cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
firebug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firebugs
Etymology: From fire + bug.
Senses: glosses: Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae.
examples: text: But the firebug allegedly ran back inside yelling before he finally took off.
ref: 2024 August 9, Gabriella Bass, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon and Joe Marino, “Firebug accused of torching NYC building, injuring 9 is freed without bail, back in neighborhood”, in New York Post:
text: In the video, she can be heard explaining to the firebugs that she has been working with victims of the wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and forced more than 100,000 people to evacuate.
ref: 2025 January 12, Jared Downing, “TikToker captures careless idiots releasing lantern balloons on Southern California beach as LA burns: ‘ Do you even know what’s happening?’”, in New York Post:
glosses: A pyromaniac or arsonist.
softspoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more softspoken
form: most softspoken
Senses: examples: text: In fact, this educator, lawyer, editor, composer, author, poet, and diplomat [James Weldon Johnson] would become a sturdy fulcrum for black America's transition in 1916 from the softspoken conformity and accommodation of the Booker T. Washington era to a vigorous militant idealism that targeted no less than full equality.
ref: 1991, Gene M. Burnett, “Black Star out of Jacksonville: Native Son Achiever James Weldon Johnson was Lawyer, Educator, Composer, Author, Diplomat, and National Black Leader”, in Florida’s Past: People and Events that Shaped the State, volume 3, Sarasota, Fla.: Pineapple Press, →OCLC, section I (Achievers and Pioneers), pages 62–63:
glosses: Alternative form of soft-spoken.
Schild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schilds
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schild.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
striped shield bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: striped shield bugs
Senses: glosses: A shield bug with black and red stripes, Graphosoma lineatum.
cleanshaven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cleanshaven
form: most cleanshaven
Etymology: From clean + shaven.
Senses: examples: text: He preferred being cleanshaven, but he grew a beard for warmth during winter .
glosses: Alternative spelling of clean-shaven.
kablooie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈbluːi/
Forms: form: ka-blooey
form: ka-blooie
form: kablooey
form: kerblooey
form: kerblooie
form: kerplooie
Etymology: ka-, an intensifier used with onomatopoeia, plus (probably) an imaginative rendition of an explosion or splash.
Senses: examples: text: to go kablooie
text: it went kablooie
text: The bottle of ketchup hit the floor and went kablooie all over everything.
glosses: A failure, meltdown; or explosion; a splat or splash.
Derived terms: blooey
kablooey
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: REICH: Poetry, literature, stuff like that? / GARCIA: All that, all of that, and on all levels. That was like a continuing thing, but then along came LSD and that was the end of that whole world. The whole world just went kablooey.
ref: 1972 January 20, Jann Wenner, Charles A. Reich, Rolling Stone, number 100:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kablooie.
confidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/
ipa: /ˌkɒn.fɪˈdænt/
ipa: /ˈkɒn.fɪˌdænt/
Forms: form: confidants
Etymology: From French confident.
Senses: examples: text: Heaven made you love me for no other end, / But to become my confidant and friend: / As such, I keep no secret from your sight, […]
ref: 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, William Miller, published 1808, page 223:
text: One in thought and purpose, linked by the necessity of combating one hostile fate, a power antagonistic ever, - a power we lived to evade, - we had no confidants save ourselves.
ref: 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:
text: Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.
ref: 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
hyponyms: confidante
glosses: A person in whom one can confide or share one's secrets: a friend.
Related terms: confidante
pinesap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinesaps
Etymology: From pine + sap.
Senses: glosses: A myco-heterotroph (Monotropa hypopitys), formerly thought to be a saprophyte, having racemes of drooping flowers.
glosses: Alternative spelling of pine sap.
Synonyms: sense: Monotropa hypopitys
word: false beechdrops
sense: Monotropa hypopitys
word: dutchman’s pipe
sense: Monotropa hypopitys
word: yellow bird’s nest
Tannenbaum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtænənˌbaʊ̯m/
Forms: form: Tannenbaums
Etymology: Borrowed from German Tannenbaum (“fir tree”).
Senses: examples: text: Oh, Tannenbaum, oh, Tannenbaum, how lovely are thy branches.
text: Local newspapers covered the story of how Santa Claus had helped the Tannenbaum.
glosses: Christmas tree.
clinician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klĭnĭ'shən
ipa: /klɪˈnɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: clinicians
Etymology: From French clinicien, equivalent to clinic + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Any healthcare practitioner working at the point of care, in clinical practice (e.g., physicians in clinical medicine, nurses in nursing practice, or allied health providers in practice).
glosses: Someone who conducts a clinic; an expert or skilled practitioner in a particular field, such as business or education. In this sense, a clinician is someone who provides practical advice or hands-on assistance to others in a specific area of expertise. For example, a business clinician might be an experienced consultant who helps companies improve their operations, while an education clinician might be a skilled teacher who provides professional development and support to other educators.
Hypernyms: practitioner
provider
professional
paraprofessional
Coordinate terms: english: all physicians are professionals, and most are also clinicians
translation: all physicians are professionals, and most are also clinicians
word: physician
english: all nurses are professionals, and most are also clinicians
translation: all nurses are professionals, and most are also clinicians
word: nurse
Derived terms: interclinician
nonclinician
psychoclinician
teleclinician
Beutel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Beutels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Beutel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Beutler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
shield bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shield bugs
form: shieldbug
Senses: glosses: Any of various shield-shaped true bugs of the superfamily Pentatomoidea.
Synonyms: sense: true bug in Pentatomoidea
word: shield beetle
sense: true bug in Pentatomoidea
word: stinkbug
Derived terms: taxonomic: Elasmostethus interstinctus
word: birch shield bug
english: Tessaratomidae
translation: Tessaratomidae
word: giant shield bug
alt: Piezodorus lituratus
word: gorse shield bug
taxonomic: Palomena prasina
word: green shield bug
taxonomic: Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
word: hawthorn shield bug
alt: Cyphostethus tristriatus
word: juniper shield bug
taxonomic: Tritomegas bicolor
word: pied shield bug
rarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛə.ɹə.ti/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɹ.ə.ti/
ipa: /ˈɹæ.ɹɪ.tɪ/
rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: rarities
Etymology: From rare + -ity, borrowed from Middle French rarité, from Latin rāritās; compare French rareté. See also rare.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the scarcity of an object.
examples: text: Only the increasing rarity bothered him, and he thought that perhaps it was this which had turned the heads of other travellers and excited those absurd tales of night-gaunts whereby they explained the loss of such climbers as fell from these perilous paths.
ref: 1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Thinness; the property of having low density
raw_tags: of a gas
examples: text: Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.
ref: 2013 May-June, David Van Tassel, Lee DeHaan, “Wild Plants to the Rescue”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: A rare object.
Synonyms: sense: measure of the scarcity
word: rareness
word: rareness
sense: having low density
word: subtlety
sense: rare object
word: hen's tooth
word: black swan
word: lightning in a bottle
word: one in a million
word: rara avis
word: rare bird
word: rarity
word: rocking horse shit
word: unicorn
Derived terms: zone of rarity
Related terms: word: rare
word: rarely
word: rareness
word: occasionally
patellar ligament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patellar ligaments
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: a ligament joining the patella to the tibia
pine weevil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pine weevils
Senses: glosses: A weevil, of species Hylobius abietis, that can cause damage on young spruce seedlings.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Hylobius abietis
word: large pine weevil
snout beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snout beetles
Senses: glosses: A weevil; specifically, a true weevil ("beetle belonging to the family Curculionidae")
oom-pah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oom-pa
form: oompa
form: oompah
Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the sound and rhythm of German folk music. Doublet of humppa.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of Germanic music (especially Bavarian music) typically involving brass instruments.
examples: text: An oom-pah bassline:
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topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A bassline characteristic of such music, alternating lower and higher notes or chords on the beat, or in a mid-high-low-high sequence.
Derived terms: oompah-like
Related terms: oom-pah-pah
flying squirrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying squirrels
Senses: glosses: Any of 43 species of squirrel-like rodents, which glide from tree to tree:
The tribe Pteromyini within the family Sciuridae, which are true squirrels.
glosses: Any of 43 species of squirrel-like rodents, which glide from tree to tree:
The family Anomaluridae, which are only distantly related to the squirrels.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Anomalurus beecrofti
word: Beecroft's flying squirrel
taxonomic: Anomalurus pusillus
word: dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
word: Humboldt's flying squirrel
taxonomic: Petaurillus emiliae
word: lesser pygmy flying squirrel
taxonomic: Anomalurus derbianus
word: Lord Derby's scaly-tailed flying squirrel
taxonomic: Glaucomys spp.
word: New World flying squirrel
taxonomic: Glaucomys sabrinus
word: northern flying squirrel
taxonomic: Anomalurus pelii
word: Pel's flying squirrel
taxonomic: Idiurus zenkeri
word: pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel
taxonomic: Petaurista petaurista
word: red giant flying squirrel
taxonomic: Pteromys volans
word: Siberian flying squirrel
taxonomic: Glaucomys volans
word: southern flying squirrel
taxonomic: Petaurista elegans
word: spotted giant flying squirrel
Related terms: Phalangeriformes
molarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: molarities
Etymology: From molar + -ity in the chemistry usage.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the concentration of a substance in solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per litre of solution
Synonyms: molar concentration
Derived terms: equimolarity
nanomolarity
Related terms: molar solution
molality
normality
Segel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Segels
Etymology: Variant of Segal.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
black-arched moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: black-arched moths
form: black arched moth
Senses: synonyms: nun moth
glosses: A black-and-white moth of species Lymantria monacha.
nun moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nun moths
Senses: glosses: The black arched moth.
Schlitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schlitzs
form: Schlitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlitz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Schlitz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schlitzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schlitz.
Senses: examples: text: When you're out of Schlitz, you're out of beer. (1960s slogan)
text: I'd like a Schlitz, please.
text: [1966 bartender to his boss:] Mister Atkinson? We runnin' low on Schlitz.
ref: 2015, Garth Ennis, Dreaming Eagles, number 1, page 1:
glosses: A beer from the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company.
solenodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sōˈlēnəˌdän
ipa: /soʊˈliːnəˌdɑn/
Forms: form: solenodons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Solenodontidae of small nocturnal, burrowing, insectivorous mammals, with a long snout and venomous saliva.
Synonyms: solenodontid
Derived terms: Cuban solenodon
Haitian solenodon
Hispaniolan solenodon
Marcano’s solenodon
Related terms: agouta
almiqui
brain coral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain corals
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of coral with the appearance of a brain, in the families Mussidae and Merulinidae.
denoising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + noise + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The extraction of a signal from a mixture of signal and noise.
Keim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Keims
Etymology: * As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish קײַם (kaym), a name from Hebrew קיים (“existing, enduring, tough”).
* As a German surname, from the noun Keim (“sprout, shoot”). Sometimes also a pet form of Joachim.
Compare Kaim.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
neurological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɝəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪkəl
Forms: form: neurologic
Etymology: * neurology + -ical
Senses: glosses: Dealing with neurology, the study of the nervous system or the health care specialty that provides care for it.
Derived terms: cliniconeurological
dermatoneurological
extraneurological
macroneurological
neurologically
nonneurological
palaeoneurological
paleoneurological
pathoneurological
pseudoneurological
psychoneurological
Related terms: neurologist
neurophysiological
neuropsychological
neuroscientific
neurosurgical
neurotechnological
hagridden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hagridden
form: most hagridden
form: hag-ridden
Etymology: From hag + ridden.
Senses: examples: text: Two months afterwards he was reported fit for duty, but, in spite of the fact that he was urgently needed to help an undermanned Commission stagger through a deficit, he preferred to die; vowing at the last that he was hag-ridden.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 9:
glosses: Tormented by witches, demons, or evil spirits.
examples: text: So Sir Walter Scott, hag-ridden by debt, if he finished a novel in the morning began another in the afternoon, because, as he explained, it was less difficult to keep the machine running than to start it again after a rest.
ref: 1906 March, Bradford Torrey, “Anatole France”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Tormented, harassed or worried.
examples: text: a man hagridden by the future, haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth
ref: 1942, C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters:
glosses: Overburdened by fear or dread.
Related terms: hagride
substantiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantialities
Etymology: From substantial + -ity, from Latin substantialitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being substantial; substantialness.
glosses: The extent to which something is substantial.
confidante
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dɑnt/
Forms: form: confidantes
Etymology: From French confidente.
Senses: examples: text: Dany’s descent into madness is coming, of that there’s no doubt, especially given that the episode ends with the execution of her confidante Missandei.
ref: 2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
glosses: A female confidant.
examples: text: Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 20:
glosses: A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
examples: text: To Major Smiley, as his friend, his adviser, and his confidante, Adolphus Fitzopal had opened his heart […]
ref: 1847, Harriette Smythies, A Warning to Lives: or, the Platonic Lover. A Novel, volume 1, page 107:
text: Henry Wilberforce was one of his few confidantes, certainly the one of longest standing, now that Bowden and Froude were gone and Rogers declined to correspond with him.
ref: 1976, Paul Misner, Papacy and Development: Newman and the Primacy of the Pope, →ISBN, page 1:
text: The fortunate confidante is lost in anonymity. He is a character who has always intrigued biographers […] [but] nothing is known about his name or his personal history.
ref: 1994 [1989], Ignacio Larrañaga, translated by Jennie M. Ibarra, Brother Francis of Assisi, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of confidant (male).
airtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airtimes
Etymology: From air + time.
Senses: examples: text: Can you get me some airtime for my latest single?
glosses: The duration during which a radio or television program (or part of one) is transmitted.
examples: text: Let them know you’re looking to create a loosely held balance of air time and want to hear from everyone.
ref: 2017 May 17, “Critical to your team's culture: Equal air time”, in SmartBrief, retrieved 15 Sep 2021:
text: And all sorts of people who have traditionally been excluded are now being let in and given a voice, and they're pushing you out and reducing your airtime, and threatening your privilege, […]
ref: 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 109:
glosses: The duration spent talking during a conversation.
glosses: The chargeable use of a mobile phone, either in minutes or in units dependent on the use or traffic.
glosses: The period of freefall after jumping.
glosses: The period during which a person riding a rollercoaster or similar ride experiences a feeling of weightlessness.
Related terms: airspace
grandiose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹæn.diˈəʊs/
ipa: /ˈɡɹæn.di.əʊs/
rhymes: -əʊs
Forms: form: more grandiose
form: most grandiose
Etymology: From French grandiose, from Italian grandioso, from Latin grandis (“great, grand”) (English grand). Possibly from grand + -ose, though to be debated. Doublet of grandioso.
Senses: examples: text: Independence does not need to be a grandiose process of disconnection and severing ties.
ref: 2019 March 6, Nalini Mohabir, “Renaming the Cook Islands would be a vital step towards true independence”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent.
examples: text: There is a station here, of course, opened as Didcot in June 1844 and renamed as the more grandiose-sounding Didcot Parkway in July 1985.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Didcot (1932)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 60:
glosses: Pompous or pretentious.
Derived terms: blandiose
grandiosely
grandioseness
ungrandiose
Related terms: grand
grandeur
grandiosity
grandioso
bastion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæst͡ʃən/
homophone: Bastian
Forms: form: bastions
Etymology: First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).
Senses: examples: text: […] Fort Camosun had swelled herself from being a little Hudson's Bay Fort, inside a stockade with bastions at the corners, into being the little town of Victoria, and the capital of British Columbia.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Beginnings”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
glosses: A projecting part of a rampart or other fortification.
glosses: A well-fortified position; a stronghold or citadel.
examples: text: a bastion of hope
text: the bastion of democracy
glosses: A person, group, or thing, that strongly defends some principle.
examples: text: […] yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
⁠And onward drags a labouring breast,
⁠And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 24:
text: It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 32:
glosses: Any large prominence; something that resembles a bastion in size and form.
Derived terms: bastioned
bastion forest
bastionlike
tower bastion
Related terms: bastille
bastion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæsti.ən/
ipa: /ˈbæst͡ʃən/
homophone: Bastian
Forms: form: bastions
form: bastioning
form: bastioned
form: bastioned
Etymology: First attested in 1562. From French bastion, from Old French bastille (“fortress”).
Senses: glosses: To furnish with a bastion.
plop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒp/
ipa: /plɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: plops
Etymology: Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.
Senses: examples: text: He heard the plops of rain on the roof.
glosses: A sound or action like liquid hitting a hard surface, or an object falling into a body of water.
glosses: Excrement.
plop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒp/
ipa: /plɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: plops
form: plopping
form: plopped
form: plopped
Etymology: Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.
Senses: examples: text: Stooping, she picked up another pebble, sounded out the word again, and tossed it into the shallow water near the path, where it plopped into the water, sending out circles from where it fell.
ref: 2012, Augusta Trobaugh, Music From Beyond The Moon, page 43:
glosses: To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
examples: text: He plopped down on the sofa to watch TV.
text: There was a world inside that tall grass. You could plop yourself down in the middle of it with the scraggly stems against the back of your neck and the endless grasses rising up and jackknifing against the bigbluesky, and the ranch and all of its players would fade into a distant dream.
ref: 2009, Reif Larson, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Pinguin Books, page 37:
text: The first time I had niku udon was at a Japanese convenience store, now long closed, near Columbia University in the mid-1990s. For about $5, the attendants would plop a handful of freshly boiled udon into a Styrofoam cup and add a ladle of dashi broth seasoned with soy sauce and mirin.
ref: 2022 October 19, J. Kenji López-Alt, “What Kenji López-Alt Makes His Family for Dinner”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To land heavily or loosely.
glosses: To defecate.
plop
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plɒp/
ipa: /plɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology: Imitative of the sound, or perhaps a variant of plap.
Senses: examples: text: "[A]fter a bit the old ship went down all on a sudden with a lurch to starboard---plop. The suck in was something awful."
ref: 1900, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, page xiii. 110:
glosses: Indicating the sound of something plopping.
Derived terms: bullplop
cowplop
kerplop
plop down
plopper
ploppy
vitiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitiations
form: viciation
Etymology: From Latin vitiare (“to spoil, damage”).
Senses: examples: text: 1810, George Wilson, M.D., F.R.D.E. Ch. II. General Sketch of Cavendish's Scientific Researches and Discoveries, in The Life of the Honᵇˡᵉ Henry Cavendish, p. 39.
[…] air was universally reputed to be a simple or elementary body. It was liable, according to the phlogistians, to vitiation, by the addition to it of phlogiston […] being more or less phlogisticated, according to the degree of its power to support respiration and combustion.
text: Lincoln once reprimanded a young army officer for indulging in a violent controversy with an associate. "No man who is resolved to make the most of himself," said Lincoln, "can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self-control.
ref: 1936, Dale Carnegie, “Part 3, Chapter 1. You Can't Win an Argument”, in How to Win Friends and Influence People, page 137:
glosses: A reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something.
glosses: Moral corruption.
glosses: An abolition or abrogation.
god-king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: god-kings
Etymology: From god + king.
Senses: glosses: A statesman who holds all the state's powers and has religious significance to his constituency.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A king who is of divine descent.
glosses: A monarch who is also a god.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A tyrannical maintainer of a collaborative project.
Coordinate terms: word: demigod
english: Southeast Asian, Hindu-Buddhist divine monarch
translation: Southeast Asian, Hindu-Buddhist divine monarch
word: devaraja
english: Chinese divine monarch
translation: Chinese divine monarch
word: Son of Heaven
word: arahitogami
english: Japanese divine monarch
translation: Japanese divine monarch
word: God-Emperor
bilirubinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilirubinurias
Etymology: From bilirubin + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the presence of bilirubin in the urine; often a symptom of liver disease
Related terms: liver function test
liver function test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liver function tests
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: any of several biochemical blood assays designed to give information on the state of a patient's liver; include total protein, albumin, alanine transaminase, alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin
god king
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: god kings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of god-king.
molar concentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molar concentrations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the molarity of a solution
Synonyms: molarity
molality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molalities
Etymology: From molal + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the concentration of a substance in solution, expressed as the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent
Synonyms: molal concentration
Derived terms: osmolality
Related terms: molarity
normality
molal concentration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molal concentrations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the molality of a solution
Related terms: molar concentration
serie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: series
Etymology: Compare French série.
Senses: glosses: series
au naturel
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from French au naturel (literally “in the natural”).
Senses: glosses: Naturally.
glosses: In the plainest or simplest manner.
examples: text: Bella loved posing for the artist au naturel.
glosses: In the nude: in the naked state.
examples: text: “There's nary a pubic hair in sight in most porn,” wrote Cindy Gallop in Make Love Not Porn, “which puts a whole lot of grooming pressure on women and is actually rather depressing for those men who like women au naturel.”
ref: 2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, Amberjack Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Having untrimmed pubic hair (especially of women).
examples: text: “Well, few of us are blessed with flawless complexions such as yours, so if you want to go au naturel, that's fine by me.”
ref: 2013, Laura Lascarso, Counting Backwards, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 134:
text: Why did some women eschew makeup? It seemed to be a recent trend for her. Had her religious fiancé requested she go au naturel?
ref: 2014, Daryl Wood Gerber, Stirring the Plot, Penguin, →ISBN, page 121:
text: With his old-fashioned views on gender roles, I imagine that it would take an act of God for him to even agree to be patted down with a powder puff to avoid shine on camera. It is my belief that he is au naturel.
ref: 2024 October 3, Katie Berohn, Kathleen Hou, quoting Troy Surratt, “But Really, Is JD Vance Wearing Eyeliner?”, in Elle:
glosses: Without makeup and with one's natural hair color.
Related terms: natural
naturism
normality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːˈmæl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /nɔɹˈmæl.ə.ti/
ipa: [nɔɹˈmæl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /noːˈmæl.ə.ti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: normalities
Etymology: From normal + -ity, perhaps modelled on French normalité.
Senses: examples: text: Jessie was going to wear pants to school, but her brother persuaded her to wear shorts to preserve normality.
glosses: The state of being normal or usual; normalcy.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The concentration of a solution expressed in gram equivalent weights of solute per litre of solution.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measure of how well an observed distribution approximates a normal distribution.
Synonyms: topics: state
word: normalcy
raw_tags: of being normal
word: everydayness
word: mundanity
word: normaldom
word: normalhood
word: normalism
word: normality
word: normalness
word: ordinariness
word: plainness
word: sameishness
word: unremarkableness
word: usuality
word: usualness
Hypernyms: word: uniformity
Hyponyms: word: conformity
word: commonness
word: frequency
word: oftenness
word: regularity
word: routine
Derived terms: conormality
creeping normality
heteronormality
hyponormality
malnormality
multinormality
nonnormality
normality bias
orthonormality
pseudonormality
seminormality
Related terms: word: molarity
word: molality
word: normal
criminalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: krĭ"mĭnəlīzā'shən
ipa: /ˌkɹɪmɪnəlaɪzˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: criminalizations
form: criminalisation
Etymology: From criminal + -ization or criminalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: And of course, s/m players who participate in breath play will also be more vulnerable to criminalization under such a new law.
ref: 2014, Ummni Khan, Vicarious Kinks: S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:
glosses: The act of making a previously legal activity illegal, the act of making something a criminal offence.
glosses: The act of turning someone into a criminal by making their activities illegal.
Hypernyms: legal reclassification
Hyponyms: felonization
misdemeanorization
Derived terms: recriminalization
undercriminalization
criminalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: criminalisations
Etymology: From criminal + -isation or criminalise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: “It is clear from our review that criminalisation of sex work normalises violence and reinforces gender, racial, economic and other inequalities.
ref: 2018 November 12, Sarah Boseley, “Criminalisation of sex work normalises violence, review finds”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of criminalization.
Derived terms: recriminalisation
GTMO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * (Guantanamo Bay): Abbreviation of Guantanamo.
Senses: glosses: Guantanamo Bay, the US naval base in the place of that name in Cuba.
Derived terms: sense: Guantanamo
word: Gitmo
Guantanamo Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: 'gwänʹtänämō ʹbā
ipa: /ˌɡwɑnˈtɑːnɑmoʊ ˈbeɪ/
Forms: form: Guantánamo Bay
Etymology: From Guantanamo + bay.
Borrowed from Spanish Guantánamo, from Taíno, literally "land between rivers."
Senses: glosses: A bay in Southeast Cuba.
glosses: A US naval base in South-East Cuba.
Synonyms: Guantánamo
Guantanamo
Derived terms: GTMO
Gitmo
genders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gender
genders
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gender
homologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɒməlɒɡ/
ipa: /ˈhɑːməlɑːɡ/
ipa: /ˈhoʊməlɑːɡ/
Forms: form: homologues
form: homolog
form: homologon
Etymology: Borrowed from French homologue. Ultimately from Ancient Greek ὁμόλογος (homólogos). By surface analysis, homo- + -logue.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of homolog.
Derived terms: gametologue
interhomologue
intrahomologue
pseudohomologue
vinylogue
DNA polymerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNA polymerases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that assists DNA replication.
Related terms: polymerase chain reaction
polymerase chain reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymerase chain reactions
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: A technique in molecular biology for creating multiple copies of DNA from a sample; used in genetic fingerprinting etc.
Synonyms: word: PCR
molar solution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molar solutions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a solution that contains one mole of solute per litre
Related terms: molarity
gram equivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gram equivalents
form: gramme equivalent
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the amount of a substance, in grams, that is numerically equivalent to its equivalent weight
equivalent weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equivalent weights
Senses: examples: text: In the proportion d : p :: 1 : v, as applied to any liquid or solid species, p does not represent its real equivalent weight, but the weight of the normal species which, by its condensation, gives rise to the liquid or solid.
ref: 1888, Thomas Sterry Hunt, A New Basis for Chemistry, page 149:
text: The equivalent weight of an element or compound is that weight equivalent in reactive power to one atomic weight of hydrogen.
ref: 1922, Leicester F. Hamilton, Calculations of Analytical Chemistry, page 38:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: equivalent mass
gram equivalent
glosses: The atomic weight of an element or radical divided by its valence; the molecular weight of a compound divided by its combining power in a specific reaction.
Related terms: molecular weight
molecular weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular weights
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The sum of the atomic weights of every atom in a molecule.
Synonyms: molecular mass
Related terms: equivalent weight
molecular mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular masses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mass of an individual molecule of an element or compound.
Synonyms: molecular weight
air time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air times
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of airtime.
ultratelluric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + telluric.
Senses: examples: text: […] among the Records stolen from the Gods were certain tablets of ultratelluric stone […]
ref: 2006, Lin Carter, Papyrus of the Dark Wisdom:
glosses: Coming from outside the Earth; extraterrestrial.
orogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈɹɒdʒɪni/
ipa: /əˈɹɒdʒɪni/
Forms: form: orogenies
Etymology: From French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- + -geny.
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: taphrogeny
text: The effects of Acadian orogeny are concentrated in central Newfoundland, decreasing in intensity to the east and west (Williams, this volume).
ref: 1993, P. A. Cawood, “Acadian orogeny in west Newfoundland: Definition, character, and significance”, in David C. Roy, James William Skehan, editors, The Acadian Orogeny: Recent Studies in New England, Geological Society of America, page 138:
text: When I asked Geoff Milnes what age the rocks were before they were turned into uncompromising gneisses by the Alpine orogeny he made a rueful face.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 102:
text: In Canada the fold-thrust belt formed during what is termed the Columbian orogeny (Monger and Price, 2002). Because the Sevier and Columbian orogenies were contemporaneous and constitute a single continuous and linear belt of rocks and structures, I use the term Cordillera orogeny to refer to the Cretaceous deformation that created the entire belt, whereas the term Laramide is used only to refer to a series of Late Cretaceous—Tertiary basement-involved uplifts, for the most part located in the Rocky Mountain foreland east of the fold-thrust belt and mainly south of the Lewis and Clark lineament (Fig. 1) in keeping with the original definition by Armstrong (1968).
ref: 2009, Robert S. Hildebrand, Did Westward Subduction Cause Cretaceous-Tertiary Orogeny in the North American Cordillera?, Geological Society of America, page 5:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: orogenesis
glosses: The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.
Derived terms: orogenic
orogenous
Related terms: orogen
orogenesis
perverted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more perverted
form: most perverted
Etymology: From pervert + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Deviating from what is normally considered right, normal or correct.
synonyms: word: pervy
word: perverty
glosses: Of, relating to, or practicing unusual or "kinky" sex.
glosses: Misrepresented, altered or distorted.
examples: text: The reflection of an object in a mirror image is a perverted image of the object.
ref: 1873, James Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise of Electricity and Magnetism, Clarendon Press:
text: The right hand may be considered the perverted image of the left.
ref: 1906, Henry Smith Carhart, Physics for University Students, page 232:
topics: sciences
glosses: Reversed in chirality; flipped.
Derived terms: nonperverted
pervalicious
pervertedly
pervertedness
unperverted
perverted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pervert + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pervert
Glagolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡlæɡəʊˈlɪtɪk/
ipa: /ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/
Forms: form: Glagolithic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin glagoliticus, from Old Church Slavonic глаголица (glagolica), from глаголъ (glagolŭ, “word, speech”), Glagolitic spelling ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ (glagolica).
Senses: examples: text: The Slavic, and Illyric language has two alphabets. The first is called Glagolitic…, and in our times, is only used in the sacred books.
ref: 1778, Alberto Fortis, Travels Into Dalmatia: Containing General Observations on the Natural History of that Country and the Neighboring Islands; the Natural Productions, Arts, Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, page 401:
glosses: Of or written with the Glagolitic alphabet.
examples: text: In the case of mixed marriages between a Glagolitic and Latin Catholic, the children follow the rite of the father; but there is an exception in favour of the eldest daughter of a Glagolitic family.
ref: 1861, John Mason Neale, Notes Ecclesiological & Picturesque, on Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria, Styria: With a Visit to Montenegro, page 98:
glosses: Denoting Slavic Roman Catholic rites in Dalmatia.
Synonyms: word: Hieronymian
word: Illyrian
word: Slovenish
Glagolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡlæɡəʊˈlɪtɪk/
ipa: /ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/
Forms: form: Glagolithic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin glagoliticus, from Old Church Slavonic глаголица (glagolica), from глаголъ (glagolŭ, “word, speech”), Glagolitic spelling ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ (glagolica).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The oldest known Slavonic alphabet, designed around 862–863 by Saint Cyril in order to translate the Bible and other texts into Old Church Slavonic. Mostly replaced by Cyrillic alphabet in Orthodox Christian Slavic countries, but still in use in the Croatian Church along the Dalmatian coast, in Czech and Croatian recensions of Church Slavic.
Synonyms: word: Bukvitsa
word: Glagolitic alphabet
word: Glagolitsa
word: Hieronymian
word: Illyrian
word: Slovenish
Related terms: Cyrillic
first blood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition in a duel in which the first one to draw blood from the other wins.
examples: text: Sayers won first blood by cutting Crouch's right eye, and the battle by knocking his man out with a nose-ender in 12 minutes 28 seconds, 6 rounds being fought.
ref: 1879, Ed James, The Lives and Battles of the Champions of England, page 39:
text: Rambo - They drew first blood, not me.
Trautman - Look Johnny, let me come in and get you the hell out of there!
Rambo - They drew first blood...
Trautman - Rambo, are you still reading me? Covey leader to Raven! Rambo! Acknowledge! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083944/quotes
text: Johnston, meanwhile, has managed to get within five miles of its target, and fires a full spread of ten torpedoes. Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano. First blood, unbelievably, therefore, goes to the Americans.
ref: 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 18:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: The first damage or reverse inflicted on an opponent in a conflict.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The first score in a competition.
Related terms: beat to the punch
flesh one's maiden sword
-ome
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ōm′
ipa: /ˌəʊm/
ipa: /ˌoʊm/
ipa: /ˌəʉm/
ipa: /ˌɐʉm/
ipa: /ˌom/
ipa: /ˌoːm/
Etymology: Alteration of -oma, from Ancient Greek -ωμα (-ōma).
Only partially cognate to -some (“body”), from σῶμα (sôma, “body”), in that both share the case ending -μα (-ma), but the ω is unrelated.
Senses: glosses: A mass of something.
Derived terms: biome
environome
exposome
genome
metabolome
metagenome
-omics
phenome
phyllome
proteome
transcriptome
-ome
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ōm′
ipa: /ˌəʊm/
ipa: /ˌoʊm/
ipa: /ˌəʉm/
ipa: /ˌɐʉm/
ipa: /ˌom/
ipa: /ˌoːm/
Etymology: Back-formation from mitome, reinforced by chromosome. Early examples include biome (1916) and genome, from German Genom (1920). Some association with genetics due to occurrence in chromosome and genome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The complete whole of a class of substances for a species or an individual.
Related terms: -omics
-some
scatomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scato- + -mancy.
Senses: synonyms: scatoscopy
glosses: divination by the examination of feces, especially of an animal
Related terms: scatology
spatalamancy
sejant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsi.dʒənt/
Forms: form: sejeant
Etymology: French séant, present participle of seoir (“to sit”). Doublet of sedent.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Seated, sitting.
Related terms: sejant rampant
Lord willing and the creek don't rise
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Statements of the form "God/Lord willing and (some other condition being met)" are ancient extensions of simple acceptance of God's will in phrases like God willing and Lord willing. "Creek" originated as a reference to creeks flooding and preventing travel, but is sometimes re-interpreted as a reference to the Creek tribe.
Senses: examples: text: Lord willing and the creek don't rise, we'll have that new barn finished in time for the harvest.
glosses: Barring unforeseen circumstances.
Synonyms: sense: barring unforeseen circumstances
word: God willing
sense: barring unforeseen circumstances
word: Lord willing
indisputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.dɪˈspjuː.tə.bəɫ/
ipa: /ˌɪn.dɪˈspju.tə.bəɫ/
Forms: form: more indisputable
form: most indisputable
form: undisputable
Etymology: From in- + disputable.
Senses: examples: text: Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.
ref: 1674, [Richard Allestree], “Of Positiveness”, in The Government of the Tongue. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Theater, →OCLC, page 197:
synonyms: inarguable
unarguable
unchallengeable
glosses: Not disputable; not open to question; obviously true
Derived terms: indisputableness
indisputably
Related terms: undeniable
irrefutable
inferior court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferior courts
Senses: glosses: Any court whose decisions can be appealed to a higher one.
Synonyms: lower court
Related terms: administrative court
circuit court
city administrative court
city court
commercial court
subordinate court
insectophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From insect + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Remembering her insectophobia I did not point out the amazing line of ants ferrying leaves up the wall.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal fear of insects.
Synonyms: entomophobia
Related terms: insectophobe
inferiority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: inferiorities
form: inferiourity
Etymology: Morphologically inferior + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being inferior.
glosses: An inferior value or quality.
glosses: An inferior power.
glosses: The quality of being a competitive disadvantage.
Synonyms: word: deteriority
word: inferiority
word: netherness
word: raunch
word: suckage
word: suckiness
word: worseness
Hypernyms: word: inequality
Hyponyms: word: commonalty
word: imperfection
word: subordinacy
Derived terms: comparative of inferiority
inferiority complex
noninferiority
superlative of inferiority
Related terms: word: badness
word: lowness
limitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more limitless
form: most limitless
Etymology: From limit + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The Penguin can also fairly be described as an HBO gangster drama whose antihero is a brutal but troubled mid-level Mafioso with limitless ambition and debilitating maternal issues.
ref: 2024 September 19, Judy Berman, “HBO’s The Penguin Is a Stylish, Dumbed-Down Trump Allegory That Speaks to TV’s Decline”, in Time:
synonyms: word: unlimited
word: boundless
word: bottomless
word: boundless
word: endless
word: infinite
word: limitless
word: unbottomed
word: unbounded
word: unlimited
word: universal
antonyms: limited
finite
glosses: Without limits in extent, size, or quantity.
Derived terms: limitlessly
limitlessness
unlimitless