cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
manrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manropes
form: man-rope
Etymology: From man + rope.
Senses: examples: text: Halting for an instant at the foot of the ladder, and with both hands grasping the ornamental knobs of the man-ropes, Father Mapple cast a look upwards, and then with a truly sailor-like but still reverential dexterity, hand over hand, mounted the steps as if ascending the main-top of his vessel.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Each of the ropes used in ascending the side of a sailing ship.
frap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: frappe
Forms: form: fraps
form: frapping
form: frapped
form: frapped
Etymology: From Middle English frapen, from Old French fraper.
Senses: examples: text: Next take two turns not round the spars at all but in between them round the rope itself. These turns are called "frapping" turns and must be very tight too.
ref: 1941, Boy Scout Tests and How to Pass Them, Boy Scouts Association, page 20:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing.
examples: text: Mitch and Dick took me frog frapping, too. […] You just shine your light in the frog's eyes, creep up on him, and frap him over the head with the stick!
ref: 1971, MotorBoating, volume 128, number 5, page 98:
glosses: To strike or beat.
frap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹæp/
rhymes: -æp
homophone: frappe
Forms: form: fraps
form: frapp
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: examples: text: Well then, what's the hottest new product line over at ubiquitous coffee retailer Starbucks — diesel fuel? No, it's not petrochemical, but neither is it coffee — rather, it's music. In Starbucks stores, you can now burn CDs while slurping a frap, […]
ref: 2005, Information Week, numbers 1020-1036:
glosses: Clipping of frappuccino.
leeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leeboards
Etymology: From Middle English lebord, leburd, probably from Old Norse *hléborð, equivalent to lee + board. Cognate with Icelandic hléborð.
Senses: examples: text: […] on the port side a sofa bed was put up and fitted with a leeboard. On the starboard side a short seat with a folding cot above, which folded […]
ref: 1909, Thomas Fleming Day, The Rudder, page 24:
text: Forward of the mizzenmast was an iron box in which the mainsheets worked, and to port and starboard were the leeboard winches, hand-worked.
ref: 2014, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
text: I lowered the starboard leeboard. I sent Kester up forward with the binoculars. 'Any buoy,' I told him, 'just yell and point.'
ref: 2015, Tom Cunliffe, In the Wake of Heroes: Sailing's Greatest Stories Introduced by Tom Cunliffe, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway.
examples: text: Even in complete reversals from starboard to leeboard in a high sea, no shocks, either electrical or mechanical, could be observed.
ref: 1896, Albert Scheible, “The Need of Uniform Voltage”, in The Electrical Trade, page 5:
text: […] because the leeboard side could be easily unrigged to avoid damaging the rigging, while the starboard side would be required to safely navigate the vessel.
ref: 2004, Gayle C Avery, Andrew Bell, Martin Hilb, Anne E. Witte, Understanding Leadership: Paradigms and Cases, SAGE, →ISBN, page 212:
text: Riek's berth was on the starboard side with two women, and mine was on the leeboard side with two men. One of the two men was a baron, […]
ref: 2010, George Sjouke Riemersma, 'Sa Wie It', page 85
glosses: Port, larboard (the side of a ship opposite starboard).
vṛddhied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɹɪdiːd/
Forms: form: vrddhied
form: vriddhied
Etymology: From vṛddhi + -ed.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In a vṛddhi form.
raw_tags: of a word stem
skinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪntʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: skinches
form: skinching
form: skinched
form: skinched
Senses: examples: text: The child skinched money to go on the ride.
glosses: To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
skinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪntʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: skinches
Senses: glosses: One who skinches.
Derived terms: skinchy
skinch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪntʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Senses: glosses: Time out
encyclopaedist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encyclopaedists
Etymology: From encyclopaedia + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
encyclopaedists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encyclopaedist
dinner time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinner times
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dinnertime.
bucket down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buckets down
form: bucketing down
form: bucketed down
form: bucketed down
Senses: glosses: To rain heavily.
flexi-time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flexitime.
Republic of the Philippines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Republic of the Philippines
Senses: glosses: Official name of the Philippines: a country in Southeast Asia.
parentese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From parent + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Baby talk, a speech register used by parents talking to their children.
Related terms: parentism
voicebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voiceboxes
Etymology: From voice + box.
Senses: glosses: larynx
kernelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kernelizations
form: kernelisation
Etymology: From kernel + -ization.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A technique for creating algorithms for fixed-parameter tractable problems, involving a preprocessing stage in which inputs to the algorithm are replaced by a smaller input, called a kernel.
semiautomaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiautomata
Etymology: From semi- + automaton.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: a multiplicative operation of a monoid on a set
antimatroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimatroids
Etymology: From anti- + matroid.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a formal system that describes processes in which a set is built up by including elements one at a time, and in which an element, once available for inclusion, remains available until it is included
Derived terms: antimatroidal
matroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matroids
Etymology: From matrix + -oid. They were so named by Hassler Whitney in 1935 in an article titled “On the abstract properties of linear dependence”.
Senses: examples: text: A matroid can be defined in terms of bases. A matroid consists of a ground set as well as a set of bases which is a nonempty subset of the power set of the ground set.
topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A structure that captures the essence of a notion of "independence" that generalizes linear independence in vector spaces and acyclicality in graphs.
wikipedia: Hassler Whitney
Derived terms: antimatroid
matroidal
polymatroid
greedoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greedoids
Etymology: From greed (from its applicability to problems that can be solved by greedy algorithms) and matroid.
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular type of set system.
polytree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polytrees
Etymology: From poly- + tree.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: a graph with at most one undirected path between any two vertices. In other words, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) for which there are no undirected cycles either.
pseudoforest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoforests
Etymology: From pseudo- + forest.
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: an undirected graph in which every connected component has at most one cycle
monoubiquinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of monoubiquitinated.
bitstring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitstrings
Etymology: From bit + string.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a sequence of bits (binary digits)
anamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anamorphisms
Etymology: From ana- (“up”) + morphism.
Senses: qualifier: functional programming
glosses: A generalization of the list-producing unfolds known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as final coalgebras.
Related terms: anamorphic
catamorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catamorphisms
Etymology: From cata- (“down”) + morphism.
Senses: qualifier: functional programming
glosses: A generalization of the folds on lists known from functional programming to arbitrary abstract data types that can be described as initial algebras.
Related terms: anamorphism
hylomorphism
paramorphism
coalgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalgebras
Etymology: From co- + algebra.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a structure that is dual to unital associative algebras
unital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From unit + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of an algebra) containing a multiplicative identity element (or unit), i.e. an element 1 with the property 1x=x1=x for all elements x of the algebra.
Synonyms: unitary
rng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌŋ/
homophone: rung
homophone: wrung
rhymes: -ʌŋ
Forms: form: rngs
Etymology: From ring, with i dropped to suggest the absence of the identity element.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebraic structure satisfying the same properties as a ring, except that multiplication need not have an identity element.
semiring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semirings
Etymology: From semi- + ring.
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that each element must have an additive inverse.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the incomplete rings of the upper part of the bronchial tubes of most birds, forming an essential part of the syrinx of songbirds.
Hyponyms: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
word: ring
calendrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈlɛndɹɪkl̩/
Etymology: From calendar + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: At that point, humanity crosses another threshold, miniaturizes its universe into symbolic form, and takes a toddling step toward iconography, writing, and the first stammerings of calendrical notation and mathematics.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 95:
text: Although other ancient Mesoamerican societies, even in the Preclassic period, also possessed calendars, only the Maya calendar can be translated directly into today's calendrical system.
ref: 2009, Fred S. Kleine, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History, Thomson Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 371:
text: This growing focus on calendrical matters in early modern Europe paralleled, and in some measure directly influenced, a renewed interest among Jews in their own calendar.
ref: 2011, Elisheva Carlebach, Palaces of Time: Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, Belknap Press, →ISBN, page 47:
text: In Vietnam, the calendrical system of "heavenly stems and earthly branches" sounds quite mystical and foreign, but this lunar calendar can in fact be translated quite simply into a Western calendar year with a formula and a chart.
ref: 2011, Erik Harms, Saigon's Edge: On the Margins of Ho Chi Minh City, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 101:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system.
Synonyms: sense: of, pertaining to, or used by a calendar system
word: calendric
Derived terms: calendrically
extracalendrical
noncalendrical
clandestinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clandestinities
Etymology: From clandestine + -ity, borrowed from Latin clandestinitas (“illegality, clandestiness, underground life”).
Senses: synonyms: clandestineness
glosses: The quality or state of being clandestine.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A diriment impediment in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, requiring the presence of witnesses to the marriage vows, one of whom must be a priest or a deacon.
redressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From redress + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being redressed.
redressible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From redress + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of redressable.
rediscuss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rediscusses
form: rediscussing
form: rediscussed
form: rediscussed
Etymology: From re- + discuss.
Senses: glosses: To discuss again.
rediscusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rediscuss
rediscussing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rediscuss
rediscussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rediscuss
repellently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repellently
form: most repellently
Etymology: From repellent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The gourmet 'treat' glistened repellently. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot chopstick.
glosses: In a repelling manner.
chicken-wings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken-wing
bottle banks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle bank
centaurette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centaurettes
Etymology: From centaur + -ette.
Senses: topics: fantasy
synonyms: centauress
glosses: A female centaur.
unhandsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnˈhæn.səm/
other: /ˌʌnˈhænd.səm/
other: /ˌʌnˈhænt.səm/
rhymes: -ænsəm
Forms: form: more unhandsome
form: unhandsomer
form: most unhandsome
form: unhandsomest
Etymology: From un- + handsome.
Senses: examples: text: Why, i’ faith, methinks she’s too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: c. 1790, Robert Burns, Letter to Mr. Charles K. Sharpe of Hoddam, in J. Logie Robertson (ed.), Burns’s Letters,
The coat on my back is no more: I shall not speak evil of the dead. It would be equally unhandsome and ungrateful to find fault with my old surtout, which so kindly supplies and conceals the want of that coat.
text: Fanny could have said a great deal, but it was safer to say nothing, and leave untouched all Miss Crawford's resources, her accomplishments, her spirits, her importance, her friends, lest it should betray her into any observations seemingly unhandsome.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 53–54:
text: When he got his lubberly sandals on, and his long robe of coarse brown linen cloth, which hung straight from his neck to his ankle-bones, he was no longer the comeliest man in his kingdom, but one of the unhandsomest and most commonplace and unattractive.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain, chapter 27, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court:
text: He was a big chubby man, in his middle thirties, the muscle of his rugger days now settling placidly to reminiscent fat. He was not unhandsome.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:
glosses: Not handsome.
Derived terms: unhandsomely
unhandsomeness
trouvaille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹuˈvaɪ/
Forms: form: trouvailles
Etymology: From French trouvaille.
Senses: glosses: A lucky find, a windfall.
inutility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inutilities
Etymology: From in- + utility, from Latin inutilitas.
Senses: glosses: Uselessness.
glosses: Unprofitableness.
examples: text: But I will hope better things for young Robert's sake; that he will learn something more important than that most useless of all inutilities, the forging of hexameters and pentameters […]
ref: 1841, A Slight Sketch of the Life of Whitlock Nicholl:
text: A hideous account of a hanging, drawing, and quartering had first attracted him to it; but later he discovered the book (Curiosities of Literature was its name) full of the finest confused feeding—such as forgeries and hoaxes, Italian literary societies, religious and scholastic controversies of old when men (even that most dreary John Milton, of Lycidas) slanged each other, not without dust and heat, in scandalous pamphlets; personal peculiarities of the great; and a hundred other fascinating inutilities.
ref: 1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co.:
glosses: Something of no use.
Synonyms: word: disutility
word: inutility
word: unusability
word: uselessness
Related terms: disutility
wherefrom
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From where + from.
Senses: glosses: from which; whence
glosses: from what? from where? whence?
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
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whereanent
wherearound
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whereaway
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wherebetween
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wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
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wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
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whithertofore
whitherward
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whyever
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whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
disunite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsjuːˈnaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: disunites
form: disuniting
form: disunited
form: disunited
Etymology: From dis- + unite.
Senses: examples: text: If they cannot disunite them by domestic broils, then they engage their neighbours against them.
ref: 1516, Sir Thomas More, “Of Their Military Discipline”, in Utopia:
text: Secrets disunite a family.
ref: 1863, Charles Reade, chapter 44, in Hard Cash:
glosses: To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
examples: text: I have discovered how to disunite that force and that particle.
ref: 1899, Robert Barr, chapter 16, in Jennie Baxter, Journalist:
glosses: To separate, sever, or split.
examples: text: You cannot bind me more to you, my lord.
Farewell till we renew... I trust, renew
A converse ne'er to disunite again.
ref: 1843, Robert Browning, A Blot In The 'Scutcheon, act I:
glosses: To disintegrate; to come apart.
Derived terms: disunitable
disuniter
Related terms: disunity
medullary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈdʌləɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛdəlɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛd͡ʒulɛɹi/
Forms: form: medullar
Etymology: From Classical Latin medullāris. By surface analysis, medulla + -ary.
Senses: synonyms: medullo-
glosses: Relating to a medulla.
Relating to bone marrow.
synonyms: medullo-
bulbar
oblongatal
glosses: Relating to a medulla.
Relating to the medulla oblongata.
synonyms: medullo-
glosses: Relating to a medulla.
Relating to the spinal cord.
synonyms: medullo-
glosses: Relating to a medulla.
Relating to the renal medulla.
synonyms: medullo-
glosses: Relating to a medulla.
Relating to pith.
Derived terms: adrenomedullary
centromedullary
cephalomedullary
cerebellomedullary
cerebromedullary
cervicomedullary
corticomedullary
craniomedullary
endomedullary
extramedullary
intermedullary
intramedullary
juxtamedullary
medullary ray
medullary sheath
medullary spot
nonmedullary
perimedullary
pontomedullary
renomedullary
spinomedullary
splenomedullary
supramedullary
transmedullary
demoralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of demoralization.
inconsequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconsequences
Etymology: From in- + consequence.
Senses: examples: text: Quit pondering the inconsequence of being in a universe governed by chaos and just play some football.
ref: 2008, The Onion, 0:50 from the start, in Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life, spoken by Reggie Greengrass (Beau Baxtor):
text: There, through the door and out of her life, it all went—the Lieutenant, his Laundry, his inconsequence, his habit of drinking too much, his failings, his niceness, his kissings in the dark, her little “romance” and renewed interest in life because of him, all.
ref: 2013, Patrick Hamilton, The Slaves of Solitude:
glosses: The state or quality of being inconsequent.
examples: text: His voice was monotonous and jerky, but his sermons were sane, and after the bald inconsequences of Howley even eloquent.
ref: 1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 452:
text: Only those who would view the Terror either as the last word on revolution or as an inconsequence, as more of the same, deny it any providentiality […]
ref: 1999, Owen Bradley, A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph de Maistre, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: An inconsequent thing.
emprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɛmˈpɹaɪz/
Forms: form: emprises
form: emprize
Etymology: Noun is from Middle English emprise, from Old French emprise, emprinse, from Late Latin *imprensa, from Latin in- + prehendere (“to take”). The verb is from emprisen, from the same source.
Senses: examples: text: [N]oble minds of yore allyed were, / In braue poursuit of cheualrous emprize, / That none did others safety despize […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: the deeds of love and high emprise
ref: 1833, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Coplas de Manrique:
text: And as he is, who unwills what he willed, / And by new thoughts doth his intention change, / So that from his design he quite withdraws, / Such I became, upon that dark hillside, / Because, in thinking, I consumed the emprise, / Which was so very prompt in the beginning.
ref: 1867, Dante Alighieri, “Canto II”, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, transl., The Divine Comedy, volume I (Inferno), Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 8, lines 37–42:
text: Nothing short of an imperative sense of duty could tempt me to set forth on that most perilous emprise, a discussion of the American language.
ref: 1900, William Archer, America To-Day, Observations & Reflections, page 181:
glosses: An enterprise or endeavor, especially a quest or adventure.
examples: text: I love thy courage yet, and bold emprise; / But here thy sword can do thee little stead.
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: The qualities which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits; chivalric prowess.
emprise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɛmˈpɹaɪz/
Forms: form: emprises
form: emprising
form: emprised
form: emprised
form: emprize
Etymology: Noun is from Middle English emprise, from Old French emprise, emprinse, from Late Latin *imprensa, from Latin in- + prehendere (“to take”). The verb is from emprisen, from the same source.
Senses: glosses: To undertake.
tetraphosphorus trisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tetraphosphorus trisulfide.
DTN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of delay-tolerant networking.
loke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lokes
Etymology: From Middle English loke, from Old English loca (“a bar, bolt; enclosure, stronghold”), from Proto-Germanic *lukô, *lukǭ (“lock, clasp, shutter, opening”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend, turn”). Cognate with Icelandic loka (“clasp, latch, lock, bolt”). More at lock.
Senses: glosses: The wicket or hatch of a door.
glosses: A close narrow lane; a cul-de-sac.
glosses: A private path or road.
glosses: A small field or meadow.
bason
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basons
Senses: examples: text: To proceed therefore, put a looking-glass into a bason of water; I suppose you shall not see the image in a right line, or at equal angles, but aside.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: “Sure, my dear Sir Thomas, a bason of soup would be a much better thing for you than tea. Do have a bason of soup.”
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 13:
text: Not a moment could be lost: the very sheets were kindling. I rushed to his bason and ewer; fortunately, one was wide and the other deep, and both were filled with water.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XV, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 297:
text: [...] on July 16, 1790, a public meeting [...] unanimously approved of a scheme for making the River Soar navigable from Leicester to Loughborough, and "a cut or rail-way from Swannington and the neighbourhood to the bason at Loughborough."
ref: 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 3:
glosses: Alternative form of basin.
forcemeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcemeats
form: farcemeat
Etymology: From force + meat, the former element a variant of obsolete farce (“to stuff”) influenced by force, itself from French farcir (“to stuff”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
meronyms: meat
glosses: An emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.
kirkyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪɹkjaɹd/
ipa: /ˈkəːkjɑːd/
Forms: form: kirkyards
Etymology: From kirk + yard. Cognate with Danish kirkegård, Faroese kirkjugarður, Icelandic kirkjugarður, Norwegian Bokmål kirkegård, Norwegian Nynorsk kyrkjegård, and Swedish kyrkogård.
Senses: examples: text: The chapel reappears, however, along with the surrounding kirkyard, in 1593.
ref: 1856, James Pagan, Glasgow, Past and Present, Vol.2, published 1884, page 471:
text: It stands in the kirkyard only six miles from the battle site […]
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 60:
glosses: A churchyard, especially one in Scotland.
badunkadunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badunkadunk
cameltoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cameltoe
cameltoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cameltoe
kje
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kjes
Etymology: Borrowed from Macedonian ќе (ḱe).
Senses: glosses: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Ќ / ќ.
equalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equality
tetraphosphorus trisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: phosphorus sesquisulfide
Juana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Juana, from Old Spanish Johanna, from Medieval Latin Johanna, variant of Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
Derived terms: Juana Díaz
Related terms: Juanita
yaroo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yarooh.
yarooh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: yaroo
Senses: glosses: A cry of pain.
usual suspects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The phrase was commonly used in New York in the 1930s, by both criminals and law enforcement, often with regard to baseless arrests. The phrase was popularized more broadly by its appearance in the film Casablanca (1942), especially since the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: Major Strasser has been shot... round up the usual suspects.
ref: 1942, Murray Burnett, Joan Alison, Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch, Casablanca, spoken by Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains):
topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
qualifier: crime
glosses: The people, often scapegoats, routinely arrested in response to a crime.
examples: text: I think the eco-utopian picture … is an unlikely outcome. I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there’s no question we’re in population overshoot. The catch is we’re not going to do anything about it. There will be no policy. The usual suspects: starvation, war, disease, will drive the population down. There’s little more to say about that really, and it’s certainly an unappetizing discussion, but it’s probably the truth. In any case, we’re in overshoot and we face vast resource scarcities. That’s it. The “usual suspects” are already doing their thing as worldwide food prices go up and peoples on the margin begin to suffer and starve.
ref: 2011 May 22, James Howard Kunstler, “Entropy Made Visible”, in Terrain:
text: And yet a quiet campaign is in the works to secure landmark protection for the 46-story limestone and glass tower. It is not being led by the usual suspects, like preservationists, community groups or politicians.
ref: 2014 September 29, Matt A.V. Chaban, “A Bid to Make the Park Lane Hotel a Landmark, but Not by the Usual Suspects”, in New York Times:
text: It was - to be only a little bit unfair - all the usual suspects at the Paris demo. Trotskyite students chanting against the patriarchy; anarchists; grizzled veterans of '68; plenty of pensioners; theatre-workers. In other words the regular left-wing alphabetti-spaghetti.
ref: 2016 March 9, Hugh Schofield, “France unions and youths protest against labour reforms”, in BBC News:
glosses: The people or things that would be routinely expected to appear in a particular context.
Synonyms: sense: scapegoats
word: scapegoat
sense: people or things that would be expected to appear
word: regulars
Coordinate terms: sense: people or things that would be expected to appear
word: as usual
sense: people or things that would be expected to appear
word: as always
sense: people or things that would be expected to appear
word: every single time
teletype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp/
Forms: form: teletypes
Etymology: From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + type (“text, typewriter”), q.v. In the United States, chiefly understood as a genericization of the Morkrum or Teletype Corporation's branded teletype machines. Doublet of telotype.
Senses: glosses: A telegraph that automatically prints transmitted messages in letters rather than Morse code or other symbols, typically resembling a typewriter in appearance.
glosses: The telegrams produced by this device.
glosses: An early input/output device for mainframe computers.
Synonyms: qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: p
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: r
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: i
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: n
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: t
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: g
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: e
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: l
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: a
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: h
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: teleprinter
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: teletyper
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: teletypewriter
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: telecryptograph
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: telotype
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: o
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: y
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: w
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: x
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: c
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: d
qualifier: telegraph that prints messages in letters
sense: telegraph that prints messages in letters
word: k
sense: telegram produced by such a telegraph
word: telegram
sense: telegram produced by such a telegraph
word: telotype
sense: telegram produced by such a telegraph
english: connected to a telex network
translation: connected to a telex network
word: telex
sense: mainframe I/O device
word: TTY
Derived terms: glass teletype
teletypic
teletype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪˌtaɪp/
Forms: form: teletypes
form: teletyping
form: teletyped
form: teletyped
Etymology: From tele- (“far, distant, telegraph”) + type (“text, typewriter”), q.v. In the United States, chiefly understood as a genericization of the Morkrum or Teletype Corporation's branded teletype machines. Doublet of telotype.
Senses: glosses: To use a teletype.
take the rap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the rap
form: taking the rap
form: took the rap
form: taken the rap
Senses: glosses: To be blamed or punished for something, especially for the wrongful actions of another; to willingly allow oneself to be so blamed or punished.
Synonyms: carry the can
take the fall
Related terms: beat the rap
bum rap
take the heat
telium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliəm
Forms: form: telia
Senses: glosses: A sorus, in the form of a pustule, in the tissue of plants infected with the fungus rust
Related terms: telial
teliospore
sorus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔːɹəs/
Forms: form: sori
Etymology: From New Latin sōrus, from Ancient Greek σωρός (sōrós, “heap”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
examples: text: AGLAOMORPHIA, [...] Sori non-indusiate, rotundate, [...] Fronds coriaceous, dimorphous, the sterile sessile querciform, brown rigid; [...]
ref: 1857, Thomas Moore, Index Filicum: A Synopsis, with Characters, of the Genera, and an Enumeration of the Species of Ferns : with Synonymes, References:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond.
Synonyms: fruit dot
Derived terms: teleutosorus
uredosorus
Related terms: soral
sorocarp
sorophore
algarrobo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algarrobos
Senses: glosses: carob (Ceratonia gen. et spp.)
Derived terms: algarrobin
cryopyrin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cryo- + pyrin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nucleotide-binding and leucin-rich protein which activates the inflammasome in response to toxins.
Derived terms: cryopyrinopathy
dystonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈstəʊnɪə/
Forms: form: dystonias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin dystonia, from German Dystonie.
Senses: examples: text: In one type of vocal dystonia called lingual protrusion dystonia, a person’s tongue can protrude when they try to speak, strangling their words.
ref: 2025 January 29, Sandee LaMotte, “A rare brain disorder robbed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of his strong speaking voice”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disabling neurological disorder in which prolonged and repetitive contractions of muscles cause jerking, twisting movements and abnormal postures of the body.
Synonyms: neurodystonia
Derived terms: hemidystonia
myodystonia
Related terms: dystonic
haemorrhaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of haemorrhage
haemorrhaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemorrhagings
Senses: glosses: bleeding
neuropil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuropils
Etymology: Probably an abbreviation of obsolete neuropilema, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”) + πίλημα (pílēma, “felt”); or neuro- + Ancient Greek πῖλος (pîlos, “hair”).
Senses: glosses: A fibrous network of nervous tissue that forms the gray matter of the brain
Synonyms: neuropile
neuropilema
Derived terms: neuropilar
Trina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Katrina, from Ancient Greek.
haemorrhagings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemorrhaging
pelican flowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelican flower
Gutnish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːt.nɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈɡut.nɪʃ/
Etymology: From Swedish gotländsk (“from Gotland”). Equivalent to Got(land) + -ish.
Senses: synonyms: Gutamal
Gutnic
glosses: The native language of the island of Gotland in present-day Sweden, used both as a spoken and written language until late medieval times.
Derived terms: Modern Gutnish
Old Gutnish
Related terms: Gotlandic
Wiktionary’s coverage of Gutnish terms
vernier caliper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vernier calipers
Senses: glosses: A type of sliding calipers for measuring the external or internal dimensions of objects, using the vernier scale for improved precision.
acro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Clipping of acrobatic.
Senses: glosses: Combining acrobatic elements with something else.
Derived terms: acro dance
acro yoga
acrobalance
acro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of acrobatic.
Senses: glosses: Acrobatic gymnastics.
acro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acrow.
acro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acros
Senses: glosses: A warbler of the genus Acrocephalus.
toeprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toe + printing, on the model of DNA footprinting.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: the use of primer extension inhibition to examine formation of the translational initiation complex, autogenous regulation of gene expression, and to map the boundaries of mRNA-associated complexes
Angevin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Angevin
form: most Angevin
form: Angevine
Etymology: Borrowed from French angevin.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Anjou, a former province of France (previously a county, duchy and the associated House of Anjou), now part of the administrative regions of Pays de la Loire, Centre-Val de Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Angevin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Angevins
form: Angevine
Etymology: Borrowed from French angevin.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Anjou.
synonyms: Angerien
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Angers.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Angevin terms
raquet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of racquet.
rumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rumble
rumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rumble
resounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resound
mystifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystifiers
Etymology: From mystify + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who obscures or muddles information, making something appear to be a mystery.
glosses: A situation that is puzzling, or mystifying
Synonyms: mystificator
Wookiees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wookiee
punk rockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punk rocker
cyc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪk/
rhymes: -aɪk
homophone: psych
homophone: sike
Forms: form: cycs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of cyclorama.
sacciform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sacciform
form: most sacciform
Etymology: From Latin saccus + -form.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pouch
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the form of a sac
carmagnole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑːmənˈjəʊl/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹmənˌjoʊl/
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: carmagnoles
Etymology: 18th-century, borrowed from French carmagnole, named after Carmagnole, the French name of the northwestern Italian town of Carmagnola.
Senses: examples: text: dancing a devil's dance to the diabolical music of the carmagnole
ref: 1903, John Coleman, Charles Reade As I Knew Him:
glosses: A popular Red Republican song and dance, of the time of the first French Revolution.
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A short jacket, fashionable during the French Revolution, with short skirts, a broad collar and lapels, and several rows of buttons.
limit cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limit cycles
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
systems-theory
glosses: A closed trajectory in phase space of a dynamical system having the property that at least one other trajectory spirals into it either as time approaches infinity or as time approaches minus-infinity.
curber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːbə/
Forms: form: curbers
Etymology: From curb (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hey required him as a safeguard against the demon and a curber of other people's crimes.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 329:
glosses: Someone or something which curbs.
curber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkəːbə/
Forms: form: curbers
Etymology: From curb (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Night was the natural time for the curber’s activities and striking up an acquaintance with a serving maid was an invaluable way of getting a window left open or learning the exact layout of the rooms in the house.
ref: 1977, Gãmini Salgãdo, The Elizabethan Underworld, Folio Society, published 2006, page 33:
glosses: A type of thief who used a ‘curb’ or hooked pole to steal things through open windows.
jobation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒəʊˈbeɪʃən/
Forms: form: jobations
Etymology: From jobe + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Better a jobation tonight than everlasting talk tomorrow.
ref: 1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XXVII The Return”, in Queen's Folly:
glosses: An extensive rebuke or telling-off; a long criticism or admonitory lecture.
graticule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹætɪkjuːl/
ipa: /ˈɡræt.ɪ.kjuːl/
Forms: form: graticules
Etymology: French, from Latin crāticula, diminutive form of crātis.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
A reticle.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
The network of lines of latitude and longitude that make up a coordinate system such as the one used for the Earth.
glosses: A nearly square or nearly rectangular region created by a graticule.
Derived terms: graticulate
graticulation
Related terms: crosshair
grating
mesh
relooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relook