cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
evapotranspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌvæpəʊˌtɹænspɪˈɹeɪʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: evapotranspirations
Etymology: Blend of evapo(ration) + transpiration
Senses: examples: text: Calculated evapotranspirations are climatological values, namely the long-term average of the evapotranspirations.
ref: 1998, R. B. Singh, editor, Ecological Techniques and Approaches to Vulnerable Environment: Hydrosphere-Geosphere Interaction, page 25:
text: In many environments, evapotranspiration makes up a larger proportion of the catchment water balance than the stream discharge. Thus, for longer periods of rainfall–runoff simulation, it will generally be necessary to estimate actual evapotranspiration losses from a catchment in order to have an adequate representation of the antecedent state of the catchment prior to each rainfall event.
ref: 2004, Keith J. Beven, Rainfall - Runoff Modelling: The Primer, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 59:
text: SWAP estimates that all the components of the water balance and the simulated evapotranspirations do not comprise percolation.[…]Figure 10A shows the ratios between sugarbeet evapotranspirations estimated by water balance and the SWAP-simulated evapotranspirations.
ref: 2008, Angel Utset Suastegui, “Chapter 1: Introducing Modelling Tools to Support Water-Management Decision-Making Under Climate Change Conditions: A Spanish Experience”, in Magnus L. Sørensen, editor, Agricultural Water Management Research Trends, Nova Science Publishers, page 51:
glosses: The transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration.
Related terms: evapotranspirate
evapotranspirated
evapotranspirative
commemorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: commemorative
hydrometeor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrometeors
Etymology: From hydro- + meteor.
Senses: glosses: Rain, snow and other precipitation products of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour
Synonyms: word: hydrometeor
Hyponyms: word: cloud
word: fog
word: mist
word: dew
word: rime
word: frost
word: hoarfrost
word: virga
word: precipitation
word: rain
word: drizzle
word: freezing rain
word: hail
word: ice pellets
word: snow
word: sleet
word: graupel
Meronyms: word: drop
word: droplet
word: snowflake
Related terms: lithometeor
garlic press
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garlic presses
Senses: synonyms: garlic crusher
glosses: A utensil used to crush garlic.
line-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line-outs
form: lineout
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: a set piece where a player throws the ball into play, and both teams can contest for possession.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: an out produced by catching a line drive
Derived terms: line-out drive
storm cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm clouds
form: storm-cloud
form: stormcloud
Senses: examples: text: Uncertainty hangs over the industry like a storm cloud on a summer's day, preventing long-term planning and investment.
ref: 2023 March 8, Christian Wolmar, “Labour passes up the chance to deliver a forceful rail policy”, in RAIL, number 978, page 35:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: cumulonimbus
thundercloud
glosses: A dark and ominous cloud that appears to indicate a coming storm.
Derived terms: storm-clouded
sex life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛksˌlaɪf/
Forms: form: sex lives
Senses: examples: text: 1900 January 27, Swami Vivekananda, My Life And Mission, in The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Volume 8: Lectures And Discourses,
But I cannot live the sex life, although I have married you.
text: It not infrequently happens that after a love-marriage and some years of what is considered happiness, the man or woman may withdraw from the sex-life, often looking down upon it, and considering that they have reached a higher plane by so doing. But such people seldom ask themselves if, while they lived it, they reached the highest possible level of the sex-life.
ref: 1918, Marie Stopes, Married Love, section 8:
text: Do you think I don't know the foulness of your sex life—and her's?—I do.
ref: 1920 November 9, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XXIII, in Women in Love, New York, N.Y.: Privately printed [by Thomas Seltzer] for subscribers only, →OCLC:
text: In the human animal, speaking in general, these feelings of sympathy (love) and duty are strongly developed in the family connection; that is, they are developed with special strength in those who are most intimately united in sex life, in husband and wife and in children.
ref: 1922, Henry Stanton, chapter X, in Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English:
text: Have you read any good books lately? Oh and by the way, how is your sex life? According to Daniel Lord Smail activities like these are the true drivers of history.
ref: 2008 January 24, Steven Mithen, “When We Were Nicer”, in London Review of Books, volume 30, number 02, →ISSN:
glosses: That part of a person's life that is directly concerned with sexual activity.
Synonyms: love life
ripcord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ripcords
form: rip cord
Etymology: From rip + cord.
Senses: examples: text: pull the ripcord
glosses: A cord to release a parachute from its sack.
fancy dress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancy dresses
Senses: examples: text: And yet here he was, if one could credit one's senses, about to take part in a fancy-dress ball, a form of entertainment notoriously a testing experience for the toughest. And he was attending that fancy-dress ball, mark you--not, like every other well-bred Englishman, as a Pierrot, but as Mephistopheles--this involving, as I need scarcely stress, not only scarlet tights but a pretty frightful false beard.
ref: 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: Royal Mail worker Evette Chapman gathered a team of 12 colleagues to deliver post in fancy dress and raise money for a nurses' charity and patients in Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton.
ref: 2020 November 18, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, page 71:
glosses: A costume, disguise to masquerade as something or someone else.
glosses: Formalwear.
street hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An informal kind of hockey (field hockey) played on a quiet street.
glosses: An informal version of hockey (ice hockey) played on a quiet street, with a ball instead of a puck.
Synonyms: word: road hockey
word: shinny
word: shinny hockey
word: ball hockey
field hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of hockey played on a grassed pitch with a hard rubber ball instead of a puck.
team sport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: team sports
form: teamsport
form: team-sport
Senses: examples: text: This impression is underscored by the high level of minority representation in our major team sports.
ref: 2000, William S. Kern, The Economics of Sports, page 115:
text: But he was required to do a team sport, so he compromised by choosing track, which ironically involved the biggest team of the season.
ref: 2014, Eleanor MacLellan, Sole to Soul: Walking a Path toward Loving Accompaniment, page 97:
text: And I looked forward to the other nine games of the greatest team sport devised by man.
ref: 2014, W. Thomas McDaniel Jr., The Farther Side of Paradise, page 233:
glosses: A sport played by two competing teams.
examples: text: In addition to personality differences between athletes and non-athletes, personality differences were also observed between team sport athletes and individual sport athletes.
ref: 2014, Mark Allen, Paul McCarthy, Psychology Express:
text: The representational aspect of team sport adds to this.
ref: 2014, Robert Ellis, The Games People Play: Theology, Religion, and Sport, page 259:
glosses: All sports involving competing teams, collectively.
buzkashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Classical Persian بزکشی (buz-kašī); compound of بز (buz, “goat”) + کش (kaš, “dragging, drawing”) + ـی (-ī).
Senses: topics: games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A team sport originating in Central Asia, where the players, all on horseback, try to place an animal carcass into a goal.
gay up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gays up
form: gaying up
form: gayed up
form: gayed up
Senses: glosses: To make something more appealing to the gay community e.g. by adding gay characters to a soap opera.
glosses: To give something gay characteristics.
Related terms: begay
portation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin portatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of carrying or transporting something; transportation.
portation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From port + -ation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of porting software between hardware or operating system platforms.
date of birth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dates of birth
form: dates of births
Senses: glosses: The date and year on which something or someone was born.
Synonyms: DOB
birthdate
birth date
Hypernyms: date
Related terms: birthday
rubbish bin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubbish bins
Senses: glosses: garbage can, trash can.
in the end
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We had a great day at the beach and in the end we had ice cream.
text: Both sides will be disappointed not to have claimed their second win of the season, but in the end each had reasons to be grateful for the point.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
text: Where the Czech upstart [Lukáš] Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew [Rafael] Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, [Julien] Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight.
ref: 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Nov 2016:
glosses: Eventually, finally.
examples: text: In the end I think she'll be better off going to the same school as her friends.
glosses: After a thorough examination of the situation
Synonyms: sense: eventually, finally
word: at last
word: in conclusion
word: in fine
word: finally
sense: After thorough examination of the situation
word: all things considered
word: deep down
word: ultimately
word: fundamentally
incense boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incense boats
Senses: glosses: The vessel that holds incense before it is put into a censer.
pallone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈləʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pallone (“large ball”), from palla (“ball”). Doublet of balloon.
Senses: examples: text: “Go and play pallone.”
“I am a married man,” he answered, without raising his head. “I do not play games any more.”
ref: 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread:
glosses: A traditional Italian game played with a large leather ball.
bar/resto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar/restos
Senses: examples: 1998 May 28, Bruce Ritchie , "Re: Build a Brewmeister or buy a Beer Fridge?", rec.crafts.brewing, Usenet,
"If you have a friend or relative in the restaurant business, he can hook you up with everything for much cheaper."... The suggestion to use any connection you might have in the bar/resto trade is a good one if you are lucky enough to have one!
1998 June 24, Ken Rudolph , "Mysteries of Pittsburgh Part 1 (long)", soc.motss, Usenet,
Scott suggested we try New York, New York, a Shadyside neighborhood bar/resto.
2007 October, Nicole Berrie, "Green Eggs and Sam", in Elle, page 360,
After a frenzy of anticipatory blogging, the bar/resto is finally ready, replete with house-infused spirits and a menu blurring sweet and salty.
glosses: Alternative form of bar-resto.
planate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more planate
form: most planate
Senses: glosses: flat, flattened. Resembling a plane, or otherwise planar.
planate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planates
Senses: examples: text: This species has several distinctively coloured planates across the head.
text: The planate, measuring several kilometres across, was formed by wind erosion.
topics: biology
entomology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: flat or flattened area.
Related terms: plane
planar
palliatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palliative
dismemberment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismemberments
Etymology: From dismember + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The skill is shown by the neat way in which the dismemberment has been carried out. The parts have not been rudely hacked asunder, but have been separated at the joints.
ref: 1911, R. Austin Freeman, chapter 13, in The Vanishing Man:
text: Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 25:
text: The metapodials appear to have been marked during dismemberment from the lower limbs.
ref: 1986, Lewis Binford et al., “Zhoukoudian: A Closer Look”, in Current Anthropology, volume 27, number 5, page 460:
glosses: The act of dismembering.
examples: text: [I]s not the fair fabric of Society itself, with all its royal mantles and pontifical stoles, whereby, from nakedness and dismemberment, we are organised into Polities, into nations, and a whole coöperating Mankind, the creation, as has here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Tailors”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 201:
glosses: The state or condition of being dismembered.
examples: text: 1867, "Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Ex Parte Magruder," The American Law Register (1852-1891), vol. 15, no. 5, New Series Volume 6, (Mar.), p. 295,
The decision of the Supreme Court involved a dismemberment from the bar.
text: As the Italian East African Empire was on the verge of extinction in the autumn of 1941, East African Command was created by dismemberment from Middle East.
ref: 1946, William Platt, “Studies in War-Time Organisation: (6) East African Command”, in African Affairs, volume 45, number 178, page 27:
glosses: Removal from membership; detachment from an organization, group, etc.
Derived terms: nondismemberment
rememberment
Related terms: AD&D
copyrightability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copyright + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: “The Office will refuse to register works entirely generated by AI,” says Robert Kasunic of the USCO. “Human authorship is a precondition to copyrightability.”
ref: 2023 June 28, Matt Growcoot, “Copyright Office Refuses to ‘Register Works Entirely Generated by AI’”, in PetaPixel:
text: While recognizing that copyrightability is determined on a case-by-case basis, in this Part the Office sets out the legal principles that govern the analysis and assesses their application to AI-generated content.
ref: 2025 January 24, “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2: Copyrightability”, in United States Copyright Office, page ii:
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: The condition of being copyrightable.
hoist with one's own petard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Not to put too fine a point on it, the leader who “got Brexit done” has, in that very act, been hoist with his own petard.
ref: 2022 February 6, William Keegan, “Pinter never created a comedy as dark as the Brexit party”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of hoist by one's own petard.
metapodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the human metacarpal bones (between the wrist and fingers) or the metatarsal bones (between the ankle and toes); of or pertaining to the equivalent bones in animals.
Derived terms: distalometapodial
metapodial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metapodials
Senses: glosses: A metapodial bone.
colons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colon
adding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of add up
added up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of add up
civil society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil societies
Etymology: From the archaic sense of civil, “peaceful and well-ordered”. Later senses of civil society reflect 19th-century Hegelian influence, as well as the earlier argument that tyrannical governments exist in the state of nature in relation to their subjects.
Senses: glosses: All of the institutions, voluntary organizations and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family.
glosses: Those things expected of a democratic society, such as free speech and human rights.
examples: text: The only Way whereby any one divests himself of his natural Liberty, and puts on the Bonds of civil Society, is by agreeing with other Men to join and unite into a Community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure Enjoyment of their Properties, and a greater Security against any that are not of it.
ref: 1689, John Locke, Two Treatises of Government; republished as The Works of John Locke Esq., volume 2, 1727, page 185:
text: Rousseau, however, thought that civil society as such […] is characterized by a fundamental self-contradiction and that it is precisely the state of nature which is free from self-contradiction; man in the state of nature is happy because he is radically independent, whereas man in civil society is unhappy because he is radically dependent.
ref: 1953, Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, page 282:
text: Man’s decision to leave the state of nature is a natural decision. […] Civil society is, in effect, nature rendered reasonable.
ref: 1989, Gary B. Herbert, Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: state of nature
glosses: Organized, internally peaceful human society; civilization.
hoid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "I've hoid of dat state. It's whur de Mormons all are...."
ref: 1927, James Stevens, Mattock, A. A. Knopf, page 217:
text: "Why, ain't you hoid? He was last seen, flyin' over Nova Scotia, on his way to Paris."
ref: 1956, Elmer Rice, Street Scene: A Play in Three Acts, Samuel French, →ISBN, act III, page 117:
text: Tink o' de woist sting you ever hoid of dat de cops found out about.
ref: 1997, Spider Robinson, Callahan's Legacy, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of heard, representing New York City English.
Related terms: hoida
ingestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ingestible
form: most ingestible
Etymology: From ingest + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: None of the psychoactive ingredients show up on the Interior Ministry's list of banned ingestible substances.
ref: 2003 July 27, Jeff Israely, “High Times in Rome”, in Time:
glosses: Capable of being ingested.
Synonyms: word: ingestible
Hyponyms: word: edible
word: drinkable
Derived terms: uningestible
Related terms: word: delicious
word: insipid
word: unpalatable
ingestible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingestibles
Etymology: From ingest + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that can be ingested.
whaddaya
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌdəjə/
note: without the wine–whine merger
ipa: /ˈʍʌdəjə/
Forms: form: whadaya
form: whaddayer
form: whadiya
form: whadya
form: whadyer
form: wuddya
Senses: examples: text: "Aspirin? Whaddaya want aspirin for, Harry?..."
ref: 1969, Robert Coovert, Pricksongs & Descants: Fictions, Grove Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 224:
text: "Whaddaya mean twelve bucks? The sign says seven!"
ref: 2007, Kemble Scott, Soma, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of what do you.
nobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nobbier
form: nobbiest
Etymology: From nob + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I'll come back in the course of the evening, if agreeable to you, and endeavor to meet your wishes respecting this unfortunate family matter, and the nobbiest way of keeping it quiet.
ref: c. 1852-1853, Charles Dickens, edited by Levi C. Goodale and Charlie Lulledge, Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak House, published 1876, page 106:
text: "[…]What makes it worse,” she continued, in the extremity of confidence, “I heard those two cricketing men say just now, 'She's the nobbiest girl on the boat.' But I don't mind it, you know, Harry."
ref: 1873, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes, page 291:
glosses: Wealthy or of high social position; of or pertaining to a nob (person of great wealth or social standing).
examples: text: Undertaking?—why it's the dead-surest business in Christendom, and the nobbiest.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, published 2007, page 152:
text: 1925 April 11, Busybody, "Jottings About Town", in The New Yorker, page 25,
Quite nobby are the suitings appearing on some of our better Fifth Avenue young men.
text: Alcibiades, was the nobbiest boy in Greece.
ref: 1933, Josephine Herbst, Pity Is Not Enough, page 37:
glosses: Fashionable or chic.
Synonyms: sense: fashionable or chic
word: classy
Derived terms: nobbily
nobbiness
time table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time tables
form: time-table
form: timetable
Senses: examples: 1908, Angellotti, Still v. San Francisco and Northwestern Railway Company, 154 Cal. 559, 98 Pac. 672, reprinted 1910, A.C. Freedman, ed., The American State Reports, vol. 129, page 183,
Upon being made a conductor, he was given a printed schedule or time table of the various regular trains, on the back of which were printed what was styles "Time Table Rules."
ca. 1920, Annotated time table the tour through Canada of the ninth Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, September-October nineteen-twenty, →ISBN.
1925 April 11, "Suggestions for Subway 'Sun'", in The New Yorker, page 28,
It uses the simplest time table in the world--a train is always just pulling out as you get to the platform.
glosses: Alternative spelling of timetable.
dobby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒbi
Forms: form: dobbies
form: dobbie
Etymology: From Dobby.
Senses: glosses: A device in some looms that allows the weaving of small geometric patterns.
glosses: The patterns so woven, or the fabric containing the patterns.
glosses: An evil or mischievous fairy or ghost sometimes said to haunt a building or household.
glosses: A dotard.
qualifier: chiefly Nottingham
glosses: The children's game of tag.
Synonyms: sense: dotard
word: dodipole
word: mimmerkin
word: dotard
time-table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-tables
form: time table
form: timetable
Senses: examples: text: Lessons to be resumed according to the Time-table.
ref: 1893, Report of the Minister of Public Instruction, New South Wales: Charles Potter, published 1894, page 238:
text: Hopefully, the time-table promised new Wagons-Lits routes in Iraq and Jugoslavia, already dated 1940 and 1941.
ref: 1967, Michael Barsley, The Orient Express: The Story of the World's Most Fabulous Train, Stein and Day, page 69:
text: CHAPTER FIVE The curriculum, the time-table and organisation
ref: 1987, John Blackie, Inside the Primary School, Knopf,, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of timetable.
katatonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katatonias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catatonia.
katharsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katharses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catharsis.
perpetuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perpetuate
boosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boost
boosting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boostings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is boosted.
glosses: An act or incidence of theft.
Derived terms: riot boosting
primative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more primative
form: most primative
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of primitive.
plasmacytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plasmacyte + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to plasma cells
plasmacytoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasmacytoids
Etymology: From plasmacyte + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any such cell
dendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛndˈɹɪtɪk/
Forms: form: more dendritic
form: most dendritic
Etymology: From dendrite + -ic, from Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs, “of or pertaining to a tree”).
Senses: examples: text: The system of rivers in a drainage basin has a dendritic configuration.
synonyms: dendriform
glosses: Having a branching structure similar to a tree.
glosses: Of, pertaining to or possessing dendrites.
Derived terms: adendritic
axodendritic
cytodendritic
dendritical
dendritically
dendritic cell
dendritic spine
dendrodendritic
follicular dendritic cell
interdendritic
intradendritic
monodendritic
multidendritic
nondendritic
oligodendritic
peridendritic
polydendritic
predendritic
somatodendritic
spinodendritic
subdendrite
subdendritic
synaptodendritic
unidendritic
dendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛndˈɹɪtɪk/
Forms: form: dendritics
Etymology: From dendrite + -ic, from Ancient Greek δενδρίτης (dendrítēs, “of or pertaining to a tree”).
Senses: glosses: A dendritic cell
Coney Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Konijneneiland, from konijn[en] (“rabbit[s]”) + eiland (“island”), literally “island of rabbits”; equivalent to cony + island.
Senses: examples: text: From 1916 to 1930, Fleischer would dress up as a Coney Island clown and have animators rotoscope films of him as Koko the Clown.
ref: 1993, Norman M. Klein, Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon, Verso, →ISBN, page 20:
text: "If they're planning to tum my Cape into a Coney Island midway, they'd better think twice!"
ref: 2001, Anton Myrer, A Green Desire, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 427:
text: […] Sam Tietch, who performed as a Coney Island wrestler under the name of Vach "Cyclone" Lewis.
ref: 2006, Nick Tosches, King of the Jews: The Greatest Mob Story Never Told, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 207:
glosses: A neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, known for its boardwalk and amusement parks.
Derived terms: Coney Island hot dog
Coney Island whitefish
Coney Island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coney Islands
form: coney island
Etymology: From Dutch Konijneneiland, from konijn[en] (“rabbit[s]”) + eiland (“island”), literally “island of rabbits”; equivalent to cony + island.
Senses: examples: text: The waiter slammed the Coney Islands down in front of them....
ref: 1994, William J. Coughlin, In the Presence of Enemies, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 107:
text: By the 1970s, when Nathan's Famous rolled into cities far from New York, vendors realized that customers wanted a Coney Island "their way."
ref: 2004, Beth Allen, Susan Westmoreland, “Tales of the Coney Island Dog”, in Good Housekeeping Great American Classics Cookbook, →ISBN, page 49:
glosses: A Coney Island hot dog.
examples: text: The Detroit-themed hotel, opened in 2012 was the first American location (and one of the few Coney Islands of any brand) outside Michigan to offer the same mouthwatering food as the original.
ref: 2017, Paul Vachon, Lost Restaurants of Detroit, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of restaurant selling Coney Island hot dogs, popular in the northern United States, particularly in Michigan.
coney island
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coney islands
Senses: examples: text: He knew there wasn't anything I liked better than a coney island and a strawberry Nehi.
ref: 2002, Joe David Brown, Paper Moon, Thunder's Mouth Press,, →ISBN, page 6:
text: "I'll buy you a coney island...."
ref: 2004, William J. Coughlin, Death Penalty, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Coney Island (“hot dog”).
entrammeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of entrammel
gasconading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gasconade
allelochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allelo- + chemical.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
ecology
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having allelopathic effects.
allelochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allelochemicals
Etymology: From allelo- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: A chemical substance having allelopathic effects.
change of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But of course she's coming near her change of life, for she's years older than he is.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 17, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Gutenberg edition, [Florence, Italy]: [ […] Tipografia Giuntina, […]], →OCLC; republished as Lady Chatterley’s Lover (eBook no. 0100181h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, August 2011, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
glosses: Menopause.
minning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of min
adulteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adultery
caldrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caldron (alternative spelling of cauldrons).
earlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earlets
Etymology: From ear + -let.
Senses: topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: Small earring.
topics: jewelry
lifestyle
glosses: Earring.
earlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earlets
Etymology: From ear + -let.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A grain-bearing tip part of the stem of a cereal plant which is not fully developed or a small one.
earlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earlet
enchantments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enchantment
enmities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enmity
gnashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gnash
gnashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: gnashings
Senses: examples: gnashings of teeth
glosses: The action of something that is gnashed.
Derived terms: weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
gnashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈnæʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gnash
gnashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /næʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gnash
debt burden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debt burdens
Senses: examples: text: According to Table V, Michigan's local government debt burden is below the average for the country. The index of debt burden¹⁸ for Michigan was 52.2 in 1949 and had declined to 47.2 in 1954.
ref: 1960, Alfred L. Edwards, A Study of Local Government Debt in Michigan (Technical study), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 9:
glosses: The debt of a country or subdivision, when large enough that servicing it has become difficult.
endometrioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛndəmitɹiˈəʊmə/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Forms: form: endometriomas
form: endometriomata
Etymology: From endometrium + -oma.
Senses: glosses: An ovarian cyst caused by endometriosis.
glosses: Any tumor containing endometrial tissue.
endometrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɛndəˈmiːtɹi.əl/
Etymology: From endometrium + -al or endo- + metrial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the endometrium, the lining of the uterus
Derived terms: subendometrial myoendometrial
carefront
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: carefronts
form: carefronting
form: carefronted
form: carefronted
Etymology: Blend of care + confront
Senses: examples: text: We can carefront on issues and relationships that matter.
ref: 2012, John Ng, Smiling Tiger, Hidden Dragon, page 307:
glosses: To caringly confront; to approach (someone) and reprove them in a loving and respectful manner.
Related terms: carefrontation
chromography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: chromographies
Etymology: By surface analysis, chromo + graphy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chromatography.
glosses: Any of several specific colour analyses, techniques or processes (usually involving separation by colour or other property).
glosses: Synonym of chromolithography.
synonyms: word: chromolithography
Related terms: chromograph
chromotypography
snoozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snoozers
Etymology: From snooze + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who snoozes; a sleeper.
examples: text: The program is usually pretty good, but last Wednesday's episode was a real snoozer.
glosses: Something that is boring, uninteresting or unremarkable; something that would tend to induce sleep.
colorway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorways
form: colourway
Etymology: From color + way.
Senses: examples: text: Each colorway has a variety of tones (light, medium, and dark) and print styles (floral, dots, stripes, abstract, and geometric).
ref: 2011, Emily Cier, Quilt Remix: Spin Traditional Favorites into 10 Fresh Projects, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Any of the schemes of two or more colors in which a design is available.
Synonyms: color scheme
theme
daimonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more daimonic
form: most daimonic
Etymology: From daimon + -ic; from Latin demon (“spirit”), originally from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “a god, goddess, divine power, genius, guardian spirit”). Doublet of demonic.
Senses: glosses: In the way of a daimon; befitting a demon; fiendish.
glosses: Motivated by a spiritual force or genius; inspired.
daimonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From daimon + -ic; from Latin demon (“spirit”), originally from Ancient Greek δαίμων (daímōn, “a god, goddess, divine power, genius, guardian spirit”). Doublet of demonic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The unrest that exists in us all which forces us into the unknown, leading to self-destruction and/or self-discovery.
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
psychology
publishing
sciences
qualifier: spirituality
glosses: The journey and transition from innocence to experience; part of the process of individuation.
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: The place where light and dark meet.
epistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Etymology: Adjective form of epistasis; compare static and stasis. The adjectival use in genetics was coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1909 in his book Mendel's Principles of Heredity.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to epistasis.
Coordinate terms: epigenetic
Derived terms: epistatically
nonepistatic
epistatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Forms: form: epistatics
Etymology: Adjective form of epistasis; compare static and stasis. The adjectival use in genetics was coined by English biologist William Bateson in 1909 in his book Mendel's Principles of Heredity.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any material that causes epistasis.
sullying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sully
sullying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sullyings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is sullied or made dirty.
gasconades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasconade
gasconades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gasconade
entrammel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entrammels
form: entrammeling
form: entrammelling
form: entrammeled
form: entrammeled
form: entrammelled
form: entrammelled
Etymology: From en- + trammel.
Senses: glosses: To hamper by entangling.
Derived terms: unentrammeled
unentrammelled
annexe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annexes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of annex.
annexe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: annexes
form: annexing
form: annexed
form: annexed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of annex.
airpark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airparks
Etymology: From air + park.
Senses: glosses: A small airport sometimes found near an industrial or business area.
evolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evolutes
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A curve comprising the centres of curvature of another curve.
Related terms: involute
evolute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having or being a (mollusc) spiral shell in which the whorls touch along a surface.
Coordinate terms: advolute
involute
convolute
evolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: evolutes
form: evoluting
form: evoluted
form: evoluted
Senses: examples: text: Now these are the generations of the higher vertebrata, in the cosmic period that the Unknowable evoluted the bipedal mammalia […]
ref: 1875, John Muehleisen Arnold, Genesis and Science; Or The First Leaves of the Bible (page 99)
text: […] and when the male physical germ evoluted the male into existence its soul-germ at the same time evoluted the soul into existence.
ref: 1892, Oliver Paul Gooding, The People's God Vs. the Monarchic God (page 401)
glosses: Synonym of evolve (“cause to come into being”).
synonyms: word: evolve
extra: cause to come into being
Jaqueline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant of Jacqueline.
Jacklyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, a re-spelling of Jacqueline.
gnateater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnateaters
Etymology: Calque of translingual Conopophaga. By surface analysis, gnat + eater.
Senses: glosses: Any of the South and Central American passerine birds in the family Conopophagidae.
clock generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clock generators
Senses: topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: a circuit that produces a timing signal for use in synchronizing a circuit's operation.
Related terms: clock signal
clock generators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clock generator
Jeppe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Jeppestown, Johannesburg, South Africa.
synonyms: word: Jeppestown
word: Johannesburg
word: South Africa
Jimmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jimmis
form: Jimmies
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name James.
Related terms: Jaime
James
Jamie
Jim
Jimmie
Jimmy
Haapsalu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Estonian Haapsalu.
Senses: glosses: A town on the west coast of Estonia.
puff piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puff pieces
Senses: examples: text: That's your first question? I thought this was supposed to be a puff piece.
ref: 2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):
text: The magazine had sent David Blum to Los Angeles to profile Emilio Estevez, arguably the most famous of the actors in Joel Schumacher's recently released St. Elmo's Fire, and what had been pitched as a typical puff piece quickly warped into a scathing portrayal that soon became scandalous.
ref: 2019, Bret Easton Ellis, White, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: While I don’t think Chozick’s profile was in any way a puff piece, I understand the anger it has generated. After all, not many mothers facing prison are given a splashy redemption photoshoot in a major paper, are they?
ref: 2023 May 9, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elizabeth Holmes is rebranding herself as a sweet, devoted mother. Will anyone buy it?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: journalism
media
publishing
coordinate_terms: hit piece
glosses: A journalistic form of puffery; an article or story of exaggerated praise that often ignores or downplays opposing viewpoints or evidence to the contrary.
Synonyms: cream puff piece
Josefina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
power-broker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power-brokers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power broker.
Gustaf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gustafs
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Swedish.
aeroponic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or grown using aeroponics
Synonyms: airponic
Coordinate terms: hydroponic
aquaponic
geoponic
organoponic
Derived terms: aeroponically
Related terms: fogponic
aeroponics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + Ancient Greek πονος (ponos, “work, labour”) + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: The aeroponics system uses a spinner from a home humidifier to propel nutrient solution into a polyethylene-lined plywood box atop which plants are supported on plastic light-fixture “egg crating.”
ref: 1976, Richard W. Zobel, Peter Del Tredici, John G. Torrey, Method for Growing Plants Aeroponically, Plant Physiology, page Abstract:
synonyms: airponics
glosses: The growing of plants without either soil or hydroponics but in a mist-laden atmosphere.
Coordinate terms: hydroponics
aquaponics
geoponics
organoponics
Derived terms: fogponics
Related terms: aeroponic
akhara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akharas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अखाड़ा (akhāṛā).
Senses: glosses: A member of an order of ascetic monks in parts of India
glosses: A monastery used by this order
angioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angio- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a blood vessel
Derived terms: angioid streak
arethusa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arethusas
Senses: glosses: A bog orchid, Arethusa bulbosa, sole species of the genus Arethusa, having a magenta flower; the dragon's mouth.
Synonyms: sense: swamp pink
word: bog orchid
bog orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bog orchids
Senses: glosses: Any of several small orchids of the genus Habenaria that grow in peaty wet ground.
glosses: A small orchid, Hammarbya paludosa that grows in bogs in temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
glosses: Any of several small orchids of the genus Platanthera that grow in wet ground in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
Synonyms: sense: Hammarbya paludosa
word: bog adder's-mouth
sense: Hammarbya paludosa
word: bog adder's-mouth orchid
Hyponyms: sense: Platanthera spp.
taxonomic: Platanthera holochila
word: Hawaii bog orchid
sense: Platanthera spp.
word: Hooker's bog orchid
sense: Platanthera spp.
taxonomic: Platanthera obtusata
word: small northern bog orchid
sense: Platanthera spp.
taxonomic: Platanthera sparsiflora
word: sparse-flowered bog orchid
sense: Platanthera spp.
taxonomic: Platanthera stricta
word: slender bog orchid
sense: Platanthera spp.
taxonomic: Platanthera yosemitensis
word: Yosemite bog orchid
sense: Platanthera spp.
taxonomic: Platanthera zothecina
word: alcove bog orchid
aromatase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈɹoʊ̯məteɪ̯s/
/əˈɹoʊ̯məteɪ̯z/
Forms: form: aromatases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme responsible for aromatization of androgen hormones into estrogens.
Synonyms: estrogen synthase
estrogen synthetase
Derived terms: antiaromatase
attrit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈtɹɪt/
Forms: form: attrits
form: attriting
form: attritting
form: attrited
form: attrited
form: attritted
form: attritted
form: attrite
Etymology: From Latin attrītus, past participle of atterō. Said by multiple dictionaries to be a back-formation from attrition, but it is not a recent one, being centuries old.
Senses: examples: text: […] pebbles of vast size, or blocks of stone, attrited by water to smoothness, conjoined by a cement of mud.
ref: 1858, James Prinsep, Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palæographic, page 111:
glosses: To wear down through attrition, especially mechanical attrition.
examples: text: the relatives who had been helping slipped away as I grew older, attriting for various reasons that all amounted to the same reason.
ref: 1997, Lisa Scottoline, Legal Tender, →ISBN, page 77:
glosses: To engage in attrition; to quit or drop out.
examples: text: The interference theory of second language loss holds that forgetting is actually interference between the attriting language and the language replacing it.
ref: 2001, Lynne Hansen, “Language Attrition in Contexts of Japanese Bilingualism”, in Studies in Japanese Bilingualism, →ISBN, page 359:
glosses: To be reduced in quantity through attrition.
examples: text: The primary objective is to attrit the units sufficiently so that they cannot close with the units in contact.
ref: 2001, John Matsumura, Lightning Over Water: Sharpening America's Light Forces for Rapid Missions, →ISBN, page 124:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To lose, or to kill, troops by attrition due to sustained firepower.
Derived terms: attritability
attritable
attritive
attrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈtɹɪt/
Forms: form: attrits
form: attrite
Etymology: From Latin attrītus, past participle of atterō. Said by multiple dictionaries to be a back-formation from attrition, but it is not a recent one, being centuries old.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout the early part of the meeting, a human resources manager kept talking about “attrits," which we thought was some kind of financial product they were reducing or eliminating. It wasn't until she mentioned "minimizing severance options" that we realized she was talking about people.
ref: 2009, Alan Weiss, Nancy MacKay, The Talent Advantage:
glosses: One who voluntarily or involuntarily leaves a company; a termed employee.
Synonyms: sense: a terminated employee
word: term
Derived terms: attritee
attritor
Baraita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baraitas
form: Baraitot
form: baraita
form: Baraitha
form: Beraita
form: Braita
form: Baraysa
Etymology: Aramaic baraita, an extraneous teaching. The word appears in the feminine (baraita rather than bara'ah), because it is actually short for matnita baraita, external Mishnah or teaching (and matnita is feminine).
Senses: examples: text: A baraita in Ta'anit 16a expands the list of attributes of the cantor to eleven: "...and he has a melodious and pleasant voice...", and so ruled Maimonides in […]
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Should the cantor pray slowly or shorten the service?”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page 4:
glosses: Any of various Jewish traditions that are not included in the Mishnah.
barriada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barriadas
Etymology: From Spanish barriada.
Senses: glosses: A shanty town or slum in any of several Peruvian cities
Related terms: barrio