cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biomixing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + mixing.
Senses: glosses: The contribution to the mixing of soils or waters by the action of living organisms
sposta
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of supposta.
polariton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polaritons
Etymology: From polari(za)t(ion) + -on. By surface analysis, from polarit(y) + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of a class of quasiparticles comprising elements of electromagnetic waves and excited states of matter.
Derived terms: dipolariton
magnetopolariton
nanopolariton
polaritonic
Related terms: polaritonics
polaritronics
anomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anomer + -ic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to or characteristic of an anomer
Derived terms: nonanomeric
anomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anomerics
Etymology: From anomer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anomer.
synonyms: word: anomer
quasiparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasiparticles
Etymology: From quasi- + particle.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any entity that has some characteristics of a distinct particle, but comprises a grouping of multiple particles
Derived terms: antiquasiparticle
multiquasiparticle
quasiparticulate
Fermi surface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fermi surfaces
Etymology: For Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An abstract boundary, of constant energy, useful for predicting the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of metals, semimetals, and doped semiconductors.
wikipedia: Enrico Fermi
magnetologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magneto- + logic.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: Describing a device that uses magnetism to perform the logical operations normally performed using electronics
nephelometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”) + -metry.
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The measurement of the concentration of a solution, suspension or dispersion based upon its light-scattering properties.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A technique used to determine the levels of antibodies or antigens in a suspension, based on its light-scattering properties.
Derived terms: immunonephelometry
Related terms: nephelometer
nephelometric
nephelometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephelometric
form: most nephelometric
Etymology: From nephelometry + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The chromometric method, or, as the authors name it, the nephelometric method, cosists essentially in burning the carbon as above, but the carbonic is conducted into a standard solution of basic acetate of lead (2 per cent), and estimating the turbidity produced, as compared with that produced by the carbonic acid evolved under similar circumstances by a known and nearly equal quantity of carbon (sugar), the difference between the two being estimated by a Mills's colorimeter.
ref: 1879 January 24, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science, page 39:
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: Of, or pertaining to nephelometry.
Derived terms: immunonephelometric
nephelometrically
NTU
-icide
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -cide.
tormenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of torment
tormenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tormenting
form: most tormenting
Senses: glosses: Involving or causing torment.
Synonyms: tormentous
tormenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tormentings
Senses: examples: text: If Laura really entertained the hope she mentioned, she was miserably disappointed; for Lady Pelham remitted not a jot of her tormentings.
ref: 1832, Mary Brunton, Self Control, page 335:
glosses: The act by which somebody is tormented.
denudate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denudates
form: denudating
form: denudated
form: denudated
Etymology: From Latin denudatus, past participle of denudare. See denude.
Senses: glosses: To denude.
denudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin denudatus, past participle of denudare. See denude.
Senses: glosses: Stripped bare; naked.
thunderation
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: An Americanism from around 1830 to 1840, from thunder + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Thunderation! I've lost my glasses!
glosses: An exclamation of surprise, agitation or petulance.
Related terms: in thunderation
Afro-Argentine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Afro-Argentinian
Etymology: From Afro- + Argentine.
Senses: examples: text: Following the destruction of the free black battalions at Sipe-Sipe, the Afro-Argentine representation in the armed forces consisted almost entirely of ...
ref: 2003, John Charles Chasteen, James A. Wood, Problems in Modern Latin American History: sources and interpretations:
text: An obviously discontented unit was the Afro-Argentine Fourth Cazadores, which between November 1827 and October 1829 lost 31 soldiers dead and ...
ref: 1995, Darién J. Davis, Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean:
text: A great percentage of Afro-Argentine males served in the army,...
ref: 1999, Brian Bell, Argentina, Insight Guides:
text: A third is that they perished while serving in the special Afro-Argentine male battalions of the army.
ref: 2003, C. Michael Hawn, Gather Into One: Praying and Singing Globally:
text: Half of San Martin's army was comprised of Afro-Argentine soldiers. Slaves could earn their freedom by serving in the military, and some Afro-Argentine men...
ref: 2004, Theodore Link, Rose McCarthy, Argentina: A Primary Source Cultural Guide:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Argentines of African descent.
Afro-Argentine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Afro-Argentines
form: Afro-Argentinian
Etymology: From Afro- + Argentine.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of Afro-Argentines, as in the case of Argentina's Indians and gauchos, this tactic arguably succeeded. Although blacks constituted about 10 percent of Argentina's population in 1810, by 1887 their numbers had dropped to less than 2 percent, and have continued to drop down to the present day. ...
ref: 1999, Joyce Moss, Latin American Literature and Its Times:
text: The official mouthpiece of the Rosas government, La Gaceta Mercantil, praised Afro-Argentines as “valiant defenders of liberty who have won fame and glory in a hundred battles,” adding that “General Rosas so appreciates the mulattos and morenos that he has no objection to seating them at his table and eating with them.”
In other respects, however, the persistence of racism against Afro-Argentines, Indians, and gauchos showed regrettable continuities with the colonial past.
ref: 2005, Jeffrey M. Shumway, The Case of the Ugly Suitor & Other Histories of Love, Gender, & Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870:
glosses: An Argentine of African descent.
in thunderation
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: How in thunderation could anyone anticipate a result like this?
text: Where in thunderation have you been?
text: Why in thunderation should I believe anything you say?
text: There is no way in thunderation that I'm going to that wedding.
glosses: In any set of circumstances whatsoever.
Synonyms: the dickens
brewsky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brewskies
form: brewski
Etymology: From brew + -sky.
Senses: glosses: A beer.
Zoilus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Zōilus, from Ancient Greek Ζωΐλος (Zōḯlos).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek grammarian and critic (400–320 B.C.), known for his harsh criticisms of Homer’s poems.
Derived terms: zoilus
FBO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FBOs
form: FBO's
form: F.B.O.
form: F. B. O.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fixed base operator, an aircraft service center at an airport.
glosses: Initialism of football banning order.
FBO
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: F/B/O
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of for the benefit of (e.g., on a check or other financial instrument sent to a custodian).
FBO
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Facebook official.
serrefine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛəɹˈfiːn/
other: /sɛəɹ.əˈfiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: serrefines
Etymology: From French serre fine (“small clamp”), from serre (“clamp”) and fine, feminine form of fin (“thin, fine”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Small forceps used for clamping an artery.
Khorramshahr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian خرمشهر (xorramšahr) itself from خرم (xorram, “happy, green”) + شهر (šahr, “city”).
Senses: glosses: A port city in Khuzestan Province, located in southwestern Iran.
Synonyms: Piyan
Bayan
Mohammerah
ursigram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ursigrams
form: URSIgram
Etymology: From Union Radiophonique Scientifique + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A message broadcast by telex, radio or otherwise, containing scientific data (such as sunspot activity etc)
JCB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JCBs
Etymology: From the initials of the company founder, Joseph Cyril Bamford.
Senses: glosses: An earthmoving machine made by the J. C. Bamford (JCB) company.
examples: text: Upon arriving at the site, they found several JCBs busily tearing down what was left of the old sheds.
coordinate_terms: Cat#Noun
cat#Noun_3
caterpillar#Noun
Bobcat#Noun
bobcat#Noun_2
John Deere#Noun
Deere#Noun
qualifier: through trademark erosion
glosses: any backhoe/endloader combination, or similar machinery.
JCB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Joint Configuration Board.
glosses: Initialism of Japan Credit Bureau.
valuta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valute
form: valutas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian valuta (“currency”). Doublet of value.
Senses: examples: text: It helps that the gamer’s proxy is always on a quest – for money, gold, any token that may have valuta if not intrinsic value.
ref: 2012, Will Self, ‘Diary’, London Review of Books, vol. 34 no.21
glosses: A foreign currency; any monetary standard.
digitiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtɪˌfɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more digitiform
form: most digitiform
Etymology: From digit + -iform.
Senses: synonyms: dactyloid
dactyliform
digitate
fingerlike
fingery
glosses: Having the shape of a finger.
adposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæd.pəˌzɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: adpositions
Etymology: From ad- + position, from Latin adpositio, from adpositum, past participle of adponere, an alternative form of apponere (“to put near”).
Senses: examples: text: Throughout this book, I have assumed that adpositions (prepositions and postpositions) are not lexical categories, but rather functional categories.[…]While this view of adpositions is far from unprecedented, it runs contrary to the more standard generative treatment, championed by Jackendoff (1977: 31-33), in which adpositions constitute a fourth lexical category, filling out the logical space of possibilities defined by the two binary-valued features #43;#92;#33;#47;#92;#33;#92;#33;-#92;#33;#92;#33;#92;mathsfN and #43;#92;#33;#47;#92;#33;#92;#33;-#92;#33;#92;#33;#92;mathsfV.
ref: 2003, Mark C. Baker, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives, Cambridge University Press, page 303:
text: 2008, Amani Bohoussou, Stavros Skopeteas, Grammaticalization of spatial adpositions in Nànáfwê, Elisabeth Verhoeven, Stavros Skopeteas, Yong-Min Shin, Yoko Nishina, Johannes Helmbrecht (editors), Studies on Grammaticalization, Walter de Gruyter (Mouton), page 77,
It is well known in West African linguistics that languages in this broad sense display adpositions that emerge out of these two sources, namely nouns and verbs.
text: By establishing adpositions as a constantly referred to but never really demonstrated language category, this book has provided a basis for the theory of the linguistic category.[…]Adpositions could be considered a clear-cut category if one relied on syntax only, for one simple reason: the are specialized in function-marking.
ref: 2010, Claude Hagège, Adpositions, Oxford University Press, page 332:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition.
Synonyms: word: preposition
Hyponyms: english: narrow sense
translation: narrow sense
word: preposition
word: postposition
word: circumposition
Derived terms: adpositional
adpositionhood
elix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: elixes
form: elixing
form: elixed
form: elixed
Senses: examples: text: O that our muse / Had those abstruse and sinewy faculties / That with a strain of fresh invention / She might press out the rarity of art, / The pur'st elixed juice of rich conceit, / In your attentive ears, that with the lip / Of gracious elocution we might drink / A sound carouse unto your health of wit.
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To draw out or extract.
Related terms: elixir
fungiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌn.dʒɪ.fɔːm/
ipa: /ˈfʌŋ.ɡɪ.fɔːm/
Forms: form: more fungiform
form: most fungiform
Etymology: From fungi- + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: mycomorphic, mushroom-shaped
text: the fungiform papillae of the tongue
hypernyms: fungoid#Adjective
mushroomoid#Adjective
mushroomlike#Adjective
coordinate_terms: fungal#Adjective
fungous#Adjective
mycotic#Adjective
fungous#Adjective
fungusy#Adjective
mushroomy#Adjective
;
nonfungal#Adjective
nonmycotic#Adjective
glosses: Having the shape of a mushroom; especially, the archetypical such shape, suggesting a cap and stem.
paragram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paragrams
form: paragramme
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin paragramma, from Ancient Greek παράγραμμα (parágramma).
Senses: glosses: A play on words; a pun.
Derived terms: paragrammatist
paragrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paragram
euphorigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From euphoria + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Inducing a state of euphoria.
hydrocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrocephalic
form: most hydrocephalic
Senses: glosses: hydrocephalous
hydrocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocephalics
Senses: glosses: A person who has hydrocephalus.
Brønsted-Lowry base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brønsted-Lowry bases
form: Bronsted-Lowry base
Etymology: Based on a theory proposed independently in 1923 by Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and Thomas Martin Lowry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any chemical species that acts as an acceptor of protons
Related terms: Brønsted-Lowry acid
Brønsted base
Brønsted-Lowry acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹəʊnstɛd ˈlaʊɹi ˈæsɪd/
/ˈbɹɒn-/
/ˈbɹɜːn-/
Forms: form: Brønsted-Lowry acids
form: Bronsted-Lowry acid
Senses: glosses: Any chemical species that acts as a donor of protons
Related terms: Brønsted-Lowry base
Brønsted acid
majordomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmeɪ.d͡ʒəˈdəʊ.məʊ/
ipa: /ˌmeɪ.d͡ʒɚˈdoʊ.moʊ/
Forms: form: majordomos
form: major domo
form: major-domo
Etymology: From Italian maggiordomo and Spanish mayordomo, from Late Latin maior domūs (“steward”), from Latin maior (“main, principal”) + genitive singular of domus (“household”).
Senses: examples: text: Pancho, the major-domo, came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 22, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
text: In return for ruling over the king's palace, serving as the monarch's alter ego in the domestic sphere, and bearing the burden of accountability, the majordomo was compensated amply.
ref: 2002, Marta VanLandingham, chapter 7, in Transforming the State: King, Court and Political Culture in the Realms of Aragon (1213-1387), →ISBN, page 164:
glosses: The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
examples: text: She called upon a Missouri cousin named Edward Hardy Clark, who became the indispensable majordomo of the Hearst estate.
ref: 2006, Gray A. Brechin, chapter 5, in Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin, →ISBN, page 212:
qualifier: Southwest
glosses: A manager of a hacienda, ranch or estate.
examples: text: The United Nation's climate majordomo -- tasked with herding 192 nations toward a do-or-die deal by year's end -- does not have the power to impose an agreement on how to curb greenhouse gases and cope with its consequences.
ref: 2009 June 7, The Economic Times:
glosses: Any overseer, organizer, person in command.
Synonyms: seneschal
Bronsted-Lowry acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bronsted-Lowry acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brønsted-Lowry acid.
Related terms: Bronsted acid
Bronsted-Lowry base
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bronsted-Lowry bases
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of Brønsted-Lowry base.
Related terms: Bronsted base
bang to rights
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bang to rights
form: most bang to rights
form: banged to rights
Etymology: From bang (“completely”) + to rights (“properly”). Originally US; attested from the start of the 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: We had a man once who got caught with a bundle of railroad stocks.
They got him bang to rights and would have shoved him, only[…] when he swore he’d found them, they couldn’t prove he hadn’t.
ref: 1910 December, George Allan England, “The Steeled Conscience”, in The Railroad Man’s Magazine, New York: Frank A. Munsey Co., page 188:
text: The silk! Hide it! Throw it away! If they get us with that—we’re bang to rights.
ref: 1919 December 2, Charles W. Tyler, “Raw Silk”, in Detective Stories Magazine, volume XXVIII, New York: Street & Smith, page 29:
text: Looking at the evidence, I’d assumed that the hapless pair was bang to rights and that we’d have little trouble placing him on remand and giving the law-abiding residents of Surrey a brief respite.
ref: 2012, Officer ‘A’, The Crime Factory: The Shocking True Story of a Front Line CID Detective, Edinburgh: Mainstream, page 218:
glosses: Red-handed, (caught) in the act.
examples: text: Once, after a spammer trolled Nanae, accusing antis of having no life, Mad Pierre sarcastically responded that the spammer was correct. ¶ “Damn, you’ve got us bang to rights. We have no lives. None. At all.”
ref: 2004, Brian S. McWilliams, Spam Kings, Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, published 2005, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Tyler tries to dismiss Vidal's characterization of him as a pseudo-intellectual buffoon, but succeeds only in demonstrating that Vidal had him bang to rights.
ref: 2007, Neil Pearson, Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press, page 479:
text: He wished he were in London, where a girl in a minicab would set him bang to rights.
ref: 2008, James Buchan, The gate of air:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bang (adverb), to rights.
Synonyms: dead to rights
bang to rights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bangs to rights
form: banging to rights
form: banged to rights
form: banged to rights
form: banged to rights
Etymology: From reinterpretation of bang (“completely”) as bang (“to handle noisily or violently”).
Senses: examples: text: I am as intent on banging them all to rights as the next bleeding heart middle-class liberal, but take a look at the record so far.
ref: 2006, Planning, numbers 1650–1666, page 8:
text: Good week for: Cyclists, after Britain's most prolific bicycle thief was banged to rights.
ref: 2007 May 26, The Week, 615, 6:
text: His alter-ego Batman utters nothing more provocative than the occasional “holy smoke” as he bangs adversaries to rights
ref: 2009 February 4, “Batman turns air blue in Terminator tantrum”, in Belfast Telegraph:
text: He'd been untouchable for the past decade, but now Roy Grace had finally banged him to rights.
ref: 2010, Peter James, Dead Simple:
glosses: To have sufficient, indisputable evidence that a person's actions are generally perceived to be wrong; to catch red-handed.
Related terms: fair cop
banged to rights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Good week for: Cyclists, after Britain's most prolific bicycle thief was banged to rights.
ref: 2007 May 26, The Week, 615, 6:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bang to rights
timorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more timorously
form: most timorously
form: timourously
Etymology: From timorous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a timorous manner.
Synonyms: trepidly
ramino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rumino (“card game”).
green diesel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Diesel fuel that has been dyed green to indicate that it is only permitted to be used off-road due to lower road taxes.
glosses: Environmentally friendly diesel fuel.
Synonyms: sense: Diesel fuel that has been dyed green to indicate that it is only permitted to be used off-road due to lower road taxes.
word: red diesel
sense: Environmentally friendly diesel fuel.
word: biodiesel
Related terms: diesel laundering
abuse of discretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abuses of discretion
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The rendering of a decision by a court that is so unreasonable in light of the facts of the case or is such an unreasonable deviation from legal precedent that it must be reversed.
topics: law
glosses: Any action by a government official by which that official renders decisions for a clearly improper purpose.
abuses of discretion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: plural of abuse of discretion
after-acquired title
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: after-acquired titles
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Legal ownership of a piece of real property obtained by a party after that party has already purported to sell a falsely claimed present interest in the property to another.
Related terms: estoppel by deed
after-acquired titles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-acquired title
estoppel by deed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal doctrine under which a first party who purports to sell real property that the first party does not actually own to a second party must actually convey that property to the second party if the first party later acquires title to that property.
topics: law
glosses: The doctrine that a party is bound to a claim which that party made in order to induce another party to act.
Coordinate terms: estoppel by representation
Related terms: after-acquired title
boncer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boncer
form: most boncer
form: bonzer
Etymology: In marble sense: British dialect (north Hampshire), probably variant of bouncer (“a large thing”). In slang sense (= remarkable, excellent): replaced by voiced variant bonzer.
Senses: examples: text: The Trout boys had often spent the day with the Burnells in town, but now that they lived in this fine house and boncer garden they were inclined to be very friendly.
ref: 1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, chapter 8, page 45:
synonyms: bottler
ripper
glosses: Remarkable; wonderful.
boncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boncers
Senses: glosses: A kind of large marble; a bonce.
examples: text: ‘Of course the hero of the meeting was A.H. Holder, and let me tell you he is a ‘boncer’.
ref: 1897 April 3, The Auckland Star, Supplement, page 2:
glosses: Something remarkable, wonderful, excellent, etc.
public law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A category of law governing the relationship between the state on the one hand and persons (citizens or legal persons including corporations) on the other. Constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are some of the major subdivisions of public law.
Related terms: private law
public international law
quickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quicken
quickening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickenings
Senses: examples: text: If the following guide lose his distance from the one leading (which can only happen by his own fault), he will correct himself by slightly lengthening or shortening a few steps, in order that there may not be sudden quickenings or slackenings in the march of his platoon.
ref: 1861, United States. War Dept, U.S. Infantry Tactics, page 124:
text: It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: An increase of speed.
glosses: The action of bringing someone or something to life.
glosses: The first noticeable movements of a foetus during pregnancy, or the period when this occurs.
examples: text: It may indeed be said that these days brought on a high quickening of Maisie's direct perceptions, of her sense of freedom to make out things for herself.
ref: 1897 October 16, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Stimulation, excitement (of a feeling, emotion etc.).
integri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of integer
quickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/
Etymology: From quicken + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: Quickens are not confined to one species of grass.
ref: 1898, Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Transactions:
qualifier: chiefly Midlands (northern)
glosses: Synonym of couch grass (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also, the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses.
synonyms: word: couch grass
extra: (“a species of grass, Elymus repens”); also, the underground rhizomes of this, and sometimes other grasses
quickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/
Etymology: From quicken + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly Midlands (northern)
glosses: plural of quicken
quickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪk(ə)ns/
Etymology: From quicken + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quicken
constitutional law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The area of law which deals with the interpretation and application of a constitution, particularly that of a national government.
Related terms: constitutional court
constitutionalism
constitutionality
constitutional right
unconstitutionality
basic law
Enrolled Bill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Enrolled Bills
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Legislation that has been passed by both houses of Congress, signed by their presiding officers, and sent to the President for signature.
blows up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow up
blowing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blow up
blowing up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowings up
Senses: examples: text: Blowings up —explodings— Such would be your fate; Streams of fire 'neath us! — Bless us, what a state!
ref: 1876, William Cox Bennett, Songs of a Song Writer, page 60:
glosses: Explosion.
blew up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of blow up
blown up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of blow up
sends away for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of send away for
sending away for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of send away for
sent away for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of send away for
reindeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reindeer
Synonyms: reindeer
apter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæptə/
ipa: /ˈæptɚ/
rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)
Senses: examples: text: Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: Would you deign to be my instructress, I should prove an apter scholar than if taught by Signor Rappaccini himself.
ref: 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter:
glosses: comparative form of apt: more apt
estragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estragons
Etymology: Borrowed from French estragon. Doublet of tarragon.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tarragon
synonyms: word: tarragon
Rowleian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rowleian
form: most Rowleian
form: Rowleyan
Etymology: From Rowley + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The style of which is neither Rowleian nor Shakespearean but a particular blending of both.
ref: 1988, Ann Thompson, The Modern Language Review^(http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0026-7937(198810)83%3A4%3C945%3AWSA'BO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9), volume 83, number 4, page 945n:
text: Tim [Bloodhound] shows many signs of being a typical Rowleian clown; he is a fat clown, judging from his joke about breaking his girdle.
ref: 1991, Mark Dominik, “William Rowley”, in William Shakespeare and the Birth of Merlin, page 33:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or pertaining to the literary style and characters of plays by William Rowley (ca1585-1626), English playright.
examples: text: Mr. Tyrwhitt's book on the Rowleian controversy, which is reckoned completely victorious, are all the novelties I have seen since I left town.
ref: 1782, Horace Walpole, The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford, page 319:
text: Chatterton... also imparted to Barrett two Rowleian poems, "The Parliament of Sprites," and "The Battle of Hastings" (in two quite different versions).
ref: 1898, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century:
text: Tyrwhitt pointed out that the Rowleian dialect was not English of the fifteenth century, nor of any century, but a grotesque jumble of archaic words of very different periods and dialects.
ref: 1898, Henry A. Beers, A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Of or pertaining to the work of (fictional) poet Thomas Rowley, a pseudonym of Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), English poet.
IKEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈkiːə/
ipa: /ɪˈkeɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˈaɪˌki.ə/
ipa: /ɪˈki.a/
ipa: /i-/
Forms: form: Ikea
Etymology: From Swedish IKEA.
Senses: examples: text: Instruct the servant robot to clean the house, landscape the yard, and assemble several major pieces of IKEA furniture. Then, when your robot is power depleted and attempts to recharge, shut off the power to your house.
ref: 2005, Daniel H. Wilson, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 126:
text: It seems Swedish gangs, apparently no longer satisfied with knocking over their local IKEA’s, have taken to sneaking little people into the cargo holds of the buses by stowing them in suitcases.
ref: 2008 February 2, Luke Burbank, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:
glosses: An international, originally Swedish home products retailer that sells modern, utilitarian design furniture, much of which is assembled by the consumer.
Derived terms: IKEA effect
nest scrape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nest scrapes
Senses: examples: 1931, Deutsche Archiv für Polarforschung, Archiv für Polarforschung in Kiel, Vereinigung zur Förderung des Archivs für Polarforschung, Polarforschung, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Polarforschung, etc., page 72,
The breeding in 1966 is apparently the first reported from the Hazen area, although rare breeding in the past is suggested by one very old nest scrape on the study area.
2006, Jon Hardey and Humphrey Clark, Raptors: A Field Guide to Survey and Monitoring, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 15,
Criteria for identifying breeding pairs may be variously defined to include pairs that […]; pairs that […]; pairs that repair or build a nest or prepare a nest scrape; […] or pairs that […].
2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 130,
Avocets and stilts are monogamous and tend to breed in small colonies near water. The nest scrape, into which eggs are placed, is often lined with vegetation.
glosses: A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a scrape.
Falklands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(l).kləndz/
ipa: /ˈfɒl.kləndz/
ipa: /ˈfɔ.kləndz/
ipa: /ˈfɑ.kləndz/
Forms: form: the Falklands
form: Falkland
Senses: examples: text: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has categorically ruled out any new negotiations saying the future of the Falklands can only be decided by the islanders themselves in accordance with the UN principle of self-determination.
ref: 2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, The Guardian:
glosses: Ellipsis of Falkland Islands: An archipelago and overseas territory of the United Kingdom, located in the South Atlantic.
Related terms: Falkland
Falklander
Falkland Islander
Falkland Islands
Falklands factor
Falklands fritillary
Falkland Sound
Falklands War
dittos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditto
gorged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːdʒd/
ipa: /ɡɔːɹd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd
Etymology: From gorge + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Gorged nearly to the uttermost when he entered the restaurant, the smell of food had almost caused him to lose his honor as a gentleman, but he rallied like a true knight.
ref: 1907, O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen:
text: “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers,[…], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: With a stomach stuffed full of food.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: With the neck collared or encircled by an object.
glosses: Having a gorge or throat.
Derived terms: ungorged
gorged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔːdʒd/
ipa: /ɡɔːɹd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dʒd
Etymology: From gorge + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gorge
Related terms: engorged
gorge
Halkomelem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /hɒlkəˈmeɪləm/
Forms: form: Halq'eméylem
form: Holkomelem
form: Hul̓q̓umín̓um̓
form: Hul'q'umi'num'
Senses: glosses: A Central Salishan language spoken around the Lower Fraser River and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, by the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Qayqayt, Tsawwassen, Tsleil-Waututh First Nations downriver, by the Aitchelitz, Skway, Skowkale, Soowahlie, Squiala, Tzeachten, and Yakweakwioose First Nations upriver, and by the Cowichan, Halalt, Lamalchi, Lyackson, Penelakut, Snuneymuxw, Snaw-naw-as, Stzꞌuminus, and Tsꞌuubaa-asatx on Vancouver Island.
Hypernyms: hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓
hən'q'əmin'əm'
going down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of go down
nunation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nʌˈneɪʃn̩/
/nʌˈneɪʃən/
Forms: form: nunations
form: nunnation
Etymology: From nun + -ation, after Arabic تَنْوِين (tanwīn), verbal noun of نَوَّنَ (nawwana, literally “to nunate, nunify”), derived from the letter name نُون (nūn). See nun (“Semitic letter”).
Senses: examples: نَهْرٌ (nahr-un, “a river”)
مَلِكٌ (malik-un, “a king”)
glosses: The use of a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective in standard Arabic. It is written as a diacritic over the final letter.
glosses: The use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms in Akkadian.
Synonyms: tanwin
Unserdeutsch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Unserdeutsch Unserdeutsch, from German unser (“our”) + Deutsch (“German”).
Senses: glosses: A German-based creole language spoken primarily in Papua New Guinea and the northeast of Australia.
Synonyms: Rabaul Creole German
ocotillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əʊkəˈtɪləʊ/
/əʊkəˈtiː(j)əʊ/
Forms: form: ocotillos
Etymology: From American Spanish ocotillo, from ocote.
Senses: examples: text: It had rained in the night, and some of the ocotillo fences had sprouted some green.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 731:
glosses: Any of various succulent plants, not closely related to the cactus, in genus Fouquieria, especially Fouquieria splendens, living in Central America or the southwest United States.
Synonyms: boojum tree
coachwhip
Jacob's staff
vine cactus
EAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Eurasian Economic Union.
New Democratic Party
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the New Democratic Party
Senses: synonyms: NDP
glosses: A Canadian social-democratic political party which fields candidates in both federal and provincial elections.
Derived terms: New Democrat
New Democratic
Related terms: Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Dipper
NDPer
NDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NDPs
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of net domestic product.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of neutron depth profiling.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of nucleoside diphosphate.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: norrin
glosses: Initialism of Norrie disease protein.
Related terms: GDP
gross domestic product
Norrie disease
NDPer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NDPers
Etymology: From NDP + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One week before the Liberal leadership convention, it's NDPers who are among the most agitated. […] "What's not to like?" the NDPer asks. "He talks about the environment and social justice like he's motivated about them."
ref: 2007, Glenn Wheeler, “NDP's stealth threat”, in NOW, Toronto, vol 26 no 12, 23-29 Nov:
text: Langen, who has been volunteering on NDPer Keith Bellamy's council campaign in Daniel McIntyre, said he got a call from a local union asking for a top-tier campaign manager willing to kick May's campaign into high gear.
ref: 2010 October 14, Mary Agnes Welch, “NDP calls in top organizer: St. Norbert ward is ‘in play’”, in Winnipeg Free Press, page B4:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: Dipper
New Democrat
glosses: A member or supporter of the Canadian New Democratic Party.
Related terms: Bloquiste
Conservative
Grit
Liberal
Reformer
Tory
Afro-Argentines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afro-Argentine
dorsum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔː.səm/
ipa: /ˈdɔɹ.səm/
Forms: form: dorsa
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dorsum (“the back”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: back
glosses: The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
The back of the tongue, used for articulating dorsal consonants.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: back
glosses: The back or dorsal region on the surface of an animal.
The top of the foot or the back of the hand.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A ridge on a hill, or on the surface of a planet or moon.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Theta Capricorni, a star on the back of the Goat.
Related terms: dorsal
dorsumal
dorsum sellae
flexus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexus
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A low, curvilinear ridge with a scalloped pattern.
examples: text: A flexid or flexus is said to abut when the enamel of the flexid or flexus touches the enamel of the opposite side of the tooth. The distal end or termination of the flexid or flexus is described as flattened, rounded or narrowed.
ref: 1955, Joseph Augustine Cushman, Raymond Cecil Moore, John Bernard Reeside, Journal of Paleontology, volume 29, page 130:
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: In infolding of enamel that separates lophs on an upper tooth.
Derived terms: anteroflexus
hypoflexus
mesoflexus
metaflexus
paraflexus
posteroflexus
protoflexus
punctus flexus
fluctus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluctus
form: flucti
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An area covered by outflow from a volcano.
flumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flumina
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin flumen (“river”). Doublet of flume.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: In planetary geology, any of the river-like features on Saturn's moon Titan.
macula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækjʊlə/
Forms: form: maculas
form: maculae
Etymology: From Middle English macula (“spot on the skin or in the eye”), borrowed from Latin macula (“spot, stain”). Doublet of macchia and macule.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An oval yellow spot near the center of the retina of the human eye, histologically defined as having two or more layers of ganglion cells, responsible for detailed central vision.
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small chamber of the inner ear of certain vertebrates filled with endolymph and containing an otolith.
glosses: A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
glosses: A rather large spot or blotch of color.
glosses: In planetary geology, an unusually dark area on the surface of a planet or moon.
Derived terms: hemimacula
lagenar macula
macular
maculopathy
Related terms: sense: oval yellow spot near the center of the retina
word: macula lutea
sense: oval yellow spot near the center of the retina
word: macular
mensa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛn(t)sə/
Forms: form: mensae
form: mensas
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin mēnsa (“table, altar”). Doublet of mesa.
Senses: glosses: In planetary geology, a large mesa-like area of raised land.
examples: text: Some churches also have an altar stone, a separate stone set into the mensa containing a relic of a saint, although this is becoming extremely rare.
ref: 1993, B. Don Taylor, The Complete Training Course for Altar Guilds, →ISBN, page 32:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: The upper surface of an altar.
mons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒnz/
rhymes: -ɒnz
Forms: form: montes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mōns (“mountain”). Doublet of mount.
Senses: qualifier: palmistry
glosses: One of the fleshy areas at the base of the fingers; a mount.
examples: text: Hesitantly, she used one finger to stroke the very top of the mons, surprised at its fatty, downy fullness — unfamiliar, despite a life of touching herself.
ref: 2021, Leone Ross, This One Sky Day, Faber & Faber Limited, page 316:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of mons pubis.
examples: raw_tags: on Mars
text: Olympus Mons
raw_tags: on Venus
text: Maxwell Montes
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An extraterrestrial mountain or volcano.
Related terms: mons veneris
mons Venus
phytotaxonomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phyto- + taxonomic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phytotaxonomy; pertaining to the classification of plants.
Related terms: phytotaxonomy
taxonomic
rupes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin rūpēs (“cliff”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An escarpment on another planet or a moon.
tholus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tholi
Etymology: From Latin tholus (“dome, rotunda”). Doublet of tholos.
Senses: examples: text: Hecates Tholus is a Martian volcano.
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small domical mountain or hill.
synonyms: thole
glosses: A round building, dome, or cupola.
topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of the apical structure of the asci of some lichen species.
heart-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart-leaves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heartleaf.
lace-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lace-leafs
form: lace-leaves
form: laceleaf
form: lace leaf
Senses: glosses: An aquatic plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis, syns. Aponogeton fenestralis, Ouvirandra fenestralis) whose leaves have little tissue between the veins.
Synonyms: sense: Aponogeton species
word: lace plant
sense: Aponogeton species
word: lattice leaf
sense: Aponogeton species
word: latticeleaf
sense: Aponogeton species
word: lattice plant
sense: Aponogeton species
word: lattice leaf plant
sense: Aponogeton species
word: Madagascar laceleaf
sense: Aponogeton species
word: water yam
leaf cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf cutters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter.
leaf-cutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-cutters
form: leaf cutter
form: leafcutter
Senses: glosses: Any insect that cuts pieces from leaves.
glosses: A plantcutter
glosses: A tool for trimming leaves from plants.
glosses: A person employed to collect leaves from wild growing trees and shrubs for use in zoos, animal hospitals, etc.
glosses: A pastry mould in the shape of a leaf or leaves.
Derived terms: leaf-cutter ant
leafcutter ant
leaf-cutter bee
leafcutter bee