cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wan't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Forms: form: wa'n't
Senses: examples: text: This lass, Nelly Long, she was dressish and dapper,
And, though our Dick was a good looked lad,
She snubb'd him, scop'd him, for she was a snapper,
And told him quite plumpish—she wan't to be had: […]
ref: 1829, Melodist, and Mirthful Olio:
qualifier: otherwise archaic
glosses: Wasn't.
wan't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Etymology: Misspelt by confusion with words formed with the enclitic n't.
Senses: examples: 2007: “dldege”, Drupal: Can a .theme get the $node it's on?, “Not sure where you are”, the 30ᵗʰ day of January at 7:41pm
Not sure where you are wan'ting access to the node.
2009: “Gregg B”, rec.games.pinball (Google group): Tech, Pinball pool, the 7ᵗʰ day of May at 3:13pm
Not sure if this applies to the factory CPU, but if you're using a Pascal board, I'm pretty sure it wan'ts to see the coils fire as part of the POST.
2009: “Edvard Pitka”, nhusers (Google group): How to map Property I don't want setter for., the 8ᵗʰ day of May at 2:45pm
You either have persistable attribute in your entity or you don't. […] If you don't wan't to expose it to the outside world you make it private.
glosses: Misspelling of want.
wan't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
enpr: wōnt
ipa: /wəʊnt/
rhymes: -əʊnt
enpr: wŏnt
ipa: /wɒnt/
rhymes: -ɒnt
Etymology: Misspelt possibly by pronunciatory disanalogy with wonder–wander — whose first syllables are pronounced, respectively, wŭn and wŏn — the latter being closer to the pronunciation of won't: wōnt.
Senses: examples: 2009: “Misiosława I Kwiecień”, SU Paris 2009 (Google group): Presentation !, the 23ʳᵈ day of May at 4:58pm
If i would be locked for the night in the 3rd floor of Eiffel Tower, it wan't be because i was late but because it was a nice plan for the night and I am not alone so I would have a lot of fun :)
glosses: Misspelling of won't.
bit-map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bit-maps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bitmap.
paralyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paralysers
form: paralyzer
Etymology: From paralyse + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which paralyses.
fermière
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French (à la) fermière, literally, in the manner of a farmer's wife.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Prepared in a simple rustic style.
Old Italian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Old + Italian, on the pattern of Old English
Senses: examples: text: The theory that there was a spontaneous development of an obscure vowel in final position on certain occasions in Old Italian has gained general currency and has been carried on in the works of the main authorities.
ref: 1938, George Melville Bolling, Bernard Bloch, Language, volume 14, Linguistic Society of America, page 224:
text: [… T]his configuration, in which the infinitive clause is a prepositional complement of a noun, could not be found in the documentary evidence of (Tuscan) Old Italian. Another diverging property in this example is the preverbal subject after prepositions, no longer common in Old Italian at the end of the fifteenth century […]
[… T]he examples show the use of nonauxiliary verbs. Though similar to Old Italian, this is another difference from contemporary Italian.
ref: 2000, Guido Mensching, Infinitive Constructions with Specified Subjects: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages, pages 30 and 31 (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax; →ISBN, 9780195133035)
glosses: The continuum of languages derived from Vulgar Latin spoken in the Italian peninsula between circa 960 and the establishment of the Accademia della Crusca in 1582.
Related terms: english: in Italian
translation: in Italian
word: Storia della lingua italiana
cleanup hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleanup hitters
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: the fourth batter in the batting order, usually a power hitter
cleanup hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleanup hitter
power hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: power hitters
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a batter with a high slugging percentage
power hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of power hitter
VORP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Acronym of value over replacement player.
value over replacement player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A statistical measure which evaluates the relative performance of a batter or pitcher compared to a hypothetical replacement player of average fielding skill and below average hitting or pitching.
diacriticked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əˈkɹɪtɪkt/
Etymology: From diacritic + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Various symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet, or from national schools of transcription, have been replaced by diacriticked Latin letters.
ref: 1999, Richard Laurent, Past participles from Latin to Romance, page 469:
text: For more examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.
glosses: Written with diacritics.
lefthand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of left-hand.
-k-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of -kin-.
Related terms: -i-
-o-
Tauber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Taubers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Tauber, an occupational surname for a pigeon breeder, from Taube (“pigeon”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Tauber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Tauber.
Senses: glosses: A left tributary of the Main in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, Germany.
San Bernardo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A number of places, including:
A city and commune, the capital of Maipo province, Santiago metropolitan region, Chile.
glosses: A number of places, including:
A former department of Chile.
hyperforeignism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperforeignisms
Etymology: 1982, hyperforeign + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: When he wrote that he was going to “Hämbürg”, this was considered hyperforeignism because the German form is “Hamburg”.
text: For example, there is an awareness based on French that /dʒ/ is an English-type consonant, for which /ʒ/ is the ‘foreign’ equivalent. But when this leads to raj, Taj Mahal, mah-jongg, or adagio with /ʒ/ instead of /dʒ/ (although the languages of origin have affricates in these words), we have what might well be called a hyperforeignism. [boldfaced in source]
ref: 1982, John C. Wells, Accents of English 1: An Introduction, page 108:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of a sound or form that is perceived as foreign in a context where a native sound or form would be more correct based on the original language of a given loanword.
examples: text: When she talked about the beautiful “freschi”, this was considered hyperforeignism because in English one says “frescoes”.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The misapplication of foreign pronunciation or usage more broadly; approximation that is misapprehensive or pedantic; use of a foreign form that is not in common use.
Synonyms: exoticism
Related terms: foreignize
hyperdialectalism
hyperforeign
hyper-foreign
hyperforeignization
hyper-foreignization
naturalize
naturalization
cabres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabre
denormalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From denormalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of denormalizing.
denormalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denormalizes
form: denormalizing
form: denormalized
form: denormalized
Etymology: From de- + normalize.
Senses: examples: text: Some developers regularly denormalize portions of the database in an attempt to improve performance.
ref: 2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 516:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
examples: text: One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.
ref: 2018, Lee Quinby, Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture, page 139:
glosses: To make no longer normal; to treat or regard as different or unusual.
Derived terms: denormalization
denormalizer
denormalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denormalize
denormalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denormalize
denormalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denormalize
denormalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Denormal.
raw_tags: of a number
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Containing redundant data to improve performance.
raw_tags: of a schema
socialist realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Derided, lampooned and long since consigned to the dustbin of aesthetic history, the art of Soviet Socialist Realism has not enjoyed a happy afterlife following the collapse of communism.
ref: 2009 October 24, Vanessa Thorpe, “New exhibition in Berlin brings forgotten Soviet art back to reality”, in The Observer:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A Stalinist idealization of the dictatorship of the proletariat applied to art that used realistic techniques to show the struggle for socialism in a positive and optimistic manner.
wikipedia: Vera Mukhina
Worker and Kolkhoz Woman
Related terms: capitalist realism
social realism
Caucasian Iberia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Caucasian (in order to distinguish it from the region south of Pyrenees of the same name) + Ancient Greek Ἰβηρία (Ibēría).
Senses: glosses: Iberia.
Iveria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Iberia.
Kolkhis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Colchis.
saury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔː.ɹi/
Forms: form: sauries
form: saury
Etymology: From Latin saurus, from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
Senses: glosses: A marine epipelagic fish of the family Scomberesocidae, with beaklike jaws and a row of small finlets behind the dorsal and anal fins.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Scomberesox simulans
word: Atlantic saury
taxonomic: Saurida nebulosa
word: blotched saury
taxonomic: Saurida nebulosa
word: clouded saury
taxonomic: Saurida tumbil
word: common saury
taxonomic: Scomberesox simulans
word: dwarf saury
taxonomic: Saurida filamentosa
word: filamentous saury
taxonomic: Saurida gracilis
word: gracile saury
taxonomic: Saurida undosquamis
word: grey saury
taxonomic: Saurida undosquamis
word: large-scaled saury
taxonomic: Saurida longimanus
word: longfin saury
taxonomic: Saurida flamma
word: orangemouth saury
alt: Cololabis saira. Scomberesox scombroides
word: Pacific saury
taxonomic: Synodus myops
word: painted saury
taxonomic: Saurida micropectoralis
word: shortfin saury
taxonomic: Saurida isarankurai
word: shortjaw saury
taxonomic: Saurida tumbil
word: silver saury
taxonomic: Saurida elongata
word: slender saury
taxonomic: Scomberesox scombroides
word: South Pacific saury
alt: Suarida filamentosa
word: threadfin saury
taxonomic: Saurida wanieso
word: Wanieso saury
sauries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saury
telestich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telestichs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “end”) + στίχος (stíkhos, “line”). See stich.
Senses: glosses: An acrostic whose message is spelled out in the final letters of each line.
telestichs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telestich
autoresponder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoresponders
Etymology: From auto- + responder.
Senses: examples: text: Use your email autoresponder and outgoing voicemail message to set expectations about your work hours and communication response times
ref: 2024 January 31, Jessica DuLong, “Unsubscribe from everything to start controlling the tech in your life, new book says”, in CNN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program that automatically sends a certain message or messages in response to incoming e-mail.
Related terms: auto-reply
autorespond
autoresponders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoresponder
water bus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water buses
Senses: hypernyms: bus#Noun
<
vehicle#Noun
<
conveyance#Noun
coordinate_terms: airbus#Noun
motorbus#Noun
;
water taxi#Noun
;
ferryboat#Noun
ferry#Noun
glosses: A boat that operates like a bus, as a means of public transport.
waterbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterbuses
Etymology: From water + bus.
Senses: examples: text: In 1959, British Waterways started a waterbus service to London Zoo, in Regent's Park, and in the first season 75,000 passengers made it a success.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 44:
glosses: Alternative spelling of water bus.
waterbuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterbus
aldermaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldermanesses
Etymology: From alderman + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female alderman; an alderwoman.
glosses: The wife of an alderman.
aldermanesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldermaness
clever arse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clever arses
Senses: examples: text: No, don't be a clever arse. Did you or did you not eat all the ice cream?
glosses: A person who annoyingly tries too hard to impress with their cleverness; a clever dick.
astoundedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astounded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being astounded; astonishment.
flippest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flip: most flip
aegilopses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aegilops
unplagiarized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplagiarized
form: most unplagiarized
Etymology: From un- + plagiarized.
Senses: glosses: Not plagiarized.
East Bird's Head
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family whose members are spoken on the Bird's Head peninsula in West Papua.
vectorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vectorizers
Etymology: From vectorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A computer program that performs vectorization.
vectorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vectorizer
rasterizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasterizers
Etymology: From rasterize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A computer program that performs rasterization.
Isoko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Isoko
form: Isokos
Etymology: Borrowed from Edo isoko (“outskirts, environs”), referring to the fact that some of the predecessors of the Isoko migrated from the Kingdom of Benin to modern-day Isokoland, and thus the name represented those who lived on the outskirts of the Benin Empire.
Senses: examples: text: As far as I can tell it was due to the preaching of an African Christian, not an Isoko, who visited those parts on business during the war; […]
ref: 1913, Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal, page 119:
glosses: A member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Derived terms: english: land of the Isoko
translation: land of the Isoko
word: Isokoland
Isoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Edo isoko (“outskirts, environs”), referring to the fact that some of the predecessors of the Isoko migrated from the Kingdom of Benin to modern-day Isokoland, and thus the name represented those who lived on the outskirts of the Benin Empire.
Senses: glosses: The language spoken in the Isoko region and Niger Delta in Nigeria, by the Isoko people. It is linguistically similar to the language of the neighboring Urhobo people.
rasterizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasterizer
tubuloalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From tubulo- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Starting out as a branched tubular gland and branching further to terminate in alveoli.
Synonyms: tubuloacinar
Yoneda embedding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yoneda embeddings
Etymology: Named after the Japanese mathematician Nobuo Yoneda (1930–1996).
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An embedding of a category 𝒞 within the category of functors from 𝒞 to the category of sets. Such an embedding is effected by a Yoneda functor.
jats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jat
snowily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more snowily
form: most snowily
Etymology: From snowy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] the nicest young man that ever was, — daintily gloved, patently booted, oilily curled, snowily wristbanded, with a lovely cambric (prima facie) handkerchief bound about his hyacinthine locks and polished hat.
ref: 1871, Gail Hamilton, Gala-days, page 191:
glosses: In a snowy way.
sonorousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonorousnesses
Etymology: From sonorous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Sonority.
ideographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ideographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an ideographic way
Related terms: idiographically
acrophonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acrophonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an acrophonic way.
ductor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdʌktə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ductors
Etymology: From Latin ductor, agent noun of duco (“to lead”).
Senses: examples: text: The Rhombus or Lozenge figure ſo viſible in this order, vvas alſo a remarkable form of battle in the Grecian Cavalry, […] As being moſt ready to turn every vvay, and beſt to be commanded, as having its ductors, or Commanders at each Angle.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter II.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: One who leads.
examples: text: 1883, Andrew Overend, "Inking apparatus for printing-machines", US patent US363760, filed 9 November 1883, issued 24 May 1887.
The combination, with a fountain-roller and an ink-cylinder, of a ductor movable between said roller and cylinder for delivering ink from one to the other...
text: Ink is transferred to the ink distribution rollers by a ductor roller.
ref: 2004, Daniel Gamota, Printed Organic and Molecular Electronics, Springer, published 2004, →ISBN:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A device, usually in the form of an oscillating roller, for transferring ink from a source to the ink train rollers in a controlled manner.
classlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more classlessly
form: most classlessly
Etymology: From classless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a classless way.
adjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjunctions
Etymology: From Latin adjunctio, from adjungere: compare French adjonction, and see adjunct.
Senses: glosses: The act of joining; the thing joined or added.
topics: law
glosses: The joining of personal property owned by one to that owned by another.
examples: text: The ring obtained after the adjunction of the elements a,b and y to the ring R may be denoted R#91;a,b,y#93;.
text: The field adjunction #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;(#92;pi) can be obtained from #92;mathbb#123;Q#125; by adjoining #92;pi to #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;.
topics: algebra
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The process of adjoining elements to an algebraic structure (usually a ring or field); the result of such a process.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: equivalence of categories
isomorphism of categories
Galois connection
glosses: A relationship between a pair of categories that makes the pair, in a weak sense, equivalent.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A natural isomorphism between a pair of functors satisfying certain conditions, whose existence implies a close relationship between the functors and between their (co)domains; the natural isomorphism, functors, and their (co)domains thought of as a single object.
A natural isomorphism Φ: operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(G·,·)→ operatorname Hom_( mathcal )D(·,F·) (where the hom-functors are understood as bifunctors from 𝒟^( operatorname )op×𝒞 to mathbf Set). See Adjoint functors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.
meronyms: adjoint
left adjoint
right adjoint
Derived terms: biadjunction
recidivous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɪd.ɪ.vəs/
ipa: /ɹəˈsɪd.ə.vəs/
Forms: form: more recidivous
form: most recidivous
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”) + -ous, from recidō (“fall back”). Doublet of recidive. By surface analysis, recidive + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Recidivous thieves, on the other hand, must expect corporal punishment, which is meted out in addition to fines in money or goods.
ref: 1970, Hugo Adolf Bernatzik, Akha and Miao, page 336:
synonyms: recidive#Adjective
recidivist#Adjective
recidivistic
glosses: Prone to relapse into immoral or antisocial behavior.
examples: text: In principle, resection of liver metastases is indicated when an extrahepatic recidivous occurrence or a second tumour is excluded.
ref: 2002, F. Hagenmüller, M. P. Manns, H. G. Musmann, Medical Imaging in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, page 72:
synonyms: recidive#Adjective
glosses: Recurring (of a disease or another medical problem).
diplomatic flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The winner . . . was conservative Charles Griffin, 41, and he carefully avoided the race issue. Avoiding the campaign as well, Griffin stayed home with a case of diplomatic flu while Evers' forces staged a get-out-the-vote campaign.
ref: 1968 March 22, “Closer to Home”, in Time:
text: That is a carom-shot criticism of the administration, which has come down with a case of the diplomatic flu known as international conference-itis.
ref: 1988, George Will, "Democratic Double Standard," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 11 Apr. (retrieved 31 Nay 2009)
text: While the Liberals may be considering the scenario of an epidemic of diplomatic flu to save themselves from toppling the minority government, no such virus will decimate Bloc ranks in the event of a confidence vote.
ref: 2007 October 3, Chantal Hébert, “Duceppe may bow out after fall campaign”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 31 May 2009:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An illness feigned by one or more government officials or other public figures as an excuse for an absence really based on political factors.
Related terms: blue flu
volumize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɒl.juː.maɪz/
ipa: /ˈvɒl.jʊ.maɪz/
ipa: /ˈvɑl.ju.maɪz/
ipa: /ˈvɑl.jʊ.maɪz/
Forms: form: volumizes
form: volumizing
form: volumized
form: volumized
form: volumise
Etymology: From volume + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Tired of her flat hairstyle, Vicki volumized her hair.
glosses: To add physical volume to.
Related terms: volumization
volumizer
volumizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of volumize
volumized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of volumize
volumized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more volumized
form: most volumized
Senses: glosses: Appearing to have more than normal volume.
calf love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calf's love
Etymology: From calf + love, calque of Dutch kalverliefde. Attested since the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: puppy love
isovaleric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + valeric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to isovaleric acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: isovalerate
matilda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈtɪldə/
Forms: form: matildas
form: Matilda
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: examples: text: 1906, A. B. Paterson, On The Road to Gundagai, The Old Bush Songs, Gutenberg eBook #10493,
In a week the spree was over and the cheque was all knocked down, / So we shouldered our “Matildas,” and we turned our backs on town, / And the girls they stood a nobbler as we sadly said “Good bye,” / And we tramped from Lazy Harry’s, not five miles from Gundagai;
text: When a hobo roams through the outback with a matilda on his back, he is said to be “waltzing matilda.”
ref: 1999, Milton Finkelstein, Global geography:
glosses: A bundle of possessions, often tied up in a sack; a swag.
Derived terms: waltz Matilda
matildas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matilda
Keplerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kepler + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Johannes Kepler, German astronomer and mathematician.
Derived terms: Keplerian motion
Keplerian orbit
Keplerian telescope
laryngopharynx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪŋks
Forms: form: laryngopharynges
Etymology: From laryngo- + pharynx.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the pharynx below and behind the larynx
Synonyms: hypopharynx
onguent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onguents
Etymology: Borrowed from French onguent.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of unguent.
onguents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onguent
reparative therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reparative therapies
Senses: examples: text: Sheldon and about 70 supporters met all day at Sheraton Hotel here to map expansion of TVC's "reparative therapy for enslaved people afflicted with gender-identity conflict" and develop strategies to defeat initiatives that would classify gay "behavior" as a civil right.
ref: 1990 February 4, John Zeh, “Hundreds Protest Homosexuality 'Summit'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 1:
text: Reparative therapy is not a cure in the sense of erasing all homosexual feelings. It is however, a successful treatment strengthening masculine identification.
ref: 1991, Joseph Nicolosi, “Reparative therapy of male homosexuality: A new clinical approach”, in Jason Aronson:
topics: pseudoscience
glosses: Synonym of conversion therapy.
synonyms: word: conversion therapy
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see reparative, therapy.
methyl-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛθl̩/
ipa: /ˈmɛθɪl/
Etymology: Prefix form from English methyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form terms describing the attachment of a methyl group
conversion therapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversion therapies
Senses: topics: pseudoscience
glosses: The practice of psychiatric or psychological treatment to attempt to change the sexual orientation or gender identity of an LGBT person; used especially as an attempt to turn gay people heterosexual.
Synonyms: word: ex-gay therapy
word: gender identity change efforts
word: GICE
word: reorientation therapy
word: reparative therapy
word: reparative psychotherapy
word: sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts
word: sexual orientation change efforts
word: SOCE
word: SOGICE
reparative therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reparative therapy
conversion therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversion therapy
Mangels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mangel
pæninsula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When the Buddhist faith spread to the Korean pæninsula, first to Koguryŏ (4th century) and later to Paekce and Silla (6th century), Buddhist scriptures in their Chinese version followed and were soon common among Buddhists all over Korea.
ref: 1974, Staffan Rosén, A study on tones and tonemarks in middle Korean, page 23 (Universitet Stockholms)
text: In the big pæninsulas (Guanahacabibes y Zapata), and in the archipelagoes, live species from the lands of the isle of Cuba with which they probably had terrestrial communication during the Pleistocene marine regressions.
ref: 1990, Instituto de Zoología (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba), Poeyana, №ˢ 405–445, page 17 (self-published)
text: In the history of investigations into the origin of the Neolithic in the Balkan Pæninsula and the Carpathian Basin and, what follows, into the Mesolithic–Neolithic relations, there are two basic approaches: the allochtonous and the autochtonous[.]
ref: 2007, Janusz Krzysztof Kozłowski, Marek Nowak, and the International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Mesolithic/Neolithic interactions in the Balkans and in the Middle Danube Basin, page 1 (illustrated edition; Archaeopress; →ISBN, 9781407301686)
glosses: Archaic spelling of peninsula.
Maden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Madens
Etymology: Variant of Madden.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
chersonese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɜːsəˌniːs/
Forms: form: chersoneses
Etymology: From Latin Chersonēsus, from Ancient Greek χερσόνησος (khersónēsos, “originally, the Gallipoli peninsula; later, any peninsula”), from χέρσος (khérsos, “dry land”) + νῆσος (nêsos, “island”).
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A peninsula.
Derived terms: word: chersonesus
alt: Gallipoli
word: Thracian Chersonese
Meccan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Mecca + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or from, Mecca
Meccan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Meccans
Etymology: From Mecca + -an.
Senses: synonyms: word: Meccawee
glosses: Someone from Mecca.
mecoprop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Shortening of methylchlorophenoxypropionic acid.
Senses: glosses: A common herbicide.
Synonyms: MCPP
mecopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mecopterans
Etymology: Mecoptera + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of the carnivorous insects in the order Mecoptera
mecopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the mecopterans (scorpionflies, order Mecoptera).
medakas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medaka
Medal of Honor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Franklin D. Roosevelt was yesterday posthumously awarded a special Medal of Honor by a unanimous vote of the House of Representatives, press dispatches said.
ref: 1945 May 23, “FDR HONORED”, in Free Philippines, volume 3, number 24, page 1, column 2:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The highest military award given in the United States.
neuroglycopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + glycopenia.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: hypoglycorrhachia
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: neuroglucopenia
hypernyms: glucopenia
glycopenia
coordinate_terms: cytoglucopenia
hypoglycemia
hypoglycosemia
glosses: A shortage of glucose in the nervous system, especially the central nervous system and usually with especial reference to the brain.
Derived terms: neuroglycopenic
medallionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medallionists
Etymology: From medallion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who makes or sculptures medallions.
neurohormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurohormones
Etymology: From neuro- + hormone.
Senses: examples: text: Together with this is the influence of an infinite number of neurotransmitters, neurohormones, environmental hazards, and accidental programmings.
ref: 2016, David R. Hawkins, The Eye of the I: From Which Nothing is Hidden, page 142:
glosses: Any hormone that stimulates the nervous system.
Derived terms: neurohormonal
shipot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipots
Senses: glosses: An underground water source that runs constantly. A common source of fresh drinking water in Ukrainian villages.
cardinal variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardinal variables
Senses: examples: text: In dealing with certainty choices, standard economic theory treats utility (intensity of preference) as an ordinal rather than a cardinal variable.
ref: 1992, Jack Hirshleifer with John G. Riley, The analytics of uncertainty and information, page 14:
text: The least squares estimation treats happiness as a cardinal variable.
ref: 2001, Bruno S. Frey with Alois Stutzer, Happiness and economics: how the economy and institutions affect well-being, page 185:
text: Life Satisfaction was handled as a cardinal variable, with values between one and seven, where one was assigned to the lowest level of satisfaction
ref: 2007, Ian Gough with J. Allister McGregor, Wellbeing in developing countries: from theory to research, page 266:
glosses: A variable whose values are ordered, that can be multiplied by a scalar, and for which the magnitude of differences in values is meaningful.
Hyponyms: interval variable
ratio variable
Coordinate terms: nominal variable
ordinal variable
public record
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public records
Senses: examples: text: The city's annual budget is in the public record, so if we want, we can go back and see how it's changed over time.
text: Political donations are a matter of public record; your vote is private, but anyone can see how you donate.
glosses: Information that has been filed with or recorded by a government agency.
ousia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːsɪə/
ipa: /ˈuːzɪə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek οὐσία (ousía), from οὖσα (oûsa), the feminine present participle of εἰμί (eimí, “I am”).
Senses: examples: text: We could never know God's ousia, but in order to adapt his indescribable nature to our limited intellect, God communicated to us through his activities in the world.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 79:
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The essential nature or ‘substance’ of God, often as contrasted to the ‘energies’ (external actions and influences) through which he is manifest.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Essence, being.
papyriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having the form of, or decorated with papyrus flowers
autocompletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autocompletions
form: auto-completion
Etymology: From auto- + completion.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: autocomplete
glosses: A software feature permitting form fields, etc., to be autocompleted.
Hypernyms: completion
LBD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LBDs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of little black dress.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Lewy body dementia.
heightwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From height + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of height; vertical.
heightwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From height + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In a heightwise manner.
Related terms: lengthwise
widthwise
depthwise
hexagrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to hexagrams as a means of divination.
Related terms: hexagrammatics
whiplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whiplike
form: most whiplike
Etymology: From whip + -like.
Senses: examples: text: "I wanted the regular announcement of the blocks as they come along to have the whiplike quality of time," says the poetic dramatist, who as an author having his most complex play tried out for only three weeks prior to its Broadway opening is supremely conscious of the flagellative relentlessness of clock and calendar.
ref: 1986, Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin, Conversations with Tennessee Williams, page 31:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a whip; long, thin, and flexible, or flagellatory.
Synonyms: whippy
hyperforeignisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperforeignism
bigfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bigfoot
jackassery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackasseries
Etymology: From jackass + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: […] the hypothesis that Karnow had made a new will deserved a little exploration. To ask any of you about it would of course have been jackassery.
ref: 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, page 134
text: 2022, Sen. Ben Sasse, during Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation hearings
We should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.
glosses: The foolish or obnoxious behaviour of a jackass.
jackasseries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackassery
bigfooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bigfoot
bad seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad seeds
Senses: examples: text: A bad seed produces a bad tree and in due course bad fruit, and a good seed produces a good tree and good fruit.
ref: 1533, Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Essential Readings, translation of Liber Prologi in Vitam Beatam by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, published 1999, page 147:
text: In families that insist the child is different, the myth that prevails and perpetuates is the "bad seed theory." This becomes easier for families to do when the kids behave poorly and the only information they receive about the biological family are its problems and dysfunction
ref: 2001, Victor Groza with Karen F. Rosenberg, Clinical and Practice Issues in Adoption, page 7:
text: "Listen, some people just come from bad seed." Mr. Heath shook his head. ... "If Ian is from bad seed, though, is from the mother, not the father
ref: 2003, Colin Channer, Waiting in Vain, page 256:
text: if you’re looking to turn out all the lights, pull a blanket up under your chin, and jump several inches off your couch, there’s a new bad-seed thriller to adopt today.
ref: 2020 May 7, Katie Rife, “If you’re looking to jump in your seat, make a playdate with Z”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 16 May 2020:
glosses: A genetic source of bad behavior or other negative results.
good spirits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His good spirits were contagious.
glosses: A good, cheerful mood.
Derived terms: in good spirits
mark off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marks off
form: marking off
form: marked off
form: marked off
Senses: examples: text: The Latin form, templum, from which the English temple is derived, originally signified an uncovered area marked off by boundaries; especially the place marked off by the augurs to be excepted from all profane uses."
ref: 1913, Catholic Encyclopedia^(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Temple):
text: A society marked off into classes need be specially attentive only to the education of its ruling elements.
ref: 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:
glosses: To separate by or as with a boundary line.
glosses: To indicate as dealt with, as on a list.
Synonyms: sense: to separate by a boundary
word: delineate
sense: to indicate as dealt with
word: check off
clapperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clapper + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a clapper (as of a bell).
fuckest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌkəst/
Etymology: fuck + -est
Senses: examples: text: O Lord thou fuckest me, crying ‘You are here to kneel.’ Your creed’s as cold as a slum’s pensioners in winter.
ref: 1991, Hamish Whyte (editor) and Janice Galloway (editor), Scream, if you want to go faster, page 120 (Association for Scottish Literary Studies; →ISBN, 9780948877124)
text: Thou shalt demand fidelity from thy femme(s), even whilst thou fuckest around at every opportunity.
ref: 1997, Frankie Hucklenbroich, A Crystal Diary, page unknown (Firebrand Books; →ISBN, 9781563410833)
text: ‘Thou as honest a man as I?’ cried a Sussex villager scornfully to his companion, as they walked home together from market one day in 1635. ‘Thou fuckest other folks’ wives.’
ref: 2004, Bernard Capp, When Gossips Meet: Women, Family, and Neighbourhood in Early Modern England, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 254, →ISBN:
glosses: second-person singular of fuck
Related terms: fucketh
eventless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From event + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile we went on with the lodging-house life—a squalid, eventless life of crushing boredom.
ref: 1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXXIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:
text: Life on board the Discovery is presented as a long, eventless routine of exercise, maintenance checks, and chess games with HAL.
ref: 2002, Roger Ebert, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, in The Great Movies:
glosses: Without events; uneventful.
Derived terms: eventlessly
eventlessness
rather than
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: And not.
examples: text: I'd like to go home early rather than risk(ing) the roads later.
text: I prefer making my kids' toys myself rather than buying them.
text: It was my wife, rather than I, who decided to leave.
text: It is never better to let kids have their way whenever they wish rather than standing up for one's parental authority.
text: Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the week rather than at weekends.
ref: 1957 June 24, “Notes and News: Cheap Mid-Week Tickets Reintroduced”, in Railway Magazine, page 433:
text: According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
ref: 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
glosses: Used to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred.
rather than
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: I'd prefer a dog rather than a cat.
glosses: instead of; in preference to.
wandlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wandlike
form: most wandlike
Etymology: From wand + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a wand.
Synonyms: sticklike
yeastless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From yeast + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without yeast.
subtitler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌbˌtaɪt(ə)lə/
ipa: /ˈsʌbˌtaɪt(ə)l(ə)r/
Forms: form: subtitlers
Etymology: From subtitle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It was an error introduced by the subtitler, not the screenwriter.
text: […]any time studio atmosphere gets too thick due to scraps among the sub-titlers as to the most fitting words to suit the deed, he can scamper up among the clouds until it blows over.
ref: 1919 May 15, “McGaffey Goes Up”, in The Los Angeles Times, Flashes, page 32:
text: The sub-titler is also a creature of convention—convention not of the picture alone but of popular belief. Why is it that a Chinaman on the screen must speak pidgin English, when many of the Chinese we know speak better English than the native?
ref: 1919 May 18, Haldez, “Titles and Sub-Titles”, in The Fresno Morning Republican, Stage and Screen, page 28:
glosses: A person who transcribes or translates subtitles (for an audiovisual work).
glosses: A software package that assists in creating subtitles for movies, documentaries, etc.
examples: text: The newspaper column's subtitler could not be identified.
glosses: A person who writes subtitles (for a book, newspaper, etc.).
subtitlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtitler
subheader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subheaders
Etymology: From sub- + header.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A header that appears below another header and describes a subsection of its contents.
subheaders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subheader
uncleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uncle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without an uncle.
arcadelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more arcadelike
form: most arcadelike
Etymology: From arcade + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an arcade (row of arches).
murder in the second degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murders in the second degree
Senses: glosses: Second-degree murder.
herapathite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herapathites
Etymology: From Herapath + -ite, after its discoverer, the physician William Bird Herapath.
Senses: glosses: Iodoquinine sulfate, a chemical compound whose crystals are dichroic and thus can be used for polarizing light.
syllepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syllepsis
welladay
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Alacke the time that ever I was borne, / To be partaker of this destinie. / Alacke the day, alacke and welladay.
ref: 1595, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet:
text: Ah! wel-a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young; / Instead of the Cross the Albatross / About my neck was hung.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:
glosses: variant form of wellaway; alas.
welladay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: welladays
Senses: glosses: A cry of "welladay".
plasma membrane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plasma membranes
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The semipermeable membrane that surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell.
Synonyms: sense: semipermeable membrane
word: cell membrane
plasma membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plasma membrane