cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Imum Coeli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin imum coeli (“bottom of the sky”).
Senses: examples: text: Appropriately, perhaps, it would also be here that they would make the fatal discovery which would bring them, inexorable as the Zodiac's wheel, to their Imum Cœli. . . .
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 457:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.
Related terms: Medium Coeli
nontropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-tropical.
non-tropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tropical.
Senses: glosses: Not tropical; not characteristic of or located in the tropics.
Derived terms: non-tropical sprue
non-tropical sprue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Coeliac disease.
pentimento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛntɪˈmɛntəʊ/
ipa: /ˌpɛntəˈmɛntoʊ/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
ipa: [-ɾoʊ]
rhymes: -ɛntəʊ
ipa: /ˌpɛntɪˈmɛnti/
ipa: /ˌpɛntəˈmɛnti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
Forms: form: pentimenti
Etymology: [Alt: A blue-tinted painting of a man's bent neck, with a faint image of a woman's face in its background]
Learned borrowing from Italian pentimento (“repentance, penance, penitence; remorse; change of opinion; correction; traces of a previous image or work in an artwork”), from pentìrsi (“to repent; to regret”) + -mento (suffix forming nouns representing the actions of verbs to which it is attached). Pentìrsi is derived from Latin paenitēre, the present active infinitive of paeniteō (“to cause to repent; to repent; to be sorry, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate; to hurt”).
The plural form is also borrowed from Italian pentimenti.
Senses: examples: text: She thought of the painting in the shop, the pentimento. Her life, the one she had so carefully planned for herself had crumbled like the paint on the surface.
ref: 2012, Lorraine T. Gilman, chapter 20, in Princeton Pentimento, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 205:
text: [T]he presence of a pentimento is an extremely valuable entity which supports the conclusion that a painting is an original composition – so, by inference, therefore, refuting any later suggestion that the painting could be the work of a copyist, who would have been engaged upon copying an existing painting as seen! The identification of a pentimento in an artwork can occur in one of two ways: by analytical interrogation of the subsurface using penetrative radiation such as IRR or XRD, or by direct visual observation, where the overlaying paint has worn away […]
ref: 2019, Timothy J. Benoy, William A. Edwards, Howell G. M. Edwards, “Evidence of Pentimenti for the Authentication of Paintings: A Challenge for Analytical Science at the Interface with Art History”, in Peter Vandenabeele, Howell Edwards, editors, Raman Spectroscopy in Archaeology and Art History, volume 2, London: Royal Society of Chemistry, →ISBN, page 33:
topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
synonyms: pentiment
glosses: The presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work; especially (painting) an image which has been painted over but is still detectable.
wikipedia: Pablo Picasso
The Old Guitarist
Derived terms: pentimentoed
Related terms: palimpsest
origamic architecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The three-dimensional reproduction of architecture, geometric patterns, and everyday objects, on various scales, using cut-out and folded paper, usually thin cardboard.
nonrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: Not having rhythm; irregular.
Synonyms: sense: having no rhythm
word: arhythmic
sense: having no rhythm
word: irrhythmic
sense: having no rhythm
word: unrhythmic
Derived terms: nonrhythmically
nonseasonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + seasonal.
Senses: examples: text: I have to find a nonseasonal job: being out of work after three months just stinks.
glosses: No varying with the seasons; constant, permanent.
Derived terms: nonseasonally
metalanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalanguage
nonintoxicating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonintoxicating
form: most nonintoxicating
form: non-intoxicating
Etymology: From non- + intoxicating.
Senses: examples: text: The contract between the plaintiff and the defendant required the plaintiff to sell and deliver to the defendant a nonintoxicating beverage.
ref: 1912, Southeastern Reporter, 73 Jan 13 - Mar 30:
glosses: not intoxicating; not causing drunkenness
nonlegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + legal.
Senses: examples: text: Students should not refrain from considering nonlegal employment if they think they might like it just because a majority of their classmates choose law careers.
ref: 2001, Gary A. Munneke, Opportunities in Law Careers, McGraw-Hill, page 51:
glosses: Not law-related; not related to the practice of law.
Related terms: illegal
nonliterary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /nɒnˈlɪtəɹəɹi/
/nɒnˈlɪtəˌɹɛɹi/
Etymology: From non- + literary.
Senses: glosses: not literary
nonnative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In addition to new diseases, Quammen touches on many of the examples often included in standard disease ecology or epidemiology courses—for example, myxomatosis in nonnative rabbits of Australia, and mutation rates in RNA versus DNA viruses.
ref: 2013 January 24, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, United States: Sigma Xi, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2017, page 64:
text: I aped the accent of a nonnative speaker.
ref: 2023, C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 162:
glosses: Alternative spelling of non-native.
nonnative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnatives
Senses: examples: text: If you're a Chicagoan, you will find something in each that you didn't know about; nonnatives will find something in each they'll wish they'd read before making their last trip.
ref: 1988 March 25, James Krohe Jr., “Reading: Our City, Ourselves”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Alternative spelling of non-native.
nonnuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + nuclear.
Senses: glosses: Not having nuclear weapons.
glosses: Not carrying a nuclear warhead; conventional.
raw_tags: of weapons
nonnumerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + numerical.
Senses: examples: text: But a more searching analysis of some 450 of the 600 surviving khipu has called into question this interpretation. Although they were probably mainly accounting tools, a growing number of researchers now think that some khipu were nonnumerical and may have been an early form of writing.
ref: 2003 December 8, John Noble Wilford, “String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Not numerical; containing data other than numbers.
glosses: Not using numerical techniques.
nonobligatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + obligatory.
Senses: synonyms: word: discretionary
word: elective
word: facultative
word: free
word: noncompulsory
word: nonmandatory
word: nonobligate
word: nonobligatory
word: nonrequired
word: nonrequisite
word: optional
word: optionary
word: unrequired
word: volitional
word: voluntary
antonyms: word: dispensable
word: gratuitous
word: inessential
word: needless
word: optional
word: unnecessary
word: unneeded
glosses: Not obligatory.
nonoccupational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + occupational.
Senses: glosses: not occupational; not associated with one's occupation
Derived terms: nonoccupationally
nonoccurence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nonoccurrence.
nonoccurrence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonoccurrences
form: nonoccurence
form: non-occurrence
Etymology: From non- + occurrence.
Senses: synonyms: non-occurring
glosses: lack of occurrence
nonofficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: non-official
Etymology: From non- + official.
Senses: glosses: not official
nonofficial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: nonofficials
form: non-official
Etymology: From non- + official.
Senses: glosses: One who is not an official.
Related terms: unofficial
nonoperational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-operational
Etymology: From non- + operational.
Senses: glosses: Not operating; not working.
glosses: Not associated with operation.
Derived terms: nonoperationally
nonoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + operative.
Senses: synonyms: nonsurgical
;
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antonyms: operative#Adjective
surgical
glosses: Not requiring or involving a medical operation or surgery.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: nonfunctional, nonfunctioning
text: The historical cost of the property which was estimated to become nonoperative was set forth by the Commission's engineers, in Application No. 4440, as $36,278.
ref: 1921, Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, page 710:
text: ... occurring on or after the ninety-first day after adjournment of the 1951 Regular Session of the Legislature, at which time they shall become nonoperative unless extended by further act of the Legislature …
ref: 1951 January 12, An act to repeal Section 8352 of … the Revenue and Taxation Code, published by the California legislature in Assembly Bills, Original and Amended
text: The guide arms can rock forward into an operative position of their own or back into a nonoperative position. In the operative position a guide arm will contact lugs, but if either lugs or guide arms are nonoperative no contact will take place.
ref: 1996, David Kahn, The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Not operative, not operational; inoperative.
Related terms: paraoperative
perioperative
postoperative
preoperative
nonoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonoperatives
Etymology: From non- + operative.
Senses: examples: text: Practically 50 per cent of the female operatives are found in the two groups aged 15 to 19 and 20 to 24 years, while only 18.2 per cent of the female nonoperatives are found in these age groups.
ref: 1916, Women in industry series, United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 366:
text: If they were less numerous among the nonoperatives it would be a reasonable assumption that the operative death rates were unfairly weighted by their greater relative number, and that a part at least of the operative excess was due to ...
ref: 1919, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 83:
text: [...] proportion of nonoperatives in total employment in all British manufacturing industries from 1948 to 1962.
ref: 1972, James L. Price, Handbook of Organizational Measurement:
glosses: One who is not an operative (“employee or worker”).
nonparallel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parallel.
Senses: glosses: not parallel
nonparticipant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + participant.
Senses: glosses: Not participating.
nonparticipant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonparticipants
Etymology: From non- + participant.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: abstainer, refrainer, wallflower
glosses: One who is not a participant.
Related terms: nonparticipating
nonparticipation
nonparticipative
nonparticipatory
nonparticipating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + participating.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: nonparticipative, nonparticipatory
glosses: Not participating.
Related terms: nonparticipant
nonparticipation
nonpaying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-paying
Etymology: From non- + paying.
Senses: glosses: not paying
nonperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + performing.
Senses: glosses: Not performing satisfactorily; not functioning well.
examples: the nonperforming children of a circus
glosses: Not acting as a performer.
nonstrategic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + strategic.
Senses: examples: text: It is a waste of military resources to bomb nonstrategic targets.
glosses: Not strategic; not related to strategy.
nonstructural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + structural.
Senses: glosses: Not structural; not related to a structure.
nonsuccessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From non- + successive.
Senses: glosses: Not successive; not part of a succession.
nonthreatening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonthreatening
form: most nonthreatening
form: non-threatening
Etymology: From non- + threatening.
Senses: glosses: Not threatening; not presenting a threat.
Derived terms: nonthreateningly
nontraditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-traditional
Etymology: From non- + traditional.
Senses: examples: text: While this year’s list of top names includes some traditionals — Matthew and Michael for boys, for instance, and Emily and Anna for girls — the nontraditional names are still the overwhelming favorites.
ref: 2009 April 25, “Meet Number 16 Bus Shelter”, in Austin Daily Herald, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2025:
glosses: Not traditional; not related to tradition, untraditional.
glosses: Innovative; new; daring.
Derived terms: nontraditional student
nontraditionally
Related terms: non-traditional
nontraditionalist
nontraditionalistic
nontraditionally
tradition
traditional
traditionalism
traditionalist
traditionalistic
traditionally
traditionarily
traditionary
traditionist
traditionless
untraditional
untraditionality
untraditionally
nonperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɒnpɜː(ɹ)sən/
Forms: form: nonpersons
form: nonpeople
Etymology: From non- + person.
Senses: examples: text: As all lives must end, do you prefer to die as a nonperson, forgotten in a nursing home and totally stripped of dignity and independence?
ref: 1989, Michael C. Kearl, Endings: A Sociology of Death and Dying, page 146:
text: Arguably, what is so hateful about a hate crime is that it is an attempt by some individual or group to treat a Person as a Nonperson.
ref: 1994, Lisa J. McIntyre, Law in the Sociological Enterprise, page 92:
text: How does hate work? [...] One answer is that the poor person (or the Jew, or the Asian, or the Native American, or whoever) becomes, intellectually, linguistically, and emotionally, a "lessperson," and then a nonperson.
ref: 1998, John E. Tropman, Does America Hate the Poor?, page 6:
glosses: Not a real person; a subhuman.
examples: text: Taken together, all the results suggested that discrimination of person from nonperson slides was not controlled by an obvious single stimulus feature.
ref: 1995, Roger K. R. Thompson, “Natural and Relational Concepts in Animals”, in Comparative Approaches to Cognitive Science, page 179:
text: No nonperson is psychologically indistinguishable from you.
ref: 2001, Eric T. Olson, “A Compound of Two Substances”, in Soul, Body, and Survival, page 77:
text: For example, Benveniste [...] discusses the connection of first- and second-person pronouns with the speech situation, and even goes as far as to claim that the third person is a nonperson, since the referents of third-person pronouns are not speech-act participants.
ref: 2002, Ritva Laury, “Interaction, grounding, and third-person referential forms”, in Frank Brisard, editor, Grounding: The Epistemic Footing of Deixis and Reference, page 85:
glosses: Something other than a person; an object.
Synonyms: subhuman
Related terms: unperson
nontransferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-transferable
Etymology: From non- + transferable.
Senses: glosses: Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
nontransparent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-transparent
Etymology: From non- + transparent.
Senses: examples: text: We remember that Kevin Corbett said last month that nontransparent ’crazed’ windows would be replaced when rail cars were overhauled.
ref: 2024 11, David Peter Alan, quoting Sally Jane Gellert, “Multilevel Cards to Get Their Trucks Overhauled, but What About the Windows?”, in Lackawanna Coalition Railgram:
synonyms: untransparent
intransparent
glosses: Not transparent; lacking transparence; opaque.
Derived terms: nontransparently
Related terms: nontransparency
nonphysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-physical
Etymology: From non- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Not physical; not using kinetic energy.
glosses: Not having physical form; insubstantial.
Derived terms: nonphysicality
nonphysically
nonphysicalness
nonprejudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-prejudicial
Etymology: From non- + prejudicial.
Senses: glosses: Not prejudicial; not pre-judging.
glosses: Not causing one to tend to pre-judge a matter.
nonprescription
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prescription.
Senses: examples: text: Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) has introduced a bill into the Committee on Health Care that would allow nonprescription sales and possession of needles. Massachusetts is one of 11 states in the U.S. that currently requires a prescription to purchase a needle.
ref: 1991 April 22, Elizabeth Yukins, “Needle Exchange Cases Could Alter Law”, in Gay Community News, page 3:
text: Then he called his doctor and requested a sleep aid, a short-term prescription, something a little more potent than the nonprescription stuff.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
text: The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter use, making it the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States, but it will be months before it’s available.
ref: 2023 July 21, Amanda Musa, “The FDA approved the US’ first over-the-counter birth control pill. What happens next?”, in CNN:
glosses: Not requiring a prescription; over-the-counter.
raw_tags: of medicine
nonprofitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + profitable.
Senses: glosses: not profitable; not making profit
Related terms: nonprofitability
nonproliferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonproliferations
form: non-proliferation
Etymology: From non- + proliferation.
Senses: examples: text: Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
glosses: Opposition to the spread of something, especially nuclear weapons.
nonpublic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + public.
Senses: glosses: Not open to the public; not available to or shared by the public; private.
nonracial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From non- + racial.
Senses: glosses: not related to or based on a person's race
Derived terms: nonracially
nonreciprocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reciprocal.
Senses: glosses: Not reciprocal; not returned in kind.
Derived terms: nonreciprocally
strategicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strategic + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The stockpiles have been acquired over the years for reasons of their criticality and strategicness in relation to the national defense.
ref: 1977, Senate Committee on Armed Services, General Stockpile Policy, page 58:
text: Although market structure and the concept of strategicness might affect the adequacy of R&D, neither is an unambiguous indicator.
ref: 1991, Linda R. Cohen, Roger G. Noll, The Technology Pork Barrel, page 35:
text: In addition, several of the school and individual risk factors suggest a general lack of strategicness on the part of adolescents who drink.
ref: 1998, James P. Byrnes, The Nature and Development of Decision Making: A Self-Regulation Model, page 156:
text: I have done this by presenting a method to measure the degree of goal-orientedness and strategicness of claim.
ref: 2006, Hank Johnston, Paul Almeida, Latin American Social Movements, page 108:
glosses: The characteristic of being strategic.
nonreciprocating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reciprocating.
Senses: glosses: not reciprocating; not responding in kind
nonrecognition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recognition.
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Not involving recognition of gain or loss.
nonrecognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrecognitions
Etymology: From non- + recognition.
Senses: glosses: Lack of recognition.
nonrecoverable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + recoverable.
Senses: glosses: not recoverable; damaged or lost forever
glosses: having an investment that will not be recovered
nonrecurring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-recurring
Etymology: From non- + recurring.
Senses: examples: text: In accounting, nonrecurring items are exceptional transactions that are not related to normal business operations. The most common nonrecurring items are capital gains, additional write-downs or reversals of write-downs, and provisions for planned restructuring and penalties.
glosses: Not recurring; occurring only once.
nonredeemable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-redeemable
Etymology: From non- + redeemable.
Senses: glosses: Not redeemable.
topics: business
finance
finances
glosses: Not able to be redeemed by being converted into e.g. gold.
nonrefillable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + refillable.
Senses: glosses: not refillable; unable to be refilled
nonreligious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-religious
Etymology: From non- + religious.
Senses: synonyms: irreligious
secular
unreligious
glosses: Not religious.
Derived terms: nonreligiously
nonreligiousness
nonresident
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-resident
Etymology: From non- + resident.
Senses: examples: text: a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands
text: The Trump administration’s tactics are highly unusual, said Andrew O’Donohue, a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who studies clashes between courts and elected leaders around the world.
ref: 2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025:
synonyms: alien
foreign
glosses: Not resident; not residing in the place in question.
nonresident
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonresidents
form: non-resident
Etymology: From Middle English non-resident, nounresident, equivalent to non- + resident.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a resident; an alien; a foreigner.
topics: law
glosses: A person living in a country who is not a legal permanent resident of that country.
Synonyms: sense: foreigner
word: outlander
word: outsider
word: peregrine
word: foreigner
nonresidual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + residual.
Senses: glosses: Not residual.
glosses: Not leaving a residue.
nonresistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonresistances
form: non-resistance
Etymology: From non- + resistance.
Senses: examples: text: I knew but little, no more than other men of what has been taught or written on the subject of non-resistance in former times.
ref: 1894, Leo Tolstoï [i.e., Leo Tolstoy], “Introductory”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Kingdom of God is within You: or, Christianity Not as a Mystical Doctrine, but as a New Life-conception. […], London: Walter Scott, […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Lack of resistance; not actively resisting.
nonresistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-resistant
Etymology: From non- + resistant.
Senses: glosses: Not resistant.
nonresistant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonresistants
form: non-resistant
Etymology: From non- + resistant.
Senses: glosses: One who does not take part in a resistance movement.
nonrestrictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + restrictive.
Senses: glosses: not restrictive; not imposing restrictions
nonscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scientific.
Senses: glosses: Not scientific, or lacking scientific rigor.
Derived terms: nonscientifically
nonscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + scoring.
Senses: examples: a nonscoring play
glosses: not scoring; not counting toward a score
examples: a nonscoring team
glosses: scoring no points
nonsecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + secular.
Senses: glosses: Not secular; religious.
examples: text: The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies ν_α and ν_β are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
ref: 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
qualifier: atomic physics
glosses: Perturbed over time.
Related terms: nonsecularism
nonsegregated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + segregated.
Senses: glosses: Not segregated.
nonsensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sensitive.
Senses: glosses: Not sensitive; lacking sensory perception.
Derived terms: nonsensitiveness
Related terms: insensitive
nonthinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonthinking
form: most nonthinking
Etymology: From non- + thinking.
Senses: glosses: Done without forethought
raw_tags: of an action
glosses: Tending not to think
raw_tags: of a person
nonthinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + thinking.
Senses: examples: text: Nonthinking is important in Zen Buddhism.
glosses: Not thinking; the absence of thought.
nontheatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + theatrical.
Senses: glosses: Not theatrical.
nontheatrical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontheatricals
Etymology: From non- + theatrical.
Senses: examples: text: […] first task is to determine how best to handle the new field and to find channels of distribution for schoolroom films, industrial reels and subjects pertaining to other forms of non-theatricals.
ref: 1932, Motion Picture Herald, volume 106, numbers 1-6, page 15:
glosses: A film that is not shown commercially in movie theaters.
nonsexist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sexist.
Senses: glosses: Not sexist.
nonsexist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsexists
Etymology: From non- + sexist.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a sexist.
nontechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-technical
Etymology: From non- + technical.
Senses: glosses: Not technical.
nonsexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-sexual
Etymology: From non- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: In coccidiosis we have a sexual cycle (sporogony) alternating with a nonsexual one (schizogony).
ref: 1923, Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology, page Edward Rhodes Stitt:
text: These primitive, nonsexual plants constitute the subkingdom Protophyta.
ref: 1923, The Ohio Journal of Science - Volumes 23-25, page 148:
text: It is probably indigenous in both Europe and North America. Spore forms.--The fungus has a nonsexual form (Dothistroma pini Hulbary) as well as a sexual form (Scirrhia pint Funk and Parker).
ref: 1967, U.S. Forest Service Research Note PSW-N:
glosses: Asexual; lacking sexual reproductive capabilities; neuter.
examples: text: The CIs were considered experts in the investigated topic insofar as it was expected that they could provide relevant and appropriate information about the construction and the significance of intimate, nonsexual female-male relationships.
ref: 1995, Paul J. Strop, A Study of Male-female Intimate Nonsexual Friendships in the Workplace, page 115:
text: All too often chronically ill or disabled people are viewed as being nonsexual people by their family, friends, and even many medical professionals.
ref: 1997, Sexual Function in People with Disability and Chronic Illness, page 50:
text: Both men and women often feel guilty about their need for nonsexual touch, as if there were something wrong with them for not being instantly sexually available to their partner.
ref: 1999, Joyce Vissell, Barry Vissell, The Heart's Wisdom: A Practical Guide to Growing Through Love:
text: When we kiss someone, whether it is a sexual or nonsexual kiss, we often touch his or her face, head, or hair.
ref: 2003, Kathleen M. McGee, Laura J. Buddenberg, Unmasking Sexual Con Games: Helping Teens Avoid Emotional Grooming and Dating Violence, page 118:
text: Still further, the percentage of cases plea bargained did not significantly differ between sexual and nonsexual assault offenses in the model state site (Caringella-MacDonald 1985).
ref: 2009, Susan Caringella, Addressing Rape Reform in Law and Practice, page 37:
glosses: Not involving sexuality or sexual arousal.
Synonyms: unsexual
Derived terms: nonsexually
nonsocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + social.
Senses: glosses: Not social; unconcerned with society or social matters.
Derived terms: nonsocially
nonsympathizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsympathizers
Etymology: From non- + sympathizer.
Senses: glosses: One who is unsympathetic.
nonsympathizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsympathizer
nonspecialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-specialist
Etymology: From non- + specialist.
Senses: glosses: Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.
Synonyms: generalist
nonexpert
Related terms: amateur
layperson
nonspecialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonspecialists
form: non-specialist
Etymology: From non- + specialist.
Senses: examples: text: This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists.
text: "Books," to us, should have 150 to 1500 published pages, almost never need color, be typesettable in house, not require fold-out maps, be predominately in English, and be titleable such that a nonspecialist could recommend it to a specialist.
ref: 1987, William A. Katz, Robin Kinder, The Publishing and Review of Reference Sources (page 332)
glosses: A person who is not a specialist in a given field
Synonyms: generalist
nonexpert
Related terms: amateur
layperson
nonsustaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sustaining.
Senses: glosses: Not sustaining; having an end.
nonstaining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + staining.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being coloured by a stain.
glosses: That does not stain things.
nonspecializing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + specializing.
Senses: glosses: Not specializing; not given to specialization.
nonspiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + spiritual.
Senses: glosses: Not spiritual
nonsupporting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + supporting.
Senses: examples: text: Mock equilibration involved grinding nonopposing and nonsupporting tooth surfaces and was used as a control treatment with four patients.
ref: 1985, Reid J. Daitzman, Diagnosis and intervention in behavior therapy and behavioral medicine, Volume 2, page 62:
glosses: Not supporting.
specialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specialisations
Etymology: From specialise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of specialization.
nonsupport
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsupports
form: non-support
Etymology: From non- + support.
Senses: glosses: Lack of support.
glosses: The failure to provide for one's family or other dependents.
glosses: One who fails to provide support.
specialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specialisation
nonstriking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-striking
Etymology: From non- + striking.
Senses: glosses: Not participating in a strike or work stoppage.
Nicolette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
swales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swale
gena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). Doublet of chin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The part of the head below the compound eyes of Diptera, or an analogous part of the head of larvae without compound eyes.
aurora austrealis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aurora australis.
austrealis
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of australis.
ARNG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Army National Guard.
core constituency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: core constituencies
form: core constituent
Senses: examples: text: Some have argued that the ANC has lost sight of its core constituency: those who are poor and marginalised.
ref: 2007 December 2, “Money and politics: two views”, in The Times, South Africa:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The most important group or groups supporting an ideology, political party, officeholder, or candidate, and whose continuing support is crucial for survival and success.
examples: text: The challenge in all of this, Booth acknowledges, is to bring new customers to Volvo without alienating its core constituency.
ref: 2007 December 2, Bryce G. Hoffman, “Ford takes risk going upscale with Volvo”, in The Detroit News:
glosses: A group or groups whose continuing support is crucial for the success of any organization or individual.
Related terms: stakeholder
USAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: yōō'-sär
ipa: /ˈju.sɑɹ/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United States Army Reserve.
USAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yōō'-sär
ipa: /ˈju.sɑɹ/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of urban search and rescue.
abbesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abbess
unblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unblock
unblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unblock
peuce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peuces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of puce.
hajeen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hajeens
Senses: glosses: A domesticated camel or dromedary used for riding
photoshopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Photoshopped
Etymology: Adjective is from photoshop (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I think this was true at Cranbrook, where after a certain point there seemed to be a sense of manifest destiny, that all design history was leading up to this glorious moment where every message, regardless of its content, could now be collaged with a quote from a French structuralist, a diagram of an electrical circuit, and a Photoshopped image of the back of someone's head, and that the very nature of communication would thus be transformed.
ref: 1997, Eye: The International Review of Graphic Design, v 6, n 24, p 12
text: You can see the difference between the amateur hour of the earliest independent rap covers and the Quarked and Photoshopped delights today's platinum artists offer us, und this difference is where the story lies.
ref: 2006, Mitchell Beazley, The Book of Hip Hop Cover Art, Mitch, page 7:
glosses: Of an image, digitally edited or altered.
Derived terms: unphotoshopped
Related terms: gimped
photoshopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Photoshopped
Etymology: Adjective is from photoshop (verb).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of photoshop
gross out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross outs
Senses: examples: text: [T]his film is refreshingly low on scatological gags and other gross-out humor, preferring all-purpose bad jokes to bathroom ones.
ref: 1993 May 21, Janet Maslin, "From 'Rambo' to Rodham, Smirking All the Way" (film review of Hot Shots! Part Deux), New York Times (retrieved 22 April 2014)
text: . . . another ramshackle assortment of sight gags, scares, laughs and gross-outs […]
ref: 2014 April 19, Stephen Schaefer, "Wayans’ ‘Haunted’ sequel fails to scare up laughs" (film review), Boston Herald (retrieved 22 April 2014)
text: On the surface, the film is a globe-trotting gross-out caper in which Nobby, who's from a hellish version of the titular Lincolnshire town ("twinned with Chernobyl"), is reunited with his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong), who has become a spy for the British secret services.
ref: 2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):
glosses: Something which sickens, causes distress, or appalls by reason of being disgusting, gory, or repulsive.
gross out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grosses out
form: grossing out
form: grossed out
form: grossed out
Senses: examples: text: Lisa likes him clean-shaven. "You know, when there's things crawling out of your beard or whenever you've got food left from lunch or dinner, I don't know, that just kind of grosses me out," she says.
ref: 2013 Aug. 22, Ann Oldenburg, "Beardless 'Duck Dynasty' brother reveals wild past" (video game review), USA Today (retrieved 22 April 2014)
text: The Stick of Truth is a game where you can choose to use a toilet and then, later, fling the result at your enemies to weaken them by grossing them out.
ref: 2014 March 4, Chris Suellentrop, "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Make a ‘South Park’ Game" (video game review), New York Times (retrieved 22 April 2014)
glosses: To sicken or distress (someone) by being disgusting, gory, or lewd.
Related terms: put off
turn off
weird out
polyblend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyblends
Etymology: From poly- + blend.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of two or more polymers, especially of man-made fibres or recycled plastic.
glosses: A material made from such a blend.
polycotton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polycottons
Etymology: Blend of polyester + cotton
Senses: glosses: A fabric made from a blend of cotton and artificial fibres, especially of polyester fibres
polynesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynesic
form: most polynesic
Etymology: By analogy with the scattered islands of Polynesia
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a scattered distribution of foci
raw_tags: of a disease
polynoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynoid
form: most polynoid
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the polychaete worms of the family Polynoidae.
polynoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynoids
Senses: glosses: Any of these organisms.
vse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vses
form: vsing
form: vsed
form: vsed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of use.
union job
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union jobs
Senses: glosses: A job where employment status is guaranteed by a union; a sinecure.
union man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union men
Senses: glosses: A lifelong supporter and probable member of unions.
maturates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of maturate
fudged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fudge
subconical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + conical.
Senses: topics: biology
geometry
mathematics
mycology
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: subconic
glosses: Shaped somewhat like a cone.
Opposite Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Opposites Day
Senses: glosses: A contrived holiday on which everything is done backwards, for example "yes" means "no".
Emirati
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Emirates (“United Arab Emirates”) + -i.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the United Arab Emirates.
Synonyms: Emirian
Emiri
Emirati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Emiratis
Etymology: From Emirates (“United Arab Emirates”) + -i.
Senses: glosses: A person born in, or a citizen or inhabitant of, the United Arab Emirates.
glosses: A person descended ethnically from the Arab people of the United Arab Emirates.
Synonyms: Emirian
Emiri
Derived terms: Emiratisation
on a stick
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Skewered through the middle and served individually, in many cases warm, as a hot dog. Often parodied as being done to everything at state fairs in Iowa.
Related terms: moon on a stick
router on a stick
napoo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: World War I British and ANZAC army slang, probably a corruption of French “il n′y a plus” (“there is no more”).
Senses: examples: text: What shall I do? / My poor old dug-out is napoo.
ref: 1918 April, 'R', An elegy on my dugout, when it was done in, published in Four Whistles by D Company of the Scottish Officer Cadet Battalion, quoted in Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War 2013 →ISBN
text: “[…] It seems scrounging for fuel ’ad reached such a pitch in the village […] But our washing ’ad to be done, ’an I thought if I got the whole of this football team scrounging they might find something as everyone else ’ad overlooked.[…]” / “‘Very well,’ says I, ‘San fairy ann. Napoo washing—napoo ball.’[…]”
ref: 1920 March 10, “Won on the Posts. (With the British Army in France.)”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume CLVIII, London: […] Bradbury, Agnew & Co., […], →OCLC, page 185, column 1:
english: ‘Very well,’ says I, ‘it doesn't matter. No more washing—no more ball.’
translation: ‘Very well,’ says I, ‘it doesn't matter. No more washing—no more ball.’
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text: One afternoon the corps was due to shift, so that morning the cook said to the Turco, giving him his farewell tin: 'Oh la, la, Johnny, napoo pozzy tomorrow.'
ref: 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XVII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 237:
text: The war was napoo, fini, and the Rhine the end of the journey.
ref: 1964, Pierre van Paassen, To Number Our Days, page 159:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Finished, dead, no more, gone; non-existent.
examples: text: ‘Hey, Bill, where′s Charles?’ / ‘Napoo.’ / ‘What?’ / ‘Yes. He was out on a listening post and lit a cigarette. Sniper got him.’
ref: 1918, Hereward Carrington, Psychical Phenomena and the War, page 69:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Dead.
napoo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: napoos
form: napooing
form: napooed
form: napooed
Etymology: World War I British and ANZAC army slang, probably a corruption of French “il n′y a plus” (“there is no more”).
Senses: examples: text: He will napoo the rations.
text: “The general says that if you are wise you will leave before the cannons come. Otherwise you′ll get ‘napooed,’ ” and he made an expressive gesture. “Compris?”
ref: 1918, Roland Pertwee, The Little Landscape: Everybody′s Magazine, volume 38, page 35:
text: I thought a man was lucky if he did not get napooed first trip in.
ref: 1918, Hereward Carrington, Psychical Phenomena and the War, page 68:
text: 1984, John Masters, Man of War, 1984, US title High Command, page 230,
“No,” Merton said shortly. “We sit tight, they find us. If we both go wandering about looking for each other in the middle of the night, we′ll start a battle and the whole plan for tomorrow will be napooed.”
text: German planes had not only carried out a raid behind our lines, but a long-range shell had actually hit one of the Battalion cookers and “napooed” it completely.
ref: 1988, Sidney Rogerson, Twelve days, page 19:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To finish; to put an end to; to kill.
napoo
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: narpoo
Etymology: World War I British and ANZAC army slang, probably a corruption of French “il n′y a plus” (“there is no more”).
Senses: examples: text: “[…]Finish! Napoo!” and he spread his hands expressively, holding the cup upside down with the cloth hanging out of it, before he went on: “But it hasn't come to that yet.[…]”
ref: 1939, Ruthven Todd, Over the Mountain, published 1978, page 216:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: There is no more.
personal record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: personal records
Senses: examples: text: My personal record in the marathon is 5 hours, 52 minutes.
text: I finally managed to beat my personal record in Minesweeper.
glosses: A person's best performance at a task to date.
Synonyms: PR
personal best
sailor dive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailor dives
Senses: glosses: A headfirst dive with one's body erect and hands by one's sides.
sales ledger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sales ledgers
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A ledger of sales. More correctly referred to as accounts receivable.
man talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A discussion between male colleagues seen as inappropriate for female ears, often involving dirty jokes and discussions about sports.
Related terms: boy talk
guy talk
girl talk
woman talk
baby talk
crazy talk
sambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sambos
Etymology: Abbreviation of sandwich (pronounced "samwich") + excrescent -b- + -o (colloquializing suffix).
Senses: glosses: A sandwich.
Synonyms: word: sanger
word: sango
word: sammie
word: sammo
word: sarnie
sambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian са́мбо (sámbo), abbreviation of самооборо́на/самозащи́та без ору́жия (samooboróna/samozaščíta bez orúžija, “self-defense without weapons”).
Senses: glosses: A Russian martial art and combat sport.
bag man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bag men
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bagman.
settle in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: settles in
form: settling in
form: settled in
form: settled in
Senses: examples: text: I had just sat down in my favorite easy chair and settled in when the phone rang.
text: It took me several months to settle in after the move to New York.
text: Changing trains at Hereford, I catch the West Midlands Class 170 that is waiting for me at Platform 1. Plonking myself in a table bay, I settle in to enjoy the trip on what is another quiet train - well, until Ledbury, where a couple of dozen people are waiting.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
glosses: To get comfortable or established, as in a new place.
examples: the colonists settled in Montreal, she intended to settle in the practice of law
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see settle, in.