cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biblethumping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Biblethumping
Senses: glosses: tending to loudly, annoyingly proselytize (especially of a Christian, Catholic, or other religion to which the Bible is an important book)
gladiatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more gladiatorial
form: most gladiatorial
Etymology: From Latin gladiātōrius + -al. By surface analysis, gladiator + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: Gladiatorial entertainment was common in ancient Rome.
text: "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 313:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a gladiator.
Derived terms: gladiatorialism
gladiatorially
Related terms: gladiator
gladiatress
gladiatrix
gladsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: glăd'səm
ipa: /ˈɡlædsəm/
rhymes: -ædsəm
Forms: form: gladsomer
form: gladsomest
Etymology: From Middle English gladsom, equivalent to glad + -some.
Senses: examples: text: I was not surprised, when I ran down into the hall, to see that a brilliant June morning had succeeded to the tempest of the night; and to feel, through the open glass door, the breathing of a fresh and fragrant breeze. Nature must be gladsome when I was so happy.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter IX, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: Marked by joy or gladness; happy, joyous, or light-hearted.
Derived terms: gladsomely
gladsomeness
ungladsome
glad-hander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glad-handers
Etymology: From glad-hand + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Charming and funny as he was in small groups, he was no glad-hander, backslapper, or baby-kisser.
ref: 2008, Andrew Cohen, Saul John Ralston, Extraordinary Canadians Lester B Pearson, →ISBN:
glosses: One who glad-hands.
glad-handers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glad-hander
glad-hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glad-hand
glad-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glad-hand
glad-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glad-handed
form: most glad-handed
Senses: examples: text: ...his niggardly back-slapping coupled with an antediluvian crew-cut and a predilection for starched, razor-sharp creased shirts and spit-shined shoes only confirmed the prejudices of the glad-handed, button-down collared, slicked-back hair crowd-his benefactors, sponsors.
ref: 2011, Tony De Vita, The Pointy House Murders, →ISBN:
text: Since Thelonius's arrest, Keith had been doing the right thing, making regular and glad-handed visits to Lilette and the kids, and he could all too easily see himself developing an obligation there
ref: 2010, Martin Amis, London Fields, →ISBN, page 334:
text: In wading through the mire of an era whose inmates have tired of supposed Enlightenment and loiter at the gates of the Dark, we should not be too glad-handed with the pearls of faith...
ref: 2014, J. Budziszewski, The Line through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, Theory, and Sign of Contradiction, →ISBN:
glosses: Superficially friendly.
glamorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: glamorizes
form: glamorizing
form: glamorized
form: glamorized
form: glamorise
form: glamourise
form: glamourize
Etymology: From glamor + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make or give the appearance of being glamorous.
examples: text: Some movies glamorize criminal activity by making criminals seem cool.
glosses: To glorify; to romanticize.
Derived terms: deglamorize
glamorizer
overglamorize
unglamorized
glamourous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glamourous
form: most glamourous
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of glamorous.
Derived terms: glamourousness
unglamourous
thig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪɡ
Forms: form: thigs
form: thigging
form: thigged
form: thigged
form: theg
Etymology: From Middle English thiggen, from Old English þiċġan (“to take, receive, accept; ingest; eat or drink, consume, partake of”), from Proto-West Germanic *þiggjan, from Proto-Germanic *þigjaną (“to accept, receive, beg”), from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“to receive”).
Cognate with Middle High German digen (“to beg, implore, beseech”), German digen (“to beg, beseech, take, get”), Swedish tigga (“to beg, mooch”), Icelandic þiggja (“to get, receive, accept”).
Senses: examples: text: This is not second clothing. This cloth is not thigged.
ref: 1800, Alexander Carmichael, Carmina Gadelica:
glosses: To solicit or receive, usually by begging; ask as alms.
glosses: To beg, borrow; cadge.
glosses: To profit by or live on the gifts of others.
glosses: To take alms.
glosses: To beseech; supplicate; implore.
examples: text: "I'll go and the thigged wool demand
From the good ladies of the land. […]"
ref: 1912, Duncan Macintyre, George Calder, Gaelic songs of Duncan MacIntyre, page 227:
glosses: To crave; seek (a favour).
Derived terms: thigger
thigging
thigster
glossiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glossinesses
Etymology: From glossy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being glossy.
Derived terms: unglossiness
gleefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gleeful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The woman's gleefulness was evident from her large grin.
synonyms: word: glee
word: gleesomeness
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The state of being gleeful or joyous.
glumness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glumnesses
Etymology: From glum + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The emotion of being glum.
gloominess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloominesses
Etymology: From gloomy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being gloomy.
quadruplex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”). By surface analysis, quadru- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: Having four components.
glosses: Of or relating to a system in telegraphy by which four messages (two in each direction) can be sent on one wire simultaneously.
glosses: Of or relating to an early videotape format with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.
quadruplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruplexes
Etymology: From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”). By surface analysis, quadru- + -plex.
Senses: examples: text: The Western Union office is equipped with four quadruplexes, three duplexes and eleven single loops, besides special private loops in the Japanese and Russian suites, where direct communication will be maintained with the Atlantic cables at Heart’s Content, Newfoundland via Canso, and also with the Western Union offices in New York, whence the Japanese diplomatic matter will be sent via land lines to San Francisco over a direct circuit.
ref: 1905 August 12, Electrical World and Engineer, volume XLVI, number 7, New York, N.Y., page 256, column 1:
glosses: A quadruplex system.
glosses: Clipping of quadruplex videotape, an early type of videotape with four magnetic record/reproduce heads mounted on a headwheel spinning transversely across the tape.
Derived terms: G-quadruplex
quadruplex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quadruplexes
form: quadruplexing
form: quadruplexed
form: quadruplexed
Etymology: From Latin quadruplex (“fourfold, quadruple”), from quattuor (“four”) + plico (“fold”). By surface analysis, quadru- + -plex.
Senses: glosses: To make quadruplex.
quacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quackers
Etymology: From quack (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: 1901–1947: Benjamin Albert Botkin, A Treasury of New England Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the Yankee People
The decoy was what the townsman who had lent it to him called a "first-class quacker." The decoy quacked and swam about […]
glosses: One who quacks.
glosses: A playing card with the rank of two; a duck.
quacker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quack (adjective) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [Y]ou have undertaken to rid all our newspapers and periodicals of untrue, unclean and dishonest advertisements. It seems to me that you have already gained your victory and henceforth have only to guard the fruits of it, for, recently I examined as many newspapers and magazines as I could lay hands on just to see if I could find in them those old, alluring advertisements, ranging from the quack doctor to the quacker promoter and the quackest oracle of fate. There was nothing doing—everything as clean as a hound's tooth and as wholesome as sunshine.
ref: 1916 August 5, Henry D. Estabrook, “Truth in Advertising [advertisement]”, in The Duluth Herald, volume XXXIV, number 102, Duluth, Minn.: The Herald Company, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: comparative form of quack: more quack.
wizardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwɪzɚdli/
Forms: form: more wizardly
form: most wizardly
Etymology: From wizard + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Like, or suiting a wizard.
Related terms: wizard
thinnest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪnəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of thin: most thin
Related terms: thin
thinner
obsolescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ɑbsəlˈɛsəntli/
Etymology: From obsolescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an obsolescent manner.
Related terms: obsolescent
obsolescence
hallucinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallucination
mutated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Possessing a mutation.
Derived terms: epimutated
glycomutated
hypomutated
multimutated
mutated contraction
nonmutated
phosphomutated
ultramutated
unmutated
mutated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mutate
finitely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From finite + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.
ref: 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192:
glosses: In a finite manner.
Derived terms: finitely generated
finitely presented
prochronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹoʊkɹənɪz(ə)m/
/ˈpɹɑkɹənɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: prochronisms
Senses: glosses: An error in chronological order in which something is ascribed an earlier time than the actual one.
Related terms: prochronistic
parachronism
metachronism
anachronism
balefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more balefully
form: most balefully
Etymology: From Middle English balfulli; equivalent to baleful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The toad stared balefully at his reflection and puffed himself up to show that he wasn't really frightened.
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 22:
glosses: In a baleful, ominous manner.
balefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baleful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being baleful.
backwoodsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwoodsmen
Etymology: From backwoods + man.
Senses: glosses: A person who is acclimated to living in a forest area that is far removed from civilization or modern conveniences.
glosses: An uncivilized person.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A Peer who is seldom present in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom Parliament, who may be encouraged to attend when a very important vote is expected.
Coordinate terms: frontiersman
hillbilly
mountain man
woodsman
backwoodsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backwoodsman
frontiersman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontiersmen
Etymology: From frontiers + man.
Senses: examples: text: The inhabitant's of England's North American colonies outnumbered French Canadians some ten to one, but the French were tough, fur-trapping frontiersmen who posed a considerable military threat.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, pages 136–7:
glosses: A person who lives on the borders of a country, or in a wild and undeveloped area on the fringes of civilization.
Coordinate terms: backwoodsman
hillbilly
mountain man
woodsman
Derived terms: frontiersmanship
frontiersmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frontiersman
chinamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chinaman
Chinamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinaman
amper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampers
form: ampor
form: nanberry
form: anbury
form: anberry
form: ambury
Etymology: From Middle English ampre, from Old English ampre (“a dilated vein, varix, tumour, swelling; dock, sorrel”), from Proto-West Germanic *amprō, *amprā (“dock, sorrel”), which is related to Proto-Germanic *ampraz (“sharp”). Related to aber.
Senses: glosses: A tumour, often accompanied by inflammation; pustule; varicose vein; pus; atter.
glosses: A defect or flaw, especially in cloth.
Derived terms: ampered
ampery
amper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ampers
Senses: examples: text: While parseing an xml document( sax parser ), trying to replace ' | ' with ' & ' , it finds the pipe, but won't replace with amper.
ref: 2001 July 13, JimmyMac, “java and xml”, in comp.lang.java.help (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of ampersand.
barbarously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barbarously
form: most barbarously
Etymology: From barbarous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: However, he comforted himself by giving very particular accounts of how his mistress had been barbarously murdered by banditti; and the good city talked incessantly of the murder, till set right next day by the greater marvel of the escape.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:
text: I was reminded of this by an entry in the Westleton Churchwarden's Account for 1731-2 which records the sum of one shilling and sixpence having been given to 'fifteen seamen in company, which had been taken by ye pyrates and very barbarously used'.
ref: 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 379:
glosses: In a barbarous manner.
baffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bafflers
Etymology: From baffle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that causes a person to be baffled, particularly a difficult puzzle or riddle.
glosses: Any of the projections inside a dice tower that serve to deflect the die unpredictably.
glosses: A baffle (device to control flow).
bafflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baffler
bootblack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootblacks
form: boot-black
Etymology: From boot + black.
Senses: examples: text: The young negro bootblack hummed "The Camp Meeting Blues" and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so taut at each stroke that it snapped like a banjo string.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XXIV, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A shoeshine boy; a person who shines shoes as an occupation.
Synonyms: shoeblack
shoeshiner
bootblack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bootblacks
form: bootblacking
form: bootblacked
form: bootblacked
form: boot-black
Etymology: From boot + black.
Senses: glosses: To shine shoes.
bootblacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootblack
shoeshine boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoeshine boys
Senses: glosses: A boy who polishes shoes as an occupation.
Synonyms: bootblack
shoeblack
shoe boy
shoeshiner
Coordinate terms: shoeshine girl
shoeshine boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoeshine boy
dusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: plural of dust
dusts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʌsts/
rhymes: -ʌsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dust
metachronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈtækɹənɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: metachronisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after, behind”) + χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An error in chronological ordering in which a character or an event is placed at too late a time.
Related terms: metachronic
prochronism
parachronism
anachronism
cæsium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of caesium.
parachronism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹækɹənɪzəm/
ipa: /pɚˈækɹənɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: parachronisms
Senses: glosses: An error in chronological order in which something is ascribed a later time than the actual one; metachronism.
Related terms: parachronistic
prochronism
metachronism
anachronism
cæsura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cæsuras
form: cæsuræ
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of caesura.
PowerPointlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of PowerPoint + pointlessness, coined by Jamie McKenzie in 2000
Senses: examples: text: We do not have to subject ourselves or our students to 'death by PowerPoint' or 'PowerPointlessness' as Jamie McKenzie calls it
ref: 2005, David Clive Nettelbeck, Computers, Thinking and Learning: Inspiring Students with Technology, page 52:
text: Powerful PowerPoint: Tips for Ending PowerPointlessness ...
ref: 2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic Librarianship by Design, page 139:
text: PowerPointlessness in higher education is an educational sin. I am rethinking.
ref: 2007, Glenn Rikowski, PowerPointlessness in Higher Education (Target page closed down by AOL)
text: Avoid 'PowerPointlessness!' A presentation should always be about your audience, not about you.
ref: 2008, various authors, “Presentation Skill”, in Presentation Skill, Global Media, →ISBN:
glosses: The senseless use of PowerPoint to communicate with too many bells and whistles, animated transitions between slides, etc. and very little substance.
cæsious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cæsious
form: most cæsious
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caesious.
Behçet's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of Behçet's disease.
synonyms: word: Behçet's disease
Behçet's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪt͡ʃɛts dɪˈziːz/
Forms: form: Behcet's disease
Etymology: Named after Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet (1889–1948), who studied the disease in 1924.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: Behçet's syndrome
word: Morbus Behçet
word: Silk Road disease
glosses: A multi-system disorder involving ulcerations on the mouth and sometimes the genitals, notorious for causing hypopyon uveitis (actually a rare symptom).
perspirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perspirers
Etymology: From perspire + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who perspires (sweats).
Synonyms: english: meaning 3
translation: meaning 3
word: sweater
UTF-16
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Unicode Transformation Format-16; a Unicode encoding scheme which uses two-byte (16-bit) code units (singly for characters in plane 0, and in four-byte [32-bit] surrogate pairs for supplementary characters in planes 1 through 16).
Hyponyms: UTF-16BE
UTF-16LE
Related terms: english: mostly obsolete older encoding scheme
translation: mostly obsolete older encoding scheme
word: UTF-7
word: UTF-8
word: UTF-32
matamata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matamatas
form: mata mata
form: matamata turtle
form: mata mata turtle
Etymology: Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese matamatá, from Nheengatu and Old Tupi matamatá.
Senses: glosses: A side-necked turtle of species Chelus fimbriata, whose shell resembles a dead leaf.
junk sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: junk-sick
Senses: examples: text: I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there […]
ref: 1953, William S. Burroughs, The Yagé Letters:
text: […] a few old relics from hop smoking times, spectral janitors, grey as ashes, phantom porters sweeping out dusty halls with a slow old man's hand, coughing and spitting in the junk-sick dawn […]
ref: 1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 4:
glosses: Experiencing the nausea sometimes suffered by the user of a narcotic the following day, or after the effects of the drug begin to wear off, often with flulike symptoms.
Derived terms: junk sickness
Related terms: dope sick
junkie
strung out
junk-sick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of junk sick.
turtle-dove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turtle-doves
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of turtle dove.
domed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From dome + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dome
domed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more domed
form: most domed
Etymology: From dome + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a domed hill
glosses: In the form of a dome.
examples: text: a domed cathedral
glosses: Having a dome.
Synonyms: hemispherical
Derived terms: domed land snail
semidomed
undomed
reinforced concrete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinforced concretes
Senses: glosses: A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars) to increase its tensile strength.
Synonyms: ferroconcrete
Portland cement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Portland cements
form: portland cement
Etymology: From its resemblance to limestone from Portland in Dorset.
Senses: examples: text: Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) is the world's most common form of cement. The blue plaque dedicated to inventor Joseph Aspdin describes OPC as "one of mankind's most important manufactured materials".
ref: 2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “Building a greener future”, in RAIL, number 999, page 36:
glosses: A finely-ground powder made by heating and pulverizing limestone and clay.
Hypernyms: cement
Coordinate terms: concrete
hydraulic lime
mortar
Derived terms: OPC
ordinary Portland cement
PC
white Portland cement
WOPC
Related terms: Roman cement
tensile strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tensile strengths
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ultimate tensile strength.
tensile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛn.saɪ(ə)l/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.sɪl/
ipa: /ˈtɛn.səl/
rhymes: -ɛnsaɪəl
Forms: form: more tensile
form: most tensile
Etymology: From Latin tēnsilis, from tendō (“to stretch”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to tension.
synonyms: tractile
glosses: Capable of being stretched; ductile.
Derived terms: word: tensile strain
word: tensility
english: tensile strength
translation: tensile strength
word: ultimate tensile strength
mammotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammotomies
Etymology: From mammo- + -tomy.
Senses: glosses: mastotomy, typically in order to check for breast cancer
Related terms: mammotome
mastotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastotomies
Etymology: From mast- + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: incision of the breast
Synonyms: mammotomy
serration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serrations
Senses: glosses: The state of being serrated.
examples: text: On reaching the outer reef I was startled at the sight of the gigantic combers roaring along the serrations and knife-edges of coral, but Benny was not in the least alarmed.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 74:
glosses: A set of teeth or notches.
glosses: One of the teeth in a serrated or serrate edge.
trump card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trump cards
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: A playing card, of the trump suit that is held in reserve until needed to win a trick.
examples: text: Domin
The secret of their manufacture. Old Rossum's manuscript. As soon as they found out that they couldn't make themselves they'd be on their knees to us.
Dr. Gall
Madame Domin, that was our trump card. I never had the least fear that the Robots would win. How could they against people like us?
ref: c. 1921 (date written), Karel Čapek, translated by Paul Selver, R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots): A Fantastic Melodrama […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1923, →OCLC, Act 2:
text: Desperate now to leave, Felix played what he believed was his trump card. ‘You’re forty-whatever. Look at you. You’re still living like this. I want to have kids. I want to get on with my life.’
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: Something used to obtain an advantage, sometimes unscrupulously.
mercury barometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mercury barometers
Senses: glosses: A barometer which indicates the atmospheric pressure by measuring the height of a column of mercury in a vertical, evacuated tube.
Synonyms: Torricellian barometer
Related terms: aneroid barometer
Torricellian barometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Torricellian barometers
Etymology: For Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist
Senses: glosses: A mercury barometer
Synonyms: Torricellian tube
Torricellian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Torricelli + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist.
Derived terms: Torricellian barometer
Torricellian chamber
Torricellian tube
Torricellian vacuum
denouncement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denouncements
Etymology: From denounce + -ment.
Senses: glosses: An act of denouncing; a denunciation
glosses: A solemn or formal declaration
Nørrebro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Danish Nørrebro (literally “Northern Bridge”).
Senses: glosses: An area of Denmark.
esthetically challenged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.
Senses: glosses: Ugly.
raw_tags: of a person
comme il faut
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkʌmilˈfoʊ/
ipa: /ˌkʌmiːlˈfəʊ/
Forms: form: more comme il faut
form: most comme il faut
Etymology: Borrowed from French comme il faut (literally “as is necessary, as must be”).
Senses: examples: text: "Georgiana, put on your blue muslin, and ask Fanchette to make your hair a little comme-il-faut; and pray try to look well and cheerful; you were not up late, and ought to appear the better for it."
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 296:
text: 2007: Talking during performances is perfectly comme il faut in Wharton – why else go to a show if not to talk to one’s friends? – so while Miss Shaw, up to her bosom in dirt, went on about existence, I asked my female companion for advice. — Deborah Friedell, ‘Short Cuts’, London Review of Books 29:5
glosses: Proper; in keeping with etiquette or social standards.
compactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑmˈpæktɚ/
ipa: /kɒmˈpæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
homophone: compacter
Forms: form: compactors
form: compacter
Senses: glosses: A machine that reduces the bulk of waste or other material by compaction.
Derived terms: gyratory compactor
trash compactor
compaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpækʃən/
ipa: /kəmˈpɛkʃən/
Forms: form: compactions
Etymology: From Old French compaction, from Latin compactionem, from compingere.
Senses: examples: text: At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.
ref: 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate, published 2010, page 480:
glosses: The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
Derived terms: autocompaction
compactional
decompaction
hypercompaction
noncompaction
precompaction
recompaction
supercompaction
vibrocompaction
compartmental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɑːtˈmɛntəl/
rhymes: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From compartment + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or constructed from compartments
Derived terms: bicompartmental
biocompartmental
compartmentalise
compartmentalism
compartmentalize
compartmentally
extracompartmental
intercompartmental
intracompartmental
multicompartmental
noncompartmental
rhizocompartmental
subcompartmental
transcompartmental
tricompartmental
unicompartmental
compartmentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɑː(ɹ)tˈmɛnt(ə)laɪz/
ipa: /kəmˌpɑɹtˈmɛntəlˌaɪz/
ipa: /kəmpɑɹtˈmɛntl̩ˌaɪz/
Forms: form: compartmentalizes
form: compartmentalizing
form: compartmentalized
form: compartmentalized
form: compartmentalise
Etymology: From compartmental + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: In summary, we find the below listed empirical observations coming from our analysis of our Google hospital reviews.
1. The 11 identified valenced topics do not line up well with the standard way that the CMS and other surveys use to measure experiences, i.e., patients do not compartmentalize most of their comments to specific staff—doctors, nurses, etc.—or even departments.
ref: 2024 July 18, Nah Lee, Richard Staelin, “Patient text reviews and preference estimation”, in Marketing Letters, →DOI:
text: Mediators and co-activators BRD4 and MED1 form phase-separated droplets at SEs that compartmentalize and concentrate the transcription apparatus, suggesting a significant role for co-activators in this process and revealing the regulation mechanisms of function and structure of SE involved in the control of hub cell identity genes.
ref: 2024 August 1, Hongying Ma, Jian Qu, Zicheng Pang, Jian Luo, Min Yan, Weixin Xu, Haihui Zhuang, Linxin Liu, Qiang Qu, “Super-enhancer omics in stem cell”, in Molecular Cancer, volume 23, →DOI, article 153:
text: Russia and Iran see the wars against Israel and Ukraine as indelibly linked — and we in the West would be foolish to compartmentalize them.
ref: 2024 August 13, Daniel Kochis, “Russia’s links with Iran are growing stronger”, in Politico:
glosses: To separate something into different categories, or compartments.
Derived terms: compartmentalizable
compartmentalization
compartmentalizer
decompartmentalize
overcompartmentalize
recompartmentalize
subcompartmentalize
compensatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒmpɛnˈseɪtəɹi/
ipa: /kɒmˈpɛnsətəɹi/
ipa: /kəmˈpɛnsəˌtɔɹi/
Etymology: Borrowed from French compensatoire. By surface analysis, compensate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Intended to recompense someone who has experienced loss, suffering, or injury
raw_tags: of a payment
glosses: Reducing or offsetting the unpleasant or unwelcome effects of something
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That compensates for a deleterious mutation
Derived terms: compensatorily
compensatory lengthening
compensatory time
decompensatory
hypercompensatory
noncompensatory
overcompensatory
pseudocompensatory
undercompensatory
complaisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complaisances
form: complaisaunce
Etymology: From French. See complaisant.
Senses: examples: text: I see he has premeditated a Denial by the Complaisance of his Features.
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, V.i:
text: It is no wonder that in an age when this kind of merit is so little in fashion, and so slenderly provided for, persons possessed of it should very eagerly flock to a place where they were sure of being received with great complaisance; indeed, where they might enjoy almost the same advantages of a liberal fortune as if they were entitled to it in their own right.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
glosses: The quality of being complaisant, amiable or agreeable.
complexioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more complexioned
form: most complexioned
Etymology: From complexion + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a ruddy-complexioned country gentleman
text: 5'3" long brown hair, green eyes, European complexioned woman.
ref: 1990 December 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 12:
glosses: Having a specified type of complexion.
comportment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpɔɹt.mənt/
Forms: form: comportments
Etymology: From Late Middle French comportement. By surface analysis, comport + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The manner in which one behaves or conducts oneself.
glosses: Deportment, bearing.
Derived terms: comportmental
compoundable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compoundable
form: most compoundable
Etymology: From compound + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be compounded.
Derived terms: noncompoundable
uncompoundable
compromising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compromise
compromising
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compromising
form: most compromising
Senses: synonyms: transigent
glosses: Willing or able to make a compromise.
examples: text: A compromising photograph of the president was sold to the newspapers.
glosses: That compromises somebody or something; incriminating.
Derived terms: compromisingly
immunocompromising
noncompromising
uncompromising
compromising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compromisings
Senses: examples: text: There hath been much of treason,
 And much of violence and shame,
 To the old worship of that spring-life season;
 And compromisings of a sacred claim!
ref: 1835, Leigh Hunt, The Monthly Repository, volume 9, page 793:
glosses: The act by which something is compromised.
computer-literate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computer-literate
form: most computer-literate
Senses: examples: text: Bob explains: "We help a lot of people make and keep hospital appointments. Some clients aren't computer-literate or don't have phones.
ref: 2021 March 10, Paul Bigland, “They can leave their problems at the gate”, in RAIL, number 926, page 60:
glosses: Alternative spelling of computer literate.
concavity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəŋˈkævɪti/
rhymes: -ævɪti
Forms: form: concavities
Etymology: From Old French concavité. Morphologically concave + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being concave
glosses: A concave structure or surface
Derived terms: biconcavity
monoconcavity
pseudoconcavity
quasiconcavity
Schur-concavity
concealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concealable
form: most concealable
Etymology: From conceal + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] he denied the omniſciency of God, whereunto there is nothing concealable.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “A Further Illustration of the Same”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 6:
text: A bag of sequins, a jewel, a balsam, a single horse, constitute an estate in countries where insecure institutions make every one desirous of concealable and convertible property.
ref: 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Superlative”, in Lectures and Biographical Sketches, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co, page 141:
glosses: Able to be concealed.
Derived terms: inconcealable
unconcealable
concealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concealers
Etymology: From Middle English concelare, equivalent to conceal + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that, or someone who, conceals.
glosses: A cosmetic designed to cover blemishes.
glosses: A moth of the family Oecophoridae.
Derived terms: pre-concealer
conceptualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conceptualizes
form: conceptualizing
form: conceptualized
form: conceptualized
form: conceptualise
Etymology: From conceptual + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Medicine today conceptualizes the heart as a machine.
ref: 2018, Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: a History, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Conceptualized as a neurological difference, autism is viewed as part of human diversity (Cherewick & Matergia, 2024; Taboas et al., 2023).
ref: 2025 May 14, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Gal Hodara Hassan, ““The System Sweeps it Under the Rug”: Educational Staff’s Perspectives on Romantic Relationships Among Autistic Adolescents”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:
glosses: To interpret a phenomenon by forming a concept.
examples: text: EconBiz was established as part of the Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken, a network of subject-related online portals conceptualized in the late 1990s and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
ref: 2023, Emily Nickerson and Christian Schmidt, “Database review: EconBiz”, in Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, volume 28, number 4, page 303:
glosses: To conceive the idea for something.
Derived terms: conceptualizable
conceptualization
conceptualizer
deconceptualize
misconceptualize
misconceptualized
nonconceptualized
reconceptualize
unconceptualized
concertize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concertizes
form: concertizing
form: concertized
form: concertized
Etymology: From concert + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I have been concertizing for the last three years, and studying alone.
ref: 1915, Harriette Brower, Piano Mastery:
text: Of the great romantic pianists, Vladimir Horowitz and Serkin are the only ones still actively concertizing.
ref: 1988 October 14, Dennis Polkow, “Serkin and Solti”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: To perform in concerts
examples: text: It was concertized folk music, complete with cello, but it had spirit.
ref: 2007 May 12, Jon Pareles, “A New Style for Portugal’s Old Fado, but the Songs Are Still Full of Emotion”, in New York Times:
glosses: To adapt to the concert form
Derived terms: concertizer
concertmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertmasters
Etymology: From concert + master, as a calque of German Konzertmeister.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: concertmeister
leader
glosses: The first violin in a symphony orchestra, which normally plays violin solos.
concessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concessional
form: most concessional
Etymology: From concession + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or being a concession; concessionary
confider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confiders
Etymology: From confide + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who confides.
Related terms: confidant
confidentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ælɪti
Forms: form: confidentialities
Etymology: From confidential + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: “Protection of victim confidentiality is essential, though we were never contacted about our thoughts on this,” the source said.
ref: 2016 September 1, Ellie Kaufman, “University of Kentucky sues student newspaper over sexual assault case”, in CNN:
text: The company was unable to comment on much of the moves owing to client confidentiality agreements.
ref: 2023 October 18, Pip Dunn, “Network News: HSTs land in Mexico with more primed for export”, in RAIL, number 994, page 14:
glosses: The property of being confidential.
glosses: Something told in confidence; a secret.
cooky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookies
Senses: examples: text: I lost my cookies after that roller coaster ride.
text: I feel sick, like I'm about to toss my cookies.
glosses: One's eaten food (e.g. lunch, etc.), especially one's stomach contents.
examples: text: This mornin’ she rails out at me fer dunkin’ my cooky and she says COFFEE IS FER SIPPIN’ AND NOT FER SAUCERIN’ . . .
ref: 1957 January 18, Sally, quoting a villager, “For Ladies Only …”, in Mt. Vernon Register-News, volume XXXVII, number 93, Mount Vernon, Ill., →OCLC, page 7, column 5:
text: The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.
He bites it, day by day.
ref: 2023 July 16 (last accessed), Vachel Lindsay, “The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky”, in allpoetry.com:
glosses: Dated spelling of cookie.
cooky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kooky.
coppery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒpəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkɑpəɹi/
Forms: form: more coppery
form: most coppery
Etymology: From copper + -y.
Senses: examples: text: That night I dreamed I had a very disagreeable taste in my mouth, which caused me to spit all the time. I awoke and found my mouth full of saliva, with a coppery taste, and sure enough, I was obliged to spit.
ref: 2002, E. P. Anshutz, New, Old and Forgotten Remedies, page 380:
text: Venetian women who wanted coppery hair colors applied bleaching mixtures, such as one that contained alum, sulfur, soda, and rhubarb. Then they sat in the sun, where heat produced a chemical reaction that developed the color.
ref: 2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, page 155:
synonyms: copperish
glosses: Resembling the metal copper, especially in color.
examples: text: an especially coppery grade of brass
coordinate_terms: copperish
glosses: Containing copper, especially if abundantly.
Coordinate terms: verdigris
verdigrisy
Derived terms: copperiness
Related terms: copperishness
courts-martial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: court-martials
glosses: plural of court-martial
hatemonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hatemongers
Etymology: From hate + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Inside, professional hatemonger Milo Yiannopoulos is addressing an audience of around 400 people, peppered with bright red baseball caps.
ref: 2017 January 28, Abigail Edge, “Two nights on Milo Yiannopoulos's campus tour: as offensive as you'd imagine”, in The Guardian:
text: The power of that promise is part of why Trump's election win was like a Bat-Signal for hatemongers of all kinds.
ref: 2017, Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting the New Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need:
glosses: A person who encourages hatred towards a person or group of people.
Morabaraba
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Shangaan name for the game of Twelve Men's Morris (a variation on Nine Men's Morris) which has come to be used as the promotional name for the game.
Related terms: marabaraba
factify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: factifies
form: factifying
form: factified
form: factified
Etymology: From fact + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: the machinery you use to construct this comforting world of facts involves things that don't themselves belong in that world. When you build your construct you conveniently forget all the stuff that does not end up as part of it. But, of course, we can factify anything. There is a table, there is a blurriness, there is a sensation of hardness
ref: 1999 September 9, Jerry Hull, “Re: Metaphysical Death Match: Mental vs. Physical”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet):
text: Where appropriate, Diana qualifies her statements. She does not transmute impersonal evidence into personal evidence to create a personality for Shakespeare as Schoenbaum does. She does not factify myth, as I show Park Honan and Anthony Holden doing above.
ref: 2001 March 3, Pat Dooley, “Re: Re: Susanna Hall's Signature”, in humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare (Usenet):
text: Such ambitions of authenticity function to factify the fiction, literally to prop it up, performing a positivist role as the tangible trace of a lost era.
ref: 2002 November 23, Sarah Cardwell, Adaptation Revisited: Television and the Classic Novel, Manchester University Press:
glosses: To establish truth or validity by presentation of factual evidence.
convolve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈvɒlv/
ipa: /kənˈvɑlv/
ipa: /kənˈvɔlv/
rhymes: -ɒlv
Forms: form: convolves
form: convolving
form: convolved
form: convolved
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin convolvere (“roll together”), from con- (“together”) + volvō (“roll”); see voluble, volute, and compare involve, evolve, revolve.
Senses: glosses: To roll together, or one part on another
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To form the convolution of something with something else
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To compute the convolution function
Derived terms: convolvability
convolvable
convolver
reconvolve
unconvolved
Related terms: convolute
convoluted
convolution
calcareous sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcareous sponges
Senses: glosses: Any of many sponges, of the class Calcarea, having skeletons composed of spicules of calcium carbonate
caliche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈlit͡ʃi/
Forms: form: caliches
Etymology: From Spanish caliche, from Latin calx (“pebble”); compare chalk.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
examples: text: According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard caliche or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the caliche escarpment.
ref: 1929, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas, US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, page 44:
text: Having a layer of caliche at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.
ref: 1985, Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country, page 17:
text: Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).
ref: 2011, Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, “Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey”, in Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan, editors, Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research, page 186:
glosses: A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.