cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coordinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coordinative
form: most coordinative
form: coördinative
form: co-ordinative
Etymology: From coordinate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to coordination
Derived terms: coordinatively
co-ordinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coordinative.
co-ordinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-ordinators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coordinator.
Speer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Denver, Colorado.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stark County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A railroad location in Laramie County, Wyoming.
Speicher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Bitburg-Prüm district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
glosses: A municipality in Appenzell Ausserrhoden canton, Switzerland.
Stapel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stapels
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and North German Stapel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Staub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Staubs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Staub.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Anglophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæŋ.ɡləʊˈfɪ.li.ə/
Forms: form: anglophilia
Etymology: From Anglo- + -philia, probably after Anglophile. Compare earlier Anglophilism and French anglophilie.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps Anglophilia continues to play its part, but if I were one of the few surviving teachers of Anglo-Saxon I would rejoice at the way in which such terms as muggle and Wizengamot, and such names as Godric, Wulfric and Dumbledore, had become common currency.
ref: 2007 August 12, Christopher Hitchens, “Harry Potter: The Boy Who Lived”, in New York Times:
text: But now, as a company with the word "British" in its name pisses apocalyptic quantities of oil into the ocean, and CEO Tony Hayward pops up on the news to make tactless statements in a British accent, anglophilia is shrivelling.
ref: 2010 June 14, Charlie Brooker, The Guardian:
glosses: The love of the country, culture or people of England.
Synonyms: Anglophilism
Related terms: Anglophile
Anglophilic
Anglomania
Stelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stelles
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stelle.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Stelton
Anglophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæŋ.ɡləˈfɪ.lɪk/
Forms: form: anglophilic
Etymology: From Anglo- + -philic or Anglophilia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting Anglophilia; fond of what is English.
Related terms: Anglophile
Anglophilia
Stempel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stempels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stempel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Stengel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stengels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stengel.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Stengel dive
Stich
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Stich.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match!
ref: 2008, Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo, Pete Sampras: A Champion's Mind, published 2010, unnumbered page:
glosses: A surname from German.
Strang
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Strangs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A town in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States.
glosses: A village in Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A settlement in Braddan parish, near Douglas, Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3678).
zogo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zogos
Senses: glosses: An oracle or priest among the Torres Strait Islanders.
Stumpf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tabak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tabaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish טאַבאַק (tabak).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Yiddish.
strudel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹuːdəl/
rhymes: -uːdəl
Forms: form: strudels
form: shtrudel
Etymology: Borrowed from German Strudel (“whirlpool, strudel”).
Senses: examples: text: Steffan grinned at him and pointed to the oven. “She’s got something good in there,” he said, and added sadly, “only we don’t get any till lunch.” / “Strudel,” Ruth said. “Whoever heard of eating strudel for breakfast?” / “You know, Son,” Paul said soberly, “there are certain items that come under female jurisdiction. Just why strudel is appropriate for lunch and not for breakfast is beyond mere masculine comprehension. But one must learn to accept the inevitable. Life is hard.”
ref: 1956, Jean Z. Owen, chapter III, in The Troubled Heart, Philadelphia, Pa.: Muhlenberg Press, →LCCN, page 48:
glosses: A pastry made from multiple thin layers of dough rolled up and filled with fruit, etc.
glosses: Synonym of at sign (@).
synonyms: word: at sign
extra: @
glosses: A vertical hole in sea ice through which downward jet-like, buoyancy-driven drainage of flood water is thought to occur.
Derived terms: apple strudel
podcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From podcast + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: With the benefit of hindsight, it all seems quite obvious. MP3 players, like Apple's iPod, in many pockets, audio production software cheap or free, and weblogging an established part of the internet; all the ingredients are there for a new boom in amateur radio. But what to call it? Audioblogging? Podcasting? GuerillaMedia?
ref: 2004 February 12, Ben Hammersley, “Audible revolution: Online radio is booming thanks to iPods, cheap audio software and weblogs”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2023:
glosses: The distribution of multimedia files over the Internet for playback on a mobile device, often in MP3 format.
Derived terms: Godcasting
godcasting
podcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From podcast + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of podcast
orecchiette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian orecchiette (literally “little ears”).
Senses: glosses: A type of pasta, made with the thumb from a small disk, typically from Puglia.
gomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gomos
Etymology: From Shona gomo.
Senses: glosses: kopje, small hill
herro
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: harro
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of hello.
Lenz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lenzes
Senses: glosses: A surname
Derived terms: Lenz dysmorphogenetic syndrome
Lenz dysplasia
Lenz-Majewski hyperostotic dwarfism
Lenz-Majewski syndrome
Lenz microphthalmia syndrome
Lenz syndrome
paglia e fieno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian paglia e fieno (literally “straw and hay”).
Senses: glosses: a mixture of yellow and green tagliatelle cooked together and served with a sauce; normally sold dry as little "nests"
panzarotti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpanzəˈɹɒtɪ/
ipa: /ˌpantsəˈɹɒtɪ/
rhymes: -ɒti
Forms: form: panzarotti
form: panzarottis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panzerotto.
panzarotti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpanzəˈɹɒtɪ/
ipa: /ˌpantsəˈɹɒtɪ/
rhymes: -ɒti
Senses: glosses: plural of panzarotto
panzarotto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panzarotti
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panzerotto.
pappardelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæpɑːˈdɛleɪ/
ipa: /ˌpæpɑɹˈdɛleɪ/
ipa: /pæpəɹˈdɛl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pappardelle, plural of pappardella, from pappare (“to gobble up, tuck into (food)”).
Senses: examples: text: Place the pappardelle (the strips of paste) on a hot dish, grate a little Parmesan cheese over them, add the hare condiment, and serve hot.
ref: 1899, Janet Ross, “Pappardelle with Hare”, in Leaves from Our Tuscan Kitchen or How to Cook Vegetables, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co., 29 & 30 Bedford Street, W.C., →OCLC, page 66:
text: In season one can enjoy spitted and skewered versions of such appetizing game as Larks (Allodoline), Thrushes (Tordi), Pheasant (Fagiano), and Partridges (Pernice), or the popular wide noodles with game or hare sauce known as Pappardelle.
ref: [1957], Richard Hammond, George Martin, Eating in Italy: A Pocket Guide to Italian Food and Restaurants, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →OCLC, page 83, column 1:
text: For the table a big platter of artichoke alla giudia, prosciutto with melon, and eggplant with ricotta affumicata. Then spaghetti alla carbonara, pappardelle with ragu of rabbit, and linguini with clams.
ref: 2010 August 13, Ryan Murphy, Jennifer Salt, 44:36 from the start, in Eat Pray Love:
glosses: A broad form of fettuccine, or a narrow form of lasagne, traditionally eaten with a meat sauce (especially one made with hare).
neurotensin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurotensins
Senses: glosses: A 13-amino acid peptide that exerts neuromodulatory functions in the central nervous system and endocrine/paracrine actions in the periphery
Synonyms: NT
Derived terms: neurotensinergic
neurotensinoma
proneurotensin
penne rigate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian penne rigate.
Senses: glosses: A form of penne with a ribbed surface (to hold the sauce better).
rodents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodent
rotelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəʊˈtɛleɪ/
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: pasta in the shape of little wheels
rotella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Late Latin rotella, diminutive of rota (“wheel”). Doublet of rowel.
Senses: glosses: A disc.
glosses: A round shield.
rigatoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪɡəˈtoʊni/
Forms: form: rigatoni
form: rigatoni
form: rigatonis
form: rigatone
Etymology: From Italian rigatoni, literally an augmented form of rigato (“striped”).
Senses: examples: text: I think some of my rigatoni are still alive. I don’t like to eat them till they’re dead.
ref: 1992, Dean R[ay] Koontz, Hideaway, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 316:
text: We had spoken briefly before dinner, just as Willy’s Christmas rigatoni were seeping up the stew sauce.
ref: 1993, Camilla T. Crespi [pseudonym; Camilla Trinchieri], chapter 16, in The Trouble with Thin Ice, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 127:
text: The large rigatoni are perfect for sopping up the creamy sauce.
ref: 2016 July 28 – August 3, Lauren Mifsud, “Chicken riggies”, in The Hippo, volume 15, number 30, Manchester, N.H.: Hippo Press, page 47, column 2:
glosses: A ribbed tubular form of pasta, larger than penne but with square-cut ends, often slightly curved.
rigatone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigatoni
Etymology: From Italian rigatone.
Senses: examples: text: Richard stole a rigatone from Kesho’s plate.
ref: 1993, Camilla T. Crespi [pseudonym; Camilla Trinchieri], The Trouble with Thin Ice, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 256:
text: He looked straight in my eyes and nuzzled the cuff of my jeans so I flipped him a rigatone. He nuzzled again so I flipped a few more; the third one landed right on his back, scattering red sauce across the shiny puppy fur.
ref: 2012, Joseph Harry Silber, “Tantrums”, in Bum, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, section 13, page 23:
text: What pleasure it is for us to bite into a rigatone, a bucatina or a penna which has been cooked just right....
ref: 2012 January/February, Sergio G. Grasso, “The everlasting taste of pasta”, in Il Cuoco, number 303, Federazione Italiana Cuochi, page 80, column 1:
text: The first was a poster with a white spoon and fork set against a sky blue background, with just two pieces of spaghetti, one farfalle, a rigatone and two penne, nothing else.
ref: 2013, “Liftoff”, in Aaron Maines, transl., edited by Francesco Alberoni, Pietro Barilla: “Everything is done for the future, forge ahead with courage.” The Biography of an Extraordinary Italian Entrepreneur, Milan: RCS Libri S.p.A., page 19:
glosses: A piece of rigatoni.
spaghettini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: a form of thin spaghetti
strangolapreti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian, literally "priest stranglers".
Senses: glosses: any of several types of pasta or gnocchi having regional forms
JAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæp/
rhymes: -æp
Senses: examples: text: Eww, you've got to check out her creepy friends.. It's like these JAP actress sluts and some American Gladiators reject lunkhead!
ref: 1997, Daniel Clowes, “The Norman Square”, in Ghost World, Jonathan Cape, published 2000, →ISBN, page 49:
text: It took only the smallest hop of the imagination to picture her as an NYU undergraduate, a well-heeled JAP who did yoga, ate only vegetables and consented quickly to anal sex.
ref: 2009, Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Canongate, published 2015, page 212:
glosses: Initialism of Jewish-American/Jewish-Australian princess: overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish American or Australian woman.
glosses: Initialism of Jewish-American/Jewish-Australian prince: overly materialistic and selfish young Jewish American or Australian man.
Synonyms: word: kugel
word: bagel
Wimbledon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪmbəldən/
Etymology: From an Old English name (probably *Wynnmann, or alternatively *Wynebeald) + dūn (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban town and the principal business area in the borough of Merton, Greater London.
examples: text: Norman Brookes was the first Australian to win the men's singles at Wimbledon in 1907 - making him the first male outside Britain to win the Championships and the first of 12 Australian men to take the title.
ref: 2005, Jane Egginton, Working and Living Australia, page 81:
text: In the 1991 Wimbledon semifinal between Michael Stich and Stefan Edberg, there was just one service break in the entire match, and the guy whose serve was broken, Stich, ended up winning the match!
ref: 2008, Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo, Pete Sampras: A Champion's Mind, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: An incredible 28 thousand kilograms of strawberries are eaten at Wimbledon every year...
ref: 2013, Jack Goldstein, Frankie Taylor, 101 Amazing Facts about Wimbledon, unnumbered page:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
synonyms: SW19
glosses: The Wimbledon Championships, a prestigious tennis tournament.
Derived terms: South Wimbledon
Wimbledon Common
Sisyphusean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sisyphean.
gastropexy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastropexies
Etymology: From gastro- + -pexy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical fixation of the stomach to the abdominal wall or diaphragm.
hako
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hakos
Senses: glosses: A Pawnee Indian ceremony celebrating the union of Earth and Heaven and the genesis of life.
moellon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moellons
Etymology: Borrowed from French moellon. Doublet of modillion.
Senses: glosses: rubble masonry
Related terms: modillion
mutule
tinamou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪn.əˌmuː/
Forms: form: tinamous
Etymology: Borrowed from French tinamou, from Kari'na inamu (“great tinamou”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae.
Synonyms: tinamid
Tinamiformes
Derived terms: Andean tinamou
barred tinamou
Bartlett's tinamou
Berlepsch's tinamou
black-capped tinamou
black tinamou
Brazilian tinamou
brown tinamou
brushland tinamou
Chilean tinamou
Choco tinamou
cinereous tinamou
curve-billed tinamou
dwarf tinamou
elegant crested tinamou
great tinamou
grey-legged tinamou
grey tinamou
highland tinamou
hooded tinamou
Huayco tinamou
little tinamou
ornate tinamou
pale-browed tinamou
Patagonian tinamou
puna tinamou
Quebracho crested tinamou
red-legged tinamou
red-winged tinamou
rusty tinamou
slaty-breasted tinamou
small-billed tinamou
solitary tinamou
Taczanowski's tinamou
Tataupa tinamou
tawny-breasted tinamou
Tepui tinamou
thicket tinamou
undulated tinamou
variegated tinamou
white-throated tinamou
yellow-legged tinamou
parvclass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvclasses
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category below infraclass and above order.
mander
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: manders
form: mandering
form: mandered
form: mandered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maunder.
Related terms: -mander
tartufo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartufos
form: tartufi
Etymology: From Italian tartufo. Doublet of tartuffe.
Senses: examples: text: He watched a boy and a girl jump rope and a waiter carry a silver tray of tartufo.
ref: 2015 August, Anita Hughes, chapter 16, in Rome in Love, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, →ISBN, page 143:
glosses: An Italian dessert consisting of a ball of ice cream coated in chocolate, with a cherry inside.
supplì
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplì
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suppli.
multisourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + sourcing.
Senses: glosses: a form of outsourcing via multiple coordinated vendors
suppli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈpliː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: suppli
form: supplì
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian supplì, from French surprise, because of the supposedly unexpected filling. Doublet of surprise.
Senses: glosses: A rice croquette filled with mozzarella or meat, originally from Rome.
Derived terms: suppli al telefono
distinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of distinguish
distinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distinguishing
form: most distinguishing
Senses: examples: text: It has no obvious distinguishing characteristics, and therefore people are constantly ascribing to it the characteristics of other similar species.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 118:
text: The distinguishing feature of an acronym is that it is pronounced as if it were a single word, in the manner of NATO and NASA.
ref: 2022, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
glosses: That serves to distinguish.
Derived terms: distinguishingly
distinguishing penant
indistinguishing
nondistinguishing
undistinguishing
distinguishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distinguishings
Senses: examples: text: There are not only these identifyings going on, but also there are distinguishings. For just as in the example above there are identifications of the various extents, there are distinguishings of these extents.
ref: 2012, R. R. Cox, Schutz’s Theory of Relevance: A Phenomenological Critique, page 49:
glosses: The act by which something is distinguished or told apart.
suppli al telefono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplì al telefono
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian supplì al telefono (literally “suppli on the telephone”), because when pulled apart the cheese is supposed to resemble telephone wires.
Senses: glosses: A type of rice croquettes filled with mozzarella and deep-fried.
equate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: equates
form: equating
form: equated
form: equated
form: æquate
Etymology: From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, perfect passive participle of aequō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To consider equal or equivalent (to or with).
examples: text: Mr. Hoyle, who does not believe many multiple-unit diesel services on secondary routes will resist for ever the road transport challenge, would forgo passenger traffic altogether on a little-used route in order to improve the quality of the freight working and reduce its costs by equating the average speed of all trains on the line concerned.
ref: 1960 February, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 67:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To set as equal.
Derived terms: coequate
equatable
equative
unequated
Related terms: equation
conflate
equate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkweɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: equates
form: æquate
Etymology: From Middle English equaten, from Latin aequātus, perfect passive participle of aequō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The first section of the program includes the system equates.
ref: 2005, Arnold S. Berger, Hardware and Computer Organization, page 220:
text: The following equates define the stats byte […]
ref: 2009, Saifullah Khalid, Neetu Agrawal, Microprocessor System, page 256:
text: You can learn much about user routines, labels, displacements, equates (EQU) and so on, by modifying this program and observing the results on the screen.
ref: 2012, J. S. Anderson, Microprocessor Technology, page 221:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
melo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melos
Etymology: Perhaps after French mélo.
Senses: examples: text: Bar burlesque & Penleyan comedy I am becoming tolerant of this insipid British drama. Even bad melo doesn’t cause me to vomit as it did of old.
ref: 1889 December 24, Ernest Dowson, “To Arthur Moore”, in Desmond Flower, Henry Maas, editors, The Letters of Ernest Dowson, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, published 1967, →LCCN, page 121:
text: One is a melodrama about Bolshevism—the break up of the Armies in 1917—what one wd call a West End melodrama as opposed to a Lyceum melo.
ref: 1920 April 23, Aldous Huxley, “To Arnold Bennett”, in Grover Smith, editor, Letters of Aldous Huxley, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1969, page 183:
text: She learned to read and write on the road and between scenes backstage, under the tutorship of the “female heavy” of a melodrama company. Meanwhile Mary listened and learned of the world about her. She heard a very great deal of the chesty gossip of melo actors discussing “when I was with Belasco,” and came to learn that on this wonderful Broadway Belasco was master.
ref: 1923, Terry Ramsaye, “The Romantic History of the Motion Picture”, in Photoplay, page 41:
text: True life was melo about the first woman the George Cross. (As a stump word, ‘melo’ is short for ‘melodrama’.)
ref: 1971 August 26, Radio Times:
text: The Roots of Heaven..John Huston’s melo about elephant conservation.
ref: 1973 December 20, Radio Times:
text: “And a melo?” Miss Collins asked. Richard looked to Miss Joyce for help. “A melodrama! You don’t know?” A somewhat astonished Miss Joyce commented. “The only plays melo companies perform are melodramas. There are several of them touring out there,” broadly gesturing with her arm. “They’re known as ‘blood and thunders.’ A good melo actor can work all year round.[…]Melos are a good place for a young actor to start,” she added.
ref: 2012, Bill Thomas, Upstage, Downstage, Cross: An Actor Emerges in Early English 20th Century Theatre, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 155:
glosses: Abbreviation of melodrama.
supplì al telefono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of suppli al telefono.
markup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑː(ɹ)k.ʌp/
Forms: form: markups
form: mark-up
Etymology: Deverbal from mark up.
Senses: examples: text: You don’t make much money selling gas because the markup is so low.
glosses: The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up his buy-in price when determining his selling price.
examples: text: There will be a markup on those products next week; better buy them now.
glosses: An increase in price.
examples: text: For example, a filename of “home.html” would be appropriate for an ASCII/text file containing HTML markup.
ref: 1996, Bebo White, HTML and the Art of Authoring for the World Wide Web, Springer, →ISBN, page 25:
text: You can display the icon on any site you offer your software for download using the following markup[…]
ref: 2003, “Creative Commons GNU GPL”, in Creative Commons, archived from the original on 22 Jun 2009:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The notation that is used to indicate the meaning of the elements in an electronic document, or to dictate how text should be displayed.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The process by which proposed legislation is debated and amended.
Derived terms: maintained markup
markup language
markup rate
premarkup
wiki markup
Related terms: markdown
mark up
regulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛɡ.jʊ.leɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡ.ju.leɪ.tɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛɡ.jə.leɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: regulators
Etymology: From regulate + -or.
Senses: coordinate_terms: governor
modulator
attenuator
synchronizer
glosses: A device that controls or limits something.
examples: text: The regulator stopped working and the resulting overvoltage destroyed the device.
coordinate_terms: governor
modulator
attenuator
synchronizer
glosses: A device that controls or limits something.
Ellipsis of voltage regulator.
examples: text: […]in part because a key county reservoir had to been^([sic]) drained to reduce earthquake risks highlighted by federal regulators.
ref: 2021 June 15, Suzanne Rust, “A problem Silicon Valley can’t solve: Drought, quake risk”, in Los Angeles Times, Nant Capital, LLC:
hypernyms: lawmaker
coordinate_terms: legislator
glosses: A person or group that sets standards of practice, especially regulatory law as sanctioned by statutory law.
glosses: A very accurate clock, used by clockmakers to measure the timekeeping of each newly made clock.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A gene involved in controlling the expression of one or more other genes.
examples: text: To start No. S.002 effectively with a heavy train, one opens the main regulator sufficiently to move the train off very slowly. An excess of regulator opening with the by-pass valve open can cause heavy slipping; if the worst happens, the slipping continues a little longer after the regulator is closed than on an English locomotive.
ref: 1961 March, Balmore, “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146:
text: This uncoupling done, Gimbert opened the regulator as Nightall climbed back onto the footplate, in order to pull the one burning wagon away from the rest of the bomb-laden train.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 42:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A device that controls the supply of steam to the cylinders of a steam locomotive.
glosses: Synonym of bulldozer (“member of intimidating group of white US Southerners”).
synonyms: word: bulldozer
extra: member of intimidating group of white US Southerners
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A positive real number determining the density of the units in Dirichlet's unit theorem.
Derived terms: acidity regulator
autoregulator
battery regulator
bioregulator
coregulator
deregulator
dysregulator
hyporegulator
immunoregulator
mechanoregulator
metalloregulator
microregulator
mucoregulator
multiregulator
neuroregulator
oncoregulator
osmoregulator
oxyregulator
phosphoregulator
photoregulator
phytoregulator
regulatorship
regulatress
riboregulator
superregulator
thermoregulator
transregulator
vasoregulator
voltage regulator
Related terms: rector
regimen
regiment
régime
region
regular
regulate
regulation
rule
tagliarini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagliarinis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of taglierini.
roche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roches
Etymology: From Middle English roche; compare English rock and roach, as well as Old French roche.
Senses: glosses: One of various types of rock or geological strata.
glosses: A stony hill.
beautifulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beautifulnesses
Etymology: From beautiful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being beautiful; beauty.
Related terms: beautyhood
Aragon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæɹəɡən/
ipa: /ˈɛɹəɡɑn/
Etymology: From Spanish Aragón.
Senses: glosses: An autonomous community in northeastern Spain. Capital: Zaragoza.
glosses: A river in the autonomous communities of Aragon and Navarre, Spain; in full, Aragon River.
glosses: A medieval kingdom in northeastern Spain.
glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A barangay of Cateel, Davao Oriental, Philippines.
Derived terms: Aragonese
coördinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coördinates
form: coördinating
form: coördinated
form: coördinated
Senses: examples: text: With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns.
ref: 2010 September 27, Malcolm Gladwell, “Small Change”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: Dated spelling of coordinate.
coördinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coördinates
Senses: glosses: Rare spelling of coordinate.
coördinate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coördinate
form: most coördinate
Senses: examples: text: The radical element A (“to cut up”), before entering into combination with the coördinate element B (“to sit”), is itself compounded with two nominal elements or element-groups—an instrumentally used stem (F) (“knife”), which may be freely used as the radical element of noun forms but cannot be employed as an absolute noun in its given form, and an objectively used group—(E) + C + d (“black cow or bull”).
ref: 1921, Edward Sapir, Language:
glosses: Rare spelling of coordinate.
Derived terms: coördinately
intrusively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intrusively
form: most intrusively
Etymology: From intrusive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intrusive manner; by intrusion.
intrusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intrusive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being intrusive.
Synonyms: interventionism
Derived terms: nonintrusiveness
introspectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more introspectively
form: most introspectively
Etymology: From introspective + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an introspective manner.
introspectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From introspective + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Born the most sensitive of children into an unhappy family that misreared and misschooled him, Rilke recoiled into introspectiveness and dilletante^([sic]) aestheticism, and long remained there; the world, or outwardness, was what had hurt him, was the enemy.
ref: 1972, Triumph - Volume 7, page 33:
glosses: The state of being introspective.
parvity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin parvitas (“smallness”).
Senses: glosses: smallness
parvovirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parvoviruses
Etymology: From parvo- + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any single-stranded DNA virus, of the genus Parvovirus, being the smallest found in nature; they infect only mammals other than humans.
glosses: Certain small viruses, not in the genus Parvovirus, that infect humans.
Derived terms: parvo
parvoviral
parvovirosis
parvovirotherapy
intrinsically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intrinsically
form: most intrinsically
Etymology: From intrinsic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: What cannot be commoditized because it is intrinsically inaccessible to commodification?
ref: 2021 September 25, Charles Hugh Smith, Are We Really So "Rich"? A New Way of Defining Wealth:
glosses: In an intrinsic manner; internally; essentially.
examples: text: Like in the case of living languages, the classification of substrate elements as belonging to a certain language family shmould ideally be based on morphological as well as lexical evidence. The difference with living languages is however that the available material for substrate languages is scarcer, especially in the morphological domain, and intrinsically transmitted indirectly through the language that replaced it.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 39:
text: I think the kind of hi-lo, low tax / blue collar coalition PP is running this time, it intrinsically leads to inferior outcomes regardless of party policymakers intent
ref: 2025 April 5, @chow_global, X:
glosses: Necessarily
Synonyms: word: essentially
word: in and of itself
word: inherently
word: innately
word: intrinsically
word: naturally
word: per se
Derived terms: intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell
Related terms: word: internally
word: intrinsicality
word: intrinsic
word: fundamentally
word: inevitably
internally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːnəli/
ipa: /-ˈtɜːnl̩i/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜɹnəli/
ipa: /ɪnˈtɜːnəli/
Forms: form: more internally
form: most internally
Etymology: From internal + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: interiorly
glosses: In an internal manner; within or inside of external limits; in an inner part or situation.
glosses: With regard to internal affairs.
examples: text: "I cannot," said she, internally, "see that it makes any difference to him which of my daughters he takes, if, as he says, it is my admirable mode of bringing them up which has put matrimony into his head, for it is certain I have brought them up impartially...
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 264:
glosses: Inwardly; spiritually.
Synonyms: inly
insidely
Derived terms: internally displaced person
rhinoceroi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhinoceros
rhinocerus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from the erroneous plural rhinoceri, by analogy with Latin words ending in -us that become -ī in the plural.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of rhinoceros.
misbelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misbeliefs
Etymology: From Middle English misbileve, from mis- + bileve; equivalent to mis- + belief. Compare later misbelieve.
Senses: glosses: an erroneous belief
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: a heresy; an unorthodox belief
glosses: doubt; an erroneous lack of belief.
Related terms: misbelieve
misbeliefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misbelief
ethoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethos
internal affairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A division of a law enforcement agency investigating incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.
Synonyms: IAB
IAD
IA
Derived terms: IAB
IAD
IA
interiorly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interiorly
form: most interiorly
Etymology: From interior + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the interior part; internally; inwardly.
intrinsical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: intrinsic
Derived terms: intrinsicality
intrinsicalness
intriguingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intriguingly
form: most intriguingly
Etymology: From intriguing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Each scam and undertaking is intriguingly original and thrillingly presented in prose that is attentive and modest and quietly evocative.
ref: 1987 November 8, Ron Hansen, “CHILDREN'S BOOKS; DISCOVERING THE OPPOSITE SEX”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an intriguing manner; with intrigue; with artifice or secret machinations.
intriguer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtɹiːɡə/
Forms: form: intriguers
Etymology: From intrigue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hatever may be the result, political intriguers will find it difficult to substitute a clamour against England for the universal excitement produced by domestic controversies.
ref: 1856 June 14, “England and America”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 142:
synonyms: intrigant
glosses: One who intrigues; one who forms plots, or pursues an object by secret means.
intriguery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intrigueries
Etymology: From intrigue + -ery.
Senses: glosses: The practice of intrigue.
intricately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intricately
form: most intricately
Etymology: From intricate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Charles followed the girl into the gallery, down which she was slowly proceeding, holding the little twisted scroll in her hand, and looking at it with that expression of fear and curiosity which seems to say, "Now, if you were not so intricately folded, I would open you and see your contents; but I shall not be able to replace these folds in proper order if I do—still, I have a great mind to try."
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXXIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 277:
glosses: In an intricate manner; with involution or infoldings; with perplexity or intricacy.
perching bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perching birds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of passerine.
synonyms: word: passerine
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see perching, bird.
intruse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pushed or projecting inward.
intruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intrude
intruded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Intrusive.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Intruse.
Derived terms: unintruded
scantily clad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scantily clad
form: most scantily clad
form: scantily-clad
Senses: examples: text: Here were no haggard savages, unkempt and scantily clad, coming forth from their dens in the rocks to stare wildly at the strangers.
ref: 1873, William Black, A Princess of Thule. […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 27:
text: A flying figure was racing up, three steps at a time (that of a brown man scantily clad).
ref: 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XXIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
glosses: Wearing very little clothing; almost naked.
Synonyms: word: cladly dressed
intrepidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intrepidly
form: most intrepidly
Etymology: From intrepid + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: fearlessly
daringly
resolutely
glosses: In an intrepid manner
mitzvot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mitzvah
daringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more daringly
form: most daringly
Etymology: From daring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Here, waiter,” cried the Johnnie who had dejeunered daringly at 12, “take this bill to the manager and tell him it’s an imposition. Why, you’ve charged more for one poached egg on toast than for an entire portion of those eggs that you scramble.”
ref: 1903 April 2, “Humourist”, in The Sydney Mail, volume LXXV, number 2222, Sydney, N.S.W., page 278, column 1:
text: The corridor stinks of sweat and cigarette smoke, and I daringly open the window a little. The freshest air floats in, smelling of sappy grasses, the delicate pollens of wild flowers, the resins of the pine forests; hinting at the chill blue scent of distant snows.
ref: 2013, Margaret Leroy, The English Girl, →ISBN:
synonyms: boldly
courageously
fearlessly
impudently
glosses: In a daring manner
fearlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fearlessly
form: most fearlessly
Etymology: From fearless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The swallows, which had been tempted here in great numbers on account of the quantity of insects to be found in proximity to the wood, and had established themselves in the barn and under the eaves, were gambolling, circling, and twittering fearlessly about in the sunshine.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:
glosses: In a fearless manner; without fear.
courageously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more courageously
form: most courageously
Etymology: From courageous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Strike vp the Drum and martch corragiouſly,
Fortune her ſelfe dooth ſit vpon our Creſts.
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:
glosses: In a courageous manner; bravely; boldly.
scantily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæntɪli/
Forms: form: more scantily
form: most scantily
Etymology: From scanty + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was rather a nod than a bow, and indicated either that he was an old friend, or that he was scantily versed in the usual social forms.
ref: 1875 January–December, Henry James, Jr., Roderick Hudson, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC; republished as Roderick Hudson (EBook #176), U.S.A.: Project Gutenberg, 18 September 2016:
text: This brought me into the study itself. It is a scantily furnished room.
ref: 1904 July, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC:
text: American interest is provided by former NBA star, Dennis Rodman, and the scantily clad Traci Bingham, formerly of “Baywatch.”
ref: 2006 January 17, Melissa Block, “Analysis: British Parliamentarian among reality TV show cast”, in NPR_ATC:
synonyms: parsimoniously
glosses: Sparingly; not plentifully; not fully; in a scanty manner.
Derived terms: scantily clad
like-for-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The soccer coach made a like-for-like substitution, replacing the injured defender with another defensive player.
text: This is more likely to be the case if the replacement machinery is not a like-for-like replacement and involves an element of involuntary betterment with the result that, operatives require additional training […]
ref: 2011, Denis Riley, Harry Roberts, Riley on Business Interruption Insurance, page 151:
text: One example of this is that for operational and safety reasons, the swing bridge won't be functioning, but all its key mechanisms will be retained. "We'll replace components on a like-for-like basis so that it retains its magnificent appearance," Hodgson promises.
ref: 2020 August 12, Andrew Mourant, “The tide is turning for a Victorian wonder”, in Rail, page 53:
glosses: Replacing one thing with another of the same type.
glosses: comparable to the same period in a previous year, at outlets that existed at that period
raw_tags: of sales
Synonyms: word: apples to apples
word: comparable
Derived terms: like-for-like sales
Related terms: interchangeable
fungible
pound-for-pound
sparingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sparingly
form: most sparingly
Etymology: From sparing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Mark Tree is generally used as an effect to accentuate transitions in music, either at the beginning or end of a phrase. When used sparingly, they ^([sic]) can add an exotic "shimmer" effect.
ref: 2008, Kalani, All about Hand Percussion: Everything You Need to Know to Start Playing Now!, Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely.
sparsely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sparsely
form: most sparsely
Etymology: From sparse + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a sparsely populated region
text: Troutbeck is a tiny village midway between Penrith and Keswick in a very sparsely populated part of Cumberland, and it used to be said by facetious travellers that the reason why it ever had a station at all was to give the engine a rest after it had struggled up the long and trying incline from Threlkeld.
ref: 1951 October, “Notes and News: The Harmonium at Troutbeck”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
synonyms: scantily
glosses: In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.
thinly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪnli/
rhymes: -ɪnli
Forms: form: more thinly
form: most thinly
Etymology: From Middle English þynnelich (“with thin material; thinly”); equivalent to thin + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
text: Brüno was a case of diminishing returns, intermittently amusing but not nearly as bracing or funny as Borat—it didn’t help that Brüno was the most thinly conceived of all his Da Ali G Show characters—and the lead-up to Baron Cohen’s new comedy, The Dictator, made it look like he’d boxed himself into a corner.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2012:
text: “The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.
ref: 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN:
glosses: In a thin, loose, or scattered manner; scantily; not thickly.
examples: text: a thinly-veiled attack on my integrity
text: a thinly disguised attempt at sabotage
glosses: Barely; hardly; with little attempt to conceal.
Derived terms: thinly-veiled
scantiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scantinesses
Etymology: From scanty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being scanty.
glosses: The result or product of being scanty.
Synonyms: sense: quality of being scanty
word: fewness
sense: product of being scanty
word: dearth
word: meagerness
word: scarcity
word: lack