cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sundrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sundrenched
form: most sundrenched
Senses: examples: text: EARLY this summer, Joshua J. Pelton decided that he was meant to live in Orlando, Fla. So he quit his sales job in Detroit, packed his car with all the belongings that fit, put the rest in storage, and drove southeast daydreaming about sundrenched winters and packed nightclubs.
ref: 2007 September 6, Lisa Belkin, “What Do Young Jobseekers Want? (Something Other Than the Job)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of sun-drenched.
shearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shearing
technogeek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technogeeks
Etymology: From techno- + geek.
Senses: examples: text: Being able to use electronic mail, for example, should be a prerequisite to getting a piece published and certainly won't cause a writer to transform into a technogeek.
ref: 1992, Carl Malamud, Exploring the Internet: a technical travelogue, page 111:
text: Do-it-yourselfers and technogeeks, tinkerers, artists, crafters and product and furniture designers, the hackers are united only by their perspective, which looks upon an Ikea Billy bookcase or Lack table and sees not a finished object but raw material: a clean palette yearning to be embellished or repurposed.
ref: 2007 September 6, Penelope Green, “Romancing the Flat Pack: Ikea, Repurposed”, in New York Times:
glosses: A geek with expertise in technology, especially computers.
technogeeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technogeek
tetramethylpiperidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetramethylpiperidine
tetramethylguanidines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetramethylguanidine
backweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backweights
Etymology: From back + weight.
Senses: examples: text: Fashioned with shafts of aged hickory, ash or lemonwood, these early clubs have heads with an insert of ram’s horn or a lead backweight.
ref: 2007 September 7, Wendy Moonan, “Olde Cleeks, Spoons and Brassies (for Birdies and Bogeys)”, in New York Times:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A weight attached to the back of a golf club to give it a lower centre of gravity.
backweights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backweight
backwinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backwind
backwinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backwind
backwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backwind
backwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backwind
backwound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backwind
caperings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capering
installational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From installation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: “Vessels are so over” is the apparent subtext of this potpourri of the figurative, abstract and installational.
ref: 2007 September 7, Roberta Smith, “It’s Just Clay, but How About a Little Respect?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to installation.
equipotentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equipotential
unfecund
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfecund
form: most unfecund
Etymology: From un- + fecund.
Senses: examples: text: My soil is awful, an unfecund combination of sand, rocks and roots, the ungenerous leavings of Long Island’s glacially bulldozed moraine.
ref: 2007 September 7, Lawrence Downes, “A Box of Worms”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not fecund.
Related terms: unfecundity
studentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more studentlike
form: most studentlike
Etymology: From student + -like.
Senses: examples: text: All these pieces establish a climate all too well known in modern dance: studentlike; serious; worthy; mainly heavy-footed; theatrically tepid.
ref: 2007 September 7, Alastair Macaulay, “Shakespeare’s Scottish Dame: Ambition in Motion”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a student.
upbuild
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upbuilds
form: upbuilding
form: upbuilt
form: upbuilt
form: upbuilded
form: upbuilded
Etymology: From up- + build.
Senses: examples: text: […] under all circumstances, whether the surface be uppushed by horizontal mashing of sediments or upbuilt by the outsqueezing of melted matter, the increase of height would be the same […]
ref: 1876, American Journal of Science, volume 111, page 299:
text: These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.
ref: 1976, William Morris Davis, The coral reef problem:
glosses: To build up (literally).
examples: text: Briefly, the Republic, as he sees it, was upbuilt by a cunningly manipulated political machine that reared a seemingly solid superstructure on the false foundation of the interests of a class rather than of the people.
ref: 1904, The Outlook, volume 76, page 616:
text: It is certain that the laying traits can be up-built by breeding from the heavy layers, just as the milk producing qualities have been built up by breeding from great milk producers; […]
ref: 1908, American poultry advocate, volume 17, page 363:
text: The cultured, on the other hand, are only upbuilt by forgetting about the petty, individual circumstances of life: […]
ref: 20002, in Kierkegaard's upbuilding discourses: philosophy, theology, literature (George Pattison), page 26 http://books.google.com/books?id=N_AAY4aYvmMC&lpg=PA26&dq=%22upbuilt%20by%22&pg=PA26#v=onepage&q=%22upbuilt%20by%22&f=false
text: “For 300 years as bondsmen and some 93 years as freemen, under slaver’s whip and Jim Crow law,” Mr. Jackson wrote in The Daily Worker in 1958, “Negro Americans have yielded up their labor and expended their lives for the upbuilding of this country in yet unfathomed measure.”
ref: 2007 September 7, Dennis Hevesi, “James Jackson, Rights Activist, Dies at 92”, in New York Times:
glosses: To build up; to develop (figuratively).
upbuilds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upbuild
upbuilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbuild
upbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbuild
upbuilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbuildings
Senses: examples: text: It was beyond the local parson to remain passive while this spiritual cuckoo pulled to pieces this little nest of his victim's weary upbuilding.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 160:
glosses: The process of building something up; gradual development or accumulation.
upbuilded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbuild
upbraider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbraiders
Etymology: From upbraid + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who upbraids.
upbraiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upbraider
upbraidest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: upbraid + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of upbraid
unupbraided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + upbraided.
Senses: glosses: Not having been upbraided.
aftershow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From after- + show.
Senses: examples: text: With “The Hills,” they use a master story (the fight between Lauren and Heidi) to propel themselves through narrative tributaries that might take them onto other platforms and technologies (message boards, aftershow discussions, video-sharing, music-download sites).
ref: 2007 September 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Hated, Loved and Second-Guessed, MTV Is Still a Channel About Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: Occurring after a show.
aftershow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftershows
Etymology: From after- + show.
Senses: examples: text: Prince had brought the band back onstage to join him in the final encore of the main show, 'Get on the Boat', so it seemed likely he'd jam with them at the aftershow.
ref: 2016, Matt Thorne, Prince: The Man and His Music:
glosses: An event which takes place following a show
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A talk show that discusses another television show that has already aired.
coarsener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coarseners
Etymology: From coarsen + -er.
Senses: examples: text: MTV, you pornographer, you segregationist, you imperialist, you coarsener of culture, you aborter of attention spans.
ref: 2007 September 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Hated, Loved and Second-Guessed, MTV Is Still a Channel About Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: That which makes coarse.
coarseners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coarsener
nonparish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parish.
Senses: examples: text: The Los Angeles Archdiocese has said it will sell large amounts of nonparish property, including its administrative headquarters, to pay for the settlement.
ref: 2007 September 8, Randal C. Archibold, “San Diego Diocese Settles Lawsuit for $200 Million”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to a parish.
teensiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of teensy: most teensy
teensier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of teensy: more teensy
trivializer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivializers
Etymology: From trivialize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: You plunderer of album rock, you late adapter of rap, you trivializer of politics, you abandoner of music.
ref: 2007 September 8, Virginia Heffernan, “Hated, Loved and Second-Guessed, MTV Is Still a Channel About Stars”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who or that which trivializes.
trivializers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trivializer
brownstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brownstone + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: An oak tree grew in Brooklyn once, on a pleasant, brownstoned block.
ref: 2007 September 9, Caroline H. Dworin, “The Corn Is Green (and Just Down the Block)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Built with brownstone.
brownstoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brownstone
counterspying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Spying on spies.
counterspying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterspy
clankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clanker
droptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droptops
Etymology: From drop + top.
Senses: examples: text: These aren’t impractical performance machines or big-dollar luxury cars; they’re the sunny but humble conveyances you see trolling South Beach with discreet Enterprise stickers on their rear bumpers, cars aimed at people who want a spacious droptop for short money.
ref: 2007 September 9, Ezra Dyer, “As the Hardtops Hide, the Trunks Go Missing”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of drop top (“convertible car”).
entrapments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entrapment
droptops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droptop
dropsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropside
dropships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dropship
dropships
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dropship
pondy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pondy
form: most pondy
Etymology: From pond + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Our tea was made of a brown pondy liquid, which looked like water in a tanner's vat.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
text: And faint across the creek, the road, and the fields lay the pondy smell of spatter-docks.
ref: 1911, Dallas Lore Sharp, Roof and Meadow:
text: Juliet, is there something wrong with the pond?
No, it's fine, I mean, it's just as pondy as ever.
ref: 2011, Gnomeo and Juliet:
glosses: Resembling a pond; pondlike
noninteroperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + interoperable.
Senses: glosses: Not interoperable.
voice message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice messages
Senses: glosses: A message left on a voice mail system.
glosses: A chat message consisting of an audio recording rather than text.
Synonyms: word: voice mail
frib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fribs
Senses: examples: text: The wool, producing nearly five-sixths of prime, and only one-fourteenth of fribs, is a proof that it had suffered no degeneration […]
ref: 1809, A general treatise on cattle, the ox, the sheep, and the swine, John Lawrence, page 385:
glosses: A piece of inferior wool from the outer part of the fleece.
Derived terms: fribby
business hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Business hours are from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday.
glosses: The hours and days when a given business is available to the public.
glosses: The hours and days when businesses generally operate; 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday to Friday.
Synonyms: word: opening hours
english: its sense 1
translation: its sense 1
word: office hours
word: shop-hours
word: normal business hours
Related terms: office hours
interoperably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interoperably
form: most interoperably
Etymology: From interoperable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In order to build these components, one must adhere to the specification so that the components can operate interoperably.
ref: 2004, B V Kumar, Web Services, page 27:
glosses: In an interoperable manner.
zhonghuacerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zhonghua, the toneless pinyin transcription for Chinese 中華／中华 + cerite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cerium-bearing mineral found in China, now generally believed to be a form of kukharenkoite or huanghoite.
tick tock
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tick-tock.
tick tock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tick tocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tick-tock.
galaxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galaxites
Etymology: From Galax + -ite after the town of Galax, Virginia, USA.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brownish-red spinel mineral found in carbonate-rich metamorphosed manganese ore deposits.
galaxites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galaxite
tuckahoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuckahoe
rhodonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhodonite
alabandites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alabandite
vantasselite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Belgian mineralogist René Van Tassel (1916–2013), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare, white, orthorhombic aluminium phosphate mineral.
polydymite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydymites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric supergene sulfide mineral, dark violet gray to copper-red, associated with the weathering of primary pentlandite nickel sulfide.
polydymites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydymite
polydrugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + drugs.
Senses: examples: text: It is, however, impossible to estimate the number of people who are obtaining polydrugs illegally or abusing them.
ref: 1978, Donald R. Wesson, Polydrug abuse: the results of a national collaborative study:
glosses: Multiple drugs, taken recreationally.
brass-balled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brass-balled
form: most brass-balled
Senses: glosses: courageous, brave
Synonyms: brave
Related terms: brass balls
foreconceive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreconceives
form: foreconceiving
form: foreconceived
form: foreconceived
Etymology: From fore- + conceive.
Senses: examples: text: I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: To imagine the new is to foreconceive, as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.
ref: 2007, Christopher D. Morris, The Figure of the Road:
text: Thus one ought to “color”—foreconceive or frame—the other. The more familiar will be thought to be an example, Aristotle says, yet he also defines the example as this total relation of incompleteness: part to part (without wholes).
ref: 2012, Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction:
glosses: To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
double daggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double dagger
Twelve Labours of Hercules
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Twelve tasks carried out by the Greek hero Herakles (romanized as Hercules) as his penance.
palæanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palæanthropologists
Etymology: From palæ- + anthropo- + -logist.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of palaeanthropologist.
palaeanthropologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeanthropologists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoanthropologist.
palæanthropologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palæanthropologist
feaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feazes
form: feazing
form: feazed
form: feazed
Etymology: From Middle English fesen (“to drive, incite, put into action; frighten, terrify, prosecute, punish”), from Old English fēsan, fȳsan (“to hasten, impel”), from Proto-Germanic *funsijaną (“to make ready”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of feeze.
examples: text: There's mighty little that feazes you.
ref: 1911, Graham B. Forbes, The Boys of Columbia High on the River, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of faze.
hæmorrhages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæmorrhage
hæmorrhages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hæmorrhage
pædogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pædo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of paedogenesis.
palaeanthropologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeanthropologist
æsthesiometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of æsthesiometer
foredeclare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foredeclares
form: foredeclaring
form: foredeclared
form: foredeclared
Etymology: From fore- + declare.
Senses: glosses: To declare beforehand or in advance.
forefeel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɔː.fiːl/
Forms: form: forefeels
form: forefeeling
form: forefelt
form: forefelt
form: fore-feel
Etymology: From fore- + feel.
Senses: examples: text: Such a studie was yong Catoes, in fore-feeling his approaching end, who lighting upon Platoes discourse of the soules immortality.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: […] as touching most fundamental topics, there had got to be established in him some positive convictions, which he forefelt would abide in him essentially unmodified so long as his intelligent part remained unimpaired.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 6, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: To feel or perceive beforehand or in advance; to have a presentiment of.
foreglimpse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreglimpses
Etymology: From fore- + glimpse.
Senses: glosses: A glimpse or revelation of the future.
Synonyms: foregleam
foreglimpse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foreglimpses
form: foreglimpsing
form: foreglimpsed
form: foreglimpsed
Etymology: From fore- + glimpse.
Senses: glosses: To glimpse something in the future.
foregleam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregleams
Etymology: From fore- + gleam.
Senses: glosses: A gleam or glimpse of the future; foreglimpse.
Synonyms: foreglance
foregleam
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foregleams
form: foregleaming
form: foregleamed
form: foregleamed
Etymology: From fore- + gleam.
Senses: glosses: To indicate (something) that will arrive in the future.
foregift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregifts
form: fore-gift
Etymology: From fore- + gift.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A payment in advance; an advance payment or premium paid by a lessee on taking or renewing a lease, distinct from the rent.
foregame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foregames
Etymology: From fore- + game.
Senses: examples: text: I pray God hasten considerable supplies into Ireland, for if Ormond play not his aftergame better than he has his foregame for the good of the poor protestants there, he may live to repent it, and I hope will; …
ref: 1905, Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Samuel Pepys, Augustus Arthur Perceval Egmont (Earl), Report on the manuscripts of the Earl of Egmont: Volume 1
glosses: An initial game plan.
aftergame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aftergames
Etymology: From after- + game.
Senses: examples: text: 1597, Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling, 1603, “Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk, to Mary the French Queene,”
Twere ouer-sight in that at which we ayme, / To put the hazard on an after-game;
text: so many thousand faithfull and valiant English men, who left us in this libertie, bought with thir lives; losing by a strange after game of folly, all the battels we have wonn,
ref: 1660, John Milton, The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, London, page 24:
text: Our first Design, my Friend, has proved abortive; / Still there remains an After-game to play:
ref: 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, London: J. Tonson, act III, scene 1, page 43:
synonyms: rematch
antonyms: foregame
glosses: A second game played to reverse the outcome of the first; the means employed after the first turn of affairs.
topics: video-games
glosses: Bonus features, dialogue, etc. accessed when a previously-beaten video game is revisited.
Ratak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: coordinate_terms: Ralik
glosses: The eastern dialect of the Marshallese language.
foreking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forekings
Etymology: From fore- + king.
Senses: glosses: A preceding king.
glosses: A predecessor on the throne.
Lae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪ/
Senses: glosses: A city in Papua New Guinea.
Mile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Macedonian Ми́ле (Míle).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
Related terms: Mileska
Mileski
Milev
Mileva
Milevska
Milevski
Mile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: mēʹlǔʹ
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 彌勒 /弥勒 (Mílè).
Senses: glosses: A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
fly into a rage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flies into a rage
form: flying into a rage
form: flew into a rage
form: flown into a rage
Senses: glosses: To become very angry
rondeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rondeau
cafeteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cafeterie
deep-draw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deep-draws
form: deep-drawing
form: deep-drew
form: deep-drawn
form: deepdraw
Senses: glosses: To form relatively deep objects in sheet metal using a die
holy card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holy cards
Senses: glosses: A small, mass-produced devotional picture
hilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: hilites
Senses: examples: text: The hilite of the show. The hilite of my summer holiday.
glosses: Informal spelling of highlight.
hilite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪt
Forms: form: hilites
form: hiliting
form: hilited
form: hilited
Senses: examples: text: The Board also wish to hilite that the copy of the Sales & Purchase Agreeement is available for inspection.
text: You can hilite the text with your mouse, then right-click to copy it.
glosses: Informal spelling of highlight.
hilites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hilite
hilites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hilite
hiliting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hilite
hiliting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hilitings
Senses: glosses: Informal spelling of highlighting.
hilitings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hiliting
hilited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of hilite
deduplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈdʒuːplɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: deduplicates
form: deduplicating
form: deduplicated
form: deduplicated
Etymology: From de- + duplicate.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: dedupe
word: unduplicate
glosses: To eliminate redundant duplicate data from.
Derived terms: deduplicator
Related terms: deduplication
deduplicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deduplicate
deduplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deduplicate
deduplicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deduplicate
antiespionage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + espionage.
Senses: glosses: Countering or opposing espionage.
antiepicentres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiepicentre
antiepicenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiepicenter
PVRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of pulmonary vascular resistance index.
RRD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RRDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of regional rural development.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of removable rigid dressing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of reduced resolution dataset.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Round-Robin Database.
RRD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Rejimen Renjer DiRaja.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Rolls-Royce Deutschland.
topics: business
glosses: Initialism of RR Donnelley.
topics: media
glosses: Initialism of Reti Radiotelevisive Digitali.
generatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From generate + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being generated.
Related terms: generatability
prefectorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more prefectorial
form: most prefectorial
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a prefect.
sepulchring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sepulchre
sepulchred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sepulchre
Palamism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Palamite + -ism, a technical term in the field of Church history coined in the mid 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: The last years of the empire witnessed in Palamism a great revival of mystical personal religion.
ref: 1949, English Historical Review, 64, p. 505:
text: The victory of Palamism in the fourteenth century was therefore the victory of a specifically Christian, God-centered humanism for which the Greek patristic tradition always stood.
ref: 1974, John Meyendorff, Byzantine theology: historical trends and doctrinal themes, I. v., p. 78:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Palamites.
Palamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palamites
Etymology: The name of Gregory Palamas (died 1349) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: a Hesychast, an intellectual leader of the Hesychasts
Derived terms: Palamism
Palamitic
Palamitism
Palamite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The name of Gregory Palamas (died 1349) + -ite.
Senses: glosses: hesychastic
educated guesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of educated guess
heath fritillary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heath fritillaries
Senses: glosses: A very small, orange and brown chequered butterfly (Melitaea athalia), of the family Nymphalidae.
heath fritillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heath fritillary
holly blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: holly blues
Senses: glosses: A blue butterfly, Celastrina argiolus, of the family Lycaenidae.
holly blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holly blue
large blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large blues
Senses: glosses: A rare, medium-sized blue butterfly (Phengaris arion) of the family Lycaenidae.
large blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large blue
large heath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: large heaths
Senses: glosses: A brown butterfly, Coenonympha tullia, of the family Nymphalidae. Also known as the common ringlet
large heaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of large heath
common ringlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common ringlets
Senses: glosses: A brown butterfly, Coenonympha tullia, of the family Nymphalidae. Also known as the large heath
common ringlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common ringlet
Bačka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːt͡ʃ.kə/
rhymes: -ɑːtʃkə
Senses: examples: text: Vojvodina includes the historic regions of Bačka, between the Danube and Tisa rivers and the Hungarian border; Banat, to the east of Bačka; and Srem (Srijem), to the south.
ref: 1998, multiple later revisions, John B. Allcock, Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: A historical region presently divided between Vojvodina (autonomous province of Serbia) and Hungary.
impalla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impallas
Senses: glosses: Dated form of impala.
quadrature amplitude modulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrature amplitude modulations
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A modulation scheme that conveys data by applying amplitude modulation to two carrier waves at once. These two waves, usually sinusoids, are out of phase with each other by 90° and are thus called quadrature carriers. Commonly abbreviated QAM.
imparidigitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin impar (“unequal”) + digitus (“finger”).
Senses: examples: text: The horse, tapir, and rhinoceros are imparidigitate.
text: Thus the Hog-group paridigitatestands below the Tapir - group (imparidigitate)
ref: 1864, James Dwight Dana, The Classification of Animals Based on the Principle of Cephalization:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having an odd number of fingers or toes.
pyloruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pylorus
splenius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspliː.ni.əs/
rhymes: -iːniəs
Forms: form: splenii
form: splenius muscle
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin splēnius, from splēnium (“a plaster, patch”) + -ius (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: He caressed and parted [...] her lank loose, nearly lumbus-length (when she threw her head back as now) black silks as he tried to get at her bed-warm splenius.
ref: 1969, Владимир Набоков, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, page 89:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either of two flat oblique muscles which are attached to the vertebrae on each side of the neck and upper thoracic region and which draw back the head.
United Statian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: United Statians
form: Unitedstatian
form: United-Statian
Etymology: From United Stat(es) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: What Darcy did is [...] history for the Australian topped up to George, -hook hands with our United Statian and biffed, banged and roughed heads, shoulders and elbows for 20 long rounds to a draw.
ref: 1919 December 22, “Greek Kayo King And Chip Battle”, in New Castle News, page 18; republished as Newspaper Archives Pennsylvania, United States, 2024:
text: Mme de Réan-Fichini [...] published her treatise, On Contraceptive Devices, in Kapuskan patois (to spare the blushes of Estonians and United Statians; while instructing hardier fellow-workers in her chosen field).
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 103:
text: I started calling myself a “United Statian,” because calling myself an “American” seemed presumptuous, since everybody else from every other country in our hemisphere is American, too.
ref: 2006, Mark Pearson, Martin Westerman, Spain from a Backpack, page 17:
synonyms: word: American
word: Americunt
word: Ameritard
word: Seppo
word: septic
word: United Statesian
word: United Statian
word: Usanian
word: USian
word: US-ian
word: Usonan
word: Usonian
word: US American
word: U.S. American
word: US-American
word: Yank
word: Yankee
glosses: A citizen or inhabitant of the United States.
United Statian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more United Statian
form: most United Statian
form: Unitedstatian
form: United-Statian
Etymology: From United Stat(es) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: All the boasted mountain scenery, from the New Hampshire “Notch” to far-famed “Lookout,” where the historic “Battle above the Clouds” never took place, would look like ant-hills and pig-troughs in any hundred miles of the Utah and Colorado Rockies — the only Real Wonderland, with the “R. W.” blown in the glass, of the United-Statian part of the new world.
ref: 1895, Peter Donan, “A wonderful tour” (chapter X), in Utah: a peep into a mountain-walled treasury of the gods, Buffalo: Matthews-Northrup Co., page 78:
text: Often, education in the US tends to be technocratic and anti-intellectual. United Statian students are not typically prepared, that is, prepared to accept the responsibility of becoming global citizens...
ref: 2004, Matthew Clay Bronson, Writing passage: Academic literacy socialization among ESL graduate students, a multiple case study, Davis: University of California, page 191:
text: Bilingual/ bicultural students do not fit easily into the prevailing United Statian racial categories.
ref: 2010, Lourdes Diaz Soto et al., Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Children, page 71:
text: As Patterson asserts about the team, which includes an archaeology school primarily for United Statian and British students, Carriacou is an attractive place to conduct research ...
ref: 2014, Carla Guerrón Montero, “Tourism, cultural heritage and regional identities in the Isle of Spice”, in Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, →DOI, pages 1–21:
text: The aptitude of current teachers [...] declarative level of pluralism, and their attitudes or actual behaviours; or the United Statian challenges of growing re-segregation, inequality in school funding, and childhood poverty rates with increases of more than 50% since the 1970s.
ref: 2020, Lasso-Rodriguez, G., & Gil-Herrera, R., “Training the Teachers with Assistance of Robotic Process Automation”, in INTED2020 Proceedings, →DOI, pages 8714–8720:
glosses: Pertaining to the United States.
United Statians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of United Statian
paradoxical undressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: paradoxical (“self-contradictory”) + undressing (“removal of one's clothes”). The paradox is that a layer of clothes would be expected to decrease heat loss.
Senses: glosses: Removal of one's clothes while disoriented from hypothermia.
double dares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double dare
double dares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of double dare
double dared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of double dare
double daring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double dare
inline skating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in-line skating.
annus mirabilis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌanəs mɪˈɹɑːbɪlɪs/
Forms: form: anni mirabiles
Etymology: From Latin annus (“year”) + mirabilis (“miraculous”).
From the title of a poem by John Dryden that commemorates the 'year' June 1665-September 1666, during which occurred several momentous events, beginning with a decisive English victory at the Battle of Lowestoft and ending with the Great Fire of London.
Senses: examples: „The year 1905 was said to be Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis – his “miracle year”– in which he published four important papers that set the stage for modern physics. Just over a century later, that phrase comes to my mind when I think of 2015 and New Horizons; it’s been our miracle year. Just consider, in the last 12 months…“
glosses: A year that includes a multitude of significant and fateful events, be they disasters or successes.
wikipedia: Battle of Lowestoft
Great Fire of London
John Dryden
Related terms: annus horribilis
anni mirabiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌani mɪˈɹɑːbɪləs/
Senses: glosses: plural of annus mirabilis
piss-elegant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piss-elegant
form: most piss-elegant
Senses: glosses: Elegant or sophisticated, especially in a pretentious or contrived manner.
Related terms: piss-elegance
piss-elegance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Elegance or sophistication, especially characterised by pretentiousness.
Related terms: piss-elegant
kleptophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From klepto- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Abnormal fear of theft.
stronk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stronker
form: stronkest
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling of strong for humorous or sarcastic effect, popularized by the Polandball memes, as a Polish accent might devoice all final stops.
Senses: examples: text: Poland STRONK!
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of strong.
stronk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stronks
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling of stroke.
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of stroke (medical).
flavourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flavourous
form: most flavourous
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flavorous.
disrotary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of disrotatory.
conrotary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conrotatory.
pædobaptism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pædobaptisms
Etymology: From pædo- + baptism.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of paedobaptism.
showplan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showplans
Etymology: From show + plan.
Senses: examples: text: The showplan provides insight about how SQL Server is going to process a SQL statement. If you know what to look for in a showplan, the information it provides can be useful for tuning queries.
ref: 2002, Mark Spenik, Orryn Sledge, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 DBA Survival Guide, page 526:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A text or graphical summary of how the system plans to optimize the execution of a query.
pas de deux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pas de deux
form: pas-de-deux
Etymology: Borrowed from French pas de deux (literally “step of two”). Compare paso doble.
Senses: examples: text: The way in which they dance . . . the final passion of a pas-de-deux; and the going off with a bound!—I shall never see a real ballet, with a composed countenance again.
ref: 1845, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in Pictures From Italy:
text: The Russian was a beautiful youth, like a sun-god with his flying yellow locks and glorious symmetry of body, and the pas de deux between him and Magda was a thing to marvel at.
ref: 1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 5, in The Lamp of Fate:
text: But at the end of the show, as two senior citizens are brought from the audience to dance together — first tentatively, then springing into a graceful acrobatic pas de deux — we realize that the human body's most sensuous organ is the head.
ref: 2003 November 19, Richard Corliss, “That Old Feeling: The Show at the Casino”, in Time:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance performed by two dancers.
examples: text: There is a seductive and terminal pas-de-deux going on between the real right in this country and their "opposition," the liberals. It is deadly for us to get caught in their maneuverings.
ref: 1978 December 9, Mitzel, “Post-Briggs Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 5:
text: But "White Nights" has been made in a cynical world where it is actually believed that a dance movie will interest more people if it is also a thriller: a pas de deux between the CIA and the KGB, if you will.
ref: 1985, Roger Ebert, "White Nights" film review:
text: As the rectum fills with the products of digestion, it signals, through nerves running into the sacral region of the spinal cord, that defecation may be necessary. The internal and external anal sphincters then begin a culturally mediated pas de deux, the former pressing for release and the latter restricting discharge until the opportune moment.
ref: 2018, Alex Blasdel, “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo”, in Guardian:
glosses: A complicated relationship or process involving two entities, usually persons.
Related terms: folie à deux
pas-de-deux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pas-de-deux
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pas de deux.
begar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बेगार (begār, “forced labor”), from Classical Persian بیگار (bē-gār).
Senses: glosses: A system of forced labour in parts of India.
Synonyms: veth
explementary angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A pair of angles that sum to 360 degrees.
Synonyms: conjugate angles
Related terms: complementary angles
supplementary angles
conjugate angles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of angles that sum to 360 degrees.
Synonyms: explementary angles
Related terms: complementary angles
supplementary angles
buzz word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzz words
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buzzword.
buzz words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzz word
buzz-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzz-word
catapultæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catapulta
naengmyeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raengmyŏn
form: raengmyon
form: naengmyŏn
form: naengmyon
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 냉면(冷麵) (naengmyeon, literally “cold noodles”).
Senses: glosses: A Korean dish of long, thin hand-made noodles made from flour and starch from various ingredients.
big tobacco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: big business
glosses: The major companies that make up the tobacco industry.
antidifference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antidifferences
Etymology: From anti- + difference.
Senses: examples: If f(x)=bˣ then F(x)=bˣ/(b-1)+C is the general antidifference since F(x+1)-F(x) = [bˣ⁺¹/(b-1)+C] - [bˣ/(b-1)+C] = (bˣ⁺¹-bˣ)/(b-1) = bˣ = f(x).
glosses: A function F(x) is the antidifference of f(x) if F(x+1)-F(x)=f(x).
Synonyms: indefinite sum
Related terms: english: continuous equivalent
translation: continuous equivalent
word: antiderivative
TWAIN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From twain, in reference to a line in Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of East and West: "never the twain shall meet". This was chosen to reflect the difficulty, at the time, of connecting scanners and personal computers.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A standard software protocol and applications programming interface (API) that regulates communication between software applications and imaging devices such as scanners and digital cameras.
wikipedia: Rudyard Kipling
don't feed the troll
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: don't feed the trolls
Senses: synonyms: DFTT
DNFTT
glosses: Said to urge another not to respond to disruptive behavior, particularly in online contexts, by pointing out any such response is likely to be counterproductive.
imprecative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛkətɪv/
Forms: form: imprecatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical mood, found in some languages, used for curses (in the sense of wishing harm) and marked by a different set of affixes than the optative mood, which is used for wishes in general.
imprecative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɹɛkətɪv/
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the imprecative mood.