cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Pick's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Arnold Pick, psychiatry professor who first discovered and described the disease in 1892.
Senses: examples: text: Pick’s disease was like dementia for middle-aged people. Toward the end she couldn’t even speak or seem to understand anything anyone said to her.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 127:
glosses: A rare neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive destruction of nerve cells in the brain. Symptoms include aphasia and dementia.
Riggs' disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after American dentist John W. Riggs (1811–1885).
Senses: glosses: pyorrhea of a tooth socket; a purulent inflammation of the dental periosteum, producing the progressive necrosis of the alveoli and looseness of the teeth
nodding disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A poorly understood disease of Africa, characterized by stunted growth and a nodding seizure when eating or feeling cold.
Synonyms: nodding syndrome
nodding syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nodding disease.
synonyms: word: nodding disease
white muscle disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Nutritional muscular dystrophy
Scheuermann's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Holger Werfel Scheuermann, Danish surgeon.
Senses: glosses: A form of juvenile osteochondrosis of the spine.
wikipedia: Holger Werfel Scheuermann
wobbler disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A condition of the cervical vertebrae that causes an unsteady, wobbling gait and weakness in dogs and horses.
Legg-Calvé-Perthes syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after three doctors who independently studied it: Arthur Legg (1874–1939), Jacques Calvé (1875–1954), and Georg Perthes (1869–1927).
Senses: glosses: A childhood hip disorder initiated by a disruption of blood flow to the ball of the femur, which subsequently stops growing.
Weil's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First described by Adolf Weil in 1886.
Senses: glosses: leptospirosis
Fort Bragg fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: In reference to an outbreak at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty), North Carolina in 1942.
Senses: glosses: leptospirosis
wikipedia: Fort Liberty
black jaundice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: leptospirosis
Takahara's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Described by Shigeo Takahara and others in a 1960 paper.
Senses: glosses: acatalasaemia
Schamberg disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Jay Frank Schamberg, who described it in 1901.
Senses: glosses: A chronic discoloration of the skin, usually affecting the legs, most common in males.
Pendred syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Vaughan Pendred (1869–1946), English doctor who first described the condition in 1896.
Senses: glosses: A genetic disorder leading to congenital bilateral sensorineural hearing loss and goitre with occasional hypothyroidism.
Synonyms: Pendred disease
Pendred disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Pendred syndrome
sixth disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: exanthema subitum
Panner disease
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after the Danish radiologist Hans Jessen Panner.
Senses: glosses: osteochondrosis of the capitellum of the elbow, causing pain and stiffness
POEMS syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Bardwick et al in 1980 as an acronym of some of the main features (though this list is neither exhaustive nor always accurate): polyneuropathy, organomegaly, endocrinopathy or edema, M-protein (an abnormal immunoglobulin), and skin abnormalities.
Senses: glosses: A rare medical syndrome, the combination of a plasma-cell proliferative disorder (typically myeloma), polyneuropathy, and effects on many other organ systems.
Synonyms: Crow-Fukase syndrome
PEP syndrome
Takatsuki disease
endocrinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocrinoses
Etymology: From endocrine + -osis.
Senses: glosses: disease of the endocrine system
endocrinopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocrinopathies
Etymology: From endocrine + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: endocrinism
glosses: Any disease of the endocrine system.
Related terms: endocrinopathic
endocrinopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocrinopathy
pathophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathophysiologists
Senses: glosses: One who works in the field of pathophysiology.
pathoanatomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathoanatomists
Etymology: From patho- + anatomist.
Senses: glosses: One who works in the field of pathoanatomy.
pathophysiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathophysiologist
pathoanatomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathoanatomist
pathoanatomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the noun pathoanatomy + the adjective suffix -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to pathoanatomy.
pathoanatomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pathoanatomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of pathoanatomy.
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the surnames of two German physicians who studied it.
Senses: glosses: A rare leukodystrophy in which coordination, motor abilities, and intellectual function are delayed to variable extents.
Paget-Schroetter disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after James Paget and Leopold von Schrötter.
Senses: glosses: A form of deep vein thrombosis in the upper extremities.
Bernhardt-Roth syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: numbness or pain in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve that extends from the thigh to the spinal column.
Filatov's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Russian pediatrician Nil Filatov.
Senses: glosses: infectious mononucleosis
Related terms: Filatov-Dukes disease
Pfeiffer's disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the German balneologist and pediatrician Emil Pfeiffer, who described the disease.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Mononucleosis.
wikipedia: Emil Pfeiffer
Panama disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A disease of the roots of banana plants, caused by the fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum.
Related terms: english: TR1
translation: TR1
alt: the pathogen of the Gros Michel banana
word: tropical race 1
english: TR4
translation: TR4
alt: the pathogen of the Cavendish banana
word: tropical race 4
Pogosta disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Derived from Russian погост (pogost). Compare pogost.
Senses: glosses: A viral disease caused by Sindbis virus, encountered mainly in eastern Finland.
Synonyms: Karelian fever
Ockelbo disease
pagast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pagasts
Senses: glosses: A small rural district in Latvia.
pagasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pagast
biostitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biostitutes
Etymology: Blend of biology + prostitute
Senses: glosses: A biologist who lies for money.
biostitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biostitute
goblinry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goblinries
Etymology: From goblin + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: tales of goblinry
text: 1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276,
But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?
text: These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars....
ref: 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, “La Guiablesse”, in Two Years in the French West Indies, New York: Harper, page 185:
text: There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.
ref: 1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb”, in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, published 1988, page 254:
glosses: The doings or character of goblins.
goblinries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goblinry
GVHD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: examples: text: Post-BMT, her body would show signs of GVHD, which is graft-versus-host disease; the new marrow tries to reject the body it occupies. Her mouth would be assaulted by radiation before the transplant.
ref: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of graft-versus-host disease.
Internet of Things
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Internet of Things
form: internet of things
form: Internet of things
Senses: examples: text: The Internet of Things as an emerging global Internet-based information architecture facilitating the exchange of goods and services is gradually developing. While the technology of the Internet of Things is still being discussed […]
ref: 2010, Rolf H. Weber, Romana Weber, Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives, Springer, →ISBN:
text: Finally, I want to underscore that although it may be possible to image something like the “internet of things” without surveillance capitalism, it is impossible to image surveillance capitalism without something like the “internet of things.”
ref: 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 7, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
synonyms: IoT
Internet of Everything
glosses: An Internet-like structure connecting everyday physical objects equipped with RFID or similar tags.
Derived terms: IoTization
timeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From time + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is not so much movement in Time of which we are conscious as movement which is timeable.
ref: 2003, Arthur W. Osborn, Superphysical, page 107:
glosses: Capable of being timed.
planeswalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planeswalkers
Etymology: From planes + walker. Originated in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering.
Senses: examples: text: Like Rosalie, he acted as though he had no power. He believed the same was true for D'Las as it was for the planeswalker—he simply couldn't access the power on his own.
ref: 2011 April 26, Amber Wokaty, chapter 39, in Galaxy Killers (Living Planets; 1), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 187:
topics: fantasy
glosses: A wizard who can travel across planes of existence.
wikipedia: Magic: The Gathering
aconitums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aconitum
hagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hag
overtaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overtakers
Etymology: From overtake + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That is to say, a fast steamer overtaking a slow steamer or a sailing ship, shall not run her down; and if the overtaker does run into the overtaken, then the overtaker is responsible.
ref: 1872, Nautical Magazine:
glosses: One who overtakes.
overtakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overtaker
unmobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mobbed.
Senses: examples: text: Except for the Cappella Brancacci, the Oltrarno lacks the greatest-hits attractions so common across the river, leaving sidewalks pleasantly unmobbed – apart from the congested corridor between the Ponte Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti.
ref: 2010, Robert Landon, Lonely Planet Florence Encounter, page 122:
glosses: Not mobbed.
mobbism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mob + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Behaviour characteristic of a mob.
chuckstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuckstones
Etymology: From chuck + stone.
Senses: glosses: A chuck; a pebble.
chuckstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuckstone
chuckiestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuckiestones
Etymology: From chuckie + stone.
Senses: glosses: A chuck; a pebble.
chuckiestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuckiestone
diastomyelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: diastematomyelia
diastematomyelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diastomatomyelia
Senses: glosses: A congenital disorder in which a part of the spinal cord is split, usually at the level of the upper lumbar vertebra.
Synonyms: diastomyelia
diplomyelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From diplo- + myelo- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A true duplication of the spinal cord in which there are two dural sacs with two pairs of anterior and posterior nerve roots.
myeloschisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From myelo- + schisis.
Senses: glosses: A developmental anomaly characterized by a cleft spinal cord, owing to failure of the neural plate to form a complete neural tube, or rupture of the neural tube after closure.
unfeasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + feasted.
Senses: examples: text: Hungry as we were, we should have much preferred passing on unfeasted, for we are now suspicious of our host, and feel anxious when away from our horses.
ref: 1881, Anne Isabella N. Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, A pilgrimage to Nejd, page 144:
glosses: Not feasted; not regaled with food.
unregaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + regaled.
Senses: glosses: Not regaled.
regaleth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: regale + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of regale
dysraphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysraphisms
Etymology: From dys- + raphe + -ism.
Senses: glosses: malformation of a raphe
loaneth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: loan + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loan
bruiseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bruise + -less.
Senses: examples: text: What happened was that I was a boy once and bruiseless.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 15:
glosses: Without a bruise.
Derived terms: bruiselessness
misdirectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more misdirectedly
form: most misdirectedly
Etymology: From misdirected + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a misdirected manner; in the wrong direction.
misdirector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misdirectors
Etymology: From misdirect + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who misdirects.
misdirectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misdirector
yeasay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yeasays
form: yeasaying
form: yeasaid
form: yeasaid
Etymology: From yea + say.
Senses: glosses: To say yes to; to agree with, or approve.
Related terms: yeasayer
yeasaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yeasay
yeasays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yeasay
yeasaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yeasay
stem-winders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stem-winder
antebrachial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antebrachium + -al, ante- + brachial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: relating to the forearm
caniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin canis (“dog”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of, or relating to the Caniformia.
caniform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caniforms
Etymology: From Latin canis (“dog”) + -form.
Senses: examples: text: Modern carnivores appeared as well, diverging into the feliforms (cats, hyaenas, and mongooses) and caniforms (dogs, bears, raccoons, weasels, and seals).
ref: 1997, Peter D. Ward, The Call of Distant Mammoths: Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared, page 73:
text: It is representative of a group of early carnivores, the miacids, that were the ancestors of modern caniforms: the canids (that is, the dogs, coyotes, wolves, foxes, and jackals) and a large group made up of the bear, raccoon, and weasel families.
ref: 2011, John P. Rafferty, editor, The Cenozoic Era: Age of Mammals, page 93:
text: Some paleontologists argue that in fact they^([extinct nimravids]) are closer to caniforms, while others place them as a distant relative of the feliforms.
ref: 2013, Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, page 544:
glosses: Any carnivore of the suborder Caniformia, which are regarded as dog-like.
craniolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From cranio- + lateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to (or pointing towards) the side of the head
Derived terms: craniolaterally
craniolaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more craniolaterally
form: most craniolaterally
Etymology: From craniolateral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Towards the side of the head
crocodylian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crocodylians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crocodilian.
crocodylians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crocodylian
dichotomously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dichotomous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dichotomous manner
Derived terms: subdichotomously
dinosauriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dinosauriforms
Senses: glosses: Any reptile of the extinct clade Dinosauriformes
dinosauriforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinosauriform
eigenshape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenshapes
Etymology: From eigen- + shape.
Senses: glosses: A standard outline that is used in the morphometric analysis of microfossils
megaherbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaherbivores
Etymology: From mega- + herbivore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any very large herbivore, typically one weighing more than 1000 kg
Related terms: megaherbivorous
melanosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From melanosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: relating to, or containing melanosomes
Derived terms: intramelanosomal
macromelanosomal
premelanosomal
dry marker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry markers
Senses: glosses: A coloured pencil intended for use as a marker pen.
mesoamerican
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mesoamerican.
colored pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colored pencils
form: coloured pencil
form: colouring pencil
form: colour pencil
form: color pencil
form: coloring pencil
Senses: glosses: A pencil with a wax-like colored core.
Synonyms: word: crayon
word: pencil crayon
morphospace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morphospaces
Etymology: From morpho- + space.
Senses: examples: text: Spirals, soap films within wire forms compared to planktonic shapes, and the morpho-space shared by the skulls of chimp, baboon and human
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 139:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A graphical representation of all the morphologies an organism could or does have, each point of which represents an individual shape.
Derived terms: ecomorphospace
Related terms: ecospace
multituberculates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multituberculate
neoceratopsian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoceratopsians
Etymology: Neoceratopsia + -ian
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the clade Neoceratopsia.
neoceratopsians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neoceratopsian
nonpalatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + palatability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being nonpalatable
parafoveal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + foveal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Surrounding the perifovea
Derived terms: parafoveally
perifovea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perifoveas
Etymology: From peri- + fovea.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A band immediately surrounding a fovea
unadzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + adzed.
Senses: glosses: Not adzed.
dry-erase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dry erase
Senses: glosses: Describing a whiteboard that can be wiped clean without the use of solvents, or a marker whose ink can be wiped clean without solvents.
pronators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronator
dry erase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dry-erase.
pterorhodin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A red pigment in the melanophores of treefrogs
quadrupedality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quadrupedal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being quadrupedal
refixations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refixation
refixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refixations
Etymology: From re- + fixation.
Senses: glosses: The fixing in place of something that had previously been removed
Derived terms: refixational
semilandmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semilandmarks
Etymology: From semi- + landmark.
Senses: glosses: Any of a number of points on a morphometric curve
semilandmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semilandmark
vision impaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: visually impaired
snakeline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snakelines
Etymology: From snake + line.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small line wrapped around two ropes in order to keep them together.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The elongated, sinuous body-shape associated with snakes.
stegosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stegosaurians
Etymology: Stegosauria + -an
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the suborder Stegosauria
Related terms: stegosaurine
thyreophoran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyreophorans
Etymology: From Thyreophora + -an.
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the clade Thyreophora.
thyreophorans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyreophoran
transportations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transportation
treefrogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treefrog
copeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: cope + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cope
Cretans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cretan
quailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quailingly
form: most quailingly
Etymology: From quailing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: fearfully; timidly
anticonventional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonventional
form: most anticonventional
Etymology: From anti- + conventional.
Senses: glosses: Rejecting conventions; opposing what is conventional or mainstream.
unrabbitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrabbitlike
form: most unrabbitlike
Etymology: From un- + rabbitlike.
Senses: glosses: Not rabbitlike.
unfeline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeline
form: most unfeline
Etymology: From un- + feline.
Senses: glosses: Not feline.
Synonyms: uncatlike
uncanine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncanine
form: most uncanine
Etymology: From un- + canine.
Senses: glosses: Not canine.
Synonyms: undoglike
buky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ (buky), from Proto-Slavic *buky, from Proto-West Germanic *bōku. Doublet of beech.
Senses: glosses: Name of the letter b in Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets.
Sham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shams
Etymology: It could be from Arabic شَام (šām, literally “Syria”), from which it spread also to Gujarat. Perhaps also an altered spelling of French Cham.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
profits warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profits warnings
Senses: examples: text: After all, if we think of the Vatican as a vast and hugely successful multinational corporation, then this interview would appear to be the equivalent of a profits warning.
ref: 2013 September 20, Martina Hyde, The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of profit warning.
at the very least
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: After all, if we think of the Vatican as a vast and hugely successful multinational corporation, then this interview would appear to be the equivalent of a profits warning. At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985.
ref: 2013 September 20, Martina Hyde, The Guardian:
text: Palace made it 3-1 on 81 minutes, Nketiah nipping in to finish nicely, then doing a no-celebration pose in front of the away fans. Nketiah grew up a couple of miles from the Den. It felt, at the very least, like a neighbourly overture, and in violent contrast to the opening act at the other end.
ref: 2025 January 3, Barney Ronay, “Crystal Palace through after Millwall keeper’s red for head-high tackle on Mateta”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: at the very most
glosses: at least; as an absolute minimum; emphatic form of at the least.
the Lord works in mysterious ways
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: examples: text: I was just saying to Lina here, ain't it something," she said. "You join a committee against mugging, annd the same night you get mugged! Well, the Lord works in mysterious ways, like my friend Fran used to say. Now Lina here, she could use a committee too, couldn't you honey?"
ref: 1980 December 27, Andrea Loewenstein, “Voices in the Night”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 12:
glosses: Alternative form of God works in mysterious ways.
dyadic fraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dyadic fractions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vulgar fraction whose denominator is a power of two, or a rational number representable as such a fraction.
goal keepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goal keeper
drop caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drop cap
digit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĭ'jĭt
ipa: /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪt/
rhymes: -ɪdʒɪt
Forms: form: digits
form: digiting
form: digited
form: digited
Etymology: From Middle English digit, from Latin digitus (“a fingerbreadth; a number”). Doublet of digitus and dedo.
Senses: glosses: To point at or point out with the finger.
spoon-drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoon-drifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spoondrift.
maxi boat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxi boats
Senses: glosses: a class of racing sailing yacht that pushes at the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule of regulated sail yacht racing, having a waterline length in excess of 70-feet.
Synonyms: word: maxi yacht
word: maxi
Hyponyms: IACC
Coordinate terms: supermaxi
Related terms: english: maximum
translation: maximum
word: maxi
maxi boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxi boat
maxi yacht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxi yachts
Senses: glosses: a maxi boat
Synonyms: word: maxi boat
word: maxi
Hyponyms: IACC
Derived terms: supermaxi
Related terms: english: maximum
translation: maximum
word: maxi
maxi yachts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxi yacht
AC90
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AC90s
Etymology: Blend of America's Cup + 90, because it measures approximately 90 feet on the waterline.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A class of monohull sailing racing yacht, a type of supermaxi.
Related terms: IACC
AC72
AC45
12-metre class
J-class
AC90s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AC90
OTTW
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of Ottawa.
Synonyms: sense: Ottawa
word: OTT
sense: Ottawa
word: Ott
sense: Ottawa
word: NCR
sense: Ottawa
word: N.C.R.
sense: Ottawa
word: N. C. R.
sense: Ottawa
word: YOW
TRTO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Abbreviation of Toronto.
Synonyms: sense: Toronto
word: TOR
sense: Toronto
word: Tor
sense: Toronto
word: YYZ
VAN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VANs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of value-added network.
VAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Van.
form: Van
form: VAN.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Vancouver.
Synonyms: word: YVR
Van.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: VAN
form: Van
form: VAN.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Vancouver.
Synonyms: word: YVR
dagger boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dagger board
centre-boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centre-board
conturb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conturbs
form: conturbing
form: conturbed
form: conturbed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin conturbo, conturbatus.
Senses: examples: text: When earth, with all its gilded charms, / No more conturbs with false alarms, […]
ref: 1828, Alexander Laing, Donean Tourist, page 453:
glosses: To disturb or perturb greatly.
harem pants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Baggy, long pants tapered at the ankle, with side flaps on the hip that button at the waist area, worn by both men and women.
Synonyms: harem trousers
harem trousers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: harem pants
noonmark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noonmarks
form: noon-mark
form: noon mark
Etymology: From noon + mark.
Senses: examples: text: ... according to the rule for computing a noonmark...
ref: 1902, W H Chaney, J Lawson Hall, The Astrologer's Vade Mecum, →OCLC:
text: She'd change the noonmark in the door so'st Mis' Beaver wouldn't start to git dinner till way past the hour, and she'd throw ashes in the butter.
ref: 1905, Emma Bell Miles, The Spirit of the Mountains, →ISBN:
text: ...the noonmark on the window ledge which may be seen today on some old houses still standing.
ref: 1969, Mary Earle Gould, When we were Young, →OCLC:
glosses: A mark made on a structure to align with the sun at noon for the purpose of timekeeping.
examples: text: By that big clock the sun itself is set,
He gets to noonmark by it even yet
ref: 1867, Record of the Golden Wedding of Rev. George Duffield, D.D. and Isabella Graham Bethune Duffield, →OCLC:
text: During the noonmark break from the council meeting, Linden decided to wander out to the garden...
ref: 1999, Joanne Bertin, The Last Dragonlord, →ISBN:
glosses: The time of noon.
subrank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subranks
Etymology: From sub- + rank.
Senses: glosses: A secondary or subsidiary rank.
subranks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subrank
trajector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trajectors
Senses: glosses: An instrument once used to track bullets in a body, through the entrance wound
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A subject or object that moves (through space or time)
raw_tags: in a verbal phrase
turdis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turdises
Etymology: Blend of turd + TARDIS
Senses: glosses: A place to defecate, shaped like a police box; an outhouse; a portable toilet.
Synonyms: bathroom
uls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ul
uls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ul
velifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velifers
Senses: glosses: Any of two species of fish that make up the family Veliferidae: a spinyfin velifer (Metavelifer multiradiatus) and a sailfin velifer (Vellifer hypselopterus)
assemblage point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assemblage points
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any vortex of an energy field (including but not limited to any given organism).
Derived terms: alt: GLAP
word: great light assemblage point
word: stationary assemblage point
word: static assemblage point
word: moving assemblage point
transmisogyny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trans-misogyny
Etymology: From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in 2006 and popularised in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).
Senses: examples: text: The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'
ref: 2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, Edinburgh University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 146:
text: I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.
ref: 2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199:
text: As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).
ref: 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:
text: The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]
ref: 2017, Elizabeth Whalley, Colleen Hackett, “Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms”, in Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, volume 20, number 4, pages 456–473:
text: Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …
ref: 2020, G. L. E. Easterbrook-Smith, “'Not on the Street Where We Live': walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation”, in Feminist Media Studies:
coordinate_terms: transmisandry
glosses: Hatred of or contempt for trans women.
wikipedia: Sexism
Whipping Girl
oppositional sexism
Derived terms: transmisogynoir
transmisogyny-affected
transmisogyny-exempt
auto-brewery syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: ABS
gut fermentation syndrome
coordinate_terms: bladder fermentation syndrome
glosses: A condition in which the contents of the sufferer’s stomach ferment, creating alcohol.
whistle stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of whistle-stop.
Tatum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tatham, from Old English Tāta, a personal name of unknown meaning + hām.
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
examples: text: By the time a letter from Marcy finally came, explaining that the entire time she had been living on the South Side in a Negro neighborhood near the university, and that she had a son whom she'd named Tatum Kubiac—"Tatum" after a famous jazz pianist—it seemed to make little difference.
ref: c. 1988 Stuart Dybek, Chopin in Winter, The Graywolf Short Stories, Vol.45, Graywolf Press (1988), page 82
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
examples: text: The youngest ever Oscar-winner is an actress called Tatum O'Neal, who was ten when she won Best Supporting Act for the film Paper Moon (1973).
ref: 2009, Jan Payne, The World's Best Book, Running Press, →ISBN, page 114:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A village in Cameroon.
glosses: A town in New Mexico.
glosses: A town in South Carolina.
glosses: A city in Panola County and Rusk County, Texas, named after settlers Albert and Mary Tatum.
Related terms: Tate
Voorhees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɹhiz/
Forms: form: Voorheeses
form: Voorheis
form: Voorhies
form: Voorhes
form: Voorhis
form: Vorhies
Etymology: Anglicization of Dutch (van) voor Hees (“(from) before Hees”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
glosses: A placename
A census-designated place in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A placename
A township in Camden County, New Jersey.
sarkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarki
capanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capangas
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese capanga.
Senses: examples: text: She saw six armed riders: she could tell, by the way they were dressed and by the clearly visible brand of the same hacienda on the flanks of all their horses, that they were capangas and not cangaceiros or Rural Police.
ref: 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 208:
text: He had never actually killed a man, though the peasants spoke of at least ten sent to their graves by Joazinho, a reputation the capanga did nothing to discourage.
ref: 1986, Errol Lincoln Uys, Brazil, page 730:
text: Feared by the workers, the capangas intimidate laborers and driver off small farmers with bulldozers.
ref: 2010, Nikolas Kozloff, No Rain in the Amazon, page 163:
glosses: A thug or bodyguard in Brazil.
Old Firm
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Old Firm
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Collectively, the two Scottish football teams Rangers and Celtic, both based in Glasgow, which are the most successful teams in Scotland. They have a fierce and long-standing rivalry.
Le Classique
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: a football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille, known for its fierce rivalry
numeraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of numerary
sexoholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexoholics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sexaholic.
hugaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hugaholics
Etymology: From hug + -aholic.
Senses: examples: text: ENCHANTING, RAINBOW-CHEERING, SWF, 37, raspberry-addicted, rural, hugaholic seeks position as soulmate, wife, stay-at-home Munchkin-rearer.
ref: 1989 March, Vegetarian Times, number 139, page 87:
text: You might even call me a "hugaholic. " I need my daily hugs.
ref: 1993, Jimmie Shreve, Square Peg in a Round Hole: Coping with Learning Differences at Home, in School and at Work, Square Peg Enterprises, →ISBN, page 32:
text: As for hugging, I'm a shameless hugaholic. Thankfully, I'm acquainted with a large number of other hugaholics, male and female.
ref: 2001, Fritz Klein, Tom Schwartz, editors, Bisexual and Gay Husbands: Their Stories, Their Words, Harrington Park Press, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: One who loves giving or receiving hugs.
hugaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hugaholic
gallopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gallopingly
form: most gallopingly
Etymology: From galloping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Moving at a gallop.
Chakma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːkmə/
Forms: form: Chakmas
form: Chakma
form: Changma
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali চাকমা (cakma), from Chakma 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟 (cakma), 𑄌𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦 (caṅmha), ultimately from Sanskrit शक्तिमान (śaktimāna, literally “powerful”), composed of शक्ति (śakti, “power”) + -मान (-māna).
Senses: glosses: A member of a Tibeto-Burman people of Bangladesh and Northeast India.
Chakma
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɑːkmə/
Forms: form: Changma
Etymology: Borrowed from Bengali চাকমা (cakma), from Chakma 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟 (cakma), 𑄌𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦 (caṅmha), ultimately from Sanskrit शक्तिमान (śaktimāna, literally “powerful”), composed of शक्ति (śakti, “power”) + -मान (-māna).
Senses: glosses: The Bengali-Assamese language and abugida of the Chakmas. In the early medieval period, they underwent a language shift from their original Jingpho-Luish tongue (of the Tibeto-Burman family).
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Chakma terms
ccp ⁠
Chakmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chakma
nonsticking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sticking.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to sticking; not adhesive.
subjecteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: subject + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subject
unsubjected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + subjected.
Senses: glosses: Not subjected.
unsubmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + submitted.
Senses: glosses: Not submitted.
unsubmitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + submitted.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsubmit
mediopassives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediopassive
Wellerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wellerian
form: most Wellerian
Etymology: From Weller + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the character Sam Weller in Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers (1836), an astute cockney given to uttering fatuous proverbs (Wellerisms).
stridors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stridor
laryngomalacia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From laryngo- + malacia.
Senses: glosses: A condition in which the soft, immature cartilage of the upper larynx collapses inward during inhalation, causing airway obstruction.
landboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A sport in which a rider on a board is pulled over water by a kite.
Plack
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
capocollo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capocollos
form: capocolli
Senses: glosses: A type of cured pork sausage
progging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prog
progged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prog
anticontact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + contact.
Senses: examples: text: The anticontact rule requires an attorney to avoid communicating with an opposing party[…]
ref: 1988, William P. Statsky, Essentials of Paralegalism, page 220:
glosses: Opposing or forbidding contact.
examples: text: Use anticontact gloves when you are working on metal equipment or adjusting instruments.
ref: 1972, Department of the Army Pamphlet, page 18:
glosses: Preventing skin sticking to other surfaces in a cold environment.
Priorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Priorian
form: most Priorian
Etymology: From Prior + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Arthur Prior (1914–1969), logician and philosopher who founded tense logic.
heatings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhiːtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of heating
devoteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: devote + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devote
consecrateth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: consecrate + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of consecrate
unbrookably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbrookably
form: most unbrookably
Etymology: From unbrookable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Life is reduced to the encompassing and perfectly adequate nourishing Mother and the unbrookably demanding Self.
ref: 1963, Julian N. Hartt, The Lost Image of Man, Louisiana State University Press, page 122:
text: If the main problem Weimar had faced was an unbrookably divergent national community that, given the additional burdens of reparations and depression, could not be politically represented with coherence, then the Federal Republic, by virtue above all of division and expropriations in the East, became a society sufficiently homogeneous for stability to be realized.
ref: 1989, German Politics and Society, numbers 16-18, page 7:
text: And while we get this real sense of the kind of respect that is not earned but runs unbrookably deep, the simple fact that “he is my father”; and these sneaking ideas that the dislocation between father and son; there is also the feeling that Thomas is slightly trepidatious of getting deep, perhaps wary of the power of representation he wields here over the old patriarch.
ref: 2012 August 3, Daniel B. Yates, “Mark Thomas: Bravo Figaro! at Traverse Theatre”, in Exeunt:
glosses: In an unbrookable manner.
2-methylpropane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 2-methylpropanes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isobutane
2-methylpropanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 2-methylpropane
comptrolled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comptrol
unconned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to study, learn”).
Senses: examples: text: I have known school-boys, who were so deeply impressed with the horrors of Monday morning, and the dread of what was to ensue from unconned lessons, and questions which they could neither answer nor understand[…]
ref: 1832, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 1, page 624:
glosses: Not conned; not studied or learned.
unconned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conned, past participle of con (“to deceive”).
Senses: examples: text: […] circumstances arrayed against him and the citizenry he does his best to keep unconned, are awesomely beyond control. Fraud is as old as the world — and to beleaguered Los Angeles it only seems as if the crime is a local monopoly.
ref: 1966, Walter Wagner, The Golden Fleecers, page 6:
text: For many people of low status, to be "smart" means to outsmart, outfox, outwit, dupe, "put on" or "con" others — and to remain "unconned" oneself!
ref: 1970, Helen MacGill Hughes, Delinquents and Criminals: Their Social World, page 65:
glosses: Not defrauded or tricked.