cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
greylag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪlæɡ/
Forms: form: greylags
form: graylag
Etymology: From grey (“colour”) + lag (“old name for a goose, derived from the call used to move such animals along”).
Senses: examples: text: Since the war, migrant greylags have virtually deserted the Duddon estuary, so it is a source of great satisfaction that the WAGBI greylags have taken to roosting on the sands in mid-winter, flighting to and from the reserve.
ref: 1967, Jeffery G. Harrison, A Wealth of Wildfowl, page 150:
text: Greylags used to concentrate on British estuaries, eating roots of rushes and sedges, as they do in other parts of their range.
ref: 2010, M. Owen, “Greylag Goose”, in Peter Lack, editor, The Atlas of Wintering Birds in Britain and Ireland, page 74:
text: Earlier, 250 more had flown to Rattray beach, nearly all pinkfeet although I saw four greylags and heard others.
ref: 2012, Adam Watson, Ian Francis, Birds in North-East Scotland Then and Now, page 11:
glosses: A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak.
Synonyms: sense: Anser anser
word: greylag goose
Related terms: Anser
greylags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greylag
guanidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A strong base HN=C(NH₂)₂ obtained by the oxidation of guanine
Derived terms: aminoguanidine
biguanidine
cimetidine
cyanoguanidine
diphenylguanidine
guanethidine
guanidinium
nitroguanidine
nitrosoguanidine
oligoguanidine
oxyguanidine
sulfaguanidine
tegaserod
tetramethylguanidine
triphenylguanidine
epicœne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of epicene.
epicœne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicœnes
Senses: examples: text: Onely one Iſland they have, is call'd the Iſle of the Epecœnes, becauſe there under one Article both kindes are ſignified, for they are faſhioned alike, male and female the ſame, [...] you doe not know the delight of the Epicœnes in Moon-ſhine.
ref: 1620 January 17 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Newes from the New World Discover’d in the Moon. A Masque, […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640–1641, →OCLC, page 44:
text: Which ſort of Words the Grammarians call Epicœnes (ἐπίκοινος from κοινός common), becauſe they under one Gender, which they commonly take from the Termination, comprehend both Kinds; [...] [Marcus Terentius] Varro, after the example of Ennius and [Quinus] Fabius Pictor, has uſed ſome of theſe Epicœnes in both Genders, e.g. uſing the maſculin lupus (a wolf) as feminin.
ref: 1712, Michael Maittaire [i.e., Michel Maittaire], “The Heterology of Words”, in The English Grammar: Or, An Essay on the Art of Grammar, Applied to and Exemplified in the English Tongue, London: Printed for W[illiam] B[owyer] for H. Clements […], →OCLC, page 129:
text: [W]hat ſhall be urged in defence of any male creature, who not only adopts every effeminate foible, but glories in them; and affects to deſpiſe and ridicule the rough unpoliſhed creature, who has ſenſe and ſpirit enough to perſiſt in the manly port of his forefathers? Should it be aſked by any villager, who had never been out of the hundred where he was born, (and none but ſuch aſk the queſtion,) if we really have ſuch Epicœnes amongſt us?
ref: 1748 June, “Remembrancer, June 11. Epicurism Ruinous to the State.”, in The Scots Magazine. […], volume X, Edinburgh: Printed by W. Sands, A. Murray, and J. Cochran, →OCLC, page 286:
text: Again, the division of the higher forms of animal life into males and females—obnoxious as it is to the champions of the Woman's Rights Movement, and inconvenient as it proves to a certain class of world-betterers—can neither be abrogated nor explained away. There is, to be sure, a time in the life of hen pheasants, and other female gallinaceous birds, when they—in the magniloquent language of a weekly literary organ of epicœnes and garotters—"rise up and look their tyrant in the face," in the hope that, "ever after, he will sit uneasily on his" roost.
ref: 1875 January, “IV. The Boundary between Man and the Lower Animals.”, in William Crookes, editor, The Quarterly Journal of Science, and Annals of Mining, Metallurgy, Engineering, Industrial Arts, Manufactures, and Technology, volume V (New Series; volume XII (Old Series)), London: Offices of the Quarterly Journal of Science, […], →OCLC, page 64:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of epicene.
guanidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guanidiums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The monovalent cation formed by protonation of guanidine
tentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tentlike
form: most tentlike
Etymology: From tent + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In 2005 the 1951 Coward residence in Siesta Key, Fla., a collection of tentlike structures, was taken down.
ref: 2007 May 23, Robin Pogrebin, “To Preserve a House, a Plan to Move It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a tent
tetrachloroethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛtraklɔːrəʊˈɛθɪliːn/
Forms: form: tetrachloroethylenes
Etymology: From tetra- + chloro- + ethylene.
Senses: examples: text: Uses of tetrachloroethylene have included dry cleaning, degreasing, deworming, and others, but its use is now curtailed as compared with decades ago.
text: The department has been testing samples of tap water in the affected neighborhoods for the presence of the chemical, tetrachloroethylene, which is used in dry cleaning and auto body repair.
ref: 2007 May 12, The Associated Press, “Car Wash’s Water Is Tested in Search for Contaminant”, in New York Times:
synonyms: tetrachloroethene
perchloroethylene
perc
coordinate_terms: dichloroethylene
DCE
trichloroethylene
TCE
glosses: A liquid chlorocarbon with the formula C₂Cl₄, commonly used in dry cleaning and metal degreasing.
epicœnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicœne
synthetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synthetic
swoony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swoony
form: most swoony
Etymology: From swoon + -y.
Senses: examples: text: On Thursday’s episode Addison […] turned swoony when a handsome, lecherous colleague kissed her in a stairwell.
ref: 2007 May 5, Alessandra Stanley, “The New Modern Woman, Ambitious and Feeble”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to swoon or faint
superagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superagents
Etymology: From super- + agent.
Senses: examples: text: Can he really continue playing Ari Gold, the jerk superagent, without getting delusions and landing in ego-disorder rehab?
ref: 2007 April 6, Virginia Heffernan, “On Gilded Sharks and Loverboys”, in New York Times:
glosses: A highly skilled or prominent agent, particularly in show business
comœdie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comœdies
Senses: examples: text: Epicœne, or The silent woman, a comœdie.
ref: 1609: Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The silent woman, a comœdie, main title (1620 republication; W. Stansby)
glosses: Obsolete spelling of comedy.
comœdies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of comedies.
plural of comœdie
glosses: Archaic spelling of comedies.
plural of comœdy
superagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superagent
conventionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conventionalisms
Etymology: From conventional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Adherence to social conventions; conventional behavior.
examples: text: Having said this, you will not, I trust, suspect me of disliking you for throwing off conventionalisms and speaking to me as a man to a man.
ref: 1864 March 15, Frederick Denison Maurice, “To ____”, in The Life Of Frederick Denison Maurice, volume 2, →ISBN, page 478:
glosses: A conventional act or constraint.
examples: text: Skepticism arrives at conventionalism by way of the claims that the conditions on evidential support cannot be satisfied […] but that we must have beliefs in order to carry on.
ref: 2025 October 2, (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 140, number 3, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that logical or mathematical principles are simply the expression of conventions.
Related terms: conventionalist
conventionalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conventionalism
mercis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merci
hippiedom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪpiːdəm/
Forms: form: hippydom
Etymology: From hippie + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: FM radio was the new alternative to AM radio in 1970, and it filled the alternative market niche as the source of music and news for all of California hippiedom.
ref: 2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 152:
glosses: Hippies as a collective group; the world of hippies.
examples: text: But James, unlike the rest, avoids the pitfall of trying to figure out what constitutes hippiedom […].
ref: 1988 November 11, Tom Boeker, “Hair”, in Chicago Reader:
text: We first went to Aberystwyth when I was 13, at the height of my parents' hippydom.
ref: 2011 April 2, Caitlin Moran, The Times:
glosses: The state or quality of being a hippie.
groundfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ground + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Boats catching groundfish — fish near the ocean bottom including cod, haddock and halibut — catch thousands of pounds of fish at a time.
ref: 2007 February 14, “Correction: Sea Sends Distress Call in One-Note Chowders”, in New York Times:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Fish that swim near the seafloor
groundfish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: groundfishes
form: groundfishing
form: groundfished
form: groundfished
Etymology: From ground + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Earl, who has lobstered, scalloped, groundfished and run tugs most of his life, is half joking.
ref: 2004 January 1, Bob Bernstein, “Pumping out the heat”, in National Fisherman:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: To fish for groundfish
groundfished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of groundfish
groundfishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of groundfish
groundfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of groundfish
drawcard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawcards
Etymology: From draw + card.
Senses: examples: text: I remember once in the professional theatre in Addis Ababa a certain actor had become a popular drawcard.
ref: 1997, Robert Kavanagh, Making People′s Theatre, page 182:
text: 1998, The Bulletin, Issues 6138-6146, page 62,
Falconry is another big drawcard at Hever and at other historical sites.
text: The drawcard was a two-act comic revue written for the occasion, “Quatsch” (German, “Nonsense”).
ref: 1993, Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years, page 273:
text: A single trip might not seem particularly environmentally significant, but Norway′s environment remains one of its main drawcards and one that millions of travellers who visit Norway every year have a responsibility to protect.
ref: 2008, Anthony Ham, Miles Roddis, Kari Lundgren, Norway, Lonely Planet, page 19:
text: He was the defending champion, a proven drawcard and a player of the future.
ref: 2009 January 28, Todd Woodbridge, “Australian tennis great says heat simply part of game”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2009:
synonyms: attraction
draw
drawing card
glosses: Something that attracts customers, visitors, spectators, etc. to a place or an event.
derivatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more derivatively
form: most derivatively
Etymology: From derivative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The pleasures of food and sex are compared […] in much the same way, derivatively enough, that Bunny equates the two in John Guare's House of Blue Leaves.
ref: 1988 December 2, Tom Boeker, “A Christmas Dance for Johnnie Mae”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: In a derivative fashion
drawcards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drawcard
downzone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downzones
form: downzoning
form: downzoned
form: downzoned
form: down-zone
Etymology: From down + zone.
Senses: examples: text: "In this case, I don't remember Shaw saying, 'I'm downzoning for this or that reason.' He would say, 'I'm changing the zoning because the community wants it changed.'"
ref: 1988 May 6, Ben Joravsky, quoting Danny Davis, “Mystery zoning: What's going down in the Ninth Ward”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To change an area or property to a less restrictive zoning
downzones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downzone
downzoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downzone
downzoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downzonings
Senses: glosses: A switch to a less restrictive zoning.
downzoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downzone
diachronically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diachronic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: A story, a science fiction film, or, in fact, a scientific theory, can thus be positioned at a higher and later turning of the spiral, diachronically, but synchronically it can be a performance of a pattern or theme.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 188:
text: In particular, risks can pile up not only synchronically, as in multi premise deductions, but also diachronically, when a subject extends her knowledge by competent deduction from just one premise.
ref: 2007 September 29, Maria Lasonen-Aarnio, “Single premise deduction and risk”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:
text: Further, by presenting lexical information diachronically, it displays the stability of the particular words, spellings, usages, idioms, etc., and thus cumulatively the overall stability of the language or variety in general.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115:
glosses: In a diachronic fashion, or in diachronic terms.
Coordinate terms: synchronically
Related terms: diachronously
diachrony
synchronously
synchrony
eliminativist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From eliminative + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Option (ii) has two variants: (iia) conclude that the concepts conscious state and conscious creature fail to refer, adopting an eliminativist position; and (iib) claim that future, correct versions of the concepts will be vague.
ref: 2007 November 24, Michael V. Antony, “Are Our Concepts”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 239–263:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Supporting eliminativism, the materialist position which holds that folk psychology presents a false view of the mind
eliminativist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eliminativists
Etymology: From eliminative + -ist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supporter of eliminativism.
ensembling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ensemble + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the violin playing was inaudible during this section, and there was an ensembling problem between horn and trombone[…].
ref: 1988 October 7, Dennis Polkow, “New Works by Local Composers”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Playing harmoniously together in an ensemble
forecheck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forechecks
form: forechecking
form: forechecked
form: forechecked
Etymology: From fore + check.
Senses: examples: text: Moore said Lemaire used centres more like third defencemen, while Leaf coach Ron Wilson likes his centres to forecheck.
ref: 2009 January 28, Kevin McGran, “Leafs' call-up Justin Pogge overwhelmed on Wild night”, in Toronto Star:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: To pressure the puck carrier for the opposing team.
Derived terms: forechecker
forecheck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forechecks
Etymology: From fore + check.
Senses: topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: An instance of pressuring the puck carrier for the opposing team.
grindhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grindhouses
form: grind house
form: grind-house
Etymology: From grind + house.
* Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists.
* Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.
Senses: examples: text: For Mr. Bava[…], the road from the grindhouse to the art house — or at least, the virtual art house of the DVD player — has turned out to be surprisingly, encouragingly short.
ref: 2007 April 10, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films
grindhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grindhouse
forechecks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forecheck
forechecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forecheck
forechecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forecheck
forechecked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forecheck
goopy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡuːpi/
rhymes: -uːpi
Forms: form: goopier
form: goopiest
Etymology: From goop + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The flask had something goopy in it.
text: A hard November wind is spattering goopy sleet against the broad windows all around the hall.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 361:
glosses: Having the consistency of goop.
examples: text: […]and how they all seem like limp smug moronic self-satisfied shit-eating pricks with their lobotomized smiles and goopy sentiment and how he wishes them all violent technicolor harm in the worst way,[…]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 353:
text: “She’d had some goopy notion of self-sacrifice, or maybe it was self-punishment, of making amends.”
ref: 2007 June 17, Jennifer Egan, “Woman Warriors”, in New York Times:
glosses: Saccharine; sentimental.
Derived terms: goopily
goopiness
gemlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gemlike
form: most gemlike
Etymology: From gem + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His stuff was gemlike.
ref: 1988 June 3, Grant Pick, “A Philosopher's Life”, in Chicago Reader:
text: In his later years, Jackson published a series of twenty-one short, gemlike papers in the Lancet under the title Neurological Fragments.
ref: 2012, Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations:
glosses: Resembling a gem; thus, often brilliant and compact
goopier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of goopy: more goopy
goopiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of goopy: most goopy
capslocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capslock
pressure group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pressure groups
Senses: examples: text: Various efforts by certain political pressure groups were still being made to stop the West Africa Squadron's activities, for a number of less-than-honourable reasons, but the government was able to resist them and the patrols would continue.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 9:12 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
text: Passengers, pressure groups and local authorities have criticised the operator's plans for a permanent reduction in services.
ref: 2021 September 8, Paul Clifton, “Opposition mounts to SWR's planned timetable reductions”, in RAIL, number 939, page 27, photo caption:
glosses: An advocacy group.
bootlick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutˌlɪk/
Forms: form: bootlicks
form: bootlicking
form: bootlicked
form: bootlicked
Etymology: From boot + lick.
Senses: examples: text: He had no social position to protect, no employer to bootlick.
ref: 2003, Todd DePastino, Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America, page 81:
glosses: To seek favor from by fawning, servile behavior.
glosses: To engage in fawning, servile behavior.
Derived terms: bootlicky
Related terms: bootlicker
bootlick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbutˌlɪk/
Forms: form: bootlicks
Etymology: From boot + lick.
Senses: examples: text: the involving of certain "bootlicks" into difficulty
ref: 1838, Oasis: An Anthology to Divert an Idle Hour:
glosses: A toady or sycophant.
bootlicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bootlick
bootlicking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bootlick
bootlicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootlickings
Senses: examples: text: The most obvious — for a junior struggling to lift himself from the mire by his bootlickings — is to go to his Chief and say — frankly — "Out! I need the experience and you need a rest. Clear off for a month or two. I'll cope."
ref: 1951, The Library Assistant, volumes 44-45, page xiii:
glosses: Obsequious or servile behaviour.
examples: text: […] fist-fucking, black leather-studded collars, and bootlicking.
ref: 1975 December 27, Michael Bronski, “"Sextool": It's Porn, It's Politics, But Is It Art?”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 26, page 16:
glosses: The act of licking someone's boot, typically as a BDSM activity.
bootlicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bootlick
toadyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more toadyish
form: most toadyish
Etymology: From toady + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Sycophantic; fawning.
mischiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mischief
mischiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mischief
brown nosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown noser
guereza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈrɛz.ə/
Forms: form: guerezas
Etymology: From the native name in Ethiopia. Compare Sebat Bet Gurage gureza, Amharic ጉሬዛ (gureza), Oromo gureezaa.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A reddish-brown colobus monkey from Abyssinia.
Derived terms: mantled guereza
guideway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guideways
Etymology: From guide + way.
Senses: glosses: A track along which something is guided, such as a component in a machine, or an automated transit vehicle.
gyrochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gyro- + chronology.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A method of estimating the age of a star by measuring its rotation rate
Related terms: gyrochronological
habitacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitacles
Etymology: From Middle English habitacle, from Middle French habitacle, from Latin habitāculum (“dwelling place”). See binnacle, habit (verb), inhabit.
Senses: examples: text: And I believe assuredly that this congregation, according as it is called in scripture, so it is in very deed the city of heavenly Jerusalem, the mother of all the elect people of God, the only dove, and the only beloved of God, in perfect and everlasting charity, the holy catholic church, the temple or habitacle of God, the pure and undefiled espouse of Christ, the very mystical body of Christ.
ref: 1537, “The Institution of a Christian Man”, in Formularies of faith put forth by authority during the reign of Henry VIII, published 1825, page 52:
glosses: A dwelling or habitation.
haematogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haematogenous
form: most haematogenous
form: hematogenous
Etymology: From haemato- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Producing blood
glosses: Spread by blood
haemocoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːməˌsiːl/
Forms: form: haemocoels
form: hemocoel
form: haemocoele
Etymology: From haemo- + -coel.
Senses: examples: text: The remarkable displacement of the cœlom by an irregularly distended system of blood-spaces, “a hæmocœl” (which, Prof. Lankester has elsewhere shown, takes place in the Arthropoda and Mollusca), is lucidly described in this Introduction.
ref: 1901, “Bibliographical Notices”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, volume VII, page 133:
text: There seems little doubt that these organs, connected as they are with the haemocoel, and everted by haemocoelic fluid pressure, serve as additional respiratory organs, when the larva is in water too deep to enable it to use its tracheal funnel.
ref: 1921, J. Bronté Gatenby, “Description of a peculiar unidentified Dipterous Larva possessing a number of enigmatic truncate Abdominal Organs”, in The Transactions of the Entomological Society of London, page 525:
text: The brood of this wasp are composed of two types of larvae: typical parasitic larvae, which develop into adult wasps, and precocious larvae, which move about in the host haemocoel but die before pupation.
ref: 1997 November 24, David Pfennig, “Kinship and Cannibalism”, in BioScience, volume 47, number 10, →JSTOR, page 670:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The cavity, between the organs of arthropods and molluscs, through which the blood etc. circulates.
Derived terms: intrahaemocoel
haemocytometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemocytometers
Etymology: From haemo- + cytometer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemocytometer.
haemolysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haemolysates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemolysate.
hemolysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemolysates
Etymology: From hemolyse + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: The product of hemolysis.
Related terms: autolysate
condensate
diffusate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
leachate
lysate
hemolysation
haemopoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haemopoietic
form: most haemopoietic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemopoietic.
haloacid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloacids
Etymology: From halo- + acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any halogen derivative of a carboxylic acid (but especially 2-chloro-carboxylic acids that are active in cell biology).
plag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plæd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ædʒ
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: plagioclase feldspar
filenames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪəlneɪms/
ipa: /faɪl neɪm/
ipa: /faɪlneɪms/
rhymes: -eɪms
Senses: glosses: plural of filename
Finlandization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Finland + -ization, translating German Finnlandisierung, referring to the political climate in Finland during the cold war in the view of a 1960s and 1970s West-German debate.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the model surfaced again this week, when President Emmanuel Macron of France was asked by a reporter during his shuttle diplomacy in Moscow whether Finlandization was a possibility for Ukraine. He replied, “Yes, it is one of the options on the table.”
ref: 2022 February 9, Jason Horowitz, “Finns Don’t Wish ‘Finlandization’ on Ukraine (or Anyone)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: The process by which a smaller or less powerful sovereign state comes to abide by a more powerful neighbor's foreign policy rules, while retaining its independence.
Related terms: Finlandize
figleaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figleaf
plastre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastres
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of plaster.
plastre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plastres
form: plastring
form: plastred
form: plastred
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of plaster.
pomme frite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pommes frites
form: pomme frites
form: pommes frite
Etymology: From French pomme frite.
Senses: glosses: Traditional Belgian-style skin-on shoestring-cut deep fried potatoes; french fry, chip.
flocculates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flocculate
flocculates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocculate
barkometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barkometer
flocculating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flocculate
red pandas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red panda
chèvres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chèvre
glassmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glass + making.
Senses: examples: text: For the show he recreated the Blaschkas’ glassmaking studio, which once occupied a spare bedroom in Dresden.
ref: 2007 June 29, Wendy Moonan, “The Single-Minded Men Who Produced One-of-a-Kind Flowers”, in New York Times:
glosses: The craft or industry of producing glass
Armills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Armill
anthropic principles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropic principle
green teas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green tea
armill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːmɪl/
ipa: /ˈɑːməl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹmɪl/
ipa: /ˈɑɹməl/
Forms: form: armills
form: Armill
form: armil
form: armilla
Etymology: From Middle French armille, from Latin armilla (“bracelet”). Doublet of armilla.
Senses: examples: text: The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony.
ref: 2014 November 18, Stubba, The Book of Blots, page 102:
glosses: A bracelet used in royal coronations, especially that of the monarch of the United Kingdom (symbolically known as a "bracelet of wisdom and sincerity")
examples: text: Then the King ariſing, the Dean of Weſtminſter takes the Armill from the Maſter of the great Wardrobe , and putteth it about His Majeſty's Neck[…]
ref: 1727, The Form and Order of Their Majeſties Coronation, John Baskett, page 43:
text: Enough cloth of gold had therefore to be prepared for these purposes, and the Armill is of especial interest, as it introduced all the emblems of the daughter nations for the first time into ceremonial use on such an occasion.
ref: 1921, Frank Warner, The Silk Industry of the United Kingdom: Its Origin and Development, Drane's, page 549:
text: In 1911 and 1937, the equivalent division was entitled The Investing with the Armill and Royal Robe, and the Delivery of the Orb.
ref: 1953, The Coronation Service of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A silken stole worn around the neck by royalty.
examples: text: The Armill, Astrolabe, Dioptra, and Parallactic Instrument of the ancients were some of the instruments thus constructed.
ref: 1840, William Whewell, “Introduction”, in The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon Their History. […], volume II, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […]; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: J. and J. J. Deighton, →OCLC, part II (Of Knowledge), book XIII (Of Methods Employed in the Formation of Science), paragraph 5, page 489:
text: This instrument was called an equinoctial armil. Observations taken in this manner must necessarily be very inaccurate, owing to the refraction.
ref: 1856, Hannah M. Bouvier, Familiar Astronomy, or an Introduction to the Study of the Heavens, page 328:
text: The instruments at this observatory were much admired and included an armillary sphere, a mural quadrant and a solstitial armil.
ref: 1970, Philip Khuri Hitti, History of the Arabs, 10th edition, →ISBN, page 378:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
synonyms: armillary sphere
glosses: An ancient astronomical instrument, having either one ring placed in the plane of the equator for determining the time of the equinoxes (an equinoctial armil) or two or more rings, one in the plane of the meridian, for observing the solstices (a solstitial armil).
glosses: Any bracelet or armlet.
armills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armill
binary operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary operator
arrearage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrearages
Etymology: From Middle English arrerage, from Old French arierage (“detriment, legal prejudice”).
Senses: glosses: The condition of being in arrears.
examples: text: “We’ve had maybe one or two arrearages on a regular basis since 2006 when I got on the board,” said Marc Held, a member until December.
ref: 2009 February 8, Teri Karush Rogers, “A Condo Toughens Its Stance and Tightens Its Belt”, in New York Times:
glosses: An item that is in arrears, as periodic payments on a debt or for taxes.
arrearages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrearage
foundationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foundational + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A radical denial of foundationalism is offered by social constructivism (Ernest 1998 ), an approach that many researchers in mathematics education embrace.
ref: 2008 March 21, Bernd Buldt, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, “Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs
Derived terms: antifoundationalism
foundherentism
nonfoundationalism
postfoundationalism
Related terms: foundationalist
semiattached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + attached.
Senses: examples: text: A tidy New England -style enclave of 1,173 people on the cusp of Queens, the village is just a few blocks but a less congested world away from their semiattached house in Bellerose Terrace, a more middle-class unincorporated hamlet, also in Hempstead.
ref: 2009 February 8, Marcelle S. Fischler, “Hidden Away Next to Everything”, in New York Times:
glosses: Attached on one side; sharing a wall with a neighboring residential building.
glosses: Partially bound by affection or interest.
Coordinate terms: sense: sharing a wall
word: attached
sense: sharing a wall
word: detached
tripleheader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripleheaders
Senses: examples: text: The Yankees had to be thankful that yesterday's doubleheader was not a tripleheader.
ref: 1995 July 19, Jason Diamos, “BASEBALL; Yankees Go 0 for 2 Against Ex-Yanks”, in The New York Times:
text: Games are played back-to-back on the same court from late morning to late afternoon on Saturdays and Sundays, with some Friday night tripleheaders mixed in.
ref: 2021 August 27, Law Murray, “Drew League relishes return to play after lost summer: ‘Gave me the chills, to be honest’”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of triple-header.
tripleheaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripleheader
frænulums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frænulum
frænula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frænulum
spiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spirit
spiriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɪɹɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: spiritings
Senses: examples: the supposed spiritings away of missing children
glosses: The action of a spirit or ghost.
examples: text: It is impossible to escape from toil / O' the sudden and receive thy spiriting […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, Spenser! a jealous honourer of thine:
glosses: Inspiration.
hellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hello
hellos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hello
low-priced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-priced
form: lowest-priced
form: low-price
form: lowpriced
Senses: glosses: Having a low price; cheap.
situp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: situps
Etymology: Deverbal from sit up.
Senses: examples: text: The girls giggled during the kick line and forced smiles during push-ups, situps and twists.
ref: 2007 April 2, Jessica Kowal, “Lacking Big-City Luster, Junior Miss Carves a Niche”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of sit-up.
situps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of situp; alternative spelling of sit-ups.
sit-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sit-up
allée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈa.leɪ/
Forms: form: allées
form: allee
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French allée. Doublet of alley.
Senses: glosses: An alley in a formal garden or park, bordered by trees or bushes.
basmati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæzˈmɑːti/
ipa: /bæzˈmæti/
ipa: /bɑːzˈmɑːti/
ipa: /bɑːzˈməti/
ipa: /bɑːsˈməti/
ipa: /ˌbɑzˈmɑti/
ipa: /ˌbɑs-/
ipa: /ˌbæz-/
ipa: /ˌbæs-/
ipa: /-ˈmæti/
other: /ˈbɑs.mə.ti/
Forms: form: basmatis
Etymology: From Hindi बासमती (bāsmatī, literally “fragrant”).
Senses: examples: text: Diwaniya is the capital of the almost completely Shiite farming province of Qadisiya, known for its marshy fields where farmers grow aromatic ambar rice, similar to India’s basmati.
ref: 2007 June 21, Alissa J. Rubin, “Shiite Rivalries Slash at a Once Calm Iraqi City”, in New York Times:
glosses: A variety of long-grain rice, notable for its fragrance.
Synonyms: basmati rice
Indian English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Indian Englishes
Senses: examples: text: Much more common was the bureaucratic use of Indian English. Below the level of the most highly educated, whose English was invariably modelled on old-fashioned teaching, were the English-using clerks of the Imperial administration.
ref: 1986, McCrum, Robert, William Cran, & Robert MacNeil, The Story of English, Viking Penguin Inc., page 329:
synonyms: IndE
IE
glosses: A major dialect of the English language, spoken in many varieties in India and by people from India.
examples: text: The Indian Englishes range from very basic English to what might be considered a standard educated Indian English.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 294:
glosses: One of the specific varieties of Indian English.
knowingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowingnesses
Etymology: From knowing + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Dripping with unearned knowingness, indifferent to the factual debate involved.
ref: 2007 February 4, David Berreby, “No ____ Need Apply”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or state of being knowing.
glosses: Pretending to already be informed, as contrasted with a willingness to learn.
Related terms: knowingly
undercapitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undercapitalized
form: most undercapitalized
form: undercapitalised
Etymology: From under- + capitalized.
Senses: examples: text: You will recall that it [OUT magazine] appeared at irregular intervals. The reason for this was that the magazine was undercapitalised. In fact, it really had no capital at all and had a "hand to mouth" existence. An issue could not come out until all the proceeds of the previous issue, from sales, advertising, etc., were collected.
ref: 1990 April 7, 9, “Irish Gay Mag To Begin Publication”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: "The problem with all these insurance schemes ... they're all massively undercapitalized, especially given the situation," Velk said.
ref: 2009 February 7, RITA TRICHUR, “Province urged to hike deposit insurance”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Lacking sufficient capital
e-reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: e-readers
Etymology: From e- + reader.
Senses: examples: text: I am looking for an e-reader for technical papers. These are usually only available in fixed, non-reflowable, PDF format and sized for printing on A4 paper. […] Indeed, so many people need to read PDF files for business and educational research purposes, there are e-readers designed for the task.
ref: 2019 June 27, Jack Schofield, “What’s the best cheap tablet or e-reader for PDF files?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A hardware device or software program used to read e-books.
Synonyms: e-book reader
jewellery armoire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jewellery armoires
form: jewelry armoire
Senses: glosses: A cabinet, resembling a small table-standing armoire, used to store jewellery, with space to hang chains and large pieces and drawers and compartments to store smaller pieces.
gritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gritters
Etymology: From grit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was gritting his teeth while lifting weights. I am from the teeth-gritters myself, and my teeth are also very soft.
ref: 2010, Richard Grayson, The Brooklyn Diaries: 1969-1981, page 166:
glosses: One who grits anything.
examples: text: You need more than gritters, you need ploughs.
ref: 2009 February 4, “Letters: Sledging, shovels and snowdrops”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A vehicle that applies grit to icy roads to improve traction.
gritters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gritter
chalkfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalkface
internalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more internalist
form: most internalist
Etymology: From internal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: For one thing, many people regard rationality as an epistemically internalist notion, whereas reliability is a paradigmatic example of an epistemically externalist notion.
ref: 2008 December 6, Sanford C. Goldberg, “Reliabilism in philosophy”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Holding that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis
Coordinate terms: externalist
Related terms: internalism
internality
internalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internalists
Etymology: From internal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps I will appear presumptuous and misguided in claiming to explain the debate between internalists and externalists, for some would insist that there are a variety of related debates that get discussed under the heading of internalism and externalism.
ref: 2007 July 12, Harold Langsam, “Rationality, Justification, and the Internalism/Externalism Debate”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A supporter of internalism
Related terms: internist
backlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backlight
hitmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitmakers
Etymology: From hit + maker.
Senses: examples: text: But those who stayed saw a strong set from the hitmaker Akon, who did “I Tried” with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.
ref: 2007 June 5, Kelefa Sanneh, “In Search of New York at a Hip-Hop Summit”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musician who frequently produces hits; a star
hitmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hitmaker
communitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communitarianisms
Etymology: From communitarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: […] Tony Blair dallied with communitarianism in the mid-90s and was wont to quote the Quaker philosopher John Macmurray.
ref: 2009 February 9, Madeleine Bunting, “The maverick ideas of red Toryism could give Cameron a potent edge”, in The Guardian:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: individualism
glosses: The group of doctrines that oppose excessive individualism in favour of a more community-based approach
poignance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔɪnjəns/
Forms: form: poignances
Etymology: From poignant + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1016:
text: Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance.
ref: 1988 August 19, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant.
systemless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more systemless
form: most systemless
Etymology: From system + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Surely there is not another language that is so slipshod and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, The Awful German Language:
glosses: lacking organised or systematic structure; without a system
poetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetics
Etymology: From the Poetics of Aristotle.
Senses: examples: text: Both significantly build on the poetics of death and dissolution that Black and Tan broached so powerfully[…].
ref: 1988 October 21, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Bird Watching”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: human-sciences
literature
media
philosophy
publishing
sciences
glosses: The theory of poetry, or of literature in general.
Derived terms: biopoetics
cognitive poetics
ecopoetics
ethnopoetics
theopoetics
hitout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitouts
Senses: examples: text: But the 2007 Cox Plate winner recovered so well from a Tuesday morning hitout at Caulfield that Little yesterday opted to take on Light Fantastic, Maldivian and Theseo in the star-studded 12-strong Orr field.
ref: 2009 February 5, Staff writers, “MRC moves Orr Stakes meeting to Sunday”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2009:
glosses: Alternative form of hit-out.
hit-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hit-outs
form: hitout
form: hit out
Senses: examples: text: “There were some of the dives that could have been performed better but it was good to have a hit-out.”
ref: 2009 February 6, Bill Marshall, quoting Helen Galashan, “Shock victory for twins”, in Telegraph and Argus, Bradford, England:
text: There was a second prong to Bill′s in-the-dark equine hit-outs. He believed nocturnal track work produced great times on race day.
ref: 2011, H. G. Nelson, My Life in Shorts, Pan Macmillan Australia, unnumbered page:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A match or session, particularly for practice.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A penalty shot, awarded when the ball is deemed to have been sent out of play deliberately.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A fast gallop.
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: An instance of knocking the ball out of a ruck contest.
Coordinate terms: sense: hockey shot
word: hit-in