cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
resurfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resurface
Brittney
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, variant of Brittany.
rewrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rewrite
rewrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewrite
rhymed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhyme
rousted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roust
savoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of savor
savoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savorings
Senses: examples: text: Mightn't one even begin to understand the manifold woes, predicaments, and estrangements of man—and the delights and savorings and homecomings—as nothing more nor less than the variables of the Delta phenomenon […]
ref: 1975, Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle […] :
glosses: The act by which something is savored.
shagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shagged
form: most shagged
Etymology: From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Senses: glosses: Having or covered with shaggy hair.
glosses: Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
glosses: Of garments and fabrics: having a rough or long nap.
glosses: Covered with scrub, trees, or rough or shaggy growth.
glosses: Jagged; having a rough, uneven surface.
glosses: Of hair: long; rough; shaggy.
shagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Old English sceacgede, from sceacga (“hair”), from Proto-Germanic *skaggiją (“beard, stem”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kek-, *(s)keg- (“to jump, move, hurry”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shag
shagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shagged
form: most shagged
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps related to fagged or to shag. Originally Kentish dialect according to Wright.
Senses: examples: text: No, I am shagged, for I know, / Jack Ragaboy, awhile ago, / Got sorely flogg'd for begging there; / The beadle had him to the may'r!"
ref: 1790, Edward Nairne, “The Beggars”, in Kentish Tales, 2nd edition, published 1824, page 51:
text: An Sal sung out, "why dis here wall, / It looks sa old an hagged; / I'm mortally afared 'twill fall / An I was deadly shagged.
ref: a. 1821, John White Masters, Dick and Sal at Canterbury Fair:
glosses: Extremely tired.
Derived terms: shagged out
slinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slink
slinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slinkings
Senses: examples: text: [A]t midnight, after wanderings that were but slinkings away from cheerfulness and light, I slunk to my bed.
ref: 1870–1871 (date written), Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “”, in Roughing It, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company [et al.], published 1872, →OCLC, page 428:
glosses: The act of one who slinks.
sniping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snipe
sniping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: snipings
Senses: examples: text: Although the army later returned control to civilian authorities, deaths from election clashes and terrorist bombings and snipings continued to occur, and became more frequent in the late 1970s.
ref: 2009, G. Bingham Powell, Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence:
glosses: A shooting from a concealed place.
Derived terms: stream sniping
sniped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snipe
soars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soar
soars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soar
snuggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snuggle
snuggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snuggle
snuggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of snuggle
Beulah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbjuːlə/
rhymes: -uːlə
Etymology: A biblical name applied to the land of Israel in Isaiah 62:4, from Biblical Hebrew בְּעוּלָה (bəʿûlâ, “married (woman)”), taken up as a given name by Puritans and used figuratively for the New Earth.
Senses: examples: text: Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 62:4:
text: I was into names then for some reason, and hit upon the name Beulah. When I was a child it was a name like Bertha, and you made a joke about Beulah, Big Beulah. I thought, wouldn't it be nice to use the name Beulah and try to get it in a poem.
ref: 2003, Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll, Conversations with Rita Dove, Univ. of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A village, the county seat of Benzie County, Michigan.
glosses: A town in Mississippi.
glosses: A city in North Dakota.
glosses: A census-designated place in Wyoming.
glosses: A village in Ceredigion, Wales.
glosses: A small village in Treflys community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SN9251).
Carole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from French Carole.
Senses: examples: text: British journalist Carole Cadwalladr has looked at Vance's links to rich tech bros, or what she calls the "broligarchs".
ref: 2024 August 14, Bryn Haworth, “Artificial Ignorance: broligarchs and their brains should read Gulliver”, in Al Majalla:
glosses: A female given name from French from the French form of Carol.
disciplinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disciplinates
form: disciplinating
form: disciplinated
form: disciplinated
Etymology: First attested in 1584; borrowed from Latin disciplīnātus, perfect passive participle of disciplīnō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: I am Potentiſsima Domina, a ſchoole-maiſter, that is to ſay, a Pedagogue, one not a litle verſed in the diſciplinating of the iuuentall frie, wherein (to my laud I ſay it) I vſe ſuch geometricall proportion, as neither wanted manſuetude nor correction, for ſo it is deſcribed.
ref: c. 1578–1579 (first performance), Philip Sidney, “Her Most Excellent Maiestie Walking in Wansteed Garden, […]”, in [Mary Sidney], editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia […] [The New Arcadia], 3rd edition, London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1598, →OCLC, page 571:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: And againe, aſking whether all refoꝛmed Churches are diſciplinated alike he ſayth, Nay; they neyther are, can be, nor yet neede ſo to be: ſeeing it cannot be prooued, that any set & exact perticuler forme thereof, is recommended to vs by the Worde of God, pag. 58.
ref: [1584], [variously attributed to Dudley Fenner, William Stoughton, and Henry Jacob], “Of the certaine forme of Ecclesiasticall Gouernment, prescribed by the Word of God, and perpetuall for all ages”, in A Counter-Poyson, Modestly Written for the Time, to Make Aunswere to the Obiections and Reproches, Wherewith the Aunswerer to the Abstract, Would Disgrace the Holy Discipline of Christ, London: […] Robert Waldegraue, page 3:
text: How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day
ref: 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart, Peter Anthony Motteux], The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, 1st book, page 67:
text: In recent times, the question concerning the compelling need, for the human being, to disciplinate itself, and even “tame” or domesticate itself, in order to really become a human being (“an animal that can say: ‘I’”) has been emphasized, among others, by the Italian philosopher Felice Cimatti.
ref: 2017 June, Stefano Marino, “Nietzsche and McDowell on The Second Nature of The Human Being”, in Stefan Afloroaei, Corneliu Bilba, George Bondor, editors, Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy, volume IX, number 1, Iași: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, →ISSN, page 255:
glosses: Synonym of discipline.
synonyms: word: discipline
Bette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛt/
ipa: /ˈbɛti/
rhymes: -ɛt
rhymes: -ɛti
Senses: examples: text: "Jack, couldn't you call me Bette again? You know how much I hate Bess. I don't know what's happened; you've been calling me Bette since we came to California and now, suddenly, you're calling me Bess."
There's a long silence. Dad's still up on his knees; I'm driving along Sepulveda Boulevard toward Olympic.
"Well, Bette, I married you as Bess and I've always liked that name. It's a name you don't hear very often; it's a strong name like you. Every time I call you Bette I'm afraid somebody else might answer."
ref: 1981, William Wharton, Dad, Knopf, →ISBN, page 293:
glosses: A variant of Betty, a diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth.
skate on thin ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: to skate on thin ice
form: skates on thin ice
form: skating on thin ice
form: skated on thin ice
form: skated on thin ice
Senses: examples: text: If I concur to that I will be skating on thin ice.
glosses: To be (or to place oneself) in a risky, potentially dangerous or delicate situation.
gloated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gloat
Dianne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Diane.
Gwendoline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh, an anglicized form of Welsh Gwendolen.
Gayle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡeɪl/
homophone: gale
rhymes: -eɪl
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a fanciful spelling of Gail, shortened form of Abigail.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A South African argot (jargon) used in South African gay and same-sex communities, primarily by Indo-European based speakers.
Related terms: isiGqumo
Glenda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɛndə/
rhymes: -ɛndə
Etymology: Coined in the twentieth century from Welsh glân (“holy, fair”) and da (“good”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh.
romcom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒmˌkɒm/
ipa: /ˈɹɑmˌkɑm/
Forms: form: romcoms
form: rom-com
form: rom com
Etymology: Shortening of romantic comedy. Probably based on the earlier sitcom.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Clipping of romantic comedy.
Synonyms: romedy
Derived terms: romcommy
zom-com
Johnathan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, of uncommon usage, variant of Jonathan.
Jeannette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəˈnɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: Jeanette
form: Jennette
Etymology: From French Jeannette, from Jeanne + -ette, q.v.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannine, Jen, Jenna, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
Synonyms: english: nickname
translation: nickname
word: Net
forzato
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sforzando.
synonyms: word: sforzando
forzato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forzatos
form: forzati
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sforzando.
synonyms: word: sforzando
forzati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forzato
Joann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Joanna, a female given name.
glosses: Alternative form of Joanne, a female given name.
Edmond
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English, a French style variant of Edmund.
Delores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈlɔːɹɪz/
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish, variant of Dolores.
gustate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gustates
form: gustating
form: gustated
form: gustated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gustātus, perfect passive participle of gustō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: These woful spirits, drenched with the sensuous elements of the life which they led on earth; selfish as they were then to the very inmost depths of their natures, rush with a reckless and gluttonous appetite into the tissues of unfortunately open constitutions, and exult in breathing, drinking in, gustating with a cruel and relentless ardour the sensations and odours of this mortal life once more.
ref: 1869, William Howitt, “Classical and Modern Notions of the Relations betwixt Matter and Spirit”, in The Spiritual Magazine, volume IV, London: James Burns, […], page 350:
text: Within gardens we have sat, / Gazing on a grassy plat, / With an ecstacy elate; / Gustating thy summer air, / With a joy we cannot share, / Looking on thy summer tree, / Offshoot of far Virgineé.
ref: 1897, Elwin Vyne, “To the Old Year Passing”, in Gather’d Fragments: Poems, new edition, London: Bertram Dobell, […], page 140:
text: Back from dentist, there lay yr. letter on my dressing table – best possible Restorative. I read it while gustating cautiously […] & gratefully swallowing the broth Mrs. O’C. had specially prepared for me.
ref: 1944 January 18, Ursula Bethell, “To Kathleen & Merlin Davies”, in Peter Whiteford, editor, Vibrant with Words: The Letters of Ursula Bethell, Wellington: Victoria University Press, published 2005, →ISBN, section VII (1944–1945), page 328:
glosses: To taste; to have a relish for.
Related terms: degustate
gust
gustation
limitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līmitātus, perfect passive participle of līmitō (“to limit”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). See limit.
Senses: glosses: Bounded by a distinct line.
limitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: limitates
form: limitating
form: limitated
form: limitated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin līmitātus, perfect passive participle of līmitō (“to limit”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). See limit.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To limit
Irma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erma
Etymology: From German Irma in the nineteenth century. Short form of Germanic names beginning with irm(en)-, erm(en) "whole, entire", from Proto-Germanic *ermunaz. Cognate with English Emma.
Senses: examples: text: - - -, she thanked God for Irma: thanked God that Irma's hair was rich and beautiful, that she had the aristocratic richness of a name like Irma and not the common poverty of a name like May or Flo;
ref: 1939, Herbert Ernest Bates, The Flying Goat, Ulverscroft Large Print Books, published 1995, →ISBN, page 52:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A village in Lombardy, Italy.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wisconsin.
Erma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Irma.
Faye
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fayes
Etymology: * (surname): Borrowed from French Faye or other languages.
Senses: examples: text: Ten years ago, shortly before her sister married her husband, Bobby Gow, she announced to the family that she did not want to be known as Faith any longer; henceforward her name was to be Faye.
ref: 1990, William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach, W.Morrow, →ISBN, page 126:
text: Judge Merrilee Ehrlich was seen in video of the April 15 court appearance yelling at Sandra Faye Twiggs. The 59-year-old was in court on a simple battery charge after a dispute over a fan at her home in Lauderhill.
ref: 2018 April 23, Chuck Johnston, “Judge not allowed back to court after berating woman who died”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name, variant of Fay.
glosses: A surname.
prestate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + state.
Senses: glosses: Prior to status as a state.
glosses: More primitive than a state.
prestate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prestates
Etymology: From pre- + state.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: The state that exists before an operation.
prestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prestates
form: prestating
form: prestated
form: prestated
Etymology: From Latin praestatus, from Latin praestō (“I provide, show, vouch for”). Compare also prest, imprest, prestation, prestable.
Senses: topics: law
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: To assume responsibility for, undertake.
topics: law
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: To indemnify, guarantee, secure (against loss or legal liability).
topics: law
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: To vouch for, support.
preparate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preparates
form: preparating
form: preparated
form: preparated
Etymology: From Middle English preparaten, from preparat + -en, from Medieval Latin preparātus, perfect passive participle of preparō. Equivalent to prepare + -ate (verb-forming suffix). In some recent uses, probably back-formation from preparation. Compare prepare, from Middle French.
Senses: examples: text: In like maner preperate Oripigment.
ref: 1569, R. Androse, translation of Alexius Pedemontanus' Secretes, volume 4th, ii, page 54:
text: Notes about the materials required and methods used to preparate the adjuvant.
ref: 2000, Trends in Biotechnol, volume 18 511/3:
glosses: To prepare.
preparate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preparate
form: most preparate
Etymology: From Middle English preparat, from Medieval Latin preparātus. See -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: All thynges, were redy preparate.
ref: circa 1513, Henry Bradshaw (poet), Lyfe of St. Werburge (1521), volume i.xxix. sig. k.ii:
text: Finally the cat extended a preparate paw for the kill.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, “v. 140”, in Under the Volcano:
glosses: prepared
presentiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: presentiates
form: presentiating
form: presentiated
form: presentiated
Senses: examples: text: It is the observable difference between the current moment of perceptual givenness (P1); as opposed to the presentiated addition of Objective understanding (P2a), as a specific meaningful something or someone.
ref: 2006, Ian Rory Owen, Psychotherapy and Phenomenology: On Freud, Husserl and Heidegger, page 136:
glosses: To make present.
examples: text: The parties see virtually everything connected with such tranactions as clearly defined and presentiated.
ref: 2001, Ian R. Macneil, Paul J. Gudel, Contracts: Exchange Transactions and Relations, page 14:
glosses: To fully articulate; to make a clear presentation.
profanate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: profanates
form: profanating
form: profanated
form: profanated
Senses: glosses: To profane; to make profane.
Parti Quebecois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Parti Québécois
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A provincial political party in Quebec, Canada, with the central goal of some form of political independence or sovereignty for Quebec.
Synonyms: word: PQ
Related terms: Bloc Quebecois
separatism
federalism
sovereigntist
sovereignty association
Parti Québécois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Parti Quebecois — the Parti Québécois
Related terms: Pequiste
Bloc Quebecois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bloc Quebecois
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Bloc Québécois.
Bloc Québécois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Bloc Québécois
form: Bloc Quebecois
Etymology: From Canadian French Bloc québécois, from bloc (“block”) + québécois (“Quebec [adj.]”).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A Canadian federal political party, with the goal of sovereignty for Quebec.
Synonyms: alt: abbr.
word: BQ
word: Bloc
Derived terms: Bloquiste
Related terms: Parti Québécois
Parti Quebecois
Québécois
Québécoise
SV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SVs
form: S.V.
form: S. V.
form: S.V.
form: S. V.
form: S/V
form: Sv
form: Sv.
form: SV.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of stop valve.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of saves.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: steamship; Initialism of steam vessel.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: sailboat; Initialism of sailing vessel.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of selective volunteer.
qualifier: control theory
glosses: Initialism of setpoint variable.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of stroke volume.
examples: text: Previous studies have identified tens of megabases of sequence contained within structural variants (SVs) that are polymorphic within the population⁵.
ref: 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of structural variant.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of shareholder value.
glosses: Initialism of sexual violence.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of start value (before score deductions).
Coordinate terms: sense: steam vessel
english: screw steamer
translation: screw steamer
word: SS
sense: steam vessel
english: paddle steamer
translation: paddle steamer
word: PS
sense: steam vessel
english: turbine steamer
translation: turbine steamer
word: TS
Related terms: sense: sailing vessel
english: sailing yacht
translation: sailing yacht
word: SY
sense: sailing vessel
english: sailing ship
translation: sailing ship
word: SS
sense: sailing vessel
english: motor vessel
translation: motor vessel
word: MV
sense: steam vessel
english: steam yacht
translation: steam yacht
word: SY
sense: steam vessel
english: steam ship
translation: steam ship
word: SS
sense: steam vessel
english: motor vessel
translation: motor vessel
word: MV
SV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: S.V.
form: S. V.
form: S.V.
form: S. V.
form: S/V
form: Sv
form: Sv.
form: SV.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Silicon Valley.
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Initialism of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
maestria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maestrias
Senses: glosses: mastery, skill
mock-orange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mock orange
form: mockorange
Senses: glosses: Any of many shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white, fragrant flowers, for which they are cultivated outside their natural range
especially, Philadelphus coronarius (sweet mock orange), widely cultivated
glosses: Any of many shrubs of the genus Philadelphus having white, fragrant flowers, for which they are cultivated outside their natural range
Philadelphus lewisii (Lewis' mock-orange), of western North America
glosses: Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
Bursaria spinosa (Australian blackthorn)
glosses: Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
Maclura pomifera (Osage orange), of North America
glosses: Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
Murraya paniculata (orange jessamine), a small tree ranging from East Asia to Australasia
glosses: Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
Pittosporum tobira, native to China, Japan, and Korea, and naturalized and cultivated elsewhere
glosses: Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
Pittosporum undulatum (sweet pittosporum), of Australia
glosses: Any of several similar but not closely related plants.
Styrax americanus (American snowbell)
majorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmeɪ.d͡ʒəɹ.ənt/
Forms: form: majorants
Etymology: Borrowed from French majorant, present participle of majorer (“to majorate, to dominate”), from Latin maior. By surface analysis, major + -ant.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: minorant
glosses: A function, or an element of a set, that dominates others or is greater than all others.
marginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪnət/
ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/
Forms: form: more marginate
form: most marginate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin marginātus, perfect passive participle of marginō (“to margin”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: With a well marked edge or margin.
Derived terms: bimarginate
circummarginate
immarginate
submarginate
marginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪnət/
ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/
ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/
Forms: form: marginates
form: marginating
form: marginated
form: marginated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin marginātus, perfect passive participle of marginō (“to margin”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: undulating lines marginated with pale, one on each side, Maxillæ nearly straight, their base narrow
ref: 1832, The Edinburgh Encyclopædia:
glosses: To provide with margins.
Derived terms: demarginate
Related terms: margination
montante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: montantes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish montante or a cognate in another language.
Senses: examples: text: "Choose a zweihander if you prefer." He seemed about to reach for one of the German blades, then let his hand fall. "The montante has a certain flair. I think the old Iberian masters would approve." He met her eye, the silence growing ...
ref: 2020, Kat Ross, Balthazar's Bane, Kat Ross, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of longsword used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Related terms: robe montante
nominata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominatum
opiniate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈpɪnieɪt/
/əʊˈpɪnieɪt/
Forms: form: opiniates
form: opiniating
form: opiniated
form: opiniated
Senses: examples: text: Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place without reason
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To hold or maintain persistently.
Related terms: opine
opinion
burakumin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burakumins
form: burakumin
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 部落民, from Middle Chinese 部落 (bu^X lak, “tribe”) + 民 (mjin, “people”).
Senses: examples: text: Since the early twentieth century, the burakumin have had strong liberation movements that have won many concessions for the group, but which have also, through their sometimes quite violent activism, further alienated many mainstream Japanese.
ref: 2003, Colin Mackerras, Ethnicity in Asia, page 52:
text: Before it was levelled, Nagata was home to about half of Kobe’s 20,000 Korean residents, as well as Japan’s largest ghetto of burakumin. The word means ‘hamlet people’ though its mere mention usually draws instant embarrassment.
ref: 2011, Peter McGill, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, 33.VII:
glosses: A member of a Japanese social minority group, descendants of feudal-era outcasts.
Related terms: eta
registrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹət/
Etymology: From the post-Classical Latin registrātus, the perfect passive participle of registrō (“I register”).
Senses: glosses: registered, recorded
registrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹət/
enpr: rĕʹjĭstrāt
ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹeːt/
ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹət/
Forms: form: registrates
form: registrating
form: registrated
form: registrated
Etymology: From registrāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the post-Classical Latin registrō (“I register”).
Senses: glosses: To register.
Derived terms: registrated
registrating
debouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debouch
debouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of debouch
murram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maram
form: marram
form: mooram
form: moorum
form: morram
form: muram
form: murrum
Senses: examples: text: 142. Floor for natives to be paved if for cots, otherwise to be murram or chunam, say 6″ rubble or concrete, plastered.
ref: 1873, Frank Robertson, Engineering Notes, E. & F. N. Spon, page 313:
text: The southern band of schists is also seen on the southern side of the Haladgáon hills in a murram quarry and as a band separating the quartzite and manganese-ore of Gumgáon hill.
ref: 1909, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, Geological Survey of India, page 845:
text: Laterite or murram, having a tendency to harden upon exposure, is often satisfactory when traffic is light, but it tends to corrugate or break down with heavier use.
ref: 1975, William Adams Hance, The Geography of Modern Africa, Second Edition, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 27:
text: page xxvi: Murram: Generally iron concretions formed in tropical soils, transitional to, or an early stage of, laterite formation.
page 73, in figure: Brownish red loam with murram in subsoil
page 75: In ferruginous tropical soils and ferrallites (Table 10) much iron released in weathering is often redeposited in the form of gravelly concretions locally termed murram. The word ‘laterite’ has been used for two distinct forms of precipitated iron.
ref: 1976, Norman Francis Hughes, “Manual of Applied Geology for Engineers”, in Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford, →ISBN:
text: They are a familiar sight to most travellers of the murram roads of Uganda.
ref: 1984, Jonathan Kingdon, East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Volume IIB: Hares and Rodents, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 441:
text: Tracks and roads were at first rough and rutted, and quickly became quagmires in the rainy seasons before being surfaced first with "murram" gravel, later with tarmac.
ref: 1991, Donald B. Freeman, A City of Farmers: Informal Urban Agriculture in the Open Spaces of Nairobi, Kenya, McGill-Queen's Press, →ISBN, page 33:
text: 1991, Bernard Verdcourt, Boraginaceae, a volume of R.M. Polhill (Ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa, A.A. Balkema, →ISBN, page 108,
Hab. Grassland, bushland, often as a weed in plantations, cultivation edges, murram roadsides and other areas of bare soil; (?600–)1140–2040(–?2520) m.
text: The soils vary from sandy, sandy clay and clay to shallow young soils of mainly murram or gravel.
ref: 2006, Robert Tripp, Self-Sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-Scale Farming, James & James/Earthscan, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Kenya's road network comprises 9,000km of bitaminised road, 27,000km of murram all-weather roads, and 27,000km of non-classified roads.
ref: 2006, Pascal Belda, Kenya, MTH Multimedia S.L., →ISBN, page 190:
glosses: Laterite.
permeases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permease
utilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utilisations
form: utilization
Etymology: From French utilisation or from utilise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The merchandise trains of the future will be able to pace the average day and night express without significant loss of track utilisation, but where quadruple track does not exist it may be necessary to seek alternative routes for the slower-moving coal and heavy mineral traffic.
ref: 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67:
glosses: The act of using something.
glosses: The manner in which something is used.
glosses: The state of being used.
Synonyms: use
Derived terms: utilisation time
organic compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organic compound
inorganic compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inorganic compound
pentanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentane
n-heptane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛnˈhɛpteɪn/
rhymes: -ɛpteɪn
Etymology: From n- (“normal”) + heptane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon (CH₃(CH₂)₅CH₃).
poke fun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pokes fun
form: poking fun
form: poked fun
form: poked fun
Senses: examples: text: Trot laughed, but Cap'n Bill thought the little man was poking fun at him and so he scowled upon Pessim in a way that showed he was angry.
ref: 1915, L. Frank Baum, chapter 5, in The Scarecrow of Oz:
info_templates: extra_data: words: at
expansion: [with at]
glosses: To subject someone to laughter or ridicule.
Synonyms: make fun of
ephemeralness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ephemeral + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Material culture researchers have often failed to acknowledge the ephemeralness of much of their data.
ref: 1985, Thomas J. Schlereth, "Material Culture Research and Historical Explanation." The Public Historian, vol. 7, no. 4 (Autumn), pp. 21-23
glosses: The quality of being ephemeral or transitory.
Synonyms: ephemerality
impermanence
transiency
transience
volitionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɪʃənəli/
/vəˈlɪʃənli/
/vəˈlɪʃnəli/
Etymology: From volitional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: If, on the other hand, the external impression be also felt, then the mind, according to its psychological laws, connects volitionally with it many other conceptions, the internal impressions of which can produce through the motor nerves such sentient actions as the unfelt external impression could not have developed at all, or, at least, not in combination with the will of the animal.
ref: 1851, Johann August Unzer, The Principles of physiology, page 201:
text: The people in all of these examples use attention volitionally
ref: 1998, Richard B. Ivry, The Two Sides of Perception, page 123:
text: Must a person endorse, be satisfied with, or at least fail to feel alienated from what is volitionally necessary and what is inescapable if these are to be included within her self-conception?
ref: 2005, John Christman, Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays, page 86:
glosses: Willingly or decidedly; in a volitional or willed way.
Related terms: nonvolitionally
postvolitionally
prevolitionally
methanoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The simplest carboxylic acid, HCOOH, a colorless, corrosive liquid with a sharp odor; it is present in the stings of ants, bees and nettles, and is prepared industrially by oxidation of methanol or formaldehyde; it has some industrial uses, and its esters, the methanoates, are used in perfumes.
Synonyms: word: E236
english: Trivial name
translation: Trivial name
word: formic acid
sildenafil citrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The citrate salt of sildenafil, marketed as Viagra, a treatment for erectile dysfunction
dicarboxylic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dicarboxylic acid
ecotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotopes
Etymology: From eco- (“house”) + -tope (“place”).
Senses: glosses: An ecological habitat on the scale of individual organisms sharing space. Many ecotopes together, either adjacent or overlapping, make up an eco-region or larger unit.
glosses: All of the constituent parts found in a locality on the same scale, such as the physiotope (landform), the geotope (rocks and soil) and the biotope (living flora and fauna).
Derived terms: ecotopic
all eyes and ears
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Calque of French tout yeux, tout oreilles; originally found only in translations of French works. Compare all eyes, all ears.
Senses: examples: 1747 February, Viscount Ebrington (tr., ed.), the Père Girard (author), The Mother-Tongue: Or, Methodical Instruction in the Mother-Tongue in Schools and Families, John W. Parker, page 26,
The volatility of children is proverbial: from the cradle their attention is attracted toward the visible objects around them, particularly towards those which shine or move, or emit sound. Thus they have accustomed themselves to be all eyes and ears; not indeed for the dumb language of a book, or for lessons which are often monotonous and unintelligible, but in order to see and hear whatever may stimulate their natural curiosity.
1759, Jaques Tristan (?) (tr., ed.), Marguerite Jeanne Cordier Staal (author), Memoirs of Madame De Stahl, page 219,
“I am,” ſaid I, “incenſed againſt your Governor, for the Noiſe he made. Priſoners are all Eyes and Ears; though locked up, they come to the Knowledge of whatever paſſes: They hold that every little Motion concerns them, and trace it to the Bottom. […]”
1798, Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (tr., ed.), Marie-Jeanne Roland (author), An Appeal to Impartial Posterity: By Madame Roland, Wife of the Minister of the Interior: Or, A Collection of Tracts, Written by Her During Her Confinement in the Prisons of the Abbey, and St. Pelagie, in Paris, Robert Wilson, volume 2, page 158,
Seated by my mother, and keeping the ſilence that cuſtom preſcribes to young women, I was all eyes and ears; but when we chanced for a moment in private with Madam l’Epine, I aſked her a few queſtions, the anſwers to which elucidated my obſervations.
glosses: Very attentive.
Related terms: all fingers and thumbs
drainboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drainboards
Etymology: From drain + board.
Senses: glosses: A slightly elevated and inclined surface, designed so that wet objects can be placed on that surface, and water on those objects can drip or drain away.
Synonyms: draining board
drainer
Related terms: dish rack
drying rack
dish drainer
drainboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainboard
cheddaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛdəɹ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: Cheddaring
Etymology: From cheddar + -ing. From Cheddar cheese.
Senses: glosses: The stage of manufacturing Cheddar cheese and similar cheeses where the curd is cut into small pieces, often cubes, to drain the whey before being stacked and turned.
cheddaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈt͡ʃɛdəɹ.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: Cheddaring
Etymology: From cheddar + -ing. From Cheddar cheese.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cheddar
treadmills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treadmill
treadmills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of treadmill
aneurisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aneurism
blurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blur
blurring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurrings
Senses: examples: text: Several attempts were made to remove the blurrings in the tomograms.
ref: 1990, Donald O. Thompson, Dale E. Chimenti, Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation:
text: What's interesting is ambiguity. What's interesting is the haziness, the blurrings, the undefinables, the space and tension between people, the area between the margins that pushes us to stop, to question.
ref: 2006, Sean Lennon, Paul Spickard, Kip Fulbeck, Part Asian, 100 Per Cent Hapa:
glosses: A blurry patch.
even-keel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of even keel.
slinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slink
circumscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumscribe
danna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dannas
Etymology: Likely ultimately a variant of dung.
Senses: glosses: Human feces.
glosses: Alternative form of dunny: an outhouse; a toilet.
Synonyms: sense: feces
word: feces
sense: outhouse
word: outhouse
Derived terms: danna-drag
dunnekin
dunny
pecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛks/
homophone: pecks
rhymes: -ɛks
Senses: glosses: plural of pec
geotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geotopes
Etymology: From geo- (“earth”) + -tope (“place”).
Senses: glosses: A geologic feature in the landscape, especially one of more interest to tourists than to geologists.
biotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotopes
Etymology: From bio- (“life”) + -tope (“place”).
Senses: glosses: A geographical area that has a uniform biological environment and a uniform distribution of plants and animals
glosses: a context where someone feels 'naturally' at home, such as their field of professional or scientific expertise
Derived terms: microbiotope
stirato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiratos
Etymology: From Italian stirato, past participle of stirare (“to stretch”).
Senses: glosses: A type of Italian baguette bread.
physiotope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physiotopes
Etymology: From physio- (“natural”) + -tope (“place”).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An area having uniform topographic, lithographic and other physical features.
immured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See etymology at immure.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immure
immured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immured
form: most immured
Etymology: See etymology at immure.
Senses: glosses: imprisoned or confined.
glosses: buried within or built into a wall, whether respectfully (as with shrines, monuments, or tombs) or as torture (if buried alive).
examples: text: Pompeians were packed inside defensive walls, and they came and went through gates—the Herculaneum Gate, the Vesuvius Gate, the Water Gate. Vestmann islanders, while clustered, were immured by nothing but the sea, and they came and went through their famous harbor.
ref: 1989, John McPhee, The Control of Nature, →ISBN, pages 118–119:
glosses: walled in.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: trapped or captured (within the surrounding matrix).
raw_tags: of impurities in a growing crystal
Derived terms: unimmured
road movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road movies
Senses: examples: text: For Timothy Corrigan, the road movie is ‘traditionally focused, almost exclusively, on men and the absence of women’ (1991: 143). David Laderman elucidates: Most road movies … retain a traditional sexist hierarchy that privileges the white heterosexual male, in terms of narrative and point of view. As in typical Hollywood films, the road movie tends to define the active impulse (here, to drive) relegating women characters to passive passengers and/or erotic destinations. (2002: 20)
ref: 2006, Ewa Mazierska, Laura Rascaroli, Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and the European Road Movie, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 161:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A film in which much of the action takes place during a journey, especially one involving overland travel.
manifesti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manifesto
manifestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manifestates
form: manifestating
form: manifestated
form: manifestated
Senses: glosses: To manifest.
manifestate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: manifested, manifest
mesmorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mesmerise.
spring equinox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spring equinoxes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: vernal equinox
Related terms: autumnal equinox
Ostara
autumn equinox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autumn equinoxes
Senses: glosses: autumnal equinox
fissi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissis
Senses: examples: text: One species in particular, the fissi (Sarotherodon caroli), is close to the unga.
ref: 1993, Endangered Wildlife of the World, volume 10, page 1317:
glosses: Sarotherodon caroli, a cichlid endemic to Lake Barombi Mbo in western Cameroon.
capitolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitolos
form: capitoli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian capitolo. Doublet of capitulum and chapter.
Senses: glosses: A kind of satirical Italian poem in triplet stanzas.
tabella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tabellae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tabella.
Senses: glosses: A medicated lozenge or hard electuary.
excise tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excise taxes
Senses: glosses: Any of various taxes levied on the production or sale of certain goods, especially on luxuries, tobacco, alcohol etc.
Synonyms: excise duty
Related terms: exciseman
tremando
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italian tremando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in a trembling, wavering manner.
tremando
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremandos
Etymology: From Italian tremando.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage played in a trembling, wavering manner.
tremata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are scattered lectional aids: accents, breathings, elision-marks, tremata, and high stops. Much of this seems to be the work of the original scribe.
ref: 1980, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, volume 47, Egypt Exploration Fund, →ISBN, page 30, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of trema
braccia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braccio
pediatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpiːdiːˈætrɪk/
Forms: form: paediatric
form: pædiatric
Etymology: From pedo- (“child”) + -iatric.
Senses: examples: text: The hospital has established a pediatric intensive care unit.
text: Currently, there are nine pediatric cases of AIDS diagnosed in Massachusetts, of whom three are attending school.
ref: 1985 December 21, Sib Connor, “Brookline Okays Students With AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 2:
text: Hildy S. Lipner, chief of pediatric speech pathology at Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital in Hackensack, N.J., said that by the time she sees children with picky eating problems, they are usually between 18 months and 3 years old and already have their patterns well established.
ref: 2018 June 4, Perri Klass, M.D., “When New Means No: Picky Eating as a Normal Toddler Phase”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2018:
glosses: Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children and adolescents.
Derived terms: immunopediatric
neuropediatric
nonpediatric
pediatrically
telepediatric
Related terms: pediatrician
pediatrics