cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
breme
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹiːm/
rhymes: -iːm
homophone: bream
Forms: form: brim
Etymology: From Middle English brem, breme, from Old English brēme (“famous, glorious, noble”), from Proto-West Germanic *brōmi, from Proto-Germanic *brōmiz (“famous”). Cognate with Latin fremō (“I murmur; I roar”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “I roar”), Polish brzmieć (“to be heard”).
Senses: examples: text: Let me, ah! lette me in your folds ye lock, / Ere the breme winter breede you greater griefe.
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
text: The same to him glad Summer or the Winter breme.
ref: 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence: […], London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: obsolete except Northern England
glosses: Of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous.
glosses: Keen, sharp, alert.
Brennschluss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɛnʃlʊs/
Forms: form: Brennschlüsse
form: brennschluss
Etymology: From German Brennschluss.
Senses: examples: text: The white line, abruptly, has stopped its climb. That would be fuel cutoff, end of burning, what’s their word... Brennschluss. We don’t have one. Or else it’s classified.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: The moment in the path of a rocket when the fuel burns out, after which it continues its ballistic trajectory under only the forces of gravity and air resistance (if present).
brewis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːɪs/
rhymes: -uːɪs
Forms: form: brewises
Etymology: Old French broez, brouez, brouets plural of broet, brouet (French brouet ‘gruel’), from breu, from *brodittum, a diminutive of vulgar Latin *brodum, from Germanic *brod ‘sauce’ (English broth).
Senses: examples: text: […] an hundred dishes of poultry besides other birds and brewises, fritters and cooling marinades.
ref: 1885, Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume 5:
text: […] he recounteth the horror of their deathless punishment in hellfire (as seen by him in his vision), a burning stinking brewis of venomed maggots and toothed worms that do gnaw to the very pia mater.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
glosses: a kind of broth thickened with bread or meal
Derived terms: fish and brewis
gonioscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: gō'nə-ŏs'kə-pē
rhymes: -ɒskəpi
Forms: form: gonioscopies
Etymology: From gonio- + -scopy.
Senses: glosses: the use of a gonioscope in conjunction with a slit lamp or operating microscope to gain a view of the anatomical angle formed between the eye's cornea and iris, known as the iridocorneal angle
Related terms: gonioscopic
cookiecutter shark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cookiecutter sharks
Senses: examples: text: The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.
ref: 2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A small shark, Isistius brasiliensis, that tears circular chunks of flesh from its prey.
Synonyms: cookiecutter
heptoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptoxides
form: heptaoxide
Etymology: From hept- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any oxide containing seven oxygen atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: dichlorine heptoxide
tetraterbium heptaoxide
heptaoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptaoxides
Etymology: From hepta- + oxide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of heptoxide.
Fatimid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fatimids
Etymology: From Fatima + -id.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Muslim dynasty in North Africa and Egypt (approx. CE 900-1200).
Synonyms: Fatimite
Fatimide
Derived terms: Fatimid Caliphate
back passage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back passages
Senses: glosses: The passage between two terraced houses leading between the front and back gardens or yards.
glosses: The anus or rectum.
dibromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dibromides
Etymology: From di- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any bromide containing two bromine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: bismuth dibromide
chromium dibromide
cobalt dibromide
copper dibromide
iron dibromide
manganese dibromide
mercury dibromide
molybdenum dibromide
nickel dibromide
platinum dibromide
silver dibromide
sulfur dibromide
sulphur dibromide
tellurium dibromide
tin dibromide
tungsten dibromide
vanadium dibromide
ytterbium dibromide
cabaletta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæbəˈlɛtə/
Forms: form: cabalettas
Etymology: An Italian variant of coboletta, diminutive of cobola (“stanza, couplet”), from Old Occitan cobla, from Latin copula. Doublet of couplet.
Senses: examples: 1980, to bring the proceedings to an end and enable him to perform his salvatory mission, he swung into a cabaletta which summed up the argument against Arius — Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
glosses: A short, rhythmically repetitive aria.
tribromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribromides
Etymology: From tri- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any bromide containing three bromine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: aluminium tribromide
aluminum tribromide
antimony tribromide
arsenic tribromide
bismuth tribromide
boron tribromide
caesium tribromide
cesium tribromide
cerium tribromide
chromium tribromide
dysprosium tribromide
gallium tribromide
gold tribromide
indium tribromide
iodine tribromide
iron tribromide
molybdenum tribromide
nitrogen tribromide
phosphorus tribromide
silver tribromide
tantalum tribromide
thallium tribromide
tungsten tribromide
vanadium tribromide
ytterbium tribromide
tetrabromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrabromides
Etymology: From tetra- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any bromide containing four bromine atoms in each molecule.
Derived terms: acetylene tetrabromide
caesium tribromide
cesium tribromide
carbon tetrabromide
gallium tribromide
germanium tetrabromide
gold tetrabromide
hafnium tetrabromide
lead tetrabromide
limonene tetrabromide
molybdenum tetrabromide
neptunium tetrabromide
platinum tetrabromide
selenium tetrabromide
silicon tetrabromide
silver tribromide
tantalum pentabromide
tellurium tetrabromide
thorium tetrabromide
tin tetrabromide
titanium tetrabromide
tungsten pentabromide
uranium tetrabromide
vanadium tribromide
ytterbium tribromide
zirconium tetrabromide
pentabromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentabromides
Etymology: From penta- + bromide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any bromide containing five bromine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: niobium pentabromide
phosphorus pentabromide
tantalum pentabromide
tungsten pentabromide
passageway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passageways
Etymology: From passage + way.
Senses: examples: text: The door of the twins' room opposite was open; a twenty-watt night-light threw a weak yellow glow into the passageway. David could hear the twins breathing in time with each other.
ref: 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:
glosses: A covered walkway, between rooms or buildings.
examples: text: The units have transverse seats, two and three astride the passageway with single or double longitudinal seats alongside the two entrance vestibules in each car.
ref: 1960 November, “New electric multiple-units for British Railways: Glasgow Suburban”, in Trains Illustrated, page 660:
glosses: Any way for passing in, out or through something.
passageways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passageway
dichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈklɔːɹaɪd/
Forms: form: dichlorides
Etymology: From di- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any chloride containing two chlorine atoms bound to a single element or radical
Derived terms: cobalt dichloride
copper dichloride
dimercury dichloride
indium dichloride
lead dichloride
manganese dichloride
manganous dichloride
mercury dichloride
methylene dichloride
palladium dichloride
platinum dichloride
polyvinyl dichloride
sulfur dichloride
tin dichloride
titanocene dichloride
vinylidene dichloride
zinc dichloride
cachou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæʃuː/
homophone: cashew
Forms: form: cachous
Etymology: From French cachou, from Portuguese cachu, from Malay kacu (“type of acacia”).
Senses: examples: text: Dante gave him a cachou every time he brought her a piece of tissue paper.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 20:
text: But her husband, frowning, remembered those little sweets, or cachous, scented with something like violet, a synthetic smell, that had drifted on the more irritating afternoons above the smells of the sealing wax and ink.
ref: 1955, Patrick White, chapter 19, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 347:
glosses: A sweet eaten to sweeten the breath.
glosses: A small metallic ball used as edible decoration on cakes etc.
Synonyms: catechu
Related terms: cachou de Laval
trichloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichlorides
Etymology: From tri- + chloride.
Senses: examples: text: When TCCA touches a small amount of water and doesn’t dissolve, “it can experience a chemical reaction, generating heat and causing the decomposition of the chemical, which in turn produces toxic chlorine gas and can produce explosive nitrogen trichloride,” a 2023 report by the CSB said.
ref: 2024 November 24, Chris Boyette, “Investigators release update on BioLab chemical plant fire probe”, in CNN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any chloride containing three chlorine atoms in each molecule.
Derived terms: aluminium trichloride
aluminum trichloride
antimony trichloride
arsenic trichloride
boron trichloride
californium trichloride
cerium trichloride
chromium trichloride
dysprosium trichloride
erbium trichloride
europium trichloride
gadolinium trichloride
gold trichloride
indium trichloride
iodine trichloride
iridium trichloride
iron trichloride
neodymium trichloride
nitrogen trichloride
oxytrichloride
phosphorus trichloride
praseodymium trichloride
rhodium trichloride
ruthenium trichloride
samarium trichloride
scandium trichloride
terbium trichloride
vinyl trichloride
ytterbium trichloride
Related terms: chlorine
-ide
tetrachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrachlorides
Etymology: From tetra- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any chloride containing four chlorine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: arsenic tetrachloride fluoride
carbon tetrachloride
germanium tetrachloride
hafnium tetrachloride
iridium tetrachloride
platinum tetrachloride
silicon tetrachloride
tellurium tetrachloride
tin tetrachloride
titanium tetrachloride
zirconium tetrachloride
cacothymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kakəʊˈθʌɪmɪə/
Forms: form: cacothymias
Etymology: From caco- + -thymia.
From Ancient Greek κακός (kakós, “bad”) + θύμος (thúmos, “warty excresence like a thyme bud; the thymus gland”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘This peevish attention to cleanliness, Jack, this busy preoccupation with dirt,’ said Stephen, shaking his head at the fire, ‘has something of the Brahminical superstition about it. It is not very far removed from nastiness, Jack – from cacothymia.’
ref: 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
glosses: An unbalanced state of mind; a mental or glandular disorder as from a malfunctioning thymus gland.
pentachloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentachlorides
Etymology: From penta- + chloride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any chloride containing five chlorine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: arsenic pentachloride
niobium pentachloride
phosphorus pentachloride
tantalum pentachloride
tin pentachloride
vanadium pentachloride
requiescat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɛkwɪˈɛskæt/
enpr: rĕk'wē-ĕsʹkăt
ipa: /ˌɹɛkwiˈɛskæt/
Forms: form: requiescats
Etymology: First word of the Latin phrase requiēscat in pāce (“may he/she rest in peace”). The Latin word requiēscat means "may he/she rest" and is a form of the Latin verb requiēscō (“I rest, I repose”).
Senses: glosses: A prayer for the peaceful repose of the soul of a dead person
pelB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a gene, which encodes "pectate lyase B", from Pelvetia canaliculata and barnacles
caitiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪtɪf/
Forms: form: caitiffs
form: catif
form: cative
form: catyve
form: caitive
form: caiteff
form: caitiffe
form: caytiefe
form: caytiffe
form: caytive
Etymology: From Middle English caitif, from Anglo-Norman caitif (“captive”), akin to Old French chaitif (French chétif) and Middle Dutch keytyf, from a Vulgar Latin *cactīvus alteration via Gaulish influence from Latin captīvus (“captive”); compare Italian cattivo (“bad, wicked”). Doublet of captive.
Senses: examples: text: ‘There are plenty of Huns who have defected to the Romans, seeking gold and a quiet life. One of my first tasks as paramount chief is to bring those caitiffs back and crucify them.’
ref: 1989, Anthony Burgess, The Devil's Mode:
glosses: A base or despicable person; a wretch.
examples: text: "How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44:
glosses: A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave.
examples: text: (Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson ride together in Tennessee; Burr narrates): Jackson shouted at me his view of the duel. "Never read such a damned lot of nonsense as the press has been writing! All that hypocritical caterwauling for that Creole bastard (referring to Alexander Hamilton) who fought you of his own free will, just like a gentleman which he wasn't, if you'll forgive me, Colonel! I know you couldn't have met him unless you thought he was one, but he was not, Sir. He was the worst man in this union, as you, Sir, are the best. The best, and that goes for that pusillanimous spotted caitiff of a president (referring to Thomas Jefferson) we got.
ref: 1973, Gore Vidal, Burr, chapter 36
glosses: A villain, a coward or wretch.
caitiff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪtɪf/
Forms: form: more caitiff
form: most caitiff
form: catif
form: cative
form: catyve
form: caitive
form: caiteff
form: caitiffe
form: caytiefe
form: caytiffe
form: caytive
Etymology: From Middle English caitif, from Anglo-Norman caitif (“captive”), akin to Old French chaitif (French chétif) and Middle Dutch keytyf, from a Vulgar Latin *cactīvus alteration via Gaulish influence from Latin captīvus (“captive”); compare Italian cattivo (“bad, wicked”). Doublet of captive.
Senses: examples: text: Beshrew those caitiff scouts that conspired to sully his honest name by such an imputation!
ref: 1809, Washington Irving, Knickerbocker's History of New York:
text: Commingled are they with that caitiff choir
Of Angels, who have not rebellious been,
Nor faithful were to God, but were for self.
ref: 1867, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Divine Comedy:
text: Is Honor gone into his grave?
Hath Faith become a caitiff knave
And Selfhood turned into a slave
 To work in Mammon’s cave,
 Fair Lady?
ref: 1875, Sidney Lanier, The Symphony:
glosses: Especially despicable; cowardly
difluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈflɔːɹaɪd/
Forms: form: difluorides
Etymology: From di- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any chloride containing two fluorine atoms in each molecule
Synonyms: bifluoride
Derived terms: cobalt difluoride
dioxygen difluoride
krypton difluoride
oxygen difluoride
polyvinylidene difluoride
radon difluoride
xenon difluoride
leader sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leader sequences
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The sequence at the 5' end of an mRNA molecule that is not translated into protein.
calumet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæljʊmɛt/
Forms: form: calumets
Etymology: From a Norman variant of Old French chalumeau (imported to Canada with Norman colonists), from Latin calamellus, diminutive of calamus (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos).
Senses: examples: text: THE CALUMET OF PEACE. He offered a cigarette to the professor and took one himself.
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
text: When the chief has directed them to approach, they advance; those who have the calumets, chant and dance with much agility, now turning around each other, and now presenting themselves in front, but always with violent movements and extraordinary contortions.
ref: 2010, William Ingraham Kip, The Early Jesuit Missions in North America, page 283:
glosses: A clay tobacco pipe used by Native Americans, especially as a symbol of truce or peace.
Synonyms: peace pipe
pipe of peace
calvity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkælvɪti/
Forms: form: calvities
Etymology: From Latin calvitium (“baldness”), from calvus (“bald”).
Senses: glosses: Baldness.
examples: text: He wore his own hair – what there was left of it: short tight curls round a shining calvity, though he was in his thirties, no more – and he looked like one of the fatter, more jovial Roman emperors […].
ref: 1972, Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain:
glosses: An area of skin that has become bald.
trifluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trifluorides
Etymology: From tri- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any chloride containing three fluorine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: arsenic trifluoride
boron trifluoride
bromine trifluoride
chlorine trifluoride
diethylaminosulfur trifluoride
nitrogen trifluoride
phosphorus trifluoride
tetrafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrafluorides
Etymology: From tetra- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoride containing four fluorine atoms in each molecule.
Derived terms: carbon tetrafluoride
curium tetrafluoride
manganese tetrafluoride
silicon tetrafluoride
uranium tetrafluoride
xenon tetrafluoride
cantharis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kænˈθæɹɪs/
Forms: form: cantharides
Etymology: From Latin cantharis, from Ancient Greek κανθαρίς (kantharís).
Senses: glosses: singular of cantharides
monofluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monofluorides
Etymology: From mono- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any fluoride containing a single fluorine atom in each molecule
Derived terms: bromine monofluoride
carbon monofluoride
chlorine monofluoride
cantharides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kænˈθæɹɪdiːz/
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin cantharides, plural of cantharis.
Senses: glosses: Spanish fly, Lytta vesicatoria (syn. Cantharis vesicatoria).
examples: text: I can make the most subtle sauces yield up their secret—whether it be white arsenic, rosalgar, mercury sublimate, or cantharides.
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 26, in Lud-in-the-Mist:
text: Madame de Pompadour used tincture of cantharides to regain the love of Louis XV.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 56:
text: Speaking her name, it was as if he spake pure cantharides. ‘Quick,’ she panted. ‘There is time before they are all about. Again.’
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
text: It’s lucky that Carol had taken the precaution of obtaining some cantharides; without them the evening might have been a dead loss.
ref: 1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull:
text: Basically Louis's drug dealer and pimp, Richelieu, known for opium recipes to fit all occasions, is also credited with the introduction into France of the cantharides, or Spanish fly.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 612:
glosses: Spanish fly; a vesicant extracted from the beetle, popularly held to have aphrodisiac properties.
Derived terms: cantharidism
pentafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentafluorides
Etymology: From penta- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fluoride containing five fluorine atoms in each molecule.
Derived terms: antimony pentafluoride
arsenic pentafluoride
bromine pentafluoride
chlorine pentafluoride
gold pentafluoride
iodine pentafluoride
phosphorus pentafluoride
suzerain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈs(j)uz(ə)ɹən/
/ˈs(j)uzəˌɹeɪ̯n/
Forms: form: suzerains
Etymology: From French suzerain, based on sus (“up, above”) (from Latin sursum) with the ending of souverain (whence also English sovereign).
Senses: examples: text: Suzerainty is a term which was originally used for the relation between the feudal lord and his vassal; the lord was said to be the suzerain of the vassal, and at that time suzerainty was a term of Constitutional Law only. With the disappearance of the feudal system, suzerainty of this kind likewise disappeared. Modern suzerainty involves only a few rights of the suzerain State over the vassal State which can be called constitutional rights. The rights of the suzerain State over the vassal are principally international rights, of whatever they may consist.
ref: 1920–1921, L[assa Francis Lawrence] Oppenheim, edited by Ronald F. Roxburgh, International Law: A Treatise, 3rd edition, volume I (Peace), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, Green and Co., page 162:
text: The origin of these conflicts is to be sought in the position which Rome acquired about 275 b.c. as suzerain and protector of all Italy.
ref: 1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 22, Punic Wars, page 649:
qualifier: international politics
glosses: A dominant nation or state that has control over the international affairs of a subservient state which otherwise has domestic autonomy.
glosses: A feudal landowner to whom vassals were forced to pledge allegiance.
Derived terms: suzerainty
canthus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkænθəs/
Forms: form: canthi
form: canthuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin canthus (“the tire of a wheel”).
Senses: examples: text: the lowly East with its deer head (dark trace of long tear at inner canthus
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
text: I could sit here while the milk makes white shadows in its glass, while darkness mutters behind the window, and wait for a tear to show itself in the creased canthus of your eye.
ref: 2004, Andrew Sean Greer, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 263:
text: A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.
ref: 2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Either corner of the eye, where the eyelids meet.
Derived terms: canthal
canthitis
lateral canthus
medial canthus
telecanthus
Related terms: word: endocanthion
word: epicanthus
alt: ectocanthion
word: exocanthion
sockpuppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sockpuppets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sock puppet.
cantilena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæntɪˈleɪnə/
Forms: form: cantilenas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian or Latin cantilēna.
Senses: examples: text: He played a lazy tune that sinuated from C sharp down to G natural and back again. Astonishing that he could flute so lazy a cantilena while chasing nymphs.
ref: 1964, Anthony Burgess, The Eve of St Venus:
text: The sounds of insects, of which I am seldom conscious unless I have not heard them in some time, resumed, with a noise that reminded me of the tuning of the strings in the Blue Hall before the first cantilena began, a noise I sometimes used to listen to when I lay on my pallet near the open port of the apprentices' dormitory.
ref: 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter 27, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, pages 203-204:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A vocal melody or instrumental passage in a smooth, lyrical style.
puppeteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʌpɪˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˌpʌpəˈtɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: puppeteers
Etymology: From puppet + -eer.
Senses: synonyms: puppet master
hyponyms: sock puppeteer
glosses: A person who uses a puppet.
glosses: Someone who is manipulative and thus able to get people to do what they want or to make events develop in the way they want in a puppet-like manner.
Derived terms: puppeteering
sock puppeteer
Related terms: organ grinder
the organ grinder, not the monkey
puppeteer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpʌpɪˈtɪə/
ipa: /ˌpʌpəˈtɪ(ə)ɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: puppeteers
form: puppeteering
form: puppeteered
form: puppeteered
Etymology: From puppet + -eer.
Senses: glosses: To control (a puppet).
glosses: To control (an event, person, or organization) from behind the scenes.
manipulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪp.jə.lə.tɪv/
ipa: /məˈnɪp.jə.leɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [məˈnɪp.jə.leɪ.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: more manipulative
form: most manipulative
Etymology: From manipulate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.
ref: 2012 January 24, Robert M. Pringle, “How to Be Manipulative”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2013, page 31:
glosses: Using manipulation purposefully.
glosses: Tending to manipulate.
examples: text: You manipulative bitch!
glosses: Reaching one's goals at the expense of other people by using them.
Synonyms: controlling
Derived terms: manipulatively
manipulativeness
micromanipulative
nanomanipulative
nonmanipulative
overmanipulative
psychomanipulative
manipulative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪp.jə.lə.tɪv/
ipa: /məˈnɪp.jə.leɪ.tɪv/
ipa: [məˈnɪp.jə.leɪ.ɾɪv]
Forms: form: manipulatives
Etymology: From manipulate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Some children need manipulatives to learn math basics, Dr. Clements said, but only as a starting point.
ref: 2008 April 25, Kenneth Chang, “Study Suggests Math Teachers Scrap Balls and Slices”, in New York Times:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A manipulable object designed to demonstrate a mathematical concept.
disparaging
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpæɹɪdʒɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: more disparaging
form: most disparaging
Senses: examples: text: The candidate made disparaging remarks about his opponent, but they only made him seem small for insulting a worthy adversary.
text: While he is reasonably effusive about inter-city travel, he is heavily disparaging of all types of stopping service, including those on otherwise busy main lines. His analysis is not entirely unsound, and he tackles some of the questions head on.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 47:
text: It was the latest instance of Trump using dehumanizing and disparaging rhetoric as he targets undocumented immigrants and vows mass deportations if he’s reelected.
ref: 2024 October 7, Kate Sullivan, “Trump suggests undocumented immigrants who commit murder have ‘bad genes’”, in CNN:
glosses: Insulting, ridiculing.
Synonyms: degrading
derogatory
Derived terms: disparagingly
nondisparaging
undisparaging
disparaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpæɹɪdʒɪŋ(ɡ)/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disparage
disparaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈpæɹɪdʒɪŋ(ɡ)/
Forms: form: disparagings
Senses: examples: text: I am tracked by phantoms having weird detective ways […] Men with a wintry sneer, and women with tart disparagings.
ref: 1896, Thomas Hardy, Wessex Heights:
glosses: disparagement
ridiculing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ridiculing
form: most ridiculing
Senses: glosses: In a manner intended to ridicule.
ridiculing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ridicule
ridiculing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridiculings
Senses: examples: text: Killings that are not wicked could exist, as could ridiculings that are wicked.
ref: 2002, Daniel M. Haybron, Earth's Abominations: Philosophical Studies of Evil, page 33:
glosses: The act of exposing to ridicule.
hexafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexafluorides
Etymology: From hexa- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any fluoride containing six fluorine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: platinum hexafluoride
selenium hexafluoride
sulfur hexafluoride
sulphur hexafluoride
tungsten hexafluoride
uranium hexafluoride
xenon hexafluoride
heptafluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heptafluorides
Etymology: From hepta- + fluoride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any fluoride containing seven fluorine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: iodine heptafluoride
cantrip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæntɹɪp/
Forms: form: cantrips
form: cantrap
form: cantrup
form: cantraip
Etymology: From Middle Scots cantrip, cantrap (“a magic charm; a trick”). Further origin obscure, but likely a corruption of Scottish Gaelic canntaireachd (identical to Irish cantaireacht), referring to a system of musical notation consisting of a series of otherwise meaningless syllables memorised by pipers in learning their tunes; this was then used similarly to abracadabra. Regardless of details, ultimately derived from Latin cantō (“to sing, chant, play an instrument”).
Senses: examples: text: Coffins stood round, like open presses,
That shaw’d the dead in their last dresses;
And by some devilish cantrip slight
Each in its cauld hand held a light […]
ref: 1791, Robert Burns, "Tam o' Shanter", lines 125-8, http://www.bartleby.com/337/825.html#txt28
text: I have some poor little skill—not like yours, Master Doctor, of course—in small spells and cantrips that I’d be glad to use against our enemies if it was agreeable to all concerned.
ref: 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 12, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
text: For one thing, I've no intention of distributing cantrips and costly crucifixes to every rapable woman in the Parish of St Magloire.
ref: 1976, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Something Nasty in the Woodshed, Penguin, published 2001, page 422:
text: And when I say now the power of the name Jesus makes you whole, I indulge in no petty mountebank’s cantrips.
ref: 1984, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom Of The Wicked:
text: But it sounds to me like you're in a totally different category. Not garden-variety cantrip stuff.
ref: 2009, James Patterson, Gabrielle Charbonnet, Witch and Wizard, Little, Brown and Company, page 148:
glosses: A spell or incantation; a trifling magic trick.
glosses: A wilful piece of trickery or mischief.
qualifier: roleplaying games
glosses: A minor spell, typically one that can be cast without preparation.
Related terms: spellwork
triiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triiodides
Etymology: From tri- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing a I₃⁻ moiety consisting of three iodine atoms in a more or less linear configuration.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any iodide of a trivalent element that contains three I⁻ ions.
Derived terms: arsenic triiodide
boron triiodide
nitrogen triiodide
phosphorus triiodide
sodium triiodide
tetranitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetranitrides
Etymology: From tetra- + nitride.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any nitride containing four nitrogen atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: tetrasulfur tetranitride
tetrasulphur tetranitride
diiodide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diiodides
Etymology: From di- + iodide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any iodide containing two iodine atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: manganese diiodide
samarium diiodide
caple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkeɪp(ə)l/
Forms: form: caples
Etymology: From Old Norse kapall, from Latin caballus. Doublet of cheval.
Senses: glosses: A horse.
disulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disulphides
Etymology: From di- + sulphide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of disulfide.
Derived terms: dimethyldisulphide
disulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈsʌlfaɪd/
Forms: form: disulfides
form: disulphide
Etymology: From di- + sulfide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A functional group with two sulfur atoms bonded to one another, described by the following formula: R–S–S–R'.
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The anion ⁻S–S⁻.
examples: text: By analysing data from the James Webb Space Telescope, the researchers found evidence of dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide in the atmosphere of the planet known as K2-18b. The planet is 124 light-years away; one light-year is equivalent to nearly 6 trillion miles.
ref: 2025 April 18, “Scientists detect strong evidence of life on an alien planet”, in France 24, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025:
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A binary compound of sulfur and another element in the ratio 2:1 (formula XS₂).
Synonyms: sense: bisulfide (dated)
word: anion −S–S−
Derived terms: arsenic disulfide
carbon disulfide
cuprous sulfide
dimethyldisulfide
disulfide bond
disulfide bridge
disulfide of copper
disulfiram
heterodisulfide
homodisulfide
hydrogen disulfide
interdisulfide
intradisulfide
molybdenum disulfide
multidisulfide
oxysulfide
polydisulfide
tetradisulfide
tungsten disulfide
pentasulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentasulphides
form: pentasulfide
Etymology: From penta- + sulphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any sulphide containing five sulphur atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: antimony pentasulfide
antimony pentasulphide
pentasulfide antimony
pentasulphide antimony
phosphorus pentasulfide
phosphorus pentasulphide
mourners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mourner
pentasulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentasulfides
Etymology: From penta- + sulfide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pentasulphide.
Derived terms: arsenic pentasulfide
sesquisulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquisulphides
form: sesquisulfide
Etymology: From sesqui- + sulphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any sulphide containing three sulphur atoms for every two metal atoms.
Derived terms: phosphorus sesquisulfide
phosphorus sesquisulphide
sesquisulfide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sesquisulfides
Etymology: From sesqui- + sulfide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sesquisulphide.
carabao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæɹəˈbeɪəʊ/
Forms: form: carabaos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish carabao, from Waray-Waray karabaw, from Malay kerbau, from Proto-Malayic *kAr(ə)baw, ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”). Compare Khmer ក្របី (krɑɑbəy), Halang kơpùa, Indonesian kerbau, Javanese ꦏꦼꦧꦺꦴ (kebo), Thai กระบือ (grà-bʉʉ).
Senses: examples: text: The weaker carabaos are slaughtered for meat, the stronger ones put to work on Golgotha, and the drivers are assimilated into the workforce.
ref: 1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
text: Filipinos tell several stories about the carabao. The Tagalog, who live mainly on Luzon, tell the following story about how the carabao, one of the largest animals in the country, is tricked by one of the smallest animals, a hummingbird.
ref: 2001, Greg Nickles, Philippines: The Culture, page 30:
text: The Malay people who arrived in the Philippines between 1500 B.C. and 500 B.C. introduced the carabao as a work animal. Today the carabao, also known as the water buffalo, is a very important animal in the Philippines. Carabaos are popular farm animals.
ref: 2005, Cindy Fazzi, How to Draw the Philippines's Sights and Symbols, page 24:
glosses: A domesticated subspecies of water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis carabanesis.
Derived terms: carabeef
Related terms: carabao English
Bubalus bubalis carabanesis
catamenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæ.təˈmiː.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /kæ.təˈmi.nɪ.ə/
Etymology: From New Latin catamenia, from Ancient Greek καταμήνια (katamḗnia), the neuter plural of καταμήνιος (katamḗnios, “monthly”), from κατά (katá) + μήν (mḗn, “month”). First attested in 1750.
Senses: examples: text: On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
ref: 1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: word: Aunt Flo
word: Aunt Frieda
word: Aunt Rose
word: blob
word: blood sports
word: Bloody Mary
word: blowjob week
word: breaching the beaver dam
word: catamenia
word: caught short
word: Charlie
word: closed for maintenance
word: come crook
word: country cousin
word: crimson tide
word: crimson wave
word: curse
word: curse of Eve
word: curse of Tom
word: dropping clots
word: entertaining the general
word: fallen to the Communists
word: fall off the roof
word: flowers
word: flashing the red flag
word: flying baker
word: flying the red flag
word: friend
word: grandma George
word: granny
word: granny grunts
word: have the painters in
word: have one's moons
word: have the rag on
word: high tide
word: holy week
word: illness
word: in the red tent
word: Jennie
word: lady problems
word: lady time
word: little sister
word: menstruation
word: menstrual period
word: menstruation period
word: Monica
word: monthlies
word: monthly bill
word: monthly friend
word: monthly period
word: monthly visitor
word: mooncup time
word: moontime
word: mother nature
word: off games
word: old faithful
word: on
word: on a streak
word: OTB
word: on the blob
word: on the cloth
word: on the rag
word: out of order
word: paddling in scarlet waters
word: period
word: poorliness
word: ragging
word: red-headed aunt
word: red-letter day
word: red sails in the sunset
word: riding the cotton pony
word: riding the red river
word: Rita Red Pants
word: shark week
word: so
word: so-so
word: squiffy
word: surfing the crimson tide
word: surfing the crimson wave
word: surrendering to the red army
word: the captain is home
word: the cardinal is home
word: the flag is out
word: the flag is up
word: the Reds are playing at home
word: time for an oil change
word: time of the month
word: Tom
word: Tommy
word: up on blocks
word: woman's week
glosses: The female menstrual discharge.
Derived terms: catamenial
dishy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪʃ.i/
rhymes: -ɪʃi
Forms: form: dishier
form: dishiest
Etymology: From dish (“attractive person”) + -y (forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: Let me set the scene. You spy a dishy stranger across a bar. The attraction is instant. The urges are strong. What do you do?
ref: 2025 September 24, “Your cubicle or mine? Why gen Zs are having sex in public places”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Attractive; good-looking; sexy.
Derived terms: dishily
dishiness
dishy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪʃ.i/
rhymes: -ɪʃi
Forms: form: dishier
form: dishiest
Etymology: From dish (“to gossip”) + -y (forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: "[…] that transformed her into a shimmering golden redhead." That color became Lucy's trademark hair color for the rest of her career. Guilaroff wrote a dishy memoir in 1996, Crowning Glory […]
ref: 2004, Michael Karol, Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 180:
text: A reference book that also takes a playful glimpse into the personal lives of some fascinating artists and personalities Kramer peppers this superior tome with the kind of dishy details that will keep readers turning the page.
ref: 2006, Gary M. Kramer, Independent Queer Cinema: Reviews and Interviews, Psychology Press, →ISBN:
text: Without some dishy details, Vern might not pass my name up the ladder. I jumped up, restless.
ref: 2013, Elsa Watson, The Love Dog, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 153:
text: With its sympathetic narrator, suspenseful plot pivots, snappy pace, and dishy details about Hollywood's inner workings, Liftin's compelling, highly readable novel is likely to engage even readers who remain blissfully unaware of the tabloid ...
ref: 2016, Hilary Liftin, Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper, Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: Tending to relay information and gossip.
lampoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmˈpuːn/
Forms: form: lampoons
Etymology: From French lampon (“satire, mockery, ridicule”), built on French lampons (“let us drink — a popular refrain for scurrilous songs”), from lamper (“to quaff, to swig”).
: Littré quotes a satirical song mocking King Jacques II Stuart, fleeing Dublin, in 1691, and returning to France under the escort of Lauzun:
:: Prenez soin de ma couronne, J'aurai soin de ma personne ;
("Take care of my crown, I will take care of my person")
Lampons ! lampons !
Senses: examples: text: To say truth, Ma'am, 'tis very vulgar to Print and as my little Productions are mostly Satires and Lampoons I find they circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the Friends of the Parties—
ref: 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i:
text: "Dangerous things, sir—dangerous things!" exclaimed Mr. Lintot, drawing a deep breath of air from the open window: "do you know, sir, Curl published a lampoon on Lord Hervey the other day, who said that he would have horsewhipped him if he could have found his way into the city...
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 22:
glosses: A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.
Derived terms: lampoonery
lampoonish
lampoonist
lampoonry
lampoon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /læmˈpuːn/
Forms: form: lampoons
form: lampooning
form: lampooned
form: lampooned
Etymology: From French lampon (“satire, mockery, ridicule”), built on French lampons (“let us drink — a popular refrain for scurrilous songs”), from lamper (“to quaff, to swig”).
: Littré quotes a satirical song mocking King Jacques II Stuart, fleeing Dublin, in 1691, and returning to France under the escort of Lauzun:
:: Prenez soin de ma couronne, J'aurai soin de ma personne ;
("Take care of my crown, I will take care of my person")
Lampons ! lampons !
Senses: examples: text: Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”
ref: 2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN:
glosses: To satirize or poke fun at.
Synonyms: defame
Derived terms: lampoonable
lampooner
unlampooned
dishier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dishy: more dishy
dishiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dishy: most dishy
galla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gallu (“Mesopotamian demon”).
Related terms: gala
sexual harassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛkʃuəl ˈhæɹəsmənt/
ipa: /ˌsɛkʃuəl həˈɹæsmənt/
Senses: examples: text: All new hires at this job are trained on how to prevent and how to respond to sexual harassment.
text: “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.
ref: 2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN:
glosses: Harassment in the form of unwelcome sexual advances or remarks.
Related terms: word: sexually harass
catamount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəmaʊnt/
ipa: /ˈkætəˌmaʊnt/
ipa: [-ɾə-]
Forms: form: catamounts
form: catty-mount
Etymology: Clipping of catamountain (“leopard, panther; ocelot; man living in the mountains”), from Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English catte of the mountayne, cate of þe mounttaynne (“leopard, panther”).
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Charley's voice was very soft and there was a weary note in it. "Great snarlin' catamounts, but I'm tired."
ref: 1920, Peter B[ernhard] Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart, Toronto, Ont.: The Copp Clark Co., →OCLC, pages 144–145:
text: 'He would have rid that horse, too,' pa says, 'if I hadn't a stopped him. A durn spotted critter wilder than a catty-mount. A deliberate flouting of her and me.'
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, “Darl”, in As I Lay Dying (Penguin Modern Classics), Harmondsworth, Middlesex [London]: Penguin Books in association with Chatto & Windus, published 1980, →ISBN, page 81:
glosses: A wild animal of the family Felidae, especially the cougar, mountain lion or puma (Puma concolor).
glosses: Synonym of catamountain (“a leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus)”).
synonyms: word: catamountain
extra: (“a leopard, a panther (Panthera pardus)”)
Related terms: word: catawampus
polyrhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyrhythms
form: poly-rhythm
Etymology: From poly- + rhythm.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythm or set of rhythms performed as part of a piece of music with multiple rhythmic elements played simultaneously, typically equally spaced in time and coprime.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Music containing such a rhythm.
Derived terms: polyrhythmic