cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mystery shopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystery shoppers
Senses: examples: text: Mystery shoppers: The judging for the Station of the Year categories takes the form of a mystery shopper-style visit, with judges visiting the nominated station and viewing the facilities and services through the eyes of a traveller. This allows the stations to be viewed objectively and fairly.
ref: 2019 December 4, Andy Coward, “Derby's crowning achievement”, in Rail, page 56:
glosses: Someone hired by a company to pose as a customer in order to evaluate the quality of its service.
Synonyms: secret shopper
mystery guest
replicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛplɪkeɪtə/
Forms: form: replicators
Etymology: From replicate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
ref: 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
glosses: Something capable of self-replication, like a gene or meme.
examples: text: Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...
ref: 2001, Greg Cox, The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek), Star Trek, →ISBN, page 76:
text: either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.
ref: 2001, Judith Barad, Ed Robertson, The Ethics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, →ISBN, page 74:
text: The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.
ref: 2007, Douglas Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop, Basic Books, →ISBN, pages 301–302:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A technological device that replicates physical objects.
Related terms: replica
replicant
replicate
replication
replicative
replicatory
reply
replicators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replicator
euglycemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + glycemia or eu- + glyc- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having a normal concentration of glucose in the blood; good glycemia regulation; good glycemia.
Synonyms: normoglycemia
Coordinate terms: hypoglycemia
hyperglycemia
Derived terms: euglycemic
Laurie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lauries
form: Lawrie
form: Lauri
form: Lori
form: Lorie
Etymology: The given names are clippings of Laurence, Lawrence, Laura, and Lauren + -ie, all ultimately from Latin laurus (“laurel”).
The surname is from the diminutive of Lawrence.
The city in Missouri was named by its residents in 1961 after L. M. and William (Buster) Laurie, who in 1937 bought a building in the area and operated the Laurie Market, because of the goodwill generated by the family store over the years.
Senses: examples: text: “I’m not Mr. Laurence, I’m only Laurie.”
“Laurie Laurence; what an odd name.”
“My first name is Theodore, but I don’t like it, for the fellows called me Dora, so I made them say Laurie instead.”
ref: 1868, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, “The Laurence Boy”, in Little Women: […], 1st part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1869, →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the male given names Laurence or Lawrence; alternative form of Lawrie; a pet form of the male given name Laurence or Lawrence.
examples: text: Laura called her parents. Her father answered. Fighting to keep her voice steady, Laura said, "Hi, Daddy."
"Laurie? How's my little girl?"
ref: 2005, Adeline Catherine Anderson, My Sunshine, Signet Classic, →ISBN, page 397:
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Laura; popular as a female given name in the US in the mid-twentieth century.
glosses: A unisex given name.
A diminutive of the female given name Lauren.
examples: text: Maxwelton braes are bonnie
Where early fa's the dew;
An' it's there that Annie Laurie
Gi'ed me her promise true.
ref: ca. 1700 ?William Douglas: Annie Laurie
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A city in Morgan County and Camden County, Missouri, United States.
Laurie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Laurie, from Latin Laurum, from laurus (“laurel”).
Senses: glosses: A commune in Cantal department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
functional magnetic resonance imaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fMRI
form: functional magnetic-resonance imaging
Senses: examples: text: The women underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures changes in blood flow that happen with brain activity, while being shown images of their grandchild, another child they didn’t know, an adult they didn’t know, and the same-sex parent of their grandchild.
ref: 2021 November 19, Madeline Holcombe, “Is your mom warmer with her grandkids than with you? A new study says blame biology”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of magnetic resonance imaging that records the flow of blood to areas of the brain when the patient is undertaking a specific neural activity.
Lori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In some cases, a 20th century spelling variant of Laurie, from Laura. In other cases, a diminutive form of names such as Loretta and Lorraine.
IPA⁽ᵏᵉʸ⁾: /loɹ.i/, /lɑɹ.i/
Senses: examples: text: There was Lori - Lori - Lori no longer daft - Lori who could fight like the very devil of a Scotswoman at the side of her man - Lori would pull Mary Ruadh back from the brink of the grave, and perhaps himself too. His spirits began to lift. His whole being sang with the name of Lori.
ref: 1957, Paul Gallico, Thomasina: The Cat who Thought She was God, Doubleday, page 243:
text: While she continued to cling to his arm, Lorraine pouted again. " Running away changed a lot of things, but it didn't change your name. Nobody's called me Lori for ages, but while you're here, we'll just have to put up with each other."
ref: 2006, Christine W. Murphy, Through Iowa Glass, Hard Shell Word Factory, published 2006, →ISBN, page 23:
text: “People don’t come to therapy until they’re having the equivalent of an emotional heart attack,” psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb told CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta on his podcast Chasing Life recently.
ref: 2024 June 9, Andrea Kane, “Therapy is more than lying on a couch and talking. Here are 5 ways it can boost happiness”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name, popular in the US in the 1960s.
Lori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Լոռի (Loṙi).
Senses: glosses: A province of Armenia.
diatreme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɹim/
Forms: form: diatremes
Etymology: From dia- + -treme.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cone-shaped volcanic vent produced by the explosion of gas-filled magma.
archaize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɑː(ɹ).keɪˌaɪz/
Forms: form: archaizes
form: archaizing
form: archaized
form: archaized
form: archaise
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχαΐζω (arkhaḯzō).
Senses: examples: text: The statue had an archaized quality to it.
text: An Egyptologist's mind immediately turns to the ancient Egyptian counterpart to such an imagined protosactuary: a reed hut that all late Egyptian temples, in their archaizing longing to return to the origins, sought to emulate in stone through the typically Egyptian temple features of inward-sloping walls, torus and corvetto cornice.
ref: 2018, Jan Assmann, The Invention of Religion:
glosses: To give an archaic quality or character to; make archaic, to suggest the past.
glosses: To speak, write, etc. in an archaic manner.
Synonyms: archaicize
Derived terms: archaization
archaizer
archaizingly
supercomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercomplexes
Etymology: From super- + complex.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stable association of two or more complexes of biological molecules that occur separately elsewhere.
glosses: A large building complex including many shops, residences, etc.
supercomplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supercomplex
form: most supercomplex
Etymology: From super- + complex.
Senses: glosses: Very complex
Lillie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, a variant of Lily or a pet form of Lillian
glosses: A surname.
nonsense mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonsense mutations
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A point mutation that generates either a premature stop codon, or a codon that does not specify any amino acid.
Coordinate terms: missense mutation
prealgebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prealgebras
form: pre-algebra
Etymology: From pre- + algebra.
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Alfred S. Posamentier, Making Pre-Algebra Come Alive, Sage Publications (Corwin Press), page 1,
In most secondary school curricula, pre-algebra is the last course in which specific attention is paid to multiplication, division, squares, cubes, and primes. Thereafter, these skills and operations are pretty much taken for granted.
text: Almost everyone pursuing a career or a course of study needs to know pre-algebra math. Also, almost all college entrance tests and professional exams require knowledge of at least pre-algebra math. The practicing of almost all crafts involves the use of pre-algebra math.
ref: 2002, Sally H. Spetz et al., REA's Practical Help for Pre-algebra, Research & Education Association, page 1:
text: Pre-algebra is considered to be something of a terminal arithmetic course. What this means for the student is that pre-algebra is a course that links many topics together before the student proceeds to more abstract mathematics courses.
ref: 2011, Hal Torrance, Math Tutor: Pre-Algebra Skills, Mark Twain Media, page 1:
topics: education
glosses: A school (in the US, middle school) course that introduces students to concepts needed to learn algebra.
examples: text: Conversely, if H is a complete preorder which satisfies the #92;land,#92;lor-distributive law, then, by the Adjoint Functor Theorem, H is a Heyting prealgebra.
ref: 1985, Robert C. Flagg, “Church's Thesis is Consistent with Epistemic Arithmetic”, in Stewart Shapiro, editor, Intensional Mathematics, Elsevier Science Publishers, page 131:
text: 2006, Oswald Wyler, Algebraic Theories of Continuous Lattices, Bernhard Banaschewski, Rudolf-Eberhard Hoffmann (editors), Continuous Lattices, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 871, page 398,
Let mathsf f:( mathsf A,α)→( mathsf B,β) be a morphism of prealgebras.
text: It turns out that the duality of Theorem 6 restricts as a duality between Lie prealgebras and the category of differential quadratic Koszul Frobenius algebras.
ref: 2011, M. Dubois-Violette, G. Landi, “Lie prealgebras”, in Alain Connes et al., editors, Contemporary Mathematics 546: Noncommutative Geometry and Global Analysis: Conference in Honor of Henri Moscovici, American Mathematical Society, page 131:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular form of Lie algebra; also applied analogously to other types of algebra.
Related terms: precalculus
Lindsey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪnzi/
rhymes: -ɪnzi
Forms: form: Lindseys
Etymology: From Old English Lindesege, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”) (as in Lincoln) + Old English ēġ (“island (of land)”).
Senses: glosses: A geographic area and former division of Lincolnshire, England.
glosses: An Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England, absorbed into Northumbria in the 7th century.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Babergh district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TL9845).
synonyms: Lindsay
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
examples: text: President Donald Trump’s hand-picked interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan has fired more senior prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia office, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
ref: 2025 October 17, Kristen Holmes, “Lindsey Halligan fires more prosecutors in key US attorney’s office”, in CNN:
synonyms: Lindsay
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: East Lindsey
Kirton in Lindsey
Parts of Lindsey
West Lindsey
Related terms: Lindsay
Lyndsey
Lois
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈləʊ.ɪs/
rhymes: -əʊɪs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Λωΐς (Lōḯs), of obscure meaning. Unrelated to Louise or Louisa.
Senses: examples: text: When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
ref: 2 Timothy 1: 5
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The grandmother of Timothy who is mentioned in an epistle to him.
examples: text: Modernity might also lie in a name like Lois - pronounced Loys in Trinidad - which came to the island in the 1940s through Lois Lane, the heroine of the American Superman comic strip.
ref: 1962, V.S.Naipaul, The Middle Passage, page 48:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin.
Derived terms: Weedon Lois
Lucille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /luˈsiːl/
rhymes: -iːl
Forms: form: Lucile
Senses: examples: text: "My name is Lucille." The man sat down heavily, crowding the girl's body against Mr. Munn. "You call her Sukie like I said," he ordered. "Now, Mr. Munn," the girl asked, leaning back so she could look up at him from under the brim of her large straw hat with its blue ribbons, " do you see how he can make Sukie out of a name like Lucille?"
ref: 1939, Robert Penn Warren, Night Rider, Random House, published 1939, page 4:
glosses: A female given name from French Lucille [in turn from Latin Lucilla], of 1910s US usage.
Lula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 19th-century variant of Lulu, nickname of Louisa and Lucy. In rare cases, shortened from Tallulah.
Senses: examples: text: But Lula Ann Bridewell is no longer available and she was never a woman. Lula Ann was a sixteen-year-old-me who dropped that dumb countrified name as soon as I left high school. I was Ann Bride for two years until I interviewed for a sales job at Sylvia, Inc., and, on a hunch, shortened my name to Bride, with nothing anybody needs to say before or after that memorable syllable.
ref: 2015, Toni Morrison, God Help the Child, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: Ellipsis of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Derived terms: Lulism
Lulist
debation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: debations
Etymology: From debate + -ion. The formation is nonstandard because this word does not contain the suffix -ate.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of debating; debate
synonyms: word: debating
extra: debate
villainesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There have been many memorable villainesses in film history.
glosses: plural of villainess
rootle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːtəl/
rhymes: -uːtəl
Forms: form: rootles
form: rootling
form: rootled
form: rootled
form: rookle
Etymology: From root (“to dig”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Removing internal fences allowed the wild Exmoor ponies and Tamworth pigs he introduced to browse and rootle over large distances, their disruptions creating habitats for other animals and plants.
ref: 2019 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
text: Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.
ref: 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11
glosses: to dig into the ground, with the snout.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: Bathed and changed, she rootled out Lambie from the bottom of her wardrobe.'
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 288:
glosses: to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.
raw_tags: of a person
Ugaritic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.ɡəˈrɪ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌuː.ɡəˈrɪ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Etymology: From Ugarit + -ic, via a Semitic medium from Sumerian 𒀀𒃼 (a-gar₃ /⁠agar⁠/, “arable land”).
Senses: glosses: The Northwest Semitic language of the ancient city of Ugarit in Syria. Extinct since 1100 B.C.E., it was written in cuneiform.
Ugaritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuː.ɡəˈrɪ.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌuː.ɡəˈrɪ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Etymology: From Ugarit + -ic, via a Semitic medium from Sumerian 𒀀𒃼 (a-gar₃ /⁠agar⁠/, “arable land”).
Senses: synonyms: Ugaritian
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ancient city or language of Ugarit.
Hypernyms: Amoritic
Related terms: Ugaritan
Ugaritian
Ugaritism
Wiktionary’s coverage of Ugaritic terms
forkball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forkballs
Etymology: From fork + ball, since it is held between the first two fingers.
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A baseball pitch, much like the sinker.
Derived terms: forkballer
fair and square
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fair and square
form: most fair and square
Senses: examples: text: We won the game fair and square.
glosses: Totally fairly and undoubtedly.
examples: text: He said they give licenses now to steal — steal folks'es senses away, and then they would steal every thing else, and murder, and tear round into every kind of wickedness. But he didn't ask that. He wanted things done fair and square: he jest wanted to steal horses. He was goin' West, and he thought he could do a good business, and lay up something. If he had a license, he shouldn't be afraid of bein' shot up, or shot.
ref: 1885, Marietta Holley, Sweet Cicely; or, Josiah Allen as a politician, page 177:
text: They had crawled in and staked the land and stood ready to shoot those of us who came in, fair and square, in the Run.
ref: 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 23:
text: For the "Most Accurate Assessment of an International Situation" the unanimous winner is the Republican U.S. Senate hopeful from California, S.E. Hayakawa. He said, "Of course we should keep the Panama Canal, we stole it fair and square."
ref: 1976 October 28, Charlie Waters, quoting S. I. Hayakawa, “First biennial Harold Stassen Awards”, in The Prescott Courier:
glosses: Within the applicable rules.
examples: text: "Have it out with him to-night. Fair and square. Out he goes, Edmund, neck and crop. Out, by thunder."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 76:
glosses: In all fairness; equitably.
fair and square
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “[…] I always liked you Joe, and stood up for you, too. Don’t you remember? You won’t tell, will you Joe?” And the poor creature dropped on his knees before the stolid murderer, and clasped his appealing hands. / “No, you’ve always been fair and square with me, Muff Potter, and I won’t go back on you.—There, now, that’s as fair as a man can say.”
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter IX, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
text: It was a fair and square deal. We won. And we won in the Senate. And it's in the bill. And I didn't think we could beat them, but we did.
ref: 1995, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 1436:
glosses: Unquestionably fair.
Related terms: fairly and squarely
Andalusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Andalusia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: Of, from or relating to Al-Andalus.
Derived terms: Andalusian cadence
Blue Andalusian
Andalusian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Andalusians
Etymology: From Andalusia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Andalusia, Spain.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Al-Andalus.
glosses: A horse of a breed from the Iberian Peninsula, with long, thick mane and tail.
Andalusian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Andalusia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: The dialect (or varieties) of Spanish spoken in Andalusia; Andalusian Spanish.
Cantabrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cantabrian
form: most Cantabrian
Etymology: From Cantabria + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, Cantabria
Cantabrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cantabria + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Romance language spoken in Cantabria.
examples: text: The ancient Cantabrian, in effect, is still found to subsist in the more barren and mountainous parts of the provinces of Biscay, Asturias, and Navarre.
ref: 1797, “Cantabria”, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, third edition, volume 4, page 122:
glosses: The language of the Cantabri, formerly believed to be Basque but now generally thought to be Celtic.
Cantabrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cantabrians
Etymology: From Cantabria + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Cantabria.
glosses: Someone from Canterbury
Leonese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leonese
form: most Leonese
form: Leónese
Etymology: From Leon + -ese. Compare Spanish leonés.
Senses: examples: text: Or, as I was told, “Nos sentimos más leoneses, pero somos gallegos iguales” (We feel more Leonese, but we are also equally Galician).
ref: 1998, José Antonio Fernández de Rota Monter, “Difference from the People’s Point of View”, in Carol J[ane] Greenhouse, Roshanak Kheshti, editors, Democracy and Ethnography: Constructing Identities in Multicultural Liberal States (SUNY Series in National Identities), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, part II (The Making of Official Discourses of Identity), page 135:
glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of León or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
glosses: From, or pertaining to the Kingdom of León, a former independent kingdom in the northwest of Iberia.
Leonese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Leónese
Etymology: From Leon + -ese. Compare Spanish leonés.
Senses: glosses: A Romance language spoken in the northwest of Spain, closely related to Asturian and Mirandese.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Leonese terms
Leonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leonese
form: Leónese
Etymology: From Leon + -ese. Compare Spanish leonés.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to these men, there are at least two Leonese: Pedro Garcés from Matanza (near Astorga) and Domingo Rodríguez from Castroverde (unless this refers to Castroverde de Cerrato in the modern province of Valladolid); and two Galicians: […]
ref: 2005, Simon Barton, “From Mercenary to Crusader: The Career of Álvar Pérez de Castro (d. 1239) Re-examined”, in Therese Martin, Julie Harris, editors, Church, State, Vellum, and Stone: Essays on Medieval Spain in Honor of John Williams (The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World; 26), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, “Church and State” section, page 122:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of León or surrounding province, Castile and León, Spain.
Murcian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Murcia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Murcia, Spain.
Murcian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Murcians
Etymology: From Murcia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Murcia, Spain.
Murcian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Murcia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of the Spanish language spoken in Murcia.
Navarrese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnævəˈɹiːz/
Senses: synonyms: Navarran
glosses: Of, from or relating to Navarre, Spain.
Navarrese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnævəˈɹiːz/
Forms: form: Navarreses
form: Navarrese
Senses: synonyms: Navarran
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Navarre, Spain.
Synonyms: Navarran
Valencian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɛnsi.ən/
Etymology: From Valencia + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Fr. Felipe Císcar Puig was a Valencian priest who is also also considered a martyr of the sacramental seal because he was martyred after keeping confessions secret during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.
ref: 2017 December 16, “These priests were martyred for refusing to violate the seal of confession”, in Catholic News Agency:
glosses: From or relating to Valencia, its people, or its language.
Derived terms: Valencian Country
Valencian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɛnsi.ən/
Forms: form: Valencians
Etymology: From Valencia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Valencia.
Valencian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vəˈlɛnsi.ən/
Etymology: From Valencia + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One of the standard varieties of the Catalan language spoken primarily in Valencia.
Derived terms: Catalan-Valencian-Balear
Balearic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæliˈæɹɪk/
Etymology: From Latin Balearis, from Ancient Greek Βαλλιαρεῖς (Balliareîs), from either βάλλω (bállō) or Phoenician (see Baal).
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the Balearic Islands, Spain.
Derived terms: Balearic crane
Balearic Islands
Balearic Isles
Balearic shearwater
Balearic warbler
Balearic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæliˈæɹɪk/
Etymology: From Latin Balearis, from Ancient Greek Βαλλιαρεῖς (Balliareîs), from either βάλλω (bállō) or Phoenician (see Baal).
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Catalan used in the Balearic Islands.
Majorcan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Majorcan
form: most Majorcan
form: Mallorcan
Etymology: From Majorca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mallorcan: of, from or relating to Mallorca, the largest island of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
Majorcan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Majorcans
form: Mallorcan
Etymology: From Majorca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mallorcan: a native or inhabitant of Mallorca, the largest island of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
Majorcan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mallorcan
Etymology: From Majorca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mallorcan: The variety of Balearic Catalan spoken on Mallorca.
Ibizan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈbiːzən/
/ɪˈbiːθən/
Forms: form: more Ibizan
form: most Ibizan
Etymology: From Ibiza + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Ibicencan
glosses: Of, from or relating to the island of Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain.
Ibizan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈbiːzən/
/ɪˈbiːθən/
Forms: form: Ibizans
Etymology: From Ibiza + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Ibicencan
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the island of Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain.
Near East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The geographic region of Western Asia located southeast of Eastern Europe, comprising Anatolia, Transcaucasia, the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Arabia; used primarily in historical contexts.
wikipedia: Near East
Derived terms: Ancient Near East
Near Eastern
Related terms: Middle East
Western Asia
mismanage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈmæ.nədʒ/
Forms: form: mismanages
form: mismanaging
form: mismanaged
form: mismanaged
Etymology: From mis- + manage.
Senses: examples: text: She mismanaged my finances and left me bankrupt.
glosses: To manage an area of responsibility in a way which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
examples: text: The fundamental reason why the company failed is that the CEO and other top managers simply mismanaged.
glosses: To behave, in a management capacity, in a manner which is inept, incompetent, or dishonest.
Derived terms: mismanageable
mismanagement
mismanager
mismanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈmænɪd͡ʒmənt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈmænəd͡ʒmənt/
Forms: form: mismanagements
Etymology: From mis- + management.
Senses: examples: text: The value of the firm's stock fell precipitously when word leaked out that officers of the company were under investigation for gross mismanagement.
text: But, alas! for the mismanagement of fate—he was quite out of his place in the Cortez of Spain: he dilated on religious toleration to those in whose ears it sounded like blasphemy—on the blessing of knowledge, to those with whom intellect and anarchy were synonymous—and on the rights of the people, to Hidalgos, who were preux chevaliers in loyalty to their king.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 103:
text: [...] it also charged the Newmarket Railway £600 a year for the management or rather—as the Chairman of the Newmarket Railway did not scruple to call it—the mismanagement of the line.
ref: 1941 December, Kenneth Brown, “The Newmarket & Chesterford Railway—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 533:
text: After decades of the type of mismanagement that proliferated across all the nationalised industries, the government was already aware that British Railways was in deep trouble.
ref: 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
glosses: The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
on firecall
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Paralleling on call
Senses: glosses: On call, with regard to a firefighter or unit.
LWN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of LandWarNet.
dormitive principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dormitive principles
Etymology: A modern translation of Latin, virtus dormitiva, coined by Molière in The Imaginary Invalid (1673). In the play, he lampoons a group of physicians providing an explanation in macaronic Latin of the sleep-inducing properties of opium as stemming from its "virtus dormitiva". The currency of this phrase as a critique of scientific claims is due to Gregory Bateson (1976, Steps to an Ecology of Mind p. 5), as is the translation of virtus as 'principle'.
Senses: examples: text: We note Bateson's (1968) dormitive principle at work in which behaviors are described as traits such as LD, which then are used to explain the behavior.
ref: 1988, Doreen Kronick, New Approaches to Learning Disabilities: Cognitive, Metacognitive, and Holistic:
text: For Arrow, many socioeconomic phenomena are explained in terms of the "dormitive principle", which, he says, simply repeats the phenomenon being explained.
ref: 2000, “Rational Choice and Rationallity”, in The Paradox of Social Order: Linking Psychology and Sociology, page 14:
text: If we examine traditional explanations of behavior through the lens of recursion, we will sometimes find what Bateson called "dormitive principles," a form of circular description. A "dormitive principle" is a more abstract repackaging of a description of the item you claim to be explaining. To paraphrase Bateson, this occurs when the cause of a simple action, as for example, when aggression is explained as being caused by an "aggressive instinct" or psychotic symptomatology is attributed to "madness."
ref: 2002, Bradford Keeney, Aesthetics of Change, The Guilford Press,, →ISBN, page 33:
text: And to any intelligent reader, explanation of an 'inherent ability' was reminiscent of Molière's mock explanation of the soporific effects of opium - that it contained a 'dormitive principle'.
ref: 2003, Ian Glynn, An Anatomy of Thought: The Origin and Machinery of the Mind:
text: Similarly, to view “leadership" as something that resides in a person is to generate a dormitive principle. This would inspire such pseudoexplanations as “He leads because he possesses leadership qualities.”
ref: 2017, Bradford P. Keeney, Aesthetics of Change, page 38:
text: Prevent disability from becoming a dormitive principle that can, per se, justify any conduct or event in the interaction of the disabled person
ref: 2018, Roberto Pereira, Juan Luis Linares, Clinical Interventions in Systemic Couple and Family Therapy, page 215:
text: To say that "he only uses drugs because he is the black sheep” is to mix up these logical types, also called invoking the dormitive principle.
ref: 2018, Michael D. Reiter, Systems Theories for Psychotherapists: From Theory to Practice:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A type of tautology in which an item is explained in terms of the item itself, only put in different (usually more abstract) words.
Synonyms: dormitive virtue
Related terms: aureation
jargon
spare tire well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare tire wells
form: spare tyre well
Senses: glosses: A depression in the trunk of an automobile where the spare tire is stowed.
spare tyre well
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare tyre wells
form: spare tire well
Senses: glosses: A depression in the boot of a motor car where the spare tyre is stowed.
campylobacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæmˈpaɪləʊˌbæktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: campylobacters
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: These days, we can see how even small increases in temperature and rainfall around the world often lead to higher rates of disease, whether that’s malaria in Kenya and Ethiopia, Murray Valley encephalitis in southern Australia or campylobacter in Bangladesh.
ref: 2023, Oliver Balch, “Animal, Mineral, Pathogen”, in Literary Review, number 520:
glosses: Any bacteria of the genus Campylobacter; a principal cause of food poisoning.
Derived terms: campylobacterosis
caruncle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈka.ɹəŋ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈka.ɹəŋ.kl̩/
ipa: /kəˈɹʌŋ.kəl/
ipa: /kəˈɹʌŋ.kl̩/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹˌʌŋ.kəl/
ipa: /ˈkæˌɹʌŋ.kəl/
ipa: /kəˈɹʌŋ.kəl/
rhymes: -æɹəŋkəl
rhymes: -ʌŋkəl
Forms: form: caruncles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French caruncule, from Latin caruncula (“a little piece of flesh”), diminutive of carō (“flesh”). Doublet of caruncula.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
coordinate_terms: comb
cockscomb
crest
snood
wattle
glosses: A small, fleshy excrescence that is a normal part of an animal's anatomy.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Clipping of lacrimal caruncle: the red prominence at the inner corner of the eye.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: elaiosome
glosses: A colored waxy or oily outgrowth near the micropyle of some seeds, attractive to ants which aid the seed's dispersal.
Derived terms: carunclectomy
caruncular
carunculate
intercaruncle
Related terms: dewlap
frill
subhumid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subhumid
form: most subhumid
Etymology: From sub- + humid.
Senses: glosses: Having a humidity typical of grassland or prairie
raw_tags: of a climate
jampacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jampacked
form: most jampacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jam-packed.
jampacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jampack
necrotising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more necrotising
form: most necrotising
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of necrotizing.
necrotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: necrotising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of necrotize
necrotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: necrotising
Senses: examples: text: Histological examination showed neutrophilic or pleocellular proliferative necrotizing bronchitis and bronchiolitis in all (6 out of 6) infected steers.
ref: 2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Causing necrosis.
Derived terms: acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
cytonecrotizing
necrotizing fasciitis
nonnecrotizing
necrotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕʹkrə.tīz
ipa: /ˈnɛ.kɹəˌtaɪ̯z/
Forms: form: necrotizes
form: necrotizing
form: necrotized
form: necrotized
Senses: glosses: To undergo necrosis; to become necrotic.
glosses: To cause necrosis; to make necrotic.
corpi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The corpus is massive, being deeper anteriorly and shallowest where the ramus takes origin. The corpi of both sides are more closely spaced to each other than in the living form, and the symphysis is narrower.
ref: 1977, Vincent J. Maglio, Dental and Skeletal Morphology of the Earliest Elephants, page 33:
text: Or, framed more traditionally, 'who or what is Asherah in the three corpi of texts that this book deals with?'
ref: 1997, Tilde Binger, Asherah: Goddesses in Ugarit, Israel and the Old Testament, page 147:
text: Well, certainly, I can summarize what I have done in the five chapters in this book and how that fits into the larger argument of the entire corpus...or two corpi.
ref: 2017, Daniel Hood, Redemption and Recovery: Further Parallels of Religion and Science in Addiction Treatment:
glosses: plural of corpus
planing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
homophone: plaining
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of plane
planing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪnɪŋ
homophone: plaining
Forms: form: planings
Senses: examples: text: The length of time between planings can be anywhere from one year to several, depending on the density of the wood, the amount you play, and the abrasiveness of your perspiration.
ref: 1996, James N. McKean, Mary Vanclay, Common Sense Instrument Care, page 44:
glosses: The act by which something is planed.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: parallel harmony
thizz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪz
Etymology: Alteration of thing.
Senses: examples: text: "We've got thizz!" Alexis shot me a look to see if it was okay that she'd mentioned it.
ref: 2008, Joseph R. Sims, Skeletons, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 23:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: MDMA; Ecstasy.
thizz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪz
Forms: form: thizzes
form: thizzing
form: thizzed
form: thizzed
Etymology: Alteration of thing.
Senses: examples: text: Similarly, some members of the Bay's black community, who feel that goin' dumb isn't particularly smart, have compared thizzin' (taking Ecstasy) to the crack epidemic.
ref: 2006 July, Erick K. Arnold, “Dumbed Down”, in Vibe:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To get high from the drug MDMA (Ecstasy).
subdiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdisciplines
Etymology: From sub- + discipline.
Senses: examples: text: Social psychology is a subdiscipline of psychology.
text: Phonology is a subdiscipline of linguistics.
glosses: A field of study or work that is related to one aspect, but not the whole, of a broader field of study or work.
non-random
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonrandom.
gooses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of goose
gooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: nonstandard unless referring to a person
glosses: plural of goose
Related terms: Joe the Gooses
silly gooses
guesstimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guesstimations
Etymology: Blend of guess + estimation
Senses: glosses: An estimation made without good justification and often biased.
examples: text: The following analysis will allow future critical commentary, both academic and popular, to move away from speculation, guestimation, hedging, generalisation, and erroneous statements.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 487:
glosses: Estimation based on guesses, usually for expedience or because no better method is available.
Related terms: guesstimate
reworded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reword
reword
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌriːˈwəːd/
Forms: form: rewords
form: rewording
form: reworded
form: reworded
Etymology: From re- + word.
Senses: glosses: To change the wording of; to restate using different words.
Synonyms: rephrase
restate
Hizzoner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 1930, John Bright, Hizzoner Big Bill Thompson: An Idyll of Chicago, [book title].
text: Minnesota: Meet Hizzoner the Mayor... Canon... would go through an elaborate bowing-and-scraping routine as he addressed Hizzoner the Mayor.
ref: 1991, Max M. Kampelman, Entering New Worlds: The Memoirs of a Private Man in Public Life, page 56:
text: In 1989, they wrote a book, entitled His Eminence and Hizzoner, in which they set forth their differences in amicable fashion.
ref: 2002, James Gill, For James and Gillian: Jim Gill's New York, page 121:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of His Honor, the mayor, especially of a large city.
tartaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɑːˈtæɹ.ɪk/
ipa: /tɑɹˈtæɹ.ɪk/
ipa: [tɑɹˈtɛɹ.ɪk]
ipa: /-ˈtɑɹ.-/
rhymes: -æɹɪk
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tartarum (“tartar”), from Byzantine Greek τάρταρον (tártaron).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing tartrates
Derived terms: tartaric acid
utilizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of utilize
healthcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlθkɛɚ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhɛltkɛɐ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈhɛltkɛɚ/
Forms: form: healthcares
Etymology: From health + care.
Senses: examples: text: There are many groups trying to claim healthcare marketing as part of their activity.
ref: 1985, William J. Winston, “Mission and Future Applications of the Proceedings”, in Professional Practice in Health Care Marketing: Proceedings of the American College of Healthcare Marketing:
text: All in all, a terrific burden is being placed on employers, especially in healthcare, as legislation regulating safety in the workplace proliferates, and it appears that OSHA is beginning to take training and other violations seriously as well.
ref: 1990, Scott Alan Stewart, Videodiscs in Healthcare: A Guide to the Industry:
text: Healthcare patients or consumers often need help in addressing these seven problems.
ref: 2011, Bruce S. Jansson, Improving Healthcare through Advocacy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of health care.
Derived terms: BernieCare
Bidencare
Canadian healthcare
healthcare practitioner
healthcare professional
HillaryCare
nonhealthcare
ObamaCare
preventive healthcare
RomneyCare
telehealthcare
TrumpCare
Orangey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Orangies
Etymology: It comes from the identification that Protestants have in Northern Ireland as supporters of the memory of King William III, "Prince of Orange", the color is often identified with the fraternal Protestant Orange Order.
Senses: glosses: A Protestant, especially one that is a member of the Protestant unionist community of Northern Ireland.
glosses: Any one from the Protestant, Unionist and pro-British community, whether they are members of the Orange Order or not (as termed by Irish Nationalists and Catholics).
Synonyms: Prod
Proddy
extinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of extinguish
extinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extinguishings
Senses: examples: text: It took several accidental extinguishings and considerable tinkering with the external oxygen flow between Adam below and Jordan at the controls before he managed to get much ice melted.
ref: 2000, Michael Phillips, A Rift in Time, page 20:
text: The stars are formed of burning cloud; these are extinguished each day, but they are kindled again at night, like coals; for their risings and settings are really kindlings and extinguishings.
ref: 2006, Richard Bibbee, The Diffential Equation: Generation of the Bi-cameral Mind, page 92:
glosses: The process by which something is extinguished.
Yakova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Hebrew masculine form "Ya'akov" or "Yakov" which originally refers to the Biblical character, Jacob.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
standardised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But the outstanding feature of the new timetable arrangement, additional to the standardised departure times, is the number of intermediate points, in addition to such principal cities as Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff and Birmingham, that now have departures for Paddington at the same minutes past the hour throughout the day.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:
text: The connection between dictionaries and standardised forms of language is undeniable, yet, at the same time, not well understood.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 18:
text: Internationally, the shipping container had already proven its worth, and by the early 1960s battles were being fought over what their standardised dimensions would be (their expected proliferation was not in question).
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 48:
glosses: Designed in a standard manner or according to an official or accepted standard.
standardised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of standardise
standardise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈstændə(ɹ)daɪz]
Forms: form: standardises
form: standardising
form: standardised
form: standardised
form: standardize
Etymology: From standard + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To establish a standard consisting of regulations for how something is to be done across an organization.
glosses: To make to conform to a standard.
glosses: To check for conformance with a standard.
Derived terms: destandardise
standardisation
sourced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of source
categorised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of categorise
formulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more formulated
form: most formulated
Derived terms: coformulated
misformulated
nanoformulated
unformulated
formulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of formulate
adjustments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adjustment
usurps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of usurp
dormitive principles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dormitive principle
confectioners' sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confectioners sugar
Senses: glosses: Powdered sugar.
GAAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: găp
ipa: /ɡæp/
rhymes: -æp
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Acronym of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
zami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zamis
Etymology: From French des amies.
Senses: examples: text: she was a zami, a sexy sistah, an inspiration, a phenomenon
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 78:
glosses: A lesbian.
nonfarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + farm.
Senses: glosses: Concerned with the economic activities of all businesses except agricultural ones.