cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
stearine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stearines
Senses: examples: text: The solid and fixed oily bodies, or stearines, contain less water than the soft and delicate fats and fluid oils, while alcohol, the lowest of the class, contains as much as 39 per cent, of water, and is quite soluble in that fluid.
ref: 1831, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, volume 8, page 325:
text: 1835, Fat, entry in Andrew Ure, William Nicholson, A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy, page 463,
The margaric acid of the stearines had precisely the same capacity for saturation as that which was extracted from the soaps formed of fat.
text: Although the saturated glycerides that make up stearine are found in many kinds of oils, the amount of stearine found in cottonseed oil makes it rather unique.
ref: 1990, Lynn A. Jones, “Understanding Cottonseed Oil”, in David R. Erickson, editor, Edible Fats and Oils Processing, page 304:
text: 2002, (Indian) National Institute of Industrial Research, Modern Technology Of Oils, Fats & Its Derivatives, Delhi, page 71,
Virtually the only commercial production of vegetable oil stearines is from coconut oil and other lauric acid oils, which are processed like the graining and seeding of oleo stock or other animal fats, […] .
glosses: Alternative form of stearin.
square off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: squares off
form: squaring off
form: squared off
form: squared off
Senses: examples: text: Hey, man, don't square off on me with some bullshit.
ref: 1984, Daniel Petrie Jr., Beverly Hills Cop, spoken by Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy), Paramount Pictures:
text: When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr. [title]
ref: 2019 October 18, Thomas Meaney, “When James Baldwin Squared Off Against William F. Buckley Jr.”, in New York Times:
ref: 2023 September 7, “US, China square off on the South China Sea as Indonesia urges leaders to maintain peace”, in CNA:
synonyms: square up
antonyms: stand down
glosses: To get ready for a confrontation (debate, argument, fight).
examples: text: After the aeronautically inspired curvaceous designs of the 1930s and 1940s, many American automotive designs of the 1950s through 1970s were somewhat more squared off.
antonyms: round off
qualifier: industrial design
glosses: To increase the boxiness of (a design).
acerra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acerras
form: acerrae
Etymology: From Latin acerra.
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Rome, a small box for holding incense.
glosses: In Ancient Rome, a small sacrificial altar.
MDI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MDIs
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of medium-dependent interface.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of metered-dose inhaler.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of multiple document interface.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate.
Synonyms: sense: diphenylmethane diisocyanate
word: methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
MDI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Mount Desert Island.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: graphics
glosses: Initialism of Microsoft Document Imaging format.
topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
navy
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
software
war
glosses: Initialism of Mission Data Interface.
Wolverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wolverines
Etymology: From wolverine.
Senses: examples: text: [The term "Sucker" is] The cognomen of the Illinoians, answering to the Buckeye of Ohio, the Wolverine of Michigan, the Corn-cracker of Kentucky, &c.
ref: 1846, Eliza Wood Farnham, Life in Prairie Land, page 63:
glosses: A native or resident of the American state of Michigan.
glosses: Someone associated with the University of Michigan, for example as a student, alum, or sports team member, or as a fan.
Synonyms: sense: native or resident of Michigan
word: Michigander
imponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impone
logicboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logicboards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logic board.
impones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impone
expone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: expones
form: exponing
form: exponed
form: exponed
Etymology: From Middle English exponen, from Latin expōnō. Doublet of expose and expound.
Senses: examples: text: it belongs to you alone to expone the Covenant
ref: 1643, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Σκιαμαχία: or a Defence of a Petition tendered to the Lords of the Council of Scotland by certain Noblemen and Gentlemen:
glosses: To expound; to explain.
glosses: To expose; to imperil.
ecclesiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecclesia
Mecayapan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mecayapa
Etymology: From Spanish Mecayapan, from Nahuatl.
Senses: glosses: A town in Veracruz, Mexico.
glosses: A municipality, of which the town is the municipal seat.
deponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depone
depones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depone
BTEX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /biː tiː ˈɛks/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and ortho-, meta-, and para- xylenes: toxic VOCs commonly found together, used in the chemical analysis of air and water to determine their quality and purity.
Related terms: BTX
reponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repone
repones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repone
volatile organic compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volatile organic compounds
form: VOC
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: organic compound
glosses: Any organic chemical compound that can significantly vaporize under conditions of normal atmospheric temperature and pressure.
Related terms: outgassing
repone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repones
form: reponing
form: reponed
form: reponed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin reponere; prefix re- (“re-”) + ponere (“to place”).
Senses: examples: text: On 5th June Stephenson and Company presented a petition to be reponed, and the Sheriff pronounced an interlocutor reponing them.
ref: 1852, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Teind Court:
glosses: To replace.
glosses: To reply.
teopan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teopans
Senses: glosses: An Aztec temple.
neuropathic pain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropathic pains
Senses: examples: text: All of the neuropathic pain was back in her hands, a continuous sparkling flare, like being pricked by glass splinters.
ref: 2021, Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace, Tor, page 343:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pain caused by damage to nerves or by damage to the brain, brainstem, or spinal cord.
Related terms: nociceptive pain
psychogenic pain
interponed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interpone
interpones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interpone
frescoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frescoed
form: most frescoed
Etymology: From fresco + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Glamour for its own sake is not something I have ever been particularly interested in," Stella McCartney said backstage after her catwalk show. Which could sound like a facetious statement from a fashion designer who was, at that moment, standing among the marble-slabbed floors, elaborately frescoed ceilings and giant chandeliers of the Palais Garnier opera house, where the show was staged.
ref: 2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morley, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Oct 2022:
antonyms: unfrescoed
glosses: Painted with frescos ("an artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster").
Derived terms: semifrescoed
unfrescoed
frescoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fresco
Horn of Africa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Horn of Africa
form: HOA
Senses: synonyms: Horn peninsula
Horn
Horn region
glosses: A peninsula in East Africa, jutting into the Guardafui Channel.
nociceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nociceptors
Etymology: Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling noci-ceptor, from noceō + clipped form of receptor, signifying pain detection.
Senses: examples: text: He divides receptors into three classes— "nociceptors", such as the nerve-endings for pain and hunger, "beneceptors", such as the nerve-endings stimulated when sugar melts on the tongue, and "neutroceptors", such as the nerve-endings in the eye and ear, called " neutroceptors" because they receive more or less indiscriminately both pleasant and unpleasant messages.
ref: 1929, The Australasian Journal of Psychology and Philosophy, page 310:
text: The “beneceptors,” “nociceptors,” and "neutroceptors” generally signalled stimuli that were, respectively, beneficial, harmful, or neutral as regards the organism or its species.
ref: 1973, Behaviorism, page 42:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: nocisensor
antonyms: beneceptor
hypernyms: ceptor
glosses: A sensory receptor that sends signals that cause the perception of pain in response to a potentially damaging stimulus.
Related terms: nociceptin
nociception
nociceptive
Lorie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A less common spelling of Laurie, diminutive of the female given name Laura.
supersubstantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + substantial, after Latin supersubstantialis used by Jerome to render Ancient Greek ἐπιούσιος (epioúsios) in the Lord's Prayer.
Introduced in English (where ἐπιούσιος is otherwise rendered as "daily") by Thomas More in order to make a connection of the "daily bread" of the Lord's Prayer and the "heavenly and supersubstantial" bread of the eucharist.
Senses: examples: text: That heauenlye and supersubstancyall breadde and cuppe, beyng consecrate with that solemne benediction, is profitable to the lyfe and saluacyon of the whole man.
ref: 1534, Thomas More, A Treatise on the Passion:
text: Give us the supersubstantial bread—the bread of life.
ref: 1852, John Brown, Discourse & Sayings our Lord, I. iv. 245:
glosses: More than substantial, transcending all substance; spiritual.
dirty trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirty tricks
Senses: examples: text: Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick / Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick
ref: 2001, Bob Dylan, “Sugar Baby”, in Love and Theft:
glosses: An unkind trick.
glosses: Unethical or illegal tactics used against an opponent.
Synonyms: cheap trick
Derived terms: dirty trick vase
Related terms: low blow
quick lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quicklime.
timoroso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian timoroso.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (To be played) in a timid, hesitant manner.
Related terms: timorous
bradyseism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bradyseisms
Etymology: From brady- (“slow”) + seism.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: A gradual uplift or descent of part of the Earth's surface caused by the filling or emptying of an underground magma chamber and/or hydrothermal activity, particularly in volcanic calderas
Derived terms: bradyseismic
panic attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic attacks
Senses: examples: text: There was a client who was critical of me a few weeks back and it set off a panic attack.
text: I think I had a panic attack last night, a sense of rising panic and impending doom – chest tight, short of breath, shaking.
ref: 2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 33:
glosses: A sudden period of intense anxiety, mounting physiological arousal, fear, stomach problems and discomfort that are associated with a variety of somatic and cognitive symptoms.
Related terms: panic disorder
preved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preve
aquaduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aqueduct.
laughing-stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laughing-stocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of laughing stock.
rhymelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhymeless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being rhymeless.
dactylonomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæktɪlˈɒnəmi/
rhymes: -ɒnəmi
Etymology: From dactylo- + -nomy.
Senses: glosses: The use of one's fingers to express numbers.
hostesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hostesses
Senses: examples: text: Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of hostess.
likeableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: likeablenesses
Etymology: From likeable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The interview is “personality” oriented. The interviewer looks for likeableness, conformity, and sincerity in candidates.
ref: 1980, Richard Fischer Olson, “Interviewing: A Model”, in Managing the Interview: A Self-Teaching Guide, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, part 1 (Unpacking the Interview), page 19:
glosses: Alternative spelling of likableness.
Mary Sue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mary Sues
Etymology: From the name of an intentionally over-the-top character in the 1973 Star Trek parody fan fiction A Trekkie's Tale by Paula Smith.
Senses: examples: text: Bella may be a Mary Sue, but if we don't identify with her, and even if we do, there's no other interpretive place for us in the universe.
ref: 2010 August 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, “A Whole New World”, in The Atlantic:
text: She was a mashup of ideals that made her feel very fake; a Mary Sue who was popular, pretty, athletic, artistic, all the while loved by everyone who met her.
ref: 2015 January 20, Sian Cain, “Why a non-white Nancy Drew could be amazing”, in The Guardian:
text: So here's a radical suggestion: instead of being concerned about whether her Mary Sue flawlessness is a problem, why not, just this once, enjoy it for what it is?
ref: 2015 December 19, Tasha Robinson, “With Star Wars' Rey, we've reached Peak Strong Female Character”, in The Verge:
text: There is one, and only one, previously unheard of flaw that keeps Nanase from being the merriest of Mary Sues. That flaw is...
ref: 2022 August 18, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, Aug 18, 2022:
topics: lifestyle
synonyms: Sue
glosses: A fictional character, usually female, whose implausible talents and likeability weaken the story.
Hyponyms: word: Gary Stu
word: Marty Stu
Derived terms: Mary Sueish
Sueish
Suethor
Related terms: self-insert
undock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒk
Forms: form: undocks
form: undocking
form: undocked
form: undocked
Etymology: From un- + dock.
Senses: glosses: To remove (a ship) from a dock.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove (a ship) from a dock.
To depart a spaceship from a dock/berth/mount/mooring under its own power
examples: text: After I undock my laptop, I can run it for about six hours on battery power.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove from a docking station.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To drag (a user interface element, such as a toolbar) away from its fixed position so that it floats freely.
Coordinate terms: sense: ship, spaceship
word: unberth
sense: ship, spaceship
word: unmoor
Derived terms: undocking
docking station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: docking stations
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: docking port
glosses: A piece of hardware into which a laptop computer can be plugged for use as a desktop computer, peripherals such as the monitor being connected directly to the docking station.
Related terms: port replicator
dockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkəbəl
Etymology: From dock + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be docked.
dockable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkəbəl
Forms: form: dockables
Etymology: From dock + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Dockables also have the added advantage that if either of the two pieces is irreparably damaged, both do not have to be discarded. Most cameras sold to the professional market in the forseeable future will likely be of the dockable variety.
ref: 1992, Alan R. Richardson, Corporate and Organizational Video, page 180:
text: The ProShare 200 requires two cards to be installed, and many dockables didn't have two slots available.
ref: 1997, Computerworld, volume 31, number 8:
glosses: A device that can be docked to connect it to another.
trading pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trading pits
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An area on a trading floor that is a focus for trading certain items, often specially furnished with equipment or taking the shape of a small amphitheatre.
atresia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atresias
Etymology: From Latin atresia, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not, without”) and τρῆσις (trêsis, “perforation”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which a body orifice or passage in the body is abnormally closed or absent.
Synonyms: imperforation
impatency
Coordinate terms: blind
Derived terms: atresiaplasty
atresic
atretic
Pte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pte.
form: PVT
form: Pvt
form: Pvt.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of private (“soldier”).
trading floor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trading floors
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An indoor space in which exchanges of standardized goods such as securities are completed.
Pte.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ptes.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pte (“private (soldier)”).
fall back on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls back on
form: falling back on
form: fell back on
form: fallen back on
Senses: examples: text: Since first tossing its cartoonish, good-time cock-rock to the masses in the early ’00s, The Darkness has always fallen back on this defense: The band is a joke, but hey, it’s a good joke. With Hot Cakes—the group’s third album, and first since reforming last year—the laughter has died. In its place is the sad wheeze of the last surviving party balloon slowly, listlessly deflating.
ref: 2012 August 21, Jason Heller, “The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: So I fell back on the simple methods of the plainsman and Indian and jogged along on their trail.
ref: 1907, Bertrand W Sinclair, Raw Gold:
glosses: To turn to as a substitute; to rely on as a backup.
examples: text: If we do this, the consequences will fall back on you.
glosses: to be blamed on.
fall back upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls back upon
form: falling back upon
form: fell back upon
form: fallen back upon
Senses: glosses: To fall back on.
alphabetiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alphabetisers
Etymology: From alphabetise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of alphabetizer.
Americanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Americanises
form: Americanising
form: Americanised
form: Americanised
Etymology: From American + -ise.
Senses: glosses: British standard spelling of Americanize.
Derived terms: Americanisation
Americaniser
un-Americanise
fashion show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion shows
Senses: glosses: An event at which fashionable clothes are modelled for an audience.
fashion sense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Knowledge of how to dress fashionably.
fall under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls under
form: falling under
form: fell under
form: fallen under
Senses: examples: The botany handbooks in the library fall under Plant Biology.
glosses: To belong to for purposes of categorization.
false-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more false-hearted
form: most false-hearted
Senses: glosses: Disloyal, perfidious.
Derived terms: false-heartedly
false-heartedness
file type
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: file types
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of filetype.
extensionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extension + -less.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Lacking a file extension.
Derived terms: extensionlessness
funeral parlour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funeral parlours
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of funeral parlor.
confect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛkt/
Forms: form: confects
form: confecting
form: confected
form: confected
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnfectus, past participle of cōnficere, from com- (“together”) + facere (“to make”).
Senses: examples: text: The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.
text: The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.
text: [My joys] are still confected with some feares.
ref: 1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Aurora:
text: Of this alſo were confected the famous everlaſting Lamps and Tapers.
ref: 1677, Tho[mas] Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great. […], 4th edition, London: […] R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J[ohn] Wright, and R. Chiswell, →OCLC, page 309:
text: Ms. Williams, who confected book, music, and lyrics, credits Aesop for inspiring her "musical fable," but the light-weight, pastel little show owes more to Disney than to the ironic perceptions of Aesop.
ref: 1973 December 22, Jonathan M. Cross, “The Fag In The Fifth Row”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 5:
text: The 1227 provincial Council of Trier took a more admonitory approach, warning that a priest sinned mortally if he failed to confect the Eucharist properly, leading the people into idolatry by having them adore mere bread: Likewise the priest who celebrates mass should confect the body of Christ and read the Canon.
ref: 2015, Thomas M. Izbicki, The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law, page 114:
glosses: To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
examples: text: Not all the Ointments brought from Delos Ile; / Nor from the confines of ſeuen-headed Nile; / Nor that brought whence Phœnicians haue abodes; / Nor Cyprus wilde Vine-flowers, nor that of Rhodes, / Nor Roſes-oile from Naples, Capua, / Saffron confected in Cilicia; / Nor that of Quinces, nor of Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came.
ref: 1613, William Browne, “The Second Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. [The First Booke], London: […] Geo[rge] Norton, […], →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
Derived terms: unconfected
Related terms: confection
confectionary
confectionery
confectioner
confect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛkt/
ipa: /ˈkɒnfɛkt/
ipa: /kənˈfɛkt/
Forms: form: confects
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnfectum. Doublet of comfit, confetto, confit, and konfyt.
Senses: examples: text: Princes and Counties! ſurely a princely teſtimonie, a goodly Counte, Counte Comfect, a ſweete Gallant ſurely, O that I were a man for his ſake!
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], signature G3, verso:
text: Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a ſpoonful of them eaten in the morning faſting, and as many after each meal is a moſt admirable Remedy for ſuch as are troubled with Wind.
ref: 1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Caraway”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, pages 28–29:
text: She made salves and eyewaters, powders and confects, cordials and persico, orangeflower water and cherry brandy, each in its due season and all of the best.
ref: 1889, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Of Cornet Joseph Clarke of the Ironsides”, in Micah Clarke: […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co […], →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
crisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crisses
Senses: examples: text: and ſo paſſed thorow the ſtrait to 50. and 51. where he wintered, and once ſaw a man girded with a Criſſe, or Dagger of Mexico, or Iapon, whereby he gueſſed that hee was not farre thence.
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Relations of the Discoveries, Regions, and Religions, of the New World.] Of the North parts of the New World (Groenland, Estotiland, Meta Incognita, and other Places) vnto New Fraunce.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book VIII (Of New France, Virginia, Florida; New Spaine, with Other Regions of America Mexicana, and of Their Religions), page 624:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of kris.
supersubstantially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supersubstantially
form: most supersubstantially
Etymology: From supersubstantial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a supersubstantial manner
countercathexis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countercathexes
Etymology: From counter- + cathexis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The suppression or repression of mental energy.
supergood
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supergood
form: most supergood
Etymology: From super- + good.
Senses: glosses: Very good.
codepage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: codepages
form: code page
Etymology: From code + page, originally used in IBM's EBCDIC-based systems.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: CP
cp
coordinate_terms: codespace
glosses: A mapping to a particular character set, where there are several possible sets that share the same code points.
syncytia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syncitia
Senses: glosses: plural of syncytium
code page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code pages
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of codepage.
syncytium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɪnˈsɪʃiəm/
Forms: form: syncytia
form: syncitium
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σύν (sún, “with”) + κύτος (kútos, “vessel, cell”).
Senses: examples: text: These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia.
ref: 2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A mass of cytoplasm containing many nuclei; a multinucleate cell resulting from cell fusions of mononuclear cells (for example, the cells that make up animal skeletal muscle).
Synonyms: coenocyte
Derived terms: syncytiosome
quality-adjusted life year
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quality-adjusted life years
Senses: examples: text: The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a generic measure of health-related quality of life that takes into account both the quantity and the quality of life generated by interventions.
ref: 2014, Anthony J. Culyer, The Dictionary of Health Economics, 3rd edition, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 516:
topics: economics
medicine
sciences
glosses: A unit of measurement, equivalent to one year of life in perfect health, that can be used to decide whether a medical procedure is worthwhile for an individual.
Synonyms: QALY
QUALY
Related terms: DALY
disability-adjusted life year
healthspan
quality of life
synchondrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪŋ.kɒnˈdɹəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /ˌsɪnˌkɑnˈdɹoʊ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: synchondroses
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin synchondrōsis, equivalent to syn- + chondro- + -osis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of only slightly moveable articulation between bones joined by hyaline cartilage, as in the spinal vertebrae.
superpremium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: super-premium
Etymology: From super- + premium.
Senses: examples: text: Ben & Jerry's is getting fat on America's growing appetite for so-called superpremium ice cream, brands made with natural ingredients and plenty of butterfat. Häagen-Dazs, the ice cream that has the pseudo-Scandinavian name but is made in America by Pillsbury, pioneered the superpremium field and spawned such imitators as Prusen Gladje from Dart & Kraft and Alpen Zauber, which is produced by a small Brooklyn company. Americans last year gobbled an estimated 66 million gal. of superpremium ice cream, up about 12% from 1983.
ref: 1985, United States Congress, Congressional Record, The Congress, page 33391:
text: Together with other superpremium drinks, such as vintage port, Armagnac, Cognac, and bourbon, single-malt Scotch is being rediscovered by the same affluent white-collar professionals who rejected it a decade ago.
ref: 1991-1992, The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 37:
text: Clearly, the iPhone will have a major impact on the superpremium segment; Motorola’s Q, for example, will be outclassed.
ref: 2007, Harvard Business Review, Boston Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, page 115:
glosses: Of greatly superior quality, beyond premium.
superpremium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superpremiums
form: super-premium
Etymology: From super- + premium.
Senses: glosses: A product or brand of greatly superior quality, beyond premium.
symphysy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphysies
Senses: glosses: The fusion of two bodies, or two parts of a body
code point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: code points
form: codepoint
Senses: examples: text: In UTF-8, the number of bytes used to write a character to a file depends on the Unicode code point.
text: A code point is one entry in the Unicode character database. A code point is not the same as a character, depending on the meaning you give to “character.” What appears as a character on screen is called a grapheme in Unicode.
ref: 2009, Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan, Regular Expressions Cookbook, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Today, Unicode defines 1,112,064 code points, far exceeding the 2-byte capacity originally set aside for Unicode characters. A Unicode code point is simply an integer value that Unicode associates with a particular character symbol; you can think of it as the Unicode equivalent of the ASCII code for a character.
ref: 2020, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, 2nd edition, volume 1, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 102:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: code position
qualifier: especially Unicode
glosses: A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.
Related terms: codespace
combining character
combining mark
grapheme
grapheme cluster
barley sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barley sugars
Senses: glosses: A traditional British boiled sweet, yellow or orange in colour, with an extract of barley added as flavouring.
barley sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barley sugar
form: most barley sugar
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barley-sugar.
boiled sweet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiled sweets
Senses: glosses: A hard sweet, made by boiling sugar, which gradually dissolves when sucked.
Synonyms: word: hard candy
nitid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nitid
form: most nitid
Etymology: From Latin nitidus.
Senses: examples: text: Thus we restore Old pieces of Dirty Gold to a clean and nitid Yellow, by putting them into the Fire, and into Aqua-fortis, which take off the adventitious Filth that made that pure Metall look of a Dirty Colour.
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours:
text: mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...
ref: 1864, Francis P. Pascoe, “Longicornia Malayana”, in Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London, Third Series, Vol. III:
synonyms: word: nitty
glosses: Bright; lustrous; shining.
examples: text: yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!
ref: 1657, Thomas Reeve, God's Plea for Nineveh:
text: My sable friend, for he was an eccclesiastic, was, however, not nitid as usual. There was a looseness of trousers, and a sloppiness of shoe, that savoured no longer of St. James's-street.
ref: 1852, anonymous author, “Memoirs of a Man of the World”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXI:
glosses: Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: nitidity
alpha-beta pruning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An algorithm for pruning a search tree by eliminating any branch that is demonstrably inferior to a branch previously encountered.
search tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: search trees
Senses: examples: text: The red-black tree is a balanced binary search tree that has quite fast insert and delete operations and is always sorted.
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tree (data structure) set up to facilitate searching.
Hypernyms: tree
page down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pages down
form: paging down
form: paged down
form: paged down
Etymology: From the Page Down key on a keyboard that performs this function.
Senses: examples: text: As I paged down through the year-old comments, I came to one young man's posting, in which he casually mentioned that he was looking for a boyfriend.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: page up
glosses: To scroll down to the next page of content.
Synonyms: word: scroll down
english: Emacs and old IBM system
translation: Emacs and old IBM system
word: scroll up
page up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pages up
form: paging up
form: paged up
form: paged up
Etymology: From the Page Up key on a keyboard that performs this function.
Senses: examples: text: When I paged up or down, the text would sometimes get mangled and duplicated.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To scroll up to the previous page of content.
Synonyms: word: scroll up
english: Emacs and old IBM system
translation: Emacs and old IBM system
word: scroll down
whitefeller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whitefellers
form: whitefella
form: whitefellow
Etymology: From white + feller.
Senses: examples: text: In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.
text: "Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.
ref: 1842 February 16, The Inquirer, Perth, page 5, column 2:
text: The whitefellers did not let anyone but whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.
ref: 1959, Donald Stuart, Yandy, page 11:
text: ‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can′t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’
ref: 1992, Patricia Shaw, The Feather and the Stone, published 2011, unnumbered page:
text: In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky.
Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn′t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.
ref: 2010, Adrian Hyland, Gunshot Road, page 4:
coordinate_terms: blackfeller
glosses: A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
come forth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes forth
form: coming forth
form: came forth
form: come forth
Etymology: Analytic form of the earlier forthcome.
Senses: examples: text: Suddenly a man appeared and came forth out of the fog.
glosses: To move forward and into view, to emerge, to appear.
examples: text: Betty came forth with verification of his claims.
glosses: To volunteer to provide something.
Synonyms: forthcome
appear
what not
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This, following the democratic disposition of the times, was commonly conceived of as an elected body, a municipality, the parliamentary state or what not.
ref: 1931, H G Wells, What are we to do with our lives?:
glosses: Something of the kind, whatever (used to terminate a vague list).
convulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Causing or producing convulsions; convulsive.
convulsant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convulsants
Senses: glosses: Anything, such as a drug, that causes convulsions
Derived terms: anticonvulsant
chemoconvulsant
electroconvulsant
proconvulsant
subconvulsant
hob-nailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Benedict knew by the hob-nailed shoes it was Basil the blacksmith,
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: Alternative spelling of hobnailed.
vacantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vacant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Emptiness.
TGP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TGPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of thumbnail gallery post, a website that links to many galleries (of e.g. pornography) and provides a thumbnail image of each.
TV game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV games
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: An early type of video game, the predecessor of modern games consoles, consisting of a unit with a built-in controller that plugged into a television set.
rickrolling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rickroll
castory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin castor (“beaver”).
Senses: glosses: An extract from the glands of a beaver, reputed to have medicinal value.
glosses: A plant (probably the castor bean), or a preparation from this plant, reputed to have medicinal value.
glosses: The color of castory extract.
retro-colonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retro-colonial
form: most retro-colonial
Etymology: From retro- + colonial.
Senses: examples: a retro-colonial restaurant
glosses: Pertaining to a modern "retro" interpretation of the US colonial era.
bottomlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottomland
plot device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plot devices
Senses: glosses: An element introduced into a story, film, etc. to advance its plot.
Related terms: plot point
political football
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political footballs
Etymology: An allusion to being "kicked back and forth" by opposing politicians, like a ball.
Senses: examples: text: Last week the most curious sidelight on Winston Churchill's recent trip to Italy was the revelation that Sicily was once again becoming a political football at the toe of the Italian boot.
ref: 1944 September 11, “Foreign News: Free Sicily”, in Time:
text: It is a trial that no city in Florida wants to hold, a political football that has already bounced from Miami to Orlando to Tallahassee, back to Orlando.
ref: 1992 August 15, Larry Rohter, “Retrial of a Miami Policeman Could Test Judiciary on Race”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Nov 2012:
text: Obtaining approval for West Coast Main Line electrification south of Crewe became a political football in 1960.
ref: 2020 April 8, David Clough, “How the West Coast wiring war was won”, in Rail, page 58:
glosses: A contentious political issue or problem that is often debated or discussed, but that remains unresolved; an issue or problem which is avoided by authorities and handed off to others.
examples: text: Throughout the month preceding Bruno Richard Hauptmann's electrocution, Carter had relentlessly goaded New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman and his henchmen for playing political football with the...
ref: 1936 April 13, “The Press: Loudspeaker”, in Time:
text: The pope's visit to the Holy Land seemed to be a game of political football, with both the Israelis and the Palestinians claiming he was rooting for their team.
ref: 2000 March 25, Karen Armstrong, “A Pilgrim, Not a Pawn”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Nov 2012:
glosses: Ongoing unproductive wrangling or posturing between political factions, resulting in failure to deal with an issue or problem in a decisive or appropriate way.
neogamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neogamists
Senses: glosses: A person recently married; newlywed.
largando
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (To be played) gradually slower and broader.
handwash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handwashes
form: hand wash
form: hand-wash
Etymology: From hand + wash.
Senses: examples: text: Remove everyday germs and neutralise cooking odours with our antibacterial handwash.
text: Mum will always ask directly: “Amani, have you been washing your hands again?” Sounds like a strange question, doesn’t it? I mean, most parents would be pleased to have a hygienic child. But there’s that and then there’s using a whole bottle of handwash a day.
ref: 2017, Aisha Bushby, “Marionette Girl”, in A Change Is Gonna Come, London: Stripes Publishing, →ISBN, pages 32–33:
glosses: A liquid soap for washing the hands.
handwash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handwashes
form: handwashing
form: handwashed
form: handwashed
form: hand wash
form: hand-wash
Etymology: From hand + wash.
Senses: examples: text: Her mother pours Tide into a bucket and gently handwashes the stained garment.
ref: 2002, Jim Aitchison, “Procter & Gamble/Tide”, in How Asia Advertises: The Most Successful Campaigns in Asia-Pacific and the Marketing Strategies Behind Them, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, →ISBN, page 150:
text: She handwashed the crystal wineglasses we’d drunk from the night before.
ref: 2017, Jan Wong, “Maid in China”, in Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China, Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane Editions, →ISBN, page 285:
text: After a while, Hannah sent Sadie out to bring in the clothes from the line, which they’d handwashed instead of taking over to the Stolfutzes. It worked almost as well, and it took less time than loading up and riding.
ref: 2017, David Williams, “October 10”, in When the English Fall, Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Workman Publishing, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: Alternative form of hand wash.
Egaleo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Aigaleo.
Nea Smirni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Nea Smyrni.
Haidari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Chaidari.
Chaidario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Chaidari.
Chaidarion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Chaidari.
Haidario
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chaidari.
Haidarion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Chaidari.
Erimanthos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Erymanthos.
oh my life
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oh my days.
synonyms: word: oh my days
soft soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft soaps
Senses: glosses: Any jellyish soap made by cooking natural oils and fats with potassium hydroxide.
coordinate_terms: bar soap
glosses: Any fluid or semifluid soap.
glosses: Alternative form of soft-soap (“flattery, persuasion”).
Synonyms: sense: soap made with potassium
word: green soap
sense: soap made with potassium
word: potassium soap
Related terms: soft water
soft soap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: soft soaps
form: soft soaping
form: soft soaped
form: soft soaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft-soap.
softsoap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft-soap.
softsoap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: softsoaps
form: softsoaping
form: softsoaped
form: softsoaped
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of soft-soap.
sopite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /səˈpaɪt/
Forms: form: sopites
form: sopiting
form: sopited
form: sopited
Etymology: From Latin sopitus, past participle of sopire (“to put to sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:
text: The king's declaration for the sopiting of all Arminian heresies.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To put to sleep, or to quieten.
Derived terms: sopite syndrome
sopient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: soporific
palliasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palliasse
saltos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salto
caces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cace