cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bleary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblɪəɹi/
note: General American, mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈblɪɹi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈblɪɚi/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈbliɹi/
ipa: /ˈbliɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈbliɹe/
ipa: /ˈbliəɹi/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈblɛːɹi/
rhymes: -ɪəɹi
Forms: form: blearier
form: bleariest
Etymology: From Middle English blery, equivalent to blear + -y. Compare Old English bleriġ (“bald”).
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: exhausted, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued
text: bleary eyes
text: "One of them can see you, and one of them can see an empty hallway." Reynders narrowed her bleary eyes — she wasn't wearing her glasses, for some reason — as though momentarily uncertain which sight she was seeing. She apparently decided in favour of their motley group. "I'm the one who can see you. The one who can see you can talk to you. The one who can't talk to you can see you too, sometimes, but she doesn't want to because she knows you're not there. Where she is."
ref: 2023 September 24, HarryBlank, “Working Wonders”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
synonyms: bleareyed
bleary-eyed
glosses: Tired, having senses dulled by exhaustion.
Derived terms: blearily
bleariness
bleary-eyed
Related terms: blear
blurry
blearier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bleary: more bleary
bleariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of bleary: most bleary
bawdiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bawdinesses
Etymology: From bawdy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [A] Frenchman, viewing the undraped statues which bedizen his native galleries of art, either enjoys them in a purely æsthetic fashion—which is seldom possible save when he is in liquor—or confesses frankly that he doesn't like them at all; whereas the visiting Americano is so powerfully shocked and fascinated by them that one finds him, the same evening, in places where no respectable man ought to go. All art, to this fellow, must have a certain bawdiness, or he cannot abide it.
ref: 1918, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, “The Tone Art”, in Damn! A Book of Calumny, New York, N.Y.: Philip Goodman, →OCLC, page 106:
synonyms: lasciviousness
wantonness
glosses: The characteristic or state of being bawdy.
glosses: A bawdy remark.
brazenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazennesses
Etymology: From brazen + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being brazen.
braveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bravenesses
Etymology: From brave + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being brave.
brassiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brassy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being brassy.
Related terms: bronziness
brashness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæʃ.nəs/
Forms: form: brashnesses
Etymology: From brash + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: audacity
boldness
nerve
glosses: The characteristic of being brash.
bearishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bearish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These trades helped the Pure Alpha fund make money in 2008, but Dalio’s bearishness cost him in 2009.
ref: 2011 July 18, John Cassidy, “Mastering the Machine”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:
glosses: The characteristic of being bearish.
Related terms: bullishness
braininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brainy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] any excess of intellect—'braininess' was her word for it—tended to belong, in her eyes, to the 'beastly'.
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Burmese Days:
glosses: The characteristic of being brainy.
beguilement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beguilements
Etymology: From beguile + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: These wintry nights, if she turned from the fire and the beguilement of Jim's songs, to shudderingly look outside at the frosty moonlit world, Andrew's prediction that their waiting pints of water would be all ice in the morning was often a little consolation.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 183:
text: 1924, Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, First Edition, Volume 2, entry dated Tuesday, April 10, 1906,
Little by little Bacon got to beguiling out of Hill things to do, and presently Hill was furnishing him the things to do without any beguilement.
text: But a line wasn't feasibly resisted. He loved the etiquette of the thing, the chopping with a credit card, the passing of the tightly rolled note, the procedure courteous and dry, “all done with money,” as Wani said—it was part of the larger beguilement, and once it had begun it squeezed him with its charm and promise.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 8, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: The action or process of beguiling; the characteristic of being beguiling.
boyishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boyishnesses
Etymology: From boyish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).
ref: 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC:
glosses: The quality of being boyish.
Coordinate terms: girlishness
bountifulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English bountyffulnesse, equivalent to bountiful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bountiful.
bounteousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bounteousnesses
form: bountiousness
Etymology: From bounteous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bounteous.
befuddlement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: befuddlements
Etymology: From befuddle + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: 1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105,
It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive.
text: A change came over his wind-beaten face, a slight befuddlement, the shock of some minor fact jarred loose.
ref: 1985, Don DeLillo, White Noise, Penguin, published 1986, Part I, Chapter 21, p. 162:
glosses: The state of being befuddled.
Synonyms: bafflement
bewilderment
confusion
perplexity
puzzlement
bounciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouncinesses
Etymology: From bouncy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bouncy.
bossiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossinesses
Etymology: From bossy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bossy.
Synonyms: pushiness
cockiness
forwardness
bumptiousness
boisterousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boisterous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being boisterous.
boastfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boastfulnesses
Etymology: From boastful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being boastful.
blurriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blurrinesses
Etymology: From blurry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being blurry.
bluntness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈblʌnt.nəs/
ipa: /ˈblʌnt.nɪs/
ipa: [ˈblʌnʔ.nɪs]
rhymes: -ʌntnəs
Forms: form: bluntnesses
Etymology: From Middle English bluntnes, bluntnesse, equivalent to blunt + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The characteristic of being blunt.
blondness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blond + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being blond.
bitchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɪt͡ʃinəs/
Forms: form: bitchinesses
Etymology: From bitchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bitchy.
Related terms: bitch and moan
bitcher
kwitcherbitchin
bemusement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bəˈmjuːzmənt/
/bɪ-/
Forms: form: bemusements
Etymology: From bemuse + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Wrex touches his grandfather's armor, his expression… thoughtful, perhaps? Krogan are hard to read. Then he shakes off his bemusement and grips his gun with renewed purpose.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuntau:
text: The response to this latest scandal has taken a familiar turn, dividing along gender lines. While senior women have condemned it, many of the Financial Times’ (male) readers have expressed unhappy bemusement at finding this article on the front page.
ref: 2018 January 25, Amelia Gentleman, “Men-only clubs and menace: how the establishment maintains male power”, in the Guardian:
glosses: The state of being bemused.
bewitchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewitchments
Etymology: From bewitch + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I would say that the spell – a bewitchment I’ve doubtless failed fully to capture – had broken by the time the family appeared, waxwork-like on the balcony, their majesties unable to enjoy the flypast in crowns that strained their necks and would not let them look up.
ref: 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The characteristic of being bewitched.
bipartisanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbaɪˌpɑː(ɹ)t.ɪ.zæn.ʃɪp/
ipa: /ˈbaɪˌpɑː(ɹ)t.ɪ.zən.ʃɪp/
Forms: form: bipartisanships
Etymology: From bipartisan + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The 988 network has been a rare instance of bipartisanship in federal health policy. President Donald J. Trump in 2020 signed the law establishing the new number, and the Biden administration has implemented the number and expanded a network of more than 200 call centers, which typically operate around the clock.
ref: 2024 July 16, Noah Weiland, “Crisis Hotline Has Answered 10 Million Calls, Texts and Chats”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2024:
glosses: In the context of a two-party system, especially in the United States, cooperation between the competing political parties; governing in a bipartisan manner.
Synonyms: copartisanship
brotherliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brotherlinesses
Etymology: From brotherly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the characteristic of being brotherly
bullheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bullheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bullheaded.
brutishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brutishnesses
Etymology: From brutish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being brutish.
breeziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From breezy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being breezy.
brokenness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brokennesses
Etymology: From broken + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being broken.
renal angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renal angles
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An area located on either side of the human back between the lateral borders of the erector spinae muscles and inferior borders of the twelfth rib, so called because the kidney can be felt at this location.
brokeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From broke + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being broke; having no money.
Related terms: brokenness
broad-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broad-mindednesses
Etymology: From broad-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being broad-minded.
brininess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From briny + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being briny.
bumpiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumpinesses
Etymology: From bumpy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bumpy.
bullishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bullish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bullish.
Related terms: bearishness
engendered reliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A situation in which an institution has encouraged its customers to become reliant on their services, and is therefore legally obligated to continue to provide those services.
bushiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bushy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bushy.
busyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪz.ɪ.nɪs/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈbɪz.ɪ.nəs/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈbɪz.i.nɛs/
homophone: business (for some speakers)
Forms: form: busy-ness
form: busynesse
Etymology: From busy + -ness; the ⟨y⟩ (-y) is kept to distinguish from business (of which it is a doublet), which is derived from the same two morphemes but by regular spelling rules.
Senses: examples: text: She moved back to the table, and her busyness expressed her purpose but also perhaps hid some sort of regret at the news.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 17, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness.
ref: 2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:
text: The actor has also visited acupuncture and massage therapists more regularly to prime her body for the busyness of her schedule.
ref: 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:
glosses: The state of being busy.
Related terms: business
brownness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brownnesses
Etymology: From brown + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The brownness at the edges indicates that the roasting is almost done.
glosses: The state or quality of being brown.
Coordinate terms: brownishness
tanness
Related terms: blackenedness
doneness
browned
browning
broadness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadnesses
Etymology: From Middle English brodnes (also as brednysse), from Old English brādnes, brǣdnys (“breadth, greatness, extent, surface; liberality”), equivalent to broad + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state, characteristic, or condition of being broad; breadth.
Synonyms: breadth
paper candidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪpə ˈkændɪdət/
ipa: /ˈpeɪpɚ ˈkændɪdeɪt/
ipa: /-dɪt/
Forms: form: paper candidates
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Kent. I never knew of any actual Democratic opponent to a Republican candidate for Congress in Philadelphia for a number of years, but there may have been some "paper candidate" set up.
ref: 1928, James M. Beck Election Case, First District of Pennsylvania: Hearings before the Committee on Elections No. 2, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, First Session: By Authority of House Resolution No. 9, part II (Law Arguments), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 126:
text: One Labour candidate in a safe seat believed that his Liberal Democrat opponent was nothing but a ‘paper candidate’, while the Conservatives’ candidate in Scotland reported that his local party had been asked ‘not to canvass but to send people to key seats’; the opposition parties did likewise and were ‘almost nowhere to be seen’.
ref: 1997, David [Edgeworth] Butler, Dennis Kavanagh, “Constituency Campaigning”, in The British General Election of 1997, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 211:
text: The concern is that groups, including advocacy groups, could register as parties simply by fielding a paper candidate and complying with reporting requirements.
ref: 2003 November 7, Don Boudria, House of Commons Debates, Official Report, Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, →ISSN, →OCLC:
text: A contest appears inevitable, even if he is running against a paper candidate such as Lynne Jones, and the chancellor has put in the groundwork necessary to mount a spirited and successful campaign.
ref: 2006, The Parliamentary Monitor, numbers 135–138, London: Parliamentary Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74:
glosses: An election candidate with little chance of winning, who is added to the ballot for publicity and to increase the number standing.
wikipedia: United States elections, 2014
xenon hexafluoroplatinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The first compound of an inert gas to be prepared; it seems to have the formula XePtF₆, but its structure is ambiguous, and may be a mixture.
vilifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vilifier
hexafluoroplatinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛksəflɔːɹə(ʊ)ˈplatɪneɪt/
ipa: /ˌhɛksəflɔːɹə(ʊ)ˈplatɪnət/
Forms: form: hexafluoroplatinates
Etymology: From hexa- + fluoro- + platinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent anion PtF₆⁻ prepared by reacting platinum hexafluoride with certain metals or other elements.
Derived terms: ammonium hexafluoroplatinate
dioxygen hexafluoroplatinate
oxygen hexafluoroplatinate
potassium hexafluoroplatinate
sodium hexafluoroplatinate
xenon hexafluoroplatinate
redistributable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a software component) Allowable to be redistributed by a third party as part of its own software
redistributable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redistributables
Senses: examples: text: This ensures that the source gets compiled before the redistributables are built, and that the redistributable is built before the remote deployment.
ref: 2003, Erik Hatcher, Steve Loughran, Java development with Ant, page 6:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software component that can be redistributed.
morning sickness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Early morning nausea and vomiting as a symptom of pregnancy.
Related terms: hyperemesis gravidarum
anthropocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.θɹə.poʊˈsɛn.tɹɪz.m/
Forms: form: anthropocentrisms
Etymology: Originated 1905-1910, anthropocentric + -ism. Equivalent to anthropo- + -centrism.
Senses: examples: text: Is challenging anthropocentrism irrelevant and unhelpful? The arguments against human—centredness I have advanced in the previous chapter include a strongly prudential one for the human species — that anthropocentrism leads to […]
ref: 2005, Val Plumwood, Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123:
synonyms: homocentricism
humanocentrism
glosses: A viewpoint or theory that places human beings at the center of everything, giving preference to human beings above all other considerations.
Derived terms: antianthropocentrism
Related terms: anthropocentric
videographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videographers
Etymology: From video- + -grapher.
Senses: examples: text: Videotaping by an experienced videographer can add so much life to your wedding memories that it is fast becoming a very popular wedding component.
ref: 2004, Teddy Lenderman, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Perfect Wedding:
glosses: Any person involved in the production of video material, but especially a person who uses a video camera.
wikipedia: videographer
Related terms: videography
broad-minded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more broad-minded
form: most broad-minded
Senses: examples: text: I'm broadminded and understanding of the struggle of your organization because as a prisoner I've been discriminated against myself.
ref: 1980 April 12, Larry McDonald, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 19:
glosses: Having an open mind; tolerant of diversity.
Synonyms: catholic
cosmopolitan
dispassionate
flexible
free-thinking
liberal
open-minded
permissive
progressive
receptive
tolerant
unbiased
undogmatic
unprejudiced
Derived terms: broad-mindedly
broad-mindedness
a dumb priest never got a parish
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Those who fail to speak up will fail to get what they desire.
Synonyms: if you don't ask, you don't get
the squeaky wheel gets the grease
xiong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xiong
form: most xiong
Etymology: From Hokkien 傷 /伤 (siong). The spelling with x is Pinyin-based.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of siong.
anthropo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈænθɹəpə-/
/ænˈθɹɒpə-/
/ˌænθɹəˈpɒ-/
/ˌænθɹəpə-/
/ˌænθɹəpoʊ-/
/ˌænθɹoʊpə-/
Forms: form: anthrop-
form: anthro-
Etymology: Combining form of Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “man, human”).
Senses: glosses: Forming words related to men or people.
Derived terms: anthro-
Related terms: -anthropy
simio-
referencing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reference
referencing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: referencings
Senses: examples: text: And what conversation becomes then is a sustained strip or tract of referencings, each referencing tending to bear, but often deviously, some retrospectively perceivable connection to the immediately preceding one.
ref: 1999, James R. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Van Every, The Emergent Organization: Communication As Its Site and Surface, page 36:
glosses: The making of a reference.
solves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of solve
wordlist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wordlists
form: word list
form: word-list
Etymology: From word + list.
Senses: examples: text: This is an annotated wordlist of the Ayere language, spoken in Ayere village in Kwara State, Nigeria. The wordlist was written by Mr. E.O. Olumorin for the West African Languages Survey in November 1961. […] Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.
ref: 2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, pages 1, 25:
text: For example, the focus of most previous wordlists has been on general academic vocabulary or the discipline-specific vocabulary needed in tertiary education.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A written collection of all words derived from a particular source, or sharing some other characteristic.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: The section of a style guide that lists particular words and terms, arranged alphabetically, to show for each one the preferred orthographic styling (e.g., hyphenation, spelling variant), as well as any usage prescription to be enforced about its usage.
Related terms: wordbook
wordfinding
glossary
lexicon
terminography
terminology
wordlists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordlist
vademecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vade mecum.
geriatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geriatricians
Etymology: From geriatric + -ian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical doctor specialising in the assessment and treatment of elderly people.
psychogeriatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychogeriatricians
Etymology: From psycho- + geriatric + -ian.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A psychiatrist subspecialising in the assessment and treatment of elderly people.
Grubbs' test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Grubbs' tests
Etymology: Named after Frank E. Grubbs, who published the test in 1950.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A statistical test for deciding whether a data point is an outlier.
mountain hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountain hares
Senses: examples: text: Mountain hares reproduce quickly, with each female having three litters of two or three pups between February and September.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 264:
text: The new livery features the native mountain hare and its predator the eagle, reflecting the wildlife of the mountain most known for their speed and agility.
ref: 2023 April 5, “News in pictures: New livery adorns Cairngorm funicular”, in RAIL, number 980, page 28:
synonyms: alpine hare, blue hare, Irish hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare
glosses: A Eurasian hare of species Lepus timidus, found mainly in tundra regions.
glosses: Any of various hares found in mountainous country, especially a snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) or a white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendi).
European hare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European hares
Senses: synonyms: word: brown hare
word: eastern jackrabbit
glosses: A Eurasian hare species (Lepus europaeus or Lepus capensis).
eastern jackrabbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern jackrabbits
Senses: glosses: A term used of European hare, Lepus europaeus, in Eastern North America, originating from European hares that escaped from a farm.
Synonyms: brown hare
European hare
spiss
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spiss
form: most spiss
Etymology: From Latin spissus.
Senses: examples: text: this spisse and […] copious, yet concise, treatise
ref: 1614, Edward Brerewood, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: thick, compact, dense, or crowded
deriving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derive
transcribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transcribe
transcribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having undergone transcription.
examples: a transcribed drama series
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Prerecorded for later broadcasting.
like like
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪ̯k.laɪ̯k/
Forms: form: like likes
form: like liking
form: like liked
form: like liked
Etymology: Lexical clone of like.
Senses: examples: text: Do you just "like" her or do you "like like" her?
text: i seriously think he likes me. Like, LIKE likes me. Did you see how he let me draw all over his shoes today during the convocation? Oh my God. What a mess. Because of course there was NO WAY Jason LIKE liked Becca.
ref: 2008, Meg Cabot, How to Be Popular, page 131:
text: “I mean, he like likes her. Like, he likes her.” […] / “That's different than like-liking her. Are you saying you have other feelings for her?” Henry sighed.
ref: 2009, Laura Fitzgerald, One True Theory of Love:
text: “Yeah, you know, like liked,” said Cass, automatically raising her eyebrows to make the point, even though the Jester couldn't see them. / […] / “Like liked? What does that mean—that I like her twice? But I don't like her even once—I loathe her thrice!” protested the Jester.
ref: 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like:
glosses: To fancy; to be romantically or sexually attracted to.
clicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of click
Derived terms: unclicked
hematocrit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /hɪˈmæt.ək.ɹɪt/
Forms: form: hematocrits
form: haematocrit
Etymology: From hemato- (“blood”) + Ancient Greek κριτής (kritḗs, “judge, umpire”), literally “to separate blood”, coined by Swedish physiologist Magnus Blix in 1891.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: Ht
word: HCT
glosses: The percentage (by volume) of packed red blood cells in a centrifuged sample of blood.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A centrifuge used to analyze the relative amount of red blood cells and plasma in blood.
Derived terms: microhematocrit
qualifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of qualify
Derived terms: qualifying position
qualifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualifyings
Senses: examples: text: No expostulations! No buts, girl! No qualifyings, I will be obeyed, I tell you; and chearfully too!
ref: 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady:
glosses: A qualification or added condition.
examples: text: Despite possible lore among graduate students to the contrary, most faculty members dread having to fail a student in the qualifyings.
ref: 2013, Robert Nisbet, Teachers and Scholars:
glosses: An examination that must be taken in order to qualify.
Derived terms: qualifying round
identifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of identify
revisited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of revisit
emphasizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of emphasize
outdent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outdents
Etymology: Modelled on indent, replacing in with its opposite, out.
Senses: glosses: A hanging paragraph.
outdent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdents
form: outdenting
form: outdented
form: outdented
Etymology: Modelled on indent, replacing in with its opposite, out.
Senses: examples: text: By default, the summary tasks are bold and outdented, and the subtasks are indented beneath them.
glosses: To indent negatively, bring towards the margin; to remove an indent.
Synonyms: dedent
unindent
port-o-john
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: port-o-johns
Etymology: From Port-a-John (“an American business”), from portable, -a-, & john (“a toilet; an outhouse”).
Senses: examples: text: She tried not to notice the garage attendants observing her when she parked to use the phone booth, furtive as a woman slipping into a port-o-john under the scrutiny of male witnesses.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, page 208:
glosses: A portable toilet.
Synonyms: toilet and Thesaurus:bathroom
hanging paragraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging paragraphs
Senses: glosses: A paragraph in which all lines other than the first are indented.
port-o-potty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: port-o-potties
Senses: glosses: A portable toilet.
Synonyms: port-o-john
redesign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiː.dɪˈzaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: redesigns
Etymology: From re- + design.
Senses: examples: text: No UK company responded, believing that the availability requirement could not be reached in British operating conditions. But General Motors thought otherwise, offering its SD40-2 design. However, to make it fit the UK loading gauge, considerable redesign was required.
ref: 2020 August 12, John Crosse, “Mendip Heavy Haulage workhorses”, in Rail, page 63:
glosses: A plan for making changes to the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system so as to better serve the purpose of the original design, or to serve purposes different from those set forth in the original design.
redesign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiː.dɪˈzaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: redesigns
form: redesigning
form: redesigned
form: redesigned
Etymology: From re- + design.
Senses: examples: text: It became clear at last that the secondary windings were not strong enough to withstand the severe electro-magnetic forces to which they had been subjected and that the transformer would have to be redesigned.
ref: 1961 March 24, “Interim report on the Glasgow suburban electric train failures”, in Trains Illustrated, page 176:
text: They and the airline itself described an internal process that requires multiple departments to manually redesign the airline’s schedule – a system that works “the vast majority of the time,” Southwest said in a statement.
ref: 2022 December 30, Gregory Wallace, “Insiders at Southwest reveal how the airline’s service imploded”, in CNN:
glosses: To lay out or plan a new version of something previously laid out or planned.
redesigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redesign
redesigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redesign
redesigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redesign
redesigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redesign
coinduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coinductions
Etymology: From co- + induction.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A form of induction that allows some form of reasoning concerning sets that are not well founded; uses a form of relation called a bisimulation
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The simultaneous induction of two or more compounds into a cell line
bisimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisimulations
Etymology: From bi- + simulation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: an equivalence relation between state transition systems, associating systems which behave in the same way in the sense that one system simulates the other and vice-versa
Related terms: bisimilar
simulation preorder
uncapitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncapitalized
form: most uncapitalized
form: uncapitalised
Etymology: From un- + capitalized.
Senses: glosses: Not capitalized.
uncapitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncapitalised
Etymology: From un- + capitalized.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncapitalize
efficiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more efficiently
form: most efficiently
Etymology: From efficient + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The second half was a less open affair, in which West Brom grew increasingly and efficiently conservative.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil Dawkes, “Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In an efficient manner.
redirection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹiːdəˈɹɛkʃən/
/ɹiːdɪˈɹɛkʃən/
/ɹiːdaɪˈɹɛkʃən/
Forms: form: redirections
Etymology: From re- + direction.
Senses: glosses: The act of setting a new direction.
glosses: The automated process of taking a user to a location other than the one selected.
Derived terms: autoredirection
Related terms: redirect
redirections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redirection
morcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morchas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi मोर्चा (morcā, “[political] front”).
Senses: examples: text: How often do we take out a morcha or go on a hunger strike to protest against the appalling conditions of our roads […]
ref: 2006, V. Raghunathan, Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are, New Delhi: Penguin Books:
glosses: A gathering of like-minded people protesting for a cause.
-istic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -ist + -ic or -ism + -tic.
Senses: glosses: Used to form adjectives from nouns or from other adjectives, with the meaning "of or pertaining to" the preceding component.
Derived terms: -istical
-istically
flyaway
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fly-away
Etymology: From fly + away.
Senses: glosses: Disposed to fly away; unrestrained; light and free.
glosses: Flighty; frivolous
examples: text: [...] and Lorene mumbled thanks, and slid out of the booth again, a big boned, pretty girl with a tiny pearl glinting above her eye and flyaway streaked hair [...].
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance (paperback), Fourth estate, page 231:
glosses: Soft, light, unruly, and difficult to set into a style.
raw_tags: of hair
Derived terms: flyaway cost
flyaway grass
flyaway glasses
flyaway spectacles
flyaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyaways
form: fly-away
Etymology: From fly + away.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, there is a swell of hair care regimens, including serums, gels, balms, creams and sprays promising moisture-rich curls, without frizz or flyaways.
ref: 2007 January 18, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Taming Frizz and Setting Curls Free”, in New York Times:
glosses: A stray hair that is difficult to style.
examples: text: But Truth is such a flyaway, such a slyboots, so untransportable and unbarrelable a commodity, that it is as bad to catch as light.
ref: 1838 July 24, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Literary Ethics. An Oration Delivered before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838”, in J[ames] E[lliot] Cabot, editor, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (Emerson’s Complete Works; I), Riverside edition, London: The Waverley Book Company, published 1883, →OCLC, page 166:
glosses: Anything that is difficult to capture or restrain.
topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A kind of dismount from bars that incorporates one or more flips or twists.
examples: text: Unless the TV crew has its own flyaway, the locals can still defeat a story they couldn't prevent reporters from covering by cutting it off at the pass, when it is being birded through their facilities.
ref: 1995, David D. Pearce, Wary Partners: Diplomats and the Media, page 43:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A portable satellite television antenna.
examples: text: "But the Civil Aviation Authority is very worried about 'flyaway' - if someone has bought a GPS jammer on eBay because they don't want drones near their house, it can cause drones to get completely lost and shoot off in a random direction until they run out of battery.
ref: 2025 July 23, Paul Clifton, “Air force: drones' developing railway role”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 29:
glosses: A situation where an operator loses control of a drone.
see you next Tuesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: see you next Tuesdays
form: see you next Thursday
form: see-you-next-Tuesday
Etymology: Derived from the fact that see and you are homophones for C and U, while the first letters of next and Tuesday are N and T—thus altogether euphemistically signifying cunt.
Senses: examples: text: See you next Tuesday — it's a dirty insult. The initials make a dirty insult.
ref: 1980, David Guy Compton, The Unsleeping Eye, page 130:
text: In the Guardian for 2 November 1989, Katie Campbell mentioned the disparaging See You Next Tuesday as a description for an unreliable young man (= cunt), and commented: 'Imagine a word so powerful that it has to be disguised, even when used as a term of abuse.'
ref: 1997, Philip Thody, Don't Do It!: A Dictionary of the Forbidden, page 143:
text: "See you next Tuesday," she said crisply, the camera holding her in close-up an extra beat for emphasis. You could almost hear the thud of knowing viewers falling off their chairs. In decades-old high-school vernacular, "See you next Tuesday" is code for the word that starts with the letters "c-u," means female genitalia and is used to insult a woman when "bitch" just isn't strong enough.
ref: 2005, Kevin Weisman, Alias Assumed: Sex, Lies and SD-6, page 13:
text: 'See you next Tuesday.' I learnt that at my convent school (My mother was Catholic). We would say it to the nuns who didn't have a clue what it meant...
ref: 2006, Nick Hemsley, Clock, page 96:
text: "That diva may be gorgeous, but she's a real, well, you know, a see-you-next-Tuesday." "A what?" asked Jen. I cocked my head. Curious, myself. "She's—pardon the expression—a cunt."
ref: 2006, Jane May, Doggy Style, page 243:
text: In a separate anecdote, Kaplan detailed the end of the deposition when she was set to leave, saying that Trump told her: “See you next Tuesday” – a phrase that is often used as a derogatory euphemism directed at women.
“We come in the room and I say, ‘I’m done asking questions’ and immediately I hear from the other side, ‘Off the record. Off the record. Off the record.’ So they must have planned it. And he looks at me from across the table and he says, ‘See you next Tuesday,’” she recounted.
ref: 2024 February 1, Kaanita Iyer, Jamie Gangel, “Roberta Kaplan says Trump threw papers across table at Mar-a-Lago deposition because his legal team agreed to feed her lunch”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
glosses: A cunt. (an objectionable person)
Related terms: a week from next Tuesday
sugar honey ice tea
see-you-next-Tuesday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: see-you-next-Tuesdays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of see you next Tuesday.
flagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Etymology: From flag (“piece of cloth”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flag
flagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Etymology: From flag (“piece of cloth”).
Senses: glosses: Marked with a flag
glosses: registered with a particular country (and thus flying its flag)
Derived terms: nonflagged
flagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Etymology: From flag (“flagstone”).
Senses: examples: text: As the rustling of dry leaves strewn in a flagged court when a sudden wind striketh them, there went a stir among the guests.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 10:
text: Titus moved his dry tongue across his lips and sat down on the flagged floor, but a sense of terror jerked him to his feet again.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 26, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: Paved with flagstones.
flagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /flæɡd/
rhymes: -æɡd
Etymology: From flag (“leg feathers on certain birds, bushy dog tail”).
Senses: glosses: Having split, bushy ends (of bristles).
Synonyms: flocked
functionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more functionally
form: most functionally
Etymology: From functional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
ref: 2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:
glosses: In a functional manner.
Derived terms: biofunctionally
functionally complete
neurofunctionally
polyfunctionally
interconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interconnected
form: most interconnected
Etymology: From inter- + connected.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, osteoporosis causes the amount of trabecular bone to be reduced and the bone to become thinner, while the intertrabecular space enlarges and the interconnected structure of trabecular bone is disrupted.
ref: 2015 July 6, “Assessment of the Impact of Zoledronic Acid on Ovariectomized Osteoporosis Model Using Micro-CT Scanning”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?
ref: 2024 June 16, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, “The country where it’s still 2016”, in CNN:
glosses: Intertwined; connected at multiple points or levels.
Synonyms: interlinked
Derived terms: interconnectedly
interconnectedness
uninterconnected
Related terms: internetted
interoperable
interrelated
interconnected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interconnect
textbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textbook
sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sequence
sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sequence
specifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of specify
aligned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of align
aligned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: more aligned
form: most aligned
Senses: glosses: Having been placed, arranged or formed in alignment (with something).
examples: text: AI research and development should be refocused on making today's powerful, state-of-the-art systems more accurate, safe, interpretable, transparent, robust, aligned, trustworthy, and loyal.
ref: 2023 March 22, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, in Future of Life Institute:
glosses: Allied or working together with a common goal.
Derived terms: antialigned
hyperaligned
malaligned
nonaligned
photoaligned
prealigned
salicide
superaligned
time-aligned
unaligned
researched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of research
transcluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transclude
lexicographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexicographer
sideburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideburns
Senses: examples: text: His left sideburn was longer than the other one.
text: “I don't have any money,” he said as she ran a hand down his sideburn through his beard.
ref: 2013, Benjamin Nugent, Good Kids, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: singular of sideburns
sideburn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From side + burn.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
smoking
glosses: The unwanted rapid burning down one side of a cigarette that has been ineptly rolled.
referenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reference
Derived terms: softly-referenced
strongly-referenced
weakly-referenced