cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fleshmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshmeats
form: flesh-meat
Etymology: From Old English flǣsċmete, equivalent to flesh + meat.
Senses: examples: text: a. 1529, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute, London: Richard Kele, c. 1545,
some of you do eate / In lenton season fleshe mete
text: […] Fish may be mix’d with Flesh-meat, although all Physicians are against it: for certainly, the natural freshness and coldness of Fish, doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat,
ref: 1671, Margaret Cavendish, “The She-Anchoret”, in Natures Picture, London, Book 2, p. 574:
text: […] I had no Flesh-meat, and the Plague raged so violently among the Butchers, and Slaughter-Houses […] that it was not advisable, so much as to go over the Street to them.
ref: 1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 92:
text: […] it seemed hard to be spunging on Jem, and taking a’ his flesh-meat money to buy bread for me and them as I ought to be keeping.
ref: 1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 6, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 98:
text: “But how shall you cook it [the mutton]?”
“Boil it, ’m. He never has flesh meat, not often that is, but when he does I boil it.”
ref: 1923, Arnold Bennett, chapter 6, in Riceyman Steps, London: Cassell, page 115:
synonyms: meat
glosses: The flesh of animals (excluding fish or invertebrates) used or prepared for food.
fleshmeats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleshmeat
gainstrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gainstrives
form: gainstriving
form: gainstrived
form: gainstrove
form: gainstrived
form: gainstrove
form: gainstriven
Etymology: From gain- + strive.
Senses: glosses: To strive against; to resist, oppose.
examples: text: For on the spoile of women he doth live, / Whose bodies chast, when ever in his powre / He may them catch unable to gainstrive, / He with his shamefull lust doth first deflowre, / And afterwardes themselves doth cruelly devoure.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To resist; to fight back.
Derived terms: gainstriving
Related terms: gainstrife
hadronizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hadronization
quarg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quargs
Senses: examples: text: […] Emmental and Gruyere most suitable and quarg least suitable for processed cheese.
ref: 1955, Donald McLean Irvine, Walter Van Price, Process cheese, processed cheese foods and processed cheese spreads:
glosses: Alternative form of quark (soft creamy cheese)
quargs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarg
structural deficit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: structural deficits
Etymology: From structural + deficit.
Senses: examples: text: Canadian Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page maintained that the government has a structural budget deficit which will only decline gradually to C$13.7 billion in 2014/15 in spite of C$17.6 billion in cost savings announced by the government last week.
ref: 2010 March 11, Nirmala Menon, “Canada Budget Officer Still Sees Structural Deficit”, in Wall Street Journal Newswire:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: That portion of the public sector deficit which exists even when the economy is at potential. Government spending beyond government revenues at times of normal, predictable economic activity, as opposed to a cyclical deficit.
splanch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splanches
Etymology: Blend of split-level + ranch.
Senses: examples: text: We barely see the world at such a level, for we are surburbing in our splanches, looking for ledges to set down our plastic menorahs for all the gentiles to see.
ref: 2005, Mathias B. Freese, The i Tetralogy, page 213:
topics: architecture
glosses: A house with three levels inside a two-level skin.
splanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splanch
basashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 馬刺し.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese dish of sliced raw horsemeat.
ranchwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ranchwomen
Etymology: From ranch + woman.
Senses: glosses: The female equivalent of a ranchman.
ranchwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ranchwoman
plasma rifles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma rifle
splash page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /splæʃ peɪdʒ/
ipa: [splaʃ peɪdʒ]
ipa: /splæʃ peɪdʒ/
Forms: form: splash pages
Senses: examples: text: There was a terrible animated logo on the splash page.
glosses: A simple introductory webpage shown to the visitor before proceeding to the main page.
glosses: A page of a comic book that is mostly or entirely taken up by a single image or panel.
Synonyms: sense: webpage
word: splash screen
inhold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊld
Forms: form: inholds
form: inholding
form: inheld
form: inheld
form: inholden
Etymology: From in- + hold. Compare Old English onhealdan (“to hold, keep, maintain”). More at in, hold.
Senses: examples: text: Sound implicates these obscure tethers, which connect sound to noise, thereby giving sound its sense. The implicated difference inholds an obscure reserve of sense.
ref: 2002, Brian Massumi, A shock to thought: expression after Deleuze and Guattari:
glosses: To contain, hold in.
examples: c. 1604-1618, Sir Walter Raleigh, Cynthia
If to the living were my muse addressed, Or did my mind her own spirit still inhold
glosses: To possess inherently, contain in oneself.
Synonyms: possess
Related terms: inholding
inholder
rimstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rimstones
Etymology: From rim + stone.
Senses: glosses: A secondary mineral deposit, with a stone-wall-like appearance made up of calcite and other minerals, that builds up to create cave pools.
Synonyms: gour
Related terms: flowstone
stalactite
stalagmite
calthemite
total eclipse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: total eclipses
Senses: examples: text: Once upon a time I was falling in love / Now I'm only falling apart / There's nothing I can do / A total eclipse of the heart
ref: 1983, Jim Steinman, “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, performed by Bonnie Tyler ft. Rory Dodd:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An eclipse in which the eclipsed body is completely obscured to the viewer.
Related terms: blood moon
lunar eclipse
solar eclipse
antumbra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ænˈtʌm.bɹə/
/ˈæn.tʌm.bɹə/
Forms: form: antumbrae
Etymology: From ante- (“before”) + umbra (“shadow”).
Senses: glosses: The region from which an occulting body appears entirely contained within the disc of the light source.
Related terms: umbra#Derived_terms
splash pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splash page
gryke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grykes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of grike.
Tiamat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (tiāmtum, “sea; a deity”), from Proto-Semitic *tihām- (“sea”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Babylonian goddess who personifies the sea, considered the monstrous embodiment of primordial chaos.
examples: text: Sitchin also tells us Mummu was the planet Mercury - "One Who Was Born," and that Tiamat was an earlier Earth.
ref: 2003, Albert T Clay, Paul Tice, Atrahasis: An Ancient Hebrew Deluge Story:
glosses: A supposed planet once located between Mars and Jupiter.
raw_tags: in the works of Zecharia Sitchin
pipeclay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipeclays
Etymology: From pipe + clay.
Senses: glosses: catlinite
Synonyms: pipestone
pipeclay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pipeclays
form: pipeclaying
form: pipeclayed
form: pipeclayed
Etymology: From pipe + clay.
Senses: examples: text: I sat up on the coping of the bridge admiring my frail canvas shoes which I had diligently pipeclayed overnight and watching the docile horses pulling a tramload of business people up the hill.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 24:
text: The walls were lined with paper-bark, pipe-clayed and panelled with polished bloodwood.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92:
glosses: To whiten by application of pipeclay.
examples: text: to pipeclay accounts
glosses: To clear off.
rimstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimstone
tufas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tufa
Türck's column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Türck's columns
form: column of Türck
form: Turck's column
Etymology: After Ludwig Türck (1810-1868), Austrian neurologist.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The anterior corticospinal tract.
Synonyms: Türck's bundle
Türck's tract
cellco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellcos
Etymology: Blend of cell + telco
Senses: glosses: A cellular telecommunications company.
cellcos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellco
rotework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rote + work.
Senses: glosses: Dreary, tedious work done by rote.
rightio
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪti.əʊ/
Senses: examples: text: "Rightio!" said the strong man in a soldier's bark. "Everybody's good for a penny. Right. Now, I'll give you two tricks that are worth a performance...
ref: 1957, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 199, Making of America Project:
text: "What'll it be."
"Scotch for me Smith."
"Two scotch."
"Rightio."
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), page 173:
glosses: Alternative form of righto.
Ross River fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In 1959, the virus was identified in samples from a mosquito (Aedes vigilax) trapped in the Ross River, located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Senses: glosses: Epidemic polyarthritis, a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by infection with Ross River virus.
shoelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shoeless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Shoelessness during worship has been until recently the practice of several Eastern Jewish communities.
ref: 2008, Edna Nahshon, Jews and Shoes:
glosses: Lack of shoes, or the condition of not wearing them.
leftard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leftards
Etymology: From left + -tard.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: libtard
libturd
moonbat
rightard
righturd
glosses: A person of left-wing political views.
rightard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rightards
Etymology: From right + -tard.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A person of right-wing political views.
Synonyms: word: conservatard
word: conservaturd
word: cuntservative
word: wingnut
Hyponyms: word: neotard
leftards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leftard
rightards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rightard
re-identification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: re-identifications
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of reidentification.
reinkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-inkable.
arundinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arundinaceous
form: most arundinaceous
Etymology: From Latin arundinaceus, from arundo (“reed”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a reed or cane
arviculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin arvum (“field”) + cultura (“cultivation”).
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: arable farming
closetedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From closeted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being closeted; confinedness.
glosses: The state or condition of being in the closet (not open about one's homosexuality).
confinedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From confined + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being confined; lack of space.
Synonyms: closetedness
crampedness
crampy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹæmpi/
Forms: form: crampier
form: crampiest
Etymology: From cramp + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The patient reported a crampy ache.
glosses: Characterised by cramp.
glosses: Cramped; offering little room to move.
Derived terms: crampiness
crampiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crampy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being crampy.
chickabiddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickabiddies
Senses: glosses: A chicken or similar bird.
examples: text: Why, my dear, who'd murder sich chickabiddies as you?
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter LIX, in Barnaby Rudge:
text: "I tried to cheer her up a little with touches of warm tones here and there--all lies--same kind you tell your own chickabiddy when she's blue--but she wouldn't have it and cried straight ahead for four hours until the sun came out; but I was through by that time and waded ashore.
ref: 1909, Francis Hopkinson Smith, The Man In The High-Water Boots:
glosses: Term of endearment for a young child or loved one.
chickabiddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickabiddy
aquacades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquacade
shadebob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadebobs
Etymology: From shade + bob. See bob (“blitter object, type of hardware sprite”).
Senses: examples: text: If I made a shadebob routine, which ran 60Hz on PentiumIII 550Mhz on 320x200x8bit mode, would you be impressed?
ref: 1999, JT Liimatta, “The Party compo rules.”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
text: Even on older hardware, the dithering is perfect. The effect is convincing. You can press your face up against the screen and see no edges, you can see wonderful curves and strange shapes out of shadebobs that are probably unintentional.
ref: 2007, milkfilk@gmail.com, “Why are shadebobs and 2d alpha blends so convincing?”, in comp.graphics.api.opengl (Usenet):
topics: computer-graphics
computing
demoscene
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of bob (graphical sprite-like element) rendered additively on the display, so that it blends with others but can be easily removed again by decrementing the colour value at each pixel.
shadebobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shadebob
brain sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: corpora arenacea
breastknot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastknots
Etymology: From breast + knot.
Senses: glosses: A pin worn on the breast as a fastening or ornament; a brooch.
breastknots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastknot
butter oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: clarified butter
Related terms: ghee
suche
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: Now if ye felt your belly in ſuche caſe, that ye muſt be fayne al daye to tende it with warme clothes, oꝛ els ye were not able to abide the payne, would ye recken your belly ſicke oꝛ whole? I wene ye would recken your belly not in good quart.
ref: c. 1522 (date written), Thomas More, “A Treatyce (Vnfynyshed) vppon These Wordes of Holye Scrypture, Memorare Nouissima, & Ineternum non Peccabis, Remember the Last Thynges, and Thou shalt Neuer Synne. […]”, in Wyllyam Rastell [i.e., William Rastell], editor, The Workes of Sir Thomas More Knyght, […], London: […] Iohn Cawod, Iohn Waly, and Richarde Tottell, published 30 April 1557, →OCLC, book I, page 80, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of such.
ba-dum ching
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: ba dum tish
form: ba dum tss
form: ba-duh ch
Etymology: Imitating a drum roll and cymbal crash played as a comic sting.
Senses: examples: text: She gave it a little spin as it came off her right arm, then sent it flying. It landed on his head with aplomb, and she laughed. "Ba-dum, ching!"
ref: 2005, Julie Kenner, Night Moves:
text: Boy, it looks like the average Viagra consumer has some stiff competition. (ba-dum ching!)
ref: 2006, Mark Mulvey, Where There's a Will, There's Away... Messages:
text: ...a painfully obvious joke that, in modern performance, is punctuated by a ba-dum ching! drum roll and cymbal crash to coincide with the collective groan of the audience.
ref: 2009, Michael Fontaine, Funny Words in Plautine Comedy:
topics: comedy
entertainment
lifestyle
synonyms: boom-boom#Interjection
glosses: Used to underscore or acknowledge a joke.
Related terms: word: I'm here all week
word: rimshot
english: percussion
translation: percussion
word: Sting
bogger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Etymology: From various senses of bog + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bog: more bog
bogger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: boggers
Etymology: From bugger.
Senses: examples: text: "You bloody bogger...!
ref: 1986, Ian Breakwell., Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985:
text: "You're a funny bogger, though. I never could mek yo' out. Ye're just like one of the lads, but sometimes there's a posh bogger trying to scramble out."
ref: 1998, Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot:
text: "The dirty bogger! He's got a fancy woman! Nine times a week!"
ref: 1992, Alan Sillitoe, Saturday night and Sunday morning:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of bugger, used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment.
cacosyntheton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad, ugly”) + σύνθεσις (súnthesis, “putting together”)
Senses: glosses: The poor placement of words.
corporisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corporisations
form: corporization
Senses: glosses: The forming into one body; embodiment
topics: business
glosses: The restructuring of a public trading enterprise as a business corporation.
etamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etamines
form: etamin
Etymology: Borrowed from French étamine.
Senses: glosses: A soft cotton or worsted fabric with an open mesh.
glass onion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass onions
Etymology: From its shape, resembling the vegetable.
Senses: synonyms: onion bottle
glosses: A large hand-blown glass bottle used aboard ships to hold wine or brandy.
glosses: monocle.
raw_tags: in the UK
grigios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grigio
kelper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelpers
form: Kelper
Etymology: From kelp + -er, so named because the islands are surrounded by much kelp.
Senses: glosses: A Falkland Islander, native to the Falkland Islands.
Synonyms: Falkland Islander
Benny
Wanderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wanderer
neo-Objectivist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neo-Objectivists
Etymology: From neo- + objectivist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who subscribes to certain beliefs which notably differ from but do not oppose in basic principle those of the Objectivist movement.
pinacoderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinacoderms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πίναξ (pínax, “tablet, dish, plank”) + -derm.
Senses: glosses: The outermost layer of cells (pinacocytes) in the phylum Porifera (sponges), equivalent to the epidermis, and characterized as an epithelial layer of flattened cells.
Derived terms: basopinacoderm
endopinacoderm
pinacodermal
Related terms: pinacocyte
pound for pound
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pound-for-pound.
seddity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seddity
form: most seddity
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:saditty.
glosses: Alternative spelling of saditty (acting bourgeois, snobbish or pretentious).
sigogglin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪ̯.ɡɒɡ.lɪn/
Forms: form: more sigogglin
form: most sigogglin
Etymology: Apparently from side + goggling, from goggle (“to stare at with wide eyes”), indicating that something had to be stared at sideways to appear straight. Compare antigoglin.
Senses: glosses: Not built correctly; crooked, skewed, or out of balance.
tenderpreneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenderpreneurs
Etymology: From tender + -preneur.
Senses: examples: text: No doubt you’re tired of reading about his colourful escapades – about his glamorous home, his allegedly dodgy tenderpreneur deals, his gushing praise of malevolent dictators, or his soundly articulated international economic policy.
ref: 2010 November 10, Pratish Mistry, “Why Julius Malema is important to the ANC”, in NewsTime:
text: If anything, the decision represents an important victory to both emerging and accomplished tenderpreneurs who have undoubtedly distinguished themselves in clandestine plundering of state resources.
ref: 2010 October 24, “As Hawks fail us crooks plot anew”, in Sunday World (Sputh Africa):
text: Let's be bold, let's go and promote small entrepreneurs and defeat tenderpreneurs, those who steal."
ref: 2010 January 6, Blade Nzimande., Blade: Make all tenders public. Times LIVE.:
text: Tenderpreneur Julius Malema says he is not a hypocrite for publicly condemning personal enrichment while allegedly privately enriching himself, saying that there is no word for 'hypocrite' in the Pedi dictionary.
ref: 2010, Hayibo.com, Red Card, The: The Best of Hayibo.com 2009/2010, page 119:
glosses: A government official or politician who uses their powers and influence to secure government tenders and contracts.
Derived terms: tenderpreneurial
tenderpreneurship
adverbial genitive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adverbial genitives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun declined in the genitive case that functions as an adverb.
adverbial genitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adverbial genitive
anti-passback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antipassback.
qui tam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qui tams
Etymology: Latin qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur, "[he] who sues in this matter for the king as [well as] for himself".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ whereby a private individual who assists a prosecution can receive all or part of any penalty imposed.
rainforestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rainforest + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of a habitat to rainforest.
asperous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asperous
form: most asperous
Etymology: From Latin asper (“rough, coarse”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Rough, rugged, uneven.
examples: text: [T]here needeth onely an unfolding and deplication of the inſide of this order, to ſhevv, it is not ſo aſperous and thorny as our Nature apprehendeth it by the firſt glances that light upon it.
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “The Fifteenth Treatise. The Duties of a Christian towards Enemies. §. II. The Averseness to this Duty Ariseth from Our Corrupted Nature, Promoted by Divers Subtile Temptations of Our Great Enemy.”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia: Or, Devout Essaies, London: […] W[illiam] Lee, D[aniel] Pakeman, and G[abriel] Bedell, […], →OCLC, page 274:
text: And as their valour, so you trow, defied / on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, / so many changing skies their manhood tried, / such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar; […]
ref: 1880, Camoens [i.e., Luís de Camões], “Canto I”, in Richard Francis Burton, transl., edited by Isabel Burton, Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads): […], volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], →OCLC, stanza 29, page 14:
glosses: Bitter, cruel, severe.
Derived terms: asperously
Related terms: asperity
syntopicon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined as the name of an Encyclopaedia Britannica publication compiled by Mortimer Adler, A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952).
Senses: examples: text: Obviously, this makes for a syntopicon that is extremely personal, that defies all the rules of classification by verbal labels...
ref: 1966, Joseph Samuel Bois, The art of awareness: a textbook on general semantics:
text: ...the production of a syntopicon of Freud's concepts...
ref: 1971, American Medical Association, Archives of general psychiatry:
text: Like most of you though, I would like to see an expanded index or perhaps a "syntopicon" added to all of these documents.
ref: 1989, John Stewart, Avoiding common pilot errors: an air traffic controller's view:
glosses: A publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.
Derived terms: syntopical
astrogator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astrogators
Senses: examples: text: He went over and over the data of the course the Astrogator had set.
ref: 1956, Andrew North, chapter 9, in Plague Ship, New York: Gnome Press, page 94:
text: Shapiro, the astrogator, weighed a hundred and forty pounds and stood five-five. Physical combat was not his specialty.
ref: 1984, Stephen King, Beachworld:
glosses: One who navigates through space.
Synonyms: astronavigator
Related terms: astrogate
astrogation
syntonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syntony
qui tams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qui tam
oh, well
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: It was not until he heard a ring at the bell that he wondered how he should address her. Countess? That would seem like rubbing it in. Oh, well, it wasn't really necessary to call people anything, if one used a little management.
ref: 1912 July, Henry Kitchell Webster, “The Ingredients”, in The Atlantic Monthly. A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume CX, number 1, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, […], →OCLC, page 21:
text: The meager X-ray facts are woefully inadequate and there is nothing upon modern roentgen-cardiography. And this book comes out of Boston where Holmes and George practice the art of roentgenology? Oh, well—Prophets without honor, etc.
ref: 1924 November, “Physical Diagnosis by Richard C. Cabot, M.D., Professor of Medicine in Harvard University, Formerly Chief of the West Medical Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Eighth Edition, Revised and Enlarged with Six Plates and 279 Figures in the Text. New York, William Wood and Company, MDCCCCXXIII. Price, $5.00. [book review]”, in The Medical Herald and Physiotherapist: Incorporating The Medical Fortnightly & Laboratory News, St. Louis Clinique, General Practitioner and The Kansas City Medical Index-Lancet, volume XLIII, number 11, Kansas City, Mo.: Medical Herald Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 265, column 2:
text: Hello? Hello? Is that zoo? … Well, nobody's talking baby talk. Well, I'm the man that called up about the leopard. You don't have to do anything about it. It's all been a mistake. Yes. Uh … Oh, well, stop them.
ref: 1938 (film premiere), 1988 (book), Howard Hawks (director), [Hagar Wilde (screenwriter)], “Bringing Up Baby: The Continuity Script”, in Gerald Mast, editor, Bringing Up Baby (Rutgers Films in Print; 10), New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Dated form of oh well.
astrogators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrogator
astrogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more astrogeological
form: most astrogeological
Etymology: From astro- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to astrogeology.
astuciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astuciously
form: most astuciously
Etymology: From astucious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: astutely
Syriasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Syriasm
atavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atavic
form: most atavic
Senses: glosses: ancestral, atavistic
scare story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare stories
Senses: examples: text: Have you heard the recent scare story about broken glass in baby food?
glosses: A rumour spread by a scaremonger in order to cause anxiety.
aureity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɔːˈɹiː.ɪ.ti/
other: /ˌɔːˈreɪ.ɪ.ti/
other: /ˌoɹˈi.ə.ti/
other: /ˌɑɹˈi.ə.ti/
rhymes: -iːɪti
Etymology: From Latin aureitās, with the suffix adapted to -ity.
Senses: glosses: The particular property peculiar to gold; goldenness.
aureomycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: aureofaciens + -mycin
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The drug chlortetracycline, obtained from Streptomyces aureofaciens bacteria.
gas generator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas generators
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mechanical device that uses a chemical reaction to produce a gas as an output.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An electrical generator that runs on gasoline.
aurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aurifications
Etymology: From aur- + -ification.
Senses: glosses: Any of several processes, especially in dentistry, that involve working with gold.
Related terms: aurific
aurify
chlortetracycline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌklɔː.tɛ.tɹəˈsʌɪ.kliːn/
ipa: /ˌklɔɹˌtɛ.tɹəˈsaɪˌklin/
Forms: form: chlortetracyclines
Etymology: From chlor- + tetracycline.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline broad-spectrum antibiotic C₂₂H₂₃ClN₂O₈ (trademark Aureomycin) of the tetracycline group that is produced by a soil actinomycete (Kitasatospora aureofaciens), active against many bacterial and fungal infections, and is sometimes used in animal feeds to stimulate growth.
Derived terms: demeclocycline
autumny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autumny
form: most autumny
Etymology: From autumn + -y.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of autumn.
auxospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auxospores
Etymology: From auxo- + spore.
Senses: examples: text: Auxosporulation [is] the formation of an auxospore...usually a zygote, produced by diatoms, which expands to near the maximum size of a given species.
ref: 2001, Eugene Stoermer, John Smol, The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A reproductive spore in diatoms that is formed by the union of two cells
Related terms: auxosporulation
auxosporulate
savefile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savefiles
form: save file
Etymology: From save + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file containing saved data.
Hyponyms: savegame
saved game
aveniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aveniform
form: most aveniform
Etymology: From Latin avena (“oats”) + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the appearance of oats.
savefiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savefile
subtransaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtransactions
Etymology: From sub- + transaction.
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A transaction making up part of a larger transaction.
subtransactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtransaction
aviarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aviarists
Etymology: From aviary + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But if the Aviarist be ambitious to keep the lovely, but destructive, members of the Parrot family, he must be content with grass alone, because Parrakeets (except the weak-billed Turquoisines and Elegants) would destroy the shrubs and trees in a day.
ref: 1895, The Avicultural Magazine, Volume 1, The Avicultural Society for the Study of Foreign and British Birds, page 22:
text: Since then the price of these handsome Doves has fallen considerably, but it is still sufficiently high to make a good breeding pair of them a by no means unprofitable investment for the aviarist.
ref: 1896, William Thomas Greene, Feathered Friends Old and New, L. Upcott Gill, page 288:
text: 1979, Al Shenk, Calculus and Analytic Geometry, 2nd Edition, Scott Foresman, page 385,
An aviarist is watching one of his birds that has escaped and is flying directly south from the aviary at a height of 100 feet above the aviarist’s eye level.
glosses: A person who keeps an aviary.
avicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avicolous
form: most avicolous
Etymology: From Latin avis (“bird”) + -colous.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: That is parasitic on birds
aviculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aviculturists
Etymology: From aviculture + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who keeps and rears (breeds) birds.
Related terms: aviculture
aviculturists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aviculturist
glass onions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glass onion
Hollywoodize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Hollywoodizes
form: Hollywoodizing
form: Hollywoodized
form: Hollywoodized
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt to the norms and ideals of Hollywood; to make glitzy, superficial, thrilling, etc.
Derived terms: Hollywoodization
Hollywoodizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Hollywoodize
Hollywoodizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Hollywoodize
Hollywoodized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Hollywoodize
Hollywoodization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hollywood + -ization or Hollywoodize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [D]ying dramatic arts like Kabuki and No (or Noh) that have existed for years [...] are falling by the wayside because of the onslaught of VCRs and the Hollywoodization of the dramatic arts.
ref: 1996, Kathryn Petras, Ross Petras, “Drama & Film of the World”, in World Access: The Handbook for Citizens of the Earth, New York, N.Y.: Fireside, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 379, column 2:
text: The Hollywoodization of crypto is a moral disaster.
ref: 2021 October 7, Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman, “The Scam My Fellow Celebrities Should Stop Promoting”, in Slate Magazine:
synonyms: Hollywoodification
glosses: The act, process, or result of Hollywoodizing.
hyperlysinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + lysine + -uria.
Senses: glosses: The presence of excessive lysine in the urine.
know one's stuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knows one's stuff
form: knowing one's stuff
form: knew one's stuff
form: known one's stuff
Senses: examples: text: Joe really knows his stuff when it comes to baseball.
text: The field of knowledge in which Hori claimed to be an authority was Palestinology. The contents of the missive show that Hori certainly knew his stuff.
ref: 2020, Emmet Sweeney, The Theban Empire, volume 3, page 176:
glosses: To be knowledgeable about and competent at a particular subject or task.
Synonyms: word: know one's onions
word: know one's shit
word: know one's way around
word: know the drill
word: know the score
word: know which end is up
mogigraphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μόγις (mógis, “with toil and pain”) + -graphia.
Senses: glosses: Writer's cramp.
Synonyms: graphospasm
Related terms: mogiphonia
linearithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪni.əˈɹɪðmɪk/
Etymology: Blend of linear + logarithmic.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Taking up to time proportional to n log(n) to run on inputs of size n.
raw_tags: of a procedure
Synonyms: quasilinear
Related terms: time complexity
evenings out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evening out
galluptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈlʌpʃəs/
Forms: form: more galluptious
form: most galluptious
Senses: examples: text: […] your nails are well manicured—say, girls, it’s galluptious—don’t ever let it get by you.
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Thing's the Play”, in Strictly Business:
glosses: wonderful; fascinating; delightful
smoking guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoking gun
The Strip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A colloquial English term for a section of a road, usually with many retail establishments.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: Las Vegas, Vegas, Sin City
glosses: The four-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada, running from Mandalay Bay to the Stratosphere, including most of Las Vegas' major hotels and attractions.
qualifier: mostly local usage
glosses: Any of several highways in the United States, usually with numerous retail establishments.
Related terms: strip mall
avuncularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avuncularities
Etymology: From avuncular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being avuncular.
glosses: The condition of being an uncle.
baculiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baculiform
form: most baculiform
Etymology: Latin baculum (“staff”) + -iform
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a bacillus; rod-shaped.
Periclean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹɪˈkliːən/
rhymes: -iːən
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Pericles, an Ancient Greek politician, or to the golden age of art and literature in Athens.
Stalinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Stalin + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Of this we saw an example when dealing with the "political sections" in the rural districts. But the entire mass of soldiery was compelled to recognize in the course of daily life, the crying absurdity of the Stalinian "general aim."
ref: 1935, Vladimir A. Lazarevskiĭ, Under the Bolshevik Uniform, page 300:
text: First, the working class has shown that it is against Bolshevism, whether Stalinian or Khrushchevian, that this regime is as much an enemy and oppressor of the workers as was that of the Tsars.
ref: 1957, The Year Book of World Affairs, volume 11, page 46:
text: The three dispositions are Stalinian bureaucratic socialism, the adventure of the fascisms and the 'Western' deployment of parliamentarisms.
ref: 1999, Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy, page 120:
text: In its inner organisation, the role of its scientific committee is still close to the Stalinian model.
ref: 2012, Herman Van Der Wusten, The Urban University and its Identity: Roots, Location, Roles, page 34:
glosses: Of or relating to Joseph Stalin, a Russian revolutionary and political leader.
Xenophanean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Xenophanes + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the pre-Socratic philosopher Xenophanes of Colophon.
Anaxagorean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Anaxagoran
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Anaxagoras, an ancient Greek natural philosopher noted for the cosmological concept of Nous (mind), as an ordering force.
Democritean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Democritus, an ancient Greek philosopher noted for his atomic theory.
balenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From balenology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to balenology
Euripidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˌɹɪpɪˈdiːən/
Etymology: Latin Eurīpidēus (from the Ancient Greek Εὐρῑπῐ́δειος, from Εὐρῑπῐ́δης, whence Euripides) + English -an
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Euripides (an ancient Greek tragedian).
Aeschylean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛskɪˈliː.ən/
Forms: form: more Aeschylean
form: most Aeschylean
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Aeschylus, an ancient Greek dramatic poet.
balenology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The therapeutic use of thermal and mineral spas
Derived terms: balenological
balkline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balklines
Etymology: From balk + line.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baulk line.
Goethean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Goethe + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, a German writer and thinker.
balneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balneal
form: most balneal
Etymology: From Latin balneum (“bath, bathing place”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to baths or to bathing
Leninian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lenin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.
Related terms: english: pertaining to Vladimir Lenin; pertaining to Leninism
translation: pertaining to Vladimir Lenin; pertaining to Leninism
word: Leninist
balneation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balneations
Etymology: From Latin balneum (“bath”).
Senses: examples: text: There is the Professor's nightly bath, for instance, which has all the solemn trappings of a royal balneation.
ref: 1993, John Banville, Ghosts:
glosses: The act of bathing.
glosses: The administration of public baths.
Parmenidean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Parmenides, an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea.
balneologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balneologists
Etymology: From balneology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: balneotherapist
balsamiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more balsamiferous
form: most balsamiferous
Etymology: From balsam + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: That yields balsam
barbellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having one or more barbellae.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a covering of fine barbs, quills, spines or thorns.
Ross River virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small encapsulated single-strand RNA alphavirus endemic to Australia and the South Pacific, responsible for Ross River fever.
antilambdas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antilambda
sockeroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sockeroos
Etymology: Compare sockdolager, socko.
Senses: glosses: Something remarkably impressive or successful.
sockeroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sockeroo
morningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From morning + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being most active and alert during the morning; being a morning person.
eveningness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evening + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being most active and alert during the evening; being a night owl.
dullnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dullness
dulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dulnesses
Senses: examples: text: He then sat down to contemplate, at his ease, that vivacity without motive, and without aim, which is found in most numerous assemblies; mediocrity in Italy is by no means a disagreeable character; it has little vanity, little jealousy, and much respect for superiority of mind; and if it fatigues with its dulness, it hardly ever offends by assuming.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book. IX. [The popular Festival, and Music.]] Chap[ter] III.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, pages 18–19:
text: At first it was downright dulness to Emma. She had never seen Frank Churchill so silent and stupid. He said nothing worth hearing — looked without seeing — admired without intelligence — listened without knowing what she said.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 113:
text: A smack of all Human Life lies in the Tailor: its wild struggles towards beauty, dignity, freedom, victory; and how, hemmed in by Sedan and Huddersfield, by Nescience, Dulness, Prurience, and other sad necessities and laws of Nature, it has attained just to this: Grey Savagery of Three Sacks with a hem!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter XIII, Democracy”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
ref: 1887, Medical Press and Circular, volume 94, page 461:
glosses: Archaic spelling of dullness.
dulnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dulness
chordwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chordwise
form: most chordwise
Etymology: From chord + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a chord (straight line connecting points of a curve).
chordwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From chord + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a chord (straight line connecting points of a curve).
chordlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chordlike
form: most chordlike
Etymology: From chord + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chord (straight line connecting points of a curve).
examples: text: If you never hear the chordlike tone: • Check that your Mac is plugged in securely at both ends and that the outlet or power strip is also on...
ref: 1992, Arthur Naiman, The Macintosh bible:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chord (musical notes played simultaneously).
chordomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chordoma
kesa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kesas
form: kesa
Etymology: From Japanese 袈裟 (けさ, kesa), from Middle Chinese 袈裟 (kˠa ʃˠa), from Sanskrit काषाय (kāṣāya).
Senses: glosses: A robe worn by Buddhist monks and nuns.
fleaborne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: flea-borne
Etymology: From flea + borne.
Senses: glosses: Transmitted by fleas.
raw_tags: of a disease
antibrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibranes
Etymology: From anti- + brane.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of a pair of branes each having opposite orientation to the other.
antiresonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + resonant.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting antiresonance
cobaltites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobaltite
disequalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disequality
disequality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disequalities
Etymology: From dis- + equality.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: inequality, inequation
heteroepitaxial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + epitaxial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heteroepitaxy
hexaferrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexaferrites
Etymology: From hexa- + ferrite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several complex oxyanions of iron having hexagonal symmetry.
glosses: Any of various materials containing such anions, many of which have useful magnetic properties.