cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Ringwraith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ringwraiths
Etymology: From ring + wraith, coined by J. R. R. Tolkien as a fantasy character in The Lord of the Rings.
Senses: examples: text: A party of four at one of my stations included a pretty creditable Scarlett O'Hara in her famous green velvet `curtains' gown, a fairy princess complete with fancy airbrushed wings, a man dressed as either a Ringwraith or the Grim Reaper (I guessed from the absence of a sickle that he was probably a Ringwraith), and George Washington.
ref: 2006, J.C. Sillesen, No Return, page 40:
text: I had written a number of short stories in the Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents vein, and a couple of fantasy novels that explored the premise of modernized 'Ringwraiths' invading a 1986 Alabama high school."
ref: 2007, Mark Stephen Smith, The Art of Flash Animation: Creative Cartooning, page x:
text: Like the Ringwraiths,
I need your acacia unfurled,
Enabling my dream-stuns
Of fizzing mauve whirls.
ref: 2007. Jerry Dowlen, "Lio Lios", 2007, p27
topics: fantasy
glosses: Anyone who keeps a magical ring, and is enslaved thereby, and may also be rendered invisible and immortal thereby.
wikipedia: The Lord of the Rings
Synonyms: Nazgul
sweetheart deal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetheart deals
Senses: examples: text: Steven Matthews, described the lease last week as "a sweetheart deal that gives too much away for what the city gets in return."
ref: 1986 May 18, Ronald Sullivan, “Counsel Upholds Lease in Dispute on East Side”, in New York Times, retrieved 22 Oct 2008:
topics: business
glosses: A transaction, contract, or other agreement in which one party provides particularly favorable terms to the other, especially in suspicious circumstances.
musclebikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musclebike
hyperinflations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperinflation
alickadoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alickadoo
can man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: can men
Senses: examples: text: August 29 2002, Jim Dwyer, "How the Fire Commissioner Saw It" [book review of Strong of Heart by Thomas Von Essen], The New York Times,
Mr. Feehan would reflect on the role of the "can man," the raw young firefighter assigned to haul an extinguisher up the stairs.
text: In ten seconds, I was dressed and walking out the door of my room at the station. . . . By the time two minutes passed,, Caesar was driving the engine onto the streets of Upper Darby; Paulie and Red were the can man and the hydrant man, riding behind.
ref: 2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, →ISBN, page 141:
text: Douglas Oelschlager was the can man, bringing up extinguishers.
ref: 2006, Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn, 102 Minutes, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: A firefighter whose task is to haul a fire extinguisher.
Related terms: irons man
chauffeur
NPO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: parenterally
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: PO
mul:per os
peroral
glosses: "nil per os" (nothing by mouth - nothing may be eaten or drunk).
NPO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NPOs
Senses: coordinate_terms: NFPO
glosses: Initialism of nonprofit organization.
IVIg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of IVIG.
hereuntofore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: heretofore
Synonyms: as yet
so far
to date
hitherto
multimorbid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multimorbid
form: most multimorbid
Etymology: From multi- + morbid.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from more than one chronic illness at the same time.
Synonyms: comorbid
Derived terms: multimorbidity
milimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of millimeter.
likker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪk.ɚ/
homophone: licker
homophone: liquor
Forms: form: likkers
Senses: examples: text: We've got tae get back wi' her, Hecky. Whit mercy we didna get fou!
 We'll no touch a drap o' that likker—
 that's hard, man, ye canna deny. . . .
ref: 1921, Robert W. Service, “The Twa Jocks”, in Ballads of a Bohemian:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of liquor.
Derived terms: likker up
pot likker
potlikker
Catalonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætəˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkætəˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Catalonia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: The large Benedictine order living at Montserrat is devoted to preserving Catalonian culture—a mission that endears them to the Catalans. (So much so that in tribute, thousands of Catalonian girls are named Montserrat—Montse for short.)
ref: 2015, Karen MacNeil, The Wine Bible, Hachette, →ISBN:
glosses: Catalan.
Catalonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkætəˈləʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌkætəˈloʊ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Catalonians
Etymology: From Catalonia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Catalan.
countrysides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: But where the Diſſenters were numerous, great bands of Legal Robbers were ſent to exact & extort theſe exorbitant fines, by plundering, quartering, beating, wounding, binding men like beaſts, chaſing away from houſes, and harraſſing whole Countryſides, in a hideous manner.
ref: 1687, Alexander Shields, A Hind Let Looſe, page 184:
text: There must be something inside the city worth walking to or riding to, otherwise people would remain scattered through the countrysides.
ref: 2008, Thomas Sowell, Economic Facts and Fallacies, Basic Books,, →ISBN, page 14:
text: Some of these designs were amazing, covering a person’s whole back. There were dozens—dragons, historical scenes, countrysides, ornate scrollwork…
ref: 2009, Peter Lerangis, The Sword Thief, Scholastic Inc.,, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: plural of countryside
Kalahari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaləˈhɑːɹi/
ipa: /ˌkɑləˈhɑɹi/
ipa: /ˌkæləˈhɑɹi/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Forms: form: the Kalahari
Etymology: An adapted borrowing of Tswana Kgalagadi (literally “thirst of infamous nature”). Doublet of Kgalagadi.
Senses: synonyms: Kalahari Desert
glosses: A large desert in Southern Africa, including much of Botswana, and part of Namibia and Northern Cape, South Africa.
Kalahari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaləˈhɑːɹi/
ipa: /ˌkɑləˈhɑɹi/
ipa: /ˌkæləˈhɑɹi/
rhymes: -ɑːɹi
Etymology: An adapted borrowing of Tswana Kgalagadi (literally “thirst of infamous nature”). Doublet of Kgalagadi.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kgalagadi
Gobi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡoʊ.bi/
enpr: gōʹbē
Forms: form: Cobi
Etymology: From Mongolian Говь (Govʹ) or ᠭᠣᠪᠢ (Ɣobi).
Senses: examples: text: In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold.
ref: 1901 December 21, “Science and Industry”, in The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, volume LXXV, number 23, →OCLC, page 181, column 1:
text: These missionaries were good people of whose devotion America can be proud. Some months later under Boxer mob-violence they were driven out on to the Gobi Desert. But the Tao Tai gave them protection which saw them safely across the desert to the Russian frontier, though with much hardship.
ref: 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 44:
text: In 1941, Chang traveled to the remote Gobi Desert in Northwest China and lived in the Tun Huang Caves for two years and seven months.
ref: 1975 August 24, “Picasso, Chinese artists in Taipei show”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
text: The Gobi Desert is a large desert in Asia. It covers about 500,000 square miles (1,294,994 sq km), stretching from the Tien Shan Mountains in the west and across southeastern Mongolia and northern China.
ref: 2013, Moly Aloian, The Gobi Desert (Deserts Around the World), Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
text: The same livestock population explosion is damaging the overgrazed grasslands surrounding China’s Gobi Desert, where the dust storms are also increasing dramatically.
ref: 2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 193:
text: In November, I visited China’s rocket base deep in the frozen Gobi Desert to witness the launch of three astronauts during the Shenzhou 15 mission to China’s new space station.
ref: 2022 December 16, Keith Bradsher, “A Visit Inside China’s Desert Rocket Base”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2022, Science:
text: Beijing regularly faces dust storms in March and April due to its proximity to the Gobi desert as well as deforestation throughout northern China.
ref: 2023 March 22, “China: Sandstorms blanket Beijing as air pollution spikes”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023:
glosses: A large desert in Asia, spanning the countries of Mongolia and China.
Derived terms: Gobi argali
Mount St. Helens
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens (i.e., St Helens, Isle of Wight) by his friend, explorer George Vancouver.
Senses: examples: text: Mount St. Helens is visible in the clear weather, distant seventy-five miles.
ref: 1874, John Francis Campbell, “The Terminus”, in My Circular Notes:
text: Bart ... was looking at Mount St. Helens. "When the mountain blew," he said later, "it felt like the end of the world."
ref: 1980, Lee Fox, “A journey from bad to worse”, in The Spokesman-Review, page V6:
text: mount St. Helens is about to Blow up
ref: 2018, Bill Wurtz, “Mount St. Helens is about to Blow Up”:
glosses: A stratovolcano in the US state of Washington.
wikipedia: George Vancouver
St Helens, Isle of Wight
Strombolian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Stromboli + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the island or volcano of Stromboli.
glosses: Describing a volcanic eruption characterized by a fiery fountain of lava from a single, central crater.
volcanicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanicities
Etymology: From volcanic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being volcanic.
glosses: The level of power of a volcano.
Synonyms: vulcanicity
vulcanicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanicities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being volcanic.
glosses: The level of power of a volcano.
Synonyms: volcanicity
volcanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more volcanically
form: most volcanically
Etymology: From volcanic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of a volcano.
glosses: In a volcanic (explosive) manner.
volcanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanists
Etymology: From volcano + -ist.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: Someone interested in volcanism and volcanology the study of volcanoes.
Synonyms: vulcanist
vulcanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulcanists
Senses: glosses: Someone interested in volcanism, the study of volcanoes.
glosses: A follower of Vulcanism
Synonyms: sense: someone interested in volcanoes
word: volcanist
sense: a follower of Vulcanism
word: Plutonist
sense: a follower of Vulcanism
word: Vulcanist
Vulcanism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: volcanism
form: vulcanism
Etymology: From Vulcan + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief, held mostly in the 18th century, that rocks were formed in fire. It was a rival theory to Neptunism.
Synonyms: Plutonism
Related terms: Vulcanist
Neptunism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Neptune + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A discredited scientific theory of geology, held by many scientists around the late 18th century and early 19th century, that rocks were formed from the crystallisation of minerals in the early Earth's oceans.
Coordinate terms: Plutonism
Related terms: Neptunist
thyrse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thyrses
Etymology: From Middle French thyrse, from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrsus, torse, and torso.
Senses: examples: text: The Thyrsus *, or Thyrse, is a mode of inflorescence very nearly allied to the panicle, being, in fact, a panicle contracted into an ovate, or egg-shaped form. In the thyrse, the middle footstalks, which are longer, extend horizontally, whilst the upper and lower oes are shorter, and rise up vertically.
ref: 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, page 143:
text: The example of the thyrse of Eugenia leads us to understand several inflorescences which resemble also racemes or panicles; such are the thyrses of the Lilac.
ref: 1840, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, translated by Boughton Kingdon, Vegetable Organography, volume II, page 24:
text: 1998, D. W. Stevenson, M. Colella, B. Boom, Rapateaceae, Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber (editors), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume IV: Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae), page 417,
The number of spikelets is variable, and some genera have thyrses with 70 spikelets (Saxofridericia, Spathanthus) or only 1-3 spikelets per inflorescence (Stegolepsis, Monotrema).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
glosses: A thyrsus (staff with conical ornament).
Derived terms: thyrsic
thyrsiform
thyrsoid
thyrses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thyrse
stratovolcano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stratovolcanoes
form: stratovolcanos
Etymology: From strato- (“layer”) + volcano.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
coordinate_terms: shield volcano
glosses: A tall conical volcano, composed of layers (or strata) of hardened lava, tephra and ash.
addressograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addressographs
Etymology: From Addressograph (“trade name”), from address + -o- + -graph. It was first produced in 1893.
Senses: examples: text: The Secretary of State, upon the installation of the addressograph machines, was to reduce the temporary service.
ref: 1920, New York (State). Governor, Public Papers of Governor, page 113:
text: The man that we are putting on for the addressograph work is for a service that has long been needed.
ref: 1942, United States Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Departments of State and Justice, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, page 72:
text: 1961-5, Metals Engineering Quarterly
Addressograph equipment was selected. This particular addressograph application utilizes a split plate.
glosses: A device for making mailing labels, used for much of the 20th century.
colpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colpi
Etymology: From Late Latin colpus (“stroke; strike; hit”), from earlier Latin colaphus. Doublet of coup.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: A groove sometimes occurring on grains of pollen
Coordinate terms: porus
Derived terms: colpate
colporate
colporus
colpus transversalis
ectocolpus
pseudocolpus
colpate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colpate
form: most colpate
Etymology: From colpus + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having one or more colpi, or grooves, on each pollen grain.
raw_tags: of pollen
Coordinate terms: sense: pollen grain feature
word: sulcate
sense: pollen grain feature
word: saccate
sense: pollen grain feature
word: aperturate
sense: pollen grain feature
word: spinulose
sense: pollen grain feature
word: reticulate
sense: pollen grain feature
word: operculate
Derived terms: anacolpate
bicolpate
dicolpate
geminicolpate
longicolpate
monocolpate
pluricolpate
polycolpate
pseudocolpate
tetracolpate
tricolpate
zonocolpate
Related terms: colporate
porate
Newcastle disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A highly contagious disease of poultry, caused by the Newcastle disease virus.
Synonyms: chicken pest
fowl pest
Philippine fowl disease
Ranikhet disease
merry dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: merry dances
Senses: examples: text: The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night.
text: "That's what happened to me the last time you fired a high snowball. Peaches. That's why I didn't want you to try another while I'm around. You wait until I'm off the campus if you've got to indulge in high jinks. Come on now, fellows, since Peaches has promised to behave himself, let the merry dance go on. Have you tried a shot, Joe? Or you, Sister," and Teeter looked at the newcomers.
ref: 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
text: Argentine defender Martinez, normally so reliable and combative, was taken apart, especially when Salah led him a merry dance to set up Gakpo to settle the game with Liverpool's third five minutes after half-time.
ref: 2023 March 5, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A useless waste of time resulting from a deception.
Synonyms: merry chase
wild-goose chase
Related terms: chase a rainbow
lead someone a dance
the cake is a lie
crummocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crummock
mancalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mancalline
form: most mancalline
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of auks of the subfamily Mancallinae.
man proposes, God disposes
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Calque of Medieval Latin homo proponit, sed Deus disponit, coined in Thomas à Kempis's De Imitatione Christi.
Senses: glosses: Things do not always work out as they are planned.
Synonyms: man plans and God laughs
the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on
Etymology: The saying, found in many Eurasian languages, probably originated in Turkish (it ürür, kervan yürür), where it rhymes.
Senses: glosses: History (or progress) moves ahead, no matter the criticism it may attract.
Related terms: haters gonna hate
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
dungfork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dungforks
Etymology: From dung + fork.
Senses: glosses: A fork for tossing dung.
dungforks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dungfork
underlying form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underlying forms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The abstract form that a given morpheme is postulated to have before any phonological rules are applied.
metaphilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphilosophies
Etymology: From meta- + philosophy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
coordinate_terms: metathought
metatheory
metascience
metaresearch
metamethod
glosses: The study of the subject matter, methods, and aims of philosophy.
Derived terms: metaphilosophical
acritarch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈækɹɪtɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: acritarchs
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄκριτος (ákritos, “doubtful, indistinguishable”) + -arch.
Senses: examples: text: Acritarchs represent some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth.
ref: 2018, Mark Carnall, “Unidentifiable fossils: palaeontological problematica”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
chemistry
history
human-sciences
microbiology
natural-sciences
paleontology
palynology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any small, non-acid-soluble (i.e. non-carbonate, non-siliceous) organic fossil that cannot be classified.
acritarchs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acritarch
spondylolisthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌspɒn.dɪˌlo.lɪsˈθiːsɪs/
Forms: form: spondylolistheses
Etymology: From Latin spondylolisthesis, equivalent to spondylo- (“spine”) + Ancient Greek ὀλισθάνω (olisthánō, “to slip, slide”) + -esis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A forward displacement of a vertebra over a lower vertebra, due to a congenital defect or injury.
Derived terms: spondylolisthetic
Related terms: word: anterolisthesis
word: listhesis
word: retrolisthesis
english: not to be confused despite the words looking somewhat similar
translation: not to be confused despite the words looking somewhat similar
word: spondylosyndesis
conceptual analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptual analyses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The analysis of concepts, including, for a given concept, the search for its definition.
restauranteurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restauranteur
APRN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: APRNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of advanced practice registered nurse.
APRN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alaska Public Radio Network.
Related terms: AKPM
resales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resale
resemblence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of resemblance.
raptorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more raptorial
form: most raptorial
Etymology: From raptor + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: When its legs are extended, it measures one and a half inches wide, and the raptorial claws hint that it is a fierce predator.
ref: 2012 August 20, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “Cave Enthusiasts Find an 8-Legged Outlier”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Like or resembling a raptor; seizing or plundering, like a bird of prey.
Related terms: ambulatorial
cursorial
fossorial
gressorial
natatorial
saltatorial
scansorial
ambs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amb
cellularization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cellularizations
Etymology: From cellular + -ization.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: separation into distinct cells, especially from a multinucleate cell.
Derived terms: decellularization
postcellularization
precellularization
recellularization
deprotect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprotects
form: deprotecting
form: deprotected
form: deprotected
Etymology: From de- + protect.
Senses: glosses: To remove protection from.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: To remove a protecting group from.
deprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deprotect
deprotected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deprotected
form: most deprotected
Senses: glosses: From which protection has been removed
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: From which a protecting group has been removed
desmethyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From des- + methyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: From which a methyl group has been removed
Derived terms: delorazepam
demeclocycline
demecycline
demegestone
desethylamiodarone
desipramine
desmethyldoxylamine
desmethylselegiline
desmethylsterol
desmethylxanthohumol
estazolam
logout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logouts
Etymology: Deverbal from log out.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: logoff
signoff
signout
sign-out
antonyms: login
log-in
logon
log-on
sign-in
glosses: The act or process of logging out.
lymphangiectasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphangiectasias
Etymology: From lymph + ἐκ (ek, “out”) + τείνω (teínō, “I stretch”). See ectasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dilation of the lymphatic vessels
Synonyms: lymphangiectasis
lymphangioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphangiomas
form: lymphangiomata
Etymology: From lymph- + angioma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A benign tumour of the lymph vessel.
lymphangiopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphangiopathy
lymphangiopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphangiopathies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several diseases of the lymph vessels
lymphoedema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphoedemas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lymphedema.
lymphedema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphedemas
form: lymphoedema
form: lymphœdema
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The swelling of tissue due to retention of fluid in the lymph vessels.
Related terms: lipedema
lymphopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphopenias
Etymology: From lympho- + -penia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having an abnormally reduced number of lymphocytes in the blood.
Derived terms: lymphopenic
multisubunit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + subunit.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple subunits
myxopyronin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxopyronins
Etymology: From myxo- + pyronin.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several naturally-occurring antibiotics obtained from myxobacteria
myxobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxobacteria
Etymology: By surface analysis, myxo- + bacterium.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of many gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria, of the phylum Myxobacteria, that form colonies of slime.
Synonyms: word: slime bacteria
myxobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myxobacterium
telangiectasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛˌlæn.d͡ʒi.ɛkˈteɪ.zi.ə/
ipa: /ˌtɛlˌæn.d͡ʒi.ɛkˈteɪ.ʒə/
Forms: form: telangiectasias
form: telangiectasiae
form: telangiectasiæ
Etymology: Mid 19th century New Latin, from telo- + angiectasia, reflecting Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “end, telo-”) + Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “vessel, angio-”) + Ancient Greek ἔκτασις (éktasis, “stretching out, extension”) + Latin -ia.
Senses: examples: text: Chronic venous disease includes cosmetically undesirable telangiectasias, varicose veins, venous ulceration, and claudication.
ref: 2008, Mary E. Klingensmith, The Washington Manual of Surgery, page 327:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition characterized by dilatation of the capillaries, causing them to appear as small red or purple clusters, often spidery in appearance, on the skin or the surface of an organ.
Synonyms: telangiectasis
Derived terms: ataxia-telangiectasia
hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
telangiectasial
Related terms: telangiectatic
unrepaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrepaired
form: most unrepaired
Etymology: From un- + repaired.
Senses: glosses: Not repaired.
weisenheimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weisenheimers
Senses: examples: text: We knew there's no keeping a born scholar ignorant, and at heart, I think, we didn't really want to, but we were nervous, even frightened, at the statistics on child pedants and academic weisenheimers who grow up into faculty-recreation-room savants.
ref: 1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961:
text: Sex became what we would term a "cult" hit, drawing young, self-consciously cynical patrons—Variety called them the "jaded weisenheimers"—who were bemused by the novelty of real "dirt" on broadway.
ref: 1997, Marybeth Hamilton, "When I'm Bad, I'm Better": Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment, page 69:
text: The joy was bringing out my inner weisenheimer.
ref: 2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland:
text: It was all a joke. A beautiful, well-conceived practical joke. Some weisenheimer, alone and in the area, had crafted the whole thing in just one night before the fire, a can of beer in one hand, a penknife in the other.
ref: 2015, Herman Raucher, Maynard's House, page 98:
glosses: Alternative spelling of wisenheimer.
Rothschild
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒθs.t͡ʃaɪld/
/ˈɹəʊ̯t.ʃɪld/
Forms: form: Rothschilds
form: Rothschildren
form: Rothchild
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rothschild (literally “red shield”) with a spelling pronunciation (as though equivalent to English Roth's child).
Senses: examples: text: A modern glass edifice nearby houses the headquarters of the illustrious Rothschild banking family. It was the Rothschilds who in the 1830s arranged that recently paid-off £20 million loan to the British government to reimburse slaveowners after the trade ended – said to be equivalent to some £300 billion in today’s money.
ref: 2020 October 2, Maureen O'Hare, “‘Price of blood’: Financial London’s grim history revealed in new tour”, in CNN:
glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: soufflé Rothschild
Rothschild
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɒθs.t͡ʃaɪld/
/ˈɹəʊ̯t.ʃɪld/
Forms: form: Rothschilds
form: Rothschildren
Etymology: From the Rothschild family.
Senses: glosses: A very rich person.
Wildstein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
man child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man children
form: men children
Etymology: From Middle English manchylde, man-chylde (“a male child”), equivalent to man + child.
Senses: examples: text: In the end, Brown said he just couldn't stand another day of trying to run a team with two sets of rules — one for 11 players and the other for the man-child superstar.
ref: 2004, Glen Macnow, Angelo Cataldi, The Great Philadelphia Sports Debate, Middle Atlantic Press, published 2004, →ISBN, page 161:
related: word: manchild
word: man-child
synonyms: manbaby
manboy
baby boy
antonyms: macho man
machoman
alpha male
glosses: An adult male who is childish or immature.
examples: text: Bring forth Men-Children onely: / For thy vndaunted Mettle ſhould compoſe / Nothing but Males.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 2:
text: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 12:2:
text: "She is dead," he announced, very gravely and simply.
The hunchback shivered. Captain Runacles neither spoke nor stirred in his chair.
"A man-child was born at two o'clock. He is alive: his mother died two hours later."
ref: 1891, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Blue Pavilions:
related: word: manchild
word: man-child
synonyms: word: baby boy
word: bhoy
word: boy
word: boykin
word: boyo
word: callant
word: chav
word: feely-omi
word: guy
word: knave
word: lad
word: little boy
word: man child
word: manling
word: page
word: pillicock
word: sapling
word: shaveling
word: son
word: sonny
word: springald
word: stripling
word: yob
word: younker
word: youth
antonyms: girlchild
baby girl
woman child
womanchild
woman-child
glosses: A young male human; a boy.
Related terms: Peter Pan syndrome
man-child
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-children
form: men-children
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of man child.
mammaliaform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mammaliaforms
Etymology: From translingual Mammaliaformes.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any mammal or related animal of the clade Mammaliaformes
mammaliaform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mammaliaform
form: most mammaliaform
Etymology: From translingual Mammaliaformes.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of these animals
mamavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamaviruses
Etymology: Alteration of mimivirus by analogy with pairs such as mini–maxi and micro–macro. Coined by La Scola et al in 2008.
Senses: glosses: Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus, a member of family Mimiviridae, larger than any previously identified virus.
mallee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæli/
ipa: /ˈmɑːli/
ipa: /ˈmɑli/
ipa: /ˈmæ-/
rhymes: -ɑːli
rhymes: -æli
ipa: /ˈmæli/
Forms: form: mallees
Etymology: See mali.
Senses: examples: text: [H]ence the slow progress hitherto made in the cultivation of such produce of the garden as is generally held in estimation by the European portion of the community, left as it generally is, to the simple Hindoo mallee (or gardener,) it is not to be wondered at, that our bazars want what are deemed the more delicate articles of vegetable production for the table; […]
ref: 1840, G. T. Frederic Speede, Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, etc. etc. in India: […], Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. St. Andrew’s Library, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Prizes were awarded to ten other mallees for best samples of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and last though not least we have to note, that a prize of two rupees was awarded to the mallee of Robert Fulton, Esq., of Sultangunge, for a remarkably fine bunch of grapes, clearly showing that either the soil of Mr. Fulton's garden, the climate of Sultangunge, or the skill of that gentleman's gardener, are highly favorable to the growth, and bringing to maturity of this delicious fruit.
ref: 1848, “Report of Exhibitions of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers and Agricultural Produce, Held at Bhaugulpore, on 11th February and 25th May, 1848. (Communicated by Major [T. E. A.] Napleton, Honorary Secretary Branch Agri-Horticultural Society.)”, in Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India, volumes VI, part II (Correspondence and Selections), number 3, Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, →OCLC, page 125:
text: Telegram from Collector of Sylhet to Secretary Colonel Burne, No. 221; dated the 29th November 1871. Every necessary precaution taken to arrest spread of cholera: three camps formed, one for those attacked, one for the convalescents, one for the healthy. I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.
ref: 1871 November 29, “Cachar: Further Correspondence on the Subject of the Looshai Raids and the Consequent Hostilities (in Continuation of Paper, No. 398, of 1871)”, in Accounts and Papers: […], volumes X (East India—continued), [London]: […] The House of Commons, […], published 28 May 1872, →OCLC, page 301:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).
Derived terms: Shark Bay mallee
troponymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From troponym + -y.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The semantic relation between troponyms
glosses: Synonym of troponomy.
synonyms: word: troponomy
gob stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gob sticks
form: gobstick
form: gob-stick
Etymology: See gob (“mouth”).
Senses: examples: text: Stop spouting and give us some groovy licks on that gob stick of yours.
ref: 2013, R. K. Cowles, “1930s Poems: Licking the Chops”, in Slang Poetry Volume 1, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: A clarinet.
glosses: A spoon.
examples: text: He […] wrenched out the hook with the short wooden stick he called a "gob-stick".
ref: 1897, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 3, in Captains Courageous:
glosses: A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.
licorice stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licorice sticks
form: liquorice stick
Senses: glosses: A long thin cylindrical confection flavored with licorice.
examples: text: All he does is play that licorice stick like a goddamn angel. The patron saint of the clarinet, far as I'm concerned—fit for the angel choir.
ref: 2012, Claire Germain Nail, Saint Sullivan's Daughter, page 262:
glosses: A clarinet.
tremie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɛmi/
rhymes: -ɛmi
Forms: form: tremies
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From French trémie (“hopper”), from Latin trimodia (“a measure or vessel containing three modii”).
Senses: glosses: A device used to pour concrete underwater, usually a tube of sheet metal with a hopper-like top generally handled by a crane.
gob-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gob-sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gob stick.
gob-string
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gob-strings
Senses: glosses: A bridle for a horse
ultraintense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + intense.
Senses: glosses: Extremely intense; of utmost intensity.
Derived terms: intense
sandblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sandblast
sandblasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sandblast
sandblasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandblastings
Senses: synonyms: abrasive blasting
glosses: The process by which something is sandblasted.
sandblasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sandblast
musæum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musæums
form: musæa
Etymology: From the Latin mūsaeum, variant form of mūsēum, whence the English museum.
Senses: examples: 1721: William Lilly, Mr. Lilly’s History of His Life and Times: Written by Himself. Published from the Original Manuscript, Reposited in the Ashmolean Musæum at Oxford. To which is Subjoined, The True History of King James I. and King Charles I., book title (E. Curll, J. Pemberton, and W. Taylor)
1774: The Divine Predictions of Daniel and St. John Demonstrated: In a Symbolical Theological Dissertation on Cox’s Musæum. With Notes, Critical and Explanatory…, book title (J. Wheble)
1789: Leman Thomas Rede, Alexander Dalrymple, John Debrett, and Arthur Homer, Bibliotheca Americana; Or, A Chronological Catalogue of the Most Curious and Interesting Books, Pamphlets, State Papers, &c. Upon the Subject of North and South America: From the Earliest Period to the Present, in Print and Manuscript; for which Research Has Been Made in the British Musæum, and…, book title (self-published)
1868: Museo nazionale di Napoli and Raffaele Gargiulo, Collection of the most remarkable monuments of the National Musæum, book title (R. Gargiulo)
glosses: Archaic spelling of museum.
musæums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musæum
musæa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musæum
tropical sprue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular disease whose major symptom is malabsorption.
wildlife crossing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wildlife crossings
Senses: glosses: A route, such as a length of road or highway, across which wild animals are known to travel, or constructed specifically to allow them to pass safely.
rum ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rum balls
Senses: glosses: A round sweet made of dense cake or biscuit flavoured with chocolate and rum.
baba au rhum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babas au rhum
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French baba au rhum.
Senses: glosses: A yeast cake soaked in a syrup containing rum.
Synonyms: rum baba
alternating knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alternating knots
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A knot that has a knot diagram in which, in traveling along the knot, one passes through intersections alternatingly: over, under, over, under, etc.
brasswinds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brasswind
knot diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knot diagrams
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A representation in the plane of a knot, with no triple points.
Related terms: knotoid
cooldowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooldown
superactinide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superactinides
Etymology: From super- + actinide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the undiscovered chemical elements from unbiunium (121) to perhaps unpentseptium (157), following the transactinides. These will presumably go below the actinides in the periodic table.
isohexanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isohexane
in-joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌd͡ʒəʊk/
ipa: /ˈɪnˌd͡ʒoʊk/
Forms: form: in-jokes
Etymology: From in (“having familiarity or involvement with somebody”, adjective) + joke.
Senses: examples: text: Well, it’s a bit of an in-joke, but Fred has been going to start that diet “tomorrow” for the last few months.
text: We have an in-joke; whenever someone sings a wrong note, they wipe the mistake off their music with an obvious gesture.
text: Perhaps these quotations arose from some in-joke of Yule’s, but whatever the case the lexicographical worth of these citations is dubious.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 494:
text: Intentionally or not, the movie [Ralph Breaks the Internet] makes Disney feel as enormous as the internet itself, containing a series of micro-targeted idiosyncrasies and in-jokes that are nonetheless controlled by a cultural monolith (whether that's Disney or whatever massive corporation owns your local ISP).
ref: 2018 November 14, Jesse Hassenger, “Disney Goes Viral with an Ambitious, Overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph Sequel”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
synonyms: word: private joke
word: inside joke
extra: a joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details
glosses: Synonym of inside joke (“a joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details”).
Derived terms: in-jokey
Related terms: in-group
joke
stavesacre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stavesacres
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Latin staphisagria, from Ancient Greek σταφίς (staphís, “grape”) (from σταφυλή (staphulḗ, “bunch of grapes”)) + ἀγρία (agría, “wild”) (literally "living in the fields," from ἀγρός (agrós, “field”)).
Senses: synonyms: lice-bane
hypernyms: larkspur
glosses: A highly toxic, perennial plant with purple flowers (Staphisagria macrosperma, syn. Delphinium staphisagria).
bush plane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush planes
Senses: glosses: A light, propeller-driven aircraft, with a high wing, designed to land on, and take off from grass airstrips or rough ground
malinvest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: malinvests
form: malinvesting
form: malinvested
form: malinvested
Etymology: From mal- + invest.
Senses: glosses: To invest incorrectly or unwisely
Related terms: malinvestment
computerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of computerise
malinvestment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malinvestments
Etymology: From mal- + investment.
Senses: examples: text: Action by R. B. Carman against the executors of the will of John Wightman to recover the amount due upon a mortgage, and counterclaim by defendants against R. B. Carman, James Leitch, and R. A. Pringle, for malinvestment of funds, etc.
ref: 1907, The Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest, volume 8, page 572:
text: Even if market participants realize that price signals may be distorted, they have no good way to know what the undistorted set of prices would be, so malinvestment takes place during the boom phase of the business cycle.
ref: 2014, Randal G Holcombe, Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics, page 92:
text: It is painful for the owners of malinvestments but fast and efficient.
ref: 2014, Philipp Bagus, In Defense of Deflation, page 77:
glosses: An incorrect or unwise investment.
Related terms: malinvest
misinvestment
computerising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of computerise
make a difference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a difference
form: making a difference
form: made a difference
form: made a difference
Senses: examples: text: I was hoping that, by volunteering at this refuge, I could make a difference, however small.
glosses: To carry out an action, the result of which is a significant change, or an altered circumstance.
examples: text: I don't think it makes a difference whether you come tonight or not.
text: Increasingly, it does not make a difference—economically, at least—whether the husband or wife is the primary wage earner, or whether either or both of them work.
ref: 2013, Debora L. Spar, Wonder Women, page 114:
glosses: To be of importance; to matter.
Derived terms: difference maker
difference-making
Related terms: make all the difference
cigarillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cigarillo
make eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes eyes
form: making eyes
form: made eyes
form: made eyes
form: make the eyes
Senses: examples: text: She was saucy the next [moment], moving her head up and down, making "eyes" at Robert and making "mouths" at Beaudelet.
ref: 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening, page 85:
text: Can't you tell by the way I run / Every time you make eyes at me
ref: 1964, Michael Nesmith, “Different Drum”:
text: Stop making the eyes at me / I'll stop making the eyes at you
ref: 2005, Alex Turner, “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”, performed by Arctic Monkeys:
text: Ooh, bet you're thinking, "She's so cool"
Kicking back on your couch, making eyes from across the room
Wait, I think I've been there too
ref: 2024, Gracie Abrams, Audrey Hobert, “That's So True”, in The Secret of Us, performed by Gracie Abrams:
glosses: To flirt with (someone) by making obvious glances.
raw_tags: with "at"
Related terms: cow eyes
make mouths at
make faces
Confucians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Confucian
macrofamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrofamilies
Etymology: From macro- + family.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grouping of two or more language families that share some relationship
Confucianist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Confucianist
form: most Confucianist
Etymology: From Confucian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Related to the teachings of Confucius; Confucian.
Synonyms: Confucian
Derived terms: Neo-Confucianist
Confucianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Confucianists
Etymology: From Confucian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A follower of the teachings of Confucius; a Confucian.
Synonyms: Confucian
Ruist
mysophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mysophobic
form: most mysophobic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from mysophobia
Related terms: mysophobe