cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chamar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃəˈmɑː/
Forms: form: chamars
form: chamaar
form: choomar
form: chumar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चमार (camār).
Senses: examples: text: It is not strictly a native patent, though chamars of the skin and hide castes can, if irritated, despatch a Sending which sits on the breast of their enemy by night and nearly kills him.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Sending of Dana Da”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 419:
glosses: A member of a tribe who works in leather and agriculture; a tanner or leather-worker.
pennons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pennon
nonnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonny
pettifoggeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pettifoggery
pornocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pornocracy
priories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of priory
rotaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotary
rosaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosary
reversionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reversionary
quinsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinsy
quadrilogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrilogy
Related terms: tetralogies
tetralogies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetralogy
profilometries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profilometry
promptuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of promptuary
youngberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: youngberries
Etymology: From Young + berry, named for its cultivator, Byrnes M. Young.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid between a blackberry and a dewberry of the rose family, first cultivated in the western United States.
Related terms: Rubus ursinus
youngberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of youngberry
sitooteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sitootery
glosses: plural of sitooterie
specialties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specialities
Senses: glosses: plural of specialty
tanneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tannery
tansies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tansy
synchronicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synchronicity
pourtraict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pourtraicts
Senses: examples: text: […]for beſide the expreſſions of Ovid and Pliny, their Pourtraicts in ſome ancient Coynes are framed in this figure[…].
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Picture of Dolphins”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 5th book, page 235:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of portrait.
repandous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more repandous
form: most repandous
Etymology: From repand + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: though they be drawn repandous, or convexedly crooked in one piece, yet the Dolphin that carrieth Arion is concavously inverted, and hath its spine depressed in another.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 427:
glosses: Bent outwards.
Slavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slav
incurvity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incurvities
Etymology: From Latin incurvus + -ity, from Latin incurvitas.
Senses: examples: text: being the Hieroglyphick of celerity, and swifter than other animals, men best expressed their velocity by incurvity, and under some figure of a bow
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 428:
glosses: The quality of being bent inwards.
cucullated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkjuːkəleɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more cucullated
form: most cucullated
Etymology: From Latin cucullatus, from cucullus (“hood”).
Senses: glosses: Having a hood or cowl; hooded.
examples: text: They are differently cucullated or capuched upon the head and back, and in the Cicada the eyes are more prominent
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 429:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a hood-like covering or component; hood-shaped.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the edges toward the base rolled inward, as the leaf of the commonest American blue violet.
Derived terms: subcucullated
hereditariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hereditary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being hereditary.
Related terms: heritability
testone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: testones
Senses: glosses: An ancient subunit of a Portuguese cruzado.
tifo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tifos
Etymology: From Italian, originally referring to the disease typhus but figuratively extended to refer to the fevered behaviour of football fans.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A form of choreography displayed by supporters on the terraces of an arena or stadium, where they make a large-scale pattern or picture by holding up, or wearing, various materials.
lola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lolas
Etymology: From Tagalog lola.
Senses: glosses: a grandmother
Related terms: lolo
écru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The tussah, or wild silks, remain an écru color.
ref: 1914, William Henry Dooley, chapter XVII, in Textiles for Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools, page 204:
glosses: Alternative form of ecru.
écru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: écrus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecru.
mise en abyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mise en abymes
form: mises en abyme
form: mise-en-abyme
Etymology: From French mise en abyme (literally “placement into abyss”).
Senses: examples: text: The narrative mapping of rhetorical strategies between narrator, characters and readers is supplemented by a network of interior duplication with the device of the mise en abyme.
ref: 1992, Marie Murphy, Authorizing Fictions, page 80:
text: Implicitly, the enunciative mise en abyme reflects an implied author who is attempting to persuade an authorial audience that would identify with the dismayed people.
ref: 1995, Robert L. Brawley, Text to Text Pours Forth Speech: Voices of Scripture in Luke-Acts, page 39:
text: Herman finds that “the opening poems are as marked by 'linguistic difference' and mise en abymes as the poems addressed to the dark lady.”
ref: 1999, James Schiffer, Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: At the risk of some simplification, I understand the mise en abyme to mean a process of representation within representation which points to the mise en abyme of consciousness that produces it, and is engaged with it in the art experience.
ref: 2009, Gregory Minissale, Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives, page 49:
text: These mise en abymes serve to maintain the sacredness of K's self, his otherness in the infinitum, as Lévinas might say.
ref: 2011, Irene Marques, Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity, page 160:
text: And thus, we can perhaps makes some sense of the narratives he reads as mise en abymes of his own desires.
ref: 2011, Jonathan Boulter, Melancholy and the Archive: Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel, page 124:
qualifier: literary theory
glosses: Self-reflection or introspection in a literary or other artistic work; the representation of the whole work embedded in a work.
Related terms: Droste effect
strange loop
guichet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guichets
Etymology: From French guichet.
Senses: examples: text: The door was walled up, his food passed through a guichet above, and a scanty allowance of light admitted through a small, barred window.
ref: 1860, Horace Marryat, A Residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen, page 51:
glosses: A small hatch or grill.
feutre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feutres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fewter.
feutre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feutres
form: feutring
form: feutred
form: feutred
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fewter.
aldeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldeias
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese aldeia.
Senses: examples: text: It is little wonder that the settlers envied the wealth of the Jesuit aldeias, and resented what they saw as the Jesuits’ obstruction of their efforts to procure an adequate supply of labour for their own plantations.
ref: 1992, Edwin Williamson, The Penguin history of Latin America, London; New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 171:
glosses: In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción
dishevelment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dishevel + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: dishevelledness
glosses: The state or quality of being dishevelled.
smearier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smeary: more smeary
smeariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smeary: most smeary
Nabatean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Nabatean
form: most Nabatean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nabataean.
Nabatean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nabateans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nabataean.
Nabatean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Nabataean.
Aufhebung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: German Aufhebung
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of sublation.
synonyms: word: sublation
MOA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of minute of angle.
glosses: Initialism of military operations area.
glosses: Initialism of memorandum of agreement.
glosses: Initialism of mission-oriented approach (NATO AAP-15).
related: word: MoA
glosses: Initialism of mechanism of action.
MOA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of SM Mall of Asia.
pariton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paritons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paradon.
Bradlee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Bradley.
albuginea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: albugineae
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A layer of white, fibrous tissue.
Derived terms: tunica albuginea
base gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base gases
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A gas like ammonia that has basic properties.
oranger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of orange: more orange
Obad.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Obadiah.
Pr. of Man.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Prayer of Manasseh.
Prayer of Manasseh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: Pr. of Man.
glosses: A book of the Apocrypha of the Bible.
Pss.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ps.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Psalms.
retributionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retributionist
columellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of columella
lose face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluːz ˈfeɪs/
Forms: form: loses face
form: losing face
form: lost face
form: lost face
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 丟臉／丢脸 (diūliǎn) or 丟面子／丢面子 (diū miànzi), both literally “lose face”.
Senses: examples: text: "The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
ref: 1942 March, “Notes and News: Monument to a Stillborn Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 88:
text: Ahithophel, Absalom's chief counsel, hanged himself when he lost face after his advice was rejected.
ref: 1986, John Shelby Spong, Beyond Moralism: A Contemporary View of the Ten Commandments, HarperCollins, published 2000, →ISBN:
text: The intelligence sources said the Chinese would not want to lose face. One source said, however: "The show of military muscle has provoked an international reaction and that may be enough face saved."
ref: 1996 March 15, Michael Evans, “China offensive cannot be ruled out, experts say”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 7:
text: When you start to feel unmotivated, you will look for ways to weasel out of your commitments. We all do it. If there's a stealth way to back out, without ever losing face, you will do it without hesitation.
ref: 2011, Mel Robbins, Stop Saying You're Fine: Discover a More Powerful You, Crown Archetype, published 2011, →ISBN, page 221:
text: He had arranged for one of his managers to be present in the office with us, so I should have realised immediately that there was little chance of him backing down since that would have meant losing face in front of a subordinate.
ref: 2012, Sharon Pincott, Battle for the President's Elephants: Life, Lunacy and Elation in the African Bush, Jacana Media, published 2012, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: To lose the respect of others; to be humiliated or experience public disgrace.
Related terms: loss of face
egg on one's face
give face
save face
nabob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbɑb/
ipa: /ˈneɪbɒb/
Forms: form: nabobs
Etymology: In colloquial usage in English since 1612, from a corruption of Hindustani नवाब (navāb) / نواب (navāb, “nawab”), perhaps via Portuguese nababo, from Persian نواب (navâb), from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), the honorific plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”).
Senses: examples: text: They have drained the treasuries of Nabobs, who must fill them by oppressing the industry of their subjects.
ref: 1771, Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, London: Cassell, published 1886, page 151:
synonyms: word: nawab
word: overling
word: provost
word: ruler
glosses: An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.
examples: text: Mr. Glentworth had never quitted Europe, and his wealth was either good English landed property, or equally undeniable English consols; still he was a stranger, very rich, and suddenly come from abroad. Such a man was necessarily a nabob in Mr. Palmer's eyes. India had been the place for making large fortunes in his young days.
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 114:
text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
synonyms: word: mogul
word: tycoon
word: magnate
word: overling
word: provost
word: ruler
glosses: Someone of great wealth or importance.
glosses: A person with a grandiose style or manner.
Derived terms: word: nabobery
word: nabobess
word: nabobhood
word: nabobic
word: nabobical
word: nabobish
word: nabobism
word: nabobship
english: neighborhood in San Francisco
translation: neighborhood in San Francisco
word: Nob Hill
Related terms: Binky Nabob
nawab
burk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːk/
ipa: /bɝk/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k
homophone: berk
homophone: birk
homophone: Bourke
homophone: Burke
homophone: burke
Forms: form: burks
form: burking
form: burked
form: burked
Senses: examples: text: It was nasty, y’all. She just burked all over my sedan.
glosses: To vomit.
Poynting vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Poynting vectors
Etymology: After English physicist John Henry Poynting (1852–1914).
Senses: topics: electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The vector obtained in the direction of a right-hand screw from the cross product (vector product) of the electric field vector rotated into the magnetic field vector of an electromagnetic wave. Note: The Poynting vector, with transmission media parameters and constants, gives the irradiance and direction of propagation of the electromagnetic wave. Mathematically: ⃑P=⃑E×⃑H.
Related terms: Poynting theorem
common multiple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common multiples
Senses: examples: 120 and all its multiples are common multiples of 60, 8 and 15.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A number which may be divided by any of a given set of numbers without a remainder.
Related terms: least common multiple
common divisor
aigre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aigre
form: most aigre
Etymology: Borrowed from French aigre (“sharp, sour”). See eager.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eager (“sour”).
Related terms: vinegar
caracter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caracters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of character.
medicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medicins
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of medicine.
crowdpleaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowdpleasers
form: crowd-pleaser
Etymology: From crowd + pleaser.
Senses: examples: text: Moths and the Flame seems to be the crowdpleaser here, having matinee and evening performances.
ref: 2000, Stuart Oderman, Lillian Gish: a life on stage and screen, page 17:
text: Is Reza’s play, in the end, a modern classic or a modish crowdpleaser?
ref: 2016 December 21, Michael Billington, “Art review – Rufus Sewell shines in finely shaded character study”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Someone or something that is pleasing to the majority of a group.
spherule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sfɪəɹuːl/
ipa: /sfɪɹjuːl/
Forms: form: spherules
form: sphærula
form: sphærule
form: sphaerula
form: sphaerule
form: spherula
Etymology: From Latin sphērula, sphaerula, from sphēra, sphaera (“sphere”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Senses: glosses: A small sphere.
Derived terms: ejecta spherule
spherular
spherulous
sphaerolite
spherolithe
Martian spherule
Related terms: english: in topology
translation: in topology
word: ball
spherulite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sfɪəruːlait/
/sfI@/
/sfɪrjuːlait/
/sfIrulait/
Forms: form: spherulites
Etymology: From spherule + -ite.
Senses: glosses: a minute spherical crystalline body having a radiated structure, observed in some vitreous volcanic rocks, as obsidian and pearlstone.
Derived terms: spherulitic
spherulitized
lah-de-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lah-de-dah
form: most lah-de-dah
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lah-di-dah.
lah-de-dah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lah-di-dah.
in due course
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The kitchen will be painted in due course.
text: The Stage I electrified area has been resignalled throughout with colour-lights, which in due course will be associated with B.R. standard A.W.S., and 27 signalboxes now do the work of the steam age's 56.
ref: 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 713:
text: If something utterly dreadful happens to you, shrug it off, put it down to experience and, in due course, turn it into an anecdote.
ref: 2016 June 9, Caroline Taggart, Her Ladyship's Guide to the Art of Conversation, Batsford Books, →ISBN:
text: March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary
[…] he began to set his sights on some of the most fundamental questions concerning the physical nature of the universe. In due course, he would achieve extraordinary successes against the severest physical disabilities.
synonyms: all in good time
in due time
in good time
when the time comes
time is ripe
glosses: When the time is right; presently; eventually.
fizzog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪz.ɒɡ/
Forms: form: fizzogs
Etymology: From physiognomy.
Senses: examples: text: Thus psychologically broken, they're offered a lifeline: Nicky and Co. offer to shave a decade off their fizzogs courtesy of a haircut, a makeover and a faceload of plastic surgery.
ref: 2005 February 26, Charlie Brooker, The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of phizog (“the face”).
umbilical hernia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umbilical hernias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A hernia at the site of the umbilicus (navel).
morsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morsel
autographing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autograph
autographing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autographings
Senses: examples: text: Thus all readings, like all autographings, should be gladly accepted as a means of spreading your name around.
ref: 2011, Douglas Gibson, Stories about Storytellers, page 369:
glosses: The signing of an autograph.
acetifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of acetify
allegorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of allegorize
allegorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allegorizings
Senses: glosses: The act or process of making an allegory.
aerosolizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aerosolize
affranchising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affranchise
noma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊmə/
Etymology: From New Latin noma from Latin nomē from Ancient Greek νομή (nomḗ, “spreading (of sores)”) from νέμω (némō, “feed, devour, spread (of sores)”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A gangrenous disease of humans leading to tissue destruction of the face, especially the mouth and cheek.
Derived terms: noma neonatorum
noma pudendi
arborising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arborise
assassinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assassinate
assonating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of assonate
azuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of azure
azures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azure
azures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of azure
autopsying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autopsy
aurifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aurify
asphyxiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, asphyxiate + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of asphyxiate
affining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of affine
achromatising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of achromatise
aerifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aerify
adducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adduce
asperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of asperate
allying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ally
alchemising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of alchemise
adducting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adduct
achromatises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of achromatise
assassinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assassinate
apostrophises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apostrophise
abalienates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abalienate
specificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: specificates
form: specificating
form: specificated
form: specificated
Etymology: From specific + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: As it [the inward action of the soul] hath an Operation vvithout the Concurrence of the Body, ſo it is that vvhich doth Specificate all the External Actions, and gives them their true denomination of Good or Evil.
ref: a. 1677 (date written; published 1696), Matthew Hale, “The Knowledge of Christ Crucified. Part II.”, in Contemplations Moral and Divine. The Third Part. […], 2nd edition, London: […] William Shrowsbury, […], published 1700, →OCLC, pages 79–80:
glosses: To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishing particulars of; to specify.
autographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autograph
autographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autograph
anthropomorphizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anthropomorphize
annualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annualise
altercates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of altercate
apostrophizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apostrophize
apostatizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apostatize
annualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of annualize
assonates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assonate
asperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asperate
asphyxiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asphyxiate
adducts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adduct
adducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
A complex mixture of adducts arose from the reaction of isobenzofuran 67 with Smith’s diene (4) as addition occurred nonstereospecifically at both π-centers of 4.
glosses: plural of adduct
adjures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adjure
acknows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acknow
skatt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skatts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scat (“rain shower”).
admonishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of admonish
adolesces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adolesce
immunocompetence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunocompetences
Etymology: From immuno- + competence.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: immunocapability
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: immunocompetency
antonyms: immunocompromise
immunodeficiency
immunosuppression
glosses: The body's capacity to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen; full capability of a healthy immune system.
Related terms: word: immunocompetent
word: immunocompromised
word: immunodeficient
word: immunopotential
word: immunoresponse
word: immunosuppressed
Europeanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Europeanize
hypoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoxic
form: most hypoxic
Etymology: From hypoxia + -ic or hyp- + ox- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease had left her hypoxic and wheezing.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from hypoxia.
examples: text: Rarely, nitrox mixtures are intentionally hypoxic, under special conditions.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Describing a breathing gas mixture that contains less than 21% oxygen.
examples: text: Dead zones are hypoxic areas in the world's oceans and large lakes.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
qualifier: especially bodies of water
glosses: Exhibiting hypoxia.
Coordinate terms: anoxic
dysoxic
hyperoxic
normoxic
Derived terms: hypoxically
nonhypoxic
posthypoxic
pseudohypoxic
Related terms: anoxemic
hyperoxemic
hypoxemic
normoxemic
alchemises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alchemise
alchemizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of alchemize
aerosolizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aerosolize
aerifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aerify
anatomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anatomize
aggroes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aggro
aggroing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aggro
spadefoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spadefoots
form: spadefeet
form: spade-foot
form: spade foot
Etymology: From spade + foot.
Senses: synonyms: spadefoot toad
glosses: Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.
Scaphiopodidae spp. (American spadefoot toads)
synonyms: spadefoot toad
glosses: Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.
Borneophrys (Edwardina's spadefoot toads)
synonyms: spadefoot toad
glosses: Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.
Pelobates (European spadefoot toads)
synonyms: spadefoot toad
glosses: Any member of several groups of burrowing toads, with a spadelike appendage on the hind legs.
Notaden (Australian spadefoots)
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scaphiopus spp.
word: North American spadefoot
taxonomic: Spea spp.
word: western spadefoot
aggroed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aggro
aurifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aurify
affranchises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affranchise
affranchizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of affranchize
allegorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of allegorize
amerces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of amerce
adduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adduce
afears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of afear
neurotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurotrophic
form: most neurotrophic
form: neurotrophical
Etymology: From neuro- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to neurotrophy.
Derived terms: neurotrophical
neurotrophically
Related terms: neurotrophism
neurotrophy
trophic
trophical
trophically
neurotropic
neurotropism
neurotropy
arborises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arborise
assruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of assrun
ambuscades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ambuscade
ambuscades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambuscade
arborizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arborize
neurotrophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + -trophy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The nutrition and metabolism of tissues regulated by nerves
Related terms: neurotrophically
neurotrophism
about-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of about-face
about-faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of about-face
archaizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of archaize
antiquates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antiquate
aphorises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aphorise
aphorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of aphorize
acquits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈkwɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of acquit
adempts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adempt
adenylates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adenylate
abscesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abscess
abscesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of abscess
selenoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenoproteins
Etymology: From seleno- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many proteins that include a selenocysteine or selenomethionine residue.
ad-libs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad-lib
adversely possesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adversely possess
air ships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air ship
selenocysteine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: selenocysteines
Etymology: From seleno- + cysteine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A naturally-occurring amino acid, present in several enzymes, whose structure is that of cysteine but with the sulfur atom replaced by one of selenium
Related terms: selenoprotein
air-drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air-drop
air-drops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air-drop
air-conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of air-condition
aneles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anele
Muslimized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Muslimize
demasculinization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + masculinization.
Senses: glosses: The removal of the testicles
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The suppression of a male-orientated function by repressing male hormones
Mirandized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mirandize
acidified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acidify
aerified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aerify
aerified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aerified
form: most aerified
Senses: glosses: converted into gas
glosses: infused with air; aerated
Derived terms: unaerified
adjured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adjure
adducted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adduct
cavity quantum electrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: word: cavity QED
glosses: The coupled interaction between matter and an electromagnetic field within a resonating structure
about-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of about-face
affranchised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affranchise
adempted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adempt
abalienated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abalienate
electrodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + dynamics.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.
ref: 2012 January 24, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013, page 86:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The phenomena associated with moving electric charges, and their interaction with electric and magnetic fields; the study of these phenomena.
Derived terms: pyroelectrodynamics
quantum electrodynamics
altercated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of altercate
alchemised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of alchemise
adenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adenylate
adenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by adenylation
Derived terms: hyperadenylated
monoadenylated
nonadenylated
preadenylated
unadenylated
allegorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of allegorize
annihilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of annihilate
annihilated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annihilated
form: most annihilated
Senses: glosses: Having been utterly destroyed.
examples: text: On the second night, my friend Lori came over and we got annihilated on booze.
ref: 2008, Mia Tyler, Creating Myself, page 94:
glosses: Extremely drunk or intoxicated; wasted.
Derived terms: unannihilated
amerced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of amerce
apostatized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apostatize
hygrosensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hygro- + sensation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ability of some animals to detect variation in humidity
Related terms: hygrosensory
apostrophised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apostrophise
apostrophized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apostrophize
nucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the nucleolus
Derived terms: antinucleolar
extranucleolar
intranucleolar
mononucleolar
multinucleolar
perinucleolar
polynucleolar
prenucleolar
subnucleolar
anthropomorphized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anthropomorphize
cold cock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold cocks
form: coldcock
form: cold-cock
Senses: examples: text: I had my hand on the lead cold cock and I knew it would not be enough. "Give this man a beer, Sport," […]. I hit him on the temple with the cold cock.
ref: 1993, The Journal of Irish Literature, page 14:
glosses: A small heavy object used to give additional force to a punch or other blow of the hand.
cold cock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold cocks
form: cold cocking
form: cold cocked
form: cold cocked
form: coldcock
form: cold-cock
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cold-cock.
arborised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arborise
arborizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arborize
arborized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arborize
affined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of affine
aphorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aphorize
aphorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aphorize
aphorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aphorise
aphorising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aphorise
archaizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of archaize
archaized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of archaize
ashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æʃt/
rhymes: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ash
assonated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of assonate
asphyxiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asphyxiate
asperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of asperate
acetified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of acetify
anatomized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anatomize
autographed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: autograft
Etymology: From autograph + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: An autographed photo of baseball player “Shoeless Joe Jackson” has sold for a record $1.47 million at auction, according to auction house Christies.
ref: 2021 October 10, Susannah Cullinane, “‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson signed baseball photo sells for record price at auction”, in CNN:
glosses: Bearing an autograph.
Derived terms: unautographed
autographed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: autograft
Etymology: From autograph + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autograph
adolesced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adolesce
Mediterraneanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mediterraneanize
Mediterraneanised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mediterraneanise
autopsied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autopsy
aurified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of aurify
backpedals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backpedal
backpedaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backpedalling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backpedal
backpedaling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backpedalings
form: backpedalling
Senses: examples: text: Despite the swift backpedalling of the university, the original notice given to stall operators is suggestive of the potential existence of ‘a growing English-speaking elite’ that is ‘happy to maintain the importance of the English language’.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:
glosses: The act of distancing oneself from a previously supported idea, action, behaviour, etc.; a U-turn or flip-flop.
backpedaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backpedalled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backpedal
backreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backread
backreading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backread
barbarizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barbarize
barhops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of barhop
bedizens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedisens
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bedizen
bedizening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdaɪzənɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈdaɪznɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈdaɪzənɪŋ/
ipa: /-ˈdɪ-/
Forms: form: bedizenings
Etymology: From bedizen + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The oratory closed, the dormitory became the scene of ablutions, arrayings and bedizenings curiously elaborate. To me it was, and ever must be an enigma, how they contrived to spend so much time in doing so little.
ref: 1853 January, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Fête”, in Villette. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 255:
glosses: gerund of bedizen: an act of dressing or ornamenting someone or something, especially in a gaudy, showy, or tasteless manner.
bedizening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈdaɪzənɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈdaɪznɪŋ/
ipa: /bɪˈdaɪzənɪŋ/
ipa: /-ˈdɪ-/
Etymology: From bedizen + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bedizen