cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
compeering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compeer
nicandrenones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nicandrenone
compeered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compeer
solanogantine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From portions of the phrase Solanum giganteum, + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: The isolation and structure determination of a major alkaloid, solanogantine (1), a novel 3-amino-solanidane, from this plant has already been reported from this laboratory in a preliminary communication.
ref: 1978, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, volume 55, page 1109:
text: The isolation of the 3β-amino-steroid solanogantine from leaves of S. giganteum was earlier the subject of a preliminary communication.
ref: 1981, M. F. Grundon, Alkaloids, page 230:
text: They found, in Solanum giganteum, a naturally occurring solanidan, solanogantine, with the free electron pair of the ring nitrogen a to the plane of the steroid.
ref: 1986, S. William Pelletier, Alkaloids, volume 4, page 417:
glosses: A steroid alkaloid found in Solanum giganteum.
in my humble opinion
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
ref: 2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68:
glosses: Used to introduce or qualify a statement, as expressing one's own view, not one backed by external authority or to be accepted without question
Synonyms: IMHO
in my opinion
in my view
by my lights
in my honest opinion
whateverness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whatever + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Without Mind there are only meaningless electrons whirling in whateverness. Not even so much as that, for it is Mind that identifies the meaningless whateverness and cries out, "Electrons!"
ref: 1992, James Dillet Freeman, The hilltop heart: reflections of a practical mystic, page 33:
text: particular one of those predicates (being-masculine, being- American, e.g.) exposes a relation between a real being and an empty totality, a nonthing, or nothing that renders this real being a whateverness.
ref: 1999, Thomas Carl Wall, Radical Passivity: Levinas, Blanchot, and Agamben, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: Rather than the arrival of subjectivity through a decision, through fidelity, this occurrence is distinctly promiscuous—it ends nearly as soon as it begins and leads only to the exposure of the whateverness of the individuals involved.
ref: 2013, Michael Sayeau, Against the Event:
glosses: Apathetic meaninglessness; a state in which something does not matter or is not cared about.
Camillagate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Camilla + -gate.
Senses: synonyms: Tampongate
glosses: A scandal of the 1990s in which transcripts of intimate telephone conversations between Charles, Prince of Wales, and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, were published in tabloid newspapers.
postmix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmixes
Etymology: From post- + mix.
Senses: glosses: A soft drink concentrate that is delivered to a retailer to be mixed to order for customers.
Related terms: premix
postmixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postmix
Krukenberg procedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Krukenberg procedures
Etymology: The procedure was first described in 1917 by the German army surgeon Hermann Krukenberg.
Senses: glosses: A surgical technique that converts a forearm stump into a pincer.
Synonyms: Krukenberg operation
cosmeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmesis
beiger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of beige: more beige
head in the sand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads in the sand
form: head-in-the-sand
Etymology: A reference to the imagined habit of the ostrich burying its head when threatened.
Senses: examples: text: People who deny the inevitable zombie apocalypse have their heads in the sand.
text: In my opinion, the railways still have their heads in the sand on the subject of railway liveries.
ref: 1961 June, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Four”, in Trains Illustrated, page 354:
text: Pierce commented that he has never considered himself to be "a militant homosexual or anything like that, but if they expect us to sit around with our heads in the sand and not fight back, call me militant."
ref: 1982 February 6, Jil Clark, quoting Mark Pierce, “Gay Father in Maine Fights for Custody of Son”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 1:
glosses: A state of disregarding or denying a problem or threat.
Related terms: bury one's head in the sand
ostrich policy
ostrich politics
Chloris
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Χλωρίς (Khlōrís, literally “Greenfinch”), from χλωρός (khlōrós, “greenish-yellow, pale green”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph and the goddess of flowers and spring. She is a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of Zephyrus, and mother of Karpos. Her Roman counterpart is Flora.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of the Niobids.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The wife of Neleus.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The mother of Mopsus.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 410 Chloris, a main-belt asteroid.
Karpos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καρπός (karpós, literally “Fruit”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A god/personification of fruit.
Coordinate terms: sense: deities of produce
word: Carpo
sense: deities of produce
word: Demeter
sense: deities of produce
word: Ceres
milk glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milk glasses
Etymology: (opaque glass): Referring to the milky look of this type of glass.
Senses: related: word: milk-glass
word: milkglass
glosses: Opaque glass, especially the kind having a white shade; first produced in Italy in the 1500s as an imitation of Chinese porcelain.
glosses: A drinking glass intended or currently used for milk.
Hypernyms: opal glass
opal glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opal glasses
Senses: glosses: A type of opaque, translucent glass.
Hyponyms: milk glass
Favonius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Favōnius.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The god of the west wind. He is also the husband of Flora and the father of Karpos. He is the Roman counterpart of Zephyrus.
Hypernyms: Anemoi
Aquilon
Coordinate terms: english: north
translation: north
word: Boreas
english: north
translation: north
word: Septentrio
english: south
translation: south
word: Notos
english: south
translation: south
word: Auster
english: east
translation: east
word: Eurus
english: east
translation: east
word: Subsolanus
word: Zephyr
word: Zephyrus
word: Favonius
Gurdaspur District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three districts in the Ferozepur Division of Punjab in India.
Chamba District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three districts in the Chamba Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Lahaul and Spiti District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three districts in the Chamba Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Kinnaur District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three districts in the Chamba Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Kullu District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three districts in the Kullu Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Kangra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Kullu Division of Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Kangra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Kangra tea: tea from or similar to that grown in Kangra.
Mandi District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the three districts in the Kullu Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Shimla District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six districts in the Shimla Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Una District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six districts in the Shimla Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Hamirpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हमीरपुर (hamīrpur).
Senses: glosses: A town and district of Shimla division, Himachal Pradesh, India.
glosses: A city and district of Chitrakoot division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Bilaspur District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six districts in the Shimla Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Solan District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six districts in the Shimla Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Sirmaur District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the six districts in the Shimla Division of the Himachal Pradesh in the Republic of India.
Shelbi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Fanciful 20th-century spelling of Shelby.
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
Rilie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Chelsia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chelsea?
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
mechanizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mechanization
Cartesian closed category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cartesian closed categories
Etymology: Named after René Descartes (1596–1650), French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, whose formulation of analytic geometry gave rise to the concept of Cartesian product, which was later generalized to the notion of categorical product.
Senses: examples: text: In any event, Lambek showed that every typed lambda-theory gives a cartesian closed category — and conversely, every cartesian closed category gives a typed lambda-theory. This discovery led to a rich line of research blending category theory and computer science.
ref: 2009 February 3, John C. Baez with Mike Stay, Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone, page 54:
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A × B and an exponential object Bᴬ.
wikipedia: René Descartes
Synonyms: CCC
Hypernyms: Cartesian monoidal category
Cartesian category
closed monoidal category
monoidal category
Hyponyms: bicartesian closed category
topos
bicartesian closed category
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicartesian closed categories
Etymology: From bi- + Cartesian closed category.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Cartesian closed category which also has an initial object and such that for any pair of objects, A and B, in the category, the category has another object which is their coproduct, A∐B.
Synonyms: BCCC
Hypernyms: cartesian closed category
cocartesian closed category
Hyponyms: Heyting algebra
Heyting prealgebra
amenorrhoeae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrhoea
amenorrheae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrhea
amenorrhœæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrhœa
all hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: All of the passengers and crew of a ship.
Related terms: all hands on deck
lost with all hands
all hands
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of all hands on deck.
Vere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
carbureter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbureters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carburetor.
carburetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carburetters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of carburetor.
carburetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carburetter
carbureters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbureter
Pessoa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pessoas
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese Pessoa.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Portuguese.
Derived terms: João Pessoa
pan-Serb
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + Serb.
Senses: examples: text: Ultimately, Nicholas aspired to a pan-Serb ideal, desiring nothing less than the resurrection of the medieval Serb empire with himself upon Dusan's throne.
ref: 1983, John D Treadway, The Falcon and the Eagle, page 8:
text: As for Bosnian Serbs, they still focus on the alluring aspirations of a pan-Serb center, aspirations that are directly opposed to the unification of Bosnia.
ref: 2003, Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, Sarajevo Essays, page 55:
text: Jovanović, for one thing, was […] a senior pan-Serb activist with the classical career profile of an ultra-nationalist.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 61:
glosses: Pertaining to the unity of Serbs across the Balkan Peninsula; especially, adhering to cultural or political projects to further such unity.
Derived terms: pan-Serbism
Serbdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəːbdəm/
Etymology: From Serb + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.
ref: 2003, William Jovanovich, The Temper of the West, page 106:
text: The dilemma arose from what nationalists perceived as an intolerable disjuncture between the broad geographical extent of Serbdom—the imagined community of Serbs—and the Serbian state as a territorial homeland.
ref: 2011, Gerard Toal, Carl T Dahlman, Bosnia Remade, page 53:
text: Serbia had needed the nationalist networks in the past and would depend on them again when the moment came, as Pašić knew it some day would, to redeem Bosnia and Herzegovina for Serbdom.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 62:
glosses: The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.
Related terms: Serbhood
Serbism
Serbness
bituminous shale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bituminous shales
Senses: glosses: An argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen.
off-note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: off-notes
Senses: examples: text: The only off-note was some rather bready dumplings.
text: In one off-note moment, Mr. Romney talked earlier this month at an event in New Hampshire about an affinity for firing people, just as his campaign was facing attacks that Mr. Romney laid off workers while leading investment firm Bain Capital.
ref: 2012 January 21, Neil King Jr., Sara Murraym, “Romney's Wealth Proves Rich Vein for Rivals”, in Wall Street Journal:
text: At least it calmed down into a dignified procession by the time it reached the Trocadero, with a silver-clad figure arriving on horseback, although a frenzy of blue lasers beaming across the Eiffel Tower brought another off-note.
ref: 2024 July 26, Arifa Akbar, “Paris Olympics opening ceremony review – soaring ambition deflated by patchy delivery”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: The state of being out of key.
heptasulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptasulfides
form: heptasulphide
Etymology: From hepta- + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound having seven sulfide groups, or seven linked sulfur atoms
Derived terms: diallyl heptasulfide
dihydrogen heptasulfide
rhenium heptasulfide
tetraphosphorus heptasulfide
Cisleithania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cisleithan + -ia, referring to the parts of Austria-Hungary ruled by Austrian government in Vienna, which were mostly located before the river Leitha (from the Viennese perspective), as opposed to Transleithania, Hungarian parts of the empire, mostly located behind the river Leitha.
Senses: examples: text: Since there was no official language in Cisleithania (by contrast with the Kingdom of Hungary), there was no single official language of parliamentary procedure.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 67:
glosses: The Austrian areas of Austria-Hungary
Coordinate terms: Transleithania
Cisleithanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Cisleithania + -an.
Senses: glosses: Cisleithan.
kmets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kmet
Akrotiri and Dhekelia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An overseas territory of the United Kingdom on the island of Cyprus. Official name: the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.
F.T.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Initialism of Final Testament (“the Quran”).
Quranic Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of the Arabic language that is used in the Quran.
Word of God
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Word of God
form: God's word
Etymology: From Middle English worde of god, wurde of god, variant of Middle English godes word, Godes word (“Word of God”, literally “God's word”), from Old English Godes word (“Word of God”). Compare West Frisian Wurd fan God, Dutch Woord van God.
Senses: examples: text: Smith argues that the Koran is the Word of God for Muslims.
ref: 1996, H.M. Vroom, translated by Lucy Jansen, No Other Gods: Christian Belief in Dialogue with Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, →ISBN:
text: This leads to a far reaching conclusion, proving that Quran is the Word of God Who exists
ref: 2009, Fateh Ullah Khan, God Created the Universe with the Purpose to Serve Humankind, →ISBN, page 309:
glosses: A sacred teaching, writing or book viewed as being the work of God.
examples: text: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 1:1:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Logos, or God the Son.
examples: text: To me, citing the letter is a bit like the whole Dumbledore is gay thing. Sure, we have the Word of God [1] that he is but I prefer my evidence to come from the text.
ref: 2009 December 31, James Nicoll, “Re: Casting Tunnel”, in alt.fan.heinlein (Usenet):
text: ABC screwed over My Wife and Kids by cancelling it after the creators had already been promised another season, thus ending the series on a cliffhanger as a result(though Word Of God's explanation for what would've happened next season lessens the blow somewhat).
ref: 2012 February 29, Karolina Dean...Big money weave a mighty web, “Screwed by the Network”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
text: Word of God - that is, of Author - is that Professor Dumbledore is gay, but if we're given his biography and can't see that anyway then I think something's wrong.
ref: 2013 December 19, Robert Carnegie, “Re: Older children's fantasy”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The creator(s) of a media franchise and/or their extradiegetic revelations about plot, characters, etc.
Related terms: Word
unskippable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + skippable.
Senses: examples: text: […] pirated content may have some perceived advantages for consumers that may not be present in legal content. For instance, some people complain about the unskippable trailers present in commercial DVDs that are absent in bootlegs.
ref: 2012, Eric Diehl, Securing Digital Video, page 20:
glosses: That cannot be skipped.
raw_tags: of advertisements
withafastuosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withafastuosins
Etymology: From withanolide + fastuosa + -in.
Senses: glosses: A withanolide obtained from Datura fastuosa.
withafastuosins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withafastuosin
daturametelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daturametelins
Etymology: Datura metel + -in
Senses: glosses: A withanolide obtained from Datura metel.
Related terms: withametelin
daturametelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daturametelin
withametelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withametelins
Etymology: From withanolide, metel, + -in.
Senses: glosses: A withanolide obtained from Datura metel.
Related terms: daturametelin
isowithametelin
secowithametelin
withametelins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of withametelin
literarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literarists
Etymology: From literary + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An academic involved in teaching literature rather than composition.
Related terms: compositionist
literarists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literarist
unlaudably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unlaudably
form: most unlaudably
Etymology: From unlaudable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Erasmus maintains that he has no intention of condemning the zeal of those who, not unlaudably, exercise their powers of intellect in subtleties of this kind; but he is convinced that the gospels and epistles are the best sources […]
ref: 1957, Edward Surtz, The Praise of Pleasure:
glosses: In a way that is not laudable.
unslanted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unslanted
form: most unslanted
Etymology: From un- + slanted.
Senses: glosses: Not slanted.
unslitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + slitted.
Senses: glosses: Not slitted.
Tahat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the highest mountain peak in Algeria
agiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agiaries
Etymology: Borrowed from Gujarati અગિયારી (agiyārī).
Senses: glosses: A fire temple.
agiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agiary
Caucasianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Caucasian + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Matt and Bernie had the lower bunks and the Indian the upper: a deference to their Caucasianness.
ref: 1979, Dale Riepe, The Owl Flies by Day, page 116:
glosses: The quality of being Caucasian.
peekabo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peekaboo.
odyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒd(ɪ)l/
ipa: /ˈəʊd-/
ipa: /ˈɑdl̩/
ipa: /ˈoʊd-/
Forms: form: odyl
Etymology: From od + Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē, “wood; material, matter, substance”).
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
glosses: Synonym of od (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”).
synonyms: word: od
extra: (“a hypothetical force or natural power, now proved not to exist, which was supposed by Carl Reichenbach and others to inhere in certain people and produce phenomena such as animal magnetism and mesmerism, and to be developed by various agencies, as by chemical or vital action, heat, light, magnets, etc.”).
Derived terms: odylic
odyllic
odylism
odylist
Related terms: od
odic
odically
odism
vitalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitalism
odylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From odyle, odyl + -ism.
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
glosses: A belief in a vital force known as od or odyle.
ageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ageable
form: most ageable
Etymology: From age + -able.
Senses: examples: text: An ageable wine with great character and poise.
ref: 2009, Wine Enthusiast, volume 23, numbers 1-7, page 91:
glosses: Capable of being aged; suitable for ageing.
examples: text: I received your letter by the bearer, and in reply to it I have to state that my father is an ageable man now, and not able to attend to the time appointed by your Honour.
ref: 1842, Great Britain. Parliament, House of Commons Papers, volume 12, page 456:
text: She looked like an ageable woman but Wes was young and supple as a boy.
ref: 1932, Julia Mood Peterkin, Bright Skin, page 39:
text: They had no children, and they were getting to be up in years—“ageable” as Took described it.
ref: 2009, Sara F. Munday, Becoming Myself: A Passage of Grace, page 77:
glosses: Getting on in years; fairly old.
salpichrolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salpichrolides
Senses: glosses: A withanolide obtained from Salpichroa species.
salpichrolides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salpichrolide
daturilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: withametelin
Karlsruhe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Karl + Ruhe ("rest"), after Charles III William of Baden-Durlach.
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany; the former capital of Baden.
glosses: A rural district surrounding the city in Baden-Württemberg.
glosses: A minor city in McHenry County, North Dakota, United States.
undersock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undersocks
Etymology: From under- + sock.
Senses: glosses: A thermal sock worn under a normal sock for extra warmth.
undersocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undersock
phonodisc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonodiscs
Etymology: From phono- + disc.
Senses: glosses: A disc (rather than a cylinder etc) on which sound has been recorded
phonodiscs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phonodisc
ZDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛd.diɛf/
ipa: /zidiɛf/
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Zimbabwe Defence Forces.
Yorubian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yorubians
Etymology: From Yoruba + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A Yoruban.
Yorubian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Yoruba + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Yoruban.
Miri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Miris
form: Miri
Senses: glosses: A member of the Mishing people of Assam.
Miri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Sarawak, Malaysia.
sledgings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sledging
strip-searched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strip-search
strip-searches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strip-search
strip-searching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strip-search
glymphatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɪmˈfæ.tɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Etymology: Blend of glial + lymphatic; from late 2013.
Senses: examples: text: Recent research has shown that sleep allows for the clearing of toxic substances from the brain. It does this through the glymphatic system, which is the brain's equivalent of the lymphatic system.
ref: 2015, Alexandra Armitage, Advanced Practice Nursing Guide to the Neurological Exam, Springer Publishing, page 205:
text: Hence, an increase of BWC^([brain water content]) can only occur though an increased flow of water from the intravascular space into the brain parenchyma by an increase in glymphatic influx or by a reduced glymphatic efflux.
ref: 2017, Nikolaus Pleslila, “4: Experimental Techniques to Investigate the Formation of Brain Edema In Vivo”, in Jérôme Badaut, Nikolaus Plesnila, editors, Brain Edema: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Practice, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 72:
text: The glymphatic system is most active during sleep and is largely disengaged during waking hours.
ref: 2017, Amy Berger, The Alzheimer's Antidote, Chelsea Green Publishing, page 216:
topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the waste clearance pathway for the central nervous system of vertebrates.
multibusiness
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + business.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to more than one business.
semimanufacture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semimanufactures
Etymology: From semi- + manufacture.
Senses: glosses: A goods item that has undergone a limited amount of processing but is not yet a finished product.
semimanufactures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semimanufacture
upmass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From up + mass.
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The payload mass carried up to orbit from Earth.
Related terms: downmass
hyperestrogenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperestrogenisms
form: hyperoestrogenism
Etymology: From hyper- + estrogen + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A medical condition characterized by an excess of estrogenic activity in the body.
hyperestrogenisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperestrogenism
isosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + sexual.
Senses: glosses: Of the same biological sex.
nonreferring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + referring.
Senses: examples: text: In particular, Frege held as a special case of the Compositionality of Reference that a compound expression having a nonreferring part (as for example, 'the wife of the present king of France') must itself be nonreferring.
ref: 2003, Dov M. Gabbay, Franz Guenthner, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, volume 10, page 67:
glosses: Not referring.
amenorrhœas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amenorrhœa
smoothwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smooth + wire.
Senses: glosses: Wire, used for fencing, that is not barbed wire.
biocoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + coke.
Senses: glosses: coke produced from biomass
torrefactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torrefaction
parapenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: paragliding
downcomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downcomers
Etymology: From down + comer.
Senses: glosses: A pipe to conduct something downwards.
A large external pipe in a water-tube boiler, carrying unheated water from the steam drum down to the water drum as part of the circulation path.
glosses: A pipe to conduct something downwards.
A pipe for leading the hot gases from the top of a blast furnace downward to the regenerators, boilers, etc.
downcomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downcomer
pretransmission
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + transmission.
Senses: glosses: Prior to transmission.
glosses: Having the motor ahead of the transmission.
televisioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of television
genetic sexual attraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: GSA
glosses: A claimed phenomenon of sexual attraction between relatives and family members who were not raised together.
Related terms: Westermarck effect
Lieksa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland.
Seinäjoki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality, the capital city of the region of South Ostrobothnia, Finland.
glosses: A river in South Ostrobothnia, Finland.
Cererean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cererian.
Cererean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˈɹɪəɹɪ.ən/
Forms: form: Cerereans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Cererian.
rollerskater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rollerskaters
Etymology: From rollerskate + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in roller skating.
cererian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Cererian.
rollerskaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollerskater
blackfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: from black + faced
Senses: examples: text: “Señor Ponte, bet on Bandito,” Manny yelled, lifting his blackfaced bird as it expanded and ruffled its feathers
ref: 2002, Tina Matlock, Guava and Cheese, page 33:
glosses: Having a black face.
examples: text: Among the most popular forms of theatrical entertainment in the nineteenth-century American theatre were the blackfaced minstrel troupes.
ref: 1996, Barry Witham, Theatre in the United States - A Documentary History, page 160:
glosses: Wearing blackface theater makeup.
château migraine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: château migraines
form: châteaux migraine
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chateau Migraine.
Ceresian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈɹiːzi.ən/
Forms: form: Cererian
form: Cerean
Etymology: From Latin Ceresius (as in Ceresius lacus, Lake Lugano), from Cerēs. Often a nonce coinage for Cererian (vd. 1866).
Senses: examples: text: The bearers of the mystic cists in the Ceresian and Eleusinian processions were called Cistophori and Canephorae.
ref: 1824, “Cist”, in James Elmes,, editor, A general and bibliographical dictionary of the fine arts:
text: I shall want the Olympic twigs, the Pindaric olives, and the germinal sprigs of the Ceres'''-ian Ciros, &c, in the course of my remarks on druidical ceremonies. [italics in original]
ref: 1866, John Jones Thomas, “The Cimbro-Celtic Families”, in Britannia antiquissima, page 17:
text: Many years ago, a Mr. Torbit brought forward a Ceresian scheme for producing a disease-proof potato.
ref: 1902, “Is Natural Selection Evolving a Sober Race?”, in The Westminster Review, volume 158, page 504:
text: Some day I hope to hear the Corybantian dances and perhaps the Ceresian music of Eleusia.
ref: 1920, Charles Isaacson, “The Musical Digest”, in Theatre Magazine, volume 31, page 232:
glosses: Of or relating to the Roman goddess Ceres.
glosses: Of or relating to the dwarf planet/asteroid Ceres.
maltheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maltheists
Senses: glosses: One who believes in maltheism.
maltheist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maltheist
form: most maltheist
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to maltheism.
maltheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maltheist
sizzle reel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sizzle reels
Senses: glosses: A short promotional video, particularly one showing off the work of a videographer or animator.
electroshock therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electroshock therapies
Senses: glosses: Synonym of electroconvulsive therapy.
synonyms: word: electroconvulsive therapy
Edison's medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Thomas Edison (1847–1931), American inventor who pioneered applications of electricity. Chosen for the near-rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: They used to call it "Edison's medicine" or, with a touch of gallows humor, a "Georgia Power cocktail" — the practice of hooking mentally troubled patients up to an electrical current and jolting them until they went into convulsions.
ref: 2011 March 19, Andrew Zajac, “FDA revisits risks of electric shock treatment”, in Los Angeles Times, retrieved 25 Jan 2014:
text: The use of electroshock as mind-erasing punishment was dramatized in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and that negative portrayal almost served as a death knell for a practice derided as "Edison's medicine."
ref: 2012 May 11, “The rise of electroshock therapy: A guide”, in The Week, retrieved 25 Jan 2014:
text: So this woman who has had Edison's medicine (electroshock treatment) and medication, and who has the good fortune to have such a "sister" as Ginger, has lost everything.
ref: 2013 August 5, David Thomson, "Woody Allen makes a wonderful film. Really" (film review of Blue Jasmine), New Republic, vol. 244, no. 12, p. 56
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Electroconvulsive therapy.
crackpotitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crackpot + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: Consider, for instance, the number of freak-show images that occur in this suite, sourced from a global underground of crackpotitude.
ref: 2009 December 1, Atul Dodiya (author), Nancy Adajania and Ranjit Hoskote (contributors), Saptapadi: Scenes from Marriage (Regardless), Vadehra Art Gallery
text: Her blog and other online activities have elements of journalism, elements of gadfly crackpotitude, and elements of a shakedown racket, and she is a very persistent adversary.
ref: 2014, January 24, Bob Garfield, “A Blogger’s First Amendment Rights—And Responsibilities”, On the Media, National Public Radio
glosses: The quality of being crackpot.
Koivu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Koivus
Etymology: From Finnish Koivu.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
Gaddafi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡəˈdæfi/
enpr: gə-dă􂀽'fē
ipa: /ɡəˈdɑfi/
enpr: gə-dä􂀽'fē
rhymes: (UK) -æfi
Forms: form: Qaddafi
form: Qadhafi
form: Qadhdhafi
form: Gadafi
form: Gaddafy
form: Kaddafi
form: Gadhafi
form: Khadafy
form: Gadaffi
form: Qadaffi
form: Qadafi
form: Quaddafi
form: Khadafi
form: Khaddafi
form: Ghadaffi
form: Qathafi
form: Kadhafi
form: Ghaddafi
form: Kadafi
form: Ghadafi
form: Gadafy
form: Gadhaffi
form: Gaddhafi
form: Gadaffy
form: Ghaddaffi
form: Gheddafi
form: Qadhaffi
form: Qaddhafi
form: Quadaffi
form: Quadhafi
form: Quadafi
form: Khadaffi
form: Khaddafy
form: Kadaffi
form: Kazzafi
form: Gadaafi
form: Gaddaffy
form: Ghadaffy
form: Ghadafy
form: Ghaddafy
form: Ghedaffi
form: Kaddaffi
form: Kaddhafi
form: Kadhaffi
form: Kazafi
form: Khaddaffi
form: Khadhafi
form: Qazhafi
form: Qazzafi
form: Qhadaffi
form: Qhadafi
form: Qhaddafi
form: Quadaffy
form: Quadafy
form: Quaddaffi
form: Quaddafy
form: Quaddhafi
form: Quathafi
form: Khadhaffi
form: Qadhdhaffi
form: Kadaphi
form: Kajjaphi
form: Kajaphi
Etymology: From Libyan Arabic قدافي (gaddāfi, gaḏḏāfi), from Arabic قَذَّافِيّ (qaḏḏāfiyy), an occupational term from قَذَّاف (qaḏḏāf, “hurler, flinger; catapult, mangonel, ballista”).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Arabic surname القَذَّافِيّ (al-qaḏḏāfiyy).
glosses: Muammar Gaddafi (c. 1942–2011), revolutionary and leader of Libya.
Derived terms: Gaddafian
Gaddafism
Gaddafist
Muammar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Muamar
form: Mu'ammar
form: Mu'amar
form: Mummar
form: Muamer
form: Mouamar
form: Mouammar
form: Mouammer
form: Moammar
form: Moamar
form: Moamer
form: Mo'ammar
form: Mo'amar
Etymology: From Arabic مُعَمَّر (muʕammar).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
cuckoo wasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuckoo wasps
form: cuckoo-wasp
Senses: examples: text: In this volume the author presents an account of the ants and cuckoo wasps.
ref: 1904, Experiment Station Record, volume 15, page 280:
text: In our account of the mason-wasps, we have referred to the destruction of their grubs by the interposition of the ruby-tails or cuckoo-wasps.
ref: 1916, Edward Step, Marvels of Insect Life: A Popular Account of Structure and Habit, page 470:
text: Dr. L. H. Taylor determined the cuckoo-wasps (Chrysididae); Dr. H. T. Fernald the Sphecidae;[…].
ref: 1921, Bulletin of the Boston Society of Natural History, volumes 25-48, page 133:
glosses: Any of the many wasps of the family Chrysididae that are kleptoparasites or parasitoids and are often brightly coloured.
Synonyms: sense: any species of family Chrysididae
word: chrysidid
cuckoo wasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuckoo wasp
polycratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlɪˈkɹatɪk/
Forms: form: more polycratic
form: most polycratic
Etymology: From poly- + -cratic, after polycracy.
Senses: examples: text: Against the background of this strikingly polycratic system, three figures emerge as especially influential […]
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 101:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Governed by many people or groups.
Berlins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Berlin
navalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪvəlɪst/
Forms: form: navalists
Etymology: From naval + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Franz Ferdinand was a navalist determined to consolidate Austrian dominance in the Adriatic through the construction of a fleet of dreadnoughts […].
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 109:
glosses: An advocate of the navy or of naval power.
navalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of navalist
pluto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From combining form of Ancient Greek πλοῦτος (ploûtos, “wealth, riches”).
Senses: glosses: wealth or money
glosses: plutonium
potato in its jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potatoes in their jackets
Senses: glosses: A jacket potato; a baked potato.
potatoes in their jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato in its jacket
world-historical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwəːldhɪˈstɒɹɪkl̩/
Etymology: From world + historical, perhaps after earlier German weltgeschichtlich [from 19th c.]
Senses: examples: text: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China was a world-historical event.
ref: 2005, Arif Dirlik, Marxism in the Chinese Revolution:
text: It is hard to overstate the world-historical impact of this transformation.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 124:
glosses: Pertaining to world history; globally significant.
spiny rats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiny rat
spiny rat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiny rats
Senses: examples: text: Spiny rats, Proechimys semispinosus, are rodents weighing up to 500 g which eat fruits and seeds that have fallen to the forest floor. In Lutz catchment, a spiny rat's territory is three-fifths as wide as an agouti's (Smythe et al. 1982).
ref: 1999, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr., Tropical Forest Ecology : A View from Barro Colorado Island, page 28:
text: Members of the important Neotropical family Echimyidae, which includes a viety of roughly rat-sized rodents, are called spiny rats.[…]Spiny rats are widely distributed in the Neotropics, occurring from Nicaragua southward through the northern half of South America to Paraguay and south-eastern Brazil.
ref: 2011, Terry A. Vaughan, James M. Ryan, Nicholas J. Czaplewski, Mammalogy, page 232:
synonyms: hedgehog rat
porcupine rat
glosses: Any of certain caviomorph rodents of the family Echimyidae of Neotropical spiny rats, especially of genus Proechimys, that resemble rats and have stiff, pointed hairs, or spines.
glosses: Any of certain genera of family Muridae of rodents:
Any member of two species of genus Rattus.
glosses: Any of certain genera of family Muridae of rodents:
Any member of the species of genus Maxomys (sometimes considered a subgenus of Rattus).
glosses: Any of certain genera of family Muridae of rodents:
A Ryukyu spiny rats (Tokudaia).
glosses: Any of certain genera of family Muridae of rodents:
A Sulawesi spiny rats (Echiothrix).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Echiothrix centrosa
word: Central Sulawesi spiny rat
word: large New Guinea spiny rat
taxonomic: Rattus praetor
word: large spiny rat
taxonomic: Tarsomys echinatus
word: Mindanao spiny rat
taxonomic: Maxomys baeodon
word: small spiny rat
taxonomic: Echiothrix leucura
word: Sulawesi spiny rat
Related terms: alt: = Mindanao spiny rat
word: spiny long-footed rat
taxonomic: Acomys spp.
word: spiny mouse
english: Echimys, Lonchothrix, Mesomys, Makalata, Pattonomys
translation: Echimys, Lonchothrix, Mesomys, Makalata, Pattonomys
word: spiny tree-rat
taxonomic: Tenrecidae spp.
word: tenrec
anti-LGBT
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-LGBT
form: most anti-LGBT
Etymology: From anti- + LGBT.
Senses: glosses: Against or opposed to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transexual) people and/or rights.
Heath Robinsonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hiːθɹɒbɪnˈsəʊnɪən/
Forms: form: more Heath Robinsonian
form: most Heath Robinsonian
Etymology: From Heath Robinson + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Later, when I was not in quite such a vulnerable position, I decided that it was a ridiculously convoluted, Heath Robinsonian piece of machinery, a bit much even for Mycroft.
ref: 2011, Laurie R. King, Pirate King:
text: In the eyes of the anti-Bismarck fronde, the chancellor's remarkable web of transcontinental commitments looked less like a system than a creaking Heath-Robinsonian contraption, a flimsy joist-work of ‘plasters and patches’ designed to avoid the pressing choices that confronted the German Empire in an increasingly dangerous world.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 127:
glosses: Elaborate and impractical.
tris legomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tris legomena
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρὶς λεγόμενον (trìs legómenon, “(something) said only three times”), from τρίς (trís, “three times”) and λεγόμενον (legómenon), passive participle of λέγω (légō).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word occurring only three times in a given corpus.
Related terms: dis legomenon
hapax legomenon
tetrakis legomenon
wriggle room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This state of affairs enhanced the empire's security and created a certain wriggle room for the policy-makers in Berlin.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 141:
text: Such highly intensive deployment left little wriggle room, something with which Dunster is all too familiar. "It hasn't all been beer and skittles," he says dryly.
ref: 2022 October 5, Nick Brodrick, “Pendolinos: a huge role to play”, in RAIL, number 967, page 41:
glosses: Wiggle room.
power-political
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpaʊəpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/
ipa: /ˌpaʊɚpəˈlɪtɪkl̩/
Forms: form: more power-political
form: most power-political
Etymology: From power + political, after power politics.
Senses: examples: text: It should be noted that even modest German efforts to overleap the power-political constraints on imperial expansion met with sturdy resistance form the established world powers.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 142:
glosses: Pertaining to power politics.
unsalvagably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unsalvagably
form: most unsalvagably
Etymology: From unsalvagable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unsalvageably.
Reuter
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reuters
Etymology: From German Reuter.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
Related terms: Reut
Reute
Reuteman
Reutemann
Reuterman
Reutermann
Reuters