cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Pinkerton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪŋkətən/
ipa: /ˈpɪŋkɚtən/
Forms: form: Pinkertons
Etymology: Habitational surname from a place near Dunbar, from an unexplained first element + Old English tūn (“enclosure”). This surname is well established in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Senses: examples: text: My heart wells up in admiration of the man, as I think of his participation in the memorable struggle of Homestead. He fought the Pinkertons, the myrmidons of Capital.
ref: 1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 6, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist:
text: He joined the pickets in the bloody Homestead steel strike of 1892, and actually went so far as to jostle a Pinkerton.
ref: 1950 September 4, “Kiss the Donkey”, in Time:
glosses: An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884).
Derived terms: Pinkertonian
Pinkertonism
Pinkerton syndrome
Sasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sashas
Etymology: Borrowed from the Slavic diminutive form of Alexander and Alexandra; in English mostly from Russian Са́ша (Sáša), a diminutive form for both Алекса́ндр m (Aleksándr, “Alexander”) and Алекса́ндра f (Aleksándra, “Alexandra”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
glosses: A female given name from Russian or Ukrainian.
Related terms: Alexander
Alexandra
Sasha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the ending of Natasha, but likely influenced by the Slavic diminutive form of Alexandra.
Senses: examples: text: The engagement is announced between Seth, son of Mrs Renate Forsyth, of Jacobstow, Cornwall, and the late Mr Neil Gale, of Wimbledon, London, and Natasha (Sasha), daughter of Mr and Mrs Francis Hussey, of Pease Pottage, West Sussex, formerly of Hereford.
ref: 2007 September 1, “Mr S. Forsyth and Miss N. Hussey”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,352, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Forthcoming marriages” section, page 28, column 2:
text: In one bus was none other than Sen. Barack Obama, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, his wife, Michelle, and two daughters, Malia, 9, and Natasha “Sasha”, 7.
ref: 2008 May 5, Emily West, “Obama visits Kempton home of his forefathers”, in Tipton County Tribune, volume 118, number 107, Tipton, Ind., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 2:
text: Natasha “Sasha” Fisher Ninete of Sinajana was named to the College of Letters and Science Dean’s List for the Spring 2019 semester at University Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
ref: 2019 September 4, “Island Style”, in Pacific Daily News, volume 51, number 215, Hagåtña, Guam: Guam Publications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24:
text: I missed my father whenever he left, and years later, when I was writing guest columns for the Detroit Free Press and in my early days of parenting, I imagined how his frequent departures might have impacted my own relationship with my two children, Natasha (Sasha) and Noah.
ref: 2021, Harvey Ovshinsky, “Shouts and Whispers”, in Scratching the Surface: Adventures in Storytelling, Detroit, Mich.: Painted Turtle, →ISBN, part 1 (My First Childhood):
text: His sister, Natasha “Sasha” Carter was a confidential informant to Cruz’s best friend, Narcotics Detective Matt Yablonski.
ref: 2024, TG Wolff [Tina Wolff], chapter 1, in Playing Dead (The De La Cruz Case Files; 4), Lutz, Fla.: Down & Out Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Natasha.
full nelson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: full nelsons
Senses: examples: text: With the quickness of a striking rattler he launched himself full upon Sabor’s back, his strong young arms seeking and gaining a full-Nelson upon the beast, as he had learned it that other day during his bloody, wrestling victory over Terkoz.
ref: 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:
text: Bouncers had kids in full nelson headlocks as we were rushed out the side door because we were told it was too dangerous. The place was a mess; it was a total riot.
ref: 2017 July 18, Daniel Dylan Wray, quoting Martin Rev, “‘It was like going into the trenches’: how Suicide rioted against plastic punk”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: He constantly (and inconsequentially) reports online abuse too, like the person who said he should be “put in a full nelson and thrown in a river” for his mythical sewage vote
ref: 2021 October 26, Helen Pidd, “‘Got to be accessible’: the Derbyshire MP set on holding surgeries”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
synonyms: double nelson
double shoulder lock
glosses: A hold in which the wrestler applying the hold puts their arms under the armpits of their opponent and applies pressure to the back of their opponent's head or neck.
topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: A sex position where one partner penetrates the other from behind while holding up the recipient's legs.
Related terms: half nelson
concubinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concubinages
Etymology: Borrowed from French concubinage.
Senses: glosses: The state of cohabiting or living together as man and woman while not married.
examples: ref: 1902, Websters International Dictionary., In some countries, concubinage is marriage of an inferior kind, or performed with less solemnity than a true or formal marriage; or marriage with a woman of inferior condition to whom the husband does not convey his rank or quality. Under Roman Law, it was the living together of a man and a woman in sexual relations without marriage but in conformity with local law.:
text: The existence of concubinage among rulers, and members of upper classes, lead us to think that the ideal of womanhood prevailing among the people could not have been very high.
ref: 1922, Maneckji Nusserwanji Dhalla, Zoroastrian Civilization, page 220:
glosses: The state of being or keeping a concubine.
brainbuster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brainbusters
Etymology: From brain + buster.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A move in which the wrestler drops the opponent on the head to the mat.
half nelson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half nelsons
form: half-nelson
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A hold in which the wrestler applying the hold puts one arm under the arm of the opponent and applies pressure to the back of the opponent's head or neck.
Related terms: full nelson
monkey flip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki flɪp/
Forms: form: monkey flips
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: A move in which a wrestler takes his opponent and flips that person over his head.
monkey flip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌŋki flɪp/
Forms: form: monkey flips
form: monkey flipping
form: monkey flipped
form: monkey flipped
Senses: examples: text: Rappers; I monkey flip 'em with the funky rhythm / I be kickin', musician inflictin' composition
ref: 1994, Nas, “N.Y. State of Mind”, in DJ Premier (music), Ilmmatic:
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To perform a monkey flip on.
Tinker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A northern English surname originating as an occupation for someone who mends pots and pans.
epistemological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌpɪstəməˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
ipa: /ɪˌpɪstəməˈlɑd͡ʒəkəl/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Forms: form: more epistemological
form: most epistemological
Etymology: From epistemology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The epistemological position of Ritschl, in our author's exposition of it, is little more than idealistic rationalism.
ref: 1898, E. A. Read, “Review of Vergleich der dogmatischen Systeme von R. A. Lipsius und A. Ritschl”, in The American Journal of Theology, volume 2, number 1, page 190:
text: In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”
ref: 1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, →DOI:
text: My conclusion dovetails with Fasold's conclusion, which is based on a quite different, more epistemological kind of argument.
ref: 1991, Walt Wolfram, “The Linguistic Variable: Fact and Fantasy”, in American Speech, volume 66, number 1, page 31:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: epistemic
epistemologic
glosses: Of or pertaining to epistemology or theory of knowledge, as a field of study.
examples: text: The reality which thus emerges is the outcome of the epistemological process in which the mind conceptually structures a given content.
ref: 1969, Sandra B. Rosenthal, “The 'World' of C. I. Lewis”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 29, number 4, page 590:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of epistemic (“of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired”).
synonyms: word: epistemic
extra: of or relating to cognition or knowledge, its scope, or how it is acquired
Derived terms: epistemological turn
nonepistemological
postepistemological
Related terms: episteme
epistemic
epistemically
epistemics
epistemologically
epistemologist
epistemology
epistemonical
mindless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪnd.ləs/
Forms: form: more mindless
form: most mindless
Etymology: From Middle English myndles, myndelees, myndeles, mendlees, from Old English myndlēas, ġemyndlēas (“foolish, senseless”), equivalent to mind + -less.
Senses: synonyms: brainless
unmindful
senseless
thoughtless
antonyms: mindful
thoughtful
glosses: Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
examples: text: An act of mindless violence.
text: “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
synonyms: senseless
glosses: Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
examples: Near-synonyms: unmindful, absent-minded, thoughtless
antonyms: mindful
glosses: Heedless.
examples: Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull
antonyms: engrossing
glosses: Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
raw_tags: of a thing done
examples: text: Near-synonyms: brainless, unconscious, unsentient
text: Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.
antonyms: conscious
sentient
coordinate_terms: soulless
glosses: Lacking a mind.
Derived terms: meeting of the mindless
mindlessly
mindlessness
tinker, tailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: games
glosses: A method of choosing between two or more people or things, used by children. The child points to each item in turn (or alternately), while saying the rhyme "tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggar-man, thief", moving to the next item after naming each profession. The item pointed at on the word 'thief' is the one chosen.
Related terms: eeny, meeny, miny, moe
USAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of USA Cycling, the National Governing Body (NGB) for cycling in the United States.
glosses: Acronym of United States Auto Club, a sanctioning body for automobile motorsports in the United States of America.
glosses: Initialism of Utah State Agricultural College.
Related terms: FIA
IMSA
CART
NASCAR
CASCAR
counting-out game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counting-out games
Senses: topics: games
coordinate_terms: counting rhyme
glosses: A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.
Related terms: tinker, tailor
eeny, meeny, miny, moe
duck, duck, goose
archaeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archaeons
form: archaea
Etymology: Scientific Latin, corresponding to a singular form of Archaea.
Senses: examples: text: Then, the theory goes, a rogue archaeon gobbled up a bacterium to create an entirely new type of cell that would go on to form the basis of all complex life on Earth, from plants to humans.
ref: 2020 January 15, Hannah Devlin, The Guardian:
glosses: A prokaryotic organism; a member of the domain Archaea
Synonyms: word: archaebacterium
Derived terms: archaeal
archaeosortase
lokiarchaeon
methanoarchaeon
Related terms: extremophile
archeo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of archaeo-.
Irani
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Iranian Persian ایرانی (irâni) (ērānī in classical Persian).
Senses: glosses: relative to Iran and its people
Irani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Iranis
Etymology: From Iranian Persian ایرانی (irâni) (ērānī in classical Persian).
Senses: glosses: a person from Iran or of Iranian heritage
glosses: A member of the smaller of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.
Synonyms: word: person from Iran
Related terms: Parsi
urbanise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: urbanises
form: urbanising
form: urbanised
form: urbanised
Etymology: From urban + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of urbanize.
capitalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: capitalises
form: capitalising
form: capitalised
form: capitalised
Senses: examples: text: One of the remotest Cambridgeshire stations is enjoying an uplift in business from commuters capitalising on its cheaper park-and-ride benefits, as an alternative to Ely.
ref: 2020 July 1, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Anglia: Manea”, in Rail, page 25:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of capitalize.
Derived terms: capitalisable
decapitalise
miscapitalise
recapitalise
uncapitalise
Related terms: capitalisation
burglarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burglarises
form: burglarising
form: burglarised
form: burglarised
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of burglarize.
Derived terms: burglariser
creolise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiːəlaɪz/
Forms: form: creolises
form: creolising
form: creolised
form: creolised
Etymology: From creole + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creolize.
gallicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gallicises
form: gallicising
form: gallicised
form: gallicised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of gallicize.
milk-tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk-teeth
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of milk tooth.
Sammi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Respelling of Sammy.
Senses: glosses: A female given name, diminutive of Samantha.
bergshrund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergshrunds
form: bergschrund
Etymology: Borrowed from German Bergschrund.
Senses: examples: text: The snow was extremely hard and there was a well defined path all the way up to the bergshrund.
text: By this time the cloud had rolled in once more and we stopped on the lip of a bergschrund and around 6730 m.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 135:
text: None of the other climbers says a word, and one by one we climb over a field of shaggy rocks and cross a ladder over the bergschrund.
ref: 2022, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, “Chomolungma”, in In the Shadow of the Mountain, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large crack or crevasse in a glacier where the glacier is pulling away from the mountain.
Synonyms: rimaye
discharged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭschärjdʹ
ipa: /dɪsˈt͡ʃɑɹd͡ʒd/
enpr: dĭschäjdʹ
ipa: /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discharge
bull ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bull rings
form: bull-ring
form: bullring
Senses: topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: The area in which bullfighting takes place.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: An unusually short track, typically six furlongs or less for one lap.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A corral wherein horses are exercised and riders trained.
glosses: A nose ring intended to be worn by cattle.
flivver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪv.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈflɪv.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flivvers
Etymology: Unknown, early 20th c.; in 1919, cartoonist Tad Dorgan claimed to have created the term in his comic strip Judge Rummy.
Senses: examples: text: Billy being too poor to own a car, had hired a cheap flivver for the day, and was purposely ten minutes behind the time, but to his disgust found the procession not yet started.
ref: 1920 July, Lyman Seelye, “Quite a Picnic”, in The Overland Monthly:
text: These workers were often joined by impoverished small farmers from Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri who pooled their resources to buy a flivver and follow the harvest into the Dakotas and Canada.
ref: 1998, Nigel Anthony Sellars, Oil, Wheat & Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World in Oklahoma, 1905-1930, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 180:
synonyms: word: jalopy
word: tin Lizzie
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
synonyms: word: jalopy
word: tin Lizzie
word: banger
word: beater
word: bucket of bolts
word: bucket of rust
word: clunker
word: crate
word: crock
word: flivver
word: hooptie
word: jalopy
word: junker
word: lemon
word: old banger
word: rattletrap
word: rustbucket
word: shed
word: shitbox
word: shitpot
word: shitcan
word: shitbucket
word: tin Lizzie
word: wreck
glosses: An automobile or cart, particularly one which is old and inexpensive.
A Ford Model T.
qualifier: originally
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A destroyer of the United States Navy with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons.
flehm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flehms
form: flehming
form: flehmed
form: flehmed
form: flehmen
Etymology: From German flehmen.
Senses: glosses: To exhibit the flehmen response, i.e., to draw back the lips, allowing scent to reach the Jacobson’s organ, an auxiliary olfactory organ found in many animals.
flehm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flehms
form: flehmen
Etymology: From German flehmen.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flehmen.
Betawi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Betawis
form: Betawi
form: Batavian
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Betawi. Doublet of Batavia and Passau.
Senses: examples: text: While he is now revered as a local and national hero of the Betawi, according to older legends he was in fact a Sundanese who came to Batavia from Cirebon.
ref: 2014, Jacqueline Knörr, Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia, page 177:
glosses: A member of an Indonesian ethnic group consisting of the descendants of the people living around Batavia (Jakarta) from around the 17th century.
Betawi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Batavian
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Betawi. Doublet of Batavia and Passau.
Senses: glosses: The native language of the Betawi people.
Ade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The surname derives from medieval forms of Adam or Adrian.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male given name.
FTW
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Right, and the fact that I ran winXP every day eight hours a day for three years running without the system locking up once means nothing. That said, Linux FTW!
ref: 2007 February 2, “Windows Explorer = dead.”, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (Usenet), message-ID <1170459548.028084.274220@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>:
glosses: Initialism of for the win.
Related terms: W in the chat
FTW
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fitness to work.
Related terms: fit note
FTW
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fuck the world: an antisocial slogan.
examples: text: "Most people," John said, "think it means 'Fuck the world.' But to a real biker, it means 'Forever two wheels'."
ref: 2003, Karol Griffin, Skin deep:
glosses: Initialism of forever two wheels: a biker slogan.
Related terms: FML
FTW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of for those wondering.
smaze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Forms: form: smazes
Etymology: Blend of smoke + haze
Senses: glosses: Smoky haze in the air.
Related terms: smog and various related phenomena listed there
squatter camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squatter camps
Senses: glosses: A settlement of makeshift shacks.
hudnah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hudnahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hudna.
hudna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hudnas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic هُدْنَة (hudna, “calm, quiet”).
Senses: glosses: truce, armistice, cease-fire
glosses: a pause to regroup, rearm, and prepare for the next fight
rabbet plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbet planes
Senses: glosses: A rebate plane.
buffalo berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buffaloberry.
rabbit ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit ears
Senses: glosses: The bunny cactus (Opuntia microdasys), which has erect, flat branches covered prominently with bristles.
rabbit moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit moths
Senses: glosses: The southern flannel moth, Megalopyge opercularis.
rabbit ear mite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit ear mites
Senses: glosses: A parasite, Psoroptes cuniculi, that causes cheyletiellosis and psoroptic mange in rabbits.
raccroc stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raccroc stitches
Senses: glosses: A stitch used in lacemaking to join pieces together.
race baiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of racially derisive language, actions, or other forms of communication in order to set people against each other, often in the context of white and black people.
Related terms: gender baiting
race rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The rotary, rather than propulsive, motion produced by a propeller.
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The rotation of the inner and outer parts of a bearing race.
racephedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racephedrines
Etymology: From race- + ephedrine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Synthetic ephedrine, being a racemate of the R- and S- forms.
rachiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rachiometers
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥάχις (rhákhis, “spine, ridge”) + -o- + -meter.
Senses: examples: text: The rachiometer consists of a rigid vertical metal rod one inch in square dimensions. It is mounted on a base which supports a set of foot plates so placed that a patient can stand in front of the rod.[…]At one inch intervals running anteroposteriorly through sleeves within the vertical stand rod, are pencil like metal pegs that readily slide back and forth. After the patient is placed in position in front of the vertical square rod, these pegs are progressively brought, from above down, in contact with the patient's back. The patient then steps away from the rachiometer and it will be noted that the placed anterior tips of the pegs describes the spinal curves.
ref: 1976, Joseph Janse, Principles and practice of chiropractic, page 64:
text: Biomechanical instruments, such as the rachiometer and posturometer, have been developed to record spinal curvatures and relate these to radiological findings.
ref: 1987, Peter Curtis, “The Efficacy of Spinal Manipulation”, in Clinical concepts in regional musculoskeletal illness, page 55:
text: To measure the spinal alignment, the angle of 17 movable parts from between the first and second thoracic vertebrae (Th1/2) to between the fifth lumbar vertebra and first sacral vertebra (L5/S1) was measured in three postures, upright, flexion, and extension positions, in the sagittal plane using a rachiometer (Spinal Mouse™, Idiag AG, Switzerland). Four measurement items were thoracic vertebrae (Th1–Th12), lower thoracic vertebrae (Th9–Th12), lumbar vertebrae (Th12–S1), and sacral slope.
ref: 2021, Hayato Ikeda et al., “Effects of a wearable device and functional wear on spinal alignment and jump performance”, in Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness, volume 19, page 92:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for measuring spinal curvature.
rhachitomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a large, dorsal, crescentic intercentrum, and a small, dorsal, paired pleurocentrum.
raw_tags: of vertebrae
racing crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racing crabs
Senses: glosses: Any of several fast-running crabs of the family Ocypodidae.
race glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: race glasses
Senses: glosses: A field glass used at horseraces, usually as a pair (binoculars).
R acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline sulfonic acid, HOC₁₀H₅(SO₃H)₂, derived from beta naphthol and used as a dye intermediate; 2-naphthol-3,6-disulfonic acid.
ratchet jack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchet jacks
Senses: glosses: a jack raised or lowered by means of a pawl and ratchet operated by a reversing lever
rackabones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rackabones
Etymology: From rack of bones.
Senses: glosses: A very lean person or animal, especially a lean horse.
rack and snail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racks and snails
Senses: glosses: a mechanism in a striking timepiece that allows the hands to be advanced without having to wait for it to strike
ratchet wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratchet wheels
Senses: synonyms: dog wheel
ratch
glosses: A toothed wheel either held in position or turned by an engaging detent or pawl.
glosses: The retaining wheel over the mainspring arbor of a timepiece.
rack rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rack rents
form: rack-rent
form: rackrent
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The full rental value of a property, including both land and improvements, if it were subject to an immediate open market rent review.
glosses: An excessive rent.
Derived terms: rack-renter
raclette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raclettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French raclette, the diminutive form of racler.
Senses: glosses: A dish, of Swiss origin, similar to a fondue, consisting of melted cheese traditionally served on boiled potatoes and accompanied with pickles.
glosses: A firm cheese suitable for use in this dish.
racon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪkən
Forms: form: racons
Etymology: Blend of radar + beacon
Senses: glosses: A beacon that, on detecting a radar signal, responds by transmitting a coded navigation signal.
ruddleman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruddlemen
form: raddleman
form: reddleman
Etymology: From ruddle + -man. First appears in print in 1622, possibly coined by Michael Drayton.
Senses: examples: text: And little Rutlandshire is tearmed Raddleman.
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 23:
text: The traveller with the cart was a reddleman - a person whose vocation was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep.
ref: 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 9:
glosses: Someone who deals in ruddle (red ochre), usually itinerant and red-stained
wikipedia: Michael Drayton
radiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiabilities
Senses: glosses: The state of being radiable; transparency to X-rays.
radial bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A ball bearing or roller bearing, or an aspect or component of one, that is shaped best as to bear radial forces, that is, the radial vectors of the loading forces.
Coordinate terms: english: axial-force counterpart
translation: axial-force counterpart
word: thrust bearing
radial canal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial canals
Senses: glosses: any of the numerous minute canals lined with choanocytes which radiate from the paragastric cavity in some sponges and end just below the surface of the sponge
glosses: any of the canals extending through the substance of the umbrella from the gastric cavity to the marginal circular canal in jellyfish
glosses: a tube extending outward along each ambulacral area from the circumoral canal in most echinoderms
radial gate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial gates
Senses: glosses: a Tainter gate
radial saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial saws
Senses: glosses: a circular saw in which the saw wheel cuts downward from a suspended arm
Related terms: radial arm saw
radial shield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial shields
Senses: glosses: Either of the two plates situated on the disk at the base of each ray of some starfish.
glosses: A radial graphite reflector surrounding a pressurized water reactor.
cadmium yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadmium yellows
Senses: synonyms: aurora yellow
glosses: cadmium sulfide when used as a pigment
Related terms: cadmium green
cadmium orange
cadmium red
radiation pyrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiation pyrometers
Senses: glosses: a device that measures the intensity of radiation from, and thus the temperature of, a hot body.
radical center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radical centers
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A point at which the radical lines of three circles meet.
glosses: Pertaining to radical centrism.
Synonyms: power center
radical middle
radical axis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radical axes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The line containing the locus of points from which the segments respectively tangent to two given circles have equal length.
Synonyms: radical line
Related terms: radical center
rhizotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhizotomies
Etymology: From rhizo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical procedure of cutting the anterior or posterior spinal nerve roots in order to relieve pain, or reduce muscle spasms.
Derived terms: glycerol rhizotomy
Related terms: rhizotomous
radiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From radium + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: containing radium (or other material used for radiotherapy)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: constituting radium (esp. barium salts)
radioacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + acoustics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the acoustics of sounds as carried and reproduced by radio
radioassay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioassays
Etymology: From radio- + assay.
Senses: glosses: An assay of an ore or some other radioactive sample to determine the intensity of its radiation.
radioassay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radioassays
form: radioassaying
form: radioassayed
form: radioassayed
Etymology: From radio- + assay.
Senses: glosses: To perform such an assay of.
bunyon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunyons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bunion.
radiodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + -odontia.
Senses: glosses: The radiography of teeth, gums, jaws etc.
Related terms: orthopantomography
radio fix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio fixes
Senses: glosses: The location of a radio transmitter by taking bearings from two receivers.
glosses: The location of a vessel or aircraft by taking bearings to two transmitters of known position.
radiogenetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + genetics.
Senses: glosses: The study of the genetic effects of radiation.
Related terms: radiobiology
radiogoniometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + goniometry.
Senses: glosses: the measurement of the azimuth and elevation of received radio waves
Related terms: radiogoniograph
radiogoniometer
radiohalo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiohalos
Etymology: From radio- + halo.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic spherical disturbance in a rock caused by a grain of radioactive material.
radioimmunological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + immunological.
Senses: synonyms: radioimmune
glosses: Of, relating to, or using radioimmunology.
radio knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radio knives
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical instrument that uses a high-frequency electric arc to cut through or cut away tissue and at the same time sterilize the edges of the wound and seal cut blood vessels.
radiolarian ooze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: mud of the bottom of deep seas composed largely of silica from the skeletal remains of radiolarians
radiolarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiolarites
Senses: examples: text: It comprehends the following generally flat-lying members: Hauptdolomit, Platten Limestone, Kossen Beds, Rhae- tian reef Limestone, Liassic marls and limestones, up to 350 m thick siliceous, radiolarite-bearing strata
ref: 1980, Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austria), Outline of the geology of Austria and selected excursions:
text: The conodont-dominated assemblages with strongly impoverished to totally lacking benthos contained in the soft radiolarite-bearing shales of the Ponikev Formation are typical of units deposited during this time
ref: 1984, Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii, volume 29, page 145:
glosses: radiolarian ooze, or the sedimentary rock formed from it.
radiolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radiolite + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having fanlike groupings of acicular crystals.
raw_tags: of igneous rock
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Whose components radiate from a central point.
raw_tags: of limestone
Related terms: radiolite
radiolitid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the genus Radiolites or the family Radiolitidae, or composed of their remains.
radiolitid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiolitids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any extinct bivalve in the family Radiolitidae.
radioluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioluminescences
Etymology: From radio- + luminescence.
Senses: glosses: luminescence produced by bombardment with ionizing radiation
Hypernyms: luminescence
Hyponyms: radiophotoluminescence
radiometallography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + metallography.
Senses: glosses: the determination of the structure of metals and alloys by means of X-rays
radiometric magnitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiometric magnitudes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The magnitude of a star as determined by radiometry.
radiomicrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiomicrometers
Etymology: From radio- + micrometer.
Senses: glosses: a device used to measure small changes in radiant heat, or in temperature
radiopacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiopacities
Etymology: From radio- + opacity.
Senses: glosses: The state or degree of being opaque to X-rays.
radiophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiophones
Etymology: From radio- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A photophone.
glosses: A radiotelephone.
radioprotector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioprotectors
Etymology: From radio- + protector.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A substance, such as potassium iodide, that provides some protection against the harmful effects of radiation.
Related terms: radioprotectant
radioprotection
radioprotective
radioresistance
radio silence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.oʊ ˌsaɪ.ləns/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.əʊ ˌsaɪ.ləns/
Forms: form: radio silences
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A status maintained where all fixed or mobile radio stations in an area stop transmitting (sometimes limited to certain frequency bands).
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: The period of time during which this status exists.
examples: text: After the abuse scandal, the company went into complete radio silence.
text: "No messages, actually. Total radio silence on her end all day."
ref: 2016 March 29, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 815 - Where is she?:
text: That was more than Ms. Solomon and many of her colleagues had heard internally. “Radio silence,” she said. She began to vent her frustration on Twitter.
ref: 2022 December 23, Katherine Rosman, “She Worked for Twitter. Then She Tweeted at Elon Musk.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A period of time during which nothing is heard from a person or organization, especially when such communication would normally be expected.
Related terms: silent treatment
wall of silence
dead air
radiosterilized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + sterilized.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Sterilized by radiosterilization.
radiostrontium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiostrontiums
Etymology: From radio- + strontium.
Senses: glosses: any radioactive isotope of strontium, especially ⁹⁰₃₈Sr
Synonyms: strontium-90
radiosymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: having radial symmetry
radix graminis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rādix (“root”) + grāminis (“of grass”), the genitive form of grāmen (“grass”).
Senses: glosses: the root of couch grass, once used medicinally
radon seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radon seeds
Senses: glosses: A small glass or gold tube, containing radon gas, implanted in a patient as radiotherapy.
radzimir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radzimirs
form: radzimire
Senses: glosses: A black silk fabric once used for mourning clothes.
glosses: A similar fabric for women's clothing made with lengthwise ribs or a broken twill weave.
rafale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rafales
Etymology: Borrowed from French rafale. In the military context the term may well be obsolete in English; it had been introduced into French military usage by General Hippolyte Langlois in the late nineteenth century, and adopted into English and American usage not long after, but the usage seems to have petered out in English by the end of World War I.
Senses: examples: text: […] a salvo is […] a succession of shots […] with the same elevation... a single shot for each piece. By a rafale is meant all the shots of a battery fired with the same elevation, without any determined order, at the rate of more than one shot per gun. According to circumstances, three different kinds of fire are employed ... first, progressive fire; second, fire with a single elevation; third, fire by salvos or by rafales...
ref: 1903, Andrew Hero Jr., “Opening & Conduct of Fire”, in Antiaircraft Journal, volume 20, page 47:
text: And then, above the hum of the roadside, rose the voice of the great guns. The shells were bursting four or five miles away, and the guns must have been as many more distant. But in that upland pocket of plain in the frosty night they sounded most intimately near. They kept up their solemn litany, with a minute's interval between each - no rafale which rumbles like a drum, but the steady persistence of artillery exactly ranged on a target.
ref: 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:
text: Then, as if a spring had been loosed, the world suddenly leaped to a hideous life. With a growl the guns opened round all the horizon. They were especially fierce to the south, where a rafale beat as I had never heard it before. The one glance I cast behind me showed the gap in the hills choked with fumes and dust.
ref: 1916, John Buchan, Greenmantle:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A short, intense burst of artillery fire from a number of weapons fired with the intention of overwhelming resistance or routing an attacking force.
braaivleis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans braaivleis.
Senses: examples: text: No clue to the previous inhabitants—oh, except a rusted braaivleis grill and a kennel with half the roof missing.
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 10:
glosses: braai meat.
millage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millages
form: mill rate
Etymology: From mill (“one thousandth part”) + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Charter townships are able to levy millage on the residents without a vote of the people.
text: In another victory for the DIA [Detroit Institute of Arts], the state legislature rejected a bill yesterday that would have prevented the museum from seeking renewal of an innovative property tax that supports its operations. The millage, which was approved by voters in 2012, is expected to contribute over $23m to the museum over ten years. “We felt strongly that if the DIA decides to go back for a millage at the end of this one, it should be up to the voters to decide, not the state legislature,” [Annmarie] Erickson says.
ref: 2014 June 4, Julia Halperin, “A victory for Detroit Institute of Arts: But the battle with creditors over the museum's art collection carries on”, in The Art Newspaper, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2014:
glosses: A tax rate on property, expressed in mills of the property's value.
Derived terms: millage tax
Related terms: permille
milage
mileage
blind map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blind maps
Senses: glosses: A map with political boundaries and major geographical features shown, but without names. Sometimes used for testing or training purposes.
Synonyms: blank map
separable verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separable verbs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb that is composed of a stem and a separable affix, which can be detached from the stem in several verb forms.
separable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more separable
form: most separable
Etymology: From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis.
Senses: glosses: Able to be separated.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
raw_tags: of a differential equation
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a countable dense subset.
raw_tags: of a topological space
examples: text: x²#43;1 is separable, since its roots are i and -i.
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
raw_tags: of a polynomial
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
Such that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root.
qualifier: Galois theory
raw_tags: of a polynomial P
of a polynomial
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
qualifier: Galois theory
raw_tags: of an algebraic field extension E/F
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:
Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
raw_tags: of an algebra over a ring
Synonyms: disunitable
separatable
Derived terms: separable affix
separable extension
separable polynomial
separable prefix
separable verb
Related terms: separability
separable affix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separable affixes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An affix that can be detached from the word it attaches to in several instances.
Related terms: separable verb
talismanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtælɪzˈmænɪk/
Forms: form: more talismanic
form: most talismanic
Etymology: From talisman + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells.
ref: 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
text: For Marshall, law possessed a talismanic quality, representing all that was best in American democracy.
ref: 2021 July 14, Stephen L. Carter, “What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me”, in The New York Times:
text: Midfielder Hayley Raso put the game beyond doubt in the second half, before the team’s talismanic striker Sam Kerr – the face of this home World Cup – made her return to the pitch following the calf injury she suffered on the eve of the tournament.
ref: 2023 August 7, Kieran Pender, “Caitlin Foord and Hayley Raso fire Australia into quarter-finals with win over Denmark”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of, relating to, or like, a talisman.
glosses: Possessing or believed to possess protective magical power.
Derived terms: talismanically
ice sculpture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice sculptures
Senses: qualifier: sculpture
glosses: temporary, decorative sculpture carved from a block of ice
ice show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice shows
Senses: glosses: an entertainment performed by ice skaters
Related terms: on ice
ice skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice skates
Senses: glosses: A light boot, fitted with a blade, used for ice skating.
Derived terms: synthetic ice skate
Related terms: ice-skate
ice skater
ice skating
ice-skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-skates
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice skate.