cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
edutainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edutainers
Etymology: From edutain + -er. First used by magician Kerry Blair in the early 1990s. Blair used object lessons and illusions to educate children while entertaining them.
Senses: examples: text: What makes the performance of an "edutainer" memorable and significant has to do with both the nature of a diverse society and the process of teaching itself.
ref: 1999, J. Q. Adams, Janice R. Welsch, Cultural Diversity: Curriculum, Classroom, & Climate Issues, page 219:
text: Aaron Ableman is an edutainer with a background in world literature, food and climate systems, music and community organizing.
ref: 2011, Aaron Ableman, Pacha's Pajamas: A Story Written By Nature:
text: “I like to think of myself as an edutainer—[teacher and entertainer],” he said.
ref: 2012, Dick Denny, Glory Days Indiana: Legends of Indiana High School Basketball:
glosses: One who edutains, who educates in an entertaining manner.
edutainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edutainer
userfriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more userfriendly
form: most userfriendly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of user-friendly.
nonvuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vuggy.
Senses: glosses: Not vuggy.
yestermorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From yester- + morn.
Senses: examples: text: But yeſter-morn, whoſe houſe was ſo great, ſo flouriſhing as Manfred's?
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter II, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, page 70:
text: "That, Clara," I said, "is the gate, that the street which yestermorn your father rode up."
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 88:
text: Kate, I must make a confession... I, yestermorn, I took Caleb to The Wood.
ref: 2015, Robert Eggers, The Witch (motion picture), spoken by William (Ralph Ineson):
glosses: During the morning of yesterday; yesterday morning.
yestermorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yester- + morn.
Senses: examples: text: The sad accident at Lyme was soon the prevailing topic; and on comparing their latest accounts of the invalid, it appeared that each lady dated her intelligence from the same hour of yester morn, […]
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume IV, London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC, page 13:
text: By the wisdom of the centuries I speak— / To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth— / I, the joy of life unquestioned—I, the Greek— / I, the everlasting Wonder Song of Youth!
ref: 1896, Rudyard Kipling, “[The Seven Seas.] The Song of the Banjo.”, in The Seven Seas, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 84:
glosses: The morning of yesterday.
Synonyms: yestermorning
unentertainingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unentertainingly
form: most unentertainingly
Etymology: From unentertaining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unentertaining manner.
unentertaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unentertaining
form: most unentertaining
Etymology: From un- + entertaining.
Senses: glosses: Not entertaining; dull.
Derived terms: unentertainingly
gallerygoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallerygoers
Etymology: From gallery + goer.
Senses: glosses: One who attends an art gallery.
gallerygoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallerygoer
Bahrayn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bahrain: An archipelago, island, and country in West Asia in the Persian Gulf
nonmonosyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monosyllabic.
Senses: glosses: Not monosyllabic.
bakeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bakable
Etymology: From bake + -able.
Senses: examples: text: While in wheat doughs it provides the arguably desirable final four functions, sourdough is an essential in the production of rye breads. Rye bread is barely bakeable without souring, and its digestibility is impaired.
ref: 1997, Harlan Walker, Food on the Move: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 1996, Oxford Symposium, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: Able to be baked (and result in a satisfactory end product, e.g. edible or palatable bread).
examples: a bakeable valve
glosses: Capable of withstanding baking heat.
Derived terms: bakeability
bakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bake + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bakeable.
hommages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hommage
cockroachlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cockroachlike
form: most cockroachlike
Etymology: From cockroach + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cockroach.
clown around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clowns around
form: clowning around
form: clowned around
form: clowned around
Senses: examples: text: While in Matliary, where Kafka stayed to recover from his tuberculosis he often confided in Robert Klopstock, one of his favorite fellow patients. Klopstock must have been deeply impressed to find that one could have long and serious discussions about Zionism, Christianity, Dostoevsky, and love to clown around and think up practical jokes with one and the same person (Stach 2013).
ref: 2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, volume 47, →DOI, pages 2336–2347:
synonyms: word: clown about
word: goof around
word: goof off
word: horse around
word: mess about
word: mess around
word: muck about
word: muck around
word: muck up
word: yuk it up
word: ;
word: fuck about
word: fuck around
word: fuck off
coordinate_terms: act out
act up
glosses: To have fun in an irresponsible manner.
half baths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half bath
groundburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundbursts
Etymology: From ground + burst.
Senses: glosses: The explosion of a bomb dropped from the air when it hits the ground.
acoustic neuromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acoustic neuroma
postulatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postulata
Senses: examples: text: The unity or identity of the people of the United States has been taken as a postulatum, without one serious attempt to prove it.
ref: 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 61:
glosses: A postulate.
Finagle's law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Head directly for Altair Six. Sailor's luck, Mister Spock. Or, as one of Finagle's Laws puts it, 'Any home port the ship makes ill be somebody else's, not mine'.
ref: 1967, Theodore Sturgeon, “Amok Time”, in Star Trek, season 2, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner):
synonyms: Murphy's law
Sod's law
glosses: An adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will at the worst possible moment.
Coordinate terms: serendipity
fissurelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fissurelike
form: most fissurelike
Etymology: From fissure + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a fissure.
parasynthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parasyntheses
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek παρασύνθεσις (parasúnthesis).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The formation of words by a combination of compounding and adding an affix, as in brown-eyed.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The formation of words in which the prefixing and the suffixing are involved simultaneously, as in multifaceted.
Derived terms: parasynthetic
zeale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Therefore the love which thou protestest here Can be at best but fayn'd & beares more shewe Of treacherye then zeale.
ref: c. 1660, “The Distracted Emperor”, in A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III:
glosses: Archaic spelling of zeal.
serang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serangs
Etymology: From Persian سرهنگ (sarhang, “commander”).
Senses: examples: text: The discovery that the substance in his mouth was of vegetable origin came as no great reassurance to Zachary: once, when the serang spat a stream of blood-red juice over the rail, he noticed the water below coming alive with the thrashing of shark's fins.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 14:
text: The serang or his deputy could serve as a rebel leader or as a point of protest; there were even times when isolated Europeans joined the rebel cause.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 161:
glosses: A native Indian boatswain; a lascar captain.
poaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poakas
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori poaka (“pig”).
Senses: examples: text: When I write that scores of houses have been burnt, whole villages renovated, kaingas fenced in, poakas and dogs fenced out […]
ref: 1904, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives..., New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, page 62:
qualifier: among the Maori people
glosses: A pig.
ngari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjɐːɹiː/
ipa: /ˈŋɐːɹiː/
Senses: glosses: A Meitei traditional food item made of ingredients such as fermented fish
semidefinite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + definite.
Senses: examples: text: Coral rock has only a semidefinite shape.
ref: 1962, Bruno Klopfer, Helen Hiller Davidson, The Rorschach Technique: An Introductory Manual, page 99:
glosses: Not entirely definite; somewhat vague or undefined.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a bilinear form, over a vector space, that is either always positive or always negative.
semidirect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-direct
Etymology: From semi- + direct.
Senses: examples: text: 1984, I. Berqvist, Chapter II: Fast Neutron Radiative Capture, B. J. Allen, I. Bergqvist, R. E. Chrien, D. Gardner, W. P. Poenitz (contributing authors), Neutron Radiative Capture: Neutron Physics and Nuclear Data in Science and Technology, page 33,
In the next step, the giant dipole state may deexcite by the emission of γ-rays. This reaction is called "semidirect". It turns out that direct and semidirect reactions play a dominating role at neutron energies higher than about 5 MeV.
text: In response to the supplier's request for improving the semidirect operations (parts supply and line management operations) at the final assembly processes and reducing labor requirements for semidirect operations, JMAC began its assessment of the situation by researching and analyzing in detail the current operations and work methods.
ref: 2003, Toshiki Naruse, Equalized & Synchronized Production: The High-Mix Manufacturing System that Moves Beyond JIT, page 8:
text: 2011, Multiple authors, Chapter 12: Atmospheric Composition Change: Climate-Chemistry Interactions, Ann Henderson-Sellers, Kendal McGuffie (editors), The Future of the World's Climate, page 341,
The term semidirect aerosol effect was first introduced by Hansen, et al. (1997). […] This triggered a number of model studies investigating the semidirect aerosol effect on a global-scale.
glosses: Neither unqualifiedly direct nor unqualifiedly indirect.
examples: text: It follows from 2° that σ induces the action homomorphism θ = σπ₁, which we call semidirect. We say that σ is a homomorphic transformation of (A, U).
If θ is the semidirect action homomorphism, then it follows from 1° that the θ-module is the semidirect sum ^𝔇 of (A^× U^×) and (B, V).
ref: 1971, Transactions of the Moscow Mathematical Society, page 261:
text: 2002, Joseph J. Rotman, Advanced Modern Algebra, American Mathematical Society, Graduate Studies in Mathematics, Volume 114, 2nd Edition, page 761,
A semidirect product is so called because a direct product G of K and Q requires, in addition to K + Q = G and K ∩ Q = {1}, that both subgroups K and Q be normal (Proposition 1.86); here, only one subgroup must be normal.
text: Problem 37. A semidirect sum of Lie algebras is a Lie algebra.
ref: 2012, Arkadij L. Onishchik, Ernest B. Vinberg, Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups, page 37:
topics: group-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: That has the nature of, or has a nature that derives from or is analogous to, a semidirect product.
Derived terms: hemisemidirect
semidirect product
semidirect sum
semilinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + linear.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing equations involving both linear and nonlinear objects
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having characteristics intermediate between linear and nonlinear
dinner-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner-times
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dinnertime.
supper time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supper times
Senses: examples: text: “She’s still paying.” Bess crossed her arms, looking the spitting image of her mudder when they’d stolen cookies from the kitchen counter an hour before supper time.
ref: 2017, Kelly Irvin, Upon a Spring Breeze, Thorndike Press, →ISBN, page 142:
glosses: Alternative form of suppertime.
supper-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supper-times
Senses: examples: text: The advice was not lost; the quadrille lasted till supper-time, and the two young people were soon gone ages in love, without having any suspicion of such a thing taking place.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: Alternative form of suppertime.
supper-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supper-time
dinner-times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner-time
supper hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supper hours
form: supper-hour
Etymology: From supper + hour.
Senses: glosses: suppertime, the hour in which the supper meal takes place.
Synonyms: dinner hour
suppertime
Coordinate terms: lunch hour
dinner hour
dinnertime
dinner hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner hours
form: dinner-hour
Senses: glosses: Dinnertime, the hour in which the dinner meal takes place.
glosses: The midday break in British schools (some areas), lunchtime.
Synonyms: supper hour
dinnertime
Coordinate terms: suppertime
lunch hour
supper hour
dinner-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner-hours
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Crawford meant to be in town by his uncle’s accustomary late dinner-hour, and William was invited to dine with him at the Admiral’s.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 200:
glosses: Alternative form of dinner hour.
supper-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supper-hours
Senses: examples: text: She would much rather not have been asked by him again so very soon, and she wished she had not been obliged to suspect that his previous inquiries of Mrs. Norris, about the supper-hour, were all for the sake of securing her at that part of the evening.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 227–228:
glosses: Alternative form of supper hour.
barriques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrique
omicrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omicron
flics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flic
semistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + stable.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a form of elliptic curve having congruent roots
sextic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of the sixth degree or order.
sextic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextics
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebraic equation or function of the sixth degree, e.g. a polynomial of degree 6; a curve surface etc. describing such an equation or function, especially a quantic of the sixth degree.
simplifaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simplifactions
Senses: glosses: simplification
spirality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiralities
Etymology: From spiral + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being spiral.
stationarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationarities
Etymology: From stationary + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being stationary
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of a series in which the value at all points is the same; the stationary value itself
subequation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subequations
form: sub-equation
Etymology: From sub- + equation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An equation that forms part of another.
glosses: One of a series of stacked equations in a document.
subphotospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + photospheric.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring beneath the photosphere
subposet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subposets
Etymology: From sub- + poset.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a poset
subschemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subscheme
subscheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subschemes
Etymology: From sub- + scheme.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a scheme
supercircle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercircles
Etymology: From super- + circle.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A special case of a superellipse having equal semimajor and semiminor axes.
superembedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + embedding.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A supersymmetric extension of classical surface theory to the description of superbrane dynamics by means of embedding worldvolume supersurfaces into target superspaces
superequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superequilibria
Etymology: From super- + equilibrium.
Senses: glosses: The condition of a system in which the value of a parameter is greater than the equilibrium value
superhard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superhard
form: most superhard
Etymology: From super- + hard.
Senses: glosses: Having a very high hardness.
examples: text: a superhard missile silo
glosses: Highly strengthened against attack.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a hardness between that of boron nitride and that of diamond.
Related terms: ultrahard
superhard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superhards
Etymology: From super- + hard.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A tyre whose compound is harder than a normal hard tyre.
superisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of superization.
superization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superizations
Etymology: From super- + -ization.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: The extension of a manifold to a supermanifold
supersoft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supersoft
form: most supersoft
Etymology: From super- + soft.
Senses: glosses: Very soft.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing astronomical X-rays of very low energy.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Softer than soft, harder than ultrasoft and therefore harder than hypersoft.
supersoft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersofts
Etymology: From super- + soft.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of supersoft tyre.
Related terms: ultrasoft
hypersoft
soft
supertransformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertransformation
supertransformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertransformations
Etymology: From super- + transformation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The formation of a supertransform
Related terms: supertransform
supertransformant
supertransform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supertransforms
Etymology: From super- + transform.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The transform of a supermeasure.
symmetrised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of symmetrise
symmetrised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of symmetrized.
symplectomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symplectomorphism
symplectomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symplectomorphisms
Etymology: Blend of symplectic + isomorphism.
Senses: examples: text: In prequantizing symplectomorphisms of the type T^*g, the only special property which we used was the fact that they preserve canonical 1-forms.
ref: 1977, Alan Weinstein, Lectures on Symplectic Manifolds, American Mathematical Society, page 34:
text: Poincare's argument is based on the fact that the fixed points of a symplectomorphism of the annulus are precisely the critical points of the function #92;textstyleF(x,y)#61;#92;int#123;(fdv-gdu)#125;, where u#61;(X#43;x)#47;2, v#61;(Y#43;y)#47;2, true under the assumption that the Jacobian #92;partial(u,v)#47;#92;partial(x,y) is different from zero.
ref: 2001, V. I. Arnol'd, A. B. Givental', “Symplectic Geometry”, in A. Dzhamay, G. Wassermann, transl., edited by V. I. Arnol'd and S. P. Novikov, Dynamical Systems IV: Symplectic Geometry and its Applications, 2nd edition, Springer, page 39:
text: 2008, Ana Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry, Springer, 2nd printing with corrections, page 63,
The symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold (M,ω) form the group
Sympl(M,ω)={f:M overset ≃⟶M|f^*ω=ω}.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An isomorphism of a symplectic manifold; a diffeomorphism which preserves symplectic structure.
teleparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + parallel.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting teleparallelism
teleparallelism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + parallelism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An early attempt at unifying electromagnetism and gravity, according to which a spacetime is characterized by a curvature-free linear connection in conjunction with a metric tensor field, both defined in terms of a dynamical tetrad field.
Synonyms: teleparallel gravity
toral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toral
form: most toral
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a torus
Synonyms: toric
toroidal
tracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trace + -ial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the trace of a projection.
Derived terms: traciality
transplanckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transplanckian
form: most transplanckian
form: trans-Planckian
Etymology: From trans- + Planckian.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Associated with energies greater than the Planck energy
Related terms: cisplanckian
Mahumet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of Muhammad.
tribimaximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + bi- + maximal.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describes a combination of the trimaximal and bimaximal methods.
trimaximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + maximal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having three maxima
raw_tags: of a function
tricategory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricategories
Etymology: From tri- + category.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A 3-dimensional category, continuing the pattern of bicategory.
umbilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbilic
form: most umbilic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having a navel or umbilicus
umbilic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbilics
Senses: examples: text: In the umbilic of this Court is a square Tank.
ref: 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:
glosses: The navel; the center.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An umbilicus.
unapplicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + applicable.
Senses: glosses: Not applicable.
Synonyms: inapplicable
uncondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + condensed.
Senses: glosses: Not condensed
Synonyms: unabridged
underluminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underluminous
form: most underluminous
Etymology: From under- + luminous.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently luminous
weightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From weighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being weighted
worldline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: worldlines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of world line.
world line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world lines
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A path in spacetime, especially that traversed by an elementary particle from its creation to its destruction.
olibanum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈlɪbənəm/
Forms: form: olibanums
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin olibanum, from Latin oleum libani, the first word meaning oil and the second from Ancient Greek λίβανος (líbanos, “frankincense (Boswellia sacra)”), from a Semitic source, compare Proto-Semitic *laban- (“white”). Cognate with Biblical Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”). (Compare benzoin for a similar process of metanalysis.) Doublet of oliban.
Senses: examples: text: Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
text: Among the Turks, an exciting compound consists of olibanum, myrrh, camphor, musk, in pulverized form. The resultant perfume is said to affect the genitals.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168:
glosses: A gum resin from trees of the genus Boswellia, formerly used as a medicine and now mainly as incense.
Synonyms: frankincense
Derived terms: olibene
intellectual disabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intellectual disability
smooth operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smooth operator
sexual favor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual favors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sexual favour.
sexual favors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual favor
sexual favour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexual favours
form: sexual favor
Senses: examples: text: Quid pro quo sexual harassment is when a worker is asked for a sexual favour, and submitting to or rejecting that request is used to make a decision about that worker's job.
ref: 2019, Ellen Pinkos Cobb, International Workplace Sexual Harassment Laws and Developments for the Multinational Employer, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: A sex act from one person to another, usually outside of a romantic relationship.
sexual favours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexual favour
Old Norman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The dialect of the Old French language spoken in the north of France during the Middle Ages.
Synonyms: Old Northern French
Related terms: Anglo-Norman
Old Picard
Old Occitan
turn flukes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns flukes
form: turning flukes
form: turned flukes
form: turned flukes
Senses: glosses: Of a whale: to go under, dive.
examples: text: But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To turn in, go to bed.
genital warts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genital wart
AW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: AW23 collection
topics: fashion
lifestyle
synonyms: FW
coordinate_terms: SS
glosses: Initialism of autumn/winter; often followed by a year.
BV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Initialism of backing vocals.
glosses: Initialism of bacterial vaginosis.
glosses: Initialism of blood volume.
coordinate_terms: OV
UB
AV
CV
qualifier: among vorarephiles
glosses: Initialism of breast vore.
genogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genogroups
Etymology: From geno- + group.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A group of related viruses within a genus
genogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genogroups
form: genogrouping
form: genogrouped
form: genogrouped
Etymology: From geno- + group.
Senses: glosses: To identify and classify the related viruses within a group
Derived terms: intergenogroup
subgenogroup
Hollands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: jenever (the Dutch form of gin)
Hollands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hollandses
Etymology: Variant of Holland.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
medianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more medianly
form: most medianly
Etymology: From median + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a median direction
morphophonology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɔ(ɹ).foʊˌfənˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌmɔː.fəʊˌfənˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒiː/
Forms: form: morpho-phonology
Etymology: From morpho- + phonology.
Senses: glosses: A branch of linguistics concerned with phonemes, and the phonological representation of morphemes.
Synonyms: morphophonemics
morphonology
Derived terms: morphophonological
morphophonologist
nodosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodosities
Etymology: From nodose + -ity, from Latin nodositas.
Senses: glosses: A knotty swelling.
glosses: The state of being nodose.
odontoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more odontoid
form: most odontoid
Etymology: Ancient Greek ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”) + -oid
Senses: glosses: Resembling a tooth, especially in shape
Derived terms: odontoid bone
odontoid peg
odontoid process
odontoidectomy
odontoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontoids
Etymology: Ancient Greek ὀδών (odṓn, “tooth”) + -oid
Senses: glosses: A separate bone, in many reptiles, corresponding to the odontoid process.
oncocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oncocyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an oncocyte or to oncocytoma
operculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin operculatus, past participle of operculare (“to furnish with a lid”), from operculum (“lid”).
Senses: synonyms: operculated
glosses: Having an operculum.
Derived terms: deoperculate
inoperculate
nonoperculate
paraoperculate
suboperculate
unoperculate
operculate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operculates
Etymology: From Latin operculatus, past participle of operculare (“to furnish with a lid”), from operculum (“lid”).
Senses: glosses: Any gastropod mollusc that has an operculum
ophan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophanim
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Hebrew אופן ('ofán).
Senses: glosses: A member of an order of wheel-like angels.
ophanim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophan
ophitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophitic
form: most ophitic
Etymology: From ophite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having crystals of feldspar interspersed with plates of augite.
paralogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralogies
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: paralogism, fallacy
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A paralogous relationship
Related terms: paralogician
paralogistic
plagiosere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagioseres
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A series of plant communities that are interrupted or disturbed by an outside agent
pragmatical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹæɡˈmætɪkəl/
Forms: form: more pragmatical
form: most pragmatical
Etymology: From Late Latin pragmaticus + -al. By surface analysis, pragmatic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: VVe cannot therefore alvvayes be contemplative, or pragmaticall abroad, but have need of ſom delightfull intermiſſions, vvherin the enlarg'd ſoul may leav off a vvhile her ſevere ſchooling; […]
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 9:
text: […]it has seemed to me that the low, pragmatical, earthly view of the Gospel manifested therein,—as also in his elegant treatise De Veritate Religionis Christianae,—affords a strong confirmation to that report.
ref: 1846, Julius Charles Hare, “Note L. p. 35.”, in The Mission of the Comforter and Other Sermons with Notes, volume 2 (The Notes), London: John W. Parker, […], page 548:
glosses: Synonym of pragmatic (“practical”).
synonyms: word: pragmatic
extra: practical
examples: text: [H]e grevv ſo pragmatical, that he took upon him the Government of my vvhole Family: I could never order any thing, vvithin or vvithout doors, but he muſt be alvvays giving his Counſel, forſooth: […]
ref: 1712, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], “The Conference between Don Diego Dismallo, and John Bull”, in An Appendix to John Bull Still in His Senses: Or, Law is a Bottomless-Pit. […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Morphew, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: [H]e had been condemned already to many uncomfortable lurking-places, and more disagreeable disguises, as well as to long and difficult journeys, during which, between pragmatical officers of justice belonging to the prevailing party, and parties of soldiers whose officers usually took on them to act upon their own warrant, risk of discovery had more than once become very imminent.
ref: 1826, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, pages 305–306:
glosses: Synonym of pragmatic (“officious, meddlesome”).
synonyms: word: pragmatic
extra: officious, meddlesome
topics: law
glosses: Relating to affairs of state.
Derived terms: apragmatical
pragmatically
pragmaticalness
unpragmatical
saligenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From salicin + -genin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The phenolic alcohol o-hydroxy-benzyl alcohol obtained by the decomposition of salicin
selectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From selection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to selection.
silentiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silentiaries
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Late Latin silentiarius.
Senses: glosses: A person who keeps silent, especially from religious motives.
glosses: An official at any of several courts who maintained silence.
subornative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subornative
form: most subornative
Etymology: From suborn + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to subornation
substantivization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantivizations
Senses: glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of substantivisation.
substantivizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantivization
Suprematism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uːˈpɹɛmətɪzəm/
Senses: examples: text: The Suprematism of Kasimir Malevich is an even more extreme version of similar character.
ref: 2004, Mary Acton, Learning to Look at Modern Art, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 166:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A genre of abstract art based on simple geometric forms championed by the Russian avant-garde in the early twentieth century.
Related terms: suprematist
constructivism
thyreostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That reduces (or stabilizes) the production of thyroid hormones, such as methimazole, carbimazole, or propylthiouracil.
Synonyms: thyrostatic
Related terms: thyreostasis
thyreostat
thyrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thyrostatic
form: most thyrostatic
Etymology: From thyro- + static.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That reduces (or stabilizes) the production of thyroid hormones, such as methimazole, carbimazole, or propylthiouracil
Synonyms: thyreostatic
antithyroid
Related terms: thyrostasis
miniature poodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miniature poodle
holoclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holoclones
Etymology: From holo- + clone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A colony-forming stem cell that has a higher growth potential than a meroclone because it does not contain differentiated cells
Related terms: holoclonal
meroclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meroclones
Etymology: From mero- + clone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells
isocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + crystalline.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to an isocrystal
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the same crystalline structure
lipochitin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipo- + chitin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of oligosaccharides consisting of chitin having a fatty acid group attached to the nitrogen of the non-reducing terminus
magnetricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of magnet + electricity
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The flow of magnetic monopoles as the magnetic equivalent of electricity.
microdystrophin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdystrophins
Etymology: From micro- + dystrophin.
Senses: glosses: A truncated form of dystrophin missing most of the internal exons
paraclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraclones
Etymology: From para- + clone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a colony of stem cells that have differing capacities for growth.
Related terms: holoclone
meroclone
phosphoregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + regulation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: regulation via phosphorylation
Related terms: phosphoregulator
phosphoregulatory
polyclone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyclones
Etymology: From poly- + clone.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A discrete area of tissue composed of several different clones of cells
subconducting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + conducting.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a state in which conduction is reduced
subconfluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + confluent.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a tissue culture in which the spatial relationships of the cells are intermediate between sparse and confluent
whole notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whole note
subpercolating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subpercolating
form: most subpercolating
Etymology: From sub- + percolating.
Senses: glosses: That percolate underneath
topometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From topo- + -metry.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various imaging or surveying techniques in which the three-dimensional positions of an array of points is recorded.
Related terms: topography
topometer
translocus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + locus.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Describing organisms created via the transfer of a chain locus
glycolylneuraminic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From glycolyl + neuraminic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing glycolyl derivatives of neuraminic acids such as sialic acid
Derived terms: glycolylneuraminate
yearnful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yearnful
form: most yearnful
Etymology: From Middle English yernful, ȝeornful, from Old English ġearnfull, ġeornful (“desirous, eager, zealous, diligent, anxious”), equivalent to yearn + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: So now lend me thy yearnful tunes to utter my sorrow.
ref: 1570, Richard Edwards, “Damon and Pithias”, in A select collection of old English plays, Volume 4, page 43:
text: Ah! they were grand days, those deep, full days, when our coming life, like an unseen organ, pealed strange, yearnful music in our ears, and our young blood cried out like a war-horse for the battle.
ref: 1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:
text: I am yearnful to know who was the unhappy person the wicked general threatened.
ref: 1919, Albert Payson Terhune, “The Strike”, in O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919:
glosses: Filled with yearning; desirous; mournful; distressing.
Derived terms: yearnfully
yearnfulness
unholds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhold
unholding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhold
yarer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of yare: more yare
hetas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heta
fissureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fissure + -less.
Senses: examples: fissureless bedrock
glosses: Without fissures.
Synonyms: nonfissured
unfissured
yarest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of yare: most yare
yelpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of yelpy: more yelpy
yelpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of yelpy: most yelpy
nonfissured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fissured.
Senses: glosses: unfissured
unfissured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fissured.
Senses: glosses: Without fissures.
Synonyms: fissureless
nonfissured
zoöcysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoöcyst
disorganizedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disorganizedly
form: most disorganizedly
form: disorganisedly
Etymology: From disorganized + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disorganized manner.
Synonyms: sense: in a disorganized manner
word: disorderedly
sense: in a disorganized manner
word: untidily
sense: in a disorganized manner
word: chaotically
sense: in a disorganized manner
word: haphazardly
disorganisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disorganisedly
form: most disorganisedly
Etymology: From disorganised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of disorganizedly.
holoclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holoclone
meroclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meroclone
Old Picard
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Old French spoken in Picardy and its neighboring regions which evolved into modern Picard.
Related terms: Old Norman
Old Occitan
paraclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraclone
polyclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyclone
Scarlet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Scarlets
Senses: examples: text: It's not just Ribbons either. It's - get ready for this - Scarlet Ribbons. From an old Harry Belafonte record my mom had when she was about ten or something. When she grew up she was going to have a little girl and call her Scarlet Ribbons.
ref: 1979, Joseph Hansen, Skinflick, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, →ISBN, page 96:
glosses: A female given name from English, a modern variant of Scarlett, or from the common noun scarlet.
nonpermissiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonpermissive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being nonpermissive.
nonelectrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-electrified
Etymology: From non- + electrified.
Senses: examples: text: Soon the rat learns to jump into the nonelectrified box whenever the red light comes on, even before any electric shock is received.
ref: 1975, John T Hardy, Science, technology, and the environment:
glosses: Not electrified.
examples: a nonelectrified household
glosses: Not supplied with electricity.
orgasmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orgasm + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Another ritual for the Kundalini release is maithuna in tantric yoga where sexual energy is sublimated by engaging in orgasmless sex (eg, Ajaya, 1979).
ref: 1998, William F Pinar, Queer theory in education:
glosses: Without orgasm.
carplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carplike
form: most carplike
Etymology: From carp + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a carp (the fish).
tschk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: His face was blank with wonder. "So it stands up against a wall his wife?" He shook his head slowly and kept shaking it. "Tschk, tschk, tschk, tschk! His wife! And from this a human being makes a living!"
ref: 1953, William Lindsay Gresham, Monster midway: an uninhibited look at the glittering world of the carny:
text: A show-down came when the unidentified chief of an unidentified mission brought in a young and distant relative to receive for him at a function—over the heads of other wives within the mission. This caused many an indignant 'tschk! tschk!'
ref: 2005, Frances Spalding Copeland, Mrs. Copeland's Guest Book:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tsk.
nontrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + trained.
Senses: examples: a nontrained nurse
glosses: untrained