cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prename
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenames
Etymology: From pre- + name.
Senses: glosses: A first name, a forename
Hypernyms: name
prename
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prenames
form: prenaming
form: prenamed
form: prenamed
Etymology: From pre- + name.
Senses: glosses: To provide with a first name.
glosses: To have no name change.
glosses: To name in advance.
bioreactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioreactors
Etymology: From bio- + reactor.
Senses: examples: text: First, there will be little reaction in the settler so that the concentrations of soluble constituents in the recycle stream are the same as those in the bioreactor.
ref: 2011, C. P. Leslie Grady, Jr.; Glen T. Daigger; Nancy G. Love, Biological Wastewater Treatment, Third Edition, page 189:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: chemical reactor
reaction vessel
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reactor#Noun
glosses: A vat or pressure vessel, containing microorganisms or biochemically active substances, used for biotechnological processes such as fermentation, waste recycling, or making drugs.
Derived terms: microbioreactor
minibioreactor
nanobioreactor
photobioreactor
sonobioreactor
twistification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twistifications
Etymology: From twist + -ification.
Senses: examples: text: "Why, plain language is best, when one knows the body one is speaking to; and I verily believe there is not a man on art that has less twistification in thought, word or deed than you, Mr. Spiffard."
ref: 1836, William Dunlap, Thirty Years Ago: Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, page 204:
text: He is the quaintest and queerest personage you ever saw, -- full of dry jokes, the humor of which is so incorporated with the strange twistifications of his physiognomy, that his sayings ought to be written down, accompanied with illustrations by Cruikshank.
ref: 1841, Passages from the American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne:
text: Truth is so easily told, that the veriest fool can give a straight story, where no twistification is necessary.
ref: 1852, Life and Writings of Grant Thorburn, page 174:
glosses: The act of twisting or its result; convolution or distortion.
glosses: A type of dance.
uncontainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncontainable
form: most uncontainable
Etymology: From un- + containable.
Senses: examples: text: The uncontainable fire and restlessness of the Allegro is subdued in the Adagio to a sweet, resigned, spiritually sustained mood of melancholy.
ref: 1866 January 20, “Beethoven's Fourth Symphony”, in Dwight's Journal of Music, volume 25, page 172:
glosses: That cannot be contained.
bawbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawbag
cecum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ceca
form: cecums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caecum.
Derived terms: cecectomy
cecitis
ileocecum
Related terms: cecal
cecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caecal.
Derived terms: cecally
retrocecal
Related terms: cecum
caecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkəl/
Forms: form: cæcal
form: cecal
form: coecal
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the caecum.
Derived terms: caecally
colocaecal
ileocaecal
intercaecal
intracaecal
paracaecal
postcaecal
precaecal
retrocaecal
subcaecal
ceca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cecum
caeca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːkə/
rhymes: -iːkə(ɹ)
homophone: seeker
Forms: form: ceca
Senses: glosses: plural of caecum
cervices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɝvɪˌsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cervix
orchestrated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orchestrate
Libby
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪbi/
rhymes: -ɪbi
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth and Isabel.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lincoln County, Montana, United States.
sonsofbitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sonofabitch
sons-of-bitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of son-of-a-bitch
megadose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɡəˌdəʊs/
/ˈmɛɡəˌdoʊs/
Forms: form: megadoses
Etymology: From mega- + dose.
Senses: examples: text: [F]rom biblical times [...] to modern times when men are served megadoses of vitamin E for breakfast, women too have been interested in the potency of popular potions.
ref: 1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 91:
glosses: A dose of drug or vitamin far exceeding the normal or recommended amount, and usually given intentionally. Compare overdose.
megadose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛɡəˌdəʊs/
/ˈmɛɡəˌdoʊs/
Forms: form: megadoses
form: megadosing
form: megadosed
form: megadosed
Etymology: From mega- + dose.
Senses: glosses: To dose (a patient) with a very large amount of a drug.
glosses: To dose with a very large amount of (a drug).
all duck or no dinner
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Probably derived from shoot duck or no dinner.
Senses: examples: text: "You know," said Bob, "they'll be pushing their luck getting across the tides of the Irish Sea. It's going to be all duck or no dinner for Captain Carlsen . ”
ref: 2004, Bill Cullen, It's a Long Way from Penny Apples:
text: This is what might be termed an all-duck-or-no-dinner approach in which “a univocal meaning” containing no “ anti-liberationist❞ strain is sought.
ref: 2006, Mark Gray, Rhetoric and Social Justice in Isaiah, page 223:
text: The afternoon I moved out of home, my father said, 'You're all duck or no dinner', which still applies to me today, although I can sometimes moderate the extremes.
ref: 2020, Ross Fitzgerald, Fifty Years Sober: An Alcoholic's Journey:
glosses: All or nothing.
Related terms: duck or no dinner
no duck, no dinner
no fish, no dinner
ceaselessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ceaseless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Then, the Lord, for the sake of those involved in the Universal Vehicle, turned a second wheel of Dharma, even more wondrous and amazing, by proclaiming emptiness, starting from the fact of the unreality, productionlessness, ceaselessness, primordial peace, and natural liberation of all things.
ref: 2014, Robert A.F. Thurman, Tsong Khapa's Speech of Gold in the Essence of True Eloquence:
glosses: The condition of being ceaseless; endlessness, eternity.
Synonyms: perpetuity
unendingness
endlessness
industrial disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial diseases
Senses: glosses: disease or disability caused by employment, such as repetitive acts or exposure to chemicals.
celebrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: celebrators
Etymology: From celebrate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who celebrates or praises.
Related terms: celebrant
celebratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛləbɹəˌtɔːɹi/
ipa: /ˌsɛlɪˈbɹeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more celebratory
form: most celebratory
Etymology: From celebrate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Hiro ducks out of Tranny's celebratory dinner rather early, drags Reason off the zodiac and onto the front porch of the houseboat, opens it up and jacks his personal computer into its bios.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 364:
text: But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Having the manner of, or forming part of, a celebration.
Derived terms: celebratorily
noncelebratory
celestially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From celestial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a celestial manner; concerning the heavens
celled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cell + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Containing cells; cellular.
glosses: Containing a specific form or number of cells.
Derived terms: multicelled
one-celled
single-celled
unicelled
celled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cell + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cell
cementer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cementers
Etymology: From cement + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who applies cement.
glosses: A substance that cements.
examples: text: More than a day of rest, Sunday was a cementer of relationships, a soother of the mind, a comfort to the body and an elixir for the soul.
ref: 2011, Bill Gallaher, The Journey: The Overlanders' Quest for Gold, page 93:
glosses: That which confirms or unites.
cementum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntəm
Forms: form: cæmentum
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caementum. Doublet of cement.
Senses: examples: text: From a purely anatomic standpoint, root cementum is part of the tooth, but also part of the periodontium.
ref: 2005, Herbert F. Wolf, Klaus H. Rateitschak, Periodontology, page 14:
text: Cementum is the least known calcified tissue in vertebrates (Bosshardt and Schroeder 1996) and several questions about cementogenesis have not yet been answered.
ref: 2007, Ermanno Bonucci, Biological Calcification: Normal and Pathological Processes in the Early Stages, page 245:
text: Whether epithelial cells from Hertwig's sheath contribute to initial cementum formation is controversial as has already been discussed in Chap. 1.
ref: 2007, Pieter Johannes Slootweg, Dental Pathology: A Practical Introduction, page 8:
topics: anatomy
dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bony substance that covers the root of a tooth; cement.
Derived terms: cementoblast
cementochronology
cementogenesis
cementoma
cenobitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cenobitic
form: most cenobitic
form: coenobitic
form: cœnobitic
Etymology: From cenobite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cenobite
Synonyms: cenobiac
Derived terms: cenobitically
censoriously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more censoriously
form: most censoriously
Etymology: From censorious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a censorious manner.
centennially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From centennial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As part of a centennial.
glosses: once a century, every one hundred years
centrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛnt.ɹə.li/
Forms: form: more centrally
form: most centrally
Etymology: From central + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The tubes being filled with distilled water, the light from an electric lamp was directed toward the central glass of the refractometer and the latter adjusted by screws till the light passed centrally down both tubes, and then the right angled prism at the further end adjusted till the light returned and was reflected into the telescope, where generally two images were observed.
ref: 1886, Albert A. Michelson, Edward W. Morley, “Influence of Motion of the Medium on the Velocity of Light”, in American Journal of Science, Series 3, Volume 31, Number 185, pages 377-386:
text: Hence for the rain to centrally traverse the tube, this must be inclined at an angle BAD to the vertical;
ref: 1911, “Aberration”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:
text: The labium is prolonged centrally into a “tongue,” which is glandular at the tip; the paraglossae are linear.
ref: 1911, “Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition”, in Wasp:
text: Hungary has made the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy, with a per capita income one-half that of the Big Four European nations.
ref: 2004, Central Intelligence Agency, “Hungary”, in The World Factbook:
topics: location
glosses: In a central manner or situation; at, to, through or from the centre.
Derived terms: centrally heated
centrally planned economy
decentrally
frontocentrally
noncentrally
paracentrally
precentrally
ceremoniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ceremoniously
form: most ceremoniously
Etymology: From ceremonious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: After a simply marvelous, entertaining two and a half hour meal, they reclaimed their shoes and ceremoniously bid their sayonaras to the Japanese girls.
ref: 1999, Hell to Pay, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: In a ceremonious manner.
certifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more certifiable
form: most certifiable
Etymology: From certify + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can or must be certified.
raw_tags: of a document
examples: text: If any person said to you in 1950 that in seventeen years Miss Stalin would defect to the West, you would rightly have considered that person certifiable. She has now done it, with impressive smoothness and conviction.
ref: 2015, Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin's Daughter, →ISBN, page 311:
glosses: Mentally ill to such an extent that involuntary institutionalization is appropriate; crazy.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: sense: mentally ill
word: insane
sense: mentally ill
word: mad
sense: mentally ill
word: nuts
Derived terms: certifiableness
certifiably
noncertifiable
uncertifiable
certifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: certifiables
Etymology: From certify + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Forget the certifiables who are scrawling Hitler mustaches on pictures of the president.
ref: 2009 August 22, Bob Herbert, “Voices of Anxiety”, in New York Times:
glosses: A crazy person.
censoriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From censorious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large. Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs.
ref: 2022 February 18, Jamelle Bouie, “Opinion: You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 May 2023:
glosses: The state of being censorious.
blepharoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blepharoplasties
Etymology: From blepharo- + -plasty.
Senses: examples: text: This trend, which he attributes to social media and describes as “beautification” rather than a desire to turn back the years, might involve a blepharoplasty or removing buccal fat (between the cheek and jaw bones.)
ref: 2025 August 16, Emma Jacobs, “Would you pay $200,000 to look half your age?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 5:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: bleph
glosses: Plastic surgery on the eyelids to improve vision or for cosmetic reasons.
Derived terms: blepharoplastic
ceremoniousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ceremonious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ceremonious.
censurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more censurable
form: most censurable
Etymology: From censure + -able.
Senses: examples: text: ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse, in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith, whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ...
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “Of Scurrility”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia, London: W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, section 2, page 144:
glosses: Deserving of censure; blameworthy.
Derived terms: censurableness
censurably
incensurable
uncensurable
blepharon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blephara
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βλέφαρον (blépharon).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: eyelid.
Derived terms: ankyloblepharon
blepharoplasty
centerboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerboards
Etymology: From center + board.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative spelling of centreboard.
Derived terms: centerboarder
dermatoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatoplasties
Etymology: From dermato- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of the skin, especially the use of skin grafts.
Synonyms: dermoplasty
Derived terms: dermatoplastic
keech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kiːt͡ʃ/
Forms: form: keeches
Etymology: Compare dialectal English keech (“cake”), perhaps ultimately a back-formation from Middle English kechel (“small cake”).
Senses: examples: text: I wonder
 That such a keech can with his very bulk
 Take up the rays o' th' beneficial sun,
 And keep it from the earth.
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: I observed them [natives of British Columbia] on another occasion content with merely warming keeches of raw and solid flesh under their naked armpits.
ref: 1889, Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, Ten Years' Wild Sports in Foreign Lands: Or, Travels in the Eighties:
glosses: A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
mammaplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammaplasties
form: mammoplasty
Etymology: From mamma + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
Synonyms: mastoplasty
Derived terms: mammaplastic
mammoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammoplasties
form: mammaplasty
Etymology: From mammo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
Synonyms: boob job
mastoplasty
mastoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastoplasties
Etymology: From mast- (Etymology 2)- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of a breast to alter its shape or size.
Synonyms: word: boob job
word: mammoplasty
mentoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mentoplasties
Etymology: From mento- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of the chin to alter its size or shape.
Synonyms: genioplasty
centerpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centerpieces
Etymology: From center + piece.
Senses: examples: text: The debt is fictional, the families’ lawyers said in Thursday’s filing, and “a centerpiece of Jones’s plan to avoid compensating the Sandy Hook families.”
ref: 2022 August 25, Elizabeth Williamson, “Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2022:
glosses: US standard spelling of centrepiece.
centiliter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centiliters
Etymology: From French centilitre; equivalent to centi- + liter.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centilitre.
centilitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centilitres
form: centiliter
Etymology: From French centilitre; equivalent to centi- + litre.
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume or capacity of one hundredth of a litre. Symbol: cl
centrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɹæl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ti/
ipa: [sɛnˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /senˈtɹæl.ə.ti/
ipa: [senˈtɹæl.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: centralities
Etymology: From central + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: As a result, the linkage between race-hate, gay-hate, and misogyny is evident (Sheffield, 1992: 389), but the centrality of race and gender in the gay and lesbian activism dealing with violence is negligible.
ref: 2002, Diane Richardson, Steven Seidman, Handbook of Lesbian and Gay Studies:
glosses: The state of being central.
glosses: A tendency to remain at, or move towards the centre.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of various measures of the relative importance of a vertex in a graph.
Derived terms: eigencentrality
noncentrality
exceptionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceptionalities
Etymology: From exceptional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: For all their exceptionality, there is also a numbing sameness to the movies of Hayao Miyazaki.
ref: 2005 June 15, Robert Wilonsky, “The Wiz (Film Review)”, in Riverfront Times:
synonyms: exceptionalness
antonyms: unexceptionality
unexceptionalness
glosses: The quality of being exceptional.
examples: text: We are fain to ask what is to become of Shakespeare and a host of others, who, with equal originality of thought, have avoided those vagrant exceptionalities of humour.
ref: 1827, “Some Speculations on Literary Pleasures”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, London, vol. 97, pt. 2, p. 118:
glosses: A thing, condition, or other matter which is exceptional.
examples: 1998, National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities, "Learning Disabilities: Preservice Preparation of General and Special Education Teachers," Learning Disability Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 185,
Educators who are earning degrees as learning disability specialists should . . . understand the differences between learning disabilities and other exceptionalities.
topics: education
glosses: the condition of requiring special schooling for reasons of intellectual giftedness or physical or mental disability
Derived terms: unexceptionality
centralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɹəlaɪz/
Forms: form: centralizes
form: centralizing
form: centralized
form: centralized
form: centralise
Etymology: From central + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To move things physically towards the centre; to consolidate or concentrate
glosses: To move power to a single, central authority
examples: text: She examines authors Mary Daly and Andrea Dworkin and criticizes the analysis that centralizes all our oppression in sexism.
ref: 1985 February 2, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “Blacks & Jews: Vulnerability & Values”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 14:
glosses: To make something focal, the most important
Derived terms: centralization
centralizer
decentralize
overcentralize
recentralize
centralizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centralizers
Etymology: From centralize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device used to centralize a piece of equipment.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (of an element in a group) The set of elements of the same group which commute with the element. See also normalizer.
centrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrisms
Etymology: From centre + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Any moderate political philosophy that avoids extremes.
Synonyms: bothsidesism
Derived terms: anticentrism
Related terms: -centrism
centrist
centrist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈsen.tɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈsen.tɹəst/
Forms: form: more centrist
form: most centrist
Etymology: From French centriste, equivalent to centre + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Emmanuel Macron’s ruling centrist party was divided and soul-searching on Wednesday after a strict new immigration law was approved by parliament but contained so many hardline measures that the far-right Marine Le Pen claimed it as an “ideological victory” for her own anti-immigration platform.
ref: 2023 December 19, Angelique Chrisafis, “France passes controversial immigration bill amid deep division in Macron’s party”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating centrism.
Derived terms: biocentrist
ecocentrist
centrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛn.tɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈsen.tɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈsen.tɹəst/
Forms: form: centrists
Etymology: From French centriste, equivalent to centre + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
ref: 2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com:
glosses: A person who advocates centrism.
Coordinate terms: leftist
rightist
Related terms: anti-centrist
radical centrist
radically centrist
ceramist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈɹamɪst/
Forms: form: ceramists
form: ceramicist
Etymology: From ceram(ic) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Wilson is part of a group of female ceramists from all over the globe who are meditating on the beauty of imperfection, age and artlessness, borrowing ideas from the past, including the Zen Buddhist philosophy of wabi-sabi.
ref: 2017 December 5, Alexa Brazilian, “The Beautifully Flawed Work of Emerging Ceramists”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:
text: The Corfu, Greece-born, London-based ceramist Agalis Manessi, 69, creates her animals — recumbent hounds, alert hares — from lumps of terra-cotta clay that she squeezes and manipulates “until a figure emerges.”
ref: 2021 August 19, Nancy Hass, “The Ceramists Crafting Miniature Menageries”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:
glosses: A person who makes ceramics objects; a potter.
cerebellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛ.ɹəˈbɛl.ə/
ipa: /ˌsɛɹ.əˈbɛl.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From cerebellum + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: cerebellic
cerebellous
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cerebellum.
Derived terms: acerebellar
anticerebellar
bulbocerebellar
cerebellar artery
cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome
cerebellar cortex
cerebrocerebellar
corneal-cerebellar syndrome
corticocerebellar
corticothalamocerebellar
cuneocerebellar
extracerebellar
frontocerebellar
hemicerebellar
hypothalamocerebellar
intracerebellar
medicerebellar
neocerebellar
noncerebellar
olivocerebellar
olivopontocerebellar
palaeocerebellar
pancerebellar
paracerebellar
parietocerebellar
pontocerebellar
postcerebellar
precerebellar
reticulocerebellar
retrocerebellar
spinocerebellar
supracerebellar
tectocerebellar
transcerebellar
trigeminocerebellar
vestibulocerebellar
cerebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛɹɪbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: cerebrates
form: cerebrating
form: cerebrated
form: cerebrated
Etymology: First attested in 1874; from Latin cerebrum (“brain”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix); likely a back-formation from cerebration.
Senses: glosses: To think or cogitate, especially so as to make inferences or decisions or to solve problems.
Derived terms: decerebrate
Related terms: cerebral
cerebration
cerebrative
cerebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛɹɪbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: cerebrates
Etymology: From (obsolete) cerebric acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: glosses: Any salt of cerebric acid (cerebrin).
cerebration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sɛɹɪˈbɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: cerebrations
Etymology: From Latin cerebrum (“brain”) + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: We shall erelong hear still more remarkable illustrations of subconsciously maturing processes eventuating in results of which we suddenly grow conscious. […] Dr. Carpenter first, unless I am mistaken, introduced the term ‘unconscious cerebration’, which has since then been a popular phrase of explanation.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lecture IX: Conversion”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 207:
text: To get at the very root of religion we must lay bare the first notions or thoughts that actuated mankind. We must go far beyond the beginnings of civilization. We must deal with the cerebration of primitive and savage man. We must consider in some detail the origin and evolution of reason and knowledge apart from and in addition to the origin of instinct.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 3:
text: Duncan himself, however, seems to have alpine cerebrations embedded in his very molecules.
ref: 2009 January 25, Lee Siegel, “No Exit”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of cerebrating; reflection, thinking, thought.
Derived terms: cerebrational
Related terms: cerebrate
cerebrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cerebrate
aeroelasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroelasticities
Etymology: From aero- + elasticity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scientific study of the effect of aerodynamic loads on structures.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The effect of aerodynamic load on a given structure.
Related terms: aeroelastic
balun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baluns
Etymology: Clipping of balanced–unbalanced. Compare modem.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Rick Sturdivant, Balun Design for Wireless: Mixers, Amplifiers and Antennas, in Practical Filters and Couplers, Noble Publishing Corporation, page 25,
Baluns find wide use in mixer, antenna and balanced amplifier circuits. Yet balun design is still regarded as if it were black magic by many engineers partly due to the fact that practical design information on baluns can be difficult to find.
text: The Roberts balun [23] design adds an open-circuited stub λ/4 long inside the dummy coax of the folded balun.
ref: 2005, Thomas A. Milligan, Modern Antenna Design, 2nd edition, Wiley, page 253:
text: In (e) a balun at the end of the coaxial feedline provides equal and opposite voltages to each side of the dipole and eliminates any current from the outside of the feedline.
ref: 2009, Jon B. Hagen, Radio-Frequency Electronics: Circuits and Applications, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 177:
glosses: An electronic device for connecting a balanced transmission line to an unbalanced one.
aerospike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerospikes
Etymology: From aero- + spike.
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of rocket engine having specialized nozzles.
glosses: A spike, protruding from the nose cone of a missile, designed to decrease supersonic drag.
rocket engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket engines
Senses: glosses: A reaction engine that obtains thrust by jet propulsion which forms its jet exclusively from propellant.
Synonyms: rocket motor
rocket motor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket motors
Senses: glosses: A rocket engine, especially a solid rocket or a hybrid rocket.
reaction engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaction engines
Senses: glosses: Any engine that generates thrust by expelling matter, especially hot gases produced by igniting a fuel; either a rocket engine or several types of jet engine.
aerothermodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + thermodynamics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The scientific study of the thermodynamic properties of gases, especially when travelling at a high velocity.
agroecosystem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agroecosystems
Etymology: From agro- + ecosystem.
Senses: glosses: A conceptual model of an agricultural system (crop, farm or whole economy), relating its functions to its inputs and outputs.
Synonyms: agrosystem
form class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form classes
Senses: examples: text: All fungi for which sexual reproduction is unknown are assigned to the form class Deuteromycota until such reproduction is discovered in that species.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at the rank of class with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be an artificial group rather than a natural one.
glosses: A form room, a homeroom.
Related terms: form genus
form taxon
form taxon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form taxa
Senses: examples: text: All fossilized roots of scale trees are assigned to the form taxon 'Stigmaria'.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at some rank with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be a grouping based on similar morphological characteristics, rather than more extensive biological similarity.
Related terms: form class
form genus
form genus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form genera
Senses: examples: text: All fossilized roots of scale trees are assigned to the form genus 'Stigmaria'.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A collection of organisms that is given formal recognition at the rank of genus with a taxonomic name, but which is known to be an artificial group rather than a natural one.
Related terms: form class
form species
form taxon
form taxa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form taxon
form classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form class
Tampa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæm.pə/
rhymes: -æmpə
homophone: tamper (non-rhotic)
Etymology: Unknown, likely from a Calusa word. See Tampa, Florida § Etymology for more.
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Hillsborough County, Florida, located on Tampa Bay.
glosses: A city in Marion County, Kansas.
Derived terms: Tampan
Tampanian
Tampeño
spending spree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spending sprees
Senses: examples: text: Yichun is a poor city in a poor province. The income of its residents was little more than half the national average last year. That hasn’t stopped the government from going on a spending spree. The new local police headquarters has a miniature dome reminiscent of that of St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
ref: 2011 July 16, Henry Sanderson, Michael Forsythe, “In China, loans lure city officials”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2023, Business:
glosses: An expensive series of purchases made in a short time.
Synonyms: shopping spree
calvaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈvɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /kælˈvɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Forms: form: calvariae
form: calvarias
Etymology: From Latin calvāria (“skull”). Doublet of calvarium, calavera, and calvary.
Senses: examples: text: CD105 Thy1- progenitor populations derived from regions of the fetal mandible or calvaria that do not undergo endochondral ossification formed only bone without marrow in our assay.
ref: 2008 December 10, Charles K. F. Chan et al., “Endochondral ossification is required for haematopoietic stem-cell niche formation”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7228, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: calvarium
glosses: The dome or roof of the skull, the skullcap.
Derived terms: calvarial
calvarian
intracalvarial
subcalvarial
subcalvarian
calvaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kælˈvɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /kælˈvɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: By the standard Latin plural inflection -a for Latin nouns ending in -um (second declension). The word calvarium was a New Latin coinage from earlier Latin calvaria, and English naturalized it and its plural form intact via unadapted borrowing, as well as allowing a regularized English plural, calvariums; it also did the same thing with calvaria, calvariae, calvarias (first declension), as well.
Senses: glosses: plural of calvarium
choda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃoʊdə/
ipa: /ˈtʃəʊdə/
rhymes: -əʊdə
Forms: form: chodas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चोदा (codā, abusive term for “son”), from चोदना (codnā, “to copulate”), from Ashokan Prakrit *𑀘𑁄𑀤𑁆𑀤𑀢𑀺 (*coddati), from Sanskrit चोदति (codati). Doublet of choad and chudai.
Senses: glosses: Bastard, son of a bitch.
examples: 2001, Especially when a fashion editor wants to see sunken 11-year-old children wearing small scraps of cloth and wishing that was a choda instead of a pussy under there. alt.slack
2004, Why don't you go lick your choda in the corner and stay off our newsgroup. alt.atheism
synonyms: choad
chode
dick
glosses: Penis.
counterstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterstrikes
Etymology: From counter- + strike. Compare counterstroke.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
synonyms: counterattack#Noun
hypernyms: strike#Noun
attack#Noun
coordinate_terms: preemptive strike#Noun
first strike#Noun
decapitation strike#Noun
glosses: The tactic of counterattacking.
Related terms: Dead Hand
counterstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterstrikes
form: counterstriking
form: counterstruck
form: counterstruck
Etymology: From counter- + strike. Compare counterstroke.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: fight back
synonyms: counterattack#Verb
glosses: To perform a counterstrike.
panocha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panochas
form: panoche
form: panoja
form: panouchi
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish panocha.
Senses: glosses: coarse Mexican brown sugar
by the same token
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: From token (“evidence, proof”) (obsolete sense).
Senses: examples: text: The petroleum and gas of eastern Ohio, and by the same token, of western Pennsylvania and New York are unquestionably derived from the great shale formation of Devonian and subcarboniforous age that underlies this territory, and they are stored in sandstones overlying or interstratified with these shales."
ref: 1886 June 25, Edward Orton, “Petroleum and Natural Gas as Found in Ohio”, in Science, volume 7, number 177, →JSTOR, page 561:
synonyms: similarly
likewise
along the lines
in the same vein
glosses: For a similar reason; in a similar manner; by virtue of the selfsame phenomenon, through its various aspects.
Related terms: by that token
flip side
other side of the coin
evildoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evildoer
sorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sorns
form: sorning
form: sorned
form: sorned
Etymology: Perhaps from sojourn.
Senses: glosses: to impose upon another for food and lodging.
Derived terms: sorner
chorology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorologies
Etymology: From choro- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: While chronology refers to the study of time, chorology refers to the study of regions/places.
ref: 2004, Tim Cresswell, Place, A Short Introduction:
glosses: The spatial equivalent of chronology; the science of determining the order in which places or regions occur or are constructed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of the spatial distribution of organisms.
Derived terms: chorological
chorologist
Related terms: chorologic
car alarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car alarms
Senses: glosses: An audible and often visible alarm that is activated when a motor car/automobile is tampered with.
smoke alarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoke alarm
camisole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkamɪsəʊl/
Forms: form: camisoles
Etymology: From French camisole, from Old Occitan camisola, diminutive of camisa (“shirt”).
Senses: examples: text: A visible bra strap, a bit of camisole peeking, a partially exposed thong: Innerwear slinks into a new role
ref: 2004, Marisa Kula, “Lingerie Sashays into Outerwear”, in The Oregonian:
synonyms: underbodice
negligee
glosses: A short, sleeveless undergarment worn by women underneath a blouse, or as a form of short négligée.
glosses: A straitjacket.
glosses: A light jacket with sleeves.
Derived terms: camikini
camiknickers
camisoled
camisole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkamɪsəʊl/
Forms: form: camisoles
form: camisoling
form: camisoled
form: camisoled
Etymology: From French camisole, from Old Occitan camisola, diminutive of camisa (“shirt”).
Senses: examples: text: If, in viewing the question from its sentimental aspect, you deplore the insult offered to manly dignity by camisoling a fellow-creature, let me ask if this manly dignity is not already compromised by the fact of patients covering themselves with ordure, denuding and mutilating themselves and striking those about them?
ref: 1881, Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica N. Y., for the Year 1880, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, […], pages 54–55:
text: He believes it better to camisole a patient than to seclude him.
ref: 1882, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 821:
text: She had been camisoled, and fastened in bed, with “ties of muslin cloth about fifteen inches wide,” and left alone for the night, during which, her struggles “had so increased the pressure of the ties as to produce considerable swelling” and increased discoloration.
ref: 1884, The American Psychological Journal, volume II, page 164:
glosses: To straitjacket.
campaigner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæmˈpeɪnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: campaigners
Etymology: From campaign (verb) + -er (agent noun suffix) or
from campaign (noun) + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: A person who has served in a military campaign.
glosses: A military veteran.
examples: text: The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.
ref: 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:
text: It is remembered unfondly by politicians, communities and campaigners as the document that heralded widespread reductions in the size of the railway.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 44:
glosses: A person who campaigns for a person running for political office or works, or supports, in an organised and active way towards a goal; an activist.
glosses: Someone with experience in a certain field.
camshaft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmʃæft/
Forms: form: camshafts
Etymology: From cam + shaft.
Senses: hypernyms: shaft#Noun
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component#Noun
part#Noun
coordinate_terms: crankshaft
glosses: A shaft fitted with cams; especially one in a piston engine that activates the valves.
Related terms: word: valve train
english: often holonymous
translation: often holonymous
word: valvetrain
piston engine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piston engines
Senses: glosses: Any of several types of engine having cylinders containing reciprocating pistons, in which a crankshaft is turned by pistons moving up and down within cylinders; many internal combustion engines and many steam engines have such a mechanism.
Synonyms: reciprocating engine
Hyponyms: english: usually hyponymous
translation: usually hyponymous
word: gas engine
english: usually hyponymous
translation: usually hyponymous
word: steam engine
word: Stirling engine
Coordinate terms: word: gas turbine
word: internal-combustion engine
english: often hypernymous
translation: often hypernymous
word: internal combustion engine
word: jet engine
word: rotary engine
word: steam turbine
word: turbine
couatl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: couatls
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”); influenced by Quetzalcoatl.
Senses: examples: text: So rare as to be considered almost legendary, the couatl is one of the most beautiful creatures in existence.
ref: 1993, Doug Stewart, Gary Gygax, Monstrous Manual, page 46:
text: Winged, feathered serpents of considerable size and power, the couatl seeks to defend its territory against all invaders. Couatls are not malicious by nature, and frequently appoint themselves the guardians of humanoids within their domain, provided said humanoids are willing to offer it the occasional tribute.
ref: 2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures, page 44:
text: For this reason, a couatl probably won't use it except to save a seriously wounded ally from imminent death, and in that case, it follows up with a sanctuary spell on its next turn, then spends the remainder of combat closely defending that ally.
ref: 2019, Keith Ammann, The Monsters Know What They're Doing:
topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A feathered flying serpent with psionic abilities.
authoritarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authoritarian
geest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡiːst/
rhymes: -iːst
Forms: form: geests
Etymology: Borrowed from German Geest (from Low German güst (“dry, infertile”, adjective), from Middle Low German gēst (“dry, elevated”, literally “cracking, gaping, yawning”)) or Dutch geest (from Middle Dutch geest, from Old Dutch *gēst (“dry, infertile”)), in either case a substantivization of what was initially an adjective, Proto-Germanic *gais- (“infertile”), ultimately probably from *gīnan. See also German gähnen.
Senses: examples: text: the waves, beating agaiņst the geest, were thence repelled upon the marsch.
ref: 1827, Georges Cuvier, translated by Robert Jameson, Essay on the Theory of the Earth:
glosses: A type of slightly raised landscape, with sandy and gravelly soils, that occurs in the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark.
exotic baryon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotic baryons
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A bound state of 3 quarks and additional particles. These additional particles can be quarks.