cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
self-propelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + propelled.
Senses: examples: text: Of particular note were two self-propelled fire-fighting vehicles, adapted from Drewry railcars, enabling a rapid response to a fire anywhere on the extensive site.
ref: 2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 37:
synonyms: automotive
self-propelling
glosses: Having its own means of propulsion that moves with it.
Related terms: self-powered
disarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disarticulate
disarticulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: disjointed
disarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsɑː(ɹ)ˈtɪkjəleɪt/
rhymes: -ɪkjʊleɪt
Forms: form: disarticulates
form: disarticulating
form: disarticulated
form: disarticulated
Etymology: From dis- + articulate.
Senses: examples: text: I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.
ref: 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:
glosses: To disjoint.
glosses: To amputate (a limb) at a joint without cutting the bone.
Derived terms: disarticulator
Related terms: disarticulation
inarticulate
unarticulate
unarticulated
vanishingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vanishing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: vanishingly rare
text: a vanishingly small object on the horizon
text: When they weren't running ships, meddling with alien civilisations or planning the future course of the Culture itself, the Minds existed in those fantastic virtual realities, sojourning beyondward into the multi-dimensioned geographies of their unleashed imaginations, vanishingly far away from the single limited point that was reality.
ref: 1996, Iain M. Banks, Excession:
text: [Minnesota Senator Steve] Daines isn’t the only example of right-wing politicians who wish to wield anti-Semitism as a convenient cudgel against their political enemies, with scant if any evidence. But Montana’s vanishingly small Jewish population makes it particularly clear that this strategy has little to do with flesh-and-blood Jews at all.
ref: 2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:
glosses: So as to vanish, or appear to vanish; especially, very small or rare.
finders, keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: synonyms: finders, keepers; losers, weepers
glosses: Whoever finds something is allowed to keep it.
humiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of humiliate
humiliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: deprived of dignity or self-respect
Synonyms: degraded
Derived terms: unhumiliated
bearskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛə.skɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɛəɹ.skɪn/
Forms: form: bearskins
Etymology: From bear + skin.
Senses: examples: text: The farmer flayed him as he had the bear, and so he had both bear-skin and fox-skin.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 113:
text: In the midst stalked the King, his great limbs muffled, like Goldry’s, in a cloak: and it was of black silk lined with black bearskin, and ornamented with crabs worked in diamonds.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 19:
glosses: The pelt of a bear, especially when used as a rug.
glosses: A tall ceremonial hat worn by members of some British regiments for ceremonial occasions; a busby.
glosses: A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
Synonyms: sense: ceremonial hat
word: busby
Derived terms: bearskinned
esthete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esthetes
form: æsthete
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aesthete.
esthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From esthetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aesthetically.
Derived terms: esthetically challenged
esoterically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more esoterically
form: most esoterically
Etymology: From esoteric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an esoteric manner
estimator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛs.tɪˌmeɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɛs.təˌmeɪ.tɚ/
ipa: [ˈɛs.təˌmeɪ.ɾɚ]
ipa: /ˈes.tɪˌmæɪ.tə/
ipa: [ˈes.tɪˌmæɪ.ɾə]
Forms: form: estimators
Etymology: From Latin aestimātor; equivalent to estimate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The Æstimators of the Valor of everie Townes Teinds.
ref: 1596, James Melville, The Diary of Mr James Melvill. 1556-1601., Edinburgh, published 1829, page 225:
glosses: A person who estimates, especially one who estimates costs
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function of a random sample of a population used to estimate some parameter of the whole population
Derived terms: L-estimator
Related terms: overestimator
underestimator
estrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: oestrous
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in a state of estrus.
Synonyms: estral
oestral
Derived terms: anestrous
estrous cycle
metaestrous
monestrous
periestrous
polyestrous
proestrous
evacuee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evacuees
Etymology: From French évacué, évacuée, from évacuer, equivalent to evacu(ate) + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: In the three weeks since, the city has repeatedly relocated evacuees on short notice. To reopen schools, it bused many to armories, turning drill floors into open dormitories for the first time since a 1980s lawsuit halted the practice.
ref: 2012 November 20, Nina Bernstein, “Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
evader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evaders
Etymology: From evade + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who evades something.
glosses: During the Second World War, an Allied pilot shot down over enemy territory who then escaped back to his own side.
Derived terms: draft evader
fare evader
tax evader
evaporator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪt.ɚ/
ipa: [ɪˈvæp.ə.ɹeɪɾ.ɚ]
Forms: form: evaporators
Etymology: From evaporate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A piece of equipment used to evaporate the solvent from a solution.
glosses: The part of a refrigerator that absorbs heat by evaporating a refrigerant.
Derived terms: evaporatory
rotary evaporator
rotoevaporator
everglade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: everglades
Etymology: Compound of ever + glade.
Senses: glosses: A tract of marshland, especially one containing clumps of sawgrass and hammocks of vegetation
muff-diving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: You muff-diving, bleached-out, burnt-up old dyke.
ref: 1976, Darwin Porter, Butterflies in the Heart:
glosses: Alternative spelling of muff diving.
muff-diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [...] sodomy and pederasty and maybe muff-diving.
ref: 1971, Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Arfive:
text: He wondered what muff-diving had to do with love.
ref: 1977, John Gregory Dunne, True Confessions:
text: He knew that this had been going on since civilization began, and he’d read a passage in an ancient Roman satirist called Juvenal that described it—cunnilingus, pussy-eating, going down, muff-diving, translate it any way you will.
ref: 2003, Peter Thorpe, Phinney Ridge:
glosses: Alternative spelling of muff diving.
everyplace
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From every + place.
Senses: examples: text: He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
glosses: everywhere
eviction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈvɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: evictions
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French éviction, from Late Latin ēvictiō, from Latin ēvincō.
Senses: examples: text: order of eviction
text: face eviction
text: threat of eviction
text: The family faced eviction after missing several payments.
text: Protesters resisted the eviction of squatters.
glosses: The act of evicting.
glosses: The state of being evicted.
Hyponyms: constructive eviction
renoviction
Derived terms: evictionism
evictionist
Related terms: evict
evince
evildoing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evildoings
Etymology: From evil + doing.
Senses: glosses: An evil or wicked act, especially a crime.
evolutionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolutionists
Etymology: From evolution + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Ironically, the argument used today by Roadruck and other designists—that their teachings should receive equal time in schools—mirrors the one employed by evolutionists some 75 years ago.
ref: 2002 April, Steve Jacoby, “Designer Creation”, in Amanda Boyd, editor, Cincinnati Magazine, volume 35, number 7, →ISSN, page 18:
antonyms: antievolutionist
coordinate_terms: creationist
glosses: A proponent or supporter of evolutionism.
Derived terms: deistic evolutionist
evilutionist
neoevolutionist
nonevolutionist
theistic evolutionist
evolutionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolutionisms
Etymology: From evolution + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
glosses: The belief in the universal presence of evolution.
glosses: The advocacy of Darwinian evolution by natural selection (Darwinism).
Derived terms: antievolutionism
creationary evolutionism
cultural evolutionism
deistic evolutionism
neoevolutionism
social evolutionism
sociocultural evolutionism
theistic evolutionism
Related terms: evolutionist
evolutionistic
evolutionistically
kantar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈtɑ/
Forms: form: kantars
form: cantar
form: qantar
Etymology: From Arabic قِنْطَار (qinṭār). Doublet of centenary, centner, and quintal.
Senses: glosses: a unit of weight used in Eastern Mediterranean countries, varying from place to place (44.93 kg in Egypt)
bob-cherry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bob cherry
form: bobcherry
Senses: examples: text: Playing at bob cherry
Tom and Nell and Hugh:
Cherry bob! cherry bob!
There's a bob for you.
Tom bobs a cherry
For gaping snapping Hugh,
While curly-pated Nelly
Snaps at it too.
ref: 1893, Christina G. Rosetti, A NURSERY RHYME BOOK:
glosses: A game where one tries to snap at a swinging cherry with one's mouth.
keks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kecks.
Derived terms: dekek
gren
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grens
form: grenning
form: grenned
form: grenned
Senses: examples: text: And some of Tygres, that did seeme to gren
And snar at all that ever passed by
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of grin.
Sherwood Forest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɝwʊd ˈfɔɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈʃɜːwʊd ˈfɒɹɪst/
Senses: glosses: A country park in Nottinghamshire, England.
examples: text: Here crewmen are standing by in "Sherwood Forest" — as the missile compartment is named […]
ref: 1964, Adventure in Partnership: The Story of Polaris, page 34:
text: Fifteen other launcher tubes — Polaris submarines have 16 in the midships "Sherwood Forest" compartment […]
ref: 1966, Flight International, volume 90, page 36:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The banks of Polaris missile tubes on a submarine.
dragoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragoon
dragoons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dragoon
tron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trone (“weighing machine”).
tian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tians
Etymology: From French, from Provençal tian, from Old Occitan, from Ancient Greek τήγανον (tḗganon), variant of τάγηνον (tágēnon, “frying pan”).
Senses: glosses: An oval cooking-pot, traditionally used in Provence.
glosses: A Provençal dish of layered baked vegetables.
gobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: plural of gob
gobs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒbz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gob
biophonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biophony
biophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophonies
Etymology: From bio- + -phony.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cumulative nonhuman sounds produced by living organisms in a given biome.
Derived terms: biophonic
biophonies
Related terms: anthropophony
geophony
lollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lolly
lollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortened form of lollipop pants, which was the standard form in Rhode Island at least through the mid 1980s. It is not known when the shortened form became the standard term.
Senses: qualifier: Rhode Island
glosses: A type of undergarment worn by cheerleaders under their skirts in place of panties.
Synonyms: kickpants
spankies
salver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvers
Etymology: From Middle English salver (attested only in the sense of "ointment box"), from Old English *sealfere (“salver, one who anoints”), equivalent to salve + -er. Cognate with Dutch zalver (“salver”), German Salber (“salver”).
Senses: glosses: One who salves or cures.
glosses: One who pretends to cure; a quacksalver.
Related terms: salve
salver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvers
Etymology: From salve (“to save”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss.
salver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salvers
Etymology: From Middle English salver (“serving platter”), from Spanish salva (“a testing of food or drink to test for poison”), from salvar (“to save, taste food for one's master”), from Latin salvō (“save”, verb). More at save.
Senses: examples: text: As athletes mount the podiums, volunteers dressed in Louis Vuitton-designed uniforms will bear the awards, presented on Louis Vuitton-made salvers featuring the house's signature brown check.
ref: 2024 July 20, Adrienne Klasa, “LVMH strikes Olympic gold”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 5:
glosses: A tray used to display or serve food or other items (such as a visiting card).
calzones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calzone
sandlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandlots
Etymology: From sand + lot.
Senses: examples: text: Many great players started out playing sandlot baseball.
glosses: A vacant lot where children play.
Derived terms: sandlot ball
sander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsændɚ/
rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)
Forms: form: sanders
Etymology: From sand + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person employed to sand wood.
examples: text: The autophiles hang around a big, fluorescent-lighted garage with cars on cinder blocks, ostensibly in competition for a job, and they talk to the camera in between sessions at the sander or other machines.
ref: 2007 July 19, Virginia Heffernan, “A Congregation Gathers to Worship the Shiny Hot Rod”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A machine to mechanize the process of sanding.
examples: text: Grass growing on the track made the running far from easy, and only frequent use of the sanders enabled us to breast the 1 in 50 gradients between Letterkenny and Kilmacrenon [sic].
ref: 1949 November and December, K. Longbottom, “By Goods Train to Gweedore”, in Railway Magazine, page 356:
text: Traditionally, sand was used to aid grip, being released onto the track in front of the wheels from a special 'sandbox'. However, the Slough accident led to two trials on the use of train-borne sanders to aid braking: [...] Now, all new stock is fitted with automatic sanders, as have most of the pre-1994 units still running.
ref: 2021 November 17, Greg Morse, “Network News: Background: causes and effects of low adhesion and wheelslide”, in RAIL, number 944, pages 8–9:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A device which spreads sand on the rails in wet, snowy, icy, slippery conditions to improve traction.
glosses: A small device resembling a salt shaker but containing sand that was shaken over a document to remove excess ink.
Derived terms: orbital sander
random orbital sander
belt sander
strip sander
Related terms: sense: sense 3
word: sanding gear
sanatoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanatorium
sanatoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanatorium
salutatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sə-lyo͞o'-tə-tŏrʹ-ē-ən
ipa: /səˌljuː.təˈtɔːɹ.iː.ən/
ipa: /səˌluː.təˈtɔːɹ.iː.ən/
ipa: /səˌljuː.təˈtɔːɹ.iː.ən/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiən
Forms: form: salutatorians
Etymology: From salutatory + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School. […] Within days, and breaking with longstanding tradition, West Point High School decided to name two valedictorians and two salutatorians — with two white students, Emma Berry and Dominic Borgioli, joining the Black students who had already been named.
ref: 2021 June 11, Stephanie Saul, “Two Black Students Won School Honors. Then Came the Calls for a Recount.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2021:
text: He was the salutatorian of his high school class (a sore subject, his sister said, since So thought he missed the top spot on a technicality), and entered Stanford intending to major in computer science.
ref: 2021 July 19, Andrew LaVallee, “A Rising Star’s Career Was Cut Short. His Impact Is Just Beginning.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2021:
topics: education
coordinate_terms: valedictorian
glosses: The person who graduates high school with the second-highest GPA and thus gets to give the salutatory address during the graduation ceremony.
GPA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GPAs
Senses: examples: text: He said those recruiting for technical jobs like engineering might be more likely to restrict their search to candidates with high GPAs from specific schools.
ref: 2017 August 18, Katie Lobosco, “What top employers look for in new college grads”, in CNN Money:
text: He had a 0.13 GPA and was still in ninth grade. With a class rank of 62 out of 120, he was being promoted through the course levels, which led France to believe everything was fine when it wasn’t.
ref: 2022 March 29, Chris Papst, “From 0.13 GPA to future graduate, mom of Baltimore student says 'We did it'”, in WNWO-TV:
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of grade point average.
qualifier: pensions
glosses: GMP payment age
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of granulomatosis with polyangiitis.
grade point average
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grade point averages
Senses: examples: text: It’s a school where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
ref: 2021 March 1, Chris Papst, “City student passes 3 classes in four years, ranks near top half of class with 0.13 GPA”, in WBFF:
topics: education
synonyms: word: GPA
glosses: The overall average grade of all courses taken at a particular time.
Related terms: english: cumulative grade point average
translation: cumulative grade point average
word: cume
sailplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: sailplanes
Etymology: From sail + plane.
Senses: qualifier: aircraft
glosses: A glider that is optimised for soaring and is equipped with fixed wings and fuselage.
Related terms: hang glider
motor glider
paraglider
sailplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlˌpleɪn/
Forms: form: sailplanes
form: sailplaning
form: sailplaned
form: sailplaned
Etymology: From sail + plane.
Senses: glosses: To fly in a sailplane.
strunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strunts
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”).
Senses: examples: text: Syne, wi' a social glass o' strunt, / They parted aff careerin / Fu' blythe that night.
ref: 1785, Robert Burns, Halloween:
glosses: Spirituous liquor; alcoholic drink.
glosses: A drink of spirits; a dram.
examples: text: Wow, man, that's unco sad! --Is that ye'r jo Has ta'en the strunt!
ref: 1720, Allan Ramsay, Poems, page 161:
glosses: A sulky fit; sullenness.
Derived terms: struntish
strunty
strunt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strunts
form: strunting
form: strunted
form: strunted
Etymology: Of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots strunt (“spirits, whisky, toddy”).
Senses: examples: text: "Upo' the hill" the callan cries, "She cock'd her gaucy runt; An' to Strathfallan green Burn-brae, Fu' nimbly she did strunt.
ref: 1789, David Davidson, Thoughts on the Seasons, &c., page 50:
text: High were their hopes for food and cash, And drink to keep them strunting, Which cures the yisk and waterbrash, And sets the pipe a lunting
ref: 1876, “The Big Man's Burial”, in The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, page 266:
text: Your impudence protects you sairly, I canna say but ye strunt rarely Owre gauze and lace.
ref: 1900, Robert Burns, “To A Louse, On Seeing One On a Lady's Bonnet At Church”, in The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns, page 52:
glosses: To walk boldly.
strunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strunts
Etymology: Compare Middle High German strunze (“stump”).
Senses: examples: text: The Brain is acknowledged by all, to be the Fountain, from whence Sinews have their rise; particularly, there is derived thence one great Tendon, which passeth through the cavity of Neck and Back-bone, extending it self to the nethermost joint of the Strunt.
ref: 1673, Robert Almond, The English Horsman and Complete Farrier, page 46:
text: A tanner's dog invited another dog of his intimate acquaintance to an entertainment, but the latter dog not being satisfied with his feast, as he came away feloniously stole away the strunt of a tail , and the tanner's dog soon after hearing of the felony, quarrelled with his acquaintance, upon which he lost his life;
ref: 1829, Stephen Glover, The History of the County of Derby, page 613:
text: S a pretty little dog! 's a pretty little doggy! — ay! — yes! — he is, yes! — Wag thy strunt, then! Wag thy strunt, Rexie!
ref: 1961, D.H. Lawrence, “Adolf”, in Edward David McDonald, editor, Phoenix: The Posthumous Papers of D.H. Lawrence, page 16:
glosses: A tail or rump
glosses: Anything short or contracted
maci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈma.t͡sɪ/
Forms: form: macy
form: muah chee
Etymology: From Hokkien 麻糍 (môa-chî).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Chinese rice cake snack made of glutinous rice, peanuts, and sugar.
CEOP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Command).
juneberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juneberries
form: Juneberry
Etymology: From June + berry, the berries typically ripening in June.
Senses: glosses: Any of several North American trees of the genus Amelanchier, having white flowers and edible, purplish fruit.
glosses: The fruit of such a tree.
Synonyms: word: shadbush
word: serviceberry
english: Canadian prairies
translation: Canadian prairies
word: saskatoon
Derived terms: taxonomic: Amelanchier alnifolia
word: alderleaf juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier laevis
word: Allegheny juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier bartramiana
word: Bartram juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier canadensis
word: Canadian jundeberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier obovalis
word: coastal juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier arborea
word: downy juneberry
word: Fernald juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier sanguinea var. sanguinea
word: Fernald's juneberry
word: Gaspe juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier sanguinea var. gaspensis
word: Gaspé roundleaf juneberry
word: Huron juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier interior
word: inland juneberry
taxonomic: Ilex spp.
word: juneberry holly
taxonomic: Amelanchier asiatica
word: Korean juneberry
word: large-flowered juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier humilis
word: low juneberry
word: Minnesota juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier bartramiana
word: mountain juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier nantucketensis
word: Nantucket juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier arborea
word: northwestern serviceberry
word: Nova Scotia juneberry
word: oblongleaf juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier sanguinea
word: roundleaf juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier stolonifera
word: running juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier laevis
word: smooth juneberry
taxonomic: Amelanchier obovalis
word: southern juneberry
alt: Amelanchier × intermedia
word: swamp juneberry
word: Wiegand juneberry (Amelanchier × wiegandii
conciliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conciliant
form: most conciliant
Senses: examples: text: 19C, Howard H. Brinton, Quaker Religious Thought: The Quaker Doctrine of the Holy Spirit, volume 1, number 1, Quaker Theological Discussion Group
It is a conciliant authority, a joint authority expressed formatively and normatively through Bible, community, and Spirit
text: Conciliant with the strategy of this section, I would stress the following:
ref: 1965, David Samuel Shwayder, The Stratification of Behaviour: A System of Definitions Propounded and Defended, Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 384:
text: Sometimes our later acts will fit with our old reasons, because the new reasons rationalized by the old will justify only acts conciliant with the old. Other times, our acts will not be conciliant.
ref: 2003 October, Sarah Stroud, Christine Tappolet, Weakness of Will and Practical Irrationality, Oxford University Press, page 250:
glosses: Conciliatory.
right as a trivet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Initially as steady as a trivet, implying stability.
Senses: examples: text: I'm all right, governor; right as a trivet.
ref: 1858, Anthony Trollope, chapter 25, in Doctor Thorne, London: Chapman and Hall:
qualifier: simile
glosses: In a perfect state; thoroughly sound.
Synonyms: right as ninepence
right as rain
righter than rain
itt
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in this thread or in this topic.
itt
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: 1657, October 3, William Clarke, Letters from Flanders; reprinted in:
text: Itt hath indeed bin intended by the French army to lay siege to […] and in order thereunto a conquest hath bin made of the sconce Mardyk, which did nott indure siege above 2 dayes before itt yielded uppon discretion,¹ but since the taking thereof the resolution of beseiging Dunkirk beginneth to slacken, and I suppose will bee quitte layd aside for this […]
ref: 1899, William Clarke, edited by Charles Harding Firth, The Clarke Papers: Selections from the Papers of William Clarke, Secretary to the Council of the Army, 1647-1649, and to General Monck and the Commanders of the Army in Scotland, 1651-1660, Camden Society, page 120:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of it.
prosphora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosphoras
Etymology: From Ancient Greek προσφορά (prosphorá, “offering”), from πρός (towards) + φέρω (bring).
Senses: glosses: a holy bread; a small loaf of leavened bread, used for communion in Orthodox Church. Usually consists of two layers, symbolizing the dual nature of Christ.
Related terms: antidoron
eulogia
host
wafer
convivium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convivia
Senses: examples: text: In Canada, there are more than 1,500 members and 39 convivia or local chapters.
ref: 2009 April 28, Pamela Cuthbert, “Slow food author promotes focus on food producers”, in Toronto Star:
text: I neglect the convivium (many people) in the hunger for the kind of fullness of being only possible in the dialogue (verbal mostly, sometimes physical) with one other person.
ref: 2012, Susan Sontag, “2/15/70”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: A symposium.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geographically isolated population of a species that shows differentiation from other populations of the same species; becomes a subspecies or ecotype
Fink truss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fink trusses
Etymology: Patented by Albert Fink in 1854.
Senses: glosses: A truss used for roofs and bridges, having multiple diagonal members projecting down from the top of the end posts at a variety of angles to meet the bottoms of the vertical members.
etcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etchers
Etymology: From etch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who etches
eternalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eternal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: eternity; endlessness
Synonyms: ceaselessness
perpetuity
endlessness
ethereally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ethereally
form: most ethereally
Etymology: From ethereal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ethereal manner
ethically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛθɪkəli/
ipa: /ˈɛθɪkli/
ipa: [ˈɛθ.ɪk.li]
ipa: [ˈɛθ.ɪ.kli]
Forms: form: more ethically
form: most ethically
Etymology: From ethical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In the final few weeks before the vote, a rash of ads appeared on radio and TV claiming that Hillary Clinton was too frail, too liberal and too ethically compromised to become president.
ref: 2019 July 28, Sam Wolfson, “Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone”, in The Guardian:
text: It is easy to implement, is not cost-prohibitive, and provides unbiased randomly sampled data in an ethically acceptable manner.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 12:
glosses: In an ethical manner.
glosses: Concerning ethics.
Derived terms: ethically challenged
Related terms: morally
ethnocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnocentric
form: most ethnocentric
Etymology: From ethno- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ethnocentrism.
Derived terms: ethnocentrically
ethnocentric fallacy
ethnocentricism
ethnocentrize
nonethnocentric
ethnological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnological
form: most ethnological
Etymology: From ethnology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ethnology.
Derived terms: ethnologically
nonethnological
unethnological
ethological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ethology.
Derived terms: ethologically
neuroethological
palaeoethological
paleoethological
exurbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exurbias
Etymology: From exurb + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A residential area beyond the suburbs.
Synonyms: exurb
Related terms: exurban
exurb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡˌzɜːb/
ipa: /ˈɛkˌsɜːb/
ipa: /ˈɛɡˌzɝb/
ipa: /ˈɛkˌsɝb/
Forms: form: exurbs
Etymology: Blend of extra + urban.
Senses: examples: text: I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.
ref: 2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, “Exurbs delenda est”, in The Atlantic:
text: Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 91:
text: Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.
ref: 2023 July 7, Paul Salopek, “China's Hinge”, in National Geographic:
glosses: A residential area beyond the suburbs.
Synonyms: exurbia
Related terms: exurban
exurban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɜː.bən/
ipa: /ɛkˈsɜː.bən/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɝ.bən/
ipa: /ɛkˈsɝ.bən/
Forms: form: ex-urban
Senses: examples: text: Mirella had a story about a duplex in a housing development of identical duplexes, exurban Cleveland, cornfields on one side and an expressway on the other.
ref: 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 84:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or residing in an exurb.
Coordinate terms: nonurban
rural
suburban
urban
Related terms: exurbanite
exurbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exurbanites
Etymology: From exurban + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A person who lives in an exurb.
Coordinate terms: suburbanite
urbanite
exurbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exurbanites
Etymology: From ex- + urbanite.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ex-urbanite.
erelong
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛəˈlɒŋ/
ipa: /ɛːˈlɒŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Etymology: From ere + long.
Senses: glosses: before long, soon.
ergonomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ergonomically
form: most ergonomically
Etymology: From ergonomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ergonomic manner
glosses: Using ergonomics
eruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eructs
form: eructing
form: eructed
form: eructed
Etymology: From Latin ēructō.
Senses: examples: text: He ate voraciously, smacking his lips, breathing hard, now and then eructing with frank energy and satisfaction.
ref: a. 1911, David Graham Phillips, Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise:
glosses: To burp or belch.
Derived terms: eructate
Related terms: eruction
eructation
harmonicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ).mɒn.ɪ.sɪst/
Forms: form: harmonicists
form: harmonicaist
Etymology: From harmonica + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: mouth harpist
mouth organist
glosses: someone who plays a harmonica
Derived terms: glass harmonicist
trickier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tricky: more tricky
TDIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of total dissolved inorganic carbon.
hypopyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypopyons
Etymology: See hypo- and pyo-.
Senses: glosses: Collection of pus in the anterior chamber of the eye
EPMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of electron probe microanalysis.
normalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of normalize
Panamax
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of Panama + -max.
Senses: glosses: Of a freight ship: conforming to the regulations concerning maximum permitted beam, length, and draft, allowing it to transit the locks on the Panama Canal.
Derived terms: Neopanamax
New Panamax
over-Panamax
post-Panamax
Related terms: Aframax
Capesize
Chinamax
handymax
Seawaymax
Suezmax
central excise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: central excises
Senses: glosses: The department concerned with tax on goods manufactured or produced.
Shahbag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɑːbɑːɡ/
Etymology: From Bengali শাহবাগ (śahobag, literally “royal garden”), from শাহ (śah, “king”) + বাগ (bag, “garden”).
Senses: glosses: A neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Derived terms: Shahbagi
antiphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æn.tɪ.fɒ.nɪk/
Forms: form: more antiphonic
form: most antiphonic
Etymology: From antiphon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having the presence of an antiphon between two choirs with a call and a response in song or in chant, usually in the form of a hymn or a psalm.
Derived terms: antiphonically
as it were
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English as it were, as hyt were, als it were, als hit were, from Old English *ealswā hit wǣre, attested only as swā hit wǣre and swylċe hit wǣre (“as it were”, literally “as it would be”).
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, it, were.
examples: text: With so much construction and renovation going on all around him, he was more or less living in a new city now, as it were. [His city is not newly founded, and it has been neither renamed nor moved, but in some practical way it is true that he does not live in the same city that he used to live in.]
text: God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the ſtrength of an Vnicorne.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 23:22, column 2:
text: Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in society, who has neglected to place his first-born in the Circular Neo-Therapeutic Gymnasium before he has attained the age of a month.
ref: 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Flatland, A Romance of Many Dimensions:
text: [T]here was no very clear vision, to these people, of supra-mundane beings, sitting apart and ordaining the affairs of earth, as it were from a distance.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 91:
synonyms: if you will
in a manner of speaking
so to speak
coordinate_terms: after a fashion
in a sense
in a way
glosses: Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.
examples: text: She gave all of the women seated at the restaurant food for thought, as it were.
text: Concerns that cloud seeding might “steal” water from an area a cloud is traveling toward—robbing Peter to water Paul, as it were—have been dispelled.
text: Scientists hope Crispr might also be used for genomic surgery, as it were, to correct errant genes that cause disease.
ref: 2014 March 3, “A Powerful New Way to Edit DNA”, in New York Times:
text: The Volkswagen diesel-emissions exploit was caused by a software failing, even if it seems to have been engineered, as it were, deliberately-
ref: 2015 November 5, “Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers”, in The Atlantic:
text: Congress ended the bracero program in 1964, and the next 15 years were the salad days, as it were, for farmworkers
ref: 2017 March 31, “Hail Cesar!”, in National Review:
synonyms: figuratively
if you will
metaphorically
so to speak
coordinate_terms: no pun intended
glosses: Used to draw attention to the use of a metaphor, sometimes to prevent confusion or to highlight wordplay.
Related terms: as if
biotag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biotags
Etymology: From bio- + tag.
Senses: glosses: A small radio or optical telemetry transmitter used in wildlife ecology
biotag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biotags
form: biotagging
form: biotagged
form: biotagged
Etymology: From bio- + tag.
Senses: glosses: To attach such a device to an animal
bluewash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bluewashes
form: bluewashing
form: bluewashed
form: bluewashed
Etymology: From blue + -wash.
Senses: glosses: To use a blue paint or glaze.
examples: text: Corporations ...bluewash by suggesting ethical leadership and affiliating with the United Nations.
ref: 2006. William S. Laufer. Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds: The Failure of Corporate Criminal Liability, page 164
topics: business
government
politics
coordinate_terms: redwash#Verb
brownwash#Verb
whitewash#Verb
greenwash#Verb
;
humanewash
sustainwash
glosses: To tout a business or organization's commitment to social responsibility, and to use this perception for public relations and economic gain; to present a humanitarian front in this manner.
Related terms: eyewash
bluewash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluewashes
Etymology: From blue + -wash.
Senses: examples: text: beautified with bluewash
glosses: A wash of blue paint or glaze.
brachialgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brachi- + -algia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pain in the arm
Derived terms: cervicobrachialgia
bromidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Fetid or foul-smelling perspiration.
Synonyms: osmidrosis
bullet-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bullet-proof
form: most bullet-proof
Senses: examples: text: The bullet-proof shutters, the stacks of hand-grenades, and the Gatling guns of the Sub-Treasury are tacit admissions of the fact and of the quality of the mercy expected.
ref: 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Awakening”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 20:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bulletproof (all senses)
bullet-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bullet-proofs
form: bullet-proofing
form: bullet-proofed
form: bullet-proofed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bulletproof.
Cabriole leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæb.ɹi.oʊl/
Forms: form: Cabriole legs
Etymology: From French cabriole (“goat's leap”), from Italian capriola.
Senses: glosses: In furniture design, a curved leg with outcurved knee and incurved ankle. A signature design element of the Queen Anne style of furniture, the cabriole predates both 18th century England and Italy. The style originated in Italy and is a conventionalized representation of the rear leg of a leaping goat.
cafetorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cafetoriums
form: cafetoria
Etymology: Blend of cafeteria + auditorium (originated around 1950).
Senses: examples: text: There is another combination which is regarded favorably, particularly where economy of space is a necessity. This is the combined cafeteria-auditorium unit and is often called a cafetorium or an auditeria.
ref: 1948, University of the State of New York, Planning The School Auditorium, page 14:
text: Then Mitchell reminded his mother that they both needed money to pay for their lunches, which meant a search for the exact change to pay for two lunches so they would not slow up the line in the cafetorium.
ref: 1967, Beverly Cleary, Mitch and Amy, HarperCollins, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 86–87:
glosses: A large room, usually in a school, used as both a cafeteria and an auditorium.
Related terms: auditeria
carruca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrucas
form: caruca
Etymology: From Medieval Latin carrūca.
Senses: examples: text: Pliny mentions another carriage of imperial Rome — the carruca, which had four wheels and was used equally in the city and for long journeys.
ref: 1912, Ralph Straus, Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution, page 34:
synonyms: heavy plough
glosses: A heavy wheeled turnplough that was used during the Middle Ages.
Hypernyms: mouldboard plough
turnplough
Related terms: carucate
chewre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chewres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of char.
cognometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A class of personal authentication techniques based on measuring innate cognitive abilities of the human brain (e.g. ability to recognize a familiar face).
content filtering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Web filtering, content-control software or spam-blocking solutions.
corn house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn houses
Senses: glosses: A small shed-like structure usually adjacent to a barn, typically used to store grain or feed, or for isolation of unruly or lame farm animals.
crab mentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab mentalities
Etymology: From the metaphor in which a pot of crabs, one crab attempts to escape over the side, but is relentlessly pulled down by the others in the pot.
Senses: synonyms: crab bucket syndrome
glosses: A phenomenon in which a person or a group of people attempt to hinder the progress or success of others, even if such success does not directly affect their own well-being.
Related terms: tall poppy syndrome
cycloptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cycloptic
form: most cycloptic
Etymology: Derived from cyclops (one eye)
Senses: examples: text: DR. EVIL: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly?
ref: 1997, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (film)
glosses: One-eyed.
examples: text: Such insightful feeling by way of cycloptic vision may accompany an experience […]
ref: 1981, David LeRoy Miller, Christs: Meditations on Archetypal Images in Christian Theology, Seabury Press, published 1981, page 38:
glosses: Approaching or viewing a situation with a single perspective, lacking foresight; short-sighted.
defective on arrival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Upon receipt, damaged or defective to the point of being unusable.
raw_tags: of an item
Synonyms: DOA
den of iniquity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dens of iniquity
Etymology: Unclear, but probably inspired by the “den of thieves” in the KJV Bible, which is a calque of Latin spēlunca latrōnum.
Senses: examples: text: The young men made their preparations with alacrity, and, headed by this western patriarch, we proceeded at a rapid gait to surprize the tenants of this den of iniquity.
ref: 1840, George Dabney, The History of an Adventurer:
text: "Shet up!" I snarled. "I'm jest payin' yuh back for all the pain and humiliation I suffered in this den of iniquity—"
ref: 1944, Robert Howard, Texas John Alden:
text: Ms. Saint Phalle bought the converted inn with her husband, the Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, in 1963; he died in 1991. Called Auberge au Cheval Blanc, it was once a brothel. "The villagers wanted an end to the den of iniquity, but then they did not like our sculptures, and for a while they would throw things at them," she says with a distinctive laugh, as wide open and explosive as her eyes.
ref: 1993 October 7, Roger Cohen, quoting Niki de Saint Phalle, “At Home With: Niki de Saint Phalle; An Artist, Her Monsters, Her Two Worlds”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A place of immoral behavior, often of a sexual type.
wikipedia: King James Version
depyrimidination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depyrimidinations
Etymology: From de- + pyrimidine + -ation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A process in which the chemical bond linking a pyrimidine (cytosine or thymine) to a deoxyribose sugar breaks spontaneously. It occurs at a lower rate compared to depurination with only 500 cytosine and thymine bases lost per cell per day in a typical mammalian cell.
digital commons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital commons
Senses: glosses: Digital property, often but not necessarily in the public domain, especially intellectual property, when expressed and reproduced using digital formats.
glosses: A repository of digital materials and other intellectual property.
disgruntlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈɡɹʌntəlmɪnt/
Forms: form: disgruntlements
Etymology: From disgruntled + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The third most common motive for Americans to commit espionage is disgruntlement, usually caused by the person's relationships or treatment in the workplace, and the associated desire to take revenge.
ref: 2008, Katherine L. Herbig, Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007, page 35:
glosses: The state of being disgruntled, usually displayed in a stereotypical form such as frowning and annoyance; the acts of sulky dissatisfaction.