cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
desacralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desacralizes
form: desacralizing
form: desacralized
form: desacralized
form: desacralise
Etymology: From de- + sacralize.
Senses: examples: text: If whiteness bespoke purity and godliness, then poor white trash implied an ungodly, desacralized, polluted whiteness.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 47:
text: Still, certain programmatic commitments [of avant-garde art] can be identified: championing the volatile eventness of corporeal performances, […] consciously embracing the desacralizing and subversive, and disrupting conventional norms by placing the strange and unexpected in otherwise banal places.
ref: 2013, Isher-Paul Sahni, “More than Horseplay”, in Studies in Popular Culture, volume 35, page 74:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To remove the sacredness of.
Synonyms: desanctify
desecrate
Derived terms: desacralization
jactitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jactitation
chiefess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃiːˈfɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: chiefesses
Etymology: From chief + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Although Lili‘u was born a high chiefess, with lineage that reached back to the high chiefs under Kamehameha the Great, at the time of her birth it would never have seemed possible that she would someday become queen.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 7:
glosses: Synonym of chieftainess, a female chief.
synonyms: word: chieftainess
extra: a female chief
step-aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-aunts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stepaunt.
wedding cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding cake
wedding dresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding dress
wedding rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedding ring
stultified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stultify
stultified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stultified
form: most stultified
Senses: examples: text: Cora only stood there, letting him talk. She may have been a stultified neophyte in the practise of her art, but at least she had the devilish ingenuity to explode an emotional bomb under Bradly's male innocence and blow its defences to tatters.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962:
text: Sullen now, with stultified spleen, Mrs Dibble grappled her crutches and levered herself upright after an ungainly struggle.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 150:
glosses: Having been stultified or brought to a stop; stymied.
examples: text: An American sailor, who was cast away on the shore of Africa, where he was kept in slavery for three years, was, at the expiration of that period, found to be imbruted and stultified—he had lost all reasoning power; and having forgotten his native language, could only utter some savage gibberish between Arabic and English, which nobody could understand, and which even he himself found difficulty in pronouncing.
ref: 1846 [1845], Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Boston: Anti-Slavery Office:
glosses: Made dull or unable to think and act properly; stupefied.
idolatress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idolatresses
Etymology: From idolater + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female idolater.
chiefesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiefess
millionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From million + -fold.
Senses: examples: a millionfold dilution
a millionfold increase
glosses: A million times so
millionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From million + -fold.
Senses: glosses: By a factor of a million.
sacralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sacralize
sacralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: By blaming the sacralizing of weapons, [Miguel Gonzales] says, critics “fail to see the irony [created] by assigning an almost evil intent to the inanimate object rather than seeking and healing what ails the soul of those who use the object to commit evil [...]”
ref: 2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: present participle and gerund of sacralize
sacralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: As such, many gun owners say the fear around sacralized weaponry is overblown.
ref: 2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: simple past and past participle of sacralize
billionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From billion + -fold.
Senses: examples: a billionfold dilution
a billionfold increase
glosses: A billion times so
billionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From billion + -fold.
Senses: examples: multiply something a billionfold
magnify something a billionfold
it is a billionfold heavier than something else
glosses: In a billionfold way; by a billion degrees; on a scale of a billion
jettisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jettison
jettisons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jettison
trillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trillion + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: The volume occupied by the star's exploding gases underwent a trillionfold increase.
glosses: By a multiple of one trillion; by a trillion times as much or as many.
trillionfold
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From trillion + -fold.
Senses: examples: text: The national debt has ballooned trillionfold in the past century.
glosses: By a factor of one trillion.
Related terms: hundredfold
thousandfold
millionfold
billionfold
desacralizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desacralize
desacralizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desacralize
hypochondriacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypochondriac
desacralized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desacralize
instructress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈstɹʌktɹɪs/
Forms: form: instructresses
Etymology: From instructor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: […] you must allow me to look upon you as my Scholar, in one Sense; as my Companion, in another; and as my Instructress, in a third.
ref: 1741, Samuel Richardson, letter VI, in Pamela, Volume IV, page 38
text: After a short pause Sir Thomas added with dignity, "Yes, let her home be in this house. We will endeavour to do our duty by her, and she will at least have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress."
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 15:
text: If she knew her instructress was poor and queer she also knew she was not nearly so ‘qualified’ as Miss Overmore, who could say lots of dates straight off […].
ref: 1897, Henry James, chapter IV, in What Maisie Knew:
glosses: A female instructor.
Synonyms: instructrix
contra-octave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contra-octaves
Etymology: From contra- + octave.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The octave directly below the great octave.
giant anteater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: giant anteaters
Senses: glosses: The largest species of anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, found in Central and South America.
great octave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great octaves
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The octave that begins on the C that is two ledger lines below the staff of the bass clef.
Related terms: octave
contra-octave
glazes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzɪz/
rhymes: -eɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of glaze
glazes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪzɪz/
rhymes: -eɪzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glaze
giant anteaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giant anteater
instructors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instructor
haematologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haematologists
form: hematologist
Etymology: From haematology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist, usually a medical doctor, who specializes in haematology.
haematologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haematologist
demonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demoness
crocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crockers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English crockere, crokkere. By surface analysis, crock + -er. First attested in 1315.
Senses: glosses: A potter.
Derived terms: Crocker
crocker sack
Related terms: croker
intranational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Etymology: From intra- + national.
Senses: glosses: Within one nation.
crocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crock
crockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocker
minuteman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minutemen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of minute man.
eosinophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /i.əˈsɪnəˌfɪl/
Forms: form: eosinophils
Etymology: From German eosinophil, from eosin (“rose dye, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in”) + -o- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A white blood cell responsible for combating infection by parasites in the body.
Synonyms: acidophil
eosinophil granulocyte
eosinophilic granulocyte
eosinocyte
Hypernyms: granulocyte
multinuclear leukocyte
polymorphonuclear leukocyte
PMN
PML
Derived terms: eosinophil granulocyte
eosinophilia
eosinophilic
eosinophilous
hypereosinophilia
Related terms: eosinopenia
eosinophiluria
eosinopoiesis
eosinophil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /i.əˈsɪnəˌfɪl/
Forms: form: eosinophile
Etymology: From German eosinophil, from eosin (“rose dye, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in”) + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eosinophilic.
bone fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone fires
form: bone-fire
Etymology: From Middle English banefire.
Senses: glosses: A fire lit with bones instead of wood, so that when livestock were driven between two such fires the acrid smoke drove off parasites.
Related terms: bonfire
semiographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to the use of graphic or visual cues to communicate an idea or action without words.
ball clay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ball clays
Etymology: Clay of this kind found in Dorset and Devon, England, used to be cut into balls that weighed 30 pounds.
Senses: glosses: A type of clay that commonly consists of 20-80% kaolinite, 10-25% mica, and 6-65% quartz.
faience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪ.əns/
rhymes: -aɪəns
Forms: form: faiences
form: faïence
form: fayence
Etymology: From French faïence, named after the city of Faenza, Italy, where it was made in the 16th century.
Senses: examples: text: If she had wondered what Mrs. Burrage wished so particularly to talk about, she waited some time for the clearing-up of the mystery. During this interval she sat in a remarkably pretty boudoir, where there were flowers and faiences and little French pictures, and watched her hostess revolve round the subject in circles the vagueness of which she tried to dissimulate.
ref: 1885–1886, Henry James, The Bostonians […], London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 16 February 1886, →OCLC:
text: The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
ref: 1907, Edwin Atlee Barber, Tin Enamelled Pottery Maiolica, Delft and other Stanniferous Faience, Doubleday, Page & Company New York, page #:6
text: The white faience façade, the glazed Doultonware Carrera marble, was made locally. And being glazed, it was impervious to London's sooty atmosphere, enabling easier cleaning.
ref: 2023 December 13, Robin Leleux, “Restored... and a richly deserved award: Findlater's Corner”, in RAIL, number 998, page 43:
glosses: A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Beads or small ornaments made from frit, from the eastern Mediterranean of the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Derived terms: semifaience
Related terms: majolica
hourglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hourglass
eosinophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eosinophil
acidophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɪdəfɪl/
ipa: /əˈsɪdəfɪl/
Forms: form: acidophils
Etymology: From acid + -o- + -phil.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An eosinophil; a white blood cell responsible for combating infection by parasites in the body.
glosses: One of the endocrine acidophilic cells of the adenohypophysis, including somatotrophs and lactotrophs.
Synonyms: alpha cell
Related terms: acidophile
acidophilic
acidophils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acidophil
eosinophil granulocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /i.əˈsɪnəˌfɪl ˈɡɹænjəloʊˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: eosinophil granulocytes
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A type of white blood cell commonly referred to as eosinophils.
eosinophil granulocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eosinophil granulocyte
echoic memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echoic memories
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A type of sensory memory that briefly holds audio information for about 4 seconds.
weeklies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weekly
water lilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water lily
corella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corellas
Etymology: From Wiradjuri [Term?].
Senses: examples: text: A flock of white corellas stared with black beady eyes as Warren Finch and the girl passed by, then continued gnawing with sharp pointy beaks on the paddy melons held in their claws.
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 204:
glosses: Any of several species of white cockatoo of the subgenus Licmetis within genus Cacatua.
Derived terms: corella pear
Goffin's corella
little corella
long-billed corella
Tanimbar corella
western corella
Victorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Victorian
governorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of governorship
poimenics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ποιμενικός (poimenikós), from ποιμήν (poimḗn, “shepherd”).
Senses: glosses: pastoral theology
-men
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From men, plural of man.
Senses: examples: horsemen, sportsmen; lawmen, newsmen; freemen, icemen, supermen; Scotsmen, Chinamen
glosses: plural of -man
bogeymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bogeyman
newsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈn(j)uːzmæn/
Forms: form: newsmen
Etymology: From news + -man.
Senses: glosses: A reporter; a person in the profession of providing news.
Related terms: newswoman
newsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsman
conclaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conclave
conclaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conclave
quashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quash
porny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)ni
-ɔːni
Forms: form: pornier
form: porniest
Etymology: Apparently from porn + -y (though attested slightly earlier).
Senses: examples: text: There are no Minitels, sadly, but there is one old-tech moment as good if not better, when Bach struts and poses around her room with a revolver, a Discman tucked into the side of her porny tangas, wires hanging, earphones in.
ref: 2013, Jenny Turner, “A Girl and a Gun”, in London Review of Books, volume 35, number 19:
text: When I was a young lesbian feminist campaigning to overthrow patriarchy, what irked me most was the fact that some men would impose their own idiotic view of my sexuality on me, by asking if I would perform threesomes with them, or titillate them with a porny kissing display with my girlfriend.
ref: 2014, Julie Bindel, All you lesbians behaving badly – are strip clubs what liberation is for? (in The Guardian online, 30 June 2014)
glosses: Reminiscent of pornography; somewhat pornographic.
Derived terms: porniness
paragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragon
democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of democracy
patriotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more patriotically
form: most patriotically
Etymology: From patriotic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The obsessive subject of our sterile confrontation between the two PCs ― the politically and the patriotically correct ― is clumsily labeled "multiculturalism".
ref: 1993, Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint:
text: In fifteen years, you can bring up thy country And make your people work in a full symmetry With their cultureful socialist revolutionary And learn how to read, write and speak freely Know that their ideas are costlier than jewellery And work for their motherland patriotically
ref: 2017, Nadwan Rosetta, The Great Crush, page xl:
glosses: In a patriotic manner.
Derived terms: patriotically correct
Related terms: patriot
patriotic
patriotism
pebbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pebblier
form: pebbliest
Etymology: From pebble + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town? Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred. Now, where goest thou with thy meat, my fair friend?"
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
text: The balance of that day we spent in continuing a minute and fruitless exploration of the monotonous coast. There was not another break in the frowning cliffs--not even another minute patch of pebbly beach.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
glosses: Of or containing pebbles.
examples: text: Mr Rottcodd turned his pebbly eyes away.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: With a surface like that of pebbles.
Related terms: pebble
pensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pensively
form: most pensively
Etymology: From pensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thoughtful or reflective manner.
Synonyms: thoughtfully
wistfully
Related terms: pensive
pensiveness
pensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pensive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We left quietly so as not to disturb the widow's pensiveness.
text: Yet the employment seemed a pleasant one; her cheek was flushed with a clear, rich crimson—her face / "Was like any fair lake that the morning is on, / When it breaks into dimples, and laughs in the sun." / And if, ever and anon, the brow was clouded by a shade of pensiveness, it was quickly dispelled by the consciousness of present happiness.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 106:
glosses: A thoughtful or reflective state, especially if sad or melancholic.
siris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirisa
form: sirissa
form: sirris
Etymology: From Hindustani سرس / सिरिस (siris).
Senses: hyponyms: black siris
East Indian walnut
koko
lebbek
woman's tongue tree
white siris
glosses: Any tree of the genus Albizia.
cotton on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cottons on
form: cottoning on
form: cottoned on
form: cottoned on
Senses: examples: text: “That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. […] Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”
ref: 2019 July 30, Rowena Mason, “Dominic Cummings said Tory MPs do not care about poor people or NHS”, in The Guardian:
text: In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love.
ref: 2023 July 9, Annie Lowrey, “Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: catch on
glom on
glosses: To realize; come to understand.
Related terms: cotton to
cotton on to
anxietude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin anxietudo.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being troubled, worried, or anxious; anxiety.
coevals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coeval
intonaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intonacos
form: intonacoes
form: intonaci
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian intonaco (“plaster”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: arriccio
glosses: The final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted.
cemetary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of cemetery.
qin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃin/
Forms: form: qins
form: kin
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 琴 (qín).
Senses: examples: text: ... there was no longer anyone worth playing his qin for, so he broke his instrument and never played again. The guqin was also a means of expressing love.
ref: 1989, Zhongguo fu li hui, Chung-kuo fu li hui, China Reconstructs:
text: He makes his qin students take calligraphy with him, and calligraphy and painting students play the qin.
ref: 2006, Dana Standridge, Lessons in Essence: A Novel:
text: Knowing that we play the qin, they told us that there was a qin in the teahouse, but only for decoration – no one there actually knew how to play it.
ref: 2016 December 30, “Oral history book explores true meaning of tradition by recounting the revival of qin”, in Shanghai Daily:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
Related terms: qin tan
courante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːˈɹɑnt/
ipa: /kʊɹˈɑnt/
rhymes: -ɑːnt
Forms: form: courantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French courante.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An old French dance from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era in triple metre.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The second movement of a baroque suite (following the allemande, and before the sarabande)
Related terms: courant
Wizard of Oz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wizards of Oz
Etymology: The name of a character from the 1900 book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, or any of its adaptations, about the journey of Dorothy through the magical Land of Oz in search of a way home.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, as a great and terrible being, the Kafkan patriarch is in fact more like the Wizard of Oz than the Lord God of Israel. The dread-inspiring aura with which the father surrounds himself is based not on power and glory, but on bluff and bravado.
ref: 1999, Raymond Armstrong, Kafka and Pinter Shadow-Boxing: The Struggle between Father and Son, Macmillan Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 163:
text: 2006 October 25, Joe Scarborough, interview with Bill Mahar, Scarborough Country, MSNBC
I'm not one of these people that say, “Listen, we should bow down to the Wizard of Oz ’cause we don’t know what’s going on behind that curtain.”
text: But as I interpret both Honest Abe and P. T. Barnum, the Wizards of Oz of the world have more influence than Congress or the Supreme Court.
ref: 2006, Mark Moorstein, The Perfect President, page 3:
text: “Sort of a 'Wizard of Oz,' pull the curtain back and show how the sausage is made,” Alexandra Pelosi says.
ref: 2022 December 29, Deepa Fernandes, Shirley Jahad, “35 years of 'Pelosi in the House': Alexandra Pelosi on her mother's historic career in Congress”, in WBUR:
glosses: A person, believed to have magical powers because of awe-inspiring displays, but, as ultimately revealed, ordinary.
examples: text: The goal of Neimo is to provide designers with a "Wizard of Oz" environment to observe and evaluate how users interact with multimodal interfaces.
ref: 1992, Wayne D. Gray, William E. Hefley, Dianne Murray, “NEIMO, A MULTIMODAL WIZARD OF OZ PLATFORM”, in Proceedings of the 1993 International Workshop on ..., page 204:
text: Once a preliminary application design is complete, a wizard-of-oz study can help test and refine the interface.
ref: 2006, E. K. Brown, Anne Anderson, Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics, volume 11, page 769:
text: A Wizard of Oz prototype is an incomplete system that a designer can simulate "behind a curtain" (usually by taking the place of a recognizer) while observing the reactions of real end users (see Figure 1).
ref: 2007, Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software ..., page 119:
topics: engineering
human-sciences
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: A person simulating the operation of a supposed intelligent device, usually in an experiment.
Derived terms: Wizard of Oz experiment
estradiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.tɹəˈdaɪˌɔl/
Forms: form: estradiols
form: oestradiol
form: E2
Etymology: From estra(triene) + diol.
Senses: examples: text: Gender-affirming hormone therapy may involve testosterone for trans people assigned female at birth (AFAB) and estradiol and anti-androgens for trans people AMAB.
ref: 2021, Jane Y. Xu, Michelle A. O’Connell, Lauren Notini, Ada S. Cheung, Sav Zwickl, Ken C. Pang, “Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators: A Potential Option For Non-Binary Gender-Affirming Hormonal Care?”, in Front Endocrinol, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A natural estrogenic hormone that is a phenolic alcohol estra-1,3,5-triene-3,17-diol (C₁₈H₂₄O₂) secreted chiefly by the ovaries of all vertebrates, that is a major and the most potent of the naturally occurring estrogens; the semisynthetic esterified compound is used medicinally to treat estrogen deficiency and breast cancer.
Derived terms: cloxestradiol
estradiol benzoate
estradiol undecylate
estradiol valerate
estramustine
estrapronicate
ethinylestradiol
fluorestradiol
fluoroestradiol
methylestradiol
mifepristone
quinestradol
oestradiol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiː.stɹəˈdʌɪ.ɒl/
ipa: /ˌɛ.stɹəˈdʌɪ.ɒl/
Forms: form: oestradiols
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of estradiol.
luteinizing hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: “Luteinizing” is derived from Latin luteus (“yellow”). The luteinizing hormone stimulates the development of the corpus luteum (literally “yellow body”), which is yellow in colour.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone, produced by anterior part of the pituitary gland, that stimulates ovulation and the development of the corpus luteum in female mammals, and the production of androgens by male mammals.
Synonyms: word: lutropin
word: LH
lutropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: luteinizing hormone
LH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LHs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of luteinizing hormone.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
coordinate_terms: H
HH
glosses: Initialism of light helicopter.
topics: business
entertainment
knitting
lifestyle
manufacturing
music
textiles
glosses: Initialism of left hand.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of light horse (typically preceded by the regiment number).
LH
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of lightly hinged.
luteinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of luteinize
luteinizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Causing development of the corpus luteum
Derived terms: luteinizing hormone
as Gaeilge
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The President will speak as Gaeilge on the need for reform.
glosses: in the Irish language.
luteinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: luteinizes
form: luteinizing
form: luteinized
form: luteinized
Etymology: From lutein + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To promote the development of the corpus luteum.
Derived terms: nonluteinized
Related terms: luteinization
lutein
follicle stimulating hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follicle stimulating hormones
form: FSH
form: follicle-stimulating hormone
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gonadotropic glycoprotein hormone, secreted in part of the pituitary gland, that stimulates the growth of ovarian follicles in female mammals, and induces spermatogenesis in male mammals.
Synonyms: follitropin
FSH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of follicle stimulating hormone.
leontomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leontomorphic
form: most leontomorphic
Etymology: From Latin leō (“lion”) + -morphic.
Senses: glosses: In the form of a lion.
protea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteas
Etymology: Named after Proteus, the Greek warden of sea-beasts, renowned for his ability to change shape.
Senses: synonyms: sugarbush
glosses: Any of many South African flowering plants, of the genus Protea, having colourful cone-shaped flower heads.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Protea caffra
word: common protea
taxonomic: Protea cynaroides
word: king protea
english: now Verconia protea
translation: now Verconia protea
taxonomic: Noumea protea
word: Noumea protea
taxonomic: Protea nerifolia
word: oleander-leaf protea
word: orange-banded protea
taxonomic: Capys alphaeus
word: orange banded protea
taxonomic: Partula protea
word: partula protea
alt: Phalaenea protea
word: phalaena protea
alt: Leucospermun cordifolium
word: pin-cushion protea
taxonomic: Protea cryophila
word: snow protea
behindhand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more behindhand
form: most behindhand
form: behind-hand
Etymology: From behind + hand.
Senses: glosses: Belatedly, tardily.
glosses: In debt, or in arrears.
Synonyms: sense: belatedly
word: late
word: belatedly
belittlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belittlements
Etymology: From belittle + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: denigration
disparagement
glosses: an act of belittling
brollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brolly
belles-lettres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛlˈlɛtɹ(ə)/
Forms: form: belles lettres
form: belles-letters
form: belle-lettre
Etymology: Borrowed from French belles-lettres (“fine writings”), a parallel construction with the beaux arts (“fine arts”). Littré considered the belles-lettres to embrace grammar, rhetoric, and poetry. Sense embracing all of the humanities under the influence of Latin literae humaniores.
Senses: glosses: The humanities.
examples: text: That vapid, half naturalized term ‘belles-lettres,’ which has had some currency as a substitute for the term ‘literature.’
ref: a. 1854, Henry Reed, Lectures on English Literature, 1878 edition, page 34:
synonyms: polite literature
glosses: Literature, particularly light compositions valued for their aesthetic properties.
glosses: Literary studies, particularly literary aesthetics.
Derived terms: belle-lettrist
Related terms: belletrist
belletristic
belles lettres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of belles-lettres.
belletrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belletrists
Etymology: Borrowed from German Belletrist, coined by Goethe. Equivalent to belles-lettres + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres
Derived terms: belletristic
belletristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛl.lɛˈtɹɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more belletristic
form: most belletristic
Etymology: From belletrist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: […] if they do not owe their allegiance to shamanism or Buddhism, then most surely they commit themselves to some perverse form of Confucianism or belletristic foolishness.
ref: 1986, Aizawa Seishisai (Translated by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi), Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825, Harvard University Press, page 169
text: The guest list was a roll call of belletristic London.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 229:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of belles-lettres.
examples: text: I had already concluded that not one of my writings was publishable, having myself analyzed the faults of my belletristic production.
ref: 1992, Isaac Bashevis Singer (Translated by Leonard Wolf), The Certificate, Farrar Straus Giroux, page 1
glosses: Written or appreciated for aesthetic value rather than content
Derived terms: belletristically
Related terms: belletrist
bellman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellmen
Etymology: From Middle English belleman, equivalent to bell + man.
Senses: glosses: A town crier.
examples: text: In addition to opening doors, I would be expected to assist the bellmen and the valet parkers in tagging luggage, ticketing cars and directing limo traffic.
ref: 2009 January 24, Harry Hurt Iii, “The Inaugural Glamour as Seen From a Taxi Stand”, in New York Times:
glosses: A bellhop or bellboy.
Derived terms: bellmanship
bellyful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellyfuls
form: belliesful
Etymology: From belly + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill one's belly; a large portion of food eaten.
examples: text: She gave me a bellyful of abuse when I arrived home late.
glosses: An undesirably large quantity of something.
Related terms: bellyload
belt-tightening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belt-tightenings
form: belt tightening
Etymology: From tighten one's belt.
Senses: examples: text: By Mr. de Blasio’s third year in office, the city was employing 287,002 full-time workers, more than at any other point in its modern history, and the number continued to rise until the pandemic. The head count fell to about 313,000 as of September because of belt tightening but is expected to grow in the coming year.
ref: 2021 December 31, Emma G. Fitzsimmons, “De Blasio’s Costly Legacy: The Biggest City Work Force Ever”, in The New York Times:
text: "We need to avoid going cap in hand to government all the time to get the capital projects and rail improvements that we all want." That's the message from SLC Rail Strategy Director Ian Baxter, who has instead called on industry stakeholders, local authorities, and other scheme sponsors to be more "financially innovative" in response to economic belt-tightening in Whitehall departments.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Industry urged to be more innovative on rail funding”, in RAIL, number 971, page 18:
glosses: A reduction in expenditure, often as a result of financial restrictions.
belt-tightening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more belt-tightening
form: most belt-tightening
form: belt tightening
Etymology: From tighten one's belt.
Senses: examples: text: The message coming out of 10 and 11 Downing Street is that a belt-tightening autumn statement will include both tax increases and public spending cuts. Ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s announcement on 17 November , the pitch is being carefully rolled.
ref: 2022 November 1, Larry Elliott, “Jeremy Hunt’s austerity plans likely to create a strong sense of deja vu”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Causing or involving a reduction in expenditure.
Related terms: belt-tightened
belt-tightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belt tightening
Etymology: From tighten one's belt.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belt-tighten
benedictory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benedictory
form: most benedictory
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the form of a benediction.
glosses: Giving thanks.
benefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnɪˈfakʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: benefactions
Etymology: From Latin benefactiōnem, from benefacere (“to benefit”).
Senses: examples: text: We all feel that sleep is a benefaction [translating Wohlthat] to our psychical life, and the obscure awareness of the popular mind is clearly unwilling to be robbed of its prejudice that the dream is one of the ways in which sleep confers its benefactions.
ref: 1999, Sigmund Freud, translated by Joyce Crick, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford, published 2008, page 70:
glosses: An act of doing good; a benefit, a blessing.
glosses: An act of charity; almsgiving.
Synonyms: word: almsdeed
word: almsgiving
word: benefaction
word: donation
word: oblation
Hypernyms: word: bestowal
Related terms: word: affordment
benignity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈnɪɡnəti/
Forms: form: benignities
Etymology: From Middle English benignite, from Old French benignité, from Latin benignitās.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e muſt not take this mercifull indulgence given to our defectuoſities, as a diſpenſation for the ſordidnes of our loves, but rather in a holy effect and contention of gratitude, ſtrain to love God the more purely, and irreſpectively to our ſelves, in regard of the tranſcendent benignity of this diſpenſation.
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fourteenth Treatise. The Test and Ballance of Filial and Mercenary Love. §. II. Mercenary Love Defined, and the Relying Much on It Disswaded.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 186:
text: […] and presented her, with pride not less than pleasure, to their noble visitant, who, although surprised by the youthfulness of her countenance (rendered the more striking from her late illness), thought that its gentle benignity augured well for his future hopes, […]
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter L, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: The state of being benign.
glosses: A benign act.
Synonyms: benignancy
benignness
Related terms: benign
benignly
benumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of benumb
benumbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more benumbed
form: most benumbed
Senses: glosses: Lacking sensation; numb.
glosses: Lacking emotion or interest; dulled.
Derived terms: benumbedness
berrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more berrylike
form: most berrylike
Etymology: From berry + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Black crowberry. Empetrum nigrum. Crowberry Family. Fruit. — The black drupe is berrylike, globular, and incloses six to nine seedlike nutlets with a seed in each. The calyx is at the base and the stigma is at the apex. The drupes are solitary in the leaf axils. They are juicy, acid, edible, and serve as food for the Arctic birds.
ref: 1905, Maude Gridley Peterson, How to Know Wild Fruits: A Guide to Plants When Not in Flower by Means of Fruit and Leaf, Macmillan, page 202:
synonyms: berryish
glosses: Resembling a berry.
beseecher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beseechers
Etymology: From beseech + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who beseeches.
besieger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: besiegers
Etymology: From besiege + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For a time, it was the only Royalist stronghold between London and Exeter, but it fell at last when a member of the garrison turned traitor and admitted the Parliamentary besiegers who destroyed it with gunpowder.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 134, about Corfe Castle:
glosses: A person who besieges.
Synonyms: sieger
bespangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bespangles
form: bespangling
form: bespangled
form: bespangled
Etymology: From be- + spangle.
Senses: examples: text: Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
text: He it was who had bespangled the soils with russet leaves and reeds and who had breathed the breath of life into beings.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 20:
glosses: To cover something with spangles.
bespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊkən
Senses: glosses: past participle of bespeak
bespoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊkən
Senses: glosses: betrothed or engaged to be married
Related terms: spoken for
bestridden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bestride
beveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bevelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bevel
beveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: bevelled
Senses: glosses: Having a bevel, especially at an edge
Derived terms: nonbeveled
unbeveled
bewhiskered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bewhiskered
form: most bewhiskered
Etymology: From be- + whiskered or bewhisker + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: […] another was an old, bewhiskered hobo, […]
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “On the Trail”, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC, part II, page 246:
glosses: Having whiskers
Synonyms: whiskered
whiskery
Related terms: mustachioed
blameshift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blameshifts
form: blameshifting
form: blameshifted
form: blameshifted
Etymology: From blame + shift.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To blame another for one's own wrong-doing. Blameshifting can be caused by pointing the finger at another when trying to save one's own skin.
Q.E.D.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjuːiːˈdiː/
ipa: /ˌkjuˌiˈdi/
Forms: form: Q.E.D.s
form: QED
Etymology: From Late Latin QED, from Latin quod erat demonstrandum.
Senses: examples: text: We all go in for the dolce here except you, and you're such a patent machine for turning out Q.E.D.s by the dozen, that you can no more help working than the bedmaker can help taking my tea and saying the cat did it,[…]
ref: 1867, Ouida [pseudonym; Maria Louise Ramé], “The General’s Match-making; or, Coaches and Cousinship”, in Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 233:
text: The same thing, I believe, that was lacking in Let Freedom Ring—lack of dramatic integration, lack of dramatic intensity, lack of all those elements, call them what you will, which make a play a play and not a tract, and certainly not a Q.E.D. thesis.
ref: 1936 April, Nina Melville, “The Theatre”, in V[ictor] F[rancis] Calverton [pseudonym; George Goetz], editor, The Modern Monthly: An Independent Journal of Radical Opinion, volume IX, number 9, →OCLC, page 27, column 1:
glosses: A certain fact or scenario that proves an argument or proposition; a justification.
exsiccata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exsiccatum
exsiccata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exsiccatae
Senses: examples: text: This consists of over 1000 specimens from different parts of the state , made by various collectors, and forms a nucleus of an exsiccata of the Uredinales of Washington.
ref: 1925, Puget Sound Marine Station Publications, volume 4, Puget Sound Biological Station, page 274:
text: The exsiccatae formed a genre ideally suited to the observational skills of these most local of collectors.
ref: 2011, David N. Livingstone, Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science, page 297:
glosses: A set of dried specimens such as that in a herbarium.
power sharing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power-sharing
Senses: examples: text: In particular the power sharing and consensus mechanisms enshrined in the process have been designed to ensure that the politicians engage in a continuous balancing process . . .
ref: 2002, Mari Fitzduff, Beyond Violence: conflict resolution process in Northern Ireland:
glosses: The sharing of power by two governments, or two political parties, especially in a disputed territory
stere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steres
Etymology: From French stère, from Ancient Greek στερεός (stereós, “solid”), because the unit was used for solid commodities such as firewood.
Senses: examples: text: It will be observed, that in this system it is only necessary to remember the metre, are, litre, and stere, all the others having certain relations to these, being equal to them taken 10, 100, 1000, &c. times, […]
ref: 1814, Peter Barlow, A New Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary:
glosses: A measure of volume used e.g. for cut wood, equal to one cubic metre.
Related terms: cord