cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
screw up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: screws up
form: screwing up
form: screwed up
form: screwed up
Senses: glosses: To tighten or secure with screws.
examples: text: As far as was possible he kept his subjects as mindless fighting-cocks, troops that could be promised to one power if there was a chance of screwing up another power to a bigger subsidy.
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 1052:
glosses: To raise (rent, fees, etc.) to extortionate levels.
examples: text: trying to screw up enough courage to ask her out
glosses: To raise or summon up.
examples: text: The baby screwed up his face and began to bawl.
text: “Where’s the man with the trumpet?” Ralph, sensing his sun-blindness, answered him. “There’s no man with a trumpet. Only me.” The boy came close and peered down at Ralph, screwing up his face as he did so.
ref: 1954, William Golding, chapter 1, in Lord of the Flies, Penguin:
text: “I asked her if she and your father were related, and she explained who she was. To my eyes, they could be twins!” Gilbert and Auntie Flip
Frank screwed up his face. “You think so?”
ref: 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To twist into a contorted state.
examples: text: As they were finishing breakfast came the postman with a letter from Derby. Mrs. Morel screwed up her eyes to look at the address.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: [...] Hands deep in pockets, head aslant,
And eyes screwed up against the light [...]
ref: 1919, Richard Aldington, A Village:
glosses: To squint.
examples: text: “Why shouldn't it be my fault, right? I screwed up my kid. I screwed up my marriage. I screwed up my fucking life. We don't need to beat around the bush.” He smirked, shook his head.
ref: 2015, Ania Ahlborn, Within These Walls, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 147:
text: Don’t screw this up.” That’s what Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond hears over and over again from artists and labels about the company he founded in 2008.
ref: 2019 September 30, Hank Shteamer, “Future 25: Ethan Diamond, Co-founder of Bandcamp”, in Rolling Stone:
glosses: To make a mess of; to ruin.
examples: text: Let me finish… you screwed up, but you screwed up for the right reasons. You're going to make mistakes, but it's how you deal with those mistakes, that's going to make the difference.
ref: 2000, Bob Gookin, The President's Man (television production), spoken by Joshua McCord (Chuck Norris):
synonyms: word: blow it
word: bobble
word: boob
word: crap up
word: drop a bollock
word: drop the ball
word: err
word: flub
word: flub up
word: foul up
word: fuck up
word: goof
word: goof up
word: make a mistake
word: mess up
word: misdo
word: misstep
word: put a foot wrong
word: screw up
word: slip up
word: stuff up
word: stumble
word: trip over the wire
word: trip up
glosses: To blunder; to make a mistake.
quackery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwæk(ə)ri/
Forms: form: quackeries
Etymology: From quack + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.
ref: 1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI, →JSTOR, page 763:
topics: law
medicine
sciences
synonyms: empiricism
coordinate_terms: alternative medicine
complementary medicine
integrative medicine
;
folk medicine
traditional medicine
glosses: The practice of fraudulent medicine, usually in order to make money or for ego gratification and power; health fraud.
examples: text: […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […]
ref: 1925, Eden Phillpotts, Circé's Island: And The Girl & the Faun, page 122:
glosses: An instance of practicing fraudulent medicine.
Related terms: quack
fraud
snake oil
embezzlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪmˈbɛzəlmənt/
ipa: /ˌəmˈbɛzəlmənt/
Forms: form: embezzlements
Etymology: From embezzle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: He was arrested for embezzlement of company funds.
text: The case involved large-scale embezzlement.
text: charged with embezzlement
text: corporate embezzlement
text: embezzlement scheme
topics: business
law
synonyms: misappropriation
glosses: The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
topics: business
law
synonyms: misappropriation
peculation
glosses: The fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner.
Such conversion from public property.
hypernyms: corruption
venality
Derived terms: nonembezzlement
Related terms: embezzle
corruptocracy
forgery
fraud
kakistocracy
kleptocracy
larceny
quackery
usury
bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: plural of bat
bats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæts/
rhymes: -æts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bat
bats
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæts/
rhymes: -æts
Forms: form: more bats
form: most bats
Senses: examples: text: You must be bats to go out in the cold without a coat on.
text: "Don't be so bats, Binns! Why should anyone want to pinch just one boot?"
"He might have been a chap with only one leg."
ref: 1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire:
synonyms: batshit
glosses: Mad, insane.
identity theft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity thefts
Senses: topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
glosses: The deliberate assumption of another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime.
Related terms: identity broker
identity restoration
paper tripping
steal someone's identity
persuader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsweɪdə/
ipa: /pɚˈsweɪdɚ/
Forms: form: persuaders
Etymology: From persuade + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
ref: 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen, Isaac Iaggard, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
synonyms: convincer
antonyms: persuadee
glosses: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
examples: text: It's true that a good worker doesn't misuse a hammer, and it's also true that a good worker knows that sometimes using a persuader to expedite a task is appropriate for efficiency.
topics: business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: convincer
antonyms: persuadee
glosses: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
A hammer; any tool used improvisationally to strike a recalcitrant object.
examples: text: Next fit the quoins, using the “persuader” to squeeze in the pages, and tap up all around.
ref: 1898, John Southward, Modern Printing: A Handbook of the Principles and Practice of Typography and the Auxiliary Arts:
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: convincer
antonyms: persuadee
glosses: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
A tool used to pack the type into the form.
examples: text: These electrons are guided to the second dynode by the resultant electric field of this dynode and the persuader.
ref: 1953, Stanley William Amos, D. C. Birkinshaw, Television Engineering, Principles and Practice, page 108:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
synonyms: convincer
antonyms: persuadee
glosses: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
An electrode that directs electrons into a multiplier.
examples: text: He had very long legs, which he carried far back, and made most liberal use of his persuaders, so that what with his weight, and what with his style of riding, his horses were far from enjoying a sinecure.
ref: The Sportsman (volume 5, page 30)
text: The Squire laboured under a similar difficulty, and his persuaders were as busily at play as Jacob's. When, however, the horses had caught their second wind, they mended the places of their riders, and carried them closer to the flying chase.
ref: 1845, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 12, page 646:
synonyms: convincer
antonyms: persuadee
glosses: One who, or that which, persuades, literally or figuratively.
A spur (for riding a horse).
Related terms: persuadable
persuasion
unpersuadable
dihedral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈhiːdɹəl/
Forms: form: dihedrals
Etymology: From di- + -hedral.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle between two plane surfaces
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The upward slope of an aircraft's wing
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The angle between pairs of chemical bonds separated by a third bond
dihedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈhiːdɹəl/
Etymology: From di- + -hedral.
Senses: examples: text: dihedral angle
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Consisting of, relating to or contained between two plane surfaces.
glosses: Having wings that form a dihedral angle, especially when the angle between the upper sides is less than 180°.
raw_tags: of a kite or an aeroplane
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of wing pairs, inclined at an upward angle to each other.
Derived terms: dihedral angle
dihedral group
nondihedral
pseudodihedral
semidihedral
anhedral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anhedral
form: most anhedral
Etymology: From an- + -hedral.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Lacking sharp, recognisable crystal faces.
anhedral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhedrals
Etymology: From an- + -hedral.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the downward slope of an aircraft’s wing
downward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊnwɚd/
ipa: /ˈdaʊnwəd/
Etymology: From down + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: He spoke with a downward glance.
text: But this foul, grim, and urchin-snouted boar,
Whose downward eye still looketh for a grave,
Ne’er saw the beauteous livery that he wore;
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
text: […] in the Western Sky, the downward Sun
Looks out illustrious from amid the Flush
Of broken Clouds […]
ref: 1728, [James] Thomson, Spring. A Poem, […] A[ndrew] Millar, […]; and G[eorge] Strahan, […], →OCLC, page 12:
text: Emerging into the hill-road, Kemp naturally took the downward direction […]
ref: 1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 28”, in The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
text: […] Therese saw a downward slant of sadness in her mouth now, a sadness not of wisdom but of defeat.
ref: 1952, Patricia Highsmith, chapter 7, in The Price of Salt, Mineola, New York: Dover, published 2015, page 73:
text: The tractive and braking forces are transmitted to the body through a downward projecting pivot pin in the normal way.
ref: 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 728:
glosses: Moving, sloping or oriented downward.
examples: text: In her chast Current oft the Goddess laves,
And with Celestial Tears augments the Waves.
Oft in her Glass the musing Shepherd spies
The headlong Mountains and the downward Skies,
The watry Landskip of the pendant Woods,
And absent Trees that tremble in the Floods;
ref: 1713, [Alexander] Pope, Windsor-Forest. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: 1793, Thomas Taylor (translator), The Phædo in The Cratylus, Phædo, Parmenides and Timæus of Plato, London: Benjamin and John White, p. 235,
[…] often revolving itself under the earth, [the river] flows into the more downward parts of Tartarus.
glosses: Located at a lower level.
Derived terms: downward dog
downward drift
downward-facing dog
downward spiral
revery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reveries
Senses: examples: text: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee, / And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few.
ref: a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “To make a prairie”, in M[abel] L[oomis] Todd, editors, Poems, Third Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1896, page 119:
glosses: Dated form of reverie.
reverie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕʹvə-rē
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəɹi/
Forms: form: reveries
form: rêverie
form: revery
Etymology: From French rêverie.
Senses: examples: text: If you rouse from your reverie, you are restless and agitated; your eye wanders round in one perpetual search; and if, perchance, as has happened once or twice, he has only passed in the distance, your eye brightens, your cheek flushes crimson, and your whole frame quivers with uncontrollable emotion!
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Conversation after Breakfast”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 77:
text: we sat / But spoke not, rapt in nameless reverie, […]
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, The Princess, Canto VII, lines 107-108:
text: Within the branching shade of Reverie / Dreams even may spring till autumn; yet none be / ⁠Like woman's budding day-dream spirit-fann'd.
ref: 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Day-Dream”, in Pictures & poems:
text: He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 3, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
text: Even the blithely unselfconscious Homer is more than a little freaked out by West’s private reverie, and encourages his spawn to move slowly away without making eye contact with the crazy man.
ref: 2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: We were bound for eternity / Now I am lost inside this everlasting reverie / And I'm losing my mind
ref: 2019, YOHIO, “My Nocturnal Serenade”, in A Pretty Picture In A Most Disturbing Way:
synonyms: castles in Spain
castle in the air
daydream
daydreaming
oneirism
glosses: A state of dreaming while awake; a loose or irregular train of thought; musing or meditation; daydream.
examples: text: If the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool; There are infinite reveries , numberless extravagancies , and a perpetual train of vanities , which pass through both .
ref: November 17, 1711, Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 225
glosses: An extravagant conceit of the imagination; a vision.
reverie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕʹvə-rē
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəɹi/
Forms: form: reveries
form: reverying
form: reveried
form: reveried
form: rêverie
form: revery
Etymology: From French rêverie.
Senses: examples: text: By this time the mouth begins to feel uneasy—I pick another cheroot from Cotton’s last box, and walk up and down reverie-ing as before.
ref: 1832 October, [John Gibson Lockhart], “Noctes Ambrosianae. No. LXIII.”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXXII, number CC, Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T[homas] Cadell, […], page 694:
text: So now the dream of all my life is realized, and I have seen snow mountains! When I was quite a little child of eight years old I used to reverie about them, and when I heard the name of the snow-covered Sierra de la Summa Paz (perfect peace) the idea was completed; and I thenceforth always thought of eternal snow and perfect peace together, and longed to see the one and drink in the other.
ref: 1869 June 12, Frances Ridley Havergal, “(1861—1869.) […]”, in M[aria] V[ernon] G[raham] H[avergal], editor, Memorials of Frances Ridley Havergal, London: James Nisbet & Co., […], published 1880, pages 97–98:
text: During my twelfth and thirteenth years I often reveried in school, or less often at night, with penis quite erect—imagining perhaps myself in company with several of the girls that most attracted me on a Pacific Island, and I would feel and see myself again and again in sexual intercourse.
ref: 1920, W[alter] F[ranklin] Robie, “A Sexual Autobiography”, in Sex and Life: What the Experienced Should Teach and What the Inexperienced Should Learn, Boston, Mass.: Richard G[orham] Badger, The Gorham Press, part I, section “Love Reverie and Sex Imagery; Sex Education”, page 70:
text: In her old days she’ll either be Madame Representativewoman from the same said X-town, or a cheerful old philanderer, pardon me, I mean philanthropist, living in seclusion and reverying in the shades of the past.
ref: 1936 March, Elmer D. Johnson, “Soliloquy on a Forgotten Town: What Will Become of It?”, in Charles A. Poe, editor, The Carolina Magazine, volume LXV, number 6, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Publications Union Board of the University of North Carolina, page twenty-seven, column 1:
text: He reveried on.
ref: 1980, Peter Van Greenaway, The Dissident: A Novel (Gollancz Suspense), London: Gollancz, →ISBN:
glosses: To daydream.
Related terms: build castles in the air
woolgather
reverie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕʹvə-rē
ipa: /ˈɹɛvəɹi/
Forms: form: reveries
form: rêverie
form: revery
Etymology: From Middle French reverie (“revelry, drunkenness”), from Old French resverie, from resver (“to dream, to rave”), of uncertain origin. Compare rave.
Senses: glosses: A caper, a frolic; merriment.
industrialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌstɹiəlaɪz/
Forms: form: industrializes
form: industrializing
form: industrialized
form: industrialized
form: industrialise
Etymology: Borrowed from French industrialiser.
Senses: glosses: To develop industry; to become industrial.
raw_tags: of a country
glosses: To organize along industrial lines.
raw_tags: of a process
Derived terms: agroindustrialize
industrializable
industrialization
industrializer
overindustrialize
reindustrialize
pars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːz/
ipa: /pɑɹz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of par
pars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑːz/
ipa: /pɑɹz/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of par.
acid anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acid anhydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of organic compounds having two acyl groups bonded to the same oxygen atom. They react with water to give carboxylic acids.
Synonyms: acyl anhydride
Related terms: acetic anhydride
base anhydride
phthalic anhydride
acyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.sɪl/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.saɪl/
Forms: form: acyls
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin ac(eō) + -yl.
Senses: examples: text: From ethyleneoxides or ethyleneimines carrying an acyl substituent, with hydrazine and its derivatives (Ch. 3. XV).
ref: 2009, Richard H. Wiley, Pyrazoles and Reduced and Condensed Pyrazoles, Volume 22, page 387:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of class of organic radicals, RCO-, formed by the removal of a hydroxyl group from a carboxylic acid.
Derived terms: acylamide
acylamido
acylamino
acyl anhydride
acylanilide
acylase
acylate
acylation
acyl bromide
acylcarnitine
acyl chloride
acyldepsipeptide
acylethanolamide
acylethanolamine
acyl fluoride
acylfulvene
acyl halide
acylhydrazide
acylhydrazine
acylimine
acyliminium
acyl iodide
acylium
acylome
acylomic
acyloxy
acyloxyl
acylphosphatidylethanolamine
acylphosphonate
acylpiperidine
acylpolyamine
acylpyridine
acylpyrrole
acylsilane
acyltransferase
aminoacyl
aminoacylase
bromoacyl
deacyl
diacyl
diacylamine
hydroxyacyl
ketoacyl
meroacyl
thioacyl
transacylase
triacyl
acyl anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acyl anhydrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid anhydride.
anhydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhydrides
Etymology: From an- + hydride. Compare anhydrous and -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound formally derived from another (or from others) by the loss of a water molecule, especially acid anhydrides.
Derived terms: acetic anhydride
acyl anhydride
base anhydride
carbon anhydride
carbonic anhydride
dianhydride
glycide
haloanhydride
heteroanhydride
homoanhydride
maleic anhydride
malonic anhydride
mannide
mellitic anhydride
oxalic anhydride
phthalic anhydride
polyanhydride
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
succinic anhydride
sulfinic anhydride
sulfonic anhydride
sulphinic anhydride
sulphonic anhydride
thioanhydride
ionic liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ionic liquids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any salt that has a relatively low melting point; they are used as solvents where water or traditional organic solvents cannot be used.
ionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: īŏn'ĭk
ipa: /aɪˈɒnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From ion + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or containing ions
Derived terms: anionic
autoionic
cationic
homoionic
hydroionic
hypoionic
interionic
intraionic
ionically
ionic bond
ionic compound
ionic crystal
ionicity
ionic liquid
ionic product
ionic radius
ionic toothbrush
ionic wind
isoionic
magnetionic
magnetoionic
mesoionic
net ionic equation
nonionic
polyionic
superionic
superionicity
tetraionic
unionic
Related terms: anion
cation
ion
auf Wiedersehen
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Borrowed from German auf Wiedersehen (“goodbye”).
Senses: glosses: Used to express farewell.
glosses: Until we see each other again; goodbye.
quinquagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒəˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Forms: form: quinquagenarians
Etymology: From Latin quinquāgēnārius (“containing 50”) + -an, either directly or via French quinquagénaire, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīnquāgintā (“five tens, fifty”). Cognate with quinquagenary.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pentecoster: an officer who commands 50 men.
synonyms: word: pentecoster
extra: an officer who commands 50 men
glosses: Synonym of fiftysomething: a person between 50 and 59 years old.
synonyms: word: fiftysomething
extra: a person between 50 and 59 years old
Coordinate terms: vicenarian (20–29)
tricenarian (30–39)
quadragenarian (40–49)
sexagenarian (60–69)
septuagenarian (70–79)
octogenarian (80–89)
nonagenarian (90–99)
centenarian (100–199)
supercentenarian (110+)
quinquagenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒəˈnɛɹiən/
ipa: /ˌkwɪŋkwəd͡ʒɪˈnɛəɹɪən/
Etymology: From Latin quinquāgēnārius (“containing 50”) + -an, either directly or via French quinquagénaire, from Latin quīnquāgēnus (“50 each”) + -ārius (“-ary”), from quīnquāgintā (“five tens, fifty”). Cognate with quinquagenary.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to command over 50 men.
coordinate_terms: vicenarian
tricenarian
quadragenarian
hexagenerian
sexagenarian
septuagenarian
octogenarian
nonagenarian
centenarian
supercentenarian
glosses: Of or related to fiftysomethings.
Synonyms: semicentenarian
quinquagenary
Sunderland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌndə(ɹ)lənd/
Etymology: From sunder + -land (see Wikipedia article for further etymological information).
Senses: glosses: A place in England:
A city and metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear.
glosses: A place in England:
A hamlet in Blindcrake parish, Cumberland, Cumbria, previously in Allerdale district (OS grid ref NY1735).
glosses: A place in England:
A small coastal village in Overton parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire (OS grid ref SD4256).
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Calvert County, Maryland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, named after Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town in Bennington County, Vermont.
glosses: A community in Brock township, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: North Sunderland
Sunderland Bridge
Sunderlander
Related terms: Black Cat
Mackem
Wearside
Wearsider
goof around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goofs around
form: goofing around
form: goofed around
form: goofed around
Senses: glosses: To fool around.
stylised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stylised
form: most stylised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of stylized.
stylised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stylise
picked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pick
picked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Forms: form: more picked
form: most picked
Senses: glosses: Having a pick, or a particular number/type of pick (in any sense of the word)
raw_tags: in combinations
glosses: Chosen; selected.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played by picking the strings
examples: text: the picked dogfish
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a pike or spine on the back.
raw_tags: of fishes
examples: text: He is too / picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 13:
text: Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 193:
glosses: fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
examples: text: […] an useful bow a skilful bowyer wrought, / Which picked and polished both the ends he hid with horns of gold.
ref: [1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume (please specify the book number), London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:
text: A very good way to take them, is to drive a stake into the ground about four foot high above the surface of the earth: Let the stake be made picked at the top, that the jay may not settle on it.
ref: 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
glosses: pointed; sharp
Derived terms: handpicked
hand-picked
pickedness
picked-strings
prepicked
GFX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of graphics.
apparati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apparatus
Trojan War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Trojan War
Senses: examples: text: For the greater part of three thousand years since the date of the Trojan War, the imagination of poets and dramatists has been busy with its story.
ref: 1952, Olivia E. Coolidge, The Trojan War, Houghton Mifflin, published 1980, page ix:
text: The poems of the Epic Cycle are now lost. But what we know about them from ancient evidence is extremely important for our understanding about myth of the Trojan War. The poems of the Epic Cycle share the same mythological tradition with the famous Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, and in fact the Epic Cycle is even more representative of the Trojan War tradition than the Homeric poems.
ref: 2001, Jonathan S. Burgess, “The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle”, in Paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, published 2004, page 1:
text: The Greeks and Romans believed that the Trojan War was both a real event and a pivotal point in world history; Herodotus and Thucydides discussed the Trojan War briefly in the opening pages of their respective books, written in the fifth century BCE.
ref: 2013, Eric H. Cline, The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, page 1:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythological war and siege as described in Homer's Iliad.
Related terms: Late Bronze Age collapse
Trojan horse
motor factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motor factor
motor factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor factors
Senses: glosses: A retail supplier of car parts and accessories.
wind sock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind socks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of windsock.
ENT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ENTs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ear, nose and throat.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An otorhinolaryngologist; an ear, nose and throat doctor.
Synonyms: ear, nose and throat
otolaryngology
otorhinolaryngology
sibilant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənt/
Forms: form: more sibilant
form: most sibilant
Etymology: From Latin sībilāns, present active participle of sībilō (“I hiss”).
Senses: examples: text: She had a curious habit of prefacing everything she said with a soft sibilant sound.
"S-s-s Grace," she said, "it's just like I was telling Brother Hutson the other day. 'S-s-s Brother Hutson,' I said, 'looks like we're fighting a losing battle, a losing battle.' I said."
ref: 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Characterized by a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
Synonyms: word: hissing
word: hissy
word: sibilatory
word: sibilant
word: sibilous
Hyponyms: word: fizzly
word: sizzly
word: swishy
word: swooshy
word: whispery
word: whistly
word: whizzy
word: whooshy
word: zippy
word: zingy
Derived terms: sibilant rhonchus
sibilantly
Related terms: word: snakelike
sibilant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənt/
Forms: form: sibilants
Etymology: From Latin sībilāns, present active participle of sībilō (“I hiss”).
Senses: examples: text: Groove fricatives all have more or less of an [s]-like quality, and are for this reason sometimes called sibilants.
ref: 1955, H. A. Gleason, An Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics, page 194, section 14.7:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: groove fricative
hypernyms: fricative
glosses: A consonant having a hissing or hushing sound such as the s or sh in sack or shack.
Derived terms: shibilant
Related terms: sibilance
sibilancy
sibilate
sibilation
airing cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airing cupboards
Senses: glosses: A clothes storage cupboard built around a house's hot water system, using the heat to dry damp clothes.
Synonyms: hot press
Related terms: linen cupboard
yahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
Forms: form: yahoos
Etymology: From Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where Yahoo is the name of a race of brutes.
Senses: glosses: A rough, coarse, loud or uncouth individual.
examples: text: 1835, James Holman, Travels, quoted by Malcolm Smith, Bunyips and Bigfoots (Millennium Books, 1996, →ISBN), who notes that the Australian sense almost certainly derives from Gulliver's Travels, despite Holman's report
The natives are greatly terrrified by the sight of a person in a mask calling him "devil" or Yah-hoo, which signifies evil spirit.
ref: 1985, Michael Raynal, Yahoos in the Bahamas: Cryptozoology, volume 4:
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A humanoid cryptid said to exist in parts of eastern Australia, and also reported in the Bahamas.
Synonyms: sense: a rough, coarse, or uncouth person
word: yokel
sense: a rough, coarse, or uncouth person
word: lout
Coordinate terms: Houyhnhnm
Derived terms: Netanyahoo
Yahoo!
yahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
ipa: /jəˈhuː/
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
Etymology: Expressive.
Senses: examples: text: "Yahoooooo! Give her some stick!"
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 521:
glosses: An exclamation of joy or enjoyment.
glosses: A battle cry.
yahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
ipa: /jəˈhuː/
rhymes: -uː
ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
Forms: form: yahoos
form: yahooing
form: yahooed
form: yahooed
Etymology: Expressive.
Senses: glosses: To give a cry of yahoo.
yahoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɑːhuː/
rhymes: -ɑːhu
ipa: /jəˈhuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: yahoos
form: yahooing
form: yahooed
form: yahooed
Etymology: From Yahoo!.
Senses: examples: text: Ah! You mean you have been 'yahooing'? I'm dead!
ref: 2007, Tell:
text: In other words, none of our googling and yahooing is private (you knew that, right ?).
ref: 2017, Rajendra Pillai, Unearthed: Discover Life as God's Masterpiece, New Hope Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Yahoo.
torch song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torch songs
Etymology: From to carry a torch for (“to harbor feelings for”).
Senses: examples: text: “Take Me Away” is a torch song about wanting to fall in love and be taken far from an immoral urban environment.
ref: 2014, Michael Slowik, After the Silents: Hollywood Film Music in the Early Sound Era, 1926-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
glosses: A song, often sentimental, lamenting an unrequited love; normally sung by a woman.
Related terms: torch singer
implausible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more implausible
form: most implausible
Etymology: From im- + plausible.
Senses: examples: text: Harper finds the idea that Latin developed into the modern Romance languages too implausible to believe.
ref: 2008 February 17, Mark Liberman, “More on Harper”, in Language Log:
antonyms: plausible
glosses: Not plausible; unlikely; dubious.
Synonyms: sense: not plausible
word: unplausible
Derived terms: implausibleness
implausibly
torch singer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torch singers
Senses: glosses: A singer, most often a woman, of torch songs.
assertive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɝtɪv/
Forms: form: more assertive
form: most assertive
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assertīvus. Synchronically analyzable as assert + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the ubiquity of Priapus himself as a sculptural representative of the generative principle, populated the Roman gardens, assertive in ithyphallic pose.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
glosses: Boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive.
examples: text: an assertive taste or odor
glosses: Pungent.
Derived terms: assertively
assertiveness
hyperassertive
nonassertive
overassertive
self-assertive
subassertive
unassertive
underassertive
Related terms: assertative
esky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.kiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: eskies
Etymology: From Esky (“brand name”), a brand name originally owned by Malley's Ltd, of Sydney, Australia, from 1952; since genericised. From Esk(imo) + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: The rear of the cab was stacked with boxes of soft drinks and ‘Eskis’.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 75:
text: Instructions followed for the package to be covered with clean ice in a six-pack esky (which should be big enough), and stored in a cool room at the hotel or the butcher shop, until the arrival of the mail plane.
ref: 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 211:
glosses: An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep food and drinks cool.
Synonyms: sense: insulated cooler
word: car fridge
sense: insulated cooler
word: chilly bin
sense: insulated cooler
word: cool box
sense: insulated cooler
word: cooler
sense: insulated cooler
word: icebox
Related terms: Eskie
chilly bin
chilly bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chilly bins
Senses: glosses: An insulated picnic cooler, using refrigerated blocks to keep food cool.
Synonyms: word: car fridge
word: cool bag
word: cool box
word: cooler
word: esky
CLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /siːɛlˈpiː/
Forms: form: CLPs
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Constituency Labour Party.
PSNI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Byrne was already facing pressure after a major data breach from the PSNI last month. Personal data of all serving members of the PSNI was mistakenly published in response to a freedom of information request.
ref: 2023 September 4, Matthew Weaver, Lisa O'Carroll, “Northern Ireland police chief quits after series of controversies”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of Police Service of Northern Ireland, created in 2001 as a successor to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).
Lillian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lilian
Etymology: Used since the sixteenth century, possibly originally a pet form of Elizabeth, but generally accepted as a variant of Late Latin lilium (“lily”).
Senses: examples: text: Your mother's name was Lillian, Minnie Lee,
Her other name I never heard, until
I stood within the church and saw her wed
So she is ever Lillian Lee to me.
ref: 1836, Adeline Sergeant, Lillian Lee:
text: Lillian Russell was christened Helen Louise Leonard. Tony Pastor gave her the name Lillian Russell, for the very practical reason, I believe, that it had so many "l's" in it, and consequently would look well on a bill-board.
ref: 1907, Lewis Clinton Strang, Famous Prima Donnas, L.C.Page&Co, page 33:
glosses: A female given name from Latin, of American usage; variant form Lilian (UK).
Related terms: Lila
Lil
Lili
Lilia
Liliana
Liliane
Lilias
Lilli
Lillia
Lilianna
Lilliana
Lilliane
Lilliann
Lillianna
Lillianne
Lillie
Lilly
Lillyan
Lillyanne
Lily
Lilyan
Lilyann
BRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: airline industry
glosses: Initialism of booking reservation system.
topics: transport
synonyms: BRT
bus rapid transit
glosses: Initialism of bus rapid service.
self-satisfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-satisfied
form: most self-satisfied
Etymology: From self- + satisfied.
Senses: examples: text: He stood back and looked at his project with a self-satisfied expression.
text: From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]
ref: 1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:
synonyms: smug
complacent
coordinate_terms: self-righteous
;
self-assured
glosses: Satisfied with oneself, especially over-satisfied; smug; slightly arrogant.
center punch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: center punches
form: center punching
form: center punched
form: center punched
form: centre punch
Senses: glosses: To create a small hole or indentation in a workpiece as a guide in preparation for drilling.
center punch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center punches
form: centre punch
Senses: glosses: A tool used to create a small indentation in preparation for drilling a hole.
glosses: The small indentation created by such a tool.
workpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workpieces
Etymology: From work + piece.
Senses: examples: text: Make sure the workpiece is properly secured in the chuck before turning on the lathe.
text: It is theorized that when the surface velocity is below certain minimum values the material at the interface between workpieces WP-1 and WP-2 rolls up and extrudes from the interface in the form of long twisted cylindrical projections which are sometimes referred to as "dingle-berries."
ref: 1967, M.R. Calton, Welding of Dispersion-Strengthened Alloys, US Patent 3477117, page 6:
text: If the operator violates this instruction and, for example, tries to slightly move the workpiece while the robot is screwdriving it, then the execution may be interrupted […]
ref: 2019, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi, Laura Semini, From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back, page 113:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
machining
manufacturing
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
woodworking
glosses: The raw material or partially finished piece that is shaped by performing various operations.
anagnorisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌænəɡˈnɒrɪsɪs/
Forms: form: anagnorises
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις (anagnṓrisis), from ἀναγνωρίζειν (anagnōrízein, “to recognise, discover”).
Senses: examples: text: His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement.
cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈku.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʉː.lə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: coolers
Etymology: From cool + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If acid Things were used only as Coolers, they would not be so proper in this Case.
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Anything which cools.
examples: text: While Brown distracted the usually hyperfocused Mangini, safety Kerry Rhodes and linebackers Eric Barton and Jonathan Vilma grabbed a cooler of Gatorade and surreptitiously assumed their positions according to plan.
ref: 2007 January 1, Karen Crouse, “With Wild-Card Spot Clinched, Jets Can Finally Talk Playoffs”, in The New York Times:
text: Two women were found unresponsive in a car along with the likely culprit – four coolers of dry ice – Friday morning in Pierce County, Washington, CNN affiliate KOMO reports.
ref: 2018 August 1, Michael Nedelman, “Ice cream salesman’s wife and mother suffocated by dry ice in car”, in CNN:
glosses: An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.
examples: text: He recalls that experience in a smooth, speedy story, “The Monster Mash,” but these days he’s not sure he liked it too much — the disembowelings, the coolers of brains, the stench of decomposing corpses (“the smell of job security,” as one pathologist puts it) terrify him.
ref: 2008 June 15, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “Up in Smoke”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.
examples: text: They served wine coolers in the afternoon.
coordinate_terms: alcopop
malternative
premix
glosses: A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.
glosses: samalamig drink (sweet chilled beverage, such as chilled fruit juice or other flavors like chocolate, coffee, sweet corn, etc., usually mixed with either shredded jelly and/or sago pearls or tapioca pearls)
glosses: Ellipsis of air cooler, evaporative cooler, desert cooler, or swamp cooler.
examples: text: About a year or so back we had him in the cooler on a Mann Act rap.
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
glosses: A prison.
glosses: A bouncer or doorman.
topics: card-games
gambling
games
poker
glosses: A cold deck.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A loss suffered while holding a hand which is ordinarily strong, especially one which involves the loss of many chips.
glosses: A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.
Synonyms: sense: insulated box
word: car fridge
sense: insulated box
word: cool bag
sense: insulated box
word: cool box
sense: insulated box
word: chilly bin
sense: insulated box
word: esky
sense: insulated box
word: ice chest
Derived terms: aftercooler
air cooler
California cooler
cooler bag
coolerful
cryocooler
desert cooler
evaporative cooler
hydrocooler
intercooler
jelly cooler
overcooler
pearl cooler
precooler
Remsen cooler
swamp cooler
water cooler
wine cooler
cooler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkuː.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈku.lɚ/
ipa: /ˈkʉː.lə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From cool + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He looks cooler when he's dressed in shorts.
glosses: comparative form of cool: more cool
Derived terms: cooler heads must prevail
cooler heads prevail
cooler heads will prevail
Related terms: chiller
freezer
heater
warmer