cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
actuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
ipa: /ˈækt͡ʃu.eɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈækt͡ʃu.eɪʃn̩/
Forms: form: actuations
Etymology: From actuate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: Although an operator presses the button, the actuation is done by an immense series of levers and cranks.
text: All the outside passenger doors are fitted with drop windows and outside actuation locks, and each end of the car has a Pullman type gangway.
ref: 1954 February, “Third Class Corridor Brake Coaches for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 133:
glosses: The act of putting into motion.
Derived terms: bioactuation
microactuation
piezoactuation
underactuation
acyclovir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acyclovirs
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: US and UK spelling of aciclovir.
tac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: tach
homophone: tack
Senses: glosses: The drug cannabis.
tac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæk/
rhymes: -æk
homophone: tach
homophone: tack
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of tactical.
Related terms: tac-au-tac
tacnuke
tac nuke
tac-nuke
tac squad
tic tac
tic-tac-toe
adamantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adamantly
form: most adamantly
Etymology: From adamant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She is adamantly denying the allegations.
glosses: In an immovable or inflexible manner.
adenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more adenoidal
form: most adenoidal
Etymology: From adenoid + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the adenoids.
examples: text: There he ordered beer from the adenoidal Chinese manager and drank the afternoon away, greedily swilling bottle after bottle, feeling gradually his adulthood return.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 344:
text: Metzger, acting on instructions in the will, had retained this amiable, slightly adenoidal expert, for a percent of his valuation, to inventory and appraise Inverarity's stamp collection.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 68:
text: Neither man has an alternative career in audiobook narration awaiting him upon retirement. Ron DeSantis speaks in a sort of monotone nag. Rishi Sunak can sound adenoidal.
ref: 2023 August 8, Janan Ganesh, “The oneness of Ron DeSantis and Rishi Sunak”, in Financial Times:
glosses: Sounding as if the speaker has swollen adenoids.
raw_tags: of a voice
Derived terms: adenoidally
geon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geons
Etymology: Coined by J. A. Wheeler from gravitational electromagnetic entity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical electromagnetic or gravitational wave held together in a confined region by the gravitational attraction of its own field energy.
Derived terms: microgeon
geon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geons
Etymology: From geometric + -on.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of basic geometric forms capable of being recognised as a component of a real object.
Derived terms: geonic
geon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geons
Etymology: Blend of geological + eon
Senses: glosses: A large unit of time, used to measure gradual geological change.
substantially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more substantially
form: most substantially
Etymology: From substantial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For the first time since the Great Depression, median family income has fallen substantially over an entire decade. Income grew slowly through most of the last decade, except at the top of the distribution, before falling sharply when the financial crisis began.
ref: 2012 October 23, David Leonhardt, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times, retrieved 24 Oct 2012:
glosses: In a strong or substantial manner; considerably.
glosses: To a great extent; in essence; essentially.
glosses: Without material qualifications.
Synonyms: sense: in a strong or substantial manner
word: majorly
sense: in a strong or substantial manner
word: significantly
sense: to a great extent
word: at heart
word: deep down
word: fundamentally
Alyssa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɪs.ə/
rhymes: -ɪsə
homophone: Alissa
homophone: Elissa
Etymology: A 20th-century invention, either derived from the flower alyssum, from Alicia, of Germanic origin, or from Elissa.
Senses: examples: text: The leading lady's name is Alyssa Aldine - I think Aldine sounds like nice people; I suppose because the Aldine editions of books are so famous.
ref: 1916, Marion Ames Taggart, Hollyhock House: A Story for Girls, Doubleday, Page & co., page 40:
text: And throughout most of his days and nights, daydreamed about Brady's mother, liking everything about her. Particularly her name. Alyssa. Over and over, her name whispered inside his head. Alyssa. Alyssa. Beautiful.
ref: 1978, Charlotte Vale Allen, Meet Me in Time, Island Nation Press LLC, published 1998, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, popular in the US in the 1990s and the 2000s.
on the qui vive
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Partial calque of French sur le qui-vive (“in a state of heightened vigilance”).
Senses: examples: text: The political influence wielded by many of the court ladies, and especially by the first lady-in-waiting (mother of the present Emperor), bears a certain resemblance to that which the eunuchs wielded under the later Manchus at the court of Peking. […] And behind the 30 ladies-in-waiting there are the rank and file of female palace attendants, some 300, all of Kyoto stock—quite sufficient to keep any conscientious chamberlain on the qui vive.
ref: 1920, J[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, “[Exhibit G.] Three Palaces.”, in Administration of Immigration Laws: Hearings before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization: House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, Second Session: […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 373:
text: The question of who pressed the bell that sounded in Erskine's room, in the night, was a great source of worry to Watt, for a time, and kept him awake at night, on the qui vive.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: In a state of heightened vigilance, especially prior to battle.
behaviouralist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: behavioralist
Etymology: From behavioural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: relating to behaviouralism.
behaviouralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: behaviouralists
form: behavioralist
Etymology: From behavioural + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of behavioralist.
sponging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of sponge
sponging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongings
Senses: examples: text: I have employed cold air, and very often spongings with cold water, in order to moderate the preternatural heat of the skin, and to check the increased velocity of the circulation.
ref: 1815, William Shearman, New Medical and Physical Journal:
glosses: The application of a sponge.
Related terms: sponging-house
computer literate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computer literate
form: most computer literate
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: techknowledgeable
glosses: Able to operate a personal computer and its associated software and hardware, and to understand most of the underlying concepts (but not necessarily the electronics, or a programming language).
Derived terms: computerate
Related terms: computer literacy
computer literacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˌpjuːtə ˈlɪt(ə)rəsi/
ipa: /kəmˌpjutəɹ ˈlɪt(ə)ɹəsi/
ipa: [-ɾ(ə)ɹə-]
Forms: form: computer literacies
Etymology: From computer + literacy.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: computeracy
cyberliteracy
antonyms: computer illiteracy
glosses: The ability to operate a personal computer, including its associated hardware and software (but not necessarily to understand the underlying electronics or a programming language).
Related terms: CLAIT
computer literate
digital divide
e-inclusion
squalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose so high at these objections; till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of squall
squalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squallings
Senses: examples: text: But my attention was suddenly called from my own situation, by the most appalling shouts and squallings proceeding from the back of the carriage.
ref: 1842, Blackwood's Magazine:
synonyms: squallery
glosses: The act of one who squalls; a crying or wailing.
oord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of urad.
a'ight
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aight.
birds of a feather flock together
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: birds of the feather flock together
Etymology: The expression appears to have surfaced in the 16th century, allegedly a literal translation of Plato's Republic. In 1545, William Turner wrote a version of the expression in the Rescuing of Romish Fox: "Byrdes of on kynde and color flok and flye allwayes together." One can, however, also compare the expression to Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 27:9: "Birds resort unto their like."
Senses: examples: text: So, in London, birds of a feather must flock together, willy nilly, silk hat and frock coat must go with white gloves and brown sables, peaky blinder and “choker" must associate with crop fringed hair, ear curls, and rakish three feathered hat.
ref: 1899, The Puritan - Volume 5, page 206:
synonyms: like attracts like
like likes like
apple does not fall far from the tree
glosses: People of similar character, background or taste tend to congregate or associate with one another; it is easier to establish friendships with people that one has a lot in common with.
Derived terms: flock together
Related terms: birds of a feather
like two peas in a pod
penning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɪnɪŋ/
homophone: pinning (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pen
penning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɪnɪŋ/
homophone: pinning (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛnɪŋ
Forms: form: pennings
Senses: examples: the idle pennings of a poetic daydreamer
glosses: Writing; literary composition.
penning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈpɪnɪŋ/
homophone: pinning (pin–pen merger)
rhymes: -ɛnɪŋ
Forms: form: pennings
form: penningar
Senses: glosses: An old currency unit, the Swedish penning.
Land of the Long White Cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Land of the Long White Cloud
Etymology: Loose calque of Maori Aotearoa, from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), tea (“white”), and roa (“long, tall”). Allegedly the first English-language mention was in the February, 1916, New Zealand School Journal (King, 2004). Probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage.
Senses: glosses: New Zealand.
pund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pun (“measure of cowries”).
nécessaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nécessaires
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French nécessaire.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of necessaire.
mudar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi मदार (madār).
Senses: glosses: Either of two milkweed-like shrubs, which yield a strong fibre and an acrid milky juice used medicinally:
Calotropis gigantea (crown flower, giant milkweed)
glosses: Either of two milkweed-like shrubs, which yield a strong fibre and an acrid milky juice used medicinally:
Calotropis procera (apple of Sodom)
Synonyms: sense: Calotropis procera
word: madar
sense: Calotropis procera
word: French cotton
sense: Calotropis procera
word: calotropis
sense: Calotropis procera
word: rubber bush
sense: Calotropis procera
word: apple of Sodom
sense: Calotropis procera
word: king's crown
sense: Calotropis procera
word: roostertree
Derived terms: mudarin
Kiseri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Bantu language of Tanzania, one of the Chaga dialects.
drub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌb/
ipa: /dɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: drubs
Etymology: From Middle English *drob, drof, from Old English *drōb, drōf (“turbid; dreggy; dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *drōbī, from Proto-Germanic *drōbuz (“turbid”).
Senses: glosses: Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.
Derived terms: drubly
drub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹʌb/
ipa: /dɹʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: drubs
form: drubbing
form: drubbed
form: drubbed
Etymology: 1625, of uncertain origin:
* Perhaps from Arabic ضَرَبَ (ḍaraba, “to beat, hit”),
* or perhaps originally from a dialectal word (Kent) drab, variant of drop, dryp, drib (“to beat”), from Middle English drepen (preterit drop, drap, drape (“struck, killed”)) from Old English drepan (“to strike”), from Proto-West Germanic *drepan, from Proto-Germanic *drepaną (“to beat, bump, strike, slay”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreb⁽ʰ⁾- (“to strike, crush, kill”).
* Linguist Guus Kroonen suggests that it reflects the Proto-Germanic verb *drubbōną, iterative to *drabaną (“to hit, hew”), as found in Norwegian drubba (“to fall over”).
Akin to Old Frisian drop (“a blow, beat”), Old High German treffan (“to hit”), Old Norse drepa (“to strike, slay, kill”). Compare also dub. More at drape.
Senses: glosses: To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
glosses: To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
glosses: To forcefully teach something.
glosses: To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
Derived terms: drubber
drubbing
scarification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌskɛɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: scarifications
Etymology: From Old French scarificacion, from Late Latin scarificatio.
Senses: glosses: The act of scarifying: raking the ground harshly to remove weeds, etc.
glosses: A medieval form of penance in which the skin was damaged with a knife or hot iron.
glosses: The scratching, etching, burning / branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A route of administration for some vaccinations and tests: rather than hypodermic injection, the site is inoculated intradermally not with any injection but rather only with small, shallow pricks or scratches; the needle is not hollow.
Synonyms: english: gerund sense
translation: gerund sense
word: scarifying
Hypernyms: english: which includes intradermal injection and scarifying forms
translation: which includes intradermal injection and scarifying forms
word: intradermal administration
Related terms: scarifier
self-delusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-delusions
Etymology: From self- + delusion.
Senses: examples: text: This self-delusion is even more the case with Trotsky, whose bloodstained intolerance is generally passed over because the 1960s student generation pretended then, and pretends still, that Trotsky was in some way a freedom-loving, Gulag-free alternative to Stalin.
ref: 2010, Peter Hitchens, The Cameron Delusion, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
synonyms: self-deception
glosses: The act of deluding oneself, or the state of being so deluded.
ineradicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ineradicable
form: most ineradicable
Etymology: From in- + eradicable.
Senses: examples: text: The procatarctick causes render the Disease more or less curable: a Consumption of grief, as it moves more slowly than others, so its malign effects are impressed with a more certain and irresistable force; wherefore unless prevented in the bud, takes an ineradicable root.
ref: 1666, Gideon Harvey, chapter 32, in Morbus Anglicus: or, The Anatomy of Consumptions, London: Nathaniel Brook, page 197:
text: And in the corn, and vines, and meadow-grass,
Teemed ineradicable poisonous weeds
Draining their growth […]
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, London: C & J Ollier, act I, scene 1, page 27:
text: “All sensible people know that vanity is the most devastating, the most universal and the most ineradicable of the passions that afflict the soul of man, and it is only vanity that makes him deny its power. […]”
ref: 1928, W. Somerset Maugham, “His Excellency”, in Ashenden: Or the British Agent:
text: But the stairs daunted her. That fall had left on her mind an ineradicable fear of taking risks with her unwieldy limbs, even for the reward of taking over the supervision of her own shop.
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 72:
text: While they were well aware of many of the problems of their autism, they had a respect for their differentness, even a pride. Indeed, in some autistic people this sense of radical and ineradicable differentness is so profound as to lead them to regard themselves, half jokingly, almost as members of another species […]
ref: 1995, Oliver Sacks, “An Anthropologist on Mars”, in An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales, New York: Knopf, pages 276–277:
glosses: Not able to be eradicated; (of a root, plant, etc.) too deep to remove.
Synonyms: deep-rooted
firm
inannihilable
ingrained
inveterate
irradicable
Derived terms: ineradicableness
Related terms: ineradicability
ineradicably
prob
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prob
form: most prob
Senses: synonyms: probs
prolly
qualifier: dictionaries
glosses: Clipping of probably.
prob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probs
Senses: examples: text: No prob, I'll fix it tomorrow.
text: firstworldprobs
text: READER PROB: I’D RATHER SPEND MY TIME AT THE BEACH THAN GO TO THE MALL. WHERE CAN I BUY COOL CLOTHES ON THE WEB?
ref: 2000 August, Teen, page 129:
glosses: Clipping of problem.
Derived terms: no prob
no probs
prev
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of previous.
compatibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˌpæt.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /kəmˌpæt.əˈbɪl.ə.ti/
ipa: [kəmˌpæɾ.əˈbɪl.ə.ɾi]
Forms: form: compatibilities
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin compatibilitās. By surface analysis, compatible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: One huge self-inflicted wound the industry is now suffering from is the lack of coupling compatibility. Up to the 1980s virtually everything had compatible drawgear on a given route, so there was every chance of pushing a failed train out of the way. Since privatisation, compatibility has been lost and in the last few years operators seem to have gone out of their way to avoid compatibility.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43:
text: They will feature wider gangways for better wheelchair accessibility, as well as compatibility with platform screen doors - should these ever be introduced in the future.
ref: 2023 August 9, “Network News: SPT delighted with testing of new Glasgow Subway trains”, in RAIL, number 989, page 24:
glosses: The state of being compatible; in which two or more things are able to exist or work together in combination without problems or conflict.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: the capability of two or more items or components of equipment or material to exist or function in the same system or environment without mutual interference.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the ability to execute a given program on different types of computers without modification of the program or the computers. See backward compatibility and forward compatibility.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the capability that allows the substitution of one subsystem (storage facility), or of one functional unit (e.g., hardware, software), for the originally designated system or functional unit in a relatively transparent manner, without loss of information and without the introduction of errors.
qualifier: structural analysis
glosses: the continuity or good fit of material or members or components while being deformed.
Derived terms: autocompatibility
backwards compatibility
biocompatibility
cytocompatibility
forwards compatibility
genocompatibility
haemocompatibility
hemocompatibility
histocompatibility
immunocompatibility
intercompatibility
metric compatibility
osteocompatibility
Related terms: compatible
companionability
Congregationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəlɪst/
ipa: /kɒŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃənəlɪst/
Forms: form: Congregationalists
Etymology: From Congregational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Congregational church.
Synonyms: word: Congo
word: Congregationer
word: Congregationist
Congregational church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Congregational churches
Senses: glosses: Any Protestant church run independently by its own congregation, especially one in the Reformed (Calvinist) and/or Dissenter traditions, such as the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, or the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.
connecting rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connecting rods
Senses: glosses: Any rod, in an engine, that transmits power or motion, especially one that connects a reciprocating shaft to a rotating wheel, in reciprocating engines connecting piston to crankshaft
Synonyms: con rod
conrod
Related terms: coupling rod
connoisseuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connoisseuses
form: connaisseuse
Senses: glosses: A female connoisseur.
conjuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɒnd͡ʒəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: conjurations
Etymology: From Middle English conjuracioun, from Middle French conjuration, from Old French conjuracion, from Latin coniuratio (“a swearing together, a conspiracy”).
Senses: examples: text: Pretended conjurations and prophecies of that event.
ref: 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: How nicely we could manage without the said railway, now the great hobby of our Teviotdale lairds, if we could by any process of conjuration waft to Abbotsford some of the coal and lime from Lochore...
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90, words written by Scott:
glosses: Conjuring, legerdemain or magic.
glosses: A magic trick.
examples: text: We charge you, in the name of God, take heed; […] Under this conjuration speak, my lord.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: An earneſt Coniuration from the King, / As England was his faithfull Tributary
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, [Act V, scene ii], page 259, column 2:
glosses: The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner, or binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
examples: text: The conjuration of Catiline.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
glosses: A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.
consonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒn.səˈnæn.təl/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.səˈnɛn.təl/
ipa: /ˌkɑn.səˈnæn.təl/
Forms: form: more consonantal
form: most consonantal
Etymology: From consonant + -al.
Senses: antonyms: vocalic
glosses: Of, relating to, or functioning as a consonant.
glosses: Containing one or more consonants.
Derived terms: anteconsonantal
biconsonantal
consonantalize
consonantally
interconsonantal
nonconsonantal
postconsonantal
quadriconsonantal
quadriradical
semiconsonantal
triconsonantal
uniconsonantal
conspirational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conspirational
form: most conspirational
Etymology: From conspiration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, or involving conspiration; conspiratorial.
constitutively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From constitutive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a constitutive manner
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: at a constant rate regardless of physiological demand
raw_tags: of a metabolic process
co-opetition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of co-operation + competition
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coopetition
corybantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corybantic
form: most corybantic
Etymology: From Corybant + -ic.
Senses: glosses: frenetic, ecstatic and orgiastic
glosses: of or pertaining to a Corybant
crack seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crack seeds
Senses: glosses: Any of a variety of Hawaiian snacks made from preserved fruit.
Related terms: li hing mui
mui
crambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmbəʊ
Forms: form: crambos
form: cramboes
Etymology: * Perhaps related to cramp (“difficult”) (adjective).
* Perhaps from Latin crambe repetita (“cabbage served up again”).
Senses: examples: text: I saw in one corner […] a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double rhymes […] which raised a great deal of mirth.
ref: 1711 May 23 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, May 12, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 63; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed.
examples: text: His similes in order set
And every crambo he could get.
ref: 1720, Jonathan Swift, To Stella, on transcribing his Poems:
glosses: A word rhyming with another word.
Derived terms: crambo-clink
crambo-jingle
dumb crambo
crimethink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of crime + think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: glosses: The crime of having unorthodox or unofficial thoughts (thoughtcrimes).
crimethink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crimethinks
form: crimethinking
form: crimethought
form: crimethought
Etymology: Compound of crime + think, coined by George Orwell in 1949 in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Senses: glosses: To think in an unorthodox or unofficial manner (to commit a thoughtcrime)
cubeb berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubeb berries
Senses: glosses: A berry of the tailed pepper (Piper cubeba), eaten as a fruit.
cubeb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːbɛb/
Forms: form: cubebs
Etymology: From Middle English quibibe, from Old French quibibe, cubebe, from Arabic كُبَابَة (kubāba). The current form is remodelled after modern French cubèbe.
Senses: glosses: A tailed pepper plant (Piper cubeba), an Indonesian plant cultivated for its berries and essential oil.
examples: text: Chestnuts, soaked in muscadel, then boiled, along with satyrion, pistachio nuts, pine kernels, cubebs, cinnamon, rocket seed and sugar. Compounded together, these ingredient form a stimulating electuary.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60:
glosses: One of the berries of this plant, used as a condiment.
Synonyms: tailed pepper
Java pepper
Derived terms: cubeb berry
cubebic acid
cubebin
culture jamming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: culture jammings
Etymology: From culture jammer, coined by sound collage band Negativland in their album JamCon '84 (1984), by metaphor to jamming a radio signal.
Senses: examples: text: A growing number of activists believe the time has come for the public to stop asking that some space be left unsponsored, and to begin seizing it back. Culture jamming baldly rejects the idea that marketing — because it buys its way into our public spaces — must be passively accepted as a one-way information flow.
ref: 1999, Naomi Klein, No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies:
text: Culture jamming is, at root, just a metaphor for stopping the flow of spectacle long enough to adjust your set.
ref: 1999, Kalle Lasn, Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America, New York: Eagle Brook, →ISBN, →OL, page 107:
text: Instead of simply using non-spectacular or non-ironic factual information, rational argumentation, legal strategies, and traditional political tactics to oppose capitalist institutions directly, culture jamming turns the commercial techniques of image and emotion back on themselves through what Umberto Eco called “semiological guerrilla warfare.”
ref: 2008, Margaret E. Farrar with Jamie L. Warner, “Spectacular Resistance: The Billionaires for Bush and the Art of Political Culture Jamming”, in Polity, number 40, →DOI, pages 273–296:
text: Although its numbers remain small, the contribution of the Church of the SubGenius is influential; the aggressive culture jamming of the COSG is a strikingly original innovation in contemporary religion, and the penetration of its teachings concerning J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs, the Conspiracy, Mutantis and the ancestral role of the Yeti (and more) into underground publishing and guerrilla media (both online and offline) has been remarkably stimulating and fruitful.
ref: 2010, Carole M. Cusack, Invented Religions: Imagination, Fiction and Faith, Surrey; Burlington: Ashgate, →ISBN, →OL, page 111:
glosses: Any of various methods of modifying mass media (especially advertisements) to convey a different message.
wikipedia: Negativland
Over the Edge Vol. 1: JAMCON'84
shilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shill
spiritual leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritual leaders
Senses: glosses: a person who gives religious or sacred leadership, though not necessarily the leader of a religious organization
flavour enhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavour enhancers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flavor enhancer.
flavor enhancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavor enhancers
Senses: glosses: Any substance added to a food product to enhance its taste, especially to make it taste more savoury or to add umami
panentheistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more panentheistically
form: most panentheistically
Etymology: From panentheistical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a panentheistic manner
msg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: msgs
Senses: examples: text: Of the msgs on the voicemail we checked, what surprised us the most were the appointment confirmations from gun ranges and attendance requests from Hasidics seeking a minyan.
ref: 2015, Joshua Cohen, “From the Palo Alto Sessions”, in Book of Numbers: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 0.212:
glosses: Abbreviation of message.
msg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: msgs
form: msging
form: msged
form: msged
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of message.
panentheistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpænɛnθiˈɪstɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more panentheistical
form: most panentheistical
Senses: glosses: of or relating to panentheism
Derived terms: panentheistically
Related terms: panentheistic
agnostics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnostic
haz-mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haz-mats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hazmat.
hazmat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæzˌmæt/
Forms: form: hazmats
form: haz-mat
form: Haz-Mat
form: HAZMAT
form: HazMat
Etymology: Blend of hazardous + material.
Senses: examples: text: hazmat suit
text: No, but one day I got a letter in the mail, I opened it up and a puff of powder came all over my face and my chest. […] They said, “Don’t move, stay in the room.” And they got the hazmat people. So they came, they sprayed me down and all that.
ref: 2021 January 24, Donald G. McNeil Jr, “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2021:
synonyms: dangerous goods
HM/DG
glosses: Hazardous material(s).
predisposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpriːdɪspəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /ˌpridɪspəˈzɪʃən/
Forms: form: predispositions
Etymology: From pre- + disposition.
Senses: glosses: The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a behavior or a health condition.
Synonyms: proclivity
propensity
predilection
Related terms: diathesis
hazardous material
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hazardous materials
Senses: glosses: A material, natural or man-made, which is intrinsically dangerous or otherwise poses a safety hazard, such as materials which are explosive, poisonous, chemically active (including acids and other corrosives), radioactive, or biologically active (including human blood and other medical waste).
Synonyms: dangerous goods
Derived terms: hazmat
dangerous goods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Rail Accident Investigation Branch has issued urgent safety advice on maintenance arrangements for wagons which primarily carry dangerous goods, following the derailment of an oil train near Llangennech in South Wales on August 26.
ref: 2020 November 18, Andrew Roden, “Network News: RAIB issues urgent advice for dangerous goods wagons”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: Substances, natural or man-made, which are intrinsically dangerous or otherwise pose a safety hazard. Examples include explosives, poisons, and corrosives.
Synonyms: hazardous material
masculinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masculinity
scur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɜː/
ipa: /skɝ/
ipa: /skʌr/
ipa: /skøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: scare (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: scurs
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A distorted horn, regrown after the disbudding operation of a goat, sheep, or cow.
scur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɜː/
ipa: /skɝ/
ipa: /skʌr/
ipa: /skøː/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skeː/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skɜː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
homophone: scare (fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: scurs
form: scurring
form: scurred
form: scurred
Etymology: Compare scour (“to run”).
Senses: examples: text: Here he whistled , and the animal , who was scurring over the field , and occasionally kicking up his heels , instantly returned with a gentle neigh
ref: 1843, George Henry Borrow, The Bible in Spain:
glosses: To move hastily; to scour.
Schauer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schauers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
hydrosulfuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hydrosulphuric
Etymology: From hydro- + sulfuric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from hydrogen sulfide considered as hydrosulfuric acid.
hydrosulphuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + sulphuric.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric.
hydrosulfuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrosulphuric acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: hydrogen sulfide
hydrosulphuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hydrosulfuric acid.
appetizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of appetizer
cold cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold cut
form: cold-cuts
Senses: glosses: Cooked, sliced meat served cold, as in a sandwich or a tray of finger food.
Related terms: cold meat
toiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toil
toiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toil
toiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toilings
Senses: examples: text: Can we perceive a person's works as the effects of miracles or as the results of blessings or as the effects of their own mortal toilings?
ref: 2001, Bonnie Gulan, The Great Bible Dig: Excavation of the Scriptures, page 367:
glosses: Hard work.
wait up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: waits up
form: waiting up
form: waited up
form: waited up
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, Dad waited up for them. It must have been about midnight when they came in.
ref: 1980, Joe Garner, Never Fly Over an Eagle's Nest, page 66:
text: It is one a.m. on a Sunday morning and I'm waiting up for my teenage son, who was supposed to be home at midnight.
ref: 2005, Kathryn E. Livingston, All About Motherhood, page 55:
text: One night, Lana came home, while her dad waited up for her.
ref: 2008, Michael Panar, Changes:
text: Dad waited up at first, but by the end of sophomore year he was always in bed.
ref: 2011, Catherine Greenman, Hooked, page 203:
text: My dad waited up for us, pacing all over the place.
ref: 2011, Susan Calder, Deadly Fall, page 99:
text: While she waits up
You chase down the newest thing and take for granted what you have
ref: 2012, Taylor Swift, “Girl at Home”, in Red, performed by Taylor Swift:
glosses: To stay awake waiting for somebody to return.
examples: text: Hey, wait up! I forgot my umbrella.
text: We have to wait up for Steve.
glosses: To wait.
raw_tags: used in the imperative
linking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Conjunctions frequently function as linking words in a sentence.
glosses: Serving to connect other things together.
linking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Forms: form: linkings
Senses: examples: text: […] I will assume that multiple linkings of tones to a single tone-bearing unit come about only by language-specific rules.
ref: 1986, Douglas Pulleyblank, Tone in Lexical Phonology, page 11:
glosses: Linkage.
linking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋkɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The yard manager is linking the sections of the train together.
glosses: present participle and gerund of link
Derived terms: borderlinking
deep linking
hotlinking
linking consonant
linking element
linking number
linking r
linking verb
linking vowel
multilinking
nonlinking
subdivisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdivision
no-one
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of no one.
capitalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: capitalisations
form: capitalization
Etymology: From capitalise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: English and French have different rules for the capitalisation of the names of the days of the week.
glosses: The act or process of capitalising.
Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase.
examples: text: The capitalisation of all nouns is a distinctive feature of German.
text: Race is a flawed concept to begin with, and while the capitalisation of the “b” assuages race politics, it also validates race politics.
ref: 2021 June 3, Minna Salami, “Why I don’t believe the word ‘black’ should always have a capital ‘b’”, in The Guardian:
text: Frequent, sometimes unexpected capitalisations are customary in Dickinson’s writing, and here they gain additional nuance.
ref: 2023 June 19, Carol Rumens, “Poem of the week: She rose to His Requirement by Emily Dickinson”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The act or process of capitalising.
Choice of case (when writing a word); the act or process of writing a word in a particular case, such as ALL CAPS, Title Case, CamelCase, Sentence case, or all lowercase.
The act or process of writing (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: [...] apparently indicating the degree to which his identification with black music predicates his capitalization on it [...]
ref: 1998, Phillip Brian Harper, Are We Not Men?, page 75:
glosses: The act or process of capitalising.
The act or process of seizing (an opportunity) and profiting or obtaining an advantage (from it).
glosses: The state of being capitalised.
examples: text: His capitalisation was erratic: sometimes he wrote "British", sometimes "british", sometimes "briTish"...
glosses: The state of being capitalised.
The state of having a particular case, such as ALL CAPS or all lowercase.
examples: text: I doubt if one of them was interested in any business the total capitalization of which exceeded a couple of hundred thousand dollars.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: The total value of all outstanding shares for a publicly traded company
Synonyms: topics: finance
business
word: cap
Derived terms: autocapitalization
cap
capitalization table
cap table
decapitalization
market capitalization
market cap
miscapitalisation
miscapitalization
overcapitalization
recapitalization
uncapitalization
undercapitalisation
undercapitalization
capitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of capitalised.
Derived terms: noncapitalized
uncapitalized
undercapitalized
capitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: capitalised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of capitalize
spiritualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiritualists
Etymology: From spiritual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
glosses: One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication with the dead; one who attempts to communicate with the dead.
Synonyms: medium
spiritist
spiritualist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiritualist
form: most spiritualist
Etymology: From spiritual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.
Kisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kissi
Senses: glosses: An African language of the Bantu family spoken in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Kisi terms
Kisi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The posters, put up by a delegation from the provincial town of Kisi (Chi-hsi), claimed that disloyal army troops and a mob of over 100,000 anti-Maoist workers had carried out an armed attack on 60,000 Maoists in Kisi May 14-15, killing or wounding an “unaccountable number” of them.
ref: 1968, 1967 News Dictionary, Facts on File, →OCLC, page 57:
text: Other large Heilungkiang mines are sited at Kisi and Shwangyashan, which produced 5-8 million and 2-3 million tons respectively in 1957¹⁹.
ref: 1980, T.R. Tregar, China: A Geographical Survey, Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 219:
glosses: Alternative form of Jixi.
Kivinza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Vinza (“a dialect of Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Tanzania”).
synonyms: word: Vinza
extra: a dialect of Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Tanzania
greenbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenback
pleochroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleochroisms
form: pleochromism
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The optical phenomenon in some coloured, transparent crystals (such as tourmaline and opal) in which the colour changes when viewed from different directions.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The presence of various colours in the cell wall.
Related terms: dichroism
pleochroic
trichroism
pneumatolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatolyses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνεῦμα (pneûma, “vapor”) + λύειν (lúein, “to set free”). By surface analysis, pneumato- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: the alteration of rocks and minerals by gases or magmatic fluid within volcanos etc
Derived terms: pneumatolytic
magmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɡˈmatɪk/
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin magma + -ic, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “thick unguent”), from μαγίς (magís, “kneaded mass”).
Senses: examples: text: The magmatic masses are moving at shallow depth in the western part of the Gulf of Pozzuoli.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 26:
glosses: Pertaining to magma or magmatism.
Derived terms: amagmatic
comagmatic
cryomagmatic
hydromagmatic
magmatically
nonmagmatic
phreatomagmatic
postmagmatic
tectonomagmatic
magmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɡˈmatɪk/
Forms: form: magmatics
Etymology: From (the stem of) Latin magma + -ic, from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “thick unguent”), from μαγίς (magís, “kneaded mass”).
Senses: glosses: A rock formed from magma
donkey's years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donkeys' years
form: donkey's
Etymology: 1876 or earlier. Possibly chosen because donkeys can be long-lived animals. Despite the similarity, pre-dates and likely not directly related to donkey's ears, a less frequently used rhyming slang term for years.
Senses: examples: text: Didn't you ask him how long it had been in his possession?
I can't recollect that. I might have done so.
Didn't he say for years and years and donkey's years?
ref: 1876, The Salisbury Times
text: With a heavy make-up, you’ll be the cutest vamp I’ve seen in donkey's years.
ref: 1923, The Bridgeport Telegram:
glosses: A long time, years and years.
wikipedia: rhyming slang
poison gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poison glands
Senses: glosses: Any specialized gland in some fishes and amphibians that secretes a mucus-like substance containing venomous or acrid material.