cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
guiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡwɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡwiːɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡwaɪɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: guiros
form: güiro
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish güiro.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sekere.
synonyms: word: sekere
examples: text: The house band consisted of gigantic guitars, fiddles, trumpets, and accordion, with rhythms provided by a batería including timbales, guiros, and congas.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 721:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of traditional Cuban music, used in santería rituals.
Synonyms: word: ralabazo
word: guayo
word: güiro
word: ralladera
word: rascador
word: rayo
word: güira:
word: candungo
word: carracho
word: guicharo:
word: guira
word: guacharacha
word: reco-reco
haymow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haymows
Etymology: From Middle English hay mowe; equivalent to hay + mow.
Senses: glosses: A pile of hay stored in a barn.
glosses: The place in a barn where hay is stored.
pua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puas
Senses: glosses: A scraper or stick used to play a guiro.
Related terms: shim-pua marriage
supreme being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supreme beings
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: overdeity
text: And so when they led her from her dungeon, through long, dark corridors, and up a flight of concrete steps to a brilliant courtyard, she went willingly, even gladly—for was she not among the servants of God? It might be, of course, that their interpretation of the supreme being differed from her own, but that they owned a god was sufficient evidence to her that they were kind and good.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 205:
glosses: A god, or a similar deity, characterized by power over all things.
Derived terms: Supreme Being
supreme beings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supreme being
Lord Mayor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lord Mayors
form: Lords Mayor
Senses: qualifier: Ireland and some Commonwealth countries
glosses: The holder of a ceremonial post on a local council (distinct from the council leader who may be addressed as mayor).
glosses: The mayor of a major city.
glosses: Conventional translation of German Oberbürgermeister; an elected official in charge of a major German city.
Synonyms: english: term used in Scotland
translation: term used in Scotland
word: Lord Provost
Derived terms: Lord Mayor of London
Lord Mayor's fool
Lord Mayors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lord Mayor
scripting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪptɪŋ/
Forms: form: scriptings
Etymology: From script + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: After all, dramatic scriptings of behavior are everywhere present in our media-drenched society, and these scriptings guide and organize real experience (Goffman 1974:55).
ref: 2003, Javier A. Treviño, Goffman's Legacy, page 130:
glosses: The act by which something is scripted.
Hyponyms: cross-site scripting
Derived terms: scripting language
scripting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈskɹɪptɪŋ/
Etymology: From script + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of script
toll-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toll + -free. Compare Saterland Frisian tolfräi (“toll-free”), West Frisian tolfrij (“toll-free”), Dutch tolvrij (“toll-free”), German zollfrei (“toll-free”), Swedish tullfri (“toll-free”), Norwegian tollfri (“toll-free”).
Senses: glosses: Free to use; not requiring payment of a toll to use.
raw_tags: of a road or highway
examples: text: Call now. The call is toll-free. Operators are standing by.
glosses: Without an additional toll, especially for a long-distance charge.
raw_tags: of a phone call
toll-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From toll + -free. Compare Saterland Frisian tolfräi (“toll-free”), West Frisian tolfrij (“toll-free”), Dutch tolvrij (“toll-free”), German zollfrei (“toll-free”), Swedish tullfri (“toll-free”), Norwegian tollfri (“toll-free”).
Senses: examples: text: You can call us toll-free anytime. Operators are standing by.
glosses: Without an additional toll, especially for a long-distance charge.
raw_tags: of a phone call
fireline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firelines
Etymology: From fire + line.
Senses: glosses: A firebreak.
examples: text: The ranger said that working a fire is called being "on the fireline."
glosses: A row of firefighters seeking to stop spread of a forest fire.
glosses: The line where firefighters intend to stop a spreading fire.
fireline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: firelines
form: firelining
form: firelined
form: firelined
Etymology: From fire + line.
Senses: glosses: To create a firebreak.
firelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fireline
firelines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fireline
migrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of migrate
long-standing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-standing
form: more long-standing
form: longest-standing
form: most long-standing
form: longstanding
Senses: examples: text: Forty-five years ago, Crewe was witnessing the first year of the revised timetable associated with the 'Electric Scots' services, following inauguration of through London-Glasgow electric running in May 1974. Except for Euston-North Wales traffic, the long-standing practice of motive power changing at Crewe had ended.
ref: 2020 June 17, David Clough, “Then and now: trains through Crewe”, in Rail, page 60:
text: “As soon as I am inaugurated, I will direct the Justice Department to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters. We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, echoing his long-standing advocacy for use of the death penalty, which was part of his tough-on-crime rhetoric during the 2024 campaign.
ref: 2024 December 24, Aaron Pellish, “Trump says he will direct Justice Department to ‘vigorously pursue the death penalty’”, in CNN:
glosses: Having existed for a long time; of long standing.
examples: text: Long-standing custom calls for referring to the town chairman as mayor, even though we don't have a mayor.
glosses: Having been done for long enough time to become convention.
skeleton in the closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletons in the closet
form: skeletons in the closets
form: skeleton in one's closet
Senses: examples: text: "Humph!" she vouchsafed. Then, showing her old-time interest, she went on: "But, say, it is queer, his speakin' to you, honestly, Miss Pollyanna. He don't speak ter no one; and he lives all alone in a great big lovely house all full of jest grand things, they say. Some says he's crazy, and some jest cross; and some says he's got a skeleton in his closet."
ref: 1913, Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 9, in Pollyanna, L.C. Page, →OCLC:
text: I think it’s safe to say that the skeletons in the closets of some lawmakers corrupted the process, making an even stronger case for why a politician’s character is so important.
ref: 2016, Phil Valentine, “Compromising Position”, in The Conservative’s Handbook: Defining the Right Position on Issues from A to Z, Naperville, Ill.: Cumberland House, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Character is the single most important attribute in a leader), page 35:
glosses: A shameful secret.
Synonyms: word: skeleton in the cupboard
word: skeleton in the house
skeleton in the cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeletons in the cupboard
form: skeletons in the cupboards
form: skeleton in one's cupboard
Senses: examples: text: ‘I expect all families have some skeletons in the cupboards,’ Robina said with a smile of understanding. ‘I know I have some relatives who embarrass me, but you have done nothing to be ashamed of that I can see.[…]’
ref: 2005, Eileen Knowles, chapter 11, in Roses for Robina (Linford Romance Library), large print edition, Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, published 2017, →ISBN, page 292:
glosses: A shameful secret.
Synonyms: word: skeleton in the closet
word: skeleton in the house
turkey-cocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey-cock
stripping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strip
stripping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strippings
Senses: examples: text: 1879, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology Volume II Part IV: Ceremonial Institutions
The mutual bows and courtesies […] are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive.
text: Never were cows that required such stripping.
ref: 1863, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers:
glosses: The act of one who strips.
topics: chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream
Derived terms: asset-stripping
dividend stripping
pluralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌplʊəɹ.əl.(a)ɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: pluralizations
form: pluralisation
Etymology: From plural + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: In English pluralization usually involves adding an 'S', but not always.
antonyms: singularization
glosses: The act of making plural.
Related terms: pluralise
pluralize
contractible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contractible
form: most contractible
Etymology: From contract + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of contraction
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a topological set) Able to be reduced to one of its points by a continuous deformation
Derived terms: contractibleness
weakly contractible
Related terms: contractable
markedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː.kɪd.li/
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.kɪd.li/
Forms: form: more markedly
form: most markedly
form: markèdly
Etymology: From marked + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Being markedly different as a teenager can get you taunted; as an adult it can make you famous.
text: Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
ref: 1950 December 24, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:
text: Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).
ref: 2017 May 24, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine:
glosses: In a marked manner; distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously.
pronouncedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /pɹəˈnaʊnsɪdli/
Forms: form: more pronouncedly
form: most pronouncedly
Etymology: From pronounced + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: His political views had always been pronouncedly liberal.
ref: 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, Folio Society, published 2010, page 24:
glosses: In a pronounced manner; markedly, distinctively.
contractual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Morphologically contract + -ual, from Latin contractus + -al.
Senses: examples: text: contractual rights, contractual obligations
text: "For myself, because of the baggage of 30 years of balkanisation, I think the elegant solution is to take operations back into the public sector. It will mean you can have a whole-industry approach to running the railway, unencumbered by contractual differences."
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 41:
glosses: Of, relating to, or enforced by a contract.
Derived terms: anticontractual
contractual agreement
contractual freedom
contractualise
contractualism
contractualist
contractualistic
contractualize
contractually
extracontractual
extra-contractual
noncontractual
postcontractual
precontractual
quasicontractual
subcontractual
uncontractual
distinctively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more distinctively
form: most distinctively
Etymology: From distinctive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a distinctive manner; in a way that is notable for its difference.
affirmations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affirmation
contractually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From contractual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They also could have circumvented W.G.A. members altogether. Instead, this deal guarantees a contractually mandated context in which A.I. can be utilized — one that benefits, rather than impedes or replaces, the workers.
ref: 2023 September 29, Adam Seth Litwin, “Hollywood’s Deal With Screenwriters Just Rewrote the Rules Around A.I.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2023:
glosses: By means of a contract.
contrarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contrarily
form: most contrarily
Etymology: From contrary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contrary manner; in opposite ways or directions.
Synonyms: word: arse about face
word: backwards
word: contra
word: contrarily
word: contrariwise
word: contrastedly
word: counter
word: gainwise
word: in contrast
word: reversedly
Hypernyms: word: dissimilarly
Hyponyms: word: back to front
word: cross-handed
word: inside out
word: on the contrary
word: upside down
word: vice versa
contributory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹɪˌbjuːt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjʊt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹɪbjəˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtrɪbjəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more contributory
form: most contributory
Etymology: From earlier contributary, from Middle English contributarie, from con- + tributarie after Middle French contributaire.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or involving a contribution.
glosses: Tending to contribute to a result.
examples: text: My Lord the great Commander of the worlde,
Besides fifteene contributory kings,
Hath now in armes ten thouſand Ianiſaries,
Mounted on luſty Mauritanian Steeds, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
glosses: Paying tribute, tributary.
Derived terms: contributorily
contributory negligence
noncontributory
uncontributory
contributory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɹɪˌbjuːt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjʊt(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtɹɪbjət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɹɪbjəˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /kənˈtrɪbjəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: contributories
Etymology: From earlier contributary, from Middle English contributarie, from con- + tributarie after Middle French contributaire.
Senses: examples: text: The response to firing is remarkable, and though the 280 lb. pressure seems more in the nature of a reserve for emergencies than a continuous working figure, even with the present-day apology for coal it seldom fell below 250 lb., and could always be brought up to blowing-off point with little difficulty. To this liveliness of steaming the thermic syphons are doubtless the chief contributory.
ref: 1947 January and February, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 39:
glosses: A person or thing that contributes.
contriver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrivers
Etymology: From contrive + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: […] those desctructive Machines, whereof he said, some evil Genius, Enemy to Mankind, must have been the first Contriver.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 274:
text: A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess […] is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell;
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: They had toured the world together with their Soirée of Illusions, combining his art as a public performer with her skill as a technician, a contriver of magical apparatus, and her artistic taste, which was far beyond his own.
ref: 1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, published 2015, Part 2, Chapter 3:
synonyms: creator
inventer
planner
plotter
schemer
glosses: A person who contrives.
convectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From convection + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing convection; convective.
convective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: From convect + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or employing convection; convectional
Derived terms: anticonvective
autoconvective
bioconvective
convective acceleration
convective activity
convective cell
convective cloud
convective condensation
convective current
convective derivative
convective discharge
convective heat
convective inhibition
convective instability
convectively
convective mixing time
convective operator
convective outlook
convective overshoot
convective overturn
convective precipitation
convective region
convective temperature
electroconvective
magnetoconvective
mesoscale convective system
nonconvective
photoconvective
semiconvective
hower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howers
Senses: examples: text: [O]ur men receaued no other recreation from work and sleep, but onlie the time of eateing their meat, whereof they had sufficient, thrice in every twenty-four howers; and besides, some of them had alowed aquauitæ at ech four hower's end.
ref: 1880, Clements R Markham, editor, The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622, published 1881:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hour.
scientific classification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientific classifications
Senses: glosses: A scheme for the ordering of things such as stellar objects, minerals, forms of life, or personality types according to characteristics that are discernible and testable by scientific methods.
skeletons in the closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton in the closet
skeletons in the cupboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeleton in the cupboard
survives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of survive
utilizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of utilize
analects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈæ.nəˌlɛk(t)s]
Etymology: First attested in 1658, from Ancient Greek ἀνάλεκτα (análekta, “things chosen”), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + λέγω (légō, “I gather”). Compare lecture.
Senses: glosses: A collection of excerpts or quotes.
Synonyms: analecta
scientific classifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scientific classification
testable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛs.tə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈtʰɛs.tə.bl̩]
ipa: /ˈtes.tə.bəl/
ipa: [ˈtʰes.tə.bl̩]
Forms: form: more testable
form: most testable
Etymology: From test + -able.
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to being tested.
examples: text: We have identified an miR-1246 target site in the noncoding region of F8 mRNA and were able to confirm the suppressory role of hsa-miR-1246 on F8 expression in a stable lymphoblastoid cell line expressing FVIII. These findings suggest several testable hypotheses vis-à-vis the role of nc-RNAs in the regulation of F8 expression.
ref: 2015 July 16, “Small ncRNA Expression-Profiling of Blood from Hemophilia A Patients Identifies miR-1246 as a Potential Regulator of Factor 8 Gene”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: With respect to the scientific method, capable of being proven true or false.
topics: law
glosses: Capable of being devised, or given by will.
Related terms: testability
hiccoughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiccough
pockmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pockmark
plying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ply
plying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplaɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: plyings
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: An arrangement of strands or plies.
pluralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pluralised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pluralize
pluralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pluralize
plusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plus
plusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plus
pluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plus
pluses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of plus
withies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪðiz/
/ˈwɪθiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of withy
dadaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːdɑːɹɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈdɑːdɑːɪzəm/
Forms: form: dadaisms
Etymology: Borrowed from French dadaïsme.
Senses: examples: text: What is Dadaism? Its official organ, published at Zurich, tells us, mystifyingly at first, that “Dada” doesn't mean anything.
ref: 1919 March 30, “The Dadas”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The cultural movement of Dada.
Related terms: Dadaist
Dada
distilled water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distilled waters
Senses: glosses: Water that has been purified by distillation. (This entry is a translation hub.)
fencepost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenceposts
form: fence-post
form: fence post
Etymology: From fence + post.
Senses: examples: text: Reversing the car I got the headlights on the bird sitting on the roadside fencepost to reveal a Powerful Owl imperiously staring back at us.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 72:
glosses: A post which helps hold up a fence.
Derived terms: fencepost error
fencepost problem
fencepost problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fencepost problems
Etymology: By analogy with fence-building. If one wants to say "lay a fencepost, then a length of fence, then repeat", then a special case must be made for the final fencepost. If one wants to say "lay a length of fence, then a fencepost, then repeat", then a special case must be made for the initial fencepost.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A problem dealing with how to treat the initial or boundary values of a discrete problem.
Related terms: off-by-one error
asthma attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asthma attacks
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An incident wherein a person who suffers intermittent experiences of bronchioconstriction undergoes such an experience, usually with a sudden onset.
Synonyms: word: asthmatic attack
conventionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌvɛnʃəˈnælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: conventionalities
Etymology: From conventional + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being conventional.
examples: text: Whither shall we flee from civilization, to take off the harness and be free, for a season, from the restraints, the conventionalities of society, and rest from the hard struggles, the cares and toils, the strifes and competitions of life?
ref: 1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes:
text: The Sugar Pine is as free from conventionalities of form and motion as any oak.
ref: 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
glosses: Something conventional; a convention.
Derived terms: nonconventionality
unconventionality
Related terms: overconventionality
conventionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conventionalizes
form: conventionalizing
form: conventionalized
form: conventionalized
form: conventionalise
Etymology: From conventional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make something conventional.
Derived terms: unconventionalize
convergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /kənˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /kənˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: more convergent
form: most convergent
Senses: glosses: That converges or focuses; converging
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: Of a (typically infinite) sequence or series in a topological space, converging to a (finite, proper) limit.
Derived terms: absolutely convergent
conditionally convergent
convergent evolution
convergent extension
convergently
convergent sequence
convergent series
convergent thinking
enantioconvergent
equiconvergent
nonconvergent
overconvergent
postconvergent
semiconvergent
stereoconvergent
superconvergent
convergent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /kənˈvɝ.d͡ʒənt/
ipa: /kənˈvɜː.d͡ʒənt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: convergents
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The rational number obtained when a continued fraction is terminated after a finite number of terms.
Related terms: convergence
continued fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continued fractions
form: continued-fraction
Senses: examples: text: Several results focus on the famous Rogers–Ramanujan continued fraction [47], [48, pp. 214-215], the only continued fraction appearing in Ramanujan's published papers.
ref: 1992, G. E. Andrews, B. C. Berndt, L. Jacobsen, R. L. Lamphere, “The Continued Fractions Found in the Unorganized Portions of Ramanujan's Notebooks”, in Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, volume 99, number 477, page 1:
text: 2000, Andrew Zardecki, 18: Continued Fractions in Time Series Forec[a]sting, Da Ruan (editor), Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing in Nuclear Engineering, Physica-Verlag, Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, page 397,
We achieve this by using well-known examples from the number theory pertaining to the continued fractions. Any sequence of natural numbers drawn from the probability distribution of the quotients of the continued fraction corresponding to an irrational number represents a typical sequence, in the sense that almost all sequences of quotients have this distribution.
text: We have seen that all rational numbers, and no other number, can be expressed as finite simple continued fractions.
The main reason of interest of continued fractions, however, is in their application to the representation of irrational numbers. To that end we shall need infinite simple continued fractions.
ref: 2009, M. Welleda Baldoni, Ciro Ciliberto, G.M. Piacentini Cattaneo, translated by Daniele Gewurz, Elementary Number Theory, Cryptography and Codes, page 48:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A compound numerical expression consisting of an integer plus a fraction whose numerator is a positive integer and whose denominator is a continued fraction (an integer plus a fraction), and so on, with finite or infinite recursion.
Derived terms: Euler's continued fraction formula
finite continued fraction
general continued fraction
generalized continued fraction
infinite continued fraction
periodic continued fraction
regular continued fraction
Rogers-Ramanujan continued fraction
simple continued fraction
Related terms: convergent
thunder god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunder gods
form: thundergod
form: thunder-god
Etymology: From thunder + god.
Senses: glosses: A god associated with thunder.
diving-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving-bells
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of diving bell.
diving bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving bells
form: diving-bell
Senses: glosses: An airtight chamber, open at the bottom, that is lowered on a cable underwater to operate as a base or a means of transport for a diver or a small number of divers.
Derived terms: diving bell spider
Related terms: bathysphere
bathyscaphe
submersible
submarine
diving-board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving-boards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of diving board.
skirmished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skirmish
diving mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving masks
Senses: glosses: A mask worn by divers over the eyes or face to allow them to see clearly underwater, having a watertight seal around its edges to hold it securely to the face.
Derived terms: full-face diving mask
diving-suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving-suits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of diving suit.
diving suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving suits
form: diving-suit
Senses: glosses: A garment or apparatus worn by a diver for protection from the underwater environment.
glosses: A condom.
Derived terms: atmospheric diving suit
Related terms: dive skin
dry suit
hot water suit
semi-dry suit
wetsuit
sky-diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skydiving.
sky diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skydiving.
dumpster-diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dumpster diving.
detartrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Grape juice ... is the only fruit juice that cannot be concentrated immediately after pressing because of the presence of potassium salts, commonly called tartrates, in the juice that cannot be filtered or centrifuged out. They have to be detartrated by gravity, a process that usually takes about six weeks.
ref: 2003, Vincent Amanor-Boadu et al., The U.S. Processing Grape Juice Industry:
text: In a large plant in California, the juice is first stored in large tanks under refrigeration. It is then partially detartrated by the ion exchange process.
ref: 1963, Association of Food Technologists, Reviews in Food Science and Technology, page 159:
text: Freshly made concentrate should be detartrated by storage in a settling tank for a week or two before use.
ref: 1943, Agricultural Experiment Station, Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of California, California: University of California, page 113:
glosses: past participle of detartrate
detartrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The detartrated juice that is to be preserved by pasteurization must be treated with bentonite in order to remove proteins which form an undesirable haze upon heating.
ref: 1998, Giuseppe Mazza, John Shi, M. Le Maguer, Functional Foods: Biochemical and Processing Aspects, page 147:
text: In each case the coagulant was added to 200 ml of the detartrated floe.
ref: 1959, Purdue University Dept. of Engineering, Extension Series, page 799:
text: The detartrated cold wine is filtered in Gasquet filters, with addition of filter aid if needed. The detartrated wine may or may not be pasteurized, as its condition may indicate.
ref: 1947, William Vere Cruess, The Principles and Practice of Wine Making, page 41:
glosses: From which tartrates have been reduced or removed through a detartration process.
long-haired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-haired
form: longest-haired
Etymology: From long + haired.
Senses: glosses: Having long, uncut hair on the head.
synonyms: long-furred
antonyms: shorthaired
hypernyms: hairy
furry
glosses: Of animals, having hair or fur with long strands.
Derived terms: long-haired dictionary
Related terms: longhair
shorthair
diving beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving beetles
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the family Dytiscidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Dytiscus marginalis
word: great diving beetle
word: predaceous diving beetle
hyperplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈpleɪ.ʒə/
Forms: form: hyperplasias
Etymology: From hyper- + -plasia.
Senses: examples: text: But we can no longer regard the mere fact of these diffuse condensations of the lung becoming yellow and caseous as an evidence of their tuberculous nature, especially since the pathological anatomists, and among them Virchow, have shown that formations of the most different kind, having not the slightest connection with tubercule— as, for example, old cancerous masses, lymphatic glands swollen by a hyperplasia of cells, hæmorrhagical infarctions, abscesses, &c.— undergo exactly the same caseous transformation.
ref: 1868, Felix von Niemeyer, J. L Parke, Clinical Lectures on Pulmonary Phthisis, Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, page 3:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An increase in the size of a tissue or organ due to increased number of cells.
Synonyms: hypergenesis
Coordinate terms: hypertrophy
Derived terms: benign prostatic hyperplasia
hemihyperplasia
hyperplasic
hyperplastic
hyperplasmic
lipohyperplasia
lymphohyperplasia
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus
diving-petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving-petrels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of diving petrel.
diving petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diving petrels
form: diving-petrel
Senses: glosses: Any seabird of the genus Pelecanoides in the family Procellariidae, resembling auks and native to the southern oceans.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Pelecanoides urinatrix
word: common diving petrel
taxonomic: Pelecanoides georgicus
word: Georgian diving petrel
taxonomic: Pelecanoides magellani
word: Magellan diving petrel
taxonomic: Pelecanoides garnotii
word: Peruvian diving petrel
taxonomic: Pelecanoides georgicus
word: South Georgia diving petrel
entheogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entheogen
consumables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consumable
LSD-25
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1956, M. W. Hirsch, M. E. Jarvik, and H. A. Abramson, "Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD-25): Effects of LSD-25 and six related drugs upon handwriting", in Journal of Psychology, volume 41, pages 11–22.
text: The bridge, die Brücke, being his pet name for the experiment he was helping the community hospital run on effects of LSD-25, mescaline, psilocybin, and related drugs on a large sample of suburban housewives.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 1, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 7:
text: 1983, Stephan Hurwitz and Karl O. Christiansen, Criminology, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, →ISBN, page 90,
The situation is considerably different for the new and dangerous drug LSD-25, which can induce fantastic pseudo-hallucinations and states resembling delirium.
text: 2006, David Friedman, Surface Transportation Security, Volume 10: A Guide to Transportation’s Role in Public Health Disasters, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, →ISBN, pages A-2–A-3,
A single dose of 0.1 to 0.2 milligrams of LSD-25 will produce profound mental disturbance within a half hour that lasts 10 hours.
glosses: LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide).
Pickering
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pickerings
form: Pickron
Senses: glosses: A city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Ryedale district (OS grid ref SE7984).
glosses: A minor city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A township in Bottineau County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: Former name of Wool Bay, South Australia.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English, from the English town.
Derived terms: Pickering series
Baker Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In London, named after William Baker, a builder.
Senses: examples: text: She was looking more like Sherlock Holmes than ever. Slap a dressing-gown on her and give her a violin, and she could have walked straight into Baker Street and no questions asked.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: A street in the City of Westminster, London; the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes was at number 221B.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An important Underground interchange in Baker Street (Baker Street tube station) that gave its name to the Bakerloo Line.
glosses: A settlement west of Orsett, Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ6381).
glosses: A street in Hung Hom, Hong Kong.
Derived terms: Bakerloo
Baker Street Irregular
yogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yoga + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Here we see the yogic pattern, "Loss of semen equals loss of soul."
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189:
text: She says that rubbing palms or the soles of the feet together is a yogic technique that integrates the left side of the brain and the right.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 79:
glosses: Of or pertaining to yoga.
Derived terms: yogic flying
swordswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swordswomen
Etymology: From sword + -s- + -woman.
Senses: examples: Arwen is portrayed as a valiant swordswoman in the Lord of the Rings films.
synonyms: blade-woman
swordstress
hypernyms: swordfighter
swordsman
swordster
glosses: A woman skilled at using swords in combat.
in principle
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From in + principle (the noun ultimately from Latin principium). Compare French en principe, German im Prinzip, Dutch in principe, Swedish i princip, Danish i princippet.
Senses: glosses: With regard to the fundamentals, but not to the particulars.
glosses: According to theory.
Related terms: on principle
extreme sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extreme sports
Senses: examples: text: Base-jumping is called an extreme sport, but I think it should be called an insane sport.
synonyms: action sport
adventure sport
adventurous sport
glosses: Any sport taking place at potentially dangerous speeds or heights, or involving a high level of physical exertion, highly specialized gear, or spectacular stunts.
extreme sports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extreme sport
kuf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kufs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qoph.
secretor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretors
form: secreter
Etymology: From secrete + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who or animal that secretes (emits a bodily fluid).
glosses: A person who secretes comparatively large quantities of blood-group antigens in their bodily fluids.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A cell, tissue, or organ (such as a gland) that produces a bodily secretion.
Rubik's cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubik's cubes
form: Rubik's Cube
Etymology: Calque of Hungarian Rubik-kocka, named after the inventor Ernő Rubik.
Senses: examples: text: They can open bottles, smoke a cigarette, draw a picture, solve a Rubik's cube, all with the holiest of holies.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 48:
synonyms: magic cube
glosses: A mechanical puzzle in the shape of a cube, all sides able to be rotated, each side divided into 9 squares, the moving pieces allowing the cube to be rearranged. The goal is to get the colored squares aligned so that each side of the cube is the same color.
Hypernyms: puzzle cube
twisty puzzle
Hyponyms: speedcube
Derived terms: cuber
cubing
more confusing than a Rubik's cube
speedcube
speedcuber
speedcubing
punch drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: punch-drunk
form: punchdrunk
Senses: examples: text: The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful, blow.
synonyms: out on one's feet
slaphappy
glosses: Dizzy or confused due to repeat blows to the head.
examples: text: We've become so accustomed to the word 'billions' over the last ten months that we've become punch drunk about just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has really cost us all.
ref: 2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:
glosses: Behaving in a bewildered or dazed manner.
Related terms: punch-drunkenness
emboldened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emboldened
form: most emboldened
Senses: glosses: Having been made bold.
Derived terms: unemboldened
emboldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: They were emboldened by their success.
glosses: simple past and past participle of embolden
Boston baked beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
hypernyms: baked beans
glosses: A variety of baked beans, sweetened with molasses, and flavored with salt pork or bacon.
Related terms: english: Bostonian
translation: Bostonian
word: bean-eater
convertibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being convertible
examples: text: When it comes to Argentina, [Javier Milei's] model is the 1990s, when the convertibility plan established by President Carlos Menem pegged the peso to the dollar and completely ended hyperinflation.
ref: 2023 March 30, Federico Rivas Molina, “Javier Milei, the unclassifiable Argentine politician”, in El País:
glosses: The quality of a currency of being exchangeable for gold or other currencies
Derived terms: interconvertibility
photoconvertibility
Atlantean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
/ætlənˈtiːən/
Forms: form: Atlanteans
form: Atlantian
Etymology: From Atlas + -ean and Atlantis + -ean.
Senses: examples: 1847, M. Bodichon, Études sur l'Algérie, translated in Nott & Gliddon, 1854, Types of mankind,
The Atlanteans, among the ancients, passed for the favorite children of Neptune; they made known the worship of this god to other nations
glosses: An inhabitant of the mythical island of Atlantis.
examples: text: This pyramid has been restored and the tall statues, called Atlanteans (Los Atlantes), have been erected on its summit.
ref: c. 2005, Sacred Sites: Tula:
glosses: A pillar or statue in the form of an architectural atlas.
Atlantean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
/ætlənˈtiːən/
Forms: form: Atlantian
Etymology: From Atlas + -ean and Atlantis + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear / The weight of mightiest Monarchies.
ref: 1667, Milton, Paradise Lost:
glosses: Of or like the Greek titan Atlas, who carries the heavens on his shoulders, as in Atlantean strength
examples: 1940, WHD Rouse, trans. of Nonnus, Dionysiaca
I [Elektra] shall pass from the earth to the stars’ Atlantean vault, and dwell in heaven
glosses: Of the celestial spheres carried by Atlas
examples: text: Arms outstretched, an Atlantean statue of Jesus welcomes a diver in the mysterious depths off Ambergris Caye
ref: 2004, Lonely Planet, The travel book:
glosses: Of an architectural atlas or atlantid, or reminiscent of such: atlantean figures
examples: 2002, Vadim Joseph Rossman, Vidal Sassoon, International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim), Russian Intellectual Antisemitism in the Post-Communist Era,
Barkashov saw a critical difference between Atlantis and Hyperborea in the organization of labor. The Atlantean economy, he claims, was based on the use of the mass slave labor in agriculture and crafts, while the Aryan civilization did not employ slaves nor tolerate slavery.
glosses: Of the mythical island of Atlantis, its people, or its civilization.
examples: text: So [after the tsunami], once again Hideaki navigated his way through the Atlantean city, picking his way through crumbling wreckage, splintered wood, and shredded metal to find his elderly mother.
ref: 2011, Ben Thompson, Badass of the Week: Hideaki Akaiwa:
glosses: flooded or submerged, especially in case of a natural disaster, reminiscent of the way Atlantis sank into the ocean
glosses: of Saturn's moon Atlas
Atlantean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ətˈlænti.ən/
/ætlənˈtiːən/
Forms: form: Atlantian
Etymology: From Atlas + -ean and Atlantis + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: How Atlantean sounded or how the various alphabets worked is anyone's guess, of course, but since there is a certain logic to how language is constructed, we might allow that theirs may not have been so different from our own.
ref: 2008, J. Allan Danelek, Atlantis: Lessons from the Lost Continent:
glosses: The language supposedly spoken by the inhabitants of Atlantis.
examples: text: Indeed, Okrand's goal in inventing Atlantean was to recreate Indo-European, and it thus borrows from several languages yet contains no recognizable words from these linguistic systems.
ref: 2006, Tim Conley, Stephen Cain, Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages:
glosses: A constructed language invented for the 2001 animated film Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Coordinate terms: Lemurian
Muvian
hyperborean
Related terms: Atlantic
Atlantis
atlantal
Atlanteans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Atlantean
convertor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convertors
Etymology: From convert + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of converter.
conveyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conveyable
form: most conveyable
Etymology: From convey + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be conveyed, especially from one owner to another.
Derived terms: conveyability
unconveyable
conviviality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convivialities
Etymology: From convivial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality.
ref: 2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 8
glosses: The state of being convivial
examples: text: Keeping a relationship over social media just is not the same as experiencing in-person conviviality.
ref: 2023 October 23, Editorial Board, “Saying, ‘Hello, neighbor’ at Halloween”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A jovial spirit or activity