cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
traumatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of traumatise
traumatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of traumatise
traumatised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of traumatise
cytonuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /saɪtoʊˈnukliɚ/
Etymology: From cyto- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to the relationship between the nucleus of a cell and the cytoplasm
thromboregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thrombo- + regulation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The modulation of blood platelet activity; especially its promotion by erythrocytes and inhibition by neutrophils
Related terms: thromboregulatory
neutrophil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːtɹəfɪl/
Etymology: From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- + -phil.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
Derived terms: antineutrophil
myeloneutrophil
neutropenia
neutrophilic
neutrophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjuːtɹəfɪl/
Forms: form: neutrophils
Etymology: From German Neutrophil, from neutro- (“neutro-”) + -phil (“-phile”), equivalent to neutro- + -phil.
Senses: examples: text: One litre of human blood contains about five billion neutrophils (around half of all white blood cells).
ref: 2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 89:
text: Chris learned that his level of infection-fighting neutrophil cells, normally churned out by the bone marrow, had fallen so low that his defenses were in tatters.
ref: 2017 March 29, Mosaic, “The life-saving treatment that’s being thrown in the trash”, in CNN:
text: All mammals naturally make hypochlorous acid to fight infection. When you cut yourself, for instance, white blood cells known as neutrophils go to the site of injury, capturing any invading pathogens.
ref: 2025 May 1, Jen Schwartz, “The magic molecule”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 5, pages 54-55:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Such a cell, especially a particular type of white blood cell.
Synonyms: neutrophil granulocyte
neutrophilic granulocyte
Hypernyms: granulocyte
multinuclear leukocyte
polymorphonuclear leukocyte
PMN
PML
reverse-transmigratory neutrophil
outlie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outlies
form: outlying
form: outlied
form: outlied
Etymology: From out- + lie (in the sense of "tell an untruth").
Senses: glosses: To tell more or better lies than.
outlie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outlies
form: outlying
form: outlay
form: outlain
Etymology: From out- + lie (in the sense of "be located").
Senses: glosses: To lie outside, or at the extremes or periphery of.
glosses: To live in the open air.
Derived terms: outlier
outlying
outlyingness
honorifics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honorific
ped xing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See ped + xing.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pedestrian crossing.
inveigling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inveigle
strappy top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strappy tops
Senses: examples: text: The dress code at our college specifically bans strappy tops.
glosses: An item of women's clothing with thin straps over the shoulders.
1950s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1950's
form: nineteen-fifties
Senses: examples: text: Gerassi discussed the parallels between the witchhunt directed against gay men in Boise during the 1950s and the recent arrests of twelve men charged with sex offenses in Revere.
ref: 1978 April 1, “Author Gerassi Speaks on the Parallels Between Boise and Boston”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
text: Jumming, a particular type of agriculture requiring burning of forest to prepare floor for farming has been prohibited in the Madhupur Garh Forest from the 1950s but continues to be practiced in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
ref: 1998, B. K. Roy Burman, B. G. Verghese, Aspiring to be: the tribal, indigenous condition, page 189:
text: But as in the case of Japan, the results of self-dealing corruption largely remain in the country rather than escaping to Swiss bank accounts as often happened with the style of 1950s era corruption seen in Vietnam or the Philippines.
ref: 2011 August 1, Steve Clemons, “China's Internal Pluralism Is Nothing to Cheer About”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021:
text: Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been manufactured since the 1950s for use as surface protectants for textiles and leather treatment, as protection additives in food packaging and paper products, and in firefighting foams.
ref: 2015, “PFASs in the General Population”, in Jamie C. DeWitt, editor, Toxicological Effects of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances, Humana Press, →ISBN, page 51:
glosses: The decade beginning in 1950 and ending in 1959.
1950s
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 1950s
form: most 1950s
form: 1950's
form: nineteen-fifties
Senses: glosses: Designating popular culture and major events that occurred in this decade, or anything manufactured in this decade.
Synonyms: '50s
50s
fifties
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
1940s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1940's
Senses: examples: text: His knowledge of both Hong Kong and the Mainland made a deep impression on me during the hour we spent over lunch. Huang had learned Cantonese from his wife, who studied Chinese medicine in Guangzhou during the 1940s, and now owned a Chinese herbal medicine shop in the Yau Ma Ti district.
ref: 2009, Stanley S.K. Kwan, Nicole Kwan, “New China”, in The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series), Hong Kong University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 135:
text: During the 2018-2019 season, a staggering 56 horses died at one of the most glamorous racetracks in the country, Santa Anita Park, once home to the famous 1940s thoroughbred Seabiscuit.
ref: 2023 June 10, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Curt Devine, Audrey Ash, Casey Tolan, Allison Gordon and Pamela Brown, “As horse racing’s best trainers rake in millions, records show they’ve violated rules aimed at keeping the animals safe”, in CNN:
glosses: The decade from 1940 to 1949.
Synonyms: '40s
40s
forties
Related terms: 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s
1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s
2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s
2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s
00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's
zeros
zeroes
aughts
noughties
oughts · oneties
tens
teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties
Hungry Forties · Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties
toastie maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toastie makers
form: toastie-maker
Senses: examples: text: Once you've tried a toastie from a toastie maker, you'll never want to eat regular sandwiches again.
glosses: An electrical appliance used to toast sandwiches.
Synonyms: word: Breville
word: Jaffle iron
word: quicksie iron
word: quixie iron
word: sandwich toaster
word: toasted sandwich maker
tair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tairs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tahr (“Asian ungulate”).
hydronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydronym
hydrophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrophyte
cooks up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cook up
cooking up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cook up
ragmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragman
astragals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astragal
auditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audition
auditions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of audition
auditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of audition
auditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of audition
Apostles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apostle
fusillades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fusillade
fusillades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fusillade
timpano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timpanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian timpano.
Senses: examples: text: One can see why Secundo protests making the timpano. The dish is time consuming and demands an involved preparation. It is reserved for special occasions, for it serves anywhere from ten to sixteen people. […] The food stylist for the film, Deborah Disabatino, said she felt like an architect when constructing a timpano, and […]
ref: 2012 August 6, Anne L. Bower, Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Later in the book, we'll dig deeper into the world of baked pastas like elegant lasagna timpanos and new interpretations like crunchy life-changing deep-fried bricks of lasagna[…]
ref: 2019 September 10, Anna Hezel, The Editors Of Taste, Lasagna: A Baked Pasta Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: A timbale (food).
timpano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timpani
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian timpano.
Senses: examples: text: Move only the arms when playing from one timpano to the other.
ref: 1972, Kenneth A. Mueller, Teaching Total Percussion, Parker Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 71:
text: In most cases, when one timpano is used, numerous gliss effects are required (or no special pedaling at all).
ref: 1984, Percussion Anthology: A Compendium of Percussion Articles from the Instrumentalist, Instrumentalist Company, page 511:
text: As in string writing, the indication is a line between the notes (both of which must be within the range of one timpano, of course).
ref: 1990, Kent Kennan, Donald Grantham, The Technique of Orchestration, Prentice-Hall, Inc., →ISBN, page 232:
text: Usually two or more timpani are used together, except for a few rare cases in pre-Classical music where only one timpano is required.
ref: 2013, Ertuğrul Sevsay, The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: singular of timpani (“kettledrum”)
seafood forks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seafood fork
doorsills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doorsill
switchology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From switch + -ology.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The configuration of switches on panels.
Vudatha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vudathas
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu ఉడతా (uḍatā). This surname is predominantly found in Andhra Pradesh.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Telugu.
decouples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decouple
decoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˈkʌpəlɪŋ]
ipa: [diːˈkʊpəlɪŋɡ]
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decouple
decoupling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˈkʌpəlɪŋ]
ipa: [diːˈkʊpəlɪŋɡ]
Forms: form: decouplings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is decoupled.
The unhitching of railcars.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The act or process by which something is decoupled.
The disentangling of economic interdependencies.
coordinate_terms: derisking
examples: text: Directly combining in a low energy state (ground state) is less efficient, so these hydrogen atoms generally form with the electrons still in a high-energy state, and once combined, the electrons quickly release energy in the form of one or more photons as they transition to a low energy state. This release of photons is known as photon decoupling.
ref: 2023 July 13, Wikipedia contributors, “Chronology of the universe”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
topics: astronomy
cosmology
natural-sciences
glosses: The emission of photons during Recombination.
decoupled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decouple
off-book
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off- + book.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Able to perform scripted material from memory, without need to refer to the text.
examples: text: An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
ref: 2013, James Palmer, ‘Kept women’, Aeon:
topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Off the books, not officially recorded.
leno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French linon (“lawn (linen fabric)”), from lin (“linen; flax”) + -on.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A type of weave used to make light, open cotton fabric used for window curtains.
Synonyms: sense: type of weave
word: gauze weave
sense: type of weave
word: leno weave
parses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parse
orlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːlɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of orling
orling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːlɪŋ/
Forms: form: orlings
Senses: glosses: A stunted child.
orling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːlɪŋ/
Forms: form: orlings
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A tooth of a comb.
raw_tags: as plural
noonday devil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noonday devils
Senses: glosses: A demon, thought to be active at the noon hour, that inclines its victims (usually monastics) to restlessness, excitability and inattention to their duties. Used as a synonym for acedia (Greek ακηδία (akidía)).
selectorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From selector + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Our leg press machine is selectorized, so no awkward plate changes are necessary.
glosses: Of exercise equipment, having a level of resistance adjusted by moving a pin or lever.
han-geul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hangul.
asleep at the switch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably an allusion to the important responsibilities of a railway switchman.
Senses: examples: text: His vote demonstrates that the people of Philadelphia are not asleep at the switch, are not indifferent to their political duties.
ref: 1909, Clinton Rogers Woodruff, “Municipal Review 1907-1908,”, in The American Journal of Sociology, volume 14, number 4, page 488:
text: My guardian angel had not been asleep at the switch.
ref: 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 10, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: It is sometimes difficult to guess whether a sentence has been garbled by the author or the typesetter. . . . In either case, the editors were asleep at the switch.
ref: 1974, S. D. Isard, "Review of Computer Models of Thought and Language," Science, New Series, vol. 186, no. 4164 (15 Nov.), p. 625
text: Why America (but not Canada) failed to set up a needed synfuels industry.
ref: 2003, Donald Bartlett and James Steele, "Asleep at the Switch," Time, 13 Oct.
synonyms: asleep at the wheel
glosses: Neglectful of an important task, responsibility, or opportunity.
switchman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switchmen
Etymology: From switch + -man.
Senses: examples: text: This route is repeated automatically on the control panel of the appropriate box as flashing indications covering the track circuits involved and the switchman obeys the instruction by setting up the required route.
ref: 1959 August, Flt. Lt. R. M. Williams, “The German Federal Railways today: 2. Modern signalling at Hanover”, in Trains Illustrated, page 387:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: pointsman
glosses: A person who operates railway switches that route trains onto rail tracks.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: shunter
switcher
hostler
yard jockey
glosses: A person whose job is to help in the switching of railcars in a railway yard.
Related terms: switch engine
switcher
tape player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape players
Senses: glosses: An electronic device used to play cassette tapes.
CD player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CD players
form: CD-player
Senses: examples: text: She takes it to the living room, grateful for the ancient CD player that still sits proudly on the trolley beneath the window like a prized relic because Simiso is of the generation that will simply not part with things no matter how many deaths they die.
ref: 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory, Chatto & Windus, page 192:
qualifier: consumer electronics
glosses: An electronic device that plays compact discs.
for fake
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: By analogy with for real.
Senses: examples: 1990, Beverley Gasner, Girls at Lighthouse Point, Dutton, →ISBN, page 161,
“ […] and Justin just kept mumbling to him, ‘Go away, go away, I want to sleep.’”
“For real?”
“For fake is what I think. But I don’t know […] ”
2001, Niobia Bryant, Three Times a Lady, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 283,
“True,” Jordan said as he switched lanes effortlessly. “We’re staying in a renovated Victorian castle sitting on the edge of a lake.”
“For real?” he asked, some interest now evident.
“No, for fake,” Jordan joked. “Trust me, son. We’re gonna have fun.”
2004, Debbie Gardner and Mike Gardner, Raising Kids Who Can Protect Themselves, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 64,
Sometimes, young children have learned they can delay their bedtime by creating false monsters and ghosts for attention. […] What the child learns besides delaying bedtime is, “It feels good to hide my eyes, get a big hug and lots of loving attention when I am afraid for real and for fake.”
2006, John Lawton, A Little White Death, Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 97,
Head nodding gently, knees crossed, all but tapping his foot to the human rhythm as though the groans and moans of coitus – for real or for fake – were more a concert on the Third Programme than a Home Servicing.
antonyms: for real
glosses: Not for real.
hard line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard lines
Senses: synonyms: firm line
glosses: A decided stance or policy on which one will not compromise.
Derived terms: hard-liner
ramp up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ramps up
form: ramping up
form: ramped up
form: ramped up
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: build up
text: Headcount ramped up over three months.
glosses: To increase rapidly to a new value.
examples: text: Near-synonym: build up
text: The manager ramped up headcount.
text: Overnight, as the storm bore down on urban flood zones, city officials ramped up emergency spaces to shelter thousands more people, mostly in public schools and colleges.
ref: 2012 November 20, Nina Bernstein, “Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York”, in The New York Times:
text: For entirely self-serving reasons, ministers and civil servants never dispelled the public belief that uncaring 'fat cat' privateers or foreign state railways were in control, ramping up fares and creaming off profits which either enriched shareholders or subsidised European rail fares. DfT left train operators to 'take the heat' - which they dutifully did, fearful of speaking up and 'biting the hand that feeds'.
ref: 2020 September 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: We MUST seize the moment”, in Rail, page 3:
text: Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
ref: 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times:
text: In recent years, Beijing has ramped up economic, diplomatic and military pressure on Taiwan – a self-ruling democracy the Chinese Communist Party claims as its own despite having never governed it.
ref: 2023 March 13, Eric Cheung, Nectar Gan, “Taiwan says soldier who went missing has been found in China”, in CNN, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2023:
glosses: To increase (something) rapidly to a new value; to cause (something) to ramp up.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: fire up, spin up
text: The 5G development project will ramp up in the first quarter.
text: It's only fair to note that during the toddler years, the nightmare phase is just ramping up for many children.
ref: 2004, Jana Murphy, The Secret Lives of Toddlers, Perigee, →ISBN, page 118:
text: For projects that are just ramping up, a reasonable estimate should be made for the foreseeable future.
ref: 2007, John A. Cogliandro, Intelligent Innovation: Four Steps to Achieving a Competitive Edge, J. Ross Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 71:
glosses: To start up; to be in an initial phase of rapid increase.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: fire up, spin up
text: He wants to be first to ramp up his project.
topics: management
glosses: To start (something) up; to cause (something) to ramp up.
Coordinate terms: level up
step up
Derived terms: word: ramp-up
Related terms: bone up
stab in the back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stabs in the back
Senses: examples: text: Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.
ref: 2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
text: Another Russian general — Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev — made his own video appeal, calling any actions against the Russian state a “stab in the back of the country and president.”
ref: 2023 June 28, Julian E. Barnes, Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, “Russian General Knew About Mercenary Chief’s Rebellion Plans, U.S. Officials Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An act of betrayal or treachery.
stab in the back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stabs in the back
form: stabbing in the back
form: stabbed in the back
form: stabbed in the back
Senses: examples: text: “What concerns me,” Ryder said, as if they’d been having an entirely different conversation, “is that you’re angry right now, Harper. Menoris was a teammate and you trusted her; I get that. Everyone’s been stabbed in the back at some point or another. But are you going to Illium to complete the mission, or to get revenge?”
ref: 2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 5, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:
text: Speaking on February 1, Cash said: "Today, transport workers who are risking their lives keeping our country moving have found out they have been stabbed in the back by the Government, who have extended the public sector pay freeze to the transport sector […].
ref: 2021 February 10, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: Fears of pay freeze prompt union strike threat”, in RAIL, number 924, page 24:
glosses: To betray (somebody).
Related terms: stab-in-the-back myth
backstabber
dribs and drabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drips and drabs
Etymology: From drib (“a drop”) and drab (“a small amount”).
Senses: examples: text: The tea drinking has done a great deal in bringing this nation into the state [of] misery in which it now is; and the tea drinking, which is carried on by "dribs" and "drabs;" by pence and farthings going out at a time; this miserable practice has been gradually introduced by the growing weight of the taxes on Malt and on Hops, and by the everlasting penury amongst the labourers, occasioned by the paper-money.
ref: 1823, William Cobbett, “Brewing Beer”, in Cottage Economy: […], new edition, London: Printed for J. M. Cobbett, […], →OCLC, paragraph 30:
text: Passengers join in dribs and drabs along the way, but at Barnsley the numbers really began to swell and by Elsecar we have several standing.
ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 48:
synonyms: word: bits and pieces
word: odds and ends
word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A series of negligible amounts.
pumpernickel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌmpɚˌnɪkl̩/
Forms: form: pumpernickels
Etymology: From Westphalian German Pumpernickel, from Pumper (“fart”) (or a related form, such as pumpern) and Nickel (“rascal”) (from the male name Nikolaus (“Nicholas”)), possibly originating as an insult for a person or for the bread itself by outsiders. A false folk etymology claims that this comes from the phrase pain pour Nicole ("bread for Nicole"), referring to Napoleon disliking the taste so much that he thought it was fit for his horse Nicole.
Senses: examples: text: There was a cut-crystal pitcher full of water, a basket of fruit, and a big loaf of pumpernickel for them to eat.
ref: 2016, Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad, Fleet (2017), page 309:
synonyms: pumpernickel bread
glosses: A German sourdough bread made from rye.
wikipedia: Napoleon
The Economist
pulverization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulverizations
Etymology: From French pulvérisation. By surface analysis, pulverize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of pulverizing.
pulpwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌlpˌwʊd/
Forms: form: pulpwoods
Etymology: From pulp + wood.
Senses: glosses: Wood, usually softwood, used for pulping to make paper.
puller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʊlɚ/
rhymes: -ʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pullers
Etymology: From Middle English puller, pullere, equivalent to pull + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If your dog is a puller, try attaching your leash to the front chest clip on her harness.
ref: 2017, Kyra Sundance, Dog Training 101, page 84:
glosses: Anything that pulls, but especially a hoist in which a cable is attached to a lever and a ratchet mechanism.
glosses: A tool for pulling, such as a bearing puller.
Derived terms: boat-puller
cable puller
crowd-puller
focus puller
leg-puller
nail puller
pound puller
power puller
puller-outer
staple puller
stick puller
pullback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullbacks
form: pull-back
Etymology: Deverbal from pull back.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of pulling back; a withdrawal.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The act of drawing a camera back to broaden the visible scene.
examples: text: Your disorders are a pull-back for your good qualities.
ref: 1710 November 1 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Jonathan Swift, “[Dr. Swift’s Journal to Stella.] (please specify |letter=I–LXV).”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to XIX), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:
glosses: Something that holds back; a drawback; a hindrance.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A reduction in the price of a financial instrument after reaching a peak
examples: text: The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
ref: 2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An attacking pass from the wing into a position further from the attacking goal line.
glosses: A device for making a woman's gown hang close and straight in front.
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: The map between cotangent bundles of manifolds corresponding to a smooth map between smooth manifolds, which at each point is the dual map to the corresponding pushforward.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: fiber product
fibre product
Cartesian square
pullback square
hyponyms: equalizer
equaliser
glosses: The limit of a cospan: a Cartesian square or “pullback square”.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Within a Cartesian square (which has a pair of divergent morphisms and a pair of convergent morphisms) the divergent morphism which is directly opposite to a given one of the convergent morphisms, said to be “along” the convergent morphism which is between that pair of opposite morphisms. (The pullback is said to be “of” the given morphism.)
glosses: A certain move in tap dance.
Related terms: sense: differential geometry
word: pushforward
topics: category-theory
mathematics
computing
engineering
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: pushout
pruner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pruners
Etymology: From prune + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who prunes.
examples: text: [A] handheld pruner helps to sever the seedstalk quickly and efficiently.
ref: 2013 June 4, Tom Seymour, Nuts and Berries of New England: Tips and Recipes for Gatherers from Maine to the Adirondacks to Long Island Sound, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A tool used for pruning, especially a pair of pruning shears.
glosses: Any of several unrelated beetles whose larvae attack the branches of trees.
prudential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: [pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃl̩]
ipa: /pɹuˈdɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: [pɹuˈdɛn.ʃl̩]
ipa: /pɹʉːˈden.ʃəl/
ipa: [pɹʉːˈden.ʃl̩]
Forms: form: more prudential
form: most prudential
Etymology: From Latin prudentia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a prudential line of conduct
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: Matrimony had always been a matter of prudential calculation.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 206:
glosses: Characterised by the use of prudence; arising from careful thought or deliberation.
glosses: Of a person: exercising prudence; cautious.
examples: text: a prudential committee
glosses: Advisory; superintending or executive.
Derived terms: antiprudential
macroprudential
microprudential
prudentialism
prudentialist
prudentiality
prudentially
prudentialness
unprudential
prudential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: [pɹuːˈdɛn.ʃl̩]
ipa: /pɹuˈdɛn.ʃəl/
ipa: [pɹuˈdɛn.ʃl̩]
ipa: /pɹʉːˈden.ʃəl/
ipa: [pɹʉːˈden.ʃl̩]
Forms: form: prudentials
Etymology: From Latin prudentia + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I believe few men knew more of the art of policy and self-interested prudentials, but never man so little practised them.
ref: 1853, George Godfrey Cunningham, A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, volume 2, page 426:
glosses: A matter requiring prudence.
prudery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹuːdəɹi/
Forms: form: pruderies
Etymology: First attested in 1709. prude + -ery and from French pruderie.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being prudish; prudishness
glosses: Prudish behaviour
Synonyms: prudishness
erotophobia
antisexuality
prudishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prudishnesses
Etymology: From prudish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being prudish; prudery
Synonyms: prudery
erotophobia
antisexuality
provenience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈviːni.ən(t)s/
ipa: /pɹə(ʊ)ˈviːnjən(t)s/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈvini.ən(t)s/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈvinjən(t)s/
ipa: /pɹə-/
Forms: form: proveniences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōveniēns, present participle of prōvenīre (“to come up”); compare provene, provenient, and provenance.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: source; findspot; origin
qualifier: more loosely; outside of archaeology; more loosely; outside of archaeology
glosses: provenance, history
Related terms: word: unprovenienced
protrusile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more protrusile
form: most protrusile
Senses: glosses: Capable of being protruded.
proscenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proscenium
propulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed from Latin prōpulsus with the suffix -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to propulsion
glosses: Serving to propel
Derived terms: antipropulsive
proprietorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more proprietorial
form: most proprietorial
Etymology: From proprietor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ownership.
examples: text: A superficially handsome young fellow had his arm round her, and he barred my way and told me something in proprietorial Flemish.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 483:
text: “I'm pretty sure he did, Felix.” There was a proprietorial note in Rose's voice, to which I objected.
ref: 2006, Elizabeth Buchan, Wives Behaving Badly, →ISBN:
glosses: Characteristic of or behaving like a proprietor or owner (of a thing); possessive.
Synonyms: proprietary
Related terms: word: proprietarial
proprietress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proprietresses
form: proprietess
form: proprietoress
Etymology: From proprietor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives.
ref: 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55:
synonyms: proprietrix
owneress
glosses: A female proprietor.
proprieties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propriety
prophylaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prophylaxis
libella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libellas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lībella, diminutive of libra (“balance”). Doublet of level and niveau.
Senses: glosses: A small balance.
glosses: A level, or levelling instrument.
critical Reynolds number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: critical Reynolds numbers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A Reynolds number at which the flow of a fluid changes from laminar to turbulent.
bevy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛvi/
homophone: bevvy
Forms: form: bevies
Etymology: From Middle English bevey, of uncertain origin, possibly Anglo-Norman.
Senses: examples: text: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
glosses: A group of animals, particularly quail.
examples: text: In the midſt of all this buſtle, I was ſtruck with the appearance of a large bevy of beauties and women of the firſt fashion, who with all the perfect confidence of good breeding, inſhrined themſelves in the ſeveral temples dedicated to the Cyprian Venus[.]
ref: 1755, Adam Fitz-Adam, The World, number CXXI, London, page 789:
text: The same messenger who summoned the whole bevy of renegades, Dover, Peterborough, Murray, Sunderland, and Mulgrave, could just as easily have summoned Clarendon.
ref: 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 365:
text: The two elder of the brothers were plainly not intending to linger more than a moment, but the spectacle of a bevy of girls dancing without male partners seemed to amuse the third, and make him in no hurry to move on.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 22–23:
text: For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: A small group of persons, especially of girls and women.
examples: text: Thursday's session makes AT&T the latest high-profile company to meet with Trump after the president-elect's series of job-related talks with firms such as Softbank, Carrier and a bevy of tech companies including Google, Facebook and Apple.
ref: 2017 January 12, Brian Fung, “Why AT&T’s top execs visited Trump Tower”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: A large group or collection.
Libentina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Libitina (“ancient Roman goddess of funerals and burial”).
hastas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hasta
Liber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A god of viticulture and wine, as well as male fertility and freedom.
tyran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tyrans
Senses: examples: text: Lordly love is such a tyranne fell.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Ægloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of tyrant.
tyran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tyrans
form: tyranning
form: tyranned
form: tyranned
Senses: glosses: To act tyrannically towards.
terminologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From terminological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Regarding terminology.
conque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conques
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conch.
terrestrially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more terrestrially
form: most terrestrially
Etymology: From terrestrial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a terrestrial manner.
glosses: Whilst located on Earth, or on land.
textually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more textually
form: most textually
Etymology: From textual + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a textual manner.
glosses: Regarding text.
Related terms: textual
thankfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thankfully
form: most thankfully
Etymology: From Middle English thankfully, thankefully, þonkfulliche, from Old English þancfullīċe, equivalent to thankful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gratiano:
[…]I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth
That which I owe is lost; but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
As I will watch the aim, or to find both,
Or bring your latter hazard back again,
And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: I immediately offered my assistance to the unhappy person, who thankfully accepted it, and, putting himself under my conduct, begged me to convey him to some tavern, where he might send for a surgeon […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VIII:
glosses: In a thankful manner; giving thanks.
examples: text: I was almost late for work, but thankfully there wasn't much traffic on the roads.
glosses: fortunately, gratefully.
thermally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Regarding heat.
thermostatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From thermostatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the electric fan drive and Drayton regulator temperature control employed on the prototypes have been superseded on the production version by Serck-Behr hydrostatic drive from an engine-driven pump with thermostatically controlled fan speed regulation.
ref: 1960 June, “The N.B. Loco. Co. diesel-hydraulic Type "2" locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345:
glosses: By means of a thermostat.
pin-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pin-ups
form: pinup
Etymology: Deverbal from pin up, because such a photograph is often extracted from the publication and pinned up on a wall.
Senses: examples: text: pin-ups on every wall of their dorm room
glosses: A photograph, printed in a magazine or other publication, of a sexually attractive person (often nude or provocatively dressed), and intended to be removed and pinned up on a wall.
examples: text: pin-up girl
text: Damn, she could be a pin-up, for real.
glosses: The person so depicted.
examples: text: She was Nicolas Sarkozy's pin-up for diversity, the first Muslim woman with north African parents to hold a major French government post. But Rachida Dati has now turned on her own party elite with such ferocity that some have suggested she should be expelled from the president's ruling party.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
coordinate_terms: poster child
glosses: Figurehead, person who represents an idea, cause etc.
Related terms: sense: poster hung
word: tack-up
tidally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tidally
form: most tidally
Etymology: From tidal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tidal manner.
glosses: Using the tides.
Derived terms: tidally locked
titillatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more titillatingly
form: most titillatingly
Etymology: From titillating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a titillating manner.
tonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tonally
form: most tonally
Etymology: From tonal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tonal manner.
glosses: Regarding tone.
tack up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tacks up
form: tacking up
form: tacked up
form: tacked up
Senses: antonyms: detack
glosses: To prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.)
examples: text: "The stage ought to be here," said Miranda, glancing nervously at the tall clock for the twentieth time. "I guess everything's done. I've tacked up two thick towels back of her washstand and put a mat under her slop-jar; but children are awful hard on furniture. I expect we sha'n't know this house a year from now."
ref: 1903, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm:
hypernyms: hang up
put up
coordinate_terms: paste up
pin up
glosses: To attach in a temporary fashion (with or as if with tacks or pins), as for example to fix pieces of fabric into position in preparation for sewing their seams, or to hang dropcloths as masking before painting.
Derived terms: word: tack-up
Related terms: sense: attach temporarily
word: tack down
sense: attach temporarily
word: tack weld
sense: apply tack to a horse
word: gear up
sense: apply tack to a horse
word: suit up
tonelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tonelessly
form: most tonelessly
Etymology: From toneless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a toneless manner.
toothily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toothily
form: most toothily
Etymology: From toothy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Also eyeing them is a pair of toothily circling predators, who seem set to add Haley and Dave to their noisome floating larder of previously chomped-on snacks.
ref: 2019 December 7, Jeannette Catsoulis, “‘Crawl’ Review: See You Later, Alligator”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a toothy manner.
topographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From topographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a topographic manner.
glosses: Regarding topography.
mentons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menton
overselling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oversell
tax-sheltered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tax-sheltered
form: most tax-sheltered
Senses: glosses: Of money or other assets: protected by a tax shelter.
tax shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax shelters
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
glosses: A legal structure that reduces tax liability for a person or the assets of that person.
Sellers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sellerses
Etymology: Patronymic from Seller.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lewis County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A town in Marion County, South Carolina, United States.
tax shelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax shelter
Seller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An English and Scottish topographic surname, derived from any of several places named Sell.
glosses: An English and Scottish occupational surname for a saddler, or for a person who sells things.
glosses: An English and Scottish metonymic surname for someone who worked in a cellar.
Related terms: Sellers