cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
affy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: affies
form: affying
form: affied
form: affied
Etymology: From Middle English affien (“to have faith, trust”), from Anglo-Norman afier, affier, affyer, Middle French afier, affier, affyer, and Old French afier (“to agree to marry; to believe, trust; to assure, promise; to confide in; to pledge, swear”), from Late Latin affidare (“to betroth; to pledge faith”), from Latin af- (a variant of ad- (intensifying prefix)) + Vulgar Latin *fīdāre (“to trust”) (from Latin fidēre, the present active infinitive of fīdō (“to put confidence in, trust; to rely upon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to convince; to trust”)).
Senses: glosses: To have faith in (someone); to trust.
glosses: Chiefly followed by that or to: to formally affirm or promise (something).
examples: text: He, though affide unto a former love, / To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold, / […] Her graunted love, but with affection cold […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Chiefly of a man: to formally promise to marry (someone, chiefly a woman); to be engaged to; also, to marry (someone); to espouse.
qualifier: chiefly passive voice
glosses: Chiefly followed by to, unto, or with: often of a parent or guardian: to formally promise that (someone) be married to another person; to affiance, to betroth.
glosses: Followed by in, to, or unto: to bind or pledge (someone or something) to another person or thing.
examples: text: Marcus Andronicus, so I do affie / In thy vprightnesse and Integrity […]
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Chiefly followed by in, on, and upon: to rely on, to trust.
Derived terms: affiant
unaffied
Related terms: affiance
affy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
ipa: /ˈæfi/
rhymes: -æfi
ipa: /əˈfaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
Forms: form: affies
Etymology: Shortening of affidavit.
Senses: examples: text: If you have won a monthly prize, they will send you an affy and have you send it back. Then your prize comes from a courier.
ref: 1997, Sandretto, “Singapore Contest....”, in alt.consumers.sweepstakes (Usenet):
text: The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th.
ref: 1999, Suzy, “Any BIG winners?”, in alt.consumers.sweepstakes (Usenet):
glosses: An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.
barrenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barrenly
form: most barrenly
Etymology: From barren + -ly.
Senses: glosses: unfruitfully; unproductively
ballow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: more ballow
form: most ballow
Etymology: From Middle English balowe, balwe, balgh, from Old English bælg, bæliġ (“bag, purse, leathern bottle, pair of bellows, pod, husk”), from Proto-Germanic *balgiz (“bag”). Doublet of belly, bellows, and bulge.
Senses: examples: text: A horse of greater speed, nor yet a righter hound,
Not any where twixt Kent and Calidon is found.
Nor yet the levell South can shewe a smoother Race,
Whereas the ballow Nag out-strips the winds in chase;
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 3 p. 40:
glosses: Round; pot-bellied.
ballow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.ləʊ/
rhymes: -æləʊ
Forms: form: ballows
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Deep water inside a shoal or bar.
bawds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawd
bedward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bedward
form: most bedward
form: bedwards
Etymology: From bed + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Toward bed.
bewet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewets
form: bewetting
form: bewet
form: bewet
form: bewetted
form: bewetted
Etymology: From Middle English beweten, biweten, equivalent to be- + wet.
Senses: examples: text: His napkin with his true tears all bewet.
ref: 1593, Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:
glosses: To wet or moisten profusely.
birthdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birthdoms
Etymology: From birth + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The land of one's birth.
examples: text: Hold fast the mortal sword, and, like good men
Bestride our down-fall'n birthdom.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Privilege of birth; one's inheritance; birthright.
aidance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aidances
Etymology: From Old French aidance, from aidier (“help, aid”); equivalent to aid + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:
text: I hoped your aidance in mine every chance[.]
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108:
glosses: Aid; assistance; help.
apperil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apperils
Etymology: From Latin ad + peril.
Senses: examples: text: Let me stay at thine apperil.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Another for you, sir, to summon you to my master's feast; for you, and you, where I charge you all to appear, upon his displeasure and your own apperils.
ref: 1627, Thomas Heywood, The English Traveler:
glosses: peril
canstick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cansticks
Senses: examples: text: I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, / Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, / And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, / Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
ref: a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, scene 1, lines 125–128:
glosses: A candlestick (candle holder).
conspirant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conspirant
form: most conspirant
Senses: glosses: that conspires
conspirant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conspirants
Senses: glosses: conspirator
crowkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowkeepers
Etymology: From crow + keeper.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to scare off crows.
glosses: A scarecrow.
crimeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crimeful
form: most crimeful
Etymology: From crime + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: To make him curse this cursed crimeful night:
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece:
glosses: criminal; wicked; illegal
definement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfaɪnmənt/
Forms: form: definements
Etymology: From define + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of defining.
examples: text: Sir, his definement suffers no perdition in you; though, I know, to divide him inventorily would dizzy the arithmetic of memory.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
glosses: A definition or description.
denotement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denotements
Etymology: From denote + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A sign, indication.
disquantity
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disquantities
form: disquantitying
form: disquantitied
form: disquantitied
Etymology: From dis- + quantity.
Senses: glosses: to diminish, lessen
dogberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogberries
Etymology: See dogwood and berry. Compare also dog rose. Compare German Hundbeere (“bittersweet”), Ancient Greek κυνόσβατος (kunósbatos, “evergreen rose”), Lithuanian šùnobelė (“buckthorn”), Italian mela canina (“mandrake”).
Senses: glosses: The berry of the dogwood.
glosses: Clintonia borealis (yellow clintonia)
dotant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotants
Senses: glosses: A dotard.
doubleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublenesses
Etymology: From Middle English doublenesse; equivalent to double + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1540, Great Bible, 1 Chronicles 12 [verse 33],
And of Zabulon that went out to the battayle and proceded forth to the war, with all maner of instrumentes of war fyftie M. that were prepared to the war, without any doublenesse of herte.
text: If you think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it;
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, “Solitude”, in Walden, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 146:
text: It was easy for him, when he saw the straight march of his school, the old section taller and wider and brighter than the new wing, and the new wing following in its narrow dark doubleness, to think of boxcars.
ref: 1983, Cynthia Ozick, The Cannibal Galaxy, New York: Knopf, page 17:
glosses: The state of being double or doubled.
examples: text: But if it be a vice to coulour craftinesse, subtile practises, doublenesse and hollow behauiour, with a cloke of pollicie, amitie and wisedome, then are Comineus and his companie to be reputed vicious.
ref: 1577, William Harrison, “[http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03448.0001.001 [An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] 14.]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, folio 39, recto, column 1:
text: It is clear to you, I hope, that Stephen was not a hypocrite—capable of deliberate doubleness for a selfish end; […]
ref: 1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Charity in Full-dress”, in The Mill on the Floss […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI (The Great Temptation), page 141:
text: I plummeted down [the ski hill] past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.
ref: 1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 8, in The Bell Jar, New York: Bantam, published 1972, page 79:
synonyms: double-dealing
duplicity
insincerity
glosses: Behaviour intended to deceive people.
draymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drayman
ohs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oh
ohs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oh
enjoyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enjoyers
Etymology: From enjoy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Intense emotional involvement is thus combined with moments of withdrawal in which the audience is reminded of its status as observers, outsiders, interpreters, and enjoyers of the action.
ref: 2010, Donald J. Mastronarde, The Art of Euripides: Dramatic Technique and Social Context, page 118:
text: Because "the enjoyer" is prone to create coalitions with a diversity of other positions, consumerism, favoring short-term enjoyment, tends to lead to a "funnification” of the position repertoire.
ref: 2010, Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka Hermans-Konopka, Dialogical Self Theory, page 291:
text: Still! Part of me, as an enjoyer of weird financial stuff, would be very interested to see a case of online retail traders causing a bank failure. It does feel like it would be a bad thing, though?
ref: 2023 May 25, Matt Levine, “The US Might Be Only AA+”, in Money Stuff, Bloomberg:
glosses: One who enjoys.
Synonyms: enjoyee
by foot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From Middle English be-fote, equivalent to by + foot.
Senses: qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: walking, jogging or running but not in a vehicle or on the back of an animal
Synonyms: sense: by walking, jogging or running
word: afoot
sense: by walking, jogging or running
word: on foot
soddened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sodden
soddens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sodden
soddening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sodden
demonologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonology
boobytrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boobytrap
boobytrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boobytrap
boobytraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boobytrap
booby-trapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of booby-trap
booby-traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of booby-trap
booby-traps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of booby-trap
caesium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cesium chloride
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The cesium salt of hydrochloric acid, CsCl
cesium chloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caesium chloride.
godling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godlings
Etymology: From god + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: The Jeddak of Ptarth nodded his assent, but the ugly scowl that he bent upon Matai Shang harbored ill for that pasty-faced godling.
ref: 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
synonyms: godlet
godkin
glosses: A minor divinity, a local or inferior god
examples: 1964, "Tales of Asgard: The Storm Giants" (page 3) in Journey into Mystery #100, Marvel Comics
But, though young, Thor is still a godling--with the strength of an immortal!
glosses: A young god.
Related terms: demi-god
halfgod
hero
idol
spirit
rifacimenti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rifacimento
in flagrante
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He is believed to be a patron of certain brothels and élite “home delivery” services specializing in celebrity look-alikes. On one occasion he was actually caught in flagrante with a counterfeit Vina in the back of a super-stretch, but when the sharp-eyed cop who saw the hooker responding to a signal and entering the limo understood what was going on, […]
ref: 1999, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, New York: Henry Holt, page 495:
text: “Great! A guy getting off a night shift who hasn't been laid in years finds his wife in flagrante with some hamburger-faced guy who hightails it out the front door in his underwear. We're walking into a hornet's nest, Jackson.”
ref: 2004, Rex Pickett, Sideways, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 292:
text: I saw one show in which a man was frustrated with his obese wife; she said she'd been on a diet, but she hadn't lost a pound, had in fact gained weight, and one day he left the house, got to the station, then realised he'd forgotten his wallet, and walked back to the house, and let himself in, and there she was, sitting at the kitchen table, in flagrante. Kentucky Fried Chicken. Large bucket. Large fries.
ref: 2005, William Leith, The Hungry Years, page 51:
glosses: Ellipsis of in flagrante delicto.
parallel circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallel circuits
Senses: glosses: An electrical circuit that has two or more components that are connected in parallel.
Related terms: series circuit
encomienda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encomiendas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish encomienda (“grant”).
Senses: examples: text: Natives voluntarily coming forward and entering in encomienda were excused from paying tribute for ten years; and, in any event, for the first two years after congregating in pueblos but one half the usual tribute could be legally exacted.
ref: 1886, Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Central America, 1886-1887, page 264:
glosses: A system in Spain and, later and more extensively, in Spanish colonies, in which the right to exploit the labour of certain groups of subject people (initially, Muslims, during the Reconquista) was granted to conquerors; servitude within this system.
examples: text: "Most of the owners of encomiendas have stocks in which they keep as prisoners the chiefs or freemen who do not supply the amount of tribute from their slaves when they themselves can not obtain it from the latter."
ref: 1905, Prescott Ford Jernegan, A Short History of the Philippines, D. Appleton, page 84:
text: Whereas in the Caribbean it was not at all unheard of for merchants to hold encomiendas or municipal office, in the central areas one had to make a quick choice between appearing as a merchant or vying for an encomienda, for one could not do both.
ref: 1963, James Lockhart, Stuart B. Schwartz, Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil, Cambridge University Press, page 96:
glosses: A permission to exploit labour within the encomienda system; an enterprise established to exploit such a permission.
Related terms: encomendero
pyromancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyromancers
Etymology: From Middle English piromauncer, equivalent to pyromancy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who performs pyromancy.
topics: fantasy
glosses: One who has a magical ability to conjure or control fire.
clip art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.
clipart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clip art.
coarticulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kō'-är-tĭk-ū-lā'-shən
ipa: /ˌkoʊ.aɹ.tɪk.juˈleɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: coarticulations
Etymology: From co- + articulation.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The formation of a joint by the articulation of two bones.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The action or process of coarticulating.
Related terms: coarticulate
coarticulator
cockboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cockboats
form: cock-boat
form: cockleboat
Etymology: From cog (“a small boat”).
Senses: examples: text: Haue care, I pray, to guide the cock-bote well, / Least worse on sea then vs on land befell.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The Malabar, that huge sea monster, in whose capacious belly so many human creatures lived and suffered, had dwindled to a walnut-shell, and yet beside her bulk how infinitely small had their own frail cockboat appeared as they shot out from under her towering stern!
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, “Chapter V”, in For the Term of His Natural Life:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small rowing boat, especially one pulled behind a larger ship, or used to ferry goods between a ship and the shore.
Synonyms: dinghy
collembolan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collembolans
form: colembolan
Etymology: Collembola + -an
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Collembola, the springtails.
Related terms: collembolous
identity crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identity crises
Etymology: Coined by German psychologist Erik Erikson.
Senses: examples: text: The postponement of homosexual behavior in men who know that they are homosexual can cause psychological anxiety and retard mature ego development. The same kind of identity crisis characteristic of heterosexual people in their twenties, in which one discovers, as Erik Erikson puts it, that he is "fatally overcommitted to what he is not," is found in the repressed homosexual.
ref: 1976 February 7, Philip Gambone, “Coming Out: The Gay Identity Process”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 4:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A crisis of personal identity.
domiciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domiciliars
Etymology: From domicile + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The Chapter is composed of 12 Canons and 12 Domiciliars.
ref: 1738, The Present State of Germany.:
text: To this Cathedral belongs a Chapter, consisting of 54 Canons, 24 of whom have the Right of suffrage, and are called Capitulars; the other 30 are called Domiciliars; but their Income, which is 3000 German Crowns, is equal.
ref: 1743, de Blainville, Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, and other parts of Europe, page 247:
text: The dean of Strasburg, the prebendaries, the capitulars and domiciliars (capitularly assembled in the morning to consider the case of butter'd buns) all wished they had followed the nuns of saint Ursula's example.
ref: 1770, Laurence Sterne, The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, page 76:
text: Bamberg: Provost, dean, ecolatre, treasurer, cellarer, twenty capitulars, fifteen domiciliars, who must not miss a mass daily during two years .
ref: 1865, Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott, Cathedralia, page 24:
text: My Dear Mother, and All Good Domiciliars,— I suppose it to be the intention of our worshipful and right bankrupt Government that everybody write to everybody true, full, and particular accounts of all things which he, she, or it, may have done, be doing, or be about to do; and seeing I amy have something to way which will interest you all, I fulfil the gossiping intentions of the Collective Wisdom, and give you an omnibus epistle.
ref: 1886, Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author, page 39:
glosses: A member of a household; a domestic, especially one who belongs to a religious community.
examples: text: A new law on this subject would seem at the first view less necessary, as the obligation on a man of protecting his house, in the place where he is a domiciliar, has already existed: but the events that have occurred within these thirteen years have caused this principle to be neglected; and though all the successive laws have maintained this obligation , the formation of the burgess guard in a permanent manner, and agreeably to the ancient habits of the nation, has never been able to be accomplished during that period.
ref: 1820, Louis Bonaparte, Historical Documents and Reflections on the Government of Holland, page 87:
text: Our argument on that is the decedent believed he became a domiciliar of Greenwich on December 17, 1936; he was going out there looking at houses and he was abandoning his Ardsley life.
ref: 1942, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 2473:
text: On 20 May 1536 he registered at the University of Freiburg with his charge, Count Konrad von Castell, aged seventeen and a domiciliar of Würzburg.
ref: 2003, Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher, Contemporaries of Erasmus, page 224:
glosses: A resident; someone who makes their home in a specified place; a domiciliary.
direct debit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct debits
Senses: glosses: a single order to allow a commercial, or similar entity to charge directly to one's bank for a regular payment.
Related terms: autopay
standing order
anti-intellectualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiintellectualism
Etymology: From anti- + intellectualism.
Senses: glosses: A sentiment of hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A position that opposes intellectualism.
landgraviate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lændˈɡɹeɪ.vi.ət/
Forms: form: landgraviates
Senses: glosses: The office or jurisdiction of a landgrave
glosses: The countship of a landgrave, a rare type of principality in the Holy Roman Empire.
countship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countships
Etymology: From count + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or position of a count.
glosses: A territory (principality, province, etc.) ruled and administered by a count.
Related terms: county
earldom
manquée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “[…] and all things considered, I don't much regret that this affair with Miss Amory is manquée, though I wished for it once—in fact, all things considered, I am very glad of it.”
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXXVII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 356:
text: Daniel’s major assignment in the novel, then, is to make sure that this actress manquée stays manquée: that Gwendolen’s performance, like the much more cooperatively antitheatrical Mirah’s, shrinks to fit the contours of an interiority (if not of a marital domesticity) whose only “width”—in a reversal of the first paradox—comes from the spiritualizing impact of humiliation.
ref: 1992, Joseph Litvak, “Poetry and Theatricality”, in Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 183:
text: In her hands, Rose seems at the show’s beginning more a garden-variety stage mother and actress manquée, a wistful but often affectionate nag, than Merman’s elemental force of nature.
ref: 1998 September 21, Ben Brantley, “THEATER REVIEW; The Stripper’s Mother: Ambition Rampant and Ugly”, in The New York Times, section E, page 1:
text: Miss Catley adored the English language, poetry and plays; I think she was an ‘actress manquée’.
ref: 2013, June Brown, chapter 14, in Before the Year Dot, London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: feminine of manqué
enneagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneagrams
Etymology: From ennea- + -gram.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A nine-pointed stellate polygon
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Such a figure used to indicate nine personality traits of a subject
fav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: favs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fave.
fav
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fav
form: most fav
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fave.
fav
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: favs
form: faving
form: faved
form: faved
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fave.
ruptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ruptive
form: most ruptive
Senses: glosses: disruptive
old codger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old codgers
Senses: glosses: An old man.
continuant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuants
Etymology: From continue + -ant.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
coordinate_terms: sonorant
glosses: A linguistic sound other than a stop.
examples: text: As a further point of clarification, notice that (C0) does not characterize a criterion for determining whether a continuant x of kind K that exists at t 1 is identical to a continuant y of kind K that exists at t 2 .
ref: 2007 July 18, Thomas Sattig, “Identity in 4D”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A determinant formed from a tridiagonal matrix.
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
ontology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An endurant.
examples: text: It must moreover be noted that the Sardinian lexicon does not in fact present evidence for the identification of -V́rr- as a pre-Roman suffix. More convincing is Wolf's identification of this word [lipòrra] as a continuant of *lepórna < *lepórĭna << Lat. leporīnus 'of hares, hare-'.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 90:
topics: etymology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An inherited descendant.
continuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more continuant
form: most continuant
Etymology: From continue + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: a continuant sound
glosses: Continuing; prolonged; sustained.
indeedy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: indeedie
Etymology: From indeed + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, indeedy!
glosses: indeed
Derived terms: indeedy-doody
metapsychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapsychologies
Etymology: From meta- + psychology.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The philosophical study of psychology and of the mind.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A set of principles governing Freudian psychology.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of how human experience forms, filters perception and shapes identity.
Related terms: metapsychological
metapsychologist
metapsychic
fauches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauch
fauches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fauch
fauchons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauchon
fauchions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fauchion
reportions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reportion
gardant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French. See guardant.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guardant.
gardant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardants
Etymology: From French. See guardant.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of guardant.
gardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garde
volent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That exercises will or choice.
Related terms: volency
sommas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somma
examinant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzæmɪnənt/
Forms: form: examinants
Etymology: From Latin examinantis (“examining”).
Senses: examples: text: “No matter, I want to hear you describe it, ” said the examinant.
ref: 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: One who examines; an examiner.
examples: February 5 1722, Humphrey Prideaux, Articles for the Reformation of the two Universities
the Examinants appear before them, in classes of ix at a time, and each class shall be examined […]
glosses: One who is to be examined.
bad-mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bad-mouths
form: bad-mouthing
form: bad-mouthed
form: bad-mouthed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of badmouth.
badmouths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of badmouth
badmouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of badmouth
bad-mouths
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bad-mouth
bad-mouthing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bad-mouth
ternary form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of composition in which one contrasting section of music is written between two similar outer sections.
Synonyms: ABA form
bad-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bad-mouth
balladeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balladeer
culasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culasses
Etymology: French, from cul (“back”).
Senses: glosses: The lower faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond.
culasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culasse
balsas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsa
brûlées
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brûlée
tailles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taille
bayonetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bayoneting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bayonet
bayonetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayonettings
form: bayoneting
Senses: glosses: A stabbing with a bayonet.
glosses: Overlap of fracture fragments in a longbone fracture resulting in shortening of the extremity.
tirasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tirasse
bayonetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bayoneted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bayonet
bayonetted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bayoneted
Senses: examples: a bayonetted rifle
glosses: Fitted with a bayonet.
ABA form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: ternary form
attachés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attaché
vacillant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvæsɪlənt/
Forms: form: more vacillant
form: most vacillant
Etymology: From Latin vacillans, present participle of vacillare. Compare French vacillant. See vacillate.
Senses: glosses: That vacillates; wavering; fluctuating; not constant
Derived terms: vacillancy
grippes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grippe
atomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of atomise
respectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: French, present participle of respecter.
Senses: examples: text: The sun is surmounted on either side by two white lions, respectant and sitting on an orange scroll inscribed UTMOST OF OUR ABILITY in gold letters.
ref: 2006, Signal Corps, →ISBN, page 43:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
numismatics
politics
glosses: Placed so as to face one another; face to face.
fixe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fixes
form: fixing
form: fixed
form: fixed
form: fixt
form: fixt
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fix.
Related terms: idée fixe
experimentum crucis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Modern Latin. From Latin experimentum crucis, "experiment of the cross".
Senses: examples: text: What remained for me but to prove, by trial, that what might be perilous to other travellers was safe to me? The “experimentum crucis” was a visit to Al-Híjaz, at once the most difficult and the most dangerous point by which a European can enter Arabia.https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Personal_Narrative_of_a_Pilgrimage_to_Al_Madinah_and_Meccah/Volume_I
ref: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 2:
glosses: A "crucial experiment"; a conclusive test to decide between different hypotheses.
miscreator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪskɹɪˈeɪtə/
Forms: form: miscreators
Etymology: From mis- + creator.
Senses: examples: text: And Circumstance, that unspiritual god / And miscreator, makes and helps along / Our coming evils with a crutch-like rod
ref: 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV:
text: By what “Circumstance, the miscreator” my plans were defeated, the reader will discover in the course of these volumes.
ref: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 3:
glosses: Someone or something which creates things wrongly or badly.
sautée
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sautées
form: sautéeing
form: sautéed
form: sautéed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sauté.
escrima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eskrima.
alterne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of altern.
coupés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coupé
visé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /viːˈzeɪ/
Forms: form: visés
form: vise
Etymology: Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (“to issue with a visa”).
Senses: examples: text: A minister cannot make any direct charge for giving or viséing a passport (though his porter always takes care to ask for something), whereas the Russian consul always charges a dollar banco for every visé.
ref: 1839, A Hand-book for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Russia, page 117:
text: […] promising her that he would not print a word to which her approval should not be expressly given. She should countersign every page before it went to press, and none should leave the house without her visé.
ref: 1888 September 29, Henry James, “[The Modern Warning.] Chapter VI.”, in The Aspern Papers; Louisa Pallant; The Modern Warning, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: visa.
visé
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /viːˈzeɪ/
Forms: form: visés
form: viséing
form: viséed
form: viséed
form: viséd
form: viséd
form: vise
Etymology: Borrowed from French visé, past participle of viser (“to issue with a visa”).
Senses: examples: text: […] unable to be abroad after ten at night, or to carry a gun, or to remove into another district without a written pass which must be visé on reaching a police-station.
ref: 1872, Janet Millett, An Australian Parsonage, Ch. XI:
text: Russian consuls everywhere have been instructed to visé passports of geologists presenting membership cards, which will also facilitate matters at the frontier.
ref: 1897, Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 51, June, "World's Geologists at St. Petersburg"
text: Therefore, with my passport properly viséd and my papers all in order, I one night left Hull for Stockholm by the weekly Wilson service.
ref: 1905, William Le Queux, The Czar's Spy, Ch. 10:
glosses: To examine and endorse (a passport, etc.); to visa.
vises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vise
vises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vise
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vis
visons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vison
visés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of visé
chassés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chassé
compactification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compactifications
Etymology: From compact + -ification.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Any of various procedures of enlarging a topological space to make it compact.
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: The space resulting from any such procedure.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any modification of a theory such that an infinite parameter becomes finite.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The reduction of the number of large spacetime dimensions of a physical theory by making some of them compact.
Derived terms: beta-compactification
decompactification
Freund-Rubin compactification
Stone-Čech compactification
Wallman compactification
bandwagons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandwagon
bandwagons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bandwagon
connaturality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connaturalities
Etymology: From connatural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being connatural.
brimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪmd/
rhymes: -ɪmd
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (sometimes synonymous) rimmed, lipped, ledged
text: In the wilderness, a brimmed hat will ward off heat stroke for a while.
antonyms: word: brimless
word: ;
english: sometimes antonymous
translation: sometimes antonymous
word: rimless
word: lipless
word: ledgeless
glosses: Having a brim.
Derived terms: broadbrimmed
tear-brimmed
unbrimmed
brimmed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹɪmd/
rhymes: -ɪmd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brim
banalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banality
coparcener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coparceners
Etymology: Old French copartsonnier, see co- + parcener.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: parcener
glosses: Any of several people who share an inheritance; coheir
barbarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barbarism
banqueted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of banquet
corelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corelets
Etymology: From core + -let.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various applications resident in the memory of a mobile phone or similar device.
barrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barren
cowpath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cowpaths
Etymology: From cow + path.
Senses: coordinate_terms: droveway
glosses: A path made by, or used by, cows; especially, one that connects their barnyard to their pasturage.
Derived terms: pave the cowpath
Related terms: desire path
footpath
pathway
barrios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrio
crossguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒsɡɑːd/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔsˌɡɑɹd/
ipa: /ˈkɹɑs-/
Forms: form: crossguards
Etymology: From cross (adjective) + guard (noun).
Senses: examples: Holonym: hilt
Meronym: quillon (one sense)
synonyms: guard
quillon
related: word: grip#Noun
word: pommel#Noun
word: ricasso#Noun
qualifier: swords
glosses: A metal bar fixed between, and at right angles to, the blade and the handle of a sword or other bladed weapon that stops an opponent's similar weapon from sliding along the blade and injuring the hand of the person wielding the sword.
wikipedia: Livrustkammaren
cypionate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.pi.əˌneɪt/
Forms: form: cypionates
form: cipionate
Etymology: From cypionic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of cypionic acid.
cypionic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Contraction.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 3-cyclopentylpropionic acid
Related terms: cypionate
cyclopentyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopentyls
Etymology: From cyclopentane + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from cyclopentane by the formal removal of a hydrogen atom.
Derived terms: cyclarbamate
glisentide
penmesterol
rifapentine
Related terms: cyclopropyl
cyclobutyl
cyclohextyl
bedevilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedeviling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedevil
bedevilling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedevillings
form: bedeviling
Senses: glosses: An act by which somebody is bedevilled; causing of trouble; harassment.
bedevilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedeviled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bedevil
befogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of befog
befogging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of befog
biked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪkt
Senses: examples: text: I biked to school yesterday.
glosses: simple past and past participle of bike
bilinguals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bilingual
belling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛlɪŋ/
Forms: form: bellings
Etymology: From Middle English bellynge, equivalent to bell + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Bellowing; the sound of a male deer during the rutting season
qualifier: Indiana
glosses: A shivaree.
belling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɛlɪŋ/
Etymology: From bell + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bell
beryls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beryl
bicentennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicentennial
bides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪdz/
rhymes: -aɪdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bide
bided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪdɪd/
Forms: form: bode
form: bidden
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bide
berrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of berry
berrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berryings
Senses: glosses: An expedition to pick berries.
berried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of berry
berried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more berried
form: most berried
Senses: examples: text: The kissing-bunch, of berried holly hung with bright and glittering things, spun slowly over Mrs Morel's head as she trimmed her little tarts in the kitchen.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
text: I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216:
text: This style of wine uses small-berried, thick-skinned grapes which produce less juice than those used for crisp white wines, but with more concentration and weight.
ref: 2013, David Williams, A Little Course in Wine Tasting, page 44:
glosses: Bearing berries.
examples: a berried shrub
glosses: Consisting of a berry; baccate.
bingeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: binging
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of binge
bingeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bingeings
form: binging
Senses: glosses: A session in which something is binged, such as food or television.
biopsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of biopsy
biopsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biopsy
blackjacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackjack
blackjacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackjack
blindsiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blindside