cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
woof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wuːf/
enpr: wo͝of
ipa: /wʊf/
ipa: /wuf/
rhymes: -uːf
rhymes: -ʊf
ipa: /wʊf/
rhymes: -ʊf
Forms: form: woofs
form: woofing
form: woofed
form: woofed
Etymology: From WWOOF, an acronym of World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms which is a network of national organizations that facilitate homestays on organic farms.
Senses: examples: text: Our two children are immediately involved in a frantic game of touch rugby orchestrated by Vinny, an Irish backpacker, who is WOOFing his way around New Zealand.
ref: 2008 September 1, “Your family holidays”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: One might run off for a few months to work on an organic farm—a habit so common there's actually an acronym for it: to woof (Work on an Organic Farm).
ref: [2009, David Graeber, “Some Notes on ‘Activist Culture’”, in Direct Action: An Ethnography, Oakland, Calif.: AK Press, →ISBN, page 251:
text: Membership is cheap, and they send you a book with listings of farms from Hawaii to New Zealand. Try woof'ing it for a few months;
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Hallock, The Women's Guide to the Coming Economic Disaster, page 53:
text: To the list one could add "medical tourism" (travel to places for more readily available surgeries, treatments, and pharmaceuticals); volunteer tourism, or "voluntourism" (where people donate time and labor to in areas hit by hardship); and "woofing" (derived from World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, a loose network that helps people travel to foreign countries to work on organic farms and perhaps learn another language).
ref: 2020, Daniel P. Reynolds, Postcards from Auschwitz:
text: In fact, as with other types of stay, "woofing in Damanhur can also be a way of getting closer to the Community: after woofing some have continued with the New Life experience and become citizens"
ref: 2022, Stefania Palmisano, Nicola Pannofino, Damanhur: An Esoteric Community Open to the World, page 189:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Alternative form of wwoof.
hmm
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hm̩/
ipa: [m̥m̩˦˨]
Forms: form: hm
form: hum
form: hmmm
form: h'm
Etymology: See hum.
Senses: examples: text: Hmm... that's an interesting idea.
text: Hmm... I just can't decide between the two.
text: Hmm... creation or evolution? That’s the big question.
glosses: Indicates thinking or pondering.
examples: text: "You there! Where are you going?" "Hmm? Oh, I just need to get a drink."
text: "Could you pass me the paring knife?" "Hmm? What's a paring knife?"
text: Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hmm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
ref: May 12 1991, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, season 2, episode 5:
glosses: Indicates surprise or cluelessness; especially a response by a person who is questioned or addressed when not expecting it.
examples: text: Just where were you until 2 a.m.? Hmm?
glosses: A demand for an answer to a question.
Synonyms: hnn
hmm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hm̩/
ipa: [m̥m̩˦˨]
Forms: form: hmms
form: hmming
form: hmmed
form: hmmed
form: hm
form: hum
form: hmmm
form: h'm
Etymology: See hum.
Senses: glosses: To make a thoughtful humming noise.
Related terms: hrmph
humph
hmph
mm-hmm
Royal Road
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Royal Road
Senses: glosses: The longest road in the ancient system of trade routes and roads developed in Achaemenid Persia, which connected the capitals Sardis (in Asia Minor) to Susa (in Mesopotamia) and featured post-stations with service facilities.
routine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈtiːn/
note: Indic
ipa: /rʊˈʈin/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈruʈin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: routines
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine.
Senses: synonyms: habit
wont
ritual
glosses: A course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure.
examples: text: Connie was completely robotic and emotionless by age 12; her entire life had become one big routine.
text: It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
ref: 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: rut
glosses: A set of normal procedures, often performed mechanically.
examples: text: stand-up comedy routine
glosses: A set piece of an entertainer's act.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: composition
qualifier: rhythmic gymnastics
glosses: A performance, execution of gymnastics for one of the apparatus.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: function
procedure
subroutine
glosses: A set of instructions designed to perform a specific task; a subroutine.
Derived terms: co-routine
function-evaluation routine
malfunction routine
non-routine
routinary
routiner
routine response behavior
routine response behaviour
routinise
routinization
routinize
routine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹuːˈtiːn/
note: Indic
ipa: /rʊˈʈin/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈruʈin/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: more routine
form: most routine
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French routine. By surface analysis, route + -ine.
Senses: glosses: According to established procedure.
examples: text: Pepper's forgiven me in the quiet, hurt way women sometimes forgive. She doesn't cry. She doesn't smile either. She's being routine.
ref: 1993, Tristan Hawkins, Pepper, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished. Modern society may not have done anything about war. But peace is a lot more peaceful.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
glosses: Regular; habitual.
examples: text: Stoke put themselves in a fine position to qualify for the Europa League knockout stage with a routine victory over Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Israel.
ref: 2011 November 3, David Ornstein, “Macc Tel-Aviv 1-2 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Ordinary with nothing to distinguish it from all the others.
Derived terms: routinely
instant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstənt/
Forms: form: instants
form: instaunt
Etymology: From Middle English instant (“infinitely short period of time”), from Old French instant (“assiduous, at hand”, adjective), from Latin īnstāns, īnstantis (“present, pressing, urgent”, literally “standing near”), present active participle of īnstō (“to stand upon, be nearby”), from in- (“after”) + stō (“to stand”). Compare Old English instede (“immediately, on the spot, at once”). More at in, stand.
Senses: examples: text: She paused for only an instant, which was just enough time for John to change the subject.
text: Thy life is long, Eternity is short. So short that, shouldst thou die and Eternity should pass, and after the passing of Eternity thou shouldst live again, thou wouldst say: ‘I closed mine eyes but for an instant.’
ref: 1905, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], The Gods of Pegāna, London: [Charles] Elkin Mathews, […], →OCLC, page 76:
text: "On receiving the baton, steam was again turned on, and the train passed on to the bridge... when the train had got about 200 yards from the cabin [in the signal box], he observed sparks flying from the wheels; and after they had continued about three minutes, there was a sudden bright flash of light, and in an instant there was total darkness, the tail lamps of the train, the sparks, and flash of light, all, he said disappearing at the same instant."
ref: 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 57, referring to the Tay Bridge disaster:
synonyms: word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: jiffy
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A very short period of time; a moment.
examples: text: The instant the alarm went off, he fled the building.
synonyms: minute
moment
glosses: A single, usually precise, point in time.
glosses: A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
glosses: Ellipsis of instant camera.
Derived terms: on the instant
point-instant
this instant
upon the instant
instant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstənt/
Forms: form: instaunt
Etymology: From French instant and Middle English instant, both from Old French, from Latin instans (“standing by, being near, present, also urgent, importunate”), present participle of instō (“to stand upon, press upon, urge, pursue, insist”), from in (“on, upon”) + stō (“to stand”); see state.
Senses: examples: text: He left the room for his relinquished sword, / And Julia instant to the closet flew.
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I.182:
glosses: At once; immediately.
Related terms: inst
instance
instancy
instantaneous
instantaneously
instanter
instantial
instantiate
instantly
instant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstənt/
Forms: form: instants
form: instanting
form: instanted
form: instanted
form: instaunt
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin īnstāre; its precise evolution is uncertain. OED hints at (unattested) Middle French *instanter.
Senses: glosses: To urge, press (smeone); to insist on, demand (something).
pâté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæt.eɪ/
ipa: /pæˈteɪ/
rhymes: -æteɪ
rhymes: Rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: pâtés
form: pate
form: paté
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French pâté (“paste”). Doublet of pate (“cheese portion”) and patty.
Senses: examples: text: Two waiters brought in kipper pâté and thin toast.
ref: 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 152:
glosses: A finely-ground paste of meat, fish or vegetables, sometimes with the addition of alcohol.
Derived terms: Gleneagles pâté
pâté de foie gras
petit pâté
Related terms: pasta
paste
patty
fanfiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fanfictions
Senses: examples: text: Hamilton spurred a movement— suddenly, every other 14 year old girl was writing alternative universe coffee shop fanfiction about the Founding Fathers. The wig-wearing, never bathing, slave-owning Founding Fathers. All of a sudden, it was the dreampolitik of Miku Binder Thomas Jefferson.
ref: 2025 June 17, Zac Yang, “Bush!—The Dreampolitik of Comic Purity”, in The Isis Magazine:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Alternative spelling of fan fiction.
spacetime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪsˌtaɪm/
Forms: form: spacetimes
form: space-time
form: time-space
Etymology: From space + time, as a calque of German Raumzeit, introduced in this sense by Hermann Minkowski. First appears in print c. 1893 in the Philosophical Review.
Senses: examples: text: An event is a point in spacetime, specified by the coordinates x, y, z, and t.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The four-dimensional continuum of the three spatial dimensions plus time.
examples: text: a Minkowski spacetime
text: a 5-dimensional spacetime
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An n-dimensional continuum consisting of dimensions of both space and time. Normally spacetime is considered as having 4 dimensions (x, y, z, t), but higher-dimensional spacetimes are often encountered in theoretical physics, e.g. the 5-dimensional spacetime of Kaluza-Klein theory or the 11 dimensions of spacetime in M-theory.
examples: text: a Schwarzschild spacetime
text: a Reissner-Nordström spacetime
qualifier: relativity
glosses: A specific region of the universe with mathematically different properties than the surrounding spacetime. Synonymous with "metric" within the context of general relativity.
Coordinate terms: temporospatial
spatiotemporal
Derived terms: absolute space-time
spacetime metric
spacetime physics
spacetime singularity
Related terms: time-distance
problematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒbləˈmætɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɑbləˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more problematic
form: most problematic
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French problématique, from Late Latin problematicus, from Ancient Greek προβληματικός (problēmatikós), from πρόβλημα (próblēma, “outjutting, barrier, problem”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “I throw, place before”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, place”). By surface analysis, problem + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: And the most problematic thing of all is that it is impossible for me even to know and tell you their names, unless one of them happens to be a playwright.
ref: 1993, Plato, translated by Hugh Tredennick and Harold Tarrant, “Justice and Duty (i): Socrates Speaks at his Trial: the Apology”, in The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics), revised edition, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 39:
text: However, estimating what consumers will pay in the future is problematic.
ref: 2010, The Future of Energy Use:
text: The station is blessed with a cafe and staff accommodation, as it's an important crew changeover point, although this can be problematic when services are late.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
glosses: Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
Difficult to overcome, solve, or decide.
examples: text: The strangeness of hiring undocumented Mexican women as domestics, many of whom were no older than fifteen, seemed strange to me. It was this strangeness that raised the topic of domestic service as a question and made problematic what had previously been taken for granted.
ref: 1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1:
text: a problematic analysis
text: it portends a problematic future for the movement
glosses: Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
Not settled, uncertain, of uncertain outcome; debatable, questionable, open to doubt.
examples: ref: 2015 April 10, Paige Tutt, Apple’s new diverse emoji are even more problematic than before: Racialized emoji insert race into texts and tweets where it never would have arisen before:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Posing a problem; having or suffering from problem(s):
Contributing (especially if subtly) to discrimination (such as racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or ageism).
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Only affirming the possibility that a predicate be actualised.
Synonyms: sense: posing a problem
word: difficult
sense: posing a problem
word: troublesome
sense: posing a problem
word: complicated
sense: posing a problem
word: complex
sense: posing a problem
word: involved
sense: open to debate
word: doubtful
sense: open to debate
word: dubious
sense: open to debate
word: questionable
sense: open to debate
word: controversial
sense: open to debate
word: uncertain
Derived terms: unproblematic
Related terms: problem
problematic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹɒbləˈmætɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɹɑbləˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: problematics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French problématique, from Late Latin problematicus, from Ancient Greek προβληματικός (problēmatikós), from πρόβλημα (próblēma, “outjutting, barrier, problem”), from προβάλλω (probállō, “I throw, place before”), from πρό (pró, “before”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw, place”). By surface analysis, problem + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: The seemingly intractable problematic of essentialism versus antiessentialism and primordialism versus circumstantialism endemic to identity analysis today.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 141:
text: However, for those who come to India’s railway history for the first time, perhaps via knowledge of other countries’ railway histories with which they want to make India-based comparisons or in pursuit of a particular problematic—for example the role of railways in economic development—this chapter may prove useful.
ref: 2012 August 3, John Hurd, Ian J. Kerr, India’s Railway History: A Research Handbook (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section Two: South Asia; 27), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.
BRAS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of broadband remote access server.
busted flush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busted flushes
Senses: examples: text: I thought I'd draw another spade, but I ended up with a busted flush.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A potential flush which ultimately was not filled.
examples: text: If this [Tony Blair] is such an utterly busted flush of a leader, why are so many Tories and their outriders so keen to have this Prime Minister gone before he can fight another election?
ref: 2004 May 2, Andrew Rawnsley, “Mission not accomplished”, in Guardian online, UK, retrieved 14 Oct 2012:
text: "In November last year, at the annual conference, a decision went against me and I took the view that I couldn't carry on. I was a busted flush as the General Secretary, and in a position where I did not have the support of everyone, so it was best that I moved on.
ref: 2021 May 19, Paul Clifton asks Mick Cash, “I am retiring on my own terms”, in RAIL, number 931, page 49:
glosses: Anything which ends up worthless despite great potential.
exempt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Etymology: From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Senses: examples: text: In their country all women are exempt from military service.
text: His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
text: Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]
ref: 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:
glosses: Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
glosses: Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
raw_tags: of an employee or his position
examples: text: corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First 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 II, scene iv]:
glosses: Cut off; set apart.
examples: text: Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: Extraordinary; exceptional.
Derived terms: non-exempt
nonexempt
tax-exempt
transmisogyny-exempt
unexempt
exempt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Forms: form: exempts
Etymology: From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Senses: glosses: One who has been released from something.
examples: text: with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
ref: 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book:
glosses: A type of French police officer.
glosses: One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
exempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɡˈzɛmpt/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɛm(p)t/
rhymes: -ɛmpt
Forms: form: exempts
form: exempting
form: exempted
form: exempted
Etymology: From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Senses: examples: text: Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.
glosses: To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
Derived terms: exemptable
exemptible
nonexempted
unexempted
Related terms: exemption
e-commerce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈkɑmɚs/
Forms: form: E-commerce
form: e-Commerce
form: eCommerce
form: electronic commerce
Etymology: From e- + commerce.
Senses: examples: text: The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.
ref: 2006, Cristian Darie, Karli Watson, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Apress, →ISBN, page xxi:
text: One of China’s most prominent e-commerce companies is facing intense public backlash over allegations that it overworks its employees.
ref: 2021 January 13, Laura He and Nectar Gan, “Pinduoduo under fire as China turns on its tech titans”, in CNN:
topics: business
synonyms: e-comms
glosses: Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.
Hypernyms: commerce
Derived terms: s-commerce
Related terms: commerce
e-
electronic
s-commerce
e-trade
social commerce
effective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ɪˈfɛktɪv/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈfɛktɪv/
ipa: /əˈfektɪv/
homophone: affective (weak vowel merger)
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more effective
form: most effective
form: eff.
Etymology: From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“I make; I bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The pill is an effective method of birth control.
text: Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.
ref: 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102:
synonyms: efficacious
glosses: Having the power to produce a required effect or effects.
examples: text: The president delivered an effective speech!
text: Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his neighbour wrong, is criminal.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
glosses: Producing a decided or decisive effect.
examples: text: How long does it take to make a bunch of civilians an effective military force?
text: My effective income after taxes and child support is $500 a month.
text: The effective radiated power is determined by multiplying the transmitter power output with the antenna gain.
text: The effective voltage of an alternating current is 0.7 times its peak voltage.
antonyms: nominal
glosses: Efficient, serviceable, or operative, available for useful work.
examples: text: effective immediately
text: The curfew is effective at midnight.
glosses: Actually in effect.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having no negative coefficients.
raw_tags: of a cycle or divisor
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that no group element acts trivially.
raw_tags: of a group action
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: approximate; Not describing the fundamental dynamic changes in some system as they happen.
raw_tags: for any effective theory
Derived terms: bioeffective
brake mean effective pressure
coeffective
cost-effective
effectivate
effective accelerationism
effective accelerationist
effective altruism
effective altruist
effective compression
effective dose
effective energy
effectively
effectiveness
effective nuclear charge
effective radiated power
effective stack size
effectivization
effectivize
Effie
equieffective
geoeffective
ineffective
isoeffective
median effective time
noneffective
subeffective
supereffective
undereffective
uneffective
Related terms: effect
effectivity
effectual
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
pseudoeffective
effective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: weak vowel distinction
ipa: /ɪˈfɛktɪv/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /əˈfɛktɪv/
ipa: /əˈfektɪv/
homophone: affective (weak vowel merger)
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: effectives
form: eff.
Etymology: From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“I make; I bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives, and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men.
ref: 1876, Dabney Herndon Maury; Southern Historical Society Papers: Volume 2, Number 4, Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: a soldier fit for duty
e-business
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-businesses
form: ebusiness
form: e-Business
Etymology: From e- + business.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: The practice of servicing businesses or employees over the Internet.
topics: business
glosses: The practice of running a business over the Internet; e-commerce.
topics: business
glosses: A business that operates partially or primarily over the Internet, usually providing services to other businesses.
MSDS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: chemicals
glosses: Initialism of material safety data sheet.
educator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛd͡ʒəkeɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛdʒʊkeɪtə/
ipa: /ˈɛdjʊkeɪtə/
Forms: form: educators
Etymology: From Latin ēducātor. By surface analysis, educate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.
ref: 2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:
glosses: A person distinguished for their educational work, a teacher.
Derived terms: educatorese
educatress
educrat
e-educator
noneducator
paraeducator
phonicator
psychoeducator
special educator
ASTM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Teams are required to clearly highlight the relevant specification or standard (e.g., ASTM number, VOC content) directly on the PDF for each material to demonstrate compliance.
Provide PDFs of basic technical information for materials lacking specific requirements. For example, printouts from store websites or packaging showing material properties are acceptable.
ref: 2025 September 2, “2026 American Society of Civil Engineers Concrete Canoe Competiton Request for Proposals”, in ASCE, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2025, page 26:
glosses: Initialism of American Society for Testing and Materials; former name of ASTM International.
efface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfeɪs/
ipa: /ɪˈfeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
Forms: form: effaces
form: effacing
form: effaced
form: effaced
Etymology: From Middle French effacer (“erase”), from Old French esfacier (“remove the face”).
Senses: examples: text: Do not efface what I've written on the chalkboard.
text: An outline of the same device might be traced on his shield, though many a blow had almost effaced the painting.
ref: 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman, A.L. Burt Company (1832?), 15
glosses: To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.
examples: text: Some people like to efface their own memories with alcohol.
text: The bright records of the last hour effaced all the darker traces left by long and weary days.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 254:
glosses: To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out.
examples: text: Many people seem shy, but they really just efface for meekness.
glosses: To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.
examples: text: Some females efface 75% by the 39th week of pregnancy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a woman: to have the cervix thin and stretch in this manner.
Derived terms: effaceable
effacement
effacer
ineffaceable
self-effacing
uneffaced
Related terms: deface
copper phthalocyanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A synthetic chemical used as a colorant in paints and dyes. First used in 1929. In pure form it is an intense blue. It is chlorinated to produce very intense dark green, and brominated and chlorinated copper phthalocyanines are mixed to produce a yellower emerald green.
Synonyms: phthalo blue
concretism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concretisms
Etymology: From concrete + -ism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
synonyms: concrete art
glosses: An abstractionist painting movement that evolved in the 1930s.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Reification; the fallacy of treating an abstraction as a real entity.
saudade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saʊˈdɑːdə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese saudade.
Senses: examples: text: I have the feeling, from using the word as a first language speaker, that saudade conveys a bit more feeling, a bit more sorrow, a bit more longing than “I miss you”.
ref: 2019 January 30, Naty, “Dear gringos, the Portuguese word “Saudade” doesn’t mean what you make it sound like”, in Naty's Bookshelf:
glosses: A feeling of melancholy for something that is absent or lost.
delimit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɪmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪmɪt
Forms: form: delimits
form: delimiting
form: delimited
form: delimited
Etymology: From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“I limit, I bound”); see limit.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (literal) demarcate; (figurative) limit, constrain
text: Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.
text: The square brackets delimit the list, and individual elements are separated by commas.ᵂᴮ
text: The possibilities for new automotive features are vast but are practically delimited by costs of development and manufacturing.
qualifier: literal
glosses: To mark or fix the limits of.
Derived terms: delimitative
Related terms: word: limit
word: limitation
word: delimitation
word: delimiter
english: to remove limits
translation: to remove limits
word: unlimit
delusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
ipa: /dɪˈl(j)uːzjən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: delusions
Etymology: From Latin dēlūsiō.
Senses: glosses: A false belief that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.
examples: text: It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
glosses: The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
examples: text: Hess, always a muddled man though not so doltish as Rosenberg, flew on his own to Britain under the delusion that he could arrange a peace settlement.
ref: 1960, William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, LCCN 81101072, page 835:
text: “Project Greenlight,” however, bore down on the soft underbelly of the movie business, focusing on the delusions and colossal blunders of first-time directors, seemingly selected as much for their unlovability as their talent.
ref: 2007 May 24, Alessandra Stanley, “A Rose-Colored Reality Where Everyone Wins”, in The New York Times:
glosses: That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.
glosses: A fixed, false belief, that will not change, despite evidence to the contrary.
Derived terms: delusional
delusionary
delusionism
delusionist
delusion of adequacy
delusion of doubles
delusion of grandeur
Fregoli delusion
self-delusion
pitchblende
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪtʃblɛnd/
rhymes: -ɛnd
Forms: form: pitchblendes
Etymology: From German Pechblende, from Pech (“pitch”) + Blende (“blende”).
Senses: examples: text: Working in Paris in 1898, Marie and Pierre Curie processed thousands of pounds of pitchblende from the same glass-factory tailings in order to isolate two radioactive elements that had hitherto been unknown: radium and polonium.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 205:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Naturally-occurring uranium oxide, a variety of the mineral uraninite.
nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: plural of nut
nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: The testicles.
examples: text: If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.
text: If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Forms: form: more nuts
form: most nuts
Senses: examples: text: After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
text: Are you nuts?
text: Seriously? This is nuts!
glosses: Insane, mad.
examples: text: I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
text: The referee made a bad call against the home team and the crowd went nuts.
glosses: Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
examples: text: He's been nuts on her since the day they met.
glosses: Very fond of (on) someone.
Synonyms: nutty
nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: examples: text: Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
glosses: Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
examples: text: They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!
text: Early plans for this storyline didn't have Ellen get to fight back against Sirleck. She was just a host for Sirleck, and didn't have any agency to speak of.
ref: 2018 March 19, Dan Shive, “Comic for Monday, Mar 19, 2018”, in El Goonish Shive, archived from the original on 07 May 2022:
text: Upon denial of his exemption request, Dunn sent to a major general “a one-word memorandum that simply read: ‘NUTS!’”.
ref: 2022 April 19, Lauren Aratani, “US supreme court rules against air force officer who refused Covid vaccine”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 19 Apr 2022:
glosses: Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to.
nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌts/
rhymes: -ʌts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nut
Derived terms: bugnuts
drive someone nuts
fucknuts
fuzznuts
go nuts
numbnuts
nutso
nutsy
nutzoid
shitnuts
Related terms: english: possibly etymologically related, but Wiktionary isn't sure about the etymology of the term
translation: possibly etymologically related, but Wiktionary isn't sure about the etymology of the term
word: dead-nuts
arctic roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arctic rolls
Senses: glosses: A British dessert like a jelly roll, but with ice cream instead of jelly/jam.
validate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈvæl.ə.deɪt/
rhymes: -ælɪdeɪt
Forms: form: validates
form: validating
form: validated
form: validated
Etymology: First attested in 1648; borrowed from Medieval Latin validātus (“to validate”) (perhaps through Middle French valider), the perfect passive participle of validō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from validus + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, valid + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Always remember to validate your ticket before entering the train. A non-validated ticket could lead to a hefty fine.
ref: 2003, Alan Hart, Going to Live in France, page 207:
glosses: To render valid.
glosses: To check or prove the validity of; verify.
examples: text: The data file cannot be imported because it doesn't validate.
glosses: To have its validity successfully proven.
Related terms: invalidate
valid
validation
validator
validate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈvæl.ə.deɪt/
rhymes: -ælɪdeɪt
Forms: form: more validate
form: most validate
Etymology: First attested in 1586; borrowed from Medieval Latin validātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymolgy 1 for more.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Valid, validated.
veer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪə̯/
ipa: /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: veers
form: veering
form: veered
form: veered
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Dutch vieren (“to slacken”).
Senses: examples: text: As when a skilfull Marriner doth reed / A storme approching, that doth perill threat, / He will not bide the daunger of such dread, / But strikes his sayles, and vereth his mainsheat, / And lends vnto it leaue the emptie ayre to beat.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
veer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪə̯/
ipa: /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: veers
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French virer.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is always a sudden, though small rise in the barometer, and a sudden drop of temperature of several degrees, sometimes as much as ten or fifteen degrees; there is also a sudden veer in the wind direction.
ref: 1917, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society:
glosses: A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
veer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪə̯/
ipa: /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: veers
form: veering
form: veered
form: veered
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French virer.
Senses: examples: text: The car slid on the ice and veered out of control.
text: And as he leads, the following navy veers.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
text: We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about.
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace:
text: In recent years, the attitude of the railway authorities towards large-scale visits to works and sheds on the whole, has, happily, veered round from suspicion, and even point-blank opposition, to one of co-operation and ready welcome.
ref: 1951 April, R. S. McNaught, “Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 269:
text: At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
text: As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge.
[page 39] It ran derailed for about 500 yards before encountering a set of points, which caused it to veer into the path of an Immingham-Ferrybridge coal train, powered by Freightliner 66521 (one of a class of locomotive well-known for being well-built enough to destroy anything that got in its way).
ref: 2021 February 24, Greg Morse, “Great Heck: a tragic chain of events”, in RAIL, number 925, pages 38, 39:
text: As for the legions of paintings, they veer between the bland and bizarre.
ref: 2023 October 11, Jonathan Jones, “Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
examples: 1966, F. K. Hare, The Restless Atmosphere, 4th edition, Hutchinson University Library
It is clear that when a front passes the observer, there must be a sudden shift in wind: in the northern hemisphere it will always veer, that is, shift in a clockwise sense.
glosses: To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere).
raw_tags: of the wind
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To shift aft.
raw_tags: of the wind
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
glosses: To turn.
veer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪə̯/
ipa: /vɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: veers
Senses: examples: text: But with us veers are little pigs; and in some parishes heifers are called veers too. So you see it is not such a noble name with us, that I was going to be startled at the idea of a veer eating up my grass.
ref: 1868, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Belgravia, volume 5, page 490:
glosses: A piglet or a heifer.
velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛlvɪt/
ipa: /ˈvɛlvɪt/
Forms: form: velvets
Etymology: From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
Senses: examples: text: For the first time since her husband's death, she had thrown off her weeds, and put on attire more suited to the occasion. She was richly, yet plainly dressed, in a purple velvet, with a hood of white point lace. Even her silent handmaids were surprised out of their ordinary propriety by her appearance.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 206–207:
text: She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace,[…]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […] all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
examples: text: His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet, […]
ref: 1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “Of the Termes of Venery”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 244:
glosses: Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
glosses: A female chinchilla; a sow.
glosses: The drug dextromethorphan.
glosses: Money acquired by gambling.
Derived terms: word: beggars' velvet
word: black velvet
word: cotton velvet
word: crushed velvet
word: pink velvet cake
word: poor man's black velvet
word: purple velvet plant
word: red velvet
word: red velvet cake
word: red-velvet cake
word: red velvet mite
word: slashed velvet
word: stand on velvet
word: tip someone's velvet
word: Utrecht velvet
word: velvet ant
word: velvet antler
word: velvet ash
word: velvet bean
word: velvet cichlid
word: velvet cork
word: velvet crab
word: velvet divorce
word: velvet duck
word: velveteen
word: velvet flower
word: velvet glove
word: velvet handcuffs
word: velvet hippo
word: velvet leatherjacket
word: velvet paper
word: velvet pile
word: Velvet Revolution
word: velvet scoter
word: velvet shank
word: velvet spider
word: velvet tamarind
word: velvet water bug
word: velvet work
word: velvet worm
word: velvety
velvet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛlvɪt/
ipa: /ˈvɛlvɪt/
Forms: form: velvets
form: velveting
form: velveted
form: velveted
Etymology: From Middle English velvet, velwet, veluet, from Old Occitan veluet, from Vulgar Latin *villutittus, diminutive of villūtus, from Latin villus (“shaggy hair, tuft of hair”). Cognate with French velours.
Senses: examples: text: Penmachno mill is situate where a stream has furrowed a deep channel, and velveted the rocks with the richest mosses […].
ref: 1834, Edward Price, Norway. Views of Wild Scenery: and Journal, London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., Part I, p. 16:
text: Last week the scaffolds were up in the hall once more. This time the back wall is to be velveted in absorbent fiber glass […]
ref: 1963 September 6, “Childe Harold in New York”, in Time:
glosses: To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
examples: text: Blanching cut and specially marinated chicken in oil or water prior to stir-frying is a technique common to Chinese restaurant kitchens. The 20-second bath tenderizes the chicken remarkably, hence the process has been dubbed "velveting" in English. Velveted chicken is half-cooked, will not stick to the pan, and needs almost no oil when stir-fried.
ref: 1982, Barbara Tropp, The Modern Art of Chinese Cooking, Morrow, published 1982, page 137:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
examples: 2014, "Top genetic selection produces biggest antlers," NZFarmer.co.nz, 12 July, 2014, http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/agribusiness/10255646/Top-genetic-selection-produces-biggest-antlers
Reacting to painkillers when velveted, Sovereign II was too sick to grow antlers last year, but has since recovered.
glosses: To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
examples: text: She spoke very gently, full of compassion for the boy, velveting her reproach for me.
ref: 2006, Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale:
glosses: To soften; to mitigate.
glosses: to retract.
raw_tags: of a cat's claws