cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ferromagnetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science and technology of ferromagnetic materials
intervortex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + vortex.
Senses: glosses: Between vortices
intracomponent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + component.
Senses: glosses: Within a component
isosymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + symmetric.
Senses: glosses: Having (or maintaining) the same symmetry
ends up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of end up
ending up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of end up
ended up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of end up
klinotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clinotaxis
Etymology: From klino- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: movement towards a stimulus gradient
microbarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbarns
Etymology: From micro- + barn.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of surface area equal to one millionth of a barn
multigate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gate.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple (electronic) gates
multimorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimorphisms
Etymology: From multi- + morphism.
Senses: glosses: The presence of multiple forms simultaneously
multimorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multimorphism
perturbators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perturbator
perturbator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perturbators
form: perturbatour
Senses: glosses: Something that perturbates
angwantibo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æŋˈɡwɑntɪˌbou/
ipa: /ɑŋ-/
Forms: form: angwantibos
Etymology: From Ibibio añwa (“cat”) + nte (“like”) + ibọk (“monkey”).
Senses: glosses: Either of two small primates, of the genus Arctocebus, similar to lemurs.
Synonyms: golden potto
dunnart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʌnə(ɹ)t/
Forms: form: dunnarts
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Nyunga danard (“Sminthopsis griseoventer”).
Senses: examples: text: After the winter solstice, while the ambient temperature still remained low, nest sharing declined rapidly, due to increasing intolerance among the fat-tailed dunnarts, as breeding began.
ref: 2005, C. Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, Life of Marsupials, page 158:
text: During the original AWC survey, Alexander Baynes identified, in a single hollow salmon gum, 283 jaws of half-a-dozen native mammal species, mostly dunnarts, many of which were recovered from owl pellets.
ref: 2009, Tim Winton, “Silent Country: Travels through a Recovering Landscape”, in Robyn Davidson, editor, The Best Australian Essays 2009, page 18:
text: Reptiles are an important food source for a wide range of animals, including birds and small native marsupials such as the yellow-footed antechinus and the fat-tailed dunnart.
ref: 2010, Damian Michael, David Lindenmayer, Reptiles of the NSW Murray Catchment, page 7:
glosses: Any species of the genus Sminthopsis of small carnivorous marsupials that resemble mice or shrews.
Derived terms: Butler's dunnart
chestnut dunnart
common dunnart
fat-tailed dunnart
Gilbert's dunnart
greater hairy-footed dunnart
grey-bellied dunnart
Julia Creek dunnart
Kakadu dunnart
large long-tailed dunnart
lesser hairy-footed dunnart
little long-tailed dunnart
Ooldea dunnart
red-cheeked dunnart
sandhill dunnart
stripe-faced dunnart
white-footed dunnart
white-tailed dunnart
Related terms: marsupial mouse
goldwasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The monastic shoots spread as far as Poland where they founded Gdansk, the home of goldwasser, and Cracow, the Lyon of Polish gastronomy.
ref: 2002, Léo Moulin, Eating and drinking in Europe: a cultural history, page 268:
glosses: A Polish liqueur containing particles of gold leaf.
grunginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grungy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There was a general grunginess about the place.
ref: 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 48:
glosses: The condition of being grungy
hempseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hempseeds
Etymology: From Middle English, equivalent to hemp + seed.
Senses: glosses: The seed of the hemp plant, used as high-protein food or fishing bait.
examples: text: Thou wot, wot thou? Thou wot, wot ta? Do, do, thou rogue. Do, thou hempseed.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
synonyms: hempstretch
glosses: A gallows bird; a person hanged.
husbander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husbanders
Etymology: From husband + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In ancient times there were men who were such excellent husbanders of their time that they tried even in death to taste and relish it and strained their minds to see what their passage was; but they have not returned to tell us news of it […]
ref: 2008, Ruth L. Nadelhaft, Victoria Bonebakker, Imagine What It's Like:
glosses: A person who husbands resources.
examples: text: By 1840, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia (the part of the state that’s now West Virginia, in particular) held most of the South’s sheep. With larger flocks and more customers, husbanders soon developed sheep breeds that could produce plentiful, quality wool for most of their lives, then be turned into decent enough meat at the end.
ref: 2020 April 8, Gabe Bullard, “Southern Mutton”, in The Bitter Southerner:
glosses: One who practices animal husbandry.
Related terms: husbandman
husbandhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English husbondhode, equivalent to husband + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a husband
Related terms: husbandship
iliacus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlʌɪ.ə.kəs/
ipa: /ɪˈlaɪ.ə.kəs/
Forms: form: iliaci
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A flat triangular muscle that fills the iliac fossa.
imagesetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imagesetters
Etymology: From image + setter.
Senses: glosses: A high-resolution typesetting device that takes its input from a computer file.
inspectorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspectorships
Etymology: From inspector + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being an inspector; the office of an inspector.
keyway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keyways
Etymology: From key + way.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A slot into which a precision attachment (a key) is fitted.
glosses: The whole deep way the key has to go, the hollow or cavity.
glosses: A guide groove.
examples: Near-synonyms: keyseat, groove
topics: engineering
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The recessed part of a keyed joint, in which the key resides.
glosses: The groove within a modern lock that the key slides into; any lock's keyhole.
kongoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kongonis
Etymology: From Swahili kongoni.
Senses: synonyms: Coke's hartebeest
glosses: A type of hartebeest from East Africa.
kowari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kowaris
Etymology: From Dieri kawiri.
Senses: examples: text: The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) of central Australia, one of a number of marsupial species that become torpid during cold weather, is also a fierce hunter and vocally aggressive […].
ref: 2024, David Owen, David Pemberton, Tasmanian Devil, Allen & Unwin, page 57:
glosses: A small carnivorous rat-like marsupial, Dasyuroides byrnei, endemic to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia.
Synonyms: english: former taxonomic name
translation: former taxonomic name
word: Dasycercus byrnei
sense: Dasyuroides byrnei
word: brush-tailed marsupial rat
sense: Dasyuroides byrnei
word: Kayer rat
sense: Dasyuroides byrnei
word: Byrne's crest-tailed marsupial rat
sense: Dasyuroides byrnei
word: bushy-tailed marsupial rat
sense: Dasyuroides byrnei
word: kawiri
lagena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lagenas
form: lagenae
form: lagenæ
Etymology: From Latin lagēna (“flagon; large flask”), from Ancient Greek λάγηνος (lágēnos, “flask, pitcher”). alternative form of λᾰ́γῡνος (lắgūnos)
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The upper part of the cochlear duct.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A similar structure, shaped like a flask, that is a hearing organ in some vertebrates.
glosses: A wine-vase; an amphora.
Derived terms: lagenar
lageniform
rebetiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebetika
form: rembetiko
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek ρεμπέτικο (rempétiko, “rebetiko”).
Senses: examples: text: I need another player to put a Greek melody over the top, perhaps a rebetiko of some sort.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Greek urban folk song, characterised by lyrics about underworld activity, and played generally on stringed instruments including the bouzouki.
examples: text: At the time, these earliest songs of the rebetika tradition were a symptom and a particular manifestation of a wider climate of violence, criminality and despair, whether real or imagined, that permeated the Greek capital around the turn of the century.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 172:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: This style of music; such music as a genre.
Related terms: laiko
masterhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From master + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being a master
rebetika
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebetiko
mirky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mirkier
form: mirkiest
Senses: glosses: Dated form of murky.
Derived terms: mirkily
mirrnyong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mirrnyongs
form: mirnyong
Etymology: From an Aboriginal language.
Senses: examples: text: Along the Creek′s west bank there were three small mirnyongs or native ovens, the first of which, about 200 yards north of the Princes Highway, was the best preserved, until it was bull-dozed out of existence in March 1966 by the Country Roads Board[…].
ref: 1969, Aldo Massola, Journey to Aboriginal Victoria, page 26:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mound of cooking debris accumulated by Aborigines; a kitchen midden.
Synonyms: word: midden
monodactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The presence of a single digit on a limb
Related terms: monodactyl
mouther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouthers
Etymology: From mouth + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who mouths
elfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: elves
glosses: plural of elf
elfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elf
anteclypeus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anteclypei
Etymology: From ante- + clypeus.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The lower part of a divided clypeus, between the postclypeus and the labrum
ascon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ascons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós, “skin, hide for making bags; paunch”) + -on
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cavity, in the form of a bag or tube, lined with choanocytes, that forms the structure of sponges
Derived terms: asconoid
Related terms: ascus
askos
atelestite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A basic bismuth arsenate that occurs as a yellow-green mineral
halirift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halirifts
Senses: glosses: A type of veil once worn by nuns
leucon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucons
Senses: glosses: A complex sponge structure in which chambers lined with choanocytes are connected by a network of canals
Derived terms: leuconoid
pellitorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pellitory + -ine.
Senses: glosses: An unsaturated secondary amide that occurs as a toxic alkaloid in the root of the pellitory
pellitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɛlɪtɔɹi/
Forms: form: pellitories
Etymology: Probably a variant form of parietary with dissimilation of the first /r/ to /l/.
Senses: examples: text: The dried herb Pellitory made up into an electuary with honey, or the juice of the herb, or the decoction thereof made up with sugar or honey, is a singular remedy for any old or dry cough, the shortness of breath, and wheezing in the throat.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 215:
glosses: Pellitory of the wall (Parietaria officinalis).
examples: text: There are some who advise taking the noxious herb savory; in my judgment it is poison. Or they mix pepper with the seed of prickly nettle and yellow pellitory pounded in old wine.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 208:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Parietaria.
glosses: Any plant of the genus Parietaria.
Parietaria debilis
glosses: Any plant of the genus Parietaria.
Parietaria hespera
glosses: Any plant of the genus Parietaria.
Parietaria judaica (spreading pellitory)
glosses: Achillea ptarmica (European pellitory, bastard pellitory, wild pellitory, sneezewort.
glosses: Tanacetum cinerariifolium (formerly Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium) (feverfew, Dalmatian pellitory)
Derived terms: pellitorine
pellitory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlɪt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈpɛlɪtɔɹi/
Forms: form: pellitories
Etymology: Probably an alteration of pelleter, with change of ending after Etymology 1, above.
Senses: examples: text: Common Pellitory is a very common plant, and will not be kept in our gardens without diligent looking to.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 213:
glosses: Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum), a plant containing an oil once used for toothaches and facial neuralgia.
Derived terms: bastard pellitory
Roman pellitory
moral suasion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moral suasions
Senses: examples: text: The temperance movement also exacerbated ethnic tensions. Before 1850 this movement had been primarily one of self-denial and moral suasion aimed at persuading the Protestant middle and working classes to cast out demon rum and become sober, hard-working, upward-striving citizens.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 133:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
hypernyms: persuasion
coordinate_terms: jawboning#Noun
glosses: Persuasion brought to bear by appeals to someone's moral sense or ethics.
take the stump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the stump
form: taking the stump
form: took the stump
form: taken the stump
Senses: examples: text: Still calling himself a Whig, Lincoln took the stump in behalf of anti-Nebraska candidates for the legislature, hoping that victory would forge a legislative majority to elect him to the U. S. Senate.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 127:
glosses: To make a series of political speeches, especially to promote a particular cause.
fire-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire-eater
fire eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire eater
multiplay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + play.
Senses: glosses: Describing a CD player (or similar) that can be preloaded with a stack of CDs
topics: video-games
glosses: multiplayer
multiplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + play.
Senses: examples: text: The team has never done networked multiplay for a racing game. We aren't completely sure we can do it.
ref: 2008, Jesse Schell, The art of game design, page 93:
topics: video-games
glosses: The ability of more than one player to participate in a game at the same time (especially by means of a network).
Hyponyms: netplay
multiway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + way.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple paths, channels or configurations
parastichy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parastichies
Etymology: Ancient Greek παρά (pará) + στίχος (stíkhos, “row”).
Senses: examples: text: As the name suggests, it is possible to trace spiral curves in the pattern. These curves are called parastichies. The parastichies winding in the same direction around the stem with the same pitch constitute one family of parastichies, and two easily perceived sets of parastichies winding in opposite direction are called a parastichy pair.
ref: 2012, Efi Fogel, CGAL Arrangements and Their Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A secondary spiral of leaves or florets.
glass harp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɑːs hɑːp/
ipa: /ɡlæs hɑɹp/
Forms: form: glass harps
Etymology: Possibly a calque of German Glasharfe, from Glas (“glass”) + Harfe (“harp”) (see the 1969 quotation).
Senses: examples: text: A newer glass instrument is the glass harp [G[erman] Glasharfe] constructed by B[runo] Hoffmann in 1929. Similar to the musical glasses of England, it consists of 46 individually tuned glasses fixed on a resonant table.
ref: 1969, “Glass harmonica”, in Willi Apel, editor, Harvard Dictionary of Music, 2nd rev. and enl. edition, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 347:
text: Glass harmonicas are basically of two types. One type employs vertical wine glasses arranged so that the performer can rub more than one glass at a time. A collection of glasses played in this manner is sometimes called a glass harp. The other type, called the armonica by its inventor Benjamin Franklin, employs glass bowls or cups turned by a horizontal axle, so the performer need only touch the rims of the bowls as they rotate to set them into vibration[…].
ref: 2000, Thomas D. Rossing, “Glass Musical Instruments”, in Science of Percussion Instruments (Series in Popular Science; 3), Singapore: World Scientific, →ISBN, page 182:
text: The glass harp produces the "sound of the universe" according to [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe. The musician [Christoph Willibald] Gluck gave an entire concert using the glass harp in London in 1746. Sound is made when a wine glass "sings": run your finger around the rim. The sound is thus produced by making the glass vibrate rather than by making the air in the container vibrate (like blowing over a bottle).
ref: 2007, C. Barry Carter, M. Grant Norton, “Processing Glass and Glass-ceramics”, in Ceramic Materials: Science and Engineering, Springer, →ISBN, pages 476–477:
text: Joni [Mitchell] and Neil [Young] have both used alien and spaceman imagery to articulate their feelings, in interviews as well as in their lyrics. Listen to the words for Young's "After the Gold Rush" (1970) and you will hear a whole story of humanity's next exodus into space, a tale that prompted Linda Ronstadt, who covered the tune with glass harps, to say: "I would think, 'This is the future. Neil's humans leave the planet and go off to start a new space colony.' I've always felt Neil had a great deal of really uncanny prescience in his writing."
ref: 2012, Katherine Monk, “Facing Down the Grim Reaper: Illness and Survival”, in Joni: The Creative Odyssey of Joni Mitchell, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, D&M Publishers, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A musical instrument consisting of glasses (typically wine glasses) tuned by putting different amounts of liquid into them. Sound is produced by rubbing one's fingers around the rims of the glasses, causing them to vibrate.
Synonyms: musical glasses
verrillon
Hypernyms: crystallophone
Related terms: glass harpist
glass harmonica
planktic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plankton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: planktonic
pneumatophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatophores
Etymology: From pneumato- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A gas-filled sac or float of some colonial marine coelenterates, such as the Portuguese man-of-war.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An aerial root, in mangroves etc., specialized for gaseous exchange.
glosses: An apparatus consisting of a bag with a tube and mouthpiece, which may be attached to the body. The bag contains oxygen to be breathed by the wearer in rescue work in mines, etc.
Derived terms: pneumatophorous
popularism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From popular + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any political doctrine chosen to appeal to a majority of the electorate: populism.
Copperheadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Copperhead + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The project went nowhere, but it did plant seeds of copperheadism that germinated a couple of years later.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 247:
glosses: The state of being a Copperhead; sympathy in the North for Southern secessionists during the American Civil War.
shibori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese しぼり.
Senses: glosses: A form of Japanese tie-dye on silk
-craft
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -craft, -creft, from Old English -cræft (“art or skill in”), from cræft (“art, skill”). More at craft.
Senses: examples: statecraft
stagecraft
synonyms: -work
glosses: a skill of a particular kind
-craft
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From craft (“vehicle, vessel”).
Senses: examples: aircraft
hovercraft
glosses: a vehicle of a particular type
oversanguine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈsaŋɡwɪn/
Forms: form: more oversanguine
form: most oversanguine
form: over-sanguine
Etymology: From over- + sanguine.
Senses: examples: text: So when the Elizabethan bishop, Edwin Sanders, claimed that ‘the gospel hath chased away walking spirits’, he was over-sanguine.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 571:
text: In that respect the popular clamor for "smashing" the rebels was based on sound if oversanguine instinct.
ref: 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 335:
glosses: Too sanguine; overconfident, too disposed to hopes of success.
Derived terms: oversanguinely
forfex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɔːɹfɛks/
Forms: form: forfices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin forfex.
Senses: examples: text: The Peer now spreads the glitt'ring Forfex wide,
T'inclose the Lock; now joins it, to divide.
ref: 1712 May, [Alexander Pope], “The Rape of the Locke. An Heroi-comical Poem.”, in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. […], London: […] Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, canto:
text: the Classical forfices
ref: 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopædia of Antiquities:
glosses: A pair of shears.
railbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: railbuses
form: railbusses
Etymology: From rail + bus.
Senses: examples: text: They were ruled out as over-engineered and too expensive for mass production, and lost out to Class 141 and '142' railbuses, and then Class 150s.
ref: 2023 April 5, “£35,000 needed to save a Class 317 and create rebuilt '210' DMU”, in RAIL, number 980, page 8:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A lightweight passenger railway vehicle, similar in appearance to a bus
regardlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more regardlessly
form: most regardlessly
Etymology: From regardless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a regardless manner
repetend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repetends
Etymology: From Latin repetendum (something to be repeated).
Senses: glosses: A refrain (having repeated words, sounds or phrases).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A repeated part in repeating decimals.
repeating decimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repeating decimals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A decimal representation of a real number that, at some point, becomes periodic (and repeats some sequence of digits infinitely)
wordcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From word + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: To identify a piece of speech in finance as rhetoric is not to damn it but to identify it as part of wordcraft.
ref: 2000, Deirdre N. McCloskey, How to be human: though an economist:
text: It is the key concept in Jakobson's fundamental recognition of the importance of repetition in wordcraft […]
ref: 1990, J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative art and poetry in the books of Samuel:
glosses: Skill with words; clever use of words or speech, rhetoric.
retable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈteɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: retables
Etymology: Borrowed from French retable, ultimately from Medieval Latin retrotabulum.
Senses: synonyms: reredos
glosses: A table or shelf behind an altar, on which are placed images or holy objects.
retable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈteɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
ipa: /riːˈteɪbəl/
ipa: /riˈteɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
ipa: /rɪˈteɪbəl/
rhymes: -eɪbəl
Forms: form: retables
form: retabling
form: retabled
form: retabled
Etymology: From re- + table.
Senses: examples: text: Politicians are keen to retable the bill.
glosses: To table again.
starcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starcrafts
Etymology: From star + -craft, the latter part from Old English -cræft (“-craft”).
Senses: examples: text: On the same morning, almost the same hour, / Under the selfsame aspect of the stars, / (Oh falsehood of all starcraft!) we were born. / How like each other was the birth of each!
ref: 1827–1879 (date written), Alfred Tennyson, “Part I”, in The Lover’s Tale, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1879, →OCLC, page 18:
glosses: The art of interpreting or reading the stars, astrology.
starcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starcrafts
form: starcraft
Etymology: From star + craft.
Senses: synonyms: spacecraft
glosses: A vehicle which travels to or among the stars.
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Senses: glosses: Official name of Pakistan: a country in South Asia.
end of quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊt
Senses: glosses: Used in speech to indicate the end of a quotation.
Synonyms: unquote
end quote
take a dirt nap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a dirt nap
form: taking a dirt nap
form: took a dirt nap
form: taken a dirt nap
Senses: glosses: To die.
revelational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more revelational
form: most revelational
Etymology: From revelation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to revelation
revelationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revelationists
Etymology: From revelation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who believes in divine revelation.
examples: text: Otherwiſe, by this plea of an unction from the Spirit, you may take upon you the function of Kings in the world, as well as of Prieſts in the Church; for the Revelationiſt joyns them both together, ſaying, He hath made us Kings and Prieſts.
ref: 1657, Jeffry Watts, “Of the Ministery of the Church of England”, in A Scribe, Pharisee, Hypocrite; and His Letter Answered, Separates Churched, Dippers Sprinkled: […], London: […] Edward Dod, […] Thomas Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 111:
text: Such were thoſe that preſented to be inſpired with ſome divine Fury, or ſtrange Rapture, called Lymphatici, q. d. Νυμφόληπτοι, And the Enthuſiaſts, or pretended Revelationiſts.
ref: [1696?], Alethius Phylopsyches [pseudonym], “Proving by Philosophy the Separate Existence of the Soul”, in Ψυχηλογια [Psychelogia]; or Serious Thoughts on Second Thoughts. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: However, it is melancholy to obſerve, that many of theſe Revelationiſts, with all their boaſted Intercourſe with Heaven, live upon Earth with leſs Order in their Lives, and with more Slavery to human Paſſion, than even ſome decent People, who make no Pretences to Religion at all.
ref: 1780, [Ambrose Serle], “Summer”, in A Companion for the Christian in His Field and Garden, London: […] J. Mathews, […] J. Buckland, […] and G. Keith, […], →OCLC, page 125:
text: Athens had to climb its Mount Zion foot by foot, yard by yard, up to its top; but the Christian revelationist came down upon it from the clouds, stood upon it for a moment, and reduced it to contempt by the eloquence of an infinite contrast.
ref: 1884, Joseph Parker, “Paul’s Theistic Argument”, in Apostolic Life, as Revealed in the Acts of the Apostles, volume II, New York, N.Y.: Funk & Wagnalls, […], →OCLC, LXII. Prayer, page 212:
text: That John the gospel writer could have arrived at the same theological conclusions as John the Revelationist and John the epistle writer constitutes a huge (and even unreasonable) leap in theological understanding by two or three different men at about the same time.
ref: 2005, H.E. Eickleberry, Jr., “The ‘Legs’ of Revelation”, in The Character Map: An Introduction to the Introductions in Revelation, College Station, Tex.: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: A person who makes a revelation.
rudist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːdɪst
Forms: form: rudists
Etymology: From French rudistes (plural), from rude (“rough, uneven”), or its source, Latin rudis. Compare scientific Latin Rudista.
Senses: examples: text: In its shallow waters, now-extinct clams known as rudists formed extensive beds.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 27:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of many box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
frontage roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontage road
bite the biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bites the biscuit
form: biting the biscuit
form: bit the biscuit
form: bitten the biscuit
Senses: examples: text: David Scott . . . admits he "nearly bit the biscuit," during a 1985 trip to Kluane National Park in the Yukon. Scott was crossing a chest-deep river with a racing current, when he slipped. The near-freezing water whisked him away.
ref: 1987 February 16, David Scanlan, “Way up north”, in Ottawa Citizen, retrieved 19 Aug 2010, page D6:
text: Trained assassins shoot people in the head, and that should be a relatively painless way to bite the biscuit.
ref: 2007, Jack Henderson, Circumference of Darkness, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: To die.
examples: text: Weibe, who fought the effects of allergy medicine and a winless streak since the Hardee's Golf Classic (1986), had to bite the biscuit and settle for second place.
ref: 1999, Robert Hartman, Masters of the Millennium, →ISBN, page 5:
text: Sometimes owners need to bite the biscuit and call in professional help in order to solve a nasty canine behavioral problem.
ref: 2003, Steve Duno, Every Dog's Survival Guide to Living with a Neurotic Owner, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: To undertake an unpleasant task or to acknowledge an unfavorable situation or responsibility; bite the bullet.
Synonyms: sense: die
word: die
sense: undertake an unpleasant task or acknowledge an unfavorable situation
word: face up to
schmutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃmʌtə/
Forms: form: schmutters
Etymology: From Yiddish שמאַטע (shmate, “rag”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Has something worried you – the business at the Cardin Foundation?’ ‘Cardin? Not my favourite schmutter.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 269:
glosses: Clothing.
glosses: Rubbish, worthless material.
Related terms: schmatte
securement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: securements
Etymology: From secure + -ment.
Senses: examples: a wheelchair securement device used on a bus
1673, Elisha Coles, A Practical Discourse of God’s Sovereignty, London: J. Murgatroyd, 1794, “Of Perseverance,” pp. 367-367,
In the tenth of John, our Saviour says, his “sheep shall never perish,” ver. 28. which is, in effect, their faith shall never fail; for, safe they cannot be from perishing, without the securement of their faith.
1866, Samuel Shellabarger, addressing the Civil Rights Bill in the House of Representatives, cited in William H. Barnes, History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States, New York: Harper, Chapter 10,
Now, sir, can this Government do this? Can it prevent one race of free citizens from being by State laws deprived as a race of all the civil rights for the securement of which his Government was created, and which are the only considerations the Government renders to him for the Federal allegiance which he renders?
glosses: The act of securing.
sexivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sexi- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hexavalent.
shammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shammers
Etymology: From sham + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who shams; a liar or faker.
palinopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάλιν (pálin, “again”) + -opsia.
Senses: glosses: A visual disturbance that causes images to persist to some extent even after their corresponding stimulus has left.
delectate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delectates
form: delectating
form: delectated
form: delectated
Etymology: First attested in 1647; borrowed from Latin dēlectātus, perfect passive participle of dēlectō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To delight, to charm, to bring pleasure to.
glosses: To take delight in, to take pleasure in.
Related terms: delectation
delight
I wiss
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: I wuss
form: I wis
Etymology: From an incorrect assumption made by editors where i-wiss, iwis (“certainly, for sure”) was hypercorrected to I wiss, as if wiss were a verb and I were the pronoun I. See also wiss, wis, iwis.
Senses: examples: text: To tell the truth, I'm well informed / Yon match is a wile; The sheriff, I wiss, devises this / Us archers to beguile.
ref: 1904, Child, Sargent, Kittredge, English and Scottish popular ballads:
text: Such wholesome directions doth the bishop of Rome give unto those that will be ruled by him : far different (I wiss) from that holy doctrine, wherewith the Church of Rome was at first seasoned by the apostles [...]
ref: 1631, James Ussher, Charles Richard Elrington, The whole works: Volume 4:
text: I take him for some fiend, I wiss. — Grim, the Collier of Croydon, author unknown.
glosses: surely, certainly; indeed, assuredly
I wis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more I wis
form: most I wis
Senses: examples: text: I wis, your grandam had a worser match
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: assuredly, truly, indeed
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Senses: glosses: Official name of Sri Lanka: an island country in South Asia.
range hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: range hoods
form: rangehood
Senses: glosses: An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.
Synonyms: cooker hood
cooking canopy
electric chimney
exhaust hood
extraction hood
extractor fan
extractor hood
fume extractor
kitchen hood
rangehood
stove hood
ventilation hood
cooker hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooker hoods
Senses: glosses: An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.
Synonyms: cooking canopy
electric chimney
exhaust hood
extraction hood
extractor fan
extractor hood
fume extractor
kitchen hood
rangehood
range hood
stove hood
ventilation hood
kitchen hood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen hoods
Senses: glosses: An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.
Synonyms: cooker hood
cooking canopy
electric chimney
exhaust hood
extraction hood
extractor fan
extractor hood
fume extractor
rangehood
range hood
stove hood
ventilation hood
rangehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rangehoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of range hood.
beswink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beswinks
form: beswinking
form: beswank
form: beswunk
form: beswunken
Etymology: From Middle English beswinken, from Old English beswincan (“to labour, toil, exert oneself”); equivalent to be- + swink. More at swink.
Senses: glosses: to labour, toil; belabour
shink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shinks
form: shinking
form: shinked
form: shinked
Etymology: From Middle English shynken, schenken, schenchen (“to pour, pour a drink”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *skankijan, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Doublet of skink.
Senses: glosses: To pour or serve wine or beer; to skink.
shink
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.
Senses: examples: text: The shink of a blade drawn from its scabbard rent the air. The dim light of a wall torch flashed upon the steel. With a lunge in tierce, Riccoboni slashed at the small man by his side. Pasquale groped clumsily at his waist for his own sword[…]
ref: 2010, Donna Russo Morin, The Secret of the Glass, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:
text: The men-at-arms knocked their visors down with the edges of their shields, a multiple metallic shink-shink sound, transformed from men to steel figures[…]
ref: 2016 September 6, S. M. Stirling, The Desert and the Blade, Penguin, →ISBN, page 218:
text: Shink...Shink! The sword is drawn across the stone. The right angle, the right speed, and the right amount times ... blade from becoming dull, but.
ref: 2022 November 18, Garrett Driggers, Tales of Teras: Adequate Abandonment, Garrett Driggers, →ISBN:
text: SHINK. SHINK. My sword blade slid smoothly against the whetstone. I lifted the blade and tested the sharpness before dripping more water on the stone and repeating the motions.
ref: 2023 April 18, Shannon Pemrick, Valkyrie Renewed, Shannon Pemrick, →ISBN:
glosses: The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
examples: text: SHINK! Maraki's sword impales the demon from behind.
ref: 2008 03, Christopher Clarke-Milton, Dawn of the Messiah Book1, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 190:
text: Knocked off balance from Bell's charge, the cleaver was useless in defense. SHINK! The knife buried itself into the Minotaur's right hand, cutting flesh, bone and tendons alike.
ref: 2015 August 18, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 3 (light novel), Yen Press LLC, →ISBN:
text: […] blades pop from its exterior. Shink! Shink! Shink, shink, shink! Dozens, hundreds, gleaming bright—just like the ones inside, only, these are coming for me. Like helicopter blades, they rotate, cutting through the air, whipping down at[…]
ref: 2019 March 26, Genevieve Iseult Eldredge, Rekindled: The Circuit Fae Nemesis Prequel - Novella 3.5, GirlyEngine Press, →ISBN:
text: SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! SHINK! The blades chopped the waterfall of cooked corn paste, spitting hot debris up into Dusty's fur. Her eyes were squeezed shut. Her ear was bleeding, her tail looked singed. And she was slipping. The[…]
ref: 2021 August 31, Christian McKay Heidicker, Scary Stories for Young Foxes: The City, Henry Holt and Company (BYR), →ISBN:
text: Shink! The sound of a sword piercing through flesh.
ref: 2022 May 4, Preston Francis, The Fictionals and the Book Club Rebellion, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:
text: He hit nearly all targets in bull's-eye, fought like a gladiator, and eventually there was a shink of his sword. Kenya realized what he hit. It was a boy, blond, with nearly white hair and pale skin.
ref: 2024 January 11, Madelyn Lapierre, The Astro Chronicles, Fulton Books, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: The sound of something metal, such as a blade, sliding (along other metal, along a whetstone, etc).
In particular, the sound of a blade sliding into or out of something.
shink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shinks
form: shinking
form: shinked
form: shinked
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Compare shunk.
Senses: glosses: To slide with the shink sound of metal sliding.
raw_tags: of metal
Puck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From puck (“mischievous spirit”), from Middle English pouke, from Old English pūca (“goblin, demon”), from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Icelandic púki, dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”), Middle Low German spūk (“apparition, ghost”), German Spuk (“a haunting”). More at spook.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: Robin Goodfellow
puck
glosses: A mischievous sprite in Celtic mythology and English folklore.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the satellites of the planet Uranus.
Derived terms: puckish
inconducive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconducive
form: most inconducive
Etymology: From in- + conducive.
Senses: examples: text: Whole families are often obliged to live in one—or two—room apartments, inconducive either to good morals or good health.
ref: 1945 April 6, “Freedom from Slums”, in The Virgin Islands Daily News, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page 3:
text: The dinner conversation was becoming inconducive to smooth digestion.
ref: 1971 March 31, “Male chauvinism”, in Ottawa Citizen, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page 5:
text: But the sheer size of the company's programming workforce, and the number, heft and widespread popularity of its products, conspire to create an environment that can be inconducive to efficient coding.
ref: 2008 February 26, Eric Lai, “Microsoft tries to steer a more agile course on software development”, in Computerworld, retrieved 20 Aug 2010:
glosses: Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.
Synonyms: unconducive
unconducive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconducive
form: most unconducive
Etymology: From un- + conducive.
Senses: examples: text: [A]nd anyone who knows the stimulating effect of that beverage is aware that it could not fail to be unconducive to order.
ref: 1898 April 19, “Soft Drinks in Black Bottles”, in Daily Mail and Empire, Canada, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page 2:
text: About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. […] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
ref: 1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale Bishop, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 18, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
text: Harlem is such a place as is full of tension unconducive to the best interest of education.
ref: 1964 October 28, Robert C. Ruark, “Stupid Commerce in Busing School Kids”, in Spartanburg Herald, USA, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page 4:
text: "Because of the unconducive market conditions, we will delay the dollar bond plan."
ref: 2008 June 11, “Indonesia's Truba Alam delays dollar bond sale”, in reuters.com, UK, retrieved 20 Aug 2010:
glosses: Not likely to produce or support some desired outcome.
Synonyms: disconducive
inconducive
unfavorable
propeller-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propeller-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propeller head.
Osasco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil.
backreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From back + reacting.
Senses: glosses: That generates backreaction.
backreacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From back + reacting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backreact
globality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From global + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The end-state of globalization – a hypothetical condition in which the process of globalization is complete or nearly so, barriers have fallen, and "a new global reality" is emerging.
magnetoexcitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetoexciton
magnetoexciton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoexcitons
Etymology: From magneto- + exciton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An exciton created by a high magnetic field
surrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrogations
Senses: examples: text: [T]he Queene [Isabella of France], vvhen ſhee vvas […] aduertiſed of her huſbands dethronization, ſhee outvvardly expreſſed ſo great extremity of paſſion (notvvithſtanding that at the ſame time ſhee vvas tolde of her ſonnes [Edward III of England's] ſurrogation) as if ſhee had beene diſtraught in her vvittes: […]
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Edward the Second, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 76, page 564, column 1:
glosses: The act or result of surrogating; replacement, substitution.
Related terms: subrogation
tachionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of tachyonic.
compasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compassers
Etymology: From compass + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If men have so many sleights to compass their matters, how can the compasser himself hold his fingers?
ref: 1866, Henry Smith, Thomas Fuller, The Sermons of Mr. Henry Smith, page 37:
glosses: One who or that which compasses.
comprehender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: comprehenders
Etymology: From comprehend + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Less-skilled comprehenders do not know when it is appropriate to draw inferences.
ref: 2005, Margaret J. Snowling, Charles Hulme, The Science of Reading: A Handbook, page 232:
text: This mental representation provides the comprehender with a general plan according to which he can organize, interrelate and memorize the incoming information.
ref: 1989, Hans-Wilhelm Dechert, Manfred Raupach, Interlingual Processes, page 138:
text: There is no seer beside him, no hearer beside him, no comprehender beside him, no knower beside him.
ref: 1908, Paul Deussen, The Philosophy of the Upanishads, page 169:
glosses: One who comprehends.
Synonyms: word: comprehensor
Derived terms: noncomprehender
Thumbelina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθʌmbəˈliːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Etymology: From thumb, as a calque of Danish Tommelise, the original name created by Hans Christian Andersen.
Senses: glosses: A fairy tale about a thumb-sized girl.
glosses: The main character in this story.
Related terms: hop-o'-my-thumb
Tom Thumb