cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
individualisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: individualisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of individualization.
industrialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌstɹɪəlaɪz/
Forms: form: industrialises
form: industrialising
form: industrialised
form: industrialised
Etymology: From industrial + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of industrialize.
Derived terms: deindustrialise
industrialisation
reindustrialise
industrialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: industrializes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of industrialise
industrialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: industrializing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of industrialise
beer snake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer snakes
Senses: glosses: A long, flexible construction of stacked, empty plastic beer cups, made by the crowd at long sporting fixtures (especially cricket matches)
fire iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire irons
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of metal tools kept beside the fireplace, used to keep the fire burning as required. The set usually consists of fire tongs, a poker, a spade, and a brush for the ashes.
examples: text: No. 21C9 was in need of a boiler washout and though she was carefully and assiduously fired and use made of the fire-irons during the run, it was not possible to maintain steam, which often fell as low as 210 lb.
ref: 1944 March and April, E. S. Waterhouse, “Two Footplate Rides on "Merchant Navy" Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: The superstructure of the tender is modified by the removal of the side raves, and compartments for the fire-irons are formed on each side of the coal bunker.
ref: 1956 April, “"Merchant Navy" Class Pacific Modified”, in Railway Magazine, page 212:
text: There was no need to use the fire-irons after we pulled out of Calais, for the fire was well burnt through and came to life at once.
ref: 1961 February, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives - Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 112:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: One of a set of tools kept on a steam locomotive for a similar purpose.
Related terms: slice bar
fire irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire iron
aeromodelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + modelling.
Senses: glosses: The building and flying of model aircraft
Related terms: aeromodeller
tectonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tectonically
form: most tectonically
Etymology: From tectonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a tectonic way or manner.
glosses: In a fundamental way.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
seismology
glosses: Involving tectonic plates.
heavy industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Industrial processes that are very complex or involve large and heavy equipment, facilities, or end products.
missold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mis-sold
Senses: examples: text: Rohit was missold his endowment mortgage.
text: Annuities are being routinely missold to unsuspecting clients.
glosses: simple past and past participle of missell
film industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film industries
Senses: glosses: The technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking.
unthaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unthaw
unthawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unthaw
unthawing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: So early, in truth, that in the days when tropical nature was to be found, where now lie eternal unthawing snows, one could cross almost by dry land from Norway via Iceland and Greenland, to the lands that at present surround Hudson's Bay.
ref: ca 1888, H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, Volume II, Anthropogenesis, pages 423—424
text: What fairer home than Earth's eternal hill
Paved with unthawing snow, lit with the sun's
Unwinking lamp, […]
ref: 1914, Rhys Carpenter, The Sun-Thief: and other poems, pages 6–7:
text: Although the women found the picture of Jack in spike heels irresistible, their own feet, half frozen, thawing and unthawing, stung with such fierce poignancy that their humor was invaded by sympathy, and nobody laughed. "Here I was, broke," Marlis went on. "Knocked up. Which I did not expect, but which I halfway treasured and half resented […]"
ref: 1997, Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love, page 336:
glosses: That does not thaw; eternally frozen.
unthawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unthawed
form: most unthawed
Etymology: From un- + thawed.
Senses: examples: text: For a time we struggled on, most intent upon evading the morasses; and staring at every patch of unthawed ice as on a treasure trove, until we reached a rocky knoll, on which we turned and looked downwards, from the bleak uninteresting moor to the dingy, featureless shores.
ref: 1883, W. Anderson Smith, Benderloch: or, Notes from the West Highlands (17 February 1881), page 312
text: The sun burns your face as you smoke the after-breakfast pipe, but it leaves the snow unthawed.
ref: 1907, Clarence Rook, Switzerland: the country and its people, page 188:
text: Meat may also be thawed in cold water or in a microwave. Meat may be cooked whether or not it has thawed. However, unthawed meat requires more time to cook than does meat that has thawed, and partially frozen meat is apt to cook unevenly.
ref: 2002, Wilbur F. Eastman, A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game, page 51:
text: At last a day came when the chill went from the air. The day started much as any other since we had left Crete. I sat in the wheelhouse with stiff, unthawed limbs, my eyes feeling pinched and my throat tight from smoking too much.
ref: 2003, Leila Hadley, Give Me the World, page 326:
glosses: Which has not been thawed: still frozen.
unthawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unthaw + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unthaw
soft rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: CSN&Y didn't shy away from politics, but many artists who followed in their footsteps used the new soft rock synthesis to warble inoffensive pop to a nation tired of controversy. […] Subsequently, many artists rode the soft rock formula all the way to the bank—or at least their labels did.
ref: 2010, Christopher Knowles, The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
hypernyms: rock
glosses: A comparatively unaggressive, melodic rock music genre in which the arrangement and lyrics are emphasized more than the beat; a reaction against hard rock.
crosssection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosssections
Senses: examples: text: Typically, damage initiates at the smaller crosssection end of the truncated cone.
ref: 1956, Journal of the American Helicopter Society, page 41:
text: If a circuit is 200 rails in length, and the final crosssection is 100 mils into the circuit, one could rough grind approximately 80 mils to the final...
ref: 1970, IEEE Electron Devices Society., Reliability Physics, page 136:
text: Equally important, each crosssection slice denotes the age structure of roles in the society
ref: 1986, Aage Bøttger Sørensen, Franz E. Weinert, Lonnie R. Sherrod., Human Development and the Life Course: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, page 156:
text: Indeed, the WW crosssection is related to the imaginary part of the WW loop
ref: 2000, Paul Langacker., Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics, page 87:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cross section.
mis-sell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mis-sells
form: mis-selling
form: mis-sold
form: mis-sold
Etymology: From mis- + sell.
Senses: examples: text: The firm is defending itself against fresh allegations of mis-selling pensions.
topics: business
finance
glosses: To sell misleadingly, fraudulently, or in violation of laws or regulations.
outstay one's welcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstays one's welcome
form: outstaying one's welcome
form: outstayed one's welcome
form: outstayed one's welcome
Senses: glosses: To stay as a guest longer than the host expected.
examples: text: “Do you often go looking for mice in other people's rooms?” “I wouldn't say often. Just when the spirit moves me, don't you know?” “I see. Well...” When people say “Well” to you like that, it usually means that they think you are outstaying your welcome and that the time has come to call it a day. She felt, I could see, that Woosters were not required in her son's sleeping apartment [...]
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
glosses: To become an unwelcome person because of embarrassing or antisocial behaviour.
Southern Altai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Turkic language spoken in the Altai Republic, Russia on the border of Mongolia and the People's Republic of China. There is no mutual intelligibility with Northern Altai.
Synonyms: Oirot
Oyrot
Altai
pandora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandoras
Senses: glosses: Any fish of the genus Pagellus.
Synonyms: porgy
dispositio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dispositio. Doublet of disposition.
Senses: glosses: One of the five canons of classical rhetoric: the organization of arguments.
Related terms: elocutio
inventio
memoria
pronuntiatio
preposterousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preposterous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Vern shook her head at the preposterousness of it.
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 252:
synonyms: preposterosity
glosses: The quality of being preposterous.
assward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more assward
form: most assward
Etymology: From ass + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Ass first; backward.
Related terms: back-assward
asswards
asswards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more asswards
form: most asswards
Etymology: From ass + -wards.
Senses: glosses: Ass first; backwards.
Derived terms: back-asswards
Related terms: assward
mauvaise honte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French mauvaise honte.
Senses: examples: text: In that capacity she sat with becoming easiness of mien (for she was as void of the mauvaise honte as any dutchess in the land) [and] bowed very graciously to the compliments of the gentlemen […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The practice, from whatever it may arise, is very embarrassing to the mauvaise honte of an Englishman: this may easily be surmounted, when it is perceived that the first visit is always considered as a polite attention.
ref: 1826, Henry Digby Beste, Four Years in France, Henry Colburn (publisher), pages 240–242, quoted in The Monthly Review, Volume III, Number XI (September 1826), page 95
text: So much for Miss Jaques, only as far as I could judge from seeing her in a ball-room, she never evinced any extreme of mauvaise honte – What did you think, mia cara?
ref: 1831 June 18, Elizabeth Gaskell, edited by John Chapple and Alan Shelston, Further Letters of Mrs. Gaskell, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 3:
text: Nothing but strong excitement and a great occasion overcomes a certain reserve and mauvaise honte which I have in public speaking; not a mauvaise honte which in the least confuses me or makes me hesitate for a word, but which keeps me from putting any fervour into my tone or my action.
ref: 1831, Thomas Babington Macaulay, letter to Hannah M. Macaulay, printed in George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume I, Longmans, Green, and Co. (1876), page 239
text: This writer was the victim of the most crushing mauvaise honte, and could therefore describe it from experience.
ref: 1848 January, Frederic Wonham, “Mauvaise Honte”, in William Shirrefs, editor, The People's Press, volume 11, number 13, page 104:
text: Slight improvements in processes,and slight varieties in conclusions, are discussed as if they involved the welfare of mankind. They seek each other's sympathy, and they resent each other's interference, with an ardour of expression at variance with all the sobrieties of business, and the habits of reserve; and old-fashioned English mauvaise honte is extinguished in the excitement...
ref: 1875 April, Lady Elizabeth Rigby Eastlake, Photography, in Quarterly Review, #101 (April 1857), page 2
glosses: Shyness, especially when affected; false modesty.
gwarri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gwarris
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guarri.
Related terms: Euclea
guarri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɑɹi/
Forms: form: guarris
form: gwarri
Etymology: From Khwe gwarri (which also derived Zulu umgwali).
Senses: glosses: A shrub or tree, Euclea divinorum; its fruit can be fermented to produce vinegar.
Related terms: Euclea
formononetin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavone and phytoestrogen found in plants such as clover and cohosh, converted to equol, an estrogen, in the digestive system.
cohune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohunes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cohune, perhaps from Miskito ókhún.
Senses: glosses: A palm tree of species Attalea cohune, native to South America, that produces large nuts.
Synonyms: cohune palm
Orbignya cohune
cohunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohune
special effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of special effect
Derived terms: word: SFX
word: S.F.X.
word: FX
word: F/X
serpentinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serpentinization
remissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: forgivable
pardonable
antonyms: irremissible
unforgivable
unpardonable
glosses: Capable of being remitted or forgiven.
irremissible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɹɪˈmɪsɪbəl/
Forms: form: more irremissible
form: most irremissible
Etymology: From Middle English irremyssible, from Old French irremissible, from Late Latin irremissibilis, from in- + remissus + -ibilis.
Senses: synonyms: unforgivable
unpardonable
antonyms: forgivable
pardonable
remissible
glosses: Not remissible.
Derived terms: irremissibleness
irremissibly
irremissibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irremissibly
form: most irremissibly
Etymology: From irremissible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irremissible manner; unpardonably.
remissibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more remissibly
form: most remissibly
Etymology: From remissible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a remissible manner; pardonably.
remissibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being remissible.
irremissibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being irremissible.
irremissibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From irremissible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being irremissible.
remissibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From remissible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being remissible.
modificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Tending or serving to modify.
statutorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more statutorily
form: most statutorily
Etymology: From statutory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a statutory manner; according to statute; lawfully.
intercut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intercuts
form: intercutting
form: intercut
form: intercut
Etymology: From inter- + cut.
Senses: glosses: To intersect.
examples: text: The film's plot revolves around Robert Adams […] whose older lover […] is in prison. He knows that he cannot send the love letters he wants to, so he writes and keeps them in a journal. Most of the film features voice-overs of his writing intercut with the memories of their life together.
ref: 1987 August 22, Michael Bronski, “Real To Reel”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 6, page 8:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: To alternate between scenes from one sequence and scenes from another film sequence, often with the sequences to be perceived as simultaneous.
intercut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intercuts
Etymology: From inter- + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Smith's execution of the gangster who busted his car is the closest to some of the violence of Hill's early films, including a Peckinpahesque use of intercut slow-motion to track the gangster's harness-aided trip down the stairs to the dusty street.
ref: 2022, Brian Brems, The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 217:
topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: An alternating sequence of this kind.
busway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: busways
Etymology: From bus + way.
Senses: examples: text: St Ives: The guided busway on the old railway alignment to Cambridge has just passed its tenth anniversary. Railfuture has noted its down-at-heel physical appearance, with dirty concrete beams, damaged sound barriers, and unmanaged vegetation.
ref: 2021 October 6, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Anglia”, in RAIL, number 941, page 29:
glosses: A right of way, roadway, or lane for the exclusive use of buses, possibly only during peak traffic hours.
Coordinate terms: alt: BRT
word: bus rapid transit
word: HOV
foresightedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foresightedly
form: most foresightedly
Etymology: From foresighted + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Larry Flynt […] foresightedly parlayed $1,500 in savings into a chain of go-go bars in Ohio called the Hustler Clubs.
ref: 1996, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged:
glosses: With foresight; in a foresighted manner.
Synonyms: sense: in a foresighted manner
word: presciently
sense: in a foresighted manner
word: foreknowingly
sense: in a foresighted manner
word: forethoughtfully
secondary colour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary colours
form: secondary color
Senses: examples: Orange (red + yellow), Green (yellow + blue), and Violet/Purple (blue + red) are secondary colours.
glosses: Any of three colours derived from mixing two primary colours.
Coordinate terms: primary colour
tertiary colour
self-acceptance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self acceptance
Etymology: From self- + acceptance.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The acceptance of self in spite of weaknesses or deficiencies.
self acceptance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-acceptance.
self image
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self images
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of self-image.
Almaty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration from Kazakh Алматы (Almaty), which is an adjective form of алма (alma, “apple”).
Senses: glosses: The largest city in and former (until 1998) capital of Kazakhstan, formerly known as Alma-Ata.
Synonyms: english: official name until 1921
translation: official name until 1921
word: Verniy
affranchi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈfɹɒ̃ʃi/
Forms: form: affranchis
Etymology: From French affranchi.
Senses: examples: text: The affranchis were identifiably mulatto and, as such, considered themselves superior to the mass of black slaves. They attempted to emulate whites and developed an ideology of race hatred […]
ref: 1983, JoAnn M. Jaffe, Structural monopoly and independent household production: stagnation in the agrarian economy of Haiti:
text: The 1724 code's other statements on manumission aimed at preventing the growth of an affranchi population unable to support itself by insisting that owners continue to support those affranchis who were disabled or ill. Upon emancipation, both codes noirs declared that affranchis were to be granted "the same rights, privileges and immunities enjoyed by persons born free"; […]
ref: 2010, Jennifer M. Spear, Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 66:
text: By 1786 the population of the Parish of Léogâne —whose growth was fueled by the lucrative coffee and sugar industries—counted "1,064 whites, 1,520 affranchis, and 16,492 slaves".
ref: 2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A freed (manumitted) black person in one of France's colonies, especially Haiti.
Coordinate terms: libre
creole
bossale
sphygmometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphygmometers
Etymology: From sphygmo- (“pulse”) + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A sphygmomanometer
Alma-Ata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Алма́-Ата́ (Almá-Atá).
Senses: examples: text: Not until October, 1939, did Eurasia, through the medium of the newly formed Sino-Soviet Aviation Company, open a new service. It ran from Chungking to Ha-mi, whence, through the cooperation of Sinkiang authorities and the Soviet People's Aviation Company, it was continued via Tihwa, I-ning, and Alma-Ata (the latter over the border, in Soviet Kazakhstan) to Moscow. The trip from Chungking across Sinkiang to Alma-Ata totals about 2,584 miles and has become extremely important in United Nations mail and transport services.
ref: 1944, Martin R. Norins, Gateway to Asia: Sinkiang, Frontier of the Chinese Far West, John Day Company, page 119:
text: Not far inside the USSR, to the south of the Ili on the Turkestan-Siberian Railway, sits Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh SSR. Founded by the Russians a century ago, it contains over 456,000 inhabitants, mainly Russian. From its position, the city is able to command the western approach to the upper Ili.
ref: 1962, W. A. Douglas Jackson, The Russo-Chinese Borderlands: Zone of Peaceful Contact or Potential Conflict?, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., page 9:
glosses: A former name of Almaty, previous capital of Kazakhstan.
rendezvoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rendezvous
POD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PODs
Senses: topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of print on demand.
qualifier: logistics
glosses: Initialism of proof of delivery.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of plain old data.
glosses: Initialism of point of divergence.
examples: text: Vickers et al. found that at entry to the study, that is, when it was thought that cure was no longer possible, 98 (68%) of 164 families recorded a preference for home as POD.
ref: 2013, Myra Bluebond-Langner, Emma Beecham, Bridget Candy, Richard Langner, Louise Jones, “Preferred place of death for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions […] ”, in Palliative Medicine, volume 27, number 8, SAGE Publications, →DOI, page 708:
glosses: Initialism of place of death.
landholdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landholding
vanity press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvænɪti ˈpɹɛs/
ipa: /ˌvænəti ˈpɹɛs/
ipa: [-ɾi-]
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: vanity presses
Etymology: From vanity + press, so called because such a press may be used by otherwise unpublishable authors who want to see their work in print.
Senses: examples: text: In 1956, having had her book turned down by commercial presses who were unwilling to publish a work on lesbian literature, Foster spent $2000, her year's salary, to print the book through a vanity press, Vantage.
ref: 1981 August 22, Maida Tilchen, “Jeannette Howard Foster Dies”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 6, page 3:
text: The self-published book is the joke of the literary world: whether one goes to a printer and has the books made up with one's own imprint, or goes to an "author-subsidized" publisher known in the trade as a "vanity press," doesn't matter: It's easy to tell a real book from the pretenders. […] It's harder to tell with software. A lot of software is published by small startups. Some of these would certainly qualify as vanity press jobs in the book trade, others wouldn't. But there's a far higher number of successes among small software publishers than there are in the usual vanity press book.
ref: 1990 November 12, Jerry Pournelle, “The Vanity Press is Much Harder to Spot on 3½-inch Disks”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 46, San Mateo, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 88, column 1:
synonyms: subsidy publisher
vanity publisher
glosses: A book publisher that lets the author pay the expenses of publishing up front, leaving the risk of financial failure with the author.
Related terms: vanity publishing
self-publishing
self-publishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + publishing.
Senses: glosses: The publishing of books and other media by the authors or creators of those works, rather than by established, third-party publishers.
self-publishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + publishing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of self-publish
Related terms: vanity press
print on demand
samizdat
electronic publishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The digital publication of ebooks and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues, regardless whether the distribution is through computer network or on CD and DVD.
fire tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English fyretonges.
Senses: glosses: Tongs used for gripping and moving burning coals and logs in a fire. Part of a set of fire irons.
cargador
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargadors
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cargador.
Senses: glosses: A porter in Mexico or another Spanish-speaking country.
curling tongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Tongs, usually electrically heated, used for curling or waving the hair.
archigrapheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archigraphemes
Etymology: From archi- + grapheme, by analogy with archiphoneme.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: a grapheme which represents any of several graphemes (often causing ambiguity), by analogy with the archiphoneme, which represents several phonemes.
Grissel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: For patience she will prove a second Grissel.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages; a medieval variant of Griselda, rare today.
Grizel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages; a medieval variant of Griselda, rare today.
Jimi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: LEGAL COACH: Jimi Hendrix, Mr. President - the first name is spelled Jimi, not Jimmy, as you've written it here.
TRICKY: Well, let's correct it, then, because that is just the sort of error, inadvertently made, that tends to be totally misconstrued by the press. Now I never claimed to know how to spell the names of every colored person in this country, but I will tell you this much: where someone's name is concerned, colored or not, he has the constitutional right to have it spelled correctly
ref: 1971, Philip Roth, Our Gang (starring Tricky and his Friends), →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: A rare spelling variant of Jimmy, diminutive of the male given name James.
DIGOS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian DIGOS (“Divisione Investigazioni Generali e Operazioni Speciali”).
Senses: examples: text: Italy’s General Investigations and Special Operations Division (DIGOS) has identified 150 participants, all men, of whom nine are known right-wing militants with previous fascism-related criminal charges against them, according a spokesperson for the agency.
ref: 2024 January 13, Barbie Latza Nadeau, “Video of crowd’s fascist salute in heart of Rome rattles Italy – but not its prime minister”, in CNN:
glosses: The General Investigations and Special Operations Division.
dillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dillos
Senses: examples: text: It was a big ass dillo alright with a little tiny pin head. Too bad I didn't have a tape measure with me because I was sure that dillo was no ordinary dillo, it was a giant dillo, and I didn't think they existed outside South America. Don Candy said, “I ...
ref: 2017, Max Sheridan, Dillo, Shotgun Honey, an imprint of Down & Out Books:
text: When a dillo finds a potential meal, it digs rapidly and prevents dirt from getting in its air passage by holding its breath up to six minutes. Coyotes and dogs are the primary natural predators of armadillos in the United States. When threatened ...
ref: 1986, Kansas Wildlife:
glosses: Alternative spelling of 'dillo.
Senja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Senjam surname of Meitei origin
tow bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tow bars
Senses: glosses: A bar, or ball, usually at the rear of a vehicle, where a trailer, or caravan or other similar item can be attached and towed.
Related terms: towball
tow bars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tow bar
towbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towbars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tow bar.
police chief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: police chiefs
Senses: synonyms: chief of police
glosses: The head or leader of a police department or constabulary of a local government.
Related terms: police commissioner
Alto Adige
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian Alto Adige.
Senses: glosses: South Tyrol: A predominantly German-speaking autonomous province of the Trentino-Alto Adige region in north-east Italy; until 1919 part of Austria, since 1972 under a special autonomy statute.
dasy-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “hairy”).
Senses: glosses: hairy, shaggy, dense, used in compound words
Derived terms: dasymeter
dasyphyllous
dasypygal
Dasypogon
Miska
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miskas
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Miška.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Czech.
squaddie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɒd.i/
rhymes: -ɒdi
Forms: form: squaddies
form: squaddy
Etymology: From squad + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: He'll turn out to be a squaddie— a Muslim squaddie. Exactly the kind of victim they're looking for.
ref: 2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 117:
text: Hard men from the high flats and off-dutie squaddies threw back their pints shoulder to shoulder in its spartan public bar.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 164:
glosses: A private in the army.
Derived terms: squaddie-proof
squaddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaddie
glosses: plural of squaddy
squaddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaddies
Etymology: From squad + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of squaddie.
Derived terms: squaddy-proof
squaddy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squaddy
form: most squaddy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of squabby (“short and thick”).
assimilationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assimilationist
assimilationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assimilationists
Etymology: From assimilation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Spanish-language education is not favored by assimilationist parents of Latino children in the US.
text: To the assimilationists, American Jews have not merely acculturated — they have assimilated.
ref: 1998, Norman Linzer, David J. Schnall, Jerome A. Chanes, A Portrait of the American Jewish Community, page xii:
text: The conflict between melting-pot assimilationists and cultural pluralists betrays a fundamental uncertainty about the meaning of American nationhood, and about the role ethnicity plays in it.
ref: 1999, Christian Joppke, Immigration and the Nation-State: The United States, Germany, and Great Britain, page 147:
text: The one area where there was at least some agreement between assimilationists and Zionists was Palestine.
ref: 2000, Bruce F. Pauley, From Prejudice to Persecution: A History of Austrian Anti-Semitism, page 224:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
Synonyms: topics: sociology
social-science
human-sciences
sciences
word: integrationist
assimilationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assimilationist
form: most assimilationist
Etymology: From assimilation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability.
ref: 1990 December 9, Ed Fendor, “The Promised Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 4:
text: Shortly after Chiang Kaishek came to power, however, the GMD^([Guomindang]) once again withdrew its support for self-determination and pursued a more assimilationist strategy.
ref: 2000, Katherine Palmer Kaup, Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in China, page 62:
text: SCP^([Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands]) was also more explicitly involved in advocating a more assimilationist approach in this period.
ref: 2011, Peter Scholten, Framing Immigrant Integration: Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective, page 187:
text: Although there have been many attempts throughout history by the state to assist Maori, many government policies have been paternalistic and assimilationist in nature.
ref: 2012, Robert Consedine, Joana Consedine, Healing Our History, page 22:
text: To an extent, reformers – such as the Vietnamese and Tunisian constitutionalists or the Antilleans and Malagasies of the LFADCIM^([French League for the Attainment of the Rights of Citizens of the Natives of Madagascar]) – were more assimilationist than radicals in the sense that they demanded an extension of French citizenship rights and of naturalization.
ref: 2015, Michael Goebel, Anti-Imperial Metropolis: Interwar Paris and the Seeds of Third World Nationalism, page 224:
text: At times, the assimilationist paradigm has facilitated the physical dispossession of Native lands and the suppression or eradication of Native institutions, culture, and identity by the political branches of the federal government.
ref: 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School, volume 20, number 2, page 267:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Of or pertaining to assimilationism; promoting or advocating assimilationism.
Synonyms: topics: sociology
social-science
human-sciences
sciences
word: integrationist
Derived terms: antiassimilationist
Related terms: multiculturalist
pluralist
crocodilian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɒkəˈdɪliən/
Forms: form: crocodilians
Etymology: From crocodile + -ian; compare translingual Crocodilia.
Senses: examples: text: 1989, Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Modern analogs for dinosaur nesting and parental behavior, James Orville Farlow (editor), Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs, Issue 238, page 47,
Mound-nesting crocodilians and megapodes appear to be indifferent to nest-site parameters, but susceptibility of crocodilian mound nests to predation or drowning may be altered by site selection.
text: Superb predators, the crocodilians are reptiles, and the only survivors of the archosaurs that included dinosaurs.
ref: 2001, F. Lynne Bachleda, Dangerous Wildlife in the Southeast, page 33:
text: Crocodilians are essentially lizard-like in basic shape and are adapted to a largely aquatic life. ln water, they hunt and eat their prey and advertise their size and location by bellowing.
ref: 2001, Patricia Pope Bartlett, Billy Griswold, Richard D. Bartlett, Reptiles, Amphibians, and Invertebrates: An Identification and Care Guide, page 191:
text: However, it is possible that baby titanoboas and Titanoboa eggs were preyed upon by the same crocodilians the adults ate.
ref: 2024 May 27, Rebecca Bales, Titanoboa, AZ Animals:
glosses: Any reptile of the order Crocodilia; a crocodile, alligator, caiman or gavial.
crocodilian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌkɹɒkəˈdɪliən/
Etymology: From crocodile + -ian; compare translingual Crocodilia.
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or resembling crocodiles
cross someone's path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosses someone's path
form: crossing someone's path
form: crossed someone's path
form: crossed someone's path
Senses: examples: text: None of the sportsmen who have crossed my path have made as great an impact on me as Ian.
text: Ewan McGregor is back as the lead character, Renton, perhaps best remembered for his visit in the first film to the “Worst Toilet in Scotland.” Robert Carlyle appears as Begbie, who starts brawls with almost anyone who crosses his path; Ewen Bremner returns as the dimwitted Spud, who, in the first movie, has a memorable job interview while high on speed; and Jonny Lee Miller is back as Sick Boy, now known as Simon.
ref: 2017 January 26, Christopher D. Shea, “T2 Trainspotting’: The Early Reviews”, in New York Time:
synonyms: bump into
glosses: To meet someone by chance.
examples: text: Woe to the maid whose lover
Shall cross his path to-day!
ref: 1842, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The Battle of Lake Regillus”, in Lays of Ancient Rome:
glosses: To oppose someone's plans.
emplacements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emplacement
scanter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of scant: more scant
zookeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zookeeper
shockwaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shockwave
sorcerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sorcerizes
form: sorcerizing
form: sorcerized
form: sorcerized
form: sorcerise
Senses: glosses: To transform or alter through sorcery.
à outrance
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from French à outrance. Compare to the outrance.
Senses: examples: text: Here a crucial political decision was taken by unaminous vote: the armed revolt under preparation would not be one single blow aimed at drawing concessions from France, but an "unlimited revolution" à outrance to continue until full independence was achieved.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 79:
text: However, apart from Windham and Fitzwilliam (and also the King, whose views hardly counted any more), no one in Government had any relish left for an ideological war à outrance.
ref: 2006, Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People?:
text: Two other young men, both tutors to her sons, also figured sentimentally in her diaries, though not à outrance.
ref: 2012, Catherine Peters, “Court in the Act”, in Literary Review, number 399:
glosses: To the greatest extent, to the utmost.
sorcerizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sorcerize
sorcerizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sorcerize
sorcerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sorcerize
sorcerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sorcerises
form: sorcerising
form: sorcerised
form: sorcerised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sorcerize.
sorcerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sorcerise
sorcerising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sorcerise
sorcerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sorcerise
cryospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cryospheric
form: most cryospheric
Etymology: From cryosphere + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This book attempts to deal integratively with all elements of the cryosphere in the context of a changing global environment. Not only is that global environment changing with respect to climate, but the accelerating pressures on the environment from anthropogenic activity are complicating our understanding of cryospheric change.
ref: 2009, Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly, The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change, John Wiley & Sons, preface
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cryosphere.
soritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soritical
form: most soritical
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a sorites.
Synonyms: soritic
unsightlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unsightly: more unsightly
sororally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sororally
form: most sororally
Etymology: From sororal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sororal manner; sisterly.
unsightliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unsightly: most unsightly
sororicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sororicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to sororicide, the killing of one's sister.
sorrowfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sorrowfulnesses
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sorwefulnesse; by surface analysis, sorrowful + ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: misery
word: unhappiness
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: The quality or state of sorrow; sadness.
type foundry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type foundries
Senses: synonyms: foundry
font foundry
font house
font studio
glosses: A company that designs and/or distributes typefaces.
Related terms: type-founder
sortations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sortation
sortieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sortie
sortied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sortie
hairdos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairdo
half-sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-sister
handbrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handbrake
hardbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardback
heftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hefty: more hefty
heftiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hefty: most hefty
helter-skelters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helter-skelter
magnetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of magnetize
modistes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modiste
Euamerion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐαμερίων (Euameríōn), from εὐ- (eu-) + ἁμἐρα (hamera) + -ίων (-íōn).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Alternative name for Telesphoros
ectopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ectopies
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, using New Latin combining forms: by surface analysis, ec- + -topy; equivalent to ectopia = ec- + -topia, "out of place".
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: allotopia
dystopia
ectopia
heterotopia
malposition
glosses: Abnormal position of an organ or other body part.
wikipedia: classical compound
Derived terms: ectopic
ectopically
ectopic pregnancy
eutopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈtəʊ.pi.ə/
ipa: /juˈtoʊ.pi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
homophone: utopia
Etymology: From eu- + Ancient Greek τόπος (tópos, “place”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of being properly placed, as opposed to ectopia.
crux gammata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌks ɡæmˈmɑːtə/
Forms: form: cruces gammatae
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Below is seen the crux gammata, surmounted by a dove which symbolizes the Holy Spirit, and standing on a hill whence flow the four rivers of the Gospels, from whose waters stags and sheep come to drink.
ref: 1913, The Catholic Encyclopedia, page 15:
glosses: The tetra-gammadion.
cruces gammatae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crux gammata
eutopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more eutopic
form: most eutopic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: (of an organ or other body part) Exhibiting eutopia; being in the correct place; having a normal position.
Amalfi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Salerno, Campania, Italy.
Derived terms: Amalfian
Amalfi Coast
wedding gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding gowns
Etymology: From Middle English weddynggown.
Senses: glosses: wedding dress