cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
get one's foot in the door
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets one's foot in the door
form: getting one's foot in the door
form: got one's foot in the door
form: got one's foot in the door
form: gotten one's foot in the door
Etymology: Probably from a practice attributed to door-to-door salesmen of placing a foot in the opening of a prospective customer's door, thereby preventing the person from closing the door until the conclusion of the sales pitch.
Senses: examples: text: And the legislature had better study Texas, before it commits this state to parimutuel betting, thus letting the professional gambler get his foot in the door.
ref: 1935 February 19, “When You Let the Gamblers In”, in Milwaukee Journal, retrieved 10 Jun 2009, page 8:
text: Guinier recognizes the need for minorities to get their feet in the door, but argues that "insiders" must be authentic representatives in order for minorities to achive real political power.
ref: 1994 October, Binny Miller, “Disarming Hostile Majorities: A Queer Reading of Lani Guinier on Voting Rights”, in Gay Community News, page 10:
text: But despite his academic credentials, Julian had to fight just to get his foot in the door at most laboratories.
ref: 2007 February 4, Sara Boyd, “A Formula for Greatness”, in Washington Post, retrieved 10 Jun 2009, page Y14:
text: He was able to gain employment as a cleaner relatively quickly. It was a 'foot in the door', but it wouldn't appease his ambition for long and he later qualified as a 'passed cleaner' (a fireman in all but name), based at King's Cross and St Pancras.
ref: 2021 December 29, Tom Allett, “How Wilston Jackson made railway history”, in RAIL, number 947, page 52:
glosses: To initiate contact or a relationship; to gain access, especially to an entry-level job.
Related terms: have one's foot in the door
have a foot in the door
foot-in-the-door technique
put one's foot in the door
mug shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mug shots
form: mugshot
Etymology: From mug (“face”) + shot (“snapshot”). First use appears c. 1899. Compare mug (“portrait”).
Senses: examples: text: All Summer Johnny was Prince of the penny arcade, arms around me on the tilt-a-whirl, mug-shot grins in the quarter photo booth, twanging his guitar for street kids on the hill who scored baggies of hashish and Panama Red.
ref: 2002, Carolyne Wright, Greatest Hits 1975-2001, page 32:
text: The buddy list has a bunch of visual status clues. Your buddy may have included a mug shot, perhaps through Photo Booth.
ref: 2006 October 2, Edward C. Baig, Macs For Dummies, page 204:
text: All these parameters of the series (the mug shot, the means of mechanical reproduction, the desirability of the outlawed, the reversal of law and desire and even the photo booth) are unmistakably present in Genet’s Our Lady of the Flowers.
ref: 2008, Johanne Lamoureux, PRECARIOUS VISUALITIES New Perspectives on Identification in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture: Ending Myths and the Catholic Outing of Andy Warhol, page 114:
text: After waiting some five hours to be called forward on an unusually hot, humid Summer’s day in London (I believe temperatures soared to around 30 degrees Centigrade or around 90F), I presented my mug shot to the perky female jobs-worth official.
ref: 2022 July 24, Marianne Paley, Betrayed!:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A photograph of a person's face, especially one taken by the police during an arrest.
Derived terms: mug-shotted
sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shark
sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shark
cover up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: covers up
form: covering up
form: covered up
form: covered up
Senses: examples: text: The politician tried to cover up his involvement in the scandal.
text: Even when [the mechanics] didn't know how to fix everything, they never cheated anybody or covered up. So over the years they kept learning new makes and new techniques, and now can repair about anything.
ref: 1980, “Best of Boston”, in Real Paper:
text: TransPennine Express has removed all QR codes from its 71 car parks after scammers covered up a genuine code sticker with a false one and stole £13,000 from a woman's bank account.
ref: 2023 December 13, “Network News: £13,000 stolen via car park QR”, in RAIL, number 998, page 11:
glosses: To conceal or disguise.
glosses: To clothe.
examples: text: Please cover up and go to sleep now.
glosses: To put covers over oneself in bed.
Synonyms: hide
conceal
forcover
Related terms: cover-up
anchor's aweigh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: [1928] 1988, Frederick Pease Harlow, The Making of a Sailor http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0486256138&id=maCNIgbmJMgC&pg=PA106&lpg=PA106&sig=9Fd6uA0SsfwXRKuI4mZqnZokyAU
Then the mate called again to the captain, “Anchor’s aweigh, sir!” while the men kept on heaving.
text: Amory’s voice came again from the fo’c’sle. ‘Anchor’s aweigh, sir.’
ref: 1987, Philip McCutchan, Convoy North:
text: ‘Anchor’s apeak — they pawl and back — ’ At this moment the American frigate fired a gun, dropped her topgallantsails, and sheeted them home. ‘Anchor’s aweigh,’ called Broke. ‘He plucked it up in fine style.’
ref: 1994, Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Response to order to weigh anchor when the anchor has been tripped and is no longer attached to the bottom.
Related terms: anchor's apeak
weigh anchor
give notice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives notice
form: giving notice
form: gave notice
form: given notice
form: give one's notice
Senses: examples: text: He gave notice yesterday that he'll leave in two weeks.
text: Did you hear that Jack gave notice today?
text: A Cambridgeshire man recently gave notice with a message piped on top of a passion cake. A half-baked idea, or a generous parting gift for the office?
ref: 2013 April 16, Paula Cocozza, “Resignation by cake: the sweetest way to say goodbye”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To announce one's intent to leave a job; to inform an employer that one is leaving.
examples: text: Having got its Act, the M.B.M. & M.J.R. apparently had misgivings about the route, in view of the very heavy engineering works that would be necessary, and on November 9, 1846, the company gave notice of a further bill for a deviated line, which was passed into law on July 22, 1847.
ref: 1960 March, J. P. Wilson, E. N. C. Haywood, “The route through the Peak - Derby to Manchester: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 149:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see give, notice.
Related terms: notice period
size up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sizes up
form: sizing up
form: sized up
form: sized up
Senses: examples: text: It's a good idea for boxers to size up their opponents before their matches.
text: Before we can begin to size up the problem, we'll need more information.
text: She approaches like she’s sizing them up. Five boys. Unarmed. A pile of swords over there. Ed Sheeran is there, but that’s not even the surprise.
ref: 2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: The Century
We had to size up our fellow legislators.
glosses: To evaluate; to estimate or anticipate the magnitude, difficulty, or strength of something.
examples: text: This shirt runs tight, so you should size up.
glosses: To wear a larger size of clothing.
Related terms: weigh up
weatherly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weatherly
form: most weatherly
Etymology: From weather (“direction from which the wind blows”) + -ly (“characteristic of”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Able to sail close to the wind with little leeway.
raw_tags: of a sailing vessel
Derived terms: unweatherly
stick to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks to
form: sticking to
form: stuck to
form: stuck to
Senses: examples: text: I have seen all the fancy electric toothbrushes, but I'm going to stick to the old-fashioned kind.
text: If you stick to your studies, you will continue to improve.
text: When I did newspaper work in the 1950s I always found it hard to initiate criticism of a person. Now, in the late 1970s, I suddenly find it has become hard to praise a person. Take, for example, the case of Liu Jie, an inspector of the neighborhood registry in the Daxing’anling district of Heilongjiang, who was praised in the press for sticking to principles. She also had the support of the Provincial Party Committee. But it was precisely the commendation of the Party newspaper that brought calamity upon her, and the support of the provincial leadership was of no use in breaking the siege that befell her.
ref: 2006 [1979 November 9], Binyan Liu, “Listen Carefully to the Voice of the People”, in Kyna Rubin, Perry Link, transl., edited by Perry Link, Two Kinds of Truth: Stories and Reportage from China, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 34:
text: What I get from work makes me a better mother, and what I get from being a mother makes me a better journalist. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.
ref: 2007, Amanda Lamb, Smotherhood: Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years:
glosses: To persist; to continue (to use, do, etc.)
examples: text: The suspect doubled back through an alley, but the detective stuck to him like glue.
glosses: To follow and remain close to.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stick, to.
Derived terms: stick to one's guns
stick to one's knitting
sticktoitiveness
weather shore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather shores
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A shore to weather or windward from a vessel, offering protection from the wind.
examples: text: A ship's weather shore is an island's lee shore.
glosses: Seen from land, a shore exposed to wind.
glosses: A protection, creating a relative calm.
Synonyms: sense: nautical: shore to windward
word: windward shore
number two
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: White, Caucasian.
number two
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: number twos
Senses: examples: text: I need to go number two.
text: He might have got up, without the bell's sounding, to do his number one, or number two, in his great big white chamber-pot.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: Feces; the act of defecation.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A first mate.
examples: text: After she had shown great promise over the last 10 years, he made her his number two.
glosses: A primary assistant; vice-leader.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The batsman who opens alongside the number one, but does not face the first delivery.
examples: text: Head coach Ruben Amorim will be asked by media on Wednesday who will start in goal for their crucial Europa League quarter-final with Lyon, Onana or United's latest scapegoat, number two Altay Bayindir.
ref: 2025 April 15, Simon Stone, “Why Amorim's next move on Onana is a big call”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A backup goalkeeper.
examples: text: I came down here to cement the number two position, the right back role and I’ve not really managed to do that.
ref: 2015 December 30, Mike Simmonds, quoting Stephen O’Donnell, “O’Donnell wants to make right back slot his own”, in Luton Today:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A right back.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A somewhat small town, between a number one and a number three, where the success of a theatrical performance is unlikely to be very great.
examples: text: They say you should be able to slip a pencil under your boob and if it doesn’t fall out, you’re too saggy. Shit, I could stick a whole box of number twos under these girls and keep them there until next semester.
ref: 2012, Sandra Kring, A Life of Bright Ideas, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 287:
text: I reach into my bag, pull out my pencil case, and offer Jason one of my fully sharpened number twos.
ref: 2012, Lauren Morrill, Meant to Be, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 108:
text: “I’ll need pencils, preferably number twos,” I told Miss Rose, who, for some reason, had not budged.
ref: 2015, Sheila Turnage, “Friday Night Miracle”, in The Odds of Getting Even, Kathy Dawson Books, →ISBN, page 234:
glosses: A pencil with hardness level 2.
glosses: mistress (the other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations)
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see number, two.
Synonyms: sense: feces
word: feces
sense: act of defecation
word: defecation
Coordinate terms: english: especially regarding the defecation sense
translation: especially regarding the defecation sense
word: number one
word: number three
word: and so on
Derived terms: do number two
go number two
netiquette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛt.ɪˌkɛt/
ipa: /ˈnɛt.ɪ.kɪt/
Forms: form: netiquettes
Etymology: Blend of Net + etiquette
Senses: examples: text: Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.
text: I would like to propose a netiquette rule, but I don't know where to post it.
ref: 1990 November 5, Dave Jones, “netiquette suggestion”, in news.misc (Usenet), message-ID <14434@goofy.megatest.UUCP>:
text: Manners count. On Usenet, the term is netiquette, and in the soap-opera group that Ms. Baym studied, it resembles professional courtesy.
ref: [1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13:
text: I have bad netiquette. Every week this column ends with information on how to write to me. And, every six to 12 weeks, I get around to checking my e-mail.
ref: 2010 May 5, June Casagrande, “A Word, Please”, in Burbank Leader:
glosses: Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others.
Hyponyms: chatiquette
reddiquette
Usenetiquette
wikiquette
Related terms: netcop
wiseguy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiseguys
Etymology: From wise + guy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wise guy.
Related terms: wiseacre
wise-guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wise-guys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wiseguy.
Seym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /seɪm/
Senses: glosses: A river which flows for 748 kilometres (465 mi) through the Belgorod and Kursk Oblasts of Russia and Sumy and Chernihiv Oblasts of Ukraine.
Seym
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /seɪm/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sejm (“parliament”).
target language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: target languages
Senses: qualifier: applied linguistics
glosses: The language a learner is attempting to acquire.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: The language into which a translation is done.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.
Derived terms: target text
source language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: source languages
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: The language from which a translation is done.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The language of the source code to be compiled.
Synonyms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
translation-studies
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: SL
Derived terms: source text
vega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈveɪɡə/
Forms: form: vegas
Etymology: From Spanish vega.
Senses: glosses: An open tract of ground; a plain, especially one which is moist and fertile, such as those used for growing tobacco.
vega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈveɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈveɪɡə/
ipa: /ˈviɡə/
ipa: /ˈveɪɡə/
Forms: form: vegas
Etymology: An invented word perhaps chosen to begin with "v" (for "volatility") and to sound as if it could be a Greek letter (like the related parameters "delta", "gamma" etc.)
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: kappa
tau
glosses: A measurement of the sensitivity of the value of an option to changes in the implied volatility of the price of the underlying asset.
Hypernyms: sense: measure of derivative price sensitivity
english: includes list of coordinate terms
translation: includes list of coordinate terms
word: Greeks
Derived terms: vega convexity
isamiashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isamiashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 勇み足, literally "forward step out".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a situation in which an attacking rikishi accidentally steps too far forward and out of the ring, his opponent thus winning
Related terms: fumidashi
koshikudake
okuriashi
tsukihiza
tsukite
fumidashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumidashi
Etymology: From Japanese 踏み出し (fumidashi, literally “stepping out”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A situation in which a defending rikishi accidentally steps too far back and out of the ring, his opponent thus winning. A rear step out.
Related terms: isamiashi
koshikudake
okuriashi
tsukihiza
tsukite
koshikudake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koshikudake
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 腰砕け, literally "inadvertent collapse".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A situation in which a rikishi accidentally falls over, his opponent thus winning.
Related terms: fumidashi
isamiashi
okuriashi
tsukihiza
tsukite
okuriashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okuriashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 送足, literally "step out".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A situation in which a rikishi accidentally steps out of ring whilst carrying his opponent out, his opponent thus winning.
Related terms: fumidashi
isamiashi
koshikudake
tsukihiza
tsukite
tsukihiza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 突き膝 (つきひざ, tsukihiza), literally meaning “push-down knee”.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: a situation in which a rikishi accidentally touches the dohyo with his knee, his opponent thus winning
Related terms: fumidashi
isamiashi
koshikudake
okuriashi
tsukite
tsukite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tsukite
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese つき手, meaning "hand touch down".
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: The situation in which a rikishi accidentally touches the dohyo with his hand, his opponent thus winning.
Related terms: fumidashi
isamiashi
koshikudake
okuriashi
tsukihiza
silver bullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver bullets
Senses: topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: A bullet made of silver, usually with reference to the folkloric belief that such bullets are the only weapons which can kill a werewolf, vampire, or other monster.
examples: text: There is no silver bullet for this problem. It will take hard work and long hours to fix.
text: Colin H. Kahl, the under secretary of defense for policy, acknowledged last week that “no one capability is a silver bullet,” but said the cluster munitions would allow Ukraine “to sustain the artillery fight for the foreseeable future.”
ref: 2023 July 14, Eric Schmitt, quoting Colin H. Kahl, “U.S. Cluster Munitions Arrive in Ukraine, but Impact on Battlefield Remains Unclear”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: magic bullet
glosses: Any straightforward solution perceived to have great effectiveness or bring miraculous results.
examples: text: The Martini is nicknamed “the silver bullet” because of its supposedly lethal properties.
ref: [2003, Lowell Edmunds, Martini, Straight Up: The Classic American Cocktail, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 64:
text: For a classic silver bullet martini, you simply need to choose your poison—gin or vodka—and add dry vermouth and olives. For the more complex concoctions, you'll want to stock up on flavored vodkas, juices, garnishes, and liqueurs.
ref: 2007, Sally Ann Berk, Martini Book: 201 Ways to Mix the Perfect American Cocktail, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: A classic dry martini cocktail.
examples: text: […] "the silver bullet"—a rectal thermometer, to ensure that their body core isn't dangerously overheated from the run.
ref: 1998, Thomas E. Ricks, Making the Corps, page 166:
text: Of course, there is the infamous “Silver Bullet,” which is a rectal thermometer that measures the body's core temperature in the event of a heat case. No one wanted to get it up the butt with the Silver Bullet, […]
ref: 2006, Cpl. Matthew D. Wojtecki, Every Other Four, page 140:
text: A Corpsman was yanking my pants down in order to administer a “silver bullet” (rectal thermometer). I squirmed away and shoved the Corpsman off me before he could insert it.
ref: 2017, Jason Delgado, Chris Martin, Bounty Hunter 4/3: From the Bronx to Marine Scout Sniper, page 109:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A thermometer, especially one used for rectal temperature readings.
Hypernyms: bullet
£sd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: An abbreviation of the Latin lībra solidus dēnārius.
Senses: glosses: The pre-decimal pounds, shillings, pence.
raw_tags: after 1971
examples: text: He reins his horses with an air; he treats
With scoffing calm whatever powers there be;
He gets it straight, puts a bit on, and meets
His losses with both lip and £ s. d.
ref: 1901, William Henley, Bus-driver:
glosses: Money in general.
Esztergom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: note: Hungarian
ipa: /ˈɛstɛɹɡom/
Senses: synonyms: word: Gran
glosses: A city in Hungary.
Related terms: Komárom-Esztergom
drachm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹæm/
rhymes: -æm
Forms: form: drachms
form: dram
form: drachme
form: dram
Etymology: Borrowed into late Middle English from Old French dragme (modern French drachme), from Late Latin dragma. Doublet of dirham.
Senses: qualifier: units of measurement
glosses: A small unit of weight, variously:
One sixteenth (1⁄16) of an ounce avoirdupois (1.77 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ).
qualifier: units of measurement; pharmacy; pharmacy
glosses: A small unit of weight, variously:
One eighth (1⁄8) of an ounce apothecary (3.89 g; symbol: ℨ or ʒ).
examples: text: At Aleppo, and its port Scanderoon, the cantaro contains 100 rottoli, each of which is subdivided into 12 ounces, or 720 drachms... The rottolo with which the silks from Tripoli, and other parts of Syria, are weighed, consists of 700 drachms, answering to 4⅞ avoirdupois. The rottolo used in weighing the Persian silks contains 680 drachms, or nearly 4¾ lbs. avoirdupois. The rottolo of Damascus, with which brass, camphor, benzoin, spikenard, balsam of Mecca, and other drugs are weighed, contains 600 drachms, or 4¹⁄₅ lbs. avoirdupois. Five rottoli, or 3600 drachms, make what is called a vesno... At Saide, in Syria, (the ancient Sidon,) silk and sattin yarn are weighed with the rottolo of Damascus, of 600 drachms; 100 such rottoli answering to about 410 lbs. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois. At Tripoli, the cantaro weight contains 100 rottoli, each of 6 ounces, or 128 termini; this cantaro answers to 168 lbs. peso sotile of Venice, or about 12 lbs. avoirdupois...
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia, Vol. XXX, s.v. "Rottolo"
qualifier: units of measurement
glosses: A small unit of weight, variously:
Alternative form of dirhem: a small former Turkish weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
qualifier: units of measurement
glosses: A small unit of weight, variously:
Alternative form of drachma: a small former Greek weight (about 4.3 g).
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Alternative form of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma.
Related terms: decadrachm
didrachma
dirham
fluid drachm
hemidrachm
octadrachm
pentadrachm
tetradrachm
experient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experients
Etymology: From Latin experiēns.
Senses: glosses: A person who experiences something.
experient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more experient
form: most experient
Etymology: From Latin experiēns.
Senses: glosses: Met with in the course of experience.
exacerbatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exacerbatingly
form: most exacerbatingly
Etymology: From exacerbating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exacerbating way; so as to aggravate or make worse.
billet barge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billet barges
Senses: examples: text: From Detroit to Daytona Beach, from Brooklyn to the Bay Area, the streets are ruled by tight superbikes that put yesterday's Evo-powered billet barges to shame.
ref: 2006, Mike Seate, How to Build a Pro Streetbike, St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, →ISBN, page 6:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
glosses: A large motorbike with multiple chrome (or similar) cosmetic modifications.
exactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exactnesses
Etymology: From exact + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being exact.
Synonyms: exactitude
Related terms: accuracy
precision
exactable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exactable
form: most exactable
Etymology: From exact + -able.
Senses: glosses: Having the capability of being exacted.
exacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ/
rhymes: -æktɪŋ
Forms: form: more exacting
form: most exacting
Etymology: From exact + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: His exacting taste required no small degree of outward perfection.
ref: 1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 4, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:
text: [H]e burst into apologies which would have satisfied a more exacting man than I am.
ref: 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in The Stark Munro Letters:
text: [Canadian Prime Minister] Mr. [Mark] Carney was the exacting governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, and the levelheaded governor of the Bank of England during Brexit.
ref: 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
examples: text: Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 3, in The Man:
text: Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.
ref: 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:
text: Even if a GDF receives its first deposit in the 2040s, the waste has to be delivered and put away with such exacting caution that it can be filled and closed only by the middle of the 22nd century.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
qualifier: task; etc; task; etc
glosses: Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
raw_tags: of an action
examples: text: "He is a hard, exacting, money-loving man," was my remark.
ref: 1850, T. S. Arthur, chapter 2, in All's For the Best:
glosses: Characterized by exaction.
raw_tags: of a person or organization
Synonyms: sense: difficult to satisfy
word: demanding
sense: requiring precise accuracy, effort, care, or attention
word: demanding
sense: requiring precise accuracy, effort, care, or attention
word: niggly
sense: requiring precise accuracy, effort, care, or attention
word: pernickety
sense: characterized by exaction
word: acquisitive
sense: characterized by exaction
word: extortionate
sense: characterized by exaction
word: grasping
sense: characterized by exaction
word: money-grubbing
sense: characterized by exaction
word: rapacious
Derived terms: superexacting
unexacting
exacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ/
rhymes: -æktɪŋ
Etymology: From exact + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of exact
Derived terms: exactingly
exactingness
Related terms: fastidious
meticulous
toodle pip
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtuːdl ˌpɪp/
Senses: examples: text: Right, I'm off. Toodle pip!
glosses: Goodbye.
Synonyms: cheerio
farewell
toodle-oo
toodles
exactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæktɚ/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exactors
Etymology: From exact + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes illegal or unreasonable demands; an extortioner.
glosses: A person who collects taxes.
Derived terms: exactress
exacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzæktɚ/
ipa: /ɪɡˈzæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exacters
Etymology: From exact + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exactor.
exactress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exactresses
Etymology: From exactor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female exactor.
exactingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exactingly
form: most exactingly
Etymology: From exacting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exacting manner.
exactingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exacting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being exacting.
exaggeratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exaggeratedly
form: most exaggeratedly
Etymology: From exaggerated + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He pursed his lips knowingly and winked exaggeratedly.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 121:
glosses: To an excessive degree; in an exaggerated manner.
exaggeratingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exaggeratingly
form: most exaggeratingly
Etymology: From exaggerating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exaggerating manner.
exaggerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exaggerative
form: most exaggerative
Etymology: From exaggerate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings […]
ref: 1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238:
glosses: Marked by exaggeration.
Derived terms: exaggeratively
exaggerativeness
exaggeratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exaggeratively
form: most exaggeratively
Etymology: From exaggerative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In a voice exaggeratively loud and cheerful, he broke the bottomless silence and made conversation.
ref: 1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare:
glosses: In an exaggerative manner.
exaggerativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exaggerative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being exaggerative.
exaggerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exaggerators
Etymology: From exaggerate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone who exaggerates.
exaggeratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exaggeratory
form: most exaggeratory
Etymology: From exaggerate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: exaggerative
exageration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exaggeration.
exagerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of exaggerate.
insincerity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insincerities
Etymology: From in- + sincerity.
Senses: examples: text: His insincerity was obvious to all; he was neither honest nor believable.
glosses: Property of being insincere, lacking sincerity or truthfulness.
heatstroke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heatstrokes
Senses: examples: text: “Youʼre having a heatstroke, do you understand? Weʼve got to get you cooled down.”
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 170:
glosses: Alternative spelling of heat stroke.
exaltedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exaltedly
form: most exaltedly
Etymology: From exalted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exalted manner.
exaltedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exalted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being exalted.
exalter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːltə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɒltə(ɹ)
Forms: form: exalters
Etymology: From exalt + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who exalts.
divinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɪnɪti/
Forms: form: divinities
Etymology: From Old French divinité, from Latin divinitas. Composed of divine + -ity. Displaced native Old English godcundnes.
Senses: examples: text: They say there is divinity in odd numbers.
ref: a. 1598, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act V, scene I:
glosses: The state, position, or fact of being a god or God.
examples: text: You may leave out where you live and use either initials or an alias, since gods, buddhas and other divinities look only at our hearts.
text: At the base of the whole process by which divinities and demons were created, and rites for their propitiation and placation established, lay Fear - fear stimulating the imagination to fantastic activity.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of deity.
synonyms: word: deity
examples: text: These beings are derogatory from the wisdom and power of the author of nature, who doubtless can govern this machin he cou’d create, by more direct and easie methods, than employing these subservient divinities.
ref: 1705, George Cheyne, The Philosophical Principles of Religion Natural and Revealed, volume 1, London, page 4:
glosses: A celestial being inferior to a supreme God but superior to man.
examples: text: Harvard Divinity School has been teaching theology since 1636.
glosses: The study of religion or religions.
examples: text: A lot of it is food: Grits, fried green tomatoes, sweet potato pie, divinity, corn nuggets, hot tamales and crawfish are just some of the delicacies he has discussed.
ref: 2023 December 22, Rick Rojas, “Explaining the South on Instagram, One Custom at a Time”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: seafoam
glosses: A type of confectionery made with egg whites, corn syrup, and white sugar.
Synonyms: sense: property of being divine
word: deity
sense: property of being divine
word: godhead
sense: property of being divine
word: godhood
sense: property of being divine
word: godliness
sense: property of being divine
word: godship
sense: deity
word: god
sense: study
word: godlore
sense: study
word: theology
Derived terms: Bachelor of Divinity
case divinity
divinitise
divinitize
divinity bindings
divinity calf
divinity-calf
divinity fudge
divinity hall
divinity school
divinityship
divvers
Doctor of Divinity
earth divinity
indivinity
Master of Divinity
nondivinity
quasi-divinity
school-divinity
systematic divinity
decode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkəʊd/
ipa: /diːˈkəʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: decodes
form: decoding
form: decoded
form: decoded
Etymology: From de- + code.
Senses: examples: text: The cryptographer decoded the secret message and sent the result to the officer.
synonyms: decipher
decrypt
uncode
antonyms: encode
encrypt
glosses: To convert from an encrypted form to plain text.
examples: text: I finally managed to decode the nearly illegible doctor's prescription.
glosses: To figure out something difficult to interpret.
Derived terms: codec
decodability
decodable
decoder
misdecode
nondecoded
redecode
undecoded
decode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkəʊd/
ipa: /diːˈkəʊd/
rhymes: -əʊd
Forms: form: decodes
Etymology: From de- + code.
Senses: examples: text: If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.
ref: 2004, David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148:
text: The British picked up a decode in November 1942 indicating that guards at Auschwitz would need six hundred gas masks.
ref: 2005, Richard Breitman, U.S. Intelligence And The Nazis, page 31:
text: Decodes stating that Hollandia airfields were becoming overcrowded with IJA aircraft waiting to stage forward to Wewak led to pre-emptive strikes by Allied air forces and the destruction of more than 300 Japanese aircraft on the ground.
ref: 2006, Ian Pfennigwerth, A Man of Intelligence, page 223:
text: He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.
ref: 2011, Hervie Haufler, Codebreakers' Victory, page 192:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A product of decoding
examples: text: This version includes more than 400 decodes that cover everything from legacy decodes to popular decodes and new or updated decodes for such protocols as voice over IP H.323, Server Message Block, Border Gateway Protocol Version 4, and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol
ref: 1999, Laura Wonnacott, “Sniffer Pro sees some switches”, in Info World, page 37:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Output from a program or device used to interpret communication protocols
hyperthermia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)ˈθɜː(ɹ)miə/
Forms: form: hyperthermias
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over”) + θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”) + -ία (-ía). By surface analysis, hyper- + -therm + -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Autopsy results revealed that Braydon was generally malnourished and thin. His cause of death was hyperthermia due to the extreme heat, which would have “caused extreme discomfort and difficulty breathing as he died.”
ref: 2015 December 23, Tiffany Ap and Artemis Moshtaghian, “Neglected boy shut in room with heater on dies of hyperthermia”, in CNN:
text: Hyperthermia, that's just a word. The reality is different. You can't breathe. Sweating doesn't work. You're being roasted, like meat in an oven, and you can feel that.
ref: 2020, Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: heatstroke
antonyms: hypothermia
glosses: The condition of having an abnormally high body temperature caused by a failure of the heat-regulating mechanisms of the body to deal with the heat coming from the environment.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: thermotherapy
glosses: The therapeutic application of heat to a patient, especially as treatment to cancer.
Derived terms: chemohyperthermia
hyperthermic
Related terms: fever
hyperpyrexia
cryptographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptographers
Etymology: From crypto- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: A person who is an expert on creating codes and cyphers. Someone who studies cryptology.
Synonyms: word: cryptographist
Related terms: english: someone expert in breaking codes and cyphers
translation: someone expert in breaking codes and cyphers
word: cryptanalyst
cryptanalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptanalysts
form: cryptoanalyst
Etymology: From crypt- + analyst or from cryptanalysis + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert in analyzing and breaking codes and ciphers.
Related terms: cryptanalysis
cryptanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptanalyses
form: cryptoanalysis
Etymology: From crypt- + analysis.
Senses: examples: Holonym: cryptology
Near-synonym: decoding
related: word: cryptography#Noun
glosses: The science of analyzing and breaking of codes and ciphers.
glosses: An analysis or decrypting of a specific text or a specific code or cipher.
Derived terms: rubber-hose cryptanalysis
Related terms: cryptanalyst
divinityship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divinityships
Etymology: From divinity + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The status of being divine.
glosses: The skill or knowledge of divinity.
plain text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: plaintext
Senses: examples: text: Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
examples: text: This simple flat-file database has proven valuable as a way of maintaining and accessing an inventory file and an address file. The data file is a plain text file containing no control characters aside from new lines. The file is therefore easy to create and maintain using ordinary text editors
ref: 1988, Michael M. McDonnell, A simple computer data base system for UNIX:
qualifier: file format
glosses: Human readable text which consists only of a string of characters, represented using a character encoding such as ASCII or Unicode. In the file format sense, plain text may represent structured data in a human readable format such as XML.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Data which consists only of human-readable unformatted text, as opposed to machine-readable binary data or formatted/structured text. In this sense, the character data in between XML tags may be called "plain text".
Synonyms: topics: cryptography
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: cleartext
sense: file format
word: text file
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: flat text
plain text
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: plaintext
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of plaintext.
yazatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yazata
ciphertext
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ciphertexts
Etymology: From cipher + text.
Senses: examples: text: All ciphertexts look alike; that's how you know they're in code.
glosses: Encoded or encrypted text.
Derived terms: chosen-ciphertext attack
ciphertext-only attack
jactitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒæktɪˈteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: jactitations
Etymology: From Medieval Latin jactitio, from iactitō (“throw, fling; boast, brag; utter, mention”).
Senses: glosses: Bragging or boasting, especially in a false manner to another's detriment.
glosses: A false pretense of being married to somebody.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Extreme restlessness; tossing and turning in bed.
Derived terms: jactitation of marriage
yazata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yazatas
Etymology: Transliteration from Avestan substantivized adjective 𐬫𐬀𐬰𐬀𐬙𐬀 (yazata, “(an entity that is) worthy of worship”). Doublet of Yazd.
Senses: topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A divinity.
wikipedia: yazata
Derived terms: english: having the qualities of an yazata
translation: having the qualities of an yazata
word: yazatic
Related terms: english: any Zoroastrian act of worship
translation: any Zoroastrian act of worship
word: yasna
word: Yasna
word: yasht
incremental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incremental
form: most incremental
Etymology: From increment + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an increment.
examples: text: The replies to questions indicate that the technology provided noncontractually is generally more routine and incremental than that protected by contracts.
ref: 1997, Paul W. Beamish, J. Peter Killing, Cooperative Strategies: Asian Pacific perspectives, page 202:
glosses: Occurring over a series of gradual increments, or small steps.
Synonyms: gradual
Derived terms: incremental backup
incremental game
incrementalism
incrementalist
incrementalistic
incrementality
incrementalize
incrementally
quipu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈki.pu/
Forms: form: quipus
form: khipu
form: quipo
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quipu, from Quechua khipu (“knot”).
Senses: examples: text: Among a cache of 21 quipus recovered from a house, probably that of the chief quipu keeper, seven are clearly related in a three-tier accounting hierarchy.
ref: 2005 August 16, Nicholas Wade, “Those Ancient Incan Knots? Tax Accounting, Researchers Suggest”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.
encrypted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The encrypted text was unreadable.
text: If a folder is encrypted, the files are automatically encrypted. This guarantees that the files remain encrypted, even after you make changes to those files.
ref: 2001, Barry Shilmover, Stu Sjouwerman, Windows 2000 Power Toolkit, Que, →ISBN:
glosses: Being in code; having been encrypted.
Derived terms: nonencrypted
unencrypted
encrypted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encrypt
bragging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæɡ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -æɡɪŋ
Forms: form: braggings
Senses: examples: text: […] there was a glint of amused contempt in his black eyes — contempt, as if he listened to the braggings of children.
ref: 1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of one who brags.
Derived terms: bragging rights
bragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæɡ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -æɡɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brag
Derived terms: braggingly
unbragging
decipherable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈsaɪfəɹəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more decipherable
form: most decipherable
Etymology: From decipher + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The milk tank wagons are owned by the various dairy companies whose names they carry on small plates barely decipherable beneath the grime.
ref: 1959 March, R. C. Riley, “Home with the Milk”, in Trains Illustrated, page 155:
antonyms: indecipherable
undecipherable
glosses: that can be deciphered, understood or comprehended
Derived terms: decipherably
banes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of bane
banes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bane
chops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑps/
ipa: /t͡ʃɒps/
rhymes: -ɒps
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: examples: text: He chops wood all day.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chop
chops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɑps/
ipa: /t͡ʃɒps/
rhymes: -ɒps
Forms: form: chopses
form: chopsing
form: chopsed
form: chopsed
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chopse.
boasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboʊstɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boast