cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hardcore techno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre of electronic dance music originating from the gabber rave scene.
era name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: era names
Senses: examples: text: The posthumous names of early Chinese rulers were often variations of a few words like "the martial one" (武), "the literary one" (文), "the filial one" (孝), but by the Tang they had become so long that people began using rulers' temple names or era names instead.
text: Cities were not infrequently named after the era name in which they were founded (e.g., Shaoxing 紹興 in Zhejiang, after the Shaoxing era, 1131-62).
ref: 2000, Endymion Wilkinson, “Geography”, in Chinese History: A New Manual, Rev. & enl. edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 135:
glosses: The regnal year, reign period, or regnal title used when traditionally numbering years in an emperor's reign and naming certain Sinospheric rulers.
era names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of era name
slot pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛə(ɹ)
Forms: form: slot pairs
Senses: examples: text: Qantas 'bought' or acquired (outright purchases may well be illegal) two slot pairs for over USD 1 5 million per slot pair.
ref: 2003, Air and Space Law, volume 28, page 275:
text: The airport was already full, which meant that any airline wanting to start Heathrow service had to find an airline willing to sell gate rights or, more accurately, slot pairs.
ref: 2015, Bret Wallach, A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today:
text: In 2010 it was estimated that at Heathrow Airport, over 400 weekly slots were being traded and that the value of a slot pair was £30–40 million for pre-0900 arrivals and £10 million for 0900–1300 arrivals (Steer Davies Gleave, 2011).
ref: 2016, Anne Graham, Airport Finance and Investment in the Global Economy:
text: Therefore, the air carrier is willing to pay a fee for the slot pair as long as the fee plus the opportunity cost of the investment are not higher than the expected profit for a given route.
ref: 2016, Achim I. Czerny, Airport Slots: International Experiences and Options for Reform:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The commercial rights for an airline to take off and land planes at a particular airport at a particular time.
slot pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slot pair
neol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of neologism.
denaturisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denaturisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of denaturization.
dephosphonylate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephosphonylates
form: dephosphonylating
form: dephosphonylated
form: dephosphonylated
Etymology: From de- + phosphonylate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove a phosphonyl group from.
glosses: Misspelling of dephosphorylate.
Related terms: dephosphonylation
dephosphonylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dephosphonylations
Etymology: From de- + phosphonylation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The process, or the result of dephosphonylating.
glosses: Misspelling of dephosphorylation.
dessicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of desiccant.
discocephalid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discocephalids
Senses: glosses: Any ciliate of the family Discocephalidae
discocephalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discocephalid
discocephaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discocephalines
Senses: glosses: Any ciliate of the suborder Discocephalina
discocephalines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of discocephaline
electrochemiluminiscence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of electrochemiluminescence.
electrosensitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrosensitizations
Etymology: From electro- + sensitization.
Senses: glosses: electrical sensitization of cells (typically during electroporation)
enneaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ennea- + -ploid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonaploid.
synonyms: word: nonaploid
enneaploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneaploids
Etymology: From ennea- + -ploid.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonaploid.
synonyms: word: nonaploid
enneaploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enneaploid
epitheliocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epitheliocyte
exonucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exonucleotides
Etymology: From exo- + nucleotide.
Senses: glosses: An exocellular nucleotide
expirogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expirograms
Senses: glosses: A graphical record of the expiration of breath
expirograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expirogram
boneseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boneseeds
Etymology: From bone + seed, either directly as a description of the hard surface of the seeds, or indirectly as a calque of the name of its former genus, Osteospermum, from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”) + Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”).
Senses: glosses: An upright shrub in the sunflower family, Chrysanthemoides monilifera, which is native to South Africa but is an invasive pest in Australia and New Zealand.
glosses: Subspecies Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp. monilifera (the subspecies Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp. rotundata being known there as bitou bush)
Synonyms: sense: Chrysanthemoides monilifera
word: Osteospermum moniliferum
Zermelo set theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zermelo's set theory
Etymology: After German mathematician Ernst Zermelo, who introduced the theory in a paper in 1908.
Senses: examples: text: 1998, Geoffrey Hellman, 8: Beyond Definitionism—But Not Too Far Beyond, Matthias Schirn (editor), 2003, Paperback, The Philosophy of Mathematics Today, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 215,
The system can be claimed to transcend certain critical limitations of predicative analysis and certain awkwardness of known nominalistic approaches to mathematics at once, and would seem to provide a well-motivated alternative to Zermelo set theory as a framework for scientifically applicable mathematics.
text: According to the great logician Alonzo Church, in spite of superficial differences, these two "widely accepted symbolic systems," Zermelo set theory and simple type theory, are "in their currently accepted forms essentially similar" [1939, 69-70].
ref: 2001, José Ferreirós, Labyrinth of Thought: A History of Set Theory and Its Role in Modern Mathematics, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 338:
text: Z is a formal specification language founded on Zermelo set theory.
ref: 2006, Gerard O'Regan, Mathematical Approaches to Software Quality, Springer, page 20:
topics: mathematics
sciences
set-theory
glosses: An early and influential axiomatisation of set theory.
wikipedia: Ernst Zermelo
Related terms: ZF
ZFC
sea pickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea pickles
Senses: glosses: A pelagic colonial gelatinous marine life form, a type of pyrosome, a type of colonial tunicate.
Hypernyms: pyrosome
hareleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the name of the genus, which is from Ancient Greek λαγώς (lagṓs, “hare”) + φύλλον (phúllon, “leaf”).
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Lagophylla- annual flowers of the western US having leaves covered by dense, soft hairs reminiscent of a rabbit's fur.
farnesylatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be farnesylated
follistatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of follistatin
fucogalactan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fucogalactans
Etymology: From fuco- + galactan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide composed of fucose and galactose residues
Derived terms: xylofucogalactan
haemophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haemophore
handrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handrub
heteronucleotide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteronucleotides
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A section of DNA composed of repeats of different nucleotides
heteronucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteronucleotide
heterosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to a heterosome
hexenol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexenols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aliphatic alcohol that has six carbon atoms and one double bond
hexenols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexenol
hyperacidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + acidic.
Senses: glosses: Excessively acidic
Related terms: hyperacidity
hyperacidification
hyperacidification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperacidifications
Etymology: From hyper- + acidification.
Senses: glosses: Excessive acidification
Related terms: hyperacidic
hyperacidity
immunoadherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + adherence.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: adherence of immunosensitive cells
inattributable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + attributable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be attributed
intermethodological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + methodological.
Senses: glosses: Between methodologies
glosses: That uses two or more different methodologies
intradendritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + dendritic.
Senses: glosses: Within a dendrite
intrahemocoelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + hemocoelic.
Senses: glosses: Within a hemocoel
Derived terms: intrahemocoelically
intrahemocoelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intrahemocoelic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an intrahemocoelic manner
intranigrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intranigral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within the substantia nigra
intrasaccadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + saccadic.
Senses: glosses: During a saccade
intrascrotally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intrascrotal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within the scrotum
intrastriatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intrastriatal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Within the corpus striatum
kilobequerel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of kilobecquerel.
leiomyomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or composed of leiomyomata
lisostaphine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lysostaphin.
Merula
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A stream in Liguria, Italy.
gabbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gabba
Sapo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sarpo
Senses: glosses: A Kru language of the Niger-Congo language family, spoken in eastern Liberia.
Sapo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sapo (“toad”).
Senses: glosses: A river in El Salvador.
Eustachean tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eustachean tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eustachian tube.
Eustachean tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Eustachean tube
smallcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smallcraft
form: small craft
Etymology: From small + craft.
Senses: examples: text: The hotel nightlights shine behind the drawn venetian blinds and the slatted patterns on the curbside cars give them the look of anchored smallcraft with lapstrake hulls.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 188:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small vessel.
HFEA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.
schematising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of schematise
schematises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of schematise
schematizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schematizers
Etymology: From schematize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which schematizes.
schematizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schematizer
West Saxon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Old English that was spoken in the kingdom of Wessex.
redcurranty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redcurranty
form: most redcurranty
Etymology: From redcurrant + -y.
Senses: glosses: Tasting like redcurrant.
Dartfords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dartford
saprolegniasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Saprolegnia + -iasis
Senses: glosses: A disease caused by the Saprolegnia fungus.
stigmatiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing a stigma.
grasscycles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grasscycle
subsensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsensations
Etymology: From sub- + sensation.
Senses: glosses: A minor or secondary sensation.
subsensations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsensation
subsemirings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsemiring
ramazzoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Mt. Ramazzo Mine, Genova, Italy where it was found.
Ramazzo + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyoxometallate mineral containing copper, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, phosphorus and sulphur.
reputative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: reputed; putative
Derived terms: reputatively
repromulgate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repromulgates
form: repromulgating
form: repromulgated
form: repromulgated
Etymology: From re- + promulgate.
Senses: glosses: To promulgate again.
repromulgation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repromulgations
Etymology: From re- + promulgation.
Senses: glosses: The act of promulgating again.
repromulgations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repromulgation
repromulgating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repromulgate
repromulgates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repromulgate
repromulgated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repromulgate
ramikite-(Y)
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ramik + -ite, named after the mineralogist at the Department of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada Robert A.J. Ramik (1951–).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic yellowish-white mineral containing calcium, carbon, sodium, fluorine, phosphorus, lithium, hydrogen, oxygen, yttrium, and zirconium.
seven-night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seven-nights
Senses: examples: text: The Holy Houſel ought to be kept vvith great Diligence and not be permitted to be ſtale, but another be alvvays hallovved anevv for Sick Men in about a Seven-night, or Fortnight, ſo as that it may not be muſty at leaſt.
ref: 1720, Elfric [i.e., Ælfric of Abingdon]; John Johnson, “A.D. DCCCCLVII. Elfric’s Canons.”, in A Collection of All the Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, Or Rescripts, with Other Memorials Concerning the Government, Discipline, and Worship of the Church of England, […], 1st part, London: […] Robert Knaplock […], and Samuel Ballard […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of sevennight.
seven-nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seven-night (alternative form of sevennights)
ranciéite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after its discovered location, Le Rancié Mine, Occitania, France
Rancié + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal black or brown mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and manganese.
bergmehl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bergmeal.
ricolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ricolites
Etymology: From Rico + -lite, after the place in New Mexico.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stratified ornamental stone, a form of serpentine.
ricolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ricolite
parlour boarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlour boarders
Senses: glosses: A pupil at a boarding school who enjoys particular privileges.
parlour boarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parlour boarder
knife money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knife + money, from its knifelike shape.
Senses: topics: banking
business
glosses: Large knife-shaped money made from cast bronze, used in China between 600 and 200 B.C. during the Zhou dynasty.
sunderment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunderments
Etymology: From sunder + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of sundering.
sunderments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunderment
evogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evograms
Etymology: Blend of evolution + -gram
Senses: examples: text: An important systematic account with illustrations of Shaw's tephigram, the emagram, Refsdal's aerogram, Schinze's thetagram, Robizach's diagram, evogram, and Rossby's diagram.
ref: 1951, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - Volume 2, page 307:
text: Teachers can facilitate such learning by incorporating cladistics and tree-thinking into the curriculum and using evograms to focus on important evolutionary transitions.
ref: 2009 June 24, LS Mead, “Transforming our thinking about transitional forms”, in Evolution: Education and Outreach, volume 2, number 2, page 310:
text: Providing the basics for tree reading suggests that the use of evograms (evolutionary diagrams integrating different lines of evidence) reflects more accurately and integratively how scientists know what they know about the major changes in evolution.
ref: 2012, E Torrens, A Barahona, “Why are some evolutionary trees in natural history museums prone to being misinterpreted?”, in Evolution: Education and Outreach:
text: Remember, a cladogram or evogram is a branching, treelike diagram in which the endpoints of the branches represent specific species of organisms.
ref: 2013, Stephen T. Blume, Evo-illusion, page 189:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: An evolutionary diagram.
non-fossiliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonfossiliferous.
myxophagan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myxophagan
form: most myxophagan
Senses: examples: text: Myxophagan beetles are adapted to feed on algae.
glosses: Pertaining to the zoologic suborder Myxophaga, or associated with species falling under that taxonomic hierarchy.
bushshrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushshrikes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bush shrike.
wind chime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wind chimes
Senses: examples: text: By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.
ref: 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86:
glosses: A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: percussion
glosses: A singular tubular bell.
Derived terms: word: Alabama wind chime
word: Mississippi wind chime
jinshi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 進士 /进士 (jìnshì).
Senses: examples: text: Fan was a native of En-shih, Hupeh. Handsome and intelligent, he went to Peking and made a name for himself quickly after passing the chin-shih examination in 1877.
ref: [1965 December, Ramon L. Y. Woon, Irving Y. Lo, “Poets and Poetry of China's Last Empire”, in Literature East and West, volume IX, number 4, New Paltz, N. Y.: State University College, →OCLC, page 334:
text: Again there is the story of the experience that befell Huang Yüeh, who obtained his chin-shih during the Ch’ien-lung era (1736-96) and rose to become director of the Board of Rites (li-pu shang-shu), equivalent to a minister of education. He went into the compound to take the examination and was sitting in his cell when a girl came flitting down his lane. Her dress was extremely shabby and her hair disheveled, but her face and figure were extraordinarily beautiful.
ref: [1976, Ichisada Miyazaki, “The Provincial Examination and Reexamination”, in Conrad Schirokauer, transl., China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China, Weatherhill, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 47:
text: T'ien was a Shun-chih period chin-shih who received highest rating for his performance as magistrate of T'ai-k'ang county in Honan, and was subsequently appointed to a series of capital posts, including Vice Censor-in-chief, and Jr. Vice Minister of Works.
ref: [1985, Thomas Carl Bartlett, Ku Yen-wu's Response to "the Demise of Human Society", Princeton University, →OCLC, page 83:
glosses: “advanced” or “entered graduate”, a scholar who had successfully passed the highest level of the Chinese imperial examinations (殿試), usually held triennially at the imperial court.
wikipedia: Cambridge University Press
cubeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubefuls
Etymology: From cube + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Enough to fill a cube; an amount that could be placed inside a cube.
cubefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cubeful
slipslops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slipslop
slipslops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slipslop
polyhedrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyhedrical
form: most polyhedrical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of polyhedral.
scolding stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scolding stools
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cucking stool.
synonyms: word: cucking stool
scolding stools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolding stool
mechanographist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanographists
Etymology: From mechanography + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who uses mechanography.
mechanographists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanographist
motionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motionists
Etymology: From motion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Berisha swiftly counterattacked, labeling the “motionists,” as he called them, leftists and communist sympathizers.
ref: 2016, Fred C. Abrahams, Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe, page 124:
glosses: One who proposes a motion.
motionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motionist
caloricist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caloricists
Etymology: From caloric + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of calorist.
synonyms: word: calorist
caloricists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caloricist
telefraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + fraud.
Senses: glosses: telemarketing fraud
nervous pudding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: jello
lunchette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lunchettes
Etymology: From lunch + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A little restaurant that serves lunch.
lunchettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunchette
transversary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transversaries
Senses: examples: text: There was a “pole” duly graduated, and on it, so as to slip up and down, were certain cross-pieces known as “transversaries.”
ref: 1888, William John Gordon, The Captain-general: Being the Story of the Attempt of the Dutch to Colonize New Holland:
text: In Coignet's cross-staff not one but three transversaries are used. With these transversaries angles between respectively 90° and 30°, 30° and 10° and less than 10° are measured.
ref: 1992, Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin, The Mariner's Mirror:
glosses: A cross-beam or cross-bar, for example on a navigational cross-staff. (Compare transom.)
transversary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:transversary.
glosses: Transverse.
evograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evogram
geoconservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + conservation.
Senses: glosses: Conservation of geodiversity.
cougarness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cougar + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In my last visits I wanted to shield Bonnie from the public's probing eye, to guarantee her the company of people who knew her condition and still respected her cougarness.
ref: 1988, The Interspecies Newsletter:
text: I understand that once she has found a regular relationship, no matter the age difference, ,^([sic]) she's no longer a cougar. I'm not sure if a regular booty-call partner is enough of a relationship to break her cougarness. However, the best definition, I believe, is a cougar (as any wild cat) is on the prowl for fresh (young) meat!
ref: 2005, CalgaryBill, “Re: What is your definition of a Cougar?”, in calgary.general (Usenet), retrieved 22 Jul 2018:
text: Then Mrs. Rock basically confessed to her own predatory cougarness: […]
ref: 2009, Chris Grabenstein, Mind Scrambler: A John Ceepak Mystery, Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: The quality of being a cougar (older woman who seeks relationships with younger males).
Related terms: cougarhood
advice columnist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advice columnists
Etymology: From advice column + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The columns consist of letters from men and women with problems, followed by brief answers from the advice columnist. The letters are often filled with emotion.
ref: 1984, Hilarie N. Staton, Think and Write, Good Year Books, →ISBN, page 115:
text: Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer.
ref: 2006, Alecia T. Devantier, Carol A. Turkington, Extraordinary Jobs in Media, Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Margaret Maron, author of Winter's Child "A really plummy mystery, flawlessly plotted, that I especially loved because the heroine is an advice columnist — and a good one!"
ref: 2007, Roberta Isleib, Deadly Advice, Penguin, →ISBN:
text: Readers, at least contemporary ones, are aware that writing to an advice columnist is an odd place to turn for help. They didn't doubt, however, that people still wrote to advice columns.
ref: 2017, David Gudelunas, Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Someone who regularly writes for the advice column of a newspaper.
Synonyms: word: agony aunt
advice columnists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advice columnist
trisinuate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + sinuate.
Senses: glosses: Having three sinuses.
slimnastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Back-formation from slimnastics.
Senses: examples: text: ... expensive men's health rooms and women's slimnastic salons, while junior and sis come to the Center's game rooms.
ref: 1959, Jewish Community Center Program Aids:
text: Then a nasal voice came over the loudspeaker: "The slimnastic disco class meets in the Exercise Room in five minutes. Five minutes till the slimnastic disco class begins."
ref: 1980, Donna Schuman, Judy Roche, Matinee, →ISBN:
text: The women's slimnastic group would have high acceptability while the youth weight- lifting group might not. It is a matter of selecting the items which have the greatest amount of common support and implementing them first. After this base is ...
ref: 1981, Jay Sanford Shivers, Joseph W. Halper, The Crisis in Urban Recreational Services, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, →ISBN, page 311:
text: ... supporting material for only one main part of the speech, as when a speaker demonstrated traditional stances and strokes as part of a speech on samurai swords. However, some speeches — on how to do a series of slimnastic exercises for ...
ref: 1988, James Allen Wood, Speaking effectively, Random House Trade, →ISBN:
text: At Yahud [a development town], the women of Savyon [a small, fashionable, and well-to-do town] come for the slimnastic classes.
ref: 1996, Dvora Yanow, How Does a Policy Mean?: Interpreting Policy and Organizational Actions, Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: Of or pertaining to slimnastics.
sell the pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sells the pass
form: selling the pass
form: sold the pass
form: sold the pass
Senses: examples: text: A respectable divine like Samual Torshell sold the pass when he wrote in 1645 that there was no difference between men and women in the state of grace.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 257:
text: In fact the officials in the Richmond Asylum had pre-empted Sinn Féin. They managed to sell the pass without losing their jobs in the process, unlike Henry Campbell or John Flood.
ref: 2012, Pádraig Yeates, A City in Turmoil:
glosses: To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.
sold the pass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sell the pass
essents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essent
definitionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From definition + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: 1992, William R. LaFleur, Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan, Princeton University Press, page 15, Quoted in 2015, Adam C. Pelser, Robert C. Roberts, 18: Religious value and moral psychology, Tobias Brosch, David Sander (editors), Handbook of Value, Oxford University Press, page 388,
Instead of logic chopping and the unconnected neat boxes produced by definitionism, ritual provides activities that fuse a wide variety of things that seem otherwise unrelated.
text: Some philosophers have not given up on definitionism.
ref: 2006, Jack S. Crumley II, A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, Rowman & Littlefield, page 152:
text: Perhaps definitionism does not work for all complex concepts.
ref: 2007, Karen Neander, “Biological Approaches to Mental Representation”, in Mohan Matthan, Christopher Stephens, editors, Philosophy of Biology, North-Holland: Elsevier, page 561:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The school of thought that for a theory to be properly explained it is necessary that all concepts used by the theory be well-defined.
Synonyms: sense: school of thought
word: classical theory of concepts
Derived terms: social definitionism
Related terms: epistemology
ostensive definition
rationalism
blue-eyed Mary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-eyed Marys
Senses: glosses: Collinsia verna, an annual plant native to the eastern and central parts of North America, having blue and white flowers.
glosses: Omphalodes verna, an herbaceous perennial rhizomatous plant of the genus Omphalodes.
have an easy time of it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has an easy time of it
form: having an easy time of it
form: had an easy time of it
form: had an easy time of it
Senses: glosses: To have few problems.
shrimp net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrimp nets
Senses: glosses: A small-meshed net, on a hoop and pole, for catching shrimp.
shrimp nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shrimp net
religiohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more religiohistorical
form: most religiohistorical
Etymology: From religio- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to religion and history.
cut one's stick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts one's stick
form: cutting one's stick
form: cut one's stick
form: cut one's stick
Senses: glosses: To depart.
Related terms: in quick sticks
solertiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From solert + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being solert.
brownable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brownable
form: most brownable
Etymology: From brown + -able.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Able to be browned.
fattenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fattenable
form: most fattenable
Etymology: From fatten + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be fattened.
borrowing days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Forms: form: borrowed days
Senses: glosses: The last three days of March, supposed in Scottish and Irish folklore to have been borrowed by March from April, and to be especially stormy.
paraplectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more paraplectic
form: most paraplectic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paraplegic.
spongologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spongologists
Etymology: From spongology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies spongology.
spongologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongologist
symphonion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symphonions
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A combination of pianoforte and harmonium, the precursor of the orchestrion.
symphonions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphonion
chyldren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chylde
eighth final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eighth finals
form: eighthfinal
form: eighth-final
Etymology: From eighth + final.
Senses: synonyms: word: round of 16
alt: most common
word: last 16
word: last sixteen
word: half-quarter final
alt: of rare usage
glosses: One of the eight competitions in a knockout tournament whose winners go on to play in the four quarterfinals.
Related terms: final
semifinal
quarter final
Ordubad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ordoubat
form: Ordubat
Senses: glosses: The second largest town and a municipality of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan
eighth finals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eighth final
threnetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more threnetical
form: most threnetical
Senses: synonyms: word: miserable
word: threnetic
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: threnetic
Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous republic of Azerbaijan, a landlocked exclave.
game-winner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game-winners
form: game winner
Senses: glosses: Something, such as a goal, that leads to the winning of a game.
game-winners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of game-winner
specktioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specktioneers
Senses: examples: text: Reluctantly, the specktioneer's boat was left to make the best of its own way to Iceland.
ref: 1935, The Scots Magazine, volume 24, page 139:
glosses: Alternative form of specksioneer.
specktioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specktioneer
dedicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dedicant
spoffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoffy
form: most spoffy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoffish.
globalizationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globalisationism
Etymology: From globalization + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A philosophy that supports globalization (the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models).
Related terms: globalizationist
globalisationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From globalisation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of globalizationism.
Related terms: globalisationist
globalisationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globalisationists
Etymology: From globalisation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of globalizationist.
Related terms: globalisationism
globalizationist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more globalizationist
form: most globalizationist
Etymology: From globalization + -ist.
Senses: glosses: That supports globalization; that supports capitalist models dominating the world economy.
globalizationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globalizationists
form: globalisationist
Etymology: From globalization + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who supports globalization; someone who believes that capitalist models should dominate the world economy.
globalizationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globalizationist
globalisationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globalisationist
ralphcannonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Ralph Cannon, Technical Head of the Lengenbach Research Community
Ralph Cannon + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal black mineral containing silver, astatine, sulphur, zinc, and tellurium.
roadbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: A vehicle dependent on roads, or restricted to using roads.
rauchite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Luděk Rauch (1951-1983), Czech mineral collector
Rauch + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic yellowish-green mineral containing astatine, hydrogen, nickel, uranium, and oxygen.
skew-Hermitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: skew hermitian
form: skew-hermitian
form: skew Hermitian
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a matrix T, such that T^†=-T.
Coordinate terms: Hermitian
raygrantite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ray + Grant + -ite, after Dr. Raymond W. Grant (born 1939), retired professor of geology and former President of the Mineralogical Society of Arizona.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A colourless triclinic mineral containing lead, hydrogen, oxygen, zinc, silicon, and sulphur.
redcanyonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after its type locality, Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon, Utah, USA.
Red Canyon + -ite
Senses: examples: text: "Redcanyonite is one of the rarest uranyl minerals known because it can only grow within narrow constraints"
ref: 2017, “Geologists Uncover Three New Uranyl Minerals”, in Science News:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic yellow mineral containing nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, sulphur, uranium, and manganese.
challaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of challan
gender confirmation surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gender confirmation surgeries
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gender-affirming surgery.
synonyms: word: gender-affirming surgery
hard-fought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Richie Davies advanced after a hard-fought 5-2 win over Gary Anderson.
text: In a hard-fought, intriguing tactical battle of a first half, O’Neil, understandably given his employment prospects, was the antsier of the managers.
ref: 2024 October 26, John Brewin, “Matheus Cunha claws back late point for Wolves in comeback at Brighton”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Achieved through a large effort.
hardfought
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hard-fought.
vote-getter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vote-getters
Senses: examples: text: Look, for example, at how quickly opposition to gay marriage has gone from a reliable vote-getter for the right to a Republican liability.
ref: 2016 January 29, Paul Krugman, “Plutocrats and Prejudice”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A recipient of votes.
vote-getters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vote-getter
spotkick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotkicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spot kick.
spotkicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotkick
kennelmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kennelmates
form: kennel mate
Etymology: From kennel + mate.
Senses: examples: text: For the next four and a half months, Dog 132 would be called Wilma. Her kennelmate was Patty.
ref: 2010, Carol Bradley, Saving Gracie: How One Dog Escaped the Shadowy World of American Puppy Mills:
glosses: A dog from the same kennel, or the same breeder.
kennelmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kennelmate
backstraightaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backstraightaways
form: back straightaway
Senses: examples: text: as well as dropping the drivers into the clutches of other cars with an advantage in straight line speed down the long backstraightaway at CTMP.
ref: 2018 July 9, IMSA, “Sixth Place In Canada For Mazda Team Joest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: More recently, a “short course” was created by connecting the exit of Turn One to the backstraightaway,
ref: , “Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. threw a huge block on Blaney down the backstraightaway, resulting in contact that sent Stenhouse sideways in front of the field.,
ref: 2018 February 18, Steven Taranto, “Aggressive driving triggers multi-car wreck in Daytona 500”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: From the start-finish line to halfway down the backstraightaway, we had the fastest car
ref: 1995 July 8, Roy Hasty, “Martin Has Smooth Ride At Nhis”, in Hartford Courant:
text: in fact i passed an old 911 turbo with slick coming out of the corkscrews and down the backstraightaway
ref: 1999 August 5, Dralwhite, “A driving issue”, in alt.autos.porsche (Usenet), message-ID <19990804230638.10608.00006679@ng-fb1.aol.com>:
text: The 6 car (Mark Martin) pushed me all the way down the backstraightaway pretty hard
ref: 2002 July 7, Ryan Newman, “NASCAR-WCS: Daytona II: Raybestos Rookie race quotes”, in rec.autos.sport.info (Usenet), message-ID <ag8g99$55n$1@montecarlo.motorsport.com>:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: the straight part of an oval racetrack that does not include the finish line.
puntless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puntless
form: most puntless
Etymology: From punt + -less.
Senses: examples: text: That was the first puntless game in NFL playoff history.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without a punt.
pointscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Procedure of awarding points in a competition.
glosses: A form of one-upmanship in which achievements are claimed.
pointscore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pointscores
Senses: glosses: A competition score expressed in points.
Related terms: pointscorer
pointscoring
TPU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TPUs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic.
examples: text: The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs.
ref: 2019, “Scaling Analysis of Specialized Tensor Processing Architectures for Deep Learning Models”, in Witold Pedrycz, Shyi-Ming Chen, editors, Deep Learning: Concepts and Architectures, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 73:
text: However, Anthropic also uses Google's custom AI accelerator chip—a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Trillium.
ref: 2025 July 12, “Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to gain edge on AI rivals”, in FT Weekend, Companies & Markets, page 10:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: CPU
GPU
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.
Ivory Coasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ivory Coaster
cross cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross cousin
parallel cousins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parallel cousin