cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
teenaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtiːneɪd͡ʒd/
Etymology: From teen + aged.
Senses: examples: text: a teenaged girl
text: Dexter's vocals are competent enough: his timbre is thin and eternally teenaged, but he can go apeshit on the hiccupy histrionics like no one's business.
ref: 1999 August 26, Buddy Seigal, “Even Old Englishmen Still Get Wood”, in OC Weekly, retrieved 16 Jun 2009:
text: In one photograph, a teenaged Leah crouches by a tall cylindrical tank containing what she identified to me as a giant Pacific octopus named Pamela. We were pals, she said, in a voice that I thought seemed to strive for offhandedness, did you know they taste with their skin? Octopuses, I mean.
ref: 2022, Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, page 67:
glosses: Aged between thirteen and nineteen inclusive; teenage.
Synonyms: teen
teenage
effectuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effectuates
form: effectuating
form: effectuated
form: effectuated
Etymology: From the participle stem of Renaissance Latin effectuare, or its source, Latin effectus (“effect”); probably after Middle French effectuer.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he next necessary step was to elude the vigilance of my guard: and in this manner did I effectuate my purpose.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: A military draft derives from Congress’s power to raise armies; federal jury duty effectuates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial.
ref: 2022 January 11, Charles Lane, “Opinion: On vaccine mandates, the Supreme Court is doing a job Congress should have finished long ago”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To cause, bring about (an event); to accomplish, to carry out (a wish, plan etc.).
Derived terms: effectuation
Related terms: effect
effective
effectiveness
effectivity
effector
effectual
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
lithium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a white, powdered alkali, Li₂O, used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics
Synonyms: lithia
lithium perchlorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The lithium salt of perchloric acid, LiClO₄ used as a source of oxygen in portable generators, and as an electrolyte in lithium batteries.
lithium soap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithium soaps
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any lithium salt of a fatty acid, made by the reaction of fat with lithium hydroxide and used in the manufacture of lubricating greases.
lithium stearate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the lithium salt of stearic acid; a lithium soap made from tallow
lithium sulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithium sulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the lithium salt of sulfuric acid, Li₂SO₄; used in the treatment of manic depression etc
lithium sulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lithium sulfate.
lithium sulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithium sulphide
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a binary compound of lithium and sulfur, Li₂S, sometimes used in lithium batteries
lithium sulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lithium sulfide.
can you tell us
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Can you tell us how you will motivate your students to learn?
glosses: Begins a polite request; used on behalf of more than one speaker.
I'd like to know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I'd like to know more about the graduate admissions process.
glosses: A polite request for information.
I want to know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Could you please tell me where to catch the bus? / Well, where are you going? What do you really want to know?
text: I want to know the directions to the bus station.
text: I want to know how to get to the bus station.
text: I want to know where the M-5 bus stops.
glosses: A request for information.
do you know
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
dish up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dishes up
form: dishing up
form: dished up
form: dished up
Senses: glosses: To serve (cooked food); to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc. and put in dishes to be served at table.
examples: text: The writers are dishing up more of the same with this bland suburban sitcom.
glosses: To produce for an audience.
glosses: To beat up.
come round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes round
form: coming round
form: came round
form: come round
Etymology: From come + round.
Senses: glosses: To change direction.
examples: text: I'll explain it again, and maybe he'll come round to my way of thinking.
text: He's a reasonable man. I knew he'd come round eventually.
glosses: To change one's opinion to a prevailing one.
examples: text: After the blow to my head, I took a while to come round.
text: Signalman Bridges was killed by the blast, as was fireman Nightall. Amazingly, driver Gimbert came round some 200 yards away, on the grass outside the Station Hotel where he had been flung.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: To return to a former condition.
To recover consciousness, to come to
glosses: To return to a former condition.
To cease anger or hostility.
examples: text: Would you like to come round for dinner tonight?
text: What day does the garbage man come round?
text: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To visit someone's home or other regular place.
Synonyms: sense: change direction
word: put about
sense: change direction
word: turn around
sense: change direction
word: wheel
sense: change opinion to a prevailing one
word: give way
sense: recover consciousness
word: come to
sense: recover consciousness
word: come to one's senses
sense: recover consciousness
word: wake up
sense: cease hostility
word: calm down
sense: cease hostility
word: cease fire
sense: cease hostility
word: pull in one's horns
sense: visit someone's home
word: call on
Related terms: come around
clutter up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clutters up
form: cluttering up
form: cluttered up
form: cluttered up
Senses: examples: text: Why do you clutter up your mind with such useless knowledge?
text: The hotel lobby was cluttered up with furniture.
glosses: To fill with rubbish or with needless articles.
let in on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets in on
form: letting in on
form: let in on
form: let in on
Senses: examples: text: Do you think we should let him in on the shortcut?
glosses: To disclose information to someone; to tell somebody a secret or share privileged information.
lithium tantalate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the lithium salt of tantalic acid, LiTaO₃, whose crystalline form is piezoelectric and pyroelectric and is used in optical devices
beryllia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beryllias
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: beryllium oxide
beryllium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white, crystalline compound, BeO, used in semiconductors and in specialist ceramic applications.
Synonyms: beryllia
glucina
glucina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: beryllium oxide
berylliosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beryllioses
Etymology: From beryllium + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A chronic disease of the lungs, caused by inhalation of beryllium compounds.
Synonyms: chronic beryllium disease
CBD
beryllonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare mineral, sodium beryllium phosphate, with the chemical formula NaBePO₄; found especially in Maine.
beryllide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beryllides
Etymology: From beryllium + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any intermetallic compound of beryllium with another metal; present in some alloys.
berylline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more berylline
form: most berylline
Etymology: From beryl + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: He held out his leg so that I could examine the shackle about his ankle. His berylline flesh was swollen about it, as I have seen the bark of a tree swollen that had grown through an iron ring.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter III, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Beryl-like; having a light blue-green colour.
Derived terms: berylline hummingbird
berylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beryllines
Etymology: From beryl + -ine.
Senses: glosses: The berylline color.
glosses: berylline hummingbird
victimology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɪktɪˈmɒləd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: victimologies
Etymology: From French victimologie. victim + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the victims of crime, and especially of the reasons some people are more prone to be victims.
examples: text: The whole thing has rotted into a festival of bad faith and victimology, those twin markers of the Trump-Twitter Decade: rather an irony for a show organized under the sign of friendship.
ref: 2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The attitude of seeing oneself as a victim, especially in a way that is self-absorbed or indulgent.
Related terms: victimological
victimologist
berylloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: berylloids
Senses: glosses: a solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid
Related terms: beryl
Borazon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name adopted in 1969.
Senses: glosses: A very hard abrasive made from boron nitride granules.
boride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈboɹˌaɪd/
Forms: form: borides
Etymology: From bor(on) + -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The B³⁻ anion.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of boron and a more electropositive element.
Derived terms: beryllium boride
boriding
calcium boride
cerium boride
cobalt boride
diboride
dodecaboride
fluoboride
heptaboride
hexaboride
monoboride
pentaboride
tetraboride
titanium boride
triboride
yttrium boride
zirconium boride
boruret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borurets
Etymology: From boro- + -uret or bor(on) + -uret.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Boride.
boron arsenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of boron and arsenic, BAs, used as a semiconductor, sometimes alloyed with gallium arsenide.
gallium arsenide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of gallium and arsenic, GaAs, used as a semiconductor, especially in light-emitting diodes.
boron carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of boron and carbon, B₄C, that is a very hard ceramic, and is used in tank armour, bulletproof vests etc.
Synonyms: Tetrabor™
black diamond
cuprite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːpɹaɪt/
Forms: form: cuprites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral composed of cuprous oxide and a minor ore of copper.
Derived terms: plumbocuprite
boron deficiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boron deficiencies
head_nr: 1
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
head_nr: 1
glosses: any pathological effect in animals and humans due to a deficiency of boron in the diet
head_nr: 1
glosses: any of a number of disorders in plants that grow on granite, or other places deficient in boron
fluo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From fluor.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: fluorine
Derived terms: fluobenzene
fluoborate
fluoboric acid
fluocarbonate
fluocerine
fluocerite
fluochromic acid
fluohydric acid
fluophosphate
fluosilicic acid
fluotantalate
fluotantalic acid
fluotitanate
fluotitanic acid
fluozirconate
Related terms: fluoro-
boron group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boron groups
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: triel
icosagen
glosses: a vertical series of elements in the periodic table that have three valence electrons; boron is a metalloid, while aluminium, gallium, indium and thallium are metals
boron oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound boron trioxide.
boron tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boron trees
Etymology: The leaves have a degree or valence (or valency) of 1 or 3 (as hydrogen and boron do in borane).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A binary tree.
Hypernyms: tree
binary tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary trees
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A data structure in which each node has at most two children, each node but the root has one parent, and there are no cycles.
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: full binary tree
Related terms: quadtree
boron tribromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of boron and bromine, BBr₃; it is a strong Lewis acid.
Related terms: boron trichloride
boron trifluoride
boron triiodide
boron trichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of boron and chlorine, BCl₃; it is used in metal refining.
Related terms: boron tribromide
boron trifluoride
boron triiodide
boron trifluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of boron and fluorine, BF₃; it is a strong Lewis acid.
Related terms: boron tribromide
boron trichloride
boron triiodide
boron triiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of boron and iodine, BI₃; it is a crystalline solid.
Related terms: boron tribromide
boron trichloride
boron trifluoride
carreau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carreaux
Etymology: Borrowed from French carreau. Doublet of quarrel.
Senses: examples: text: In 1809 and 1814, land reform in southern and western Haiti resulted in the estimated redistribution of some 76,000 carreaux of land among 2,322 civil and military officers.
ref: 2013, Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie, Freedom's Seekers:
glosses: A Haitian unit of land, 100 square pas: roughly 1.3 hectares or 3.2 acres.
activated carbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A very absorbent form of finely powdered carbon; used in purifying gases, and as an antidote for many poisons.
Synonyms: activated charcoal
activated charcoal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: activated carbon
Allan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alan
form: Allen
form: Alen
Senses: examples: text: "If I had been a man," she said, "I should so like to have been called Allan!"
"Call me by my name, if you really like it," he whispered persuasively. "Call me 'Allan', for once - just to try."
ref: 1866, William 'Wilkie' Collins, Armadale, Kissinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 288:
text: “We are pleased that LSST has now been named the Vera C. Rubin Observatory,” said Rubin’s sons Allan Rubin, David Rubin, and Karl Rubin in a statement.
ref: 2020 January 7, Ashley Strickland, “First US observatory named in honor of a female astronomer, Vera Rubin”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages, a less common spelling of Alan.
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name, more often spelled Allen.
glosses: A town in the Rural Municipality of Blucher No.343, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in Southern Downs Region, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A commune in Drôme department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Related terms: Allan Water
Bridge of Allan
Strathallan
beta carbon nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta carbon nitrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a theoretical binary compound of carbon and nitrogen, C₃N₄, that is thought would have properties similar to diamond or boron nitride
carbinyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbinyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: carbenium ion
carbon-12
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The most abundant of the two stable isotopes of carbon, ¹²₆C, having six protons and six neutrons; it is the standard for atomic weight and is used to define the mole.
Related terms: carbon-13
carbon-14
carbon-13
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The less common of the two stable isotopes of carbon, ¹³₆C, having six protons and seven neutrons.
Related terms: carbon-12
carbon-13 NMR
carbon-14
carbon-14
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotopes of carbon, ¹⁴₆C, having six protons and eight neutrons; it is used in radiocarbon dating.
Synonyms: radiocarbon
Related terms: carbon-12
carbon-13
Qual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quals
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of qual.
vinomadefied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vinomadefied
form: most vinomadefied
Etymology: From Latin, vinum (“wine”) + madefieri (“to be soaked”).
Senses: glosses: Soaked with wine.
gruelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʊə.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.əl.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: more gruelling
form: most gruelling
Etymology: From present particle of gruel (“to exhaust, punish”), from gruel (noun).
Senses: glosses: Very difficult or taxing; exhausting; backbreaking.
Synonyms: sense: so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted
word: backbreaking
sense: so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted
word: exhausting
sense: so difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted
word: taxing
Derived terms: gruellingly
gruelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʊə.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.əl.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: gruellings
Etymology: From present particle of gruel (“to exhaust, punish”), from gruel (noun).
Senses: examples: text: The expenses are considerably reduced, and one or two men are prevented from carrying off nearly all the races ; for though " the spirit" may be ever so " willing," the " flesh is weak," and cannot stand more than five or six gruellings in a single day.
ref: 1869, John William Carleton, The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'., page 394:
text: Miss Harriet just got there first from Vauban, the latter being leg weary from his previous gruellings ; the bitch scored four more before giving way to the dog, who made some nice driving points ; Miss Harriet, coming again, finished a good trial an easy winner.
ref: 1871, The COURSING CALENDAR For The AUTUMN SEASON 1870, page 229:
text: The course was given to the black puppy, but his chance was generally considered to have been utterly destroyed by the two gruellings he had received.
ref: 1907, James Blyth, The irrevocable, and other stories, page 230:
text: When "Red Robin's" other great son, "Dee Rock", was retired to stud in 1935 I recollect, too, the pessimistic prophecies of those sceptics that a dog that had endured so many gruellings in the field would never accomplish much at stud.
ref: 1949, H. Edwards Clarke, The modern greyhound, page 66:
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion.
examples: text: It was the hardest fighting that our Canadians have been up against, and the manner in which they took these terrible gruellings and assaults is one of the most creditable occurrences in the annals of this great war."
ref: 1919, John Castell Hopkins, Robert John Renison, Canada at War, 1914-1918: A Record of Heroism and Achievement:
text: Its life may be but for its hour, amid the gruellings of the world, but for this hour it justifies both its kind and nature, which has produced it, and though it fade and perish, yet it lives as the patterning embodiment of a whole striving after beauty of a creative nature.
ref: 1934, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, The Hibbert Journal - Volume 33, page 53:
text: 'Give me a buzz when you think you can squeeze me in between English lit and the pinball championships and the gruellings of overwork, OK?'
ref: 2005, Dai Vaughan, Non-return, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A gruelling ordeal.
gruelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʊə.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɡɹu.əl.ɪŋ/
Etymology: From present particle of gruel (“to exhaust, punish”), from gruel (noun).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gruel
ministerium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪnɪˈstɪəɹi.əm/
enpr: mĭn'ə-stîrʹē-əm
ipa: /ˌmɪnəˈstɪəriəm/
Forms: form: ministeriums
form: ministeria
Senses: glosses: An association of ministers from various religious groups who come together to work for a specific purpose, such as meeting the socioeconomic needs of a community.
Related terms: minister
ministry
ministerial
bump into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tuː/
ipa: /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tu/
ipa: /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tə/
ipa: /ˌbʌmˈpɪn.tʊ/
rhymes: (unstressed, before consonants) -ɪntə
Forms: form: bumps into
form: bumping into
form: bumped into
form: bumped into
Senses: examples: text: He bumped into the wall. I guess that's a risk you take when you read while walking.
glosses: To collide with.
examples: text: The roads were so slippery that I couldn't stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me.
glosses: To cause (a thing) to collide with.
examples: text: We bumped into each other at the library yesterday.
synonyms: run into
glosses: To meet by chance.
Related terms: bump-in
quarantined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quarantine
quarantined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In quarantine; isolated.
fee schedule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fee schedules
Senses: glosses: A list or table, whether ordered or not, showing fixed fees for goods or services.
glosses: The actual set of fees to be charged.
qualifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ.ə/
enpr: kwŏlʹĭ-fī-ə
ipa: /ˈkwɑ.lɪ.faɪ.ɚ/
enpr: kwŏʹlĭ-fī-ər
ipa: /ˈkwɔl.ɪ.fɑɪ.ə/
enpr: kwŏlʹĭ-fī-ə
Forms: form: qualifiers
Etymology: From qualify + -er.
Senses: antonyms: eliminee
glosses: One who qualifies for something, especially a contestant who qualifies for a stage in a competition.
examples: text: But England's final qualifier, played out in the hostile surroundings of Podgorica City Stadium, turned on two incidents that will have cast a cloud over Capello's delight at reaching another major tournament.
ref: 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England:
text: Rice is maturing at such a rate that he is now indispensable. Yes, these qualifiers may not be the most exacting examinations but he has also looked a class act at club level under manager David Moyes this season.
ref: 2021 March 31, Phil McNulty, “England 2-1 Poland: What shape are Gareth Southgate's side in?”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A preliminary stage of a competition.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: modifier
glosses: A word or phrase, such as an adjective or adverb, that describes or characterizes another word or phrase, such as a noun or verb; one that adds or subtracts attributes to another.
examples: text: The qualifier const may be prefixed to any declaration, and specifies that the value to which the data object is initialised cannot subsequently be changed.
ref: 2012, Conor Sexton, C++ Programming Made Simple:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A marker that qualifies or modifies another code element.
Related terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: determiner
agroeconomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From agro- + economic or agroeconomy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to the economics of agriculture.
glosses: Of, or relating to the finances of farmers.
Derived terms: agroeconomic indicator
agroeconomic zone
Related terms: agri-politics
agroeconomy
armillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪləɹi
Etymology: Early 1700s, from Latin armilla (“bracelet; armlet; arm ring”), from Latin armus (“shoulder; upper arm”).
Senses: glosses: Resembling a bracelet or armilla; consisting of rings or circles.
Derived terms: armillary sphere
corroborated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Strengthened; confirmed; rendered more certain.
Derived terms: noncorroborated
uncorroborated
corroborated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corroborate
asquat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈskwɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: From a- + squat.
Senses: glosses: squatting
asquat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈskwɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: From a- + squat.
Senses: glosses: squatting
corrosivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corrosive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Corrosiveness, especially when related to water.
corrosiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From corrosive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or property of corroding or being corrosive, of eating away or disintegrating; acrimony.
glosses: Such property in some immaterial agent.
glosses: Some property characteristic of a corrosive substance, as its taste.
Synonyms: corrosivity
corrosively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more corrosively
form: most corrosively
Etymology: From corrosive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a corrosive manner.
nr.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nr (“near”).
nr
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Forms: form: nr.
Senses: examples: text: Bed + Cont Bkfst for Lesbians and Gay Men in a country village house 2 hrs fr Bos. Yr-round. Nr lakes, hikes, skiing.
ref: 1985 April 6, “Vermont Guesthouse (classified advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Abbreviation of near.
a stopped clock is right twice a day
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a broken clock is right twice a day
form: even a broken clock is right twice a day
form: even a stopped clock is right twice a day
Senses: glosses: A normally unreliable person or instrument can occasionally provide correct information, even if only by accident.
glosses: Someone who repeats the same thing constantly will at some point be correct, if only briefly.
Synonyms: even a blind squirrel can find a nut once in a while
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every now and then
even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
franticly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more franticly
form: most franticly
Etymology: From frantic + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As she cried thus franticly, to ears which she was taught to believe were stopped by death, the lover she invoked opened the door in person, just in time to prevent her sinking on the ground.
ref: 1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume II, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, →OCLC, page 197:
text: We started back off down the road, I franticly looked everywhere off the side of the road thinking maybe he crashed, or maybe he was hurt. I didn't know and thoughts were flooding my mind.
ref: 2012 April 19, Jordan Wiser, The Invasion, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 49:
text: They were probably pouring brandy and smoking, slumped over Father's desk, franticly going through papers and financial statements.
ref: 2013 February 24, Daniel Pitt, Edith's Return to Devon, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 291:
text: Entering the elevator once again there is now a sense of urgency about us as we franticly mount our search for defense, this now being our first priority. But when the elevator got to level five the elevator doors do not open as normal.
ref: 2017 May 22, R. A. Rios, The Flash Point Project: The world has changed by the twenty second century, but not all is what we would have dreamt it could be., →ISBN:
text: He can hear a man's footsteps running and crying out in panic from a distance. As he opens his eyes, he can see a man running through a hospital hallway. The man is franticly searching rooms as he peeks in and out of each door.
ref: 2020, Andrew Cooper, Untitled, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Rare spelling of frantically.
air-raid shelter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-raid shelters
Senses: examples: text: With the intensification of air raids on London last September, these tube platforms began to be used as an air raid shelter, and shelterers travelled by train (specially stopped there) from other stations in order to gain access.
ref: 1941 July, “Notes and News: New Tube Station at Highgate”, in Railway Magazine, page 329:
text: This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled over the branch by a steam engine.
ref: 1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 836:
glosses: A structure, often a reinforced underground shelter designed to give protection against air raids.
Synonyms: air raid bunker
bomb shelter
bombproof
Related terms: Anderson shelter
fallout shelter
Morrison shelter
baby bond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby bonds
Senses: glosses: Any bond, issued with a value less than $1,000, intended for small investors.
baby walker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby walkers
Senses: hypernyms: walking frame
walker
glosses: A device in which a baby sits in a harness within a wheeled frame that supports it whilst walking.
baby bouncer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby bouncers
Senses: glosses: Any of various devices in which a baby may be secured whilst allowing it to move the device up and down, or from side to side.
back blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A "brush" with natives in the "back blocks" would have speedily convinced them that they had come to the wrong country in order to escape warfare of a certain kind.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 223:
glosses: Remote countryside.
backlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backlight
backlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The illumination of a photographic subject from the rear, causing edges to glow while other areas remain in shadow.
back off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backs off
form: backing off
form: backed off
form: backed off
Senses: examples: text: I tried to back off slowly from the tiger in my path.
coordinate_terms: back away
back out
back up
stand back
glosses: To move backwards away from something.
examples: text: You need to back off, or the situation could turn ugly.
text: I was going to sue until my legal advisors told me to back off.
text: Republicans on Capitol Hill, who were gearing up to use Graeme as evidence that Democrats have overexpanded the health program to include families wealthy enough to afford private insurance, have backed off.
ref: 2007 October 10, David M. Herszenhorn, “Capitol Feud: A 12-Year-Old Is the Fodder”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: back down
stand down
glosses: To become less aggressive, particularly when one had appeared committed to act.
examples: text: Could you back off the volume a bit? It’s really loud.
synonyms: dial back
turn down
coordinate_terms: back out
glosses: To lower the setting of.
examples: text: The machine may go back off if it gets too hot. [= turn off again, turn back off].
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see back, off.
Derived terms: word: backoff
susceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˌsɛptəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /səˌsɛptəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [səˌsɛptəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /səˌseptəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [səˌseptəˈbɪləɾi]
Forms: form: susceptibilities
Etymology: From susceptible + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
ref: 2015 August 29, “Different Blood Cell-Derived Transcriptome Signatures in Cows Exposed to Vaccination Pre- or Postpartum”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The condition of being susceptible; vulnerability.
examples: text: The eyes were large and black, and had the moonlight's melancholy, with that tearful lustre which is the certain sign of keen susceptibility.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Anticipation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 40:
glosses: emotional sensitivity.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: sensitivity
glosses: Being vulnerable to a treatment (usually an antibiotic or antifungal); also, the degree of such vulnerability (i.e., weak, moderate, or strong).
raw_tags: of a pathogen
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: electric susceptibility, a measure of how easily a dielectric polarizes in response to an external electric field (compare permittivity).
Derived terms: atherosusceptibility
chemosusceptibility
hypersusceptibility
immunosusceptibility
insusceptibility
magnetic susceptibility
nonsusceptibility
supersusceptibility
trypanosusceptibility
unsusceptibility
woodlice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodlouse
Shavuot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑvuˈoʊt/
ipa: /ʃævuˈɒt/
ipa: /ʃəˈvuːəs/
Forms: form: Shabuos
form: Shabuot
form: Shabuoth
form: Shavuos
form: Shavuoth
form: Shevuos
form: Shevuoth
form: Shovuos
form: Shabungoth
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew שָׁבוּעוֹת (shavu'ót).
Senses: examples: text: Major Jewish holidays such as Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Simchat Torah, Succoth, Chanukah, Passover and Shavuot have been celebrated with Hebrew prayers and songs.
ref: 1971, United States Congress: Senate: Foreign Relations, Public Financing of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty
text: On the first day of Shavuot the Ten Commandments were explained to the people homiletically in the vernacular.
ref: 1975, Israel Zinberg, Old Yiddish Literature from Its Origins to the Haskalah Period:
synonyms: Feast of Weeks
Festival of Weeks
Pentecost
glosses: A Jewish harvest festival which falls on the sixth day of Sivan in the spring, fifty days after the second day of the Passover when the omer (“sheaf of barley”) is offered.
synonyms: Feast of Weeks
Festival of Weeks
Pentecost
glosses: A ceremony held on that day to commemorate the giving of the Torah (“first five books of the Hebrew scriptures”) to Moses and the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound
compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compound
romanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of romanization
readings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reading
derivations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derivation
spellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: spĕʹlĭngz
ipa: /ˈspɛlɪŋz/
rhymes: -ɛlɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of spelling
hits
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of its.
hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: plural of hit
hits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪts/
rhymes: -ɪts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hit
holmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homes
Etymology: Possibly from homeboy + -s (hypocoristic suffix), with the spelling influenced by Sherlock Holmes.
Senses: examples: text: Hey, holmes! What's up?
glosses: An informal term of address, like man or dude.
Related terms: vato
holmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See holme
Senses: glosses: plural of holme
undervote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undervotes
Etymology: From under- + vote.
Senses: glosses: A vote that has been cast but that shows no legally valid preference for a candidate in an election.
glosses: The number of such votes in an election.
Related terms: overvote
undervote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undervotes
form: undervoting
form: undervoted
form: undervoted
Etymology: From under- + vote.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: To spoil a ballot by marking it for fewer choices than mandated by the rules.
appendices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendixes
Senses: glosses: plural of appendix
glosses: plural of appendice
smokescreen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmoʊkˌskɹin/
Forms: form: smokescreens
form: smoke screen
form: smoke-screen
Etymology: From smoke + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Ensign Whitely began to tell of the surprise encounter of Admiral Sprague’s escort-carrier force with the main battle line of the Japanese Navy off Samar, in a chaos of rain squalls and smoke screens.
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 25, Part 5, p. 284:
text: C.I.E. Class "D14" 4-4-0 No. 89 covers its tracks with a magnificent smokescreen as it pulls out of Dun Laoghaire with the 9.0 a.m. boat train for Dublin.
ref: 1959 September, “Talking of Trains”, in Trains Illustrated, page 401, photo caption:
text: However, before most of this was experimentally and observationally discovered, they were perhaps best known for their “almost unique” ability to squirt ink when harangued, creating a smokescreen before jetting off to safety.
ref: 2017 August 9, Mark Carnall, “Why do cephalopods produce ink? And what's ink made of, anyway?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Smoke used as a disguise, mask or cover, as of troops in battle.
examples: text: All that talk is just a smokescreen to disguise the fact that he has nothing to say.
text: It was all very plausible and, as he poured out his smokescreen of words, I became fidgety for fear Fallon would be too direct with him.
ref: 1968, Desmond Bagley, chapter 8, in The Vivero Letter, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 163:
glosses: Anything used metaphorically to conceal or distract.
Related terms: smoke test
escarpment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskɑːp.mənt/
ipa: /ɪˈskɑɹp.mənt/
Forms: form: escarpments
Etymology: Borrowed from French escarpement. By surface analysis, escarp + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: After the canyons, the most remarkable features of the country are the long lines of cliffs. These are bold escarpments scores or hundreds of miles in length,—great geographic steps, often hundreds or thousands of feet in altitude, presenting steep faces of rock, often vertical.
ref: 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 32:
text: The railway winds down the face of the escarpment on a steady grade of 1.05 per cent, which is considerably better than the old route, up which trains took 2 hr. to struggle 15 miles, with two stops.
ref: 1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 265:
text: One of [the] defining characteristics of [the northern Horn of Africa] is its separateness, and this is partly due to its physical diversity. A detailed description of physical geography falls outside the scope of this book. It may simply be noted that the region comprises highlands that are bounded on the east by the precipitous escarpment bordering the Danakil lowlands and the Red Sea. To the west, the country descends more gradually to the extensive plains of the Nile Valley but is riven by the rugged valleys of the Takezze and other Nile tributaries. In the north, with decreasing altitude, the terrain becomes progressively more arid as the Sudanese lowlands converge with the Red-Sea coast. It is only to the south that the highlands continue, linking them with the principal mass of the Ethiopian plateau, near the western edge of which lies Lake Tana and the source of the Blue Nile.
ref: 2012, David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilisation. Aksum & the northern Horn, 1000 BC–AD 1300, Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, page 10:
hypernyms: cliff
glosses: A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
sista
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪs.tə/
Forms: form: sistas
Senses: examples: text: […] but if you were a colorist and texturist and couldn't get down with a sista who had tighter than 3B hair, you'd confirm she was a knockout.
ref: 2020 December 22, G.L. Tomas, The Love Bet(A BWWM Romantic Comedy), Rebellious Valkyrie Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sister.
on the loose
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Went to a bongo party completely by mistake / there were coons and thugs and fat sheboons with all the pavement apes / When I got to the bongo party, it smelled of jenkem juice / someone left the cave door open, there were chimps on the loose.
ref: 2022 April 19, Skeeter, “Biden Admin To Fund Crack Pipe Distribution To Advance ?Racial Equity?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
glosses: Not incarcerated or in captivity; not under control.
examples: text: Sometimes he dispensed water to men who “looked as if they had been on the loose all night.”
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
glosses: Out on a spree, or in search of adventure.
examples: text: Those who have had good nursing, and all that, and the advantages of a sound education, who have a position to lose, prospects to blight, and relations to dishonour, may be blamed for going on the loose, but I’ll be hanged if I think that priest or moralist is to come down on me with the sledge-hammer of their denunciation.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
text: Many doctors practising in large cities dwell on the difficulty of checking clandestine prostitution, which is unfortunately on the increase in all crowded centres, where numbers of women are on the loose, over whom the police have little or no hold.
ref: 1868, The Indian Medical Gazette, volume 3, page 21:
glosses: Earning a living by prostitution.
Synonyms: on the run
on the lam
sfumato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sfumatos
Etymology: From Italian sfumato (“shaded, toned down”).
Senses: examples: text: Another quality which was adopted from Leonardo, and of which the Florentines were especially enamoured, was the ‘sfumato’ system—the imperceptible softening of the transitions in half-tints and shadows.
ref: 1869, Charles Lock Eastlake, Materials for a History of Oil Painting, Volume II, Longmans, Green & Co., page 206:
text: 1960, Helmut Ruhemann, Leonardo's Use of Sfumato, in The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 1, British Society of Aesthetics, page 233,
The interpretation of ‘sfumato’ is equally wrong. In ‘sfumato’ there is no blurring of the outlines which delineate the contours of figures and there is no blending or diminution of the definition of forms or for that matter any mellowing of colours.
text: It could be said that sfumato is less exact than line and that its forms are less precisely defined, but with these apparent omissions comes a sense of atmosphere. By casting its shadow over concrete form, sfumato dissolves it.
ref: 1991, Philip Sohm, Pittoresco, Cambridge University Press, page 4:
text: In baroque painting, sfumato is the blurring of outlines and colors amongst objects, as clouds and mountains, or the sea and the sky. Sfumato allows baroque subjectivity to create the near and the familiar among different intelligibilities, thus making cross-cultural dialogues possible and desirable.
ref: 2002, Scott Lash, Mike Featherstone, editors, Recognition and Difference, SAGE Publications, page 200:
text: 2018, Lena Redman, Knowing with New Media, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, page 234,
No smeared sfumatos—blurred lines and borders—or anaemic chewing of emotions, just forcefully chopped slabs of substance.
text: 2022, Ellen Jones, Robin Myers (translators), Ave Barrera, The Forgery, Charco Press, unnumbered page,
As I was saying, I was worried because my sfumatos didn't look anything like they did in the original.
topics: art
arts
qualifier: painting
glosses: A painting technique, prominent during the Italian Renaissance, involving the application of subtle layers of translucent paint, blurring the transition between colors, tones and often objects and creating the illusion of depth.
Related terms: sfumatura
atmospheric perspective
undreamt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdɹɛmt/
Forms: form: more undreamt
form: most undreamt
Etymology: From un- + dreamt.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, he regretted only the words left unspoken and the dreams left undreamt.
glosses: Not dreamed; not dreamt.
Derived terms: undreamed-of