cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
organiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organisers
Etymology: From organise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In one conversation, HDF’s organiser was recorded discussing “remigration” – a euphemism for the mass removal of ethnic minorities – saying: “You’ve just got to pay people to go home.” […] In multiple conversations, HDF’s organisers suggested their interests were also political.
ref: 2024 October 16, David Pegg, Tom Burgis, Hannah Devlin and Jason Wilson, “Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of organizer.
Derived terms: co-organiser
desk organiser
nappy organiser
Lincoln Logs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Abraham Lincoln; instructions for building a model of his cabin were originally included.
Senses: glosses: A construction toy consisting of miniature, notched logs from which log cabins and similar buildings may be made.
wikipedia: Abraham Lincoln
no-trade clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-trade clauses
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A clause in a contract by players who do not wish to be traded without their consent.
fumed oak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] the lower half of a fumed-oak newel post.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: oak that has been exposed to ammonia fumes to darken its color.
concocting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of concoct
demagogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demagogic
form: most demagogic
Etymology: Borrowed from French démagogique, equivalent to demagogue + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Politicians knew that the law [barring HIV-positive immigrants] would do nothing to stop the spread of AIDS, and that medical experts agreed the law would actually facilitate it. But politicians did know a cheap and demagogic way to "do something" about AIDS.
ref: 1990 February 4, Jorge Cortiñas, “Selling Out Immigrants”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 10:
text: The desire for politicians who are sincere explains not only the strategic value of demagoguery (and hence the campaign choices of candidates like Trump who may not in fact believe their own demagogic bombast).
ref: 2015 December 10, Jason Stanley, “Democracy and the Demagogue”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to demagogy or a demagogue.
Synonyms: word: demagogical
Derived terms: demagogically
Related terms: demagogy
demagogue
decimal place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decimal places
Senses: examples: text: The answer is 1.245, to three decimal places.
topics: arithmetic
synonyms: decimal#Noun
place of decimals
decimal point
glosses: The position of a digit to the right of the decimal mark in a decimal number.
place of decimals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: places of decimals
Senses: examples: text: It will always be better to calculate one place of decimals more than are required by the question.
ref: 1841, Charles Hutton, Thomas Stephens Davies, A Course of Mathematics in Two Volumes, Composed for the Use of the Royal Military Academy, page 56:
text: Find the positive root of the equation eˣ – 3x = 0, correct to 3 places of decimals.
ref: 1980, Michael H. Stone, The Borderline Syndromes: Constitution, Personality, and Adaptation, page 101:
text: In consequence of the need of Tables of Jₙ (x) with fairly large values of n and x for Astronomical purposes, Hansen constructed a Table of J₀ (x) and Jᵢ (x) to six places of decimals with a range from x = 0 to x = 10.0 with interval 0.1.
ref: 1995, G. N. Watson, A Treatise on the Theory of Bessel Functions, page 655:
text: To round a decimal correct to one place of decimals (1 d.p.) you look at the second place of decimals.
ref: 2001, Keith Pledger, Edexcel GCSE Mathematics, page 103:
text: Use Newton Raphson method to find the values of (i) VT2 and (ii) —, correct to four places of decimals.
ref: 2005, Veerarajan & Ramachandran, Numerical Methods: With Programs In C, pages 3–54:
text: In the application of Simpson's rule, when the number of places of decimals to which the answer is required, is not mentioned, it is usual to calculate the answer correct to three places of decimals.
ref: 2006, Bansi Lal, Topics in Integral Calculus, page 272:
topics: arithmetic
glosses: A decimal place.
pikelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪklət/
ipa: /ˈpaɪklɛt/
Forms: form: pikelets
Etymology: Derived from Welsh bara pyglyd (“pitchy [i.e. dark or sticky] bread”), later shortened simply to pyglyd. The early 17th century lexicographer, Randle Cotgrave, spoke of "our Welsh barrapycleds". The word spread to the West Midlands of England, where it was anglicised to picklets and then to pikelets.
Senses: examples: 2005, Christine Manfield, Charlie Trotter (foreword), Spice: Recipes to Delight the Senses, Penguin Group Australia, republished 2008, Periplus, Singapore, page 140,
To cook the pikelets, heat a non-stick skillet and oil lightly, then pour the Pikelet Mixture into 6 oiled egg rings. Cook over moderate heat until bubbles start to appear in the batter, then flip the pikelets over and cook the other side, removing the egg rings as you do so.
2006, Jude Blereau, Wholefood: Heal... Nourish... Delight, Murdoch Books, Australia, page 62,
By soaking the batter overnight the grain is broken down, which results in a softer and more digestible pancake or pikelet.
When made with wholemeal flours and low levels of fat, pikelets and pancakes are much denser than traditional ones.
2007, Jane Lawson, Grub: Favourite Food Memories, Murdoch Books, Australia, page 23,
To make the pikelets, sift the flour, sugar, and a pinch of salt into a bowl and make a well in the centre. Lightly whisk the eggs and milk together, then pour into the well. Whisk to a smooth batter and allow to rest for 15 minutes.
glosses: A thick type of sweet pancake.
glosses: A thin crumpet.
qualifier: Black Country; Birmingham; Black Country; Birmingham
glosses: Any crumpet, regardless of thickness
Synonyms: sense: thick sweet pancake
word: drop scone
sense: thick sweet pancake
word: Scotch pancake
microtome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtomes
Etymology: Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.
Senses: examples: text: The first microtome was constructed for John Hill, to make the specimens described in his book on the structure of timber (1770).
ref: 1998, Robert Bud, Deborah Jean Warner, editors, Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 401:
glosses: A special instrument that produces very thin slices of plant and animal tissues, for later examination by light microscope or electron microscope.
Derived terms: cryomicrotome
histomicrotome
microtomic
microtomize
ultramicrotome
microtome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microtomes
form: microtoming
form: microtomed
form: microtomed
Etymology: Could be construed as either micro + -tome (“instrument for cutting”) or micro- + tome.
Senses: glosses: To cut into sections using a microtome
anterograde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antero- + -grade (“direction”) from Latin gradus (“pace, step”).
Senses: examples: text: Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event that caused the amnesia.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock.
examples: text: Movement of mitochondria and other cell parts from a neuron's cell body toward the synapse is called anterograde transport.
text: Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: antegrade
glosses: Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of.
Derived terms: anterograde amnesia
anterogradely
hydroxystilbamidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a fluorescent dye that emits different frequencies of light when bound to DNA and RNA; it is also medicinally used as a trypanocide.
fluorogold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fluoro- + gold.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydroxystilbamidine
striped field mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striped field mice
Senses: glosses: A field mouse of species Apodemus agrarius, native to much of western Eurasia and to east Asia,
histological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From histology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to histology.
Synonyms: histologic
Derived terms: clinicohistological
cytohistological
hepatohistological
histologically
immunohistological
microhistological
morphohistological
neurohistological
osteohistological
palaeohistological
paleohistological
pathohistological
stereohistological
yellow-necked mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow-necked mice
Senses: synonyms: yellow-necked field mouse
glosses: A mouse of species Apodemus flavicollis of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice), of much of western Eurasia.
harvest mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harvest mice
Etymology: Coined by Thomas Pennant, after discovery by Gilbert White (1767); it is first named the Less long-tailed Field Mouse, and finally the harvest mouse (1776).
Senses: glosses: Micromys minutus, a species of the sub-family Murinae (Old World rats and mice).
glosses: A New World mouse of the genus Reithrodontomys.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Reithrodontomys megalotis
word: western harvest mouse
stereotaxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A stereotaxic atlas is a collection of sections of the brain with coordinates for stereotaxic surgery.
glosses: Of or pertaining to stereotaxis
Synonyms: stereotactic
Derived terms: microstereotaxic
IRQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IRQs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of interrupt request.
Derived terms: IRQL
softirq
microdialysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microdialyses
Etymology: From micro- + dialysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique in which a short length of dialysis membrane is introduced into a biological tissue in order to collect samples of fluid for analysis.
mellaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mellaginous
form: most mellaginous
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling honey
Related terms: melliferous
mellifluous
sexile
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sexiles
form: sexiling
form: sexiled
form: sexiled
Etymology: Blend of sex + exile.
Senses: examples: text: As a happening dude or lady with a happening roommate, you should be prepared to get "sexiled" from your bedroom while someone gets intimate.
ref: 2000, Harvard Lampoon, The Harvard Lampoon's guide to college admissions: the comprehensive, authoritative, and utterly useless source for where to go and how to get in, Warner Books, page 123
text: We promised to never "sexile" each other (kick your roommate out of the room for the purposes of hooking up).
ref: a'''2004, unnamed college student, Heather Alexander, quoted in Sharing Spaces: Tips and Strategies on Being a Good College Roommate, Surviving a Bad One, and Dealing with Everything in Between, Simon and Schuster (2004), page 137
text: Charlotte arrives intent on doing just that, and at first asserts her lil' backwoods self against the bitchy Groton roommate who "sexiles" her from their dorm room the night before an exam.
ref: 2004 November 28, Jacob Weisberg, “'I Am Charlotte Simmons': Peeping Tom”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: I guess I was being sexiled all three times and didn't realize it.
ref: 2006, Teresa Botial Richardson, Am I Black Or Right, AuthorHouse, page 11
qualifier: US university slang
glosses: To banish somebody, usually one's roommate, from the room for the privacy to have sex.
trypanocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trypanocides
Etymology: From trypano- + -cide.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug used to control or kill trypanosomes.
Synonyms: trypanosomicide
Related terms: trypanocidal
œconomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪːˈkɒ.nɒ.miːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of œconomy
shrubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹʌbi/
ipa: /ˈʃɹʊbi/
rhymes: -ʌbi
Forms: form: shrubbier
form: shrubbiest
Etymology: From shrub + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A shrubby species suitable for beefarming, as it flowers profusely from November-January, and yields both pollen and nectar.
ref: 1965, William Faris Blakely, A Key to the Eucalypts: With Descriptions of 522 Species and 150 Varieties, Forestry and Timber Bureau, →ISBN, page 180:
synonyms: bushy
frutescent
fruticose
shrublike
glosses: Of or resembling a shrub.
glosses: Planted or covered with shrubs.
Derived terms: shrubbily
shrubbiness
shrubby boneset
shrubby false buttonweed
shrubby St. John's wort
shrubby tororaro
fruticose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fruticose
form: most fruticose
Senses: examples: text: Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having woody stems and branches; shrubby
topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a shrub-like or hairy thallus attached to the substrate at a single point.
Derived terms: suffruticose
Related terms: fruticulose
convex lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convex lenses
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A lens having at least one convex surface, such that light passing through it may be brought to a focus.
Synonyms: converging lens
coadjutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊəˈd͡ʒuːtə/
ipa: /kəʊˈæd͡ʒʊtə/
Forms: form: coadjutors
Etymology: From Middle English coadjutowre, from Old French coadjuteur, borrowed from Late Latin coadiūtōrem, from co- + adiūtor (“helper”), from adiuvō (“to help”) + -tor (agent suffix). By surface analysis, co- + adjutor.
The French derivation gave the accentuation co⁠ˈadjutor (used by Samuel Taylor Coleridge), but the poets generally, since 1600, appear to have coa⁠ˈdjutor, after Latin. No Latin *coadiuvō or *coadiūtō is recorded, but in the modern languages words have been formed on these types, suggested by coadjutor.
Senses: examples: text: Then have the lady patronesses and their active coadjutors, whether noble or ignoble, all the work of beating up for recruits to go over again.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 174:
text: The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, pages 206–7:
text: Hitherto I have been but the witness, little more; and I should hardly think now to take another tone, that of your coadjutor, for the time, did I not perceive in you,—at the crisis too—a troubled hesitancy, proceeding, I doubt not, from the clash of military duty with moral scruple—scruple vitalized by compassion.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: An assistant or helper.
examples: text: When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem
ref: 1842, John Henry Newman, The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:
text: August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.
ref: 2005, James Martin Estes, Peace, Order and the Glory of God:
topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An assistant to a bishop.
Derived terms: bishop coadjutor
coadjutor bishop
coadjutorship
coadjutress
Related terms: coadjute
coalescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊəˈlɛsənt/
ipa: /ˌkəʊəˈlɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more coalescent
form: most coalescent
Etymology: From Latin coalēscēns, present participle of coalescō. By surface analysis, coalesce + -ent.
Senses: glosses: Causing or undergoing coalescence.
Derived terms: noncoalescent
coalescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊəˈlɛsənt/
ipa: /ˌkəʊəˈlɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: coalescents
Etymology: From Latin coalēscēns, present participle of coalescō. By surface analysis, coalesce + -ent.
Senses: glosses: Any agent that causes coalescence.
nanophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + -philia.
Senses: examples: 2006 Joachim Schummer, Davis Baird - Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society
Extreme nanophilia is also represented in some works of science fiction, especially the novels of Kathleen Ann Goonan (eg, 1994, 1997, 2000).
glosses: An interest in nanotechnology and its benefits.
Related terms: nanophilic
naphthenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naphthene + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from a naphthene.
Derived terms: naphthenic acid
naphthenic crude
skimming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From skim + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skim
skimming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimmings
Etymology: From skim + -ing.
Senses: examples: aluminium skimmings
sorghum syrup skimmings
glosses: Something skimmed from a surface etc.
examples: text: I was forced, too, to wonder if my previous world-views had not been too pallid, too superficial, and altogether too 'rational' — mere skimmings or skatings on the surface of reality[…]
ref: 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
glosses: A motion or action that skims.
glosses: The sport of skimboarding.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Ellipsis of price skimming.
examples: text: What will be the unintended adverse effects of changes in payment? Will patient “skimming” lead to worse access for complex patients?
ref: 2013, Bernard Lo, Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians, page 229:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of cream skimming.
coordinate_terms: skimmer
shimmer
shimming
qualifier: crime
glosses: The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
Derived terms: sea skimming
stone skimming
coalitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalitionists
Etymology: From coalition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of coalition.
glosses: A partner in a coalition.
coalitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coalitionist
form: most coalitionist
Etymology: From coalition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Advocating coalition
coauthor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coauthors
form: co-author
Etymology: From co- + author.
Senses: examples: text: Following this trail, we treat our sample coauthor network as a causal graph and, using SDP relaxations, rule out latent homophily as a manifestation of prior shared interest leading to the observed patternedness.
ref: 2016, Peter Wittek, Sándor Darányi, Gustaf Nelhans, “Ruling Out Static Latent Homophily in Citation Networks”, in arXiv:
text: In a 2022 paper, Dr. Baumert and his coauthors pointed out that the algorithms companies use to determine these scores are often proprietary and not scientifically vetted.
ref: 2023 November 29, Markham Heid, “The Truth About Sleep Trackers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2023:
text: “There is strong evidence that 76 known or potential breast carcinogens from food contact materials recently purchased all over the world can be found in people,” said study coauthor Jane Muncke, managing director and chief scientific officer at the Food Packaging Forum, a nonprofit foundation based in Zurich, Switzerland, that focuses on science communication and research.
ref: 2024 September 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Chemicals linked to breast cancer leach into our foods, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: An author who collaborates with another to write something.
coauthor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coauthors
form: coauthoring
form: coauthored
form: coauthored
form: co-author
Etymology: From co- + author.
Senses: examples: text: My intent in writing this book, as was the case in coauthoring Unfit for Command, is to fully document all arguments and contentions I make, extensively footnoting all references, so readers can determine for themselves the truth and validity of the factual claims.
ref: 2008 August 12, Jerome R. Corsi, “‘The Obama Nation’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2013:
text: Almost immediately after the video went semiviral, activist Rosa Clemente mobilized a group of women of color to coauthor and sign a statement denouncing the video, calling for XXL to feature anti–sexual violence content and demanding the firing of then–XXL editor-in-chief, Vanessa Satten.⁴²
ref: 2023, Treva B. Lindsey, “Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence”, in America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 134:
text: “It’s a positive outcome if you don’t have to live together after you’ve broken up,” said Natasha Pilkauskas, an associate professor at the University of Michigan who coauthored the study. “It allows people to live in the way they want to be living.”
ref: 2024 August 15, Jill Terreri Ramos, “The Federal Child Tax Credit Allowed Some Parents to Go It Alone”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2024:
glosses: To write something in collaboration with another author.
coaxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaxers
Etymology: From coax + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who coaxes
cobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cobble
cobbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Laid with cobbles.
raw_tags: of a road surface
examples: text: They were the terror of old ladies travelling in omnibuses. Sometimes in the middle of a drive down one of the principal streets, Harry's black face gleamed through the windows of the omnibus, and, instead of entering by the door, he climbed in through the window, singing his wild melodies and his snatches of comic songs in cobbled English as he did so.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 84:
glosses: Crudely or roughly assembled; put together in an improvised way (as in "cobbled together").
Derived terms: uncobbled
Related terms: cobbed
coquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛt/
Forms: form: coquets
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A flirtatious female; a coquette.
glosses: A flirtatious male.
coquet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛt/
Forms: form: coquets
form: coquetting
form: coquetted
form: coquetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquet (“little cockerel”), from coq (“cockerel”) + -et (“masculine diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: To act as a flirt or coquet.
glosses: To waste time; to dally.
examples: November 26, 1725, Jonathan Swift, letter to Alexander Pope
You [are] coquetting a maid of honour.
glosses: To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
Derived terms: coquettish
jojo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jojos
Etymology: Reportedly coined on the spot by an employee of the Flavor-Crisp pressure fryer company at a Chicago trade show in the early 1960s. The potatoes were used to "clean the grease" between demonstrations of cooking chicken and fish, but customers unexpectedly started eating and enjoying them, leading someone to inquire what they were called.
Senses: examples: text: If you're really hungry, be sure to try the wood-fired jojos (potato wedges).
ref: 2002, Karl Samson, Jane Aukshunas, Frommer's Washington State, page 288:
text: The cheesy jojos threaten to colonize every inch of my appetite but I hold back by only eating them once I am nearly full.
ref: 2011, Marissa Guggiana, Off the Menu: Staff Meals from America's Top Restaurants, page 223:
text: And perhaps George's best (un)kept secret is its fried chicken and jojos, which give Reel M Inn a run for its money.
ref: 2023, Andrea Damewood, "George's Corner Tavern", Willamette Week (Willamette, OR), 20 September 2023, page 11
qualifier: Ohio
glosses: A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.
coquets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛts/
Senses: glosses: plural of coquet
coquets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coquet
coquetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛtˌɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coquet
coquetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛtˌɪŋ/
Forms: form: coquettings
Senses: examples: text: Whilst all these visits and balls, coquettings, and separations, had been going on, the Dutch carpenters had been repairing the wreck[…]
ref: 1833, Maria Edgeworth, Tales and Novels, volume 14, page 95:
glosses: coquetry
coquetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒk.ɛtˌɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coquet
delubrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delubra
Etymology: From Latin dēlūbrum.
Senses: glosses: A temple or shrine.
glosses: A sanctuary.
glosses: A church with a font.
water vole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water voles
Senses: glosses: Any of three Old World vole species: European water vole (Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris), montane water vole (Arvicola scherman), or southwestern water vole (Arvicola sapidus).
glosses: North American vole (Microtus richardsoni).
genericide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genericides
Etymology: From generic + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, the irony is that genericide occurs at the very moment a product manager's dream comes true and the product brand becomes synonymous with the product itself.
ref: 2007, Paul Goldstein, Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: A legal determination of genericide is an instantaneous elimination of the associations between mark and product built up in the minds of consumers.
ref: 2008, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, Mark D. Janis, editors, Trademark Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 87:
text: Imagine the glee in Microsoft headquarters if Google lost its trademark protection to genericide. If “google” becomes synonymous with conducting an Internet search, then Microsoft could legally and confusingly advertise by saying: “Use Bing for all of your most complicated googling!”
ref: 2009 July 18, Noam Cohen, “The Power of the Brand as Verb”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Because a claim of genericide must relate to a particular type of good or service and because verb use does not necessarily constitute generic use, the district court did not err when it refused to frame its inquiry as whether the relevant public primarily uses the word “google” as a verb.
ref: 2017 May 16, Elliott v. Google, Inc., No. 15-15809 (9th Cir. 2017), page 12:
text: Escalator, cellophane, and laundromat have all lost their trademark status to genericide.
ref: 2019 June 25, Whitson Gordon, “How a Brand Name Becomes Generic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: genericization
trademark erosion
qualifier: trademark law
glosses: The process by which trademark rights are diminished or lost as a result of common use in the marketplace.
glosses: The act or process of letting a trademark term become so common that the trademark is indefensible.
Related terms: brand
registered trademark
servicemark
trademark
long s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long s's
form: long ess
Senses: examples: text: An instance lately occurred of a work so divided (a prayer-book), where the first part was printed with long s’s, and the last part with round, independent of other deviations;
ref: 1824, J[ohn] Johnson, Typographia, or the Printers’ Instructor: […], volume II, London: […] Messrs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, […], page 27:
text: The Bible itself was quite unknown ground until I was ten and stumbled upon the Apocrypha in an old edition of the Bible printed with long s’s and beautiful early type.
ref: 1914, Una Hunt, Una Mary: The Inner Life of a Child, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 43:
text: He liked me to come into his dressing-room to talk to him while he lathered his face, and I remembered the lie I told him when he asked me if I had used the top of his silver shaving-pot to knock in a nail, and the day when he asked me to read him Burke’s speeches aloud in an edition printed with long s’s.
ref: 1914, George Moore, ‘Hail and Farewell!’: Vale, London: William Heinemann, page 311:
synonyms: descending s
medial s
hypernyms: s
coordinate_terms: short s
round s
terminal s
;
sharp s
double S
eszett
glosses: The ſ character, as distinct from the short s (which is the s character).
Related terms: roman: s
word: σ
roman: s
word: ς
smartness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smartnesses
Etymology: From Middle English smartnesse, smertnesse, equivalent to smart + -ness. Cognate with Middle Dutch smartenisse (“pain, injury, insult, scorn, agony”).
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being smart, intelligence.
examples: text: The station buildings at Oxton and Lauder have been repainted, and a general air of smartness prevails, marred only by some broken signal spectacles.
ref: 1947 March and April, “Notes and News: The Lauder Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 116:
glosses: The state or quality of being smart in appearance.
glosses: The result or product of being smart.
sickbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkbɛd/
Forms: form: sickbeds
Etymology: From Middle English seke bed, equivalent to sick + bed.
Senses: glosses: A bed used by a person who is sick.
glosses: A place for convalescence.
sickbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sickbed
sickish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more sickish
form: most sickish
Etymology: From sick + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen an unexpected bankruptcy was announced by Cluffe or Toole in the Club-room, it made his ear ring like a slap, and he felt sickish for half an hour after.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Dreams and Troubles, and a Dark Look-out”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume II, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 35:
text: His heart was thumping harder than ever, and it was impossible to tell if the sickish, pukey feeling deep down in his belly was relief or terror.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:
glosses: Somewhat sick, but not seriously so.
Synonyms: out of sorts
poorly
unwell
Related terms: malaise
sickroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sickrooms
form: sick-room
Etymology: From sick + room.
Senses: glosses: A room to be used by someone who is ill.
sickrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sickroom
sidelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideline (“lines marking the edges”)
sidelines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sideline
sideswipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideswipes
form: side-swipe
Etymology: From side + swipe.
Senses: glosses: A blow with the side of something, such as the side of car that is changing lanes incautiously.
examples: text: Calvin Harris's number-ten hit Acceptable in the 80s is both a wry sideswipe and a celebration of the scene;[…]
ref: 2007 July 11, Chris Cottingham, “Electroclash was no flash in the pan”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A catty or sarcastic remark.
sideswipe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sideswipes
form: sideswiping
form: sideswiped
form: sideswiped
form: side-swipe
Etymology: From side + swipe.
Senses: examples: text: As he turns left from Central into Jackson he nearly sideswipes a milk truck idling yards out from the kerb.
ref: 1960, John Updike, Rabbit, Run, page 36:
text: In her haste, she sideswiped the 4x4 truck that was ahead of her as well as two other cars. “Help!” she yelled as she sped through the orange construction cones. “They're going to kill me!”
ref: 2012, Curtis L. Alcutt, Fatal Intentions, page 175:
glosses: To give a blow with the side, as to strike with the side of a car when turning.
sideswipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sideswipe
sideswipes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sideswipe
sightread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sightreads
form: sightreading
form: sightread
form: sightread
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sight read.
garden dormouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden dormice
Senses: synonyms: lerot
glosses: A rodent in the Gliridae (dormouse) family, Eliomys quercinus, native to parts of Europe, especially southern Europe.
sight-reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sight-readers
Etymology: From sight + reader.
Senses: glosses: A person who is able to sightread.
sight-readers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sight-reader
simon-pure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the phrase "the real Simon Pure" (the true person or article), from the character Simon Pure (who is impersonated by another, and obliged to prove his identity) in Susanna Centlivre's 1717 play A Bold Stroke for a Wife.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Art says the Prince Consort's bloodline is dreadfully polluted, while Ruthven's is simon-pure.’
ref: 1992, Kim Newman, Anno Dracula, Titan Books, published 2011, page 124:
glosses: Absolutely pure; genuine, authentic.
descending s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of long s.
synonyms: word: long s
medial s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medial s's
Senses: glosses: Synonym of long s.
synonyms: word: long s
medial s's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medial s
northern birch mouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern birch mice
Senses: glosses: A rodent classified in the family Sminthidae, Sicista betulina that is found in subarctic and cool temperate Asia from Scandinavia to Lake Baikal.
terminal s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of short s.
synonyms: word: short s
short s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short s's
form: short ess
Senses: examples: text: Most of it was in modern face of a bad cut, small pica size; the apocrypha was in long primer, old style face, although having short s’s, but the peculiarity was that one signature in the Psalms was in old style with long s’s.
ref: 1888 November, The American Bookmaker: A Journal of Technical Art and Information, […], volume VII, number 5, New York, N.Y.: Howard Lockwood & Co., […], page 146:
text: The following changes have silently been made: long s’s have been changed to short s’s;
ref: 2004, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, “Preface”, in Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, Oak Knoll Press, page xxxiii:
synonyms: round s
terminal s
coordinate_terms: long s
;
sharp s
glosses: The s character, as distinct from the long s — the ſ character.
Related terms: roman: s
word: σ
roman: s
word: ς
mummery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌməɹi/
Forms: form: mummeries
Etymology: From Middle French momerie, mommerie, from Old French mommer, from momon.
Senses: examples: text: I say the sewer thought I was dressed to bear a part in the tregetour’s mummery, and so I got admission
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: Mumming; disguising oneself to perform as a mummer, or to take part in some other festivities or performance.
examples: text: All this affectation and mummery was in due time overcome, and Zeluco's nuptials with the widow were celebrated in form.
ref: 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt, published 2008, page 41:
text: Because it is more simple, and, in its simplicity, becomes sublime to a mind like her's—in my days of darkness I did not like the ceremonies of the church, but classed them with silly mummeries, hardening my heart against that which I did not understand—now you would have no such feelings to contend with...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 83:
text: Why, you unweaned cub, he believes in that mummery a good deal less than I do, and I don't believe in it at all.
ref: 1951, Isaac Asimov, Foundation:
glosses: A ridiculous or ostentatious ceremony, formerly especially of a religious nature; extravagant or hypocritical performance.
microchemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Chemical techniques for preparing, handling, and analyzing small quantities of chemical compounds, especially masses less than a milligram.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Chemical processes that take place in very small regions, such as on the grain boundaries of a metal.
Related terms: microchemical
microchemist
ciliary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪl.i.ə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈsɪl.iˌɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɪliəɹi
rhymes: -ɪliɛəɹi
Etymology: From cilium + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: ciliary movement
text: In vitro and animal studies are exploring the effect of M. genitalium infection on the fallopian tube mucosa. Microscopic evidence of ciliary damage was demonstrated in human fallopian tube explants infected with M. genitalium, albeit the damage was more moderate than that seen with C. trachomatis or N. gonorrhoeae infection (Figure 2).
ref: 2017 July 15, Harold C Wiesenfeld, Lisa E Manhart, “Mycoplasma genitalium in Women: Current Knowledge and Research Priorities for This Recently Emerged Pathogen”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 216, number suppl_2, →DOI, pages S389–S395:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or involving cilia.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the eyelashes.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the eyelid.
examples: text: ciliary muscles
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ciliary body.
Derived terms: anteciliary
ciliary artery
ciliary body
ciliary ganglion
ciliary muscle
ciliary nerve
ciliary process
ciliary processes
ciliary zonule
circumciliary
extraciliary
interciliary
intraciliary
iridociliary
mucociliary
multiciliary
nasociliary
nonciliary
periciliary
postciliary
preciliary
retinociliary
superciliary
supraciliary
songbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songbooks
Etymology: From Middle English song boke, from Old English sangbōc (“a music book; songbook”), equivalent to song + book. Compare Saterland Frisian Songbouk (“songbook”), West Frisian sjongboek (“songbook”), Dutch zangboek (“songbook”), German Low German Sangbook (“songbook; hymnbook; hymnal”), German Gesangbuch (“songbook; hymnbook; hymnal”), Danish sangbog (“songbook”), Swedish sångbok (“songbook”), Faroese songbók (“songbook”), Icelandic söngbók (“songbook”).
Senses: examples: text: Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.
ref: 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:
text: In uncritical homage to the heyday of Hollywood musicals, Branagh sets the action in a kind of soundstagey Oxbridge (wittily designed by Tim Harvey) and at crucial moments has his cast spin on their heels and croon American songbook standards by Porter, Kern, Gershwin and company instead of launching into sonnets and masques.
ref: 2005, Andrew Dickson, The Rough Guide to Shakespeare: The Plays, the Poems, the Life, London: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 191:
text: Wondering how else he passed his time, Winifred surveyed the room again, this time without regard for the monetary value of the things she saw. A box of lutestrings. Five songbooks. But no lute.
ref: 2019, Emerson Kathy Lynn, How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries:
glosses: A book containing songs.
amacrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæməkɹɪn/
Etymology: From a- (“not”) + Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós, “long”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Without long processes.
amacrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæməkɹɪn/
Forms: form: amacrines
Etymology: From a- (“not”) + Ancient Greek μᾰκρός (măkrós, “long”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any cell that does not have a long process.
opsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opsins
Etymology: Shortened form of rhodopsin.
From Ancient Greek ὄψις (ópsis, “sight”) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Ramirez and Oakley therefore predicted that opsins are present in octopus skin, where they might act as light sensors.
ref: 2015 May 20, Mo Costandi, The Guardian:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of light-sensitive proteins in the retina.
Derived terms: bacterioopsin
chrysopsin
cnidopsin
encephalopsin
neuropsin
panopsin
parapinopsin
pinopsin
pteropsin
scotopsin
Related terms: photopsin
rhodopsin
melanopsin
onychopsin
parietopsin
xenopsin
retinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɪn.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ən.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.nəl/
rhymes: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From retina + -al (“of or pertaining to”).
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the retina.
Derived terms: antiretinal
central retinal artery
cerebroretinal
chorioretinal
cilioretinal
colliculoretinal
corneoretinal
electroretinal
epiretinal
extraretinal
hemiretinal
intraretinal
intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell
nonretinal
panretinal
periretinal
photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
preretinal
retinal art
retinally
retinal purple
subretinal
tapetoretinal
transretinal
vitreoretinal
retinal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɪn.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ən.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.nəl/
rhymes: -ɛtɪnəl
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.əˌnæl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.əˌnɔl/
rhymes: -ɛtɪnæl
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ɪn.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.ən.əl/
ipa: /ˈɹɛt.nəl/
rhymes: -ɛtɪnəl
Forms: form: retinals
Etymology: From retina + -al (“aldehyde”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: retinaldehyde
retinene
glosses: A yellow to orange aldehyde derived from vitamin A that is formed from rhodopsin by the action of light and in combination with proteins forms the visual pigments of the retinal rods and cones.
Derived terms: neoretinal
holp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒlp/
ipa: /həʊlp/
note: Southern US, African-American Vernacular, obsolete
ipa: /hoʊp/
rhymes: -ɒlp
rhymes: -əʊlp
Etymology: From Middle English holp (first and third person singular past indicative of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English healp (same form of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *halp (same form of *helpaną (“to help”)). Cognate with German half, Middle Dutch holp (in modern Dutch replaced with hielp). More at help.
Senses: examples: text: Thou art my warrior; I holp to frame thee.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Both, both, my girl. / By foul play, as thou sayest, were we heav'd thence, / But blessedly holp hither.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: simple past of help: helped.
examples: text: Like most folks around here, I done holp him so much already I can't quit now.
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, page 33:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: past participle of help.
holpen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English holpen, yholpen (past participle of helpen (“to help”)), from Old English ġeholpen (past participle of helpan (“to help”)), from Proto-Germanic *hulpanaz (past participle of *helpaną (“to help”)). More at help. Cognate with Dutch geholpen (“holpen”) and German geholfen (“holpen”).
Senses: examples: text: […]Was crackt in twaine, but by his fooliſh feare: / Was holpen vp, who him ſupported ſtanding neare.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 458:
text: Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, haſt holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17, signature Fff, verso, column 2:
glosses: past participle of help
Derived terms: unholpen
spot test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spot tests
Senses: examples: text: The DPA test referred to by Martz is a color spot test for a range of oxidizing compounds, which include but are not limited to nitrates.
ref: 1998, Michael R Bromwich, The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices & Alleged Misconduct:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The addition of a single drop of a reagent to a small sample as a qualitative analytical test for the presence of a specific compound or class of compounds.
mammalogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammalogies
Etymology: From mammal + -logy, with haplology.
Senses: synonyms: word: mastology
word: mazology
glosses: The study of mammals.
Derived terms: mammalogical
mammalogist
palaeomammalogy
paleomammalogy
rhodopsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodopsins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon, “rose”), due to its pinkish color, and ὄψις (ópsis, “sight”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A light-sensitive pigment in the rod cells of the retina; it consists of an opsin protein bound to the carotenoid retinal
Synonyms: visual purple
Derived terms: gloeorhodopsin
Related terms: conopsin
mousemat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mousemats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mouse mat.
visual purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The pigment rhodopsin.
Synonyms: retinal purple