cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Estonianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Estonianizes
form: Estonianizing
form: Estonianized
form: Estonianized
Etymology: From Estonian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: They also complained of growing efforts to forcibly Estonianize the Russian minority, especially those living in the borderlands.
ref: 2012, David J. Smith, John Hiden, Ethnic Diversity and the Nation State: National Cultural Autonomy Revisited, Routledge, →ISBN, page 103:
text: Even before construction of the new church in Saatse began, signature Estonian practices like versified congregational singing and riimilaulud were brought into the village in order to Estonianize religious life there, although the effectiveness of such reforms among local congregants was questionable
ref: 2015, Jeffers Engelhardt, Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 114:
text: A campaign to Estonianize family names (1936) motivated (and in the case of some state employees, pressured) perhaps a third of the Estonian population to change their names, but numerous Germanic names remained.
ref: 2018, Rein Taagepera, Estonia: Return To Independence, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: to make Estonian.
Estonianizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Estonianize
Estonianized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Estonianize
Estonianizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Estonianize
subarticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subarticle
Estonianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Estonianize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, following the suppression of the radical right in 1934, the authoritarian regime of Konstantin Pats initiated a systematic campaign of Estonianization.
ref: 2009, Anton Weiss-Wendt, Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust, →ISBN:
text: A longitudinal review of these purposes reveals three, at times overlapping, goals: Estonianization, civic integration, and Russification.
ref: 2011, Zvi Bekerman, Thomas Geisen, International Handbook of Migration, Minorities and Education: Understanding Cultural and Social Differences in Processes of Learning, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 200:
text: Much state-sponsored and church-sanctioned Estonianization addressed the “ backwardness” and multiethnic character of Setomaa through infrastructure projects, institutional reforms, and even a plan for “repatriating” ethnic Russians.
ref: 2015, Jeffers Engelhardt, Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: the act or process of Estonianizing.
grosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grosia
Etymology: Back formation of a false singular from Greek γρόσια, when real singular is γρόσι, which in turn is derived from قروش kuruş from French gros meaning heavy
Senses: glosses: piastre; A unit of currency in Crete before it became part of modern Greece.
Setomaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: When comparing Setomaa and Lutheran south-eastern Estonia, no principal differences in the occurrence of village cemeteries and holy sites in natural places is observed.
ref: 2004, Jörn Staecker, The European Frontier: Clashes and Compromises in the Middle Ages; International Symposium of the Culture Clash Or Compromise (CCC) Project and the Department of Archaeology, Lund University, Held in Lund October 13-15 2000, →ISBN:
text: Especially short is the temporal gap between the present and the traditional pre-literate society in Setomaa district in the south-easternmost corner of Estonia (figure). Historically, Setomaa does not belong to the realm of Western culture and it has never been a part of Livonia.
ref: 2006, Anders Andrén, Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions: an International Conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004, Nordic Academic Press, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Demographic crisis and a decline in active Orthodox participation in Setomaa figured in as well, since the enchantments of this akathist derived from Setos, Estonians, and Russians knowing and recognizing the special melody and its connection to the Petseri monastery.
ref: 2015, Jeffers Engelhardt, Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: A region in southeastern Estonia.
scar tissues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scar tissue
Estonify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Estonifies
form: Estonifying
form: Estonified
form: Estonified
Etymology: From Estonian + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: It has been proposed that those who do not know Estonia should be kicked out, but Hint, as a middle-of-the-roader, advocates moderation. “What is essential is to Estonify Tallinn.
ref: 1992, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia:
text: It should be mentioned that sometimes, especially in the historical novels and novellas by Jaan Kross, the old Tallinn is somewhat Estonified, much like Vilnius is Lithuanized in other places.
ref: 2015, Urban Semiotics: the City as a Cultural-Historical Phenomen, Tallinn University Press / Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, →ISBN, page 58:
text: It will be shown that the Estonian interpretations of Soviet nationality policy are conceived in a more rational, if not more liberal, vein than is commonplace elsewhere in the Soviet Union, and that the Communist party of Estonia is becoming increasingly Estonified despite the heavy Russian presence in both the rank and file and the top leadership.
ref: 2019, Tonu Parming, Elmar Jarvesoo, Case Study Soviet Republic, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: to make Estonian
retroposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retropose
retroposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retropose
Lithuanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Lithuanizes
form: Lithuanizing
form: Lithuanized
form: Lithuanized
Etymology: From Lithuanian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: One thing I can say in favour of my generals — they are not talking about conquering the world, or about the mission of their country to Lithuanize the rest of mankind; which is, as I have discovered, a favourite topic of conversation among the generals of some of the countries which owe their existence to the doctrine of self-determination.
ref: 1921, Edward Alfred Steiner, Old Trails and New Borders, page 43:
text: Persons receiving Lithuanian citizenship were pressurized into reporting their nationality as being Lithuanian rather than Polish, all part of the attempt to Lithuanize the region as quickly as possible.
ref: 2011, Robert van Voren, Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 23:
text: New military commands and terms had to be rapidly translated and disseminated among the troops. In one case a dozen of Lithuanian officers even decided to Lithuanize their last names.
ref: 2012, N. Arielli, B. Collins, Transnational Soldiers: Foreign Military Enlistment in the Modern Era, Springer, →ISBN:
glosses: to make Lithuanian.
metallik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalliks
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish متالك (metelik, metalik), from French métallique.
Senses: examples: text: the metallik, a base metal 1/4 piaster
ref: 1908, Guide to Greece, the Archipelago, Constantinople, the Coasts of Asia Minor, Crete and Cyprus: With Thirteen Maps and Thirty-three Plans, page 178:
glosses: A unit of currency of the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century; used in Crete during the Russian occupation.
Related terms: altilik
beshlik
Estonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Estonia + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: The recent Estonification of the party and government leadership seems to reflect a conscious policy
ref: 1978, Tönu Parming, Elmar Järvesoo, A Case study of a Soviet Republic: the Estonian SSR:
text: Today the popular fronts, in an effort to reassure the ethnic minorities living in the Baltics, insist that the rights of non-Balts were respected, and that, despite Estonification, Latvianization and Lithuanianization, will be respected again.
ref: 1992, Clare Thomson, The singing revolution: a political journey through the Baltic States:
text: In foreign diplomatic circles in Estonia the law was characterized as the Estonification of industry.
ref: 1994, Stockholms universitet. Centrum för baltiska studier, Emancipation and interdependence: the Baltic States as new entities in the international economy, 1918-1940: symposium organized by the Centre for Baltic Studies, Stockholm University, 15-17 October 1992, Centre for Baltic Studies, →ISBN:
glosses: the act or process of Estonifying.
undevelopedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undevelopedly
form: most undevelopedly
Etymology: From undeveloped + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The outward form of such system, is a grand classification of all things; whose details consist in the realization that simple, yet nevertheless wonderful shelfwork (or categories), innately but undevelopedly inherent in the human mind, whereby ALL MEN of normal parts, are enabled, by a proper course of culture, to become knowing, wise, and useful for themselves and others.
ref: 1858, Peter Kaufmann, The Temple of Truth: Or the Science of Ever-progressive Knowledge:
text: It is also to be admitted that within the conviction of undevelopedly immature mind the so-called indispensability of the (a) concept/percept dichotomy provides 'thought' its objective essentiality and the (b) 'experience' gives it subjective essentiality.
ref: 1985, Himmata Siṅgha, The Philosophical Conception of Śabda, page 180:
text: Now, if they'd tried to work ER into the equation, that would have been _sad_. undevelopedly, luna
ref: 1999 February 7, Luna Vudu, “A safe post, since nobody knows where I live”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet):
glosses: In an undeveloped manner.
shelfwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelfworks
Senses: examples: text: There are various kinds of shelfwork in Japanese architecture and the tsuridana, suspended shelf, is the form most commonly seen in tea architecture and is generally suspended at the front part of the mat where the host prepares tea in order that it may be used to set utensils on.
ref: 1976, Chanoyu - Issue 15, page 16:
text: Adjacent shelfwork is considered an extension of the obstruction.
ref: 1983, Robert M. Hodnett, Automatic Sprinkler Systems Handbook, page 184:
text: The front of the piece is open shelfwork.
ref: 1990, Eugene Clute, Kenneth Reid, Russell Fenimore Whitehead, Progressive Architecture - Volume 71:
topics: architecture
glosses: A built-in shelf or set of shelves.
examples: text: The outward form of such system, is a grand classification of all things; whose details consist in the realization that simple, yet nevertheless wonderful shelfwork (or categories), innately but undevelopedly inherent in the human mind, whereby ALL MEN of normal parts, are enabled, by a proper course of culture, to become knowing, wise, and useful for themselves and others.
ref: 1858, Peter Kaufmann, The Temple of Truth: Or the Science of Ever-progressive Knowledge:
text: Turkoman made good use of his time, and I was sure whatever he knew of Dr. Lyman Kiser's affairs was neatly stashed somewhere in his mental shelfwork.
ref: 2002, Mark St. George, A Feast of Savages, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: A system of classification, especially one that determines how something can be organized on shelves.
examples: text: This "shelfwork" includes manipulatives for students to use in order to review or reinforce skills taught in math, language arts, social studies and science.
ref: 1987, Newsletter, page 192:
text: As with several other shelfworks, the title echoes the clichéd language of sales brochures that tends to present their products in the superlative.
ref: 2011, Joan Gibbons, Art and Advertising, →ISBN:
text: This action research examines the benefits of using shelfwork with academic language supports and documents how Montessori materials and methods support students to use academic language in their writing.
ref: 2017, Jennifer Johnson, Using Shelfwork at Linguistic Levels of Vocabulary, Syntax and Discourse to Support Language Development Amongst ELL Students:
glosses: Items such as brochures that are displayed on and used from a shelf.
shelfworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shelfwork
shellfisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shellfishers
Etymology: From shellfish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The shellfisher's object is to intercept these and drag them back in his net before a new breaker scatters them up the beach again.
ref: 1927, Madras Fisheries Bulletin - Volume 18, page 73:
text: Each shellfisher benefits from the hot water whether he or she pays or not. Thus if other shellfishers pay for the hot water, there is no need for an individual shellfisher to do so. Once the temperature of the river is up for one shellfisher, it has increased for all. Anyone of them can act as a free rider, relying on others to pay for the warm water.
ref: 1981, Donald Stevenson Watson, Malcolm Getz, Price Theory and Its Uses, page 311:
text: If Nautilus of Greek mythology had been a shellfisher, it would be clear how the exercise equipment got its name.
ref: 2002, Coast Watch, page 20:
text: After the tour I lingered on, and Jim and I talked a bit there by the waterway about the vagaries of being a shellfisher in the modern age.
ref: 2007, Bland Simpson, The Inner Islands: A Carolinian's Sound Country Chronicle, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of shellfisherman.
synonyms: word: shellfisherman
shellfishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shellfisher
counter-opposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-oppositions
form: counteropposition
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The force acting against the opposition.
Related terms: antiopposition
thoroughway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughways
Etymology: From Middle English *thurghwei (attested in plural form thurghweies, thorouȝ-weies, þurȝ-weies), equivalent to thorough- + way. Doublet of throughway.
Senses: examples: text: Only at Knossos we have to observe that for the convenience of the palace this corridor has become a thoroughway past the front of the shrine in either direction.
ref: 1908, The Annual of the British School at Athens, volume 14, page 367:
glosses: A way through, passageway.
examples: text: Today the street is still a central thoroughway through the old city, though now converted to a pedestrian zone and called the Breite Herzog-Strasse.
ref: 1998, Paul Spalding, Johann Lorenz Schmidt, Seize the Book, Jail the Author:
glosses: A thoroughfare.
thoroughways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoroughway
thoroughlane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughlanes
Etymology: From thorough + lane. Doublet of throughlane.
Senses: examples: text: We thought we'd taken a thoroughlane, but it must have been a hook road or a circlepath that with a netherbend led us through slant grass into this mortal vale.
ref: 2003, Jaap Blonk, Let's go out:
text: The streets all go steeply down hill from the main thoroughlanes, they twist and turn.
ref: 2009, George B. Bookman, Headlines, Deadlines and Lifelines, page 344:
glosses: A way through, thoroughway.
throughlane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughlanes
form: through-lane
form: through lane
Etymology: From through + lane. Compare thoroughlane.
Senses: examples: text: The Vine Street intersection proposed under the Draft Single Package would consist of two throughlanes, one right-turn and two left-turn lanes in each direction.
ref: 2001, Antelope Valley Study, Lincoln, Nebraska, Project Number M-5244(3):
text: The street was like so many others in New York—one way for traffic, parking allowed on both sides, and the throughlane tight since cars grew in size while the streets stayed the same width.
ref: 2018, Jane Drager, Until We Say Goodbye:
glosses: A traffic lane dedicated to allowing an uninterrupted flow of traffic through a given area.
throughlanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of throughlane
opacite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opacites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small, dark grain, of doubtful origin, in an igneous rock
ALSEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package.
command and service module
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: command and service modules
Senses: synonyms: word: CSM
glosses: The mother ship of the spacecraft that carried astronauts to the Moon in the Apollo missions.
Related terms: command module
baggy green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baggy greens
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: baggy green cap
glosses: The cap worn by members of the Australia Test cricket team.
baggy greens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baggy green
Ascot scarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ascot scarfs
form: Ascot scarves
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: ascot tie, ascot
glosses: A type of cravat tied beneath the collar.
omnipauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omnipause
optoelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From opto- + electrically.
Senses: glosses: In an optoelectric manner
optoelectromechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From opto- + electromechanical.
Senses: glosses: optoelectric and electromechanical
orthofluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + fluvial.
Senses: glosses: Describing the area, next to a river, that is frequently flooded
osteclastogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of osteoclastogenesis.
overfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overfilters
form: overfiltering
form: overfiltered
form: overfiltered
Etymology: From over- + filter.
Senses: glosses: To subject to overfiltration.
overfilter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overfilters
Etymology: From over- + filter.
Senses: examples: text: It is clear that overfilters and underfilters are dual in the sense of the duality principle.
ref: 1999, Edward R. Dougherty, Jaakko Astola, Nonlinear Filters for Image Processing, page 180:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A morphological filter (idempotent operator) whose image is a superset of the domain.
Coordinate terms: underfilter
overfiltered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overfilter
overfiltering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overfilter
oxyguanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyguanidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The amide O=C(NH₂)₂ formally derived from guanidine by replacing an >NH group with one of >O
oxyguanidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyguanidine
showpersonship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From showperson + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being a showperson.
policemanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From policeman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or quality of being a policeman.
palaeoendemism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + endemism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoendemism.
palaeophycological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + phycological.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleophycological.
paleophycological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + phycological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleophycology
palaeopulmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + pulmonic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleopulmonic.
paleopulmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + pulmonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the lungs of primitive creatures (especially of the first birds)
paleofaeces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paleo- + faeces.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleofeces.
paleovirological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + virological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to paleovirology
papillorenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From papillo- + renal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to renal papillae.
Derived terms: papillorenal syndrome
parafluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + fluvial.
Senses: glosses: Describing the area next to a river
parapore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parapores
Etymology: From para- + pore.
Senses: glosses: A canaliculus, typically of a foraminifer
parapores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parapore
pelobatidean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelobatideans
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Pelobatidae of toads
pelobatideans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelobatidean
phosphopantetheinylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphopantetheinylations
Senses: glosses: The action, or the result of phosphopantetheinylating
photoelicitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoelicitations
Etymology: From photo- + elicitation.
Senses: glosses: The elicitation of a response to the display of a photographic image
phyllodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllodonts
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the genus Phyllodonta
phyllodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllodont
phyllodontid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllodontids
Senses: glosses: Any extinct fish of the family Phyllodontidae
phyllodontids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phyllodontid
picoprokaryotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pico- + prokaryotic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to picoprokaryotes
bitsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitsas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bitzer.
piezocapacitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From piezo- + capacitive.
Senses: glosses: Whose electrical capacitance varies according to applied pressure
pilastric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of pilasters
pneumocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumocytoses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: pneumonia in people with impaired immune systems (typically as a result of AIDS)
pneumocytoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumocytosis
polymannose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + mannose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide formed of mannose units
porpitoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the porpitids
postdilution
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + dilution.
Senses: glosses: Following dilution
posttraumatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From post- + traumatically.
Senses: glosses: In a posttraumatic manner
preconceptually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pre- + conceptually.
Senses: glosses: In a preconceptual manner
prochitinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prochitinases
Etymology: From pro- + chitinase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound that promotes the formation of a chitinase
prochitinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prochitinase
pumphead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpheads
Senses: glosses: Synonym of postperfusion syndrome (or a person suffering from this condition)
synonyms: word: postperfusion syndrome
extra: or a person suffering from this condition
pumpheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumphead
postperfusion syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postperfusion syndromes
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of a range of neurocognitive impairments during or following coronary bypass surgery
Synonyms: pumphead
overquick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + quick.
Senses: examples: text: And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou / To catch a loathly plume fallen from the wing / Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey / Is man's good name: he never wronged his bride.
ref: 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:
text: Then I slipped away and paid marked and honorific courtesy to Bederhof's wife and Bederhof's daughters, tall girls, not over-quick to be married, somehow quite inevitable if one considered Bederhof himself.
ref: 1899, Anthony Hope, The King's Mirror:
text: It is really, as Johnson himself saw, an elliptical expression, and was due to an overquick wit, the sire of many an Irish bull.
ref: 1900, Thomas Gray, William Mason, Duncan Crookes Tovey, Norton Nicholls, The Letters of Thomas Gray, Including the Correspondence of Gray and Mason, G. Bell and Sons, page 166:
glosses: Too quick; overly quick.
Derived terms: overquickly
overquickly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From overquick + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overquick manner; too quickly.
Link Trainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Link Trainers
Etymology: Produced by Link Aviation Devices, Inc., founded by Ed Link.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of early electromechanical flight simulators
Latvianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Latvianizes
form: Latvianizing
form: Latvianized
form: Latvianized
Etymology: From Latvian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: And one can understand the striving to Latvianize Latvia, where the percentage of Latvians is so small.
ref: 1991, Joseph Laurence Black, USSR Documents Annual, →ISBN:
text: During 1991-1996, for example, educational reform focused on Latvian language schools aiming to Latvianize the existing curriculum, raise the quality of instruction, and increase their prestige.
ref: 2004, Gita Steiner-Khamsi, The Global Politics of Educational Borrowing and Lending, Teachers College Press, →ISBN, page 81:
text: During Latvia's earlier independence period (1920-40), efforts were made to Latvianize this church.
ref: 2012, IBP USA, Latvia Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: to make Latvian.
Latvianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latvianize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: But right now, the major focus of Latvianization lies in the educational system.
ref: 1993, FBIS Report: Central Eurasia:
text: To achieve this goal, Latvian education policy throughout the 1990s was aimed at a gradual Latvianization of the education system, including introducing common education standards for all schools, regulating the use of textbooks and teaching materials, and increasing Latvian language instruction in minority schools.
ref: 2006, Iveta Silova, From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism: ReConceptualizing Minority Education in PostSoviet Latvia, IAP, →ISBN, page 111:
text: This predominantly Russian atmosphere has proved difficult to change, in spite of the formal declaration of Latvian independence and the passing of several Latvianization laws.
ref: 2012, IBP USA, Latvia Country Study Guide Volume 1 Strategic Information and Developments, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: the act or process of Latvianizing.
thoroughbreed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughbreeds
form: thorough-breed
Etymology: From thorough + breed.
Senses: examples: text: No particular breed of cattle can be said to exist in this district: milk being the main object of the farmer, he does not consider any thoroughbreed particularly advantageous for that purpose; […]
ref: 1844, The Farmer's Magazine, page 321:
text: SIR:—I have, at this moment, received from Dr. Eben Wight, the account of the stock of cattle known, in this vicinity, as the Jamestown. It is a cross between two thoroughbreeds — the Suffolk (no horned) on the part of the female, and the Jersey on the part of the male.
ref: 1868, Annual Report of the Secretary - Volume 15, Part 1867, page 159:
text: It is only through the practice of the principles of evolution that a thorough-breed can be obtained. Every species is one of nature's thorough-breeds.
ref: 1886, American Pomological Society, Proceedings, volume 20, page 96:
text: […] that all the progeny would have large berries and large clusters, and thus far [form?] a purebreed or thoroughbreed, of the “in and in bred” type would be secured.
ref: 1899, Bulletin - Texas Agricultural Experiment Station:
text: Ellerslie is the most noted of modern Virginia thoroughbreed breeding establishments, and Eon, who was bred there, is one of the grandest looking thoroughbred stallions ever stripped.
ref: 1903, The Southern Planter, volume 64, page 457:
glosses: A breed of unadulterated or pure lineage.
examples: text: He also entered his own horses for the Lahore meetings, although the thoroughbreeds were sold off to trainers who competed in the more prestigious Bombay and Calcutta races.
ref: 2013, Ian Talbot, Khizr Tiwana, the Punjab Unionist Party and the Partition of India:
glosses: Alternative form of thoroughbred.
thoroughbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoroughbreed
Lithuanianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Lithuanianizes
form: Lithuanianizing
form: Lithuanianized
form: Lithuanianized
Etymology: From Lithuanian + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: By the autumn of 1940, however, Lithuanian nationalists' attempts to Lithuanianize the city in the winter of 1939 and spring of 1940 were rapidly replaced
ref: 2013, Aldis Purs, Baltic Facades: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since 1945, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 53:
text: Meanwhile, the Lithuanians implemented an intense campaign to Lithuanianize the city and the surrounding region.
ref: 2014, Violeta Davoliūtė, The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania: Memory and Modernity in the Wake of War, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: Jakštas, thinking of Kaunas's advantages, categorically asserted that only a miracle could Lithuanianize Vilnius and he did not believe in miracles – God should simply permit a strong Lithuanian colony to form itself in Vilnius.
ref: 2015, Alfonsas Eidintas, Antanas Smetona and His Lithuania: From the National Liberation Movement to an Authoritarian Regime (1893-1940), BRILL, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: To make or become Lithuanian.
major term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: major terms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In a syllogism, the term that is the predicate of the conclusion.
minor term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor terms
form: minor
Senses: examples: text: The minor term in John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism is Socrates; the major term is mortal.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The subject of the conclusion in a categorical syllogism.
Coordinate terms: middle term
major term
minor premise
major premise
major terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major term
minor terms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor term
hippety-hoppety
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: hippity-hoppity
Etymology: + -ety
Senses: glosses: Hopping and skipping.
Related terms: hip hop
hippety-hop
hippety-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippety-hops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hippity-hop.
hippety-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hippety-hops
form: hippety-hopping
form: hippety-hopped
form: hippety-hopped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hippity-hop.
hippety-hops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hippety-hop
hippety-hops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hippety-hop
hippety-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hippety-hop
hippety-hopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hippety-hop
bookscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bookscapes
Etymology: From book + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A notional landscape of books or literature.
bookscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookscape
resessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of recessive.
retributional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to retribution
scorpion spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorpion spider
shipping master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipping masters
Senses: glosses: The official who witnesses signature by the sailors of the articles of agreement.
shipping masters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipping master
sacrococcyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrococcyges
Etymology: From sacro- + coccyx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone formed by fusion of the sacrum and coccyx
saltbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltbridges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salt bridge.
saltbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltbridge
schizandrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizandrins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schisandrin.
schizandrins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizandrin
semiautochthonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-autochthonous
Etymology: From semi- + autochthonous.
Senses: glosses: Partially autochthonous
semimicroelectrode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimicroelectrodes
Senses: glosses: An electrode that is somewhat larger than a microelectrode
semipapillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + papillate.
Senses: glosses: Having small or underdeveloped papillae
seromusculature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sero- + musculature.
Senses: glosses: serous musculature
Related terms: seromuscular
sialoform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sialoforms
Etymology: From sialo- + form.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The form of a compound reacted with a sialic acid
sialoforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sialoform
scrub rider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrub riders
Senses: glosses: One who rides in search of cattle that stray from the herd into the scrub.
scrub riders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrub rider
sinulariolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A diterpenoid lactone, (1R,3S,5S,8E,12S,13R)-12-hydroxy-5,9,13-trimethyl-16-methylidene-4,14-dioxatricyclo[11.3.2.03,5]octadec-8-en-15-one, present in soft coral of the genus Sinularia
sphygmomanometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a sphygmomanometric manner
spirolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirolides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of toxic macrolides present in some marine algae
Related terms: sporolide
spirolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirolide
spiroquinazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiroquinazolines
Etymology: From spiro- + quinazoline.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A spirocyclic quinazoline present in Aspergillus.
spiroquinazolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiroquinazoline
squidpop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squidpops
Etymology: From squid + pop.
Senses: glosses: A system of tethered sticks, loaded with squid flesh, that is used to assay the presence of predators in water
squidpops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squidpop
twenty-fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A form of composed type or plates containing 24 leaves or 48 pages, properly arranged for printing and folding.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A book made up of sections of 24 pages.
Related terms: twenty-fourmo
stamenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stamen + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the form (or function) of a stamen
raw_tags: of a petal
stamenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stamenoids
Etymology: From stamen + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Such a petal
stamenoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamenoid
staphostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staphostatins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteinase inhibitors present in Staphylococcus
staphostatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staphostatin
saddle feathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle feather
stockperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stockpersons
form: stockpeople
Senses: glosses: A stockman or stockwoman
subscutellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + scutellar.
Senses: glosses: Beneath a scutellum
superodorsal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)səl
Etymology: From supero- + dorsal.
Senses: glosses: superior (above) and dorsal
superodorsally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From supero- + dorsally.
Senses: glosses: In a superodorsal manner or direction
supracloacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + cloacal.
Senses: glosses: Above the cloaca
supravertebral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tɪbɹəl
-iːbɹəl
Etymology: From supra- + vertebral.
Senses: glosses: supraspinal
symplesiomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a symplesiomorphic manner
saddle quern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle querns
Senses: glosses: An ancient saddle-shaped form of quern.
saddle querns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle quern
ruby chocolate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of chocolate that is pink in color and has a slightly sour taste.
lalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lall
lalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lall
lalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lall
Lylyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lylyan
form: most Lylyan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lylian.
Lylian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lylian
form: most Lylian
form: Lylyan
Etymology: From Lyly + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Lyly (c. 1553 or 1554 – 1606), English writer and dramatist.
CLOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CLO
middle income trap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middle income traps
form: middle-income trap
Etymology: Coined by Indian economist Indermit Gill and by economist Homi Kharas in 2007 in their book An East Asian Renaissance: Ideas for Economic Growth.
Senses: examples: text: Thailand and Malaysia are hemmed in by the so-called "middle-income trap", which suggests that while countries can move up from the ranks of the very poor, moving further forward is more complex, as competitiveness falls off and costs for investors increase.
ref: 2010 December 23, Simon Roughneen, “Vietnam: a development success story?”, in The Guardian:
text: Chinese economists have for many years also worried about the “middle-income trap”, a situation where a country that has reached a certain level of income gets stuck for a long time.
ref: 2021 July 1, Vincent Ni, “‘Poverty divides us’: gap between rich and poor poses threat to China”, in The Guardian:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The situation where a country that attains a certain income gets stuck at that level, being unable to compete with other more developed economies in the high-value-added market.
middle income traps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle income trap
unshiftably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unshiftable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Such that it cannot be shifted or moved.
stone-snipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone-snipes
Senses: glosses: A common North American bird, the greater yellowlegs, greater tell-tale or long-legged tattler (Tringa melanoleuca).
stone-snipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone-snipe
rhyolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rhyolithic
form: most rhyolithic
Etymology: From German Rhyolith (“rhyolite”) + -ic, presumably under influence from -lithic.
Senses: examples: text: The eruptive masses of the Taupo zone consist of lava (the richest known) of silicious earth, also of rhyolithic rocks of all kinds.
ref: 1864, Friedrich von Hochstetter et al., translated by Carl Franz Fischer, Geology of New Zealand, page 55:
text: According to M. Vélain, the island originally rose above the ocean as a mass of rhyolithic trachyte similar to that which still forms the Nine Pin rock to the north of the entrance to the crater.
ref: 1884, "St Paul" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXI, p. 189
glosses: Alternative form of rhyolitic: composed of or related to rhyolite.
running block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running blocks
Senses: glosses: A block in an arrangement of pulleys.
running blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of running block
anorthitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anorthitic
form: most anorthitic
Etymology: From anorthite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Next followed a period of activity in which basic rocks were produced by submarine eruptions—lavas and scoriae of anorthitic character, palagonitic tuffs, and basaltic ashes; and finally from the crater, which must have been a vast lake of fire like those in the Sandwich Islands, poured forth quiet streams of basaltic lavas.
ref: 1884, "St Paul" in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXI, p. 189
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of or resembling anorthite.
rabatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabatines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rabato (“type of collar”).
rabatines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rabatine
Wanderworte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Wanderworte.
Senses: synonyms: Wanderwörter
glosses: plural of Wanderwort
way-baggage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Baggage to be dropped off at a way station, not taken to the terminal point of the journey.
way-train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: way-trains
Senses: glosses: A train stopping at most of the stations on a line.
Related terms: way station
way-trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of way-train
wayback machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wayback machine
lead the way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leads the way
form: leading the way
form: led the way
form: led the way
Senses: glosses: To proceed first in a journey, procession, etc., so that others can follow.
examples: text: The Americans led the way in the postwar years, but UK, Continental European and Japanese companies have followed […]
ref: 2005, Alan Montefiore, David Vines, Integrity in the Public and Private Domains, page 277:
text: Network Rail's East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) should lead the way for a national digital signalling programme and other major schemes under the new Great British Railways public body.
ref: 2022 January 26, “Network News: RIA lauds East Coast programme as default model for GBR”, in RAIL, number 949, page 11:
glosses: To act as a guide or pioneer.
translationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Bell thus succeeded in providing a hidden variable model of a quantum translationless spin 1/2 particle.
ref: 2010, Pradip Kumar Sengupta, History of Science and Philosophy of Science, page 351:
text: On one occasion, my mother sent me back to Jack translationless but with the suggestion that he subdue his enthusiasm a tad. Mum got Jack a Romanian language course on tape […]
ref: 2016, Nadine Browne, Mihaela Nicolescu, Whip Hand: Stories:
glosses: Without a translation (in various senses).
stretcher bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stretcher bonds
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
masonry
glosses: In bricklaying, an arrangement of bricks or stones laid lengthwise in successive courses, the joints of the one falling at the middle of that above and below.
stretcher bonds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stretcher bond
reversing lever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversing levers
Senses: examples: text: Once the train is gliding away gently, one should all but close the regulator, pull the reversing lever up to about 50 per cent cut-off, close the by-pass valve and open the regulator again, all in a flash.
ref: 1961 March, ""Balmore"", “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:
glosses: A lever in a steam engine that operates the slide valve.
reversing levers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversing lever
reversing cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversing cylinders
Senses: glosses: The cylinder of a small auxiliary steam engine.
reversing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversing machines
Senses: glosses: A molding machine in founding, in which the flask can be reversed.
reversing cylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversing cylinder
reversing machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversing machine
reversing valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversing valves
Senses: glosses: The valve of a reversing cylinder.
reversing valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversing valve
whoore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whoores
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of whore.
whoores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoore
timber-toes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timber-toe