cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Glasnevin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Irish Glas Naeidhe
Senses: glosses: A parish about two miles north of the City of Dublin, Ireland, known for its cemetery (Irish grid ref O 1437).
glosses: An unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Key West No. 70, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in North Canterbury, New Zealand.
glagol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old Church Slavonic глаголъ (glagolŭ).
Senses: glosses: Name of the letter g in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.
dead ringer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead ringers
form: dead-ringer
form: deadringer
Etymology: See ringer (“substitute”) and ring the changes
Senses: examples: text: He is a dead ringer for his grandfather at that age.
text: In 1987, in “The Rules of Attraction,” he wrote about casual sex and obsessive drug use among bored students of a dead ringer for Bennington College, which Mr. Ellis attended.
ref: 2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: On our next date, she told me I could come back home if I wanted to. There was one condition, though: couples counseling.
ref: 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.1, at p.19
roman: Our therapist, the sari-wearing, no-nonsense Dr. Beena Patel, was a dead ringer for Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
text: Twentysomething Alice works in publishing, so is instantly in awe of this old man offering her chocolate with a trembling hand. He is world-famous writer Ezra Blazer, a dead ringer for Philip Roth, with whom Halliday had a relationship in her 20s.
ref: 2018 February 28, Justine Jordan, “Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday review – a dizzying debut”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: spitting image
double
doppelganger
lookalike
glosses: Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.
bez
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛz/
Forms: form: bezes
Etymology: See bezantler.
Senses: synonyms: bezantler
bisantler
glosses: The second tine of an antler's beam.
bez
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛz/
ipa: /biːz/
rhymes: -iːz
homophone: bees
ipa: /bɛz/
Senses: examples: text: We bez run to 'da good bad white man. He gonna fire 'da ova bad white man.
If 'da bad white man cain't sayz be^([sic]) niggas bez stupid in 'da heaad, wif' low
iq an' shit, 'dat mus' mean we bez humans.
ref: 2007 October 20, NiggydaHoe, “Re: 79yr old Nigger Idiot was suspended for racist bullshit”, in alt.music.white-power (Usenet):
synonyms: are
glosses: first-person plural simple present of be
examples: text: 'They bez goin' like der Tyfel,'
ref: 1860, The Knickerbacker, volume 56, Peabody, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 434:
text: >>>>>>> "[…]They are not rotting someplace in hell, they bez right
>>>>>>> here
>>>>>>> whining wif us."
ref: 2007 June 13, Mustapha Mond, “Re: Nigger Apologists: Slaves Who Died at Sea Being Honored”, in comp.sys.mac.apps (Usenet):
synonyms: are
glosses: third-person plural simple present of be
Related terms: wuz
ghostwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ghostwrites
form: ghostwriting
form: ghostwrote
form: ghostwritten
form: ghost-write
form: ghost write
Etymology: Back-formation from ghostwriter.
Senses: examples: text: Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
examples: text: The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.
text: Before I read her book, I wondered if it had been ghostwritten, like many such books.
ref: 2018 April 9, Melanie Thernstrom, “The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2018:
topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
Related terms: ghostwriter
ghostwritten
novi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novis
Senses: examples: text: In part it is sensible, requiring a novi to know names of masters, whereabouts of rooms, colours of houses and so on.
ref: 1964, Richard Bradley, Tonbridge: a progress report, page 31:
qualifier: Tonbridge School
glosses: A new pupil.
catarrh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɑɹ/
homophone: Qatar
Forms: form: catarrhs
Etymology: From Middle English catarre, from Medieval Latin catarrus, from Late Latin catarrhus, from Ancient Greek κατάρροος (katárrhoos), which is derived from καταρρέω (katarrhéō, “I flow down”), which is composed of κατά (katá, “down”) and ῥέω (rhéō, “I flow”).
Senses: examples: text: And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.
ref: 1763 June 20 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Mayor of Garret. A Comedy, […], London: […] P[aul] Vaillant, […], published 1764, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:
text: Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter III, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: "Where I went wrong," he said, still speaking in that low, husky voice as if he had been a ghost suffering from catarrh, "was in getting engaged to Phyllis Mills."
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
Especially, that of the nose and throat.
synonyms: coryza
examples: text: He coughed violently and spit out the catarrh irritating his throat.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
The discharge (fluid) associated with this condition.
hypernyms: phlegm
sputum
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
Rhinitis or rhinosinusitis; cold or coldlike illness; common cold.
Derived terms: catarrhal
catarrhal fever
catarrhally
catarrhine
catarrhous
catarrhy
Related terms: cold
flu
grippe
grip
influenza
pose
sinusitis
eudicot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈju.dɪ.kat/
Forms: form: eudicots
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from eudicots, short for eudicotyledons, from the New Latin coinage eudicotylēdōn, from the Ancient Greek components εὐ- (eu-, “good, well”) + δι- (di-, “two”) + κοτυληδών (kotulēdṓn, “cup-shaped cavity”); equivalent to eu- (“true”) + dicot.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the eudicots.
Derived terms: core eudicot
Related terms: palaeodicot
flaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔː.tə/
ipa: /ˈflɔtɚ/
Forms: form: flaughters
Senses: glosses: A flat spade used in peat cutting.
phthisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(f)θaɪsɪs/
ipa: /ˈtaɪsɪs/
Forms: form: phthises
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “I waste away”).
Senses: examples: text: For some months to my becoming acquainted with him, his physicians had declared him in a confirmed phthisis. It was his custom, indeed, to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution, as a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted.
ref: c. 1830-40's, Edgar Allan Poe, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar:Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe:
text: Tired from his journey and his chronic lung weakness, which he had saved from turning to phthisis by winter sojourns in Egypt, he was yet goodhumoured enough when his deputy reported the arrival of a gang of Jews who wanted judgment on something or someone.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
Derived terms: word: enterophthisis
word: myelophthisis
word: nephronophthisis
word: phthisiology
word: phthisiophobia
english: atrophy of the eye
translation: atrophy of the eye
word: phthisis bulbi
Related terms: word: phthisic
english: prolapse or drooping
translation: prolapse or drooping
word: ptosis
neeps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neep
glosses: mashed swede (called "turnip" in Scotland), especially when served with tatties (potatoes) and haggis.
haggis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɡɪs/
ipa: /ˈhæɡɪs/
ipa: /ˈhɑːdʒis/
ipa: /ˈhɑd͡ʒis/
ipa: /ˈhæɡɪs/
ipa: /ˈhæɡɪs/
Etymology: From haggi + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of haggi (“one who has participated in a hajj”) (alternative spelling of hajjis).
gfx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of graphics.
luncheon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌn(t)ʃən/
rhymes: -ʌntʃən
Forms: form: luncheons
form: lunching
Etymology: From earlier lunching, of uncertain origin.
Possibly related to lunch, q.v. It is unclear which came first. Possibly influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”).
The "sausage" sense is probably a shortening of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.
Senses: examples: text: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 2, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
text: Superintendent Chalmers: Well, Seymour, I made it — despite your directions.
Principal Skinner: Ahhh, Superintendent Chalmers! Welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.
ref: 1996, Writing staff, “22 Short Films About Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21, spoken by Principal Skinner (Harry Shearer):
text: Most people thought the food at the luncheon was mediocre.
glosses: A formal meal served in the middle of the day.
examples: text: Filled Roll (x2) 1x luncheon, tomato, lettuce, and mayonnaise / 1x cheese and onion
ref: 2014 June 3, John Pratt, Anna Eriksson, “Understanding differences in punishment”, in Contrasts in Punishment: An Explanation of Anglophone Excess and Nordic Exceptionalism, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Ian bought the luncheon since it was on special.
synonyms: Belgium
devon
fritz
polony
glosses: A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices.
examples: text: Have you had luncheon?
ref: 1931, Mildred Wirt (as Carolyn Keene), The Mystery at Lilac Inn (page 4)
glosses: Any midday meal; lunch.
glosses: A lump of food.
examples: text: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.
Derived terms: bruncheon
luncheon bar
luncheon cart
luncheoner
luncheonette
luncheonless
luncheon meat
luncheon plate
luncheon sausage
luncheon truncheon
luncheon voucher
luncheonware
preluncheon
Related terms: nuncheon
cichlid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪklɪd/
Forms: form: cichlids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cichlidae.
Senses: glosses: Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish.
Derived terms: convict cichlid
dwarf cichlid
electric yellow cichlid
firemouth cichlid
fourspine cichlid
giant cichlid
jewel cichlid
lionhead cichlid
marble cichlid
Mayan cichlid
parrot cichlid
rainbow cichlid
ram cichlid
Salvin's cichlid
Texas cichlid
trimac cichlid
velvet cichlid
zebra cichlid
rear-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, a rearguard.
glosses: Of, or relating to, resistance in politics, etc.
expenditure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃə/
ipa: /ɛkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛndɪt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspendɪt͡ʃə/
Forms: form: expenditures
Etymology: From stem of Medieval Latin expenditus, irregular perfect passive participle of expendō (“I weigh, I pay out”), + -ure (“process or result”).
Senses: glosses: Act of expending or paying out.
examples: text: The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.
glosses: The amount expended; expense; outlay.
Synonyms: sense: amount expended
word: disbursement
sense: amount expended
word: expense
sense: amount expended
word: payment
sense: amount expended
word: cost
sense: amount expended
word: charge
sense: amount expended
word: outlay
Derived terms: capital expenditure
energy expenditure
government expenditure
misexpenditure
operating expenditure
overexpenditure
sweet gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet gums
form: sweetgum
form: sweet-gum
Senses: hypernyms: gum
gum tree
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glosses: Any of several Oriental and American trees the genus Liquidambar, having brilliant autumn coloration; their wood is used for furniture, wood pulp and plywood.
hypernyms: gum
gum tree
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coordinate_terms: black gum#Noun
glosses: Any of several Oriental and American trees the genus Liquidambar, having brilliant autumn coloration; their wood is used for furniture, wood pulp and plywood.
Liquidambar styraciflua, the sweet gum tree.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Liquidambar styraciflua
word: American sweetgum
taxonomic: Liquidambar acalycina
word: Chang's sweetgum
taxonomic: Liquidambar formosana
word: Chinese sweetgum
taxonomic: Liquidambar formosana
word: Formosan sweetgum
taxonomic: Liquidambar orientalis
word: oriental sweetgum
taxonomic: Liquidambar orientalis
word: Turkish sweetgum
firing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: firings
Etymology: By surface analysis, fire + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
examples: text: No more dams I’ll make for fish;
Nor fetch in firing
At requiring […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: Downstairs there was a kitchen common to all lodgers, with free firing and a supply of cooking-pots, tea-basins, and toasting-forks.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: The fuel for a fire.
examples: text: One driver told him that a fireman who did not know the route might easily go "over the side" between Corby and Harringworth, unless warned beforehand of the reverse curves; he himself, in his firing days, used to try so to plan his firing that it was unnecessary to add any more coal while passing over this stretch at speed.
ref: 1945 July and August, “Notes and News: "A Nice Day's Work"”, in Railway Magazine, page 235:
text: The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls.
ref: 1961 February, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 109:
glosses: The act of adding fuel to a fire.
examples: text: […] they fir’d several Times, making other Signals for the Boat. At last, when all their Signals and Firings prov’d fruitless, and they found the Boat did not stir, we saw them by the Help of my Glasses, hoist another Boat out, and row towards the Shore […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 308:
text: He heard the firing and as he walked he felt it in the pit of his stomach as though it echoed on his own diaphragm.
ref: 1940, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 43, in For Whom the Bell Tolls, London: Jonathan Cape, page 417:
glosses: The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
examples: text: Even the most seasoned analysts of British politics were struck by the brutality of Ms. May’s hirings and firings.
ref: 2016 July 19, Matthew d’Ancona, “Theresa May’s Shock Therapy”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
glosses: Cauterization.
Derived terms: biscuit firing
co-firing
firing iron
firing line
firing party
firing pin
firing point
firing range
firing seat
firing solution
firing squad
nonfiring
oil firing
overfiring
quiet firing
superfiring
test firing
underfiring
firing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əɹ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfaɪ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, fire + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fire
melodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈlɒdɪk/
ipa: [məˈlɑɾɪk]
rhymes: -ɒdɪk
Forms: form: more melodic
form: most melodic
Etymology: Borrowed from French mélodique.
Senses: examples: text: Debussy's melody is fractional, fragmentary. But at the core all his music is melodic and melody is its main motive force.
ref: 1929, Arthur Lourié, “An Inquiry into Melody”, in Modern Music, volume VII, number 1, page 10:
glosses: Of, relating to, or having melody.
glosses: Melodious, tuneful.
Derived terms: amelodic
countermelodic
melodeath
melodically
melodic death metal
melodic hardcore
melodicism
melodicist
melodicity
melodic line
melodic minor scale
neomelodic
nonmelodic
supermelodic
unmelodic
Related terms: melody
mummy's boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummy's boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mama's boy.
bite wing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bite wings
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A holder for X-ray film, in which the film is held in place by a small tab on which the patient bites.
sick building syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The adverse environmental conditions in a building that pose a health risk to its occupants, such as inadequate ventilation or inadequate cleaning.
glosses: The symptoms experienced by people who work there.
Synonyms: word: SBS
word: tight building syndrome
Hyponyms: sick office syndrome
Related terms: Legionnaires' disease
SIMM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SIMMs
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: initialism of Single in-line memory module
Related terms: DIMM
DIP
DIP chip
DIP memory
RIMM
SIPP
SIP
SODIMM
ZIPP
ZIP
SDR
SDRAM
EDO RAM
EDO DRAM
FP RAM
FP DRAM
DRAM
single currency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The unified currency proposed for all EU states, in which it became the Euro.
Related terms: Euro
hang out to dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs out to dry
form: hanging out to dry
form: hung out to dry
form: hung out to dry
Senses: examples: text: I'll take advantage while / You hang me out to dry
ref: 1989, Kurt Cobain, “About a Girl”, in Bleach, performed by Nirvana:
text: Without supplemental health insurance, we would have been hung out to dry.
ref: 2008 March 7, Joe Fiorito, “Our home-care system hangs families out to dry”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2008:
text: It's hard to avoid the conclusion that young people are being hung out to dry.
ref: 2011 January 25, Clare McNeil, “Don't hang young people out to dry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: leave someone hanging
glosses: To abandon someone who is in need or in danger, especially a colleague or one dependent.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, out, dry.
Related terms: twist in the wind
hang out
leave someone high and dry
throw under the bus
Katrina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈtɹiːnə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek. A variant of Catherine.
examples: text: “It’s disaster capitalism,” the Aleph said. “All the profiteering that went down post-Katrina. It was in 2005. You’re probably too young to remember that hurricane.”
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 250:
glosses: The 11th tropical storm of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which caused catastrophic damage to Louisiana, Mississippi and parts of Alabama.
examples: text: Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?
ref: 2020 March 8, Chris Cillizza, “Is coronavirus Donald Trump’s Katrina?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2020:
glosses: A large-scale disaster, especially one with negative political consequences.
indeclinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French indéclinable, from Middle French, from Latin indeclinabilis. See in- not, and decline.
Senses: examples: text: He'd planned to work a double shift Friday night, but Gladys Silverman's indeclinable invitation threw a hefty wrench into David's plans.
ref: 1994, Helen R. Myers, To Wed at Christmas, page 101:
glosses: That one cannot decline; unavoidable.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Not grammatically declinable; of a word, having no inflections.
raw_tags: of a word
Synonyms: undeclinable
Hypernyms: uninflectable
invariable
Derived terms: indeclinableness
indeclinably
indeclinable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeclinables
Etymology: From French indéclinable, from Middle French, from Latin indeclinabilis. See in- not, and decline.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word that is not grammatically inflected.
tricolpate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: 3-colpate
Etymology: From tri- + colpate.
Senses: examples: text: The pollen grains are tricolpate to tricolporoidate.
text: Tricolpate pollen, the signature of eudicots, first appears ca. 110 million years ago.
topics: biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having three grooves, or colpi, on each grain.
raw_tags: of a pollen
tricolpate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricolpates
form: 3-colpate
Etymology: From tri- + colpate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A plant with tricolpate (three-grooved) pollen, including any dicot.
Related terms: Tricolpites
tricolporate
tricolpates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricolpate
submariner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈmæɹɪnə/
ipa: /sʌbˈmæɹɪnɚ/
ipa: /sʌbməˈɹiːnɚ/
Forms: form: submariners
Etymology: From submarine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of the crew of a submarine.
examples: text: Jones was a submariner and could often confuse a batter with his unorthodox delivery.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.
filo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of phyllo.
slam dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of dancing, to punk rock music, in which the dancers deliberately collide with each other.
slam dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slam dance
Related terms: moshing
sleazebag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslizˌbæɡ/
Forms: form: sleazebags
Etymology: From sleaze + bag.
Senses: glosses: A morally reprehensible, disreputable, or sleazy person.
Synonyms: jerk
sleaze factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleaze factors
Senses: glosses: The sleazy or sordid aspect of a political situation.
glosses: The corrupt or tainted element of a political party or administration.
haro
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: See harrow or haro.
The claim has been made that the word is from Old French haro, harou, from two words, "Ha" and "Rollo", referring to Duke Rollo of Normandy; his name became well known as a cry for justice and was later shortened to "Haro."
-"The Little Duke", Charlotte Young, 1955
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of distress; alas.
qualifier: Channel Islands
glosses: A call for help, a demand for protection against harm, or for assistance to arrest an adversary.
Derived terms: clameur de haro
horo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 母衣(ほろ) (horo, “cloak”).
Senses: glosses: A large cloak worn by Japanese warriors to protect against arrows.
sleep mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleep modes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: standby
suspend to memory
suspend to RAM
coordinate_terms: word: hibernation
english: a mode that completely powers off and restores from [[hard disk]]
translation: a mode that completely powers off and restores from [[hard disk]]
glosses: the state of a computer system in which the drives and interfaces are switched off, and the only task running is monitoring external activity, particularly awaiting a keypress which restores the system to its active state from the random access memory.
Linnaean nomenclature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced deliberately (c. 2000) by proponents of the PhyloCode as a pejorative term, to suggest age and obsolescence: a nomenclature due to be supplemented or replaced by nomenclature governed by the PhyloCode.
Senses: glosses: The current taxonomic nomenclature in biology, as governed by the ICBN, ICZN and ICNB. This nomenclature accepts the work by Linnaeus as a starting point (except for specified groups and ranks).
phylogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfaɪ.loʊ.d͡ʒəˈnɛt.ɪk/
Etymology: From phylo- + genetic, from German phylogenetisch, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, from Phylogenese + -isch.
Senses: examples: text: To each of these subdivisions of the phylum thus differentiated the name race may appropriately be restricted, and the sum of the peculiarities of each race may be termed race-characters. This is the phylogenetic side of anthropology, and its nomenclature should be kept clearly separate from that of the ethnological side.
ref: 1893 January, Alexander Macalister, “The Study of Man”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 42:
qualifier: systematics
glosses: Of, or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.
glosses: Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms.
Derived terms: cophylogenetic
ecophylogenetic
geophylogenetic
monophylogenetic
nonphylogenetic
phylogenetically
phylogenetic tree
prephylogenetic
Related terms: phylogenetics
phylogenesis
phylogeny
taxonomic
Linnaean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈneɪ.ən/
ipa: /lɪˈniː.ən/
rhymes: -eɪən
Etymology: From Linnaeus + -an. After Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish naturalist who helped to standardize biological nomenclature.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, either personally or in a wider sense, to the era influenced by him.
examples: text: Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.
ref: 2000, Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age, page 26:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Of or relating to the binomial nomenclature originated by him
glosses: Relating to the nomenclature Codes that have their starting point in a work by Linnaeus or are derived from such a Code. This includes the idea of a ranked taxonomy, which was not initiated by Linnaeus.
smoke and mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techniques traditionally used by stage magicians.
Senses: examples: text: Budget process? It's more like a magic show. It's wink and blink and smoke and mirrors and pulling rabbits out of hats, but almost all that ever comes up are designs to hide increases for the special interests.
ref: 1987 March 21, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address:
text: On revenue raising issues, Mr Harris reveals what a master of smoke and mirrors Bob Carr really is.
ref: 2007, Australian Senate, Parliamentary debates Australia: Senate:
text: It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, "Take one of these, and call us in a decade."
ref: 2009 October 17, Barack Obama, Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch:
text: As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
ref: 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
text: Reflecting on the memories shared with their family, adult children may wonder: "Was it all smoke and mirrors? Were they ever really happy?", Hughes says.
ref: 2025 September 12, Molly Gorman, quoting Carol Hughes, “'Was it all smoke and mirrors?': How adult children are affected by grey divorce”, in BBC:
glosses: A deceptive, fraudulent, or unconvincing explanation or description.
Related terms: blow smoke
do with mirrors
councilor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: councilors
Senses: glosses: US standard spelling of councillor.
snowboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊˌbɔːd/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹd/
Forms: form: snowboards
Etymology: From snow + board.
Senses: glosses: A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.
Derived terms: alpine snowboard
snowboard cross
Related terms: snowboarder
snowboarding
snowboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnəʊˌbɔːd/
ipa: /ˈsnoʊˌbɔɹd/
Forms: form: snowboards
form: snowboarding
form: snowboarded
form: snowboarded
Etymology: From snow + board.
Senses: glosses: To ride a snowboard.
snowboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:snowboarding.
synonyms: word: snurfing
glosses: The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.
Derived terms: alpine snowboarding
Related terms: skiing
wakeboarding
surfing
snowboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snowboard
catatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæ.təˈtɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /kæ.təˈtɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more catatonic
form: most catatonic
Senses: examples: text: However, he was looking a lot more catatonic and depressed before and sometimes we find that on the anti-depressants you remove the depression and uncover the paranoid stuff and we may have to give him larger quantities of tranquilizers just to tone this down.
ref: 1967, unnamed doctor in 1967, Frederick Wiseman (director), Titicut Follies (documentary film), quoted in 2004, Jerrold R. Brandell (editor), Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients, page 118
text: It was plausible that Cara became more catatonic in order to avoid a painful and overwhelming confrontation with terrifying but repressed memories of child abuse.
ref: 2006, David H. Brendel, Healing Psychiatry, page 119:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, relating to, or suffering from catatonia; having a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
examples: text: He made Yossarian think of cripples and of cold and hungry men and women, and of all the dumb, passive, devout mothers with catatonic eyes nursing infants outdoors that same night with chilled animal udders bared insensibly to that same raw rain.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 428:
text: Further and further he would withdraw from the world, becoming more and more catatonic — withdrawing completely from his hateful world to the only real and secure comfort he had ever known, the womb.
ref: 2004, William Meninger, 1012 Monastery Road: A Spiritual Journey, page 19:
text: The fact that he was not twirling his kiss curl underscored his catatonic state of mind. I didn't know who was more catatonic—Brentwood, the minister, or myself.
ref: 2009, Nicole Chénier-Cullen, I Found My Thrill on Parliament Hill, page 37:
text: A very young Ensign, in his first real contact with combat conditions, was in charge but was almost of no use as he began to hyper-ventilate and became more and more catatonic the closer they got to shore.
ref: 2011, T. F. Bohn, Dirty Jerry: Faith In the Real World, page 64:
glosses: Motionless and unresponsive, as from shock; withdrawn.
Derived terms: anticatatonic
catatonically
noncatatonic
precatatonic
semicatatonic
catatonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæ.təˈtɑn.ɪk/
ipa: /kæ.təˈtɒn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: catatonics
Senses: examples: text: An inspection of Table IV shows that the catatonics have the lowest mean reversal score of all the groups.
ref: 1953, Canadian Journal of Psychology: Revue Canadienne de Psychologie, volume 7, page 120:
text: I thought of children released from school; I thought of spring-awakenings after winter-sleeps; I thought of the Sleeping Beauty; and I also thought, with some foreboding, of catatonics, suddenly frenzied.
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, unnumbered page:
text: All outward signs suggest that catatonics have ceased being subjects by virtue of having transformed themselves into veritable objects.
ref: 1991, Dean Turner, Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade Responsibility, page 92:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A patient in a state of catatonia.
disapprobation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˌæpɹəˈbeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: disapprobations
Etymology: From dis- + approbation.
Senses: examples: text: Though a gentle Sigh which ſtole from the Boſom of Nancy, ſeemed to argue ſome ſecret Diſapprobation of theſe Sentiments, ſhe did not dare openly to oppoſe them.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “What arrived while the Company were at Breakfast, with some Hints concerning the Government of Daughters”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume V, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book XIII, page 48:
text: Elizabeth would wonder, and probably would blame her; and though her resolution was not to be shaken, her feelings must be hurt by such disapprobation.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XXII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 287:
text: Believe me, I have no warmer sentiment to bestow; and even if I had I could not indulge it, since it would meet with the decided disapprobation of my family, and never could I bring myself to act in opposition to them.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter X, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 131:
text: And not only these acts, but the dispositions which lead to them, are properly immoral, and fit subjects of disapprobation which may rise to abhorrence.
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, “Applications”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 140:
text: No one seems to think so, however. Yet they view my arrival with a knapsack on my back with cold disapprobation, as unseemly as if I had arrived riding on a pig. I ought to be in a carriage, and the knapsack ought to be a new suitcase.
ref: 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “As Far as Palermo”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: An act or expression of condemnation or disapproval, especially on moral grounds.
Related terms: disapproval
disapprove
Republic of Turkey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of Turkey
Etymology: Calque of Turkish Türkiye Cumhuriyeti.
Senses: synonyms: Republic of Türkiye
glosses: Former official name of Turkey: a country in West Asia and Southeast Europe.
discretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈskɹɛʃən/
Forms: form: discretions
Etymology: From Middle English discrecioun, from Old French discretion, from Late Latin discrētiō, from Latin discerno. Equivalent to discreet + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Bob showed great discretion despite his knowledge of the affair.
glosses: The quality of being discreet.
examples: text: With regard to a woman, at nine years of age, she was, if married, considered entitled to her dower; at twelve, she may consent to marriage; at fourteen, she is at years of discretion, and may choose a guardian; […]
ref: 1838, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, A Popular Law-Dictionary:
glosses: The ability to make wise choices or decisions.
examples: text: I leave that to your discretion.
glosses: The freedom to make one's own judgements.
examples: text: The police came and searched us at their discretion because we were shouting at each other's faces.
glosses: The freedom to make one's own judgements.
The authority to exercise one's own judgement in making decisions that have effect.
Derived terms: abuse of discretion
age of discretion
discretional
discretionary
discretion is the better part of valour
discretionless
surrender at discretion
catatonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kætəˈtoʊniə/
Forms: form: catatonias
form: catatony
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Katatonie, from New Latin catatonia, from a Greek word meaning to stretch tight. By surface analysis, cata- + tone + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation.
examples: text: “Relay that!” Thwaite shouted. Somewhere on the bridge a hand closed over a relay and dropped the AIDs into an electronic catatonia.
ref: 1998, David Drake, Thomas T. Thomas, Crisis of Empire Book I: An Honorable Defense:
glosses: A frozen, unresponsive state, as of electronic equipment.
Derived terms: catatonic
theoretical physics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The description of natural phenomena in mathematical form, especially in order to derive the fundamental laws of nature and to derive conclusions from these laws.
sound bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊndbaɪt/
Forms: form: sound bites
form: soundbite
Senses: examples: text: The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudo-science and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
ref: 1995, Carl Sagan, “Science and Hope”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, pages 25–26:
topics: broadcasting
journalism
media
television
synonyms: sound cut
glosses: An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
examples: text: The ground offensive against Iraq ended after 100 hours, partly out of concern that American troops not occupy an Arab capital, partly because Arab allies feared the disintegration of Iraq and partly because a “100-hour war” made a good sound bite.
ref: 2006 December 30, Neil MacFarquhar, “Saddam Hussein, Defiant Dictator Who Ruled Iraq With Violence and Fear, Dies”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: President 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, →ISSN:
text: However, he bemoaned the era of rehearsed soundbites and "Prime Minister's Insult Time", which he said have diminished parliament.
ref: 2013 October 31, Rowena Mason, “Lord Steel criticises culture of spin and tweeting in modern politics”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A one-liner deliberately produced for this purpose; a statement specifically intended to be punchy and memorable.
glosses: Synonym of sound clip.
synonyms: word: sound clip
Related terms: platitude
soundbite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundbites
Senses: examples: text: "This is the latest example of neglect and indifference shown by the Government, which offers little more than meaningless soundbites and broken promises. [...]."
ref: 2021 January 27, “Network News: TfN slams Government plan to cut budget by 40%”, in RAIL, issue 923, page 15:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sound bite.
one-liner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-liners
form: one liner
Etymology: From one + line + -er.
Senses: examples: text: witty one-liners
text: Every crass or tone-deaf moment – including a sexual encounter between Eggsy and a socialite, played by Poppy Delevingne, that at best feels entirely misjudged and at worst a complete betrayal of Eggsy’s cheeky but ultimately quite sweet character – is matched by a wonderfully droll one-liner or nugget of razor-sharp satire.
ref: 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A short joke, especially one of a single sentence.
glosses: A short remark intended as a sound bite.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A command or small program consisting of a single line of input.
Related terms: tagline
joke
breadwinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛdˌwɪnɚ/
Forms: form: breadwinners
Etymology: From bread + winner, where to win = to earn. Compare West Frisian breawinning (“livelihood”, literally “bread-winning”), Dutch broodwinning (“livelihood”).
Senses: examples: text: At one side lay the little town of Hollingford, into a street of which Mr. Gibson's front door opened; and delicate columns, and little puffs of smoke were already beginning to rise from many a cottage chimney where some housewife was already up, and preparing breakfast for the bread-winner of the family.
ref: 1865, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter I:
text: The female breadwinners who are making more than their working husbands are in a whole different income bracket; their median household income is $80,000.
The role of men is evolving even in the three-quarters of dual-parent families in which fathers are the primary breadwinners. […] Those fathers reported that being a breadwinner was less important to them than providing their children with love and emotional support, being present and involved in their child’s life, or being a good mentor and role model.
ref: 2013 June 3, Brad Harrington, “Behind the Data on Breadwinner Mothers”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: breadearner
glosses: The primary income-earner in a household.
Related terms: breadwinning
daily bread
put bread on the table
breviate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breviates
Etymology: First attested in 1581; borrowed from Latin breviātum, from the perfect passive participle of breviō (“shorten, abridge”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: A short account, brief statement; a summary, abridgement or precis
glosses: A brief missive or dispatch; a note.
glosses: A lawyer's brief.
breviate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breviates
form: breviating
form: breviated
form: breviated
Etymology: First attested in the beginning of the 16ᵗʰ century; either borrowed from Latin breviātus, the perfect passive participle of breviō (“shorten, abridge”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)) or aphetic form of abbreviate.
Senses: glosses: To abbreviate, shorten.
glosses: To abstract for counsel's instruction, to brief
Derived terms: breviating
breviate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more breviate
form: most breviate
Etymology: First attested in the beginning of the 16ᵗʰ century; either borrowed from Latin breviātus, the perfect passive participle of breviō (“shorten, abridge”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)) or aphetic form of abbreviate.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviated, short.
party political broadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party political broadcasts
Senses: glosses: a short radio or television broadcast made by a political party
sovereigntist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sovereigntists
form: sovereignist
Etymology: From sovereignty + -ist.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A supporter of political independence for Quebec from Canada.
glosses: A supporter of sovereignism.
spazz out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spazzes out
form: spazzing out
form: spazzed out
form: spazzed out
form: spaz out
Senses: examples: text: “If you'd adjust your schedule and not try to do everything for everybody, you wouldn't ‘spazz out',” he told her.
ref: 1994, Gerald R. Weeks, Larry Hof, The Marital-Relationship Therapy Casebook: Theory and Application of the Intersystem Model, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 213:
text: Oh, there are a few control freaks out there who might spazz out: "We are the aggressor and enjoy control," says one employee benefits manager.
ref: 1996, Stefan Bechtel, Larry Stains, Sex: A Man's Guide, Rodale, →ISBN, page 463:
text: She spazzes out when I'm late / Plus she says that I'm too young to date
ref: 2003, “Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain, performed by Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:
text: You say your father is courteous and makes friendly conversation. Well, if you only knew his true feelings, you would spazz out! He was so angry with your letter!
ref: 2003, Marilyn Decker, Family of Tragedy, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 39:
text: Now before some of you spazz out, be assured my kids know I cry and they wipe the tears away.
ref: 2006, Linda Chute Shaw, A Legacy of Faith: A Journey Through ALS, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 61:
text: Marty comes on for the next number, but he spazzes out and drops his violin.
ref: 2010, Jennifer Egan, “Ask Me if I Care”, in A Visit from the Goon Squad:
glosses: To lose one's physical or emotional control.
Special K
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Initial of Kellogg Company. The drug was nicknamed humorously after the cereal, since it begins with the letter k.
Senses: examples: text: He seemed better this morning; he had eaten two donuts and a bowl of Special K for breakfast.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
glosses: A breakfast cereal made primarily from rice and wheat.