cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
arborator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborators
Etymology: Latin, from arbor (“tree”).
Senses: examples: text: In the time of this work , our ingenious Arborator should frequently incorporate , mingle , and unite the arins and branches of some young and Mexible trees
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A person who plants, prunes and takes care of trees
root out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: roots out
form: rooting out
form: rooted out
form: rooted out
Etymology: From the notion of eradication: ripping something out by the roots.
Senses: examples: text: They rooted out all vestiges of corruption.
text: They rooted out all the burdock from their paddocks.
synonyms: root up
uproot
eradicate
deracinate
extirpate
glosses: To remove or abolish completely.
examples: text: Near-synonym: suss out
text: It took them hours to root out exactly where the water was coming in.
coordinate_terms: sort out
figure out
straighten out
glosses: To search for and discover.
Related terms: root and branch
reputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repute
A-cup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That A-cup bra might fit better.
glosses: Sized so as to fit an A cup.
Derived terms: A-cupper
A cups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A cup
chantage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɒnˈtɑːʒ/
ipa: /ˈʃɒn.tɑːʒ/
ipa: /ʃɑnˈtɑʒ/
ipa: /ˈʃɑn.tɑʒ/
rhymes: -ɑːʒ
Forms: form: chantages
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French chantage.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of blackmail.
synonyms: word: blackmail
freshling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fresh + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: There comes the gentle steps of spring / So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing / Fanning the freshling hedges there
ref: 1832-1837, John Clare, “O quiet living solitude”, in Poems of the Middle Period, →ISBN, page 52:
text: He blundered through the lighted stretch of fresh strewn hours, / Nor looked to profit at glad life in freshling flowers
ref: 1907, Vernon Wade Wagar, Pocket Tokens, and Other Poems, page 20:
glosses: freshly grown
freshling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freshlings
Etymology: From fresh + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Mere freshlings are they, blank of brow, / Who read not how / Its prime had passed before / Their raw equipments, scenes, and says / Afflicted its memoried face, / That had seen every larger phase / Of human ways / Before these filled the place.
ref: 1922, Thomas Hardy, “A House with a History”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier:
glosses: An inexperienced person; a neophyte.
Related terms: freshle
freshman
youngling
methink
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of methinks.
BFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbiː.ɛfˈɛf/
Forms: form: BFFs
form: bff
Senses: examples: text: Put a pub crawl together with your BFFs, do sake bombs while you wail your heart out at a karaoke bar, play some sloshball with your friends in the park.
ref: 2013, Melissa Bolton-Klinger, Jayan Kalathil, Generation Change:
glosses: Initialism of best friend forever.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of backend for frontend.
Related terms: english: best friend for life
translation: best friend for life
word: BFFL
TT4N
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ta ta for now.
Synonyms: TTFN
clarifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɛɹəfaɪɚ/
Forms: form: clarifiers
Etymology: From clarify + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is as a pioneer and “land clearer” that we know Martin-Löf – one of the principal clarifiers of the syntax and semantics of constructive mathematics.
ref: 2012 -, P. Dybjer, Sten Lindström, Erik Palmgren, Epistemology versus Ontology, →ISBN:
glosses: One who, or that which, clarifies.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A speech act intended to clarify or correct one's own prior utterance.
examples: text: the purer the sugar, when placed in the clarifier, the less lime water or blood, or temper of any kind — the less time in clarifying — and the more active vigilance at the clarifier — and the more activity also in transferring the liquor from the evaporator into the cooler will be requisite.
ref: 1833, Benjamin Silliman, Manual on the Cultivation of the Sugar Cane:
glosses: A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted.
examples: text: […] if any card in the spread puzzles you, you can pull another card from the deck as a clarifier.
ref: 2004, Barbara Moore, What Tarot Can Do for You: Your Future in the Cards, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 20:
topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An additional card used to enhance or explain the primary cards in a spread.
ambiguate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ambiguates
form: ambiguating
form: ambiguated
form: ambiguated
Etymology: Stem of ambiguous (Latin ambiguus) + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: Marvell is as careful here to ambiguate the nature of his poem's speaker as he was in presenting the 'forward youth' of the 'Horatian Ode'.
ref: 1993, Thomas N. Corns, The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell:
text: Devlin's writings had fragmented the conservative position by conflating harm and morality, and had significantly ambiguated the conception of harm at the heart of the debate.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 7, in Illusion of Order:
text: To ambiguate Jung means to read his texts as ambiguous, even when the statements they contain appear superficially unambiguous.
ref: 2013, Jean Kirsch, Murray Stein, How and Why We Still Read Jung: Personal and professional reflections:
text: Immediately then Socrates will give counterexamples to this definition, ambiguating the definition. Laches will define courage as standing firm in battle. Socrates will ask about whether a person can be courageous in sickness, in business, […]
ref: 2016, Richard Gilmore, Searching for Wisdom in Movies:
glosses: To make more ambiguous.
Synonyms: complicate
confuse
Derived terms: ambiguation
ambiguator
ambiguation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambiguations
Etymology: Stem of ambiguous (from Latin ambiguus) with suffix -ation.
Senses: glosses: act of ambiguating
amphipod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ămˈ -fĭ-pŏd
ipa: /ˈam.fɪ.pɑd/
ipa: /ˈam.fɪ.pɒd/
Forms: form: amphipods
Etymology: From translingual Amphipoda.
Senses: examples: text: 1905, Mabel Elizabeth Smallwood, The Salt-marsh Amphipod: Orchestia Palustris, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, page 18,
Most of these are quite large, made by the small marsh mammals, but some are small and seem to be much used by the amphipods.
text: Laboratory feeding assays employing the common antarctic planktivorous fish Pagothenia borchgrevinki demonstrated that live amphipods are consumed by fish, while amphipod-sea butterfly pairs are consistently rejected.
ref: 2001, James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, Deborah K. Steinberg, “5: The Chemical Ecology of Invertebrate Meroplankton and Holoplankton”, in James B. McClintock, Bill J. Baker, editors, Marine Chemical Ecology, CRC Press, page 217:
text: We have managed just once, briefly, to send humans to that depth in a sturdy diving vessel, yet it is home to colonies of amphipods, a type of crustacean similar to shrimp but transparent, which survive without any protection at all.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 212:
glosses: Any species of the taxonomic order Amphipoda of small, shrimp-like crustaceans.
Derived terms: amphipodan
amphipodous
supergiant amphipod
amphipods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈam.fɪ.pɒdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of amphipod
Amsterdamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amsterdamers
Etymology: From Amsterdam + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Amsterdammer.
Amsterdamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amsterdamer
anonymization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anonymizations
form: anonymisation
Etymology: From anonymize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: This anonymization site is supposed to keep emails from being tracked back to you.
text: This institutional and research caution is partly due to the fact that oral data is harder to anonymise than written data, and partly in recognition of the fact that in the future anonymisation will become increasingly harder as the application of AI to speech recognition continues to improve.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11:
glosses: The act or process of making anonymous, of hiding or disguising identity.
Derived terms: deanonymization
Related terms: anonymizer
anonymizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anonymization
thimblerigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thimblerig
thimblerigs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of thimblerig
thimblerigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thimblerig
appositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appositional
form: most appositional
Etymology: From apposition + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to apposition.
Derived terms: appositionally
nonappositional
appositional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appositionals
Etymology: From apposition + -al.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A compound or construction with apposed elements.
appositionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more appositionally
form: most appositionally
Etymology: From appositional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an appositional manner.
exhaustless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exhaustless
form: most exhaustless
Etymology: From exhaust + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:
text: The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind; […]
ref: 1830, Anna Maria Porter, chapter X, in The Barony. […], volume III, London: […] [A[ndrew] & R[obert] Spottiswoode] for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], →OCLC, page 460:
antonyms: exhaustible
coordinate_terms: unexhausted
glosses: Unable to be exhausted; having an endless supply; inexhaustible.
examples: text: Near-synonym: nonpolluting
text: These obstacles preclude near-future solutions for exhaustless vehicles, or those having an exhaust with greatly reduced toxicity.
ref: 1969, Machine Design, volume 41, page 60:
text: We need an exhaustless automobile, a noiseless and versatile airplane. We need new methods of reducing and coping with wastes—radioactive, sewage, gaseous, and liquid.
ref: 1971, John R. Wish, Marketing and social issues: an action reader, John Wiley & Sons:
text: The car is at the same time the greatest producer of noise and the greatest polluter, and thus responsible for the rapidly accelerating debasement of the human environment. The long overdue noiseless and exhaustless automobile would ...
ref: 1973, Eckhard Schulze-Fielitz, Stadtsysteme, →ISBN:
text: After he had finished he drove it over to Newton and started parading back and forth in the exhaustless car in front of the Stanley plant. Not a single whisp of steam could be seen, exhausting out any exhaust pipe. In fact he had no exhaust pipe ...
ref: 1979, Cars and Parts, volume 22, page 13:
text: Trying to figure out the technology behind its operation—he had seen exhaustless vehicles in another Outline, apparently run on broadcast power ...
ref: 2014, Matthew Johnson, Irregular Verbs, ChiZine, →ISBN:
hypernyms: zero-emission
glosses: Not producing exhaust.
raw_tags: of an automobile or similar machine
Derived terms: exhaustlessly
exhaustlessness
Related terms: exhaust pipe
exhaust system
smokestack
tailpipe
approver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpɹuːvɚ/
Forms: form: approvers
Etymology: From approve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore, as when men wickedly swear they rend and tear God's name, and make him, as much as in them lies, the avoucher and approver of all their wickedness […]
ref: 1680, John Bunyan, Life and Death of Mr. Badman:
glosses: One who approves or gives approval.
topics: law
glosses: In English common law, a person who accuses a confederate; one who commits approvement.
Derived terms: turning approver
approvers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approver
apprisal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprisals
Etymology: From apprise + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of apprising, of making aware, of informing.
apprisals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apprisal
freshlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freshling
arrester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: arresters
form: arrestor
Etymology: From arrest + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who places another under arrest.
glosses: A device that stops or prevents, such as a railway buffer, or a spark arrester that prevents sparks from being released to start fires.
Derived terms: arrester bed
lightning arrester
spark arrester
Related terms: arrestee
arresters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrester
attonement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attonements
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of atonement.
henchwenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of henchwench
Daryush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian داریوش (“Darius”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Persian, a rare transliteration.
glosses: A rare surname of the same derivation.
riviera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɪviˈɛɹə/
ipa: /ɹɪvˈjɛɹə/
rhymes: -ɛɹə
Forms: form: rivieras
Etymology: From Italian riviera, from Old French riviere, from Latin riparius. Doublet of river and rivière.
Senses: glosses: Any coastal area popular with tourists.
wikipedia: riviera
Derived terms: French Riviera
Italian Riviera
Mexican Riviera
Riviera
Riviera di Levante
Spanish Riviera
Turkish Riviera
electrical conductance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrical conductances
Senses: glosses: A measure of how easily electricity flows along a certain path through an electrical element, and the real part of the reciprocal of electrical impedance.
Related terms: siemens
retine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: promine
glosses: The inhibiting agent in Szent-Györgyi's theory of cell division.
reremouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reremice
form: rearmouse
form: reermouse
Etymology: From Middle English reremous, from Old English hrēremūs, hrœ̄remūs (“bat”). Related to rear (“to move, shake, stir”).
Senses: examples: text: Argent, a reremouse sable,[…]
ref: 1923, Notes and Queries, page 299:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bat (flying mammal).
tholins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tholin
tholin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tholins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θολός (tholós, “muddy”) + -in. Coined by Carl Sagan and by Bishun Khare in 1979. From the muddy coloration that this class of chemical compounds appear to have, when observed on the Saturnian moon Titan, and from Miller–Urey-style experiments.
Senses: topics: astronomy
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several poorly classified heteropolymers derived from simple hydrocarbons and ammonia formed by solar irradiation in the atmospheres of icy planets and moons.
wikipedia: en:Miller–Urey experiment
opisthograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthographs
Etymology: From opistho- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: Any early document (such as a roll of papyrus) that has writing on the back as well as the front.
glosses: Any early book that has letterpress printing on both sides of the page.
Related terms: anopisthograph
opisthographic
attrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹaɪt/
Forms: form: attrites
form: attriting
form: attrited
form: attrited
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of attrit.
Derived terms: attriter
attrite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈtɹaɪt/
Forms: form: more attrite
form: most attrite
Etymology: From Latin attrītus (“ground”).
Senses: antonyms: contrite
glosses: Regretful of one's wrongdoing merely due to fear of punishment.
glosses: Worn by rubbing or friction.
Derived terms: attriteness
audit trail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audit trails
Senses: glosses: A formal, often computerized record or log of the financial transactions of an organization or system.
glosses: A similar record of other activities, such as actions taken by a computer system, or changes made to a document.
Related terms: data trail
paper trail
aeonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeonian
form: most aeonian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eonian.
eonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈoʊniən/
ipa: /iːˈəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: more eonian
form: most eonian
form: aeonian
form: æonian
form: aionian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἰώνιος (aiṓnios, “lasting for an age; perpetual; eternal”) + -an, the former from αἰών (aiṓn, “lifetime; aeon; age; generation”) (whence also eon, aeon) + -ιος (-ios, adjective suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an eon
examples: text: But I should turn mine ears and hear
The moanings of the homeless sea,
⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow
⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow
The dust of continents to be; […]
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: eon-long, everlasting
aeonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeonic
form: most aeonic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eonic..
eonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eonic
form: most eonic
form: aeonic
form: æonic
Etymology: From eon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: That lasts for an eon.
aeried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeried
form: most aeried
Etymology: From aerie + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having aeries
aerily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aerily
form: most aerily
Etymology: From aerial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aerial manner
glosses: atmospherically (all senses)
aerobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛː.rəʊb/
ipa: /ˈɛˌroʊb/
Forms: form: aerobes
Etymology: From French aérobie. By surface analysis, aero- + -obe.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
antonyms: anaerobe
glosses: Any organism (but especially a bacterium) that can tolerate the presence of oxygen, or that needs oxygen to survive.
Derived terms: nanoaerobe
Related terms: aerobic
aerobics
microbe
facultative
aerobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aerobium.
synonyms: word: aerobium
gus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gu
aesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːsˈθiːz.i.ə/
ipa: /ˌiːsˈθiːʒə/
ipa: /ˌəsˈθiːz.i.ə/
ipa: /ˌɛsˈθi.ʒə/
ipa: /ˌɛsˈθi.ʒi.ə/
ipa: /ˌəsˈθi.ʒə/
Forms: form: aesthesias
form: esthesia
form: æsthesia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἴσθησις (aísthēsis, “perception, sensing”) + -ia.
Senses: antonyms: anaesthesia
coordinate_terms: pseudaesthesia
glosses: The ability to perceive sensations.
Derived terms: acroaesthesia
cryptaesthesia
hypoaesthesia
pseudaesthesia
Related terms: anesthesia
cryesthesia
synaesthesia
telesthesia
algesia
analgesia
aetheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aetheric
form: most aetheric
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of etheric.
etheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iˈθɛɹ.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɛɹɪk
Forms: form: more etheric
form: most etheric
Etymology: From ether + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: "It is usually allowed that there is the natural body, as St. Paul called it, which is dissolved at death, and the etheric or spiritual body which survives and functions upon an etheric plane."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Most commonly spirit beings appear in their etheric bodies, but there are many accounts of these old sorcerers calling up spirits in their fleshly bodies[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 229:
text: In the etheric body of a yogini in meditation, the polarity is, therefore, not between the brain and the genitals, the second and sixth chakras, but between the inner sexuality of the womb and the heart.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 19:
related: word: aetheric
word: ætheric
synonyms: aethereal
ethereal
glosses: Of or pertaining to the ether (all-pervading medium); composed of ether; inhabiting the ether.
Derived terms: subetheric
affecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affecters
Etymology: From affect + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who affects to know something or to be something.
Related terms: affectation
affective
affection
affectionate
affirmably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more affirmably
form: most affirmably
Etymology: From affirmable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an affirmable manner
afflictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: more afflictive
form: most afflictive
Etymology: From afflict + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: But the euil of the paine or the punishment of sin, or any kynde of afflictiue aduersitie, is not (in it self) absolutely euil, or simply to be fled from or auoyded.
ref: 1576, George Gascoigne, The Droomme of Doomes Day, London: Gabriel Cawood, Part 2, Art. 15:
text: All this from Jove’s afflictive Hand we bear:
Who, far from Argos, wills our Ruin here.
ref: 1718, Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Volume 4, Book 14, p. 96:
text: 1847, Anne Brontë (as Acton Bell), Agnes Grey, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, Volume 3, Chapter 3, p. 54,
In my childhood I could not imagine a more afflictive punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible;
text: The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
ref: 1935, Marianne Moore, “Snakes, Mongooses, Snake Charmers, and the Like”, in Collected Poems, New York: Macmillan, published 1951, page 65:
text: […] in the days and weeks that passed, in absentia—or perhaps from a distance—he’d gradually filled my life, our lives, with his afflictive presence.
ref: 2015, Chigozie Obioma, chapter 8, in The Fishermen, Boston: Little, Brown:
glosses: That causes physical or mental pain.
Derived terms: afflictively
afflictively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more afflictively
form: most afflictively
Etymology: From afflictive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an afflictive manner
afterdischarge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterdischarges
Etymology: From after- + discharge.
Senses: glosses: Any discharge that occurs after the cause or stimulus has ceased
afterimpression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterimpressions
Etymology: From after- + impression.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of after-impression.
after-impression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-impressions
Senses: glosses: Any sensation that persists after the stimulus has ceased.
Related terms: afterimage
afterscent
aftersensation
aftersound
aftertaste
after-potential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-potentials
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of afterpotential.
afterpotential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterpotentials
Etymology: From after- + potential.
Senses: glosses: A small, transitory electrical potential that follows, and is dependent upon the main potential produced when a nerve is stimulated; seen as a small positive or negative spike on an oscillograph output.
genetic algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetic algorithms
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A search heuristic that is based on biological evolution.
gamma-ray burst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamma-ray bursts
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: GRB
glosses: A flash of gamma rays that seem to originate from a random point in the sky; their most likely sources are believed to be supernova explosions of a very massive stars and mergers of neutron stars.
Coordinate terms: english: FRB
translation: FRB
word: fast radio burst
english: SGR
translation: SGR
word: soft gamma repeater
english: HN
translation: HN
word: hypernova
english: SN
translation: SN
word: supernova
agamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + gamic.
Senses: glosses: Occurring without the union of male and female gametes; asexual.
Derived terms: agamically
Related terms: agamy
that entry for more
agapeic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agapeic
form: most agapeic
form: agapic
Etymology: From agape (“love; divine love”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of agape.
agatize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: agatizes
form: agatizing
form: agatized
form: agatized
Etymology: From agate + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods from Arizona
ref: 1887 October, Popular Science, volume 31, number 46, page 859:
glosses: To convert a living thing into the form of an agate; to fossilize.
agin
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From Scots agin, variant form of again (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: At which juncture, he exclaimed, in a voice of dire exasperation : “Bust me, if she ain't at it agin !”
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities”, in All the Year Round, volume 1, page 98:
head_nr: 1
glosses: Alternative form of again.
agin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology: From Scots agin, variant form of again (“against”).
Senses: examples: text: [The Court] said: "Young man, this ere Court is satisfied that there ain't nothin' in the laws of Vermont agin tippin' over a churn full of sap. […] But I want ye should remember one thing—that this ere Court has made up his mind that it's a very naughty trick, and it's a shame that there's so many maple-trees in the State, and no law agin tippin' over sap."
ref: 1859, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 19, page 278:
text: when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, page 228:
text: [Howland Owl:] Boy! There's prejudice for you... I got a pure, pristine boy here an' you're agin him.
 [Porky Pine:] I ain't AGIN him... I jus' ain't FOR him...
ref: 1960 September 22, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 183:
glosses: Alternative form of against.
Derived terms: aginner
agitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agitable
form: most agitable
Senses: glosses: Easily agitated or moved
AGM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AGMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of annual general meeting.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of air-to-ground missile.
qualifier: electrical industry
glosses: Initialism of absorbent glass mat.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of artillery gun module.
Coordinate terms: sense: air-to-ground missile
english: air-to-air missile
translation: air-to-air missile
word: AAM
sense: air-to-ground missile
english: surface-to-air missile
translation: surface-to-air missile
word: SAM
sense: air-to-ground missile
english: surface-to-surface missile
translation: surface-to-surface missile
word: SSM
Derived terms: sense: absorbent glass mat
word: AGM battery
Related terms: sense: air-to-ground missile
word: AAM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ABM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ALBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ALCM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ALGM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: AM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ARM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ASM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: BM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: CM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: GM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: ICBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: IRBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: LRBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: MRBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: SAM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: SLBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: SLCM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: SLGM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: SRBM
sense: air-to-ground missile
word: SSM
agonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more agonal
form: most agonal
Etymology: From agon + -al; cognate with agony.
Senses: examples: text: Even the agonal games which began with the ancient Greeks were playful in their singular devotion to deities. Games were agonal demonstrations of transcendence.
ref: 1994, Edward Kuhlman, Agony in Education: The Importance of Struggle in the Process of Learning, Bergin & Garvey, page 70:
text: The agonal spirit was strong enough to inspire 'shame' at a failure to fight when the enemy offered battle, but not so strong that it made armies accept battle under any circumstances.
ref: 2004, Hans van Wees, Greek Warfare: Myth and Realities, Bloomsbury Academic, page 135:
text: It is because the very basis of their world view, emerging from the deepest recesses of their psyches where their most basic identities were formed from birth – long before they experienced the agonal reality of class – affectively consolidated in the emotional hothouses of their families, is sexuality.
ref: 2006, Stan Goff, Sex & War, Soft Skull Press, page 175:
glosses: Of or pertaining to struggle, competition or conflict; of or pertaining to an agon.
examples: text: The similarity of these persistent invaginations to the agonal is quite marked; like the agonal, they are multiple, rather short, they are in the ileum, and they are ascending, which is not at all an uncommon feature of the invaginations of death. Agonal invaginations in the adult are, however, uncommon and seldom found; but, in spite of this fact, the suggestion is near at hand that perhaps the multiple, healed invaginations here described are, as it were, persistent agonal formations, the death-struggle implied terminating in favor of the patient.
ref: 1894, Ludvig Hektoen, “A Specimen of Four Healed, Ascending, Ileal Invaginations, Symmetrical and Equidistant”, in Judson Daland, Joseph Price Tunis, Boardman Reed, Walter Lytle Pyle, editors, International Medical Magazine, Volume 2, page 1010:
text: In contrast, severe infections are characterized by the development of hypoglycemia during the agonal stages of the disease process as a result of an impaired capacity of the liver to synthesize glucose (LaNoue et al., 1968b; Yeung, 1970; McCallum and Berry, 1973).
ref: 1981, Michael C. Powanda, Peter G. Canonico, Infection: the Physiologic and Metabolic Responses of the Host, Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press, page 117:
text: The agonal effects associated with prolonged illness may influence the pH, and subsequently a number of chemical substances in the brain.
ref: 2003, Dick F. Swaab, Human Hypothalamus: Basic and Clinical Aspects, Part I, Elsevier, page 23:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the pain of death.
Derived terms: agonal breathing
agonal gasp
agonal respiration
preagonal
Related terms: agon
agony
agouty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agouties
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of agouti.
aguish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aguish
form: most aguish
Etymology: From ague + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of ague.
Derived terms: aguishly
aguishness
aguishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more aguishly
form: most aguishly
Etymology: From aguish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I was in the ivy summer-house, and came out shivering with cold, as if aguishly affected.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXXXV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: In an aguish manner; as though suffering from ague.
ailanthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌeɪˈlænθəs/
Forms: form: ailanthuses
form: ailantus
Etymology: From New Latin Ailanthus, from Ambonese Malay ai lanto (“tree (of) heaven”).
Senses: examples: text: The thick, furry twigs of ailanthus suckers leave her fingers stinking of coffee and peanut butter.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 173:
glosses: Any of several deciduous Asiatic trees of the genus Ailanthus, including the tree of heaven.
glosses: Any of several deciduous Asiatic trees of the genus Ailanthus, including the tree of heaven.
In particular, Ailanthus altissima.
synonyms: Chinese sumac
copal tree
paradise tree
stinking sumac
tree of heaven
varnish tree
Derived terms: word: ailanthus moth
taxonomic: Atteva aurea
word: ailanthus webworm
airedale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airedales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Airedale (all senses)
Airedale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛːdeɪl/
Etymology: From Aire + dale.
Senses: glosses: The valley of the River Aire in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England.
Airedale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛːdeɪl/
Forms: form: Airedales
Etymology: From Aire + dale.
Senses: glosses: An Airedale Terrier.
examples: text: Intercepting the Japs the next day, the Airedales shot down ten Zeros and two bombers.
ref: 1945, United States Navy, Power in the Pacific:
text: The call will go out to the pilots, "Pilots, start your engines"; to the airedales, "Stand clear of propellers." As a plane is ready for take off it will have two airedales, one at each wheel, ready to pull the wheel chocks away.
ref: 1993, Anthony F. Zollo, USS Intrepid, page 97:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A member of aviation personnel.
Airedale Terrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Airedale Terriers
Senses: synonyms: Bingley Terrier
Waterside Terrier
glosses: A breed of large rough-haired dog.
airer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəɹə/
note: General American, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈɛɹɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈeɹɚ/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ɛəɹɚ/
ipa: /ˈeːɹə/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈiəɹə/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈeəɹə/
ipa: /ˈeɹəɹ/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ˈɜːɹə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛəɹə(ɹ)
homophone: era (non-rhotic, fair–fur merger)
Forms: form: airers
Etymology: From air + -er.
Senses: glosses: A framework upon which laundry is aired; a clotheshorse.
air-mobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more air-mobile
form: most air-mobile
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of airmobile.
airmobile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛəˈməʊbaɪl/
rhymes: -əʊbaɪl
Forms: form: more airmobile
form: most airmobile
Etymology: From air + mobile.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being moved by air.
air-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more air-proof
form: most air-proof
form: airproof
Etymology: From air + -proof.
Senses: glosses: airtight
airproofed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From airproof + -ed.
Senses: glosses: That has been made airtight
ajiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ajivas
Senses: glosses: All inanimate objects.
Related terms: jiva
jiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit जीव (jīva). Doublet of quick.
Senses: examples: text: 1886, Nandalal Dhole (translator), Mādhava [Mādhavācharya], A Hand Book of Hindu Pantheism: The Panchadasi, Heeralal Dhole, page 209,
Though in the Panchadasi, Vidyarana Swami mentions Jiva to be a reflection in the internal organ, and as that internal organ is not present in the profound slumbering condition, consequently, then, there should be no Jiva also; but as Prajna, almost ignorant—a form of Jiva—continues in dramless profound slumber, therefore what the Swami purports to mean is, the particle of ignorance modified or changed into the form of internal organ, and intelligence reflected therein is called Jiva, and that ignorance is never wanting in prfound slumber, consequently Prajna also is not wanting then.
text: Some followers of Vācaspati Miśra consider jīva to be limited by the inner sense organ. Being limited, jīva is in this case, distinct from the substratum consciousness of objects which is the all-pervasive consciousness sākṣī. According to this view, jīva is not the material cause of the universe either.
ref: 2006, Sanjukta Gupta, Advaita Vedanta and Vāiṣṇavism: The Philosophy of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī, Routledge, page 50:
glosses: All living beings; the essence or soul of such beings.
Related terms: ajiva
jivadaya
ajowan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ajwain.
ajwain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʌd͡ʒwaɪn/
/ˈæd͡ʒwaɪn/
Forms: form: ajwains
form: aiwain
form: ajouan
form: ajowan
form: ajowain
form: ajwan
form: ajwayan
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi अजवाइन (ajvāin).
Senses: glosses: A plant in the family Apiaceae (Trachyspermum ammi), and its seed-like fruit, which is used (especially in South Asian cooking) for its thyme-like flavor.
Synonyms: bishop's weed
carom
akene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of achene.
akvavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: akvavits
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Danish and Swedish akvavit, from Medieval Latin aqua vitae (“water of life”). Doublet of aqua vitae and aquavit. Compare eau-de-vie, whisky, whiskey, and water of life from the same source.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of aquavit.
aqvavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aqvavits
Senses: examples: text: Or, as the Danes do with aqvavit, you can keep a bottle of hard liquor in the freezer without risk of solidification.
ref: 2012, Steven Vogel, The Life of a Leaf, page 184:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aquavit.
alated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alated
form: most alated
Senses: glosses: Alate.
Derived terms: quadrialate
alchymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alchymies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alchemy.
alcoholization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoholizations
Etymology: From alcohol + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Reduction to powder.
glosses: Saturation with alcohol.
glosses: Subjection to the influence of alcoholic spirits.
Derived terms: dealcoholization
alcoved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alcove + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The studio was a high room; its east end was alcoved and had five casement windows in a row […].
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Studio”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: Having (a specified type or number of) alcoves
z-order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: z-orders
form: Z-order
Etymology: From z- + order, analogous to z-axis.
Senses: examples: text: When you click on a window it is brought to the top of the z-order so that you can see it.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The order in which objects should be drawn in order to display correctly.
examples: text: To get the rectangle to hide some of the text, make its z-order higher.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A property of a graphical object that indicates its position in the z-order.
Synonyms: sense: a property of a graphical object
word: z-index
understeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: understeers
Etymology: From under- + steer.
Senses: antonyms: oversteer
glosses: The condition in which the front wheels of a car fail to follow the desired curve while cornering, instead following more of a straight-line trajectory, losing a degree of traction, and so slipping off the required line.
understeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: understeers
form: understeering
form: understeered
form: understeered
Etymology: From under- + steer.
Senses: antonyms: oversteer
glosses: The action of a car when it does not follow the desired curve while cornering. Tyre slip of the front wheels.
primordial sea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primordial seas
Senses: synonyms: primordial ocean
primordial ooze
primordial soup
glosses: The oceans of the earth at a time early in its history.
Night
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The 92nd sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
examples: text: "In this prayer, Sigdrifa calls upon powers of Nature - Day, Night, Earth - and the gods and goddesses as a group.
ref: 1993, Our Troth, Ring of Troth and other True Folk, Ring of Troth, page 383
text: Hail to Night and her daughters.
ref: 1993, Teutonic Religion, Kveldulf Gundarsson, Llewellyn Publications, page 316
text: In another story, the Allfather, the original sky god from early Wyrd culture, took Night and her son Day, and gave to each of them a horse and chariot and put them in the sky, so that they should ride around the world every twenty-four hours.
ref: 1996, The Wisdom of the Wyrd, Brian Bates, Rider, page 48
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: The goddess of the night in Heathenry.
Claudine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Claudine collar
cover song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover songs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: cover version
well hung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better hung
form: best hung
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-hung.
Mstsislaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: a town in the Mahiloŭ Province of Belarus
audit trails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of audit trail
omnisentience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omni- + sentience.
Senses: examples: text: In professional training programs, our strivings for omniscience, omnipotence, and omnisentience are stimulated, reinforced, and rewarded by the programs' faculties.
ref: 1972, Horace G. Whittington, Clinical Practice in Community Mental Health Centers, page 119:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Sensory awareness of all things.
examples: text: Similar difficulties arise concerning the genesis of consciousness for the individual […] To escape these perplexities, the notion of omnisentience or panpsychism has often been put forward.
ref: 1974, Richard Spilsbury, Providence Lost: A Critique of Darwinism, page 65:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
glosses: The presence of sensory awareness in all things, or the doctrine that sensory awareness is universal.
Related terms: omniscience
omnisentient
sentiency
sentient
sentience
aldermanry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldermanries
Etymology: From alderman + -ry.
Senses: glosses: the rank or status of an alderman
glosses: the district in which an alderman serves
omnisentient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From omni- + sentient.
Senses: glosses: Having omnisentience, a sensory awareness of all things.
Related terms: omniscient
omnisentience
sentient
aleuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleurons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aleurone.
aleurone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈl(j)ʊəɹəʊn/
Forms: form: aleurones
form: aleuron
Etymology: 1865/70; from Ancient Greek ἄλευρον (áleuron, “flour, meal”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The protein content of the embryo, endosperm, or perisperm of cereals, in the form of minute particles.
glosses: The outer layer (and its major cell type and its specialized protein) of the endosperm.
Synonyms: sense: outer layer
word: peripheral endosperm
Related terms: aleurone layer
aleuronic
aleuromancy
aleurometer
subaleurone
hypokalemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypokalemias
form: hypokalaemia
Etymology: From hypo- + kalemia or hypo- + kal(ium) + -emia.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood (below the reference range).
Coordinate terms: hypocalcemia
hypocupremia
hypoferremia
hypomagnesemia
hyponatremia
Derived terms: hypokalemic
algin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæl.dʒɪn/
Forms: form: algins
Etymology: From alga + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Algin was first discovered by Stanford in the early 1880's, and there is little doubt that the event was the beginning of a new era in the use of seaweeds.[…]Since Stanford discovered algin the name has been applied to a number of substances derived from alginic acid.
ref: 1950, Valentine Jackson Chapman, Seaweeds and Their Uses, 3rd edition, page 194:
text: All the algins are edible, but they pass unchanged through the alimentary tract and add no food value.
ref: 2002, George S. Brady, Henry R. Clauser, John A. Vaccari, Materials Handbook, 15th edition, →ISBN, page 826:
text: Algin comprises about 10% of the dry weight of the kelps (Smith, 1955), and is mostly the salt of alginic acid.
ref: 2008, Robert Edward Lee, Phycology, 4th edition, →ISBN, page 459:
glosses: Any of various gelatinous gums, derivatives of alginic acid, derived from marine brown algae and used especially as emulsifiers or thickeners.
Derived terms: alginase
alginate
alginic acid
algoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more algoid
form: most algoid
Etymology: From alga + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling, or characteristic of algae
alienability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alienabilities
Etymology: From alien + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being alienable
glosses: An alienable transfer or sale
alienator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alienators
Senses: examples: text: To one like Elia, whose treasures are rather cased in leather covers, than closed in iron coffers, there is a class of alienators more formidable than that which I have touched upon; I mean, your borrowers of books—those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
ref: 1820 December, Charles Lamb, “The Two Races of Men”, in The London Magazine, volume 2, number 12, page 624:
glosses: A person who alienates.
Derived terms: alienatress