cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
trench-coated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: trenchcoated
Etymology: From trench coat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: A trench-coated police detective (Fred Ward) comes to a suburban house to interrogate a single mother (Suzy Amis) on the disappearance of her two young children.
ref: 1994 May 27, Kevin Thomas, “Movie Review: Beth B.’s ‘Small Bodies’ a Captivating, Complex Work”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2021:
text: Maher, too, said athletes at Columbine routinely teased the trench-coated students, muttering "Goth" every time they passed one another in the hallways.
ref: 1999 April 21, Marc Fisher, “‘Trench Coat’ Mafia Spun Dark Fantasy”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017:
text: And nearby is another illustration, a sinister scene of a pistol-wielding character in the foreground and a trench-coated figure behind him under the title "The House on 92d Street."
ref: 1999 October 18, Joseph P. Fried, “Thrillers of Cold War in a Hall of Justice”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
glosses: Wearing a trench coat.
quintan fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintan fevers
Etymology: Latin
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An intermittent fever returning every fifth day (inclusive), or in which the intermission lasts three days.
oldsightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From old sight + -ed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: old sight; presbyopia
stœchiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of stoichiological.
stoichiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stœchiological
Etymology: From stoichiology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the science of stoichiology.
phœnicopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phœnicopters
Senses: examples: text: The Indian law‐giver, Manu recommends that a Bráhman should choose for his wife a young maiden, whose gait was like that of a phœnicopter, or flamingo, or even like that of a young elephant.
ref: 1856, Monier Williams, Śakoontalá, page 12:
glosses: Obsolete form of phenicopter.
phenicopter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenicopters
form: phoenicopter
form: phœnicopter
Etymology: See Phoenicopterus
Senses: glosses: A flamingo.
Phœnicopteridæ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Phœnicopteridæ or Flamingoes, common to the Tropical regions of Asia, Africa and America, but absent from Australia, is the only other feature of general interest presented by the distribution of the Waders.
ref: 1876, Alfred Russel Wallace, chapter XVIII, in The Geographical Distribution of Animals, volume II, Harper & Brothers, page 362:
glosses: Obsolete form of Phoenicopteridae.
duck-billed dinosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duck-billed dinosaurs
Etymology: Derived from the similarity of the heads of certain members of the family to those of modern ducks.
Senses: examples: text: The scientists' report, published in Biological Reviews, found that while, largely, the dinosaurs were faring well at the time of the asteroid impact, the big plant-eating types, including the horned triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs, had suffered a loss of biodiversity.
ref: 2014 July 28, Ian Sample, The Guardian:
glosses: Any ornithopod dinosaur of the family Hadrosauridae.
duck-billed dinosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duck-billed dinosaur
duck-billed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duck-billed
form: most duck-billed
form: duckbilled
Senses: glosses: Especially of animal species, having facial features resembling the bill of a duck.
Derived terms: duck-billed cat
duck-billed dinosaur
duck-billed platypus
phœnices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In accordance with the order, vultures, phœnices, hawks, falcons, kites, owls, parrots, and, in fine, all carnivorous birds having claws and beaks instantly presented themselves.
ref: 1869, John Dowson, chapter XIV, in Ikhwánu‐s Safá, Trübner & Co., page 70:
glosses: plural of phœnix
phœnix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phœnices
form: phœnixes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of phoenix.
world soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world souls
form: world-soul
form: World Soul
form: World-Soul
form: world's soul
Etymology: Calque of Latin anima mundi.
Senses: examples: text: You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
Into the glasses of your eyes
ref: 1633, John Donne, The Canonization:
text: Thanks to the morning light,
Thanks to the seething sea,
To the uplands of New Hampshire,
To the green-haired forest free . . .
ref: 1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The World-Soul:
text: NINA: The bodies of all living creatures have dropped to dust, and eternal matter has transformed them into stones and water and clouds; but their spirits have flowed together into one, and that great world-soul am I!
ref: 1912, Anton Chekhov, translated by Marian Fell, The Seagull, act 1:
text: Like many ungainly or otherwise unattractive Scotchmen, he [Thomas Carlyle] was a seer. By which I do not mean to refer so much to his transcendental rhapsodies about the World-soul or the Nature-garment or the Mysteries and Eternities generally.
ref: 1913, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 1, in The Victorian Age in Literature:
text: During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God.
ref: 1940 April 29, “Scientist on Immortality”, in Time:
text: [H]er vision of Sant'Agnese resembles the beautiful Neoplatonist concept of the world soul as a great boat, in which every individual is a member of the crew who rows it through the cosmos for the space of existence, and then merges back into its fabric.
ref: 2001 June 3, Marina Warner, “Books: Where Heaven Touches Down”, in New York Times, retrieved 19 Jul 2011:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: A single, unifying spirit believed by some to animate every living being in the world and to underlie the value of every inanimate thing as well.
Synonyms: anima mundi
Related terms: panpsychism
pantheism
world-soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world-souls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of world soul.
World Soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: World Souls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of world soul.
World-Soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: World-Souls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of world soul.
world's soul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world's souls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of world soul.
stand-to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stands-to
form: stand-tos
form: stand to
Etymology: Ellipsis of stand-to-arms.
Senses: examples: text: "Stand-to" at dusk for about an hour, work all night, "stand-to" for an hour before dawn. That's the general programme.
ref: 1915, Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That, (1929), Penguin Modern Classics 1960, p. 86
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A state of readiness assumed by ground troops at dawn and dusk in wartime.
stand-to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands-to
form: standing-to
form: stood-to
form: stood-to
form: stand to
Etymology: Ellipsis of stand-to-arms.
Senses: examples: text: I passed the word along the line for the company to stand-to arms. The N.C.O's whispered hoarsely into the dug-outs: ‘Stand-to, stand-to,’ and out the men tumbled with their rifles in their hands.
ref: 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 141:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To assume such a state of readiness.
beer o'clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɪə(ɹ)əˈklɒk/
ipa: /ˌbɪə(ɹ)əʊˈklɒk/
ipa: /ˌbɪɹ əˈklɑk/
ipa: /ˌbɪɹ oʊˈklɑk/
ipa: /ˌbiə̯ɹ əˈklɑk/
Senses: examples: text: Pack an esky with ice-cold bottles of Cooper's Green Label and head down to Holloways Beach, just north of Cairns, around beer o'clock on a Friday afternoon.
ref: 1999 February 22, Christopher Somerville, The Observer:
text: He let her go and stood up. "I also believe it's beer o'clock. You want some iced tea?"
ref: 1999 April 6, Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN; Pocket Books paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, May 2017, →ISBN, page 84:
text: One big rule that we never ever break is to open a can of ale before beer o'clock. Luckily this can be anytime between 1000 and 1300 hours and woe-betide anyone on watch who forgets to waken the other at this crucial time of day.
ref: 2006, Arthur J. Binks, “Santa Cruz”, in Wine, Women and Sailing, Cambridge: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 89:
text: When Hal woke up he decided it was beer o'clock and had the girls' permission to wander down the road for a few pints before tea.
ref: 2013, Dave Lewis, chapter 62, in Raising Skinny Elephants, [Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales]: Ponty Press, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: The time of the first beer (or alcoholic beverage) of the day.
examples: text: Questioner: What time is it? Answerer: It's beer o'clock.
text: Calling at Stalybridge, I cast one eye at the refreshment rooms and one eye at my watch, but 'beer o'clock' it isn't! Besides, I have a long way to travel!
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 58:
glosses: Time for a beer (the first of the day or otherwise).
Related terms: word: the sun is over the yardarm
word: o-dark-thirty
raw_tags: as a jocular time-of-day reference
english: the wine-related counterpart of beer o'clock
translation: the wine-related counterpart of beer o'clock
word: wine o'clock
stand to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stands to
form: stand tos
Etymology: Shortened form of "stand to arms"
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stand-to.
stand to
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands to
form: standing to
form: stood to
form: stood to
Etymology: Shortened form of "stand to arms"
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stand-to.
examples: text: You could stand to lose a couple pounds.
glosses: To tolerate (something); to be able to withstand (something) stressful that will be ultimately beneficial.
examples: text: He stands to inherit ten million dollars if that happens!
glosses: To be on the verge of (something) happening, if certain conditions are met.
examples: I do not, for that cause, or any other cause, propose to destroy, or alter, or disregard the constitution. I stand to it, fairly, fully, and firmly. Abraham Lincoln
glosses: To live up to; to insist upon or maintain.
beinghood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From being + -hood.
Senses: examples: text: As it is alone supposable that subjective mind can operate on objective substance; as it is not conceivable that objective material can itself be the absolute basis or foundation of beinghood, or can of itself, and as such, [...]
ref: 1887, George Jamieson, Discussions on the atonement: Is it vicarious?:
text: Is the universal of beinghood itself being or not-being?
ref: 1987, Sukharanjan Saha, Perspectives on Nyaya logic and epistemology:
text: Let us therefore obtain an account from both kinds of men in turn on behalf of the beinghood they posit.
ref: 1997, Plato, Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, Plato's Sophist, or, The professor of wisdom:
text: For an individual to enjoy beinghood, they must have the capacity for subjective experiences [...]
ref: 2011, Henri Colt, Silvia Quadrelli, Friedman Lester, The Picture of Health:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being or existing; existence.
examples: text: [...] to the whole notion, that this realized Personality is, of right, not attributable to the Divine Beinghood, which to me is of right but symbolical, but needful to be known by us as only affecting the human Self.
ref: 1873, Sara S. Hennell, Present religion: as a faith owning fellowship with thought:
glosses: Personhood; personality.
Derived terms: human-beinghood
infinite-beinghood
scrofulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrofula
Sonn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sonns
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sonn.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Har
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation or ellipsis of Sanskrit हरि (hari)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hari.
wikipedia: ellipsis
plutomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pluto- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: A passion or craving for wealth; an obsession with money.
glosses: The delusion that one is wealthy.
Related terms: plutomaniac
plutomanic
diœceses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But the resolution proceeds—‘ And so that of the Pontic, the Asian, and the Thracian diœceses the metropolitans alone, together with those bishops of the said diœceses who live in barbaric territories, should be ordained by the aforesaid holy see of the holy Church of Constantinople ; it being understood that each metropolitan in those diœceses will, together with the comprovincial bishops, ordain comprovincial bishops, as is prescribed by the sacred canons ; but that the metropolitans of those diœceses, as has been said, should be ordained by the archbishop of Constantinople, after harmonious elections have been made according to custom, and reported to him.’
ref: 1892, William Bright, The Canons of the First Four General Councils of Nicæa, Constantinople, Ephesus and Chalcedon, The Clarendon Press, second edition, page #222:
glosses: plural of diœcese
corneæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornea
tineæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their caterpillars live in the same manner as many tineæ, in portable domiciles, consisting of a silky tube, on which they apply a morsel of a stalk, or small branches of vegetables, forming little bags, placed one above the other.
ref: 1832, Baron Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Edward Pidgeon, The Animal Kingdom, pages 610–611:
glosses: plural of tinea
send to the glue factory
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends to the glue factory
form: sending to the glue factory
form: sent to the glue factory
form: sent to the glue factory
Etymology: Since glue was traditionally made by boiling down the hooves of a horse.
Senses: synonyms: put down
put to sleep
glosses: To kill, usually a horse.
synonyms: put out to pasture
glosses: To retire or remove from prominence, usually due to obsolescence, old age or injury.
raw_tags: of a person
eatworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eatworthy
form: most eatworthy
Etymology: From eat + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Fido believes that there is something eatworthy behind the triangle.
ref: 1985, Behaviorism, volumes 13-14:
text: When a creature thinks of something as eatworthy or chew-worthy, for example, it might move toward and ingest it; the creature does not have to wait for food to come to it […]
ref: 1993, Scott M. Christensen, Dale R. Turner, Folk psychology and the philosophy of mind:
text: […] positive and non-eatworthy perception of penguins in general?' 'Not insurmountable, sir. If you recall, we had a similar problem marketing baby seal burgers, and they are now one of our most popular lines.
ref: 2004, Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten:
glosses: Worthy of being eaten; suitable for consumption; edible.
drinkworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drinkworthier
form: more drinkworthy
form: drinkworthiest
form: most drinkworthy
Etymology: From drink + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Whenever the take was drinkworthy, he would do a bit of legerdemain with the coins until they came out to exactly thirty francs, enough for two raw taffias and a generous tip, and gallantly ask Ruth to join him in a short one, [...]
ref: 1954, Hassoldt Davis, The jungle and the damned:
text: When I wanted to emphasise a further important aspect of leading pupil horses to educational water — that the water must appear drinkworthy to the teacher as well as to the pupil [...]
ref: 1974, New society, volume 29:
text: What makes it distinct – indeed, distinctive, and even distinguished – are the three lines of verse incised upon its outer surface in a local Euboean alphabet: Nestor had a drinkworthy cup – Whoever drinks from this cup [Him] [...]
ref: 2009, Paul Cartledge, Ancient Greek political thought in practice:
glosses: Capable or worthy of being drunk; drinkable; potable.
Related terms: eatworthy
baklava-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baklava-like
form: most baklava-like
form: baklavalike
Etymology: From baklava + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling baklava.
ecopoem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecopoems
Etymology: From eco- + poem.
Senses: glosses: A poem with a strong ecological message or emphasis.
Related terms: ecopoet
ecopoetics
ecopoetry
blastworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blastworthy
form: most blastworthy
Etymology: From blast + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Shown with the foregoing, the desperate and blastworthy Puss in Boots
ref: 1969, Kenneth Macpherson, Close up: Volume 10:
text: Oxford Universal Dictionary is more accepting of things blastworthy. It allows places for both " — " and "flatulence," although respecting the former it does confess "not in decent use."
ref: 1996, Arthur Roy Eckardt, On the way to death: essays toward a comic vision:
glosses: Worthy or capable of being blasted; explosive.
examples: text: Last year we had a blast; this year will be even more blastworthy.
glosses: Indicative of an exceptionally good time; enjoyable.
Related terms: bombworthy
mapwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From map + work.
Senses: examples: text: Studies of the mapwork of children per se have mainly concerned large scale maps and perception maps.
ref: 1978, British Cartographic Society, The Cartographic journal: Volumes 15-17; Volume 15:
ref: 2002, Simon Ross, Essential mapwork skills:
glosses: The study and analysis of maps, especially prior to, or in relation to fieldwork
unipennate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + pennate.
Senses: examples: text: We applied this method to the proximal aponeurosis of the unipennate medial gastrocnemius muscle (MG) of the cat during active force production at fixed muscle length.
ref: 1998, E. J. Brill, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 48, page 324:
text: The most distal region of the muscle was again unipennate, with fibers oriented between the posterior aponeurosis and the anterior surface of the muscle (Fig. 1D,E).
ref: 2006, Journal of Morphology, volume 267, Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, page 593:
text: Although only one component of the muscle fiber force is used effectively to move the tendon, the advantage of the unipennate muscle system is that an increased number of sarcomeres can be placed in parallel to increase the effective force of the muscle (figure 2.19).
ref: 2008, William Charles Whiting, Ronald F. Zernicke, Biomechanics of Musculoskeletal Injury, 2nd edition, page 44:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of a muscle, the parallel fibres of which attach to a tendon at an acute angle (as a feather that is barbed on one side).
Related terms: bipennate
multipennate
hæmatologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmatology +
head_nr: 1
form: hæmatologists
head_nr: 2
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: Obsolete form of hematologist.
hæmatologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæmatologist
hæmatologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Various “rule o’ thumb” have been offered, based upon the blood pressure reading and hæmatologic estimates, indicating when to transfuse and when it is safe to wait.
ref: 1919, J. De J. Pemberton, Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume XXVIII, The Surgical Publishing Company of Chicago, page 269:
glosses: Archaic form of hematologic.
NEMO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nemo
form: NEMo
Senses: glosses: Acronym of northeastern Missouri.
NEMO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: NEMO deficiency syndrome
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of NF-kappa-B essential modulator.
Mennonite Low German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Mennonite + Low German, because Mennonites were the ones to carry it out of Prussia.
Senses: glosses: a variety of or descending from Low Prussian (East Low German, Low German or Low Saxon), that developed in Royal Prussia and which is now spoken by communities not only in Germany but also in North America (Canada, the United States), South America (Argentina, Brazil), Russia and some other places. (Not to be confused with the High German language Pennsylvania German; both are spoken in Pennsylvania.)
Synonyms: word: variety
Related terms: word: Chortitza
english: historically and linguistically important settlements
translation: historically and linguistically important settlements
word: Molotschna
swing door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing doors
form: swingdoor
Senses: examples: text: The restaurant's kitchen was separated from the dining room by a swing door.
text: The swing-doors which opened on to his dining-room creaked[.]
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 44:
glosses: A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
Synonyms: swinging door
Hyponyms: pivot door
double-hinged door
double-action door
double S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double S's
form: double s
form: double-s
Senses: synonyms: eszett
sharp s
glosses: The name of the Latin-script letter ẞ/ß.
just because
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Just because he didn't accept your friend request (it) doesn't mean he has forgotten you nor does it imply that he no longer wants to be friends with you.
glosses: Used to show that the truth or existence of one thing does not logically justify the truth or existence of another thing.
examples: text: [My banishment was p]etty spite on the part of the Lord President, just because they [my lab mice] et his cat.
ref: 1985 February 9, Pip and Jane Baker, The Mark of the Rani episode 2, spoken by the Rani:
glosses: Used to say that something has insufficient grounds for being done.
synonyms: for the hell of it
glosses: For no particular reason.
double action
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
related: word: double-action#Adjective
coordinate_terms: single action#Adjective
single-action#Adjective
glosses: Requiring only a trigger pull to both cock and fire.
raw_tags: of revolvers
double action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double actions
Senses: examples: text: Some prefer a double action because it seems more foolproof in the heat of the moment when someone might not be thinking calmly.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
related: word: double-action#Noun
hypernyms: action#Noun
coordinate_terms: single action#Noun
glosses: A trigger mechanism requiring a single pull to both cock and fire.
double-action
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double action.
double-action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-actions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of double action.
friendworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more friendworthy
form: most friendworthy
Etymology: From friend + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has a routine about this, the general idea being that the people you meet after you turn 30 are not any less friendworthy; you like them just as much as the people you met earlier.
ref: 2002, Trudy Morgan-Cole, Connecting: Devotions for Young Adults:
text: "I'm sure," said Edward Blake, but could not recall an especially friendworthy face standing out.
ref: 2004, Milton A. Rothman, Darrell Schweitzer, Heavy Planet and Other Science Fiction Stories:
text: Had my possibly seeing a ghost made me friendworthy?
ref: 2008, Kelly McClymer, Must Love Black:
text: It's not like I'm so concerned about being a friendworthy person these days.
ref: 2008, Jennifer Ziegler, How Not to Be Popular:
glosses: Worthy, capable, or deserving of friendship; friendable.
nameworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nameworthy
form: most nameworthy
Etymology: From name + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: Languor was not in his heart, Weariness not on his brow. . . . for, while he ailed in body, he was, as man, seeking the good of the 'man' in us; he was naming to us nameworthy things that he saw; he was seeking to make us well.
ref: 1940, Caroline Augusta Foley Rhys Davids, Wayfarer's Words, volume 3:
text: [...] pound is intended to serve as a short-cut means of singling out a particular referent or class of referents although the referent or class in question may not really be nameworthy in the long run.
ref: 1984, Quaderni di semantica, volume 5, Società editrice il Mulino:
text: Words are created for a purpose, as labels for recurring, nameworthy concepts.
ref: 1998, Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Endangered languages: language loss and community response:
text: However, since <scissor-searching> does not identify a nameworthy human activity, the VP gawi chaj ('scissors+search') does not provide an optimally felicitous f-structure constituent.
ref: 2006, Svetlana Vogeleer, Liliane Tasmowski, Non-definiteness and plurality:
glosses: Worthy of being named or having a name; nameable; worthy of mention.
Synonyms: eminent
noteworthy
notable
sailworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sailworthy
form: most sailworthy
Etymology: From sail + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Of a ship, in a condition suitable for sailing; seaworthy.
Derived terms: sailworthiness
sailworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sailworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Of a boat, the characteristic of being sailworthy; suitability for sailing; seaworthiness.
school-marm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school-marms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schoolmarm.
school-marms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of school-marm (alternative spelling of schoolmarms).
hæmatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hæmatological
form: most hæmatological
Senses: examples: text: The whole of modern hæmatological research makes it clear that oxygen carrying to the tissues is a subject which we must appreciate and control, if possible.
ref: 1904, J. Madison Taylor, Transactions of the American Climatological Association, volume XX, page 264:
glosses: Obsolete form of hematological.
awayness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From away + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was the awayness of it that first attracted me to the place. The vast awayness from what I had called home up till the time I first stayed there — that was what made me decide to settle for good at Miss Carruthers's.
ref: 1925, Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves:
text: These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]
ref: 1942, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Balinese character, a photographic analysis:
text: They describe the trances of the balian or seer of the village they studied most exhaustively as beginning with such "awayness," then passing into a period when "the seer exhibits emotions never otherwise expressed except on the stage [...]
ref: 1960, Jane Belo, Trance in Bali:
text: Clearly then, two separate spaces, the countries of origin — the Caribbean — and the countries to which they have migrated — England, Canada, the United States — become the figural polarities linking together the condition of awayness, [...]
ref: 1991, Wilfred G. Cartey, Whispers from the Caribbean:
text: Potentially, “awayness” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.
ref: 2006, Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education:
glosses: The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.
Related terms: farawayness
ægagrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ægagri
Senses: examples: text: But this difference is leſs perceptible, in comparing the bouquetin with the Siberian ibex, the ibex with the ægagrus, and the ægagrus with the tame goat.
ref: 1789, William Coxe, Travels in Switzerland, volume II, pages 51–52:
glosses: Obsolete form of aegagrus.
hydræ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydra
fig wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fig wasp
partition coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partition coefficients
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The ratio of the equilibrium concentrations of a solute in two immiscible solvents.
cryophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + physics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physics of phenomena associated with matter at very low temperatures
heat index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat indexes
form: heat indices
Etymology: From heat + index.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A figure used by American meteorologists to describe the apparent heat felt by a person as the result of a combination of temperature and humidity.
Hypernyms: index
Coordinate terms: word: humidex
Related terms: windchill
windchill factor
vicesimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vī'sēsĭmāʹshən
enpr: vĭ'sĭsĭmāʹshən
ipa: /ˌvaɪsiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌvɪsɪsɪˈmeɪʃən/
Forms: form: vicesimations
form: vigesimation
Etymology: Probably formed by the suffixation of the Latin vīcēsimus (“twentieth”) with the English -ation on the pattern of decimation, but compare the Latin vīcēsimātiō (“a killing of every twentieth man”); the spelling vigesimation is an alteration of vicesimation under the influence of vigesimal.
Senses: examples: text: The common prisoners…were ordered to cast lots for every twentieth man to be tried, as a sort of vicesimation.
ref: 1834, Samuel Hibbert et al., History of the Foundations in Manchester of Chirst’s College, Chetham’s Hospital, and the Free Grammar School, volume 2, page 124:
text: We must change the numerator of our fraction.…If one must have the precise fractional term in “ation,” and the loss is one in five, let him coin the word quintation…if one in twenty, vicesimation.
ref: 1901, Joseph Fitzgerald, Word and Phrase: True and False Use in English, page 273:
glosses: The destruction of one-twentieth of something; especially, the killing or putting to death of every twentieth person, especially by lot.
Coordinate terms: sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: quintation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 5)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: septimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 7)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: decimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 10)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: tricesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 30)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: centesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 100)
vigesimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vījĕsĭmāʹshən
enpr: vĭjĕsĭmāʹshən
ipa: /vaɪdʒɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/
ipa: /vɪdʒɛsɪˈmeɪʃən/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vicesimation.
phobiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phobia
inertiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It will be seen that, although one strip was developed twice as long as the other, the inertiæ coincide, both straight‐line portions when prolonged cutting the scale at 0.2.
ref: 1917, Alfred B. Hitchins, Journal of The Franklin Institute, page 193:
glosses: plural of inertia
dequity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: debtquity
Etymology: Blend of debt + equity
Senses: examples: text: This book is the first to fully examine the many recent financial innovations that have blended the traits of debt and equity and created the hybrid security known as dequity.
ref: 1991, Andrew H. Chen with John W. Kensinger, Innovations in dequity financing:
text: For example quasi-debt (or dequity) instruments, such as redeemable preference shares, carry obligations and incentives to perform in order that the shares may be repurchased
ref: 1996, Ken Robbie with Mike Wright, Management buy-ins: entrepreneurship, active investors, and corporate restructuring, page 4:
text: They can be designed with debt-like features so as to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service that they are debt instruments, not equity (or "debtquity" as some refer to junk bonds).
ref: 1996, Richard S. Wilson with Frank J. Fabozzi, Corporate bonds: structures & analysis, page 96:
ref: 2005, Georgette Chapman Poindexter, Dequity: the blurring of debt and equity in secruitized real estate financing:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Securities characterized by attributes of both fixed-income and equity securities.
composing stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: composing sticks
Senses: glosses: A device used in printing with movable type to hold the type as it is being selected.
Draskhanakert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Դրասխանակերտ (Drasxanakert).
Senses: glosses: A town or village in ancient Armenia, in the province of Ayrarat.
get the memo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets the memo
form: getting the memo
form: got the memo
form: got the memo
form: gotten the memo
Senses: examples: text: Apart from that, it was England’s attack against Latvia’s massed defence. Marcus Rashford had got the memo to take on his man; he was positive, although the end product consistently eluded him.
ref: 2025 March 24, David Hytner, “Reece James bends it like Beckham to help England break down Latvia”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To receive an item of information.
examples: text: Well it's a bit late now, to suddenly start caring about that. I guess you didn't get the memo?
text: They've gotten it into their head that there's a mystical secret to academic success, and they just didn't get the memo.
ref: 2010, Ana Homayoun, That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: My alarm clock didn't get the memo about the day off. Iggy's must have because I can hear him snoring through his bedroom door.
ref: 2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty of the Broken, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit.
ref: 2023 June 14, Alexandria Dale, “Kim Kardashian relaxes poolside in a bright pink thong bikini”, in Women's Health:
glosses: To be aware of the current state of affairs.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, memo.
venenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venene
Hnarakert
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Հնարակերտ (Hnarakert).
Senses: glosses: A town in ancient Armenia, at the border of Gugark and Utik provinces, on the Kura River; today in Qazax district, Azerbaijan.
Murayama
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Murayamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 村山 (Murayama).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
Yerazgavors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Երազգավորս (Erazgavors).
Senses: glosses: a village or town in the Ayrarat province of ancient Armenia
glosses: a village in the Shirak region of modern Armenia
artere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteres
form: artire
form: arture
form: artiue
Etymology: Late Middle English arterie, borrowing from Old French artaire and Latin artēria (“a windpipe; an artery”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ρτηρῐ́ᾱ (ărtērĭ́ā, “windpipe; artery”).
Senses: examples: text: My fate cries out
And makes each petty artere in this body
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
ref: c. 1599-1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene iv, lines 81–83:
glosses: sinew, ligament, tendon, artery
source languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of source language
target texts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of target text
source texts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of source text
hæmorrhagiæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæmorrhagia
hæmorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmorrhagiæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hemorrhagia.
haemorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmorrhagia
form: hemorrhagia
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: haemorrhage
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several hemorrhagic fevers.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A former genus, Haemorrhagia, of moths belonging to the family Sesiidae, now placed in genus Hemaris in Sphingidae.
storylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storylike
form: most storylike
Etymology: From story + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The story-like prose poetry of the final childhood memory sections.
ref: 1982 February 6, Andrea Loewenstein, “Poetry on the Edges”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 9:
text: If this is what real people and societies are like, then it may be appropriate for historians to represent their subjects' lives in storylike form.
ref: 1992, Jonathan Gorman, Understanding history, page 65:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a story.
quittal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quittals
Etymology: From quit + -al?
Senses: glosses: compensation, requital, or repayment.
quittals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quittal
quinquefarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɪŋ.kwɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌkwɪŋ.kwəˈfɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From Latin quīnque (“five”) +ferō (“carry, bear”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in five vertical rows.
Synonyms: sense: arranged in five
word: pentastichous
queest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queests
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cushat.
queests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queest
quadrifarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɒdrɪˈfɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌkwɑdrəˈfɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Etymology: From quadri- + ferō (“carry, bear”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Arranged in four rows or ranks.
Synonyms: sense: arranged in four rows or ranks
word: tetrastichous
quartation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartations
Etymology: Latin quartus, "fourth", because usually enough silver is added to make the amount of gold in the alloyed button about one fourth.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold.
Synonyms: inquartation
quartations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartation
inquartation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: quartation
quadricipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
ultraclever
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultraclever
form: most ultraclever
Etymology: From ultra- + clever.
Senses: glosses: Extremely clever.
ultradurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultradurable
form: most ultradurable
Etymology: From ultra- + durable.
Senses: glosses: Extremely durable.
metadatabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metadatabases
Etymology: From meta- + database.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database that serves to catalogue and classify other databases.
Related terms: metarelation
metarelational
metadatabases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadatabase
quotemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quotemarks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quote mark.
quotemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quotemark
quaileth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: quail + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quail
quailest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: quail + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of quail
metarelational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + relational.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to metarelations.
Jaynesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jaynesian
form: most Jaynesian
Etymology: From Jaynes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Julian Jaynes (1920–1997), American psychologist who argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.
metareflection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + reflection.
Senses: glosses: The consideration of various different points of view.
glosses: The reflection on one's own reflection process.
Related terms: metareflective
metarelation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metarelations
Etymology: From meta- + relation.
Senses: glosses: A relationship (or similar interaction) between relationships
Synonyms: metarelationship
Derived terms: metarelational
quarteroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarteroons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quadroon.
quarteroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarteroon
metarelations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metarelation
polygala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygalas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any milkwort of the genus Polygala
polygalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polygala
polysomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polysomatic
form: most polysomatic
Etymology: From poly- + somatic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having grains or layers of multiple minerals
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having both polyploid and diploid cells in the same tissue
polysomatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being polysomatic.
nontransformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transformable.
Senses: glosses: Not transformable.
nondiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diploid.
Senses: glosses: Not diploid.
nonhaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + haploid.
Senses: glosses: Not haploid.
polynucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynucleate
form: most polynucleate
Etymology: From poly- + nucleate.
Senses: glosses: polynuclear
Synonyms: multinuclear
multinucleate
polynuclear
Related terms: syncytial
polynucleated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynucleated
form: most polynucleated
Etymology: From poly- + nucleated.
Senses: glosses: polynuclear
quayd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Therewith his ſturdie corage ſoone was quayd, / And all his ſences were with ſuddein dread diſmayd.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 14, page 108:
glosses: past participle of quail
polynucleolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynucleolar
form: most polynucleolar
Etymology: From poly- + nucleolar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having multiple nucleoli (in a nucleus)
Related terms: polynucleosis
wherefor
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English wherefore, wherefor (“for what reason; why”), equivalent to where (“what”) + fore (“for”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wherefore.
wherefor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wherefors
Etymology: From Middle English wherefore, wherefor (“for what reason; why”), equivalent to where (“what”) + fore (“for”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wherefore.
wherefor
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: From where (“what; which”) + for.
Senses: glosses: For which.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
correction factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correction factors
Senses: glosses: A factor that is multiplied with the result of an equation to correct for a known amount of systematic error.
leucodye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucodyes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of leuco dye.