cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
premature ejaculations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premature ejaculation
Wordsworthian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wordsworthians
Etymology: From Wordsworth + -ian.
Senses: examples: 1905, J. Roger Rees, Preface to Poems and Extracts by William Wordsworth.
The inside of it is, however, what interests the Wordsworthian.
glosses: A scholar of the works of William Wordsworth (1770–1850), English Romantic poet.
Wordsworthian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wordsworthian
form: most Wordsworthian
Etymology: From Wordsworth + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The sentiment is of a distinctly Wordsworthian quality.
ref: 1899, William George Aston, A History of Japanese Literature, page 241:
text: The whole area was tastefully laid out with gardens full of daffodils and other Wordsworthian aids to memory.
ref: 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 479:
text: We don’t have Alps in this country, but we have the Drakensberg, or on a smaller scale Table Mountain, which we climb in the wake of the poets, hoping for one of those revelatory, Wordsworthian moments we have all heard about.
ref: 1999, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 3, in Disgrace, Penguin, published 2000, page 23:
text: The Wordsworthian Enlightenment: Romantic Poetry and the Ecology of Reading.
ref: 2005, H. Elam, F. Ferguson, G. H. Hartman, (title)
glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of William Wordsworth.
Derived terms: Wordworthianism
outsourceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more outsourceable
form: most outsourceable
Etymology: From outsource + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being outsourced.
particleboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of particleboard
netplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From net + play.
Senses: examples: text: Can somebody help me? I have a PowerMac^([sic]) 6100/60 and a Powerbook^([sic]) 1400 Localtalk^([sic]) networked. I can't get Abuse to work in netplay. Both machines have 16 MB of RAM but when I try to start a netgame, the loading screen comes up then the ocmputer^([sic]) quits... Any ideas?
ref: 1997, Kip, “Abuse netplay problems!”, in comp.sys.mac.games.action (Usenet):
text: most emulators support netplay, like SNES9x or RockNes. is anyone interested?
ref: 2002, Mark Canavan, “netplay”, in alt.games.video.emulation (Usenet):
topics: video-games
glosses: Multiplayer gameplay over a network.
cuboctahedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the form, or the symmetry, of a cuboctahedron
factorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From factor + -ability.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being factorable.
hypergeometrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypergeometric
tie wrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie wraps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cable tie.
synonyms: word: cable tie
magnetohydrostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + hydrostatic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the properties of a fluid in a magnetic field
steganalysers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steganalyser
steganalyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɛˈɡænəlaɪzə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: steganalysers
Senses: glosses: A steganographic analyzer
steganalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of steganographic + analysis.
Senses: glosses: steganographic analysis
steganogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: steganograms
Senses: glosses: A steganographic image
superflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superflow
supershells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supershell
supershell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supershells
Etymology: From super- + shell.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large region carved out of the interstellar medium by the combination of several supernova shells, leading to a lower density of gas and plasma within than without, larger than any single supernova could create.
Synonyms: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
word: superbubble
Coordinate terms: word: heliosphere
word: astrosphere
english: CGM
translation: CGM
word: circumgalactic medium
word: intergalactic cloud
english: IGM
translation: IGM
word: intergalactic medium
english: IPM
translation: IPM
word: interplanetary medium
word: interstellar cloud
english: ISM
translation: ISM
word: interstellar medium
english: ICM
translation: ICM
word: intracluster medium
word: nebula
transauroral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + auroral.
Senses: glosses: Across an aurora
semisquare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisquares
form: semi-square
Etymology: From semi- + square.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An aspect made by two planets when they are 45 degrees apart from each other.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A right isocoles triangle, or such figure of which two form a square.
semisquares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisquare
deficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfɪʃəntli/
Forms: form: more deficiently
form: most deficiently
Etymology: From deficient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a deficient manner.
redwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of red water (disease of cattle).
psychomedicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + medicine.
Senses: examples: text: The skull, nails and hairs are used in psychomedicine. The breast milk is used to prevent the eye ailments and to expell the spine or other particle from the body. The urine is also given in colic pain.
ref: 1988, Sarat Chandra Roy (Rai Bahadur), Man in India (volume 68, page 295)
glosses: Any form of medical treatment that involves a psychosomatic component, from primitive shamanistic treatments to the use of placebos.
examples: text: It is also called the age of new human sciences and life sciences including human biology, anthropology, cultural-anthropology, psychology and psychomedicine.
ref: 1988, Yūichirō Nagatomi, Masayoshi Ohira's Proposal: To Evolve the Global Society, page 153:
glosses: The use of psychoactive drugs.
Related terms: psychomedical
toughish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toughish
form: most toughish
Etymology: From tough + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The gills are never corky or woody and only slightly fleshy, usually arid and toughish.
ref: 1918, Calvin Henry Kauffman, The Agaricaceae of Michigan, Volume 1:
glosses: Somewhat tough.
ringwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringworks
Etymology: From ring + work.
Senses: glosses: A fortified defensive structure, usually circular or oval in shape, essentially a motte-and-bailey castle minus the motte.
ringworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringwork
statocyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstatə(ʊ)sɪst/
Forms: form: statocysts
Etymology: From stato- + cyst.
Senses: examples: text: Despite their tiny size, statocysts encode significant information about an animal's buoyancy and swimming ability, as we know from studying statocyst variability among modern cephalopods.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 110:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An organ of balance found in some aquatic invertebrates, consisting of a sac-like structure containing a statolith and numerous innervated setae. Ancestral to vertebrate otolith (their organ of hearing and balance).
statocysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statocyst
hemipenis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛ.mɪ.piː.nɪs/
Forms: form: hemipenes
form: hemipenises
Etymology: From hemi- + penis.
Senses: examples: text: Charles […] found her stroking the goanna in such a way – no one else could do it – that its pale hemipenes emerged pale and spiky from their sheaths.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 475:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: Each of a pair of intromittent organs of male snakes and lizards, usually held inverted within the body but everted for reproduction via erectile tissue.
Synonyms: hemipeen
hemipene
Coordinate terms: clitoris
hemiclitoris
penis
Derived terms: hemipenal
hemipenial
hemipenile
hemipenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: hemi- + penes. Analyzable as hemipene + -es.
Senses: glosses: plural of hemipenis
glosses: plural of hemipene
delegator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delegators
Etymology: From delegate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who delegates.
delegators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delegator
nonhyperkeratotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hyperkeratotic.
Senses: glosses: Not hyperkeratotic.
nonwrinkled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + wrinkled.
Senses: glosses: Not wrinkled.
diaphanousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diaphanous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being diaphanous.
seeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From see + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: The representation of Elaine Young prompts the question of whether whiteness is made more seeable when it rides atop the seeability of feminine excess.
ref: 2004, Shannon Jackson, Professing performance: theatre in the academy from philology to performativity:
glosses: The quality of being seeable.
Synonyms: apparency
seeableness
visibility
visibleness
nonperformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + performative.
Senses: glosses: Not performative.
nonliterature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + literature.
Senses: glosses: That which is not literature.
delexicalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delexicalizations
Etymology: From de- + lexicalization.
Senses: glosses: The process of delexicalizing, of making delexical.
Delftwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Delftware
delftwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delftware
unapprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unapprehensive
form: most unapprehensive
Etymology: From un- + apprehensive.
Senses: examples: text: They were unapprehensive of the impending danger.
glosses: Not apprehending.
glosses: Not apprehensive.
bleacherite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleacherites
Etymology: From bleacher + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: I quickly came to the conclusion that bleacherites are better fans.
ref: 1991, Armand Deutsch, Me and Bogie:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: One who sits in the bleachers.
bleacherites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bleacherite
hemispherically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hemispherically
form: most hemispherically
Etymology: From hemispherical + -ly.
Senses: examples: a hemispherically-capped biconic reentry vehicle
glosses: In the way of a hemisphere.
gooroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gooroos
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of guru.
gooroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gooroo
stairtower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stairtowers
Etymology: From stair + tower.
Senses: examples: text: The castle had four stairtowers when it was built, but only two remain.
text: We faced each other from opposite walls of the well-rubbed stairtower poised in an unblinking lovesickly gaze.
ref: 2001, Flavia Alaya, Under the Rose: A Confession, page 114:
glosses: A tower with stairs on the inside.
stairtowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stairtower
nonducted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ducted.
Senses: glosses: Not ducted.
superpraise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superpraises
form: superpraising
form: superpraised
form: superpraised
Etymology: From super- + praise.
Senses: examples: text: If you were men, as men you are in show,
You would not use a gentle lady so;
To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts,
When, I am sure, you hate me with your hearts.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: 1599, Uncredited translator, A Spiritual Doctrine Conteining a Rule to Live Wel, with Divers Praiers and Meditations, by Louis of Granada, Louan, published in English Recusant Literature, Volume 204, 1974, p. 178,
Blessed art thou in the holie temple of thie glorie, and superpraised and superglorious for euer.
glosses: To overpraise; to praise highly.
wingsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪŋˌsut/
Forms: form: wingsuits
Etymology: From wing + suit.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A special jumpsuit, used in extreme sports like a parachute, which adds surface area to the wearer's body to create lift.
wingsuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wingsuit
magnetencephalography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: magnetencephalographies
Etymology: From magnet- + encephalography; compare magnetoencephalography.
Senses: examples: text: The review deals with the method of magnetencephalography.
ref: 1990, Psychiatrie, Neurologie und medizinische Psychologie, volume 42, S. Hirzel, page 416:
glosses: Alternative form of magnetoencephalography.
magnetencephalographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetencephalography
magnet-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: măgnēt'
ipa: /maɡˌniːt/
Etymology: Partially from μᾰ́γνητ- (mắgnēt-), the stem of the Ancient Greek μᾰ́γνης (mắgnēs, “magnet”), and partially a combining form of the English magnet.
Senses: glosses: magnet, magnetic, magnetism
battlebus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈbætəɫbʌs]
Forms: form: battlebuses
form: battle bus
Etymology: From battle + bus.
Senses: glosses: A coach used as a mobile operational centre by a particular political party during an election campaign.
glosses: A bus or coach used as a personnel carrier for combatants to deliver them to the battlefield and then rolled on its side to provide cover against firearms.
battlegroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battlegroups
Etymology: From battle + group.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A grouping of several types of troops assembled to fight together.
battlegroups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battlegroup
bewdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewdies
Etymology: From beauty.
Senses: examples: text: “[…]Say,” she continued, “ I wish I had time ta take ya to a bewdy parlor. Yew'd look cute by the time I had ya face fixed and ya eyebrows done and ya hair waved.”
ref: 1933, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 233, page 350:
text: This was bewdy.
ref: 1936, The American Caravan, volume 5, page 625:
text: Lovely smile, doncha know. She wos a bewdy, pretty as a rosella.
ref: 2008, Nage Archer, Slave Heart, page 189:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of beauty.
examples: text: The day before the Press Club luncheon, I was in Traralgon, Victoria, when a fellow came up to me in a bar and said, ‘Chippy, that bloody slogan suits you down to the ground. It′s a bewdy.’
ref: 1987, Don Chipp, John Larkin, Chipp, page 35:
text: ‘[…]Look at this bewdy.’ Romeo held out a fat rose from the bush he was pruning.
ref: 1993, Venero Armanno, The Lonely Hunter, page 15:
text: But she still cooks a bewdy of a roast.
ref: 1997, Paul Mitchell, Dodging the Bull, page 94:
text: ‘'This little bewdy I cut out of a magazine and stuck down on a piece of card... Don′t tell anyone, mind. The tourists love it.’
ref: 2000, Ian Jack, editor, Australia: The New New World: Granta, page 172:
text: Course the silly bugger fell in love with this Yank bewdy called Linda Koslowski and that was the end to his long term marriage.
ref: 2004, Peter Smith, Australia in the Raw: An Eclectic Collection of Meandering Musings, page 97:
glosses: A beauty: a beautiful person or thing; an especially good example of something.
Derived terms: word: you bewdy
Related terms: word: bonzer
bewdy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From beauty.
Senses: examples: text: I scored us a couple of tickets to the match on Saturday. — Bewdy, mate!
text: The young woman gave them the fingers up and walked back disdainfully, ignoring their whistles and shouts of, ‘Bewdy, you showed him.’
ref: 1993, Patti Walkuski, David Harris, No Bed of Roses: Memoirs of a Madam, page 124:
text: “Bewdy!” said Hugh, as he turned away to get his breakfast.
ref: 2009, Howard Young, Searching the Crocodile Coast: Sequel to Crocodile Coast Crash, page 6:
text: ‘Listen, I′ll give it some thought,’ I said. ‘I′ll come back to you tomorrow, okay?’ I was being polite.
‘Tomorrow? Bewdy,’ said Mallon.
ref: 2011, Bruce Guthrie, Man Bites Murdoch: Four Decades in Print, Six Days in Court, page 123:
glosses: Used to express enthusiasm, pleasure or approval.
illusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illusively
form: most illusively
Etymology: From illusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a illusive fashion.
magnetochemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to magnetochemistry.
Derived terms: magnetochemically
brattice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæt.ɪs/
Forms: form: brattices
form: brettice
form: brettice
form: bretasche
form: bretesche
form: bretache
form: bretesse
form: bretesque
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bretage, bretace, from Old French bretesce, bretesche, breteske, from Late Latin brittisca.
Senses: examples: text: A practice then prevailed of blasting without nicking the side of the place which still continues and of conducting the current of air too far by means of brattice, to both of which practices I raised a strong objection. They admitted their inability to make the men nick the coal as they formerly did and thought the application of brattice could not be properly defined, but that it should be left to the discretion of the manager of each particular mine as to the distance openings should be made apart between the intake and return air courses.
ref: 1872 February 28, Peter Higson, “[Mines. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines, to Her Majesty’s Secretary of State, for the Year 1871. Chapter 653.] Report of the Working of the Mines Inspection Act (23 & 24 Vict. c. 151.) in the West Lancashire and North Wales District, during the Year ended 31st December 1871.”, in Reports from Commissioners: Twenty-two Volumes. […], volume XVI, London: Printed by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswode, […], for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 58:
topics: business
mining
glosses: A partition in a coal mine, made from wood or from canvas sheeting coated in tar.
examples: text: […] When a breach was made in the castle wall, a brattice could be built within to serve as a new temporary defence.
ref: 2016, Peter Connolly, John Gillingham, John Lazenby, The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Warfare, Routledge, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: hoard
glosses: A wooden structure used for attack or defence, such as an archery tower, or a penthouse built over the entry to a castle for archers to shoot from.
Derived terms: brattice cloth
bratticed
bratticer
Related terms: bretessé
bretessed
brattice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæt.ɪs/
Forms: form: brattices
form: bratticing
form: bratticed
form: bratticed
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English bretage, bretace, from Old French bretesce, bretesche, breteske, from Late Latin brittisca.
Senses: glosses: To divide into partitions of this kind.
markerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markerboards
Etymology: From marker + board.
Senses: glosses: A whiteboard.
markerboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of markerboard
drywipe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dry + wipe.
Senses: examples: text: Others prefer to have a white drywipe board in a prominent place - often the kitchen wall or office wall.
ref: 2004, Miller Caldwell, Have You Seen My... Umm... Memory?:
glosses: Capable of being wiped clean with a dry cloth.
raw_tags: of whiteboards etc.
magnetodiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetodisc
magnetodisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetodisks
Etymology: From magneto- + disk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of magnetodisc.
magnetodisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetodisk
brattices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brattice
careline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carelines
Etymology: From care + line (customer care).
Senses: glosses: A helpline provided for customers by the manufacturer of a product.
carpellary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carpel + -ary.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to carpels
Derived terms: intercarpellary
monocarpellary
polycarpellary
tetracarpellary
carelines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of careline
magnetabsorption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnet- + absorption; compare magnetoabsorption.
Senses: examples: text: The third measurement was of magnetabsorption.⁶ For this determination, the analyzer was removed.
ref: 1974, American Institute of Physics, Applied Physics Letters, volume 25, self-published, page 314:
glosses: Rare spelling of magnetoabsorption.
magnetoabsorptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetoabsorption
carelessnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carelessness
magnetelastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnet- + elastic.
Senses: examples: 1962, March: Journal of Applied Physics, volume 33: E.H. Mitchell and G.I. Lykken, “Magnetelastic Behavior of Thin Ferro-magnetic Films as Function of Composition”, page 1,170
glosses: Alternative form of magnetoelastic.
magnetelectrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnet- + electrical.
Senses: examples: 1876–9: J.N. Lockyer, Magnetelectrical Observations of the arctic expedition 1875/76, article title
glosses: Rare spelling of magnetoelectrical.
quenas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quena
commove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commoves
form: commoving
form: commoved
form: commoved
Etymology: From Middle English commoeven, from Old French commovoir.
Senses: examples: text: Hereupon Mr. Worldly Wiseman was much commoved with passion, and shaking his cane with a very threatful countenance, broke forth upon this wise: "Learning, quotha!" said he; "I would have all such rogues scourged by the Hangman!"
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
glosses: To move violently; to agitate, excite or rouse
Related terms: commotion
commoves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commove
nonreference
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: A node voltage is defined as the voltage rise from the reference node to a nonreference node.
ref: 2008, James William Nilsson, Susan A. Riedel, Electric circuits:
text: Reference and nonreference books are interfiled without distinction.
ref: 1991, Marion Sader, Topical reference books:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to reference (in various senses).
commoving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commove
commoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From commove + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commove
commoved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commoved
form: most commoved
Etymology: From commove + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The clerk, as I conjectured him to be from his appearance, was also commoved; for, sitting opposite to Mr. Morris, that honest gentleman's terror communicated itself to him, though he wotted not why.
ref: 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy:
glosses: Agitated; excited.
magnetoplasmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetoplasma
magnetionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnet- + ionic; compare magnetoionic.
Senses: examples: text: At any other magnetic dip the polarization of the two magnetionic components approaches the circular as a function of their separation from the gyromagnetic frequency.
ref: 1956, American Institute of Physics, Soviet Physics, JETP., volume 3, self-published, page 296:
glosses: Alternative form of magnetoionic.
magnetoptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnet- + optical; compare magnetooptical.
Senses: examples: text: § Magnetoptical resonance.
ref: 1966, Institute of Physics and The Physical Society, Journal of Scientific Instruments, volume 43, page 866 (self-published)
glosses: Alternative form of magnetooptical.
magnetoscillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: magnet- + oscillation; compare the less well-formed magnetooscillation
Senses: examples: text: Reciprocal field at maxima and minima of magnetoscillations versus Landau quantum number.
ref: 1985, Materials Science Monographs, volume 26: Marc A. Meyers and Osman T. Inal [eds.], Frontiers in Materials Technologies, page 495 (Elsevier; →ISBN, 9780444416858, 0444424628, 9780444424624)
glosses: Misspelling of magnetooscillation.
admittatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌædmɪˈteɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: admittaturs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin admittātur (“let him be admitted”), the third-person singular present passive subjunctive form of admittō (“I let in; I admit”).
Senses: glosses: The certificate of admission formerly given in some American colleges, such as Harvard.
Related terms: admit
bergens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bergen
conversance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversances
Senses: glosses: The condition of being conversant.
Synonyms: conversancy
conversancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversancies
Etymology: From conversant + -cy or converse + -ancy or conversance + -y.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being conversant
Synonyms: conversance
couply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more couply
form: most couply
form: coupley
Etymology: From couple + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a couple
deadener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadeners
Etymology: From deaden + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that deadens.
exceding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excede
shelele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of shillelagh.
delegable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delegable
form: most delegable
Senses: glosses: That can be delegated
Derived terms: nondelegable
delexical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delexical
form: most delexical
Etymology: From de- + lexical.
Senses: examples: text: The verb "take" is delexical in the phrase "take a shower".
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: That has little or no meaning by itself.
raw_tags: of a verb
Derived terms: delexicality
delexicalization
delexically
Related terms: light verb
deprival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: deprivals
Etymology: From deprive + -al.
Senses: glosses: Deprivation, the condition of being deprived
deprogramme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprogrammes
form: deprogramming
form: deprogrammed
form: deprogrammed
Etymology: From de- + programme.
Senses: glosses: British and New Zealand standard spelling of deprogram.
detrusor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɹuː.sə/
ipa: /dɪˈtɹuː.zɚ/
ipa: /dɪˈtɹuː.sɚ/
rhymes: -uːsə(ɹ)
rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: detrusors
form: detrusores
Etymology: From Latin dētrūdō (“to thrust, drive, or force away”) + -or, from dē- (“away, out”) + trūdō (“to thrust, to push, to drive”).
Senses: examples: text: The brain contains multiple centers that modulate detrusor control. Although the exact mechanism remains unclear, the net effect of the brain's influence on the bladder is to inhibit detrusor contractions until an appropriate time and place for urination.
ref: 1998, Bonny L. Johnson, Jody Gross, editors, Handbook of Oncology Nursing, 3rd edition, Jones & Bartlett, page 559:
text: Detrusor overactivity is defined by the ICS as a urodynamic observation characterised by involuntary detrusor contractions during the filling phase which may be spontaneous or provoked.
ref: 2004, Nico J. M. Rijkhof, “Chapter 7.4: Emerging FES Applications for Control of the Urinary Bladder”, in Kenneth W. Horch, Gurpreet S. Dhillon, editors, Neuroprosthetics: Theory and Practice, World Scientific, page 1057:
text: 2009, Christopher R. Chapple, Scott A. MacDiarmid, Anand Patel, Urodynamics Made Easy, Elsevier (Churchill Livingstone), 3rd Edition, page 88,
During voiding the patient's bladder should empty completely with a maximum detrusor pressure of 25–50 cm H₂O.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A smooth muscle in the wall of the bladder that relaxes to allow urine to be stored and contracts to expel it; often used attributively.
emotiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From emotive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This happened a lot, beginning with a lounge-ready take on “It Might as Well Be Spring” and ending with a travesty of R&B emotiveness on Percy Mayfield’s “Please Send Me Someone to Love.”
ref: 2009 July 1, Nate Chinen, “1 Charmer, 5 Albums, and Still a Teenager”, in New York Times:
glosses: The condition of being emotive
emotivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emotivities
Etymology: From emotive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being emotive
halfway houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfway house
frontage road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontage roads
Senses: glosses: A smaller road alongside a main one such as an expressway, for access to adjacent properties.
Synonyms: access road
feeder road
service road
handlebar mustache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handlebar mustaches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handlebar moustache.
handlebar mustaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handlebar mustache
seafowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafowls
form: seafowl
Etymology: From Middle English sefoul, from Old English sǣfugol (“seabird”), equivalent to sea + fowl. Cognate with Dutch zeevogel, German Seevogel, Swedish sjöfågel, Icelandic sjófugl.
Senses: glosses: Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
Synonyms: seabird
newform
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: newforms
form: newforming
form: newformed
form: newformed
form: new-form
Etymology: From new- + form.
Senses: glosses: To form or shape anew; reform.
Derived terms: newformed
newform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newforms
Etymology: From new + form.
Senses: topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A cusp form that is "new" at a given level N, where the levels are the nested subgroups Γ₀(N) of the modular group, with N ordered by divisibility.
newforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newform
demodectic mange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mange in dogs caused by a sensitivity to and overpopulation of Demodex canis, the demodectic mange mite.
Synonyms: follicular mange
red mange
Related terms: sarcoptic mange
nonepisodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + episodic.
Senses: glosses: Not episodic.
nontransitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + transitional.
Senses: glosses: Not transitional.
nonacquired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acquired.
Senses: glosses: Not acquired.
nonacquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + acquisition.
Senses: examples: text: So convinced am I of the advantages to flow from the acquisition of San Domingo, and of the great disadvantages—I might almost say calamities—to flow from nonacquisition, that I believe the subject has only to be investigated to be approved.
ref: 1870 December 5, Ulysses S. Grant, “Second Annual Message”, in James D. Richardson, editor, A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789–1897, volume 7, Washington, DC, published 1898, page 101:
text: Acquisition or use of a patent may mean great advantage to a company, but also great loss. Nonacquisition of a patent may benefit a more farsighted competitor, and thus may mean a serious mistake on the part of those who did not consider the patent worthy of serious consideration.
ref: 1945, Edward H. Hempel, Top-Management Planning: Methods Needed for Postwar Orientation of Industrial Companies, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 232:
text: The United States considers it a matter of great urgency that a nondissemination/nonacquisition agreement be attained to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
ref: 1965 July 12, William C. Foster, “Roadblock to Arms Control and Disarmament Negotiations”, in The Department of State Bulletin, volume 53, number 1359, Washington, DC: Office of Media Services, Bureau of Public Affairs, page 80:
text: The Security Council resolution endorses the principle of the nonacquisition of territory by war and calls for withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the 1967 war.
ref: 1969 December 9, William P. Rogers, A Lasting Peace in the Middle East: An American View, page 5:
glosses: Absence of acquisition.
boilersuited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From boilersuit + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Dressed in a boiler suit.
boilersuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boilersuits
Senses: examples: text: He maintained all the cars, tractors and trucks belonging to the estate, but when he changed his greasy boilersuit for a chauffeur's uniform he looked like the original Jeeves, driving off in the Daimler to meet guests from the station.
ref: 2015, Jennifer Rees Larcombe, Journey into God's Heart:
text: The list included a boilersuit, gumboots, two different kinds of tie, two different kinds of jacket.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 49:
glosses: Alternative spelling of boiler suit.
Derived terms: boilersuited
boilersuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boilersuit
boys in blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boy in blue
dogbreath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogbreaths
Etymology: From dog + breath.
Senses: glosses: Term of abuse.
dogbreaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogbreath
minglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mingling
terracelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terracelike
form: most terracelike
Etymology: From terrace + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a terrace.
terraceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From terrace + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a terrace.
courtless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From court + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a court.
noninvestigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + investigated.
Senses: glosses: Not investigated.
noninvestigative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + investigative.
Senses: glosses: Not investigative.
investigatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more investigatable
form: most investigatable
Etymology: From investigate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of investigable.
uninvestigatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninvestigatable
form: most uninvestigatable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of uninvestigable.
uninvestigable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninvestigable
form: most uninvestigable
Etymology: From un- + investigable.
Senses: glosses: Not investigable; that cannot be investigated.
gloves are off
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: gloves come off
Etymology: One possible etymology comes from the sport of boxing, where competitors fistfight wearing padded gloves; removing the gloves during a fight could result in serious physical injury. Another comes from the trend of gentlemen wearing gloves as part of their outfit; these gloves would often be taken off before engaging in rough behavior.
Senses: examples: text: The gloves are off in this match; both teams are purposely committing fouls against opposing players!
text: The gloves were off at the Conservative Party annual conference in Manchester on October 2, with Secretary of State for Transport Mark Harper spending much of his speech attacking Labour and the unions.
ref: 2023 October 18, Mel Holley, “Network News: Harper attacks Labour over strikes... but unions hit back”, in RAIL, number 994, page 18:
glosses: Expressing that people are arguing or competing without regard to their actions or each other's feelings.
Related terms: sense: in an uncontrolled or difficult situation
word: when push comes to shove
sense: in an uncontrolled or difficult situation
word: when the chips are down
sense: in an uncontrolled or difficult situation
word: in a pinch
word: knockdown-dragout
word: take off one's gloves
word: the knives are out
fascioliasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fəˌsi əˈlaɪ ə sɪs
-ˌsaɪ-/
Forms: form: fascioliases
Etymology: From Fasciola + -iasis (“denoting disease”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: infestation with liver flukes (of genus Fasciola)
Synonyms: fasciolosis
fasciolasis
distomatosis
liver rot
follicular mange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: demodectic mange
red mange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: demodectic mange
fibred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibre + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The center of a peach
ripe, soft, pitted, red-fibred flesh
ref: 1985, Minnie Bruce Pratt, We Say We Love Each Other:
glosses: Having (a specified form of) fibres.
Derived terms: Seifert fibred space
fibreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fibreless
form: most fibreless
Etymology: From fibre + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking fibres
Derived terms: fibrelessness
sarcoptic mange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mange in dogs caused by Sarcoptes scabiei canis and other sarcoptic mange mites.
Synonyms: canine scabies
Related terms: demodectic mange
scabies
firemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firemasters
Etymology: From fire + master.
Senses: glosses: The chief of a fire brigade.
glosses: An artillery officer who supervised the composition of fireworks.
flybridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flybridges
Etymology: From fly + bridge.
Senses: glosses: A flying bridge
frondeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frondeurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French frondeur.
Senses: glosses: A political rebel
togglability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From togglable + -ity or toggle + -ability.
Senses: examples: 1999, February 13th, 8:20pm: “B@N.L” quoted by: Louis C. Lupin III, microsoft.public.win98.networking (Google group): Slow Boot - Analyzer Returns The Following, February 14th at 9:00am
Interesting enough, in each of the TCPIP Protocols on the NETBIOS tab the “I Want To Enable NETBIOS over TCPIP” box is checked and shaded, not allowing togglability. I’m wondering if this is my culprit.
2004, June 25th: John Richard Moser, fa.linux.kernel (Google group): Collapse ext2 and 3 please, 11:28pm
So don’t then; maybe we should consider dropping the journal’s togglability.
glosses: The quality of being togglable.
self-storage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + storage.
Senses: glosses: Storage of one's goods in a rented commercial facility.
neurodiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊəɹə(ʊ)daɪˈvɜːs/
ipa: /ˌn(j)ʊɹoʊˌdaɪˈvɝs/
ipa: /-dəˈvɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: more neurodiverse
form: most neurodiverse
Etymology: From neuro- (prefix denoting the nervous system) + diverse, probably modelled on neurodiversity which was coined by the Australian sociologist Judy Singer (born 1951) in her 1998 Bachelor of Arts dissertation. The latter word was popularized by Harvey Blume in a September 1998 article in The Atlantic.
Senses: examples: text: But while programmes at companies including Microsoft and accounting firm EY are small and focused around supporting neurodiverse workers in the office, Ultranauts has redesigned its entire business around neurodiverse employees, changing hiring efforts to actively recruit and accommodate individuals on the autism spectrum.
ref: 2019 October 21, Robbie Wojciechowski, “Worklife 101: Where 75% of Workers are on the Autistic Spectrum”, in BBC Online, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2022:
text: "Out of the trauma of COVID came the recognition that working from home does benefit some people who are neurodiverse," says Foster.
ref: 2024 February 21, Nick Brodrick, “Inclusion and development for all”, in RAIL, number 1003, page 62:
synonyms: word: aneurotypical
word: neuroatypical
word: neurodivergent
antonyms: neurotypical
glosses: Of a person: exhibiting neurodiversity; varying in mental configuration from others, especially being on the autism spectrum; of a group: made up of neurodivergent people.
glosses: Of or pertaining to neurodivergent people or groups.
Related terms: word: aneurotypical
word: neuroatypical
word: neuroatypicality
word: neurodivergence
word: neurodivergent
word: neurodiversity
word: neurogender
word: neuronormative
word: neuroqueer
word: neurotypical
word: neurotypicality
grillsteak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grillsteaks
Etymology: From grill + steak.
Senses: examples: text: A commonly used flaking system, introduced in the 1970's by the American company, Urschel Laboratories, is now widely used in the manufacture of grillsteaks and other restructured meat products.
ref: 1990, Scanning Microscopy International, Food structure:
text: Burgers, grillsteaks and related products are popular in many part of the world via fast food outlets, food service and in-house consumption.
ref: 1993, C. P. Mallett, Frozen food technology:
text: These include cut portions, reformed roasts, rolls, escallops, grillsteaks, burgers, turkey hams, nuggets, sausages, frankfurters, salamis, bolognas, and ready meals.
ref: 2000, Barbara M. Lund, Tony C. Baird-Parker, Grahame Warwick Gould, The microbiological safety and quality of food:
text: A UK survey of grillsteak-type products showed that most have a meat content of 93% or above, though some were as low as 55% (Jolley et al., 1988).
ref: 2002, Joseph Kerry, John Kerry, David Ledward, Meat processing: improving quality:
glosses: A kind of steak made from chopped reformed meat.
grillsteaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grillsteak
grillworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grillwork
skywatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skywatch
skywatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skywatch
featurewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From feature + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Featurewise, Tiffany and her mother were dead ringers, but Tiffany always did interesting things to her hair.
ref: 2001, Leslie O'Kane, When the fax lady sings:
text: Featurewise, the GGE 1400's C14 OTA is similar but not identical to the smaller Celestron tubes.
ref: 2008, Tammy Plotner, The night sky companion: a yearly guide to sky-watching, 2009-2010:
text: Featurewise, however, Artforum still sucks hard. Even publisher Knight Landesman told us at the Anna Kustera opening that Christopher Knight's incomprehensible piece on Johns was "an absolute failure."
ref: 1998, Walter Robinson, Tom Patchett, Most art sucks: five years of Coagula:
glosses: In terms of features (in various senses).
myrmecochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myrmeco- + -chory.
Senses: examples: text: Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.
ref: 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by ants.
Hypernyms: zoochory
Related terms: myrmecochore
myrmecochorous
anemochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemochoria
Etymology: From anemo- (“wind”) + -chory (“seed dispersal”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: hydrochory
zoochory
glosses: The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by wind.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The dispersal of young (mites, spiders, etc.) by wind.
Related terms: anemochoric
cavorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Cavor + -ite. Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in 1901 in The First Men in the Moon. It was named after the fictional Dr. Cavor. The initial use was capitalized, but later authors borrowing the concept sometimes changed it to lowercase.
In the first use, the metal acted as a gravity shield; after the metal was cooled, objects contained within it were no longer subject to gravity. Some later uses, e.g., Alan Moore's, imagine the substance to simply have a negative gravitational mass.
Senses: examples: text: “It seems to me it wouldn't cost much to cart any weight anywhere if you packed it in a Cavorite case.”
ref: 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon, Chapter 3:
text: “In the early years, they were the most primitive structures ever to fly in space, cheap and overbuilt and overcrewed, hoisted on cavorite wings.”
ref: 1999, Vernor Vinge, A Deepness in the Sky, reprinted by Macmillan, published 2000, →ISBN, page 760:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A hypothetical substance with anti-gravity effects.
antirelaxation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + relaxation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That counters relaxation
cobaltosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cobaltous + -ic?
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing both cobaltous and cobaltic ions e.g. cobaltosic oxide, Co₃O₄
extratidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + tidal.
Senses: glosses: higher or lower than would be caused by tidal effects