a lesbian and asked if that would be a problem, would my sexuality become a dividing issue on the campaign.
ref: 2000, New Labor Forum - Issues 6-9, page 19:
glosses: To go from house to house, visiting people and trying to persuade them to a cause, especially on behalf of a labor union; to doorknock.
implementable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more implementable
form: most implementable
Etymology: From implement + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
management
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Able to be implemented.
Synonyms: feasible
practicable
Derived terms: unimplementable
inmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.meɪt/
Forms: form: inmates
Etymology: From inn + -mate, or from in- + -mate.
Senses: glosses: A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
examples: text: [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:
glosses: A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
examples: text: P. della Valle writes in the same strain: "And these two, the palankins and the andors [a kind of doli] also differ from one another, for in the andor the cane which sustains it is, as it is in the reti, straight; whereas in the palankin, for the greater convenience of the inmate, and to give more room for raising his head, the cane is arched upwards like this, _∩_..."
ref: 1916 July, Henry Yule & al., "Padre Maestro Fray Seb. Manrique in Bengal (1628–Sept. 11, 1629)", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XIII, No. 25, p. 32
glosses: Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
synonyms: word: passenger
extra: a person held or riding within a vehicle
Derived terms: coinmate
inmacy
inmatehood
IRINT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of infrared intelligence (“the gathering and processing of intelligence in the infrared spectrum”).
Related terms: SBIRS
legal duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legal duties
Senses: examples: text: I've done my legal duty.
topics: law
glosses: A duty prescribed by the law, to act or forbear from acting.
methylotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From methyl + -o- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to organisms that use, as substrates for growth, C1 compounds (e.g. methanol, methylamine, methane).
Derived terms: methylotrophically
mosey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊ.zi/
Forms: form: moseys
form: moseying
form: moseyed
form: moseyed
form: mosy
form: mozey
form: mozy
Etymology: Unknown. Originally attested in Southern US dialects. Suggested origins include:
* Spanish vamos (compare vamoose)
* British dialectal mosey about (“walk around at leisurely pace”)
* an Algonquian term for "walk" (compare Ojibwe bimose (“she or he walks along”))
* proper name Mosey, pet form of Moses, in reference to the biblical Exodus which he led
Senses: examples: text: Haven't got time. I must mosey up to the North End to see a man who has got a lovely throat. Nobody can find out what is the matter. He has puzzled all the doctors.
ref: 1910, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “chapter 1”, in Kilmeny of the Orchard:
glosses: To set off, get going; to start a journey.
glosses: To go off quickly: to hurry up.
examples: text: We'll mosey along toward the river. Kinder take it easy an' drift the herd down slow so as to let the cattle put on flesh.
ref: 1919, William MacLeod Raine, “chapter 6”, in A Man Four-Square:
glosses: To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner.
mullock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mullocks
Etymology: From mull + -ock.
Senses: glosses: Rubbish, waste matter.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Mining waste or ore processing waste:
Overburden: waste material generated while searching for minerals or while mining, such as when sinking a shaft.
examples: text: 1875, New Zealand House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, Volume 2, page 30,
The gold, both in the quartz and mullock, is very fine, and, owing to the soft and ferruginous nature of the stuff, specks can but very rarely be seen during working.
text: He stopped and took up a handful of mullock. The stones clattered on the coffin; the mud remained in his hand.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter X, in Capricornia, page 167:
text: On certain days, when hot currents shimmered off Oyster's Reef, we would detect the chalk-dust of the mullock heaps, acrid; or, from the opal mines themselves, the ghastly fug of the tunnels and shafts.
ref: 1996, Janette Turner Hospital, Oyster, paperback edition, Virago Press, page 4:
text: The company is considering a site at Mandurang Valley and two others near its mine in Kangaroo Flat, south-west of Bendigo, for a mullock heap that could reach 21 metres over 25 years.
ref: 2003 October 15, “Public to Have a Say on Waste Dumping”, in ABC News, Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
topics: business
mining
glosses: Mining waste or ore processing waste:
Tailings: waste rock from which the wanted gold, minerals, opal, etc., has been extracted.
glosses: Nonsense, rubbish.
examples: text: For when they saw awr Mary, / They made a mullock on it, / For they thowt 'at all them flaars / Had been put on Mary's bonnet.
ref: 1911, John Hartley, Yorkshire Lyrics: Poems written in the dialect as spoken in the west riding of Yorkshire, page 242:
text: This attitude she never varied; but the face that was ordinarily so expressionless worked at times with strange emotions as she unfolded her story, and once or twice her voice needed clearing.
"I made a mullock of it, you see," she explained.
ref: 1924, Willie Riley, The Garden of Delight, page 122:
glosses: A mess; the result of a blunder.
Derived terms: mullocky
poke mullock
mullock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mullocks
form: mullocking
form: mullocked
form: mullocked
Etymology: From mull + -ock.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: To clear waste material out of a mine.
Derived terms: mullocker
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: pans
form: panning
form: panned
form: panned
Etymology: Clipping of panorama.
Senses: examples: text: Later today in Finsbury Park, the cameras would spend hours panning across 35,000 festivalgoers in search of pickpockets, drunken brawlers, and other assorted agents of petty mischief.
ref: 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
glosses: (of a camera) To turn horizontally.
examples: text: As one can only "pan" at 90 deg. to the direction of movement of the subject, a compromise has to be reached when shooting at more conventional angles between a shutter speed high enough to arrest the forward movement of the subject and one low enough to blur the valve motion and wheels.
ref: 1957 January 24, A. M. Ross, “Letters to the Editor: Impressions of Speed”, in Railway Magazine, page 60:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
qualifier: imaging
glosses: To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: (of a sound) To move in the multichannel sound field.
Derived terms: pan and scan
pannable
panner
pan out
Related terms: cinema
cinematography
portrait
tripod
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: pans
Etymology: Clipping of panorama.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, in the film Dances with Wolves, a pan of an uninhabited landscape contrasts the gruesome beginning footage that depicts the carnage of war.
ref: 2013, Monle Lee, Carla Johnson, Principles of Advertising: A Global Perspective, page 197:
glosses: A sequence in a film in which the camera pans over an area.
Derived terms: whip pan
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paan.
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: pans
form: panning
form: panned
form: panned
Etymology: Compare French pan (“skirt, lappet”), Latin pannus (“a cloth, rag”). Doublet of pagne, pane, and pannus.
Senses: examples: text: 31 May 1884, Leeds Mercury
Pan it down—press an article into its proper place
text: The plants can either be sold individually in the 3 inch pots as Valentine favors , or several may be panned together in larger pots
ref: 1963, Grower Talks:
glosses: To join or fit together; to unite.
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: pans
Etymology: From Old English. See pane.
Senses: glosses: A part; a portion.
topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: The distance comprised between the angle of the epaule and the flanked angle.
glosses: A leaf of gold or silver.
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Etymology: Clipping of pansexual or panromantic.
Senses: examples: text: When she publicly acknowledged that she is pan, it educated citizens near and far on what that sexuality meant and the importance of being proud of who you are.
ref: 2012 December 28, Anna Waugh, “Texas got a pansexual legislator”, in Dallas Voice, volume 29, number 33, page 9:
text: Another anonymous pansexual disclosed, "Sometimes I feel really left out because I'm pan. […] "
ref: 2013, Alejandra Rodriguez, "Isn't That Bisexual?", Outwrite, Fall 2013, page 7
text: A similar experience is shared by individuals who identify their sexuality as pan, bi or queer.
ref: 2013, Megan Hertner, "Understanding Gender and Sexuality", Grapevine (Huron University College), December 2013, page 19
glosses: Pansexual or panromantic.
Coordinate terms: bi
mono
pan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæn/
ipa: [pʰæn]
homophone: panne
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: pans
Etymology: Clipping of pantograph
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Clipping of pantograph.
Synonyms: panto
Related terms: pan bagnat
pan haggerty
pan tao peach
paregmenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paregmena
form: paregmenons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: The juxtaposition of words that have the same roots; using cognate words together, such as "curvaceous curves", "my loving and beloved wife", or "he's a manly man".
pillowbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillowbooks
Etymology: From pillow + book.
Senses: glosses: A journal-type book kept to record sexual dreams and escapades. It is usually for the writer's eyes only.
Related terms: diary
PMEE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpiːmiː/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: air force
glosses: Acronym of prime mission electronic equipment.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: air force
glosses: The people who operate this equipment, such as the crewmembers aboard the Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft.
poll books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poll book
pre-gaming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + gaming.
Senses: glosses: The act of consuming alcoholic beverages before attending an event or function.
predicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.də.kə.tɪv/
Forms: form: prædicative
Etymology: From predicate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.
text: Compound adjectives are typically hyphenated in attributive position (for example, 'a high-quality scan is a must'), whereas in predicative position, many house styles specify open styling (for example, 'this scan is high quality.'
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Modifying a noun from within a predicate. contrasts with attributive.
raw_tags: of an adjectival or nominal phrase
Derived terms: predicative adjective
predicative adverbial
predicative case
predicatively
predicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.dɪ.kə.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛ.də.kə.tɪv/
Forms: form: predicatives
form: prædicative
Etymology: From predicate + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An element of the predicate of a sentence which complements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
examples: text: A predicative in Russian is an uninflected word that regularly constitutes a complete utterance when standing alone, i.e., when preceded and followed by silence.
ref: 1957, Morton Benson, “The Problem of Predicatives in Russian”, in The Slavic and East European Journal, volume 1, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 285:
text: Traditional grammars usually differentiate between neuter short adjectives and predicatives based on whether there is an overt nominative subject; hence курение вредно ‘smoking (noun) is harmful’ is viewed as a clause with nominative subject, zero copula and neuter short form adjective that agrees with the subject in gender, whereas курить вредно (same meaning, literally ‘to smoke is harmful’) is often viewed as an impersonal clause with predicative.
ref: 2013, Sergey Say, “On the Nature of Dative Arguments in Russian Constructions with “Predicatives””, in I. Kor Chahine, editor, Current Studies in Slavic Linguistics (Studies in Language Companion Series), page 226:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.
pseudobranchia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + branchia (“gill”).
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: A small patch of gill-like filaments on the inner surface of the opercle near the junction of the preopercle.
Synonyms: pseudobranch
pseudostate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudostates
form: pseudo-state
Etymology: From pseudo- + state.
Senses: examples: text: In 1975 the state decreed that the Mfengu were really Xhosa, and that their traditional "homeland" was 300 miles away, in a Xhosa pseudostate called Ciskei.
ref: 1994 July 29, Bill Keller, “Back to the Land: South African Blacks Walk a Legal and Economic Maze”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Aug 2014:
text: For Iran, Syria is a counterweight to any Sunni resurgence in Iraq, as well as the conduit to Hizbullah, its client Shiite pseudo-state in Lebanon.
ref: 2013 September 23, Matt Steinglass, “Democracy in America: Rebels and tyrants”, in Economist, retrieved 19 Aug 2014:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A geopolitical entity which has some of the trappings of an independently-governed country or territory, but which lacks real independence and is not recognized as a self-governing political entity by the international community of nations.
examples: text: Every exit pseudostate that does not have an incoming transition becomes a priority relevant exit pseudostate, the other exit pseudostates become non-priority relevant exit pseudostates.
ref: 2007, Lubos Brim, Boudewijn Haverkort, Martin Leucker, Formal Methods: Applications and Technology: 11th International Workshop, page 256:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An entity that resembles, but is not in fact, a state in a state machine or similar.
pterygiophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pterygiophores
Etymology: From pterygium + -phore.
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: Any of the bones in a fish that support the dorsal fin. There are two to three of them: proximal, middle, and distal. In spinous fins the distal is often fused to the middle or not present at all.
recreant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛkɹɪənt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛkɹiənt/
Forms: form: recreants
Etymology: From Middle English recreaunt, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French recreant (“defeated”), from recroire (“to yield in a trial by combat, surrender allegiance”). Compare miscreant.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n the Choephoroe of Aeschylus Orestes pursues the same idea saying that unless he avenges his father, a stern duty which has devolved upon him, he will be punished in turn by the avengers of his father's wrongs. It may be remarked that in Maina to-day no recourse must be had to law for such cases, nor must the injured person satisfy himself by calling upon the aid of the police. To do this were incredibly base, the subterfuge of a recreant and a craven.
ref: 1928, Montague Summers, chapter 3, in The Vampire, His Kith and Kin:
text: If Scholz believed he could dodge a reckoning after his party was beaten into a humiliating third place by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, he, like most recreants, is likely mistaken.
ref: 2024 June 12, Matthew Karnitschnig, “Time runs out for Olaf Scholz”, in Politico:
glosses: Somebody who is recreant, who yields in combat; a coward or traitor.
Synonyms: apostate
coward
deserter
poltroon
renegade
turncoat
Sacagawean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sacagawean
form: most Sacagawean
Etymology: From Sacagawea + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Sacagawea.
self-titled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: S/T
Etymology: From self- + titled.
Senses: examples: text: "Song 2" is a single from Blur's 1997 self-titled album.
glosses: Eponymously named; having the same name as the author or artist.
Synonyms: eponymous
Shamsher Jang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hindi शमशेर जंग (śamśer jaṅg, “sword of war”), from Classical Persian شمشیر جنگ (šamšēr jang). It was part of the full title of the Maharaja of Travancore.
Senses: glosses: A Hindu princely title, Sword of War.
Shirshak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi शीर्षक (śīrṣak).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from India, of Nepalese and Indian usage.
stellar disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellar disks
form: stellar disc
Senses: glosses: the flat part of a spiral galaxy around the central bulge
taipo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taipos
form: typo
Senses: examples: text: They are called taipos, or devils. If a Maori went fishing or birding between them in the Maungapakeha Valley, he might fail to get either birds or eels. The reason was that the Tinui taipo was angry, and would say to the Maungapakeha taipo, “This man has offended me; he shall catch no more eels or birds to-day.”
ref: 1905. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1868-1961, vol. 38, page 132
glosses: An evil spirit.
glosses: A goblin.
trans-Tasman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + Tasman, since the Tasman Sea lies between the two countries.
Senses: examples: Trans-Tasman commerce
glosses: Of or pertaining to inter-relationships between Australia and New Zealand.
wikipedia: Tasman Sea
turnpike doubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: trucking
glosses: A tandem trailer operation, where two large hauling trailers are connected with a single axle, wheeled device known as a tandem dolly, allowing a truck to carry two or more trailers bound for separate destinations.
Related terms: turnpike triples
valley boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valley boys
Senses: glosses: A young man who lives in the "Valley", specifically the San Fernando Valley.
glosses: A young gay man who listens to 1970s genre music.
glosses: A young man from the South Wales Valleys.
Related terms: valley girl
wordmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordmarks
Etymology: From word + mark.
Senses: topics: business
marketing
hypernyms: logo
logotype
coordinate_terms: trademark
glosses: A logotype; a standardized graphic representation of the name of a company or product used for purposes of easy identification. It is often text with unique typographic or graphical treatment.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A bit in each memory location on some variable-word-length computers (e.g. IBM 1401, IBM 1620) used to mark the end of a word.
year mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: year marks
Senses: glosses: An inscription on a coin indicating the year in which the coin was either produced or issued.
miniaturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miniaturists
Etymology: From miniature + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist who paints miniature figures or scenes.
examples: text: Power scissors Every miniaturist should have a pair.
ref: 1998, Andrea Barham, Dolls' House Accessories, Fixtures & Fittings:
text: The miniaturist's hobby is as varied as the people who pursue it.
ref: 2004, Catriona Hall, The Miniature Costumier: Removable Clothing for Dolls' House People:
text: There are many smaller devices to be found, particularly in Scotland, which are more suited to the miniaturist.
ref: 2006, Brian Long, The Authentic Tudor & Stuart Dolls' House:
glosses: A person who creates or collects miniature figurines (such as dolls).
Related terms: miniature
miniaturism
noncomputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + computable.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Incapable of being computed by any deterministic algorithm in any finite amount of time.
raw_tags: of a function
Synonyms: nonrecursive