cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tricorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪkɔːn/
ipa: /ˈtɹaɪkɔɹn/
rhymes: -aɪkɔː(ɹ)n
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tricornis (“three-horned; three-pronged”). By surface analysis, tri- + corn(er). Compare French tricorne (“three-cornered hat”). Doublet of tricorne.
Senses: glosses: Having three horns or similar projections.
tromp-l'oeil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of trompe l'oeil.
tub chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tub chairs
Senses: glosses: A deep chair having a semicircular form
underrepresented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underrepresented
form: most underrepresented
Etymology: From under- + represented.
Senses: examples: text: Over more than four decades between 1978 and 2019, the proportion of medical school enrollees who identify as Black, Hispanic or members of other underrepresented groups has stayed “well below” the proportions that each group represented in the general US population, according to a 2021 report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
ref: 2023 February 21, Jacqueline Howard, “Only 5.7% of US doctors are Black, and experts warn the shortage harms public health”, in CNN:
antonyms: overrepresented
glosses: Having less than adequate or sufficient representation.
underrepresented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underrepresent
underrepresent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛnt
Forms: form: underrepresents
form: underrepresenting
form: underrepresented
form: underrepresented
form: under-represent
Etymology: From under- + represent.
Senses: glosses: To represent something as being lower or smaller than is the case.
examples: text: Kessler […] said that he decided to run for alderman because he felt that Triplett underrepresented the ward.
ref: 2011, Veronica Szostalo, "Primary conflict", West End Word, volume 40, number 4, February 23 – March 8, page 1
glosses: To give something insufficient or inadequate representation.
mou
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Etymology: From Cantonese 冇 (mou5), also influenced by Malay mau variant of mahu (“to want”).
Senses: examples: text: Kopitiam mou?
translation: Do you want to go to the coffee shop?
english: Do you want to go to the coffee shop?
text: Day trip mou?
translation: Do you want to go on a day trip?
english: Do you want to go on a day trip?
text: Hiking tomorrow. Onz mou?
translation: I/We are going on a hike tomorrow. Are you coming?
english: I/We are going on a hike tomorrow. Are you coming?
qualifier: mainly Cantonese speakers
glosses: Sentence-final particle, forms a tag question.
untellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untellable
form: most untellable
Etymology: From Middle English untellable; equivalent to un- + tellable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be told; indefinable, indescribable or ineffable.
uropoïesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uropoiesis.
uropoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uro- + -poiesis.
Senses: glosses: The production of urine by the kidneys and its subsequent excretion
vicar apostolic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicars apostolic
form: apostolic vicar
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Roman Catholic prelate who is ordained (titular) bishop and administers a missionary jurisdiction that is not (yet) a diocese, but ranks higher than an apostolic prefecture.
Related terms: apostolic vicariate
vitrified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vitrify
vitrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitrified
form: most vitrified
Senses: examples: text: Five bus-loads of boys and girls, singing or in a silent embracement, rolled past them over the vitrified highway.
ref: 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus:
glosses: Converted into glass.
Derived terms: vitrified clay pipe
facts on the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from put facts on the ground
Senses: glosses: The situation in reality as opposed to in the abstract.
glosses: Some aspects of the situation in a particular location.
examples: text: The author referred to "continued evictions and relentless purchases of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, the process of the right of return granted to Jews but not to Arabs, the so-called facts on the ground of hardening concrete over the future, over future generations of Palestinian and Israeli children who will inherit the conflict and find it even more difficult to resolve than it is today."
ref: 2011 February 20, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Ian McEwan, “Ian McEwan attacks 'great injustice' in Israel”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The presence of military forces in a territory, rendering moot any debate over ownership.
Related terms: boots on the ground
fait accompli
de facto
status quo ante bellum
ex factis jus oritur
realpolitik
revanchism
ground truth
unsavoury
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsavoury
form: most unsavoury
Etymology: From un- + savoury.
Senses: examples: text: The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in the Guardian:
text: England consolidated their position of power in pursuit of a place at next year's World Cup in Qatar with a hugely impressive victory against Hungary in a hostile and often unsavoury atmosphere in Budapest.
ref: 2021 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Hungary 0-4 England”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of unsavory.
diisocyanate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diisocyanates
Etymology: From di- + isocyanate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing two isocyanate anions or functional groups, but especially such an organic compound used in the preparation of polyurethane
Derived terms: polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
apiculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From api- (“bee”) + culture.
Senses: glosses: The keeping and maintenance of bees for commercial reasons.
Synonyms: beekeeping
Derived terms: apicultural
apiculturalist
apiculturist
Related terms: apiarist
apiary
washhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washhouses
form: wash house
Etymology: From Old English wæsċhūs, equivalent to wash + house.
Senses: examples: text: Now I'll see things walking a road that fifty other men would miss. I'll give you an instance, connected with the robbery of a wash-house copper."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: A domestic outbuilding used as a laundry.
glosses: A public laundry.
glosses: A room in a house used for washing laundry; a utility room.
examples: text: […] the washhouses complied with the Factory and Workshops Act of 1907.
ref: 2000, Joseph R. Skoski, Public Baths and Washhouses in Victorian Britain, 1842-1914, page 124:
glosses: A public facility where people could wash themselves and their clothes.
Related terms: backhouse
washery
handler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhænd.lə/
ipa: /ˈhænd.lɚ/
ipa: [ˈhɛənd.lɚ]
rhymes: -ændlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: handlers
Etymology: From Middle English handler, handiller, equivalent to handle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The handler of a weapon gets a symbolic sensation of deadly power.
text: Although the airline told them it took such action because they might spread the disease in their capacity as food handlers, neither was offered a transfer to other departments.
ref: 1984 December 8, Christine Guilfoy, “United Not Friendly To Workers With AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 21, page 1:
glosses: One who handles something (especially manually) or someone.
examples: text: The spy's handler told him to approach the subject by posing as a dog handler.
text: They are also very sympathetic, especially Caesar’s orangutan advisor, Maurice (Karin Konoval), who takes a shine to a human moppet (Amiah Miller) he finds hiding in the back of a shack, and the poignant Bad Ape (a scene-stealing Steve Zahn), a mangy chimp who was beaten so often in his zoo-animal days that he came to believe what his handlers were shouting was supposed to be his name.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter).
examples: text: The governor received guidance on how to best disseminate key information to the public from her handler.
glosses: An advisor or manager providing guidance to a person occupying public office or a prominent position.
examples: text: If the expression is a throw, we unwind the stack seeking a handler expression.
ref: 2006, Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Trends in Functional Programming, volume 5, page 62:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
Hyponyms: event handler
exception handler
Derived terms: art handler
baggage handler
ballhandler
dog handler
event handler
gunhandler
puckhandler
shiphandler
stall handler
stickhandler
telehandler
Related terms: handlebar
handleable
handling
manipulator
watercolourist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watercolourists
form: watercolorist
Etymology: From watercolour + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Jim's aunt is an avid watercolourist.
glosses: An artist who paints watercolours.
handlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handler
cheese off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheeses off
form: cheesing off
form: cheesed off
form: cheesed off
Senses: examples: text: Sony management […] is 'fixing' one part of the triangle at the cost of the other two. This cheeses off software makers more than you can imagine, and it also cheeses off customers.
ref: 2007 February 25, Charlie Demerjian, “Sony Euro PS3 debacle risks a major fire storm”, in Inquirer, UK, retrieved 23 Feb 2009:
synonyms: word: piss off
word: pee off
word: tee off
word: tick off
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy.
whitewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitewoods
Etymology: From white + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
An Australian rainforest tree of species Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech)
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.
glosses: Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, such as the tulip tree.
Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.
glosses: Wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)
examples: text: When the design seems satisfactory, the whitewood is wired to make it playable. Meanwhile the software developer has been creating the unique software to control the game.
ref: 2001, Jacqueline L. Longe, How Products are Made:
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A prototype version of a pinball table, without the final artwork.
Derived terms: African whitewood
zakuski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zakuska
aerophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerophones
Etymology: From aero- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.
glosses: A form of combined speaking trumpet and ear trumpet.
glosses: An instrument for greatly intensifying speech, consisting of a phonograph diaphragm arranged so that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.
Derived terms: aerophonic
Related terms: wind instrument
zakuska
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zakuskas
form: zakuski
form: sakuska
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian заку́ска (zakúska, “appetizer”).
Senses: glosses: An assortment of hors d’oeuvres
sexology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: sexologies
Etymology: From sex + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of sex and sexuality, usually from a psychological or clinical perspective.
Synonyms: sexual psychology
Derived terms: sexological
sexologist
space sexology
sexologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: sexologists
Etymology: From sex + -ologist.
Senses: examples: text: Daniel Bergner, age 48, the divorced father of two teenage children, is what sexologists would call a straight, vanilla teleiophile.
ref: 2009 January 24, Charles Mcgrath, “Surveying the Outer Reaches of Lust”, in The New York Times:
text: Then there's US sexologist Ray Blanchard, best known for his ... well, problematic concept of autogynyphelia: the idea that trans women are actually men who feel attracted to their female-selves.
ref: 2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality.
Related terms: sexology
Seychellois
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French seychellois.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, Seychelles.
Seychellois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seychellois
Etymology: Borrowed from French seychellois.
Senses: glosses: Someone from the Seychelles, or of Seychellois descent.
Massif Central
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: meronyms: Aubrac
glosses: An elevated area of south-central France.
teed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tee off)
teed off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more teed off
form: most teed off
Senses: examples: text: My doctor was thoroughly teed off when she learned I have not been taking the medications she prescribed.
glosses: Annoyed, upset, angry.
Synonyms: browned off
cheesed off
peed off
pissed off
ticked off
reducible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reducible
form: most reducible
Etymology: From reduce + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reduced.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be factored into polynomials of lower degree, as x²-1.
raw_tags: of a polynomial
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be factored into smaller integers; composite.
raw_tags: of an integer
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Containing a sphere of codimension 1 that is not the boundary of a ball.
raw_tags: of a manifold
Derived terms: bioreducible
Karp-reducible
many-one reducible
one-one reducible
reducibility
fetal alcohol syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetal alcohol syndromes
form: foetal alcohol syndrome
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: FAS
glosses: Any of a spectrum of birth defects that result from excessive alcohol consumption by the mother during pregnancy.
water cannon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water cannons
form: water cannon
Senses: glosses: A device that shoots a large amount of water at high pressure through a hose-like tube.
Related terms: deluge gun
water pistol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water pistols
Senses: glosses: A toy gun used to shoot water.
Synonyms: squirt gun
water gun
Hyponyms: Super Soaker
philosophie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of philosophy.
cross-shaped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: cruciate
cruciform
glosses: Of the form of a cross.
endpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endpoints
form: end point
Etymology: From end + point.
Senses: glosses: Either of the two points at the ends of a line segment.
qualifier: speech recognition
glosses: The point in speech at which an utterance ends.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A defined occurrence during the observation period of an experiment or study.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The stage in a titration at which a change in the colour of an indicator indicates that no more titrant should be added.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The entity at one end of a connection.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Part of a system that serves as a hook, allowing third-party code to intercept and modify behaviour at that point.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of the two nodes of a graph of degree 1.
Hypernyms: point
endpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endpoints
form: endpointing
form: endpointed
form: endpointed
Etymology: From end + point.
Senses: glosses: Of a speech recognition system: to detect the endpoint of an utterance.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To determine an endpoint in a titration process.
passivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæsəˈveɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpæsəˈvæɪʃən/
Forms: form: passivations
Etymology: From passive + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: materials science
glosses: The process of making a material passive (non-reactive) in relation to another material prior to using the materials together.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The spontaneous formation of a hard non-reactive surface film (usually an oxide or nitride) that inhibits further corrosion.
qualifier: control theory
glosses: Conversion of a non-passive dynamical system into a passive one.
Derived terms: repassivation
transpassivation
peise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪz/
ipa: /piːz/
rhymes: -eɪz
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: peas
homophone: pease
homophone: pays
Forms: form: peises
form: peising
form: peised
form: peised
Etymology: From Middle English peysen, from Anglo-Norman peiser, peser and Middle French peser, from Latin pēnsāre (literally “weigh”). Doublet of poise.
Senses: glosses: To weigh or measure the weight of; to poise.
glosses: To weigh or take the measure of (an immaterial object).
examples: text: I speak too long; but 'tis to peise the time,
To eke it, and to draw it out in length, […]
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 III, scene ii]:
glosses: To weigh down, retard
peise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪz/
ipa: /piːz/
rhymes: -eɪz
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: peas
homophone: pease
homophone: pays
Forms: form: peises
Etymology: From Middle English peysen, from Anglo-Norman peiser, peser and Middle French peser, from Latin pēnsāre (literally “weigh”). Doublet of poise.
Senses: examples: text: To weigh pence with a peise.
ref: c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “(please specify the passus number)”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...] (Cr, B-text), London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:
glosses: A weight; a poise.
examples: text: Great Ptolomæe it for his lemans sake / Ybuilded all of glasse, by Magicke powre, / And also it impregnable did make; / Yet when his loue was false, he with a peaze it brake.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A heavy blow, an impact.
segreant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛɡ.ɹi.ənt/
Etymology: First attested in the 1550s, initially in the spelling sergreant, of obscure origin and variable meaning: examples from the 15- and 1600s apply it not only to winged quadrupeds but also a falcon, and not exclusively to ones rampant but also some passant. The source may be French s'érigeant (“erecting itself”).
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Rampant, with the wings elevated and addorsed (a posture of winged quadrupeds).
Related terms: dragon
griffin
kitbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitbag
Sarai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saraj
form: Saray
Etymology: From Persian سرای (sarây, “courtyard; dwelling; palace”).
Senses: glosses: Either of two cities which served as the capital of the Golden Horde.
Sarai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew שרי (Saráy), from the plural form of שר (“master, chief”).
Senses: examples: text: And Abram tooke Sarai his wife, and Lot his brothers sonne, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the soules that they had gotten in Haran, and they went foorth to goe into the land of Canaan: and into the land of Canaan they came.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 12:5:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, most famously borne by Sarah, the wife of Abram and mother of Isaac in the Bible, prior to her name change
Melchizedek
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛlˈkɪzədɛk/
Forms: form: Melchisedech
form: Melchizedec
Etymology: From Hebrew מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק (malkî-ṣed̠eq). The name literally means “righteousness is my king”.
Senses: examples: text: And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
ref: 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Genesis 14:18:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A king and priest mentioned in the book of Genesis; contemporary of Abraham.
Derived terms: Melchizedek priesthood
Melchizedek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛlˈkɪzədɛk/
Forms: form: Melchizedeks
form: Melchisedech
form: Melchizedec
Etymology: From Hebrew מַלְכִּי־צֶדֶק (malkî-ṣed̠eq). The name literally means “righteousness is my king”.
Senses: glosses: A very large champagne bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 30 liters, equivalent to 40 standard bottles.
peridomicile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peridomiciles
Etymology: From peri- + domicile.
Senses: glosses: The areas around a dwelling, especially the animal enclosures etc. of a rural dwelling
Related terms: extradomicile
chunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chunkings
Senses: glosses: The process of reducing something to short, thick pieces, usually using a hammer or a crowbar.
examples: text: Chunking is the reason that phone numbers are broken into two parts plus an area code and that credit card numbers are split into groups of four.
ref: 2011, Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein, The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A strategy for making more efficient use of short-term memory by recoding information.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A method of presenting information which splits concepts into small pieces or "chunks" of information to make reading and understanding faster and easier, using such methods as bulleted lists, short subheadings, or short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The division of memory or data etc. into smaller units for easier processing.
topics: education
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The partial-quotients method for solving simple division problems by repeated subtraction.
chunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chunk
Related terms: pumpkin chunkin'
clustering
Teuton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt(j)uː.tən/
ipa: /ˈt(j)uː.tɒn/
ipa: /ˈt(j)u.tən/
ipa: /ˈt(j)u.tɑn/
rhymes: -uːtən
rhymes: -uːtɒn
Forms: form: more Teuton
form: most Teuton
Etymology: PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
Attested since 1720, from Latin Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”) (cf. Ancient Greek Τεύτονες (Teútones)), a Germanic or Celtic tribe that inhabited a coastal area in today's Germany and devastated Gaul between 113 and 101 BCE. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”), from which come:
* Proto-Germanic *þeudō (“people”)
** Old English þēod (“nation, people, country, language”), Middle English thede
** Proto-Germanic *þeudanaz (“ruler, leader of the people”)
*** Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽𐍃 (þiudans, “king”)
*** Old Norse þjóðann (“prince, king”)
*** Old Saxon þiudan (“lord of the people, ruler”)
*** Old English þēoden (“king, lord”)
** Proto-Germanic *þiudiskaz (“of the people or tribe”)
*** English Dutch
*** German deutsch
* Proto-Celtic *toutā
** Old Irish túath
* Persian توده (tôda, tude, “heap, masses, people, folk”)
* Proto-Slavic *ťuďь (“foreign, strange”)
** Russian чужо́й (čužój, “stranger”), чудно (čudno, “strange”), чу́до (čúdo, “miracle”)
Senses: examples: text: While some families of the oldest Welsh stocks talk English only, a large number, whose forefathers were Teuton, Norse, or Irish, now converse in Cymraeg.
ref: 1881, James Bonwick, “Preface”, in Who Are the Welsh? (Our Nationalities; III), London: David Bogue, […], pages iii–iv:
text: Had the Jews been so fixed a type, by this time their offspring would have been more numerous than the Chinese. The reverse, however, is the case; and therefore, we may suppose they must have become extinct, had it not been for fresh supplies of Saxon, Teuton, Spanish, and Italian blood.
ref: 1886 December 18, Richard Jefferies, “Just Before Winter”, in R[obert] Chambers (Secundus), editor, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, volume III, number 155, London; Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers, page 803, column 2:
text: While the social system could thus be improved, [G. Stanley] Hall knew that heredity was more important. He argued that a pound of heredity was “worth a hundredweight of education.” It was necessary to pay attention to better breeding: “The nation that breeds best, be it Mongol, Slav, Teuton or Saxon, will rule the world in the future.”
ref: 1986, Clarence J. Karier, Scientists of the Mind: Intellectual Founders of Modern Psychology, Urbana, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Synonym of Teutonic.
synonyms: word: Teutonic
Related terms: Aryan
Goth
panhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panhandlings
Senses: examples: text: The old owner was dead now and the son who had taken over had had to bar Tolie from the movie show because the hunchback annoyed the crowds with his periodic panhandlings up and down the aisles.
ref: 1974, B. Clarence Hall, The Burning Season, page 5:
glosses: The act or habit of begging for money.
panhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of panhandle
attophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atto- + physics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of physics concerned with dynamic processes that take place with a time resolution of the order of attoseconds
diapause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪəpɔːz/
Forms: form: diapauses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διάπαυσις (diápausis, “pause, cessation”). By surface analysis, dia- + -pause.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A temporary pause in the growth and development of an organism due to adverse environmental conditions (especially in insects and in the embryos of many of the oviparous species of fish in the order Cyprinodontiformes)
Derived terms: diapausal
diapaused
diapausin
diapausing
nondiapause
paradiapause
postdiapause
prediapause
diapause
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪəpɔːz/
Forms: form: diapauses
form: diapausing
form: diapaused
form: diapaused
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διάπαυσις (diápausis, “pause, cessation”). By surface analysis, dia- + -pause.
Senses: glosses: To undergo diapause.
Related terms: quiescence
semaphorin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semaphorins
Etymology: From semaphore + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of proteins that assist growing axons to find an appropriate target and to form synapses
unimaginatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/
Forms: form: more unimaginatively
form: most unimaginatively
Etymology: From unimaginative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Done in an unimaginative manner; not creatively.
imaginatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmad͡ʒɪnətɪvlɪj/
Forms: form: more imaginatively
form: most imaginatively
Etymology: From Middle English ymaginatyfliche; equivalent to imaginative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an imaginative manner; showing creativity.
self-appointed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + appointed.
Senses: synonyms: self-proclaimed
self-styled
self-professed
self-ordained
soi-disant
wannabe
tryhard
glosses: Appointed by oneself, usually without having the right or the expertise to do so.
self-appointed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + appointed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-appoint
dearie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈdiɹi/
ipa: /ˈdiɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈdiɹe/
ipa: /ˈdiəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈdɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
homophone: deary
homophone: dairy (cheer–chair merger)
Forms: form: dearies
form: deary
Etymology: From dear + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: At the mention of money Mrs Dibble was overcome with great debility, and wheezed, "I don't feel up to talking about money, matters just now, dearie. I think I better have a bit of a doze."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 43:
glosses: A person who is dear; sweetie.
dearies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deary
glosses: plural of dearie
cake slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cake slice
cake-slices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cake-slice
fridging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fridge
fridged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fridge
fridge-freezers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fridge-freezer
vacuum cleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum cleaner
-fu
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: foo
Etymology: Back-formation from kung fu.
Senses: examples: text: Google + -fu → Google-fu
text: script + -fu → script-fu
text: My Google-fu is weak!
text: Aragorn uses Ranger-fu to figure out that Sam and Frodo have taken a boat.
glosses: Used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge.
Derived terms: Google-fu
Related terms: fu
paperclips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperclip
computercide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From computer + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of a computer.
bridging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bridge
bridging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Loading and unloading between platform and train are carried out at the busier stations by means of fork-lift trucks and at smaller points by bridging boards or lifting platforms.
ref: 1964 May, “News and Comment: WR's new parcel traffic method”, in Modern Railways, page 300:
glosses: That acts as a bridge (in many contexts)
bridging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪŋ/
Forms: form: bridgings
Senses: examples: text: With him were 60,000 combat engineers for multiple bridgings of the river, and hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies, landing craft, and amphibious vehicles.
ref: 2007, Stanley Weintraub, 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall, page 325:
glosses: The act of building a bridge.
examples: text: All the joists and bridgings of the mezzanine floor to have stout double herringbone strutting not more than 6 feet apart.
ref: 1860, Thomas Leverton Donaldson, William Cunningham Glen, Handbook of Specifications, page 319:
topics: architecture
glosses: The system of bracing used between floor or other timbers to distribute the weight.
Related terms: bridging plate
immunobridging
nonbridging
overbridging
bloodhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodheads
Etymology: From blood + head.
Senses: examples: text: [...] the head of the local health department was himself a blood trader or "bloodhead".
ref: 2003, BBC News, China minister defends Aids record:
glosses: In China, a seller of blood.
Ismael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪzmeɪ.əl/
/ˈɪzmeɪl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Ismael.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Ishmael.
cuica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuicas
Etymology: From Portuguese cuíca, from Old Tupi.
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian friction drum often used in samba music.
soubriquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soubriquets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sobriquet.
squealling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of squealing.
Yolanda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Yolanda, the form of a medieval royal name of obscure, probably Germanic, origin. It has been identified with Latin Violante and Ancient Greek ἴον (íon, “violet”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”).
Senses: examples: text: I chose the name Yolanda Denise, but my husband had reservations about it. He questioned whether people would call her Yolanda or mispronounce the name. He was right. Her name is so frequently mispronounced that it bothers her. There is a tendency among middle-class Negroes to give their children unusual names. Perhaps they are seeking elegance or some special identification. I fell victim to this custom, rather than following the sensible practice of naming the baby after a member of the family.
ref: 1969, Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, page 107:
glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
Yvette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈvɛt/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Etymology: Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.
Yvette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈvɛt/
ipa: /ɪˈvɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: Yvettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A term of derision used by Quebec separatists to refer to Federalist-voting French Quebecois housewives.
Gwendolyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Faith read the name of the addressee, "Gwendolyn Zabel. That's a lovely old name."
ref: 2009, Karin Slaughter, Genesis, Century, →ISBN, page 108:
glosses: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Gwendolen.
Billie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: Billy
billy
Etymology: From Bill + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A male or female given name from the Germanic languages derived from Bill, the diminutive of William.
glosses: A nickname for Belinda.
Winnifred
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, variant of Winifred.
Vivienne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin borrowed from French, a variant of Vivian.
Violette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Violettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French Violette.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Christianist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christianist
form: most Christianist
Etymology: From Christian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Supporting or advocating Christianism.
Christianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Christianists
Etymology: From Christian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who espouses or practices Christianism.
Coordinate terms: Islamist
Related terms: Christianism
Christianity
dominionist
browned off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more browned off
form: most browned off
Senses: examples: text: Bob was browned off when he was passed over for promotion.
text: "I went AWOL because I was browned off with being a latrine orderly and not because I wanted hazardous duty," Hill said in making his plea.
ref: 1949, Pvt. Hill, AWOL From U.S. Army, Toured Britain Three Years As Lady Fire Eater, Grape Belt And Chautauqua Farmer - 10 June 1949
text: Some of our young troop get a bit browned off will constant criticism.
ref: 1958, Government Plans To Merge Some Defence Services, Sydney Morning Herald - 28 March 1958
glosses: Annoyed, upset, angry, bored, fed up, disgusted
Synonyms: brassed off
cheesed off
peed off
pissed off
teed off
ticked off
Tabitha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæbɪθə/
Etymology: From Aramaic טביתא (Ṭabītā’, “doe, roe, gazelle”), translated as Dorcas in the Bible.
Senses: examples: text: Now there was at Ioppa a certain disciple, named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: This woman was full of good works, and almes deeds, which she did.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 9:36:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Dorcas
glosses: A woman who was, according to the Bible, restored to life by Peter.
glosses: A female given name from Aramaic of biblical origin.
Tamera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a rare nonstandard spelling variant of Tamara, popularized by actress Tamera Mowry in the 1990s.
Martine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, masculine equivalent Martin, equivalent to English Martina.
pope hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pope hats
form: pope-hat
form: popehat
Senses: examples: text: A picture of the good professor with a pope hat on came up, to some polite laughter.
ref: 2002, Ken Gilland, Quaternary Alluvium:
text: Which reminds me; put on the Pope-Hat.
ref: 2002, Christopher Morrill, The Good, the Bad, and the Undead:
text: I'm wearing a full-dress Nazi uniform with a swastika on the sleeve, and Gary Hirsh was wearing a pope outfit with a real pope hat.
ref: 2003, Richie Unterberger, Eight Miles High:
text: She was dressed in purple and had the Pope hat and everything.
ref: 2004, David White, Lake of Fire:
glosses: The mitre worn by popes.
Patrice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th century variant of Patricia, probably borrowed from the French male given name Patrice.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
Related terms: word: Patrick
simpletons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simpleton
Selma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlmə/
rhymes: -ɛlmə
Forms: form: Selmas
Etymology: Taken to use in the 19th century when similar-sounding names, Elma, Thelma, Alma, Wilma, etc. were in vogue. Perhaps a shortening of Anselma, or from the name of a place in the James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of epic poems, itself from Scottish Gaelic sealladh + math (“good vision”). In some cases perhaps borrowed from Turkish Selma, from Arabic سَلْمَى (salmā).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A placename
A village in Graubünden canton, Switzerland.
examples: text: So when King – who had been in Atlanta for “Bloody Sunday” – telegrammed Parks about returning to Alabama to take part in a third mass march from Selma to Montgomery, her immediate answer was “Why, of course.”
ref: 2015 March 5, Douglas Brinkley, “Selma’s historic bridge deserves a better name”, in CNN:
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A city, the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama; named for James Macpherson's Ossianic poem The Songs of Selma.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A city in Fresno County, California; named for early resident Selma Michelson.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A city in Texas.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A town in North Carolina; named for the city in Alabama.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A town in Indiana.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A census-designated place in Josephine County, Oregon.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
A census-designated place in Virginia.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Arkansas.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Iowa.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Kansas.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for the place in the Ossian cycle.
glosses: A placename
A place in the United States.
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
Selma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlmə/
rhymes: -ɛlmə
Forms: form: Selmas
Etymology: Taken to use in the 19th century when similar-sounding names, Elma, Thelma, Alma, Wilma, etc. were in vogue. Perhaps a shortening of Anselma, or from the name of a place in the James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of epic poems, itself from Scottish Gaelic sealladh + math (“good vision”). In some cases perhaps borrowed from Turkish Selma, from Arabic سَلْمَى (salmā).
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, our place and response may be viewed as a historic turning point, another Selma for the nation and world.
ref: 2020, Dane Smith, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), "Toward a better patriotism", 3 July 2020
text: Shelby County has become the new Selma.
ref: 2015, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Workers World, "Black and Brown unity in Alabama", 24 June 2015
text: "I don't know how many Selmas you have in your memory," she said. "I have a lot in mine."
ref: 1986, Daily Sitka Sentinel, Sitka Weekend, p.11, Friday 17 January 1986
text: How Many Selmas? Still another city in the south Is learning the hard way that the Negro will settle for nothing less than first class citizenship.
ref: 1965, The Fresno Bee, p.60, Wednesday 21 July 1965:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A confrontation where authorities brutally repress those wanting civil rights, similar to Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
Coordinate terms: Bloody Sunday
cabbaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cabbage
cabbaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Being lazy or in a state of boredom.
examples: text: The tailor in the East [...] is made to cut out the cloth in presence of its owner, to prevent "cabbaging".
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 321 footnote:
glosses: The stealing of offcuts of material by a tailor making a garment with a customer's fabric.
Diviya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Divya
Etymology: From Sanskrit दिव्या (divyā́), feminine of दिव्य (divyá, “divine, heavenly”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Sanskrit.
Isleib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Isleib.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
mathlete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæθliːt/
rhymes: -æθliːt
Forms: form: mathletes
Etymology: Blend of mathematics + athlete. The term is a registered trademark of the MathCounts organization. The term entered pop culture from the movies American Pie (1999) and Mean Girls (2004), as well as being featured in the short-lived cult TV series Freaks and Geeks.
Mathletes was the name of a US national organization in the 1970s that sponsored high school mathematics competitions ("Mathletes") and junior high school competitions ("Junior Mathletes") between school teams known as "Math Teams". A team's news and results could be covered either under Sports (because it was a team competition) or Activities.
Senses: examples: text: Yo Yo Yo! All you sucka MCs ain't got nothin' on me! From my grades, to my lines you can't touch Kevin G! I'm a mathlete, so nerd is inferred, but forget what you heard […]
ref: 2004, Tina Fey, Mean Girls, spoken by Kevin G (Rajiv Surendra):
glosses: A member of the math team of a primary school or secondary school.
wikipedia: MathCounts
Related terms: mathletic
agritainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɡ.ɹɪˈteɪn.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪnmənt
Etymology: Blend of agriculture + entertainment. By surface analysis, agri- + [enter]tainment.
Senses: glosses: The promotion of farms as places to visit for entertainment (e.g. tractor rides, corn mazes).