cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clansmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clansman
clansman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: Klansman
Forms: form: clansmen
Etymology: From clan + -s- + -man (clan's man). Coined by Scottish novelist, poet and playwright Walter Scott.
Senses: glosses: A male member of a clan.
Coordinate terms: clanswoman
cogeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cogener
cogener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cogeners
Senses: glosses: A congener.
fenestration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenestrations
Etymology: Latin fenestratio
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The arrangement of windows and similar openings in a building.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An opening in the surface of an organ etc; the surgical creation of such an opening, especially one in the bony part of the inner ear made to improve hearing.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: An opening that occurs naturally or is created surgically, as through a biological membrane.
examples: text: The terms ‘nectar window’ and ‘fenestration’ are used interchangeably for enlarged gaps on the adaxial side of the stamen sheath or tube. The fenestrations facilitate access to the nectaries by a pollinator.
ref: 2005, S. Tucker, Australian Systematic Botany, 19(3):193-210. p. 194:
text: traits unique to Darlingtonia include the presence of transparent light-transmitting fenestrations, ...
ref: 2016 D. W. Armitage, Systematic Botany 103(4):780–785. p. 781
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Either a translucent area in a structure such as a leaf or flower petal, or an opening in a structure.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The practice of placing holes in the rudder of a ship to reduce the work required to move the rudder while preserving its ability to steer the ship.
Derived terms: defenestration
interfenestration
microfenestration
transfenestration
Related terms: word: fenestra
english: having windows
translation: having windows
word: fenestrated
Midrashic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈdɹaʃɪk/
Forms: form: more Midrashic
form: most Midrashic
Etymology: From Midrash + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Like the rabbis, the Christians used midrashic techniques to enable Jews to move forward.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 86:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a Midrash or to Midrashim.
Midrash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪdrɑːʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: Midrashim
form: Midrashot
form: Midrashoth
form: midrash
Etymology: From Hebrew מִדְרָשׁ (midrásh, “Midrash”), in turn from Aramaic דרש.
Senses: examples: text: In other stories of the midrashim, Adam, in penance for his fall, abstains from sexuality for 130 years, but he is not able to control his nocturnal emissions; in his dream state female spirits, the succubae, come and have intercourse with him, and with Adam's seed they give birth to demons.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
glosses: A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.
examples: text: Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.
ref: 2007, Karen Armstrong, The Bible: The Biography, Atlantic, published 2008, page 82:
glosses: The Rabbinic technique or tradition of such exegesis.
Derived terms: Midrashic
midrashist
Nimrod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪmrɒd/
Etymology: From Hebrew נִמְרוֹד (Nimród).
Senses: examples: text: Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.
ref: 1993, G. A. Rosso, Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas, page 80:
text: In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'.[…]In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.
ref: 2005, J. B. Segal, Edessa: The Blessed City, page 1:
text: The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.
ref: 2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
glosses: A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
glosses: A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.
Derived terms: Nimrodian
Nimrodic
Nimrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɪmrɒd/
Forms: form: Nimrods
Etymology: From Hebrew נִמְרוֹד (Nimród).
Senses: examples: text: Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.
ref: 1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918, page 116:
glosses: Any great hunter.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”).
-ure
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -ure, from Old French -ure, from Latin -tūra.
Senses: glosses: A process; a condition; a result of an action.
glosses: An official entity or function.
Related terms: -tion
trackpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹækˌpæd/
Forms: form: trackpads
Etymology: from track + pad, coined by Apple Inc.
Senses: examples: text: He clicked the trackpad, and his computer made a whooshing noise.
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 217:
glosses: touchpad
wikipedia: Apple Inc.
Hypernyms: pad
Related terms: optical trackpad
trackball
trackpoint
õ
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: examples: cõpose — compose
reckõ — reckon
glosses: The letter o with a tilde, replacing the sequence on or om.
aneroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænəɹɔɪd/
Etymology: From French anéroïde, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + νηρός (nērós, “wet, damp”).
Senses: examples: text: An evacuated bellows and mechanical linkage operates an aneroid barometer.
glosses: Not using or containing fluid
aneroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænəɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: aneroids
Etymology: From French anéroïde, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) + νηρός (nērós, “wet, damp”).
Senses: examples: text: I may mention that our aneroid shows us that in the continual incline which we have ascended since we abandoned our canoes we have risen to no less than three thousand feet above sea-level.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: An aneroid barometer.
glosses: An aneroid calorimeter.
skates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skeɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of skate
skates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skeɪts/
rhymes: -eɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skate
quinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of hydroquinone.
synonyms: word: hydroquinone
Related terms: quinolic
humoral immunity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humoral immunities
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Immunity to infection due to antibodies, which circulate in the blood and lymph, and which are produced by B cells.
Synonyms: antibody-mediated immunity
Related terms: cell-mediated immunity
fluorosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroses
Etymology: From fluor- + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: There's no doubt about it: Fluoride should not be ingested. Even scientists from the EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory have classified fluoride as a "chemical having substantial evidence of developmental neurotoxicity.” Furthermore, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 41 percent of American adolescents now have dental fluorosis—unattractive discoloration and mottling of the teeth that indicate overexposure to fluoride.
ref: 2005 February 9, Dr. Mercola, “Get That Fluoride Out of Your Tea!”, in mercola.com, retrieved 05 Oct 2013:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any adverse condition due to an excess of fluoride.
aneroid barometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aneroid barometers
Senses: glosses: A barometer in which variations in pressure are measured using a partially evacuated capsule whose sides move in and out.
Related terms: mercury barometer
spuriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spurious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being spurious.
pean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: peans
Etymology: Derived from Middle French penne (“feather”), from penna (“feather”); doublet of pen and penna.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.
pean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: Derived from Middle French penne (“feather”), from penna (“feather”); doublet of pen and penna.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field with gold spots.
pean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: peans
Senses: examples: text: The barbarian, wandering in nature's wilds, plucking the fruits as they grow, or destroying the game for his meat, and quenching his thirst with the waters of the gurgling rill, may furnish the poet with a theme for a pean to the goddess of Natural Liberty; but he will be a barbarian still, and his children after him, will roam over the same uncultivated wastes, and sleep in the same caves and dens, until they learn to associate with others and combine their efforts for mutual good.
ref: 1843 February, I. D. W., “Association”, in James E. Ridgely, editor, The Covenant and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States, I[ndependent] O[rder of] O[dd] F[ellows]: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Cause of Odd Fellowship, volume II, number 2, →OCLC, page 68:
text: Antimodern romanticism is not primarily a complaint about lost nature; it is mainly a pean to lost values. Modernity is relativistic, the existentialists complain; it has lost a sense of real values, true courage, meaningful integrity.
ref: 2007, Michael J. Mazarr, “The Existentialist Diagnosis”, in Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity, Cambridge; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paean.
pean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: peans
form: peaning
form: peaned
form: peaned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paean.
pean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: peans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peen.
pean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /piːn/
rhymes: -iːn
ipa: /ˈpiː.ən/
rhymes: -iːən
Forms: form: peans
form: peaning
form: peaned
form: peaned
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of peen.
dite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: dites
form: diting
form: dited
form: dited
Etymology: See dight.
Senses: examples: text: His hideous club aloft he dites.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
glosses: To prepare for use or action; to make ready.
dite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: dites
Etymology: Variant of doit.
Senses: examples: text: A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.
text: Two carpenters were moving a small building onto a new foundation, and one of them says, “Shove it my way a dite!” The other shoved, but shoved a little too hard. “Nope — too much! I said a dite!”
ref: 2019, John Gould, This Trifling Distinction: Reminiscences from Down East, Down East Books, →ISBN, page 95:
text: “Set your calipers a dite bigger’n the hole so’s they’ll fit good and snug.”
ref: 1993, Ralph Moody, The Fields of Home, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 80:
glosses: A trifling quantity or amount.
darning egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darning eggs
Senses: glosses: An egg-shaped ovoid of stone, porcelain, wood, or similar hard material, which is inserted into the toe or heel of a sock to hold it in the proper shape and provide a firm foundation for repairs.
darning eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darning egg
superbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superbuses
Etymology: From super- + bus.
Senses: glosses: A bus which is larger than or considered superior to ordinary buses.
hedonic damages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Damages awarded to the plaintiff, in a personal injury case, for the loss of joy of living.
cultus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.təs/
Forms: form: cultuses
Etymology: From Latin cultus (“cultivation, culture”). See cult.
Senses: examples: text: Among the rituals which members of their family had inaugurated in other states of Greece, was a peculiar cultus of Hermes (Mercury) at Stymphalus in Arcadia.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 124:
glosses: Established or accepted religious rites or customs of worship; state of religious development.
Related terms: english: different etymology
translation: different etymology
word: cultus cod
hypermorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermorphs
Etymology: From hyper- + -morph.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a gain of function mutation that causes an increase in otherwise normal gene function.
Derived terms: hypermorphic
Related terms: amorph
antimorph
hypomorph
neomorph
hypermorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermorph
hypermorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: causing an increase in otherwise normal gene function.
raw_tags: of a mutation
Related terms: hypermorph
hypermorphism
amorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amorphs
Etymology: From a- + -morph.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a null mutation.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a mutation that causes a complete loss of gene function.
Derived terms: amorphic
Related terms: antimorph
hypermorph
hypomorph
neomorph
amorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amorph
neomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neomorphs
Etymology: From neo- + -morph.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.
Derived terms: neomorphic
Related terms: amorph
antimorph
hypermorph
hypomorph
neomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neomorph
neomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: causing a novel gene function.
raw_tags: of a mutation
Related terms: neomorph
antimorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimorphs
Etymology: From anti- + -morph.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: a gain of function mutation that acts in opposition to the normal gene's function.
Synonyms: word: dominant negative
Coordinate terms: amorph
hypermorph
hypomorph
neomorph
Derived terms: antimorphic
antimorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimorph
antimorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: that antagonizes the normal gene's function.
raw_tags: of a mutation
Related terms: antimorph
homolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒməlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈhɑːməlɑːɡ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊməlɑːɡ/
Forms: form: homologs
form: homologon
form: homologue
Etymology: Borrowed from French homologue, From Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos, “agreeing, of one mind”), equivalent to homo- + -log.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
A phoneme, morpheme, or word shared by two languages or dialects, via cognation or naturalization.
examples: text: TP53 is the human homolog of murine Trp53.
text: Detecting remote homolog by protein similarity network.
ref: 2008, Chan-seok Jeong, Minho Lee, Dongsup Kim, edited by Ratko Magjarevic, World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006, Volume 1 (Biomedical Engineering), →ISBN, page 171:
text: A more complex mechanism is used by Vibrio cholerae toxin and by the homolog heat-labile enterotoxin secreted by ETEC strains.
ref: 2012, Phillip Smith, Thomas MacDonald, Principles of Mucosal Immunology, page 407:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry, or the peptides or proteins that they encode; the counterpart gene or protein in another taxon evolved from a common ancestor (molecularly it may be either identical or similar).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
A member of a homologous series.
glosses: Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
A belief, practice, concept, or artifact that has a counterpart in another culture.
qualifier: cultural anthropology
Derived terms: interhomolog
pseudohomolog
Related terms: homologize
homologous
homologous series
homology
analog
homotype
orthologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthologues
form: ortholog
Etymology: From ortho- + -logue.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: One of two or more homologous gene sequences found in different species.
Derived terms: orthology
orthologous
mannerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænəɹli/
ipa: /ˈmɛnɘliː/
Forms: form: more mannerly
form: most mannerly
Etymology: From Middle English manerly, equivalent to manner + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Lucetta, as thou lov'st me, let me have / What thou think'st meet, and is most mannerly.
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: 1861, Charlotte Yonge, The Young Step-Mother
...but Genevieve's laugh roused her again, partly because she thought it less mannerly than accorded with the girl's usual politeness.
glosses: Polite, having good manners.
Derived terms: mannerliness
unmannerly
mannerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænəɹli/
ipa: /ˈmɛnɘliː/
Forms: form: more mannerly
form: most mannerly
Etymology: From Middle English manerly, equivalent to manner + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Politely; with good manners.
mannerliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænəɹlinəs/
Etymology: From Middle English manerlynes; equivalent to mannerly + -ness.
Senses: examples: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd
... occasionally showed some earnestness, which consisted half of genuine feeling, and half of mannerliness superadded by way of duty.
glosses: politeness, good manners
red-light camera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-light cameras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red light camera.
man-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mænˈaʊə/
ipa: /mænˈaʊɚ/
Forms: form: man-hours
form: manhour
Etymology: From man + hour.
Senses: examples: text: Ten workers for two days—that's 160 man-hours.
text: [...] every man has tools and amenities always within one minute's walk; thus non-productive man-hours are kept to a minimum.
ref: 1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 766:
text: Since 1950 our agricultural output per man-hour has actually doubled!
ref: 1962 January 11, John F. Kennedy, Second State of the Union Address:
coordinate_terms: machine-hour
glosses: Synonym of person-hour.
synonyms: word: person-hour
Related terms: girl-hour
man-day
man-month
man-year
manshift
mercer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɝsɚ/
ipa: /ˈmɜːsə/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mercers
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman marcer, mercer (“merchant, textile merchant”), from merz (“commodity”) (from Latin merx).
Senses: examples: text: ... Acolastus-Polypragmon-Asotus, is here present (by the help of his mercer, tailor, milliner, sempster, and so forth) at his designed hour...
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
text: He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A merchant dealing in fabrics and textiles, especially silks and other fine cloths.
wikipedia: Mashru
Derived terms: merceress
mercership
Related terms: haberdasher
enols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enol
hunt-and-peck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: When individuals type information into an automatic teller machine or enter a password to open a lock, they simply push a sequence of keys. They first find the key on the keypad and then push it with the index finger on their dominant hand until all the keys are pressed. Children and adults tend to use this hunt-and-peck method when they encounter an unfamiliar keypad.
ref: 2003, Janet E. Davidson, Robert J. Sternberg, editors, The Psychology of Problem Solving, Cambridge University Press, page 68:
glosses: Describing a method of typing used by a person unfamiliar with the layout of a keyboard or keypad in which the person has to search for the keys to be pressed or struck one by one and uses one or both index fingers to operate the keys; also used to describe a typist who uses this technique.
Derived terms: hunt-and-pecker
Related terms: touch-typing
touch-typing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A technique of using the keyboard of a computer or typewriter in which the typist operates the keys without needing to look at the keyboard, knowing by heart the keys being allocated to each finger and the space bar to the thumb.
Related terms: touch-type
touch-typist
hunt and peck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: hunt + and + peck
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The hunt-and-peck typing technique.
Synonyms: two-fingered typing
hunt and peck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hunts and pecks
form: hunting and pecking
form: hunted and pecked
form: hunted and pecked
Etymology: hunt + and + peck
Senses: glosses: to typewrite in an awkward, unskilled way, with two or even a single finger.
two-fingered typing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A method of using the keyboard of a computer or typewriter in which the typist uses only two fingers (usually the index fingers) to operate the keys, typically because unfamiliar with the layout of the keyboard.
Synonyms: word: hunt and peck
english: etc
translation: etc
word: hunt-and-peck method
english: etc
translation: etc
word: system
english: etc
translation: etc
word: technique
transpicuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈpɪkjʊəs/
ipa: /tɹænˈspɪkjʊəs/
Forms: form: more transpicuous
form: most transpicuous
Etymology: From Latin trānspicuus (“transparent”).
Senses: examples: text: The Sobieski Stuarts were amiable, scholarly men who won converts by their transpicuous innocence.
ref: 1983, Hugh Trevor Roper, “The Highland Tradition of Scotland”, in Eric Hobsbawm, editor, The Invention of Tradition, page 41:
glosses: Easily construed or seen through.
mewl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːl/
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: mule
Forms: form: mewls
form: mewling
form: mewled
form: mewled
Etymology: From 1599 or earlier (1530 in a Scottish document), apparently from Shakespeare with this spelling. Perhaps from Middle English mewen (“to whimper”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; / Then the whining school-boy, […]
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: You're a pretty clog to be tied to a man for life, you mewling, white-faced cat!
ref: 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
text: My father started rubbing and rubbing on Mittens, scruffying her fur the wrong way, and she mewled her protests.
ref: 2007, Kiesa Kay, Mimosa May, Tornado Alley, page 11:
text: The neighbours’ cats stroll into my garden, mewling and hoping for a little bit of in flagrante. Honey bees brazenly assault the cherry blossom.
ref: 2015 April 16, Richard P. Grant, “Sex and the successful fundraiser”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.
Derived terms: mewler
mewl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmjuːl/
rhymes: -uːl
homophone: mule
Forms: form: mewls
Etymology: From 1599 or earlier (1530 in a Scottish document), apparently from Shakespeare with this spelling. Perhaps from Middle English mewen (“to whimper”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: There would have been total silence if it hadn't been for the sea nearby, mewling. Indeed, that same mewl added to the sleepy image that filled the dormant house.
ref: 1995, Lídia Jorge, Natália Costa, Ronald W. Sousa, transl., The Murmuring Coast, page 89:
text: I let out another moaning mewl, biting my lip as I awaited whatever he planned.
ref: 2009, Mickey Erlach, Cruising for Bad Boys, page 61:
text: The scratching stopped, and there was another piteous mewl from behind the door.
ref: 2010, Chris Wooding, Malice, page 15:
glosses: A soft cry or whimper; an act of mewling.
diethyl ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Volatiles of kecap manis and its raw materials were extracted using Likens-Nickerson apparatus with diethyl ether as the extraction solvent. The extracts were then dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate, concentrated using a rotary evaporator followed by flushing using nitrogen until the volume was about 0.5 ml.
ref: 1997, A. J. Taylor, D. S. Mothram, editors, Flavour Science: Recent Developments, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 63:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A clear, colorless, highly flammable liquid with a low boiling point and chemical formula CH₃-CH₂-O-CH₂-CH₃. Used as a solvent and in the past as a general anesthetic.
Synonyms: ether
ethoxyethane
ethyl ether
ethyl oxide
ethoxyethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethoxyethanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
qualifier: systematic name
glosses: diethyl ether.
ethyl ether
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of diethyl ether.
synonyms: word: diethyl ether
sastruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sastrugi
form: sastrugus
form: zastruga
Etymology: From German Sastruga, from Russian заструга (zastruga).
Senses: glosses: Any of a series of long, wavelike ridges or grooves formed on a snow surface by the wind, especially in polar plains, and surfaces of ice-covered lakes/seas. These dunes of snow may be blown across the plains like wind-driven waves.
ethyl oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: diethyl ether.
terminal acetylenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terminal acetylene
miler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪləɹ/
Forms: form: milers
Etymology: From mile + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But the master himself was an old Oxford miler, who could still bear it better than I; nay, as I flagged and stumbled, I heard him pounding steadily behind.
ref: 1905, E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night:
text: The champion sprinter is seldom a five-miler as well.
ref: 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door:
text: Indeed, with a world record‐holder or Olympic champion in almost every race, with six milers who have broken 4 minutes, eight high jumpers who can top 7 feet and seven pole vaulters who have cleared 17 feet, there is no way guessing how many Olympic champions‐elect will be on display in the hatbox over Penn Station.
ref: 1972 January 28, “Sports of The Times”, in The New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete or a horse who specializes in running races of one mile, or a specified number of miles.
examples: text: I ran an eight-miler on Sunday and I'm still feeling sore.
text: There were some impressive victories, but Fleming believes her most important race was the second of two close second-place finishes to Pippig, one in the Peachtree 10-K in Atlanta in July and the second in a seven-miler in Davenport, Iowa, a week later.
ref: 1993 November 11, Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr., “NEW YORK CITY MARATHON; An American Sets Her Sights High”, in The New York Times:
text: They started with a mile; by January, they were hitting the trails at Bear Mountain at 7 a.m. on Saturdays for a brisk eight-miler.
ref: 2007 July 15, Gerri Hirshey, “Sisterhood of the Walking Shoe”, in The New York Times:
text: Mr. Sell continued, “If it’s really icy out or if it’s negative 10 degrees and you are doing an easy six-miler, it probably makes a lot more sense to do it on a treadmill than to risk hurting anything.”
ref: 2010 March 3, Gina Kolata, “Winter Training: Faster and Safer Indoors?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A race whose length is the specified number of miles.
Derived terms: extra-miler
half-miler
quarter-miler
deadlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadlinks
Senses: glosses: A dead link.
deadlink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deadlinks
form: deadlinking
form: deadlinked
form: deadlinked
Senses: glosses: To cause an exiting hypertext link to no longer function properly, or to add a link incorrectly.
primary school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹaɪməɹi skuːl/
/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi-/
Forms: form: primary schools
Senses: examples: text: The child's mother was tearful as he boarded the bus for his first day of primary school.
text: My primary school is a good place to study.
topics: education
synonyms: elementary school
grade school
glosses: A formal, obligatory kind of school that typically begins with nursery school or first grade and ends at fifth or sixth grade.
Coordinate terms: secondary school
tertiary education
tertiary-level education
Derived terms: primary school student
titan primary school
Related terms: high school
middle school
miff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪf/
homophone: myth (th-fronting)
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: miffs
Etymology: Compare German muffeln (“grouse, grumble”) and similar German words with similar meanings such as Muff, mupf, Muffel and Dutch moppen (“growl, grouse”). Probably related to mop (“grimace”).
Senses: examples: text: nay, she would throw it in the teeth of Allworthy himself, when a little quarrel, or miff, as it is vulgarly called, arose between them.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Well, to cut a long story short, by-long and by-late, John Wildway and I had a miff and parted; and lo and behold, the coming man came!
ref: 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VIII. They Dance More Wildly”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part I, page 111:
synonyms: tiff
glosses: A small argument; a quarrel.
examples: text: She's taken a miff at something, I suppose, and means to cut my acquaintance.
ref: 1851, T. S. Arthur, Off-Hand Sketches:
glosses: A state of being offended.
Derived terms: miffy
miff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪf/
homophone: myth (th-fronting)
rhymes: -ɪf
Forms: form: miffs
form: miffing
form: miffed
form: miffed
Etymology: Compare German muffeln (“grouse, grumble”) and similar German words with similar meanings such as Muff, mupf, Muffel and Dutch moppen (“growl, grouse”). Probably related to mop (“grimace”).
Senses: examples: text: he [our Interpreter Shabonah] will not agree to work let our Situation be what it may nor Stand a guard, and if miffed with any man he wishes to return when he pleases
ref: 1805 March 12, Bernard DeVoto, editor, The journals of Lewis and Clark, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953, Clark's journal, page 85:
text: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
[…] answered my Thetis, a little miffed perhaps -- to use the women's phrase — that I turned the conversation upon my former partner, rather than addressed it to herself.
text: 1911, James Oliver Curwood, Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
"Don't get miffed about it, man," returned Nome with an irritating laugh.
glosses: To offend slightly.
raw_tags: used in the passive
examples: text: I amble on; yet, though I know not why, / So sad I am!—but should a friend and I / Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!
ref: c. 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “To Simplicity”, in Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers:
text: 1905, George Barr McCutcheon, Jane Cable
She miffed and started to reply, but thought better of it.
glosses: To become slightly offended.
foederatus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fiːdɛˈɹɑːtəs/
Forms: form: foederati
Etymology: From Latin foederātus (“allied”), from foedus (“league, agreement”).
Senses: examples: text: In the middle stage, the Reges Gothorum saw themselves as something better than mere foederati.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 23:
glosses: A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
crown ward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown wards
Senses: glosses: A child or youth who has been placed in foster care without access to his or her natural family for the purpose of adoption
foederati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fiːdɛˈɹɑːti/
Senses: examples: [DATE?]: Prys Morgan, The Invention of Tradition, pUnknown
The third part of the vision was more conventional and it concerned lines of native princes descending from tribal leaders, or Roman foederati like Cunedda, or from Cadwaladr the Blessed, last Welsh king to claim over-lordship of Britain, in the seventh century, right down to the death of Llywelyn II in 1282.
glosses: plural of foederatus
squireen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwaɪəˈɹiːn/
enpr: skwī-rēnʹ
ipa: /skwaɪˈɹiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: squireens
Etymology: From squire + anglicized form of Irish -ín, diminutive suffix.
Senses: examples: text: Probably no other country could produce such a degraded type as the squireen or buckeen, the drunken, gambling, profligate descendant of the Cromwellian or Williamite settler.
ref: 1917, William Francis Thomas Butler, Confiscation in Irish history, page 248:
text: About 1730 the poet and squireen Huw Hughes wrote to the great scholar Lewis Morris that all the defenders of the old language had gone to sleep.
ref: 1983, Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View”, in The Invention of Tradition:
text: By blending entertainment and instruction, the Spectator taught ease and affability to squireens and tradesmen with time on their hands, money in their pockets but little breeding.
ref: 1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 234:
glosses: A minor squire; a small landowner.
bar exam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar exams
Senses: glosses: Clipping of bar examination.
Related terms: bar review
bar examination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar examinations
form: bar exam
Senses: glosses: An examination that must be passed by persons who wish to practice law.
Related terms: bar exam
bar review
wheellock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheellocks
Etymology: From wheel + lock.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: An early type of firearm, using a spring-driven wheel against a flint to make sparks in the firing pan.
bar exams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar exam
Related terms: bar examinations
bar examinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar examination
Related terms: bar exams
apoxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: altitude sickness
zastruga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zastrugas
form: zastrugi
Etymology: From Russian заструга (zastruga).
Senses: examples: text: Later winds, if of sufficient force, will erode away the kalutoqaniq, producing sculptured forms which have great beauty but which are exceeding difficult to traverse. The sculpturings are widely known by the terms zastrugi (Russian) or skavler (Norwegian), but are more accurately known as kaioqlaq (Eskimo [Inuit]). Zastrugi or skavler refer to surface sculpturings in general. Kaioqlaq refers to large, hard sculpturings while the word tumarinyiq (Eskimo [Inuit]) refers to small zastrugi or "ripple marks."
ref: 2003, William C. Wonders, Canada's changing North, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of sastruga.
altitude sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pathological condition caused by oxygen deficiency at high altitudes; symptoms include shortness of breath, nausea, and nosebleed.
Synonyms: apoxia
mountain sickness
coax cable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of coaxial cable.
NQT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NQTs
Senses: topics: education
glosses: Initialism of newly qualified teacher.
incenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: incenters
form: incentre
Etymology: From in- + center.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The point formed at the intersection of the three angle bisectors of a triangle; also the centre of the incircle.
Abertawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.bɚˈtaʊ.(w)i/
Etymology: From Welsh Abertawe.
Senses: glosses: Swansea
currier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌɹɪɚ/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈkərɪjə(r)/
homophone: career
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: curriers
Etymology: From Old French corier, from Latin coriarius (“tanner, currier”).
Senses: glosses: A specialist in the leather processing industry, who dresses the leather by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
glosses: One who grooms a horse with a curry comb.
penillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈnɪljən/
Forms: form: penillions
Etymology: Welsh, plural of pennill (“verse”)
Senses: glosses: The art of vocal improvisation, with a singer or small choir singing a countermelody over a harp melody; it is an important competition in eisteddfodau.
penillion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈnɪljən/
Etymology: Welsh, plural of pennill (“verse”)
Senses: glosses: plural of penill
glosses: plural of pennill
teratologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teratology + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Dealing with the study of production, development, anatomy, and classification of monsters.
topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
glosses: Pertaining to deformity, either congenital or resulting from accident.
Synonyms: teratological
gorsedd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔːɹsɛð/
Forms: form: gorsedds
form: gorseddau
Etymology: From Welsh gorsedd (“throne”), itself a compound of gor- (“super-, over-”) + sedd (“seat”).
Senses: examples: text: Now a Gorsedd is a competition for Bardic honours.
ref: 1911, William Caine, “Of a Gorsedd at the Great Stones”, in Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., editor, An Angler at Large, page 189:
glosses: A community of bards, usually Welsh, but sometimes Breton or Cornish.
gorseddau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɔːɹsɛðaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of gorsedd
hayward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪwəɹd/
rhymes: -eɪwə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: haywards
Etymology: From hay + ward.
Senses: examples: text: […] it was held that this was not indictable, for till the horse got to the pound the hayward was merely acting as the servant of the owner of the land […]
ref: 1877, William Oldnall Russell, Charles Sprengel Greaves, George Sharswood, A Treatise on Crimes and Misdemeanors, page 571:
text: The hayward at the same place had an acre of the lord's corn in autumn, always in a certain part of the field.
ref: 1881, The Antiquary, volume III, page 255:
text: A horn, such as our man wears, was always worn by a hayward, who used to blow it to warn off people from straying in the crops.
ref: 1890, Jean Jules Jusserand, English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages, page 24:
glosses: One whose occupation involved overseeing the sowing and harvesting of crops as well as protecting the crops from stray people or animals.
Derived terms: Haywards Heath
vaticinatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The English antiquaries Leland and Bale suggested in the sixteenth century that the Welsh bards might be successors to the Druids, partly because the holy of holies of Druids had been on the island of Anglesey, partly because the bards, like the Druids, were figures of authority and, like the Druids again, had a vaticinatory function.
ref: 1983, Prys Morgan, “From a death to a view: the hunt for the Welsh past in the romantic period,”, in The Invention of Tradition:
glosses: Related to vaticination.
camelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæməlɪd/
Forms: form: camelids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of a family of mammals including the camel, llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña.
Derived terms: paleocamelid
mycoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mycosis
staple puller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staple pullers
Senses: glosses: A staple remover.
mycosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈkoʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: mycoses
Etymology: From myc- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An infection caused by a fungus.
Derived terms: aspergillomycosis
blastomycosis
bronchomycosis
chromomycosis
chytridiomycosis
coccidioidomycosis
dermatomycosis
entomophthoramycosis
keratomycosis
lobomycosis
maduromycosis
mucormycosis
mycosic
mycosis fungoides
myringomycosis
oedemamycosis
onychomycosis
ophidiomycosis
ophthalmomycosis
otomycosis
paracoccidioidomycosis
pharyngomycosis
pseudomycosis
saccharomycosis
trichomycosis
bachelorette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbatʃləˈɹɛt/
ipa: /ˌbatʃələˈɹɛt/
ipa: /ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt/
ipa: /ˌbætʃələˈɹɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: bachelorettes
Etymology: From bachelor + -ette. Displaced maid.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: spinster
synonyms: bacheloress
glosses: An unmarried woman.
glosses: A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.
Derived terms: bachelorette pad
bachelorette party
sculpin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌlpɪn/
Forms: form: sculpins
Etymology: From earlier scorpene, from Latin scorpaena, from Ancient Greek σκόρπαινα (skórpaina, “kind of fish”), diminutive of σκορπίος (skorpíos). Compare scorpionfish.
Senses: glosses: A small fish of the family Cottidae, usually lacking scales. Often found on river bottoms and in tidal pools.
glosses: A person who makes mischief.
Derived terms: Atlantic hookear sculpin
coastrange sculpin
fourhorn sculpin
fourspine sculpin
hook-eared sculpin
hookeared sculpin
hookear sculpin
shorthorn sculpin
spoonhead sculpin
Anastasio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Anastasios
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Anastasio.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
squarson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squarsons
Etymology: Blend of squire + parson
Senses: examples: text: For centuries it was the custom for younger sons of the landed classes to become clergymen - and often to take over the parish - or parishes - on the family estate. It was not uncommon for such parsons to inherit the estate on the death of an older brother and so come to combine the role of squire and parson - a squarson, as they came to be called.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 186, The squarson:
text: William Wynne, a poet and squarson
ref: 1983, Prys Morgan, “The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period”, in The Invention of Tradition:
glosses: A squire who is also the local rector.
measuring worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measuring worms
Etymology: So called because their gradual movement seems to be measuring the ground; compare inchworm.
Senses: glosses: The larva of a moth of the family Geometridae.
Synonyms: geometrid
inchworm
looper
spanworm
Kernow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Cornish Kernow (“Cornwall”).
Senses: glosses: Cornwall: A peninsula, cultural area, maritime ceremonial county, and duchy in England; forming its south-western extremity, bordered by Devon in the east
tulips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tulip