cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Chard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chards
Etymology: Clipping of Chardonnay.
Senses: examples: text: Today you can order a glass of Chard almost anywhere, but in the 1960s it was relatively unknown outside of France. Can you imagine such a time?
ref: 2005, Maureen Christian Petrosky, The Wine Club: A Month-by-Month Guide to Learning about Wine with Friends, Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Chardonnay wine.
bronzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bronzer
dolloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dollop
dolloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dollop
dogkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dog + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: One question remains for dogkind to ponder. Why on earth did Dog domesticate the man? The advantages are obvious: heated shelters and constant food supply...
ref: 1948, The Arizona quarterly, University of Arizona:
hypernyms: animalkind
caninekind
mammalkind
glosses: All dogs, considered as a group.
Related terms: catkind
horsekind
catkind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + -kind.
Senses: examples: text: What Eliot had in mind by writing "Growltiger's Last Stand" is difficult to say unless it was to present catkind in one of its most deplorable states.
ref: 1978, Francelia Butler, editor, Children's literature, Volume 7:
glosses: All cats, considered as a group.
Related terms: dogkind
horsekind
hucksterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hucksterish
form: most hucksterish
Etymology: From huckster + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: How often have hucksterish entrepreneurs declared their intent of turning their outfit into "the Wal-Mart of" whatever it may be?
ref: 1999, Bob Ortega, In Sam we trust:
glosses: Like a huckster in some way; showy, fraudulent, etc.
rehabilitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehabilitators
Etymology: From rehabilitate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Put it in a covered shoebox and seek out a veterinarian or find a licensed and trained wildlife rehabilitator.
ref: 2009 July 28, C. Claiborne Ray, “Baby Bird Alert”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who rehabilitates.
rehabilitators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehabilitator
rehabilitationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rehabilitationists
Etymology: From rehabilitation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of rehabilitationism.
rehabilitationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehabilitationist
rehabilitationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rehabilitation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that criminals should be rehabilitated into society.
Derived terms: rehabilitationist
happing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hap
hour changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hour change
outduelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outduel
outduelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outduel
sundried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sun-dried.
power naps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power nap
aeromechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to aeromechanics.
Derived terms: aeromechanically
auto-tuner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto-tuners
Etymology: From auto- + tuner.
Senses: glosses: Any device that performs automatic tuning (as of an engine or industrial process).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A device that corrects the intonation of an audio signal without affecting other aspects of the sound, sometimes used to fix off-key singing.
Related terms: autotune
auto-tune
autotuners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autotuner
Atacameñan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Atacameñan
form: most Atacameñan
Etymology: From Atacameño + -an.
Senses: glosses: Atacaman
austenitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: austenitizations
Etymology: From austenitize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The heating of iron (or another iron-based metal such as steel) to a temperature at which it changes crystal structure from ferrite to austenite.
austenitizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of austenitization
crackerberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackerberries
Etymology: From cracker + berry.
Senses: glosses: The Canadian bunchberry, Cornus canadensis.
crackerberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crackerberry
beau monde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beaux mondes
Etymology: Borrowed from French beau monde (literally “beautiful world”).
Senses: examples: text: ...and I am sure you will permit me to invite a friend or two, for you know I only deal with choice spirits, the élite of the beau monde.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 223:
text: But the intellectuals one meets are something else again. I didn't behave well with the mental beau monde of Chicago.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 57:
text: After finding the studio in West Kensington, and just before starting Pernel’s portrait, he spent an evening at the Kennedy’s where, he told Carrington excitedly, he met ‘a charming beau-monde blonde . . . who with her brightness and stoutness combined with some languishing glances, succeeded in half-ravishing me’.
ref: 1985, Keith Clements, “Carrington”, in Henry Lamb: The Artist and his Friends, Bristol: Redcliffe, →ISBN, section V (Palestine and Poole 1914–1928), page 255:
text: Like the prodigal rastaquouères—those Latin American millionaires who flaunted their wealth in Paris in the hope of gaining entry into the beau monde—writers and intellectuals loved to put on cosmopolitan airs after visiting the French capital—they had left their Hispanic backwaters and could now swim with the tide of modern life.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin History of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 304:
text: The beau monde went to the Maria II opera house to see and be seen.
ref: 2018, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal:
synonyms: beautiful people
glosses: The fashionable part of society.
Coordinate terms: demimonde
Derived terms: beau monde seasoning
tautogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautograms
Etymology: From tauto- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A text in which all words start with the same letter (but not necessarily the same sound).
tautograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tautogram
poolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pool + -able.
Senses: examples: text: With object pooling, a specific instance of a poolable object can be used by multiple clients.
ref: 2000, Pradeep Kumar Tapadiya, COM+ programming: a practical guide using Visual C++ and ATL:
text: Many of those who participated in the deportation and mass murders treated possessions of Jews as poolable assets for their own personal use.
ref: 2006, Dagmar Herzog, Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective:
glosses: Suitable for pooling.
sorghums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sorghum
wriststrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wriststraps
form: wrist strap
Etymology: From wrist + strap.
Senses: glosses: A strap worn around the wrist to circumvent straining the hand by translocating the borne load to the stronger parts of the arm when carrying or lifting an item.
wriststraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wriststrap
brutalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutalisms
Etymology: From brutal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1839, Earl of Clarendon, Speech to House of Lords, recorded in Mirror of Parliament, republished in 1840 January-June, The Eclectic Review, New Series, Volume 7, page 455,
Their punishments for crimes were of the most savage nature: and the absurdities of the Theodosian Code, together with the ancient customs of Germany, came to be all blended into a singular amalgamation of refinement and meanness,—of brutalism and bravery.
text: Instances of misguidance like the ones given, and at least recognized in retrospect, in fascism, racism, and ecological brutalism, are also to be sensed by religious communication in other contexts.
ref: 2012, Michael Welker, “Creation, the Concept of God, and the Nature of the Human Person in Christianity”, in Peter Koslowski, editor, The Concept of God, the Origin of the World, and the Image of the Human in the World Religions, Springer, page 87:
text: 2013, Aimee Gasston, Katherine Mansfield, Cannibal, Janet Wilson, Gerri Kimber, Delia da Sousa Correa (editors), Katherine Mansfield and the (Post)colonial, Edinburgh University Press, page 15,
She revelled at being dubbed the 'little savage from New Zealand' by her principal at Queen's College, London, and as an adult would develop a commitment to brutalism by consistently refusing to represent a falsely civilised world view in her fiction.
glosses: Brutal, violent behaviour; savagery.
examples: text: Art deco is one of the first truly modern styles and a precursor to the more streamlined and simpler lines of later styles, such as the international style, art moderne, and even brutalism.
ref: 2010, Donna M. DeBlasio, Martha I. Pallante, Images of America: Amherst, Arcadia Publishing, page 75:
text: On the face of it the pair also seemed to plunder much of their muscular brutalism in the building of the church from late Le Corbusier but they have consistently, and independently, rejected any Corbusian or even post-Corbusian label.
ref: 2011, Steve Redhead, We Have Never Been Postmodern: Theory at the Speed of Light, Edinburgh University Press, page 48:
text: 2015, Johnny Rogan, Ray Davies: A Complicated Life, Vintage (The Bodley Head), page 375,
A founder of the Victorian Society in 1958, Betjeman was a celebrated critic of architectural brutalism and an active campaigner against the march of modernism.
topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Brutalism.
Derived terms: neobrutalism
brutalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brutalism
Brutalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutalism
Etymology: From brutal + -ism. Popularized in 1954 by the English architects Alison and Peter Smithson, from earlier Swedish nybrutalism (“New Brutalism”), after French béton brut (“raw concrete”), the material favored by Le Corbusier.
Senses: examples: text: In similar spirit, Nigel Henderson, a member of the Independent Group's Brutalist core, exhibited black and white photographs of the East End at the 1953 ICA show Parallel of Life and Art which stressed the unsanitised reality of everyday life: Peter Smithson's defence of Brutalism through the categorical rhetoric of objectivity and truth, quoted above, echoes Anderson.
ref: 2000, Katherine Shonfield, Walls Have Feelings: architecture, film and the city, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 20:
text: 2004, B. M. Boyle, Brutalism, R. Stephen Sennott (editor), Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, Volume 1: A-F, Taylor & Francis (Fitzroy Dearborn), page 181,
Nonetheless, despite its radical appearance, Brutalism could claim, if not legitimacy, at least ancestry in pre-World War II modernism.
text: The trend towards Brutalism - an austere style that had its origins in the Bauhaus and is characterized by its emphasis on the building materials (especially bare concrete) and unconcealed service pipes - did little to improve the situation.
ref: 2005, Rodney Bolt, Bavaria, Cadogan Guides, page 26:
topics: architecture
synonyms: New Brutalism
glosses: A style of modernist architecture characterized by angular geometry and overt signs of the construction process.
wikipedia: Alison and Peter Smithson
Le Corbusier
Derived terms: Brutalist
Callirrhoë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A naiad, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys.
confutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From confute + -able.
Senses: examples: text: That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 20, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 152:
text: Nor can we accept the suggestion that a sentence should be allowed to be factually significant if, and only if, it expresses something which is definitely confutable by experience.
ref: 1936, A. J. Ayer, chapter 1, in Language, Truth, and Logic, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1947, page 38:
glosses: That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
Derived terms: confutability
unconfutable
counterfigure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterfigures
Etymology: From counter- + figure.
Senses: glosses: A figure in mythology, etc. representing the opposite of another, such as the Antichrist to Christ.
counterfigures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterfigure
counterweighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterweight
counterweighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of counterweight
antidiagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidiagonal
Caribbean monk seal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caribbean monk seals
Senses: glosses: Monachus tropicalis, an extinct seal once native to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Synonyms: West Indian monk seal
cycasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycasins
Etymology: From translingual Cycas (“genus of cycads”) + -in.
Senses: glosses: A toxin found in certain plants that affects the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system.
cycasins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cycasin
deverbalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈvɜːbəlaɪz/
Forms: form: deverbalizes
form: deverbalizing
form: deverbalized
form: deverbalized
Etymology: From de- + verbalize.
Senses: examples: text: Attempts to make first culture-free and then culture-fair tests have largely been efforts to deverbalize intelligence.
ref: 1976, Lauren B Resnick, The nature of intelligence:
glosses: To make non-verbal; to strip of words.
Derived terms: deverbalization
deverbalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deverbalize
deverbalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deverbalize
deverbalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deverbalize
deverbalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deverbalizations
Etymology: From deverbalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of deverbalizing.
deverbally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From deverbal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deverbal manner.
muhajirun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muhajir
galvano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Italian Galvani + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electro-, particularly with regard to bioelectricity and some specific applications.
synonyms: word: electro-
word: particularly with regard to bioelectricity and some specific applications
itineracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: itineracies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of itinerancy.
eldercare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elder + care.
Senses: glosses: Care for elderly people.
Synonyms: aged care
elderly care
Related terms: assisted living
geriatrics
nursing home
Enosis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Ένωσις (Énosis, “union”).
Senses: glosses: Any political movement aiming to incorporate Greek-populated areas currently outside Greece into Greece.
examples: text: Despite the pragmatic reluctance of government ministers, in Greece the cause of Enosis quickly took fire in street demonstrations and in the columns of the press.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 312:
glosses: Any political movement aiming to incorporate Greek-populated areas currently outside Greece into Greece.
A political movement aiming to incorporate the island of Cyprus into Greece.
ondansetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒnˈdæn.sə.tɹɒn/
ipa: /ɑnˈdæn.səˌtɹɑn/
ipa: /ɑnˈdɑn.səˌtɹɑn/
ipa: /oʊnˈdɑn.səˌtɹɑn/
Etymology: Probably from ond- (of unknown origin) + serotonin receptor antagonist.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A carbazole derivative (trademark Zofran), C₁₈H₁₉N₃O, that is a serotonin receptor antagonist administered by injection and by mouth to relieve nausea and vomiting, especially during cancer therapy.
epilith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epiliths
Etymology: From epi- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A plant, fungus, or other organism that grows upon rock.
Derived terms: epilithic
epiliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epilith
epilithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + lith + -ic, literally “on the rock”.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being an epilith.
epilimnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epilimnion
noneczematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eczematous.
Senses: glosses: Not eczematous.
assimilationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From assimilation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The model of regenerative assimilationism which the Revolutionaries displayed towards the Jews was evident in regard to other groupings whose commitment to the patriotic cause was for whatever reason in doubt.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 558:
text: But in fact the antinomy of exceptionalism and assimilationism has been there all along, and otherwise puzzling decisions from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries become readily understandable when seen as moments when assimilationism was ascendant.
ref: 2024 September 30, Michael Doran, “EXCEPTIONALISM AND ASSIMILATIONISM IN FEDERAL INDIAN LAW”, in Stanford Law School, volume 20, number 2, page 268:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
Related terms: assimilationist
extinctionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extinctionists
Etymology: From extinction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The Voluntary Human Extinctionists among you would no doubt be thrilled. But how would that affect the remainder of your life? Knowing that yours is the last “batch” of humans, would your actions, your striving, still even make sense?
ref: 2022, Dean Rickles, Life Is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making It More Meaningful, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: An advocate of extinctionism.
examples: text: What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
ref: 2020, John Harris, Exploring Roguelike Games, CRC Press, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: A player who plays a roguelike game with the additional challenge of killing all creatures to extinction.
extinctionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extinctionist
form: most extinctionist
Etymology: From extinction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Hamas has embraced the nihilism of the suicide bomber, of rockets fired blindly into towns, and the nihilism of the extinctionist policy towards Israel.
ref: 2011 February 20, Harriet Sherwood, quoting Ian McEwan, “Ian McEwan attacks 'great injustice' in Israel”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Although Last Ones Left Alive courts comparison with Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven, it doesn’t deliver that novel’s transcendent sense of art’s absurd persistence. It lacks the extinctionist glee of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy.
ref: 2019 March 23, Sarah Ditum, “Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff review – post-apocalyptic road trip”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: “The pro-extinctionist view,” they say, “immediately conjures up for a lot of people the image of a homicidal, ghoulish, sadistic maniac, but actually most pro-extinctionists would say that most ways of going extinct would be absolutely unacceptable. But what if everybody decided not to have children? I don’t see anything wrong with that.”
ref: 2023 July 22, Andrew Anthony, quoting Émile Torres, “‘What if everybody decided not to have children?’ The philosopher questioning humanity’s future”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Relating to extinctionism.
extinctionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extinctionist
extinctionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃ(ə)nɪzəm/
Etymology: From extinction + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Philosopher Patricia MacCormack, who proudly dons the mantles of antinatalism and human extinctionism, finds herself “ambivalent about pessimism,” which she correctly regards as an overly masculine discourse.
ref: 2018, Joseph Packer, Ethan Stoneman, A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture, Penn State Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The belief that only the extinction of humanity will lead to the recovery of the Earth's environment.
topics: video-games
glosses: The additional challenge, in playing a roguelike game, of killing all creatures to extinction.
Related terms: extinctionist
longtermism
colonizationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonizationists
Etymology: From colonization + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of colonizationism.
colonizationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colonizationist
gigsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigster
fainites
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: fainits
form: faynights
Senses: synonyms: word: pax
english: UK, dated, school slang
translation: UK, dated, school slang
word: barlafumble
word: fains
glosses: A call for truce used in children's games.
fancy goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
commerce
retail
glosses: Decorative luxury items.
practical numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practical number
feminoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feminine + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: We may speak, therefore, of a feminoid intersexuality at puberty...
ref: 1932, Gregorio Marañón, Warre Bradley Wells, The evolution of sex and intersexual conditions:
text: On the other hand, there are men with more bisexual, more feminoid natures, who seek the missing complement of their own masculinity in women.
ref: 1962, Marie Bonaparte, Female sexuality:
glosses: Apparently, but not actually, female.
feminoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feminoids
Etymology: From feminist + -oid (suggesting a robotic, heartless quality as in android).
Senses: examples: text: These establishments serve as headquarters for covens of feminoids primarily to pursue their own agendas and only secondarily to help these alleged victims.
ref: 2000, Laura K Egendorf, Male/female roles: opposing viewpoints:
text: That may have changed just a little bit, time will tell, since the professional feminoids have discovered the evils and dangers of pornography.
ref: 2006, George P Garrett, Empty bed blues:
glosses: A feminist.
feminoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feminoid
glyoxalase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glyoxalases
Etymology: From glyoxal + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of related thiol-dependent enzymes: glyoxalase І, which catalyse the isomerisation of the spontaneously formed hemithioacetal adduct between GSH and 2-oxoaldehydes (such as methylglyoxal) into S-2-hydroxyacylglutathione; and glyoxalase ІІ, which hydrolyses these thiolesters.
glyoxalases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glyoxalase
overbrowse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbrowses
form: overbrowsing
form: overbrowsed
form: overbrowsed
Etymology: From over- + browse.
Senses: examples: text: As their numbers peak, the hares begin to overbrowse aspen and other plants.
ref: 1995, David B Rockwell, Glacier National Park: a natural history guide:
text: The few elephants that remained continued to overbrowse the trees, now ripping the bark off them as well and speeding their demise.
ref: 1999, Allan Savory, Jody Butterfield, Holistic management: a new framework for decision making:
glosses: To browse (eat vegetation) too much, to the detriment of the environment.
Related terms: overgraze
overbrowses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbrowse
overbrowsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbrowse
overbrowsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbrowse
highlining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From high + line + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Slacklining at elevation above the ground or water. When rigged correctly, using a leash, no impact with the ground is possible.
glosses: A form of overbrowsing in which animals eat the vegetation as high as they can reach.
halo nucleus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halo nuclei
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: An atomic nucleus whose radius is appreciably larger than that predicted by the liquid drop model (wherein the nucleus is assumed to be a sphere of constant density).
hepatolenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hepato- + lenticular.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the liver and the lens of the eye, which suffer degenerative effects in Wilson's disease.
Derived terms: hepatolenticular degeneration
willy-willies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of willy-willy
Wilson's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878–1937), the British neurologist who first described the condition in 1912.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: hepatolenticular degeneration
glosses: An autosomal-recessive genetic disorder in which copper accumulates in tissues, resulting in neurological or psychiatric symptoms and liver disease.
Related terms: Oslo syndrome
hoop pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoop pines
Etymology: The tree's bark has horizontal bands resembling hoops (compare image).
Senses: examples: text: The key colour is green, and of a particular density: the green of mangroves along the riverbanks, of Moreton Bay figs, of the big trees that are natives of this corner of Queensland, the shapely hoop-pines and bunyas that still dominate the skyline along every river.
ref: 1984, David Malouf, A First Place, Vintage, published 2015, page 6:
text: Kerry floated on her back in the Caledonian River, looking skyward through the limbs of Granny Ava's hoop pine.
ref: 2018, Melissa Lucashenko, Too Much Lip, University of Queensland Press, published 2023, page 27:
glosses: Araucaria cunninghamii, a tree of eastern Australia and New Guinea.
hyperpigmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperpigmentations
Etymology: From hyper- + pigmentation.
Senses: synonyms: overpigmentation
antonyms: hypopigmentation
underpigmentation
;
depigmentation
hypernyms: pigmentation
glosses: A high degree of pigmentation; too much pigmentation.
synonyms: overpigmentation
antonyms: hypopigmentation
underpigmentation
;
depigmentation
hypernyms: pigmentation
glosses: A high degree of pigmentation; too much pigmentation.
The darkening of an area of skin or nails, caused by increased melanin.
Related terms: hyperpigmentary
hyperpigmented
overpigmented
hyperpigmentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperpigmentation
hyperthermostability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperthermostabilities
Etymology: From hyper- + thermostability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being hyperthermostable.
holderbat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holderbats
Senses: glosses: A device used to secure a pipe to a wall by means of an enclosing ring.
holderbats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holderbat
immunosenescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + senescence.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The gradual deterioration of the immune system caused by the ageing process.
interdunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + dunal.
Senses: glosses: Between dunes.
dunal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dune + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or consisting of dunes.
Related terms: interdunal
staff officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staff officer
intelligencer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intelligencers
Etymology: From intelligence + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis likely that the Princes of this land
Have heard of us from messengers and come
To be their own intelligencers.
ref: 1922, “The Suppliant Maidens”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 8:
glosses: A bringer of intelligence (news, information); a spy or informant.
Synonyms: sense: bringer of intelligence
word: informant
sense: bringer of intelligence
word: spy
Derived terms: macaroni intelligencer
Related terms: intelligence
intelligent
intelligencers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intelligencer
intelligentially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intelligential + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The mind receives positive impressions only, and intelligentially conceives negatives by eliminating positive impressions.
ref: 1892, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Origin and Development of Religious Belief:
glosses: In an intelligential manner; by means of the intelligence.
intracorporeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From intra- + corporeal.
Senses: glosses: Inside the body.
glosses: Inside a corpus; intracorporal.
Derived terms: intracorporeally
extracorporeally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extracorporeal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Outside the body.
intracorporeally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intracorporeal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Inside the body.
flying gurnards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flying gurnard
jaw-jaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jaw-jaws
form: jaw-jawing
form: jaw-jawed
form: jaw-jawed
Etymology: Reduplication of jaw.
Senses: examples: text: The EEC and America jaw-jawed their way to the brink of an all-out war over limiting European steel exports to the United States.
ref: 1982, Economist, volume 285:
text: ...in certain contexts extensive and prolonged jaw-jawing — in the form of treaty-making — can serve to inhibit the resort to war.
ref: 1986, David Sanders, Lawmaking and co-operation in international politics:
text: We might have five of us jaw-jawing. You don't have that any more. I hate to lose that; it was a great joy in my life.
ref: 1995, Lorraine Garkovich, Janet L Bokemeier, Barbara Foote, Harvest of hope: family farming/farming families:
glosses: To talk at length; to chatter or jabber.
Kaimanawa horse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaimanawa horses
Senses: glosses: A hardy feral horse of New Zealand, descended from the domestic horses released in the 19th and 20th centuries.
keratopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratopathies
Etymology: From kerato- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various diseases of the eye.
Derived terms: keratopathic
keratopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratopathy
jaw-jaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jaw-jaw
jaw-jawing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jaw-jaw
jaw-jawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jaw-jaw
buries the hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bury the hatchet
kick upstairs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kicks upstairs
form: kicking upstairs
form: kicked upstairs
form: kicked upstairs
Senses: examples: 2012, The Economist, Sep 29th 2012 issue, Special Report, India: Aim Higher
Faced with slowing foreign investment and a revenue squeeze, Pranab Mukherjee, until recently the finance minister, bizarrely attacked foreign investors, such as Vodafone, and retrospectively tried to rewrite tax rules. That spread uncertainty. Fortunately in July he was booted upstairs to become president.
synonyms: boot upstairs
glosses: To promote (an employee considered troublesome) to a position of lesser influence, but of apparently higher status.
Related terms: kick up
fail upwards
burying the hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bury the hatchet
buried the hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bury the hatchet
Kaimanawa horses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaimanawa horse
keratopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From keratopathy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to keratopathy.
keratoacanthoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratoacanthomas
form: keratoacanthomata
Etymology: From kerato- + acanthoma.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A common low-grade malignancy of the skin.
unmopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mopped.
Senses: examples: text: The cleaners went home early, leaving the floor unmopped.
glosses: Not mopped.
keratoacanthomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratoacanthoma
keratoacanthomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratoacanthoma
criterions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criterion
kritarchy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kritarchies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “a judge”) + -archy.
Senses: glosses: Rule by judges.
perses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perse
perses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perse
lashup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lashups
Etymology: Deverbal from lash up.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lash-up.
lashups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lashup
lash up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lashes up
form: lashing up
form: lashed up
form: lashed up
Senses: examples: text: Of things not properly belonging to the room, there was a hammock lashed up, and thrown upon the floor in one corner; […]
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: To construct in a shoddy, makeshift manner.
Synonyms: jury-rig
Derived terms: word: lash-up
word: lashup
luetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /luːˈɛtɪk/
Etymology: From lues + -etic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to lues (syphilis).
Synonyms: word: syphilitic
Derived terms: antiluetic
postluetic
luetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /luːˈɛtɪk/
Forms: form: luetics
Etymology: From lues + -etic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A person who has lues (syphilis); a syphilitic.
Synonyms: word: syphilitic
pieces of eight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piece of eight
loggings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logging
Lucasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /luːˈkeɪziən/
Etymology: From Lucas + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Lucas is the intellectual leader of this approach, which I shall refer to as Lucasian.
ref: 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page 35:
text: Since alternative [microfoundational] programs are not addressed here, I will simply use the word “microfoundations” instead of “Lucasian microfoundations” or “representative agent microfoundations”.
ref: 2020, Francesco Sergi, “The Standard Narrative about DSGE Models in Central Banks’ Technical Reports”, in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, number 27, pages 163-193:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
examples: text: In 1979, Stephen Hawking became the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, one of Britain’s most distinguished chairs, and one formerly held by Isaac Newton.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Henry Lucas (c. 1610–1663), Member of Parliament for Cambridge University and founder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics.
examples: text: He was looking down at our seven-pound lump of innocence, his mind unblemished by Lucasian mythology. "Can you believe he doesn't know about Star Wars yet?"
ref: 2002, Heather B. Armstrong, Things I Learned about My Dad:
text: In the Lucasian spectacle of carefully programmed digitalized effects, as little as possible is left to chance, to the contingencies of real life, and to the vagaries and verities of the recorded image.
ref: 2013, Joel Black, The Reality Effect: Film Culture and the Graphic Imperative:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the American filmmaker George Lucas, known for his blockbuster space opera films.
Lucasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /luːˈkeɪziən/
Forms: form: Lucasians
Etymology: From Lucas + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: In this, I have probably devoted too much attention to the economists whom I label Lucasians […]
ref: 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page x:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A follower of the theories of American economist Robert Lucas Jr.
metaspace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaspaces
Etymology: From meta- + space.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A space transcending ordinary physical space, such as cyberspace.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The conceptual space occupied by metaobjects.
tea bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea bag
tea bags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tea bag
metaspaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaspace
tea and toasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea and toaster
tea carts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea cart
tea trolleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tea trolley
abetalipoproteinaemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abetalipoproteinaemia
dwelling places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwelling place
dwelling-places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dwelling-place
abiding-places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abiding-place
abiding places
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abiding place
Castelnau's antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Castelnau's antshrike
black-backed antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black-backed antshrike
Bolivian slaty antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolivian slaty antshrike
variable antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variable antshrike
great antshrikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great antshrike
mythographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mythography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mythography.
Derived terms: mythographically
mythographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mythographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a mythographic manner.
underbark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + bark.
Senses: glosses: The inner layer of tree bark, beneath the overbark.
treebark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tree + bark.
Senses: examples: text: Others, having no grain, made nauseating, poisonous concoctions of weeds, treebark, and even clay and manure.
ref: 1971, Harold Henry Fisher, The famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923:
glosses: The bark of a tree.
primacy effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primacy effects
Senses: examples: Holonym: serial position effect
related: word: recency effect
glosses: The increased ability to remember items presented earlier, such as the first items in a list: the early-position aspect of the serial position effect.
palatalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: palatalises
form: palatalising
form: palatalised
form: palatalised
Etymology: From palatal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of palatalize.
Derived terms: depalatalise
palatalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palatalise
palatalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palatalise
photomutagenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + mutagenicity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being photomutagenic.
mutagenicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutagenicity
prepubertal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + pubertal.
Senses: synonyms: prepuberal
glosses: Before puberty.
Derived terms: prepubertally
postpubertal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + pubertal.
Senses: glosses: After puberty.
Derived terms: postpubertally
postpubertally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postpubertal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: After puberty.
prepubertally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prepubertal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Before puberty.
pseudomembranous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛmbɹənəs
Etymology: From pseudomembrane + -ous or pseudo- + membranous.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by the presence of a pseudomembrane.
Derived terms: pseudomembranous colitis
quotebook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quotebooks
Etymology: From quote + book.
Senses: glosses: A book of quotations.
quotebooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quotebook
refusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refuse + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be refused.
rejectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reject + -able.
Senses: examples: text: But Diana hadn’t offered anything rejectable yet. Nothing but the most generic friendship.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 142:
antonyms: acceptable#Adjective
glosses: That can be rejected.
Derived terms: unrejectable
Related terms: rejectability
rejectable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejectables
Etymology: From reject + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Close to 3 percent of the acceptables are free of DMF teeth while none of the rejectables have fewer than 7 DMF teeth.
ref: 1941 July 4, Henry Klein, “The Dental Status and Dental Needs of Young Adult Males, Rejectable or Acceptable for Military Service, According to Selective Service Dental Requirements”, in Public Health Reports, volume 56, number 27, Washington, D.C.: United States Public Health Service, pages 1373–1374:
text: It is concerned with establishing tolerances, conducting inspections and tests of materials, processes and products, separating acceptable units from rejectables, […]
ref: 1982, R. D. Agarwal, Organization and Management, page 531:
antonyms: acceptable#Noun
glosses: Someone or something fit to be rejected.
reifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reifiers
Etymology: From reify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who reifies.
objectifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objectifiers
Etymology: From objectify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, objectifies.
reifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reifier
objectifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of objectifier
no matter how one slices it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any way one slices it.
synonyms: word: any way one slices it
retraumatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retraumatizations
Etymology: From re- + traumatization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A relapse into a state of trauma, triggered by a subsequent event.
retraumatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retraumatization
whichever way one slices it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of any way one slices it.
synonyms: word: any way one slices it
gastrectasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastrectasias
Etymology: From gastr- + ectasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dilation of the stomach
ectasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛkˈteɪzjə/
Forms: form: ectasias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐκτασία (ektasía), from ἔκτασις (éktasis, “a stretching out”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix), from ἐκτείνω (ekteínō, “to stretch out”) + -σῐς (-sĭs), from ἐκ (ek, “out”) + τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ectasis.
synonyms: word: ectasis
Derived terms: angiectasia
angioectasia
aortectasia
dolichoectasia
gastrectasia
keratectasia
sialectasia
roadcut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadcuts
Etymology: From road + cut.
Senses: glosses: A cut through a hill or mountain for the purposes of building a road through it, rather than over it.
roadcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadcut
gastrectasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastrectasia