cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
altocumuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altocumulus
engraft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈɡɹæft/
ipa: /ɪŋˈɡɹɑːft/
Forms: form: engrafts
form: engrafting
form: engrafted
form: engrafted
form: ingraft
form: engraff
Etymology: From earlier ingraft, equivalent to en- (“in”) + graft.
Senses: glosses: To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
examples: text: Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 15”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To fix firmly into place
Derived terms: engraftable
engraftation
engraftment
reengraft
unengrafted
engraft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈɡɹæft/
ipa: /ɪŋˈɡɹɑːft/
Forms: form: more engraft
form: most engraft
form: ingraft
form: engraff
Etymology: From earlier ingraft, equivalent to en- (“in”) + graft.
Senses: glosses: Engrafted.
altostrati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altostratus
ostensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒsˈtɛnsɪv/
Forms: form: more ostensive
form: most ostensive
Etymology: From Middle French ostensif and its etymon Late Latin ostēnsīvus.
Senses: glosses: Apparently true, but not necessarily; ostensible
glosses: Clearly demonstrative.
Derived terms: ostensive definition
ostensively
Related terms: ostentation
ostentatious
integrated circuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integrated circuit
degunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degunk
Tyneside
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪnsaɪd/
ipa: /ˈtainsaid/
ipa: [ˈtainsaid]
ipa: [ˈtɛinsɛid]
Etymology: From Tyne + side.
Senses: glosses: A conurbation in the Northeast of England, covering part of the area of Tyne and Wear. It includes all settlements on the banks of the River Tyne.
Derived terms: North Tyneside
South Tyneside
Related terms: Gateshead
Jarrow
Newcastle upon Tyne
North Shields
South Shields
graylings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grayling
biatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biatch
case history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: case histories
Senses: examples: text: After consulting her case history, the doctor prescribed methotrexate.
text: The case history of a sample design from inception to final marketing was presented to the students.
text: When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement. To be stuck by that label, it seemed to me, would mean having to live my life as a case history in a medical text book.
ref: 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
text: Public Relations people may be retained to put together press kits or to write feature articles or case histories.
ref: 2005, Shelly Field, Advertising and Public Relations, page 238:
glosses: The details of the history of some case (often medical).
engrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈɡɹæfts/
/ɪŋˈɡɹɑːfts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engraft
engrafting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engraft
engrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engraft
engraftments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engraftment
ectaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectara
lynches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lynch
pumpellyite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpellyites
Etymology: From Pumpelly + -ite, from the American geologist Raphael Pumpelly.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: lotrite
glosses: One of a group of sorosilicate minerals.
pumpellyites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpellyite
nini
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /naɪˈnaɪ/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of night night.
natural logarithms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of natural logarithm
Faraday rotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faraday rotations
Etymology: From Michael Faraday, who first described the effect.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An interaction between a polarized electromagnetic pulse, such as a beam of light, and a magnetic field, in which the plane of polarization is rotated in proportion to the intensity of the component of the magnetic field in the direction of travel of the pulse.
wikipedia: Michael Faraday
Synonyms: Faraday effect
dephasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diˈfeɪzɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪzɪŋ
Forms: form: dephasings
Etymology: From de- + phasing.
Senses: qualifier: quantum mechanics; medical imaging; quantum mechanics; medical imaging
glosses: A loss of the synchronization or coherence caused by a perturbation, upon which the system returns to its state before perturbation.
dephasings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dephasing
circuit breakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circuit breaker
proforma
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro forma.
proforma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proformas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro forma.
kobalt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cobalt.
nonidentity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonidentities
form: non-identity
Etymology: From non- + identity.
Senses: examples: text: No scientific examiner would select only chance variations to establish nonidentity of two specimens when the fundamental points of identification stamp them as originating at a single source.
ref: 1993, Ordway Hilton, Scientific Examination of Questioned Documents, →ISBN, page 395:
glosses: Difference, distinction; failure to be identical.
examples: text: Moreover, in a group of prime order p, every non-identity element (i.e. every element other than 1) has period p.
ref: 1995, Thomas A. Whitelaw, Introduction to Abstract Algebra, →ISBN, page 99:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An operator which modifies its operand, and which therefore is not the identity.
Derived terms: nonidentity problem
nonidentities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonidentity
swellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swelling
metalloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metalloid
transition metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transition metal
transition elements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transition element
rudesby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːdz.bi/
Forms: form: rudesbys
form: rudesbies
Etymology: From rude + -sby (as in various names).
Senses: examples: text: No shame but mine: I must, forsooth, be forc'd
To give my hand, oppos'd against my heart,
Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen;
Who woo'd in haste, and means to wed in leisure.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!
Be not offended, dear Cesario.
Rudesby, be gone!
ref: 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act IV, scene I:
glosses: A rude person
Related terms: rudely
rudeness
objective function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objective functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function to be maximized or minimized in optimization theory.
soft-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soft-hearted
form: most soft-hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of softhearted.
Laz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Turkish Laz, from Laz ლაზი (lazi).
Senses: glosses: A Kartvelian language of Turkey and Caucasian Georgia, related to Georgian, Mingrelian, and Svan.
Laz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Turkish Laz, from Laz ლაზი (lazi).
Senses: glosses: The ethnic group speaking Laz and live mostly in Turkey and Georgia.
Laz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Laz
form: most Laz
Etymology: From Turkish Laz, from Laz ლაზი (lazi).
Senses: glosses: Lazic, pertaining to Laz people, history, culture or traditions
Related terms: Lazi
Lazia
Lazic
Lazica
Lazican
Lazistan
Lazuri
Zan
Wiktionary’s coverage of Laz terms
epicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicists
Etymology: From epic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who writes epics.
softheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more softheaded
form: most softheaded
form: soft-headed
Etymology: From soft + headed.
Senses: examples: 1880, Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad, Appendix E,
How my fool of a soft-headed soft-hearted brother would rage if he knew how cunningly I have saved his pocket.
glosses: Lacking sound judgment or resolve; stupid; weak-minded.
Synonyms: soft in the head
Related terms: queer in the head
epicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicist
soft-headed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soft-headed
form: most soft-headed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of softheaded.
hard-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hard-hearted
form: most hard-hearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hardhearted.
Derived terms: hard-heartedly
hard-heartedness
Judeophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: judeophobia
Etymology: From Judeo- + -phobia.
Senses: synonyms: Judophobism
glosses: A fear or hatred of Jews.
Derived terms: Judeophobe
Judeophobic
Related terms: anti-Semitism
lunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌnd͡ʒə/
Forms: form: lungers
Etymology: From lunge + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who lunges.
lunger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌnd͡ʒə/
ipa: /ˈlʌŋə/
ipa: /ˈlʌnd͡ʒə/
Forms: form: lungers
Etymology: From lung + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person afflicted with a disease of the lungs, especially one suffering from tuberculosis.
examples: text: Lion-Peugeot, whose recent successes at Barcelona and in Sicily have made them the favorites for the Boulogne race, will present two single-cylinder cars and one twin-cylinder. The one-lungers are special productions with a bore of 3.9 inches […]
ref: 1909, Automotive Industries, volume 20, page 992:
glosses: A vehicle whose engine has the specified number of cylinders.
Rayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪn/
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name, variant of Raine.
glosses: A female given name.
glosses: A city in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States.
glosses: A township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7222).
Derived terms: Raynes Park
Rayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪn/
Etymology: Blend of River + Jayne
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The romantic pairing of the characters River Tam and Jayne Cobb from the television series Firefly.
Raine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from any of several personal names (such as Raymond).
Derived terms: Raine syndrome
trick out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tricks out
form: tricking out
form: tricked out
form: tricked out
Etymology: Perhaps from dialectal English trig out (“to dress smartly”), perhaps an alteration of rig out. More at trig.
Senses: examples: text: Tom was to be sure, what is called a good boy; he never soiled his clothes, as I did. I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom any thing was good enough. But when I saw my brother tricked out in new clothes, and his old duds covering me like a scarecrow, I appeal to any honourable mind whether it was in human nature to feel otherwise than I did, without possessing an angelic disposition, to which I never pretended; and I fairly own that I did shed not one-fiftieth part so many tears over Tom’s grave as I did over his dirty pantaloons, when forced to put them on.
ref: 1829, [Frederick Marryat], chapter V, in The Naval Officer; or, Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Frank Mildmay. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 150:
text: We went down a flight of fifteen steps below the ground level, and stood in a small chapel tricked out with tapestry hangings, silver lamps, and oil paintings.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter L, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC:
text: He was tricked out in his best: an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: That stare was as if he saw her—a doll tricked out in garments labelled soul, spirit, rights, responsibilities, dignity, freedom—all so many words. It was vile, it was horrible, that he should see her thus!
ref: 1913 October, John Galsworthy, chapter VI, in The Dark Flower, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, part I (Spring), page 28:
synonyms: adorn
embellish
festoon
glosses: To dress or decorate in an especially fancy, elaborate, or excessive manner.
raw_tags: of a person or thing
examples: text: His friends were particularly impressed with the way he tricked out his Ruckus.
text: Tricking out cars, trucks, and SUVs with the likes of body kits, engine boosters, custom colors, and wheels has become a $30 billion a year business.
ref: 2007 April 5, Davide Kiley, “Ford, Funkmaster Flex Co-Pimp a Ride”, in Bloomberg Businessweek, retrieved 04 Aug 2010:
synonyms: customize
modify
glosses: Of a motor vehicle, etc.: to mod or customize an object, typically for the purposes of personalization and enhancing performance capabilities such as the ability to perform stunts.
Derived terms: word: tricked out
kickass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kick-ass.
teloi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telos
safety-valve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪftɪˌvælv/
ipa: /ˈseɪftiˌvælv/
Forms: form: safety-valves
form: safety-valving
form: safety-valved
form: safety-valved
form: safety valve
Etymology: From safety valve (noun).
Senses: glosses: Sometimes followed by off:
To use a relief valve on (a container holding a gas or vapour) to relieve excessive pressure which has built up inside.
glosses: Sometimes followed by off:
To install a relief valve on (such a container) for that purpose.
glosses: Sometimes followed by off:
To use some mechanism to relieve (physical or emotional pressure or tension).
safety-valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪftɪˌvælv/
ipa: /ˈseɪftiˌvælv/
Forms: form: safety-valves
Etymology: See safety valve.
Senses: examples: text: […] I have often thought that it was a great error in our legislature when they consented to put down the public lotteries in England. I am convinced that they were beneficial, acting as safety-valves to the gambling spirit of the nation, and that their prohibition has been productive of much crime and misery.
ref: 1840, F[rederick] M[arryat], “Diary on the Continent. Chapter XIX.”, in Olla Podrida. […], volume I, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, pages 205–206:
glosses: Alternative form of safety valve.
Hippokrates
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἱπποκράτης (Hippokrátēs).
Senses: examples: text: Delium, Hippokrates’s march to, and fortification of, b.c. 424, ii. 681; battle of, b.c. 424, ii. 685; siege and capture of, by the Bœotians, b.c. 424, ii. 689; Sokrates and Alkiblades at the battle of, ii. 690.
ref: 1849, George Grote, “Index”, in A History of Greece from the Earliest Period to the Close of the Generation Contemporary with Alexander the Great. […], volume IV, New York, N.Y.: W[illiam] L. Allison Co., […], →OCLC, page 826:
text: Gela and Syracuse made a treaty, which included a clause that Kamarina, for hundreds of years a colony of Syracuse, should be handed back by Hippokrates. After reigning as long as his brother, Hippokrates was killed near Hybla, fighting the Sicilians. Now Gelon, pretending to help Hippokrates’ sons to punish their rebellious subjects, waited for an opportunity to seize power himself.
ref: 1959, Herodotus, translated by Kenneth Cavander, “Greece Prepares”, in The Struggle for Greece, London: The Folio Society, published 1960 (2nd impression), →OCLC, page 64:
text: Unlike Thessalos, the name Hippokrates displays a slight spike in popularity only in the third century BC. This suggests that the popularity of Thessalos is not related solely to a desire to evoke medically significant names, since that would affect the popularity of Hippokrates equally.
ref: 2024, Emma Aston, “Re-creations of Thessaly in the early Hellenistic period”, in Blessed Thessaly: The Identities of a Place and Its People from the Archaic Period to the Hellenistic (Liverpool Studies in Ancient History), Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 382:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Hippocrates.
satirising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of satirise
satirise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: satirises
form: satirising
form: satirised
form: satirised
form: satirize
Etymology: From satire + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Nor are his ironic-human touches wanting. Almost at its birth he satirises, in his own quiet Swiftian way, an absurd tendency which has grown mightily since, and flourishes now: […]
ref: 1919, George Saintsbury, A History of the French Novel, volume 2:
text: For his novel, Saro-Wiwa draws on the figure of the ingenu in order to satirise the evils and pettiness of war from an apparently naïve perspective, which conceals the biting criticism that prevails throughout the narration.
ref: 2003, Juan Francisco Elices Agudo, “The Role of the Ingenu in the Construction of a Postcolonial Anti-War Satire: Ken Saro-Wiwa's Sozaboy”, in Ignacio Miguel Palacios Martínez, María José López Couso, Patricia Fra López, Elena Seoane Posse, editors, Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain (1952-2002): A Commemorative Volume, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, page 565:
text: Audition…An almost unclassifiable masterpiece of J-horror and one of the very few movies in the genre in which the demonically violent protagonist is allowed to be a woman, satirising women’s position in Japanese society and cinema.
ref: 2018 July 6, Peter Bradshaw, “The scariest horror films ever – ranked!”, in The Guardian:
text: The singer was satirised during the episode Panic on the Streets of Springfield, which aired in the US on Sunday night.
ref: 2021 April 20, Lucy Campbell and Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Morrissey hits back at The Simpsons over parody: ‘Complete ignorance’”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To make a satire of; to mock.
satirises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of satirise
satirised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of satirise
skedaddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skedaddle
skedaddles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skedaddle
skedaddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of skedaddle
skedaddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skedaddle
stamens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamen
track spike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track spikes
Senses: glosses: A lightweight shoe with spikes screwed into its bottom in order to maximize traction (and therefore performance) when running or jumping.
chebang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chebangs
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of shebang (“a lean-to or temporary shelter”).
Derived terms: whole chebang
vote with one's feet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvoʊt wɪð wʌnz ˈfiːt/
Forms: form: votes with one's feet
form: voting with one's feet
form: voted with one's feet
form: voted with one's feet
Etymology: Probably based on the practice of pedibus in sententiam ire in the Roman Senate, but the phrase in its modern sense was popularized by Lenin, through whom it gained some currency in left-wing parlance in various languages. It became more widely known when Western journalists and politicians started using it, not without mockery, in reference to those individuals who fled Communist East Germany towards the West between 1945 and the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961.
Senses: examples: text: But Khrushchev's economic plan for the East Germans means a new kind of dependence on their old Russian foes, and its fulfillment is a political question—on which East Germans, whatever their phony 99.9% elections say, still vote with their feet by fleeing West at the rate of 2,000 a week.
ref: 1958 December 8, "Most Useful Satellite", Time
text: That would enable the students to "vote with their feet" for programs of proven excellence and presumably for fields where the most jobs are available.
ref: 1973 April 2, “The Ph.D. Glut”, in Time:
text: TWA expects that its lounger will keep it flying high in transatlantic business, where it now leads all other airlines. Says Jesse Liebman, a TWA vice president: "Passengers vote with their feet."
ref: 1985 May 13, "Business Notes Airlines", Time
text: Please, vote with your feet—participate in IAP.
ref: 1991 December 10, “IAP needs you”, in The Tech:
text: Then again, I knew that shareholder democracy meant only that I should vote with my feet if I didn't like what management was doing.
ref: 2002, Jim Cramer, Confessions of a Street Addict, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 104:
text: The conventional wisdom ca. 1980 was that if an investor did not like the way a firm was managed, she could vote with her feet, moving her money elsewhere.
ref: 2005, Diane E. Davis, Political Power and Social Theory, Elsevier,, →ISBN, page 188:
text: Several big names have voted with their feet. The Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Monday that Lev Khasis, a former senior executive at the state-owned Sberbank, had left the country for the US.
ref: 2022 April 20, Andrew Roth, “Russia’s latest military failures polarise society even more”, in The Guardian:
text: England fans voted with their feet towards the end of Saturday's 2-0 win against Andorra at Villa Park, but this was a display to delight the band of supporters who traveled to Belgrade.
ref: 2025 September 9, Phil McNulty, “Serbia 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To express one's preferences through one's actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity, group, or process; especially, by physical migration to leave a situation one does not like, or to move to a situation one regards as more beneficial.
wikipedia: Berlin Wall
Lenin
Roman Senate
Hypernyms: vote
Related terms: foot voting
vote with one's wallet
revealed preference
deaconesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deaconess
editorialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: editorialists
Etymology: From editorial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who writes opinion pieces, especially for a newspaper.
car-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car-hops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of car hop.
throne-room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throne-rooms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throne room.
Common Lisp
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A multiparadigm, general-purpose programming language.
Smalltalk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From small talk; according to Alan Kay (one of its creators):
The name actually appeared before the first Smalltalk design, which was done in 1971. I had mentioned to someone that the "prose" of then current programming languages was lower than a cocktail party conversation, and that great progress would have been made if we could even get to the level of making "smalltalk". It then occured^([sic]) to me that this word was also a great pun for a language aimed at the world of small children.
As for hype: Another motive for "smalltalk" was the practice at the time of naming operating, and other, systems (which hardly did anything) after mighty indo-european gods, such as Thor, Zeus, Odin, etc. I figured that if Smalltalk ever did something neat, then people would be pleasantly surprised.
Senses: topics: computer-languages
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object-oriented, dynamically-typed, reflective programming language.
wikipedia: Alan Kay
Derived terms: Smalltalker
type system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type systems
Senses: examples: text: OCaml’s big selling point is its “type system,” which is something like Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, except that instead of just putting a squiggly green line underneath code it thinks is wrong, it won’t let you run it.
ref: 2015 April 2, James Somers, “Toolkits for the Mind”, in MIT Technology Review:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A way programming language classifies values and expressions into types, how it can manipulate those types and how they interact.
Derived terms: Hindley-Milner type system
nominative type system
unified type system
Related terms: typechecker
type theory
type systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type system
griffon-vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: griffon-vultures
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Wood and Mr. Tristram agree that the griffon-vulture is the bird, or one of the birds, whose name is rendered "The Eagle" in our version of the Scriptures.
ref: 1884, John Worcester, The Animals of the Bible and Their Correspondences, page 128:
text: The griffon-vulture's daughters gathered round him and, as they were very pretty, he made advances to them.
ref: 1990, Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Origin of Table Manners: Mythologiques, page 140:
text: […] the Dornier collided with a griffon-vulture and crashed near the Loliondo Mountains, […]
ref: 1992, Jonathan S. Adams, The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of griffon vulture.
eagle-owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eagle-owls
Senses: examples: text: The diet of the Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) was assessed by collecting pellets and prey remains near the nesting cliffs of 21 pairs in the central-eastern Italian Alps between 1993-97
ref: 2002, FABRIZIO Sergio, “Biases associated with diet study methods in the Eurasian Eagle-Owl”, in Journal of Raptor Research, volume 36, pages 11–16:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eagle owl.
lexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɛksə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: lexers
Etymology: From lex + -er, ultimately from lexical.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that performs lexical analysis.
Synonyms: lexical analyzer
lexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexer
snow-leopard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-leopards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snow leopard.
lexical analyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lexical analyzers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that performs lexical analysis.
Synonyms: lexer
lexical analyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexical analyzer
formal grammar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal grammars
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A precise mathematical description of a formal language, consisting of terminal symbols, nonterminal symbols, a nonterminal symbol serving as start symbol, and a set of production rules that control the expansion of nonterminal symbols into strings consisting of both terminal and nonterminal symbols.
Meronyms: formation rule
Related terms: generative grammar
analytic grammar
formal grammars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formal grammar
mummeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Oh, Pip! thy wretched laugh, thy idle but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it!
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
glosses: plural of mummery
nondiscriminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-discriminatory
Etymology: From non- + discriminatory.
Senses: glosses: Not discriminatory; not effecting or resulting in discrimination.
banana-bender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana-benders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of banana bender: a native or inhabitant of Queensland, Australia.
pavement-pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pavement pizza.
crow-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crow-eaters
Senses: examples: text: In South Australia you′ll rub shoulders with crow-eaters, in Queensland you′ll knock back a beer in a bar full of banana-benders (or cane toads), in NSW you′ll sit among a crowd of cockroaches at the footy, and in Tasmania you′ll trek alongside a bunch of (rather unimaginstively named) apple-eaters.
ref: 2004, Susie Ashworth, Rebecca Turner, Simone Egger, Western Australia, page 24:
text: Specific thanks for story ideas to probationary crow-eater Kelvin Healey, lifer Kate Kyriacou and tip-rat-turned-outback-hack Matt Cunningham.
ref: 2011, Liam Houlihan, Badlands: Australia's 13 Most Intriguing True Murders, page 260:
glosses: Alternative form of croweater.
planter box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planter boxes
Senses: examples: 1897, Hon. Stuart Brown, “Indian Corn—Its Cultivation and Uses”, read before the Sangamon County Farmers Institute, in Charles F. Mills (ed.), Annual Report, Illinois Farmer’s Institute, with Reports of County Farmers’ Institutes, for the Year 1897, Phillips Bros., page 115,
Cross fertilization has generally given greater yields. It is done by planting with one variety in one planter box and another variety in the other.
glosses: A flower box; an object that contains live flowers, usually affixed outside, just below a window.
preaching to the choir
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preach to the choir
clackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clacker
clackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: clacker balls
glosses: A toy consisting of two plastic spheres suspended on string which, when swung up and down, banged against each other, making a clacking sound
tongue clackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue clacker
tongue-clacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue-clackers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tongue clacker.
Related terms: tongue clacking
tongue clacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of talking incessantly with little or no meaning.
Related terms: clacker
tongue clacker
tongue clacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue clackers
form: tongue-clacker
Senses: glosses: One who talks a lot with little meaning.
Related terms: clacker
leakier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of leaky: more leaky
leakiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of leaky: most leaky
pre-exists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pre-exist
pre-existed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pre-exist
sub-clinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subclinical.
severities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of severity
pot lucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pot luck
coexists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-exists
form: coëxists
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coexist
co-exists
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coexists
form: coëxists
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-exist
co-existing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coexisting
form: coëxisting
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of co-exist
co-existed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coexisted
form: coëxisted
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of co-exist
Zapotec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zapotecs
form: Zapotec
Etymology: From Spanish zapoteca, from Nahuatl tzapotēcah, plural of tzapotēcatl (“inhabitant of the place of sapote”).
Senses: glosses: A member of an indigenous people of Mexico, concentrated in the state of Oaxaca and spread into some neighbouring states.
Zapotec
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish zapoteca, from Nahuatl tzapotēcah, plural of tzapotēcatl (“inhabitant of the place of sapote”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of Oto-Manguean languages spoken by the Zapotec people.
Zapotec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Spanish zapoteca, from Nahuatl tzapotēcah, plural of tzapotēcatl (“inhabitant of the place of sapote”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Zapotec people.
glosses: Of or relating to their language.
Synonyms: Zapotecan
Derived terms: Zapotec nest
parturitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parturition
Oaxaca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəˈhæ.kə/
ipa: /wəˈhɑː.kə/
ipa: /wɑːˈhɑː.kɑː/
ipa: /wɑˈʃɑː.kə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A city in Mexico.
glosses: A municipality whose municipal seat is the city of the same name.
glosses: A state of Mexico.
glosses: A habitational surname from Spanish.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Oaxaca City
Derived terms: Oaxacalifornia
Oaxacan
Oaxaca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəˈhæ.kə/
ipa: /wəˈhɑː.kə/
ipa: /wɑːˈhɑː.kɑː/
ipa: /wɑˈʃɑː.kə/
Forms: form: Oaxacas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Oaxaca, from Classical Nahuatl Huāxyacac, from Huāxacatzin (“name of a hill”), from huāxin (huaje) (Leucaena leucocephala) + yacatl (“nose”) + -tzin (“honorific suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A semihard white cheese from the Oaxaca region of Mexico.
Urheimats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Urheimat
underbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbridge
overbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overbridge
overbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbridge
Oaxacan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Oaxaca + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Unsurprisingly, the Oaxacan cheese steak sandwich contains jalapeno peppers.
glosses: Relating to, or from, the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Oaxacan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Oaxacans
Etymology: From Oaxaca + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
twotinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twotino
overline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlines
Etymology: From over- + line, by analogy with underline.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of overbar.
synonyms: word: overbar
overline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overlines
form: overlining
form: overlined
form: overlined
Etymology: From over- + line, by analogy with underline.
Senses: glosses: To draw a line over or above text.
overline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + line, by analogy with underline.
Senses: examples: text: Despite this slight delay, a bad slowing at Borrowash for an overline bridge under construction, and signals outside Derby, we arrived there "on time" by the public book, though 1¾ min. late by the working book.
ref: 1960 March, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 176:
text: The total cost of overline bridges in 1965 was £1,506,000 […]
ref: 1967, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Papers by Command, volume 39, page 51:
glosses: Passing over a railway line.
Synonyms: overtrack
tech-nomad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tech-nomads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of technomad.
technomads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technomad
tech-nomads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tech-nomad
Nintendo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪnˈtɛndəʊ/
ipa: /nɪnˈtɛndoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛndəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 任(にん)天(てん)堂(どう) (Nintendō).
Senses: topics: video-games
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A Japanese multinational company that develops, publishes and releases both video games and video game consoles.
Derived terms: GCN
N64
NDS
NES
NGC
Nintendinitis
Nintendium
Nintendocore
Nintendo generation
Nintendo hard
Nintendo thumb
Nintendrone
Ninty
NoA
NS
NSO
SNES
Nintendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪnˈtɛndəʊ/
ipa: /nɪnˈtɛndoʊ/
rhymes: -ɛndəʊ
Forms: form: Nintendos
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 任(にん)天(てん)堂(どう) (Nintendō).
Senses: examples: text: Wanna play on my Nintendo after school?
text: There is nothing wrong with the accoutrements of personal affluence, but if the numbers of personal stereos, Nintendos, mobile phones and cars grow […].
ref: 1995, David Gladstone, editor, British Social Welfare: Past, Present, and Future, page 274:
text: These professionals are the sort whose children play with Nintendos and own bikes
ref: 2005, Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt, page 280:
text: Franz: “How do elves make Nintendos?” Dad: “You ask all the hard questions, don't you? I really don't know.”
ref: 2005, Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs Of A Geezer Dad, page 128:
text: The only message at home was from my nephew, letting me know my mother was back home, safe and sound, except for a sore "Nintendo thumb".
ref: 2007, Ilene Schneider, Chanukah Guilt, page 106:
topics: video-games
glosses: A Nintendo Entertainment System, or other video game system made by Nintendo.
topics: video-games
glosses: Any video game console, especially by those not familiar with video games.
examples: text: He was far more interested in bullfighting, which was the Nintendo of the day, only considerably more dangerous
ref: 2007, Anthony Ham, Alison Bing, Morocco, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Any popular product or activity.
Synonyms: word: Famicom
word: NES
alkalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈkælɪk/
Forms: form: more alkalic
form: most alkalic
Etymology: From alkali + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: This rejuvenation-stage or post-erosional volcanism produces lava even more alkalic than late-stage volcanism.
ref: 2004, Peter Morrison Vitousek, Nutrient Cycling and Limitation: Hawai'i as a Model System, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing a relatively high proportion of alkali; alkaline.
raw_tags: of a rock
Derived terms: nonalkalic
whooping cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whooping crane
nonane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒneɪn/
ipa: /ˈnəʊneɪn/
ipa: /ˈnɑneɪn/
ipa: /ˈnoʊneɪn/
rhymes: -ɒneɪn
rhymes: -əʊneɪn
Forms: form: nonanes
Etymology: From non- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of very many isomeric alkanes, of the general formula C₉H₂₀, having nine carbon atoms.
Derived terms: cyclononane
heptamethylnonane
n-nonane
nonanal
nonanone
nonyl
nonylene
silicononane
vexer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛksə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: vexers
Etymology: From vex + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who vexes; one who annoys
vexers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vexer
petrogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛtɹoʊd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From petro- + genetic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to petrogenesis, the creation of new rock.
Derived terms: petrogenetically
vexingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vexingly
form: most vexingly
Etymology: From vexing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vexing manner.
segmentation clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segmentation clocks
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A molecular oscillator, governed by periodic shifts in gene expression, which influences the timing of vertebrate somitogenesis.
crow eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crow eater
garbage cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garbage can
trash can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trash cans
form: trashcan
Senses: glosses: A receptacle which serves as a place to discard waste materials.
Synonyms: garbage can
litter bin
rubbish bin
trash bin
wastepaper basket
trash cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trash can
somite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsoʊmaɪt/
Forms: form: somites
Etymology: From soma + -ite.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the paired masses of mesoderm distributed along the sides of the neural tube that will eventually become dermis, skeletal muscle, or vertebrae.
examples: text: pedigerous somite
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A metamere, one of a series of segments, arranged longitudinally, of which some animals are composed.
Derived terms: somitic
somitogenesis
somitomere
somites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somite
desynchronization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌsɪnkɹənɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /diːˌsɪnkɹənaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: desynchronizations
form: desynchronisation
Etymology: From desynchronize + -ation or de- + synchronization.
Senses: examples: text: FIG 2.4. Analysis of event-related desynchronizations (ERDs) in the author's brain during a 4 s period following the induction of emotional states using the Clynes' technique.
ref: 1996, Jaak Pansepp, “Affective Neuroscience”, in Emotion:Interdisciplinary Perspectives, →ISBN, page 53:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A loss of synchronization of brain waves.
glosses: The loss or absence of synchronization; asynchronism.
desynchronizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desynchronization
tattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tattle
tattling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tattlings
Senses: examples: text: Peace your tattlings!
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: […] that chaste and sober widow […] coming to Thy church, not for idle tattlings and old wives’ fables, but that she might hear Thee in Thy discourses […]
ref: 1859, John Baillie, chapter 13, in St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir, New York: Robert Carter & Bros, page 112:
text: […] we could have a glorious and radiant world here and now, a bright and happy world! There would be joy and gladness and singing in it, with plenty of work for everyone, but it would all be happy work; there would be no bad tempers, or tattlings, or scoldings, or ox beating, or ugliness.
ref: 1935, Nellie McClung, chapter 13, in Clearing in the West, Toronto: Thomas Allen:
glosses: The speech of one who tattles.
Derived terms: tittle-tattling
tailbud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈteɪlbʌd/
Forms: form: tailbuds
form: tail-bud
Etymology: From tail + bud.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The proliferating mass of cells found at the caudal end of an embryo.
Synonyms: caudal eminence
tailbuds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tailbud
competitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: competitivities
Etymology: From competitive + -ity.
Senses: examples: 1962, "Britain's Export Trade with Canada. Canadian Studies in Economics: No. 12" (Review), Angus Maddison, The Economic Journal, Vol. 72, No. 286. (Jun., 1962), pp. 395, URL: JSTOR
It would throw further light on the inter-relation of competitivity and growth if we had a similar structural analysis of British performance in a more slowly performing market.
2000, Sylvain Gandon and Yannis Michalakis, "Evolution of Parasite Virulence against Qualitative or Quantitative Host Resistance," Proceedings: Biological Sciences, page 986, Vol. 267, No. 1447. (May 22, 2000), pp. 985-990, URL: JSTOR.
Parasites compete within hosts and their level of competitivity is v.
2002, Horst Lüddecke, "Association between Breeding Cycle and Male Body Condition in Hyla labialis," Journal of Herpetology, page 613, Vol. 36, No. 4. (Dec., 2002), pp. 607-614.,
Because factors like the social environment at the pond and competitivity for females may also play a role in a male's decision to stay or leave,the rules for change in individual behavior may be more complex and more plastic than those that guide the start and end of the annual reproductive cycle.
glosses: competitiveness