cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brick wall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brick walls
form: brick walling
form: brick walled
form: brick walled
Senses: examples: text: They forcefully imprisoned her in a decorative room and brick walled it.
ref: 2013, Cyril A. Peters, Ignoble Imitation, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: To build a brick wall around.
examples: text: Audio recorded too quietly means that there is more opportunity for noise, even in today's digital workflow. Audio recorded too loud will distort in the analog world, and will simply "brick wall" in digital terms.
ref: 2005, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Instant Digital Audio, →ISBN, page 77:
qualifier: sound engineering
glosses: To filter using a brick wall filter.
examples: text: The driver stopped the cab on the spot, brick-walled it then and there.
ref: 2012, Geoff Dyer, The Colour of Memory, →ISBN:
text: Baseball's unstoppable force -- the 2017 Los Angeles Dodgers -- ran smack into peak-form Verlander, who brick-walled their six-game winning streak.
ref: 2017 August 21, Bradford Doolittle, “Justin Verlander's domination of Dodgers looked like Astros audition”, in ESPN:
glosses: To halt or limit abruptly.
examples: text: They wanted to know how successful the attack had been. But you brick-walled them.
ref: 2012, Donald Moffitt, A Gathering of Stars, →ISBN:
text: My rapid dial wouldn't work, and when I was finally able to get a Homeland Security office phone number to reach you, the receptionist brick walled me.
ref: 2012, Virdean, Making the Rules, →ISBN:
text: But he'd brick-walled her on something that obviously caused him pain.
ref: 2017, Lauren Layne, Ready To Run: I Do, I Don't, →ISBN:
glosses: To be uncooperative and unresponsive.
brilliantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brilliantines
Etymology: Borrowed from French brillantine.
Senses: examples: text: The hairdresser's shop was warm and glittering. It smelled of soap and burnt paper and wallflower brilliantine.
ref: 1920, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Revelations”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 267:
text: "I wouldn't regret it," said Linda, "if I took Eileen by the shoulders and shook her till I shook the rouge off her cheek, and the brilliantine off her hair, and a million mean little subterfuges out of her soul.
ref: 1921, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 4, in Her father's daughter, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2014:
glosses: A hair pomade, making the hair shine brilliantly.
examples: text: Bathing Suit of Brilliantine in Navy Blue and Black, trimmed with white mohair braid and buttons (no bloomers). Special 3.95
ref: 1916 June 11, The New York Times, number 112:
glosses: A smooth shiny, luxurious fabric, often of alpaca or vicuña.
brilliantine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brilliantines
form: brilliantining
form: brilliantined
form: brilliantined
Etymology: Borrowed from French brillantine.
Senses: examples: text: And the waiter, of course, dips his fingers into the gravy—his nasty, greasy fingers which he is for ever running through his brilliantined hair.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
glosses: To apply brilliantine to the hair.
grayscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/
Forms: form: grayscales
form: greyscale
form: gray-scale
form: grey-scale
form: gray scale
form: grey scale
Etymology: From gray + scale.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A printed strip of graduated tones used to check exposure and development times.
examples: text: You can view your presentation in grayscale or black-and-white and then customize how the various colors are translated to grayscale or black-and-white.
ref: 2010, Joe Habraken, Microsoft Office 2010 in Depth:
qualifier: imaging
glosses: The use of black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
grayscale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/
Forms: form: greyscale
form: gray-scale
form: grey-scale
form: gray scale
form: grey scale
Etymology: From gray + scale.
Senses: examples: text: Tetris’s graphics were simple enough to work on the Game Boy’s small gray-scale screen; its motion was slow enough not to blur; its action was a repetitive, storyless puzzle that could be picked up, with no loss of potency, at any moment, in any situation.
ref: 2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine:
qualifier: imaging
glosses: Black and white, representing color with shades of gray.
Synonyms: english: in shades of gray
translation: in shades of gray
word: black and white
word: monochrome
grayscale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪˌskeɪl/
Forms: form: grayscales
form: grayscaling
form: grayscaled
form: grayscaled
form: greyscale
form: gray-scale
form: grey-scale
form: gray scale
form: grey scale
Etymology: From gray + scale.
Senses: glosses: To convert to grayscale.
Related terms: grisaille
Brown Bess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brown Besses
Etymology: From an archaic meaning of brown, meaning plain or ordinary, and Bess, a nickname for Elizabeth associated with the lower class and prostitutes.
Senses: synonyms: Black Bess
glosses: The British Army's Land Pattern Musket or any of its derivatives, standard-issue weapons for British soldiers in the American Revolution.
brown rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown rats
Senses: glosses: A rat of species Rattus norvegicus, common worldwide.
Synonyms: word: common rat
word: Norway rat
word: Norwegian rat
word: surmulot
word: wharf rat
Ahmad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aahmed
form: Achmad
form: Achmat
form: Achmed
form: Achmet
form: Ahamed
form: Ahmed
form: Ahmet
Etymology: From Arabic أَحْمَد (ʔaḥmad), from حَمِدَ (ḥamida, “to thank or to praise”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic, variant of Ahmed.
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Norway rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norway rats
Etymology: The common name was popularised (and perhaps coined) by English naturalist John Berkenhout, in his Outlines of the Natural History of Great Britain (1769). Berkenhout believed the species migrated to England from Norwegian ships in 1728; he is also responsible for the scientific name.
Senses: glosses: The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).
wikipedia: John Berkenhout
Synonyms: Norwegian rat
sewer rat
wind-break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind-breaks
Senses: examples: text: Massive timber wind-breaks were erected to protect the railway in particularly exposed locations.
ref: 1950 August, “The Rimutaka Incline and Deviation, New Zealand”, in Railway Magazine, page 547:
glosses: Alternative spelling of windbreak.
wind-break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wind-breaks
form: wind-breaking
form: wind-broke
form: wind-broken
Senses: examples: text: 'Tvvould vvind-breake a moyle, or a ring'd mare, to vie burthens vvith her.
ref: c. 1635–1636 (date written), Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], The Fancies, Chast and Noble: […], London: […] E[lizabeth] P[urslowe] for Henry Seile, […], published 1638, →OCLC, Act II, page 26:
text: It’s not men by some mistake? / No, / There’s not a soul / For a wind-break / Between me and the North Pole— / Except always John-Joe, / My French Indian Esquimaux, […]
ref: 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] An Empty Threat.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: To break the wind of; to cause to lose breath; to exhaust.
canelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canelike
form: most canelike
form: cane-like
Etymology: From cane + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of (a) cane.
bubble wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bubble wraps
form: bubblewrap
form: bubble-wrap
Etymology: From the registered trademark of Sealed Air Corporation (US).
Senses: glosses: Cushioning material consisting of small spheres of air trapped in plastic, sold on long rolls for tearing off, and used as packaging for fragile items.
Derived terms: english: verbal form
translation: verbal form
word: bubble-wrap
buckboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buckboards
Etymology: From buck + board.
Senses: examples: text: In a few hours he would actually be at Highwater. Perhaps there would be a real buckboard at the station; perhaps the first man he saw would be some old-timer who would remember that it was McCumber who had first blazed a way through Highwater County.
ref: 1918, Sinclair Lewis, “Afterglow”, in I'm a Stranger Here Myself and Other Stories, New York: Dell, published 1962, pages 79–80:
text: […] he turned to Differ and said in an employer's tone, "Got everything ready?"
"On the buckboard," said Differ in the tone of a Capricornian employee.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, in Capricornia, page 85:
text: When he turned his head, aiming for a last look at Brother, turned it as much as the rope that connected his neck to the axle of a buckboard allowed, and, later on, when they fastened the iron around his ankles and clamped the wrists as well, there was no outward sign of trembling at all.
ref: 1987, Toni Morrison, Beloved, New York: Vintage, published 2004, page 106:
glosses: A simple, distinctively American four-wheeled horse-drawn wagon designed for personal transport as well as for transporting animal fodder and domestic goods, often with a spring-mounted seat for the driver.
windbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windbreaks
form: wind-break
form: wind break
Etymology: From wind + break.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: hedgerow
fencerow
glosses: A hedge, fence or row of trees positioned to reduce wind damage to crops.
examples: text: I built my windbreak on a second-story wooden deck, as you can see above, but it would work just as well at ground level.
ref: June 1964, Darrell Huff, Sun-Catching Windbreak Popular Science, Bonnier Corporation, page 112
text: Although Birdibil was warm in his family wungkurr or windbreak that night, lying next to a crackling fire and covered with some paperbark blankets (kawan), he had little sleep.
ref: 2000, Darrell Huff, Settlement: A History Of Australian Indigenous Housing, Aboriginal Studies Press, page 19:
text: A wide range of materials was used for windbreaks, including rigid bark sheets inserted in sand, piles of grass or foliage, and stone walls.
ref: 2008, Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia, University of Queensland Press, page 62:
glosses: A sheet or stack of material used to protect people or fire from wind.
examples: text: (see title)
ref: 1995, Terry Bolin, Rosemary Stanton, Wind Breaks: Coming to Terms with Flatulence:
text: Another of Roy's room-clearing wind breaks snapped my head back.
ref: 1996, Matt Condon, The Lulu Magnet:
text: (chapter title for chapter on flatulence)
ref: 2010, Ralph Keyes, “'Windbreaks'”, in Unmentionables:
text: (see chapter title)
ref: 2012, Bill Tidy, Paul G. Bahn, “Wind-Breaks— Or Gone With The Wind”, in Disgraceful Archaeology:
glosses: The act of breaking wind; flatulence.
bucket seat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucket seats
Etymology: Apparently from French baquet (“cockpit”), from early twentieth-century French aircraft.
Senses: glosses: A form-fitting seat for one passenger in automobiles, aircraft, and other such modes of transport.
Related terms: bucket chair
buffalo grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo grasses
form: buffalograss
Etymology: From buffalo + grass.
Senses: glosses: Bouteloua dactyloides.
glosses: Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), sweetgrass.
glosses: Anthoxanthum odoratum, sweet vernal grass, vanilla grass.
glosses: Stenotaphrum secundatum, Saint Augustine grass.
glosses: Panicum maximum, Guinea grass.
glosses: Some species of Setaria, bristlegrass.
buffalo robe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo robes
Senses: examples: text: The snow was too thick and the ruts frozen too hard for the motor. They drove out in a clumsy high carriage. Tucked over them was a blue woolen cover, prickly to her wrists, and outside of it a buffalo robe, humble and moth-eaten now, used ever since the bison herds had streaked the prairie a few miles to the west.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
glosses: A cured bison hide, with the hair left on, used as a blanket or wrap.
raphania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphanias
Etymology: Raphanus + -ia
Senses: glosses: Poisoning by ingestion of seeds of the wild radish, Raphanus raphanistrum.
glans penises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: glans penis + -es
Senses: glosses: plural of glans penis
ratching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ratch
ratching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchings
Senses: examples: text: The various ratchings of the torture wheel require what was gleaned before; but it is a descent of asking, not answering. At no stage on the level of torture do we discover what is the fundamental answer.
ref: 2000, Michael Gelven, The Asking Mystery: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 169:
glosses: The act of that which ratches or stretches.
ratcheting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ratchet
ratcheting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchetings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is ratcheted.
glosses: A conjurers' trick of bending an object back and forth to induce metal fatigue, so that it can be broken later by rubbing it.
buffalo soldier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo soldiers
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.
readest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of read
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of read
readeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːdəθ/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of read
readjustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: readjustments
Etymology: From re- + adjustment.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent adjustment.
Related terms: realignment
recalibration
issuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of issue
issuing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: issuings
Senses: examples: the issuings and transactions of stocks
glosses: The act by which something is issued.
examples: the issuings of nature's springs
glosses: That which issues from a source.
Related terms: forth-issuing
noniussing
anthropomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Human morphology.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of human morphology.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The attribution of human characteristics to God.
Related terms: anthropomorphism
anthropomorphological
anthropomorphologically
purples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple
glosses: Swine fever or hog cholera.
glosses: Earcockle.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Purpura.
glosses: An early purple-flowered orchid.
Related terms: long purples
purples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of purple
long purples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There with fantastic garlands did she come / Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, / That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, / But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: Synonym of early-purple orchid.
synonyms: word: early-purple orchid
purple loosestrife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple loosestrifes
Senses: examples: text: Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Wild Wood”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 48:
text: From the crest we could see the crest of the next, and upon it three bowers side by side, decked as my own had been with twined lupine, purple loosestrife, and white meadow rue.
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter LI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 310:
text: They leave him upon the New Castle Road, standing among the late purple Loosestrife by the Ditch, glancing upward from time to time, waving his Arm,— then growing still, appearing to listen.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 70, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 686:
glosses: A semi-aquatic herbaceous plant, Lythrum salicaria, having long spikes of purple flowers, native to Eurasia, considered invasive in North America and New Zealand.
Synonyms: sense: Lythrum salicaria
word: purple lythrum
sense: Lythrum salicaria
word: spiked loosestrife
sense: Lythrum salicaria
english: disputed
translation: disputed
word: long purples
sense: Lythrum salicaria
word: rainbow weed
ear cockle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earcockle.
earcockle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear cockle
Etymology: From ear + cockle.
Senses: synonyms: purples
glosses: A disease of wheat and rye caused by a nematode of species Anguina tritici, in which the ears blacken and contract.
readmission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːædˈmɪʃən/
Forms: form: readmissions
Etymology: From re- + admission.
Senses: examples: text: On the Freshwater line, the most outstanding improvement was the readmission of all trains to the main station at Newport, and the introduction of a through service in each direction between Ventnor and Freshwater, via Sandown and Newport, calling only at the principal stations.
ref: 1947 May and June, K. Westcott Jones, “The Freshwater, Yarmouth & Newport Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 146:
text: Multiple escapes and readmissions to this facility.
ref: 1990, Martin H. Greenberg, The Further Adventures of The Joker:
glosses: A second or subsequent admission.
Related terms: readmit
realisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: realisations
Etymology: From French réalisation, from Middle French, as if realise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: A widening of the M4 had long been mooted, and the Welsh Government had even earmarked most of the required £1.6bn funding for a new 14-mile, six-lane section around Newport. Then, in the face of opposition from environmentalists, came a realisation that similar road schemes across the world tend merely to encourage greater car use and therefore soon prove ineffective in solving the original problem.
ref: 2020 December 2, Christian Wolmar, “Wales offers us a glimpse of an integrated transport policy”, in Rail, page 56:
glosses: Alternative spelling of realization.
Derived terms: self-realisation
recantation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recantations
Etymology: From recant + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Macron’s full recantation came in his speech on 31 May this year in Bratislava, arguably the most important delivered by a European leader since the war broke out.
ref: 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The act of recanting or something recanted.
reciprocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reciprocators
Etymology: From reciprocate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Something, especially part of a mechanism, that reciprocates.
recission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recissions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rescission.
recombine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recombines
form: recombining
form: recombined
form: recombined
Etymology: From re- + combine.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To combine again, especially to reassemble the parts of something previously taken apart in a different manner.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To undergo recombination.
reconsideration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconsiderations
Etymology: From reconsider + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of reconsidering or something reconsidered.
Synonyms: consideration
reconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconstruct
reconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: There is a broad-gauge transfer shed, lengths of running track with reconstructed stations, and a bit of Brunel's ill-fated atmospheric railway.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 61:
topics: management
qualifier: literal or figurative; financing; etc; financing; etc
glosses: Constructed again or anew.
Rebuilt; reassembled; redesigned and reimplemented; thoroughly renovated even at the structural level.
antonyms: unreconstructed
unrestructured
coordinate_terms: restructured
raw_tags: of buildings
qualifier: literal or figurative; events; etc; events; etc
glosses: Constructed again or anew.
Recreated; redeveloped and rediscovered through forensic methods or other similarly clever methods of induction from limited evidence of a past state.
raw_tags: of languages
examples: Near-synonyms: reconciled, repentant
qualifier: literal or figurative
glosses: Constructed again or anew.
Reformed in politics, ideology, or spiritual conformation; reconciled to social or cultural change; particularly with respect to the Reconstruction after the American Civil War.
antonyms: unreconstructed
;
unrepentant
raw_tags: of persons and institutions
Derived terms: reconstructed language
redback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbacks
form: red-back
form: red back
Etymology: From red + back.
Senses: examples: text: 1988 June 16, Stephanie Pain, Things that go plop in the night, New Scientist, page 78,
“If you find a redback, squash it firmly,” advised one guide.
text: Many a red-back, funnel-web, or other spider has found its resting days at the bottom of a vegemite jar shoved into some dark recess of the laundry.
ref: 1996, James Lambert, The Macquarie Book of Slang, Sydney: Macquarie Library, page 254:
text: 2005 October, Martha Harrison, Brilliant 10: Marydianne Andrade, Popular Science, page 58,
Andrade first encountered the redback— whose lethal bite gives it as infamous a reputation in Australia as the black widow enjoys here in North America—when her grad-school adviser asked to travel to go to Perth to study them.
text: Easily identified by a red, orange or brownish stripe on the abdomen, Redbacks are responsible for by far the most spider bites in Australia.
ref: 2007, Steve Backshall, Steve Backshall's Venom: Poisonous Animals in the Natural World, page 114:
text: The only truly dangerous Australian spiders are funnelwebs and redbacks but, these days, deaths of people from these spiders seem to be a thing of the past since antivenom is now available.
ref: 2012, Peter Macinnis, Australian Backyard Naturalist, page 55:
glosses: A venomous spider, Latrodectus hasselti, endemic to Australia.
glosses: A brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina), native to the Northern Hemisphere; the dunlin.
Synonyms: sense: Latrodectus hasselti
word: redback spider
Related terms: black widow
katipo
redback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redbacks
form: red-back
form: red back
Etymology: Modelled after greenback, the currency of the United States of America, except using Communist Red
Senses: glosses: the yuan (CNY), the currency of the People's Republic of China (Red Chinese money)
Coordinate terms: red chip
redbud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛdˌbʌd/
Forms: form: redbuds
Etymology: From red + bud.
Senses: glosses: Any of several small trees, of the genus Cercis, having purple-pink flowers that appear before the leaves; the Judas tree.
Derived terms: eastern redbud
European redbud
western redbud
Red Sox Nation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the fanbase of the Boston Red Sox
quatorzain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatorzains
Etymology: From French quatorzain.
Senses: glosses: A poem or stanza consisting of fourteen lines.
Synonyms: sonnet
redia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redias
form: rediae
Etymology: Named after Redi, an Italian naturalist.
Senses: glosses: the larva of some trematodes, some of which become cercariae
cercaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜː(ɹ)ˈkɛəɹɪə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: cercarias
form: cercariae
Etymology: From New Latin cercāria, from Ancient Greek κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -āria.
Senses: glosses: The parasitic larva of trematodes that infect the final host generally.
Derived terms: cercarial
anticercarial
metacercaria
xiphidiocercaria
trematode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtrɛm.ə.təʊd/
ipa: /ˈtrɛm.əˌtoʊd/
Forms: form: trematodes
Etymology: From translingual Trematoda, from Ancient Greek τρημᾰτώδης (trēmătṓdēs, “having a vent to the intestinal canal”), from τρῆμᾰ (trêmă, “perforation, aperture”) + -ώδης (-ṓdēs, “full of, -like”).
Senses: examples: text: He passed under the last of the bridges and around the bend in the river, through peaceful farmland, high fields tilted on the slopes and rich turned earth in patches of black corrugation among the greening purlieus and small cultivated orchards like scenes of plenitude from picturebooks suddenly pasted over the waste he was a familiar of, the river like a giant trematode curling down out of the city, welling heavy and septic past these fine homes on the north shore.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 119:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: fluke
trematode worm
glosses: a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda
trematode worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trematode worms
Senses: glosses: the trematode
reductionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reductionist
form: most reductionist
Etymology: From reduction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to reductionism.
Related terms: reductive
reductivist
reductionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reductionists
Etymology: From reduction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of reductionism.
pedalboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedalboats
form: pedal boat
Etymology: From pedal + boat.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a pedalo
reduviid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdjuː.vi.ɪd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈdu.vi.ɪd/
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: of, relating to, or characteristic of the family Reduviidae
reduviid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdjuː.vi.ɪd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈdu.vi.ɪd/
Forms: form: reduviids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
synonyms: assassin bug
kissing bug
glosses: any member of the Reduviidae family of insects, which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of Chagas disease
reflect upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflects upon
form: reflecting upon
form: reflected upon
form: reflected upon
Senses: glosses: To consider a weighty topic or idea.
Synonyms: reflect on
reflect on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reflects on
form: reflecting on
form: reflected on
form: reflected on
Senses: examples: text: She reflected on her country's role in history.
text: The Leicester Daily Mercury reflected on how these concerns were the result of changing ways of getting around: "It might sound a bit crazy or just a little revolting that at Christmas works parties, some should drink themselves into a near-insensible state... This was not serious when they used public transport, but today more men and women use their own cars."
ref: 2023 December 27, David Turner, “Silent lines...”, in RAIL, number 999, page 29:
glosses: To think carefully about (something), and give it due consideration.
examples: text: It is sometimes useful to be able to reflect on class or interface types in native code as well.
ref: 1999, Sheng Liang, The Java Native Interface:
text: Load-time MOPs reflect on the bytecode and make use of a modified class loader.
ref: 2001, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, ECOOP 2001 - Object-oriented Programming: 15th European Conference:
text: To define attribute classes and reflect on them at runtime, you have to consider a few more issues.
ref: 2005, Eric Gunnerson, Nick Wienholt, Anders Hejlsberg, A Programmer's Introduction to C# 2.0:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To access details of (a data type, etc.) at run-time using reflection.
examples: text: The recent spate of vandalism by pupils does not reflect well on the school.
glosses: To give an impression of (used with an adverb).
Derived terms: reflect on one
regulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regulate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to regulation; having a regulatory function.
reintroduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reintroductions
Etymology: From re- + introduction.
Senses: examples: text: On the passenger-carrying 1 ft. 11½ in.-gauge Vale of Rheidol branch from Aberystwyth to Devils Bridge, however, the 2-6-2 tank engines are to be named for the reintroduction of the train service for this summer on June 11.
ref: 1956 May, “W.R. Narrow-Gauge Engine Names”, in Railway Magazine, page 280:
glosses: The act of introducing something again.
examples: text: Klopfer and Gamble (1966) gave 16 female goats (C. hircus) 5 min of contact with their young at parturition. Nine of the mothers had been temporarily rendered anosmic (could not smell) at parturition by spraying a 10% cocaine hydrogen chloride solution into their nostrils 20–90 min prior to parturition. […] Eight of the nine females who were anosmic at parturition but could smell at reintroduction accepted their own offspring, as well as alien young during reinstatement.
ref: 2008, Edward O. Price, “Maternal and Neonatal Behavior”, in Principles and Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior: An Introductory Text, Wallingford, Oxfordshire; Cambridge, Mass.: CABI, →ISBN, page 149:
text: The IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), for example, restricts use of the word ʽreintroductionʼ to species that have become extinct locally or Europe-wide no more than 200 to 300 years ago.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 195:
text: A wildlife foundation called Elephant Havens, based at the edge of Botswana’s Okavango Delta, has developed a long-term reintroduction project.
ref: 2023 July 22, Ashley Strickland, “A herd of orphan elephants could be the key to bringing back the woolly mammoth”, in CNN:
glosses: The release of animals from captivity into the wild, especially, into an area where they have become extirpated or greatly reduced.
glosses: An animal so released.
Related terms: reintroduce
relaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːˈleɪd
ipa: ˈɹiːleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: relayed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of relay (“lay again”)
remindful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈmʌɪndf(ə)l/
Forms: form: more remindful
form: most remindful
Etymology: From remind + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: If the Snake has an unmistakeable resemblance to the male organ in its active state, the foliage of the tree or bush is equally remindful of the female.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 81:
text: He dashed downstairs – the speed of his descent causing the heat of the banisters to burn the palm of his hand in a merry way remindful of similar occasions in his boyhood.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 181:
glosses: That serves to remind one of something; reminiscent.
rending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rend
Derived terms: heart-rending
rending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rendings
Senses: examples: rendings of garments
glosses: The act by which something is rent, or torn.
renegation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renegations
Etymology: Equivalent to renege + -ation.
Senses: glosses: a denial
Related terms: renegade
renege
negation
replenished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛnɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of replenish
replenished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈplɛnɪʃt/
Forms: form: more replenished
form: most replenished
Senses: glosses: Imbued, fully infused (with) some quality.
examples: text: This river also as the two former, is replenished with fish and foule.
ref: 1612, John Smith, Map of Virginia, Kupperman, published 1988, page 159:
glosses: Full, fully stocked (with), containing an abundance (of).
glosses: That has been refilled; restored to capacity or fullness, full.
reprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛpɹɪˈhɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: reprehensions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reprehensio, reprehensionis.
Senses: glosses: the act, or an expression, of criticism, censure or condemnation; reprimand
Related terms: reprehend
reprehensible
Norn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Norns
Etymology: From Old Norse norn.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of the three goddesses of fate or destiny.
Synonyms: topics: mythology
mysticism
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
sense: goddess of fate or destiny
word: Fate
Meronyms: english: Fate; Past; or
translation: Fate; Past; or
word: Urd
english: Happening; Present; or
translation: Happening; Present; or
word: Verdandi
english: Debt; Future; or
translation: Debt; Future; or
word: Skuld
Norn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Norn, from Middle Scots Norn (“Norn, Norwegian”), from Middle English Norn, Norren (“Norwegian”), from Old English Norren, Norn (“Norwegian”), from Old Norse norrǿnn (“northern, Norwegian”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrōnijaz (“northern”).
Doublet of northern and Northron.
Senses: glosses: An extinct North Germanic language once spoken on the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
Meronyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Shetlandish
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Shetlandic
polysyndeton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒlɪˈsɪndɪtɒn/
Forms: form: polysyndetons
form: polysyndeta
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin polysyndeton, itself from Byzantine Greek πολυσύνδετον (polusúndeton, literally “many connected”).
Senses: examples: text: In Polysyndeton conjunctions flow,
And every word its copulative will shew.
ref: 1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Polysyndeton.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 53:
text: [Hemingway] often employs a variety of polysyndeton—a frequent use of conjunctions, most notably “and”—linking elements in a sentence together in a way that implies all parts are of equal importance, while in fact one unit of the series may be much more significant than the others.
ref: 2002, Robert Baird Shuman, editor, Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 668:
glosses: The use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.
wikipedia: Monty Python
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
salmeterol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sælˈmɛt.əˌɹɔl/
Etymology: Probably from sal(butamol) + [Term?] + -terol (“phenethylamine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A bronchodilator administered by oral inhalation in the form of a salt C₂₅H₃₇NO₄·C₁₁H₈O₃ to treat bronchospasm associated especially with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It acts as an agonist, binding to beta-receptors that mediate the relaxation of bronchial muscles.
Derived terms: salmeterol xinafoate
LABA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LABAs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of long-acting beta-adrenoceptor agonist, a drug class used in the treatment of respiratory diseases.
Related terms: SABA
xinafoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoate radical of 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid.
Derived terms: salmeterol xinafoate
salmeterol xinafoate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: salmeterol + xinafoate - 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid salt of salmeterol.
Senses: glosses: a LABA used in the treatment of respiratory diseases.
phoetus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phoetuses
form: phoeti
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fetus.
phœtus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phœtuses
form: phœti
Senses: qualifier: erroneous
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fetus.
pair of underwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pairs of underwear
Senses: examples: text: Have you seen my black pair of underwear? I swear I had it yesterday...
glosses: An item of clothing that is worn under one's trousers or pants.
Synonyms: word: underpants
word: underwear
word: pants
baggageman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggagemen
Etymology: From baggage + -man.
Senses: glosses: A railway employee who was in charge of the baggage car, storing and retrieving passenger's baggage and sometimes handling mail.
resettle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resettles
form: resettling
form: resettled
form: resettled
form: re-settle
Etymology: From re- + settle.
Senses: glosses: To settle in a different place.
examples: text: And for entrepreneurial immigrants, the mayor's office partners with local organizations to offer business loans of between $5,000 and $50,000, said Ruben Chandrasekar, executive director for the International Rescue Committee, a nonprofit that resettles about 1,100 refugees and asylum seekers in Baltimore each year.
ref: 2015 December 21, Octavio Blanco, “Immigrants: These cities want you!”, in CNN:
text: And so far just two member states, Malta and Finland, are on track to meet their resettling obligations.
ref: 2017 March 2, Eliza Mackintosh, “No more excuses on resettling refugees, European Commission warns”, in CNN:
text: Together with our partner in Pittsburgh, Jewish Family and Community Services, and others across the country, we’ve directly resettled more than 450,000 refugees in the US since 1980 when the USRAP was established, according to HIAS annual reports.
ref: 2018 November 5, Mark Hetfield, “HIAS chief: If you’re not combating hate speech, you’re accepting it”, in CNN:
text: After the biggest military evacuation in history, the Biden administration will now resettle more than 60,000 Afghan refugees inside the US over the next several weeks.
ref: 2021 September 13, Priscilla Alvarez and Oren Liebermann, “Inside the effort to resettle thousands of Afghans in the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: To force someone to settle in a different place.
REST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
Senses: examples: text: Coding a REST API has never felt right to me. I believe that REST APIs should be designed and configured, but not coded.
ref: 2011, Mark Masse, REST API Design Rulebook: Designing Consistent RESTful Web Service Interfaces, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 86:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of representational state transfer.
Derived terms: RESTful
REST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕst
ipa: /ɹɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
homophone: wrest
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Revised Extended Standard Theory.
retail theft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Shoplifting.
retake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈteɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹiːteɪk/
Forms: form: retakes
form: retaking
form: retook
form: retaken
form: re-take
Etymology: From re- + take.
Senses: glosses: To take something again.
glosses: To take something back.
examples: text: The army tried repeatedly to retake the fort they had been driven from.
glosses: To capture or occupy somewhere again.
glosses: To photograph or film again.
retake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈteɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹiːteɪk/
Forms: form: retakes
form: re-take
Etymology: From re- + take.
Senses: glosses: a scene that is filmed again, or a picture that is photographed again
glosses: an instance of resitting an examination
reweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reweight
reweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reweighted
form: most reweighted
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of a series etc) weighted again, especially as part of an iterative process
revenue land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: agricultural land that may not be used for industrial or residential purposes
Hypernyms: land
rhombihexahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombihexahedrons
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of two concave polyhedra: the great rhombihexahedron and the small rhombihexahedron.
richesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: richesses
Etymology: From Middle English richesse, from Old French richese, richece.
Senses: glosses: wealth or riches
glosses: A group of martens; the collective noun for martens.
ricksha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪk.ʃə/
Forms: form: rickshas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rickshaw.
singultus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singultuses
form: singultus
Etymology: From early 15th century. Learned borrowing from Latin singultus, of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A fit of gasping or convulsive breathing.
glosses: A sob; a speech broken by sobs.
topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: otherwise obsolete
glosses: The hiccups; diaphragmatic myoclonus.
ridgepole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪdʒpəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɹɪdʒˌpoʊl/
Forms: form: ridgepoles
form: ridge pole
Etymology: From ridge + pole.
Senses: examples: text: In the middle of the floor was a pole of tough thornwood, to hold the end of the ridgepole.
ref: 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 21:
synonyms: ridgeboard
ridgepiece
glosses: A beam along the ridge of a roof to which the rafters are attached.
glosses: A horizontal pole that supports the roof of a ridge tent .
ring off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rings off
form: ringing off
form: rang off
form: rung off
Senses: examples: text: I thanked him and rang off.
ref: 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 68:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: To disconnect at the end of a phone call.
examples: text: [S]he's not a Bloomer / But knows when she's got you at her wire's end. / It does no good to fret and fume and scoff, / For she all protests meets with "Oh, ring off!"
ref: 1894, David Todd Praigg, Almetta, page 109:
text: “Oh! ring off on your rhapsodies!” John interjected.
ref: 1897, University of Virginia Magazine, page 183:
text: "[…] They say Crookman's going to open a sanitarium in Harlem right away. There's your chance, Big Boy, and it's your only chance." Bunny chuckled. "Oh, ring off," growled Max.
ref: 1969, George S. Schuyler, Black No More:
glosses: Buzz off; go away; shut up.
Related terms: hang up
masturbates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of masturbate
masturbated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of masturbate
ambulance chasers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambulance chaser
packager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packagers
Etymology: From package + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who packages.
glosses: A tool or machine used to package objects.
glosses: A company that hires writers and produces finished books to be sold on to publishers.
glosses: A comic book studio that produces content for comic book publishers on demand.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program that groups objects or data into a single file.
Derived terms: mortgage packager
universal packager
packagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packager
paralyzingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From paralyzing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a paralyzing manner.
yachter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjɒtəɹ/
rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: yachters
Etymology: From yacht + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who sails in yachts.
Synonyms: yachtee
yachtist
yachtperson
yacht person
yachtsperson
yachty
Coordinate terms: boater
boatperson
boat person
Related terms: yacht
yachtee
yachtist
yachtperson
yacht person
yachtsman
yachtsperson
yachtswoman
yachty
topside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From top + side.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge.
topside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From top + side.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Abovedeck, such as on the weather deck or bridge.
mother-in-law apartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mother-in-law apartments
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: in-law unit, granny annexe, granny flat, granny room, secondary suite, casita, garden apartment, ADU (“accessory dwelling unit”)
"Accessory dwelling units are commonly referred to as mother-in-law apartments. Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are a second dwelling on a piece of property where a primary residence already exists." —King County (Washington) Online Directory
glosses: A small apartment attached to or carved out of a nominally single-family house, ostensibly intended for occupancy by a mother-in-law or other relative, but potentially also rented out to a stranger.
tail block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tail blocks
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A block having a rope about it, and on an end hanging several feet from it.