cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
constituent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɪtjuənt/
ipa: /kənˈstɪt͡ʃuənt/
Forms: form: constituents
Etymology: From Latin cōnstituēns, present participle of cōnstituō (“I establish”), from com- (“together”) + statuo (“I set, place, establish”); see statute or statue, and compare institute and restitute.
Senses: examples: text: We know how to bring these constituents together, and to cause them to form water.
ref: 1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe, published 1869, page 11:
glosses: A part, or component of a whole
examples: text: whose first composure and origination requires a higher and nobler Constituent than either Chance or the ordinary method of meer Natural causes.
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: A person or thing which constitutes, determines, or constructs
examples: text: To appeal from the representatives to the constituents.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A resident of an area represented by an elected official, particularly in relation to that official.
glosses: A voter who supports a (political) candidate; a supporter of a cause.
topics: law
glosses: One who appoints another to act for him as attorney in fact
examples: text: Thus, the postulation of a Noun Phrase constituent is justified on morphological grounds, since it is not obvious how we could describe the grammar of the genitive s inflection in English without saying that it's a Noun Phrase inflection.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 65:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A functional element of a phrase or clause
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from adjective or noun (unsorted)
word: constituent assembly
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun (unsorted)
word: constituent country
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun (unsorted)
word: core constituent
sense: terms derived from adjective or noun (unsorted)
word: non-constituent
Related terms: substituent
substitute
separate the wheat from the chaff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: separates the wheat from the chaff
form: separating the wheat from the chaff
form: separated the wheat from the chaff
form: separated the wheat from the chaff
form: sort the wheat from the chaff
form: winnow the wheat from the chaff
form: winnow grain from chaff
Etymology: The figurative sense is by extension from the literal sense, which is threshing. Because threshing has been an important activity for humans for thousands of years, it is well represented both in folk wisdom and (relatedly) in the bible; for example, Matthew 3:12.
Senses: examples: text: As a punishment, Zhemao and her affiliated accounts were suspended permanently. Most of her articles were deleted based on community consensus. Some Wikipedians even wrote to experts, seeking help to separate the wheat from the chaff.
ref: 2022 July 13, Rachel Cheung, “A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia”, in Vice:
synonyms: winnow
glosses: To select only that which is of value.
Related terms: wheat and tares
Kuiper belt object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɪpəɹ/
rhymes: -aɪpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Kuiper belt objects
Etymology: Named after Gerard Kuiper, who theorized about the belt's existence.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: KBO
kuiperoid
glosses: A trans-Neptunian object (TNO) (a type of minor planet) that has an orbit in the Kuiper belt (between 30-50 AU) with inclinations consistent with the ecliptic.
Hyponyms: english: Cold Classical
translation: Cold Classical
word: KBO
english: Hot Classical
translation: Hot Classical
word: KBO
word: Resonant KBO
word: scattered Kuiper belt object
word: Scattered KBO
cubewano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkjuːbiːˈwʌnoʊ/
Forms: form: cubewanos
Etymology: From acronym of QB1 + -o.
Derived from QB1 ("cue bee one"), short for (15760) 1992 QB1, the first such object discovered
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any Kuiper belt object whose orbit is not determined by resonance with Neptune (orbit ~ 40-50 AU).
Synonyms: classical Kuiper belt object
trans-Neptunian object
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-Neptunian objects
form: transneptunian object
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: word: TNO
glosses: Any natural object (usually a minor planet (asteroid) or a hypothetical planet) in the Solar System with all or most of its orbit outside the orbit of Neptune.
Hypernyms: celestial object
Hyponyms: classical Kuiper belt object
detached object
extreme trans-Neptunian object
resonant trans-Neptunian object
scattered-disc object
sednoid
KBO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KBOs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: EKO
kuiperoid
coordinate_terms: TNO
glosses: Initialism of Kuiper belt object.
KBO
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: So Sunak will try to muddle through, adopting Winston Churchill’s wartime mantra “KBO” (keep buggering on). Ministers insist the picture is not as bleak as the headlines about Tory divisions suggest, noting that the unpalatable tax rises in Jeremy Hunt’s autumn statement were approved by 318 votes to 223.
ref: 2022 November 30, Andrew Grice, “Rishi Sunak is trying to govern the ungovernable”, in The Independent:
glosses: Initialism of keep buggering on.
Paleolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪl.iː.əʊˌlɪθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪlioʊˌlɪθɪk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪliəˌlɪθɪk/
Forms: form: palaeolithic
form: palæolithic
form: palaeolithical
form: paleolithical
Etymology: From paleo- + -lithic.
Senses: examples: Holonym: Stone Age
synonyms: Old Stone Age
related: word: New Stone Age
word: Neolithic#Proper noun
glosses: A period that lasted from two and a half million years ago to 10,000 BCE; the Old Stone Age.
Derived terms: Epipaleolithic
prepaleolithic
Upper Paleolithic
Related terms: lith
Paleolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪl.iː.əʊˌlɪθ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪlioʊˌlɪθɪk/
ipa: /ˈpeɪliəˌlɪθɪk/
Forms: form: palaeolithic
form: palæolithic
form: palaeolithical
form: paleolithical
Etymology: From paleo- + -lithic.
Senses: examples: text: We find material evidences of magical practices in the European caves of the Palæolithic age[.]
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 18:
glosses: Of or referring to the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic period or Paleolithic age).
examples: text: Stacked up against ChatGPT’s ability to instantly transform any image into a Studio Ghibli cartoon, Instagram’s photo filters are practically Paleolithic.
ref: 2025 August 4, Mike Isaac, “A.I. Has Ushered in Silicon Valley’s ‘Hard Tech’ Era”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025:
glosses: Antiquated, antediluvian.
Related terms: Mesolithic
Neolithic
Mesolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: mĕsōlĭthīk
Etymology: From meso- + -lithic.
Senses: glosses: Of or referring to the Middle Stone Age (also the Mesolithic period or the Mesolithic age), a prehistoric period that lasted between 10000 and 3000 BC.
Related terms: lith
Mesolithic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: mĕsōlĭthīk
Etymology: From meso- + -lithic.
Senses: glosses: Short for the Mesolithic period.
Related terms: Neolithic
Paleolithic
Stone Age
co-branding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-brandings
Etymology: From co- + branding.
Senses: glosses: The combination of two or more well-known brands for marketing purposes, to strengthen one another's preference or purchase intentions, or to reach a broader audience.
momento
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of memento + moment.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of memento.
adharmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adharmic
form: most adharmic
Etymology: By surface analysis, adharma + -ic, or, by surface analysis, a- + dharmic.
Senses: examples: text: Anything that represents itself as a method of liberation, and yet promotes that which leads to the opposite of liberation is adharmic.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
antonyms: dharmic
Dharmic
glosses: unrighteous; contrary to universal law.
Related terms: adharma
dharma
akarma
wardrobe malfunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wardrobe malfunctions
Etymology: An Americanism, coined by singer Justin Timberlake in 2004 to describe the incident during Super Bowl XXXVIII in which singer Janet Jackson's right breast was bared.
Senses: examples: text: Monaco, a 23-year-old Argentinian seeded No. 23, survived the most unlikely wardrobe malfunction to save a match point and win a third-set tiebreaker, 8-6.
ref: 2007 September 4, Kathleen McElroy, “But Wait! Djokovic Is Still Playing”, in New York Times Straight Sets, retrieved 17 Apr 2021:
glosses: An accidental counterpart of indecent exposure caused by a fault in someone's clothing (especially that of a performer) or by an error made while changing clothes.
wikipedia: Janet Jackson
Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy
Derived terms: wardrobe malfunctioner
Related terms: Nipplegate
recidivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rɪˈsɪdɪvɪzm̩/
ipa: /ɹəˈsɪdəvəzm̩/
enpr: r(ĭ)-sĭ'-dĭ-vĭ-zm̩
Forms: form: recidivisms
Etymology: From French récidivisme, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ism. By surface analysis, recidive + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The increase in criminal activity was attributed to recidivism.
text: Unintended mathwashing occurs when the algorithm is left unchecked, and, learning from historical data, amplifies social bias. The U.S. justice system uses an algorithm called COMPAS to determine a criminal's likelihood to re-offend. COMPAS has been proven by Pro Publica to predict that black defendants will have higher rates of recidivism than they actually do, while white defendants are predicted to have lower rates than they actually do.
ref: 2018 January 29, Sophie Kleber, “As AI Meets the Reputation Economy, We're All Being Silently Judged”, in Harvard Business Review, Brighton, M.A.: Harvard Business Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2023:
glosses: Committing new offenses after a crime committed in the past.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: Chronic repetition of criminal or other antisocial behavior.
examples: text: alcohol(ic) recidivism
glosses: Returning to a negative behavior after having stopped it for a period of time.
Related terms: english: repeat offender
translation: repeat offender
word: recidivist
word: recidivize
word: three strikes and you're out
word: three-strikes law
word: zero tolerance
mad cow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mad cows
Etymology: Ellipsis of mad cow disease.
Senses: qualifier: by ellipsis
glosses: Mad cow disease; bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
glosses: A cow afflicted with mad cow disease.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mad, cow.
nothing to it
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: See? Nothing to it. You just put tab A in slot B and give it a flip.
glosses: Easy; simple or straightforward.
Related terms: piece of cake
cease and desist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ceases and desists
form: ceasing and desisting
form: ceased and desisted
form: ceased and desisted
Etymology: From cease (“stop”), and desist (“to not do again”).
Senses: examples: text: We are told to cease and desist or we will cease to exist.
topics: law
glosses: To stop and not resume an action.
cease and desist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cease-and-desist
Etymology: From cease (“stop”), and desist (“to not do again”).
Senses: examples: text: She received a cease-and-desist letter from his solicitors soon after the podcast.
topics: law
glosses: A written demand that a party stops and does not resume a certain behavior, such as copyright infringement, slander, or libel, threatening legal action if the recipient fails to do so.
examples: text: His remarks did not stop the courts from issuing the cease-and-desist order.
topics: law
glosses: An order by a government agency, sanctioned by a court, that one must stop and not resume a certain (usually illegal) behavior.
touch base
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches base
form: touching base
form: touched base
form: touched base
form: touch bases
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To touch a base, usually with a foot but sometimes with a hand.
examples: text: Touch base with your boss before you start work to make sure you understand the project.
text: I had met with Dr. Todd right before dinner. He had wanted to touch base with me about my ongoing treatment.
ref: 2014, A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: To meet or make contact with someone, usually to consult, review, visit, or communicate.
raw_tags: with "with"
Derived terms: Touch Base Policy
consult
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏn'sŭlt
enpr: kən-sŭlt'
rhymes: -ʌlt
ipa: /ˈkɒnsʌlt/
ipa: /kənˈsʌlt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnsʌlt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kŏn.salʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɒn.salʈ/
Forms: form: consults
Etymology: From Middle French consulte. In sense “council”, it represents Latin cōnsultum, Italian consulto; and it may have been often taken as a direct formation from the verb.
Senses: synonyms: consultation
glosses: A visit to consult somebody, such as a doctor; a consultation.
examples: text: For firſt upon conſult of reaſon, there will bee found no eaſie aſſurance for to faſten a materiall or temperamentall propriety upon any nation; […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Iewes”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 4th book, page 201:
glosses: The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation.
examples: text: [T]he council broke; / And all their grave conſults diſſolv'd in ſmoke.
ref: a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “The First Book of Homer’s Ilias”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC, page 431:
glosses: The result of consultation; determination; decision.
examples: text: a consult of coquettes
ref: 1730, Jonathan Swift, chapter 5, in Death and Daphne:
glosses: A council; a meeting for consultation.
glosses: Agreement; concert.
octophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From octo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Country like Nepal, India, Bhutan and Myanmar, people who follows Hindu religion, they consider the numbers 0, 1, 8, 10, 12, 19 and 28 as unlucky numbers, bad luck or evil spirits etc. These numbers are called oudenophobia, henophobia, octophobia, decaphobia, dodecaphobia, enneadecaphobia and eikosioctophobia respectively.
ref: 2020 August 24, Rajendra Kunwar, “MATHEMATICS PHOBIA: CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND WAYS TO OVERCOME”, in International Journal of Creative Research Thoughts, volume 8, number 8, →ISSN, page 820:
text: People with octophobia experience anxiety when they think about or see the number 8.
ref: 2022 March 22, “Octophobia (Fear of the Number 8)”, in Cleaveland Clinic:
glosses: The irrational fear of the number eight.
flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flow
flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: flowings
Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.
Senses: examples: the flowing of the river
glosses: The action of the verb to flow
flowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfloʊ.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfləʊ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊɪŋ
Forms: form: more flowing
form: most flowing
Etymology: From Middle English flowyng; equivalent to flow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Tending to flow.
examples: text: a flowing dress
text: flowing prose
text: [T]he pleasure of writing on wax with a stylus is exemplified by the fine, flowing hand of a Roman scribe who made out the birth certificate of Herennia Gemella, born March 128 AD.
ref: 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28:
glosses: Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
Synonyms: sense: tending to flow
word: fluent
word: streaming
word: flowing
word: fluid
word: fluminous
word: fluxive
word: free-flowing
word: onrushing
word: quick
word: running
Hypernyms: word: in motion
Hyponyms: word: fast-flowing
word: fastest-flowing
word: everflowing
word: transfluent
Derived terms: coflowing
downflowing
everflowing
flowingly
flowingness
full-flowing
inflowing
nonflowing
outflowing
thickflowing
unflowing
Related terms: word: runny
snapshot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæpʃɒt/
Forms: form: snapshots
Etymology: From snap + shot.
Senses: examples: text: He carried a snapshot of his daughter.
glosses: A photograph, especially one taken quickly or in a sudden moment of opportunity.
examples: text: The article offered a snapshot of life in that region.
text: I hope you've enjoyed reading this series. As usual, it's just a snapshot because there's so much to say but only so many words can make it into print.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 70:
glosses: A glimpse of something; a portrayal of something at a moment in time.
examples: text: This game is so hard that I find myself taking a snapshot every few seconds in case I get killed.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file or set of files captured at a particular time, often capable of being reloaded to restore the earlier state.
examples: text: Yet Revell misjudged his promising position in the area to put his point-blank snapshot wide from only six yards out.
ref: 2011 March 2, Chris Whyatt, “Arsenal 5 - 0 Leyton Orient”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A quick, unplanned or unexpected shot.
examples: text: How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
ref: 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A quick offhand shot, made without deliberately taking aim over the sights.
Derived terms: snapshotter
snapshottery
Snapchat
snapshot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnæpʃɒt/
Forms: form: snapshots
form: snapshotting
form: snapshotted
form: snapshotted
Etymology: From snap + shot.
Senses: examples: text: As he did not appear disposed to move off, I took my camera and approached within about thirty yards, when I snapshotted him.
ref: 1904, David T Hanbury, Sport and Travel in the Northland of Canada:
glosses: To take a photograph of.
examples: text: Filer appliances also offer programmatic snapshotting and cloning at the block-level or file system-level.
ref: 2007, David E. Irwin, An Operating System Architecture for Networked Server Infrastructure, page 30:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To capture the state of, in a snapshot.
Derived terms: snapshottable
give the time of day
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives the time of day
form: giving the time of day
form: gave the time of day
form: given the time of day
Etymology: According to some, the expression originally literally referred to greeting someone with the obsolete greeting "good time of day", or other greeting appropriate to the time of day (e.g., good morning, good afternoon, good evening), and only later acquired an association with telling someone the time, along with its idiomatic sense.
Senses: examples: text: If you're lucky, she might give you the time of day.
glosses: To acknowledge someone; to give someone respect or attention; to tip one's hat.
examples: text: He won't give the time of day to someone like you or me.
text: I tried to say "hi", but she wouldn't give me the time of day.
text: "Daddy, please," Leanne laughed, "Give Linds a little credit. She wouldn't give the time of day to someone like Connor."
ref: 2005, Carole Dillane Krajeski, 99% of the Time, →ISBN, page 270:
glosses: To not acknowledge someone; to snub someone; to disrespect someone; to ignore someone.
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: To tell someone the time of day by looking at one's wristwatch, etc.
Related terms: daytime
give someone the time
give someone time
have the time
timekeep
timekeeping
time of day
sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌlfeɪt/
Forms: form: sulfates
form: sulfating
form: sulfated
form: sulfated
form: sulphate
Etymology: From the above noun, through -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To treat something with sulfuric acid, a sulfate, or with sulfur dioxide.
glosses: To accumulate a deposit of lead sulfate.
raw_tags: of a lead-acid battery
sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌl.feɪt/
Forms: form: sulphates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfate.
Derived terms: copper sulphate
sulphate of copper
zinc sulphate
sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌl.feɪt/
Forms: form: sulphates
form: sulphating
form: sulphated
form: sulphated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfate.
Derived terms: borosulphate
disulphate
dodecylsulphate
hydrosulphate
iodosulphate
keratosulphate
organosulphate
oxysulphate
persulphate
polysulphate
protosulphate
subsulphate
sulphatian
sulphatic
supersulphate
thiosulphate
trisulphate
keep an eye peeled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps an eye peeled
form: keeping an eye peeled
form: kept an eye peeled
form: kept an eye peeled
form: keep one's eyes peeled
Senses: examples: text: Keep an eye peeled, you never know when the ice-cream truck will pass by.
glosses: To look out (for something) attentively.
Synonyms: be on the lookout
keep a look-out
keep an eye out
keep an eye skinned
keep one's eyes skinned
look out
watch out
injuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʒʊəɹi.ə/
Forms: form: injuriae
form: injuriæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iniuria. Doublet of injury.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: injury; invasion of another's rights
Related terms: crimen injuria
damnum absque injuria
injuria sine damno
snaggletoothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snaggletoothed
form: most snaggletoothed
form: snaggle-toothed
Etymology: From snaggle + toothed or snaggletooth + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”
ref: 2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, quoting Annie Bourneuf, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025:
glosses: Having misaligned, broken, missing or otherwise damaged or disorderly teeth.
Related terms: snaggletooth
loose-toothed
hepatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛpəˈtaɪ̯tɪs/
Forms: form: hepatitises
form: hepatitides
Etymology: From Latin hēpatītis, from hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”). By surface analysis, hepat- + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: Hepatitises B and C are the most important chronic viral infections of humans.
ref: 2013, Teri Shors, Understanding Viruses, 2nd edition:
glosses: Inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.
Derived terms: cholangiohepatitis
enterohepatitis
gastrohepatitis
hepatitis A
hepatitis B
hepatitis C
hepatitis D
hepatitis delta virus
hepatitis E
hepatitis externa
hepatitis X
non-A-E hepatitis
perihepatitis
steatohepatitis
walleye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: walleyes
form: walleye
Etymology: Back-formation from walleyed.
Senses: qualifier: plural "walleyes"
glosses: One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
qualifier: plural "walleyes"
glosses: An unusually pale eye.
glosses: A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
Synonyms: sense: Sander vitreus
word: walleyed pike
sense: Sander vitreus
word: colored pike
sense: Sander vitreus
word: yellow pike
sense: Sander vitreus
word: pickerel
sense: Sander vitreus
word: Stizostedion vitreum
Derived terms: walleye chop
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus
crosseyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crosseyed
form: most crosseyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cross-eyed.
nephros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephros
form: nephroi
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A kidney-like organ.
Derived terms: nephro-
-nephron
-nephros
Related terms: mesonephros
metanephros
nephrectomy
nephric
nephridium
nephrite
nephritic
nephritis
nephroblastoma
nephrology
nephron
nephropathy
nephrosis
pronephros
nephritis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˈfraɪtɪs/
Forms: form: nephritides
form: nephritises
Etymology: From nephr- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the kidney.
Derived terms: cystoureteropyelonephritis
epinephritis
glomerulonephritis
interstitial nephritis
nephritic
perinephritis
pyelonephritis
tubulonephritis
Related terms: Bright's disease
nephrosclerosis
nephrosis
nephrotic syndrome
nephritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephritic
form: most nephritic
form: nephritick
Etymology: From Middle English neufretic, from Medieval Latin nefreticus; compare Classical Latin nephrīticus; equivalent to nephritis + -ic = nephr- (“kidney”) + itis (“inflammation”) + -ic (“related”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: nephrotic
glosses: Of, relating to, or affected with nephritis or nephritic syndrome.
synonyms: nephric
renal
glosses: Of or relating to the kidneys.
Derived terms: antinephritic
perinephritic
postnephritic
prenephritic
pronephritic
nephritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephritics
form: nephritick
Etymology: From Middle English neufretic, from Medieval Latin nefreticus; compare Classical Latin nephrīticus; equivalent to nephritis + -ic = nephr- (“kidney”) + itis (“inflammation”) + -ic (“related”).
Senses: glosses: Someone with nephritis.
nephric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛf.ɹɪk/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós, “kidney”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or connected with a kidney.
Synonyms: sense: of a kidney
word: renal
sense: of a kidney
english: only archaically
translation: only archaically
word: nephritic
Derived terms: anephric
binephric
cardionephric
enteronephric
epinephric
exonephric
hepatonephric
heptanonephric
mesonephric
metanephric
nephric duct
neuronephric
paranephric
peramesonephric
perinephric
pronephric
uninephric
tuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuans
Etymology: Borrowed from Wathaurong duwan.
Senses: glosses: A brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), endemic to Australia.
Synonyms: common wambenger
black-tailed phascogale
tuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuans
Etymology: From Malay tuan.
Senses: examples: text: "It gives you the Tuan touch. You learn to clap your hands to summon your coloured servants, instead of yelling...to drink stengahs, instead of plain whisky, to speak of lunch as tiffin...God help us!" He chuckled deeply.
ref: 1975, Xavier Herbert, Poor Fellow My Country, Sydney: Collins Publishers, published 1988, page 129:
glosses: Lord; master.
navigator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnavɪɡeɪtə/
Forms: form: navigators
Etymology: From Latin nāvigātor. By surface analysis, navigate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: The increases kept many navigator groups, which help people pick policies, very busy.
At the United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, 34 navigators helped up to 120 residents select plans each week during this open enrollment season, which ran from November 1 through January 16, said Daniel Bouton, vice president for health and wellness at the nonprofit group.
ref: 2024 January 24, Tami Luhby, “Obamacare sign-ups hit record 21.3 million as Biden pushes his efforts to lower health care costs”, in CNN:
glosses: A person who navigates, especially an officer with that responsibility on a ship or an aircrew member with that responsibility on an aircraft.
examples: text: He felt having a Micronesian navigator meant he needed a pureblooded Polynesian, preferably a Hawaiian, as captain.
ref: 2007 May 27, Douglas Martin, “Kawika Kapahulehua Dies; Hawaiian Seafarer Was 76”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2021:
glosses: A sea explorer.
glosses: A device that navigates an aircraft, automobile or missile.
examples: text: Although the window looks like a view of files and folders on disk, the “folders” that appear here are called groups; they don't exist on disk. They appear in the navigator because it's convenient to group related files together […]
ref: 2012, Richard Wentk, iOS App Development Portable Genius, page 38:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user interface that allows navigating through a structure of any kind.
glosses: A labourer on an engineering project such as a canal; a navvy.
Derived terms: astronavigator
inertial navigator
nagavator
navigatress
navigatrix
Related terms: navigate
navigation
decipher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪfə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: deciphers
form: deciphering
form: deciphered
form: deciphered
form: decypher
Etymology: As decypher, but not retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cipher.
Senses: synonyms: decode
decrypt
uncode
antonyms: encipher
encode
encrypt
coordinate_terms: recipher
recode
glosses: To convert a code or cipher to plain text.
glosses: To read text that is almost illegible or obscure
examples: text: Truly, we need human infirmity to teach us human nature, and that to Louis had been as a sealed book; he had only seen the coloured and gilded outside: too late he had to decipher the rough and gloomy page within.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter II, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 13:
glosses: To make sense of a complex situation.
glosses: To find a solution to a problem.
Derived terms: decipherability
decipherable
decipheration
decipherer
decipheress
decipherment
indecipherability
indecipherable
misdecipher
redecipher
undecipher
undecipherable
undeciphered
decipher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪfə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪfə(ɹ)
Forms: form: deciphers
form: decypher
Etymology: As decypher, but not retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cipher.
Senses: examples: text: I enclose a letter which I received yesterday evening from the Marques de Monsalud, containing the decipher of a letter from the King to the Comte d'Erlon. I wish that the Marques had sent the ciphered letter here […]
ref: 1837, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshall the Duke of Wellington, K.G.:
glosses: A decipherment; a decoding.
naïve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: naïver
form: more naïve
form: naïvest
form: most naïve
Etymology: From French naïve, feminine of naïf.
Senses: examples: text: But it is this naïve man—and philosophers for the greater part of their lives are naïve men—who makes the unrecognized introspective observations with which we are here concerned. It is the naïve man who divides the Real into the Beautiful, the True and the Good.
ref: 1922 September, Henry Rutgers Marshall, “The True, the Good and the Beautiful”, in J[ames] E[dwin] Creighton, James Seth, editors, The Philosophical Review, volume XXXI, number 5 (whole 185), New York, N.Y.; Lancaster, Pa.: Longmans, Green, & Co., section II, page 453:
glosses: Alternative spelling of naive.
examples: text: He has his own definite qualities of composition: a naïf grace, a deft handling of forms, and the introduction of variations into landscapes, figures, or the eyes of American sailors. […] In this room, blue as a tunnel with stagnant smoke, naïve girls dance with the directors of musical reviews.
ref: 1924 July, Paul Morand, “Paris Letter”, in Scofield Thayer, editor, The Dial, volume LXXVII, Camden, N.J.: The Dial Publishing Company, Inc., published September 1924, page 241:
text: The passages are alike because (1) the person who is supposed to be writing is illiterate; and because (2) she or he is naïf and engagingly childish. […] Gertrude Stein may be falsely naïve, but what are two realistic satirists of American types, like Anita Loos and Ring Lardner, doing in such a category?
ref: 1928 March 10, Ernest Boyd, “Readers and Writers”, in The Independent: A Weekly Journal of Free Opinion, volume 120, number 4058, New York, N.Y., page 235, columns 2–3:
text: Don’t be naïve, Valija. You’re letting sexual feelings think for you, as usual. […] His worst pretence is a faith in good manners. This may make him, in some respects, a snob. But if any one of us is naïf, it is not I; it is he—and in the best possible way.
ref: 2009, Richard Cody, “Fiduciary” (chapter III), in Perfect Witness: Being a Sequel to a Tale of 1951 Entitled ‘Neighbouring Eyes’, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 46:
text: His faux naïf had her completely fooled. […] Profoundly naïve, she had absolutely no experience of pain or suffering or death and saw nothing in the odd reptilian-skinned stranger but the opportunity to make a new friend.
ref: 2014, Brother Tom [i.e., Thomas Paonessa], “Essence”, in The Angel and the Rowboat, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, part II (The Problem), page 129:
glosses: Feminine of naïf.
Derived terms: chemonaïve
naïvely
naïveness
naïveté
Related terms: naïf
naïve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: naïves
Etymology: From French naïve, feminine of naïf.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of naive.
Joyce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɔɪs/
rhymes: -ɔɪs
Forms: form: Joyces
form: Choyce
Etymology: Medieval (Middle English) given name from Old French Josse, name of a seventh century saint Latinized as Iodocus, from Breton Iodoc, diminutive of iudh (“lord”), from Proto-Celtic *youdos.
Senses: examples: text: The vote was 213-209 along party lines. Republican members of the House Ethics Committee – Michael Guest of Mississippi, Dave Joyce of Ohio, Andrew Garbarino of New York, John Rutherford of Florida and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota – voted present. GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado also voted present but he is not on the Ethics Committee.
ref: 2023 June 21, Haley Talbot and Kristin Wilson, “House votes to censure Democratic congressman who led Trump investigations”, in CNN:
glosses: An English and Irish surname originating as a patronymic.
examples: text: "It's a curious name," remarked Captain Levison. "Joyce - Joyce! I never heard such a name. Is it a Christian name or a surname?"
"She was baptised Joyce. It is not so very uncommon. Her name is Joyce Hallijohn. She has been with us several years."
ref: 1860, Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood), East Lynne:
text: You call me mother, and I remember my mother again,
somewhere in greater Boston, dying.
I remember we named you Joyce
so we could call you Joy.
ref: 1959, Anne Sexton, The Double Image:
glosses: A female given name from the Celtic languages, associated by folk etymology with joy and rejoice.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clallam County, Washington, United States, named after founder Joseph M. Joyce.
Derived terms: alt: from de Jorz
word: Burton Joyce
Related terms: Jocelyn
nephrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephroses
Etymology: From nephro- + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: nephrotic syndrome
glosses: A non-inflammatory disease of the kidneys that is characterised by the leaking of blood protein into the urine, swelling or oedema, and degenerative lesions.
Derived terms: glomerulonephrosis
hydronephrosis
hydroureteronephrosis
nephrosic
pyonephrosis
Related terms: nephritis
nephropathy
oedema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːmə
Forms: form: oedemas
form: oedemata
form: edema
form: œdema
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Waltari, "What I Really Know", Rare Species.
Crazy Angelina / Is eating her own oedema / And I'm not here to take it anymore
text: However, several enterographic findings are associated with increased disease activity, including wall thickening greater than 4 mm, intramural and mesenteric oedema, mucosal hyperaemia, wall enhancement (and enhancement pattern), transmural ulceration and fistula formation, vascular engorgement and inflammatory mesenteric lymph nodes (often with hyperenhancement).
ref: 2024, Jennifer Davidson, Beth Shepherd, Sunderarajan Jayaraman, Practice Long Cases for the Part B Final FRCR Examination:
glosses: Alternative form of edema.
Derived terms: angiooedema
antioedema
oedematic
oedemic
nephrotic syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: nephrosis
nephrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nephrotic
form: most nephrotic
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
Coordinate terms: nephritic
Derived terms: hydronephrotic
nephrotic syndrome
subnephrotic
nephrotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrotics
Senses: glosses: A person who has nephrosis.
nephropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephropathies
Etymology: From nephro- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).
ref: 2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Damage to, disease of, or abnormality of the kidneys.
Synonyms: kidney disease
nephrosis
renal disorder
renopathy
Derived terms: Balkan endemic nephropathy
epidemic nephropathy
glomerulonephropathy
Mesoamerican nephropathy
nephropathic
steatonephropathy
Kuiper Belt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Kuiper belt.
cross-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cross-eyed
form: most cross-eyed
form: crosseyed
Senses: synonyms: boss-eyed
squint-eyed
cockeyed
antonyms: walleyed
glosses: Having both eyes oriented inward, especially involuntarily.
Derived terms: cross-eyedness
Mafiosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mafioso
indecent exposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indecent exposures
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The crime of intentionally exposing one's genitalia in public; in some cases also including the act of public urination and defecation.
Related terms: exhibitionism
expose oneself
wardrobe malfunction
Mafioso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mafiosos
form: Mafiosi
form: mafioso
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian mafioso, from Sicilian mafiusu.
Senses: examples: text: Phil put his arms around him. Drew him in close, pressed his cheek to Dane's the way the Mafiosi in the fifties would kiss somebody right before they punched his ticket.
ref: 2006, Tom Piccirilli, Headstone City, Random House, →ISBN, retrieved 08 Dec 2021, page 189:
text: “Sometimes, I swear you have no idea about the concept of money. Only you could give a one-of-a-kind ring to a female Mafioso, so casually.”
ref: 2010, Jess Phillips, Roxy’s Sequel, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 176:
text: “As the library grows in popularity, the community gets stronger and she gets more powerful. She ultimately goes from this timorous lady to a local kingpin. Kind of like a female Mafioso. And then someone crosses her so she has a vengeance to play out.”
ref: 2019, Michelle Frances, The Temp, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 301:
glosses: A member of the Mafia.
examples: text: The widow of one murdered Mafioso gave her son the bloody jacket that her husband had been killed in. […] So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.
ref: 1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, columns 1–2:
text: Is there a feminine for mafiosos? Mafiosas? Because apparently that’s what we are, the Mothers’ Mafia.
ref: 2006 March 21, Kathleen Gilles Seidel, chapter 2, in A Most Uncommon Degree of Popularity, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 33:
text: Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.
ref: 2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books, →ISBN:
text: Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.
ref: 2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
glosses: A member of the Mafia.
A male member of the Mafia.
coordinate_terms: Mafiosa
qualifier: strictly
Synonyms: mobster
made man
wise guy
goodfella
tracheitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheitides
form: trachitis
Etymology: From trachea + -itis.
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of the trachea.
Attic faith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: inviolable faith
Related terms: Punic faith
GAFB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Goodfellow Air Force Base.
glosses: Initialism of George Air Force Base.
glosses: Initialism of Glasgow Air Force Base.
glosses: Initialism of Grissom Air Force Base.
barring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bar
barring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: barrings
Senses: glosses: Bars; an arrangement or pattern of stripes or bars.
glosses: The act of fitting or closing something with bars.
glosses: The exclusion of someone; blackballing.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Timber used for supporting the roof or sides of shafts.
topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
synonyms: tacking
glosses: The sewing of a decorative bar or tack upon a fabric or leather.
Derived terms: crossbarring
Related terms: barring-out
barring
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: examples: text: Barring any further red tape, we will finally be able to open the restaurant.
text: Barring any sudden storms, the plane should arrive on time.
glosses: Unless something happens; excepting; in the absence of.
Synonyms: apart from
except for
save for
except
barring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɑːɹɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barr
vesica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛsɪkə/
/ˈviːsɪkə/
Forms: form: vesicas
form: vesicae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vēsīca (“bladder”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bladder, especially the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.
topics: art
arts
glosses: The vesica piscis or oval aureole in mediaeval painting.
Derived terms: word: vesica biliaris
word: vesica fellea
word: vesical
word: vesica piscis
word: vesica urinaria
alt: -le diminutive
word: vesicle
alt: -ula diminutive via Latin
word: vesicula
white dwarf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white dwarfs
form: white dwarves
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The dim, highly dense core remnant that is the final stage in the evolution of a star of low or medium mass, after nuclear reactions have ceased.
Synonyms: word: WD
Related terms: blue giant
red giant
yellow dwarf
red dwarf
brown dwarf
black dwarf
blue dwarf
urinary bladder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urinary bladders
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An elastic, muscular sac situated in the pelvic cavity, into which urine from the kidneys is temporarily stored prior to disposal by urination. Urine enters the bladder via the ureters and exits via the urethra.
Synonyms: bladder
cystis urinaria
urocyst
urocystis
vesica
vesica urinaria
Hypernyms: bladder
lacy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.si/
rhymes: -eɪsi
Forms: form: lacier
form: laciest
Etymology: From lace + -y.
Senses: examples: text: lacy lingerie
glosses: Made of lace or decorated with it.
glosses: Looking like lace.
Derived terms: lacily
laciness
Arthurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːˈθjʊəɹɪən/
ipa: /ɑɹˈθʊɹi.ən/
Forms: form: more Arthurian
form: most Arthurian
Etymology: From Arthur + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: A reminder of the Arthurian legends comes with the next station, Camelford, where passengers alight for Boscastle and Tintagel with their fine coast scenery, and near to which is Slaughter Bridge, where King Arthur is supposed to have fought his last.
ref: 1949 September and October, B. G. Wilson, “The North Cornwall Line of the Southern Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 328:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the legend of Arthur, king of the Britons, and his court at Camelot.