cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
aperçu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌa.pɛːˈsjuː/
ipa: /ˌæ.pɚˈsuː/
Forms: form: aperçus
Etymology: Borrowed from French aperçu.
Senses: examples: text: I insisted on how his opinion mattered, and developed and construed his platitudes into aperçus he was far from entertaining himself.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 7, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 143:
text: In this place you can go to a year's worth of dinner parties without hearing anyone quote an aperçu he first heard on Charlie Rose.
ref: 2001 December, David Brooks, “One Nation, Slightly Divisible”, in Michael Kelly, editor, The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Sep 2023:
text: Every so often a hobo (Mr. [Tom] Hanks again) materializes to dispense a cryptic aperçu to the boy, maybe because the child is the father of the man or because the film's envelope-pushing gobbled up most of the budget and there was only enough money for one star.
ref: 2004 November 10, Manohla Dargis, “Do you hear sleigh bells? Nah, just Tom Hanks and some train”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2023:
text: President [Barack] Obama disdains sound bites, and he does not have Bill Clinton's talent for reducing the abstruse to aperçus.
ref: 2009 February 22, Maureen Dowd, “Dark dark dark”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: While we know – because the script tells us so – that the people we are watching are in love and in pain and in trouble, they never come across as more than dispensers of sparkling aperçus.
ref: 2014 October 31, Ben Brantley, “When the head leads the heart”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2023:
text: These paragraphs contain many freighted aperçus, formulations over which debates continue to rage, such as that ‘[t]he executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’ (1.12); […]
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →ISBN:
glosses: A clever insight.
glosses: An outline or summary; also, words that summarize.
Soho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.həʊ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊhəʊ
homophone: SoHo
homophone: SOHO
Etymology: From the hunting cry soho.
Senses: examples: text: I woke up in a Soho doorway / A policeman knew my name / He said, "You can go, sleep at home tonight / if you can get up and walk away."
ref: 1978, The Who, “Who Are You”, in Who Are You:
glosses: An area of the West End, in central London.
Soho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.həʊ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊhəʊ
homophone: SoHo
homophone: SOHO
Etymology: Believed to be an abbreviation of south house.
Senses: glosses: An area partly in Sandwell borough, and partly in Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP0389).
Soho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊ.həʊ/
ipa: /ˈsoʊ.hoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊhəʊ
homophone: SoHo
homophone: SOHO
Senses: examples: text: The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
ref: 2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2016:
glosses: Alternative spelling of SoHo: An area of Manhattan, New York.
petha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pethas
Etymology: From Hindi पेठा (peṭhā, “a winter melon; also, the sweet made from this”).
Senses: glosses: A North Indian sweet made out of pieces of winter melon cooked in sugar syrup. Especially famous are pethas from Agra.
Lourdes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʊɹd(z)/
ipa: /lʊəd(z)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)d
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)dz
Etymology: From French Lourdes, corruption of Medieval Latin Lorus (778), the baptismal name taken by a Moorish leader who converted to Christianity, though of unknown ultimate meaning.
The town in Newfoundland is named after the town in France.
Senses: glosses: A town and commune of Hautes-Pyrénées department, Occitania, site of a large Catholic pilgrimage.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A municipality in São Paulo state, Brazil.
glosses: A municipality and town in Norte de Santander department, Colombia.
glosses: A settlement in Alto Paraguay department, Paraguay.
glosses: A female given name from Spanish, from the Spanish epithet of Virgin Mary as Nuestra Señora de Lourdes.
Derived terms: Lourdes-like
Related terms: Santa Lourdes
anhydrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhydrites
Etymology: From an- + hydro- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite mineral made of anhydrous calcium sulfate.
Hypernyms: calcium sulphate
mineral
sulphate
Coordinate terms: gypsum
missis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missises
Senses: examples: 1878, quoted 2001, from a song by James Bland, an African American songwriter for minstrel shows, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). p. 192.
Massa and missis have lone gone before me.
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of missus, representing African-American Vernacular English.
examples: text: A man said he'd give me five pounds if I'd paint him and his missis and the dog and the cottage.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Passion”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 341:
glosses: Alternative spelling or pronunciation spelling of missus.
superscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːpəˈskɹɪpʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: superscriptions
Etymology: From Middle French superscription, or its source, Late Latin superscriptio, from superscribere.
Senses: examples: text: Hovv counterfeit a coin they are vvho friends / Bear in their Superſcription (of the moſt / I vvould be underſtood) in proſperous days / They ſvvarm, but in adverſe vvithdravv their head / Not to be found, though ſought.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 19, lines 190–194:
text: "Dear me, Mr. Holmes. Dear me!" said this singular epistle. There was neither superscription nor signature. I laughed at the quaint message; but Holmes showed unwonted seriousness.
ref: 1914 September – 1915 May, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear: A Sherlock Holmes Novel, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 27 February 1915, →OCLC:
text: Its superscription was my name, and the name of the sender, my mother.
ref: 1930, Pearl S. Buck, East Wind: West Wind, Moyer Bell, page 124:
text: Schwartz glanced at the printed superscription on the envelope and grumbled as he put the envelope away in his overcoat pocket, to read at leisure.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1140:
glosses: Something written (or engraved) on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, etc.
examples: 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica
By a pure error, or perhaps through a confusion in the traditions, Achish the Philistine (of Gath, 1 Sam. xxi., xxvii.), to whom David fled, is called Abimelech in the superscription to Psalm 34.
glosses: An editorial addition at the beginning, often indicating the authorship of a piece.
glosses: The act of superscribing.
Related terms: superscript
colophon
antarctictite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite consisting of calcium chloride, CaCl.6H₂O, found in Victoria Land, Antarctica.
aphthitalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphthitalites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄφθιτος (áphthitos, “imperishable”) (though the intended meaning is “unalterable”) + ἅλς (háls, “salt”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite consisting of mixed potassium and sodium sulphates; also found in the fumaroles of volcanos.
Related terms: aphthalose
aragonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aragonites
Etymology: From Aragon + -ite, after the province in Spain, named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1790.
Senses: examples: text: The basic chemical material of molluscan shells is calcium carbonate, which forms the outer layer of calcite, and the inner layer of aragonite, which is a heavier and harder substance although it has the same chemical composition.
ref: 1955, Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Appendix, p. 268:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite consisting of anhydrous calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO₃ and occurring in pearls, shells and nacre; it is dimorphous with calcite.
Derived terms: aragonitic
astrakanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite consisting of a mixed sodium and magnesium sulphate.
Synonyms: blödite
gardons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gardon
blödite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloedite
Etymology: An eponym from Carl August Blöde (German chemist, 1773–1820), therefore Blöde + -ite (“rock, mineral”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite consisting of a mixed sodium and magnesium sulphate, with the chemical formula Na₂Mg(SO₄)₂·4H₂O.
Synonyms: astrakanite
prions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prion
bloedite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blödite.
bassanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of calcium sulfate, found at Vesuvius.
bischofite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bischofites
Etymology: From Bischof + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of magnesium chloride with the chemical formula MgCl₂·6H₂O, found with potash deposits in Saxony.
burkeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burkite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate with the chemical formula Na₆(CO₃)(SO₄)₂, found at Searles Lake, California.
riper
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ripe: more ripe
carnalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnalites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium chloride; sometimes used as a flux in steelmaking.
Derived terms: carnalitic
westwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From west + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: The view westwards from here is extremely fine, with the striking flat-topped outline of Blencathra or Saddleback (2,847ft) the most dominant feature, and the Helvellyn range to the left.
ref: 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 598:
text: Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.
ref: 2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, “Where track and train integration will be put to the test”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 51:
glosses: westward, towards the west
dolomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒl.əˌmaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdoʊ.ləˌmaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɑl.əˌmaɪt/
Forms: form: dolomites
Etymology: From French dolomite, coined March 1792 by Nicolas de Saussure, named after French mineralogist and engineer Déodat de Dolomieu (1750–1801) who described the stone in 1791 by adding -ite, from place name Dolomieu, Isère.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: magnesian limestone
glosses: An evaporite consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium carbonate, with the chemical formula CaMg(CO₃)₂; it also exists as the rock dolostone.
wikipedia: Dolomieu, Isère
Nicolas de Saussure
Derived terms: dedolomitization
dedolomitize
dolime
dolocrete
dolomite rock
Dolomites
dolomitic
dolomitise
dolomitization
dolomitize
dolostone
protodolomite
Related terms: Dolomites
epsomite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epsomites
Etymology: From Epsom + -ite, named after the place Epsom in England in 1824.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate, also found in fumaroles, with the chemical formula MgSO₄·7H₂O.
Synonyms: Epsom salts
Strasbourg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹæzbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈstɹæsbɜːɡ/
ipa: /ˈstɹɑːsbɝːɡ/
Forms: form: Strassburg
Etymology: From French Strasbourg, from Middle High German Strāzburc. Compare modern German Straßburg, equivalent to Straße (“street, road”) + Burg (“borough, fortified town, castle”).
Senses: synonyms: word: Argentine
glosses: The capital city of Bas-Rhin department, France; the capital city of the region of Grand Est; located in the historic region of Alsace, near the border with Germany and at various historical points a part of Germany.
topics: law
synonyms: word: Argentine
glosses: The capital city of Bas-Rhin department, France; the capital city of the region of Grand Est; located in the historic region of Alsace, near the border with Germany and at various historical points a part of Germany.
the European Court of Human Rights.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Derived terms: Strasbourg pie
Kemper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Jersey County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States.
Derived terms: Kemper County
run a mile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs a mile
form: running a mile
form: ran a mile
form: run a mile
Senses: examples: text: If I told him that I had kids, he'd run a mile.
glosses: To escape, flee, or leave a situation or relationship, usually as a result of a shocking or sudden announcement or revelation.
Related terms: cold feet
run away
lungi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lungis
form: longi
form: longyi
form: lungie
form: lungy
form: lungyi
form: loonghee
form: loonghi
Etymology: From Hindi लुंगी (luṅgī)/Urdu لنگی (lungī).
Senses: examples: text: Samad […] regularly wore a long piece of embroidered grey cotton, a lungi, wrapped round his waist.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: A garment worn around the waist, especially by men, in Southern India, Bangladesh, Burma, and Pakistan.
Synonyms: sense: garment
word: sarong
heroin chic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As counterpoints to the glamorous looks of 1980s models such as Christie Brinkley and Heidi Klum, heroin chic models such as Kate Moss were thin to the point of anorectic gauntness.
ref: 2014, Nancy M. Marion, Willard M. Oliver, Drugs in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture and the Law, P.888:
glosses: A fashion trend begun in the 1990s revolving around models who bore characteristics of heroin addicts, such as emaciation and androgyny.
sandwich generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandwich generations
Etymology: So called because they are sandwiched between the preceding and succeeding generations.
Senses: glosses: A generation of adults who must provide care simultaneously to their aging parents and also their own children.
Related terms: Oregon Trail Generation
xennial
sandwich generations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandwich generation
gaylussite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed sodium and calcium carbonate, with the chemical formula Na₂Ca(CO₃)₂·5H₂O.
wikipedia: Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
glaserite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of potassium sulphate.
glauberite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Johann Rudolf Glauber (1604-68), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed sodium and calcium sulphate, with the chemical formula Na₂Ca(SO₄)₂.
Derived terms: hydroglauberite
hexahydrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate hexahydrate.
ikaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ikaites
Etymology: Named after Ikka Fjord (formerly spelled Ika) a small fjord in southwestern Greenland.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of hydrated calcium carbonate with the chemical formula CaCO₃·6H₂O, found in cold marine waters.
wikipedia: Ikka Fjord
kainite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kainites
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kainit; see there for more.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate and potassium chloride with the chemical formula MgSO₄·KCl·3H₂O, found in German salt mines.
Derived terms: anhydrokainite
kieserite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kieserites
Etymology: From Kieser + -ite. After the German D. G. Kieser (1779-1862) in 1860.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of hydrated magnesium sulphate
Derived terms: cobaltkieserite
kieseritic
langbeinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langbeinites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium sulphate, with the chemical formula K₂Mg₂(SO₄)₃.
Derived terms: calciolangbeinite
like so
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: Stand with both arms out, (like) so.
glosses: thus
leonhardite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a calcium aluminosilicate
leonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium sulphate, with the chemical formula (K₂SO₄)(MgSO₄)
loewite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed sodium and magnesium sulphate
mirabilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirabilites
Etymology: From Latin mīrābilis (“miraculous”) + -ite. From the Latin term sal mirabilis (“wonderful salt”), which was used by German-Dutch alchemist Johann Rudolph Glauber (1604–1670) after he inadvertently synthesised the substance.
Senses: examples: text: Mounds of mirabilite have been observed near the north-west side of White Island, (e.g., Debenham 1965). These mirabilites probably originated by infiltration of sea water into the ice shelf, followed by ablation of the surface until the brines were exposed to evaporation and freeze concentration with precipitation of mirabilite on the surface.
ref: 1975, M. K. Stewart, “Hydrogen and Oxygen Isotope Studies on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica”, in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 18, Number 1, page 61:
text: Bedded deposits of mirabilite occur in coastal areas of East Antarctica, such as the Vestfold Hills and in the Skarvsnes area of Lutzow-Holm Bay, about 1500 km further west (Fig 1.3).
ref: 1987, I. B. Campbell, G. G. C. Claridge, Antarctica: Soils, Weathering Processes and Environment, Elsevier, page 253:
text: Mirabilite could have been and probably was scooped up off the cave floor and out of breakdown hollows, or brushed off ceilings and walls where it forms abundantly.
ref: 2002, George M. Crothers, Charles H. Faulkner, Jan F. Simek, Patty Jo Watson, P. Willey, “23: Woodland Cave Archaeology in Eastern North America”, in David G. Anderson, Robert C. Mainfort, editors, The Woodland Southeast, University of Alabama Press, page 512:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of sodium sulfate, with the chemical formula Na₂SO₄·10H₂O.
wikipedia: Johann Rudolph Glauber
Synonyms: Glauber's salt
pentahydrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of magnesium sulphate pentahydrate, with the chemical formula MgSO₄·5H₂O.
picromerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium sulphate, with the chemical formula K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6(H₂O).
Synonyms: schoenite
pirssonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed sodium and calcium carbonate
rinneite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German crystallographer and petrographer Freidrich Wilhelm Berthold Rinne (1863-1933) in 1909.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of mixed potassium, sodium and ferrous chloride, K₃NaFe²⁺Cl₆.
sanderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of hydrated magnesium sulphate, MgSO₄·H₂O.
schoenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed potassium and magnesium sulphate, of the chemical formula K₂Mg(SO₄)₂·6(H₂O).
Synonyms: picromerite
schönite
shortite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed sodium and calcium carbonate, with the chemical formula Na₂Ca₂(CO₃)₃.
sylvite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sylvites
Etymology: After the surname of Dutch scientist Franciscus Sylvius + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of potassium chloride KCl, also found in fumaroles.
wikipedia: Franciscus Sylvius
syngenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed potassium and calcium sulphate
Synonyms: word: kaluszite
tachyhydrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tachyhydrites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ταχύς (takhús, “quick”) + ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of a mixed calcium and magnesium chloride, with the chemical formula CaMg₂Cl₆·12H₂O.
thermonatrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of sodium carbonate, with the chemical formula Na₂CO₃·H₂O.
thernadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of sodium sulphate
trona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swedish trona or from Spanish trona, both derived from Arabic أَطْرُون (ʔaṭrūn), from نَطْرُون (naṭrūn), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron), ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj: R9. Doublet of natron and niter.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate, Na₃HCO₃CO₃·2H₂O.
Nihang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nihangs
form: Nihang
Etymology: From Persian نهنگ (nahang, “crocodile”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an armed Sikh order who dominated early Sikh military history.
mésalliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛˈzæli.əns/
ipa: /meɪ̯zəˈlaɪ̯əns/
rhymes: dalliance
Forms: form: mésalliances
Etymology: Borrowed from French mésalliance, from mésallier (“to misally”).
Senses: examples: text: The case is very different in England, where a grocer's daughter would think she made a mésalliance by marrying a painter […]
ref: 1840, M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], “On the French School of Painting”, in The Paris Sketch Book, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
text: He had been revolving in his mind the marriage question pending between Jos and Rebecca, and was not over well pleased that a member of a family into which he, George Osborne, of the —th, was going to marry, should make a mésalliance with a little nobody–a little upstart governess.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 6, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: But this is too sanguine a belief. Instances of such mésalliance would be as rare as those of intermarriage between the Anglo-Saxon emigrants and the Red Indians.
ref: 1871, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (published anonymously), The Coming Race, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, page 272:
text: It was an abominable thing that my grandmother should have been disinherited because she made what they called a mésalliance, though there was nothing to be said against her husband except that he was a Polish refugee who gave lessons for his bread.
ref: 1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XXXVII, in Middlemarch […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book IV, page 260:
text: To a mésalliance of that kind every globule of my ancestral blood spoke in opposition.
ref: 1907, Ambrose Bierce, Beyond the Walls:
text: But if you marry the old count you will make his last days happy, and as widow of the Grand...the prince would no longer be making a mésalliance by marrying you.
ref: 1941, Aylmer and Louise Maude translation of Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
glosses: Marriage with a person of inferior social position.
goodbye, cruel world
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊdˈbaɪ | ˌkɹuːəl ˈwɜːld/
Forms: form: !
Senses: glosses: An exclamation made before committing suicide, in speech, text, or in a suicide note.
glosses: A call said before taking a stiff drink, especially a shot of vodka.
Related terms: Hello, World
Hello World
hello world
sign on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signs on
form: signing on
form: signed on
form: signed on
Senses: glosses: To join something, after signing.
examples: text: I never signed on for this.
text: By January of 1996 President Clinton himself had apparently signed on with his declaration in the State of the Union message that "the era of big government is over."
ref: 1997 September, Bernard A. Weisberger, “What made the government grow.”, in American Heritage, volume 48, number 5, page 34:
text: As a result, all the teachers at Phillips have signed on to a certain curriculum and follow common practices in the classroom.
ref: 2011 March 26, Amanda Paulson, “How to fix America's worst schools”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: To commit oneself, as to a project, a goal, an organization, a cause.
examples: text: Years ago, the TV station would sign on at 5 a.m., but now it broadcasts 24 hours a day.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: To begin broadcasting a radio or television signal, usually at the beginning of a broadcasting day and after being off the air for several hours.
examples: text: Edward ran a pale hand through his perfect golden-bronze hair, then signed on to 4chan.org, the darkest place on the Internet, where all his vampire compatriots spent their time.
ref: 2009 June 1, Randall Munroe, “Troll Slayer”, in xkcd:
synonyms: log in#Verb
log on#Verb
sign in#Verb
antonyms: log off#Verb
log out#Verb
sign off#Verb
sign out#Verb
glosses: To log on; to start using a computer, radio, or other multicast device; to start talking.
examples: text: Oh, one thing led to another; you know. I just sort of faffed around — I just did odd jobs; and sometimes in between I signed on.
ref: 1999, Madeleine St John, chapter 28, in A Stairway to Paradise:
glosses: To apply to receive unemployment benefits.
Derived terms: word: signing bonus
word: sign-on
word: sign-on bonus
sign on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign ons
Senses: examples: text: After 12:30 p.m., no new sign ons are permitted.
ref: 1994, SEC Docket - Volume 57, page 753:
text: However, this commitment today is a strong sign of the level of support being received from the hotel industry, especially in the top line four and five star hotels. “I am confident that the stream of sign ons will continue in the run-up to the cut-off date of the rebate scheme of December 31."
ref: 1997, Australian Hotelier: Official National Magazine of the Australian Hotels Association, Volume 14:
text: He had one of the greatest signs, one of the all time great sign ons in radio.
ref: 2001, Skipper Lee Frazier, Tighten Up: The Autobiography of a Houston Disc Jockey, →ISBN:
text: Administrators can now elect to have users manage their own data access sign ons, which are stored under a user's profile.
ref: 2010, Dean Browne, IBM Cognos Business Intelligence V10.1: Intelligence Unleashed, →ISBN:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of sign-on.
Bert and Ernie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ernie and Bert.
conation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈneɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /koʊˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: conations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cōnātiō (“an act of attempting”).
Senses: examples: text: Any pleasing sense-experience, when it has once taken place, will, on subsequent occasions, give rise to a conation, when its conditions are only partially repeated...
ref: 1899, George Frederick Stout, A Manual of Psychology, page 234:
text: You can sit quiet and hear the processes going on, going about their business; volition, desire, will, cognition, passion, conation.
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
text: [The] 'purposive conscious striving' aspect of conation is very likely a concept we need to treat separately if we are to study human motivation successfully […]
ref: 1987, Marshall J. Farr, 'Cognition, Affect, and Motivation: Issues, Directions and Perspectives Toward Unity', in Conative and Affective Process Analysis, p. 347
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The power or act which directs or impels to effort of any kind, whether muscular or psychical.
Derived terms: conational
Related terms: conative
salt dome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt domes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upwelling of crystalline rock salt and its aureole of deformed sediments.
cold read
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold reads
form: cold reading
form: cold read
form: cold read
Senses: examples: text: A few years ago Mort had barely been able to crawl out of his bottle long enough to cold-read credulous idiots into believing he could speak to their dead loved ones.
ref: 2006, Jim Butcher, Dead Beat, page 127:
text: Select the person you will "cold read" ahead of time if possible. The more time you have to learn about your subject, the better.
ref: 2011, Dean Amory, Mind Reading - A Practical Introduction, page 70:
text: Fortune-tellers were derided as swindlers, their so-called services little better than a form of larceny. Incredulous journalists accused clairvoyants of faking their skills by cold-reading customers or surreptitiously monitoring local gossip that would help impress clients
ref: 2015, A Piper, “Women's work: The professionalisation and policing of fortune-telling in Australia”, in Labour History: A Journal of Labour and Social History:
glosses: To infer characteristics of (a person) using cold reading.
examples: text: In spiritualism research, feedback is often used — this can be interpreted as giving the medium the chance to 'cold read'. However, feedback may be necessary […]
ref: 2004, The Paranormal Review, numbers 29-36, page 30:
glosses: To make inferences about a person using the practice of cold reading.
examples: text: At the audition you will be required to cold read a script.
topics: acting
broadcasting
education
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: To perform (a script) without preparation.
cold read
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold reads
Senses: examples: text: This is an example of what magicians (and unfortunately phony psychics) call a "cold read".
glosses: An act of cold reading.
criticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: criticises
form: criticising
form: criticised
form: criticised
Etymology: From critic + -ise, see criticize.
Senses: examples: text: Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:
text: Both Cruddas and Collins are decentralisers, criticising New Labour for hoarding too much power in Whitehall.
ref: 2009 March 25, Jonathan Freedland, “Call it 9/15 - the day the crucial divide in the post-Blair/Brown era took shape”, in The Guardian:
text: The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.
ref: 2011 September 24, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC Sport:
text: Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]
ref: 2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: This is not to criticise Ghosh's use of such lexis, but just to point out that Ghosh's use of such lexis must be regarded as examples of re-use and not as evidence of continued use over the intervening period.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256:
text: However, unions have criticised the move, suggesting it puts staff members and passengers at risk. One RAIL source criticised the lack of information received by the industry as to who would be travelling.
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “Network News: More trains... but advice is not to travel”, in Rail, page 6:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criticize.
Derived terms: criticisingly
uncriticised
linalool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈnæləʊɒl/
ipa: /lɪˈnæloʊəl/
Forms: form: linalools
Etymology: From linaloe + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoterpene alcohol found in many essential oils.
Synonyms: coriandrol
licareol
Derived terms: linalyl
have mercy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has mercy
form: having mercy
form: had mercy
form: had mercy
Senses: examples: text: "I have learnt it!" cried the old man. "Oh, have mercy on me in this hour, if, in my love for her, so young and good, I slandered Nature in the breasts of mothers rendered desperate! Pity my presumption, wickedness, and ignorance, and save her!"
ref: 1844 (date written), Charles Dickens, “Fourth Quarter”, in The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1845, →OCLC, page 165:
synonyms: spare
glosses: To show mercy or compassion; to stop inflicting punishment or a barrage.
hemispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + spherical.
Senses: examples: text: Split peas are hemispherical.
text: Wind speed is measured by the conventional arrangement of three hemispherical cups, mounted at 120 deg. on a shaft which is geared to a cam.
ref: 1952 August, “Wind Velocity Records at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 545:
glosses: Having the shape of half a sphere.
glosses: Pertaining to or operating throughout a hemisphere of the Earth.
Synonyms: word: hemispheric
sense: shape
word: semiglobular
Derived terms: bihemispherical
conicohemispherical
hemispherically
interhemispherical
subhemispherical
adversely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adversely
form: most adversely
Etymology: From adverse + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: adversely affected
text: Mucus-rich ink is supposedly a dangerous or annoying substance that interferes with fish gills and some cephalopods react adversely to their own inkings in small containers or in the lab.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In an adverse manner.
Derived terms: adversely possess
drum machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹʌm məˌʃin/
ipa: /ˈdɹʌm məˌʃiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: drum machines
Etymology: From drum + machine.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: rhythm box
glosses: An electronic musical instrument that can be programmed to create percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
anger management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anger + management.
Senses: glosses: The ability for a person to control his/her temperament, particularly in stressful situations; to show proper behavior and/or disagree appropriately without losing control of one's emotions.
guest star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest stars
form: guest-star
Senses: examples: text: The neutering extends to Believe’s guest stars, with warm-and-fuzzy verses from Ludacris (“I love everything about you / You’re imperfectly perfect”), Big Sean (“I don’t know if this makes sense, but you’re my hallelujah”), Nicki Minaj (who at least squeaks a “bitches” into her verse), and especially Drake, whose desire to hug and kiss the object of his affection on “Right Here” is reminiscent of The Red Hot Chili Peppers on Krusty’s Comeback Special.
ref: 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A guest on a music or other recording.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: An actor on a television program who stars in one, or a few, episodes.
guest star
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guest stars
form: guest starring
form: guest starred
form: guest starred
form: guest-star
Senses: glosses: Of an actor: to star as a guest.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of a player: to play as a guest of another team.
guest star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest stars
Etymology: Calque of Literary Chinese 客星 (kèxīng).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A nova or supernova recorded in Chinese astronomy which appeared where no star was known before.
town ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: A non-varsity softball game, typically played by youths (usually girls) under the age of 18. Frequently played in small cities and towns, sponsored by a local business and coached by volunteers.
glosses: Alternative spelling of townball (“baseball precursor”).
poorer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of poor: more poor
ISL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Irish Sign Language.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Indian Super League.
Gestuno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An international Sign, also known as IS or International Sign, in a way like the Esperanto of the sign-language world.
Synonyms: IS
International Sign
fingerspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingerspellings
form: FS
Etymology: From finger + spelling.
Senses: glosses: The practice of representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands to spell out words.
glosses: Any system for representing the letters of an alphabet using just the hands; a manual alphabet that is a representation of a written alphabet.
glosses: A representation of the spelling of a word using such a system.
fingerspelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: FS
Etymology: From finger + spelling.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fingerspell
Synonyms: dactylology
good guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good guys
Senses: examples: text: And yet Jones is perfect in Fury Road, a deeply dangerous human weapon who, because of his infantile need for respect from his father, somehow turns out endearing even though we see him ripping an engine from the hood and throwing it at the good guys.
ref: 2017 December 1, Tom Breihan, “Mad Max: Fury Road might already be the best action movie ever made”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: “What stops armed bad guys is armed good guys,” Senator Ted Cruz suggested in the wake of the Uvalde shooting, echoing many other gun rights advocates over the years.
ref: 2022 June 22, Larry Buchanan, Lauren Leatherby, quoting Ted Cruz, “Who Stops a ‘Bad Guy With a Gun’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A hero, particularly a protagonist in a story.
examples: text: He was a good guy to visit with and be around.
glosses: An all-around pleasant person; usually a man.
Synonyms: hero
tongue lashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue lashings
form: tongue-lashing
Senses: examples: text: The coach was so upset with his team after they lost that he gave them an hour-long tongue-lashing.
glosses: A verbal rebuke, often severe.
Synonyms: castigation
scolding
yell at
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yells at
form: yelling at
form: yelled at
form: yelled at
Senses: examples: text: The boy's father yelled at him for lying to him about cleaning up the mess.
glosses: To scold, to rebuke, often by yelling.
dirty look
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty looks
Senses: examples: text: He gave his ex-girlfriend a dirty look when he saw her with another man.
synonyms: black look
death glare
death stare
evil eye
shit eye
stank eye
stink eye
glosses: An unpleasant or disdainful look or expression, often directed at someone.
Related terms: mean-mug
I hate you
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I hate you and I will not see you again!
antonyms: I love you
glosses: Expression of hatred, or intense disdain or dislike directed at someone.
predominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/
Forms: form: predominates
form: predominating
form: predominated
form: predominated
form: prædominate
Etymology: From Latin praedominātus, past participle of praedominor. By surface analysis, pre- + dominate.
Senses: examples: text: With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate.
ref: 2018 June 24, Annette Lareau, Elliot B. Weininger and Amanda Barrett Cox, “How Entitled Parents Hurt Schools”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2019:
text: These qualities tend to predominate among conservatives but they are present among liberals too.
ref: 2021 April 29, Sabrina Tavernise, “Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Jul 2021:
glosses: To dominate, have control, or succeed by superior numbers or size.
examples: text: All in her mind was confusion; still the paramount sense that predominated over all others, was the bitter conviction of his unworthiness.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:
text: During the silk weavers strike on Jersey City Heights and in West Hoboken last Summer, Poidebard's mill was regarded as especially obnoxious by the strikers, and the largely predominating Socialist element among them frequently menaced it with attack.
ref: 1887 March 1, “SHOTS THROUGH A WINDOW.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2024:
text: Thus, even though a total of four lags of inflation enters the right hand side, forward looking behavior still predominates.
ref: 1999, Galí, Jordi and Mark Gertler, “Inflation dynamics: A structural econometric analysis”, in Journal of Monetary Economics, volume 44, page 215:
glosses: To be prominent; to loom large; to be the chief component of a whole.
glosses: To dominate or hold power over, especially through numerical advantage; to outweigh.
Synonyms: preponderate
prevail
predominate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪneɪt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnət/
Forms: form: more predominate
form: most predominate
form: prædominate
Etymology: From Latin praedominātus, past participle of praedominor. By surface analysis, pre- + dominate.
Senses: examples: text: Eradication of disorder may indirectly reduce crime by stabilizing neighborhoods, but the direct link as formulated by proponents was not the predominate one in our study.
ref: 1999 11, Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, “Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods”, in American Journal of Sociology, volume 105, number 3, page 637:
glosses: Predominant.
half-truth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-truths
form: half truth
Etymology: From half- + truth.
Senses: examples: text: The Minister no doubt would claim that the public has already expressed its opinion by deserting the trains. As we have said before, this is scarcely a half-truth. By and large, where there has been a decline the public has deserted the out-dated trains; [...].
ref: 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 74:
glosses: A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth, or alters the time sequence of truths.
Related terms: truth
true
anti-truth
lie
contextomy
white lie