cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sociogenomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From socio- + genomics.
Senses: examples: text: Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what makes us who we are has dominated the human sciences. Do genes determine our destiny, as the hereditarians would say? Or do we enter the world as blank slates, formed only by what we encounter in our homes and beyond? What started as an intellectual debate quickly expanded to whatever anyone wanted it to mean, invoked in arguments about everything from free will to race to inequality to whether public policy can, or should, level the playing field. Today, however, a new realm of science is poised to upend the debate — not by declaring victory for one side or the other, nor even by calling a tie, but rather by revealing they were never in opposition in the first place. Through this new vantage, nature and nurture are not even entirely distinguishable, because genes and environment don’t operate in isolation; they influence each other and to a very real degree even create each other. The new field is called sociogenomics, a fusion of behavioral science and genetics that I have been closely involved with for over a decade. Though the field is still in its infancy, its philosophical implications are staggering. It has the potential to rewrite a great deal of what we think we know about who we are and how we got that way.
ref: 2025 March 13, Dalton Conley, “A New Scientific Field Is Recasting Who We Are and How We Got That Way”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
genetics
human-sciences
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The study of the multivariate feedback loops by which nature and nurture (genetics and environment) interact with and shape each other.
Related terms: word: sociogenetic
word: sociogenetics
word: sociogenomic
word: biopsychosocial
word: nature versus nurture
word: polygenic
socioecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more socioecological
form: most socioecological
Etymology: From socio- + ecological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to socioecology.
somesthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to somesthesia
glosses: Of or relating to somesthetics
somesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soma + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: somatesthesia
somatesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From somato- + -esthesia.
Senses: glosses: awareness of one's own body
sploshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splosh
starflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starflowers
Etymology: From star + flower.
Senses: glosses: Borage (Borago officinalis), an annual herb, and its product, starflower oil (family Boraginaceae).
glosses: Calytrix, a shrub native to Australia (family Myrtaceae).
glosses: Erinus alpinus, an alpine plant (family Plantaginaceae).
glosses: Grewia occidentalis (crossberry or lavender star flower, family Malvaceae).
glosses: Ipheion, a genus of small bulbous perennials (family Amaryllidaceae).
glosses: Orbea variegata, a succulent from South Africa (family Apocynaceae).
glosses: Ornithogalum, a genus of perennial bulbous plants (family Asparagaceae), including:
Ornithogalum arabicum (star-of-Bethlehem)
glosses: Ornithogalum, a genus of perennial bulbous plants (family Asparagaceae), including:
Ornithogalum dubium (sun star or orange star)
glosses: Ornithogalum, a genus of perennial bulbous plants (family Asparagaceae), including:
Ornithogalum narbonense (pyramidal star-of-Bethlehem)
glosses: Ornithogalum, a genus of perennial bulbous plants (family Asparagaceae), including:
Ornithogalum nutans (drooping star-of-Bethlehem)
glosses: Ornithogalum, a genus of perennial bulbous plants (family Asparagaceae), including:
Ornithogalum pyrenaicum (Bath asparagus, Prussian asparagus, spiked star-of-Bethlehem).
glosses: Ornithogalum, a genus of perennial bulbous plants (family Asparagaceae), including:
Ornithogalum umbellatum (common star-of-Bethlehem).
glosses: Any of several annual herbs, of the genus Trientalis (sometimes Lysimachia, having white star-shaped leaves (family Primulaceae))
Trientalis borealis, northern starflower
glosses: Any of several annual herbs, of the genus Trientalis (sometimes Lysimachia, having white star-shaped leaves (family Primulaceae))
Trientalis europaea, European starflower or Arctic starflower
glosses: Any of several annual herbs, of the genus Trientalis (sometimes Lysimachia, having white star-shaped leaves (family Primulaceae))
Trientalis latifolia, Pacific starflower.
sterndrive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sterndrives
Etymology: From stern + drive.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A form of marine propulsion similar to an outboard motor
sternite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sternites
Etymology: From stern- (“of or relating to the sternum”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: The ventral plate of each segment of an arthropod.
sternocleidomastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɜː.nə(ʊ)ˌklʌɪ.də(ʊ)ˈma.stɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌstɝ.nəˌklaɪ.dəˈmæˌstɔɪd/
rhymes: -æstɔɪd
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sternocleidomastoīdēs, from Latin sternum (“the breastbone”) + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “the collarbone”) + Latin mastoīdēs (“like a breast”), equivalent to sterno- + cleido- + mastoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to or involving the sternum, the clavicle and the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sternocleidomastoid muscle.
Derived terms: sternocleidomastoid muscle
sternocleidomastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɜː.nə(ʊ)ˌklʌɪ.də(ʊ)ˈma.stɔɪd/
ipa: /ˌstɝ.nəˌklaɪ.dəˈmæˌstɔɪd/
rhymes: -æstɔɪd
Forms: form: sternocleidomastoids
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sternocleidomastoīdēs, from Latin sternum (“the breastbone”) + Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “the collarbone”) + Latin mastoīdēs (“like a breast”), equivalent to sterno- + cleido- + mastoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of sternocleidomastoid muscle.
sternomastoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æstɔɪd
Etymology: From sterno- + mastoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
stillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillages
Etymology: From still + -age.
Senses: glosses: The residue from the manufacture of alcohol from grain; typically used in animal feed
stillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stillages
Etymology: From Dutch stellage.
Senses: glosses: A rack or pallet used to hold goods (originally casks) off the floor
spolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin spolium.
Senses: glosses: The property of a beneficed ecclesiastic not transmissible by will.
stomachful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stomachfuls
form: stomachsful
Etymology: From stomach + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Now, the stomach, to digest it well, will contain but about ten quarts, and when the animal eats one-third of his daily ration of seven pounds in one and one-half hours, he has swallowed at least two stomachsful of hay and saliva, one of these having passed to the intestine.
ref: 1879 September 16, Colvin, “The Stomach of a Horse”, in Express and Standard, volume 8, number 402, Newport, Vt.:
text: Narrow and steadfast they were, and with stomachsful of conscience;[…]
ref: 1902 May 3, “A Russian Guide Book”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXVI, number 106, Hartford, Conn., page 18:
text: There is no need for any more stomachsful of characters in this house.
ref: 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, page 326:
text: Furthermore, if sources of home production are overly depleted, it is downright weakening to the field which cannot wage efficient war without ample quantities of weapons and ammunition, as well as stomachsful of just the kind of chow that doughboys thrive on
ref: 1943 January 29, Charles P. Stewart, “Inside Washington”, in The Daily Review, thirty-eighth year, number 13,056, Clifton Forge, Va., page four:
text: It was dismissed with the thanks of the court and with the Thanksgiving stomachsful of county food.
ref: 1955 November 26, Jacob Schaad, Jr., “Kaleidoscope”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 286, Paterson, N.J., page 2:
text: Maze Man serves up stomachs[-]ful of edible dots on a Pac Man-like grid.
ref: 1984 April, “Scuttlebutt”, in Ahoy!, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Ion International Inc., page 12:
text: I had been drinking mouthsful and stomachsful of the American class system without noticing the taste.
ref: 1996, Carol Bly, “In the Maternity Wing, Madison, Minnesota”, in W. Scott Olsen, Scott Cairns, editors, The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 297:
text: It’s near midnight now and the restaurant upstairs is shelving its trays and down pour those left snoring in the gazebo, mostly consisting of a few bloated bridgemen whose stomachsful of beef have given them all a taste for their own saliva.
ref: 2008, Jeffrey Woolf, Apples of Arcadia, Black Umbrella Books, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Enough to fill one's stomach.
glosses: As much as one can stomach.
stomachful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stomachful
form: most stomachful
Etymology: From stomach + -ful.
Senses: glosses: sullen; obstinate; perverse
strawboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawboards
Etymology: From straw + board.
Senses: glosses: A form of cardboard, usually yellow, made from straw
strawflower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strawflowers
Etymology: From straw + flower.
Senses: glosses: Any of many Australian plants of the genus Xerochrysum, especially Xerochrysum bracteatum, having deep yellow flowers than can be readily dried.
Synonyms: golden everlasting
Helichrysum
Derived terms: Italian strawflower
strigose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈstɹaɪɡəʊs/
Forms: form: more strigose
form: most strigose
Etymology: From Latin striga (“row, strip, swath”) + -ose; compare strigosus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having fine grooves, ridges, or streaks.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stiff hairs, pressed together.
Related terms: strigate
strigillose
strigulate
strigulation
subdictionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdictionary
subdictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdictionaries
Etymology: From sub- + dictionary.
Senses: glosses: A subset of a dictionary
glosses: A subordinate dictionary
EKO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EKOs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: KBO
coordinate_terms: TNO
glosses: Initialism of Edgeworth-Kuiper object.
subentries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subentry
subentry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subentries
Etymology: From sub- + entry.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate entry.
submodifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: submodifiers
Etymology: From sub- + modifier.
Senses: glosses: A subordinate modifier
suckler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucklers
Etymology: From suckle + -er.
Senses: glosses: An animal that has not yet been weaned.
glosses: Any animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
Related terms: sucklers
supinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: supinators
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any muscle that aids supination
suppositious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃəs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more suppositious
form: most suppositious
form: supposititious
Etymology: From New Latin suppositius, from Latin suppositīcius.
Senses: examples: text: […] who knowes not how false, how suppositious, the writings and Epistles of the auncient Popes are iustly esteemed?
ref: 1616, James I of England, A Remonstrance of the Most Gratious King James I, Cambridge, page 22:
text: […] a hen teaches this language with equal ease to the ducklings, she has hatched from suppositious eggs, and educates as her own offspring […]
ref: 1794, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, London: J. Johnson, Volume 1, Section 16.9, p. 154:
text: […] unfortunately for you, the real Faber and the suppositious Faber, alias Draycott, were much alike in one respect. They gave way to drinking bouts at regular intervals.
ref: 1913, Fred M. White, chapter 26, in Powers of Darkness:
glosses: Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit; fake.
examples: text: At rehearsals the actor tossed an entirely imaginary cloak about his shoulders as though it were heavy brocade, courteously removed a hat made of air, and seriously set out on a suppositious table a non-existent dinner, after sedulously cooking it on a kitchen range that was a chair.
ref: 1940, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 14, in Bethel Merriday:
glosses: Imaginary; fictitious, pretended to exist.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: assumed, presumed, presumptive, putative, supposed; apparent, likely
text: Look, Dr. Lanning, let me present you with a suppositious case. Supposing we had a politician who was interested in defeating a reform candidate at any cost and while investigating his private life came across oddities such as I have just mentioned.
ref: 1946 September, Isaac Asimov, “Evidence”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 38, number 1, page 125:
synonyms: suppositional
glosses: Hypothetical, based on supposition; conjectural.
Derived terms: suppositiously
suppositiousness
Related terms: supposed
supposedly
supposition
suppositiousness
supposititiously
presumptuous
speculative
technospeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From techno- + -speak.
Senses: glosses: technobabble
sylva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sylvas
form: sylvae
Senses: examples: text: A solitary cotton-wood, with an occasional clump of willows, constitute the sylva of this portion of the river.
ref: 1854, Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the Year 1852, page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of silva.
tectonophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tectono- + physics.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The physics of tectonic plates, their formation and movement
testation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The action of a testator in disposing of property by a will
thymoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thymomas
form: thymomata
Etymology: From thymus + -oma.
Senses: topics: medicine
oncology
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any tumour of the thymus
Related terms: thymomatous
finick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪnɪk
Forms: form: finicks
form: finicking
form: finicked
form: finicked
Etymology: Back-formation from finical.
Senses: glosses: To display extreme daintiness or refinement.
glosses: To trifle.
Derived terms: finicky
townish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more townish
form: most townish
Etymology: From Middle English townishe, townysche, equivalent to town + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a (certain type of) town.
examples: text: My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ
they ſang ſometyme a ſong of the feld mowſe
that forbicauſe her lyvelood was but thyñ
Would nedes goo ſeke her townyſſh ſyſters howſe
ref: c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “My mothers maydes when they did ſowe & ſpyñ”, in Egerton MS 2711, page 50v:
text: In stature passing all the rest,
A gallant girl for hewe;
To be compared to townish nymphs,
So faire she was to viewe.
ref: 1567, George Turberville, second eclogue of Baptista Mantuanus:
glosses: Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
Related terms: ghost-townish
out-of-townish
small-townish
townlet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: townlets
Etymology: From town + -let.
Senses: glosses: A small town
townward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From town + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a town.
townward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From town + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Towards a town; townwards.
townwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From town + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: He switched on, put the groaning vehicle into gear, turned it round skilfully and sped dustily townwards.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 600:
glosses: Towards a town; townward.
transurethral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + urethral.
Senses: glosses: performed through the urethra
transvalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: transvalues
form: transvaluing
form: transvalued
form: transvalued
Etymology: Back-formation from transvaluation.
Senses: examples: text: One of the attractions of the whole panorama of Jewish mysticism for Scholem is its vivid and manifold demonstration of how it is possible to maintain a historical identity and a certain sense of continuity of belief while vigorously transvaluing values, redefining world and self and the realm of the spirit as historical circumstances change.
ref: 1995, Robert Alter, “Forward”, in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, →ISBN, page xxi:
glosses: To represent or evaluate something according to a new principle, causing it to be revalued.
Related terms: transvaluation
triallers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trialler
trialler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triallers
Etymology: From trial + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Ch. Doony Bluebell, Fairholme Trusty, Type, and Typist, are notable, while the blue roan, Fairholme Rally, has attained conspicuous success as a field trialler, and at stud was responsible for transmitting length of head, then much needed in the breed, and sired innumerable winners.
ref: 2013, H. S. Lloyd, The Popular Cocker Spaniel:
glosses: A horse or a dog used for trialling.
trifacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From tri- + facial.
Senses: glosses: trigeminal
trifacial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Forms: form: trifacials
Etymology: From tri- + facial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: trigeminal nerve
triflingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more triflingly
form: most triflingly
Etymology: From trifling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] I am apt to think, that a perſon, vvho vvas ready to give more knovvledge than he received, vvould be vvelcome vvherever he came. […] Hovv much more nobly vvould a philoſopher, thus employed, ſpend his time, than […] more triflingly ſedulous in the incatenation of fleas, or the ſculpture of cherry-ſtones.
ref: 1765, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Essay XVIII”, in Essays. […], London: […] W[illiam] Griffin […], →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: In a trifling manner.
trifold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + -fold.
Senses: glosses: threefold
glosses: Of a mirror: having three reflective surfaces hinged together.
triform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin trifōrmis.
Senses: glosses: Having three different forms
truncal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From truncus + -al
Senses: examples: text: Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).
ref: 2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the trunk (of the body).
Derived terms: peritruncal
uncompromisingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncompromising + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being uncompromising
unconfessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + confessed.
Senses: examples: text: The Chevalier de Joinville made a third in every tête-à-tête, and was de trop in none; for he always talked to them of themselves, or entertained them at the precise moment when there was, though unconfessed, some slight approach to ennui.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 243:
glosses: Not acknowledged in a confession.
examples: text: He died unconfessed.
glosses: Not having confessed to a priest.
unconfessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unconfess
underslung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + slung.
Senses: examples: text: Fuel tanks for engines and boiler are underslung between the bogies; [...].
ref: 1961 August, “The English Electric Type 5 3,300 h.p. "Deltic" diesels for British Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 484:
glosses: supported from above (especially from the underside of a wing etc)
glosses: having a low center of gravity
underwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈwɜː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌwɜː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: underworks
form: underworking
form: underworked
form: underworked
form: underwrought
form: underwrought
Etymology: From under- + work.
Senses: glosses: To require too little work from; to work insufficiently.
examples: text: [H]e raiſeth (in priuate) a nevv Inſtrument, one Sertorius Macro, and by him vndervvorketh, diſcouers the others Coũſells [i.e., counsels], his Means, his Ends, […]
ref: 1605, Ben[jamin] Jonson, “The Argument”, in Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, →OCLC, , signature [A4], recto:
glosses: To work or operate in secret or clandestinely.
examples: text: to underwork a painting
glosses: To do less work than necessary (on).
glosses: To do work for inadequate payment.
examples: text: But thou from loving England art so far,
 That thou hast underwrought his lawful king.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
examples: text: One mason may underwork another.
glosses: To do similar work for a lesser price than; to undercut.
underwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌndə(ɹ)ˈwɜː(ɹ)k/
ipa: /ˈʌndə(ɹ)ˌwɜː(ɹ)k/
Etymology: From under- + work.
Senses: examples: text: the underwork of the nation
glosses: Subordinate work; petty business.
undesirableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undesirablenesses
Etymology: From undesirable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These are the things that are in the world; from these doth sin take all its baits, whereby it enticeth and entangleth our souls. If the heart be filled with the cross of Christ, it casts death and undesirableness upon them all, it leaves no seeming beauty, no appearing pleasure or comeliness in them.
ref: 1668, John Owen, chapter 11, in The Nature, Power, Deceit and Prevalency of Indwelling-Sin in Believers, London: G. Keith, published 1774, page 184:
text: The undesirableness of any other house in the same neighbourhood for Sir Walter was certainly much strengthened by one part, and a very material part of the scheme, which had been happily engrafted on the beginning. He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter’s have found too much.
ref: 1817 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Persuasion; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=III or IV), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: To discredit the Negro officers in general all sorts of reports were circulated as to their undesirableness. In addition to being humiliated, they were sent to labor battalions or to some remote position to please those who could not bear the thought of having Negro officers in their sight.
ref: 1928, Carter G. Woodson, chapter 37, in Negro Makers of History, Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, pages 328–329:
glosses: The condition or quality of being undesirable.
examples: text: […] Harcourt Street combined within its precincts all the undesirablenesses that had existed separately in all the other streets she had visited. It was old and dirty, noisy yet dull, swarming with children, and overrun with costermongers, hand-organs, and cats.
ref: 1884, Katherine Lee, chapter 7, in In London Town, volume I, page 128:
glosses: An undesirable quality or thing.
Synonyms: undesirability
hachement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French hachement, from hacher (“to chop”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In massage, a hacking or chopping stroke repeated in succession with the edge of the extended fingers or with the whole hand.
undetonated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + detonated.
Senses: glosses: Not (yet) detonated
undifferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + difference + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In speculating upon this curious controversy, the question naturally arises, whether a plain and undifferenced coat-armorial descends to a man's heirs, according to the ordinary rules of heritable succession, or whether it happens[…]
ref: 1863, George Seton, The Law and Practice of Heraldry in Scotland, page 336:
text: Nowadays, even the successive heirs to the principal or undifferenced coat of arms usually rematriculate after a few generations, or bring up to date a pedigree in the Public Register of Genealogies, both for the purpose of putting on[…]
ref: 1956, Sir Thomas Innes of Learney, Scots Heraldry: A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 109:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Not having a mark of difference.
unfaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfaceable
form: most unfaceable
Etymology: From un- + faceable.
Senses: examples: text: Stupefying heat shimmered in the mangrove forest, the sun an unfaceable white glare somewhere overhead.
ref: 2011, A. A. Jameson, Shark People, page 113:
glosses: Unable to be faced or confronted.
unmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + metrical.
Senses: glosses: Not written in meter.
Related terms: unmetric
unmilitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmilitary
form: most unmilitary
Etymology: From un- + military.
Senses: examples: text: The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline.
ref: 1860, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons, page 72:
text: National Guards and Soldiers of the line […] fall into disorderly street-processions, constitutional unmilitary exclamations and hurrahings.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness.
ref: 2000, Beth Cohen, Not the Classical Ideal:
glosses: Not military.
unmitigatedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmitigatedly
form: most unmitigatedly
Etymology: From unmitigated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unmitigated manner
unmodernized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmodernized
form: most unmodernized
Etymology: From un- + modernized.
Senses: glosses: Not modernized.
untunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untunable
form: most untunable
Etymology: From un- + tunable.
Senses: glosses: Unable to be tuned.
glosses: unmelodic; inharmonious
vaporish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vaporish
form: most vaporish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of vapourish.
vapourish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vapourish
form: most vapourish
form: vaporish
Etymology: From vapour + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of vapour.
glosses: hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish
vaporousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vaporous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being vaporous
verticillium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of many fungi, of the genus Verticillium, that cause wilt in plants
body throw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body throws
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: Any throw that is made around a part of the body, as opposed to in front of the head or chest.
Coordinate terms: body catch
body throws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body throw
body catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body catches
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: Any catch that is made around or behind a part of the body, as opposed to in front of the head or chest.
Coordinate terms: body throw
body catches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body catch
reverse chops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A pattern involving carrying each object under the next object before throwing it to the opposite hand.
Related terms: chops
back cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back crosses
form: back-cross
form: backcross
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A throw where the object is caught and then thrown from behind the back.
back crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back cross
back-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back-crosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of back cross.
back-crosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-cross
Catalanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /katəˈlanə(ʊ)fʌɪl/
Forms: form: Catalanophiles
Etymology: From Catalano- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Monarchists, and historians paying deference to monarchy, call them ‘king-counts’; Catalans and Catalanophiles call them ‘count-kings’.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 171:
glosses: A lover or admirer of Catalan culture.
Catalanophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /katəˈlanə(ʊ)fʌɪl/
Etymology: From Catalano- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Appreciative of Catalan culture.
Catalanophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catalanophile
Catalano-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Catalan + -o-.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Catalan culture, people or language.
Derived terms: Catalanophile
Catalanophobia
Catalanophone
bilding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bildings
Senses: examples: text: But all matters relating to the army, the navy, the finances, to foreign affairs, the taxes, and public bildings, must be reported to her by the chiefs of the several departments.
ref: 1798, William Tooke, The Life of Catharine II. Empress of Russia:
glosses: Obsolete form of building.
creditability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creditabilities
Etymology: From creditable + -ity, or ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being creditable.
creditabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creditability
drosophila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹoʊˈsɑfələ/
ipa: /dɹəˈsɑfələ/
Forms: form: drosophilas
form: drosophilae
Etymology: From taxonomic name Drosophila.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, the drosophilas of Hawaii owe their oddity entirely to the whims of natural selection.
ref: 2006, Alan Burdick, Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, page 127:
text: Moreover, the host plant relationships of cactus-specific drosophilae which serve as dispersal agents are well known (Fellows and Heed, 1972; Heed, 1978). The discussion which follows is based on the above studies of yeasts, cacti and drosophilae.
ref: 2013, Graham G. Stewart, Inge Russell, Advances in Biotechnology: Proceedings of the Fifth International Yeast Symposium Held in London, Canada, July 20-25, 1980, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 494:
glosses: Any fruit fly of the genus Drosophila
drosophilas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drosophila
fruit flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruit fly
gentlemen's agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gentlemen's agreements
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gentleman's agreement.
working conditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I'm not proposing a return to Victorian working conditions, or anything like that, but there are two areas where things need changing.
ref: 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 25:
glosses: The environment in which one works, as influenced by factors such as cleanliness, lighting, equipment, paid overtime, uniforms, access to amenities, etc.
Related terms: living conditions
All Whites
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the all-white strip traditionally worn by the team. Modelled after the All Blacks, the New Zealand national rugby union team.
Senses: glosses: The men's national association football (soccer) representative team of New Zealand.
westing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: westings
Etymology: From west + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A distance west of a datum line on a map or chart.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A distance travelled westward.
westing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From west + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of west
visitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From visit + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability to be visited.
glosses: The extent to which a building (or other site) is accessible to the disabled.
visitatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more visitatorial
form: most visitatorial
Etymology: From Medieval Latin vīsitātōrius + -al.
Senses: glosses: visitorial
visitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From visitor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The court, he wrote, has always understood that visitorial powers are “quite separate” from the power to enforce the law, and the attorney general was acting in the role of “sovereign-as-law-enforcer” in seeking the information.
ref: 2009 June 30, John Schwartz, “Justices Rule That States Can Press Bank Cases”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having the power to make an official visitation
addlebrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more addlebrained
form: most addlebrained
form: addle-brained
Etymology: From addle + brained.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of addlepated.
synonyms: word: addlepated
bushtit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bushtits
Etymology: From bush + tit.
Senses: glosses: Any of the long-tailed tits of the family Aegithalidae
glosses: Any of the long-tailed tits of the family Aegithalidae
A North American long-tailed tit, of the genus Psaltriparus, that has mostly grey plumage
bushwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bush + walking.
Senses: examples: text: Eight years later she married a fellow member, Leo Luckman, and the two of them played leading roles in the Tasmanian bushwalking movement, exploring the most remote parts of the state, developing new routes through difficult terrain, pioneering the club′s skiing activities, and shouldering executive responsibilities.
ref: 1999, Drew Hutton, Libby Connors, A History of the Australian Environment Movement, page 70:
text: Victoria has some great bushwalking.
ref: 2002, Chris Rowthorn, Alex Landragin, Kate Daly, Victoria, page 77:
text: Kakadu is excellent but tough bushwalking country.
ref: 2003, Susannah Farfor, David Andrew, Hugh Finlay, Northern Territory, page 150:
text: This significant chunk of wilderness, just 7.2 mi/12 km north of Sydney, provides excellent bushwalking within a few minutes of the Manly Beach coastline.
ref: 2009, Holly Smith, Sydney & New South Wales, unnumbered page:
text: Phillip Island also offers nice beaches, good bushwalking, fishing, and Seal Rocks.
ref: 2012, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Atkinson, Ron Crittall, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia, page 675:
glosses: The activity of hiking or backpacking.
Related terms: bushwalker
bushwalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From bush + walking.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bushwalk
daywork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪwɜːk/
ipa: /ˈdeɪwɝk/
Forms: form: dayworks
form: day work
form: day-work
Etymology: From Middle English daywork, daywerk, from Old English dæġweorc, from Proto-West Germanic *dagawerk, from Proto-Germanic *dagawerką. By surface analysis, day + work.
Senses: glosses: The work done in a day; a day's work.
glosses: The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
glosses: Work carried out or paid for on a daily basis; day labour.
examples: text: ‘The task of servicing such moles is not entrusted to normal overseas residencies but to a Karla representative, as he is known, usually a military officer, whose daywork is to be an attaché of an Embassy.’
ref: 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 257:
glosses: Work done during the day; specifically, the cover-work carried out by someone involved in intelligence work, as opposed to their secret activities.
Related terms: dayworker
departmentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From departmental + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Excessive adherence to departmental methods, rules or structure.
examples: text: Lord Whitelaw, then Chairman of the Conservative Party Policy Committee, considered that departmentalism would be more effective than umbrellaism.
ref: 1989, David Paterson, Mary Palmer, The Status of Animals: Ethics, Education and Welfare, page 2:
glosses: Organization by government departments, as opposed to other mechanisms, such as NGOs.
derestrict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːɹɪˈstɹɪkt/
Forms: form: derestricts
form: derestricting
form: derestricted
form: derestricted
Etymology: From de- + restrict.
Senses: glosses: To free from restrictions
diestock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diestocks
Etymology: From die + stock.
Senses: glosses: A component that holds a die that cuts screw threads.
Supes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːps/
rhymes: -uːps
Etymology: Clipping of Superman + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: glosses: Superman, the DC Comics character.
Related terms: Bats
economism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: economisms
Etymology: From economy + -ism.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The belief that economic causes or factors have dominance over all others
glosses: Working class political action that makes purely economic demands
Derived terms: antieconomism
eventlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eventless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being eventless; a lack of events
flowerhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flowerheads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of flower head.
forestaysail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forestaysails
Etymology: From forestay + sail.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A triangular sail attached to the forestay.
foretoken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretokens
Etymology: From Middle English foretokne, fortacne, from Old English foretācn, foretācen (“foretoken, presage, prognostic, prodigy, sign, wonder”), equivalent to fore- + token. Cognate with Dutch voorteken, German Low German Vörteken, German Vorzeichen.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore know you Gentlemen (to whom from my harte I wish that it may not proue ominous foretoke[n] of misfortune to haue mette with such a miser as I am) that whatsoeuer my sonne (ô God, that trueth binds me to reproch him with the name of my sonne) hath said, is true.
ref: 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Book II, ch. 10:
glosses: A prognostic; a premonitory sign; warning or presentiment.
foretoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: foretokens
form: foretokening
form: foretokened
form: foretokened
Etymology: From Middle English *foretoknen, fortaknen, from Old English foretācnian (“to foreshow”).
Senses: glosses: To betoken beforehand; prognosticate; foreshadow; give warning of; presage.
Derived terms: foretokening
foretriangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foretriangles
Etymology: From fore- + triangle.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A triangular space on a sailing ship between the deck, foremast, and forestay.
gnomonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈmɒnɪks/
rhymes: -ɒnɪks
Senses: glosses: The science, art and craft of designing and constructing sundials.
Related terms: gnomon
gnomonist
gnomonology
horography
double-track
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From double + track.
Senses: examples: text: Determined to learn from Bouch's mistakes, they conducted a through [sic] survey of the riverbed. Having learned what they needed to know, they submitted plans for a new double-track bridge by the end of 1880.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in RAIL, page 82:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: twin-track
antonyms: single-track
glosses: Having a pair of tracks in order to allow trains to pass in opposite directions.
Related terms: double track
double-tracking
double-track
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-tracks
form: double-tracking
form: double-tracked
form: double-tracked
Etymology: From double + track.
Senses: examples: text: Other engineering upgrades include the reinstatement of Platform 4 at Birmingham Snow Hill, partially double-tracking the line between Ledbury and Shelwick, and freight loops between Nuneaton and Leicester.
ref: 2023 March 8, “Network News: Midlands presses for rail hub scheme”, in RAIL, number 978, page 14:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To provide double track.
single-track
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: singletrack
Senses: examples: text: […]a single-track main line between Richmond, Ind., and Norwood Heights, Ohio
ref: 1942 February 1, “Pennsylvania Installs Centralized Traffic Control On 60.7 Miles of Single Track”, in Railway Signalling, Chicago, page 78:
text: It was once the busiest singletrack section of railway line in the country but, almost three decades after its closure, the short route which once linked Tunbridge Wells’s two stations is a ghostly presence
ref: 2013 March 1, “Fears for future of vital link between two train stations”, in The Kent and Sussex Courier, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, page 14:
text: On the now defunct Guildford-to-Horsham line, there was a foolproof way of avoiding collisions on singletrack lines
ref: 2016 February 18, Peter Le Feuvre, “Letter to the editor”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 17:
text: Basingstoke-Exeter will test this. From Salisbury westwards, it's largely single-track since British Rail downgraded it in 1967. There's a ten-mile loop between Templecombe and Yeovil, as well as shorter loops at Chard, Axminster and Honiton.
ref: 2025 February 5, Philip Haigh, “Where track and train integration will be put to the test”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 51:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
synonyms: one-track
antonyms: double-track
twin-track
glosses: Having only a single track so that trains may only run in one direction at a time.
examples: text: Highglen elementary school will maintain a dual-track system of a Montessori program and a regular neighbourhood school program side-by-side for one more year, Prince George trustees decided this week. In January, the board had voted in favour of making the Montessori program into a single-track program where it would occupy an entire school like Highglen.
ref: 2003 April 19, Paul Strickland, “Single-track Montessori on hold until 2004”, in Prince George Citizen, Prince George, British Columbia, page 3:
text: This week the district placed Cathedral City Elementary and Landau Elementary back to a “single-track” schedule in which all students attend school on the same days throughout the year. A few years ago, overcrowding forced the district to split students into tracks so that some kids attended classes while others were on vacation.
ref: 2006 April 15, “Our voice”, in The Desert Sun, Palm Springs, California, page B10:
topics: education
antonyms: dual-track
streaming
glosses: Having a single curriculum or other educational approach for all students.
Related terms: single-tracking
singling
ichnography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: ichnographies
Etymology: From ichno- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: the ground plan of a building
glosses: the art of constructing ground plans
Derived terms: ichnographic
impossibilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From impossible + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A belief in unrealizable or impractical policies.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A socialist doctrine that stresses the limited value of political, economic, and social reforms within a capitalist economy, arguing that the pursuit of such reforms strengthens support for the existing system.
examples: text: In the next section I examine five fatalist arguments for impossibilism and show that they all fail, and some for reasons more subtle than is usually thought.
ref: 2013, Kadri Vihvelin, Causes, Laws, and Free Will: Why Determinism Doesn't Matter, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 35:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that free will does not exist and is simply impossible.
Related terms: impossibilist
indicatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin indicātrīx. By surface analysis, indicate + -trix.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ellipsoid whose three axes represent the refractive indices of an anisotropic crystal for light following different directions with respect to the crystal axes
Derived terms: Tissot's indicatrix
indicolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicolites
Senses: glosses: An indigo-blue variety of tourmaline
Synonyms: elbaite