cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Inga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋɡə/
Etymology: From Danish, Norwegian, Swedish Inga etc., all from Old Norse Inga.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Old Norse.
shinobi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shinobi
form: shinobis
Etymology: From Japanese 忍び (しのび, shinobi), from 忍ぶ (しのぶ, shinobu, “to conceal oneself”).
Senses: glosses: A male ninja.
Synonyms: ninja
Coordinate terms: english: a female ninja
translation: a female ninja
word: kunoichi
english: a warrior that practices ninjitsu
translation: a warrior that practices ninjitsu
word: ninja
alt: the martial art of a ninja
word: ninjutsu
roman: the martial art of a ninja
alt: the martial art of a ninja
word: ninjitsu
Related terms: shinobi-iri
ninja star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninja stars
Senses: glosses: A shuriken.
Synonyms: shuriken
throwing star
unforgotten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + forgotten.
Senses: examples: text: He pushed his mother’s legs, retribution for some unforgotten slight.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 339:
glosses: Not forgotten; still remembered.
unforgotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-forgotten
Etymology: From un- + forgotten.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unforget
ricercare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌriːt͡ʃəɹˈkɑːɹ(eɪ)/
Forms: form: ricercares
form: ricercari
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ricercar.
ricercar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌriːt͡ʃəɹˈkɑːɹ(eɪ)/
Forms: form: ricercars
form: ricercare
Etymology: From Italian ricercare.
Senses: glosses: An instrumental musical composition, fugal in style but in a more serious character and with longer notes.
chalcedony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈsɛd.ə.ni/
ipa: /ˈkæl.səˌdoʊ.ni/
Forms: form: chalcedonies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin chalcēdōnius, from Ancient Greek χαλκηδόνιος (khalkēdónios), from Ancient Greek χαλκηδών (khalkēdṓn), cognate to Arabic كَرْكَنْد (karkand).
Senses: examples: text: Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […] . (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
ref: 2012 March 24, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2012, page 128:
glosses: A form of fine-grained quartz that is nearly transparent or has a milky translucence; it fractures conchoidally.
Synonyms: chalcedonite
Derived terms: chalcedoneous
chalcedonic
Related terms: word: calcedon
sense: noun: types of minerals
word: agate
word: chert
word: flint
word: moganite
word: conchoidal
word: conchoidally
word: break
word: fracture
word: flake
word: shatter
word: knapp
word: break
glacis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡleɪsɪs/
rhymes: -eɪsɪs
ipa: /ˈɡlæsi/
homophone: glassy (no trap-bath split)
rhymes: -æsi
Forms: form: glacises
form: glacis
Etymology: Borrowed from French glacis (“slippery surface”), derived from Old French glacier (“to glide; freeze”), the former from Latin glaciāre (“to freeze”), from glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin.
Cognates
* Medieval Latin glatia (“incline in front of a fortification”)
Senses: examples: text: The foam of these great ruins mounts in an instant to the ridge of the sand glacis, swiftly fleets back again, and is met and buried by the next breaker.
ref: 1880, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Old Pacific Canal: The Woods and the Pacific”, in Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, […], published 1892, →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: A gentle incline.
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A gentle incline.
A gentle sloping landform created by the deposition or erosion of material.
examples: text: [T]ook his place with solemn / Air 'midst the rest, who kept their valiant faces / And levelled weapons still against the glacis.
ref: 1823 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos VI.—VII.—and VIII., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto VIII, stanza XXXIV, page 128:
text: [T]heir hearts had failed them at the silence and the blaze of lighted ships from end to end of the harbour, with eerie beams of the searchlights revealing the bleakness of the glacis they would have to cross.
ref: 1922 (date written; published 1926), T[homas] E[dward] Lawrence, “Book II: Opening the Arab Offensive. Chapter XX.”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1937, →OCLC, page 130:
topics: architecture
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A gentle incline.
A gentle incline in front of a fortification which protects it from cannon fire and exposes attackers to more effective return fire from defenders.
synonyms: talus
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A gentle incline.
In full glacis plate: the angled armour plate on the front of a tank which protects it from projectiles; also (often nautical), such a plate protecting an opening (for example, on a ship).
glosses: A gentle incline.
A device for sorting mail which slides parcels across a sloped surface.
qualifier: postal
Hyponyms: risberm
Nahua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nahuas
form: Nahua
Senses: glosses: A member of the Nahuatl-speaking indigenous peoples of Mexico and El Salvador.
Nahua
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Nahuas.
Related terms: Nahuatlaca
CIDR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪː.dɚ/
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
homophone: cider stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: cedar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: examples: text: 192.168.1.35 and 192.168.1.252 are both valid addresses in the CIDR block 192.168.1.0/24, but 192.168.2.35 is not.
glosses: Acronym of Classless Inter-Domain Routing, normally an IP address notation such as 192.168.1.0/24 indicating a block of addresses; the number after the slash indicates how many bits are in the mask; bits to the right are not masked.
CIDR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.dɚ/
ipa: /ˈsaɪː.dɚ/
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
rhymes: -iːdə(ɹ)
homophone: cider stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: cedar stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: Initialism of controlled internal drug release (“technology for the controlled release of a hormone or drug, for example to release progesterone in beef cattle”).
classless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæsləs/
rhymes: -æsləs
Forms: form: more classless
form: most classless
Etymology: From class + -less.
Senses: examples: text: We lived in a classless state, where all were equal.
text: And you think you're so clever and classless and free / But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see
ref: 1971, “Working Class Hero”, in John Lennon (lyrics), John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band, performed by John Lennon:
glosses: Not divided into societal or economic groups.
examples: text: I arranged my timetable so that Friday would be a classless day.
glosses: Without class or classes.
glosses: Lacking in "class", style, aplomb, etc.
Derived terms: classlessly
classlessness
societal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [səˈsaɪ.ɪ.tɫ̩]
ipa: [səˈsaɪ.ə.tɫ̩]
ipa: [səˈsaɪ.ə.ɾɫ̩]
ipa: [səˈsɑe.ə.tɫ̩]
ipa: [səˈsɑe.ə.ɾɫ̩]
Forms: form: more societal
form: most societal
Etymology: From society + -al.
Senses: examples: text: While H5N1 flu is obviously lethal, some milder flus pose a greater societal threat, Professor Mathews says.
ref: 2010, Malcolm Knox, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 46
text: "It would also bring huge societal and economic benefits to all the regions of Britain, not just to London - helping the Government with its 'levelling up' agenda."
ref: 2023 July 26, Ben Jones, “EU open access growth offers pointers for UK hopefuls”, in RAIL, number 988, page 33:
glosses: Of or pertaining to society or social groups, or to their activities, customs, etc.
double point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double points
Senses: examples: text: As with the printers a full-point, a double point or colon, and a triple point, are each of them single types, the matter was still more simplified.
ref: 1882, Henry Bradshaw, Address at the opening of the fifth annual meeting of the Library Association:
glosses: A symbol, such as a colon, composed of two points.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point on a curve at which there are two tangents (because it touches itself, or has a cusp).
curve deficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curve deficiencies
Senses: glosses: The difference between the number of double points on a curve and the maximum possible for a curve of that degree.
dispositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposition
dispositions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disposition
Twin Towers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Twin Towers
Senses: glosses: The two main buildings of the World Trade Center, destroyed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11, 2001.
examples: text: Ever since the Twin Towers, we all know that heroes come in uniforms of all kinds.
ref: 2009, Dan Pietsch, No Comfort, Idyllwild, California: Cabin Fever Publishing, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: The attack itself.
terra nullius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛɹə nʌˈlaɪ.əs/
Forms: form: terrae nullius
Etymology: From Latin terra nūllīus (“nobody's land”).
Senses: examples: text: When Aboriginal people showed up which they inevitably did they had to be subjected, incarcerated or eradicated: to keep the myth of terra nullius alive.
ref: 1993, Patrick Dodson, ‘Welcome Speech to Conference on the Position of Indigenous People in National Constitutions’, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 146
text: Following the breakup of former Yugoslavia in 1991, seven new states emerged in the region with many border disputes that left some territories as terrae nullius, or no-man’s lands.
ref: 2015 May 24, Agence France-Presse, “Kingdom of Enclava: new micro-nation settles for spot on Croat-Serb border”, in The Guardian:
text: This overgrown and unremarkable little swamp is terra nullius. Under vaguely defined and loosely enforced international law, the first person who claims sovereignty over terra nullius can have it.
ref: 2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:
qualifier: international law
glosses: Empty land; land not legally belonging to anyone; no man's land.
Coordinate terms: res nullius
ogonek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəʊɡənɛk/
ipa: /ɒˈɡɒnɛk/
ipa: /ˈoʊɡənɛk/
ipa: /ɔˈɡɔnɛk/
rhymes: -ɒnɛk
Forms: form: ogoneks
Etymology: From Polish ogonek (literally “little tail”).
Senses: examples: text: The pangram “Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń fig” (To push a hedgehog or eight boxes of figs into that boat) highlights a few of the language-specific diacritical marks, such as L with stroke (ł) and ogoneks (ą, ę) necessary to write in Polish—demonstrating how a writing system can accommodate many languages with thorough character inclusion.
ref: 2023, Mia Cinelli, Giving Type Meaning: Context and Craft in Typography, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
hypernyms: diacritical hook
glosses: A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌̨⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
Coordinate terms: cedilla
divot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪvət/
ipa: /ˈdɪvɪt/
rhymes: -ɪvət
Forms: form: divots
Etymology: 1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
Senses: examples: text: Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool, as if a divot from a green golf-links had come sailing in at the office window, but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 8, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155:
text: Soon, thick dark tufts of hair began to spread across his scalp, hanging over his ears, a moor of unruly divots which he was first unable to tame and with time willingly cultivated.
ref: 2007, Lewis Crofts, chapter 1, in The Pornographer of Vienna, London: Old Street, page 4:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A torn-up piece of turf, especially by a golf club in making a stroke or by a horse's hoof.
examples: text: In these coldest hours before dawn, from three until six, I take up my knife again and hack at the chockstone. I continue to make minimal but visible progress in the divot.
ref: 2004, Aron Ralston, 127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Simon and Schuster, published 2011, page 68:
glosses: A disruption in an otherwise smooth contour.
topics: astronomy
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A drop in a graph between two linear portions (example)
glosses: The space between two pillows.
Derived terms: fail and divot
feal and divot
divot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪvət/
ipa: /ˈdɪvɪt/
rhymes: -ɪvət
Forms: form: divots
form: divoting
form: divoted
form: divoted
Etymology: 1530s, Scots divot (“turf”), also spelt devat, diffat, and the earliest form (1435), duvat(e), from Scottish Gaelic dubhad, a reduced form of dubh-fhàd, literally “black sod” (compare fàl (“turf, sod”)).
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To tear up pieces of turf from, especially with a golf club in making a stroke.
Nablus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæbləs/
ipa: /ˈnɑːbləs/
enpr: năb􂀽'ləs
enpr: nä􂀽'bləs
Forms: form: Nabulus
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish نابلس (Nablus) and Arabic نَابُلُس (Nābulus), from Byzantine Greek Νεάπολις (Neápolis), from Ancient Greek νέᾱ́ (néā́, “new”) + πόλῐς (pólĭs, “city, city-state”). Doublet of Nabeul, Naples, Napoli, Neapoli, and Neapolis.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Nablus governorate, West Bank, Palestine.
glosses: A governorate of the West Bank, Palestine. Capital: Nablus.
Coordinate terms: Shechem
Related terms: Nabulsi
superexcellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuːpəˈɹɛksələnt/
ipa: /ˌsuːpəˈɹɛksɪlnt/
Forms: form: more superexcellent
form: most superexcellent
Etymology: From super- + excellent.
Senses: examples: text: …[Y]our Latin poems, which, in my opinion, both for invention and elocution, are verie delicate and superexcellent.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in J. C., editor, The Works of Edmund Spenser, New edition, Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 190 Chestnut Street, published 1857, page 370:
glosses: Uncommonly excellent; of supreme excellence.
glosses: Better than excellent.
Garifune
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Garifuna.
throve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /θɹəʊv/
ipa: /θɹoʊv/
rhymes: -əʊv
Senses: examples: text: The melons, pumpkins, and cucumbers throve well on a sandy patch in Doctor's Gully, which was the first site chosen for an experimental garden.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 122:
glosses: simple past of thrive
examples: text: But having now done with theſe Excreſcencies of Spain, from whence they pretend to have originally ſprung, let us ſee how thoſe which they lay claim to for their Anceſtors, have throve in their aversion to Induſtry.
ref: 1706, A Collection of State Tracts, Publiſh'd during the Reign of King William III, volume 2, page 134:
text: I have found my Po-poplars, even in this dry year, to have throve the better for a pretty free trimming.
ref: 1802, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 71, page 426:
text: Areca-nuts and betel-vines in inconsiderable quantities seem to have throve.
ref: 2001, Hamlet Bareh, The Economy of Meghalaya: Tradition to Transition, Spectrum Publications, page 90:
glosses: past participle of thrive
Last Judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Last Judgment
form: Last Judgement
Senses: examples: text: Kill not the moth nor butterfly, / For the last judgement draweth nigh.
ref: c. 1801–3, William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence”, in The Pickering Manuscript:
text: Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
ref: 1956, Albert Camus, La Chute [The Fall]:
english: The Fall
translation: The Fall
synonyms: apocalypse
Apocalypse
Final Judgment
Great Assize
glosses: The judgement day.
Related terms: crack of doom
uncongenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncongenial
form: most uncongenial
Etymology: From un- + congenial.
Senses: glosses: Not congenial, compatible or sympathetic.
glosses: Not appropriate; unsuitable.
examples: text: He found office life uncongenial, and eventually left the company.
text: A few days brought time into that general routine of small observances which make up ordinary existence; but never had Francesca felt herself in a more uncongenial atmosphere.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 147:
text: However, they were all waiting - all the sixteen or twenty pilgrims of them - for something; and upon my word it did not seem an uncongenial occupation, from the way they took it, though the only thing that ever came to them was disease - as far as I could see.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 213:
glosses: Not pleasing; disagreeable.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Incapable of being grafted.
ENSO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of El Niño/La Niña-Southern Oscillation.
matter-of-factly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmætəɹ əv ˈfækt.li/
Etymology: From matter-of-fact + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "I took the liberty of inviting somebody else to have dinner with us," Stallman said, matter-of-factly, giving me the same cat-like smile he gave me back in that Palo Alto restaurant.
ref: 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, Epilogue:
glosses: As though stating a fact.
examples: text: He was not of the East; and he came of a breed who fought devils and wizards as promptly and matter-of-factly as they battled human foes.
ref: 1934, Robert E. Howard, The People of the Black Circle:
glosses: As though the situation is normal and not unusual; not dramatically or fancifully.
Synonyms: sense: as though the situation is normal
word: clinically
sense: as though the situation is normal
word: dispassionately
Related terms: as a matter of factly
matter-of-fact
fact of the matter
fancifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fancifully
form: most fancifully
Etymology: From fanciful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fanciful manner.
lead someone down the garden path
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads someone down the garden path
form: leading someone down the garden path
form: led someone down the garden path
form: led someone down the garden path
Senses: examples: text: They all have been leading us down the garden path about health care.
glosses: Synonym of lead someone up the garden path.
synonyms: word: lead someone up the garden path
gold-copper ore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gold-copper ores
Senses: glosses: Any gold ore that has a high copper content and therefore needs special processing before the normal cyanide process.
gangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganglers
Etymology: From gangle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm Robert Rampart Junior," said a nine-year-old gangler, "and we want it pretty blamed quick."
ref: 1993, Gardner R. Dozois, Modern Classics of Science Fiction:
text: ...it had spawned this elegant square-jawed young gangler, this inspired, easy student...
ref: 1994, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Fat Art Thin Art:
text: ...he was a "loping creature who looked about seven feet tall" and "had the authoritative stoop of a gangler who is born to mastery."
ref: 1999, James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, editors, The Cinema of Tony Richardson: Essays and Interviews:
text: Everybody went: the spry, the shy, the podge, the gangler, the future electronic scientist, the future cop who would one night kick a diabetic to death...
ref: 2000, Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: short stories, prose, and diary excerpts:
text: Yet was it "down in the teen dump," as her cousin Eustace, an older gangler of like temperament, had called it, that she'd acquired a lifelong habit of feeling always more the observer than the observed?
ref: 2002, Hortense Calisher, Sunday Jews:
glosses: One who gangles or is gangly.
philomel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philomels
Etymology: From philo- + mel(os).
Senses: examples: text: As Philomel in summer's front doth sing.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet CII”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: And lonely Philomel, still waking, sings.
ref: 1713, Anne Finch, A Nocturnal Reverie:
text: And Philomel becometh dumb.
ref: 1600, Sir Walter Raleigh, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd:
glosses: The nightingale.
glosses: A musical instrument similar to the violin, but having four steel-wire strings.
Related terms: Philomela
pitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate.
glosses: Having had the pits removed.
raw_tags: of fruit
examples: text: Forming a fifth bay alongside the main maintenance area is a running shed, 320ft long and 69ft 6in wide, with four roads pitted for a length of 229ft; [...].
ref: 1961 December, “The S.R.'s new electric m.u. maintenance depot at Ashford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 757:
glosses: Provided with one or more inspection pits. (of a maintenance area)
Derived terms: nonpitted
pitted-shelled turtle
pitted tubeshoulder
pockpitted
unpitted
pitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pit
pitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pittings
Senses: glosses: The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.
examples: text: Test pittings were carried out prior to the main excavation.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The digging of a pit.
pitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pit
Derived terms: antipitting
nonpitting
pitting corrosion
pitting resistance equivalent number
menaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of menace
menaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: subject to menaces; threatened
Derived terms: unmenaced
homilies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homily
monolithically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more monolithically
form: most monolithically
Etymology: From monolithic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The monolithically consistent way in which the policy has been presented, including in a string of important cases, has been shown to be untrue.
ref: 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News, retrieved 06 Jul 2025:
glosses: In a monolithic manner.
safeguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safeguard
safeguards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of safeguard
plestor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plestors
Etymology: Alteration of Middle English *pleystow, from Old English pleġstōw (“playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place”). More at playstow.
Senses: examples: text: At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.
ref: 1842, John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, Observations on popular antiquities:
glosses: An open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.
Related terms: playstow
offensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈfɛnsɪvli/
Forms: form: more offensively
form: most offensively
form: offencively
Etymology: From offensive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I am sure the hostess will leave off her list men and women who usually drink too much, the woman who gets mushy and tries to steal all the handsomest husbands, the man who offensively would take this opportunity to try to build up sales contacts, […]
ref: 1948, The American Magazine, volume 145, page 122:
text: The problem is that it would be difficult to use a joker offensively since you could never know how it was going to move, meaning it’d be most useful setting it up for potential queen/rook captures to disincentivize your opponent from moving those pieces.
ref: 2018 October 12, aabicus, “My 7 Favorite Fairy Chess Pieces”, in The Daily SPUF:
glosses: In an offensive manner.
officiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more officiously
form: most officiously
Etymology: From officious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Slipping then a pillow under me, that I might give him the fairest play, I guided officiously with my hand this furious battering ram, whose ruby head, presenting nearest the resemblance of a heart, I applied to its proper mark, which lay as finely elevated as we could wish
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: in an officious manner
offensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offensivenesses
Etymology: From offensive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Some slurs like “slut” and “retard” vary in their perceived offensiveness to those polled, but also include some incredibly offensive words like the “N-word.”
ref: 2011 September 21, Erica Ho, “Poll Finds Young People Aren’t Bothered by Slurs Used Online”, in Time:
glosses: The quality of being offensive.
offhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒfˈhændɪd/
ipa: /ɔfˈhændɪd/
ipa: /ɑfˈhændɪd/
Forms: form: more offhanded
form: most offhanded
form: off-handed
Etymology: Alteration of offhand, after off- + handed.
Senses: glosses: In a casual or curt style, without preparation or thought; impromptu, offhand.
Derived terms: offhandedly
offhandedness
off-hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-hours
Senses: glosses: A period when traffic is light
examples: text: Fist: So I get friendly with the whores in my off hours. So what? That's all I got left of the old days, thanks.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Afterlife Club, Omega:
glosses: time outside normal business hours
Related terms: rush hour
Seto Inland Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Seto Inland Sea
Senses: synonyms: Inland Sea
Seto Sea
glosses: A body of water that separates three of the main islands of Japan, i.e. Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu.
officeholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officeholders
form: office holder
form: office-holder
Etymology: From office + holder.
Senses: examples: text: But it’s an open question as to what happens if the officeholder is instead fired by the President.
ref: 2017 July 26, Laura Jarrett, “Who’s in charge of the Justice Department if Sessions goes?”, in CNN:
text: But even as he pledges financial support, Trump has not ruled out intervening in primaries to bolster challengers against Republican officeholders he perceives as insufficiently loyal.
ref: 2025 February 27, Steve Contorno and Sarah Ferris, “Trump plans to wield cash and endorsements to shape midterm elections”, in CNN:
hypernyms: roleplayer
<
person
glosses: A person who holds an office, especially one appointed or elected to a public office.
salbutamol sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The sulphate salt form of salbutamol used in the treatment of asthma via inhalation.
Synonyms: word: albuterol sulfate
officialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officialisms
Etymology: From official + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations
glosses: Officials collectively
Related terms: jobsworth
officiant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈfɪʃi.ənt/
Forms: form: officiants
Etymology: From Medieval Latin officiāns, present participle of officiō, officiāre (“to perform a duty or service”) (not to be confused with Classical officiō, officere (“to obstruct, hinder”)), a denominal verb from officium (“duty, service”).
Senses: glosses: A person who officiates at a religious ceremony (other than the Eucharist)
glosses: A person who officiates at a civil (non-religious) wedding ceremony.
Related terms: celebrant
sulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfates
Senses: glosses: plural of sulphate
sulphates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sulfates
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sulphate
officiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officiators
Etymology: From officiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who officiates.
officiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: officiousnesses
Etymology: From officious + -ness.
Senses: examples: ref: 1613, Joseph Hall, A Farewell Sermon:
text: Mrs Palmer, and her furbelowed daughters-in-law, who will probably carry enough of the scarlet fever about them, to remind you unpleasantly of the officiousness which preserved the lives of three daughters, when two might have been parted with advantageously enough.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 224–225:
text: emulatory officiousness
glosses: The quality of being officious.
Synonyms: beadledom
off-key
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-key
form: most off-key
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Above or below the correct note sequence; especially a vocalist out of sync with a separately recorded musical accompaniment
glosses: Not harmonious, or out of accord.
off-key
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more off-key
form: most off-key
Senses: examples: text: The way your smile just beams / The way you sing off-key / The way you haunt my dreams / No, no—they can't take that away from me
ref: 1937, “They Can't Take That Away from Me”, Ira Gershwin (lyrics), George Gershwin (music):
glosses: An inaccurate note sequence that is either above or below where it is intended to be.
Related terms: offkey
offkey
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more offkey
form: most offkey
Senses: glosses: in an off-key manner
off-ramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-ramps
form: offramp
Etymology: From off + ramp.
Senses: synonyms: word: exit ramp
word: off-slip
coordinate_terms: on-ramp
glosses: A segment of roadway that directs vehicular traffic from a freeway onto local roads.
examples: text: And at least for now, there is no discernible off-ramp for the Russian leader short of declaring a cease-fire or pulling back his forces — steps he has so far shown no interest in taking.
ref: 2022 March 4, David E. Sanger, Eric Schmitt, Julian E. Barnes, “Washington’s Newest Worry: The Dangers of Cornering Putin”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: An adviser to the Ukrainian government said the comments showed that attempts to negotiate with Putin or find an “off-ramp” from the conflict for Putin, as French president, Emmanuel Macron, has sought to do, were misguided.
ref: 2022 June 10, Andrew Roth, “Putin compares himself to Peter the Great in quest to take back Russian lands”, in The Guardian:
text: Mr. Katzenberg, who moonlights as a top Biden official and has worked with Mr. Clooney on philanthropy for decades, reached out to him to see if there was an off-ramp, according to three people familiar with the matter.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An exit strategy.
Related terms: slip road
off-site
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From off- + site.
Senses: examples: text: For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
glosses: away from a particular site
off-site
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From off- + site.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike South Heath, where the tunnel segments are made on site, the ones used here are made off-site and brought in by road.
ref: 2022 March 23, Paul Bigland, “HS2 is just 'passing through'”, in RAIL, number 953, page 41:
glosses: away from a particular site
off-the-rack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: off + the + rack
Senses: topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Ready-made in a range of standard sizes.
Synonyms: word: off-the-peg
word: ready-to-wear
off-the-record
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Despite knowing that getting rid of Koeman was going to necessitate putting his hand very deep into what are currently very shallow pockets, Laporta changed tack a couple of weeks ago by summoning journalists for an off-the-record briefing about what was going to happen with the coach.
ref: 2021 September 22, Guillem Balagué, “Barcelona: The toxic battle ripping apart a European giant”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Unofficial.
glosses: Secret; clandestine.
off-the-record
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Unofficially.
glosses: Secretly, in secret, clandestinely.
offtrack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of off-track.
off-track
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: offtrack
Etymology: From off- + track.
Senses: glosses: Away from an intended route; wayward.
glosses: Conducted away from a racetrack.
raw_tags: of gambling
Related terms: sense: wayward
word: off the beaten track
sense: racetrack
word: trackside
ofttimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: oft times
form: oftimes
form: oft-times
form: oft-time
Etymology: From oft + times.
Senses: examples: text: The victim is an irresistable, insane subject of the peculiar trance, oblivious to his acts, and ofttimes unconscious of them afterward. During the attack he is in no way the same actor.
ref: 1895, Medical Review, volumes 30-31, page 423:
glosses: (elsewhere, archaic) Often, frequently.
Synonyms: oftentimes
reductase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈdʌk.teɪz/
Forms: form: reductases
Etymology: From reduct(ion) + -ase.
Senses: examples: text: disulfide reduction by glutathione is a three-step process, the last of which is catalyzed by glutathione reductase
ref: 2008, Louis J. Casarett, Curtis D. Klaassen, Casarett and Doull's toxicology: the basic science of poisons, McGraw-Hill Professional, page 187:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that chemically reduces its substrate.
Derived terms: dinitrogenase reductase
dinitrogen reductase
methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase
nitrite reductase
PETN reductase
sepiapterin reductase
reductases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reductase
polyacrylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyacrylamides
Etymology: From poly- + acrylamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of cross-linked polymers of acrylamide; used to form soft gels for making contact lenses etc.
acrylamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/
Forms: form: acrylamides
Etymology: From acryl + amide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide of acrylic acid, CH₂=CH.CONH₂; used in the manufacture of polyacrylamides.
Derived terms: bisacrylamide
polyadenylic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + adenylic acid.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymer of adenylic acid attached to mRNA before transportation to the cytoplasm.
Derived terms: polyadenylate
polyamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyamides
Etymology: From poly- + amide.
Senses: examples: text: For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.
ref: 2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2022:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.
Derived terms: aramid
homopolyamide
polyamidation
polyamide-imide
polyare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyares
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any pattern formed from a polyomino by removing half of each square such that the squares are still joined
polyaramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyaramids
Etymology: From poly- + aramid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer formed from an aromatic amide; they are very strong, and are used in bulletproof vests etc.
ruminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈruməˌneɪdɪv/
/ˈrumənətɪv/
Forms: form: more ruminative
form: most ruminative
Etymology: From ruminate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: They waited expectantly while he directed a ruminative yawn toward the white smiling moon.
ref: 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 5, in The Beautiful and Damned, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2011:
text: ‘It happened,’ returned the man, with a ruminative air, as he drew his right hand across his chin, and dipped the other in the pocket of his rough outer coat, ‘it happened somewhere about here as I reckon. I don’t think it can have been a mile from here.’
ref: 1864, Charles Dickens, chapter 12, in Our Mutual Friend, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2011:
text: The ruminative 'cello uttered two phrases of its own and then began a dialogue with the viola.
ref: 1970, Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander:
text: I found that the chore of reorganizing the artifacts of my professional life was pleasantly ruminative. It had a tonic effect, because it allowed me to reflect on the changes in my views over the years.
ref: 2010, Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, page 1:
synonyms: ruminous
meditative
thoughtful
pensive
reflective
antonyms: unthinking
impulsive
careless
glosses: Causing rumination or prone to it; thoughtful.
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of ruminants; chewing the cud.
raw_tags: of an animal
Derived terms: ruminatively
Related terms: contemplative
reflective
polycarbonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycarbonates
Etymology: From poly- + carbonate.
Senses: examples: text: The cloudiness of the windows on the cars, caused by the degradation of the polycarbonate material of which they are made.
ref: 2024 11, David Peter Alan, “Multilevel Cards to Get Their Trucks Overhauled, but What About the Windows?”, in Lackawanna Coalition Railgram:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of polymers of aromatic carbonates; they are used to make light, flexible alternatives to glass. Abbreviation: PC
polycentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polycentric
form: most polycentric
Etymology: From poly- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.
ref: 1988, Robert Jackall, “Chapter 1: Moral Probations, Old and New”, in Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers, Twentieth Anniversary edition, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Having many centres, especially centres of authority or control
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a chromosome, etc) Having multiple central parts
Derived terms: metapolycentric
polycentrically
Related terms: polycentrism
polycentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycentrics
Etymology: From poly- + -centric.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chromosome, etc. having multiple central parts.
polychete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polychetes
form: polychaete
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”) + χαίτη (khaítē, “chaeta”), equivalent to poly- + chaeta.
Senses: glosses: Any of many annelid worms, of the class Polychaeta, such as the lugworm; they have a segmented body with pairs of bristles on each segment.
reduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdjuːsɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈdusɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reduce
chocolate starfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chocolate starfish
Arubian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arubians
Etymology: From Aruba + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aruban.
Arubian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Arubian
form: most Arubian
Etymology: From Aruba + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aruban.
polychlorinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + chlorinated.
Senses: examples: text: Another environmental factor thought to be affecting some coastal birds, although comparatively little is yet known about its extent or origin, is the presence of marine pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and toxic heavy metals.
ref: 1986, Valerie M. Thom, “Coastal habitats”, in Birds in Scotland, London: T & AD Poyser, published 2011, →ISBN, page 25:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having many hydrogen atoms replaced by chlorine.
Derived terms: alt: PCB
word: polychlorinated biphenyl
alt: PCN
word: polychlorinated naphthalene
polychlorinated naphthalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpoʊliˌklɔrəˌneɪtəd ˌnæfˈθæliːn/
ipa: /ˌpɒlɪˌklɔːrɪneɪtɪd ˌnæfˈθæliːn/
Forms: form: polychlorinated naphthalenes
form: PCN
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a range of compounds manufactured by treating naphthalene with chlorine; they have a variety of properties and uses.
PCN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PCNs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polychlorinated naphthalene.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of penicillin.
glosses: Initialism of penalty charge notice: a notification of a fee for unauthorised parking of a vehicle.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of primary care network.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of percutaneous nephrostomy.
radial keratotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial keratotomies
Senses: glosses: an eye surgery procedure to correct myopia (near-sightedness) using a series of incisions in the cornea, radiating from a central point (hence radial).
RK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of radial keratotomy.
keratotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keratotomies
Etymology: From kerato- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical incision in the cornea.
Derived terms: radial keratotomy
photorefractive keratotomy
supra-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /s(j)uː.pɹə/
ipa: /su.pɹə/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin suprā- (“above, over, beyond”).
Senses: glosses: Above, over, on top; (anatomy, medicine) superior
glosses: Greater than, transcending
glosses: Intensely, extremely, or exceptional
Synonyms: sense: above
word: on-
sense: above
word: en-
sense: above
word: epi-
sense: above
word: super-
sense: above
word: sur-
sense: above
word: hyper-
word: super-
word: hyper-
word: ultra-
word: uber-
word: macro-
word: arch-
word: over-
word: mega-
word: maxi-
word: giga-
word: -zilla
word: grand
Related terms: hyper-
intra-
inter-
trans-
infra-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnfɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infra (“below”).
Senses: synonyms: sub-
hypo-
antonyms: super-
supra-
ultra-
glosses: below, beneath, inferior
Derived terms: infralapsarianism
infrapose
infrared
infrasonic
infraspecific
infrastructure
deluded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈluːdɪd/
homophone: diluted stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: more deluded
form: most deluded
Senses: examples: text: He was deluded to think that she cared in the slightest.
synonyms: delusional
glosses: Being affected by delusions.
Derived terms: deludedly
deludedness
undeluded
deluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈluːdɪd/
homophone: diluted stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delude
magnified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnɪfaɪd/
/ˈmæɡnəfaɪd/
Forms: form: more magnified
form: most magnified
Senses: examples: text: The image was magnified by a factor of eight.
glosses: Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
Synonyms: enlarged
Derived terms: unmagnified
magnified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmæɡnɪfaɪd/
/ˈmæɡnəfaɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of magnify