cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Thamudic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθəˈmuː.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈθəˈmu.dɪk/
rhymes: -uːdɪk
Forms: form: more Thamudic
form: most Thamudic
Etymology: From Thamud + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Thamuds.
Thamudic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθəˈmuː.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈθəˈmu.dɪk/
rhymes: -uːdɪk
Etymology: From Thamud + -ic.
Senses: hyponyms: Hismaic
Taymanitic
glosses: A group of extinct languages attested in Ancient North Arabian texts spanning from southern Syria to Yemen.
zoom box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoom boxes
Senses: examples: text: To move a window, just point anywhere on the title bar (except the close or zoom boxes) and drag.
ref: 1989, Gena Cobb, Judy Mynhier, Allan McGuffey, Word 4 companion:
text: Click the zoom box to enlarge the document window to full-screen size; click it again to restore the window's previous size.
ref: 2002, Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas, QuarkXPress 5 for Windows and Macintosh, page 7:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A clickable box that maximizes a window to fill the screen or (clicked a second time) restores the window to its previous size and position.
dempster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dempsters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deemster.
consortial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kənsôʹshəl
ipa: /kənˈsɔːʃəl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian consorziale, from consorzio, from the Latin consortium; compare the French consortial.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resulting from a consortium.
rereward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerewards
Etymology: From rere + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Do not liue Hero, do not ope thine eies: / For did I thinke thou wouldſt not quickly die / Thought I thy ſpirites were ſtronger than thy ſhames / My ſelfe would on the rereward of reproches / Strike at thy life.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: For, though it were a knowen corruption, and therefore ſhould haue beene auoyded; yet [Robert] Bellarmine in muſtering vp the Fathers authorities, for proofe of the reading, ipſa (the beſt ground of their Mariolatrie) brings in [John] Chryſoſtom in the rereward.
ref: 1611, Thomas Iames [i.e., Thomas James], “The 32. Place Corrupted, in the 17. Homily of Chrys[ostom] vpon Gen[esis] To[me] 1. Pg. 97.”, in A Treatise of the Corrvption of Scripture, Councels, and Fathers, by the Prelats, Pastors, and Pillars of the Church of Rome, for Maintenance of Popery and Irreligion. […], London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes, →OCLC; republished London: Printed by H. L. for Mathew Lownes; […], 1612, →OCLC, part II (Corruption of the True Fathers), page 85:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of rearward (in the archaic and historical military sense of rearguard and the obsolete sense of haunches, buttocks) .
unglaciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unglaciated
form: most unglaciated
Etymology: From un- + glaciated.
Senses: glosses: Not glaciated
lucumone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucumones
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lucumo.
synonyms: word: lucumo
lucumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucumos
form: lucumones
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lucumō.
Senses: glosses: An Etruscan ruler.
lumachella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumachellas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lumachel.
lumachel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lumachels
form: lumachella
Etymology: From Italian lumachella.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A grey form of limestone that contains fossil shells, and reflects a fiery play of colours
Synonyms: fire marble
Derived terms: lumachellic
multibarrel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + barrel.
Senses: examples: a multibarrel micropipette
a multibarrel reactor
glosses: Having more than one barrel.
Synonyms: multibarreled
multibarrelled
multibarreled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multibarrelled
Etymology: From multi- + barreled.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one barrel.
Synonyms: multibarrel
multibarrelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multibarreled
Etymology: From multi- + barrelled.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one barrel.
Synonyms: multibarrel
multibaryonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + baryonic.
Senses: glosses: Involving or pertaining to more than one baryon.
Synonyms: multibaryon
lumachels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumachel
lagunar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a lagoon.
nonarchitecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + architecture.
Senses: examples: text: What about the student with a nonarchitecture degree who wants to study architecture?
ref: 1971, William Wayne Caudill, Architecture by team:
text: Its demise economically as an institution was perhaps inevitable, but its replacement — let's say "with needed functions" — was made with banality, not minimal architecture but nonarchitecture.
ref: 1987, Norval White, New York: a physical history:
glosses: That which is not architecture.
dempsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dempster
antirusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antirust
anti-rusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-rust
bagmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bag + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of bags.
bemesetron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From be(nzoate) + me(thyl) + -setron (“serotonin receptor 5-HT₃ antagonist”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug with antiemetic effects, used mainly in scientific research.
barnidipine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A particular calcium channel blocker.
benzobarbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A barbiturate derivative with anticonvulsant effects.
benzthiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzothiazide
Etymology: From benz- + -thiazide.
Senses: glosses: A thiazide diuretic drug used to treat high blood pressure and edema.
benzothiazide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benzthiazide.
septimate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕpʹtĭmāt
ipa: /ˈsɛptɪmeɪt/
enpr: sĕpʹtĭmət
ipa: /ˈsɛptɪmət/
Forms: form: septimates
form: septimating
form: septimated
form: septimated
Etymology: Latin septimus (“seventh”) + English -ate, after decimate; compare septimation
Senses: examples: text: We may ſay, without the leaſt hyperbole, nature ſeptimates; art centeſimates us.
ref: 1755, The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, XIII, page 141:
text: Arrange into sevens; septuplicate; septimate.
ref: 1825, Robert Archibald Armstrong, “Seachdaich”, in A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts, page 492:
text: That regulation which is usually called the seventh or huftum…conveys to the Bengali rayat the same uncomfortable impression, which is usually connected with the idea of being ‘quartered’ or ‘decimated.’ When he sees that he is about to be ‘septimated,’ he makes every effort in his power to escape from his fate by flight, thereby risking the loss of all he possesses in the world.
ref: 1852 August, Rev. J. Wenger, “On the desirableness of Commuting the Government Land Tax” quoted by Macleod Wylie in Bengal as a Field of Missions (1854), page 285
text: It was during the cold spell of 1935 that influenza and other forms of sickness “septimated” the labour supply for the mines of Southern Rhodesia.
ref: 1938, Geoffrey Clement Watson, The Soil and Social Reclamation, page 102:
glosses: Submit (someone or something) to septimation; reduce by one seventh.
Coordinate terms: sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅓
word: tertiate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅕
word: quintate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅙
word: sextate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅒
word: decimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₂
word: duodecimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₀₀
word: centesimate
septimate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕpʹtĭmāt
ipa: /ˈsɛptɪmeɪt/
enpr: sĕpʹtĭmət
ipa: /ˈsɛptɪmət/
Forms: form: septimates
Etymology: Latin septimus (“seventh”) + English -ate, after decimate; compare septimation
Senses: examples: text: In the 744 septimates of January there are only seven in which all the W and S are positive; in the 720 of June there are none.
ref: 1876, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, CLXV:ii, page 418:
text: At the end of this septimate of days he enters into the sabbath of his God.
ref: 1942, Herbert Wallace Schneider, George Lawton, A Prophet and a Pilgrim, page 499:
glosses: A group of seven.
septimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕpʹtĭmāt
ipa: /ˈsɛptɪmeɪt/
enpr: sĕpʹtĭmət
ipa: /ˈsɛptɪmət/
Etymology: Latin septimus (“seventh”) + English -ate, after decimate; compare septimation
Senses: examples: text: She let her hands sink down…into the beginning of Partita VI, letting its curious seven-headed rhythm ring out, one after another, like amethysts on a chain. She played the fugue with marked sadness, and then brought back the septimate chords to enclose it.
ref: 1969, The American Literary Anthology, II, page 267:
glosses: In groups of seven.
septimates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of septimate
septimates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of septimate
septimated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of septimate
Troödos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain range in Cyprus; the principal mountain of this range.
yufka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yufkas
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish یوفقه (yufka).
Senses: examples: text: While recently travelling Asia Minor, I reached Magnesia very hungry: having outstripped my attendants, I was alone, and went to a common shop, where I had three skewers of kebab, a much esteemed dish, and the best of the kind I ever tasted, a yufka somewhat resembling Yorkshire pudding, a large lump of ice in the jar of water, a dish of yaourt, a bunch of grapes, and afterwards a caimac (cream) ice.
ref: 1860, David Urquhart, The Lebanon: (Mount Souria.) A History and a Diary, volume 1, pages 351–352:
glosses: A thin, round, unleavened flatbread in Turkish cuisine.
Lehtinen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lehtinens
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Lehtinen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Heinonen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Heinonens
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Heinonen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
unacceptance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + acceptance.
Senses: glosses: A lack of acceptance; the condition of not accepting something
Sextate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: methylcyclohexyl acetate
sextate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕksʹtāt
ipa: /ˈsɛksteɪt/
Forms: form: sextates
form: sextating
form: sextated
form: sextated
Etymology: Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate
Senses: examples: text: Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ſaid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ſixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ſignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ſhould be totally deſtroyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ſeen N. 850.
ref: 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed, II, page 101:
glosses: Reduce by one sixth.
examples: text: Becauſe ſix ſignified Full, the Word to ſextate (to divide into ſix, of to give a ſixth Part) originated thence, by which in a ſpiritual Senſe is ſignified that which is complete and entire, as That they ſhould Sextate an Ephah out of an Homer of Barley, (i. e. take a Sixth of an Ephah) Ezek. xlv. 13. and it is ſaid of Gog, I will turn thee back, and will Sextate thee (leave but a ſixth Part of thee) Ezek. xxxix. 2. by which is ſignified, that with him all Truth of Good in the Word ſhould be totally deſtroyed; who are meant by Gog, may be ſeen N. 850.
ref: 1791, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Apocalypſe Revealed, II, page 101:
text: By sextating, or leaving but a sixth part of Gog, is signified the total destruction of every truth derived from good in such a church.
ref: 1883, Thomas Goyder et al., The Science of Correspondences Elucidated, 6th edition, page 450:
glosses: Reduce to one sixth.
Coordinate terms: sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅓
word: tertiate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅕
word: quintate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅐
word: septimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ⅒
word: decimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₂
word: duodecimate
sense: reduce proportionately, by single aliquot part
alt: ¹⁄₁₀₀
word: centesimate
sextate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕksʹtāt
ipa: /ˈsɛksteɪt/
Etymology: Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate
Senses: examples: text: De Toni’s placing the quadrate form in Amphitetras and the sextate in Nothoceratium is of course indefensible.
ref: 1907, Albert Mann, Percy Leroy Ricker, Report on the Diatoms of the Albatross Voyages in the Pacific Ocean, 1888–1904, page 293:
glosses: sixfold; In groups of six.
examples: text: The room temperature magnetic moments of these complexes were determined by the Gouy method and the values are in the range 5.7—5.9 B.M. (Table), indicative of the presence of five unpaired electrons and the sextate ground state level in these complexes.
ref: 1967, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, XLIV:ii, page 990:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: sixfold degenerate
sextate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕksʹtāt
ipa: /ˈsɛksteɪt/
Etymology: Latin sextus (“sixth”) + English -ate; compare quintate, septimate, and decimate
Senses: examples: text: Mössbauer spectrum of pure γ− Fe₂O₃ (figure-1) shows a broadened sextate due to the presence of two subspectra.
ref: 1981, Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy: Physical sciences, I, page 199:
text: The spectrum could be best fitted with one sextate having broad lines which indicate the presence of more than one crystallographically nonequivalent iron sites.
ref: 1987, Minoru Takahashi et al., editors, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Physics of Magnetic Materials, Sendai, Japan, April 8–11, 1987, page 392:
qualifier: spectroscopy
glosses: A group of six peaks or lines
sextating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sextate
lyddite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lydd + -ite, from Lydd in England where it was developed and tested.
Senses: glosses: An explosive consisting of a mixture of picric acid and guncotton.
Synonyms: sense: explosive
word: melinite
Lydd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council, on the Romney Marsh in Folkestone and Hythe district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR0420).
Derived terms: lyddite
Lydd-on-Sea
lobuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobulus
lofi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lofi
form: most lofi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lo-fi.
lofi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lo-fi.
lobulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lobulated.
synonyms: word: lobulated
Derived terms: bilobulate
multilobulate
nonlobulate
'e'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: A representation of the pronunciation of he’ll by a speaker whose dialect lacks the voiceless glottal fricative or transition ([h]).
Senses: examples: text: Judy: (Pretending to assume she is referring to the gardener... one of her streams of unconciousness^([sic])) I know it’s cos ’es new when we’ve got ’im trained ’e’ll be as good as gold like me know ’is place jump when ’es asked no ’olding ’im like a frog ’e’ll be jump jump jump...
ref: 1998, David Griffiths, Please Be Gentle: A Conjectural Evaluation of the Masked Performance of the Comedia Dell’Arte, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of he’ll.
Pensylvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Used in the list of signatures at the end of the United States Constitution
glosses: Archaic form of Pennsylvania.
tertiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrʹshĭāt
ipa: /ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/
Forms: form: tertiates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”).
Senses: examples: text: Every day a whole hour must be devoted to it, in the novitiate even two hours; and every Jesuit is expected to spend at least one week in the year in meditation during his novitiate and in the tertiate a whole month.
ref: 1911, Paul Graf von Hoensbroech, Fourteen Years a Jesuit, page 297:
text: When the scholastic has finished his education, he embarks on the “tertiate," a period of several months in which the accumulated experience of some ten years in the Order will be proved and tested all over again.
ref: 1987, Manfred Barthel, The Jesuits: History & Legend of the Society of Jesus, page 53:
text: During the tertiate, as formerly during the novitiate, we have Hospital Trial, only instead of menial work, such as washing feet, cooking, scrubbing the floor, etc., we have spiritual work to do, by helping out the regular chaplain.
ref: 2008, Cynthia Hausmann, Priest and Patriot, page 196:
glosses: The third year of training in various Christian religious orders (especially the Jesuits).
examples: text: Her first house was in New York City , on Water Street , in the neighbourhood of Jerry McAuley's mission. In 1899 she became a Dominican tertiate.
ref: 1958, Kenneth Scott Latourette, Christianity in a Revolutionary Age - Volume 3, page 136:
glosses: One who is in their tertiate training.
examples: text: That of De Blainville had " Primates " (primates and doubtful sloths) , "Secundates" (insectivores and carnivores) , "Tertiates" (rodents), and " Quaternates” (ungulates and sirenians), all in a grand division of the "well-toothed" ("bien dentés"), i.e. the edentates.
ref: 1945, George Gaylord Simpson, Ruth Tyler, The Principles of Classification and a Classification of Mammals, page 172:
text: The designation Primates goes back to LINNAEUS, who included into this group man, apes, and monkeys (mammals being Secundates, and the other animals Tertiates).
ref: 1967, Hartwig Kuhlenbeck, The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, page 69:
text: All other animals were of the third rank, tertiates. ( We learned of Linnaeus ' distinction between primates, secundates, and tertiates from J. Z. Young's Life of Vertebrates, 2nd ed . [Oxford, 1962].)
ref: 1983, Peter Brian Medawar, J. S. Medawar, Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology, page 218:
text: A few decades later, in the same spirit, and basing his reasoning on the “degeneration” of the hand, Blainville created the “Secundates,” “Tertiates,” and “Quaternates” for the other mammalian orders.
ref: 2012, Judith Masters, Marco Gamba, Fabien Génin, Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology, page ix:
glosses: The third classification of animals in some ranked taxonomic systems, such as that proposed by Linnaeus.
tertiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: tûrʹshĭāt
ipa: /ˈtɜːʃɪeɪt/
Forms: form: more tertiate
form: most tertiate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tertiāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of Latin tertiō, from tertius (“third”).
Senses: examples: text: The proportions are not tertiate, and there is no north gate.
ref: 1933, The Archaeological Journal - Volume 89, page 68:
text: […] but this supposition involves an arrangement based on principles associated with tertiate camps, planned in the proportion of 2:3, and this is to be eschewed.
ref: 1934, James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society, Volume 34, page 56:
text: The unusual proportion, so different from the square or tertiate form normally chosen for Roman forts, is entirely due to the difficulty in finding a suitable position.
ref: 1939, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, page 111:
text: Among the larger sites, those which are of tertiate plan (ie whose long sides are half as big again as their short), are more likely than not to be of second century or later date;
ref: 1996, Peter G. B. McNeill, Hector L. MacQueen, Atlas of Scottish History to 1707, page 40:
glosses: Having 2:3 proportion.
examples: text: apex generally somewhat acuminate; margin entire, crenate or finely dentate — leaves on lower branches and coppice shoots reputed to be 1-3 lobed; lateral veins 2-4 pairs, tertiate veins forming a prominent reticulum.
ref: 1964, Elliottia: Notes from the Herbarium of Georgia Southern College, page 8:
glosses: Having three parts.
Related terms: tertiary
tertiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tertiate
tertiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tertiate
tertiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tertiate
centesimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĕn'tēsĭmāʹshən
ipa: /ˌsɛntiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/
Forms: form: centesimations
Etymology: From the Latin centēsimātiō, from centēsimō, from centēsimus (“hundredth”); compare quintation, septimation, decimation, vicesimation, and tricesimation.
Senses: examples: text: CENTESIMATION, a milder kind of military puniſhment, in caſes of deſertion, mutiny, and the like, when only every hundredth man is executed.
ref: 1763, A New and Complete Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, second edition, page 522:
text: Sometimes the criminals were decimated by lot, as appears in Polybius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Appian, Dio, Julius Capitolinus, who also mentions a centesimation.
ref: page 413
text: 1897, The Columbian Cyclopedia VI, “centesimate”
To inflict the punishment of centesimation.
text: Centesimation…carries only one-tenth the sensation value of “decimation”.
ref: 1980, Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, editors, Encounter, LIV, page 71:
text: Decimate, to select by lot and put to death every tenth man of (a captured army or body of prisoners or mutineers) […] Compare 1/100: centesimation.
ref: 1992, Laurence Urdang, Three Toed Sloths and Seven League Boots, page 151:
topics: government
history
human-sciences
military
politics
sciences
war
glosses: The selection by lot of every hundredth man (of an army or group of prisoners or mutineers) for execution.
Coordinate terms: sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: quintation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 5)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: septimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 7)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: decimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 10)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: vicesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 20)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: tricesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 30)
Related terms: centesimate
cucullus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuculli
Etymology: Latin cucullus (“hood”)
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as of certain concave and arched sepals or petals.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A colour marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood.
tricesimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trī'sēsĭmāʹshən
ipa: /ˌtɹaɪsiːsɪˈmeɪʃən/
Etymology: From the German Tricesimation, ultimately from the Latin trīcēsimus (“thirtieth”).
Senses: examples: text: On 25 June a fifth emergency tax was introduced to cover the increased expense. This was the Tricesimation which was the ducal answer to the estates’ Accise. For the first time the duke had a tax that both approximated to the level of economic production and above all was under his control.⁷⁷
⁷⁷ The Tricesimation was a one-thirtieth purchase and produce tax collected by ducal officials…. No records of the level collected survive, but around 1700 the Tricesimation brought in about 100,000fl. annually.
ref: 1995, Peter H. Wilson, War, State and Society in Württemberg, 1677–1793, page 117:
text: Between 1691 and 1724 cultivators were subject to the Tricesimation, a tax of one-thirtieth of grain and wine produced.
ref: 2006, Paul Warde, Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany, page 148:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A one-thirtieth tax introduced in the Duchy of Württemberg in 1691.
Coordinate terms: sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: quintation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 5)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: septimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 7)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: decimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 10)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: vicesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 20)
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: centesimation (1
sense: proportionate reduction, by single aliquot part
word: 100)
make the blood run cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the blood run cold
form: making the blood run cold
form: made the blood run cold
form: made the blood run cold
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make someone's blood run cold.
webifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of webify
webifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of webify
webified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of webify
someone's blood runs cold
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: one's blood runs cold
Senses: glosses: One feels a physical shock upon realizing a direct threat to one's life, similar to the loss of blood in the brain. It affects the entire body for a few minutes, but does not cause the person to lose consciousness.
examples: text: Little Oliver's blood ran cold, as he listened to the Jew's words, and imperfectly comprehended the dark threats conveyed in them.
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in Oliver Twist:
text: [M]y blood ran cold and my heart turned to water, for there, before the cave, rolled wolves, many and great.
ref: 1891, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 13, in Nada the Lily:
text: Her blood ran cold, and her heart seemed pressed in an iron vice.
ref: 1908, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 9, in The Magician:
text: His "blood runs cold" imagining the wrath of Weinstein.
ref: 2004 January 12, Jeffrey Ressner, “Sundances with Wolves”, in Time, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
text: Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 20, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: "Why, it mikes yer blood run cold: they 'ang a man on the stige; oh, it mide me creep all over!"
ref: 1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:
text: "It just makes my blood run cold to read about it. And to think that the man who did it is still around the country somewhere—plotting other murders."
ref: 1914, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Man on the Train:
text: [T]he prospect of doing hard time in an American penitentiary was about the only thing that made Pablo Escobar's blood run cold.
ref: 2009 February 24, John Otis, “Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It?”, in Time:
glosses: One experiences a visceral feeling of fear, horror, dread, foreboding, or dysphoria (sometimes with accompanying tingling paresthesias).
yarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: yarms
form: yarming
form: yarmed
form: yarmed
Etymology: From Middle English ȝarmen, ȝermen, from Old English ġyrman, ġierman (“to cry, mourn, cry out, roar, lament”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *jarmijan, from Proto-Germanic *jarmijaną, *jarmōną (“to bellow, bleat”). Cognate with Scots yirm (“to whine, wail”), dialectal Danish jærme (“to lament, shriek”), dialectal Norwegian jerme (“to bleat”), dialectal Swedish jarma (“to lament, shriek”), Icelandic jarma (“to whine, complain, bleat”). Compare Albanian jerm (“to rave, be delirious”). Compare English yammer.
Senses: glosses: To cry out; make a loud, unpleasant noise; shriek; yell.
glosses: To scold; grumble.
yarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɑː(ɹ)m/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)m
Forms: form: yarms
Etymology: From Middle English ȝarm, from ȝarmen.
Senses: glosses: An outcry; noise.
Yarm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjɑː(ɹ)m/
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Stockton-on-Tees borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ4112).
sedimentary rocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sedimentary rock
traceried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tracery + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Decorated with tracery
oscitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oscitancies
Etymology: From Latin oscitans + -cy, present participle of ōscitō (“to yawn, gape, open the mouth”), from Latin os (“the mouth”).
Senses: glosses: the act of yawning
glosses: drowsiness, especially when marked by yawning
Synonyms: oscitance
yokibus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From yoke + jocular Latin -ibus. Compare thingumajig.
Senses: examples: text: With your permission, Sir, I propose to have this “yokibus” ["a badge bearing caricatures and words of a ludicrously stage-Irish nature"] made available in the Library so every Deputy will have an opportunity of seeing the way this country is being caricatured by the Government.
ref: 1961, Jack McQuillan, Dáil Éireann debates, Vol.189 no.1 p.17 cc.16-17 9 May 1961
text: O'HORAN: (Taking a rise:) You had invented a yokibus, your letter said, that was on a par with p'ison gas.
ref: 1994 [set in 1929], Hugh Leonard, "Senna For Sonny", Plays International, Vol.10 p.38
glosses: A miscellaneous thing or whimsical contraption; a thingamajig.
trophi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophus
kumst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yellow and brownish-yellow bastard amber is described as kumst-coloured, from the East Prussian name "Kumst" for cabbage
ref: 1968, Max Bauer, Precious stones: a popular account of their characters, ..., volume 2:
text: Baltic carving constructed of "fatty turbid" amber was Kumst, which in German means cabbage or sauerkraut. The Polish amber industry today uses the term cabbage-leaf
ref: 2006, Patty C. Rice, Amber: Golden Gem of the Ages, page 11:
glosses: An opaque dull yellow-green variety of amber
maco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Egyptian cotton once used to make underwear and stockings.
Magna Graecia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Magna Graecia.
Senses: glosses: The ancient coastal regions of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers.
monitorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monitoring
scroll locks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scroll lock
Kattang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Worimi
antihanging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihanging
form: most antihanging
Etymology: From anti- + hanging.
Senses: glosses: Opposing hanging as a method of execution.
offsetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offset
blogsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogsites
Etymology: From blog + site.
Senses: examples: text: With Drupal, anyone can create their own blogsites, portals, forums, websites, social networking sites, resource directories, etc.
ref: 2008, Andrew Haney, Build Websites with Drupal, page 148:
text: The discussion boards and blogsites became battle sites for supporters and detractors of Chaudhry.
ref: 2009, Stewart Firth, Jon Fraenkel, The 2006 military takeover in Fiji: the coup to end all coups?, page 232:
glosses: A web site whose primary content is a blog.
blogsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blogsite
noseslides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noseslide
gammon and spinach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: nonsense, tommyrot
autopay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + pay.
Senses: examples: text: Under the autopay rent collection system, most of the transactions are effected on the first working day of the month.
ref: 2007, Rebecca Lai-Har Chiu, Professional Housing Management Practices in Hong Kong, page 77:
text: […]it's easy to forget to examine your statements when autopay is in place[…]
ref: 2009, Peter Sander, Jennifer Sander, 573 Ways to Save Money, page 236:
glosses: automatic payment
Synonyms: autopayment
knottings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knotting
cargoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cargoplanes
Etymology: From cargo + plane.
Senses: glosses: A fixed-wing aircraft designed or converted for the carriage of goods, rather than passengers.
cargoplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cargoplane
nonrhyming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rhyming.
Senses: glosses: That does not rhyme.
micromainframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromainframes
Etymology: From micro- + mainframe.
Senses: glosses: A computer resembling a mainframe but significantly smaller in physical size.
minimainframe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minimainframes
Etymology: From mini- + mainframe.
Senses: glosses: A computer resembling a mainframe but significantly smaller in physical size.
minimainframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimainframe
micromainframes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micromainframe
restoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: restorals
Etymology: From restore + -al.
Senses: glosses: restoration
restorals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restoral
histiocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: histiocytoses
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: histiocyte + -osis = histio- + -cyte + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An excess of histiocytes, associated with various rare diseases.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: lymphohistiocytosis
sea-blue histiocytosis
assistance dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assistance dogs
Senses: glosses: Synonym of service dog (“dog that assists a person who has a disability”)
synonyms: word: service dog
extra: dog that assists a person who has a disability
assistance dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assistance dog
lymphohistiocytoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphohistiocytosis
histiocytoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of histiocytosis
reticuloendothelioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reticuloendotheliosis
glioblastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glioblastoma
nonlymphoproliferative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lymphoproliferative.
Senses: glosses: Not lymphoproliferative.
sea-blue histiocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The lipids appear blue under a certain stain.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A cutaneous condition associated with excessive cytoplasm loading of lipids within histiocytes.
haemophagocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hemophagocytosis.
Erdheim-Chester disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The first case was reported by the American pathologist William Chester in 1930, during his visit to the Austrian pathologist Jakob Erdheim in Vienna.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: polyostotic sclerosing histiocytosis, a rare disease characterized by the abnormal multiplication of histiocytes.
Niemann-Pick disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described by Albert Niemann in 1914 and by Ludwig Pick in the 1930s.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of fatal inherited metabolic disorders associated with sphingomyelin accumulation in the central nervous system.
quick bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quick breads
form: quickbread
Etymology: From quick + bread.
Senses: glosses: A type of bread which is leavened with agents other than yeast (such as baking soda plus an acid) and thus rises more quickly.
quickbread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickbreads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quick bread.
quickbreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quickbread
countertradition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countertraditions
Etymology: From counter- + tradition.
Senses: examples: text: One answer lies in a less well-known but equally important countertradition, the dyslogistic school of memoir written by former officials who present themselves as disillusioned innocents.
ref: 2008 June 22, Jacob Heilbrunn, “‘Not My Fault’”, in New York Times:
glosses: A tradition that goes against another tradition.
countertraditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countertradition
plimsolled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plimsoll + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing plimsolls.
cybercentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cybercentric
form: most cybercentric
Etymology: From cyber- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: No. The P.D.A., the cellphone and the computer did not usher in our hypermobile, split-focus, cybercentric culture.
ref: 2008 June 22, “Fighting a War Against Distraction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Based around computers.
esplanaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From esplanade + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: GRANDEST of all the streets in Prospect Park South is Albemarle Road, a broad, esplanaded boulevard of stately neo-Classical, Queen Anne and Colonial style mansions.
ref: 2008 June 22, Christopher Gray, “Brooklyn’s Stately Esplanade”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an esplanade.
espionages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of espionage
hypermobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermobile
form: most hypermobile
Etymology: From hyper- + mobile.
Senses: examples: text: If you're hypermobile, meaning you have an increased range of movement in a body part, be careful not to overstretch your joints and avoid repetitive exercises, which can lead to pain.
ref: 2023 March 20, Rebecca Gillam, Bridie Wilkins, “Alexandra Daddario and her PT on how she built her Baywatch bod + her 10 regular workout rules”, in Women's Health:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting hypermobility; able to move further than usual, as of joints.
examples: text: No. The P.D.A., the cellphone and the computer did not usher in our hypermobile, split-focus, cybercentric culture.
ref: 2008 June 22, “Fighting a War Against Distraction”, in New York Times:
glosses: Excessively mobile.
Related terms: hyperflexible
hyperflexibility
hypermobility
revamper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revampers
Etymology: From revamp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who revamps.
revampers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revamper
lisianthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lisianthuses
Etymology: From Lisianthus, an accepted synonym of Eustoma.
Senses: examples: text: Recently the art and fashion worlds have also become acquainted with the 53-year-old floral designer: he created the arrangements for the opening of the Palazzo Grassi museum in Venice two years ago and erected a wall of pink dahlias, gerberas, hydrangeas and lisianthuses as the backdrop to Dries Van Noten ’s spring 2007 collection.
ref: 2008 June 22, Armand Limnander, “The Avant Gardener”, in New York Times:
glosses: Prairie gentian (Eustoma russellianum, syn. Eustoma grandiflorum, Lisianthius russellianus).
lisianthuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lisianthus
FTT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FTTs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of financial transaction tax.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of failure to thrive.
FTT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Free Territory of Trieste.
lobsterwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒbstə(ɹ)wʊmən/
Forms: form: lobsterwomen
form: lobster-woman
form: lobster woman
Etymology: From lobster + -woman, modelled after lobsterman.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe I'll become a lobsterwoman.
ref: 2005, Karen V. Siplin, Such a Girl, page 305:
text: The author (and lobsterwoman) Linda Greenlaw, about to depart on a book tour for her new mystery, admitted to me that Mr. Obama’s emergence as the Democratic nominee was a historic, awe-inspiring moment — not that she’s going to vote for him.
ref: 2008 June 22, Jennifer Finney Boylan, “A Political Shell Game”, in New York Times:
text: Marian wished for the moment that she'd gone with her father long ago and become a lobsterwoman, running a boat of her own.
ref: 2015, Theodore Weesner, Harbor Lights:
text: And there are always lobster boats out with lobstermen and lobsterwomen working to catch someone's dinner!
ref: 2019, Jordan Reeves, Jen Lee Reeves, Born Just Right, page 73:
hypernyms: word: fisherwoman
word: lobsterer
word: lobsterman
alt: m and f
coordinate_terms: word: lobsterman
alt: m
word: lobsterperson
glosses: A female fisher for lobsters, Female equivalent of lobsterman.
examples: text: Pat's looks like a washerwoman, and mine, which I like the best, is a lobsterwoman with a lobsterbaby on her lap.
ref: 1996, Joan MacCracken, The Sun, the Rain, and the Insulin: Growing Up with Diabetes, page 210:
text: 'You can't be Pamela Macx,' says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobsterwoman-thing.
ref: 2010, Charles Stross, Accelerando:
text: They ranged from the display of tattooed women as exotic pictures—like Salome/ "the famous Oriental beauty tattooed in seven colors," seen at Luna Park in 1912 (ATP, Fonds Soury, vol. 19, 149 top and bottom), a deeply erotic, nonnormative performance—to the virile displays of the female animal tamer's courage, to the gender inappropriate but familiar woman wrestler, and to the “monsters” such as mule women or lobster women.
ref: 2010, W. Spurlin, J. Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, Comparatively Queer:
text: The low-budget 1964 horror movie Vengeance of the Lobsterwoman provided Meryl Streep with her first starring role, opposite Roger Moore who played the Lobsterwoman.
ref: 2013, Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, The Unbelievable Truth, page 185:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
hypernyms: word: lobsterman
alt: m and f
coordinate_terms: word: lobsterman
alt: m
glosses: A female alien or monster that appears like a hybrid of a human and a lobster.
Related terms: fisherwoman
lobsterer
lobsterman
lobsterperson
lobsterwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobsterwoman
megaverdict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaverdicts
Etymology: From mega- + verdict.
Senses: examples: text: The Chamber of Commerce says the number of megaverdicts for more than $100 million dropped to 2 last year, from 27 in 2000.
ref: 2008 June 22, Jonathan D. Glater, “To the Trenches: The Tort War Is Raging On”, in New York Times:
glosses: A legal verdict that awards damages of a million dollars or more.
megaverdicts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaverdict
monovisioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + visioned.
Senses: examples: text: "The Education of Taban lo Liyong" is a counterpoint in a class of literature between the monovisioned professor and the multifarious, complex consciousness of the student, yoking disparate elements together.
ref: 1978, Michael Popkin, Modern Black writers:
text: “As a friend of his, that was the most grim, boring, monovisioned part of him,” she said.
ref: 2008 June 22, Allen Salkin, “It’s Not About the Bike”, in New York Times:
glosses: Limited to a single vision.
Related terms: monovision
polyradiculoneuropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyradiculoneuropathies
Senses: examples: text: Chronic Idiopathic demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy, like Guillain-Barré syndrome, which it resembles, is a neurological disease, not a blood disease.
ref: 2008 June 22, Emily Mitchell, “Sick Days”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which polyneuropathy and polyradiculopathy occur together, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome.
polyradiculoneuropathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyradiculoneuropathy
polyradiculitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyradiculitis
polyradiculopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyradiculopathies
Etymology: From poly- + radiculopathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A radiculopathy affecting more than one spinal nerve root.
polyradiculopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyradiculopathy
pungwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pungwes
Etymology: From Shona pungwe.
Senses: examples: text: So-called pungwe sessions, the Shona word for all-night vigils, have become common in areas where people once loyal to President Mugabe dared vote against him in the first round of voting on March 29.
ref: 2008 June 22, Barry Bearak, “Assassins in Zimbabwe Aim at the Grass Roots”, in New York Times:
glosses: An all-night political vigil or rally.
pungwes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pungwe