cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
water horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water horses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The kelpie
sophont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊfɑnt/
Forms: form: sophonts
Etymology: From sopho- + -ont. First used in the 1966 works by Poul Anderson, coined by his wife Karen Anderson.
Senses: examples: text: Likewise with the psychology of intelligent species. Most sophonts indeed possess basic instincts which diverge more or less from man's. With those of radically alien motivations we have little contact.
ref: 1966, Poul Anderson, Trouble Twisters:
text: I'm honored to meet a sophont of the Soro line in person!
ref: 1980, David Brin, Sundiver, page 50:
text: Evil, they argued, could only have meaning on smaller scales, in the hurt that one sophont does to another.
ref: 1992, Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep, Tor Books, page 406:
text: Only one sophont appeared to be involved—and not a sophisticated one.
ref: 1997, Spider Robinson, Lifehouse, Baen Books, page 2:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity.
Synonyms: sentient
antisemitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Facing a backlash over the use of the term “cosmopolitan,” [Josh] Hawley later defended himself against accusations of antisemitism on Twitter as “an ardent advocate of the state of Israel and the Jewish people.” But this conflation of the state of Israel and the Jewish people is the entire point. To today’s far right, Israel is a firm ally against Islam, while “cosmopolitans,” many of whom just happen to be Jewish, are suspect.
ref: 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
text: If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities[.]
ref: 2024 November 11, Jonathan Cook, “The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel's football thugs”, in Middle East Eye:
glosses: Alternative form of anti-Semitism.
Derived terms: autoantisemitism
grampus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grampuses
Etymology: From Middle English *grampas, grappays, grapas, graspeys, from Anglo-Norman grampais, Old French graspois, craspois (“whale, (salted) whale meat; blubber; seal”), from Medieval Latin craspicis (literally “fat fish”), from Latin crassus (“fat”) + piscis (“fish”).
Senses: examples: text: Some time after this we saw some very large fish, which I afterwards found were called grampusses.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 3, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
text: The Governor will blow like an old grampus, I know he will,—well, we must stop till he gets his wind again.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.]
ref: 1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39:
glosses: A killer whale (Orcinus orca).
glosses: Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus), with a blunt nose.
glosses: A hellbender salamander, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.
glosses: A giant whip scorpion (Mastigoproctus giganteus)
Derived terms: blow the grampus
Klingonaase
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Klingonese.
nutbowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutbowls
Etymology: From nut + bowl.
Senses: examples: text: She took a walnut from the nutbowl, and rolled it in her palm.
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 124:
glosses: a bowl specially used for nuts
natterjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natterjacks
Senses: synonyms: goldenback
mephitic toad
walking toad
glosses: A toad of species Bufo calamita (or Epidalea calamita), known for its running lizard-like gait and very loud mating call.
reggo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reggos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rego.
Related terms: on the reggo
cavity wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cavity walls
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A double wall of masonry connected by an air space.
Derived terms: cavity wall insulation
cavity wall tie
Lapp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lapps
form: Lapp
Etymology: From Swedish lapp, possibly of Finnish origin. Compare Finnish Lappi.
Senses: glosses: An indigenous person from Lapland. One of the Sami people.
Related terms: Lapland
Laplander
Lappland
Lapplander
Lapp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swedish lapp, possibly of Finnish origin. Compare Finnish Lappi.
Senses: synonyms: Lappic
Lappish
glosses: The language of the Lapp peoples.
Lapp
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Swedish lapp, possibly of Finnish origin. Compare Finnish Lappi.
Senses: examples: Lapp Gold - translation of the Finnish beer brand Lapin Kulta which can also be variously translated as "Gold from Lapland", "Lapland Gold" and hence "Lapp Gold"
glosses: From Lapland or of the Lapp peoples
Derived terms: Lappish
Lappic
qur'anic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Qur'anic.
quranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
Koranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Koran + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Qur'anic.
thermet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɜː.mɛt/
ipa: /ˈθɝˌmɛt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mɛt
Forms: form: thermets
Etymology: Blend of thermo- + cermet
Senses: glosses: A mixture of a metal and of a ceramic material which has been thermally treated (i.e. a heat-treated cermet).
apantomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπαντάω (apantáō, “to encounter”) and μαντεία (manteía, “prophecy”).
Senses: examples: text: Apantomancy: Divination by means of any objects which happen to present themselves. To this class belong the omens drawn from chance meetings with a hare, an eagle, etc.
ref: 1920, Lewis Spence, An Encyclopædia of Occultism:
text: Even objects that lie about haphazardly were fit for mantic purposes. The prcatice was called apantomancy.
ref: 1961, H.E. Wedeck, Treasury of Witchcraft:
glosses: Divination by chance meetings with any objects that present themselves, most commonly animals; for example, the superstition associated with a black cat crossing one's path.
arachnomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arachno- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: The study of the appearance and behavior of spiders, or the patterns of their webs (possibly related to the third meaning) for use in divination.
glosses: The ability to take control over spiders with the intent to use them for attacking or similar purposes.
glosses: The divination of patterns, for example in geometric patterns and tapestries.
Related terms: word: arachnomancer
ariolater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ariolaters
Etymology: From Latin ariolor, hariolor, hariolus.
Senses: glosses: one who practices the art of divination and uses interpretation to produce omens.
Synonyms: aruspex
clairvoyant
diviner
haruspex
seer
soothsayer
Related terms: oracle
prophet
theomancer
palsied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palsied
form: most palsied
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with palsy.
examples: text: Then came some palsied oak, a cleft in him / Like a distorted mouth that splits its rim / Gaping at death, and dies while it recoils.
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XXVI:
text: [“]You had another of your vacillating consultations with your councillors. Fine advisers.” With infinite scorn, “A herd of palsied purblind idiots hugging their sterile profits close to their sunken chests in the face of my father’s displeasure.”
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation (1974 Panther Books Ltd publication), part V: “The Merchant Princes”, chapter 16, page 180, ¶ 9
glosses: Trembling as if afflicted with palsy.
Derived terms: unpalsied
Related terms: cerebral palsied
palsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palsy
panic-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panic-stricken
form: most panic-stricken
form: panicstricken
Senses: synonyms: panic-struck
glosses: Very frightened, and unable to react sensibly because of panic.
panic-stricken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: panicstricken
Senses: glosses: past participle of panic-strike
armomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin armus (“shoulder blade”) + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination using the shoulder blade of an animal. It was taken from a dead animal and thrown into a fire, and the cracks formed in the bone were then interpreted.
glosses: Divination through inspecting one's shoulders. In ancient times, this inspection was to see whether a human was a suitable sacrifice to the gods.
Synonyms: word: omoplatoscopy
word: scapulimancy
word: scapulomancy
word: spatulamancy
sense: in Scotland
word: spealomancy
pantie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panties
Senses: examples: text: “What a stinking, lousy thing it is,” mutters the pantie manufacturer. “And they don′t know how it works — where it goes — they can′t even see it.”
ref: 1950, Turnley Walker, Rise Up and Walk, page 32:
text: Another weird American sexual custom which we observed was the “pantie raid”. We had the doubtful privilege of being spectators of two such raids, both instigated by girls.
ref: 1966, Jonathan Aitken, Michael Beloff, A Short Walk on the Campus, page 104:
text: Beginning about 1934, pantie girdles constituted a staple in the lines of many manufacturers.
ref: 2010, Valerie Steele, The Berg Companion to Fashion, page 369:
glosses: Alternative form of panty.
pantomimic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pantomimic
form: most pantomimic
Etymology: From pantomime + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Narrative passages abound in the "Hymns" and "Prosodia," no less than in the "Hyporchemata," and, for anything that we can see to the contrary, the pantomimic method might have been applied to the one as well as to the other.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 1, pp. 4-5:
glosses: Of or relating to pantomime.
Derived terms: pantomimically
haruspicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /həˈɹʌspɪsi/
Forms: form: haruspicies
form: aruspicy
Etymology: From Latin haruspicium, from haruspex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).
Senses: examples: text: Different kinds of divination, which have passed for sciences, we have had: […] 6. Haruspicy, by inspecting the bowels of animals. […]
ref: 1807, Charles Buck, A Theological Dictionary, Volume 1, Whitehall, page 238:
text: That our fates should be made dependent upon the stars, planets, and constellations, however preposterous a conceit, at least imparts a dignity to our nature by conjoining earth with Heaven: but that the doom of kings, empires, and individuals, should be regulated […] by the entrails of victims, as analysed by the butchers of Haruspicy […] is an evidence of stupid credulity that levels civilised man to the savage […]
ref: 1825, Horace Smith, Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries, Volume II, H. Colburn, page 333
glosses: Divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
Synonyms: extispicy
Hyponyms: word: hepatomancy
english: haruspicy using livers
translation: haruspicy using livers
word: hepatoscopy
Coordinate terms: alt: a practicer of haruspicy
word: haruspex
pantsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantsuits
form: pant suit
form: pant-suit
form: pants suit
form: pants-suit
form: pantssuit
Etymology: From pant + suit.
Senses: glosses: A women's suit consisting of coordinated pants (trousers) and jacket
Synonyms: word: trouser suit
Derived terms: pantsuited
Related terms: skirt suit
aruspicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1828, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall (translators), The History of Rome, Volume 1, J. Taylor, page 115,
The East read destiny in the stars, Etruria and Greece in the entrails of victims […] But the peculiar secret of the Etruscans was the interpretation of lightning: this, and all the branches of their aruspicy, were taught in sacerdotal schools …
glosses: Alternative form of haruspicy.
Related terms: aruspex
haruspex
paperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperers
Etymology: From paper + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who hangs wallpaper.
Related terms: wall-paperer
paperhanging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperhangings
Etymology: From paper + hanging.
Senses: glosses: The trade of hanging wallpaper on walls.
glosses: Wallpaper.
glosses: The illegal activities of a paperhanger; counterfeiting fraud.
papier-mache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of papier-mâché.
parader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraders
Etymology: From parade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A perennial babykisser, a tireless parader, and a would-be close personal friend of every San Francisco voter, Rolph proved a tonic because no one doubted his personal integrity or emotional sincerity.
ref: 1974, California Historical Quarterly - Volume 53, page 170:
glosses: A person who parades things, or takes part in a parade.
extispicy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈstɪspɪsi/
Forms: form: extispicies
Etymology: From Latin extispicium, from extispex (“diviner of entrails”) + -ium (forming abstract nouns).
Senses: examples: text: They became experts in what is called extispicy, or the readings of organs of sacrificed animals.
ref: 2007, Michael O'Neal, J. Sydney Jones, Neil Schlager, Jayne Weisblatt, World religions, volume 1, part 1, page 53:
text: ... to avoid wasting the enormous amounts of carcasses that in Mari, as elsewhere in Mesopotamia, were the products of the frequent killing of animals, almost exclusively sheep, for extispicy and omen taking.
ref: 2004, Cristiano Grottanelli, Lucio Milano, Food and Identity in the Ancient World:
glosses: Synonym of haruspicy: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice.
synonyms: word: haruspicy
extra: the study and divination by use of animal entrails, usually the victims of sacrifice
examples: text: This image has been interpreted as the performance of “an extispicy on an animal whose flesh the king will later eat."
ref: 2010, Ada Cohen, Steven E. Kangas, Assyrian Reliefs from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal II: A Cultural Biography:
glosses: A specific instance of such divination.
paradisaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradisaic
form: most paradisaic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to paradise (or heaven)
Synonyms: paradisaical
paradisal
paradisiac
paradisiacal
paradisial
paradisian
paradisic
paradisical
paradisaical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpæɹədɪˈsaɪ.ɪkəl/
/ˌpæɹədɪˈzaɪ.ɪkəl/
/ˌpæɹədɪˈseɪ.ɪkəl/
/ˌpæɹədɪˈzeɪ.ɪkəl/
Senses: examples: April 1742, Thomas Gray, letter to Mr. West
Now as the paradisaical pleasures of the Mahometans consist in playing upon the flute […]
glosses: Of or relating to paradise (or heaven).
Synonyms: sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisaic
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisal
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisiac
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisiacal
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisial
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisian
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisic
sense: of or relating to paradise
word: paradisical
Derived terms: paradisaically
paramedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + medical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the provision of emergency medical treatment
glosses: Of or relating to a paramedic
Derived terms: paramedically
paramedical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramedicals
Etymology: From para- + medical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paramedic.
paraprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraprofessionals
Etymology: From para- + professional.
Senses: examples: text: While these were years of rapid growth, with increasing involvement of paraprofessionals, peer counselors, and, as Rosen says, "good-hearted gay people who wanted to be supportive to their gay brothers and sisters," the atmosphere was still that of a community peer counseling center rather than a professional mental health center or alcoholism treatment center per se.
ref: 1979 December 8, Dick Bowring, “HATS Helps Gay Alcoholics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 20, page 10:
glosses: A person who is trained to assist a professional: for example, an assistant to an educator.
Derived terms: word: para
word: paraprofessionalism
word: paraprofessionally
paraprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + professional.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to this assistance.
parapsychologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parapsychologists
Etymology: From para- + psychologist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies parapsychology.
parasympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpa.ɹə.sɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.ə.sɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpæɹ.ə.sɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From para- (“beside, adjacent to”) + sympathetic, because some of these nerves run alongside sympathetic nerves.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
antonyms: sympathetic
glosses: Of or relating to the part of the autonomic nervous system that inhibits or opposes the effects of the sympathetic nervous system. It consists of nerves arising from the brain and the lower end of the spinal cord and supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands.
Derived terms: cardioparasympathetic
parasympathetically
parasympathetic nervous system
parasympatho-
parasympath-
trigemino-parasympathetic
parasympathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpa.ɹə.sɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹ.ə.sɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌpæɹ.ə.sɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: parasympathetics
Etymology: From para- (“beside, adjacent to”) + sympathetic, because some of these nerves run alongside sympathetic nerves.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A parasympathetic nerve.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of parasympathetic nervous system.
Related terms: orthosympathetic
astragalomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀστράγαλος (astrágalos) + -mancy.
Senses: synonyms: dice divination
glosses: Any form of divination by dice.
glosses: Divination by dice made from huckle-bones. They have four flat sides and two round sides which were marked.
glosses: Divination by throwing astragaloi (see etymology above) onto the pages of a picture book.
Synonyms: astragyromancy
infundibular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infundibular
form: most infundibular
Etymology: From infundibul(um) + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: Baconfield […] began to explore, first the blebs and blisters of that infundibular terrain, and then, naked as a worm and carrying a torch, the very catacombs themselves.
ref: 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, page 88:
glosses: Having the shape of a funnel.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: having to do with an infundibulum
Synonyms: sense: having the shape of a funnel
word: infundibuliform
sense: pertaining to an infundibulum
word: choanal
Derived terms: hypothalamo-infundibular
infundibularform
postinfundibular
preinfundibular
retroinfundibular
tuberoinfundibular
infundibuliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnfʌnˈdɪbjʊlɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more infundibuliform
form: most infundibuliform
Etymology: From Latin īnfundibulum (“funnel”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: ... had it not been for that patriotic Texan with his infundibuliform jowls and his lumpy, rumpleheaded, indestructible smile cracked forever across the front of his face like the brim of a black ten-gallon hat.
ref: 1961, Joseph Heller, chapter 2, in Catch-22, Vintage, published 2004, page 18:
text: This is a monopetalous, infundibuliform, white flower, of the tuberofe kind.
ref: 1784, William Marsden, The history of Sumatra, page 88:
glosses: having the shape of a funnel or cone.
Synonyms: infundibular
Derived terms: infundibuliformity
infundibuliformly
binges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binge
binges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of binge
binging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪŋ.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bing
binging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪŋ.ɪŋ/
/ˈbɪnd͡ʒ.ɪŋ/
/ˈbɪŋ.ɪŋ/
Senses: related: word: bingeing
glosses: present participle and gerund of binge
binging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪŋ.ɪŋ/
/ˈbɪnd͡ʒ.ɪŋ/
/ˈbɪŋ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: bingings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bingeing.
binged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪŋd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bing
binged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪŋd/
/bɪnd͡ʒd/
/bɪŋd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of binge
botanomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batanomancy
form: botinomancy
form: botomancy
form: botonomancy
Etymology: From botany + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by plants. A form of pyromancy in which tree branches and/or leaves are burnt.
glosses: Tea-leaf reading, or tasseomancy.
Related terms: daphnomancy
dendromancy
pyromancy
virtuosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virtuosic
form: most virtuosic
Etymology: From virtuoso + -ic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: requiring a high level of technical skill.
examples: text: The older cousins were surrounding Barak as he performed virtuosic acts of extreme violence on a TV so large one had to sit against the opposite wall to see its edges.
ref: 2016, Jonathan Safran Foer, chapter 5, in Here I Am:
glosses: impressive and sometimes flamboyant.
Derived terms: virtuosically
deliver the message to Garcia
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: delivers the message to Garcia
form: delivering the message to Garcia
form: delivered the message to Garcia
form: delivered the message to Garcia
Senses: examples: text: 1902, Albert Brown Chandler, "The Telegraph Expert", in Edward Everett Hale, ed., Modern Achievement, The University Society, page 264,
...grasp the demands and exactions of business life. He learns that the main thing to do is to "deliver the message to Garcia"....
text: 1995, Alberto C Moreira, from alberto@moreira.mv.com, "Re: Teaching H.S. Math #3", sci.math, misc.education, Usenet
What we need is people who get the job done, no matter how. We don't want pickers who'll only learn if we use their preferred learning method. Have you read "A Message to Garcia" ? That's what we need today - young people who can deliver the message to Garcia.
text: Programmers are consistently dehumanized because so many do indeed deliver the message to Garcia only to be at best ignored.
ref: 2002 June 11, Edward G. Nilges, from spinoza1111@yahoo.com, “Re: Professional Ethics (was Re: The Data Quality Act)”, in comp.programming (Usenet):
text: ...heaves in a deep breath, gathers himself as though he's crossed a continent to deliver the message to Garcia.
ref: 2004, Pat Rahmann, First Reveille, Trafford Publishing, page 13:
glosses: Synonym of carry the message to Garcia.
synonyms: word: carry the message to Garcia
stride bass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stride basses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical device with leaping between the bass and harmony notes in the left hand part of a piano accompaniment.
cross-phrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-phrasings
Etymology: From cross- + phrasing.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Musical device with a syncopated effect, usually when groups of three quavers cut across the beat.
plunger mute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: originally the rubber suction cup from a plumber's plunger, a mute for brass instruments, which can be held close to the bell to suppress the sound, or moved further away for a more open sound.
scrivano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrivanos
form: scrivanoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scrivano. Doublet of scrivan, scrivener, and escribano.
Senses: examples: text: We dined that day with the scrivano, and hired a house of Hassan Aga, one of our pledges, at seventy dollars the monsoon, or yearly rent, it being all the same.
ref: 1813, Robert Kerr, A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century:
glosses: A scribe or clerk.
lead guitar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead guitars
Senses: glosses: An electric guitar in a band that plays soloistically, usually playing melodically as opposed to strumming chords; supported by the rhythm guitar.
Related terms: rhythm guitar
descrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈskɹaɪv/
Forms: form: descrives
form: descriving
form: descrived
form: descrived
Etymology: Old French descrivre. See describe.
Senses: examples: text: Let her by proofe of that which she hath fylde
In her owne breast, this Mothers ioy descrive
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To describe.
pavane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈvɑːn/
Forms: form: pavanes
form: pavan
form: paven
form: pavian
form: pavin
form: pavonne
Etymology: From French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava).
Senses: examples: text: […] if the men should not agree what to play, but one would have a grave Pavane, another a nimbler Galliard, a third some frisking toy or Iigg, and then all of them should be wilful, none yield to his fellow, but every one scrape on his own tune as loud as he could: what a hideous hateful noise may you imagine would such a mess of Musick be?
ref: 1656, Robert Sanderson, Twenty Sermons, London: Henry Seile, Sermon 13, p. 267:
text: And he tasted in the language of memory ambered wines, dying fallings of sweet airs, the proud pavan […]
ref: 1916 December 29, James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical style characteristic of the 16th and 17th centuries.
examples: text: Why then be merry; be merry, or I’le be
Out of humour, and then who shall dance the Pavan
With Ossorio?
ref: 1664, Thomas Porter, The Carnival, London: Henry Herringman, act II, scene 1, page 25:
text: The pavane† was quite popular at the time when Tabouret wrote his treatise, and he ventured the opinion that it would never cease to be so. It is not many years since an attempt was made in Paris to revive the dance, but it must be confessed that the modern adaption did not seem to bear any particularly striking resemblance to the original movement.
ref: 1899, Edward Scott, Dancing in All Ages, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., page 128:
text: Some day, when the Wateaus of the future are painting the court ladies who again dance pavanes in sunlit glades, wearing wigs and crinoline, such data will amuse.
ref: 1917, Emily Burbank, Woman as Decoration:
text: […] sweet to us it is to behold delightful dancing, be it the stately splendour of the Pavane which progresseth as large clouds at sun-down that pass by in splendour; or the graceful Allemande; or the Fandango, which goeth by degrees from languorous beauty to the swiftness and passion of Bacchanals dancing on the high lawns under a summer moon that hangeth in the pine trees; or the joyous maze of the Galliard; or the Gigue, dear to the Foliots.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 33:
text: From the wings I heard and watched the pavane of tragedy move steadily toward its climax.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 33, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, pages 218–219:
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
synonyms: Paduan
glosses: A moderately slow, courtly processional dance in duple time/meter.
pavane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈvɑːn/
Forms: form: pavanes
form: pavaning
form: pavaned
form: pavaned
form: pavan
form: paven
form: pavian
form: pavin
form: pavonne
Etymology: From French pavane, from dialectal Italian pavana, contraction of the older padovana, feminine of padovano, meaning from the city of Padua (Italian Padova, dialectal form Pava).
Senses: glosses: To dance the pavane.
Picardy third
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Picardy thirds
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: tierce de Picardie
glosses: A major third in the final tonic chord of a minor-key passage.
tierce de Picardie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tierces de Picardie
Etymology: Borrowed from French tierce de Picardie.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Picardy third.
synonyms: word: Picardy third
Phrygian cadence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phrygian cadences
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of imperfect cadence frequently found in Baroque compositions. The gesture consists of a iv⁶–V final cadence in the minor mode at the end of a slow movement or slow introduction. It implies that a fast movement is to follow without pause, generally in the same key.
Klan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /klæn/
homophone: clan
rhymes: -æn
Forms: form: the Klan
form: klan
Etymology: Ellipsis of Ku Klux Klan.
Senses: examples: text: The soldiers made arrests right and left, swearing to wipe out the Klan if they had to put every white man in Atlanta in jail.
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, part IV, page 745:
text: I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me
ref: 2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas:
glosses: Ku Klux Klan
Derived terms: Klandom
Klansman
Klanswoman
submediant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submediants
Etymology: From sub- + mediant.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The sixth note of a scale, shown as VI.
Synonyms: superdominant
supertonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertonics
Etymology: From super- + tonic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The second note in a diatonic scale.
cain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cains
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kain.
Related terms: Tubal-cain
soft redirect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft redirects
Senses: examples: text: I decided to leave a soft redirect explaining why the website had been moved.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An indication to a user that what they requested may be found elsewhere.
expletives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expletive
ing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭng
ipa: /ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: ings
Etymology: From Middle English ing, ynge, enge, from Old English ing, *eng (“a meadow; ing”), from Proto-Germanic *angijō (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énkos (“a bend; curve; bowl; hollow; dell; glen”), from *h₂enk- (“to bend; curve; bow”). Cognate with Scots eng (“ing; meadow”), Dutch eng (“pasture; farmland”), Danish eng (“meadow”), Swedish äng (“meadow; field”), Norwegian eng (“meadow”), Faroese ong (“grassland; meadow; pasture”), Icelandic eng (“a meadow”), Icelandic engi (“a meadow; meadowland”).
Senses: examples: text: Ings, glens, and fens of the Highlands.
text: Bill for dividing and inclosing certain open common fields, ings, common pastures, and other commonable lands.
ref: 1773, Journals of the House of Commons:
text: [There] lay an extent of meadow grounds, in ings, to afford a supply of hay.
ref: 1804, Marshall (William), On the Landed Property of England, possibly quoting an earlier work
qualifier: now only in dialects
glosses: A meadow, especially a low meadow near a river; water meadow.
ing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭng
ipa: /ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: ings
Etymology: From Pitman em and en, which it is related to phonetically and graphically, and the sound it represents. The change in vowel probably reflects the familiar suffix -ing.
Senses: glosses: The letter for the ng sound /ŋ/ in Pitman shorthand.
Related terms: eng
the name of the IPA letter for this sound
ing-bing
for all intrinsic purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Alteration of for all intents and purposes by malapropism.
Senses: glosses: Eggcorn of for all intents and purposes.
Related terms: for all intended purposes
for all intense and purposes
for all intense purposes
for all intensive purposes
imbibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪm.bɪˈbɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ɪmˈbaɪ̯.bɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: imbibitions
Etymology: From Middle English imbibicion, inbibicioun, from Middle French imbibicion. By surface analysis, imbibe + -ition.
Senses: examples: text: For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter not their roots; […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 163–164:
text: He was bobbing it up and down just above the pommel of his saddle, being rather sleepy from the imbibition of a little too much of Mr. Tit Dowell’s strong beer.
ref: 1844, [Joseph Thomas James Hewlett], chapter XXXIX, in Parsons and Widows. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 63:
synonyms: imbibing#Noun
glosses: The act of imbibing.
Derived terms: imbibitional
imbibition theory
Sardine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sardines
Etymology: From the way protesters are tightly packed into public spaces, analogous to the way sardines are packed into cans.
Senses: examples: text: A new grassroots movement called ‘sardines’ is fighting against Italy's rightwing strongman Matteo Salvini across the nation after a spectacular launch in Bologna last week.
ref: 2019 November 20, “‘Sardines’ fight Salvini across Italy”, in ANSAmed, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
text: But they might need more than prayer to effectively compete with the Sardines, who in the last month have packed themselves tightly in ever-increasing numbers into piazzas in city after Italian city.
ref: 2019 December 13, Angela Giuffrida, “Sardines squeeze into Italian cities for biggest anti-Salvini protests yet”, in The Guardian:
text: The nonpartisan “Sardines” movement organized mass protests against the reemergence of the far right in Italy and re-energized politics in the run up to the regional elections that were held in Emilia Romagna in January.
ref: 2020 March 19, Erik Jones, “Italians are taking real steps to fight the coronavirus — but big political challenges are lurking”, in Washington Post:
text: As demonstrated by the mobilizations that have taken place in recent months, as in the case of the Sardine, the invisibles of Aboubakahr as well as the Friday’s For Future or anti-racist movements, the involvement of political institutions is almost non-existent. ¶ In Italy, active participation is in fact not supported by political parties.
ref: 2020 November 16, Camilla Valerio, “A comparison of political mobilization in Italy and the US”, in Italics Magazine:
glosses: A member of the Italian grassroots political movement organized to protest against the right-wing surge in the country and the political rhetoric of Matteo Salvini.
Hopedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhoʊp.deɪl/
rhymes: -əʊpdeɪl
Etymology: The name of the settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador was calqued from Hoffental, a compound derived in turn from German hoffen (“hope”) and Tal (“dale, valley”). The name was given by Moravian missionaries in 1782 and replaced native Eastern Canadian Inuktitut Agvituk. Compare Hebron, Nain, Ramah and Zoar.
Senses: glosses: A village in Illinois.
glosses: A town in Massachusetts.
glosses: A village in Ohio.
glosses: A town and Inuit community government in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.
glosses: A hamlet in Alstonefield parish, Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK1255).
check-raise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: check-raises
form: check-raising
form: check-raised
form: check-raised
Senses: examples: text: Check-raising is sometimes specifically prohibited by house rules.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To check and then raise a bet by another player in the same betting round.
check-raise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: check-raises
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A raise made by a player who checked before in the same betting round.
check-raises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check-raise
check-raises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of check-raise
check-raising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of check-raise
divorced kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divorced kids
Senses: examples: text: Maybe another divorced kid is the best kind of friend a divorced kid can have.
ref: 2009, Emilia M. Nichols, Divorce Without Permission, page 70:
glosses: A child of divorced parents.
check-raised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check-raise
uxorilocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin uxor (“wife”) + -i- + local.
Senses: examples: text: In Gogni (Chad) a Sokoro, clad in his traditional tunic, a tunic as long as a raglan coat such as a snobbishly insular Parisian might sport whilst on safari, paid a visit to a son of his who was living in Mokulu as a willing victim of an unusual (and, until now, unknown) marital status constituting a paradoxical - or, as anthropologists say, "uxorilocal" - form of subjugation.
ref: 1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void:
text: This grammar is just what one would expect from an SIL-trained linguist who has specialized in a language for a number of years: it contains a great deal of information in relatively few pages. The introduction begins by ubicating the Desano people and providing a very brief set of ethnographic comments. They live on the Vaupés River in Colombia, are patrilineal, and have a sex-gendered language. There is some uxorilocal residence, though its frequency is not estimated.
ref: 2003 January, Paul Proulx, “Desano Grammar: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 6. By Marion Miller. Summer Institute of Linguistics and University of Texas at Arlington Publications in Linguistics, no. 132. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1999. Pp. xii + 178. $25.00 (paper) [book review]”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume LXIX, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 100:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Matrilocal.
Derived terms: uxorilocality
uxorilocally
moria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Excessive frivolity; an inability to be serious.
crowdsourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowdsourcings
Etymology: Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd + sourcing, by analogy with outsourcing.
Senses: examples: text: P&G is one of InnoCentive’s earliest and best customers, but the company works with other crowdsourcing networks as well.
ref: 2006 June, Jeff Howe, “The Rise of Crowdsourcing”, in Wired, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2006:
text: While not a new phenomenon, crowdsourcing is really growing as a business trend.
ref: 2007 January, Jessi Hempel, “Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd”, in Business Week:
text: Costs can be reduced by crowdsourcing more content.
ref: 2007 July, Twisted, comp.lang.java.programmer (Usenet):
synonyms: open outsourcing
glosses: The delegation of a task to a large diffuse group in order to introduce new or more developed skill sets and improve efficiency. There is usually no substantial monetary compensation involved.
Related terms: crowdworker
lazyweb
crowdsourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Coined by American journalist Jeff Howe in 2006, see quotations. From crowd + sourcing, by analogy with outsourcing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crowdsource
prossy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prossies
Etymology: Diminutive of prostitute with -y.
Senses: glosses: prostitute
Synonyms: prosty
tart
whore
race car driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race car drivers
form: racecar driver
Senses: synonyms: racing driver
glosses: A person who races in a race car for a living.
definientia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of definiens
Derived terms: definiential
inverse Fourier transform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverse Fourier transforms
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical operation that transforms a function for a discrete or continuous spectrum into a function for the amplitude with the given spectrum; an inverse transform of the Fourier transform.
Related terms: Fourier transform
fast Fourier transform
discrete Fourier transform
rat trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rat traps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rattrap.
ploughshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaʊˌʃɛə/
ipa: /ˈplaʊˌʃɛɚ/
Forms: form: ploughshares
Etymology: From plough + share.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: plough, plow < implement
related: word: plowshare
word: moldboard
word: mouldboard#Noun
word: coulter
word: colter#Noun
word: jointer
word: chisel#Noun
glosses: The cutting edge of a plough, typically a metal blade.
Embargo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
prebendal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin praebenda (“the support or allowance afforded by the state to a private person”).
Senses: examples: text: In this respect, Earl Henry's grants of prebendal property might be regarded as the original donatio and the first of a series of such grants that would only later culminate in a more general and confirmatory charter of foundation.
ref: 2004, Charles Fonge, The Cartulary of St Mary's Collegiate Church, Warwick:
text: In October 1746 Mary had taken over the lease of the Prebendal estate in Aylesbury, and with it the position of lady of the manor, from her mother.
ref: 2006, John Sainsbury, John Wilkes: The Lives of a Libertine:
text: Thus prebendal parishes were formed, with the canon prebendary as rector, employing his junior clerics as vicars either to serve his place in the collegiate church or to serve the parish if he preferred to reside in the college. […] Administrators tend to multiply and procedures to become more complex, and there were certainly large numbers of well-educated men, Oxford graduates, within Lacy's employ, who were paid, at least partly, by convenient prebendal incomes from colleges.
ref: 2008, Clive Burgess, Martin Heale, editors, The Late Medieval English College and its Context:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a prebend; prebendary.
examples: text: His father had held a prebendal stall at Ely in times when prebendal stalls were worth more than they are at present, and having also been possessed of a living in the neighbourhood, had amassed a considerable sum of money.
ref: 1864, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?:
text: 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall, thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.
glosses: Having an associated prebend.
raw_tags: of an office
glosses: Of or pertaining to an honorary religious title granted by the state.
examples: text: In the 'Nigerian prebendal republic', Joseph (1996) argues, the statutory purposes of state offices become a matter of secondary concern. Gore & Pratten (2003:211) in their recent study described the pervasiveness of prebendal corruption in the Nigerian state 'endemic since the beginning of the oil boom, but locally perceived as having intensified from the 1990s onwards' as the 'politics of plunder'.
ref: 2006, Kenneth C. Omeje, High Stakes and Stakeholders: Oil Conflict and Security in Nigeria:
text: Similar phenomena, which promote a guild-like closure of officialdom, are typically found in the patrimonial and, particularly, in prebendal officialdom of the past.
ref: 2006, Aradhana Sharma, Akhil Gupta, The Anthropology of the State: A Reader:
glosses: Of or relating to official positions that are profitable for the incumbent, to the allocation of such positions, or to a system in which such allocation is prevalent.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Relating to political patronage.
Derived terms: prebendalism
slowplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slowplays
form: slowplaying
form: slowplayed
form: slowplayed
Etymology: From slow + play.
Senses: examples: Jane checked, slowplaying her straight flush
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To bluff by playing a strong hand weakly.
slowplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slowplays
Etymology: From slow + play.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: An action which represents a strong hand as weak.
slowplays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slowplay
slowplays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slowplay
revolving credit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any form of credit that does not have a fixed number of payments.
slowplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slowplay
slowplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slowplay
hybrid vehicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid vehicles
Senses: glosses: A vehicle that uses two or more power sources, most commonly an internal combustion engine, a battery, an electric generator, and an electric motor, so as to reduce local emissions with adequate vehicle performance.