cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
envenom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈvɛnəm/
Forms: form: envenoms
form: envenoming
form: envenomed
form: envenomed
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: envenom
form: envenom
form: envenomed
form: envenom
form: envenomest
form: envenomed
form: envenomedst
form: envenoms
form: envenometh
form: envenomed
form: envenom
form: envenomed
form: envenom
form: envenomed
form: envenom
form: -
form: envenoming
form: envenomed
form: invenom
Etymology: From Middle English envenymen, from Old French envenimer (“to poison, taint”); equivalent to en- + venom.
Senses: examples: text: As when Alcides from Oealia Crown’d
With conqueſt, felt th’ envenom’d robe, and tore
Through pain up by the roots Theſſalian Pines […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Nay, was it I who wooed thee to this breast, / Which like a serpent thou envenomest / As in repayment of the warmth it lent?
ref: 1818–1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Julian and Maddalo; a Conversation”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry L[eigh] Hunt, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Ah dearest, whoso sucks a poisoned wound
Envenoms his own veins!
ref: 1833, Robert Browning, Pauline:
text: The Kayans of Central Borneo ascribe souls to the trees which yield the poison they use to envenom their arrows.
ref: 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 17:
synonyms: envenomate
venomize
glosses: To inject or put venom onto or into (someone or something).
examples: text: Oh what a world is this, when what is comely
Enuenoms him that beares it?
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 190, column 2:
glosses: To acerbate, make bitter.
Derived terms: envenomed
envenomer
Related terms: envenomation
venomous
enviousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enviousnesses
Etymology: From envious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being envious.
executive producer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive producers
Senses: glosses: A job title of varying meaning, common in entertainment, computing and many other industries; often a person in charge of other producers.
Synonyms: exec producer
Related terms: executive produce
hagioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hagioscope
handshakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handshake
hardnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hardness
hassocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hassock
hazers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hazer
nonchalantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nonchalantly
form: most nonchalantly
Etymology: From nonchalant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Smoke a gold leaf, I hold heat nonchalantly
ref: 1995, “Verbal Intercourse”, in Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…, performed by Raekwon ft. Nas:
text: I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
glosses: In a nonchalant manner.
hearing aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hearing aid
honey plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honey-plants
Senses: glosses: plural of honey plant.
pensill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pensills
Senses: examples: text: Fifthly, being thus on land with your compasse, set all lands or islands in sight, draw the form with your paper and pensill, and estimate their distance.
ref: 1631, Luke Fox, Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, published 2001, →ISBN, instructions to Iohn Coatesworth, page 168:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pencil.
examples: text: […] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]
ref: 1483, Richard III, “Richard III. to Piers Courteis, Keeper of his Wardrobe”, in Letters of the Kings of England, published 1846, page 153:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pencel.
pensill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: However the account of the Pensill or hanging gardens of Babylon [...] is of no slender antiquity [...].
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 165:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pensile.
heterogametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterogamete
heterografts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterograft
heteromorphisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteromorphism
heterosexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterosexual
heteroplasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteroplasm
brocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brock
brocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brock
heterotrophs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterotroph
heterozygotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterozygote
hexagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexagram
heliostats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliostat
heliographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliograph
heliographs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of heliograph
heliometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliometer
heliograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heliogram
helioscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helioscope
humidifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humidifier
headwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headwind
headwinds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of headwind
transfect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈfɛkt/
Forms: form: transfects
form: transfecting
form: transfected
form: transfected
Senses: examples: text: physical means have been developed to transfect DNA into cells
ref: 2000, Harvey I. Pass, Lung cancer: principles and practice, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, page 43:
glosses: To introduce foreign material into eukaryotic cells.
Related terms: transfectable
transfectant
transfection
transfectoma
headnotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headnote
endnote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛndˌnoʊt/
Forms: form: endnotes
Etymology: From end + note.
Senses: glosses: An annotation placed at the end of a document or chapter of a document.
Derived terms: endnoted
Related terms: footnote
headnote
reference mark
endnotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endnote
hellraisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hellraiser
raiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪzə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪzə(ɹ)
homophone: raser
homophone: razor
Forms: form: raisers
Etymology: From raise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: She is a raiser of gerbils.
text: Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Closed”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the second (Riches), page 599:
glosses: A person or thing that raises.
glosses: A kind of armchair with a standing-up system.
topics: architecture
glosses: The upright board on the front of a step in a flight of steps.
Derived terms: curtain-raiser
eyebrow-raiser
fire-raiser
hair raiser
hair-raiser
hell-raiser
raisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raiser
homozygotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homozygote
hot cross buns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot cross bun
Adal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island off the coast of Sabah, Malaysia
Attashin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derives from Persian آتشین (âtašin, literally “fiery”), derived from آتش (âtaš, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian female given name آتشین (âtašin).
glosses: A surname from Persian from Persia.
brown power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The production of electricity made from conventional sources, such as coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear power.
glosses: An ideology of solidarity among brown-skinned people.
Dolan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊlən/
ipa: /ˈdəʊlən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Forms: form: Doland
Etymology: From Irish Ó Duibhlin. Doublet of Devlin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish that originated in Ireland.
Dolan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊlən/
ipa: /ˈdəʊlən/
rhymes: -əʊlən
Forms: form: Dolans
form: Doland
Senses: glosses: A member of a people from what is now Xinjiang Province in China.
Gaitskell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gaitskells
Senses: glosses: A surname, a variant of Gaskell.
Derived terms: Gaitskellian
juddering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of judder
motia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Urdu
Senses: examples: text: In the car, on the way to Sonia’s we stopped at a traffic light where a man selling motia bracelets rapped on Zia’s window and said, ‘For pretty ladies.’
ref: 2002, Kamila Shamsie, Kartography, Bloomsbury (2003), page 207:
glosses: Jasmine (the flower).
osteoconduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + conduction.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Physical, three-dimensional scaffold or matrix to facilitate bone repair.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The passive process by which bone grows on a surface.
Related terms: osteoconductive
osteoconductor
osteoinduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From osteo- + induction.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A biologic response in which chemical signals induce osteogenesis
Related terms: osteoinductive
osteoinductor
out-of-battery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: out of battery
Senses: examples: text: An out-of-battery discharge can produce a catastrophic failure of the weapon.
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: In firearms and artillery, having a condition in which a live round is at least partially in the firing chamber and capable of being fired, but is not properly secured by the usual mechanism of that particular weapon.
examples: text: My flashlight is out-of-battery.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In battery-powered electronics, devoid of any power.
power politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German Machtpolitik.
Senses: glosses: A form of international relations in which sovereign entities protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression.
Related terms: realpolitik
Tagesa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tiv tagesa (“to compete”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Nigeria. A name given to people who are perceived to have a strong sense of competition as means of personal achievement for community development.
vis major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vīs maior.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A greater force; an act of God; an unavoidable accident.
Related terms: force majeure
light elf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪt ɛlf/
Forms: form: light elves
Etymology: Back-formation from light elves, a calque of Old Norse ljósalfar.
Senses: examples: text: Alfheim, where the light elves live. The light elves are as beautiful as the sun or the stars.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of the race of Ljósalfar, daylight dwelling elves or nature spirits (as opposed to the underground dwelling dark elves or dwarves).
topics: fantasy
glosses: One of a race of elves who live above ground and are radiant.
Related terms: dark elf
dark elf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːk ɛlf/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹk ɛlf/
Forms: form: dark elves
Etymology: Back-formation from dark elves, a calque of Old Norse dǫkkalfar.
Senses: examples: text: Nidavellir, which is sometimes called Svartalfheim, where the dwarfs (who are also known as dark elves) live beneath the mountains and build their remarkable creations.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 20:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A member of the race of Dǫkkálfar or Dark Alfs, creatures who live underground.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A member of a race of elves that is evil, has a dark (often greyish or bluish) skin and/or lives in dark places.
Related terms: drow
light elf
an arm and a leg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arms and legs
Senses: examples: text: I would have liked to have gone to the concert, but the tickets cost an arm and a leg.
text: That Polack costs me an arm and a leg, he thought.
ref: 1954, Commentary, volume 18, American Jewish Committee, page 448:
text: Bangle bracelets in fourteen-karat gold that do not cost an arm and a leg are always in demand.
ref: 1960 March 29, “Slim waists prompted new sportswear line”, in The New York Times, page 44:
text: Her house was fabulous, her tits perfection – besides – the Beverly Hills Hotel was costing him an arm and a leg.
ref: 2008, Jackie Collins, Hollywood Wives, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 417:
synonyms: word: pretty penny
alt: cost a pretty penny
glosses: Usually used after the verb cost, but also often charge, pay, and spend: a very high price for an item or service; an exorbitant price
dejects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deject
dejecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deject
intervened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intervene
traversing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of traverse
traversing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traversings
Senses: examples: text: Some traversings last a few seconds or minutes, for instance, when the imagination passes swiftly across familiar eras and realms in its effort to generate the momentum necessary to perceive timeless realities.
ref: 2013, John Likides, Foundations of Meaning, page 300:
glosses: A traversal.
callipers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of calipers.
Derived terms: calliper compasses
calliper rule
calliper splint
brede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bredes
Etymology: A variant of braid.
Senses: examples: text: […] while now the bright-hair'd Sun / Sits in yon western Tent, whose cloudy Skirts, / With Brede ethereal wove
ref: 1746, William Collins, “Ode to Evening”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede; […]
ref: 1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12:
text: So those two foes above my fallen life, / With brow to brow like night and evening mixt / Their dark and gray, while Psyche ever stole / A little nearer, till the babe that by us, / Half-lapt in glowing gauze and golden brede, / Lay like a new-fall’n meteor on the grass, […]
ref: 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part VI”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 127:
glosses: Ornamental embroidery.
glosses: A braid.
Derived terms: brede-stitch
semiotician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semioticians
Etymology: From semiotic + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The big difference between the average biblical scholar and a semiotician is, that the latter is not a consumer of texts, but tries to become, together with the text, a co-producer of meaning.
ref: 1990, Jan Holman, “A Semiotic Analysis of Psalm CXXXVIII (LXX)”, in In Quest of the Past: Studies on Israelite Religion, Literature and Prophetism, page 87:
glosses: One who studies semiotics or semantics
semioticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semiotician
sortation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sortations
Etymology: From sort + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The use of any process of sorting.
glosses: A process or instance of sorting.
Derived terms: sortation system
sortation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of sort + automation
Senses: glosses: The automated sorting of things, especially the use of barcodes to sort and route items.
exceptionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exceptionable
form: most exceptionable
Etymology: From exception + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The subject however is rendered still more exceptionable by the aukward and ridiculous manner in which it is here treated.
ref: 1760, Tobias Smollett, Annals of Literature: Volume 36:
glosses: Liable to cause disapproval, objection or debate.
Derived terms: exceptionableness
exceptionably
unexceptionable
ANCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ANCAs
Senses: glosses: Acronym of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody.
Derived terms: p-ANCA
c-ANCA
today we are all
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Probably originates from "today we are all Republicans", said by a physician attending U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan prior to a surgery.
Senses: examples: text: "I know I speak for every American when I say to him today, we are all Georgians".
ref: August 12, 2008:, Robert Barnes, "McCain to Georgian President: "Today, We Are All Georgians"", Washington Post
text: Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman punctuated the day with a speech to Christians United for Israel last night, declaring that "today, we are all Israelis."
ref: July 19, 2006:, Jim VandeHei, "Congress Is Giving Israel Vote of Confidence; Both Parties Back Ally, Court Jewish Support", Washington Post, page A05
text: No progress in human affairs will ever be built on the blood of innocent people. Today, we are all Spanish.
ref: March 11, 2004: Denis MacShane, Guardian Unlimited
text: Madness, even under the pretext of despair, is never a force that can regenerate the world. That is why today we are all Americans.
ref: September 12, 2001: Jean-Marie Colombani, "Today, We Are All Americans", Le Monde
glosses: An expression indicating that the speaker empathizes with members of an identifiable group that was the subject of a disaster, and projects that others empathize as well.
Related terms: I am Spartacus
postrenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + renal.
Senses: glosses: Situated behind the kidneys.
glosses: Occurring in the urinary tract downstream of the renal pelvis (i.e., ureters through urethra).
Related terms: adrenal
extrarenal
infrarenal
intrarenal
perirenal
prerenal
suprarenal
prerenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin praerēnālis and equal to pre- + renal.
Senses: glosses: Situated above the kidneys, or at the junction of the vena cava and the renal vein.
glosses: Occurring in the blood supply to the kidneys.
Related terms: adrenal
extrarenal
infrarenal
intrarenal
perirenal
postrenal
suprarenal
intrarenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + renal.
Senses: antonyms: extrarenal
;
perirenal
adrenal
;
suprarenal
infrarenal
glosses: Within the kidneys.
Related terms: postrenal
prerenal
autochthonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From autochthon + -al.
Senses: glosses: existing where it was formed or born; native, aboriginal, indigenous
Synonyms: autochthonous
autochthonic
Related terms: sense: see
word: autochthonous
phizog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phizogs
form: fizzog
form: fizzogg
form: phisog
form: phizzog
form: physog
form: phyzog
Etymology: From physiognomy.
Senses: glosses: The face.
Synonyms: phiz
BZP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of benzylpiperazine.
benzylpiperazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzylpiperazines
Senses: glosses: A recreational drug (C₁₁H₁₆N₂) having euphoric effects, marketed legally in some countries.
Related terms: party pill
granulated sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granulated sugars
Senses: glosses: Ordinary white sugar, for domestic use, having a relatively large crystal size.
Related terms: caster sugar
icing sugar
caster sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caster sugars
form: castor sugar
Senses: glosses: Granulated sugar that has been sifted to have a finer crystal size, so that it can be shaken out of the holes of a caster.
Synonyms: berry sugar
superfine sugar
Related terms: icing sugar
piperazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪˈpɛrəziːn/
ipa: /pɪˈpɛrəziːn/
Forms: form: piperazines
Etymology: After German Piperazin, from piper(idine) + azine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A saturated heterocyclic compound, C₄H₁₀N₂, containing two nitrogen atoms in a six-membered ring; it is used as an anthelmintic.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any derivative of this compound
Synonyms: diazacyclohexane
diazinane
diethylenediamine
hexahydropyrazine
piperazidine
Derived terms: aminoethylpiperazine
benderizine
dioxopiperazine
diphenylmethylpiperazine
epipolythiodioxopiperazine
fleroxacin
homopiperazine
hydroxyzine
lomerizine
loprazolam
meclozine
methylenedioxybenzylpiperazine
naphthylpiperazine
oxopiperazine
pefloxacin
perospirone
phenylpiperazine
phenyracillin
pipacycline
pipecuronium
piperacillin
piperazinedione
piperazinone
piperazinyl
piperonylpiperazine
pirenzepine
prazosin
prochlorperazine
pyridinylpiperazine
pyrimidinylpiperazine
ranolazine
saperconazole
trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine
ziprasidone
exchangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exchange + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be exchanged.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Having an associated right to be exchanged for another form of financial security.
Derived terms: coexchangeable
exchangeably
nonexchangeable
unexchangeable
exchangeable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exchangeables
Etymology: From exchange + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Any financial instrument with an associated right to be exchanged for another form of financial security.
excitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excitabilities
Etymology: From excite + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being excitable
glosses: A measure of how easy something is to excite
Derived terms: hyperexcitability
hypoexcitability
inexcitability
neuroexcitability
overexcitability
photoexcitability
subexcitability
superexcitability
unexcitability
exclusiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclusivenesses
Etymology: From exclusive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,[…].
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being exclusive; exclusivity.
excremental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more excremental
form: most excremental
Etymology: From excrement + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to excrement
excursionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excursionists
Etymology: From excursion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I was provided with a receipt and duly and officially accepted as an excursionist.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain, chapter I, in The Innocents Abroad:
text: Coming home, a party of excursionists from Chertsey or Isleworth passed us singing and playing music.
ref: 1898, H. G. Wells, chapter 1, in The War of the Worlds:
text: The main line of the L.N.W.R. passed to the west of the Potteries, and it is recorded that in August, 1846, two trains were run from Whitmore (the nearest station to Stoke) to Liverpool for the benefit of excursionists.
ref: 1946 November and December, “Notes and News: A North Staffordshire Railway Centenary”, in Railway Magazine, page 389:
text: A 40-carriage train in 1840 taking 1,250 excursionists from Leeds to Hull was typical, while Brighton commonly received trains of 60 carriages and over 1,700 passengers.
ref: 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 36:
glosses: A person who goes on an excursion; a traveller or tourist
excursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more excursive
form: most excursive
Senses: examples: text: Or evening, in her starry mantle bright,
Precedes the slow majestic train of night;
In that still hour the mind excursive roves,
A heavenly voice the listening spirit moves.
ref: 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, Contemplation, page 3:
text: Now all his ponderings, however excursive, wheeled round Isabel as their center; and back to her they came again from every excursion; and again derived some new, small germs for wonderment.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
text: By such means he flattered himself that in time he should subvert her fine understanding, and, by the contamination of her hitherto unsullied mind, reduce her to a level with himself,—and this he meditated to effect by slow and gradual operations, through the medium of her imagination, which he had discovered to be warm and excursive;[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter V, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: Tending to digress.
examples: text: Then into the quiet room came Susan Nipper and the candles; shortly afterwards, the tea, the Captain, and the excursive Mr Toots, who, as above mentioned, was frequently on the move afterwards, and passed but a restless evening.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to go out.
Derived terms: excursively
excursiveness
unexcursive
Related terms: excursion
excursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more excursively
form: most excursively
Etymology: From excursive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an excursive manner.
excursiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From excursive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being discursive
exegetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐξηγητικός (exēgētikós).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to exegesis; exegetical; explanatory; interpretive.
Derived terms: exegetically
Related terms: exegesis
exegete
exegetics
exegetist
exerciser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exercisers
Etymology: From exercise + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who exercises.
glosses: Any of many devices for use in exercising the body.
Derived terms: nonexerciser
exhaustible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more exhaustible
form: most exhaustible
Etymology: From exhaust + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being exhausted.
Derived terms: unexhaustible
exhaustiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡˈzɔː.stɪv.nəs/
ipa: /ɛɡˈzɑ.stɪv.nəs/
Etymology: exhaustive + -ness
Senses: hypernyms: comprehensiveness
coordinate_terms: exhaustion
glosses: The state of being exhaustive.
redundancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redundancy
paraphernal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Medieval Latin paraphernālis, from Late Latin parapherna + Latin -ālis (suffix forming adjectives). By surface analysis, paraphern(a) + -al.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Of or pertaining to a woman's parapherna
synonyms: paraphernalian
glosses: miscellaneous
Derived terms: paraphernality
debaucheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of debauchery
paraffinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Etymology: From paraffin + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to paraffin, or to the alkanes
glosses: aliphatic
Derived terms: nonparaffinic
paraffinic acid
diamondoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamondoid
bacon rind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bacon rinds
Senses: glosses: The tough outer skin of pork or bacon; pork rind.
Related terms: crackling
pork scratchings
expansible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expansible
form: most expansible
Senses: glosses: expandable
Derived terms: expansibility
expansibly
inexpansible
expansionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expansionary
form: most expansionary
Etymology: From expansion + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: A ruthless, if strategic, expansionary policy was only part of Kautilya's vision for the state.
ref: 2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 28:
glosses: That promotes or exhibits expansion; expansionist.
Derived terms: nonexpansionary
expansiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expansivenesses
Etymology: From expansive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being expansive.
Derived terms: nonexpansiveness
expeditionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From expedition + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an expedition.
examples: an expeditionary force
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Intended for military operations abroad.
expeditionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expeditionaries
Etymology: From expedition + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: [...] turned out in its best attire to receive the Brazilian expeditionaries and the group of soldiers representing the gallant U.S. 10th Mountain Division.
ref: 1966, João Baptista Mascarenhas de Moraes, The Brazilian Expeditionary Force by Its Commander:
text: He who had been left for dead, rose again in three days to become the leader of the expeditionaries and, in a very real way (albeit not exclusively), [...]. Antonio “ Tintin” Vizintin was brave and strong, qualities that made him a good expeditionary.
ref: 2013, Matt J. Rossano, Mortal Rituals: What the Story of the Andes Survivors Tells Us About Human Evolution, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: One who goes on expeditions, especially one who is a member of an expeditionary military force.
expeditiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From expeditious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Even the numerous drunkards and beggars seemed to be in a hurry, stumbling from one side of the street to the other with pointless resolution or, with businesslike expeditiousness, soliciting money and food from strangers.
ref: 2017, Hernan Diaz, In the Distance, Daunt Books (2018), page 304:
glosses: The state of being expeditious; celerity, rapidity or speed.
expensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspɛnsɪvnəs/
ipa: [ɪk-]
ipa: [-ˈspɪnsɪvˌnəs]
ipa: [-ɪvˌnəs]
Forms: form: expensivenesses
Etymology: From expensive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1743, John Wesley, An Earnest Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, London: G. Whitfield, 1796, A Farther Appeal to Men of Reason and Religion, Part II, III.1, p. 212, https://books.google.ca/books?id=A6FgAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Surely you cannot be ignorant, that the sinfulness of fine apparel lies chiefly in the expensiveness. In that it is robbing God and the Poor; it is defrauding the fatherless and the widow; it is wasting the food of the hungry, and with-holding his raiment from the naked, to consume it on our own lusts.
text: 1922, Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, Chapter 14: Formal Dinners, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14314/14314-h/14314-h.htm
Enchanting dining-rooms and tables have been achieved with an outlay amounting to comparatively nothing. ¶ There is a dining-room in a certain small New York house that is quite as inviting as it is lacking in expensiveness.
text: Apart from the expensiveness of everything, there were recurrent shortages of this and that, which, of course, always hit the poor rather than the rich.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
glosses: The state of being expensive; the entailing of great expense.
expertly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛk.spɝt.li/
Forms: form: more expertly
form: most expertly
Etymology: From expert + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: skillfully
glosses: In an expert manner; with great skill.
expertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expertnesses
Etymology: From expert + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being expert.
examples: text: I had […] armed myself with a revolver, in the use of which I finally reached a certain degree of expertness from frequent practice.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 22:
text: Not only must she receive unheard-of personal favors and spiritual graces from her Saviour, but she must immediately write about them and exploiter them professionally, and use her expertness to give instruction to those less privileged.
ref: 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 347:
glosses: Proficiency or skill.
tomographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tomography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was examined using a positron emission tomographic system.
text: In the tomographic images of the 30-day-old cheeses, the gantry had to be removed with image processing techniques: first, the binarised image (grey level larger than 10⁴) was eroded with a disk of three pixels.
ref: 2015 August 24, Dominik Guggisberg et al., “Mechanism and control of the eye formation in cheese”, in International Dairy Journal, volume 47, Elsevier, →DOI, pages 118–127:
glosses: Of or pertaining to imaging by the method of rotating a radiation source and the accompanying sensor so that areas outside the required plane of investigation are not in focus.
Related terms: subtomographic
tomogram
tomography
computed tomography
expiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expiatory
form: most expiatory
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin expiātōrius.
Senses: examples: 18 January 1549, Hugh Latimer, Sermon of the Plough
They would have us saved by a daily oblation propitiatory; by a sacrifice expiatory, or remissory.
glosses: Of or pertaining to expiation.
explainable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more explainable
form: most explainable
Etymology: From explain + -able from Latin explanō (“I flatten, spread out, make plain or clear, explain”).
Senses: glosses: Able to be explained or understood
Synonyms: explicable
accountable
explicatable
Derived terms: inexplainable
nonexplainable
explicitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explicitnesses
Etymology: From explicit + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
ref: 1973, Thomas Cable, “A Garland of Pomposities: Comment on Halle-Keyser Prosody”, in College English, volume 34, number 4, page 593:
text: It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.
ref: 1986, Ira B. Nadel, Biography: Fiction, Fact and Form, →ISBN, page 85:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being explicit.
Related terms: explicitation
exploitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exploitable
form: most exploitable
Etymology: From Old French exploitable or exploit + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be exploited, especially commercially.
glosses: Easily fooled; credulous.
Derived terms: exploitability
exploitable-avoidant
exploitable avoidant
exploitably
unexploitable
exploitable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploitables
Etymology: From Old French exploitable or exploit + -able.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that can be exploited.
exploitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
ipa: /ɪksplɔɪˈteɪtɪv/
ipa: /ɛkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
ipa: /ɪkˈsplɔɪtətɪv/
Forms: form: more exploitative
form: most exploitative
Etymology: From exploit + -ative. Compare exploitive.
Senses: examples: text: We are protesting the company's exploitative policies.
glosses: In the nature of exploitation; acting to exploit someone or something
examples: text: Carey McWilliams offers an exploitative theory to explain anti-Semitism.¹⁸ Social exclusion of Jews, he points out, commenced in the 1870’s just when huge fortunes were being made in industry and in railroading.
ref: 1954, Gordon Willard Allport, The Nature of Prejudice, Basic Books, published 1979, →ISBN, page 233:
glosses: Of or relating to exploitation.
examples: text: The ways in which tadpoles inhibit each other’s growth have been of particular interest since Richards (1958) and Rose (1960) first indicated that interference as well as exploitative mechanisms may be involved.
ref: 1996, Trevor John Clark Beebee, Ecology and Conservation of Amphibians, Chapman & Hall, published 1997, →ISBN, page 111:
text: This competition may be intra- or interspecific and may take the form of exploitative or interference competition. In exploitative competition, the consumption of a prey item by one individual removes it from possible consumption by another.
ref: 2004, Michael R. Heithaus, “Predator–Prey Interactions”, chapter 17 of Jeffrey C. Carrier et al. (editors), Biology of Sharks and their Relatives, CRC Press, page 501
text: In this model, because competition among consumers is merely exploitative, the consumer species do not directly influence each other's fitness. […] only through their effect on resource abundance, y.
ref: 2005, Thomas L. Vincent, Joel Steven Brown, Evolutionary Game Theory, Natural Selection, and Darwinian Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Wherein one organism reduces a resource to the point of affecting other organisms.
raw_tags: of competition
Synonyms: exploitive
Derived terms: counterexploitative
exploitatively
exploitativeness
nonexploitative
overexploitative
explosiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explosivenesses
Etymology: From explosive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being explosive.
exportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exportable
form: most exportable
Etymology: From export + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He adds: "This is absolutely a model that is exportable and sharable, and people want to learn about what we're doing.
ref: 2021 June 2, Paul Stephen, “Advances made in the digital revolution”, in RAIL, number 932, page 59:
glosses: Able to be exported.
Derived terms: inexportable
nonexportable
unexportable
exportable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exportables
Etymology: From export + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Then the nominal rates of assistance from these measures are calculated for 20 agricultural products, 14 of which are classified as exportables and 6 as importables.
ref: 2015 July, Peter Lloyd, Donald MacLaren, “Assistance to Australian Agriculture from Federation to World War II”, in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics:
glosses: Something that can be exported.
expressiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressivenesses
Etymology: From expressive + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: expressivity
antonyms: unexpressiveness
glosses: The quality or degree of being expressive.
tenuity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈnjuːɪti/
Forms: form: tenuities
Etymology: From tenu(ous) + -ity, from Latin tenuitas.
Senses: glosses: Thinness, slenderness.
glosses: Meagreness, paucity.
Derived terms: tenuities
Related terms: attenuate
extenuate
tenuous
Totty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Totties
Senses: examples: text: Only the elite of the party are here assembled; for it would be little short of sacrelige for a Totty or a Caffre to presume to enter these sacred precincts, or to join in the conversation of the master
ref: 1859, William and Robert Chambers, CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL OF POPULAR LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ARTS, London: W. & R. Chambers:
text: Between the Totty and the Kaffir a deadly hatred exists, the former seeming to have a natural love for hunting the latter.
ref: 1879, Alfred Wilks Drayson, Among the Zulus: The Adventures of Hans Sterk, South African Hunter and Pioneer, Griffith and Farran, page 338:
glosses: Hottentot
Totty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Tottie (“female name, short for Charlotte”).
singalong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋəˌlɒŋ/
Forms: form: singalongs
Etymology: From sing + along.
Senses: examples: text: Thom Yorke’s onstage pronouncements became less abstract and more effusive, they played the songs the less committed audience members doubtless wanted to hear in the first place: Paranoid Android, Creep, Fake Plastic Trees and Karma Police. At the end of the latter, Yorke happily led an audience singalong.
ref: 2017 June 26, Alexis Petridis, “Glastonbury 2017 verdict: Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Lorde, Stormzy and more”, in the Guardian:
glosses: A gathering of people who sing together
singalong
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪŋəˌlɒŋ/
Etymology: From sing + along.
Senses: examples: text: ABBA had a talent for writing great singalong pop songs.
glosses: designed to allow or encourage the audience to sing along
raw_tags: of music
singalongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of singalong
punctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punctate
form: most punctate
Etymology: From Latin punctum (“point”). See point and punctuate.
Senses: examples: Keys to the Nearctic species of Pseudomyrmex
Head and pronotum densely punctate and predominantly opaque, punctures on upper half of head mostly contiguous and without extensive shiny interspaces […]
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: punctated
glosses: Marked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.
glosses: Pointed; ending in a point or points.
Derived terms: endopunctate
micropunctate
Related terms: punctation
punctate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctates
Etymology: From Latin punctum (“point”). See point and punctuate.
Senses: glosses: A puncture.
impunctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impunctate
form: most impunctate
Etymology: From im- + punctate.
Senses: examples: Beak with segment I subequal to or shorter than II; head smooth, impunctate, shining (big-eyed bugs--University of Florida Featured Creatures)
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Not punctate; not marked by spots, dots, points, or punctures.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking pores.
canzoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canzone
amici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæm.ɪ.ki/
/əˈmi.ki/
Senses: glosses: plural of amicus
extractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈstɹæktɚ/
ipa: /ɪkˈstɹæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: extractors
Senses: glosses: Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
A machine for clearing combs of honey.
glosses: Any of various mechanical devices that extract a component from others.
A device for rendering wax.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An apparatus that uses a solvent to remove soluble substances from a mixture.
glosses: A centrifugal drying machine.
glosses: A part of the bolt that removes a cartridge from the chamber.
raw_tags: in a gun
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular kind of bipartite graph.
glosses: A function which, being applied to output from a weakly random entropy source, together with a short, uniformly random seed, generates a highly random output that appears independent from the source and uniformly distributed.
Derived terms: cryoextractor
extractor hood
honey extractor
hydroextractor
phytoextractor
Soxhlet extractor
extinguishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extinguish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be extinguished.
Derived terms: unextinguishable
extricable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: antonyms: inextricable
glosses: Able to be extricated.
Derived terms: unextricable
extravehicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: extra-vehicular
Etymology: From extra- + vehicular.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, on happening in, the space outside a vehicle, especially a spacecraft in space
Derived terms: EVA
EVA suit
extravehicular activity
extravehicular activity suit
Related terms: intravehicular
extraditable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extradite + -able.
Senses: glosses: Of a person: able to be extradited.
examples: an extraditable offence
glosses: Of an action or an offense: for which one can be extradited.
Derived terms: nonextraditable
extralegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: extra-legal
Etymology: From extra- + legal.
Senses: examples: text: Extra-legal raids in Moscow and Leningrad in which 130 males were arrested in late summer 1933 were the harbinger of the recriminalization of male homosexuality later that year.
ref: 2030 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World:
glosses: Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless.
Derived terms: extralegally
extensiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extensivenesses
Etymology: From extensive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The degree or property of being extensive.
Related terms: extensibility
extension