cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
phototopography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From photo- + topography.
Senses: glosses: The surveying and mapping of a terrain based solely on terrestrial photographs.
phototoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phototoxic
form: most phototoxic
Etymology: From photo- + toxic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: phototoxical
glosses: Causing damage to the skin when exposed to light.
raw_tags: of a medicine or cosmetic
Derived terms: phytophototoxic
Related terms: phototoxically
phototoxicity
phototoxin
phototransistor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototransistors
Etymology: From photo- + transistor.
Senses: examples: text: In some projects, the fiber optic cable will be mounted on the LEDs (D1, D6, D8, and on U22) or the phototransistor (Q4).
ref: 2017 October 24, “Snap Circuits Light”, in Snap Circuits, Elenco, page 5:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any semiconductor device whose electrical characteristics are light-sensitive.
Related terms: photodiode
phototriangulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + triangulation.
Senses: glosses: triangulation using photogrammetry
phototronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phototronic
form: most phototronic
Senses: glosses: photovoltaic
phototroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototrophs
Etymology: From photo- + -troph.
Senses: glosses: A photoautotroph
Derived terms: picophototroph
Related terms: phototrophy
UQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of University of Queensland.
glosses: Abbreviation of University of Quebec (“Université du Québec”) A public university system in the province of Quebec in Canada.
yaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yap
yaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yap
yapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yap
yapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yappings
Senses: examples: text: But just there a small hairy terrier exploded out at the gate, like a floor-mop impelled by some sort of internal combustion, which sent him off into a frenzy of yapping, incessantly jerked backwards by the explosive force of his own detonations.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 59:
glosses: A sound that yaps, especially the continued barking of a small dog.
yapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From yap + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yap
yapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yapp + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of a book: having a yapp.
seatbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːtbɛlt/
Forms: form: seatbelts
Etymology: seat + belt
Senses: examples: text: However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.
ref: 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 32:
glosses: Alternative spelling of seat belt.
Derived terms: lap sash seatbelt
seatbelt situation
phototrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: osmotrophic
phagotrophic
glosses: That exhibits phototrophy
Derived terms: chlorophototrophic
nonphototrophic
phototrophically
Related terms: phototroph
phototrophy
phototropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + tropy.
Senses: glosses: phototropism
phototype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phototypes
Etymology: From photo- + type.
Senses: glosses: A metal printing block, used in the photogravure process
glosses: type that has been set using phototypesetting
glosses: A measure of the susceptibility of the skin to tan, depending on the amount of melanin in the skin
Derived terms: phototypic
phototypist
phototypy
phototype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: phototypes
form: phototyping
form: phototyped
form: phototyped
Etymology: From photo- + type.
Senses: glosses: To phototypeset.
phototypography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From photo- + typography.
Senses: glosses: A photomechanical method of printing made to resemble traditional metal typography
photovaristor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photovaristors
Etymology: From photo- + varistor.
Senses: glosses: A varistor in which the relationship between voltage and current is light-dependent
Related terms: cadmium sulfide
lead telluride
photoviscoelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + viscoelasticity.
Senses: glosses: Any change in the optical properties of a viscoelastic material when stressed
photovisual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + visual.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the magnitude of a star as measured by the size of its image on an isochromatic photographic emulsion.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.
photozincograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photozincographs
Etymology: From photo- + zincograph.
Senses: glosses: A print made using photozincography
Related terms: photozincographic
photozincography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From photo- + zincography.
Senses: glosses: A form of photolithography using a zinc plate
companion ladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companion ladders
Senses: examples: text: Just as I got my head above the companion ladder, I felt an indescribably unpleasant sensation, suddenly, as it were, losing the power of breathing […] .
ref: 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 87
text: The flat roof proved a great luxury, for we sat on our housetop at night, which we reached by a species of companion-ladder from below, and enjoyed our elevated position immensely.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 112:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Either of two ladders leading from the raised quarterdeck of a sailing ship to the upper deck.
compass error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass errors
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The combination of variation and deviation which is the horizontal angle between the direction indicated by a magnetic compass and true north.
composite built
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a blazingly fast, composite built aircraft
glosses: Made of a composite material.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having wooden planks on a metal frame.
raw_tags: of a ship
eudaemonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /juːˈdiːmənɪzəm/
Forms: form: eudaemonisms
form: eudemonism
form: eudaimonism
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὐδαίμων (eudaímōn, “having a good genius, happy, fortunate”).
Senses: examples: text: Whether it be hedonism, pessimism, utilitarianism, or eudaemonism, all those modes of thinking which measure the worth of things according to pleasure and pain, that is, according to accompanying circumstances and secondary considerations, are plausible modes of thought and naivetes, which every one conscious of creative powers and an artist's conscience will look down upon with scorn, though not without sympathy.
ref: 1913 [1886], chapter VII, in Helen Zimmern, transl., Beyond Good and Evil, translation of Jenseits von Gut und Böse […] by Friedrich Nietzsche:
coordinate_terms: hedonism
utilitarianism
glosses: A philosophical notion, or system of ethics, which measures happiness in relation to morality.
Related terms: eudaemon
eudaemonic
eudaemonist
eudemonia
take the con
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the con
form: taking the con
form: took the con
form: taken the con
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Renner, take the con!" Jolt meters swung before the acceleration alarms; Renner must have set up the course in advance and slapped the keys the instant he was given control.
ref: 1974, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye:
topics: nautical
transport
coordinate_terms: take the helm
qualifier: literal
glosses: To take over navigational duties on the bridge of a ship.
synonyms: take the helm
glosses: To take over responsibilities from someone else and thus become in charge of a situation.
Related terms: conning tower
conning tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conning towers
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The armoured control tower of an early iron warship from which the ship was navigated in battle.
examples: text: I waited until half an hour after Benson had gone on duty, and then I went on deck, passing through the conning-tower where Benson sat, and looking at the compass. It showed that our course was north by west--that is, one point west of north, which was, for our assumed position, about right.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: fin
sail
glosses: A connecting structure between the bridge and pressure hull of a submarine; in larger, modern submarines it contains the captain's cabin and is known as the sail.
conning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of con
glosses: present participle and gerund of conn
glosses: present participle and gerund of conne
Derived terms: conning tower
conning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connings
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: reckoning
pinking shears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: pinkers
glosses: A pair of scissors with zigzag cutting edges, used to cut fabric: the zigzag edge helps keep the fabric from fraying.
branch register
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branch registers
Senses: glosses: The register in a CPU which contains the address of the next instruction to be executed or of an instruction to be branched to under certain circumstances
paper clips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper clip
mussitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌsɪˈteɪʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌmʌsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: mussitations
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mussitātiō (“soft noise made by dogs, or (Late Latin) people”) + English -ion (suffix denoting a condition or state). Mussitātiō is derived from mussitātus (“kept quiet; having been kept quiet; murmured, muttered; having been muttered”) (see further at mussitate) + -iō (suffix forming abstract nouns from verbs).
Senses: examples: text: The mussitation of the crowd dropped instantly.
ref: 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
glosses: Speech conducted in a hushed manner, akin to a murmur or a whisper.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A comatose patient's action of forming words with their lips without producing sound.
Related terms: word: mussitant
word: mussitate
patented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of patent
patented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: patent
antonyms: nonpatented
unpatented
;
nonproprietary
generic#Adjective
open#Adjective
libre#Adjective
free#Adjective
free as in speech
hypernyms: proprietary#Adjective
;
protected#Adjective
coordinate_terms: trademarked
copyrighted
registered
glosses: For which a patent has been granted.
Derived terms: nonpatented
unpatented
hap-harlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hap-harlots
Senses: glosses: A coarse coverlet.
Related terms: dagswain
illegals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illegal
numbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of numb
numbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The numbing of hibakusha reflected a shattering of the psychic forms of the self.
ref: 2011, Robert Jay Lifton, Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 130:
glosses: An act by which something is numbed.
Derived terms: psychic numbing
numbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numbing
form: most numbing
Derived terms: mind-numbing
numbingly
retronyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retronym
stepfamilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepfamily
caravaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of caravan
caravaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of caravan
somnolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑm.nə.ləns/
Forms: form: somnolences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French somnolence, from Late Latin somnolentia, derived from Latin somnus (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos (“sleep, slumber”).
Senses: glosses: A state of drowsiness or sleepiness.
Derived terms: hypersomnolence
insomnolence
photosomnolence
Related terms: hypersomnia
viciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more viciously
form: most viciously
form: vitiously
Etymology: From Middle English viciously; equivalent to vicious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vicious manner; ferociously or maliciously.
single-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: single handed
form: singlehanded
Senses: examples: text: It worked through from Swindon with a test train of 16 coaches and the new W.R. dynamometer car, the whole totalling 571 tons; this is one of the heaviest trains ever worked by a single-handed locomotive over the South Devon banks—in fact, it was competently restarted from a test stop on Dainton bank.
ref: 1962 April, “Motive power miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 280:
glosses: Without help from others; unassisted.
glosses: Using only one hand.
glosses: Designed for only one hand.
single-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: single handed
form: singlehanded
Senses: examples: text: "Got those [sc. scars] with a broken bottle, arresting two toughs at once," he said, replacing his cap. "Run them in single-handed and had a set-to in the cell with them on top of it."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21:
glosses: In a single-handed manner.
Synonyms: by oneself
single-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: single handed
form: singlehanded
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of single-hand
first hand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of firsthand.
kindergraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kindergraphs
Etymology: From German Kind (“child”) + German -er- + -graph, influenced by kindergarten.
Senses: examples: text: […] a gold locket containing a kindergraph of a little girl that was unmistakably Cosey Mo.
ref: 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
glosses: A photograph of a child.
violator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violators
form: violater
Etymology: From Middle English violator, from Latin violātor. By surface analysis, violate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The ordinance subjected any violator to a fine, to imprisonment for not more than six months, to community service, or to some combination of the three.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
glosses: One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
glosses: One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
One who violates another person's body as through forced sexual activity
glosses: In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.
violators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violator
violaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of violater (alternative spelling of violators).
in hand
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: at hand
on hand
to hand
handy
;
at the ready
glosses: In physical possession; at one's disposal.
examples: text: Pen in hand, I turned back to the letter I was writing.
glosses: Held in the hand or hands.
glosses: In the presence of a particular person.
examples: text: 'What have they to do with the matter in hand - the murder on this train?'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 6, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 119:
text: They form part of the vast electrification and reconstruction schemes which have been in hand for a number of years at Liverpool Street, and in suburban Essex, and include the rearrangement of tracks, of which the Ilford flyover forms part; the modern signal boxes, now needed only at key points; the electric control or sub-stations; and a large electric car shed.
ref: 1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 44:
antonyms: ignored
neglected
glosses: Under consideration; currently being dealt with or addressed.
examples: text: You need to get this situation in hand, and fast.
antonyms: out of hand#Adjective
glosses: Under control.
topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pool
snooker
sports
glosses: Of the cue ball: not on the table; able to be positioned by the current player.
examples: text: At the other end […] the Sounders completed a run that had taken them from 15 points off the lead, to first place in the Supporters Shield standings with two games in hand.
ref: 2013 September 16, The Guardian:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Still to be played.
Derived terms: cap in hand
cash in hand
four-in-hand
hat in hand
three-in-hand
hand in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hands in
form: handing in
form: handed in
form: handed in
Senses: examples: text: I found a wallet on the street, so I handed it in to the police.
glosses: To give something to a responsible person.
Synonyms: turn in
vernier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɚniːɹ/
Forms: form: verniers
Etymology: Borrowed from French vernier. From Pierre Vernier, the inventor.
Senses: glosses: A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.
glosses: A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a vernier thruster.
Derived terms: vernier caliper
vernier compass
vernier gage
vernier gauge
Related terms: calipers
nonius
verniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vernier
vehicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /viˈhɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/
ipa: /viːɪk.jə.lə(ɹ)/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈvɛhɪk(j)ʊlə(r)/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Late Latin vehiculāris.
Senses: examples: text: vehicular homicide
text: Ernest had a fear of vehicular travel, and ended up walking everywhere.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks; involving a vehicle.
examples: text: vehicular language
text: English is used as a vehicular language in many business settings.
text: Latin was a vehicular language for natural philosophers and others from the late Renaissance to the late 18th century.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That is used between two groups who do not share a common native tongue nor a common culture.
raw_tags: of a language
Derived terms: extravehicular
vehicular cycling
vehicular language
Related terms: lingua franca
pemphigus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pemphigi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πέμφιξ (pémphix, “pustule”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A severe autoimmune skin disease characterized by pustules and painful blisters, and which can be fatal.
Related terms: pemphigoid
pemphigus erythematosus
pemphigus neonatorum
ion engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ion engine
obsequiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more obsequiously
form: most obsequiously
Etymology: From obsequious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Whilſt I a while obſequiouſly lament
 The vntimely fall of vertuous Lancaſter:[…]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: I gnashed my teeth upon him with a gust of devilish fury; and the smile withered from his face—happily for him—yet more happily for myself, for in another instant I had certainly dragged him from his perch. At the inn, as I entered, I looked about me with so black a countenance as made the attendants tremble; not a look did they exchange in my presence; but obsequiously took my orders, led me to a private room, and brought me wherewithal to write.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevensony, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
text: “This way, Monsieur,” he said, and led the way up the broad, marble staircase. In another moment he had opened a door, and, drawing aside a heavy curtain, obsequiously bowed Tarzan into a dimly lighted apartment. Then Jacques vanished.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43:
synonyms: fawningly
subserviently
glosses: In an obsequious manner.
erumpent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈɹʌmpənt/
Forms: form: more erumpent
form: most erumpent
Etymology: From Latin ērumpēns, present active participle of ērumpō (“break forth”).
Senses: examples: text: The sun spun aloft, an erumpent orb of balling glory thrilling the blue sky with its brilliance.
ref: 1989, Nick Cave, And the Ass Saw the Angel:
text: He's never looked better on court or on monthly O.N.A.N.T.A. paper. He is erumpent.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: That emerges, or bursts through; breaking forth.
Related terms: eruption
velvety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛlvəti/
Forms: form: more velvety
form: most velvety
form: velvetty
Etymology: From velvet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The mouse was a warm, velvety weight in my hand.
text: The crooner had a velvety voice that made the ladies swoon.
text: In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke the tender limbs.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Sounds”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 124–125:
text: "The humble dung-beetle was at least a fact. All this psychic stuff is not." "No doubt you have good grounds for your views," chirped the mischievous Millworthy, a mild youth with a velvety manner.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Through the velvety wind V-winged / To the nest's nook I balance and buoy / With a sweet joy of a sweet joy, / Sweet, of a sweet, of a sweet joy / Of a sweet—a sweet—sweet—joy.
ref: 1918, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Woodlark”, in Robert Bridges, editor, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Now First Published […], London: Humphrey Milford, →OCLC, page 85:
text: As he came down the huge velvety paws caught him as gently as a mother’s arms and set him (right way up, too) on the ground.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
text: 1964, Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall (1962), translated by Stephen Becker, New York: Atheneum, 1964, p. 104,
Tangier was washed in a velvety bluish twilight.
text: By now it was dark, velvety dark with a moon, a darkness pinpricked by the lights from the landing place now drawing rapidly closer.
ref: 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 144:
text: In the demanding aria “Casta diva,” Ms. Meade sang Bellini’s ornately embellished phrases with velvety legato; climactic high points in the flowing melody soared over the orchestra, elegantly conducted by Joseph Colaneri.
ref: 2017 December 7, Anthony Tommasini, “Review: Listening at the Met, After James Levine”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like velvet; soft, smooth, soothing.
velour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈlʊə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: velours
Etymology: Borrowed from French velours (“velvet”).
Senses: glosses: A knit fabric similar to velvet, but usually somewhat coarser.
velours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velour
non-denominational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondenominational.
venerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venerabilities
Etymology: From venerable + -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.
text: The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv:
synonyms: word: agedness
word: hoariness
word: venerableness
word: ancientness
word: age
word: agedness
word: cobwebbiness
word: datedness
word: decrepitness
word: decrepitude
word: hoar
word: hoariness
word: oldhood
word: oldness
word: venerableness
word: venerability
word: vetustity
glosses: The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.
vendible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛndɪb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more vendible
form: most vendible
form: vendable
Etymology: From Latin vendibilis, from vendere (“to sell”).
Senses: examples: text: But as for the multitude of Sermons ready printed and pil'd up, on every text that is not difficult, our London trading St. Thomas in his veſtry, and adde to boot St. Martin, and St. Hugh, have not within their hallow'd limits more vendible ware of all ſorts ready made: […]
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 28:
text: the regulating of prices of things vendible
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Seditions and Troubles”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: [I]f thou have any vendible faculty, nay if thou have but edacity and loquacity, come!
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
glosses: Salable; able to be bought, sold, or traded.
Derived terms: vendibility
vendible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛndɪb(ə)l/
Forms: form: vendibles
form: vendable
Etymology: From Latin vendibilis, from vendere (“to sell”).
Senses: examples: text: One thing for sure, with the way the free-market purists have turned everything from political representation to health care to spiritual redemption into mere vendibles, they won’t be pleased with him for pushing this particular line of inquiry.
ref: 2008 June 12, “Americans Living in a Material World”, in New York Times:
glosses: Anything that can be bought and sold.
venally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more venally
form: most venally
Etymology: From venal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a venal fashion; mercenarily or in a manner subject to corruption.
venation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venations
Etymology: From Latin vēna (“vein”) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, native plants in the Mascarenes developed several adaptations, such as serrated leafs^([sic]) and leafs^([sic]) with red venation, to deter tortoise browsing (Cheke & Hume, 2010).
ref: 2017 March 1, Hanneke Meijer, The Guardian:
topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The arrangement of veins in a leaf, wing, or similar structure.
venation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēnātio. Doublet of venison and venatio.
Senses: examples: text: There are extant of his in Greek, four books of Cynegeticks or Venation, five of Halieuticks or Piscation, commented and published by Ritterhusius; wherein describing beasts of venery and fishes
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The hunting of wild animals.
non-racist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonracist.
non-racist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-racists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonracist.
leopards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leopard
splendiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /splɛnˈdɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more splendiferous
form: most splendiferous
Etymology: From Middle English splendiferous, from Medieval Latin splendiferus + -ous, from Late Latin splendōrifer, from Latin splendor + -fer (“bearing”). Reintroduced humorously into English c. 1837.
Senses: examples: text: Oh ! you splendiferous creatur’! you anngeliferous anngel! here am I, Ralph Stackpole the Screamer[…]
ref: 1837, Robert Montgomery Bird with William Harrison Ainsworth, Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky, pages 118–119:
text: And I'd like to have a large house and a splendiferous garden, and then you could all come and live with me, and we would play in the garden, and Dorry should have turkey five times a day if he liked.
ref: 1872, Susan Coolidge [pseudonym; Sarah Chauncey Woolsey], What Katy Did:
text: "[…]I want to write something most splendiferous to-day, and I am sure to find it in your face. I have ceased to be an original writer; all the purple patches are cribbed from you."
ref: 1900, J. M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel:
text: You move a motion? Steve boy, you’re going it some. More bluggy drunkables? Will immensely splendiferous stander permit one stooder of most extreme poverty and one largesize grandacious thirst to terminate one expensive inaugurated libation?
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Chapter 14 "Oxen of the Sun"]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: but somebody who'd given my Uncle Sol a Victor
Victrola and records while he lived presented to
him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a
scrumptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with
tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and
ref: 1959, e. e. cummings, “nobody loses all the time”, in 100 selected poems, page 21:
text: Hey boss, did you ever see a more splendiferous crash?
ref: 1964, Nikos Kazantzakis, Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek, spoken by Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn):
text: […]he was trying to convince the Spaniards on the Viceroy's brig that they really ought to be interested in certain splendiferous goods that he, Mr. Foot, the owner and captain of this galleot, had of late brought out of the Orient—particularly, carpets.
ref: 2004, Neal Stephenson, The Confusion, page 178:
text: Okja begins with a splendiferous introduction to its title character. Who is Okja?
ref: 2017 June 28, David Sims, “Netflix’s Okja Is a Must-See Fable About a Super-Pig”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Beautiful, splendid.
Derived terms: splendiferously
splendiferousness
stagnate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæɡneɪt/
rhymes: -æɡneɪt
Forms: form: stagnates
form: stagnating
form: stagnated
form: stagnated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).
Senses: examples: If the water stagnates, algae will grow.
glosses: To cease motion, activity, or progress:
To cease to flow or run.
qualifier: air; etc; air; etc
raw_tags: of water
examples: Air stagnates in a closed room.
glosses: To cease motion, activity, or progress:
To be or become foul from standing.
synonyms: stand
qualifier: air; etc; air; etc
raw_tags: of water
examples: text: Ready-witted tenderness […] never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope.
ref: 1826, Walter Scott, Woodstock:
text: Listening to what others say, especially to what they teach, prevents our minds stagnating, thus promoting mental growth into old age.
ref: 2003, Ernest Verity, Get Wisdom, →ISBN, page 434:
glosses: To cease motion, activity, or progress:
To cease to develop, advance, or change; to become idle.
Derived terms: stagnant
stagnation
stagnate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæɡneɪt/
rhymes: -æɡneɪt
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stāgnātus, past participle of stāgnō (“cover the land as a lake, stagnate”), from stāgnum (“pond, swamp”).
Senses: glosses: Stagnant.
clerestories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerestory
alit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: That awe-inspiring thing alit. On a bookcase near them, without a sound, without the sensation of weight.
ref: 2015, Kamiya Yuu, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 2:
glosses: simple past and past participle of alight
alkalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alkalizes
form: alkalizing
form: alkalized
form: alkalized
form: alkalise
Etymology: From alkali + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To cause to become alkaline, more basic and less acidic.
Derived terms: alkalizer
realkalize
unalkalized
Related terms: alkalization
all-clear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sign or signal indicating that a hindrance or danger is clear.
Derived terms: give the all-clear
allegorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegorists
Senses: glosses: One who speaks in, or writes, allegories.
allergically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more allergically
form: most allergically
Etymology: From allergic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an allergic manner; because of allergies.
allergist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allergists
Etymology: From allergy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As it warms up, expect everything to bloom at once, creating what allergists call a pollen vortex.
ref: 2018 April 22, “Local allergist says pollen vortex is on the way due to weather”, in WSBT-TV, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
text: Despite a rough beginning, this season might not continue to be so brutal, and the pollen vortex could soon become a distant memory. For now, pollen counts remain high, and people who want help with their symptoms should go see an allergist.
ref: 2021 March 26, Jeffrey Kopman, “What Is a Pollen Vortex?”, in The Weather Channel, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2024:
glosses: A doctor who specializes in the treatment of allergies.
Synonyms: allergologist
alleyway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.li.weɪ/
Forms: form: alleyways
Etymology: From alley + way.
Senses: synonyms: word: alley
word: alley
word: alleyway
word: backs
word: bunnyrun
word: chare
word: chore
word: close
word: ennog
word: entry
word: fold
word: gangway
word: gant
word: gennel
word: ginnel
word: gunnel
word: gitty
word: gully
word: gullyway
word: hocket
word: jennel
word: jigger
word: jitty
word: lane
word: laneway
word: loke
word: passage
word: pend
word: rabbit run
word: shut
word: snickelway
word: snicket
word: tenfoot
word: twitchel
word: twitten
word: wynd
word: vennel
glosses: A narrow street formed by the proximity of adjacent buildings.
glosses: A passage between two rows of cabins in a ship.
Derived terms: alleywayed
back alleyway
passageway
snickelway
unkindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈkaɪndnɪs/
Forms: form: unkindnesses
Etymology: From Middle English unkindenes; equivalent to unkind + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unkind.
glosses: An unkind act.
examples: text: All Olwynne could remember, though, was her father falling away from her into some deep pit, his black wings bent over his face, and then hundreds of ravens, an unkindness of ravens, plummeting from the sky to peck out her eyes.
ref: 2006, Kate Forsyth, The Shining City: Book Two of Rhiannon's Ride, Roc, published 2006, →ISBN:
text: "There's an unkindness of ravens that roosts on top of the guild. Their numbers are growing by the day. Aren't they spectacular?
ref: 2007, Elizabeth Haydon, The Thief Queen's Daughter, Starscape Books, published 2007, →ISBN, page 228:
text: A raven cawed somewhere up ahead, and its cry was answered by others, an unkindness of ravens on all sides.
ref: 2010, Rick Burroughs, Alan Wake, Tor Books, published 2010, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: The collective noun for ravens
Synonyms: nonkindness
brown recluse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown recluses
Senses: glosses: A venomous spider of the south central United States that has a mark on its back in the shape of a violin; a brown recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa).
Related terms: black widow
actinometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinometers
Etymology: From actino- + -meter.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device used to measure the heating power of electromagnetic radiation, especially that of solar radiation.
Related terms: actinometric
actinometry
aerometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerometers
Etymology: From aero- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to measure the mass and density of gases.
Related terms: airometer
exterior angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exterior angle
alcoholometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoholometers
form: alcoholimeter
form: alcoholmeter
Etymology: From alcohol + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A specialized form of hydrometer used to measure the amount of alcohol in a liquid (such as beer).
Related terms: alcoholometry
exterior angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exterior angles
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle formed between one side of a polygon and an extension of an adjacent side.
Related terms: interior angle
remote angle
Trey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tɹeɪ/
Senses: glosses: A nickname for someone who is the third person in the family sharing his father's name.
glosses: A male given name from English of modern usage, derived from the nickname.
NTS
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not to scale.
NTS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Transportation System.
NTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NTSs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Note To Self.
jacquards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jacquard
WIP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WIPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of work in progress.
glosses: Initialism of work in process.
real-time strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A warfare video game genre usually played from a third-person overhead perspective, which is based on the real-time movement of troops.
Synonyms: word: RTS
Derived terms: MMORTS
waldoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waldo
MMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛm.ɛmˈəʊ/
ipa: /ˌɛm.ɛmˈoʊ/
Forms: form: MMOs
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of massively multiplayer online game.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Maximum operating Mach number; the Mach number which an aircraft should not exceed in the course of routine operation.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of methane monooxygenase, see Methane monooxygenase.
Related terms: MMORPG
MMOFPS
ARVN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɑɹ.vɪn/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
coordinate_terms: NVA
Vietcong
PAVN
glosses: Initialism of Army of the Republic of Vietnam.
Related terms: NVA
RVN
Goethe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɜːtə/
note: Chicago
ipa: [ˈɡɚɾə]
Senses: examples: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German writer
glosses: A surname from German.
Related terms: Goethean
duchesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /duːˈʃɛs/
Forms: form: duchesses
Etymology: From French duchesse. Doublet of duchess.
Senses: examples: text: Ary Scheffer, the drawing-master of the young Orleans princesses, offered to go with Thiers and procure him an audience of the duc or duchesse, or Madame Adélaïde.
ref: 1877 December 15, Emily Crawford, “M. Thiers: A Sketch from Life”, in Littell’s Living Age, volume CXXXV / fifth series, volume XX, number 1748, Boston, Mass.: Littell and Gay, page 679, column 2:
text: “[T]hat little violet [La Vallière], who hid herself in the grass, and was ashamed of being a mistress, a mother, and a duchesse; that will never be the model.”—Mme de Sévigné.
ref: 1888, Augustus J[ohn] C[uthbert] Hare, Days Near Paris, New York, N.Y.; London; Glasgow: George Routledge and Sons, page 257:
text: Among the guests are Léon Bourgeois, president of the Chamber of Deputies, the Italian, German and Russian ambassadors, comtesse Greffulhe, the grande-duchesse Vladimir with comtesse Adhéaume de Chevigné, several comtes, comtesses, ducs and duchesses, […]
ref: 1990, Ronald Hayman, “For Le Figaro”, in Proust: A Biography, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III (1896–1905 Breakfast at Night), page 179:
text: She was the eighth child of the duc and duchesse of Enghien and, as a member of the reigning Bourbon house, was styled a princesse du sang, or princess of the blood.
ref: 2022, Belinda Scerri, “‘Instructing herself by fad or fancy’: Depictions and Fictions of Connoisseuses and Femmes Savantes in Eighteenth-Century Paris”, in Beatrijs Vanacker, Lieke van Deinsen, editors, Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe, Leuven: Leuven University Press, →ISBN, part II (Types and Models of Female Intellectual Authority), page 187:
coordinate_terms: duc
glosses: A French duchess.
examples: text: One morning, during my first week at school, I sneaked into Mum and Dad's bedroom, opened the top drawer of the duchesse, where the coins ‘brought back from the war’ were kept, and helped myself to a handful.
ref: 1982, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 22:
glosses: A type of dressing table with a swing glass.
glosses: Ellipsis of duchesse lace.
Related terms: grande-duchesse
duchesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /duːˈʃɛs/
Forms: form: duchesses
Senses: examples: text: For the ſaid Lord of Chaumont, went himſelfe peaceably through the countrie with a good band of men to Rouure, from whence he led the Ducheſſe of Sauoy and all hir traine to the next place of the Kings dominions. Before the diſpatch of the Ducheſſes laſt meſſenger, the King was departed from Lions[…]
ref: 1601, Thomas Danett, transl., The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton, London: […] Ar. Hatfield, for I. Norton, page 147:
text: The Lord of Ragny carryed her in the place of Diana Ducheſſe of Angouleſme, who repreſented the Infanta Iſabella Clara Eugenia, Archducheſſe of Auſtria, being followed by the daughters of Rohan, Montmorencie, and Mayenne, who were Virgins, and the Ducheſſes of Rohan, Suilly, and others.
ref: 1611, Ed[ward] Grimeston, A Generall Historie of France, Written by Iohn de Serres vnto the Yeare .1598. Much Augmented and Continued vnto This Present, out of the Most Approoued Authors That Haue Written of that Subiect., […] George Eld, page 1220:
text: The people departed, and the Duke and Ducheſſe returned, and Don Quixote with them to the Caſtle, Toſilos was ſhut vp, Donna Rodriguez and her daughter were moſt happy, to ſee that one way or other, that buſineſſe ſhould end in marriage, and Toſilos hoped no leſſe. CHAP. LVII. How Don Quixote tooke his leaue of the Duke, and what befell him with the witty wanton Altiſidora, the Ducheſſes Damozell.
ref: 1620, The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant, Don Quixote of the Mançha, London: […] Edward Blount, translation of original by Michael Ceruantes, pages 380–381:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of duchess.
facets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facet
facets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of facet
faceting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facetting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of facet
faceting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facetings
form: facetting
Senses: examples: the facetings of the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron
glosses: An arrangement into facets.
faceted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faceted
form: most faceted
form: facetted
Senses: glosses: Having facets.
Derived terms: bifaceted
facetedness
geofaceted
many-faceted
multifaceted
trifaceted
unfaceted
faceted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: facetted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of facet
multifaceted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multifaceted
form: most multifaceted
form: multi-faceted
Etymology: From multi- + facet + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The diamond had a multifaceted cut.
glosses: Having multiple facets or (geometric) faces.
examples: text: Joanne was a multifaceted individual; she knew how to bargain both with Wall Street brokers and push-cart vendors.
text: “Gossip” is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip’s role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch’s enterprises in particular.
ref: 2021 August 20, Brian Lowry, “‘Gossip’ charts how tabloid tattlers ‘escaped from their cages’ and rippled through the media”, in CNN:
glosses: Having many aspects; nuanced or diverse.
Derived terms: multifacetedly
multifacetedness
emeralds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emerald
ruining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruin
ruining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruinings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is ruined.
varicose veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varicose vein