cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
blag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæɡ/
rhymes: -æɡ
Forms: form: blags
Etymology: Coined by the American author, cartoonist, and engineer Randall Munroe (born 1984) in his webcomic xkcd in 2006: see the quotation.
Senses: examples: text: Why don't you write about it in your blag?
ref: 2006 August 25, Randall Munroe, “Mispronouncing”, in xkcd, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023:
text: RONFLMAF! You do have a way with words. I think I need to update my blag, this is just too good.
ref: 2010 November 16, “Slogoin” [pseudonym], “Tashi, Take a Look at This on Larry Deack’s Web Site”, in rec.music.classical.guitar (Usenet), retrieved 17 Mar 2023:
text: So, no less than ten people have asked me why the hell I did what I did, so here's a blag post to explain it, I guess.
ref: 2011 June 2, “flatfish+++” [pseudonym], “Article: ‘Why I’m a Bad Freetard – Or the Quest for a New Phone’”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):
glosses: Deliberate misspelling of blog.
Derived terms: interblag
baldness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baldnesses
Etymology: From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.
text: We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
ref: 2013, Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara, Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, page 144:
glosses: The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
Synonyms: sense: baldness in humans
english: medical term
translation: medical term
word: alopecia
word: hairlessness
word: calvities
word: calvity
Derived terms: word: antibaldness
alt: FPB
word: female pattern baldness
alt: MPB
word: male pattern baldness
word: pattern baldness
Related terms: alt: FPHL
word: female-pattern hair loss
alt: MPHL
word: male-pattern hair loss
word: hair loss
ribbit
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪbɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɪbət/
rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: Widow Toad: Looks kinds puny to me. Looks like a breeze could carry her off. Ribbit, ribbit. Maybe she could cook and clean my house.
ref: 1943, Vera Morris, transl., Thumbelina, Denver, Colorado: Pioneer Drama Service, page 9:
text: Frogs croaking ribbit, ribbit
Trees rustling sssshh, ssshh
Water rushing over rapids splash, clash.
ref: 1992 April 19, The Canberra Times, Australian Captial Territory, page 2, column 1:
glosses: The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
examples: text: The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit!"
glosses: Used to anonymously and disrespectfully break silence, as in educational or ceremonial settings.
ribbit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪbɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɪbət/
rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: ribbits
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
ribbit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪbɪt/
ipa: /ˈɹɪbət/
rhymes: -ɪbɪt
Forms: form: ribbits
form: ribbiting
form: ribbitting
form: ribbited
form: ribbited
form: ribbitted
form: ribbitted
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: To make the sound of a frog or toad.
oink
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪŋk/
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Senses: glosses: Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.
examples: text: Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
ref: 1982, Sandy Asher, Just like Jenny:
text: "The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"
ref: 2003, Robert N. Mansfield, Randy Maas, The Assassin: Attack on America:
text: You are such a male chauvinist oink, oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.
ref: 2005, Alinka Zyrmont, Forbidden Passion:
glosses: Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
oink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪŋk/
Forms: form: oinks
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Senses: examples: text: The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.
glosses: The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
Synonyms: grunt
oink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪŋk/
Forms: form: oinks
form: oinking
form: oinked
form: oinked
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Senses: examples: text: The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.
glosses: Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
Synonyms: grunt
Derived terms: oinker
Related terms: grunt
squeal
oesophagus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈsɒfəɡəs/
ipa: /ɪˈsɒfəɡəs/
enpr: ĭ-säfʹə-gəs
ipa: /ɪˈsɑfəɡəs/
Forms: form: oesophagi
form: oesophaguses
form: esophagus
form: œsophagus
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰσοφάγος (oisophágos), from οἴσω (oísō), future form of φέρω (phérō, “I carry”) + ἔφαγον (éphagon, “I ate”).
Senses: examples: text: Graham, who lived in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, donated his oesophagus to the MRC cancer unit at Cambridge University, for research.
ref: 2013 November 26, John Plunkett, “Rev John Graham, aka crossword setter Araucaria, dies aged 92”, in The Guardian:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: gullet
weasand
glosses: The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
Derived terms: Barrett's oesophagus
megaoesophagus
oesophageal
oesophagean
oesophagectomy
oesophagic
oesophagismus
oesophagitis
lingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
ipa: /ˈlɪŋ.ɡju.əl/
rhymes: -ɪŋɡwəl
rhymes: -ɪŋɡjuəl
Forms: form: linguals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from lingua (“the tongue; a language, speech”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to lingua + -al. Doublet of lingualis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A sound articulated with the tongue.
Coordinate terms: alveolar
dental
glottal
labial
nasal
palatal
pharyngeal
velar
latest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tɪst/
rhymes: -eɪtɪst
Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late.
Senses: glosses: superlative form of late: most late
examples: text: Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Last, final.
examples: text: Here is the latest news on the accident.
text: My latest album, which is being published next week, is even better than my last one.
text: It's the latest fashion, ma'am.
text: Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.
ref: 1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 261:
glosses: Most recent.
Derived terms: latest and greatest
latestly
latest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tɪst/
rhymes: -eɪtɪst
Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: superlative form of late: most late
examples: text: Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
head_nr: 1
glosses: At the latest.
latest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪ.tɪst/
rhymes: -eɪtɪst
Forms: form: latests
Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late.
Senses: examples: text: Have you heard the latest?
text: What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
text: Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.
text: And like other futile edifices of man these are inhabited for a brief space giving glory to the proprietor of the most unusual or striking and then left to melt back to dust and be forgotten, or worse yet, to become curiosities for generations with other "latests".
ref: 1926, George Gaylord Simpson, edited by Léo F. Laporte, Simple curiosity; letters from George Gaylord Simpson ..., published 1987, page 29:
text: It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests.
ref: 1979, Edward Digby Baltzell, Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, page 54:
glosses: The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
heck
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: hecc
Etymology: Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Senses: examples: text: Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
glosses: Hell.
heck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: hecc
Etymology: Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Senses: examples: text: You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
text: "And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.
ref: 2024 March 20, Richard Foster, “Vital experience in an open-air classroom”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 57:
glosses: Hell.
Synonyms: under hell
Derived terms: as heck
bleeding heck
bloody heck
blooming heck
for the heck of it
go to heck
hecka
heck board
heck-care
heckfire
heckhound
heck if I know
heckin'
heckin
hecking
heck knows
heck no
heck of a
heckuva
heck yeah
heck yes
how the heck
like heck
oh my heck
scare the heck out of
snowball's chance in heck
the heck
to heck in a handbasket
what the heck
when heck freezes over
when the heck
where the heck
who the heck
why the heck
heck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: hecks
form: hecking
form: hecked
form: hecked
form: hecc
Etymology: Blend of to heck (“destroyed, messed up”) + fuck, possibly supported by feck.
Senses: synonyms: fuck
bork
glosses: to break, to destroy
glosses: to mess up
Derived terms: heck up
heck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛk/
rhymes: -ɛk
Forms: form: hecks
form: hack
form: hecc
Etymology: See hatch (“a half door”).
Senses: glosses: The bolt or latch of a door.
glosses: A rack for cattle to feed at.
glosses: A door, especially one partly of latticework.
glosses: A latticework contrivance for catching fish.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
synonyms: heck-box
glosses: An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, as they are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.
glosses: A bend or winding of a stream.
Derived terms: at heck and manger
alcavala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: alcavalas
Etymology: From Spanish alcabala.
Senses: glosses: In Spain, a tax levied on transactions involving property movable or immovable.
cicala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈkɑːlə/
Forms: form: cicalas
form: cicale
Etymology: From Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada.
Senses: examples: text: The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.106:
text: She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 227-228:
glosses: A cicada.
ilala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ilalas
Senses: glosses: Hyphaene coriacea, a type of palm tree native to South Africa.
lauhala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: lauhalas
Etymology: From Hawaiian lauhala, from lau (“leaf”) + hala (“pandanus”).
Senses: examples: text: Now and then a gaudy peacock would run from his shelter in the lauhala trees, but no wild boars came out, so we returned from our raid bloodless and spoilless.
ref: 1892, Rev. Herbert Henry Gowen, The Paradise of the Pacific, page 129:
glosses: Pandanus tectorius, a tree common in Hawaii, also known as the screwpine.
mancala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: mancalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).
Senses: examples: text: Mameh could sit on the floor to play board games like mancala with her friends, or roll out a mat and lounge about.
ref: 2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 109:
qualifier: board games
glosses: Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.
Hyponyms: congkak
hoyito
omweso
sungka
wari
tambala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: tambalas
form: matambala
Etymology: From Chichewa tambala (“rooster”), after the rooster that appeared on the original coins in this denomination.
Senses: glosses: Malawi's minor currency unit, a hundredth of a kwacha.
kwacha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kwacha
form: kwachas
Etymology: Borrowed from Chichewa kwacha (“it has dawned”).
Senses: glosses: Malawi's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 tambala.
examples: text: ‘We left more kwacha than heʼs ever seen in his whole life.’
ref: 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 294:
glosses: Zambia's major currency unit, equivalent to 100 ngwee.
masala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈsɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: masalas
form: masale
form: mussalla
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani مصالحہ (maṣālḥa, maṣāliḥa) / मसाला (masālā, “spice(s)”), from Classical Persian مصالح (masālih, “affairs, materials, spices”), plural of مصلحت (maslahat, “affair, policy, best thing to do”), both from Arabic, derived from صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa, “be fit, competent, usable”).
Senses: examples: text: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. […] Basically, it’s a juicy naan bread with an egg coating, stuffed with mutton or chicken, rolled up and sprinkled with a unique masala that gives it its special flavor.
ref: 2017 July 12, Sanjiv Khamgaonkar, “40 Mumbai foods we can’t live without”, in CNN:
text: When she cooked, she reached out for bottles and masalas without glancing up.
ref: 2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 3:
glosses: Any of many blends of spices used in Indian cuisine, most often containing cardamom, coriander, mace together with pepper, nutmeg, fennel seeds, jeera etc.
examples: text: We ordered two lamb bhunas and a masala.
glosses: Any dish prepared with such spices.
glosses: Any powder of ground ingredients, not necessarily used in cuisine.
Derived terms: garam masala
masala chai
masala film
tikka masala
trehala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: trehalas
Etymology: From New Latin trehāla, from Turkish tıgala, from Classical Persian تیغال (tīġāl, “a kind of manna”).
Senses: glosses: Manna from the cocoons of the insects Larinus maculatus and Larinus nidificans.
Synonyms: sense: manna
word: nest sugar
Derived terms: trehalose
trehalose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹiːhələʊz/
/ˈtɹiːələʊz/
Forms: form: trehaloses
Etymology: From trehala + -ose.
Senses: examples: text: The most important of these is the common sugar furnished by the sugar cane, hence termed cane sugar, related to which are some others of small importance, viz., trehalose, melezitose, and melitose, represented by the general formula (C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁,xH₂O).
ref: 1862, William Allen Miller, Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical, volume 3:
text: The researchers fed a natural sugar called trehalose to mice genetically engineered to have a severe version of Huntington's disease.
ref: 2004 January 24, New Scientist, page 14:
text: Major components of the polar lipids are the acylated trehaloses which differ considerably in their acylation patterns to trehalose and in fatty acid content.
ref: 2013, Thomas M. Shinnick, Tuberculosis, page 14:
text: Two bacterial strains that have plagued hospitals around the country may have been at least partly fueled by a sugar additive in our food products, scientists say. Trehalose, a sugar that is added to a wide range of food products, could have allowed certain strains of Clostridium difficile to become far more virulent than they were before, a new study finds.
ref: 2018 January 3, Amina Khan, “A popular sugar additive may have fueled the spread of not one but two superbugs”, in Los Angeles Times:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: mycose
mycosin
glosses: A disaccharide formed from two glucose units; it is an isomer of maltose.
haler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪlə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
homophone: hailer
Etymology: From hale + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hale: more hale
haler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪlə/
rhymes: -eɪlə
homophone: hailer
Forms: form: halers
form: haleru
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heller (“currency unit, 100th of a koruna”).
nyala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnjɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: nyalas
form: inyala
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Tsonga nyala. The alternative form inyala is from Zulu inyala.
Senses: glosses: A southern African antelope, Tragelaphus angasii (syn. Nyala angasii), with thin white stripes in the grey or brown coat, a ridge of tufted hair running all along the spine, and long horns with a spiral twist.
Derived terms: mountain nyala
pala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: palae
Etymology: From Latin pāla. Doublet of peel.
Senses: glosses: A part of an insect's leg that is spade-shaped and can be used as a scoop for feeding.
pala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪlə/
ipa: /ˈpɑːlə/
rhymes: -ɑːlə
Senses: glosses: An Odisha art form consisting of Puranic texts expressed through music and dance.
licuala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: licualas
Senses: glosses: A palm tree native to Australia, Vanuatu, and Malaysia, with large, pleated, fan-like, almost circular leaves
tala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: talas
Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.
Senses: glosses: The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.
tala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə
Forms: form: talas
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit ताल (tālá).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythmic pattern in Indian music.
Related terms: laya
laya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: tempo in Indian music.
Related terms: tala
matra
matra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matras
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
glosses: In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
glosses: The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
glosses: An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
Related terms: laya
tala
Saale
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Germany.
glosses: One of the glaciations of northern Europe.
tsk tsk
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: note: dental clicks
ipa: [ˈǀˈǀ]
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈtɪsk ˈtɪsk/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /təsk təsk/
homophone: tut tut
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of disapproval.
Synonyms: tut tut
tsk tsk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: dental clicks
ipa: [ˈǀˈǀ]
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /ˈtɪsk ˈtɪsk/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /təsk təsk/
homophone: tut tut
Forms: form: tsk tsks
Senses: glosses: The sound of such an exclamation of disapproval.
Synonyms: tut tut
dewikify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dewikifies
form: dewikifying
form: dewikified
form: dewikified
Etymology: From de- + wikify.
Senses: examples: text: I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".
qualifier: wiki jargon
glosses: To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.
Derived terms: dewikification
Linköping
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Linköping.
Senses: glosses: A city, the seventh-largest in Sweden, and the capital of Östergötland county.
Maler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From Malto, meaning "hill people".
Senses: glosses: A people of northern India who speak the Malto language.
Related terms: Bagdi
Bawm
Bedey
Chak
Chakma
Garo
Hajong
Khasia
Khumi
Khyang
Lushei
Magh
Manipuri
Marma
Mro
Mru
Munda
Murong
Oraon
Pahari
Pankho
Rajbangshi
Rakhain
Santals
Tanchangya
Tripura
preterition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preteritions
form: praeteritio
form: praeterition
form: præterition
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praeteritiō, from praetereō (“I omit”).
Senses: glosses: The act of passing by, disregarding or omitting.
glosses: Synonym of paralipsis.
synonyms: word: paralipsis
topics: law
glosses: The failure of a testator to name a legal heir in their will.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The doctrine that God passes over the non-elect in electing to eternal life those predestinated to salvation.
Synonyms: pretermission
praeterition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praeteritions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of preterition.
Emmentaler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmənˌtɑlɚ/
ipa: /ˈɛmənˌtɑːlə/
Forms: form: Emmental
form: Emmenthal
form: Emmenthaler
Etymology: From Alemannic German Emmentaler, from Emmental, a valley in Switzerland.
Senses: glosses: A Swiss cheese with many holes.
Synonyms: word: Swiss cheese
Related terms: Gruyère
Shahzadah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shahzadahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of shahzadah.
shimada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːdə
Forms: form: shimadas
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 島田.
Senses: glosses: A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.
Schubertiade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schubertiades
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A social gathering whose primary purpose is the performance of the music of Schubert and where the music of no other composer is played.
industrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdʌstɹi.əs/
Forms: form: more industrious
form: most industrious
Etymology: From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.
Senses: examples: text: She was a very industrious student at school.
text: The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
ref: 1941, Ogden Nash, The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, The ant, page 224:
glosses: Hard-working and persistent.
Synonyms: word: industrious
word: studious
word: assiduous
word: diligent
word: sedulous
word: notable
word: painstaking
word: hard-working
word: worksome
Derived terms: industriously
industriousness
overindustrious
superindustrious
unindustrious
Related terms: word: industrial
word: industry
word: active
word: obstinate
industrial strength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.
glosses: Made for use by businesses or manufacturers, as opposed to home consumers, and therefore typically larger, stronger, more difficult to operate, and less attractive in appearance.
examples: text: That's one industrial strength cockroach! I'll need the industrial strength bug spray.
glosses: Unusually large or potent.
raw_tags: used whimsically
Related terms: industrial-grade
industrial strength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial strengths
Senses: examples: text: It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength.
glosses: Ability or capacity, as related to industry.
learning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: learnings
form: learnyng
Etymology: From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.
Senses: glosses: An act in which something is learned.
examples: text: The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
glosses: Accumulated knowledge.
examples: text: “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”
ref: 2007 April 5, Stuart Elliott, “Online Experiment for Print Magazine”, in New York Times:
glosses: Something that has been learned.
Hyponyms: game-based learning
higher learning
Derived terms: active learning
adaptive learning
a little learning is a dangerous thing
antilearning
artificial grammar learning
authentic learning
autolearning
automated machine learning
blended learning
book learning
book-learning
competition-based learning
context-based learning
cultural learning
cyberlearning
deep learning
deep learning speech synthesis
design-based learning
deuterolearning
distance learning
e-language learning
e-learning
e-learning theory
everlearning
federated learning
few-shot learning
firsthand learning
flipped learning
hybrid learning
hyperlearning
informal learning
inquiry-based learning
lack-learning
language learning
learning by teaching
learning content management system
learning diffculty
learning difference
learning difficulty
learning-disabled
learning-knight
learningless
learning objective
learning permit
learning season
learning society
learning streak
machine learning
mastery learning
metalearning
microlearning
non-formal learning
nonlearning
nonverbal learning disorder
observational learning
one-shot learning
online learning
out-of-school learning
potty learning
prelearning
project-based learning
Q-learning
recognition of prior learning
reinforcement learning
seat of learning
self-learning
service-learning
sleep-learning
telelearning
vicarious learning
zero-shot learning
Related terms: learning curve
learning disability
learning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɝnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈlɜːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ
Forms: form: learnyng
Etymology: From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.
Senses: examples: text: I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
text: The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network.
ref: 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3:
glosses: present participle and gerund of learn
Related terms: Pierian spring
passional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: passionals
Etymology: From Middle English passional, from Late Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al.
Senses: glosses: a book describing sufferings of martyrs
passional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more passional
form: most passional
Etymology: From Middle English passional, from Late Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al.
Senses: examples: 1957: the promise of a release in her passional self — Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.71 (Faber)
glosses: characterized by passion
ratiocinative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹæʃ.ɪˈɑ.səˌneɪ.tɪv/
Forms: form: more ratiocinative
form: most ratiocinative
Senses: examples: text: Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception […]
ref: 1888, H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, volume I, Theosophical University Press, page 1:
text: […] bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty […]
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 80:
text: If a person is developed merely in an intellectual, ratiocinative way, then he will be a contradictory mix of cleverness and savagery.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 225:
glosses: Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.
Related terms: ratiocinate
ratiocination
meidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meidans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maidan (“an urban open space”).
maidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈdɑːn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪdɑːn/
ipa: /maɪˈdɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: maidans
form: maidaun
form: meidan
form: meidaun
form: midan
form: mydan
Etymology: From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.
Senses: examples: text: Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 5:
text: Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 84:
text: M. Crawford
a gallop on the green maidan
glosses: A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
maidan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈdɑːn/
ipa: /ˈmaɪdɑːn/
ipa: /maɪˈdɑn/
rhymes: (UK) -ɑːn
rhymes: (US) -ɑn
Forms: form: Maidan
form: Maidans
form: maidans
form: Maydan
Etymology: From Майда́н Незале́жності (Majdán Nezaléžnosti, “Independence Square”) in Kiev, from Ukrainian майда́н (majdán, “square”), from Ottoman Turkish میدان (meydan), from the same Persian source as above.
Senses: glosses: Independence Square, the main city square in Kyiv, Ukraine.
glosses: The Orange Revolution protests that took place in Kiev’s Maidan in 2004–05; the Euromaidan protests of 2013–14; the protest movement associated with the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.
Related terms: anti-maidan
antiMaidan
AutoMaidan
Euromaidan
EuroMaidan
maiden
meidan
meiden
tamped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tamp
tamped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tamped
form: most tamped
Senses: glosses: pounded hard
examples: 1957: whose floor was of tamped earth — Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.85 (Faber)
glosses: packed down
objurgation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: objurgations
Etymology: From Latin obiūrgō.
Senses: examples: text: Nevertheless, spite of this imperial objurgation, the short cloaks continued in fashion down to the time of which we treat, and particularly among the princes of the House of Anjou.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XIV, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
text: The tipsy drivers dashed gallantly over the turf, amidst the admiration of foot-passengers, the ironical cheers of the little donkey-carriages and spring vans, and the loud objurgations of horse-and-chaise men, with whom the reckless post-boys came in contact.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 59, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: And what mean these outbursts and objurgations of his, you will ask; these suggestions, furtive, rhapsodical, mystical; this furibund allegro about Money, Mediums, and Bohemia; [...]
ref: 1910 January 12, Ameen Rihani, “Subtranscendental”, in The Book of Khalid, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published October 1911, →OCLC, book the second (In the Temple), page 116:
text: Wild man Murphy, said, "that the people of the 'Mormon' Church did not regard the objurgation of 'damn' as swearing, but only as common-place slang."
ref: 1921, The Latter-Day Saints’ Millennial Star, volume 83, page 660:
text: Unknown fronds of trees arched over him, brushing his face, while cobbles punctuated the rubber wheels of some dark ambulance full of metal and other dark bodies, whose talk was of limbo — a repulsive yelping streaked with Arabic objurgations.
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine:
glosses: A strong rebuke or scolding.
Related terms: objurgate
objurgative
dottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒtəl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: dottles
form: dottel
Etymology: From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit.
Senses: glosses: A plug or tap of a vessel.
glosses: A small rounded lump or mass.
examples: text: 1892, Richard Oliver Heslop, Northumberland Words. English Dialect Society - Kegan Paul et al.
In refilling a pipe, where twist is smoked, a common practice is to save the dottle and put it on the top of the new-filled pipe. "Aw like a baccy dottle to leet wiv."
text: one hand guards the burning dottle of my pipe from the force of the wind
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 96:
text: I clenched my pipe in my right fist and poked at the dottle busily with various fingers, first one then another, of my left hand.
ref: 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus, published 1982, page 38:
text: He tapped out the dottle on the deck, locked the steering oar in position, and commenced repacking his pipe.
ref: 1984, Alan Dean Foster, The Hour of the Gate, page 89:
text: I fiddle and scrape and poke for a while, banging out the dottle from my previous pipeful into an ashtray and puffing down the stem like a horn player warming up his trumpet.
ref: 2010, Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles:
glosses: The still burning or wholly burnt tobacco plug in a pipe.
glosses: A baby's dummy, pacifier.
dottle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒtəl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: dottles
form: dottling
form: dottled
form: dottled
form: dottel
Etymology: From Middle English dottel, dottelle (“a plug or tap of a vessel”), a diminutive of Old English dott (> English dot (“a point”)), equivalent to dot + -le. Related to Old English dyttan (“to stop up, clot”), Dutch dot (“a knot, lump, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”). More at dit.
Senses: glosses: To set pottery flatware horizontally on thimbles.
dottle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒtəl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: more dottle
form: most dottle
Etymology: Related to dote, dotard.
Senses: examples: text: When days and years proclaim you’re old —
 A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,
Then for support you can lay hold
 O’ the upright of your umberella.
ref: 1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403:
glosses: Stupid or senile.
dottle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒtəl/
rhymes: -ɒtəl
Forms: form: dottles
Etymology: Related to dote, dotard.
Senses: glosses: A dotard.
Synonyms: dodipole
dotel
dotard
deckle-edged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: From-time to time the book tilted and wobbled in his lap, and the weight of the deckle-edged pages pressed on his erection through the sleek black nylon.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a deckle edge.
raw_tags: of paper
examples: text: We turn a corner and the world becomes a pattern of arteries, splashed with silver and deckle-edged with shadow.
ref: 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 116:
glosses: Rough-edged like uncut paper.
Related terms: deckle
deckle edge
military
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.əˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /mɪ.lɪˈta.ɾi/
Forms: form: more military
form: most military
form: milertary
Etymology: From Middle English militari, from Old French militaire, from Latin mīlitāris, from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militaire.
Senses: examples: text: She was dishonorably discharged from all military duties.
text: "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result."
ref: 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”, in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesᵂⁱᵏⁱˢᵒᵘʳᶜᵉ:
text: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
text: Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 21:
glosses: Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
examples: text: If you join a military force, you may end up killing people.
glosses: Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
examples: text: The only goal pursued by Western defense strategy — to cause the Warsaw Pact to break off an attack — is more military than political in nature.
ref: 1989, Gregory Flynn, Soviet Military Doctrine and Western Policy, page 158:
glosses: Relating to war.
glosses: Relating to armies or ground forces.
military
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.əˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪ.tɹɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɪl.ɪˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /mɪ.lɪˈta.ɾi/
Forms: form: military
form: militaries
form: milertary
Etymology: From Middle English militari, from Old French militaire, from Latin mīlitāris, from mīles (“soldier”). Doublet of militaire.
Senses: examples: text: He spent six years in the military.
text: The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
ref: 2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18:
synonyms: force
forces
glosses: Armed forces.
Derived terms: antimilitary
countermilitary
cybermilitary
deep underground military base
geo-military
intermilitary
intramilitary
milab
milblog
militainment
militaresque
militarian
militariana
militariat
militaric
militarical
militarily
militariness
militarist
militaristic
military abduction
military academy
military advisor
military attaché
military brat
military communism
military engine
military engineer
military-entertainment complex
militaryese
military exercise
military fork
military government
military grade
military gray
military grey
military hospital
military hotel
military-industrial complex
military insignia
military intelligence
militaryism
militarylike
military load class
military load classification
military macaw
military medium
military officer
military order
military parade
military personnel
military pickle
military police
military policeman
military power
military press
military prison
military rank
military saint
military school
military science fiction
military service
militaryspeak
military spouse
military tactics
military time
military tribunal
military uniform
militarywear
military widow
military will
militarywise
militician
militocracy
multimilitary
narcomilitary
nonmilitary
non-military
non-military service
paramilitary
politico-military
postmilitary
premilitary
private military contractor
promilitary
pseudomilitary
quasimilitary
religiomilitary
semi-military
special military operation
unmilitary
Related terms: word: militia
word: martial
word: mil.
word: army
word: Army
word: navy
word: air force
word: Air Force
word: marines
word: Marines
word: Merchant Marine
word: US National Guard
word: Coast Guard
nation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'shən
ipa: /ˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: 'nation
Etymology: Short for damnation or tarnation.
Senses: examples: text: ... what the nation's the matter of that boy now ? If he's got them highsterics ag'in , I'll blister him from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet , sure as he's a - livin ' . " The doctor took up his hat and started out to meet[…]
ref: 1875, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, page 611:
text: O nation!.. if I were a man, […]
ref: 1896, Hardy, Laodicean, page 487, quoted in the EDD
text: What the nation's the matter now?
ref: 1897, George Bartram, People of Clopton, page 193:
text: "What the nation's the matter with our John?" he broke off suddenly as his eyes fell on the occupant of the cot.
ref: 2025 March 2, Warren H. Miller, Red Mesa : A tale of the southwest, Good Press:
glosses: Damnation.
nation
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'shən
ipa: /ˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: 'nation
Etymology: Short for damnation or tarnation.
Senses: examples: text: “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 186:
text: "Beleddy, Mester, yo're a dab hand at axing questions, at ony rate! One has to look back a 'nation long way into one's books to find what yo I axen after.
ref: 1856, Mary Botham Howitt, My uncle the clockmaker, page 10:
text: But no sense ov a place, some think, Is this here hill so high, - 'Cos there, full oft, 'tis nation coad, But that don't argufy.
ref: 1896, English Dialect Society, Publications, page 71:
text: '... they seem 'nation fond of one another.' 'He haven't knowed her such a very long time,' said Job Mitchell dubiously.
ref: 1899, Thomas Hardy, The trumpet major, page 122:
glosses: Extremely, very.
nation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: nā'shən
ipa: /ˈneɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: 'nation
Etymology: Short for damnation or tarnation.
Senses: examples: text: ... a nation deal o' trouble to captivate him.
ref: 1839, Grace Darling, Grace Darling, or the Heroine of the Fern Islands. A tale founded on recent facts. [With plates.], page 4:
text: ... a nation lot of hunters assembled, for it war known there war plenty of game ...
ref: 1840, Sporting Magazine, page 227:
text: ... a nation sight o' buzzin' an', ez Mr. Mayfield says,
ref: 1885, John Hankins Wallace, Wallace's Monthly: An Illustrated Magazine Devoted to Domesticated Animal Nature, page 431:
text: I might not have been in such a nation hurry to jump from my cart to keep him from being pitched on the stones!
ref: 1892, Isabella Banks, Mrs. George Linnaeus Banks, Glory, page 59:
text: ... a nation sight o' good.
ref: 1968, Graham's Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Romance, Art, and Fashion:
glosses: An intensifier; extreme, great.
zoot suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoot suits
form: zootsuit
form: zuit suit
Etymology: Zoot may be a Caló slang pronunciation of suit, thus making the term a tautology and reduplication.
Senses: examples: text: Dexter Gordon was an idol around Central Avenue. He was tall. He wore a wide-brimmed hat that made him seem like he was about seven feet tall. He had a stoop to his walk and wore long zoot suits, and he carried his tenor in a sack under his arm.
ref: 2003 December 18, Terry Castle, London Review of Books:
synonyms: word: drapes
word: zoot
meronyms: pegged pants
glosses: An outfit featuring a suit with broad shoulders, a long coat, and baggy trousers that taper to a tight fit at the ankles.
examples: text: Before his nap, Kaplan had put on all his clothes, including the wool-lined waterproof double-zippered survival suit nicknamed the zoot suit.
ref: 2019, Ellin Bessner, Double Threat: Canadian Jews, the Military, and World War II:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Synonym of goon suit (“waterproof rubber suit for pilots”).
synonyms: word: goon suit
extra: waterproof rubber suit for pilots
Derived terms: zoot-suited
zoot-suiter
Related terms: reet pleat
reprecipitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reprecipitations
Etymology: From re- + precipitation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: After returning a precipitate to a dissolved state, the process of precipitating it again.
lambada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːdə
Forms: form: lambadas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese lambada (“strong slap, hit”).
Senses: qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A fast-paced, erotic Brazilian dance in which couples dance with their stomachs touching.
glosses: The music to which it is danced.