cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Markan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Marcan
Etymology: From Mark + -an.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Of, or relating to Mark the Evangelist.
Derived terms: Markan priority
Mamu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An aboriginal people of Australia.
Mamu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their language.
Matthean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Matth. + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Matthew the Apostle.
merlot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merlots
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Merlot.
oxo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒk.sə(ʊ)/
ipa: /ɑk.soʊ/
ipa: /ɑk.sə/
Forms: form: ox-
Etymology: From oxygen + -o-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: oxy-
glosses: Oxygen.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
synonyms: -one
-al
glosses: Having a methylene group replaced by a carbonyl group.
Related terms: oxa-
oxy-
mandraulic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From manual + hydraulic.
Senses: glosses: labor-intensive
NaN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /næn/
rhymes: -æn
homophone: nan
Forms: form: NaNs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of not a number, applied to numeric values that represent an undefined or unrepresentable value, such as zero divided by itself.
NAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Assembly of Nigeria.
NAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: NMDA antagonist neurotoxicity.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of NaN (not a number)
PGL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Professional Gamers League.
repartition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repartitions
Etymology: From Middle French répartition.
Senses: glosses: A distribution or apportioning of something again.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formatting of a hard drive, a database, etc. into different partitions.
repartition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repartitions
form: repartitioning
form: repartitioned
form: repartitioned
Etymology: From Middle French répartition.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To format (a hard drive, a database, etc.) into different partitions.
repartition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repartitions
Etymology: From re- + partition.
Senses: glosses: a partitioning of something in a different manner
repartition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repartitions
form: repartitioning
form: repartitioned
form: repartitioned
Etymology: From re- + partition.
Senses: glosses: to partition again
poniard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒnjəd/
ipa: /ˈpɒnjɑːd/
ipa: /ˈpɑnjɚd/
Forms: form: poniards
form: poignard
form: poinard
form: poynard
form: punierd
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French poing, from Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Senses: examples: text: The sir King ha's wag'd with him six Barbary horses, / against the which he impon'd as I take it, sixe French / Rapiers and Poniards, with their assignes, as Girdle, / Hangers or so[…].
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
text: You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.
ref: c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto:
text: One of the tragic authors, finding himself assaulted in the dark, had, by way of poinard, employed upon his adversary's throat a knife which lay upon the table, for the convenience of cutting cheese […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 101, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume IV, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: A Poynard is more sure to wound a man, which forsomuch as it requireth more motion and vigor of the arme, than a pistol, it's stroke is more subject to be hindred or avoyded.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: On this occasion I said nothing, but concealing his poniard in my clothes, I hasted up the mountain, determined to execute my purpose […].
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
glosses: A dagger typically having a slender square or triangular blade.
poniard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒnjəd/
ipa: /ˈpɒnjɑːd/
ipa: /ˈpɑnjɚd/
Forms: form: poniards
form: poniarding
form: poniarded
form: poniarded
form: poignard
form: poinard
form: poynard
form: punierd
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French poignard, from poing (“fist”), from Old French poing, from Latin pugnus (“fist”).
Senses: examples: text: Manfred […] would have poignarded the peasant in their arms.
ref: 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, section I:
glosses: To stab with a poniard.
Related terms: word: impugn
word: pugilism
word: pugnacious
english: repugnant
translation: repugnant
word: repugn
plasma accelerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma accelerators
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particle accelerator that uses plasma as the medium of the accelerating field instead of a vacuum, to obtain a larger accelerating gradient.
Related terms: plasma acceleration
laser-plasma accelerator
plasma acceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma accelerations
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A method for accelerating electrically charged particles with a large-amplitude electron plasma wave.
Related terms: plasma accelerator
plasma wakefield acceleration
PWFA
laser beat-wave acceleration
LBWA
LBWA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LBWAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of laser beat wave accelerator.
PWFA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of plasma wakefield acceleration.
DBGT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Dragon Ball GT.
Billy no mates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Billy no mates
Senses: synonyms: Johnny no mates
Nigel no friends
Nigel no mates
Norman no mates
glosses: A person who has few or no friends.
Related terms: on one's bill
No-Mates
linac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪnæk/
Forms: form: linacs
Etymology: Contraction of linear accelerator.
Senses: examples: text: Usually such ‘linacs’ are short, low-energy machines, but they can be high energy and lengthy, as at the Stanford Linear Accelerator in California.
ref: 2004, Frank Close, Particle Physics: A Very Short Introduction, page 49:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A linear particle accelerator.
Derived terms: cyclinac
MHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MHDs
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: Initialism of magnetohydrodynamics.
glosses: Initialism of Marine Histories Doctorate (a degree in underwater archaeology and is also shown as a Doctor of Marine Histories or DMH).
MHD
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
glosses: Initialism of magnetohydrodynamic.
Derived terms: word: MHDT
word: MHD thruster — magnetohydrodymanic thruster
word: MHDE
english: magnetohydrodymanic engine
translation: magnetohydrodymanic engine
word: MHD engine
word: MHDD
english: magnetohydrodymanic drive
translation: magnetohydrodymanic drive
word: MHD drive
word: MHDP
english: magnetohydrodymanic propulsion
translation: magnetohydrodymanic propulsion
word: MHD propulsion
Related terms: alt: magnetoplasmadynamic
word: MPD
alt: magnetodynamic
word: MD
Jaysus
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒeɪzəs/
Forms: form: Jasus
Senses: glosses: Jesus
Related terms: feck
shoite
tom-tit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tom-tits
Etymology: From the common given name Tom and tit, as in titmouse.
Senses: glosses: Any of various birds in the Paridae family, especially the great tit (Parus major) or blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).
glosses: Petroica macrocephala, the miromiro or New Zealand tit, a bird of the Petroicidae (Australasian robin) family.
Related terms: tom tit
tomtit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomtits
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tom-tit.
speculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɛk.jʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈspɛk.jəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈspek.jəˌlæɪt/
Forms: form: speculates
form: speculating
form: speculated
form: speculated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin speculātus, perfect active participle of speculor (“to watch, observe, examine, spy”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from specula (“a watchtower”), ultimately from speciō (“to look at”).
Senses: examples: text: It is remarkable that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 13, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
glosses: To think, meditate or reflect on a subject; to consider, to deliberate or cogitate.
examples: text: We can speculate that in many instances the sharks are not feeding on their victims, but only in a few cases can we guess what they are doing.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 171:
text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: To make an inference based on inconclusive evidence; to surmise or conjecture.
examples: text: Some preliminary legal arrangements were made, but the scheme proceeded no further, as the various local authorities concerned were unwilling to speculate public funds on what was, even at that date, a will o' the wisp.
ref: 1951 May, R. K. Kirkland, “The Cavan & Leitrim Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 345:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To make a risky trade in the hope of making a profit; to venture or gamble.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To anticipate which branch of code will be chosen and execute it in advance.
Related terms: species
spectacle
spectacular
speculation
speculative
speculator
spazzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æzi
Forms: form: spazzier
form: spazziest
Etymology: from spastic
Senses: glosses: clumsy, inept
elbow room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elbowroom
Senses: examples: text: There wasn't that much elbow room in the aircraft.
hypernyms: room#Noun
space#Noun
volume#Noun
coordinate_terms: breathing room
footroom
headroom
legroom
yardroom
glosses: Room (space) in which to move or maneuver.
examples: text: The employees really don't have much elbow room in which to explore new ideas.
glosses: Freedom or leeway.
Related terms: jostle
spatulamancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatulomancy
Etymology: Latin spatula (“shoulder blade”) + -mancy
Senses: glosses: divination using the shoulder blade of an animal
spartan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspɑː(ɹ)tən/
Forms: form: more spartan
form: most spartan
Etymology: By analogy with the ancient Spartans, who famously possessed these qualities.
Senses: examples: text: I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom.
text: The engine was Class "3" 2-6-2 tank No. 82013, with Driver Sampson (Exmouth), and its roomy draught-free cab was a striking contrast to the spartan comfort offered on the Drummond tank.
ref: 1960 June, R. C. Riley, “The coastal branches of South-East Devon: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 337:
text: Among its findings, the report says: "In recent years we have seen more stations transformed from run-down Victorian hulks, or spartan bus-sheltered platforms, into places that people can take pride in, feel comfortable in using, and which are fulfilling more of their wider potential.
ref: 2020 August 26, “Network News: Stations investment boosts regeneration, says report”, in Rail, page 17:
glosses: Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial.
examples: text: The spartan legionaries vowed to fight to the death.
glosses: Resolute in the face of danger or adversity.
examples: text: After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmer's wife.
text: [I]t was furnished with the spartan simplicity which characterizes womanless quarters.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 4:
synonyms: word: plain
word: simple
word: austere
word: bare
word: chaste
word: inornate
word: modest
word: plain
word: quiet
word: severe
word: simple
word: spartan
word: unadorned
word: unembellished
word: unextravagant
word: unornamented
word: undecked
word: ungarnished
word: untrimmed
word: unvarnished
glosses: Lacking in decoration and luxury.
Derived terms: spartanism
spartanness
Spartan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: Spartans
Etymology: From Middle English Spartan, Spertan, from Latin Spartānus, from Sparta + -ānus, equivalent to Sparta + -an.
Senses: glosses: A citizen of Sparta; a native or inhabitant of Sparta.
glosses: A red apple cultivar from British Columbia, Canada.
Spartan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)tən
Forms: form: more Spartan
form: most Spartan
Etymology: From Middle English Spartan, Spertan, from Latin Spartānus, from Sparta + -ānus, equivalent to Sparta + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Sparta or its citizens.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of spartan.
Derived terms: Spartanburg
Spartanhood
soursop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaʊəɹˌsɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: soursops
Etymology: From sour + sop.
Senses: glosses: A small tropical evergreen tree, Annona muricata.
examples: text: For a plant whose preferred growing region is the temperate zone of North America, the pawpaw is an uncannily exotic-tasting delicacy, a far-flung cousin of the tropical soursop, or guanábana.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The tart, spiny, yellow-green fruit of this tree.
examples: text: SOURSOP WEED (OXALIS CERNUA).
This rather pretty looking flower has become a great pest in many gardens around the city. We are asked how it is to be got rid of. Although not nearly so difficult of eradication as nut-grass, yet so many hundreds of minute bulbs gather round the parent bulb that the more the ground is stirred the greater the area infested. We know however of no destructive agent which could be applied to it in a flower garden without at the same time injuring the flowers. The surest way is dig up the bulbs on the clear ground and pick them off, and amongst the flowers to constantly pull up the leaf-stalks. […]
ref: 1898, Queensland Agricultural Journal, volume 3, page 175:
text: [see the title already]
ref: 1919, A.G. Edquist, “Notes on the vitality of the Soursop (Oxalis cernua)”, in South Australia Naturalist, volume 1, pages 4–5:
glosses: Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
examples: text: Soursop. Mr. J. E. Taylor read a short paper on the “Soursop” (Oxalis). It was to be regretted that those who introduced this weed were not better acquainted with its habits.
ref: 1905, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South Australia, volume 8, page 701:
text: Unmanured soils growing sorrel, soursop (Oxalis spp.) and similar acid-loving plants, will usually produce pasture and other forages low in both lime and phosphoric acid. […] Similarly, lime is required to neutralize many acids which are characteristic of some plants such as sorrel, soursop, rhubarb, &c.
ref: 1940, The Journal of the Department of Agriculture of South Australia, volume 38, pages 435, 436:
glosses: Bermuda buttercup (Oxalis pes-caprae), an edible wood sorrel native to South Africa
any wood sorrel, especially when used as food
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: soursob
sense: tree, fruit
word: guanabana
Hypernyms: english: tree of the genus Annona
translation: tree of the genus Annona
word: custard apple
Derived terms: mountain soursop
wild soursop
Related terms: annonaceous
soulless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊl.ləs/
ipa: /ˈsoʊl.ləs/
ipa: [ˈsoʊɫ.ləs]
homophone: soleless
Forms: form: more soulless
form: most soulless
Etymology: From Middle English soulelez; equivalent to soul + -less. Compare Old English sāwollēas; the Middle English word likely is a re-formation.
Senses: examples: text: Go backe I warrant thee: but Ile catch thine eyes / Though they had wings. Slaue, Soule-leſſe, Villain, Dog. / O rarely baſe!
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 366:
text: Oh! who young Leila's glance could read / And keep that portion of his creed / Which saith, that woman is but dust, / A soulless toy for tyrant's lust?
ref: 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour, a Fragment of a Turkish Tale, London: […] T[homas] Davison, […], for John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 12:
text: “Done?” he said, with a soulless sneer in the word.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLVI, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Number One had never before seen a woman, but the sight of this one awoke in the unplumbed depths of his soulless breast a great desire to lay his hands upon her.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in The Monster Men, published 1929:
text: But I do believe there’s another path—one that fuels growth and innovation, and offers the clearest route to individual opportunity and national success. It does not require succumbing to a soulless capitalism that benefits only the few, but rather recognizes that economies are more successful when we close the gap between rich and poor, and growth is broadly based.
ref: 2016 September 20, Barack Obama, Remarks at the United Nations General Assembly:
text: St Pancras is no longer soulless. The NRA accolade says it all: its soul is back where it truly belongs!
ref: 2022 November 30, Nick Brodrick, “Pride and innovation shine at St Pancras”, in RAIL, number 971, page 69:
glosses: As if without a soul; insensitive, unfeeling.
Derived terms: soullessly
soullessness
Syrophoenician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Syrophoenicians
form: Syrophenician
form: Syro-Phoenician
Etymology: From Syro- + Phoenician.
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of the Phoenician part of Syria.
Syrophoenician
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Syrophoenician
form: most Syrophoenician
form: Syrophenician
form: Syro-Phoenician
Etymology: From Syro- + Phoenician.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Phoenician part of Syria.
symptomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/
Forms: form: more symptomatic
form: most symptomatic
form: symptomatick
Etymology: Borrowed from French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (sumptōmatikós, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a symptom”). By surface analysis, symptom + -atic.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to observe symptomatic cats out of the carrier, on the floor in a safe, escape-proof room. Swelling, heat, and pain in one or more joints can explain many signs, including lameness, malaise, and fever.
ref: 2009, Stephen J. Ettinger, Edward C. Feldman, Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine, page 9:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: asymptomatic
nonsymptomatic
glosses: Showing symptoms.
examples: text: The city's problems are symptomatic of the crisis that is spreading throughout the country.
text: Symptomatic of a shallow understanding and an unamiable temper.
ref: 1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution:
text: And it is symptomatic of the many paradoxes of Lederer's life that of all the people in the room, Brotherhood is the one whom he would most wish to serve, if ever he had the opportunity, even though — or perhaps because — his occasional efforts to ingratiate himself with his adopted hero have met with iron rebuff.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: Constituting a symptom or indication; characteristic, indicative.
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: nonsymptomatic
coordinate_terms: disease-modifying
glosses: Of a treatment, that only affects the symptoms of a disease without targeting the underlying cause.
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: nonsymptomatic
glosses: Relating to symptomatics.
Derived terms: asymptomatic
monosymptomatic
multisymptomatic
neurosymptomatic
nonsymptomatic
oligosymptomatic
paucisymptomatic
polysymptomatic
presymptomatic
pre-symptomatic
symblematic
symptomatically
symptomaticity
unsymptomatic
symptomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɪmp.təˈmæt.ɪk/
Forms: form: symptomatics
form: symptomatick
Etymology: Borrowed from French symptomatique, from New Latin symptomaticus, from Ancient Greek συμπτωματικός (sumptōmatikós, “of or pertaining to a chance (or a symptom), casual”), from σύμπτωμα (súmptōma, “a symptom”). By surface analysis, symptom + -atic.
Senses: antonyms: asymptomatic#Noun
glosses: A person exhibiting the symptoms of an illness.
confessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛʃənəl/
ipa: /kənˈfeʃənəl/
Forms: form: more confessional
form: most confessional
Etymology: From confession + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The studied reticence of the poems in quatrains is opposed to the more confessional aspects of the monologue.
ref: 1991, Manju Jain, A critical reading of the selected poems of T.S. Eliot, page 77:
glosses: In the manner or style of a confession.
examples: confessional community
glosses: Officially practicing a particular shared religion, as a state or organization; see confessionalism 1.
Derived terms: anticonfessional
confessional chair
confessional debugging
confessionalise
confessionalist
confessionality
confessionalize
confessionally
ethnoconfessional
multiconfessional
nonconfessional
semiconfessional
Related terms: interconfessional
confessional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɛʃənəl/
ipa: /kənˈfeʃənəl/
Forms: form: confessionals
Etymology: From French confessionnal.
Senses: examples: text: The confessional's chief amusement has been seduction–in all the ages of the Church.
ref: c. 1909, Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, Letter XI:
text: In one of the aisles there was an elaborately carved confessional box and I recognised the village priest in his heavy mountain boots and black cassock as he entered it and drew the dark velvet curtains behind him.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 13, in Crime out of Mind:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: confession booth
glosses: A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
examples: text: When a 35-year-old Bill Clinton, famously the nation’s youngest former governor, set out in 1982 to reclaim the job he had lost two years earlier, he began with a remarkable televised confessional.
“My daddy never had to whip me twice for the same thing,” Mr. Clinton told Arkansans in a campaign commercial, acknowledging voters’ anger over his having raised a hated vehicle fee and vowing to listen better if they gave him another chance as governor.
ref: 2015 April 15, Jonathan Martin, “For a Clinton, It’s Not Hard to Be Humble in an Effort to Regain Power”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A confession.
examples: text: These characters behave as crassly as they do in large part because producers of shows such as The Bachelor deprive them of all contact with the outside world ([…]) and ply them with alcohol, then goad them to unleash their petty grievances in filmed "confessionals".
ref: 2004, Ms. Magazine, volume 14:
text: We see Brooks seethe in a corner, and, in a cut to a confessional, he exaggerates the scene, saying, “I’m feeling really uncomfortable. Her vagina’s in my face.”
ref: 2021, Doreen St. Félix, “"The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" Is Culturally Sensitive Trash”, in The New Yorker:
qualifier: reality television
glosses: A filmed interview in which a cast member speaks directly into the camera commenting on the events of the episode.
toxicomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɒksɪkəʊˈmeɪnɪə/
ipa: /ˌtɑksɪkoʊˈmeɪniə/
rhymes: -eɪniə
Forms: form: toxicomanias
Etymology: From toxico- + -mania.
Senses: glosses: an insane desire for poisonous or intoxicating substances
timbromania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪniə
Etymology: From timbre (“postage stamp”) + -o- + -mania, borrowed from French timbromanie.
Senses: glosses: a passion for stamp collecting
Derived terms: timbromaniac
Related terms: philately
timbrology
timbrophily
tinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: tincts
Etymology: From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.
Senses: examples: text: blue of heaven's own tinct
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
text: [She] fashion'd for it / A case of silk, and braided thereupon / All the devices blazon'd on the shield / In their own tinct, […]
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 147:
text: The slightest tinct of uncertainty in the old man’s thought, and he, Kirkwood, became a plotter like the others, meeting mine with countermine.
ref: 1889. Gissing, George. The Nether World, Volume 3 Chapter 1
glosses: A tint or colour.
tinct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: tincts
form: tincting
form: tincted
form: tincted
Etymology: From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.
Senses: glosses: to tint, tinge or colour
tinct
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Forms: form: more tinct
form: most tinct
Etymology: From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.
Senses: examples: text: The blew in black, the greene in gray is tinct, […]
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 45, verso:
glosses: tinged or lightly coloured
tinct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪŋkt/
rhymes: -ɪŋkt
Etymology: From Middle English tynct (noun) and tincten, tyncten, tynkten (verb), borrowed from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingō (“to tinge”). Doublet of tint.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of tincture.
sacrament of reconciliation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacraments of reconciliation
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: reconciliation
glosses: The sacrament (sacred ritual) also called confession, involving contrition by a person, confessing sins to a priest, penance performed by the person, and absolution granted by the priest.
toxo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toxi-.
Derived terms: toxocariasis
toxoid
toxoplasma
toxoplasmosis
toxi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: tox-
form: toxico-
form: toxo-
Senses: glosses: poison
Derived terms: toxalbumin
toxaphene
toxemia
toxic shock syndrome
toxicant
toxicity
toxicogenic
toxicology
toxicomania
toxicosis
toxic
toxigenic
toxin
toxocariasis
toxoid
toxoplasma
toxoplasmosis
tox-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toxi- before a vowel
toxico-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of toxi-.
diminished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪnɪʃt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diminish
diminished
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmɪnɪʃt/
Forms: form: more diminished
form: most diminished
Senses: examples: text: The diminished Roman Empire never recovered from the sack of Rome.
text: Another well-known express to disappear on the same date was the Blue Comet of the Central of New Jersey, an all-coach luxury express which operated between New York and Atlantic City; in this case the reason is diminished patronage.
ref: 1942 May-June, “Notes and News: War and the American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 184:
glosses: lessened, reduced
examples: text: She felt diminished by the report card.
glosses: made to seem less important, impressive, or valuable
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: reduced by a semitone
Synonyms: word: diminished
word: lessened
word: reduced
Coordinate terms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: perfect
Derived terms: bidiminished
diminished capacity
diminished fifth
diminished fourth
diminished interval
diminished ninth
diminished octave
diminished radix complement
diminished responsibility
diminished second
diminished seventh
diminished seventh chord
diminished sixth
diminished third
diminished triad
diminished value
half-diminished seventh chord
tridiminished
undiminished
amnioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amnioscopies
Etymology: From amnio- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: Examination of a foetus and the amniotic fluid in the lowest part of the amniotic sac using an amnioscope introduced through the cervical canal.
Derived terms: endoamnioscopy
Related terms: amnioscope
amnioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amnioscopes
Etymology: From amnio- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A form of endoscope used to examine the amniotic cavity and its foetus.
Related terms: amnioscopy
extreme prejudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the longer phrase terminate with extreme prejudice, popularized by the film Apocalypse Now (1979), but used earlier jokingly as CIA jargon.
Senses: examples: text: Osborn was involved in the liquidation program and cites an example of a Vietnamese operative being liquidated with extreme prejudice on orders from higher headquarters.
ref: 1971, American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 575:
glosses: Lethal force, applied extrajudicially with the intent to kill.
examples: text: Without a real market to determine the price such suggested prices should be discounted with extreme prejudice by any potential investors.
ref: 2002, Finance Week, page 81:
glosses: Severe treatment.
examples: text: The centerpiece of the court's justification for reversing and remanding was its conclusion that when the trial judge disclosed the terms of the settlement, he created a great risk of extreme prejudice to the remaining defendant.
ref: 1989, Defense Law Journal, volume 38, page 301:
text: For example, majority-group members may view minority groups with suspicion, but not all minority groups become the targets of extreme prejudice and discrimination.
ref: 2002, Vincent N. Parrillo, Understanding Race and Ethnic Relations, page 16:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see extreme, prejudice.
Related terms: terminate with extreme prejudice – to assassinate
arthroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthroscopies
Etymology: From arthro- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: the examination of the interior of a joint (such as the knee) using an arthroscope
Derived terms: arthroscopic
arthroscopist
Related terms: arthroscope
arthroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arthroscopes
Etymology: From arthro- + -scope.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of endoscope used in arthroscopy
Derived terms: arthroscopy
Related terms: arthroscopic
bioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioscopies
Etymology: From bio- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: the examination of a body to determine if it is alive or dead
Derived terms: electrobioscopy
fluoroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluoroscopies
Etymology: From fluoro- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: imaging#Noun
coordinate_terms: word: radiography
english: other x-ray imaging
translation: other x-ray imaging
word: ;
word: computed tomography
word: CT
word: XRCT
glosses: Examination using a fluoroscope.
Derived terms: cinefluoroscopy
gastrofluoroscopy
immunofluoroscopy
videofluoroscopy
Related terms: word: fluoroscope
word: fluoroscopic
word: fluoroscopically
word: fluoroscopist
laparoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lapəˈɹɒskəpi/
rhymes: -ɒskəpi
Forms: form: laparoscopies
Etymology: From laparo- (“flank”) + -scopy, after German Laparoskopie.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: laparoscopic surgery
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.
Derived terms: hydrolaparoscopy
relaparoscopy
videolaparoscopy
Related terms: laparoscope
laparoscopic
laparoscopist
laparotomy
laparoscopic surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laparoscopic surgeries
Senses: glosses: laparoscopy
Derived terms: single-incision laparoscopic surgery
laparoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From laparoscope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or using laparoscopy or a laparoscope.
Derived terms: laparoscopically
laparoscopic surgery
nonlaparoscopic
radioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒskəpi
Forms: form: radioscopies
Etymology: From radio- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: examination of objects by the use of X-rays; radiology
Related terms: fluoroscopy
retinoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒskəpi
Forms: form: retinoscopies
Etymology: From retino- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Analysis of the refractive properties of the eye using a retinoscope; skiascopy.
skiascopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skiascopies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σκιά (skiá, “shadow”) + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: retinoscopy
Related terms: skiascope
rhinoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhinoscopies
Etymology: From rhino- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: examination of the nasal passages using an endoscope or speculum; nasal endoscopy
Related terms: rhinoscope
rhinoscopic
rhinoscopist
stereoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoscopies
Etymology: From stereo- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture and viewing of stereoscopic images; 3D imaging
glosses: Simultaneous vision using both eyes that produces a visual perception of objects located in space
telescopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈlɛs.kə.pi/
Forms: form: telescopies
Etymology: From tele- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture and use of telescopes.
Derived terms: radiotelescopy
tracheoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒskəpi
Forms: form: tracheoscopies
Etymology: From tracheo- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: examination of the interior of the trachea using a tracheoscope
palaverous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more palaverous
form: most palaverous
Etymology: From palaver + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Verbose; wordy.
sceat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: shat
homophone: Shat
Forms: form: sceats
form: sceatt
form: sceatta
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English sceatt.
Senses: examples: text: 1840, Ancient Laws and Institutes of England, Volume 2, Commissioners on the Public Records of the Kingdom, unnumbered page,
In the Anglo-Saxon laws there is no passage from which the value of the ‘sceat’ can be ascertained with certainty, though from some places in the laws of Ethelbirht it would appear, that, in Kent at least, 20 sceats were equal to 1 scilling.
text: The Obolus and the Scruple appear to have been equally familiar to the Anglo-Saxons under the names of the older sceat and penny. The Kentishmen seem to have resembled the Franks in their coinage as well as in their Wergilds, for their scilling weighed 20 sceats; and as the scilling was only a corruption of the Roman sicilicus (the shekel), or quarter-ounce weight, the Kentish ounce must have contained 80 sceats or 40 pence; in other words it was the old Salic solidus of 40 scruples, often met with in later times under the name of mancus, or heavier ounce of 30 Carlovingian (or sterling), and 40 Merovingian pence, or scruples.
ref: 1862, Eben William Robertson, Scotland Under Her Early Kings, Edmonston and Douglas, page 347:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A small Anglo-Saxon coin, especially one made of silver; sometimes regarded as a weight (and thus a comparative measure of a coin's value).
ancona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anconas
form: ancone
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ancona.
Senses: glosses: An altarpiece, especially one of multiple connected pictures
glosses: Alternative form of ancon
brindisi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbrɪndəzi/
/ˈbrɪnˌdiːzi/
Forms: form: brindisis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian brindisi.
Senses: glosses: A drinking song in which each person is toasted.
meekness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meeknesses
Etymology: From Middle English mekenesse, meknes, meocnesse; equivalent to meek + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: But thou, O man of God, flie these things; and follow after righteousnesse, godlinesse, faith, loue, patience, meekenesse.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Timothy 6:11:
text: Nor could Pym fail to notice that his old friend in rendering account of himself assumed the familiar meekness of the displaced person in the presence of his betters.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: The state or quality of being meek.
epaulet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpəlɛt/
ipa: /ˌɛpəˈlɛt/
Forms: form: epaulets
Etymology: From French épaulette, from épaule (“shoulder”) + -ette (diminutive).
Senses: examples: text: The most proxlmal plate, at the extreme base of the costal margin, is the tegula (costal plate, epaulet)...
ref: 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Alternative form of epaulette (“shoulder decoration on a uniform; tegula”).
Derived terms: epauleted
subepaulet
orogenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orogeny
oread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɔːɹi.æd/
Forms: form: oreads
form: oreades
Etymology: From Latin Orēas, Orēadis, from Ancient Greek Ὀρειάς (Oreiás), from ὄρος (óros, “mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: The imprisoned ringlets are emancipated; 'fresh as the oread from the forest fountain,' you descend—you breathe the incense of the chocolate—not more I hope—and grow conversational and confidential over the green tea, which, with a fragrance beyond all the violets of April, rises to your lip, 'giving and taking odours.'
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 92:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mountain nymph; an anthropomorphic appearance of the spirit of a mountain.
Hyponyms: Echo
orogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orogeneses
Etymology: From oro- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of mountain formation by deformation of the Earth's crust.
Synonyms: orogeny
bigtime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bigtime
form: most bigtime
form: big-time
Etymology: From big + time.
Senses: examples: text: Wait till you see your name in two-foot electrics over the front of every big-time house in the country.
ref: 1918, Edna Ferber, “That’s Marriage”, in Cheerful—By Request, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 169:
text: Krasnow is a big-time operator; I’ve always been, you might say, in the peanut end of the game.
ref: 1954 May, Richard Wilson, “Back to Julie”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 8, number 2, page 69:
text: 'On the level, honey, I have an all-time, big-time need for coffee.'
ref: 1959, Marc Brody, Low Dive for Lola, page i. 9:
text: Tired of shelling out bigtime bucks to see overpaid major leaguers with underwhelming stats and attitudes to match, baseball fans by the thousands are rediscovering a more relaxed—and cheaper—version of the national pastime: the minor leagues.
ref: 1997 July, Jennifer Zajac, “Get some major league fun at Little League dollars”, in Money, volume 26, number 7, page 158:
text: With a previous conviction in 1954 for receiving tins of corned beef, Betchley was hardly bigtime.
ref: 2006 April 23, “A twist in the tale”, in The Observer:
glosses: Of major significance or importance.
Related terms: big time
bigtime
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: big-time
Etymology: From big + time.
Senses: examples: text: This was the first test for that message -- and it failed bigtime.
ref: 2018 March 15, Bill Press, “‘Lamb the Sham’ beats ‘Trump the Chump’”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: To a significant degree.
bigtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigtimes
form: big-time
Etymology: From big + time.
Senses: examples: text: The Financial News Network’s SCORE program […] hit the bigtime last Monday by offering live coverage of Snow Chief’s victory in the Jersey Derby […]
ref: 1986 May 30, Larry Stewart, “It’s Time to Replace the Talking Heads With Racing Cars”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: Thirty years ago Rob Halford led Judas Priest, and heavy metal itself, out of the Midlands and into the bigtime.
ref: 2010 May 20, Roy Wilkinson, “How Judas Priest invented heavy metal”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of big time.
anticatholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticatholic
form: most anticatholic
Etymology: From anti- + Catholic.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to Catholicism.
anticatholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticatholics
Etymology: From anti- + Catholic.
Senses: glosses: A person opposed to Catholicism.
Greenpeace
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From green + peace.
Senses: examples: text: One particularly exciting sequence shows how members of Greenpeace, a Canadian conservation group, defend whales fleeing from a huge Soviet whaler.
ref: 1975, Film news:
text: Since its founding in 1970, Greenpeace has borne witness against environmental injustice through numerous non-violent direct actions.
ref: 1983, Vegetarian Times:
text: Before the doors were opened the security guards were warned to look out for "Greenpeace types," not smartly dressed business women.
ref: 1989, Tom Rose, Freeing the Whales: How the Media Created the World's Greatest Non-Event, page 82:
text: Greenpeace had reason to suspect that recent tests had opened a crack in the atoll, causing a serious radiation leak.
ref: 1990, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
text: A typical Greenpeace action in 1989 saw the organization in alliance with Spanish longline fishermen, angry that the continued use of driftnets was threatening their own livelihoods.
ref: 1991, Xavier Pastor, The Mediterranean, page 128:
text: But hardcore Greenpeace types never listen to reason.
ref: 1995, Joseph John Phillips, Operation Elbow Room, page 30:
text: Behind it was a typically bearded, casually dressed Greenpeace type.
ref: 1998, Robert I. Eaton, Thrust in Your Sickle But Watch Your Fingers, page 60:
text: I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media.
ref: 2002, Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure With Art, Music, and Whales:
text: You remember: the Greenpeace dropout who played chicken with the Soviet Navy.
ref: 2004, Matt Ruff, Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy, page 222:
text: He's an eco-activist maverick, with a Greenpeace mentality when it comes to protecting his little feathered friends.
ref: 2012, Stephen M. Ringler, Fled to Mexico: If No One Knows They Were There Then It Didn't Happen, page 191:
text: Russian lawmakers backed a sweeping amnesty law Wednesday that could see jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk protest band released early and arrested Greenpeace activists avoiding prison, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.
ref: 2013 December 18, CNN Staff, “Russia amnesty could free Pussy Riot, benefit Greenpeace members”, in CNN:
glosses: An international, direct-action environmental organization.
Derived terms: Greenpeacer
hammy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: hammier
form: hammiest
Etymology: From ham + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ham.
examples: text: Jack Crawford: I’m Special Agent Jack Crawford. I lead the Behavioral Science Unit.
Will Graham: We’ve met.
Jack Crawford: Yes, we had a disagreement about the museum when we opened it.
Will Graham: I disagreed with what you named it.
Jack Crawford: The Evil Minds Research Museum?
Will Graham: It’s a little hammy, Jack.
ref: 2013 April 4, Hannibal, season 1, episode 1:
text: McDonald & Dodds is back, with episode one so deliberately hammy and meta that, technically, it should have been a complete horlicks. In one scene, when they were all hanging on to the balloon ropes, Mr Bean-like, to stop Jason Watkins flying away, it sort of was.
ref: 2021 March 1, Carol Midgley, “McDonald & Dodds review – cheerful escapism and filth-free distraction”, in The Times:
glosses: Amateurish; characterized by overacting.
Derived terms: hammily
hamminess