cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cheerleader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪə(ɹ)ˌliːdə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: cheerleaders
Etymology: From cheer + leader.
Senses: glosses: A person, usually a young, attractive female, who encourages applause and cheers at a sports event, and wearing a specially-designed uniform in the official colors of the team he/she cheers for.
examples: text: Given these sentiments, it is unsurprising that ultranationalists have been the main cheerleaders of closer Russia-North Korea relations.
ref: 2023 November 17, “Russia and North Korea: A Growing Strategic Partnership”, in 38 North:
antonyms: word: gloomleader
glosses: A person who rallies support for any cause.
Derived terms: cheerlead
cheerleader effect
cheerleaderish
cheerleaderlike
cheerleadership
jeerleader
noncheerleader
Related terms: cheerleading
congener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnd͡ʒɪnə/
ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒiːnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: congeners
Etymology: From French congénère, from Latin com- (“same”) + genus (“kind”).
Senses: glosses: A plant or animal of the same taxonomic genus as another.
examples: text: Not that we may thereby swamp the thing in the wholesale condemnation which we pass on its inferior congeners, but rather that we may by contrast ascertain the more precisely in what its merits consist, by learning at the same time to what particular dangers of corruption it may also be exposed.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person or thing similar in behavior or nature to another.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of structurally related compounds.
glosses: Any of several alcohols, other than ethanol, that are found in fermented and distilled alcoholic drinks, and are partially responsible for their flavour and character.
Synonyms: cogener
Related terms: congeneric
congenerous
ies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These names […] may form regular plurals; thus, Aes, Bees, Cees, Dees, Ees, Effs, Gees, Aitches, Ies, Jays, Kays, Ells, Ems, Ens, Oes, Pees, Kues, Ars, Esses, Tees, Ues, Vees, Double-ues, Exes, Wies, Zees.
ref: 1856, Goold Brown, The First Lines of English Grammar, page 10:
text: 1998, Ricardo Corona, "These Esses" ("Esses esses"), in Other Shores (Outras Praias), translated by Ricardo Corona & Charles Perrone
to say (full of ees, ies, ues) that plurals are always two or more
glosses: plural of i, the name of the letter I.
acquest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkwɛst/
Forms: form: acquests
Etymology: From Middle English aqueste (later conflating with enqueste), from Old French aquest, (French acquêt), from Vulgar Latin *acquaesitum, ultimately from Latin quaerere (“seek”). Doublet of acquis.
Senses: examples: text: the Palatinate , it is a maxim in state , that all countries of new acquest, till they be settled , are rather matters of burden than of strength
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
glosses: Acquisition; the thing gained.
topics: law
glosses: Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance.
acquiescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquiescencies
Senses: glosses: The quality of being acquiescent; acquiescence.
enquiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkwaɪə.ɹi/
ipa: /ɛnˈk-/
rhymes: -aɪəɹi
Forms: form: enquiries
form: inquiry
Etymology: From Middle English enquery, from the Old French verb enquerre, from Latin inquīrō, composed of in- (“in, at, on; into”) + quaerō (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). The alternative form inquiry was subsequently respelled to conform to the original Latin spelling, as opposed to the Old French spelling.
Senses: examples: text: scientific enquiry
text: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (title of book by David Hume)
glosses: British form of inquiry.
Derived terms: domestic enquiry
Frikadelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frikadellen
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of frikadelle.
Bulle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the capital of Gruyère district, Fribourg canton, Switzerland.
glosses: A commune in Doubs department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
cadaveric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kadəˈvɛɹɪk/
ipa: /kəˈdavəɹɪk/
ipa: /kəˈdavəɹɪk/
Forms: form: more cadaveric
form: most cadaveric
Etymology: From French cadavérique.
Senses: examples: text: Hodgkin had just returned from his second visit to Paris, where he had learned to prepare and dissect cadaveric specimens.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 157:
glosses: Pertaining to a corpse.
examples: text: He invoked cadaveric poisoning as the reason for the high death rate among priests and monks […]
ref: 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2007, page 21:
glosses: Caused by coming into contact with a dead body, a cadaver.
Derived terms: cadaveric alkaloid
cadaverically
cadaveric spasm
noncadaveric
AST
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alaskan Standard Time.
glosses: Initialism of Atlantic Standard Time.
AST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASTs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of advanced supersonic transport.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of abstract syntax tree.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of aspartate transaminase.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of average shot time (“the average time taken by a player on each shot recorded using World Snooker scoring system”).
topics: business
law
property
real-estate
glosses: Initialism of assured shorthold tenancy.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of alternating series test.
ASV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of American Standard Version (of the Bible).
ASV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of autonomous surface vessel.
glosses: Initialism of autonomous surface vehicle.
Hypernyms: alt: unmanned surface vessel or unmanned surface vehicle
word: USV
fountain pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fountain pens
Senses: examples: text: He loves using fountain pens for school work.
text: Beside the wallet and its contents there were three gaily colored silk handkerchiefs fragrant of chypre; a platinum Longines watch on a platinum and red gold chain, attached at the other end to a small pear-shaped pendant of some white metal; a handful of United States, British, French, and Chinese coins; a ring holding half a dozen keys; a silver and onyx fountain-pen; a metal comb in a leatherette case; a nail-file in a leatherette case; […]
ref: 1930, Dashiell Hammet, “The Levantine”, in The Maltese Falcon, New York, N.Y.; London: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, pages 57–58:
hyponyms: cartridge pen
stylograph
stylographic pen
glosses: A pen containing a reservoir of ink, which is fed to a writing nib automatically.
Coordinate terms: dip pen
nib pen
stylographic pen
ballpoint pen
gel pen
styli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstaɪlaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of stylus
fluoridation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fluoridations
Etymology: From fluoride + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.
ref: 2013 August 9, Douglas Main, “Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation”, in Live Science, retrieved 30 Sep 2013:
text: Proposed restrictions on fluoridation in New Hampshire, Tennessee and North Dakota were rejected. A measure in Kentucky to make fluoridation optional stalled in the state Senate.
ref: 2025 March 28, “Utah becomes the first state to ban fluoride in public drinking water”, in CNN, sourced from Associated Press:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: defluoridation#Noun
glosses: The act or process of adding fluoride to something, especially water.
Derived terms: antifluoridation
defluoridation
Related terms: word: fluoridate
word: fluoridated
word: fluoridationist
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: fluoritization
word: water fluoridation
porn shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porn shops
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells sexual items.
tending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛndɪŋ/
Forms: form: tendings
Senses: examples: text: In other words, the mutual tendings of all individuals in a given situation toward each other and toward a common object can be apprehended in toto by each actor.
ref: 1970, R. Grathoff, The Structure of Social Inconsistencies:
glosses: present participle and gerund of tend
XPDL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of XML Process Definition Language.
gastropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæstɹəˌpɑd/
Forms: form: gastropods
Etymology: From French gastéropode, from gastro- + -poda, New Latin, from Ancient Greek γαστήρ (gastḗr, “stomach”) and πούς (poús, “foot”).
Senses: hypernyms: mollusc
mollusk
<
invertebrate
<
animal
<
organism
<
creature
coordinate_terms: cephalopod
glosses: Any member of a class of molluscs (Gastropoda) that includes snails, slugs, and limpets; univalve mollusc.
Derived terms: gastropodochory
gastropodous
microgastropod
neogastropod
patellogastropod
scaly-foot gastropod
Bicolano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑːnəʊ/
enpr: bĭ-kə-läʹ-nō
ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑnoʊ/
ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ
Forms: form: Bicolanos
form: Bicolano
form: Bikolano
Etymology: From Spanish bicolano.
Senses: examples: text: The Merina, like the Bicolano, are open to change.
ref: 2001, Elizabeth Hallam, Jenny Hockey, Death, Memory and Material Culture, page 186:
hypernyms: Filipino
coordinate_terms: word: Bicolana
glosses: A native inhabitant or resident of the Bicol Region, Philippines.
Bicolano
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑːnəʊ/
enpr: bĭ-kə-läʹ-nō
ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑnoʊ/
ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ
Forms: form: Bikolano
Etymology: From Spanish bicolano.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or derived from Bicol Region, Philippines, its people, cuisine, language, or culture.
Bicolano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑːnəʊ/
enpr: bĭ-kə-läʹ-nō
ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑnoʊ/
ipa: /bɪkəˈlɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnəʊ
Forms: form: Bikolano
Etymology: From Spanish bicolano.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the Bicol Region, Philippines.
bean ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bean balls
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A ball that does not bounce and passes the batsman approximately at head height.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of beanball.
Synonyms: topics: cricket
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: beamer
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: beaner
bear pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bear pits
Senses: glosses: A bear garden; a place where bears are kept.
glosses: A question and answer forum with a group of politicians.
glosses: A chaotic scene.
co-pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-pilots
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of copilot.
co-pilot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-pilots
form: co-piloting
form: co-piloted
form: co-piloted
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of copilot.
equivocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɪvəˌkeɪt/
Forms: form: equivocates
form: equivocating
form: equivocated
form: equivocated
form: æquivocate
Etymology: From Late Middle English equivocaten, from Medieval Latin aequivocātus, perfect passive participle of aequivocō (“I am called by the same name”), from Late Latin aequivocus (“ambiguous, equivocal”). Compare French équivoque.
Senses: examples: text: Knock. Knock, knock. Who's there in th'other Deuils Name? Faith here's an Equiuocator, that could ſweare in both the Scales againſt eyther Scale, who committed Treaſon enough for Gods ſake, yet could not equiuocate to Heauen: oh come in, Equiuocator.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 137, column 1:
text: All that Garnet had to say for him was that he supposed he meant to equivocate.
ref: 1687, Edward Stillingfleet, The Unreasonableness of Separation: Or, An Impartial Account of the History, Nature and Pleas of the Present Separation from the Communion of the Church of England:
synonyms: prevaricate
evade
shuffle
adumbrate
glosses: To speak using double meaning; to speak ambiguously, unclearly or doubtfully, with intent to deceive; to vacillate in one's answers, responding with equivoques.
examples: text: He equivocated his vow by a mental reservation
ref: 1647, George Buck, Reign of Richard the Third:
glosses: To render equivocal or ambiguous.
Derived terms: equivocal
equivocatingly
equivocator
nonequivocating
Related terms: prevaricate
exocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: exocrin
Senses: glosses: Producing external secretions that are released through a duct.
glosses: Pertaining to the exocrine glands or their secretions.
Coordinate terms: autocrine
endocrine
heterocrine
paracrine
Derived terms: exocrine gland
exocrinology
exocrinopathy
nonexocrine
Related terms: ducto-
exocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocrines
form: exocrin
Senses: glosses: The secretion of an exocrine gland.
glosses: An exocrine gland.
Belauan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Palauan
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the Pacific, in the Republic of Palau. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia belonging to the Western Austronesian group, all others considered to be members of the Oceanic subgroup.
beer run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beer runs
Senses: glosses: A trip made, often late at night, to obtain beer or other alcoholic beverages.
Related terms: drug run
endocrine gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocrine glands
Senses: examples: text: An endocrine gland is one that secretes its products directly into the bloodstream.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 166:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: ductless gland
antonyms: exocrine gland
glosses: Any of various glands that secrete hormones directly into the blood or lymph and not through a duct.
Synonyms: word: endocrine gland
word: ductless gland
Hypernyms: word: gland
word: organ
Hyponyms: word: adrenal gland
word: parathyroid gland
word: pineal gland
word: pituitary gland
word: thyroid gland
word: thymus
word: pancreas
word: gonad
word: ovary
word: testes
Related terms: placenta
thymus
exocrine gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exocrine glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various glands which secrete via a duct, typically into the digestive tract or onto the skin.
Synonyms: word: duct gland
word: exocrine gland
Hypernyms: word: gland
word: organ
Hyponyms: word: mammary gland
word: salivary gland
word: sebaceous gland
word: sweat gland
word: lacrimal gland
word: stomach
word: liver
bituminous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bituminous
form: most bituminous
form: bituminious
Etymology: From French bitumineux.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bitumen.
Derived terms: bituminous coal
bituminousness
bituminous sand
bituminous shale
calcareobituminous
nonbituminous
pyrobituminous
semibituminous
subbituminous
bituminous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bituminouses
form: bituminious
Etymology: From French bitumineux.
Senses: glosses: Bituminous coal.
glosses: A type or grade of bituminous coal.
bitumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt.jʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃ.ʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃ.ʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪt.jʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /bɪˈtumən/
ipa: /bɪˈtjumən/
ipa: /baɪˈtumən/
Forms: form: bitumina
form: bitumens
Etymology: From Middle English bithumen, bitumen, from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of bitume.
Senses: examples: text: You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.
ref: 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
synonyms: Jew's pitch
glosses: A sticky, black, highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum, burning with a bright flame. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and Caspian Seas. It is used in cements, in the construction of pavements, etc.; Mineral pitch.
glosses: Any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petrolea, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
glosses: Roads sealed with bitumen, as opposed to dirt roads.
glosses: Canadian deposits of extremely heavy crude oil.
Synonyms: sense: mineral pitch
word: bitume
sense: mineral pitch
word: Jew’s lime
sense: mineral pitch
word: Jew’s pitch
sense: mineral pitch
word: Jew’s slime
sense: mineral pitch
word: slime
Derived terms: bitumenised
bitumen of Judea
bituminiferous
bituminoid
bituminous
bitumoid
crude bitumen
dilbit
modified bitumen
pyrobitumen
refined bitumen
bitumen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪt.jʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃ.ʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪt͡ʃ.ʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɪt.jʊ.mɪn/
ipa: /bɪˈtumən/
ipa: /bɪˈtjumən/
ipa: /baɪˈtumən/
Forms: form: bitumens
form: bitumening
form: bitumened
form: bitumened
Etymology: From Middle English bithumen, bitumen, from Latin bitūmen. Doublet of bitume.
Senses: examples: text: another star reflected itself in the glassy black of the bitumened road
ref: 1926, Rudyard Kipling, “The Prophet and the Country”, in Debits and Credits, →OCLC, page 155:
text: The Litlata community have now built a mandi set in a pleasant garden, and to ensure the cleanliness of their yardna have bricked and bitumened the pool into which the water flows
ref: 1937, Lady Ethel Stefana Drower, Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran, Brill Archive, →LCCN, page 122:
text: Work is already under way to complete the bitumening of Western Australia's last unsurfaced stretch of Highway One, between Fitzroy Crossing and Hall's Creek.
ref: 1984, Dennis Hancock, Wheels of Progress: History of the Road Transport Industry in Western Australia, 1829-1983, Access Press, →ISBN, page 145:
text: The development of water reticulation occurred in parallel with street work — forming, kerbing, channelling and bitumening.
ref: 2013, Janice Cooper, Crossing the Divide: A History of Alpha and Jericho Districts, Boolarong Press, →ISBN, page 176:
synonyms: bituminize
glosses: To cover or fill with bitumen.
Related terms: asphalt
Jew's pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jews' pitch
Etymology: Calque of Latin bitūmen iūdaicum.
Senses: synonyms: Jew's slime
glosses: asphalt, bitumen, pitch
fluorination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: fluorinations
Etymology: From fluorine + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: defluorination
hypernyms: halogenation
coordinate_terms: chlorination
bromination
iodination
glosses: The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
Derived terms: defluorination
deoxyfluorination
difluorination
electrofluorination
halofluorination
monofluorination
oxyfluorination
radiofluorination
Swarts fluorination
Related terms: fluoridate
fluoridated
fluoridation
fluoridization
fluoridize
fluoridized
fluorinate
perfluorinate
perfluorinated
perfluorination
rhabdomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæb.dəˌmæn.si/
Etymology: From rhabdo- + -mancy, first attested in 1646. From Latin rhabdomantīa, from Ancient Greek ῥαβδομαντεία (rhabdomanteía), from ῥάβδος (rhábdos, “rod”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”).
Senses: examples: text: This question of buried treasure exercised the minds of ancient occultists considerably, and in connection with it there was frequently employed the art of Rhabdomancy, which was similar to that of water divining or water "dousing".
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 145:
synonyms: dowsing
glosses: Divination with wands or rods, especially to use a divining rod to find things below the ground.
Related terms: rhabdom
rhabdomancer
rhabdomantist
podcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: podcatchers
Etymology: Blend of podcast + catcher.
Senses: glosses: A podcast client; a device, or software, that can receive a podcast.
notice board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notice boards
form: noticeboard
Etymology: From notice + board.
Senses: examples: text: The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
ref: 1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638:
glosses: A board, hanging on a wall, on which notices and announcements are posted.
glosses: An online forum where users can post and read messages.
Synonyms: bulletin board
noticeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noticeboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of notice board.
adrenal gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenal glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: suprarenal gland
glosses: In mammals, either of a pair of complex endocrine glands, situated above each kidney, secreting hormones which control the heart rate, blood pressure, and metabolism.
parathyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɹɔɪd
Etymology: From para- + thyroid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated near the thyroid gland.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the parathyroid glands or their extracts.
Derived terms: abaloparatide
antiparathyroid
aparathyroid
euparathyroid
hyperparathyroidism
hypoparathyroid
parathormone
parathyroidectomy
parathyroid gland
parathyroid hormone
parathyroiditis
teriparatide
thyroparathyroid
thyroparathyroidectomy
parathyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɹɔɪd
Forms: form: parathyroids
Etymology: From para- + thyroid.
Senses: glosses: A parathyroid gland.
glosses: A parathyroid hormone.
pen-name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pen-names
Senses: examples: text: Lǎo Shě is the pen-name of Shū Qìngchūn (1899-1966).
ref: 1988, Wei-ping Liu, Readings in Modern Chinese [现代中文选读], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 74:
english: 现代中文选读
translation: 现代中文选读
glosses: Alternative form of pen name.
parathyroid gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parathyroid glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any one of four endocrine glands situated in the neck, usually within a thyroid gland, which produce parathyroid hormone.
monohybrid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monohybrids
Etymology: From mono- + hybrid.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid between two species that only have a difference of one gene.
you name it
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: There were ducks, geese, swans, you name it on the lake.
text: - What can you buy over the Internet?
- You name it.
text: By Monday afternoon we were finished - loadwise, physically, mentally, you name it, we'd had a gutful of it.
ref: 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 114:
glosses: All kinds of things; expresses that further examples are unnecessary, often after a short list of items.
pineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnɪəl/
ipa: /pʌɪˈniːəl/
Forms: form: more pineal
form: most pineal
Etymology: From French pinéal, from Middle French, from Latin pīnea (“pine cone, pine nut”), from pīneus (“of the pine”).
Senses: glosses: In the shape of a pine cone.
glosses: Pertaining to the pineal gland.
Derived terms: extrapineal
parapineal
pineal body
pinealectomy
pineal eye
pineal gland
pineal hormone
pineally
pinealocyte
pinealocytoma
pinealoma
pineocytoma
pineocytomatous
pinopsin
postpineal
pineal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪnɪəl/
ipa: /pʌɪˈniːəl/
Forms: form: pineals
Etymology: From French pinéal, from Middle French, from Latin pīnea (“pine cone, pine nut”), from pīneus (“of the pine”).
Senses: examples: text: Because of its central location and its solitary nature — most structures in the brain come in pairs, but the pineal stands alone — the philosopher René Descartes concluded that the pineal is where the soul resides.
ref: 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 310:
glosses: The pineal gland.
mute e
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mute e's
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An unpronounced letter e at the end of a word, such as excite or glue.
Synonyms: silent e
smock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒk/
ipa: /smɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: smocks
Etymology: From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”).
Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Senses: examples: c. 1960s (version), 14th century' (originally published), Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
Before the folk herself stripped she,
And in her smock, with foot and head all bare,
Toward her father's house forth is she fare.
glosses: A type of undergarment worn by women; a shift or slip.
examples: text: And women were in that gabarre [boat]; whom the Red Nightcaps were stripping naked; who begged, in their agony, that their smocks might not be stript from them.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History:
glosses: A blouse; a smock frock.
glosses: A loose garment worn as protection by a painter, etc.
Derived terms: lady smock
lady's smock
land smock
smell-smock
smock-face
smock-faced
smock-smelling
smock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒk/
ipa: /smɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology: From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”).
Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a smock; resembling a smock
glosses: Hence, of or pertaining to a woman.
Derived terms: smock mill
smock race
smock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /smɒk/
ipa: /smɑk/
rhymes: -ɒk
Forms: form: smocks
form: smocking
form: smocked
form: smocked
Etymology: From Middle English smok, from Old English smocc, smoc, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“something slipped into”).
Akin to Old High German smocho, Icelandic smokkur, and from the root of Old English smugan (“to creep”), akin to German schmiegen (“to cling to, press close”). Middle High German smiegen, Icelandic smjúga (“to creep through, to put on a garment which has a hole to put the head through”); compare with Lithuanian smukti (“to glide”). See also smug, smuggle.
Senses: glosses: To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: To apply smocking.
Derived terms: smocker
unvoiced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈvɔɪst/
rhymes: -ɔɪst
Etymology: From un- + voiced.
Senses: examples: text: I could guess her unvoiced opinon.
glosses: Not spoken or expressed.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: voiceless
glosses: Spoken without vibration of the vocal chords.
examples: text: The unvoiced signal is smaller energy than voiced signal and, so, this section is applied the smaller threshold.
ref: 1999, ISIE ..., volumes 1-3, IEEE Service Center:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: That does not contain voice.
raw_tags: of a signal
glosses: Of an IRC user: not granted voice privileges.
Related terms: surd
get with child
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets with child
form: getting with child
form: got with child
form: got with child
form: gotten with child
Senses: glosses: To impregnate.
teleportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleportations
Etymology: Coined by author Charles Fort in his 1931 book Lo! from tele- + transportation.
Senses: glosses: Any of many (mostly hypothetical or fictional) processes of moving matter from one spatial point to another without physically crossing the space in between and which are often depicted or described as happening instantaneously, and through dematerialization or gateways.
Synonyms: teleport
teletransportation
Derived terms: teleport
quantum teleportation
quantum teleportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum teleportations
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: the instantaneous transference of a quantum state to a distant location using quantum entanglement and the transmission of classical information
quantum entanglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum entanglements
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A quantum mechanical phenomenon in which the quantum states of two or more objects have to be described with reference to each other, even though the individual objects are spatially separated.
Synonyms: spooky action at a distance
quantum state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum states
Senses: examples: text: As you should (hopefully) remember, a quantum state in NRQM is an abstract vector in an abstract vector space, analogous to a physical vector in 3D physical space. The same thing is true in RQM and QFT.
ref: 2013, Robert D. Klauber, Student Friendly Quantum Field Theory, 2nd edition, Fairfield, IA: Sandtrove Press, published 2018, →ISBN, §3.11.4, page 68:
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: Any of the possible states of a quantum mechanical system.
opossum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒsəm/
enpr: ə-päsʹəm
ipa: /əˈpɑsəm/
other: /ˈpɑsəm/
Forms: form: opossums
Etymology: From Powhatan aposoum (“white animal”), from Proto-Algonquian *wa·p-aʔθemwa (“white dog”); compare Ojibwe waabasim (“white dog”).
Senses: glosses: Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.
glosses: Any of the marsupials in several families of the order Diprotodontia of Australia and neighboring islands.
Synonyms: word: didelphid
word: possum
Derived terms: word: colocolo opossum
word: gray short-tailed opossum
word: mouse opossum
taxonomic: Cercartetus nanus
word: opossum mouse
taxonomic: Rattus marmosurus
word: opossum rat
english: order Mysida
translation: order Mysida
word: opossum shrimp
english: family Caenolestidae
translation: family Caenolestidae
word: shrew opossum
taxonomic: Chironectes minimus
word: water opossum
word: woolly mouse opossum
word: woolly opossum
Related terms: yapok
teleportative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or using teleportation
telescopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛlɪˈskɒpɪk/
rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more telescopic
form: most telescopic
Etymology: From tele- + -scopic, after telescope.
Senses: examples: text: Within a year or two of Galileo's telescopic discoveries no one disputed that the moon had mountains, Jupiter had moons, Venus had phases and the sun had spots […].
ref: 2015, David Wootton, The Invention of Science, Penguin, published 2016, page 197:
glosses: Pertaining to, or carried out by means of, a telescope.
examples: telescopic stars
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Seen by means of a telescope; only visible through a telescope.
glosses: Capable of seeing distant objects; far-seeing.
examples: text: telescopic baton
synonyms: telescopable
telescoping#Adjective
glosses: Able to be extended or retracted by the use of parts that slide over one another.
glosses: Referring to parts being extended or retracted along coinciding axes (with or without direct contact between the parts).
Derived terms: nontelescopic
phototelescopic
pretelescopic
radiotelescopic
telescopical
telescopically
telescopic sight
telescopic star
telescopic vision
telescoping
Related terms: telescope
microscopic
macroscopic
naked-eye
neice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of niece.
televise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləvaɪz/
Forms: form: televises
form: televising
form: televised
form: televised
form: televize
Etymology: Back-formation from television.
Senses: examples: text: The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was one of the first major events to be televised.
glosses: To broadcast, or be broadcast, by television.
Derived terms: the revolution will not be televised
Related terms: telecast
telecast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪkæst/
ipa: /ˈtɛlɪkɑːst/
Forms: form: telecasts
form: telecasting
form: telecast
form: telecast
form: telecasted
form: telecasted
Etymology: From tele- + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]
ref: 1953 August 29, Billboard, page 4:
text: [The Kumbh Mela festival] would be telecast across the country.
ref: 2025 January 29, Aakash Hassan, “He went to capture the beauty of Hinduism. Then the stampede happened.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: televise
glosses: To broadcast by television.
synonyms: air
glosses: To broadcast a television program.
telecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪkæst/
ipa: /ˈtɛlɪkɑːst/
Forms: form: telecasts
Etymology: From tele- + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: examples: text: By the time the telecast starts, you’ll be an industry insider.
ref: 2020 January 23, Scottie Andrew, Allen Kim and Tiffany Baker, “How to talk about the Grammys best new artist nominees like a pro”, in CNN:
glosses: A television broadcast, especially outside of a studio.
Related terms: televise
oho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Middle English o ho; o, ho; equivalent to o + ho.
Senses: examples: text: "There is Kate, taking no heed of anybody; sensible old darling — she goes at her tea and cake — Oho! she has not touched them!"
ref: 1880, Lucy Bethia Walford, Troublesome Daughters:
text: "Oho, my boy, that's the woman who keeps you here! Mrs. Neff hinted at it, but I wouldn't believe it till I had it from you."
ref: 1914, Rupert Hughes, What Will People Say?:
text: "Oho," he said, "a vile thing to say. It is. I am losing check upon my tongue, it is running free like a riderless horse. And I don't give a damn. I can say at last what I wanted for years to say, years of being politic and demure. No longer."
ref: 1988, Thomas Flanagan, The Tenants of Time:
text: "Oho! Now I see where he's going with this, Frank thinks. Would have seen it earlier if I hadn't been so tired."
ref: 1997, Bruce A Shuman, Beyond the library of the future:
glosses: Expressing surprise or gloating realisation; aha.
Middle England
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The English Midlands.
glosses: The conservative white middle classes who live outside London, considered as a group.
Derived terms: Middle Englander
Middle Englander
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle England + -er.
Senses: glosses: A white, conservative, middle class member of Middle England.
millennium bug
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mr Johnson also said the Northern Irish border row had been blown out of proportion and compared fears over disruption over vital goods coming into the UK to "pure millennium bug stuff".
ref: 2018 June 7, Lizzy Buchan, “Boris Johnson says Trump could handle Brexit better and warns of 'meltdown' in explosive leaked recording”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2018:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.
Synonyms: Y2K bug
year 2000 problem
misper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispers
Etymology: Portmanteau of missing + person
Shortening of missing person as in “missing persons report”.
Senses: examples: text: ‘I had my researchers check the files on all the mispers and cold cases five years either side of that date estimate, on females of that approximate age. This is what they found. Fill your boots.’ He took a large gulp of his drink. / ‘I’m impressed, you've been moving fast.’ / ‘On it like a car bonnet, mate.’
ref: 2015, Peter James, You Are Dead, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A missing person.
missing person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missing persons
form: missing people
Senses: glosses: A person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.
mission statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mission statements
Senses: examples: text: Her mission statement is that clothes made from sustainable viscose and cruelty-free alternatives to leather should not be targeted at a niche market, but shown to hold their own on the Paris fashion week catwalk.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:
text: Unsurprisingly, Perry puts her best foot forward on opener “Never Really Over,” a song that not only maintains a catchy, hummable refrain, but also ironically doubles as a sort of mission statement for the artist.
ref: 2020 September 27, Alex McLevy, “With Smile, Katy Perry is desperately trying to have fun again”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2020:
topics: management
glosses: A formal declaration of the overall goal or purpose of an organization.
Related terms: vision statement
objects clause
Phosphor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: All night no ruder air perplex
⁠Thy sliding keel, till Phosphor, bright
⁠As our pure love, thro’ early light
Shall glimmer on the dewy decks.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto IX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
text: Anna likened you to Phosphor, the morning star, and herself to Hesper, the mortal star of evening, and when I told her those twin stars were one and the same, and not a star at all but the planet Venus,[…]
ref: 1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Phosphorus (“the planet Venus, as the morning star”).
Mitchell principles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mitchell principle
mockney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒk.ni/
rhymes: -ɒkni
Forms: form: mockneys
Etymology: Blend of mock + Cockney.
First published use in 1967, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Senses: glosses: An inauthentic imitation of Cockney accent and vocabulary.
glosses: A person who speaks in this way.
mockney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒk.ni/
rhymes: -ɒkni
Forms: form: more mockney
form: most mockney
Etymology: Blend of mock + Cockney.
First published use in 1967, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a mockney.
inauthentic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnɔːˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪnɔˈθɛn.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɪnɑˈθɛn.tɪk/
Forms: form: more inauthentic
form: most inauthentic
Etymology: From in- + authentic.
Senses: examples: text: But only in recent years, experts say, have they begun routinely disenrolling Indians deemed inauthentic members of a group.
ref: 2011 December 12, James Dao, “In California, Indian Tribes With Casino Money Cast Off Members”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: unauthentic
glosses: Not authentic or genuine; spurious.
Derived terms: inauthentically
morphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of morph
morphing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.
Derived terms: code morphing
tweening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tween
tweening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tweenings
Senses: synonyms: inbetweening
qualifier: animation
glosses: A technique in film animation for generating intermediate frames such that one image evolves smoothly into the next.
Mangan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mangans
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Mongáin (“descendant of Mongán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of mongach (“maned, long-haired”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Zink
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As a German surname, from an obsolete derivative of Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“peak, spike, tooth”).
* As a surname derived from various Romance languages, from Jacinctus, derived from the saint's name Hyacinthus. Comparable to Spanish Jacinto, Italian Giacinto.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Arsen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Russian
Brom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Broms
Etymology: Spelling variant of Brohm and Brahm; also a variant of Bromm, Brumm.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
espied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of espy
Zinn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Zinn.
Senses: examples: text: Often, Gill said, Zinn was arrested on suspicion of trespassing. He said Zinn was politically conservative, leaning libertarian, and would “give me a hard time for being a Dem.”
ref: 2025 September 10, Paighten Harkins and Sean P. Means, “George Zinn, arrested on suspicion of obstruction after Charlie Kirk shooting, is widely known Utah political ‘gadfly’”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: annulus of Zinn
Zinnian
Zinn's membrane
zonule of Zinn
pineal gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.niːəl ˌɡlænd/
ipa: /ˈpɪ.niːəl ˌɡlænd/
Forms: form: pineal glands
Etymology: From pineal + gland, from its pine-cone shape.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A small, pinecone-shaped endocrine gland found near the centre of the brain that produces melatonin.
Synonyms: word: epiphysis
word: pineal body
word: conarion
word: conarium
Derived terms: pinealectomy
pinealocyte
pinealoma
pineoblastoma
pineocytoma
pinopsin
Related terms: pinecone
goat rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goat ropes
form: goat-rope
Etymology: Derived from goat roper
Senses: examples: text: Never did find out what happened in July, but that was a goat rope that was poorly coordinated.
ref: 2010, Mark Perry, Talking to Terrorists: Why America Must Engage with Its Enemies:
text: What a goat rope! The fact that we had to appear three different times was certainly an indicator things were going poorly for the prosecution.
ref: 2013, Lyle O’Connor, Due Process:
glosses: A confusing, disorganized situation often attributed to or marked by human error.
examples: text: “How far up does this little goat rope go?” Sarge asked. “As far as we know, all the way to the commander in chief.”
ref: 2013, A. American, Surviving Home, page 32:
glosses: A convoluted issue that is contested by many parties.
glosses: A rodeo event in which competitors attempt to lasso a goat, usually for younger participants.
glosses: An ill-advised solution to contain a problem; a solution that will eventually fail.
Synonyms: sense: confusing situation
word: clusterfuck
sense: confusing situation
word: debacle
sense: confusing situation
word: fiasco
sense: confusing situation
word: goatfuck
sense: confusing situation
word: fustercluck
sense: convoluted issue
word: hairball