cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ternary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɜː.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈtɝ.nə.ɹi/
homophone: ternery
Forms: form: ternaries
Etymology: From Late Latin ternārius (“consisting of three things”), from ternī (“three each”).
Senses: synonyms: word: tern
word: ternary
word: ternion
word: threeness
word: threesome
word: triad
word: trinary
word: trine
word: trinity
word: trio
word: triplet
word: troika
glosses: A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce.
examples: text: And albeit these thynges be waighty and truthes of great importance, yet (by the infinite goodnes of the Almighty Ternarie,) Artificiall Methods and easy wayes are made, by which the zelous Philosopher, may wyn nere this Riuerish Ida, this Mountayne of Contemplation […] .
ref: 1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface
glosses: The Holy Trinity.
ternary alloy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary alloys
Senses: glosses: An alloy containing three metals or other elements
ternary code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary codes
Senses: glosses: Any code whose elements may take one of three values
ternary complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary complexes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several forms in which three different molecules are tightly bound together
ternary compound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary compounds
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing atoms of three different elements
ternary computer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary computers
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any computer that uses ternary logic instead of binary
ternary logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary logics
Senses: glosses: A system of mathematical logic in which there are three truth values.
Hypernyms: many-valued logic
drave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: His kingly courage quell: but from his short retyre,
His reinforced troupes (newe forg’d with sprightly fire)
Before them drave the Dane, and made the Britaine runne
(Whom he by liberall wage here to his ayde had wonne)
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 12 p. 196:
text: I do not know its name, but the Sahib sat in the midst of three silver wheels that made no creaking, and drave them with his legs, prancing like a bean-fed horse—thus.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Howli Thana’, Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 387:
glosses: simple past of drive
drawable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drawable
form: most drawable
Etymology: From draw + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being drawn (represented graphically).
glosses: Capable of being drawn (pulled or extracted).
examples: a drawable conclusion
glosses: Capable of being drawn (deduced or inferred).
Derived terms: undrawable
drawbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɔ.bɑɹ/
Forms: form: drawbars
Etymology: From draw + bar.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: An open-mouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
topics: road
transport
glosses: A device to couple a powered road vehicle to a load to transfer tractive effort to the load, either as a push or as a pull.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A sliding bar on a Hammond organ, controlling the volume of a waveform.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device for changing the tools on milling machines.
Synonyms: word: dragbar
word: draglink
word: drawlink
drawbench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawbenches
Etymology: From draw + bench.
Senses: glosses: A machine in which long pieces of metal are drawn through a drawplate, die, or series of dies, to change the shape, size, cross-sectional area, physical properties, or surface finish of the metal.
Synonyms: drawing bench
drawbolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawbolts
Etymology: From draw + bolt.
Senses: examples: text: When changing from one diameter to another, it is necessary to change both the drawbolt and outer sleeve.
ref: 1970, General Aircraft Maintenance Manual, pages 4-115:
text: Then tighten the drawbolt one additional turn to make the punch bite into the metal.
ref: 1987, Robert J. Rechs, Build Your Own Hot-Air Balloon, page 143:
text: Tough joints for heavy jobs, such as workbenches are obtained by the use of drawbolts (Fig. 13-8).
ref: 1989, Woodworker's Guide to Master Craftsman Techniques, page 132:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of bolt with a threaded end that can be tightened to pull connected parts closer together and to increase tension.
drawbore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawbores
Etymology: From draw + bore.
Senses: glosses: A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
drawbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drawbores
form: drawboring
form: drawbored
form: drawbored
Etymology: From draw + bore.
Senses: examples: text: to drawbore a tenon
glosses: To make a drawbore in.
glosses: To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
drawboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawboys
form: draw-boy
Etymology: From draw + boy.
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
coordinate_terms: drawgirl
glosses: A boy who operates the harness cords of a handloom.
glosses: Part of a power loom that performs the same function.
drawcansir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɔːˈkansə/
Forms: form: drawcansirs
form: Draw-can-sir
Etymology: After Drawcansir, a character in George Villiers' play The Rehearsal. The character's name is a play on Almanzor, from Dryden's The Conquest of Granada.
Senses: examples: text: Drawcansir Dolben would destroy / Both slavery and licentious joy; / Foe to all sorts of planters, he / Will suffer neither bond nor free.
ref: 1791, James Boswell, No Abolition of Slavery:
text: While we were supping with our drawcansir friend, we heard the notes of a guitar and the click of castanets, and presently a chorus of voices singing a popular air.
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
glosses: A blustering, bullying person; a braggart.
drawfiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawfilings
Etymology: From draw + filing.
Senses: glosses: The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
drawgear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawgears
Etymology: From draw + gear.
Senses: glosses: A harness for draught horses.
examples: text: Although loads of up to 900 tonnes could be handled by one of these locomotives, in practice the load is limited to 790 tonnes by drawgear.
ref: 1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
drawhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawheads
Etymology: From draw + head.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The flanged outer end of a drawbar.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of drawgear.
synonyms: word: drawgear
drawlatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawlatches
Etymology: From draw + latch.
Senses: glosses: A housebreaker or thief
glosses: A fastener consisting of a latch body mounted on one side of a door or lid, and a hook or catch mounted on the opposite side. When the latch is engaged, the hook or catch pulls the two sides tightly together, creating a secure closure.
Synonyms: burglar
thief
drawling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawlings
Senses: examples: text: […] if I yawn over your imperfect sentences, your repeated phrases, your false pathos, your drawlings and denouncingsyour humming and hawing, your oh-ing and ah-ing, your black gloves and your white handkerchief.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
glosses: The act of speaking with a drawl.
drawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of drawl
drawlink
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawlinks
Etymology: From draw + link.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: drawbar
drawloom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawlooms
Etymology: From draw + loom.
Senses: glosses: A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns.
glosses: A kind of damask made on the drawloom.
Related terms: drawboy
drawnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawnets
Etymology: From draw + net. Compare dragnet.
Senses: glosses: A net for catching the larger sorts of birds.
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A dragnet.
drawplate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawplates
Etymology: From draw + plate.
Senses: glosses: A hardened plate of metal, ruby, etc. having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
drawrod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawrods
Etymology: From draw + rod.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
drawspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drawsprings
Etymology: From draw + spring.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The spring to which a drawbar is attached.
sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponge
sponges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sponge
poofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poof
centimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centimeter
spumy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspjuːmi/
rhymes: -uːmi
Forms: form: spumier
form: spumiest
Etymology: From spume + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The spumy waves proclaim the watery war.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Third Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: frothy, emitting froth or spume
Synonyms: spumous
Derived terms: spuminess
tallness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tallnesses
Etymology: From tall + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits.
ref: 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being tall.
ternary name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ternary names
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: A scientific name at the rank of subspecies: an expansion of a binomial name (a genus and a species) combined with the name of the subspecies; for example Homo sapiens sapiens.
Synonyms: three-part name
trinomen
Related terms: autonym
forma
form
f.
infraspecies
infraspecific
infraspecific taxon
subforma
subform
subf.
subspecies
subsp.
ssp.
subvarietas
subvariety
subvar.
varietas
variety
var.
binominal name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binominal names
Senses: examples: See species name for usage and example.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: binomen
binomial
binomial name
binominal
species name
dionym
glosses: A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
Related terms: ternary name
chancroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃæŋ.kɹɔɪd/
Forms: form: chancroids
Etymology: From chancre + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A sexually transmitted infection, caused by bacteria of species Haemophilus ducreyi, characterized by painful sores on the genitalia.
glosses: A sore characteristic of this infection.
Synonyms: soft chancre
ulcus molle
Derived terms: chancroidal
polypropene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypropenes
Etymology: From poly- + propene.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, the surface tensions of isotactic polypropene (i-PP) and syndiotactic polypropene (s-PP) are measured.
ref: 2000, T. J. Menke, Z. Funke, R.-D. Maier, J. Kressler, “Surface Tension Measurements on Ethene−Butene Random Copolymers and Different Polypropenes”, in Macromolecules, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of polypropylene.
summation plural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summation plurals
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A plurale tantum.
lymphogranuloma venereum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlɪmfəˌɡɹænjʊˈləʊmə vəˈnɪəɹɪəm/
Forms: form: LGV
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A sexually transmitted disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis.
Synonyms: climatic bubo
strumous bubo
Durand–Nicolas–Favre disease
lymphogranuloma inguinale
poradenitis inguinale
common bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common beans
Senses: glosses: An herbaceous annual plant (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its edible bean.
glosses: A bean of such a plant, varying in size, shape and especially color.
Hyponyms: sense: bean
word: green bean
sense: bean
word: anasazi bean
sense: bean
word: black bean
sense: bean
word: cranberry bean
sense: bean
word: pink bean
sense: bean
word: pinto bean
sense: bean
word: kidney bean
sense: bean
word: string bean
sense: bean
word: white bean
Related terms: field bean
absolute alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut ˈæl.kə.hɑl/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈljut ˈæl.kə.hɑl/
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Reasonably pure ethyl alcohol that contains at most 1% of water
denatured alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denatured alcohols
Senses: glosses: Reasonably pure ethyl alcohol for industrial purposes that has been made unfit for consumption by the addition of a poisonous substance such as acetone or methyl alcohol
Related terms: methylated spirits
primary alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary alcohols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol of general formula R-CH₂-OH
Related terms: secondary alcohol
tertiary alcohol
secondary alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secondary alcohols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol of general formula R₂CH-OH
Related terms: primary alcohol
tertiary alcohol
tertiary alcohol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiary alcohols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any alcohol of general formula R₃C-OH
Related terms: primary alcohol
secondary alcohol
verbform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbforms
Etymology: From verb + form.
Senses: examples: 1983, Thomas M. Carter, Then and Now: The Mechanics of Integration, Historical Conservation Society (Manila), page 112,
"Thee/Thou" speech merely substitutes (or were substituted by) some of the old personal pronouns. Also present in "Thee" speech is the occasional ancient verbform.
1990, Andries Breunis, The Nominal Sentence in Sanskrit and Middle Indo-Aryan, Brill Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 149,
Before we compare these constructions with a PPP connected to a verbform of "to be" in the third person, we shall first discuss the following phenomenon.
1992 August, Kees Hengeveld, "Structure of adverbial clauses", in Betty Devriendt, Louis Goossens, Johan van der Auwera, Complex Structures: A Functionalist Perspective, Walter de Gruyter (1996), →ISBN, page 135,
In this and the following tables a "+" represents a finite verbform, a "−" a nonfinite verbform, a "P" indicates that the adverbial relation under investigation can be expressed in a paratactic construction only, and a blank indicates that no data could be obtained for the adverbial relation under consideration.
glosses: Alternative form of verb form.
homoscedastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homoskedastic
Etymology: From homo- + Ancient Greek σκεδαστός (skedastós, “able to be scattered”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having the same finite variance for all elements.
Derived terms: homoscedasticity
nonhomoscedastic
Islamdom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Islam + -dom, apparently by analogy with Christendom.
Senses: glosses: The regions of the world, taken as a whole, where Islam is the predominant religion.
glosses: Islamic societies worldwide, taken as a whole.
muffin top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muffin tops
Etymology: From the shape of the top of a muffin (a cupcake), which bulges over the top of its paper container.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, I stopped lunging and with my Baby Belly, my Bat Wings, my Muffin Top and my Banana Folds, I rolled up my yoga mat and walked to the door.
ref: 2009, Tracy Beckerman, “do you know the muffin top”, in Beth Feldman, editor, See Mom Run: Side-Splitting Essays from the World's Most Harried Blogging Moms, page 38:
text: You should certainly aim for shorts tight enough to accomplish two ends: constricting proper blood flow and providing a nice canvas for your muffin-top.
ref: 2010, Guido DiErio, Fist Pump: An In-Your-Face Guide to Going Guido, page 133:
text: She hated her flat hair and her muffin top that spilled ever so slightly from her jeans, and she had felt increasingly uninspired at work.
ref: 2011, Marissa De Luna, Goa Traffic, page 95:
glosses: The roll of flesh that bulges over the top of excessively tight trousers.
examples: text: Kellogg also expanded the brand by introducing pancakes, mini waffles, French toast, and muffin tops.
ref: 2011, Sherri Liberman, American Food by the Decades, page 134:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see muffin, top; the top of a muffin, sometimes removed to be eaten separately.
Related terms: underbutt
string trimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɹɪŋ ˈtɹɪmə/
ipa: /ˌstɹɪŋ ˈtɹɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: string trimmers
Etymology: From string + trimmer.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
synonyms: word: edge trimmer
word: line trimmer
word: strimmer
word: weed eater
word: weed whacker
word: weed whip
word: whipper snipper
glosses: A powered, hand-held garden implement that uses a rotating monofilament line to cut grass, etc., without damaging other objects.
alcoholaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcoholaemias
Etymology: From alcohol + -aemia.
Senses: glosses: The presence of alcohol in the bloodstream
glosses: A measure of the amount of alcohol in the bloodstream
alcoholicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alcoholic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: A measure of the alcoholic content of something
alcoholometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From alcohol + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, especially in the blood
Related terms: alcoholometer
sorrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I was sorrowed to hear of your loss.
glosses: Made sad, caused to feel sorrow.
sorrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sorrow
let's not and say we did
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: “We must go on to the Gulf of the St. Lawrence, Pa,” said Seb, bravely. “We can't feel any worse.”
“Let's not and say we did,” groaned the sick father from his position of vantage at the rail.
ref: 1921, Harvard Lampoon, volume 80, number 10, page 324:
text: "Let's kick in a window on George," Dick Buckford said.
 "Let's not and say we did," Andy Houlihan said.
ref: 1947, James Thomas Farrell, The Life Adventurous and Other Stories, Vanguard Press, page 286:
text: Many teachers take a "Let's not and say we did" attitude toward extended experiential learning in the different styles.
ref: 2006, Jane A. G. Kise, Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change, Corwin Press, →ISBN, page 65:
glosses: Indicates that the speaker does not agree with a proposed action, and does not wish to participate.
authorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: authorises
form: authorising
form: authorised
form: authorised
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Waller adds that when the railway was authorised in 1897, one of the clauses of the Act authorising the transfer of the line to the North British Railway provided that that company should work it in perpetuity, and it was this clause that caused the interim interdict to be granted.
ref: 1951 April, “Notes and News: North Fife Line, Scotland”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 281:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorize.
Derived terms: authorisable
authoriser
de-authorise
reauthorise
looney tunes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more looney tunes
form: most looney tunes
form: Looney Tunes
Etymology: Extension of loony by reference to the cartoon series Looney Tunes.
Senses: examples: 1988, Denise Ohio, The Finer Grain, Naiad Press, →ISBN, page 23,
He'd look at me sort of sideways and say all the time, you're losing it, Amy, honey, you are going looney tunes.
2002, Tony Spivey, Covered Ground, Iriswhite Publishing, →ISBN, page 12,
I thought him crazy. / Pure looney tunes.
2004, Lee Driver, The Unseen, Full Moon Pub., →ISBN, page 35,
"Well, you should have found out if she was looney tunes first."
glosses: Loony, crazy, insane.
Derived terms: looney-tunes
Related terms: loony tune
scale invariance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: a feature of objects or laws that do not change if length scales (or energy scales) are multiplied by a common factor.
Related terms: scale-invariant
siltstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siltstones
Etymology: From silt + stone.
Senses: glosses: A sedimentary rock whose composition is intermediate in grain size between the coarser sandstone and the finer mudstone.
Derived terms: metasiltstone
mudstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudstones
Etymology: From mud + stone.
Senses: examples: text: The new fossils come from mudstones in central Poland, in beds that have been dated using other, much more common and cosmopolitan, fossils.
ref: 2018 March 23, Susannah Lydon, The Guardian:
text: Excavation of the twin bore tunnel will produce around 500,000 tonnes of mudstone and soil, which will be processed on site and then reused to build embankments elsewhere along the route.
ref: 2022 December 14, Paul Stephen, “HS2's Dorothy starts to dig second tunnel bore”, in RAIL, number 972, page 22:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.
Derived terms: metamudstone
litmus paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litmus papers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: paper containing a water-soluble pH indicator composed of a mixture of different dyes extracted from certain lichens. The resulting piece of paper is used to test materials for acidity, turning red when acidic and blue when alkaline.
water-soluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɔːtə(ɹ)ˈsɒljʊbəl/
Senses: glosses: Dissolving easily in water.
Related terms: fat-soluble
looney-tunes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: looney-tunes
Etymology: From the adjective looney tunes.
Senses: examples: 2002, David A. Enyart, Creative Anticipation: Narrative Sermon Designs for Telling the Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 155,
Have we, as our culture so often claims, committed our lives to absurdity? Are we religious Looney-Tunes marching to the beat of a demonic drummer?
2002, Robert S. Levinson, Hot Paint: A Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner Novel, Tor/Forge, →ISBN, page 295,
Like that looney-tunes in Salt Lake City killed by the police after he gunned down a woman and a security guard and wounded four others at the Mormon Family History Library.
2005, Jack Myers, Row House Days: Tales from a Southwest Philadelphia Childhoo, Infinity Publishing, →ISBN, page 229,
Otherwise, if you let these looney-tunes have the general run of the everyday world, there's no telling what kinds of destruction they may cause if left unchecked.
glosses: Loony, crazy, insane person.
esurience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esuriences
Senses: examples: text: To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78:
glosses: The quality of being esurient; extreme gluttony or boundless hunger.
adjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adjugates
form: adjugating
form: adjugated
form: adjugated
Etymology: From Latin adjugatus.
Senses: glosses: To yoke an animal to something
adjugate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjugates
Etymology: From Latin adjugatus.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The transpose of the respective cofactor matrix, for a given matrix. One of the factors in calculating the inverse of a matrix. Commonly notated as adj(A), where A is the given matrix.
rerecord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rerecords
Etymology: From re- + record.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-record.
rerecord
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rerecords
form: rerecording
form: rerecorded
form: rerecorded
Etymology: From re- + record.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of re-record.
retest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rēʹtĕst
ipa: /ˈɹiːtɛst/
rhymes: -iːtɛst
enpr: rē-tĕstʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: retests
Etymology: From re- + test.
Senses: glosses: A repeat test.
retest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rēʹtĕst
ipa: /ˈɹiːtɛst/
rhymes: -iːtɛst
enpr: rē-tĕstʹ
ipa: /ɹiːˈtɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: retests
form: retesting
form: retested
form: retested
Etymology: From re- + test.
Senses: glosses: To test again.
Derived terms: test-retest method
right-hander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-handers
form: righthander
Senses: synonyms: righty
antonyms: left-hander
glosses: One who is right-handed.
glosses: A slap or punch with the right hand.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A bend or turn to the right; a right-hand corner.
alkali metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkali metals
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the soft, light, reactive metals of Group 1 of the periodic table; lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, and francium.
Related terms: alkaline earth metal
pint-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pint-sized
form: most pint-sized
Senses: examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
glosses: Comparatively small in size.
alkaline earth metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkaline earth metal
exopodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exopodites
Etymology: From exo- + podite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The external part of the uropod.
Derived terms: exopoditic
horseshoe crabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseshoe crab
plasmonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: From plasmon + -ics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A proposed analogy to electronics using plasmons
Derived terms: nanoplasmonics
spinplasmonics
axeblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axeblades
form: axblade
Etymology: From axe + blade.
Senses: examples: 1904, Terrot Reaveley Glover, Studies in Virgil, reprinted as Virgil, Barnes & Noble (1969), page 198,
This image, topped by a head as featureless as an axeblade, spoke in words condensed from scalding steam.
1959, Frank Yerby, Jarrett's Jade: A Novel, Dial Press, page 19,
James took a step forward, his dark eyes bright under that jutting hedgerow of a brow that swept across his forehead without a break even above his axeblade of a nose.
2006, Hugh Cook, The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, Lulu Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 307,
The dwarf hacked at Sod's boot, sinking his axeblade deep into the Banker's foot.
glosses: The blade of an axe; or, a blade identical to that of an axe, but not actually part of one.
star stream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: star streams
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A line of stars, originally from a dwarf galaxy, that have been captured by gravitational interaction with the Milky Way
dwarf galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarf galaxies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any galaxy, considerably smaller than the Milky Way, that has only several billions of stars.
Hypernyms: galaxy
Hyponyms: blue compact dwarf galaxy
dwarf elliptical galaxy
dwarf irregular galaxy
dwarf spheroidal galaxy
dwarf spiral galaxy
ultra-compact dwarf galaxy
ultra-faint dwarf galaxy
Related terms: giant galaxy
national debt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national debts
Senses: examples: text: The only reference to the national debt - the reduction of which was once a top priority for Republicans of all stripes - was a passing mention of the subject during a litany of Barack Obama's economic failings.
ref: 2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News:
topics: economics
sciences
synonyms: government debt
public debt
sovereign debt
glosses: Any money owed by the government of a nation.
time of one's life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: times of one's life
form: times of their lives
Senses: examples: text: It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right / I hope you had the time of your life.
ref: 1997, “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”, in Nimrod, performed by Green Day, Reprise Records:
text: “We had a wonderful event last night. He was having the time of his life last night. […] He was given a rescue dog as a birthday present. He was having the time of his life,” Muth told the Gazette Journal.
ref: 2018 October 16, Max Jaeger, “Brothel owner-turned-politician Dennis Hof found dead at Love Ranch”, in New York Post:
hypernyms: good time
glosses: A period of enjoying oneself immensely, or more than ever before.
Related terms: have a whale of a time
time of life
thesauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thesaurus
obsessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obsess
apple midge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple midges
Senses: glosses: A small dipterous insect (Lycoriella ingenua), the larva of which bores in apples.
glosses: Any midge whose larvae cause damage to apples.
Synonyms: apple leaf midge
Sciara mali
Molobrus mali
Related terms: Sciara
roommates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roommate
rogers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: rŏjʹərz
ipa: /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚz/
ipa: /ˈɹɒd͡ʒəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roger
dishabituation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishabituations
Etymology: From dis- + habituation.
Senses: examples: text: Habituation and dishabituation allow for experience-dependent tuning of these reflexes and the mechanisms underlying these forms of behavioral plasticity involve changes in transmitter release from the sensory to motor neuron synapses through homosynaptic depression and the serotonin-mediated recovery from depression, respectively.
ref: 2015 August 29, “Decline in the Recovery from Synaptic Depression in Heavier Aplysia Results from Decreased Serotonin-Induced Novel PKC Activation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: A way of responding to old stimuli as if they were new.
glosses: Process of reaching a dishabituated state.
Nezhegol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Не́жеголь (Néžegolʹ).
Senses: glosses: A small river in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, near Ukraine. The town of Shebekino sits near the mouth of the Nezhegol where it flows into the Donets.
reaction mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaction mixtures
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A product of mixing and reacting two or more substances (causing reaction); mixture causing chemical transformation or change; the interaction of entities :
the state resulting from such a reaction
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A product of mixing and reacting two or more substances (causing reaction); mixture causing chemical transformation or change; the interaction of entities :
a process involving change in atomic nuclei
glosses: A product formed by the combination of two or more elements, compounds or substances together causing reactions and transformation of original items or substances.
ribaudequin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈbəʊdɪkɪn/
Forms: form: ribaudequins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ribauldequin.
satellite campus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satellite campuses
Senses: glosses: A campus of a college or university that is physically detached from the main university or college area.
Mallory
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmæləɹi/
Etymology: From an Anglo-Norman nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French maleure, malheure (“unhappy, unlucky”) (whence French malheur), from mal (“bad”) + eur (“fortune”).
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old French.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: Mallet
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The malicious party in examples of threat scenarios. See Alice and Bob.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Clayton County, Iowa.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Polk County, Minnesota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Kirkby Mallory
Mallory-Weiss syndrome
Mallory-Weiss tear
jomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jomo
form: jomos
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan མཛོ་མོ (mdzo mo).
Senses: examples: c'''1882, Sarat Chandra Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet, John Murray (1902), page 71,
December 26.—The Deba has a dozen jomo and cows yielding plenty of milk. A jomo yields four times the quantity of milk which a cow or female yak gives. […] the Tibetans value very highly the jo, which is, besides a good milker, most useful in husbandry.
glosses: Alternative spelling of dzomo (“female yak–cow hybrid”).
jomo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jomos
Etymology: Metathesis of mojo.
Senses: qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Alternative form of mojo.
mishappen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/
rhymes: -æpən
Forms: form: mishappens
form: mishappening
form: mishappened
form: mishappened
Etymology: From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- + happen.
Senses: glosses: To encounter grief or misfortune.
examples: text: His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To happen through misfortune.
glosses: To happen ill; fare ill.
jadarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the Jadar Basin in Serbia, where it was discovered during mineral explorations.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide.
macrophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrophiles
Etymology: From macro- + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: Crumb's sexual fixation on gigantic women's legs became a major feature of his most celebrated images. Despite the common themes among macrophiles, Ed Lundt believes that no two macro fantasies are quite alike […]
ref: 1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex, page 115:
text: If there are macrophiles living and working among us—and I assure you, there are—the world must also make room for the microphiles who love them back.
ref: 2008, Cynthia Ceilan, Weirdly Beloved:
text: The poster for the 1958 film Attack of the 50 Foot Woman shows a gorgeous babe, in short skirt and ill-fitting bra, straddling a motorway flyover and picking up cars. This is a macrophile's delight.
ref: 2012, Tom Cutler, Slap and Tickle:
glosses: A person with macrophilia.
incardinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incardinates
form: incardinating
form: incardinated
form: incardinated
Senses: glosses: To raise (someone) to the rank of cardinal.
glosses: To enroll (someone) as a priest of a particular church.
Related terms: incardination
labware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labwares
Etymology: From lab + -ware.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: All the glassware and other equipment used in many different types of laboratory, but excluding specialist equipment such as spectrometers.
Synonyms: laboratoryware
Ólavsøka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: ... as when the Løgting's sitting at Ólavsøka is paired with inchoate revelry and promenading up and down the streets of Tórshavn.
ref: 2011, Firouz Gaini, Among the Islanders of the North: An Anthropology of the Faroe Islands, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 77:
text: In addition to the final hours of Ólavsøka, ...
ref: 2016, Kristín Loftsdóttir, Lars Jensen, Crisis in the Nordic Nations and Beyond: At the Intersection of Environment, Finance and Multiculturalism, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: He also had a good voice and sang ballads, so strongly that the milkmaids one morning at Ólavsøka heard him all over the fiord from Havn.
ref: 2010, S. A. Bengtson, Dorete--her Book: Being a Tribute to Dorete Bloch and to Faroese Nature, Faroe University Press, →ISBN, page 127:
glosses: a festival taking place annually on the 28th and 29th of July in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Jacqui
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jackie
form: Jacky
Senses: examples: text: The second woman was older but not at all wiser. Her name was Jacqui and she spelled it twice in case there should be any misunderstanding.
ref: 2008, Maeve Binchy, Heart and Soul, Anchor, published 2009, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Jacqueline.
hieratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ(ə)ˈɹætɪk/
Etymology: From Latin hieraticus, from Ancient Greek ἱερατικός (hieratikós), from ἱερατεία (hierateía, “priesthood”), from ἱερατεύω (hierateúō, “be a priest”), from ἱερεύς (hiereús, “priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”).
Use pertaining to the Egyptian writing system originates with the Greek phrase γράμματα ἱερατικά (grámmata hieratiká, literally “priestly writing”), which was first used by Saint Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century AD, as at that time hieratic was used only for religious texts, as had been the case for the previous thousand years.
Senses: examples: text: In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: The witch, repository of hieratic lore and folk legends and occult arcana, became the distributor of philtres and unguents, electuaries and pastilles, herbs and charms and incantations - directed toward sexual pleasures and amatory satisfactions.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 223:
synonyms: sacerdotal
priestly
glosses: Of or pertaining to priests or other religious authorities, especially pharaonic priests of Ancient Egypt.
examples: text: The papyrus was written in hieratic, a cursive form of hieroglyphics.
ref: 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 117:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the cursive writing system that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system as its ordinary handwritten counterpart.
examples: text: Some of the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved.
text: They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.
ref: 1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 3, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 37:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.
Derived terms: hieratically
hieraticism
nonhieratic
unhieratic
hieratic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ(ə)ˈɹætɪk/
Forms: form: hieratics
Etymology: From Latin hieraticus, from Ancient Greek ἱερατικός (hieratikós), from ἱερατεία (hierateía, “priesthood”), from ἱερατεύω (hierateúō, “be a priest”), from ἱερεύς (hiereús, “priest”), from ἱερός (hierós, “sacred”).
Use pertaining to the Egyptian writing system originates with the Greek phrase γράμματα ἱερατικά (grámmata hieratiká, literally “priestly writing”), which was first used by Saint Clement of Alexandria in the 2nd century AD, as at that time hieratic was used only for religious texts, as had been the case for the previous thousand years.
Senses: glosses: A writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that was developed alongside the hieroglyphic system, primarily written in ink with a reed brush on papyrus, allowing scribes to write quickly without resorting to the time consuming hieroglyphs.
Derived terms: Abnormal Hieratic
Luca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Luca, from Latin Lūcās, from Ancient Greek Λουκᾶς (Loukâs), hypocoristic of Λούκιος (Loúkios) (from Latin Lūcius m) or Λουκανός (Loukanós) or both with -ᾶς (-âs). As a female given name, used in Hungarian and Serbo-Croatian as an equivalent of Lucy (ultimately of same origin, from Latin Lūcia f), but English usage is influenced by the male given name, similar Lucas, Luke, and the feminine ending -a.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Italian, borrowed in the 2000s.
examples: text: This is my bedroom, and Luca’s, and Fran’s, and my mother’s. The four of us sleep here, and at the back of the house live Celesta and Rose, my other two sisters who I don’t really know. […] We are Celesta, Rosaria, Francesca, Luca, Dolores.
ref: 2000, Trezza Azzopardi, “Waiting”, in The Hiding Place, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Miss Lori, my girlfriend is on the phone. Her name is Luca.
ref: 2014 June 16, Luciana Craita, “Black Alpha”, in Luca the Werewolf Daughter, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 74:
text: “No, it wasn’t a dream, Luke….You have a daughter. […] I just assumed she was Ryan’s. I got married days after you came to Chicago….days after you and me… I’m sorry….” / “What’s her name, Drea?” […] “Luca….your daughter’s name is Luca.” / “No, no… her name is Luca Landon.” […] Luca Landon would always connect Mattdrea Cyrus to Luke Landon.
ref: 2014 November 19, D.L. London, “Book of Luke”, in Under the Blood, Bloomigton, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 646:
text: Who is the playwright of the Diamond Theater responsible for these stirring stories? Her name is Luca Syara, but beyond that, she’s an enigma.
ref: 2019 November, Jeremy Crawford, James Wyatt, Keith Baker, “Northedge”, in Eberron: Rising from the Last War (Dungeons & Dragons), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Sharn, City of Towers), page 171, column 1:
text: I don’t know if you ever met my stepmother, Luca. […] When Luca’s husband died protecting my dad, he’d felt obligated to show his loyalty and gratitude by marrying her, adopting her sons, treating them as his own.
ref: 2024, Angela Addams, “Levi”, in Fury (Hell Hath No Fury; 2), [Lincoln, Lincolnshire]: Totally Bound Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name.
Luca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːkə/
rhymes: -uːkə
Forms: form: Lucas
Senses: examples: text: What’s more, every living organism is ultimately descended from a single ancestral population: the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Luca), which lived over 3.5 billion years ago when the planet was newly formed.
ref: 2020 November 11, Michael Marshall, “Charles Darwin’s hunch about early life was probably right”, in BBC, retrieved 11 Nov 2020:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of LUCA.
Galati
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galatis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Galati.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Timoteo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Timoteos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Timoteo and Portuguese Timóteo.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Josip Broz Tito, a Yugoslav revolutionary and politician.
Derived terms: Titograd
Pietro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Ré
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Île de Ré: An island off the west coast of the department of Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
jackasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackass
jackasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jackass
jock itch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fungal infection, tinea cruris, of the groin region, usually due to the fungus Trichophyton rubrum, but also Candida albicans, Trichophyton interdigitale, Epidermophyton floccosum, and others.
Synonyms: crotch itch
crotch rot
Dhobi itch
eczema marginatum
groin ringworm
gym itch
jock rot
scrot rot
tinea cruris