cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
enmired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enmired
form: most enmired
Etymology: From enmire + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Discipline, in fact, proved to be one of the chief attractions of Benedictine monasteries, in an age enmired in terrifying lawlessness which longed for the lost order of Roman society.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 318:
glosses: Immersed in mire; bogged down.
electrosensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electrosensitive
form: most electrosensitive
Etymology: From electro- + sensitive.
Senses: examples: text: Electrosensitive fish, such as sharks and catfish, are able to localize small prey by detection of the weak bioelectric field that these prey emanate.
glosses: Sensitive to electricity.
Related terms: electrosensitivity
electrosensible
electrosensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + sensitivity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sensitive to electricity.
Related terms: electrosensitive
electrosensibility
thermospray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermosprays
Etymology: From thermo- + spray.
Senses: glosses: A form of atmospheric pressure ionization in mass spectrometry. It transfers ions from the liquid phase to the gas phase for analysis.
Related terms: electrospray
electroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: Measurement with an electroscope.
mannerpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manner + -punk.
Senses: examples: text: I have a fondness for mannerpunk mysteries....
ref: 1998, Misha MCM, “Blue Eyes”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
text: This type of POV is particularly valuable for stories which are heavy on characters and theme, those that "say something." One wouldn't ordinarily choose it for a PWP (plot? what plot?) romp unless engaged in mannerpunk.
ref: 1998, Macedon, “Craft of Writing 3 (point of view)”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
glosses: A subgenre of fantasy literature that takes place within an elaborate social structure and resembles a comedy of manners.
EEZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EEZs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of exclusive economic zone.
componentwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From component + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of components.
Related terms: Componentwise inequality
gyrovector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrovectors
Etymology: From gyro- + vector.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A type of vector for which addition is defined by a formula that satisfies the axioms for a gyrogroup.
Derived terms: unit gyrovector
gyrovectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrovector
gyrogroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrogroups
Etymology: From gyro- + group.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A groupoid whose binary operation satisfies certain axioms, used with gyrovectors.
Derived terms: subgyrogroup
gyrogroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrogroup
gyrofluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrofluid
gyroparallelogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroparallelograms
Etymology: From gyro- + parallelogram.
Senses: examples: text: The 6 faces of a parallelepiped are parallelograms while, in general, the 6 faces of a gyroparallelepiped are not gyroparallelograms.
ref: 2005, Ungar Abraham Albert, Analytic Hyperbolic Geometry:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hyperbolic quadrilateral whose two gyrodiagonals intersect at their gyromidpoints, analogous to a parallelogram in Euclidean space.
gyroparallelograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroparallelogram
gyrotrigonometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyro- + trigonometry.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The use of gyroconcepts to study hyperbolic triangles.
gyromidpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyromidpoints
Etymology: From gyro- + midpoint.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A midpoint in gyrovector space.
gyrodiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrodiagonals
Etymology: From gyro- + diagonal.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A diagonal in gyrovector space.
gyromidpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyromidpoint
gyrodiagonals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrodiagonal
gyroquadrilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroquadrilaterals
Etymology: From gyro- + quadrilateral.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A quadrilateral in gyrovector space.
gyroquadrilaterals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroquadrilateral
gyrocircle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrocircles
Etymology: From gyro- + circle.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A hyperbolic circle in gyrovector space.
gyrocircles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrocircle
gyrotriangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrotriangles
Etymology: From gyro- + triangle.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A triangle in gyrovector space.
gyrotriangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrotriangle
gyrorotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrorotations
Etymology: From gyro- + rotation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A rotation in gyrovector space.
gyrorotations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrorotation
gyrocenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrocenters
form: gyrocentre
Etymology: From gyro- + center.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The center of an object in gyrovector space.
gyrocenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrocenter
gyrocentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrocentres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyrocenter.
gyrocentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrocentre
gyroangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroangles
Etymology: From gyro- + angle.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle in gyrovector space.
gyroangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroangle
gyrocentroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrocentroids
Etymology: From gyro- + centroid.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A centroid in gyrovector space.
gyrocentroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrocentroid
gyrotranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrotranslations
Etymology: From gyro- + translation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A translation in gyrovector space.
gyrotranslations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrotranslation
gyrogeodesic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyrogeodesics
Etymology: From gyro- + geodesic.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geodesic in gyrovector space.
gyrogeodesics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyrogeodesic
gyrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gyrometry
Related terms: gyrometer
gyroautomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gyroautomorphisms
Etymology: From gyro- + automorphism.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An automorphism in gyrovector space.
gyroautomorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyroautomorphism
gyrocommutative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gyro- + commutative.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Whose binary operation obeys a ⊕ b = gyr[a, b](b ⊕ a).
raw_tags: of a gyrogroup
Related terms: gyroassociative
as much
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I think she's overweight, but when I said as much to her, she got very upset.
text: Spending on health is half again as much as last year.
glosses: precisely that
examples: text: "Half as much again" results from adding "half as much".
text: Half / twice / three times as much.
text: We play as much pool as we can.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, much.
Synonyms: sense: emphasizing smallness
word: so much
as much as
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: She as much as admitted to lying.
text: Theridimas my friend, take here my hand,
Which is as much as if I ſwore by heauen,
And call’d the Gods to witneſſe of my vowe, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
text: It's too damn foolish; why he as much as said so himself.
ref: 1921 February, Edwin Balmer, “Settled Down”, in Everybody's Magazine, volume 44, number 2, page 50:
glosses: Practically, just as, no less than; indicates an action tantamount to, but not identical to, the action described.
examples: text: For as soon as he as much as took out his pince-nez to read the newspaper, the privy councilor's wife was his advance trumpeter, who sounded the fanfare and said, "Now Papa puts on his eyes."
ref: 2005, Brigitte Goldstein, transl., Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, →ISBN, page 154:
glosses: So much as, even.
as much as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Take as much as you like.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, much.
examples: text: He likes caramel as much as he likes fudge.
text: The second union panel, "The Future of Clerical and Service Work: Unionization," consisted entirely of union organizers […] each stressed the need for grassroots organizing, coalitions, and community involvement, and seemed to view the government as an adversary as much as an ally.
ref: 1985 December 7, Pam Mitchell, Stephanie Poggi, “Feminists & the State Discuss Women at Work”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 21, page 6:
glosses: Used to say that two things are equal in amount or degree
examples: text: He earns nearly as much as she does.
glosses: Used to say that an amount is as large as another amount
examples: text: As much as I dislike him, I still voted for him.
text: For as much as the Downton Abbey alum has capitalized on his leading-man presentability—how suited he is to wearing suits—his best performances play deviously on that quality.
ref: 2021 September 16, A. A. Dowd, “Dan Stevens as a dashing robot lover? That computes”, in AV Club:
glosses: Even though; despite the fact that; much as.
Synonyms: sense: even though
word: although
word: much as
word: even though
Related terms: as few as
as little as
as many as
as much
much as
multigroup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + group.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one group.
multigauge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gauge.
Senses: examples: a multigauge miniature railway
glosses: Of more than one gauge (width of railway track).
databus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: databuses
form: databusses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of data bus.
databuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of databus
databusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of databus
data bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: data buses
form: data busses
form: databus
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.
wikipedia: PCI Express
nicergoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An ergot derivative used to treat senile dementia and other disorders with vascular origins.
dihydroergocryptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dihydro + ergocryptine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dopamine agonist of the ergoline chemical class used as an antiparkinsonian drug.
antiparkinson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiparkinsons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiparkinsonian.
antiparkinsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiparkinson
methylergonovine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + ergonovine.
Senses: glosses: methylergometrine
ergolinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From ergoline + -ic.
Senses: examples: an ergolinic compound
glosses: Of or pertaining to ergoline.
dihydroergocornine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ergot alkaloid, one of the three components of ergoloid along with dihydroergocristine and dihydroergocryptine.
dihydroergocristine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dihydro + ergocristine.
Senses: glosses: An ergot alkaloid, one of the three components of ergoloid along with dihydroergocornine and dihydroergocryptine.
ergosurfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergosurface
ergopeptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergopeptines
form: ergopeptide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide ergot alkaloid; any ergoline derivative that contains a tripeptide moiety, comprising proline and α-hydroxy-α-amino acids, linked in a cyclol formation with the carboxyl carbon of proline.
ergopeptines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergopeptine
ergocristine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ergopeptine and one of the ergot alkaloids, formerly used in the manufacture of the drug LSD.
Derived terms: dihydroergocristine
multicuspidate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicuspidate
form: most multicuspidate
Etymology: From multi- + cuspidate.
Senses: examples: text: When the crown is simple the root is long; multicuspidate teeth have short roots.
ref: 1911, Sir John Bland-Sutton, Tumors, innocent and malignant, Funk and Wagnalls, page 554:
glosses: Having more than one cusp.
antisciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiscience
multidigitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + digitate.
Senses: glosses: Having many digits, fingers, or things that spread out from a common point.
Related terms: multidigit
polydigital
prestidigitation
polydactyly
multicentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicentral
form: most multicentral
Etymology: From multi- + central.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one centre.
Derived terms: multicentrally
unicentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + central.
Senses: glosses: Having a single centre.
coloniality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonialities
Etymology: From colonial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being colonial.
Derived terms: decoloniality
postcoloniality
precoloniality
unicoloniality
multicapitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicapitate
form: most multicapitate
Etymology: From multi- + capitate.
Senses: glosses: Having many heads or tips.
multicolours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicolors
Etymology: From multi- + colours.
Senses: examples: text: Fair Isle is a term that is used to describe patterned knitting in multicolours.
ref: 2008, Jenny Udale, Textiles and fashion, page 75:
glosses: Multiple colours.
multicolors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + colors.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multicolours.
multistriated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multistriated
form: most multistriated
Etymology: From multi- + striated.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of multistriate.
multicostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicostate
form: most multicostate
Etymology: From multi- + costate.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple ribs.
unicostate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + costate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single rib.
uniseptate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + septate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single septum.
multiseptate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiseptate
form: most multiseptate
Etymology: From multi- + septate.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one septum.
thermosprays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermospray
antimerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antimere + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The division of the body into antimeres.
antimissiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimissile
antinome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antinomes
Senses: glosses: Synonym of antinomy.
synonyms: word: antinomy
antinomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinome
antidoron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Hellenist
ipa: /ɑnˈdi.ðɔ.rɔn/
ipa: /ˌæn.tiˈdɔr.ɒn/
ipa: /ˌæn.tiˈdoʊr.ɒn/
Forms: form: antidora
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek αντίδωρον (antídōron) from Koine Greek ἀντίδωρον (antídōron) from Ancient Greek ἀντί + δῶρον (antí + dôron, “gift in return; instead of a gift”).
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A piece of ordinary leavened bread, taken from remnants of loaves used for the Eucharist, which has been blessed but not consecrated; distributed in churches that use the Byzantine Rite.
antidora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antidoron
antimeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antimere + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to antimeres.
multicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicycles
Etymology: From multi- + cycle.
Senses: glosses: A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.
glosses: A velocipede with more than three wheels; specifically, one developed in the 19th century with seven pairs of wheels, capable of carrying five to twelve people but steered by only one.
multicycle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + cycle.
Senses: examples: text: Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two.
ref: 2009, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface, page xix:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one cycle.
multicycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multicycle
cyclol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclols
Etymology: From cycle + -ol.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of cyclic peptides proposed as a basis of rigid protein structures
antithet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antithets
Etymology: From Latin antithetum, antitheton, from Ancient Greek ἀντίθετον (antítheton), substantivization of the neuter form of ἀντίθετος (antíthetos, “opposing, contrasting”).
Senses: glosses: An antithetical or contrasted statement.
antithets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antithet
multinominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multinominal
form: most multinominal
Etymology: From multi- + nominal.
Senses: synonyms: word: multinominous
glosses: Having many names or terms.
Related terms: multinomial
α-particles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of α-particle
cyclols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclol
multisonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multisonant
form: most multisonant
Etymology: From multi- + sonant.
Senses: glosses: Producing many sounds.
multiloquy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin multiloquium
Senses: glosses: An excess of words or talk.
unisonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + sonant.
Senses: examples: a pair of unisonant tuning forks
synonyms: unisonous
unisonal
glosses: Of a single sound; producing the same sound.
nonissued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + issued.
Senses: glosses: Not issued.
nonissuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + issuable.
Senses: glosses: Not issuable.
unissuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + issuable.
Senses: glosses: Not issuable.
demomaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From demo + making.
Senses: examples: ref: 1998, SwooN, “free unlimited webspace for coding/demomaking sites”, in comp.lang.c (Usenet):
text: Demomaking was not only about discovering new tricks and effects any more, but also pushing existing ones to the machines^([sic]) limit.
ref: 2008, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene, volume 1, page 66:
topics: computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The creation of demos.
Related terms: demomaker
seriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of seriate
seriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of seriate
nonbred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: nonbread
Etymology: From non- + bred.
Senses: glosses: Not bred.
trowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trow
trowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trow
nonchemotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + chemotherapy.
Senses: examples: text: Formerly, the combination of vincristine, doxorubicin (Adriamycin), and dexamethasone (VAD) was commonly used, but is being replaced by nonchemotherapy options.
ref: 1987, Lawrence M. Tierney, Stephen J. McPhee, Maxine A. Papadakis, Current medical diagnosis and treatment, page 516:
glosses: Not having or pertaining to chemotherapy.
contesseration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contesserations
Etymology: From Latin contesseratio (“to contract friendship”), from con- + tesserae (“square tablets; especially as friendship tokens”).
Senses: glosses: A harmonious union.
glosses: The act of contracting friendship.
glosses: An assemblage.
glosses: A collection.
get blood from a stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets blood from a stone
form: getting blood from a stone
form: got blood from a stone
form: got blood from a stone
form: gotten blood from a stone
Senses: examples: text: “I can’t get blood from a stone,” said Representative Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat facing re-election in a competitive district. “I’m not in the Senate. They’re clearly having problems negotiating among themselves. And I will just — for my constituents — take what I can get.”
ref: 2022 July 15, Emily Cochrane, quoting Elissa Slotkin, “Manchin Dangles Hopes of a Future Compromise. Democrats Revolt.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative form of get blood out of a stone.
get blood out of a stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets blood out of a stone
form: getting blood out of a stone
form: got blood out of a stone
form: got blood out of a stone
form: gotten blood out of a stone
form: get blood from a stone
Senses: examples: text: Bradley looked at the fire, with a working face, and was silent for a while. At last he said, with what seemed an inconsistent composure of voice and feature: ‘You can’t get blood out of a stone, Riderhood.’
ref: 1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:
text: "I suppose the law has some protection to offer them."
"Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money. I've got about a hundred pounds."
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XII, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
synonyms: get blood from a turnip
get blood out of a turnip
pull teeth
squeeze blood out of a turnip
glosses: To do something difficult, frustrating, or pointless.
dead man's switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dead man's switch
dead man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead men
Senses: glosses: A dead man's switch.
synonyms: dead soldier
glosses: A bottle of alcoholic drink that has been consumed.
examples: text: A crusty loaf at your service — but master gets over-crusty, 'cause last week's bill ar'nt paid. I'm no "snatcher," altho' now and then I make "a dead man." […] We all admit the baker's skill, / To charge a dead man in his bill; […]
ref: 1833, Francis West, Fun for winter evenings, page 27:
glosses: An extra loaf stolen from a bakery by a servant who smuggles it into the customer's basket (and sometimes fraudulently charges it to the customer).
glosses: Alternative form of deadman.
Derived terms: dead man's arm
dead man's brake
dead man's fingers
dead man's hand
dead man's handle
dead man's switch
dead man walking
cheap shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap shots
form: cheap-shot
form: cheapshot
Senses: examples: text: Attacking a goalie trying to make a save is a total cheap shot, I think.
glosses: A deliberate, unsportsmanlike, and potentially illegal act of aggression against an opponent.
examples: text: School bullies always take cheap shots at kids with glasses.
text: It's a charge Rubin breezily makes while dredging up the fact that, years ago, Clinton got cheated on, itself a cheap shot that is irrelevant to the controversy at hand.
ref: 2012 October 16, Conor Friedersdorf, “Jennifer Rubin Takes a Cheap Shot at Hillary Clinton”, in The Atlantic:
text: He got right to it with an opening jab against “old ideas,” and then a direct slap, asking Biden: “Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” Um, no. It was a big backfire, a cheap shot that fell to the floor.
ref: 2019 September 13, Timothy Egan, “It Will Take More Than Cheap Shots to Knock Off Biden”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: potshot
low blow
glosses: A remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerability of the target.
cheapshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheapshots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cheap shot.
cheap-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheap-shots
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cheap shot.
cheap-shot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cheap-shots
form: cheap-shotting
form: cheap-shotted
form: cheap-shotted
Senses: glosses: To take a cheap shot at (an opponent).
cheap shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheap shot
cheap-shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheap-shot
cheapshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheapshot
early adopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: early adopters
Senses: topics: business
marketing
synonyms: innovator
glosses: A person who begins using a product or service at or around the time it becomes available.
Related terms: first-mover disadvantage
early adopters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of early adopter
float someone's boat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: floats someone's boat
form: floating someone's boat
form: floated someone's boat
form: floated someone's boat
Senses: examples: text: I invited Lily to join us, but horror films don't float her boat.
glosses: To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy.
Synonyms: melt someone's butter
tickle someone's fancy
turn someone's crank
be someone's cup of tea
butter someone's biscuit
Derived terms: whatever floats your boat
come to a close
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to a close
form: coming to a close
form: came to a close
form: come to a close
Senses: examples: text: Big hair went out of style as the 1980s came to a close.
glosses: To draw toward a conclusion; to end.
Synonyms: come to an end
mindblown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪnd.bləʊn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪnd.bloʊn/
Forms: form: more mindblown
form: most mindblown
Etymology: From mind + blown.
Senses: glosses: Having had one's mind blown.
Atlantic Isles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Columba or Colmcille (‘Dove of the Church’) […] built an island monastery far to the north on the island of Iona, which remains one of the best-known sacred placed in the Atlantic Isles; he frequently crossed the sea between his various foundations.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 333:
glosses: The British Isles; used especially to avoid associations with British nationality or citizenship.
rigorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡəɹɪst/
Forms: form: rigorists
form: rigourist
Etymology: From rigour, or its source, Latin rigor, + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: These rigorists wanted to borrow Old Testament exclusions from participation in the Temple liturgy and apply them to pregnant women and the sexual relations of married couples.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 338:
glosses: Someone who takes the strictest interpretation of a law, religious injunction etc.
rigorist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪɡəɹɪst/
Forms: form: more rigorist
form: most rigorist
form: rigourist
Etymology: From rigour, or its source, Latin rigor, + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or in the fashion of rigorists or rigorism.
rigorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigorist
Samo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Samo terms
sampietrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampietrini
form: sanpietrino
Etymology: From Italian sampietrino.
Senses: glosses: A roughly 12cm square-topped, dark, fine-grained, paving stone with a tapered base, endemic to Rome (first used in the 17th century to pave St. Peter’s Square—whence it received its name—later becoming iconic throughout Rome and further afield in Italy), which was traditionally (albeit not exclusively) quarried from the mafic, alkaline, ultrapotassic leucitite Pleistocene-age lavas erupted by the Alban Hills volcano just outside of the city, although modern replacement stones are often made of similar, yet more readily-available, cheaper basalt, imported from China.
glosses: One of the highly-skilled, hereditary craftsmen exclusively entrusted with the upkeep of St. Peter's Basilica since 1600 CE, as well as the lighting and decoration of its exterior during the annual Feast of Saints Peter and Paul.
circle contact lenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle contact lens
nonblinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blinking.
Senses: glosses: That does not blink or flash.
nonpostural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + postural.
Senses: glosses: Not postural.
autosegmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autosegment + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to autosegments.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to autosegmental phonology, a framework of phonological analysis that views phonological representations as consisting of parallel tiers of segments, rather than just one linear sequence of segments.
superdistribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superdistributions
Etymology: From super- + distribution.
Senses: glosses: The distribution of digital products (such as software or music) in an encrypted form so that one consumer can pass them on to another, while the original distributor retains control over use and modification.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of various generalizations of a distribution, especially a common distribution that results from applying a single mapping to any distribution from a body of source distributions, which forms the basis of encryption used in the superdistribution of digital products.
fennocchio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the Reading Terminal market there are one or two stalls where one may purchase fennocchio, the fennel flavored bulbous stems […]
ref: 1933, Pennsylvania’s Health (Pennsylvania State Department of Health), volumes 11–12, page 12
glosses: Rare spelling of finocchio.
rhizomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹaɪzəˈmætɪk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥιζωματικός (rhizōmatikós).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Resembling or related to a rhizome.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Employing rhizomes; not arborescent; spreading without a traditional hierarchy.
Derived terms: rhizomatically
shetani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shetani
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili shetani, from Arabic شَيْطَان (šayṭān).
Senses: glosses: An evil spirit from East African mythology, often the subject of artwork.
baze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bazes
form: bazing
form: bazed
form: bazed
form: baize
Etymology: Uncertain, but apparently identical with Dutch bazen, verbazen (“to astonish, stupefy”), obsolete German basen (“to rave”). Compare also Scots baise (“confusion, bewilderment”).
Senses: glosses: To stupefy; frighten; alarm.
Related terms: basen
Knowledge Interchange Format
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: It is exemplified by the Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)¹⁵, part of an approach described in the paper by Tenenbaum.
ref: 1992, Charles J. Petrie, Enterprise Integration Modeling: Proceedings of the First International Conference, Introduction, page 7:
text: The Knowledge Interchange Format is a proposed standard for the specification and interchange of ontologies.
ref: 2000, William J. Raynor, Jr., The International Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, page 155:
text: The Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) is an example of a convenient formalism to describe these ontologies, and XML can serve as an implementation technology in the way similar to that outlined briefly in this paper.
ref: 2000, Petr Kotásek, Jaroslav Zendulka, “An XML Approach to Knowledge Discovery in Databases”, in Tomáš Hruška, Masa-aki Hashimoto, editors, Knowledge-Based Software Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint Conference, page 148:
text: Common Logic Common Logic (CL) evolved from two projects to develop parallel ANSI standards for conceptual graphs and the Knowledge Interchange Format [9].
ref: 2008, Frank van Harmelen, Vladimir Lifschitz, Bruce Porter, editors, Handbook Of Knowledge Representation, page 217:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: A computer language designed for communicating knowledge between independently running computer programs.
Derived terms: KIF
trans-Neptunian objects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trans-Neptunian object
KIF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: artificial intelligence
glosses: Acronym of Knowledge Interchange Format.
flag stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flag stops
Senses: examples: text: All trains stop at all stations, with the exception of a few "local" stations near Mombasa and an odd flag stop or two usually missed by the mails.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 263:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: flag station
hypernyms: request stop
glosses: A train station at which trains stop only on request.
flag stops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flag stop
Uşak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Usak
Senses: glosses: A province of Turkey, in the interior Aegean region.
glosses: A district of Uşak Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Uşak district and Uşak Province, Turkey.
direct deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: direct deposits
Senses: examples: text: You can pay by direct deposit, check, or cash.
topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: A deposit of money straight from the source (and initiated by the source) into a bank account, by wire, or other means.
failles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faille
moneyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌniə/
ipa: /ˈmʌniɚ/
Forms: form: moneyers
form: monier
Etymology: From Middle English moneyour, partly from Middle English money + -our, and partly from Anglo-Norman monoiier, monneiere, monnier. Equivalent to money + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:
glosses: A minter: one who makes money, particularly (historical) the superintendent of a mint producing coinage.
glosses: Synonym of moneylender, one who loans money to others at interest.
synonyms: word: moneylender
word: one who loans money to others at interest
Synonyms: coiner
master of the mint
minter
mintkeeper
mintmaster
mint warden
moneyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moneyer
filioque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪliˈoʊkwiː/
ipa: /fɪliˈoʊkweɪ/
Forms: form: Filioque
Etymology: From Latin filioque, from filiō (“from the son”, ablative) + -que (“and”).
Senses: examples: text: But in 867 an assertion of papal authority led to a formal split. Photius, the Patriarch of Constantinople, attacked the filioque, which was beginning to draw papal support, and summoned a council that excommunicated the Pope.
ref: 1989 May, John Garvey, “Eastern Orthodoxy”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: Another issue was the promotion of that troublesome addition to the Nicene Creed, the Filioque or double procession in the Trinity of the Spirit from Father and Son, which had taken its cue from Augustine's writing on the Trinity.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350:
text: The Second Council of Lyon […] only succeeded in confirming and defining a key item of Catholic theology, the filioque, which has barred the way to reconciliation ever since.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 126:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The use of the Latin word filioque (“and from the son”) in the Western form of the Nicene Creed, to indicate that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son (as opposed to the Eastern Orthodox Churches which believe the Spirit proceeds from the Father alone).
plumber's helper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumber's helpers
Senses: examples: text: This plumber's helper was in the corner, one of these big, industrial-strength jobs for blowing out major toilet blockage.
ref: 2011, James Lee Burke, Sunset Limited, →ISBN, page 274:
glosses: A plunger, consisting of a large suction cup attached to a stick and used to remove blockages from toilets, sinks, or drains.
Synonyms: plumber's friend
plunger
plumber's friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumber's friends
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plumber's helper.
synonyms: word: plumber's helper
coming together
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comings together
Etymology: From come together.
Senses: glosses: A union.
examples: text: INCIDENT: Wolves want a penalty of their own when Nelson Semedo goes down under the challenge of Oliver Skipp but nothing is given.
DERMOT'S VERDICT: You ask for consistency and I think in different instances in different games this weekend, referees came to the same conclusion - that there was a coming-together but not necessarily a foul.
ref: 2021 August 23, Dermot Gallagher, “Ref Watch; Wolves 0-1 Tottenham”, in Sky Sports:
glosses: A collision.
coming together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From come together.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of come together
nasky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: naskier
form: naskiest
Etymology: From Middle English naxty, of uncertain origin, but probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Swedish naskug, naskig, nasket (“dirty, nasty”), Danish nasket (“nasty”). More at nasty.
Senses: glosses: Nasty.
hate mail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatemail
Senses: examples: text: The next time I got to a town to check my emails I received this message: `Mate, stick to birds and lay off people who are locked up and less fortunate than you. You are not funny. Just pathetic.' My first ever hate mail! I was used to hearing `You're not funny, Dooley, just pathetic,' from producers and former lovers, but from a total stranger? Ouch.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 164:
glosses: Hostile correspondence sent to an individual or group.
fennochio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Fennochio removed, is never so good and tender as that which is not; it receives such a check in transplanting in its infancy, which, like the rickets, leaves knots that indurate the parts of the fennel, and spoil it from being a dainty.
ref: 1829, Jethro Tull, The Horse-Hoeing Husbandry (spelling modernised; pub. William Cobbett), page 90
text: Unsuccessful endeavours have been made to cultivate the Fennochio in England and France.
ref: 1841 November, “Sketches of Italy”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 50, William Blackwood & Sons, page 576:
text: The monks grow large quantities of artichokes, lettuce, and fennochio; and interspersed among the beds of vegetables are orange and other fruit trees, and little trellises of cane, wreathed with the young, downy leaves of the vine.
ref: 1877, Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod, editors, Good Words, volume 18, Alexander Strahan and Co., page 487:
text: “That’s root-fennel — do try it,” said the Squire. “ ‘Fennochio,’ like you get in Italy. People here only seem to know the stronger leaf used for sauces.”
ref: 1917, Muriel Hine, Autumn, John Lane, page 88:
text: Red rot (Rhizoctonia violacea) occurs mostly in wet fields. Diseased plants should be removed and destroyed. Land should be drained and quick lime worked in. It should not be planted to sugar beet, fodder beet, alfalfa, red clover, serradella, potato, asparagus, or fennochio as these plants are attacked by the fungus.
ref: 1920, Burton Edward Livingston and Jacob Richard Schramm [eds.], and Mildred Stratton Krauss [compil.], Botanical Abstracts (Williams & Wilkins), volumes 5–6, page 104
glosses: Rare spelling of finocchio.
platitudinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: platitudinizes
form: platitudinizing
form: platitudinized
form: platitudinized
form: platitudise
Etymology: From platitude + -in- + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
ref: 1894 July 24, “An Undenominational Mission: Outspokenness in the Pulpit”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 07 Oct 2011, page 5:
text: If we keep our knowledge strictly to ourselves we know exactly how we stand, and that if there has been any leakage, it had been from some other source. But I need not platitudinize to an experienced and learned counsel.
ref: 1928, R. Austin Freeman, As a Thief in the Night, House of Stratus, published 2001, →ISBN, page 139:
text: The people in this show don't talk like normal people—they lecture, they argue, they negotiate, they strategize, they philosophize, they platitudinize, they deliver speeches about destiny, liberty, and bravery.
ref: 2008 February 20, Maxie Zeus, “Glass Fleet”, in www.tunezone.net, retrieved 07 Oct 2011:
glosses: To utter one or more platitudes; to make obvious, trivial, or clichéd remarks concerning a topic.
examples: text: Mendelssohn had misunderstood, platitudinized, and misinterpreted the holy concept of revelation.
ref: 1842, Solomon Ludwig Steinheim, “On the Perennial and the Ephemeral in Judaism”, in Daniel H. Frank et al., editors, The Jewish Philosophy Reader, published 2000, →ISBN, page 402:
text: “It's better to have to struggle when you're young, I think, than when you're older,” she platitudinized.
ref: 1962, Philip Roth, Letting Go, Random House, published 1997, →ISBN:
text: A modern campaign, not just in America, is so fine-tuned, so honed and platitudinised, that mistakes are the only way of bringing it into focus.
ref: 2008 April 25, Simon Jenkins, “The White House race is a catalogue of misspeaking”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Oct 2011:
glosses: To express as or reduce to one or more clichés or truisms.
Synonyms: alt: transitive: express as a cliché
word: trivialize
Derived terms: platitudinization
platitudinizer
platitudise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: platitudises
form: platitudising
form: platitudised
form: platitudised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of platitudinize.
myrrhic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːɹik/
ipa: /ˈmɜɹik/
Etymology: From myrrh + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Corpses, treatment of.—A solution of myrrhic resin is obtained by treating powdered myrrh […]
ref: 1898, “6306. Thompson, W. P. [Flügge, R.]. April 13.”, in Patents for Inventions: Abridgments of Specifications. Class 76. Leather, including Treatment of Hides and Skins, London: Patent Office, →OCLC, page 90:
glosses: Of, related to, or derived from myrrh.
examples: text: All the fragrances of dew, O angel, are there, / The myrrhic rapture of young hair, […]
ref: 1916, Emanuel Morgan [pseudonym; Witter Bynner], “The Locust-tree”, in Anne Knish [pseudonym; Arthur Davison Ficke]; Emanuel Morgan, Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments, New York, N.Y.: Mitchell Kennerley, OCLC 10672070, archived from the original on 22 July 2012, opus 45
text: Above us the avern brooded like a gonfalon; from it there drifted a myrrhic perfume.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 217:
text: It reverberates with layer on layer of flavour and aroma, from springtime zephyr at the top of the register to a myrrhic basso profundo.
ref: 2004, John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina – and Real Geeks, London: Nicholas Brealey Pub., →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: Having a pleasant fragrance; aromatic.
Related terms: myrrh
myrrhic acid
myrrhine
hashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhlæʃi/
Forms: form: hashier
form: hashiest
Etymology: From hash + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling marijuana in taste or smell.
glosses: Slovenly; careless.