cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
keftedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek κεφτέδες (keftédes).
Senses: examples: text: The cook comes out to join us after we’ve been served with large quantities of keftedes, tyropites, cheese, salad, fish, steak, melon and probably other plates which slipped by me unnoticed.
ref: 1982, George Galt, “A Benefactor”, in Trailing Pythagoras, Dunvegan, Ont.: Quadrant Editions, →ISBN, page 59:
text: Serve the keftedes as soon as they’re cooked, with the salad and some pickled green chillies on the side.
ref: 2017, Tom Kerridge, “Keftedes with parsley and lemon salad”, in Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet: My Low Carb, Stay-Happy Way to Lose Weight, London: Absolute Press, →ISBN, “Minced Meat Dishes” section, page 149:
glosses: A Greek dish of meatballs, similar to koftas.
latticinio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latticinios
Etymology: From Italian latticinio.
Senses: glosses: A variety of white glass threads or canes, used to make decorative articles.
learnfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of learn + welfare
Senses: glosses: A welfare system in which a person must attend college etc. in order to receive payment.
linkwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linkworks
Etymology: From link + -work.
Senses: glosses: A fabric made from linked pieces of metal.
glosses: A mechanism of linked components.
liquefactive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquefactive
form: most liquefactive
Senses: glosses: That causes or is associated with liquefaction.
liquefier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquefiers
Etymology: From liquefy + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device used to liquify gases (by cooling and compression)
Related terms: liquefaction
condenser
degasifier
too much of a good thing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "If I must say what I think," continued Mr. Rushworth, "in my opinion it is very disagreeable to be always rehearsing. It is having too much of a good thing. I am not so fond of acting as I was at first.[…]"
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 26:
text: "I like a woman with spirit," said Cradell. / "Oh, so do I. But one may have too much of a good thing."
ref: 1864, Anthony Trollope, chapter IV, in The Small House at Allington:
text: "That you won't either," said Muriel, "Two's company; seven's too much of a good thing."
ref: c. 1922, D. H. Lawrence, “Tickets, Please”, in England, My England:
text: Household chemicals are about as personal as modern science gets. We are surrounded by hundreds of them every day — they're in our furnishings, our cosmetics, our vinyl floor tiles and plastic baby bottles. […] Are they too much of a good thing?
ref: 2003 July 20, James Geary, “Risky business”, in Time:
glosses: Something enjoyable or beneficial which, nevertheless, becomes bothersome or harmful in large quantities or over an extended period of time.
Synonyms: embarrassment of riches
toujours perdrix
Related terms: too much pudding will choke a dog
ne1
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: ne1 know where u can find t250 ringing tonez???????????????
ref: 2001 May 26, Kevin J Rowley, “t250 ring tonez”, in alt.cellular.motorola (Usenet):
text: Or does ne1 know where I can buy these cheap?
ref: 2004 March 30, Richard F., “WTB: ne1 have a^([sic – meaning any]) empty CD cases 4 sale?”, in van.forsale (Usenet):
text: Does Cobra make their trailers all with the same size tires (for 15/18M ships anyway)? if so does ne1 have the numbers handy?
ref: 2010 May 26, "Tuno", “Cobra trailer tire size?”, in rec.aviation.soaring (Usenet):
glosses: Abbreviation of anyone.
heat dump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat dumps
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: A structure or environment into which waste heat can be transferred
Related terms: heat sink
heat pump
trompe l'œil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trompe l'œils
form: trompe l'œil
Etymology: Borrowed from French trompe-l'œil.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trompe l’oeil.
breasthook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breasthooks
Etymology: From breast + hook.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A horizontal timber fitted in the bows of a ship to add strength and to connect the sides to the stem.
bugleweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugleweeds
Etymology: From bugle + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of the aromatic herbs in genus Lycopus, especially Lycopus virginicus, water horehound
glosses: Any of a genus of herbs used for ground cover, bugle (Ajuga).
buhrstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buhrstones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of burrstone.
builddown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: builddowns
Etymology: From build + down.
Senses: glosses: A systematic, gradual reduction in the number of something (especially nuclear weapons), normally by destroying more than are built.
cultivatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cultivatable
form: most cultivatable
Etymology: From cultivate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They thought he was a good boy, cultivatable, in the way that land is, to yield harvests that sustain the cultivator.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 37:
glosses: cultivable.
Derived terms: uncultivatable
deutzia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deutzias
Etymology: From the genus name, after Johann van der Deutz, 18th-century Dutch patron of botany.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of cultivated shrubs, of the genus Deutzia, having white or pink flowers
devalorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devalorizes
form: devalorizing
form: devalorized
form: devalorized
Etymology: From de- + valorize.
Senses: glosses: To devalue.
Derived terms: devalorization
undeclinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + declinable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indeclinable.
synonyms: word: indeclinable
undeclinable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undeclinables
Etymology: From un- + declinable.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of indeclinable.
synonyms: word: indeclinable
deutzias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deutzia
devalorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devalorize
devalorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devalorize
devalorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devalorize
dimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: tetragonal
qualifier: technical drawing
glosses: axonometric
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: exhibiting dimeter
Derived terms: monodimetric
axonometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌaksənoʊˈmɛtrɪk/
Senses: qualifier: technical drawing
glosses: Describing a projection in which the horizontal and vertical axes are to the same scale, but the third axis is reduced to allow for perspective
dimetrodon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈmiːtrədɒn/
ipa: /daɪˈmɛtɹədɒn/
Forms: form: dimetrodons
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Dimetrodon.
Senses: glosses: Any carnivorous synapsid, of the genus †Dimetrodon, from the Permian period
dimidiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪdi.ət/
ipa: /dɪˈmɪdi.eɪt/
Etymology: From Latin dīmidiātus, past participle of dīmidiāre (“to halve”).
Senses: glosses: Divided into two (equal) halves.
examples: text: a dimidiate leaf, which has only one side developed
glosses: Consisting of only one half of what the normal condition requires; having the appearance of lacking one half.
examples: text: dimidiate hermaphroditism
glosses: Having the organs of one side, or half, different in function from the corresponding organs on the other side.
Synonyms: sense: divided into two halves
word: bisected
Derived terms: undimidiate
dimidiate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪdi.ət/
ipa: /dɪˈmɪdi.eɪt/
Forms: form: dimidiates
form: dimidiating
form: dimidiated
form: dimidiated
Etymology: From Latin dīmidiātus, past participle of dīmidiāre (“to halve”).
Senses: examples: text: […] it may be dimidiated: for instance, half a rose and half a lis being stuck together, or half a lis and half an eagle.
ref: 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, ABC of Heraldry, page 175:
glosses: To divide into two.
examples: text: […] hybridization in the same vein is the beast shown as supporters to arms granted in 1971, where a unicorn dimidiates a lion rampant.
ref: 1973, Rhodesiana, numbers 28–31, The Rhodesia Africana Society, page 36:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To represent one half of, or undergo dimidiation with.
Synonyms: sense: to divide into two
word: halve
word: bisect
Related terms: dimidiation
dimidiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭmĭ'dĭāʹshən
enpr: dīmĭ'dĭāʹshən
ipa: /dɪˌmɪdɪˈeɪʃən/
ipa: /daɪˌmɪdɪˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: dimidiations
Etymology: Continuing the Middle English dimydicion (circa 1425, in an arithmetical sense), from the Late Latin dīmidiātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of dividing into halves.
glosses: The condition of being divided into halves.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A marshalling of two coats of arms by the bisection per pale of their escutcheons and forming a new coat of arms from the dexter half of one coat and the sinister half of the other.
Related terms: dimidiate
dimidiated
dimidiately
impalement
disbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + bound.
Senses: glosses: removed from a bound volume
raw_tags: of a page
disbound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disbounds
form: disbounding
form: disbounded
form: disbounded
Etymology: From dis- + bound.
Senses: glosses: To extend beyond its normal bounds
discerption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discerptions
Senses: glosses: The act of pulling or tearing something to pieces
Related terms: discerp
dispend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dispends
form: dispending
form: dispended
form: dispended
form: dispent
form: dispent
Etymology: From Old French despendre ( > French dépendre), from Latin dispendere.
Senses: examples: text: Those Roman knights were so called, if they could dispend per annum so much.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
glosses: To spend or expend.
glosses: To waste or squander.
glosses: To distribute or dispense.
establishmentarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌstæblɪʃmənˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɪˌstæblɪʃmənˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: establishmentarians
Etymology: From establishment + -arian, c. 1850.
Senses: examples: text: Parental approval or disapproval plays a major role in the adolescent thought process. (As one grows older, approval from economic, social, or other establishmentarian sources quickly substitute for Mom and Dad, rightly or wrongly.)
ref: 1976 February 14, David Brill, “Suicide”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 33, page 10:
glosses: A person who supports the political or social establishment
Derived terms: antiestablishmentarian
disestablishmentarian
establishmentarianism
fuzzyheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuzzyheaded
form: most fuzzyheaded
Etymology: A compound of fuzzy + headed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fuzzy-headed.
Derived terms: fuzzyheadedness
gradience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradiences
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The absence of a clear boundary, or the presence of a continuous spectrum of meaning, between two words or categories.
gradine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradines
Senses: glosses: A toothed chisel used by sculptors
examples: text: the gradines of the amphitheatre
ref: 1853, Austen Henry Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon:
topics: architecture
glosses: Any member like a step, such as the raised back of an altar; a gradin.
gutturalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gutturalizes
form: gutturalizing
form: gutturalized
form: gutturalized
Etymology: From guttural + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To pronounce in a guttural manner
hazardousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hazardous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being hazardous
Synonyms: riskiness
dangerousness
perilousness
hepatomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatomegalies
Etymology: From hepato- + -megaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal enlargement of the liver.
lipidosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lipidoses
Etymology: From lipid + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disorder in the metabolism of lipids in which fat is deposited in the tissues
Derived terms: glomerular lipidosis
neurolipidosis
Related terms: lipidosity
malapertness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malepertness
Etymology: From Middle English malepertnesse; equivalent to malapert + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: if once it be possessed with the boldnesse to despise, and malapertnesse to impugne the opinions which tofore it held in awfull reverence […], they will soone and easily admit an equall uncertainty in all other parts of their beleefe […].
ref: , II.12
glosses: The condition of being malapert.
marketization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marketizations
form: marketisation
Etymology: From marketize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Doesn't far-right mean private, like, marketization? Hitler privatized the fuck out of his mar[kets] [...]
ref: 2020 November 13, Vaush, The Existential Agony of Watching Michael Knowles Take a Political Compass Test:
glosses: The exposure of service industries to market forces.
glosses: A restructuring process that enables state enterprises to operate as market-oriented firms by changing the legal environment in which they operate.
Related terms: marketize
metrorrhagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmiːtrɔːˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪə/
Forms: form: metrorrhagias
Etymology: From metro- + -rrhagia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: abnormal uterine bleeding at irregular intervals.
Coordinate terms: english: heavy menstrual flow but regularly timed
translation: heavy menstrual flow but regularly timed
word: menorrhagia
english: bleeding per vaginam with vaginal source
translation: bleeding per vaginam with vaginal source
word: colporrhagia
Derived terms: metrorrhagic
Related terms: endometriosis
mildewy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mildewy
form: most mildewy
Etymology: From mildew + -y.
Senses: synonyms: mildewish
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affected with mildew.
milometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milometers
form: mileometer
Etymology: From mile + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An odometer graduated in miles.
Related terms: hodometer
odometer
monochromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + chromatism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monochromatic
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The condition of being totally colour blind; achromatopsia
Related terms: bichromatism
dichromatism
trichromatism
monophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + phage + -ous: Compare Koine Greek μονοφάγος (monophágos, “that eats alone”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That eats only one kind of food
glosses: That (prefers to) eat alone
Related terms: monophagian
monophagize
oligophagous
morphometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphometries
Etymology: From morpho- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: measuring the external form and dimensions of living organisms, landforms, and other objects.
Derived terms: cytomorphometry
diffeomorphometry
geomorphometry
histomorphometry
immunomorphometry
karyomorphometry
osteomorphometry
spectromorphometry
videomorphometry
Related terms: morphometrics
mothercraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mother + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The knowledge and skills associated with motherhood
Related terms: mothership
murmuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɝməˈɹeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌmɜːməˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: murmurations
Etymology: 1350–1400; Medieval Latin murmuratio (“murmuring, grumbling”). The “flock of starlings” sense is probably derived from the sound of the very large groups that starlings form at dusk.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of murmuring.
examples: text: "Oh! I wasted most of my morning crawling to a murmuration of starlings, which I foolishly mistook for congregation of plover."
ref: 1893 September 27, The Bazaar, the Exchange and Mart, London, page 800, column 3:
text: The same dynamics can be seen in starlings: On clear winter evenings, murmurations of the tiny blackish birds gather in Rome’s sunset skies, wheeling about like rustling cloth.
ref: 2013 March 19, Ed Yong, “How the Science of Swarms Can Help Us Fight Cancer and Predict the Future”, in Wired:
text: Professor Anne Goodenough, an applied ecologist at the University of Gloucestershire who led the research, said: ‘It appears murmuration has become the norm – a general way for the starlings to stay safe from predators.’
ref: 2017 July 29, “Solved, the riddle of starlings' aerial ballet: Birds use acrobatics to ward off creatures of prey”, in Daily Mail:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A flock of starlings, in particular when swarming in swirling patterns.
glosses: An emergent order in a multi-agent social system.
nebulium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nebula + -ium.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A supposed chemical element proposed as a result of spectral analysis of light from a nebula; the emission lines concerned are now known to be due to doubly-ionized oxygen.
Coordinate terms: coronium
geocoronium
necessarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɛsəˈsɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌnɛsəˈsɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: necessarians
form: Necessarian
Etymology: From necessary + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: 1810, Charles Buck, Materialists, entry in A Theological Dictionary, Volume 2, page 86,
And the Necessarian asserts, that if, in any given state of mind, with respect both to dispositions and motives, two different determinations, or volitions, be possible, it can be on no other principle, than that one of them should come under the description of an effect without a cause; just as if the beam of a balance might incline either way, though loaded with equal weights.
text: But neither you nor myself, necessarian as I am, can pretend to this degree of perfection.
ref: 1832, Joseph Priestley, edited by John Towill Rutt, The Theological and Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Priestley, volume 4, page 191:
text: When it is considered that, according to the Necessarian doctrine, no action fails to produce effects, and no effort can be lost, there seems every reason for the conclusion which I have no doubt is the fact, that true Necessarians must be the most diligent and confident of all workers.
ref: 1877, Harriet Martineau, edited by Maria Weston Chapman, Harriet Martineau′s Autobiography, volume 1, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, page 112:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: An adherent of necessarianism; an advocate of the doctrine of necessity.
Synonyms: necessitarian
Related terms: doctrine of necessity
necessitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˌsɛsəˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /nɪˌsɛsəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: necessitarians
Etymology: From necessity + -arian.
Senses: glosses: necessarian
glosses: One who maintains the doctrine of philosophical necessity, in opposition to that of freedom of the will: opposed to libertarian. (The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911).
necessitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɪˌsɛsəˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /nɪˌsɛsəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more necessitarian
form: most necessitarian
Etymology: From necessity + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to necessity or necessitarianism: opposed to libertarian. The Arminian has entangled the Calvinist, the Calvinist has entangled the Arminian, in a labyrinth of contradictions. The advocate of free-will appeals to conscience and instinct — to an a priori sense of what ought in equity to be. The necessitarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts. Froude, Calvinism. (The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911).
Derived terms: antinecessitarian
necessitarianism
nectarivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Etymology: From nectar + -i- + -vorous.
Senses: glosses: That feeds on nectar.
Synonyms: nectivorous
trompe-d'œil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trompe-d’œil
Senses: examples: text: The carefully exposed reflection of the fallen soldier in the retina of his shield, which is very much in agreement with the puerile stories of trompe-d’œil—like that of the ‘Grapes of Zeuxis’—which were the stock in trade of art critics like Pliny.
ref: ante''' 1934: R. Fry, Last Lectures, page 207 (1939 publication)
glosses: Alternative form of trompe d'œil: misconstruction of trompe-l’œil.
needlecord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlecords
Etymology: From needle + cord.
Senses: glosses: A fine corduroy fabric
glosses: trousers made of the material
newtlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more newtlike
form: most newtlike
Etymology: From newt + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the form or characteristics of a newt
nonfulfillment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfulfillments
Etymology: From non- + fulfillment.
Senses: glosses: The failure to fulfil an obligation.
trompe d'œil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɔ̃p ˈdœj/
ipa: /ˈtɹɔmp ˈdɔɪ/
Etymology: A misconstruction of trompe l'œil on French roots: trompe (“deceives”) + of + œil (“eye”).
Senses: examples: text: Trompe d’œil effects such as false perspectives painted on walls are common.
ref: 1970 June 11, New Scientist, number 530, page 1:
glosses: Misconstruction of trompe l’œil.
odontophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontophores
Etymology: From odonto- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: A projection in the mouths of most molluscs, used with the radula to break up food.
Derived terms: odontophoral
odontophorous
onliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: onlest
Senses: examples: I can't stand that bastard there...
You ain't the onliest one. I can't either.
glosses: superlative form of only: most only, used to mean "only" but with added intensiveness or emphasis.
onomast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onomasts
Senses: glosses: A person who studies onomastics; a person who studies (proper) names.
Synonyms: onomasiologist
onomastician
onomatologist
Related terms: onomasiology
onomastic
onomasticon
onomatology
onomatopoeia
onomatopoeic
onomatopoetic
selfstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-standing.
operatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ætɪks
Senses: glosses: exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics
orthocephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ortho- + cephalic.
Senses: glosses: normocephalic
Related terms: orthocephalism
orthocephaly
osteitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteitides
form: osteitises
Etymology: From osteo- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of bone
Derived terms: osteitic
osteitis deformans
osteitis fibrosa
osteitis pubis
paneosteitis
panosteitis
pandowdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandowdies
Senses: glosses: A pudding of spiced, sliced apples (or other fruit), sugar and butter, baked with a crumble topping in a deep dish.
pararhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pararhymes
Etymology: From para- + rhyme.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of consonance.
synonyms: word: consonance
stilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stilt
stilting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stiltings
Senses: examples: text: Their gestures seemed not of their volition, but as mechanical and awkward as the stiltings of marionettes.
ref: 1926, Idwal Jones, The Splendid Shilling, page 236:
text: He writes easily and informally, with only occasional stiltings of phrase.
ref: 1949, The Book Review Digest, volume 44, page 585:
glosses: Stilted language or movement.
glosses: A structure made of stilts.
faldstools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faldstool
patchboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchboards
Etymology: From patch + board.
Senses: glosses: A component of a manual telephone switchboard, or of various early data processing equipment, in which circuits are completed with cords on a matrix of connections.
patcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patchers
Etymology: From patch + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who patches something.
examples: text: It is hidden in an installer, license key generator or patcher that you will need to access the offered video or software.
ref: 2006, Elizabeth Drake, 50 Plus One Tips to Preventing Identity Theft, page 26:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A process or program that applies a software patch.
topics: business
mining
glosses: The driver's assistant or lackey in a team of miners.
penates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈnɑːtiːz/
ipa: /pəˈnɑtiz/
ipa: /pəˈneɪtiz/
rhymes: -eɪtiz
Etymology: From Latin penātēs, from penus (“inner part of house”).
Senses: examples: text: lest the name thereof being discovered unto their enemies, their Penates and Patronal Gods might be called forth by charms and incantations.
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The household deities thought to watch over the houses and storerooms of ancient Rome.
examples: text: ...and a china shepherd and shepherdess, clothed in "a green and yellow melancholy," were the penates of the mantel-piece.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 101:
glosses: Synonym of household deities in other contexts.
synonyms: word: household deities in other contexts
Derived terms: lares and penates
petrosal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɹəʊ.səl/
ipa: /pɪˈtɹəʊ.sl̩/
ipa: /pəˈtɹoʊ.səl/
rhymes: -əʊsəl
Etymology: From Latin petrōsus (“full of rocks, rocky”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of great hardness; petrous.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located near the petrous part of the temporal bone or the capsule of the inner ear.
Derived terms: lesser petrosal nerve
petrosal ganglion
petrosal nerve
petrosal sinus
sphenopetrosal
subpetrosal
Related terms: petrous
petrosal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪˈtɹəʊ.səl/
ipa: /pɪˈtɹəʊ.sl̩/
ipa: /pəˈtɹoʊ.səl/
rhymes: -əʊsəl
Forms: form: petrosals
Etymology: From Latin petrōsus (“full of rocks, rocky”) + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The petrous part of the temporal bone at the base of the skull, surrounding the inner ear.
examples: text: midal-shaped petrosal of mammals and bird
ref: 1866, Richard Owen, Anatomy of Vertebrates:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The auditory capsule.
Derived terms: petrosectomy
phenomenalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phenomenalisms
Etymology: From phenomenal + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that physical objects exist only as perceptual phenomena or sensory stimuli
physiatrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Physical medicine or therapy.
Derived terms: physiatrist
physicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: physicalizes
form: physicalizing
form: physicalized
form: physicalized
Etymology: From physical + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To express using movements of the body.
glosses: To interpret in a physical manner, or using physical concepts.
Derived terms: dephysicalize
physicalizable
rephysicalize
unphysicalized
physicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: physicalnesses
Etymology: From physical + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: We admire the intellect, as indeed we should, and admire all sorts of other endeavors but when the area of physicalness comes, it's reduced to vanity.
ref: 1977 April 30, David Holland, John Rechy, “The Politics of 'The Sexual Outlaw'”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: The condition of being physical; physicality.
Derived terms: nonphysicalness
pinwale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinwales
Etymology: From pin + wale.
Senses: glosses: A corduroy fabric having narrow ribs.
platysma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pləˈtɪz.mə/
Forms: form: platysmas
form: platysmata
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin platysma, from Ancient Greek πλᾰ́τῠσμᾰ (plắtŭsmă, “flat object”), from πλᾰτῠ́νω (plătŭ́nō, “widen”) + -μᾰ (-mă, “nominal suffix”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: shaving muscle
glosses: A superficial muscle of the human neck that overlaps the sternocleidomastoid.
Derived terms: platysmal
Noemvriana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of the Greek Νοεμβριανά (Noemvrianá).
Senses: glosses: November–December 1916, an important episode in modern Greek history concerning the entrance of Greece into World War I on the side of the Allies.
poikilitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌpɔɪkɪˈlɪtɪk/
Forms: form: more poikilitic
form: most poikilitic
Etymology: Ancient Greek ποικίλος (poikílos, “scattered”)
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the texture of an igneous rock that has small crystals of one mineral scattered among larger crystals of another
Derived terms: poikilitically
poikiloblastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poikiloblastic
form: most poikiloblastic
Etymology: From poikiloblast + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing the texture of a metamorphic rock that has small idioblasts of one constituent lying within larger xenoblasts
Derived terms: poikiloblastically
Related terms: poikilitic
flippancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flippancy
posteriority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posteriorities
Etymology: From posterior + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being posterior (in any sense)
Synonyms: word: posteriority
word: posteriorness
word: subsequence
word: succession
principate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪns.əˌpeɪt/
Forms: form: principates
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prīncipātus, referring to the titles prīnceps senātūs (“first among senators”) and prīnceps cīvitātis (“first among citizens”), adopted by Octavian Caesar Augustus in order to preserve the illusion of formal continuance of some aspects of the Roman Republic.
Senses: examples: ref: 1967, Richard Alexander Bauman, The Crimen Maiestatis in the Roman Republic and Augustan Principate, Witwatersrand University Press.:
text: The history of the courts and of judicial procedure during the principate is closely parallel to that of the government as a whole.
ref: 1972, H. F. Jolowicz, Barry Nicholas, A Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, 3rd edition, Cambridge University Press, page 395:
text: The transition from republic to Principate brought a new and potent factor into the legal picture of the Roman state, the princeps or emperor.
ref: 1978, A. Arthur Schiller, Roman Law: Mechanisms of Development, Walter de Gruyter (Mouton Publishers), page 463:
text: 1996, Clare Krojzl (translator), Sebastian Hensel, III: From Diocletian to Alaric [1886, lecture notes], Theodor Mommsen (editor), A History of Rome Under the Emperors, C.H.Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Republished 2005, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), eBook, page 317,
The dominate of Diocletian and Constantine differs more sharply from the principate than the latter does from the Republic.
text: In the introductory chapter I had already started to examine how Tacitus' designation of the Augustan regime as a versus status potentially draws a line of continuity between the principate and the civil wars which that regime claims to have resolved.
ref: 2000, Ellen O'Gorman, Irony and Misreading in the Annals of Tacitus, Cambridge University Press, page 23:
coordinate_terms: dominate
glosses: The early period of the Roman Empire, during which some characteristics of the government of the Roman Republic were retained; the reign of any particular emperor during said period.
examples: 1998, Annabel S. Brett (translator and editor), William of Ockham, On the Power Of Emperors and Popes, Thoemmes Press, page 87,
From all this we may draw the conclusion that papal principate was instituted for the utility and advantage of its subjects and not for the honour and glory or the utility and temporal advantage of the holder of the principate, in such a way as that such principate deserves to be called 'of service' and not of 'lordship'.
glosses: The office of one who is principal or preeminent (such as a prince); the quality or status of being principal; preeminence.
glosses: A state ruled by a prince; a principality.
Synonyms: sense: office of a preeminent person
word: princedom
sense: quality of being principal
word: primacy
sense: quality of being principal
word: principality
sense: state ruled by a prince
word: princedom
sense: state ruled by a prince
word: principality
Related terms: princeps
principate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɪns.əˌpeɪt/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prīncipātus, referring to the titles prīnceps senātūs (“first among senators”) and prīnceps cīvitātis (“first among citizens”), adopted by Octavian Caesar Augustus in order to preserve the illusion of formal continuance of some aspects of the Roman Republic.
Senses: glosses: Primary; principal.
privatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privatisms
Etymology: From private + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 441:
text: What Habermas describes as ‘family-vocational privatism’, which is similar to what Williams (1983) recognizes as ‘mobile privatism’, can be considered in terms of a category of ‘self-seeking privatism’ (Lodziak, 1996), which is pursued by those for whom capitalism ‘pays off’ in terms of status, financial rewards and so on […]
ref: 2008, Richard Ronald, The Ideology of Home Ownership […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 66:
glosses: Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.
progressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: progressionists
Etymology: From progression + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: progressist
progressivist
glosses: An advocate of social progress, ideally towards perfection.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A person who holds that all life forms gradually evolve to a higher form.
Related terms: progressionism
promotability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promotabilities
Etymology: From promote + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability to be promoted (in any sense).
promptbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: promptbooks
form: prompt book
Etymology: From prompt + book.
Senses: synonyms: promptscript
glosses: An annotated copy of a script used by a prompter.
proteinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proteinlike
form: most proteinlike
Etymology: From protein + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a protein
pultrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pultrudes
form: pultruding
form: pultruded
form: pultruded
Etymology: Blend of pull + extrude
Senses: glosses: To draw resin-coated glass fibres through a heated die in order to make a composite material
Related terms: pultrusion
pustulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pustulates
form: pustulating
form: pustulated
form: pustulated
Etymology: From Latin pustulatus, past participle of pustulare (“to blister”).
Senses: glosses: To form, or be formed into, pustules.
pustulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pustulate
form: most pustulate
Etymology: From Latin pustulatus, past participle of pustulare (“to blister”).
Senses: examples: a pustulate leaf, shell, or coral
glosses: Having pustules or prominences resembling them.
rauwolfia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rauwolfias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several small trees and shrubs, of the genus Rauwolfia, that yield materials of medical use.
glosses: Any of a group of alkaloids extracted from these trees.
recipiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recipiencies
Senses: glosses: recipience
recipience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to receive; receptivity
rejector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejectors
Etymology: From reject + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rejecter.
retiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retiform
form: most retiform
Etymology: From Latin rēticulum (“net”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a net; reticulate
rejuvenescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejuvenescences
Senses: glosses: A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The escape of the protoplasm of a cell and its conversion into a cell of a different character, as in certain algae.
Related terms: rejuvenate
rejuvenescent
rockburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockbursts
form: rock burst
Etymology: From rock + burst.
Senses: glosses: A sudden, violent collapse of rock under stress, especially in a mine
requirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: requirers
Etymology: From require + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who requires.
sandiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French suin de verre, suint de verre, literally "grease of glass".
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: word: gall of glass
glosses: A scum that forms on molten glass.
saxicoline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of saxicolous.
synonyms: word: saxicolous
sclerosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skləˈɹəʊst/
rhymes: -əʊst
Forms: form: more sclerosed
form: most sclerosed
Etymology: Back-formation from sclerosis. The verb sclerose was derived from sclerosed (adj). Compare also diagnose (verb).
Senses: glosses: Hardened by sclerosis.
examples: text: "They are all good men." "Of course they are. It's quite physiological. They are a body of elderly men, and the elderly brain is sclerosed and cannot record new impressions."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Hardened; fixed; inflexible; tough.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: lignified
Related terms: sclero-
scleroderma
sclerosant
sclerotherapy
segmentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From segment + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Composed of segments
seismosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A dinosaur, of genus Seismosaurus, from the Jurassic period
selaginella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Forms: form: selaginellas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of ferny plants of the genus Selaginella, spike moss.
shapewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shape + -wear.
Senses: glosses: foundation garments, designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form
sheerlegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shear legs.
Gear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
sheetlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheetlets
Etymology: From sheet + -let.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A small sheet of postage stamps sold as a unit.
shipway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipways
Etymology: From ship + way.
Senses: glosses: The sloping dry dock in which a ship is built and from where it is launched.
glosses: A navigable canal.
shorelark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shorelarks
form: shore lark
Etymology: From shore + lark.
Senses: glosses: Either of two larks, of genus Eremophila, found in the Arctic or in mountainous regions
sizeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizism
Etymology: From size + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Sizeism is hard to avoid on dating apps such as Grindr and Tinder, where users commonly forbid men under 6ft from contacting them. Tinder even made a 2019 April Fool’s joke about launching a “height verification” update that would prevent guys from exaggerating their stature.
ref: 2019 June 21, Adrienne Matei, “In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Discrimination based on a person's size (such as height, girth, or weight).
skimboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimboards
Etymology: From skim + board.
Senses: glosses: The thin board used in skimboarding.
skimboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skimboards
form: skimboarding
form: skimboarded
form: skimboarded
Etymology: From skim + board.
Senses: glosses: To take part in skimboarding.
skimboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skim + board + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A form of surfing in shallow water near a beach.
smokebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsməʊkbɒks/
Forms: form: smokeboxes
Etymology: From smoke + box.
Senses: examples: text: […] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
ref: 1944 November and December, “Modified G.W.R. "Hall" Class Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 350:
glosses: A chamber in which smoke passes from a boiler before being vented through a chimney.
pallophotophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pallophotophones
Etymology: Coined by the inventor Charles Hoxie ca. 1922 from πάλλω (pállō, “shaking”) + φωτός (phōtós, “light”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”)
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A device that records sounds on photographic film.
Sep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: related: word: Sep.
word: SEP
word: Jan
word: Feb
word: Mar
word: Apr
word: May
word: Jun
word: Jul
word: Aug
word: Oct
word: Nov
word: Dec
glosses: Abbreviation of September.
Samh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Upsilon Andromedae c, an extrasolar planet orbiting the Sun-like star Upsilon Andromedae A.
surrogate parent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrogate parents
Senses: glosses: A person who takes care of a child when the normal parents are unavailable.
Related terms: surrogate mother
foster parent
surrogate parents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogate parent
surrogate father
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surrogate fathers
Senses: glosses: A man who takes care of a child when one or more of the parents are unavailable (see also surrogate parent, foster parents).
glosses: A man who acts as a father figure to a child usually when a father is not in the picture.
surrogate fathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogate father
heteroideous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteroideous
form: most heteroideous
Senses: glosses: diversified in form
seditiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From seditious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a seditious manner or fashion.
socioecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: socioecologies
Etymology: From socio- + ecology.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The use of techniques of sociology in the field of ecology.
deep inside
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more deep inside
form: most deep inside
Senses: examples: text: But deep inside he knew the truth was he longed for one last great adventure.
ref: 1998, Jon Land, Dead Simple, Forge, →ISBN, page 156:
text: Besides, sometimes, deep inside, she longed to be twelve again.
ref: 2008, Susan May Warren, Finding Stefanie, Tyndale, →ISBN, page 61:
text: He's been short-tempered and snappy for as long as I can remember. But for what it's worth—deep inside—he's a good man.
ref: 2010, Judy Duarte, His, Hers and…Theirs?, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: at heart, deep down