cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
querela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin querēla (“complaint, grievance”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A complaint preferred in a court.
Related terms: audita querela
duplex querela
querent
fatidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /feɪˈtɪdɪk/
Forms: form: more fatidic
form: most fatidic
Etymology: From Latin fātidicus, from fātum (“fate”) + dico (“I speak”). Via Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- cognate with the synonymous English prophetic.
Senses: examples: text: At that moment he felt quite proud of his stratagem. He was to recall it with a fatidic shiver seventeen years later [...].
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 112:
synonyms: word: foreordained
word: predestined
word: destined
word: doomed
word: fated
word: fateful
word: fatidic
word: foreordained
word: predestined
word: predevote
word: preordained
word: weird
glosses: Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic.
querele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quereles
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A complaint to a court in Old English law.
flouncier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flouncy: more flouncy
flounciest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flouncy: most flouncy
milk float
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk floats
Senses: examples: text: Further clues are provided by milk-floats bearing the legend 'Lord Rayleigh's Dairies: A Family Business', and a number of signs indicating the whereabouts of various departments of Lord Rayleigh's Farms.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 375, about Terling:
text: Milk floats were flimsy at the front (especially the three-wheelers) but very strong at the back. They were uncomplicated vehicles. Nothing much could go wrong and, when it did go wrong, the vehicles were relatively easy to repair.
ref: 2016, Andrew Ward, No Milk Today: The Vanishing World of the Milkman, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: An electric accumulator battery-driven vehicle (formerly also horse-drawn), designed for the house-to-house delivery of fresh milk; common in Europe, especially the United Kingdom.
Synonyms: word: dairy van
word: float
Derived terms: electric milk float
horse-drawn milk float
one and all
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: examples: text: Therefore my friends, stand to it one and all, refuse this filthy trash.
ref: 1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 1:
text: Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold […] and however wanton in their sailor ways, one and all, the mariners revered it as the white whale's talisman.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 99, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: [M]en of every condition […] had laid their hearts at her feet. One and all, they had been compelled to pick them up and take them elsewhere.
ref: 1920, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 2, in The Coming of Bill:
text: Later American literary stars like Hemingway, Faulkner, Sinclair Lewis and John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize-winners one and all, never had more than a spoonful of the great gouts of fame that Twain — and Mrs. Stowe, for that matter — enjoyed everywhere in the world.
ref: 2010 April 24, Tom Wolfe, “Op-Ed Contributor: Faking West, Going East”, in New York Times, retrieved 26 Nov 2013:
glosses: The entire set of persons or things within a given domain, considered both as separate individuals and collectively.
Synonyms: all and sundry
poop scoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poop scoops
Senses: glosses: A pooper scooper.
omnilinguality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From omnilingual + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words. By this act is he only playing with a "literary thing," or is he predicting that "time, universality, omnilinguality" is the means by which future human histories will be told?
ref: 1994, Paul J. Griffiths, On Being Buddha: The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 116–117:
text: This type of paradox is fundamental to the Buddhist episteme and informs all aspects of Buddhist discourse. There is the "tension between a buddha’s transcendence and immanence—his location within both nirvāṇa and saṃsāra," John D. Dunne writes, and "Śākyamuni Buddha's involvement in the world as a teacher and his detachment from the world as an awakened being." Buddha has "omnilinguality” even as "Buddha in se does not speak," Paul J. Griffiths writes, and "is not implicated with language. Eckel considers such paradoxes, and specifically the implications of Buddha’s absence, as "points of incongruity that challenge the stability of conceptuality itself" yet lead to insight, knowledge, and "the ability to perceive and respond to the absence."
ref: 1999, Takeuchi Yoshinori, Buddhist Spirituality: Later China, Korea, Japan, and The Modern World, The Crossroad Publishing Company, Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, →ISBN, page 391:
text: Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words. By this act is he only playing with a "literary thing," or is he predicting that "time, universality, omnilinguality" is the means by which future human histories will be told?
ref: 2011, Martha Banta, Words at Work in Vanity Fair: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Within the midst of its linguistic obscurities, Joyce embeds a few readily recognizable words. By this act is he only playing with a "literary thing," or is he predicting that "time, universality, omnilinguality" is the means by which future human histories will be told?
ref: 2011, Martha Banta, Words at Work in Vanity Fair: Language Shifts in Crucial Times, 1914-1930, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 4:
text: either^([sic]) shapeshifting or omnilinguality^([sic])
ref: 2019 February 22, Jetty_Boy , snail-boy, RandomOTP, “What's^([sic]) superpowers do you wish you had?”, in reddit.com:
glosses: The ability to speak or understand many languages.
Derived terms: omnilingual
multilinguality
to the quick
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Blood dripped from every finger-end, while the nails were broken to the quick.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 39, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: To the level of living tissue.
examples: text: Titus, I have touched thee to the quick.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: This false evidence . . . stung me to the quick, and raised an indignation scarce conceivable.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 14, in Tom Jones, a Foundling:
text: The powerlessness of the strong man touched my heart to the quick.
ref: 1837, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 37, in Jane Eyre:
glosses: Very deeply; at one's most sensitive level of feeling.
Related terms: cut to the quick
cut to the quick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts to the quick
form: cutting to the quick
form: cut to the quick
form: cut to the quick
Senses: examples: text: I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.
ref: 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:
text: But you must remember that we were boys together, and a fellow naturally confides in a chap he was boys together with. Anyway, be that as it may, he poured out his soul to me, and he hadn't been pouring long before I was able to see that he was cut to the quick. His blood pressure was high, his eye rolled in what they call a fine frenzy, and he was death-where-is-thy-sting-ing like nobody's business.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XI:
glosses: To hurt a person deeply, especially emotionally.
examples: text: Alfar's analysis cuts to the quick of the socioeconomic structures that underlie marriage, primogeniture, monarchy, and imperialism.
ref: 2005, Cristina Malcolmson, “Review of Fantasies of Female Evil: The Dynamics of Gender and Power in Shakespearean Tragedy by Cristina Alfar”, in Shakespeare Quarterly, volume 56, number 1, page 112:
glosses: To incisively discuss the underlying sensitive or unpleasant root of a given topic.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, quick.
Related terms: cut to the chase
words cut deep
Sranan Tongo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Sranan Tongo, from Sranan (“Suriname”) + tongo (“tongue, language”).
Senses: glosses: An English-based creole language and lingua franca in Suriname; its approximately 126,000 native speakers are predominantly ethnic Creoles.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Sranan Tongo terms
raveled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ravelled
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ravel
raveled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ravelled
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ravelled.
asura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asuras
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Asura.
ribopyranosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribopyranoside
caenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caenogeneses
form: cænogenesis
form: cainogenesis
form: cenogenesis
form: coenogenesis
form: kainogenesis
form: kenogenesis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καινός (kainós, “new”) + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The embryotic development of structures or characteristics not present in the species before.
logistic functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logistic function
last names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of last name
pipe dreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe dream
caenogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caenogenesis
residuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: residuates
form: residuating
form: residuated
form: residuated
Senses: glosses: To compute the residual of.
duco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.
Senses: examples: text: A green four-wheel drive, its duco iridescent in the winter sunlight like the carapace of some mythical beetle come to rest there, was parked by the side of a ripple-iron tank set back from the riverbank.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 35:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Automotive paint.
duco
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ducos
form: ducoing
form: ducoed
form: ducoed
Etymology: From a 1920s trade name for automotive lacquer.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To paint with automotive paint.
débâcle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l/
ipa: /deɪˈbɑːklə/
rhymes: -ɑːkəl
Forms: form: débâcles
Senses: examples: text: The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.
ref: 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative form of debacle.
plateletpheresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plateletphereses
Etymology: From platelet + pheresis.
Senses: synonyms: thrombocytapheresis
glosses: The removal of platelets from a person through apheresis.
débâcles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of débâcle
boogiemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boogieman
shunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shunner
oilfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilfields
Senses: examples: text: Conoco on Monday announced a $9.7 billion all-stock takeover of Concho Resources (CXO), a fracker squarely focused on the Permian Basin, the massive West Texas oilfield at the heart of the shale revolution.
ref: 2020 October 19, Matt Egan, “The oil industry is in crisis. ConocoPhillips is doubling down”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Alternative spelling of oil field.
head-ons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of head-on
trinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Late Latin trīnārius (“consisting of three”), from Latin trīni (“triple, three each”) + -ārius.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ternary.
Synonyms: threefold
treble
triple
Coordinate terms: binary
quaternary
Derived terms: trinary star
Related terms: triangle
trinity
trinary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinaries
Etymology: From Late Latin trīnārius (“consisting of three”), from Latin trīni (“triple, three each”) + -ārius.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A trinary star.
examples: text: […] a trinary of terms to describe conceived, perceived, and lived space.
ref: 2007 December 12, James D. Mardock, Our Scene is London: Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author, Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Collectively, religion, the secular, the superstition form what Josephson has called a "trinary" of mutually constitutive forces.
ref: 2019 March 25, Jolyon Baraka Thomas, Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 152:
text: […] a trinary of expert, governed, and lived religion in order to study how the category of religion has come to be used in academic studies of global religion and secularity.
ref: 2023 August 4, Michael Graziano, Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 237:
glosses: A ternary, a set of three things.
triune
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtraɪˌjuːn/
ipa: /ˌtraɪˈjuːn/
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
Borrowed from New Latin triūnus.
Senses: examples: text: Christians believe in a triune God, meaning that he is three hypostases in perfect unity.
text: 1990, Mary Ann Fatula, The Triune God of Christian Faith, Liturgical Press (Michael Glazier Books), page 21,
To be Christian today thus means reflective and critical fidelity to the essential elements of our Christian heritage in scripture and tradition, yet in a way that enables us to respond to the ever new presence of the triune God active in our own experience and world.
text: 2003, Jeffrey C. Pugh, Entertaining the Triune Mystery, Continuum International Publishing Group (Trinity Press International), page 80,
Because the triune God is seen in ways that reflect relationality, God's presence can be expressed in the world in such a way that gnostic separation of the world and God should not be allowed to be a central part of Christian belief.
text: And in a double movement, the descent of the eternal Son is the Triune God's movement to initiate and enable reconciliation decisively with humanity, which is then followed by the ascent of the human Christ to continue the enabled relationship with the Triune God.
ref: 2014, Dick O. Eugenio, Communion with the Triune God, Wipf and Stock, unnumbered page:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
coordinate_terms: biune
glosses: Both trine and one at the same time.
wikipedia: triune
Derived terms: triune brain
Related terms: trinitarian
trinity
triunion
Trimurti
Triple Goddess
fogbow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogbows
form: fog bow
Etymology: Blend of fog + rainbow
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
synonyms: white rainbow
seadog
Ulloa's ring
glosses: A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets.
Related terms: cloud bow
fog bow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fog bows
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fogbow.
legal interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: banking
business
finance
glosses: The amount of interest that is allowed or required to be charged by law; an interest rate determined by law.
Related terms: usury
eustacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eustacies
Senses: examples: text: Takai, F., and Tsuchi, R. 1963 The Quartenary: In "Geology of Japan," Univ. Calif. Press: 173–196 / […] From these facts, it is inferred that the main coastal terraces were probably formed due to glacial eustacy.
ref: 1965, Horace G. Richards, Rhodes W[hitmore] Fairbridge, Annotated Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines (1945–1964): Prepared for the VII International Congress of International Association for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Meeting at Boulder, Colorado, August 30 – September 5, 1965 (Special Publication; 6), Philadelphia, Pa.: Academy of Natural Sciences, →OCLC, page 250:
text: The range in elevation suggests that the sea level was not constant during the formation of the caves and that the rise of land – perhaps counterbalanced periodically by glacial eustacies – was probably continuous.
ref: 1968, Asian Perspectives: A Journal of Archaeology and Prehistory of Asia and the Pacific, volume 12, Honolulu, Hi.: University Press of Hawaii, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 133, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eustasy.
Spanish influenza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish Influenza
form: Spanish flu
form: Spanish Flu
Etymology: Named after Spain, which reported on the spread of disease as a neutral state while most other countries fighting World War I impose censorship, leading to a mistaken impression that it was concentrated in Spain.
Senses: examples: text: By systematic organization and effort we have been endeavoring to combat Spanish Influenza in Luzerne County, with its population of 350,000 souls.
ref: 1920, Oscar Jewell Harvey, The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918, Pennsylvania: Wilkes-Barre, page 25:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: purulent bronchitis
glosses: A form of influenza that spread to nearly every part of the world in a pandemic between 1918 and 1920, killing from 20 to 100 million people.
Coordinate terms: swine flu
bird flu
Related terms: heliotrope cyanosis
H1N1
Spanish flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the wake of the devastation of the Spanish flu, the world came together to develop unprecedented scientific collaborations to take on future pandemics. In 1947, the WHO Interim Committee of the United Nations established a Global Influenza Programme to track the changes in the virus.
ref: 2018, World Health Organization, “Pandemic influenza: an evolving challenge”, in WHO official website:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of Spanish influenza.
Spanish fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Texas fever.
synonyms: word: Texas fever
Related terms: Spanish influenza
bordereaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordereau
facial nerve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: facial nerves
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
hypernyms: cranial nerve
coordinate_terms: olfactory nerve
optic nerve
oculomotor nerve
trochlear nerve
trigeminal nerve
abducens nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
glossopharyngeal nerve
vagus nerve
accessory nerve
hypoglossal nerve
glosses: The seventh (VII) of twelve paired cranial nerves that supply motor fibers especially to the muscles of the face and jaw and sensory and parasympathetic fibers to the tongue, palate, and fauces.
preimage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪmɪdʒ
Forms: form: preimages
Etymology: From pre- + image.
Senses: examples: text: The preimage of #92;#123;4,9#92;#125; under the function f#58;#92;R#92;rightarrow#92;R#58;f(x)#61;x² is the set #92;#123;-3,-2,#43;2,#43;3#92;#125;.
text: 1967 [Academic Press], Francois Treves, Topological Vector Spaces, Distributions and Kernels, 2006, Dover, page 22,
The preimage of a neighborhood U of 0 in E must be a neighborhood of (0,x), since (0,x) is mapped into 0.
text: Previously, maps and hypermaps were constructed as the preimages of a segment joining two of the three critical values.
ref: 2003, Sergei K. Lando, Alexander K. Zvonkin, Graphs on Surfaces and Their Applications, Springer, page 56:
text: Loosely speaking, saying that a function f is one-way implies that given y (in the range of f) it is infeasible to find a preimage of y under f.
ref: 2005, Oded Goldreich, Foundations of Cryptography: A Primer, now Publishers, page 24:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: For a given function, the set of all elements of the domain that are mapped into a given subset of the codomain; (formally) given a function ƒ : X → Y and a subset B ⊆ Y, the set ƒ⁻¹(B) = {x ∈ X : ƒ(x) ∈ B}.
Synonyms: sense: set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function
word: inverse image
Hyponyms: sense: set of all elements that map into a given subset of the codomain of a function
word: kernel
Derived terms: preimage attack
Related terms: image
headbangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headbanger
no prize for guessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no prizes for guessing
Senses: examples: text: You get no prize for guessing what happened when the spider landed on her plate.
glosses: Used to form expressions emphasizing the unsurprising nature of what follows
value date
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: value dates
form: date of value
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Date and the action itself on which payments are credited or debited to the customer's imagined but legally real account, as opposed to the date a balance is made visible (posting date, entry date) which is when crediting of other funds takes place and which is usually the available sum, is the line of credit; interest payments are made from the value date onwards.
Hypernyms: date
value date
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: value dates
form: value dating
form: value dated
form: value dated
form: date of value
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: To perform the above-defined action with an amount.
Related terms: entry date
posting date
settlement date
trade date
value dates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of value date
cænogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cænogeneses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caenogenesis.
cænogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cænogenesis
family doctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family doctor
cainogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cainogeneses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caenogenesis.
brown recluse spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown recluse spider
Uralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /jʊəˈɹælɪk/
Etymology: From Ural + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples, whose urheimat was the Ural Mountains, or to their languages, which constitute a language family, the Uralic languages.
tetralins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetralin
balloonneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ballooners.
Q & A
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Q & As
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Q and A.
jury boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jury box
point of pride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: points of pride
Senses: examples: text: It is a point of pride to a Beacon Hill resident if he can say that he was born on the Hill or was at least raised there.
ref: 1945, Walter Firey, “Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables”, in American Sociological Review, volume 10, number 2, page 141:
text: It is a point of pride for us, military and civilian alike, that we take the utmost care to avoid "collateral damage."
ref: 2003 March 27, John Derbyshire, “Ten Points on the War”, in National Review Online, USA:
glosses: Something which produces a feeling of self-satisfaction, especially an admirable personal characteristic or accomplishment.
keynoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keynoter
luxury taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luxury tax
seroprevalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seroprevalences
Etymology: From sero- + prevalence.
Senses: glosses: The rate of seropositivity in a population; the proportion of a population whose blood serum tests positive for a given pathogen, especially HIV.
Related terms: seroprevalent
sero-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: combining form of serum, often in reference to HIV and other blood-transmitted viruses
ability to pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abilities to pay
Senses: examples: text: ability-to-pay taxation
text: an ability-to-pay approach
text: Progressive taxes attempt to reduce the tax burden of people with a lower ability to pay.
topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: An individual's level of wealth or income, as a measure of the tax rate they can afford to pay.
Related terms: well-being
utility
welfare
ponty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ponties
Senses: examples: text: In the mean time a second workman has gathered a small lump of glass on the end of his iron rod, or "ponty," and by pressing it against an iron point forms it into the shape of a tiny cup. This is fitted over the bullion-point of the glass, and, as they are both hot, soon becomes firmly attached to it.
ref: 1889 March 24, C. Handford Henderson, Popular Science Monthly, volume 34, Glass-Making I:
glosses: Alternative form of punty.
ATB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ATBs
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of active time battle.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of articulated tug and barge.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of all-terrain bike (“mountain bike”).
apellous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Not covered by skin. Said of a circumcised penis, which has had its prepuce (foreskin) removed.
post-humously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of posthumously.
nanophanerophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanophanerophyte
phanerophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phanerophyte
pavaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavache
pavisades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavisade
wastepapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wastepaper
areolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areola
areolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areola
areoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areole
bituminous sands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bituminous sand
oil sands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil sand
tar sands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tar sand
canonical forms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canonical form
univariate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + variate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having or involving a single variable
univariate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: univariates
Etymology: From uni- + variate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial or function with only one variable
Related terms: word: variate
word: bivariate
word: multivariate
urls: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Univariate.html
word: univariate in Wolfram - Mathworld
standard poodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard poodle
bivariate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + variate.
Senses: examples: text: Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.
ref: 2016, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Plaumann, Rainer Sinn, Cynthia Vinzant, “Low-Rank Sum-of-Squares Representations on Varieties of Minimal Degree”, in arXiv:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having or involving exactly two variables.
Synonyms: two-way
Coordinate terms: multivariate
univariate
Derived terms: bivariately
bivariate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bivariates
Etymology: From bi- + variate.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial or function with exactly two variables.
slingshots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slingshot
slingshots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slingshot
do someone proud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone proud
form: doing someone proud
form: did someone proud
form: done someone proud
Senses: examples: text: He very politely assured her that she would ‘do him proud’, whenever she might please to call at Hook Court.
ref: 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 75, in The Last Chronicle of Barset:
text: "Well, honest to God, it does me proud to meet you," he blurted out. "Shake hands."
ref: 1913, Jack London, chapter 7, in The Valley of the Moon:
text: I was absolutely delighted with the way we competed and the players did me proud.
ref: 2008 May 13, “Calderwood praises character”, in www.sportinglife.com, UK, retrieved 18 Jun 2008:
glosses: To cause someone to feel pride, admiration, or satisfaction.
examples: text: Fortune did them proud, for by the time they got to Wilmington, gold had risen to such heights in Confederate currency that their salaries dwarfed those paid to Southerners doing the same work.
ref: 1994, Frank E. Vandiver, Ploughshares Into Swords: Josiah Gorgas and Confederate Ordnance:
text: We are all in rags now but we did him proud. Wish he could be here to see it all.
ref: 2009, Sheila Hancock -, The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw:
text: The Misses March did me proud. They'd really gone to town and made all the party food that they thought someone my age would like
ref: 2009, Terry Wheeler, The Padnell Prowler, page 107:
glosses: To treat someone extremely well; to honor with a generous contribution.
have one's cake and eat it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has one's cake and eats it
form: having one's cake and eating it
form: had one's cake and ate it
form: had one's cake and eaten it
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of have one's cake and eat it too.
virilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: virilizations
Etymology: From virile + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The development of sex characteristics that are typically found in men.
Synonyms: masculinization
Related terms: virile
virility
virilizer
slam dunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slam dunk
slam dunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slam dunk
slam dunks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slam dunk
slam dunks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of slam dunk
savorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more savorous
form: most savorous
form: savourous
Etymology: From savor + -ous. Compare French savoureux.
Senses: synonyms: sapid
antonyms: insipid
unsavory
savorless
flavorless
glosses: flavorful; savory; tasty
savorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more savorless
form: most savorless
form: savourless
Etymology: From Middle English savourles; equivalent to savor + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having taste; flavorless.
laborist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laborists
Etymology: From labor + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A physician who aids labor and delivery but does not provide prenatal care.
glosses: A supporter of workers' rights.
Related terms: laborer
say what
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: What did you say?; Huh?; expresses incredulity.
Synonyms: come again
pardon
say again
what
Related terms: say that
IDC
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: related: word: idc
glosses: Initialism of I don't care.
Related terms: IDK
IDGAF
IDEK
IDC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And this isn’t just some vague perception from the anti-Microsoft crowd. This is backed up with real data, most notably in the latest IDC report released this month that says PC sales are down 14% year over year.
ref: 2013 April 29, Steve Kovach, “Is the PC dead?”, in CNN Business:
text: For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025.
ref: 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Initialism of International Data Corporation.
IDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDCs
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: Initialism of Instructor Development Course.
spent force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spent forces
Senses: examples: text: Evolution was not a spent force, but one still working.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: 1921, P. G. Wodehouse, The Girl on the Boat (U.S.: Three Men and a Maid), ch. 2,
I am a ruin, a spent force, a man without a future!
text: “You remember those powerful end-of-term addresses he used to make to us? Well, he couldn't have made them if he hadn't had the stuff all typed out in his grasp, so that he could read it. Without his notes, as he calls them, he's a spent force.” [...] In stating that the Woosters never give up, I was in error. These words caught me amidships and took all the fighting spirit out of me, leaving me a spent force.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “II AND XX”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: Bush already appeared to be a spent force, an unpopular President eking out his final days of power.
ref: 2008 June 17, Catherine Mayer, “Leaving Europe, Bush Eyes Legacy”, in Time:
glosses: A person, organization, or process which is no longer influential, effective, or robust.
goitrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪtɹəd͡ʒən/
/-ˌdʒɛn/
Forms: form: goitrogens
Etymology: Coined some time between 1945 and 1950, from goitre + -o- + -gen.
Senses: examples: We have previously shown that treating rats with the reversible goitrogen 6-propyl-2-thiouracil (PTU) from birth to Day 25 increases testis size and sperm production in adulthood by up to 80% and 140%, respectively.
These results suggest that excess iodine induces thyroid involution in goitrogen-treated rats at least partially by apoptosis.
glosses: Any agent that causes goiter, such as thiouracil.
Derived terms: goitrogenic
rebating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebate
rebated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more rebated
form: most rebated
Etymology: From rebate + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Even with blunted lances and filed-down or ‘rebated’ blades, grave injury and death were all too frequent, and tended to ‘disturb the cheerfulness of such events’, as a contemporary Spanish herald understatedly put it.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 288:
glosses: Blunted, dulled (of a blade, weapon etc.).
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Having a smaller diameter than the main body of the cartridge, from which it is separated by an extractor groove narrower than both.
raw_tags: of the rim of a firearm cartridge
rebated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːbeɪtɪd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈbeɪtɪd/
Etymology: From rebate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebate
laggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of laggy: most laggy
laggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of laggy: more laggy
lost errands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lost errand
indescribability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indescribabilities
Senses: examples: text: Sensorial changes are by no means uncommon, and they are of every kind, description, and indescribability.
ref: 1879, Henry Hartshorne, John Russell Reynolds, The Sense of Beauty, H. C. Lea, page 769:
text: These ideas may seem at first sight somewhat startling; but when we realise the extraordinary depth and indescribability of the emotions of music, the very remoteness and far-reachingness of the explanation is in favour of its validity.
ref: 1880, Edmund Gurney, The Power of Sound, Elder Smith, page 119:
text: This perception, if we look to its origin, may turn out to be primitive; no doubt the feeling of "crude extensity" is an original sensation; every inference, association, and distinction is a thing that looms up suddenly before the mind, and the nature and actuality of which is a datum of what — to indicate its irresistible immediacy and indescribability — we may well call sense. Forms are seen, and if we think of the origin of the perception, we may well call this vision a sensation.
ref: 1896, George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty, C. Scribner's Sons, pages 97-98:
text: But the unembodied Justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!
ref: 1910, Thomas Carlyle, The Sense of Beauty, Burt, page 15:
text: The featurelessness of the affective quality, on the other hand, its indescribability, is due to the very simplicity of its relation to the organism.
ref: 1919, Edward Nares, Psychological Review 1919-11: Volume 26, Issue 6, American Psychological Association, page 426:
text: This emphasis on the indescribability of God in intense religious experience is consistently found in the more mystical religious traditions.
ref: 1992, H. M. Vroom, “Can Religious Experience Be Shared?”, in J. D. Gort et al., editors, On Sharing Religious Experience, Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 7:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being indescribable.
examples: text: The clothed embodied justice that sits in Westminster Hall, with penalties, parchments, tipstaves, is very visible. But the unembodied justice, whereof that other is either an emblem, or else is a fearful indescribability, is not so visible!
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 2”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, (please specify |book=I or IV, or the page):
glosses: Something which cannot be described.
Synonyms: indescribableness
undescribableness
undescribableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From undescribable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being undescribable.
Synonyms: indescribability
indescribableness
undescribability
lipophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipophore
literary devices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literary device
undescribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undescribable
form: most undescribable
Senses: examples: text: But for the sudden making in of Damian to our rescue, it is undescribable to think what might have come of us.
ref: 1825, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 30, in The Betrothed:
glosses: Alternative form of indescribable.
Related terms: undescribableness
undescribably
undescribably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undescribably
form: most undescribably
Etymology: From undescribable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indescribably.
Related terms: undescribable
undescribableness
perceiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceivers
Etymology: From perceive + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who perceives.
Derived terms: perceiverance
perceivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perceiver
floccinaucinihilipilificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌflɒk.sɪˌnɒs.ɪˌnɪ.hɪl.ɪˈpɪl.ɪ.fɪ.keɪt/
ipa: /ˌflɒk.sɪˌnɔːs.ɪˌnaɪ.ɪl.ɪˈpɪl.ɪ.fɪ.keɪt/
Forms: form: floccinaucinihilipilificates
form: floccinaucinihilipilificating
form: floccinaucinihilipilificated
form: floccinaucinihilipilificated
Etymology: Back-formation from floccinaucinihilipilification.
Senses: examples: text: Not to floccinaucinihilipilificate your other theories, Graydon, but perhaps it would be beneficial to answer this question first?
ref: 1998 December 30, Ahasuerus, “Re: Authors On This Newsgroup”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
text: The fact that you couldn't manage to do that and spell at the same time is downright pitiable. I feel inclined to floccinaucinihilipilificate you entirely.
ref: 2000 February 16, Jens Ayton, “Re: [I] Book Review”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):
text: If you are impolite to us, we will ignore you and diss you and publicly or privately floccinaucinihilipilificate your work just because you were rude.
ref: 2004 June 15, Peter Fairbrother, “Re: Factoring paper is wrong”, in sci.crypt (Usenet):
glosses: To describe, estimate or regard something as worthless.
Related terms: floccinaucinihilipilification
floccinaucinihilipilificatious
QSR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QSRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quick-service restaurant.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of quasi-stellar radio-source.
glosses: Initialism of radioloud quasar.
Related terms: RQQ
RIQ
RLQ
QSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QSOs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quasi-stellar object (“a quasar”).
glosses: A radio-quiet quasar.
Related terms: PSO
RIQ
RLQ
RQQ
SSO
YSO
QSO
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: QSOs
form: QSOing
form: QSOed
form: QSOed
Senses: examples: text: The basic award is issued when 500 countries have been successfully QSOed on the three bands.
ref: 1993, CQ: The Radio Amateurs' Journal, volume 49, numbers 7-12, page 66:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: To communicate (with) by means of amateur radio.
QSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QSSs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of quasi-stellar source.
BSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSOs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Blue stellar object: a radio-quiet quasar.
topics: education
glosses: British school overseas.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An abbreviation of Bike-Shaped Object, used to refer to cheaply-made, low-quality bicycles.
glosses: bright shiny object
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.
replacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of replacer
season tickets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of season ticket
Thimbu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Thimphu.
Thimbu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Thimbu
form: Thimbus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Thembu.
sea serpents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea serpent
sculptresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sculptress
adaptationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptationists
Etymology: From adaptation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Until one is clear about just what one means by adaptationism, what evidence one needs to accuse someone of being an "adaptationist" will remain vague; this rather diminishes the force of the accusation.
ref: 2006, Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago Press:
glosses: A supporter of adaptationism.
Derived terms: antiadaptationist
co-adaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-adaptations
form: coadaptation
Etymology: From co- + adaptation.
Senses: examples: text: Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.
ref: 1859 November 24, Charles Darwin, “Natural Selection”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
coadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coadaptations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of co-adaptation.
sampling error
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sampling errors
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The error caused by observing a sample instead of the whole population.
adoratrice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adoratrices
Etymology: Calque of Egyptian dwꜣt (“adoratrice”), from dwꜣ (“to worship, to praise”) + -t (feminine ending).
Senses: glosses: A kind of female quasi-royal priestess in Ancient Egypt.
scallop theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scallop theorems
Etymology: From an explanation of a principle of fluid dynamics given by E. M. Purcell.
Senses: topics: fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorem which states that to achieve propulsion at low Reynolds number in simple (i.e. Newtonian) fluids, a swimmer must deform in a way that is not invariant under time-reversal.
Bostonite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Boston + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bostonian (“from or of Boston, Massachusetts, or Boston, Lincolnshire”).
synonyms: word: Bostonian
extra: from or of Boston, Massachusetts, or Boston, Lincolnshire
Bostonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bostonites
Etymology: From Boston + -ite.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bostonian (“someone from Boston, Massachusetts, or Boston, Lincolnshire”).
synonyms: word: Bostonian
extra: someone from Boston, Massachusetts, or Boston, Lincolnshire
Related terms: bostonite
beach head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach heads
Senses: examples: text: So important was their task of rebuilding the railways around the beach heads that these men had been split into three groups travelling on different ships, to ensure that sufficient numbers to start work arrived as quickly as possible.
ref: 2024 May 29, Christian Wolmar, “The Liberation Line: the days after D-Day”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 59:
glosses: Alternative spelling of beachhead.
beach heads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beach head
futurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futurates
Senses: examples: text: The verbs in sentences like "School starts next month", "I'm meeting him at 6:00 tomorrow", and "I thought the party was next week" are futurate uses.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of a non-future-tense verb to express future time. In English, typically this refers to present-tense verbs.