cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
transmasculine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transmasculine
form: most transmasculine
Etymology: From trans- + masculine.
Senses: examples: text: Bodybuilding as a form of body modification is understood by transmasculine individuals to further enhance a desired masculine presentation.
ref: 2011, Anurag Saxena, Biomechanics in Physical Education, →ISBN:
text: I approach this issue through a focus on the role of the voice in constituting the masculine gender positionalities of trans men and others on the transmasculine identity spectrum. Transmasculine is an umbrella term referring to individuals who were assigned to a female gender role at birth but at some point come to self-identify as men, or with some other masculine identity, rather than seeing themselves as women.
ref: 2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197:
text: [...individuals for whom] “man” or “woman” may not accurately reflect identity but are nonetheless on the transmasculine or transfeminine spectrum. We also acknowledge the limitations of language in reflecting agender clients who do not identify as masculine or feminine ...
ref: 2017, Michael R. Kauth, Jillian C. Shipherd, Adult Transgender Care: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Training Mental Health Professionals, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: For transmasculine individuals, it has been commonly assumed that voice and communication training is not warranted, because testosterone administration, which many undergo for gender dysphoria, is often sufficient for masculine voice [development].
ref: 2018, Richard K. Adler, Sandy Hirsch, Jack Pickering, Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Gender Diverse Client: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide, Third Edition, Plural Publishing, →ISBN, page 141:
glosses: Pertaining to people who were assigned female but whose gender identities are masculine.
Coordinate terms: transfeminine
Related terms: transmasculinity
trans man
female-to-male
FTM
infortunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infortune
cismasculine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cismasculine
form: most cismasculine
Etymology: From cis- + masculine.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to male cisgender people or experiences.
Coordinate terms: transmasculine
defailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defailments
Etymology: From French défaillement.
Senses: examples: text: True it is Argall lost his voyage, but we revictualled him, and sent him for England, with a true relation of the causes of our defailments [...].
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 120:
glosses: Failure.
defailments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of defailment
Roman holiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman holidays
Etymology: From the gladiatorial contests of Ancient Rome.
Senses: examples: text: Two guys swung at each other's legs with whips, skipping into the air. Such Roman holiday high jinks were not reassuring to me.
ref: 1958, Saul Bellow, Henderson the Rain King:
glosses: A form of public entertainment characterized by violence, degradation and suffering.
wavicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavicle
wavicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪvɪk(ə)l/
Forms: form: wavicles
form: waveicle
Etymology: Blend of wave + particle.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A wave-particle; an entity which simultaneously has the properties of a wave and a particle.
Related terms: de Broglie wavelength
matter wave
wave-particle duality
Vesak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Visakha
form: Wesak
Etymology: From Sinhalese වෙසක් (wesak).
Senses: examples: text: Vesak or Visakha is a spring celebration that commemorates Buddha's birth, enlightenment, death, and passing into nirvana. It is the most important Buddhist holiday in Asia, although its observance varies according to national tradition. […]At Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles for example, Vesak extends over a weekend and draws hundreds of people.
ref: 2012, Richard Hughes Seager, Buddhism in America, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 167:
synonyms: Buddha Day
glosses: A Buddhist holiday celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and passing of the Buddha.
undereducation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + education.
Senses: glosses: The state of being undereducated or the practice of undereducating.
overeducation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-education
Etymology: From over- + education.
Senses: glosses: The state of being overeducated; the state when one feels overburdened by their education or has more education than their situation demands.
raw_tags: of a person
unbihexium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Systematic element name.
Senses: glosses: The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with atomic number 126 (symbol Ubh).
wikipedia: Systematic element name
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: unbipentium Ubp
sense: Next
word: unbiseptium Ubs
topness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From top + -ness.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum number of quarks and hadrons, determined by the number(s) of top quarks and antiquarks present. Symbol T.
Synonyms: truth
Related terms: over-the-topness
bottomness
charm
isospin
strangeness
bottomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bottom + -ness.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum number of quarks and hadrons, determined by the number(s) of bottom quarks & antiquarks present. Symbol B.
Synonyms: beauty
Related terms: bottom baryon
bottom meson
charm
isospin
strangeness
topness
exponential distributions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exponential distribution
terabuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terabucks
Etymology: From tera- + buck.
Senses: glosses: One trillion (10¹²) dollars.
Related terms: megabuck
tebibit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tebibits
Etymology: From tebi- + bit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Strictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibits, as opposed to a terabit.
Synonyms: Tibit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: gibibit
sense: Next
word: pebibit
terabit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terabits
Etymology: From tera- + bit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 gigabits.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a tebibit.
Synonyms: Tbit
Coordinate terms: sense: Previous
word: gigabit
sense: Next
word: petabit
Related terms: tebibyte
terabyte
detailed balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detailed balances
Senses: examples: P_ijπᵢ=P_jiπⱼ,
where P is the Markov transition matrix and πᵢ and πⱼ are the equilibrium probabilities of being in states i and j, respectively.
topics: mathematics
probability-theory
sciences
glosses: a Markov process is said to show detailed balance if the transition rates between each pair of states i and j in the state space obey
bandcenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandcenters
form: bandcentre
Etymology: From band + center.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the center of a spectral band
baroreflex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baroreflexes
Etymology: From baro- + reflex.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Any reflex that results from stimulation of a baroreceptor
bisolitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisoliton
bisoliton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisolitons
Etymology: From bi- + soliton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pairing of two solitons
bisolitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + solitonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bisolitons
subquark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subquarks
Etymology: From sub- + quark.
Senses: glosses: Any of several hypothetical particles construed as subcomponents of quarks (and leptons).
Synonyms: preon
prequark
centroiding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From centroid + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The calculation of the centroid of a curve.
spreon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreons
Etymology: From s- + preon.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical supersymmetric partner to the preon, in supersymmetric preon theories.
dampings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damping
elastoviscoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: elasto-viscoplastic
form: elasto-visco-plastic
Etymology: From elasto- + viscoplastic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Both elastic and viscoplastic
stelliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛˈlɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more stelliferous
form: most stelliferous
Etymology: From Latin stēlla (“star”) + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: examples: text: If it was really Pierce's attempt to leave an organized something behind after his own annihilation, then it was part of her duty, wasn't it, to bestow life on what had persisted, to try to be what Driblette was, the dark machine in the centre of the planetarium, to bring the estate into pulsing stelliferous Meaning, all in a soaring dome around her?
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: Filled with stars; starry.
glosses: With conditions that support stars.
raw_tags: of the universe
Derived terms: Stelliferous Age
Stelliferous Era
spreons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreon
hadronisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hadronisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hadronization.
heapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heap + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being formed into a heap.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That can be sequentially inserted to form a binary tree with the heap property.
quadbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadbits
Etymology: From quad- + bit.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Four bits (binary digits), half a byte; a nibble.
heapability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heap + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being heapable.
hyperoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperoxides
Etymology: From hyper- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxide that has a higher than normal ratio of oxygen to metal
Related terms: peroxide
magnetoferroelectrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + ferroelectrics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of magnetoferroelectricity
Related terms: magnetoferroelectric
magnetoferroelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + ferroelectricity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of ferroelectricity caused by the ordering of magnetic spins
Related terms: magnetoferroelectric
magnetoferroelectrics
magnetoferroelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + ferroelectric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to magnetoferroelectrics or to magnetoferroelectricity
pi meson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pi mesons
form: π meson
form: π-meson
form: pi-meson
Etymology: From pi (“π”) + meson.
Senses: examples: text: There were also particles no one had predicted that just appeared. Five of them […, i]n order of increasing modernity, […] are the neutrino, the pi meson, the antiproton, the quark and the Higgs boson.
ref: 2012 March-April, Jeremy Bernstein, “A Palette of Particles”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 146:
glosses: A pion, a type of meson
Synonyms: pion
πon
π-on
π
Hyponyms: pi-plus
pi-minus
pi-zero
metacinnabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + cinnabar.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: metacinnabarite
glosses: A isometric-hextetrahedral form of the mineral, cinnabar, containing mercury and sulfur and ranging from black to grayish white.
phenomenons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phenomenon
sparsening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act or process of becoming sparse
pi-plus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pi-pluses
Etymology: From pronunciation of its symbol π⁺.
Senses: glosses: The positive pion, composed of an up quark and an anti-down quark.
Synonyms: pi-plus meson
positive pion
Related terms: meson
pi meson
pion
sparsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: present participle of sparse
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making something sparse
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The reduction to zero of elements of a matrix
pi-minus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pi-minuses
Etymology: From pronunciation of its symbol π⁻.
Senses: glosses: The negative pion, composed of a down quark and an anti-up quark.
Synonyms: pi-minus meson
negative pion
Related terms: meson
pi meson
pion
subradiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + radiant.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or producing subradiance
sympathovagal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sympatho- + vagal.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Describing any interaction between the sympathetic nervous system and the vagus nerve
Derived terms: sympathovagal balance
tetracritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + critical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a condition, in condensed matter, in which four phases are in equilibrium
Related terms: tetracriticality
cercopithecoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cercopithecoid
penectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: penectomizes
form: penectomizing
form: penectomized
form: penectomized
Etymology: From penectomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: To remove the penis from; to perform a penectomy on.
cercopithecoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cercopithecoids
Senses: examples: text: In East Africa the first evidence of cercopithecoid diversity appeared in the Pliocene at sites such as Lothagam, East Turkana, and Laetoli where papionins were the dominant cercopithecoids.
ref: 2005, Meave G. Leakey, “3: Evolution of Theropithecus in the Turkana Basin”, in Nina G. Jablonski, editor, Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus, page 117:
text: Concerning systematics, while extinct monkeys from the early and middle Miocene of Africa are widely accepted as true cercopithecoids, there remains some discussion as to their precise phylogenetic position.
ref: 2006, Tom Gundling, Andrew Hill, “7: Geological context of fossil Cercopithecoidea from eastern Africa”, in Paul F. Whitehead, Clifford J. Jolly, editors, Old World Monkeys, page 181:
text: The latest major anthropoid radiation, and in some ways the most successful, was that of the Old World monkeys, the Cercopithecoidea. Cercopithecoids appear to have originated from early African catarrhines during the late Oligocene gap in the Old World fossil record.
ref: 2011, Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith, The Human Lineage, page 128:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any species of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea (the Old World monkeys).
ectotympanic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectotympanics
Etymology: From ecto- + tympanic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone that suspends the eardrum. (tympanum)
Synonyms: ectotympanic bone
Related terms: entotympanic
heterologus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of extinct insects of the genus †Heterologus.
Related terms: english: a different genus of insects
translation: a different genus of insects
word: Heteroligus
heterologus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of heterologous.
mesethmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛθmɔɪd
Forms: form: mesethmoids
Etymology: From meso- + ethmoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: mesethmoid bone
glosses: A bony cartilage, in the centre of the ethmoid part of the skull, that makes up most of the nasal septum.
misregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misregistrations
Etymology: From mis- + registration.
Senses: glosses: Incorrect registration (in any sense)
monomethyltransferases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomethyltransferase
monomethyltransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monomethyltransferases
Etymology: From mono- + methyltransferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any methyltransferase that transfers a single methyl group
nifurtimox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nʌɪˈfɜː.tɪ.mɒks/
ipa: /naɪˈfɝ.tɪˌmɑks/
Etymology: Probably from nifur- (“5-nitrofuran derivative”) + thi- + m(ethyl) + ox-.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nitrofuran antitrypanosomal drug administered orally in the treatment of Chagas disease; C₁₀H₁₃N₃O₅S.
proarrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proarrhythmic
form: most proarrhythmic
Etymology: From pro- + arrhythmic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That promotes cardiac arrhythmia
Related terms: proarrhythmia
progressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of progressor
progressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progressors
Etymology: From progress + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes progress, or facilitates progress in others.
propafol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A short-acting, intravenously administered hypnotic agent, 2,6-diisopropylphenol
radioimmunotargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + immuno- + targeted.
Senses: glosses: targeted during radioimmunotherapy
redifferentiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redifferentiations
Etymology: From re- + differentiation.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent differentiation after a dedifferentiation
semiallogeneic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + allogeneic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Partially allogeneic, i.e. sharing some, but not all genes.
tauroursodeoxycholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to tauroursodeoxycholic acid or its derivatives
tauroursodeoxycholic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bile acid that is a taurine derivative of ursodeoxycholic acid
Related terms: tauroursodeoxycholate
xenotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From xeno- + -tropic.
Senses: examples: text: An article published online Thursday in the journal Science reports that 68 of 101 patients with the syndrome, or 67 percent, were infected with an infectious virus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus, or XMRV. By contrast, only 3.7 percent of 218 healthy people were infected.
ref: 2009 October 9, Denise Grady, “Virus Is Found in Many With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a virus growing in tissue of an organism other than its normal host.
detribalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detribalizes
form: detribalizing
form: detribalized
form: detribalized
Etymology: From de- + tribalize.
Senses: glosses: To cause (the members of a tribe) to lose their tribal culture.
Related terms: detribalization
expectably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more expectably
form: most expectably
Etymology: From expectable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an expectable manner
flannelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flannel + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A decided improvement is, however, to substitute the flannelled mackintosh, made by Messrs Walters and Co., for the blanket.
ref: 1875 March 24, J. L. Milton, “On the Treatment of Secondary Syphilis”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 20, page 790:
text: His impressions of headmasters were for the most part taken against a background of white-flannelled boys in playing-fields or grey-flannelled boys in walled court-yards.
ref: 1918, Herbert George Wells, Joan and Peter: The Story of an Education, volume 2, page 260:
text: There was an oak-framed "Light of the World" over the bed, supplemented on the other walls with progressive personal records — eleven podgy, flannelled little boys in quartered chocolate-and-gold caps, guarded and patronized by a flannelled and whiskered master […]
ref: 1921, Stephen McKenna, The Education of Eric Lane, page 110:
text: Well, he wasn't bad-looking, he had a kind of unblinking concentration that amused her, and he was in a different class from those flannelled undergraduates, all books and bats and bicycles, who jostled for her attention: at least Hector Ramsay did something; sometimes she could even smell the engine-oil on him when he came straight from flying.
ref: 2013, Derek Robinson, Piece of Cake:
glosses: Wearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.
Derived terms: flannelled fool
unflannelled
cricket whites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The traditional clothing worn by cricketers, consisting of white trousers, shirt and optionally sweater.
Synonyms: whites
inspiredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inspiredly
form: most inspiredly
Etymology: From inspired + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inspired manner
longdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longdogs
Etymology: From long + dog.
Senses: glosses: A type of crossbreed greyhound
masoor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi मसूर (masūr).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Small orange-red lentils.
Synonyms: masoor dal
pantalettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantalets
form: pantilettes
Senses: examples: text: A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes, petty and other; in lunes other than petty now for some time; in petty-lunes, pettilettes, or pantalettes, about these six weeks, ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.
ref: 1851, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, page 217:
text: In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, […]
ref: 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii:
glosses: A form of long underpants with a frill at the bottom of each leg.
glosses: A removable kind of ruffle worn at the feet of women's drawers.
popsock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popsocks
form: pop sock
form: pop-sock
Senses: glosses: A short form of nylon stocking, with an elasticated top, reaching to the knee
popstrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popstrels
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A female pop singer
positioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positioners
Etymology: From position + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Men and women end up recognising each other not only in their commodities (a car, a mobile phone), but also in their capacity to influence as positioners of these needs and satisfactions (Marcuse 1987).
ref: 2022, Cristina Fernández-Rovira, Santiago Giraldo-Luque, Predictive Technology in Social Media:
glosses: That which positions.
glosses: That which positions.
Any mechanical device used to position something.
glosses: That which positions.
Any mechanical device used to position something.
The part of a control valve used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals.
Derived terms: micropositioner
nanopositioner
postpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: postposes
form: postposing
form: postposed
form: postposed
Etymology: From French postposer. See post- and pose.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To place (a word or phrase) after another in a sentence, especially in order to modify it
examples: text: kings are postposed to bishops
ref: a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
glosses: To postpone.
Coordinate terms: prepose
Related terms: postposition
positioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positioner
querist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪəɹɪst/
Forms: form: querists
Etymology: From query + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Queriſt muſt not proceed too ſwiftly towards the Determination of his Point propos'd, that he may with more Eaſe, with brighter Evidence, and with ſurer Succeſs draw the Learner on to aſſent to thoſe Principles ſtep by ſtep, from whence the final Concluſion will naturally ariſe.
ref: 1741, I[saac] Watts, “The Socratical Way of Disputation”, in The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC, paragraph V, page 172:
text: "I can answer a civil question civilly," said the youth, "and will pay fitting respect to your age, if you do not urge my patience with mockery. Since I have been here in France and Flanders, men have called me, in their fantasy, the Varlet with the Velvet Pouch, because of this hawk purse which I carry by my side; but my true name, when at home, is Quentin Durward." / "Durward!" said the querist; "is it a gentleman's name?"
ref: 1823, [Walter Scott], Quentin Durward. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
text: At these words, which I suppose I uttered in a tone unlike that of the usual chaunt of monastic conversation, another interposed, and asked what I was uttering in so loud a key? “I am only saying,” I replied, “that I must be a monk.” “Thank God it is no worse,” replied the querist, “your contumacy must long ago have wearied the Superior and the brethren—thank God it’s no worse.”
ref: 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 238:
glosses: A person who asks questions.
quernstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quernstones
form: quern-stone
Etymology: From quern + stone. From Middle English querneston, whernston, from Old English cweornstān, from Proto-Germanic *kwernōstainaz. Cognate with Old High German quirnstein and Old Norse kvernsteinn.
Senses: glosses: Either of a pair of stones used for grinding material by hand.
resembler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resemblers
Etymology: From resemble + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who resembles another.
similars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of similar
simnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmnəl/
Forms: form: simnels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of simnel cake.
synonyms: word: simnel cake
simnel cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simnel cakes
Etymology: From Middle English simenel (also simle), from Old French simenel (“fine wheat flour; flat bread cake, Lenten cake”), probably by dissimilation from Vulgar Latin *siminellus, a diminutive of Latin simila (“fine flour”) (see semolina). Compare also Middle Dutch semel, Middle Low German semele.
Senses: glosses: A rich fruit cake, with a decorated marzipan covering, traditionally eaten on Simnel Sunday or Easter.
Synonyms: simlin
simnel
Derived terms: Simnel Sunday
submodify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: submodifies
form: submodifying
form: submodified
form: submodified
Etymology: From sub- + modify.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To modify using a submodifier
submodifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of submodify
procere
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more procere
form: most procere
Etymology: From Latin prōcērus (“tall”).
Senses: examples: text: Such lignous and woody plants as are hard of substance, procere of stature, that are thick and solid, and stiffly adhere to the ground on which they stand.
ref: 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber:
glosses: Of high stature; tall.
Aeroflot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Аэрофло́т (Aeroflót), from аэро- (aero-, “air”) + флот (flot, “fleet”).
Senses: glosses: The largest airline in Russia.
Derived terms: Babyflot
random variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of random variable
tricentenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricentenaries
Etymology: From tri- + centenary.
Senses: glosses: tercentenary
Related terms: tricentennial
uniped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unipeds
Etymology: From uni- + -ped.
Senses: synonyms: monoped
monopod
glosses: A person or creature with only one foot or leg.
Related terms: biped
unipedal
monopod
uniped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + -ped.
Senses: examples: text: In Birds, the attitude upon, and mode of progression over, solid surfaces, is biped, or, as in the case of many birds, whilst resting or actually sleeping, the standing position is accomplished upon one leg only, or is uniped.
ref: 1867, John Marshall, “Locomotion of Animals on Solids”, in Outlines of Physiology, Human and Comparative. […], volume I, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., section “Special Physiology”, subsection “Movements of Man and Animals”, pages 222–223:
text: They had the human form, as had also the famous giant god called Aggodagoda, who was uniped.
ref: 1881, Rushton M[ather] Dorman, “Doctrine of Spirits (Continued)”, in The Origin of Primitive Superstitions and Their Development into the Worship of Spirits and the Doctrine of Spiritual Agency among the Aborigines of America, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co. […], page 83:
text: Fig. 9 The Black Tezcatlipoca, in aspect of Huitzilopochtli: he is uniped, ‘hurakan’.
ref: 1986, R[obert] Gordon Wasson, Stella Kramrisch, Jonathan Ott, Carl A[nton] P[aul] Ruck, “List of Illustrations”, in Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: One-legged.
unipersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + personal.
Senses: glosses: Comprising a single person.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of impersonal.
synonyms: word: impersonal
uniplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + planar.
Senses: glosses: Having, or lying in, a single plane
unipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unipods
Etymology: From uni- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of monopod.
synonyms: word: monopod
sailyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailyards
Etymology: From Middle English saylyerde, sailyerd, seilȝerd, from Old English seġlġyrd, seġelġyrd (“sailyard”), from Proto-West Germanic *seglagaʀdī and *seglagaʀd (“sailyard, mast”, literally “sail-rod, sail-staff”), equivalent to sail + yard (“staff, rod, stick”). Cognate with German Segelgerte.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A yard (spar or shaft) to which the sails of a ship are bent (tied or fastened to).
glosses: One of the structural arms of a windmill to which the vanes or sails are attached.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An antenna of an insect.
indure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: indures
form: induring
form: indured
form: indured
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of endure.
Derived terms: indurable
Milo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪloʊ/
Etymology: A Latinate variant of Miles.
Senses: examples: text: Stevie didn't care. At least he didn't have an oddball name like Milo and he never had to get up for church on Sunday.
ref: 1989, Pat Cadigan, Patterns, Ursus Imprints, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Just one thing, if I may, Mark said. It's Miles, his name. Not Milo.
Yeah, I know, Anna's always going on about that too. But Milo's better, Milo's got something about it, hasn't it? the man said. It's catchier. It's catching on round the camp, Milo, where Miles sounds a bit, well, wet. A bit middle class, you know?
ref: 2011, Ali Smith, There but for the, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Back in 2011, a 9-year-old named Milo Cress found it odd that the restaurants he would go to with his mom in Burlington, Vermont, would automatically serve drinks with a straw, whether or not their customer wanted one.
ref: 2023 August 10, Harvin Bhathal, “Did plastic straw bans work? Yes, but not in the way you’d think.”, in Route Fifty:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: An English surname originating as a patronymic transferred from the given name.
Related terms: Milo dinosaur
dilucidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dilucidates
form: dilucidating
form: dilucidated
form: dilucidated
Senses: examples: text: And because the proceeding by interrogatories doth in my opinion much dilucidate things […] I will make use of that artifice.
ref: 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)
glosses: To elucidate; to clarify.
Blasius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Late Latin Blasius, name of a 3rd-4th century Armenian saint, possibly from Latin blaesus (“stammering”), or Latinized from an Ancient Greek name. Doublet of Blaise.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Blaise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blaize
form: Blase
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French Blaise in the Middle Ages and revived partly due to the modern French equivalent, from Latin Blasius. Doublet of Blasius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
Related terms: Blaise Hamlet
St Blaise
undiscernible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiscernible
form: most undiscernible
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indiscernible.
undiscernable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undiscernable
form: most undiscernable
Etymology: From un- + discernable.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of indiscernible.
kenjutsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 剣術.
Senses: glosses: Japanese swordsmanship
UUA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Unitarian Universalist Association.
UU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UUs
Senses: examples: text: Riley's comments capture the dilemma that many UUs confront.
ref: 2004, Kate Tweedie Erslev, Full circle: fifteen ways to grow lifelong UUs, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, page 2:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of Unitarian Universalist.
UU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: However, the level of interaction between most of the UU faculties and this cluster of mostly financial and consultancy companies is rather low.
ref: 2017, Leo van den Berg, Antonio Russo, The Student City, Routledge, section 9.2.2:
glosses: Initialism of Utrecht University.
here lies
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Calque of Latin hīc jacet (whence also English hic jacet, a direct borrowing).
Senses: glosses: A phrase written on gravestones followed by the buried person's name.
neam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neams
Etymology: Rebracketing of eam. Compare naunt.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eam (“uncle”).
metropolitan France
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Metropolitan France
Senses: glosses: The part of France located in Europe.
Pacific loons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pacific loon
package holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of package holiday
pack horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pack horse
packrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packrat
packrats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of packrat
pack-rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pack-rat
palatine bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palatine bone
palookas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palooka
paloozas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palooza
palpebral fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palpebral fissure
papavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papaver
paraffines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraffine
paraffines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paraffine
postservice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + service.
Senses: examples: text: Let us focus on the preservice and postservice procedures you should always follow.
ref: 2002, Arlene Alpert, Milady's Standard Cosmetology, page 797:
glosses: Occurring after the provision of a service.
examples: text: The conceptualization of the problem of Viet Nam veteran postservice adjustment has evolved over the years.
ref: 1985, Stephen M. Sonnenberg, Arthur S. Blank, John A. Talbott, The Trauma of War: Stress and Recovery in Viet Nam Veterans, page 37:
glosses: Occurring after a period of military service.
Related terms: preservice
participial adjectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participial adjective
wash-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wash-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from wash out.
Senses: examples: text: "I thought you was goin' into the business yourself." / "That's a wash-out," snarled Silas. "Don't you talk of it. It's finished."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, page 190:
text: [Chapter XX] "And what you do, Bertie, is get out that car of yours and scour the countryside for Glossop. It may be possible to head him off. Come on, come on, let's have some service. What are you waiting for?” I hadn't exactly been waiting. I'd only been thinking that the enterprise had more than a touch of looking for a needle in a haystack about it. You can't find loony-doctors on their afternoon off just by driving around Worcestershire in a car; you need bloodhounds and handkerchiefs for them to sniff at and all that professional stuff. Still, there it was. “Right-ho,” I said. “Anything to oblige.” [Chapter XXI] And, of course, as I had anticipated from the start, the thing was a wash-out. I stuck it out for about an hour and then, apprised by a hollow feeling in the midriff that the dinner hour was approaching, laid a course for home.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “CHAPTERS XX–XXI”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of washout.
particular integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particular integral
preservice
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-service
Etymology: From pre- + service.
Senses: examples: text: Let us focus on the preservice and postservice procedures you should always follow.
ref: 2002, Arlene Alpert, Milady's Standard Cosmetology, page 797:
glosses: Occurring prior to the provision of a service.
topics: education
glosses: Occurring before a trainee teacher begins service.
part-time bowlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of part-time bowler
wash-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wash-out Alternative form of washouts.
party political broadcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of party political broadcast
paskhas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paskha
passenger cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passenger car
herycano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of hurricane.
pastises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastis
patellar ligaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patellar ligament
in a few shakes
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “And do you realize that in a few shakes I've got to show up at dinner and have Mrs Cream being very, very kind to me? It hurts the pride of the Woosters, Jeeves.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XXI, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Synonym of in two shakes.
synonyms: word: in two shakes
patines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of patine
beal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: beals
Etymology: From Middle English beel, bele, from Old English bȳle (“boil, carbuncle, bile”), from Proto-West Germanic *būlijā, from Proto-Germanic *būlijǭ (“swelling”), from *būlǭ (“swelling, bump, boil”). More at boil.
Senses: glosses: A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
beal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: beals
form: bealing
form: bealed
form: bealed
Etymology: From Middle English belen, from bele (see above).
Senses: glosses: To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.
beal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /biːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: beals
form: bealing
form: bealed
form: bealed
Etymology: From Middle English belien, from Old Norse belja (“to bellow, roar”).
Senses: glosses: To bellow, roar, or shout.
shake-and-bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shake-and-bakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shake and bake.
shake-and-bake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shake-and-bake
form: most shake-and-bake
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shake and bake.
shake 'n' bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shake and bake.
shake 'n bake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shake and bake.
talking-points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talking-point Alternative form of talking points.
atcha
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of at you.
Derived terms: back atcha
shake over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes over
form: shaking over
form: shook over
form: shaken over
Senses: glosses: to frisk
poltergeistism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poltergeist + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: "Breakin' windows and such," Hall said; "reg'lar Mafficking night they 'ad last night. Put the wind up them all proper."
"Poltergeistism!" I ejaculated.
ref: 1920, E. H. Jones, The Road to En-Dor, John Lane (London), page 28:
text: There are numerous records of poltergeists in the scientific and quasi-scientific literature of Europe and the U.S., although there is probably no case of poltergeistism anywhere that has been authenticated beyond reasonable doubt.
ref: 1958 March 17, Robert Wallace, “House of Flying Objects”, in Life, page 55:
text: Robert Foong had noted that the tactics of aggrieved family ghosts were more along the lines of passive-aggressive than poltergeistism. Nevertheless, Juliet gave a covert look around the room for handy missiles.
ref: 2002, Mulaika Hijjas, “Family Ghosts”, in Feminist Studies, volume 28, number 2, page 372:
glosses: The supposed manifestation of the presence of one or more poltergeists, especially as involving physical objects which move or fly about without warning.
poltergeistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poltergeistic
form: most poltergeistic
Etymology: From poltergeist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: To avoid commitment to any theory it might be better, though awkward, to speak of poltergeistic disturbances or poltergeistic outbreaks. These are sporadic, starting suddenly and unexpectedly and ending just as suddenly.
ref: 1953, Anthony Flew, A New Approach to Psychical Research, page 28:
text: In the same disused church there had also been ‘poltergeistic’ phenomena. It was discovered that they were due to the presence of ‘elemental’, sub-human, spirits.
ref: 1963, W. F. Jackson Knight, Folklore, volume 74, number 1, page 302:
text: But then the apartment began to be visited by poltergeistic manifestations. They would awaken in the morning to find bookcases turned over, furniture strewn about, the entire living room in a mess.
ref: 2006, Brad Steiger, Revelation: The Divine Fire, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a poltergeist, poltergeists, or poltergeistism.
sparkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparky
glosses: plural of sparkie
light engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light engines
Senses: examples: text: After a week's manœuvrability tests at Winwick, the locomotive was to undergo three weeks' trials, light engine and loaded, between Whitchurch and Tattenhall Junction.
ref: 1960 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A locomotive running on its own, or with other powered locomotives, with no wagons or carriages attached.
light engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light engine
infallibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infallibility
garabato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Uncaria guianensis, a plant found in Guyana.
carbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbeams
Etymology: From car + beam.
Senses: glosses: A beam of light from the front of an automobile.
clogs to clogs in three generations
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the common use of clogs by manual workers in north England and following the style of similar phrases which have been attested since 1700. The particular phrasing is perhaps of Lancashire origin. Compare shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
Senses: glosses: Wealth earned in one generation seldom lasts through the third (grandchild's) generation.
wikipedia: Lancashire
Synonyms: word: shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations
topics: origin
word: wealth does not survive three generations
topics: origin
word: sandals to sandals in three generations
topics: origin
word: the third generation ruins the house
sense: Italian origin
word: stables to stars to stables
topics: origin
word: goon to Grange to goon