cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
maintainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maintainable
form: most maintainable
Etymology: From maintain + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be maintained
Derived terms: maintainableness
nonmaintainable
unmaintainable
maladjustment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maladjustments
Etymology: From mal- + adjustment.
Senses: glosses: A poor or faulty adjustment, especially of a mechanism.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The inability to adapt oneself to the needs of others, or to the stresses of normal life.
maladroitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maləˈdɹɔɪtnəs/
Forms: form: maladroitnesses
Etymology: From maladroit + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The king sacked d'Argenson for maladroitness, but seemed to share some of his views [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 137:
glosses: The condition of being maladroit.
malefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malefactions
Etymology: From Latin malefaciō.
Senses: examples: text: They have proclaim'd their malefactions.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: August 3, 2019, Sid Schwab, Russian meddlers, with help from friends, still at it on heraldnet.com
Displaying more bipartisanship, a day after Robert Mueller’s testimony, in which it appeared what he learned has blown his mind, but during which Trump’s malefactions were made clear, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report on Russian election interference; those virtual acts of war Trump has called fake news.
glosses: A crime, an offense, an evil deed.
maleficence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɛfɪsəns/
Forms: form: maleficences
Etymology: From Italian maleficenza or Middle French maleficence or directly from Latin maleficentia.
Senses: glosses: harmfulness or mischief.
Derived terms: nonmaleficence
Related terms: feasance
malefactor
maleficent
malfeasance
malfeasant
misfeasance
nonfeasance
maleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malenesses
Etymology: From male + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They had always lived over the pub with its buzz of voices. Bar talk. When she was fifteen she had come home one night from the school concert just about closing time. Men were coming out on to the street and she could hear her father's voice calling time. She had heard this scene every night from upstairs and been afraid of it - the loud voices, the shouting, the maleness of it.
ref: 1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Chapter 1, at page 11 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
glosses: The characteristic, state or condition of being male.
Synonyms: masculineness
masculinity
Coordinate terms: femaleness
maliciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maliciousnesses
Etymology: From Middle English maliciousnes; equivalent to malicious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The maliciousness of this gossip is directly proportional to the distance from the casket and the bereaved.
ref: 2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 252:
glosses: The condition of being malicious; malevolence or malice.
malocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmæləˈkluːʒən/
rhymes: -uːʒən
Forms: form: malocclusions
Etymology: First attested in 1888. Formed as mal- (“wrong”, “improper(ly)”: ultimately from the Classical Latin male, “badly”, “wrongly”; from malus, “bad”; compare the ben- element in benocclusion) + occlusion (“alignment of the teeth in closed jaws”).
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
antonyms: benocclusion
glosses: A misalignment of the upper and lower sets of teeth.
Related terms: malocclude
crossbite
overbite
retrognathism
underbite
maltreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /malˈtɹiːtmənt/
ipa: /malˈtɹit.mɛnt/
Forms: form: maltreatments
Etymology: From maltreat + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Cruel or harmful treatment or abuse; mistreatment.
malty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: maltier
form: maltiest
Etymology: From malt + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, containing, or characteristic of malt
Derived terms: maltiness
manana
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mañana.
maned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪnd/
rhymes: -eɪnd
homophone: mained
Etymology: From mane + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a (specified form of) mane.
Derived terms: hog-maned
maned duck
maned fox
maned goose
maned rat
maned seal
maned sheep
maned wolf
unmaned
manege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maneges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of manège.
manège
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manèges
Etymology: From French manège; cognate with French manier. Doublet of manage.
Senses: glosses: The art of training and riding horses; dressage.
glosses: A riding school.
glosses: A riding arena (enclosed, but usually unroofed area, in contradistinction to a riding hall).
glosses: The movements of a trained horse.
qualifier: ballet
glosses: A series of steps performed in a circular pattern around the stage.
manège
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manèges
form: manèging
form: manèged
form: manèged
Etymology: From French manège; cognate with French manier. Doublet of manage.
Senses: glosses: To train (a horse).
Related terms: dressage
Aluredian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aluredians
Etymology: The name is derived from Alfred the Great, the alleged founder of the school.
Senses: glosses: A pupil or a former pupil of King's College, Taunton.
Aluredian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aluredian
form: most Aluredian
Etymology: The name is derived from Alfred the Great, the alleged founder of the school.
Senses: examples: The Aluredian legend
glosses: Pertaining to Alfred the Great.
maneuverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnuːvəɹəbəl/
ipa: /məˈnuːvɹəbəl/
Forms: form: more maneuverable
form: most maneuverable
form: maneuvrable
form: manoeuverable
form: manœuverable
form: manoeuvrable
form: manœuvrable
Etymology: From maneuver + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be maneuvered
Derived terms: supermaneuverable
unmaneuverable
manginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mangy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being mangy
calorigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more calorigenic
form: most calorigenic
Senses: glosses: That produces heat, especially by the metabolism of food.
Related terms: caloric
mannishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mannish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1903, Mabel Atkinson, Review of Lily Braun, Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche Seite in American Journal of Sociology, 1 March, 1903, p. 703,
She thinks also that when once the first ardor of revolution, with its inevitable tendency to mannishness, has passed by, women who work need lose none of their proper grace and charm—a view which is certainly borne out by facts.
text: I hate women in stiff collars and shirts and ties and mannishness like that […]
ref: 1922, A. S. M. Hutchinson, This Freedom, Part Two, Chapter 2:
text: There was a certain thickness to her movement and appearance, a rough mannishness, despite the large breasts which she tried to flatten beneath a harness-like bra, stolen from an older sister's dresser.
ref: 1999, Debra Spark, “Chocolate Mice”, in New England Review, volume 20, number 4, page 123:
glosses: The condition of being mannish; manliness or masculinity.
examples: text: Chinta came straight up to him and said, with the mannishness she put on when Mrs Tulsi was away, ‘Brother-in-law, I want you to know that until you came to this house there were no crab-catchers here.’
ref: 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part One, Chapter 5:
glosses: Impertinence; precociousness.
forward reasoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In artificial intelligence, modus ponens.
glace de viande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A stock of meat reduced to a glaze. Used in culinary for sauce making.
videomicrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From video- + micrography.
Senses: examples: text: High speed videomicrography has been used to simultaneously assess both the motility and morphology of sperm from fertile and infertile men.
ref: 1984. United States Congress. House. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, page 482
text: Another early video work, Crystal (1982), features videomicrography of actual crystal growth mapped to the changing melodic and harmonic motion of the layered and continuously playing electroacoustic soundtrack.
ref: 2006. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner. Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States: Crossing the Line, page 239
topics: art
arts
sciences
glosses: The art and science of making videos of microscopic objects, by the use of a microscope.
Related terms: videomicrograph
videomicrographic
scroll wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scroll wheels
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse, used for scrolling.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cog wheel in the form of a scroll.
Synonyms: sense: part of computer mouse
word: mouse wheel
squadrista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɒˈdɹɪstə/
ipa: /skwɒˈdɹiːstə/
Forms: form: squadristi
Etymology: From Italian squadrista.
Senses: glosses: A member of an Italian fascist squad.
pacifico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pacificos
Etymology: Spanish
Senses: examples: Harper's Weekly
While we were going through the woods one of the pacificos pointed to a new grave.
glosses: A peaceful native in Cuba or the Philippines who did not oppose Spanish colonization.
Pacifico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Marcos, Ilocos Norte, Philippines.
WIA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: W.I.A.
form: W. I. A.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Image Acquisition.
WIA
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: W.I.A.
form: W. I. A.
Senses: topics: fiction
government
literature
media
military
politics
publishing
war
glosses: Initialism of wounded in action.
Coordinate terms: sense: wounded in action
english: killed in action
translation: killed in action
word: KIA
sense: wounded in action
english: missing in action
translation: missing in action
word: MIA
sense: wounded in action
english: lost in action
translation: lost in action
word: LIA
sight triangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sight triangles
Senses: glosses: A triangle at an intersection, formed by the two roads or rights-of-way and a third line, which must be kept clear of obstructions such as hedges so that people in one road can see cars approaching on the other.
deleverage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deleverages
form: deleveraging
form: deleveraged
form: deleveraged
Etymology: From de- + leverage.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: To reduce debt by rapidly selling assets.
RHB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RHBs
form: rhb
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of right-handed batsman.
Related terms: english: left-handed batsman
translation: left-handed batsman
word: LHB
rhb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhbs
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of RHB.
Related terms: english: left-handed batsman
translation: left-handed batsman
word: lhb
lhb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lhbs
form: LHB
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Alternative form of LHB.
Related terms: english: right-handed batsman
translation: right-handed batsman
word: rhb
reapportion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reapportions
form: reapportioning
form: reapportioned
form: reapportioned
Etymology: c 1830 re- + apportion
Senses: examples: text: The court intervened to reapportion the voting districts that had been unfairly laid out under the controlling party's regime.
glosses: To apportion again; to redistribute or reallocate.
LHB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LHBs
form: lhb
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of left-handed batsman.
Coordinate terms: english: right-handed batsman
translation: right-handed batsman
word: RHB
LHB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: lhb
Senses: qualifier: Solar System astronomy
glosses: Initialism of Late Heavy Bombardment.
qualifier: Milky Way astronomy
glosses: Initialism of Local Hot Bubble.
reapportions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reapportion
reapportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reapportion
reapportioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reapportion
apportions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of apportion
apportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apportion
apportioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apportionings
Senses: glosses: apportionment
recondition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconditions
form: reconditioning
form: reconditioned
form: reconditioned
Etymology: From re- + condition.
Senses: examples: text: When reconditioning antique furniture, it is important to try to preserve as much of the original finish as possible.
glosses: To restore to a functional state, or to a condition resembling the original.
Synonyms: sense: restore to functional or near original state
word: fix
sense: restore to functional or near original state
word: rebuild
sense: restore to functional or near original state
word: refurbish
sense: restore to functional or near original state
word: renovate
sense: restore to functional or near original state
word: repair
sense: restore to functional or near original state
word: restore
Derived terms: reconditioner
reconditions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recondition
imines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imine
reconditioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recondition
reconditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recondition
reconditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: A reconditioned machine
glosses: Which has been reconditioned
Synonyms: reassembled
rebuilt
reconstructed
remanufactured
Coordinate terms: core charge
core exchange
aldaric acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldaric acid
enamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enamine
secondary amines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of secondary amine
primary amines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary amine
deleverages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deleverage
deleveraging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deleverage
deleveraging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deleveragings
Senses: examples: text: In October, 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, he circulated a twenty-page essay immodestly titled “A Template for Understanding What’s Going On,” which said the economy faced not just a common recession but a “deleveraging”—a period in which people cut back on borrowing and rebuild their savings—the impact of which would be felt for a generation.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
text: Because it had studied the nature of deleveragings or depressions, the team knew that deleveragings occur when interest rates go to zero and there's an excessive amount of debt.
ref: 2012, Maneet Ahuja, The Alpha Masters, page 14:
glosses: The process of something being deleveraged.
deleveraged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deleverage
tertiary amines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tertiary amine
neuropsychopharmacology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + psychopharmacology.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The clinical and scientific study of the physiological and psychological properties of agents acting within the central nervous system.
MOF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MOFs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of metal-organic framework.
metal-organic framework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metal-organic frameworks
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: MOF
glosses: Any of several highly porous, crystalline substances having a cage structure of metal ions coordinated to organic compounds; they have an application in the bulk storage of gases such as hydrogen
recruiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈkɹutəɹ/
Forms: form: recruiters
Etymology: From recruit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The army recruiter promised that I'd see the world and learn useful skills if I enlisted.
text: BBV expects to be one of the biggest recruiters in the region over the next two years.
ref: 2021 June 2, “Network News: Local provider to train new recruits”, in RAIL, number 932, page 19:
glosses: Agent noun of recruit; one who recruits, particularly one employed to recruit others.
Synonyms: sense: one employed to recruit others
word: agent
sense: one employed to recruit others
word: headhunter
sense: one employed to recruit others
word: scout
Derived terms: e-recruiter
recruiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recruiter
Schrödinger's kitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schrödinger's kittens
form: Schrödinger kitten
form: Schrodinger's kitten
form: Schrodinger kitten
form: Schroedinger's kitten
form: Schroedinger kitten
Etymology: From Schrödinger's cat plus the notion of diminutiveness.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several experiments that show the paradoxical effects of quantum mechanics on a small scale, especially one that shows an atom to be in two places at the same time.
glassformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassformers
Etymology: From glass + former.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any substance whose liquid state fails to crystallize upon cooling, but forms a glass.
dumb bunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumb bunnies
Senses: examples: text: And one day he pulls me out of the tenth grade to go work with him in the same shop, cutting patterns! Ao I can make some gelt! (Angry) From the tenth grade! No wonder I'm such a dumb bunny! While my brother Jules is finishing college, ready to become a chiropodist!
ref: 1998, Frawley Becker, 411 Joseph: A Play in Two Acts, →ISBN:
text: Grayce had a nursing instructor who “labeled” students and grouped them in unflattering ways. Grayce was put in the “dumb bunny” category.
ref: 2007, Beth Houser, Kathy Player, Pivotal Moments in Nursing, →ISBN, page 107:
text: His tone was dismissive. As if, Bunnatine, you dumb bunny.
ref: 2015, Kelly Link, Get In Trouble: Stories, →ISBN, page 159:
glosses: A stupid person.
morula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːɹələ/
Forms: form: morulas
form: morulae
Etymology: From diminutive of Latin morum (“mulberry”).
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A spherical mass of blastomeres that forms following the splitting of a zygote; it becomes the blastula
Derived terms: morula cell
morular
morulation
sperm morula
Related terms: moruloid
throw to the wolves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws to the wolves
form: throwing to the wolves
form: threw to the wolves
form: thrown to the wolves
Senses: glosses: To sacrifice someone, especially in an attempt to save oneself.
glosses: To remove or cast out someone or something out of one's protection, such as onto the streets, especially towards predators.
Synonyms: throw to the dogs
throw to the lions
close the stable door after the horse has bolted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes the stable door after the horse has bolted
form: closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
form: closed the stable door after the horse had bolted
form: closed the stable door after the horse had bolted
Senses: examples: text: We are now in an election period, with WhatsApp and closed Facebook groups being used, as we speak, in electoral campaigning, but the law has not changed since the DCMS Committee, on which I serve, raised these issues. We have yet another instance of shutting the door after the horse has bolted.
ref: 2019 May 15, Ian C. Lucas, “WhatsApp Data Breach”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 242:
glosses: To attempt to prevent a problem that has already occurred; to design and implement a preventive mechanism that is too late (after the first failure instead of before).
Synonyms: close the barn door after the horse has bolted
close the stable door after the horse has been stolen
lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
Related terms: barn door
horsebarn
late in the day
that ship has sailed
too little, too late
Scarborough warning
sell past the close
incoincident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incoincident
form: most incoincident
Etymology: From in- + coincident.
Senses: glosses: Not coincident or coinciding
Related terms: incoincidence
regrowth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regrowths
Etymology: From re- + growth.
Senses: examples: text: After the forest fire, much of the regrowth consisted of invasive non-native plant species.
glosses: That which has been regrown after removal.
examples: text: The eventual regrowth of the forest to its primeval state will take centuries, if not millennia.
glosses: The process of regrowing.
remap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: remaps
form: remapping
form: remapped
form: remapped
Etymology: From re- + map.
Senses: examples: text: He remapped the variable in the code to hold the value directly, instead of a pointer to the value.
glosses: To assign differently; to relabel or repurpose.
examples: text: Because the topography and development of the land changed so much in the floods, the region had to be remapped.
glosses: To map again.
Related terms: demap
remaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remap
remapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remap
remapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remappings
Senses: examples: text: A few other key remappings occur when you use the United Kingdom country...
ref: 1993, Allen Wyatt, W Edward Tiley, Jon Paisley, Using MS-DOS 6.2:
glosses: A new mapping.
remapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remap
degustation menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degustation menus
form: dégustation menu
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tasting menu.
synonyms: word: tasting menu
degustation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: degustations
form: dégustation
Etymology: Borrowed from French dégustation, from Latin degustatio, degustationem, from degusto.
Senses: glosses: tasting, especially as a form of careful appreciation
Derived terms: degustation menu
Related terms: degustate
fasci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fascio
squadristi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squadrista
jauntiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jaunty: most jaunty
stock phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stock phrases
Senses: examples: text: Bart Simpson's stock phrase "I didn't do it" was once lampooned on the show itself.
glosses: A phrase frequently or habitually used by a person or group, and thus associated with them.
glosses: A cliché.
Related terms: catchphrase
retarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retarder
revaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revaluations
Etymology: From re- + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: After the new party took power, the government declared a revaluation of the currency in an attempt to limit runaway inflation.
glosses: The process of altering the relative value of a currency or other standard of exchange.
examples: text: After the soldiers raided her farm for supplies, she was forced to a revaluation of their benefit as protectors.
text: It is, then, for the sake of the “higher” man that the values of Christian morality must be abandoned, and it is from this perspective that the revaluation of values takes place.
ref: 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values”, in Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York, editors, Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 162:
text: The conclusion of this discussion must be that Nietzsche’s “revaluation of values” is a most complex matter, and there is no single answer to the question as to what he was attacking or as to what the basis might be for the attack.
ref: ibidem, page 167
glosses: A reassessment of the value or worth of something; a reappraisal or reevaluation.
qualifier: pensions
glosses: The application of compound growth to the value of a pension benefit, specifically from the date of the member leaving the scheme (for example, moving to a different employer) to the date that the member starts receiving the benefit (typically retirement).
Related terms: transvaluation
revaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revaluation
rifleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riflemen
head_nr: 2
Etymology: From rifle + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The riflemen had not been issued their weapons yet, and hence they trained with wooden mock-up rifles.
text: Anil Gurung joined the Army in 2006 as a rifleman with the 2nd Royal Gurkha Regiment.
ref: 2020 May 6, Paul Stephen, “Britain's bravest thinks big”, in Rail, page 62:
head_nr: 2
glosses: A soldier trained to use a rifle as a primary weapon.
examples: text: She was quite the rifleman and could pick off a squirrels with a .22 from across the field with amazing accuracy.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A person especially skilled in the use of a rifle.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A small wrenlike insectivorous passerine bird endemic to New Zealand, Acanthisitta chloris, the titipounamu.
Related terms: infantry
musketeer
ringlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ringlike
form: most ringlike
Etymology: From ring + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The worm had a number of ringlike bands around its body.
glosses: Like a ring; round or nearly so.
rioter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪətə/
ipa: /ˈɹaɪətɚ/
Forms: form: rioters
form: riotor
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English riotour, from Old French rioteor; equivalent to riot + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The rioters had erected a makeshift barricade and were pelting the police with rocks from behind it.
text: The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month.
ref: 2015 April 28, Ben Brumfield, “Baltimore riots: A few people tried to stop the unrest”, in CNN:
text: High-profile January 6 rioter Guy Reffitt showed up in Washington, DC, on Wednesday to celebrate with his wife and supporters who’d been hoping for his release from federal detention for months.
ref: 2025 January 24, Katelyn Polantz and Holmes Lybrand, “Exclusive: January 6 rioter freed after Trump’s pardon — but authorities say he should still be in jail”, in CNN:
glosses: One who riots; part of the unruly violent crowd causing a riot.
rioters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rioter
elote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˈləʊteɪ/
ipa: /ɛˈloʊˌteɪ/
Forms: form: elotes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish elote (“fresh ear of corn”).
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: Corn (maize) harvested before reaching full maturity.
examples: text: I love elotes, esquites and arepas. I really love it in ice cream and pudding; if you haven't had these delicacies, do it now.
ref: 2023 August 22, Emily Weinstein, “Grilled to a Char, Creamed With Coconut, Livened With Lime and Piled on Pasta”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2023:
glosses: A street food dish originating in Central America, but now also popular in the United States, consisting of corn on the cob which is grilled or boiled and served on a stick, typically with toppings such as cheese, chili powder, mayonnaise, and lime juice.
riveter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riveters
Etymology: From rivet + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Rosie the Riveter is an iconic piece of American WWII propaganda.
text: Ev'ry one stops to admire the scene / Rosie at work on the B-19 / She's never twittery / nervous or jittery / Rosie the riveter
ref: 1942, Redd Evans, John Jacob Loeb, “Rosie the Riveter”:
glosses: A person whose job is to rivet.
examples: text: The beam couldn't support the weight of the riveter, so the workers were riveting by hand.
synonyms: rivet gun
antonyms: de-riveter
glosses: A machine or tool used to apply rivets.
riveters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riveter
riderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rider + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] the spectacle of Rob the Grinder returning down the street, leading the riderless horse, appeared to have some extraneous interest […]
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 46”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Without or deprived of a rider.
respirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respirators
Etymology: From respirate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A device to assist breathing.
examples: text: Any N95 respirator is designed to filter out 95 percent of particles 0.3 microns or larger.
text: The painters in the paint booth were wearing the kind of respirators with dual filter canisters.
text: Similarly, a few studies have suggested that high-quality respirators can trap 95 percent of nanoparticles. But "whether 95 percent efficiency is good enough or not is still open to discussion," said Hung Min Chein of the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Chutung, Taiwan, who is studying the issue.
ref: 2006 April 8, Rick Weiss, “Nanotech Raises Worker-Safety Questions”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2022:
text: A national hive mind has come to life on an open source Facebook group where hundreds of strangers trade tips on making respirator masks with baby wipes and paper towels, […]
ref: 2020 March 30, Andrew Jacobs, Rachel Abrams, “Hive Mind of Makers Rises to Meet Pandemic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A device to assist breathing.
A facemask with integrated filter(s) to keep out harmful dusts, fumes, and mists.
hypernyms: personal protective equipment
PPE
qualifier: especially occupational safety and health
Derived terms: Both respirator
responaut
Related terms: irrespirable
respiration
respiratory
respire
respirators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of respirator
reseed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reseeds
form: reseeding
form: reseeded
form: reseeded
Etymology: From re- + seed.
Senses: examples: text: When the birds ate the seeds he had planted, the farmer was forced to reseed the field.
synonyms: resow
hypernyms: replant
glosses: To sow seeds again; to apply seed to (a plot of land) again.
examples: text: The marigolds had reseeded themselves in the flower box, so he didn't have to buy new ones this year.
glosses: Of a non-perennial plant, to produce seeds to ensure the following generation without human intervention; to self-sow.
examples: text: The game reseeded its random number algorithm with a time-based value each time the game was restarted.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To reset the input of an algorithm so as to ensure different results.
reseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reseed
reseeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reseed
reseeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reseed
self-government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + government.
Senses: examples: text: The radical party agitated for the region to secede from the confederation and establish self-government.
glosses: The governance of a region by its own populace; autonomy.
glosses: Personal self-control.
Synonyms: word: self-governance
sense: political
word: self-rule
incommensurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnkəˈmɛnʃ(ə)ɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪnkəˈmɛnsjʊəɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪn.kəˈmɛnt͡ʃ.ɹə.bəl/
ipa: /ɪn.kəˈmɛn(t).sə.ɹə.bəl/
Forms: form: more incommensurable
form: most incommensurable
Etymology: From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis.
Its full etymology is equivalent to that of in- + commensurable.
Senses: examples: text: The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
raw_tags: of two real numbers
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: having no common integer divisor except 1.
raw_tags: of two integers
glosses: Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
Derived terms: incommensurability
incommensurableness
incommensurably
Related terms: coprime
incommensurate
relatively prime
incommensurable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnkəˈmɛnʃ(ə)ɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪnkəˈmɛnsjʊəɹəbəl/
ipa: /ɪn.kəˈmɛnt͡ʃ.ɹə.bəl/
ipa: /ɪn.kəˈmɛn(t).sə.ɹə.bəl/
Forms: form: incommensurables
Etymology: From Middle French incommensurable, from Medieval Latin incommensurabilis.
Its full etymology is equivalent to that of in- + commensurable.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately for Pythagoras, his theorem led at once to the discovery of incommensurables, which appeared to disprove his whole philosophy.
ref: 1946, Bertrand Russell, chapter 3, in History of Western Philosophy:
glosses: An incommensurable value or quantity; an irrational number.
ungentlemanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungentlemanly
form: most ungentlemanly
Etymology: From un- + gentlemanly.
Senses: examples: text: My grandmother thought it was ungentlemanly of my boyfriend to suggest that we split the bill for dinner.
glosses: Not gentlemanly; not adhering to the high moral standards expected of a gentleman; impolite, unchivalrous, or indecent.
Related terms: ungentleman
ungentlemanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungentlemanly
form: most ungentlemanly
Etymology: From un- + gentlemanly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner not befitting a gentleman.
Related terms: ungentleman
unladylike
unhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: unhorses
form: unhorsing
form: unhorsed
form: unhorsed
Etymology: From Middle English unhorsen, equivalent to un- + horse.
Senses: examples: text: The knight was unhorsed when his opponent's lance struck his shield.
glosses: To forcibly remove from a horse.
examples: text: The incumbent governor was unhorsed by the scandal that broke during his reelection campaign.
glosses: To disrupt or unseat; to remove from a position.
unhorses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhorse
unhorsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhorse
unhorsing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhorsings
Senses: glosses: The forcible removal from a horse
unhorsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unhorse
unstop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstops
form: unstopping
form: unstopped
form: unstopped
Etymology: From Middle English unstoppen, equivalent to un- + stop. Cognate with Dutch ontstoppen, German entstopfen.
Senses: examples: text: I was able to unstop the clogged toilet by using a plunger.
glosses: To remove a stoppage; to clear a blockage.
examples: text: I unstopped a bottle of wine to celebrate.
glosses: To unplug or uncork a container.
glosses: To draw out the stops of (an organ).
unstops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstop
unstopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstop
unstopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstop
unstopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not having been stopped.
unshackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unshackles
form: unshackling
form: unshackled
form: unshackled
Etymology: From un- + shackle.
Senses: examples: text: The captain ordered that the guards unshackle and release the prisoner, as he had served his sentence.
text: The sooner the railway can unshackle itself from DfT the better.
ref: 2022 September 7, Philip Haigh, “Wireless coverage leaves us hanging on our telephones”, in RAIL, number 965, page 43:
glosses: To remove shackles from someone or something.
examples: 1818, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, On Poesy or Art
Painting was, as it were, a new art, and being unshackled by old models it chose its own subjects, and took an eagle’s flight.
glosses: To remove restrictions or inhibitions; to allow full freedom and power.
Synonyms: sense: to remove shackles
word: unchain
unshackles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unshackle
unshackling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unshackle
enraptured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enrapture
enraptured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enraptured
form: most enraptured
Senses: glosses: Marked by fondness; filled with delight
Synonyms: rapt
entranced
spellbound
stoked
rapturous
raptured
ravished
enrapt
rapturously
bowled over
carried away
sent
rapt away
Derived terms: unenraptured
unshackled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unshackle
unshackled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: shackleless, unfettered, fetterless; unmanacled, unhandcuffed
glosses: Not shackled.
Mata Hari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mata Haris
Etymology: From Dutch (stage name of Margaretha Geertruida (Grietje) Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed by firing squad for alleged espionage during World War I), from Indonesian matahari (“sun”), from Malay matahari (“sun”).
Senses: glosses: Any exotic female spy.
Related terms: mata-mata
femme fatale
lapsus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæpsəs/
Forms: form: lapsus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lāpsus. Doublet of lapse.
Senses: synonyms: word: aberration
word: barbarism
word: bloomer
word: blooper
word: blunder
word: boner
word: boo-boo
word: break
word: clanger
word: cock-up
word: error
word: fault
word: faux pas
word: floater
word: flub
word: fluff
word: fuckup
word: gaffe
word: goof
word: howler
word: inaccuracy
word: lapse
word: lapsus
word: mess-up
word: misstep
word: mistake
word: oopsy
word: screwup
word: slip
word: slip-up
word: slipup
word: stumble
word: thinko
word: wrength
word: solecism
word: erroneity
glosses: A slip, lapse, or error.
Related terms: lapsi
lapsus auris
lapsus calami
lapsus digiti
lapsus digitorum
lapsus linguae
lapsus memoriae
lapsus muris
lapsus oculi
lapsus plumae
flight level
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flight levels
Senses: glosses: Any of several internationally agreed standard altitudes that are based on atmospheric pressure rather than on true height
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a pressure altitude measured in terms of hundreds of feet above sea level (ie. flight level 120 (FL120) is 12,000 ft. ASL)
Derived terms: FL
beefwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beefwoods
Etymology: From beef + wood.
Senses: glosses: Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.
glosses: Timber of those trees.
Synonyms: belah
Hyponyms: sense: beefwood tree
word: Barringtonia calyptrata
sense: beefwood tree
word: Barringtonia racemosa
sense: beefwood tree
english: bishop wood
translation: bishop wood
word: Bischofia javanica
sense: beefwood tree
word: Grevillea parallela
sense: beefwood tree
word: Grevillea striata
sense: beefwood tree
word: Orites excelsa
sense: beefwood tree
word: Stenocarpus salignus
sense: beefwood tree
word: Stenocarpus sinuatus
Derived terms: taxonomic: Barringtonia racemosa
word: cornbeefwood
taxonomic: Stenocarpus salignus
word: Killarney beefwood
taxonomic: Grevillea parallela
word: narrow-leaved beefwood
taxonomic: Stenocarpus salignus
word: scrub beefwood
taxonomic: Grevillea striata
word: western beefwood
taxonomic: Stenocarpus sinuatus
word: white beefwood
simmerstat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simmerstats
Etymology: From simmer + -stat, modelled on thermostat.
Senses: glosses: An electrical control device that turns a heating element such as a stove, hotplate or grill on and off in a user-selectable duty cycle: for example, five of every 20 seconds.
tunnelball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tunnel + ball.
Senses: examples: text: 1994, Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, Chopper 4: For the Term of His Unnatural Life, 2012, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page,
They run the sports for ten days. This includes weightlifting, football, tennis, table tennis, cards, scrabble, chess, draughts, darts, quoits, volleyball, baseball, frisbee tossing, tunnelball, scramble ball, the piggyback race, the egg and spoon race, target handball, the spit the dummy contest, […] .
text: I went along to my children′s sports day and found myself cheering madly at the tunnelball games and when they played Chariots of Fire over the running races – it was all I could do not to get up and break the record for the four minute mile myself.
ref: 2006, Sonia Neale, Bad Mother′s Revenge, HarperCollins Australia, unnumbered page:
topics: games
glosses: A children's game in which players stand in line with their feet apart, making a tunnel with their legs, down which the lead player propels a ball back to the last player, who runs with it to the front of the line and repeats; played competitively between teams for speed, or by a single team for recreation or exercise.
run into the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs into the ground
form: running into the ground
form: ran into the ground
form: run into the ground
Senses: examples: text: Although he has an MBA from Harvard, he still ran the company into the ground.
text: Even though that was a good joke, you really did run it into the ground.
text: […]one could assume that he has some master plan or that he’s making strategic decisions about the scope, scale, design and functionality of the service. He is not. He has not. He is running Twitter into the ground like Donald Trump ran the US government—fueled by fits of indignation and paranoia.
ref: 2023 July 5, Siva Vaidhyanathan, “Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: drive into the ground
glosses: To mismanage to the point of ruin.
examples: text: I figure this car has a few more years left in it and I intend to run it into the ground before purchasing another.
text: City sent on Adam Johnson for the ineffective Jo and the Englishman at least gave notice that he wanted to run at the Arsenal defence, but his team-mates had been run into the ground by then and no-one could get up in support of the winger.
ref: 2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC:
glosses: To wear out, especially through excessive use.
examples: text: You’ve run the upcoming election into the ground and I simply won’t listen to another word about it.
glosses: To discuss ad nauseam.
Related terms: work into the ground
run hot and cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs hot and cold
form: running hot and cold
form: ran hot and cold
form: run hot and cold
Senses: examples: text: Henrietta's feelings for Delbert run hot and cold—one minute she's hopelessly in love with him, and the next she can't stand the sight of him.
text: The business runs hot and cold; some months our firm doesn't earn enough to cover expenses and other months, we net 400% profits.
text: London’s right-leaning newspapers, which tend to run hot and cold on the prime minister, are veering toward Arctic right now.
ref: 2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013:
glosses: To alternate between two opposite extremes, such as enthusiasm and disinterest or success and failure.
Synonyms: blow hot and cold
hold with the hare and run with the hounds
spear tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spear tackles
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: An offensive tackle in which the tackled player is lifted up and driven into the ground head-first. This is very dangerous and can result in serious injury to the neck and spine and often a red or yellow card.
Synonyms: dump tackle
run a bath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs a bath
form: running a bath
form: ran a bath
form: run a bath
Senses: examples: text: Never leave a child unattended when you are running a bath for them.
glosses: To fill a bathtub with water in preparation for taking a bath.
Synonyms: draw a bath
potter's rot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of the disease silicosis, which can affect the lungs of potters, caused by breathing in large amounts of fine dust.