cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
rook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊk/
note: sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete
ipa: /ɹuːk/
ipa: /ɹʉk/
homophone: ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: rooks
form: rooking
form: rooked
form: rooked
Etymology: * Inherited from Middle English rok, roke, from Old English hrōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hrōk, from Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Old Norse hrókr, Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), from Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarian кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kórax, “crow”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).
* (parson): Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.
Senses: examples: text: Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 311:
glosses: To cheat or swindle.
Synonyms: sense: cheat
word: cheat
sense: cheat
word: con
sense: cheat
word: do
sense: cheat
word: dupe
sense: cheat
word: have
sense: cheat
word: swindle
sense: cheat
word: trick
Hyponyms: sense: cheat
english: at cards
translation: at cards
word: Greek
rook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊk/
note: sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete
ipa: /ɹuːk/
ipa: /ɹʉk/
homophone: ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: rooks
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rook, rooke, roke, rok, from Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”). Compare roc.
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
glosses: A castle or other fortification.
Synonyms: sense: chesspiece
word: castle
sense: castle
word: castle
sense: castle
word: fortress
Derived terms: rook lift
rook polynomial
wrong rook pawn
Related terms: ♖
♜
rook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊk/
note: sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete
ipa: /ɹuːk/
ipa: /ɹʉk/
homophone: ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: rooks
Etymology: From rookie.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rookie.
rook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊk/
note: sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete
ipa: /ɹuːk/
ipa: /ɹʉk/
homophone: ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊk
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English roke, rock, rok (“mist; vapour; drizzle; smoke; fumes”), from Old Norse *rauk, related to Icelandic rok, roka (“whirlwind; seafoam; seaspray”), Middle Dutch rooc, rok, Modern Dutch rook (“smoke; fog”).
Senses: glosses: mist; fog; roke
rook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊk/
note: sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete
ipa: /ɹuːk/
ipa: /ɹʉk/
homophone: ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: rooks
form: rooking
form: rooked
form: rooked
Senses: examples: text: The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:
glosses: To squat; to ruck.
rook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʊk/
note: sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete
ipa: /ɹuːk/
ipa: /ɹʉk/
homophone: ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: rooks
form: rooking
form: rooked
form: rooked
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of look, mimicking Asian speech.
beverage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbev(a)ɾeːd͡ʒ/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈbiː-/
Forms: form: beverages
form: beveridge
Etymology: From Middle English beverage, from Old French beverage, variant of bevrage, from beivre (“to drink”), variant of boivre (“to drink”), from Latin bibō. Related to imbibe.
Senses: examples: text: carbonated beverage
text: alcoholic beverage
text: He knew no Beverage but the flowing Stream; / His taſteful well-earn'd Food the ſilvan Game, […]
ref: 1748, James Thomson, “Canto II”, in The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, stanza VII, page 44:
text: [W]here coffee is used as a constant beverage, the gravel and the gout are scarcely known.
ref: 1848, J. S. Skinner & Son, editor, The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil, volume I, Philadelphia: J. S. Skinner & Son, page 137:
glosses: A liquid to consume; a drink, such as tea, coffee, liquor, beer, milk, juice, or a soft drink, usually excluding water.
glosses: (A gift of) drink money.
Synonyms: word: drink
word: beverage
word: beveridge
word: libation
word: potable
word: potation
Hypernyms: word: liquid
word: refreshment
Hyponyms: word: alcoholic beverage
word: soft drink
word: ale
word: beer
word: wine
word: brandy
word: whisky
word: punch
word: water
word: milk
word: soda
word: cola
word: lemonade
word: juice
word: smoothie
word: cordial
word: tea
word: coffee
word: chocolate
word: hot chocolate
Derived terms: adult beverage
bev
beverageware
bevvy
functional beverage
nonbeverage
Related terms: word: bever
word: drinkware
word: hydrate
word: quench
word: taste
word: thirst
word: :Category:en:Beverages
bicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪsɪk(ə)l/
note: Canada, idle-idol split
ipa: /ˈbʌɪsɪkəl/
note: Indic
ipa: /baj.sajkɪl/
Forms: form: bicycles
form: bicycling
form: bicycled
form: bicycled
Etymology: Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-”) + cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.
(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.
Senses: examples: text: “At least it cannot be your health," said he, as his keen eyes darted over her; "so ardent a bicyclist must be full of energy.” […] “Yes, I bicycle a good deal, Mr. Holmes, and that has something to do with my visit to you to-day.”
ref: 1903 December 26, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
glosses: To travel or exercise using a bicycle.
examples: text: “Bicycling” defeated the possibility of topicality, a prime production habit of the network-trained production executives staffing the new entity.
ref: 2002, Roger Phillips Smith, The Other Face of Public Television, page 56:
text: In turn, two-inch tapes of these could be “bicycled” from one place to another across the country, thereby altering and improving production economies.
ref: 2014, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, page 177:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: To physically ship (a recorded programme) to another broadcasting entity.
bike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪk/
ipa: [bɐɪk]
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: bikes
form: biking
form: biked
form: biked
Etymology: Clipping of bicycle. First attested in 1882.
One explanation for the form with /k/ is that bicycle was parsed to bi(cy)c(le). An alternative explanation is that it was parsed to bic(ycle) but since speakers are aware of a general /k/~/s/ alternation (as in electric ~ electricity etc.), the softened /s/ was restored to a default /k/ when the “ending” -ycle was dropped. A similar case is merc /mɜɹk/ for mercenary. It seems unlikely, however, that this process is purely phonological and not at least partially based on the spelling ⟨c⟩.
Senses: examples: text: I biked so much yesterday that I'm very sore today.
text: In the 1890’s “women were behind the stove,” he relates. But they cycled, too. “And they had difficulty pedalling bicycles with ankle-length skirts. “At the time,” Taylor said, “the most sinful thing a woman could do was to show light between her legs. “The original culotte was designed by a LAW member’s wife. The churches (in the East) termed this bepantsed female activity of biking “sinful bicycling,” he noted.
ref: 1975 April 17, Jack Weatherly, “Dallas or Bust”, in The Courier News, volume 80, number 286, Blytheville, Ark., page 8, column 3:
glosses: To ride a bike.
examples: text: It was such a nice day I decided to bike to the store, though it's far enough I usually take my car.
text: He saw me catch a trap and leave the house of a drug dealer. That's why he targeted me. He could have easily blown my ass off right then and there for lying, but for some reason he didn't. He just left. I biked back to my plug's spot and told him […]
ref: 2017, Gucci Mane, Neil Martinez-Belkin, The Autobiography of Gucci Mane, page 32:
glosses: To travel by bike.
examples: text: I biked them the letters.
text: Frank, a teenager, arrived at his grandfather’s shop to begin work as a butcher’s boy. The job would be to bike parcels of meat around Dronfield and the surrounding countryside between the cities of Sheffield and Chesterfield, right on the county border of Derbyshire and Yorkshire.
ref: 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To transport by bicycle.
bike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪk/
ipa: [bɐɪk]
rhymes: -aɪk
Forms: form: bikes
form: byke
Etymology: From Middle English bike, byke (“a nest of wild bees or wasps; also, honeycomb”), of unknown origin. Perhaps a back-formation of Middle English *bykere (“beekeeper”), from Old English bēocere (“beekeeper”); or from Old English *bȳc, a byform of Old English būc (“belly; vessel; container”). Compare also Scots byke (“beehive, anthill; home, dwelling”), Old Norse bý (“bee”).
Senses: examples: text: like blue bottle flees in a blink of sunshine, […]A bonny bike there’s o’ them!
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
text: he stood for a minute talking to them about their job of gathering cones, and telling them a story about a tree he’d once climbed which had a wasp’s byke in it unbeknown to him.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 107:
glosses: A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
glosses: A crowd of people.
binary code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary codes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: ones and zeroes
word: ones and zeros
glosses: A code that uses the binary digits (1 and 0), usually in groups of eight, to represent characters, machine instructions or other data.
Tibetan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈbɛtən/
ipa: [tʰɪˈbɛtʰn̩]
ipa: [tʰɪˈbɛʔn̩]
Etymology: From Tibet + -an.
Senses: examples: text: A fantastic legend was told about the first Gyalwai Odzer. This legend, believed to be authentic, had no fixed origin in time because the nomads of the region, the Tibetan province Tsinghai, could not, not even vaguely, indicate a date. The legend, however, was clear enough, so well known that it was no longer discussed, for everybody had been told the tale during childhood. It had become a dogma, to be believed passively without even trying to ascertain its probability or validity.
ref: 1982, Alexandra David-Neel, Aphur Yongden, translated by Janwillem van de Wetering, The Power of Nothingness, Houghton Mifflin Company, page 2:
text: After many years, Buddhism touched every aspect of Tibetan life, including how to treat the earth and plants and animals.
ref: 2003, Patricia Kummer, Tibet, Children's Press, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: Pertaining to Tibet, the Tibetan people, culture, or language.
Derived terms: word: Sino-Tibetan
word: Tibetan antelope
word: Tibetan Buddhist
taxonomic: Vulpes ferrilata
word: Tibetan fox
word: Tibetanist
word: Tibetan Mastiff
word: Tibetanness
taxonomic: Vulpes ferrilata
word: Tibetan sand fox
word: Tibetan script
word: Tibetan Spaniel
word: Tibetan Terrier
word: Tibetan wolf
Tibetan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈbɛtən/
ipa: [tʰɪˈbɛtʰn̩]
ipa: [tʰɪˈbɛʔn̩]
Forms: form: Tibetans
Etymology: From Tibet + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native of Tibet
glosses: A language of Tibet
Derived terms: Amdo Tibetan
Classical Tibetan
Khams Tibetan
Lhasa Tibetan
Old Tibetan
Related terms: urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/bod
word: bo
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/bod
word: bod
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tibetan terms
Naples
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪ.pəlz/
rhymes: -eɪpəlz
Etymology: From French Naples, from Latin Neāpolis, from Ancient Greek Νεᾱ́πολῐς (Neā́polĭs), from νέᾱ (néā, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city”) after the relocation of the original Greek settlement in the area. Doublet of Nabeul, Nablus, Napoli, Neapoli, and Neapolis. Compare Newton.
Senses: related: word: Napoli
glosses: A port city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Naples and the region of Campania, Italy.
related: word: Napoli
glosses: A metropolitan city of Campania, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Naples.
related: word: Napoli
glosses: A former province of Campania.
glosses: Synonym of Kingdom of Naples, a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy in the early modern period.
synonyms: word: Kingdom of Naples
extra: a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy in the early modern period
glosses: Synonym of Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy and Sicily in the 19th century.
synonyms: word: Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
extra: a former kingdom that controlled southern Italy and Sicily in the 19th century
glosses: A city in Collier County, Florida, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Idaho, United States.
glosses: A town in Illinois, United States.
glosses: A town in Maine, United States.
glosses: A town and village in New York, United States.
glosses: A town in South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A city in Texas, United States.
glosses: A city in Utah, United States.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin, United States.
Synonyms: sense: Italian city
word: Palaepolis
sense: Italian city
word: Neapolis
sense: Italian city
word: Parthenope
sense: Italian city
alt: endonym
word: Napoli
Derived terms: Bay of Naples
duchy of Naples
East Naples
Gulf of Naples
Kingdom of Naples
Naples biscuit
Naples yellow
Naples and die
Related terms: Neapolitan
melody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛl.ə.di/
ipa: /ˈmɛl.ə.di/
Forms: form: melodies
Etymology: From Middle English melodie, melodye, from Old French melodie, from Latin melodia, from Ancient Greek μελῳδίᾱ (melōidíā, “singing, chanting”), from μέλος (mélos, “musical phrase”) + ἀοιδή (aoidḗ, “song”), contracted form ᾠδή (ōidḗ).
Senses: examples: text: Alyssa likes to sing melodies while playing the drums.
text: There is a melody upon the Earth as though ten thousand streams all sang together for their homes that they had forsaken in the hills.
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], “The Sayings of Slid (whose Soul is by the Sea)”, in The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
ref: 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur:
glosses: A sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase.
Synonyms: sense: sequence of notes that makes up a musical phrase
word: tune
Coordinate terms: harmony
rhythm
tone color
Derived terms: cat's melody
C melody
countermelody
melodic
melodied
melodiograph
melodious
melodist
melodium
melodize
melodyhorn
melodyless
melodylike
micromelody
undermelody
Related terms: melodrama
scale
tune
harmony
music
laryngitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɹɪnˈd͡ʒaɪtɪs/
ipa: /læɹɪnˈd͡ʒaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: laryngites
form: laryngitides
Etymology: Attested since 1822 C.E. Learned borrowing from New Latin laryngitis, from larynx + -itis. By surface analysis, laryng- + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: The moment had come for the honeyed word. I lowered my voice to a confidential murmur, but on her inquiring if I had laryngitis raised it again.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
glosses: An inflammation of the larynx, typically resulting in hoarseness.
Derived terms: laryngitic
pharyngolaryngitis
rhinolaryngitis
bepinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈpɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: bepinches
form: bepinching
form: bepinched
form: bepinched
Etymology: From be- + pinch.
Senses: examples: text: shoulders , all bepinch'd
ref: [1611?], Homer, “Book XXIII”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
glosses: To pinch, or mark with pinches.
glosses: To pinch all over.
beplumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + plumed.
Senses: examples: text: The beplumed and beribboned equipages were designed to harmonize with and en­hance the appearances of the performers.
ref: 1932, Amelia Earhart, “The First Women Aeronauts”, in The Fun of It, page 201:
glosses: Decked with feathers.
bepommel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepommels
form: bepommeling
form: bepommelling
form: bepommeled
form: bepommeled
form: bepommelled
form: bepommelled
Etymology: From be- + pommel.
Senses: glosses: To pommel; to beat, as with a stick.
glosses: To assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.
bepraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bepraises
form: bepraising
form: bepraised
form: bepraised
Etymology: From be- + praise.
Senses: glosses: To praise greatly or extravagantly.
Derived terms: bepraiser
beprose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈpɹəʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Forms: form: beproses
form: beprosing
form: beprosed
form: beprosed
Etymology: From be- + prose.
Senses: examples: text: Such was his doom impos'd by Heaven's decree, / With ears that hear not, eyes that shall not see, / The low to raise, to level the Sublime, / To blast all Beauty, and beprose all Rhyme.
ref: 1733, David Mallet, Verbal Criticism:
glosses: To reduce to prose.
motorcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
ipa: [ˈmoʊɾɚˌsaɪkl̩]
Forms: form: motorcycles
form: motor cycle
form: motor-cycle
Etymology: From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.
Senses: examples: text: Her big mission is to recover the precious Blue Star (a glowing rock in a box), which leads to a Western shoot-out, a space-age motorcycle gang, and an unamusing Darth Vader-esque villain.
ref: 1995 October 23, Steven Puchalski, “Can these sci-fi videos show us the Woman of the Future?”, in Sci Fi Entertainment, page 36:
text: That last problem did intrude on Hazzard’s roamings, and when she refers to the living city it is with periodic references to thefts of cars and wallets, with a warning not to carry anything “snatchable” by the thieves on motorcycles who whiz through the streets.
ref: 2009 February 15, Judith Martin, “It Started in Naples”, in The New York Times:
text: Vern rubbed her hands along the motorcycles, admiring their size and power, their silver and black sleekness.
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 43:
glosses: An open-seated motor vehicle with handlebars instead of a steering wheel, and having two (or sometimes three) wheels.
Synonyms: sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: bike
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: chopper
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: cycle
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: moped
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: motorbicycle
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: motorbike
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: autobike
sense: motor-powered vehicle
word: autobicycle
Coordinate terms: word: bicycle
word: bike
english: differentiated by societal convention even when having two or three wheels and a motor
translation: differentiated by societal convention even when having two or three wheels and a motor
word: e-bike
Derived terms: boatercycle
donorcycle
moto-cross
motorcycle club
motorcycler
motorcycle sport
motorcycle taxi
motorcycling
motorcyclist
nonmotorcycle
touring motorcycle
Related terms: scooter
motorcycle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈməʊtəˌsaɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈmoʊtɚˌsaɪkəl/
ipa: [ˈmoʊɾɚˌsaɪkl̩]
Forms: form: motorcycles
form: motorcycling
form: motorcycled
form: motorcycled
form: motor cycle
form: motor-cycle
Etymology: From motor + cycle, from the Motorcyclette produced in 1897 by the French Werner Frères et Cie.
Senses: glosses: To ride a motorcycle.
polygyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈlɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
Forms: form: polygynies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολύ (polú, “many”) + γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, wife”). By surface analysis, poly- + -gyny.
Senses: examples: text: We may infer that in most cases where polygyny exists, monogamy co-exists to a greater extent, and in all other cases to a considerable extent.
ref: 1883, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Sociology, page 685:
antonyms: monogyny
;
monogamy
hypernyms: polygamy
coordinate_terms: oligogyny
;
bigamy
;
polyandry
oligandry
glosses: The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; plurality of wives; marriage to several wives.
glosses: The condition of an ant colony that has multiple egg-laying queens.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of polygamy.
synonyms: word: polygamy
Derived terms: polygynist
polygynous
polygynist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈlɪd͡ʒɪnɪst/
Forms: form: polygynists
Etymology: From polygyny + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices or advocates polygyny
Hypernyms: wedder
polyhedrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyhedrous
form: most polyhedrous
Senses: glosses: polyhedral; having multiple faces or facets.
tentacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛntəkəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛntɪkəl/
Forms: form: tentacles
Etymology: From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
Senses: examples: text: With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle, that slid wriggling down the ladder.
ref: 1873, Jules Verne, “The “Devil Fish.”—Terrible Encounter.—Crushed to Death in the Arms of a Monster.—Ned Land saved by the Captain.—“Only Revenge”.”, in [anonymous], transl., Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas; […], James R. Osgood edition, Boston, Mass.: Geo[rge] M[urray] Smith & Co., →OCLC, part II, page 274:
text: 1897, H. G. Wells, The Crystal Egg
The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth.
text: 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time
Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the glandular hairs on the leaves of certain insectivorous plants.
examples: text: the tentacles of the criminal underworld
glosses: An insidious reach or influence.
examples: text: New extensions into the outer London dormitory areas also have been constructed, and at the present moment the tentacles of London's Underground are slowly but surely extending eastwards into Essex to relieve congestion on the suburban lines of the former Great Eastern Railway.
ref: 1948 January and February, C. R. L. Coles, “The Grouping Era”, in Railway Magazine, page 21:
glosses: Something like a zoological limb.
examples: text: A joint RAF/Army staffed Air Support Control (ASC) headquarters was established at each army corps and each armoured division, linked to the forward brigades by a 'tentacle' equipped with two-way wireless telegraphy.
ref: 2013, Dr Ian Gooderson, Air Power at the Battlefront, page 26:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An officer employed to drive out to troops and transmit back requests for support via a special radio link.
Synonyms: tentaculum
Derived terms: tentaculiferous
tentacular
tentacle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛntəkəl/
ipa: /ˈtɛntɪkəl/
Forms: form: tentacles
form: tentacling
form: tentacled
form: tentacled
Etymology: From New Latin tentāculum, from tentō. Doublet of tentaculum.
Senses: glosses: to move like a tentacle
mollusc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒləsk/
ipa: /ˈmɑləsk/
Forms: form: molluscs
form: mollusk
form: mollusque
Etymology: Borrowed from French mollusque, from New Latin Mollusca (phylum name), from Latin molluscus (“thin-shelled”), from mollis (“soft”).
Senses: examples: text: bivalve molluscs
text: For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.
ref: 2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Searching for hard-shelled prey – molluscs, crabs and the like – there are two species of bear otter in Kanapoi.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 25:
hypernyms: invertebrate
<
animal
<
organism
<
creature
glosses: A soft-bodied invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically with a hard shell of one or more pieces.
synonyms: little girl
nose of wax
pushover
glosses: A weak-willed person.
Synonyms: word: mollusc
Hypernyms: word: invertebrate
word: animal
Hyponyms: word: gastropod
word: abalone
word: conch
word: limpet
word: ormer
word: periwinkle
word: snail
word: slug
word: whelk
word: cephalopod
word: cuttlefish
word: nautilus
word: octopus
word: squid
word: bivalve
word: clam
word: cockle
word: mussel
word: oyster
word: scallop
word: chiton
Derived terms: micromollusc
molluscicide
molluscivore
molluscous
Related terms: word: :Category:Mollusks
Peruvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹuː.vi.ən/
rhymes: -uːviən
Forms: form: Peruvians
Etymology: From Peru + -v- + -ian, or from Latin Peruvia.
Senses: examples: text: After a raucous two weeks of power plays at the highest levels of government that saw three different men pass through Peru’s presidency, thousands of young Peruvians have reinvigorated protest and politics.
ref: 2020 November 23, Claudia Rebaza, “‘They messed with the wrong generation’: How young people shook up politics in Peru”, in CNN:
glosses: A person from Peru or of Peruvian descent.
Peruvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹuː.vi.ən/
rhymes: -uːviən
Etymology: From Peru + -v- + -ian, or from Latin Peruvia.
Senses: examples: text: My favorite was the simplest: alfajor, a double-deck Peruvian cookie, spread with a layer of caramel.
ref: 2010 March 26, Patricia Brooks, “Culinary Surprises and Peruvian Charm”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Peru or the Peruvian people.
Derived terms: Afro-Peruvian
Peruvian apple cactus
Peruvian daffodil
Peruvian desert fox
Peruvian Hairless Dog
Peruvian Inca Orchid
Peruvianization
Peruvianize
Peruvianness
Peruvian nutmeg
Peruvian sheartail
Peruvian torch
Peruvian wart
arity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹɪti/
ipa: /ˈeəɹɪti/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: arities
Etymology: From -ary (taken from unary/binary/ternary [function/operator]) + -ity. Compare adicity and adinity.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The number of arguments or operands a function or operation takes. For a relation, the number of domains in the corresponding Cartesian product.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The maximum number of child nodes that any node in a given tree (data structure) may have.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the number of arguments (in Lojban grammar called sumti) specified in the definition of a selbri. (the selbri combined with the sumti make up a bridi).
Synonyms: word: adinity
raw_tags: of arguments
word: adicity
word: type
word: rank
mer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mers
Senses: examples: text: A polymer is a compound formed of repeating structural units called mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very large molecules.
ref: 2010, Mikell P. Groover, Fundamentals of Modern Manufacturing (4th Edition), page 9:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A repeat unit: a structural unit which through repetition forms a polymer.
Derived terms: nonadecamer
mer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are mermaids and mermen everywhere. They swim above us and linger in nooks and arched doorways. It's impossible not to stare. The mer are as diverse as humans—all ages, size, shape, and color.
ref: 2013, Missy Fleming, Into the Deep, page 65:
topics: fantasy
glosses: merpeople
mer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mers
Etymology: See mayor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayor and mair.
kilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɪˈlɒmɪtə/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌmiːtə/
ipa: /kəˈlɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌmitəɹ/
ipa: /kɪˈlɔmɪtəɹ/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌmitəɹ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɪl.o.mi.ʈɜʳ/
rhymes: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɪləmiːtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: kilometers
Etymology: From kilo- + meter.
Senses: examples: text: When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
ref: 2013 July 14, Joyce Lau, Calvin Yang, “University of Macau Moves Over the China Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2013, Asia Pacific:
text: At around 5:30 a.m., crewmembers of a JCG patrol boat received an SOS from the 106,726-ton freighter Anangel Courage. The patrol vessel and a JCG plane found the freighter on the high seas about 67 kilometers away from Uotsuri Island, one of the Senkaku Islands, which are also claimed by China.
ref: 2016 August 11, “Chinese fishing boat collides with Greek freighter near Senkakus, 6 rescued”, in The Mainichi, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2016:
glosses: US spelling of kilometre.
Derived terms: kilometer-wide
multikilometer
square kilometer
subkilometer
decameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decameters
Etymology: Borrowed from French décamètre. Equivalent to deca- + meter.
Senses: glosses: US spelling of decametre.
CBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In an email to CNN, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,’” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”
ref: 2021 February 19, Rob Kuznia, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, “How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate”, in CNN:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: Initialism of Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company.
glosses: Initialism of Congressional Black Caucus.
Related terms: sense: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
word: CTV
CBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CBCs
Senses: examples: text: Like many Canadian-born Chinese (CBCs), Yao's parents are from Hong Kong. Brought up in multicultural Toronto, she, like other young CBCs, is stuck between two cultures.
ref: 1996 September 8, Kenny Yum, “Bridging the cultural divide”, in South China Sunday Morning Post:
text: According to most CBC students, Hong Kong Chinese were considered to be FOBs because they continued to partake in Hong Kong popular culture, and they were physically distinctive in terms of their Hong Kong styles of fashion.
ref: 1999, Cam Hue Lau, Role of Chinese Social Clubs in Chinese Identity: An Exploration of a Group of University Students (MA thesis), Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary, page 92:
text: ESLs felt that they were better than CBCs because of their perceived cultural "authenticity," their loyalty to the home country, and their detailed knowledge of a language and culture that was not Canadian. And CBCs felt that they were better than ESLs because they had adapted to Canadian culture, were more interested in the present as opposed to the perceived obsession that ESLs had with the past, and were more aware of North American popular culture, such as style and music.
ref: 2008, Shauna Pomerantz, Girls, Style, and School Identities: Dressing the Part, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 80–81:
text: This survey has successfully identified some causative patterns and risk factors for CBCs leaving bicultural Chinese churches, which indicate where preventative kinds of leadership measures can be taken. For example, the research revealed that the life stage when the majority leave is young adulthood; that most CBCs deliberated for a lengthy period of time, assessing their options, before exiting; and that follow-up with them appears to have been minimal or nonexistent.
ref: 2015, Matthew Richard Sheldon Todd, English Ministry Crisis in Chinese Canadian Churches: Towards the Retention of English-Speaking Adults from Chinese Canadian Churches through Associated Parallel Independent English Congregational Models, Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: Initialism of Canadian-born Chinese.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of complete blood count.
Related terms: sense: Canadian-born Chinese
word: ABC
CBC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: CNBC
glosses: Initialism of childless/child-free by choice.
CBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛs
Senses: examples: text: President Trump sued CBS in a federal court alleging that the interview was deceptively “doctored” to help Harris beat Trump. CBS insisted that it was not doctored.
ref: 2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Columbia Broadcasting System: a U.S. television and radio network, now officially known as CBS Broadcasting.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of Christian Brothers School.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of Component-Based Servicing.
CBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Charles Bonnet syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of combined braking system.
glosses: Initialism of corticobasal syndrome.
NBC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: N.B.C.
form: N. B. C.
Senses: examples: text: Bailey told CNN that he only spoke with [Arthur] Engoron about his September summary judgment decision “because that’s the only thing I discussed with reporters.” NBC said it stood by its story.
ref: 2024 July 25, Kara Scannell, “Judge who ordered Trump to pay $454 million says he was ‘accosted’ by lawyer and won’t recuse himself from case”, in CNN:
text: ANW Co-Host Matt Iseman talked about the head-to-head races in his chat with NBC Insider, saying the Season 17 Ninjas took "bigger risks" to see success this time around.
ref: 2025 August 18, Jessica White, “The ANW Season 17 Championship Ninjas Have Been Revealed (SPOILERS)”, in NBC:
glosses: Initialism of National Broadcasting Company: U.S. television and radio network.
glosses: Initialism of National Biscuit Company: U.S. food company, now Nabisco.
Derived terms: MSNBC
NBC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NBCs
form: N.B.C.
form: N. B. C.
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Abbreviation of nuclear weapon, biological weapon and chemical weapon.
NBC
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: N.B.C.
form: N. B. C.
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: ABC#Adjective
glosses: Abbreviation of nuclear, biological, chemical.
Related terms: sense: nuclear, biological, chemical
word: B-NICE
sense: nuclear, biological, chemical
word: CBRN
SRC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SRCs
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of Short Range Certificate (certificate that entitles the holder to operate a maritime VHF radio).
UPN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of United Paramount Network.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of user principal name.
CTV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Canadian Television, a Canadian national television network.
glosses: Initialism of Canterbury Television, a Canterbury Region television station located in Christchurch, New Zealand.
glosses: Initialism of China Television, a television network in Taiwan.
Related terms: word: CBC
CTV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CTVs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of clinical target volume, a part of the human body with malignant tumour and some volume surrounding it.
ERT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellenikí/Ellinikí Radiofonía Tileórasi (Hellenic (Greek) Broadcasting television), Greece
ERT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ERTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of emergency response team.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of enzyme replacement therapy.
nick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪk/
homophone: nic
homophone: Nick
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: nicks
Etymology: From nick(name).
Senses: examples: text: a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network
text: /nick Changes your nickname—the name by which other IRCers see and refer to you—to anything you'd like (but remember that nine characters is the maximum nick length).
ref: 1995, Donald Rose, Internet Chat Quick Tour: Real-time Conversations & Communications Online, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Ventana Press, →ISBN, page 42:
text: Also, ERC, like Emacs, is extremely modular and flexible. It is, of course, a free software program, but there are also many existing modules from nick highlighting to autoaway that you can use.
ref: 2014, Josh Datko, “Chatting Off-the-record”, in BeagleBone for Secret Agents: Bbrowse Anonymously, Communicate Secretly, and Create Custom Security Solutions with Open Source Software, the BeagleBone Black, and Cryptographic Hardware (Community Experience Distilled), Birmingham, West Midlands: Packt Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Clipping of nickname.
nick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪk/
homophone: nic
homophone: Nick
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: nicks
form: nicking
form: nicked
form: nicked
Etymology: From nick(name).
Senses: examples: text: For Warbecke as you nicke him, came to me / Commended by the States of Chriſtendome.
ref: 1634, [John Ford], The Chronicle Historie of Perkin Warbeck. A Strange Truth. […], London: Printed by T[homas] P[urfoot, Jr.] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC; republished as A Chronicle History of Perkin Warbeck. A Tragedy. A Strange Truth, London: Printed for J. Roberts, […], 1714, →OCLC, act IV, scene i, page 72:
glosses: To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
nick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪk/
homophone: nic
homophone: Nick
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: nicks
Etymology: A variant of nix or nixie.
Senses: examples: text: [A]midst Ahriman and his hosts who had now established themselves in the Occident, and as heirs to the horns and tails of Pans and fauns, a crowd of native spirits moved; imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.
ref: 1879, Viktor Rydberg, “The Magic of the People and the Struggle of the Church against It”, in August Hjalmar Edgren, transl., The Magic of the Middle Ages: Translated from the Swedish, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 201:
glosses: A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
NHL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NHLs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
glosses: Initialism of National Historic Landmark.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Initialism of Nenets Herding Laika.
NHL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Initialism of National Hockey League.
Derived terms: NHLer
Related terms: NBL
NFL
NLL
NSL
AHL
CHL
IHL
KHL
OHL
USHL
WHL
WCHL
CJAHL
QMJHL
CFL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Scenarios were floated that the CFL and WLAF would merge or that the CFL would revert to a fall schedule and become a farm league for the NFL.
ref: 2005, Steve O'Brien, The Canadian Football League, →ISBN:
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Football League.
CFL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CFLs
Senses: examples: text: “Now is the right time to transition from CFL to LED,” said John Strainic, chief operating officer of consumer and conventional lighting at GE Lighting. […] Halogen dominates standard bulb shipments, the association reported, representing almost half of the total, followed by CFLs at about 27 percent, a share that is on the decline.
ref: 2016 February 1, Diane Cardwell, “G.E. to Phase Out CFL Bulbs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2016:
glosses: Initialism of compact fluorescent lamp.
glosses: Initialism of context-free language.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of color–flavor locking.
Related terms: english: cold-cathode fluorescent lamp
translation: cold-cathode fluorescent lamp
word: CCFL
PPV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPVs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of pay-per-view.
glosses: Initialism of purchase price variance.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Porcine parvovirus, a virus causing reproductive failure of swine.
qualifier: polymer
glosses: Initialism of polyphenylene vinylene.
topics: firefighting
government
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of positive pressure ventilation.
topics: firefighting
government
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of positive pressure ventilation.
A positive pressure ventilation machine, a PPV device
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of police pursuit vehicle.
Hyponyms: word: ventilator
english: high frequency positive pressure ventilation
translation: high frequency positive pressure ventilation
word: HFPPV
english: intermittent positive pressure ventilation
translation: intermittent positive pressure ventilation
word: IPPV
english: noninvasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: noninvasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NPPV
english: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NiPPV
english: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NIPPV
Derived terms: english: high frequency positive pressure ventilation
translation: high frequency positive pressure ventilation
word: HFPPV
english: intermittent positive pressure ventilation
translation: intermittent positive pressure ventilation
word: IPPV
english: noninvasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: noninvasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NPPV
english: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NiPPV
english: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
translation: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation
word: NIPPV
Related terms: english: negative pressure ventilation
translation: negative pressure ventilation
word: NPV
english: non-invasive ventilation
translation: non-invasive ventilation
word: NIV
TV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tē'vēʹ
ipa: /ˌtiːˈviː/
ipa: /ˈti.vi/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: (Southern American English) -iːvi
Forms: form: TVs
form: T.V.
form: teevee
form: teevy
Etymology: Abbreviation, from television.
Senses: examples: text: I saw an ad for that on TV.
text: Believe me, the sun always shines on TV
ref: 1985, Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, “The Sun Always Shines on T.V.”, in Hunting High and Low, performed by a-ha:
text: USB-C isn’t just how many PC laptops are charged; it’s also how the Chromecast With Google TV draws power. It’s also the only USB port in any modern MacBook, and it’s used for charging and data transfer in many Samsung Galaxy phones (dating back to 2016’s infamous Galaxy Note 7).
ref: 2023 September 15, Henry T. Casey, “What is USB-C? Here’s everything you need to know”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of television.
examples: text: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
She spoke of her male side as her "brother" as do older, more conventional TVs.
text: I am in isolation and am lonely and would like to correspond with TVs, TSs and queens.
ref: 1986 April 12, David Anderson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:
text: TV's who dominate and TV's who are dominated! TV's who are hot, sexy and horny as hell!
ref: 1996, Forced Womanhood, number 20, page 32:
glosses: Abbreviation of transvestite.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tidal volume.
glosses: Initialism of tax value.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: pop culture
glosses: Initialism of Taylor's Version.
Derived terms: appointment TV
cable TV
dish TV
linear TV
made-for-TV
Prestige TV
slow TV
TVaholic
TV black
TV dinner
TV evangelism
TV evangelist
TV land
TV programme
TV rock
TV talk
TV white
VBTV
Related terms: telly