cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
eschatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛskətəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌɛskətəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
Senses: examples: text: The ultimacy of God's eschatological revelation impinges proleptically on . . . and, then, it all gets over my head.
ref: 2001, Mark Allan Powell, Chasing the Eastern Star, page 18:
text: Does not the Manifesto repeatedly describe its aim as rupture? Rothbard is right. This is an eschatological moment.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 6, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to eschatology.
Derived terms: eschatologically
noneschatological
zadakat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Classical Arabic صَدَقَة (ṣadaqa, “charity”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Voluntary alms, or righteous acts.
Related terms: zakat
zulm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-table-tags
form: tr-infl-noun-c
form: zulm
form: -
form: zulmu
form: -
form: zulma
form: -
form: zulmda
form: -
form: zulmdan
form: -
form: zulmun
form: -
form: no-table-tags
form: tr-infl-noun-c
form: zulmum
form: zulmlarım
form: zulmun
form: zulmların
form: zulmu
form: zulmları
form: zulmumuz
form: zulmlarımız
form: zulmunuz
form: zulmlarınız
form: zulmları
form: zulmumu
form: zulmlarımı
form: zulmunu
form: zulmlarını
form: zulmunu
form: zulmlarını
form: zulmumuzu
form: zulmlarımızı
form: zulmunuzu
form: zulmlarınızı
form: zulmlarını
form: zulmuma
form: zulmlarıma
form: zulmuna
form: zulmlarına
form: zulmuna
form: zulmlarına
form: zulmumuza
form: zulmlarımıza
form: zulmunuza
form: zulmlarınıza
form: zulmlarına
form: zulmumda
form: zulmlarımda
form: zulmunda
form: zulmlarında
form: zulmunda
form: zulmlarında
form: zulmumuzda
form: zulmlarımızda
form: zulmunuzda
form: zulmlarınızda
form: zulmlarında
form: zulmumdan
form: zulmlarımdan
form: zulmundan
form: zulmlarından
form: zulmundan
form: zulmlarından
form: zulmumuzdan
form: zulmlarımızdan
form: zulmunuzdan
form: zulmlarınızdan
form: zulmlarından
form: zulmumun
form: zulmlarımın
form: zulmunun
form: zulmlarının
form: zulmunun
form: zulmlarının
form: zulmumuzun
form: zulmlarımızın
form: zulmunuzun
form: zulmlarınızın
form: zulmlarının
form: no-table-tags
form: tr-infl-noun-c
form: zulmum
form: -
form: zulmsun
form: -
form: zulm
form: zulmdur
form: -
form: zulmuz
form: -
form: zulmsunuz
form: -
form: zulmlar
form: -
Etymology: From Arabic ظُلْم (ẓulm, “injustice”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: zulüm
kıygı
eziyet
cefa
glosses: sin, wrong-doing, injustice
help desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: help desks
form: helpdesk
form: help-desk
Senses: glosses: A section of an organization offering specialist advice to customers or users who have problems, especially with computer equipment or systems.
helpdesk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helpdesks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of help desk.
Derived terms: helldesk
helpdesker
helplessdesk
help-desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: help-desks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of help desk.
heptathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛpˈtæθlɒn/
Forms: form: heptathlons
form: heptathla
Etymology: From hepta- + -athlon.
Senses: examples: text: [Carolina Kluft] has won her last 19 heptathlons. Only the legendary Jackie Joyner-Kersee has scored higher.
ref: 2008 January 26, Frank Litsky, “Swedish Star Finds Motivation in Variety”, in The New York Times:
text: For now, Gray and her peers are able to compete for Olympic berths only in the seven-event heptathlon, while the decathlon is restricted to men.
ref: 2021 June 7, Shauna Farnell, “An Olympic Hurdle: Why Is the Decathlon Only for Men?”, in The New York Times:
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athletic contest comprising seven events; contested mostly by women, for whom this is an Olympic sport.
Related terms: heptathlete
high five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪ faɪv/
ipa: /haɪ faɪv/
Forms: form: high fives
form: high-five
Etymology: From high + five. The five refers to the five fingers of each hand.
Senses: examples: text: Through the window I could see Nikki and Kim doing high fives in the car.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 144:
glosses: A gesture of celebration or victory in which two people slap the palms of their hands together at shoulder height or higher.
glosses: A game which uses a technique providing a user with an emotional reward after they complete a minor task or achievement.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The game of cinch.
Coordinate terms: fist bump
high ten
low five
Related terms: gimme a five
low five
slap someone five
high five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪ faɪv/
ipa: /haɪ faɪv/
Forms: form: high fives
form: high fiving
form: high fived
form: high fived
form: high-five
Etymology: From high + five. The five refers to the five fingers of each hand.
Senses: examples: text: Like a lot of my fellow passengers — indie-rock fans who had signed up for a three-day voyage full of bands and beverages — I’d never been on a cruise before. So I don’t know whether most of them begin with a staff member high-fiving each and every person who comes off the gangway.
ref: 2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To slap high fives.
high-five
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high-fives
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high five.
high-five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: high-fives
form: high-fiving
form: high-fived
form: high-fived
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of high five.
hole-in-the-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hole-in-the-walls
form: holes-in-the-wall
form: hole in the wall
Senses: examples: text: They walked by a tea museum, two local pharmacies, a bakery, and one hole-in-the-wall shop still selling knickknacks from Chinese New Year, before coming to a stop outside the unassuming front door of 189.
ref: 2022, C.S. Poe, chapter 17, in Subway Slayings (Memento Mori; 2), Oklahoma City, Okla.: Emporium Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A restaurant, shop or other establishment catering to customers that is particularly inconspicuous and easily overlooked.
glosses: Synonym of automated teller machine.
synonyms: word: automated teller machine
Related terms: know someone from a hole in the wall
home cinema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home cinemas
Senses: glosses: A system for showing cinema-quality films at home; usually comprising high-definition television and surround sound.
glosses: A dedicated room for such a system.
Synonyms: word: home theater
home theater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home theaters
form: home theatre
Senses: glosses: A system for showing theater-quality films at home, usually comprising high-definition television and surround sound.
glosses: A dedicated room for such a system.
Synonyms: word: home cinema
cable TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cable television.
home shopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home-shopping
Senses: glosses: The purchase of goods from home, either via cable TV or the Internet
homesitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homesitters
form: home-sitter
form: home sitter
Etymology: From home + sitter.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to live in and take care of a home when the usual occupants are away.
Synonyms: house sitter
house-sitter
housesitter
Related terms: babysitter
catsitter
dogsitter
petsitter
puppysitter
sitter
bedsitter
Horlicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːlɪks/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪks
Forms: form: Horlickses
form: Horlicksing
form: Horlicksed
form: Horlicksed
form: horlicks
Etymology: The name of the drink, first sold as "Horlick's Infant and Invalids Food", is derived from the surname of its developers, James (1844–1921) and William Horlick (1846–1936); equivalent to Horlick + -'s (possessive marker). The term later became a euphemism for bollocks (“mess; to make a mess of”).
Senses: examples: text: I have seen a priest massacred in charge of a Mass, experienced schoolmasters carbonated in charge of a class and felt hairdressers Horlicksed in charge of hair clippers. / On a more lasting level, it is possible for surprisingly long periods of time to be drunk in charge of a relationship.
ref: 1993 September 25, Stuart Wolfendale, “Column Eight”, in South China Morning Post:
text: Mr O'Brien has admitted that he was tempted to pay £100,000 to Mr Lowry, out of his own personal generosity, because he had heard pub talk that Mr Lowry's Streamline Enterprises was "Horlicksed"[—]that's a word the Irish Independent has to use as an "intermediary" because the real word is too rude.
ref: 2001 June 28, Senan Molony, “Inquiry a training ground for linguistic acrobatics”, in Irish Independent:
text: One does wonder how the history books will treat Gordon if, as it now looks, he won't even still be PM by the time the next election comes along. / Indeed, if he hadn’t horlicksed the economy with nuclear abandon would they have even mentioned him at all?
ref: 2009 April 15, alland...@live.co.uk, “SKY News - Dead Man Walking”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):
text: Not the groundsman's fault Australia horlicksed it all up in the space of a couple of hours on Friday.
ref: 2009 August 23, Ben Dirs, “Strauss's England worthy winners”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 09 Jan 2021:
text: Assuming the Citroen engineers haven’t really Horlicksed things up, which I suspect they haven’t, electric should be the neatest of fits for the comfy, untaxing C4.
ref: 2022 March 14, Sam Philip, “Citroen C4 PureTech 130 – long-term review”, in Top Gear:
glosses: To make a mess of (something); to bollocks.
Horlicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːlɪks/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪks
Forms: form: Horlickses
Etymology: Variant of Horlick.
Senses: examples: text: “But how can this be, for Mr. Horlicks suffered from such a painful back condition that he could hardly walk?” she informed Hodgekiss. “Not anymore!” said Hodgekiss with a twinkle in his eye.
ref: 2012 April 11, Tricia Bennett, Polly Brown: A Modern-Day Oliver With a Twist, Charisma Media, →ISBN:
text: ... causing Mr Horlicks to think, in several worried thought bubbles, that She's not the girl I married. She then goes on to take tea in a café with a wise woman friend. Both Mrs Horlicks and her wise friend are always depicted[…]
ref: 2017 March 21, Barbara Trapido, Frankie & Stankie, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN:
text: And this will go on and on in that way until they are invited to Buckingham Palace to dine with the queen, who they are absolutely sure is the center, and will drop this bit of information when they meet the Horlickses at a reception,[…]
ref: 2018 January 9, David Plante, American Stranger: A Novel, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: The Crown Prince went to the Horlickses. I have hardly seen him and am quietly, tactfully freezing him off. Sent off long letter to the Regent, my child, and to Peter. I feel somehow that the New Year will benefit me and bring[…]
ref: 2021 September 9, Chips Channon, Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A surname.
Horlicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: non-rhotic
ipa: /ˈhɔːlɪks/
rhymes: -ɔːlɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of Horlick
doober
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doobers
Senses: examples: text: Turn that doober on please.
synonyms: word: Sorted by number of Google hits
word: widget
word: hickey
word: gizmo
word: thingy
word: gimmick
word: thingie
word: jigger
word: gismo
word: gubbins
word: whatsit
word: thingamajig
word: doodad
word: whatchamacallit
word: doohickey
word: thingo
word: thingamabob
word: thingummy
word: whatsis
word: thingumajig
word: thingumabob
word: whatchacallit
word: Sorted alphabetically
word: affair
word: bazinga
word: bizzo
word: dealie
word: dealy
word: dinglehopper
word: dingus
word: dohickey
word: dojigger
word: dongle
word: doo-hickey
word: doober
word: doodah
word: doofer
word: doohickus
word: doohinkey
word: doohinkus
word: doojigger
word: doovalacky
word: foobar
word: foo
word: frammis
word: frobnitz
word: gadget
word: geegaw
word: gewgaw
word: gingambob
word: gingumbob
word: hodad
word: hootenanny
word: jawn
word: jimbang
word: jobber
word: jobby
word: joint
word: junk
word: kajigger
word: kludge
word: MacGuffin
word: oojamaflip
word: rigamajig
word: shebang
word: stuff
word: thingabob
word: thingamabobber
word: thingamafuck
word: thingamajigger
word: thingamajiggy
word: thingmabob
word: thingmajig
word: thingmy
word: thingummabob
word: thingummajig
word: thingummyjig
word: thingum
word: thingymabob
word: thingymajig
word: thing
word: ting
word: whachacallit
word: whachamacallit
word: whaddayacallit
word: whatchamahoozie
word: whatdyecallem
word: whatdoyoucallit
word: whatnot
word: whatsaname
word: whatsitsname
word: whiff-whaff
word: whosiewhatsit
word: whosit
word: wossisname
word: wossname
word: wotsit
word: yoke
word: yokibus
glosses: A thingamajig; a whatchamacallit.
examples: text: Can you light my doober, please?
synonyms: word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
glosses: A marijuana cigarette.
Related terms: doob
horsiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseyculture
Etymology: Blend of horse + horticulture
Senses: glosses: the commercial development of the countryside for pasturing or exercising horses
horseyculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horsiculture.
groyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɔɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
homophone: groin
Forms: form: groynes
form: groin
Etymology: From Middle English groyn (“snout”), from Old French groign, from Late Latin grunium, grunia, from Latin grunnire (“grunt like a pig”).
Senses: examples: text: Our assimilation into one another had been beautifully timed, with each little revelation of unpleasantness acting as a modest baffler, a groyne to our mutual inundation. Now all of this was going to be flooded, drenched in poisonous ichor.
ref: 1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun:
glosses: An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.
shape note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shape-note
Senses: glosses: A system of music notation designed to facilitate choral singing, and the style of psalmody associated with it. The heads of the notes are of various shapes, not always round.
NHS Trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NHS Trusts
Senses: glosses: a self-governing administrative body within the NHS; usually a group of hospitals
Synonyms: hospital trust
Swansea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɒnzi/
rhymes: -ɒnzi
Etymology: From Middle English Sweynesse (c. 1165), Sueinesea (1190), Swanesey (1322), from Old Norse Sveins ey (literally “Sveinn’s island”).
Senses: glosses: A city and county in South Wales.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A neighbourhood of the city of Toronto, Ontario.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A ghost town in Inyo County, California.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A village in St. Clair County, Illinois.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A town in Bristol County, Massachusetts.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A ghost town in White Pine County, Nevada.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A town in Lexington County, South Carolina.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales.
glosses: Various other places in the United States, Canada and Australia:
A town in Glamorgan-Spring Bay council area, Tasmania.
Derived terms: Swansea Bay
hot button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot buttons
form: hot-button
form: hotbutton
Etymology: Registered as a trademark by American sales trainer Jack Lacy in 1956, first used in the 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: That issue was mostly solved in the modern forces, but it was still a hot button for every student of modern military history.
ref: 2014, M. L. Buchman, Light Up the Night, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: hot potato
third rail
glosses: A central issue, concern or characteristic, especially one that motivates people to make a choice; sometimes also one that people seek to delay taking sides on.
examples: text: Jack Lacey^([sic]), a top rating salesman, says that sales are made by touching off a “hot button” within the prospect’s mind.’
ref: 1944, Dental Items of Interest, volume 66, Dental Items of Interest Publishing Company, page 866:
text: So one way of producing conviction is to “find the hot button”— something the other person is currently interested in—and show him how your idea can help him get that.
ref: 1965, John D. Yeck, How to Get Profitable Ideas, McGraw-Hill, page 197:
text: Therefore, when a prospect is considering buying something, his main concern is what's in it for him. And he always has a dominant desire. There is something he is trying to do which is important to him. We call this dominant desire his “Hot Button.” Once you have found the Hot Button of your prospect, you build your presentation around it.
ref: 1975, Paul J. Micali, Hot Button Salesmanship, Dow Jones-Irwin, →ISBN, page 8:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The principal desire that a salesman needs to "hit" in order to make a sale.
examples: text: Because when you recognize your main hot button, you can take the necessary steps to diffuse anger and reestablish connectedness in a healthy relationship.
ref: 2009, Gary Smalley, Ted Cunningham, From Anger to Intimacy Study Guide, →ISBN:
text: “The sooner he gets rid of those children, the better it will be. He is too busy to be encumbered with orphans,” Delleah said. That struck Melissa's hot button. “
ref: 2014, Barbara McMahon, The Nanny and the Sheikh, →ISBN:
glosses: An emotional trigger; something that arouses strong emotion or opinions.
Related terms: hot potato
not touch something with a ten-foot pole
hot button
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hot button
form: most hot button
form: hot-button
form: hotbutton
Etymology: Registered as a trademark by American sales trainer Jack Lacy in 1956, first used in the 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: a hot button issue
text: In the course of the vast, sprawling, politically charged, sexually graphic, violent epic that is the Millennium trilogy, Larsson (who, as emails to his publisher revealed, painstakingly anatomised and utilised what he perceived as the 'hot button' elements of crime/thriller novels from writers he admired such as Val McDermid, thomas Harris and Sarah Paretsky) allows the reader — whether male or female — a surrogate, the disgraced middle-aged journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
ref: 2012, S. Peacock, Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy:
text: The parties also differed on gun control and other “hot button” issues.
ref: 2013, Harvey L. Schantz, Politics in an Era of Divided Government, →ISBN:
text: At a minimum, the diversion of attention from the opponents' main, economic motivation to the hot button death penalty question made it harder for voters to understand the true nature and extent of the justices' alleged failings in their judicial role.
ref: 2013, Kenneth Manaster, The American Legal System and Civic Engagement, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of hot-button.
hot desking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hot desking just requires the ability to obtain a desk and log onto^([sic]) a computer in a shared office environment.
ref: 2016, Jim Greer, Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers, SAGE, →ISBN:
glosses: The working practice of sharing desks or workstations between workers, as a means of saving space and resources.
flinty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪnti/
rhymes: -ɪnti
Forms: form: flintier
form: more flinty
form: flintiest
form: most flinty
Etymology: From flint + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It was late at night and frosty; high above them on the hills the cloppety clop, cloppety clop of a horse's hooves picking their way on the flinty stone track died away in the distance.
ref: 1973, Patsy Adam Smith, The Barcoo Salute, Adelaide: Rigby, page 2:
glosses: Resembling or containing flint; hard like flint.
examples: text: flinty rock
text: flinty slate
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Siliceous (including basanite).
examples: text: Public opinion has turned flintier in recent years on welfare spending.
ref: 2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian:
text: While the texture of his playing was often flinty, his licks and leads were flush with feeling.
ref: 2023 August 9, “Robbie Robertson, 80, Dies; Canadian Songwriter Captured American Spirit”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Showing a lack of emotion.
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
glosses: Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.
Derived terms: flintily
flintiness
unflinty
storehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
Forms: form: storehouses
form: store-house
Etymology: From store + house.
Senses: examples: text: Jacobsen's theory about the empty storehouse is still valid, for a myth never has one meaning only; a myth is a polyphonic fugue of many voices.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
synonyms: magazine
repository
warehouse
glosses: A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions.
examples: text: This old book is a genuine storehouse of useful cooking tips.
text: To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.
ref: 1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28:
glosses: A single location or resource where a large quantity of something can be found.
examples: text: enrich the storehouse of his powerfull wit
ref: 1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A mass or quantity laid up.
Hypernyms: house
storehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɔː(ɹ)haʊs/
Forms: form: storehouses
form: storehousing
form: storehoused
form: storehoused
form: store-house
Etymology: From store + house.
Senses: examples: text: the mental storehousing of information
glosses: To lay up in store.
lolita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈli.tə/
ipa: /loʊˈli.tə/
ipa: /ləˈli.tə/
Forms: form: lolitas
Etymology: From the title character, Dolores “Lolita” Haze, of Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel Lolita.
Senses: synonyms: jailbait
nymph
nymphet
nymphette
glosses: A young girl who is sexually alluring.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A follower of Lolita fashion.
Synonyms: word: biddy
word: filly
word: gaolbait
word: gamine
word: jailbait
word: jail bait
word: jail-bait
word: loli
word: lolita
word: nymph
word: nymphe
word: nymphet
word: nymphette
word: prostitot
word: prosti-tot
word: PYT
word: sweet young thing
Hypernyms: word: beautiful woman
word: girl
word: promiscuous woman
Derived terms: Gothic Lolita
lolicon
Lolitaesque
Sweet Lolita
Related terms: word: lass
word: lassie
word: paedophilia
word: pedophilia
word: paedophile
word: pedophile
word: chit
word: hussy
word: kinderwhore
word: minx
word: poppet
word: quiff
word: randy
adoptee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adoptees
Etymology: Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee.
Senses: glosses: An adopted son or daughter.
examples: text: An adult Chinese female adoptee has found her biological parents.
glosses: A person who was adopted as a child.
glosses: Synonym of adopter.
synonyms: word: adopter
Derived terms: nonadoptee
Related terms: foster child
ghi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ghee.
caesura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈzjʊəɹə/
ipa: /səˈʒʊɹə/
rhymes: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: caesuras
form: caesurae
form: cesura
form: cæsura
Etymology: Latin caesūra (“cutting, hewing”), from caesus, perfect passive participle of caedō (“I cut down, hew”).
Senses: examples: text: The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.
ref: 1847, Thomas De Quincey, Milton Versus Southey and Landor:
text: Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
ref: 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table:
text: We feel of this, as we feel of a great passage in “Hamlet” or “Lear,” that here is verse at once capable of the highest sublimity and capable of sustaining its theme, of lifting and lowering it at will, with endless resource in the slide and pause of the caesura, to carry it on and on.
ref: 1920, Arthur Quiller-Couch, On The Art of Reading:
text: He disliked the texture of those stiff verses, in their official garb, their abject reverence for grammar, their mechanical division by imperturbable cæsuras, always plugged at the end in the same way by the impact of a dactyl against a spondee.
ref: 1922, chapter 4, in John Howard, transl., Against the Grain, New York: Lieber & Lewis, translation of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans, pages 54–55:
text: By the third decade of the eighteenth century, the syllabic line that really threatened to stay was an uncouth thing of thirteen syllables (counting the obligative feminine terminal), with a caesura after the seventh syllable: […]
ref: 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, “The Origination of Metrical Verse in Russia”, in Notes on Prosody […] (Bollingen Series; LXXIIa), New York, N.Y.: Bollingen Foundation, →OCLC, page 35:
glosses: A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: virgule
glosses: The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
examples: text: Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.
ref: c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches:
text: A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.
ref: 2022, Stephen King, chapter 8, in Fairy Tale, page 133:
glosses: A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
Derived terms: caesural
caesuraless
caesuric
feminine caesura
masculine caesura
Related terms: enjambment
hemistich
medio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: middle
Used with words of Latin origin.
glosses: middle
middle between countable nouns
Synonyms: word: mid-
english: used with words of Greek origin.
translation: used with words of Greek origin.
word: meso-
medio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medios
Etymology: From Spanish medio (“half, half-celemin, half-real, etc.”), from Latin medius (“half”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Doublet of medium, media, and mediate.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure, equivalent to about 2.3 L.
glosses: Any of various former Spanish and Latin American half-pieces, particularly the half-real both as a coin and a notional unit of account.
Synonyms: word: maquila
word: copin
word: copino
Coordinate terms: sense: unit of dry volume
word: cuartillo (1⁄2 medio)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: celemin (2 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: cuartilla (6 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: hemina (10 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: cuarto
sense: unit of dry volume
word: media (12 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: fanega (24 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: saco (48 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: carga (96 medios)
sense: unit of dry volume
word: cahiz (288 medios)
sense: currency
word: real (2 medios)
sense: currency
english: some contexts
translation: some contexts
word: peso (16 medios)
frottola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frottole
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian frottola.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The predominant type of Italian popular secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, and the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal.
tall tale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɔːl ˈteɪl/
ipa: /tɔl ˈteɪl/
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: tall tales
Etymology: From tall (“exaggerated”) + tale.
Senses: examples: text: He returned on Monday with a tall tale about a 100-pound fish he had caught.
text: The head-in-sand idea is a threadbare, 2,000-year-old hand-me-down from the Roman naturalist Pliny, who sometimes passed on tall tales.
ref: 2020 August 4, Richard Conniff, “They may look goofy, but ostriches are nobody’s fool”, in National Geographic Magazine:
synonyms: Banbury story of a cock and a bull
cock-and-bull story
fish story
tall story
traveller's tale
glosses: A tale or story which is fantastic and greatly exaggerated; also, an account of questionable veracity; a lie, an untruth.
Related terms: shaggy dog story
whopper
shopping basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopping baskets
Senses: glosses: A basket to put groceries and other merchandise in while shopping.
synonyms: shopping cart
glosses: A page on a shopping website where one's prospective purchases are listed before payment.
clothing optional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: clothing-optional
Etymology: Coined by nudists.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
naturism
glosses: Allowing and encouraging nudity but tolerating the wearing of clothes, as between nudist and clothing compulsive. Abbreviation: C.O.
clothing compulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined by nudists, who oppose this compulsion.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
naturism
glosses: Disallowing or discouraging nudity, thus requiring the wearing of clothes, especially swimsuits, e.g. on beaches, as opposed to clothing optional and clothes free. Textile.
Synonyms: body negative
clothes minded
Hangul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of hangul.
scopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopae
Etymology: From Vulgar Latin scōpa (“broom”) (Classical Latin scōpae (“twigs, broom”)). Compare Spanish escoba (“broom”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various clusters of hair of non-parasitic bees that serve to carry pollen. In parasitic Hymenoptera it refers to a local patch of hairs, regardless of function.
scopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scopa and Neapolitan scopa.
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A Neapolitan card game.
hangul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑnˌɡul/
Forms: form: Hangul
form: hangeul
form: Hangeul
form: han-geul
form: Han-geul
form: hangŭl
form: Hangŭl
form: han'gŭl
form: Han'gŭl
form: hankul
form: Hankul
Etymology: [Alt: 한글 ㅎ=h ㅏ=a ㄴ=n ㄱ=g ㅡ=eu ㄹ=l]
From Korean 한글 (han'geul, “Korean script”).
Senses: synonyms: Chosongul
glosses: The phonetic alphabet used to write the Korean language.
Coordinate terms: hanja
jamo
kwukyel
romaja
Derived terms: hangulization
hangul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑnˌɡul/
Forms: form: hanguls
Senses: glosses: The Kashmir stag.
antiknock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-knock
Etymology: From anti- + knock.
Senses: glosses: Of an additive added to petroleum/gasoline to reduce the occurrence of engine knock.
antiknock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiknocks
form: anti-knock
Etymology: From anti- + knock.
Senses: glosses: Such a substance, usually tetraethyl lead (also MMT, MTBE and ethanol).
Derived terms: anti-knock index
tetraethyl lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraethyl leads
form: tetra-ethyl lead
form: tetraethyllead
form: lead tetraethyl
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A toxic organometallic compound, (C₂H₅)₄Pb, added to petroleum/gasoline as an antiknock agent.
Synonyms: word: TEL
Related terms: leaded
leaded gasoline
unleaded
unleaded gasoline
100LL
thiocyanic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocyanic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous unstable liquid, HSCN; its salts and esters, the thiocyanates, have a variety of uses.
thiocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiocyanates
Etymology: From thiocyanic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester of thiocyanic acid; or the -SCN radical or the SCN⁻¹ anion
Derived terms: barium thiocyanate
Related terms: alt: -NCS or NCS-1
word: isothiocyanate
isothiocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isothiocyanates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt or ester of the hypothetical isothiocyanic acid; or the -NCS radical or the NCS⁻¹ anion; isomeric with thiocyanate
Derived terms: english: mustard oil
translation: mustard oil
word: allyl isothiocyanate
word: diisothiocyanate
word: naphthylisothiocyanate
word: phenylisothiocyanate
allyl isothiocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A mildly toxic pungent compound, C₃H₅NCS, obtained from the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra or prepared synthetically, used as an animal repellent, etc.
Synonyms: mustard oil
mustard oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
<
vegetable oil
<
oil
coordinate_terms: olive oil
palm oil
;
more
glosses: The hot pungent oil expressed from mustard seeds; used sparingly as a food dressing.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The essential oil allyl isothiocyanate, also obtained from mustard seeds.
Related terms: mustard greens
ischaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ischaemias
form: ischaemiae
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of ischemia.
Derived terms: myocardial ischaemia
ischemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskiː.mi.ə/
ipa: /ɪˈski.mi.ə/
rhymes: -iːmiə
ipa: /ɪˈskiː.mi.aɪ/
ipa: /ɪˈski.mi.aɪ/
Forms: form: ischemias
form: ischemiae
form: ischaemia
form: ischæmia
Etymology: From New Latin ischaemia, from Ancient Greek ἴσχαιμος (ískhaimos, “stoppage of blood flow”), from ῐ̓́σχω (ĭ́skhō, “to hold back, restrain; to stay, stop”) + αἷμᾰ (haîmă, “blood”).
The plural form ischemiae is also from New Latin ischaemiae.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: hypoperfusion
topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: reperfusion
hypernyms: malperfusion
glosses: Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).
Derived terms: word: antiischemic
word: extraischemic
word: intraischemic
word: ischaemically
word: ischemically
word: ischaemic
word: ischemic
word: ischaemous
word: ischemous
word: ischemial
word: microischemia
word: microischemic
word: nonischaemic
word: nonischemic
word: periischemic
word: postischaemic
word: postischemic
word: postischemia
word: thromboischemic
word: transient ischaemic attack
alt: TIA
word: transient ischemic attack
hot desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot desks
form: hot-desk
form: hotdesk
Senses: glosses: A desk, or workstation, used by different employees at different times.
hot desk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot desks
form: hot desking
form: hot desked
form: hot desked
form: hot-desk
form: hotdesk
Senses: examples: text: Small changes on the part of workers and managers can make a difference to the experience of workers who are hot desking.
ref: 2016, Jim Greer, Resilience and Personal Effectiveness for Social Workers, SAGE, →ISBN:
text: Whenever I wasn’t glad-handing NTOC [National Threat Operations Center] leadership at headquarters, I spent my time learning everything I could—“hot-desking” with analysts who worked different programs and different types of targets, so as to be able to teach my fellow team members back in Hawaii the newest ways the agency’s tools might be used.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To use different shared desks or workstations at different times.
Derived terms: hot desker
hot-desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-desks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot desk.
hot-desk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hot-desks
form: hot-desking
form: hot-desked
form: hot-desked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot desk.
hot desker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot deskers
form: hot-desker
Senses: glosses: an employee who uses a shared desk or workstation
Derived terms: hot desk
hot desking
hot-desker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-deskers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hot desker.
human resources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: management
synonyms: word: HR
glosses: The personnel department of an organization, dealing with the recruitment, administration, management and training of employees.
human resources
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: management
synonyms: employees
personnel
staff
workers
glosses: The personnel employed in an organization.
Related terms: human capital
human development
HR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /heɪtʃ ɔɹ/
ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ ɑɹ/
Forms: form: HRs
Senses: examples: text: Here are some of the biggest challenges HR executives said they faced this year: […]
ref: 2021 December 28, Kathryn Vasel, “HR executives share some of the biggest challenges of 2021”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Initialism of human resources.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of homologous recombination.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of hinge remnant.
topics: government
law
politics
glosses: Initialism of house resolution.
qualifier: occupational health
glosses: Initialism of hazard ratio.
glosses: Initialism of heart rate.
Related terms: sense: house resolution
word: AB
sense: house resolution
word: AR
sense: house resolution
word: HB
sense: house resolution
word: SB
sense: house resolution
word: SR
HR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /heɪtʃ ɔɹ/
ipa: /eɪt͡ʃ ɑɹ/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Haryana: a state of India.
improv
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɑv/
ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɒv/
Forms: form: improvs
Etymology: Clipping of improvisation and improvise.
Senses: glosses: Improvisation.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A form of live entertainment characterized by improvisation and interaction with the audience.
Synonyms: impro
Derived terms: improver
improvisational comedy
improvisational theatre
netprov
soloprov
twoprov
improv
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɑv/
ipa: /ˈɪmpɹɒv/
Forms: form: improvs
form: improvving
form: improvved
form: improvved
Etymology: Clipping of improvisation and improvise.
Senses: glosses: To perform improv.
impro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impros
Senses: glosses: Improv (improvisation).
Derived terms: impromanga
improvisational theatre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a form of theatre in which the actors perform spontaneously, without a script
Synonyms: impro
improv
Related terms: improvisational comedy
improvisational comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: improvisational comedies
Senses: glosses: A form of improvisational theatre performed with little predetermination of subject matter and structure, but with interaction with the audience.
glosses: An instance of such theatre.
Synonyms: impro
improv
inclusivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inclusive + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of incorporating disparate or unreconciled elements in a single, inclusive system or theory.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The view that all religions have a partial truth.
Related terms: inclusivist
inclusivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclusivists
Etymology: From inclusive + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of inclusivism.
inclusivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inclusive + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours.
glosses: Supporting inclusivism.
inner child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner children
Senses: examples: text: As I encouraged him to stay with that pain, he fell deeply into the reality of the inner child. The need in this inner child for love was very real indeed. He loved this inner child with all his heart.
ref: 1993, Barbara Ann Brennan, Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing, Bantam Books, page 135:
text: 2009, Jo Woodiwiss, Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Springer Nature (Palgrave Macmillan), 2009, Softcover reprint, page 186,
A level of intensity can be seen in Anne's account, although Anne's investment was not so much in the world of her adult self but in the therapeutic world of inner children. […] Anne worked hard on her healing but the majority of this work was done on, or with, her inner children.
text: I will start by stating that most of the time — especially in our relationships — it is not our adult self, but rather our inner child, who is actually running the show. We all have an inner child.
ref: 2010, Bree Maresca-Kramer, It's That Simple!: A Woman's Book on Relationships, Life, Ourselves and the Healing of It All, It's That Simple!, page 57:
text: In traditional marriages, the woman mothered both inner children by holding the emotional content of the marriage, cooking and keeping house.
ref: 2012, Shakti Durga, Empowering Relationships, Higher Guidance, page 110:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The childlike aspect of a person's psyche, typically, the personality and the memories of one's childhood, especially in the context of coexisting with, and being suppressed by, an adult aspect of the person.
Related terms: id
inner chimp
puer aeternus
intrapreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɜː/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɹə.pɹəˈnʊɚ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: intrapreneurs
Etymology: From intra- + -preneur.
Senses: topics: business
management
glosses: A person employed to work independently within a company in order to introduce innovation and to revitalize and diversify its business.
Derived terms: intrapreneurial
intrapreneurialism
intrapreneuring
intrapreneurism
intrapreneurship
Related terms: insultant
in-your-face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in-your-face
form: most in-your-face
form: in your face
Senses: examples: text: But the firm’s in-your-face attitude—and the relentless pressure to perform—takes its toll.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
text: It's sexual but not quite so in-your-face.
ref: 2013 November 7, Jewly Wright, “K.T. Oslin: The Cream Interview”, in Nashville Scene:
text: The in-your-face name was deliberate, Ms. Lugrin said.
ref: 2021 August 2, Taylor Lorenz, “The App With the Unprintable Name That Wants to Give Power to Creators”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Aggressively or blatantly confrontational.
Related terms: in-yer-face
in your face
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more in your face
form: most in your face
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in-your-face.
in your face
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: in your face !
Senses: examples: text: I got picked for the cheerleading squad, and YOU didn't. In your face!
glosses: A derisive and contemptuous exclamation of triumph over one's interlocutor.
Related terms: in someone's face
Japanimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˌpanɪˈmeɪʃn/
Forms: form: Japanimations
form: japanimation
Etymology: Blend of Japan + animation
Senses: examples: text: Cool! Japanimation.
ref: 2001, “HOMЯ”, in The Simpsons, season 12, episode 9, spoken by Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright):
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Synonym of anime (“Japanese animated cartoons”).
synonyms: word: anime
extra: Japanese animated cartoons
topics: anime
broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: 20th-century anime.
Synonyms: anime
Japanime
juice box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juice boxes
form: juicebox
Senses: glosses: A small carton of fruit juice with an attached plastic straw.
examples: text: Ashleigh opened her legs without hesitation giving him a nice view of her juice box
ref: 2016, Ty Marshall, Keys to the Kingdom, page 142:
text: She raised one leg up on the edge of the tub, giving him full access to her juice box.
ref: 2017, Blake Karrington, Single Ladies 2, unnumbered page:
text: I started making a trail of kisses down her belly until I made it to her juice box.
ref: 2018, Dawn Jiles, If I Can't Have You, unnumbered page:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: The vagina.
Synonyms: sense: small carton of fruit juice
word: juice carton
sense: small carton of fruit juice
word: popper
just in time
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I very nearly drove into the car in front, but thankfully I managed to stop just in time.
glosses: At the last possible moment; just before or within the assigned time.
Synonyms: word: at the eleventh hour
word: in the nick of time
word: in pudding time
word: just in time
word: last-minute
word: not a minute too soon
word: under the wire
Hypernyms: word: eventually
word: in time
Derived terms: JIT
just-in-time
Related terms: not before time