cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Supreme Leader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Supreme Leaders
form: supreme leader
Senses: examples: text: The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Iran’s elections are insignificant. Regardless of who wins, the argument goes, in the end, it’s the supreme leader who calls the shots.
ref: 2021 June 22, Ali Vaez, Dina Esfandiary, “The Hard-Liners Won in Iran. That’s Not All Bad News.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The head of state and commander-in-chief of the entire armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with the authority to dismiss the Iranian president. The Supreme Leader is also the highest-ranking spiritual leader in Iran.
examples: text: Watched by hundreds of thousands of troops and civilians packed into Kim Il-sung Square—named after the regime's first leader, who died in 1994—Kim Jong-un watched from a balcony overlooking the plaza as he was declared “supreme leader” of the ruling Workers' party, military and people.
ref: 2011 December 29, Justin McCurr, “Kim Jong-un declared ‘supreme leader’ in North Korea”, in The Guardian:
text: Our revolution, which has achieved victory over many decades, continuing into the new century, has welcomed the new Supreme Leader.
ref: 2014, 39:40 from the start, in Secret State of North Korea, PBS, →ISBN, →OCLC:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The highest-ranking member of a country, who has absolute power.
Related terms: velayat-e faqih
heads of government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head of government
chiefs of state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chief of state
bullyrag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bullyrags
form: bullyragging
form: bullyragged
form: bullyragged
form: ballyrag
Senses: examples: text: But once again both sides spent as much time bullyragging one another as they did questioning witnesses.
ref: 1996 July 22, Tim Weiner, “Warnings of a Disaster in Waco Were Ignored, Witness Testifies”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Aug 2014:
text: In a feat of no small symbolic value, the school bullyragged the university into shutting down a fossil fuel power plant that had formerly occupied.
ref: 2009 March 9, “Pursuing the elusive goal of a carbon-neutral building”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 16 Aug 2014:
glosses: To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally.
Derived terms: bullyragger
shored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shore (“coast”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: the rocky-shored straits, a sandy-shored cove
glosses: Having a shore, often one of a specified type.
shored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See shore (verb).
Senses: glosses: past participle of shore
Cora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Apparently brought up in English literature by James Fenimore Cooper in The Last of the Mohicans (1826), but compare a female heroine of this name in Jean-François Marmontel's Les Incas (1777) and the Ancient Greek epithet Κόρη (Kórē) for Περσεφόνη (Persephónē). It could also refer directly to κόρη (kórē, “maiden”).
Senses: examples: text: The youth had turned to speak to the dark-eyed Cora, when the distant sound of horses hoofs, clattering over the roots of the broken way in his rear, caused him to check his charger;
ref: 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans/Chapter 2:
text: "Where are you from originally, Coral?" "Indiana." "Lots of Corals out there, I bet." She hesitated, seemed about to flare, and then smiled instead, showing a little gap between two front teeth. "Well, it was Cora Lucille, I guess, " she said, still smiling, looking very much like a Cora Lucille in that moment. Hawes imagined pigtails tied with polka-dot rags.
ref: 1990, Ed McBain, Vespers, Mandarin, published 1991, →ISBN, page 78:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Related terms: Cora Lynn
Cora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An indigenous people of west-central Mexico.
glosses: The Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Cora people.
Cora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Coras
Senses: glosses: A member of the Cora people.
Della
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛlə/
Etymology: Possibly a variant of Adela or Delia. First appeared in the 19th century.
Senses: examples: text: He was afraid that Delia or Della might mention a cousin named Dahlia, and he would laugh. Sweet Jesus, do not let me laugh inappropriately.
ref: 2020, Marilynne Robinson, Jack, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Dolores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈlɔː.ɹɪz/
ipa: /dəˈlɔɹ.ɪz/
Forms: form: Delores
Etymology: From Spanish Dolores.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
glosses: A town in Cabañas department, El Salvador.
Derived terms: Dolores County
Related terms: Lola
Lolita
chirper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chirpers
Etymology: From chirp + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The electronic smoke alarm includes a chirper which sounds when the battery is low.
glosses: A thing or animal that makes a chirping sound.
examples: text: I could barely understand a word that chatty chirper said.
glosses: A person who speaks with a distinct English or Welsh accent.
glosses: A chirping cup; an alcoholic drink.
yuga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yugas
form: yug
form: Yuga
Etymology: From Sanskrit युग (yuga). Doublet of yoke.
Senses: examples: text: To Biardeau the linear nature of the declining dharma and the cyclical nature of the yugas make an unhappy marriage, and she ultimately rejects the idea of a true correspondence or rapport between the appearance of Vișņu as avatāra and the yuga cycle.
ref: 1991, Deborah A. Soifer, The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana: Two Avatars in Cosmological Perspective, page 147:
text: There is, you will note, a pattern of decreased duration in the yugas. Moving from the Krta Yuga, the yuga closest to primordial perfection, each progressive yuga grows shorter and shorter, as chaos and decrepitude increase in prominence.
ref: 1998, Sean M. O'Shea, Meryl A. Walker, The Millennium Myth: The Ever-Ending Story, page 39:
text: To explain further, there are four ages or millenniums called yugas. The duration of Satya-yuga is 1,728,000 years. The duration of Treta-yuga is 1,296,000 years. The duration of Dvapara-yuga is 864,000 years. The duration of Kali-yuga, the present age, is 432,000 years, and began around 5,000 years ago. These four yugas make one cycle, and one thousand cycles equal one day of Brahma, after which there is a partial annihilation of the universe during Brahma's night. Lord Brahma lives for 100 years, 360 days in each year.
ref: 2005, Stephen Knapp, The Heart of Hinduism: The Eastern Path to Freedom, Empowerment and Illumination, pages 386, 489:
glosses: In Hindu theology, a period of a few hundred or thousand years, or an epoch or era within a cycle of four ages: the Satya Yuga (or Krita Yuga), the Dvapara Yuga, the Treta Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga, with lengths ranging from 432,000 to 1,728,000 years.
Derived terms: Dvapara Yuga
Kali Yuga
Krita Yuga
mahayuga
Satya Yuga
Treta Yuga
Related terms: kalpa
day of Brahma
life cycle of Brahma
tallboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallboys
form: tall boy
form: tall-boy
Etymology: By surface analysis, tall + boy, but the furniture sense may have been originally modeled after lowboy, related to French bois (“wood”).
Senses: topics: furniture
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: lowboy
glosses: A tall chest of drawers, or combination of chest on chest, or chest with a small wardrobe on top. Usually with low bracket feet but always resulting in a tall piece of furniture.
examples: text: In her post, which was less than a minute long, she said that the company had sent her a tallboy can of Bud Light with her face on it. An image of the can was edited into the video.
ref: 2023 April 25, Amanda Holpuch, Julie Creswell, “2 Executives Are on Leave After Bud Light Promotion With Transgender Influencer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A tall beer can, either 16 or 24 ounces (473 or 710ml).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A kind of sail, a spanker.
glosses: A kind of long-stemmed wineglass or cup.
glosses: A long sheet-metal pipe for a chimney top.
Related terms: highboy
lowboy
carboy
spiracular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Metanotum shining, indistinctly punctured at the base in the centre, the sides closely punctured; the areola large, obliquely narrowed at the base, its apex open, there are 2 lateral areas, both widely open at the base on the outerside; the posterior median area bears about 10 stout, transverse keels; on its apical outerside is a triangular area; the spiracular is bounded on the outerside by a distinct keel .
ref: 1906, Records of the Albany Museum - Volume 1, page 314:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, of having spiracles
Derived terms: perispiracular
subspiracular
semiterete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + terete.
Senses: glosses: Half terete; rounded on one side but flat on the other.
terete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more terete
form: most terete
Etymology: From Latin teres (“rounded (cylindrical)”).
Senses: glosses: Having a smooth circular cross-section; cylindrical, commonly more or less tapering.
Synonyms: teretiform
teretial
teretous
Derived terms: semiterete
subterete
teretish
semitertian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-tertian
Etymology: From semi- + tertian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having a paroxysm every day, and a second stronger one every two days
raw_tags: of a fever
semitertian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semitertians
form: semi-tertian
Etymology: From semi- + tertian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An intermittent fever of this kind.
Related terms: quotidian
tertian
fossicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fossick
Derived terms: fossicker
fossicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fossickings
Senses: glosses: The act of one who fossicks; a search for gold, gems, etc. or (figuratively) information.
Cleveland steamers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cleveland steamer
moonpool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmuːnpuːl/
ipa: /ˈmunˌpul/
Forms: form: moonpools
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moon pool.
ecocline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecoclines
Etymology: From eco- + -cline.
Senses: glosses: A gradation from one ecosystem to another when there is no sharp boundary between the two. It is the joint expression of associated community (coenocline) and complex environmental gradients.
Derived terms: ecoclinal
Koks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kok
Pistole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pistoles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Pistole (“pistol”), probably a nickname for an aggressive person.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
prove out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proves out
form: proving out
form: proved out
form: proved out
form: proven out
Senses: glosses: To turn out to be feasible, accurate, true, satisfactory, as expected, hoped, stated, etc.
examples: text: Not that we’re afraid of things new. It’s just, before you put ’em on a system, they’ve gotta be demonstrated and proven and you’ve gotta have a lot of confidence in ’em. And we’re still in the stages where we're proving this out.
ref: 2007 April 16, Les Johnson, Nell Boyce (reporter), “Space Tethers: Slinging Objects in Orbit?”, Morning Edition, National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9574513
glosses: To demonstrate the feasibility of; to show or be shown to be feasible, accurate, true, satisfactory, as expected, hoped, stated, etc.
lock ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock in
lock-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock-ins
Etymology: Deverbal from lock in.
Senses: examples: text: The youth group will have their annual lock-in this weekend.
synonyms: wakeover
glosses: A sleepover party, usually held in a public place such as a church or school, in which the participants are not allowed to leave until the next morning.
examples: text: He was a lunatic drunk and started sing songs that lasted into the early hours of the morning and resulted in many weekend lock-ins in the village pub.
ref: 2009, Annette J. Dunlea, Always and Forever, page 53:
glosses: An illegal but widely-tolerated invitation-only gathering in a British pub, after the end of licensing hours, to allow regular customers the opportunity to enjoy further drinking time.
examples: text: vendor lock-in
topics: law
glosses: A situation in which members of an industry have agreed to adopt a certain standard and have retooled their production to meet this standard, thus making it very costly to change to a different standard.
topics: business
finance
glosses: The situation where an investor cannot trade without incurring an undesirable penalty such as taxation.
Related terms: lockaway
lockout
flânerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flâneries
Etymology: From French flânerie.
Senses: glosses: idling about, dawdling about, loafing about
Derived terms: cyberflânerie
enmeshment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enmeshments
Etymology: From enmesh + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: And for the brief window of time in which the web was used primarily as a business tool for maximum efficiency, this may have been the kind of existence we led when the news industry moved online. But as it turned out, our full-scale enmeshment with the internet has tilted much more personal.
ref: April 14 2022, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: The state of being enmeshed; entanglement.
ennoblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ennoblements
Etymology: From ennoble + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of being noble
glosses: The act of ennobling or something which ennobles
enplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈpleɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: enplanes
form: enplaning
form: enplaned
form: enplaned
form: emplane
Etymology: From en- + plane.
Senses: glosses: To board an airplane.
Hypernyms: embark
Related terms: enplanement
entrain
enshrinement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnmənt
Forms: form: enshrinements
Etymology: From enshrine + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of being enshrined
glosses: The act of enshrining or something that enshrines
enshroud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊd
Forms: form: enshrouds
form: enshrouding
form: enshrouded
form: enshrouded
Etymology: From en- + shroud.
Senses: glosses: to cover with (or as if with) a shroud
Derived terms: disenshroud
enshroudment
unenshrouded
ensilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: The process of producing silage by the fermentation of green fodder.
examples: text: Comparing the ensilage of this season with that produced during the past five years at the station, we can safely say that this ensilage was by far the best yet made at this station.
ref: 1890, Ensilage and Silos, page 72:
text: An American paper, is summarising the value of ensilage, says that twenty years' experience in the use of the silo has brought out some facts about which all are agreed.
ref: 1901 May 10, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 5, page 136:
glosses: Synonym of silage.
synonyms: word: silage
ensilage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ensilages
form: ensilaging
form: ensilaged
form: ensilaged
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: to ensilage cornstalks
glosses: To preserve in a silo.
musical instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musical instrument
Gogol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ). The surname is from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”) < Proto-Slavic *gogolь.
Compare Russian го́голь (gógolʹ), Belarusian го́галь (hóhalʹ), Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ), Polish gogol.
Senses: glosses: A Russian and Ukrainian surname.
Derived terms: Gogolian
Blender
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Brand name, from blender.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An open source, cross-platform suite of tools for the creation of 3D graphics.
speleological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speleological
form: most speleological
Etymology: From speleology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the exploration of caves; speleology.
glosses: Concerning the study of caves.
Related terms: speleology
spelunk
striping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stripe
striping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪpɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪpɪŋ
Forms: form: stripings
Senses: glosses: A pattern of stripes.
Derived terms: zebra striping
Almyros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑlmɪɹɒs/
/ɑlmɪˈɹɒs/
Forms: form: Almiros
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece located in the Magnesia prefecture.
Almiros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑlmɪɹɒs/
/ɑlmɪˈɹɒs/
Forms: form: Almiros Thessalias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Almyros (a city in Greece located in the Magnesia prefecture)
voetsek
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtsɑk/
ipa: /ˈvʊtsɑk/
Forms: form: voetsak
form: voertsek
form: voertsak
form: footsack
Etymology: From Afrikaans voertsek, voortsek, short form(s) of voort sê ek (“go on I say”).
Senses: examples: text: One house owner was upset when he realised the potential buyer was a black man and hurled insults at him. "He called me a kaffir and other insulting names," Arthur says with a laugh. "As we left he screamed at us to 'voetsek'. I thought it was funny enough to make a good song."
ref: 1996, Drum: A Magazine of Africa for Africa, page 17:
text: At that moment, I heard a cry from behind the tightening ring. “Hey! Voetsek you skelems!” The young ruffians parted to reveal the old Zulu man.
ref: 2013, Radmer Lenasch, Paper Samurai, page 149:
glosses: get lost! go away! An exclamation of dismissal or rejection.
Velestinon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vɛˈlɛstɪnɒn/
Forms: form: Velestino
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Velestino.
hifu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hifu
Etymology: From Japanese 被風, 被布, 披風 (ひふ, hifu).
Senses: glosses: A protective padded outer vest or pinafore worn by children over their kimono on outings, such as Shichi-Go-San, in lieu of an obi or pair of hakama.
no pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Your boss wants to give the board a quick run-down our project in half an hour. Just five minutes and some question time. No pressure.
glosses: The situation at hand is rife with emotional pressure.
no pressure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We strive to create a no-pressure environment in which your child can fulfill her potential.
glosses: An absence of social expectations about one's behavior or performance in a situation.
Elfland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elfenland
form: Elvenland
form: elfland
Etymology: From Middle English elfland, equivalent to elf + land; the idea of a home for elves appears in Scots Elfhame and Old Norse Álfheimr.
Senses: examples: text: Elf-land was the name of the realm ruled by the king of Phairie.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 160:
text: O sweet and far from cliff and scar / The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.
ref: 1850, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Splender Falls:
text: For there could be no doubt of it - it was true beyond disputing; he had met the best knight in Elfland, and he was not defeated yet!
ref: 1890, M.A. Curtois, Elf-Knights, London: Remington and Co., page 43:
glosses: The land of the elves; home of the elves.
tomograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomographs
Etymology: From tomo- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A machine for making an X-ray of a single plane of the body.
Derived terms: polytomograph
tomogram
tomographic
tomographically
tomography
pillow-biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow-biters
form: pillow biter
form: pillowbiter
Etymology: From the trial of Jeremy Thorpe, where Norman Scott, indicating his reluctant participation in receptive homosexual activity, stated I just bit the pillow, I tried not to scream because I was frightened of waking Mrs Thorpe.
Senses: examples: text: When I'd come in, he'd say stuff like ‘The little pillow-biter is home’ or ‘The little fairy has just flown in’.
ref: 2002, Mark A. Roeder, Keeper of Secrets:
text: ‘You a pillow-biter or what?’ ‘Hell no. I just think you're too young, that's all.’
ref: 2003, D. B. C. Pierre, Vernon God Little:
text: ... a stuffed shirt, a raving pillow-biter or a looney old lezzo with a face like a half-sucked mango, ...
ref: 2004, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, A Portrait of the Artist As Australian: L'œuvre Bizarre de Barry Humphries:
glosses: Synonym of bottom: A homosexual man who engages in passive anal sex.
synonyms: word: bottom
extra: A homosexual man who engages in passive anal sex
Related terms: homosexual
Elfenland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From elfen + -land.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Elfland.
computerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From computer + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A political ideology which maintains that all government power should be delegated to a computer or artificial intelligence.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A painting style that developed from the cubist movement.
noarch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shortening of "no architecture"
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Used by the RPM Package Manager to mark software packages that contain only content, such as graphics, documentation or similar data that can be used on any architecture.
ODTAA
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: The expression is reputed to have gone around the colonial clubs of the distant countries of the British Empire in the Victorian period. It came to fame with the publication of the book ODTAA in 1926 by John Masefield.
Senses: glosses: one damn thing after another
psychometrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychometrists
Etymology: From psychometry + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A professional who administers and scores psychological and neuropsychological measures.
qualifier: paranormal
glosses: An individual with the ability of psychometry.
silvery marmoset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silvery marmosets
Senses: glosses: A Brazilian monkey, Callithrix argentata, having white fur, a dark tail, and naked ears
down to the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From horse racing: approaching the wire that marks the winning line.
Senses: examples: text: He was almost done with the paper, but tomorrow's due date meant it would be down to the wire.
glosses: At the very end of a process or project, especially one with a fast-approaching deadline.
Synonyms: last minute
down to the wire
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From horse racing: approaching the wire that marks the winning line.
Senses: examples: text: He was almost done with the paper, but tomorrow's due date meant it would come down to the wire.
text: Liverpool created a host of chances and had a Joel Matip goal ruled out for a foul and offside in an incident-packed game that went right down to the wire before Jurgen Klopp's side prevailed.
ref: 2022 February 27, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-0 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: At the very end of a process or project, especially one with a fast-approaching deadline.
Synonyms: down to the short strokes
updation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: updations
Etymology: From update + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of updating.
examples: text: The above updation can be done through each vertex k.
ref: 1998, C. Xavier, S. S. Iyengar, Introduction to Parallel Algorithms, page 209:
text: It then sends a message to the table updation object to create a new entry in the track table using the relevant information extracted from the flight plan table.
ref: 2001, C. Siva Ram Murthy, G. Manimaran, Resource Management in Real-Time Systems and Networks, page 437:
text: The cost of updation in Line 7 is three Fₚ multiplications.
ref: 2005, Sanjit Chatterjee, Palash Sarkar, Rana Barua, “Efficient Computation of Tate Pairing in Projective Coordinate over General Characteristic Fields”, in Choonsik Park, Seongtaek Chee, editors, Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2004, page 175:
glosses: An instance of that process: an update.
Faroes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: pharaohs
Forms: form: the Faroes
form: Faeroes
Senses: glosses: The Faroe Islands.
Faroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: pharaohs
Forms: form: Faeroes
Senses: glosses: A breed of domestic sheep, native to the Faroe Islands
hatta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hattas
Etymology: From Arabic حَطَّة (ḥaṭṭa).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hattah.
emplaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of emplace
emplace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emplaces
form: emplacing
form: emplaced
form: emplaced
Etymology: From em- + place. Cognate to French emplacer, Spanish emplazar, Portuguese emplaçar, Catalan emplaçar & Italian impiazzare.
Senses: glosses: To assign a position to something, or to locate something at a particular place
Derived terms: emplacement
impalpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impalpable
form: most impalpable
Etymology: From Middle French impalpable, from Medieval Latin impalpabilis. See im- + palpable.
Senses: examples: text: But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Incapable of being touched or felt; incorporeal, intangible.
examples: text: On the benches lay figures covered with yellow linen, on which a fine and impalpable dust had gathered in the course of ages, but nothing like to the extent that one would have anticipated, for in these deep-hewn caves there is no material to turn to dust.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Not able to be perceived, or able to be perceived only with difficulty; insubstantial, thin.
examples: text: What is happiness, anyhow? Is this one of its hours, or the like of it?—so impalpable—a mere breath, an evanescent tinge?
ref: c. 1876, Walt Whitman, “The Sky—Days and Nights—Happiness”, in Complete Prose Works:
text: And I heard—him—it—this voice—other voices—all of them were so little more than voices—and the memory of that time itself lingers around me, impalpable, like a dying vibration of one immense jabber, silly, atrocious, sordid, savage, or simply mean, without any kind of sense.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II, page 496:
text: She had an extraordinary sensitiveness to the impalpable elements of happiness, and as she walked at Darrow’s side her imagination flew back and forth, spinning luminous webs of feeling between herself and the scene about her.
ref: 1912, Edith Wharton, chapter XII, in The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company:
glosses: Not easily grasped (mentally) or understood.
Derived terms: impalpability
impalpably
pro-secular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pro-secular
form: most pro-secular
form: prosecular
Etymology: From pro- + secular.
Senses: glosses: In favour of secular rather than religious government and laws
chloritoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloritoids
Etymology: From chlorite + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed iron, magnesium, and manganese silicate mineral of metamorphic origin, with the chemical formula (Fe²⁺,Mg,Mn)₂Al₄Si₂O₁₀(OH)₄.
skyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyboards
Etymology: From sky + board.
Senses: glosses: a lightweight board used in sport similar to a snowboard, usually equipped with foot bindings and a recovery parachute, used for skysurfing or skyboarding, a type of skydiving in which the skydiver performs surfing-style aerobatics during free-fall.
Related terms: skyboarding
mankiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of manky: most manky
mankier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of manky: more manky
droplist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: droplists
Etymology: From drop + list.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A pull-down menu.
Related terms: dropdown
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: segs
form: segge
Etymology: From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ (“man, warrior, hero”), from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz (“follower, retainer, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow, accompany”). Cognate with Norwegian segg, Icelandic seggur (“bully”).
Senses: glosses: A man; warrior; hero.
glosses: A man; fellow.
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: segs
Etymology: Probably from the root of Latin secāre (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: A castrated farm animal.
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology: Clipping of segregation.
Senses: examples: text: […] when a prisoner is transferred or paroled or sent to "seg" (segregation) or hauled back into court, they don't ask if he's busy with a lead role in a play.
ref: 1988 July 15, Albert Williams, “Prison Drama”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Segregation.
Derived terms: ad-seg
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology: Clipping of segregation.
Senses: examples: text: Black members of the order were relegated to seg lodges.
glosses: Designated for people of color
Related terms: seggie
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: segs
Senses: synonyms: blakey
glosses: A metal stud or plate fixed to the sole or heel of a shoe to prevent excessive wear.
glosses: A callus, an area of hardened skin.
Coordinate terms: hobnail
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Etymology: See sedge.
Senses: glosses: Sedge.
examples: text: In one district of Stronsa, I observed several acres covered with the common yellow flag, or seg (iris pseudacorus,) of which a very coarse kind of hay is here made.
ref: 1805 January, “Observations made in a Tour through parts of Orkney and Shetland in 1894”, in The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, volume 67, number 1, page 26:
text: It's also believed that anyone who bites a seg will develop an impediment of speech, such as a stammer.
ref: 2019, Roy Vickery, Vickery's Folk Flora, page lxxiii:
text: Boats were made of wood, paper or segs (the leaves of the yellow flag). For some reason, children in Stenness (O) were warned that if they chewed seg leaves they would become dumb.
ref: 2020, Ernest Marwick, The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland:
glosses: Gladen, or other species of Iris.
seg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Forms: form: segs
Senses: examples: text: The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radio segs is shown on TV stations.
ref: 1951 December 15, Billboard, page 6:
text: In 1992, Mort's doing a political/chat show for the Christian Scientists Monitor Channel, and in January did a seg singing praises for Garrison.
ref: 1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Clipping of segment.
ensnarement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensnarements
Etymology: From ensnare + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being ensnared
glosses: Something that ensnares
ensurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ensurers
Etymology: From ensure + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Nurses are the largest group of computer system users in any hospital, and they are keepers of confidential patient information, protectors of patient privacy, and ensurers that system security measures are followed.
ref: 1988, Maureen P. Mikuleky, Cathleen Ledford, Computers in nursing: hospital and clinical applications:
glosses: One who ensures or makes certain.
glosses: Obsolete form of insurer.
entailment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈteɪl.mənt/
Forms: form: entailments
form: intailment
Etymology: From entail + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Entailment does not imply causation: if a set of premisses entail a conclusion, that does not mean (necessarily) that they cause that conclusion to be true.
text: An argument hinges upon entailment whereas an if-then sentence hinges upon implication.
text: That's not an extension at all. It's simply an obvious entailment of the original promise.
ref: 2022 May 25, Michael C. Dorf, “Failure to Extend a Precedent Versus Failure to Apply It: A Comment on Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez”, in Dorf on Law:
text: In general, every language (and, hence, every language of every theory) has numerous entailment relations on it.
ref: 2023, JC Beall, Michael DeVito, Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism:
text: The barriers that this book is about —barriers to entailment — concern the relation of logical consequence ( or its lack. )
ref: 2023, Gillian K. Russell, Barriers to Entailment, page 16:
glosses: The act of logically entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
examples: text: That no entailment of lands shall continue to entail Robinson etc. the same, in any case whatever, longer than the life of the person to whom the same hath been, or shall be, first devised, by such entailment.
ref: 1875, New Jersey Law Reports - Volume 5, page 814:
text: On the other hand, the "perpetual entailment of estates" was a favorite of the common law,—supporting, as it did, the right of primogeniture, and growing out of the feudal system.
ref: 1903, The Pacific Reporter - Volume 71, page 292:
text: Even in the nineteenth century, and especially in comparison with England, commentators repeatedly highlighted how important the abolition of entailment and primogeniture was to preventing the dynastic concentration of wealth.
ref: 2018, Jens Beckert, Inherited Wealth, page 163:
glosses: The act of setting up an entail to restrict inheritance.
examples: text: And notwithstanding this turning clause was put in, yet it was afterwards construed to be a will giving an entailment of the real property to the old man's grandchildren, which was not the case.
ref: 1890, Robert Andrew Sherrard, Thomas Johnson Sherrard ·, The Sherrard Family of Steubenville, page 241:
text: Her answer cannily goes to the mercenary heart of the substance of Wortley's letter: the failure of the marriage negotiation because of his refusual to pay the price of placing an entailment on his estate .
ref: 2002, Susan M. Fitzmaurice, The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English, page 213:
text: The de Bourghs have lived here for five hundred years, the name passing down through sons and daughters, for there is no entailment on the estate and so no difficulty about a female inheriting.
ref: 2011, Amanda Grange, Wickham's Diary, page 137:
glosses: An entail.
Related terms: material implication
enthrallment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthrallments
Etymology: From enthrall + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enthralling or the state of being enthralled
Mallu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mallus
Etymology: From Malayalam, Malayali. Compare Gujju (“a Gujarati speaker”).
Senses: glosses: A person from the Indian state of Kerala, especially one who speaks Malayalam or is ethnically Malayali.
enthronement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthronements
Etymology: From enthrone + -ment.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: coronation
synonyms: inthronization
antonyms: dethronement
decoronation
glosses: The act of enthroning or the state of being enthroned.
Derived terms: reenthronement
Related terms: enskinment
enstoolment
ensconcement
enshrinement
installation
entombment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtuːm.mənt/
ipa: /ɛnˈtuːm.mənt/
Forms: form: entombments
form: intombment
Etymology: From entomb + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of entombing or the state of being entombed
glosses: The decommissioning of a radioactive site by encasing it in concrete
entomological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From entomology + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: This method expands on conventional entomological field work practices, which rely on human observations over limited periods, said researchers, who hope that their method will be used by other entomologists.
ref: 2025 January 28, Jack Guy, “Tiny QR codes help scientists track bee movements”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to entomology.
Derived terms: archaeoentomological
entomologically
nonentomological
palaeoentomological
paleoentomological
unentomological
merrier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of merry: more merry
entrancement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrancements
Etymology: From entrance + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The entrancement of a child by the bright lights and other paraphernalia of a pantomime is a magical sight.
glosses: The act of entrancing or the state of being entranced
entrancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of entrance
entrancing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entrancing
form: most entrancing
Senses: glosses: Causing a trance-like state; hypnotic.
examples: text: But, behind and above them all, hovered the shape of that awful woman, and through them gleamed the memory of her entrancing loveliness.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Causing ecstasy or rapture; enrapturing; charming.
Derived terms: entrancingly
unentrancing
entrancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrancings
Senses: examples: text: […] as baby kisses here, that are almost meaningless plays, come to an age of adolescence and to romantic entrancings.
ref: 1859, Hugh Smith Carpenter, Here and Beyond: Or, The New Man, the True Man, page 318:
glosses: The process by which somebody is entranced.
dactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dactylies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δάκτυλος (dáktulos, “finger”), equivalent to dactyl- + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The number and arrangement of digits (fingers and toes) on the hands, feet, or (sometimes) wings, of a tetrapod animal.
Derived terms: adactyly
anisodactyly
arachnodactyly
bidactyly
brachydactyly
clinodactyly
didactyly
ectrodactyly
heterodactyly
hyperdactyly
hypodactyly
macrodactyly
monodactyly
oligodactyly
pamprodactyly
pentadactyly
polydactyly
polysyndactyly
schizodactyly
syndactyly
tetradactyly
tridactyly
zygodactyly
tridactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + dactyly, or directly from the etymons of these.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The property of being tridactyl; having three digits (fingers or toes) on a limb.
ecoclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecocline
plutocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plutocracy
whiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪlɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of while
whiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of while
faux ami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faux amis
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French faux-ami, from faux (“false”) + ami (“friend”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: A false friend; one of a pair of words in different languages or dialects that look similar and may be related but that differ significantly in meaning.
sing along
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sing alongs
form: sing-along
Senses: qualifier: singing
glosses: A gathering or event where participants are encouraged to add their voices in song.
sing along
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sings along
form: singing along
form: sang along
form: sung along
form: sing-along
Senses: examples: text: If you know the song, sing along with me!
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To sing some music while someone else is singing or playing the same piece of music or while it is being broadcast or performed
Derived terms: singalong
hissie fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hissie fits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hissy fit.
conniption fit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conniption fits
Senses: glosses: Anger or panic expressed verbally loudly and with overt bodily gestures.
Synonyms: tantrum
Gæa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Gaea.
velitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: velitations
Senses: examples: text: Yet in this your velitation, you bring moſt of your valiant men into the feild, leaving out ſome few caſſhierd ſoldjers; and brave me with a great many of S. Peters prerogatives, which are indeed but a cold yron for the Pope. For though al you ſay for Peter were granted, yet nothing at al is ſayd for the Biſhop of Rome more then for the Biſhop of Babylon. You would hav men think, that if you have ſo many men in a skirmiſh or velitation, you have many moe againſt a day of battel.
ref: 1615, Henry Ainsworth, The Trying Out of the Truth:
glosses: A fight or skirmish.
brake pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brake pads
Senses: coordinate_terms: brake shoe
glosses: A friction element in a disc brake or rim brake, made from various compounds, often organic, semi-metallic, or ceramic.
disc brake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disc brakes
form: disk brake
Senses: topics: automotive
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: rim brake
glosses: A type of brake where the friction is produced by brake pads which are pressed against a disc (or rotor) made of steel or ceramic.
entrenchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entrenchments
form: intrenchment
Etymology: From entrench + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The process of entrenching or something which entrenches
glosses: A fortification constructed of trenches
Derived terms: nonentrenchment
entry-level
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I'm just looking for an entry-level job.
text: It will seek to address a potential shortage of skilled local people, providing them with the entry-level knowledge they need to secure a broad range of jobs.
ref: 2021 December 1, “Network News: First students at training academy”, in RAIL, number 945, page 13:
glosses: Simple enough to be appropriate to an inexperienced person, or to someone who does not need advanced features.
Related terms: get one's foot in the door
enumerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being enumerated; countable.
Derived terms: co-recursively enumerable
enumerably
inenumerable
nonenumerable
recursively enumerable
unenumerable
enumerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enumerators
Etymology: From enumerate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The basic idea is that the researcher conducting the transect (called the counter or enumerator) walks along a set path at certain intervals (hourly, daily, monthly, etc.) and tallies all instances of whatever is being surveyed.
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 4:
glosses: A person who, or a thing that enumerates; a counter or iterator.
glosses: A census taker.
Derived terms: enumerator polynomial
enuresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enureses
Etymology: From Latin enuresis, from Ancient Greek ἐνούρησις (enoúrēsis); surface analysis parses uresis as a constituent.
Senses: glosses: Involuntary urination: urinary incontinence.
glosses: Such incontinence at nighttime, especially during sleep.
Synonyms: sense: urinary incontinence
word: urorrhea
sense: urinary incontinence at night, especially during sleep
word: bedwetting
sense: urinary incontinence at night, especially during sleep
word: nocturesis
Derived terms: enuretic
enveloper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envelopers
Etymology: From envelop + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something which envelops