cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭsh'ən
enpr: fĭzh'ən
ipa: /ˈfɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈfɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: fissions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem, accusative singular of fissiō (“the act of breaking up”), from findō (“split, divide”).
Senses: glosses: The process whereby one item splits to become two.
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: nuclear fission: The process of splitting the nucleus of an atom into smaller particles.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: fissiparism
glosses: The process by which a bacterium splits to form two daughter cells.
Derived terms: atomic fission
binary fission
cytofission
fiss
fissile
fissionability
fissionable
fissional
fission bomb
fission fragment
fission-fusion society
fissionist
fissionless
fissionlike
fission product
fission rocket
hemifission
induced fission
karyofission
nonfission
nuclear fission
photofission
quasifission
spontaneous fission
fission
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭsh'ən
enpr: fĭzh'ən
ipa: /ˈfɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈfɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: fissions
form: fissioning
form: fissioned
form: fissioned
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fissiōnem, accusative singular of fissiō (“the act of breaking up”), from findō (“split, divide”).
Senses: glosses: To cause to undergo fission.
glosses: To undergo fission.
Derived terms: nonfissioned
nonfissioning
unfissioned
Related terms: nucleomitophobia
fit into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fits into
form: fitting into
form: fit into
form: fit into
Senses: examples: text: The round peg will fit into the circular hole.
glosses: To be of the right size and shape to be placed in a location.
examples: text: As a retired sergeant, you should fit into the crowd at the officers' club.
glosses: To be of similar cultural or social status as the members of a group of people.
Synonyms: fit in
squeeze in
squeeze into
fountain of youth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fountains of youth
Senses: examples: text: Just watching the advertisement, you'd think the face cream was a fountain of youth.
text: Who has not known some even-tempered old man or woman who seemed to have drunk of the fountain of youth?
ref: 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
text: Injections of hGH have become increasingly popular as a virtual “rejuvenator” or “fountain of youth.”
ref: 2021, Albert W. Taylor, Physiology of Exercise and Healthy Aging, page 273:
glosses: Anything reputed to have the power to restore health and vitality or to restore a youthful appearance.
Related terms: elixir of life
philosopher's stone
gazpacho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəsˈpɑːt͡ʃəʊ/
ipa: /ɡəsˈpæt͡ʃəʊ/
rhymes: -ɑːtʃəʊ
Forms: form: gazpachos
Etymology: From Spanish gazpacho, perhaps via Mozarabic *gazpelağo from Latin gazophylacium (“treasure-chest in a church”), alluding to the diversity of its contents. Alternatively, related to Spanish caspicias (“remnants”).
Senses: examples: text: First, as to the title: Gazpacho is the name of a dish universal in, and peculiar to, Spain. It is a sort of cold soup, made of bread, pot-herbs, oil, and water. Its materials are easily come by, and its concoction requires no skill.
ref: 1850, William George Clark, Gazpacho: Or, Summer Months in Spain, page v:
text: […] I’d rather have my fill of gazpacho than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger, and I’d rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government.
ref: 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter LIII, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, pages 367–369:
text: He will eat a plateful of gazpacho or puchero, a sardine, half a roll of bread, and drink clear water as often as wine. Food is always of secondary importance: he ranks it after his novia, after his cigarillo, after the bulls.
ref: 1904, L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street, Spanish Life in Town and Country:
text: Seville is the home of gazpacho, a delicious cold soup of cucumber, tomato, and miscellaneous garnishings.
ref: 1964, Jan Morris, “Plural Spain”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:
glosses: A cold soup of Spanish origin, made with olive oil, vinegar, bread and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, garlic, onion, cucumber and sweet peppers.
hexaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hexa- + -ploid.
Senses: glosses: Having six complete sets of chromosomes in a single cell
Derived terms: allohexaploid
autohexaploid
euhexaploid
hexaploidisation
hexaploidization
hexaploidy
hyperhexaploid
mesohexaploid
paleohexaploid
hexaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaploids
Etymology: From hexa- + -ploid.
Senses: glosses: A cell or organism that has six complete sets of chromosomes
hesitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hesitancies
form: hæsitancy
form: hesitance
Etymology: From Latin haesitantia. By surface analysis, hesitant + -cy.
Senses: synonyms: hesitation
glosses: A pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.
Derived terms: vaccine hesitancy
hybridisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hybridisations
Etymology: From hybrid + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: Polyploidy and hybridisation are important evolutionary forces shaping plant genomes and underlying the huge angiosperm diversity. Both can confer evolutionary advantages [44–46] attributed to the plasticity of plant genomes and to increased genetic variability, generating individuals capable of exploiting new niches [47].
ref: 2015 July 8, Nayyereh Olanj et al., “The striking and unexpected cytogenetic diversity of genus Tanacetum L. (Asteraceae): a cytometric and fluorescent in situ hybridisation study of Iranian taxa”, in BMC Plant Biology, volume 15, →DOI:
text: In situ hybridisations were performed on devitellinised embryos still wrapped around the yolk and on embryos with the yolk dissected away.
ref: 2015 December 4, “Divergent RNA Localisation Patterns of Maternal Genes Regulating Embryonic Patterning in the Butterfly Pararge aegeria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of hybridization.
Derived terms: dehybridisation
prehybridisation
immobilisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: immobilisations
Etymology: From French immobilisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of immobilization.
Derived terms: coimmobilisation
immobilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immobilizations
form: immobilisation
Etymology: From French immobilisation or im- + mobilization or immobilize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: The broken bones were able to heal, thanks to the immobilization of her leg in a cast.
text: Treatment of an acute occult dislocation of the ankle consists of immobilization in a snugly fitting plaster-of-paris cast, with little padding.
ref: 1954 February 15, D. Keith Millett, Myron O. Henry, “Occult Ankle Dislocations”, in Modern Medicine, volume 22, number 4, Minneapolis, Minn.: Modern Medicine Publications, Inc., page 93:
text: We are also extracting DNA, both from blood collected during immobilizations and from hyena feces.
ref: 2011 June 21, Kay E. Holekamp, “Why Study Hyenas?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The act or process of preventing a thing from moving.
qualifier: soil science
glosses: The process in which organic soil matter is decomposed and absorbed by microorganisms, and thus not available to plants.
Derived terms: cryoimmobilization
nanoimmobilization
photoimmobilization
incongruent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incongruent
form: most incongruent
Etymology: From in- + congruent.
Senses: examples: text: The yellow blazer was incongruent for the funeral.
text: Her knowledge of world politics was incongruent in someone so young.
text: Gender ideology is the theory that […] human individuals are properly described in terms of an “internal sense of gender” called “gender identity” that may be incongruent with their “sex assigned at birth.”
ref: 2023 July 3, Jay W. Richards, “What Is Gender Ideology?”, in The American Conservative:
glosses: out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: of or relating to two numbers that have different remainders when divided by a third number
Synonyms: incongruous
absurd
inappropriate
Derived terms: incongruently
Related terms: anachronistic
insignificantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insignificantly
form: most insignificantly
Etymology: From insignificant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an insignificant manner, or to a degree that does not matter.
Synonyms: negligibly
instability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instabilities
Etymology: From Middle French instabilité, from Latin instabilitas.
Morphologically in- + stability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unstable.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A state that is not in equilibrium, or in which a small change has a large irreversible effect.
Synonyms: volatility
Derived terms: diocotron instability
microinstability
photoinstability
Rayleigh-Taylor instability
sea of instability
Turing instability
Related terms: word: instable
word: stability
word: disequilibrium
intuitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intuitively
form: most intuitively
Etymology: From intuitive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Though he had never been to art school, he intuitively painted vivid landscapes.
text: "I will," said Constance, who felt intuitively that Lady Marchmont spoke the truth: "I thought that there was something very peculiar in your manner at Mrs. Howard's fête; and Lady Dudley——"
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Confidence”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 100:
text: Thus, native speakers have an intuitive knowledge of the syntactic relations between the words in sentences in their language; in other words, they intuitively know how words are combined together to form Phrases, and Phrases are combined together to form sentences. [...]
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
antonyms: unintuitively
glosses: By intuition; with skill or accuracy, but without special training or planning; instinctively.
attracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹæktɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attract
attracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹæktɪd/
Forms: form: more attracted
form: most attracted
Senses: glosses: drawn towards
Derived terms: attractedness
nonattracted
unattracted
da kine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɑˈkaɪn/
Forms: form: da kind
form: da'kine
form: dakine
Etymology: From Hawaiian Creole da (the definite article, from English the) + kine (used as an intensifier, to mean "type of", and many other purposes, from English kind).
Senses: glosses: Good, best.
da kine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɑˈkaɪn/
Forms: form: da kind
form: da'kine
form: dakine
Etymology: From Hawaiian Creole da (the definite article, from English the) + kine (used as an intensifier, to mean "type of", and many other purposes, from English kind).
Senses: glosses: That; it; that thing.
glosses: The kind of thing we're discussing.
dakine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of da kine.
dakine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of da kine.
savor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savors
Senses: examples: text: [B]y our Sences which conceiue al Colours, Sounds, Sents, Sauors, and Féelings; wée may ſee, heare, ſmell, taſt, and feele, that one ſelfſame workman made both the Sences, and the things that are ſubiect to the Sences.
ref: 1587, Philip of Mornay [i.e., Philippe de Mornay], “That there is a God, and that All Men Agree in the Godhead”, in Philip Sidney, Arthur Golding, transl., A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, […], London: […] [John Charlewood and] George Robinson for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 7:
text: Matr[euis]. Gurney, I vvonder the king dies not, / Being in a vault vp to the knees in vvater, / To vvhich the channels of the caſtell runne, / […] / Gurn[ey]. And ſo do I, Matreuis: yeſternight / I opened but the doore to throvv him meate, / And I vvas almoſt ſtifeled vvith the ſauor.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlow[e], The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act V], signature [L3], recto:
text: [W]hy is not my life a continual Joy? and the ſavor of Heaven perpetually upon my ſpirit?
ref: 1649, Richard Baxter, “What Affections Must be Acted, and by what Considerations and Obje[c]ts, and in what Order”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […], London: […] Rob[ert] White, for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, […], →OCLC, part IV (Containing a Directory for the Getting and Keeping of the Heart in Heaven: […]), section 9, paragraph 5, page 747:
text: [page 848] Taste, gives knowledge of the savors of material things. […] [page 849] The primary facts of knowledge, form, color, sound, weight, savor, odor, etc., can be obtained only by the direct action of material things upon the senses and cannot be taught from books.
ref: 1896 March 16, Charles R[ufus] Skinner, “[Exhibit No. 16: Teachers’ Training Classes.] Regulations for Teachers’ Training Classes.”, in Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, One Hundred and Twentieth Session, volume XVII, number 71, part II, Albany; New York, N.Y.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, published 1897, →OCLC, section XIII (Syllabus), pages 848 and 849:
glosses: Alternative spelling of savour.
denazification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: denazifications
form: de-nazification
form: de-Nazification
Etymology: From de- + Nazification.
Senses: glosses: The process of the removal of Nazis from public office and positions of responsibility in Germany and Austria after World War II.
wikipedia: Nazi Party Rally Grounds
Synonyms: word: denazifying
word: de-nazifying
word: de-Nazifying
Related terms: de-Baathification
dezionification
decommunization
de-Communization
de-Trumpification
debathification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from denazification, a similar concept employed against the conquered Nazi government following the Second World War.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of de-Baathification.
herbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːbəl/
ipa: /ˈɝbəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: herball
Senses: examples: text: Herbal tea has a nice aroma and is good for a stuffy head.
glosses: Made from or with herbs.
examples: text: a herbal remedy for back-ache
text: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
ref: 2013 March 24, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134:
glosses: Made from natural herbs specifically as opposed to from synthetic materials.
Derived terms: ethnoherbal
herbal body wrap
herbal high
herbalism
herbalist
herbalistic
herbalize
herbally
herbal medicine
herbal supplement
herbal tea
herbal wrap
monoherbal
multiherbal
nonherbal
polyherbal
herbal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜːbəl/
ipa: /ˈɝbəl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl
Forms: form: herbals
form: herball
Senses: examples: text: It can still be found in herbals and such, which describe it as a sedative and cough suppressant.
ref: 2005 January 7, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A manual of herbs and their medical uses.
examples: text: I took a ride to the shopping strip at Belmont and Central and stocked up on herbals at three Polish New Age health stores.
ref: 2003 March 7, Jeffrey Felshman, “The Killer Inside Me”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: An herbal supplement.
prissy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪsi/
rhymes: -ɪsi
Forms: form: prissies
Etymology: 1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; first attested in a work of American writer Joel Chandler Harris.
Senses: examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I really like Beau. He sure enjoys being admired & lusted over. He just lays back like a king & enjoys. What a prissy!
glosses: A person who is prissy.
Prissy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Priscilla + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Priscilla.
Priscilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈsɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Etymology: Feminine diminutive form of a Roman cognomen Prīscus, from Latin prīscus (“former, ancient, old-fashioned”).
Compare typologically Seneca (< Latin Seneca < senex).
Senses: examples: text: Letters written by Alden, and full of the name of Priscilla, / Full of the name and the fame of the Puritan maiden Priscilla!
ref: 1858, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish:
text: 'Priscilla,' she said, --- 'The same name I've had for twenty years!' She smiled cynically. 'And, before you ask why, I was stoned when I chose it, so any thoughts of Cill were in my subconscious. I used to think it was classier than Louise or Daisy... probably because the Trevelyans were such snobs.'
ref: 2003, Minette Walters, Disordered Minds, Macmillan., →ISBN, page 354:
glosses: A female given name from Latin of biblical origin.
examples: And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
glosses: An early Christian, mentioned in the Bible and also known as Prisca.
Related terms: word: Prissy
word: Cilla
word: Scilla
abdelavi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abdelavis
Etymology: From Arabic عَبْد اللَّاوِي (ʕabd al-lāwī, “a variety of melon”).
Senses: glosses: A variety of muskmelon from North Africa and Arabia, Cucumis melo.
Synonyms: hairy melon
nonmember
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nonmembers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-member.
inclusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkluːsɪv/
Forms: form: more inclusive
form: most inclusive
Etymology: From Middle French inclusif, from Medieval Latin inclūsīvus, from Latin inclūsus.
Senses: examples: text: an inclusive list of data formats
synonyms: exhaustive
glosses: Including (almost) everything within its scope.
examples: text: numbers 1 to 10 inclusive
antonyms: exclusive
glosses: Including the extremes as well as the area between.
examples: text: The pronoun in "If you want, we could go back to my place for coffee" is an inclusive "we".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: exclusive
glosses: Of, or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when including the person being addressed.
examples: text: trans-inclusive feminism
synonyms: inclusionary
antonyms: exclusionary
glosses: Including or accepting those belonging to a particular group.
Derived terms: all-inclusive
gender-inclusive
inclusive disjunction
inclusive fitness
inclusively
inclusiveness
inclusive or
inclusivism
inclusivist
inclusivity
noninclusive
overinclusive
self-inclusive
superinclusive
ultrainclusive
underinclusive
uninclusive
Related terms: Wikipedia describes inclusive counting in Counting
lamentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌlæm.ɪnˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: lamentations
Etymology: Recorded since 1375, from Latin lāmentātiō (“wailing, moaning, weeping”), from the deponent verb lāmentor, from lāmentum (“wail; wailing”), itself from a Proto-Indo-European *leh₂- (“to howl”), presumed ultimately imitative. Replaced Old English cwiþan. Lament is a 16th-century back-formation.
Senses: examples: text: About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?
ref: 1922 April, Paul Rosenfeld, “The Water-Colours of John Marin: A Note on the Work of the First American Painter of the Day”, in John Peale Bishop, editor, Vanity Fair, volume 18, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Vanity Fair Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 48, column 2:
glosses: The act of lamenting.
glosses: A sorrowful cry; a lament.
glosses: Specifically, mourning.
glosses: lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge
glosses: A group of swans.
Related terms: lament
lamentable
lamented
lamentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæm.ənˈteɪ.ʃənz/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Senses: glosses: plural of lamentation
Lamentations
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lam.
form: Lament.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: a book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh
Late Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: As with English, Latin also has historical periods. These are broken into Early Latin (240–70BC); the Golden Age (70BC–AD14); the Silver Age (AD14–130); Late Latin (2nd–6th century); and then Medieval Latin or Low Latin (6th–15th centuries). ]
ref: [ 2007, elizabeth solopova, stuart d. lee, Key Concepts in Medieval Literature, section 2 Old English, sub-section (b) Anglo-Latin Writing
glosses: The form of the Latin language used between the 2nd/3rd and 6th centuries.
Coordinate terms: Biblical Latin
Biblical Latin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Late Latin, as used in translations and commentaries on the Bible, influenced by biblical Greek and Hebrew.
immigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭʹmĭ.grāt'
ipa: /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
homophone: emigrate (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: immigrates
form: immigrating
form: immigrated
form: immigrated
Etymology: From Latin immigratus, past participle of immigro (“remove, move into”).
Senses: examples: text: He knows hardship. He has experienced life in a cold-water flat in Moldova before he immigrated to the States.
ref: 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 56:
glosses: To move into a foreign country to stay permanently.
Derived terms: immigrant
immigration
immigrator
Related terms: migrate
uneasiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈiːzinəs/
Forms: form: uneasinesses
Etymology: From uneasy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
examples: text: Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 229:
glosses: An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
Synonyms: sense: being nervous
alt: dis-ease
word: disease
sense: being nervous
word: unease
sense: anxiety
word: fear
partitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.tə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more partitive
form: most partitive
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English partitif, borrowed from Medieval Latin partītīvus, from Latin partītus + -īvus.
Senses: examples: text: partitive tendencies in education
synonyms: separative
glosses: That divides something into parts.
examples: text: The word some is used in partitive constructions.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
Derived terms: word: nonpartitive
word: partitively
word: partitivity
sense: Expressions
word: partitive ablative
sense: Expressions
word: partitive article
sense: Expressions
word: partitive case
sense: Expressions
word: partitive dative
sense: Expressions
word: partitive genitive
partitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.tə.tɪv/
Forms: form: partitives
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English partitif, borrowed from Medieval Latin partītīvus, from Latin partītus + -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A partitive word, phrase or case.
emigrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕʹmĭ.grāt'
ipa: /ˈɛmɪɡɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈɪmɪɡɹeɪt/
homophone: immigrate (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: emigrates
form: emigrating
form: emigrated
form: emigrated
Etymology: From Latin emigratus, perfect passive participle of emigro (“to move away, remove, depart from a place”), from ex- (“out of, from”) + migro (“to move, remove, depart”).
Senses: examples: text: Forced to emigrate in a body to America.
ref: 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
text: They [the Huns] were emigrating from Tartary into Europe in the time of the Goths.
ref: 1872, John Henry Newman, Historical Sketches:
glosses: To leave the country in which one lives, especially one's native country, in order to reside elsewhere.
Derived terms: emigrator
unemigrating
Related terms: emigrant
emigration
émigré
immigrant
immigrate
immigration
migrate
migration
migratory
interlanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlanguage
arithmomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: arithmomanias
Etymology: From arithmo- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which the subject feels the need to count things
obsessive-compulsive disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsessive-compulsive disorders
Senses: topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychology
sciences
synonyms: OCD
hypernyms: disorder#Noun
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glosses: A mental and behavioral disorder, characterized by obsessive intrusive thoughts and a compulsion to ease the resulting distress by repeating specific routines or rituals, regardless of their interference with other activities.
Related terms: word: obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: OCPD
english: formerly considered hypernymous [in DSM classification]
translation: formerly considered hypernymous [in DSM classification]
word: anxiety disorder
word: body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
armlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armlocks
Etymology: From arm + lock.
Senses: glosses: A wrestling move in which the opponent's arm is held immobile.
glosses: Any of several distinct attacks against an opponent’s arm in martial arts.
examples: text: It would keep the bone-cage of his body safe:
no enemy's clasp would crush him in it,
no vicious armlock choke his life out.
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 47:
glosses: A fighting hold in which the arm is used to immobilise an opponent.
examples: text: Mr Chávez remains a formidable opponent. […] He has an armlock on the country’s institutions.
ref: 2012 September 29, “Venezuela’s presidential election: The autocrat and the ballot box”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2020:
glosses: Power to control or heavily influence something or someone.
armlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: armlocks
form: armlocking
form: armlocked
form: armlocked
Etymology: From arm + lock.
Senses: glosses: To hold in an armlock.
electroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroscopes
Etymology: From electro- + -scope.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a simple device that detects the presence of an electric charge by the mutual repulsion of metal foils or pith balls
Derived terms: Lauritsen electroscope
tyrannical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭ-rănʹĭ-kəl
enpr: tī-
ipa: /təˈrænəkəl/
ipa: /tiˈrænəkəl/
rhymes: -ænɪkəl
Forms: form: more tyrannical
form: most tyrannical
form: tyrannic
Etymology: From Latin tyrannicus + -al; ultimately from Ancient Greek τύραννος (túrannos) (absolute ruler, despot).
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to tyranny or a tyrant.
examples: text: a tyrannical regime
text: tyrannical rulers
text: She met more than a quarter of all the American presidents who have ever lived, five popes, hundreds of national leaders, from the saintly, such as Nelson Mandela, to the tyrannical, including Robert Mugabe and Nicolae Ceausescu[…]
ref: September 8 2022, Stephen Bates, “Queen Elizabeth II obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Despotic, oppressive, or authoritarian.
Synonyms: bossy
Derived terms: tyrannical sadism
briefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːfə/
ipa: /ˈbɹifɚ/
Forms: form: briefers
Etymology: From brief (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The briefers tried to prove the White House’s case that Iran is shipping deadly weapons, including armor-piercing explosives, to Shiite militias in Iraq.
ref: 2007 February 13, “Iran and the Nameless Briefers”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who provides a briefing.
briefer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːfə/
ipa: /ˈbɹifɚ/
Etymology: From brief (adjective) + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: glosses: comparative form of brief: more brief
epidiascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛpɪˈdʌɪəskəʊp/
Forms: form: epidiascopes
Etymology: From epi- + dia- + -scope.
Senses: examples: text: But it was only the huge epidiascope which threw upon the farther wall the blazing and magnified images of the photographs which Nimrod himself was feeding into it one by one from an envelope.
ref: 1958, Lawrence Durrell, Balthazar:
glosses: A projector that can project images of both opaque and transparent objects onto a screen.
Related terms: episcope
diascope
magic lantern
overhead projector
fetoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetoscopes
form: foetoscope
Etymology: From feto- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A flexible fibreoptic device used to view a foetus in the womb.
glosses: A form of stethoscope for listening to the foetal heartbeat.
Related terms: fetoscopy
foetoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foetoscopes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fetoscope.
fiberscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiberscopes
form: fibrescope
Etymology: From fiber + -scope.
Senses: glosses: a flexible fibreoptic device for viewing otherwise inaccessible areas
Derived terms: laryngofiberscope
Related terms: endoscope
fluoroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroscopes
Etymology: From fluoro- + -scope, originally after German Fluorescop.
Senses: glosses: A device used to measure the fluorescence of a solution.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device used to view continuous live X-ray images on a fluorescent screen.
Derived terms: autofluoroscope
fluoroscopic
fluoroscopy
videofluoroscope
fluoroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fluoroscopes
form: fluoroscoping
form: fluoroscoped
form: fluoroscoped
Etymology: From fluoro- + -scope, originally after German Fluorescop.
Senses: glosses: To examine with a fluoroscope.
galvanoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvanoscopes
Etymology: From Luigi Galvani + -o- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device used to detect electric currents, particularly one using the deflection of a magnetic needle.
Derived terms: frog galvanoscope
gastroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastroscopes
Etymology: From gastro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A form of endoscope used to view the inside of the stomach.
Derived terms: videogastroscope
horoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒ.ɹə.skəʊp/
ipa: /ˈhɔ.ɹəˌskoʊp/
rhymes: -əʊp
Forms: form: horoscopes
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French horoscope, from Medieval Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ὡροσκόπος (hōroskópos), from ὥρα (hṓra, “any limited time”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”). By surface analysis, horo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
examples: text: We must talk of the force of circumstances, of imperative necessity, and find fault with the cruel horoscope which ordained such a fate.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 90:
text: "Ah, min hart! And what day was it?"
"How curious you are! Do you want to cast my horoscope?"
ref: 1855, William Hurton, chapter XXIII, in The Doomed Ship; or, The Wreck of the Arctic Regions, London: Willoughby & Co., […], →OCLC, page 103:
glosses: An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.
Synonyms: rashifal
Derived terms: horoscoper
horoscopic
horoscopical
horoscopist
horrorscope
Related terms: astrology
pseudoscience
hydroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroscopes
Etymology: From hydro- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A device for viewing objects below the surface of the water.
glosses: A kind of water clock consisting of a cylindrical graduated tube, from which the water escaped through a hole in the bottom.
Related terms: hydroscopy
iconoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iconoscopes
Etymology: From icono- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: an early television camera having a mosaic of photoactive cells
Related terms: orthicon
vidicon
laparoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laparoscopes
Etymology: From laparo- + -scope.
Senses: hypernyms: endoscope
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glosses: A thin endoscope that may be inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall.
Related terms: laparoscopy
laparoscopic
keyhole surgery
laryngoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngoscopes
Etymology: From laryngo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used for viewing the interior of the larynx.
Derived terms: autolaryngoscope
laryngoscopist
rhinolaryngoscope
video laryngoscope
Related terms: laryngologist
laryngology
laryngoscopy
otolaryngologist
otolaryngology
ophthalmoscope
otoscope
christen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪsən/
rhymes: -ɪsən
Forms: form: christens
form: christening
form: christened
form: christened
form: kersen
form: christian
Etymology: From Middle English cristenen, cristnien, from Old English cristnian (“to christen, baptise”), from cristen (“Christen, Christian”) + -nian. Equivalent to Christ + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian kristenje (“to christen”), Dutch kerstenen (“to christen”), Middle Low German kristenen, kerstenen, karstenen (“to christen”), Danish kristne (“to christen”), Swedish kristna (“to christen”), Icelandic kristna (“to christen”).
Senses: examples: text: The new baby was christened at the village church.
glosses: To perform the religious rite of baptism upon; to baptize.
examples: text: I christen this ship the Bonny Barnacle.
text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
Christen the thing what you will.
text: The order to rename the oiler ship USNS Harvey Milk – christened four years ago – is unusual but is in line with the White House mandate to reverse a number of military initiatives by Democratic presidents.
ref: 2025 June 4, Andy Rose, “Gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s legacy slighted by decision to rename Navy ship”, in CNN:
glosses: To name.
examples: text: I must tell you that christianity hath new christened it
ref: 1657, Jeremy Taylor, Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship:
glosses: To Christianize.
examples: text: I christened my new boots today with a walk in the snow.
text: Foo Fighters, the Pretenders, and Alex G christened Portland’s newest music venue Friday night, and it was a show for the ages.
ref: 2024 August 19, Melissa Locker, “Foo Fighters Rock the Hell Out of Portland's New 30,000-Seat Stadium”, in Portland Mercury:
glosses: To use for the first time.
examples: text: Thus was De Witt's colony, like Austin's, at the mouth of the Colorado, christened in blood, and thus for the moment ended the first effort to found a settlement within its limits.
ref: 1892, John Henry Brown, History of Texas; from 1685 to 1892 - Volume 1, page 127:
text: I christened the facilities, shrugged into my windbreaker, and met Dolan at his door.
ref: 2002, Sue Grafton, Q Is for Quarry:
text: Being christened by a urinating bare-bottomed newborn is almost a rite of passage of parenthood.
ref: 2005, Linda Sonna, Early-Start Potty Training, page viii:
text: By the way if, as part of your fatherhood journey, you haven't been vomited on, had poo squirted on you, or been christened with pee yet, you're not trying hard enough.
ref: 2010, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad For Dummies, page 122:
text: A daddy-long-legs lurched against the white-washed walls while Surefire christened the lime-swilled fresh bucket with a strong stream of urine.
ref: 2012, Glory Keveme, Broken Wings, page 51:
glosses: To douse or wet with blood, urine, tears, or other liquid.
Derived terms: christener
mischristen
rechristen
unchristen
ophthalmoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ophthalmoscopes
Etymology: From ophthalmo- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
synonyms: funduscope
fundoscope
glosses: An instrument for examining the interior of the eye (that is, for ophthalmoscopy).
Derived terms: ophthalmoscopic
ophthalmoscopical
Related terms: laryngoscope
otoscope
otoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊ̯təskoʊ̯p/
ipa: /ˈəʊ̯təskəʊ̯p/
Forms: form: otoscopes
Etymology: From oto- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: auriscope
auroscope
glosses: An instrument used for examining the eardrum and interior of the outer ear.
Derived terms: otoscopist
teleotoscope
Related terms: otocone
otoscopy
laryngoscope
ophthalmoscope
pharyngoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pharyngoscopes
Etymology: From pharyngo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to examine the pharynx.
Derived terms: nasopharyngoscope
sigillography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin sigillum (“small image”), + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The study of seals, especially those attached to documents.
Synonyms: sphragistics
Related terms: sigillographer
sigillographic
sphragistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sfrəˈd͡ʒɪstɪks/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σφραγίς (sphragís, “seal”).
Senses: glosses: The study of seals, especially those attached to documents
Synonyms: sigillography
Related terms: sphragistic
saline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.laɪn/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.lin/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.lɑɪn/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.laɪn/
Forms: form: more saline
form: most saline
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salyne, from Medieval Latin salīna and Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).
Senses: glosses: Containing salt; salty.
examples: text: a saline taste
glosses: Resembling salt.
Derived terms: desalinise
desalinize
eurysaline
halosaline
hydrosaline
hypersaline
hyposaline
isosaline
mesosaline
nonsaline
oligosaline
phosphosaline
salinate
Saline County
salinely
salineness
salinification
saliniform
salinization
salinize
salinometer
salino-terrene
semisaline
subsaline
supersaline
thermosalinograph
unsaline
saline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.laɪn/
ipa: /ˈseɪ.lin/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.lɑɪn/
ipa: /ˈsæɪ.laɪn/
Forms: form: salines
Etymology: PIE word
 *séh₂ls
From Middle English salyne, from Medieval Latin salīna and Middle French salin, from Latin sal (“salt”).
Senses: glosses: Water containing dissolved salt.
glosses: A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
Synonyms: sense: water containing dissolved salt
word: saline solution
Derived terms: normal saline
saline flush
Hell's Kitchen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: They were living someplace in Hell's Kitchen, because that's where the blacks were at that time, before they started moving up, and uptown.
ref: 2008, Charles Rangel, And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress, Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: Her first assignment was Hell's Kitchen, the infamous violent Manhattan neighborhood with the name that bespoke its environment, and San Juan Hill, the area just above West 59th Street, and on the northern edge of Hell's Kitchen.
ref: 2015, Tanya Hart, Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915–1930, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 86:
synonyms: Clinton
HK
coordinate_terms: Five Points
glosses: A neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, also known as Clinton, that was historically known for poor living conditions.
coordinate_terms: slum
ghetto
glosses: Any neighborhood with a reputation for poverty and crime.
binary compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical compound composed of only two elements.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound composed of an element and a radical (a group of atoms that behave as one piece).
angle of attack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angles of attack
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The angle between a mid-sail and the direction of the wind.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The angle between the plane of rotation of a wheel and the outer rail in the track curve.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angle, attack.
Synonyms: word: AOA
word: AoA
word: α
word: alpha
slum
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: slums
form: slumming
form: slummed
form: slummed
Etymology: First attested in 1812. originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom", of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: When you meet the girl who wouldn't et cetera you will tell her that you are slumming, visiting your own six A.M. Lower East Side of the soul on a lark, stepping nimbly between the piles of garbage to the gay marimba rhythms in your head.
ref: 1984, Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City, →ISBN, page 4:
text: While slumming had long been an indulgence; if not liberty, of many well-to-do men (and some women), the intimate theaters created by Prohibition brought together elements of normally disparate social groups through a special form of bonding, breaking the law and enjoying it.
ref: 2020, David Rosen, Prohibition New York City, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.
glosses: To saunter about in a disreputable manner.
Derived terms: slum it
slummer
slum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Etymology: See slumgullion.
Senses: glosses: Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.
Synonyms: word: barrio
word: bad part of town
word: estate
word: favela
word: ghetto
word: Hell's Kitchen
word: jects
word: projects
word: scheme
word: shantytown
word: sink estate
word: slum
Hypernyms: word: section of a town
Hyponyms: word: Hooverville
word: rookery
Meronyms: word: building
word: flophouse
word: doss-house
word: tenement
word: street
Derived terms: slum gun
Related terms: word: inner city
word: urban blight
slum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌm/
rhymes: -ʌm
Senses: examples: text: And this, without more slum began, / Over a flowing pot-house can, / To settle, without botheration, / The rigs of this here tip-top nation.
ref: 1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius:
glosses: Nonsense; humbug.
Synonyms: word: barrio
word: bad part of town
word: estate
word: favela
word: ghetto
word: Hell's Kitchen
word: jects
word: projects
word: scheme
word: shantytown
word: sink estate
word: slum
Hypernyms: word: section of a town
Hyponyms: word: Hooverville
word: rookery
Meronyms: word: building
word: flophouse
word: doss-house
word: tenement
word: street
Related terms: word: inner city
word: urban blight
apheresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: əfîʹrĭsĭs
ipa: /əˈfɪəɹɪsɪs/
ipa: /əˈfɛɹəsɪs/
ipa: /ˌæfəˈɹisɪs/
Forms: form: aphereses
form: aphaeresis
form: aphæresis
Etymology: From Latin aphaeresis, from Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “a taking away”), from ἀφαιρέω (aphairéō) (from ἀφ- (aph-), variant of ἀπό (apó, “off, away from”) before an aspirated vowel) + αἱρέω (hairéō, “to take; to snatch”)) + -σις (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action); the grammatical sense developed in Latin.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
synonyms: pheresis
procope
coordinate_terms: syncope
apocope
elision
clipping
abbreviation
aphesis
glosses: Elision, suppression, or complete loss of a letter or sound (syllable) from the beginning of a word, such as the development of special from especial.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pheresis
hemapheresis
coordinate_terms: plasmapheresis
qualifier: still current
glosses: The removal of blood from a patient, and the removal of certain components (such as platelets) from that blood, followed by the transfusion of the filtered blood back to the donor (patient).
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Extirpation or extraction of a superfluity (especially a pathological one) from the body, especially blood.
Derived terms: aphaeretic
apheretic
erythrapheresis
erythrocytapheresis
erythropheresis
leukapheresis
leukocytapheresis
photopheresis
thrombocytapheresis