cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
askesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈskiːsɪs/
ipa: /əˈskisɪs/
ipa: /æ-/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: askeses
Senses: examples: text: And this we do find in the Basilican, the Byzantine, and the Romanesque architectures, each more perfect than another, and each lacking in an ever diminishing degree much of the perfect holiness of the Saint of "the most high,"—they came and passed away like different periods in the askesis of a holy soul aiming after the perfection of the spiritual life, and truly therefore they are Christian.
ref: 1845 March, “On the Nomenclature of Christian Architecture”, in The Ecclesiologist, volume I (New Series; volume IV overall), number II, Cambridge: John Thomas Walters […]; London: F[rancis] & J[ohn] Rivington […], →OCLC, page 50:
text: The preacher's faith should be nourished by self-discipline, the true askesis. […] What we venture to recommend is that spiritual askesis—self-discipline of all the faculties—which imparts to the preacher's faith the property of being imperturbable, […]
ref: 1853 June, “How is Pulpit Power to be Acquired?”, in Abel Stevens, editor, The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, volume II, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Published by Carlton & Phillips, […], →OCLC, page 551:
text: The body of this book consists of three related case studies, which take up particular problematics surrounding the hermeneutics of the transgendered agent, the askeses of organized weight-loss dieting, and attempts to represent the subjectivity of cosmetic surgery recipients.
ref: 2007, Cressida J. Heyes, “Introduction: The Somatic Individual”, in Self-transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies (Studies in Feminist Philosophy), New York, N.Y.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Their different practices, or askeses, of attachment widen their conceptions of the divine, the self, and longing itself. Looking at their respective askeses, we next consider how each woman hints at the apophatic in her practices, and the tantalizing implications therein.
ref: 2017, Holly Hillgardner, “Longing and Letting Go Together: Comparative Practices of Passionate Non-attachment”, in Longing and Letting Go: Christian and Hindu Practices of Passionate Non-attachment, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: Alternative form of ascesis.
asprawl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈspɹɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: From a- + sprawl.
Senses: examples: text: 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, New York and London: Street & Smith, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 129,
[…] he saw […] a man lying flat upon his face upon the ground, with his arms and legs all asprawl.
text: […] Milton […] fully clothed, asprawl on the couch, lay snoring with a soft, blubbering sound,
ref: 1951, William Styron, chapter 1, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 24:
text: 1984, J. P. Donleavy, De Alfonce Tennis, New York: Dutton / Seymour Lawrence, Part 5, p. 86,
a vast drawing room asprawl with immense sofas, high backed chairs, two massive refectory tables and four chimney pieces
text: […] I see a bicycle asprawl in abandon among the ferns, handlebars turned sideways and its front wheel jutting up at a somehow unseemly angle,
ref: 2005, John Banville, The Sea, London: Picador, Part 1, p. 113:
glosses: Sprawling; covered or filled (with something sprawling).
asprawl
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈspɹɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Etymology: From a- + sprawl.
Senses: examples: text: All through the night which followed her panic flight from the huge, heavy-footed figure that had groped out for her, called to her, and dropped asprawl her own small cloak in the doorway, Denny Bolton’s blood-soiled face and drunkenly reckless laugh had been with her,
ref: 1914, Larry Evans, chapter 11, in Once to Every Man, New York: H. K. Fly, pages 151–152:
text: Hundreds were asprawl the open space between the Cross and the kirkyard.
ref: 1947, James Barke, The Song in the Green Thorn Tree, London: Collins, Part 1, p. 78:
text: From a distance the wood looked like a cloak, flung carelessly asprawl the shoulder of the hill,
ref: 1977, Ewan Clarkson, chapter 3, in The Badgers of Summercombe,, New York: Dutton, page 18:
text: […] she thought that not for anything would she wish him to see her naked thus, naked and cut, asprawl a windowsill.
ref: 1994, Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, page 147:
glosses: Sprawling over or across.
transpare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transpares
form: transparing
form: transpared
form: transpared
Etymology: See transparent.
Senses: examples: c. 1604, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Sonnet LXXIII
Oft haue I wish'd whilst in this state I was, That th'alablaster bulwarke might transpare
glosses: To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be see-through (literally or figurative)
horrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horrent
form: most horrent
Etymology: From Latin horrens, present participle of horrere (“to bristle”). See horror.
Senses: examples: text: Impregnable their front appears, All horrent with projected spears, Whose polished points before them shine, From flank to flank, one brilliant line, Bright as the breakers' splendors run Along the billows to the sun.
ref: 1922, Charles H. Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7:
text: But higher than all its horrent height of shade Shone sovereign, seen by light itself had made, Above the woes of all the world, above Life, sin, and death, his myriad-minded love.
ref: 1917, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Astrophel and Other Poems:
text: Above them the rocks rose wild and horrent, apparently inaccessible, but the keen eye of our Hubert detected one path, a mere goat path, used perhaps also by shepherds.
ref: 1886, A. D. Crake, The House of Walderne:
text: Its wild and savage aspect, its horrent precipices, its shaggy woods, its strangely-shaped rocks and tenebrous depths, where every imperfectly-seen object appeared doubly frightful--all combined to invest it with mystery and terror.
ref: 1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches:
text: He was now at the spot in which his brother had left him; hastily he glanced behind, and saw the couched lance and horrent crest of the horseman close at his rear; despairingly he looked up, and behold! his brother bursting through the tangled brakes that clothed the mountain, and bounding to his succour.
ref: 1835, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Rienzi:
glosses: Standing upright, like bristles; bristled; bristly.
splendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsplɛndənt/
rhymes: -ɛndənt
Forms: form: more splendent
form: most splendent
form: splendant
Etymology: From Middle English splendaunt, from Old French splendiant, present participle of esplendiier, and esplendent, and Latin splendēns, splendentis, present participle of splendēre (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: splendent planets
text: splendent metals
glosses: Shining; glossy; lustrous.
examples: text: great and splendent fortunes
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: Very conspicuous; illustrious.
examples: text: After the triumph followed the faire Parthenopeian Leria, with a lawrell crowne, accompanied with Melanthia, whose habites and voices represented the pride of Greece,[A] whereupon the great Macedon rested his head: She bare a splendent lampe, communicating the light thereof with hir companion, then the rest more excellent both in voice and song.
ref: 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia:
text: July 1st, Daun had crossed the Elbe (Daun let us say for brevity, though it is Daun and Karl, or even Karl and Daun, Karl being chief, and capable of saying so at times, though Daun is very splendent since Kolin),--crossed the Elbe above Brandeis; Nadasti, with precursor Pandours, now within an hour's march of Jung-Bunzlau;--and it was time to go.
ref: 1759, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.):
text: --And lo! toward me, next, Another of those splendent forms approach'd, That, by its outward bright'ning, testified The will it had to pleasure me.
ref: 1814, The Rev. H. F. Cary, M.A., The Vision of Paradise, Complete:
glosses: Splendid, marvellous, wonderful.
reconnoître
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconnoîtres
form: reconnoîtring
form: reconnoîtred
form: reconnoîtred
Senses: examples: text: This is a letter from Andreas Goeding, provost of Werio, a town in Gothland, to the then secretary of the archives of state. The writer’s narrative is as follows:— / “When I was in Saxony, in the year 1687, a fortunate accident enabled me to discover the circumstances accompanying the melancholy end of Gustavus Adolphus. This great monarch had rode out for the simple purpose of reconnoîtring the enemy, attended by a single servant.[…]”
ref: 1833, “Foreign Miscellany”, in The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine, part III, London: […] for Henry Colburn, by Richard Bentley, […], “Sweden. Gustavus Adolphus’ Death.”, page 95:
text: On approaching the island, the boats were lowered, and some of the officers and scientific corps started to reconnoître.
ref: 1850, John S. Jenkins, “Clermont de Tonnèrre”, in United States Exploring Expeditions. Voyage of the U. S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes, of the United States Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842: […]., Auburn: James M. Alden, page 156:
text: But the chief thing was to take London; so as soon as William was well enough, he set forth again on his march. He first sent out five hundred horsemen, who must have gone more to reconnoître, as it is called, that is to look about and to see how the land lies, than with any hope that such a force could take the city.
ref: 1869, Edward A. Freeman, “The Interregnum. October 1—December 25, 1066.”, in Old English History for Children, London: Macmillan and Co., page 345:
text: If moreover a veterinary surgeon has a turn for zootechny, and great propensity to the profession, if he is besides urged on by experienced cattle-breeders, there is certainly no other person better able than he to promote cattle-breeding.[…]He should likewise visit the places where cattle are examined, be present where prices are awarded, frequent markets of breeding-cattle, cattle shows and race-courses; these visits being of great use for reconnoîtring and judging of the condition of the breeds.
ref: 1909, Proceedings, page 10:
text: éclairer, to light up; reconnoître.[…]reconnaissance, f., gratitude; reconnoîtring-trip; pousser une — perdue, to go on a dangerous reconnoîtring party.
ref: 1911, I. H. B. Spiers, Episodes from Alexandre Dumas’ Les trois mousquetaires, ed. with notes and vocab., pages 162 and 179:
text: > Until about 00:08 I reckon. / What do you do after you reconnoître?
ref: 2004 May 6, ah, “My TV just switched itself on!”, in uk.rec.caravanning (Usenet):
glosses: Rare spelling of reconnoitre.
veges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vegs
Senses: glosses: plural of veg
veges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vegs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of veg
promine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: retine
glosses: The promoting agent in Szent-Györgyi's theory of cell division.
suades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suade
affulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more affulgent
form: most affulgent
Senses: examples: text: God is one: about that there is a certain certitude, but He is both Absolute and Related, Immanent and Transcendent. [...] He is affulgent Light. He is Darkness within darkness. He is the Creator and also the destroyer of what He creates. And, then, He re-creates in order to re-destroy.
ref: 1971, Gopal Singh, The Religion of the Sikhs, New Delhi: Allied Publishers, published 1987, →ISBN, page 42:
text: With the new decade ahead, the contributions of the Department of Surgery should be more affulgent than ever.
ref: 1978, REI Report, page 55:
text: At that time an affulgent pillar of fire arose before their eyes.
ref: 1987, F. M. Hassnain, Yoshiaki Miura, Vijay Pandita, Sri Amarnatha Cave, the Abode of Shiva, page 59:
text: The glory of the true saints is indescribable. They are deep like ocean and affulgent like the sun.
ref: 1999, Giriraj Shah, Saints, Gurus and Mystics of India - Volume 1, page xiii:
text: Also, he assumes different forms concealing his affulgent form.
ref: 2003, Narendranath B. Patil, The Variegated Plumage: Encounters with Indian Philosophy, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of effulgent.
circumfulgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumfulgent
form: most circumfulgent
Etymology: From circum- + fulgent.
Senses: examples: text: Turning from the first glance at the circumfulgent splendour, it dwindled into nothing as he looked again at the lady.
ref: 1883, George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdie:
glosses: Shining around or about.
effulges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effulge
refulges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refulge
interlucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interlucent
form: most interlucent
Etymology: From Latin interlucens.
Senses: examples: text: And not an interlucent star looks forth / To mitigate the gloom.
ref: 1835, Henry Austen Driver, Harold de Burun:
glosses: shining between
transluces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of transluce
transluce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transluces
form: translucing
form: transluced
form: transluced
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trāns-
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Indo-European *lowkéyeti
Proto-Italic *loukeō
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Italic *loukēō
Latin lūceō
Latin trānslūceōbor.
Latin trānslūceō
Latin trānslūcēnsbor.
English translucent
English transluce
As if from Latin trānslūceō (“shine through; be translucent”), but perhaps a back-formation from translucent (ultimately from the same Latin verb).
Senses: examples: text: […] for her stainless soul transluced the fairest skin, making simplicity a grace, filling her large blue eyes with gentle rays; and her arch laughter with innocent mirth.
ref: 1904, John P. Lonargan, Cwan and Genevieve: A Tale of Love and Romance in the Days of Roderick, Last Monarch of All Ireland, page 35:
text: By translucing the paper when the negative is otherwise finished the grain can be reduced to a minimum. The following translucing media may be mentioned: (1) Vaseline, (2) paraffin waxin paraffin, (3) castor oil and alcohol, (4) white wax ...
ref: 1915, The Photographic Journal of America: The Oldest Photography Magazine in America, page 111:
text: The less transparent consciousness is, the less translucent will the world itself be. In other words, when consciousness is very opaque, it is not able to transluce the world. Now to transluce the world means to make it understandable.
ref: 1970, Robert S. Hartman, Robert. E. Carter, "Dialogue on Intrinsic Value" (1970), pages 122-23, quoted in 2014, Rem B. Edwards, John W. Davis, Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Application, Wipf and Stock Publishers, page 119
text: In his refusal to allow tropes to transluce into meaning, Donne locates spiritual significance not in the disembodied and abstract sphere but in the body itself.
ref: 2014, Kimberly Johnson, Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: To shine (light) through, and thus make (the thing which is shined through) translucent.
examples: text: holy are the doors that admit
holy are the rivets that bind
holy are the windows that transluce
ref: 2006, Alexander Levering Kern, Becoming Fire: Spiritual Writing from Rising Generations, Andover Newton Publications, page 5:
text: At the end of the dance, when “matter turned to spirit,” the two cliffs once again came together to form an arch but both rock structures were now lighted to transluce and transform into stained glass.
ref: 2007, Nicanor G. Tiongson, Salvador F. Bernal: Designing the Stage:
text: Cook the bacon in a pan, add the onion and cook until they start to transluce, then add the garlic and cook for another minute.
ref: 2018, Mattis Lundqvist, 25 Low-Carbohydrate Recipes for the Slow Cooker: Delicious low carb recipes for all slow cooker fans - part 1: Measurements in grams, BookRix, →ISBN:
glosses: To be translucent or transparent, to allow light to shine through.
tralucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɹəˈlusənt/
Forms: form: more tralucent
form: most tralucent
Etymology: From Latin tralucens, translucens. See translucent.
Senses: examples: text: the air's tralucent gallery
ref: 1595, John Davies, Orchestra:
glosses: Translucent.
oboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obole
appertinent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appertinents
Senses: examples: text: To furnish him with all appertinents / Belonging to his honour;
ref: c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 2, scene 2, lines 87–88:
glosses: That which belongs to something else; an appurtenant.
appertinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: September 30, 1819, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to T. Alsopp
Nay, those temptations which are foreknown and foreseen as most appertinent to our particular calling, are commonly least dangerous, or even cease to be temptations to a mind forearmed by principles and aspirations like yours.
glosses: Belonging; appertaining; appurtenant.
praesides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praeses
condolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condolets
Senses: glosses: A fitting attached to an electrical conduit to facilitate the pulling and routing of wire.
dedolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛdələnt/
Forms: form: more dedolent
form: most dedolent
Etymology: From Latin dedolens, present participle of dedolere (“to give over grieving”); de- + dolere (“to grieve”).
Senses: examples: text: Men are dedolent and past feeling, and having no other Law, but that of the Corporeal Life, become insatiable in Impiety
ref: 1677, Henry Hallywell, The Sacred Method of Saving Humane Souls by Jesus Christ:
glosses: Feeling no compunction; apathetic.
pavisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavis
conticent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒntɪsənt/
Forms: form: more conticent
form: most conticent
Etymology: From Latin conticens, present participle of conticeo (“I am silent”), from con- + taceo (“I am quiet”).
Senses: examples: text: The guests sit conticent.
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
glosses: silent
torpent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more torpent
form: most torpent
Etymology: From Latin torpens, present participle of torpere (“to be numb”).
Senses: examples: text: frail and torpent Memory through so multifarious and numerous an Employment
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.
torpent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torpents
Etymology: From Latin torpens, present participle of torpere (“to be numb”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A numbing agent.
sympathy card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sympathy cards
Etymology: From sympathy + card.
Senses: glosses: A greeting card sent to family members of one who has died to express regret.
glosses: An attempt to gain sympathy or an advantage in a discussion by portraying oneself as a victim in need of sympathy (used with the verb "play").
Synonyms: sense: card expressing regret over death of someone
word: condolence card
Hyponyms: sense: card expressing regret over death of someone
word: Mass card
condolence card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condolence cards
Senses: glosses: A sympathy card.
mades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of made
adversarial system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adversarial systems
Senses: topics: law
antonyms: inquisitorial system
glosses: A system of law in which advocates represent the prosecution and the defence and an impartial person (judge) or people (jury) determine the truth of the matter
begrudgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From begrudge + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: a certain sense of resentment at economically successful countries (what the Irish themselves call their national vice of begrudgery)
ref: 1978, Gerard Quinn, “Ireland and the European Monetary System”, in Studies, volume 67, page 275:
text: Joseph Lee's Ireland 1912-1985 seems to confirm the intuition of the writers in presenting an Ireland in which an alarming political and economic retardation was linked to begrudgery, "a deadly alloy of envy, jealousy and spite".
ref: 1998 Nina Witoszek, Patrick F. Sheeran, "The Tradition of Vernacular Hatred" in Talking to the Dead: A Study of Irish Funerary Traditions (Costerus New Series, Vol.117, p.114)
text: If proof were needed that begrudgery was dead, we need look no further than the existence of VIP magazine.
ref: 2004, John Waters, The politburo has decided that you are unwell, page 283:
glosses: resentment or envy of the success of a peer; criticism of ostentatious display of success.
Synonyms: tall poppy syndrome
Related terms: begrudger
boarfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boarfishes
form: boarfish
form: boar-fish
Etymology: From boar + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of fish that have a projecting snout, in either of two families:
The Caproidae
glosses: Any of a number of fish that have a projecting snout, in either of two families:
The Pentacerotidae
bucketwheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucketwheels
form: bucket-wheel
Etymology: From bucket + wheel.
Senses: glosses: An excavator having a series of bucket-shaped scoops on a rotating wheel or belt
ctenidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctenidia
Etymology: Borrowed from Byzantine Greek κτενίδιον (ktenídion, “comb”). By surface analysis, cteno- + -idium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A respiratory system, in the form of a comb, in some molluscs
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A row of spines in some insects
Related terms: ctenidial
devoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devove
dechristianization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkɹɪtʃənʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: dechristianizations
form: de-christianization
Etymology: From dechristianize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Fouché, before 1789 a teacher attached to the Oratorian order, engaged in an extraordinary campaign of ‘dechristianization’ in his tour of duty in the department of the Nièvre in September [...].
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 487:
glosses: The act of dechristianizing; the systematic removal of Christianity or Christian elements.
devove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈvəʊv/
Forms: form: devoves
form: devoving
form: devoved
form: devoved
Etymology: See devote.
Senses: examples: text: Twas his own son, whom God and mankind lov'd , His own victorious son , that he devov'd
ref: 1656, Abraham Cowley, Davideis:
glosses: To devote.
dechristianize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dechristianizes
form: dechristianizing
form: dechristianized
form: dechristianized
form: de-christianize
Etymology: From de- + Christianize.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of Christian character
Derived terms: dechristianizer
Related terms: dechristianization
something to write home about
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: synonyms: nothing to write home about
glosses: Something exceptional or noteworthy.
epicedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicedia
Senses: glosses: An epicede: a dirge, lament, elegy.
firepit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firepits
form: fire pit
Etymology: From fire + pit.
Senses: glosses: A pit dug in the ground, or constructed from stones, in which a fire is made, principally for cooking.
Related terms: fire table
tessara-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕʹsərə
ipa: /ˈtɛsəɹə/
Forms: form: tessera-
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek τέσσᾰρᾰ (téssără), the neuter plural and combining form of τέσσᾰρες (téssăres, “four”); compare tetra-.
Senses: glosses: four
wikipedia: number prefix
Synonyms: sense: four
word: quadr-
sense: four
word: tetra-
Derived terms: tessaradecasyllabon
tessaraglot
tessaraphthong
tesseradecade
tesseratomic
Related terms: tessarakost
maple leaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maple leaf
praevocalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 1905: Etsko Kruisinga, A Grammar of the Dialect of West Somerset, pages 94⁽¹⁾ and 95⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ Transposition of praevocalic r is very common, see § 66.
⁽²⁾ Postvocalic r has become praevocalic in urn, birthday.
text: 1909: William Rennie, The Acharnians of Aristophanes, pages 220⁽¹⁾ and 224⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ The close pronunciation of praevocalic ε in Boeotian would give ἄνθῐα, just as the Attic θεός becomes Boeotian and Laconian θῐός.
⁽²⁾ Praevocalic ε is represented by Boeotian ῐ.
text: v, 95, 98, 105; sources in O.F. I: Latin kṷ qu, interv. 328–330; G.R. 𝛃, cf. β; L.L. ṷ, initial after d and n, 374; O.F. glide w, 239, 267; in Mid. Fr. f, final praevocalic, 611.
ref: 1952: Mildred Katharine Pope, From Latin to Modern French, page 570 (rev. ed.)
glosses: Rare spelling of prevocalic.
striped maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striped maples
Senses: glosses: moosewood (Acer pensylvanicum).
Synonyms: sense: Acer pensylvanicum
word: moose maple
moose maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moose maples
Senses: glosses: Striped maple, Acer pensylvanicum.
glosses: Mountain maple, Acer spicatum.
mountain maple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain maples
Senses: glosses: Moose maple, Acer spicatum.
Machiavel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Machiavels
Etymology: An Anglicisation of the Italian surname Machiavelli, as borne by Niccolò Machiavelli.
Senses: glosses: A person who follows the principles laid down by Niccolò Machiavelli.
examples: text: The distinction is between the anonymous Continental Op of the detective novel, the man of honour who must nevertheless walk down mean streets, and the thoroughgoing Machiavel, the man who has learned not to be good.
ref: 1988, Susan Mendus, “The Serpent and the Dove”, in Philosophy, LXIII, № 245, page 339:
text: In pursuit of these ends, agents will find themselves in conflict with morality and we want them to be the sorts of people who can reject morality, yet we don’t want them to be Machiavels in the worst sense.
ref: ibidem, page 340
glosses: A schemer or intriguer.
Lebesgue integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbɛːɡ ˈɪntəɡɹəl/
ipa: /ləˈbɛːɡ ˈɪntəɡɹl̩/
Forms: form: Lebesgue integrals
Etymology: Named after Henri Lebesgue, a French mathematician.
Senses: examples: text: The Lebesgue integral is learned in a first-year real-analysis course.
text: Compute the Lebesgue integral of f over E.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integral which has more general application than that of the Riemann integral, because it allows the region of integration to be partitioned into not just intervals but any measurable sets for which the function to be integrated has a sufficiently narrow range. (Formal definitions can be found at PlanetMath).
Hypernyms: integral
dropped egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dropped eggs
Senses: glosses: A poached egg.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dropped, egg.
dropped eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropped egg
househunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of house-hunting.
Related terms: househunter
Lebesgue integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lebesgue integral
yiven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of yive
rentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rentors
Etymology: From rent + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who rents a property to a rentee
ca'n't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: [Alice:] and I'm sure I ca'n't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh, she knows such a very little!
ref: 1866, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 2, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of can't.
-eh
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɛ/
/i/
Senses: examples: kitteh (for kitty)
sunneh (for sunny)
glosses: Used to replace -y, often in lolcat speak.
LOLspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lolspeak.
LOLcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOLcats
Senses: examples: text: A cluttered virtual desktop is as bad as a cluttered physical desktop. It's visually distracting and makes it easy to get derailed from the task at hand. (“Hey, lemme peek at that hilarious LOLcat just one more time!”)
ref: 2011, Adam Pash, Gina Trapani, Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better:
glosses: Alternative form of lolcat.
LOLcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LOLcat
Sweet Swan of Avon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sweet Swan of Avon
Senses: glosses: William Shakespeare, a playwright and poet.
poissonniers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poissonnier
shaurma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaurmas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shawarma.
shawirma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shawirmas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shawarma.
shaurmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaurma
shawirmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shawirma
headloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headlosses
Etymology: From head + loss.
Senses: examples: text: The headloss in a 16" pipe is 2 feet, but in a 20" pipe, it is just 1.2 feet.
glosses: The difference in pressure between points in a hydraulic system of piping as a result of friction, elevation change etc.
verballed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verbal
Kars
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Kars, Ottoman Turkish قارص (Kars), and Armenian Կարս (Kars). As a New Brunswick parish, named for the 1855 Siege of Kars in the Crimean War.
Senses: glosses: A province in northeastern Turkey.
glosses: A district of Kars Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Kars district and Kars Province, Turkey, historically Armenian.
glosses: A civil parish and community in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A village in the city of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
QSL cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of QSL card
shuggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuggles
form: shuggling
form: shuggled
form: shuggled
Senses: examples: text: The sink is blocked, put a rod down the plug hole and shuggle it about.
text: “It′s a mold for the false bottom of a briefcase. These cups keep things from shuggling about. Do they make briefcases there?”
ref: 1969, Shaun Herron, Miro, page 128:
text: Clara was sitting outside Hisper Cottage, shuggling the pram. As Katherine approached, the nanny raised a finger to her lips.
‘Shh! Hazel′s just dropping off. Where′s Alice and Greta?’
ref: 2007, Annabel Dore, The Great North Road, unnumbered page:
text: Without a key to the door he′d get in the window, shuggling the latch just so, freeing it up just enough to flip the glass up and slide in through the opening.
ref: 2010, Tom English, The Grudge: Scotland Vs. England, 1990, page 20:
glosses: Alternative form of shoogle.
Hygiea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hygieia
Etymology: From Latin Hygēa, Hygīa, from Ancient Greek Ὑγίεια (Hugíeia), Ὑγεία (Hugeía).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ancient Greek goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation. Her Roman name is Hygēa/Hygīa or Salus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: the tenth asteroid discovered, and fourth largest, (10) Hygiea.
Synonyms: sense: Greek goddess
word: Hygeia
sense: Greek goddess
word: Hygieia
sense: asteroid
word: ⚕
sense: asteroid
word: ⯚
sense: asteroid
word: 🝹
Related terms: word: hygiene
word: hygienic
english: Hygieia's father
translation: Hygieia's father
word: Asclepius
english: Hygieia's mother
translation: Hygieia's mother
word: Epione
english: one of Hygieia's sister
translation: one of Hygieia's sister
word: Iaso
english: one of Hygieia's sisters
translation: one of Hygieia's sisters
word: Aceso
english: one of Hygieia's sisters
translation: one of Hygieia's sisters
word: Aglaea
english: one of Hygieia's sisters
translation: one of Hygieia's sisters
word: Panacea
english: one of Hygieia's sisters
translation: one of Hygieia's sisters
word: Meditrina
english: one of Hygieia's brother
translation: one of Hygieia's brother
word: Machaon
english: one of Hygieia's brothers
translation: one of Hygieia's brothers
word: Podaleirios
english: one of Hygieia's brothers
translation: one of Hygieia's brothers
word: Telesphoros
english: Hygieia's half-brother
translation: Hygieia's half-brother
word: Aratus
in earnest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "I wasn't in earnest. I only brought it in joke."
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 29.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: She replied, "When did I ever tell you a lie ? I am in earnest."
ref: 1845, Caroline Kirkland, Western Clearings, Wiley and Putnam, page 104:
text: Samuel was stern, serious and deeply in earnest. He seldom smiled and never laughed. He was uncompromisingly religious, conscientious and morally unbending.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, “Samuel Adams”, in Little Journeys Vol. 3: American Statesmen:
glosses: Sincere; determined; truthful.
in earnest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more in earnest
form: most in earnest
Senses: examples: text: It's snowing in earnest right now.
text: The gentlemen wear swords, and may easily have pistols in their pockets—most likely have, indeed. If they fire at each other without effect, then they’ll draw, and go to work in earnest.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 11, in Barnaby Rudge:
text: But I see that if I were to live in a wilderness I should again be tempted to become a fisher and hunter in earnest.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, chapter 11, in Walden:
text: He spoke in earnest of the importance of achieving academic excellence as well as winning football games.
ref: 1995 December 27, Guerry Clegg, “Mason era ends quickly at Georgia”, in Gainesville Sun, retrieved 20 Aug 2010, page 2C:
text: The Northern Alliance attacked in earnest on Friday night, and the Afghan Taliban soldiers immediately switched sides, while their commanders jumped into pickup trucks and sped south.
ref: 2001 November 14, Alex Perry, “Eyewitness: The Taliban Undone”, in Time:
text: The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).
ref: 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: With considerable commitment, determination, or effect; significantly.
examples: text: He was talking in earnest, even though his speech carried an ironic tone.
glosses: Having a sincere intent. (of a person)
comprehenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comprehender
μ-completion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: μ-completions
Senses: examples: text: Every σ-algebra has a μ'''-completion: if a σ-algebra is complete, then it is equal to its μ-completion, otherwise it is contained by its μ-completion.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A σ-algebra which is obtained as a "completion" of a given σ-algebra, which includes all subsets of the given measure space which simultaneously contain a member of the given σ-algebra and are contained by a member of the given σ-algebra, as long as the contained and containing measurable sets have the same measure, in which case the subset in question is assigned a measure equal to the common measure of its contained and containing measurable sets (so the measure is also being completed, in parallel with the σ-algebra).
Hypernyms: σ-algebra
Related terms: complete measure
studier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: studiers
Etymology: From Middle English stodiar, stodier, stodiere, stodyer, studiar, studier, studyer; equivalent to study + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who studies.
Synonyms: english: more formal
translation: more formal
word: student
trobling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troble
trobled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of troble
interwebz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Although it looks like Google is scanning each and every web page and social media on the interwebz at the moment you search for something, it is not really that magical.
ref: 2014, Mike Moran, Bill Hunt, Search Engine Marketing, Inc., IBM Press, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: plural of interweb; alternative form of interwebs
forstand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fə(ɹ)ˈstænd/
ipa: /fɔː(ɹ)ˈstænd/
ipa: /fɚˈstænd/
Forms: form: forstands
form: forstanding
form: forstood
form: forstood
form: forestand
Etymology: From Middle English forstanden, from Old English forstandan (“to defend, help, protect, withstand, prevent, hinder, resist, oppose, benefit, avail, understand, signify, be equal to”), from Proto-West Germanic *frastandan (“to understand, oppose”), equivalent to for- + stand. Cognate with West Frisian ferstean (“to understand”), Saterland Frisian ferstounde (“to understand”), Dutch verstaan (“to understand”), German verstehen (“to understand”). Compare also Norwegian Bokmål forstå (“to comprehend, understand”), Swedish förstå (“to comprehend, understand”).
Senses: examples: text: And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
ref: 1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, page 291:
text: "As he would more of them had not wise God, Wierd forstood him, and the man's courage."
ref: 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England:
text: Hemophilia is a contraindication for vaginal hysterectomy, unless you have the time to build your patient up in order to forestand the shock.
ref: 1895, The Medical News:
text: A mighty angel there forstood them.
ref: 1963, Fredericus Theodorus Visser, An historical syntax of the English language: Volume 1, Part 3:
glosses: To stand against; stand in front of so as to bar the way; block; oppose; withstand.
examples: text: How can I forstand your Professors, when they dinna forstand themselves.
ref: 1878, Samuel Smiles, Robert Dick: baker, of Thurso, geologist and botanist:
glosses: To understand; comprehend.
umbethink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: umbethinks
form: umbethinking
form: umbethought
form: umbethought
form: unbethink
form: onbethink
Etymology: From Middle English umbethenken, from Old English ymbeþencan, ymbþencan (“to think about, consider, deliberate”), from ymb- (“around”) + þencan (“to think”), equivalent to um- + bethink or umbe- + think.
Senses: glosses: To recall to mind; remember; recollect.
glosses: To consider; think about; bethink.
Derived terms: umbethinking
Spayen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Spain.
pastegh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pasteghs
form: bastegh
Etymology: From Armenian պաստեղ (pasteġ). Doublet of pastel, pastiglia, pastila, pastilla, and pastille.
Senses: glosses: a kind of Armenian fruit leather made by simmering mashed fruits and berries, then drying the thickened substance in sheets
bastegh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pastegh.
inebriacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: WICHITA, Kan., June 1—George Bradshaw, son of a prominent resident here, died yesterday from causes alleged to have been brought about by the treatment he was taking for the cure of inebriacy.
ref: 1892 June 2, “Killed by an Inebriacy Cure”, in New York Times, page 9:
text: "I have had a remarkable case of inebriacy under my personal observation. The patient drank heavily for fifteen years and reach a degraded condition."
ref: 1910 March 5, “Orrine Does Cure Drunkenness”, in Daily Times, USA, page 2:
glosses: The state or characteristic of drunkenness, especially as a persistent condition.
Synonyms: alcoholism
drunkenness
inebriation
inebriety
demolition derbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demolition derby
stock cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock car
org chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: org charts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of organization chart.
organizational chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organizational charts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of organization chart.
organisational chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organisational charts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of organization chart.
echo boomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echo boomers
Senses: examples: text: By 2010, there will be 70 million potential drivers among the echo boomers born from 1977 to 1994.
ref: 2002 March 31, Michelle Krebs, “Youth Will Be Served at This Year's New York Auto Show”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Aug 2010:
topics: demographics
demography
synonyms: baby boomlet
glosses: A child of a member of the post-World War II baby boom generation, born in the period extending approximately from the late 1970s or early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
Related terms: Generation Y
polar star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar stars
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pole star.
synonyms: word: pole star
internal-combustion engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal-combustion engines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of internal combustion engine.
Waswahili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mswahili
Senses: glosses: The Swahili people.
dagens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dagen
abdar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abdars
Senses: glosses: In Persia, a servant who chills beverages.
demat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: demats
form: dematting
form: dematted
form: dematted
Etymology: From de- + mat.
Senses: synonyms: unmat
glosses: To restore (hair, fur, etc.) from a matted state.
Derived terms: dematter
sumpsimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sumpsimuses
Etymology: From Latin sumpsimus, c. 1540–50.
Senses: examples: text: I'll not change my old mumpsimus for your new sumpsimus!
ref: c. 1575, Edward Underhill, Autobiography, John Nichols (ed.)
text: Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their sumpsimus.
ref: 1545, Henry VIII of England, a speech:
glosses: Adherence to or persistence in using a strictly correct term in rejection of a more common (but technically incorrect) form.
glosses: A person obstinate or zealous about such correctness; a pedant.
Related terms: prescriptivist
pellar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellars
Senses: glosses: sorcerer, wizard
dedent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dedents
form: dedenting
form: dedented
form: dedented
Etymology: From de- + indent.
Senses: examples: text: Dedent Region If there were any need to prove that Python was a programmer's tool, and not something written for anyone with the slightest grasp of the English language, instead of the Python language, this menu option would dissuade them from that belief. Really, who would call something dedent? ... Unlike the indenting command, dedenting (can this really be used as a verb?) a block can cause problems.
ref: 2008, Matthew A. Telles, Python Power!: The Comprehensive Guide, →ISBN:
text: If the body of the if statement, the failwith, was dedented four spaces and therefore lined up with the if keyword, the F# compiler would yield a warning.
ref: 2009, Chris Smith, Programming F#, →ISBN, page 7:
text: Items within a block structure are sequential code statements indented the same amount to indicate that they are related. The first line of code dedented (moved back a notch) after a block structure does not belong to the block structure.
ref: 2016, Laura Tateosian, Python For ArcGIS, page 24:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: primarily Python
glosses: To outdent; to remove an indent from.
dedent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedents
Etymology: From de- + indent.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: primarily Python
glosses: An outdent.
dedent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dedents
form: dedenting
form: dedented
form: dedented
Etymology: From de- + dent.
Senses: examples: text: In the drawing at the bottom of the page are shown the structural features of a dedenting machine as built by The Vol-U-Meter Company, Inc.
ref: 1937, Compressed Air Magazine, volume 42, page 5230:
text: To sell at the “reconditioned” price ceiling, the used drum must be thoroughly cleaned, dedented, painted, fully repaired to insure that the drum is liquid tight, and be supplied with the necessary openings, closures and gaskets to make the drum fit for use as a shipping container.
ref: 1945, The Bulletin of the National Association of Purchasing Agents, volume 16, page 12:
glosses: To remove a dent or dents from.
dedent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dedents
Senses: examples: text: On being fired from the gun, the projectile travels at a high rotary speed and the dedent spring is compressed, so that the dedents, acting as virtually one piece, drop down into the dedent spring cavity.
ref: 1917, Popular Science Monthly, volume 91, page 419:
text: Between each rod in the control cover body is an interlocking pin, which also rides in a dedent when one fork is shifted, the purpose being to lock the other rod and to prevent the meshing of more than one gear simultaneously.
ref: 1945, Technical Manual, United States War Dept, page 133:
glosses: Alternative form of detent.