cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
⠊
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: i
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter i.
⠊
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 9.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠊
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: I
⠚
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: j
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter j.
⠚
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 0.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠚
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: just
incisura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incisurae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin incisura.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a notch or indent
Synonyms: incisure
crosslink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crosslinks
Etymology: From cross- + link.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-link.
crosslink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crosslinks
form: crosslinking
form: crosslinked
form: crosslinked
Etymology: From cross- + link.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-link.
Derived terms: crosslinker
decrosslink
heterocrosslink
photocrosslink
deflocculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈflɒkjəleɪt/
ipa: /dəˈflɑkjuleɪt/
Forms: form: deflocculates
form: deflocculating
form: deflocculated
form: deflocculated
Etymology: From de- + flocculate.
Senses: glosses: To disperse an agglomerate into fine particles and form a colloid
traction engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traction engines
Senses: examples: text: He found a great many things to see, such as dandelions, and ants, and traction engines, and bolting horses, and furniture being removed, besides being kept busy raising his hat, and passing the time of day with people on the road, for he was a very well-bred young fellow, polite in his manners, graceful in his attitudes, and able to converse on a great variety of subjects, having read all the best Australian poets.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 17:
glosses: A wheeled steam engine used to move heavy loads, plough ground or provide power at a chosen location.
Synonyms: road locomotive
steam tractor
Derived terms: tractioneer
Related terms: traction motor
tractive effort
tractor
inurement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inurements
Etymology: From inure + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Custom, habituation; normal practice.
examples: text: In the US, the 501(c)(3) prohibition against "private inurement" within non-profit entities means that individuals within that organization may not receive excessive compensation or benefit from their employment or association, because such arrangements would contravene the supposed mission of the organization.
glosses: Benefit.
topics: law
glosses: In patent law, the doctrine that the work done by a person hired by an inventor to test a conception supports the right of that inventor to the resulting invention.
Related terms: enurement
inure
redeposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeposits
form: redepositing
form: redeposited
form: redeposited
Etymology: From re- + deposit.
Senses: glosses: To deposit again.
glosses: To deposit again.
To deposit money again after withdrawing it
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To form into a new accumulation; used especially of sediments moved from an original position
tarbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarbrushes
form: tar-brush
Etymology: From tar + brush.
Senses: glosses: A brush used for applying tar.
Derived terms: lick of the tarbrush
touch of the tar brush
touch of the tarbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: touches of the tarbrush
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of touch of the tar brush.
tintack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tintacks
Etymology: From tin + tack.
Senses: glosses: A short nail or tack coated with tin.
glosses: A drawing pin; thumbtack.
tintack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tintacks
form: tintacking
form: tintacked
form: tintacked
Etymology: From tin + tack.
Senses: glosses: To sack; to fire from a job.
victorine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victorines
Senses: glosses: A woman's fur tippet, fastened at the neck
allobarbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An early barbiturate once used as an anticonvulsant.
deodar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːəʊdɑː/
Forms: form: deodars
Etymology: Borrowed from colloquial Hindustani دیودار (dyodār) / देओदार (deodār), from دیودار (dyodār) / देवदार (devdār), from Sanskrit देवदारु (deva-dāru, literally “divine tree”).
Senses: examples: text: There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now; […]
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Cupid’s Arrows”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 56:
synonyms: deodar cedar
Himalayan cedar
glosses: Cedrus deodara, a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas.
capital cities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capital city
blackguardism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblæɡɑːdɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈblæɡədɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈblæˌɡɑɹdɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈblæɡɚdɪzəm/
Forms: form: blackguardisms
Etymology: From blackguard + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: swindlery and blackguardism
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Collectively, I think, but am not certain, they are the worst men in the regiment so far as genial blackguardism goes.
ref: 1887, Rudyard Kipling, “The Three Musketeers”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 49:
text: The shoutings of the mob exhilarated the pelters and induced many who came as spectators to join in the mischief, and when the blackguardism had reached its height, it was no longer in the power of the constables to stay it, every sort of missile was thrown, a dead cat was a treat, a live one a still greater treat, and woe to the poor animal who fell into the hands of the miscreants.
ref: 1829, Francis Place (Diary of Social Reformer Francis Place)
glosses: Synonym of blackguardry.
synonyms: word: blackguardry
pressure cooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure cookers
form: pressure-cooker
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
examples: text: Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.
ref: 2006, J. P. Cardone, Tales Under a Full Moon, page 208:
text: Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.
ref: 2007 July 19, Leslie Feinberg, “Cuba education about same-sex love reached every home”, in Workers World:
text: Humanity lives in a pressure cooker of stress because of the ruthless way in which we compete, because of our lack of respect for the international rules of commerce, because of social conflicts, because of the devastation to the environment.
ref: 2011, Augusto Cury, The Dreamseller: The Calling, page 173:
glosses: A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
immortelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmɔːˈtɛl/
Forms: form: immortelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French immortelle.
Senses: examples: text: […] a big rabbit-warren of a house full of […] fragments of the day's market, garlic, stale incense, clothes thrown on the floor, petticoats hung on strings for screens, old bottles, pewter crucifixes, dried immortelles, pariah puppies, plaster images of the Virgin, and hats without crowns.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “His Chance in Life”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 55:
glosses: Any of various papery flowers, often dried and used as decoration.
examples: text: The land between the road and the gully widened; the gully grew shallower. Beyond it Mr Biswas saw the tall immortelles and their red and yellow flowers. And then the untrodden road blazed with the flowers.
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3:
glosses: Any of various trees of the genus Erythrina.
pertainym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pertainyms
Etymology: From pertain + -nym.
Senses: topics: computational
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A word, usually an adjective, which can be defined as "of or pertaining to" another word.
Derived terms: pertainymy
Related terms: holonym
meronym
troponym
pertainyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pertainym
imitations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imitation
radiofrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiofrequencies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radio frequency.
radiofrequency
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of radio-frequency.
exfoliative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exfoliative
form: most exfoliative
Etymology: From exfoliate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That causes, or is accompanied by, exfoliation
Derived terms: exfoliative cytology
exfoliative dermatitis
exfoliative erythroderma
exfoliative gastritis
pseudoexfoliative
cramp iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cramp irons
Senses: glosses: An iron bar, bent at right angles at each end, used to hold masonry together
glosses: An arrangement of iron wedges inserted into a cavity to lift heavy stones; a lewis
procedendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procedendos
Etymology: From Latin procedendo.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A prerogative writ that sends a case from an appellate court to a lower court with an order to proceed to judgment.
examples: text: But Ingersoll, on behalf of the defendant, now moved for a Procedendo; alledging that in a case of Pigot v. Young, it had been decided, that a cause could not be removed after the arbitrators, or referces, had entered[…]
ref: 1798, Alexander James Dallas, Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States […] :
topics: law
glosses: A writ by which the commission of the Justice of the Peace is revived, after having been suspended.
succours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of succour
gnomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gnomically
form: most gnomically
Etymology: From gnomic + -ally.
Senses: examples: "The only thing he could say, rather gnomically, was, 'It'll do very well in Japan.'" - Loach's love of misery, The Week, 1 September 2007, 629, 10.
glosses: In a gnomic manner.
speciesism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspiːʃiːˌzɪzəm/
/ˈspiːsiːˌzɪzəm/
Forms: form: species-ism
form: speciesm
form: specism
Etymology: Coined by British animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder in 1970 from species + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote (most of them are destined to be spontaneously aborted anyway) can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivisection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees
ref: 1996 [1986], Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN:
text: This human chauvinism is one form of a general type of discrimination known as speciesism. What is speciesism? Think of racism. The term “speciesism” has been strategically used by animal rights activists from the 1970s onward precisely […]
ref: 2013, John Huss, Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike, Open Court, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Sometimes speciesism is also used to describe a positive rather than a negative attitude as when dolphins are alleged to have rescued humans from danger while ignoring other species in peril.
ref: 2017, Richard D. Ryder, Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the Twenty-First Century, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.
Derived terms: antispeciesism
non-speciesist
speciesist
specist
Related terms: anthropocentrism
animal liberation
adjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From adjunct + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Forming an adjunct.
examples: text: adjunctive therapy
glosses: Additional; neither basic nor primary.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The property of two operations x and y, such that ax(ayb) = a, and ay(axb) = a.
Derived terms: adjunctive behavior
adjunctively
adjunctiveness
adjunctivity
immunoadjunctive
nonadjunctive
adjunctive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjunctives
Etymology: From adjunct + -ive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A connector joining two components of the same weight, such as a coordinating conjunction.
topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A substance added as a supplement; often in the phrase "additives and adjunctives.".
Discordianism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɔː.di.ən.ɪzm̩/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɔɹdi.ənɪzəm/
Etymology: From discord + -ian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A minor new religious movement with absurdist elements, often seen as a parody, based on the worship of Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and confusion.
infundibulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊləm
Forms: form: infundibula
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin infundibulum (“funnel”).
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: choana, pelvis, cornu
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A funnel-shaped cavity or organ.
Related terms: infundibular
infundibula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infundibulum
adjunctives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjunctive
Actionism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The second sense was used by Theodor W. Adorno.
Senses: glosses: Viennese Actionism, a school of art which started in Vienna, Austria.
glosses: The ideology of 1960s Radicals.
biosafety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /baɪ.ɑˈseɪf.tiː/
Etymology: From bio- + safety.
Senses: examples: text: “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”
ref: 2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN:
glosses: Protection from potential harm from biological agents, such as infectious microbes or modified genes.
elicoidali
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian elicoidali.
Senses: glosses: A form of ridged tubular pasta, similar to rigatoni.
anti-fascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-fascisms
Etymology: From anti- + fascism.
Senses: examples: text: Art and anti-fascism are synonymous.
ref: 1937, John Langdon-Davies, Authors take Sides on the Spanish War:
glosses: The opposition to fascist ideologies, organizations, governments and people.
Related terms: Antifa
redintegration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɛˌdɪntɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
/ɹɪˌdɪntɪˈɡɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: redintegrations
Etymology: From the Latin redintegrātiō (“renewal, restoration, repetition”).
Senses: glosses: Restoration to a whole or sound state.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Restoration of a mixture to its former nature and state.
examples: text: Now all this story might be true. But even if it were, it does not follow that reference to redintegration should be included as part of the definition of ‘motive’.
ref: 1956–1960, R.S. Peters, The Concept of Motivation, Routledge & Kegan Paul (second edition, 1960), chapter ii: “Motives and Motivation”, page 44
text: Is McClelland’s concept of ‘motive’ yet another example of explanation masquerading as analysis? This is obviously so in his definition which includes the reference to redintegration of affect.
ref: ibidem, page 48
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The reinstatement of a memory upon the presentation of a stimulus element that was a part of the stimulus complex that had aroused the event.
Related terms: redintegrate
redintegrative
Germanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Germanisms
Etymology: From German + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A word or idiom of the German language (that has been borrowed by another language).
glosses: The culture and customs of the Germanic people (or tribes).
Synonyms: Teutonism
criminalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of criminalize
irrationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irrationalisms
Etymology: From irrational + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense iwth as he imagines he has no philosophy or metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.
ref: 1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351:
glosses: A philosophical movement formed as a cultural reaction against positivism in the early 20th century.
illegalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈliːɡəlʌɪz/
Forms: form: illegalizes
form: illegalizing
form: illegalized
form: illegalized
form: illegalise
Etymology: From illegal + -ize or il- + legalize.
Senses: examples: text: Only as recently as 1991 was the rape by a husband of his wife illegalised.
ref: 2000, Lois Bibbings, Donald Nicolson, Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law, page 111:
text: A 1908 Act illegalised the teagle, a particularly nasty snare of baited hooks joined by strings which was put out to attract birds during hard weather.
ref: 2002, David Evans, A History of Nature Conservation in Britain, page 47:
text: Although slavery had been illegalized by 1870, fundamental prejudice could not be legislated away.
ref: 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 41:
glosses: To make illegal; to prohibit by law, to criminalize.
Derived terms: illegalization
Related terms: criminalize
outlaw
libertarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪbəˈtɛːɹɪənɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: libertarianisms
Etymology: From libertarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, advocates of individual freedom not only continue to exist, but are increasing in number. Refugees from the Old Right, the Old Left and the New Left, they are organizing independently under the New Right banner of libertarianism.
ref: 1971 January 10, Stan Lehr, Louis Rossetto, “The New Right Credo–Libertarianism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The peculiar brand of libertarianism in vogue within technology circles means a minority of members—a couple of outspoken misogynists—can disproportionately affect the behavior and mood of the group under the cover of free speech.
ref: 2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 4, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:
text: Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”
ref: 2023 September 12, Paul Glader, “Four takeaways from Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk”, in CNN:
topics: economics
government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A political philosophy maintaining that all persons are the absolute owners of their own lives, and should be free to do whatever they wish with their persons or property, provided they allow others that same liberty.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine of free will, as opposed to necessitarianism.
Derived terms: antilibertarianism
cyberlibertarianism
geolibertarianism
left-libertarianism
libertopianism
loonytarianism
right-libertarianism
Related terms: libertarian
moralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒɹəlɪzm/
Forms: form: moralisms
Etymology: From French moralisme.
Senses: examples: text: 1937, Helen Foster Snow (as Nym Wales), “The Modern Chinese Literary Movement” in Edgar Snow (ed.), Living China: Modern Chinese Short Stories, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, p. 337,
The Romantic movement […] struggled for ‘art for art’s sake’ against the old moralism and didacticism […]
text: It is a bitter fact of life that, despite the air of pious moralism that chokes this cramped town, a rich man’s mistress still counts for more than a hungry saint.
ref: 1982, Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air, Penguin, published 1988, Part 1, pp. 53-54:
text: 2011, Donald Weinstein, Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet, New Haven: Yale University Press, Chapter 1, p. 8,
Reared by conventionally pious parents, Girolamo also imbibed more than a little of his grandfather’s dour moralism along with his Latin lessons, Bible studies, and Saint Thomas.
glosses: The act or practice of moralizing (making moral reflections or judging the morality of others).
examples: text: There was a delicious spice of worldliness in the topics of conversation which was quite refreshing to him, accustomed as he was to the somewhat droning moralisms of his “congenial friends.”
ref: 1859, Frederic Farrar, chapter 20, in Julian Home,, Philadelphia: Lippincott, published 1860, page 244:
text: Now is your chance, Europe. […] paddle your own canoe on a new sea, while clever America lies on her muck-heaps of gold, strangled in her own barbed wire of shalt-not ideals and shalt-not moralisms.
ref: 1923, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 2, in Studies in Classic American Literature, New York: Viking, published 1964, page 21:
glosses: A maxim or saying believed by the speaker to embody a moral truth; an instance of moralizing.
examples: text: That thin, colorless protestantism of her fathers had faded into a nameless moralism. She had no Christ before whom she could pour her adoration and love. Instead, she had taken to herself a man; and now the clay of his being was crumbling in her hands....
ref: 1904, Robert Herrick, chapter 17, in The Common Lot, New York: Macmillan, page 230:
text: The scientific superiority of liberal theology, it is now said, is indeed incontestable, but its theological position is weak, for its moralism and humanism lack insight into the dæmonic character of human existence.
ref: 1948, Thomas Mann, chapter 11, in Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter, transl., Doctor Faustus, New York: Knopf:
glosses: Religious practice that focuses on morality while placing little emphasis on doctrine or the metaphysical; adherence to a system of morality with little or no reference to religion.
Synonyms: moralizing
Derived terms: antimoralism
Related terms: amoralism
immoralism
moralise
moralize
moralist
moralistic
shamanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃeɪmənɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈʃɑːmənɪzəm/
Forms: form: shamanisms
Etymology: From shaman + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of traditional beliefs and practices concerned with communication with the spirit world.
Derived terms: neoshamanism
techno-shamanism
Wahhabism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Arabic وَهَّابِيَّة (wahhābiyya). From Wahhab + -ism. Named after Islam theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Sunni Islamic fundamentalist reform movement based on the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (c. 1703–1792), followed primarily in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Related terms: Wahhab
Wahhabi
Wahhabist
Wahhabite
Salafism
Spiritism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From spirit + -ism. Calque of French spiritisme.
Senses: glosses: A philosophical doctrine, established in France in the mid nineteenth century, postulating that humans are essentially immortal spirits that temporarily inhabit physical bodies, and may have influence on the physical world.
Related terms: spiritism
Spiritualism
spiritualism
Spiritist
Ripuarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛə.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Ripuarius (perhaps from Latin ripa (“river bank”)) + -an.
Senses: glosses: A West Central German dialect group, spoken in the northern Rhineland (including the cities of Bonn, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Aachen), as well as parts of German-speaking Belgium and south-eastern Limburg (Netherlands); linguistically, the least affected by the consonant shift of all High German dialects
Synonyms: Ripuarian Franconian
Meronyms: Kölsch
Colognian
Ripuarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛə.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Ripuarians
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Ripuarius (perhaps from Latin ripa (“river bank”)) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any of the Ripuarian tribal section of the Frank people (comprising several tribes), who after some migration inhabited this region, as opposed to the Salian branch.
Synonyms: sense: people
word: Ripuarian Frank
Ripuarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛə.ɹɪən/
ipa: /ˌɹɪp.juˈɛɹ.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Ripuarian
form: most Ripuarian
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Ripuarius (perhaps from Latin ripa (“river bank”)) + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Ripuarian people or (one of) its members or descendants.
examples: text: New Belgium … shows a triglossic situation:
(1) New Belgium Eupen: Besides standard German (as the official language) also Low Franconian/East Limburgian dialects (in the western part) and Ripuarian dialects (in the eastern part) as well as standard French are spoken.
(2) New Belgium Malmédy: ….
(3) New Belgium St Vith: Besides standard German (as the official language) also Ripuarian dialects (in the northern part) and Moselle Franconian dialects (in the central and southern part) as well as standard French are spoken.
ref: 2002, Peter Nelde, Jeroen Darquennes, German in Belgium: Linguistic Variation from a Contact Linguistic Point of View. In: Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns (eds.), Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border, p. 65ff., here p. 70
glosses: Of or pertaining to one, all, or any of the Ripuarian dialects.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a Ripuarian speaker or speakers.
Related terms: riparian
Twenty20
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: word: T20
glosses: A fast form of cricket in which each side bats for just twenty overs.
mug's game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mugs' games
Senses: examples: text: ‘It's a mug's game,’ said Crabbe.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 109:
text: The sheer destructiveness of nuclear weapons makes the quest for defenses a mug's game.
ref: 1988 May 20, Strobe Talbot, “Inside Moves”, in Time:
text: Although they aspired, like all natural-born gamblers, to taking a flutter and beating that system (they all loved the idea of tips, of course), they were sufficiently cynical to know it's a mug's game and that it was largely bound to fail.
ref: 2012, David Stevenson, FT Guide to Exchange Traded Funds and Index Funds:
glosses: A foolish, profitless, or hopeless undertaking.
nonverbal communication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonverbal communications
form: non-verbal
form: communication
Senses: glosses: Communication in a form other than written or spoken words, such as gestures, facial expressions or body language.
forecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From forecast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forecast
forecasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forecastings
Etymology: From Middle English forcastyng, forcastynge, equivalent to forecast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: There were sneers, and scoffs, and inuendoes of some; prophecies of failure in a hundred ways; forecastings of non-completion, forecastings of swift dissolution and crashing ruin[…]
ref: 1852, The Dublin University Magazine, page 66:
glosses: A forecast or prediction.
Derived terms: forecastingly
normative forecasting
nowcasting
superforecasting
weather forecasting
wishcasting
forsaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forsake
forsaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forsakings
Senses: glosses: The act by which somebody is forsaken; an abandonment.
forsakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forsake
cheese grater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese graters
form: cheesegrater
form: cheese-grater
Senses: examples: text: Modern cheese graters have more than one side so the cheese can be sliced in different ways.
synonyms: grater
glosses: A kitchen implement used for grating food products (such as cheese and carrots).
synonyms: surform
glosses: A woodworking tool for rapidly removing wood from a surface.
pusta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊstə/
Forms: form: pustas
form: puszta
Etymology: From Hungarian puszta. Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *pustъ.
Senses: glosses: A temperate grassland biome of the Great Hungarian Plain; an exclave of the Pannonian Steppe.
cheesegrater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheesegraters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cheese grater.
conjugating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conjugate
conjugating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugatings
Senses: examples: text: Love language is self-plagiarism, the countless conjugatings of the verb “amo,” which weary not the wooer to speak nor the wooed to hear, so long as the sense of self is absorbed in the presence of the beloved.
ref: 1893, The Atlantic, volume 72, page 430:
glosses: conjugation
Derived terms: conjugating tube
conjugates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjugate
conjugates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conjugate
quetiapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪˈtaɪ.əˌpin/
Etymology: Probably from que(ll) + thia- + -apine (“psychoactive tricyclic compound”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug taken orally in the form of its fumarate (C₂₁H₂₅N₃O₂S)₂·C₄H₄O₄ especially to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It is marketed under the trademark Seroquel.
yield to maturity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yields to maturity
form: yield-to-maturity
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The internal rate of return on a bond held to maturity, assuming scheduled payment of principal and interest.
topics: law
glosses: A calculation of yield on a bond that takes into account the capital gain or loss on a discount bond or capital loss on a premium bond. In the case of a discount bond, the yield-to-maturity, YTM, is higher than the current yield, or the coupon yield. The reverse is true for a premium bond with YTM lower than both current yield and coupon yield.
Synonyms: YTM
Coordinate terms: coupon
current yield
yield-to-call
olanzapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˈlæn.zəˌpin/
Etymology: From olan- (of unknown origin) + -zapine (“alteration of benzodiazepine”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug C₁₇H₂₀H₄S administered orally especially in the short-term treatment of schizophrenia and acute manic episodes of bipolar disorder.
hyperbolic polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperbolic polynomials
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A real, multivariate homogeneous polynomial p(x) is hyperbolic (in direction e) if p(x-te) = 0 has only real roots as a function of t.
risperidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈspɛ.ɹɪ.dəʊn/
ipa: /ɹɪˈspɛɹ.ɪˌdoʊn/
Etymology: From (fluo)r- + (benz)is(oxazole) + (pi)perid(inyl) + -one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that is a combined serotonin and dopamine receptor antagonist, used in the treatment of psychotic disorders.
Derived terms: english: antipsychotic
translation: antipsychotic
word: -peridone
fluphenazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fluːˈfɛn.ə.ziːn/
Forms: form: fluphenazines
Etymology: Blend of fluoro- + phen(othi)azine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug of the phenothiazine class, which can be administered orally or by injection.
thioridazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθʌɪ.ə(ʊ).ɹɪˈdeɪ.ziːn/
ipa: /ˌθaɪ.əˈɹɪd.əˌziːn/
Forms: form: thioridazines
Etymology: From thio- + (pipe)rid(ine) + (phenothi)azine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic compound derived from phenothiazine, used as a tranquillizer, chiefly in the treatment of mental illness.
naltrexone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nælˈtɹɛk.səʊn/
ipa: /nælˈtɹɛkˌsoʊn/
Etymology: Probably from naloxone + Latin tres (“three”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic drug, similar to morphine, which blocks opiate receptors in the nervous system and is used chiefly in the treatment of heroin addiction.
Derived terms: methylnaltrexone
encopresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encopreses
Etymology: From enuresis with substitution of uro- by copro-. See also parcopresis.
Senses: examples: text: Treatments for encopresis have involved two types of approaches. The first type of intervention has used positive reinforcement or punishment to alter the frequency of accidents or appropriate toiletings.
ref: 1982, Lynn Parker, William Whitehead, “Treatment of Urinary and Fecal Incontinence in Children”, in Daniel C. Russo, James W. Varni, editors, Behavioral Pediatrics: Research and Practice, New York, N.Y.; London: Plenum Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 166:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Fecal incontinence in children.
fenfluramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fenfluramines
Senses: glosses: An appetite suppressant used to treat obesity
Derived terms: dexfenfluramine
fenfluramine-phentermine
fen-phen
levofenfluramine
norfenfluramine
phentermine-fenfluramine
theorems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theorem
nystatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌɪ.stət.ɪn/
ipa: /ˈnɪ.stət.ɪn/
ipa: /naɪˈstæt.n̩/
ipa: /ˈnɪ.stət.ɪn/
Forms: form: nystatins
Etymology: From N(ew) Y(ork) State + -in.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antifungal drug that is derived from a soil actinomycete (Streptomyces noursei) used especially against Candida.
Derived terms: nystatinolide
fluconazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flʊˈkɒn.ə.zəʊl/
ipa: /fluˈkɑn.əˌzoʊl/
Forms: form: fluconazoles
Etymology: From flu(oro)- + -conazole (“miconazole derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antifungal agent C₁₃H₁₂F₂N₆O used orally to treat cryptococcal meningitis and local or systemic candida infections.
Derived terms: fosfluconazole
alitame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A dipeptide of alanine and aspartic acid that is used as an artificial sweetener
neotame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An artificial sweetener similar to aspartame.
sausages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sausage
gliadorphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An opioid peptide formed during the digestion of gliadin.
aripiprazole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæɹ.ɪˈpɪp.ɹəˌzoʊl/
Etymology: From ari- (of unknown origin) + -piprazole (“phenylpiperazine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug C₂₃H₂₇Cl₂N₃O₂ used in the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, and irritability associated with autism.
ziprasidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪˈpɹæs.əˌdoʊn/
Etymology: Probably from (ben)zi(sothiazole) + -pras- (“alteration of p(ipe)raz(ine)”) + i(n)d(ol)one.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antipsychotic drug used in the treatment of schizophrenia etc.
clozapine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊ.zə.piːn/
ipa: /ˈkloʊ.zəˌpin/
Forms: form: clozapines
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + -zapine (“alteration of (benzodi)azepine”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A sedative drug used to treat schizophrenia.
Derived terms: -apine
norclozapine
chlorpromazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɔːˈpɹəʊ.məz.ɪn/
ipa: /klɔːˈpɹəʊ.məz.iːn/
ipa: /klɔɹˈpɹɑm.əˌziːn/
ipa: /klɔɹˈpɹoʊ.məˌziːn/
Forms: form: chlorpromazines
Etymology: Borrowed from French chloropromazine, corresponding to chlor- + prom(eth)azine.
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1950s two French physicians, J. Delay and P. Deniker, noted the remarkable calming effects of a new drug, chlorpromazine, which was initially tested as an agent to be given to patients prior to major surgery to relax them.
ref: 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 59:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: word: aminazine
word: Largactil
english: trade name
translation: trade name
word: Thorazine
english: trade name
translation: trade name
glosses: A synthetic drug used as a tranquillizer, sedative, and antiemetic. It is a phenothiazine derivative.
positional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From position + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The mattress platform on Davey’s bed fell unexpectedly, “trapping her neck against the upper surface of the side panel of the bed’s base,” Chipperfield explained. “Unable to free herself, she died of positional asphyxia. One of the two gas-lift pistons was defective.”
ref: 2024 October 14, Issy Ronald, “Woman killed by malfunctioning ottoman bed”, in CNN:
glosses: Relating to the position of something.
examples: text: Of course, this ex post problem may have a negative feedback on the ex ante desirability of having market transactions for positional goods.
ref: 1998, Samuel Bowles, Maurizio Franzini, Ugo Pagano, The Politics and Economics of Power, page 61:
text: Since economics is about scarcity, its study must be based on positional conflict, as indicated by the behaviour of the nouveau riche, or of poor people, who proudly demonstrate their latest smartphones or plasma TV sets.
ref: 2013, Anastasios S. Korkotsides, Against Utility-Based Economics: On a Life-Based Approach, page 235:
text: Regarding saving and consumption, nonpositional and positional consumption are distinguished.
ref: 2014, Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Shang-Jin Wei, The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China:
text: Max Weber was also aware of positional considerations when he defined social status as "an effective claim to social esteem in terms of positive or negative privileges" (Weber, 1922: 305).
ref: 2016, Stavros A. Drakopoulos, Comparisons in Economic Thought, page 69:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Having or pertaining to a value that is a function of its social desirability, as opposed to its utility.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Based on long-term strategy, on gaining and exploiting small advantages, and on analyzing the larger position, rather than calculating more immediate tactics.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An argument that is passed to a subroutine according to its position in the invocation code, rather than on its name; compare with named.
Synonyms: locational
Derived terms: antipositional
benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
bipositional
equipositional
geopositional
interpositional
multipositional
nonpositional
positional asphyxia
positional good
positional isomer
positionality
positional notation
positional parameter
positional voting
positional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positionals
Etymology: From position + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A member of a class of verb in some languages that indicates position or posture.
Teochew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tiˈoʊt͡ʃuː/
Forms: form: Teochews
form: Teochew
form: Teo Chew
form: Diojiu
form: Teochiu
form: Tiuchiu
form: Tie-chiu
form: Teochow
form: Chiuchow
form: Chiu Chow
form: Chiu Chau
form: Taechew
form: Taechiew
form: Taechiu
form: Tio Ciu
form: Tiociu
form: Trieu Chau
Etymology: From Teochew 潮州 (dio⁵ ziu¹). See also Hokkien 潮州 (Tiô-chiu). Doublet of Chaozhou.
Senses: examples: text: The founding of the Four Seas Communications Bank by the leading Teochew merchants in 1907 marked the heyday of Teochew economic strength. However, the inter-war years was a period of economic regression for the Teochews.
ref: 1985, Lim Keak Cheng, Social Change and the Chinese in Singapore: A Socio-economic Geography with Special Reference to Bāng Structure:
text: "Yes! You are Teochew. Aiyah, don't you know, our people are known for being pirates, smugglers, and greate businessmen. [The Hong Kong billionaire] Li Ka-shing is Teochew, you know!"
ref: 2011, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:
text: However, the majority of Singaporean Teochews speak the Swatow (named after the main Teochew city in southeast China) variety.
ref: 2012, Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew, A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore: From Colonialism to Nationalism, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 45:
text: They were followed by the Teochews, who arrived poor and dispossessed, but soon used their entrepreneurial skills in Bangkok to build their wealth.
ref: 2015, Phil Macdonald, Carl Parkes, National Geographic Traveler: Thailand, 4th edition, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 27:
glosses: A person of Chaoshan heritage.
Teochew
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tiˈoʊt͡ʃuː/
Forms: form: Teo Chew
form: Diojiu
form: Teochiu
form: Tiuchiu
form: Tie-chiu
form: Teochow
form: Chiuchow
form: Chiu Chow
form: Chiu Chau
form: Taechew
form: Taechiew
form: Taechiu
form: Tio Ciu
form: Tiociu
form: Trieu Chau
Etymology: From Teochew 潮州 (dio⁵ ziu¹). See also Hokkien 潮州 (Tiô-chiu). Doublet of Chaozhou.
Senses: examples: text: […] when Rev. Guthrie Gamble started the first company in the southern Chinese Teochew city of Swatow […]
ref: 1996, Danny Tze-Ken Wong, Our Anchor Holds: A History of the Boy's Brigade in Malaysia, 1946-1996:
text: My grandfather, Mr Kua Kim Par, left the Teochew city of Chaozhou circa 1896 because of the political turmoil in China with the decline of the Qing Dynasty.
ref: 2014, Kua Ee Heok, Ageing Baby Boomers, Write Editions / Tusitala (RLS) Pte Ltd, →ISBN:
text: Liang: So where do most members of your Jiazu live?
Chen: Chaozhou (Teochew city). Two thirds of the population live in Chaozhou. Err...three fourths, actually, because only my father, his brother and the sons of some relatives have left (Chaozhou) to work elsewhere.
ref: 2014, Sihua Liang, Language Attitudes and Identities in Multilingual China: A Linguistic Ethnography, Springer, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Relating to the Chaoshan region of China or its people.
Synonyms: sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Chaozhou
squoze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwəʊz/
ipa: /skwoʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
Senses: examples: text: I picked at it, and I squoze it and so forth and messed myself up a little bit.
ref: 1985 August 5, Ronald Reagan https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-and-question-and-answer-session-reporters-0, retrieved 2020-10-22
text: Just when you think we squoze (yes, that’s a word) the blogosphere dry,
ref: 2009 March 9, John DeNardo, “SF Signal Welcomes Pete Tzinski”, in SF Signal, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2012:
text: bag fellow: head to the juice bar for fresh-squoze juice! morning, noon, or night!
ref: 2014, Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight, level/area: Village:
glosses: simple past and past participle of squeeze
Related terms: word: squeezed
word: squozen
overpair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpairs
Etymology: From over- + pair.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
coordinate_terms: top pair
underpair
glosses: A pocket pair of a higher rank than the community cards on the board.
overpairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overpair
underbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbets
Etymology: From under- + bet.
Senses: examples: text: Since the pot contained $1,000, James' $10 bet was an underbet.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: a bet which is smaller than standard for a given situation
underbet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbets
form: underbetting
form: underbet
form: underbet
Etymology: From under- + bet.
Senses: examples: James underbet by betting only $10 into a $1,000 pot
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: to bet a smaller amount than is standard for a given situation
underbets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbet
underbets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underbet
underbetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underbet
language families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of language family
bonded debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonded debts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: That part of the entire indebtedness of a corporation or state that is represented by bonds it has issued; a debt contracted under the obligation of a bond.
bond for deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonds for deeds
Etymology: From bond + for + deed.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A document given by the owner of real estate to convey the property upon being paid money; an agreement to convey title in the future that, so long as it remains executory, allows title to remain vested in the original owner.
bond for general purposes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonds for general purposes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A kind of government bond that is a charge against the taxpayers generally, as distinguished from bonds for improvements, the cost of which is charged to the property specially benefited.
bond discount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bond discounts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A reduction from the face amount of a bond that occurs where bonds are sold on the market for cash at a price less than the face amount. Since bonds mature years after issue, they are discounted to reflect present value.
bond issue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bond issues
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The offering of bonds for sale to investors.