cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unconsidering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconsidering
form: most unconsidering
Etymology: From un- + considering.
Senses: examples: text: In all these he paints only the one woman, of concentrated, unconsidering passion, ready to sacrifice heaven and defy hell for a guilty man, beloved in spite of religion or reason.
ref: 1870, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lady Byron Vindicated:
glosses: Without consideration; mindless.
unconstant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconstant
form: most unconstant
Etymology: From un- + constant.
Senses: examples: text: Within, was the peace as of innocence, reckless blindless, deluding joy, hope, whose still anchor rested on placid but unconstant water.
ref: 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man:
glosses: inconstant
unconstraint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + constraint.
Senses: examples: text: It is calculated to inspire unconstraint and confidence into every breast.
ref: 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets:
text: Nothing gives such an air of grace and elegance and unconstraint to a German or an English conversation as to scatter it full of "Also's" or "You knows."
ref: 1878, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), A Tramp Abroad:
glosses: Freedom from constraint.
uncontending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontending
form: most uncontending
Etymology: From un- + contending.
Senses: examples: text: In him I see a strong human creature, contending with all hardship: in you also a human creature, uncontending, and possibly not strong.
ref: 1885, John Ruskin, On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2):
text: His judgment was penetrating and manly, totally unmixed with imbecility and confusion, while at the same time there was such an uncontending frankness in his countenance, that a superficial observer would have supposed he must have been the prey of the first plausible knavery that was practised against him.
ref: 1903, William Godwin, Caleb Williams:
glosses: Not contending.
uncontrovertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontrovertible
form: most uncontrovertible
Etymology: From un- + controvertible.
Senses: examples: text: For when I recollect, singly, the particular positions upon which his opinion seems to be founded, I do not find them by any means uncontrovertible; some of them seem at best uncertain, and some evidently mistaken.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol. 11.:
text: Nothing that any German can ever say or write will efface from the memory of the world the uncontrovertible fact that your Chancellor officially admitted your country's guilt in this matter.
ref: 1917, Douglas W. Johnson, Plain Words From America:
glosses: incontrovertible
unconventionalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unconventional + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unconventional.
unconvertible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconvertible
form: most unconvertible
Etymology: From un- + convertible.
Senses: examples: text: I can only recommend you to read again Darwin's account of the horse family and its comparison with pigeons; and if that does not convince and stagger you, then you are unconvertible.
ref: 1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 (of 2):
text: If the situation created by the War has transformed also the English circulation into unconvertible paper money, this is merely a passing fact.
ref: 1922, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Peaceless Europe:
text: Of the 196 broad-gauge locomotives in service on the Great Western Railway at the end of 1891, sixty-nine were unconvertible to the standard gauge, and were withdrawn from service when Brunel's 7 ft. gauge was finally abolished nearly five months later.
ref: 1955 August, “The Why and the Wherefore: Last Broad-Gauge Engines at Work”, in Railway Magazine, page 586:
glosses: That cannot be converted.
uncontrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontrite
form: most uncontrite
Etymology: From un- + contrite.
Senses: examples: text: Merle gazed with horror upon the apparently uncontrite fratricide.
ref: 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:
text: Though largely uncontrite, parson Samuel Parris, a driving force behind the witch hunt, did receive some punishment when the town, cash-strapped and feeling a little used, decided not to pay his salary.
ref: 2007 June 15, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not contrite.
undeception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undeceptions
Etymology: From un- + deception.
Senses: examples: text: He was constantly thinking that he knew everything or could imagine everything, and constantly undergoing the shock of undeception; but the shock of the Longchamps Sunday was excessive.
ref: 1916, Arnold Bennett, The Roll-Call:
text: If any had flattered themselves that with the death of Huss the Reformation in Bohemia had also received its death-blow, they had not long to wait for a painful undeception.
ref: 1878, Richard Chenevix Trench, Lectures on Medieval Church History:
glosses: The point of being undeceived or freed from a misconception.
undecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + decked.
Senses: examples: text: The vessels, which were fitted out entirely for coasting voyages, were large, undecked, the seams fastened with cords made of the cocoa fibres, and the timbers in the same manner.
ref: 1824, William Stevenson, Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18:
glosses: Having no deck.
examples: text: undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: unembellished
word: unornamented
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
glosses: unadorned
undesignedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From undesigned + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “[…] Since that time, I have written to her many letters, but never could obtain an answer, which I must own sits somewhat the heavier, as she herself was, though undesignedly, the occasion of all my sufferings […]”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
text: “He opened his whole heart to me yesterday as we travelled. It came out quite unawares, quite undesignedly. […]”
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 45, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: But we cannot close our remarks upon the apprenticeship system without noticing one good end which it has undesignedly accomplished, i.e., the illustration of the good disposition of the colored people.
ref: 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
text: Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more completely, though undesignedly, colored by their personal feelings.
ref: 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII:
glosses: In a way that was not designed; as an unexpected consequence; unintentionally.
undissimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undissimulated
form: most undissimulated
Etymology: From un- + dissimulated.
Senses: examples: text: He obeyed tractably enough, only turned toward her now and gazed at her with undissimulated intensity; not, though, as if speculating who she might be, rather as if wondering whether she were really there. "
ref: 1920, Henry Kitchell Webster, Mary Wollaston:
text: And the women, as they listened to his tale, applauded the departure with undissimulated pleasure.
ref: 1921, Vicente Blasco Iba, The Torrent:
glosses: Not dissimulated; genuine, honest.
unsincere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsincere
form: most unsincere
Etymology: From un- + sincere.
Senses: glosses: insincere
undistinguishably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undistinguishably
form: most undistinguishably
Etymology: From undistinguishable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Directly he heard other voices of alarm undistinguishably commingled, and then they retreated together, and all again was still.
ref: 1855, Herman Melville, Israel Potter:
text: For it seemed flatly impossible that different people should look exactly and undistinguishably alike.
ref: 1905, Oliver Elton, The Danish History, Books I-IX:
glosses: In a way that cannot be distinguished.
undeteriorated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undeteriorated
form: most undeteriorated
Etymology: From un- + deteriorated.
Senses: examples: text: By this improvement the water flows with all its properties undeteriorated, retaining from source to outlet its original purity and strength.
ref: 1872, R. F. Dearborn, Saratoga and How to See It:
text: Everything was just as it had been left, the petrol-tank partly filled and apparently undeteriorated.
ref: 1914-1917, Sir Ernest Shackleton, South!:
glosses: Not deteriorated.
unhasping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhasp
unhasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhasp
unhasps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhasp
unhumanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhumanly
form: most unhumanly
Etymology: From unhuman + -ly or un- + humanly.
Senses: examples: text: MacDonald was tall; some trick of the night made him appear almost unhumanly tall as he stood in the centre of that tiny moonlit amphitheatre.
ref: 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman:
text: A grim meaning rose in the vacuous eye of Lovel; Isaacs caressed his diamond pin, smiling in a sickly fashion; McNamara's wandering stare fixed and grew unhumanly bright; Ufert openly dropped his hand on his gun-butt and stood sullenly defiant.
ref: 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!:
glosses: In an unhuman manner.
unhumanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unhumanizes
form: unhumanizing
form: unhumanized
form: unhumanized
Etymology: From un- + humanize.
Senses: examples: text: Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize one individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. He destroys the foundations.
ref: 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:
text: If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.
ref: 1908, John Ruskin, Selections From the Works of John Ruskin:
glosses: To strip of humanity; to dehumanize.
unhumanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhumanize
unhumanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhumanize
unhumanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhumanize
unilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + lineal.
Senses: qualifier: genealogy
glosses: Of or pertaining to one side of a family.
glosses: Synonym of unilinear.
synonyms: word: unilinear
Derived terms: unilineal evolution
Related terms: unilineality
unilineally
ambilineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæmbɪˈlɪniəl/
Etymology: From ambi- + lineal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to both sides of a family.
Related terms: ambilineality
ambilineally
unhelm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛlm
Forms: form: unhelms
form: unhelming
form: unhelmed
form: unhelmed
Etymology: From un- + helm.
Senses: glosses: To remove the helm from.
unhelms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhelm
unhelmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhelm
unhelmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not helmed; not wearing a helm.
unhelming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhelm
uniforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uniform
ungarnered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + garnered.
Senses: examples: text: It fortunately was not in the power of the Boer Government to carry off this as yet ungarnered treasure, or it would certainly have shared the fate of the cart-loads of gold in bar and coin with which President Kruger decamped from Pretoria; but it is beyond all controversy that many of that Government's officials favoured the proposal to wreck, as far as dynamite could, both the machinery and mines in mere wanton revenge on the hated Outlanders that mainly owned them.
ref: 1902, Edward P. Lowry, With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back:
text: As Symonds wrote, "The romantic art of the modern world did not spring like that of Greece from an ungarnered field of flowers.
ref: 1905, John Dover Wilson, John Lyly:
text: The lissom birch thrives ungarnered in the thicket, where grace and gentleness supply the whilom vigor of its sway.
ref: 1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals:
glosses: Not garnered.
unfaith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfaiths
Etymology: From un- + faith.
Senses: examples: text: The true religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other.
ref: 1893, Richard Falckenberg, History Of Modern Philosophy:
text: But schooling and native shrewdness had raised up in the younger men an unfaith in old usages, so judgment halted between sentence and execution.
ref: 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:
text: Remember old years and do not break your oath with me, Jehane, since God abhors nothing so much as unfaith.
ref: 1921, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry:
glosses: Absence of faith.
unfoldment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfoldments
Etymology: From unfold + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Even the diverse elements, the minute side-studies and the profuse comments, are all woven into the organic structure, and are essential to the unfoldment of the plot.
ref: 1884, George Willis Cooke, George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy:
text: Under the watchful care of Martha she flourished and was happy, her mother in little, a laughing whirlwind of tender flesh, tireless feet, dancing eyes, hair of sunlight that was darkening as she grew older, and a mind that seemed to him she called father a miracle of unfoldment.
ref: 1903, Harry Leon Wilson, The Lions of the Lord:
text: Every man has to become a perfect man, to unfold to the fullest degree the divine possibilities which lie latent within him, for that unfoldment is the object of the entire scheme so far as he is concerned.
ref: 1912, C.W. Leadbeater, A Textbook of Theosophy:
text: It is that the phenomenon proceeds from, and is a necessary accompaniment of, the growth of human Consciousness itself - its growth, namely, through the three great stages of its unfoldment.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 16:
text: In Vedic cosmology, as well as in the cosmology of the Dogon of West Africa, the universe is an egg that shatters as it expands to begin its career of unfoldment in time.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 9:
glosses: unfolding
unfoldments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfoldment
unmatchably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmatchably
form: most unmatchably
Etymology: From unmatchable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The supermarket's unmatchably low prices were accompanied by a deliberate decline in quality.
glosses: In a way that cannot be matched.
uneffaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneffaceable
form: most uneffaceable
Etymology: From un- + effaceable.
Senses: examples: text: How could the events of a few hours wear such deep and uneffaceable channels in human lives?
ref: 1873, Julian Hawthorne, Bressant:
text: The emotion remains uneffaceable after more than threescore years, one of the most vivid of my life.
ref: 1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I:
text: The secondary personages in Richardson's "Clarissa" grow somewhat faint in our memories; but the figures of his heroine and of Lovelace remain not only uneffaceable but undimmed by time.
ref: 1904, Edward Dowden, Robert Browning:
glosses: Impossible to efface; permanent.
show one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's hand
form: showing one's hand
form: showed one's hand
form: shown one's hand
form: showed one's hand
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of show one's cards.
let-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: let-ups
Etymology: Deverbal from let up.
Senses: examples: text: It rained for a week with no let-up.
text: There's no let-up in the ship-bound sector.
ref: 2022 January 26, Tom Allett, “A gateway to freight growth”, in RAIL, number 949, page 48:
glosses: Alternative form of letup.
unhead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unheads
form: unheading
form: unheaded
form: unheaded
Etymology: From un- + head.
Senses: glosses: To remove the lid from (a barrel or cask).
unheads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhead
unheading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhead
unheading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an unheading cabbage
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Failing to form a head.
unheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhead
unheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: an unheaded nail
text: a letter on unheaded notepaper
synonyms: headless
glosses: Not headed.
raw_tags: of stationery or hardware
Related terms: beheaded
deheaded
undreading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dreading.
Senses: examples: text: Calmly bright, all ills undreading, Emma wander'd by my side.
ref: 1913, George Borrow, Romantic Ballads:
text: With sparing temperance, at the needful time, / They drain the sainted spring, or, hunger-pressed, / Along th' Atlantic rock undreading climb, / And of its eggs despoil the solan's nest.
ref: 1918, Selected and Edited with an Introduction by Ernest Bernbaum, English Poets of the Eighteenth Century:
glosses: Not dreading; without fear.
jawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈwɑːn/
Forms: form: jawans
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *h₂yéwHō
Proto-Indo-Iranian *HyúHā
Proto-Iranian *HyúHā
Classical Persian جَوَان (jawān)bor.
Hindi जवान (javān)bor.
English jawan
Borrowed from Hindustani جوان (jvān) / जवान (javān), from Classical Persian جوان (jawān, “young, a youth”).
Senses: examples: text: In any event we soon had the Army jawan sent by the Major with us in the boat and headed for shore.
ref: 1992, Satyindra Singh, Blueprint to Bluewater: The Indian Navy, 1951-65, page 402:
text: He obviously expected one of the senior army officials to walk over and talk to the jawan.
ref: 1999, R. D. Pradhan, Debacle to Revival: Y.B. Chavan as Defence Minister, 1962-65, page 44:
text: They could now see a whole lot of army jawans in gum boots looking for something in the mud.
ref: 2011, Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee, translation of original by Arupa Patangia Kalita:
glosses: An infantryman; a soldier.
jawan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈwɑːn/
Etymology: From Arabic جَوَان (jawān), plural of جِنّ (jinn).
Senses: glosses: plural of jinn
unmystical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmystical
form: most unmystical
Etymology: From un- + mystical.
Senses: examples: text: It was the kind of atmosphere suggesting Nature in her most sensible mood, full-blooded, normal, perfectly fulfilling her own vocation; utterly unmystical, except by very subtle interpretation; unsuggestive, since she was already saying all that could be said, and following out every principle by which she lived to the furthest confine of its contents.
ref: 1909, Robert Hugh Benson, The Necromancers:
text: With all his attention bent in this new direction, Darwin soon noticed that a good deal was occurring in an entirely unmystical and even unmeaning way of which the older speculative Deist-Evolutionists had taken little or no account.
ref: 1921, George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah:
glosses: Not mystical.
unmystified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmystified
form: most unmystified
Etymology: From un- + mystified.
Senses: examples: text: The plain import of the clause, unmystified by the commentators, is, that believing masters would not fail to do their part towards, or encourage by suitable returns, the free service of those who had once been under the yoke."
ref: 1838, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4:
text: The ruins (the fragments of one or two prostrate pillars) lie upon a promontory, bare and unmystified by the gloom of surrounding groves.
ref: 1844, A. W. Kinglake, Eothen:
glosses: Not mystified.
unnail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unnails
form: unnailing
form: unnailed
form: unnailed
Etymology: From un- + nail.
Senses: glosses: To remove the nails from.
unnailed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unnail
unnailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not fastened with a nail or nails.
unnailing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unnail
unnails
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unnail
cartop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cartops
form: cartopping
form: cartopped
form: cartopped
Etymology: From car + top.
Senses: glosses: To attach (a boat) to the roof of an automobile for transportation.
Derived terms: cartoppable
cartopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cartop
cartops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cartop
cartopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cartop
cartoppable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cartoppable
form: most cartoppable
Etymology: From cartop + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That company, Sears Roebuck, brought out its 12-foot, cartoppable Gamefisher in 1968.
ref: 1972 August, Field and Stream, volume 77, number 4, page 126:
glosses: Suitable for being cartopped.
raw_tags: of a boat
jawans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jawan
anchals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anchal
unaffectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaffectable
form: most unaffectable
Etymology: From un- + affectable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be affected.
unorganizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unorganizable
form: most unorganizable
Etymology: From un- + organizable.
Senses: examples: text: But ideas and sentiments of alien kinds, or unorganizable kinds, were, if not rejected, yet accepted with indifference, and soon dropped away."
ref: 1911, William James, Memories and Studies:
text: Excluding employers, the salaried group, agricultural and clerical workers, persons engaged in personal or domestic service, and those below twenty years of age (unorganizable workers), the organizable total was 11,490,944.
ref: 1922, Selig Perlman, A History of Trade Unionism in the United States:
text: A decade ago, most union leaders saw such immigrants as passive, frightened and unorganizable.
ref: 2001 February 2, Harold Henderson, “City File”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: That cannot be organized.
affectible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affectible
form: most affectible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of affectable.
unoperated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + operated.
Senses: examples: text: In six unoperated animals, the ratio varied from 0.59 to 0.83 (mean ± SEM = 0.74 ± 0.02) (Fig. 2 B).
ref: 1998 April 17, Jiuyong Xie, David P. McCobb, “Control of Alternative Splicing of Potassium Channels by Stress Hormones”, in Science, volume 280, number 5362, →DOI, pages 443–446:
text: After diamidino yellow (DY) was injected in anteroventral portions of unilateral inferotemporal cortex, no labeled neurons were detected in the contralateral homotopic areas in the posterior-split preparation (Fig. 2 E), in marked contrast to the unoperated control (Fig. 2 F).
ref: 1998 August 7, Isao Hasegawa et al., “Callosal Window Between Prefrontal Cortices: Cognitive Interaction to Retrieve Long-Term Memory”, in Science, volume 281, number 5378, →DOI, pages 814–818:
glosses: Upon which no operation has been performed.
unobserving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobserving
form: most unobserving
Etymology: From un- + observing.
Senses: examples: text: It was full of heartbreak, and Katy was too unobserving to notice how round and steady and commercial the penmanship was, and how large and fine were the flourishes.
ref: 1888, Edward Eggleston, The Mystery of Metropolisville:
text: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Then she looked at Chase and winked, with a meaning nod at the unobserving Deppingham.
ref: 1908, George Barr McCutcheon, The Man From Brodney's:
glosses: Failing to observe something; unobservant.
put one's cards on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's cards on the table
form: putting one's cards on the table
form: put one's cards on the table
form: put one's cards on the table
form: lay one's cards on the table
form: place one's cards on the table
form: put it all on the table
form: put it on the table
Senses: examples: text: "We needn't either of us," she continued, "be concerned for the other's reasons, though I'm perfectly ready, I assure you, to put my cards on the table."
ref: 1899, Henry James, chapter 4, in The Awkward Age:
text: I thought the time had come for me to put my cards on the table. I saw by this man's eye that he was the kind you can trust.
ref: 1915, John Buchan, chapter 4, in The Thirty-Nine Steps:
text: "Let's put our cards on the table. We think you're the man the police are looking for—the one described in the papers."
ref: 1921, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 10, in Tangled Trails:
text: Although Sharon has never put all his cards on the table, he's given plenty of indicators that in his vision, a Palestinian state comprises the 40-50 percent of the West Bank currently under PA jurisdiction.
ref: 2003 May 27, Tony Karon, “Mideast: Can Bush Deliver?”, in Time:
glosses: To reveal one's true intentions, beliefs, feelings, or other previously concealed facts about one's situation; to speak frankly.
Synonyms: show one's cards
show one's hand
lay one's cards on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays one's cards on the table
form: laying one's cards on the table
form: laid one's cards on the table
form: laid one's cards on the table
Senses: examples: text: "You may as well lay your cards on the table. Where is she—what have you done with her?"
ref: 1915, Arthur B. Reeve, chapter 22, in The Gold of the Gods:
glosses: Alternative form of put one's cards on the table.
place one's cards on the table
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: places one's cards on the table
form: placing one's cards on the table
form: placed one's cards on the table
form: placed one's cards on the table
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of put one's cards on the table.
unobliterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + obliterated.
Senses: examples: text: He re-entered the Place of the Capitol--he stood by the staircase of the Lion; there was a red stain upon the pavement, unobliterated since Montreal's execution, and the Senator drew himself aside with an inward shudder.
ref: 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:
text: It should be noticed however that he too distinctly says that Joseph was of the tribe of Judah (Dial. 78) and that his family came from Bethlehem, which looks very much like an unobliterated trace of the same inconsistency.
ref: 1876, William Sanday, The Gospels in the Second Century:
text: These embossed books, unobliterated by the tears and laughter of Time, Are signed with the vital hands of undaunted men.
ref: 1910, Helen Keller, The Song of the Stone Wall:
glosses: Not obliterated.
encludes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enclude
unobeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + obeyed.
Senses: examples: text: Duty, honour, love, self-sacrifice--these are the fruits of The Spirit; unknown to, and unobeyed by, the savage, or by the civilized man who--as has too often happened--as is happening now in too many lands, on both sides of the Atlantic, is sinking back into inward savagery, amid an outward and material civilization.
ref: 1881, Charles Kingsley, Westminster Sermons:
text: Sylvia looked at the tall, dingy houses, the frowzy little shops, the swarms of dirty-nosed children, shrill-voiced, with matted hair, running and whooping in the street, at the slatternly women yelling unobeyed orders to them out of half-glimpsed, cheerless interiors, smelling of cabbage and dishwater.
ref: 1915, Dorothy Canfield, The Bent Twig:
text: […]the genius of the poet who knows and states, who has lived years of loneliness and failure, who has seen others grow rich, notable, and powerful, and who has remained obscure and unobeyed, with nothing but a vision which has become lightning at last in a supreme moment of inspiration.
ref: 1922, Edgar Lee Masters, Children of the Market Place:
glosses: Not obeyed.
entelligent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entelligent
form: most entelligent
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of intelligent.
unnoting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unnoting
form: most unnoting
Etymology: From un- + noting.
Senses: examples: text: The glance was politely unnoting, but in it there yet lurked, far back, the unmistakable quality of a caress.
ref: 1905, Harry Leon Wilson, The Boss of Little Arcady:
text: Rain-laden mists swept down upon her from the heights, and she walked through them unnoting; the pale light from the eastern sky shone on an aspect introverted, rapt away from knowledge of its surroundings.
ref: 1910, Grace MacGowan Cooke, The Power and the Glory:
text: It seemed drearily suggestive, the last journey of this humble mortality, in all the splendid environment of the mountains, under the vast expansions of the aloof skies, in the mystic light of the unnoting moon.
ref: 1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (aka Mary Noailles Murfree), His Unquiet Ghost:
glosses: Not noting; failing to pay attention or observe.
unnoticing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + noticing.
Senses: examples: text: At the appointed hour Turner came and found me in an earnest study of the pictures in the farther end of the gallery, where I remained, unnoticing and unnoticed, until a sign from Griffiths called me up.
ref: 1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I:
text: He was hoping against all common sense that the young Prescotts had not seen his mishap, or at least that they would pass on above him unnoticing.
ref: 1911, Margaret Burnham, The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise:
text: Pallid, shaking, panting for every breath he drew, he was slipping out of the unnoticing crowd when Cap'n Jim Trainor of the lifeboat crew called to him.
ref: 1917, James A. Cooper, Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper:
glosses: Not noticing.
Related terms: unnoticed
unnotice
unneedful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unneedful
form: most unneedful
Etymology: From Middle English unnedeful; equivalent to un- + needful.
Senses: examples: text: At this, the men nearest unto the door came backwards in a surge, being put in sudden fear by reason of the Thing being so near; but the bo'sun held up a hand, bidding them, in a low voice, to make no unneedful noise.
ref: 1907, William Hope Hodgson, The Boats of the "Glen Carrig":
text: Again the donkey began to puff and quiver, the line began to roll up on the drum, and the big yarder walked up the slope under its own power, a locomotive unneedful of rails, making its own right of way.
ref: 1916, Bertrand W. Sinclair, Big Timber:
glosses: Not needful.
entention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ententions
Senses: examples: text: Jacob Fowle entered his Entention of marriage with Phebe Osgood Feb 4 1738
ref: The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records, Lancaster Massachusetts 1643 — 1850
glosses: Obsolete form of intention.
examples: text: ...when referring to all such phenomena in general, I will use entention to characterize their internal relationship to a telos — an end, or otherwise displaced and thus non-present something, or possible something.
...at the very moment this lion popped into existence, before even one beat of its heart, at that instant these tendencies were present and the entention was present as well, if these processes are poised to begin and proceed in a way that preserves the whole lion.
ref: Terrence W. Deacon in Incomplete Nature 2012
glosses: Reference to something not necessarily present; as a book might discuss mathematics without presenting any mathematics in the text, or a tool might be manufactured for dealing with objects not present at the time of manufacture; DNA encodes information for dealing with processes that are not underway at its formation.
Related terms: ententional
unnational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more unnational
form: most unnational
Etymology: From un- + national.
Senses: examples: text: It was not, then, to be wondered at, that the inhabitants of these distant provinces, who, only a year before, had welcomed me as their liberator from Portuguese oppression, and as the representative of constitutional authority, should now be dissatisfied with what they rightly considered an unnational system of government--preferring to submit to a bad government of their own choosing rather than to one thus arbitrarily imposed upon them.
ref: 1859, Thomas Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil,:
text: It is impossible to suppose that a State of Russia's power and antecedents would tolerate a privileged community (of, to Russia, unnational complexion) within the body of the Empire.
ref: 1905, Joseph Conrad, Notes on Life and Letters:
text: Even the second project, which was unled, uninspired, unnational, and almost unconscious, and which began and continued as though in obedience to some irresistible and unchangeable natural and economic law, assumed different shapes and semblances, as it blended or refused to blend with the patriotic projects of the idealists.
ref: 1920, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead, The Story of Newfoundland:
glosses: Not national; going against a nation or its policies.
enterest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From enter + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of enter
enterest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterests
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interest.
enterest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enterests
form: enteresting
form: enterested
form: enterested
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of interest.
thrilleresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thrilleresque
form: most thrilleresque
Etymology: From thriller + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: The thrilleresque details of intrigue that get Vadim there are funny, and his conversation afterwards, in the Paris airport, with a Soviet spy who has shadowed him all the way, is hilarious[…]
ref: 1975, John Updike, Picked-up pieces:
text: An obvious evocation of the film's thrilleresque credentials, the image also establishes a direct link with the literary source of one of the narrative strands of the movie[…]
ref: 2011, María del Mar Azcona, The Multi-Protagonist Film:
glosses: Reminiscent of a thriller.
multifilm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + film.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one film.
multinarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + narrative.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one narrative.
unsealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sealable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be sealed.
unmurmuringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmurmuringly
form: most unmurmuringly
Etymology: From unmurmuring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Julien, his nephew, too, had loved; but his cousin's love was given to his brother, and he departed, unmurmuringly indeed, but he dared not yet trust himself to associate calmly with the object of his love: he had ever been a peculiarly sad and silent boy; the fate of his father never for an instant seemed to leave his mind, and he had secretly vowed to avenge him.
ref: 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars:
text: He coveted the popular applause as little as he had dreaded the popular opposition; and the evening's painful experiences had taught him anew the bitter lesson to expect no gratitude, and hope for no reward, but simply, and contentedly, and unmurmuringly, to work on in God's vineyard so long as life and health should last.
ref: 1902, Frederic William Farrar, Eric:
text: When the sky cleared it was discovered that from indispensable fellow-workers they had shrunk to dwarfish protegees, mere units of an inferior category, who were to be told what to do and would be constrained to do it thoroughly if not unmurmuringly.
ref: 1920, Emile Joseph Dillon, The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference:
glosses: Without protest or complaint.
unlineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lineal.
Senses: examples: text: What proof that some unlineal hand, some barbarism, without or within, shall not wrench the sceptre of democracy from our grasp?
ref: 1919, Calvin Coolidge, Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed.:
glosses: Not lineal; not of a family line.
unpatronized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + patronized.
Senses: examples: text: He now found one of his most frequent visitants accusing him of treason, in hopes of sharing his confiscation; yet, unpatronized and unsupported, he cleared himself by the openness of innocence, and the consistence of truth; he was dismissed with honour, and his accuser perished in prison.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes:
text: The policy of freeing the country from the restrictive tariff will so variegate and multiply the undertakings in the country that there will be a wider market and a greater competition for labor; it will let the sun shine through the clouds again as once it shone on the free, independent, unpatronized intelligence and energy of a great people.
ref: 1913, Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom:
glosses: Not patronized.
entroduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entroductions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of introduction.
unpatronised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unpatronized.
unpenetrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + penetrated.
Senses: examples: text: Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle with innumerable wolves, and did not entirely forbear strong liquor, rioting, and even theft; whom, notwithstanding, the peaceful Sower will follow, and, as he cuts the boundless harvest, bless."
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:
text: Both in Central America and in Orinoco there yet are many unpenetrated forests which are almost entirely composed of wild cacao-trees.
ref: 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:
text: "We asked him to explain more precisely the situation of this fountain, and he said: 'You are doubtless aware that perpetual darkness surrounds the pole unpenetrated by any ray of light till God permits.
ref: 1910, Claud Field, Mystics and Saints of Islam:
glosses: Not penetrated.
unpathwayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pathwayed.
Senses: examples: text: 1791-1792, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
Where, by the unpathwayed margin, still and dread, / Was never heard the plodding peasant's tread.
text: across the unpathwayed seas
ref: a. 1891, James Russell Lowell, A Voyage to Vinland:
glosses: Without a path.
unpermissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpermissible
form: most unpermissible
Etymology: From un- + permissible.
Senses: examples: text: For this was unpermissible, foolish, dangerous, and he meant to stop it in the bud.
ref: 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo:
text: For not only did he find it piteous; but unseemly, unpermissible somehow, yet marvellously sweet, startling him out of all preconceived light diplomatic plans, plucking shrewdly at his complacently unawakened heart.
ref: 1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard:
glosses: Not permissible.
unperishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperishable
form: most unperishable
Etymology: From un- + perishable.
Senses: examples: text: This venerable Person is represented looking forward as it were from the Verge of extreme Old Age, into a future State, and rising into a Contemplation on the unperishable Part of his Nature, and its Existence after Death.
ref: 1891, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3:
text: The perishable goods were placed in the large warehouses but the unperishable were covered with tarpaulin and left where unloaded.
ref: 1912, Charles E Young, Dangers of the Trail in 1865:
glosses: Not perishable.
unperishable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unperishables
Etymology: From un- + perishable.
Senses: glosses: A food or other substance that is not perishable.
enspect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enspects
form: enspecting
form: enspected
form: enspected
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inspect.
unpassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + passed.
Senses: examples: text: The whole company kneeled on the shore and kissed the ground for joy, returning God thanks for the great mercy they had experienced during their long voyage through seas hitherto unpassed, and their now happy discovery of an unknown land.
ref: 1824, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III.:
text: In 1870, Forster, author of the still unpassed bill, wrote that while the parsons were disputing, the children of the poor were "growing into savages."
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, The Profits of Religion […] :
glosses: Not passed (in various senses).
unpatriotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + patriotism.
Senses: examples: text: [1839-1840] Owing to the vagaries and unpatriotism of the Garrisonians, there was from 1840 schism in the abolition ranks.
ref: 1896, E. Benjamin Andrews, History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6):
text: Haynes suggested that Philip's behaviour savoured of unpatriotism, and that the one thing needful was the immediate appointment of a caterpillar controller.
ref: 1917, Various, Punch, July 18, 1917:
text: The human being is born with no innate proclivity to crime or special kind of unpatriotism.
ref: 1919, Cornelia Stratton Parker, An American Idyll:
glosses: Unpatriotic beliefs or behaviour.
enspection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inspection.
unpensioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pensioned.
Senses: glosses: Not given a pension.
penalizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penalizable
form: most penalizable
Etymology: From penalize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being penalized.
Derived terms: unpenalizable
unpared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pared.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum,--trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats.
ref: 1859, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859:
text: If unpared, wash and wipe each one to rub off the wool.
ref: 1903, Helen Campbell, The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking:
glosses: Not pared.
unpent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpent
form: most unpent
Etymology: From un- + pent. Compare Old English onpennad (“unpent, open”).
Senses: examples: text: Not with the rage with which this whirlwind blows, Joust warring winds, north, south, and east, unpent.
ref: 1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso:
text: And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the sky—the sky, not such a disc as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating...
ref: 1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories:
glosses: Not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.
unkindliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English wnkyndlynes (“unnatural hostility or wickedness”); equivalent to unkindly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Lord Walderhurst gazed at her through the monocle with an air he sometimes had of taking her measure without either unkindliness or particular interest.
ref: 1909, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emily Fox-Seton:
glosses: Unkindness.
examples: text: Luxury did not spoil her; and any one that saw her in the soft furs of her winter wrappings, would have said that delicate cheek and frame were never made to know the unkindliness of harsher things.
ref: 1854, Elizabeth Wetherell, Queechy, Volume I:
glosses: Unfavourableness.
glosses: Unnaturalness.
unkings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unking