cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unclench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈklɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: unclenches
form: unclenching
form: unclenched
form: unclenched
Etymology: From Middle English unclenchen, equivalent to un- + clench.
Senses: examples: text: The baby stopped crying and unclenched her fists.
text: I watched her clench and unclench her fists nervously.
ref: 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 330:
glosses: To open (something that was clenched).
examples: text: Bill, take some deep breaths and unclench.
glosses: To relax, especially one's muscles.
feria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛ.ɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: ferias
form: feriae
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin fēria.
Senses: glosses: A weekday on a Church calendar on which no feast is observed.
feria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛ.ɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
ipa: /ˈfɛ̝ɾijɐ/
ipa: /ˈfɛ.ɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹiə
Forms: form: ferias
form: feriae
Etymology: From Spanish feria.
Senses: examples: text: When you got a little bit of feria, the women come with no clothes
ref: 2007, “Get Your Feria” (track 11, 1:36 from the start), in Lil Rob (lyrics), Uncut for the Calles Mextape Vol. Uno:
glosses: Money.
Derived terms: ⇒? fetty
predestination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: predestinations
Etymology: From Middle English predestinacion, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedēstinātiō. By surface analysis, predestine + -ation. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
glosses: The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
synonyms: word: doom
word: fortune
word: chance
word: destin
word: destiny
word: doom
word: fatality
word: fate
word: foredoom
word: foreordination
word: fortune
word: kismet
word: lot
word: orlay
word: portion
word: predestination
word: predestiny
word: preordination
word: qadar
word: weird
word: wyrd
glosses: Destiny or fate.
Related terms: determinism
predestinational
Augustinian
irresistible grace
Yalikavak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Yalıkavak, a small town in Turkey.
exhibitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhibitors
Etymology: From exhibit + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The exhibitors at the aviation conference included the inventor of a new kind of light aircraft.
text: The organizer of a canceled business and community fair aimed at the lesbian and gay community says he has mailed refunds to all the exhibitors who reserved booths.
ref: 1984 April 7, Larry Goldsmith, “Gay Expo Organizer: Checks Are in the Mail”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: Someone who exhibits something.
glosses: Someone who organizes an exhibition.
glosses: An exhibitionist.
Derived terms: exhibitorship
dog-paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog-paddles
form: dog paddle
Senses: glosses: A swimming stroke in the style of a dog swimming.
dog-paddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dog-paddles
form: dog-paddling
form: dog-paddled
form: dog-paddled
form: dog paddle
Senses: glosses: To swim using the dog paddle stroke.
laundromats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laundromat
ramekin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/
Forms: form: ramekins
form: ramequin
Etymology: Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.
Senses: examples: text: The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.
ref: 2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
text: Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.
ref: 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
glosses: A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.
Related terms: eggcup
ceiling fan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceiling fans
Senses: examples: text: It was set too high to reflect him, it carried only a shelf of looking-glass beer and the moving blades of the ceiling-fan.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 462:
glosses: A fan fixture attached to a ceiling, sometimes with a built-in light.
Synonyms: overhead fan
sea bream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea breams
form: sea bream
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seabream.
uttering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of utter
uttering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utterings
Senses: glosses: An utterance; something spoken.
examples: text: The girl using a fake ID to enter a bar was guilty of uttering.
text: If two jointly prepare counterfeit coin, and utter it in different shops apart from each other, but in concert, and intending to share the proceeds, the utterings of each are the joint utterings of both, and they may be convicted jointly.
ref: 1881, Ephraim Arnold Jacob, Robert Alexander Fisher., An Analytical Digest of the Law and Practice of the Courts of Common Law:
topics: law
glosses: The crime of knowingly presenting forged documentation.
Derived terms: uttering and publishing
Chebyshev's inequality
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chebyshev inequality
form: Tchebycheff inequality
form: Tchebycheff's inequality
Etymology: From the surname of Russian mathematician Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894), the discoverer.
Senses: examples: Pr (|X-μ|≥kσ)≤1/(k²)
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The theorem that in any data sample with finite variance, the probability of any random variable X that lies k or more standard deviations away from the mean is no more than 1/k², i.e. assuming mean μ and standard deviation σ, the probability is
wikipedia: Pafnuty Chebyshev
Related terms: Chebyshev's sum inequality
Três Lagoas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Três Lagoas (literally “three ponds”).
Senses: glosses: A city in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the surname of Joseph Louis François Bertrand, who conjectured the theorem, and the surname of Pafnuty Chebyshev who proved it.
Senses: examples: ∀n∈ℕ:n>1⇒∃p∈ℙ:n<p<2n
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: the theorem that there is at least one prime number between n and 2n for every n>1, i.e.
Bertrand's postulate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem.
synonyms: word: Bertrand-Chebyshev theorem
NZPIF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New Zealand Property Investors' Federation.
aluminiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌluːmɪˈnɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more aluminiferous
form: most aluminiferous
Etymology: From aluminium + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: containing, or yielding aluminium or its ore or alum
bine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: bines
Etymology: From bind (noun).
Senses: examples: text: The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
ref: 1900, Thomas Hardy, The Darkling Thrush:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A climbing plant, as hops, which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
Derived terms: word: gaybine
word: green bine
word: hopbine
taxonomic: Cissus spp.
word: treebine
word: woodbine
bine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: bines
Etymology: From Wills's Woodbine (cigarettes).
Senses: synonyms: fag
glosses: A cigarette.
examples: text: You hear this
We been sitting on bine
So I beg you
Step outta line
We gon’ spray this up like a water slide
ref: 2025 December 5, Bonez X Bitz, “Trips”, 0:58:
glosses: Bullets.
bine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: bines
form: bining
form: bined
form: bined
Etymology: From Wills's Woodbine (cigarettes).
Senses: examples: text: Three waps up and a couple of shanks (Just in case)
But I got faith that these tools won't jam
Dinger that whip, plates doing mileage
Who's that cycling? Jump out bine him
Perfect timing, Snap said "Five mins" then he held bineage
They want me to rap, I want to close eyelids
Juggling both, pretty exciting
ref: 2020 November 19, PR SAD, “One Wish” (1:41 from the start):
text: My bro loco, wants nothing but violence
Got a .9 of course it's firing
Catch him in sight and light him light him
Bark some teeth, made the teeth dem bine him
ref: 2021 October 15, TPL, O’mizz & JoJo, “Potion” (1:36 from the start):
text: I wanna bine him
[…] Grip that skeng, aim up and blast
ref: 2022 November 24, Buni x CH, “PSA” (1:14 from the start):
text: Fuck that, I'm riding ’round
I'm sliding 'round, spot opp, I'mma bine him now (Grr bow)
Six in the spin I’mma slime him out
Six in the spin tryna lie him down (Let's go)
ref: 2023 February 7, Strika, “Sliding” (0:19 from the start):
text: I see him, I bine him, do him up clean
I shoot, you're driving, pussio, please
Change your mindset, get off the streets
ref: 2023 December 1, M12 (Manor Park), “100k” (0:35 from the start):
glosses: To fill with bullets, to shoot.
uranic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊˈɹæn.ɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Etymology: From uran- + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing uranium in higher valences than uranous compounds.
glosses: Heavenly, celestial; astronomical.
examples: text: From many other places in the classics the impression may be won that Uranic love attained a higher position even than her sister. More recent explanations of the homosexual instinct have emanated from philosophers, psychologists and natural scientists.
ref: 1894, Richard Krafft-Ebing (trans F. J. Rebman), Psychopathia Sexualis, page 341
text: The patriotic assassination that so glorified Harmodios and Aristogeiton was in a vengeance for what was a homosexual marriage, we may say, between the two youths—whose uranic love was so virilized.
ref: 1908, Edward Prime-Stevenson, The Intersexes A History of Similisexualism as a Problem in Social Life, page 189:
text: But the fact was that ever since Frederick the Great had forbidden women to his Praetorian Guard in the 1750s, obliging the guards to seek the company of boys for their pleasure, Berlin had been identified with soldierly inversion and uranic sexuality. Paragraph 175 of the Federal Criminal Code still forbade all homosexual activity but there were so many male prostitutes in Berlin […] that the law was more or less unenforceable.
ref: 2019, Philip Kerr, Metropolis, page 41:
text: .
synonyms: word: Uranian
word: uranistic
word: homophile
word: homosexual
word: like that
word: queer
word: similisexual
word: that way
glosses: Of, related to, or characteristic of male same-sex erotic desire and relationships; homosexual.
Derived terms: transuranic
uranate
uranic acid
uranic nitrate
uranic ocher
uranic ochre
uranic oxide
uranic sulfate
uranic sulphate
Related terms: uranous
uranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uran- + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing uranium in lower valences than uranic compounds.
Derived terms: uranoso-
uranous bromide
uranous chloride
uranous dioxide
uranous oxide
uranous sulfate
uranous sulphate
Related terms: uranic
uranoso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: uran- + -ose + -o-
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: uranous
Derived terms: uranoso-ammonic
uranosopotassic
uranoso-uranic
scalability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalabilities
Etymology: From scale + -ability or scalable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being scalable.
REMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REMFs
Senses: examples: text: Back at the PXs, the REMFs (rear-echelon motherfuckers) […] were indulging in black-market schemes and pleasures while Stone and his buddies out humping the boonies did the fighting, putting their lives on the line.
ref: 2004, Martin Torgoff, “Next Stop is Vietnam”, in Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945–2000, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 175:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of rear-echelon motherfucker, a soldier assigned or stationed far from the front line, especially during the Vietnam War.
lense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenses
Senses: examples: text: When a lense is described as of 4 inch focus, it means that such a lens is capable of bringing parallel rays to a point at a distance of 4 inches from the lens.
ref: 1911, Motography, volume 5, number 6, page 176:
text: Basically, a beam of light passing through a lens parallel to the optical axis converges to form a focused image on the film. Spherical aberration is the term for an optical fault caused by the spherical form of a lense that produces different […]
ref: 2015, Steve Rutherford, How to Photograph Landscapes like a Pro, →ISBN:
glosses: Misspelling of lens.
glosses: Alternative spelling of lens.
lense
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lenses
form: lensing
form: lensed
form: lensed
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lens.
glosses: Alternative spelling of lens.
aluminothermy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the production of a metal from its oxide by heating it with aluminium
Derived terms: aluminothermic
leastwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From least + -wise.
Senses: glosses: At least.
glosses: Minimally.
minimally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From minimal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: minimally invasive surgery
text: Very little research has, however, directly examined the limitations of native perception, especially for contrasts that are only minimally differentiated acoustically and articulatorily.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Discrimination of Multiple Coronal Stop Contrasts in Wubuy (Australia): A Natural Referent Consonant Account”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a minimal way; to the least extent.
Derived terms: nonminimally
minimally invasive
gothic rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gothic rock
Etymology: First coined by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture.
Senses: examples: text: Since the 1980s, several goth substyles have mixed the Batcave heritage with other musical genres into new goth substyles. New wave was gothed into darkwave, classic rock into gothic rock, and metal into gothic metal.
ref: 2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A style of music that developed out of punk rock in the late 1970s, with lyrics and imagery often referring to morbid, spooky or mystical ideas.
wikipedia: The Doors
gothic architecture
gothic art
gothic fiction
Synonyms: word: positive punk
word: gothic
word: goth
Derived terms: goth
triazane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triazanes
Etymology: From tri- + azane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The nitrogen compound NH₂NHNH₂, or any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives.
triazene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triazenes
Etymology: From tri- + azene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The nitrogen compound NH₂N=NH, or any of its hydrocarbyl derivatives.
Related terms: triazine
hydrotrioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrotrioxides
Etymology: From hydro- + trioxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any organic compound, of general formula R-OOO-H, derived from trioxidane.
Related terms: trioxide
trioxidane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dihydrogen trioxide H-OOO-H
Related terms: trioxide
hydrogen peroxide
tritide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritides
Etymology: From trito- + -ide. From tritium, from Ancient Greek τρίτος (trítos, “third”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydride using tritium.
Hypernyms: hydride
Coordinate terms: deuteride
protide
Related terms: tritium
triton
long-distance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-distance
form: longest-distance
Senses: examples: text: He is a long-distance runner.
text: In the short to medium term, there appears to be no practical alternative to petroleum-based traction power. An electric long-distance lorry is like a concrete air balloon - its weight in batteries exceeds its carrying capacity.
ref: 2020 May 6, Prof. Andrew McNaughton, “Time to challenge some sacred philosophies of recent years”, in Rail, page 35:
text: To better help you in your quest, we asked multiple podiatrists and seasoned long-distance walkers exactly what to look for when selecting the best walking shoes.
ref: 2024 September 6, Isla Harvey, “The 10 most comfortable walking shoes, according to podiatrists and shoe experts”, in CNN:
glosses: Over a great length or distance.
examples: text: The hotel does not allow for long-distance phone calls.
glosses: Referring to a nonlocal telephone call; a toll call.
examples: text: They are in a long-distance relationship.
text: Long-distance lovers are often not too sure just what they are feeling. Worse, they are often not too sure what their absent playmates want them to be feeling.
ref: 2009, Wesley L. Ford, How to Pick a Lover: For Women Who Want to Win at Love, page 176:
glosses: Referring to a romantic relationship: between two people with a considerable distance between them.
Derived terms: long distancer
long-distance relationship
long-drawn-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-drawn-out
form: most long-drawn-out
form: long-drawn
Senses: glosses: Protracted, extending for a great period of time.
Synonyms: diuturnal
prolonged
lasting
long-lasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-lasting
form: longest-lasting
Senses: examples: text: This long-lasting gum keeps its flavor for almost an hour.
synonyms: word: durable
word: lasting
word: abiding
word: chronic
word: continuate
word: diuturnal
word: durable
word: durative
word: enduring
word: extending
word: hard-wearing
word: lasting
word: long-drawn-out
word: long-lasting
word: longevous
word: longsome
word: perdurable
word: persistent
word: prolonged
word: protracted
antonyms: word: short-lived
word: ephemeral
word: consumable
word: dureless
word: ephemeral
word: fleeting
word: nondurable
word: perishable
word: short-lived
word: transient
word: transitory
word: undurable
word: unlasting
glosses: Persisting or enduring for a long time.
Derived terms: long-lastingness
long-lived
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒŋˈlɪvd/
/ˈlɒŋˈlaɪvd/
Forms: form: more long-lived
form: most long-lived
Etymology: From Middle English long-lifed, equivalent to long + life + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a long lifespan; surviving for a long period of time.
glosses: Of a radioisotope: having a long half-life.
Synonyms: longevous
Derived terms: long-livedness
long-lost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: long lost
Senses: examples: text: My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
glosses: Having been missing or unknown for a long period of time.
long-playing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-playing
form: longest-playing
Senses: examples: text: Victor Crabbe's headmaster was a little man called Boothby [...] who subscribed to a popular book club and had many long-playing records, who invited people to curry tiffin and said, "Take a pew."
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 38:
glosses: Referring to records that recorded a greater amount of sound than previous versions had; an LP; generally a 12-inch 33⅓-RPM vinyl record.
long-range
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-range
form: longest-range
form: longrange
Senses: examples: text: Long-range missiles can shoot down any planes before they can even be seen.
text: Carroll struck twice - the first a spectacular long-range strike - as Liverpool established a deserved three-goal lead by the interval and kept their own European ambitions alive with a vibrant display.
ref: 2011 April 11, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 3 - 0 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Operating, or capable of operating, over a great distance.
examples: text: Long-range planning is not my specialty.
text: Where do you see the group going in the next few years? Do you have any long range plans?
ref: 1984 December 15, Charles Fuller, Henry Craig Chinn, “Black Men's Association of Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 13:
glosses: Involving a great period of time.
Synonyms: LR
Derived terms: alt: XLR
word: extra-long-range
word: LR
Related terms: close-range
extended-range
extra-long-range
intermediate-range
long range
medium-range
short-range
long-running
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: longer-running
form: longest-running
Senses: examples: text: The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing.
text: Services on SWR's neighbour Southern were badly disrupted for nearly 40 days in 2016-17 following a long-running dispute involving drivers union ASLEF and the RMT. And it's passengers - the very people the railway is there for - who are caught in the middle.
ref: 2019 December 18, Richard Clinnick, “Railway's 2020 vision”, in Rail, page 3:
text: It’s one of the world’s longest-running experiments, having already gone on for 142 years. And the botanists in East Lansing hope that it will last for at least another 80.
ref: 2021 April 21, Cara Giaimo, “One of the World’s Oldest Science Experiments Comes Up From the Dirt”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2021:
glosses: Operating for a relatively extended period of time.
long-suffering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-suffering
form: longer-suffering
form: most long-suffering
form: longest-suffering
Senses: examples: text: His long-suffering wife may have had to put up with him for many years, but she also benefited when times were good.
text: The Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.
ref: 1917, Bible (Jewish Publication Society), Exodus xxxiv. 6
text: For long-suffering suburban passengers, 1970 represented a milestone as the beginning of the demise of the slam-door multiple unit.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in RAIL, page 68:
text: Kramatorsk is a smoky industrial city in Donbass, and a major railway junction. According to Google Travel, I can now reach Kramatorsk by rail from Hertfordshire (where I live) in just... 56 hours and 35 minutes. That highly hypothetical trip would entail 11 train changes. The important thing, however, is that the long-suffering city is again reachable by rail.
ref: 2024 September 4, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine's 'Second Army'”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 47:
glosses: Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.
Synonyms: longanimous
long-suffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Long endurance or patience.
longways
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From long + -ways.
Senses: topics: manner
glosses: Lengthwise, in the longer direction.
Derived terms: progressive longways formation
longways for as many as will
longways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longways
Etymology: From long + -ways.
Senses: glosses: Short for longways for as many as will (“type of dance”)
Lieder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lieders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lieder.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
lieder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.də(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈli.dɚ/
homophone: litre
homophone: liter
homophone: leader
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: plural of lied
excavating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excavate
Derived terms: excavating machine
excavate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.skə.veɪt/
Forms: form: excavates
form: excavating
form: excavated
form: excavated
Etymology: First attested in 1599, from Latin excavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of excavō (“to hollow out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out”) + cavō (“to hollow out, pierce”), from cavus (“cave, hole”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: To make a hole in (something); to hollow.
glosses: To remove part of (something) by scooping or digging it out.
glosses: To uncover (something) by digging.
Derived terms: excavatable
nonexcavated
re-excavate
unexcavated
Related terms: excavation
excavator
excavate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.skə.veɪt/
Etymology: First attested in 1599, from Latin excavātus (“hollowed out”), perfect passive participle of excavō (“to hollow out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex (“out”) + cavō (“to hollow out, pierce”), from cavus (“cave, hole”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Senses: glosses: Made hollow.
raw_tags: as an adjective
glosses: excavated, hollowed out
raw_tags: as a participle
excavate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.skə.veɪt/
Forms: form: excavates
Etymology: From a substantivization of Latin excavātus through the associated taxon's name (Excavata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of a major grouping of unicellular eukaryotes, of the clade Excavata.
menstrua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menstruum
next generation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: next generations
Senses: glosses: The succeeding generation.
glosses: The next in line; upgrade.
next generation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Smith dominated the competition by using next generation wool-spinning machines that were 20% faster.
glosses: Expected or intended to supersede present-day techniques.
Derived terms: next generation networking
wong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
ipa: /wɑŋ/
Forms: form: wongs
Etymology: From Middle English wong, wang, from Old English wong, wang (“a flat surface, plain”), from Proto-West Germanic *wang, from Proto-Germanic *wangaz. Cognate with Danish vang.
Senses: glosses: A field or other piece of land.
raw_tags: in placenames
wong
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
ipa: /wɑŋ/
Forms: form: wongs
form: wonging
form: wonged
form: wonged
Etymology: From the pen name Stanford Wong.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.
Derived terms: wongable
wong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
ipa: /wɑŋ/
Forms: form: wongs
Senses: glosses: In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.
wong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɒŋ/
ipa: /wɔŋ/
ipa: /wɑŋ/
Forms: form: wongs
Etymology: Related to wang.
Senses: examples: text: "Is it not enough that you have gifted Alia Haste Moguchi with a phallus and renamed her Faust? And proceeded to outfit him or her or it with the Goddess of Swine as consort? Vraiment, and styled the arcane spirit of We Who Have Gone Before as a slavering goat-creature with an enormous throbbing wong? Now would you have these good folk believe that the Jump Drive which propels our Void Ships from star to star consists of a goat copulating with the queen of the pig people?
ref: 1957, Guy Bolton, Child of Fortune: A Play in Three Acts. Adoped from "Wings of the Dove", Norman Spinrad, page 177:
text: In fact, just last year Shorty had somehow gotten his penis caught in a bracelet, Sabrina had rolled away, he'd screamed, his wong had practically been severed in two, and, in fact, a vein had been crushed, some permanent damage done.
ref: 2013, The Milagro Beanfield War: A Novel, John Nichols, page 243:
glosses: The penis.
hidalgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈdælɡəʊ/
note: hispanicized
ipa: /ɪˈdɑːlɡəʊ/
Forms: form: hidalgos
form: hidalgoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hidalgo. Doublet of fidalgo.
Senses: examples: text: The young man seems to entertain but an imperfect appreciation of the respect due from a menial to a Castilian hidalgo.
ref: 1889, W. S. Gilbert, The Gondoliers, act I:
glosses: A member of the Spanish nobility, especially one without a title.
Derived terms: hidalgoish
hidalgoism
desiccant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪkənt/
Forms: form: desiccants
Etymology: From Latin dēsiccans, active present participle of dēsiccō, from dē- (“of; from, away from”) + siccō (“dry up”).
Senses: glosses: A substance (such as calcium oxide or silica gel) that is used as a drying agent because of its high affinity for water.
Derived terms: antidesiccant
desiccant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛsɪkənt/
Forms: form: more desiccant
form: most desiccant
Etymology: From Latin dēsiccans, active present participle of dēsiccō, from dē- (“of; from, away from”) + siccō (“dry up”).
Senses: glosses: Causing dryness.
heroics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪks/
Etymology: From hero + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Hart, for one, will not remember the night for Lambert's heroics. Morrison, not closed down quickly enough, struck his shot well but England's No1 will be aghast at the way it struck his gloves then skidded off his knees and into the net.
ref: 2013 August 14, Daniel Taylor, The Guardian:
text: The original cottage was said to appear on a well-known painting, dating back to 1863, of the American pirate ship, the Alabama, leaving Table Bay. It was also believed to feature in the story of the heroic Wolraad Woltemade who, in 1773, lost his life and that of his horse after valiantly saving 14 shipwrecked persons. This was said to have taken place within sight and full view of the house. The second respondent called this historical link into question, averring that the house was probably not yet built in 1773 while Woltemade's heroics were believed to have taken place in the vicinity of the Salt River mouth, some 10 km away.
ref: 2016, RAUBENHEIMER NO v TRUSTEES, JOHANNES BREDENKAMP TRUST, AND OTHERS 2006 (1) SA 124 (C)
text: Real keeper Thibaut Courtois performed heroics to save two Erling Haaland headers early in the first half but he was powerless to stop Bernardo Silva's close-range finish after 23 minutes, the Portugal midfielder scoring a looping header for the second eight minutes before half-time.
ref: 2023 May 17, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 4 - 0 Real Madrid”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: The actions of a hero.
examples: text: Of if we have an elderly person who is unconscious and not responding, we discuss using heroics with the family, and they often say no heroics.
ref: 1976, Ronald E. Alexander, Lawrence P. Wilkins, Medical-legal dilemmas in the care of the critically ill:
text: Her daughters argue that no heroics should be used to prolong her life.
ref: 1988, American College of Legal Medicine, Legal Medicine: Legal Dynamics of Medical Encounters, page 122:
text: No Heroics. Do not use respirators, ventilators or administer medication other than those medications necessary to prevent infection, provide comfort or alleviate pain.
ref: 1998, George Watson, Emily Watson, The Calling: A Journey on the Path of Parent Care, page 29:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Emergency intervention to save a patient's life.
glosses: Extravagant phrases; bombast.
Derived terms: antiheroics
superheroics
Related terms: hero
heroic medicine
heroine
heroism
heroics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˈɹəʊ.ɪks/
Etymology: From hero + -ics.
Senses: glosses: plural of heroic
tropolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropolones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any hydroxy-substituted cycloheptatrienone
Related terms: tropone
tropone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any derivative of cycloheptatrienone
Related terms: tropolone
tropylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropyliums
Etymology: From tropine + -yl + -ium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The delocalized carbenium ion cycloheptatrienylium, C₇H₇⁺, derived from cycloheptatriene, or any of its derivatives.
ulosonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ulosonic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: ketoaldonic acid
ketoaldonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketoaldonic acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: any monosaccharide, having both a keto group and a carboxylic acid group, that is in equilibrium with a hemiacetal structure
Synonyms: ulosonic acid
keto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkitoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkiːtəʊ/
homophone: Quito
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Forms: form: ketos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The carbonyl group of a ketone.
glosses: Ellipsis of keto diet, abbreviation of ketogenic diet.
keto
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkitoʊ/
ipa: /ˈkiːtəʊ/
homophone: Quito
rhymes: -iːtəʊ
Senses: examples: text: a keto diet
glosses: Clipping of ketogenic.
Related terms: deketo
keto-
keto acid
ketoadipic acid
keto flu
keto-mycolic acid
par delictum
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Latin in pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis (“if both (parties) are in the wrong, a defence is set up”).
Senses: examples: The 'clean hands doctrine', derived from English law, is similar in effect to the Roman law maxim in pari delicto potior est conditio defendentis, which operated as an absolute bar to the grant of relief to the plaintiff. The par delictum rule is concerned with the moral guilt of contracting parties, not their criminal liability.
topics: law
glosses: The par delictum rule prescribes that a party should not obtain satisfaction from a court of law with where his own conduct is wrongful.
ureide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ureides
Senses: examples: text: The phaseoloid clade is characterised by some members of all groups having stipels, and desmodioid root nodules which export ureides […]
ref: 2000, Patrick S. Herendeen, Anne Bruneau, P. S. Pollard, Advances in Legume Systematics (part 9, page 13)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound, of general formula R-CO-NH-CO-NH₂ or R-CO-NH-CO-NH-CO-R', formally derived by the acylation of urea.
acylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪsɪˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: acylations
Etymology: From acyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of adding an acyl group to a compound.
Derived terms: aminoacylation
autoacylation
deacylation
Friedel-Crafts acylation
hydroacylation
hyperacylation
hypoacylation
misacylation
monoacylation
preacylation
reacylation
thioacylation
transacylation
underacylation
vinylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any carbene in which the carbenic carbon is attached to another atom with a double bond R₂C=C
Derived terms: polyvinylidene
vinylidene chloride
vinylidene dichloride
vinylidene group
vinylidene radical
vinylidene resin
xylylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylylenes
Etymology: From xylyl + -ene?
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Quinomethane.
Derived terms: xylylenediamine
Mother City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Cape Town
corb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔː(ɹ)b/
Forms: form: corbs
Etymology: From Latin corbis (“basket”).
Senses: examples: text: He said no more, but signed to me to lift a heavy wooden corb with an iron loop across it, and sunk in a little pit of earth, a yard or so from the mouth of the shaft. I raised it, and by his direction dropped it into the throat of the shaft, where it hung and shook from a great cross-beam laid at the level of the earth. A very stout thick rope was fastened to the handle of the corb, and ran across a pulley hanging from the centre of the beam, and thence out of sight in the nether places.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
text: I[…] carried my corb of fagots home on my back, while my two youngsters had each their bundle on their little shoulders too
ref: 1863, Henry Mayhew, The Boyhood of Martin Luther:
text: Some bore amain
The death-vat, some the corbs of hallowed grain
ref: 1913, Gilbert Murray (translator), Euripides (original), Electra:
synonyms: corf
glosses: A basket, for example one used in coal mines, etc.
topics: architecture
glosses: a corbel (ornament in a building).
glosses: A brown meagre (Sciaena umbra)
copt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: We used to play at "locking up," / When JANE was copt no bribe could save her; / I was the Beak she come before, / And 'twas a month that then I gave her.
ref: 1873, Judy, volumes 13-14, page 99:
glosses: simple past and past participle of cop
soare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔː/
enpr: sôr
ipa: /sɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: sōr
ipa: /so(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /soə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: soar
homophone: sore
Forms: form: soares
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sore (“A young hawk”).
quatuorvirate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of quattuorvirate.
falsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːl.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈfɒl.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈfɔl.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /ˈfɑl.sɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˈfɑl.sɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /ˈfɒl.sɪ.ti/
ipa: [ˈfɔɫ.sɪ.ɾi]
ipa: [ˈfɒʊ.sɪ.ɾi]
Forms: form: falsities
Etymology: Corresponding to false + -ity. From Middle French fausseté, Old French falseté, from Late Latin falsitas, from Latin falsus.
Senses: examples: text: The belief that the world is flat is a falsity.
glosses: Something that is false; an untrue assertion.
examples: text: The falsity of that statement is easily proven.
text: The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered; he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality; but by the exercise of DOUBLETHINK he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated. The process has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 9:
glosses: The characteristic of being untrue.
Synonyms: word: fabrication
word: falsehood
word: falseness
word: fiction
sense: intentionally false statement
word: lie
word: untruth
Derived terms: superfalsity
amentia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /eɪˈmɛnʃə/
/əˈmɛnʃə/
Forms: form: amentias
Etymology: From Latin āmentia (“madness; senselessness”), from āmēns (“mad, insane; foolish”), from ab (“from, away from”) + mēns (“mind”).
Senses: examples: text: Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
ref: 1922, W. G. Aitchison Robertson, Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 9th edition:
glosses: Mental impairment; state of being mentally handicapped.
Derived terms: amential
Related terms: dementia
ynamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ynamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any disubstituted compound having an amino group attached to an acetylene group
Related terms: enamine
ynamide
ynol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ynols
Etymology: Clipping of alkynol, from -yne + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having a hydroxyl group directly attached to an acetylene group; they are tautomeric with ketenes.
Derived terms: ynolate
preemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: premature
Senses: glosses: plural of preemie (a perinatal child with fewer than 37 weeks gestation).
Tshiluba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ciluba
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language spoken by about 6.3 million people in the Kasaï Occidental and Kasaï Oriental provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Luba-Kasai
topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Luba-Lulua
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Luba-Kasai terms
lua ⁠
alternativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alternative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being alternative or representing alternatives.
Related terms: alternative lifestyle
alternativism
alternativity
measure of central tendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measures of central tendency
Senses: topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of location for a batch, a sample, or a distribution characterizing a value around which are spread the members or the distribution.
Hypernyms: measure of location
Hyponyms: arithmetic mean
geometric mean
geometric median
harmonic mean
median
mode
quadratic mean
midhinge
winsorized mean
phone book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone books
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of phonebook.
alternatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternative
abatises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæbətəsəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of abatis
absurdities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absurdity
quislings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quisling
WYSIWYGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WYSIWYG
retroviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrovirus
tubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuba
clappers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clapper
clappers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clapper
counterfeits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfeit
counterfeits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterfeit
styes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of stye
polyglots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyglot
millipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millipede
infinitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infinitive
poms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pom
yeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yeast
yeasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yeast
amusements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amusement
Indonesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indonesian
septuplets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septuplet
icebergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iceberg
pinkies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinky
glosses: plural of pinkie
habitats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of habitat
remotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remote
remotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remote
martyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martyr
martyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of martyr
pupae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupa
pupas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupa
sidewinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sidewinder
hallelujahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallelujah
hallelujahs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hallelujah
diesels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diesel
diesels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diesel
omelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omelette
sequoias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequoia
handmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handmaid
leaflets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaflet
leaflets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leaflet
pamphlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pamphlet
pamphlets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pamphlet
tracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tract
ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duct
ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duct
mergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merger
Sydneyites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sydneyite
Sydneysiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sydneysider
Brisbanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brisbanite
begs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of beg