cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
videndum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videnda
Etymology: Latin
Senses: examples: text: We agree with Mr. Clarke regarding the videnda of European travel […]
ref: 1852, The Christian Examiner, page 247:
text: […] Boorstin's (1987) caricature of the tourist as a cultural dope capturing tautologically on camera the sights that s(he) was told to see lay not so much in his stress on ocular-centric ritual as in the nature of the videndum.
ref: 2002, Graham Dann, The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World, page 209:
glosses: That which is to be seen.
cosmotrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmotron
précising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of précis
précised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of précis
harrowings of hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harrowing of hell
dumble-dor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumble-dors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dumbledore.
dumbledor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbledors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dumbledore.
dumble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbles
Etymology: Probable variant of dimble.
Senses: examples: text: When a stream runs in a deep dell, particularly in clay districts, the steep banks and stream form what are called a “dumble” in Nottinghamshire.
ref: 1859, John Blenkarn, British timber trees: a practical treatise on the raising, management, and value of British timber, G. Routledge, page 110:
text: Fine electric activity in sound came from the dumbles below the road, the birds piping one against the other, and water mysteriously plashing, issuing from the lake.
ref: 1921, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 40:
text: Lambley is famous for its ‘dumbles.’ A dumble being a local name for a shallow dale with a stream.
ref: 1999, Paul A. Biggs, Sandra Biggs, Best Tea Shop Walks in Nottinghamshire, Sigma Leisure, page 106:
glosses: A shady valley, a dingle; especially one with steep wooded sides and a stream running through it.
examples: text: Recently Dr. K. J. Allison has come across a Leconfield lease of 1631 which included 'all the earl 's dumbles growing in Arram Carr' ?
ref: 1974, The Local Historian - Volume 11, page 64:
text: In such circumstances it may well be that a natural pool would be enlarged or deepened or an artificial pond created to maintain a suitable habitat for the rush. Later archival references to the rush “dumbles" are for the River Hull valley.
ref: 1982, Lore and Language - Volume 3, Parts 6-10, page 54:
text: The item from Elizabeth Hotham's account book does not state where the dumbles grew, but in a later account book of Sir Charles Hotham Arram Carr is specified.
ref: 1988, Charles Oodrington Pressick Hobkirk, George Taylor Porritt, William Denison Roebuck, The Naturalist - Issues 984-999, page 58:
glosses: The club rush.
Related terms: dumbledore
dumbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumble
dumble-dors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumble-dor
dumbledors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dumbledor
Phan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phans
form: phan
Etymology: Blend of Phish + fan.
Senses: examples: text: Phish "phans" compile set lists, take notes on performances and tape-record everything from a section designated for them at each show.
ref: 2000 September 23, “Eclectic crowd catches Phish”, in The Washington Times:
text: But none were as crazy as this one -- when Phish's tie-dyed "Phans" danced in the aisles, sang along to the music and generally created a scene that recalled the Grateful Dead's glory daze.
ref: 2006 July 9, “Wanna try the meaning of life?”, in Oakland Tribune:
text: It was the type of evening -- an entirely mesmerizing and moving two-set concert filled with superb musicianship and incredible improvisation -- that made the undying devotion of the "phans" seem quite logical.
ref: 2012 August 20, Jim Harrington, “Review: Phish closes SF stand on legendary note”, in Contra Costa Times:
glosses: A fan of the American rock band Phish.
Synonyms: Phishhead
Phan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: phan
Etymology: Blend of Phil + Dan.
Senses: examples: text: In 2017 Tumblr fandometrics identified that two of the ten most reblogged ships were RPF ships. YouTube vloggers Dan Howell and Phil Lester, whose ship portmanteau is Phan, […]
ref: 2018 June, Emily E. Roach, “The homoerotics of the boyband, queerbaiting and RPF in pop music fandoms”, in The Journal of Fandom Studies, volume 6, number 2:
text: In hindsight, I now regret the errors of my ways (flashback to the time I was embarrassingly obsessed with Phan, the romantic pairing of YouTubers Daniel Howell and Phil Lester) as I find it uncomfortable to see people make the mistakes I once did.
ref: 2019 June 24, Jade Tan, “All Aboard The Ship”, in The High, International School of Lausanne, page 10:
text: Fans were so frenzied by the idea of a romantic relationship between them that Phan has always maintained a spot in the top five of Yearly Top Ships on Tumblr for the past three years.
ref: 2020 May, Sherin John Francis, Kavya Purushothaman, “Fanfiction: A Study as An Uprising Genre in LIterature”, in Purakala, volume 31, number 30, page 28:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The real-person fiction ship of YouTube personalities Daniel Howell and Phil Lester.
Phan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: phan
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Phan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Vietnamese.
catholicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more catholicly
form: most catholicly
form: catholickly
Etymology: From catholic + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a catholic manner
Synonyms: generally
universally
custumal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: custumals
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin custumale (adjective, neuter form of custumalis), used as an adjectival noun. Attested to 1576.
Senses: examples: text: However, it may have been too unwieldy for a large and growing city, and its business therefore narrowed as the other courts developed. According to an early thirteenth-century custumal, there were three chief folkmoots a year: […]
ref: 2003, John Hamilton Baker, The Oxford History of the Laws of England: c. 900-1216, page 819:
glosses: A survey of a medieval English manor, listing each tenant and the customs under which the tenancy was held.
doronicum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dəˈɹɒnɪkəm/
Forms: form: doronicums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Doronicum, including some called leopardsbane.
downhaul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downhauls
Etymology: From down- + haul.
Senses: examples: text: The only sail that is wholly ours is the spanker. They control absolutely--sheets, halyards, clewlines, buntlines, braces, and down-hauls--every sail on the fore and main. We control the braces on the mizzen, although they control the canvas on the mizzen.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any rope used to haul down a sail or spar.
Hypernyms: cordage
Derived terms: galley downhaul
infeudation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infeudations
Senses: glosses: The act, under the feudal system, of putting someone into possession of a fee or fief; enfeoffment.
Derived terms: subinfeudation
infibulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infibulates
form: infibulating
form: infibulated
form: infibulated
Senses: glosses: To perform infibulation (on)
Derived terms: reinfibulate
uninfibulated
insignificancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insignificancies
Etymology: From insignificant + -cy or insignificance + -y.
Senses: glosses: Lack of signification; meaninglessness.
examples: text: The argument may fairly be extended to women; for, seldom occupied by serious business, the pursuit of pleasure gives that insignificancy to their character which renders the society of the great so insipid.
ref: 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
glosses: Unimportance, insignificance.
glosses: An insignificant person or thing.
invitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more invitatory
form: most invitatory
Etymology: From Latin invitatorius.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an invitation
invitatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invitatories
Etymology: From Latin invitatorius.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A psalm sung, as an invitation to prayer, at the beginning of some services
laciniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ləˈsɪn.i.ət/
Forms: form: laciniated
Etymology: From Latin lacinia (“flap or edge of a garment”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Bordered with a fringe.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Bordered with a fringe.
Cut into deep irregular usually pointed lobes.
Derived terms: bilaciniate
laciniately
laciniation
sublaciniate
Related terms: lacinia
lacinial
lackaday
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Univerbation with apheresis from the interjection "alack the day".
Senses: glosses: An expression of regret or grief.
Related terms: lackadaisical
lackadaisy
lophophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lophophores
Etymology: From lopho- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A feeding organ of brachiopods, bryozoans and phoronids.
Derived terms: lophophorate
modiolus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modioli
Etymology: From Latin modiolus (“wheel's hub”), diminutive of modius (“measure of grain”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The central core of the cochlea
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A chiasma of facial muscles held together by fibrous tissue
Derived terms: perimodiolar
Related terms: modioliform
negroni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈɡɹoʊni/
ipa: /nɪˈɡɹəʊnɪ/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: negronis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian negroni, from surname Italian Negroni, from Italian negri (“black”) + Italian -oni (“(ablative) from, of”).
The origin of the drink's name is disputed, most often attributed to being named after Count Camillo Negroni (1868–1934), who asked for an early form of this cocktail.
Senses: examples: text: The main item on the agenda was alcohol, not food. [Gavin] Ewart began with several negronis (gin, vermouth, Campari), which is not an amateur’s drink, and carried on from there.
ref: 2012 April 27, Matthew Engel, “Let’s do lunch!”, in Financial Times:
text: A curly-haired 20-something sat down across the bar from us, opened a book, and ordered a bowl of olives and a negroni.
ref: 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
glosses: A cocktail consisting of gin, Campari and vermouth, usually in equal parts.
palpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palpi
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pedipalp (“invertebrate appendage”).
synonyms: word: pedipalp
extra: invertebrate appendage
Derived terms: palpal
palpiferous
palpiform
palpigerous
quillwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quillworks
Etymology: From quill + work.
Senses: examples: text: On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle. Covers of buffalo hide with the hair on and quillwork designs were draped over the leanback and bed surface.
ref: 2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61:
glosses: Decorative textile embellishment made from porcupine quills by certain Native Americans.
salmonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salmon + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the family Salmonidae of salmon and close relatives.
salmonoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salmonoids
Etymology: From salmon + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: The lake trout‐Lwhich need no populations of two salmonoids, lake trout and landlocked salmon.
ref: 1978 January 29, Nelson Bryant, “Wood, Field and Stream”, in The New York Times:
text: One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.
ref: 1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of these fish.
scarabaeid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarabaeids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “horned beetle”), via Latin scarabaeus.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any beetle of the family Scarabaeidae (which includes stag- and dung-beetles).
Related terms: scarabaeine
scarab beetle
scarabaeoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Resembling a scarab.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
jewelry
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: Resembling a scarab.
Resembling a scarab in form, but without being made to look like a beetle.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to beetles in the family Scarabaeidae.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to beetles in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea.
scarabaeoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarabaeoids
Senses: glosses: Any beetle of the superfamily Scarabaeoidea
zenzizenzizenzic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Robert Recorde (as zenzizenzizenzike) in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.
Senses: examples: text: From this and the word cube, various denominations of powers were formed, as zenzi-cubic for sixth, zenzizenzizenzic for eighth, &c., from which we are now happily delivered.
ref: 1866, Charles Knight, The English Cyclopaedia: a new dictionary of Universal Knowledge, page 1045:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:zenzizenzizenzic.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The eighth power of a number.
wikipedia: Robert Recorde
scarfskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarfskins
Etymology: Compare scurf.
Senses: glosses: The epidermis, the outermost layer of skin, especially that which forms the cuticle of a nail.
sclerotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerotins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The crosslinked protein component of the cuticles of insects.
shellwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɛlwɜː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: shellworks
Etymology: From shell + work.
Senses: glosses: A form of decoration made from shells arranged in a pattern.
glosses: The making of objects from shells.
shelterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shelterers
Etymology: From shelter + -er.
Senses: examples: text: As the downpour began, I joined the other shelterers under the tree.
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:
glosses: A person who takes shelter.
glosses: A person who provides shelter.
shelterwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shelter + wood.
Senses: glosses: Mature trees left standing to provide shelter to new saplings.
sheltron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛltɹən/
Forms: form: sheltrons
form: cheldrome
form: childrome
form: sheltrum
form: schiltrom
Etymology: PIE word
 *dóru
From Middle English scheltroun, sheltroun (“group of soldiers or army in fighting formation, phalanx; battle, fighting; group of warships, fleet; (by extension) line or row of bones”) [and other forms], from Old English sċieldtruma (“company of soldiers, phalanx; covering; shed, shelter; tortoise”) [and other forms], from sċield (“shield; (figuratively) protection”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut; to separate, split”)) + truma (“band or troop of men”) (possibly from trum (“firm, strong; stable, steadfast”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *drew- (“firm, hard, solid; strong; tree”), *dóru (“tree”)).
Doublet of shelter (which is the less conservative of the two).
Senses: examples: text: The ſheltron of the foremen of the fyrſt ſort, ſhalbe ſet in the ryght corner, and wete thou well that cohort is not ellis but the numbre of fyfty hundred knyghtis, and eṽry legion is ten comportes. Than as I ſaid before, the ſheltron of foremen of the fyrſt cohort, ſhude be ſet in the fyr[ſ]t corner of the ſheldron, and to hem the ſecunde cohort ſhalbe joined. [From an anonymous English translation of Vigetus de re Militari.]
ref: [1408, R. Green, “Of the Warlike Weapons of the Ancients”, in Sylvanus Urban [pseudonym], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XXIX, London: […] D[avid] Henry and R. Cave, […], published 14 November 1759, →OCLC, page 521, column 1:
text: As the group tops a crest, there is a skip of panic among them, and they instinctively cluster around the youngest, a schiltrom of hooves and teeth.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A compact body of troops forming a battle array or phalanx, especially such a body of Scottish troops armed with pikes during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
Related terms: shelter
shield
tylopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tylopods
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τύλη (túlē, “knob, hump”) + -pod (“foot”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any even-toed ungulate mammal, of the suborder Tylopoda, including the camels.
Hyponyms: homacodontid
watchfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watchfires
Etymology: From watch + fire.
Senses: glosses: A fire maintained during the night by people keeping watch.
preocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-occlusion
Etymology: From pre- + occlusion.
Senses: glosses: Prior to occlusion.
preocclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-occlusion
Etymology: From pre- + occlusion.
Senses: glosses: The (phonological process, seen for example in Manx, of) insertion of a short stop before a sonorant, such as a [d] before an [n] or [l] (resulting in the preoccluded consonants [ᵈn] and [ᵈl]).
Synonyms: prestopping
pre-stopping
preplosion
Related terms: pre-occluded
preoccluded
prestopped
pre-stopped
preploded
cuchifritos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuchifrito
shigellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shigella
shigellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shigella
pensionnaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pensionnaires
form: pensionaire
Etymology: From Middle French pensionnaire, pensionaire.
Senses: glosses: Someone receiving a pension.
examples: text: [H]e found she had not taken the veil; but her mother being lately dead, had entered as a pensionaire, until her family-affairs could be adjusted.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Someone who boards at a lodging-house, school, or other institution; a boarder, especially in France or other European countries.
glosses: A junior member of the Comédie Française.
pensionnaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pensionnaire
autogating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + gating.
Senses: glosses: A feature of military image intensifier tubes where the amount of light reaching the intensifier is automatically gated so that bright lights do not damage the unit.
Related terms: autogated
autogated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + gated.
Senses: glosses: Having the autogating feature.
autodetect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autodetects
form: autodetecting
form: autodetected
form: autodetected
Etymology: From auto- + detect.
Senses: examples: text: The computer failed to autodetect my new printer, so I had to install its software manually.
text: system is in an un-failed state or an autodetected failed state
ref: 1975, 1975 International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing: Paris, France, June 18-20, 1975: Digest of Papers:
text: Alternatively, install Caldera Linux, which autodetects hardware better than any other Linux, or OpenBSD, which autodetects the best of the BSDs.
ref: 1999, Carolyn P. Meinel, The happy hacker: a guide to (mostly) harmless computer hacking:
text: If you have an existing working directory that is in your IDEA project's source path, and you've enabled CVS for your project, IDEA autodetects these CVS control folders and begins using version control for those files immediately.
ref: 2006, Duane K. Fields, IntelliJ IDEA in Action:
glosses: To detect automatically.
Related terms: autodetection
autodetecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of autodetect
autodetects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autodetect
autodetected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of autodetect
autodeletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + deletion.
Senses: examples: text: Many BBS features are also available, including autodeletion of old messages.
ref: 1987, Patrick R. Dewey, 101 software packages to use in your library:
text: This is no different from the way you handle autodeletion in any other public folder.
ref: 2003, Barry Gerber, Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2003:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automatic deletion; the process of autodeleting.
tricae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trica
aptychus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aptychi
Etymology: Modern Latin, from a- + Ancient Greek πτυχή (ptukhḗ, “fold, layer”).
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't until the 1970s that paleontologists had amassed enough evidence to be certain that aptychi were modified lower jaws.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 95:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A hard calcareous plate forming part of the body of an ammonite.
Related terms: anaptychus
aptychi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aptychus
bevatron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɒn/
ipa: /ˈbɛv.əˌtɹɑn/
Forms: form: bevatrons
Etymology: From BeV + -a- + -tron.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, revealed the plans for one of these machines recently at the Sheffield centennial at Yale. It will be called a bevatron.
ref: 1948 January, “Can huge new atom guns shoot out biggest secrets?”, in Popular Science, volume 152, number 1:
text: By pursuing this option her physicists had the best of both worlds: they could have access to a bevatron without disrupting their domestic programme.
ref: 1987, Armin Hermann, Lanfranco Belloni, John Krige, History of CERN: Launching the European Organization for Nuclear Research:
text: In his science fiction novel, Eye in the Sky, a group of visitors fall through a proton beam when an observation platform breaks at a bevatron facility.
ref: 1990, Philip J. Regal, The anatomy of judgment:
glosses: A particle accelerator of the 1950s, capable of imparting energies of billions of electron volts.
bevatrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bevatron
anchor ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: ground ice
glosses: Submerged ice anchored to the bottom of a river etc., irrespective of how it formed.
anthropodicies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropodicy
blue-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blue-nosed
form: most blue-nosed
form: bluenosed
Senses: glosses: priggish
acausally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acausal + -ly or a- + causally.
Senses: examples: text: Particles in the quantum realm seem to move about acausally in a purely random and statistical fashion.
ref: 1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere:
glosses: Without a cause.
Binkie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪŋki/
rhymes: -ɪŋki
homophone: binky
Forms: form: Binky
Senses: examples: text: "Come out and see," he said. Binkie made a face and withdrew from the window.
ref: 1947, Josephine Pauline Eckert, The practicing of Christopher:
text: 'Not on your life,' she said. Binkie pleaded. He made her a promise. If Bea played on the first night he'd release Ambrosine from the deal.
ref: 1979, Margaret Morley, Larger than life: the biography of Robert Morley:
glosses: A pet name.
blow-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from blow off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blowoff.
brehons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brehon
baby steps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baby step
binderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From binder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the use of a (chemical) binder.
turbanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From turban + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The undergrowth parted and gave up Abdul Gafur, turbanless, shoeless, with his waist-cloth unbound, mud and grass in his clutched hands, and his face purple.
ref: 1893, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Rukh”, in Many Inventions, London: Macmillan and Co., page 206:
glosses: Without a turban.
bromatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bɹəʊməˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βρῶμα (brôma, “food”); and -λογία (-logía, “-logy”).
Senses: glosses: The study of food.
Derived terms: bromatological
bromatologist
bromatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bromatology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to bromatology
Nibiru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A supposed planet in a highly elliptic orbit around the Sun.
raw_tags: in the works of Zecharia Sitchin
Related terms: Planet X
one-up-one-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-up-one-downs
Senses: glosses: A traditional house with one room upstairs and one room downstairs.
Related terms: two-up-two-down
one-up-one-downs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of one-up-one-down
patera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paterae
Etymology: From Latin patera.
Senses: glosses: A broad, shallow dish used for drinking, primarily in ritual contexts such as libations.
topics: architecture
glosses: A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes etc.
examples: text: What caused the transitions from explosive to effusive volcanism in the Circum-Hellas Volcanic Province generally and during the eruptive lifetimes of individual highland patera volcanoes?
ref: 2020, James R. Zimbelman, David A. Crown, Peter J. Mouginis-Mark, Tracy K. P. Gregg, The Volcanoes of Mars, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 116:
text: Note that the eroded plains materials to the right of the patera show no signs of individual lava flows.
ref: 2021, Tracy K. P. Gregg, Rosaly M. Lopes, Sarah A. Fagents, Planetary Volcanism across the Solar System, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: The caldera or crater (dish-shaped depression) atop a volcano, especially an extraterrestrial one; also used in the names of extraterrestrial volcanoes which have such a caldera.
Derived terms: pateriform
paterae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patera
photocarcinogenicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + carcinogenicity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being photocarcinogenic.
phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Crystals of phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase (EC 6.3.2.6) from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were grown by the vapor diffusion hanging-drop technique, using ammonium sulfate as the precipitant.
ref: 1992, A. I. Grebenko, V. M. Levdikov, V. V. Barynin, W. R. Melik-Adamyan, A. N. Myasnikov, Crystallization and preliminary X-ray investigation of phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase from the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A ligase enzyme involved in purine metabolism.
plankwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: plankways
Etymology: From plank + -wise.
Senses: glosses: Across the grain, not parallel to it.
raw_tags: of the cutting of wood
tyrannic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈɹæ.nɪk/
rhymes: -ænɪk
Forms: form: more tyrannic
form: most tyrannic
form: tyrannick
Senses: examples: text: The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.
ref: 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […], published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:
glosses: Tyrannical.
phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate in the synthesis of purines.
phosphoribosylaminoimidazole carboxylase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme involved in purine synthesis.
phosphoribosylaminoimidazole synthetase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme involved in nucleotide synthesis, catalyzing the conversion of 5'-phosphoribosyl-5-aminoimidazole into 5-phosphoribosyl-4-carboxy-5-aminoimidazole.
Pickwickian syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, one of whose characters is a sleepy fat boy.
Senses: glosses: Obesity hypoventilation syndrome.
wikipedia: The Pickwick Papers
left-drag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: left-drags
form: left-dragging
form: left-dragged
form: left-dragged
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To drag an item using the left mouse button.
right-drag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: right-drags
form: right-dragging
form: right-dragged
form: right-dragged
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To drag an item using the right mouse button.
nonparthenogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + parthenogenetic.
Senses: glosses: Not parthenogenetic.
arrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arrow
speleologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From speleological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: as a speleologist, in a speleological manner
conformality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From conformal + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition (of a map) of being conformal.
Derived terms: quasiconformality
decryptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈkɹɪptəbəɫ]
Etymology: From decrypt + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be decrypted
Derived terms: undecryptable
interarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + arm.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Between arms of a spiral galaxy.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Between arms (used especially to describe the difference in measured blood pressure when measured in each arm).
interladder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + ladder.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Between ladders of a semiconductor lattice
modularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more modularly
form: most modularly
Etymology: From modular + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a modular manner
Derived terms: intermodularly
overconstrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overconstrains
form: overconstraining
form: overconstrained
form: overconstrained
Etymology: From over- + constrain.
Senses: antonyms: underconstrain
glosses: To apply excessive constraints (to).
picokelvin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picokelvins
Etymology: From pico- + kelvin.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of temperature equal to 10⁻¹² of a kelvin
polarisabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polarisability; Alternative spelling of polarizabilities.
subarcsecond
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + arcsecond.
Senses: glosses: Describing an angle having a value less than one arcsecond
subcondensates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subcondensate
dungeonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dungeonesque
form: most dungeonesque
Etymology: From dungeon + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: There was a heavy table in one corner of the dungeonesque place, on which were a number of books and papers.
ref: 1916, Sax Rohmer, The Devil Doctor:
glosses: Reminiscent of a dungeon.
thermoconversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoconversions
Etymology: From thermo- + conversion.
Senses: glosses: conversion by means of heat
unravelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unraveling; Alternative spelling of unravellings.
Nannygate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From nanny + -gate.
Senses: examples: text: There are many forms of disorder. Street life is only one. Tax evasion, "Nannygates," political corruption: these forms of disorder—disorder that we experience as much as we do street life—are somehow different. They are not central to the broken windows hypothesis.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 6, in Illusion of Order:
glosses: Any of various political scandals involving the hired nannies of politicians, e.g. where taxes are unpaid or a visa not obtained.
whitherever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛvə(ɹ)
Etymology: From whither + ever.
Senses: glosses: To wherever; to whatever place.
Related terms: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereon
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
fall webworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fall webworms
Senses: glosses: Hyphantria cunea, a moth in the family Arctiidae known principally for its larval stage, which creates characteristic webbed nests on a wide variety of hardwood trees in the late summer and fall.
unnature
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unnatures
form: unnaturing
form: unnatured
form: unnatured
Etymology: From un- + nature.
Senses: examples: text: A right heavenly nature, indeed, as it were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them [the elements].
ref: a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
glosses: To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature.
unnature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + nature.
Senses: examples: text: So as to be rather unnature, after all, than nature.
ref: 1858, Horace Bushnell, Nature and the Supernatural:
glosses: That which is contrary to nature; the unnatural.
unnaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unnature
unnatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unnature
unnatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unnature
upstartle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: upstartles
form: upstartling
form: upstartled
form: upstartled
Etymology: From up- + startle.
Senses: glosses: To cause to rise up in startlement.
upstartling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upstartle
them's the breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: those are the breaks
form: them’s da breaks
Etymology: From break in the sense “a stroke of luck” (compare tough break, lucky break).
Senses: examples: text: And I want you to know how sad I am to be giving up the best job in the world. But them’s the breaks.
ref: 2022 July 7, Heather Stewart, quoting Boris Johnson, “Boris Johnson’s resignation speech: what he said, and what he meant”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: that's the way the cookie crumbles
word: c'est la vie
word: it is as it is
word: it is how it is
word: it is what it is
word: life's a bitch
word: shit happens
word: so be it
word: so is life
word: so it goes
word: such is life
word: that's that and this is this
word: that's the way it goes
word: that’s the way it plays
word: that's the way life is
word: that's the way the ball bounces
word: that's the way the cookie crumbles
word: that's the way the mop flops
word: them's the breaks
glosses: That is the way things happen; that's life.
thiaburimamide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thia- + burimamide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound formed by adding a sulfide group close to the imidazole ring of burimamide.
outcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outcaste
outcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outcast
glosses: present participle and gerund of outcaste
outcasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outcastings
Senses: examples: text: Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words.
ref: 1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar:
glosses: An instance of casting out; expulsion.
sunrise period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunrise periods
Etymology: From sunrise + period.
Senses: glosses: The period of time at the launch of a new top-level domain or second-level domain during which trademark owners may register domain names containing their trademarks (to prevent cybersquatting).
trinitrocresol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinitrocresols
Senses: topics: chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric trinitro derivatives of cresol; the commercial mixture was once used as an antiseptic
trinitroglycerin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nitroglycerine.
synonyms: word: nitroglycerine
EBICS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: To create a biological machine, EBICS teams will work with many kinds of cells, but primarily those of three types: neurons, muscle cells and endothelial cells, which make blood vessels.
text: The U of I is a partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Georgia Institute of Technology in what is known as the Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems (EBICS) Center.
ref: 2010 March, "New Center Takes a Step Toward Biological Machines", LAS News, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems.
examples: text: The CFONB, the standardisation office in the banking sector of France, has designated EBICS as the follow-up standard for the discontinued ETEBAC protocols.
text: To facilitate business activities in Europe, especially within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), German and French banks have agreed on providing a common protocol for financial transactions on the internet which standardises communication between corporate clients and banks - the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS).
ref: 2010, Association for German Banks (Staff), "EBICS facilitates the Single Euro Payments Area: New Franco-German cooperation promotes European standard for payment transactions" (press release)
topics: business
finance
glosses: Acronym of Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard.
trional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 'My wife always takes a sleeping draught when travelling by train. She took her usual dose of trional.'
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 7, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 123:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The anesthetic drug 2,2-bis(ethylsulfonyl)butane.
Related terms: sulfonal
tricker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trickers
Etymology: Derived from trick + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster
Related terms: trick
trickster
tricker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪkɚ/
ipa: /ˈtɹɪkə/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trickers
Etymology: From Dutch trekker.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e pull'd aſide the Tricker, and obſerv'd, that according to our expectation the force of the Spring of the Lock vvas not ſenſibly abated by the abſence of the Air.
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 14]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 89:
glosses: A trigger.
trickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricker
antimilk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + milk.
Senses: examples: an antimilk antibody
glosses: Opposing milk.
hear both sides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hears both sides
form: hearing both sides
form: heard both sides
form: heard both sides
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To ensure that an accused person has the chance to seek to refute the accusations.
Related terms: there are two sides to every story
there are two sides to every question
bothsidesism
half-truth
half the story
the half of it
false balance
view from nowhere