cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
depository
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪtɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪtɔɹi/
Forms: form: depositories
Etymology: From Medieval Latin dēpositōrium, from Latin dēpositum, past participle of dēpōnō.
Senses: examples: text: He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
ref: 1776, United States Declaration of Independence:
text: Henrietta rang for the attendants to draw in the ponderous curtains; and in the meanwhile, curious to behold the stores of the emblazoned depository, lighted the tapers for herself. The case was speedily unclasped, and the countess stood dazzled with the brilliancy of the precious contents.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 17:
synonyms: repository
glosses: A place where something is deposited, as for storage, safekeeping, or preservation.
examples: text: depository library
glosses: A trustee; a depositary.
Derived terms: subdepository
chemical agent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical agents
Senses: glosses: Any noxious substance intended for use in military or police operations.
chemical beam epitaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a form of molecular beam epitaxy that uses a gaseous source
molecular beam epitaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A technique, used in the production of thin films of ultra-pure semiconductors, that grows the film by condensation of evaporated atoms.
epitaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛpətæks.i/
Forms: form: epitaxies
Etymology: epi- + -taxy
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An overgrowth in which the overlying crystal is either induced into the same orientation, or otherwise grows under the influence of the underlying crystal into the same orientation.
glosses: A type of crystal growth or material deposition in which new crystalline layers are formed with one or more well-defined orientations with respect to the crystalline seed layer.
Derived terms: chemical beam epitaxy
chemoepitaxy
epitaxial
epitaxic
graphoepitaxy
heteroepitaxy
homoepitaxial
homoepitaxy
molecular beam epitaxy
Related terms: syntaxy
distaxy
topotaxy
SMIL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
chemical biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A field of study that embraces both chemistry and biology.
chemical bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical bonds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several attractive forces that serve to bind atoms together to form molecules
Synonyms: word: chemical bond
word: bond
Hyponyms: word: banana bond
word: coordinate bond
word: covalent bond
word: hydrogen bond
word: ionic bond
word: metallic bond
word: pi bond
word: sigma bond
Related terms: banana bond
coordinate bond
covalent bond
hydrogen bond
ionic bond
metallic bond
pi bond
sigma bond
chemical castration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical castrations
Senses: glosses: A medical treatment using an anaphrodisiacal hormonal drug to inhibit the function of a man's testes, intended to have the same effect on the sex drive as surgical castration. It is typically used on sex offenders as a punishment and/or preventative measure, or on people wishing to undergo male-to-female transsexualism.
fathers-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of father-in-law
chemical change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical changes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any process in which reactants are changed into products by the breaking or creation of chemical bonds.
lengthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lengthily
form: most lengthily
Etymology: From lengthy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a lengthy way, in a manner that is long and drawn out, especially in time.
Synonyms: at length
enduringly
protractedly
lastingly
chemical clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical clocks
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any mixture of compounds whose relative concentrations oscillate, and in which such change is marked by a visible rhythmic change in colour.
chemical composition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical compositions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The identities, and relative numbers, of the elements that make up any particular compound
chemical decomposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical decompositions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The fragmentation of any compound into elements or smaller compounds
Related terms: double decomposition
electrolysis
hydrolysis
photolysis
pyrolysis
chemical defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical defenses
Senses: glosses: All the methods and procedures involved in defending against attack by chemical agents.
gateway drug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gateway drugs
Senses: glosses: An addictive substance that is seen as relatively harmless by itself, but is believed to encourage the user to experiment with more harmful substances.
examples: text: It has been said that LINQ is a gateway drug for functional programming
ref: 2014, Dave Fancher, Book of F#: Breaking Free with Managed Functional Programming, page XX:
text: Darn you, Downton Abbey, for being the gateway drug for all things BBC.
ref: 2019, Emily Padraic, Under My Skin, page 3:
glosses: Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
chemical dependency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical dependencies
Senses: glosses: physical and psychological dependency on an addictive drug
gateway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/
Forms: form: gateways
Etymology: From gate + way.
Senses: examples: text: The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: A passage that can be closed by use of a gate.
examples: text: The staff offer a touch of Norfolk courtesy as they guide passengers onto connecting services. The bustling concourse has a wide selection of information and retail, including a very active city tourism presence. This station now feels like a real gateway to Norwich.
ref: 2020 December 30, Richard Clinnick, “Greater Anglia strikes again...”, in Rail, page 43:
glosses: A place regarded as giving access to somewhere.
glosses: Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
examples: text: a gateway drug
text: Just as they say that marijuana leads to harder drugs, Gallegly is claiming that crush is a “gateway fetish”—a term I've never heard before. He claims that if someone starts with bugs they'll end up escalating to human babies in no time.
ref: 2000, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, page 137:
text: According to Mellody, love addiction is a gateway addiction leading to additional addictions: to sex, food, drugs, alcohol, and so on.
ref: 2012, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability, page 327:
glosses: Any point that represents the beginning of a transition from one place or phase to another.
Any thing or area of interest that tends to lead to deeper involvement.
glosses: A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.
topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.
Hyponyms: sense: digital communication
word: default gateway
Derived terms: gateway community
gateway drug
gatewayman
Gateway to the West
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
gateway
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtˌweɪ/
Forms: form: gateways
form: gatewaying
form: gatewayed
form: gatewayed
Etymology: From gate + way.
Senses: qualifier: digital communications
glosses: To make available using a gateway, or access point.
chemical dermatitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any symptom, such as erythema, edema, and vesiculation, caused by exposure of the skin to a chemical compound.
chemical ecology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the study of the effects of chemical compounds on the interactions of living organisms
chemical energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical energies
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The net potential energy liberated or absorbed during the course of a chemical reaction
chemical fingerprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical fingerprints
Senses: qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: the unique combination of analytical results from a number of techniques that identifies a particular compound in a sample
chemical hazard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical hazards
Senses: glosses: any hazard that results from the accidental, deliberate or potential release of a noxious substance into the environment
chemical horn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical horns
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a horn on a floating mine which, upon contact, releases an electrolyte that makes an electrical connection and initiates the explosion
chemical indicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical indicators
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any substance used to classify another, often by changing colour
Related terms: complexometric indicator
pH indicator
redox indicator
chemical kinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study of the rates of chemical reactions, especially as a means of elucidating reaction pathways or mechanisms.
chemical laser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical lasers
Senses: glosses: any laser that obtains its energy from a chemical reaction
chemical law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical laws
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the laws of nature that are relevant to chemistry.
Related terms: law of conservation of mass
law of definite composition
law of multiple proportions
chemical messenger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical messengers
Senses: glosses: Any compound that serves to transmit a message.
Related terms: hormone
pheromone
vagility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagilities
Etymology: From vagile + -ity.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The degree to which an organism or taxon can or does move or spread within an environment.
light-headedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From light-headed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lightheadedness.
chemical oceanography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The study of the chemistry of the oceans.
vicariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From German vikarierend, present participle of vikarieren (“to act as a substitute”), from Vikar (“vicar, representative”), ultimately from Latin vicārius (“substitute”).
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or as a result of vicariance
vicariant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vicariants
Etymology: From German vikarierend, present participle of vikarieren (“to act as a substitute”), from Vikar (“vicar, representative”), ultimately from Latin vicārius (“substitute”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a set of species, in separate geographical locations, that have arisen through vicariance
chemical pathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: clinical chemistry.
Synonyms: clinical biochemistry
clinical chemistry
dizzyness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnɪs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dizziness.
faintness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faintnesses
Etymology: From Middle English faintnesse, feintnesse, equivalent to faint + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And he first took exceptions at this badge, / Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower / Bewray'd the faintness of my master's heart.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: The confusion, in which impressions are sometimes involved, proceeds only from their faintness and unsteadiness, not from any capacity in the mind to receive any impression, which in its real existence has no particular degree nor proportion.
ref: 1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Section 7:
text: The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made long and long ago.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities:
text: The humming sound and the unvarying white light induced a sort of faintness, an empty feeling inside his head.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 1:
glosses: The property of being or feeling faint.
Synonyms: faintheartedness
dimness
Related terms: giddiness
light-headedness
vertigo
abaisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbeɪs/
rhymes: -eɪs
homophone: abase
Forms: form: abaisses
Etymology: From French abaisser.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A thin undercrust of pastry.
devisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devisees
Etymology: From devise + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The person or entity to whom property is devised in a will.
Synonyms: legatee
shtetlach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shtetl
alkalosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æl.kəˈləʊ̯sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: alkaloses
Etymology: From alkali + -osis, on the model of earlier acidosis.
Senses: glosses: An abnormally increased alkalinity in the blood.
in forma pauperis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin in fōrma pauperis (literally “in the manner of a pauper”).
Senses: examples: text: Come, stack arms, Men! Pile on the rails; stir up the campfire bright; no matter if the canteen fails, we'll make a roaring night. Here Shenandoah brawls along, there burly Blue Ridge echoes strong, to swell the Brigade's rousing song, of “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
We see him now — the old slouched hat cocked o’er his eye askew, the shrewd, dry smile, the speech so pat, so calm, so blunt, so true. The “Blue-Light Elder” knows ’em well; says he, “That’s Banks — he’s fond of shell; Lord save his soul! We’ll give him” — well, that’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Silence! Ground arms! Kneel all! Caps off! Old Blue Light’s going to pray. Strangle the fool that dares to scoff: Attention! 'Tis his way. Appealing from his native sod in forma pauperis to God: “Lay bare thine arm, stretch forth thy rod! Amen!” That’s “Stonewall’s Way.”
He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
Ah! Maiden, wait and watch and yearn for news of Stonewall’s band! Ah! Widow read with eyes that burn that ring upon thy hand. Ah! Wife, sew on, pray on, hope on! Thy life shall not be all forlorn. The foe had better ne’er been born that gets in “Stonewall’s Way.”
ref: 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way
topics: law
glosses: A request to have a court waive filing fees in a civil action because the plaintiff is indigent.
sinnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪnɪt/
rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Forms: form: sinnets
Senses: examples: text: Last night, the men were gathered on the foredeck laying up grass into sinnet for ropes by lantern-light & the prohibition on ‘supernuminaries’ on the foredeck seemed not to apply.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of sennit.
Derived terms: chain sinnet
sistrum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstɹəm/
ipa: /ˈsɪstɹʊm/
rhymes: -ɪstɹəm
Forms: form: sistrums
form: sistra
form: systrum
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sīstrum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σεῖστρον (seîstron), from σείω (seíō, “shake”).
Senses: examples: text: She moved with slow undulations of her body as lascivious as the curve of Hathfertiti’s hair, and the sistrum with its singing wires was played by a dwarf wearing nothing but a gold purse and a few bracelets on his stunted biceps.
ref: 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:
glosses: An ancient Egyptian musical instrument, to be shaken, consisting of a metal frame holding percussive metal beads.
sistra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sistrum
go on
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Structurally equivalent to go onward.
Senses: examples: text: Go on! You were saying about those other ones too?
glosses: Expressing that the speaker can continue speaking without interruption from the listener.
examples: text: A: He asked Fiona to marry him.
B: Go on!
A: It's true, I swear.
synonyms: word: fiddlesticks
word: go on with you
word: horsefeathers
word: pull the other one
word: applesauce
word: bender
word: bollocks
word: bosh
word: bugger off
word: bullcrap
word: bullcrud
word: bullfuck
word: bullshit
word: chinny reckon
word: codswallop
word: come off it
word: come on
word: c'mon
word: fiddle
word: fiddledeedee
word: fiddle-faddle
word: fiddlefart
word: fiddlestick
word: fiddlesticks
word: flummery
word: fuck off
word: gertcha
word: get away
word: get out of here
word: get out of it
word: get out of town
word: get outta here
word: get to fuck
word: gimme a break
word: give over
word: go on
word: harumph
word: Hookey Walker
word: horsefeathers
word: horse hockey
word: horseshit
word: malarkey
word: no
word: no way
word: nonsense
word: pshaw
word: pshh
word: pshht
word: pssh
word: pssht
word: pull the other leg
word: pull the other one
word: it's got bells on
word: it's got brass bells on
word: rubbish
word: stroll on
word: tell it to Sweeney
word: tell it to the judge
word: tell it to the marines
word: tell me another one
word: Walker
word: yeah
word: right
word: you're having me on
word: you're pulling my leg
glosses: Expressing surprise, disbelief or incredulity.
examples: text: Go on! You can do it!
synonyms: word: attaboy
word: you go, girl
word: all right
word: c'mon
word: carn
word: come along
word: come on
word: go on
word: heigh
word: hon
word: howay
word: nice one
word: zindabad
glosses: Expressing encouragement, see come on.
examples: text: —So three hundred on the chair then, and can we do two-fifty on the clock?
—Go on, then.
glosses: Yes; okay; it's a deal.
go on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/
Forms: form: goes on
form: going on
form: went on
form: gone on
Etymology: Structurally equivalent to go upon.
Senses: examples: text: We can't go on what this map says; it's twenty years out of date.
text: I didn't make a decision because I didn't have anything to go on.
glosses: To use and adopt (information) in order to understand an issue, make a decision, etc.; to go by.
skep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: skeps
Etymology: Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”). Cognate with Danish skæppe (“an old Danish unit of measure equalling 17.4 l”).
Senses: examples: text: Old women crouched over bags of Siamese rice, skeps of red and green peppers, purple egg-plants, bristly rambutans, pineapples, durians.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 115:
glosses: A basket.
examples: text: Three of the hives had been overturned and the others had been rocked to and fro. The modern hive is a fearful thing to upset; the combs are not static as in a skep, but hang loosely: when the hive is overturned they smash and pile up like a telescoped train.
ref: 1958, John Crompton, A Hive of Bees:
text: He prised a skep from its stool and held it out, inverted, showing the dirty wreck of combs, with the vile grubs spinning their cocoons.
ref: 1977, Patrick O'Brian, The Mauritius Command:
text: She installs seven skeps at the furthest edge of the garden; on warm July days it is possible to hear the restless rumble of the bees from the house.
ref: 2020, Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet:
synonyms: skip
hypernyms: beehive
hive
glosses: A beehive made of straw or wicker.
Derived terms: beeskep
bread-skep
Related terms: creel
skip
skep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɛp/
rhymes: -ɛp
Forms: form: skeps
form: skepping
form: skepped
form: skepped
Etymology: Late Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa (“basket”). Cognate with Danish skæppe (“an old Danish unit of measure equalling 17.4 l”).
Senses: glosses: To transfer (bees) into a skep.
skirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɜːl/
ipa: /skɜɹl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: skirls
form: skirling
form: skirled
form: skirled
Etymology: Originally from Scots and Northern English dialects (as a verb), probably of Old Norse origin; ultimately imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Come here, or stay where ye are, and skirl as loud ye can — it's a' ye're gude for — l say, ye auld deevil, skirl — skirl — louder — louder, woman — gar the gentles hear ye in the ha' — I have heard ye as far off as the Bass for a less matter.
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, “The Bride of Lammermoor”, in Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors, Volume 14, published 1839, page 91:
text: 1829, James Hogg (as the Ettrick Shepherd), The p and the q, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 26, page 693,
He gloom'd and he skirl'd, and, when in hard case, / He whiles gae his mother a yerk on the face;
text: Drums began to thump in a variety of rhythms. The flautists were not sure what to play. The shawm began to skirl.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
glosses: To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
skirl
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɜːl/
ipa: /skɜɹl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)l
Forms: form: skirls
form: skirling
form: skirled
form: skirled
Etymology: Also from Scots and Northern English dialects.
Senses: examples: text: To show that there is nothing absurd in this notable scheme of sending first-rate men-of-war skirling along the surface of the ocean, Mr. Macneill tells the following most marvellous story : […]
ref: 1834 August 30, “A Ship-Builder” (anonymous contributor), “Notes on Treatise on the Resistance of Water to the Passage of Boats on Canals and other Bodies of Water, &c. By John Macneill, M.R.I.A., Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers."”, in Mechanics Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, number 577, page 19, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of shirl.
civil action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: civil actions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In the United States, a lawsuit between private parties, including an action by a private person against a government entity, which will be treated as a private party by the court.
topics: law
glosses: In Roman Dutch law, a lawsuit that is not criminal in nature. It may be between the state and a private party. It is usually based in contract, or delict (tort).
gutless wonder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gutless wonders
Etymology: The idea is that the addressee's figurative gutlessness (cowardice) has been carried over into physical gutlessness (disembowelment), and that his bowel-less survival is a wonder.
Senses: examples: text: What in the hell was wrong with him, anyway. Just a gutless wonder - nothing more or less.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 125:
text: Yer can't even fight unless you've got a knife or picket or broken bottle, yer gutless wonder.
ref: 1993, Archie Weller, Going Home:
glosses: One who lacks guts or courage; a coward.
Related terms: chinless wonder
wooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.
glosses: present participle and gerund of woo
wooing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wooings
Senses: examples: text: "Sweet soul! I know his appetite," said Mrs. Mallowe. "Did he, oh did he, begin his wooing?"
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 10:
text: She felt a little as she had used to feel when she sat by her now wedded husband in the same spot during his wooing, shutting her eyes to his defects of character, and regarding him only in his ideal presentation as lover.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 36:
text: She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: The difference here is that the protagonists in this collection are, for the most part, at the end of their lives, and so the news of familial drama and divorce and the cocktail parties, barbecues and casual wooings of quotidian life in suburbia is given retrospectively, wistfully, presented in the larger context as memories of lost moments and lost opportunities.
ref: 2009 June 7, T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Road Home”, in New York Times:
glosses: A courting; the process by which somebody is wooed.
pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of pine
pines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /paɪnz/
rhymes: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pine
miscreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of miscreate
miscreated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more miscreated
form: most miscreated
Senses: examples: text: nothing might abash the villein bold, / Ne mortall steele emperce his miscreated mould.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: VVhence and vvhat art thou, execrable ſhape, / That dar'ſt, though grim and terrible, advance / Thy miſcreated Front athvvart my vvay / To yonder Gates?
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 681–684:
glosses: Created unnaturally or wrongly; deformed, misshapen.
chemical peel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical peels
Senses: glosses: The application of a mild caustic substance to the skin in order to remove blemishes.
chemical peritonitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: peritonitis which results from the escape of the contents of the digestive tract into the peritoneum
chemical plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical plants
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An industrial facility used to manufacture chemical compounds.
defense in abatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, lack of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.
Synonyms: plea in abatement
plea in abatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleas in abatement
Senses: glosses: Synonym of defense in abatement.
synonyms: word: defense in abatement
conjugal visit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conjugal visits
Senses: glosses: A scheduled visit during which an inmate of a penal institution is permitted to have sexual intercourse with a visitor (usually his or her spouse) in a closely controlled setting.
alternative dispute resolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternative dispute resolutions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The resolution of a dispute through negotiation, mediation, arbitration, or similar means, as opposed to litigation.
Synonyms: word: ADR
litigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪ̯ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: litigations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin lītigātiō, equivalent to litigate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: There is ongoing litigation in this matter.
text: This law firm is known for its litigation practice.
text: That attorney has been chastised for his litigation behavior.
text: “Google admitted that — for litigations spanning the past five years — it has never preserved all chats for relevant individuals by turning chat history on,” the DOJ filing said.
ref: 2023 February 23, Brian Fung, “DOJ seeks court sanctions against Google over ‘intentional destruction’ of chat logs”, in CNN:
text: The willingness to bring more marginal legal cases reflects how the amount of money being put toward election litigation has increased significantly, said Derek Muller, an election law professor at the University of Notre Dame who noted that the trend also applies to Democrats and outside groups across the ideological spectrum.
ref: 2024 April 11, Fredreka Schouten and Tierney Sneed, “GOP leaders pursue new lawsuits over 2024 election rules – including attacking methods of voting they want supporters to use”, in CNN:
topics: law
glosses: The conduct of a lawsuit.
Derived terms: litigational
litigationer
litigation friend
litigationist
litogen
nonlitigation
overlitigation
postlitigation
prelitigation
relitigation
solver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solvers
Etymology: From solve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The first successful solver of the puzzle will win a prize.
synonyms: resolver
solvent#Noun
;
problemsolver
hypernyms: winner
glosses: One who or that which solves.
allerion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allerions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alerion.
nazar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nazars
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish نظر (now Turkish nazar (boncuğu)), from Arabic نَظَر (naẓar).
Senses: glosses: An eye-shaped amulet supposed to protect against the evil eye in certain cultures.
kid on the square
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kids on the square
form: kidding on the square
form: kidded on the square
form: kidded on the square
Etymology: Dates back to the early 20th century. Later popularized by Mose Allison in his 1983 song "Kidding on the Square" on the album Middle Class White Boy (described in the liner notes as "joking with serious intent") and later by Al Franken describing the negative reaction of Paul Wolfowitz to one of his jokes in the 2003 book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.
Senses: examples: text: "I'm kiddin' on the square," said Hanks.
ref: 1907, Alfred Damon Runyon, “The Defense of Strikerville”, in McClure's Magazine, volume 28, page 379:
text: So I always knew what Pierce meant, in a kidding-on-the-square kind of way.
ref: 1977, Dan Rather, Mickey Herskowitz, The Camera Never Blinks, →ISBN, page 66:
text: "At least he likes historical characters," I kidded on the square. No one laughed so I went to work recruiting other directors.
ref: 2006, Stuart Ostrow, Present at the Creation, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: To be joking, but at the same time really mean it.
wikipedia: Al Franken
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
Mose Allison
Paul Wolfowitz
Synonyms: ha ha only serious
lesser included offense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesser included offenses
form: lesser included offence
Senses: examples: text: A robbery is an assault combined with a theft; a person can not be criminally charged with both the robbery and the assault that occurred during the robbery; the assault is a lesser included offense.
topics: law
glosses: A crime the elements of which coincide with the elements of a more serious crime, from which the prosecutor is therefore precluded from separately charging a criminal defendant.
techno geek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: techno geeks
Senses: glosses: someone who is obsessed with technology, especially electronics and computing
korng tauch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small gong circle from Cambodia, closely resembling its larger relative, the korng thomm.
sedulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sedulously
form: most sedulously
Etymology: From sedulous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When the neighbours saw Mirbel thus sedulously adorning herself, they quickly discovered that she had ceased to think of her father—that she had ceased to mourn for him.
ref: 1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 15:
text: We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen live.
ref: 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “An Encounter”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 27:
text: That court would sedulously avoid meeting contentious issues and would sit in resplendent dignity aloof from the issues of the day.
ref: 1980, William O. Douglas, The Court Years 1939-1972:
glosses: Applying constant and enduring effort to a task or course of action; in a sedulous manner.
labellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbɛl.əm/
rhymes: -ɛləm
Forms: form: labella
form: labellums
Etymology: From Latin labellum (“small lip”), diminutive of labrum (“lip”).
Senses: glosses: The lower central petal of a flower (especially an orchid), usually developed to be showy and attract pollinators.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Part of the mouth of an insect, especially the sucking mouthparts of a fly.
Synonyms: lip
loosehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looseheads
Etymology: From loose + head.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: prop who plays on the left hand side of the front row of the scrum, such that in a scrum, their head is not tightly bound (unlike that of the tighthead)
Related terms: tighthead
lump sum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lump sums
form: lumpsome
Senses: examples: text: When he retired, he received a lump sum plus a pension.
glosses: A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.
Related terms: balloon payment
bullet payment
amortization
outthink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outthinks
form: outthinking
form: outthought
form: outthought
Etymology: From out- + think.
Senses: examples: text: Kasparov might be the world best chess-player, but Deep Blue clearly outthought him in this match.
text: Microsoft has carefully cultivated an image of being an outfit that outthinks and outinnovates rivals.
ref: 2004 October 15, Charles Cooper, “Microsoft: The reality behind the image”, in CNET:
text: Its “Dell model” became synonymous with efficiency, outsourcing and tight inventories, and was taught at the Harvard Business School and other top-notch management schools as a paragon of business smarts and outthinking the competition.
ref: 2010 June 28, Ashlee Vance, “Suit Over Faulty Computers Highlights Dell’s Decline”, in The New York Times:
text: Argentina outfought and outthought France on a traumatic opening night for the host, winning more completely than the 17-12 scoreline suggested.
ref: 2010 November 19, Huw Richards, “France Confronts Its Rugby Fears With Argentina”, in The New York Times:
text: It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
ref: 2023 January 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34:
glosses: To best an opponent by thinking.
Related terms: outsmart
armorist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armorists
form: armourist
Etymology: From armor + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Several others are in the College of Arms. He was the first Welsh armorist to produce armorials of marshalled coats[…]
ref: 1949, Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England), The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A person skilled in the bearings of coats of arms, and all relating to their emblazonment.
examples: text: "But for now, you can have your fun and glory amusing a mob. you'll die in the arena soon enough." He pauses and examines Kiyo' s armor. "It seems the smithy and the armorist have given you some gifts to prolong your short stay."
ref: 2010 January 14, Erik S. Johnson, Tenshi, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 132:
text: Spud-bar, the Savage Legion's former armorist, is kneeling beside a repurposed wagon wheel, attending to its spoke.[…]
ref: 2021 July 20, Matt Wallace, Savage Bounty, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: An armorer; one who produces arms and armor.
arroba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrobas
Etymology: From Spanish and Portuguese arroba, from Old Spanish arroua and Old Galician-Portuguese arrova, from Andalusian Arabic and Arabic اَلرُّبْع (ar-rubʕ, “one-fourth”) in reference to its making up one fourth of a quintal.
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of mass, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 11.5 kilograms.
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 14.7 kilograms.
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of liquid measure, varying by time, location, and substance but generally around 15 liters.
Coordinate terms: sense: Spanish unit
word: libra (1⁄25 arroba)
sense: Spanish unit
word: quintal (4 arrobas)
sense: Spanish unit
word: tonelada (80 arrobas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: arratel (1⁄32 arroba)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: quintalejo (2 arrobas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: quintal (4 arrobas)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: tonelada (54 arrobas)
mandatory sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandatory sentences
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A criminal sentence of a predetermined minimum period of time which a judge is required by statute to impose upon a conviction for a crime.
chemical reactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical reactors
Senses: glosses: Any vessel designed to hold the compounds involved in a chemical reaction; a reaction vessel
aspectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: CARROLL - Argent, two lions erect aspectant gules supporting a sword proper. Carroll, […]
ref: 1961, Jack Adolphe Reynolds, Heraldry and You: Modern Heraldic Usage in America, Edinburgh; New York : Nelson:
text: Blinking in a yellowlit housewindow two faces fixed aspectant in some domestic tragedy. Rapid his progress who petrifies these innocents into stony history.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 178:
glosses: Face to face (especially heraldry).
Related terms: combatant
chemical sensitivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical sensitivities
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an extreme sensitivity, or allergic reaction, to any of various chemical compounds present in the normal environment
Synonyms: multiple chemical sensitivity
assurgent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈsɜː(ɹ).dʒənt/
other: /əˈsɚ.dʒənt/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Forms: form: more assurgent
form: most assurgent
Etymology: From Latin assurgens, present participle of assurgo (“rise up”).
Senses: glosses: Rising or tending to rise.
examples: text: A seahorse assurgent per pale or and azure, crined gules.
ref: 1869, Robert Cooke, The Visitation of London in the Year 1568: Taken by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, and Since Augmented Both with Descents and Arms, page 51:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Rising out of the sea.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Curving upward.
Derived terms: assurgency
atchievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atchievements
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative spelling of achievement.
examples: text: [describing a horse] " […] his docibleness and desire of glory and praise, and consequently his notable atchievements in War […] "
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 64
text: Here, lying perdue, in a snug corner of the hideous inclosure, he over-hears certain Chiefs, or Princes, of the Devils, in their conferences, relate their several exploits and atchievements in the seduction of mankind […]
ref: 1772, Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, volume 47, page 393:
glosses: Obsolete form of achievement.
Related terms: hatchment
chemical series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical series
Senses: glosses: Any group of chemical elements whose chemical and physical properties have similarities, and that vary progressively through the series; evident within the periodic table
chemical shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical shifts
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The change in the nuclear magnetic resonance frequency of a nucleus depending on its electronic environment; used in NMR spectroscopy to determine the structure of molecules.
chemical toilet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical toilets
Senses: glosses: A toilet or chamber pot which treats waste in place with chemical disinfectants and deodorizers, as in airplane lavatories.
Synonyms: chamber pot and Thesaurus:toilet
Hypernyms: dry toilet
attired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of attire
attired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: This was at the height of the Age of Fans; these indispensable arms, as constant accompaniment to an attired lady as a sword to a well-equipped gentleman, were often much more costly than this, being generally curiously mounted, and richly adorned.
ref: 1840 February, “Glimps of the Domestic Economy of Bygone Times”, in The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume 5, number 56, page 241:
text: Never did such an attired pair dance together, I ween.
ref: 1901, John Sergeant Wise, The End of an Era, page 409:
text: Seen from its base, Mount Namjagbarwa resembles an attired god with white clouds as his belt.
ref: 2007, Ying Liu, Natural Wonders in China, page 15:
text: Malvery recounts such an attired 'foreigner' attempting to address her in a train.
ref: 2012, E. Godfrey, Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society:
text: In 1900 he painted a large and ambitious canvas of an attired maid combing a nude's hair, La Toilette de la Baigneuse, which is more extended and conclusive than any of his previous works.
ref: 2021, Willard Huntington Wright, Modern Painting: Its Tendency andd Meaning:
text: Her limbs, too, consist of bones hinged together, emerging out of a dress—as if she is simply an attired skeleton.
ref: 2023, Robert L. Pincus, On a Scale that Competes with the World:
glosses: Clothed, dressed, wearing clothing, often of a specified type.
examples: text: Crest: A goat's head erased ar attired or.
ref: 1828, Thomas Allan, The History And Antiquities Of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Said of the horns of an animal when they are of a different tincture to its head.
Derived terms: unattired
chemical weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemical weapons
Senses: glosses: A noxious substance contained in some form of delivery system such as a shell or missile.
Related terms: weapon of mass destruction
aglycone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aglycones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The non-sugar fragment of a glycoside.
Related terms: glycone
pnictogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpnɪktə(ʊ)d͡ʒən/
ipa: /ˈnɪktəd͡ʒən/
Forms: form: pnictogens
form: pnicogen
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνικτός (pniktós) + -gen. The first element derives from Ancient Greek πνίγω (pnígō, “to choke, to stifle”) (a property of nitrogen), which is ultimately Pre-Greek. By surface analysis, pnicto- + -gen.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any element from group 15 of the periodic table, which includes nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony and bismuth.
Synonyms: pentel
Derived terms: pnictogenic
pnictogenide
Related terms: pnictide
pnictide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pnictides
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πνίγειν (pnígein, “to choke, to stifle”) (a property of nitrogen), from Pre-Greek, + -ide. By surface analysis, pnicto- + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of a pnictogen
Derived terms: dipnictide
ferropnictide
monopnictide
oxypnictide
Related terms: pnictogen