cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ceilidhs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceilidh
ceilidhs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ceilidh
miss the boat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misses the boat
form: missing the boat
form: missed the boat
form: missed the boat
Etymology: Allusion to failing to catch a boat in time, effectively “missing” the boat. Popular since the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: The price discount ended yesterday and I just missed the boat on a great deal.
text: As for food delivery technology, our company missed the boat, the harbor, and the ocean.
glosses: To fail to take advantage of an opportunity; to overlook or be too late to pursue an option or course of action.
Synonyms: that ship has sailed
miss out
pull up one's socks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pulls up one's socks
form: pulling up one's socks
form: pulled up one's socks
form: pulled up one's socks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pull one's socks up.
raisons d'etre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raison d'etre
suck face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sucks face
form: sucking face
form: sucked face
form: sucked face
Senses: examples: text: We would wrap our arms around each other and suck face like orangutans in his little red Fiero.
ref: 2000 June 22, Yasmin McEwen, “Not just a number”, in Daily Nebraskan:
glosses: To kiss, especially deeply and for a prolonged time.
ground rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ground rules
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A rule regarding play on a specific field, course, or court.
examples: text: Make sure everybody knows the ground rules for the trip before they leave.
text: The apparent success of the City and South London triggered an avalanche of bills for Tube railways, and in 1892 a Joint Select Committee of Parliament set out some ground rules.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 109:
glosses: The basic rules or standards; basic principles.
with respect to
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: WRT
Senses: synonyms: anent
as regards
in respect of
in terms of
with regard to
glosses: Regarding; concerning; pertaining to.
examples: text: To calculate acceleration, you need to differentiate velocity with respect to time.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Taking as the independent variable.
innovativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From innovative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being innovative.
mulches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mulch
mulches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mulch
overtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtime
overtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtime
headways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headway
golds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊldz/
ipa: /ɡɔʊldz/
enpr: gōldz
ipa: /ɡoʊldz/
rhymes: -əʊldz
Senses: glosses: plural of gold
golds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəʊldz/
ipa: /ɡɔʊldz/
enpr: gōldz
ipa: /ɡoʊldz/
rhymes: -əʊldz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gold
tzitzit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tzitziot
form: tzitzis
form: tzitzith
form: tsitsith
form: tsitsit
form: zizit
Etymology: Form the Hebrew צִיצִית.
Senses: glosses: The knotted fringes of the tallit.
helling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hell
dot the i's and cross the t's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɒt ði ˈaɪz ən ˌkɹɒs ðə ˈtiːz/
ipa: /ˌdɑt ði ˈaɪz ən ˌkɹɔs ðə ˈtiz/
ipa: /ˌdɔt ðɘ ˈɒez ɘn ˌkɹɔs ðɘ ˈtɘiz/
Forms: form: dots the i's and crosses the t's
form: dotting the i's and crossing the t's
form: dotted the i's and crossed the t's
form: dotted the i's and crossed the t's
form: dot the i's
form: dot one's i's and cross one's t's
form: cross the t's and dot the i's
form: cross the i's and dot the t's
Etymology: In reference to cursive (joined up) writing, where adding the dot to the letter i and the crossbar to the letter t is done after one reaches the end of the word and thus may be forgotten if one is not being careful.
Senses: examples: text: Before taking the project to the CEO, let's make sure we dot the i's and cross the t's.
text: 1858, United States Congress, Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, D. Appleton, page 387; from a January 1820 debate
Pray, sir, what is the object of referring a bill to a committee —merely to dot the i's and cross the t's?
glosses: To take care of every detail, even minor ones; to be meticulous or thorough; to finish off something close to complete.
Related terms: i-dotter
i-dotting
cross someone's T
jot and tittle
mind one's p's and q's
ciders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cider
e-mails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of e-mail
cacaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cacao
sizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sizzle
sizzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sizzle
sizzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sizzle
clubbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklʌbɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of clubbing
straight edges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of straight edge
passes away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass away
passing away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass away
capitalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitalism
tautologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tautology
spammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spam
capacitances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capacitance
marxisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marxism
wisen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wisens
form: wisening
form: wisened
form: wisened
Etymology: From wise + -en.
Senses: glosses: To become wise or wiser.
examples: text: Joe laughed, saying, “Boy, I got to talk to you and wisen you up. […]”
ref: 2016, Danny Barker, Alyn Shipton, A Life in Jazz, page 92:
glosses: To make wise or wiser.
harden someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hardens someone's heart
form: hardening someone's heart
form: hardened someone's heart
form: hardened someone's heart
Senses: examples: text: Seeing so much suffering for so long hardened his heart.
text: She hardened her heart against his inevitable pleas.
text: And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt. But Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments.
ref: 1611, Authorized King James translation of Exodus 7:3–4
text: Farrell had been to prison, and he thought the daily malignancy he had witnessed there had hardened his heart.
ref: 1998, Michael S. Ledwidge, The narrowback:
glosses: To make someone more resistant to something.
the buck stops here
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Popularized by US President Harry Truman. The phrase is based on the metaphorical expression passing the buck, derived from poker gameplay, that came to mean "passing blame", or absolving oneself of responsibility or concern by denying authority or jurisdiction over a given matter.
Senses: examples: text: Well, nobody else can make a decision but me because I was the President and the final decision comes to the President, you know. I used to have a sign on my desk that said, "The Buck Stops Here." The buck stops at the president's desk when he's president of the United States, and he either makes the decisions or he lets them go by default, and you can't afford to do that when you're president.
ref: 1965, Harry S. Truman, 0:20 from the start, in MP2002-401 Former President Truman Discusses "The Buck Stops Here", Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:
text: 1994 January 25, William J. Clinton, State of the Union Address, 2004 Gutenberg eBook,
If you will stick with this plan, we will post three consecutive years of declining deficits for the first time since Harry Truman lived in the White House. And once again, the buck stops here.
glosses: A statement that no excuses will be made, that the speaker is going to take direct responsibility for matters, rather than pass the responsibility to higher authorities.
Related terms: pass the buck
ab aeterno
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæb iˈtɚ.noʊ/
ipa: /ˌɑb ˌaɪˈtɚ.noʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin ab aeternō.
Senses: glosses: From time immemorial; from an infinitely remote point in the past.
ablings
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.blɪnz/
Forms: form: ablins
Etymology: Northern formation, from able + -lings.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aiblins.
testudineous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testudineous
form: most testudineous
form: testudinous
Etymology: From Latin testūdō + -in- + -eous.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a tortoise, or the shell of a tortoise.
glosses: As slow as a tortoise.
toyi-toyi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toyi-toyis
Etymology: Seemingly from Northern Ndebele [Term?], but the ultimate origin is unclear.
Senses: glosses: A dance from southern Africa, used especially during political protests.
toyi-toyi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toyi-toyis
form: toyi-toying
form: toyi-toyied
form: toyi-toyied
Etymology: Seemingly from Northern Ndebele [Term?], but the ultimate origin is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e stood with his back against the chanting, toyi-toying boys, arms outstretched as a shield before them: the sergeant strangely distracted by the old authority enacted the same stance, but to hold his men back.
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 30:
text: They are kids who get caught up in the excitement, hysteria of the period. You know, toyi-toying and hurling stones, and they are arrested and sentenced to a minimum five years on Robben Island.
ref: 2017, Matthew Hahn, The Robben Island Shakespeare:
glosses: To perform this dance.
howzit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Contraction of how is it?
In South Africa, possibly a calque of Flemish Dutch hoe is 't?.
Senses: glosses: Hello; what's up?
ketyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ketyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of organic radicals, R₂C-O^., formally derived from a ketone
Derived terms: metalloketyl
struthious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹuːθiəs/
Forms: form: more struthious
form: most struthious
Etymology: From Latin strūthiō (“ostrich”) + -ous (“relating to”).
Senses: examples: ref: 1931, Percy R. Lowe, Struthious Remains from Northern China and Mongolia with Descriptions of Struthio Wimani, Struthio Anderssoni and Struthio Mongolicus, Spp. Nov, Geological Survey of China:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: like an ostrich or other ratite
gas bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas bars
Senses: glosses: A filling station.
fueling station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fueling stations
form: fuelling station
Senses: glosses: filling station
fuelling station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuelling stations
form: fueling station
Senses: glosses: filling station
petrol filling station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrol filling stations
Senses: synonyms: word: petrol station
word: filling station
word: fuel provider
word: fuel station
word: fuel supplier
word: fueling station
word: fuelling station
word: garage
word: gas bar
word: gas station
word: gasoline stand
word: gasoline station
word: motor station
word: petrol filling station
word: petrol pump
word: petrol garage
word: petrol station
word: service station
word: servo
word: vehicle station
glosses: A filling station, especially one attached to a supermarket.
petrol garage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrol garages
Senses: glosses: garage, petrol station
fuel station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuel stations
Senses: glosses: A filling station.
Synonyms: filling station
motor station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motor stations
Senses: glosses: filling station
chloralkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the industrial electrolysis of sodium hydroxide, especially to the main products, sodium hydroxide and chlorine
cholesteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cholesteric
form: most cholesteric
Etymology: From cholesterol, in whose crystals it was first observed, + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or relating to the chiral nematic phase of some liquid crystals in which the molecules are arranged in parallel planes with adjacent planes rotated slightly
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to cholesteric acid or its derivatives
Related terms: cholesterate
nematic
smectic
cholesteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cholesterics
Etymology: From cholesterol, in whose crystals it was first observed, + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Any compound that forms such a liquid crystal
colligative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin colligātus (“bound together”) + -ive. Coined by Wilhelm Ostwald in 1891.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any property that depends only on the number of molecules present.
wikipedia: Wilhelm Ostwald
Derived terms: colligatively
colligative property
noncolligative
Related terms: colligate
colligation
just as well
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: It's just as well you missed the train: it ended up crashing.
text: Nothing is produced at Sellafield any more. Which was just as well, because I’d gone to Sellafield not to observe how it lived but to understand how it is preparing for its end.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
text: 2007, Nov 30, Tomas Alex Tizon, in The LA Times, America's taxi capital: Bethel, Alaska.
There are 16 female cabdrivers in town, most of them Koreans with limited English skills. Which is just as well, says Alla Tinker, because they don't want to understand much of what their male customers say.
text: Marshall stepped away from the conversation, and it was just as well. It could only have gotten hotter from that point
ref: 1986, Frank E. Peretti, This Present Darkness, page 31:
text: Brilliant mind, thought Geller. Absolutely brilliant. It's probably just as well. Imagine a countenance like that without a mind to offset it.
ref: 1989, Mike Resnick, Balance:
glosses: Used to say that an occurrence, or situation, is not only fortunate, but that on the contrary, it could have been a lot worse; or that something that might at first seem bad is actually good because it could have been worse.
examples: text: A paper cup will do (us) just as well.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see just, as well, as, well.
missingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mĭsʹ-ing-nəs
ipa: /ˈmɪs.ɪŋ.nəs/
ipa: /-nɪs/
ipa: /-nɛs/
rhymes: -ɪsɪŋnəs
Etymology: From missing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So far, we assume that he took the rifle from the cabinet to throw blame by its missingness — I mean, its absence — on some one else.
ref: 1931, Vernon Loder, Death of an Editor, page 236:
text: However, in examining the influences on Merton, there is one major influence which is missing, and its 'missingness' is illustrated by one quotation in which Merton describes the relationship between […]
ref: 1988, Theology, volume 91, page 467:
text: That is, feelings of missingness and hurt — the usual interpretation of Wound — being lopsided perceptions, each contain the tacit feeling that the opposite can exist on its own.
ref: 2002, Martin Lass, Mirror, Mirror, Body and Mind - The Physiological and Psychological Journey, page 39:
glosses: Absence.
glosses: Missing data; omission.
examples: text: In large scale surveys the assumption of missingness at random is untenable.
ref: 1992, Arijit Chaudhuri, Horst Stenger, Survey Sampling: Theory and Methods, page 282:
text: These methods are very sensitive to assumptions made about the missingness mechanism or about the distributions of the variables with missing data.
ref: 2002, Paul D. Allison, Missing Data, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 86:
text: Some imputation models require the data to have a certain distribution of their missing values, their missingness pattern.
ref: 2006, Mamdouh Refaat, Data Preparation for Data Mining Using SAS, page 180:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The manner in which data are missing from a sample of a population.
zeunerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zeunerites
Etymology: After German physicist Gustav Anton Zeuner (1828-1907) in 1872.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with tetragonal crystals, of the autunite group, Cu²⁺(UO₂)₂(AsO₄)₂·4H₂O.
Kingdom of Heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Heaven
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English kingdom of hevene, kingdom of hevenes, a calque of Ancient Greek Βασιλεία τῶν Οὐρανῶν (Basileía tôn Ouranôn), from the Gospel of Matthew.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A concept of heaven as a hierarchical dominion with God at the top and a court of saints, archangels and angels.
glosses: The place where God rules and reigns.
Synonyms: Kingdom of God
Reign of God
Related terms: King of Kings
Prince of Peace
Christendom
termen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: termens
Etymology: From Latin termen.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer edge of the wing of a butterfly or moth, joining the apex to the tornus.
Mencius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Mencius, from Mandarin Chinese 孟子 (Mèngzǐ).
Senses: examples: text: This laſt tome, notwithſtanding, is not ſo much the work of Confucius, as of Mencius his diſciple, whoſe life was leſs regular than that of his maſter, but his ſtile more eloquent and pleaſant.
ref: 1738, Lewis Le Comte, Memoirs and Remarks, London: John Hughs, page 191:
text: Some 2000 years ago Chinese philosopher Mencius famously wrote: "Who wins the hearts of people gains the whole world." Today, his words still ring true.
ref: 2016 June 17, Hao Gui, “Chinese media: Attack to defend”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2016:
glosses: Chinese philosopher, follower of Confucius (?372 - 289 B.C.E., or 385 - 303/302 B.C.E.)
glosses: A collection of anecdotes and conversations of the philosopher by the same name.
Synonyms: Mengzi
Related terms: sense: Other Chinese philosophers; Confucius
roman: Kǒngzǐ
word: 孔子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers; Confucius
roman: Kōshi
word: 孔子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Guǐgǔzǐ
word: 鬼谷子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Kikokushi
word: 鬼谷子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Lǎozǐ
word: 老子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Rōshi
word: 老子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Mòzǐ
word: 墨子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Bokushi
word: 墨子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Sūnzǐ
word: 孫子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Sūnzǐ
word: 孙子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Sonshi
word: 孫子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Xúnzǐ
word: 荀子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Junshi
word: 荀子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Zhuāngzi
word: 莊子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Zhuāngzi
word: 庄子
sense: Other Chinese philosophers
roman: Sōshi
word: 荘子
formulaically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From formulaic + -ally (“adverb”).
Senses: glosses: In a formulaic manner; according to an established formula.
IAW
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Log note: 2005-09-03: Inspected IAW section 14.2.1; no violations found.
topics: business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of in accordance with.
cryoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From cryo- + -scopic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: of or pertaining to cryoscopy; determined using a cryoscope
adultly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adultly
form: most adultly
Etymology: From adult + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Can't we all sit down and discuss this adultly, without the childish name-calling?
text: Jerry smiled adultly, shook his head wisely and said softly, ‘That doesn’t matter.’
ref: 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 22:
glosses: In an adult manner; not childishly.
posttest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posttests
Etymology: From post- + test.
Senses: glosses: A test given after an event or experience.
Related terms: pretest
advertently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From advertent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: intentionally, on purpose, purposely
Related terms: advertent
chromophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chromophore + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a chromophore
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Coloured
Derived terms: bichromophoric
dichromophoric
interchromophoric
intrachromophoric
multichromophoric
thunderheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thunderhead
shoot the moon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots the moon
form: shooting the moon
form: shot the moon
form: shot the moon
Senses: examples: text: The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets.
ref: 1958 December 15, “Juno's Gold Cone”, in Time:
glosses: To hit the moon, with a rocket or by other means.
examples: text: Already orbiting at altitudes unimaginable a few short years ago, interest rates moved even higher last week and threatened to shoot the moon.
ref: 1981 May 18, John DeMott, “Sky-High Interest Rates”, in Time:
glosses: To attain great heights, a high value, or a numerically high measurement.
examples: text: In our last hand of pinochle, Leon and Janet shot the moon, taking all 50 tricks.
text: When Randy took the queen of spades on the last trick in our game of hearts, he shot the moon.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To achieve the lowest or highest score possible, such that the player is usually rewarded with bonus points.
examples: text: So that is how the old rascal shot the moon. He is off on blue water by this time with his whole outfit, and will come back with a fortune. The landlord won't grumble, because Schoolbred must pay his rent, […]
ref: 1908, Bram Stoker, A Moon-Light Effect:
text: Perhaps it was Powlett's memory of Boswell's charm that caused him, when he shot the moon and moved to France to escape creditors, to take with him his father-in-law's papers.
ref: 1950, Christopher Morley, Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 (Preface):
glosses: To abscond without paying one's rent.
Related terms: moon shot
grand slam
onwards and upwards
over the moon
play to win
shoot for the stars
the sky is the limit
odd man out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odd men out
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odd one out.
synonyms: odd man wins
glosses: A street or public-house game with three or more players. Each tosses a coin, and if only one player gets heads or tails, that player loses.
Related terms: Tommy Dodd
anomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒm.ɪk/
ipa: /əˈnəʊ.mɪk/
ipa: /əˈnɑm.ɪk/
ipa: /əˈnoʊ.mɪk/
Forms: form: more anomic
form: most anomic
Etymology: Related to anomia.
Senses: examples: text: When these patients are asked to say aloud the name of an object in a drawing (like a broom), it is common for them to fall into an anomic state in which they cannot recover the name of the object, although they know perfectly well what object is represented in the drawing.
ref: 2019, Albert Costa, translated by John W. Schwieter, The Bilingual Brain, Penguin, published 2021, page 35:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Characterized by or pertaining to anomia (the inability to remember names).
anomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɒm.ɪk/
ipa: /əˈnəʊ.mɪk/
ipa: /əˈnɑm.ɪk/
ipa: /əˈnoʊ.mɪk/
Forms: form: more anomic
form: most anomic
Etymology: From anomie + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Anglo-Indians (Eurasians) ceased to be counted as a separate category although we know from other evidence that many of that community, beleaguered and anomic as they often felt themselves to be, remained in railroad service (Bear, 2007).
ref: 2012 August 3, John Hurd, Ian J. Kerr, India’s Railway History: A Research Handbook (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section Two: South Asia; 27), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 22:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Socially disorganized, disoriented or alienated.
Related terms: anomie
cadaverine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈdævəɹɪn/
Forms: form: cadaverines
form: cadaverin
Etymology: From Latin cadāver (“corpse”) + -ine, equivalent to cadaver + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Fragrant gasses such as cadaverine and putrescine are treated with a biofilter before being released.
ref: 2022 December 5, Caitlin Doughty, “If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: putrescine
glosses: A foul-smelling diamine produced by protein hydrolysis during putrefaction of animal tissue. Cadaverine is a toxic diamine with the formula NH₂(CH₂)₅NH₂.
Synonyms: alt: See pentanediamine.
word: 1,5-pentanediamine
word: pentamethylenediamine
denaturation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌnætʃəˈɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: denaturations
Etymology: From denature + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The deliberate addition of a noxious substance to alcohol to make it unfit to drink
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The change of folding structure of a protein (and thus of physical properties) caused by heating, changes in pH, or exposure to certain chemicals.
Derived terms: codenaturation
denaturational
electrodenaturation
predenaturation
thermodenaturation
putrescine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: putrescines
form: putrescin
form: putrescene
Etymology: From Latin pūtrēscō (“to rot”) + + -ine.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cadaverine
glosses: A diamine, NH₂(CH₂)₄NH₂ (1,4-diaminobutane or butanediamine), produced by the breakdown of amino acids in living and dead organisms.
Synonyms: tetramethylenediamine
deprotonation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deprotonations
Etymology: From de- + protonation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The removal of a proton (hydrogen ion) (better called a hydron, because it can occasionally be deuterium) from a molecule to form a conjugate base.
diphenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [daɪˈfiːnɒɫ]
Forms: form: diphenols
Etymology: From di- + phenol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has two phenol groups; especially the isomeric benzenediols (catechol, resorcinol and hydroquinone).
benzenediol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzenediols
Etymology: From benzene + diol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the isomeric diphenols derived from benzene (namely catechol, resorcinol and hydroquinone), or their derivatives.
surfatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.fəˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈsɝ.fəˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: surfatrons
Etymology: From surf + -tron, from the observation that the device causes an electron to ride wave crests of electric field to pick up speed as a surfer rides ocean wave crests.
Senses: examples: text: The discharge is obtained with a surfatron at 915 MHz in a fused silica or alumina tube at a maximum power of 700 W.
ref: 1999, M. Moisa, J. Hubert, J. Margot, Z. Zakrzewski, “The Development and Use of Surface-Wave Sustained Discharges for Applications”, in H Schlüter, A. Shivarova, editors, Advanced Technologies Based on Wave and Beam Generated Plasmas, page 51:
glosses: An electron accelerator that works on the principle of plasma acceleration.
yearns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yearn
decompresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decompress
decompressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decompress
decompressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decompress
policial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From police + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: [W]here the case is of importance—or, what amounts to the same thing in the policial eyes, when the reward is of magnitude, the qualities in question have never been known to fail.
ref: 1845, Edgar Allan Poe, The Purloined Letter:
glosses: Relating to the police.
snowtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowtimes
Etymology: From snow + time.
Senses: glosses: The time of year when the weather is snowy.
half shell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: half-shell
Senses: glosses: Inexpensive; not overpriced.
raw_tags: with "on the"
half shell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half shells
form: half-shell
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object.
glosses: Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams.
raw_tags: of food
with "on the"
Derived terms: on the half-shell
banditries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banditry
tellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telling
clichés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliché
clichés
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cliché
half shells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half shell
inking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ink
inking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkings
Senses: examples: text: In a rotary printing-machine, a cylinder carrying a single relief design, means for imparting successive complete inkings to said design […]
ref: 1900, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 175:
glosses: An application of ink.
glosses: Work done by an inker, one kind of commercial artist
glosses: Inputting text or drawings into a computer, tablet, or similar apparatus using a stylus.
examples: text: Mucus-rich ink is supposedly a dangerous or annoying substance that interferes with fish gills and some cephalopods react adversely to their own inkings in small containers or in the lab. The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in their ink but the concentrations and effect in inking are not known.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A defensive activity where ink is released by squids, cuttlefish, etc.
throw-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw-downs
Etymology: Deverbal from throw down; for more, see throwdown § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of throwdown.
plannings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplænɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of planning
transformative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv/
ipa: /tɹæns-/
ipa: /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/
ipa: [-ɾɪv]
Forms: form: more transformative
form: most transformative
Etymology: From Medieval Latin transformātīvus (“transformative”), from Latin trānsfōrmātus (“transformed”) + -īvus (suffix attached to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming deverbal adjectives meaning ‘doing or related to doing [the verb]’). Trānsfōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of trānsfōrmō (“to transform”), from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, format, shape”) (from fōrma (“appearance, figure, form, shape”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”)). The English word is analysable as transform + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: "You'll know the transformative effect that the Metro has had on the whole of Tyneside," says NCC [Northumberland County Council] leader Peter Jackson. "This new passenger line will have the same effect on southeast Northumberland. It's a transformative project and we're going to make sure it happens."
ref: 2019 November 6, Graeme Pickering, “New targets for Northumberland”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:
synonyms: transformatory
transmutative
antonyms: nontransformative
glosses: That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.
Derived terms: biotransformative
nontransformative
transformative action
transformative economics
transformative justice
transformative learning
transformatively
transformative planning
transformative research
transformativity
Related terms: word: transform
word: transformable
word: transformance
word: transformant
word: transformation
word: transformational
word: transformator
word: transformatory
word: transformed
word: transformer
word: transformerless
word: transforming
word: transformism
word: transformist
alpacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpaca
alleyways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæ.li.weɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of alleyway
unpronouncable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of unpronounceable.
hopings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoping
helpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛlpɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of helping
ulcerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ulcerative
form: most ulcerative
Etymology: From ulcerate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Composed of, or causing ulcers
Synonyms: english: as participial adjective
translation: as participial adjective
word: ulcerating
word: ulceratory
Derived terms: acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis
acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
acute ulcerative gingivitis
ulcerative colitis
ulcerative gingivitis
necrophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛˈkɹɒf.ə.ɡəs/
ipa: /nɛˈkɹɑ.fə.ɡəs/
Etymology: From necro- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: The body had been consumed by necrophagous insects.
glosses: That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
Derived terms: copronecrophagous
entomonecrophagous
sarconecrophagous
Related terms: necrophage
necrophagy
necrophagy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nɛˈkɹɒfəd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From necro- + -phagy.
Senses: glosses: The eating of dead or decaying animal flesh
Derived terms: entomonecrophagy
sarconecrophagy
Related terms: necrophagan
necrophage
necrophagous
ebullioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ēbulliō + -scopy.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the measurement of the boiling point of liquids
Related terms: ebullioscope
ebullioscopic
ebullioscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ebullioscopy.
glosses: Measured using an ebullioscope.
Derived terms: ebullioscopically
ebullioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ebullioscopes
Etymology: From Latin ēbullīre + -scope.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An instrument used to measure the boiling point of liquids
Related terms: ebullioscopic
ebullioscopy
forcings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forcing
failings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of failing
desirings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desiring
connives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of connive
cothurnus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cothurni
form: cothurn
form: kothornos
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cothurnus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek κόθορνος (kóthornos).
Senses: glosses: A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
examples: text: Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus.
ref: 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410
glosses: The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy.
Derived terms: cothurnal
hungrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hungry: more hungry
subjugates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subjugate
subjugating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subjugate
orderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ordering
strivings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of striving
writedowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writedown
reshelved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: George reshelved the books.
glosses: past participle of reshelve
guignol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guignols
Senses: glosses: A traditional French puppet theater.
Related terms: Grand Guignol
write-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of write-off
pigeonhole principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeonhole principles
Etymology: From the commonly used expository example that if n+1 pigeons are placed in n pigeonholes, at least one pigeonhole must contain two (or more) pigeons.
Senses: examples: text: The pigeonhole principle is usually stated as follows.
(16.43) If more than n pigeons are placed in n holes, at least one hole will contain more than one pigeon.
The pigeonhole principle is obvious, and one may wonder what it has to do with computer science or mathematics.
ref: 1993, David Gries, Fred B. Schneider, A Logical Approach to Discrete Math, Springer, page 355:
text: 1. κ is a regular cardinal.
2. If we put κ pigeons into λ < κ pigeonholes, then some pigeonhole must contain κ pigeons.
ref: 2009, John Harris, Jeffry L. Hirst, Michael Mossinghoff, Combinatorics and Graph Theory, Springer, page 313, Of course our list of pigeonhole principles is not all inclusive. For example, more set theoretic pigeonhole principles are given in [72]. Corollary 3.31 (Ultimate Pigeonhole Principle). The following are equivalent
text: 2012, Dov M. Gabbay, Akihiro Kanamori, John Woods (editors), Handbook of the History of Logic: Volume 6: Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century, Elevier (North-Holland), page 325,
As we turn to look at various pigeonhole principles and how they are used to prove partition theorems, particularly for pairs, we keep in mind the slogan that is embedded in the Motzkin quote: complete disorder is impossible.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The theorem which states that any partition of a finite set of n elements into m (< n) subsets (allowing empty subsets) must include a subset with two or more elements; any of certain reformulations concerning the partition of infinite sets where the cardinality of the unpartitioned set exceeds that of the partition (so there is no one-to-one correspondence).
Synonyms: sense: theorem limiting size of codomains
word: Dirichlet's box principle
sense: theorem limiting size of codomains
word: Dirichlet's drawer principle
Ynez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish, a less common spelling of Inez.
movings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moving
whitenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitening
wearier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of weary: more weary
weariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of weary: most weary
wearies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of weary
weakenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weakening
wavings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waving
shadow play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadow plays
form: shadowplay
Etymology: From shadow + play.
Senses: examples: text: The project invokes aesthetics particularly associated with children: play, craft, and amateurism. Indeed, especially in segments that employ elements such as a spotlight and shadowplay, Green Porno is reminiscent of an elementary-school pageant.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 86:
synonyms: shadow puppetry
qualifier: hand games
glosses: An ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque, often articulated figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images.
glosses: A play of this form.
shadowplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadowplays
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shadow play.
Elysian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪz.i.ən/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪʒ.ən/
ipa: /ɪˈli.ʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
rhymes: -iːʒən
Etymology: From Latin Elysium (from Ancient Greek Ἠλύσιον (Ēlúsion, “Elysium; one of the Elysian Fields”)) + -an (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Elysium (“the home of the blessed after death”).
Elysian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɪz.i.ən/
ipa: /ɪˈlɪʒ.ən/
ipa: /ɪˈli.ʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
rhymes: -iːʒən
Forms: form: Elysians
Etymology: From Latin Elysium (from Ancient Greek Ἠλύσιον (Ēlúsion, “Elysium; one of the Elysian Fields”)) + -an (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the mythological Elysium.
morish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morish
form: most morish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of moreish.
messaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: messagings
Etymology: From message + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Excited by all kinds of messagings, informings and insinuations, the imperious Prince, in spite of his secret pleasure in this sudden renown of his Pupil, could in no wise be persuaded to revoke or soften his harsh Order, […]
ref: 1872, [Ernst Julius] Saupe, Thomas Carlyle, transl., “[Supplement of 1872.] Saupe’s ‘Schiller and His Father’s Household.’ I. The Father.”, in The Life of Friedrich Schiller: […] (Thomas Carlyle’s Collected Works), 2nd edition, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1873, →OCLC, page 198:
glosses: gerund of message: the transmission of messages.
Derived terms: instant messaging
messaging pattern
mismessaging
picture messaging
telemessaging
texting
text messaging
messaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From message + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of message
messaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of message
abanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abanets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of abnet.
embarge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əmˈbɑɹd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əmˈbɑːdʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: embarges
form: embarging
form: embarged
form: embarged
Etymology: From Spanish embargar 'to arrest' and English barge 'to force'.
Senses: glosses: To put in a barge.
examples: text: [...] where the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and their attendants take barge; also the Grocers Company do likewise embarge, [...].
ref: 1843, Frederick William Fairholt, Lord Mayors' Pageants, page 152:
glosses: To board a barge; to embark.
Synonyms: impose
embarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əmˈbɑɹd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əmˈbɑːdʒ/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: embarges
Etymology: From Spanish embargar 'to arrest' and English barge 'to force'.
Senses: examples: text: This embarge is termed a moral one because it imposes no legal restraints upon would-be exporters, for there are no statutes providing for this.
ref: 1979, Westel Woodbury Willoughby, Japan's Case Examined, page 174:
glosses: An embargo.