cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
vitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitalisms
Etymology: From vital + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Theories and philosophies of vitalism are concerned with the distinction between life and non-life in some form. Given this emphasis, vitalism always has political stakes: where the boundary between life and non-life is drawn is, as theorists of biopolitics have shown, a supremely political matter […] Historically, vitalism has been associated with conservatism and fascism in ways that are sometimes genealogically defensible, sometimes only with difficulty or not at all.
ref: 2023, Cat Moir, “What Is Living and What Is Dead In Political Vitalism?”, in Christopher Donohue, Charles T. Wolfe, editors, Vitalism and Its Legacy in Twentieth Century Life Sciences and Philosophy, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 258:
text: It seems to me that in vitalism, there are people who are anti-Christian, like Bronze Age Pervert, like the Nazis.
ref: 2025 May 1, Ross Douthat, “The New Culture of the Right: Vital, Masculine and Intentionally Offensive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The doctrine that life involves some immaterial "vital force", and cannot be explained scientifically.
Related terms: panvitalism
élan vital
dut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duts
Senses: examples: text: There was a kid at our school called Dean Smith who used to wear a 'Benny Dut' to demonstrate how unfathomably stupid he is.
ref: 1986, Luke Davis, How to talk proper:
text: The result is that I’m entering Ward Jackson Park, near Hartlepool Cricket Club, dressed in people shorts, comfy top – and traditional blue-and-white Pooly dut (for culture starved southerners, a woolly cap).
ref: 2010, Alan Wright, Wright Here:
text: Grab your dut – we’re off for a trip down memory lane for a hot pork pie from Seaton Baths![…] These singing angels, pictured at a previous Hartlepool Christmas lights switch-on, are all kitted out in their duts (woolly hats) for winter.
ref: 2021 June 25, Debra Fox, “Brett's, the curly ramp and a dut! 11 things you only know if you're from Hartlepool”, in Hartlepool Mail:
glosses: A snug woolly hat.
dut
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Said typically in marching bands and drum corps to keep track of beat when one is not playing.
vitalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vitalizes
form: vitalizing
form: vitalized
form: vitalized
form: vitalise
Etymology: From vital + -ize.
Senses: glosses: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of vitalise.
Derived terms: revitalize
unvitalized
vitamer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitamers
Etymology: From vitamin + -mer.
Senses: glosses: Any of a combination of substances that, together, function as a vitamin.
-archy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -archia, from Ancient Greek -αρχίᾱ (-arkhíā), from ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule, government”).
Senses: glosses: form of government or rule
Synonyms: -cracy
adumbrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adumbration
UCI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Union Cycliste Internationale.
examples: text: “I'm going to keep him under sedation until tomorrow morning, and then 5150 him at UCI Medical Center Psychiatric Unit.”
ref: 2006, J. T. McCalla, Reversal of Fear, page 187:
text: Though Davis hasn’t experienced the violence other campuses faced, Weintraut said UCD grad students stand in solidarity with UCLA, UCI and UCSD and chose to follow the stand-up strike strategy the UAW used to organize autoworkers.
ref: 2024 June 22, Monica Stark, “Grad students will strike at UCD next week”, in The Davis Enterprise:
glosses: Initialism of University of California, Irvine.
glosses: Initialism of Universal Chess Interface.
festivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of festivity
Abanto
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Abantos
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish
WADA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Tygart, who came to prominence for successfully pursuing doping cases against the track star Marion Jones and the cyclist Lance Armstrong, has long contended that WADA is insufficiently dedicated to holding dopers and their enablers to account.
ref: 2024 July 25, Michael S. Schmidt and Tariq Panja, “How a U.S. Antidoping Law Fueled Global Tensions”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2024:
glosses: Acronym of World Anti-Doping Agency
Hypernyms: ADA
Related terms: NADA
RUSADA
USADA
USADA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of United States Anti-Doping Agency.
Hypernyms: ADA
NADA
Coordinate terms: RUSADA
WADA
Related terms: USATF
USOC
SOBHD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing.
Falklands War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Falklands War
Senses: glosses: A conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom over sovereignty of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands), waged between March and June of 1982.
modulo
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒd͡ʒələʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɒdjʊləʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɑd͡ʒəloʊ/
Etymology: From Latin modulō, ablative of modulus (“a measure”).
Senses: examples: text: 21 and 84 are congruent to each other modulo 9, since both numbers leave the same remainder, 3, when divided by 9.
text: Thus 21 modulo 9 is 3, because when 21 is divided by 9, the remainder is 3.
text: 21 is congruent to 3 modulo 9.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Given a specified modulus of.
examples: text: "A is the same as B modulo C" means A is the same as B except for differences accounted for by C.
text: Thus, the underlying structure which I would assign to Navajo will be identical, modulo word order, to the one that we found to be projected in all of the languages studied in chapter 3.
ref: 1990, Margaret Speas, Phrase Structure in Natural Language, page 281:
text: Moreover, in the role of consumer, each individual (modulo his location) faces the same array of goods and services on sale to anyone who can pay the purchase price[.]
ref: 2002, Richard Arneson, “Egalitarianism”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
synonyms: up to
glosses: Except for differences accounted for by.
examples: text: In the Lisp programming language, the "tail recursion modulo cons" technique allows functions that would be tail recursive but for a cons call to be transformed into a tail recursive form.
text: All mammals, modulo the monotremes, give birth to live young.
text: I think it still holds up relatively well, modulo Joss Whedon's quirks, but a fuller version would probably have to include some more of the aftermath.
ref: 2019 March 23, AliasiSudonomo, “Doctor Horrible - 10 Years Later”, in rpg.net:
text: I recently upgraded my PC and bought a UHD monitor, but after installing Smite I realised that it is basically impossible to play it on a resolution bigger than 1080p, the reason being : basically everything modulo the HUD, does NOT scale with the resolution(everything from the minions to the ennemy^([sic]) health bar becomes tiny).
ref: 2019 August 6, Blaziken2222, “Smite on a 4k monitor”, in Reddit, r/Smite:
synonyms: word: barring
word: except for
word: save for
word: apart
word: apart from
word: aside from
word: bar
word: barring
word: besides
word: but
word: but for
word: except
word: except for
word: excepting
word: excluding
word: forby
word: modulo
word: not counting
word: other than
word: outtake
word: save
word: save for
word: saving
word: with the exception of
qualifier: extended use
glosses: With due allowance for (a specified exception or particular detail).
modulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒd͡ʒələʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɒdjʊləʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɑd͡ʒəloʊ/
Etymology: From Latin modulō, ablative of modulus (“a measure”).
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: modulus
glosses: The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another.
Related terms: congruent
remainder
antigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From antigen + -ic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an antigen.
Derived terms: alloantigenic
antigenically
antigenic drift
antigenicity
antigenic shift
antigenic variation
multiantigenic
neoantigenic
nonantigenic
oligoantigenic
original antigenic sin
pathoantigenic
polyantigenic
superantigenic
xenoantigenic
antigenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛnɪk
Etymology: From antigeny + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: [I]n which case, the males are normal, and the species generally antigenic.
ref: 1889, Samuel Hubbard Scudder, The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, volume 1, page 535:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Sexually dimorphic, especially with reference to lepidopterans.
radial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdi.əl/
Forms: form: more radial
form: most radial
Etymology: From Medieval Latin radiālis (“radial”), from Latin radius. By surface analysis, radius + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The spokes on most modern bicycle wheels are tangential to the hub rather than radial.
text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
ref: 2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
glosses: Arranged like rays that radiate from, or converge to, a common centre.
examples: text: What is the relationship between arc length and radial length?
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to a radius (line joining to a geometric centre).
examples: radial velocity
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to a radius (line joining to a geometric centre).
Moving or acting along a radius.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the radius bone.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the radius (vein), and/or the wing areas next to it.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Developing uniformly on all sides.
glosses: Having reinforcing cords placed in parallel across the tyre at 90 degrees to the direction of travel, especially as contrasted with cross-ply; see also radial tyre.
raw_tags: of a vehicle tyre
Derived terms: brachioradial
circumradial
corradial
cubitoradial
dorsoradial
equiradial
hexaradial
humeroradial
hyperradial
interradial
isoradial
multiradial
nonradial
octoradial
orthoradial
pentaradial
perradial
quadriradial
radial arm maze
radial arm saw
radial artery
radial basis function
radial bearing
radial bone
radial button
radial canal
radial chromatography
radial cleavage
radial collateral artery
radial curve
radial displacement
radial distribution function
radial embedding
radial engine
radial gate
radial glial cell
radial growth phase
radial index artery
radial integral
radialise
radiality
radialization
radialize
radial keratotomy
radial line
radial menu
radialmost
radial nerve
radial-ply tire
radial-ply tyre
radial point
radial saw
radial shaft seal
radial shield
radial symmetry
radial tire
radial tyre
radial vein
radial velocity
scapuloradial
semiradial
tetraradial
transradial
triradial
ulnoradial
radial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdi.əl/
Forms: form: radials
Etymology: From Medieval Latin radiālis (“radial”), from Latin radius. By surface analysis, radius + -al.
Senses: glosses: An item in a radial configuration, such as a spoke of a wheel.
glosses: An item in a radial configuration, such as a spoke of a wheel.
One of a set of earthing wires arranged radially around the base of a wireless antenna.
raw_tags: in particular
examples: text: Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.
ref: 1976, Paddy Chayefsky, Network, spoken by Howard Beele (Peter Finch):
glosses: A radial tire / radial tyre.
festivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛˈstɪvəti/
ipa: /fɛˈstɪvɪti/
ipa: /fɪ-/
Forms: form: festivities
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English festivite, from Middle French festivité, from Latin festīvitas, equivalent to festive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Other parts of the ceremony have their unpleasantnesses; for there is great difficulty in admittings and omittings of guests to the festivities.
ref: 1811, The Literary Panorama, and National Register, volume 9, page 871:
text: […] cosmeticky women whose tight jeans and stiletto heels suggest a kind of festivity but whose faces seem stunned […]
ref: 1982, Inside Sports, volume 4, page 86:
text: The real reason for these subdued responses was the fact that the audience knew it would be a fight to the finish; they were saving their screams for the posedown festivities to come.
ref: 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
qualifier: often pluralized
glosses: A festival or similar celebration.
glosses: An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.
Derived terms: unfestivity
ash blond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ash blonde
form: ash-blonde
form: ash-blond
Senses: glosses: Greyish blonde.
raw_tags: of hair or a person
ash blond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ash blonds
form: ash blonde
form: ash-blonde
form: ash-blond
Senses: glosses: A shade of blond with a hint of grey to it.
glosses: A person with such hair.
glacial polish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glacial polishes
Senses: examples: text: Tenaya Lake was at one time under as much as 2,460 feet of glacial ice that produced a pressure of about 74 tons per square foot and extensive glacial polish (fig. 18).
ref: 2001, Bill Guyton, Glaciers of California:
text: Glacial polish on lee surfaces may reflect this sorting.
ref: 2002, John Menzies, Modern and Past Glacial Environments: Revised Student Edition:
text: However, in Canada and Northern Europe—where they are known collectively as "shields"—the basement formations stretch out in the lowlands, smoothed by glacial polish.
ref: 1953, Hans Cloos, Conversation with the Earth:
glosses: The appearance of rock after having been worn smooth by a passing glacier.
locution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /loʊ̯ˈkju.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: locutions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin locūtiō, locūtiōnem (“speech”), from
loquor (“speak”). Compare the French cognate locution.
Senses: examples: text: The television show host is widely recognized for his all-too-common locutions.
text: Another way fathers impact sons is that sons, once their voices have changed in puberty, invariably answer the telephone with the same locutions and intonations of their fathers.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:
glosses: A phrase or expression peculiar to or characteristic of a given person or group of people.
examples: text: So it cannot be supposed that promisings differ from other word-givings in that a word-giver makes a promise only if he or she uses the locution "I promise".
ref: 1992, Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights, page 299:
glosses: The use of a word or phrase in an unusual or specialized way.
examples: text: informal locutions
glosses: Style of discourse or usage, or any particular utterance in such style.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A supernatural revelation where a religious figure, statue or icon speaks, usually to a saint.
Derived terms: locute
locutionary
locutive
mislocution
prelocution
prolocution
ventrilocution
Related terms: circumlocution
colloquial
colloquium
colloquy
elocution
eloquent
grandiloquent
illocution
interlocution
interlocutor
loquacious
perlocution
soliloquy
Ossetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.ɪk/
Etymology: From Ossete + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ossetian.
synonyms: word: Ossetian
Ossetic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.ɪk/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.ɪk/
Etymology: From Ossete + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Ossetian.
synonyms: word: Ossetian
areic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From area + -ic.
By analogy from French surfacique. Introduced to English by International Standards Organization (ISO) in 1992 in ISO 31 (Quantities and units).
Senses: examples: text: Areic charge is measured in coulombs per square meter.
glosses: Of or pertaining to area; especially used to describe a measurement per unit area.
Related terms: lineic
massic
volumic
obsidian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒbˈsɪd.i.ən/
ipa: /əbˈsɪd.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: obsidians
Etymology: From Latin obsidianus; named after Obsidius, who was, according to Pliny, the Roman who discovered the stone in Aethiopia.
Senses: examples: text: The Neolithic culture from 8000 to 6000 B.C., however, was a brilliant period of the revival of crafts, the transformation of gathering into gardening, the growth of a cross-cultural obsidian trade, and the rise of towns.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: obby
glosses: A type of naturally occurring black glass produced by volcanoes.
glosses: A slightly bluish black, the color of obsidian glass.
Hyponyms: fire obsidian
rainbow obsidian
sheen obsidian
snowflake obsidian
obsidian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒbˈsɪd.i.ən/
ipa: /əbˈsɪd.i.ən/
rhymes: -ɪdiən
Forms: form: more obsidian
form: most obsidian
Etymology: From Latin obsidianus; named after Obsidius, who was, according to Pliny, the Roman who discovered the stone in Aethiopia.
Senses: examples: text: Looks like a yellow biscuit of a buttery cue ball moon / Rolling maverick across an obsidian sky
ref: 1975, “Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)”, in Nighthawks at the Diner, performed by Tom Waits:
glosses: Black.
Ossetian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.i.ən/
ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.jən/
ipa: /ɒˈsi(ː).ʃən/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.i.ən/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.jən/
ipa: /ɑˈsi.ʃən/
Forms: form: Osetian
Etymology: From Ossetia + -an.
Senses: synonyms: word: Ossetic
word: Ossetish
glosses: Of or relating to Ossetia or Ossetians.
Ossetian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.i.ən/
ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.jən/
ipa: /ɒˈsi(ː).ʃən/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.i.ən/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.jən/
ipa: /ɑˈsi.ʃən/
Forms: form: Ossetians
form: Osetian
Etymology: From Ossetia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Iranian people inhabiting Ossetia.
Synonyms: Ossete
Ossetian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.i.ən/
ipa: /ɒˈsɛt.jən/
ipa: /ɒˈsi(ː).ʃən/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.i.ən/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.jən/
ipa: /ɑˈsi.ʃən/
Forms: form: Osetian
Etymology: From Ossetia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Eastern Iranian language spoken by these people.
Synonyms: Ossetic
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Ossetian terms
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/oss
word: os
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/oss
word: oss
Ossetia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɛt.i.ə/
ipa: /ɑˈsɛt.i.ə/
ipa: /ɑˈsi.ʃə/
ipa: /əˈsɛtɪə/
ipa: /ɒˈsɛtɪə/
ipa: /ɒˈsi(ː)ʃə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Осе́тия (Osétija), from Georgian ოსეთი (oseti), from ოსი (osi, “Ossetian (person)”).
Senses: glosses: An ethnolinguistic region on the border of Europe and Asia, located on both sides of the Greater Caucasus Mountains, largely inhabited by the Ossetians. The northern part of the region forms North Ossetia-Alania federal subject of Russia. The southern part is South Ossetia.
Derived terms: word: North Ossetia-Alania
alt: or Ossetic
word: Ossetian
word: South Ossetia
oceanographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊʃəˈnɑɡɹəfəɹ/
Forms: form: oceanographers
Senses: glosses: a person who studies oceanography, the science of oceans
Synonyms: word: oceanographist
Derived terms: palaeoceanographer
paleoceanographer
Related terms: oceanography
oceanographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊʃənəˈɡɹæfɪk/
Etymology: From oceanography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Their lab is still analyzing the data from the last oceanographic survey.
glosses: relating to oceanography, the science of oceans
Synonyms: oceanographical
Derived terms: nonoceanographic
oceanographically
palaeoceanographic
paleooceanographic
oxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒksɪk
Forms: form: more oxic
form: most oxic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús, “sharp, pointed”).
Senses: glosses: Sharp; pointy.
oxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒksɪk
Etymology: From oxy-, ox(ide), ox(ygen) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Containing oxygen.
Derived terms: dysoxic
euoxic
physioxic
suboxic
Related terms: aerobic
opportunistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒp.əˌtjuːˈnɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɒp.əˌt͡ʃ(j)uːˈnɪs.tɪk/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pɚˌt(j)uːˈnɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more opportunistic
form: most opportunistic
Etymology: From opportunist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The danger now isn't so much from the AIDS virus itself as from opportunistic infections.
glosses: Taking advantage of situations that arise.
examples: text: You can't trust somebody that opportunistic: he'll stab you in the back the first chance he gets.
text: […] an opportunistic relative masquerading as his rescuer, […]
ref: 1997 September 28, “In Rescuing a Relative, a Helping or a Heavy Hand?”, in The New York Times:
text: Now, maybe you see this as sort of an obvious and opportunistic publicity play by a competing social-media service. Maybe it even seems crass to you—a little grave-dancy.
ref: 2022 November 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Taking advantage of situations to advance one's own interests without regard for moral principles.
Derived terms: nonopportunistic
opportunistically
opportunistic infection
unopportunistic
Related terms: opportunist
opportunism
opportunity
cervelat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cervelats
Etymology: Borrowed from Alemannic German Cervelat, from Middle French cervelat, from Latin cerebellum, diminutive of Latin cerebrum (“brain”).
Senses: glosses: A Swiss smoked sausage made with pork or beef.
orangutang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orangutangs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of orangutan.
belt and suspenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belts and suspenders
Senses: examples: text: He believes in a belt and suspenders, booking flights from two different airports on different airlines for important trips.
glosses: Redundant systems, affording mutual backup in the event of one failing.
Synonyms: word: belt and braces
in depth
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in-depth
Senses: glosses: Comprehensive, thorough, detailed.
Derived terms: indepthly
confederation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənfɛdəˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: confederations
form: confœderation
Etymology: From Middle English confederacion, confideracion and Middle French confédération, from Old French confederacion, from Latin cōnfoederātiō. Doublet of confederacy.
Senses: synonyms: alliance
confederacy
federation
league
glosses: A union or alliance of states or political organizations.
glosses: The act of forming an alliance.
Derived terms: anticonfederation
confederational
confederationism
confederationist
mandap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandaps
Senses: examples: text: ‘He asked if you have any relatives, maybe a couple, who can sit inside the mandap and give the bride away in your place.’
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 20:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mandapa (“sacred tent used in Hindu wedding ceremonies”).
indepth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indepth
form: most indepth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of in-depth.
Derived terms: indepthness
left fielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left fielders
Senses: examples: text: The left fielder made a fine running catch.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The outfield defensive player that stands to the left of the center fielder as viewed from home plate.
Related terms: catcher
pitcher
first baseman
infielder
outfielder
center fielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center fielders
Senses: examples: text: The center fielder made a spectacular sliding catch.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the outfield defensive player who stands in the middle of the field
Related terms: catcher
pitcher
first baseman
infielder
outfielder
right fielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right fielders
Senses: examples: text: The right fielder nailed the runner at the plate with a perfect throw.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The outfield defensive player that stands to the right of the field as viewed from home plate.
Related terms: catcher
pitcher
first baseman
infielder
outfielder
chin music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: (folk music): The name jokingly refers to "playing" the mouth as if it were an instrument.
Senses: examples: text: Jones backed Smith off the plate with a little chin music.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fastball thrown near the batter's chin, often to set up a subsequent pitch thrown low and outside.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A bouncer aimed near the batsman's chin.
glosses: Idle talk; chatter.
qualifier: folk music
glosses: Rhythmic singing, usually to nonsense syllables, in a style partly inspired by the instruments used to accompany folk dancing in Irish and Scottish traditions.
Kath
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æθ
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.
ref: 1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Katherine, Kathleen, or related names.
everwhat
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Etymology: From ever + what. Formed similarly to the older words each, every and German irgendwas.
Senses: examples: text: Everwhat Gawd does is fair even ef 'taint fair.
ref: 1906, May Beal, chapter 6, in The Rebel at Large:
text: From that fungus and everwhat else is in there.
ref: 2009, Cheryl Mullenax, Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror (Fiction), Comet Press, →ISBN, page 16:
text: "You can ride everwhat three wheeler you want. Besides, it's goin' to be what it's goin' be."
glosses: Whatever; whichever.
catalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætəˈlɪtɪk/
rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Forms: form: more catalytic
form: most catalytic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a catalyst; having properties facilitating chemical reaction or change.
Derived terms: allelocatalytic
anticatalytic
autocatalytic
biocatalytic
catalytic activity
catalytic agent
catalytical
catalytically
catalytic converter
catalytic reformer
catalytic war
chemocatalytic
cocatalytic
electrocatalytic
extracatalytic
heterocatalytic
hypercatalytic
multicatalytic
noncatalytic
organocatalytic
photocatalytic
precatalytic
proteocatalytic
pseudocatalytic
pyrocatalytic
serocatalytic
thermocatalytic
Related terms: catalysis
catalyst
catalyze
catalyzer
floorcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floorcloths
form: floor-cloth
Etymology: From floor + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A cloth, normally of flannel, used for cleaning floors.
glosses: Material used in place of carpeting for covering floors, such as linoleum or oilcloth.
overshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊvəɹˌʃuː/
Forms: form: overshoes
Etymology: From over- + shoe.
Senses: examples: text: And vvho doth lead them but a paltrey fellovv,? / Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers coſt, / A milkeſopt, one that neuer in his life / Felt ſo much colde as ouer ſhooes in ſnovv: […]
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], signature M2, verso:
text: “I will take some brandy,” said Edna, shivering as she removed her gloves and overshoes.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:
glosses: A shoe worn over an ordinary shoe, as:
To protect from water or mud.
glosses: A shoe worn over an ordinary shoe, as:
To prevent damage to a floor.
synonyms: bootee
bootie
Related terms: gumshoe
overcoat
crampon
galosh
outtake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌteɪk/
Forms: form: outtakes
Etymology: From Middle English outtaken (“to take out”), equivalent to out- + take.
Senses: examples: text: The DVD for that movie has ten minutes' worth of outtakes.
glosses: A portion of a recording (a take) that is not included in the final version of a film or a musical album, often because it contains a mistake.
glosses: A complete version of a recording or film that is dropped in favour of another version, reject.
examples: text: The boiler is "sectional" and of the water tube type, in which the steam and water drums are arranged transversely to the flow of gases from the furnace to the outtake to chimney.
ref: 1895, Electrical Engineer, volume 19, page 449:
glosses: An opening for outward discharge; a vent.
Coordinate terms: sense: portion of a recording that contains a mistake
word: blooper
outtake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌteɪk/
Forms: form: outtakes
form: outtaking
form: outtook
form: outtaken
Etymology: From Middle English outtaken (“to take out”), equivalent to out- + take.
Senses: glosses: To take out, remove.
examples: text: it happed the kynge and launcelot stode in a wyndowe / and sawe syre Tristram ryde and Isoud / Syre sayd Launcelot yonder rydeth the fayrest lady of the world excepte youre quene Dame Gueneuer / who is that said sir Arthur / Sir sayd he / it is quene Isoud that oute taken my lady your quene she is makeles
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “lxxiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
glosses: To except.
outtake
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊtˌteɪk/
Etymology: From Middle English outtake, outtaken, from the past participle of outtaken (“to take out”). See above. Compare earlier Middle English outnime, out-neme (“except, except for”).
Senses: examples: text: this is for everyone outtake my wife
glosses: except; besides.
Synonyms: barring
except for
save
save for
except
biochipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of biochip
biochipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a biochipped kitten
glosses: Fitted with a biochip.
nonahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonahedra
form: nonahedrons
Etymology: From nona- + -hedron.
Senses: examples: text: A polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS), consisting mainly of a mixture of octahedra, nonahedra, and decahedra with bulky and flexible organic substituents, with three secondary hydroxyls per organic group, was used to modify epoxy networks produced by the homopolymerization of diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A in the presence of benzyldimethylamine.
ref: 2003 July 1, S. A. Pellice, D. P. Fasce, R. J. J. Williams, “Properties of Epoxy Networks Derived from the Reaction of Diglycidyl Ether of Bisphenol A with Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes Bearing OH-Functionalized Organic Substituents”, in Journal of Polymer Science, volume 41, number 13, part B (Polymer Physics), →ISSN, page 1451:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polyhedron with nine faces.
Synonyms: enneahedron
Related terms: nonahedral
tchotchkes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tchotchke
jung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jungs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of djong (“type of sailing ship”).
zaniness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zaninesses
Etymology: From zany + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being zany.
Synonyms: craziness
zinfandel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɪnfn̩dɛl/
Forms: form: zinfandels
Etymology: Unknown origin; wine sense used from 1896, grape sense from 1880. Possibly a transmission of German Zierfandler, a different wine grape, through a Hungarian intermediary such as czirifandli (now Cirfandli).
Senses: examples: text: This zinfandel’s delish. Where’d you get it?
ref: 2008, Danielle Corsetto, Girls with Slingshots: 419:
glosses: A dry red wine of California.
glosses: A small black grape from which zinfandel wine is made.
Synonyms: word: Black St. Peters
word: Crljenak Kaštelanski
word: Gioia Del Colle
word: Locale
word: Morellone
word: Plavac Veliki
word: Primaticcio
word: Primativo
word: Primitivo
word: Primitivo Di Gioia
word: Primitivo Nero
word: Taranto
word: Uva Della Pergola
word: Uva Di Corato
word: Zeinfandall
word: Zenfendal
word: Zin
word: zin
word: Zinfandal
word: Zinfardel
word: Zinfardell
word: Zinfindal
word: Zinfindel
word: ZPC
Derived terms: white zinfandel
zestfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zestfully
form: most zestfully
Etymology: From zestful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With zest or enthusiasm.
zestfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zestful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: An inscription on a stone of the ancient Assyrian King Sardanapalus emphasizes the zestfulness of his own epitaph.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:
glosses: State or condition of being zestful or enthusiastic.
y-axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of y-axis
x-axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of x-axis
mistrustful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mistrustful
form: most mistrustful
Etymology: From mistrust + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: […] I hold it cowardice
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart
Hath pawn’d an open hand in sign of love;
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: In the passage I met the nurse. She greeted me with a little smile; but I was mistrustful of professional cheerfulness that night.
ref: 1910, Ian Hay, The Right Stuff, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book Two, Chapter Sixteen, p. 284:
glosses: Having mistrust, lacking trust (in someone or something).
examples: text: He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes,
And nycely trode, as thornes lay in his way
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 579:
text: At last, having held a document before her glasses for nearly five minutes, she presented it across the counter; accompanying the act by another inquisitive and mistrustful glance—it was for J. E.
ref: 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter X, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 160:
text: He led the way to the stable-yard accordingly, the Rat following with a most mistrustful expression […]
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, chapter 2, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Expressing or showing a lack of trust.
examples: text: The mender of roads was now coming to himself, and was mistrustful of having made a mistake in his late demonstrations; but no.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “Book 2, Chapter 15”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having a suspicion, imagining or supposing (that something undesirable is the case).
examples: text: Vp we gad, owt spredding oure sayls and make to the seaward:
Al creeks mistrustful with Greekish countrye refusing.
ref: 1582, Richard Stanihurst, transl., Thee First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aeneis, Leiden: John Pates, Book 3, p. 60:
text: […] stonish’d as night-wanderers often are,
Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood,
Even so confounded in the dark she lay,
Having lost the fair discovery of her way.
ref: 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Synonyms: sense: having mistrust
word: distrustful
sense: having mistrust
word: suspicious
sense: having mistrust
word: untrusting
sense: having mistrust
word: wary
Derived terms: word: mistrustfully
alt: n
word: mistrustfulness
word: unmistrustful
Z score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z scores
Etymology: From the use of "Z" in Z distribution, another name for normal distribution.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The number of standard deviation units away from the mean a particular value of data lies.
Synonyms: topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: Z-value
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: normal score
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: standard score
topics: statistics
mathematics
sciences
word: standardized variable
procures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of procure
hazed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hazed
form: most hazed
Senses: examples: text: With W., N.W., and N. winds the air is very clear, whereas from all other directions it is very much hazed. All winds from E. by S. to SW are nearly ten times more hazed than those from the NW quadrant.
ref: 1923, John Aitken, edited by Cargill Gilston Knott, Collected Scientific Papers of John Aitken, LL.D., F.R.S.:
text: The images of reality become more and more hazed, more and more dim. Hibernation pulls him away. Floating, the nightmare returns.
ref: 2004, Matthew McGuire, Dreams Of Hope, page 37:
text: As she rocked against him, she couldn′t stop watching his murky eyes grow even more hazed.
ref: 2008, A. J. Hampton, Hostile Devotions, unnumbered page:
glosses: Affected by haze; hazy.
glosses: Clouded, especially due to accidental exposure to light.
raw_tags: of a photograph
glosses: Drunk.
Derived terms: unhazed
hazed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of haze
Synonyms: sense: affected by haze
word: cloudy
word: foggy
word: nebulous
sense: clouded
word: blurry
word: overexposed
word: indistinct
sense: drunk
word: drunk
yolked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊkt
homophone: yoked
Etymology: From yolk + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Although it is rare, you may occasionally find a double-yolked egg.
text: Some people swear by the theory that a darker-yolked egg makes for a more nutritious meal.
glosses: Having a specified type of yolk.
boon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːn/
rhymes: -uːn
Etymology: From Middle English bone (“reed, stem, husk”), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed; drinking cup”).
Senses: glosses: The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Synonyms: shive
shove
ZETA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Acronym of zero-energy thermonuclear assembly/apparatus (“a torus-shaped reactor used in the mid-20th century to carry out experiments in plasma physics and temperature-controlled thermonuclear reactions”).
Xenophon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛnəˌfɒn/
ipa: /-fən/
ipa: /ˈzɛnəˌfɑn/
ipa: /-fən/
ipa: /ˈzi-/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ξενοφῶν (Xenophôn).
Senses: glosses: Athenian historian and philosopher born 427 B.C.E. and author of the Anabasis and Memorabilia. He was a pupil of Socrates and became a general during the Persian wars.
Derived terms: Xenophonian
Xenophontic
Related terms: phone
-phone
phono-
xeno-
xenophone
biologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪk
Etymology: From biology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Biologic femaleness is a sequence of circular returns, beginning and ending at the same point.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
text: A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday.
ref: 2022 November 17, Jen Christensen and Brenda Goodman, “FDA approves first treatment to delay onset of type 1 diabetes”, in CNN:
glosses: Biological; pertaining to biology or to a living organism.
Synonyms: biological
Derived terms: abiologic
biologic time
chemicobiologic
chronobiologic
immunobiologic
microbiologic
nonbiologic
orthobiologic
palaeobiologic
paleobiologic
photobiologic
prebiologic
psychobiologic
radiobiologic
biologic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌɪəˈlɒdʒɪk/
rhymes: -ɒdʒɪk
Forms: form: biologics
Etymology: From biology + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: It involved 136 biologics approved in the United States and 105 in the European Union between January 1995 and June 2007. A total of 41, or nearly 24 percent, got safety warnings issued through June 2008.
ref: 2008 October 21, The Associated Press, “1 in 4 new bio meds cause serious side effects”, in NBC News:
glosses: An extremely complex drug, vaccine or antitoxin that is made from a living organism, or from products of a living organism.
back down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs down
form: backing down
form: backed down
form: backed down
Senses: examples: text: I was about to sue them, but I had to back down.
text: The boys had planned to fight during recess, but backed down after the principal found out.
text: By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
glosses: To take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously had, or has planned to have.
examples: text: I have backed down so many men by confronting them. I'm willing to fight back. If you have that rage in your heart and you are willing to kill, that radiates.
ref: 1980 February 9, Chris Guilfoy, anonymous quotee, “Town Meeting Talks About The Issue of Violence”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 1:
glosses: To make (someone) take a less aggressive position.
glosses: To withdraw from a commitment or position; back out.
Related terms: give in
retract
retreat
yield
backdown
back into
back off
back out
back up
Golden Fleece
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡəʊl.dən fliːs/
ipa: [ˈɡɒʊ̯ɫ.dn̩ ˈfliːs]
ipa: /ˈɡoʊl.dən fliːs/
ipa: [ˈɡəɫ.dn̩ ˈfliːs]
Forms: form: the Golden Fleece
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A magical fleece from a winged ram guarded by the hydra in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts.
glosses: A chivalric order founded in 1430 by Duke Philip III of Burgundy. Later awarded in Spain and Habsburg Austria.
pyrrhexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pyrexia.
pyrexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
ipa: /pɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
ipa: /paɪˈrɛk.si.ə/
Forms: form: pyrexias
form: pyrexiae
Etymology: From post-classical Latin pyrexia, from Ancient Greek πυρεξία (purexía, “feverishness”), from πυρετός (puretós, “fever”).
Senses: examples: text: The least defined pyrexiae were the continued fevers, divided mainly into typhus, enteric (typhoid) and relapsing.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 253:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Fever.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Trench fever.
Derived terms: pyrexic
pyrexial
Related terms: hyperpyrexia
hypopyrexia
Kwame
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɑːmeɪ
Etymology: An ancient and traditional Akan day-name meaning "from Amen/Amon/Amun" that may be given to a male child born on a Saturday. Popularized in the 1960s when Kwame Nkrumah was the Prime Minister of Ghana.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Related terms: Kofi
trench fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trench fevers
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: five-day fever
glosses: An acute infectious disease, caused by the microorganism Rickettsia quintana (now Bartonella quintana) and transmitted by the louse Pediculus humanus, that affected very many soldiers during World War I.
biochip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biochips
Etymology: From bio- + chip.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A microchip made from biological macromolecules (especially DNA) rather than a semiconductor.
glosses: An identification chip fitted into the flesh of an animal.
biochip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: biochips
form: biochipping
form: biochipped
form: biochipped
Etymology: From bio- + chip.
Senses: glosses: To fit (an animal) with such a chip.
topologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more topologically
form: most topologically
Etymology: From topological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a topological manner
polyhedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛdɹə
enpr: pŏlēhē'drə
ipa: /pɒl.iˈhiː.dɹə/
Forms: form: polyhedrons
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhedron
shamrock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃæm.ɹɒk/
ipa: /ˈʃæm.ɹɑk/
rhymes: (US) -æmɹɑk
Forms: form: shamrocks
Etymology: From Irish seamróg, from Old Irish semróc, diminutive of semar, semair (“clover”), from Proto-Celtic *semarā, *semaris (compare Gaulish uisumaris (“clover”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *semh₁r-, *smeh₁r-. Related to Old Norse smári (“clover”) and possibly Georgian სამყურა (samq̇ura, “clover”).
Senses: examples: text: She wore a shamrock in honor of her Irish ancestry.
glosses: The trefoil leaf of any small clover, especially Trifolium repens, or such a leaf from a clover-like plant, commonly used as a symbol of Ireland.
examples: text: The fields were covered with shamrocks.
glosses: Any of several species of small clover-like plant species, with trefoil leaves, especially Trifolium repens.
Synonyms: sense: trefoil leaf
word: trefoil
sense: any of several small plants
word: clover
sense: any of several small plants
word: trefoil
Derived terms: wet the shamrock
Related terms: four-leaf clover
sentential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin sententialis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
law
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Relating to a sentence.
Derived terms: cosentential
extrasentential
intersentential
intrasentential
nonsentential
presentential
prosentential
sentential calculus
sentential formula
sententialism
sententiality
sentential logic
sententially
sentential variable
subsentential
Related terms: sententious