cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nondiabaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + diabaticity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nondiabatic; adiabaticity
quasispherical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + spherical.
Senses: glosses: Having some spherical characteristics
transdifferentiations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transdifferentiation
supergraviton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supergravitons
Etymology: From super- + graviton.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The hypothetical particle or multi-dimensional state associated with supergravity.
unattenuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unattenuated
form: most unattenuated
Etymology: From un- + attenuated.
Senses: glosses: Not attenuated
unstratified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stratified.
Senses: glosses: Not stratified.
dispread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispreads
form: dispreading
form: dispreaded
form: dispreaded
Etymology: From dis- + spread.
Senses: examples: text: In widest Ocean she her throne does reare, / That ouer all the earth it may be seene; / As morning Sunne her beames dispredden cleare [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: her dark hair was dispread,
Like the pine’s locks upon the lingering blast;
Over mine eyes its shadowy strings it spread
Fitfully, and the hills and streams fled fast,
As o’er their glimmering forms the steed’s broad shadow past; […]
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 269:
text: The lamp which ultimately was sure to be lifted up to illumine the acts of this secretive race began slowly to dispread its rays …
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 13, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: To spread out, to extend.
Derived terms: dispreader
attempers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of attemper
attempering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of attemper
attempered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attemper
attempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attempered
form: most attempered
Senses: glosses: Modified by admixture; well blended.
examples: text: Attemper'd Suns arise, / Sweet-beam'd […].
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Autumn”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a moderate temperature; mild.
glosses: Having a moderate temperament; sober.
Derived terms: unattempered
dispreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dispread
dispreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dispread
microindustrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more microindustrial
form: most microindustrial
Etymology: From micro- + industrial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microindustry.
groundwaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundwater
filefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filefish
supergravitons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supergraviton
coheiress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coheiresses
Etymology: From co- + heiress.
Senses: glosses: One of several people who are heiresses to an estate.
coheritor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coheritors
Etymology: From co- + heritor.
Senses: glosses: One of several who are heritors to an estate
Related terms: coheir
coheiress
yplight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of plight
yplight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yplight
form: most yplight
Senses: examples: text: Sir Guyon mindfull of his vow yplight, / Vprose from drowsie couch, and him addrest / Vnto the iourney [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of plighted.
cohesible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cohesible
form: most cohesible
Senses: glosses: Capable of cohesion
Related terms: cohesibility
cohesive
coiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coilers
Etymology: From coil + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or device which, coils.
coindicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + indicant.
Senses: examples: coindicant symptoms
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: indicating the same disease
coindication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coindications
Etymology: From co- + indication.
Senses: glosses: Any of several things that indicate the same thing, especially any of several symptoms that indicate the same disease
Related terms: coindicant
registrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more registrative
form: most registrative
Etymology: From registration + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Enactive. Expositive. / Art. 57. XIII 2. The Registrative, or say Recordative: exercised, by the arrangements and operations, by which, in conformity to corresponding ordinances and mandates, the accounts, given at different periods by the exercise of the statistic function, are kept in contiguity, and in a regular series, for the purpose of reference and comparison.
ref: 1830, Jeremy Bentham, Constitutional code: for the use all nations and all governments ..., volume 1, page 251:
glosses: Relating to registration, registering or record-keeping.
coinheritor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinheritors
Etymology: From co- + inheritor.
Senses: glosses: One of several who are inheritors to an estate
Related terms: coheir
coheiress
coinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From coin + -less.
Senses: glosses: Having no money; penniless
glosses: Requiring no coins to operate
Derived terms: coinlessness
coinsure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coinsures
form: coinsuring
form: coinsured
form: coinsured
Etymology: From co- + insure.
Senses: glosses: To insure (or be insured) jointly with another
glosses: To take out coinsurance
Related terms: coinsurance
coinsurer
cojuror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cojurors
Etymology: From co- + juror.
Senses: glosses: One of a group of people who swear an oath together
coinheritors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coinheritor
coinhabits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coinhabit
coinhabiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coinhabit
coindications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coindication
coinhabited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coinhabit
colation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈleɪʃən/
homophone: collation
Senses: synonyms: colature
filtration
glosses: The act of straining or filtering.
declensionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɛnʃənɪzəm/
Etymology: From declension + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: By breaking free of it, historians could shed the dualisms that now entrap them, and escape the declensionism - the longing for the lost alternative
ref: 2002, Melvyn Stokes, The state of U.S. history, page 74:
glosses: A belief in a declining trend in a history.
Related terms: declensionist
collaborationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collaborationisms
Etymology: From collaboration + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The act of collaborating, especially with an enemy.
Related terms: collaboration
collaborationist
collatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collatable
form: most collatable
Etymology: From collate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be collated
declensionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɛnʃənɪst/
Forms: form: declensionists
Etymology: From declension + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: A second oppositional narrative to the dominant interpretation might be added, that of the declensionists.
ref: 2009, Devin Fergus, Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980, page 338:
text: The declensionist narrative first appeared among New Deal reformers who aimed to adjust land use and agricultural economics on the Great Plains
ref: 2005, Geoff Cunfer, On the Great Plains: agriculture and environment, page 10:
glosses: One offering a narrative of decline.
declensionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈklɛnʃənɪst/
Forms: form: more declensionist
form: most declensionist
Etymology: From declension + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: As in Cole's work. the plot becomes declensionist, beginning with the race of demigods and ending in the contemporary iron age
ref: 1998, Matthew Potteiger with Jamie Purinton, Landscape narratives: design practices for telling stories, page 236:
glosses: Tending to show decline.
Related terms: declensionism
declensionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of declensionist
collatee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collatees
Etymology: From collate + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is in receipt of (collated to) a benefice
collationer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collationers
Etymology: From collation + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who collates, or who checks collation (of documents etc)
collationers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collationer
collater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collaters
Etymology: From collate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of collator.
collaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collater
collative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: collatiue
Etymology: From the Latin collātīvus (“brought together, collected, joint”). Compare the French collatif.
Senses: glosses: Having the power of conferring.
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: In which the ordinary (or bishop) is the same person as the patron.
raw_tags: of a benefice
collatees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collatee
collectanea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some of the more familiar conjugations of verbs in the American common speech, as recorded by Charters or Lardner or derived from my own collectanea, are here set down: […]
ref: [1921 [1919], H. L. Mencken, The American Language, 2nd edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: A selective collection of passages from various sources or by various authors; an anthology.
collectivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more collectivistic
form: most collectivistic
Etymology: From collectivist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Public contributions, i.e. taxes, are only one form of value — collectivistic value.
ref: 1890, Political Science Quarterly, volume 5, number 1, page 167:
text: It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.
ref: 1895, The Citizen, page 398:
text: People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.
ref: 2001, David Matsumoto, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, page 395:
glosses: Of or pertaining to collectivism.
Derived terms: collectivistically
noncollectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + collectivist.
Senses: glosses: Not collectivistic.
colleger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collegers
Etymology: From college + -er.
Senses: glosses: A member of a college (in any sense)
topics: education
glosses: One of the 70 foundationers at Eton College.
collegers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colleger
collegium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collegia
form: collegiums
Etymology: From Latin collēgium. Doublet of college.
Senses: glosses: A committee or council
raw_tags: in Russia
glosses: A government department or ministry
raw_tags: in the Russian Empire
glosses: Any of several legal associations
raw_tags: in Ancient Rome
Derived terms: intercollegium
acronomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acronomic
form: most acronomic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an animal, tending to live in settings high above the ground, such as tree tops, building ledges, or cliff faces.
aisleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aisle + -less.
Senses: examples: text: St Michael's Church, which dates from the 14th century, is known as the 'Barn of Kent' because of its 36 ft wide roof-span over an aisleless nave.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 359, about Smarden:
glosses: Without an aisle.
speed boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speed boats
Senses: examples: text: […] a jet ski which was involved in a collision with a speed boat […]
ref: 2007, Alexandra Mandaraka-Sheppard, Modern maritime law and risk management:
glosses: Alternative spelling of speedboat.
bressemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bressemers
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative spelling of bressummer.
nuttin'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: A doggy is nuttin' if he don't have a bone
ref: 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
geniuslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geniuslike
form: most geniuslike
Etymology: From genius + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of genius or a genius.
specieslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more specieslike
form: most specieslike
Etymology: From species + -like.
Senses: examples: a specieslike category
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a species or species in general.
unapprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + approvable.
Senses: glosses: Not approvable.
Synonyms: nonapprovable
nonapprovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + approvable.
Senses: glosses: Not approvable.
Synonyms: unapprovable
mitmachen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German mitmachen.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A state in which a person's body can be put into any posture, although the person has been instructed to resist any movement.
Related terms: mitgehen
piano roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piano rolls
Senses: glosses: A perforated roll of paper containing encoded music to be played by a pianola or player piano.
martyrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martyria
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαρτύριον (martúrion, “shrine of a martyr”). Doublet of martyrium and martyry.
Senses: examples: text: The structure is described not as an ecclesia but a martyrion,⁸⁵ and specifically dedicated to St. John. This may not be significant, but it is worth speculating on these two facts. If the phylarch participated in the campaign against Khaybar, the presumption is that some federate soldiers died in the expedition and he may have erected the structure strictly as a martyrion to reflect his safe return and to remember those who died.⁸⁶
ref: 1995, Irfan Shahîd, Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century:
glosses: A church that contains relics of martyrs or marks the site of the grave of a martyr; a martyry.
martyries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martyry
martyresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martyress
Ginsbergian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ginsbergian
form: most Ginsbergian
Etymology: From Ginsberg + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Irwin Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), American beat poet, or his works.
Mozartian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mozartian
form: most Mozartian
Etymology: From Mozart + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), prolific and influential composer of classical music.
Beethovenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbeɪt(h)əʊˈviːnɪən/
ipa: /ˌbeɪtoʊˈvini.ən/
rhymes: -iːniən
Forms: form: more Beethovenian
form: most Beethovenian
form: Beethovian
Etymology: From Beethoven + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Ludwig van Beethoven, in particular his style of music.
beeswings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beeswing
Picassian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Picassian
form: most Picassian
form: Picassan
form: Picassoan
Etymology: From Picasso + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor best known for co-founding the Cubist movement.
Daliesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑːliˈɛsk/
enpr: dä'lē-ĕskʹ
rhymes: -ɛsk
Forms: form: more Daliesque
form: most Daliesque
form: Dalíesque
Etymology: From Dali + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or similar to the surreal style of Salvador Dalí's art.
mother hens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mother hen
mother hens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mother hen
bressemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bressemer
validifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of validify
validified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of validify
main stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main stages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mainstage.
bt
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of but.
martyrions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martyrion
root word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: root words
Senses: glosses: A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
glosses: Alternative form of root: the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.
nonparliamentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-parliamentary
Etymology: From non- + parliamentary.
Senses: glosses: Not parliamentary.
notam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notams
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of NOTAM.
nonsupplementary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + supplementary.
Senses: glosses: Not supplementary.
notaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notarium
in the wrong place at the wrong time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: [The devil] must then chime in with our sentiments, our instincts, even stimulate our devotion to liberty, and defeat liberty by compelling us to seek it in the wrong place, at the wrong time, or by improper means.
ref: 1844 July, “Come-outerism”, in Orestes Augustus Brownson, editor, Brownson's quarterly review, volume 1, number 3, page 375:
glosses: Describing actions or activities that the speaker considers inappropriate, misdirected, or unlikely to yield good results.
examples: text: ... W.H. Waring (Dellow) nearly cut short the life of a native of those parts who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and J.W. Cox got his Dellow up at incredible speed, with the front wheels leaping in the air most of the way.
ref: 1951, Motor, volume 98, page 350:
text: It is a perplexing expression, since many of these young people were not in the "wrong place." ... I believe that when they say "I guess I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," they are reflecting on the randomness of violence.
ref: 2009, John A. Rich, Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men, →ISBN, page xvi:
glosses: At a location or in a situation by where something bad is about to happen at just the time of its occurrence by bad luck.
Derived terms: wrong-place-wrong-timing
untastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of untaste
stemmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stemma
alpha-taxonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:
glosses: Alternative form of alpha taxonomy.
root words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of root word
accommode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: accommodes
form: accommoding
form: accommoded
form: accommoded
Senses: glosses: To accommodate.
accommodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of accommode
Zograf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zograph
Etymology: Historical Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian personal appellation, later used as pen name, which comes from the tradition of iconography in Eastern Orthodoxy. It comes from the occupation of iconograph or painter: Greek ζωγράφος (zográfos, “painter”), from ζωή (zoḯ, “life”) + -γράφος (-gráfos, “scribe”).
Senses: glosses: A surname. Famously born by a saint (George the Zograf, an icon in Zograf Monastery) and used as the pen name of a number of Bulgarian iconographers and painters.
two second rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a rule of thumb by which a driver may maintain a safe following distance, allowing at least a two second interval behind any vehicle that is directly in front of the driver's vehicle.
trochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒk.li.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑk.li.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trochleary
Etymology: From trochlea + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Shaped like, or resembling, a pulley; related to, or connected with, a trochlea.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the trochlear nerve.
Derived terms: epitrochlear
infratrochlear
intertrochlear
intratrochlear
paratrochlear
supratrochlear
trochlear nerve
trochlear notch
ulnotrochlear
trochlear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɒk.li.ə/
ipa: /ˈtɹɑk.li.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɒkliə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trochlears
form: trochleary
Etymology: From trochlea + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.
ref: 1949, Herbert Eugene Walter, Leonard Perkins Sayles, Biology of the Vertebrates: A Comparative Study of Man and His Animal Allies, page 741:
text: At 90° of flexion, the patella enters the condylar fossa, where the contact areas are on both the lateral and medial trochlears of the femur.
ref: 2014, Joanne K. Singleton, Robert V. DiGregorio, Carol Green-Hernandez, Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective, →ISBN, page 593:
text: Using three-dimensional printing, they replaced the native trochlear in four cadaveric knees with dysplastic trochlears and then subjected them to squat simulation, open chain extension, and a patella stability test.
ref: 2017, W. Norman Scott, Insall & Scott Surgery of the Knee, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 917:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A trochlear muscle or nerve.
photuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fōtyo͝oəʹrĭə
ipa: /fəʊˈtjʊəɹɪə/
Etymology: Formed as phot- + -uria; equivalent to the Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”) + οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Senses: examples: text: Various animal matters possess an acid reaction; urine, sweat, some portions of dead bodies, whether of men or animals have been luminous, and the presence of this microscopic algæ is the long mistaken cause of photuria.
ref: 1855, John Watt, Charles Watt, editors, The Chemist, volume 2, page 695:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Luminous or phosphorescent urine.
binane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binanes
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Indeed, diene 4 was the starting point in our original report on the synthesis of binanes as typified by the production of 6σ-binane from the reaction of quadricyclane 2 with diene 4.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound having an extended molecular structure of fused norbornanes and cyclobutanes; many of them are molracs
molrac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molracs
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Quadricyclane (2) reacted at the cyclobutene-1,2-diester π-bond of 4 to form the hexacyclic molrac 8, in which high stereospecificity accompanied the cycloaddition process.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any organic compound having a rigid, multicyclic structure resembling a rack
Related terms: ladderane
binanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binane
molracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molrac
colligability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From colligate + -ability.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The ability to group together to form a colligation.
colligable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colligable
form: most colligable
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Capable of forming a colligation
collineate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: collineates
form: collineating
form: collineated
form: collineated
Senses: glosses: To converge to form a single line or point
glosses: To collimate
Derived terms: multicollineated
Related terms: collineation
collineation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collineations
Etymology: From Latin collineare to direct in a straight line. See collimation.
Senses: glosses: The act of collineating; collimation.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: central collineation
glosses: An isomorphism from one projective space to another, often to itself.
colliquative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colliquative
form: most colliquative
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing colliquation; liquefactive
colliquation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colliquations
Senses: glosses: The act of becoming liquid; melting.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The wasting-away of parts of the body; consumption.
Related terms: colliquate
sense of craft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: aptitude for craftsmanship.
belgard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belgards
Etymology: From Italian bel guardo.
Senses: examples: text: Vpon her eyelids many Graces sate, / Vnder the shadow of her euen browes, / Working belgards, and amorous retrate […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A loving look, an amorous glance.
belgards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belgard
amelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amel
amelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amelled
form: most amelled
Senses: examples: text: golden bendes, which were entayld / With curious antickes, and full faire aumayld […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Enameled.
forelie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forelies
form: forelying
form: forelay
form: forelain
Etymology: From fore- + lie.
Senses: examples: text: Knit with a golden bauldricke, which forelay / Athwart her snowy brest, and did diuide / Her daintie paps […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To lie in front.
forelay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: forelays
form: forelaying
form: forelaid
form: forelaid
Etymology: From fore- + lay.
Senses: examples: text: these grounds being forelaid and understood
ref: a. 1639, Joseph Mede, Discourse V - Let a man so account of us as the Ministers of Christ, and Stewards of the Mysteries of God:
text: I shall, before I instance, only forelay this That we must consider […]
ref: 1822, The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.:
glosses: To lay down beforehand
examples: text: c. 1624, Joseph Hall, a sermon
either some secret detractor hath forelaid thee by a whispering misintimation
text: Again Lavis heard him: "You thought to forelay me, eh — and breed panic above?”
ref: 1913, James B. Connally, Sonnie-Boy's People:
glosses: To waylay.
examples: text: You folks had better forelay to come aboard by then.
ref: 1917, Charles Neville Buck, The Tyranny of Weakness:
glosses: To plan; contrive in advance
forelay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Senses: glosses: simple past of forelie
goodlihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodlyhead
Etymology: From Middle English goodlihede, goodelyhede, equivalent to goodly + -head.
Senses: examples: text: But mote thy goodlyhed forgiue it mee, / To weet, which of the Gods I shall thee name, / That vnto thee due worship I may rightly frame.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The character or nature of a goodly person; goodliness.
examples: text: The lilies, of great goodlihead, divinely tall, sway with a stately, languid grace; the Canterbury bells are all ringing.
ref: 1893, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age ...:
text: Now, by the strength and fury of Hercules -- To whom in stature, might, and goodlihead Most like thou art I pray thee, have in mind Him, and resolve to match his deeds with thine.
ref: 1943, Quintus (Smyrnaeus), Arthur Sanders Way, The Fall of Troy
text: Let me but have my tea and sugar, my well-fed ass and my good wife at hand, and let my children wax in stature and goodlihead — then my cup is full, I crave nothing more.
ref: 1950, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The wisdom of the sands:
glosses: Goodly appearance or looks; beauty.
transmew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transmews
form: transmewing
form: transmewed
form: transmewed
Etymology: From Middle French transmuer, from Latin transmūtāre.
Senses: examples: text: Soone into other fits he was transmewed, / Till she to him her gratious speach renewed […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: […] his sudden ruin ministered matter of most lamentable tears to his dear mother and loving sisters, insomuch, that they were pitifully changed, as some write, into alder trees, as some, into poplars. Sic flevit Clymene : sic et Clymeneides alta: as it might be the mournful church, and her wailing members, wofully transmewed into alders or poplars.
ref: 1593, Gabriel Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation; or, A New Praise of the Old Ass, published 1815, pages 97–98:
glosses: To transmute, change.
overdede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdeed
Etymology: From Middle English overdede, equivalent to over- + deed.
Senses: glosses: Overdoing; excess.
overdede
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdede
form: most overdede
form: overdeed
Etymology: From Middle English overdede, equivalent to over- + deed.
Senses: glosses: Excessive.
yede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yeed
form: yode
Etymology: From Middle English ȝede, from Old English ēode.
Senses: glosses: simple past of go, now replaced by went.
yede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yeed
form: yode
Etymology: From Middle English ȝede, from Old English ēode.
Senses: examples: text: The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232:
glosses: To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
schizy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizy
form: schizier
form: most schizy
form: schiziest
form: schizzy
Etymology: From schiz- + -y (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: If Maggie the performer is flamboyantly flexible, her backstage persona is downright schizy.
ref: 1976 April 3, Don Shewey, “Maggie Mixes Cabaret and Caricature”, in Gay Community News, page 17:
text: 1979, G.H. Hill, Interview with Norton Cabal, Principia Discordia Loompanics, S.F.
Gypsie: Hey, guy, later. [to Hill]: Doesn't this leave you a little schizy?
glosses: schizoid, schizophrenic
Derived terms: schiziness
dad dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dad-dancing
Senses: examples: text: The first National Dad Dancing Championships were held in Northampton's Grosvenor Centre on Saturday, 19 June, 2004.
ref: 2004 June, “Dad dancing”, in BBC Northamptonshire:
text: I gather that he was a bit of a “dad dancer” – embarrassing on his feet, seeming old before his time. […] The moral of the story is to be aware of dad-dancing, or the display of any other behavioural oddities, when you first meet.
ref: 2009 April 16, “How bad dancing can ruin your love life”, in The Times, London:
text: Middle-aged men who embarrass their children with flamboyant dance moves now have the perfect excuse – evolution. The cringeworthy "dad dancing" witnessed at wedding receptions every weekend may be an unconscious way in which ageing males repel the attention of young women, leaving the field clear for men at their sexual peak.
ref: 2009 December 15, Matthew Moore, “‘Dad dancing’ may be the result of evolution, scientists claim”, in The Daily Telegraph, London:
glosses: The making of embarrassing flamboyant dance moves to pop music by middle-aged men.
wikipedia: George W. Bush
Louisiana
New Orleans
President of the United States
Derived terms: dad dancer
Fosbury flop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fosbury flops
Etymology: Named for Dick Fosbury, who brought the technique to light in the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A high jump in which the jumper leaps backward and arches the back over the bar, thereby lowering the jumper's center of gravity below the body while it is aloft.
wikipedia: Dick Fosbury
cohobate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cohobates
form: cohobating
form: cohobated
form: cohobated
Etymology: From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).
Senses: topics: alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
glosses: To treat a material with a boiling liquid and repeatedly return the distillate.
Related terms: cohobation
cohobate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohobates
Etymology: From New Latin cohobātus, past participle of cohobāre, perhaps from Arabic كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba).
Senses: glosses: The concentrated distillate so formed
flysheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flysheets
form: fly sheet
Etymology: From fly + sheet.
Senses: glosses: An extra cover of a tent to protect against insects and bad weather.
glosses: A printed leaflet or pamphlet.
Synonyms: sense: leaflet
word: flyer
fly sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly sheets
form: flysheet
Etymology: From fly + sheet.
Senses: glosses: an extra cover of a tent to protect against insects and bad weather.
glosses: a printed leaflet or pamphlet
Synonyms: fly
tent fly
flyer
fly swatter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fly swatters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flyswatter.
flytrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flytraps
form: fly trap
form: fly-trap
Etymology: From fly + trap.
Senses: glosses: A trap built to catch flies.
glosses: The Venus flytrap, an insectivorous plant.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any contrivance by which a plant catches insects, such as pitchers or tentacles.
glosses: The spreading dogbane.
Related terms: catch flies
you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar
flypost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flyposts
form: flyposting
form: flyposted
form: flyposted
form: fly-post
Etymology: From fly + post.
Senses: glosses: To place flyers or similar promotional material without permission.
Related terms: flyposter
begrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begraves
form: begraving
form: begraved
form: begrove
form: begraved
form: begrove
form: begraven
Etymology: From Middle English begraven, from Old English begrafan (“to bury”), from Proto-Germanic *bigrabaną (“to dig around, bury”), equivalent to be- + grave. Cognate with Saterland Frisian begreeuwe (“to bury”), West Frisian begrave (“to bury”), Dutch begraven (“to bury”), German begraben (“to bury”), Danish begrave (“to bury”), Swedish begrava (“to bury”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌲𐍂𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (bigraban, “to dig around”).
Senses: glosses: To bury.
glosses: To engrave.
ingrave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ingraves
form: ingraving
form: ingraved
form: ingraved
Etymology: From in- + grave. Compare engrave.
Senses: examples: text: But if these black adventures I survive, / Ev'n till this mortal body be ingrav'd, / You shall be lord of that which you have sav'd.
ref: 1655, Thomas Heywood, Fortune by Land and Sea:
glosses: To bury; to place in a grave.
examples: text: Millions of people were enslaved and ingraved in the Gulag forced labor camps.
glosses: To cause death.
examples: text: […]M. Anthony Bos, who both etched and ingraved in a Stile of his own, did not ſucceed ſo well;[…].
ref: 1747, William Faithorne, Sculptura Historico-technica: Or the History and Art of Ingraving (etc.), page 11:
text: Even in Ashmole's plate of the feast of Saint George, in the Hall at Windsor, (ingraved by Hollar,) the Knights may be seen, feeding themselves with their fingers: one only appears to be using a fork or spoon.
ref: 1840, Benjamin Barnard, William Henry Black, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry from Manuscripts Preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, footnote, page 93:
text: Behold this fruit, whose gleaming rind ingrav'n / "For the most fair,"' would seem to award it thine, […]
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “Œnone”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 121:
text: 1991, Giorgio Vasari, Julia Conaway Bondanella, Peter Bondanella (translators), The Lives of the Artists, [from 1550, G. Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri], page 91,
This work, with its border decorations ingraved with festoons of fruit and animals all cast in metal, cost twenty-two thousand florins, while the bronze doors themselves weighed thirty-four thousand pounds.
glosses: Obsolete form of engrave.
foamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foamers
Etymology: From foam + -er.
Senses: glosses: An obsessive railfan
glosses: A device that foams or froths liquid.
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A device that foams or froths liquid.
A screw-top culinary device that comprises a pressure vessel used to hold a liquid and is charged with a compressed gas, to force the contents out of the nozzle, to create a foam.
Derived terms: antifoamer
foetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foeto- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fetology.
fogdog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogdogs
Etymology: By surface analysis, fog + dog
Senses: glosses: a ray of light seen amidst fog
foliaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foliaceous
form: most foliaceous
Etymology: From Latin foliaceus, from folium (“a leaf”).
Senses: examples: text: I have one specimen, in which the primary crystals are siliceous, the secondary thin foliaceous crystals of deep red but transparent iron-ore, forming elegant figures, that have the form of roses.
ref: 1795, James Hutton, Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4):
text: The bitter principle contained in the root, wood and bark was discovered by Blunse who named it samaderin; it is a white, crystalline, foliaceous substance, more soluble in water than in alcohol, fusible.
ref: 1901, T. H. Pardo de Tavera, The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines:
synonyms: leaflike
leafy
foliate
glosses: Resembling a leaf or leaves.
synonyms: leafy
foliate
leaved
glosses: Bearing leaves.
Derived terms: extrafoliaceous
foliaceousness
interfoliaceous
intrafoliaceous
folk singer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: folk singers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of folksinger, someone who sings folk music.
foodious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foodious
form: most foodious
Etymology: From food + -ious.
Senses: glosses: gluttonous
langue d'oïl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langues d'oïl
Etymology: Borrowed from French langue d'oïl.
Senses: glosses: The language of medieval France, north of the Loire, in which the word oïl was used for yes
glosses: A specific dialect within this continuum
footrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footropes
Etymology: From foot + rope.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a rope attached to the lower part of a sail
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a rope attached to a yard that sailors stood on to stabilize it when furling or reefing
glosses: a rope or chain forming the bottom edge of a trawl net, helping to maintain the net's shape and depth in the water.
foreignism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreignisms
Etymology: From foreign + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A tendency to favor what is foreign.
synonyms: alienism
glosses: A trait, custom, phrase or characteristic typical of a foreign country or language.
Derived terms: anti-foreignism
Related terms: hyperforeignism
loanword
forelady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreladies
Senses: glosses: the female equivalent of a foreman
forejudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forejudges
form: forejudging
form: forejudged
form: forejudged
Etymology: From Middle English forjugen. See forjudge.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forjudge.
forejudge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forejudges
form: forejudging
form: forejudged
form: forejudged
Etymology: From fore- + judge.
Senses: examples: text: Man doth willingly apply other mens sayings to the advantage of the opinions he hath fore-judged [translating prejugées] in himselfe.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: His defence was so compact and effortless, the feet always in position so swiftly and so correctly, and the bat so brushingly close to the front foot or the body that it was again as of old as if each ball had been forejudged uncannily by some cricketer's act of clairvoyance.
ref: 1958, The Bedside "Guardian":
text: Before we forejudge that Palaima's aforementioned statement is wrong let us try to embed this motif into its original social context.
ref: 2012, Diamantis Panagiotopoulos, Minoan Realities:
glosses: To judge beforehand; prejudge.
Derived terms: forejudger
Related terms: forejudgement
forejudgment
folk singers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folk singer
forejudges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forejudge
forejudging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forejudge
forejudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forejudge
footbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foot baths
form: foot-baths
Senses: glosses: plural of footbath
foreignisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreignism
footropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footrope
foremilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːmɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: foremilks
Etymology: From fore- + milk.
Senses: glosses: The first milk drawn from a cow during milking; in humans, the milk secreted initially during breastfeeding, typically low in fat and rich in protein.
Related terms: hindmilk
hindmilk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪndmɪlk/
rhymes: -ɪlk
Forms: form: hindmilks
Etymology: From hind + milk.
Senses: glosses: The milk secreted during the later part of breastfeeding, typically high in fat and low in protein.
Related terms: foremilk
foreshank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshanks
Etymology: From fore- + shank.
Senses: glosses: The upper part of the foreleg of cattle.
glosses: A cut of meat from this part.
foresheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foresheets
form: fore-sheet
Etymology: From fore- + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: Tom sprang to the position which had been occupied by the spokesman of the party, and grasping the foresheet and the tiller of the boat, he soon brought her up to the wind.
ref: 1864, Oliver Optic, The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army:
text: They saw him board, neatly running the small boat under the schooner's counter; they saw the foresheet eased off and the ship run up into the wind; then the foresail dropped and the wheel lashed so that she would stand so.
ref: 1907, Stewart Edward White, Samuel Hopkins Adams, The Mystery:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: one of the sheets (ropes) that controls the foresail
foretopsail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretopsails
Etymology: From fore- + topsail.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The sail draped from the foretopmast.
foretopmast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretopmasts
Etymology: From fore- + topmast.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The mast above the foretop.
Related terms: foretopman
Foucault pendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Foucault pendulums
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Foucault's pendulum.
synonyms: word: Foucault's pendulum
foxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foxies
Etymology: From fox + -ie.
Senses: glosses: Diminutive of fox.
examples: text: He was a spare fellow, eager as a foxie, with the remains of a good profile and some remnants of grey curl.
ref: 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 21:
glosses: A fox terrier.
fraidy-cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fraidy-cats
Senses: glosses: A coward; a person who is easily frightened.
Synonyms: scaredy-cat