cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Spenderian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Spenderian
form: most Spenderian
Etymology: From Spender + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Stephen Spender (1909–1995), English poet, novelist and essayist focusing on themes of social injustice and the class struggle.
Vendlerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vendlerian
form: most Vendlerian
Etymology: From Vendler + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Zeno Vendler (1921–2004), Hungarian-born philosopher.
Nahuatls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Nahuatl
filespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From file + space.
Senses: examples: text: Thus although people routinely email other people worldwide, they are more cautious about sending queries to remote databases. Instead they prefer to browse around directories on remote sites and then transfer whole files to their own filespace for deeper investigation.
ref: 1996, Ian Wand, Robin Milner, Computing Tomorrow: Future Research Directions in Computer Science, page 121:
text: That password allows anyone who knows it to get into the complete system. I could now delete all the hospital files if I wanted. Or I could go poking around in other people's filespace to see what is of interest.
ref: 2001, Cynthia Lucy Dale, The Devil's DNA, page 55:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The space where files are stored.
sociorelational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: socio-relational
Etymology: From socio- + relational.
Senses: glosses: Relating to social relationships
Old Hungarian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The form of Hungarian used from the 10th to the 15th century.
birth name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: birth names
form: birthname
Senses: examples: text: Her birth name was Elizabeth, but everyone called her Lizzie.
text: In California the credit card companies must issue a credit card in a person's birth name or married name, whichever the customer prefers.
glosses: A name chosen for a child at birth, as opposed to a different name used subsequently.
Hyponyms: deadname
maiden name
trimonoecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + monoecious.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, there is the trimonoecious group, which has a mixture of staminate, pistillate, and hermaphroditic flowers all on the same plant.
ref: 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, page 509:
text: Six different sex forms have been reported in C.^([Cucumis]) melo, i.e., monoecious, andromonoecious, gynomonoecious, hermaphrodite, trimonoecious, and gynoecious (Poole and Grimball 1939).
ref: 1998, J. M. Alvarez, “Chapter 24: Muskmelon”, in S.S. Banga, S.K. Banga, editors, Hybrid Cultivar Development, page 516:
text: Individual plants are either hermaphrodites (all flowers are hermaphrodites), monoecious (both male and female flowers), andromonoecious (male and hermaphrodite flowers), gynomonoecious (female and hermaphrodite flowers) or trimonoecious (all three types of flowers).
ref: 2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, translated by Tiiu Ojasoo, Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution, page 137:
text: Trivedi and Roy (1973) have reported the appearance of various intermediate sex forms such as andromonoecious, gynoecious, and trimonoecious in colchicine-treated plants of M. charantia, but remaining as diploids.
ref: 2011, T. K. Behera, K. Joseph John, L. K. Bharathi, R. Karuppaiyan, “Chapter 10: Momordica”, in Chittaranjan Kole, editor, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Vegetables, page 226:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That has male, female and bisexual (perfect) flowers on the same individual plant.
Synonyms: sense: botany: having male, female and bisexual flowers on the same plant
word: polygamous
word: polygamomonoecious
rahn
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Well when ah's youngah, ah’d just light a candle rahn de dinna table play pure crazy 8s and spades vif my brotha til we lot dozed off...
ref: 2013 April 12, “Exclusive: Meet Derpuntae - Bermuda’s first meme”, in The Bermuda Sun, archived from the original on 12 Dec 2022:
qualifier: Bermuda
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of round.
pinsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinsels
Senses: glosses: The triangular heraldic flag of a Scottish clan chief's representative, used in the clan chief's absence.
Related terms: pennon
pennoncel
pencel
beduke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedukes
form: beduking
form: beduked
form: beduked
Etymology: From be- + duke.
Senses: examples: text: I could name (reverently) a dozen illustrious men abundantly dowered with intellectual poverty, anyone of whom could beduke and enrich the obscurest ignobleman in the fierce democracy of letters by merely blaring abroad the praise of his books.
ref: 1905, Cosmopolitan, volume 40, page 360:
glosses: To make a duke.
examples: text: Like a simple American citizen beduking himself in his lodge.
ref: 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “resplendent”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To behave or dress as a duke.
aetherometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aether + -o- + -metry.
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
glosses: A so-called science of energy that has no mass equivalent.
Derived terms: aetherometric
autoregressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoregression
disformally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From disformal + -ly.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: In a disformal manner
eigentensors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eigentensor
coordinatewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From coordinate + -wise.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: By or with respect to coordinates or an individual coordinate.
South-central Asia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The portion of Asia which sits on the Indian subcontinent.
poor metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poor metals
Senses: synonyms: post-transition metal
glosses: Any of various metallic elements in the p-block of the periodic table, generally with higher electronegativity, lower melting and boiling points and greater softness than the transition metals.
poor metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poor metal
beauty factory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty factories
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A collider-based scientific machine designed to produce a large number (at least 10⁹) of B mesons.
beauty factories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beauty factory
backtabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backtab
backtabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backtab
backtabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of backtab
I'l
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: Il
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of I'll.
backtabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backtab
Weltbild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Weltbild, literally "world-picture".
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A theoretical understanding of the world and how it operates.
Related terms: weltanschauung
superscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superscientific
form: most superscientific
Etymology: From super- + scientific.
Senses: examples: text: Humble positivism allowed educators, politicians, or religious authorities to believe, and behave as if, they possess superscientific knowledge that reaches further into the fabric of reality than empirical science.
ref: 2005, George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science, page 298:
text: It should be emphasized that highly improbable events occur in nature without the involvement of any kind of supernatural or superscientific phenomena.
ref: 2012, J. Woods Halley, How Likely is Extraterrestrial Life?, page 52:
glosses: Above or beyond science.
ancient astronauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ancient astronaut
nonaccentual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + accentual.
Senses: glosses: Not accentual.
Greater Middle East
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Greater Middle East
Etymology: Coined or popularized by the administration of United States President George W. Bush.
Senses: glosses: The Middle East in addition to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Africa.
superscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersciences
Etymology: From super- + science.
Senses: examples: text: What we need is a superscience, a science of the higher nature or of the spirit, a science dealing with the whole arena of purposes and significance and the transformation of being and the laws pertaining to them.
ref: 2002, Ravi Ravindra, Science and the Sacred: Eternal Wisdom in a Changing World, page 129:
text: By conventional standards, both psychoanalytic and materialist feminist philosophy of science fall short of their ambitions to be supersciences: the science of science. Neither presents an adequate empirical basis.
ref: 2001, Marianne Sawicki, Body, Text, and Science, page 250:
glosses: A discipline comprehending more than one science.
supersciences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superscience
subscientific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subscientific
form: most subscientific
Etymology: From sub- + scientific.
Senses: examples: text: Schemes of the strict accentual type explicitly rejected by Lowth are advocated without substantial modification at present; proposals are still subscientific, i.e., without replicable results and unsupported by a scholarly consensus.
ref: 1978, Michael Patrick O'Connor, Hebrew Verse Structure, volume 1, page 65:
text: Though basically subscientific in character, Babylonian mathematics demonstrates to what extent subscientific mathematics could mimic "scientific" mathematics[…]
ref: 1994, Jens Høyrup, In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture, page 32:
glosses: Less than scientific; not attaining the rank of a science.
Racinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Racinian
form: most Racinian
Etymology: From Racine + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jean Racine (1639–1699), French dramatist
Collingwoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Collingwoodian
form: most Collingwoodian
Etymology: From Collingwood + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robin George Collingwood (1889–1943), English philosopher and historian.
Collingwoodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Collingwoodians
Etymology: From Collingwood + -ian.
Senses: qualifier: Durham University
glosses: A member or alumnus of Collingwood College, Durham.
Leavisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Leavisian
form: most Leavisian
Etymology: From Leavis + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to F. R. Leavis (1895–1978), influential British literary critic.
Laputans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Laputan
Jordanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jordanesque
form: most Jordanesque
Etymology: From Jordan + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Here a small black child, tongue hanging out in true Jordanesque fashion, attempts to imitate one of Jordan's explosive moves to the basket.
ref: 1998, Geneviève Rail, Sport and Postmodern Times, page 212:
text: When he announced that he was going to try his hand at professional baseball, few skeptics were bold enough to suggest that this career turn would be anything but another Jordanesque dazzler.
ref: 2009, Ric Merrifield, Rethink, page 62:
text: As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.
ref: 2011, Robert Strauss, Daddy's Little Goalie, page 53:
glosses: Reminiscent of Michael Jordan (born 1963), American former professional basketball player.
examples: text: Captivated by her beauty, her wasp-like waistline and, most importantly, her Jordanesque chest measurements, I'd made a reasonable fist of chatting her up.
ref: 2004, Mark Worrall, Over Land and Sea:
text: John McCririck has made a right t*t of himself on Celebrity Big Brother, not least when he took off his shirt to reveal his Jordanesque bosom.
ref: 2005, Tribune, volume 69, page 28:
text: Hazel […] is resplendent in a much too tight fitting scarlet shirt with ruffles, that seem to extend her chest to Jordanesque proportions[…]
ref: 2012, Acklima Akbar, And Then There Was Swine Flu, page 99:
glosses: Large-breasted, like former glamour model "Jordan" (Katie Price, born 1978).
nonterminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + terminative.
Senses: glosses: Not terminative.
glossolalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glossolalic
form: most glossolalic
Etymology: From glossolalia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, glossolalia.
pseudolanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudolanguages
Etymology: From pseudo- + language.
Senses: examples: text: Some mediums have spoken in elaborate pseudolanguages while in a state of trance.
ref: 1991, Leslie Shepard, Lewis Spence, Nandor Fodor, Encyclopedia of occultism and parapsychology, page 540:
text: The existence of such pseudolanguages as pidgin in south-east Asia and the "Spanglish" found in Puerto Rico is due to the total absence of the coercive dimension[…]
ref: 2000, Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Yves Gambier, Translation in Context, page 76:
glosses: Something written or spoken that resembles language but is not a true language.
examples: text: State what will be printed by the following code fragment written in a pseudolanguage permitting reference parameters (assume Y and J are passed by reference).
ref: 2010, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini, Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms, page 194:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.
pseudolanguages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudolanguage
dirigism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirigisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dirigisme.
dirigisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirigism
unearnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + earnable.
Senses: examples: text: Peter represents that part of our personality that realizes love is unearnable and therefore surrenders helplessly to a love which is beyond merit, beyond control, beyond manipulation, beyond negotiation[…]
ref: 1998, Patricia McCarthy, Of Passion and Folly: A Scriptural Foundation for Peace, page 113:
glosses: That cannot be earned.
earnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From earn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being earned.
Derived terms: unearnable
earnable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earnables
Etymology: From earn + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In the past, I have had the most success with "earnables," which involve structured free time and normally scheduled activities (e.g., working on a special project. A teacher should avoid buying the child out with edibles and material rewards (which soon lose their effectiveness or become too costly), and establish a firm time period(s) for reinforcement delivery that is not too distant from the work period ( i.e., avoid home-based or after-school consequences when possible — these children are impulsive and have inadequate delay skills!) .
ref: 1988, Vincent B. Van Hasselt, Phillip S. Strain, Michel Hersen, Handbook of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, page 304:
text: What Ferdinand would hoard, she circulates. He fastens on the absolutes of ascriptive identity; the duchess, on the earnables of achieved character.
ref: 1996, Frank Whigham, Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama, page 201:
text: However, it was recognized by Prison Service Headquarters that not all of these 'key earnables' would be relevant in all prisons (for example, all women prisoners already wore their own clothes, and there were no plans to change this; long-term prisoners in conditions of maximum security could not expect community visits).
ref: 2003, Lucia Zedner, Andrew Ashworth, The Criminological Foundations of Penal Policy, page 120:
glosses: Something that can be earned, especially a reward for good behavior.
unearmarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + earmarked.
Senses: glosses: Not earmarked.
shaheen falcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaheen falcon
aerophilatelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerophilatelists
Etymology: From aero- + philatelist.
Senses: glosses: One who practices aerophilately; a collector of airmail stamps.
who died and left you in charge
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Sarcastic response to somebody assuming a position of authority that they have not earned.
Synonyms: who died and gave you the reins?
who died and made you boss?
who died and made you king?
who died and made you president?
galileon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galileons
Etymology: From Galileo + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorised scalar field which is a local modification of gravity in some forms of string theory.
graphyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An allotrope of carbon, related to graphene, consisting of a plane of benzene rings, each connected to six others by acetylene moieties.
Derived terms: graphdiyne
graphtriyne
lenslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lenslets
Etymology: From lens + -let.
Senses: examples: text: The photo plate is traversed so that each lenslet tracks along the dotted line.
ref: 1958 August 24, Charles M. Huggins, “An Analytical Evaluation of the Lenticular-Plate Cinemicrograph and the Image-Dissection Process”, in Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 67, number 8, page 523:
text: Screens are now available with lenticular lenslets.
ref: 1992, Mohammad A. Karim, Electro-Optical Displays, page 267:
text: Typical lenslet integrators in projectors have between 25 and 80 lenslets in each array.
ref: 2008, Matthew S. Brennesholtz, Projection Displays:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A small lens that is part of an array used to generate illumination of uniform intensity
minivoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minivoid
minivoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minivoids
Etymology: From mini- + void.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A small region of very low density within a galaxy.
quasielectron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasielectrons
Etymology: From quasi- + electron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of quasiparticle formed from an electron as it travels through a semiconductor.
subaffective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + affective.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a milder form of affective disorder.
affective disorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affective disorders
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: mood disorder
glosses: Any of various disorders characterised by disturbance in an individual's mood.
Related terms: subaffective
affective disorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affective disorder
borderliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: borderliners
Etymology: From borderline + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who has borderline personality disorder.
borderliners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borderliner
unrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rent.
Senses: examples: text: The unrent veil was a symbol of darkness and difficulty. To the Jew, it shut out his view of heavenly things, and obstructed his way of approach to them.
ref: 1864, Richard Newton, The Jewish Tabernacle and Its Furniture, page 281:
glosses: Not having been rent or torn; intact.
ameiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + meiotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Not undergoing meiosis; relating to ameiosis
Derived terms: ameiotically
enteroblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enteroblasts
Etymology: From entero- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A form of midgut cell, associated with stem cells, that develops into an enterocyte
Derived terms: enteroblastic
enteroblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enteroblast
peritrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + -trophic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a tubular chitinous sheath that lines the midgut of many insects.
Derived terms: ectoperitrophic
endoperitrophic
exoperitrophic
Related terms: peritrophin
quasielectrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasielectron
quasiprotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasiproton
quasineutron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasineutrons
Etymology: From quasi- + neutron.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quasiparticle equivalent to a neutron.
quasineutrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasineutron
who died and made you boss
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: who died and gave you the reins
form: who died and left you in charge
form: who died and made you king
form: who died and made you queen
form: who died and made you president
Senses: glosses: Sarcastic response to somebody assuming a position of authority that they have not earned.
unbale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbales
form: unbaling
form: unbaled
form: unbaled
Etymology: From un- + bale.
Senses: examples: text: […] the following appear to be safe and desirable: […] Never to unbale cotton from America, if it be shown that it was not gathered during the prevalence of yellow fever at the place of production.
ref: 1843, John Macgregor, Commercial statistics, page 1260:
glosses: To unpack from bales.
unbaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not baled.
unbaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbale
unbales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbale
unbaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbale
nonintact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + intact.
Senses: glosses: Not intact.
ruptureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rupture + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without rupture.
dampenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dampening
cottonless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cotton + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without cotton.
Fergusonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɜː.ɡəˈsəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌfɝ.ɡəˈsoʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Fergusonian
form: most Fergusonian
Etymology: From Ferguson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Charles A. Ferguson (1921–1998), American linguist, known for his work on diglossia and as one of the founders of sociolinguistics.
antiempire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiempire
form: most antiempire
Etymology: From anti- + empire.
Senses: examples: text: Black Beauty is a new gendered text of empire, embedding an innovative discourse that is anticapture, anticruelty, antiwar, and antiempire yet shies from any critique of antediluvian feudal relations. Consequently, Sewell could not easily bring ...
ref: 1998, Moira Ferguson, Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900, page 102:
text: In light of these changes, it is tempting to label the period from 1783 to 1880 as “antiempire” because of the dampened enthusiasm for large-scale imperialist activities.
ref: 2010, Karen Racine, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, The Human Tradition in the Atlantic World, 1500–1850, page 210:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposing an empire.
damperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From damper + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a damper.
wiperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wiper + -less.
Senses: examples: a wiperless windshield
glosses: Without wipers.
subpuzzle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpuzzles
Etymology: From sub- + puzzle.
Senses: examples: text: The three-dimensional problem consisted of three subpuzzles or sets of pieces; the three subpuzzles (hereafter called parts) could be assembled into one large block.
ref: 1968, American Psychological Association, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, volume 3, page 411:
text: The tangram portion defined by the edges traced during the first and second encounter constitutes a subpuzzle.
ref: 1972, B. Meltzer, Donald Michie, Machine Intelligence, volume 7, page 213:
glosses: A puzzle making up part of a larger puzzle.
Related terms: metapuzzle
subpuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpuzzle
undepressed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undepressed
form: most undepressed
Etymology: From un- + depressed.
Senses: glosses: Not depressed.
antishame
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antishame
form: most antishame
Etymology: From anti- + shame.
Senses: examples: text: Antishame exercises. Dr. Albert Ellis, a clinical psychologist, has developed a novel way for overcoming shame. He sends people out to do outlandish activities in public — such as yelling out the time of day in a department store[…]
ref: 1988, Gary Emery, Getting un-depressed, page 120:
text: The child is exposed to a verbally expressed anticontempt, antishame ideology in which the only individuals who are condemned are those who humiliate others.
ref: 1995, Silvan S. Tomkins, E. Virginia Demos, Exploring Affect: The Selected Writings of Silvan S Tomkins, page 184:
text: He thus strikes a posture of defiance, an antishame posture that is one of the most popular ways of combating shame in Melville's characters.
ref: 1997, Joseph Adamson, Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye: A Psychoanalytic Reading, page 72:
glosses: Opposing or countering shame.
noncollegian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncollegians
Etymology: From non- + collegian.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a collegian.
noncollegians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncollegian
Khrushchevian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Khrushchevian
form: most Khrushchevian
Etymology: From Khrushchev + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971), who led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War.
mismatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mismatchers
Etymology: From mismatch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which mismatches.
mismatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mismatcher
Weedjies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weedjie
wedgied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wedgie
wedgying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wedgie
soakable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soakable
form: most soakable
Etymology: From soak + -able.
Senses: glosses: Suitable for soaking.
wedgeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wedge + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being wedged.
Related terms: unwedgeable
unwedged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wedged.
Senses: glosses: Not wedged.
unwedged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unwedge
underpetticoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpetticoats
form: under-petticoat
Etymology: From under- + petticoat.
Senses: examples: text: I beheld the charmingest creature in the world, supporting herself on the arm of the gasping Dorcas, sighing, trembling, and ready to faint, with nothing on but an under-petticoat […].
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CCXXV”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
glosses: A petticoat worn under a skirt or another petticoat.
underpetticoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpetticoat
apple-catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: large, spacious underwear
unfrank
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrank
form: most unfrank
Etymology: From un- + frank.
Senses: examples: text: That unknown, approaching thing, seemeth ever ill, my brother, which must have unfrank heralds to go before.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
text: Hitherto I have lived a great deal too much apart from my sisters, partly from indolence, and partly from my unfrank disposition.
ref: 1926, Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, published 1979, page 72:
glosses: Not frank.
ruinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ruin + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without ruins.
bioresearches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioresearch
settingless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From setting + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a setting.
antitheorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antitheorems
Etymology: From anti- + theorem.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A syntactically correct expression whose negation is a theorem.
antitheorems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antitheorem
junctionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From junctional + -ly.
Senses: examples: junctionally-transmitted growth inhibitors
glosses: At or by means of a junction.
uninfluencing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninfluencing
form: most uninfluencing
Etymology: From un- + influencing.
Senses: glosses: Not exerting an influence.
uninfluenceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninfluenceable
form: most uninfluenceable
Etymology: From un- + influenceable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being influenced.
comfortablest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of comfortable: most comfortable
ashily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ashily
form: most ashily
Etymology: From ashy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The window is full of the bare blue gloom,
And by the low hearth ashily sinking,
Half asleep, is a fairy winking.
ref: 1855, Thomas Caulfield Irwin, “The Fairies’ Child”, in Edward Hayes, editor, The Ballads of Ireland, volume 2, London: A. Fullarton, page 113:
text: A low exclamation of horror escaped from Nancy Dampier’s lips. She turned ashily pale.
ref: 1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, chapter 6, in The End of Her Honeymoon, New York: Scribner, page 105:
text: A man was standing on top of the bluff, ashily silhouetted against the night sky.
ref: 1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 49, pp. 318-319:
glosses: In an ashy way.
ashiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ashy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.
ref: 1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale, New York: Harper, page 148:
text: […] there was an ashiness about his clothes and his hair never settled and his eye had a look of tragic alarm when he wasn’t actually sleeping.
ref: 2004, Marilynne Robinson, Gilead, Toronto: HarperCollins, page 49:
glosses: The quality of being ashy.
cushiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cushy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cushy.
xenismos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenismoi
Etymology: Ancient Greek
Senses: glosses: A ritual offering of a meal in Ancient Greece.
Related terms: xenia
xenismoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenismos
Azhdahak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ajdahak
Etymology: From Armenian Աժդահակ (Aždahak).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An evil dragon-like figure, the reflex of Avestan Aži Dahāka in Armenian mythology and legend.
glosses: Astyages.
glosses: A mountain in Armenia.
Walsall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
wikipedia: Metropolitan Borough of +
Derived terms: Walsall Wood
Stoke-on-Trent
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Stoke, Trent.
Senses: glosses: The largest city in Staffordshire, England; also known as Stoke.
glosses: A local government unitary authority and borough in Staffordshire with its headquarters in the city.
gamboller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambollers
Etymology: From gambol + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gambols.
gambollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamboller
bemauled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemaul
bemauling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bemaul
bemauls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bemaul
Scunthorpe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌnθɔːp/
ipa: /ˈskʌnˌθɔɹp/
Etymology: From Old English Escumetorpe, from Old Norse Skumasþorp, from Skuma + -s + þorp, literally “Skuma's homestead”.
Senses: glosses: An industrial town in North Lincolnshire district, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SE8910).
wikipedia: Scunthorpe
Derived terms: Scunthorpe problem
Related terms: Scunthonian
vagrom
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Alteration of vagrant.
Senses: examples: text: You shall comprehend all vagrom men.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: At a distance, she might have been a wraith; or a breeze made visible; a vagrom breeze, warm and delicate, and in league with death.
ref: 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
glosses: Vagrant.
vagrom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vagroms
Etymology: Alteration of vagrant.
Senses: glosses: vagrant
vagroms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vagrom
contentwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From content + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: He advocated that the analyst not listen to only what the patient said logically or contentwise, but to employ an "even-hovering attention" to gain a more holistic perception of what the patient was expressing.
ref: 1995, Samuel Slipp, The Freudian Mystique, page 165:
coordinate_terms: formwise
glosses: In terms of content.
compted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compt
compting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of compt
compts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compt
compts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compt
compts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Send in all the bills again to everybody 'with compᵗˢ,'" replied Ginger.
ref: 1909, Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Ginger and Pickles:
glosses: Abbreviation of compliments.
unprotracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + protracted.
Senses: glosses: Not protracted.
unpirated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + pirated.
Senses: glosses: Not pirated; obtained legally.
unemasculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + emasculated.
Senses: glosses: Not emasculated.
jackpotting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jackpot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of rewarding a dog with a large number of treats during training.
qualifier: crime
glosses: The fraudulent exploitation of an automatic teller machine so that it dispenses cash that has not been withdrawn from an account.
jackpotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From jackpot + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jackpot
molysmophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ancient Greek molysma, filth, infection, + phobos, fear.
Senses: examples: text: And the psychiatrist himself did not feel totally devoid of some symptoms of molysmophobia, the obsessive fear of contagion.
ref: 1995, Charles R. Howell, Ancestral House, page 488:
glosses: A morbid fear of dirt, germs or contamination.
ougly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ougly
form: most ougly
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ugly.
shithoused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shithoused
form: most shithoused
Etymology: From shithouse + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Ferris is on her cell phone, connecting with her friends, or whatever she calls it that she does when she makes plans to get shithoused again, to lose her ID at some nondescript bar, to go home with some total beast of a drunk, to delay reality for one more day.
ref: 2007, Sarahbeth Purcell, Love Is the Drug, page 84:
glosses: Extremely drunk.
Synonyms: drunk
shithoused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From shithouse + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shithouse
OEOB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: And so the snipers on the Old Executive Office Building—OEOB—and Treasury knew them all by sight through their powerful spotting glasses, and knew them all by name, too, because Detail members were out there, too, disguised as street rats or passersby.
ref: 1996, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, chapter 27, Results
glosses: Abbreviation of Old Executive Office Building, the former name of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
kamora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamoras
Senses: glosses: The diacritic ̑ in the Old Cyrillic alphabet to indicate a plural, used on vowels, stressed or not stressed, in particular on о; not to be confused with the palatalization mark ҄ used on certain consonants.
genitoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From genito- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Plastic surgery of the genitals.
bania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunnia.
rhadomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rhabdomancy.
Derived terms: rhadomancer
rhadomant
tangeites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tangeite
deaspirate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deaspirates
form: deaspirating
form: deaspirated
form: deaspirated
Etymology: From de- + aspirate.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To change the pronunciation of a consonant so that it is no longer aspirated.
Related terms: deaspiration
unaspirate
deaspirating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deaspirate
deaspirates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deaspirate
deaspirated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deaspirate
deaspiration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deaspirations
Etymology: From de- + aspiration.
Senses: glosses: The act, process or result of deaspirating.
delabialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delabializations
Etymology: From de- + labialization.
Senses: glosses: The act, process or result of delabializing.
deaspirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deaspiration
delabializations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delabialization
uncharmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncharmable
form: most uncharmable
Etymology: From un- + charmable.
Senses: glosses: Not susceptible to charm.
charmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charmable
form: most charmable
Etymology: From charm + -able.
Senses: glosses: susceptible to charm
Derived terms: uncharmable
harmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more harmable
form: most harmable
Etymology: From harm + -able.
Senses: glosses: susceptible to harm
Derived terms: unharmable
unharmable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unharmable
form: most unharmable
Etymology: From un- + harmable.
Senses: glosses: Not susceptible to harm.
nonsalinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + salinized.
Senses: glosses: Not salinized.
unsalinized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + salinized.
Senses: glosses: Not salinized.
unsiliconized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + siliconized.
Senses: glosses: Not siliconized.
elderly care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eldercare.
aged care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Eldercare.
unslavish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unslavish
form: most unslavish
Etymology: From un- + slavish.
Senses: examples: unslavish loyalty
glosses: Not slavish.
sodaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soda + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without soda.
unchidden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chidden.
Senses: glosses: Not chidden.
unchided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chided.
Senses: glosses: Not chided.
St David's
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of St Davids.
Ceredigion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɛɹəˈdɪɡiən/
/kɛɹəˈdɪɡiɒn/
Senses: glosses: A county of Wales, formerly known as Cardiganshire; the county town is Aberaeron.
East Jerusalem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The portion of Jerusalem controlled by Jordan between 1948 and 1967.
Synonyms: East al-Quds
Derived terms: East Jerusalemite
Related terms: West Jerusalem
al-Quds
Chechen-Ingush ASSR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The name for Chechnya and Ingushetia (combined) while under the rule of the Soviet Union (1924-1991).
Related terms: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Russian Federation
German camomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of German chamomile.
Roman chamomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman chamomiles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Roman camomile.
malik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maliks
Senses: examples: text: These outsiders introduced the idea that certain maliks in the nang areas, like the khans in the qalang areas, could receive special privileges in representing the jirga to the outside world. ¶ The notion of paying favored maliks in the FATA for their cooperation did not begin with the British.
ref: 2012, Kimberly Marten, Warlords: Strong-Arm Brokers in Weak States, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: A tribal chieftain in certain areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan, especially among the Pashtuns.
examples: text: The leader of this party was Khoshaba, one of the chiefs, though not the real malik of the Lower Tiyari clan.
ref: 1935, Ronald Sempill Stafford, The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq:
glosses: A tribal chieftain in modern Assyrian society.
malik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maliks
Senses: examples: text: […] the essay interprets the oral traditions of the outcaste Bhuinyas who have traditionally worked as the kamias or dependent labourers of maliks or upper-caste landlords in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India. […] But the kamias' ties with the maliks predated the designation of the relationship as bondage in the nineteenth century.
ref: 1991, Gyan Prakash, “Becoming a Bhuinya: Oral Traditions and Contested Domination in Eastern India”, in Douglas Haynes, Gyan Prakash, editors, Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: An upper-caste landlord in the southern part of Bihar in eastern India.
Related terms: malikana
English chamomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: English chamomiles
form: English camomile
Senses: glosses: Chamaemelum nobile, one of the two species of plants most commonly known as camomile.
Synonyms: Roman camomile
Hungarian chamomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An annual plant, Matricaria recutita, of the Aster family, which is the type of camomile most used for tea.
Synonyms: German chamomile
Hungarian camomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hungarian chamomile.
English camomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of English chamomile.
dyer's chamomile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A short-lived plant in the family Asteraceae, Cota tinctoria, with yellow flowers that were formerly used to make dyes.
shove it up your ass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoves it up your ass
form: shoving it up your ass
form: shoved it up your ass
form: shoved it up your ass
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of extreme anger, disgust, hatred; often accompanied by an obscene gesture.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shove, ass.
Related terms: V sign
blow it out your ass
give the finger
sit on it
tell someone where to shove it
up yours
where the sun don't shine
shove it up your arse
blow it out your arse
stick it up your ass
Camelotian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Camelotian
form: most Camelotian
Etymology: From Camelot + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: He returned to MIT to enroll in its now-Camelotian, brink-of-the-Aspects-theory linguistics program.
ref: 1995, Randy Allen Harris, The Linguistics Wars, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Of or relating to the Arthurian legend of Camelot.