cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
plaintive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪntɪv/
Forms: form: more plaintive
form: most plaintive
Etymology: From Middle English pleintif, plentyff, from French plaintif (“aggrieved, lamenting”), from plainte (“lament, complaint”); see plaint. Doublet of plaintiff.
Senses: examples: text: a typically plaintive song from Radiohead
text: I can see by your plaintive smile something is wrong, so spill it.
synonyms: word: miserable
word: unhappy
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.
Derived terms: plaintively
plaintiveness
unplaintive
Related terms: plaint
plaintiff
algal mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algal mats
Senses: glosses: an accumulation of filamentous algae, either freely floating or rolling along the sea bed.
glosses: a mass of diatoms etc. covering soft bottoms.
alloparenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + parenting.
Senses: examples: text: Some alloparenting relationships among animals resemble adoption, although more resemble foster care or wet-nursing.
ref: 1992, Richard A. Posner, Sex and Reason, Paperback edition, Harvard University Press, published 1994, page 407:
text: The behaviors associated with alloparenting are phenotypically similar to maternal and paternal care.
ref: 1997, C. Sue Carter, R. Lucille Roberts, “9: The Psychobiological Basis of Cooperative Breeding in Rodents”, in Nancy G. Solomon, Jeffrey A. French, editors, Cooperative Breeding in Mammals, Cambridge University Press, published 2007, page 256:
text: Characteristics of species in which alloparenting occurs include organization into small, close-knit, and cooperative groups and infants being born relatively helpless and dependent on care from adults.
ref: 2016, Abigail A. Marsh, “9: Extraordinary Altruism: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective”, in Joshua David Greene, India Morrison, Martin E. P. Seligman, editors, Positive Neuroscience, Oxford University Press, page 150:
qualifier: ethology
glosses: Parental behaviour towards infants and young from non-parents.
Related terms: alloparent
alloparental
allomaternal
allopaternal
goat-rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat-ropes
Etymology: From goat + rope.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goat rope.
Scarlem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Scarborough + Harlem
Senses: glosses: An area in eastern Toronto, Canada, with certain poor neighbourhoods and youth gangs, loosely likened to Harlem in New York.
cloud number nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: From that cloud number nine / Danger starts the sharp incline
ref: 1997, “All Mine”, in Portishead, performed by Portishead:
text: Most of us do not think of excitement as a problem. After all, doesn't everybody like to be on cloud number nine? I agree: if we could stay on cloud number nine, life might be very pleasant. But, as all of us know, the cloud eventually evaporates. Then we not only come abruptly back to earth; we usually burrow right into its depths and hide – that is, we go into a depression.
ref: 2000 May, Eknath Easwaran, chapter 12, in A More Ardent Fire: From Everyday Love to Love of God, Tomales, Calif.: Nilgiri Press, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: Synonym of cloud nine.
synonyms: word: cloud nine
moulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmuːlæn/
Forms: form: moulins
Etymology: Borrowed from French moulin, from Late Latin molinum (“mill”). Doublet of moline and mill.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cylindrical, vertical shaft that extends through a glacier and is carved by meltwater from the glacier’s surface.
blow job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow jobs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blowjob.
crevasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æs
ipa: /kɹəˈvæs/
Forms: form: crevasses
Etymology: From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Senses: glosses: A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm.
glosses: A breach in a canal or river bank.
examples: text: I moved my left hand to the small of her back, just above her belt-line and stroked the peach fuzz in her crevasse with my fingers.
ref: 2010, Scott R. Riley, A Lost Hero Found, page 111:
glosses: Any cleft or fissure.
examples: text: […] he laments that he can find no physiological phenomenon answering to his subject’s winning a race, or losing it. Between his terminal output of energy and his victory or defeat there is a mysterious crevasse. Physiology is baffled.
ref: 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 105 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
glosses: A discontinuity or “gap” between the accounted variables and an observed outcome.
crevasse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æs
ipa: /kɹəˈvæs/
Forms: form: crevasses
form: crevassing
form: crevassed
form: crevassed
Etymology: From French crevasse. Doublet of crevice.
Senses: glosses: To form crevasses.
glosses: To fissure with crevasses.
entomologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: entomologists
Etymology: From entomology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The noted entomologist Charles W. Woodworth suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic studies.
text: DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.
ref: 1989, The Philippine Lumberman, volume 35:
text: Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”
ref: 2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104:
text: An entomologist named a new species of millipede Nannaria swiftae after pop star Taylor Swift.
ref: 2022 April 20, Megan Marples, “Taylor Swift inspired an entomologist to name a new millipede species after the megastar”, in CNN:
text: The team, made up of entomologists and electrical engineers, attached AprilTags, a kind of QR code that is smaller than the nail on your little finger, to the bees using glue.
ref: 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN:
glosses: A scientist who studies insects.
Synonyms: insectologer
insectologist
Derived terms: medical entomologist
nonentomologist
palaeoentomologist
Related terms: entomologic
entomological
entomologically
entomology
dangling modifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dangling modifiers
Senses: examples: text: The dangling modifier is a curse of modern writing, particularly obituaries.
ref: 2004, Wynford Hicks, Quite Literally: Problem Words and how to Use Them, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 45:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word or clause that qualifies another word or clause ambiguously, possibly causing confusion with regard to the intended meaning.
phylogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /faɪˈlɒd͡ʒəni/
ipa: /faɪˈlɑd͡ʒəni/
Forms: form: phylogenies
Etymology: Borrowed from German Phylogenie, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, a neologism created as if borrowed from a Classic Greek word φυλογένεια (phulogéneia), composed from Ancient Greek φῦλον (phûlon, “tribe, genus, species”) + Ancient Greek -γένεια (-géneia, “-geny (generation, production)”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a bestiary more than a hundred years old, its entries organised by a quaintly outdated phylogeny and illustrated with hand-tinted plates.
ref: 2022, Paul McAuley, Beyond the Burn Line, Gollancz, page 43:
qualifier: systematics
glosses: The evolutionary history of groups of organisms, such as species or clades.
examples: Holonym: tree of life
qualifier: systematics
glosses: A phylogenetic diagram.
examples: text: Understanding the phylogeny of this musical group helps us understand its music.
glosses: The historical development of a human social or racial group.
examples: text: Indeed, in a recent review article, Mithen (2009) traces the phylogeny of human communication […]
ref: 2010, The Journey of Child Development, →ISBN:
glosses: The historical development of any thing, idea, etc.
Synonyms: phylogenesis
Derived terms: blastophyly
cophylogeny
cormophyly
cytophylogeny
geophylogeny
histophyly
macrophylogeny
megaphylogeny
monophylogeny
morphophyly
ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny
organophyly
phylogenist
physiophyly
polyphylogeny
subphylogeny
Related terms: phylogenetics
phylogenic
phylesis
ontogeny
philoxenia
dangling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæŋɡəlɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: Suspended from above.
examples: text: Well, don't leave me dangling. Tell me what happened!
glosses: In a state of suspense.
dangling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæŋɡəlɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: danglings
Senses: glosses: The act of hanging something so that it can move freely; suspension.
examples: text: […] Falkner's quick-sighted honour would not have tolerated your brother's danglings at the skirts of beauty.
ref: 1866, Mark Lemon, Falkner Lyle, Or, The Story of Two Wives:
glosses: The act of following or trailing around.
dangling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæŋɡəlɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dangle
Derived terms: dangling modifier
tutti
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian tutti, from Latin totus (“all”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.
tutti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian tutti, from Latin totus (“all”).
Senses: examples: a tutti passage
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: All together; with all playing at once.
tutti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuttis
Etymology: From Italian tutti, from Latin totus (“all”).
Senses: examples: text: Even so, the orchestra endowed tuttis with a positively radiant glow.
ref: 2008 February 19, Steve Smith, “Hispanic Classics Flavor a New York Debut”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage in which all members of an orchestra are playing
Related terms: capo di tutti capi
tutti-frutti
tutti quanti
Scheiße
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What a nasty piece of Scheiße he is.
ref: 2003 June 18, pas de deux, “Re: Occupation of Latvia”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet):
text: What a pile of Scheiße.
ref: 2005 March 14, Steven, “Re: Concorde tickets on sale”, in alt.airports.uk.edinburgh (Usenet):
text: Your mudder and revd's rectum, heinrich, you asperger piece of Scheiße
ref: 2014 November 20, SCI trolls ARE fatherless humiliated Homo-Sexuals, “Re: gelukszoekers gaan naar pieter baan centrum”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative form of scheisse.
Stuhl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Weismann-Netter-Stuhl syndrome
freezer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːzə/
ipa: /ˈfɹizɚ/
rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: freezers
Etymology: From freeze + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
ref: 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
text: It’s easy to grab plastic-wrapped daifuku at Japanese grocery stores in New York, and to spot boxes of mochi ice cream in supermarket freezer aisles.
ref: 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Fridges contain gases that can cause serious environmental damage and are among the most toxic white goods if not disposed of correctly, along with freezers and air conditioning units.
ref: 2019 August 6, Stephen Burgen, “Man caught fly-tipping fridge in ravine fined and made to drag it back”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: fridge
refrigerator
;
icebox
glosses: An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
examples: Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer
hypernyms: compartment
glosses: The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
qualifier: Parkinson's disease
glosses: A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
examples: text: […] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]
ref: Early Home Computers (page 231)
text: The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.
ref: 2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
Derived terms: biofreezer
bumfreezer
chest freezer
deepfreeze
deep-freeze
deep freeze
flash freezer
freezer bag
freezer block
freezer burn
freezer cooking
freezerful
freezer paper
freezer-proof
freezerware
fridge-freezer
keezer
refrigerator-freezer
ultrafreezer
sex shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex shops
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells sex toys, erotic lingerie, pornography etc.
Synonyms: adult shop
hidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hidroses
Etymology: From New Latin hidrōsis, from Ancient Greek ἱδρώς (hidrṓs, “sweat”) + -sis; also synchronically held to end in the suffix -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: sweating#Noun
word: perspiration
word: ;
english: in medical usage
translation: in medical usage
word: diaphoresis
word: sudation
word: sudoresis
antonyms: adiaphoresis
anhidrosis
ischidrosis
glosses: The formation and excretion of sweat.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: sweating#Noun
word: perspiration
word: ;
english: in medical usage
translation: in medical usage
word: diaphoresis
word: sudation
word: sudoresis
word: hyperhidrosis
word: diaphoresis
antonyms: adiaphoresis
anhidrosis
ischidrosis
hypohidrosis
glosses: The formation and excretion of sweat.
Excessive sweating; excessive perspiration (more than would be expected in response to a given stimulus; especially when profuse as a symptom of disease or a side effect of a drug).
qualifier: sometimes more particularly
Derived terms: anhidrosis
chromhidrosis
dyshidrosis
hidrotic
hyperhidrosis
hypohidrosis
ischidrosis
oligohidrosis
osmidrosis
panidrosis
uridrosis
urohidrosis
capital ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capital ships
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the most important types of warships, capable of projecting a fleet in being.
Hyponyms: aircraft carrier
battleship
battlecruiser
nuclear submarine
Related terms: ship of the line
battleship
dreadnought
aircraft carrier
submarine
ship of the line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ships of the line
form: ship-of-the-line
Etymology: Contraction of line of battle ship, a warship large enough to be in the line of battle. See also battleship, contracted from the same phrase.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A large square-rigged warship large enough to have a place in the line of battle, with up to 140 guns on at least two decks. A capital ship from the age of sail, superior to a frigate; usually, a seventy-four, or three-decker.
Synonyms: sense: square-rigged warship
word: man-of-war
sense: vessel superior to frigate
word: line of battle ship
sense: vessel superior to frigate
word: liner
Derived terms: senior ship of the line captain
senior ship-of-the-line captain
ship of the line captain
ship-of-the-line captain
ship of the line ensign
ship-of-the-line ensign
ship-of-the-line ensign first class
ship of the line ensign first class
ship of the line ensign second class
ship-of-the-line ensign second class
ship of the line lieutenant
ship-of-the-line lieutenant
square-rigged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having (approximately) square sails rigged onto spars perpendicular to the keel.
raw_tags: of a ship
examples: text: A handsome square-rigged fellow in a double-breasted blue uniform, not burnt, stood at her shoulder.
ref: 1979, Joseph Hayes, Island on Fire: A True Saga, page 231:
glosses: Smartly dressed.
Derived terms: square-rigger
Related terms: gaff-rigged
square-rigger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square-riggers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A square-rigged ship.
television set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: television sets
Senses: glosses: A television; an electronic device that receives television signals, and displays the resulting images on a screen.
wikipedia: Miami
Toshiba
Wolfsonian-FIU
Synonyms: topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: TV
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: TV set
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: television
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: television receiver
topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: telly
Coordinate terms: topics: television
broadcasting
media
word: radio set
TV set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV sets
Senses: examples: text: TV sets are spewing Baywatch through the windows into black
ref: 1996, Mark O. Everett, Jim Jacobsen, Jim Weatherly, “Susan's House”, in Beautiful Freak, performed by Eels:
glosses: Alternative form of television set.
televisual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more televisual
form: most televisual
Etymology: From tele- + visual.
Senses: glosses: of or relating to television
glosses: suitable for broadcasting on television
glosses: telegenic
telegenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Forms: form: more telegenic
form: most telegenic
Etymology: From tele- + -genic, by analogy with photogenic.
Senses: examples: text: The young politician was very telegenic.
text: Then again, TV politicking simply selects for politicians who are good at TV — charismatic-cool like Mr. Obama, provocative-hot like Mr. Trump — and being telegenic does not necessarily mean having good policy or judgment or decision-making instincts.
ref: 2024 July 22, James Poniewozik, “One Night of TV Canceled a President”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Having an appearance and exhibiting qualities thought to be attractive to television viewers.
glosses: televisual
Derived terms: telegenically
telegenicity
untelegenic
Related terms: face for television
superset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersets
Etymology: From super- + set.
Senses: examples: The set of human beings is a superset of the set of human children.
The set of characters "LBPG" is a superset of the set of characters "PG".
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: (symbol: ⊇) With respect to another set, a set such that each of the elements of the other set is also an element of the set.
examples: text: While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.
ref: 2010, Eric Velazquez, “Power Pairings”, in Reps!, 17:83:
text: A superset is a combination of two or three different exercises back to back. For example, you start with bodyweight press up and switch to TRX chest press with few seconds to no rest in between.
ref: 2023 April 5, MGH, “Build Mass with Bodyweight Drop Set Workout Routine”, in Training Bodyweight:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: Two or more different physical exercises performed back to back (i.e., without a period of rest between them). The exercises may employ the same muscle group, or opposing muscle groups.
Synonyms: superclass
Related terms: set
superset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supersets
form: supersetting
form: supersetted
form: supersetted
Etymology: From super- + set.
Senses: examples: text: An example would be cable curls supersetted with tricep pushdowns, or leg extensions supersetted with leg curls.
ref: 2016 August 10, Spring Hill Fitness, “Supersetting For Better Workouts”, in Spring Hill Fitness:
text: “If you’re using more than one piece of equipment, make sure you’re close to them at all times,” says fitness coach JC Deen of JCD Fitness. Walk away for more than 15 to 30 seconds, and most people will assume you’re done, Deen says. “Supersetting is a luxury, not a necessity,” adds strength coach and author Bret Contreras. Bottom line: “If the gym is busy, don’t superset!”
ref: 2017 January 5, Jordan Shakeshaft, “The Worst People at the Gym According to Trainers”, in Daily Burn:
text: Antagonist supersets involve supersetting opposite motions or muscle groups.
ref: 2024 June 20, Kate Neudecker, “What Is a Superset? Here's How to Gain More Muscle in Less Time”, in Men's Health:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
glosses: To perform (different physical exercises) back to back, without a period of rest between them.
hissy fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hissy fits
Etymology: Clipping of histrionics.
Senses: examples: text: As for me, I don't care anymore if my kid has a hissy fit in the junior department.
ref: 1993 July 26, Joy Overbeck, “Sex, Kids and the Slut Look”, in Newsweek, page 8:
text: Viewers were aghast. . . . As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when you say I don't care about children, how dare you!"
ref: 1996 May 13, David E. Thigpen, “If You Could Hear Her Now”, in Time:
text: One of the supposedly great hopes for the future of the party hasn’t even got the guts to admit that they threw a conference hissy fit
ref: 2024 October 5, Camilla Tominey, “I’m still waiting to hear the reason why I was dumped by the Conservatives”, in The Telegraph:
synonyms: word: tantrum
word: outburst
word: shit fit
word: snit fit
word: wobbler
word: tantrum
word: catfit
word: conniption
word: conniption fit
word: dummy spit
word: headfit
word: hissy
word: hissy fit
word: meltdown
word: paddy
word: shit fit
word: snit fit
word: wobbler
word: wobbly
glosses: A childish display of anger or frustration; an overly dramatic tantrum.
Corsica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹsɪkə/
ipa: /ˈkɔːsɪkə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Corsica.
Senses: glosses: An island and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia.
Derived terms: Corsican
Halle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: hălē
ipa: /ˈhæli/
Etymology: * As a German surname, variant of Hall.
* As a French surname, from the noun halle (“covered room”).
* As a Belgian and Dutch surname, from Halle, Belgium.
* As a Jewish surname, from Halle in Saxony, named after the river Saale.
Senses: examples: text: Roger Federer extended his grasscourt streak to 57 matches with a victory over Marcos Baghdatis and will play Nicolas Kiefer in the semifinals of the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, Germany.
ref: 2008 June 14, The Associated Press, “Federer Extends Streak”, in The New York Times:
glosses: An independent city in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
glosses: A female given name, alternative spelling of Hallie. popularized by american actress Halle Berry
utu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori utu.
Senses: examples: text: Utu determined that relations among individuals, and between families, communities and tribes, were governed by mutual obligation and an implicit keeping of social accounts […].
ref: 2003, Michael King, The Penguin History of Aotearoa New Zealand, Penguin, published 2023, page 68:
text: Utu demanded that both favors and grievances be repaid in kind, but it was the grievances, naturally, that caused the most trouble.
ref: 2008, Christina Thompson, Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All, Bloomsbury, published 2009, page 129:
text: The match had been touted as a chance for utu after the 1999 and 2007 All Blacks World Cup defeats.
ref: 2011 September 19, Andrew Alderson, New Zealand Herald:
glosses: Compensation for a wrong suffered; reciprocal exchange or payment; (loosely), payback, revenge.
Kyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kaɪl/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.əl/
rhymes: -aɪl
rhymes: -aɪəl
homophone: chyle
homophone: kile
homophone: kyle
Forms: form: Kyles
Etymology: From several places in Scotland and Northern Ireland, derived from Gaelic caol (“narrows”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
examples: text: Wally Szalla was the least discomforting of men, nothing like the pushy arrogant guys I was always meeting, or who were always meeting me. Guys with names like Dale, Brock, Kevin, Kyle. Guys with names nothing like Wally.
ref: 2005, Joyce Carol Oates, Missing Mom, Ecco, →ISBN, page 110:
text: The Auschwitz Memorial Museum slammed Kyle Langford, Republican candidate for Governor of California, after his antisemitic remarks, calling out his actions as a “profound moral failure.”
ref: 2025 July 27, “California governor candidate calls Auschwitz 'solution for homelessness,' sparks critisism”, in The Jerusalem Post:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A female given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A placename
A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A census-designated place in South Dakota, United States.
glosses: A placename
A city in Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Kyle of Sutherland
Related terms: Kyle of Durness
Kyle of Lochalsh
Kayll
Kylie
blood sausage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blood sausages
Senses: synonyms: black pudding
blood pudding
blood wurst
blutwurst
glosses: A cooked sausage made out of meat (most often pork), blood and various other regional ingredients.
deep-freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep-freezes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deep freeze.
deep-freeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep-freezes
form: deep-freezing
form: deep-froze
form: deep-freezed
form: deep-frozen
form: deep-freezed
Senses: glosses: To freeze at very low temperatures.
digs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of dig
digs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dig
digs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪɡz/
rhymes: -ɪɡz
Etymology: Clipping of diggings.
Senses: examples: text: Corley at the first go-off was inclined to suspect it was something to do with Stephen being fired out of his digs for bringing in a bloody tart off the street.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 16]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: Our new digs are at the corner of Market and Castro – a great and gay neighborhood that will be a pleasure to work in. The new office has room for four women to work comfortably, a tiny deck and back yard, and looks out on two trees.
ref: 1993, “[Editor's note]”, in Feminist Bookstore News, volume 16, page 1:
glosses: Lodgings; place of accommodation.
examples: text: For example, when “army digs” are in, the Jocks wear them; when designer jeans are fashionable, those who can afford them wear them.
ref: 1992, R. Patrick Solomon, Black Resistance in High School: Forging a Separatist Culture, page 41:
text: I donned my new digs and found a trash can in which to dump my stinky old clothes.
ref: 2014, Stephanie Caffrey, Vegas Stripped, page 95:
glosses: Clothes.
DNA microarray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNA microarrays
Senses: glosses: A collection of microscopic DNA spots attached to a solid surface forming an array; used to measure the expression levels of large numbers of genes simultaneously.
wotcher
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃə/
Etymology: 14th c., corruption of what cheer.
Senses: examples: text: “Wotcher, me old cock sparrow, how's the sleuthing business?” bellowed Sandy, pausing and balancing his saddle on one knee while he looped up the girth.
ref: 1962, Dick Francis, chapter 19, in Dead Cert, published 2004, page 266:
glosses: A friendly greeting.
wotcher
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɒt͡ʃə/
Etymology: Representing an abbreviated pronunciation of various phrases.
Senses: examples: text: Wotcher think?
glosses: Contraction of what do you.
examples: text: Listen, do wotcher gotta do!
glosses: Contraction of what you.
examples: text: Wotcher doing?
glosses: Contraction of what are you.
examples: text: Wotcher been up to?
glosses: Contraction of what have you.
Synonyms: whatcha
watcha
wotcha
proprioception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹəʊ.pɹi.əʊˈsɛp.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌpɹoʊ.pɹi.oʊˈsɛp.ʃən/
Forms: form: proprioceptions
Etymology: From proprioceptor, from Latin proprius (“one's own”) + reception. Coined by British neurophysiologist Charles Scott Sherrington in 1906.
Senses: examples: text: […] it is achieved through a neuromuscular feedback system known as proprioception or kinaesthetic awareness, as well as through an auditory control system in which the ear monitors the sound and makes […]
ref: 2003, James Stark, Bel Canto: A History of Vocal Pedagogy, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 30:
text: Sometimes referred to as our sixth sense, proprioception is what helps high-level athletes take a penalty without looking at the ball, or orient themselves in the air while doing a twisting somersault.
ref: 2024 July 18, Joel Snape, “The power of proprioception: how to improve your ‘sixth sense’ – and become healthier and happier”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The sense of the position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body.
Synonyms: english: broadly synonymous
translation: broadly synonymous
word: kinesthesia
word: sixth sense
Coordinate terms: exteroception
interoception
Related terms: proprioceptional
proprioceptive
proprioceptor
proprioceptory
gestalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈʃtælt/
ipa: /ɡəˈʃtɑːlt/
ipa: /-ˈst-/
ipa: /ɡəˈʃtɔlt/
ipa: /ɡəˈstɔlt/
Forms: form: gestalts
form: gestalten
form: Gestalt
Etymology: Borrowed from German Gestalt (“shape, figure, form”).
Senses: examples: text: Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."
ref: 1977, John L. Hess, Karen Hess, The Taste of America, New York: Grossman:
text: Thus one activity, talking, is understood in terms of another, physical fighting. Structuring our experience in terms of such multidimensional gestalts is what makes our experience coherent.
ref: 1980, George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, chapter 15, in Metaphors We Live By:
text: […] depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts" (e.g., social expressions like "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined […]
ref: 1996, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, The Origins of Grammar, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press:
text: So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.
ref: 1998, David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, 1st Back Bay edition, Boston: Little, Brown and Co.:
text: The clusters of behavioral gestalten... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes...
ref: 2003 August 24, Jay Kirk, “Watching the Detectives”, in Harpers Magazine, volume 307, number 1839, page 61:
text: Obviously it was related to the entire gestalt of Simon's polyphobia and compensatory counterphobia. The boys used to watch horror movies on late-night television […]
ref: 2008, Jonathan Nasaw, Fear Itself:
text: “He [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] also said, ‘We’re making vaccinations available. We’re doing this for vaccination. We’re doing that for vaccination.’ So if you take the gestalt of it, the gestalt was, ‘Let’s get vaccinated!’”
ref: 2025 March 6, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, quoting Bill Cassidy, “A Skeptical G.O.P. Senator Makes His Peace With Kennedy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being).
Derived terms: gestaltic
gestalting
gestaltism
gestaltist
gestalt psychology
Gestalt therapy
gestalt therapy
sudor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sūdor.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: perspiration
sweat
glosses: Sweat; the salty fluid excreted by the sweat glands.
Derived terms: sudoral
sudor anglicus
sudoresis
sudoriferous
sudorific
sudate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sudates
form: sudating
form: sudated
form: sudated
Etymology: From Latin sūdāre, from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.
Senses: glosses: To perspire, to sweat.
Derived terms: sudation
sudatorium
sudatory
sudorific
conjunctiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.dʒʌŋ(k)ˈtʌɪ.və/
ipa: /kənˈdʒʌŋ(k).tɪv.ə/
ipa: /ˌkɑnˌd͡ʒʌŋ(k)ˈtaɪ.və/
ipa: /kənˌd͡ʒʌŋ(k)ˈtaɪ.və/
rhymes: -aɪvə
rhymes: -ʌŋktɪvə
Forms: form: conjunctivas
form: conjunctivae
Etymology: From 1540s late Middle English, borrowing from Medieval Latin conjūnctīva (“serving to connect, connective”, feminine), ellipsis of membrāna conjūnctīva (“conjunctive membrane”).
Senses: examples: text: There is a third inner eyelid, highly developed and of beautiful mechanism: this is the nictitating membrane, or "winker" (nictito, I wink), a delicate, elastic, translucent, pearly-white fold of the conjunctiva. While the other lids move vertically and have a horizontal commissure, the winker sweeps horizontally or obliquely across the ball, from the side next the beak to the opposite.
ref: 1884, Elliott Coues, “§ 4.—An Introduction to the Anatomy of Birds.”, in Key to North American Birds. […], 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Estes and Lauriat, →OCLC, part II (General Ornithology), page 180:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A clear mucous membrane that lines the inner surface of the eyelid and the exposed surface of the eyeball or sclera.
Derived terms: blepharokeratoconjunctivitis
conjunctival
conjunctivitis
conjunctivo-
conjunctiv-
subconjunctiva
Related terms: conjunctivally
conjunctive
mucous membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mucous membranes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: mucosa
mucous tunic
tunica mucosa
hypernyms: membrane
tissue
<
structure
coordinate_terms: serous membrane
serosa
glosses: A membrane which secretes mucus. It forms the lining of various body passages that communicate with the air, such as the respiratory, genitourinary, and alimentary tracts including the mouth, nasal passages, vagina, and urethra.
serous membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serous membranes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: serosa
serous tunic
tunica serosa
hypernyms: membrane
tissue
<
structure
coordinate_terms: mucous membrane
mucosa
glosses: A thin membrane that secretes serum and lines certain internal body cavities.
Synonyms: word: serous membrane
Hyponyms: word: peritoneum
word: endocardium
word: pericardium
word: pleura
up with the larks
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of up with the lark.
early bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early birds
Etymology: From the expression the early bird gets the worm.
Senses: examples: text: If you’re a bird, be an early bird— But if you’re a worm, sleep late.
ref: 1974, Shel Silverstein, “Early Bird”, in Where the Sidewalk Ends, HarperCollins:
synonyms: early riser
morning person
lark
antonyms: nighthawk
night owl
night person
late riser
glosses: A person who wakes early or arrives early, typically before most others.
Related terms: up with the lark
Adolph
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.dɔlf/
ipa: /ˈæ.dɔlf/
ipa: /-dɑlf/
ipa: /ˈæ.dɒlf/
Forms: form: Adolphs
form: Adolf
Etymology: Variant spelling of Adolf.
Senses: examples: text: It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany.
ref: 2020 November 19, Richard Weintraub, “Trump's use of 'Newspeak' to explain away virus puts Americans at risk | For What It's Worth”, in Pocono Record:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Adolphson
Adolphus
Alec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælɪk/
Forms: form: Aleck
form: Alek
Etymology: Clipping of Alexander
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish origin.
Derived terms: Malec
Related terms: Alex
Alexander
smart aleck
Xander
Gestalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of gestalt.
puppy fat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I was not pudding-faced!" "Oh, believe me, you were! You hadn't lost your puppy-fat."
ref: 1972, Georgette Heyer, Lady Of Quality, London: The Bodley Head, page 87:
glosses: The natural fat on the body of a child that normally disappears at adolescence.
Synonyms: baby fat
tipping point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tipping points
Etymology: First use of the term appears c. 1959 in the New York Times.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
qualifier: catastrophe theory
glosses: The point at which a slow, reversible change becomes irreversible, often with dramatic consequences.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A point in time when a group rapidly and dramatically changes its behavior by widely adopting a previously rare practice.
The point in time at which some new technology becomes mainstream.
examples: text: It is a scenario climate scientists have feared since first identifying "tipping points" - delicate thresholds where a slight rise in the Earth's temperature can cause a dramatic change in the environment that itself triggers a far greater increase in global temperatures.
ref: 2005 August 11, Ian Sample, “Warming hits 'tipping point'”, in The Guardian:
text: Some researchers worry that rainforests will soon reach a tipping point — a point of no return in which the once-lush forests transition to arid regions.
ref: 2021 June 22, Sam Romano, “Rainforests are under siege. Here’s what you should know.”, in CNN:
text: Climate scientists have detected warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, one of the planet’s main potential tipping points.
ref: 2021 August 5, Damian Carrington, “Climate crisis: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse”, in The Guardian:
topics: climatology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: tipping element
glosses: An irreversible change in the climate system.
Derived terms: tipping-point state
Related terms: catastrophe theory
critical point
watershed moment
turning point
reversible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪbəl/
Etymology: Probably from Middle French, equivalent to reverse + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the Welwyn bottleneck will be relaid with high-speed turnouts and resignalled for reversible working.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: Sunday on the G.N. line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 322:
glosses: Able to be reversed.
glosses: Able to be worn inside out.
raw_tags: of clothing
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Capable of proceeding in either direction.
raw_tags: of a chemical reaction
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Capable of returning to the original state.
raw_tags: of a phase change
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: Capable of returning to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
topics: law
glosses: Providing sufficient reason for a court decision to be overturned on appeal.
Derived terms: bireversible
endoreversible
irreversible
microreversible
nonreversible
photoreversible
pseudoreversible
quasireversible
reversibility
thermoreversible
unreversible
reversible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪbəl/
Forms: form: reversibles
Etymology: Probably from Middle French, equivalent to reverse + -ible.
Senses: glosses: A garment that can be worn inside out.
Labour Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Labour Party
form: Labor Party
Etymology: In other countries, frequently patterned or translated after the model of the British Labour Party, founded in 1900 to combine earlier centre-left parties.
Senses: examples: text: Sure, the City loathed the old Labour Party that Jeremy Corbyn grew up with but they loved the Blairites.
text: The Communists had considerable influence in the Labour Party in the years 1920–26 and 1935–9. Their chief importance, and that of the whole left wing of the Labour movement, was the part they played in alienating the middle classes from Socialism.
ref: 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius, London: Penguin Books, published 1982, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Any of various political parties that aim to advance the interests of the working class, often characterised by left-of-centre politics and support for organised labour.
wikipedia: British Labour Party
Related terms: Labourite
Conservative party
New Labour
Old Labour
motte and bailey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mottes and baileys
form: motte-and-bailey
Etymology: (form of argument): Coined by philosopher Nicholas Shackel.
Senses: examples: text: Should an inquiring stranger ask an Irish countryman if there were any "mottes" in the neighbourhood he might be met with unexpected but none the less unrestrained laughter, as in semi-slang the word has another meaning very far from that of a castle mound!
ref: 1939, H. Lawlor, “Mote, Moat, or Motte?”, in Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 2, 208-210, p. 210:
text: Deepwood is a motte-and-bailey castle in the midst of thick forest, easy to creep up on unawares. A wooden castle, defended by an earthen dike and a palisade of logs.
ref: 2011, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, page 231:
glosses: The predecessor of the European castle, having a raised earth mound (the motte) topped with a tower (or donjon), and a wooden ring fortification surrounding a courtyard (the bailey).
glosses: A form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two similar positions, one modest and easier to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial (the "bailey"), by advancing the controversial position, but when challenged, insisting that they are only advancing the more modest position.
motte-and-bailey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mottes-and-baileys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of motte and bailey.
donjon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌn.d͡ʒən/
Forms: form: donjons
Etymology: A variant of dungeon remodelled on its etymon, Old French donjon.
Senses: examples: text: It was a fortress of no great size, consisting of a donjon, or large and high square tower, surrounded by buildings of inferior height, which were encircled by an inner court-yard.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 106:
text: […] the prison fortress called Qomr, a mound of yellowish brick rising up from the left back of the turbid river, in whose donjon by long tradition the warlord was obliged to lay his head.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 132:
glosses: The fortified tower and main residence of a motte or early castle; a keep.
Related terms: dungeon
ot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ots
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ѿ / ѿ.
telling off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telling-off
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tell off
telling off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tellings off
form: telling-off
Senses: examples: text: He's going to get quite a telling off if his dad ever finds out about it.
glosses: A reprimand, reproach, or lecture.
temperamental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛmp(ə)ɹəˈmɛntl̩/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Forms: form: more temperamental
form: most temperamental
Etymology: From temperament + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or caused by temperament.
glosses: Subject to changing and unpredictable emotional states; moody, capricious.
glosses: User-unfriendly, unstable, that is complicated or has poorly written instructions and is subsequently difficult to operate; unpredictable and erratic.
raw_tags: of a machine or of software
Derived terms: temperamentally