cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
institutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtʃuːʃənəl/
ipa: /-ʃnəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtjuʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌɪnstɪˈtuʃənəl/
ipa: /-ʃnəl/
Forms: form: more institutional
form: most institutional
Etymology: From institution + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Swindon's Model Lodging House was originally designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The 1847-1849 recession led to delays and plan revisions, including smaller windows in the finished structure, resulting in a more 'institutional' appearance.
ref: 2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 55, photo caption:
text: The main concerns for young Indonesians are quality of life, corruption, institutional integrity and the environment, including air pollution, said Abigail Limuria, co-founder of Bijak Memilih, an independent, youth-led movement providing information on political parties, issues and candidates to voters.
ref: 2024 February 11, Rachel Wilson and Rosa de Acosta, “How Indonesia’s future is in the hands of young voters, in 5 charts”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or organized along the lines of an institution.
examples: text: institutional ruling
glosses: Instituted by authority.
glosses: Elementary; rudimentary.
examples: text: There must be an unequivocal acceptance of the problem of institutional racism and its nature before it can be addressed
ref: 1999, William MacPherson, The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, Cm 4262-I, para 6.48
glosses: Arising from the practice of an institution.
Derived terms: extrainstitutional
institutional advancement
institutional advertising
institutional framework
institutionalism
institutionalist
institutionality
institutionalization
institutionalize
institutionally
institutional memory
institutional racism
institutional religion
institutional syndrome
interinstitutional
intrainstitutional
macroinstitutional
monoinstitutional
multi-institutional
noninstitutional
postinstitutional
historicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historicisms
Etymology: Calque of German Historismus, historic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A theory that events are influenced by historical conditions, rather than by people.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The use of historical styles in contemporary art.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A method of interpretation in Christian eschatology which attempts to associate Biblical prophecies with actual historical events and symbolic beings with historical persons or societies.
Derived terms: antihistoricism
neo-historicism
new historicism
pseudohistoricism
Related terms: historicist
futurism
historism
preterism
historicist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historicist
form: most historicist
Etymology: From historic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to historicism
historicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historicists
Etymology: From historic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of historicism
frappalatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frappalattes
Senses: glosses: Any of several varieties of milky coffee served cold.
oblatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oblation; oblational
oblational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oblational
form: most oblational
Etymology: From oblation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to oblation; oblatory
sea grape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea grapes
Senses: examples: text: Most of Indian Key seems to be swamp, covered with mangrove roots. But there is a small gravel beach where we landed, and a few yards inland we found a sheltered spot on dry ground for the tent. We pitched it under a sea-grape tree.
ref: 1941 March 12, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 461:
glosses: A small tree, of species Coccoloba uvifera, that grows on sandy beaches in tropical America; it has clusters of purple fruit.
glosses: European ephedra (Ephedra distachya), a leafless plant found in sandy soils along the coast and inland from southern and central Europe to central Asia, with edible fruit, harvested for the ephedrine found in its stems.
glosses: Any plant in the genus Ephedra, especially those native to Europe and neighboring parts of Africa and Asia.
glosses: Seaweeds in the genus Caulerpa, eaten in Southeast Asia, especially Caulerpa lentillifera and Caulerpa racemosa.
glosses: Gulfweed, a kind of brown alga (Sargassum).
glosses: The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo spp.).
glosses: Any animal in the genus Molgula, bottom-dwelling sea squirts that look like peeled grapes.
chain-smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chain-smokes
form: chain-smoking
form: chain-smoked
form: chain-smoked
form: chain smoke
form: chainsmoke
Senses: glosses: To smoke cigarettes by continuously lighting one from the glowing end of the previous one.
glosses: To smoke tobacco cigarettes frequently.
examples: text: The two of them chain-smoked a dime bag's worth of marijuana.
glosses: To smoke by continuously lighting one from another.
Derived terms: chain smoker
chain-smoking
chain-smoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain-smokers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chain smoker.
chairlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairlifts
form: chair lift
form: chair-lift
Etymology: From chair + lift.
Senses: glosses: A continuously moving series of open seats, slung from overhead cables, used to transport people (especially skiers) up the sides of mountains.
Coordinate terms: T-bar
magic carpet
ski lift
chairmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛː.mənˌʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈtʃɛɹ.mənˌʃɪp/
Forms: form: chairmanships
Etymology: From chairman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Afterwards, Sir Eardly Wilmot had been appointed, from whom, on account of his long chairmanship of quarter-sessions, much had reasonably been expected.
ref: 1891, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates:
text: The resignation of Sir Eustace Missenden from the chairmanship of the Railway Executive was announced by the Minister of Transport at Christmas.
ref: 1951 February, “Resignation of Sir Eustace Missenden”, in Railway Magazine, page 75:
text: To particularise the railway improvements required by the County of London Plan, 1943, a Committee under the Chairmanship of Professor Sir Charles Inglis was appointed in February, 1944, by the Minister of War Transport.
ref: 1962 October, “The Victoria Line was only part of the plan”, in Modern Railways, page 258:
text: Nixon proposed the establishment of an Aviation Industry Consultative Council under the chairmanship of the permanent head of his department […]
ref: 1999, John Gunn, Contested Skies: Trans-Australian Airlines:
text: Having put partisan interests to one side, Greenwood set about making teamwork a watchword for her chairmanship, while seeking the broadest possible participation in subsequent inquiries.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: The office, or the term, of a chairman.
chairwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chairwomen
Etymology: From chair + -woman.
Senses: examples: 1845, The New Statistical Account of Scotland
At a Reform dinner which took place in 1832, the united ages of three women, including the chairwoman, amounted to 264.
glosses: A female chairperson
examples: text: […]according to her skill and qualifications, whether in the nature of a dairy-maid, a cook, or chairwoman.
ref: a. 1746 (date written), Jonathan Swift, “(please specify the title)”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume (please specify |volume=I to XIX), London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC:
glosses: A charwoman
Synonyms: chairmaness
Hypernyms: chair
chairperson
presiding officer
presider
Coordinate terms: chairman
Derived terms: chairwomanship
cochairwoman
linguistician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linguisticians
Etymology: From linguistic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The ideal situation is that in which a trained linguistician devotes all his time and attention to describing his own language; he can then be his own source of information (or informant) and can, over the years, note down all the forms, all the types of utterances, of which he normally makes use, and then analyze, classify, and describe them completely. No one has ever wholly measured up to this ideal, and perhaps it is an ideal impossible of complete attainment; the closest that anyone has ever come to it was in the description which the Hindu grammarian Panini wrote of Sanskrit, the language of the Old Indian hymns of the Vedas.
ref: 1950, Robert Anderson Hall, Leave Your Language Alone!, page 113:
text: A person who studies linguistics is usually referred to as a linguist. The more accurate term 'linguistician' is too much of a tongue-twister to become generally accepted.
ref: 2004, Jean Aitchison, Teach Yourself Linguistics:
glosses: A linguist.
diagonalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: diagonalizations
Senses: glosses: US spelling of diagonalisation.
Derived terms: bidiagonalization
rediagonalization
inessential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + essential.
Senses: examples: text: Leave inessential items behind when there is a fire alarm.
glosses: Not essential.
glosses: Lacking essence or being.
Synonyms: sense: not essential
word: unnecessary
sense: not essential
word: unneeded
sense: not essential
word: extrinsic
sense: both senses
word: nonessential
sense: both senses
word: unessential
Derived terms: inessentially
inessential
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inessentials
Etymology: From in- + essential.
Senses: glosses: Something that is not essential
on the edge of one's seat
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The movie had me on the edge of my seat right from the beginning.
glosses: In suspense; waiting eagerly or anxiously for some resolution.
Eos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːɒs/
ipa: /ˈiɑs/
rhymes: -iːɒs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, “Greek goddess of the dawn”), from ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn, daybreak; morning; day; east”). Doublet of Aurora.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The Greek goddess of the dawn; daughter of Hyperion and Theia, sister of Helios and Selene, wife of Astraeus (god of the dusk), and mother of the four Anemoi ("Winds"), and the five Astra Planeta ("Wandering Stars/Planets"). Her Roman counterpart is Aurora.
glosses: The dawn.
Derived terms: word: Eoan
bagsie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I bagsie the front seat in the car!
text: Bagsie being policeman!
glosses: To declare or stake one's claim on an object or concept.
Related terms: bagsy
dibs
bags
shotgun
reification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹeɪəfəˈkeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈɹiː.ə.fəˈkeɪʃən/
enpr: rāəfəkāshən
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reifications
Etymology: First attested around 1846; a macaronic calque of German Verdinglichung, using -ification (“making”) for ver- + -lich + -ung, and Latin rēs (“thing”) for Ding (“thing”)
Senses: examples: text: The reification of art and religion, a symptom of their historical obsolescence, takes the form of their instrumentalization, their reduction to a mere use value. At this point they become ‘cultural goods’, writes Adorno, and ‘are no longer taken quite seriously by anybody.’
ref: 2002, Timothy Bewes, Reification: Or The Anxiety of Late Capitalism, Verso, →ISBN, page 146:
text: Computer scientists found out how functional reification is in programming languages: they call it ‘object-oriented programming’ […].
ref: 2018, Pieter Seuren, Saussure and Sechehaye […] , BRILL, →ISBN, page 209:
text: Reification swaps out a political problem for a scientific or technical one; it’s how, for example, the effects of unregulated tech oligopolies become “social media addiction,” how climate catastrophe caused by corporate greed becomes a “heat wave” — and, by the way, how the effect of struggles between labor and corporations combines with high energy prices to become “inflation.”
ref: 2022 September 20, Danielle Carr, “Mental Health Is Political”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
glosses: The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
examples: text: Contrary to Java, C++ and C# implement generics via reification, meaning that each specific version of a generic class, like List<String> is converted into a concrete class, either at compile time (C++) or at runtime (C#).
ref: 2020, Marco Faella, Seriously Good Software: Code that works, survives, and wins, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 251:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
Synonyms: hypostatization
materialization
objectification
pathetic fallacy
thingification
Derived terms: dereification
reify
chambray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɒmbɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈʃambɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˈʃæmbɹeɪ/
Forms: form: chambrays
Etymology: From French cambrai (“cambric”), and its source, Cambrai, the city in France where it originated; probably with alteration after chamber.
Senses: examples: text: She lies wrapped in a book muslin bedgown, a chambray gauze shift, and a french net nightcap.
ref: 1793, Jane Austen, “A beautiful description of the different effects of Sensibility on different Minds”, in Juvenilia:
text: I had bought some jeans and a couple of blue chambray workshirts to replace the kitchen-whites, but such clothes weren't nearly enough.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 787:
text: Always, the relentless bass of hip-hop blasting in rooms of nautical-themed furnishings, faded driftwood, gingham upholstery, linen and chambray.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: A soft fabric woven with a white weft and coloured warp.
Related terms: cambric
gingham
chancellery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑːn.sə.lə.ɹi/
note: optionally syncopated
ipa: /-səl.ɹi/
ipa: /-slə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃænt.slə.ɹi/
Forms: form: chancelleries
form: chancellory
form: chancellary
Etymology: From Middle English chancelrie, from Old French chancelerie (Modern French chancellerie), from Late Latin cancellaria. Doublet of chancery.
Senses: glosses: The rank or post of a chancellor.
glosses: The office or staff of a chancellor.
glosses: The building in which such an office is situated.
Related terms: chancel
chancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃænsi/
ipa: /ˈtʃɑːnsi/
rhymes: -ænsi
rhymes: -ɑːnsi
Forms: form: chancier
form: chanciest
Etymology: From chance + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In winter steam contributes a fairly high proportion of its tractive effort, say 15 per cent, to heating the train. Diesels have at the moment separate oil-fired boilers which are somewhat chancy affairs, and only electric locomotives grab unlimited power for heating which does not affect their punctuality.
ref: 1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 244:
text: You might think it's foolish
 This chancy rendezvous
 (You might think) You might think I'm crazy
 (All I want) All I want is you
ref: 1984, Ric Ocasek, “You Might Think”, in Heartbeat City, performed by The Cars:
glosses: Uncertain; risky; hazardous.
glosses: Subject to chance; random.
examples: text: His haggard gaze swept this way and that, seeking possible succour where reason told him there could be no succour; and then as his vision pieced together this outjutting architectural feature and that into a coherent picture of his immediate surroundings he knew where he was. The one bit of chancy luck in a sequence of direful catastrophes had brought him here[Pg 49] to this very spot. Why, this must be West Ninth Street; it had to be, it was—oh joy, it was!.
ref: 1919, Irvin S. Cobb, The Life of the Party, page 49:
glosses: Lucky; bringing good luck.
Synonyms: sense: risky
word: dicey
sense: risky
word: iffy
Derived terms: chancily
chanciness
unchancy
wanchancy
changeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more changeably
form: most changeably
Etymology: From changeable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a changeable manner.
changeover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: changeovers
form: change-over
Etymology: Deverbal from change over.
Senses: examples: text: The train runs slowly with frequent slacks for bridge and culvert repairs. At one point occurs the changeover from left- to right-hand running.
ref: 1949 September and October, “The "Nord Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 336:
text: Changeover from diesel to electric power can take place at any time while the locomotive is running and does not involve stopping the train.
ref: 1962 April, “The design of the S.R. electro-diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 393:
text: The changeover from dank, winding alleys to the openness, light and tranquility of the garden is utterly unexpected
ref: 1999, Rob Aben, Saskia de Wit, The Enclosed Garden:
text: The hotel receptionist added that the message came late last night. Unfortunately it had got mislaid with the changeover from the night manager.
ref: 2004, Stewart Dalby, The Friends of Rathlin Island:
text: The station is blessed with a cafe and staff accommodation, as it's an important crew changeover point, although this can be problematic when services are late.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:
glosses: A conversion or transition from one thing to another.
approximating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of approximate
Black Law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Laws
Senses: glosses: Any one of a series of laws, passed before the American Civil War, sharply discriminating against free blacks who wished to emigrate to a northern state and become citizens there.
Synonyms: Black Code
click wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: click wheels
Etymology: From click + wheel.
Senses: examples: 2004, Aya Brokering-Iwata (tr.), Yasukuni Notomi (author), iPod Fan Book: go everywhere with iPod, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 42,
If you have a new fourth-generation Click Wheel iPod, you can even make multiple On-The-Go Playlists.
2005, Brian Tiemann, iPod + iTunes for Windows and Mac in a Snap, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 6,
4G—Fourth-generation iPod. Dock connector on the bottom. Integrated “click wheel” interface with the four control buttons embedded under the directional points of the touch-sensitive navigation wheel. 20GB or 40GB capacity.
2006, Scott Sigler, Earthcore, Dragon Moon Press, →ISBN, page 36,
The [sic] thumbed the iPod's click-wheel until the display read “The Donnas – Take Me to the Backseat.”
glosses: The combination button/scroll wheel selection device of some iPods.
bullfighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bullfighters
Etymology: From bull + fighter.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in bullfighting; a toreador or matador.
branchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more branchlike
form: most branchlike
Etymology: From branch + -like.
Senses: examples: text: These roads, branchlike, divide and subdivide until they end in trails which finally tap a great hinterland inhabited by a scattered population.
ref: 1916, The Phi Delta Kappan, page 157:
glosses: resembling a branch of a tree
ballgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballgames
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ball game.
benefactress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefactresses
Etymology: From benefactor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, youthful benefactress! how often in succeeding years, standing in solitary places, and thinking of thee with grief of heart and perfect love—how often have I wished that, as in ancient times, the curse of a father was believed to have a supernatural power, and to pursue its object with a fatal necessity of self-fulfilment; even so the benediction of a heart oppressed with gratitude might have a like prerogative, might have power given to it from above to chase, to haunt, to waylay, to overtake, to pursue thee into the central darkness of a London brothel, or (if it were possible) into the darkness of the grave, there to awaken thee with an authentic message of peace and forgiveness, and of final reconciliation!
ref: 1821, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater:
glosses: A female benefactor.
TZ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TZs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of time zone.
glosses: Initialism of tuo zaafi.
coordinate_terms: LZ
TLZ
glosses: Initialism of titanium-zinc, type of paint.
water of crystallisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of water of crystallization.
crystallisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystallisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crystallization.
Derived terms: cocrystallisation
decrystallisation
recrystallisation
boneblack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boneblacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bone black.
prepossessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prepossess
prepossessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prepossessed
form: most prepossessed
Senses: glosses: Showing bias or partiality
unprepossessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprepossessed
form: most unprepossessed
Etymology: From un- + prepossessed.
Senses: synonyms: word: disinterested
word: objective
word: candid
word: cold
word: clinical
word: detached
word: egal
word: equal
word: equitable
word: evenhanded
word: fairhanded
word: fair-minded
word: disinterested
word: dispassionate
word: impartial
word: imprejudicate
word: indifferent
word: indistinguishing
word: neuter
word: neutral
word: nonaligned
word: nonpartial
word: nonpartisan
word: nonpersonal
word: objective
word: unbiased
word: unbigoted
word: uninterested
word: unpartial
word: unpartisan
word: unprejudiced
word: unprepossessed
glosses: Not prepossessed; unbiased
unprepossessing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unprepossessing
form: most unprepossessing
Etymology: From un- + prepossessing.
Senses: examples: text: One of these unseen observers, a gentleman, was youthful, and had an air of high breeding and refinement, and a face marked with intellect, though otherwise of unprepossessing aspect.
ref: 1838, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sylph Etherege:
text: She drew up a chamois-skin bag, of an unprepossessing mouse colour, and emptied out a roll of bills.
ref: 1902, Myrtle Reed, chapter 4, in At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern:
text: In a review of operating experience with the Southern Region diesel-electric multiple-units on the Hastings line, read to the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in October, Mr. W. J. A. Sykes, Mechanical & Electrical Engineer of the S.R., revealed how the somehat unprepossessing appearance of these train sets came about.
ref: 1960 December, “The Hastings Line diesel-electric multiple units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 732:
text: Sometimes movies with the most unprepossessing titles can surprise you. Case in point: “Monster Trucks,” a spry, spirited and delightful family film.
ref: 2017 January 12, Andy Webster, “Movie Review: Horses Under the Hood?”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jan 2017:
glosses: Unimpressive or unremarkable; dull and ordinary; nondescript.
Derived terms: unprepossessingly
unprepossessingness
kia ora
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: enpr: kē′ŭ-ôr′ə
ipa: /ˌkiː.ʌˈɔːɹ.ə/
ipa: /ˌki.ʌˈoːɹ.ə/
ipa: /ˌkiː.aˈoːɹ.ə/
ipa: /-.ɐˈ-/
ipa: [-ˈoːɾ.ə]
ipa: /ˌkiː.aˈoːɾ.a/
rhymes: -ɔːɹə
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori kia ora.
Senses: synonyms: hello
hi
glosses: Used as a greeting.
glosses: Expressing good will or gratitude.
discographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɒɡɹəfiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of discography
Caitlyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Caitlyns
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish, one of the modern spelling variants of Caitlin.
chevrette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevrettes
Etymology: From French chevrette, diminutive of chèvre (“goat”). Compare chevron.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A machine for raising guns (such as a howitzer) or mortar into their carriages.
inferring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of infer
inferring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inferrings
Senses: examples: text: But since, according to Ryle, inferrings and intuitings are not distinct mental 'processes' at all, it seems to follow that counting, multiplying, etc., cannot be complex mental processes built up out of them.
ref: 2015, Jacob Joshua Ross, The Appeal to the Given: A Study in Epistemology, page 141:
glosses: The act of one who infers something; the drawing of an inference.
fromagerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fromageries
Etymology: From French fromagerie
Senses: examples: text: Whether you're after the most fashionable little black dress on the Right Bank or a wheel of savory Beaufort from a family-owned fromagerie, The Riches of Paris will help you shop your heart out in the City of Lights.
ref: 2007 May, back-cover blurb of, Maribeth Clemente, The Riches of Paris, second edition, St. Martin's http://books.google.com/books?id=ciwohOjAsncC&pg=PA344&dq=fromagerie
text: It could then serve as an incubator of new food and beverage companies: fromageries, bakeries, sausage shops, coffeehouses, and more.
ref: 2010 September, Kiku Obata, "Soulard & Shakespeare", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 73
glosses: A cheese shop.
Related terms: fromage
fromager
fromagophile
Van Gogh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /vænˈɡoʊ/
ipa: /vanˈɡɒx
ipa: ˈɡɒf/
ipa: /vænˈɡɒf
ipa: ˈɡəʉ/
rhymes: -ɒf
Forms: form: van Gogh
Etymology: From Dutch van Gogh (literally “from Goch”).
Senses: examples: text: This sensation of an object becoming alive is a characteristic that, I believe, seizes all viewers of a van Gogh. The Bible goes beyond being a simple still-life object to become a living thing, an expression of strength, an existence that emanates from itself, beyond the painting surface to participate in our very lives.
ref: 2010, Antonio Saggio, A Secret van Gogh: His Motif and Motives, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Vincent van Gogh, Dutch draughtsman and painter.
wikipedia: Goch
pocket money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small sum of money given to a child, by a parent or guardian; an allowance
glosses: A small sum of cash, carried on the person, for small, daily expenses.
Synonyms: sense: small sum of money given to a child
word: allowance
sense: small sum of cash
word: pin money
Coordinate terms: stipend
per diem
Related terms: mad money
spending money
Mallorca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈljɔɹ.kə/
ipa: /məˈjɔɹ.kə/
ipa: /maɪˈɔɹ.kə/
Forms: form: Majorca
Etymology: From Spanish and Catalan Mallorca, from Late Latin Maiorica, ultimately from Latin maior.
Senses: coordinate_terms: Formentera
Ibiza
Minorca
glosses: An island in the Mediterranean; largest of the Balearic Islands.
Ibiza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈbiːθə/
ipa: /aɪˈbiːθə/
rhymes: -iːθə
ipa: /iˈbiːsə/
ipa: /ɪˈbiːsə/
ipa: /ɪˈbiːzə/
rhymes: -iːsə
rhymes: -iːzə
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Ibiza, from Catalan Eivissa, from Arabic يَابِسَة (yābisa), from Latin Ebusus, from Phoenician 𐤀𐤉𐤁𐤔𐤌 (ʾybšm).
Senses: synonyms: word: White Isle
word: Beefa
word: Beefs
coordinate_terms: Formentera
Minorca
Mallorca
glosses: An island of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
glosses: A city and municipality of Ibiza.
Derived terms: Ibizan
godchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godchild
brainchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainchild
lovechildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovechild
anticked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antic
moonchildren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonchild
foster children
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foster child
begirt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈɡɜː(ɹ)t/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of begird
consubstantial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒnsəbˈstanʃəl/
ipa: /ˌkɑnsəbˈstænʃəl/
Forms: form: more consubstantial
form: most consubstantial
Etymology: From Latin consubstāntiālis, from con- + substāntia (“substance”), translating Ancient Greek ὁμοούσιον (homooúsion).
Senses: examples: text: the Holy Spirit is consubstantial with the Father
text: I have no more made my booke, then my booke hath made me. A booke consubstantiall to his Author[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 18, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: But the more fashionable saints of the Arian times, the intrepid Athanasius, the learned Gregory Nazianzen, and the other pillars of the church, who supported with ability and success the Nicene doctrine, appeared to consider the expression of substance as if it had been synonymous with that of nature; and they ventured to illustrate their meaning, by affirming that three men, as they belong to the same common species, are consubstantial, or homoousian to each other.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXI, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume II, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 252:
text: Thus, the characteristic properties of animals and plants were not only regarded as representations, but as actual emanations of the divine power, consubstantial with his own essence.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 25:
synonyms: coessential
homoousian
glosses: Of the same substance or essence.
Derived terms: consubstantialism
consubstantialist
consubstantiality
consubstantially
Related terms: coessential
coeternal
universal donors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universal donor
dry dock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry docks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drydock
preconsonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹi.kɒn.səˈnæn.təl/
Etymology: From pre- + consonant + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, whereas practically all Caribbean speakers [of Spanish] aspirate preconsonantal and word-final /s/ [pronouncing it as [h]] to a certain extent (except, perhaps, for some radio announcers), this is a highly variable process and the highest indices of aspiration and deletion of /s/ are found in the most colloquial styles.
ref: 2005, José Ignacio Hualde, The Sounds of Spanish, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 28:
synonyms: anteconsonantal
antonyms: prevocalic
antevocalic
postconsonantal
non-preconsonantal
glosses: Immediately preceding a consonant or consonant sound.
Derived terms: preconsonantally
ad valorem
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad valorem (“by value”).
Senses: examples: text: "'I forgot to tell you, boys,' says he, 'that Nicaragua slapped an import duty of 48 per cent. ad valorem on all bottled goods last month.
ref: c. 1900, O. Henry, The Lost Blend:
text: […]the medical attaché is known among the shrinking upper classes of petro-Arab nations as the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast, his staggering fee-scale as wholly ad valorem.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: Measured by or in proportion to value.
Derived terms: ad valorem tax
ad valorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad valorems
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad valorem (“by value”).
Senses: examples: text: It would have been a most tedious if not impossible task for any American tax-payer, I care not how skillful in mathematics or conversan^([sic]) with Federal statutes or expert in custom-house rules and regulations he may have been, to have commenced on the 1st day of January, 1883, with all the lights before him, and by the most scrupulous observance of his food and raiment, investments and expenditures, specifics and ad valorems, every art and part of the cost of his daily life, up to the 1st day of January, 1884, and then told how much taxes he paid to the General Government during the year, either in separate items or aggregate amounts; and the problem would be still more embarrassing if it involved the segregation of the legitimate contributions to governmental support from those which went to the benefit of class interests through maltaxation.
ref: 1884, Congressional Record, volume 15, number 4, page 3250, column 1:
glosses: A tax that is levied based on value.
Emperor palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Emperor palms
Senses: glosses: The plant depicted on the flag of Haiti.
ad valorem tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ad valorem taxes
Senses: glosses: A tax that is assessed as a proportion of the value of the property being taxed.
lawbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawbooks
form: law-book
form: law book
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle English *lawe-bok, from Old Norse lǫgbók (“lawbook”), otherwise, from law + book. Compare Old English laȝheboc.
Senses: examples: text: At last, in 1968, the hated Paragraph 175 [which outlawed sodomy] was removed from the lawbooks after almost a century of struggle since its inception in 1871--but only in the GDR.
ref: 2004 November 4, Leslie Feinberg, “Same-sex rights in East Germany: Legal and material progress”, in Workers World:
glosses: A book in which laws are codified.
glosses: A textbook on some aspect of law.
ad valorem taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ad valorem tax
Makatea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in French Polynesia; formerly Aurora.
Muhu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Third largest island in Estonia, located between Saaremaa and the continent.
midslope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midslopes
Etymology: From mid- + slope.
Senses: examples: text: Roads in midslope and ridgetop positions may affect the drainage network by initiating new channels or extending the existing drainage network.
ref: 2001, Forest Roads: A Synthesis of Scientific Information:
glosses: Any position between the bottom and top of a slope.
pea coat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pea coats
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch pij + coat.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A coat of heavy, navy-coloured wool, originally worn by sailors of European navies.
Synonyms: pea jacket
Derived terms: pea-coated
thimbleful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thimblefuls
form: thimblesful
Etymology: From thimble + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a thimble will hold.
examples: text: “Just the tiniest thimbleful for me,” Annie said, overplaying it, I thought, since she lived on vodka.
ref: 1988, Edmund White, chapter 4, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
glosses: A small amount of liquid, especially alcoholic spirits.
toastmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtoʊstˌmæstɚ/
Forms: form: toastmasters
Etymology: From toast + master.
Senses: glosses: A person who introduces speakers, and proposes toasts at a formal dinner; a master of ceremonies.
Related terms: tamada
wine palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wine palms
Senses: glosses: Any of several palms that have a sugary sap that can be fermented to produce palm wine; especially the fishtail palm (Caryota urens) and the palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer).
optimisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optimisations
Etymology: From optimise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of optimization.
Hyponyms: premature optimisation
Derived terms: deoptimisation
suboptimisation
barkeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹˌkiːp/
ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)ˌkiːp/
Forms: form: barkeeps
Etymology: From bar + keep, clipping of barkeeper.
Senses: examples: text: I sez to the barkeep' o' the hotel, "Show me the biggest doctor here."
ref: 1873, Bret Harte, Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands:
text: Barkeep, a couple of beers here, please?
ref: 1999: Frasier (TV, episode 6.13)
glosses: a bartender
barkeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑɹˌkiːp/
ipa: /ˈbɑː(ɹ)ˌkiːp/
Forms: form: barkeeps
form: barkeeping
form: barkeeped
form: barkeeped
Etymology: From bar + keep, clipping of barkeeper.
Senses: glosses: To bartend; to keep a bar; to act as a barkeep.
Synonyms: barkeeper
bar-keeper
beatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beatable
form: most beatable
Etymology: From beat + -able, in the sense of "able to be bettered" as a back-formation from unbeatable.
Senses: glosses: Able to be beaten or bettered.
glosses: Able to be beaten or thrashed.
struckthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹʌk.θɹu/
Senses: glosses: simple past of strikethrough
enterpriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterprisers
Etymology: From enterprise + -er.
Senses: glosses: An entrepreneur; a person who undertakes an enterprise.
strikethrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪk.θɹu/
Forms: form: strikethroughs
Etymology: Deverbal from strike through; the verb, in at least some cases, is a back-formation from the noun, despite being redundant to strike through.
Senses: examples: text: In HTML, wrapping text with the code <del> and </del> produces a strikethrough.
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: slashout
glosses: An horizontal line overlaid on other characters.
examples: (oblique)
topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: stroke
solidus
slash
bar
glosses: A horizontal or oblique line overlaid on individual characters.
strikethrough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪk.θɹu/
Forms: form: strikesthrough
form: strikethroughs
form: struckthrough
form: struckthrough
Etymology: Deverbal from strike through; the verb, in at least some cases, is a back-formation from the noun, despite being redundant to strike through.
Senses: examples: 2001, Rachel Webster, XHTML Simplified, A.D.R. (London) Limited, →ISBN, page 113,
The next requirement is to strikethrough, “Yoga is just massage.
Inline style element <strike> carries out this task easily. It strikes through text.
2003, Doug Sahlin, How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 37,
Cross-Out Text This tool is used to strikethrough selected text. You can change the color of the strikethrough and you can create a pop-up note with the Strikethrough Text tool as well.
2006, Editors of BottleTree Books LLC, Myspace Maxed Out: Explode Your Popularity, Buzz Your Band and Secure Your Privacy on Myspace, BottleTree Books LLC, →ISBN, page 59,
To strikethrough text do this: 
Strikethrough Text Goes Here

glosses: Alternative form of strike through.
Related terms: underline
underscore
strikethroughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹæɪk.θɹuz/
Senses: glosses: plural of strikethrough
strikesthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹæɪks.θɹu/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strikethrough
East Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the East Sea
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Dead Sea.
glosses: A number of other seas, called locally “East Seas" in various languages; these include the Baltic Sea, Sea of Japan, East China Sea and South China Sea.
Hypernyms: sea
malefactors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malefactor
streight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streights
Senses: examples: text: While we were in this situation, one day the admiral, with most of the principal officers, and many people of all stations, being on shore, about seven o'clock in the evening we were alarmed by signals from the frigates stationed for that purpose; and in an instant there was a general cry that the French fleet was out, and just passing through the streights. - "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano", by Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa
text: Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former.
ref: 1669, John Nievhoff, translated by John Ogilby, An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China, London: John Macock, →OCLC, pages 3–4:
text: IT is evident, from the above deſcription, that thoſe iſlands lay to the ſouth-weft of Hercules's Pillars, or Streights of Gibraltar; for he ſays, " the rough northerly and eaſterly winds which blow " from the coaſts of Europe and Africa towards thoſe iſlands ; " conſequently they could not be any of the Azores or Weſtern Iſlands, the ſouthermoſt of which does not lie farther ſouth than the Streights of Gibraltar.
ref: 1764, The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands, London, →OCLC, page ii:
text: As soon as the Boat was hoisted in we made sail & pursued our course along shore till about noon when we enterd the famous Streights of Juan de Fuca.
ref: 1923 [1792 April 29], Menzies' Journal of Vancouver's Voyage, April to October, 1792, →OCLC, page 15:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of strait.
streight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streight
form: most streight
Senses: examples: text: Notwithstanding, to speak strictly in their natural figure they are streight, nor have their spines convexed, or more considerably embowed, than Sharks, Porpoises, Whales, and other Cetaceous animals [...].
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Folio Society, published 2007, page 427:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of straight.
benefactresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benefactress
mummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mummy
glosses: plural of mummie
mummies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mummy
mummifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: 'I'm sorry weddings depress you, Ferris. Surely when two people love each other and mean to go on loving each other...'
'Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.'
ref: 1927, P. G. Wodehouse, 'The Small Bachelor', Arrow, 2008, pp 185-6
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mummify
mummifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mummify
geometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒiˈɑm.ə.tɚ/
ipa: /dʒiːˈɒm.ɪ.tə/
Forms: form: geometers
Etymology: From Middle English gemeter, geometer, ultimately from Late Latin geōmetrēs, from Ancient Greek γεωμέτρης (geōmétrēs), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) + μετρέω (metréō, “to measure”).
Senses: examples: text: But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer.
ref: 1999, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, Invention and the Unconscious, page 56:
glosses: A mathematician who specializes in geometry.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any species of geometrid moth (family Geometridae).
Synonyms: sense: mathematician
word: geometrician
sense: mathematician
word: geometrist
Derived terms: algebraic geometer
geometer moth
metageometer
Related terms: geometry
topologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topologists
Etymology: From topology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: ‘What can you tell me about her?’
‘Only that she’s a brilliant topologist. That’s it.’
ref: 2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 127:
glosses: A mathematician who specializes in topology.
Derived terms: geometric topologist
combinatorialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: combinatorialists
Etymology: From combinatorial + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A mathematician who specializes in combinatorics.
gestating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gestate
entreprise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entreprises
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of enterprise.
jinxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jinx
abuelos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abuelo
abuelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abuela
tablas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabla
supplementary angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplementary angles
Senses: examples: text: Angle A is 40°, and its supplementary angle, B, is 140°.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An angle that, when added to another referenced angle, produces an angle of 180 degrees.
Related terms: complementary angle
autologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autology + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: When she relapsed with metastatic breast cancer after exhausting all conventional therapies, her doctors suggested an autologous bone marrow transplant as a last resort.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 322:
glosses: Derived from part of the same individual (i.e. from the recipient rather than a different donor).
Synonyms: autogeneic
Derived terms: autologously
microautologous
nonautologous
Related terms: autograft
autological
homologous
heterologous
instituting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of institute