cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unlikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unlike
unlikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unlike
unliking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unlike
unevener
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of uneven: more uneven
unevenest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of uneven: most uneven
uniformest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of uniform: most uniform
uncleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unclean: more unclean
uncleanest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unclean: most unclean
uncleanlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of uncleanly: more uncleanly
uncleanliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of uncleanly: most uncleanly
unsafer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unsafe: more unsafe
unsafest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unsafe: most unsafe
unstablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unstable: most unstable
unreadier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unready: more unready
unreadiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unready: most unready
untruer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of untrue: more untrue
underneaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underneath
examples: text: LOACH: Was it to do with her underneaths? ASH: I'm sorry. LOACH: To do with her womb, was it ?
ref: 1991, Manfred Pfister, The Theory and Analysis of Drama, page 115:
text: Where does he keep the seed? In his underneaths. Why? Oh, it's a good place to keep it. How does he plant it? He just puts it in. Where? In my underneaths. How does he? He just pushes it in. And then I keep it in my tummy, and when it's ready it comes out and it's a baby and then it grows into a boy or girl and then into a man or woman.
ref: 1994, Michael Rosen, The Penguin Book of Childhood, pages 146–147:
text: Again, she says to her Daddy, "Your underneaths shake, Daddy; mine don't shake"; and later on, to her mother, "Are your underneaths like my underneaths, Mummy?"
ref: 2013, Susan Isaacs, Social Development In Young Children, page 378:
glosses: genitalia
untimelier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of untimely: more untimely
untimeliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of untimely: most untimely
unkindlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of unkindly: more unkindly
unkindliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of unkindly: most unkindly
velvetier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of velvety: more velvety
velvetiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of velvety: most velvety
vapouriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vapourisers
Etymology: From vapourise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vaporizer.
thankfuller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of thankful: more thankful
thankfullest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thankful: most thankful
tranquiler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tranquil: more tranquil
tranquilest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tranquil: most tranquil
tyred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: tired
Etymology: From tyre + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The train arrives from the south at approximately 0830, and the terminal's electric, rubber-tyred gantry crane swings into action, removing the empty containers and loading full ones in their place.
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, pages 39-40:
glosses: Having a certain number, or type, of tyre.
tyred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Forms: form: tired
Etymology: From tyre + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tyre
turnround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turnrounds
Etymology: From turn + round.
Senses: examples: text: It's been made more acute by the operation of these long-distance services, particularly when you've got a short turnround at Rugeley Trent Valley after running via Walsall. With turnround times as short as five minutes at Rugeley Trent Valley, services were regularly being terminated short.
ref: 2019 October, “Chase Line service to be split next May”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of turnaround.
Related terms: turn round
trapezing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trapeze
trapezed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trapeze
tramming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tram
trammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tram
Takamine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Takamines
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 高嶺 (Takamine).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Trafalgar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈfælɡə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˌtɹæfəlˈɡɑː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From Arabic طَرَف الغَار (ṭaraf al-ḡār, literally “cape of laurel”). The place in Australia is named for the battle.
Senses: glosses: A headland in the Province of Cádiz in the south-west of Spain.
glosses: A sea area centred on this cape
glosses: A famous naval battle once fought near the headland (1805); part of the Napoleonic Wars.
glosses: A town in Victoria, Australia.
Derived terms: Trafalgar Day
Trafalgar Night dinner
Trafalgar Square
thimbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪmb(ə)ld/
Etymology: From thimble + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: bethimbled
glosses: Of a finger: having a thimble (“cup-shaped cap used in sewing to push the needle through material”) on the tip; of a person: wearing a thimble on one's finger.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
technology
transport
glosses: Of a cable or rope, or a piece of machinery or other device: having a thimble (“ring-, thimble-, or tube-shaped component”).
thimbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪmb(ə)ld/
Etymology: From thimble + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thimble
Taku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tlingit Tʼaaḵu.
Senses: glosses: A river in Alaska and British Columbia.
Taku
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 大沽 (Dàgū).
Senses: examples: text: The success with which Yeh had for years disregarded the Nanking Treaty in.the South, naturally encouraged the Mandarins in the North to signalize their disregard of the Tientsin Treaty by their action at Taku (June 25, 1859) which permanently injured British prestige in China.
ref: 1895, E. J. Eitel, Europe in China: The History of Hongkong from the Beginning to the Year 1882, London: Luzac & Company, →OCLC, page 318:
text: At Tangku and Taku, following withdrawal of the Chinese troops, the threat to the main line of Japanese military communications had been removed. Japanese patrols began to move freely in Tientsin.
ref: 1938, T. A. Bisson, Japan in China, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
text: Tientsin had no consequential defense works, but there were about 1,100 sailors and marines of various nationalities in the settlement who, during the few days previous, had been sent up from war-vessels in the Port at Taku, sixty miles away.
ref: 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 48:
text: As part of the British offensive in the north of China, they seized the strategically important Taku Forts at the mouth of the Peiho River.
ref: 2017, Michael Ashcroft, VICTORIA CROSS HEROES, volume II, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: Dated form of Dagu.
surface boundary layers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surface boundary layer
suction stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suction stop
hop joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hop joints
Senses: examples: text: There's quite a trade in laudanum since the police started shaking down the hop-joints so much.
ref: 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God's Man, page 39:
text: Another female inmate of her abode told her its use would bring luck, so she spent a day in a "hop joint" smoking opium until night came.
ref: 1897, John Sanderson Christison, Crime and Criminals, page 58:
glosses: An establishment where opium is smoked.
Related terms: word: hopped up
undergetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underget + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Undergetting may be made up at any time during the term.
ref: 1902, Solicitors' journal and reporter: Volume 46
glosses: The process or situation of obtaining less than what is expected or due.
undergetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From underget + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underget
idiomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When you see the ‘ patois ’ of our own civilised countries surviving for centuries side by side with a literary and official language which ought to have killed them, a fortiori, you must believe in the same survival of the South African idiomata which are so entirely different from the Aryan languages.
ref: 1905, M. Junod quoted in Journal of the African Society, Macmillan and Co.; Volume V., page #10
glosses: plural of idiom
honorifical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From honorific + -al.
Senses: glosses: Or or pertaining to honorifics.
glosses: honorific.
hæmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hemic.
substitution ciphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substitution cipher
intirety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intireties
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of entirety.
pintman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintmen
Etymology: From pint + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who habitually drinks pints of beer, or is revered for his way of drinking them.
Marley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑ(ɹ)li/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Marlee
form: Marleigh
form: Marly
Etymology: From several different places in England, from Old English mære (“boundary”) or myrig (“pleasant”) or mearþ (“marten”) + lēah (“woodland clearing”). In the first case, equivalent to mere (“boundary”) + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Kingston parish, Canterbury district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR1850).
glosses: A hamlet in Deal, Kent, England.
glosses: A hamlet in Maidstone, Kent, England.
glosses: A census-designated place in Will County, Illinois, United States.
glosses: An English habitational surname from Old English.
glosses: A surname from Irish, an alternate anglicization of Ó Murghaile (Morley).
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Marley floor
Marley Hill
madcaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad-caps
Senses: glosses: plural of madcap
Phaethon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Phaëthon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the asteroid Phaethon
polyspored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + spored.
Senses: glosses: polysporous
polysporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + sporous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or producing many spores
polysporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + spore + -ic.
Senses: glosses: polysporous
polyspory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -spory.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: when more than 4 pollen grain are attached in a tetrad
æquipoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æquipoises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of equipoise.
poëte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poëtes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of poete.
mail carrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mail carriers
form: mail-carrier
Senses: glosses: A person employed to deliver mail.
Synonyms: mailperson
postperson
letter carrier
postal carrier
postal worker
Hyponyms: mailman
mailwoman
mail lady
postman
postwoman
post lady
chœnices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Ethiopians bordering on Egypt, whom Cambyses subdued when he marched against the Macrobian‐Ethiopians, and who dwell about the sacred city of Nysa, and celebrate festivals of Bacchus — these Ethiopians and their neighbors use the same grain as the Calantian Indians, and live in subterraneous dwellings — both these bring every third year, and they continued to do so to my time, two chœnices of unmolten gold, two hundred blocks of ebony, five Ethiopian boys, and twenty large elephants’ tusks.
ref: 1917, Robert Dick Wilson, chapter X, in Studies in the Book of Daniel, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 218:
glosses: plural of chœnix
chœnix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chœnixes
form: chœnices
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of choenix.
N-pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: N-poles
Senses: glosses: The positive pole of a magnetic dipole, which seeks geographic north.
Synonyms: north pole
north-seeking pole
positive pole
S-pole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S-poles
Senses: glosses: The negative pole of a magnetic dipole, which seeks geographic south.
Synonyms: south pole
south-seeking pole
negative pole
Thebæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Thebæan
form: most Thebæan
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Thebaean
Thebæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thebæans
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Thebaean.
perfect crime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfect crimes
Senses: glosses: A crime that is undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or otherwise unsolved.
glosses: A crime that is unsolved and seemingly unsolvable.
perfect crimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect crime
transfluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trans- + fluorescence.
Senses: examples: text: For example, in contrast to transfluorescence microscopes, the intensity of illumination and consequently the amount of excitation energy increases as a function of increasing magnification.
ref: 1990, Linda J. Goff, Annette W. Coleman, chapter 3, in Kathleen M. Cole, Robert G. Sheath, editors, Biology of the Red Algae, page 45:
text: Likewise in fluorescence applications, an epifluorescence configuration is normally chosen over transfluorescence.
ref: 1999, Andrew Bullen, Peter Saggau, “Optical Recording from Individual Neurons in Culture”, in Uwe Windhorst, Håkan Johansson, editors, Modern Techniques in Neuroscience Research, page 98:
text: Epifluorescence involves illuminating the specimen from above while in transfluorescence the excitation light comes from below the sample [Weeks, 2004].
ref: 2006, Steven Saliterman, Fundamentals of BioMEMS and Medical Microdevices, page 319:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: Fluorescence of a material when the source of stimulating radiation is behind the object, from the point of view of the observer.
Related terms: transfluorescent
proœmial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of proemial.
snites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snite
snites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snite
memory cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memory card
moment arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moment arms
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
hypernyms: range of motion
glosses: The perpendicular distance from a pivot to a point undergoing torque
Seanad Éireann
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish Seanad Éireann.
Senses: glosses: The upper house of the Parliament of Ireland.
quintate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭnʹtāt
ipa: /ˈkwɪnteɪt/
Forms: form: quintating
Etymology: First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.
Senses: examples: 1812, Emanuel Swedenborg [aut.] and J. Clowes [tr.], Arcana Cœlestia VII (2nd ed.), chapter xli, pages 210⁽¹⁾ and 270⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ Let Pharaoh…quintate^✸ the land of Egypt in the seven years of abundance of provision.
✸ Quintate signifies to take a fifth of any thing, and is derived from the Latin quintus, signifying a fifth, as decimate is derived from decimus, signifying a tenth.
⁽²⁾ “And let him quintate the land” — that hereby is signified which were to be preserved and afterwards stored up, appears from the signification of quintating, as here involving the like with decimating.
glosses: To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
Coordinate terms: sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅓
word: tertiate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅙
word: sextate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅐
word: septimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅒
word: decimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₂
word: duodecimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₀₀
word: centesimate
Derived terms: word: quintation
quintate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭnʹtāt
ipa: /ˈkwɪnteɪt/
Etymology: First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.
Senses: examples: text: Potentilla Reptans, Cinquefoil, a…European herb, with leaves which are usually quintate, and have thus given origin to the ordinary name of the plant.
ref: 1851, “The Dispensatory of the United States of America” (9th ed.), quoted in the Journal of Materia Medica XIV (1875), page 49
text: The radical leaves…are ternate or quintate, with lobed and dentate leaflets.
ref: 1880, Lucius Elmer Sayre, Conspectus of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacal Botany, page 127:
text: The large quintate leaves constitute a luxuriant, glossy green foliage.
ref: 1882, Vick’s Monthly Magazine, V, page 167:
text: Leaves 1-2-pinnate or ternate- or quintate-pinnate, the ultimate divisions remote, linear, 1–5 cm long.
ref: 1952, Ray Joseph Davis, Flora of Idaho, page 515:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Misconstruction of quinate.
quintate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭnʹtāt
ipa: /ˈkwɪnteɪt/
Forms: form: quintates
Etymology: First attested in verbal use in 1812, in adjectival use in 1851, and in nominal use in 1889; from the Classical Latin quīntus (“fifth”); in the verbal sense after decimate, and in the botanic senses by mistaken analogy with ternate.
Senses: examples: text: As to radiates, these are ternates and quintates, two in number,
From among which we “plucked the four-leaf clover.”
ref: 1889, Report of Proceedings … at the … Annual Meeting …, ? X-XVI, page 193:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Misconstruction of quinate.
examples: text: We have as variations for the numbers from 6 to 9, 6 = X + 1…, 7 = X + 2, etc.,…the numerals of the second quintate repeating without the use of the expressed base five.
ref: 1913, W.C. Eells, “Number Systems of the North American Indians”, in The American Mathematical Monthly, XX, page 294:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The set of the series of integers that occur between a multiple of five and the next (exclusive of those multiples).
raw_tags: of a quinary-decimal number system
commutative algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commutative algebras
Senses: examples: ref: 1992, R. Keith Dennis, Claudio Pedrini, Michael R. Stein, editors, Algebraic K-theory, Commutative Algebra, and Algebraic Geometry: Proceedings of the Joint Seminar, American Mathematical Society:
text: The subject of these notes is a part of commutative algebra, and is also closely related to certain topics in algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry.
ref: 1992, Cornelius Greither, Cyclic Galois Extensions of Commutative Rings, Springer, page vii:
text: 2003, Ragnar-Olaf Buchweitz, Morita contexts, idempotents, and Hochschild cohomology — with applications to invariant rings, Luchezar L. Avramov, Marcel Morales, Marc Chardin, Claudia Polini (editors), Commutative Algebra: Interactions with Algebraic Geometry: International Conference, American Mathematical Society, page 27,
It is not until section 7 that we deal with commutative algebra proper, whereas the sections leading up to it should be seen as advocacy that excursions into noncommutative algebra can help to shed light on problems in commutative algebra.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The branch of algebra concerned with commutative rings and objects related to them (such as ideals and modules).
examples: text: Theorem. If the complex of the linearly independent numbers of the form #92;zetaa-a#92;zeta be deleted from an algebra, the remaining numbers form a commutative algebra.
ref: 1907, James Byrnie Shaw, Synopsis of Linear Associative Algebra, Carnegie Institution of Washington, page 46:
text: The existence of commutative algebras of Toeplitz operators is not usual, for example there are not non trivial commutative algebras of Toeplitz operators acting on the Hardy space.
ref: 2010, M. Loaiza, A. Sánchez-Numgaray, “On C*-Algebras of Super Toeplitz Operators with Radial Symbols”, in Roland V. Duduchava, Israel Gohberg, Sergei M. Grudsky, Vladimir Rabinovich, editors, Recent Trends in Toeplitz and Pseudodifferential Operators, Springer, page 175:
text: We devote this chapter to the study of unitary commutative algebras in dg-modules, in simplicial modules and in cosimplicial modules.
ref: 2017, Benoit Fresse, Homotopy of Operads and Grothendieck-Teichmuller Groups: Part 2, American Mathematical Society, page 163:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
hyponyms: polynomial ring
glosses: Any algebra (mathematical structure) in which the multiplication operation is commutative.
Synonyms: sense: algebra which has a commutative multiplication operation
word: Abelian algebra
Related terms: english: concerned with rings that are not assumed to be commutative
translation: concerned with rings that are not assumed to be commutative
word: noncommutative algebra
Abelian algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abelian algebras
form: abelian algebra
Etymology: From Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any algebra in which multiplication (or its equivalent) is commutative.
Synonyms: commutative algebra
Related terms: abelian group
abelian algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abelian algebras
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Abelian algebra.
3D scanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3D scanners
Senses: glosses: A device that analyzes a real-world object or environment to collect data on its shape and possibly its color.
3D scanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 3D scanner
quintating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭnʹtātĭng
ipa: /ˈkwɪnteɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quintate
quintates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kwĭnʹtāts
ipa: /ˈkwɪnteɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of quintate
pains in the bum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pain in the bum
phleams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Now, by way of rider to this, with some months’ additional experience to guide us the more surely through the labyrinths of this intricate vital matter, although we feel confirmed in still adhering to our general non‐bleeding practice, we would simply add, that we are not prepared to cast out altogether our phleams from the influenza stable; since we have in a very few cases—and only in a very few—ventured to make cautious use of them at a time when our patient was suffering from disease of chest which had refused to give way to other measures.
ref: 1851, The Veterinarian, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 292:
glosses: plural of phleam
Hikaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
bat one thousand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bats one thousand
form: batting one thousand
form: batted one thousand
form: batted one thousand
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bat a thousand.
Takemi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
anæsthetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anæsthetizations
Senses: examples: text: If this is true, there seems no excuse for any other method of anæsthetization in this class of cases.
ref: 1916, Thomas A. Claytor, International Clinics, volume II, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 74:
glosses: Obsolete typography of anaesthetization.
anæsthetizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anæsthetization
reëmerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reëmerges
form: reëmerging
form: reëmerged
form: reëmerged
Senses: examples: text: The personnel of the curia undergoes some change, and the seneschal perhaps acquires somewhat greater importance; but if the justiciar disappears, it is only to reëmerge under Henry II, and the department which stands in the most intimate relation to the new ruler, the chancery, is Normanized even to its smallest phrases.
ref: 1918, Charles Homer Haskins, Norman Institutions, Harvard University Press, page 155:
text: Mindful that the French Revolution, after moving irresistibly leftward, has at last swing back and permitted man like Abbé Sieyès to reëmerge as leaders, the Cadets seem to have felt it wise to cease trying to check the swing of pendulum; by dropping the government, they might protect the party’s reputation for sanity and be ready to return to the helm after a Russian Thermidor.
ref: 1961, Jesse D. Clarkson, A History of Russia, Random House, page 456:
text: I was out on the porch immediately, on opposite end from his favorite spot, and saw him gallop down the hill toward the sorghum mill, turn left at the creek, and reëmerge from the willow thicket into the watermelon patch.
ref: 2004, Wesley E. Hall, Oklahoma Pioneer!: Horace Greeley Teeman Hall, page 109:
text: But then, earlier this year, she began to reëmerge.
ref: 2023 August 20, Kelefa Sanneh, “Noname’s Ambivalent, Triumphant Comeback”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of reemerge.
reëmerges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reëmerge
reëmerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reëmerge
reëmerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reëmerge
Tatsumi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Abelian algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abelian algebra
abelian algebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abelian algebra
Mees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mee
Thon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Schlei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlei, found in Old Saxon as Slia (modern Low German Slie) and Old Danish as Slæ, compare slæe (“algae, seaweed”)," presumably related to Proto-Germanic *slīmą.
Senses: glosses: An estuary in Germany, in the region of Schleswig-Holstein.
monœcious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In monœcious mosses the separation of the sexes occurs in the somatic divisions at the time the sex organs are formed.
ref: 1921, An Introduction to Cytology, McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.; Chapter XVI., page 356
glosses: Archaic form of monoecious.
secretary birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretary bird
secretarybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secretarybird
pollical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollical
form: most pollical
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pollicis, genitive form of pollex (“thumb”), with the suffix -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: of the thumb
Related terms: pollex
pollicate
pre-hook
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + hook.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Before the hook (normally a chorus) of a popular song.
pre-hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-hooks
Etymology: From pre- + hook.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A section of code that runs immediately before a hook call.
forewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forewalks
form: forewalking
form: forewalked
form: forewalked
Etymology: From Middle English forwalken.
Senses: examples: text: […] they wear away with continuance, even as time doth wear and forewalk us; […]
ref: 1815, Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem:
glosses: Alternative form of forwalk.
forewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: A gate opens into the Forewalk overhung by the arching branches of more fine beeches, among the roots of which spring numerous clumps of glistening holly.
ref: 1877, George Barnard, Drawing from nature:
text: One of the objections raised was that the gangway or forewalk which was the major part of the scheme was used as a promenade by the public- with a resultant loss of privacy to some of the frontages.
ref: 1955, The British journal of administrative law: Volume 2
glosses: A gangway.
forewalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forewalks
form: forewalking
form: forewalked
form: forewalked
Etymology: From fore- + walk.
Senses: examples: text: Now when the Merman had shown him the people of the city, he carried him forth therefrom and forewalked him to another city, which he found full of folk, both males and females, formed like the women aforesaid and having tails; [...]
ref: 1894, Leonard C. Smithers, The book of the thousand nights and a night: Volume 7:
glosses: To walk before or ahead of.
Mahamad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon spelling of Muhammad.
septimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕptĭmāʹshən
ipa: /sɛptɪˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈsɛptəmeɪʃən/
Forms: form: septimations
Etymology: From Latin septimus (“seventh”) + -ation, after decimation; compare septimate.
Senses: examples: text: To Wilberforce ‘the Sabbath was a delight’ […] O how often, even among those who most punctiliously observe it, does it seem […] an unwelcome exaction, a sort of septimation of time, as grievous as church decimations of property.
ref: 1844, J.A.T., “Observations on the Genius of the Christian Sabbath, as Illustrated in the Life of Wilberforce”, in The Oberlin Evangelist, volume VI, number 5, page 40:
text: We had gone into the enemy’s ground with seven hundred warriors — a little over one hundred of whom were missing when we left it — as, at that time, we could hardly muster six hundred. This septimation of our men was accompanied by a proportionate riddance of such encumbrances of the expedition as wore the shape of women and little ones.
ref: 1853, William Jackman, “chapter XVII”, in I. Chamberlayne, editor, The Australian Captive, page 206:
glosses: The loss, seizure, destruction, or killing of one seventh (of something or of a group).
Coordinate terms: sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: quintation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 5)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: decimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 10)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: vicesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 20)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: tricesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 30)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: centesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 100)
reëmergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reëmergences
Senses: examples: text: We perceive, however, both by its frequent reëmergence and by its rapid enlargement of bulk, that this Question of King Louis will take the lead of all the rest.
ref: 1902, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, George Bell and Sons, Volume III., Book II, Chapter III, page #94:
glosses: Alternative form of reemergence.
reëmergences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reëmergence
recultivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recultivate
recultivating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recultivate
recultivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recultivate
barkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of barky: more barky
barkiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of barky: most barky
hydrostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + stratigraphic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the arrangement of hydrostratigraphy
hydrostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrostratigraphies
Etymology: From hydro- + stratigraphy.
Senses: glosses: Structure of subsurface porous materials in reference to the flow of groundwater, often relating to stratigraphy
Derived terms: hydrostratigraphic
yewei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ye wei
Etymology: From Mandarin 野味 (yěwèi).
Senses: glosses: game
ye wei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yewei.
centuried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From century + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: To-morrow we'll deliver the matter to you—and the wheels that grind the centuried darkness to destruction will again start a-rolling.
ref: 1907, Maxim Gorky (author), Mother, Public domain translation (translator unknown), ch. 9
text: Above, the old weathercock groans, but remembers
Creaking, to turn, in its centuried rust.
ref: 1912, Amy Lowell, “March Evening”, in A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass:
text: Muck, murk, and humus, and the human anguish
And human hope, and that dark wood-mold sweeter
ref: 1953, Robert Penn Warren, "Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices," The Kenyon Review, vol. 15, no. 1 (Winter), p. 101
roman: Than any dropped through centuried silence . . .
text: Here he finds "concrete existence," for instance "hated irony" and dialogue and jokes and "the centuried roots of jazz."
ref: 1987, Calvin Bedient, "On Milan Kundera," Salmagundi, no. 73 (Winter), p. 94
glosses: Having existed for centuries; ancient.
jagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jager
fashion statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fashion statements
Senses: examples: text: The vegan activists made bikinis out of steak as a fashion statement to protest the production of beef.
glosses: A non-verbal statement made in fashion or makeup, especially one aiming to provoke a response.
righteo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of righto.
dango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dangos
form: dango
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 団子 (dango).
Senses: examples: text: On a given day he went to the parental home of his bride to inquire after the health of the family, when they gave him some dango (dumplings) to eat.
ref: 1906 June 21, The Christian Advocate, volume 81, page 916:
text: Dango are related to mochi in that both are made from glutinous rice flour. Dango, however, tend to be dense, sticky, and not stuffed with fillings.
ref: 2012, Patrick Mcconnel, 30 Days in Japan:
text: Grill the dangos until marks appear and then lightly brush the thick sauce over it.
ref: 2014, Martha Stone, Asian Dumplings at a Glance:
glosses: A Japanese dumpling made from mochiko (rice flour).
dango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 談合 (dangō).
Senses: examples: text: However the manner in which dango, bribery, and collusive activity was dealt with in Japan took a dramatic turn in 1993, beginning with the corruption scandal, which culminated in the arrest of Mr. Shini Kanemaru […]
ref: 1994, Industry, Trade, and Technology Review, Office of Industries, U.S. International Trade Commission, page 31:
text: Though dango is illegal, causing jailings of a number of prefectural governors and construction executives, the practice remains widespread. The annual total of dango bribes and kickbacks has at times surpassed $500 million; the sum is more or less officially recorded because construction firms have been allowed to claim a tax deduction for these "business expenses."
ref: 2009, Jeb Brugmann, Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World:
text: In spite of the many laws enacted to curb dango, it remains "the most popular form of price cartel in the public procurement market" and is rampant throughout Japan because of the "weakness of the political will to quench corruption and the lack of development of law enforcement mechanisms".
ref: 2011, Jon S. T. Quah, Curbing Corruption in Asian Countries: An Impossible Dream?:
glosses: In Japan, bid rigging for public works contracts.
enduer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enduers
form: enduering
form: enduered
form: enduered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of endure.
craftmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From craftman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of craftsmanship.
entierly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Lord John contradicts Mr. Murray entierly as to what he ses about the Regiment, at the same time he gives Murray the best caracter in the world, saying that anything he ces I may depend upon it to be true, Note bene, tho Lord John nose I have had fresh accounts from Middlebury, he does not suspect it was Murray, tho’ he immagins I may have seen him, for he has none of his being in the neibourod.
ref: 1774, Charles P. quoted in Publications of the Scottish History Society, page #387
glosses: Archaic form of entirely.
Chihiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ちひろ (Chihiro).
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
literatuer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪtəɹətjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: literatuers
Senses: examples: text: But, that instead of the emulation or competition being for the mere acquisition of individual money or property, it would be that noble and generous emulation—to excel in the useful arts, the sciences, literatuer and moral excellence.
ref: 1850 April, The Western Journal, volume 4, number 1, M. Tarver and T.F. Risk, →OCLC, page 63:
text: Empedocles is one of the most curious and striking figures in Greek literatuer, for he combined the characters of soothsayer, magician and mystic with those of an earnest and positive speculator, who first attempted a mechanical explanation of nature.
ref: 1895, John Pentland Mahaffy, A History of Classical Greek Literature, volume 1, part 1, Macmillan and Company, →OCLC, page 142:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of literature.
mediocer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediocer
form: most mediocer
Senses: examples: text: A home atmosphere which is constantly critical may protect us from poor writing and other mediocer performance, but it also has the tendency to rob us of the chance of better things.
ref: 1906, C. Hanford Henderson, Educational Foundations, Volume XVIII, №. 3, page #184:
glosses: Obsolete form of mediocre.
Tsunemi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Tsubasa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Tetsuo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese てつお (Tetsuo).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
gaybeseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gaybeseen
form: most gaybeseen
Etymology: From gay + beseen.
Senses: glosses: Richly adorned, showy, or sportive-looking; in brave or gallant dress.
Synonyms: dapper
dressed to kill
dressed to the nines
well-dressed
Related terms: besee
beseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːn
Forms: form: more beseen
form: most beseen
Etymology: From Middle English besene, besein, past participle of besee (“to see to, provide”), equivalent to be- + seen. See besee.
Senses: examples: text: Kyng Arthur was ledde vnto a chamber, a rycher besene chamber sawe he neuer none
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum 6”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book 4, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: Furnished; arrayed; dressed; equipped.
examples: text: that could his good to all, and well did ween,
How each to entertain with court'sie well beseen.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Accomplished; versed.
Derived terms: gaybeseen
well-beseen
beseen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːn
Etymology: From besee.
Senses: glosses: past participle of besee.
well-beseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-beseen
form: most well-beseen
form: well beseen
form: wellbeseen
Etymology: From Middle English wel besein, from wel (“well”) + besein, beseen, past participle of beseen (“to see, regard, favour”), equivalent to well + beseen.
Senses: glosses: Having or presenting a good appearance.
beseek
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈsiːk/
rhymes: -iːk
Forms: form: beseeks
form: beseeking
form: besought
form: besought
Etymology: From Middle English beseken, equivalent to be- + seek. Cognate with Scots beseik (“to beseek”). By surface analysis, be- + seek. Doublet of beseech.
Senses: examples: text: I flung myself before him on my knees, and with floods of tears besought him to release me from this engagement, assuring him that my cowardice was abject, and that in every point of intellect and character I was his hopeless and derisible inferior.
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, “Story of the Destroying Angel”, in More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 45:
glosses: To beseech; entreat.
Teruhisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese てるひさ (Teruhisa).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Terumitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
reentre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: reentres
form: reentring
form: reentred
form: reentred
Senses: examples: text: WHERE it chaunced me, thErle of Cassalis, amonges other noblemen and gentilmen of Scotland, to be taken prisoner at the jorneye of Solom Mosse, and that is pleased the Kinges Majestie, after His Highnes had admytted us to his presence, at our desir to let us retourn into our countreye uppon our bandes and hostages, that we shuld reentre in to his Realme, when it shold please His Majestie by Hym self to his Wardens to require us ; thies shalbe to declare and tesefie to all mean, that I the said Erle, beygne required by the Lorde Wharton, oone of His Majesties Wardens, to reentre at a speciall daye appoyntede, have accordinge to my bonde and promyse repared to His Majestie for the relief of myne hostages.
ref: 1545, G. Erll of Cassillis quoted in State Papers; Volume V., pages 419–420
glosses: Obsolete form of reenter.
secuer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more secuer
form: most secuer
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of secure.
secuer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: secuers
form: secuering
form: secuered
form: secuered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of secure.
re-entre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: re-entres
form: re-entring
form: re-entred
form: re-entred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of re-enter.
chaptres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […]The portall of the Palace was of poliſhed Marble, with all the baſes and chaptres of the pillers gilded, as likewiſe the garments of the imagerie that was ſet in it.
ref: 1598, Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, Book IV, page #86:
glosses: plural of chaptre
recentre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recentres
form: recentring
form: recentred
form: recentred
Etymology: From re- + centre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of recenter.
Toshikatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese としかつ (Toshikatsu).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Riichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Riichi mahjong
Toshiharu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese としはる (Toshiharu).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Toshimi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Japanese.
Tomio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese とみお (Tomio).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Tomoyoshi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
Naohiro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
duodecimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dyo͞o'ōdĕʹsĭmət
ipa: /ˌdjuːəʊˈdɛsɪmət/
Etymology: From Latin duodecimatus, from duodecim (“twelve”) + -ātus (“-ate”).
Senses: examples: text: We affirm, that to all eternity the apostles are to be twelve, among all the redeemed, a conspicuous, glorious, unassociated duodecimate.
ref: 1851, Matthew LaRue Perrine Thompson, The Church, Its Ministry and Worship, page 95:
text: There was there impanelled to serve as jurors [a] duodecimate of “impartial and unwitting persons”.
ref: 1924, The Pharmaceutical Era, LIX, page 565:
glosses: Synonym of duodecimvirate: a group of twelve.
synonyms: word: duodecimvirate
extra: a group of twelve