cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reprehensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reprehensive
form: most reprehensive
Etymology: Compare French répréhensif.
Senses: examples: text: Christ's reply ; in which , by a reprehensive shortness , he both clears the man's innocence , and vindicates God's proceedings , and so states them both upon a right foundation
ref: a. 1717 (date written), Robert South, “(please specify the sermon number)”, in Five Additional Volumes of Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions. […], volume (please specify |volume=VII to XI), London: […] Charles Bathurst, […], published 1744, →OCLC:
text: He stops at Winna's reprehensive stare.
ref: 2012, Paul Caetano, The Enigma of the Sphinx, page 33:
text: By the last two periods of the corpus, indeed, craindre deveolps a reprehensive interpretation, arising with certain specific contextual factors to yield a flavor of reproach (or apology).
ref: 2021, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2018, page 300:
glosses: Containing reprehension or reproof.
examples: text: Well, there would not be anything particularly reprehensive in a plaintiff wanting to go to a forum where the verdict would be larger.
ref: 1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary, Limitation of Venue in Certain Actions Brought Under the Employers' Liability Act, page 199:
text: But today in South Africa, a Black Christ is politically offensive; today in England a Black God is theatrically reprehensive; today in the United States, the only white-approved dark deity is Marc Connelly's De Lawd.
ref: 1963 January, “The Color of God”, in Ebony, volume 18, number 3, page 82:
text: She added, 'Räsänen claims homosexuality is a negative and reprehensive personal attribute and identity, and that all homosexuals are inferior as human beings.'
ref: 2024, Arie de Pater and Ville Hoikkala, “Free Speech under Threat in Finland and Beyond?”, in Evangelical Review of Theology, volume 48, number 1, page 9:
glosses: Reprehensible.
Related terms: reprehensively
crumbcloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumbcloths
form: crumcloth
Etymology: From crumb + cloth.
Senses: glosses: A cloth laid under a dining table to catch falling fragments and keep the carpet or floor clean.
crumbcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crumbcloth
pandarism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pandarisms
Senses: examples: text: Perjury, oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV):
glosses: Archaic form of panderism.
pandarisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pandarism
inviolacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inviolacies
Senses: examples: the inviolacy of an oath
glosses: The state or quality of being inviolate.
splenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: splenical artery
text: splenical medicine
text: splenical vein
glosses: splenic; relating to the spleen
ballotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballotins
Etymology: From French ballotin.
Senses: examples: text: […] jingle bells chime in with the season's magic in this lovely tapestry ballotin filled with 1 6 oz. of assorted chocolates.
ref: 1989 November, Texas Monthly, volume 17, number 11, page 179:
glosses: A small, elegant box (usually containing chocolates).
examples: text: one Secretary or Ballotin with a red Box shall follow the green one: and every Senator shall put one Ball into for one of these six boxes
ref: 1656, James Harrington, The Commonwealth of Oceana:
glosses: An officer in charge of a ballot box.
ballotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballotin
fissiparation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fissipation.
Mephitis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mefitis.
goosewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goosewings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of goose wing.
Derived terms: goosewinged
goosewings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goosewing
eupatorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eupatoriums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Eupatorium of perennial herbs.
Hyponyms: boneset
snakeroot
thoroughwort
eupatoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eupatorium
malapterurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malapterurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any fish in the family Malapteruridae; an electric catfish.
malapterurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malapterurid
Bohairic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Arabic بُحَيْرِيّ (buḥayriyy, “Of the Beheira Governate, from around Lake Mareotis”), used to name the dialect in an 11th-century Coptic grammar by Athanasius of Qus.
Senses: glosses: The Coptic dialect of the western Nile delta and Alexandria, used as a widespread standard dialect in the second millennium CE
Synonyms: Memphitic
Fayyumic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Fayyum + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A Coptic dialect, spoken primarily in the Faiyum region west of the Nile Valley.
Synonyms: Bashmuric
Faiyumic
Faiyumic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Fayyumic.
Akhmimic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Achmimic
Etymology: From Akhmim + -ic.
Senses: glosses: The most archaic Coptic dialect, used around the town of Akhmim.
Oxyrhynchite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Oxyrhynchus + -ite.
Senses: glosses: A Coptic dialect used around Oxyrhynchus.
Synonyms: word: Mesokemic
english: uncommon due to polysemy
translation: uncommon due to polysemy
word: Middle Egyptian
Mesokemic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + Coptic ⲕⲏⲙⲉ (kēme, “Egypt”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Oxyrhynchite (dialect of Coptic)
synonyms: word: Oxyrhynchite
extra: dialect of Coptic
wordages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wordage
corymbose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more corymbose
form: most corymbose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of, or resembling, corymbs.
Derived terms: corymbosely
subcorymbose
corymbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corymbi
Etymology: From Latin corymbus; Doublet of corymb.
Senses: glosses: A topknot anciently worn by girls in their hair.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of corymb.
synonyms: word: corymb
Related terms: korymbos
corymbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corymbus
engrammatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to engrams.
randomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: randomers
Etymology: From random + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Is that an open invitation to all and sundry randomers?
ref: 2009, eamo, “Longrow in Jim Murray's whisky bible 2007”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):
text: I typed it into a web search engine and found the usual randomers on their own or other people's personal sites, a few others on the staff lists or minutes of libraries and girl scout troups, and a handful referenced on genealogical sites.
ref: 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 45:
text: For what it's worth, the majority of attendees aren't goths. But everyone still dances to whatever we play. There's something heartwarming about Art School students and randomers coming in off the street, bouncing about to The Horatii and TSOM b-sides […]
ref: 2011, Korin, “Ping”, in alt.gothic (Usenet):
glosses: A stranger; anybody; any old person.
randomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of randomer
blates
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Clipping of blatantly + -s (hypocoristic suffix). Compare obvs (“obviously”).
Senses: examples: text: LOST IS WELL CRAP. GO WATCH RAVEN ON BBC1 FOR PROP ENTERTAINMENT.blates.xx.
ref: 2006, daniel.g.read@googlemail.com, “LOST IS 4 LOSERS!”, in alt.tv.lost (Usenet):
text: >There have been far more abominations than great games based on popular
>films, but what are your 5 favourites?
5) Er.
4) Um.
3) Erm.
2) Batman the Movie (Spectrum)
1) Goldeneye (N64). Blates, innit.
ref: 2008, deKay, “Tuesday Top 5: Movie Licences”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):
glosses: Blatantly; certainly, obviously.
semiprotection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From semi- + protection.
Senses: examples: text: Behind the lines, the gunners had the semiprotection of makeshift shelters - sheets of corrugated galvanized iron, bolted together and covered with layers of sandbags, sod, and netting.
ref: 2003, Shelley McKellar, Surgical limits: the life of Gordon Murray, page 17:
text: Rain drizzled steadily as we entered the semiprotection of a grove of trees. At least the wind wasn't hitting us so hard. Mom's umbrella proved to be close to useless, because it kept collapsing.
ref: 2003, Sharon Dunn, Romance Rustlers and Thunderbird Thieves, page 173:
text: A primigravida pregnant women who has semi-immunity to parasites adherent to endothelium in other organs lacks this semiprotection to the parasites capable of binding to the placenta[…]
ref: 2009, Pina M. Fratamico, James L. Smith, Kim A. Brogden, Sequelae and long-term consequences of infectious diseases, page 264:
glosses: partial protection
Glanvillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Glanvillian
form: most Glanvillian
Etymology: From Glanvill + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680), English writer, philosopher, and clergyman.
fumarprotocetraric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound found in some lichens.
pseudocyphella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocyphellae
Etymology: From pseudo- + cyphella.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
lichenology
natural-sciences
glosses: A structure in lichens that appears as a tiny pore on the outer surface, caused when there is a break in the cortex of the lichen and the medullary hyphae extend to the surface.
Related terms: pseudocyphellate
pseudocyphellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocyphella
myrsinaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Myrsinaceae + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the plant family Myrsinaceae.
ticced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tic
ticcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tic
slow news day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slow news days
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps you have seen a television news program on a slow news day. In place of international crises, press conferences, congressional hearings, and proclamations by the mayor, the news may consist of a trip to the zoo to visit a new “baby,” a canned report on acupuncture in China, a follow-up story on the survivor of an air crash, or a visit to the opening of baseball spring training in Florida.
ref: 2016, W. Lance Bennett, chapter 5, in News: The Politics of Illusion, 10th edition, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 136:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A time when media organizations publish trivial stories due to the lack of more substantial topics.
Related terms: dead donkey
silly season
hepper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heppers
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: A young salmon; a parr.
heppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepper
indiscriminative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indiscriminative
form: most indiscriminative
Etymology: From in- + discriminative.
Senses: examples: text: To operationalize generalized trust, we focus on the level of indiscriminative trust among individuals.
ref: 2009, Baogang Guo, Dennis V. Hickey, Toward Better Governance in China, page 56:
text: The other sect, the indiscriminative sect, resembled Daoism in that the emphasis was on the equality of things. As with Daoism, which advocated an all-embracing attitude toward different positions existing in the world, the indiscriminative equalizer reinterpreted seeming divergent phenomena or positions as merely the result of different perspectives.
ref: 2016, Chih-yu Shih, Po-tsan Yu, Post-Western International Relations Reconsidered, page 37:
text: Furthermore, since those changes are responses to new stimuli in the environment, and since every kind of new stimuli or alteration in the environment could trigger such changes, learning is indiscriminative of the normative qualities of objective contents.
ref: 2017, Krassimir Stojanov, Education, Self-consciousness and Social Action:
text: False-negative indiscriminative studies are often caused by placebo effects.
ref: 2019, Philippe Auby, Clinical Research in Paediatric Psychopharmacology, page 125:
glosses: Making no distinction; not discriminating; indiscriminate.
examples: text: Indiscriminative uses of FCIs are common across languages and they have a pejorative flavor.
ref: 1998, Anastasia Giannakidou, Polarity Sensitivity as (non) Veridical Dependency, page 83:
text: We discuss free choice phenomena in detail in Section 6.7, but here it is important to note that the Greek D-universal, but not káthe, has the so-called indiscriminative reading (Horn 2000) that appears in English with just any.
ref: 2012, Edward Keenan, Denis Paperno, Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language, page 316:
text: It is thus possible to assume that the indiscriminative interpretation and the evaluative interpretation (Eval) are related.
ref: 2021, Determiners and Quantifiers: Functions, Variation, and Change, page 255:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Specifying any one from among several equivalent possibilities.
allenarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: allenerly
Etymology: From all + Scots anerly (“singly”), from ane (“one”).
Senses: examples: text: I grant thereto, she shall be well answered thereof; not allenarly of the same, but the double thereof, and make your memorial of all your desires, number and valour thereof, and ye shall not have alone the single, but the double thereof.
ref: 1728, Robert Lindsay, The History of Scotland from 1436 to 1565, page 198:
text: […] is not habilis modus to establish a Right in the Person of the Assigny, but allenarly so long as the Cedent remains Heritor of the Lands […]
ref: 1734, Sir Thomas Hope, “Title XV”, in Practical Observations Upon Divers Titles of the Law of Scotland, Commonly called Hope's Minor Praticks:
text: […] he orders the assembly to sit at the city of Glasgow allenarly, and no where else, because of the known loyalty and disposition of the town to his service […]
ref: 1830, John M'Ure, A View of the City of Glasgow, Or, An Account of Its Origin, Rise and Progress, with a More Particular Description Thereof Than Has Hitherto Been Known, page 84:
glosses: Solely; only.
scambling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scamble
scambling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scamblings
Senses: glosses: A hasty meal.
Derived terms: scambling day
scambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scamble
victour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: victours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of victor.
non-harmonic tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-harmonic tones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a note that is played or sung between two chords that is not a part of either chord
non-harmonic tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-harmonic tone
passing tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passing tones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a non-harmonic tone that is a second lower than a note in one chord and a second higher than a note in the other chord
passing tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passing tone
neighbor tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neighbor tones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a non-harmonic tone that is a second either higher or lower than two notes that are unison in two chords
neighbor tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neighbor tone
escape tone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: escape tones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a non-harmonic tone that is a second from a note in the previous chord and more than a second from a note in the next chord
escape tones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escape tone
lithia water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithia waters
Senses: glosses: mineral water containing lithium salts, used to treat an array of mental health problems, including depression, aggression, and learning disabilities.
mawnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawning
make the perfect the enemy of the good
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes the perfect the enemy of the good
form: making the perfect the enemy of the good
form: made the perfect the enemy of the good
form: made the perfect the enemy of the good
Senses: glosses: To reject or bar improvement because it is incomplete.
Related terms: perfect is the enemy of good
tricornes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricorne
pedunculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedunculi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pedunculus.
Senses: glosses: A peduncle.
pedunculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedunculus
WWTP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WWTPs
Senses: examples: text: In some WWTPs water undergoes further treatment to allow its reuse for purposes such as irrigation of parks and green areas, street washing, or industrial uses.
ref: 2022 March 3, Cristina Novo, “What is a WWTP?”, in Smart Water Magazine:
text: Firstly, wastewater is drained to the WWTP by gravity through the main sewer system of the size of a car. Having such size, objects you could hardly imagine reach the WWTPs, ranging from mattresses, fridges, tree branches to wallets disposed of by thieves in order to get rid of the evidence.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “How do the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) work?”, in Hydrotech:
glosses: Initialism of wastewater treatment plant.
epifluorescence microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of an epifluorescence microscope to study properties of organic or inorganic substances using the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of transmitted light.
epifluorescence microscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epifluorescence microscopes
Senses: glosses: An optical microscope designed to study properties of organic or inorganic substances using the phenomena of fluorescence and phosphorescence instead of transmitted light.
epifluorescence microscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epifluorescence microscope
intermewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Kept in confinement through a molt.
raw_tags: of a hawk
Related terms: mew
interjectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interjectively
form: most interjectively
Etymology: From interjective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Yet these attempts to shift both footing and topic are overlapped, somewhat interjectively and thus in overriding fashion, as S begins (*3——>) with what is bearable as fake laughter.
ref: 1996, Wayne A. Beach, Conversations about illness: family preoccupations with bulimia, page 94:
glosses: interjectionally
fanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fano
balance wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balance wheels
Senses: examples: text: A mantelpiece clock with rackety balance wheel makes the only sound.
ref: 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, pages 13–14:
glosses: The timekeeping device normally used in mechanical watches and small clocks, consisting of a wheel which oscillates due to a coiled spring.
Coordinate terms: swing wheel
balance wheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance wheel
E-flat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: E-flats
form: E♭
Senses: examples: text: The clarinet played a long E-flat.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tone one semitone lower than E, between D and E.
examples: text: I had to take it to the shop because the E-flat was stuck.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A key or other mechanism for producing an E-flat.
examples: text: We will now hear the third sonata, in E-flat.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The key of E flat major.
Derived terms: E-flat major
E-flat minor
mudik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian mudik.
Senses: glosses: In Indonesia, the practice of migrants or migrant workers returning to their hometown or village during major holidays.
box clever
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boxes clever
form: boxing clever
form: boxed clever
form: boxed clever
Senses: glosses: To act wisely.
costning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English costning, costnunge, from Old English costnung (“temptation, testing, trial, tribulation”), from Old English costnian, variant of Old English costian (“to tempt, try, prove, examine”), from Proto-Germanic *kustōną (“to try, taste”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- (“to enjoy, taste”), equivalent to cost + -ing. Cognate with German kosten (“to taste”). Related to choose.
Senses: glosses: Temptation.
Related terms: cost
costen
hippie-dippie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hippie-dippie
form: most hippie-dippie
form: hippy-dippy
form: hippie-dippy
form: hippy-dippie
form: hippie dippie
form: hippy dippy
form: hippie dippy
form: hippy dippie
Etymology: Reduplication and alliteration
Senses: examples: text: He drove us there in their hippie-dippie car and as always people stared at us when we drove by.
ref: 2006, Cathy Hopkins, Mates, Dates, and Designer Divas, Simon and Schuster, page 132:
glosses: Hippie.
hippie-dippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippie-dippies
form: hippy-dippy
form: hippie-dippy
form: hippy-dippie
form: hippie dippie
form: hippy dippy
form: hippie dippy
form: hippy dippie
Etymology: Reduplication and alliteration
Senses: glosses: A hippie.
coath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kōth
ipa: /kəʊθ/
enpr: kōth
ipa: /koʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Forms: form: coaths
form: cothe
Etymology: From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.
Senses: glosses: Sickness; disease; pestilence.
glosses: An attack of illness, such as swooning, pangs of childbirth, etc.
glosses: A disease affecting sheep or cattle.
Related terms: coed
coath
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kōth
ipa: /kəʊθ/
enpr: kōth
ipa: /koʊθ/
rhymes: -əʊθ
Forms: form: coaths
form: coathing
form: coathed
form: coathed
form: cothe
Etymology: From Middle English cothe, from Old English coþu (“disease, sickness, pestilence”), from Proto-Germanic *kuþō.
Senses: glosses: To faint.
glosses: To give (sheep, cattle) the coe or rot.
fall off the back of a truck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls off the back of a truck
form: falling off the back of a truck
form: fell off the back of a truck
form: fallen off the back of a truck
form: fall off the back of a lorry
Senses: examples: text: The movie is still in theaters, but I got a copy that fell off the back of a truck.
glosses: Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession through illegal or otherwise dubious means.
cristall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cristalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crystal.
cristalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cristall
Whorfian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Whorfian
form: most Whorfian
Etymology: From Whorf + -ian.
Senses: qualifier: cognitive linguistics
glosses: Relating to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which proposes a form of linguistic relativity, i.e. that the structure of a language affects the ways in which its speakers conceptualize their world.
Derived terms: Whorfianism
blue jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue jets
form: blue-jet
form: bluejet
Senses: examples: text: Mysterious bluejets can be seen with the naked eye from the ground, but they are rare and difficult to spot.
ref: 1999, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, Skies of fury: weather weirdness around the world, Simon and Schuster, page 100:
topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a rapidly expanding disk-shaped region of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, which occurs high above energetic cloud-to-ground lightning of positive or negative polarity.
Related terms: blue starter
elve
gigantic jet
gnome
pixie
red sprite
sprite halo
sprite
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightning
bhakta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bhaktas
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit भक्त (bhakta).
Senses: examples: text: But the Goswami seems to have got her drift and instead of bristling at her snub, he realized that here was an enlightened bhakta who had grasped the essence of the Lord.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 395:
glosses: Someone who practises bhakti; a person who is devoted to God; a devotee; a worshipper.
Related terms: bhakt
bluejets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluejet
hog apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog apples
Senses: glosses: The noni, fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree.
glosses: The plant Podophyllum peltatum.
hogapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hogapples
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hog apple.
taeniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more taeniate
form: most taeniate
Senses: examples: text: taeniate pollen
glosses: Synonym of taenioid (“ribbon-shaped”).
synonyms: word: taenioid
extra: ribbon-shaped
blue starter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue starters
Senses: examples: text: Blue starters were first observed in 1994.
ref: 2007, Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman, Lightning: Physics and Effects, Cambridge University Press, page 483:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rapidly expanding disc-shaped region of luminosity, lasting less than a thousandth of a second, seen high above energetic lightning associated with hail-producing regions of thunderstorms, reaching up no higher than about twelve miles altitude.
Related terms: blue jet
elve
gigantic jet
gnome
pixie
red sprite
sprite halo
sprite
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightning
transient luminous event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transient luminous events
Senses: examples: text: Transient luminous events can be another source of ionization in the upper atmosphere.
ref: 2010, Rafael Escribano Torres, Isabel Tanarro Onrubiay, Spectroscopy of the atmospheres, CSIC, page 34:
text: During World War II (and probably before), high flying pilots were reported to have observed unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), often now called transient luminous events (TLE’s), particularly in the vicinity of thunderstorms.
ref: 2012, Don Lipman, “Red sprites, blue jets, and elves What are these mysterious, elusive phenomena?”, in The Washington Post:
text: Known as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), these unusual features were first spotted by accident in 1989.
ref: 2018, Mary Halton, “Hunting mystery giant lightning from space”, in BBC News:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
astronomy
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
related: word: TLE
hypernyms: event#Noun
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phenomenon#Noun
coordinate_terms: UAP
unidentified aerial phenomenon
UFO
unidentified flying object
glosses: Any of a variety of upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms.
sprite halo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprite halos
form: sprite haloes
Senses: examples: text: In lhe: early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."
ref: 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges, page 37:
topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a diffuse disk-shaped glow that precedes a sprite and propagates downward.
Related terms: blue starter
blue jet
elve
gigantic jet
gnome
pixie
red sprite
sprelve
sprite
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightning
sprelve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sprelves
Etymology: Blend of sprite + elve
Senses: examples: text: In the early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."
ref: 2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges, page 37:
topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which an elve is immediately followed by a sprite.
Related terms: blue starter
blue jet
elve
gigantic jet
gnome
pixie
red sprite
sprite
sprite halo
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightning
upward lightning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upward lightnings
Senses: examples: text: Mysterious bluejets can be seen with the naked eye from the ground, but they are rare and difficult to spot.
ref: 1999, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, Skies of fury: weather weirdness around the world, Simon and Schuster, page 100:
topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, in which the lightning bolt projects straight into the upper atmosphere.
Related terms: blue starter
blue jet
elve
gigantic jet
gnome
pixie
red sprite
sprelve
sprite halo
sprite
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upward lightning
red sprite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red sprites
Senses: examples: text: Red sprites flash high above thunderstorm clouds.
ref: 1999, Patricia Barnes-Svarney, Thomas E. Svarney, Skies of fury: weather weirdness around the world, Simon and Schuster, page 99:
topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a large but weak luminous flash that appears directly above an active thunderstorm system and is coincident with a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike.
Related terms: blue starter
blue jet
elve
gigantic jet
gnome
pixie
sprite halo
sprelve
sprite
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightning
red sprites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red sprite
gigantic jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigantic jets
Senses: examples: text: Gigantic jets appear to provide an electrical connection between cloud tops and the ionosphere.
ref: 2009, Michael C. Kelley, The earth's ionosphere: plasma physics and electrodynamics, Academic Press, page 364:
topics: astronomy
climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, a carrot-shaped red sprite that propagates upward from the core of an oceanic thunderstorm.
Related terms: blue starter
blue jet
elve
gnome
pixie
red sprite
sprite halo
sprelve
sprite
transient luminous event
troll
upward lightning
gigantic jets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigantic jet
hodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hodders
Etymology: From hod + -er.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A coal miner who hauls hods from the workface
Related terms: hod carrier
maison de passe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪzɒn də pas/
Forms: form: maisons de passe
Etymology: From French maison de passe.
Senses: examples: text: Of course in part it is due to the fact that it took place at the Princes Hotel - what the devil induced Piers to stay there instead of somewhere like the Bristol? Funds? It's virtually a maison de passe.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 31:
glosses: A low-class hotel where rooms are rented out by the hour, especially to prostitutes and their clients.
lampoonery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lampooneries
Etymology: From lampoon + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: It's easy to come up with a scene or two spoofing the creator of such American archetypes as Blanche DuBois, Stanley Kowalski, Big Daddy, and Amanda Wingfield; what's tricky is to sustain lampoonery over a full evening.
ref: 1989 September 29, Albert Williams, “The Glass Mendacity”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: The act of lampooning.
agropastoralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agro- + pastoralism.
Senses: glosses: The form of farming that combines agricultural (growing crops) and pastoralism (rearing livestock)
Related terms: agropastoralist
lappel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappels
Senses: examples: text: 'Gadso!' said the undertaker: taking Mr. Bumble by the gilt-edged lappel of his official coat; 'that's just the very thing I wanted to speak to you about.
ref: 1839, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
glosses: Dated form of lapel.
lappels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lappel
your arse
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last
ref: 1987, The Pogues, Fairytale of New York:
glosses: Alternative form of my arse.
howl out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: howls out
form: howling out
form: howled out
form: howled out
Senses: examples: text: You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
ref: 1987, The Pogues, Fairytale of New York:
glosses: To shout or cheer.
lifeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From life + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: As all the forces of sin press downward and deathward, so all the forces of virtue press upward and lifeward.
ref: 1874 December 24, The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume 2, page 443:
text: In this condition of the system, the internal forces of organs are so perfectly balanced, that a trifling incident may start them lifeward, or deathward.
ref: 1894, The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-world, page 292:
text: The Egotist Becomes a Personage "A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And so in quest of creeds to share I seek assertive day again...
ref: 1919, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise:
glosses: Towards life.
lifeward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From life + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: Such a flood in earth shall be, / That every life that hath lifeward, / Beast and body with bone and blood, / They shall be stormed through stress of storm
ref: 1825, Thomas Sharp, A Dissertation on the Pageants Or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry, by the Trading Companies of that City, page 224:
text: Therefore in every case the test is whether our particular intention is in this same lifeward direction: and if it is, then we may be absolutely certain that there is no intention on the part of the Universal Mind to thwart the intention of our own individual mind; we are dealing with a purely impersonal force, and it will no more oppose us by specific plans of its own than will steam or electricity.
ref: 1904, Thomas Troward, The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science:
text: Your subconscious processes are always lifeward and constructive.
ref: 2016, Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind:
glosses: Leading towards life.
félibre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: félibres
Etymology: From French félibre, from Occitan felibre.
Senses: examples: text: Piers himself would wear the narrow bootlace tie and the ribbon of the félibre, the Provençal poet.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 57:
glosses: A member of a literary fellowship founded in 1854 to promote the literature and culture of Provence in France; also someone who adheres to such ideas, a traditional Provençal poet.
body snatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body snatcher
in the mean time
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In the mean time I lay fairly expoſed to the examination of his eyes, and hands, quiet and unreſiſting, […]
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC, page 105:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: But in the mean time Robin Hood and his band lived quietly in Sherwood Forest, without showing their faces abroad, for Robin knew that it would not be wise for him to be seen in the neighborhood of Nottingham, those in authority being very wroth with him.
ref: 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood Turns Butcher”, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC, part second, page 47:
glosses: Alternative form of in the meantime.
allperfect
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːlˈpɜː.fɪkt/
ipa: /ɔːlˈpɜː.fɛkt/
ipa: /ɔːlˈpɝ.fɪkt/
Forms: form: all-perfect
Etymology: From all- + perfect.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! could I paint his figure as I see it now, still present to my transported imagination! a whole length of an allperfect, manly beauty in full view.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
text: For such is the natural order of things that externally proceeding should be suspended from inward energy, the whole world from the allperfect monad of ideas, and the parts of the visible universe from monads which are separated from each other.
ref: 1804, Maximus (of Tyre), The Dissertations of Maximus Tyrius, Volume 1, C. Whittingham, page 228:
text: So delicate and difficult are the questions here involved, that we could come to no solution of them had we not an allperfect teaching in regard to them, made luminous by an allperfect exaniple^([sic]); had not the Church Christ to teach her, and Christ to go before her, and apply in his own marvellous life his own matchless instructions.
ref: 1907, The Lutheran Church Review, Volume 26, Alumni Association of the Lutheran Theological Seminary, →ISBN, page 228:
glosses: Wholly perfect.
caespitose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more caespitose
form: most caespitose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cespitose.
clypeate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clypeate
form: most clypeate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin clipeātus, perfect passive participle of clipeō (“to arm with a shield”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from clupeus, clipeus (“shield”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Furnished with a protective plate, shield or shell.
aerotolerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + tolerant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Able to tolerate the presence of air (specifically oxygen).
raw_tags: of an anaerobic micro-organism
Derived terms: microaerotolerant
aflagellate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + flagellate.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a flagellum
aflagellate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aflagellates
Etymology: From a- + flagellate.
Senses: glosses: Any organism that lacks a flagellum
arcobacters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arcobacter
arcobacter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arcobacters
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several gram-negative bacteria of the genus Arcobacter
Derived terms: arcobacterial
arcobacteriosis
campylobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campylobacterium
campylobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: campylobacteria
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several gram-negative bacteria, of the genus Campylobacter, that cause food poisoning
Derived terms: campylobacteriosis
campylobacterosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From campylobacter + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A gastrointestinal condition characterized by diarrhea etc., caused by eating raw or unpasteurised food contaminated with campylobacteria.
cytotonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cytotonic
form: most cytotonic
Senses: glosses: That changes the morphology of a cell without killing it.
extragastrointestinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + gastrointestinal.
Senses: glosses: Within the abdomen, but outside of the gastrointestinal system.
branchwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branchworks
Etymology: From branch + work.
Senses: examples: text: and whose exquisite whiteness was not a little set off by a sprout of black curling hair round the root, through the jetty sprigs of which the fair skin shew'd as in a fine evening you may have remark'd the clear light ether throught the branchwork of distant trees over-topping the summit of a hill.
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: Collectively, the branches of a tree.
examples: text: Thus, from what has been stated, we see that neither the white puncta nor the minute white branchwork of lines were ever tubular.
ref: 1861, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Zoology, Botany, and Geology:
glosses: Any design or pattern resembling branches.
immunomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a technique in which specific cells are separated via attachment to paramagnetic beads
Derived terms: immunomagnetically
immunomagnetic separation
immunotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immunotype + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an immunotype.
leukotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukotoxin
aftercourses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aftercourse
leukotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukotoxins
Etymology: From leuko- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that is toxic to leukocytes
Synonyms: leukocytotoxin
Derived terms: isoleukotoxin
microaerobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + aerobic.
Senses: glosses: Having a very low concentration of oxygen; almost but not quite anaerobic
microcolonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microcolony
microcolony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcolonies
Etymology: From micro- + colony.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic colony of cells (especially of bacteria)
Related terms: microcolonial
moschate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more moschate
form: most moschate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin moschātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Her familiar perfume and moschate odor was overwhelming within the confines of the car, especially with the windows rolled up. Hoke started the engine and switched on the air conditioning.
ref: 1985, Charles Willeford, New Hope for the Dead, Penguin Books, published 2012, →ISBN, Chapter Eleven, page unnumbered page:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Exuding a musk-like odour.
paracrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + crystalline.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a paracrystal
pathobiont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathobionts
Etymology: From patho- + -biont.
Senses: glosses: Any potentially pathological (disease-causing) organism which, under normal circumstances, lives as a non-harming symbiont
Derived terms: pathobiontic
peridontitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation and infection of the periodontium
periodontopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more periodontopathic
form: most periodontopathic
Senses: glosses: That causes disease of the periodontium
skywave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skywaves
Etymology: From sky + wave.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: An electromagnetic wave refracted back to the Earth by the ionosphere.
horseapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseapples
form: horse-apple
form: horse apple
Etymology: From horse + apple.
Senses: glosses: The large, wrinkled, inedible fruit of the American tree Maclura pomifera.
glosses: A tree of this species.
Synonyms: sense: fruit
word: bodark
sense: fruit
word: bois d'arc
sense: fruit
word: hedgeapple
sense: fruit
word: hedge-apple
sense: fruit
word: Osage orange
sense: tree
word: bodark
sense: tree
word: bois d'arc
sense: tree
word: hedge tree
sense: tree
word: Osage orange
horseapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseapple
Yprois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēprwäʹ
ipa: /iːpˈɹwɑː/
enpr: ēprwäzʹ
ipa: /iːpˈɹwɑːz/
Forms: form: Yprois
Etymology: First attested in nominal use in May 1845 and in adjectival use in 1890; from the French noun Yprois and adjective yprois, both from Ypres.
Senses: examples: text: A few amongst them even fled, some of whom in endeavouring to swim across the Lys were drowned, and others who made for the city were stopped by the Yprois who manned the ramparts, and driven back to the fight.
ref: 1845 May, “The Battle of the Spurs”, in Colburn’s United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal, II, page 20:
text: They were the work of the Yprois Taillebert, who, both in stone and wood, has left in his native town and its neighbourhood incontestible proofs of his activity and talent.
ref: 1910, Thomas Francis Bumpus, The Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium, page 123:
text: David Nicholas […] provides fascinating detail about the mutual indebtedness of the Yprois at the end of the thirteenth century.
ref: 2010 June, Martha C. Howell, “Introduction”, in Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600, footnote 42, page 26:
glosses: An inhabitant of the city of Ypres; (also, more broadly) an inhabitant of the municipality of the same name.