cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reimagine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reimagines
form: reimagining
form: reimagined
form: reimagined
form: re-imagine
Etymology: From re- + imagine.
Senses: examples: text: The classic TV series is completely reimagined in the new version.
text: Byford added: "In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, all transport authorities around the world will need to reimagine how their services and projects contribute to the safe and sustainable restart of the social and economic lives of the cities they serve."
ref: 2020 June 17, “Byford appointed to top London transport post”, in Rail, page 16:
glosses: To imagine or conceive something in a new way
Related terms: reimagination
reimaginer
retape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: retapes
form: retaping
form: retaped
form: retaped
form: re-tape
Etymology: From re- + tape.
Senses: examples: text: After the accident, we had to retape the show.
text: You need to retape that bandage: it's coming loose.
glosses: To tape again.
retapes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retape
retaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retape
retaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retapings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent recording onto tape.
retaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retape
Bajans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bajan
bird strike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bird strikes
form: birdstrike
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A collision between a bird and an aircraft, especially one that causes an accident.
topics: transport
glosses: Any collision between a bird and a vehicle.
Hyponyms: avian ingestion
Related terms: chicken cannon
subtable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtables
Etymology: From sub- + table.
Senses: glosses: A table of data corresponding to part of a greater parent table.
subtables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtable
red man syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: red neck syndrome
glosses: An infusion reaction to vancomycin, causing flushing of the skin and an erythematous rash on the upper body.
red neck syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of red man syndrome.
synonyms: word: red man syndrome
search trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of search tree
reimagines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reimagine
reimagining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reimagine
reimagining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reimaginings
Senses: glosses: A remake (of a dramatic work)
balanced budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balanced budgets
Senses: glosses: A (usually governmental) budget in which income and expenditure are equal over a set period of time.
Kiribatese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kiribati + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Gilbertese.
wasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wastas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic وَاسِطَة (wāsiṭa)
Senses: examples: text: The number of those traveling to the US during summer may definitely have gone down, but if one can hook onto a wasta, one could get into the queue of applicants without having to get up early in the morning.
ref: 2003 June 15, Syed Rashid Husain, “'Wasta' at US Embassy”, in Arab News:
qualifier: Arab society; often italicized; Arab society; often italicized
glosses: Intercession or mediation by people on behalf of others to whom they are connected by friendship or blood
Synonyms: connections
nepotism
cronyism
wastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wasta
whiplashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whiplash
umchwasho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a Swazi language.
Senses: glosses: A traditional chastity rite in Eswatini, during which unmarried women must abstain from sex and wear a set of tassels.
whiplashing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whiplashing
form: most whiplashing
Senses: examples: text: What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
glosses: Causing whiplash.
whiplashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whiplash
unpunched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + punched.
Senses: examples: text: Feed an unpunched card into the punching station by pressing FEED.
ref: 1979, William F. Schallert, Carol Reedy Clark, Programming in FORTRAN, page 16:
text: Anyway, I had left the encounter with a clean conscience and an unpunched face. Just.
ref: 2014, Ned Boulting, 101 Damnations: Dispatches from the 101st Tour de France:
glosses: Not having been punched, often specifically with reference to punch cards or tickets.
unmemorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmemorable
form: most unmemorable
Etymology: From un- + memorable.
Senses: examples: text: It was a thoroughly unmemorable performance.
glosses: Not memorable
Synonyms: forgettable
immemorable
Derived terms: unmemorably
underwebbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + webbing.
Senses: examples: text: There is a soft-mat seat (which originally had a palm fiber underwebbing) supported by three curved transverse braces.
ref: 1995, Nancy Berliner, Sarah Handler, Friends of the House, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A webbing supporting something else
megafarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megafarm
downwardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downwardly
form: most downwardly
Etymology: From downward + -ly.
Senses: examples: downwardly mobile
glosses: In a downward direction
Related terms: backwardly
forwardly
sidewardly
upwardly
megafarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafarms
Etymology: From mega- + farm.
Senses: examples: text: One swine megafarm in Milford Valley, Utah, reputedly produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles.
ref: 2006, Mike Davis, The Monster at Our Door, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: A very large, factory-style farm
Synonyms: factory farm
superfarm
Related terms: microfarm
cravers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craver
craver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cravers
Etymology: From crave + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Years ago the cravers for sensation were delighted with the real gig and horse with the aid of which Mr. Thurtell murdered Mr. Weare.
ref: 1868, The Family Herald:
text: Women, a little bit more than men, are cravers of treats, […]
ref: 2008 December 24, Stephanie Clifford, “Dairy Queen, the Video Game”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Someone who craves something.
antiunion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiunion
form: most antiunion
form: anti-union
Etymology: From anti- + union.
Senses: examples: text: an antiunion piece of legislation
text: The governor is strongly antiunion.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposed to, or discouraging the formation of, trade unions
Derived terms: antiunionism
counterasserts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterassert
counterasserting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterassert
counterasserted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterassert
counterassert
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterasserts
form: counterasserting
form: counterasserted
form: counterasserted
Etymology: From counter- + assert.
Senses: examples: text: Roughouts, some pundits assert, are therefore superior. Other pundits counterassert, fiercely.
ref: 1974, Colin Fletcher, The New Complete Walker, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: To assert in opposition to a previous assertion
Related terms: counterassertion
anticrime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: anti-crime
Etymology: From anti- + crime.
Senses: examples: text: an anticrime program
glosses: Opposed to or aimed at preventing or punishing crime
home computers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home computer
dii ex machinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] hence, the gods in the Iliad are never “ Dii ex machinis,” they are providential and governing, they prepare the conflict, mature the crisis, […]
ref: 1839, John Richard Darley, A Treatise on Homer: With Miscellaneous Questions, Samuel J. Machen, page 72:
text: […] assume nervous influences of which the student has no knowledge, and which he must provisionally regard as dii ex machinis, to be looked-up afterwards.
ref: 1882: The Dublin Journal of Medical Science, volume № 73, page 329 (Fannin & Co.)
text: In John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), the ludicrously contrived last-minute rescue of Maceath works as a deliberate deflation of opera’s various dii ex machinis.
ref: 2005: Christoph Clausen, Macbeth Multiplied: Negotiating Historical and Medial Difference Between Shakespeare and Verdi, page 161 (Rodopi; ISBN 90‒420‒1887‒9, 978‒90‒420‒1887‒7)
glosses: plural of deus ex machina
spare tires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spare tire
nodulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒd.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈnɒd͡ʒ.ʊ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈnɑd͡ʒ.ə.ləs/
rhymes: -ɒdjʊləs
rhymes: -ɒdʒələs
Forms: form: noduli
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōdulus. Doublet of nodule.
Senses: glosses: A nodule; a little knot or lump.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
synonyms: nodule
glosses: The part of the vestibulocerebellum that is at the end of the vermis
Related terms: flocculus
Siswati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Swazi language.
di ex machinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With Æschylus the popular divinities, like upstart creations of a later creed, are mere Di ex machinis, obedient to the all-powerful will of Destiny, which he ever contrives to keep in view, and make us sensible of.
ref: 1842, Eton coll, The Eton school magazine, pages 126–127:
text: One thing certainly vexes me, the cool way these governing men with their positions above the working conflict come down as di ex machinis, quite unconscious of the intense interest these frog pattings have for the frogs and of their own ignorance of frog life I see how impossible it is for a Government like ours to promote good except by stopping evil.
ref: 1900, George Robert Parkin, Edward Thring, Headmaster of Uppingham School: Life, Diary and Letters, Macmillan & co., ltd, page 152:
text: They do not depend on external circumstances, implausible natural events, startling coincidences, and the other di ex machinis that stalk mechanically through much romantic fiction.
ref: 1969: Harold H. Kolb, The Illusion of Life: American Realism as a Literary Form, page 107 (University Press of Virginia)
text: 1976: Art Byrne and Seán McMahon, Faces of the West, 1875–1925: A Record of Life in the West of Ireland, Photographic [and] Literary, page 33 (Appletree Press Ltd; →ISBN, 9780904651126); and reprinted in:
ref: 1980, Brian Mercer Walker, Seán McMahon, Art Ó Broin, Faces of Ireland, 1875-1925: 1875-1925, Appletree Press, →ISBN, page 33, →ISBN:
text: As one who did well in the States he tends to use them as the source of Di ex Machinis to resolve the problems of his Irish characters.
ref: 1984, Brian Mercer Walker, Seán McMahon, Art Ó Broin, Faces of Ireland, 1875–1925, Appletree Press, →ISBN, page 33, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of deus ex machina
pseudovector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudovectors
Etymology: From pseudo- + vector.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A quantity that transforms like a vector under a proper rotation but gains an additional change of sign under an improper rotation
Derived terms: Pauli-Lubanski pseudovector
pseudovectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudovector
thoughtographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thoughtography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to thoughtography.
pseudotensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pseudotensors
Etymology: From pseudo- + tensor.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A quantity that transforms like a tensor under a proper rotation but gains an additional change of sign under an improper rotation.
Derived terms: Einstein pseudotensor
Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor
pseudotensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudotensor
decapsulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkæpsjəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: decapsulations
Etymology: From de- + capsulation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of decapsulating.
decapsulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decapsulation
Gothic arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gothic arches
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An arch in the shape of ogive.
endocannibal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocannibals
Etymology: From endo- + cannibal.
Senses: glosses: One who practises endocannibalism.
endocannibals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocannibal
social groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social group
endocannibalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- + cannibalism.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of cannibalism, the eating of dead members of one's own social group, often associated with spiritual beliefs.
malbec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæl.bɛk/
ipa: /ˈmɒl.bɛk/
ipa: /mælˈbɛk/
Forms: form: malbecs
form: Malbec
Etymology: Borrowed from French malbec, said to be named after a Hungarian winemaker who brought it to France.
Senses: glosses: A variety of grape used in making red wine, originally from France, but now predominantly grown in Argentina.
glosses: A red wine made chiefly from malbec grapes.
summonsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of summons
summonsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of summons
summonses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of summons
summonses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of summons
exocannibal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocannibals
Etymology: From exo- + cannibal.
Senses: glosses: One who practises exocannibalism.
exocannibals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exocannibal
exocannibalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exo- + cannibalism.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of cannibalism, the eating of members of other social groups than one's own, as opposed to endocannibalism.
hyperaware
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperaware
form: most hyperaware
Etymology: From hyper- + aware.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly I was hyperaware of everything around me.
text: For example, the smoker may become hyperaware of all or part of his body, of all or part of his mind.
ref: 1974, Joseph Berke, Calvin C. Hernton, The Cannabis Experience, →ISBN, page 95:
text: But Ms. Wurtzel herself is hyperaware of the narcissistic nature of her problems, and her willingness to expose herself—narcissism and all—ultimately wins the reader over.
ref: 1994 September 20, Michiko Kakutani, “The Examined Life Is Not Worth Living Either”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: It is all played absolutely straight, and yet also with a cake-icing of irony, almost like a play by Ernie Wise: observing the decorum, yet also hyperaware of both the surreal bizarreness of its conventions and the deadly seriousness in which they are traditionally represented.
ref: 2022 August 24, Peter Bradshaw, “Mr Malcolm’s List review – Regency romcom served with cake-icing of irony”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Extremely aware; much more alert to stimuli than normal.
Derived terms: hyperawareness
heritages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heritage
hyperawareness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyperaware + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Rouaud's narration is an exercise in hyperawareness; it is a vision of a world magnified in the dewdrops of an extreme sensibility.
ref: 1998 January 9, Richard Bernstein, “'The World More or Less': A Sad Life, Through Thick Glasses, Wittily”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli
co-star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-stars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of costar.
co-star
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-stars
form: co-starring
form: co-starred
form: co-starred
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of costar.
co-stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of co-star
co-stars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-star
co-starred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-star
co-starring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-star
hackleback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackle back
Etymology: From hackle + back.
Senses: examples: text: They served crackers with hackleback caviar.
glosses: A small North American sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, the roe of which is harvested for caviar
Synonyms: sense: sturgeon
word: shovelnose sturgeon
sense: sturgeon
word: switchtail
sense: sturgeon
word: sand sturgeon
abattage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abattages
form: abatage
Etymology: From French abattage.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: The slaughter of animals, especially diseased ones to limit the spread of the disease.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The anchoring of the wheels of an artillery piece, preparatory to firing.
ribbed vault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribbed vaults
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A building structure created by an intersection of two or three vaults.
anisoeikonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisoeikonias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aniseikonia.
anisoeikonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisoeikonia
aniseikonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aniseikonias
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
pathology
sciences
glosses: An ophthalmological condition where there is a significant difference in the perceived size of images.
aniseikonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aniseikonia
ultimative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultimative
form: most ultimative
Etymology: From ultimatum + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Beard calls the United States reply on November 26 to the Japanese proposal of November 20 an “ultimative notice.” Morgenstern calls it more simply an “ultimatum.”
ref: 1950, George Macgregor Waller, Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, page 98:
text: […] Beck sent Kánya a letter “of ultimative character,” saying “that if we do not intervene, they (i.e. the Poles) will settle the question without us, but in that case they will eat the chestnuts.”
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, pages 209–10:
text: The only parallel within the book of Amos to this ultimative warning with its emphasis on the last chance is found in Amos 4:12 […]
ref: 1989, Jörg Jeremias, The Book of Amos: A Commentary, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Resembling an ultimatum.
non-auto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonauto.
skyboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skybox
playfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playfields
Etymology: From play + field.
Senses: examples: text: The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]
ref: 1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee:
text: It has been recommended by some recreational specialists that there should be one such playfield for each 500 children of high school age.
ref: 1974, Comprehensive Plan for Covington, Kentucky, and Environs:
glosses: A playing field.
examples: text: The game has a tilt feature — tilt Fireball and a tilt sign glows and the scoring stops. The full-sized, full-color commercial playfield even has a special friction silk-screened surface so the ball will roll and not slide.
ref: 1977, Popular Science:
text: In this case, the playfield is more disorienting and feels more like the maze that it is.
ref: 2007, Friedrich von Borries, et al: Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism:
glosses: The area within which a game (especially a video game) is played.
qualifier: pinball
glosses: The main surface inside the machine where the ball moves and the game takes place.
playfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playfield
interbeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interbeing
ophthalmological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ophthalmology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: But even when his mistakes and failures are to be explained in ophthalmological or optical terms, this fact does not by itself prove the disheartening general proposition that nobody’s eyes are ever any good for anything, with its tacitly implied rider that no proof-readers can really find out for certain whether there are misprints on a page or not. The existence of disabilities is evidence against and not in favour of the non-existence of abilities.
ref: 1954: Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 97 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
glosses: Pertaining to ophthalmology.
Derived terms: neuroophthalmological
ophthalmologically
teleophthalmological
tax havens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax haven
directoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more directoral
form: most directoral
Senses: examples: text: Such notice shall designate the directoral positions to be filled, the term for which each is to be elected, the respective election precincts and the polling place in each, […]
ref: 1961, California. Legislature. Senate, Senate Bills, Original and Amended, volume 9:
text: It is possible to recognise the three main levels in the managerial decision-making hierarchy, namely, the directoral, the administrative and the executive.
ref: 1984, Agwu Akpala, Managing Industrial Relations in Nigeria, page 276:
glosses: Alternative form of directorial.
Olmec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒlmɛk/
ipa: /ˈoʊlmɛk/
Forms: form: Olmecs
form: Olmec
Etymology: From Nahuatl, meaning rubber lineage (compare Nahuatl olli (“rubber”)).
Senses: glosses: A member of an ancient pre-Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
Derived terms: Olmecoid
Olmecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Olmec
fuzzes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌzɪz/
rhymes: -ʌzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of fuzz
fuzzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌzɪz/
rhymes: -ʌzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuzz
fuzzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌzɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuzz
fuzzing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌzɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌzɪŋ
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Fuzz testing.
fuzzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fʌzd/
rhymes: -ʌzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fuzz
penetration tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penetration test
pen test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pen tests
form: pen-test
form: pentest
Etymology: Clipping of penetration test
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A penetration test.
Related terms: pen tester
pen testing
pen test
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pen tests
form: pen testing
form: pen tested
form: pen tested
form: pen-test
form: pentest
Etymology: Clipping of penetration test
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To conduct a penetration test.
pen tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pen test
unfocussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfocussed
form: most unfocussed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unfocused.
superuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superusers
Etymology: From super- + user.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user with complete access to the operating system and its configuration.
Synonyms: word: admin
word: administrator
word: god
word: goddess
word: op
word: operator
word: root
word: su
word: sysadmin
word: sysop
word: wheel
Hypernyms: user
Hyponyms: BOFH
Derived terms: sudoer
superusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superuser
super-user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: super-users
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of superuser.
super-users
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of super-user
alveolitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alveol- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of a dental alveolus (tooth socket).
Derived terms: alveolitis seca
bronchoalveolitis
dental alveolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental alveoli
Senses: examples: Holonyms: alveolar process, alveolar ridge < jaw, jawbone < face < head < body
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: tooth socket
alveolar socket
hypernyms: alveolus
socket[Appendix:Glossary#elliptically|elliptically]] synonymous when the context is clear>
glosses: An alveolus (socket) in the jaw that holds a tooth. The roots of the tooth are held in the alveolar process by the periodontal ligament.
high off the hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: higher off the hog
form: highest off the hog
Senses: examples: text: You are talking about the all income, so you are talking about a very sizable tax increase for a mall segment of our economy, I admit, but they are not exactly people who are eating highest off the hog at this point in our economy.
ref: 1976, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Social Security, President's Social Security Proposals, page 367:
text: After paying off my debts, I started living a little higher off the hog, ordering the best bourbon at Marco's, dressing better, playing the lottery, and rejoining the poker game, where my luck was, as usual, lousy.
ref: 1998, Robert Perrin, Piggy's Luck and More Tales of Evildoing, page 13:
text: It must be said that the Jap guards didn't live high off the hog either.
ref: 2013, Reg Twigg, Survivor on the River Kwai:
glosses: Alternative form of high on the hog.
blepharitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /blɛfəɹˈaɪtɪs/
Forms: form: blepharitides
Etymology: Ancient Greek βλέφαρον (blépharon, “eyelid”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the eyelid.
Derived terms: blepharitic
feroxyhyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feroxyhytes
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal oxide/hydroxide of iron that occurs in manganese-iron nodules on the Pacific Ocean floor, reverting to goethite on exposure to surface conditions.
feroxyhytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feroxyhyte
cabriite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Louis J Cabri, Canadian mineralogist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey-white mineral with the chemical formula Pd₂SnCu.
descloizite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descloizites
Etymology: Alfred Des Cloizeaux (1817-1897), French mineralogist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare orthorhombic mineral consisting of basic lead and zinc vanadate, isomorphous with olivenite.
descloizites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descloizite
reishi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reishis
form: reishi
Etymology: From Japanese 霊芝. Doublet of lingzhi.
Senses: glosses: The bracket fungus (mushroom) (Ganoderma lucidum and sometimes Ganoderma tsugae).
glosses: An extract of this fungus.
Synonyms: lingzhi
bronchopneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchopneumonias
Etymology: From broncho- + pneumonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A bacterial infection of the lungs, characteristically showing numerous small foci of infection.
Derived terms: bronchopneumonial
Related terms: lobar pneumonia
olivenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olivenites
Etymology: From German Olivenerz (“olive ore”), from its olive-green colour + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic copper arsenate mineral with the chemical formula Cu₂AsO₄OH.
Derived terms: zincolivenite
olivenites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of olivenite
wood-copper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The mineral olivenite.
borickite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borickites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of delvauxite.
synonyms: word: delvauxite
borickites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borickite
delvauxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delvauxites
Etymology: Borrowed from French delvauxite, from J S P J Delvaux de Feuffe (1782-1863), Belgian chemist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow or brown amorphous mineral, sometimes forming a botryoidal mass or stalactites.
Synonyms: borickite
delvauxites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delvauxite
cristate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cristate
form: most cristate
Etymology: First attested in 1661; borrowed from Latin cristātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Median carina strongly cristate on the prozone and on the metazone and with one deep transverse incision so that the prozone is only about one-third the length of the metazone, the incision inclined anterio-ventrad.
ref: 1924, William Williams Henderson, A Taxonomic and Ecological Study of the Species of the Subfamily Oedipodinae (Orthoptera-Acrididae) Found in Utah, page 53:
glosses: Having a crest; crested.
Derived terms: bicristate
Related terms: crest
lobar pneumonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A bacterial infection of the lungs, characteristically showing inflammation of an entire lobe.
Related terms: bronchopneumonia
cellular automata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellular automaton
cholangitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholangitides
Etymology: From cholangio- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the bile duct.
Derived terms: Charcot's cholangitis triad
cholangitic
hepatocholangitis
pancreatocholangitis
quimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: quimps
Senses: examples: text: He does all the Popeye voices, but prefers Olive Oyl's. He has noises for the nittles, the grawlix, the quimps, the jarns. He blows each balloon up before your ears. He reels home, +'s on his eyes, singing the spurl that rises like heat from his head.
ref: 1995 February 21, William H[oward] Gass, “Culp”, in The Tunnel, Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A graphic element, used within maledicta balloons in comics to represent obscenities, curses and swearing, resembling the planet Saturn.
polysectarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polysectarian
form: most polysectarian
Etymology: From poly- + sectarian.
Senses: examples: text: In time it became as impossible for polyglot and polysectarian America to provide a common religious standard for her public schools as for her Army or her railways.
ref: 1919, The Dublin Review, Ed. Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, publ. W. Spooner, v.165, pg. 151
text: The reason for this are to be found in the polysectarian nature of Lebanon with the largest sect being a minority of the total population.
ref: 1974, Pakistan Horizon, Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, v.27, pg. 19
text: However, Byzantium, like the Roman Empire, remained a polyglot, multinational and polysectarian state during the greater part of its existence.
ref: 2007, George Mousourakis, A Legal History of Rome, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Composed of many sects.
epicondylitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epicondyle + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: General inflammation of the elbow or knee.
Derived terms: medial epicondylitis
Related terms: golfer's elbow
tennis elbow
quimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quimp
golfer's elbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golfer's elbows
Etymology: So called because swinging a golf club may lead to this condition.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A painful inflammation of the medial epicondyle of the elbow caused by overuse of the flexor muscles of the lower arm.
Synonyms: medial epicondylitis
Related terms: tennis elbow
fairy rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy ring
ringfort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringforts
Etymology: From ring + fort.
Senses: glosses: An ancient circular fortification of earth or stone, found especially in Ireland.
Related terms: ringwall
ringforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringfort
before you can say Jack Robinson
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Uncertain. There is some speculation that this is a reference to Sir John Robinson, the Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1660 to 1680 and Lord Mayor of London in 1662, but there is nothing known about him that is associated with speed (Samuel Pepys called him as “a talking bragging bufflehead.”), and the phrase does not appear in print until 1778.
Senses: examples: text: You have to be careful in that area. They'll have your wallet before you can say Jack Robinson.
text: To men so generally enlightened as our colonial masters are, we should rather feel ourselves indebted for a rebuke than presume to offer one; and yet a vessel vanishes; she's out of sight before you can say Jack Robinson; and the master prefers travelling with such of his crew as have abstained from joining the marauders, three or four hundred miles a foot, because he has no other mode of travelling, with the express design of telling his employer that he is completely ruined.
ref: 1819 March 27, The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, page 3, column 2:
text: And if you see a sign of anyone being about the place, — living, or dead, or anyhow — you give me a yell. I shall be on the lookout, and I’ll be with you before you can say Jack Robinson.’
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: Father is seated inside the carriage before you can say Jack Robinson.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 772:
synonyms: before you can say knife
glosses: Very quickly; quicker than one expects.
Synonyms: word: before you can say Jack Robertson
word: in the twinkling of an eye
word: in two shakes of a lamb's tail
word: quick as a flash
word: quick as a fox
word: quick as lightning
fairy fort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fairy forts
Senses: glosses: The remains of a ringfort or other circular dwelling, superstitiously said to be associated with fairies or leprechauns.
fairy forts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy fort
white dwarfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white dwarf
old-timers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of old-timer
tercets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tercet
villanelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villanelle
maledicta balloon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maledicta balloons
Senses: examples: text: It is this euphemistic use of the asterisk that is doubtless responsible for the sign's regular inclusion in the cartoonists maledicta balloon.
ref: 1985, Alexander Humez with Nicholas D. Humez, ABC Et Cetera: The Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet, page 9:
glosses: A comic graphic element used to enclose obscenities, oaths, and curses.
old-timy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more old-timy
form: most old-timy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of old-timey.
maledicta balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maledicta balloon
telekineses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telekinesis
beta readers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beta reader
quinquelingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: Late 19th century, quinque- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: Written in five languages.
glosses: Able to speak five languages.
Synonyms: pentalingual
Related terms: multilingual
maledicta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin maledicta, plural of maledictum (“curse, insult”).
Senses: examples: text: We see this in the third commandment, in the popularity of hell, damn, God, and Jesus Christ, and in many of the terms for taboo language itself: profanity (that which is not sacred), blasphemy (literally "evil speech" but in practice disrespect toward a deity), and swearing, cursing, and oaths, which were originally secured by the invocation of a deity or one of his symbols, like the tabernacle, chalice, and wafer incongruously found in Catholic maledicta.
ref: 2007, Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature, page 340:
glosses: Profane or blasphemous language.
examples: text: For 11 years now, “day and night, every Saturday and Sunday,” Aman had devoted his life to what he calls maledicta, the scholarly study of profanity and insults.
ref: 1977 October 30, Edith Herman, “*%&!$*&#-X!!!: Naughty Words — Reinhold Aman knows them all”, in Toledo Blade:
text: Most foreigners believe that Japanese is sparse in maledicta, which is not true. However, they can be quite subtle at times and tend to bypass the square-heads conditioned to blunt ravings of the “up yours, shithead, motherfucker” variety.
ref: 1987, John Solt, “Japanese Sexual Maledicta”, in Reinhold Aman, editor, The Best of Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression:
text: Other types of maledicta are jarns, nittles, and quimps.
ref: 2022, Tara Lazar, Absurd Words, page 112:
glosses: Taboo language of all kinds, including profanity, blasphemy, swearing, cursing, insults, hate speech, impolite language, etc.
Derived terms: maledicta balloon
teleologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From teleological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a teleological context or manner.
firey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹi/
homophone: fiery
rhymes: -aɪəɹi
Forms: form: fireys
form: firie
Etymology: From fire + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: So if a firey was having difficulties, I could go into bat for him if I felt it was necessary.
ref: 2006, Don Woodland, Simon Bouda, Salvation Army, Picking Up the Pieces: A Life of Care and Compassion, page 135:
text: ‘Just one of those things that happens on a day like this,’ one of the fireys says, staring at what was the back door of the car.
ref: 2010, Helen Thomas, Life with Rosie: The Highs and Lows of Raising a Racehorse, unnumbered page:
text: Kinglake West firey Chris Lloyd says the camaraderie is a critical ingredient of CFA life.
ref: 2010, Karen Kissane, Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm, unnumbered page:
glosses: A firefighter.
firey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəɹi/
homophone: fiery
rhymes: -aɪəɹi
Etymology: From fire + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of fiery.
laith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laiths
Etymology: From Middle English lathe, from Old English hladan or Old English hleadan, or from or potentially reinforced by Old Norse hlaða (“barn, storehouse”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaþǭ (“loader”), from *hlaþaną (“to lade, load”). Cognate with Icelandic hlaða (“barn”), Swedish lada (“barn”), Danish lade (“barn”).
Senses: examples: text: “What are ye for?” he shouted. “T’ maister’s down i’ t’ fowld. Go round by th’ end o’ t’ laith, if ye went to spake to him.”
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter II, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: Six quarters of wheat were held at Thomas Roger's house, and in laiths outside Bootham and Micklegate Bar he had store of wheat, rye, barley, beans and peas, totalling £21 6s 8d which represented about a quarter of his assets.
ref: 2000, Eileen White, editor, Feeding a City: York: The Provision of Food from Roman Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: shed, barn
mezcal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezcals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mescal.
courtesy copy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courtesy copies
form: CC
form: C.C.
form: c.c.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A carbon copy.
glosses: A copy of an email sent to a person other than the main recipient, to keep them informed.
coleopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coleopterans
Etymology: From translingual Coleoptera + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Coleoptera; includes the beetles, weevils and fireflies
Derived terms: microcoleopteran
noncoleopteran
games of chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game of chance
teralumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teralumens
Etymology: From tera- + lumen.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of luminous flux equal to 10¹² lumens. Symbol: T
Synonyms: Tlm
megahenry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megahenrys
Etymology: From mega- + henry.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical inductance equal to 10⁶ henrys. Symbol: M
Synonyms: MH
unknown unknown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknown unknowns
Etymology: Popularized by Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, though used much earlier.
Senses: examples: text: This means there are technical unknowns, unknown unknowns, and technical uncertainties in the contract.
ref: 1970, United States Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, Competition in Defense Procurement – 1969: Hearing, Ninety-first Congress, page 166:
text: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.
ref: 2002 February 12, Donald Rumsfeld, “Defense.gov News Transcript: DoD News Briefing – Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers, United States Department of Defense (defense.gov)”, in Defense.gov Transcript Archive, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2016:
text: NASA officials often talk about the "unknown unknowns" – the unforeseen problems that catch them by surprise.
ref: 2014 January 29, Kenneth Chang, “Beings not made for space: After years of missions, health problems of astronauts elude doctors”, in International New York Times, page 7:
glosses: An uncertainty of unknown magnitude, consequence, structure, and probability characteristics, possibly with completely unsuspected existence; something that we don't know that we don't know.
wikipedia: Donald Rumsfeld
Synonyms: unk-unk
Related terms: known known
known unknown
unknown known
a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
unknown unknowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unknown unknown
glacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From obsolete French glacieux, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”).
Senses: glosses: Characteristic, composed, or of the nature of icy; icy.
sniggerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniggerers
Etymology: From snigger + -er.
Senses: glosses: one who sniggers.
sniggerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sniggerer
virtualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of virtualize
virtualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of virtualize
virtualisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virtualise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of virtualizable.
virtualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From virtualize + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be virtualized.